1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,280 or contact us at my libertybaptist.org or just look 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,760 us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,080 message from God's word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,440 So I'm going to have you open your Bibles tonight to John 8 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:33,000 Chapter 9. John Chapter 9. 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,680 I have a couple of things I'll tell you health wise, it's kind 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:41,000 of unique. One is since I've come back from 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,880 Hungary. We do not have. 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:48,040 AC like they do in the States and it's just killed my voice. 13 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:49,280 I can't. Hardly talk. 14 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:50,920 I feel like I constantly have a cold. 15 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,720 And if you've ever been over that missions department over 16 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:55,440 there, brother, it's an air conditioner blowing right in 17 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,240 your face the whole time. This is sparkling water. 18 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,040 And it does actually help. So I'm having a little bit hard 19 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,560 time talking. It won't stop me from yelling at 20 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:06,960 you, but I still have a little bit of hard time with it. 21 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,240 And my nose is running and everything else. 22 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,280 So I apologize for that. And I'll tell you something. 23 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,880 Else kind of interesting Brother Rivero might find this and he 24 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:15,880 won't. He won't care. 25 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,040 But I mean, some of you might find this interesting. 26 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:23,040 So when I came back they. Thought I had skin cancer so 27 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,760 they had I had a spot in my head and. 28 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,120 They burned it off. And they gave me these pills, 29 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,400 they gave me 4 pills and I take 1 pill a week for four weeks. 30 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,560 And then they gave me this, this shampoo. 31 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:39,560 I started taking it and I started growing here and it's 32 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:40,480 the weirdest. Thing I was as. 33 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,120 Bald as any one of these bald guys. 34 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,120 I would. I would have been the baldest 35 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:45,000 guy in the room. I'm. 36 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,440 Telling you right now. This was shiny and so in some of 37 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,800 the old pitches, you see any old pitches out there, brother, 38 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,240 you'll see this is and it's so I don't know if it's going to keep 39 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:54,920 on going. It's not intentional. 40 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,040 It's just what they. Gave me for that they burned the 41 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,320 spot off and they gave him this shampoo and I'm going to enjoy 42 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,240 it while I got I'm thinking about getting a comb. 43 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:08,720 I might something new, you know. So John Chapter 9, if you're 44 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:13,120 able, I invite you to stand with me as we read the word of God 45 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:14,640 and then we'll go before him in prayer. 46 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:21,240 John Chapter 9 and the Bible says and. 47 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:26,440 As Jesus passed by. He saw a man which was blind 48 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,400 from his birth, and his disciples asked him, saying, 49 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,840 Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, than he was born 50 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,880 blind. Jesus answered, Neither hath 51 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,040 this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the. 52 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,000 Works of God. Should be made manifest in Him. 53 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,120 I must work the works of him that sent me. 54 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,480 While it is day. Then night cometh when no man 55 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,600 can work. As long as I am in the world, I 56 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,520 am the light of the world. And when he had thus spoken, he 57 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,240 spat on the ground and made. Clay of the Spittle. 58 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:11,040 And he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and he 59 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,720 said unto him, Go wash in the pool of Siloam, which is by 60 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,920 interpretation sent. And he went his way therefore, 61 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:22,680 and washed, and came seeing, and the neighbor, the neighbors 62 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:27,440 therefore, and they which before had seen him, that he was blind, 63 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,400 said, Is not this he that? Sat and begged. 64 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,800 Some said, this is He, others said He is like him, but he 65 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,880 said, I am He. Therefore said they unto him, 66 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,680 how were thine eyes open? He answered and said, A man that 67 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:47,160 is called Jesus made clay and anointed mine eyes and said unto 68 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,600 me, Go to the pool of Siloam and wash. 69 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,120 And I went and wash and I received my sight. 70 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,240 Then said they unto him, where is he? 71 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,800 He said, I know not. And tonight the title of my 72 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,360 message is spit and dirt, spit and dirt. 73 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,720 Let's pray. Lord God, I just thank you for 74 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,960 this opportunity. We have to come before you this 75 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,280 evening. And I thank you for Liberty 76 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,400 Baptist Church being here. And there was a time when there 77 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,160 was no church in this area that I knew of that preached the 78 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,640 gospel. And it's so happy to see what's 79 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,200 going on here. And I pray God that you just 80 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,920 open our hearts tonight to the word. 81 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,880 Whatever you would speak to our hearts about tonight, I pray and 82 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,120 ask God that you would use me as your servant. 83 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,160 And I pray this in Jesus name, Amen. 84 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,440 You may be seated. So there's a number. 85 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,560 Of things that have. Stuck out to me about this 86 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,080 passage and there are some things that you know, one of the 87 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,160 things I find very interesting sometimes. 88 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,720 I I find a passage and I have a. Particular message on my heart, 89 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,800 but along the road of. Getting to that verse, there's 90 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:51,080 all. Kinds of little things that 91 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,200 stand out to you and one of the things I. 92 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,960 See here. Is that when Jesus? 93 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,680 Passed by and he saw. A man which was. 94 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:05,200 Blind from his birth. OK, so this man did not see 95 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,920 Jesus. Jesus saw him, and what I find 96 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,360 interesting about that is if you consider, I believe that the 97 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:15,920 first church. Was with the Lord. 98 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,960 Jesus Christ, he was the pastor, and that's when the church 99 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,560 began. And if you can imagine as a 100 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,800 pastor, as a church planner, as an itinerant pastor doing the 101 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,720 work of the ministry, you're going into a community, you're 102 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,400 looking at who can I use, who can I get? 103 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,000 Who can we persuade? And sometimes the people with 104 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,920 some of the greatest problems, we don't even really, you know, 105 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,720 we, they're kind of in the background. 106 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,080 We see them, we notice them, but we don't directly. 107 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,600 Take notice of them. And here is a man that saw 108 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,800 Jesus, that could not see Jesus, but Jesus could see him, and 109 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,960 Jesus is looking for him. And he said he saw a man that 110 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,560 was blind from his birth. And here's the thing, Jesus knew 111 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:03,920 he could fix that problem. He knew he had the answer for 112 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,800 that man. Now, what touches my heart about 113 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,360 this? I enjoy social media. 114 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:11,560 I really do. I mean. 115 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,000 I. Imagine years ago there was a 116 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,280 time when the telephone first came out and there was preachers 117 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:23,360 that probably called it the Devil's Voice Box. 118 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,200 I don't know. And they said people are going 119 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,760 to use that to. Gossip and there's people you 120 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,760 can do evil. With any form of. 121 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,200 Communication, but you can also. Do good. 122 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,560 And so I actually was. Preparing for an article which 123 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,640 I'm not sure is going to be published or not right now, but 124 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:46,680 I was preparing an article about this Generation Z and who they 125 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,000 are. This is the 13 to 30 years old. 126 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,400 And if I got? It right unless I'm saying it 127 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,000 wrong. If my daughter was here, she'd 128 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 correct me right away. But if and I. 129 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,040 Use her for all these important teenage facts. 130 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,720 She's a she's a whiz. And this thing about this 131 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,920 generation is this is the generation that has grown up 132 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,200 without with all. The social media. 133 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,200 And all the telephones, you know, I graduated high school in 134 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,760 1980. We did not have DVD's. 135 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,960 We did not have CDs. No one had a cell phone, no one 136 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,560 had a personal computer. And the only remote control we 137 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,000 had. Was your mom and dad? 138 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Said go over and change. The channel you said they going 139 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,800 dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk. 140 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,280 You know, and that's all we had at the time. 141 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,840 That's the generation I grew up with. 142 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,320 And there's a lot of preachers in America that are from that 143 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,320 generation. And some of the preachers from 144 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:41,040 even the robust and growing and sturdy works of this country are 145 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,120 men of that generation. And they don't really get these 146 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,760 young people. But think about that age, the 13 147 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,320 to 30 years old. And I was doing some research on 148 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:54,080 that, and I realized this is the generation of people that a 149 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:58,760 certain percentage of them do not like to to communicate face 150 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,360 to face. They don't. 151 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,600 And people will walk into the restaurant and they'll see six 152 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,560 of them sitting around the table and they're all on the phone. 153 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:10,960 You say, what are they doing? What's the matter with them? 154 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:12,120 Why don't they look at each other? 155 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,480 They're communicating. That is their language. 156 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,520 I didn't walk into Hungary and say, what's the matter with you 157 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:20,960 people? Why don't you speak English? 158 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:23,960 That's how they are communicating. 159 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,200 You know, there are 17 million people that they estimate within 160 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,720 that group of people in America who will never communicate to 161 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:37,520 you unless you send it by text. So this is the future of our 162 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,200 country. And people say, what are we 163 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,760 going to do about the future? We are not going to reach them 164 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:44,200 if we don't learn their language. 165 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,960 We're going to have to learn. You know, I talked to pastors 166 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:48,160 out. There. 167 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,160 And they're like, well, I don't do that, let my daughter do 168 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:51,160 that. I let my son do that. 169 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:52,560 And my wife takes care of all those things. 170 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,360 Listen. It doesn't really kill you to 171 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:01,480 learn how to type with your thumbs, you know, and talk to a 172 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,080 young guy and say, hey, really, I'd like to see you come to 173 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,600 church and learn how to communicate to these people. 174 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:11,680 But we have come where we put ourselves in a box and we say 175 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,520 these are the people we're used to. 176 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,600 We're not looking for the blind. Jesus is looking for the blind 177 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:22,080 because he can make them to see. And I I see people on social 178 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:23,640 media. See, I'm losing my voice. 179 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:28,480 Sorry. I see people on social media and 180 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,120 they talk about how wicked those people are. 181 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,920 That's your target audience. Those are the ones that need the 182 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,560 gospel. God didn't tell us to go into 183 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:42,720 all the world and tell all the Christians how well they're 184 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,880 doing. He told us to win the lost. 185 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:46,760 Those are the people you're looking for them. 186 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,200 They have our flag, they're waving, they have an 187 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:50,800 opportunity. You're saying, how are we going 188 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,360 to reach them with the gospel of Jesus Christ? 189 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,160 We're going to tell them about Christ and how he loves them and 190 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,080 what a difference He can make in their life. 191 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:01,400 What made you? Who you? 192 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:06,160 Are is Jesus Christ? We need to look at this lost, 193 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:10,280 wicked, sinful world and say, what can we do to win them to 194 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,680 Christ? How can we communicate to them? 195 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,840 I don't want to compromise the gospel. 196 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 I don't want to compromise my doctrine. 197 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,920 There's a lot of churches out there to say that, oh, we accept 198 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:28,040 you like you are in sin and bondage, blind, without hope. 199 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,760 Look at all the ways that Jesus describes the lost world. 200 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,120 We don't want to accept that. We want it to be better. 201 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,320 We want them to have life and as Jesus said, and life more 202 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:45,080 abundantly. We want them to know a better 203 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,920 way, not the old way that we have taken and wrinkled up and 204 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,800 stuffed it into a can we now call a church. 205 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,640 We want them to know that you can live a holy and godly life 206 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:01,440 and have fellowship with Christ and love every minute of it and 207 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,840 have joy in your heart because of who you know. 208 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,040 So we need to reach out to this world. 209 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,400 We need to stop separating ourselves. 210 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,560 From the group. We're trying to reach, you know, 211 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:17,680 when I was over in. Hungary, we had such an unusual 212 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:20,800 ministry there because we had Debertson University and 213 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:25,000 Debertson University. Had a medical. 214 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,160 Program and this is what they did, they said. 215 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:30,120 If you can, they had a one year condensed. 216 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:33,440 Undergraduate program. And if you could pass that 217 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,120 program and it was difficult, they'd let you go right into Med 218 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,040 school and the medical. School. 219 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,400 Was in English and on the international scale of 220 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,160 universities. They're rated in several of the 221 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,960 universities here in Massachusetts, they're rated 222 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,160 higher. They're well above. 223 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:55,600 University of Massachusetts in Boston, so it's a good school. 224 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,320 And when I was over there I checked their. 225 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,680 Annual tuition and the last time I checked it. 226 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:03,040 Which was several years. Ago, but I don't think it's 227 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,320 changed that much. It was $6000 for the year. 228 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:08,840 So if you imagine going and getting a medical degree for 229 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:10,880 six. $1000 a year. They draw. 230 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:12,400 Them from all over Asia and Africa. 231 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,800 And we have a lot of young people who come up from Africa 232 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,000 and they come to our church because we were the English 233 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,880 speaking church in town and I had young people come from. 234 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,760 From South Africa. And from Kenya, I had a young 235 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,480 man in my church. Joshua, wonderful young man. 236 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:29,680 Super. Smart. 237 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,760 Studying and. He got a degree. 238 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,920 In computers, and he's working for IBM over there in. 239 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,760 Budapest and super fine young man. 240 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,920 Wants to stay there in Hungary. Because it's a lot safer and 241 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:45,440 nicer than where he lives in Kenya. 242 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,760 He loves it, but he wants to go back to Kenya and, as he says, 243 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:55,280 find a good Kenyan woman. But still, he's got family there 244 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:56,400 and. He sends his money. 245 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,240 Back home and he. Tries to help out his family. 246 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,760 And he's doing very well. I had a young man from Uganda. 247 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,480 I led him to Christ, and I had a girl that came from. 248 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,120 Vietnam I. Had a boy that came from North 249 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,720 Korea. Came to our church. 250 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:11,560 How is he ever going to hear the gospel? 251 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:18,040 I had two girls that came to our church from China and the 252 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,000 Chinese would have. Names like Z, ving or some weird 253 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,400 name we couldn't didn't sound. Normal it was. 254 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,560 Hard for to say that. And so they would take names, 255 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:28,720 and one of them called themselves Joy and the other one 256 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,960 called themselves Grace. And I had them come over for 257 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,800 Thanksgiving and I had meals with them, stuff like that. 258 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,320 And and my family. Kind of try to take in these 259 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:38,920 students and we try to help them out. 260 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,400 And I remember one of these girls, Grace, you know, she got 261 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,800 saved and as soon as she got saved, they pulled her right out 262 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,680 of there. Took a break back home to 263 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,800 Communist China. I guess her family didn't like 264 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,840 it. The young girl I had coming from 265 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:58,840 South Africa, her she spoke 9 languages really. 266 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:02,400 Super smart girl. Her dad was some kind of wild. 267 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:04,760 Like charismatic preacher, that was. 268 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:09,040 Even on TV and stuff down there. And she came to me and said, 269 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,360 Pastor Kearney, I know we're not following the Bible. 270 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,120 I'm reading the Bible. My dad's teaching is not what 271 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,800 the Bible says. And so she got. 272 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,560 Saved and. And but you couldn't stay in our 273 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:23,160 church. Family pressure pooled around 274 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:24,760 the church. So we had all those problems. 275 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,360 But you know, at least we get the opportunity when people to 276 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:28,560 Christ and do all the work we can. 277 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,600 I had a group of about 6 Muslims came to our church. 278 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,880 And we invited some people. We heard through the Grapevine 279 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,480 they might be coming out and I don't know why. 280 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,320 But for some reason they have a tradition, Hungary, that on New 281 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,240 Year's Eve, everybody eats hot dogs. 282 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,480 I don't know why you go into the store and there will be bins of 283 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:50,920 hot dogs. You can go in there and buy the 284 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,320 hot dogs and it's just a thing I don't really get. 285 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,040 It and I make my own. Beans. 286 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,960 I make American style BBQ beans. You can't buy it over there and 287 00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:59,920 I'd make them myself. It'd take me a couple hours to 288 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:02,040 cook them and they were always very impressed with that. 289 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:03,120 They all wanted to know how to do it. 290 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:05,440 And so. I get hot dogs and beans and. 291 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,280 Stuff. But I knew these Muslim people 292 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:08,280 were coming. So you know what I did? 293 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,280 I got Turkey. Dogs because they won't eat 294 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,560 pork. So they came in. 295 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:15,560 And they said, oh, we can't eat that. 296 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:16,720 I said they're Turkey. Dogs and. 297 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,320 So we can eat. That so they had hot dogs, they 298 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:23,520 had fellowship, they heard the gospel, we talked to him about 299 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,200 Jesus and how he's the Messiah and they came in. 300 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:28,880 One of the young men came to me afterwards. 301 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,760 He said This is the First Christian Church I've ever. 302 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:33,680 Been to my. Into my life. 303 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,200 And he said, And I like it. Listen. 304 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,160 I didn't get them back. They came through, as many of 305 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,200 them do in the university thing. They came, they left, but boy 306 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:45,720 did we make an impression on that young guy. 307 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,600 I want to do that. I don't want to turn the world 308 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,840 away. I want to find a way into their 309 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:53,680 heart. So they. 310 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,960 Can meet Jesus. Because that's what somebody did 311 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,320 for me. Jesus is still the way. 312 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,720 The thing that would answer this guy's life is the Lord Jesus 313 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:04,840 Christ. The thing that would make 314 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,320 everything good for him is the Lord Jesus Christ. 315 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,560 The thing that would make him. Be what he needed to be. 316 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,000 Was the Lord Jesus Christ and I want. 317 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,800 You to notice here he goes on. He says. 318 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,840 Interesting, they said. They asked him. 319 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,480 Who did? Sin, you know, that's not an 320 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,360 unusual question. It sounds kind of like 321 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,280 judgmental or something people might think. 322 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,200 But really even in our society today, some people are blind 323 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,520 because of sin. And if such was the case back 324 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:34,200 then. But this guy? 325 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:40,600 From the time he was born was in darkness to glorify Christ. 326 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,280 Neither have this man sin nor his parents, but the works of 327 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:46,680 God should be made manifest in him. 328 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,720 But you say what a horrible thing he had to go through his 329 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,880 whole life being blind. But imagine being born blind and 330 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:57,080 then you see. Could there be any? 331 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,360 Better gift from God. To open your eyes one day and be 332 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,240 able to see what a blessed thing. 333 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,800 And he says I must work the works of him that sent me. 334 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:10,280 While it is day, the night cometh when no man can work. 335 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:13,119 So here's the thing that's interesting. 336 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,079 Jesus gives this illustration. Let's work our way through this 337 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,920 a little bit. I must work the works of Him. 338 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:26,160 While it is day, the night cometh when no man shall work. 339 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:27,680 What's the night he's talking about? 340 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,880 You think he was talking about that night coming? 341 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,320 I don't think so. I think he's talking about the 342 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:37,480 end of this age. See, the Bible teaches us that 343 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,600 if you're saved, according to First Thessalonians chapter 4, 344 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,680 verses 16 through 18, the trump of God will sound. 345 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:44,920 Jesus Christ is going to meet us in the air. 346 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,200 He's going to rapture us out of here. 347 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,320 And the work that we have in this ministry right now in 348 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:50,920 churches like that across the world. 349 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:55,400 Is going to be done and we know what happens at night time I. 350 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,760 Don't know about you, I know some people work third shift. 351 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,880 I tried working third shift, it was awful but. 352 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,400 What we do we rest, we get some sleep and we. 353 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,000 Love it. There's going to be a time when 354 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,880 we won't. Have to open the church doors 355 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:15,400 and go outdoor knocking and and and talk to others and tithe and 356 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,760 clean the building and put together John and Romans and 357 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:19,040 whatever it is you do in this local. 358 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,400 Church. There's going to be a time when 359 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,680 that's because it's going to be. The time of rest. 360 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,760 So that is the night in this day of his illustration, in this 361 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,720 metaphor that Jesus is using here. 362 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,360 You have the daytime, you have the night the. 363 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:37,600 Night is when nothing else happens to do. 364 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,360 So what does that make this now? The day. 365 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:47,280 This is the day, and the day is when you're supposed to do the 366 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:48,560 work. So for us. 367 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,840 In this world. Right now, this is the time we 368 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:53,600 work. And serve the Lord. 369 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,120 We are in. The daytime of our eternal 370 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:01,720 existence with Christ. And I like to think to myself 371 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,560 that, you know, God doesn't make us. 372 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,000 Do everything he could. Make us to do if he wanted to. 373 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,440 He. Allows you to have free will. 374 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:24,360 And so I would imagine if you would ask the pastor, pastor, 375 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:30,680 which days would you like us to skip church, what do you think 376 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:31,400 he'd say? What do you think? 377 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,960 None of them let. Me tell you something. 378 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,400 When you're a pastor, you're sitting back there in your 379 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:47,160 little office or in at your desk in your cubicle and you're 380 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:52,560 studying that book of Hosea and you get that second point and 381 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,800 that sub point and you know this is a killer. 382 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:59,480 This is the one man. Wait till everybody hears this. 383 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,960 This is so good and like you're. Coming in and. 384 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,640 You're like, I can't wait to tell him this and you're getting 385 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,280 up there and then no one comes. When I was on the mission field, 386 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:11,000 I have Priestsha, my wife, but she got it whether she liked it. 387 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,520 And it's hard, you know, encourage your pastor, encourage 388 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:20,240 your workers, take care of them as much as you can, but also be 389 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,240 faithful. You should be faithful for the 390 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,800 people that are here at church cuz it always encourages them 391 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,120 here when there's people here. That's what Hebrews chapter 10 392 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:30,280 and verse 25 is teaching. That's not forsaking these semi 393 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:37,240 yourselves together, but more as you see the day approaching, as 394 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,760 you see the same thing, the same thing this day approaching of 395 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,840 the end times. There is still being spelled out 396 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,800 a little bit different way, but so much more as you see the day 397 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,040 approaching, not forsaking, exhorting one another, building 398 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,960 up one another, helping one another, teaching others to be 399 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,680 godly. So these are some reasons, but 400 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,960 also when you're serving here and you have to make a choice. 401 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,720 You know, there have been times in my life when we were in 402 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:08,280 desperate times and I let my kids have that last piece of 403 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,160 dessert or something like that because I wanted to be happy. 404 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,240 And once and twice I remember a few times they caught me giving 405 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,680 me that and they knew their dad loved them because I was 406 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,000 sacrificing for them on my level, sacrificing for them. 407 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,360 Right now in this world, you're going to have some little time 408 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:28,440 period in your life. If you are unusual person, you 409 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,200 might live well past 100 years old, but most of us will be gone 410 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,520 long before that. But during this little period of 411 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:38,600 time, this is the only time you have to make a sacrifice for the 412 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:43,160 Lord to demonstrate your love for him. 413 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:48,920 Love God, love Christ, love your fellow believers, love your 414 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,640 pastor, you know, encourage the man of God. 415 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,760 And if he's you know, what's really hard is when your 416 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,000 preacher has to go and someone else feels the pulpit and 417 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,200 they're like, this is my one shot this month. 418 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,320 You know this is. They're like, hey, I did. 419 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:04,880 I got. This message and they're all up 420 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,160 there and they show up and there's like nobody there. 421 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,720 And it's like, you know, so defeat, love the guy that puts 422 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:16,800 his heart to bring in you a message from his heart and love 423 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:21,520 this world by doing what you can while you can, because each one 424 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,880 of us has our own way. You know, we had a guy came to 425 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,440 the house the other day to fix our boiler at the Parsonage. 426 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,840 I went over there, Barbara said. There's a. 427 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,080 Guy over here fixing the boiler. He'd. 428 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:34,120 Come over here. So I said sure. 429 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,440 So I went over there. His name was Richard. 430 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,640 He said he had found Christ. From his testimony, it sounded 431 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,280 like he had, but he hadn't gone to church anywhere. 432 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:45,600 He came to our church this morning. 433 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,320 All I did was tell him some things about what we believed 434 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:50,880 about the Bible. He was so excited. 435 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,720 He hadn't gone to church. He was looking for a church. 436 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,840 He was reading his Bible. Anybody can do that. 437 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,920 You go to church. It could have been. 438 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,680 You just talking to people about Christ and letting people know 439 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,320 that you're a believer. You know, here's the thing. 440 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,840 I like history and I read a lot of things about history and 441 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,600 there's something here about history I want to share with 442 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:10,960 you. This is about the Battle of 443 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,440 Gettysburg. After the Battle of Gettysburg, 444 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:19,760 the discarded rifles were collected and sent to Washington 445 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:25,400 to be inspected and reissued. Of the 37,574 rifles recovered, 446 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:32,440 approximately 24,000 of them were still loaded. 6000 had one 447 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,280 rounds in the barrel. 12,000 had two rounds in the battle. 6000 448 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,960 had three rounds in the barrel. 1 rifle, the most remarkable of 449 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,560 all, had been stuffed to the top with 23 rounds. 450 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:50,960 Guy was scared, he was panicking and he was stuffing bullets in 451 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,920 his gun. He got 23 rounds in there and I 452 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,280 can tell you right now you are living in a country. 453 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:57,920 Where you can go on the Internet? 454 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,920 You can hear some of the best preachers, even preachers that 455 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:02,160 you have. You can hear Brother Davis. 456 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,280 I know you have Brother Davis in here. 457 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:04,800 I don't know who else you've had it. 458 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,360 Once in a while I see stuff like that. 459 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,600 You can hear these beats. You can go out there and listen 460 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,600 to them. You can Great, great teaching. 461 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,040 You have Bible studies and we are loading our gun. 462 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,280 Loading our gun. Loading our gun, take a shot. 463 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,400 Emptying your gun don't get to heaven and said well my gut is 464 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,480 full. Empty it out while you have a 465 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:29,880 chance. So let me get to the point of 466 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,720 this passage that really stood out to me. 467 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,760 It's a spitting dirt. I find that amusing and 468 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:37,960 interesting. I know. 469 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,760 Then another passage, Jesus just spoke to people. 470 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,920 He spoke to a man about his daughter and said she's healed, 471 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,480 go home, she's healed. Spoke to other people and healed 472 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,480 them with Just tell him you're healed, they're healed. 473 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,760 Another one he touched. His eyes touched his eyes. 474 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 He was healed. This one, he did something very 475 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,080 unusual. He spit on the ground. 476 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:05,600 Now he had to have some serious spit to make clay. 477 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,640 And let me tell you something. Think about that, OK? 478 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:16,000 Think about 30 something AD city of Jerusalem. 479 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,160 Animals. All over the place, people 480 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,520 trudging back and forth. We won't even get into the the 481 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,120 water problems and the sewage problems and everything else, 482 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:28,720 but just a disgusting place from our perception. 483 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,000 I think we think you'd be interested to go back to one 484 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,840 time until we smelt it. We probably run back to The Time 485 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,120 Machine if we had an opportunity. 486 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,920 It's sitting there. This has got to be a very 487 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,320 disgusting thing. Jesus reaches down within the 488 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:47,120 reach of Christ. I can't imagine anything worse 489 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,720 than he could have. And you can look on. 490 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,640 You can. You're not going to find any 491 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,440 scientific journal. That's going to say clay, when 492 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,200 properly applied to eyes, will bring back blindness and it's 493 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,480 not going to happen. And if it was? 494 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,640 Anything that was more disgusting than that dirt at his 495 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,120 feet, I can't imagine what it was. 496 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,440 And he picked it up. And he grabbed that dirt and if. 497 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:16,080 That wasn't bad enough. He spit in it and he spit enough 498 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,440 to make clean. I can tell you right now if my 499 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:19,640 mom. Was in the air. 500 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,440 It would have been trouble. She would have knocked that 501 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,760 right out of his hand and said don't put that in my kids eye. 502 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:32,680 I can tell you that right now. Jesus made spit and dirt. 503 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,160 And he used it to make a blind man to see. 504 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,800 And I think I look at that illustration and I. 505 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:49,880 Think to myself. If Jesus can take spit and dirt 506 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,000 and make a blind man to see. What could he do with us? 507 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,120 Can you imagine? What could he do with your life? 508 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,160 What could he do with your testimony? 509 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:04,640 How could he? Use you. 510 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,440 You know, the one unique thing about the properties of that 511 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:12,960 spitting dirt in that clay was it was moldable and Jesus had 512 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,640 complete control over it. And I have to think to myself, 513 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,520 maybe we may not think of ourselves as anything more than 514 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,080 spitting dirt. Your pastor likes one of my 515 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,760 illustrations When I was a kid and I went to the lighthouse at 516 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:35,440 that time was Baptist Temple. And I came in and let me tell 517 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,800 you something, when I came into that church, I had nothing to 518 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,880 offer that church. I didn't walk through the door 519 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,800 and they didn't say, oh, that guy's going to be the pastor one 520 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,480 day. I was the pastor of that day. 521 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,960 But as a 15 year old kid, I was involved with every worldly 522 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,640 cardinal thing a 15 year old kid could do when his parents 523 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,960 couldn't see him. And I walked into that church 524 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,880 and they treated me like a special person. 525 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,040 And I, I tell people, I came in, I was so lost. 526 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,440 I never been to a Baptist Church. 527 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,880 I was confused about what was going on. 528 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:09,240 I walked around and, and Brother Turner was preaching and I'd 529 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,480 come in on the bus ministry and he was talking about his wife 530 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,080 Riva and all those kind of stuff. 531 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,080 And I ran home and I said to him, I'm not, you're not going 532 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,240 to believe it. The priest is married. 533 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:23,080 I mean I was like this these. Guys are so weird. 534 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,280 And I walked down the aisle and when I went to sit down I 535 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,280 genuflected before I sat down and and when I left I went over 536 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,520 to Brother Turner and said thank you Father Turner for the lovely 537 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:39,000 mass. I mean, I was. 100% and I was as 538 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,040 carnal as I could be. I was 100% and for in this in 539 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,800 the eyes of some churches and some church. 540 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,960 People, they might have looked at me. 541 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,880 And saw me nothing more than like one step above St. 542 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,880 Urchin. And they might have thought, 543 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,160 what are we going to do with that guy? 544 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:02,960 And you may not see yourself as anything more than spit and 545 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,960 dirt. And Jesus says, I'll take it, 546 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,560 I'll take it. And if you're moldable and you 547 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:16,480 don't let them have your life, he says, I can take that and I 548 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,440 can make the blind to see. And Jesus didn't look at the 549 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,760 blind people and say, why are they so blind? 550 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:31,040 Anybody can find a problem. Jesus was in the business of 551 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,720 fixing problems, and we can fix the problems around us. 552 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,880 We can't change the whole world, but we can help our neighbor. 553 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,960 We can help our children. We can help the people of our 554 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,520 community and share Christ with them. 555 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,200 We can help the people we know that really just want to know 556 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,480 the truth, even though they'll never admit it. 557 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:58,280 And we could say, God, do what you will with me and I'll let 558 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,240 you have it. God will use it. 559 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,960 He can use spit and dirt. He can use me. 560 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,880 Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of 561 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,760 Liberty Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 562 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,240 to you, or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 563 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,840 know by contacting us at info@mylibertybaptist.org. 564 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:22,640 Or you can visit us this Sunday at 800 Washington St. in Easton, 565 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,480 MA. May the Lord bless you as you 566 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:26,680 grow in His Word.