1 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Turn over to Psalms chapter 27, verse one. 2 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,880 Psalms chapter 27, verse one. Hey man, we're going to talk a 3 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,320 little bit about Kingdom evangelism a couple of Sundays 4 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:28,840 ago. You know, we took some time to 5 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,439 talk about the issues that are going on in the world. 6 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:36,000 And if we don't watch out, you know, we will have walked in the 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,760 Kingdom of God so much that we are forgetting that there's, you 8 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:44,120 know, quite a few people that are not going to be with the 9 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,080 Lord forever. And we made the mention that 10 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:49,800 right now, I think it was a little over 8 billion people are 11 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,920 on the planet, of which they only associate 2 billion with 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,960 Christianity. And based upon what I'm telling 13 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,880 you right now, those who believe that statement aren't even 14 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,960 Christians. Are you hearing me? 15 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,600 So I can't tell you that of the 2 billion, they're actually born 16 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,760 again and have the Holy Ghost inside them bearing witness with 17 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,160 their spirit, their child of God, which means they're right. 18 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:22,880 Now, even if we did take all two, we still have more 75% that 19 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:24,920 aren't even going to make it. Now, that is the parable of the 20 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,080 sower, just to let you know, Parable of the sower, of the 21 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,040 seeds sown on the four different grounds, only 75% produce. 22 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:36,720 Only 25% produce fruit, period. But it still doesn't mean we 23 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,960 shouldn't have a heart to want to make sure that we are doing 24 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:44,360 what we need to do with God's Kingdom so that people could 25 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,480 have an opportunity to come into the Kingdom of God. 26 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,440 And, you know, so there's some things about, you know, winning 27 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,600 the loss that we need to explore from the Scripture. 28 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,520 Because if we don't watch out, I think we can get some thoughts 29 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,880 in our heads through certain revivals and different things 30 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,640 that we get an expectation of what we think the harvest looks 31 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,440 like or how to go about it when we really need to stay with the 32 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,440 Word of God. Are you hearing me? 33 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:13,000 Because I would not want to miss a harvest because I'm looking 34 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:18,160 for something spectacular. All right, Psalms 27, one says 35 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,760 this. It says the Lord is, is my light 36 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,880 and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? 37 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:25,640 The Lord is the defense of my life. 38 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,240 Whom shall I dread? What a powerful statement, 39 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,080 right? The Lord is my what light. 40 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,640 Light is what opens up salvation. 41 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,920 Because we were all in darkness. I said we were all in darkness, 42 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,880 and we're going to talk a little bit about that. 43 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,120 So it's the light because the Lord is my light or he is light. 44 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,800 God is light, all right? Meaning he's obviously light, 45 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,560 but also he is the one who brings revelation, darkness and 46 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,640 light. In Scripture, it can be a type 47 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:55,960 and shadow of ignorance and knowledge. 48 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,280 So when you're ignorant, you're in the dark. 49 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,920 We say that all they're in the dark, but when you know 50 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:04,560 something, then you're in the light, OK. 51 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,920 And God knows everything. He's all knowledge, right? 52 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,920 And so God brings everything to light, and light always 53 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,640 overtakes darkness. All right, I got talking to some 54 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:20,680 people today and I was going to have them kill all the lights, 55 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,240 even the screens, but we didn't do that. 56 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,160 But with the turn the lights off anyway, just for fun. 57 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:34,080 All the way off. Yeah, even these now, obviously 58 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,560 we still have some light here, but I mean, how would you feel 59 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,680 if we went pitch black and then I just started preaching? 60 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,600 They're like, OK, what's going on? 61 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:44,880 Right? I mean, you hear my voice, but 62 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,000 you don't see me. You can't even see in front of 63 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,560 your head. You know, your hands in front of 64 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:49,600 your head. Now I know all you got your 65 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,200 phone, so we can never get it dark here. 66 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,360 But the point is, is that who wants to go through life in 67 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:56,680 darkness? Go ahead and close your eyes 68 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:57,520 just for a moment. All right? 69 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,680 Everybody close your eyes because it's what it means to be 70 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:01,600 in darkness. Now, you can hear me, but you 71 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,400 can't see me. You're not, you know, you don't 72 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,640 know exactly where I'm at unless I'm getting close to you. 73 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,480 And you're assuming that's the case, OK. 74 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:14,760 And so, you know, we used to be people of darkness. 75 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,279 All right, open your eyes. OK. 76 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,560 So the reality is, is, do we want to live this way? 77 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:26,960 I mean, life's a pretty amazing thing. 78 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,560 Who wants to go through life like this? 79 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:37,960 Because again, if it went pitch black, what are we doing now? 80 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,040 We're what we call groping. You're starting to, you know, 81 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,680 reach out and you're looking because you don't know where 82 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,440 nothing's at. You're more susceptible to hurt 83 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,040 and pain, running into things, hurting yourself. 84 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,760 I mean, again, you could walk slap off a Cliff and wouldn't 85 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,320 even know it. I mean, you could die easier in 86 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:04,080 darkness because you cannot see at all. 87 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:07,080 Who would ever really want to live this existence? 88 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:10,920 All right, put the lights back up. 89 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,840 Jesus is the lie. Well, Christopher, you might 90 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:20,280 fall asleep if I leave them off. Jesus is the light. 91 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:21,640 Amen. Look what it says here in first 92 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:26,600 Peter two, First Peter 2 and 9 it says, But you are a chosen 93 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,560 race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation of people for God's own 94 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,600 possession, so that you might proclaim the excellencies of him 95 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:41,040 who has called you. What out of into what kind of 96 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:42,840 light is it? It's marvelous. 97 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:46,360 Say it's marvelous. I mean, it's marvelous to be in 98 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,040 the light. Hallelujah. 99 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,520 Now I'm going to read this out of Passion translation because I 100 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,680 like it. It says this, but you are God's 101 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,520 chosen treasure priest. Who are kings? 102 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,560 Are you kings? He's the king of kings. 103 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,920 Who are those kings? And when are we those kings? 104 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,160 Right now, OK, we're children of God and our Father in heaven and 105 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:14,680 Jesus Christ his Son are kings, all right, They rule and reign. 106 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,000 Thrones are in kingdoms, not in religions. 107 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,200 So we are pretty sure kings, a spiritual nation set apart as 108 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:26,120 God's devoted. 1 He called, He called you out of darkness into 109 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:31,400 to experience his what marvelous light, right? 110 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,400 But it goes on and says, and now he claims you as his very own. 111 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,840 He did this so that you would broadcast his glorious wonders 112 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:44,360 throughout the world. You are supposed to broadcast 113 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,760 before you could do. When we were all in darkness, 114 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,800 nobody sees anything but the minute you turn it, you know as 115 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,080 well as I do you can be a complete darkness, but you get 116 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,400 one light. Everybody all of a sudden will 117 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,680 see that light, and the one who's illuminated you can rally 118 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:08,920 around, but the one who's not, so you understand. 119 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:13,680 He called us out of this life that nobody sees. 120 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,240 Let me just say it that way. Nobody sees people who are in 121 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,240 darkness and the way they broadcast this as if it's like 122 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,720 the best thing. Nobody sees this on the grand 123 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,240 scheme of the Kingdom. God doesn't even see it because 124 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,880 it's in darkness. Now, I'm not saying he doesn't 125 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:30,800 see their sin and he's not going to hold them accountable. 126 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,080 I'm not saying that. I'm just saying their deeds are 127 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:34,560 done in darkness. And you know what? 128 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,280 When you're in darkness, nobody sees. 129 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:42,240 In one sense, there's no it says if no one, you're not 130 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:47,480 significant. Yet the enemy in his domain of 131 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,200 darkness wants to think, wants you to think that you are the 132 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:55,240 most significant when you're actually the least. 133 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,640 How least? Well, if you do not change, 134 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,320 you'll be cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death, 135 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,120 and no one will remember you ever. 136 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:12,400 There'll be no memory of you. So you need to be born again. 137 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,560 What's it say in Matthew chapter 5 verse 13? 138 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:21,120 Because if we are going to change our community, then we 139 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,640 need to know that we've come out of something. 140 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:31,080 We are to come out, not to stay with, but to come out. 141 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:32,600 Why is this? Look what it says here in 142 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,240 Matthew chapter 5 verses 13 through 16. 143 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:36,600 It says you are the salt of the earth. 144 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,600 But if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made 145 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,200 salty again? This is a problem. 146 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,280 It is no longer good for what anything is said to be thrown 147 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,160 out and trampled under the foot of men. 148 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,280 I'm not going to technically deal with the salt today, but 149 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,800 you understand you need to stay salty. 150 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:54,560 All right? Have the salt. 151 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:57,840 Life 14. You are the light of the world. 152 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,440 You're the light of what? You're the light of the world. 153 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:04,640 That is not earth, that is sectors of society. 154 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:10,240 You are the light. God entrusted you to be the 155 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,760 light. You are the light of the world. 156 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:21,160 OK, a city set on a hill cannot be hidden, nor does anyone light 157 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,480 a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and 158 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,320 it gives light to all who are in the house. 159 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,720 Let your light what? Let your light what? 160 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,040 Where? In church? 161 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:44,200 In church, no before men so that in such a way how's your life 162 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,840 supposed to shine in such a way that they may what? 163 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,720 See your that's why I said this earlier. 164 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,080 See your good works and glorify your Father who was in heaven. 165 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,760 Your work, independent of the voice of God, is not a good 166 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,000 work. It's still bad, but when God's 167 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,720 asked you to do something and you're doing it in Christ, then 168 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,560 it is a good work because it's by faith, because your faith has 169 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:16,040 a work and it shines because God is the light. 170 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,280 His Word is light. So when you obey His Word, then 171 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,160 you are the light. We are to walk in the light. 172 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,880 We're going to see this. So again, we are to let our 173 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:29,200 light shine before men, not just in church, not just around other 174 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,560 Christians or believers, but where to let it shine, period. 175 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,680 Now, this one particular scholar said this, and I like this. 176 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,640 He said the Christian. And again, you know, that's a 177 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,440 term that was given in the New Testaments only a few times it's 178 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:46,520 actually mentioned. It's not an emphasis. 179 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,800 We've emphasized it. The world has emphasized it. 180 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,800 Jesus emphasized the disciple, we emphasize Christian. 181 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,400 There's nothing wrong with being a Christian if you are what 182 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:58,280 Christian means, which is Christ like. 183 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,480 If you're not Christ like, then you're just a label. 184 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,240 You're labeling it yourself, something that you're not. 185 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,160 Jesus actually said, go into all the world and make what not 186 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,200 Christians. Now you'll be Christ like if 187 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,920 you're a disciple. But we need to get disciples. 188 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,640 Like when I go into other countries, specifically in 189 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:22,240 Spanish speaking countries, senor is the word for Lord. 190 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:27,560 Well, senor is also the word for Mr. Well, it's not Mr. Jesus. 191 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:34,480 So I use other terms like dueno, which is owner, or maestro which 192 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,760 is master. You know, you're putting another 193 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,640 spin on because you need to know he is your owner, He's your 194 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:45,040 Lord, He's supreme in authority. He's the one you're yielding and 195 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,720 submitted to. He's the one that you're you're 196 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,760 following all the days of your life. 197 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:56,920 Are you hearing what I'm saying? And so if we don't watch out, 198 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:01,240 we'll say Christian, but still are walking in darkness. 199 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:07,280 Yet nowhere Scripture does a Christian walk in darkness. 200 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,760 They've come out, say, come out, they've come out. 201 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,080 And again, the life I'm living in the light. 202 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,360 I'm not living it on my own power, but I'm living it through 203 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,360 the grace of God and the power of His Word. 204 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,640 Working in my life. Because by faith I believe I can 205 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:31,120 have what He says, I can do what He says, I can respond like He 206 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,720 says, even when I don't feel like it in my flesh wants to do 207 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,680 something else. But that's darkness. 208 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,840 I don't live in the darkness anymore. 209 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:44,000 I live in the light, so we are not to cover our light yet. 210 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,520 When, when is it that all of a sudden Christianity decided to 211 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,760 cover up? When did we go in the closet? 212 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:58,680 Now, how do you know you're in a closet? 213 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,400 Because you go into the world and you're doing the same thing 214 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,440 the world's doing, but saying we have. 215 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,520 And I asked Jesus into my heart to save me. 216 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,320 How can you live in darkness and call yourself light? 217 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:22,280 I mean, we in our, you know, nation has really are making a 218 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,400 lot of excuses to cover up our light. 219 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,040 I mean, we, and I think it first started with, you know, well, we 220 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:32,800 don't want to look different than them. 221 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,520 You are different. I mean, you came out of that 222 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,760 whole thing. I mean, why do you want anything 223 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:46,280 to be relatable in that context? You want a shot when I want to 224 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,760 make them feel bad. Well, this particular scholar 225 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,800 said it this way. The Christian often pains men to 226 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,280 heal them. Now I like that. 227 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,400 Now he was coming from the perspective of salt in a wound 228 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,400 that you put salt in the wound and it hurts, but it's bringing 229 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,720 healing. We understand if you've been in 230 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,960 darkness and a light flashes, it'll hurt your eyes. 231 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:10,960 Have you ever been in somewhere dark and you come out, woah, 232 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,120 golly, right out here. My wife's like give me the 233 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,520 sunglasses. I can't handle it. 234 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,720 My wife doesn't go outside hardly without her sunglasses. 235 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,480 She's like, man, this hurts my eyes. 236 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:26,960 This hurts because she's not acclimated to the light. 237 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:33,600 So you understand your existence should create pain to those 238 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:38,600 around you in your world. Oh, well, I just don't want 239 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,480 anybody hurt. Are you light? 240 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,160 They're going to hurt because the fair and darkness you, the 241 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:48,120 bright thing that walked in that morning, you just reminded them 242 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,400 of what they shouldn't have been doing that weekend because you 243 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,200 didn't do it. They know you didn't do it. 244 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,200 And when they try to talk about what they did, they know it 245 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:05,680 doesn't go anywhere with you and they feel convicted because of 246 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,840 what the light does. And you can't. 247 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,520 You, you, you can't. You can't. 248 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,200 The only way that you're going to is if you cover up. 249 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,600 Well, I don't want. I'm just being me. 250 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,920 I am of the light. That's what I am now. 251 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,640 And guess what? You can be of the light too. 252 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,640 Say come out so you got to let your light shine before men in 253 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,360 such a way that they may see your good works. 254 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,720 I mean when they see your. Here's the thing the world best 255 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:42,360 especially those that do grapple wanting to know is there a God 256 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,680 know that there's a hole in their life and that they need 257 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:47,640 something different. But yeah, they've heard this 258 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,960 term Christian for so long and seen so many go to the club with 259 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:55,840 them on Saturday night. But then go, right, you know, 260 00:15:55,840 --> 00:16:01,320 have sexual relationships outside of wedlock. 261 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:09,200 I mean, speak the same language backed by gossip. 262 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,800 I mean, it's just like a habit. No problem. 263 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,120 You can jump into the conversation with the best of 264 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,200 them. I mean, there's no different. 265 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,640 You've been around. Have you ever been around when 266 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:20,720 you're like, you would start to share Jesus And they're like, 267 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,960 oh, I'm saved. And you're like, bro, never. 268 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,400 Jeez. Nah, no, never went in on that. 269 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,760 You'd be like, you need to, you need to pull the basket off your 270 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:35,240 light then, because we have a problem. 271 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,320 This is it. This is not how God expected 272 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,400 you. We are not undercover. 273 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:47,840 Believers are not undercover. They shine, Say I shine now 274 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,240 again, shiny. You're not bringing attention to 275 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,920 yourself. The light brings attention to 276 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,720 him. Hallelujah. 277 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,960 And I know I have plenty of testimonies of people that have 278 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,480 been in situations where you know, you've let your light 279 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,200 shine and people like, how come you're not concerned? 280 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:03,840 Aren't you concerned they're laying people off? 281 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,160 How come you're not worried about this? 282 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:08,599 How come you seem to never get sick and if you do, it never 283 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:09,960 stays around? Guess what? 284 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,599 Your light is shining. How come I never hear you cuss 285 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,160 ever? There's a particular comedian 286 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:23,800 that is, you know, in the Christian circle, and he got 287 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,400 around some secular comedians because he's become that 288 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,080 popular. And they were like, they want 289 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,760 him to cuss, and they're just trying to egg him on to cuss. 290 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,560 And he's like, yeah, I'm not going to do it right. 291 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,840 Why? Because darkness wants to try to 292 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:45,200 overtake, but darkness can never know that it can never overtake 293 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,280 the light. Darkness can never overtake the 294 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,840 light, even in an eclipse. When it goes black here, it's 295 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,880 not because the light left, it's because something got in front 296 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:57,720 of it. The only reason that would keep 297 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,680 your life from shine is if you're letting stuff get in 298 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,800 front of it. If you're letting issues, if 299 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,720 you're letting you know the things that are of the flesh 300 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,360 getting in between you and what God wants to do through you, you 301 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:11,880 got to keep that stuff off because this is how God will 302 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:16,440 draw people because people really want you to be 303 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:17,920 successful. But you know what? 304 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,240 They want to know that what you're doing is real. 305 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,120 They'll consider you a fad. They consider you like everybody 306 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:26,680 else, dime a dozen that have went to church and now don't go 307 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,800 to church at all. I mean, we know them ourselves. 308 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:36,520 We know them ourselves that have backslidden, gone in and you 309 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,640 know what? Those things are hindrances to 310 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:45,080 harvest. Again, there are very few plants 311 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:54,000 that grow in only in darkness. The majority need the light and 312 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,720 any of Jesus's examples were just that. 313 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:01,160 Are you hearing me now? I will tell you this, sin can 314 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:07,680 grow in darkness, but in the end it's worthless for nothing and 315 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,000 it's thrown into the lake of fire. 316 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:14,360 So in order for you to have the seed of God's word to be able to 317 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:18,040 start manifesting in a person's life, you have to be the light 318 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,200 to the seed that you've sown in their hearts. 319 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,680 Because again, a seed does not bear fruit overnight. 320 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,640 And you understand, for us, the majority of our evangelism is 321 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,080 going to be day-to-day showing up with the light. 322 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,300 That's how it's going to work and you're going to be with a Co 323 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:38,400 worker and the next thing you know, they're going to find out 324 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,360 you believe in Jesus and you say it not like I'm trying to do 325 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:44,400 good things to get to heaven. You're not going to say that. 326 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,440 You're going to say Jesus Christ is the only way I made him Lord 327 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,600 of my life. I follow him by faith. 328 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,400 Oh, OK. I see how that is. 329 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,360 And the next thing you know, you just are. 330 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,360 They never hear you, you know, say anything right. 331 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:01,040 And if you do something wrong, you're like, you know what? 332 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:02,840 That's not how I'm supposed to be. 333 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,320 Please forgive me. Now they're blown away by that 334 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,560 stuff because we're not perfect people, but we can be mature 335 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:13,520 people and we should mature. If you didn't hear that message, 336 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:16,960 you need to go and listen to it. The point is, is that our light 337 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,080 needs to shine because most people that are in darkness, 338 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,880 they're too prideful to admit they're wrong. 339 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:23,320 But a believer will say, you know what? 340 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,040 I shouldn't have done that. I shouldn't acted that way. 341 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:26,320 I should not have raised my voice. 342 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,240 Please forgive me. You understand that light 343 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,080 actually gets brighter even though you've done something 344 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:35,920 wrong, because now they're blown away at your ability to yield 345 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:40,720 submit, your ability to acknowledge you were wrong with 346 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:45,520 no selfish motive. And what it does is all of a 347 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,920 sudden that seed of the word now is taking root in their heart. 348 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,200 And then they get an issue and then they come to you, right, 349 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:53,120 Eric? And they're like, hey, would you 350 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:53,920 pray for me? Why? 351 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:55,000 Because they don't know how to pray. 352 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:57,040 They're not even born again. They don't even know what. 353 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,520 And you're like, you know, I pray I'll talk to the King for 354 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,240 you. And then the king could do 355 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,680 awesome things for them just to show them that he's kind because 356 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:09,120 it's the kindness of God that leads people to repentance and 357 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:13,120 God's very kind. But again, what do you do? 358 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:16,760 You're you're, you're causing that plant to grow because you 359 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,120 bring the light all the time. This is why you cannot have down 360 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:21,520 days. You just need to get that 4th 361 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,600 Frank's on. I'm going to have a good day, 362 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,440 right? I'm about to have a good day 363 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,960 because you get coffee in your cup like black. 364 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,600 You going to have a good day, people going to have a really 365 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:37,440 good day. All right, so anyway, we need to 366 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,480 shine. This is our first. 367 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,960 This is our first phase of, of evangelism. 368 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,040 Because again, how are you going to have someone come to the 369 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,160 church if you yourself aren't living it? 370 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,520 Now again, a lot of times people can invite people and say, Hey, 371 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,880 we do this too, but we go to church and you're like, oh, I 372 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:01,600 can still sin and still go to church. 373 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,120 This is super cool. You know what? 374 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:07,920 That's not in the Bible and that's misleading, and that's 375 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:12,120 really gross neglect. It's what I call spiritual 376 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:16,520 malpractice. It's called spiritual 377 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,080 malpractice. No, we are, to be honest, again, 378 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,200 I can be kind to a lost person. I'm going to be kind to a lost 379 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:24,520 person and I'm going to be patient. 380 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,840 Like, wow, you have been so patient with me. 381 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,440 Yep, I'm patient because you're in darkness. 382 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,480 I mean, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't even know where to 383 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,000 go. You understand? 384 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,840 When you're carrying the flashlight, you are the one 385 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,240 that's helping lead them. In essence, God is allowing you 386 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:43,120 to be the light to Him. You're illuminating the pathway. 387 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,440 So This is why you can't turn your light off. 388 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,640 It's got to be on all the time. And this light has got better 389 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,720 batteries in the Energizer Bunny people. 390 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,200 It's got us the Holy Ghost. All right, Proverbs chapter 4, 391 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,640 verse 18 to 19 says this. But the path of the righteous is 392 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,520 like the light of dawn. My gosh, you got to understand 393 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,600 you are the righteousness of God in Christ. 394 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:10,040 You must visually see this when you go anywhere. 395 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:17,480 You are lit, fully illuminated, you are spotlight. 396 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,600 I mean, when you are really serious about your walk with 397 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:27,520 God, it cannot go unnoticed. The path of the righteous is 398 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,120 like the light of dawn that shines brighter and brighter 399 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:33,720 until the full day. You just keep showing up and it 400 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,400 gets brighter and brighter, clearer and clearer how this 401 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,560 thing works, that we live for God, how it is Christ in me, the 402 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,600 hope of glory. I mean, we have to be serious 403 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,760 about our walk with God. He is Lord of our lives. 404 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,200 We've laid down our life because He laid down His. 405 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,440 It's not how I want to do it. I'm not negotiating with God and 406 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,000 say now listen, I want to keep these things of darkness in my 407 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,720 life. You good with that? 408 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,800 I mean, it's like people like, well, I just want to be AI just 409 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,880 want to be a match, man. I just want to be a match. 410 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,400 I mean, again, a match in complete darkness will draw, but 411 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,320 you understand as you grow, there's no way you just a match. 412 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,800 It's just not going to happen. You are a pathway. 413 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,280 But what's the next verse? Say the way of the wicked is 414 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,400 like darkness. They do not know over what they 415 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,920 stumble. I mean, how many times you've 416 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,840 been around, you know, back in the day now or you went to work 417 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,480 and someone's like, man, this weekend, I don't even know what 418 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,000 happened. You're like, bro, you don't even 419 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,880 know what happened, man. I went to a party and I just 420 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,720 who, what, who wants to live like that? 421 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,320 And they act like that's the whole deal. 422 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,880 And you're like, thank God I have been delivered. 423 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,680 I have been, I have been transferred out of that domain 424 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,200 into the marvelous life. And I'm not waking up going, 425 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,640 who, who are you? Oh my gosh, you look way better 426 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,320 last night. And what's happened now? 427 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:03,840 Why are my loins on fire? I'm telling you, right? 428 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:09,560 I mean, who wants to be at 3:00 in the morning willfully 429 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,960 throwing up? Oh man, we had such a great 430 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,400 time. You don't even remember. 431 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,800 You have puke all over. I mean, think about this. 432 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,560 But as believers, we have to shine bright. 433 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,800 Are you hearing me? Ephesians chapter 5, verses 8 434 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,160 through 14. The remedy translation says it 435 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,640 this way in the past. Come on, help me out with this 436 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:46,160 word you promulgated the dark lies and methods of Satan, but 437 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:51,240 now you are conduits of the light of truth and the life 438 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,600 giving methods of the Lord. Live as children of this light 439 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,280 now. Paul's being real clear to the 440 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:01,440 church. Church, we are of the light now. 441 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:07,680 I mean, Paul was very clear to the churches he planted the 442 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:12,320 church at Corinth was sucked, came out of such horrible 443 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:19,080 heathen worship, Pagan worship. I mean, it was bad sexual 444 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:27,600 immorality, like horrible. And he's like you used to now 445 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:32,120 you don't you formally. Now here's where you are. 446 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,440 Because light does not do what darkness does. 447 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,640 And light doesn't say it's OK to be dark every once in a while 448 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:49,480 because God is light and there's no darkness in him. 449 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,800 He doesn't say that's OK. Well, you know what? 450 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,960 I'm, I'm forgive. You know what? 451 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,880 And we use this term a lot even in, you know, I, I hear people 452 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,960 say, you know, it's better to ask for forgiveness than 453 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:05,040 permission. So you want to rebel. 454 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,280 I mean, how many times does the believer, they don't watch out? 455 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,760 I'm telling you, these are these are slippery slopes to want to 456 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,880 trample on the blood of Jesus. You know what, I'm going to do 457 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,760 it anyway, and I'll just ask God to forgive me. 458 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,560 What? That's not why the blood's 459 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,080 there. So that you can keep in darkness 460 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:31,120 and keep splashing the blood. No, He's changed you. 461 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,480 You're a whole new species of being. 462 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,520 You're a new creature in Christ. You're not the same. 463 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,960 You've got you have to renew your mind, you have to let go of 464 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:44,240 deeds of darkness, but you have the power by the Holy Ghost in 465 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,920 you to do something different. Amen. 466 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,680 So it goes on to say for those who live by the light, practice 467 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,080 the principles of goodness, doing right in all situations 468 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,240 and how many situations in all situations, and understand God 469 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,400 and His purposes and what He is pleased with, right? 470 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,920 Without faith it's impossible to what so they're saying here, 471 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,400 they find out what God wants to do in any situation. 472 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,760 They hear the word of the King, and then they stand and believe 473 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,600 on that word is going to come to pass. 474 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,440 That's what we do, OK, because we're in the light now. 475 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:25,160 We're not stuck in darkness. Verse 11 don't have anything to 476 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,680 do with the destructive practices of those whose minds 477 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,600 are darkened, but rather present light of truth, which exposes 478 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,360 them. Now really another translation 479 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:40,600 says it says in this way, in essence, the things that they 480 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,800 are ignorant of because you're around, you can bring exposure 481 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,760 to what will set them free. This is not like, oh, I'm 482 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,920 telling everybody about you, I'm exposing you. 483 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,560 Oh rain, I'm exposing. That's not the what he's saying 484 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,360 here. What he's saying here is that 485 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,640 you get around someone that's in darkness and they don't know how 486 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:04,120 to act different because sin or sin, they're professionals. 487 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,040 We were professionals at one time. 488 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,760 We were really good at this and some of y'all even better than I 489 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,840 was. Meaning you just have a longer 490 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,760 rap sheet. The point is though, we all have 491 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,360 participated in darkness, but you get around someone to light, 492 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,040 all of a sudden they give you options. 493 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,200 They begin to say, you know, you don't have to what you don't 494 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,920 have to. They've never seen that because 495 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,320 you just turn the light on. Now you said, well, you could. 496 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,080 You know what, let's do this instead. 497 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,600 I never thought, come on, let's let's. 498 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,000 And next thing you know, you're giving them revelation of 499 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,640 another way to live, that all of a sudden they're like, man, I 500 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,120 want to come over to where you're at. 501 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,480 So that's what this means here. For it is damaging and degrading 502 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,880 to dwell upon what the disobedient do in secret. 503 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,040 Yeah, You know what, believers, It seems as if they're like, 504 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,880 what can I get away with? They did that. 505 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:02,920 Seem like they're having so much fun. 506 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,040 Seem like they're having so much fun. 507 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:11,360 You're dwelling on darkness that you were redeemed from, that you 508 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,240 have been pulled out of glory to God. 509 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,520 You actually are the one who can see. 510 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:23,040 You're no longer blonde. This is amazing, OK? 511 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,280 For everything exposed by the light of truth becomes 512 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,280 understandable, you know? And that's what we're here to 513 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:31,680 do. We're here to help people 514 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,240 understand that Jesus Christ is King and the life we live now, 515 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,160 we live in him. And he opens up things so that 516 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,880 we can navigate in a world that's dark and crooked. 517 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,520 He makes the crooked places straight, says for it is the 518 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:50,440 truth that reveals all things. This is why it is said, wake up 519 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,240 your brain and start thinking. Stop zoning out like you're 520 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,440 dead. And Christ will shine the light 521 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,040 of truth into your mind. Man, aren't you glad when God 522 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,920 opens up your mind with truth? You're like, wow, there it is. 523 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,280 That's what I need to do, Thank you Lord. 524 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,880 And then you stand on that. Then it comes out like he, just 525 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,600 like he says it. And you're like, glory to God, 526 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:15,240 He's amazing, right? He does this in trials and 527 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:19,680 tribulations with us and we get to be again, I'm not telling you 528 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,920 to go bare your soul to people. Please don't do. 529 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,200 But again, if someone like what's going on, well, I have 530 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:28,560 this situation, but I'm trusting God now at that point, like, OK, 531 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,160 well, you just trust 'cause then when it happens that way, 532 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:38,720 they're like, I remember one time family member had this 533 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:44,240 issue going down and, and so I showed up at the hospital and 534 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:49,760 it's life and death stuff. And so I came in and I knew that 535 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:55,800 the, the, the extended family did not function in this type of 536 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,760 belief system. Kind of a little more hope God 537 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,960 will do something and hope is not faith. 538 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,360 So but by unction of the spirit, I came in, grabbed their hands 539 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,760 and I said, let's pray and I began to declare they'll live 540 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,440 and not die. They'll do this, this, this 541 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,120 again. I, I was hearing from heaven 542 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,680 what to say and I spoke these things out. 543 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,760 OK. The next day I went with a 544 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,880 family member to lunch and it turned out exactly as was 545 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,080 spoken. Now again, I didn't think of 546 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,320 this. I heard from heaven. 547 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,480 The Holy Ghost was speaking to my spirit and I was just 548 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,000 declaring it. But they recognized that 549 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:33,360 everything that was spoken in that prayer came to pass just 550 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,640 like it. That is bringing light into a 551 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,840 dark situation. And we have this ability. 552 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,320 And you know what? There are more and more people 553 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,720 that if we will function this way, it will be easier to see 554 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,200 people coming to the Kingdom. I I'm, I'm concerned that the 555 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,680 reason why we don't see this big harvest is because we don't have 556 00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:05,920 enough lights. OK, now why do I say that? 557 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:10,080 Romans chapter 13? Romans 1311 to 14 says it this 558 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,360 way. Do this knowing the time that is 559 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,080 already, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from 560 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,920 sleep. For now salvation is nearer to 561 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,880 us than we, than when we believe. 562 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,480 Do you know Jesus Christ is coming? 563 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:30,160 It is very highly probable that He would come in our generation. 564 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,080 Now, I know the generation before, but why should we not 565 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,240 believe that He could literally come and you could be somebody's 566 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,840 going to be the generation that has changed in the moment, the 567 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,840 twinkling of an eye. So let it be us. 568 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,600 I'll take it. I'll take it. 569 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,680 I want to put on the glorified suit and go, whoa, look at this 570 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,920 man. It's just just hold on a minute 571 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,800 because I'm about to jump up out of here faster than Superman, 572 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,280 right? Because again, it says you'll be 573 00:33:58,280 --> 00:33:59,520 changing the moment and twinkling. 574 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,760 A nod doesn't say you're leaving at the same rate. 575 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,640 You're going to have time to talk to some people before you 576 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,840 go. Scripture bears that out. 577 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:12,239 Anyway, With that being said, this salvation is nearer to us 578 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,800 than ever before. So we need to be awake. 579 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:23,239 We need to be realizing that our number one witness is being the 580 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,679 light every day. You need to turn the light 581 00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:29,040 switch on in your life every day. 582 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:35,520 That way when you walk into any store, any place of business, 583 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:43,840 any house, the lights on and everybody's going to be affected 584 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,440 by your light and you're not going to please everybody. 585 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,120 Because those who the Bible tells us that Jesus came, they 586 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,159 beheld the light, but they love the darkness. 587 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:56,080 There's going to be people who hate you because you're light. 588 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,120 Just stay light because it's not. 589 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,360 It's not your responsibility to win them if they don't want to 590 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,440 come. It is your responsibility to 591 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,880 shine. Are you hearing me? 592 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,080 Because evangelism is not just winning the lost. 593 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,040 I'm going to say this again. Evangelism is not just winning 594 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:20,120 the lost. I think we have kept this in one 595 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:26,880 category, and that's a problem because we discredit other 596 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:31,280 evangelistic opportunities. Number one, none of us can save 597 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,200 anybody. And #2 no one can actually be 598 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,200 saved unless the Spirit draws them. 599 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:39,760 Will the spirit be drawing people? 600 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,080 Absolutely. The question is, is you don't 601 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,680 know when and I don't know when unless he talks to us about it. 602 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,320 Because it's very clear that sometimes you're showing up 603 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,680 would like just to plant a seed and you're never going to 604 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,280 harvest that person. You were the one who put the 605 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,120 seed in them from the first place. 606 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,240 You may be someone who's just coming by watering them, which 607 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:02,800 means you may consistently water them for a season of their life 608 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,800 and then they go to another job or you go to another job and you 609 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:10,360 never see them again, but you are watering that Now. 610 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,760 What we do is we take evangelism as if they must be born again so 611 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,120 we can put a notch on our belt and say, look, we LED someone to 612 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,920 Christ today. That's not your responsibility 613 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,440 to lead someone to Christ today. It's your responsibility to let 614 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,320 your light shine. Now. 615 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,480 It may include harvesting someone and it is a great 616 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:34,840 privilege and you should be listening and focused that God 617 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,080 may put someone by your path that's ready to harvest. 618 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,800 And you are the one to to share with them and communicate to 619 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,920 them how to receive Christ as their Lord. 620 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,200 But take it all the way home and say, now we're going to church 621 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,360 because this thing is not about where you're going to go when 622 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,280 you die. This is a life commitment now. 623 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,640 And it starts, you're going to be a disciple and disciples are 624 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,560 in church. I'm not here to get you 625 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,440 converted. I'm here to get you to church so 626 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:05,360 that you can be trained, trained to reign. 627 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:08,960 Are you hearing me? So again, this is not about 628 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,960 leading someone in publics and then running home and shouting 629 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,320 about it. Then we never see them. 630 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,560 It's about the responsibility of hey, give me a number. 631 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,000 I'll come pick you up. We get you over here. 632 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,960 Listen, God sure said he'll never leave you nor forsake you 633 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,280 and we're not here to abandon you. 634 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,000 You live in the same town I am here we go. 635 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,560 Or if there's just someone that's from somewhere else, 636 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,480 vacation and you're like, where are you living? 637 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,480 I'm a find your church. Do you know someone back home 638 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,160 that's going with is you got something planned? 639 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:39,200 Can I get you number? And you're following up with 640 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:44,000 these things that way when they get back into Massachusetts, did 641 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,560 you get to church? Did you get then? 642 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,920 I understand you can't force them, but you want to go a 643 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:53,600 little bit further because evangelism has a light shining. 644 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,120 A lot of people need to get saved in Boston, right? 645 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,640 Hallelujah. And New York, not so much. 646 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,520 In Kansas City. Just kidding. 647 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:09,280 They're already Royals. OK, with that being said, let's 648 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,760 go on verse 12. The night is almost gone and the 649 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,480 day is near. Therefore here it is. 650 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:22,080 Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on. 651 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,200 Now here's crazy thing. The Bible tells us that when 652 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:27,960 you're born again you become a child of light. 653 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,600 Yet Romans tells us you got to lay something off and put 654 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,560 something on in the Spirit. You are light. 655 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,680 When you're born again, you've been made the righteous of God 656 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,240 in Christ. Inside you is the greatest. 657 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,640 I mean, there is no spotlight that is brighter than how you 658 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,040 are in the Spirit. The problem is, is that your 659 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:56,320 mind can put a basket over the illumination that you are on the 660 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:01,080 inside just wanting to get out. What good is the lighthouse if 661 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:06,240 we cover the light and it can turn around on the inside all 662 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:09,200 day long and be so bright that if you were inside and it was 663 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,320 covered, you would be like, I'm about to be blind. 664 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,520 It's so bright in here, but it's not for in there. 665 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,240 It's to go out into the darkness so that people can be drawn to 666 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:21,280 the light. That's the point. 667 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,040 We come to church and it gets so bright in here, but then we want 668 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,960 to get out and cover it up when we're at work. 669 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,080 You can't do that. It is the be out in darkness. 670 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,520 The world needs you to shine. They need you to shine. 671 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,240 So you have to lay aside the deeds of darkness. 672 00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:43,840 When you're like, man, I don't. Why do I not do this anymore? 673 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,120 Because I'm a different person. The one who did is dead. 674 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,920 They're not even alive anymore. I'm a new creature in Christ. 675 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:56,760 I'm not the same person. And when you accept that as the 676 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,880 reality of your new birth experience, then you'll start 677 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:02,320 saying I'm not. That is a deed of darkness. 678 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,160 That is a deed of darkness. That is you're taking captive 679 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,440 thoughts that puts you back in darkness and covers up who you 680 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:09,640 are. And you're like, no, I'm going 681 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:14,160 to put on the arm or light. I'm going to do it God's way. 682 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,920 He's light. I'm light, I do it his way. 683 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:24,520 So what is some of these things? Verse 13 Let us behave properly 684 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:30,440 as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual 685 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,680 promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. 686 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:39,480 All those things are dark deeds. We don't do these things say I 687 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:43,680 don't do them anymore. When you do your willfully 688 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:52,280 putting a basket over your light and it was never designed for 689 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:56,200 you to do that. The light is supposed to shine. 690 00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,720 All right, the world needs you to shine. 691 00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:03,920 Verse 14 but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no 692 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,640 provision for the flesh in regards to us lust. 693 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,160 See, when you don't live a fleshly life, you live a life 694 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:17,720 full of light, period. Full of light. 695 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:25,720 All right, last Scripture, Philippians, chapter 2. 696 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,880 Philippians, chapter 2, verse 15 and 16. 697 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,240 Our number one assignment. You say, how are we doing in 698 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:34,720 evangelism? Well, how how bright is your 699 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:38,000 light shining? I mean, the church could 700 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:43,600 technically double over on Sunday if you invited someone 701 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,120 and actually got them here. I mean, you understand numbers 702 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,000 in a sense really aren't that hard. 703 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,800 The point though is, are you letting your light shine in 704 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,080 invitations again, Ernie and Evelyn? 705 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,360 Evelyn, before she married Ernie, she said she had a Co 706 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:06,760 worker that I think it was for 10 years invited her to church. 707 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:14,320 That means 10 years, this person couldn't help but shine and know 708 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,520 that your life's not going to change until you get right with 709 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,760 God and one place that I can bring you to a very a big 710 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,200 bonfire. In essence, when you bring them 711 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,360 to church, you bring them to a bonfire. 712 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,600 It's just a big bonfire is what we got is like, wow, look at 713 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,640 this big bonfire, right? And so they come in and man, 714 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,200 here you go. And she was like, fine, I'm 715 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:40,560 going. And man, God showed up because 716 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,560 he was already a light to her life, consistent. 717 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,320 And she saw how he lived for 10 years. 718 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:53,800 He was different. Some people we go on to see 719 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,280 coming to the Kingdom of God may take 10 years. 720 00:42:57,240 --> 00:43:01,400 So don't feel bad about that. We may see things faster. 721 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,160 That's great too. But at the end of the day, it 722 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,920 doesn't come without being the light because we're sure not 723 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,080 drawing them if we're dark. All right. 724 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,520 So this last verse is this Philippians 215 and 16. 725 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,080 It says so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and 726 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,480 innocent children of God above reproach in the midst of a 727 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:25,440 crooked and perverse generation among whom you appear as lights 728 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:30,560 in the world. Verse 16, holding fast the word 729 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,720 of life. How do you keep the light on 730 00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:35,400 you? Hold fast the word of life. 731 00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:39,000 If you are not in the word, knowing the word, rightly divine 732 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,200 the word, you are letting your light die. 733 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,520 And I, I can tell you there's plenty of people that are safe. 734 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,920 I asked you to send in my heart to save me and they have not 735 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,480 stoked that fire ever since. And if you saw them in the 736 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,480 world, they are carnal Christian. 737 00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:00,480 In fact, they're just a babe. I remember Paul said, look, I 738 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,320 wanted to say something different to you guys, but I 739 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,120 have to speak to you as babes. You know, how do I know you're 740 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:06,400 babes? Because you're acting like the 741 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:07,000 world. He says. 742 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,160 You're acting like mere men. First Corinthians 3 mere men. 743 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,840 I I can't tell the difference between you and those that are 744 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:16,880 outside the Kingdom. I cannot tell the difference 745 00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,280 between you and those that are in the domain of darkness 746 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:23,440 because of how you're acting the fruit of your life right now. 747 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:30,200 So they in order to keep your light shining, you must feed the 748 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:31,920 fire, and that is with the word of God. 749 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,400 You hold fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I 750 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,960 will have no reason. He says to glory, because I did 751 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,200 not run in vain, nor toll in vain. 752 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:47,600 Paul was greatly concerned and I believe that this needs to 753 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:54,560 become our concern. Paul had a deep concern, not 754 00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,320 just for those that were outside the Kingdom, but for those who 755 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,760 were in it. He had a deep concern. 756 00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:05,640 I mean, you understand our modern day gospel in the United 757 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:09,280 States is this, hey, have you asked Jesus into your heart? 758 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,440 You know, let me pray with you, OK? 759 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,320 Let me pray with you, brother. Can we when we're going to pray 760 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:15,200 and you pray and you pray, the sinners praying like man, you're 761 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,640 born again, man, you're going to go one day and then you're gone. 762 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,920 And you never see the person. You don't give them any 763 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,000 additional responsibility. It's like having birth of a 764 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,440 child and then you walk away and nobody's there to care for it. 765 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,040 And then we're running around saying I saw that I got this 766 00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,120 person born again here and I got this person born again here. 767 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:38,000 And that person is crying out for milk, but there is no milk 768 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,840 because they've been late. They've been left there. 769 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,040 They're an infant. They don't know how to. 770 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,480 Now I understand a person born again can hear the Holy Ghost 771 00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:49,960 and can move. I get, but we are putting way 772 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:55,440 too much on an infant in Christ who does have the Holy Ghost to 773 00:45:55,440 --> 00:46:00,560 have to navigate it. God never intended for the Holy 774 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:04,680 Spirit once they get inside a person to do it without the rest 775 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,920 of the body. There be there's no reason for 776 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,160 us to even have church then. And a lot of them are already at 777 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:11,360 that. But you know what, they're just 778 00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:15,440 babes. They're just babes. 779 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:20,280 So the point is, is that we are are we've got to let our light 780 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,200 shine. We have to actually have concern 781 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:26,320 for the law for the the believer, the Hey, keep your 782 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,920 light shining. You need to keep your light 783 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,520 shining. You need to keep your light 784 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:35,760 shining because Paul's like man on that day when I stand before 785 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,800 the Lord and you show up and I I hope that at the end of the day, 786 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:46,680 I didn't do that for nothing. And all that labor, all that, 787 00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:52,560 you know, feeding you wood for your fire, you know, fueling you 788 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,760 to follow. And then you just let your 789 00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:59,960 lights die out. And he had problems. 790 00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:05,640 He said Demas name names Demas. He has the cares of the world. 791 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,320 He's abandoned me a couple others. 792 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,480 He said, man, these people here, I had to pray to deliver them 793 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,800 over to Satan for the destruction of their flesh so 794 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,360 they wouldn't blasphemy. That wasn't good. 795 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,960 And one of his churches unfortunately had a very bad 796 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:26,240 report from the head of the church because in one of his 797 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:30,760 things he says, send this letter to the Church of Laodicea, and 798 00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,480 they have a letter that you should read. 799 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,480 But then we get to revelation the Lord's like, I'm about to 800 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:41,920 spew you out of my mouth because you're neither hot nor cold. 801 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:48,680 You're just lukewarm. When did we in the United States 802 00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:56,400 accept being born again but live like we're in the dark? 803 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:09,800 It was never the purpose. So for us, let's let our light 804 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:10,240 shine.