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A burning burden- Bro Thomas Sterrett 2-18-2024

Bethel Holiness Church - Sunday Morning Services

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  1. So thankful for the blood of Jesus, that mercy, Oh that touched me,

  2. brother, rot brother, Thankful for this opportunity I've always humbled. I

  3. take this serious stand behind the seeker desk and do this for Pastor how I

  4. hadn't talked to anybody, and actually trying to keep my family from knowing I

  5. was gonna be preaching. My wife saw them and made it away a little

  6. bit. But I've had a burden for several weeks. I've had the cabbage

  7. vestal wore in mind, and just all these overreaches, all these ministries.

  8. I'm blessed by the homeless Outreach, the nursing Home ministry, the Spreaker Ministry,

  9. and I'm going forgets. There's all these ministries are that are being done.

  10. It's a serious thing to reach the loss. I'm going to read this

  11. little quote. I thought this was good. Okay, you know one name

  12. is Samuel Chadwick eighteen sixty and nineteen thirty two. He wrote, why does

  13. the church stay indoors to have a theology that dwindled into a philosophy in which

  14. there is no thrilled faith, no care of doom, no concern for songs?

  15. Unbelief has put out the fires of passion and worldliness, garlands the altar

  16. of sacrifice with the corvardly glitter of unreality. And there was another one.

  17. I had William Booth's oldest daughter. He said, there is a love constraining

  18. me to go and seek the loss. I yield old Lord by all to

  19. thee to save at any cost. And I'm thankful for those of time's pass

  20. I'm thankful for saints of God, pillars in the church. I'm thankful for

  21. those of labor. And I'm gonna kind of hit on this. I like

  22. this fires of passion. Bear with me. Here we're gonna be turned into

  23. We'll be turned into a loop. Let's turn the axpers nineteen from verse fifteen,

  24. and then we're going to be going to sixteen verses twenty two to thirty

  25. one. When he stands for the reading of the word Acts nineteen and verse

  26. fifteen in this evil's spear, It answered and said, Jesus I know,

  27. and Paul I know, But who are you turning to Luke sixteen twenty two

  28. to one. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried

  29. by the angels into Aprim's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried,

  30. and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and

  31. see if the Abraham afar off and laughs in his bosom. And he cried

  32. and said, Father, Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus

  33. that he may dip the tip of his finger and water and cool my tongue,

  34. or I'm tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, son, remember

  35. that thou has in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil

  36. things. And now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside

  37. all these things between us and you, there is a great gulf fixed,

  38. so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot either they've passed to

  39. us that would come from this. Then he said, I pray thee therefore,

  40. father, that thou would send him to my father's house by five brethren,

  41. that he may testify unto them, least they also come into this place

  42. of poor men. And Abraham said, unto him. Abraham said, unto

  43. him, they have Moses in the prophets to hear them. And he said,

  44. nay, Father Abraham, But if thou wilt if one went unto them

  45. from the dead, they will repent, And he said unto him, if

  46. they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded. Though

  47. one rose from the dead, Your heavenly Father, God, I thank you,

  48. Lord. I pray for your annoying, your helpful God, the perfect

  49. God, that you used us encourage us, and God even help and your

  50. will all reached the Boss and to be a witness and a testifier. We

  51. give you all the glory and Jesus Christians man amen. As I was praying

  52. about this title, it changed. The Lord changed it on me about halfway

  53. through my study. And the title of this message and you'll see it later

  54. on as Ilaa Foundation here is. But who are you? But as as

  55. I say that, I want to talk about, do we have a burning

  56. burden for the loss? And I know many of you do. I know

  57. many of you are out on these outreaches and even in your place of employment,

  58. even with your family members and neighbors and different ones of witnessing and testified

  59. and being enlightened to them. And I was looking there in Jeremiah in verse

  60. twenty and ninety said then and I said, I will not make mention of

  61. him or speak is any more in his name. But his word was in

  62. my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones. And I

  63. was weary with a forbearian and I could not stay. And sometimes I wonder

  64. do we have that burning, that burning, that that that burning for our

  65. family. Jeremiah twenty and twenty nine says, is not my word life as

  66. a fire, Amen, said the Lord. That's what the Lord says.

  67. It's not my word like a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the

  68. rock in pieces. Amen. God's word does not return void. There is

  69. power not in the blood of Jesus, but in the in the word of

  70. in the word of Christ, word of God. And we and I know

  71. we think about that double edged Lord. That's where the word of God is

  72. quick and powerful and sharper than any too. Ex Lord, Peace and even

  73. person given to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, and of

  74. the joints and of tomorrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the

  75. intents of the heart. And then that word should that word doesn't return,

  76. Boyd, that word that sanctifies cleanses us, the truth that sends us free

  77. it's the word that sanctifies, that truth that sanctifies. There in first Pterre

  78. three and fifteen says, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and

  79. be ready always to give an answer. We have the Lord God burden in

  80. our heart. Are we always ready to give an answer? I mean,

  81. he told Timothy to breach the word in season and out of season when you

  82. ain't ready. You know, you gotta be ready to give an answer.

  83. You know. I want to encouraging preachers. You know, you never know,

  84. pastor how can call you up in a minute, You never know,

  85. I mean, And we gotta be ready, as my wife was. He

  86. found out last night out on the streets. She had a Catholic naysayer finding

  87. discredit the Old Testament dispread at the churchy or she let him have it.

  88. But no, I'm thankful she was trying of leading my way, which that

  89. would have I would have tore into him. But thank god, he was

  90. more merciful than I was, and she was, and she give him the

  91. word, And I'm thankful for that. And we always we gotta be ready

  92. because they're gonna be naysayers. Maybe it'll be an atheist, maybe it'll be

  93. a Jehovah witness. Maybe it'll be whoever. But if they're not living and

  94. they're preaching them a cursed gospel out there, there's the Devil's got so many

  95. workers to seeven, so many people, so many different ways, and even

  96. the world. And I know I've preached this on the street. They don't

  97. want people to know the good news. They really know. They don't know

  98. what I'm saying. That they lose their business, they lose all kind of

  99. things. But I'm thankful that we need to. And first Peter there he

  100. says, but sactify the Lord God in your hearts, and be always,

  101. be ready always to give an answer to every man that asked you the reason

  102. of the hope, that it's in you with meekness and fear. Amen.

  103. We serve the Lord with fear fear, and that's how a lot of them

  104. are gained through as Je talks about there in verses twenty through twenty three.

  105. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on the most holy faith, amen,

  106. or we need to be savedified. We need to be building up our

  107. most holy faith, praying in the Holy nose, keeping ourselves in the love

  108. of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord's Jesus Christ, and to

  109. eat conal life. And then I love those songs this morning, I love

  110. all songs that those two were really just we don't want to be too late

  111. to pray, and we want to live on in eternity. Amen, I'm

  112. thankful for that, and the lesson the visitation Breda Wallas. I forbid to

  113. have the desolation and the destruction. That's not God's will. God's not willing

  114. that any should pay. He cares about each and everyone, and I'm kidding.

  115. Somewhere he says, for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ and to

  116. eternal life. And some have compassion, making a difference. Another saved with

  117. fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garments fathered by

  118. the flesh. And second Thessalonians one eight nine, it says, in flaming

  119. fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the

  120. Gospel of my Lord Jesus Christ, he shall be punished with everlasting destruction from

  121. the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power that flaming fire.

  122. You don't have a burning burden, lost family, lost coworkers and others

  123. are gonna be in a burning fire, burning burden so that they don't have

  124. a going to the burning fire. And unfortunately, you know that it's gonna

  125. be up to them multimately. I mean we could have uh now, I

  126. know the effectual fervent where the righteous avelus much and and and I know that

  127. we should be fervent in spirit. Yeah, but and and like those two

  128. Kendle sticks there and revelations, it said fire proceedings out there. Now your

  129. words the fire, and that's in our bones. You know, there's a

  130. good fire, there's a bad fire, there's a consequential fire. And I

  131. want that holy ghost fire. So when I'm out there, will listening to

  132. somebody that's his words are not fire words. And man, that annoying.

  133. We need that holy ghost annoying, that holy ghost fire annoying. But where

  134. is that fervent love? And that burning burdens our heart burning? And and

  135. uh and I begin to think that it was being said earlier day, Brother

  136. Walliston's him wrong. You know, God knows us he was talking about you

  137. know, even Peter, I don't know us. Peter knew that Jesus knew

  138. you. You know we a lot of time we don't think God knows.

  139. Nothing's hid from God, not even the things done in the secret. But

  140. God loves us. He's not willing that we should perish, and we don't

  141. want We definitely don't want to stress his mercy. We don't want to tempt

  142. him. We want to be in obedience to the will of God. And

  143. uh, I know Pastor always mentions to know them that labor. You know,

  144. God knows who's laboring. God knows. One of one of my prayers

  145. is to be like Joe, as I considered my servant. Joe. Can

  146. God brag on us? I want him to be able to brag now,

  147. not that I'm nobody. I know I'm nobody, and I'm not trying to.

  148. I know God resisted the proud. I always want to be humble,

  149. but but to be pleasing to die. The sister move many times says to

  150. please him that God can trust me and know that I don't know that God

  151. forbid if I lost ten of my children or five. Recently, I got

  152. a message on my answering. It was one of my daughters. I hadn't

  153. heard from him about three years. It was from a physician and you know

  154. I've had Traarents asked me, you know how well, how can you go

  155. to heaven known your child burning? And tell? And that time I didn't

  156. have an answer. I know it says the Bible says, will have no

  157. more rememberance, because Guy's gonna wipe away those tears. He turned the way

  158. longer, and a little spectrum the daker that we live here on nurse and

  159. we gotta get this right in that little bacon. And there wasn't no answer.

  160. And my mother up in the Indian she did a like a wellness cat

  161. answer on the phone, answered the doors, called the police. Yeah,

  162. the thoughts right in your mind. And I'm trusting in God, say like

  163. my children and all my children. Another little picture that Grace screw me.

  164. When she was real little, she drew fishers of the met and me and

  165. mom and dad, all the brothers and sisters on there. She had you

  166. on there twice saying I don't know why, and she thought there was another

  167. one. Okay, No, that encourages me. I had to keep that

  168. hanging up, and I know that God is able to save it. Everything

  169. turned out all right. She apparently left went with a friend and everything is

  170. in a kid. I thank God for that. I know that he's able.

  171. Yeah, and but I do remember a time when when as a young

  172. Christian, and that and I begin to pass out hospital tracks, h and

  173. this, you'll try out to be afraid of people. I appreciate brother as

  174. another ministry. I forgot passed out tracks, and I know there's other ministries.

  175. And the Lord give me a dream the night before where I saw two

  176. people lived like they were going to help. They were they ignited to mustard

  177. and the burning, and they were screaming and they were melting, and the

  178. horrible dream. I could not I could not go back to sleep after that.

  179. And it was before the flood there in Martinsville, and I went to

  180. the gas station and there was a Safeeness there. He's all big, pop

  181. a guy in golf and black and he was scared. I mean he's scared

  182. to attend it before line to quit them by the gas and stuff and the

  183. check out line, and they were all afraid. And I'm like, oh

  184. wow, And I'd already paid for my gas and I'm sitting at the pump

  185. and they were walking out. The Lord said, I want to speak to

  186. him. I was impressed. It on my heart. I don't want to

  187. do it. And I said, order and that's all, walking out and

  188. said I'm sorry I walked out. I said, lorder, go back here

  189. and I'll speak to me. That's what I am, or had the way

  190. through anything. He went right back to his flunk, gathered myself and I

  191. went to witness to this young man. And and he was just a young

  192. man. Just from the outside he looked all scary. But underneath all that

  193. makeup, underneath all them piercing, underneath that that black hood and everything dark

  194. and sinister, was a young innocent child. And uh, I had the

  195. opportunity. I had him some tracks and witness to him. And I thank

  196. god that I didn't mess out on that, because you know, he could

  197. have went in a very bad way. And he took he took the heart

  198. and received everything I said, and and and I told him, you know

  199. this, this witnessing to him, but that aside every person that we talked

  200. to, and sometimes and I've made the mistake where I've not got that opportunity

  201. you a second time. And and just you know, guilt and shame because

  202. I didn't because I thought maybe I should have. I could have but I

  203. didn't want to. So we gotta be careful and and and we need to

  204. be burning. There needs to be more of a burning burden. I'm more

  205. of a burden. Sometimes people burn if they've got a burden. So we

  206. there's a there needs to be a burden. And but just knowing those that

  207. labor, you know, God he knows who job is. He just has

  208. to considered myself at job well. And I want to hear enter in thou

  209. good and faithful service. Yeah, And as he told the prophet Jeremiah,

  210. he said, before I formed thee in the valley, I knew thee.

  211. Amen. The names of these children mean stuff. You know that God knows

  212. all of you little babies that are that are here, that are not here,

  213. and He fearfully, wonderfully made them. And he knows that God forbid

  214. a mother forgive him. He says, I'll not forget m And they're in

  215. Isaiah. He talks about who whom shah Sin and who will go for us?

  216. And Isaiah, you know, he said, I'll go. And one

  217. of the things that I've been praying about these past three weeks is and the

  218. Lord's been dealing with me and helping me with understandings. They have ears,

  219. but they don't hear, and they have eyes and they don't see. And

  220. sometimes we read that and we we don't really overlook it. Wait till you

  221. find the hundreds and hundreds. And I can't imagine the heart of God,

  222. the billions of people. There's a billion of people on this planet. I

  223. know that Jehovah witnesses only things from these one hundred and forty four thousand are

  224. going to heaven alone. The billions of generations before. There's a number in

  225. Heaven that cannot be numbered. But I also know that Hell is the larger

  226. itself daily. But these souls, and you know that a lot of times

  227. they don't listen to you or they don't see to understand that God puts up

  228. with that every day. You talk about someone that has his head outstretched all

  229. the day long to rebellious and gain same people. Now, most people shake

  230. the dust from their feet the first time that is looked at them wrong.

  231. You know that person looks scary, or that person looks perverted. I'm checking

  232. my desk right now. They're gone, they're toasts. We don't know that

  233. such for some of you, God, I know of some LGBTQ people that

  234. are saved. And and there's a there's one young man that I know that

  235. he used to be a one and he's annoyed. Look, God, he's

  236. kind of I've heard him preach. I'm like, wow, I love that,

  237. you know. But so God can save anybody. He can save the

  238. murderers and the thieves, and the robbers and the idolog ors. He can

  239. save anybody, anywhere, anytime, any place. Amen. So they just

  240. dealing with, you know, those that don't have ears and know them here

  241. and eyes that don't see. But you know what he told Isaiah, and

  242. tell them anywhere. God knows. He gives them ears to hear. God

  243. knows he gave them eyes and see. And it doesn't matter how stony her

  244. heart is. God can take that stony heart out and give him a heart

  245. of flesh. And they have put them in the right spear in the right

  246. time. That's a shame that they didn't hear that legion or they you know

  247. that they didn't want nothing to do with Jesus. And there's a couple of

  248. places in the in the Gospel where it says he upgraded himself. One place

  249. he did miracles they didn't want nothing to do with him, And then in

  250. another place they wouldn't hear it, and he left because they repented not And

  251. how God would like to gather them his chicks underneath his wings. Now,

  252. Jesus cried out, he'd grown within himself trying to reach these Jewish people,

  253. trying to reach the loss. And sometimes we're gonna suffer persecution. Sometimes we're

  254. gonna we're gonna see the hall Satans and the fingers flying, and the then

  255. the horrible gestures and the words, and and we'll hear all kind of ungodly

  256. things. But we still gotta show love. I mean, I pray that

  257. God gave me that perfect love that I fell off the witness, even if

  258. they ain't me. You know, I'm used to a lot of this,

  259. a lot of these things, but just over the years, it kind of,

  260. you know, gets me no wonder. You know, God, I'm

  261. gonna keep on being. I'm gonna keep on working Lord as long as I

  262. live and breathe. And sometimes I just partder, you know. And everyone

  263. is man, I know, somehow praised God their testimonies. I've seen the

  264. root of other people's labors, and I've seen people come to me and even

  265. had a memory of photo memory post up where it got my vand back in

  266. February four years ago, and I dedicated it to God. And every day

  267. it doesn't cease, no matter the bucker's little off tires of war, no

  268. matter how bad it folks. When people see the Word of God, Amen,

  269. no matter how old we get, we can bring forth fruit in our

  270. old age. Amen. That word is still going out these signs that you

  271. made. I've never forgotten that since the very first Cabbage Festival, the Word

  272. will not return. Boy, those words have been encouraged me those gospel tracks,

  273. and I'm gonna I'm gonna share with one of my favorite ones, just

  274. a little bit of it. It's pretty long one, but one that has

  275. encouraged me on not only in the track ministry, but as an evangelist that

  276. tries to read soul. But only does God know who we are, but

  277. the devil does too. But who are you? He says, Jesus,

  278. I know all I know, but who are they? And they're in June.

  279. I believe it's one of nine where Michael the Archangels going against the devil

  280. about Moses' body. The devil knows when and when I wake up with them

  281. one, I want to hear the devil saying, oh no, And I

  282. hope he hears that about all of us. You know. Oh there's pastor

  283. how he hates him the most. You know, when when when you're doing

  284. something for God, God takes notice, the devil takes nonus. And man,

  285. why people can't I don't understand why they won't hear the word of God.

  286. There's a there's a battle going on over souls and over the loss.

  287. The God is watching, and he's looking down from above and something that sometimes

  288. many times will preach, and he's watching right now, he's looking down in

  289. the service. I believe he's already blessed in his service. I've been blessed

  290. and helped already. And the teaching and the s and and he's looking.

  291. Now, let's looking for that one sinner to repent being it out on the

  292. streets or at the altar, nobody gets adulter. There's heaven, there's rejoicing

  293. going around on a the throne of God. He's able to rejoice it.

  294. It is a life of death situation only the present, but for all eternity.

  295. And then we're gonna live on either in heaven or hell. That's how

  296. seriousness is. And I was thinking about some of these others. You're gonna

  297. turn here back into Acts chapter eighteen m HM, Versus four four. But

  298. we definitely want to have a heard in a still. You don't want to

  299. be, you know, like the lukewarm church. I don't want further of

  300. be lukewarm. Doctor. Did I know he says he topped cold or hot.

  301. I'd rather be hot on fire. That's eighteen Verses twenty four through twenty

  302. eight. And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent

  303. man and mighty in the scriptures, came to Effesus. This man was instructed

  304. in the way of the Lord. What's his day next? And being rving

  305. in the spirit Amen, he spake and taught how eighteenth taught diligently, and

  306. the thing the things of the Lord. Knowing only the Baptism of John.

  307. He began to speak only man in a synagogue, And when a quilla of

  308. Prisula had heard, they took him unto them and expounded unto him the way

  309. of God more perfectly. And when he was disposed to pass into Yea,

  310. the Brethren wrote exhorting the disciples to receive him, who when he was come,

  311. he helped them much and in which had believed through grace. And this

  312. here in verse twenty eight, for he mightily convinced the Jews, and that

  313. publicly showing the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. Amen, don't we want to

  314. be doing things more perfectly, more boldly, more digitus diligently. Amen turned

  315. to another place here and acts. We just recently heard about this man.

  316. Ironically, the Lord stopped me from going somewhere yesterday. I'm telling Brother Gord,

  317. I've been very busy, and that obsessed me because I want to be

  318. busy about my father's business. I know I have to work, but at

  319. the same time, I'm want to go to Fort Myers, and I felt

  320. like the Lord said no. And I found out why. I ended up

  321. talking to a man named Stephen. And here as we read about Stephen,

  322. what was Stephen and Versus Chapters Hacts six, verses would just beat verses eight

  323. and ten. Stephen got as standing ovations. He pleased to Jesus and now

  324. from God, and Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders

  325. and miracles among the people and in verse ten, and they were not able

  326. to resist the wisdom and the spirit by when He's faith raise God. Wouldn't

  327. that be nice if they couldn't resist. I like to dregs to the all.

  328. I know that's not how it works. But God can do it.

  329. God can give them that conviction. God can save them. Amen. I

  330. pray that none that God give the lost conviction. But let them God not

  331. be able to resist the conviction and the wisdom and the hunger of salvation.

  332. Give them years to hear and eyes to see. Amen. And but just

  333. to have that burden, to have that full of faith and power and not

  334. being able to resist. And for the sake of time, I won't be

  335. too much longer, but I wanted to read this tract has been an encouragements

  336. by Pilgrim. Has anybody read and Crippled Tom. It's a really good gospel

  337. tractor pill in craft society makes if you're an e vagialism or witnessing. It's

  338. about him. I'm gonna make a long story short. But he was a

  339. young man that was crippled from birth and his mother and father. His mother

  340. taught him how to read and write, but he ended up losing his mom

  341. and his dad and the only one that would take care of him. He

  342. grew up and looks like London way back in the day, and he had

  343. a granny that took care of him, but she was addicted to gin,

  344. like an alcohol. So he had a room in the upper room, interested

  345. in that in the upper room was where he was bedroom. And he didn't

  346. have much time to live, and he sacrificed what little food that he got.

  347. If you imagine if you had an alcohol parent or know that, you

  348. know a lot of that money doesn't get to be spent on food and assessines

  349. and let Christian. Back in this day, I don't sure if they had

  350. let Christian or not. Food was definitely scarce, and h he sacrificed his

  351. let me let me go on here. He uh, he had one friend,

  352. just one friend. We talked about somebody lonely and suffering. And his

  353. friend came by and he had a healing that he was going to give him

  354. because he was leading but coming back to London, and he wanted a Bible.

  355. He said, if I'm gonna die alone, I want he said,

  356. I've heard enough about Jesus. He said, I want to read the Bible

  357. and know who Christ is. And so his friend ended up buying him a

  358. Bible with those Brandy wouldn't do it. His friend volume want and left him.

  359. And as he began to read and study, and he ended up learning

  360. more in the world, and a lot of people know because he had all

  361. that time. But he'd bringing the Bible in and out, and he began

  362. to sacrifice his milk that he would drink for paper, and he took little

  363. pieces of paper and he wrote scriptions on it, and he wrote on there

  364. that whoever whoever passed by the and he'd give him scripture. And he dropped

  365. them out the window. And that's how that's how he witnessed. That's how

  366. he shared the Gospel. And an old preacher, man or minister an next

  367. a backslid one and one landed on his hat, and he went up and

  368. he visited this boy. He got under conviction and he went out and he

  369. started a mission because of what that little boy dropped out the window. And

  370. three months later that little boy died. His friend, I guess, came

  371. back and he got his Bible and in the Bible said this holy book may

  372. be as a great friend to someone else as it has been to me.

  373. And it made a deep impression on that youth they gave himself, and he

  374. went into the foreign fields. And man, you just don't know how that

  375. word can cause ripples and multiply an increase. God can give the increase,

  376. even he can save a soul through a track. And I'm not doing this

  377. very much justice. But in the end it says in the back of the

  378. track says he's gonna read this this little part here, but this young man,

  379. and sometimes I read his that you don't care. But it is a

  380. very hard touching and warning. It says, tholes of sad and merry hearts

  381. are wanting the ministry of love that we might render. Shall we then take

  382. our ease, enjoy our pleasure, or indulge, indulge in our luxuries.

  383. Millions of dark united souls and crying out for the light. They continue to

  384. growth in the darkness, while many of us who profess to love Christ live

  385. self centered and self indulgent and self indulgent lives today without the help of the

  386. world. The Christian Church could easily send enough missionaries out to evangelize the world,

  387. but the dark block it won't stains its fair name. Oh, that

  388. the spirit of God would, by his mighty power, cleanse away all the

  389. slossfulness the word we've been hearing, all that unreality and so compliancy from our

  390. lives. For following Christ means self sacrifice, and there's no such thing.

  391. I love this as holiness without it, we need holiness and that self sacrifice.

  392. If a dye, lad and suffering and destitution could joyfully deny himself the

  393. little sip of milk which cooled his parts lips and partly fed his weary body,

  394. surely it is possible for us to do more. Who then, is

  395. willing to consecrate his service this day? Unto the Lord, I SIPs product

  396. was puty nine to five. Yes, if you will. And as I

  397. close this message, and I know a while, a long time ago,

  398. I used a illustration and it's near my heart right here, the burden for

  399. the loss. And I know it's a burden for you, your family,

  400. your lost family. And I don't know if you remember this, but I

  401. have little hearts now these could represent little souls, and these hearts that are

  402. in my pocket, my children and my coworkers, they're my lost family.

  403. They're your lost family, go to pass something out. And I know that

  404. you've got lost family. And there's people that we work with got grandchildren.

  405. H I don't know how many. I haven't m M, yeah, that's

  406. see. But how many people in our family that are lost when we think

  407. there's no home with God, nothing's impossible. I know that God is able

  408. to save to the uttermost. God is able to do more fundantly than we

  409. could ever do. He comparis the hearts, the minds. He can bring

  410. and take the stony heart out. He can heal, he can deliver,

  411. he can redeem, he can restore Heray's God, if you're a Christian in

  412. here right now, he give you a testimony how many miracles? How many

  413. times did he save you from a life in that situation, from a car

  414. wreck, from an accident at work, maybe from a fire your house man

  415. might have almost caught on fire, maybe a pregnancy maybe how many? How

  416. many testimons? And and we had the answer of hope within us. I

  417. mean, we've got the cure, right are we? Are we able to

  418. test the fire and witness to others? Are we able to pass out a

  419. docible craft? I mean, I didn't know the Bible back then, but

  420. I couldn't not sit still. I went and knocked on people's door, and

  421. they probably thought I was crazy at door slammed in my face. Is that

  422. I'm thankful for those doors they were slaves, because that this baby wanted to

  423. hit the next door and the next door. Yeah, And then I got

  424. what else could I do? Lord, I don't say this to boast old

  425. church asked me to do this. I'm thankful that Jesus will save my soul

  426. give me the desire to mail out letters. I wrote a little note says

  427. to whom this may concern? Do you know who? Jesus said? I

  428. wrote thousands of them. I only got one response with a negative response,

  429. whereas God, I don't know what ever happened to him. Maybe and sometimes

  430. they would get returned. Man, Yeah, I stick another stamp, want

  431. it, remail it out. I don't know if you know of a They

  432. had color envelopes the homemark they were discounting, and I bought stamps that were

  433. commemorative stamps. I tried to make that letter look super nice that I wanted

  434. to open that and find that gospel track. But what are we willing to

  435. do? Are we willing to make some phone calls my people to the convince

  436. you are we willing to pass out a gospel track. It ain't all about

  437. preaching, is it, Brother Jordan. We can pass out tracks. We

  438. can just talk to somebody and out some food. Have an ear to listen.

  439. But God is able to ye know, He's able to help us.

  440. I'm thankful for when my son was working downtown, he couldn't stand the preachers.

  441. They went down there withness preaching. He's going to hear the gospel.

  442. I thank God that God said him. And you don't know who God can

  443. send you your lost family member. They may not hear this person. They

  444. might listen to this one, may not listen to Brother Rick. They might

  445. listen to Brother Rocat. Well, somebody might listen to Brother Rocat. Might

  446. listen to Brother Rick. Maybe they'll listen to it. Maybe they'll see the

  447. brother Titus holding the street side and Sister Faith from one of these little babies

  448. got a little sign. And I remember Sister Hammond's husband and he touched my

  449. heart. And seeing the blind man out there holding the sign, I was

  450. wanting to hear him preach. Kind of kind of encourageing. I think he

  451. knew his time was up. When I came back the next year, he

  452. was already gone. He touched my heart. These sisters are sitting in being

  453. in a wheelchair. Maybe they just sitting on a school seeing old saying a

  454. young child. You don't know who's gonna reach that person. They might take

  455. a child, they might take an elder saint to reach a young lost child.

  456. But I'm thankful that God can reach and it's important to reach out to

  457. the loss. God uses us as much as we've done it until then we've

  458. done it under him or not done we've got him. I don't want ever

  459. be guilty of not reaching somebody that could have been reached, and maybe you

  460. was that last opportunity. I don't want blood on my hands. I remember

  461. one time the Lord give me a vision and here in the church about having

  462. blood on my hands. That's an awful feeling quation if the Lord give it

  463. to you. But I'm thankful. And as we stand in the close here,

  464. I still got many look at this many many more so I thought i'd

  465. brought out. Can never run out. There's billions of people in this world,

  466. and the grace of God has appeared unto every one of them, and

  467. they're in Matthew twenty four, Lord healthy finding. It talks about the end's

  468. not gonna come until everyone everyone there ain't none of this predestination nonsense. That

  469. word He's only gonna save the Queu of the times. People need to quit

  470. taken out scripture out of context of removing scripture, Bible mint one. God

  471. meant what he said and said what he meant, and that's why he give

  472. us the written word, and it all matters, the Old Testament and the

  473. New Testament. I don't want to preach no a cursed gospel, hey man,

  474. I want to I want to be right with the Lord. There is

  475. a scripture. I can't find it out to him, but it talks about

  476. until everyone has heard the scription, heard the gospel, then shall the income

  477. here it is thank you by gust Matthew twenty four and fourteen. In this

  478. gospel, the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world we're witness, into

  479. all nations, and then shall the income. Nobody's gonna have us an excuse,

  480. say, well, what about this little country in the middle of nowhere?

  481. Way wait wait, wait, wait, way back there where nobody can

  482. reach. If God has got to sit an angel or go there himself.

  483. There's not gonna be a soul. They're not gonna hear the gospel, not

  484. a single soul. So as we come and and pray fervently with a burden,

  485. Let's remember savage festival. Let's remember these ministries, a spreaker ministry,

  486. the homeless, a nursing home where you all these churches and other guys.

  487. He'd be worthy and you lie lifetime, remember one another neighbor. Nothing's leasing

  488. the world else. There's so many I read chosen that walls on bow.

  489. Let's just prayful the godson fourth more laborers. The laborers are few, just

  490. walls. Nothing is impossible when you lock down. It's pretty how lli been

  491. worthy stress? So many requests. We're even one we don't know about.

  492. The God has hers every labor. Let's pray sleeping by the wood. Theater

  493. is choose the wong bow so ChEls you just walk so word to walk down

  494. the how he would be worth it, every struggle, he would be worth

  495. it, every my a lot timebabliev seethy all be raised, just warm moss,

  496. the creatures olive, the singers our time, the churches we know it's

  497. news. He gets my some discouries from very hello. But we must see

  498. terment to keep a single cause. If just Walm more So we're to outgas

  499. the he would be worth it every struggle. He would be worth it,

  500. everyvin, a lot time of paper, see the holy if he raised just

  501. walk b so so preachers keep preaching and singers go sing le man keep sherry

  502. that Jesus, Jesus is key the aangelss our gathering. There's around the throng,

  503. and they'll start read Josse for just one more so. If just war

  504. more So were to all gas the of e would be worthy struggle. He

  505. would be worth a lot of time. The labor see worthy all me raised,

  506. just the warn more so, if just warn more so, where do

  507. you out down? It would be worth every struggle. He would be worth

  508. every bard, laptime, labor, speedy, all be raised, just worn

  509. more so soup