1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,100 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist sermon archives. 2 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:09,100 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty, Baptist 3 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:13,100 Church in Eastern Massachusetts. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:17,500 or contact us at my Liberty, Baptist dot org or just look us 5 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:19,800 up on Facebook. And now, we hope that this 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,200 message from God's word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,400 There's a lot of talk about Soul winning around our church. 8 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:33,200 There's a lot of maybe use of that term of that word, Soul, 9 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,400 winning winning, Souls Outreach at. 10 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,000 Maybe you hear these things, but you don't necessarily know what 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 it means, or you know what it means, but you don't know what 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,300 it means to you or you think, you know what it means, but 13 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:51,500 maybe there is much more to outreach and soul-winning than 14 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,100 maybe what you're familiar with. That's why here in the month of 15 00:00:55,100 --> 00:00:59,000 February, we are going forward in Soul winning meaning this 16 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,400 just as in January, it was my desire. 17 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:04,300 That by the time we were done with the month, that you would 18 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:07,500 be, further ahead in your daily walk, then you were at the 19 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:09,900 beginning of the month. I hope that, by the time we're 20 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:13,900 done with February that you'll have a greater burden to win 21 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:17,700 people to Christ, a greater burden to see people save but 22 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:23,000 also to translate that burden into some tangible ways to go 23 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:26,500 and share your faith with Their people and know that you have 24 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:30,200 the ability to if someone asked you, as it was said in scripture 25 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,600 what must I do to be saved that, you would be able to answer the 26 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,000 question, not just from your opinion. 27 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,600 But actually what the word of God says. 28 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:40,800 And I find this to be true with a lot of Believers. 29 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,400 And I found this to be true at Liberty over the years. 30 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,300 And with other believers that I've interacted with that. 31 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:48,800 There are many that have a desire to tell other people 32 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,800 about Christ, but the desire doesn't always translate into 33 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,300 results. And the reason why is because 34 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,400 Sometimes people don't know where to go as far as in the 35 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,900 scriptures. They don't know where to go, to 36 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,700 be able to present the gospel. To somebody listen, You'll find 37 00:02:02,700 --> 00:02:05,100 lost people anywhere. I mean walk outside the building 38 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,000 and you'll find lost people everywhere. 39 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,300 But where you have the opportunity to actually present 40 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:14,200 the gospel to someone and talk to them about the Lord that can 41 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,800 be something that's difficult. And so for us as a church, 42 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,300 there's several reasons why we want to win souls to Christ. 43 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:23,600 The first is this the Great Commission? 44 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,600 Us to win other people to Christ. 45 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,400 You can go to Matthew Mark, Luke John and the beginning of X, all 46 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,700 of them have a different form of what we would call. 47 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:35,900 The Great Commission. That Great Commission was not 48 00:02:35,908 --> 00:02:39,500 given to individual Believers. That commission, I believe was 49 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:42,700 given directly to the institution of the Church of 50 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:47,100 which we are a part of today and that we are required. 51 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:51,900 We are compelled to have our mission statement, be this to go 52 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:54,000 and reach the lost with the gospel. 53 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,500 I love Jesus Christ. Let me put it to you this way, 54 00:02:56,500 --> 00:03:00,500 if we don't, who will if those who know Jesus Christ as their 55 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:02,600 savior won't win people to Christ. 56 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,100 And who is Will the Lost reach? The Lost will the unsaved. 57 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:09,400 Reach the unsaved, know it's incumbent on us as Believers 58 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,300 particularly as far as the institution of the church. 59 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:15,500 Meaning this that are our church is not here to have. 60 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:18,900 Been-- suppers and our churches not here to have fundraisers and 61 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:21,700 our churches, not here to his have activities and events 62 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:25,400 although we can do those things and there's Inherently wrong 63 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,400 with them. But if our church is just made 64 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,600 up of those things that we've missed the mark. 65 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,900 Even when we do those things, we do those things with the purpose 66 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:35,100 of this, we want to reach people, the gospel. 67 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:37,000 Now, we want to get them involved in church, so they can 68 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 be discipled and they can grow and then they can reach their 69 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,300 friends and their family with the gospel. 70 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:47,200 And so, when we talk about this need for outreach and soul 71 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,800 winning, its well, one is because we've been commanded to, 72 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,700 It's the Great Commission. Can I give you a very practical 73 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:55,200 reason? How many of Of you don't raise 74 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,500 your hand, but raise your hand, raise your heart. 75 00:03:57,500 --> 00:03:58,900 If you will, how many of you want? 76 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:00,300 See, Liberty Baptist Church to grow. 77 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,100 I think everybody would agree with that. 78 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,200 We reach people with the gospel and for every time that I've 79 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,200 said, boy, I wish we had a few more people to church the Holy 80 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,800 Spirit just as quickly says. Why don't you go find somebody 81 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,100 because they're out there? Now we know that you plant the 82 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:18,300 seed and the Harvest doesn't come the next day. 83 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:20,100 That's typically not the way that it works. 84 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,700 But we go and plant seed and we pray that like more willing this 85 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:26,400 Sunday we have a lady who Who received a material at her door, 86 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:28,500 23 years ago. We're not exactly sure. 87 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:31,300 She's not exactly sure. But she says, I've been holding 88 00:04:31,300 --> 00:04:33,300 onto this. I know I need to go to church, I 89 00:04:33,300 --> 00:04:36,100 have materials from you. I want to go to church, that's 90 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:38,400 happening this Sunday, that's a blessing. 91 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:43,100 And by the way, pray for her that she'll be coming this 92 00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:50,400 Sunday and I forgot her name. Her name is Julie hold off on 93 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,400 that but no pray for the wrong name but the Lord will know 94 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:56,400 Jessica. That's right. 95 00:04:56,700 --> 00:04:58,700 I was close. That's why the type it on my 96 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:01,600 phone or I'll forget Jessica will or willing be here on 97 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,800 Sunday because that but how does the church grow? 98 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,800 Well we invite people and we don't invite them just so a 99 00:05:07,808 --> 00:05:10,900 church grows but we want to see them get saved but then become 100 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:14,400 part of this institution so that we can perpetuate ourselves and 101 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,700 we can grow and we can Prosper. And it's not just about well, 102 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:20,200 what was, I mean? What if we had more people, who 103 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,900 know what, if we had more people do this then oh, you're moving 104 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:24,700 forward. No, don't worry about that. 105 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:27,300 Just go and tell someone about the gospel and leave it to the 106 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:29,200 Lord. I have stories that I can tell 107 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,400 you, even even today, which I met at the end of the, the 108 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,100 lesson, the message. Whenever we call it tonight, I 109 00:05:35,108 --> 00:05:38,300 talk to you a little bit about how God is even using some of 110 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:42,200 the process of planting and watering in the increase, even 111 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,600 today at Liberty Baptist Church. It's a really exciting thing. 112 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:48,400 So, if we want the church to grow, guess what? 113 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,700 You got to be a part of telling other people about Jesus Christ. 114 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:56,000 That's just a practical part, but when we get down to the 115 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,200 nitty-gritty, it's not just about being commanded to. 116 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:03,100 It's not just about a church growth program. 117 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,300 It's really something much deeper than that. 118 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:11,800 You got saved because you realized you were a sinner that 119 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,400 was going to split hell wide open. 120 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,200 If you died without Jesus Christ, if you died without the 121 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:23,700 gospel message, Human compassion and the Holy Spirit who lives 122 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:28,500 inside of us should compel us to go when people to Christ because 123 00:06:28,900 --> 00:06:31,800 listen, I want to win someone to Christ whether they'll ever 124 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,900 attend our church or not. It's not that I only try to win 125 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:37,300 people to Christ or I'm in Easton. 126 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,600 Well if I'm in another town, they'll never come to our 127 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:40,900 church. So forget it. 128 00:06:41,700 --> 00:06:44,400 Well know if they have a spiritual need, I want to be 129 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,700 able to win them to Christ and try to help them be involved in 130 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:51,100 a local church without help them find a church. 131 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:53,700 If it's not ours because it's not just about a church growth 132 00:06:53,700 --> 00:06:57,500 program, or it's not just about being compelled by God to 133 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,900 perform this Great Commission. It's there are lives that are on 134 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:03,800 the line, how could you not do something? 135 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:06,700 And it's This culture that we live in today, where something 136 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:09,100 bad happens to somebody and nobody wants to help. 137 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:10,800 And everybody just wants to do this. 138 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:17,800 Everyone just gazes. Or records and nobody wants to 139 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,100 help you like me have probably seen videos in Subway's or in 140 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:25,400 just other areas. We're someone is getting beaten 141 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:30,000 by a crowd or a mob or whatever the situation may be. 142 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:34,600 And there's more people just watching And won't help. 143 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:39,700 And there's just something inside of me that just Says I 144 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:43,300 got to help them, you know, and I've never been in a situation 145 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:45,800 like that, that's of that serious of a nature. 146 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:48,200 But just a couple days ago, I was driving down the road, 147 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,700 taking Peyton to school down, West Bridgewater, right? 148 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:52,900 Past where the Market Basket is over there. 149 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,600 And I see right ahead of me as I'm driving towards West 150 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,700 Bridgewater Center. I just see plastic go 151 00:07:58,700 --> 00:08:02,000 everywhere, just an explosion of plastic. 152 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:04,500 Now, that's the way cars, you know, Collide. 153 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:06,700 Now you don't hear much of a sound other than just the 154 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,900 crunching of plastic and The pieces go everywhere. 155 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:16,900 There was a probably 17 18 year old boy, who I would assess from 156 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:18,600 what I saw was not paying attention. 157 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,300 And rear-ended someone who was trying to make a left, turn onto 158 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:25,700 a side street. The trunk of the front car was 159 00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:28,600 completely collapsed. I could see into the backseat of 160 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,400 his car was completely just sitting, you know what, I was 161 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,700 thinking at that moment, get the car off the road, I got 162 00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:41,900 somewhere to go. No, my thought was this and I 163 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:45,900 hope they're okay. And you know what I did, when 164 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:50,500 the car didn't move, I put the hazards on and I'm not, you 165 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:52,500 know, I don't want to strain too hard to Pat myself on the back 166 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:54,700 because I have a feeling a lot of people here would have done 167 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:56,400 the same thing. If you're in the same situation, 168 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,400 I got out of the car, and I asked this young man, are you, 169 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,100 okay? And he was shell-shocked, he you 170 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:04,700 could tell he was on the verge of tears, just talking to me. 171 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:06,200 As I said, it's okay, it's going to be. 172 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,400 Okay, don't panic the police come and I check out the people 173 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,400 that can really help our here. It's time for me to go and get 174 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:14,900 paid In school before she gets to tardy. 175 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:18,300 And so we are good to go, but you know why? 176 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:20,700 It just I want to help that's something very small. 177 00:09:21,500 --> 00:09:24,700 I'll talk about someone's soul. Let's talk about the fact that 178 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:28,600 there's eternity' on the line that people that we know and 179 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,100 maybe people that we don't know, are going to go someday to 180 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:34,900 either Heaven or Hell. There is no between there is no 181 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,300 limbo, there is no state that lies in the middle for those 182 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:43,200 Souls who weren't quite bad enough for hell, but weren't 183 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,700 quite good enough for heaven. As some of you were taught when 184 00:09:45,700 --> 00:09:49,600 you were growing up no there is none of that everyone is going 185 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,900 to die. Unless Jesus Christ comes first, 186 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:53,400 the Bible says been appointed unto man. 187 00:09:53,500 --> 00:09:56,400 Once to die and after this the judgment. 188 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:00,900 And so just the fact that there is this difficulty in life, 189 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:06,000 compels us to want to tell other people about Jesus Christ. 190 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:10,900 But here's what I often find the desire is there. but there's 191 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,300 This disconnect of not knowing what to do, or maybe not sure 192 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:19,000 how you fit into the grand scheme of things. 193 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:20,500 Well, I've had people say this pasture. 194 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:23,100 I couldn't win souls, I'm not available on Saturday, at 10:00, 195 00:10:24,100 --> 00:10:27,400 Like will you have missed the mark of what we're trying to 196 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,300 accomplish because soul don't just get saved on Saturday from 197 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:32,900 10 to noon. It's far more than that, it's 198 00:10:32,900 --> 00:10:35,800 more than a program. It's a lifestyle of looking at 199 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:40,300 people as Souls that need a savior. 200 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:42,900 And so I want us to go through actually go through some 201 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:46,600 paperwork and some lessons here. Some of these are things that we 202 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,000 have gone over in the past and we have a couple videos. 203 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,800 I might be able to show you here in the next few weeks as well. 204 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:56,000 But what I really want to do On these Wednesday night's is give 205 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,100 you some tutorials on how to win people to Christ. 206 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,500 How did walk people through the Romans road? 207 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:06,500 If you will, and then also on Sunday morning, to really, just 208 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:09,200 encourage the heart. And really speak to the heart 209 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,200 about why this is something that we all should do why we want to 210 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,600 move forward in Soul winning. So First, Peter chapter number 211 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,700 3. This is where we're going to 212 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:20,400 kind of jump off from here tonight before I give you your 213 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,800 handouts. 1st Peter, chapter number three, let me get a drink 214 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:32,800 of water. Look at verse number 12. 215 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:39,300 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous. 216 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:42,100 Sometimes we think about the eyes of the Lord, holy Lords 217 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:45,000 watching, like, it's a bad thing, because the eyes of the 218 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,700 Lord are over the righteous, it's not just when we do wrong, 219 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:50,900 he's with us when we do, right? He's protecting us. 220 00:11:50,900 --> 00:11:53,100 He's helping us. He strengthening us the eyes of 221 00:11:53,108 --> 00:11:56,100 the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their 222 00:11:56,100 --> 00:11:57,900 prayers. But the face of the Lord is 223 00:11:57,908 --> 00:12:01,200 against them that do evil. And who is he? 224 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,900 That will harm you. If ye be followers of Of that, 225 00:12:03,900 --> 00:12:07,000 which is good. You know, the point that's being 226 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:13,300 made here if we do, right, who can touch us If we do, right, 227 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,700 who can stop us, say, well, Pastor didn't you remember on 228 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:18,800 Sunday night, you read at the end of Hebrews chapter 11, that 229 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,200 some were burned and some were Saudis under and all those 230 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:22,600 things. Well, it sounds like they were 231 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,300 stopped, you think that stopped him? 232 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,100 They were absent in the body and present with the Lord? 233 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:30,900 The very next moment. There were sure that their 234 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:34,300 Earthly time may have been cut short by the way, man reckons 235 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:35,900 years. But in God's eyes. 236 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:40,000 Listen, they went from speaking. His name to being in his 237 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,800 presence, what an amazing. Thing that is. 238 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,800 And so sometimes it without getting too far ahead of where 239 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:47,900 we are. Sometimes there's a level of 240 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:50,700 fear that comes into sharing our faith with other people. 241 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:52,700 Well, what are they going to do? What are they going to say? 242 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:54,700 What are they going to think? How are they going to react? 243 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:57,700 Listen if God be for us, who can be against us? 244 00:12:57,900 --> 00:13:00,300 I don't want to oversimplify it because I don't want to pretend, 245 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:03,500 like those fears aren't real things because they are real and 246 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:06,200 we do deal with it. The devil tries to stifle our 247 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,000 voice when it comes to talking about the Lord. 248 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,600 But listen, who is it? He the no harm you. 249 00:13:11,900 --> 00:13:15,400 If he be followers of that, which is good, but, and if you 250 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,600 suffer for righteousness, sake, happy are ye and be not afraid 251 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,500 of their Terror, neither be trouble, just going along with 252 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:24,800 what we just said, but look at verse number 15. 253 00:13:26,100 --> 00:13:29,800 But sanctify, the Lord God in your heart said sanctify 254 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,500 yourself. That set him apart in your 255 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:34,200 heart. I could preach a whole message 256 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,600 just on this idea of sanctifying the Lord God in your heart, 257 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,800 because that's such a rich thought, right there 258 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,100 sanctification is the process of not just cleaning but also being 259 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:43,900 set apart for a specific surface. 260 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:47,700 A purpose, just like the vessels in the Tabernacle and Temple 261 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:50,300 would have been Sanctified. They were set apart for specific 262 00:13:50,300 --> 00:13:52,600 service. That's why when Delta shatters 263 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,200 Feast use those things that were Sanctified set apart for Lourdes 264 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,600 use, and all of a sudden they're drinking out of it and have it, 265 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,800 a drunken orgy, with these things that were Sanctified, the 266 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,900 hand of the Lord rights on the wall that have been weighed in 267 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:09,300 the balances and found wanting. And so that we're to set apart 268 00:14:09,300 --> 00:14:12,300 the Lord, God in our hearts sanctify, the Lord God in your 269 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:14,900 heart. And here's here's where we need 270 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:17,900 to kind of get down to tonight and be ready. 271 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:22,700 Always to give an answer to every man that asketh you. 272 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:26,700 A reason of the hope that is in you With meekness and fear. 273 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,100 When I ask you this question tonight, don't answer it out 274 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:31,400 loud, but answered in your heart. 275 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,400 Can you always be ready to give an answer to every man? 276 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:40,400 That asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with 277 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:45,000 meekness and fear. Even if we could say, yes, I am 278 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:50,300 able to in any moment at any time I can give a testimony of 279 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:53,700 how Jesus Christ Save Me. Maybe you can't say that 280 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:55,000 tonight. I'm not saying it's impossible, 281 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:00,000 but I'm saying, is this There's a great deal who cannot but 282 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,700 maybe want to and there are also the rest of us who I would say. 283 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:07,700 This know we could do it better. There are some who maybe could 284 00:15:07,700 --> 00:15:12,100 not explain exactly how the Lord save them as far as taking 285 00:15:12,100 --> 00:15:14,800 someone through the gospel and explaining it. 286 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,400 All sure. They went through the gospel, 287 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,800 but they're having trouble explaining it to someone else. 288 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,200 It that's understandable. There are things that we do 289 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,500 that. Sometimes we can do, but we have 290 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:25,700 trouble explaining to someone else, how to do it. 291 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:28,700 And so, There are those who need to work on them but the rest of 292 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:32,100 us would have to say this. I mean, I could take someone 293 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:34,300 down the Romans road. If someone came up to me right 294 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:36,600 now and said, what must I do to be saved? 295 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,200 I would be able to through the scriptures. 296 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,000 Be able to teach them and show them what the Bible says. 297 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:42,700 But here's it could I do it better? 298 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:47,400 Absolutely, because most of the time of the people, I've led to 299 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:48,500 Christ. It's not been them. 300 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:50,700 Walking up to me saying, what must I do to be saved? 301 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,800 There's a lot of stuff you have to cut through. 302 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,800 Do we get to the point for them to be interested in? 303 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:59,100 In understanding. And so, what I want to go 304 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:02,800 through through these Wednesday night, sessions is to be able to 305 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:09,500 try to encourage you to exhort you, to be able to Give people 306 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,600 an opportunity to understand what God has already done in 307 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,300 your heart. You know, in many ways, 308 00:16:14,300 --> 00:16:16,600 witnessing and soul winning are two different things. 309 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:19,300 We use, those terms, almost interchangeably. 310 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:22,000 And I will say, I use them interchangeably to, but in a lot 311 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,000 of ways, they are separate entities. 312 00:16:25,900 --> 00:16:28,900 If you are a witness. For instance, if I was to be 313 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:32,700 cold to a court, to witness be a witness for what I saw at an 314 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:37,000 accident yesterday. Well, all I would be doing, 315 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,200 would be recounted. Ting. 316 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:43,300 What I had seen and witnessing is a very important thing. 317 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:48,800 You know, sometimes we can't get out a whole gospel message to 318 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,300 somebody, but you know what you can do, you can be a witness. 319 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 You can speak of the Lord. You can speak of his goodness. 320 00:16:56,500 --> 00:16:58,900 You can just talk about maybe What the Lord Has Done in your 321 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:00,700 life and you can do it very quickly. 322 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:03,700 Sometimes you may only have a few seconds and you can just 323 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,099 slip that in, you know what that is? 324 00:17:05,099 --> 00:17:08,200 That's being a witness. I think a witness it being For 325 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,000 the Lord. I'm not downplaying that at all. 326 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,200 That's an important thing because there are many times 327 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:17,500 that's about all you can get in because the situation I've told 328 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:22,700 you before, you're not going into a long missive on the 329 00:17:22,700 --> 00:17:25,800 Romans road at the checkout line at Walmart. 330 00:17:26,099 --> 00:17:27,300 First of all, yet to find a check at all. 331 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:28,300 Don't want to go back there again. 332 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:31,000 All right, now, going back there again, you're not going to be 333 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,900 able to do that, but you can be a witness to somebody just by 334 00:17:34,900 --> 00:17:38,300 the way you handle yourself or buy a conversation that Comes up 335 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:40,900 or you just say something about the Lord, praise the Lord, 336 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:42,800 something like he said well what difference does that make? 337 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,900 Well it's certainly better than probably what they've heard from 338 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:46,600 the two people before you in the checkout line. 339 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,200 If the lord's name was used, it probably wasn't prays before it 340 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,700 and so you're just being a witness and so we need to do 341 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:58,100 better at just being a general witness of the Lord everywhere 342 00:17:58,100 --> 00:18:02,100 we go. But to actually win a soul is 343 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:06,200 the next step. It is to say, not only do I 344 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:10,300 recognize as best as I can tell, from what you have told me, you 345 00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:15,400 are not saved, but I want to actively convinced you from the 346 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,600 word of God. To be saved. 347 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:19,700 Could you see the difference between those two? 348 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,300 Not every opportunity, they soul-winning opportunity. 349 00:18:22,700 --> 00:18:25,200 But I would say this, there are a lot more people here tonight 350 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,400 that would probably be comfortable witnessing then they 351 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,100 would be Soul winning. Oh, I'll be a witness for the 352 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:35,500 Lord, I'll hand out of track. I'll give praise to the Lord. 353 00:18:35,700 --> 00:18:38,200 I'll even talk about how, What the Lord Has Done in my life to 354 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,300 somebody. But if they said to me, you know 355 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:43,600 what, I love, what the Lord did to, I love hearing that, and 356 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,100 I've been thinking about that myself. 357 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:50,500 So what should I do? And you'd say, well, let's call 358 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:54,000 my pastor. No, I hope you can and I hope I 359 00:18:54,008 --> 00:18:55,300 can help you. I'm not downplaying. 360 00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:56,800 That that certainly better than nothing. 361 00:18:57,500 --> 00:18:59,300 But don't you think? Every single one of us should 362 00:18:59,300 --> 00:19:03,400 have quarter this verse have, an ability to give an answer for 363 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,500 the hope that hope that's the gospel that's within us. 364 00:19:06,700 --> 00:19:11,600 And by the way, not doing it with the wrong Spirit, or the 365 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,800 wrong attitude, because what's the attitude? 366 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,800 At the end of the verse with meekness and fear. 367 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Now, I'm afraid the fear that we have is mostly the fear of like, 368 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:24,700 Not giving the gospel, but I don't believe that's what it's 369 00:19:24,700 --> 00:19:26,400 talking about. I believe it's talking about. 370 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,000 Well, the only kind of fear that makes this Boulder and that's 371 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,500 the fear of the Lord, the fear of the Lord, is the beginning of 372 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:32,400 knowledge. The fear of the Lord is 373 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,500 beginning of wisdom. With the end of the 374 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:37,700 Ecclesiastes. Tells us a fear God, and keep 375 00:19:37,700 --> 00:19:39,000 his Commandments. For this is the whole duty of 376 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:44,400 man meekness is not weakness. Weakness is not this milquetoast 377 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,400 type Behavior, meekness is power under control. 378 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,700 It is saying I have power that can be Unleashed but I am 379 00:19:52,700 --> 00:19:58,700 actually leasing it for the proper use for God's glory. 380 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,900 And Moses was a Meek man. And I'll tell you this, he had 381 00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:06,000 no problem getting words out at least once Brian wants to the 382 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,100 Lord. Got a hold of him, right? 383 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:09,700 Like we were talking about before church, right, because it 384 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:12,800 first, he was slowed speech. And God says, I'll send you are 385 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,900 in after a few chapters. Moses says, it's alright Erin, I 386 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:18,000 got this now because you don't ever hear from Erin again, 387 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,900 unless he's complaining. About something or building a 388 00:20:19,900 --> 00:20:23,500 golden calf. So what do we do? 389 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:26,500 We have to understand for our nature. 390 00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:32,200 How to be a witness but also how to win a soul to Christ. 391 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,000 What would happen and what would happen if we preached on a 392 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,900 Sunday morning and three people walk the aisle to get saved. 393 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:42,500 Man, I tell you what, I that's what I pray for and I pray that 394 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:46,100 we can continue that way. But who would be able to take a 395 00:20:46,108 --> 00:20:49,400 Bible and just show someone let me take you through what it 396 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,900 means to be saved. Say, well, that's what the 397 00:20:51,900 --> 00:20:54,400 church workers do or that's what the people who go to Bible 398 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,700 College student, honestly, that's what any of us should be 399 00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:00,600 able to do. And what I want to Endeavor to 400 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,000 do over the next few weeks is to talk to you about how to do 401 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,700 that. And you don't have to be an 402 00:21:04,700 --> 00:21:07,800 expert at it. You don't have to have all the 403 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,200 answers. And by the way, this doesn't 404 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,100 mean this verse doesn't mean you have to have every answer for 405 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:14,200 every question. It means that you are willing to 406 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,500 be able to have the conversation and that you studied it up 407 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:21,000 because I found this to be true. A lot of people can tell you A 408 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,300 lot about movies and television and sports stats. 409 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:26,400 But they can't tell you a lick about how someone else should 410 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,200 get saved. Let doesn't seem right. 411 00:21:29,700 --> 00:21:31,900 I mean, if you do more Tom, Brady stats and you don't know 412 00:21:31,900 --> 00:21:35,600 how to lead someone to Christ you flip probably the level of 413 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,500 importance there. We talked about that on Sunday, 414 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:41,500 didn't wait the corruptible Crown versus The Incorruptible 415 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:44,000 Crown. So I want us to take some time 416 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,500 and to over the next few weeks and really have a burden about 417 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:50,800 this and to grow that burden into a call. 418 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:53,500 All. So I'm going to give you some 419 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:55,100 handouts here. I'd we're not going to get 420 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,500 through all of these tonight. But there is for I didn't staple 421 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:00,500 these because some of you may want a hole punch them if you 422 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:02,400 want. That's fine, there's four page 423 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,300 but events put you to work since you've been in been around for a 424 00:22:06,300 --> 00:22:08,400 while. It just four pages a piece. 425 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:13,300 I think you'll see it's too. That's the that's the last one 426 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:15,900 right there. All right she's a hand these to 427 00:22:15,900 --> 00:22:18,100 just bring them back every week. I'll try to have some extras. 428 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:24,800 Bring them back with you. I will be able to help you now 429 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,500 on Sunday and over the next couple weeks on Sunday mornings, 430 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:30,500 I want to talk to you about some of the ways that we can 431 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:33,100 Implement Soul, winning here, at Liberty, Baptist Church, and 432 00:22:33,108 --> 00:22:35,800 there's some some tweaks that I want to make to some of the 433 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,000 programs that we run. Because I think there's some 434 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,200 things that we do, but there's things that we can do better. 435 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,100 But one of the things that was vitally important is that we 436 00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:45,300 need as many people as possible. Just telling people about the 437 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:48,000 gospel. And again, if you're already 438 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:51,400 thinking, look, pastor this A morning thing it doesn't, it 439 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,500 doesn't work for me. You're missing. 440 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:57,100 What is really at hand here? Because I know Saturday morning 441 00:22:57,100 --> 00:22:59,000 doesn't work for everybody. I know some of you work. 442 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,800 I know some of your other commitments that's fine but 443 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,000 everyone comes in contact with people that need the gospel. 444 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,000 And so I want to go over some of these materials with you. 445 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,800 And again we are not by any shape or form going to miss this 446 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 or going to get all of this here tonight. 447 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,100 And this will be online as well if you want to go back and 448 00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:23,400 listen to some of this. Again, we should be able to have 449 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,000 these recorded and have these online for you even if you miss 450 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,600 one of them in years past, we used to do these on Saturday, to 451 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,100 kind of get you into the ability to be there on Saturday, but I 452 00:23:32,108 --> 00:23:34,400 want to try to do something a little bit different and get a 453 00:23:34,408 --> 00:23:37,600 greater amount of people here and I think this will do it. 454 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,800 So here's here's the first page and this is maybe all we get to 455 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,500 tonight. How to have a greater burden for 456 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:46,100 the Lost. Maybe you would say this 457 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:48,400 tonight, Pastor, I just really don't have a great burden for 458 00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:52,500 Lost. I don't I know I should I know 459 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:56,700 that at some level that I should have more of this desire to win 460 00:23:56,700 --> 00:24:00,000 people to Christ, or at least to share my faith but I don't feel 461 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,800 that And there can be a disconnect sometimes with that 462 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,100 in our lives. And I remember times early on in 463 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:11,300 my Christian life that I would just pray because I had a pastor 464 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,200 who preached on Soul winning. I feel like brother Turner about 465 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,000 every message about winning. If it wasn't two months that he 466 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,400 was at Matthew chapter, 28 preaching on the Great 467 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,900 Commission, something was wrong about every 2 months. 468 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:24,500 I feel like we were back in Matthew chapter 28, going over 469 00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:26,900 the Great Commission over again. And there were times that I 470 00:24:26,908 --> 00:24:28,800 would just pray, Lord, give me a burden for the Lost. 471 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:33,200 Just I want to see the lost like You do just give me a burden for 472 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,700 the lost and there's nothing inherently wrong with that 473 00:24:37,700 --> 00:24:39,700 prayer. But at one point, brother, 474 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:41,900 Turner was preaching and he said something along these lines. 475 00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:44,700 He says, you know, God doesn't just give burdens like they just 476 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:47,800 float down from heaven and you know there's a burden from 477 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,100 Heaven just kind of floats back and forth like a feather, it's 478 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:53,000 like oh if I could just grab a burden and I've I'll get one 479 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,800 eventually and then, you know, I got it. 480 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,300 I finally, I got my burden, I'm ready to go. 481 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,200 That's typically not the way it works. 482 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:05,100 I would say when it comes to having a burden for the lost, 483 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:08,200 it's a lot like a fire. It's a lot like a fire. 484 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:12,900 A fire can be stoked. A fire can be diminished. 485 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,300 Depending on what you put in it. Or you don't put it and I feel 486 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:20,900 like a burden for the Lost does have some prerequisites that 487 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:25,200 come before it, some things that will help you burn hotter for 488 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:29,100 the loss to win them and some things that honestly Kukui off 489 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:30,900 from wanting to win other people to Christ. 490 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:35,000 Now I will say this, this little chart here, this little pyramid 491 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,600 that you have here not Egyptian or any of that nature but it is 492 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,100 not necessarily given to you in a Biblical order. 493 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:45,900 I would I would say that that's not the case but I would say 494 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,800 there's a general principle here that I think will be helpful to 495 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,000 you even if it's not necessarily found in this order every single 496 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,100 way, but how to have a greater burden for the Lost? 497 00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:56,600 What's the very bottom of this pyramid? 498 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,900 What's the very bottom of the triangle could put it this way. 499 00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:00,900 What's the base? Well, here it is. 500 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,800 Salvation. Hey, you want to win? 501 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,500 Souls to Christ, get saved. That's a start. 502 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:11,800 Now, I've heard that there are people who unsaved have led 503 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,200 people to Christ, and then later on, they realized that they were 504 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:18,000 unsaved and and can God do that. Well, sure. 505 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,100 Can who's going to muzzle the Lord? 506 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:22,500 And his, his word is, what saves, isn't it? 507 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:25,100 And so, it's not the person that say that. 508 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:27,000 I love it with little kids who come up to me, sometimes, 509 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,500 specialized, youth pastor and they would say, oh, no, brother 510 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:34,800 Rivero, brother, Adam, thanks for saving me and like, oh, you 511 00:26:34,808 --> 00:26:37,500 don't want that honey, you really don't want. 512 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,500 Brother Adam to save you but I know what they mean. 513 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:44,000 It means that I was the one that led them to Christ and that's a 514 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,900 sweet thing. I mean, I just got a call. 515 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:47,900 I got a call from Chuck. Yeah, there's a week or two ago, 516 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:50,600 probably took you to the first time you got to leave Sola 517 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,600 Christ at the team rally and he was just over the moon. 518 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,300 I said, I said, you know, you get one and I said, you get a 519 00:26:58,308 --> 00:27:00,300 taste of one. You said you, you won't want to 520 00:27:00,308 --> 00:27:03,000 stop and he was just so excited about that. 521 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,200 Sound like he just won, you know, a state championship or 522 00:27:05,208 --> 00:27:06,800 something, he won someone to Christ. 523 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,000 Not tell you, that's a great. Like, but you know what? 524 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,300 You really got to start with salvation and that's the basis. 525 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:15,800 And so I would just say here tonight, even though I know the 526 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,900 crowd that I'm talking to just know that, you know, that you're 527 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:22,000 saved if you don't know Jesus Christ, as your savior, I mean, 528 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:24,100 oh, I know him. I've heard of him, I talked 529 00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:27,400 about him to know that you have gotten saved the gospel way. 530 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,100 Meaning this that, you know, that you're a sinner and that 531 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:32,800 you've called Upon Jesus Christ to save you in Repentance 532 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,900 knowing the only, he can save you that it's not your works. 533 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:37,900 It's not church membership. It's not being a good person. 534 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,700 None of those things. Listen, that's the basis of it. 535 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:42,300 If you don't know that tonight, can I tell you? 536 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,700 You probably got about 20. People would love to lead you to 537 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:46,900 Christ right now. So what we'd love to make you a 538 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:50,900 test case, all right but what really tonight is the night of 539 00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:52,900 salvation for you. And so I don't want to dwell on 540 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:54,900 that other than to say that that really is the basis. 541 00:27:54,900 --> 00:27:58,700 Like you can't have a burden, a real burden for the lost and 542 00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:00,600 you're lost yourself. I think that's just common 543 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:05,200 sense. Next is baptism, is baptism why 544 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,000 is baptism important? Well, I preach in this a few 545 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,400 weeks ago but baptism is the next logical step of obedience 546 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,900 in the Christian Life that you're saved and you're 547 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:15,500 baptized. And so I have found this to be 548 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:16,500 true. That there are some people who 549 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:19,000 have resisted baptism. There's some people who have 550 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,300 decided, you know, for whatever reason to not be baptized or for 551 00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:26,800 whatever the reason may be. And there are sometimes the 552 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,400 things in the life. They just don't click until they 553 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,100 are able to take that first step of obedience. 554 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,200 And so, Them is very, very important as well. 555 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:39,700 Again, I'm not saying that only people who are baptized can win 556 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:41,700 people to Christ. That's not what I'm saying. 557 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,100 I'm saying is this, is that this is part of obedience and well if 558 00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:49,400 we don't obey the lord well then we do lose some of our natural 559 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,100 fire to do his will. And so I think that's important. 560 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,700 Here's what's next. That third level their Bible 561 00:28:56,700 --> 00:29:01,300 reading, Bible reading. Study to show thyself what 562 00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:05,300 approved unto God a Workman that needs not to be ashamed rightly 563 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:08,500 dividing. The word of Truth. 564 00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:13,800 The Bible tells us that we are to be ambassadors for Christ. 565 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,200 And what, how are we ambassadors. 566 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,200 We're bringing the word of God to people. 567 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,300 It is very hard to have a burden to give the word of God to 568 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:22,200 others, when you're not regularly reading. 569 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,600 It yourself. And I can tell you that the 570 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,400 periods that I have gone in my Christian Life, where I'm not 571 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,900 reading the word of God, like I should or maybe I could put this 572 00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:32,100 way. I'm just going through the 573 00:29:32,100 --> 00:29:36,400 motions just so that I can check off the box or someone asks me. 574 00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:38,600 If you don't listen to it we're doing this at our house this 575 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:39,800 year. We've never done this before 576 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:40,300 that. We're all in. 577 00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:42,300 The same Bible reading plan for the year. 578 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,400 I'm enjoying it but I'll tell you, it puts the feet, the fire 579 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,300 a little bit because if Diane says, Hey in our reading today, 580 00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:52,900 what did you think about XYZ? And I'd say Try to go back in 581 00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:54,500 the memory bank. I know I've read that before. 582 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:57,400 What does it say? No, I need to read it that day 583 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,000 and so, but the problem with that can be is that maybe I've 584 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,500 read it so that if she asked me, I have an answer instead of just 585 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:08,100 reading it, so that I can be blessed and have the Lord speak 586 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:11,400 to me and help me encouraged me and and change me into his 587 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,000 image. And so I would say this, if you 588 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,000 are not in a regular Bible reading Habit in your life, 589 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:20,900 you're not going to have the bird. 590 00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:24,200 That you ought to have to give the word of God to other people 591 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,900 because it's like you saying here, this will help you. 592 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:30,400 I just don't use it very much myself, you understand what I'm 593 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,000 saying? So so so having Bible reading 594 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,300 that Bible time for yourself. And I don't want to belabor this 595 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:40,200 point too long either because we talked about this as well, 596 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,600 during going forward in our daily walk. 597 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,800 But have that time of Bible reading next prayer. 598 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,100 We're in again. These These are are not even 599 00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:51,700 necessarily in an order that I would say or scriptural, but I 600 00:30:51,708 --> 00:30:54,000 just think each of these are important prayer. 601 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,200 Do you know why prayer is so important? 602 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,400 Well, I mean we could go all night talk about why prayer is 603 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,000 so important. But in the context of what we're 604 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,800 talking about here, why is why is prayer important one? 605 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,100 Because there are people that we need to give the gospel to that, 606 00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:16,300 we need to pray for. You might have a list of people 607 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,500 that you are praying for receive Jesus Christ as Savior. 608 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:20,800 Some of them are in our prayer bulletin. 609 00:31:21,100 --> 00:31:24,800 Some of them are just maybe personal lists that you You have 610 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,400 of people that you are praying that the Lord will save family 611 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,900 members. Longtime friends, acquaintances 612 00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:35,800 people that you come across at the at the coffee shop or at the 613 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:36,900 store. It seems like you see him a 614 00:31:36,900 --> 00:31:39,200 couple of times a week and these are people that you're praying 615 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,700 for your just trying to witness here and there, you know, put a 616 00:31:41,708 --> 00:31:44,800 little witness in and then see where the Lord allows you to 617 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:49,400 bring a greater conversation in. But what we really need to do is 618 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,700 pray for the loss and I have a list of verses. 619 00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:54,400 I don't I'm not going to give it to you tonight. 620 00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:57,900 But how often the Bible talks about us praying for the lost 621 00:31:57,900 --> 00:32:01,600 and that is such an important thing for us to do to pray for 622 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,100 the loss. We pray on Sunday mornings. 623 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:05,900 One of the things we pray for God, bring the lost here, to 624 00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:08,800 Liberty, Baptist Church so that we can give them the gospel, so 625 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,000 that they can get saved. And so we want to pray for the 626 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,400 loss, but you know what prayer is also important? 627 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,200 Because we need to pray for opportunities. 628 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:22,800 To talk to the Lost. And I will say this, it, I have 629 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,900 found and Paul calls it. This adore of utterance, a door 630 00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:29,900 of utterance a place where he could just speak freely about 631 00:32:29,900 --> 00:32:36,500 the gospel. There are just times that you 632 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:38,300 don't think you're gonna be able to talk to someone about the 633 00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:40,600 Lord, but maybe you've been praying that God would give an 634 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,900 opportunity to all of a sudden in the strangest place. 635 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,100 Someone wants to talk or someone wants to have this conversation 636 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:48,700 with you. Well, what happened? 637 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:51,400 You've been praying that God would give that that door of 638 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,600 utterance and I will say this, when I pray for God to help me 639 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,700 find Souls, I seem to find a way to find him and when I don't, 640 00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:01,500 I'm not looking for him. And so, and this isn't just a 641 00:33:01,508 --> 00:33:03,700 mental trick, by the way, there's just, you know, psyche 642 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:06,100 myself it putting too fine. And so let's kind of kind of 643 00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:07,900 talk about like a mantra. I just keep saying it over and 644 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:08,900 over again. Lord, Give Me Your Soul. 645 00:33:08,900 --> 00:33:10,200 Give me your soul. Give me your soul and I just 646 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,500 find somebody. No, we're talking about the Lord 647 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:16,400 enabling you. And the Lord, who is the creator 648 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,400 and ruler over all super naturally, allowing you to cross 649 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:21,500 paths. With people, that maybe you 650 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:24,100 wouldn't normally cross paths with, for the opportunity to 651 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:26,000 give them the gospel. I'll tell you. 652 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,800 You start praying for the loss, it will increase your burden, 653 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,400 it'll increase your fire, pray for visits. 654 00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:34,100 Pray for people. You have visited in the past 655 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:35,600 people that you've given tracks to. 656 00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:37,500 I don't know their names, that's fine. 657 00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:41,300 You just pray for them and pray that God would use those 658 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:43,400 distributions or that God would use. 659 00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:45,900 A track that you gave to that waiter or that waitress, or 660 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:48,400 whoever it is, or at the checkout stand, that God would 661 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,700 use that and that's what we pray. 662 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,800 Here's what's next? Holy living, not a popular 663 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,600 conversation today, but what is it? 664 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,600 What, what does the Lord say? Be ye holy for. 665 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,800 I am Holy. We are to live lives that are 666 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,000 wholly, by the way. That word, sanctify, the Lord 667 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,900 Jesus in your hearts. How can you sanctify? 668 00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:07,700 The Lord Jesus in your heart and refuse. 669 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,600 Holy living. I mean, that would be like 670 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,900 saying in the Tabernacle. Well, you know, clean the 671 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:14,900 vessels. Don't clean them. 672 00:34:14,900 --> 00:34:17,400 Does it really even matter? Well, I don't know. 673 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,500 Need a by who brought down Strange Fire from the Lord they 674 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:23,800 died and so I would say it probably did matter that that 675 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,600 the house of the Lord was Sanctified. 676 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:31,199 And so here's here's I was going to put this just as plainly as I 677 00:34:31,207 --> 00:34:34,100 can. If I'm in my own little world of 678 00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:36,900 sin, I don't care if other people get saved or not. 679 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:42,400 If I'm just living in my own little world of saying, I don't 680 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,000 care whether people get saved or not. 681 00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:47,600 And to be honest with you, I'm losing opportunities to be able 682 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,500 to tell people about Christ because of where I'm going, or 683 00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:54,000 what I'm doing, or what I'm posting. 684 00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:58,200 And so because of that, all of a sudden, those opportunities are 685 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:03,900 they Imagine This? Imagine that someday. 686 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,600 I feel like at the Judgment seat of Christ, there's going to be 687 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,700 tears before we get to have him because he's wiping all the 688 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:12,200 tears away from us. So somewhere from after between, 689 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,100 after we pass. And when we enter the gates of 690 00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:17,900 pearl, someone's going to cry. And I have a feeling some of it 691 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:21,800 is going to be, you know, by and by when I look on his face, 692 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:24,900 beautiful face Thorn shadowed face by. 693 00:35:24,900 --> 00:35:28,100 And by when I look on his face, I wish I had given him more that 694 00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:30,800 song that I love so much that we sing sometimes. 695 00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:35,500 But can you imagine being shown? And and this is the thing that 696 00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:39,700 if everything's quiet and I meditate on this that really 697 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,500 gives me pause and causes me to think Because I was so busy 698 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:47,000 indulging in something that I knew. 699 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:51,300 I had no business, indulging him or partaking in a lifestyle that 700 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:54,000 I knew that I shouldn't have partaken in, especially when I 701 00:35:54,008 --> 00:35:55,600 was younger. When I first, when I first got 702 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,700 saved that, there would be people, that wouldn't get saved 703 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,900 because of my testimony. Because if I went to them with 704 00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:08,800 the gospel, they'd say you You. That's a hard thing. 705 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:12,300 Not long after I got saved. I got discouraged. 706 00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:14,100 I had a lot of people tell me, I'll go back to the Lutheran 707 00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:16,200 Church. Know that the Baptist's, you 708 00:36:16,207 --> 00:36:19,000 know, the whole salvation thing they were just they were just, I 709 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,200 went through a time of confusion for for many months and I went 710 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,900 back to watching whatever kind of movies I wanted to watch and 711 00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:28,800 going out and partying. However, I wanted to and all 712 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,500 those things I never got into a lot of trouble. 713 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,100 The Lord protected me from a lot of it, but I'll tell you this, 714 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,100 there was a lot of people that once I got right with the Lord, 715 00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:41,500 Had no desire to hear anything from me about the Lord, because 716 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:43,100 it will, who are you? You say? 717 00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:45,500 But you do this, you see. Do the you talking about, you're 718 00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:47,600 talking about Jesus, but you're doing the same stuff we were 719 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:53,000 doing like, three weeks ago. so, if you want to have a burden for 720 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,300 the Lost, I mean, I know we can't live a perfect life. 721 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:01,600 I mean certainly we could if we always listen to the promptings 722 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,500 of the Holy Spirit, we do have that ability but let's just be 723 00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:09,100 honest that we understand first. John 1:9 makes clear. 724 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:13,500 We're going to need to confess our sins. but at the same time, 725 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:16,400 if holy living isn't a priority, there are people that we are 726 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:21,900 going to miss The people we're going to miss, you know, the 727 00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:23,500 drinking buddies need to get saved. 728 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:25,600 And that doesn't mean keep drinking with them. 729 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,300 The old gang needs to get saved. That doesn't mean you get to run 730 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:33,100 around with the old gang, the way that you used to the people 731 00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:35,700 at the office, need to get saved. 732 00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:37,800 But that doesn't mean you talk like everyone else in the office 733 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,900 talks. Well, you know, I just got to be 734 00:37:39,900 --> 00:37:42,400 like them and that's how I'm going to win them to Christ. 735 00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:45,800 No, that's exactly the opposite way to him Christ. 736 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,400 And that's what Satan wants to tell you. 737 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:52,400 And even, listen and friend, we're on our social media and 738 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,200 some of us have it some of us don't we want to be careful. 739 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,000 What we put on there. What we posed I'm Talking about 740 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,700 being fake. But I'm saying is this, if we're 741 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:04,600 singing the Praises of the Lord, one day and then we have cursing 742 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,900 and all kinds of stuff other days, we got to be careful about 743 00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:12,300 that or what we link onto. And so these are things that are 744 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:16,400 so easy to get a part of, but what happens in Heavens that, 745 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,400 you know, the everyone's individual responsible to get 746 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,700 safe. Everyone's individual 747 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:24,600 irresponsible, but if I'd known that, I could have been a better 748 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,200 testimony to somebody, but I was so busy indulging in something. 749 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:33,000 I didn't need to indulge in. I know the term that is used in 750 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,600 ezekiel's. You Blood on the hands. 751 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,100 Blood on the hands. Meaning that if you had, if you 752 00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:42,900 saw the enemy approaching and you didn't sound the trumpet, 753 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,700 then you were blood guilty for everyone who died in that City. 754 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,100 And imagine for us because we were so busy being involved in 755 00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:57,100 our quote unquote stuff. Maybe we can put a Hebrews 12:1, 756 00:38:57,500 --> 00:38:59,500 you know, one and two, the weights and the sins. 757 00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:03,100 They were so busy in that that we didn't have the opportunity 758 00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:05,200 to win people to Christ. That's a that's a heavy thing, 759 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,400 that's a heavy thing. And so to live the way that God 760 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,900 wants you to live. That's that's an important 761 00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:12,200 thing. And that's part of having a 762 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:16,200 burden for the lost and then next, right near the top is 763 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,000 church attendance and that's probably the longest one in the 764 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,800 shortest box. So I'm sorry about that. 765 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:29,400 Church attendance. Oh Pastor you saying people only 766 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,300 people go to church can win people to Christ. 767 00:39:31,900 --> 00:39:35,100 What I'm saying? I'm saying this is when you're 768 00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:36,700 going to church when you're a part. 769 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:41,200 When you are, when you were part of the mechanism that God has 770 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,900 instituted to fulfill the Great Commission. 771 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,700 When you are part of it, you are naturally going to have a 772 00:39:47,707 --> 00:39:51,300 greater burden than if you were separated from that same 773 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,800 institution. God wants us as a church as an 774 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,500 organization as an organism to go out. 775 00:39:57,700 --> 00:40:00,800 Living breathing organism to go out and Reach people for Christ. 776 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,300 When we are outside of that, we just don't have the same 777 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,300 wherewithal to go and Reach people for Christ. 778 00:40:07,300 --> 00:40:10,400 And so that's why it's so vitally important. 779 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,800 I've seen, we had people sitting in this room right now. 780 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,400 We've got saved on a Wednesday night. 781 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,200 I'm glad we have Wednesday night church. 782 00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:18,700 We've had people who got saved on Sunday night or come to 783 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:20,700 church first on a Sunday night. I'm glad we still have Sunday 784 00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:23,200 night church, their churches that don't have Sunday nights 785 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:24,500 and some of the don't have Wednesday nights. 786 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,500 Don't we feel like so much more as we see? 787 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:28,800 See the day approaching. Why? 788 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,600 Because there's a great need out there for us to be able to reach 789 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,900 people for Christ. And so I'm going to leave us 790 00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:36,800 here tonight where we got really far with me through one page. 791 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:40,700 But but that's okay because I do want to set some ground work, 792 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:45,800 but I want to ask you this tonight and And then I'm going 793 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,400 to give you a story, then we'll be done. 794 00:40:48,900 --> 00:40:54,600 Are you prepared? For someone to ask you. 795 00:40:56,100 --> 00:40:58,600 How do I get? Say the pastor doesn't happen 796 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,200 that way. You know, it's funny. 797 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:02,700 You say that? Well, you didn't say that but 798 00:41:02,700 --> 00:41:08,500 just for for argument sake, it's funny you say that I've been 799 00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:11,500 preparing this knowing that this is the direction we're going 800 00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:14,600 Wednesday night for a few weeks and it's I knew this is what I 801 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:15,700 want to do. Even though I knew her supposed 802 00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:18,600 to get in a revelation, but I knew in I want to have as many 803 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,200 people as possible on Wednesday nights for this and this was the 804 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:22,800 way to go. So the last couple weeks I've 805 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,600 really been assured, this wasn't do in preparing this this 806 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,800 morning and my wife texted me about 1:00 today and she said 807 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,800 this, I'm talking to and she said the name and I'm not going 808 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,900 to say the name of the person. Because I pray this person will 809 00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:41,900 come and give their testimony, not me telling their story for 810 00:41:41,900 --> 00:41:44,700 them. But I do want to say this, we 811 00:41:44,700 --> 00:41:49,300 pray for. So, and so, right now, right now 812 00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:53,600 and so, well, here in the office and of course, I took some time 813 00:41:53,600 --> 00:42:00,000 to pray over the situation. Well, Diane calls me few minutes 814 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,900 later. And and she says this, she says, 815 00:42:02,900 --> 00:42:07,100 the name of the person she says She just got saved. 816 00:42:08,100 --> 00:42:10,500 And I kind of like, one of these. 817 00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:15,200 What did you say that? She got saved. 818 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,700 So we were literally just talking on the phone. 819 00:42:17,700 --> 00:42:19,800 She texted me and said, could we talk? 820 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,400 And we were talking small talk for a few minutes and she said 821 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,500 something along these lines that I'm going to get as close as I 822 00:42:25,508 --> 00:42:27,700 can. To what Diane told me and she 823 00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:31,800 said this, I've really been thinking that I need to have 824 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,000 Jesus. Be my savior. 825 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,300 Really been thinking that I need to have Jesus be my same. 826 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:40,700 Heard the message here, many times. 827 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,800 That's awesome. That's why we're here. 828 00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:48,600 That's why we're here. And so what did she do? 829 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,200 She was able to through the scriptures over the phone. 830 00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:54,900 It's, by the way, people can get saved outside of turkey over the 831 00:42:54,900 --> 00:42:59,600 phone. It just so happens that that she 832 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,500 made a profession of Faith this afternoon. 833 00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:04,800 I'm praying that she continues. It moves on and and and what a 834 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,300 wonderful thing that will be. But it's got saying what if 835 00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:11,800 somebody came up to you and said I really been thinking about 836 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,100 This getting saved thing. Really been thinking about it. 837 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,700 Would you be able to give an answer to every man? 838 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,200 That asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with 839 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,700 meekness and fear? That's not a pastor question. 840 00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:33,100 That's a Peter inspired by the Holy Ghost question. 841 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,500 Are you able to? Not that, you know, all the ins 842 00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:40,000 and outs of every doctrinal issue. 843 00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:43,900 All the way from Genesis to Revelation because you never 844 00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:47,900 going to get there. But that you can just patiently 845 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,900 lovingly. Take someone threw some 846 00:43:49,900 --> 00:43:52,500 scripture, show them you're lost. 847 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:58,700 There's a penalty for that, which is death and hell, but 848 00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:02,500 there's a remedy, Jesus Christ who died on the cross, for your 849 00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:06,000 sin and that you can accept that free gift of Salvation by 850 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,500 repenting of your sin and calling upon the stadium. 851 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,100 Are you able to do that tonight? If someone came up to you and 852 00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:16,500 saying, well, well no one's ever come up to me, well, maybe God's 853 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:18,900 not sending them because you're not ready. 854 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,200 Thank you for listening to the sermon from the pulpit of 855 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,100 Liberty, Baptist Church. If this message was a blessing 856 00:44:26,100 --> 00:44:29,600 to you or if there's any way we can serve you, please let us 857 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:34,400 know by contacting us at info. At my Liberty Baptist dot org. 858 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:37,700 Or you can visit us this Sunday at eight hundred Washington 859 00:44:37,700 --> 00:44:41,300 Street and East and Massachusetts may the Lord bless 860 00:44:41,300 --> 00:44:18,100 you as you grow in his word. God's not sending them because 861 00:44:18,100 --> 00:44:21,800 you're not ready. Thank you for listening to the 862 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,600 sermon from the pulpit of Liberty, Baptist Church. 863 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,100 If this message was a blessing to you or if there's any way we 864 00:44:28,100 --> 00:44:31,900 can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at info. 865 00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:36,100 At my Liberty Baptist dot org. Or you can visit us this Sunday 866 00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:39,000 at eight hundred Washington Street and East and 867 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:43,200 Massachusetts may the Lord bless you as you grow in his word.