1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,440 Welcome to the Potter's House Salmon Arm podcast. We are a Bible-Believing Church located 2 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:16,680 in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. We are proudly part of the Christian Fellowship 3 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:21,920 Ministries with 3,000 churches around the world. We are a church focused on world evangelism, 4 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:27,300 discipleship and church planting. Here we will share recent sermons from P.H.S.A. Church 5 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:31,880 and other sermons from throughout our fellowship. I am Pastor David Bickford and I will be your 6 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:36,420 host for this podcast. I thank you for listening today and we hope these messages are a blessing 7 00:00:36,420 --> 00:00:47,840 to you and bring you closer to God. 8 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:53,800 Welcome back to the podcast. So today's message that I put together is called Working in Obscurity. 9 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,060 The subheading is Spirit, Ability and Knowledge and the text we are going to be working from 10 00:00:58,060 --> 00:01:05,560 today is Exodus 31 verses 1 through 6. So it's been a little bit since I've been back. 11 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:11,120 Obviously I was a little sick last week so I am starting to come out of it now. So I 12 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,680 want to be able to go ahead and jump right in with this and thank you guys for coming 13 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:22,020 back to the podcast. So we are going to go ahead and read the text first thing. This 14 00:01:22,020 --> 00:01:30,120 is a section of scripture about Oliahab and Bezelel and we will pick it up in verse 1. 15 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:37,720 It says, The Lord said to Moses, See I have called by name Bezelel the son of Uri, son 16 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,160 of her, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with the 17 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:47,800 ability and intelligence, with knowledge and craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, 18 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:53,600 to work in gold, silver and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to 19 00:01:53,600 --> 00:02:01,000 work in every craft. And behold, I have appointed with him, Oliahab, the son of Ahisamach, 20 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,080 of the tribe of Dan, and I have given to all able men, that they may make all that I have 21 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:14,660 commanded you. As you can see my voice is still a little shoddy so I apologize for that. 22 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:19,960 But what we want to get from this verse of scripture is there is a calling of what to 23 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:24,600 many would seem as ordinary men, but there is a specific purpose that we are going to 24 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:29,800 look at this. It is going to be the calling from obscurity. And as an illustration I wanted 25 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:39,840 to look at the life of Tenzig Norgay. Tenzig Norgay, he was born May 15th, 1914 and he 26 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:45,980 lived until May 9th, 1986 and he was a Tibetan climber. If you are into climbing at all then 27 00:02:45,980 --> 00:02:50,600 you would have obviously already known about his name, but for those of us that aren't 28 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:57,840 into climbing that much, it is a pretty interesting tale. So he was like I said, he was a Tibetan 29 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:06,580 climber and along with the New Zealand's Edmund Hillary, Norgay was one of the first two people 30 00:03:06,580 --> 00:03:12,640 to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, which is 8,848 meters 31 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:18,160 high on May 29th, 1953. So this already kind of gives you the idea of who this person is 32 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:23,700 now. I mean you might have even heard of Edmund Hillary even if you are not into climbing 33 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:29,880 because he was the first to summit officially Mount Everest. Norgay was involved in several 34 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,780 earlier attempts on this peak though beginning with his famed 1935 British reconnaissance 35 00:03:34,780 --> 00:03:41,020 expedition led by Eric Shipton, which succeeded in climbing a whopping 26 peaks of over 20,000 36 00:03:41,020 --> 00:03:46,760 feet. His eventual success on Everest garnered him worldwide fame as well as numerous awards 37 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:52,840 and honors and today he remains one of the most well-known Sherpas of all time. In his 38 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,920 early life, Norgay, you know like a lot of that is very unclear to us about what how 39 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:03,500 he grew up and stuff like that. From what we can you know garner, he was born sometime 40 00:04:03,500 --> 00:04:10,320 in late May of 1914 and was the 11th of 13 children. Most accounts indicate that he was 41 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:16,160 born in Tibet and then moved to Nepal as a child to work for a family in the Kumbha Valley 42 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:22,680 in the village of Khumjung. As a teen, he immigrated to Jarlin or Darjeeling, India 43 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:28,060 settling in the Sherpa community in the city. At the time Darjeeling was the launch point 44 00:04:28,060 --> 00:04:32,760 for most expeditions into the eastern Himalayas and Norgay became acquainted with a number 45 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:38,880 of porters, cooks and other Sherpas working for the mountaineering expeditions. So we 46 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:43,380 always hear about the headliners, those that are at the top of the charts, but the reality 47 00:04:43,380 --> 00:04:48,680 is that there are always supporting characters that make these things happen, that make these 48 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:53,360 things possible and if it weren't for these critical characters then much of what we read 49 00:04:53,360 --> 00:05:00,380 about in the world or in the Bible could not have happened. Norgay gives us this contemporary 50 00:05:00,380 --> 00:05:06,840 picture of this reality. Many can name the man that first summited Mount Everest, Sir 51 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:13,400 Edmund Hillary. It used to be a household name but what of the Sherpa guy that had spent 52 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:19,880 the previous 20 years making that summit possible? In our text we see that God knows that every 53 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,080 part of the body of the church is critical to the success of the whole and that does 54 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:28,540 not mean that he can't and won't raise up others to fill the void but what it does mean 55 00:05:28,540 --> 00:05:34,280 is that God has a place for all of us within his kingdom. Bezalel the son of Uri, the son 56 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:40,240 of Hur, the tribe of Judah was called out by God by name. We know the word of God that 57 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:45,400 he was spirit-filled and that he had the ability and intelligence and knowledge and skills 58 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,260 to fulfill the call that God had placed upon his life. This brings me to my first point 59 00:05:50,260 --> 00:05:57,060 which is filled with the spirit. In 1 Corinthians 12, 4-6 it says there are different kinds 60 00:05:57,060 --> 00:06:01,720 of gifts but the same spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service but the 61 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,520 same Lord. There are different kinds of working but in all of them and in everyone it is the 62 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:13,200 same God at work. Let's look a bit deeper then. Here we have Bezalel and Aholiab, his 63 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:20,200 assistant. These were skilled craftsmen. They had God-given and honed talent for carpentry, 64 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:24,900 metalwork, tapestry and construction. These are blue collar men who lived as slaves in 65 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:29,500 Egypt and despite their beginnings we can see them being called out in the Bible by 66 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:35,880 no other than God himself. The reality is that God sees the faithful work done behind 67 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,540 the scenes when you are living a faithful and upright life. Our fellowship is a lay 68 00:06:40,540 --> 00:06:45,280 fellowship. It is a blue collar fellowship but it is a spirit-filled fellowship. In the 69 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:52,120 Corinthians Paul is primarily speaking about the spiritual gifts that we think of in regards 70 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,640 to the New Testament church, preaching, evangelism, praying for the seek and speaking in tongues 71 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,760 and prophecy and that fact still holds true that God equips his people through the spirit 72 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:06,820 of his purpose. As important as the spiritual gifts are we must never forget the example 73 00:07:06,820 --> 00:07:13,080 of Bezalel and Aholiab. These two men were spiritually equipped for a sacred purpose. 74 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:18,520 We need spirit-filled builders and workers to support and uplift the ministry if we are 75 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:24,500 ever going to be able to successfully build anything. In Jewish history Bezalel is held 76 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:30,680 in high regard. He is after all the temple building son of Judah. In an article by David 77 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:38,480 Schrock we can see a correlation between Bezalel building the tabernacle, David planning for 78 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:44,960 and Solomon building the temple and Jesus the cornerstone of the new and better kingdom. 79 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,220 Each of these figures were enabled by the spirit for the purpose laid before them and 80 00:07:48,220 --> 00:07:52,920 we should then lift up those around us whom are spirit-filled workers whether they be 81 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:58,120 accountants bookkeepers welders or artisans. Let's take another look at Norgay. At age 82 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:04,400 19 Norgay was chosen as a porter for Eric Shipton's 1935 British reconnaissance expedition 83 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:08,760 despite having no mountain experience due to the recommendation of his close friend 84 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:14,400 Ang Tharke, one of the preeminent sherpas and sitars of the era who had participated 85 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:21,040 in earlier expeditions with Shipton. The expedition was stymied at 23,030 feet on the North Coal 86 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:28,280 but also identified a viable alternative route up the western side of the South Coal which 87 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:32,800 today is used by climbers as attempting to peak from the south via Nepal. Perhaps more 88 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:37,680 importantly the expedition resulted in what Shipton called a veritable orgy of mountain 89 00:08:37,680 --> 00:08:43,560 climbing. With team members collectively summiting 26 peaks over 20,000 feet 24 of which were 90 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:49,200 first ascents the expedition also proved the beginning of Norgay's prolific career as a 91 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:55,360 sherpa which lasted until his ultimate success in 1953 with Hillary. Norgay was a prominent 92 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,800 member of nearly every other Everest attempt in the intervening years including the illegal 93 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:06,760 1947 jaunt by the Canadian Earl, Canadian Earl Denman from the Tibetan side which was 94 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:13,080 so woefully unprepared and forced the team a trio of Denman, Norgay and Dawah sherpa 95 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:19,280 back to the after ferocious storms at 22,000 feet. Among other non-Everest exploits he 96 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:24,880 served as a sitar a team leader for a Swiss expedition that made the first ascent to the 97 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:35,400 Kadara-Kadarnath main which is a 22,770 foot summit in 1947. Notably Norgay embarked on 98 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,480 the 1952 Swiss Everest expedition which received rare permission to attempt the climb from 99 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:46,600 Nepal via the South Coal. Tibet closed to climbers in the 1950s after the Chinese invasion 100 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:52,760 and subsequent occupation. This was both the first expedition and to seriously attempt 101 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,680 the peak from the South and the first to reach the South Coal through though the effort was 102 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:04,560 unsuccessful Norgay and Swiss Raymond Lambert reached a high point of about 28,200 feet 103 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:10,460 on the southeast ridge setting a new altitude record in the process. A second Swiss expedition 104 00:10:10,460 --> 00:10:18,360 later that year post monsoon season also included Norgay and saw the team reach 26,575 feet. 105 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:23,400 This brings me to my next point which is ability and intelligence. In 2nd Chronicles 1 5 it 106 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:29,440 says moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri son of Hurr had made was there 107 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:36,120 before the tabernacle of the Lord and Solomon and the assembly sought it out. Every mountain 108 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:41,800 climber worth his salt wanted to work with Norgay they would seek him out. Why was this 109 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:48,520 man in such high demand within his community? Norgay had spent a lifetime to hone his craft 110 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:53,160 and he was accomplished mountaineer in his own right but probably more importantly he 111 00:10:53,160 --> 00:11:01,120 was able to keep his charges safe. Similarly Bezalel's work and craftsmanship would last 112 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:07,760 through the ages. Kings knew of him and of his work and it was held in the highest esteem. 113 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:13,360 It was after all holy and sanctified unto the Lord and it's odd how a few of us can 114 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:18,720 remember his name if we were ever to be asked. Another similar character we can look at is 115 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:25,680 Baruch in Jeremiah 36 4 it says then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neirai and Baruch 116 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:33,600 wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words the Lord had spoken to him. 117 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:38,600 Baruch was Jeremiah the prophet's scribe and secretary little is known about Baruch son 118 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:44,800 of Neirai. A note in the amplified Bible citing second chronicles 34 8 suggests that he may 119 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:49,680 have been the grandson of Masi'iah who served as the governor of Jerusalem in the days of 120 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:55,120 King Josiah. Baruch may have been attached to a family of means perhaps a prominent one 121 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:59,640 he was certainly educated serving as he did as Jeremiah's secretary and trusted with 122 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:05,120 putting down Jeremiah's words for prosperity we can surmise that he was detail oriented 123 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,940 and performance motivated able to get a lot of work done and get it done correctly. So 124 00:12:09,940 --> 00:12:15,200 clearly we could see that the that he was first faithful to God because it was not safe 125 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:20,520 being associated with Jeremiah the prophet. He was not well liked by the king of Judah 126 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:26,720 as well. Even so we also know that Baruch was skilled he was often the mouthpiece for 127 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:31,520 Jeremiah we can see that when he that he was held in high esteem from the ruling class 128 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:37,600 of Judah and Jeremiah 43 3 it says but Baruch son of Neirai is inciting you against us at 129 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:46,580 the head to hand us over to the Babylonians so they may kill us or carry us into exile. 130 00:12:46,580 --> 00:12:51,360 The claim here is that they were actually trying to say that Baruch held influence over 131 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:57,180 Jeremiah and it wasn't God working through Jeremiah. So here we have a skilled man spirit 132 00:12:57,180 --> 00:13:01,100 filled and following the prophet of the Lord and he is a man of ability and intelligence 133 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:06,080 but still a supporting character. In fact we see at the end of Jeremiah that he is called 134 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:12,000 to live a simple life and Jeremiah 45 1 through 5 it said this is a message to Baruch and 135 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,800 it says when Baruch son of Neirai wrote on the scroll the words of Jeremiah the prophet 136 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:21,720 dictated it in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Hosea king of Judah. Jeremiah said 137 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:27,960 this to Baruch. This is what the Lord the God of Israel says to you Baruch. You said 138 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:32,880 woe to me the Lord has added sorrow to my pain I am worn out and groaning and find no 139 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:37,680 rest but the Lord has told me to say to you this is what the Lord says I will overthrow 140 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:41,960 what I have built and uproot what I have planted throughout the earth. Should you then seek 141 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:46,720 great things for yourself do not seek them for I will bring disaster on all people declares 142 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:52,640 the Lord but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life. Baruch served humbly 143 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:56,600 and we can assume that he followed the word of God till the end content to live a life 144 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:02,360 following the one God even after the death of Jeremiah. Baruch is a powerful testimony 145 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:08,720 of humbly serving God and Christ because it is right even though he was possibly from 146 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:13,240 an affluent and politically important family he chose to follow God and uses ability and 147 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:19,240 intelligence for his purpose. Living a life of obscurity for the sake of God's message 148 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:23,480 brings me to my final point which is knowledge and craftsmanship. So how do we wrap this 149 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:30,800 all up whether it's Moses and Bezele or Jeremiah and Baruch we can see the importance of living 150 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:36,920 a spiritual life. We can also see that Moses needed the abilities and intelligence of Bezele. 151 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:42,760 He needed the knowledge that he and Ohalia had in order to complete the work that God 152 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:48,100 had ordained. We could also see the immense help that Baruch provided Jeremiah. The knowledge 153 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:53,600 that they brought to the table enabled the work of God to go forth. We need to esteem 154 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:59,600 faithful work that is why we do all things under the Lord in Colossians 3 23 through 155 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:06,840 24. Whatever you do work with all your heart as you work for the Lord not for human masters. 156 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:12,520 Since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward it is the Lord Christ 157 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:18,640 you are serving. So as we go back and look at Norgay we can see the Norgay who had already 158 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:23,920 been to Everest six times at this point was leading was the leading member of the 1953 159 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:29,840 Everest expedition led by John Hunt. Norgay and Hillary were one of two pairs of climbers 160 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:37,160 selected to make the summit pushes the other two being Tom Bordillion and Charles Evans. 161 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:42,240 The later duo made it to just 300 feet shy of the summit on May 26 but turned around 162 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,440 after experiencing issues with their oxygen equipment. Their efforts to break the trail 163 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:51,640 and cash oxygen however provided vital when Hillary and Norgay made their summit bid two 164 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:58,480 days later from a bivvy starting at 27,900 feet on the southeast ridge. Hillary and Norgay 165 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:04,040 reached the summit at the world's highest mountain at 1130 a.m. local time. Following 166 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:09,160 the successful ascent Norgay and Hillary were catapulted into worldwide fame. Norgay was 167 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:15,280 awarded the George Medal a UK award for bravery the Queen Elizabeth the second coronation 168 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:19,880 medal the Order of the Star Nepal and the Indian Gold Medal in addition to numerous 169 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:25,720 other accolades and honors. In 1954 he became the director of field training for the Himalayan 170 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:30,520 Mountaineering Institute and later founded trekking the trekking company Tenzig Norgay 171 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:37,760 Adventures in 1978. Norgay was named one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th 172 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:44,960 century by Time magazine in 1999. So as you can see with Norgay his reward did not come 173 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:49,760 until much later in life despite the long hours the danger the cold nights in the mountains 174 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:55,400 it wasn't until he made it to the top of Evers that he that they received his reward. 175 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,960 We serve a much higher power than anything here on earth and as we labor we labor for 176 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:04,940 our God our Lord Jesus tells us to store of treasures in heaven in Matthew 620 the laborers 177 00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:10,040 is here on earth but our reward is in heaven and through our legacy here on earth. Bezalel 178 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:16,360 and Oleh Oholiad were the builders of the tabernacle Bezalel from the tribe of Judah 179 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:20,400 is the first of the temple builders in the history of Israel even though some of his 180 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:26,800 work is lost to time his legacy lived on and King David King Solomon and King Jesus Baruch 181 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:32,100 faithfully served Jeremiah during one of the darkest periods of Israel's history he lived 182 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:36,000 and worked alongside one of the most pivotal prophets of the Old Testament and despite 183 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:41,320 his time on earth being rife with trouble his name was recorded in his history of service 184 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:48,200 is on display to all to you know to us through his work. So as I close it's important to 185 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:54,640 recognize that you don't have that you that you do have gifts that can be of use for the 186 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:58,880 kingdom you may have been saying to yourself that you don't have any skills but I bet 187 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:03,040 you're wrong maybe you haven't spent enough time looking for your gifts or honing your 188 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:08,960 talents the place to start is by being spirit filled to being filled with the spirit of 189 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:16,040 the Lord and you do that by giving your life to Jesus Christ and John 3 3 Jesus answered 190 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:20,360 him truly truly I say unto you unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of 191 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:24,760 God this is the starting point of wisdom in Proverbs 9 10 the fear of the Lord is the 192 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:31,720 beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the Holy Holy one is insight and we serve an everlasting 193 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:38,020 Lord in first Peter 1 23 since you have been born again not perishable seed but imperishable 194 00:18:38,020 --> 00:18:42,800 through the living and abiding word of God as you seek out the Lord in your life you 195 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:48,840 will gain more wisdom or intelligence or your abilities will grow as you apply that to your 196 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,440 life you will realize that your knowledge will grow and increase and God will bless 197 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:57,320 the work of your hands so I leave you with this thought we know very few of the names 198 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:02,240 that enabled the people of Israel and the early church to grow we only get to see the 199 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:06,920 headliners occasionally we get to see a glimpse of those who helped the headliners but we're 200 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:12,680 never really able to see the second stringers of the third stringers that doesn't diminish 201 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:18,000 their importance though that elevates it we need the builders the bakers the candlestick 202 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,720 makers we need those who faithfully labor for the Lord those who use their talents for 203 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:30,920 the kingdom in first Kings 19 18 it says yet I will leave 7000 in Israel and all the knees 204 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:37,760 that have not bowed to bail and every mouth that has not kissed him we're given a clear 205 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:44,640 indication that God shelters and hides some of his people from the limelight but they're 206 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:50,200 still faithful to him and they're ready at a moment's notice to be called into action 207 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:56,960 because they're faithful to him and with that I want to just go ahead and close if if you 208 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:01,460 if you're if you could have if I could have every head bowed every eye closed if you're 209 00:20:01,460 --> 00:20:06,720 listening along I just want to give an invitation that if your heart's not right with the Lord 210 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:12,520 maybe you don't feel you're successful or you don't feel like you're talented enough 211 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:18,160 or someone's made you feel less than you know important in your life I want you to know 212 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:25,040 that Jesus Christ knows that you're important you're important to him and that's why he 213 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:30,080 has the gospel sent out and that's why he commands us to preach the gospel to bring 214 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:35,480 this invitation to you that if you know your heart's not right with the Lord but you want 215 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:40,560 to be right with him you can do that by signifying that with an uplifted hand because he can 216 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:46,760 see that hand so raise your hand if that's you and if you rose your hand then repeat 217 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:51,980 after me dear Lord God I know that I'm a sinner but I know that you sent your son Jesus Christ 218 00:20:51,980 --> 00:20:58,240 and that he died for my sins I repent of my sins and I accept the Lord Jesus as my Savior 219 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,840 and I give him all the praise and glory of Jesus name amen that simple prayer is what 220 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:09,760 we call a sinner's prayer and it's it it's the first step it takes you into salvation 221 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:15,400 you are saved at that point and now you get to grow in Christ and live in Christ to the 222 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:20,200 rest of your life so the next thing to do is is obviously you know read your word read 223 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:30,680 a Bible pray which is just talking to God pray to God and then find a good solid Bible 224 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:38,200 believing church to participate with and to lock in with and have fellowship with brethren 225 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:43,560 so if you have need help finding that church you reach out because we have 3500 plus churches 226 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,480 globally I'd be more than happy to help you find that church if you're in Samanar and 227 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:52,640 please come out and visit and I want to thank you for taking the time to listen to me today 228 00:21:52,640 --> 00:22:03,080 even though my voice is horrible and I can't wait for you to come back next time God bless 229 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,480 Thank you for listening to the P.H.S.A. Potter's House Samanar podcast be sure to follow us 230 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,800 on Instagram at potter's house underscore Samanar to keep up to date on what we are 231 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:23,440 doing join the conversation and discover how Jesus Christ can revolutionize your life.