Come on, give him praise in his house.
Hallelujah. As you're being seated, Brother Mills is coming to introduce a special guest to us today.
I would just mess it all up if I tried to introduce him.
So I've got him coming to share with you just for a moment.
Thank you, Pastor. Good morning. Good to see all of you here today. Have a special friend with me today.
I could say a whole lot about this guy, but we don't have enough time.
This is Timothy Gabow, spelled G-B-O, but you just kind of roll past the G and get to the B real quick.
He has two other names, but I'm not going to try to say those.
I met Timothy several years ago when I went to West, well really before I went to West Africa.
We were on the African Council together for quite a while.
He was the overseer in the country of Togo. If you remember, you helped us go, my family to go
have a campaign in Togo a few months ago in January of this year, February.
And by the way, it was very successful. He still says, he told me they're still reaping the rewards.
In fact, on the grounds where we had, I got to share this, on the grounds where we have that,
they have 275 children meet there every week on those same grounds.
The parents won't let him walk to where his church is, so we're kind of praying for a way
that we can transport them over to the church and they can be a part of that congregation.
But Timothy, when he was appointed as the overseer of Togo, he had six churches.
They're solid churches, good churches, but that's all they had.
Since then, God has helped them and through his influence and through his leadership,
they have not just in the church of God, but even some outside all together,
about 125 churches now.
Just at this assembly, I just found out he's been the overseer of Togo and the regional
superintendent for the French speaking West Africa nations.
And he's been doing both of those, but now things have grown to the point where he's no longer the
overseer of Togo, they've appointed another man for that job and now he is the full-time
superintendent for the French speaking in West Africa.
I'm proud of this guy. I'm proud of this man. I saw him come from some young, we call it green days,
but now he's a seasoned veteran leading several nations. How many nations are you over now?
He's over eight nations now and leading those nations and most of those nations
are predominantly Muslim nations. Timothy, greet the people, tell them what's on your heart short.
You might even have to be shorter than me, but anyway.
Well, in Africa, when you say short, that means three hours.
Three hours.
Thank you very much, David, and thank you, Pastor.
God has given us grace and a part of what I can call the grace of God is
to have David Mears like a leader. When he's talking about those 120 plus churches that have
been planted in Lome, it's actually from a vision that he, God, and together the Africa Council call
that vision the firewall is a way in which we plant churches very rapidly.
Across the region, when David Mears was leading West Africa,
we planted over 400 churches within a very short time.
God used him to encourage us to raise leaders. I'm not the only one, but others are there,
and God did those things through David Mears. David Mears, thank you very much.
Greetings to you all from West Africa, Francophone countries, French-speaking countries,
and especially from Togo. And as he said, as we are standing here right now,
a great number of children are meeting on the ground on which we had the crusade.
And thank you for supporting that crusade. It has given us visibility, and I've just spoken with my
wife before we came here. Our church was packed again today, because many people heard about that
crusade, and they are asking about the church, and they kept coming. Thank you very much. God
bless you. I have a lot I can share with you, but I want to respect your time. May God bless you.
Well, hallelujah. You just saw a miracle before your very eyes. Two Church of God preachers,
full of the Holy Ghost, had a hold of a microphone, and in less than six minutes, they both let it go.
That's pretty good. Especially the missionaries, they got a lot to tell us. I am grateful,
Brother Mills, for your and Sister Sandra's presence here at the church, and I thank you for
that. I'm grateful for the people who are here today. I'm grateful for the people who are here
today. I'm grateful, Brother Mills, for your and Sister Sandra's presence here at the church, and I think for
such a time as this to reignite and to help fuel our vision for missions around the world.
And we're at a place where we can finally, really do something for the Kingdom. Amen? And we're doing
that, you're doing that, I say, you're doing that through your giving already, as we are embracing
the mission of the gospel to preach it around the world, to teach it. And don't forget, again,
the 11th, when we do things big, we do it around food.
I'm looking at you, you like to eat like I do, and it's better when we eat together. And on the 11th,
we'll be having a spaghetti dinner fundraiser and just fellowship.
Brother Mills will be speaking on that day, sharing some of the vision he's had,
and what they're going to be doing in Zambia, which is in September, which is just around the
corner. He, Pastor Brian, and Brother Randy are going to Zambia and going to be down there for
several days. So they're going to break that down, and we're going to have an opportunity to bless
and to send. Isn't that wonderful? To bless and to send, and then we'll all have part of the fruit
of that results. I told Pastor Brian, just sitting on the steps there, I said, I was kindly glad
for the time, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do this morning.
I would have cared, Brother Mills, this time if you'd have took two or three more minutes,
because I'm just trying to discern the Spirit of the Lord for this morning.
I know I'm not the only one. How many of you have your discerning shoes on this morning?
Am I by myself? I know I'm not. I know Pastor Brian's already
discerned it as well. Has anybody discerned the atmosphere this morning as you've come in?
If you've got it figured out, I'd be glad to know.
I do know there is a stirring. Amen? There is a stirring in the atmosphere
as to what degree we'll discover together. So we're going to attempt to get back to the Harvest Now
series. I had in my mind to try to complete that this morning, but I don't know that that's going to
happen. So if you'll just, where you are, if you pray for me, I'll pray for you, and then we'll ask
the Lord together to help us the rest of this morning. I don't want to miss. I'm not so tied to
an agenda that I just don't want to miss God, what God may be saying, what God may be wanting to do
in our midst this morning. For those of you who may not have gotten an update on Sister Shea,
for those of you who may not have gotten an update on Sister Shelley before they left, she was very
responsive, knew her name, knew the date and time and everything. So praise the Lord for that. Amen,
and hopefully get some answers. They will just a little bit later on. So just keep praying for
Sister Gail, Brother Jeff, and Sister Shelley. And a lot of you don't know what's happening,
that's because you weren't here for Sunday school. Did you see how I did that? Did you see how that
worked out? I mean, thank you Lord. But for those of you that were here for Sunday school, you know,
that was, you got to admit, that was pretty good.
John's Gospel, the fourth chapter, we've been reading
for the past three weeks from this text, beginning at verse 34.
Where Jesus said unto them, My need is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.
Say not ye there yet four months and then cometh harvest. Behold I say unto you, lift up your eyes
and look on the fields for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages and
gather fruit unto life eternal, that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
And herein is that saying true, one sows and another reaps. I sent you to reap that
I sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labor. Other men labored and you are entered in
to their labors. And again, you'll remember and take note of Matthew 9 35 through 38, where Jesus
again is addressing the harvest. He's going about all their synagogues and he's preaching and he's
teaching the gospel, making men aware of the kingdom's nearness and he being the kingdom of God
and personification walking among them that they may know him, accept him and receive him. Father,
I love you today. I need your help this morning in a special way. Lord, as we are here, unbeknownst
still your will but here to operate in it. So speak to our hearts and minds. I pray for each of us.
We that have ears to hear, may we hear what the spirit would say to the church.
Lord, speak to my heart and mind that I may know what to speak to the church this morning.
For truly, Lord, this is your house and we have come to worship you in spirit and in truth.
And your word is life and your word is light, light and illuminate our lives and pathways as we walk
and according to your will, you'd be praised forever in Christ's lovely name. And the church said,
amen and amen. We began this series as a
follow-up from the assembly concerning the message that the Lord laid upon the heart of our
newly elected general overseer. And the more I listen to and the more that I dig into the
simplicity of what looked like it only took 30 or 40 minutes on the Friday night of general assembly,
the more I get into that, it's just loaded. I mean, it's absolutely loaded.
Jesus, as he began the harvest now thought, we can't say we're going to wait and then go out and
try to win the laws. We cannot procrastinate the harvest. Jesus shares with us the urgency of the
harvest. I think whether he returns today or tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, next
week, next week, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next
week, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year. He is, I think is irrelevant to the
point that men are dying every day. Humanities leaving this world every day.
And look take a look at what's going on around you
You've got to see that men are dying every day. The harvest is being taken in every day
you can't just wait for my return you got to be busy and
Here's the thing folks at the return. That's for those who are already believing
The lost are condemned at his return
So
We've got to be about as Jesus would say our father's business and
He tells us directly that the business is the harvest
Look take a good look around you people. We know we dearly love we dearly care for are going to die lost and
They may die before Christ come and we cannot wait three four months to begin to try to win them
To Christ. Oh, I know how it works families the hardest people in the world to win
Hello, they don't they want to hear what you got to say they matter of fact we
We're just rub them raw when we're in their presence and that's okay as long as it's the love of Christ
That they see in us you have to understand that's always going to be contrary
To the will and the love of God the way the world sees you and I
I
Wasn't going to mention a whole lot about the
Opening ceremonies of the Olympics and I know many of you are as disgusted as I am about all of that mess
I wasn't watching it when it happened not gonna watch it now
Wasn't gonna watch it anyway, so it really doesn't disturb my world too much
Because you see I've learned some things and and
People are really blown out of shape about that and rightly so it was blasphemous
I don't care what they say they intended for it to mean it looked like what it looked like and it meant what it
meant
Right, so it was blasphemous
wasn't it and
repulsive and
Then you you've got folks who don't say well, that's just the French. Well, no, no, it's just the attitude of the world
All right
so what I'm here to remind us just a little bit before we get going further is don't be so surprised and get so bent out
of shape that the world's acting like the world and
Sinners are acting like sinners matter of fact Paul's told the church at Galatia
He told him this in six and seven be not deceived. God is not mocked for whatsoever a man
So with that shall he also reap that and and you and I are not the ones that do the reaping
It's God right and another passage scripture
I want you to look at is a second Corinthians three or second Timothy three about verse 13
Look what Paul writes to Timothy what he tells him. He said but evil men as a dozer shall acts worse and worse seducing
And being seduced but here listen to the instruction that follow and I think this is where we come in
I gave you those other two to let you know God will take care of God's business
God will take care of his business
It is very offensive. It is very blasphemous
But it's God who will get the last say and all of that what you and I have to do is be mindful
That evil is going to grow worse and worse the so the the more near we get to the return of Jesus Christ
You'd remember what Jesus said all these things are going to happen all these things are going to come to pass
So don't be alarmed. Don't be so easily moved. Don't be so easily shake when I see that mess
I just say yep. It ain't gonna be long. I say yep
It's not gonna be long. It repulses me and and I'll do all I can to stand against all that mess
But inside of me, there's joy bouncing up and down. There's something on the inside of me starting to get really excited
Why because it's no longer in secret. They're doing all this stuff. It's getting publicized now
It's flooding the media and I saw one one post one brother said just think how many people have
Googled the true Lord Supper and looked at that
I'm telling you what the enemy meant for evil you meant it for good
Yeah, come on now you and I have got to see beyond the the principles of what's going on
Yes, the devil thought he may give Christianity a black eye
but countless millions of people searched out the truth of the Lord Supper and they
They come to understand the sacrifice. They saw it they read it and now the seed is planted up
The seed is there and what we're good
What we're gonna do is begin to water the seed of prayer Lord forever
Heathen that looked it up let the truth of the glorious gospel of your sacrifice
You see we get we get we get we get just all distorted like a pretzel
When we've got to have better sense than to see the immediate and look beyond it what God can do with what evil
tries to do
so
But evil men and seducers shall wex worse and worse deceiving and being deceived
But this what Paul told Timothy
continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and
Has been assured of
Knowing of whom thou hast learned them
And that from a child that has known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise
under salvation
Through faith which is in Christ Jesus
All scripture listen is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof
for correction and for instruction in righteousness
that a man of God
May be perfect thoroughly furnished under all good works
Chapter 4 I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ
Who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom?
Preach the word isn't that what we talked about last week
Amen this harvest now theme the declaration we are the church of God and we have a declaration of
declaration of faith that we're going to stand by that we're going to live by that we're going to live out and
Then we talked about we go we take that word the word of God and we take the commission
To go into all the world because we've been mandated to lift our eyes and look beyond ourselves
To lift our eyes and look beyond ourselves and look upon the fields
They're white and already to harvest and to engage ourselves in Matthew 9
Jesus said pray you therefore the Lord that it's in forth the labors into the harvest
Why because the Harvard is great and he needs more people out there bringing in the shoes
I love the psalmist when he said we shall come
Rejoicing bringing our sheaves with us
What will be a sad day is if you just barely make it to heaven and you don't have one shock of sheaves to rejoice over
We've got to be about the Father's business winning people to the Lord
I charge you therefore by God and
The Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick in the dead at his appearing preach the word
Instant in season out of season reprieve rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine
For the time will come
Are you hearing me for the time will come
Are you hearing me for the time will come when they who are they?
It's that bunch. It's always out there they
You know, they're in every church. They're in every town. They're in every city they them
For they will not endure sound doctrine
But after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears that they shall turn away
Their ears from the truth and shall be turned
Undefiable but watch thou in all things endure affliction
Do the work of an evangelist and make full proof of my ministry
That's what you and I are mandated after the events of a Friday night
Debacle you and I are to remember the truth hold to the truth
Proclaim the truth not be seduced not be easily easily moved away from the truth not to get so
Distorted that we become more and outrage over the idiocy of some who do not know God
But yet to fall on our knees to pray that they come to know him
Wouldn't that be the wonderful thing that the band that they're lauding so and
Praising so much for all of this stuff that came out wouldn't it be wonderful about two three months down the road
We get a testimony we see him when he would stand before a television audience and say I should not have done that
I come to know Christ is my Lord and Savior wouldn't it be wonderful if the Lord saved that man radically
What a great testimony that would be that's mine your responsibility
Not so to get been out of shape because the world's acting like the world sinners are acting like sinners
But that saints are so distorted by the work of the enemy that we fail to remember that God is able to save
to the uttermost and
And I can say how many of them have searched out the Lord's Supper and read the story and
The thing about it. They can't get away from it now
If they didn't know they do now
So we engage into the realm of harvest now
We are the church
We remain to be the church. We remain to be a Pentecostal church
That's our distinctive
We are Pentecostal in our core of who we are because we believe in
the power of the Holy Ghost and
We still believe that he's poured it out upon all who will seek him and it's a free gift. Amen
We still believe that wonderful doctrine of being saved being sanctified and being baptized
And the Holy Ghost and the fire amen and that we speak in other tongues as the spirit gives us the utterance
That's what we believe and we take that message and we go with it
Why because Jesus said I've given you power and authority over all devils that you can lay your hands on the sick and they shall
Recover hallelujah that you can take up serpent and it'll not bite you you take the serpent. I'll take the street nine
You can drink any deadly thing and it won't harm you I'm not fooling no serpents
Lord don't ever make me
I just happen to think oh
Lord don't ever think I'm your favorite
Don't ever make me do that my Lord
Oh
Lord
Never say never and I'm not saying never Lord. I'm just saying I don't want to
Please don't make me
Jesus said that authority has been given unto you
You and I we have that authority born-again blood-bought
sanctified Holy Ghost field believers you have the authority of Christ that works in you
Never failed to understand that we are in a harvest and you can't be lazy about it
And I hate to tell you but some of us have got lazy about it
I almost said let me see your sheaves
I
Don't embarrass nobody you may not even have a sheave but every believer ought to at least reproduce themselves in the kingdom of God
What does that mean you need to find somebody and lead them to Jesus because he saved you if nothing else
Don't be like that guy that was given the talent and he just buried it in the ground
When the master come in and he looked at the guy with five and he turned it to ten and man
He got a great blessing the other guy got the tune he he multiplied his and he looked at the guy with one and he said
Where's my where's my talent? Well, let me go dig it up
He goes things it up brings it back to the master and he said what'd you do it? Well, I hit it because I knew you
were a just man
And I didn't want to risk losing it. He said well at least you could have done was deposited at the bank got me about 3.5
percent
And he cast him out. I don't want to be that guy
You don't want to be that person either. He's giving you a talent. He's giving you a gift. You have something
It's called the salvation of your soul. It's the salvation of our soul
It's the salvation of our soul. So we go we preach a man
We tell them about Jesus and we care what I think the church has lost is the ability to care
Beyond the four walls. We again have to rediscover a passion not just a desire
But I mean a sincere God-given passion for the harvest field
That's reason I was thinking brother David and the Lord drawing him to us. He's renewed my passion
He's renewed my desire to see the the lost one. Amen. He's got a vision
He's old man, but got not done with him yet. Hallelujah. He's retired, but he's not quit
Hallelujah, and so the Lord sent him our way because he's still got a work. He wants to do there's still a fertile land
He wants to do it in and by the grace of God
We've been gifted a wonderful gift the ability to help him get it done
I may never step foot on an African soil, but he's going Randy's going Brian's going
We're gonna send them for the glory of the kingdom. We're gonna make sure that it happens and we're gonna have a harvest in the world
Hallelujah, but what about the world around us? I think these past few weeks are just to stir us
To the nearness of the harvest
It's not global south. It's not
West it's not on all of the other continents of the world. It's right here around us
It's around you
You don't have to go far to find a heathen
Hello
You don't
You don't have to go very far to find someone who really don't know who Jesus is I
Know that sounds absurd to us that surely everybody in Bradley County knows who Jesus is no
or Polk County either
You can find people who do not know who Jesus Christ is they don't know what Easter means
They don't know what Christmas week. They don't know what all the fuss is. They really don't care
You can find someone that needs Jesus and they're around us the world in which we live and we have to embrace
The harvest not just embrace it but become passionate about it. We must care again about the lost and dying
I
Forget exactly how the
story the illustration goes exactly which of angels it was but it's one of the early
Early advantage just standing in a hotel window looking out over a very busy
City street and he asked the person in the room with him. What do you see?
When you look out the window a
Couple different answers come on
Never was the right answer
The answer was I see the lost I
See those who may need Christ not every person you see is lost. Hallelujah every now and then you get a hold of a good
testimony, right
This past week sister Kathy and I we went up to
The mounts for a few days and we're walking around the D wall to store greatest place. She loves it
All kind of great things in the D wall store
We're walking around there. We come across a gentleman just struck up a conversation with him. He had on his Vietnam cap. So I
Thanked him for his service for our country and our nation always starts a conversation
Didn't take very long
Well, I think it was his response to us. He said well, it's either jail or military. I
Didn't really take him serious. He said no seriously judge said either go to jail or go to the army
He said so I went to the army
Well, okay and
Time rolls on conversation goes on old gentleman loved to talk
So I eventually got him around to Jesus. I don't go to church. I thought well I can tell
He said but I tell you what I do that most Christians won't I said well, what's that sir? I'm curious now. He's got me
He said I'll stop and help an old person change a flat tire and people church edgars drive right on by
He said I won't pass nobody up
I said well, let me tell you something best thing it is is as long as you know
The Lord Jesus Christ is your personal Savior so that seed he just kind of looked at me had one eye about half
Should I just kind of looked at me out of the other eye and talked about something else and we parted ways, but I sowed the seed
Right, that's that's fine. Your responsibility
in it
some so some water
Somebody else will get the increase
You know what Jesus said there to John in our text
Let them know that I'm sending them to reap
Let them know that I'm sending them to reap wherein they bestowed no labor
In other words someone else had plowed somebody had busted up the clods somebody else had already sold
someone else had already hold the ground and pull the weeds and and now and
Watered and watered and watered and he said I'm sending you to reap a harvest wherein you bestowed no labor
Come on somebody they're hearing the gospel from somebody
Somewhere down the road I pray that someone reached the harvest of that old man's soul
Amen, because a seed been sown it had been watered
Maybe somebody else had already sold not as adding a little water to it the other day
But eventually if he don't leave this world off
Eventually, he's gonna have a stirring and somebody's gonna come along and recap everything that he's heard and they're gonna reap that old man's soul
Right into the kingdom of heaven. What are you saying pastor either water or harvest?
but do something
Our churches across the land should be multiplying weekly
87% of people who do not attend church who eventually came to church were asked. How did you come to church?
The percentage is very very small single digits the pastor and other things
86 or 87 percent of people say they came to church because a friend invited them
Now I know I'm a little bit to get used to you may have to warn them a little bit before you bring them
But everything up to the time I get here is really good
But then and it's okay for you to tell him now our pastor he's a little out there
Don't tell him what you're gonna get
But you'll hear the word or at least I hope that's what you can tell them if you're looking for the word
You can bring them to whole well church of God. Well, they'll hear the truth of their need for a Savior
To redeem them of their sin and they'll hear the truth preached to them that by his stripes you are healed
Hallelujah that you'll hear the truth that you may and must live
It's possible to live a sanctified life from the sin of this world. You can live separate
And you can be empowered
By the wonderful gift of God
If that's something you're interested in come on we eat a lot
We pray we laugh
We cry
But our concern is you our concern is you
We must care again. We must care
You we must care again. We must find our way back to Matthew 25
Where Jesus said
You cared for me and they said well Lord, when did we care for you?
He said when I was hungry
You fed me right
Was a stranger you took me and when I was thirsty you gave me something to read when I was in prison you visited me there
They said well Lord you ain't ever been in that shape
Have we done that to you said when you do it under the least of these
You're doing it to me
We ever stop consider those people
That are around you you minister to them. You're actually
ministering to Christ
How so he died for them?
I love to cut up and tell you that I'm his favorite and I really believe that
But I think we all are aren't we?
He would have died for you as Christ
He died for you as quickly as he died for me matter of fact he did
From the foundations of the world
Christ was slain
By his grace that we are who we are
I'm gonna close this morning. There's no sense to keep going. Just stand with this morning. It's a little different today.
I don't really know how to
I don't know how to close us out I
Think we need to find ourselves
the character of Luke 10
You'd know him as the Good Samaritan
I
Think we're losing some of our goodness because of the perverseness of the world
Right how many of you I'm gonna raise my hand first
How many of you don't reach out like you used to because?
the uncertainty of those that you're reaching out to
Right there with you
You know there was a time when we seemed to be much kinder
That we let our compassion flow more than we do now
Because of the unknown of the culture
I'm having to pray the Lord help forgive me
I
Drive by and see people with signs
Lord you gotta help me
Wanting handouts
Asking for help
I just drive right on by
Say to myself and at times out loud my lord get a job people begging for people to work
You remember when you do this these all this going this way Lord's eating my lunch right now
I've got to renew my sense of care
His compassion the Good Samaritan I read that again this morning and
Convicted
The priests come by
There's a man beaten and stripped and robbed and left naked in the street wounded
Priests come by and cross the street and went the other way
Oh you could say if he'd went and touched him he would have become unholy he would have
It had only cost him seven days and an offering
Huh
Wouldn't it cost the priests much the Levite the same way
You know the temple worker the custodian
The Levites
He crossed the street went the other way
But the most disdained
Nationality
To the Hebrew nation the Samaritan
Came saw the man
Picked him up took him to the end
Washed him cleaned him
Said I can't stay
But here's two days wages
Take care of him if it's more than that when I come back through I'll settle up with you
Which in a sense gives you some understanding that possibly the innkeeper and the Samaritan
He did frequent business there
I'll be back
Because they had some type of relationship obviously or hopefully
Because if it's just two strangers one trusting another that much
I'm not going to be able to do that
Because if it's just two strangers one trusting another that much
I'm gonna feel even worse time I get finished
And he took care of him
I had sister Robin look up before service
But where we are and just the benevolence we've done this year
Not all of its
Counted the way we give it and do it there's others out there some almost two thousand dollars in benevolence
a little over 18 little over 18,000 in missions
Already for about the half so we're about 20,000 into missions and benevolence
This year already
And we're 30 shy of our 50 gold
But we're gonna get closer here by September
So it's not that we're not doing we are
And you know as well as how we can always do more
Right we can always do better
But as I look this morning my thought was this
We care Lord, but we can't do it all
Can't do it all
Thankfully, we don't have to
So I think that's where the importance of
Nowering down vision
pinpointing vision
And having the spirit of the Lord speak into the areas of care
That we really focus on
And make a difference there
right
We're doing okay with our
Homeless drive, but I'm telling you after about week three you've lost your passion for it
But they're they're still getting out of jail
They still don't have places to go some of them
And I think we need to renew
A little care
I mean that's just one instance that we have before us that's people right here in Bradley County
right here
So pastor you kind of getting almost a little just a little
I read it to you reprove rebuke
With all long-suffering, right?
I think we can do better
That's corporately as a body, but then I think where it really gets
Is individually folks. I know I do
I know pastor Cliffs got some pray and he's had to do and got some more to do
To renew my sense of care
I care, but I need to care
That makes sense. How many of you care?
We care
But I think we need to really care and by really caring we we involve ourselves
At whatever level that you're comfortable with but a greater level than what we currently are
I just don't think the Lord would have just blistered me with this this morning
How that we get how that we get all twisted up about
Images
And God says I'm not gonna be mocked I'll take care of it Vincenzo's is mine, but all of a sudden we get
We get our badge of honor
I'll take care of it Vincenzo's is mine, but all of a sudden we get we get our badge of God police
You pray for him this morning there I sang about this morning
Yeah, you know we don't have to defend him we just have to serve him
Not a one of us have been called to defend him Vincenzo's is mine
Sayeth the Lord and what the enemy meant for evil
He'll turn it to good
Here's
Before I came up there's two scripture coming my mind one that of Joseph
When he told his brothers when he had their fate in his hands
Remember they didn't recognize him
and he turned with tears and
He told him said what you you meant for evil against me when you sold me God had a plan
And today is the fulfillment of that plan I'm gonna take care of you and dad and everybody go get them and bring them in right
And then you think about Job
I
Promise I'm trying to quit you think about Job through all of his trial and everything that he lost
When Job prayed for his friends you remember we talked about those friends last week
When Job prayed for his friends
Things turned for Job to the good I
Think if we would get as upset
About some of the things we're not doing in and for the kingdom as
Some of God's business that he'll take care of I
Think will grow the kingdom
Now don't get me wrong did that upset me yes, and I'm still upset today
Thought it was very
Disrespectful
But the Lord let me know I'm not I'm not his police officer
I'm
He said I'm big enough and I'll take care of it. I thought
Okay, because I was going to approach it totally different
You talking about a check
We need to care
We need to care about their soul more than we get angered about their ignorance
We need to care we need to care about their soul more than we get angered about their ignorance
And that what that Romans turns it after Jesus was crucified we didn't know what we done and they killed him
What have we done truly truly?
This was the Son of God
Father I love you today
Lord, I don't know how to end this other than for us just together to pray to help us care
To help us care if you're here this morning. You don't know Christ the Savior. I invite you to come to know him
Free pardon of sin you need help
You need peace of mind you need a healing in your body. I invite you to come for he is all of that for us today and more
He's all of that and more father. I pray that you help each of us as we go as we are going as we are moving about the world
As we're going about
Help us engage the harvest
And to sow and to water and to help and to teach