Good morning church, how are we feeling this morning? Everybody ready to get to pray this on this morning? Y'all stay in with us. So some of us came in here with a little junk, some of us are fighting battles.
So here's what I want you to do this morning to start this thing off. Look, take your neighbor to your right and say, look, you're not fighting alone. Now look, take your neighbor to the left and tell him, you're not fighting alone. Now we're going to lift this up.
First song we're going to do is called Battle Belongs. Y'all sing with us. lanar and sing the mountain. Nothing can stand against like God.
You're in the shadow, nothing can stand against God. What? This is 2022 Nothing can stand against the power of God. You're shining the shadow, and you can stand against the power of God.
Nothing can stand against the power of You're shining the shadow. You're making stand against the power of God. That'll be awesome. It's sweet andtrusted to you.
Man, I love that song. You may be seated for just a moment. We are so glad that you are here with us today. Worshiping with us whether you're worshiping here in person or online.
Thank you so much for tuning in. I want to say this, if you're here for the first time or the first time in the long time, you are our VIPs and one of our great volunteers and stop you on the way in. Make sure you grab one of those blue cards in front of you. Feel it out.
We've got a special gift for you. Just once I thank you for being part of our New Light Church family as well, Pastor De La B in that VIP area, right at the front door after service. He'd love to meet you and just say thank you for worshiping with us today. Now, I don't know if y'all saw on Facebook or not, but last week we had 688 people here in the personal record for us.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. But more importantly, we had 10 salivations. Yes, added 10 people to the kingdom of God. So, amen.
Looking forward to what we want to continue to do that. I want to say this, I want to say thank you to all of you who are parking over there and who are being patient with us. And I know you come here and you're excited to see the Lord and then you can't find a parking spot and you have to get saved all again before you ever make it in there. So this is just a good task for you, all right?
But just be patient with us. It shouldn't last too long, but they're working hard on it. And a lot of good stuff happening, but yeah, there'll be some parking across the way there. Just find somewhere to park.
We will take care of you. Okay, good. But thank you so much. And I want to say that we couldn't do any of that if it weren't for your faithfulness to give, we can't.
And we can't. And a lot of you have been giving it. It's four to three fun. And you've been like, well, when we start, and I keep hearing you say it, well, it started, right?
You can see there's big equipment out there. They've been clearing it out. The kids' church, they've been leveling off that green grass down there getting ready for some sprinklers and stuff like that. So the kids can go down there and play and just have a great time.
And again, we couldn't do any of that if it weren't for your faithfulness to give weekend and week out. And the Lord just continues to bless this church and He's doing it through each and every one of you. So keep yourself a hand for what God's doing through you. The beautiful thing about it is though, it doesn't just start, stop here.
It just didn't start here and it doesn't stop here. Because not only are we making this so we can get more people in here, so we can get more salvation and more people restore families, restore all that kind of stuff. But also every day, 24-7, there is ministry leaving this church. It's happening in schoolhouses, on the radio, on the internet, through our ministry partners, all over the world.
And so again, thank you for being a part of what God is doing through New Light Church. We couldn't do it without you. So I'm excited about today. You're excited.
How many of y'all had a great Easter last week? How many of y'all believe the best is yet to come? Hey, man, well, Pastor Joe has an awesome message for us today in this unstoppable series. He's gonna talk about unstoppable mission.
I'm believing that each and every one of you want to be a part of it. But we got some more worship that we're gonna do here before I do that. I do want to mention that tonight, New Light Outdoors will have a ski shoot out at the Pastor's house. That'll start at 6 o'clock.
Love for you to come and bring somebody with you. We're just gonna have a great time. Chicken and rice, it'll be fun. But right now, I think we need to worship a little bit more.
Y'all believe it? Why don't you go ahead and stand to your feet and get ready to worship. I'll tell you what, praise thing. Y'all setting the bar kind of high already this morning.
I mean, we got some good worship going in here. How many of y'all think we should keep on worship a little bit? How many of you looking for a way maker this morning? If you are, will you give me one more shout of praise as we sing about it this morning?
One, should be, one, should be working in this place. One, should be, I love should be, you are. Playmaker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness, my God, that is who you are. Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness, my God, that is who you are.
You are the turning lights around. I worship you, I worship you, merely death. And you can tend to worship him today if he's ever made a way for you. I know if you're like me, you were standing there as that song was singing.
You can think about all the things that God has done for you. Everything that you looked at, and it was in front of you. And you said there's no way, but now you can look back on it. And you see that he made a way, he was the way maker, right?
We know there's another side to that. We call sometimes the obstacle that we see now. We can't see over it, we can't see under it, we can't see around it. Even though God's done so much for us in the past, he's made a way in many opportunities and situations that are much worse than what we're facing today.
We just can't see our way around. We felt like those disciples that were hit away in a room and they had walked with Jesus, but now they're facing extreme persecution from the world. And they're hit away with anxiety and being overtaken by fear. And Jesus comes in and calms them.
But he finds them right there next week. Same place, same scenario, lost in fear and anxiety. I wanna tell you today that we're no different. We can't see around some of the situations, although God has rescued us from so many.
And that's okay, when we're right in front of us, we just speak Jesus over them. It's okay, it's human. It's our human side. We just speak Jesus to it.
So the day they're coming back, regardless of what God's done for you in the past, I want you to honor him and worship him for all of those things. But maybe there's a situation that you need to stand in this altar for today and allow this church to speak Jesus over you. To speak Jesus over that situation that God can change, God can make a way just like he made away in the past. Let's come to this altar today and let's turn over those situations to a man.
Church, if you're not coming to the altar, speak Jesus over these situations. Stand in the gap where your friends and family today, everything that Jesus can change in their life, amen. I just wanna speak the name of Jesus, over every heart and every mind. Cause I know there is peace within your presence.
I speak Jesus, I just wanna speak the name of Jesus. So every dark addiction starts to break, declaring there is hope and there is freedom. I speak Jesus. Your name is power, your name is healing, your name is love, break every stronghold, shine through the shadows, breathe your life, shine through your name.
Your name is light. Lord, I pray that every person in here that has brought a burden in here, every anxiety, every sickness, everything. Lord, every diagnosis, Lord, we speak your name over it. And we ask that you would do only what you can do Lord.
You've shown up for us time and time again and all we have to do is touch the hem of your garment and just speak your name Lord. I pray every person in here, every burden, every situation, Lord, ask that you would be with the remainder of the service and touch someone today Lord. As things you ask in your name, amen. For many of us.
We don't know whether to go or stay still or what to do. Can we just go? Good morning, good to see everybody. How you doing today?
Aren't you glad to be in God's house? Help me welcome those who are watching on the radio and internet. Let them know you love them. Welcome them.
You like church? Yeah, give them a big. Yeah, welcome. So I don't know what's about to happen but we just gonna go.
Is that okay? We're in our current series called unstoppable. More last week we learned some things about unstoppable grace. Did we not?
How many of you have experienced an unstoppable grace this week? Yeah, so here's the way we'll recap it for you. Last week we talked about unstoppable grace. How no grave is too sealed, no stoners too heavy, no sin is too deep.
Today we're talking about what happens after the resurrection when Jesus rose from the grave and offered us salvation. He didn't just save us from something but he saved us for something. I'm telling you right now, this is a real deal this morning and God is trying to send us a very clear message. How many of you know that we're living in the last of the last days?
How many of you believe there's wars and rumors of wars that absolutely true? And how many of you know evil is abounding and they're calling what would be evil, good and good evil? And the Lord said when you see these signs get ready because your redemption draws at nigh, right? So if we're all on the same page now, we're living in the last of the last days.
If we understand that, if we gotta understand something that looks like this right here, we have an unstoppable mission. And you know that. When you think about this mission, I'll talk about it but I'll give you the scripture so you can see it. I've been read it many, many times.
Matthew 28, 18 through 20. Jesus came and told his disciples, I have been given all authority in heaven, everybody say authority. In heaven and on earth, therefore everybody say three of you are going. Everybody say, therefore go, therefore, because there was something there before this, right?
Jesus began all authority. Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit. Teaching these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you and be sure of this, I am with you even to the ends of the age, didn't that good? So we have a mission but I wanna give you the context before we get into it.
Jesus has been crucified, buried, resurrected. The 11 disciples meet Jesus on a mountain in Galilee. Now you remember last week that Mary told, she was told to go tell the disciples right and then they got together and said, we're gonna meet in Galilee on this mountain. We understand that.
So we're picking up right from there but I want you to notice something right here. There's 11 disciples when they were supposed to be 12. Now here's what that tells you and I, even before the mission, even before God has called us to do, we gotta make sure about one thing, we gotta make sure our salvation is right. We gotta make sure we're ready to go.
We can't get left behind because remember that Judas is scared who betrayed the Lord. We all understand that story. I want you to understand it a little bit clearer today that when he was with Jesus, he was one of the 12, he was picked by Jesus just like the other 11. He ministered with the Lord for three and a half years.
He was there with him. He even performed miracles in the name of the Lord. In fact, they came back and said, even the demons. When we speak, they get out of our way.
He was empowered by God. And more than that, he was the treasurer of the ministry of Jesus. But yet he's not mentioned right here because he lost his way. Now there's a big debate on whether some people say he was saved and some people say he wasn't saved.
He never was saved and some say he lost his salvation. Either way he lost out. We agree with that, right? So when you think about this, there were 11 of them.
These men had abandoned, this is good to me right here. They'd abandoned him, denied him and doubted him. What that tells me is this is Jesus takes imperfect people with a whole lot of problems, people that can't be dependent on a lot of times and he uses them to do the work that he needs them to do. Are you with me today?
Some of you are like that. Maybe you've denied him, maybe you've abandoned his ways and maybe you've doubted him before. But I want to tell you God will still use you. What he commanded of them would change humanity forever.
His words were not a suggestion. It was just a good idea, wasn't just a good idea. It wasn't just for those who feel called. In other words, here's where it goes.
He lays out the mission. It belongs to every person who calls Jesus Lord. So that's why I'm talking to everybody here today. Not just people like myself who are called to do ministry work like I'm doing here.
It's for every person who's been born again, every person who knows the Lord. We have this mission and I want to talk about that for a moment and I want to set the context for the mission. Here's the way it goes. I mean, you know that Jesus came to save the lost.
In other words, that's the only reason he came. He wanted to save the lost humanity. He didn't want anyone to perish, but he wanted everyone to have everlasting life. The word all through the scripture tells us in particular in Luke chapter four, we learned that he came to heal the brokenhearted, right?
He came to set liberty at those who were held captive. He came to give spiritual sight to those spiritually blind and he came to heal the spiritually crippled. He came to do the work of the Lord and he said, I came to give good news. Are you getting the mission right here?
When I'm coming to tell you today, the only reason we gather here on Sunday today, and we come together, the only reason we ask that you give and the only reason we ask that you serve, and the only reason that this church or any other church exists today is to get lost people in right relationship with God. Not a social club, not a place you go just because your family goes there. No, it's way bigger than that. When you were saved and the blood of Jesus was applied to your life, God said, now I have an assignment for you.
I have all authority, I'm fixing to place it on you, and I want you to go out there and tell people that I am not against them, I am for them, that I do love them, I'm not gonna condemn them, that I've come to break the chains that are holding them. I want you to tell them there is a better way of life, there is a better way to approach life, and I want you to tell them there is a heaven, and there is a hell out there, and I want you to tell them there's a real devil. He's not just a fictitious figure that we talk about in scripture, he is real, and he wants to destroy your life, but you tell them I have a better life, so I just come today, a little bit of, I'm excited about this this morning. I just come today to tell you there is a better way of life, that there is a personal savior, and his name is Jesus Christ, and he wants to do a great work in your life.
Have you got it? He is a personal savior. He didn't come to condemn you, he came to save you. The church may condemn you, and the church may turn their back on you, and other Christians may do the same, but Jesus said I'll never leave you or forsake you.
Have you got that? So we have an important mission, do we understand what the mission is now? What is it, they get people saved? Do we understand all those flags back there in that hallway represent 13 countries on far, 13 different ministries on far and fields in 13 different countries that we support every month and send money to, and we understand that all the reason that we do everything we do is to get people saved.
That's why we're paving that parking lot, somebody will say to me, wait a minute, you telling me paving that parking lot will get people saved? Well, let me tell you, if we get them a place to park and we get them in here, the Holy Spirit will do his job with those. Jesus said I came to save those who are lost. It's all about that, but here's the problem.
The problem looks like this right here, first Peter 5 and 8. Stay alert, watch out for your great enemy. There's an enemy out there that deviled. He prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
We apply that scripture to our own personal lives and it's absolutely true. He wants to stop us. He doesn't want us to go to heaven. He wants us to go to hell.
He wants to ruin our life. No question about that. But you know what his secondary greatest battle is? To stop you and I from doing what God has called us to do.
To stop us from reaching a lost and dying world. And he brings in the church, he brings division. He brings confusion. He's the author of all that the Bible says, to get you and I of course, and he comes in to your life and he monkeys around in your life to get you off course.
And sometimes the way he monkeys around is not in a bad way. Sometimes he'll raise up things that will distract you and he'll get you involved in things of this world. And you'll lose sight of the mission that God called us to do. See what John says is this right here.
The thief's purpose is to still kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. Individually that's what God came to do. But you better not forget that his mission is to destroy what God is trying to do.
His mission is to weaken the church. His mission is to get you off course anyway. He can get you off course. So you don't do the mission that Christ gave you to do.
So what I want you to leave here today with is one simple thing. That we have this most important mission. It ought to be the priority of our life. Are you hearing me today?
It ought to be what we live for? It ought to be what we breathe for? Because everything in this world, the Bible says, it's going to fade away and go away. It's not going to be there.
Only thing that's going to matter for God is what we do for him while we're here today. Every soul, every person, every sinner that we can reach today and get them reconciled back to God. That is the most important thing we can do. So here's your deal.
That's why I preach like a freak. That's why I get excited. Like I get excited. That's why I get loud.
That's why I can't hardly contain myself because I understand time is short and people are going to be standing before the judge of their life. They're going to be judged the heaven or they're going to be judged the hell. And I want to take as many with me to heaven as I can take or y'all with me today. It's time for the church to wake up and be who God called it to be.
So when you think about this unstoppable mission, there's some non-negotiables with it. And I want you to get these non-negotiables, there are three of them. I want you to get them today because we got to have this mindset. If we're going to do what God is called us to do.
So the first one looks like this right here. Unstoppable missions come with unquestable authority. You got to understand who gave you the mission. You got to understand the authority behind the mission and what went on for him to get the authority that he gives us to do what God's called us to do.
Matthew chapter 28 says it this way right here. In the 28 and 18 Jesus came and told his disciples, I have been given all authority and heaven and on earth. In other words, the creator of this universe has all the authority and he's given that authority to you and I and he wants us to understand that. So when we begin, when I stand up in free to I understand within myself, I'm nothing.
I understand that I bore you. I understand I preach too long. I understand sometimes I get too loud. I understand I got all kinds of problems.
Everybody say amen. I got that. I got that and I'm okay with that. But there's one who don't have any problems.
He's very clear about what he said. He said I want you to go out there and not only I want you to go, I want to distinguish something right now before you ever start, before you ever preach, before you ever sing, before you ever give, before you ever serve, before you ever do anything, I want you to understand that I Jesus have all authority and I'm going to sign you a mission that I want you to get done. So if you don't understand the authority here's what'll happen in your life, if you don't care about this, you'll never fully embrace the mission until you understand who is sending you. So we got to wake up and we got to understand what the mission is.
We got to understand what authority stands behind that mission and we got to understand that until we understand that we'll never accomplish what God decides for us to accomplish. So how did he get all this authority? I'll give it to you right here in the Bible, Philippians 2, 8 and 11, he humbled himself in obedience to God. Everybody say humble.
We all own a humble ourselves. See the first thing that we have to understand about the mission is unless we're willing to humble ourselves for a cause greater than ourselves, we can't get it done. Jesus couldn't either. He died of crumbles death on the cross.
Thank God we don't have to do that. He did it one time. Therefore God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above every other name. That at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
Here what I'm telling you why? We humble ourselves. Why? I placed God's priority before mine.
Why I placed God's, listen carefully, priority before my family because Jesus did it as well. And Jesus was honored and taken to the highest place and given all authority. I'm not doing it to get any authority. I'm not doing it to get elevated anyway.
I'm doing it to bring glory to the name of Almighty God. You and I are to understand this principle today. We'll leave out here with a new understanding of what God's called us to do. We don't just come because we're having church and we don't just come because we've already done that.
We don't come because it makes us feel better. We come to give glory and honor to a God that laid down his life for us and died for us and shed his blood for us. God that's ready to reach a lost and dying world. And we don't stand before you without any power.
I may be powerless within myself and you may be powerless within yourself, but I've come to tell somebody today. There is a power back in the words that I'm preaching today. There's a power working in your life that can change someone else's life. Jesus has unquestionable authority.
We understand that right? And we have an unstoppable mission and he gives us the authority to do that. In fact, when you think about that, here's where you go right here. We have unstoppable mission that requires undeniable urgency.
Have you got that? This is an urgent thing. Now I ask you in the beginning, how many of you believe we're living in the last of the last days? How many of you believe we're living in the last of the last days?
How many of you believe Jesus is coming back? How many of you believe in the rapture of the church? How many of you believe there's a heaven? How many of you believe there's a hell?
And how many of you understand that people unless we intervene in their life and get them reconciled back to Jesus Christ or going to a place called ill? Is it urgent message? How many of you can see the signs of the time everywhere? You can see that we have an urgent message and you and I order number one, we ought to be concrete about the mission that God has called us on.
We ought to understand that we have the authority that God has given us, but second of all, we ought to have an urgency about us. And I want to preach a little bit right here. Maybe you can take this or maybe you can't, but I believe that the body of Christ as a whole has lost the urgency of what's taking place in the world we live in today. I don't think we understand how much time we have lived.
I think we've gotten placed and I think that we've gotten involved in things of this world that we shouldn't get involved in. I think we've placed things before God, that we ought not to place before God. And I think that when we go to work of a day that we're not looking at the people beside of us and seeing what's really gonna happen in their life if they don't accept Jesus Christ. I think we've come to the place where we don't care if our neighbor is saved or not.
We don't care what's going on in their life. Just let me get my blessing and let me be who God called me to be and let me make it to heaven. No, he saved you for something greater than that. And God, I pray today that you lot of fire under me and you lot of fire under the people who hear this message today and will understand it is urgent the message that we have today.
I hope that'll happen today. So here's what the Bible says. All of this is a gift from God who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.
What is your task? What is your task? What is your task? What is your task?
What is your task? What is your task? We're to reconcile people to God. Is that the most important thing we'll do on this side of heaven?
Is that the most important thing we'll do on this side of heaven? Absolutely. And some of you say, wait a minute, preach. He didn't call me to preach.
Some people think he didn't call me to preach. But I don't let that stop me. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.
No longer counting people's sins against him. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are what Christ. You know what we do?
We represent the Lord. We represent the Lord here on this earth. And I'll tell you we come in all kinds of sizes, shapes, and forms, right? We come big, tall, little, skinny, fat, ugly, some smart, some dumb as a box of rocks, some of the little tips and crazy, some that don't need us to push them off the edge a little bit.
They'll go right on over there. We all come that way. But it doesn't change the message, right? It doesn't change what God has called us to do.
It doesn't change the fact that people are going to heaven or they're going to hell based a lot of times on what you and I do. That's the reality of where we are today. No longer counting people's sins against him. Say amen about that.
And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ ambassadors. God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, come back to God.
What is our job? We encourage people to come back to God. That's our job. It's a plain inscription.
And we do that by any means that we can. I get so frustrated with church people, I can't hardly help myself. Lord, help me right here. I get so not with y'all.
We all doing good. I'm not talking about y'all. I'm talking about them, right? Some of y'all might be including the them, but I'm talking about them, right?
How many of you understand we need to get rid of the nonsense in the body of Christ? How many understand we need to lay off of the body of Christ? And we need to understand that whatever we have to do, short of sin, we need to do it to get some people saved, right? Because here's the reality.
Some of you have friends and family who are going to die and go to a place called hell. Some of you have family members and children right now. They're not living full of Lord. And you get at your dinner table today.
You go to talk about all kinds of nonsense that's happening with the church. I'll tell you what we better be having a conversation about. It doesn't matter what the church is doing as long as they're not sinning. It doesn't matter how people are conducting themselves.
And it doesn't matter about the pain. It doesn't matter about the theater seats. It doesn't matter about the lights. It doesn't matter whether I wear a tie or I wear a suit.
It doesn't matter how you come to this place. What matters is we hear the voice of the Lord and we serve Him and Him only. And we tell people that there's a God in heaven that can save you and change your life. And we tell people that there's a God in heaven.
He's bigger than alcohol addiction. He's bigger than drug addiction. He's bigger than any sin in your life. And at His name, everything that has a name has the bow at the name of Jesus Christ.
Somebody ought to give Him some praise and honor and glory up in here. The last time I got a little excited, I just saw a man saying that for sure like that. Well, there's some places you have to get excited. There's some places you just can't hardly contain yourself.
He told us to go and make disciples. He said to baptize them and then He said to teach them everything that I've told you. It's in our mandate. It's that what we do.
We don't come in here with some division fighting over each other and we don't come in here trying to define this doctrine. That doctrine, we go to the Bible and say what the Bible says and whatever the Bible says, that's what we're for and whatever the Bible's against, that's what we're against, right? I'm not gonna defend the Pentecostal name. I'm not gonna fill up a holiness name.
I'm not gonna defend the Baptist situation. Southern Baptist, the independent Baptist, they got all kind of fried chicken out there. But I will defend the word and I will defend the calls and I will talk about the mission somebody helped me right there because here's what that requires. Now listen to me carefully.
It requires that we cross racial barriers in the church, right? It requires that we cross economic barriers in the church and geographical barriers in the church and we require generational traditions. It requires us to go across those traditions. Somebody say amen about that.
We gotta get rid of it all. We're not called to come to church and then go home. We are called to go be the church. When you go home, so you came in here to get a charge this morning.
You came in here to hear the word of the Lord this morning. When I go home and Lord, I want you to help me with this. I want to make sure every day Brian got when you needed me to miles from me, I want to make sure that saved. Or they have the opportunity to be saved.
I want to be telling them, I want to ask you to search your heart right now. When you go downtown to the marketplace, are you asking people they want to be saved or not? Are you asking, no, we're scared to do that as a body cross. You forgot you got all authority.
You forgot that when you open your mouth that there's a higher authority in power working through you. So you forgot about that. You thought it was on you. You said, well, I'm intimidated to do this.
I'm intimidated. You said, well, I'm not that. And you come up with all these excuses, but God said, hey, I have all authority and I'm sending you on a mission and I'm going to be right there with you. So here's where it works, Church.
What you want to start doing now? And people are calling you radical. That would be all right. Because one day when they're standing their feet and they feel the fire is hell.
They'll say, well, I wish you'd say that a lot. I wish I'd have listened to what you said. Are you hearing me today? So what I have to do now, everybody I run into my number one priority in my mind ought to be, are they saved?
Do you know the Lord? And do you know what I find out? When you muster up enough whatever it takes for you to do this, people are receptive to it. They are looking for something different.
They're looking for something authentic. They're looking for the real deal. And you don't have to go out there and preach the sermon and listen, you don't have to take that 400 pound King James Version Bible with you. In fact, you can leave the Bible at home because it ought to be in you anyway.
Oh, you gotta do it. So hey, can I ask you a personal question? Have you ever been saved? If you were down there, you're going to heaven and hell.
That's a real question right there. And they may not respond to you like you want them to do right then, but guess what? You just planted it. You planted a seed in their life.
You put it right there. And when they lay down a night, they say, well, you know what? If I do that, I don't know where am I going? You and I are called to understand the urgency of the mission that God has called us to do.
The scripture would say this, you know, the saying four months between planting and harvest, but I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already right for harvest. The harvesters are paid good wages and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. Is that pretty clear?
Is that pretty clear? The fields are right for the harvest. That means wherever you go, you live in the best time you could ever live in a man. People are scared to death.
They're looking at all these wars. They're looking at their finances. They're afraid. They're going to lose everything.
The world is going to turn out. How am I going to keep what I got? How am I going to do this? And I'm worried about this and I'm worried about that.
This is a great opportunity, Church, for you and I, to have some boldness and some urgency about us and begin to ask people, hey, where are you going to spend heaven? Are you going to spend eternity in heaven or a place called hell? I want to encourage you today to ask God to give you the boldness to do that. Let's read the scripture.
The harvesters are paid good wages. And the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvesters alike. How many of them are chasing treasures up in heaven?
What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike? So here's what you've got to understand today. We have an unstoppable mission because Christ, do you know that devil's been trying to stop this thing from the very beginning? The church, do you understand that?
He's been trying to stop it from the beginning. He's been trying to destroy the church. And by the way, he's done a pretty good job because us Christians who are carnal Christians let him manipulate us. We'll let him turn us against each other.
And we'll get into church and it'll be over nothing. And we'll lay our life down for our calls and it was nothing. I started saying like the word right there. And then some of you got mad at me.
Will he get us to do that? How many churches do you know have been fighting over stupid stuff? How many have been fighting over stupid stuff? I don't ever hear any church fighting over getting, well, I do hear some of them fighting over people getting saved, they want to keep it just like they want.
They don't want anybody else coming in there. They got it just like they wanted, they got their holy huddle just like they wanted, they're happy about that. It's going to be them and God and nobody else. Then they'll go to hell with the rest of them, somebody help me right there.
The religious people in the Bible who crucified the Lord are like example of that. They didn't want Jesus to come in. They didn't want his doctrine as teaching to come in. They didn't want anything to do with him.
But they were religious people. Where did they go? They weren't born again. I didn't tell you what the Bible says.
And you got to have a mission and I'll give you the last one. We'll go. And unstoppable mission requires unshakable assurance. Watch this right here, so important.
And be sure of this, I am with you always, even to the ends of the age. Praise God. Praise God. Because he said, I will be with you.
So you have that urgency, you have that mission, and now you have the assurance that God said, hey, I'm not going to leave you here for a second. In fact, when you look at that word always, I want you to look at it like this every single day, somebody say amen. Every moment, every situation, every conversation, every victory, every failure, every fear, all that's going to be a part of it. Yes it is.
When you start out on this mission, you're going to do good some days. You're going to fail some days. You're going to think it allows you some days. The devil will beat your brains out some days.
But Jesus is never absent in the deal. He never gives up on the mission. That's what he came for. In fact, Deuteronomy says it this way.
You're not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you.
Isn't that pretty good? So here's what that means. When you get up in the morning and you go to work, guess who's with you. Guess who's there with you.
And guess who's preparing the heart of the person that you're going to encounter. See, it's not just that you arbitrarily pick somebody out. How many of you believe God leads us? How many of you believe he opens doors and closes doors?
How many of you believe that he guides every step that we have? So here's why I just come to the place. When I'm out there in the marketplace now, when somebody gets in front of me, my thoughts are simply this. Well, God, you give me a mission.
We're going to urge that thing right here. It's got to happen. I have the assurance you're going to be with me. So I assume you prepared them for what I'm about to say to them.
And I just say, hey, if you die today, are you going to heaven or are you going to hell? I don't have to go loud when I do that. I go to him blasting you know like I'm blasting you all. He'd probably run.
So I don't have to do that. All I got to do is say, hey, heaven or hell. Everybody's going to die. And if they want to talk a little bit of scripture to you, you know, I said, wait a minute, we don't have to go there.
Do you know of any individual human being that's never died in the history of time? That means all of us are going. Some before others. Are you right with the Lord?
Is it heaven or is it hell? Because here's what the Bible tells me. I love this assurance I have. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.
Capital H, Capital S, that's God right there. When he comes upon you, you will be my witness. That means you have the power to lay your life down for a cause greater than yourself. Telling people about me everywhere.
Jerusalem throughout Judeus, the marriage of the ends of the earth. That's our job. And God says, now look and see when you leave here today, you got a bigger problem than you had when you came in. Because God has just explained to you what you're supposed to be doing.
And he's explaining to you as an urgent message. It's an urgent mission. And you have his assurance that he'll be with you, right? So now you've got to do something about that.
What second Corinthians 6 and 2 for God says, at just the right time, I heard you on the day of salvation. And I helped you. How many of you have been helped by the Lord? How many have been helped by the Lord?
That word salvation means rescued, restored and delivered. How many of you have been rescued from the clutches of hell? You ought to get happy right there. You've been rescued.
How many of you, your life's being restored right now from some of the stuff you got involved in when you shouldn't have been there? How many of you are there today? And how many of you are looking for that complete deliverance when the trumpet of God sounds in the dead in Christ's rise? And then we go to it.
How many of you are ready for that deliverance right there? Yeah. But it doesn't stop there. He's here for what he says, I helped you.
Indeed, the right time is now. Today is the day of salvation. Now, he said he'd already helped you, but he's saying to you today is the day of salvation. Not for you, but for the people around you.
This is what I called you to do. He said, I want you to focus on the mission. I want you to focus on the urgency. And I want you to focus on the assurance.
So we have that mission and it's a big deal today. So here's the deal. Here's where I want you to go today. What decision do you need to make today?
I'm talking to every one of you right here today. What decision? Because I know in this church that there are some people, you're not saved. You haven't had this encounter with the Lord.
Listen carefully to the preacher this morning. Can you tell me about a moment where you had this encounter with the Lord, where you walked the way and you knew something radical would happen in your life? You walk away and you remember that moment where you and the Lord did business. Not the moment you got baptized when you were small, not the moment that maybe you joined the church.
Not the moment you sang in one of the church plays. None of that gets you to heaven. What gets you to heaven is when you've been born again. And the way you know that is you have this encounter with the Lord and sometimes it's emotional, sometimes it's not for some people.
But when you walk away, you know that something happened on the inside of you. You're not perfect, but you're not the same person. You have a different worldview. In fact, you have a biblical worldview.
You don't understand everything in the book, but you know if God said it, you believe it now and if God said it, it's right. And if it's right, it's right. If it's wrong, it's wrong. You have a changed life.
You hate the things that you used to like and you love the things you used to hate. That's when you know you've been born again. There's some of you here need to be born again today. You need to do that.
Today's the day of salvation because here's the question. If you were to die of days at heaven or is it hell? Because it's going to be one or two. You're not going to heaven because you came to church.
You're not going to heaven because you paid your tithes. You're not going to heaven because you memorized a lot of scripture in the Bible. You're going to heaven because you're born again. You accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.
And you ask Him to forgive you of your sins. And you ask Him to be Lord of your life. And the Holy Spirit comes and doesn't work called being born again, a spiritual work. People would tell you when they got saved, myself included.
I didn't do that to help myself. I was living in sin. I was lost and undone. There was nothing I could do to help myself except call on the name of the Lord.
He saved me and He'll save you today. So whatever you hear about it, every I close, let's get this one out of the way today. Let's not be a Judas. Let's not be around the Lord and close proximity to Him.
Let's not just know a lot of things about Him. Let's get right with the Lord and let's get saved and let's get in line and let's be ready to go to heaven. You hear today and you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. I'm not going to call you out.
I'm not going to call you out in front. I'm not going to embarrass you. I'm just going to simply pray for you. This is between you and the Lord anyway.
I can't help you only the Lord can do that. I'm just the messenger, the ambassador of Christ. You're here today. I'm not going to give you a heart to the Lord today.
Would you slip that hand up? I'm not going to call you forward. I'm not going to call you out. Yes, God bless you.
I'm not going to embarrass you. God bless you, son. I'm not going to embarrass you today. This is for you and the Lord today.
This is for God to help you not to perish in this life but to give you eternal life through Jesus Christ, His Son. Is there another way? I would say yes today, preacher. I want to get it right today.
I want to be born again today. I want the Holy Spirit to do the work in my life. Would you raise that hand right now? You don't want to go to this place, God bless you.
You don't want to go to this place, cold hell. You don't want to do that. You want to miss that place and you want to go to heaven. But the bigger thing is this too.
That He'll give you an abundant life today. He'll give you a fool in satisfying life. And here's how you examine this thing. I want to plead with you for a moment because we're living in the last of the last days.
In fact, we know that World War III could break out any moment the way everything's working. Any moment. The Lord could come. Are you frustrated with the life you've been living?
When you look at it, do you wish it would be better? Do you wish there'd be more peace, more content, and more joy? And you think about what you've been sowing into. It hasn't worked too well.
So you want to say yes to the Lord so God can change that in your life. But you get that hand up. I'm just going to pray for you. God bless you.
Is there another one right now? Come on, the Lord is working right now. Is there another one that would say yes to the Lord today? Don't leave out of here.
God bless you. Don't leave out of here today. Say no to the Lord. God knows the future.
We don't know what the future holds. None of us do. But we understand eternity. I'll give you one more opportunity.
Is there another one that would say yes to the Lord? Say, preacher, I need to get right today. It's my day. I'm going to do it by raising my hand and preaching my hand and raising my hand.
Does it do it? I understand that's just an admission that I've heard the word of the Lord. I'll leave you in prayer at a moment where we repent before God. And me leading you in the prayer, does it do it?
It's when you say that prayer and you mean it from the bottom of your heart. That's how simple it is. And that's where it's going to go. I'm not going to ask you to come up here.
I'm going to ask you to submit to the Lord right where you are. Is there another one that say, preacher today? I need to be saved. I really do.
I hear what you're saying, preacher. I need it today. I don't want to go to a place called hell. I want to go to heaven.
If that's you, I hope online, if you're watching that you'll say yes to the Lord today. Well, here's where some others are. Not just for salvation. Some of you today, you need to recommit.