Acts: Faithful To Warn

If you every Bible was turned with me, and want

you turned with me to Acts. We're in our study

through the Book of Acts. We'll be in Acts eighteen,

starting the verse one in just a moment. But also

if you'll turn there with me, and also turn back

into the Old Testament, and if you'll find the prophet

Ezekiel Ezekiel thirty three when we read a few verses there.

Hopefully as you came in the door this morning, there

is a maybe you got one of the book cards.

Hopefully you got that when you came in and called,

who's your one? I don't know if there's any ushers.

If you did, and you could, maybe some ushers can

come by and give those out this morning. In in

October twenty second, twenty twelve, a court, an Italian court,

sentence seven scientists to manslaughter. They send us some a

manslaughter for not warning the people of Italy of a

earthquake in two thousand and nine. The earthquake in two

thousand and nine killed more than three hundred people. You

see there were sentenced to six years because they did

not The scientists, which were scientists that were in charge

of studying the size of the earthquake activity in the area.

That was their responsibility, their geological experts, and although that

was their job, they did not warn the people. Just

weeks or months before the earthquake, residents began feeling small tremors.

They noted that that been in the news. The scientists

had been watching the readings, They had been watching the

tremor activity, but at that time the experts, these scientists c.

Seven determined that it was unlikely but not impossible, that

a major earthquake would take place, and so therefore they

did not warn the people. And despite the concerns of

the people, despite the people saying they felt tremors, the

earthquake came, and three hundred people died, and an Italian

court sentence seven scientists to manslaughter for not warning people.

They saw their eatings, they felt the warnings, they read

the data, but they did not warn the people of

the coming danger. In Ezekiel thirty three, I'll read that

passage with you and I there's a command that God

gives a prophet, the prophet Ezekiel, and he gives them

a command about the importers of Ezekiel and God's people,

the reports of them warning of coming trouble. He says

this in Ezekiel thirty three one three six. The word

of the Lord came to me, son a man, speak

to your people. Say to them, if I bring the

sword upon the land, and the people of the land,

take a man from among them, make him their watchman.

If he sees the sword coming upon the land, and

he blows the trumpet and warns the people, And if

the people hear the sound of the trumpet and does

not take the warning, the sword comes and takes him away,

the blood shall be upon his own head. If he

heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take

the warning, his blood shall be upon himself. But if

he had taken the warning, he would have saved his life.

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does

not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned,

and the sword comes and takes one of them, that

person is takeaway, and his iniquity, but his blood I

will acquire at the watchman's hand. See the same imagery

that we found. The court held the seven scientists guilty

for not warning the people. In Ezekiel's time, God tells

the prophet Isaiah, I mean Ezekiel, that my sword. My

judgment is coming upon the land. And Ezekiel, I'm setting

you to be the watchman. My judgment's coming. And when

you see my judgment coming, I tell you are You're

commanded as the watchman to sound the horn, to blow

the alarm, to set off the alarm, and that the

alarm might warn people that God's Judgment's coming. Now, if

you sound the alarm, if you warn them and they

don't repent, they don't turn away, then it's on their head.

But if you don't warn them, if you see that

it's coming and you don't warn them, their blood will

be on your hands. You know, the Bible tells us,

as we just looked last week, and the Acts seventeen

thirty through thirty one. We just read this last week

in our study through the Book of Acts, the time

of ignorance of God. In times of ignorance, God overlook.

But now he commands all people everywhere to because He

has fixed a day on which he will judge the

world in righteousness by a man who's appointed. And of

this he has given assurance to all by raising him

from the dead. Can I tell you that in Ezekiel time,

God told Ezekiel that my judgment is coming and your

call to warn them. Can I tell your acts tells

us last week that just as God told Ezekiel, God

now tells us that judgment's coming. That God has fixed

a day which you will judge all the world and listen.

God appointed Ezekiel to be a watchman and as a

believer in Jesus Christ. If you're here today, can I

tell you God has commanded you to be a watchman.

God has commanded you to be one who warns people,

your friends, your neighbors, your co workers, your classmates of

the coming judgment that's coming. If you have your there,

hopefully as you came in, you got one of those

who I want you to think about something for me. Now,

who's your one? The whole premise of the book mark

is if there's one person that you know, a family member,

co worker, classmate. Who's that one person that you know

that needs Jesus? And I want you if you have

that card, I want you to write their name on

that card today at some point, maybe in the service now,

maybe some other time today. But who's that one person?

Can I tell you God's called you to share the

gospel without person to warn them this judgment's coming this morning,

as we come to this passage of scripture, Paul understood that.

Paul now understood this was a command that God had

given Ezekiel. This is a command that God's given all people. Right,

Matthew twenty eight, go you all to all the nations,

telling them about telling them about Jesus, teaching them all

that I've commanded. You baptized them in my name. Right,

you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, judas some here

to the ends of the earth. Paul understood that was

God's command for all people, for all Christians. And God knew,

and Paul knew that he was a watchman, was the

warn people because judgment was coming. Since we come to

this passage of scripture, I want to look today of

Paul understood this was his calling, And how did Paul

faithfully warn people about the coming judgment? Today? I want

to lead you to if God's called you to share

the gospel, if God's called you to faithfully warn people

of the coming judgment, how do you do that? Today?

Is not so much practically methodolically of how you're going

to share the gospel in a method, it's practically speaking,

what are elements in your life practically that needs to

happen in your What are some things in your life

that needs to be in place if you're going to

faithfully warn people about Jesus. So let's stand and let's

look at see how Paul faithfully warned and how we

can see today how we are to faithfully warn people

about God's coming judgment. The Bible says in Acts eighteen,

starting in verse one. Now after this, Paul left Athens,

and he went to Corinth, and he found a Jew

name Aquila, and native Pontus recently came from Italy with

his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded the all Jews

to leave Rome, and he went to see them. And

because he was of the same trade, he stayed with

them and worked for they were tent makers by trade.

And he reasoned in the sin of God every Sabbath,

and he tried to persuade the Jews and Greeks. When

Silas a Timothy arrived in Macedonia, Paul was occupied with

the word testifying to the Jews that Christ was Jesus.

And when they opposed him and reviled him, listen, is

this he shook out his garments and said to them,

your blood be on your heads. I am innocent. From

now on, I will go to the Gentiles. And he

left there, and he went to the house of a

man Titus Justice, a worship of worship of God. His

house was next door to the sin of God, and Christmas,

the ruler of the sen of God, believed in the Lord.

Together with the entire household. In many of the hearing,

Paul believed. And we're baptized. Let's pray, Lord, You've called

us to be your witnesses. You called us to be

your watchman. You're called us to warn people of the

coming judgment. Lord, tell them about the good news of

salvation that's found in You Jesus. So Lord, I pray

today that as we look at Paul's example of how

he faithfully warned the car the Corinthians, Lord, may we

examine God, who have you put in our life and

how are we faithfully warning them? So Lord, lead us

by your word today. God, I pray for Lord, what

we need today more than ever, and that we need

your word, not mine. We need your spirit. And so Lord,

we pray Lord that your spirit would fill this place.

Your word would convict our hearts. And Lord, I pray

we surrender Lord to the teaching of your word today,

and your name we pray a man you may be seated.

See how we faithfully warn. First, we faithfully warn by

working for the gospel. We faithfully warn by working for

the gospel. We see that in verse one, Paula's Athens,

and he goes into this very important city. It's a

very important city for the future of the church. This

is corinth This is Paul would write actually four letters

to the corinth We have two of those, First and

Second Corinthians. So this would be a major city that

Paul would start a church in. That would be a

major city, that would a major church. This was a

very wicked city. This was considered the Las Vegas of

the time. There was a lot of immorality in the

city that we see later on come out in Paul's

letter to the Corinthians and First Corinthians and Second Corinthians.

But he comes into the city. It was about forty

five miles west of Athens. He comes in there, scripture

tells us. Immediately there there he meets a couple. Husband's

name Aquila, the wise name is Priscilla, and so he

begins meeting with them. Scripture tells us here that they

because that these two had left Italy and came to Corinth.

Claudius had mentioned Claudius. Claudius was the emperor at time

in Rome, and the Jews had in Rome had created

a really a big uproar in the city of Rome,

and the uproar was over the Christians. At this time.

There was believed about fifty thousand Jews into Rome at

the time, and that was a significant amount of Jews

in Rome, and there was Christians in Italy, the Christians

in Rome, and these the Jews, these fifty thousand Jews,

didn't like what the Christians were doing. They didn't like

the Christians were evangelizing and people were coming to the

Lord and converting from Judaism, convert converting Romans to christ

They didn't like that, and so they sent in the

city in uproar and attacked the Jews. Claudius didn't light

the fighting between the Jews and the Christians, and so

he expelled them all. He expelled them, the Christians out

of Rome. And the scripture tells us that Quila and

Priscilla left Rome and came to carth Now here's the

question for you as you come to this passage of Scripture.

If you understand much about Acts, we've read through, or

we've been studying through the Book of Acts. Now we're

in the eighteenth chapter and up this point. As we've

looked at Paul's missionary journey, Paul has never made it

to Rome. He's shared the Gospel and converted city after

city to Christ, started churches in city after city, but

Paul has not been to Rome. No missionary at this

point had been to Rome. So the question for you

and I, how did the Gospel get to Rome. It

wasn't a pastor, it wasn't an apostle. We see it

nowhere and Acts. You know how the Gospel got to Rome.

Believers who left the church in Jerusalem after the persecution

of Paul when Paul was Saul, and they took the

Gospel to the end of the earth. Christians, just ordinary Christians,

took the Gospel to Rome and a church was started.

It wasn't a pastor, it wasn't a missionary. And now

these Aquila and Prisilla tent makers, not pastors, not missionaries,

tent makers. They have taken their trade in city after city.

They've used their trade to expand the Gospel. And now

these Priscilla and Aquila evidently were sharing the gospel in Rome,

and they were part of the ones that had the

tension between the Christians, I mean the Jews. They have

now left Rome, they've come to KRT and guess what

they're doing. They're they're still making tents and whether they're

doing using their their tent making their business, they're using

it as a platform to share the Gospel. And Paul

scripture tells us he joins them. He joins them because

they're the same trade. In verse three, you see in

this passage we see Aquila in Priscilla and Paul, and

they're faithfully warning people about the Gospel, how through their occupation,

through their trade. I don't know if you ever heard

the story of a man named Edward Kimball. I think

you probably have. I've shared maybe this story before. Edward

Kimball was a school teacher. He taught school, but he

also taught Sinday school. He taught middle school boys. And

Edward Kimball had a passion to reach every boy in

his class for Christ. He had a goal. It's kind

of like who's your one? And he had a goal

that he was going to share the gospel with every

boy in that class. There was a boy in that

class that often would fall asleep into Sunday school hour.

It was just seemed like he never paid attention, but

he knew he was lost. His name was Dwight L. Moody.

One day, Dwight was working at his uncle's shoe store

and Edward Kimball decided that he was going to go

to the sh shoe store of that Edward, I mean

Dwight and Moody worked at and he was going to

share the gospel. This is what Kimball says. He says,

I was determined to speak with him about Christ, about

his soul. I started down to the bootstore and I

was about to go in, and I started thinking, maybe

I shouldn't go during business hours. It might embarrass the

boy when I when I would left, maybe the other

clerks other people worked in there may tick on him

about his Sunday school teacher trying to make him a

good boy. But in the meantime, as I passed the store,

I discovered discovered that I was determined I needed to

share so he either it was now or never, So

he said he went. He goes into the store, and

he says, I found him in the back of the building.

He was wrapping up shoes. I went up to him

and I put my hand on his shoulder. What I

and then I made what he says, a week plea

for Christ. I don't even he says, I don't know

just what words are you, nor I could I could?

Could he tell whether Moody understood. I simply told him

Christ loved for him, and that Christ wanted what Christ

wanted in return. And that was it that young man

that day, Dwight L. Moody, God saved you see, for Kimball,

that was one of his ones. And Kimball didn't think

he had to be a preacher, or had to be

a missionary, or had to be some professional in ministry

as a Sunday school teacher. As a school teacher, God

had called him to share the gospel. God had given

people in his life that he was to share the

gospel with, and he was determined to share with his one.

It doesn't stop there. If you know the story, Dwight L.

Moody would become evangelist and share the gospel. He would

lead a man to the Lord named Wilburn Wilburn Chapman,

and I'm going to talk about him in just the

little bit. Chapman would be evangelists and he would share

the Gospel of revival service. And there was a baseball

player there by the name of Billy Sunday. Billy Sunday

would get saved during one of his meetings. Billy Sunday

would begin sharing the Gospel and do crusades, and he

would lead a man named the Lord named Mordecai Ham.

Mordecai Ham also became a pastor and was during crusades,

and he did a crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina. And

there's a young man at Charlotte, North Carolina who was

at the crusade and his name was Billy Graham. It

all started with one Sunday school teacher. One school teacher

who had a passion to share the Gospel with his

one and determined to use whatever God given him occupationally

to use it as a platform to share the gospel.

Can I tell you today, we come here on Sunday morning,

we're all about Jesus. We worship, we give him praise,

we listen to the message but listen. It should not

stop on Sunday morning. Whatever we do outside of here occupationally,

whether we're bagging groceries, we should bag groceries in order

to share the gospel. We should we should work in

our careers. We should teach in our schools in order

to share the gospel. We should farm if we're farmers,

in order to share the gospel. If we're practice medicine,

we should practice medicine in order to share the gospel.

If we serve in it, we should serve in it

in order to share the Gospel. Whatever you do as

a trade, God wants to use your occupation to advance

the Gospel of Jesus. Christ were to faithfully warn by

working for the gospel. Quila and Priscilla and Paul used

their trade to take the Gospel to the ends of

the earth. Secondly, we should we should we faithfully warn

by removing obstacles. The Bible says in verse three, look

at it with me, because he was of the same trade.

He stayed with them, and he worked for they were

temp makers by trade. And he reasoned in the Synagod

every Sabbath, and tried to persuade the Jews in the Greeks.

It's interesting Paul was a missionary. He'd taken the gospel

all through these different places, and he comes to Corinth

and the Bible says that he's working with a quillaen

Priscilla and working trades. He works Monday through Friday in

the trades, using that trade to try to use opportunities

to share the gospel. But then on the weekends he's

in the synagod regularly on Saturday sharing the gospel. But

he You would think maybe it's just a missionary, full

time missionary, just be totally dedicated to sharing the gospel,

but he doesn't. Why doesn't Paul said this in one

Corinthians nine to twelve. He says, if others share this

rightful claim to you, do we not? Even more so,

he's talking to the church in Corinth where he started.

He says, nevertheless, we have not made use of this right,

but we do anything rather than put an obstacle in

the way of the gospel. He's talking to this church

that he starts here as we're reading this morning, and

he's talking about he had the rightful claim to accept

support and be self supported and not work and share

the gospel. But Paul said, I worked in order that

it not be an obstacle for you in receiving the gospel.

You see the same thing at that's on ends when

he goes to Anaika, he works there because he didn't

want to be a stumbling block. Why. You see, at

the time in Carinth, there were some cynic philosophers that

were teaching throughout Krinth. These philosophers would come town to

town and they would kind of do like street preaching,

and this street preaching that they did in the streets

and in the marketplaces. They believed that they should be

free from any want, and so they therefore depended upon

the contributions of the hearers for their basic needs. And

these cynic street preachers were considered untrustworthy. Paul knew that

when he came in the court, he says, if I

come in there and I just preached to them, and

I preach in the street corners and I'm not working

in my trade, some of them may think I'm just

like one of those and they may not think I'm trustworthy.

In order for it not to be a stumbling block,

I'm going to work in order to remove that obstacle

from the gospel that people might hear the Gospel and

not allow me not working be a stumbling block for them.

You see, Paul understood that there's certain things in my

life that if it's a hindrance to the Gospel, I'm

willing to remove it that people might hear Jesus. You know,

a few years ago, I had a friend of mine

and he had got caught up in a lawsuit and

he had a small business, and another small business in

the area sued his business and took him to court.

And when they took him to court, they seized his computers,

his phones, and they went through everything, read every text

message he had, every email he said, and you personal

messages between him his wife, and I remember talking about

how he felt like he'd just been exposed. He just

felt like he was just they just went through everything.

Paul in Philippians one twenty says this as my eager expectation.

I hope and I will all be all. I will

not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage

now as always Christ will be honored my body, whether

my life or by my death. Paul was in prison

at the time. He was actually headed to trial, and

he's going to be sentenced to life or death. And

when he was on trial, he knew that they were

going to examine everything about his life, just a lot

like my friend. They were going to look for any

kind of dirt they can find on Paul. And Paul

says that he says this about that encounter. Paul says,

these words I just read. And what Paul was saying

here is my expectation of my hope that listen way

he says that I will not all be ashamed. You

know what Paul is saying there, He says, somebody looks

at my life and they examine every aspect of my life.

I hope there's nothing in my life that will bring

shame to Jesus. Hope there's nothing in my life that

would shame the Gospel and it will hinder the Gospel

in anyway. Can I tell you when we say, you

know what Lord, I want to be. I want to

faithfully share the Gospel with my one and Lord, I

know you may you've put me in my place? You

can I tell you God's put you in the workplace

that you work with, with the friends and coworkers you

work with, the school that you go to with the

friends and classmates you have. He puts you where you

are right now that you might be a light of

the gospel. To where you are. He's put people in

your life that you might share the Gospel with him.

And you must understand sharing the Gospel that just happen

on Sunday mornings, It happens on Monday mornings, happens on

Tuesday mornings. It happens as we go and we go

by our everyday life. And we must say, if I'm

going to faithfully warn, I've got to use what God's gifted,

God's given me, what career God's given me. But secondly,

I must think about what in my life is an

obstacle to the Gospel. What in my life is hindering

people from coming to know Jesus. And if there's a

hindrance in my life that's hindering people from someone receiving Jesus,

what am I doing to remove it? I mean, if

Jesus is really coming back and my coworker doesn't hear

about Jesus, he's going to hell. And God had me

work byside for years and years and I never told him.

At what point do I do I say, God, you

put him in my life. At what point do I say, God,

I'm so serious, I don't want him to go to hell.

That God, if there's things in my life that I

need to remove that he gets to know Jesus, I'll

do it because his soul is more valuable than the

things that I want to hold onto. And Paul's silence says,

ses that I faithfully warn about God, who do you

you put in my life? And how am I going

to share with them and use my career to share

the gospel? But God, also, what in my life is

a hindrance to the Gospel? And what am I willing

to let go of, to get rid of, to remove

that they might hear Jesus. Think about that name that

you were on a O card today? Is there anything

in your life that is hindering your one from knowing Jesus?

Or are you willing to remove it that they might

hear Jesus. Third, this morning we faithfully warned by working

for the gospel. We faithfully warned by removing obstacles. We

faithfully warn Thirdly, by testifying, Look what happens to the

Bible says that in verse four reasoned then sent a

God every Sabbath and tried to persuade the Jews and Greeks,

and when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was

occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that Christ

was Jesus. Says. Silas and Timothy were in Athens, and

after a short time they came and they kind of

joined Paul in the mission. It's believed at that time

that Silas and Timothy may have brought an offering from

some of the churches that he had been maybe on

his first missionary during other places, and that allowed Paul

not to have to work. But he had contributions. He

didn't depend upon getting contribution from mebody in Corinth. He

had some, so he was able to allow him to

just preach. And the Bible says at that time there

was a shift for Paul, and Paul occupied himself with

the word. The word occupied. There is the idea of exorbing.

It's kind of like a sponge. You're right, You're a

bought a sponge and a straw you put into a

bucket of water and it exhorbs the water. That's the

imagery here. Paul exsorbed the word. He studied the word,

he dug into it. Can I tell you there's an

importance when we want to grow in the Word of God,

and we want to grow and share in the Gospel,

there's really takes some time that we really need to

be people who say, you know what, this requires me

to get in the Word. The greatest thing you can

share when you share the Gospel, share in the Word

of God. The only way you're going to share the

Word of God is if you know the Word of God.

There must be a concentrated effort for us to say,

you know what, there's times where I need to be

in the Word daily, and it's not only for my edification,

but also that I might be a bright light for

the Gospel. Paul did that. He absorbed himself in the Word.

He grew in the Word. But listen to what the

Bible says. But verse sec six says, and when they

opposed him with reviled he Verse five says, when Paul

occupied the word, listen what he did with it. He

testified through the Jews that Christ was Jesus. It's very

simply there comes to a time where we say, what

God's put this person, this one in my life. I

need to use what talents and gifts. Occupation I have,

whether it's being in school now or working in a career,

I need to use this opportunity to share the gospel.

Can I tell you students, one of my biggest regrets

of being in high school in middle school is I

did not share the gospel like I should. I was

too concerned about being cool, too concerned about what would

someone think if I shared. Jesus and many of those

students I have never seen again. That was my opportunity.

This is your opportunity. Don't waste it. Go. I tell

you adults here today, you don't know how long you have.

Use every moment you have to share the gospel. But

there's some times where just simply hey, we're using the opportunity.

I'm removing obstacles. There's time, just I've studied the word

of God's time to share. You know, one of the

hardest ones to be you're one. It's family, isn't it

the hardest people sharing the gospel with his loved ones,

isn't it? One of my ones was my grandpa. I

was so worried about his salvation. I was in college.

I think Mike is rubbed Sorry. I'm trying to fix

it so you don't hear it shaken. I was in college.

I think i'd finished college. I was in ministry and

serving in churches, and I'd shared the gospel of different people,

but I never shared the gospel with him. And I

told Brandie one day, I said, I cannot live with

myself knowing I've never asked him about does he know Jesus?

So I remember, I made a plan. I decided I

go visit him. My grandma had already passed away, and

I went into his house and I remember sitting down

in the living room. I never forget it, and I

remember looking at him, said, Grandpa, I want to ask

you a hard question, but I love you enough to

ask you, do you know Jesus. That was one of

the hardest questions and the hardest conversations I've ever had

in my entire life. But I can confidently stand today

and said I was faithful to warn how about you?

The Bible says that Paul shares and if we go

to verse six here, I want you to see here,

it says, and when they opposed and reviled him, the

word revival is actually is a word for heresy. They

actually call him a heretic. They label him as a

heretic the Jews. This is what Paul does, and that's

where I wanted to end here this morning. Paul scripture

says that reviled him. He shook out his garments and

he said to them, you're blood beyond your heads. I'm innocent.

See Paul's using the imagery of Zechie, isn't he? Paul says, listen,

I faithfully use my occupation that it might share the

gospel with you. I faithfully remove the obstacles that might

hinder you from coming to know Jesus. I faithfully told

you about Jesus. You've rejected. Your blood is not on

my hands. I ask you today the name that's on

your card. Are you innocent? Have you faithfully warned them?

Have you faithfully shared the gospel? God's called you to share?

What would you do? What will you do in the

days to come? God has given you time left? What

will you do this year the gospel and be faithful

to warn? I want to close with this. Wilburn, who

was led to the Lord by Dwight Elmodi, wrote this,

writing about if Christianity, if there's truth in the Bible, true,

then it should then cause a result. He says this,

If to be a Christian is worthwhile, then the most

ordinary interest in those with whom we can come in

contact with prompt us to speak to them about Christ.

If the New Testament is true, and we know that

it is who has given us the right, the right,

and the responsibility for soul winning other than our own shoulders.

If they reject Christ are in danger. Those who reject

Christ are in danger. And is it not strange that we,

who are sympathetic when difficulties in physical temporals, should apparently

be so devoid of interest as to allow our friends

and our neighbors and kindred to come into our own

lives and to pass out again without a word of

invitation to except Christ, or to say nothing of astounding

note of warning of the coming danger of hell. If

today is the day of salvation, and if tomorrow may

never come, if life is equally uncertain, how can we eat,

drink with those that we live with, work with, walk

with love us. And they're unprepared for eternity because they're

unprepared for time. If Jesus called disciples to seek the lost,

If Paul the Apostle was in agony because of his

the fellow Jews did not know Christ. Why should we

not consider it worthwhile to go after the lost until

they are found. If I am to stand in judgment

seat of Christ and to render account for the deeds

done in my body, what am I to say to him?

If my children are missing, if my friends are not saved,

if my employer or the employee should miss the way

because I have been faithless. If I wish to be

approved at last, then let me remember that no intellectual superiority,

no eloquent preaching, no shrinking and temperament, no being shy

can take the place or be an excused for me

making an honest, sincere, prayerful effort to win someone to Christ.

You pray with me. Lord, we are your children, and Lord,

we are so thankful that you saved us. But Lord,

they're once their family. There's neighbors, there's coworkers, there's classmates,

And Lord, there don't know you. And Lord, if they

don't receive you, they don't put their faith in you.

Your judgment's coming. Lord. May we be as a body

of believers, as individuals. May we have a passion a

commitment to be faithful to warn them to be faithful,

to share the good news Lord, that you so loved

them that you died on a cross, that who shall

ever believe in You shall not perish by have everlasting life.

So Lord, give us a heart, give us a passion,

give us an intentionality to put our hand on the

shoulder of someone like Kimbldo and tell them about Jesus. Lord.

We love you, Lord. This is hard. We confess that

to you today. Lord, help us surrender to you even

in the hard things, even when we're fearful, we're uncertain.

Maybe we surrender to you today, or we love you

your name, We pray Amen, Jesus pain all to