1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:05,000 We hope and pray that the things that we have chosen in this part 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,400 of our worship today, will be good for the congregation that 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,200 meets here from time to time. There was a little subject that 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,300 came up the other evening in our Wednesday night. 5 00:00:15,300 --> 00:00:21,300 Study that prompt us prompted me to research this somewhat and I 6 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:24,000 hope what we're going to talk about will be the very best for 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,300 the occasion. I don't really know your 8 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:35,700 thoughts because I'm not able to read your minds but from time to 9 00:00:35,700 --> 00:00:39,200 time, I think about the congregation and how long it's 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,800 been here at this place. And in the course of thinking 11 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,200 about that, I realize that, where's it going to be proc 12 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,700 approximately maybe 10 years from now or maybe 20? 13 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,100 And then that prompted me to really sort of get sober minded. 14 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:03,500 and I took an accounting in my mind and I thought, you know, in 15 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:10,500 about 20 years, maybe even less about a dozen of us that are 16 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:12,900 here this morning in this assembly, won't be here. 17 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:18,400 That's just the way things go because our bodies were out 18 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,300 disease, takes us and so on and so forth. 19 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,400 But my heart's desire and prayer to God is that this congregation 20 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:32,500 will remain strong. and it will be here for the very, very long 21 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:37,900 future serving, this community, and trying the best of our 22 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:42,300 abilities, to preach the gospel to those that are lost That 23 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:46,000 would be an answer to my prayer concerning this congregation. 24 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:53,100 Now in reflecting on 2nd, Timothy 4, verses 1 through 5 25 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:57,600 and that we quoted partial of it Wednesday evening and I'm going 26 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:02,800 to read it and just a moment. But think about this for just, 27 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:09,900 just a second, how many of us today without intention and 28 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:14,200 having the best intentions for ourselves and our families and 29 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,600 the congregation here have just relegated ourselves to 30 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:24,300 churchgoers. Is that all we do is just come 31 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:28,200 to the worship. Well, we're going to talk about 32 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,200 some things today, and I'm going to give you some statistics. 33 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,700 I'm going to talk about scriptures that perhaps, we need 34 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:42,000 to be reminded about this is not a Hellfire sermon preaching down 35 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,600 to you. I don't want to do that, but I 36 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,700 wanted to be encouraged this morning and just take inventory 37 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:54,200 of ourselves and possibly where we are as far as are serving. 38 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,600 The lord goes at this moment of Time. 39 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,500 That's important to me and I think it should be to all of us. 40 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:05,900 In second, Timothy chapter 4 will be going to begin here. 41 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:10,500 The Apostle Paul being the writer of this letter, he said I 42 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:14,200 charge thee, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, 43 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,900 who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing, and 44 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:23,800 his kingdom, preach the word be instant in season out of season 45 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:28,500 reprove rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and Doctrine. 46 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,300 For the time will come, when they will not endure sound 47 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:35,600 Doctrine, but after their own lusts, shall they Heap to 48 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,300 themselves teachers having itching ears, and they shall 49 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:42,600 turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto 50 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,100 fables. But watch, thou. 51 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:48,000 In all things endure, afflictions do the work of an 52 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:54,200 evangelist make, full proof of thy Ministry. and another place 53 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,600 when he was writing to this young preacher, this young 54 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,600 evangelist He told us that we are commit the word I'm 55 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,200 paraphrasing it. Of course, commit things that he 56 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,300 has heard to good and faithful men. 57 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,500 And let me say a word in behalf of our younger people. 58 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:19,500 I see a growth period in this congregation. 59 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:21,700 That was mentioned in Darren's prayer this morning. 60 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:26,700 And I see that because of the things that were doing here 61 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,400 especially on our Wednesday night studies growth in our 62 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:36,500 younger people and that's a good thing and that is a positive as 63 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:41,600 far as thinking about where the church at this place will be in 64 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,900 the future and how strong it will maintain. 65 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:52,200 And let me just say this, In our conservative thinking and 66 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:57,700 according to what God teaches holdfast, those good things and 67 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:01,200 cast aside, those things that are not good for the church, 68 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:07,000 according to God's word. Well in the longest line this 69 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,900 morning talking about the future church, let me just say that it 70 00:05:11,900 --> 00:05:14,800 doesn't take a lot of learning on our part. 71 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:21,200 To learn that nothing stands still for very long, we can see 72 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:25,200 that about us. We can understand the thought 73 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,500 that I'm trying to make it this moment of time at this very 74 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:32,200 moment. We are at the portals of another 75 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:38,000 year, it seems like the 2010 just got started and now it's 76 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,200 almost over. People are going to start making 77 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,200 resolutions. Perhaps you do that, I don't 78 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,700 know. But thinking about the future, 79 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:50,500 what am I going to do? Am I going to better myself my 80 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:54,300 family and what are we going to succeed at in the very near 81 00:05:54,300 --> 00:05:57,400 future? But I want to take this 82 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:02,000 opportunity to talk about change that we see in the world, change 83 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,000 is a very constant thing and all changes are not bad, but there 84 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,700 are some changes that we expect some that we even hope for there 85 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:17,400 are some though that are not For us and they should never occur 86 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,200 and we should cast them off and certainly not let them enter 87 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:23,400 into our lives, especially in the church. 88 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:28,900 This morning, we're here today to talk about well, in essence, 89 00:06:28,900 --> 00:06:32,500 in a short segment of it, our leadership and we want to 90 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:37,300 reflect upon upon that, we're here to discuss our attitudes. 91 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,500 We're going to talk about our goals and the future of the 92 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:46,100 Lord's, cause upon this Earth, And in short, we are here at 93 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:48,600 this time to take a long hard look. 94 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,100 At ourselves and what we're doing for the Lord and for his 95 00:06:54,100 --> 00:07:00,100 cause I might just say the church and 20 years here at this 96 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:02,800 place. What will it look like if I was 97 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:06,600 able to be here and to see it in itself? 98 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,900 The very thought to me is awesome. 99 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:15,400 But think about it, we have to and we have to make plans, we 100 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,600 have to succeed in order for us to be at this place. 101 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,500 In the future. Proverbs 29. 102 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:28,600 Verse 18 tells us where there is no vision, the people perish. 103 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:34,100 So you see God's word teaches us that those that lead, the flock 104 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,500 need to have some sort of a vision needs to have some sort 105 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:41,400 of plans. I should use that term for what 106 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,100 this church is going to be like in the future. 107 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:49,300 And we can't wait to be dragged into the Next Generation and the 108 00:07:49,300 --> 00:07:51,700 next One. And the next one, we need to 109 00:07:51,700 --> 00:07:55,900 walk hand-in-hand with it and make sure that the later 110 00:07:55,900 --> 00:07:59,400 leadership first of all is strong and brings the young 111 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,800 along and that's the way we sustain the conservatism that's 112 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,800 found in God's word. Now this morning I give this 113 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,300 lesson to you was several understandings. 114 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:15,600 First of all I understand that I'm neither a prophet nor a son 115 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,500 of a prophet. I have no crystal glass ball 116 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:22,700 that I can look into and tell you what's going to happen. 117 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,400 I don't know what the future holds but I understand that 118 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:31,500 we're looking at a constantly changing scene against a 119 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:36,200 backdrop of an unchanging word. Let me just rephrase that like 120 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,600 this. Things are moving along at such 121 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,900 a rapid pace and we get caught up in things, don't we? 122 00:08:43,299 --> 00:08:47,800 We certainly do. But behind the backdrop of life, 123 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,100 that's moving along. So rapidly, there is still 124 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:56,000 something behind that. That is constant, is always 125 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,100 there and never changing and that's the word of almighty God. 126 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:05,900 And we need to look through this movement, that is so fast and 127 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:10,100 furious, and can cause us to stray off into the bushes, so, 128 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:12,400 to speak. And remember that there is 129 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:16,100 something that will draw us back to the straight and the narrow, 130 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,500 and that's the word of all God almighty God. 131 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:24,100 It never changes. God designed it that way. 132 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,900 You know, there are many constants that we could talk 133 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:33,900 about but I just want to talk about a few today for them. 134 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:39,600 I am very, very grateful to God that he made it this way. 135 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:44,800 I want you to hear something that this morning, we could turn 136 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:49,200 over to Daniel chapter 2 and verse number 44. 137 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,000 I believe it is talking about the kingdom and how it Come and 138 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,400 what it would look like, and so on and so forth. 139 00:09:55,500 --> 00:09:59,600 Then we flip in our Bibles to Matthew Chapter 13 and we read 140 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,600 the history that's found there and it's remarkable how the 141 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,500 prophets could see and how it came to pass. 142 00:10:08,100 --> 00:10:12,300 You read over later on in James chapter 4 and how things were 143 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:16,500 succeeding in and going forth God is ever the same. 144 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:22,600 Now, what's his product? Well, God's product is the word, 145 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:27,900 and it is always here and constant, and it never changes. 146 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,200 And I can't say that too many times clearly stated 147 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,900 propositions that we find in God's word that can be Thought 148 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:41,100 about studied about learned about our human intellect can be 149 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:44,900 put in place and it's there for our reading for our 150 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:50,300 understanding. But do we do we know God's word? 151 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:53,200 Do we know what he's trying to tell us from the light of his 152 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,900 word, the word itself demands that we study the signs of our 153 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:03,200 times and we do move forward with a constant of God's word 154 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,300 and do those things that he would have us to be. 155 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:12,700 Already then. Turning our eyes to these times, 156 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:17,300 it almost leaves us dizzy. Perhaps the right word might be 157 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:20,500 dazed. The only constant thing 158 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:25,100 sometimes that we see is change itself and how rapidly that it 159 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:30,600 occurs. The field, the world, the hearts 160 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:36,400 of men, the soils are all factors that we have to consider 161 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:42,800 and we realize that men change, but the word of God doesn't it? 162 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:47,700 Just stays there in a constant form for us to when we move to 163 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:50,000 the right? Or we moved to the left can 164 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:55,400 readjust The way we live and come back down, the straight and 165 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,000 narrow. And that's a wonderful thing 166 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,900 that God has given us. And most of us I'm sad to say 167 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:06,600 just simply take it for granted. The changing world is out there 168 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:11,400 and we need to admit it and we need to look at it in sometimes 169 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:14,100 a bad way. We don't need to let it affect 170 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:20,000 us. In 20 years, I am told to, as 171 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,000 some surveyors have taken. And I've said this from the 172 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,100 pulpit time and time again that statistics, by the time, you 173 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:32,800 quote, them are usually old and perhaps forgotten or they change 174 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,300 from time to time. But here's some of them in about 175 00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:39,100 20 years. It's said that one of every 176 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:43,700 three people that you meet will be of A different race. 177 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,400 And that's probably already here. 178 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:52,900 And you think about that, this is already true in some of our 179 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,500 country. We do not see this, though, from 180 00:12:56,500 --> 00:13:00,300 a church standpoint as a problem as the world does. 181 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,700 But we see it as a challenge. What am I talking about? 182 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:09,500 Do we not need to develop some young preachers that can speak 183 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:16,000 Hispanic, Spanish, maybe foreign languages, that we would never 184 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,000 dream that we could do. This is a ideas that I was 185 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,200 thinking about and I wrote down some of them. 186 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:26,400 We need to plan for it. We need to face it. 187 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:31,300 We really have not done much for those people that migrated into 188 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:34,800 our Country. Well for sake, of a better term 189 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:39,400 they call minorities. I don't know what you want to 190 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:42,700 call it. But listen let me start talking 191 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:47,800 about this from the light of our homes are American Homes. 192 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,600 I want you to think about them. Things now that I'm going to 193 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:55,700 mention, we already in the church, I believe most of us 194 00:13:55,700 --> 00:14:00,400 wrestle with the problem of what our homes are like. 195 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,300 Some of them are wonderful. Some of them are are just like 196 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:06,900 the Bible teaches, they should be. 197 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:11,300 But then again on the other hand, there are homes that even 198 00:14:11,300 --> 00:14:16,500 in the church have been affected by evil and sin and been 199 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:21,800 decimated by divorce and so on and so forth. 20 years ago, 200 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:27,200 divorce among church members was practically unheard of It's 201 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,000 something you just did not hear much about because it wasn't 202 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,200 here today. There are very very few families 203 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:40,300 even possibly in the churches in this area that have about been 204 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:45,400 affected by that evil. It's an awful thing for the 205 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,900 church to be broken up because of divorce. 206 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,200 And, you know, if you had the ability to have the old serpent 207 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,700 or the devil's book, if he's written down names, let's never 208 00:14:57,700 --> 00:15:01,000 let our name get there. We need to be mindful of it. 209 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:08,600 Losses up to 48 percent occur, among our young and our young to 210 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,500 middle-aged families. That is a startling to statistic 211 00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:18,100 And if you were to take a survey today, it's probably higher but 212 00:15:18,100 --> 00:15:23,400 this congregation, I believe moves in a, in a positive good 213 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,000 direction and that's to train our children and the way that 214 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 they should go and when they're old, they will not depart from 215 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,200 thee. That's what the Bible says over 216 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,700 in Proverbs. So you see there's a mission for 217 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:42,400 us something that we can all work together for and succeed in 218 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:45,800 And that's training our little ones and showing them. 219 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:50,500 The need to be mindful of God and to respect him and serve 220 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:52,100 him, all the days that they live. 221 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:57,800 Out of every 100 children that are born today. 222 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:02,100 According to this survey Statistics indicate the 223 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:09,300 following 12 are born out of wedlock. 40 were born to 224 00:16:09,300 --> 00:16:11,200 parents. Who will divorce before the 225 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,600 children? Reach the age of 18. 226 00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:18,000 Five were born to parents who will separate before they reach 227 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,500 18. Two were born to parents of 228 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:23,000 home. One will die before the 229 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,800 children. Reach, 18, only 41 will reach 230 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:33,200 age 18 in what the world calls normal Now, if you talk to 10 231 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,600 different people, you get different in different ideas 232 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:41,500 today about what is normal. 59 percent of the children. 233 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:46,700 Born in 1983, will live only one with one parent before, reaching 234 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:51,000 18. But today this is a normal 235 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,900 experience. This is what we see in our 236 00:16:54,900 --> 00:16:59,300 society. Good know what can the church do 237 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:02,200 about it. We can affect it, we can do 238 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,099 things further. Statistics reveal that real 239 00:17:06,099 --> 00:17:08,900 problems are ahead for the the world. 240 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:15,900 A society, the church, And it is alarming when you think about it 241 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:19,599 in 1955. Now this goes back several years 242 00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:24,800 in nineteen fifty five, sixty percent of American households 243 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,900 had a working father, a household mother who was a 244 00:17:28,908 --> 00:17:34,200 housewife and two or more children found therein in 1980 245 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:41,200 that Union was unit was found in only 11 percent of our homes, In 246 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:48,100 1995, it was down to 7% already. So you see the decline. 247 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,400 Now, we're talking about the foundation of everything and 248 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:58,200 that's our homes. So if we work hard, if we use 249 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,600 the instructions found in God's word, as far as how the home is 250 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:09,400 to look and survive and succeed, these statistics will not affect 251 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:14,900 us in the church whatsoever. I'm told according to a survey 252 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:17,900 that was back in in the early 2000s. 253 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,900 That the typical family includes any of the following single 254 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:28,600 parent male or female with one or more children, a female 255 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:33,000 Breadwinner with a child and a live-in, husband, a previously, 256 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,500 married couple with a combination of children. 257 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,900 One of the three. The family by never definition 258 00:18:42,300 --> 00:18:47,000 several years ago. Was this a combo of people not 259 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:52,100 related by blood or marriage but by voluntary Association Folks 260 00:18:52,100 --> 00:18:57,900 listen, I say this too began to show you just how detrimental 261 00:18:57,900 --> 00:19:03,500 Society can become if we just let ourselves become 262 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:08,900 churchgoers, just coming to worship and I might just mention 263 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:11,800 the fact that some of us can't even do that. 264 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:16,700 Except on the Lord's day. If we're going to build up this 265 00:19:16,700 --> 00:19:21,500 congregation, it takes everyone. And let me tell you this, if you 266 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:25,900 think for one minute in this particular place of the church 267 00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:30,500 that the leadership here is not interested in you and how you 268 00:19:30,500 --> 00:19:36,300 are to live and succeed to make Evan Then you are absolutely 269 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:40,300 diluted. The congregation here together 270 00:19:40,300 --> 00:19:43,500 can accomplish that and the leadership will help you. 271 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,800 If we can't do those, things will find ways to do. 272 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:52,600 Them will learn will educate ourselves and will help you 273 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:57,500 every way that we can Brethren, listen The Winds of Change blow 274 00:19:57,500 --> 00:20:01,400 and they blow in Gale proportions in my short 275 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,300 lifetime. I've seen us move from Workers 276 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:09,400 in the field. Over into the industrial side 277 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:13,200 from the industrial side to the informational side. 278 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:19,200 And that's just the way how things are, and how fast things 279 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:23,500 are moving today. I remember as a kid to make 280 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:27,200 extra money to help buy my school clothes, I got out and I 281 00:20:27,208 --> 00:20:34,000 chop cotton Pick cotton. Worked out in the fields. 282 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:36,800 Why are kids wouldn't do that today? 283 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,500 If they if you force them, if you beat him to death almost 284 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:42,600 they think that oh how persecuted they are? 285 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:46,900 And that's okay, we have educated ourselves. 286 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:50,700 We have sent them to school, we have better dim and that's a 287 00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:54,500 good thing. But us never look down upon 288 00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:58,700 those that still do it. Technology is turning the world 289 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,700 inside inward upon itself, I cannot keep up with it. 290 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,800 I would break break Darrell and Gail's Financial Bank. 291 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:12,200 If I tried to keep up with electronics, it's amazing. 292 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:15,900 What things can be done in a little handheld. 293 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:18,700 Gadget-gadget today. And what it will succeed in 294 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:22,800 doing technology is a tremendous thing. 295 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,100 We can Avail ourselves of it but let's not get caught up in it. 296 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:29,300 And let us take us away from the road that we're traveling. 297 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:34,500 You know, folks listen one man said this and think about it. 298 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:41,700 He said that the global village is here Think about how far we 299 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:46,400 can get from point A to point B and just a few hours today. 300 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:54,500 How small the world has become and how fast we can travel from 301 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:57,900 this place to that place. It's just remarkable. 302 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,100 We are in transition if we like it or not. 303 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:07,500 If there has ever been a time to think for the leadership of 304 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:10,100 congregations to plan things out. 305 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:15,700 Together to sit goals. It's now, who are we? 306 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,800 What are we about? Where do we want to go? 307 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,700 And what do we want to achieve? When we get there? 308 00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:25,700 That's some things that we can think about and study about. 309 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,700 And that's the reason why today for the purpose of this lesson 310 00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:33,200 is to remind us and the leadership of this congregation 311 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:37,100 that we have plans that we need to make and stick it and adhere 312 00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:40,300 to them and do those things that God would have us do. 313 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,500 What's out in this changing world. 314 00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:48,600 The greatest need of the church today and in the future will be 315 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,800 the leadership and see it strong. 316 00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:57,600 Strong in the eyes of the Lord and the congregations there is 317 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,300 Grass Roots cry for leadership in our congregations. 318 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:06,000 And if you think for one minute that if you study to show 319 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,700 thyself approved unto God, a Workman that needeth not to be 320 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:13,300 ashamed, rightly dividing it in its true sense. 321 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:17,100 You will be followed and appreciated because you'll be on 322 00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:19,800 the straight and narrow and that's what we're talking about 323 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,300 today. It's so important we need to 324 00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:26,600 have the Proper scriptural, guidance, that God didn't give 325 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,900 us, never has leadership and so important, never have, we had a 326 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:34,900 priority, so great. And, you know, truth. 327 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:38,900 I want to say this in a course of our study this morning. 328 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:45,800 Truth does not assure leadership while truth provides it and 329 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,400 God's word demands it. We are the ones that must 330 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,100 develop it. It's our responsibility to do 331 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:54,800 that. No one will do it for us. 332 00:23:55,700 --> 00:23:59,600 You know, it's appalling to me than in one survey, 59 percent 333 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,500 of our Brethren have no plans for developing elders. 334 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,900 Deacon's or preachers. Now, we've talked about this on 335 00:24:08,900 --> 00:24:13,600 our Wednesday night, cited study to, and it's a, it's a marvelous 336 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,000 in the fact that God has designed a way for the church to 337 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,700 be governed. But yet we just kind of Move 338 00:24:21,700 --> 00:24:26,100 Along at a snail's pace and perhaps we need to think about 339 00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:30,500 that a little bit more. Do we not all read from the same 340 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:34,700 book and what he teaches us web solutely we do and we can read 341 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:38,600 together the instructions for leading the church forward and 342 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,200 the things that need to be need to be done the word demands that 343 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,700 we do. That are we not forced to the 344 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:47,500 conclusion that we either? Do not know the word. 345 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:53,300 Or sometimes. We just get in a mode that we 346 00:24:53,300 --> 00:24:57,800 really don't care. And that's the dangerous part. 347 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,800 We really just don't seem to care. 348 00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:05,900 There is indeed a crisis today Among Us I believe and it is a 349 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:08,800 terrible lack of biblical knowledge. 350 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:13,400 Let me cite to you what God said about this many hundreds of 351 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:18,500 years ago, over in Hosea, the fourth chapter verse 6 and it's 352 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:22,700 never been truer. Listen my people are destroyed 353 00:25:22,700 --> 00:25:29,000 for lack of knowledge. This can be decimating to you 354 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,500 and your life and your family's atmosphere. 355 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:36,000 If you don't step up to the plate and learn the language, 356 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,900 found in God's word, people can cause you to drift because you 357 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:45,400 don't have the strength that it takes to withstand those that 358 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,300 put pressure on us from the outside. 359 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,800 My people are gone into captivity because they have no 360 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,600 knowledge. That's what the Bible says. 361 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,500 In Isaiah chapter 5. Verse number 13, you can be 362 00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:02,900 captivated by sin because of the lack of knowledge of God's word 363 00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:06,200 to combat it. And we don't want that to 364 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:07,900 happen. Especially not in this 365 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:11,900 congregation. Hebrews chapter 5 and verse 12 366 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:15,900 is so applicable. Today, there is a distinct 367 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:19,500 correlation between the way we live and what we know between 368 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:24,100 the leadership of a congregation what it knows and what it can 369 00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:28,100 accomplish by the knowledge that it has studied and received from 370 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:31,200 God's word. We must have leaders who will 371 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,000 lead us to accept the destiny of our design. 372 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:42,500 Let me give you a challenge. Sometime, take the time to read 373 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:49,100 and study at length Ephesians 3. Ephesians chapter 3. 374 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,500 There's a great deal of insight. Their leaders who senses have 375 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:58,600 been exercises to sort out what matters from what does not 376 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,200 matter the sacred from the secular, the primary from the 377 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:06,300 secondary and growth from change folks. 378 00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:12,700 Let me say this one is permitted and one is not one is permitted 379 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:18,600 and what the other is condemned. We desperately need men who know 380 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,100 and will lead the church to know. 381 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,300 It is just over simplified, perhaps, but that's the way it 382 00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:28,900 is. We need men who will stand in 383 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:32,600 the Gap and show the world. A city that is set on a hill 384 00:27:33,100 --> 00:27:36,900 whose streets are not lace with denominationalism. 385 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:39,800 We don't want that in this congregation. 386 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,800 We don't want to have anything to do with it, and we need to 387 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,800 have the knowledge to combat it from time to time. 388 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:51,800 If it does attack us from the outside, The Winds of Change 389 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,100 blow Brethren and they blow universally Something that I 390 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:59,800 read, that was rather interesting and it's far from 391 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:04,200 our Shores. But men who have led the church 392 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:09,000 for years in this country have looked across the Atlantic Ocean 393 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,000 to Great Britain. And they say that there is great 394 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,900 concern about the falling away that they see, they state that 395 00:28:16,900 --> 00:28:19,800 there are many following doctrines that the church wants 396 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:26,700 once fought and condemned. And this is the way change 397 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:29,100 happens. Sometimes it's such a subtle 398 00:28:29,300 --> 00:28:34,100 slow thing, but you look around and it's here and it's too late. 399 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:40,400 Almost, let's grow up the Old Paths movement of 1920 shall 400 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,800 have ground for us to remember that. 401 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:47,300 The church can be decimated by those who will teach error. 402 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:52,600 Let's train, our younger boys that are going to come up and 403 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:57,300 have a voice and leading this congregation excuse me, so that 404 00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:01,200 they can stand on a dust, saith the Lord and the congregation 405 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:05,500 will support a minute. That's what we strive for Both 406 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:10,700 at home and abroad. We're face sometimes with what 407 00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:16,400 we call a Monumental task. You know, if I could have my way 408 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,700 do you know what a simulation is? 409 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:26,500 Assimilation is where we let ourselves gradually, be changed 410 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:31,900 into something different. And it's sometimes, like I said, 411 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:36,800 just a moment ago, it's a soul slow process and the 412 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,700 assimilation. If we let ourselves become weak 413 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:44,300 and we forget the word or we don't even know it to start with 414 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:49,000 can cause us to assimilate into something that God doesn't like 415 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,200 that, he doesn't want and he won't have it and it's just as 416 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:59,400 simple as that simple as that. We cannot sit idly by and watch 417 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,400 people. Assimilate into the world and 418 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,400 become weak because of the way that they live and let the world 419 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,400 influence them. That's the thing that we need to 420 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,000 fight movements. Tend toward three distinct 421 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,600 stages. There is a beginning stage 422 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:21,200 characterized by a fervent urgent evangelism, distinctive 423 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,500 people and great unity. And that's what we need to 424 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:30,900 exercise and stay with and promote The second is a 425 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:35,800 degenerating of the first. And like I've already said it 426 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,800 sometimes it's a very slow process. 427 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,200 Let's be mindful of it. Let's think about it evangelism. 428 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:48,700 First of all, drops off. In Camp conflicts, rise and 429 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:51,900 power struggles began in the congregation. 430 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,700 You might have a whole congregation, but one brother, 431 00:30:56,700 --> 00:31:00,500 that stands out, that supposed to everything the congregation 432 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:05,900 wants to do to let it go forward and succeed in this world, what 433 00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:08,600 do we do about that? Set on our Laurels and nothing? 434 00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:11,700 Absolutely, not the word of God instructs us. 435 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:17,600 What we can do about that. Well, in the third evangelism is 436 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:22,900 almost non-existent The people battle or settle down to 437 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:25,300 church-going. As I've already mentioned, 438 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:30,500 briefly peaceful coexistence is the order of the day. 439 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:35,200 In order for us to just get along, all we want to do is just 440 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,700 come to worship. That's not the way it works. 441 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:42,100 We all know that there are different personalities in this 442 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:47,700 congregation and others, and sometimes are going to be times 443 00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:50,200 when we don't agree with everything, but upon the 444 00:31:50,208 --> 00:31:53,800 scriptural side, First Corinthians, the first chapter 445 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,900 says, that's a necessity. So we grow up, we learned that, 446 00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:00,700 and we learned how to cope with each other. 447 00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:03,100 And I think we succeeded that here. 448 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:07,500 I really do and we need to keep up that good work. 449 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:14,200 To me. The matter of most concern 450 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,500 utmost concern. I should say, is where are we? 451 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,200 I will tell you right now, were some of us are and it's 452 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,600 alarming. We are more like the world than 453 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:31,500 we've ever been. Now I could get specific but 454 00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:35,700 time will not permit. Let me go on, we talk like the 455 00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:37,400 world. Listen now. 456 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,300 We dress like the world. We go to the same places of 457 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:48,200 entertainment that the Worlds at In short, we are. 458 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:53,200 And in many instances, not only in it brethren, we are it. 459 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,600 And that's what I'm talking about. 460 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,600 That's dangerous. We seek the world for 461 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,800 entertainment. We forget the church and the 462 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,800 things that need to make it survive. 463 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,500 And that's dangerous. Let's not do that. 464 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,100 Let's be reminded of it. We are confusing the world and 465 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:16,600 doing this. Now, what do I mean by that 466 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:18,100 confusing? The world? 467 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:25,000 well, you know They don't like to understand why we're trying 468 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,200 to change them. Sometimes they get frustrated, 469 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:33,900 they don't understand. Why are you preaching to me this 470 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:36,100 Doctrine? And this commandment and so on 471 00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:40,500 and so forth? When they look at us and we're 472 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:44,000 just like them. We'd look like them. 473 00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:46,400 We sound like them. We dress like them. 474 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:49,500 And that proverbial duck quacks like him. 475 00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:56,000 So, you see the fruit ility in the Church of our Lord and 476 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,300 Savior. Jesus Christ, doing the things 477 00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:02,200 that God has taught us to do to convert the world. 478 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:08,300 And the danger is we're just like them sometimes and we can't 479 00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:13,000 do that the church in the future real problems faced us and would 480 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,300 less we look back and be a distinctive people that God 481 00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:21,199 intended us for us to be a peculiar people that simply 482 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:24,400 means different that they can see a difference in us. 483 00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:28,800 A holy nation, the light and the salt I want to remind you of 484 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,800 something right here. Salt and I'm told that if you 485 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,400 put a lot of it on your food, it's not good for you. 486 00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:40,100 But spiritually speaking in this in this idea that's given forth 487 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:46,500 in Scripture, it preserves. It flavors it stings. 488 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:52,300 And makes people thirsty. Now, what do we do about that? 489 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,800 The Lord grant us boldness to run out into the world and 490 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:02,200 emphasize what makes us unique. We need to tell them, show them, 491 00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:06,600 remind them convert them. That's what the Bible is talking 492 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,100 about. And you know what, Brethren the 493 00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:14,200 Mandate that we have before us is very, very clear indeed. 494 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,800 Distinctive people of God, preaching a definitive word is 495 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,300 what God is looking for today and what the world needs. 496 00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:29,900 Why is the church and the world still here today? 497 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:31,600 Can you answer that question for me? 498 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:38,500 Think about that, just a moment. We'll listen in conclusion this 499 00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:40,400 morning, and I'm just about out of time. 500 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,600 Skills are not developed by wishing that they were ours. 501 00:35:46,900 --> 00:35:50,600 And here it is. Parents may love their children 502 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:55,300 with all of their heart, but they may still lack parenting 503 00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:59,700 skills. You don't just learn how to 504 00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:05,000 raise a child overnight. It is something that is worked 505 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,700 at continually to train these little children. 506 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,500 The way that they should be. Doctors may wish to help people 507 00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:17,200 by the score, not to have. And within their repertoire, the 508 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,400 skills to fix something that this person needs. 509 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,700 So they send you to a specialist. 510 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,600 That's what we do. Folks, listen, if I was to 511 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:33,200 design a leader in the Church of Our Lord, it would be a skilled 512 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,900 individual with every facet of what it takes to live a 513 00:36:37,908 --> 00:36:40,500 Christian life and to help you along the way. 514 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,200 Facing the future is getting prepared for things that are 515 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,800 going to come our way. The church in the future will 516 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:57,000 depend largely on its people. In this room, all of us will be 517 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,700 involved in it all of you. If you live to see tomorrow a 518 00:37:01,700 --> 00:37:07,500 week a month, twenty years will be involved in the process of 519 00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:10,000 what the church is going to be like on down the road. 520 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,100 In conclusion this morning, let me read something from First 521 00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:18,500 Corinthians chapter 3, and I want to begin at verse 10. 522 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:24,100 According to the grace of God, which is given unto me as a wise 523 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:27,700 master builder. I've laid the foundation and 524 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:31,500 another buildeth thereon, but let every man, take heed how he 525 00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:35,600 buildeth thereupon. For other Foundation can no man. 526 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,500 Lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ. 527 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,400 Now if any man build upon this Foundation, gold silver, 528 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,000 precious stones wood, hay and stubble. 529 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,800 Every Man's work shall be made manifest for the day. 530 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:53,100 Shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and 531 00:37:53,100 --> 00:37:56,000 the fire shall try. Every man's work of what sort it 532 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,800 is. If any man's work abide which he 533 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,100 hath built thereupon he shall receive a reward. 534 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,400 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, 535 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,200 but he himself shall be saved yet. 536 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:14,400 So, as by fire, Brother, listen, we cannot let the church go 537 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,000 begging and let it become like the world. 538 00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:20,100 We need to take those things that are found there in, and 539 00:38:20,100 --> 00:38:23,300 hold fast to it, and train, and teach our young. 540 00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:26,500 That one day in the distant future. 541 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:30,700 Our congregation will still be intact and the word of God will 542 00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:34,000 succeed. 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