WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:04.719 Welcome to this week's message from the church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:10.800 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.359 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.600 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:20.399 Hey, I want we're gonna start it out. 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:22.559 Everybody's back from vacation. 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:23.359 We're all here. 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:25.039 We had a great summer, though. 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:28.800 We averaged over all between 230 and 240 during the summer. 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:29.920 Just phenomenal. 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:31.519 But I knew it was gonna be like this. 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:32.640 I saw it coming. 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.439 And this is gonna you ain't seen anything yet, folks. 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:39.200 That Paville is gonna be packed out here soon. 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:40.880 I'm telling you, it's cubed. 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:41.679 It's cubed. 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.200 But I'm gonna say something that I like to say everywhere I go. 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:47.359 I go and say, Jesus is what? 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:52.320 And your response is awesome! Yeah, but that's pitiful. 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:57.520 But so I want us, I want us to raise the roof. 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:01.600 I want everybody in, hey, Westover, Chelsea. 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:06.079 I'm talking about Harpersville, Wilsonville, we're talking about children. 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:09.920 We want everybody to hear that Jesus is awesome. 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:12.079 I want us to raise the rooftop. 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:12.719 All right. 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:13.359 Ready? 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:14.560 Jesus says, What? 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:17.760 Oh, that's about a B. 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:18.719 All right. 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:19.040 Come on. 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:20.239 Let's do it one more time. 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:21.439 Come on, get it out. 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.280 Everybody, if you can't but whisper, say Jesus is awesome. 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:26.480 But say something. 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:27.120 Ready? 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:28.719 One, two, three. 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:29.840 Jesus says, What? 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:33.439 Give him another clap offer this morning. 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:34.239 Amen. 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:34.879 Amen. 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:35.760 Amen. 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:37.359 You may be seated. 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.879 Turn with me this morning in your Bibles to James chapter 5. 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:44.480 Man, it's been good. 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:46.079 It's been so good. 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:55.280 This whole series on the book of James has just been, I don't know about you, but it has sure been convicted to me. 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:00.000 My toes have been crushed during this series. 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:10.479 And I hope that, and by the way, many of you are watching, and a lot of you watch during vacation on as we're streaming right now. 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:18.879 And I know I got an early text this morning from IV and Rosemary, and they're at the beach in Florida. 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:20.960 They were sitting out by a pool. 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:22.080 God bless you. 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.080 I know you're suffering for Jesus. 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:24.960 That's good. 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:26.159 That's good. 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:36.960 But many, many of you have been watching when you're sick or have children sick, and we're getting you to respond and say, thank you, Pastor. 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:38.000 Thank you, Beachy. 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:38.800 Thank you. 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.439 So give us a, you know, text us. 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:42.879 Let us know you're watching. 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.439 It encourages us to do what we do. 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:53.120 And it's amazing how many people are watching our broadcast, not just today, but all during the week, or they listen to it now. 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:54.479 You can listen to it. 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:56.800 You know, put your earphones in. 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:57.759 Everybody's got earphones. 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:01.039 I even got me a pair of earphones the other day so I can look cool. 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:09.199 But uh but anyway, you can listen to as you're walking, as you're jogging, you can listen in your car. 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:10.879 So just whatever. 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:12.080 Uh and go online. 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:14.800 If you're not, if you don't have our app, get her out. 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:18.000 And Benji's got now, you've got the notes online. 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:23.439 You've got the, I mean, you can follow us right there, and and uh I see Sadaka's right there. 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:24.719 He's got it, he's got it. 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:26.080 Look, he's ready. 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:36.319 You know, used to, I have to tell this, the first time, you know, the iPhones and everything, the the technology hit the uh schools and everything. 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.039 I was the president of Tennessee Temple at the time, and I'm up to preach. 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:48.080 I did the president's chapel on Fridays, and I one of my interns had his iPhone out, actually had his iPad out. 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:53.039 And he was just going to town and and and it just hit me wrong. 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:57.360 And you know, the older you get, hopefully the wiser you get. 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:00.560 Well, I wasn't too wise that morning. 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:02.719 So I called him down. 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:04.400 I said, Paul, what are you doing? 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:08.159 It's not time to be emailing your girlfriend, it's time to get ready for service. 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:11.680 And he turned around and he said, Doctor Lovett, I'm sorry, but I've got you up right now. 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:14.319 Here's the Bible, and I went. 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.160 I said, Boy, did I put my foot in my mouth then? 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:22.000 I said, and I apologize. 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:23.680 I said, Paul, I'm sorry. 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:27.199 I'm trying to get into this 21st century with technology. 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.600 So used to, you'd see people doing that. 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:34.079 And and now it is a good way to camouflage your talking when you're not paying attention. 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:35.759 But hopefully you're not doing that. 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:40.000 If you are, I pray that the Holy Spirit will zap your iPhone. 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:42.160 Amen. 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:47.759 James chapter 5. 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.000 James chapter 5. 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:56.000 Restoring the wayward brother or sister in Christ. 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:01.439 You know, in this closing section, James deals with a forgotten doctrine in the church. 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:05.680 Actually, there's two forgotten doctrines in the church today, really. 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:12.639 And we talked about one a couple of weeks ago at the very beginning of James, and that is church discipline. 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:16.560 You know, where you call and you deal with sin in the church. 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:18.800 I'm gonna just be honest, that's what it is. 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:43.040 Uh and when people know about it in the community, but yet the preacher or the church is not dealing with it, and the church, you know, used to that uh, you know, when I was growing up, and not that it was done, uh should I say, actually, we didn't see a whole lot of it done because the church knew that they would do it, so they they live right, they acted right, amen. 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:47.519 And uh they did right, but that's a forgotten doctrine. 00:05:47.600 --> 00:06:00.639 And then the other forgotten doctrine is the one I'm gonna end up with, part one and part two, leading into our community awakening, is the restoring of your brother or sister in Christ that has fallen. 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:09.680 The church has been great over the years of beating up on their wounded instead of helping their wounded back up. 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.920 And uh, let me remind us all, we all go down. 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:14.720 Amen? 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:17.839 We all the righteous fall seven times, but they get back up. 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:26.560 But what Proverbs 24, 7 doesn't tell you is the reason we get back up, and the way we get back up is because we have a church body, a church family. 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:41.920 And we'll look at that, Galatians 6.1, that comes alongside of us, those that are spiritual, and and that doesn't mean super Christians, it just means that are loving and kind and living for the Lord and understand what I'm about to preach today and next week. 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:47.279 That to come back and do everything they can to restore the brother or sister that's fallen away. 00:06:47.759 --> 00:07:00.800 Boy, when we see that, wouldn't that be a new entity or a new philosophy to see the church going after people that are gone wayward and loving them and doing everything they can to bring them back to God. 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:05.519 And that's what we want to be here at CCW. 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:15.040 We are a New Testament church, and I get so excited as I've been going through the book of James, practical Christianity in the New Testament. 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.600 It's really the Proverbs of the New Testament, and we went through Ecclesiastes. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.600 It's the Ecclesiastes of the New Testament. 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:26.959 And uh I get so excited because I see that here. 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:27.759 I see that here. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:29.600 And by the way, let me just say something. 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:34.399 We're not interested in your past, we're interested in your future. 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.279 And God's got a fantastic future for you. 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:39.920 He does not think evil of you, but good. 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.480 And he wants something fantastic in your life. 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:44.160 Jeremiah 29, 11. 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:47.680 All of us, you say, but you don't know what I've done. 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:48.720 I don't care. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:51.519 Hey, I don't care. 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:53.360 It's not about me, it's about him. 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:54.639 And he knows everything. 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:57.519 So all you got to do is confess it, turn from it. 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:06.800 Hey, and the word we're gonna be using, epistepho today, convert back to God and who he is and what he is, and do what he tells you to do. 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:11.759 And let me tell you, he'll make you, hey, he'll make something beautiful out of your life. 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:14.000 Guaranteed. 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:19.439 But you got to do it his way, not your way, not my way, his way. 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:20.240 Amen. 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:23.279 So let's begin as we look. 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:38.240 We find here in James chapter 5, verses 19 and 20, the last two verses, we'll look at verse 19 today and then verse 20 next week, and then start into our great community awakening. 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:42.960 Please, right now, whatever you have to do to be here. 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:44.879 Make plans to be here every night. 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:45.919 Don't miss a night. 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:50.960 Because I'm telling you, I'm asking God to show us things that He's gonna do. 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:58.879 I'm asking Him to show up in such a powerful way for this community, for this for our national election. 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:00.080 I don't know about you. 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:01.840 I can't even watch news anymore. 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:02.879 I I'm through. 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:03.519 I'm through. 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:05.600 All it is is a bunch of lies. 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:08.720 And lying lips are abomination unto God. 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:10.320 They will not go unpunished. 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:11.840 Proverbs 12, 22. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:19.360 But what I can do, what I can do is preach the truth, stand on the truth, and when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice. 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:22.320 And when the wicked bears rule, the people mourn. 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:25.440 While we're mourning, we got wicked people ruling. 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:26.559 We gotta do something. 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.720 And we can't do it, but God can. 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.639 But he, when we cry out, he listens. 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:46.559 Wouldn't it be great for four nights just to cry out to God and say, God, we're hey, we're standing in the gap for Westover and Chelsea and our community, for our city, for Birmingham, for our state, and ultimately for our country. 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.399 Hey, hey, everybody else can go one way or they can go politically correct. 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:56.720 They can do that, but bless God, there's a little place called Westover, CCW, that there's such a light beaming around. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:02.320 You want to see, hey, true godliness and people that love God and love people, go there. 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:08.080 I'm praying that when they pull on the campus, they'll be under conviction. 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:11.279 The power of the Holy Spirit will be so powerful. 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:12.320 Amen. 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:13.360 I believe that. 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:14.639 I've seen it. 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:18.399 And that's what I'm asking God to do here. 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:41.440 But we see, we find here in verse 19 and 20, where he says, Brethren, verse 19, if any of you do err from the truth and one convert him, let him know that he which converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins. 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:47.919 When one is backslidden, he says, We gotta seek him, we gotta go after them. 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:54.559 In fact, Jesus said, let me show you what Jesus said in Luke chapter 15, verses 4 and 5. 00:10:54.799 --> 00:11:01.440 Jesus said, What man of you having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them? 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:02.399 Did you hear that? 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:02.960 One. 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:10.399 Do not leave, hey, the 99 in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it. 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:19.039 And when he finds it, he, hey, leave, hey, he puts it on his shoulder and comes back rejoicing. 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:24.080 When I saw that, I said, there's four steps here that are unbelievable. 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.320 And God just gave me this in the last day or two. 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:27.519 That's why it's not in the outline. 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.480 So you can write it down somewhere if you want to, but it's here. 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:32.159 All you gotta do is mark it in your Bible. 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:34.080 Look at, first of all, look at the reality. 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:34.799 Four steps. 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:36.480 First of all, the first step's reality. 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:37.679 Look at what he said. 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:42.720 Jesus asked, What man of you having 100 sheep if he loses one of them? 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:49.279 The reality is that, hey, the sheep's gonna wander from the shepherd. 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:51.919 They're gonna stray. 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:53.440 You and I are gonna stray. 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:54.960 Have you ever strayed from the Lord? 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:58.159 Ten of us? 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.200 I don't need to be preaching. 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:03.120 One of y'all need to come preach then. 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:06.639 If you never strayed, you need to be preaching. 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:09.600 Only problem is we've all strayed. 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:10.320 Amen. 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:11.600 You know it? 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:12.480 I know it. 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:13.919 So let's try that again. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:15.360 Have you ever strayed from the Lord? 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:16.080 Every hand. 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:16.399 Thank you. 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:18.240 Both of mine are up. 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:19.840 You have. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:20.639 You know it. 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:21.440 That's the reality. 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:23.039 But now notice the second thing. 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.240 Not on the reality, look at the reclaiming. 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:34.879 The shepherd, look at what Jesus says, leaves the 90 and 9 and he goes after the one and he doesn't come back till he's on his shoulder. 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:36.320 Wow. 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:41.120 Now that will bring revival in itself to a church. 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:52.000 When one of our members goes astray, that we all, hey, lovingly, not condemningly, not being spiritual supermen or superwomen. 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:52.639 No. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:13:00.240 But we, in a loving, compassionate, heartbroken way, go and say, brother, let me bring you back. 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.279 Sister, please, don't let Satan win. 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.360 Don't let Satan win. 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:09.279 So we see the reclaiming. 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:10.960 Notice what else, too. 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:13.679 The reality, the reclaiming, and then the resolve. 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:20.240 The shepherd is resolved that he's not coming back till he brings the sheep, till he finds the sheep and brings them back. 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:22.639 I don't know any pastor that does that. 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.720 I don't know any members that usually do that. 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.159 I think we do that better than most here. 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.320 And there is a limit. 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:30.960 I can't. 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:33.519 You know what would be great? 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:37.600 I was thinking about this and I said, man, that'd be good. 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:50.720 That somehow, somehow, that we would have the power to go to a brother or sister that's wayward and in a loving way grab them, put them in the van, bring them, and lock them up in Jesus' jail. 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:54.639 Boy, wouldn't that be great? 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:56.000 Wouldn't that be awesome? 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:57.759 In other words, you can't go anywhere. 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:15.519 You gotta listen to preaching, teaching, loving, I mean, uh, gotta learn scriptures, quote scripture, gotta get, you gotta, you know, just just kind of chuck, kind of what y'all do at the home with the guys back there and and you and David and it with the girl, I mean, they're not in jail, they're in a loving home. 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.799 But wouldn't it be great if we had that for wayward adults? 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:24.080 Hello, that'd be awesome. 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:30.559 And that we're not going, hey, we just hey, I'm an agent for Jesus. 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:32.960 I got a warrant for your arrest. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:35.600 You've been wayward. 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:37.200 Here's the charges. 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:38.480 Come with me. 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:41.120 And give them a choice. 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:42.799 You got one choice. 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:44.000 Go with us or go to hell. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:44.960 Where are you going? 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:48.240 Hello. 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:50.000 Just a thought. 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:51.840 I know that's radical. 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:55.440 Well, it's about time to be radical, amen. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:57.120 Lord help us. 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:00.240 So we see, and look at the third thing. 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:01.840 Well, I meant the fourth thing. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:06.879 The reality, we're gonna wonder, we're claiming, we're going after them, we're not coming back without them. 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:10.559 And by the way, when we resolve to go after somebody, let me tell you what it takes. 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:11.600 Three things. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:12.879 Actually, four. 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:14.799 Hey, you know what it takes for me? 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:16.320 And I said, God, how can I do? 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.639 I gotta have a desire, first of all, to go after them. 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:23.519 Most of us don't even have that desire. 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.559 You know, well, they know they're wrong. 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.120 I that's not my problem. 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:29.840 Yes, it is. 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:31.840 You are your brother's keeper. 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:33.519 Genesis 4 9. 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:35.919 We are our brothers and sisters' keeper. 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:37.840 Amen. 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:46.960 So it takes one, desire, number two, determination, number three, diligence, and number four, discipline. 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:49.679 That's why I'm so excited about our Bible study. 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:50.799 I want you to get involved. 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.000 And whether or not you get involved or not, we're gonna put you on a roll. 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:55.679 You covenant members. 00:15:55.919 --> 00:16:00.799 So we can keep up and catch you and lum on you and just be there for you. 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:10.399 One of the things that Lola's, Lola, they're in the in between churches, and she she texted me and she said, Pastor Danny, thank you for being there. 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:12.720 We don't have a church right now. 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:13.919 Thank you for being there. 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.559 But that's what the body of Christ, and I'm not pushing. 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:17.840 No, I just reached out. 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:18.559 I had no idea. 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:20.960 I just went by, Lord told me to go visit her. 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:24.159 Listen, if I show up here at your house, one or two things. 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:28.080 One, you visited there's a card, or the Lord's told me to come see you. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.360 And I usually don't tell you that, but there's a reason. 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:36.159 And I listen to the Lord. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:37.519 Amen. 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:42.080 And if I'm in your neighborhood, most of the time the Lord says for me to stop. 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:44.080 So I'm gonna stop. 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:45.120 I can't. 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:46.080 Amen? 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:51.919 Even if I get locked in the backyard and can't get out, but have climbed the wall. 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.879 But anyway, that happened too. 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:57.919 But then notice the last thing. 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:04.160 The reality, the reclaiming that he resolves, it takes desire, determination, diligence, and discipline. 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:07.279 And then look at the rejoicing at the end of the verse. 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.400 And when he had found it, he lays it on his shoulder, rejoicing. 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:14.400 Once the lost sheep is found, there's rejoicing starts. 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:15.759 There's joy. 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:16.640 Isn't there joy? 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:24.079 You know what gets, you know why I I love standing out there hugging everybody's neck when you come and leave, but especially coming, I get to know everybody? 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:25.519 For two reasons. 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:29.359 First of all, I miss you, and I want to make sure you're coming and you're staying here. 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:31.920 You gotta be in the book and just be with your family. 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:43.839 But when I and when I see some of you, when you've you've missed two or three Sundays and you come up, I hope you see the joy on my face and I light up and I get excited because you're back in the family of God. 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.400 You're back where you're fixing to be fed. 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.599 Not just physically, but spiritually. 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:50.319 Amen. 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:54.240 You're fixing to be loved on and cared for. 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:58.720 That's what it's all about, folks. 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:01.680 Yes, we are our brother's keeper. 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:08.720 And James is teaching is right here going after the wayward brother or sister. 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:11.359 Now, let me give you four things this morning. 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.599 Number one, look at verse 19 again. 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:17.440 Look at the subtle danger. 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:19.599 There's a subtle danger here. 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:23.519 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth. 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:35.279 Now, James is addressing the brethren here, and the word brethren is found over 200 times in the New Testament, and it is a term applied to those who are born into the family of God. 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:41.920 It can be a physical brother or sister, but in this context, it's referring to a brother in Christ. 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:53.279 When I say, hey, brother Clay, brother David, brother Harry, brother, that they're not my physical brother, but they're my brother in Christ. 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:53.920 Amen? 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.200 Or my sister, sister uh Candy. 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:00.559 We're sisters and brothers in the Lord if we're saved. 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:01.759 Can I get an amen? 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:05.200 We got five, four or five people we're baptizing here a little bit. 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:06.319 They are, guess what? 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:09.759 They are being baptized into the family of God. 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:13.599 And they're also being baptized into our local family. 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:19.680 You are, you, when you become a covenant member, you are a family member of this church. 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:23.839 And if you come in regular, we still consider you a family member. 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:24.960 We love you. 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:26.640 We care for you. 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:30.000 God's giving one of the things God's given me, I don't understand it. 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:46.000 I can't remember my name, but I can remember half the Bible and I can remember faces, and I can look out right now, and I could almost, and I'm not gonna take time to do that because I get I want to do it on the book, but I could tell you who's not here that usually is here right now. 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:48.079 Because I know where they usually sit. 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:54.240 Because y'all don't change, and don't you change on me either. 00:19:54.960 --> 00:20:00.079 I mean, the bur hey, the durers, they're right there here every Sunday. 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:02.880 I know when they're not here, they're not there. 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:05.519 And you can't miss Darren. 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:07.759 Amen. 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:10.160 Because Darren's my buddy, he preaches me. 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.960 So if Darren's not here, you don't hear him. 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:16.160 It wouldn't matter where Darren's at. 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:17.200 You can hear him. 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:17.920 Amen. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:19.680 Same way with me. 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:24.319 You ought to, you don't want to sit by me when I'm listening, if I'm in a meeting. 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:25.680 Don't sit by me. 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:28.960 Because I, our funeral, that's where we met. 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:31.839 I'm sitting there preaching with a preacher quoting scripture. 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:33.519 Yeah, here's what the revelation. 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.400 And every once in a while, people and Susan's like, you bump. 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:39.200 I said, honey, go sit over there. 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:40.319 She does. 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:44.720 In fact, since a lot of times she won't sit close to, I can't help it. 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:48.079 I'm sitting there and I'll, you know, I'm I know where he's going. 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:49.680 I'm trying to help it. 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:52.640 Let's go get it, preacher. 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:53.519 Preach it. 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:54.400 You know. 00:20:54.960 --> 00:21:01.759 So again, we see the importance right here of having a heartbeat for the waiver. 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:03.279 Now notice what he said. 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:11.920 Speaking of Christians, these are folks who have embraced the truth, they've heard the truth, they've received it. 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:13.519 Now look at the word error. 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:14.720 Good word here. 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:16.319 Comes from the word plano. 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:20.559 And it simply means to wander away. 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.680 It means to be led away. 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:28.160 It means to be led astray. 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.319 That's what the word wander really means. 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:40.400 James is talking about people who are saved, but they have wandered away from God and the things of God. 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:41.839 That's what he's talking about. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:43.839 They used to attend church. 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:45.920 Hello. 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:49.519 You know what we've seen, how this church has grown so quickly and all? 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:50.079 You know what? 00:21:50.240 --> 00:21:54.720 Most of the people we've reached hadn't been mature Christians. 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:59.279 And to be honest with you, we weren't going after mature Christians if they're involved in a church. 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.519 I don't like, we don't steal sheep around here. 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.279 Now, if they're out there wandering, happen to show up, we'll feed them. 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:10.079 And I learned something. 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:11.759 When you feed them, they come back. 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:13.920 Just the thought. 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:14.720 Amen. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:19.200 We're going to feed you both ways, spiritually and physically. 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:24.640 But we don't intentionally go after sheep that are involved in somebody else's pasture. 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:26.160 We don't do that. 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:28.720 Because there's too many out there in the woods wandering. 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:29.920 We don't need to do that. 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:34.240 82% in Shelby County aren't going to church anywhere. 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:36.000 That's a lot of sheep. 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:39.519 That's enough sheep to fill every church. 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:43.279 So if you're involved in a church, amen, hallelujah. 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:44.880 Or going to a church. 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:49.680 Now what I am learning is that a lot of people go to say they're going somewhere, but they're not going. 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:52.160 I don't know what you call that. 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:56.240 Where I come from, they say that's not telling the truth, but that's okay. 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:00.240 Because we don't, we don't, lying's not lying anymore. 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:02.640 We lie to lie and then lie to lie. 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:08.559 87% recently said they didn't think it was really that bad to lie. 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:09.279 87%. 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:12.880 Yeah. 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:15.759 On the streets of New York City, they asked, What do you think about lying? 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:16.880 You think it's really bad? 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:19.200 Well, it all depends on what it is. 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:24.160 Oh, so it's okay to lie about some things and not okay to lie about others. 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:27.599