Every message obviously, and I'll, I'll preach quickly and
get out of the way so Brother Almonza can have plenty of time.
But I do have a burden on my heart.
And Acts chapter 14, if you'll stand with me, please.
This is at the conclusion of Paul's first missionary journey.
They're just now coming back to their home church in Acts
chapter 14 and verse #26 the Bible says, and thence sailed to
Antioch, from which they had been recommended to the grace of
God for the work which they fulfilled.
And when they were come and had gathered the church together,
they rehearsed all that God had done with them and how he had
opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
And there they abode long time we as the disciples.
I want to focus, if I can, on that phrase in verse #27 where
it says they rehearsed all that God had done with them.
What a statement. Preach on this thought for just
a few moments tonight. How to be used by God.
How to be used by Godfather. I pray that you take the Word of
God now. Speak to hearts, minister to
every life here. Thank you for the privilege to
preach. Use the message tonight.
I pray to stir and challenge your people in Jesus name, Amen.
You can be seated. So I will take a lot of this
message out. I've got eight points.
I'm only going to preach 4 of them.
All right, because I want to get out of the way.
This is a, this is a longer, more detailed type message, but
I want to hit the highlights of the 1st at least four points
that I have in this message. And I may throw the other four
out at the end for you to write down.
I won't preach them for the sake of time.
But as I read this statement, I was thinking about how awesome
it is to be able to have a life that God can do something with.
They, they came and rehearsed to the church all that God had done
with them. And, and as a boy, I read
missionary autobiographies and biographies and stories of great
leaders and and great missionaries and pastors.
And I remember as a boy thinking, I wished I had stories
like this. I wish, I wish I could have a
life that has this kind of adventure and this kind of
excitement. And I wish I had their kind of
faith. And I wished I had the stories
of all the answered prayer. And, and I wish, I wish I could
get up and, and preach or, or, or or be used to God do
something amazing. As a boy, I thought that I
dreamed about that when I was in 4th grade.
I felt like God might have been calling me to preach if
everybody that knew me called me a preacher boy might have had
something to do with it. But I remember because I went, I
took my Bible everywhere and I just loved the Lord and I was
always, I was always getting all the people for doing the wrong
thing and never would. I never would get go along with
them. And they I was just a square pig
in a round hole my whole life. I mean, I always was a stick in
the mud. I'm one now, but it's OK.
That's all the way I know to be. But but I remember as a little
boy thinking maybe God wants me to preach and, and, and my dad
sit down and counsel me and he said, if God wants you to
preach, he knows where you're at.
You just, you just keep doing what you're doing.
And, and kind of that, that, that thought just kind of left
my mind in 4th grade. But then at the age of 21, God
came back to me and backed me up in the corner and I waved the
white flag of surrender. I said, Lord, if you want me to
preach, that's what I'll do. God changed my whole trajectory,
changed my whole life. I was at Pensacola studying
business administration and computer science at BCC, and I
thought that's what I wanted to be, was a millionaire in the
church. I mean, it sound like a pretty
good plan to me, but God had other plans, Amen.
And I really, I just wanted to be a pillar in the church, hold
up the pastor's hands. I knew that the qualifications
of the Bishop was he could not be a striker and a brawler.
And I thought, well, if I'm not a pastor, I can do it for him,
Amen. If somebody gives him a hard
time, I'll just Jack their jaws and I'll drop enough money in
the plate. He won't even say nothing.
All right, so I had it all figured out.
But in 1993, God changed my whole life, called me to preach,
and I've never once regretted surrendering to what God has
called me to do. And as I'm reading this story, I
can, I can feel, I can feel that the excitement that is brewing
in their hearts is they're now able to reconvene with their
home church in verse #27 and, and just tell them all that God
did. Now their whole first missionary
journey is only in chapter 13 and chapter 14.
It's only two chapters. There's no way in the world they
told everything to happen. They went to too many places
that they didn't talk about. But when you just read these two
chapters, there was a whole lot of stuff going on in that first
missionary journey. I mean, it was so much and at
one point it was so much at one point that the one guy said, I'm
out of here. Hey, man, you can.
I can't take it no more. And as Barnabas, his cousin
said, I'm going back to the house.
But anyway, we're as we're reading these stories here, I'm
amazed at just the fact that God can use anybody.
God's no respecter of verses. All right?
God can use anybody. I come from a little town in
Waterloo. Anybody ever heard of Waterloo,
Georgia? Of course not.
It says Waterloo unincorporated. It's so small.
It says welcome to Waterloo on both sides of the side.
I'm telling you. I mean, if you check your text
messages going through there, you won't miss that town.
That's where I was from. And God has, God has allowed me
to do things I never dreamed, I never thought imaginable as a
boy. He's allowed every, every
impossible dream to come true. And, and all I just want to say
is that God can use anybody. God can use me.
He can use anybody and he will use anybody.
But there's some things that you've got to be willing to do
for Him to use you. And I want to give you a quick
list of them this evening. The first thing I want you to
notice, if you're taking notes, write this down.
To be used by God, you got to be willing to be faithfully serving
God where you already are. I think it's important in
chapter 13 where the story begins.
This is where they're called into the mission field, if you
will. The Bible tells us in verse #2
of chapter 13, as they ministered to the Lord and
fasted that ball and Barnabas were already serving God.
They were already working. They were already involved in
the church at Antioch. As a matter of fact, they had
been serving there for a number of years, going all the way back
to the end of chapter #11 where? But where Barnabas went to see
what God was doing and, and people were getting saved.
And he went and got Saul to come help him.
And they began A discipleship ministry there at the church in
Antioch. And the church was so, so, so
strong brother boots I've preached at a church planters
conference just a few weeks ago. Boy, God showed me this.
The church Barnabas never went back to Jerusalem.
Jerusalem sent him to Antioch to see if what was going on was
true. People were getting saved.
They were hearing reports that people were getting saved and he
got there. Bible says when he saw the grace
of God, he was glad and he exhorted them all that with that
with the singers of heart that they should clean under the
Lord. And, and the Bible says that the
beginning of the discipleship ministry went got Paul brought
him in there. And the Bible says they assemble
for a year and taught the people and they were called Christians
first. And Antioch, he never went back
home. He just stayed there.
And he began to ground them and decide for them to train them.
And then just a couple of years later, that church was so strong
and that church was so solid that he became their sending
church. So when God called them into
missions in chapter #13 God just called them to go and do another
place is what they were already doing in their local church.
Be careful that you don't ask God to do something with you
that you're not willing to do in your own home church.
The Bible says as they ministered, don't sit on a few
and wait for God to lead you to go somewhere to start doing
something. He will just ask you to go
somewhere and do what you're already doing.
Hey, man, just 'cause you get a prayer card, don't mean you're
going to become a missionary. Just because you get a mission
board, just because you get a display table, don't mean you're
going to have a burden for souls.
God's going to call people to the mission field that already
has a burden for souls, that is already serving in their local
church, that's already willing to do whatever needs to be done.
So if you want God to use you #1 you got to be willing to be
faithfully serving God where God has already put you.
I've got this in my notes. They were already doing what
they could, where they could, when they could.
And God's, I believe I'm going to let you do that over here.
Amen. You want stories to tell of what
God has done with you. You got to be doing something.
God uses people. God uses people to do something
that's doing something. They were already served and
they were already faithful, so they had that going for them.
But secondly, write this down to God.
For God to use you, you got to be willing to be fully
surrendered. Fully surrendered.
We see in Acts chapter number 11 and verse #2 chapter 13 rather,
I'm sorry, chapter 13, verse 2, as they ministered to the Lord
and pastor, the Holy Ghost said, separate me, Barnabas and Saul
for the work wherein 2 I have called them.
The Holy Ghost came to the to the church and came to them and
said, and I want you to leave here and I want you to go
somewhere else. And we have no record where they
ever argued with God about that. Well, I'm amazed at how many
people tell God I'll do anything you want me to do except and
then they've got this long list of stuff that they don't want to
do. That's not surrender.
That's not how surrender works. Surrender.
When you take a blank sheet of paper, you sign your name at the
bottom and then you hand it to God and say you write in the
details, you fill in the blanks and whatever you say, whatever
you want, that's what I'm willing to do.
The Holy Spirit of God, it came to them and said they pray to be
Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
You've got to be willing to be fully surrendered.
And it's my honest and sincere belief that the vast majority of
Baptist Church members are not fully surrendered.
If you want to have a story to tell, if you want to be able to
round your church up one day and tell them what God has done with
you, what God has done through you, you're going to have to be
willing to leave your comfort zone.
Chapter 13, verse 2, you got to be willing to do what other
people won't do. I've separate them for the work
whereunto I have called them. That word work right there
throws a lot of people out. The ministries work.
It's called ministry. That's a word for ministering,
all right. It's we're servants of God.
Paul talked about striving together.
He talked about laborers laboring in the middle.
Jesus had one prayer request in his whole ministry, and he
prayed for, he prayed for workers prayed.
Therefore the Lord of the harm was that he would send forth
laborers into the harvest. The ministry and the work of God
is work. It's work.
You've got to be willing to do what other people won't do.
You got to be able to answer what other people won't answer,
he said where unto? I have called them.
God has called a lot of people. They just wouldn't pick up the
phone, live the whole rest of their lives out of the will of
God because they refuse to surrender.
They've already got their life mapped out.
They live their house, they love where they live.
They love being close to mom and daddy.
They love being close to Walmart and Cracker Barrel.
They they've got their retirement, their 401K, they've
got their retirement. They already planned.
They know exactly when they're going to be able to quit, where
they can retire, live off of their income.
And the Holy Ghost comes to them in the missions covered or come
to them in the Bible conference and says, this is what I want
you to do. And all of a sudden they panic.
They say I can't do that. All all of my plans is going to
completely fall apart if I surrender.
Well, if you want stories to tell, you're going to have to
surrender. Amen.
You got to surrender. You got to do what other people
won't do. You got to answer what other
people won't answer. You got to go where other people
won't go. Verse three and four, Hey, man,
and you got to leave what other people aren't willing to leave.
Bible says in verse 3, when they had fasted and prayed, laid
their hands on them, they sent them away.
Well, that word right there is what runs a lot of Christians
out of ministry away. I've got friends down South
that's pastored four or five churches in the last 30 years.
Interestingly enough, every church I've ever pastored was
driving distance from the house they live in, but never one time
had to move to take a church. The only churches they were
willing to take was ones they could drive to from where they
were already living. Well, I can see right now that's
going over like a lead balloon. I can't believe how many people
when we were on deputation in 2000 to go to South Africa, try
to talk us how to go to the mission field.
I mean, I'm going to churches and presenting our work and I'm
super excited. I mean, I'm on fire about going
to Africa. My wife was, we had three
beautiful children, had a display, had amazing
presentation. And afterwards they'd say, I
can't believe, I can't believe you're taking them three
beautiful children to Africa. I got to where I would say,
well, if they was ugly, could I take them?
If they were ugly, would you take us on just to get them out
of your face? Can't believe you're going to
Africa. And that's a long way.
I'm like, I know it's on the other side of the world, but
that's where God called me. I can't believe how many of my
preacher friends down South couldn't believe I was leaving
South Carolina to go to Baltimore.
What in the world are you doing going to Baltimore?
I said I'm going where God told me to go.
You got to be willing to go away from family, away from friends,
away from your comfort zone, away from everything you know,
if that's what God wants you to do.
You got, you want stories to tell, you want to be used by
God. You got to be fully surrendered
#3 if you want God to use you, you got to be willing to be
filled with the Spirit. Well, we can print your whole
message on this point. Look at, look at, look at verse
#9 the Bible says and, and, and, and Saul, who also is called
Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, set his eyes on him.
You don't underestimate the importance of big field of
spirit. You won't God to do amazing
things with you. You're not going to do it in
your power. You're not going to do it in
your energy. You're not going to do it with
your intellect. You're going to need the
supernatural help from God to do it.
And the Holy Spirit, according to verse #2 is the one that does
the calling. The Holy Ghost is the one in
verse #4 who does descending, and the Holy Ghost in verse #9
is the one that does the work. If you get anything done, you
and I are going to have to be filled with the Holy Spirit of
God. And most people cannot be used
of God because they're full of their self and they're not full
of the Spirit. They were filled with the Holy
Ghost in verse number too, because they fasted and prayed
verse #3 they fasted and prayed and they were filled with the
Holy Spirit of God. They worked and operated in the
power of the Holy Spirit of person.
That will not be spirit filled, won't have very many stories to
tell. That's right.
The only stories you're going to have to have to tell are about
all the messes you made, the mistakes you made, and the
trouble you got into because you was not spirit filled, but you
were walking in the flesh feeling being filled with the
Spirit. The fire we need comes from the
Holy Spirit. The fuel we need comes from the
Holy Spirit. The fervency we need comes from
the Holy Spirit. The focus we need and the finish
we need comes from the Holy Spirit of God.
Don't underestimate the importance of being filled with
the Spirit. The ministry is spiritual work.
It's supernatural work and you can't do it in your own power.
In fact, it's so it's amazing to me, It's amazing to me that
Jesus as he ascended up into heaven and Acts chapter #1 last
thing he said before his feet left planet Earth was to go in
all the world, preach the gospel to every creature.
But then he said, tarry in Jerusalem till you be endued
with power from old high. Then you shall be witnesses unto
me in heaven and earth. And he they had to wait until
they had the Holy Spirit of God in dwelling them before they
ever were allowed to share the gospel.
One time. There's a big difference in
Peter and Acts 2 and Peter and the Gospels where every time he
opened his mouth, he was put in his mouth.
Every time he'd say something, Lord have to rebuke him.
He got rebuked all the time. One time Jesus looked at Peter
and said, get thee behind me, Satan.
It was Peter saying not so Lord. It was Peter over there by the
fire swearing and cussing, saying I don't know him, I don't
know the man. But then he got full of the Holy
Spirit of God and he preached a message and 3000 people got
saved. You and I don't have the ability
apart from the Holy Spirit to do what God wants done.
If we're going to have any stories to tell and be used by
God, we have to be filled we're the Holy Spirit of God #4 write
this down. You got to be willing to fight
Satan if you want to be used of God.
It's spiritual warfare from Day 1 chapter 13 verse #8 the Bible
says that elements the sorcerer for so is his name by
interpretation withstood them. They hadn't got started good.
I mean, they had that. They didn't even have a
honeymoon in their mission on the mission field.
They just got, they just had a going away party.
They just blew out the candles in the going away cake and and
they're on that. They're on the first few days
and weeks of their missionary journey and the devil sends a
sorcerer to withstand them. So maybe think you know what
spiritual warfare is? Get in a foreign country and do
missionary work and you'll find out real quick.
Devil knows how to take it up a notch.
Start trying to plant a church somewhere where there's not one.
Start trying to start trying to evangelize a community that
desperately needs the gospel and see if the demons of hell don't
wake up and get all over you. I'm telling you, it's spiritual
warfare from day one. And I don't care if you're a
pastor, pastor's wife. I don't care if you're a
missionary, a church planner. It don't matter if you're an
evangelist. It don't matter if you're a
Sunday school teacher. The minute you step up and say,
Lord, whatever you want to do with me, do it.
You can go ahead and mark it down.
The devil's going to send people, demon possess people,
crazy people, demonic people to withstand you.
You got to be ready for that. You got to be ready for that.
You're afraid or unprepared to enter the spiritual warfare.
Your chances of being used by God's pretty slim.
All it takes is a devil sticking his head around the corner,
going Boo for you to back up and go home.
Hey, God can't do much with you. Why do you think Jesus told his
disciples upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates
of hell shall not prevail against it.
From the minute he mentioned starting a church, he concluded
the statement by saying you can go ahead and get ready for
demonic, satanic warfare. The devil's going to do
everything you can to come against it.
Come against the church, come against your family.
You think you've got stress in your marriage, now get in the
ministry. It don't get better.
The devil takes it up a notch. You think you've got trouble
trying to train and raise godly children?
Now wait till they're preachers kids or missionaries kids or
wait till they're you're trying to go all in for God and you're
surrender to do whatever God wants you to do and and your
family is committed. We're going to do the ministries
of the church that God will let us do and I'm telling the devil
will take it up a notch. You said, preacher, if you're
trying to talk to me in the surrender and you're doing a
pair of terrible job of it, I'm just being honest.
You want to have stories to tell.
You want to be used by God. You want to be able to gather
people around, tell them what God did with you and how God
used you. You're going to have to be ready
for some spiritual warfare. I mean, it's it's Paul and
Barnabas face sorcerers. I was thinking about this,
Brother Louis, I think you're going to agree with me.
You read the disciple, you read the, you read the Gospel.
If you look at the accounts of how many places Jesus went and
how many demons and devils he cast out, unclean spirits, foul
spirits, I mean even just in Mark one, I mean, look, I mean
demon possessed people, devil possessed people.
He delivered in just Mark chapter #1 in one place that
says they were gathered, all the city was gathered at the door
and he cast out many devils. This is in one house and one
night in one town. You think how many devil
possessed people was back in those days?
When you Fast forward to 2026 and I'm going to tell you
something about the help with the, with the Internet and the
social media and all the mind altering drugs and all of the
satanic influences that we've got in our society.
You take whatever demonic people there was in Jesus day and you
can multiply that by about 10 or 15 and 2025.
And we look at people, we think, man, they're just mean or
they're just hateful. No, they're devil possessed.
I mean our society is full of devil possessed people.
That's their problem. They're devil possessed and they
will be sent by the devil to oppose you.
You can't handle a little bit of opposition.
You best just stay on the bench. They were confronted and opposed
by literal children of the devil.
He told him in verse #10 old, full of subtlety and all
mischief. Thou child of the devil, he
said, Preacher, that's nerve wracking, that's scary.
I know it is, but it's real. Spiritual warfare is real.
If you're a soul winner, you've been counted it on people's
front porch. If you're a soul winner, you can
count into that. When you knock on the door and
they come to the door and you can see the devil in their eyes,
they act like you're trying to rob them.
Tell them Jesus loves you, love you to come to church, and just
let's talk to you about the Lord.
You think they act like you're trying to rob them.
It's a devil. They need to be saved,
obviously. What I'm saying is if that
scares you off, you're not going to have a lot of stories to
tell. God's not going to be able to do
much with you if you can't handle spiritual warfare.
The good news is greater T that is in you than he that is in the
world. Amen.
The devil is a defeated foe. He's just a dog on a chain.
He can't go. But so far God's given us the
victory. We know how the story ends and
and the church is invincible. The church is able to do the
what God has called us to do. The devil can't do nothing to
stop it, but a lot of people are afraid to even deal with it.
Let me give you these other couple points right quick, and
I'm going to get out of the way. Number, write this down #5 you
got to be willing to face suffering.
You got to be willing to face suffering.
If you want to have stories to tell of how God has used you,
how God's allowed you to make a difference, you don't have to be
willing to face some suffering. Chapter 13, verse #45 Now says
when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled
with envious make against those things which were spoken by
Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
The Bible says in verse #50 the Jews were stirred up, the devout
and honorable women, the chief men of the city, and raised
persecution against Paul and Barnabas, expelled them out of
their coach. If you've got thin skin, you
stay out of the ministry. If you get your feelings hurt
real quick and best, best just stay on the few and pray and
tithe and be faithful to church because you're not going to be
able to do much more than that if you can't handle a little bit
of suffering. Let me tell you how much
suffering Paul had to deal with. That was his call to preach.
God told Ananias, you go over there to the house and you find
Saul and you tell him how great things he must suffer from my
name. Not how big a church is going to
get the pastor, not how many love offerings he's going to
get, not how many people he's going to have following him and
inviting him out to eat. You tell Paul I've called him to
preach, and the call to preach is how great things he must
suffer from my sake. From day one Paul knew he was
going to suffer and he did suffer.
And he gives us a long list of the things he had to deal with.
Getting stoned and shipwrecked and beaten with rods and on and
on he went. But you got to be willing to
face suffering. Bible says they shook off the
dust in verse 51 of their feet against them and came to
Iconium. What about that?
Just shut the dust off their feet and went to the next town.
You got to be willing to face suffering.
Being in the ministry is not popular with people that are
lost. Being in the ministry is not
popular with people that are devil possessed.
It's not popular with people that love sin and love what
they're doing. God sends us out there to tell
them the gospel, share, share the gospel, shine the light of
the glorious gospel in their eyes and their hearts and their
ears. And not everybody's going to
fall down and grab your feet and thank you.
Some of them's going to cuss you out.
Some of them's going to tell you not to come back.
Some of them's going to be rude and mean and sends you hate
mail. We talked about it today.
I get hate mail, I get emails. It's nasty, horrible, vulgar
things. I just delete them and keep
going because that's just part of it.
Just part of it. You got to be willing to face
suffering number six. You got to be willing to be
fluent in scriptures. I wish they had time to expand
this point to be willingly fluent in scriptures.
Paul and Barnabas were Bible teachers and Bible preachers.
The Word of God was their life. The entire first missionary
journey was 1 concentrated effort to preach and teach and
proclaim the Scriptures there. One of the most invaluable yet
underestimated secrets to being used of God is knowing your
Bible. Learn your Bible, young people.
Memorize Scripture. Know what you believe.
Know why you believe it. One of the qualifications of the
Bishop in First Timothy 3 is that he not be a novice.
In chapter 13 verse 5, Bible says they preached the word of
God in the synagogue. Chapter 13 verse 7 they called
for Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear the word of God.
Chapter 13 verse 15 after the reading of the law and the
prophets, the rulers of the synagogue said of them saying
that you men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation
for the people say all well we could just go on and on.
Verse 44 the Bible says the whole city came together to hear
the word of God. Are y'all staying with me?
Chapter 13, verse #46 The Bible says that it was necessary that
the word of God should first have been spoken unto you.
Verse 48, When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and
glorified the word of the Lord. Verse 49.
The word of the Lord was published throughout all the
region. Chapter 14, Verse 3, The Bible
says they gave testimony into the word of His grace.
And chapter 14, verse 25, when they had preached the word,
everywhere they went they was preaching, teaching the word of
God. If you want God to use you, If
you want God to put his hands on you, if you want God to open
doors and allow you to do things for him, you need to know your
Bible. You could give the average
independent Baptist a three by 5 card and say write what you
believe and why you believe it. And they couldn't fill up both
sides. Paul's message in Acts chapter
13, verse 15 through 41 was filled with Scripture.
I'm not going to give you the whole list, but he quoted
Genesis, first Samuel, Isaiah, Mark, Matthew, Psalm, Isaiah,
Psalm 16, Isaiah 53, and Habakkuk 1.
He quoted every one of those Scriptures in his message from
verse 15 down through verse #41 and he did it without notes.
He stood up there and preached and quoted scriptures and just
grabbed verses from all over the Bible and you wove them together
and put together a Bible message.
Amen. Let me give you one last point.
Write this down. You got to be willing to fortify
the Saints. Fortify the Saints.
One of the greatest requirements for being used of gods to be
able to be trusted by God to help other Christians grow and
you're willing to live day and night for other people to go
further in their Christian life it's all about helping them
advance it's all about them going further with God then God
can do something with you. The Bible tells us over and over
and over in Paul's first missionary journey and
barnabas's first missionary journey, God used them to help
other people fortify the Saints. Chapter 13, verse #43 When the
congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious
proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them,
persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
Chapter 14, Verse 21. The Bible says when they had
preached the gospel and had taught many, they returned again
to Lystra, Verse 22, confirming the souls of the disciples,
exhorting them to continue in the faith that we must through
much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God.
Verse 23 And when they had ordained them elders in every
city and prayed with vast and they commended them to the Lord
on whom they believe. So it gives us a journey.
They went through all these cities, LED people to the Lord,
got people, saved all these cities, and then as they
backtracked back to Antioch, every city, they confirmed them
and encouraged them to go further with God.
If you want God to use you, you got to be spiritual enough not
only be able to keep your own walk with God maintained, but
let God use you to help somebody else go further with God, not
just the pastor's job. It's not just the pastor's job
to encourage and challenge the church members to live right and
do right and stay faithful. You're supposed to do it to one
another. The Bible says provoke one
another to love and good works. Does it not say that?
Sure it does. But one of the story ends when
they gathered the church together.
They rehearsed all that God had done with them.
They had set themselves up, they had checked all these boxes and
said, Lord, whatever you want to do with us, we're willing to be
used. And God did amazing things.
And and that's just missionary journey number one.
They took two more after that. And all we got in chapter 13 or
14 was just a couple little isolated glimpses of what God
did with him. Only eternity will know what God
did with Barnabas and Paul. And there's no telling what God
can do with you. You're sitting this here right
now saying me, you don't know me, you don't know anything
about me. I know this.
If you're saved and you won't do something for God, God can use
you. God wants to use you.
I think about this and I'm done. A lot of Christians sit around
waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting,
waiting for God to tell them to do something and they're not
doing half of what he's already told them to do, right.
God's not going to give you more light till you walk in the light
you've already received. Ron Comfort said this years ago.
Light received increases light. Light rejected decreases light.
As long as you're walking in the light, he'll keep giving you
light. When you stop, the light stops.
You won't God open up doors. You won't God to do open up
greater doors. Walk through the doors that's
open in front of you right now and see if God won't let you
have some stories to tell. You'll be able to say, look what
God damn with me. I can't believe God did this
with me. God used me to do this and I
just can't believe it. God's got so much he wants you
to do, so much he wants you to do, Pastor, Amen.
I just.