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We want to encourage everyone to come in and get a seat.

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I'm not the one that's going to say Rob is long-winded, but if we don't start, he won't
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We are glad that everyone is out this evening.

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We appreciate your presence and I know we've got a few people who aren't able to be here
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Just for the sake of time, because I know Rob has a lot to cover, we're going to forego
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everything, because this is a training session.

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This is what this is intended to be.

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and want to reiterate how much I appreciate Rob and Nicole and Hannah coming and being
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Hopefully you've got your back to the Bibles with you, you've got your booklet with you
from last night.

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If you do need an extra copy, pick one up on the table if you manage to get here without
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But I'm going to turn it over to Rob and let him get started.

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Good evening.

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Grateful for your presence tonight.

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I know that a midweek of

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The session is challenging, especially with Memphis traffic.

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Getting here at 6.30, but we're grateful you've made the trip tonight.

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Have some students from the Memphis School of Preaching.

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We'll be at the Memphis School of Preaching in the middle of March.

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We'll also be at the Arlington Church of Christ.

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Brother, I believe Tibbets is located there, and we'll be doing some training together.

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Brother Clark asked us to come every two years and do the training at Memphis.

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We're grateful for that availability.

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So we want to get started.

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immediately this evening.

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This is how we send you free evangelism material.

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So we're gonna fill your inbox with tools.

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If you're not receiving that, use that QR code or just sign the clipboard on the back
table and we'll be glad to provide you that information on a weekly basis.

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So these are direct reports from churches.

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If it works, you're gonna see it.

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It's their words.

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If it doesn't work, you're gonna hear it.

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It's their words.

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So we just give you these reports.

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up every week, you're going to get about 75 congregations a week that are reporting and
they're just telling you how things are progressing.

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And so it's not mandatory, but we ask churches to participate because it helps to edify
the local body and we learn from the test results or the work you're doing at the local

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We have a YouTube channel if you've not already subscribed to it.

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It's called House to House School of Evangelism.

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If you have your YouTube app, open it up now because you're going to forget and just
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There are 170 videos.

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These videos range from one minute TikTok link to five minutes.

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That's about the American culture link.

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And they're all training videos and all those are for your learning.

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We want to start this evening by introducing a tool.

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So a fisherman isn't very good without a fishing pole.

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A carpenter is not very good without a hammer.

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not have a tackle box, you're not gonna be very good at your trade.

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So we need to equip our members.

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We need to equip the church.

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And the fact is that most church members have no method.

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They have no tools.

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And so if they were going to have a Bible study, they don't even know where they would
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And what we wanna do is answer that question.

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What do I use?

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When I approach a family member, is there something simple that you can put in my hand
that I could use to have a Bible study?

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your hands tonight is back to the Bible.

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in the Evangelism Simplified Guidebook.

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Now, in 2016, let's go ahead and just set the stage.

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Christian University, and I have their other studies, I have all the analytics, but they
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what do the numbers look like for a projection.

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And I revealed on Sunday, they found out that two-thirds

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of our church members are over the age of 50.

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And they pulled 9,500 Christians.

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That's a pretty good sample size.

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These are just in the Church of Christ.

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They found out that 13 % of our church members are under the age of 30, meaning we're a
great headed church.

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Now, then they ran their projections to find out, what does it mean?

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They looked at the past rate of loss, the current rate of loss, and they began to make
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In the year 2016, when they did the study, we had 12,200 churches of Christ.

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have a Churches of Christ directory.

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It's gonna get most Churches of Christ.

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This is where we were in 2016.

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Using those same metrics, in 2019, they said it's gonna drop down to about 11,500 Churches
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They were spot on.

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That's exactly what happened.

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They said, OK, if the direction keeps going, where are we going to be by 2022?

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We're going to just have over 10,000 churches of Christ.

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That's exactly where we are today.

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So they hit their numbers every time they made a projection.

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All they did is take the current rate of loss, they took the past rate of loss, they took
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What will we look like?

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Let's pop it forward 25 years.

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25 years from now, 2049, we'll have 3,000 churches left.

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All right, let's go ahead and advance the slide.

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What is that going to do to membership?

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right, you're 2016, about 1.2 million members of the Lord's Church.

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All where will we be in 2022?

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Here's where it gets frightening.

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That's exactly where we were in 2022.

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We don't even have a million members now.

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So the numbers follow the chart.

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They said we project you have about 275,000 members left.

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Well if those numbers don't stir your spirit tonight, if they don't cause you to come out
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already half dead.

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because this is a reality that's setting in every single year.

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Now, here's the good news.

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The good news is that these are just projections, and a projection is only as accurate as
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So if a variable changes, the entire projection changes.

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So if we can take one of those variables that are being used and affect the number, and
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say, listen, we're not gonna sit in our pew,

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and watch the Church of Christ disintegrate, we're going to get busy.

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We're going to get out of our pews, we're going to create contacts, we're going to
prospect the contacts, and we're going to have Bible studies, so this never comes true.

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You're on a time clock.

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If we don't change those numbers, this is exactly what's gonna happen.

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I want you to take your back to the Bibles because we're gonna spend some time looking at
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And you have your evangelism simplified guidebook.

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All right, Matthew 28 verse 19, what does the Bible say?

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Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
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This is called the Great Commission, but it is great because Jesus spoke it.

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It's not great because preachers preach it.

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It's great because Jesus spoke it.

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It could be more accurately called the New Testament Commission.

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The reason it's great is there's only one.

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You can read from Matthew to Revelation, you'll find only one great commission.

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It's stated in Matthew 28, 18 through 20.

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It's stated in Mark 16, 15 and 16.

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It's stated in Luke 24, 47 through 49.

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It's stated in John 20, 21 through 23.

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In every gospel account, Jesus states it.

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verse eight, then it's demonstrated throughout every New Testament epistle, so we find
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It's our purpose.

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Our purpose is to make known to the world the manifold wisdom of God, Ephesians 3, 20 and
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That Great Commission has some characteristics to it that are inherent in the very grammar
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Let's look at one of them.

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It says, ye.

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That term, ye, is plural.

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It's not singular.

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He does not mean just go me, but the go ye means go all.

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Everyone's gotta go.

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We are an army of soul winners.

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We can't pin this on the back of Aaron.

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We can't pin this on the back of the Memphis School of Preaching.

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We can't pin this on the back of a missionary to do the work for us.

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If this doesn't become the culture of our churches, the Great Commission fails.

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It will not function.

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Go ye therefore and teach.

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It's a teaching commission.

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We've got to teach.

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If we're not teaching, then we're failing.

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So the Great Commission is a teaching commission.

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Now notice what happens when you teach.

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You baptize.

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So show me a church that's having baptisms.

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I'll show you a church that's teaching.

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If their church is not having baptisms, then I would suggest your church probably has no
Bible studies.

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And someone says, Rob, we're struggling.

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We don't have baptisms.

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My question is, how many Bible studies are going on right now in your church?

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We've got five.

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Well, tell me about those five.

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Well, all five are studies with your memory.

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We want to know how many you're doing with the non-members, how many in the community, how
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of those studies are going on?

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So I did not draw the correlation, I just connected the dots.

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When Jesus said, ye therefore teach and baptize, he's giving us the recipe for baptisms.

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Baptisms are the result of teaching.

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And so we must teach people the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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So what's happened?

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So do we believe in the Great Commission and the Church of Christ?

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Yes or no?

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Of course.

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Because we send thousands upon thousands of dollars to these countries.

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Tens of thousands, hundreds, millions of dollars are flowing into India.

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I know that.

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Millions of dollars are being flown into South Africa and South America.

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I know that.

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We believe in the Great Commission because we're willing to send teams of missionaries,
yes to missions, campaigns.

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We're willing to go all over the world.

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But, brethren, I want to propose tonight that the Great Commission in South America has
become the great omission in the United States of America because we don't do it.

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We don't do it here.

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We don't do it because our members don't believe it works.

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They've never been a part of it.

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There's no plan.

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We don't have any organization.

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There's no strategy.

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There's no tools.

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There's no equipment.

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And so our members find it easier to get on an airplane, take the shots, get your visas,
go halfway around the world, live in difficult environments, but at least you got the

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baptisms.

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And those missionaries come back.

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They give us the reports.

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They show us the baptisms.

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we've accomplished success.

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One elder told me at polishing the pulpit, he said, preacher, he said, I'll tell you why
we send our money to India, because it's easier.

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It's easier to write the check.

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What you're asking us to do is hard.

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What you're asking us to do is, it's just easier for us to send it to Tanzania.

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Brethren, I'm not opposed to supporting Tanzania.

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I'm not opposed to supporting Mexico.

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But I am all for supporting Collierville.

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Because if there's no evangelism in Calderville, you won't be able to support Tanzania.

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In fact, one day, India will have to send their missionaries to Calderville because we're
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And so this is important.

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This is vital to understand that the Great Commission starts with your next door neighbor.

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It don't start in Tanzania.

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It don't start halfway around the world.

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It starts with the guy you work with.

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It starts with your family.

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It starts with your friends.

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It starts with the very people that you are around every day.

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And so we've got to learn how to apply this to the people that we know.

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So I'm preparing for my Bible class one Sunday morning and this couple walks through the
doors and I didn't know them.

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I identified them, my wife and I walked up and I said, my name's Rob, this is my wife
Nicole.

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said, I'm Jonathan Royals, my wife Stephanie.

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I said, well, we're glad you're here.

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I said, you guys new to the area?

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He says, we are.

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I said, well, did someone here invite you?

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said, you did.

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and I've never seen him in my life.

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And he said, well, someone in this church did, and he brought out a copy of House to
House, Heart to Heart, because as a church, we're sending out that publication every

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single month, and we're inviting people to church.

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And he tells me how that he got up this morning, he decided his family needed to go to
church, he saw that House to House, Heart to Heart, he says, why don't we go there?

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And that's why he's sitting in the church building.

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I said, I'm glad you're here.

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After the services I walked up, I'm excited because all I could think about was step
three.

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That's all I could think about, Bible study.

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I've got a Bible study sitting in the pews and I could not wait to get to them.

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And as soon as services were over, my wife and I walked up and said, hey, Jonathan, said,
my wife is the best cook in Macon County.

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And my daughter's the best dessert maker you'll ever see.

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I said, why don't you guys come over to the house?

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She's got enough food fixed and we'll get to know each other.

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I said, what do you think?

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He looked at me, raised his little finger and said, I don't know you and I don't want to
go to your house.

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That was a completely unexpected answer.

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Like I never thought that answer would be given, but we do live in the United States of
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And we're a very unique culture.

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And every culture around the world

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If you showed up as a visitor, they take you to their home.

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I'm telling you, that's what they do.

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And I've been to these different nations.

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And they'll give you their house.

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They'll give you their bedroom.

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They'll give you everything they have.

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That's the culture, not here.

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So when you meet people for the first time, and they invite you to their home, you're not
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We don't do that in America.

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In America, if you're going to meet someone for the first time, the first thing you do is
invite them out to eat.

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Very neutral environment.

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I failed to do that.

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I skipped that step.

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I went right to the, let's come to my house.

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And so, so Jonathan looked at, I looked at Jonathan.

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I said, well Jonathan, I'm sorry, I was so forward.

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I just, you know, I said, what do you want to do?

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I said, I'd like to get with you.

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He said, huh.

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He said, Tuesday I'm free.

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Why don't you come to my house?

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Now he's the serial killer now.

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That's exactly what's going on here.

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So I said, I said, okay, you know, I said, I'm coming.

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And my wife said,

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you sure about this?

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You know we don't know these people." And I said, yes honey, said, I think everything's
fine.

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so sure enough we pull into their driveway, know, my kids get outside and their assignment
is to take their four children, they have four, Johnny, Julie Ann, Jen, and Jacy, take

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them outside and play.

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We're going to do a Bible study.

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So I walked inside the house, I got my little booklets, and I'm ready to go.

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And so I'm just about to pull out my booklets, and I said, Jonathan, I said, I guess you
guys want to know more about our church?

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He said, I kind

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to do?" I said, you know I just so happen to have these little booklets that are called
Back to the Bible.

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And I said, in fact I just brought enough sets for us.

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And I said, if it's okay with you, I said we'll just open our Bibles and we'll look at it.

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And he said, well there are a few things I want you to know about me Rob.

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I said, well what is it?

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He said, he said we're from Florida.

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I said, I like Floridians, that's not a problem.

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I said, no problem.

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He said, well Rob, he says I was deputy sheriff.

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I said, I love law enforcement.

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Not a problem.

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He said, now Rob, said, I'm religious.

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I said, I love religious people.

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This is wonderful.

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I said, he said, and by the way, he said, we went to this big community church.

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He says, and my son was saved in that church.

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He said, praise Jesus.

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And I said, Jonathan, I said, this is wonderful.

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I said, I can't think of a better way to start.

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And I said, is there anything else I need to know?

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He says, no.

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He said, oh, by the way, he says that you'll have to prove everything you teach me.

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I said, I like that.

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I said, by the way, it's called Back to the Bible.

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Every answer will come out of the Bible.

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He said, okay.

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I said, Jonathan, take your Bible, John 832.

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So we opened the Bible up, we started reading, and Jonathan reads the text.

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said, Jonathan, Jesus says the blank will make you free.

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And I said, what is it, Jonathan?

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He said, how do you know it's Jesus?

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And I said, well, the letters are red.

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And he said, that won't work.

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He said, how do you know it's Jesus?

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And I said, because verse 31 says, and Jesus said, will that work?

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He said, that'll work.

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And he put the word truth down.

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And every time we went to a question, he looks at it very carefully and he fills it out.

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We're walking through the study, halfway through the study, he stops and he says, I got
it.

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He says, every answer comes from the Bible.

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I said, bingo.

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And now he's just rolling the answers off his tongue.

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He's learned that if it doesn't come from the Bible, we don't believe it.

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And he loves it.

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We get to do that study.

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Stephanie says, Jonathan, she said, I don't think we've ever done a Bible study in our
life.

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He said, man, I learned a lot.

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I said, y'all like it?

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He said, I said, Jonathan, would it be okay if you came to our house next week?

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He said, well, yes.

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I said, my wife is the best cook in Macon County.

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And I said, you come over, we'll cook a dinner and we'll just have a good time.

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We'll learn a little bit more about it.

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He said, that'd be good.

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So they came over with the second study.

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Could have gone better.

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If it's in the Bible, they'll believe it.

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Stephanie says, Jonathan, I didn't know you're

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supposed to take the Lord's Seppar on the first day of each week.

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I never read this verse before.

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And this is a kind of interaction you have.

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And it's very rewarding to watch people learn, to see them soak it up and be honest.

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And you're helping them see the clarity and the simplicity of scripture.

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So then they come to the third study.

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We're walking through it.

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Stephanie, her eyes get glassy.

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She gets it.

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Jonathan is real quiet.

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And she looks at her husband, she says, Jonathan, neither you or I have ever been
baptized.

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And I looked at them, I said, I know how we can fix that.

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And we took them to the baptistry that very hour, baptized them into Christ, and Jonathan
and Stephanie became Christians.

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That's not why I'm telling you this story.

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This is why, because I have a son, his name's Johnny.

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And so as soon as they're coming out of the water, I looked at Jonathan, said, Jonathan,
said, Johnny, he don't know, he's lost.

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I said, why don't we set that Bible, study it with Johnny, he's 15.

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I said, he needs it.

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And he looked at me, and I remember, because we're back in the dressing room, he's getting
dressed, and I'm waiting on him, and we're talking, and he says, He says, I don't want you

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studying with my son.

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And I thought I'd just lost all the progress I've made.

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That kind of stunned me when he said that.

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And I said, what do you mean?

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He said, well, have you got any of those little booklets?

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I said, let me see if I've got them.

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Yes, they're called back to the Bible.

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I said, he just so happened to have three sets.

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He said, good, because I need them.

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I said, why would you want them, Jonathan?

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He says, because we're going to teach our son.

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I want to know how it is that we've got brand new Christians that know enough to teach
people the gospel.

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But we've got members of the Church of Christ who've been sitting in the pews for decades,
for decades, and they don't know enough to have a Bible study.

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You can learn a lot from new converts.

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Here's one thing I've learned from new converts.

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New converts don't know that Bible studies don't work.

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They don't know that.

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But our members seem to know that.

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you know, it just won't work.

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We've tried this before.

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Bible studies just don't work today.

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You're just wasting your time.

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We know that it works in India, but it won't work in Calgarville.

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Well, I'm glad they don't know that.

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It's amazing what happens when you study the Word of God.

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I remember the day that Jonathan called me.

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They finished the Bible study.

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and we baptized Johnny into Christ for the remission of his sins.

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By the way, he went to the Memphis School of Preaching along with Hatton, and today
they're preaching the gospel.

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It's amazing what happens when you help people, when you teach people.

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So don't ride off your community.

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The gospel still has the power to save.

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We can still reach people, but you need a tool.

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And I had a tool for Jonathan and Stephanie.

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I had a tool for Johnny, and I need to give you a tool.

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So open up those back to the Bibles, everyone, and take some notes.

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Number one, I like back to the Bible because it's simple, and we need simple things.

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Brother New Converts are using it.

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Just three studies, 90 minutes to complete.

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In most of the time, Nicole and I can do it in about 60 minutes.

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And so if someone is not proficient in finding Bible passages, you extend it out to about
90 minutes.

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But it doesn't take you hours and hours and hours.

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If it's taking you two, three hours to do a study, you're talking too much.

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Stop talking.

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We don't need you to over-talk and under-teach.

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We need you to use the tool.

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And so one of the rules you'll

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learn when you're fishing, Is let the fishing pole do the work.

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Don't fight it.

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My dad, I remember him teaching me how to swing a hammer.

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He said, son, your arm's not gonna last about 30 more minutes and you're done.

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Let the hammer do the work.

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And so the reason you have tools is because it does the work for you.

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So your gift of dab is not needed, no disrespect.

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We don't need you to flash your Greek knowledge.

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Keep it at Memphis School of Preaching.

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They don't need your Greek knowledge.

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They don't need your Hebrew knowledge either.

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They don't need grammatical constructions compared to passages, historical analysis.

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They don't need all that.

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They need you to read the Bible.

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Period.

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Let the Bible do the work.

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We're our own worst enemies when it comes to Bible studies.

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All right, it's simple.

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Yes, no, fill in the blank.

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You're answering questions.

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All right, number two, I like Back to the Bible because it's scriptural.

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It's based on the Bible.

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So anytime we do a Bible study, all right, we need to use the scripture and allow the
scripture to be the power of God.

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Now, the Back to the Bible series was written by Bobby Bates.

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It's written in the 1970s.

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Brother Bates used the King James version of the Bible.

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I grew up on the King James version of the Bible.

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So when someone walks in my home, like Brittany Massey, and lays her Bible on the table
and goes maybe outside or to the bathroom, I'm gonna pick up her Bible.

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You know why?

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I wonder what version she's using.

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So I said, Nicole, hand me Brittany's Bible.

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the new American Catholic Bible.

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Honey, how are we going?

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We can't do a Bible study with the new American Catholic Bible.

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So I began to formulate my arguments.

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How am I gonna get her not to use the new American Catholic Bible?

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And I've got my gift of war Bible over my shoulder.

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I'm gonna give it to her so we can swap out Bibles.

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And so I'm trying to figure out how to have this discussion with Brittany about this Bible
she's brought.

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She sits down, thank God I came to myself and realized that I'm about to violate principle
number seven.

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Remember what principle number seven is?

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Anybody remember what it is?

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Hesitate.

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Hesitate.

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Do not climb Mount Versin.

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Climb Mount Conversion.

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We do not need to take down Mount Versin now.

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We'll take Mount Versin later.

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And so I said, you know, we'll just use the New American Catholic Bible.

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And we did.

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You know what happened?

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She was baptized.

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After the baptism, she's sitting around the table at our house.

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doing a new convert study.

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She says, Rob, have I ever told you the study about my Bible?

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I said, no, Brittany, you have not.

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She said, Rob, that's the family Bible.

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Grandma gave it to me before she passed.

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What would have happened if I insulted the family Bible?

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Anybody?

463
00:24:44,856 --> 00:24:46,207
There's no Bible study.

464
00:24:46,207 --> 00:24:48,208
There's not gonna be a Bible study.

465
00:24:48,208 --> 00:24:54,091
And so I'm not gonna teach Melk, she doesn't use it today because we have tackled that
together.

466
00:24:54,091 --> 00:24:56,311
It's a family heirloom now.

467
00:24:56,392 --> 00:24:59,773
So I'm not gonna start with Melk version.

468
00:25:00,054 --> 00:25:01,014
I'm gonna...

469
00:25:01,088 --> 00:25:02,559
Start with Mount conversion.

470
00:25:02,559 --> 00:25:04,280
Now it requires Bible reading.

471
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,561
She had to read her Bible because all answers come from the text.

472
00:25:07,561 --> 00:25:12,663
Any Bible study that does not require you to read the Bible, run from it.

473
00:25:12,663 --> 00:25:13,284
All right?

474
00:25:13,284 --> 00:25:18,546
We need people reading the book because Psalm 19, seven says by the words of the Lord,
right?

475
00:25:18,546 --> 00:25:20,807
By the word of God is conversion.

476
00:25:20,807 --> 00:25:23,308
It's God's law that converts people.

477
00:25:23,308 --> 00:25:26,490
We don't want them to read some type of track, right?

478
00:25:26,490 --> 00:25:27,740
Without reading their Bible.

479
00:25:27,740 --> 00:25:30,992
I'm all in favor of tracks, but we want people

480
00:25:30,992 --> 00:25:35,733
to open the scripture because this is where the power of conversion is.

481
00:25:36,173 --> 00:25:39,354
Every Bible study should require you to read your Bible.

482
00:25:40,135 --> 00:25:44,516
I know that some Bible studies like to write down all the scriptures for you.

483
00:25:44,736 --> 00:25:46,236
I don't like that at all.

484
00:25:46,236 --> 00:25:48,337
You're not teaching them to read a Bible.

485
00:25:48,437 --> 00:25:50,197
right, what makes it easier?

486
00:25:50,197 --> 00:25:53,070
know, just because it's easier doesn't mean it's better.

487
00:25:53,070 --> 00:25:55,131
All right, teach them how to open a Bible.

488
00:25:55,131 --> 00:25:57,411
Teach them how to find the book of Matthew.

489
00:25:57,631 --> 00:25:58,792
Give them the page number.

490
00:25:58,792 --> 00:26:00,342
Don't give them the page number.

491
00:26:00,342 --> 00:26:02,633
Let them learn how to find Matthew.

492
00:26:02,633 --> 00:26:05,694
Take it from someone who's had hundreds of Bible studies.

493
00:26:05,694 --> 00:26:07,574
My wife and I have had hundreds of these.

494
00:26:07,574 --> 00:26:10,535
You will be better off if you teach them how to use a Bible.

495
00:26:10,535 --> 00:26:16,027
You're gonna be better off if you build their confidence up so they know how to find
places in the Bible.

496
00:26:16,027 --> 00:26:20,118
Because when they go home, you can't give them the page number.

497
00:26:20,716 --> 00:26:23,690
So if you teach them how to find Matthew, they're better off.

498
00:26:23,826 --> 00:26:25,313
You know, it's not hard.

499
00:26:25,346 --> 00:26:31,128
You know when my wife and I, about halfway through the study, they'll find Matthew, Mark,
Luke, John, Romans, and Revelation.

500
00:26:31,169 --> 00:26:32,649
Halfway through one study.

501
00:26:32,649 --> 00:26:36,551
It's amazing how smart the mind is if we just let them learn.

502
00:26:36,626 --> 00:26:39,473
All right, so we're gonna require them to read their Bible.

503
00:26:39,473 --> 00:26:45,495
We're gonna require them to open their Bible, get the answer from the text, and we're
gonna follow the scriptural order.

504
00:26:45,495 --> 00:26:46,956
So what's the scriptural order?

505
00:26:46,956 --> 00:26:48,597
Well, let's go to Acts chapter eight.

506
00:26:48,597 --> 00:26:52,339
Let's go to Acts chapter eight and let's look at verse number four and five.

507
00:26:52,339 --> 00:26:54,199
So I'm gonna give you what

508
00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,862
with Wilma, Bobby's widow, and this is who talked to me about Acts 8 and 4 and 5.

509
00:27:00,862 --> 00:27:09,895
It was Wilma Bates, we were at her dinner table, and she said, Rob, have I ever taught you
about how Bobby wrote back to the Bible?

510
00:27:09,895 --> 00:27:12,266
I said, no, but I would love to hear it.

511
00:27:12,266 --> 00:27:15,027
Well, Rob, followed the scriptural order.

512
00:27:15,668 --> 00:27:19,309
Well, I've been preaching for several years.

513
00:27:20,509 --> 00:27:22,508
I've never heard of the scriptural order.

514
00:27:22,508 --> 00:27:24,228
So I said, well, I want to know more about it.

515
00:27:24,228 --> 00:27:26,950
All right, she said, go to Acts 8, and let's look at verses four and five.

516
00:27:26,950 --> 00:27:30,451
Therefore, they that were scattered abroad, whenever were preaching the word.

517
00:27:30,451 --> 00:27:33,542
All right, she said, now, Rob, watch out.

518
00:27:33,542 --> 00:27:38,264
Then Philip, the inspired evangelist, let me be clear tonight.

519
00:27:38,424 --> 00:27:40,725
Philip is inspired, I'm not.

520
00:27:41,585 --> 00:27:44,076
Philip is inspired, you're not.

521
00:27:44,076 --> 00:27:46,167
So whatever Philip does, it's right.

522
00:27:46,167 --> 00:27:48,907
Whatever Philip does, it's gotta be better than what you do.

523
00:27:48,907 --> 00:27:50,328
So I need to listen to Philip.

524
00:27:50,328 --> 00:27:52,298
And whatever Philip does is what I'm going to do.

525
00:27:52,298 --> 00:27:53,509
So what did he do?

526
00:27:53,509 --> 00:27:56,069
What is his modus operandi?

527
00:27:56,069 --> 00:27:58,590
How does he achieve success?

528
00:27:58,590 --> 00:28:06,432
Well, Philip opened, notice Philip opened, went down to the city of Samaria, he opens the
gospel and he preaches what?

529
00:28:06,432 --> 00:28:07,752
Christ.

530
00:28:07,752 --> 00:28:09,573
He preaches Christ.

531
00:28:09,573 --> 00:28:13,974
So if we wanna evangelize, what should we do, everyone?

532
00:28:14,252 --> 00:28:16,402
Preach Christ, well what does that mean?

533
00:28:16,402 --> 00:28:18,014
Does that mean preach Jesus in the manger?

534
00:28:18,014 --> 00:28:21,286
Does that mean preach Jesus when he was 12 in Jerusalem?

535
00:28:21,286 --> 00:28:24,027
Does it mean preach Jesus at the wedding feast in Cana?

536
00:28:24,027 --> 00:28:27,969
Does it mean preach Jesus in John 4 at the Samaritan woman?

537
00:28:27,969 --> 00:28:28,990
What does that mean?

538
00:28:28,990 --> 00:28:30,931
How about Nicodemus, John 3?

539
00:28:30,931 --> 00:28:34,493
I mean there's a lot of things that could be incorporated into this.

540
00:28:35,013 --> 00:28:36,634
Not if you read your Bible.

541
00:28:37,378 --> 00:28:39,200
because he tells you what that means.

542
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,642
So I you to go down to verse number 12.

543
00:28:40,642 --> 00:28:42,143
Everybody go down to verse 12.

544
00:28:42,143 --> 00:28:44,846
But when they believe Philip's preaching, what was he preaching?

545
00:28:44,846 --> 00:28:45,327
Christ.

546
00:28:45,327 --> 00:28:46,218
What does that mean, brother?

547
00:28:46,218 --> 00:28:48,289
Let's just read.

548
00:28:48,366 --> 00:28:49,707
All right, verse number 12.

549
00:28:49,707 --> 00:28:58,391
When they believe in what's preaching, the things concerning the kingdom of God, the name
of Jesus Christ, he baptized them, both men and women.

550
00:28:58,391 --> 00:29:00,591
Everybody get out there back to the Bibles.

551
00:29:00,692 --> 00:29:02,062
Right here, there's three of them.

552
00:29:02,062 --> 00:29:03,033
It's not hard.

553
00:29:03,033 --> 00:29:04,273
I everybody to hold them up.

554
00:29:04,273 --> 00:29:06,114
All right, there you go.

555
00:29:06,114 --> 00:29:08,290
You're not very good at it, just I'll teach you how to do it.

556
00:29:08,290 --> 00:29:09,666
It's on the wrist, brother.

557
00:29:09,666 --> 00:29:10,341
You got to do that.

558
00:29:10,341 --> 00:29:11,577
All right, there you go.

559
00:29:11,577 --> 00:29:12,637
All got three of them.

560
00:29:12,637 --> 00:29:15,579
Now, everybody, let's hold up the green booklet, everybody.

561
00:29:15,579 --> 00:29:16,659
Hold up the green booklet.

562
00:29:16,659 --> 00:29:17,546
This is not hard.

563
00:29:17,546 --> 00:29:18,350
All right.

564
00:29:18,350 --> 00:29:20,335
is the name of Jesus Christ.

565
00:29:20,588 --> 00:29:22,449
Okay, this is called Bible authority.

566
00:29:22,449 --> 00:29:23,838
It's the name of Jesus Christ.

567
00:29:23,838 --> 00:29:25,498
Let's hold up book number two.

568
00:29:25,498 --> 00:29:27,001
All hold up book number two.

569
00:29:27,001 --> 00:29:29,222
That is the kingdom of God.

570
00:29:29,222 --> 00:29:32,103
This is a book about the church of Christ.

571
00:29:32,103 --> 00:29:33,434
That's what the kingdom of God is.

572
00:29:33,434 --> 00:29:34,405
It's the church of Christ.

573
00:29:34,405 --> 00:29:36,105
Let's hold up book number three.

574
00:29:36,105 --> 00:29:37,266
That's baptism.

575
00:29:37,266 --> 00:29:39,367
That is the salvation of Christ.

576
00:29:39,367 --> 00:29:45,210
So when Bobby Bates wrote back to the Bible, he wrote a Bible study series based upon what
Philip did.

577
00:29:45,210 --> 00:29:50,532
Philip talked about the authority of Christ, the church of Christ, and the salvation.

578
00:29:50,532 --> 00:29:51,292
of Christ.

579
00:29:51,292 --> 00:30:02,886
So I would strongly recommend that if you're going to do a Bible study, you cover those
three things because you're never going to come up with a better method than Philip.

580
00:30:02,886 --> 00:30:04,837
You're not inspired.

581
00:30:04,837 --> 00:30:06,017
He was.

582
00:30:07,098 --> 00:30:18,262
So I've heard a lot of evangelists in my day and every now and then I run across a brother
that says, we shouldn't be teaching them about the church before they're saved.

583
00:30:18,262 --> 00:30:19,662
Says who?

584
00:30:20,748 --> 00:30:23,035
because Philip didn't know that rule.

585
00:30:23,150 --> 00:30:28,410
Philip taught him about the church, where they said in Acts two, you know, they didn't
talk about the church, how do you know that?

586
00:30:28,410 --> 00:30:31,010
Acts two, verse 41 says what?

587
00:30:31,010 --> 00:30:36,870
With many other words, they testify and exhort saying, save yourselves from this crooked
and ordained towards you.

588
00:30:36,870 --> 00:30:37,370
What words?

589
00:30:37,370 --> 00:30:38,910
We don't have those words.

590
00:30:38,910 --> 00:30:41,950
By the way, the church was in her infancy.

591
00:30:42,250 --> 00:30:44,590
She was just being established.

592
00:30:44,650 --> 00:30:48,550
Okay, we didn't have all the ins and outs of the church in Acts two.

593
00:30:48,550 --> 00:30:51,810
It wasn't until verse 47, she's in existence.

594
00:30:53,104 --> 00:30:58,809
and pay very close attention to what the evangelists did and act and let's just duplicate
it.

595
00:30:58,809 --> 00:31:00,730
Let's just do what they did.

596
00:31:00,971 --> 00:31:03,253
If we do what Philip did, would we be wrong?

597
00:31:03,253 --> 00:31:04,334
Yes or no?

598
00:31:04,374 --> 00:31:05,175
No.

599
00:31:05,175 --> 00:31:07,888
If we don't do what Philip did, could we be wrong?

600
00:31:07,888 --> 00:31:08,518
Yes.

601
00:31:08,518 --> 00:31:08,868
Of course.

602
00:31:08,868 --> 00:31:12,842
All right, number three, it's successful, works.

603
00:31:13,038 --> 00:31:14,538
Why do I love back to the Bible?

604
00:31:14,538 --> 00:31:15,978
Why do I love evangelism?

605
00:31:15,978 --> 00:31:18,918
Because New Testament evangelism works.

606
00:31:18,918 --> 00:31:24,978
And when you put a tool in the hand of a member of the church, it's incredible what
happens.

607
00:31:24,978 --> 00:31:26,378
So I said, Ms.

608
00:31:26,378 --> 00:31:30,998
Wilma, I said, when you and Bobby did these Bible studies, what was your rate of
conversion?

609
00:31:30,998 --> 00:31:32,678
She said, oh, 90%.

610
00:31:32,678 --> 00:31:34,058
We kept records,

611
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,532
So Nicole and I went home after that trip.

612
00:31:36,532 --> 00:31:38,003
I got out my black little notebook.

613
00:31:38,003 --> 00:31:43,516
I started counting all the Bible studies out because I kept records of all the studies
we've done.

614
00:31:43,516 --> 00:31:44,817
You know what I found?

615
00:31:46,250 --> 00:31:46,830
92%.

616
00:31:46,830 --> 00:31:51,622
92 % of the people we study with become Christians when they finish back to the Bible.

617
00:31:52,204 --> 00:31:58,696
Brethren, you don't believe those numbers, then I'm gonna ask you to consider what I'm
about to do in the next five minutes.

618
00:31:58,696 --> 00:32:05,118
Because I ask my daughter to go back to the churches enrolled, and I wanna know their
percentage.

619
00:32:05,118 --> 00:32:07,179
I wanna find out is it working.

620
00:32:07,179 --> 00:32:11,120
Because if what we're teaching isn't working, I'll just close the school.

621
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,411
There's no need for me to go from church to church.

622
00:32:13,411 --> 00:32:15,301
I just go back to local work.

623
00:32:15,402 --> 00:32:16,742
Here's what I found.

624
00:32:17,306 --> 00:32:20,548
I remember a, Jonathan Royal called me one day.

625
00:32:20,548 --> 00:32:24,890
He said, Rob, says, he said, Mimi's coming.

626
00:32:25,771 --> 00:32:26,972
I said, what is a Mimi?

627
00:32:26,972 --> 00:32:28,732
He said, that's my mother-in-law.

628
00:32:28,733 --> 00:32:31,020
And he says, I'm gonna convert my mother-in-law.

629
00:32:31,020 --> 00:32:34,533
And I thought to myself, well, man, it can't be wrong to convert mother-in-laws.

630
00:32:34,533 --> 00:32:36,435
I said, that sounds like a good plan to me.

631
00:32:36,435 --> 00:32:39,196
And I said, how do you plan to do that, Jonathan?

632
00:32:39,196 --> 00:32:40,679
He says, I'm going to do what you do.

633
00:32:40,679 --> 00:32:46,244
He said, I'm going to invite the Mimi over when she moves in, and Stephanie's going to
make her mother supper.

634
00:32:46,244 --> 00:32:50,207
And after supper, I'm going to ask her the transition questions.

635
00:32:50,588 --> 00:32:56,073
And Mimi, what do you think about the church you've been attending?

636
00:32:56,073 --> 00:32:57,834
Well, I kind of like it.

637
00:32:57,996 --> 00:33:00,729
Mimi, do you know a lot about the Willette Church of Christ?

638
00:33:00,729 --> 00:33:02,250
I really don't know a lot about it.

639
00:33:02,250 --> 00:33:04,272
Mimi, would you like to know more about the church?

640
00:33:04,272 --> 00:33:08,776
Yeah, I just so happen to have these little booklets that are called Back to the Bible.

641
00:33:08,776 --> 00:33:10,458
And he said, Rob, we're gonna do a Bible study.

642
00:33:10,458 --> 00:33:11,069
I said, good.

643
00:33:11,069 --> 00:33:14,582
I said, Jonathan, let me know how it goes.

644
00:33:14,582 --> 00:33:16,624
Nine o'clock that night he calls me.

645
00:33:16,624 --> 00:33:20,547
Rob, we just finished Back to the Bible book one with the Mimi.

646
00:33:20,808 --> 00:33:21,899
I said, how did she like it?

647
00:33:21,899 --> 00:33:22,969
She loved it.

648
00:33:23,918 --> 00:33:28,198
Three weeks later, he calls me and he says, I need help, Rob, I've never baptized anybody
before.

649
00:33:28,198 --> 00:33:29,189
I said, I'll be right there.

650
00:33:29,189 --> 00:33:34,541
That's baptisms that happen at Collegereville, the ones that Aaron doesn't do.

651
00:33:34,541 --> 00:33:36,501
It's the ones that you do.

652
00:33:36,942 --> 00:33:38,882
It's when the members get involved.

653
00:33:38,882 --> 00:33:46,404
It's when the members are calling you and they're asking for help because they're the ones
that will determine whether this church grows or not.

654
00:33:46,404 --> 00:33:47,944
will not be Aaron.

655
00:33:48,345 --> 00:33:49,565
All right, you ready?

656
00:33:49,565 --> 00:33:51,145
Fasten your seatbelt.

657
00:33:51,586 --> 00:33:53,086
So here are the churches.

658
00:33:53,486 --> 00:33:55,186
First, let's go up to Aberdeen.

659
00:33:55,186 --> 00:33:59,186
Every one of these churches baptized 10 % of their membership in one year.

660
00:33:59,966 --> 00:34:02,486
Aberdeen, Maryland, this is Will Brown.

661
00:34:02,806 --> 00:34:08,566
His church is right across from the baseball park built by Cal Ripken from Minor League
World Series.

662
00:34:08,746 --> 00:34:10,726
I've been up there, Will is involved.

663
00:34:10,726 --> 00:34:15,306
Incredible church, they hit their 10 % every year.

664
00:34:15,982 --> 00:34:18,642
fact, they've hit about six of them already this year.

665
00:34:18,642 --> 00:34:23,102
This right here is go down to Texas, Bryan College Station, BCS Church of Christ, 16.

666
00:34:23,102 --> 00:34:25,782
By the way, that's where the Texas School of Preaching is located.

667
00:34:25,782 --> 00:34:27,482
I expect y'all to do better.

668
00:34:28,383 --> 00:34:30,093
I challenge every school of preaching.

669
00:34:30,093 --> 00:34:32,694
They can baptize 16 at BCS.

670
00:34:32,694 --> 00:34:38,275
Every school of preaching, those students need to focus on souls.

671
00:34:38,275 --> 00:34:39,505
Let's reach the lost.

672
00:34:39,505 --> 00:34:41,536
Let's help Forest Hill reach the lost.

673
00:34:41,536 --> 00:34:43,466
Let's Collierville reach the lost.

674
00:34:43,466 --> 00:34:52,478
I can think of a better work for a school of preaching for the students to incorporate
themselves into that local church and help reach lost souls.

675
00:34:53,710 --> 00:34:55,290
What about central Kentucky?

676
00:34:55,290 --> 00:34:57,150
is where Adam Fawn is.

677
00:34:57,150 --> 00:34:58,390
18 baptisms.

678
00:34:58,390 --> 00:34:59,790
Every year they hit it.

679
00:34:59,790 --> 00:35:05,050
This is Chapel Hill, Isaac Bourne, Fred Hardman grad, 19 baptisms.

680
00:35:05,050 --> 00:35:07,850
This is Covington, 19 baptisms.

681
00:35:07,850 --> 00:35:09,310
This is Coyote, Oklahoma.

682
00:35:09,310 --> 00:35:11,110
Never went to a school of preaching.

683
00:35:11,430 --> 00:35:13,750
Homegrown preachers, named Keen O'Shrum.

684
00:35:13,750 --> 00:35:18,630
They set the record in 2023 with 31.2 % baptism rate.

685
00:35:18,650 --> 00:35:20,730
In fact, he's been so good, we hired him.

686
00:35:20,730 --> 00:35:22,590
Now he's one of our regional trainers.

687
00:35:22,590 --> 00:35:23,664
Excellent church.

688
00:35:23,664 --> 00:35:28,426
from 22 to, they got up to 70 members, two and a half years.

689
00:35:30,027 --> 00:35:37,870
Let's go over here to East Flushings, we're in New York, we're baptizing in Queens, every
year he hits his mark.

690
00:35:37,870 --> 00:35:41,350
Every year he hits, he started with a very little number of members.

691
00:35:41,350 --> 00:35:43,230
Now there are about 50 or so.

692
00:35:43,230 --> 00:35:45,430
And every year he hits his mark.

693
00:35:45,430 --> 00:35:49,790
Let's go back down to Tennessee, East Maine, Murfreesboro, 19 baptisms.

694
00:35:49,790 --> 00:35:53,090
Let's go to Forest Hill, Memphis last year, 11 baptisms.

695
00:35:53,090 --> 00:35:55,590
You add in your restorations, you hit your mark.

696
00:35:56,790 --> 00:35:58,286
That church got busy.

697
00:35:58,286 --> 00:36:06,746
I could not be more thankful than the work that Scott Kane and those elders did last year
as they focused that church on soul winning.

698
00:36:06,746 --> 00:36:11,466
Let's go back to Glencoe, seven baptisms, that's where we attend.

699
00:36:11,466 --> 00:36:15,646
When my wife and family, when my children, we got there, they had 45 members.

700
00:36:15,646 --> 00:36:18,746
They've from 180 to 45 in 10 years.

701
00:36:18,746 --> 00:36:21,606
In two and a half years, we've gone from 45 to 120.

702
00:36:22,946 --> 00:36:27,568
and we used evangelism and we made it the folk, we've had six already this year.

703
00:36:27,568 --> 00:36:30,870
We've got five Bible studies going on right now at Glencoe.

704
00:36:30,870 --> 00:36:34,431
Right now, Granbury Street, Cleveland, Texas, 10 baptisms.

705
00:36:34,431 --> 00:36:36,592
Let's go back down to Alabama, Hatton.

706
00:36:36,592 --> 00:36:38,113
This is 17 baptisms.

707
00:36:38,113 --> 00:36:43,896
Chris Miller, this is Honolulu, Tagaluma, Essene, Memphis Grad, 13 baptisms.

708
00:36:43,896 --> 00:36:45,857
He has hit the mark every year.

709
00:36:45,857 --> 00:36:48,858
When we first went to Honolulu, they had 90 members.

710
00:36:48,858 --> 00:36:51,659
Now they have 150 members.

711
00:36:51,659 --> 00:36:52,980
Ask him if it works.

712
00:36:52,980 --> 00:36:53,981
because we hired him.

713
00:36:53,981 --> 00:36:55,962
He's one of our regional trainers too.

714
00:36:55,962 --> 00:36:58,064
Then we have the Decarne's Church of Christ.

715
00:36:58,064 --> 00:37:02,006
This is Knoxville, Tennessee, 43 baptisms.

716
00:37:02,006 --> 00:37:04,748
So here we have a congregation, Steve Higginbotham.

717
00:37:04,748 --> 00:37:07,550
They've had a hundred baptisms in two years.

718
00:37:07,550 --> 00:37:11,172
This is where the Southeast Institute of Biblical Studies is located.

719
00:37:11,172 --> 00:37:11,963
Does it work?

720
00:37:11,963 --> 00:37:14,995
Ask them, because they've had a hundred baptisms in two years.

721
00:37:14,995 --> 00:37:16,516
This is Lafayette Church of Christ.

722
00:37:16,516 --> 00:37:18,697
David paid in nine baptisms.

723
00:37:18,697 --> 00:37:20,318
He had Lou Gehrig's disease.

724
00:37:20,318 --> 00:37:23,160
They literally had to carry him into the pulpit.

725
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:27,503
He just passed away not long ago and that church is continuing.

726
00:37:27,503 --> 00:37:34,008
In fact, the elders just called me and they said, Rob, we're gonna retrain the church
again with this new preacher and they're doing a great job.

727
00:37:34,008 --> 00:37:37,810
Lake Regions, New Hampshire, you know, you can't, it doesn't work in the Northeast.

728
00:37:37,810 --> 00:37:43,934
You know, they're kind of, you know, they're kind of European up there, you know, they
don't really believe in God up in the North.

729
00:37:43,934 --> 00:37:47,236
They don't know that at Lake Regions because they just baptize people.

730
00:37:47,236 --> 00:37:48,617
Every year they hit their mark.

731
00:37:48,617 --> 00:37:52,720
Here's La Plata, here's Eric Sykes, 50 baptisms in two years.

732
00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:54,940
He's one of our regional trainers.

733
00:37:54,940 --> 00:37:56,340
So Eric has set the mark.

734
00:37:56,340 --> 00:37:58,380
50 baptisms, two years.

735
00:37:58,380 --> 00:38:02,440
He goes around to those churches up there around the DC area.

736
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,700
In fact, we were just up there with him.

737
00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:06,860
And so we went to a church.

738
00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:08,840
Eric follows up.

739
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,160
And we're in the Beltway.

740
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,220
You know the Beltway around DC?

741
00:38:12,220 --> 00:38:15,020
Brethren, they need some evangelism in DC.

742
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:19,160
If there's any place on earth that needs evangelism, it's those politicians.

743
00:38:19,832 --> 00:38:22,243
And that's exactly what we gave him, a strong dose of it.

744
00:38:22,243 --> 00:38:23,864
We're going back in the fall.

745
00:38:23,864 --> 00:38:25,755
This is right here, is Linville Forest.

746
00:38:25,755 --> 00:38:27,905
This is Kernelsville, 11 baptisms.

747
00:38:27,905 --> 00:38:32,208
This right here is Madisonville, Russell Klein, MSOP grad, six baptisms.

748
00:38:32,208 --> 00:38:33,658
This right here is McKenzie.

749
00:38:33,658 --> 00:38:39,391
Here's another MSOP grad, no, McKenzie is, Steele, I think he's an MSOP grad.

750
00:38:39,391 --> 00:38:43,833
This right here is Terry Townsend, nine baptisms in Ohio.

751
00:38:43,833 --> 00:38:46,835
This is Niceville, Joe Palmer, 16 baptisms.

752
00:38:46,835 --> 00:38:49,762
This is Northern Oaks, Church of Christ, 27.

753
00:38:49,876 --> 00:38:53,387
grad, we graduated together, 27 baptism.

754
00:38:53,387 --> 00:38:56,908
This is Oak Hill, 14 baptisms, that's where Matt Wallins at.

755
00:38:56,908 --> 00:39:02,939
This is Paintsville, homegrown preacher, Zach Collins, never went to a preaching school,
he's about your age.

756
00:39:03,956 --> 00:39:05,559
11 baptisms.

757
00:39:05,559 --> 00:39:18,062
This right here is Raven County, this is McKinley, McKinley has an MSOP grad, he had six
baptisms, this is a church of like 20, it's a mission work in Georgia.

758
00:39:18,166 --> 00:39:23,333
and he revitalizes a church, he surpasses his goals.

759
00:39:23,333 --> 00:39:25,255
You know how many baptisms he's had this year?

760
00:39:25,255 --> 00:39:26,637
He's already had four.

761
00:39:26,637 --> 00:39:32,564
They get 35 in attendance Sunday because of evangelism.

762
00:39:32,564 --> 00:39:34,105
But it doesn't work, it?

763
00:39:34,402 --> 00:39:36,443
Let's go back over here to Risen, Arkansas.

764
00:39:36,443 --> 00:39:40,025
This is Keaton Shrum, little church about 50, five baptisms.

765
00:39:40,025 --> 00:39:41,665
This is Sanford, a church of 60.

766
00:39:41,665 --> 00:39:44,347
They've had four baptisms, two restorations.

767
00:39:44,347 --> 00:39:47,168
I'm not talking about people saying, I need you to pray for me.

768
00:39:47,168 --> 00:39:51,810
I'm talking about true prodigals, people who've left the church and come home.

769
00:39:51,810 --> 00:39:54,451
Southside, Grand Rapids, Michigan, seven.

770
00:39:54,451 --> 00:39:58,393
Sunset, this is where Zach Williams is located.

771
00:39:58,393 --> 00:40:01,495
18 baptisms from Zach, incredible soul winner.

772
00:40:01,495 --> 00:40:04,636
Union, South Carolina, Terry Hale,

773
00:40:05,476 --> 00:40:12,698
This is a, Warner Robbins, Daniel Steersman, 17 baptisms, Woodstock, Georgia, Matt Amos,
15 baptisms.

774
00:40:13,178 --> 00:40:15,038
Is that enough evidence?

775
00:40:15,618 --> 00:40:17,889
Brother, I want you to look at the names of the churches.

776
00:40:17,889 --> 00:40:20,219
These are the churches that are succeeding.

777
00:40:20,219 --> 00:40:24,600
These are the churches that are reporting and keeping that 10 % threshold.

778
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,381
So how many baptisms does that mean Collegue of Real Needs?

779
00:40:28,441 --> 00:40:29,741
You need six.

780
00:40:31,222 --> 00:40:32,942
Is that a reasonable goal?

781
00:40:33,074 --> 00:40:36,675
Six baptisms next year at seven.

782
00:40:38,036 --> 00:40:42,437
You know what happens if you baptize 10 % of your membership seven years in a row?

783
00:40:42,977 --> 00:40:44,468
Anybody know what the rule of seven is?

784
00:40:44,468 --> 00:40:47,818
Anybody know what happens?

785
00:40:48,099 --> 00:40:49,339
You double.

786
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,580
You double in seven years.

787
00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:55,274
What happens if you baptize 20 %?

788
00:40:55,821 --> 00:40:58,762
You do what Keno Shrum did and they tripled.

789
00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:02,932
It's amazing what happens when we start putting things in proportion.

790
00:41:02,932 --> 00:41:04,073
here's some more.

791
00:41:04,274 --> 00:41:06,295
Maybe you know some of these churches.

792
00:41:06,295 --> 00:41:08,377
These are the churches that are baptizing.

793
00:41:08,377 --> 00:41:10,398
These are the churches that are evangelizing.

794
00:41:10,398 --> 00:41:13,180
These are the churches that do not take no for an answer.

795
00:41:13,180 --> 00:41:17,483
These are the churches that when they hit a brick wall, they run through it.

796
00:41:17,483 --> 00:41:21,996
They don't give up because souls are at stake.

797
00:41:23,830 --> 00:41:25,699
I thank God for churches.

798
00:41:27,534 --> 00:41:31,918
that evangelize, because the Church of Christ can grow.

799
00:41:32,098 --> 00:41:36,402
We don't have to have popcorn machines, vending machines.

800
00:41:36,402 --> 00:41:39,165
We don't have to fill our churches with coffee bars.

801
00:41:39,165 --> 00:41:42,348
We don't have to become the next social network church.

802
00:41:42,348 --> 00:41:47,012
What we need to do is focus people on evangelism.

803
00:41:47,012 --> 00:41:49,194
And when we do that, we can grow.

804
00:41:49,526 --> 00:41:53,589
I want to spend a few minutes this evening demonstrating the power of a Bible study.

805
00:41:53,589 --> 00:41:55,250
So I want to baptize somebody tonight.

806
00:41:55,250 --> 00:41:57,071
I hope your baptistry is ready.

807
00:41:57,071 --> 00:41:59,092
And so we're going to demonstrate it.

808
00:41:59,153 --> 00:42:00,674
And I need a volunteer.

809
00:42:00,674 --> 00:42:02,835
So I'm looking for somebody that can help me.

810
00:42:02,835 --> 00:42:05,917
Who here can help me and volunteer?

811
00:42:07,399 --> 00:42:08,780
who can volunteer?

812
00:42:08,780 --> 00:42:09,840
Josh, put your hand down.

813
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,242
You know, preachers, they always want to steal the limelight.

814
00:42:12,242 --> 00:42:14,944
And they always want to steal the limelight.

815
00:42:14,944 --> 00:42:17,005
And brother, you want to come up here?

816
00:42:17,005 --> 00:42:18,226
You want to help me?

817
00:42:18,494 --> 00:42:19,475
I know you will.

818
00:42:19,475 --> 00:42:20,615
You're going to be fine.

819
00:42:20,615 --> 00:42:22,576
And I'm like, can you get that man a chair?

820
00:42:22,576 --> 00:42:23,496
Someone get him a chair.

821
00:42:23,496 --> 00:42:24,337
Bring that chair up.

822
00:42:24,337 --> 00:42:26,048
Brother, can you bring that chair up for him?

823
00:42:26,048 --> 00:42:27,058
He needs a chair.

824
00:42:27,058 --> 00:42:30,079
So I'm going to use this brother right here.

825
00:42:30,079 --> 00:42:32,080
And we're going to put him right in the chair.

826
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,402
And did I warn you I was going to do this?

827
00:42:34,402 --> 00:42:34,741
No.

828
00:42:34,741 --> 00:42:35,982
So this is real.

829
00:42:36,042 --> 00:42:36,713
This is real.

830
00:42:36,713 --> 00:42:40,404
I feel like you're going to give me a prayer cloth and put me on the ground.

831
00:42:40,404 --> 00:42:42,805
Brother, does it look like I can throw you on the ground?

832
00:42:42,805 --> 00:42:44,006
I don't think I can.

833
00:42:44,006 --> 00:42:45,377
And so sit right there.

834
00:42:45,377 --> 00:42:45,967
All right.

835
00:42:45,967 --> 00:42:47,827
And you're going to need a Bible.

836
00:42:48,368 --> 00:42:59,505
happen to have these little booklets and so you'll need the booklets and you may need your
Bible and someone go give his Bible for him.

837
00:42:59,505 --> 00:43:00,586
He may need his Bible.

838
00:43:00,586 --> 00:43:04,799
So we're gonna demonstrate the effectiveness of back to the Bible.

839
00:43:04,799 --> 00:43:15,106
Now on page 102 of your evangelism simplified workbook, everybody open their workbook,
they're going to notice that we have a survey and on that survey we have questions and

840
00:43:15,106 --> 00:43:18,288
those questions there and those are questions

841
00:43:18,288 --> 00:43:23,250
is designed to evaluate where the church is at.

842
00:43:23,250 --> 00:43:26,511
So where is the congregation located?

843
00:43:26,771 --> 00:43:42,648
In other words, is that church, okay, as you are working with people, working with people
who believe in God, or do they believe in the Bible, or do they believe in Jesus, find out

844
00:43:42,648 --> 00:43:44,076
where they are on the map.

845
00:43:44,076 --> 00:43:45,306
And that's very important.

846
00:43:45,306 --> 00:43:47,517
That a church finds out where people are located.

847
00:43:47,517 --> 00:43:49,768
And every church is located in a different place.

848
00:43:49,768 --> 00:43:53,649
So when you're in Queens, New York, you have a little bit different clientele.

849
00:43:54,010 --> 00:43:56,931
When you're in New Hampshire, little bit different makeup.

850
00:43:56,931 --> 00:43:58,931
When you're in Austin, Texas, it's different.

851
00:43:58,931 --> 00:44:05,333
John Garza said, Rob, about 25 % of all the Bible studies in Austin, Texas don't use back
to the Bible.

852
00:44:05,333 --> 00:44:07,214
We use believe the Bible.

853
00:44:07,276 --> 00:44:10,049
We have to use a different tool because they don't believe in God.

854
00:44:10,049 --> 00:44:13,033
So I'm going to find out first where he's located.

855
00:44:13,033 --> 00:44:17,226
And so the best way to do that is to have a conversation.

856
00:44:17,226 --> 00:44:21,323
So I'm going to suggest that we've been spending time together.

857
00:44:21,323 --> 00:44:23,925
And we kind of hit it off.

858
00:44:24,807 --> 00:44:27,089
You came and visited one Sunday.

859
00:44:28,130 --> 00:44:41,190
We found out that you were just moving into the area and my family invited you out to eat
and we immediately hit it off at that Memphis barbecue and you enjoyed it and I enjoyed

860
00:44:41,190 --> 00:44:41,233
it.

861
00:44:41,233 --> 00:44:45,928
Then we found out we're both UT fans and we even went to a game.

862
00:44:45,928 --> 00:44:47,999
Let's say we went to a game together.

863
00:44:47,999 --> 00:44:51,701
We watched some football together and we've been.

864
00:44:52,821 --> 00:44:53,382
Who'd we be?

865
00:44:53,382 --> 00:44:54,442
Alabama.

866
00:44:54,574 --> 00:44:55,834
All Alabama.

867
00:44:55,974 --> 00:44:57,114
right.

868
00:44:57,434 --> 00:45:00,174
So any case, sorry brother.

869
00:45:01,154 --> 00:45:04,014
Any case, so we built this little relationship.

870
00:45:04,014 --> 00:45:05,074
Now I always do that.

871
00:45:05,074 --> 00:45:06,814
I'm never gonna rush into a study.

872
00:45:06,814 --> 00:45:09,094
I'm gonna build a little bit of a friendship with people.

873
00:45:09,094 --> 00:45:10,674
I wanna get to know them.

874
00:45:10,774 --> 00:45:16,394
So one of these days, maybe we're just talking one day and say, I tell you what.

875
00:45:17,754 --> 00:45:20,854
What do you think about the Collierville Church of Christ?

876
00:45:20,854 --> 00:45:23,314
You've been visiting, what would you think about the church?

877
00:45:24,446 --> 00:45:30,228
I figured you'd say that because they've sent you cards, they've taken you out to eat,
they're nice hospitable people.

878
00:45:30,228 --> 00:45:31,698
You know, I'm kind of on the inside.

879
00:45:31,698 --> 00:45:33,208
I don't always see clearly.

880
00:45:33,208 --> 00:45:35,529
By the way, do you know a lot about the Call Your Real Church Christ?

881
00:45:35,529 --> 00:45:36,149
I do.

882
00:45:36,149 --> 00:45:37,209
No, you don't.

883
00:45:38,306 --> 00:45:39,300
You just moved here.

884
00:45:39,300 --> 00:45:40,450
You don't know much about it.

885
00:45:40,450 --> 00:45:41,581
Boy, he's going to be tough.

886
00:45:41,581 --> 00:45:43,971
You got to role play with me, okay?

887
00:45:43,971 --> 00:45:45,772
You want me to play you?

888
00:45:45,772 --> 00:45:46,492
Yes, right.

889
00:45:46,492 --> 00:45:47,212
Number three.

890
00:45:47,212 --> 00:45:47,946
Number three.

891
00:45:47,946 --> 00:45:48,779
All right.

892
00:45:48,779 --> 00:45:53,034
Hey, since you've been visiting with us, would you like to know a little bit more about
us?

893
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:53,970
Sure.

894
00:45:53,970 --> 00:45:54,650
Okay.

895
00:45:54,650 --> 00:45:57,261
Hey, my wife, we're smoking a brisket.

896
00:45:57,261 --> 00:45:58,212
It's about ready.

897
00:45:58,212 --> 00:46:00,870
Why you come over tomorrow night and we'll talk about the church.

898
00:46:00,870 --> 00:46:02,633
I don't like Texas barbecue.

899
00:46:02,633 --> 00:46:03,000
That's okay.

900
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,033
It's Memphis version.

901
00:46:04,033 --> 00:46:04,443
Okay.

902
00:46:04,443 --> 00:46:05,270
All right.

903
00:46:05,270 --> 00:46:05,910
All right.

904
00:46:05,910 --> 00:46:07,294
So I told you he's going to be hard.

905
00:46:07,294 --> 00:46:11,276
And so any case, so we're going to, I want to have more of the house.

906
00:46:11,276 --> 00:46:18,118
And as I'm sitting there with him and I, you know, we're just talking, I said, Hey man, I
was thinking,

907
00:46:18,894 --> 00:46:23,046
You know, if I got lost and I was trying to head over to your house and I called you and
say, man, I'm lost.

908
00:46:23,046 --> 00:46:24,621
I don't know how to get there.

909
00:46:24,621 --> 00:46:26,263
And I said, could you give me directions?

910
00:46:26,263 --> 00:46:27,745
Would you help me if I got lost?

911
00:46:27,745 --> 00:46:28,035
Sure.

912
00:46:28,035 --> 00:46:28,586
OK.

913
00:46:28,586 --> 00:46:30,408
What's the first question you'd ask me?

914
00:46:30,408 --> 00:46:31,051
Where are you at?

915
00:46:31,051 --> 00:46:32,069
That's right.

916
00:46:32,550 --> 00:46:35,572
When we study the Bible, it's kind important to know where we're at.

917
00:46:35,572 --> 00:46:40,024
And I think I know the answers to these questions, but I guess we both believe in God.

918
00:46:40,024 --> 00:46:42,295
We've talked about God and we both believe in God.

919
00:46:42,295 --> 00:46:43,095
That's right.

920
00:46:43,095 --> 00:46:45,636
And you said you'd like to read your Bible every day.

921
00:46:45,636 --> 00:46:50,138
So I suspect you believe the Bible is the word of God.

922
00:46:50,138 --> 00:46:53,500
you believe God will do everything he said in this book.

923
00:46:53,740 --> 00:46:56,591
No mistakes, no issues, no conflicts.

924
00:46:56,591 --> 00:46:58,142
You believe in that book.

925
00:46:58,142 --> 00:46:59,343
That's right.

926
00:46:59,343 --> 00:47:02,064
And you said that you believe in Jesus.

927
00:47:02,064 --> 00:47:03,784
You're Jesus is a son of God.

928
00:47:03,784 --> 00:47:07,484
He was born of a virgin and buried and rose the third day.

929
00:47:07,504 --> 00:47:08,044
Yeah, that's right.

930
00:47:08,044 --> 00:47:08,904
Me too.

931
00:47:08,904 --> 00:47:13,024
And I assume we both believe in the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.

932
00:47:13,024 --> 00:47:14,624
We both believe in that.

933
00:47:14,844 --> 00:47:17,144
And I assume we both believe we're saved.

934
00:47:17,144 --> 00:47:19,764
I remember I was 15 years old when I was saved.

935
00:47:19,764 --> 00:47:21,164
Greatest day of my life.

936
00:47:21,164 --> 00:47:23,104
You remember how old you were when you were saved?

937
00:47:23,104 --> 00:47:24,664
Okay, how old were you?

938
00:47:24,664 --> 00:47:25,424
38.

939
00:47:25,424 --> 00:47:27,644
I want you to tell me what you did to be saved.

940
00:47:27,644 --> 00:47:29,504
You mind sharing that with me?

941
00:47:34,118 --> 00:47:38,090
I think I went down to some, I had some service.

942
00:47:38,090 --> 00:47:42,622
went down and then they asked me if I wanted to be saved, I guess.

943
00:47:42,622 --> 00:47:44,463
And I said, I think so.

944
00:47:44,463 --> 00:47:45,093
And what happened?

945
00:47:45,093 --> 00:47:47,364
Tell me about the experience you had up there.

946
00:47:47,364 --> 00:47:48,565
What was it that?

947
00:47:48,565 --> 00:47:49,986
They had me say a prayer.

948
00:47:49,986 --> 00:47:50,906
Say a prayer.

949
00:47:50,906 --> 00:47:52,957
And you said the prayer and you knew you were saved.

950
00:47:52,957 --> 00:47:53,542
I felt it.

951
00:47:53,542 --> 00:47:54,608
You felt, of course.

952
00:47:54,608 --> 00:47:55,708
felt it.

953
00:47:55,708 --> 00:47:59,310
Do y'all vet your members before you let them in at Calgarville?

954
00:47:59,310 --> 00:48:00,310
I mean, I'm just kidding.

955
00:48:00,310 --> 00:48:01,671
All right.

956
00:48:01,671 --> 00:48:04,212
So any case, whatever he says,

957
00:48:04,372 --> 00:48:07,774
You know what you don't see right now is my wife is writing this down.

958
00:48:07,775 --> 00:48:09,786
And she's gonna write down whatever you say.

959
00:48:09,786 --> 00:48:11,357
She's writing it down too.

960
00:48:11,657 --> 00:48:12,918
So they're writing it down.

961
00:48:12,918 --> 00:48:15,730
And so whatever it is that my wife is gonna write this down.

962
00:48:15,730 --> 00:48:17,921
So I'm trying to establish a baseline.

963
00:48:17,921 --> 00:48:19,052
Where am I going with this?

964
00:48:19,052 --> 00:48:21,734
So if he said, you know, I'm not so sure I believe in God.

965
00:48:21,734 --> 00:48:23,825
We're not gonna start with back to the Bible.

966
00:48:24,406 --> 00:48:26,827
But what I found is he's a religious guy.

967
00:48:26,827 --> 00:48:28,488
He's just not been taught properly.

968
00:48:28,488 --> 00:48:30,690
He respects God, the Bible, Jesus.

969
00:48:30,690 --> 00:48:32,471
He just needs a Bible study.

970
00:48:32,471 --> 00:48:33,772
And so I've got all the answers.

971
00:48:33,772 --> 00:48:35,381
And then I'm gonna ask one more thing.

972
00:48:35,381 --> 00:48:37,629
Hey, have you ever been baptized?

973
00:48:38,126 --> 00:48:38,806
Yes.

974
00:48:38,806 --> 00:48:42,206
And how long was it after you were saved that you were baptized?

975
00:48:42,206 --> 00:48:43,046
About three weeks.

976
00:48:43,046 --> 00:48:44,286
Three weeks, about three weeks.

977
00:48:44,286 --> 00:48:45,786
I'm gonna get that recorded.

978
00:48:45,786 --> 00:48:47,346
I got everything I need.

979
00:48:47,346 --> 00:48:49,886
I'm gonna make sure I get this information.

980
00:48:49,886 --> 00:48:56,206
And here's the difference between Robin Nicole today and Robin Nicole in 2016.

981
00:48:56,206 --> 00:48:57,586
Here's the big difference.

982
00:48:57,666 --> 00:49:05,046
In 2016, I'd have taken that sheet on page 102, I'd have photocopied it and I'd given it
to him and I said, fill this out.

983
00:49:05,270 --> 00:49:06,150
It's awkward.

984
00:49:06,150 --> 00:49:07,371
It's very awkward.

985
00:49:07,371 --> 00:49:11,793
And he's gonna feel like he's taking a test and I'm evaluating him.

986
00:49:11,813 --> 00:49:19,817
Now the Rob of today has realized that if I just have a conversation with him about those
questions and my wife writes down the answers, we're just as good.

987
00:49:19,817 --> 00:49:21,317
And he's not uncomfortable.

988
00:49:21,317 --> 00:49:31,582
And in fact, it's kind of like I shared a little bit about my life, he shared some about
his life, and now I've got the answers I needed, because I need to know where he's at.

989
00:49:31,582 --> 00:49:33,453
We can progress into back to the Bible.

990
00:49:33,453 --> 00:49:35,184
So my suggestion is,

991
00:49:35,184 --> 00:49:37,364
a conversation, don't test them.

992
00:49:37,364 --> 00:49:38,484
That's my suggestion.

993
00:49:38,484 --> 00:49:39,824
Alright, let's go back to the Bible.

994
00:49:39,824 --> 00:49:45,984
Green Booklet, and we'll go to page number one, and we're gonna take our Bibles to John
chapter eight, verse 32.

995
00:49:45,984 --> 00:49:56,004
I'm always gonna have him read the passage, and sometimes I'll ask the question and let
him answer.

996
00:49:56,004 --> 00:49:58,484
So go ahead and read that passage, brother.

997
00:49:59,284 --> 00:50:01,024
Yes sir, if you would.

998
00:50:04,846 --> 00:50:07,446
Okay, Jesus says the blank will make you free.

999
00:50:07,446 --> 00:50:08,466
What is it?

1000
00:50:08,466 --> 00:50:08,905
The truth.

1001
00:50:08,905 --> 00:50:09,306
True.

1002
00:50:09,306 --> 00:50:10,206
Really easy.

1003
00:50:10,206 --> 00:50:11,706
How many of you can do that?

1004
00:50:11,706 --> 00:50:13,385
Raise your hand if you can do that.

1005
00:50:13,506 --> 00:50:15,106
There's a few of you who are a little slower.

1006
00:50:15,106 --> 00:50:15,686
It's okay.

1007
00:50:15,686 --> 00:50:16,546
We'll do another one.

1008
00:50:16,546 --> 00:50:16,826
All right.

1009
00:50:16,826 --> 00:50:17,706
It's not hard.

1010
00:50:17,706 --> 00:50:18,746
This is real simple stuff.

1011
00:50:18,746 --> 00:50:20,366
go to John 424.

1012
00:50:20,366 --> 00:50:20,866
It's okay.

1013
00:50:20,866 --> 00:50:21,366
We're going to go.

1014
00:50:21,366 --> 00:50:22,966
I'm going to get everybody's hand up.

1015
00:50:22,966 --> 00:50:24,266
John 424.

1016
00:50:24,266 --> 00:50:25,286
So read that for me.

1017
00:50:25,286 --> 00:50:26,986
John 424.

1018
00:50:27,366 --> 00:50:30,342
God is spirit and those who worship me are most

1019
00:50:31,470 --> 00:50:35,152
Okay, God says we must worship him in spirit and in?

1020
00:50:35,153 --> 00:50:35,542
True.

1021
00:50:35,542 --> 00:50:36,493
How many of you can do that?

1022
00:50:36,493 --> 00:50:37,044
Raise your hand.

1023
00:50:37,044 --> 00:50:38,594
It's unanimous.

1024
00:50:38,835 --> 00:50:40,436
So that's as hard as it gets.

1025
00:50:40,436 --> 00:50:45,580
All you're doing is asking a question and you're filling in the word based upon what the
study says.

1026
00:50:45,580 --> 00:50:53,805
If you want a visual of back to the Bible, book one, take your evangelism simplified
guidebook, go to page 66, chart two, that's your visual.

1027
00:50:53,805 --> 00:50:55,246
I love visuals.

1028
00:50:55,446 --> 00:50:58,208
Most of those visuals I don't use in a Bible study.

1029
00:50:58,208 --> 00:50:59,249
It's a safety net.

1030
00:50:59,249 --> 00:51:01,004
If I need them, I'll pull them out.

1031
00:51:01,004 --> 00:51:02,135
I hope I don't need them.

1032
00:51:02,135 --> 00:51:04,966
normally don't, but if I do, I've got them.

1033
00:51:04,966 --> 00:51:06,457
That's why they're called a safety net.

1034
00:51:06,457 --> 00:51:08,838
A trapeze artist needs a safety net.

1035
00:51:08,838 --> 00:51:11,509
You hope they don't need it, but if they do, you're glad it's there.

1036
00:51:11,509 --> 00:51:12,456
All right.

1037
00:51:12,456 --> 00:51:15,841
So this is one of my just simple illustrations.

1038
00:51:15,841 --> 00:51:18,342
So what is he going to learn in book one?

1039
00:51:18,342 --> 00:51:25,686
He's going to learn that all the truth starts with God the father and the father gave all
that truth to the son and his son gave all that truth to the Holy spirit.

1040
00:51:25,686 --> 00:51:28,727
The Holy spirit took all that truth, inspired the apostles.

1041
00:51:28,727 --> 00:51:30,928
The apostles took all that truth, wrote it down in the

1042
00:51:30,928 --> 00:51:31,668
Bible.

1043
00:51:31,668 --> 00:51:34,408
We're under the New Testament and not the Old Testament.

1044
00:51:34,408 --> 00:51:37,068
That is the name of Jesus Christ.

1045
00:51:37,068 --> 00:51:38,088
That's book one.

1046
00:51:38,088 --> 00:51:38,908
It's not hard.

1047
00:51:38,908 --> 00:51:40,028
It's real simple.

1048
00:51:40,028 --> 00:51:44,168
But it's important because it's the foundation of everything else he's going to learn.

1049
00:51:44,168 --> 00:51:50,568
So in book number one, we're going to learn some fundamental truths that we're under the
New Testament, not the Old Testament.

1050
00:51:50,568 --> 00:51:51,308
That's book one.

1051
00:51:51,308 --> 00:51:52,668
Let's go to book number two.

1052
00:51:52,668 --> 00:51:53,028
All right.

1053
00:51:53,028 --> 00:51:54,248
Book number two.

1054
00:51:54,248 --> 00:51:55,628
Let's go to page five.

1055
00:51:55,628 --> 00:52:00,848
I'm just going to demonstrate just a very few examples of why Bible

1056
00:52:00,848 --> 00:52:02,509
Bible studies are important.

1057
00:52:02,509 --> 00:52:07,492
Now notice the Great Commission did not say go ye therefore and read the Bible, did it?

1058
00:52:07,953 --> 00:52:10,375
It didn't say go ye therefore and read the book of Acts.

1059
00:52:10,375 --> 00:52:12,887
So I've asked what's your strategy for a Bible study?

1060
00:52:12,887 --> 00:52:14,568
Why just tell me to read the book of Acts?

1061
00:52:14,568 --> 00:52:16,789
That's not what Philip did.

1062
00:52:16,789 --> 00:52:20,141
He didn't say go read the book of Acts.

1063
00:52:20,162 --> 00:52:22,513
So a Bible study is not just reading your Bible.

1064
00:52:22,513 --> 00:52:26,414
How can I accept some man guide me?

1065
00:52:26,414 --> 00:52:29,974
So your goal is, you're a teacher, you're a guide, that's your job.

1066
00:52:29,974 --> 00:52:31,334
And so how do we guide people?

1067
00:52:31,334 --> 00:52:32,454
You need a tool.

1068
00:52:32,454 --> 00:52:35,774
So the Great Commission says, go either for and teach.

1069
00:52:35,834 --> 00:52:38,894
So the gospel is a teaching gospel, and that's what we're trying to do.

1070
00:52:38,894 --> 00:52:41,894
We're trying to boil it down to some fundamentals.

1071
00:52:41,914 --> 00:52:47,586
And so this study is designed to guide you, to outline you, to provide a simple.

1072
00:52:47,586 --> 00:52:55,608
systematic approach for the student and to keep the teacher on point so the teacher
doesn't chase rabbits.

1073
00:52:55,608 --> 00:52:57,439
And back to the Bible is excellent.

1074
00:52:57,439 --> 00:53:01,130
Let's go to page five, Acts 20, verse seven.

1075
00:53:01,850 --> 00:53:06,951
Hey, I'm gonna ask you for some allowance here.

1076
00:53:07,251 --> 00:53:08,912
I know you've been reading these passages.

1077
00:53:08,912 --> 00:53:11,312
Would you let me read Acts 20, verse seven?

1078
00:53:11,533 --> 00:53:13,379
Okay, here's the reason I wanna do it.

1079
00:53:13,379 --> 00:53:14,593
Acts 20, verse seven.

1080
00:53:14,593 --> 00:53:16,374
And I do this in every study.

1081
00:53:16,778 --> 00:53:19,763
If I mess it up, if I misquote it, would you stop me?

1082
00:53:19,763 --> 00:53:21,705
Would you say, hey, that's not what it says?

1083
00:53:21,986 --> 00:53:23,308
Yeah, what are you quoting from?

1084
00:53:23,308 --> 00:53:24,269
OK.

1085
00:53:24,269 --> 00:53:25,084
Acts 20, verse 7.

1086
00:53:25,084 --> 00:53:26,313
You'll see, it's very clear.

1087
00:53:26,313 --> 00:53:27,334
You cannot miss it.

1088
00:53:27,334 --> 00:53:28,078
Verse 7.

1089
00:53:28,078 --> 00:53:28,896
All right.

1090
00:53:28,896 --> 00:53:30,499
So I'm going to start it.

1091
00:53:30,499 --> 00:53:32,581
And if I misquote it, if I

1092
00:53:32,942 --> 00:53:35,862
If I read it wrong, I want you to stop me.

1093
00:53:35,862 --> 00:53:36,782
You ready?

1094
00:53:36,982 --> 00:53:41,682
Upon the last day of the week when the disciples came together.

1095
00:53:41,682 --> 00:53:43,162
You gonna stop me?

1096
00:53:43,162 --> 00:53:45,022
Okay, let's try that again.

1097
00:53:45,282 --> 00:53:47,282
Upon the last day.

1098
00:53:47,282 --> 00:53:48,122
It says first.

1099
00:53:48,122 --> 00:53:49,562
It says first, okay.

1100
00:53:49,562 --> 00:53:50,862
So I'm always gonna misquote it.

1101
00:53:50,862 --> 00:53:52,602
This is one of the techniques that I use.

1102
00:53:52,602 --> 00:53:54,142
I always misquote.

1103
00:53:54,142 --> 00:53:56,682
Upon the last day of the week when the disciples.

1104
00:53:56,682 --> 00:53:57,582
So here it is.

1105
00:53:57,582 --> 00:54:01,262
the first month of the.

1106
00:54:01,410 --> 00:54:01,872
week.

1107
00:54:01,872 --> 00:54:03,267
This is last first day of the week.

1108
00:54:03,267 --> 00:54:04,531
First day I said month, didn't I?

1109
00:54:04,531 --> 00:54:04,772
Yeah.

1110
00:54:04,772 --> 00:54:05,565
Okay.

1111
00:54:05,565 --> 00:54:06,787
Try this again.

1112
00:54:09,675 --> 00:54:12,787
On the first day of the year when the disciples came to...

1113
00:54:12,787 --> 00:54:14,017
What's wrong with that?

1114
00:54:14,017 --> 00:54:15,958
It's the first day of the week.

1115
00:54:15,958 --> 00:54:16,378
The week.

1116
00:54:16,378 --> 00:54:17,319
What did I say?

1117
00:54:17,319 --> 00:54:17,819
Year.

1118
00:54:17,819 --> 00:54:18,319
Year.

1119
00:54:18,319 --> 00:54:19,430
I'm going to get it eventually.

1120
00:54:19,430 --> 00:54:20,190
All right.

1121
00:54:20,190 --> 00:54:21,041
Here it is.

1122
00:54:21,041 --> 00:54:23,908
Quarterly, the disciples came together to break bread.

1123
00:54:23,908 --> 00:54:27,344
The first day of the I know it's exciting, isn't it?

1124
00:54:27,344 --> 00:54:31,285
Monthly, the disciples came together to break bread.

1125
00:54:31,285 --> 00:54:33,646
On Christmas, the disciples came together to break bread.

1126
00:54:33,646 --> 00:54:35,487
On Easter, the disciples came to...

1127
00:54:35,487 --> 00:54:37,008
Every other month, the disciples...

1128
00:54:37,008 --> 00:54:45,263
He would come every time then too, but it's still the first day of the I knew he was going
to be a lot of fun.

1129
00:54:45,263 --> 00:54:48,965
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to read it wrong every time.

1130
00:54:48,965 --> 00:54:50,422
Why am I doing that, everybody?

1131
00:54:50,422 --> 00:54:51,987
To get him a seat.

1132
00:54:51,987 --> 00:54:53,178
OK, that's right.

1133
00:54:53,558 --> 00:54:55,619
And we call that self-conviction.

1134
00:54:56,240 --> 00:54:57,330
He's convicting himself.

1135
00:54:57,330 --> 00:54:58,101
You know why?

1136
00:54:58,101 --> 00:55:01,923
Because somewhere in that answer is what he's been doing all his life.

1137
00:55:02,784 --> 00:55:03,814
I didn't call him out.

1138
00:55:03,814 --> 00:55:04,935
I didn't tell him he's wrong.

1139
00:55:04,935 --> 00:55:06,666
He told me he was wrong.

1140
00:55:07,054 --> 00:55:08,134
He said, no, that's not right.

1141
00:55:08,134 --> 00:55:09,194
It's not monthly.

1142
00:55:09,574 --> 00:55:12,254
Now, I didn't have to ask him how you did it growing up.

1143
00:55:12,254 --> 00:55:13,314
He said, it's not right.

1144
00:55:13,314 --> 00:55:14,334
It's not quarterly.

1145
00:55:14,334 --> 00:55:15,714
It's not every other month.

1146
00:55:15,714 --> 00:55:17,174
It's his first day of the week.

1147
00:55:17,174 --> 00:55:19,214
OK, that's what you think.

1148
00:55:19,354 --> 00:55:23,094
So what I do is I'm going to let him correct himself.

1149
00:55:23,094 --> 00:55:24,234
It's called self-correction.

1150
00:55:24,234 --> 00:55:26,734
It's the most powerful form of correction.

1151
00:55:27,174 --> 00:55:29,774
When someone realizes and reasons through it.

1152
00:55:29,774 --> 00:55:30,166
Now,

1153
00:55:30,166 --> 00:55:31,427
We're going to read it correctly now.

1154
00:55:31,427 --> 00:55:35,650
Upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread.

1155
00:55:35,650 --> 00:55:36,751
Now here's your questions.

1156
00:55:36,751 --> 00:55:43,877
When God told the Israelites in Exodus chapter 20 verse 8 to remember the Sabbath, did he
mean for them to keep every Sabbath?

1157
00:55:44,738 --> 00:55:45,278
Yes.

1158
00:55:45,278 --> 00:55:47,339
What happens if they skip the Sabbath?

1159
00:55:48,061 --> 00:55:54,436
What happens if a man said, you know there was a bad storm last night and there's a bunch
of sticks in my yard and I'm just going to pick up the sticks.

1160
00:55:54,436 --> 00:55:58,589
after all, Moses didn't say you got to observe every Sabbath.

1161
00:55:58,689 --> 00:56:00,220
What would happen to that man?

1162
00:56:00,704 --> 00:56:01,794
Anybody know?

1163
00:56:02,815 --> 00:56:03,856
Are you sure?

1164
00:56:03,856 --> 00:56:05,207
That's exactly what happened to him.

1165
00:56:05,207 --> 00:56:07,498
He was stoned because we have an example of that.

1166
00:56:07,498 --> 00:56:11,300
What if we went to Moses and it doesn't say every Sabbath?

1167
00:56:11,961 --> 00:56:15,703
Moses says, remember the Sabbath and you skipped one.

1168
00:56:16,744 --> 00:56:20,566
It's interesting how we can understand it in the Sabbath.

1169
00:56:20,927 --> 00:56:24,174
I wonder if we can understand it in Acts 20 verse 7.

1170
00:56:24,669 --> 00:56:26,606
No one seemed to get confused.

1171
00:56:26,606 --> 00:56:27,786
Let's keep going.

1172
00:56:28,186 --> 00:56:30,226
We're gonna ask again questions, this is how you teach.

1173
00:56:30,226 --> 00:56:31,466
So we're just gonna keep asking questions.

1174
00:56:31,466 --> 00:56:32,266
Here we go.

1175
00:56:32,266 --> 00:56:37,946
When those Christians met upon the first day of the week to eat the Lord's Supper, did
they do it on the first day of each week?

1176
00:56:38,506 --> 00:56:39,406
Yes.

1177
00:56:39,986 --> 00:56:43,206
So Christians did they eat the Lord's Supper on the first day of the week?

1178
00:56:43,206 --> 00:56:44,646
Should we do that too?

1179
00:56:44,646 --> 00:56:45,366
Yes.

1180
00:56:45,366 --> 00:56:46,126
Okay.

1181
00:56:46,126 --> 00:56:50,046
So I'm just building slowly truths.

1182
00:56:50,188 --> 00:56:53,179
All right, now what we need is to establish contrast.

1183
00:56:53,179 --> 00:56:58,922
If you want a conversion, you got to establish contrast, not camouflage, but contrasts.

1184
00:56:58,922 --> 00:57:05,165
Contrasts are very important because contrasts are the reason why you have conversions.

1185
00:57:05,165 --> 00:57:09,247
If you don't have a contrast, you don't have conversion, why convert if there's no
difference?

1186
00:57:09,247 --> 00:57:19,402
So we have to build in those contrasts so he sees a difference between what he's been
doing, you know, throughout his life in the religious world, what the Bible says, and this

1187
00:57:19,402 --> 00:57:20,253
is a big one.

1188
00:57:20,253 --> 00:57:21,619
This is the Lord's Supper.

1189
00:57:21,619 --> 00:57:25,333
And if you can't get the Lord's Supper right, I wonder what else you got wrong.

1190
00:57:26,862 --> 00:57:29,062
You know, the Lord's Supper is a pretty big point.

1191
00:57:29,102 --> 00:57:32,822
If you can't get it right there, there may be some other points where you don't get it
right.

1192
00:57:32,822 --> 00:57:34,002
But we're not done.

1193
00:57:34,002 --> 00:57:36,062
I want you to go to 1 Corinthians 16, 1 and 2.

1194
00:57:36,062 --> 00:57:37,042
Everybody go there.

1195
00:57:37,042 --> 00:57:42,822
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I've given order to the churches of
Galatia, even so do ye.

1196
00:57:42,822 --> 00:57:49,282
Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you live by his door, as God has
prospered, that there be no gatherings when I come.

1197
00:57:49,362 --> 00:57:52,762
Now, what are we talking about in 1 Corinthians 16?

1198
00:57:52,762 --> 00:57:54,362
What's the subject matter?

1199
00:57:55,438 --> 00:58:05,338
You know what the subject matter I'll read the passage now concerning the collection for
the saints as I've given an order to the churches of Galatia even so to ye upon the first

1200
00:58:05,338 --> 00:58:15,978
day of the week let every one of you laid by in store as God has prospered there be no
gatherings when I come what's the subject what are we talking about our means our means

1201
00:58:15,978 --> 00:58:17,196
we're talking about

1202
00:58:17,196 --> 00:58:18,508
giving, right?

1203
00:58:18,508 --> 00:58:21,554
So by the way, you said you've gone to church all your life.

1204
00:58:21,554 --> 00:58:25,800
When you go to these churches, you know, did they ever pass the plate and ask for money?

1205
00:58:25,881 --> 00:58:27,222
Okay, they do.

1206
00:58:27,223 --> 00:58:28,885
And what day do they do that?

1207
00:58:29,687 --> 00:58:31,662
What day do they ask for the money?

1208
00:58:31,662 --> 00:58:33,962
Every Sunday?

1209
00:58:33,962 --> 00:58:34,482
Okay.

1210
00:58:34,482 --> 00:58:39,582
And have you ever gone to one of these churches that skipped a Sunday that said, you know,
we're just not going to pass the plate today?

1211
00:58:39,701 --> 00:58:43,882
So when it comes to the collection, they always pass the plate.

1212
00:58:43,882 --> 00:58:47,382
And if you were to ask the preacher, well, preacher, why would we pass the plate on the
first day of the week?

1213
00:58:47,382 --> 00:58:52,582
Well, they might say because in first Corinthians chapter 16, it says, you know, upon the
first day of the week.

1214
00:58:52,582 --> 00:58:54,182
And they not cook the scriptures.

1215
00:58:54,182 --> 00:58:59,022
So you're telling me in all the years you've been going to church, you've never seen a
church skip a Sunday.

1216
00:58:59,022 --> 00:59:01,326
They always pass the plate for the money.

1217
00:59:01,326 --> 00:59:08,326
So when it comes to taking your money, they always get it right.

1218
00:59:10,072 --> 00:59:16,287
But when it comes to memorializing the Son of God and taking the Lord's Supper, same
language.

1219
00:59:17,108 --> 00:59:18,249
First day of the week.

1220
00:59:18,249 --> 00:59:19,750
They get confused.

1221
00:59:20,391 --> 00:59:25,205
Why is it that they don't, why is it that they skip the Lord's Supper but not the money?

1222
00:59:25,205 --> 00:59:26,206
Let me be very clear.

1223
00:59:26,206 --> 00:59:29,918
When it comes to taking your money, they will never misunderstand the scripture.

1224
00:59:30,159 --> 00:59:31,780
They'll always get it right.

1225
00:59:32,361 --> 00:59:36,384
But when it comes to memorializing the Son of God, we get confused.

1226
00:59:36,644 --> 00:59:39,046
I just don't know if I can understand that or not.

1227
00:59:39,778 --> 00:59:40,818
That's got a contrast.

1228
00:59:40,818 --> 00:59:42,200
It's huge.

1229
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:44,262
And Bobby makes it very clear in this booklet.

1230
00:59:44,262 --> 00:59:45,193
Let's look at that question.

1231
00:59:45,193 --> 00:59:47,825
Is it God's will that we give as we've been prospered?

1232
00:59:48,126 --> 00:59:48,567
Yes.

1233
00:59:48,567 --> 00:59:48,937
OK.

1234
00:59:48,937 --> 00:59:52,714
And should we make a contribution on the same day we're to partake of the Lord's Supper?

1235
00:59:52,714 --> 00:59:53,408
That's what it says.

1236
00:59:53,408 --> 00:59:54,652
That's what it says.

1237
00:59:55,173 --> 00:59:56,894
You know what he's going to do with that?

1238
00:59:57,415 --> 00:59:59,056
He's going to wrestle with it.

1239
00:59:59,277 --> 01:00:00,642
He's going to go home.

1240
01:00:00,642 --> 01:00:09,347
He's gonna try to sleep and as he's sleeping, he can't sleep because he can't rectify what
he just read because his church doesn't do that.

1241
01:00:09,347 --> 01:00:16,720
He's trying to figure out why my pastor just does it once a quarter when the Bible says on
the first day of the week and he's gonna say, pastor, pastor, why don't we take the Lord's

1242
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:17,671
Supper every Sunday?

1243
01:00:17,671 --> 01:00:20,692
Well, you know, if you take it every Sunday, it doesn't mean as much.

1244
01:00:21,773 --> 01:00:23,794
You know, they don't say that about the money.

1245
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,212
When's the last time you told your wife you loved her?

1246
01:00:28,212 --> 01:00:29,193
Today?

1247
01:00:30,675 --> 01:00:34,898
How about if he didn't tell you he loved you for a whole year?

1248
01:00:35,119 --> 01:00:37,761
And you say, honey, are you ever going to tell me you love me?

1249
01:00:37,761 --> 01:00:41,724
Honey, if I just do it once a year, it means more.

1250
01:00:42,085 --> 01:00:44,107
You think that would work in your marriage?

1251
01:00:45,228 --> 01:00:48,791
Isn't it interesting how people get confused in religion?

1252
01:00:48,952 --> 01:00:51,594
Those arguments just don't make any sense, do they?

1253
01:00:51,724 --> 01:00:55,499
But people are trying to figure, why aren't we doing the Lord's Supper like we're supposed
to?

1254
01:00:55,499 --> 01:00:58,061
Because it says on the first day of the week.

1255
01:00:58,843 --> 01:01:01,005
Moses didn't get confused.

1256
01:01:01,390 --> 01:01:02,890
We shouldn't either.

1257
01:01:02,910 --> 01:01:03,830
We're going take a little break.

1258
01:01:03,830 --> 01:01:05,210
I'm going to put you back in the hot seat.

1259
01:01:05,210 --> 01:01:06,450
You're too much fun.

1260
01:01:06,450 --> 01:01:07,730
Will you come back after the break?

1261
01:01:07,730 --> 01:01:08,430
Five minutes?

1262
01:01:08,430 --> 01:01:08,970
OK.

1263
01:01:08,970 --> 01:01:09,591
We're not done.

1264
01:01:09,591 --> 01:01:12,771
Aaron, did you ever find it?

1265
01:01:12,771 --> 01:01:13,411
OK.

1266
01:01:13,411 --> 01:01:14,471
OK.

1267
01:01:14,671 --> 01:01:15,791
Let's go ahead and get started.

1268
01:01:15,791 --> 01:01:19,691
If I could have everybody come back into the auditorium.

1269
01:01:24,311 --> 01:01:37,631
Michael and I have had a little fun this evening and we're going to spend about 10-15
minutes and finish this lesson and move to lesson five.

1270
01:01:37,791 --> 01:01:41,791
If you have your red booklet, open your back of the Bibles.

1271
01:01:43,671 --> 01:01:46,331
Eric, could you advance the screen wake it up for me?

1272
01:01:46,331 --> 01:01:47,811
We'll go ahead and...

1273
01:01:47,811 --> 01:01:48,871
There you go.

1274
01:01:48,991 --> 01:01:50,011
right.

1275
01:01:51,851 --> 01:01:53,971
One of the important...

1276
01:01:55,133 --> 01:02:01,163
considerations in a Bible study is the the fact that although Michael and

1277
01:02:01,163 --> 01:02:05,585
have done these studies and he's realized that there are differences.

1278
01:02:05,645 --> 01:02:08,707
are truths that he did not know.

1279
01:02:08,767 --> 01:02:10,518
He didn't know when to take the Lord's Supper.

1280
01:02:10,518 --> 01:02:12,609
He didn't know how the church was organized.

1281
01:02:12,609 --> 01:02:14,430
couldn't even find his church in the Bible.

1282
01:02:14,430 --> 01:02:16,303
He read about the Church of Christ.

1283
01:02:16,303 --> 01:02:18,052
He learned about worship.

1284
01:02:18,052 --> 01:02:20,373
He didn't realize he was just supposed to sing.

1285
01:02:20,373 --> 01:02:25,619
He didn't understand elders and deacons and the qualifications of elders and deacons.

1286
01:02:25,619 --> 01:02:27,397
There's a lot of differences.

1287
01:02:27,397 --> 01:02:29,759
He didn't understand the Old and New Testament.

1288
01:02:29,759 --> 01:02:30,807
Although,

1289
01:02:30,807 --> 01:02:36,247
Michael has learned all of these truths, Michael still thinks he saved.

1290
01:02:36,247 --> 01:02:37,587
That's important.

1291
01:02:37,667 --> 01:02:43,547
All right, so it's important to understand the psychology or the makeup of the prospect.

1292
01:02:43,547 --> 01:02:52,747
And it's taken me years to come to an understanding that when I'm in a Bible study, just
because they realize they were wrong about the Lord's Supper doesn't mean they realize

1293
01:02:52,747 --> 01:02:53,827
they're lost.

1294
01:02:53,983 --> 01:02:58,205
It just means I was wrong about the Lord's Supper, but I've said the prayer, so I'm saved.

1295
01:02:58,205 --> 01:03:01,967
So we can all disagree on the Lord's Supper, but we can all go to heaven.

1296
01:03:01,967 --> 01:03:04,669
And so we can all disagree about elders, we can all go to heaven.

1297
01:03:04,669 --> 01:03:07,070
We can disagree about deacons, we can all go to heaven.

1298
01:03:07,070 --> 01:03:08,887
We can disagree about the...

1299
01:03:08,887 --> 01:03:11,987
you know, all these other issues, but we can go to heaven.

1300
01:03:11,987 --> 01:03:17,927
The issue is that in order for Michael to become a Christian, Michael has to know he's
lost.

1301
01:03:17,927 --> 01:03:19,567
Michael thinks he's saved.

1302
01:03:19,567 --> 01:03:22,327
So I've got to get Michael to a point where says, I'm lost.

1303
01:03:22,327 --> 01:03:24,807
Now, in order for that to happen,

1304
01:03:24,807 --> 01:03:25,808
All right?

1305
01:03:25,808 --> 01:03:27,488
I'm going to need help.

1306
01:03:27,488 --> 01:03:30,550
Because if I looked at Michael and said, you know you're going to hell, don't you?

1307
01:03:30,550 --> 01:03:33,241
Well, that's the end of that study, right?

1308
01:03:33,241 --> 01:03:36,533
That's not a strategy for success.

1309
01:03:36,533 --> 01:03:40,334
So there's a book, and it's titled How to Close the Study.

1310
01:03:40,334 --> 01:03:48,388
And it gives you suggestions on how to bring people across the finish line, how to get
them to make that final decision.

1311
01:03:48,388 --> 01:03:49,132
All right.

1312
01:03:49,132 --> 01:03:54,241
One of the keys to a successful close is to anticipate objections.

1313
01:03:54,751 --> 01:03:56,402
the objection before they do.

1314
01:03:56,402 --> 01:03:58,624
Let me give you an example.

1315
01:03:58,624 --> 01:04:08,300
So if I was trying to sell a house and maybe I'm a real estate agent and I know this house
has some deficiencies, some things that you're not going to care for, what am I going to

1316
01:04:08,300 --> 01:04:08,931
do?

1317
01:04:08,931 --> 01:04:15,755
I want to point those out immediately as you walk onto the property.

1318
01:04:15,855 --> 01:04:17,336
And I'm going to frame them.

1319
01:04:17,376 --> 01:04:20,458
And I'm going to try to get you over those humps.

1320
01:04:20,458 --> 01:04:24,601
If you're trying to go buy a car, and the car

1321
01:04:24,601 --> 01:04:33,421
He either knows that the price tag of $56,000 is out of sight and most people are going to
be scared away.

1322
01:04:33,421 --> 01:04:34,901
He's going to frame that.

1323
01:04:34,901 --> 01:04:38,501
He's going to frame it in such a way that it doesn't run you off.

1324
01:04:38,501 --> 01:04:40,581
And I'm sure the plumber does the same thing.

1325
01:04:40,581 --> 01:04:45,461
When the plumber comes to the door, and this is a good example, you're going to frame the
injection.

1326
01:04:45,461 --> 01:04:47,481
You're going to handle it yourself.

1327
01:04:47,481 --> 01:04:51,461
You're not going to wait for them to come at you because then you're defensive.

1328
01:04:51,461 --> 01:04:54,281
You're going to prepare them for it.

1329
01:04:54,583 --> 01:04:56,223
Everybody does this.

1330
01:04:56,223 --> 01:04:58,043
The Navy recruiter does it.

1331
01:04:58,043 --> 01:05:00,163
Hey, $20,000 signing bonus.

1332
01:05:00,163 --> 01:05:02,823
Okay, the Navy recruiter knows how to frame the argument, all right?

1333
01:05:02,823 --> 01:05:04,623
He knows that, hey, you're going to see the world.

1334
01:05:04,623 --> 01:05:09,243
You know, you're going to be operating, you know, know, $10 million equipment.

1335
01:05:09,243 --> 01:05:09,883
You know what mean?

1336
01:05:09,883 --> 01:05:12,203
I mean, he knows how to do it, okay?

1337
01:05:12,203 --> 01:05:14,883
So here's what I'm trying to suggest.

1338
01:05:14,903 --> 01:05:18,383
We know there are landmines in Bible studies.

1339
01:05:18,383 --> 01:05:19,663
We know there are objections.

1340
01:05:19,663 --> 01:05:22,703
We know there's going to be issues that are going to have to work past.

1341
01:05:23,023 --> 01:05:24,537
The question is how do

1342
01:05:24,537 --> 01:05:26,177
you get past them.

1343
01:05:26,177 --> 01:05:36,237
Now either you have to rely upon your experience, your wisdom, your intellect, your study,
which we're going to eliminate just about every church member.

1344
01:05:36,237 --> 01:05:39,217
We're going to scare them and they'll say I don't know how to do that.

1345
01:05:39,217 --> 01:05:41,737
Or we use an organized method.

1346
01:05:42,297 --> 01:05:45,037
Back to the Bible anticipates all the objections.

1347
01:05:45,217 --> 01:05:49,189
There's hardly an objection they can raise that will not be dealt with in the Bible study.

1348
01:05:49,189 --> 01:05:50,830
And that's why we do Bible studies.

1349
01:05:50,830 --> 01:05:54,651
We use a method because it helps us get through those objections.

1350
01:05:54,651 --> 01:05:58,230
And so whether it's sprinkling, as he brought up, it's in back to the Bible.

1351
01:05:58,230 --> 01:05:59,033
We're going to frame it.

1352
01:05:59,033 --> 01:05:59,810
We're going to bring it up.

1353
01:05:59,810 --> 01:06:00,854
We're going to answer it.

1354
01:06:00,854 --> 01:06:05,076
So when it comes down to time for gospel obedience, it's no longer an issue.

1355
01:06:05,076 --> 01:06:06,597
We've already dealt with that.

1356
01:06:06,777 --> 01:06:10,039
So whatever it is, we're going to deal with it in the booklet.

1357
01:06:10,039 --> 01:06:11,419
So that's why you need the book.

1358
01:06:11,419 --> 01:06:13,300
Who needs a Bible study?

1359
01:06:13,300 --> 01:06:15,171
He needs a Bible study because it makes it

1360
01:06:15,171 --> 01:06:15,841
Simple.

1361
01:06:15,841 --> 01:06:17,991
He needs the Bible study because it's organized.

1362
01:06:17,991 --> 01:06:19,043
It's systematic.

1363
01:06:19,043 --> 01:06:20,734
It anticipates objections.

1364
01:06:20,734 --> 01:06:21,634
You know who else needs it?

1365
01:06:21,634 --> 01:06:22,524
I do.

1366
01:06:22,865 --> 01:06:24,645
So I don't overteach.

1367
01:06:25,206 --> 01:06:26,507
I don't over talk.

1368
01:06:26,507 --> 01:06:29,508
I don't insert things that are not needed.

1369
01:06:29,668 --> 01:06:32,690
And so I don't have to be the intellectual giant.

1370
01:06:32,690 --> 01:06:35,251
All I've got to do is read my Bible.

1371
01:06:35,251 --> 01:06:40,713
And so Bible studies are designed to help the average person bring people to Christ.

1372
01:06:42,201 --> 01:06:43,895
Let's go to page number nine.

1373
01:06:44,213 --> 01:06:45,304
And go to page nine.

1374
01:06:45,304 --> 01:06:49,976
On page nine, we're going to look at the first close.

1375
01:06:49,976 --> 01:06:52,367
Back in the Bible, it's four invitation songs.

1376
01:06:52,367 --> 01:06:53,667
This is number one.

1377
01:06:53,667 --> 01:06:54,938
And so this is the close.

1378
01:06:54,938 --> 01:06:57,189
And we're going to try to bring them to the cross.

1379
01:06:57,189 --> 01:06:59,296
We're going to use Romans 6, 3 through 5.

1380
01:06:59,296 --> 01:07:01,231
So I want to talk about the gospel.

1381
01:07:01,231 --> 01:07:02,832
Jesus died for our sins.

1382
01:07:02,832 --> 01:07:03,882
Jesus was buried.

1383
01:07:03,882 --> 01:07:04,933
Jesus rose again.

1384
01:07:04,933 --> 01:07:06,413
I'm going to show him this picture.

1385
01:07:06,413 --> 01:07:07,904
So on the screen, you'll see a picture.

1386
01:07:07,904 --> 01:07:09,455
You can see it there on the monitor.

1387
01:07:09,455 --> 01:07:11,766
And it's a beautiful picture.

1388
01:07:11,766 --> 01:07:14,237
It's a picture of Jesus dying on the cross and being buried.

1389
01:07:14,237 --> 01:07:16,778
in his ascension on the third day.

1390
01:07:16,778 --> 01:07:17,818
That's important.

1391
01:07:17,818 --> 01:07:21,450
So we're going to focus on the gospel.

1392
01:07:21,450 --> 01:07:21,960
Why?

1393
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:23,641
Why do we want to focus on the gospel?

1394
01:07:23,641 --> 01:07:25,561
Because the gospel is what?

1395
01:07:26,041 --> 01:07:27,622
It's a power of God to save.

1396
01:07:27,622 --> 01:07:29,943
So let's use the power of God.

1397
01:07:29,943 --> 01:07:30,983
Let's use that power.

1398
01:07:30,983 --> 01:07:32,844
So I'm going to focus him on the cross.

1399
01:07:32,844 --> 01:07:34,365
I'm going show him the picture.

1400
01:07:34,365 --> 01:07:36,585
I'm going to ask, Michael, do you recognize that?

1401
01:07:36,585 --> 01:07:37,966
Do you see that?

1402
01:07:38,146 --> 01:07:41,007
What do you think about that?

1403
01:07:41,047 --> 01:07:42,027
Is that powerful?

1404
01:07:42,027 --> 01:07:43,227
Do you believe in that?

1405
01:07:43,227 --> 01:07:45,227
It's the core of who we are.

1406
01:07:45,547 --> 01:07:47,647
Michael, let's read Romans 6, 3 through 5.

1407
01:07:47,647 --> 01:07:50,027
And I want you to think about that as we read it.

1408
01:07:50,027 --> 01:07:51,247
All right, here we go.

1409
01:07:58,247 --> 01:08:04,187
Now, Michael, want you to notice we've used the word into twice, twice.

1410
01:08:04,187 --> 01:08:07,707
has said, whatever it is we're talking about here transitions us.

1411
01:08:07,707 --> 01:08:09,987
moves us from the outside to the inside.

1412
01:08:11,011 --> 01:08:20,909
location to another and so therefore we are notice this Michael buried I would like you to
put a number one right by the word buried put a number one right by the word buried

1413
01:08:20,909 --> 01:08:31,598
because there we identified the burial all right so therefore it's I'm sorry you go back
to death therefore we are let's go back to the beginning no he not there's so many of us

1414
01:08:31,598 --> 01:08:37,403
who were baptized into Jesus Christ or baptized into his death put a number one by the
word

1415
01:08:37,647 --> 01:08:39,768
So we've identified the death.

1416
01:08:39,768 --> 01:08:43,210
That's important because this is the process of the gospel, the death.

1417
01:08:43,210 --> 01:08:44,551
Therefore we are buried.

1418
01:08:44,551 --> 01:08:46,551
Put a number two by the word buried.

1419
01:08:46,551 --> 01:08:48,402
So now we've got the death and the burial.

1420
01:08:48,402 --> 01:08:49,570
All right?

1421
01:08:49,570 --> 01:08:50,613
Death, burial.

1422
01:08:50,613 --> 01:08:53,415
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism in two.

1423
01:08:53,415 --> 01:08:55,976
That's the third time we've used that word in two.

1424
01:08:55,976 --> 01:08:57,297
So we're transitioning.

1425
01:08:57,297 --> 01:08:58,917
We're moving locations.

1426
01:08:58,917 --> 01:09:04,319
It's obvious three times God has said baptism is an in two process.

1427
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:06,261
Michael, I've got news for you tonight.

1428
01:09:06,261 --> 01:09:07,001
There's no one

1429
01:09:07,001 --> 01:09:10,424
sitting in this auditorium that didn't come into the building.

1430
01:09:10,424 --> 01:09:11,724
No, not one.

1431
01:09:12,045 --> 01:09:13,626
Michael, I've got another question.

1432
01:09:13,626 --> 01:09:19,050
Do you think it's possible that someone could be in the building if they did not come into
the building?

1433
01:09:19,050 --> 01:09:19,510
No.

1434
01:09:19,510 --> 01:09:20,211
No.

1435
01:09:20,211 --> 01:09:23,273
And I've been asking this question for 25 years.

1436
01:09:23,273 --> 01:09:25,575
And there was an engineer.

1437
01:09:25,575 --> 01:09:26,476
He raised his hand.

1438
01:09:26,476 --> 01:09:31,079
He said, preacher, it's possible to be in the building if you didn't come into the
building.

1439
01:09:31,079 --> 01:09:32,440
I said, enlighten us.

1440
01:09:32,440 --> 01:09:35,002
He said, the building could have been built around you.

1441
01:09:38,235 --> 01:09:40,496
I promise the church wasn't built around you.

1442
01:09:40,496 --> 01:09:42,237
So you've got to go into it.

1443
01:09:42,237 --> 01:09:43,486
So into is important.

1444
01:09:43,486 --> 01:09:44,378
Here we go.

1445
01:09:44,378 --> 01:09:47,009
Therefore we are buried with him, but that doesn't end to death.

1446
01:09:47,009 --> 01:09:48,460
like his cross was raised.

1447
01:09:48,460 --> 01:09:50,218
Let's put a number three by the word raised.

1448
01:09:50,218 --> 01:09:51,922
So now we've identified three things.

1449
01:09:51,922 --> 01:09:56,464
We've identified the death, we've identified the burial, and we've identified the
resurrection.

1450
01:09:56,464 --> 01:09:58,115
Michael, is that important to you?

1451
01:09:58,115 --> 01:09:58,705
Absolutely.

1452
01:09:58,705 --> 01:09:59,325
Yeah, me too.

1453
01:09:59,325 --> 01:10:00,435
It's the core of who we are.

1454
01:10:00,435 --> 01:10:01,746
Death, resurrection.

1455
01:10:01,746 --> 01:10:02,747
Now notice this.

1456
01:10:02,747 --> 01:10:07,969
That like his cross was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so he said,
walk in doing

1457
01:10:07,969 --> 01:10:08,629
of life.

1458
01:10:08,629 --> 01:10:10,740
Michael, when does the new life happen?

1459
01:10:10,740 --> 01:10:13,352
Before the baptism or after the baptism?

1460
01:10:13,492 --> 01:10:14,853
After the baptism.

1461
01:10:14,853 --> 01:10:18,874
after the burial, when we're resurrected, we get new life.

1462
01:10:19,015 --> 01:10:23,117
Michael, know you love your wife.

1463
01:10:23,117 --> 01:10:24,438
What's her name again?

1464
01:10:24,438 --> 01:10:25,698
Michael, your wife.

1465
01:10:25,698 --> 01:10:26,939
What is her name?

1466
01:10:27,233 --> 01:10:27,713
Shelly.

1467
01:10:27,713 --> 01:10:28,823
Shelly.

1468
01:10:29,584 --> 01:10:30,785
he forgot.

1469
01:10:30,785 --> 01:10:31,335
forgot.

1470
01:10:31,335 --> 01:10:36,417
That's all right.

1471
01:10:36,417 --> 01:10:41,260
came home one day and he says, know, my anniversary is coming up and I'm so blessed.

1472
01:10:41,260 --> 01:10:42,130
I love my wife.

1473
01:10:42,130 --> 01:10:43,971
She's such a good woman.

1474
01:10:44,491 --> 01:10:45,772
And we're going to celebrate.

1475
01:10:45,772 --> 01:10:47,593
My wife has always wanted a dog.

1476
01:10:47,593 --> 01:10:49,188
And you know, I'm going to go get my wife.

1477
01:10:49,188 --> 01:10:50,434
I'm going go get her dog.

1478
01:10:50,434 --> 01:10:54,176
So Michael goes down to the dog place and he pets Mark.

1479
01:10:54,176 --> 01:10:57,177
He sees this little white little dog, know, little poodle.

1480
01:10:57,177 --> 01:10:58,797
just puffy little thing.

1481
01:10:58,797 --> 01:11:01,237
He said, oh she just loved this little dog.

1482
01:11:01,677 --> 01:11:03,477
And Michael says, you know, I'm gonna get her the dog.

1483
01:11:03,477 --> 01:11:05,697
So Michael buys this dog and he brings it home.

1484
01:11:05,697 --> 01:11:08,417
He says, honey Shelly, he said, I've got you a dog.

1485
01:11:08,417 --> 01:11:10,557
And for your your anniversary.

1486
01:11:10,557 --> 01:11:12,037
Oh Michael, that's so nice.

1487
01:11:12,037 --> 01:11:13,437
You said you never have a dog.

1488
01:11:13,437 --> 01:11:15,017
You love me so much.

1489
01:11:15,017 --> 01:11:17,577
And so, know, Shelly's got, she's excited.

1490
01:11:18,037 --> 01:11:21,997
And when Michael bought the dog, there was a name on the dog.

1491
01:11:21,997 --> 01:11:23,357
It said Poopsy.

1492
01:11:23,637 --> 01:11:25,877
And she said, the name of the dog is Poopsy.

1493
01:11:25,877 --> 01:11:27,097
Michael didn't really put too

1494
01:11:27,097 --> 01:11:27,937
together.

1495
01:11:27,937 --> 01:11:32,677
doesn't know why it's called the Poopsie, but he finds out quickly because this is a
doodling dog.

1496
01:11:32,677 --> 01:11:33,957
He doodles all the time.

1497
01:11:33,957 --> 01:11:35,817
He can't stop doodling.

1498
01:11:35,817 --> 01:11:37,357
And so it's not been house broken.

1499
01:11:37,357 --> 01:11:38,757
So he keeps doodling in the house.

1500
01:11:38,757 --> 01:11:40,637
Now Michael, you love your wife Shelly.

1501
01:11:40,637 --> 01:11:41,797
And Michael says, honey, don't worry.

1502
01:11:41,797 --> 01:11:43,077
I'll clean up the doodles.

1503
01:11:43,077 --> 01:11:44,797
And so Michael cleans up the doodles.

1504
01:11:44,797 --> 01:11:49,017
He does it several times a day because, you know, Michael loves his wife.

1505
01:11:49,017 --> 01:11:51,017
Now this goes on for period of a week or so.

1506
01:11:51,017 --> 01:11:53,137
And finally Michael says, that's it.

1507
01:11:53,137 --> 01:11:55,737
He said, we're taking this dog to disciplinary school.

1508
01:11:55,737 --> 01:11:57,137
So Michael pays the school.

1509
01:11:57,137 --> 01:12:01,241
takes the little poopsie to school, teach the dog how to doodle outside.

1510
01:12:01,241 --> 01:12:02,662
Well, the dog flunks.

1511
01:12:02,662 --> 01:12:07,126
And so they give the dog back to Michael, and he said, honey, I love you.

1512
01:12:07,126 --> 01:12:10,290
You know that if that dog doodles again in this house, it's over.

1513
01:12:10,290 --> 01:12:11,970
And so they leave for church.

1514
01:12:12,341 --> 01:12:14,331
Come back from church, there's Poopsy.

1515
01:12:15,191 --> 01:12:16,862
And there's doodles again.

1516
01:12:16,862 --> 01:12:19,153
And Michael has had enough.

1517
01:12:19,153 --> 01:12:20,614
And Michael loses his cool.

1518
01:12:20,614 --> 01:12:22,854
He says, no more doodles.

1519
01:12:22,854 --> 01:12:25,055
And he says he goes and grabs the dog by the collar.

1520
01:12:25,055 --> 01:12:28,146
He takes the dog outside, grabs the shovel, and he starts digging.

1521
01:12:28,146 --> 01:12:30,127
And he digs and he digs and he digs.

1522
01:12:30,127 --> 01:12:34,598
And then he puts the Poopsy in the hole, covers up the hole, and he says, that's it.

1523
01:12:34,598 --> 01:12:36,979
What do think the neighbors are going to do to Michael?

1524
01:12:38,251 --> 01:12:40,065
They're going to call the police.

1525
01:12:40,065 --> 01:12:40,446
Why?

1526
01:12:40,446 --> 01:12:42,380
Why are they going to call the police, everybody?

1527
01:12:42,380 --> 01:12:45,646
Because you don't bury living things.

1528
01:12:48,351 --> 01:12:51,344
Now, listen, we don't bury living things.

1529
01:12:51,344 --> 01:12:52,165
Is that right, Michael?

1530
01:12:52,165 --> 01:12:53,396
That's correct.

1531
01:12:53,957 --> 01:12:55,438
Except in religion.

1532
01:12:57,591 --> 01:12:59,511
Oh no, religion we do.

1533
01:12:59,511 --> 01:13:00,731
You know what we tell people?

1534
01:13:00,731 --> 01:13:02,211
Let's talk about it.

1535
01:13:02,211 --> 01:13:06,991
Well, you know, Michael, you said that prayer, you were born again, brand new Christian,
baby in Christ.

1536
01:13:06,991 --> 01:13:09,831
By the way, in about three weeks, we're gonna bury you.

1537
01:13:10,731 --> 01:13:13,731
We don't bury living things, we bury dead things.

1538
01:13:13,731 --> 01:13:21,691
But in religion, we take things that we're told they're living, we're told they're born
again, we're told they're a baby in Christ, and we bury the baby.

1539
01:13:22,611 --> 01:13:27,411
The only people that get buried in the word of God are people that are dead in sin.

1540
01:13:27,573 --> 01:13:30,485
When you're dead in sin, you get buried.

1541
01:13:30,646 --> 01:13:32,848
We only bury people that are dead.

1542
01:13:32,848 --> 01:13:33,818
They're lost.

1543
01:13:33,818 --> 01:13:35,830
We don't bury living things.

1544
01:13:35,830 --> 01:13:38,593
If you buried a living dog, you go to jail.

1545
01:13:38,593 --> 01:13:41,295
What happens if we bury living souls?

1546
01:13:44,055 --> 01:13:45,915
There's a day of reckoning coming.

1547
01:13:47,555 --> 01:13:49,435
Brethren, we gotta follow what the Bible says.

1548
01:13:49,435 --> 01:13:51,395
You can't just make it up.

1549
01:13:51,695 --> 01:13:53,675
Okay, what is the biblical order?

1550
01:13:53,675 --> 01:13:55,575
The biblical order's important.

1551
01:13:55,807 --> 01:14:01,810
No ye not, don't you know, that so many of us have been baptized into Jesus Christ, were
baptized into his death.

1552
01:14:01,810 --> 01:14:06,072
We die, the old man dies, the sinner dies, therefore we're buried.

1553
01:14:06,072 --> 01:14:07,372
What do we do with the dead sinner?

1554
01:14:07,372 --> 01:14:10,470
We bury the dead sinner, we bury them, all right?

1555
01:14:10,470 --> 01:14:15,756
So we bury poopsie, we bury the dead things, not the living things, the dead things,
right?

1556
01:14:15,756 --> 01:14:19,498
Then notice what it says, they're like as Christ was raised, now he weighs up.

1557
01:14:19,498 --> 01:14:23,740
Just like Jesus rose from the dead, we rise up and we're a new creature.

1558
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:25,821
What does that say in verse five?

1559
01:14:25,821 --> 01:14:36,589
life and we've been planted together in the likeness of his death so we die like Jesus
died so then shall we be planted in the likeness of his resurrection it's a beautiful text

1560
01:14:36,589 --> 01:14:50,479
it's teaching us the order death burial resurrection it works in life we don't bury living
people we don't bury living animals and we should not be burying people alive spiritually

1561
01:14:50,500 --> 01:14:54,823
we bury dead people spiritually dead in their sins

1562
01:14:55,721 --> 01:15:01,816
Now, with that being said, Michael, does the Bible describe the one baptism as a burial in
water?

1563
01:15:02,577 --> 01:15:03,748
Should we be buried, Michael?

1564
01:15:03,748 --> 01:15:05,200
Is that what the Bible says?

1565
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:06,040
Yes, Michael.

1566
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:08,232
Where do we get the benefits of the death of Jesus?

1567
01:15:08,232 --> 01:15:08,913
What must we do?

1568
01:15:08,913 --> 01:15:10,203
We must be what?

1569
01:15:11,025 --> 01:15:13,027
We must be buried and baptized, right?

1570
01:15:13,027 --> 01:15:17,250
Okay, Michael, if you are baptized the way the Bible says, could you be wrong?

1571
01:15:17,471 --> 01:15:17,911
No.

1572
01:15:17,911 --> 01:15:22,434
No, Michael, if you are not baptized the way the Bible says, could you be wrong?

1573
01:15:23,339 --> 01:15:25,141
Now let's stop there and analyze that.

1574
01:15:25,141 --> 01:15:28,104
So let's make sure everybody understands where we are.

1575
01:15:28,104 --> 01:15:31,498
If you are baptized the way the Bible says, you're right.

1576
01:15:31,498 --> 01:15:32,549
You can be right.

1577
01:15:32,549 --> 01:15:38,055
But if you're not doing it the way the Bible, you do it your own way, then you could be
wrong.

1578
01:15:38,055 --> 01:15:39,626
So what's my job right now?

1579
01:15:39,626 --> 01:15:45,342
My job as a teacher is to find out, is Michael done what the Bible says?

1580
01:15:45,685 --> 01:15:48,237
That's up to Michael and God, it's not me.

1581
01:15:48,237 --> 01:15:55,141
I'm just here to help Michael determine, have you done what the Bible, is your baptism
according to what the Bible says?

1582
01:15:55,141 --> 01:15:57,823
Now in order to do that, I just ask questions.

1583
01:15:57,823 --> 01:16:00,305
It's up to him and God, and that's not up to me.

1584
01:16:00,305 --> 01:16:01,275
I'm not the judge.

1585
01:16:01,275 --> 01:16:02,626
All right, here it is.

1586
01:16:02,626 --> 01:16:05,267
Michael, do you want to take a chance on missing heaven?

1587
01:16:05,568 --> 01:16:06,928
No, I don't either.

1588
01:16:07,309 --> 01:16:10,210
Michael, do you believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God?

1589
01:16:10,965 --> 01:16:13,416
Michael, as we have seen, Jesus commands repentance.

1590
01:16:13,416 --> 01:16:18,557
Are you willing to start making the changes in your life that Jesus commands and live for
God?

1591
01:16:18,557 --> 01:16:18,927
Yes.

1592
01:16:18,927 --> 01:16:19,418
OK.

1593
01:16:19,418 --> 01:16:20,278
I believe that.

1594
01:16:20,278 --> 01:16:21,318
believe that.

1595
01:16:21,338 --> 01:16:26,720
And Michael, have you been baptized into Christ for the remission of your sins?

1596
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:28,920
You know what you're going to tell me every time?

1597
01:16:29,441 --> 01:16:29,771
Yes.

1598
01:16:29,771 --> 01:16:30,111
Yes.

1599
01:16:30,111 --> 01:16:30,951
He's going to say yes.

1600
01:16:30,951 --> 01:16:32,362
Every time he's going to say yes.

1601
01:16:32,362 --> 01:16:33,042
You know why?

1602
01:16:33,042 --> 01:16:34,222
Why does he say yes?

1603
01:16:34,222 --> 01:16:35,093
Anybody know Justin?

1604
01:16:35,093 --> 01:16:36,463
Why would he say yes?

1605
01:16:37,865 --> 01:16:44,627
because he feels that way, because he's Red Axe 238, that's what the Bible teaches, that
must be what I did, but what's the problem?

1606
01:16:44,627 --> 01:16:46,047
Anybody understand the conflict here?

1607
01:16:46,047 --> 01:16:47,377
What's the problem?

1608
01:16:48,078 --> 01:16:49,438
He hasn't been.

1609
01:16:49,618 --> 01:16:50,879
How do I know that?

1610
01:16:50,879 --> 01:16:53,839
Remember those answers he gave me before we started?

1611
01:16:54,420 --> 01:16:55,317
Three weeks after.

1612
01:16:55,317 --> 01:16:57,020
Yeah, yeah, he was saved.

1613
01:16:57,020 --> 01:16:59,561
He was saved three weeks before his baptism.

1614
01:17:00,161 --> 01:17:02,848
So I already know that's not true.

1615
01:17:02,848 --> 01:17:04,902
I already know he's got a conflict here.

1616
01:17:04,902 --> 01:17:07,295
Now, there's a conflict right now.

1617
01:17:07,295 --> 01:17:08,286
So what do do with it?

1618
01:17:08,286 --> 01:17:10,167
I just let Michael keep answering questions.

1619
01:17:10,167 --> 01:17:10,797
He'll see it.

1620
01:17:10,797 --> 01:17:12,358
I don't have to tell him.

1621
01:17:12,678 --> 01:17:20,903
Michael, if you were taught you had your sins forgiven before the baptism when you said
that prayer and they said, Michael, your sins have been forgiven.

1622
01:17:20,903 --> 01:17:21,693
You're a new Christian.

1623
01:17:21,693 --> 01:17:24,604
You're a baby in Christ and congratulations.

1624
01:17:24,805 --> 01:17:26,225
You remember that day?

1625
01:17:26,246 --> 01:17:27,246
Yes, you do.

1626
01:17:27,246 --> 01:17:33,680
Michael, if you were taught your sins were forgiven before the baptism, then can you go
get baptized to have your sins forgiven?

1627
01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:35,611
Does that make any sense?

1628
01:17:36,023 --> 01:17:36,864
Now think about that.

1629
01:17:36,864 --> 01:17:44,243
If you were taught your sins were forgiven before the baptism, can you then go get
baptized to have your sins forgiven?

1630
01:17:44,243 --> 01:17:44,764
No.

1631
01:17:44,764 --> 01:17:48,118
No, you can't because you were told they were forgiven before.

1632
01:17:48,118 --> 01:17:51,022
So in order for them to be forgiven, you've got to know you still have them.

1633
01:17:51,022 --> 01:17:55,006
But you don't even know you have them because you were told they were gone when you said
the prayer.

1634
01:17:56,093 --> 01:17:57,103
I am too.

1635
01:17:58,163 --> 01:17:58,344
Right?

1636
01:17:58,344 --> 01:17:59,445
No, it's confusing.

1637
01:17:59,445 --> 01:18:03,367
So normally at this point, he's going to look at you and that don't make sense.

1638
01:18:03,367 --> 01:18:04,057
And he's right.

1639
01:18:04,057 --> 01:18:05,427
It is confusing.

1640
01:18:05,468 --> 01:18:10,330
How can I be baptized to have my sins forgiven?

1641
01:18:10,330 --> 01:18:13,191
But they told me when I said my prayer, the sins were forgiven.

1642
01:18:13,511 --> 01:18:14,932
So it doesn't make sense.

1643
01:18:14,932 --> 01:18:16,323
Things aren't adding up right now.

1644
01:18:16,323 --> 01:18:17,573
And he knows that.

1645
01:18:17,573 --> 01:18:19,974
Now I just have to help him make application.

1646
01:18:19,974 --> 01:18:20,515
Here he is.

1647
01:18:20,515 --> 01:18:21,455
Watch.

1648
01:18:21,845 --> 01:18:30,433
Michael, if you were taught you were saved before the baptism, could you then go get
baptized to be saved?

1649
01:18:30,433 --> 01:18:31,103
Don't answer that.

1650
01:18:31,103 --> 01:18:32,104
Let me ask you.

1651
01:18:32,104 --> 01:18:35,831
Michael, have you ever been taught this before about baptism?

1652
01:18:35,831 --> 01:18:37,289
Have you ever seen this before?

1653
01:18:37,289 --> 01:18:38,840
Has anybody ever taught you this before?

1654
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:39,120
No.

1655
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:39,910
No.

1656
01:18:42,015 --> 01:18:51,803
Michael, since you were never taught this, can you, in order to obey the truth about
baptism, does someone have to teach you the truth about baptism?

1657
01:18:52,744 --> 01:18:54,345
But you were never taught this.

1658
01:18:55,746 --> 01:18:56,867
So these are just questions.

1659
01:18:56,867 --> 01:18:58,489
I'm not making any statements.

1660
01:18:58,489 --> 01:18:59,640
This is important.

1661
01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:01,001
Do not make statements.

1662
01:19:01,001 --> 01:19:02,271
It's up to Michael.

1663
01:19:02,332 --> 01:19:06,415
Michael, to be baptized properly, does someone have to teach you properly?

1664
01:19:07,199 --> 01:19:08,280
I would think so.

1665
01:19:08,280 --> 01:19:13,802
And Michael, can you be taught the wrong thing and obey the right thing?

1666
01:19:14,762 --> 01:19:15,443
No.

1667
01:19:15,443 --> 01:19:19,104
Can you be taught the wrong thing and then obey the right thing?

1668
01:19:19,104 --> 01:19:21,622
In order to obey the right thing, someone has to teach you right.

1669
01:19:21,622 --> 01:19:22,002
Correct.

1670
01:19:22,002 --> 01:19:22,966
But you weren't taught that.

1671
01:19:22,966 --> 01:19:23,846
No.

1672
01:19:24,647 --> 01:19:26,688
Can you accidentally be baptized?

1673
01:19:26,688 --> 01:19:27,648
No.

1674
01:19:27,668 --> 01:19:30,970
So in order to be baptized in the truth, someone has to teach you the truth.

1675
01:19:30,970 --> 01:19:34,511
You weren't taught the truth, and obedience is not an accident.

1676
01:19:34,997 --> 01:19:37,388
So I'm making all these statements to help Michael what?

1677
01:19:37,388 --> 01:19:38,349
Think.

1678
01:19:38,629 --> 01:19:40,770
So the real question is on the screen.

1679
01:19:40,770 --> 01:19:48,354
It's Michael, if you were saved before the baptism, could you then go get baptized to be
saved?

1680
01:19:48,394 --> 01:19:49,615
Could you do that?

1681
01:19:49,615 --> 01:19:50,475
No.

1682
01:19:51,216 --> 01:19:54,377
So now Michael begins to realize, wait a minute.

1683
01:19:55,078 --> 01:19:57,119
I was never taught any of this.

1684
01:19:57,279 --> 01:19:59,900
Brethren, can you be baptized accidentally?

1685
01:20:00,721 --> 01:20:03,002
So someone has to teach you the truth.

1686
01:20:03,002 --> 01:20:04,831
Is it possible that we have

1687
01:20:04,831 --> 01:20:12,279
people in this world who were not taught the truth about baptism, but they think they were
baptized correctly, but no one ever taught them.

1688
01:20:12,427 --> 01:20:15,468
And that is exactly where we are in this world.

1689
01:20:15,468 --> 01:20:18,810
People who were not taught the truth, they didn't know the truth.

1690
01:20:19,090 --> 01:20:22,191
They're convinced, but no one ever taught them this.

1691
01:20:22,272 --> 01:20:24,413
And you can't be accidentally baptized.

1692
01:20:24,413 --> 01:20:25,793
Now Michael realizes this.

1693
01:20:25,793 --> 01:20:27,974
He realizes this is scary.

1694
01:20:28,094 --> 01:20:29,885
Listen, I didn't know any of this.

1695
01:20:29,885 --> 01:20:31,836
So let's just ask this question.

1696
01:20:31,836 --> 01:20:36,158
John 14, 15, the Bible says, if you love me, you'll keep my commandments, Michael.

1697
01:20:36,158 --> 01:20:40,160
Michael, if we really love Jesus, will we want to obey him?

1698
01:20:40,580 --> 01:20:42,241
Michael, do you love him?

1699
01:20:42,371 --> 01:20:44,402
Michael, do you want to obey him?

1700
01:20:44,402 --> 01:20:45,403
Me too.

1701
01:20:45,623 --> 01:20:55,079
And Michael, since Jesus wants you to be baptized, and now that you understand the
importance of being baptized right now, wouldn't it please Jesus for you to be baptized

1702
01:20:55,079 --> 01:20:56,009
right now?

1703
01:20:56,270 --> 01:20:56,825
Yes, sir.

1704
01:20:56,825 --> 01:20:57,750
It would.

1705
01:20:57,961 --> 01:21:01,132
90 % of the people I study with are baptized right there.

1706
01:21:01,493 --> 01:21:03,674
And the reason is they were never taught.

1707
01:21:03,674 --> 01:21:05,175
No one ever taught them the truth.

1708
01:21:05,175 --> 01:21:07,236
They did not know any of this.

1709
01:21:07,637 --> 01:21:11,519
I cannot tell you how important it is that someone teaches you the truth.

1710
01:21:12,001 --> 01:21:14,373
You're not gonna stumble on it by accident.

1711
01:21:14,373 --> 01:21:20,277
And if someone misled you, and they may be sincere, I'm not questioning these people.

1712
01:21:20,277 --> 01:21:24,560
But the point is that we've gotta do it the way the Bible teaches it.

1713
01:21:24,740 --> 01:21:28,063
If I do what this book says, I know I'm right with God.

1714
01:21:28,063 --> 01:21:33,706
If I do not do what this book says, I could be wrong, and I'm not gonna take that chance.

1715
01:21:34,131 --> 01:21:35,575
I will not take it.

1716
01:21:35,575 --> 01:21:37,921
And I will do exactly what this book says.

1717
01:21:37,921 --> 01:21:41,890
And I've used a lot of examples tonight, but that's what a Bible study does.

1718
01:21:41,890 --> 01:21:43,713
And so it helps a person.

1719
01:21:44,511 --> 01:21:48,113
look inside themselves and ask difficult questions.

1720
01:21:48,113 --> 01:21:49,573
And you do it with love.

1721
01:21:49,573 --> 01:21:50,574
I love Michael.

1722
01:21:50,574 --> 01:21:52,711
I'm not trying to hurt him in any way.

1723
01:21:52,711 --> 01:21:59,138
I love him enough where I would sit down, ask those questions and let him come to an
understanding.

1724
01:21:59,138 --> 01:22:00,599
I am not the judge.

1725
01:22:00,599 --> 01:22:03,560
It's not up to me to tell Michael if he's going to heaven or hell.

1726
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:05,300
That's between him and God.

1727
01:22:05,521 --> 01:22:08,812
But Michael is smart enough to read his Bible and know the truth.

1728
01:22:08,812 --> 01:22:10,053
All right.

1729
01:22:10,053 --> 01:22:11,063
So we're going to finish that.

1730
01:22:11,063 --> 01:22:11,754
Thank you, Michael.

1731
01:22:11,754 --> 01:22:14,405
You're, you're, you're ready to be baptized.

1732
01:22:14,525 --> 01:22:17,607
Anybody, if you want to see Michael baptized raise your hand.

1733
01:22:18,468 --> 01:22:19,428
Would you like to do it?

1734
01:22:19,428 --> 01:22:21,990
You all take the left side, I'll take the right side.

1735
01:22:21,990 --> 01:22:24,372
I think it would take more than just me.

1736
01:22:24,372 --> 01:22:26,183
All right brother thank you very much.

1737
01:22:26,183 --> 01:22:27,433
You may leave.

1738
01:22:28,534 --> 01:22:29,995
Shelly is waiting.

1739
01:22:29,995 --> 01:22:30,756
Shelly's waiting.

1740
01:22:30,756 --> 01:22:31,556
She wants poopsie.

1741
01:22:31,556 --> 01:22:33,098
Go give her poopsie.

1742
01:22:33,098 --> 01:22:35,219
Do you have a dog Shelly?

1743
01:22:35,219 --> 01:22:36,390
We have Django.

1744
01:22:36,390 --> 01:22:37,010
Django.

1745
01:22:37,010 --> 01:22:37,781
Okay good.

1746
01:22:37,781 --> 01:22:39,011
Is it a doodling dog?

1747
01:22:39,011 --> 01:22:40,622
It's a pig.

1748
01:22:40,622 --> 01:22:41,623
Okay.

1749
01:22:41,623 --> 01:22:42,204
boy.

1750
01:22:42,204 --> 01:22:42,994
Poodles or poodles.

1751
01:22:42,994 --> 01:22:43,645
All right.

1752
01:22:43,645 --> 01:22:44,345
Very good.

1753
01:22:44,345 --> 01:22:46,516
All right, let's go to the next lesson.

1754
01:22:46,516 --> 01:22:49,248
Aaron, would you bring up lesson number five?

1755
01:22:49,248 --> 01:22:54,972
We're going to abbreviate the lesson tonight, but I do want to cover some important
points.

1756
01:22:55,072 --> 01:23:01,156
So evangelism is not a theory, and it cannot stay in the classroom.

1757
01:23:01,156 --> 01:23:14,585
The classroom is what we call sterile environment, meaning that I control the temperature,
I control the context, and it's easy to make it look simple.

1758
01:23:14,585 --> 01:23:16,786
when we don't have the interference of the world.

1759
01:23:16,786 --> 01:23:20,728
What I want to do now is take the world and infuse it into evangelism.

1760
01:23:20,728 --> 01:23:23,600
I want you to deal with the real world.

1761
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:27,772
All right, so we're going to go out into the real world and they're going to ask
questions.

1762
01:23:27,772 --> 01:23:29,593
And they're going ask a lot of questions.

1763
01:23:29,593 --> 01:23:31,654
And it scares Christians.

1764
01:23:31,654 --> 01:23:32,834
Like, I don't know the answers.

1765
01:23:32,834 --> 01:23:34,465
I don't know what I'm going to say.

1766
01:23:34,465 --> 01:23:36,556
Well, let's talk about that.

1767
01:23:36,836 --> 01:23:40,628
Lesson number one in our principles, of the seven principles, is what?

1768
01:23:40,628 --> 01:23:42,639
What should we do with all questions?

1769
01:23:43,159 --> 01:23:43,959
defer them.

1770
01:23:43,959 --> 01:23:45,779
We do not answer questions.

1771
01:23:45,779 --> 01:23:50,219
And so if you're in a Bible study and someone says, well, I want to know about the
thousand year reign of Christ.

1772
01:23:50,219 --> 01:23:51,559
That's a great question.

1773
01:23:51,559 --> 01:23:55,299
I want you to open your back to the Bible and I want you to write that question down.

1774
01:23:55,299 --> 01:23:56,859
We'll get to it later.

1775
01:23:56,859 --> 01:23:59,579
So I'm not there to play Bible trivia.

1776
01:23:59,579 --> 01:24:01,379
I'm not there to answer all the questions.

1777
01:24:01,379 --> 01:24:05,379
I am not there to try to prove I know more Bible than they do.

1778
01:24:05,379 --> 01:24:13,113
So it's very, very important that we understand, we need to understand that you don't have
to

1779
01:24:13,113 --> 01:24:14,813
all the answers.

1780
01:24:15,133 --> 01:24:21,993
Okay, if someone has to know all the answers, then none of us are qualified, because I
don't know all the answers.

1781
01:24:21,993 --> 01:24:26,313
What we do need to know is the authority of Christ, the Church of Christ, the salvation of
Christ.

1782
01:24:26,313 --> 01:24:28,193
Keep it simple, all right?

1783
01:24:28,193 --> 01:24:29,413
Keep it real.

1784
01:24:29,413 --> 01:24:34,233
Do not bury yourself into theological concepts, all right?

1785
01:24:34,233 --> 01:24:35,873
So you don't need to be afraid.

1786
01:24:35,873 --> 01:24:38,373
No one in this audience needs to be afraid.

1787
01:24:38,455 --> 01:24:42,075
Just use the tool that God gave you.

1788
01:24:42,075 --> 01:24:42,435
right.

1789
01:24:42,435 --> 01:24:45,555
Now, 1 Corinthians, chapter 9, verses 19 through 23.

1790
01:24:45,555 --> 01:24:46,715
I have.

1791
01:24:46,751 --> 01:24:51,052
made all things to all men that I might be, all men save some.

1792
01:24:51,052 --> 01:24:53,462
Paul's talking about how he approaches people.

1793
01:24:53,462 --> 01:24:57,894
He said, when I'm with the Jews, I'll use the custom of the Jews.

1794
01:24:57,894 --> 01:25:00,675
When I'm with the Gentiles, I use the custom of the Gentiles.

1795
01:25:00,675 --> 01:25:02,996
When I'm with the Greeks, I use the custom of the Greeks.

1796
01:25:02,996 --> 01:25:05,276
When I'm with the Romans, I use the custom of the Romans.

1797
01:25:05,276 --> 01:25:07,017
In other words, I adapt.

1798
01:25:07,017 --> 01:25:09,908
And so when it comes to Bible studies, we have to adapt.

1799
01:25:09,908 --> 01:25:11,018
What does that mean?

1800
01:25:11,018 --> 01:25:14,139
Not everyone is ready for back to the Bible.

1801
01:25:14,231 --> 01:25:16,831
Because we have people that don't believe in God.

1802
01:25:16,831 --> 01:25:19,211
And if they don't believe in God, I'm going to change out my lure.

1803
01:25:19,211 --> 01:25:21,111
I want to use believe the Bible.

1804
01:25:21,231 --> 01:25:24,511
Some people are not ready for a Bible study.

1805
01:25:24,511 --> 01:25:27,611
And so I'm going to spend a little bit more time building relationships.

1806
01:25:27,611 --> 01:25:31,811
So we're going to treat people differently based upon where they're at.

1807
01:25:31,811 --> 01:25:34,131
That's important to understand.

1808
01:25:34,471 --> 01:25:36,171
We're going to adapt.

1809
01:25:37,911 --> 01:25:40,611
Now, Callie Hudson walks in the church building.

1810
01:25:40,611 --> 01:25:41,877
She sits down.

1811
01:25:41,877 --> 01:25:42,928
I've never met her.

1812
01:25:42,928 --> 01:25:46,469
She sits right next to Clifton, must be Clifton's girlfriend.

1813
01:25:46,469 --> 01:25:48,590
Clifton is a faithful member of the church.

1814
01:25:48,590 --> 01:25:49,921
We get to know Callie.

1815
01:25:49,921 --> 01:25:52,092
She is a wonderful young lady.

1816
01:25:52,092 --> 01:25:58,755
And over a period of time, after she keeps coming, Clifton comes to me and says, Rob, he
said, I really would like your help.

1817
01:25:58,755 --> 01:26:01,216
I would like your help to convert Callie.

1818
01:26:01,216 --> 01:26:03,217
I said, Clifton, I'd be glad to help you.

1819
01:26:03,217 --> 01:26:05,378
I said, let's invite Callie over to the house.

1820
01:26:05,378 --> 01:26:06,367
Let's have a game night.

1821
01:26:06,367 --> 01:26:07,819
And let's just talk a little bit.

1822
01:26:07,819 --> 01:26:10,260
And I think the Bible study will come.

1823
01:26:10,260 --> 01:26:11,661
That was my plan.

1824
01:26:11,801 --> 01:26:15,902
So we put this plan together before the game night.

1825
01:26:15,902 --> 01:26:16,632
He calls me.

1826
01:26:16,632 --> 01:26:17,783
He's frantic.

1827
01:26:17,783 --> 01:26:19,253
He said, Rob, have you heard the news?

1828
01:26:19,253 --> 01:26:20,664
I said, what news?

1829
01:26:20,664 --> 01:26:22,824
I could tell he's frantic on the phone.

1830
01:26:22,824 --> 01:26:26,205
He said, Rob, says, Calhoun's dad just had a heart attack.

1831
01:26:27,266 --> 01:26:28,356
I said, Clifton, I'm sorry.

1832
01:26:28,356 --> 01:26:29,256
I said, what hospital?

1833
01:26:29,256 --> 01:26:30,386
I'll be right there.

1834
01:26:30,386 --> 01:26:32,567
He said, Rob, he didn't make it, Rob.

1835
01:26:33,653 --> 01:26:35,844
So at that point, she's lost her dad.

1836
01:26:35,844 --> 01:26:37,005
It's a sudden passing.

1837
01:26:37,005 --> 01:26:39,446
It's a tragic, it's trauma.

1838
01:26:39,446 --> 01:26:43,147
No one expects this to happen when you're 20 years old.

1839
01:26:43,648 --> 01:26:46,269
And so I know that Callie's going to need a lot of love.

1840
01:26:46,269 --> 01:26:48,280
So the church wraps their arms around Callie.

1841
01:26:48,280 --> 01:26:49,110
We send the cards.

1842
01:26:49,110 --> 01:26:50,421
We send the flowers.

1843
01:26:50,421 --> 01:26:57,654
We go out of our way to endear ourselves to this young couple, especially Callie.

1844
01:26:57,834 --> 01:27:01,116
A year passes by, and I realize it's time.

1845
01:27:01,116 --> 01:27:03,417
And so we again have that game night.

1846
01:27:03,577 --> 01:27:05,738
to the house, Callie starts to study.

1847
01:27:05,738 --> 01:27:06,898
She does excellent.

1848
01:27:06,898 --> 01:27:08,418
She knows all the answers.

1849
01:27:08,418 --> 01:27:10,179
She could have taught me book one.

1850
01:27:10,179 --> 01:27:11,999
She's been listening to all the sermons.

1851
01:27:11,999 --> 01:27:15,020
She's very intelligent, couldn't have gone better.

1852
01:27:15,020 --> 01:27:16,370
So we finished book number one.

1853
01:27:16,370 --> 01:27:18,260
OK, we have her over next week.

1854
01:27:18,260 --> 01:27:19,281
We have another meal.

1855
01:27:19,281 --> 01:27:20,641
We do book two.

1856
01:27:20,641 --> 01:27:22,121
Callie's going through the answers.

1857
01:27:22,121 --> 01:27:23,902
Once again, she gets them all right.

1858
01:27:23,902 --> 01:27:27,462
fact, when it came to the Lord's Supper, I asked a question.

1859
01:27:27,682 --> 01:27:30,303
I said, Callie, do these passages?

1860
01:27:30,529 --> 01:27:32,120
Do they cause you to have any questions?

1861
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:32,630
Well, Mr.

1862
01:27:32,630 --> 01:27:40,004
Rob, I know my church doesn't do the Lord's Supper like the Bible says, but you know, the
Bible says the first day of the week and I think that's when we need to do it.

1863
01:27:41,025 --> 01:27:42,636
So, okay, she accepts it.

1864
01:27:42,636 --> 01:27:43,826
She doesn't argue with it.

1865
01:27:43,826 --> 01:27:46,418
And so I can see that she's getting the concept.

1866
01:27:46,418 --> 01:27:54,832
She's not arguing with the Bible because there's some conflicts and she might look back at
her home church and says, you know, they just do it monthly there or quarterly there.

1867
01:27:54,832 --> 01:27:56,073
so Callie accepts it.

1868
01:27:56,073 --> 01:27:57,654
So now we're in the third study.

1869
01:27:57,654 --> 01:27:59,615
She's sitting across the table.

1870
01:28:00,919 --> 01:28:02,279
She's going to ask.

1871
01:28:03,119 --> 01:28:04,479
So let me stop.

1872
01:28:04,559 --> 01:28:11,599
One of the traits or characteristics of an evangelist is that you need to anticipate the
questions.

1873
01:28:12,039 --> 01:28:13,879
What's she going to ask, Michael?

1874
01:28:14,959 --> 01:28:16,119
What's she going to ask me?

1875
01:28:16,119 --> 01:28:17,039
Where's my dad?

1876
01:28:17,039 --> 01:28:18,019
That's right.

1877
01:28:19,019 --> 01:28:20,219
Where's my dad?

1878
01:28:20,619 --> 01:28:22,019
You know it's coming.

1879
01:28:22,119 --> 01:28:23,319
I mean, she's 20 years old.

1880
01:28:23,319 --> 01:28:24,059
She's lost her dad.

1881
01:28:24,059 --> 01:28:25,539
She's going to ask.

1882
01:28:25,539 --> 01:28:30,539
So I know I'm sitting across the table, and I'm going to get that question, so I'm
prepared for it.

1883
01:28:31,040 --> 01:28:32,102
I've thought about this.

1884
01:28:32,102 --> 01:28:34,425
I've spent a year thinking about it.

1885
01:28:34,425 --> 01:28:37,770
In fact, the very night her father passed away, I'm thinking about it.

1886
01:28:37,770 --> 01:28:43,960
Because I know that if I don't have a prepared answer for this, my words could either hurt
or heal.

1887
01:28:43,960 --> 01:28:45,881
They can either help or...

1888
01:28:46,879 --> 01:28:47,719
are hindered.

1889
01:28:47,719 --> 01:28:50,240
And so at this point, it's coming.

1890
01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:54,382
So we're going through this Bible study, right, and she's accepting what the Bible says.

1891
01:28:54,382 --> 01:28:56,863
On sin, she's all in, right?

1892
01:28:56,863 --> 01:29:01,485
She couldn't be any more clear and understanding.

1893
01:29:01,485 --> 01:29:03,125
We go through belief, she's there.

1894
01:29:03,125 --> 01:29:04,206
Repentance, she's there.

1895
01:29:04,206 --> 01:29:05,446
Confession, she's there.

1896
01:29:05,446 --> 01:29:07,047
We go through baptism.

1897
01:29:09,761 --> 01:29:10,846
She gets it.

1898
01:29:13,727 --> 01:29:15,503
Her eyes filled with tears.

1899
01:29:17,601 --> 01:29:19,207
They drip down her face.

1900
01:29:22,315 --> 01:29:23,816
They fell on the table.

1901
01:29:24,377 --> 01:29:25,758
They pulled up.

1902
01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:29,783
And she lays her head on the table and she just falls.

1903
01:29:32,117 --> 01:29:33,097
She knows.

1904
01:29:35,767 --> 01:29:40,607
My wife put her arm around her and held her and I just let her cry.

1905
01:29:41,547 --> 01:29:46,207
One of the men that I consulted with before I did this Bible study was Keith Mosher.

1906
01:29:46,787 --> 01:29:48,747
I said, over to Mosher, I need help.

1907
01:29:48,747 --> 01:29:50,187
I know what's coming.

1908
01:29:50,267 --> 01:29:50,947
What do I do?

1909
01:29:50,947 --> 01:29:53,067
He says, when she cries, let her cry, Rob.

1910
01:29:53,267 --> 01:29:54,907
Don't stop her.

1911
01:29:55,567 --> 01:29:57,527
He says, you can't stop this.

1912
01:29:57,527 --> 01:29:58,827
You got to let her cry.

1913
01:29:58,827 --> 01:30:00,587
I reached out to a lot of preachers.

1914
01:30:00,587 --> 01:30:01,467
What am I going to do?

1915
01:30:01,467 --> 01:30:03,227
Because it's going to come.

1916
01:30:05,695 --> 01:30:07,456
tears started to clear up.

1917
01:30:07,456 --> 01:30:12,438
Callie picked her head off the table, looked at me and I said, Callie, said, I know why
you're crying.

1918
01:30:13,479 --> 01:30:15,679
I said, you're worried about your dad, aren't you?

1919
01:30:15,860 --> 01:30:16,650
And she said, Mr.

1920
01:30:16,650 --> 01:30:18,481
Rob, what about my dad, Mr.

1921
01:30:18,481 --> 01:30:19,742
Rob, what's going to happen to him?

1922
01:30:19,742 --> 01:30:20,272
I said, Mr.

1923
01:30:20,272 --> 01:30:22,903
Callie, said, you know what, I'm not the judge.

1924
01:30:22,903 --> 01:30:25,144
I don't determine those things.

1925
01:30:25,565 --> 01:30:27,745
I said, Callie, I can help you.

1926
01:30:27,826 --> 01:30:28,856
And she said, what do mean?

1927
01:30:28,856 --> 01:30:31,039
I said, well, I just need to know more about your dad.

1928
01:30:31,039 --> 01:30:32,920
I said, tell me about your dad.

1929
01:30:32,920 --> 01:30:33,860
Was he a good man?

1930
01:30:33,860 --> 01:30:34,681
Well, yes, Mr.

1931
01:30:34,681 --> 01:30:35,941
Rob, he was a good man.

1932
01:30:35,941 --> 01:30:37,642
I said, well, tell me, what does that mean?

1933
01:30:37,642 --> 01:30:39,402
She tells me some stories about her dad.

1934
01:30:39,402 --> 01:30:40,759
Now she's smiling.

1935
01:30:40,759 --> 01:30:42,124
That's what I wanted.

1936
01:30:42,124 --> 01:30:44,064
I said, Cali, was your dad a religious man?

1937
01:30:44,064 --> 01:30:44,895
Did he believe in?

1938
01:30:44,895 --> 01:30:46,342
yes, Rob, he believed in God.

1939
01:30:46,342 --> 01:30:47,766
I said, well, great, Cali.

1940
01:30:47,766 --> 01:30:51,798
I said, Cali, was your dad a hardworking man, an honest man?

1941
01:30:51,798 --> 01:30:52,598
Yes, Mr.

1942
01:30:52,598 --> 01:30:52,858
Rob.

1943
01:30:52,858 --> 01:30:54,088
I said, well, tell me.

1944
01:30:55,849 --> 01:30:59,991
Hey, Cali, did anybody ever teach your dad what I just taught you?

1945
01:31:00,159 --> 01:31:01,470
She said, I don't know Mr.

1946
01:31:01,470 --> 01:31:01,830
Rob.

1947
01:31:01,830 --> 01:31:03,040
I said, okay.

1948
01:31:03,441 --> 01:31:13,307
I said, Kelly, if your dad could come back right now and he could talk to you and you
could listen to his words, Kelly, would your dad to tell you to do what the Bible says?

1949
01:31:13,867 --> 01:31:14,598
She said, well, Mr.

1950
01:31:14,598 --> 01:31:16,899
Rob, my dad would always tell me to do what the Bible says.

1951
01:31:16,899 --> 01:31:18,590
I said, I believe that.

1952
01:31:18,911 --> 01:31:22,233
I said, Kelly, I'll make a promise to you at this table.

1953
01:31:22,233 --> 01:31:26,175
I will ask you to do no more or no less than what the Bible says.

1954
01:31:26,837 --> 01:31:30,594
And I think if your dad would want you to do what the Bible says, you probably should do
that.

1955
01:31:33,431 --> 01:31:34,822
Callie looked at me and she said, Mr.

1956
01:31:34,822 --> 01:31:36,572
Rob, the Bible says I need to be baptized.

1957
01:31:36,572 --> 01:31:38,553
I said, that's what the Bible says.

1958
01:31:38,693 --> 01:31:39,924
I said, what do you want to do, Callie?

1959
01:31:39,924 --> 01:31:41,465
She says, I need to be baptized, Rob.

1960
01:31:41,465 --> 01:31:42,275
And I said, good.

1961
01:31:42,275 --> 01:31:43,515
I said, let's go.

1962
01:31:43,535 --> 01:31:44,636
So we got out of the table.

1963
01:31:44,636 --> 01:31:46,557
We started walking to the Baptist tree.

1964
01:31:46,557 --> 01:31:47,517
We got halfway there.

1965
01:31:47,517 --> 01:31:48,998
She turned around and walked back.

1966
01:31:48,998 --> 01:31:50,698
She sat around the table.

1967
01:31:50,759 --> 01:31:52,119
I said, Callie, everything OK?

1968
01:31:52,119 --> 01:31:52,960
She says, Mr.

1969
01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:54,300
Rob, she says, you know what?

1970
01:31:54,300 --> 01:31:56,601
I've decided to wait on my brother.

1971
01:31:56,601 --> 01:31:58,142
You know, my brother's been coming, Mr.

1972
01:31:58,142 --> 01:31:58,982
Rob.

1973
01:31:58,982 --> 01:32:00,949
And I think I need to wait on my brother.

1974
01:32:00,949 --> 01:32:05,000
I said, well, Callie, I said, I wish every brother had a sister like you.

1975
01:32:05,020 --> 01:32:06,401
And he said, well, why is that, Mr.

1976
01:32:06,401 --> 01:32:06,591
Bob?

1977
01:32:06,591 --> 01:32:08,742
I said, because you want him to become a Christian.

1978
01:32:08,742 --> 01:32:11,203
I said, every brother needs a sister just like you.

1979
01:32:11,203 --> 01:32:14,194
And she said, well, I want him to be a Christian too.

1980
01:32:14,194 --> 01:32:15,724
I said, me too.

1981
01:32:15,864 --> 01:32:20,746
I said, Callie, how are you going to get your brother to become a Christian?

1982
01:32:20,746 --> 01:32:22,767
Remember, I just ask questions.

1983
01:32:22,767 --> 01:32:24,267
I don't make statements.

1984
01:32:24,767 --> 01:32:25,488
She said, well, Mr.

1985
01:32:25,488 --> 01:32:27,401
Rob, I was thinking we'd use these little booklets.

1986
01:32:27,401 --> 01:32:29,054
I said, well, that sounds good.

1987
01:32:29,054 --> 01:32:30,756
And we'd sit down and do these Bibles.

1988
01:32:30,756 --> 01:32:32,219
I think that's a good approach.

1989
01:32:32,219 --> 01:32:35,504
And Callie, when do you want him to book them?

1990
01:32:35,504 --> 01:32:35,994
Well, Mr.

1991
01:32:35,994 --> 01:32:37,506
Rob, when we finished about.

1992
01:32:39,711 --> 01:32:39,991
Mr.

1993
01:32:39,991 --> 01:32:41,893
Robert, you tried to tell me something.

1994
01:32:41,893 --> 01:32:44,114
I said, well, no, I'm just asking questions, Callie.

1995
01:32:44,114 --> 01:32:45,935
When do you want him to become a Christian?

1996
01:32:45,935 --> 01:32:47,727
When we finished the Bible study, Mr.

1997
01:32:47,727 --> 01:32:47,997
Rob.

1998
01:32:47,997 --> 01:32:51,759
You don't want him to She said, no, Mr.

1999
01:32:51,759 --> 01:32:52,380
Rob.

2000
01:32:52,380 --> 01:32:54,921
I said, no, Callie, most people don't travel down roads.

2001
01:32:54,921 --> 01:32:56,723
Other people don't travel down first.

2002
01:32:56,723 --> 01:32:58,524
Someone has to be the first.

2003
01:32:59,905 --> 01:33:02,426
I said, would it be OK if you showed him the way?

2004
01:33:03,668 --> 01:33:04,268
She said, Mr.

2005
01:33:04,268 --> 01:33:05,449
Rob, I need to be baptized.

2006
01:33:05,449 --> 01:33:07,049
I said, I know, Callie.

2007
01:33:07,310 --> 01:33:08,991
I said, let's do it right now.

2008
01:33:10,071 --> 01:33:13,893
and we took her to the baptistry and she was baptized.

2009
01:33:13,893 --> 01:33:20,135
Isn't it interesting how just asking simple questions, people can reason through difficult
situations.

2010
01:33:20,135 --> 01:33:22,236
Here's some things that took me a lifetime to learn.

2011
01:33:22,236 --> 01:33:25,777
I'm 50 years old, it feels like a lifetime.

2012
01:33:27,038 --> 01:33:29,039
Stop telling people what to do.

2013
01:33:29,431 --> 01:33:31,251
Brother, I am not here to tell you what to do.

2014
01:33:31,251 --> 01:33:35,651
I'm here to ask questions, read the Bible, and you can figure it out.

2015
01:33:35,651 --> 01:33:42,951
I really believe in this audience tonight, if people will be honest, read their Bibles,
and reason, you'll come to the truth.

2016
01:33:42,951 --> 01:33:44,671
You don't need me to tell you.

2017
01:33:44,671 --> 01:33:46,010
You're smart.

2018
01:33:46,151 --> 01:33:46,751
Callie's smart.

2019
01:33:46,751 --> 01:33:48,651
She doesn't need me to tell her what to do.

2020
01:33:48,651 --> 01:33:50,511
She knows what the Bible says.

2021
01:33:50,511 --> 01:33:54,171
And you know, I'm not the first person who has said it like this.

2022
01:33:54,171 --> 01:33:59,311
Because in Luke chapter 16, verse number 19, there was a rich man.

2023
01:34:00,343 --> 01:34:02,724
And he fared sumptuously every day.

2024
01:34:02,844 --> 01:34:04,765
And the Bible said there was a beggar.

2025
01:34:04,765 --> 01:34:13,608
And he sat at the gate full of swords, and desiring to be fed from the crumbs that fell
from the rich man's table below where the dog came and licked his swords.

2026
01:34:13,668 --> 01:34:20,351
And the Bible says the beggar died, and he was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom,
and the rich man died.

2027
01:34:20,975 --> 01:34:24,518
And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments.

2028
01:34:24,579 --> 01:34:28,432
And he Abraham fall off, and he says, Father Abraham, I've got five brethren.

2029
01:34:28,432 --> 01:34:34,168
Father Abraham, send me back, that I may testify to them, lest they come into this place
of torment.

2030
01:34:34,168 --> 01:34:38,282
Abraham said, son, they have Moses and the prophets.

2031
01:34:38,282 --> 01:34:39,653
Let them hear them.

2032
01:34:39,813 --> 01:34:42,195
He said, but Father Abraham, they won't listen.

2033
01:34:42,195 --> 01:34:45,678
If one were wise from the dead, they would repent.

2034
01:34:48,575 --> 01:34:51,527
So neither a foot would rise from the dead, they repent.

2035
01:34:53,675 --> 01:35:00,707
I'm wondering right now if your mother could come back and talk to you.

2036
01:35:01,309 --> 01:35:04,794
Say, honey, what would she tell you to do?

2037
01:35:06,891 --> 01:35:08,992
Because I know what she would tell you to do.

2038
01:35:09,953 --> 01:35:12,851
I don't need to know your mother, but I know what she'd tell you to do.

2039
01:35:12,851 --> 01:35:14,815
I know what your grandmother would tell you.

2040
01:35:14,815 --> 01:35:16,656
I know what your grandfather would tell you.

2041
01:35:16,656 --> 01:35:18,617
I know what your son would tell you.

2042
01:35:18,898 --> 01:35:23,860
Because I know that the message coming from the grave, I know exactly what they would tell
you to do.

2043
01:35:23,860 --> 01:35:26,601
They would say, you do what the Bible says.

2044
01:35:27,922 --> 01:35:32,685
Brethren, everybody on the other side of eternity wants you to do what the Bible says.

2045
01:35:33,546 --> 01:35:36,567
Everybody believes in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

2046
01:35:36,851 --> 01:35:38,062
I don't have to judge them.

2047
01:35:38,062 --> 01:35:40,454
It's not my job to tell you where they're at.

2048
01:35:40,454 --> 01:35:43,356
But I know what they tell you to do, don't you, Michael?

2049
01:35:43,397 --> 01:35:45,018
They tell you the truth.

2050
01:35:45,559 --> 01:35:47,680
And that's all I want is the truth.

2051
01:35:48,061 --> 01:35:49,902
Tell me the truth.

2052
01:35:53,943 --> 01:35:55,123
This is Chandler.

2053
01:35:56,143 --> 01:35:57,783
This is her brother.

2054
01:36:00,063 --> 01:36:04,723
And Callie went home and she did something that I should have anticipated.

2055
01:36:04,723 --> 01:36:06,223
And I didn't.

2056
01:36:06,543 --> 01:36:09,363
And I anticipate it now, but I didn't then.

2057
01:36:09,463 --> 01:36:11,383
Mama, I need to tell you what I did.

2058
01:36:11,383 --> 01:36:12,463
What did you do, honey?

2059
01:36:12,463 --> 01:36:13,481
Well, mama, I've been going.

2060
01:36:13,481 --> 01:36:16,022
church you know over at Willette with my boyfriend Clifton.

2061
01:36:16,022 --> 01:36:18,764
Yes honey I've been doing these Bible studies with Mr.

2062
01:36:18,764 --> 01:36:19,184
Rob.

2063
01:36:19,184 --> 01:36:19,734
Who's Mr.

2064
01:36:19,734 --> 01:36:20,064
Rob?

2065
01:36:20,064 --> 01:36:21,475
Well it's the preacher down there.

2066
01:36:21,475 --> 01:36:23,896
kind of Bible studies honey?

2067
01:36:23,896 --> 01:36:26,584
Well I just wanted to know more about what they believe.

2068
01:36:26,584 --> 01:36:28,809
Mama and I learned that I needed to be baptized.

2069
01:36:28,809 --> 01:36:29,979
I did what?

2070
01:36:30,835 --> 01:36:33,956
Mama, the Bible says, that believes and is baptized shall be saved.

2071
01:36:33,956 --> 01:36:35,317
And I didn't know that, Mama.

2072
01:36:35,317 --> 01:36:37,188
And Mama, I want to show you what the Bible says.

2073
01:36:37,188 --> 01:36:38,528
What do you mean, buddy?

2074
01:36:38,528 --> 01:36:39,879
Well, let's just read it together.

2075
01:36:39,879 --> 01:36:41,200
I don't want to read that.

2076
01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:44,421
But Mama, says, he that believes and is baptized shall be saved.

2077
01:36:44,421 --> 01:36:45,171
I didn't know that.

2078
01:36:45,171 --> 01:36:46,082
I've never done that.

2079
01:36:46,082 --> 01:36:47,052
And I was baptized.

2080
01:36:47,052 --> 01:36:48,162
were what?

2081
01:36:49,343 --> 01:36:52,865
I was baptized because the Bible says, honey, you know we don't believe that.

2082
01:36:52,865 --> 01:36:55,106
But Mama, says it right here in the Bible, Mama.

2083
01:36:55,106 --> 01:36:58,267
But honey, you know that our family doesn't believe like that.

2084
01:36:58,679 --> 01:37:00,080
just wanted to do what the Bible says.

2085
01:37:00,080 --> 01:37:02,442
Honey, how dare you go behind my back like that.

2086
01:37:02,442 --> 01:37:04,863
But mom, I just wanted to do what the Bible says.

2087
01:37:04,863 --> 01:37:08,365
Honey, how dare you dishonor this family like that.

2088
01:37:09,407 --> 01:37:10,397
It's over.

2089
01:37:12,481 --> 01:37:17,553
Clifton says she just collapsed, rolled up into a ball, and she sobbed.

2090
01:37:18,134 --> 01:37:19,374
He calls me.

2091
01:37:20,295 --> 01:37:21,835
Rob, hey, Clifton.

2092
01:37:21,835 --> 01:37:23,716
It's a great day, isn't it?

2093
01:37:24,537 --> 01:37:28,418
He said, He says she went home and told mama.

2094
01:37:28,590 --> 01:37:29,919
I said, what do mean?

2095
01:37:29,979 --> 01:37:31,261
Her mom was upset, Rob.

2096
01:37:31,261 --> 01:37:32,824
I said, what do mean she's upset?

2097
01:37:32,824 --> 01:37:34,627
She says they don't believe like this.

2098
01:37:34,627 --> 01:37:36,791
I said, what do you mean?

2099
01:37:36,791 --> 01:37:38,594
And he explains the situation.

2100
01:37:38,594 --> 01:37:40,157
He said, Rob, I don't know what to do.

2101
01:37:40,157 --> 01:37:41,058
Mom's upset.

2102
01:37:41,058 --> 01:37:42,270
She's upset now.

2103
01:37:42,270 --> 01:37:43,070
What are we going to do?

2104
01:37:43,070 --> 01:37:44,062
And I said,

2105
01:37:45,973 --> 01:37:46,944
I don't know.

2106
01:37:48,103 --> 01:37:49,471
I said, I don't know.

2107
01:37:49,873 --> 01:37:54,143
I said, I cannot believe that this has happened.

2108
01:37:55,735 --> 01:37:57,375
I said, Clifton, give me some time.

2109
01:37:57,375 --> 01:37:58,715
I need to think.

2110
01:37:58,895 --> 01:38:04,095
So I hung up the phone, and I decided that I needed to reach out to the wisest people I
knew.

2111
01:38:04,095 --> 01:38:05,475
How do you handle this?

2112
01:38:05,475 --> 01:38:06,495
And so I reached out.

2113
01:38:06,495 --> 01:38:07,335
I made phone calls.

2114
01:38:07,335 --> 01:38:11,095
And I finally found an elder that I thought would help me.

2115
01:38:11,095 --> 01:38:14,055
And his name's Hugh Wayne Clark, one of the wisest men I've ever met.

2116
01:38:14,055 --> 01:38:16,635
And he said, Rob, says, here's what needs to happen.

2117
01:38:16,635 --> 01:38:19,195
He says, you need me.

2118
01:38:20,213 --> 01:38:23,745
and Joe to have them in our home and we'll help them.

2119
01:38:23,745 --> 01:38:26,746
And you stay at Bible, I was at Bible camp that day.

2120
01:38:26,746 --> 01:38:30,847
You stay at Bible camp and you teach the children, I'm an elder, I'll do my job.

2121
01:38:31,988 --> 01:38:40,171
And so sure enough, he has them over to the house and she's at the house and she's eating
together and she finally start telling Hugh Wayne about what's going on.

2122
01:38:40,171 --> 01:38:42,612
It's a very difficult discussion.

2123
01:38:42,612 --> 01:38:48,194
She tells about how her mama was upset with her and finally after that discussion.

2124
01:38:50,635 --> 01:38:58,357
He went and says, Callie, if I was your mother and you came home and told me what you just
told me, I'd be upset too.

2125
01:38:58,807 --> 01:39:00,007
What do you mean Mr.

2126
01:39:00,007 --> 01:39:00,287
Hugh Wayne?

2127
01:39:00,287 --> 01:39:01,487
Do you think I did the wrong thing?

2128
01:39:01,487 --> 01:39:02,866
I didn't say that.

2129
01:39:02,866 --> 01:39:08,227
Callie, has anybody ever taught your mother what, anybody ever taught your mother what you
were taught?

2130
01:39:08,227 --> 01:39:09,867
Did she know what you knew?

2131
01:39:09,867 --> 01:39:10,607
Well no Mr.

2132
01:39:10,607 --> 01:39:12,687
Hugh Wayne, one ever taught me that.

2133
01:39:12,707 --> 01:39:13,787
No, I've never taught my mother.

2134
01:39:13,787 --> 01:39:17,007
So your mother did not know what you know, no?

2135
01:39:17,067 --> 01:39:23,667
So you can understand when you started telling your mother about this, she's gonna get
upset because no one's ever had a Bible study with your mother.

2136
01:39:23,667 --> 01:39:24,447
No.

2137
01:39:24,747 --> 01:39:25,687
Callie?

2138
01:39:26,229 --> 01:39:30,122
If you're faithful to God, one day you're gonna lead your mother to Christ.

2139
01:39:30,663 --> 01:39:32,244
One day, not today.

2140
01:39:32,725 --> 01:39:34,786
Here's what needs to happen.

2141
01:39:34,786 --> 01:39:41,632
Be faithful to God and understand that in about three weeks, your mother's gonna be this
much less angry with you.

2142
01:39:41,632 --> 01:39:42,913
You won't notice.

2143
01:39:43,674 --> 01:39:48,518
And in about three months from now, she'll be this much less angry and you're gonna go
shopping for shoes.

2144
01:39:48,518 --> 01:39:50,300
And he says, how do you know that Mr.

2145
01:39:50,300 --> 01:39:50,700
Hugh Wayne?

2146
01:39:50,700 --> 01:39:54,383
Because your mother loves you, Callie, and she won't be angry forever.

2147
01:39:55,531 --> 01:39:59,014
But you have to be faithful because one day if you're faithful, you'll lead your mother to
Christ.

2148
01:39:59,014 --> 01:40:07,600
If you give up, if you give up and turn back any hope your mother has of being a Christian
is gone.

2149
01:40:08,281 --> 01:40:10,143
You where she was the next Sunday?

2150
01:40:10,143 --> 01:40:11,784
Sitting in the pew worshiping God.

2151
01:40:11,784 --> 01:40:14,466
She never missed, but he's not there.

2152
01:40:14,466 --> 01:40:16,011
Clifton is gone.

2153
01:40:16,011 --> 01:40:20,371
And I said, Clifton, Kelly, where's Chandler?

2154
01:40:20,371 --> 01:40:22,733
My mother forbid him to ever come back to this church.

2155
01:40:22,733 --> 01:40:23,073
Mr.

2156
01:40:23,073 --> 01:40:24,854
Rob, now what are we going to do?

2157
01:40:25,271 --> 01:40:28,631
I said, I said, I'll tell you what.

2158
01:40:28,911 --> 01:40:31,911
Callie, back on the evangelism table, there's these little booklets.

2159
01:40:32,111 --> 01:40:34,071
And luckily, I have a second set.

2160
01:40:34,651 --> 01:40:36,431
You took my first set.

2161
01:40:36,431 --> 01:40:39,771
And so, and I want you to go grab three sets.

2162
01:40:39,771 --> 01:40:41,391
And why do we need those, Mr.

2163
01:40:41,391 --> 01:40:41,531
Rob?

2164
01:40:41,531 --> 01:40:43,451
I said, because you're going to teach Chandler the gospel.

2165
01:40:43,451 --> 01:40:44,071
Me, Mr.

2166
01:40:44,071 --> 01:40:44,211
Rob?

2167
01:40:44,211 --> 01:40:44,431
Mr.

2168
01:40:44,431 --> 01:40:44,851
Rob?

2169
01:40:44,851 --> 01:40:45,931
I don't, I don't know.

2170
01:40:45,931 --> 01:40:47,351
I'm just a new Christian, Mr.

2171
01:40:47,351 --> 01:40:47,551
Rob.

2172
01:40:47,551 --> 01:40:48,931
I can't teach him the gospel.

2173
01:40:48,931 --> 01:40:51,111
I said, you can read, can't you?

2174
01:40:51,851 --> 01:40:54,131
Go teach him the gospel.

2175
01:40:55,041 --> 01:40:56,151
Know what she did?

2176
01:40:56,872 --> 01:40:58,412
They taught him the gospel.

2177
01:40:59,193 --> 01:41:03,955
It's amazing what happens when the members believe they don't need me.

2178
01:41:05,356 --> 01:41:06,637
They don't need me.

2179
01:41:06,997 --> 01:41:08,338
You can do it too.

2180
01:41:09,158 --> 01:41:10,889
The members are doing it.

2181
01:41:14,047 --> 01:41:21,972
I noticed sitting next to Chandler after a couple months was a young man and I noticed he
was a, he's not a member.

2182
01:41:21,972 --> 01:41:24,343
I walked up to Chandler, said, Chandler, who do you got with you today?

2183
01:41:24,343 --> 01:41:25,654
that's my best friend Marshall.

2184
01:41:25,654 --> 01:41:26,594
Really?

2185
01:41:26,914 --> 01:41:27,955
Marshall, we're glad you're here.

2186
01:41:27,955 --> 01:41:29,696
Been listening to your sermons, Mr.

2187
01:41:29,696 --> 01:41:30,586
Rob, I like them.

2188
01:41:30,586 --> 01:41:31,767
I said, what, really?

2189
01:41:31,767 --> 01:41:34,979
He yeah, you like, I like the Bible preaching you do.

2190
01:41:35,927 --> 01:41:36,947
I said, thanks, Marshall.

2191
01:41:36,947 --> 01:41:39,047
I said, Chandler, have you taught Marshall the gospel?

2192
01:41:39,087 --> 01:41:39,847
Me, Mr.

2193
01:41:39,847 --> 01:41:39,967
Rob?

2194
01:41:39,967 --> 01:41:40,267
Mr.

2195
01:41:40,267 --> 01:41:41,867
Rob, I don't know what I'm talking about.

2196
01:41:41,867 --> 01:41:45,647
I said, Chandler, back on the evangelism table, there's these little booklets.

2197
01:41:45,667 --> 01:41:46,807
They're called Back to the Bible.

2198
01:41:46,807 --> 01:41:49,807
I want you to grab two sets and teach Marshall the gospel.

2199
01:41:49,967 --> 01:41:50,307
Mr.

2200
01:41:50,307 --> 01:41:51,527
Rob, I just became a Christian.

2201
01:41:51,527 --> 01:41:53,267
I said, I know, but you can read.

2202
01:41:56,257 --> 01:41:59,732
What happens when our young people start evangelizing?

2203
01:41:59,733 --> 01:42:01,354
They convert their friends.

2204
01:42:03,991 --> 01:42:05,831
You want to keep the young people saved?

2205
01:42:05,831 --> 01:42:07,431
Teach them how to be soul winners.

2206
01:42:07,811 --> 01:42:14,831
Stop taking them to every Bible camp and every retreat and every youth rally and every
youth day and celebrating themselves.

2207
01:42:15,011 --> 01:42:18,291
Eventually, they're going to not be able to celebrate themselves.

2208
01:42:18,391 --> 01:42:20,611
Eventually, we need to teach them how to do Bible studies.

2209
01:42:20,611 --> 01:42:22,791
And we need to teach them how to reach the lost.

2210
01:42:22,791 --> 01:42:29,271
And so when we teach them how to do that, I'm telling you what, I know where Chandler is
on Sundays.

2211
01:42:29,391 --> 01:42:31,411
He'll never forget what he did.

2212
01:42:33,995 --> 01:42:36,456
By the way, I was in Jackson, Mississippi.

2213
01:42:36,456 --> 01:42:38,237
Gary Hempton is the preacher.

2214
01:42:38,237 --> 01:42:40,358
And I was about to get into the pulpit and start preaching.

2215
01:42:40,358 --> 01:42:41,108
My phone rang.

2216
01:42:41,108 --> 01:42:41,757
I looked down.

2217
01:42:41,757 --> 01:42:42,399
It was Willette.

2218
01:42:42,399 --> 01:42:43,930
That's I used to preach.

2219
01:42:43,930 --> 01:42:44,987
I had to answer it.

2220
01:42:44,987 --> 01:42:46,221
was an emergency.

2221
01:42:46,221 --> 01:42:48,212
Sunday morning, I kneeled down.

2222
01:42:48,212 --> 01:42:49,562
said, hello?

2223
01:42:49,562 --> 01:42:50,513
Bob, this is Jack.

2224
01:42:50,513 --> 01:42:51,923
I said, Jack, what's going on?

2225
01:42:51,923 --> 01:42:55,805
He said, Rob, you'll never guess who just walked through the doors.

2226
01:42:57,226 --> 01:42:58,906
It's their mother, Rob.

2227
01:42:59,307 --> 01:43:00,367
She's here.

2228
01:43:02,709 --> 01:43:06,391
and her son baptized her into Christ for the remission of her sins.

2229
01:43:07,297 --> 01:43:09,322
Now that's the power of the gospel.

2230
01:43:12,565 --> 01:43:15,866
You're going to experience a lot of questions in Bible studies.

2231
01:43:15,866 --> 01:43:24,240
I wish I had time to run through all the questions that I could possibly think of, and I
will do that at the Memphis School of Preaching, but I can't do it here tonight.

2232
01:43:24,240 --> 01:43:27,801
So if you want to come back in May to the school, I'm going to answer all of them.

2233
01:43:27,801 --> 01:43:30,162
But I am going to deal with some big ones, all right?

2234
01:43:30,162 --> 01:43:32,123
What if they're living together?

2235
01:43:32,267 --> 01:43:33,888
What do do if they're living together?

2236
01:43:33,888 --> 01:43:36,710
And so that was the case with Amy and Evan.

2237
01:43:36,710 --> 01:43:39,711
I told you Sunday that they walked out of the house.

2238
01:43:39,711 --> 01:43:41,062
I thought we're going to the cross.

2239
01:43:41,062 --> 01:43:46,075
Then Satan fired an arrow right through them and a phone rang.

2240
01:43:46,103 --> 01:43:47,643
This is after the second study.

2241
01:43:47,643 --> 01:43:48,683
It was Sheila.

2242
01:43:48,763 --> 01:43:50,063
And Sheila said, Rob?

2243
01:43:50,063 --> 01:43:51,183
I said, yes, Sheila?

2244
01:43:51,183 --> 01:43:53,523
Rob, are Amy and Evan gone?

2245
01:43:53,523 --> 01:43:55,643
I said, yes, they just walked out the door.

2246
01:43:55,983 --> 01:43:57,963
Rob, we got to talk.

2247
01:43:58,203 --> 01:43:59,823
I said, what's going on, Sheila?

2248
01:43:59,823 --> 01:44:02,482
Oh, I raised a boy better than this, Rob.

2249
01:44:02,482 --> 01:44:04,243
I said, well, Sheila, what's going on?

2250
01:44:04,243 --> 01:44:06,443
Oh, God, promise me you won't tell anybody.

2251
01:44:06,443 --> 01:44:08,623
I said, well, I don't know what we're talking about.

2252
01:44:08,623 --> 01:44:10,803
I said, what are we talking about?

2253
01:44:10,803 --> 01:44:12,923
Sheila, oh, Rob.

2254
01:44:14,123 --> 01:44:16,107
Oh, Bob, Evan bought a house in Lafayette.

2255
01:44:16,107 --> 01:44:17,519
I said, I know you're proud of him.

2256
01:44:17,519 --> 01:44:19,340
Rob, listen to me.

2257
01:44:19,561 --> 01:44:22,303
Rob, Amy's moved in, they're living together.

2258
01:44:23,845 --> 01:44:25,146
That's not good.

2259
01:44:25,146 --> 01:44:29,671
No, Rob, I knew since you were doing these Bible studies, you probably needed to know
that.

2260
01:44:29,671 --> 01:44:32,132
I said, yes, that's important information.

2261
01:44:32,132 --> 01:44:34,235
Rob, what are you gonna do about it?

2262
01:44:34,839 --> 01:44:35,359
What do mean?

2263
01:44:35,359 --> 01:44:35,899
What am I doing?

2264
01:44:35,899 --> 01:44:37,299
He's your son.

2265
01:44:38,479 --> 01:44:42,119
And so I did not say that.

2266
01:44:42,119 --> 01:44:43,399
I did not say that.

2267
01:44:43,399 --> 01:44:45,179
I thought it, but I didn't say it.

2268
01:44:45,179 --> 01:44:46,679
And I said, tell you what.

2269
01:44:46,679 --> 01:44:49,539
said, said, Nicole and I are going to talk about it.

2270
01:44:49,539 --> 01:44:51,919
Well, don't tell them that I told you.

2271
01:44:51,919 --> 01:44:53,179
I said, I won't tell them.

2272
01:44:53,179 --> 01:44:56,219
And so I got off the phone, and Nicole and I looked at each other.

2273
01:44:56,379 --> 01:44:57,699
And I said, Nicole, what are we going to do?

2274
01:44:57,699 --> 01:45:01,099
She says, you're going to do what you always do, have a Bible study.

2275
01:45:01,139 --> 01:45:02,939
But then I solved every problem.

2276
01:45:03,607 --> 01:45:08,307
By the way, Larry Aykuff, let me quote him, all church problems are solved in the Baptist
tree.

2277
01:45:08,747 --> 01:45:10,567
You want to solve a church problem?

2278
01:45:10,607 --> 01:45:12,027
You do a Bible study.

2279
01:45:12,207 --> 01:45:13,567
That's where you solve it.

2280
01:45:13,567 --> 01:45:15,747
So I just, came over to the house for the third study.

2281
01:45:15,747 --> 01:45:16,587
We sat around the table.

2282
01:45:16,587 --> 01:45:17,687
They did the study.

2283
01:45:17,687 --> 01:45:20,707
And we got to Act 238.

2284
01:45:20,707 --> 01:45:23,227
And I said, Amy and Evan, the Bible says, what does it say to do?

2285
01:45:23,227 --> 01:45:23,887
They said, repent.

2286
01:45:23,887 --> 01:45:25,627
I said, put it in the blank.

2287
01:45:26,527 --> 01:45:28,247
Hannah, bring the cookies.

2288
01:45:28,967 --> 01:45:30,427
And she said, yes, Dad.

2289
01:45:30,427 --> 01:45:31,587
She brought the cookies.

2290
01:45:31,587 --> 01:45:33,207
I said, we're done today.

2291
01:45:33,863 --> 01:45:34,573
And they said, Mr.

2292
01:45:34,573 --> 01:45:35,824
Robbins says to be baptized.

2293
01:45:35,824 --> 01:45:37,825
I said, I know, but we're done.

2294
01:45:37,825 --> 01:45:38,295
But Mr.

2295
01:45:38,295 --> 01:45:39,244
Robbins says to be baptized.

2296
01:45:39,244 --> 01:45:41,226
I said, I know, but we're finished with the study.

2297
01:45:41,226 --> 01:45:41,686
But Mr.

2298
01:45:41,686 --> 01:45:43,117
Robbins, I said, we're finished.

2299
01:45:43,117 --> 01:45:45,848
by the way, before you leave, enjoy the cookies.

2300
01:45:46,168 --> 01:45:48,389
I said, I do have a story I need to tell you.

2301
01:45:49,350 --> 01:45:55,132
And one thing I learned about Jesus is he likes to tell parables to get them to see it.

2302
01:45:55,132 --> 01:45:56,773
I'm going to tell my parable.

2303
01:45:57,053 --> 01:46:01,455
It's the parable of Terry and Marlena Starks.

2304
01:46:02,535 --> 01:46:05,499
And it's an actual couple that I met in Madisonville, Kentucky.

2305
01:46:05,499 --> 01:46:06,933
They were living together.

2306
01:46:07,881 --> 01:46:15,254
I told them about how we met them, how we studied the Bible, how she moved into our house
for just a short period of time, how we married them, and now they're faithful Christians

2307
01:46:15,254 --> 01:46:16,625
of the Madisonville Church of Christ.

2308
01:46:16,625 --> 01:46:18,456
It's a long story, but I told the story.

2309
01:46:18,456 --> 01:46:23,999
And when I finished the story, I said, by the way, guys, when you're ready to continue the
study, just let me know.

2310
01:46:23,999 --> 01:46:25,019
Call me.

2311
01:46:25,239 --> 01:46:26,400
They walked out of the house.

2312
01:46:26,400 --> 01:46:27,310
They got in their car.

2313
01:46:27,310 --> 01:46:28,311
Amy looks over at Evan.

2314
01:46:28,311 --> 01:46:30,362
She says, Evan, I think they know about us.

2315
01:46:30,362 --> 01:46:32,483
The entire county knew about them.

2316
01:46:32,483 --> 01:46:33,383
It's a small town.

2317
01:46:33,383 --> 01:46:34,463
Nothing's a secret.

2318
01:46:34,463 --> 01:46:37,065
And so any case, two weeks later, she calls me.

2319
01:46:37,065 --> 01:46:37,785
Well, I can't

2320
01:46:37,785 --> 01:46:39,685
like this anymore." I said, live like what?

2321
01:46:39,685 --> 01:46:41,005
Rob, just can't do this anymore.

2322
01:46:41,005 --> 01:46:42,245
I said, do what Amy?

2323
01:46:42,305 --> 01:46:45,125
Oh Rob, you know I'm living with Evan.

2324
01:46:45,585 --> 01:46:47,165
I said, oh.

2325
01:46:47,205 --> 01:46:48,125
I said, okay.

2326
01:46:48,125 --> 01:46:49,965
I said, Evan, said, Amy, where you going?

2327
01:46:49,965 --> 01:46:51,385
She said, I'm gonna live with my grandmother.

2328
01:46:51,385 --> 01:46:52,685
I said, that's a good choice.

2329
01:46:52,685 --> 01:46:54,465
Rob, can you meet me at the building?

2330
01:46:54,465 --> 01:46:56,265
Rob, I need to be baptized.

2331
01:46:56,705 --> 01:46:58,145
I'll be right there, Amy.

2332
01:46:59,545 --> 01:47:02,345
Good, because Evan will be right behind me.

2333
01:47:02,345 --> 01:47:03,625
He was.

2334
01:47:04,845 --> 01:47:06,945
And he has been ever since.

2335
01:47:09,072 --> 01:47:10,397
Isn't it beautiful?

2336
01:47:12,361 --> 01:47:13,852
Isn't it beautiful, Michael?

2337
01:47:14,333 --> 01:47:15,754
That's the gospel.

2338
01:47:17,176 --> 01:47:18,857
That's what the gospel does.

2339
01:47:19,919 --> 01:47:21,130
You want to solve problems?

2340
01:47:21,130 --> 01:47:22,211
Do it in your Bible study.

2341
01:47:22,211 --> 01:47:24,403
You don't need to be a pop psychologist.

2342
01:47:24,444 --> 01:47:26,426
You don't need to be a psychoanalyst.

2343
01:47:26,426 --> 01:47:28,147
You don't have to be a therapist.

2344
01:47:28,147 --> 01:47:30,270
What we need is apply the Bible.

2345
01:47:30,270 --> 01:47:32,732
This book will solve almost every problem.

2346
01:47:32,732 --> 01:47:35,959
If we just trust the power of this book and people are...

2347
01:47:35,959 --> 01:47:40,820
We just ask questions and then let them hear the simplicity of gospel preaching.

2348
01:47:40,820 --> 01:47:42,701
They'll see it.

2349
01:47:43,621 --> 01:47:45,342
But if we don't teach them, they won't.

2350
01:47:45,342 --> 01:47:46,842
If we're afraid, they won't.

2351
01:47:46,842 --> 01:47:49,583
If we never teach them, they'll never see it.

2352
01:47:50,903 --> 01:47:54,444
I'm gonna deal with one more question and then we're gonna be done for this evening.

2353
01:47:54,444 --> 01:47:55,894
And I'll need about five more minutes.

2354
01:47:55,894 --> 01:47:57,165
All right.

2355
01:47:57,165 --> 01:48:05,187
So I'm sitting in the living room and Sharon Fisher's sitting there and she says, she
says, Robin, my first marriage.

2356
01:48:06,901 --> 01:48:09,820
The last thing I wanted to hear was a first marriage.

2357
01:48:09,820 --> 01:48:10,881
And I said,

2358
01:48:11,349 --> 01:48:13,161
And so she tells me about this first marriage.

2359
01:48:13,161 --> 01:48:16,002
I don't know much about it, but she tells me a little bit about it.

2360
01:48:16,263 --> 01:48:19,986
so I've got some questions.

2361
01:48:20,287 --> 01:48:22,048
What do I do with that information?

2362
01:48:22,048 --> 01:48:25,611
She's exposed that she has multiple marriages.

2363
01:48:25,611 --> 01:48:27,252
I don't know much about it.

2364
01:48:27,252 --> 01:48:30,155
I could stop at that point and have an inquisition.

2365
01:48:30,155 --> 01:48:32,306
I could ask lots of questions.

2366
01:48:32,306 --> 01:48:35,679
I could try to pin it down and find out the details.

2367
01:48:35,679 --> 01:48:36,680
But I just met them.

2368
01:48:36,680 --> 01:48:38,622
This is the first time they've ever been in my house.

2369
01:48:38,622 --> 01:48:39,922
So what did I do?

2370
01:48:40,297 --> 01:48:41,967
I practiced John 16-12.

2371
01:48:42,808 --> 01:48:48,431
John 16-12 is a very important passage because it helps me understand how to approach
people.

2372
01:48:48,431 --> 01:48:51,352
And this is Jesus speaking to his disciples and he says something.

2373
01:48:51,352 --> 01:48:56,864
says, I have many things to say to you, but you can't bear them now.

2374
01:48:56,864 --> 01:48:58,875
What does that mean?

2375
01:49:00,187 --> 01:49:01,186
What does that mean, brother?

2376
01:49:01,186 --> 01:49:02,427
You're a second year student at Memphis.

2377
01:49:02,427 --> 01:49:03,537
What does it mean?

2378
01:49:03,897 --> 01:49:04,778
You can't handle it.

2379
01:49:04,778 --> 01:49:05,498
That's right.

2380
01:49:05,498 --> 01:49:05,898
That's right.

2381
01:49:05,898 --> 01:49:06,819
You're not ready.

2382
01:49:06,819 --> 01:49:07,927
You're not ready.

2383
01:49:07,927 --> 01:49:12,247
So there's some things I need to teach you, but I can't teach you right now because you're
not ready.

2384
01:49:12,327 --> 01:49:13,727
So what do we need to do?

2385
01:49:13,727 --> 01:49:16,546
We need to bring them to a point where they are ready.

2386
01:49:16,707 --> 01:49:18,807
So I know that it's going to take time.

2387
01:49:18,807 --> 01:49:20,807
I know that it's going to take us to some time.

2388
01:49:20,807 --> 01:49:23,267
So Nicole and I spent a lot of time with Jimmy and Sharon.

2389
01:49:23,267 --> 01:49:24,967
And we're also doing these Bible studies.

2390
01:49:24,967 --> 01:49:26,067
We're going through them.

2391
01:49:26,067 --> 01:49:28,527
But not every time we met them did we do a Bible study.

2392
01:49:28,527 --> 01:49:33,327
Sometimes we just went to the classroom and cleaned the kindergarten class, because she's
a kindergarten teacher.

2393
01:49:33,687 --> 01:49:36,167
Sometimes we went to Latia's and ate a meal.

2394
01:49:36,361 --> 01:49:39,556
Sometimes we didn't always have a Bible study.

2395
01:49:39,556 --> 01:49:39,966
Why?

2396
01:49:39,966 --> 01:49:42,540
Because I need time to build the relationship.

2397
01:49:42,540 --> 01:49:44,762
And I also know that faith comes by.

2398
01:49:45,355 --> 01:49:46,786
hearing and hearing by the word of God.

2399
01:49:46,786 --> 01:49:47,856
We need time.

2400
01:49:47,856 --> 01:49:49,335
And so I'm not going to rush into it.

2401
01:49:49,335 --> 01:49:51,388
I'm going to give them time to digest all of this.

2402
01:49:51,388 --> 01:49:51,938
All right?

2403
01:49:51,938 --> 01:49:55,680
So we're going through this process, John 16, 12 process.

2404
01:49:55,680 --> 01:49:58,841
But I know eventually we're going to have that third study.

2405
01:49:58,841 --> 01:50:01,182
And I'm going to have to deal with sin.

2406
01:50:01,182 --> 01:50:02,423
And I do.

2407
01:50:02,423 --> 01:50:05,614
And it's on page, I think it's page three, back to the Bible, the red booklet.

2408
01:50:05,614 --> 01:50:06,595
This is the question.

2409
01:50:06,595 --> 01:50:08,286
All right, this is the first.

2410
01:50:08,286 --> 01:50:09,936
And so we're sitting in that Bible study.

2411
01:50:09,936 --> 01:50:11,587
I said, Jimmy and Sharon, let's read that verse.

2412
01:50:11,587 --> 01:50:12,448
Know ye not?

2413
01:50:12,448 --> 01:50:15,729
The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be

2414
01:50:16,869 --> 01:50:19,973
I said Jimmy, do you know what a fornicator is?

2415
01:50:19,973 --> 01:50:20,913
He said, yes.

2416
01:50:20,913 --> 01:50:22,614
He says, yeah, that's wrong.

2417
01:50:22,815 --> 01:50:23,696
I know what that is.

2418
01:50:23,696 --> 01:50:24,626
said, you sure?

2419
01:50:24,626 --> 01:50:25,867
Yes, I know what that is.

2420
01:50:25,867 --> 01:50:26,958
I said, okay.

2421
01:50:27,339 --> 01:50:28,405
I trust him.

2422
01:50:28,405 --> 01:50:30,937
I said, Sharon, says idolaters.

2423
01:50:30,937 --> 01:50:32,597
Sharon, do you know what an idolater is?

2424
01:50:32,597 --> 01:50:33,680
She said, yes.

2425
01:50:33,680 --> 01:50:37,583
Well, those are the people in the African jungles watching the gold things.

2426
01:50:37,583 --> 01:50:38,943
I said, close enough.

2427
01:50:39,084 --> 01:50:40,285
I said, close enough.

2428
01:50:40,285 --> 01:50:41,826
I said, yes, no gold things.

2429
01:50:41,826 --> 01:50:42,747
I said, OK.

2430
01:50:42,747 --> 01:50:45,975
So now we're going to the third qualification, right?

2431
01:50:47,311 --> 01:50:48,452
Adultery.

2432
01:50:49,313 --> 01:50:51,874
I said, hey, guys, do you know what adultery is?

2433
01:50:52,015 --> 01:50:55,458
They kind of looked at each other and looked at me, and they said, yeah, I think so.

2434
01:50:55,458 --> 01:50:56,999
I said, well, let's make sure.

2435
01:50:57,867 --> 01:50:58,837
Take your Bibles, everybody.

2436
01:50:58,837 --> 01:51:01,110
I'm going to take about two minutes.

2437
01:51:01,110 --> 01:51:01,751
Take your Bibles.

2438
01:51:01,751 --> 01:51:02,492
I'll show you.

2439
01:51:02,492 --> 01:51:03,773
I think things very simple.

2440
01:51:03,773 --> 01:51:05,274
I'm a very simple preacher.

2441
01:51:05,274 --> 01:51:10,458
I'm not complicated, because I don't think God meant for it to be hard.

2442
01:51:10,711 --> 01:51:11,852
All right, so just go to Matthew 19.

2443
01:51:11,852 --> 01:51:13,201
I'm gonna write down four things.

2444
01:51:13,201 --> 01:51:20,756
I would strongly encourage you to do this or take a picture of the screen because this is,
I've been doing this for years and it always works.

2445
01:51:20,756 --> 01:51:23,538
I can't think of one time this did not work.

2446
01:51:23,538 --> 01:51:24,799
They're always gonna see it.

2447
01:51:24,799 --> 01:51:28,620
Now what they do with it, it's up to them, but they'll see it.

2448
01:51:28,621 --> 01:51:30,452
I said, let's go to Matthew 19 verse three.

2449
01:51:30,452 --> 01:51:37,285
Then the Pharisees came to Jesus, attempting him, saying, Jesus is at lawful for a man to
put away his wife for every cause.

2450
01:51:37,966 --> 01:51:40,547
What do you think Jesus is going to do with that question?

2451
01:51:41,323 --> 01:51:44,248
He's going to ask his own question.

2452
01:51:44,871 --> 01:51:48,159
Just like I taught you Sunday, he does not answer direct questions.

2453
01:51:48,159 --> 01:51:49,921
Have you not read?

2454
01:51:50,183 --> 01:51:52,186
He's brilliant, isn't he?

2455
01:51:52,497 --> 01:51:53,307
He's so good.

2456
01:51:53,307 --> 01:51:57,191
Have you not heard that he that made them in the beginning made them male and female?

2457
01:51:57,191 --> 01:52:04,228
And where this call shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and
they twain shall be one flesh, where God has joined together.

2458
01:52:04,228 --> 01:52:06,400
All right, everybody can answer.

2459
01:52:06,400 --> 01:52:08,041
Who does the joining?

2460
01:52:08,262 --> 01:52:09,263
God.

2461
01:52:09,263 --> 01:52:10,143
Simple.

2462
01:52:10,143 --> 01:52:12,165
It can't get any more simple than that.

2463
01:52:12,165 --> 01:52:13,536
God does the joining.

2464
01:52:13,536 --> 01:52:14,587
by the way.

2465
01:52:14,711 --> 01:52:17,512
When God does the joining, does God follow his law?

2466
01:52:17,512 --> 01:52:18,091
Yes or no?

2467
01:52:18,091 --> 01:52:18,573
Yes.

2468
01:52:18,573 --> 01:52:20,154
Yes, he always follows his law.

2469
01:52:20,154 --> 01:52:21,644
He's never going violate the law.

2470
01:52:21,644 --> 01:52:23,575
So let's just make sure we understand.

2471
01:52:23,575 --> 01:52:28,497
So God is going to take one eligible man, one eligible woman, and he's going to unite
them.

2472
01:52:28,497 --> 01:52:29,988
You know what God's not going to do?

2473
01:52:29,988 --> 01:52:31,699
He's not going to unite two men.

2474
01:52:31,699 --> 01:52:33,160
He's never going to do it.

2475
01:52:33,160 --> 01:52:35,901
Well, the judge said, I don't care what the judge says.

2476
01:52:35,901 --> 01:52:39,122
God's not, but the president said, I don't care what the president says.

2477
01:52:39,122 --> 01:52:43,925
Because God is only going to unite one eligible man with one eligible woman.

2478
01:52:43,925 --> 01:52:44,745
Well, I got that.

2479
01:52:44,745 --> 01:52:46,706
I got the marriage ceremony certificate.

2480
01:52:46,706 --> 01:52:52,731
I don't care what certificate you have because God is only going to do it when he follows
his law.

2481
01:52:52,911 --> 01:52:54,312
Does everybody agree with that?

2482
01:52:54,312 --> 01:52:55,653
Everybody agree?

2483
01:52:55,693 --> 01:52:58,895
I've never met anyone in the church who disagreed with that.

2484
01:52:58,896 --> 01:53:01,545
I've done 325 of these.

2485
01:53:02,205 --> 01:53:03,522
Watch out.

2486
01:53:05,193 --> 01:53:10,269
No more can a man not go out there and take another man as his husband.

2487
01:53:10,269 --> 01:53:12,806
Can a man go out there and take another man's wife?

2488
01:53:15,403 --> 01:53:16,631
You can't do it.

2489
01:53:18,431 --> 01:53:21,433
Now we're as silent as a church mouse.

2490
01:53:21,653 --> 01:53:24,815
Because now the chickens come home to roost.

2491
01:53:24,855 --> 01:53:27,517
Because now we understand that it's just as wrong.

2492
01:53:27,517 --> 01:53:31,689
We're ready to stand on a phone foundation.

2493
01:53:31,689 --> 01:53:33,100
No, you can't take another man.

2494
01:53:33,100 --> 01:53:35,222
You can't take another man's wife either.

2495
01:53:35,222 --> 01:53:43,006
Well, the judge says there, the judge said that there was a, well, I don't really care
what the judge says because the Bible also says what God is doing together, let not man

2496
01:53:43,006 --> 01:53:44,207
put asunder.

2497
01:53:45,857 --> 01:53:48,529
Guess who has the power to break a marriage?

2498
01:53:48,529 --> 01:53:49,469
God.

2499
01:53:50,150 --> 01:53:54,553
And he will only make that marriage dissolve when you follow his law.

2500
01:53:55,054 --> 01:53:56,024
I did not write that.

2501
01:53:56,024 --> 01:53:57,055
God did.

2502
01:53:59,051 --> 01:54:07,218
You know, God told us when that happens, whosoever put it the way his wife accepted B for
fornication and marries another committed adultery.

2503
01:54:07,218 --> 01:54:09,799
He that marries her that is put away committed adultery.

2504
01:54:10,120 --> 01:54:11,801
That's God's law.

2505
01:54:11,922 --> 01:54:14,834
I read it and I said, Jimmy and Sharon, do you understand what the Bible says?

2506
01:54:14,834 --> 01:54:16,185
I said, of course.

2507
01:54:16,265 --> 01:54:17,648
I said, Jimmy, is your marriage right?

2508
01:54:17,648 --> 01:54:19,707
He said, Rob, I've never been married before.

2509
01:54:19,948 --> 01:54:21,439
I said, Sharon, is your marriage right?

2510
01:54:21,439 --> 01:54:25,052
She said, Rob, well, she says, my first husband left me for another woman.

2511
01:54:25,193 --> 01:54:26,793
I said, thank God.

2512
01:54:31,908 --> 01:54:33,690
It doesn't always work like that.

2513
01:54:35,584 --> 01:54:37,022
I did with Geneva.

2514
01:54:39,489 --> 01:54:42,981
Hey Rob, I got a problem, Rob.

2515
01:54:42,981 --> 01:54:44,822
I said, what's going on, Geneva?

2516
01:54:45,882 --> 01:54:49,444
My husband, Rob, had five wives, five wives.

2517
01:54:49,885 --> 01:54:51,525
I'm a very optimistic person.

2518
01:54:51,525 --> 01:54:54,387
So I said, well, Geneva, bet they've all committed adultery.

2519
01:54:54,387 --> 01:54:56,488
And she said, no, Rob, they have not.

2520
01:54:57,729 --> 01:55:02,271
I said, Geneva, I think we need to take some time and we need to study this.

2521
01:55:02,411 --> 01:55:04,933
I said, let's get with the elders.

2522
01:55:04,933 --> 01:55:07,424
So I sat down with the elders, Geneva and Nicole.

2523
01:55:07,424 --> 01:55:08,154
We just sat down.

2524
01:55:08,154 --> 01:55:09,615
We just read the Bible.

2525
01:55:09,877 --> 01:55:11,941
I said, Geneva, do you understand what the Bible says?

2526
01:55:11,941 --> 01:55:13,153
She says, yeah.

2527
01:55:13,814 --> 01:55:15,238
I said, Geneva, what does that mean?

2528
01:55:15,238 --> 01:55:17,942
She says, Rob, that means he's not my husband, Rob.

2529
01:55:18,525 --> 01:55:19,806
And I need help.

2530
01:55:21,879 --> 01:55:26,619
I said, Geneva, if that's what you want, if that's what you think, we're going to help
you.

2531
01:55:27,219 --> 01:55:28,979
I said, Geneva, I want you to know something.

2532
01:55:28,979 --> 01:55:31,919
I said, you'll never be alone again.

2533
01:55:32,499 --> 01:55:34,699
I said, your girls are our girls now.

2534
01:55:35,379 --> 01:55:36,539
I said, I'll help you with them.

2535
01:55:36,539 --> 01:55:38,319
What do you need us to do?

2536
01:55:38,479 --> 01:55:39,319
You need a house?

2537
01:55:39,319 --> 01:55:40,459
What do you need?

2538
01:55:40,479 --> 01:55:43,359
She said, I just need some time.

2539
01:55:44,139 --> 01:55:45,959
And she put him away.

2540
01:55:47,159 --> 01:55:50,579
And in every holiday and birthday, you know where those girls are at?

2541
01:55:50,579 --> 01:55:51,759
Our home.

2542
01:55:52,375 --> 01:55:54,082
because those are our girls now.

2543
01:55:56,087 --> 01:55:58,027
And we're going to be there for the girls.

2544
01:55:58,647 --> 01:56:00,087
We love them.

2545
01:56:00,487 --> 01:56:02,047
We love Geneva.

2546
01:56:03,367 --> 01:56:06,387
In fact, our son, when we're not home, takes them to church.

2547
01:56:08,151 --> 01:56:09,911
Let me introduce you to our family.

2548
01:56:09,911 --> 01:56:12,071
You do see the resemblance, don't you?

2549
01:56:12,071 --> 01:56:13,491
That is my family.

2550
01:56:14,251 --> 01:56:15,751
Let me show you on the left-hand side.

2551
01:56:15,751 --> 01:56:18,071
On the left-hand side of Hannah is Geneva.

2552
01:56:19,731 --> 01:56:21,751
She's a courageous woman, isn't she?

2553
01:56:22,051 --> 01:56:24,931
She loves the Lord more than she loves men.

2554
01:56:25,491 --> 01:56:27,771
On the left-hand side is her middle child.

2555
01:56:27,771 --> 01:56:29,551
That's, well, that's Nikea.

2556
01:56:29,551 --> 01:56:31,491
Sitting next on Nicole's lap is the youngest.

2557
01:56:31,491 --> 01:56:32,231
She's 10 now.

2558
01:56:32,231 --> 01:56:38,131
Her name is, and so on the left-hand side is the oldest, and that's Nyla.

2559
01:56:38,537 --> 01:56:41,508
And sitting behind Jared is our son.

2560
01:56:41,848 --> 01:56:44,189
And that's our family.

2561
01:56:44,730 --> 01:56:45,790
I want you to know something.

2562
01:56:45,790 --> 01:56:49,591
When a person's willing to do what the Bible says, he'll never be alone.

2563
01:56:50,772 --> 01:56:55,814
And so, Rob, you certainly are not suggesting that people are actually going to make those
hard decisions.

2564
01:56:55,814 --> 01:56:57,127
They just did.

2565
01:56:57,127 --> 01:57:03,157
I was in Hartsfield, Alabama last week, and we had a lady make that decision during the
seminar.

2566
01:57:04,358 --> 01:57:07,359
And her husband accepted it because he wasn't her husband.

2567
01:57:07,851 --> 01:57:09,142
and they repented.

2568
01:57:11,223 --> 01:57:13,044
And I've seen it several times.

2569
01:57:13,044 --> 01:57:15,826
I've heard members of the church say, well, you just can't expect people.

2570
01:57:15,826 --> 01:57:19,148
Yes, you can, because that's what the Bible says.

2571
01:57:20,109 --> 01:57:27,613
I know that some sins are harder than others, but Jesus told that rich young ruler, you
need to give it back because it's not yours.

2572
01:57:28,154 --> 01:57:31,736
He didn't say to the rich young ruler, if you're baptized, you can keep it.

2573
01:57:32,897 --> 01:57:36,399
He said, no, you have to give it back because it's not yours.

2574
01:57:38,741 --> 01:57:47,285
I would like to suggest tonight that if you don't have the courage in a Bible study to
tell the truth, you do the kingdom a favor and never do a Bible study.

2575
01:57:47,446 --> 01:57:48,787
Don't do it.

2576
01:57:49,910 --> 01:57:53,047
Make sure you have the courage to tell the truth in a Bible study.

2577
01:57:53,047 --> 01:57:54,407
Thank you for listening tonight.

2578
01:57:54,407 --> 01:57:58,267
I do want to share a couple encouraging slides as we walk out of the auditorium.

2579
01:57:58,267 --> 01:57:59,887
Let me show you those encouraging slides.

2580
01:57:59,887 --> 01:58:01,847
We got a lot of new convert material.

2581
01:58:01,847 --> 01:58:05,587
I don't have time to go over it in this seminar, but you will in the curriculum.

2582
01:58:05,587 --> 01:58:07,987
We have other Bible study methods.

2583
01:58:07,987 --> 01:58:09,547
This is the one study method.

2584
01:58:09,547 --> 01:58:10,627
It's called Does It Matter?

2585
01:58:10,627 --> 01:58:13,967
This is the three study method for those who don't believe in God.

2586
01:58:13,967 --> 01:58:15,587
It's called Believe the Bible.

2587
01:58:15,587 --> 01:58:16,947
It's very important.

2588
01:58:16,947 --> 01:58:19,387
Now this is what happened in 2020.

2589
01:58:19,387 --> 01:58:23,001
So there were 370 baptisms that took place as we were teaching.

2590
01:58:23,001 --> 01:58:25,321
churches, 32 churches of Christ.

2591
01:58:25,321 --> 01:58:31,361
So we increased that number to in 2021 and we had 649 baptisms.

2592
01:58:31,361 --> 01:58:33,081
Those are the actual pictures.

2593
01:58:33,081 --> 01:58:37,201
In 2022, it increased again to 980 baptism.

2594
01:58:37,201 --> 01:58:41,521
In 2023, it's 1,403 baptisms.

2595
01:58:41,521 --> 01:58:45,881
And in 2024, it's 1,939 baptisms.

2596
01:58:45,881 --> 01:58:49,181
There is no AI-generated photo there.

2597
01:58:49,421 --> 01:58:51,241
Those are actual people.

2598
01:58:52,233 --> 01:58:54,324
And we keep very close numbers.

2599
01:58:54,324 --> 01:58:55,505
We have a spreadsheet.

2600
01:58:55,505 --> 01:58:58,287
For every baptism, there's a date and a name and a church.

2601
01:58:58,287 --> 01:58:59,867
I don't make it up.

2602
01:59:01,229 --> 01:59:07,252
So for those of you who are doubting, please let those pictures sink into your heart.

2603
01:59:07,513 --> 01:59:11,835
If you'll follow New Testament evangelism, you'll grow.

2604
01:59:11,935 --> 01:59:14,096
To God be the glory, let's pray.

2605
01:59:14,177 --> 01:59:15,880
Father, we're thankful for this church.

2606
01:59:15,880 --> 01:59:18,299
We're thankful for the good audience tonight.

2607
01:59:18,377 --> 01:59:20,958
for the souls that are interested in salvation.

2608
01:59:20,958 --> 01:59:23,719
Bless us Father that we might reach others.

2609
01:59:23,719 --> 01:59:26,360
Help us Father to trust the gospel.

2610
01:59:26,360 --> 01:59:31,963
Help us Father to have courage and to believe in the gospel for we know it's the power to
save.

2611
01:59:31,963 --> 01:59:34,194
And bless Collierville Father with growth.

2612
01:59:34,194 --> 01:59:38,686
We pray for Aaron as he labors here, Justin and Father for every member.

2613
01:59:38,686 --> 01:59:40,587
We love thee and praise thy name.

2614
01:59:40,587 --> 01:59:44,868
Bless us as we travel home for in Jesus name we pray, amen.