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Equality - 9/1/26 - Meadows Baptist Church Missions Conference - Bro. Gary Crisp · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to the podcast of Meadows
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  Baptist Church of Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. We're so glad you joined us
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  today. If you enjoy today's message, be
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  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
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  with your friends. Now, let's join
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  Pastor Charlie Branch with a word from
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  God.
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  Amen. I sure you enjoyed that tonight.
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  Amen. What a blessing it has already
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  been to be here this evening. Appreciate
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  you being in your place tonight. And uh
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  Sister Lindsay was talking about her mom
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  and dad leaving, fixing to head back to
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  the mission field. I do want to ask you
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  to be much in prayer for brother Keith
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  and Miss Tracy Bllelock.
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  That's her parents serving in Bulgaria.
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  And um they've been they've been serving
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  for quite some time. uh been on two
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  different fields,
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  pastored for a while, and I know this
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  about them. I talked to them just last
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  week. It's getting a little harder and
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  harder to go back every time. How many
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  grandkids they've got now? 20. 20
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  grandkids they're fixing to say goodbye
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  to have already said goodbye to some of
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  them and fixing to head back over these
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  seas and continue the work that God's
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  called them to. So you be much in prayer
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  for the Blocks as they get ready to head
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  back. And uh thank the Lord for families
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  that's willing to sacrifice.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> And uh brother Brian was mentioning
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  something about Scotland and he
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  mentioned those visas.
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  >> Brother Brian, stand up and explain
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  those visas just a moment and tell the
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  full cost of that.
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  >> So our family get a visa to get to
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  certain countries
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  and get into the country.
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  The threeear ministerial visa for my
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  family is going to run between 50 and
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  $60,000.
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  >> And that's every three years, correct?
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  >> Have to pay for those visas every three.
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  They're only good for three years. And
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  they have to pay for them. And for a
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  family of eight, it's about 50 to
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  $60,000 every three years. So it's
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  expensive, preacher. It sure is. But one
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  soul
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  >> if they have to strike up the choir one
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  time.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> I think that's well money well spent.
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  What y'all think?
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  >> Amen. Well, if that's your soul,
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  >> if that's your child or your family,
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  >> you can't put a price on that.
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  >> And I'm thankful that uh thankful
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  people's willing to pay the price to
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  >> go tell somebody about Jesus. Amen.
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  All right, take your Bibles tonight.
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  Let's go to the book back to the book of
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  2 Corinthians in chapter number eight
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  this evening. 2 Corinthians chapter
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  number eight tonight.
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  We were here last night for a little
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  while. We dealt primarily with the first
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  five verses, mainly verse number five. I
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  want to go on down a little farther
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  tonight and bring out another thought
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  out of this text this evening.
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  And we'll go ahead and begin reading
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  verse number one, 2 Corinthians chapter
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  number eight.
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  The Bible said, "Moreover, brethren, we
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  do you to wit the grace of God bestowed
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  on the churches of Macedonia,
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  how that in a great trial of affliction,
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  the abundance of their joy and their
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  deep poverty abounded under the riches
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  of their liberality.
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  For their power, I bear record. Yay. And
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  beyond their power, they were willing of
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  themselves, praying us with much
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  intreaty, that we would receive the
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  gift, and take upon us the fellowship of
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  the ministering to the saints.
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  And this they did, not as we hoped, but
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  first gave their own selves to the Lord,
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  and unto us by the will of God, in so
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  much that we desired Titus, that as he
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  had begun, so he would also finish in
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  you the same grace also. Therefore, as
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  you abound in everything, in faith and
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  utterance and knowledge, and in all
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  diligence, and in your love to us, see
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  that you abound in this grace also. I
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  speak not by commandment, but by
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  occasion of the forwardness of others,
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  and to prove the sincerity of your love.
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  For you know the grace of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ, that though he was rich, yet for
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  your sakes he became poor, that ye
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  through his poverty might be rich. And
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  herein I give my advice for you.
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  And herein I give my advice, for this is
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  expedient for you who have begun before
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  not only to do, but also to be forward a
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  year ago. Now therefore perform the
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  doing of it. That as there was a
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  readiness to will, so there may be a
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  performance also out of that which you
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  have. For if there be first a willing
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  mind, it is accepted according to that a
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  man hath, and not according to that he
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  hath not. For I mean not that other men
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  be eased and ye be burdened, but by an
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  equality, that now at this time your
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  abundance may be a supply for their
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  want, that their abundance also may be a
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  supply for your want, that there may be
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  equality. Let's pray. Father, thank you
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  so much again for the privilege you've
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  given us to be here these days. It sure
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  has been a blessing and we're grateful
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  for everything that you've done for, in,
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  and through your people. Thank you,
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  Lord, Brother Charlie, and his heart,
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  Lord, that that he has, Lord, for the
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  lost and dying world missions. Thank you
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  for this church, God, and all that
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  they're doing for the cause of Christ. I
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  thank you, Lord, for brother Lindsay and
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  his people coming over and being a help
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  to us these days. Lord, I pray, Father,
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  rich blessings upon them. Thank you for
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  these missionaries, God, that have
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  surrendered all, Lord, and sold out to
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  follow you and do what you have called
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  them to do. I ask you, Lord, to help us
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  now as we stand once again. Would you
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  please touch us aresh, Lord? Give us
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  liberty to preach. And Lord, whatever
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  you do tonight, we'll continue to thank
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  you for it, Lord, for it's in Jesus
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  precious name that we pray. And amen.
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  Back in 2 Corinthians chapter number 8,
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  again we dealt primarily the first five
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  verses last night. We come on down and
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  we continue to read and we see that Paul
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  is again reminding them of this
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  commitment that they have made a year in
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  advance, a year ago. And he's telling
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  them now to perform the doing of it.
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  You've committed to it, now do it. And
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  then he goes on and he brings up another
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  interesting point in verse number 13.
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  The Bible said, "For I mean not that
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  other men be eased and ye be burdened,
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  but by an equality."
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  Evidently, in those days there were some
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  that were heavily burdened
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  >> while others were at ease.
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  >> I think that's still true in this day. I
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  think some are heavily burdened while
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  others are at ease. May I ask you
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  personally, how heavily burdened are you
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  tonight
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  for the gospel's sake?
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  >> How heavily burdened are you tonight to
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  see someone saved by the grace of God?
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  Amen.
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  >> I do believe that we that are saved by
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  the grace of God are all enjoying the
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  blessings of God and we're grateful for
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  that. We have that peace that passes all
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  understanding. We have a hope that
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  cannot be taken away from us. We're
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  going to glory here in just a little
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  while. But while we're enjoying these
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  things from God, I do believe we have
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  some that are still heavily burdened.
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  While on the other hand, we have some
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  that are at ease.
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  It would be real good tonight if those
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  of us that are at ease
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  could take some of that burden off of
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  them that are heavily burdened that
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  there might be an equality.
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  >> That that word equality is an
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  interesting word. Back in 1964, our
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  government in introduced what they
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  called the Equal Opportunity Employment
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  Act. I don't know if you remember that
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  or not, but all that simply means is
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  that regardless of race, regardless of
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  gender, whatever it might be, everyone
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  should have the same equal opportunity
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  for employment.
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  I'm okay with that.
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  uh it also means that they should have
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  the same equal opportunity for
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  advancement in that employment.
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  >> I want to make a statement tonight and
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  see if you agree with me. Our God is an
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  equal opportunity employer.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> You say, "What do you mean, preacher?
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  God ain't no employer.
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  This is not a business." I I beg to
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  differ. That's what Jesus said it was.
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  He said, "I must be about my father's
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  what? business.
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  >> Business.
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  >> Whip are the greatest business in the
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  world tonight. Amen.
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  >> And God is a real good CEO.
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  >> I don't mean that in a negative way. I
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  don't want to take nothing away from his
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  holiness. I just say he he he does all
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  things well. Amen.
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  >> And regardless of who you are, you and I
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  have the same equal opportunity
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  to do something for God.
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  Everything with the Lord is equal. Amen.
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  There's no big eyes and there's no
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  little U's.
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  >> There's nobody that he favors more than
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  anybody else. It's it's equal. Well, let
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  me say God's also given us an equal
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  responsibility.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> I don't know. Am I hoping that you're
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  saved by the grace of God? If not, I
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  sure would like for them to have to
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  sound the horn tonight and strike up the
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  choir. Amen. Love to see you come to
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  know Christ as your personal savior
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  right here this evening. That'd be a
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  blessing.
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  >> But if you are saved and uh part of the
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  New Testament church,
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  then you have a responsibility
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  in being a part of the church.
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  At least three different times while the
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  Lord Jesus was here, he gave us what we
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  call the great commission. Have you ever
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  heard that phrase before?
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  The great comm. Now, you won't find that
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  in your Bible, at least not that term.
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  You won't find great commission.
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  >> That's been given by man. Brother
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  Charlie, I tried to research and find
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  maybe who might have coined that phrase,
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  but as far back as the 1500s
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  in different writings, that phrase has
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  been pinned down, the great commission.
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  So, they started calling it that a long,
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  long time ago,
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  >> right?
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  >> Hudson Taylor probably is the one that
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  made that phrase or that title popular.
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  He would use it everywhere that he went.
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  As a matter of fact, it was Hudson
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  Taylor said this. He said, "The great
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  commission is not a suggestion to be
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  considered. It's a command to be
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  obeyed."
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  >> Amen.
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  >> The great commission
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  >> at least three different times. You say,
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  "Well, I know it's recorded in three
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  different places, but that don't
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  necessarily mean he said it three
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  different times." I believe it does.
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  I
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  >> I believe if you look at Luke's account,
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  we'll not take time to turn back and
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  read it. I just want to try to show you
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  how important this is. In Luke's
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  account, Luke chapter number 24,
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  beginning in verse 46, we find what we
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  call the great commission
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  recorded there in Luke 24. It's where
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  the Lord said that repentance and
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  remission of sins shall be preached in
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  his ma name among all nations. If you'll
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  look at the context in Luke 24 of when
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  and where the Lord Jesus said that it's
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  right after Calvary, it's right after
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  resurrection
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  and they're still in Jerusalem when he
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  says that.
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  >> Okay, that's probably the first time
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  Jesus mentioned about going into all the
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  world. The second time probably is in
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  Matthew's account. Matthew
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  in chapter 28 verse number 19 it's where
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  it said go ye therefore and teach all
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  nations
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  in Matthew's account if you look at the
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  context in chapter 28 of Matthew it's
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  clear they're on a mountain in Galilee
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  how many of you know that that Galilee
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  and Jerusalem's a long ways apart
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  that's probably the second time Jesus
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  gave us the great commission the third
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  time is Acts chapter number one. We know
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  clearly where they were then. They're on
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  a mount called Olivet and Jesus is
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  fixing to ascend back into heaven. And
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  just before he ascends, he's got
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  something to say. Acts 1:8 said, "But
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  you shall receive power after that the
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  Holy Ghost has come upon you, and you
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  shall be witnesses unto me both in
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  Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, and the
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  uttermost part of the earth." That's at
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  least three different occasions that
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  Jesus clearly commanded the church to
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  take the gospel into the world.
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  >> We find it recorded in Mark. We just
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  cannot pinpoint where when it was said.
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  It's at least three different times.
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  He's pretty serious about it.
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  >> Would you agree with that?
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  >> I think if he said it one time, it'd
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  been enough.
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  >> Sure.
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  >> But at least three different times,
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  Jesus clearly instructed us of what to
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  do. So, if you're part of a New
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  Testament church, and I'm hoping that
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  you are, then you have a responsibility
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  as a church member to take the gospel to
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  the uttermost parts.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> We understand everybody's not going to
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  go. Everybody's not going to sell their
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  home. Everybody's not going to kiss mom
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  and daddy goodbye and and and move
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  halfway around the world to tell
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  somebody about Jesus. But just because
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  you're not the one going does not
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  exclude you from being responsible
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  >> that they might receive the gospel.
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  >> So when the Lord gave us a task to carry
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  out, then that makes the responsibility
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  of that task equal.
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  >> I'm as responsible for Scotland as the
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  Stout family is.
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  >> Would you agree? Amen.
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  >> I'm as responsible for South Dakota and
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  Nebraska as brother Jonathan, his dear
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  family is. Would you agree?
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  >> I'm responsible to see to it that the
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  Chinese get the gospel.
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  >> That's the uttermost part.
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  >> I'm responsible to see that every
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  country in the on the continent of
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  Africa gets the gospel.
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  >> The responsibility
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  it's equal.
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  Well, if the Lord's going to give us
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  something to do, give us a
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  responsibility to carry out, then I
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  believe that he gives us everything that
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  we need to get the job done.
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  >> Sure.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> It's been a long time since Jesus stood
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  on the mount called it
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  >> and it's been a long time since he spoke
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  those words. Lots of things have
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  changed. Technology has boomed since
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  those days. Would you agree?
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  >> Yes.
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  >> I'm going to be honest with you. It's
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  got a lot of bad things, I guess we
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  could say. And uh uh but I'm pretty well
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  thankful for the technology that we
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  have.
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  >> Yes.
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  >> Amen. It It's really a blessing. I'm
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  thankful for the radios that we can send
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  out signals across the world and we can
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  get the gospel out that way. Sure.
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  >> Amen. I I'll be honest and
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  got to be careful how I say it. But I
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  I'm thankful for the internet.
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  >> Amen. We can preach against it, but we
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  can also use it, I believe. Can we not?
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  >> I'm thankful for that.
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  >> When the Blocks do get back over yonder
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  and they can just click a button or two
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  on a phone and they can see them grandb
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  babies halfway around the world. I I
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  like that. Don't you? I'm thankful for
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  that kind of technology. But we ain't
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  always had that technology,
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  >> but we've always had the resources that
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  we need to get the job done.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Amen. I'm not talking about the airways,
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  and I'm not talking about the worldwide
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  web, and I'm not talking about airplanes
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  and automobiles. I SAY WE'VE ALWAYS had
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  the resources that we need to get the
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  gospel to the world.
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  >> What resources have we always had? Well,
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  we've had God's word. Amen. Once they
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  finished pinning it down, God signed it
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  and sealed it. Amen. And we have the
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  word OF GOD. AND THAT'S WHAT THIS WORLD
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  is in need of. And isn't it a blessing
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  that we all can have a copy of it?
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  >> Yes.
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  >> Amen. It's not just for the priest. It's
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  not just for the preacher. It's for a
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  child of God. It's for everybody.
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  >> Amen. You can sit down and read it
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  anytime you want to. Isn't that a
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  blessing? Yeah.
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  >> Equal.
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  >> Amen. We've got the word of God. I'll
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  say this. Ain't you glad we can pray?
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  >> We all have equal access.
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  >> You'll never reach this world without
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  prayer. I promise you that.
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  >> Embound said prayer and missions bosom
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  companions. They can't be separated.
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  >> We got to pray.
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  >> It don't cost you a dime to pray. Might
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  cost you some time, but not a dime.
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  Amen.
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  >> Amen. We've got we've got access to the
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  throne room. Amen.
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  I don't know how close you are to any
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  high political power. Maybe you know the
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  governor. Maybe you're close companions
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  with him. I don't know about that or
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  not. If you do, what a blessing. You can
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  call the governor. He's so busy. He
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  ain't got time for you. Even if you do
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  know him.
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  >> Amen. And the president. Any of you know
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  him personally?
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  I don't think any of us,
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  he probably don't know us anyway. Amen.
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  And if we did, what if we could get a
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  hold of old Trump?
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  What would you like to ask?
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  What would you like to tell him? I'm
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  sure some of you like to tell him
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  something. Amen.
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  >> And if you could get a hold of him, let
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  me ask you, what could he do for you?
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  >> He might pay a bill for you, but he
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  ain't interested. He ain't got time to
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  pay your bills.
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  >> Amen. He He too busy trying to worry
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  about the US deficit. Somebody help me
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  right there.
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  >> Big deal. If you can talk to the
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  president, ain't going to do you much
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  good.
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  >> But I got news anytime.
• 19:46
  >> Yeah.
• 19:48
  >> Any moment. All we got to do is call on
• 19:52
  him.
• 19:53
  >> That's right.
• 19:54
  >> Who's him? Oh, he's so much higher than
• 19:57
  the president. AMEN. HAS A WHOLE LOT
• 20:00
  MORE POWER THAN THE PRESIDENT. ABLE TO
• 20:03
  DO FAR exceedingly abundantly ABOVE ALL
• 20:06
  THAT ONE MIGHT THINK OR EVEN ASK. MY
• 20:08
  GOD, WE CAN TALK TO HIM AT ANY TIME.
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  WHAT A PRIVILEGE we have to pray.
• 20:14
  >> Amen.
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  >> I got to ask y'all a question. Y'all
• 20:17
  think it works? Y'all be real with me a
• 20:19
  moment.
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  >> Do we really believe prayer works?
• 20:25
  >> If we do, why don't we do more of it?
• 20:27
  Amen.
• 20:29
  >> I mean, if we really believe that God's
• 20:32
  in control, and and he told us that we
• 20:34
  could come boldly before the throne of
• 20:37
  grace, that we may obtain mercy, find
• 20:39
  grace to help the time of need. If we
• 20:41
  really can do that, and he can really
• 20:43
  help us, WHY DON'T WE do more of that?
• 20:47
  >> You reckon missionaries pray?
• 20:52
  >> I I'd say most of them do.
• 20:55
  >> Amen. and reckon a church prays. We
• 20:58
  better. Let me tell you a quick story
• 21:00
  and I'm I'll hurry. It's about 5 to 8
• 21:03
  y'all. Okay.
• 21:05
  Just just checking.
• 21:09
  Brother Stout like this. He probably
• 21:11
  heard it several years ago. There was a
• 21:13
  missionary by the name of Robert
• 21:15
  Moffett.
• 21:17
  Robert Moffet had been called to the
• 21:19
  continent of Africa.
• 21:21
  He'd already been there for a little
• 21:23
  while and became overwhelmed with the
• 21:26
  task at hand.
• 21:29
  He made a trip back home to Scotland.
• 21:32
  And when he arrived back in Scotland, he
• 21:34
  had one goal, one purpose. He's going to
• 21:37
  go try to find some more missionaries,
• 21:40
  recruit some more young men to go back
• 21:42
  to Africa, help him take the gospel. He
• 21:45
  would go into church services and he
• 21:47
  would look out in the congregation. and
• 21:49
  he'd see if there's any potential
• 21:50
  missionaries, prospects, young men. He'd
• 21:53
  look over the crowd and he'd pick out a
• 21:55
  young man. He'd say, "Right there might
• 21:57
  be one."
• 21:58
  Everywhere Robert Moffett would go, he
• 22:00
  would make the same statement over and
• 22:03
  over and over. Here's what he would say.
• 22:05
  Every morning I get up over in Africa, I
• 22:08
  look out over the horizon, I see the
• 22:10
  smoke rise from a thousand villages
• 22:12
  that's never heard the name Jesus. He'd
• 22:15
  say that everywhere he went. It was one
• 22:18
  evening service that he had an
• 22:19
  opportunity to go into a church and his
• 22:22
  goal was to try to find some
• 22:23
  missionaries. And he went into the
• 22:26
  sanctuary that night and he looked out
• 22:28
  over the congregation. Wasn't a big
• 22:29
  crowd at all. And all there was seated
• 22:31
  in the congregation was some women.
• 22:35
  There was no potential missionary in the
• 22:38
  mind of Robert Moffett in the sanctuary.
• 22:42
  He said he almost ran out to see if he
• 22:44
  could find another church close by that
• 22:46
  might be meeting with a potential
• 22:48
  missionary. But instead, God put it on
• 22:50
  his heart to get up in front of those
• 22:52
  women and and share his heart. He got up
• 22:55
  in front of those women just like he
• 22:57
  always did. He said, "Every morning I
• 22:59
  get up, I look out over the horizon and
• 23:00
  I see the smoke rise from a thousand
• 23:03
  villages that's never heard the name
• 23:04
  Jesus." Little did brother Moffett know
• 23:08
  that there was a young man in the
• 23:09
  building. He just wasn't seated in the
• 23:11
  sanctuary. He was sitting in the organ
• 23:14
  chamber. His job was to pump air into
• 23:16
  that old organ as the ladies would play
• 23:19
  play and sing. And he stayed in the
• 23:20
  organ chamber and listened to the
• 23:22
  missionary.
• 23:24
  God smoked that young man's heart. After
• 23:28
  a period of time, that young man ends up
• 23:31
  heading to Africa to take the gospel of
• 23:34
  Christ. You've probably heard that name
• 23:37
  before. As a matter of fact, you've done
• 23:39
  heard it tonight. That young man's name
• 23:41
  was David Livingston.
• 23:44
  Dr. Livingston. When Dr. Livingston
• 23:47
  arrived in Africa, he wasn't welcomed
• 23:50
  and he really wasn't wanted. And some
• 23:53
  places he would go into was more
• 23:55
  dangerous than others. And he went into
• 23:57
  this one area. And the tribe that was
• 24:00
  over that area despised the white man.
• 24:05
  Did not want him there. And so word got
• 24:08
  to David Livingston that they were going
• 24:11
  to try to take the life of Dr.
• 24:14
  Livingston and a couple others that was
• 24:16
  with him.
• 24:18
  Matter of fact, the plan was revealed to
• 24:21
  David Livingston that on a certain night
• 24:23
  after sunset,
• 24:25
  this tribal leader and his men were
• 24:27
  going to sneak in under the cover of
• 24:29
  darkness and try to take his life. David
• 24:32
  Livingston kept a journal and he made an
• 24:35
  entry in his journal that evening.
• 24:37
  Here's what he wrote. He said, "It is
• 24:39
  evening now. I feel much turmoil and
• 24:43
  fear in the prospect of having all of my
• 24:46
  plans knocked in the head by these
• 24:48
  savages who were just now outside the
• 24:51
  camp." They said you could tell he was
• 24:54
  scared. The words, the letters was being
• 24:57
  written by a shaking hand, but he
• 25:00
  continued to write. Here's what he wrote
• 25:02
  next. He said, "But Jesus said, all
• 25:04
  powers given unto heaven, given unto me
• 25:07
  in heaven and earth, and lo, I am with
• 25:09
  you always, even to the ends of the
• 25:11
  earth." He said this, "This is the word
• 25:14
  of a gentleman of most strict and sacred
• 25:17
  honor." So that's the end of my fear. I
• 25:20
  feel quite calm now.
• 25:23
  The letters began to straighten up as he
• 25:25
  wrote that.
• 25:27
  They waited and they waited and they
• 25:30
  waited. All night long they waited. No
• 25:33
  sleep that night. Nothing happened. He
• 25:37
  wrote it off as the Lord and it was a
• 25:41
  little while later. David Livingston
• 25:44
  came in contact with that very tribal
• 25:47
  leader.
• 25:48
  As a matter of fact, if you'll study
• 25:50
  history, this is pretty interesting. If
• 25:52
  you'll study history, David Livingston's
• 25:55
  only been given credit of winning one
• 25:57
  man to the Lord.
• 25:59
  Just one.
• 26:01
  I brother Brian, I searched and I've
• 26:03
  looked and that's all I can find. Just
• 26:05
  one convert. Guess who it was? That
• 26:09
  tribal leader. That tribal leader in
• 26:12
  turn led all of his people to the saving
• 26:16
  knowledge of Jesus Christ.
• 26:18
  Him and that tribal leader became close
• 26:20
  friends.
• 26:22
  They sat down and they began to discuss
• 26:23
  some things over a period of time and
• 26:26
  the subject got brought up when David
• 26:28
  first came into that area. David asked
• 26:31
  him a question. He said, 'I hear when we
• 26:32
  got here, you didn't want us here.' And
• 26:35
  he said, no, we didn't want you here. He
• 26:37
  said, I even heard that you had plans to
• 26:39
  sneak in under the cover of darkness and
• 26:41
  take our life. He said, we did. He said,
• 26:43
  I've been wanting to ask you, why didn't
• 26:45
  you? The tribal leader testified this.
• 26:48
  He said, "We showed up at your camp that
• 26:50
  night with the intent of sneaking in and
• 26:53
  taking your life." He said, "But when we
• 26:56
  got there, there were 47 armed soldiers
• 27:01
  standing guard with swords drawn." That
• 27:05
  tribal leader said, "I've been wanting
• 27:06
  to ask you about them soldiers and where
• 27:08
  they went." David Livingston said, "We
• 27:11
  know nothing about soldiers. We don't
• 27:13
  have swords." And the tribal leader
• 27:15
  said, 'We know what we saw and we even
• 27:18
  counted them. There was 47 soldiers. He
• 27:22
  wrote that off as the Lord. And it was.
• 27:25
  Some time went by and David Livingston
• 27:27
  had a whole lot of health issues.
• 27:28
  Battled malaria on numerous occasions
• 27:31
  and it took a toll on his body and his
• 27:33
  heart. As a matter of fact, when David
• 27:35
  Livingston dies, he died in Africa. And
• 27:39
  those Africans cut his chest open,
• 27:41
  pulled out his heart, sent his body back
• 27:44
  to Scotland, said, "You can have his
• 27:46
  body, but his heart belongs in Africa."
• 27:53
  David Livingston had to go back home for
• 27:55
  some medical purposes. While he's back
• 27:57
  home, he went into one of the churches
• 27:58
  that supported him. And he shared what
• 28:00
  had been going on and what had happened.
• 28:02
  And he told the story that night of how
• 28:05
  those savages was going to sneak in
• 28:08
  under the cover of darkness. How he ends
• 28:10
  up leading that tribal leader to the
• 28:11
  Lord. They became close friends and even
• 28:13
  told the conversation that he had with
• 28:15
  the tribal leader about those soldiers
• 28:18
  standing guard.
• 28:21
  Soon as he got through, there was a
• 28:22
  young man in the congregation come
• 28:23
  running up to David Livingston. had a
• 28:25
  prayer journal in his hand. He said,
• 28:27
  "Dr. Livingston, I've got to ask you a
• 28:29
  question." He said, "That night that
• 28:32
  those savages was going to sneak in
• 28:33
  under the cover of darkness and try to
• 28:35
  take your life." He said, "Would that
• 28:37
  have happened to on January the 14th,
• 28:40
  the year was 1856?"
• 28:43
  David Livingston had to take a step back
• 28:45
  for a moment and think, but then he
• 28:47
  concluded. He said, "Yes, that's exactly
• 28:50
  the night that it was. How would you
• 28:53
  know that?" and trembling and tears
• 28:56
  running down his cheek, he pointed to a
• 28:58
  page in his prayer journal. He said,
• 29:00
  "Dr. Livingston, I've got recorded in my
• 29:02
  prayer journal on the evening of January
• 29:04
  the 14th that 47 men met at church that
• 29:07
  night to pray specifically for you and
• 29:10
  your safety.
• 29:12
  >> Does prayer really work?"
• 29:15
  >> Say, "Preacher, I don't believe that.
• 29:17
  It's for believers only."
• 29:19
  >> Amen.
• 29:20
  >> Hey, that ain't nothing for my God. We
• 29:23
  have access to the throne room.
• 29:28
  >> We've got the word of God. We've got
• 29:30
  prayer. And we've got the Holy Ghost.
• 29:34
  >> The Holy Ghost is so important in
• 29:37
  reaching the world with the gospel that
• 29:39
  even though Jesus wanted them to go to
• 29:41
  the uttermost, he told them, he said,
• 29:44
  "Tarry in Jerusalem. Don't go anywhere
• 29:49
  until the promise comes. Don't go
• 29:51
  anywhere. Don't do anything until the
• 29:54
  power comes.
• 29:56
  >> What was the power? What was the
• 29:58
  promise? It's the Holy Ghost.
• 30:00
  >> The Holy Ghost. Acts one, he said, "Wait
• 30:03
  in Jerusalem." And then Acts two, guess
• 30:06
  what? The promise comes. The power
• 30:09
  comes. It's the Holy Ghost. My, there's
• 30:12
  so much confusion about the Holy Ghost.
• 30:15
  >> Can I help you real quickly? The Holy
• 30:17
  Ghost was not sent to make me and you
• 30:20
  feel good.
• 30:21
  The Holy Ghost job is not to make
• 30:24
  goosebumps pop up on our neck. And the
• 30:26
  Holy Ghost is not to pump tears down our
• 30:29
  cheek. Let me tell you what the Holy
• 30:31
  Ghost is for. IT'S TO EMPOWER THE CHURCH
• 30:34
  TO BE WITNESSES UNTO HIM.
• 30:38
  >> A lot of things are being done in the
• 30:39
  name of the Holy Ghost.
• 30:42
  >> Let me tell you how you can find out if
• 30:43
  it's the Holy Ghost or not. Is Jesus
• 30:46
  being witnessed?
• 30:49
  >> Is it pointing to him? If it's not
• 30:51
  pointing to Jesus, I have a doubt it's
• 30:53
  the Holy Ghost.
• 30:54
  >> If it's pointing to a man and making a
• 30:56
  man look good, mark her down. Ain't the
• 30:58
  Holy Ghost.
• 31:00
  >> No. No. Holy Ghost is our power to take
• 31:03
  the gospel to the uttermost.
• 31:05
  >> Amen. We've got the resources. You have
• 31:08
  the same access to these as any of us
• 31:10
  do.
• 31:11
  >> That's right.
• 31:13
  >> Responsibility is equal. The resources
• 31:15
  are equal. I've got two more and it's
• 31:17
  five after y'all. Okay.
• 31:21
  I believe the rewards be equal.
• 31:24
  What do y'all think? I I can only
• 31:27
  imagine.
• 31:30
  I don't know it all about the
• 31:33
  future judgments. And
• 31:37
  what what I do know enough scare me a
• 31:39
  little bit. You know, I know this.
• 31:41
  There's going to be one called the great
• 31:42
  white throne judgment. And and I know
• 31:45
  this. I think we'll be there, but I
• 31:48
  don't think I'll be judged. What y'all
• 31:50
  think?
• 31:51
  >> Amen. Amen.
• 31:54
  There's another judgment.
• 31:56
  The judgment seat of Christ.
• 31:59
  We'll be there for sure.
• 32:02
  >> And our our works are going to be tried
• 32:07
  yet is by fire, right?
• 32:10
  >> I'm nervous about that one. Can I be
• 32:13
  honest? I really am.
• 32:16
  And I do believe that according to the
• 32:18
  scriptures, there's rewards
• 32:21
  that we can gain.
• 32:24
  >> Maybe y'all are a lot smarter than me
• 32:26
  and that wouldn't be much. But but from
• 32:29
  what I understand, I think there's five
• 32:31
  different crowns we can win.
• 32:34
  And I'm gonna be honest with you, and
• 32:36
  I'm I don't want to say this arrogantly
• 32:38
  by no means, but I sure want to win a
• 32:40
  crown.
• 32:42
  >> I really do.
• 32:44
  Not not so I can put it on and parade
• 32:47
  around heaven and say, "Look what I
• 32:50
  did." No. No. Matter of fact, if we do
• 32:53
  win a crown, it it won't even go on our
• 32:55
  heads.
• 32:57
  >> No. No. If we win a crown, you know what
• 33:00
  we're going to get to do? We're going to
• 33:02
  get to cast them at his feet.
• 33:06
  >> He's going to be crowned with many
• 33:07
  crowns. And there's only going to be one
• 33:09
  worthy to be crowned when we get on the
• 33:12
  other side. And it's not going to be me
• 33:14
  and you.
• 33:15
  >> But I'll be honest with you, I don't
• 33:16
  want to stand around and watch everybody
• 33:18
  else casting crowns at his feet as good
• 33:20
  as he's been to me.
• 33:22
  >> The way he's blessed me, the way he's
• 33:24
  helped me, the way he's saved me, I WANT
• 33:26
  TO HAVE SOMETHING. I WANT TO HAVE
• 33:28
  SOMETHING to cast at his feet.
• 33:30
  >> I hope I have a reward
• 33:32
  >> or two. You can only imagine how it's
• 33:35
  going to be for some of these
• 33:36
  missionaries.
• 33:39
  I mentioned David Livingston.
• 33:42
  when you get a chance, I don't know how
• 33:43
  much reading you do, or when you get a
• 33:46
  chance, why don't you find you a story
• 33:48
  or two about William Kerry?
• 33:52
  Or better yet, how about Adinum Judson?
• 33:55
  I don't know if you ever heard some of
• 33:56
  those names. Adam Judson was the first
• 33:59
  American missionary that left American
• 34:02
  soil and served on foreign soil. First
• 34:06
  one. Ah, man. If I get telling stories,
• 34:08
  we'll be here till 9:00.
• 34:10
  Adam Judson left the states as a
• 34:13
  congregationalist missionary
• 34:16
  sent out of a congregationalist church
• 34:18
  to preach a congregationalist doctrine.
• 34:21
  They believed in infant baptism.
• 34:24
  But when he left the states, he's going
• 34:26
  to have a fourmonth boat ride from here
• 34:30
  to India. He's initially going to go to
• 34:32
  India. That's where he thought he was
• 34:34
  going to go serve. He gets to India, the
• 34:36
  door's going to be closed. He's going to
• 34:38
  end up in Burma. Long story short, but
• 34:41
  when he gets to India, he expects to get
• 34:44
  to work with William Kerry. William
• 34:46
  Kerry is not congregationalist. He's
• 34:48
  Baptist. He believes in baptism by
• 34:52
  submersion.
• 34:54
  >> He thinks they're going to be a problem
• 34:55
  when we get there. I better know why we
• 34:58
  believe in infant baptism. So, for four
• 35:01
  months on the boat ride, all he studies
• 35:04
  is the word of God about baptism.
• 35:08
  How many of you know if you'll just
• 35:09
  study the word of God, it clears up a
• 35:11
  whole lot of misunderstandings about
• 35:13
  doctrine?
• 35:14
  >> Amen. Leave out all the outside
• 35:16
  influence and just look at the
• 35:18
  scripture.
• 35:19
  >> By the time he gets to India, guess
• 35:20
  what? He no longer believes in infant
• 35:22
  baptism.
• 35:23
  >> Right.
• 35:24
  >> Amen.
• 35:25
  >> That's right.
• 35:26
  >> He ends up getting one of William K's
• 35:27
  associates to baptize him and his wife.
• 35:30
  When they get to India, they become
• 35:31
  Baptists. Yeah,
• 35:34
  >> Luther Rice was another missionary that
• 35:36
  was going with him. They get there and
• 35:38
  they're supposed to be starting
• 35:40
  congregationalist churches. They're
• 35:42
  supposed to be preaching a
• 35:43
  congregationalist doctrine. They're
• 35:44
  being supported by congregationalist
• 35:46
  churches. What are we going to do? We're
• 35:47
  going to resign.
• 35:50
  We're going to send word back that we
• 35:51
  don't want their support. We're going to
• 35:53
  be preaching a Baptist doctrine. We're
• 35:54
  going to be preaching about submersion
• 35:57
  and we're going to
• 35:59
  >> start Baptist churches. Yeah.
• 36:01
  >> Luther Rice goes back to the States and
• 36:03
  starts going up and down the East Coast
• 36:05
  in Baptist churches preaching missions
• 36:08
  and trying to gain support for a Baptist
• 36:11
  missionary.
• 36:13
  >> Adaram Judson's going to spend over six
• 36:16
  years in Burma before there's one
• 36:19
  convert.
• 36:20
  He's going to suffer greatly. He'll
• 36:23
  spend at least two years in a prison
• 36:26
  being abused and and treated and
• 36:28
  tortured. Unbelievably,
• 36:31
  can you imagine how the judgment seat's
• 36:33
  going to be for somebody like Anan
• 36:36
  Judson?
• 36:37
  He translated the Bible into the Burmese
• 36:40
  language and they're still using that
• 36:43
  Bible today.
• 36:46
  >> Thousands have become to know Christ
• 36:48
  through the sacrifice that I am Judson.
• 36:53
  >> I just wonder how judgment day is going
• 36:54
  to be for some of that crowd. Yeah.
• 36:57
  >> But then I thought about this. What's
• 36:59
  judgment day going to be like for us?
• 37:04
  >> Well, preacher, I've I've not been to
• 37:06
  Burma. You don't have to.
• 37:09
  I'm not going to India. You don't have
• 37:11
  to.
• 37:12
  Preacher, I've not even been called into
• 37:14
  missions. You don't have to be. You be
• 37:17
  faithful and do exactly what God wants
• 37:19
  you to do where you are. And I promise
• 37:21
  you this, the rewards will be just as
• 37:23
  equal for you as they will for anybody
• 37:25
  else.
• 37:26
  God, help me to just be faithful where
• 37:28
  I'm planted.
• 37:30
  >> Help me, Lord, just do what you want me
• 37:31
  to do where I am.
• 37:34
  >> Rewards are equal.
• 37:37
  >> I got one more.
• 37:41
  Probably I'll quit, but uh
• 37:44
  I think I better share it with you. I'm
• 37:46
  a little nervous, though.
• 37:48
  I like y'all pretty good. I hope the
• 37:51
  feeling's mutual.
• 37:53
  May not be after this one though.
• 37:58
  Responsibility is equal.
• 38:00
  Resources are equal. Rewards are equal.
• 38:06
  All of that's equal. Don't you guess the
• 38:08
  requirements ought to be equal.
• 38:14
  I' I've not asked brother Charlie
• 38:15
  specifically on how many missionaries
• 38:17
  y'all support.
• 38:23
  But but I need to ask y'all this. Y'all
• 38:25
  wouldn't just take on anybody, would
• 38:26
  you? I mean, just somebody comes in here
• 38:29
  and says they're a missionary, you ain't
• 38:30
  going to jump on board just anybody,
• 38:32
  will you? I mean, there's there's
• 38:34
  probably some things that you would
• 38:36
  expect. You want them to preach the
• 38:37
  right doctrine.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> We we ain't going to support
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  congregationalist missionaries, are we?
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  >> So, we got some requirements.
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  >> Amen.
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  Not even thinking about doctrine. I
• 38:50
  think there's some other requirements
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  that we have of our missionaries.
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  Some of them are unspoken.
• 38:57
  Some of them are unwritten, but yet
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  they're still there. Let me throw out a
• 39:02
  couple real quickly and see what y'all
• 39:04
  think. First of all, would not we
• 39:07
  require a missionary to be faithful?
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  >> I mean, I don't know. It seems like we
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  hold them to a high standard.
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  And I guess rightfully so. Is that fair?
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  >> These missionaries that are here, they
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  know that.
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  >> They know that their children's living
• 39:26
  in a bubble
• 39:28
  >> and everybody's watching them. Amen.
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  They know their families are on display
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  everywhere they go and people's going to
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  pick them apart. They know that.
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  >> Is that not right?
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  >> They know that. There's just some
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  requirements that churches have of
• 39:44
  missionaries. And one of those
• 39:46
  requirements would be that they at least
• 39:48
  be faithful. I'm not going to support a
• 39:50
  missionary that don't go to church all
• 39:51
  the time. What about y'all?
• 39:53
  >> Right?
• 39:54
  >> I mean, at least get out of bed on
• 39:56
  Sunday morning, go to the house of God,
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  EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT PRESENTING NOWHERE,
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  GO TO CHURCH.
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  >> AMEN. That's a pretty well given, is it
• 40:04
  not?
• 40:05
  >> Well, if we're going to expect and
• 40:07
  require missionaries TO BE FAITHFUL, WHY
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  DON'T WE HAVE TO BE FAITHFUL?
• 40:12
  >> AMEN. Let me just put it this way. Don't
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  be the one to bring up the motion to
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  drop a missionary for not BEING FAITHFUL
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  WHEN YOU ONLY come to church every now
• 40:22
  and then.
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  >> Amen. It ought to be equal.
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  >> Sure.
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  >> We expect them to be faithful. That's a
• 40:31
  pretty well easy one there.
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  But I think also we expect them to be
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  fruitful.
• 40:38
  >> Yes.
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  >> I think I mentioned this. When you
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  support a missionary, it's an
• 40:43
  investment.
• 40:44
  >> Oh, yeah.
• 40:45
  >> Is it not? It's an investment. And if
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  you're going to make an investment, you
• 40:50
  hope to have a return on that
• 40:51
  investment.
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  >> Paul was writing to the church at
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  Philippi. I think I mentioned this
• 40:56
  Sunday. At one time, the church of
• 40:58
  Philippi is the only one that's helping
• 41:00
  him financially, and he's thanking them
• 41:02
  for it. But he says this, "It's not that
• 41:05
  I desire a gift, but that fruit might be
• 41:08
  added to your account.
• 41:10
  We want fruit added to our account.
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  >> Preachers doesn't say he's going to take
• 41:15
  on these two missionary families. He's
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  going to be making an investment. He
• 41:19
  expects them to be fruitful.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Well, let's look at this. Fruitful.
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  What's that mean? Well, let me clarify.
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  Some missionaries are going to have the
• 41:33
  opportunity to write back some prayer
• 41:35
  letters and they're going to get to tell
• 41:37
  you that hundreds have come to Christ.
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  >> I think that's pretty fruitful. What do
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  y'all think?
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  >> Amen. I like to support a missionary
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  that's leading hundreds to the Lord,
• 41:50
  writing back every every three months
• 41:52
  and said we've got another 240. The next
• 41:55
  three months there's another 175. That's
• 41:58
  a ble man. That's fruit right there.
• 42:01
  >> But what about and I don't want to pick
• 42:02
  on brother Brian, but he knows this. But
• 42:05
  what about brother Stout? He's going
• 42:06
  over to Scotland.
• 42:08
  And I'm just going to go ahead and tell
• 42:09
  you, you're probably not going to get to
• 42:11
  read no prayer letter. Now, I'm not
• 42:13
  saying God's not able, Lord.
• 42:15
  >> I know you can. And I hope it happens,
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  but there's a chance he's not going to
• 42:19
  get to write no prayer letters that says
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  we've seen 120 saved since our last
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  prayer letter. I doubt that's going to
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  happen.
• 42:27
  It's probably not going to be real good
• 42:29
  out where you're going. At least not
• 42:31
  hundreds.
• 42:32
  >> I hope so. Please don't get me wrong. I
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  hope so. And I know God can.
• 42:38
  >> But But what if Brother Stout gets over
• 42:40
  there and he he's wrote back a year, AT
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  LEAST FOUR LETTERS OVER A YEAR, AND HE'S
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  NOT GOT TO TELL YOU ABOUT ONE PERSON
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  COMING TO GOD.
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  >> WELL, I don't guess we need to support
• 42:52
  him. That's not no fruit. Hang on.
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  Hang on.
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  I I believe I believe the fruit's looked
• 43:01
  at in different ways than way we look at
• 43:04
  fruit.
• 43:06
  >> I I think if brother Stout's over there
• 43:08
  just preaching the gospel and letting
• 43:10
  him spit in his face and laugh at him
• 43:12
  and mock at him, I still think that's
• 43:13
  pretty good fruit right there.
• 43:16
  >> Amen.
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  >> We expect them to be fruitful. They may
• 43:21
  not win a whole bunch to God, BUT AT
• 43:23
  LEAST TRY.
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  YEAH,
• 43:26
  >> AT LEAST TRY.
• 43:28
  >> YES.
• 43:30
  >> WELL, I guess you know where we headed,
• 43:33
  don't you?
• 43:36
  >> Don't be the one to make a motion to
• 43:38
  drop a missionary for not being fruitful
• 43:40
  when you hadn't passed out a gospel
• 43:42
  track in six months.
• 43:46
  >> Amen.
• 43:47
  >> You may not be able to win a bunch to
• 43:49
  God, but at least try.
• 43:51
  >> YES.
• 43:52
  >> WE EXPECT THEM TO TRY.
• 43:53
  >> THAT'S RIGHT. WHY AIN'T YOU TRYING?
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  WE WON'T EVEN GO ACROSS THE STREET, MUCH
• 43:59
  LESS ACROSS THE SEAS. WE WON'T EVEN
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  KNOCK ON A NEIGHBOR'S DOOR THAT WE'VE
• 44:03
  KNOWN ALL OF OUR LIFE, MUCH LESS GO INTO
• 44:06
  COMMUNITY THAT DON'T WANT US THERE.
• 44:08
  >> RIGHT.
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  >> IT OUGHT TO BE EQUAL. IF WE EXPECT THEM
• 44:12
  TO TRY TO WIN SOMEBODY TO GOD, SHOULDN'T
• 44:15
  WE TRY?
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  >> EQUALITY.
• 44:23
  Y'all okay?
• 44:28
  >> Well,
• 44:29
  we expect them to be faithful.
• 44:32
  We expect them to be fruitful.
• 44:35
  And we ain't going to talk about this
• 44:36
  one much, but I'm going to bring it up
• 44:38
  anyhow. We expect them to forfeit some
• 44:41
  things.
• 44:44
  >> We do.
• 44:46
  >> We won't talk about it much, but but
• 44:48
  it's there.
• 44:49
  >> Yeah,
• 44:50
  >> it's there.
• 44:53
  They're already
• 44:55
  I I done heard them yesterday. We was
• 44:57
  talking yesterday, last night. They done
• 45:00
  sold their house. Brother Brian, y'all
• 45:02
  y'all got a home here still? Nope. No
• 45:04
  home here.
• 45:07
  They done forfeited a home in the
• 45:09
  States.
• 45:11
  A pretty big forfeit right there, is it
• 45:13
  not? They've been living in a camper and
• 45:17
  they've been living in a red van with a
• 45:18
  trailer pulling behind them.
• 45:21
  Amen.
• 45:23
  Pretty big forfeit right there.
• 45:25
  >> Yeah.
• 45:26
  >> And then then they going to go they
• 45:29
  going to go out west and it's that's
• 45:31
  about a foreign field over the out there
• 45:33
  and they going to go to Scotland and
• 45:36
  they ain't going to be a Walmart
• 45:37
  everywhere and ain't going to have all
• 45:39
  this fancy stuff that where she used to
• 45:41
  and they given up quite a bit.
• 45:45
  you know, and and we expect that.
• 45:48
  We expect them to give and we even take
• 45:51
  it to another level.
• 45:53
  I just know we do.
• 45:57
  Let me tell you a story. I don't mean to
• 45:59
  be all stories, but I pastored for 17
• 46:03
  years.
• 46:04
  And the last 10 years, I pastored my
• 46:07
  wife's home church where she grew up.
• 46:09
  It's a good church. It really was. and
• 46:12
  had some good men. Had a good missions
• 46:16
  program.
• 46:17
  Brother Todd, I don't know if it was a
• 46:19
  Wednesday night or a Sunday night. We
• 46:22
  was having a missionary come
• 46:26
  and uh Brother Todd, Miss Abby went to
• 46:30
  school out there at that church. We out
• 46:31
  in the middle of nowhere, we miss Abby.
• 46:34
  You don't just happen to drive by the
• 46:37
  church I pastor. You just don't. It's a
• 46:38
  dead end right up the road. and we we
• 46:41
  way out in the middle nowhere.
• 46:43
  And so that sun, I believe Sunday
• 46:45
  evening, me and some of my men standing
• 46:47
  on the front porch fellowshipping before
• 46:50
  service and we got a missionary coming.
• 46:54
  We wasn't smoking, we just
• 46:56
  fellowshipping, I promise.
• 47:00
  And about that time, the porch is right
• 47:03
  on the side of the road. The parking
• 47:04
  lot's beside the church.
• 47:07
  And so a a nice
• 47:10
  y'all ready? A real nice vehicle went in
• 47:14
  front of the church and pulled in our
• 47:15
  parking lot. Is a nice nicer than
• 47:19
  anything that was already sitting in her
• 47:21
  parking lot. Had an out ofstate tag on
• 47:24
  it. Is that the missionary?
• 47:29
  Which confirmed when six kids crawled
• 47:31
  out. No, I'm just kidding. I don't
• 47:33
  remember how many there was.
• 47:36
  But sure enough, it's the missionary
• 47:38
  family
• 47:40
  driving a nice,
• 47:42
  real nice vehicle.
• 47:45
  One of my men, one of my best men, he
• 47:49
  made a statement. It just come out.
• 47:53
  He said, "Man, if he CAN AFFORD TO DRIVE
• 47:55
  OUT, HE DON'T NEED OUR SUPPORT."
• 47:59
  That's what he said.
• 48:02
  I thought, "Wait a minute. What? What?
• 48:04
  What's he supposed to drive? Oh, yeah. A
• 48:07
  missionary vehicle. It's supposed to
• 48:09
  have the bumper dragging the road.
• 48:11
  Sparks flying up. If not the bumper, at
• 48:13
  least the muffler. It's supposed to be
• 48:16
  black smoke pulling out the tailpipe.
• 48:18
  It's supposed to miss every other lick.
• 48:20
  And they're SUPPOSED TO REALLY PRAYING
• 48:22
  TO GOD THAT THEY CAN get to the next
• 48:23
  church without it dying on them.
• 48:26
  >> That's the missionary vehicle.
• 48:29
  >> That's what they supposed to drive.
• 48:31
  Bless God. They going to use our money.
• 48:33
  They better suffer for it.
• 48:37
  >> I know the church. I know the
• 48:38
  missionary. It was brought up in a
• 48:40
  meeting. I vote. We dropped so and so.
• 48:44
  They said, "Why do we need to drop them?
• 48:46
  They were able to go on vacation last
• 48:48
  month. And if they can go on vacation,
• 48:49
  they don't need our support."
• 48:52
  >> I know it. We expect them to give up
• 48:55
  everything. We expect them to forfeit.
• 48:58
  >> Amen.
• 48:59
  >> What about that? Well, I just Y'all know
• 49:02
  where I'm going, don't you?
• 49:04
  >> If we're going to expect them to give up
• 49:06
  some stuff, why shouldn't we give up
• 49:08
  some stuff?
• 49:09
  >> But preacher, they're going to reach the
• 49:10
  world. Yeah, they're going on our
• 49:12
  behalf.
• 49:13
  >> Amen. They're going so we get to stay at
• 49:15
  home.
• 49:16
  >> Amen. We can't give up a cup of coffee
• 49:19
  or or a couple of sodas a week that
• 49:22
  might put something in offering plate.
• 49:24
  So, help them go. Amen. I'm telling you,
• 49:25
  if we're going to expect them to give up
• 49:27
  SOME STUFF, WHY SHOULDN'T WE BE EXPECTED
• 49:30
  TO GIVE UP some stuff?
• 49:32
  >> Amen. EQUALITY.
• 49:34
  I'M telling you what's happened. We've
• 49:35
  got a whole bunch that's heavily
• 49:37
  burdened while others are at ease, and
• 49:40
  we're wanting THEM TO SUFFER EVEN MORE.
• 49:42
  >> That's good.
• 49:45
  >> Oh, help us, Lord.
• 49:47
  >> Why can't we that are at ease
• 49:51
  take some of that burden off of them?
• 49:53
  >> Yes. and roll that over on us.
• 49:57
  >> How can we do that, preacher?
• 50:00
  >> Well, we're after something that they've
• 50:03
  got.
• 50:06
  >> They're after something that we've got.
• 50:09
  That's what the text was.
• 50:10
  >> That their abundance may be a supply for
• 50:13
  their want. That their abundance may be
• 50:15
  a supply for our want. What's a
• 50:16
  missionary got that we need? They got
• 50:19
  fruit.
• 50:22
  Once a church got that the missionary
• 50:23
  needs, we got the finances.
• 50:27
  >> Amen.
• 50:29
  >> Equality.
• 50:31
  Equality.
• 50:33
  We've got some some little old widows
• 50:35
  that's doing without a lot of things so
• 50:38
  they can put something in the mission
• 50:39
  offering.
• 50:40
  Missionaries, don't you forget that.
• 50:42
  >> Yeah.
• 50:44
  >> Amen.
• 50:46
  >> God help us. Don't forget that. There's
• 50:48
  some that's really giving up some stuff
• 50:50
  that might put some gas in our vehicles.
• 50:53
  I thank God for them.
• 50:56
  >> We got some though
• 51:00
  y'all. Okay.
• 51:02
  It's a little tough to preach, but
• 51:05
  >> we got some just ain't hard giving up
• 51:07
  nothing and complaining about
• 51:08
  everything.
• 51:09
  >> Yeah.
• 51:11
  >> Don't throw nothing at me. All right. If
• 51:13
  you do, make sure it's King James Bible.
• 51:15
  All right.
• 51:16
  Hey man,
• 51:19
  quality.
• 51:20
  >> Yeah.
• 51:21
  >> How's the balance?
• 51:24
  >> How's the scale tonight? How heavily
• 51:26
  burdened are you? Are you really
• 51:28
  struggling that you might get the gospel
• 51:30
  to somebody?
• 51:32
  I know some that is.
• 51:35
  Those of us that ain't,
• 51:37
  I'll take some of that struggle off of
• 51:39
  them.
• 51:41
  Maybe we ought to struggle a little bit
• 51:43
  oursel to try to make sure that
• 51:45
  somebody's getting the gospel.
• 51:46
  >> Amen.
• 51:47
  >> Amen. Oh, help us, Lord. Father,
• 51:53
  you know our hearts tonight,
• 51:57
  there are some that are heavily
• 51:59
  burdened.
• 52:01
  Lord, their burden is they're trying to
• 52:03
  get the gospel to somebody. They want to
• 52:05
  see somebody saved.
• 52:09
  On the other hand, Lord, there's some
• 52:10
  that's not carrying no burden at all.
• 52:13
  Don't seem like
• 52:18
  sometimes even picking apart those that
• 52:20
  are heavily burdened.
• 52:23
  Lord, would you work in our hearts just
• 52:25
  for a few minutes tonight? Help us.
• 52:29
  Help us Lord that this might this might
• 52:32
  be equal
• 52:35
  quality. I know, Lord, the
• 52:37
  responsibility is equal. I know that,
• 52:39
  God.
• 52:41
  Even for one that never leaves America,
• 52:44
  God, they just as responsible as those
• 52:46
  that's going.
• 52:48
  And I know them resources are equal.
• 52:51
  I know the rewards will be equal.
• 52:55
  God, help us with them requirements.
• 52:57
  Lord,
• 52:58
  if we're going to expect it out of them,
• 53:00
  let it be expected out of us.
• 53:03
  have your way in our hearts.
• 53:06
  Please help us as only you can. God,
• 53:09
  whatever you do, we'll thank you for it.
• 53:11
  Let's all stand. Some's done. Come.
• 53:14
  You mind the Lord tonight?
• 53:16
  I tell you what, if nothing else, let's
• 53:18
  pray for them that's going. Let's pray
• 53:20
  for them that's given up.
• 53:23
  Let's pray for them that's doing
• 53:25
  everything they can just to get get
• 53:27
  Jesus to somebody. At least pray for
• 53:30
  them.
• 53:32
  And then let's listen to the Lord. And
• 53:34
  Lord, is there something we could do?
• 53:38
  Is there something I can do to take some
• 53:39
  of that off of them?
• 53:42
  What more can I do,
• 53:45
  Lord? You mean really I I could give up
• 53:48
  something that
• 53:50
  I could help a little more?
• 53:52
  You listen to the Lord tonight. Let him
• 53:54
  talk to you.
• 53:57
  Let him talk to you tonight.
• 53:59
  Equality
• 54:03
  that there may be equality.
• 54:06
  Equality.
• 54:12
  Quality.
• 54:16
  Feels like he's a little dampened spirit
• 54:18
  tonight or heavy spirit. And I didn't
• 54:21
  intend that necessarily, but I think
• 54:23
  it's good.
• 54:25
  Think it's all right. God working on our
• 54:28
  hearts. Help us, Lord. I know we can do
• 54:30
  more.
• 54:32
  I know I can do more.
• 54:35
  I can go more and give more. I know. I
• 54:38
  know we can.
• 54:41
  I know we can. I know we can.
• 54:45
  I know we can.
• 55:13
  Father in Jesus name,
• 55:17
  Lord, I want to say thank you.
• 55:21
  Thank you for the word that you sent for
• 55:23
  us tonight.
• 55:27
  Thank you, Father, for the burden.
• 55:31
  Lord, I'd have never known the blessing
• 55:34
  of serving you, God, if I'd never
• 55:36
  embraced the burden.
• 55:40
  Lord, you weighed heavy on my heart
• 55:42
  tonight, God. There's more to be done.
• 55:46
  And Lord, would you help our church,
• 55:47
  God? That's what this meeting's been
• 55:49
  for. we take on these missionaries going
• 55:51
  to be a blessing to these missionaries.
• 55:55
  And Lord, I have complete confidence
• 55:57
  that they're going to do their job in
• 55:59
  the field.
• 56:02
  But Lord, why are we failing in our
• 56:04
  field?
• 56:08
  Why would we sit at ease in Zion?
• 56:14
  God the preacher noted the spirit
• 56:16
  tonight. Lord, it's very evident.
• 56:20
  God, would you break our hearts for
• 56:22
  Stokes County?
• 56:28
  Lord, would you break our hearts for
• 56:29
  this community?
• 56:32
  Give us a hunger and a thirst for souls
• 56:35
  more than just to come sit in a pew and
• 56:38
  pray, but Lord, to go outside the doors
• 56:40
  and ask people to come
• 56:42
  to take it seriously.
• 56:46
  And Lord, I pray God tonight, Father,
• 56:47
  you'd help us to embrace this sermon
• 56:49
  tonight. And I thank you so much for the
• 56:51
  messenger minding you. And I thank you
• 56:53
  for giving us another chance. Lord, I
• 56:55
  give you praise for it. You're so good.
• 57:00
  Lord, I love you. I thank you for what
• 57:02
  you've done, for what you're going to
• 57:03
  do, for how you've blessed us. And Lord,
• 57:05
  we ask it all in Jesus name. Amen.
• 57:10
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• 57:12
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• 57:14
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• 57:16
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• 57:23
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