WEBVTT 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:04.559 Welcome to this week's message from the Church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:10.640 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:13.279 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.440 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:23.519 I want you to turn with me in your Bibles to Luke 15. 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:33.600 I couldn't have uh had a better introduction than Joyce talking about taking the gospel to the world. 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:35.679 That is what we are all about. 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:36.320 Amen. 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:41.840 I want to give you a few statistics that I read a few years ago. 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:47.600 I did not, I've not seen any newer statistics. 00:00:48.240 --> 00:01:02.880 I'm sure they're probably there, but it seems like sometimes the uh conventions kind of uh they're protected with some of these numbers, and I won't say why, but I think I have my own reason. 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:24.400 But uh few years ago, out of 44,000 Southern Baptist churches, listen to this, out of 44,000 Southern Baptist churches, only 284 reached more than a hundred lost souls that year. 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:29.280 Out of 44,000. 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:29.920 Okay. 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:03.280 I mean, if the pastor can't lead more than one to the Lord, he ought to be fired. 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:05.920 Maybe I shouldn't say that. 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:14.080 Out of 44,000 Southern Baptist churches, only nine churches baptized more. 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:15.360 Ready for this, Sam? 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:17.360 Than a hundred teenagers. 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.919 Fifty-six baptize more than fifty. 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:30.560 Ladies and gentlemen, and I don't think it's getting better, I think it's getting worse. 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:32.560 I really do. 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:39.120 So, today's message is a message that is very dear to my heart. 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:41.520 It's very close to my heart. 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:46.479 It's who I've been for 35 years of my ministry. 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:53.680 In Luke chapter 15, if you do not have an outline, hold your hand up and we'll make sure you've got one. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:02.080 We've got a few back here, Carrie, and back here in the back, because it's very important that you have your outlines. 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.879 And today you're going to be writing down the scriptures. 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:16.639 I did a little different format than I normally do because I wanted to just kind of give you the impact of what this passage of scripture is all about. 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:21.840 But the churches today are not doing what they're supposed to be doing. 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:29.360 It reminds me of a little saying that I researched and found about a baby camel. 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:31.360 How many of you have ever been to Israel? 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:32.159 Any? 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:33.280 A few of us. 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.240 How many of you that went to Israel rode on a camel? 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:37.680 Yep, I did. 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:39.759 Okay, tried to. 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.680 How many of you gone to the zoo and seen a camel? 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.400 Okay, now we got the majority. 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:47.840 Okay, okay. 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:51.680 Well, the story about the baby camel. 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:54.000 The baby camel asked mom. 00:03:54.639 --> 00:04:05.759 He looked up to mom and he said, Mom, why do I have this big foot that kind of is divided in three different places? 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:08.560 It's just a wide big foot. 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:17.360 Mom looked down to baby camel and said, Oh, it's so that you can walk on the desert sand and not sink. 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:19.680 Oh, okay. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:25.600 Baby camel turned around and said, But mom, why do we have these big eyelashes? 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:33.839 Mom looked down at the baby camel and said, So that the sand will not get in our eyes when we're walking across the desert. 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:36.000 Oh, okay. 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:39.040 Baby Camel again, just like our kids do. 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:39.920 Came back with another. 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.439 Well, mom, why do I have these two big humps on my back? 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:52.879 Mom looked down at the baby camel and said, To store water so we'll have enough water to go across the desert. 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:55.040 Oh, okay. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.120 Mom, can't you see the mom by now? 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:00.160 Yes. 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:14.399 If I have these big foot to keep me from sinking in the sand and these big eyelashes to keep sand out of my eyes, and these two big humps to fill up with water, mom, why are we in the zoo? 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:23.120 I thought to myself, what a beautiful analogy. 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:27.120 We come every Sunday to church and we hear the gospel. 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:28.480 We believe the gospel. 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:32.959 We've been saved by the gospel, but we just stay in the zoo. 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:37.920 We don't take it into the marketplace. 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:40.720 God help us, amen. 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:45.920 God help us to take it to our friends, our relatives, our neighbors. 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:48.399 And that's what I want us to look at today. 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:56.240 In Luke chapter 15, it's a beautiful, beautiful example of Christ's heart. 00:05:56.959 --> 00:06:06.079 In fact, I want to talk to you about the Lord's heart in the area of evangelism, and it's so awesome, it really is. 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:11.199 First of all, I want us to look at the first parable. 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:12.480 There's three parables. 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:14.959 First parable talks about the lost sheep. 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:17.759 The second parable talks about the lost coin. 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:21.279 Then the third parable talks about the lost son. 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:33.920 But I want us to look first of all at the first parable of the lost sheep so that we can get a sense of the Lord's heart for our friends that are lost. 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:39.839 In Luke chapter 15, we see the first parable. 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:46.879 And the Bible says, Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:48.560 I thought to myself, that's it. 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:53.120 Before anybody, hey, can get saved, they got to hear the gospel. 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:54.319 Can I get an amen? 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:55.360 Amen. 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:00.240 In fact, Romans 10 says, How shall they hear if we don't have a preacher? 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:04.639 And how shall we not have a preacher if we don't send them? 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:07.279 That's what Paul said in Romans 10. 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:12.800 So it's important that in order for people to be saved, they've got to hear the gospel. 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:18.399 That's why Jesus said, He that hath ears to hear in Matthew 13, 9, let him hear. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:19.360 Amen. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.199 That's why James said, be swift to hear. 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.279 Be swift, be ready to hear. 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.879 And then secondly, they've got to draw near to hear. 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:32.480 Can I get an amen? 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:33.759 Amen. 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:35.680 They've got to draw near to hear. 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:40.639 And part of that drawing near to here is where you and I come in. 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:51.439 We bring them to church or we share the gospel with them, but we get them near so they can hear the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:53.759 You ought to get excited about your new church. 00:07:53.839 --> 00:08:06.000 And speaking of our new church, it is exciting, Josh, because we just sent out 31 people to start another church 25 miles from here in Pelham, and they're doing great. 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:08.560 And we today had over 154. 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:10.959 Let's give God a hand already. 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:14.879 That's what it's all about. 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:18.480 But we've got to get them near to hear. 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:19.920 It's very important. 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.480 And that's where you and I come in. 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:24.959 But notice, I love this. 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.040 And by the way, who do we get to hear? 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.720 We get the publicans and we get the sinners. 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:32.639 Now, first of all, who the publicans? 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:34.799 I didn't say Republicans, but guess what? 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:36.399 They need to hear too. 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:37.440 Amen. 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:39.360 And the Democrats. 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:43.519 Everybody needs to be near to hear. 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:46.879 But the publicans were, are you ready? 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:53.279 Jews that had been hired by the Romans to collect the taxes. 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.000 So they were worse than the sinners. 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:59.279 Anytime, we won't say anything about the RS. 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:00.879 Have you heard that about the IRS? 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.200 You know, there's three great lies in America. 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:10.000 Lie number one, I'll respect you in the morning. 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:16.480 Lie number two, deliveries on the truck. 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:22.000 Lie number three, the checks in the mail. 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.240 Oh, I've I heard that one. 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:29.039 Lie number four, I'm from the IRS and I'm here to help you. 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:31.519 That's it, Joe. 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:34.399 Now the IRS watching television ain't gonna come lock me up. 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:40.320 But anyway, no one likes anybody that wants to collect taxes. 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:41.360 Amen. 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:45.279 By the way, that is why we fought the Revolutionary War, one of the reasons. 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:50.320 First taxation, second one, one of them freedom of religion, but don't get me on the politics. 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:51.120 Let's go on. 00:09:51.279 --> 00:10:02.000 So we see, hey, and then the sinners, and then notice verse 2, and the Pharisees and scribes mumbered, saying, They mummed, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them. 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:02.960 Wow. 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:08.240 The religious crowd was upset with Jesus for eating with sinners. 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:10.639 Participating with sinners. 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:16.879 Now listen, Jesus was not participating with sinners to enjoy their sin. 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:22.399 Jesus was participating with sinners to pardon them from their sin. 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:23.679 Amen. 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:30.240 Hey, Jesus didn't receive sinners to enjoy, hey, what they were doing. 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:35.519 He received sinners to redeem them with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:36.399 Amen. 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.200 Boy, that's important that we understand that. 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:46.960 There's always a group of religious folk that's going to be dashing cold water on a hot gospel fire. 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:48.559 Every time. 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:50.000 Well, they're growing. 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:50.960 The people are getting saved. 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:52.240 Yeah, but do you know what? 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:54.799 Anytime they say butt, look out. 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:57.279 Nothing but a bunch of billy goat Christians. 00:10:57.600 --> 00:10:58.080 Button. 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.360 Thank God if a church cross streets doing more. 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:02.559 Hey, people getting saved. 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.200 We're in the kingdom business, not my business. 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:05.840 Amen? 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:08.159 To God be the glory. 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:10.000 In fact, let's get in with them. 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:11.519 How can we help? 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.240 Man, but that's not true in the average church today. 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:19.039 Then Jesus heard them. 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:20.159 Let me say something. 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:23.600 When you stop murmuring against God's work, you better be careful. 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.000 In fact, Jesus said he heard them. 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:34.480 And in John chapter 6, verse 43, Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees, which I'm sure he said it here too, murmur not among yourself. 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:35.519 Amen. 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:40.080 Christians, the worst thing we can do is murmur, gripe, complain, and criticize. 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:41.600 Amen. 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:44.480 I get sick at my stomach. 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:53.600 I've been doing this 35 years, and it's sad to say more criticism comes from in the church than from outside the church. 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:55.679 God help us. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:59.600 CCW will not be a church that mumbers. 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:01.679 Amen. 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:05.840 If you want a mumber, go out there and mummer in the street. 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:07.039 Hello. 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:14.320 I mean, oh, what a destroying testimony that is to the church. 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:16.879 So, notice what Jesus says. 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:20.799 He said, Okay, he knew what they were thinking, he knew what they were saying. 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:23.039 So he says, I'm going to give you a parable. 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:32.559 He says, What man of you having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it. 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:35.919 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:45.360 And when he cometh home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep, which was lost. 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:57.519 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repents more than over 90 and nine just persons who need no repentance. 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:00.639 Wow, wow, wow. 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:04.159 I love what he says here. 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:12.799 There's more happiness in heaven because of one sinner that turns to God than 99 people who don't need the Lord. 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:16.480 Now that's not belittling discipleship by any means. 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:31.840 But what that is belittling is when people get saved and they get their own little clique, they get their own little God, I call it gospel social club, and they have Bible study after Bible study, and they grow and grow, and they get fat and they never give out. 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:34.320 Amen? 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.399 You take in to give out. 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:42.879 You become, by the way, you know when a river starts stinking? 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:45.039 When it's dammed up. 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:53.840 In order for a river to be fresh and vibrant and pure and clear, it has to take in water and give out dirty water. 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:55.039 Hello. 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:57.600 It has to stay clean. 00:13:57.759 --> 00:13:59.600 And that's what the church is all about. 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:04.000 Now, notice quickly, learning from the lost sheep, I want to look at three things. 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:05.519 Verses one through seven. 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:12.559 Number one, in verses four through six, we see Jesus initiates reaching the loss. 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:24.799 Jesus, as the shepherd, is telling the story how when he realized one sheep was lost, one, he immediately initiated finding it on his own. 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:25.919 He went out after it. 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.320 The lost sheep did not find the shepherd. 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:29.279 Understand that. 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:35.200 If you don't want to hear anything else on that first point, hey, the sheep did not find the shepherd. 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:37.600 The shepherd found the sheep. 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:39.679 If you understand that, say amen, preacher. 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:40.879 Amen. 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:44.960 The shepherd found the lost sheep. 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:52.240 You see, God doesn't expect lost people to find, hey, the church. 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:57.039 I meant every once in a while somebody will come in hurting and needing help. 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:06.879 But let me remind you, most of the time, lost people don't find a dynamic gospel preaching church and say, Whoo, I can't wait to go to church this morning. 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.000 Especially if they've been drunk all night. 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:15.360 They've been carousing all night, been doing things they ought not to have been doing all night. 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:19.200 Hey, let me get it plain and understandable. 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:23.279 The first thing they think about on Sunday morning is not going to church. 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:37.600 But on church, the first thing we ought to be thinking every Sunday morning is going after our friends, our relatives, our neighbors, those that we influence, hey, that we know that are lost or out of church. 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.440 That ought to be the main thing on our hearts every day of the week. 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:42.879 To get them. 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:43.440 Why? 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:46.080 To draw near to hear. 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:47.120 Say that with me. 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:49.600 To draw near to hear. 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.840 To draw near to hear the good news. 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:57.120 So we see it's our responsibility. 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:58.639 It's the Great Commission. 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:01.919 Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:03.679 Mark 16, 15. 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:05.440 Luke 14, 23. 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:06.639 Listen to what he says. 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:09.440 He says, Go out into the highways and hedges. 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.519 Compel them to come in at what? 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:13.679 My house may be filled. 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:17.679 You want to fill this house, and we are, but we want, hey, this is not enough. 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:20.960 Somebody asked me the other day, well, how many is enough when everybody's saved? 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:24.080 Amen. 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:27.840 Yeah, but we're already pretty good size. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:29.120 In fact, we really are. 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:37.120 We're over the average attendance in Shelby County in a Baptist church, and that's everyone included 60 people. 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:39.360 That's terrible. 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:40.720 That's terrible. 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:42.639 We're double that already. 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:44.159 Double that. 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:45.039 That's pitiful. 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:45.679 Why? 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:49.679 Because people aren't drawing people near to hear. 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:54.000 Hey, listen. 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:58.879 Until Jesus comes back, we need to be about his business. 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:05.440 Everywhere we go, Jesus initiated reaching the lost. 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:09.599 Jesus said, follow me and I'll make you fishers of men. 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:11.759 Matthew 4, 19. 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:14.079 Notice the shepherd. 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:19.839 Secondly, that lost people were a top priority to Jesus. 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:20.799 Hmm. 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:24.079 That shows, hey, 99. 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:27.920 Now see, I get criticized when I preach this. 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:32.079 Yeah, but you mean to tell me you're going to leave the 99 that are saved? 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:35.279 In fact, I used to get criticized at Open Door about that. 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:40.160 And if God continues to let us grow, I'll probably get criticized here about that. 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:44.319 But I hope you heard don't mummer, especially about the preacher. 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:46.640 Just a thought. 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.839 People used to say, man, Brother Danny, he loves people. 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:53.440 And I do, you know I do. 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:54.880 And man, he's so friendly. 00:17:54.960 --> 00:18:04.640 And then, you know, after I joined the church, though, you know, it seemed like he he he wouldn't come around as often, or he didn't that's not true. 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:11.359 But instead of them taking all my time and trying to dominate me, I'm just gonna keep doing what I did. 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:18.480 Why did I love you and love you, and I do love Sylvester and I love Kelly and I love Javon and Joshua. 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:20.160 Yes, I've to reach them. 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.799 Hey, to draw them near so they can hear. 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:23.920 But guess what? 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:32.240 When they're near the here with me, then they need to go reach some other people and not think I'm gonna just stay right here because I gotta go reach play. 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:33.519 I gotta reach Melvin. 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:40.799 I gotta reach Greg, I gotta reach Sam, I gotta reach Malik, I gotta go bring others near to here. 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.200 And then on Sundays, we all get together in fellowship. 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:47.680 That's why you come to church. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.559 But if I'm in your neighborhood, I don't care what the kitchen looks like, I'm stopping in. 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:55.759 And some of you have already experienced that. 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:00.160 And if you don't want me to come in, just say, the house is a little messy, preacher. 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:02.799 Well, just go get me something to eat and bring it to the door. 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:04.960 And I'll leave. 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:06.720 No, I'm joking. 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:13.759 I mean the preacher comes to pray and to eat, isn't that what? 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:20.640 No, I do love you very much. 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:26.319 And and one of the things that I love, and by the way, that's why I'm so adamant about visitation. 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:38.480 I'm my my I know uh Sam and and and uh uh Tim, because if I'm gone, and usually I don't I try not to leave town until after I've had my visitation nights. 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:39.599 That's just who I am. 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:44.559 Then if I want to go do something or need to do or try to schedule after I've been on visitation. 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:47.039 In fact, I got used to Daniel. 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:57.359 I came, I knew Daniel had surgery on his hand, he's out and he'd missed two Sundays, and and uh uh his sister-in-law said he was sick, so I'd go to see him this week. 00:19:57.519 --> 00:19:58.319 I went to see him. 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:04.799 Knock on his door, and I in fact he was in the recliner, and I thought to myself, that's unusual. 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:06.880 Because Daniel's usually, yeah, yeah. 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:13.119 And he came, he came to the door and he said, Pastor Danny, I'm sick with something. 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:14.000 I'm throwing up. 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:15.279 I said, Never mind. 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:16.400 God bless you. 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:18.960 Daniel, let me pray for you out here. 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:26.079 Amen. 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:29.599 But I care, I'm there, I'm gonna be there. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.480 We just had 32, 33 people, by the way. 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:35.839 If you went through the covenants class, be sure you see Susan. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:42.000 So we you if you didn't get the covenant uh agreement to sign, we need to make sure you do. 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:45.519 And we'll be starting another one first of the year. 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:49.039 But anyway, but that's why we want you to be a covenant member. 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:55.680 Listen, if you don't want to be loved, taken care of, and held accountable, you don't need to be a covenant member. 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:57.279 Hello? 00:20:57.759 --> 00:20:58.079 Okay? 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:01.440 I'm not being ugly, but we're a family. 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:03.119 I want to hold you accountable. 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:04.960 I want you to hold me accountable. 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:06.640 That's Christianity. 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:09.680 Jesus said, I'll tell you how important it is to him. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:13.920 He's gonna lead the 99 faithful and go after the one wondering. 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:20.000 Now, folks, we're just gonna be scriptural and biblical and we're gonna be like Christ. 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:20.720 Amen. 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:22.000 But you know what I've done? 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:23.440 I've only done this in two churches. 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:25.039 Well, actually, three for a year. 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:27.759 And we grew 150 people that year. 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:28.799 Wonder why? 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:30.240 I think it works. 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:32.799 But hey, listen to me. 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:34.319 That's the way Jesus was. 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:35.680 That's how much he cared. 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:37.839 And when you do that, you're gonna grow. 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:42.480 Because there's a lot of people out here that don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:48.240 Now, if you don't want to be held accountable, you don't want to be a covenant member. 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:51.519 Just come and worship with us when you want to, then do whatever you want to do. 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:56.880 But if you want to be a member and be a part of a family that loves you, cares for you, this is where you want to be. 00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:57.759 Amen. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:59.680 Hey, intimate fellowship. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.839 That's accountability. 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:05.039 Lost people are top priority to Jesus. 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:06.640 The shepherd did three things. 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:08.240 He searched for the sheep. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:10.720 He searched for the sheep till he found them. 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:13.119 And when he found them, look at the third thing. 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:15.119 Boy, this is good. 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:21.759 Hey, hey, when he found them, there is celebration when the lost sheep is found. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:22.640 Wow. 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:24.640 Celebration. 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:26.240 There's a lot of rejoicing. 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:27.519 Look at verse 7. 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:32.240 I say unto you that likewise, joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repents. 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:33.200 One. 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:34.720 One sinner. 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:44.319 Listen to what when we get to verse 10 in the next parable, likewise say unto you, there's joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents. 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:45.039 Now watch. 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:50.720 There's joy over, hey, the people are rejoicing because somebody got saved. 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:54.880 The angels are rejoicing because somebody got saved. 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:58.319 And then when you go to Zephaniah, I know that's a hard one. 00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:02.000 Little uh prophetic book in the Old Testament. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:07.680 Zephaniah 3.17 says, For God, hey, he will save you. 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:11.519 He will rejoice over you with singing. 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:13.599 Now get the picture. 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:17.519 The people are rejoicing and having a spell. 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:20.000 The angels are having a spell in heaven. 00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:20.960 Are you ready? 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:24.480 And God singing when one sinner gets saved. 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:42.160 Now, ladies and gentlemen, if you don't think that's exciting, I don't see anywhere else, Josh, in the Bible that says God gets that excited, the angels get that excited, and he sings, and they rejoice and they shout over anything other than one sinner getting saved. 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:45.519 Do you get it? 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:47.759 Do you get it? 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:50.559 I don't think we get it. 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:52.960 Because we're not doing it. 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:54.960 What do we do? 00:23:55.119 --> 00:24:04.240 We go into the highways and hedges and we draw them near to hear that Jesus loves them. 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:05.920 Jesus died for them. 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:08.319 Psalms 126, verse 5 and 6. 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:09.440 This is powerful. 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:11.599 He that goeth forth weeping. 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:13.359 Now I'm going to get to that. 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:15.119 Bearing precious seed. 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:17.440 The word of God is the seed, Matthew 4. 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:21.039 Bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing. 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:21.680 Now watch. 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:26.720 With rejoicing, they get excited, bearing his sheaves with him. 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:29.599 Bearing his sheaves with him. 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:32.000 Now, he that goeth forth weeping. 00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:35.599 Now, here's why I think we're not drawing people near to hear. 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:43.519 Because we don't have compassion and our heart's not broken over the situation that we see in America today. 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:48.079 Reminds me of me traveling on an airplane. 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:50.400 Deedra travels all the time on an airplane. 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:54.240 I used to go around the world every two weeks for about eight months. 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:55.759 I couldn't do that anymore. 00:24:55.839 --> 00:24:57.359 That's too much traveling. 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:03.920 But when you get on an airplane and they get ready to pull off as they're backing up, what happens? 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:06.640 How many of you have flown before? 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:08.079 Most of you. 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:08.640 Okay. 00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:17.200 There's her stewardess that she reaches up and she gets the little mask, shows you how to breathe, and she says, make sure. 00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:19.440 You know, I've often wondered about that. 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:26.480 In the case of an emergency, you make sure you put your mask on first. 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:28.240 Yeah. 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:30.960 Before you put it on the baby or your child. 00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:31.519 Yeah. 00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:33.519 You know, and then breathe normally. 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:37.839 How in the world do you breathe normally when you're going down in a crash? 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:41.920 Huh? 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:47.119 But then they go to the seatbelt. 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:50.640 Now, while they're going through their little spill, what are you doing? 00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:59.920 Are you sitting there listening very hey tently, taking notes to know exactly where every exit sign is, where the lights are? 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:01.519 Are you doing that? 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:04.000 You're reading the magazine. 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:05.839 I'm doing my verses. 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:12.880 One day I literally, for some reason they had upgraded me because of my thing to first class. 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:14.640 Now, first class is pretty nice. 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:23.920