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Romans 10-14,21 -How Will They Hear- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2023-08-27

Open your Bibles please to Romans chapter 10 verses 14 through 21. I just encourage you to keep reading, keep studying, be aware of what's going on and expose. Ephesians 5 11 says have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather expose them and that's what I try and do. I simply try to expose what they're doing. Hopefully people wake up and they cannot govern without your compliance and so you just resist. All right Romans chapter 10 beginning with verse 14. Please stand with me as we read God's holy word together. How then shall they call on him whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things but they have not obeyed the gospel for Isaiah saith Lord who has believed our report so then faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of God but I say have they not heard yes verily their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world but I say did not Israel know first Moses saith I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people by a foolish nation I will anger you but Isaiah is very bold and saith I was found of them that sought me not I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me but to Israel he saith all day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. Father thank you for your holy word. Thank you that prophetically that everything's fallen into place. Thank you that we're students of prophecy. 27% of the bible being prophetic and we're living in a time where it's just cascading in fulfillment just overwhelming fulfillment of of your word Lord the more sure word of prophecy. Thank you Lord that we can be disciples that we can learn as as you teach us your word as you open your word to us today. Help us to learn from Israel's past mistakes. Help us Lord to to yield afresh to your sovereignty over our lives that we might have ears to hear that we might have hearts to apply that which we're learning. Let our lives be built upon the rock upon Jesus that we be doers of your word not hearers only. Bless this day Lord we commit it all into your hands be our teacher now in Jesus name amen. Would you please be seated. Jesus said go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He said in Matthew's account 20 and 19 go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the father the son the holy spirit teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you and along with you always even to the end of the age where we at today what time is it church what what age are we in the end of the age the church age we're at the end of the church age 2,000 years since the founding of the church which was a mystery once hid now revealed well the nation of Israel policy springing forth the gospel you remember in chapter 9 Israel's past rejection chapter past election chapter 10 Israel's present rejection chapter 11 Israel's future restoration so the question comes well with the gospel with the Gentiles with the church if the nation of Israel you know denies Christ and it rejects Christ as their Messiah in his first advent does that mean the church replaces you know the nation of Israel no that's what Paul's saying here Romans 9 10 11 that's not true it's not true and today many people think that they think that much of a prophecy was already fulfilled in 70 AD they look at it historically they don't look at it as it's happening now that that um we're watching these things May 14 1948 Israel be rebirthed as a nation Ezekiel 36 and 37 being fulfilled so in verse 13 it says whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved Israel still has a chance as a nation we know in the tribulation period the time of Jacob's trouble that a one-third remnant comes to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ two-thirds are wiped out in their obstinance in their refusal to believe in Jesus Christ but a one-third remnants preserved and when that one-third remnants preserved they don't join the church the church age is finished with the rapture it's over but those in the church go on into the millennium the thousand year rule and reign with Jesus and they rule and reign with him as kings and priests but the nation of Israel is established as the dominant nation upon the planet no the times of the Gentiles are over so what are the times of the Gentiles times of the Gentiles is Gentile world rule so the Babylonians defeated Assyria excuse me the nation of Israel in 586 BC the Assyrians were defeated in seven the Syrians in 722 BC they defeated the ten northern tribes in 586 BC the Babylonians are used to destroy the nation of Israel and the Babylonians became a world-powered Gentile dominance and then after after that you know after a little over 70 years we got Cyrus the Persian and Darius the Mede coming to the gate in Daniel chapter 5 coming under the levee gates and going into the city and Belteshazzar his knees are knocking many many teckle you farce and your kingdom's done your shelf life's over you know you've been waiting the balance and found one and your kings and divided between the Medes and the Persians and then we see the Persian empire world dominant until the Greeks come along with Alexander the Great and then after Alexander the Great it divides up with his generals and then and then you've got the Romans coming the Romans dominate the Greeks and then it's the time when Christ comes it's the Roman empire but the Roman empire goes a little over 500 years and this it's in 313 Constantine institutionalizes the church we have the dark ages where a lot of unbelievers entered places of authority and such and in government and and the church ruling over people and dark ages in the sense that it didn't allow the common people like you and I to read the bible they had to go to mass and hear it in latin they don't speak latin they speak koine greek so there was a dumbing down there was a lack of knowledge of the word of god but when the word of god began to be translated with erasmus and different greek manuscripts and uh into german and english and french and all the european different languages and tindale is going to be killed because he's translating into english and the bible gets out to the common people the bible uh takes place where a lawyer named martin luther climbs the the steps of the sistine chapel and and here i am uh here i stand i can do no other at the wittenberg door and he's uh he's not going to back down he learns that what in romans 1 16 and 17 i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ for the power of god unto salvation to everyone that believes to the jew first and also the greek for therein is the righteousness of god revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith and so the glorious gospel opens up the mission field for many of the churches and all over europe to be sending the gospel all over the world we have great preachers like charles spurgeon and joseph parker and and uh wycliffe ministries and um you know different different various denominations the lutherans the the methodists the baptists these people commissioning uh to send missionaries out and all and meanwhile the nation of israel is dormant the nation of israel is gone the nation of israel isn't in the land the diaspora god spread them all over the world but it was a time for the church to grow for the church to flourish and the church starts out jewish and then it philip goes as far away as as the samaritans and then from there to damascus with the syrians and on so um they're they're beginning to spread starts out entirely jewish to the jew first but by and large the nation they're crying out hosanna hosanna save now and then four days later crucify him crucify him so officially rejecting jesus he weeps over the city of jerusalem how often i would have gathered you together as a mother hen does gather her brood under your wings but you would not it's their decision and so that period of time is a is a period of time where the church age is able to flourish and that church age as i said is finished at the in in romans 11 25 when the fullness of the gentiles be come in when the fullness of the gentiles come into the church we don't know when that last person is that's the end of the church age that's when the lord jesus is going to rapture us then what happens is the rebirth of the roman empire that imperial roman empire is going to be reborn so this fourth industrial revolution that klaus schwab's talking about this is going to be the fourth um uh the rebirth of that fourth global empire and um and it's going to be imperial in the sense that it's going to have in daniel 210 toes daniel 710 horns a revelation 17 or revelation 13 you know 10 kings and 10 crowns and so the world's going to be divided into 10 regions and that's not the brick nations brick nations basically what's happening is a leveraging getting away from the dollar you're going to see more and more 10 11 12 13 15 20 uh more and more of these nations uh moving in a different direction rather than the dominance of the dollar but there's a day coming where the world according to the club of rome is divided into 10 regions and these 10 regions it's tyrannical a tyrannical government maybe technocrats maybe politician technocrats globalist trillionaires and they're going to have regions so in america america would be the north american union where you'd have canada america and south america mexico as one region and in that region no borders no borders on america and in that region they have one head one person over that region so you got 10 of those regions and three of these guys three of these kings these leader rebel against the antichrist he overcomes them he becomes the eighth and so in that seven-year tribulation period all these nations give over their sovereignty to the beast to the antichrist and so he's a world dictator a in place of jesus christ and it culminates with war with the war of armageddon jesus returns and and subdues all of his enemies with the brightness of his coming the sword of his mouth and then he sets up his kingdom upon earth and his kingdom upon earth is he rule and reigns from jerusalem that's his headquarters and he's king of kings and lord of lords and then david is ruling with him co-regent as prince and then the nation of israel is dominant over all the gentile nations that's what's coming you and i are in our new glorified bodies we're a part of the government but we're ruling and reigning as kings and priests so political and religious we're enforcers we're enforcing jesus ruling and reigning with a rod of righteousness so we can we can pre know ahead of time because god will tell us because he's omniscient before somebody can commit a crime in the millennium right and so there's going to be sin in the millennium but maybe it's going to be nipped in the bud no more curse so the environment's going to be in harmony like the garden of eden and such and so we have much to look forward to the church does not place take the place of the nation of israel and so israel is one of the greatest prophetic fulfillments prophetic signs for you and i to look at presently in our generation daniel 9 27 talks about and jesus talked in matthew 24 when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by daniel the prophet stand in the holy place so what's the holy place the temple the temple's being rebuilt they're looking to rebuild which would be the third temple it's not for the lord it's for judaism the resurgence of judaism but the antichrist is going to go in that temple 1260 days after signing that peace treaty he's going to go into that temple and he used like hitler did he used the apostate revelation 17 babylon whore church for for two and three and a half years at the midpoint 1260 days in he declares himself to be god demands to be worshiped as god and everybody's going to receive a mark on the right hand of their forehead and that mark of the beast is coupled with worship so if you're looking in terms of hey they're getting rid of the dollar and i'm have to use my card i have to use my phone or they're going to biometric me or whatever and we're going to a central bank digital currency that's not the mark of the beast you might have to comply with that but if they say to you not only that but you're going to have to get the jab that's where you say no i'll take my chances you know they're not putting anything on my body or in my body it's my body so the mark of the beast is going to go on the right hand of the forehead and it can be a radio frequency tattoo nowadays and it can also be a a little tiny chip that's smaller than a grain of rice that has enormous amount of energy your health your bank account your social credit score all about you and track and tracing smart cities and monitoring your every move so the devil is not omniscient he doesn't know all things the devil is not omnipresent he can't be everywhere but the ai technology is such that he's going to try and counterfeit the attributes of god by maintaining control over the populace with his technology and that's going to be very interesting but we're looking at the nation of israel and we're watching the emergence the wanting to of this temple and we're not looking for the antichrist but we know at one point he's going to go in there so as many of the prophecy guys presently are saying you know the antichrist isn't going to show up on the scene and then build the temple and build all this stuff this infrastructure there's no time there's only seven years it's being built right now the the the kingdom that the antichrist is going to rule over is being built right now being put in place and i'm not looking for the antichrist but jesus said when you see these things begin to come to pass the abraham accord the one-world religion of merging of christianity judaism and islam and hinduism buddhism that's a sign there's a one-world religion revelation 17 and then and then it goes from being apostate christianity to full-blown luciferian worshiping lucifer for the second half of the tribulation period you've got a one-world monetary system you've got a one-world government those are the three main things that are coming and it's happening so fast moving exponentially so we can look up what's our mission now get the gospel out occupy till he comes save as many people as we can and how are they going to hear if they don't have a preacher you know so we're his messengers jesus said to go and uh we're his messengers verse 14 wow we're just starting this okay how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher how will they call believe and hear without a preacher a preacher is a herald a preacher is one that you know proclaims the good news and i know in many cases if you're a preacher if you open your mouth at work or in public you could be misconstrued as a hater as a bigot as a one of those you know and you might cower in fear and be secret agent or whatever you might get in trouble with your boss your work or whatever so you've got to kind of stay under the radar a bit um if you're a teacher in the school boy what what juggling you have to do can a student ask you about your faith can you share your faith if somebody asks you is transgenderism okay how did god make them and they get on those kind of questions you know how are you going to tight rope that sort of sort of provocation or drawing you in got to be very careful but when you're proclaiming the gospel you just stand up and you proclaim it when we were on vacation last month when we're in huntington beach you know it was so heartwarming to see people at the pier every night sharing the gospel young people and i posted a bunch of it you know worshiping the lord very powerful and and then and then sharing the gospel and people with signs and an elderly lady um when i say elderly older than me and she's passing out bibles she's passing out bibles there's a guy there with a with a with a um wheelbarrow and it says on the sign free bibles just everywhere just so exciting to see the gospel the word of god just uninhibited just just going for it it was very very uh exciting i hope that's god so harold proclaims the good news evangelist is a messenger of good news so jesus is a preacher isn't that amazing um charles spurgeon when i was studying and trying to determine if i was called to be a pastor or not it was really way over my head it was really bothering me i didn't want to venture out when i was in school of ministry it was just astounding these guys all knew they were going to be pastors and i was trying to find out i was testing the water as i was going to school to see if there's any gifting if there's any kind of equipping you know um like spurgeon points out in his book lectures to my students in that section a chapter called how do you know if you're called he said god doesn't uh equip behemoth to fly so if you're a big behemoth you know he didn't design you to be a bird flying you know so you got to have the gifting right and um so i needed to determine if i had you know been equipped if the lord was giving me something i could work with and study and develop or whatever you know where do i fit into the body of christ i had already taught sunday school and i taught home bible studies and that's what i like to do and all but um uh it was just astounding to me um half the guys didn't even finish school but man they were so certain and uh it was something that i had to grow into um but in any event spurgeon in his lectures to his students he said if god has called you to be a preacher don't lower yourself to become a king it's a very very high calling the office of being a preacher and we're all preachers all of us are preachers all of us are evangelists all of us even if i don't have the gift of evangelism i may be like a timothy and i need to do the work of an evangelist i need to be an evangel i need to share the good news with people that the lord gives me an open door with you know you pray in the morning lord give me an open door and he does doesn't he somebody at the grocery store at work wherever neighbor you have that opportunity to waitress whatever you have the opportunity to share and um and it's very exciting but jesus went to the synagogue in nazareth and luke 4 18 he says the spirit of the lord is upon me because he's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor the poor are rich in faith very difficult for a rich man to enter into heaven easier for camel to go through the eye of a needle but with god all things are possible but the poor the poor can't rely upon their money the poor are ready to hear the gospel to preach the glorious the unsearchable riches of christ to be given to the poor no matter what your status in society is if you have the unsearchable riches of christ invested in your heart i mean you're wealthy you're extremely wealthy and nobody nobody's going to ever be able to take that from you he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to preach deliverance to the captives people that are in prison people that are in bondage people that are demon-possessed he sent me to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the lord you know prophetically it's time gang it's time don't you know the time don't you know the day of your visitation there's an urgency of understanding the time in which you live what is god doing today what is he doing in our midst in this church age now and uh so important in mark 138 he says let jesus said let us go into the next towns that i may preach there also for therefore came i forth man i wish i could have heard the lord preach wouldn't have been great to be one of the two on the road to emas and you're walking with jesus and he takes the scriptures and he goes from genesis all the way through exposing himself revealing himself to them it said their hearts burned within him as he went through the scriptures prophetically pointing you know to to himself you know opening the scriptures jesus is the key that unlocks the word of god the volume of the book is written with him of him it's all about him history is his story and uh so very exciting the book of revelation the unveiling the unveiling of jesus christ as god's going to reveal his plan for humanity and sending uh jesus uh to set up his kingdom that i may preach there also for therefore came i forth so god's only begotten son is a preacher now noah was a preacher solomon jeremiah jonah john the baptist were preachers peter paul and mary were preachers peter paul john and ringo were preachers philip and his four daughters four prophetesses to prophesy to speak forth the word of god um i had two girls and when we had the one the first one jessica i'm like oh okay everybody needs a daughter you know right and then that was the day before you didn't know what the sex was before the little girl come out you know so then we have britney and i'm like oh where's my son where's my son you know and uh but she's far greater than any any any son could ever be and i got grandsons now but uh in any event i wanted a son well philip had four daughters and they were prophetesses that's exciting that's exciting to have daughters that that proclaim the word of god dennis agagian is a preacher dennis x a preacher stephen's a preacher billy graham pastor chuck smith greg glory are all preachers and so are you and me i love sharing the gospel i can't convert anybody i can't save anybody but i certainly can open my mouth and plant the seed i can spread the seed of god's word and then you come along after me and you water the word and then god brings the increase he's the one that brings the increase but we're all a part of the the disseminating the spreading of the good news and the greatest way is word of mouth the greatest way is one-on-one in your community in your home wherever the lord may may send you it's very very exciting the occupy tell i come be about your father's business tell he comes this is what america needs to hear this is what the world needs to hear donna was telling me and i've heard this several times that the church in china is praying that american christians would come under persecution because we're too soft we're too laodicean i'm rich and increased with goods in need of nothing jesus evaluating you and he says you make me sick your your correct evaluation is that you're naked poor blind and miserable you know that's really who you are you're lukewarm you make me sick i'm going to spew out of my mouth and he's knocking on the door he's been kicked out of the church we're purpose driven we're psychology driven we're therapeutic driven we're feelings driven we're not word of god jesus is the incarnate word of god we're not word of god driven we don't care what the word of god says we don't want much of the word of god we want feelings we want to feel good jesus has been kicked out of the church knocking revelation 320 behold i stand at the doorknock if any man hear my voice and open the door i'll come in and sup with him and he with me he's still willing for fellowship if the church will turn back to jesus it's so simple jesus is essential more essential than anything that jay inslee or newsome or biden or anybody can concoct or come up with klaus schwab noah uval harari you know all these guys they're idiots they're absolute idiots they're they're retarded spiritually they're reprobate spiritually they don't have a clue you know what they're doing as far as uh in regard to the true and living god noah uval harari said jesus is dead we just haven't buried the body we're gonna move on from the history of you know jesus and all these people are blasphemous reprobates and why would anybody follow them why would anybody give them a platform to be the herald of the luciferian great reset build back better you know they're spreading a gospel and i like what one guy said we're headed toward revival but it's not a christian revival it's a luciferian revival the reviving of the religion of lucifer of demonic revival people are heavily into witchcraft the occult drugs anything powerful that they can get rejecting of jesus christ so we're going to be an anomaly we're going to be a very very small minority narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and few there be that find it we popularize christianity in america in a time of prosperity because we sold jesus to people that will make you better make you stronger make you richer you'll have your best life now people bought into that they want that well what happens when the flip side comes what happens when you lose everything will you still you know he turns to his disciples in john 6 and he says are you going to leave me too you know i gave him the loaves and the fishes i told him the cost involved they need to come for me but they don't want me they just want the loaves and the fishes they want the universal basic income and you know i'm sorry there's a curse people need to work people need to find out what they're calling whatever you know i'm not going to just run around giving everybody the freebies you know they need to come for me because their greatest need is spiritual not physical man shall not live by bread alone but every word that proceeds in the mouth of god so they all many of his disciples it says many of his disciples turned and no longer followed him in john 6 and then he turns to the 12 and he says are you going to leave me also and peter says where are we going to go you have the words of eternal life you know i mean where else you gonna go there's nothing else that satisfies once you've tasted and seen that he is good there's nothing else there's no pursuit there's nothing that can feed your spirit if any man thirst jesus said let him come into me and drink you know come to him and so we he's the fount of living water and there's so many people out there who are who are as the deer pants after the water brooks so pants my soul after thee oh god they're just they're they're they're the john four woman who can't fill that void that emptiness that thirst within her heart nothing fills it and jesus is able so jesus said to go what don't we understand about the word go the church of jerusalem nobody wanted to go after pentecost would you want to go there was very little persecution they were enjoying it the church was growing exponentially 3 000 people 5 000 people that was a revival hey i want to stay here and manage all this this is great you know well then when stephen was martyred uh-oh uh-oh christians are marked now when the heavy the soul of tarsus began to incarcerate and beat on people and compel them to blaspheme the church started spreading out of jerusalem well jesus told them you're going to receive power you're going to receive power wait for the promise my father in x chapter 1 you shall receive power dunamis dynamic power to equip you to serve me i'm telling you to go but wait for the power to go do it and you're going to be my witnesses the greek word is martyr you're going to be my martyrs see he didn't oversell it sometimes the way that we represent him the way that we witness of him is in our death and other times as a living sacrifice we're still alive but we're sacrificial it's no longer me living but christ living through me you're going to be my witnesses in your jerusalem judea samaria and the uttermost that's the call going out of the gospel so what don't we understand about the word go it's always somebody else is supposed to go when are we going to go and i i suggest to you that you guys go every day i know you guys are evangelists i hear about it you're sharing the gospel with everyone in your jerusalem and then you're taking vacations you're on the internet you're sharing with your family members and friends and you're broadening the scope getting the word of god out some of you have taken mission trips where you go and you serve and try to get the gospel out there but um what a glorious glorious privilege to be able to go so we have a mission why missions why do we have missions number one the command from above jesus said to go that's number one mark 16 15 go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature even to those that are at the star wars bar that look really strange preach the gospel to every creature the cry from beneath there's a cry from hell to preach the gospel can you think of where a cry from beneath in luke 16 there was a rich man and lazarus and lazarus was a poor guy and he would eat the food of the rich man's from his garbage garbage heap and the dogs would come and lick the sores that lazarus had the rich man died and lazarus died the lazarus was taken by the angels of heaven to abraham's bosom jesus told the thief on the cross this day you'll be with me in paradise abraham's bosom was a holding compartment of hell a double compartment haiti shield where one part was a place of comfort described as abraham's bosom and or paradise why because in ephesians 4 before he ascended he first descended to empty out that compartment all the old testament everybody had to wait till jesus was crucified buried raised from the dead to empty out that compartment so the story is a picture in jesus name and names of the rich man that's there in a place of torment grievous torment he looks across this gulf and he sees lazarus there and he's not in torment he's he's in a place of comfort with abraham he recognizes abraham and he says father abraham could you send lazarus still ordering the poor guy around you're in hell you're the rich guy in hell and you're still ordering the poor guy can you send lazarus over to dip his finger into the water and come over and touch my tongue because i'm in grievous torment that's not in the abstract that's the tangible that's real it's a real place hell is a real place where the worm died not the fires never quenched it's not something annihilation where people don't experience separation from god or torment we we fail to warn people about the doctrine of hell jesus spoke more about hell than he did heaven and he's given an illustration here the importance of repentance while you're still alive and so the rich man looks across there and and abraham says no there's a great gulf between us two we can't go over there where you are you can't come over here now watch this the rich guy says well send somebody back to cry from beneath the cry from beneath send somebody back to go tell my five brothers that they don't want to be here go warn them they don't want to be here and jesus told him no they have moses and the prophets what's he saying they have the decalogue they have the first five books of the bible the pentateuch excuse me the first five books of the bible they have the prophets they have the old testament if you will and he said no they won't believe unless you send somebody back from from beneath and jesus said if they believe not moses and the prophets neither will they believe the one be raised from the dead the obstinate hard hearts it's the word of god faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of god it's not miracles that save people it's the word of god it's you and i proclaiming the good news of his coming kingdom it's the word of god it's the glorious gospel that reaches people they have moses and the prophets you know and so that cry from beneath think of the multitude of people that are in hell that wish they could communicate to the people on the surface don't come here whatever you got to do don't don't come to this place it isn't a party i'm not i'm not partying with miss bud light here it isn't like that we're not having parties here it's grievous torment where the worm died not the fires never quenched gnashing of teeth weeping and gnashing of teeth that's jesus words he's describing gehenna so you have a place called hell you have a place hades shiel shiel in the old testament the hebrew hades in the greek holding compartment because in revelation chapter 20 there's a there's a great white throne judgment where the wicked dead in that other compartment jesus emptied out the paradise one their bodily race from the dead and they stand before god and they have to give an account of what they did while they're in their body whether they're good or bad there's a day of judgment the lord placed the the video of your life of my life every secret thing is shattered from the rooftops you can't hide everything is naked and open before the eyes with whom we have to do you and i there's no record god's wrath but was poured out upon his son upon the cross of calvary you're never going to stand before god and answer for any of the sins you've ever committed because they were already put upon jesus those charges against you were blotted out they were taken away with his blood upon the cross nailed to the tree glorious freedom glorious deliverance glorious salvation there's now therefore no condemnation to those that are in christ jesus but there is for the wicked dead and the only thing that gets you into hell the only thing not murder david's a murder moslem they're in heaven it's not murder it's not adultery david's an adulterer it's blasphemy it's rejecting jesus christ that's the only way you can get into hell is by rejecting your whole life long jesus christ god's going to ask you what did you do with my son what did you do with him and all your excuses are going to come up he said no no no no i didn't tell you to join the church i didn't tell you to you know go to church i told you to believe in my son i told you to surrender your heart and life unto him well you know there are too many hypocrites in the church well one more won't matter it's okay so the command from above the cry from beneath and then the call from without paul and silas were in the area of philippi of macedonia and they got the holy spirit was forbidden them to go into egypt i'm excuse me in asia minor and forbidden him at that time it wasn't the right time and there was a vision that paul had of a macedonian saying come over here come over here sometimes the lord will direct you in missions through a vision through people calling you i came to bremerton not because i had a vision it was a nightmare um no um i came to bremerton because i was invited because people that i knew in california had moved up here before me and they kept inviting me for over two years and um i began to step out in faith and try and figure out where i was supposed to be where i'd wind up and then we wound up here and and the lord has sustained us for 28 years and it's been uh it's been hard but it's also been very very very rewarding in our growth and our personal growth with the lord i mean i get to be a preacher who else would let me be a preacher except you guys you know so the call from without and then the constraint from within second corinthians 5 14 paul says woe is me if i don't preach the gospel there's an internal um drive an ambition a a desire if you will to to preach the gospel and when you try to shut up like jeremiah did and not not share the gospel you know it's like a burning fire within within that uh can't be quenched uh in isaiah 6 verse 8 the lord says you know whom shall i send and you know who will go for us and isaiah says here am i send me if you want to go pray pray each and every day lord here am i send me lord i'm available i may not be the most gifted but lord i'm available and lord with your equipping with the power of your spirit um my availability you'll give me the ability you'll help me to do what you called me to do and so we go we go with john 3 16 we go with whatever we got here my send me where do we begin we begin at home in mark 2 11 four guys took a guy who was paralyzed with the palsy they couldn't get to jesus as he's in capernaum and so they opened the roof up and they flat roofs and they lowered him down there and jesus healed him forgave him of his sins and healed him and then jesus instructed him now go back home go home and let them just like those at gadara the demoniac legion of demons in him go home go home and testify i was once blind now i see testify to these people uh some of them like in john 9 he's been blind for 40 years what a testimony go home as you were once a drug addict now you're sober you're once an alcoholic now you're sober you're once in prison a thief now you got a job raising a family and kids and what a testimony only jesus could do that right he gave you a new heart go testify to those at home is where you start with your family we begin at home our family and then in our cities jesus commanded in matthew 10 verse 5 he says go not on the way of the gentiles or in any city of the samaritans enter ye not but go rather in the lost sheep of the house of israel and as you go preach saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand and so you the priority of the jew first you go into various cities then later he's going to open it up you know to go beyond over to samaria and all so the priority initially was the nation of israel let's see if they reject me or not they have a chance to receive me as their messiah these are the cities we're going to go in then after the resurrection before his ascension jesus commissioned his church in luke 24 47 jesus said that repentance and remission of sin should be preached in his name among all nations beginning at jerusalem acts 1 8 ye shall receive power after the holy ghost has come upon you and be my witnesses jerusalem judea samaria and to the uttermost wh griffith thomas is quoted as saying all who profess to be among the people of god ought to go themselves or help others to go so if you can't go you support and help through prayer giving whatever encouragement letters you encourage those that do go so what don't we understand about the word go verse 16 but they have not all obeyed the gospel for isaiah says lord who has believed our report so he's quoting isaiah 53 verse 1 who has believed our report they've heard the gospel but they won't obey the gospel hebrews 5 verse 9 being made perfect he became the author of eternal salvation and all them that obey him so faith is seen in obedience you hear the word of god and now you're going to obey the word of god which is compelling you to repent come to repentance obey the word of god surrender your heart and life unto the lord and allow jesus to come into your heart and life and to make you new so our job is to preach to go paul said i have planted apollo's water but god brought the increase and so only god can save and so then neither is he that plants anything neither he that waters but god that receives the increase for we are all labors together with god so what an exciting thing to co-labor with jesus to co-labor you and i to co-labor with the apostles the prophets all of them to all of us collectively the church in the plural those called out the ecclesia what a blessing to be commissioned to have a function in these last days uh to share the gospel now martin emeralder in the time of uh hitler's reign in germany he uh he wound up going to prison for his faith and all he was an admiral uh very revered and respected and all and he's quoted as saying first day as in the nazis the communists um not really communists they played the communists you always have to have a boogeyman right now the climate boogeyman but they played hitler got the people to give up their constitution by setting fire to the reichstag building which is the government building his own guy set fire to it when it set fire to the building it's the crisis the reaction was give me more power and i'll protect you from the communists and they they gave up uh their freedom for security and once hitler had all that authority he's able to do whatever he wanted so neimerler a christian he says first they came for the communists and i did not speak out because i was not a communist then they came for the the unions the trade unions and i was not in a trade union so i didn't speak up then they came for the jews and i wasn't a jew so i didn't speak up then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me will you speak up for jesus will you speak up for him don't hide your lamp and put it under the bed or under a bush or let it shine let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven in matthew 12 41 jesus said the men of nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of jonah you remember when jonah was there 40 days in your parish and he says behold a greater than jonah is here so his own people he came on his own his own received him not they didn't listen that's what paul's talking about they were disobedient they didn't they didn't hear so jesus said to go we're his messengers we have a mission and thirdly we have a message what's our message verse 17 so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god the word word there is not log us it's ramah it's the spoken word of god so the gospel of romans 1 16 and 17 i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ for it is the power of god unto salvation to whosoever believes to the jew first the priority jew first and also to the gentile for therein where in the gospel for therein the righteousness of god is revealed from faith the faith as it is written the just those that want to be justified are going to have to come by faith by grace through faith alone and so we have the message there's the message now why do we try to mix psychology then why do we want to adopt freud and reud at the end of the age here and act like they have secret knowledge like gnostics of human behavior if i look at jeremiah 79 it says the heart's deceitful above all things desperately wicked and who can know it you don't know another man's heart you don't even know his brain you can study behavior you can use therapy if you will i mean my favorite's the shock therapy you know let's just put there you know or how about how about lobotomies you want to bring back the lobotomies with an ice pick just go through the eye and boom boom boom or you want chemical lobotomies how are you going to change human behavior why would the church adopt a means of of philosophy lovers of wisdom to bring in a lower level the wisdom of men why would the church do that it's not a therapy session it doesn't belong in the church you don't rehab people people need to be transformed with the renewing of their minds they need a new heart they need to adhere to the word of god the word of god is living and powerful and sharper than an intuitive sword dividing the center of soul and spirit and joint and marrow and as a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart it's only the word of god that can reach that person and take the the scalpel of god's word and cut out that cancer that bad attitude that sin that unforgiveness and show them the mirror of who they are that they might come to repentance themselves and walk away from that selfishness and such you can't play the blame game psychologically it's everybody else's fault for who you are grow up if any man be in crisis a new creation the old things are passed away all things have become new i'm not their dog anymore they have no leverage over me i'm a new creature and every single day the mercies of the lord are new they're new my greatest enemy is me biggest problem i have is me not somebody else i'm not going to play my whole life blaming somebody for what a wretched loser i am today no i'm not a loser jesus jesus washed me in his blood he transformed he changed me he doesn't look at me as some sort of a loser anymore l7 you know no way and so it's the gospel it's not the water down human wisdom it's not the philosophies of man and which are always changing always always changing and so it's the gospel jesus christ and him crucified for the mission of sins so god reveals himself in his word first peter 1 23 being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of god which lives and abides forever for all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass the grass withers the flower thereof fades away but the word of the lord endures forever and this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you his word won't come back void 28 years 28 years i refused to give into the trends that have come through the church the programs the systems the philosophies of men whether it's rick warren or whoever it is i don't care i've stayed with the word of god all the way through why because i know the word of god is productive the word of god is the only thing that can transform a person from within by the renewing of your mind i know it doesn't come back void i know it's great effort dr g james kennedy once said one of the saddest statistics of our day is that 95 percent of all church members have never led anyone to christ now i know that's not you you guys are spirit-filled christians you've led many people to christ and that's exciting now i want to help you i want to help you i want you to open your bible everybody got a bible lift up your bible show me your bible all right open it to the first page so that you know where you're going because you're going to be going i don't know where that verse is very first page right open it up and write down romans 3 23 some of you been with me a while you've already had that verse in the leaflet of your bible romans 3 23 what's that say you got to start with this unbeliever you got to you got to convince this unbeliever their need of jesus you got it you got to show them their need and the way you show them their need is that all have sinned and come short of the glory of god all of us are sinners you ever lied you see ray comfort you know on the streets there you ever lied you ever told a lie okay you want to establish first of all that all are sinners there's none righteous no not one right then you take them to romans 5 verse 8 but god commendeth or demonstrated his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners christ died for the ungodly so while you're a sinner while you have impotency while you have bankruptcy while you have no ability to fix yourself god demonstrated his love toward you while you're a sinner he died for you now that should the kindness of god should lead you to repentance romans 2 verse 4 right you don't need to write that down 3 23 5 8 then you bring them to romans 6 23 so now you took on the number one leaflet you you put 3 23 you turn in your bible to 3 23 and at 3 23 next to it you're going to write romans 5 verse 8 which i just quoted and then at romans 5 verse 8 you're going to write romans 6 33 now you turn to romans 6 33 we've established that everybody is a sinner right what are we going to do with sinners sin means to miss the mark sin means you miss the mark you're not perfect you're going to hell you need to be saved so the wages what you earn what you deserve lord i want what i deserve i'm a good guy no there's none righteous no not one the wages of sin is death what is death death is defined as eternal separation from god the wages of sin is death but the gift of god it's a gift is eternal life through jesus christ our lord so there you are at romans 6 23 you're taking this person through now you're going to turn to romans 10 verse 13 and you write that at 6 23 so you know where to go you're working through the bible what's romans 10 13 say whosoever who do i identify whosoever is it only blonde-haired people only rich people poor people jews gentiles whosoever will let them come right all that come to me all no eyes cast out jesus said right come come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden i'll give you rest so whosoever calls upon the name of the lord shall be saved you just led somebody to christ there you go but how will they hear without a preacher verse 18 but i say have they not heard yes barely their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the end of the world so the heavens the heavens declare i mean you have the revelation of jesus his word but you also have the revelation that we saw in romans 1 and psalm 19 of creation so that they're without excuse verse 20 of romans 1 they can't say they didn't know because when they look up at the firmament let me read for you psalm 19 verse 1 the heavens declare the glory of god in the firmament shows his handiwork day in the day utter speech god's communicating and if these globalists would quit the fires and quit you know the plane spraying and blocking out the blocking out the beautiful blue skies that i grew up with and making everything silvery white and all and uh i mean just destroying the planet these are the guys destroying the planet but you go camping during the month of august you get up you get away from the city and the lights and such and you go camping you explain to your children you as they're looking up at the stars and you let them know that god's good thoughts concerning them are number more than all those stars that's god's good thought towards you and if you're smart you know you're able to tell them where the milky way galaxy is and all that i asked kathy what is that kathy she knows you know i don't know i'm a city boy so he shows his handiwork day into day utter speech and night unto night showeth knowledge there's no speech nor language where their voice is not heard now why are you giving over to gay and lesbianism and transgenderism and all that because you suppress that knowledge you suppress the truth over and over and over again you don't give the glory to god that's his name as creator and when you suppress that truth and you worship and serve guilla the creature more than the creator who is blessed he gives you over to your base desires men with men women with women to shame you and now you want to normalize your aberrant behavior you want the rest of society to receive your aberrant behavior as normal the normalization let's go all the way to pedophilia well then i want to normalize murder i've got the murder gene i like to murder how come you can't accept me god made me this way and every time i get angry i go into rage and i just like to murder people then i feel better you can't judge me how can you judge me so you're gonna oprah and you're gonna do an oprah and say it's good for the kids to be pedophile but you won't let me be a murderer can i go kill a pedophile makes me feel good god made me that way but that's the reasoning their reasoning that hey i i got the i got the gay gene it's just the way i came out of the womb you know i was wired this way well if even if you were let's let's run with your argument even if you were come to christ and such were some of you in first corinthians 6 god can change you i was wired from the womb a sinner i was wired a murderer if you hate your brother you're a murderer i was wired an adulterer if you look upon a woman of lust you're an adulterer i was wired but when i'm born again i'm a new creation in christ god wants to change you to transform you he doesn't want to leave you in a sinful endemic condition so you're without excuse the problem is in john 3 it's not that you can't understand it's not a problem of the intellect it's the problem of the heart you will not believe why because your deeds are evil you love darkness rather than light you don't want to come into the light because the light exposes your darkness it's your heart your evil wicked heart god's got to change your heart how do you do that if people don't want to where's their free moral agency well with manasseh who offered his own children to molech god brought the assyrians to put hooks in him and take him away from jerusalem to assyria and in affliction he cried out to god sometimes it takes god preparedness a boat that's called a fish to take jonah into affliction and jonah can exercise his free will he can go the opposite way what god's telling him to do but god has his free will to his sovereignty and he can prepare a fish to take you to hell jonah you're gonna feel like you're in hell in that in that fish and you can have an attitude adjustment you can all of a sudden all right uncle okay i'll go do what you told me to do how many times god's taken us to the woodshed and chastened you and i and spanked us and said you will do what i'm telling you to do jeremiah you will do it you know and uh boy we think we're so in control don't we his nature declares who god is they have heard they're without excuse and we have an even greater revelation the incarnation not just creation but the incarnation the babe of bethlehem the virgin born son of god that we love to celebrate every single day especially at christmas and his resurrection at easter every single day celebrating that he conquered sin and death and hell the devil and all of them are losers jesus said to go we're his messengers we have a mission we have a message and fourthly and finally as we go we are manifesting his favor verse 19 but i say did not israel know first moses saith i will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people and by a foolish nation i will anger you so in deuteronomy 32 21 moses witnesses against their refusal to believe the gentiles will be saved why the gentiles are used of god to provoke the nation of israel unto jealousy you are saved to provoke others unto jealousy as they observe your life as they observe what god's doing in your life as you live out the gospel you live out the life they see what's happening in your life not just everything you know roses but even through the adversity you've gone through and they see your countenance they see the way that you respond they see the way that you're not controlled by bitterness and anger but you have victory of joy you have love in your heart you have perseverance you have the fruit of the spirit they're looking at you and they're thinking what makes this person tick how do they keep going they have so much adversity so much went wrong in their marriage and their kids and such but they just love jesus there's a song in their heart they've served the lord all these years they just keep getting kicked in the teeth but they don't stop what is it about them if you're job what is it about job they can't take your jesus from you you can take everything from me but you can't take my jesus though he's slay me yet will i trust in him right and there's a quality of life there there's a quality that come on the human level with stuff there's a spiritual life that provokes others to jealousy the jews looked at the gentiles as simply created as fuel for the fires of hell god made them just for hell we're the chosen people and jesus saying no the true israel of god are those who believe in isaac shall they see be called you guys don't believe you guys are rejecting me it's not a natural it's a spiritual rebirth you must be born again nicodemus so god's manifested favor on the to provoke israel unto jealousy god's a jealous god he doesn't want we as his people to be seduced by the devil to be seduced by the world and to give our love and our affection to the things of the world in in numbers chapter 25 the children of israel began to go in under with the moabite women and such 24 000 israelites were plagued because they went after battle of the moabites and phineas the grandson of aaron uh one of the priests took a javelin and these two mover and shakers these prince and princess um walked by moses and just with that obama look you know that prideful look and went into their tent and began to engage sexually and phineas took a javelin and he thrust it through both their bellies end of your blasphemy of god right don't you wish you could do that good lord send send some speck up send some priests that have that you know send some godly men and women that won't tolerate this evil just just put one at guantanamo and waterboard them just one you know start with bill gates knock that smirk off his face nobody can touch him they're the untouchables you know until god says they're not right verse 20 but isaiah is very bold and say that i was found to them that sought me not i was made manifest unto them that asked not after me i didn't have a jewish background raising i they were catholic for a little while but i wasn't seeking the lord sought me it's amazing i was made manifest unto them that asked not after me i wasn't asking everyone but the lord manifests himself to me god revealed himself to the gentiles isaiah 65 one a christian who's radically in love with jesus will manifest a relationship with god that is so intimate so deep and life-changing that others jews gentiles whosoever will be provoked to jealousy wanting to know god in the way being manifested before them they'll say sir we want to know jesus sirs we've come for jesus and so whether you're in the pulpit or at work or whatever it is that you do you should be invisible people should see jesus that's why i get so angry at christian celebrities they're skewing they're getting the way of their only celebrity which is jesus sir we would see jesus we want to see jesus we're sick and tired of religion we're sick and tired of being played we're sick and tired of the lies we're sick and tired of the begging for money we're coming to church to be with jesus we want to see jesus in his people we want to see their faces reflect who he is does your life communicate the gospel would somebody want what you have verse 21 but to israeli say it all day long i have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient gainsaying people and so isaiah 65 2 through 5 they're obstinate they're refusing to believe they're stiff-necked very stubborn all day long have i stretched forth my hand god is pleading watching god pleading he takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked his arms are out stretched upon the cross nailed to the tree his arms are out and he's crying out father forgive them for they know not what they do he's pleading with the lost to come to christ he's pleading with his father to save to the uttermost the soldier's spear pierces the side of jesus to determine if he's dead blood and water comes out medically speaking he punctured the pericardium blood and water indicative of a ruptured heart death by asphyxiation you push with your knees up to get a breath of air but eventually that asphyxiation reaches a point upon crucifixion where it ruptures your heart the blood and the water out of the pericardium with that spear he's dead he didn't swoon he didn't wake up in a cool tomb he's dead they they pierce them all right he's dead but he was going to raise himself from the dead all right so so all day long i've stretched forth my hands he died of a ruptured he died of a broken heart he takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked would turn from their sins he came unto his own and his own received him not he patiently waits for the loss to call upon him he takes no pleasure as i said in the death of the wicked his call goes out to who to whosoever will he sends preachers he sends preachers with good news i've got good news the prophecy is not doom and gloom it's good news there's another king coming he's coming he's going to set up his kingdom here upon earth it's not america he's not an american sorry to he's not trump either jesus christ king of kings the lord of lords he's coming he's going to set up his kingdom wherein righteousness dwells that's not doom and gloom everything's not fallen apart it's fallen into place and we should be so excited proclaiming prophecy proclaiming his word that he promised his promises being fulfilled in our generation telling people letting people know get ready get ready there's an antichrist system that's being developed the beast system a totalitarian communistic globalistic system right before your eyes you can't deny it and the bible has foretold this system the bible has foretold every man receiving a mark on the right hand of their forehead they can't buy or sell without it two thousand years ago revelation 13 15 through 18 prophesied that the bible prophesied a one world the rebirth of the roman empire an imperial governmental system to cover the entire globe with 10 kings and the bible prophesied a one-world religious system revelation 17 great babylon the whore seducing those upon the planet and presenting a different jesus a different spirit and a different gospel jesus said to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature we're his messengers we have a mission we have a message we manifest his favor as ambassadors reconciling the world under christ how will they hear without a preacher we must go jesus said go what don't we understand about the word go he's counting on you he didn't commission the angels he didn't commission the globalists or the transhumanists he didn't make robots to go and share the gospel he made you he commissioned you he he privileged you with this message he privileged you as his messengers he wants you to be a part of the saving of souls the saving of people from the nazis from the globalists from hell from the devil what a privilege what a blessing i'm looking for the rapture definitely but i know that i'm to be about my father's business jesus said to occupy until i come what's that mean get the gospel out the church age hasn't closed yet there's people out there in your home in your families in your neighborhood where you work where god has commissioned you he's placed you there to share the good news because the world is filled with bad news a lot of bad news but jesus the bible is not bad news unless the only way it's bad news is if in your if you are in love with this world and the bible says love not the world neither the things that are in the world all that's in the world the lust of flesh the lust the eye the pride of life is not of the father but of the world and the world perished in the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of god abides forever the love of the world is enmity with god you're an enemy of god if you're in love with this world why would you be in love with this world and these world rulers these guys are the minions of satan satan is the little g god of this world the prince the power of the air that's why you see these reprobates in power they're doing his bidding it should make you sick should make you so anxious for jesus to come back let's pray father we thank you we thank you that we in our simplicity lord in the simplicity of the gospel that you've given us a measure of faith to respond that lord we're sealed by your holy spirit we're kept by the power of your holy spirit my name is written in the lamb's book of life for me to live as christ to die as gain it doesn't matter at this point all that matters is that i'm about my father's business that i hear him one day say well done now good and faithful servants you've been faithful over a few things i'm gonna make your rulers over much enter into the joy of the lord lord we want to be faithful we want to be found faithful when you come for us so lord evermore help us to put off the distractions the political circus of distractions our phones the media all the things that distract us from the most important that which is best that a fellowship with you as worshipers of you that we might be filled first and then we go filled with the holy spirit with the glorious good news of your coming kingdom equip and use us in these last days lord do great things do exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask or think according to your power that works in us lord and while you continue to pray if there's anybody here this morning and you don't know jesus christ christianity is a relationship if you don't know him as your lord and savior if you haven't been born again god has given you this acceptable time this is the acceptable time today is the day of salvation and this is your moment this is your moment that the holy spirit is tugging on your heart where the father's revealing the son unto you revealing his son that this is my son this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased hear him listen to the holy spirit what is god speaking to your heart you have ears to hear he that has ears to hear what the spirit is saying hear it is god telling you he loves you is god telling you his son died for you is god telling you he wants to save you right here and now anyone here just lift your hand up we want to lead you in prayer as you respond to god prayer is not a monologue a dialogue god's speaking to you now you speak to him you pray you say lord jesus come into my heart and life lord jesus forgive me of my sins write my name in your lamb's book of life lord fill me with your holy spirit use my life for your kingdom and your glory make me a preacher lord make me a preacher make me a herald make me evangelist let me shout from the rooftops the glorious good news of your coming kingdom anyone here this morning father thank you thank you that i get to rub elbows with such great men and women of god people that have been through so much people that have been so faithful unto you and who are so ready who are so ready to share your love with people to share the gospel to pray with people to intercede for people such a blessing lord so amazing to be a part of this church body and i pray evermore that you would pour out your holy spirit upon us fill us to overflowing lord that we would glorify you that we wouldn't be the lay of the sea in church that we maybe we're the philadelphia church we got little strength but lord bring glory and honor unto you be glorified lord bless we pray in jesus name amen