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What shall I say? It is like it is like this a mustard seed is the smallest seed that is ever planet in the Earth.

But the plant that grows from that seed is bigger than any other plant it puts out very big branch has the birds come and live in it. its branches Hot Topic today We want to share with you. Is where where are you and your growth? as a wheat or ass chairs This is to illustrations of what God is requiring from us as we are planted in him by faith showing with me in prayer Heavenly Father we come right now asking that you're holy spirit will speak to us clearly about our maturity in this world and that how we are to be branches trees bearing up under the heel of this world for the protection of soul that can come into his kingdom. So father we ask that you speak to us by Your Word through your Holy Spirit, but then Jesus is precious name we pray. Amen. As we said their illustrations today is about wheat and chairs in 2014 a minister named Dan Spader wrote a book call for chair discipling. It has been used by many pastors and evangelists to illustrate the progression of Christian growth. It demonstrates where we start and where we should end up. That's what the four chairs. As well as the wheat and we will discuss that fully today. No, two ministers teach it alight each one puts his or her use me. Each one puts his or her own spin on it. This is our spend today. Usually four chairs are set on the platform and is explained that each chair represents a stage and a Believers growth. It's start from a baby and end with old age and death. That's what the four chairs represent. About 2,000 years ago. Jesus preached a message similar to what we're sharing today matter fact. This is where we get our message today, and he talked about four stages of wheat grow. Today. We're going to excuse me today. We're going to look at wheat and chairs. So what are we looking for? Before we get into our take on the four chairs. Let's look at Mark chapter 4 and Jesus is take on the four stages of Seagrove. And I want to share with you. that I grew up on a farm and I I began to understand as I moved away from living on the farm what exactly Jesus was trying to tell us if you look in this diagram, you see bags of Siege all kinds of seeds some summer small so my larger, but they're only seeds and the Book of Mark chapter 4 contains three Parables about seeds three Parables not one, but three As we look we fine as we read in verse 30 and 32 Mark chapter 4. Jesus said, what is the kingdom of God like what shall I say? Is it like is it like it is like this a mustard seed is the smallest seed that is ever planet in the Earth.

But the plant that grows from that seed is bigger than any other plant. It puts out very big branch has the birds come and live in the branches of this Tiny Seed. Isn't that a miracle that something as little as a mustard seed can grow into a large tree. First is the parable of the tiny mustard seed that Jesus teaches us that grows into a great tree. You see this little illustration of a message and see how small it is. It smaller than your fingernail. It's even smaller than the tip of your finger, but yet it can grow much larger than you.

And as we begin to look this is what it can grow into that little tiny see it reminds us that a Tiny Seed of the Gospel can blossom into a world of Harvesters. And guess what we need today. We need the gospel giving birth to so much more than we ever did and I generation. I like that. Not not excusing the rest of history, but we are facing a line of demarcation where we will either rise above or will sink below. But it tells us and reminds us that even the smallest thing that God can use can grow into something big. And just a little word of warning. The little can be a good or a bad seed. It determines on where the seed come from. But as we look we find it reminds us that although Jesus was but one small man buried in the ground when he was buried after he was crucified his average height of a Jewish person during his time on Earth was 5 ft 5 in and guess what? That's how tall I am. So I would sit pretty good and and Israel and Jerusalem during the days of Jesus. I wouldn't be a small man. But also that was men who were much smaller like Zacchaeus who went up in the tree to catch a glimpse of you. He was a small man and he was much shorter than 5 feet 5 inches. But Jesus was a small man buried in the ground. He rose again and became the great of the kingdom of God. This one mere person became the greatest head of God's kingdom and we are all its citizens who have believed on his death burial and Resurrection us again. Listen butthole. I saw I went out to sow And as he sowed some seed fell along the path and the birds came and devoured it other seed fell on Rocky ground where it did not have much soil.

And immediately it sprang up since it had no death of soil and when the sun rose it was scorched and since it had no root it withered away.

Other seed fell among thorns and the Thorns grew up and choked it and it yielded. No grain and other seeds fell into good soil and produce grain growing up and increasing and yielding 34 + 64 + 104. So I II Parable is about four types of soil. What was the first The Mustard Seed the little tiny mustard seed that can be planted in the ground that can grow into a huge tree. But the second Parable is about four types of soil. The first type of soil is the hard being pet where people travel on it and it packs the soil down in it on on top of it and makes it tough that when you put a seeds on it, it can't get through the hard ground because we have walked all over it if you ever cut grass. For you for your parents or for your own home? You can notice when you go out there where people have walked. Because they leave a path. And it and nothing grows. Well where people walk the second type of soil is the gravel mixed with shallow. So that means there's rocks and Crags and you know stones and and wood and all kinds of stuff mixed in with the ground. And the problem with that is is too shallow in order to get root for the Seas that are thrown on the third type of soil is the thorn in the weed investor soul. And you know what the thorn and weed is that the soul is it takes no effort to grow if you have a piece of land and you didn't go to see it for one or two years. I can almost guarantee you That's something we'll be growing on that land and you may not have ever put anything out there to so. That's how forms and weeds get Roots. If we don't take care of the sort enough in order to stop the storms in the weeds from growing. But the fourth type of soil is the rich the good soil the sword that can can really bring out some great some great fruit and harvest And that's the only sort of that can really produce good. So when Jesus was telling us about the Mustard Seed, what ground are you think? He would have picked the heart beating pad the gravimetric sort of the song and we danced at the door or the good song. It can only be created by breaking up the volume ground good talk and only be useful if it's broken up growing up on the farm it before we planted. We had to go out there and plow the field we had to get on a tractor and before my time my grandparents they they they had a horse with a mule and they use the mule to plow the field and when I was old enough we still had had the had the mule and I got out there and try to to get behind them to do it like my grandfather and you know want to know something it was the hardest thing that I I couldn't get the the plow to dig into the ground and Eva in order to plow it because the ground was so And if you didn't put it at the right angle, it would just ride along the top of the soil, but good rich soil can only be created by breaking up the ground having plenty of water and soil nutrients.

Ni3 repairable. Okay, we had Parable number one The Mustard Seed Parable number to the soils four types of soil, but does third Parable is the one that were most interested in today? What is the third Parable the Lord Jesus teaches about four stages of Christian Grove. All all three Parables talk about growth in some aspect. But this third one talks about Believers growth. He uses the parable of growing wheat seed now. This is a picture of we and this is week at the point of being ready to harvest. But the one when you start with a wheat field, you don't start with Harvest you start with planting because only then will something grow. Mark chapter 4 again in Mark chapter 4 you can find all of these passages in chapter 4 Verses 26 through 28 Jesus told his told his disciples this Parable God's kingdom around is like someone spreading seed on the ground. He goes to bed and gets up day after day. and the seed sprouts number one and number to grow tall though. He knows not how all by itself it sprouts and the soil produces a crop. The first greenstem then number 3 the head on the stalk and then number for finally the fully developed brains in the head. You see those four steps. Do you have to have the see that sprouts? The number to it has to grow numbers and guess what? It says in the soil produces the crap not feed but the soil. Because the song gives nutrients to break down the weaker a seed in order to give birth to a new plant that can grow and the third step is the head on the stop becomes evident and then finally is fully develop in the head of the grain so that it can be harvested. the end of the week journey to maturity is told us in these two verses verses 26 and 29 van when the grain is right. Not premature right now is not rotten ripeness. But when it is, right, he immediately puts the second to the grain because Harvest Time Has Come

John chapter 12 verse 24. Jesus tells us unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies it Remains by itself. But if it dies, it produces a large crop. Let me read it again unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies. It shares its Idaho in order to let the the sea part of the the inner part of the sea to be exposed to the elements. That's the cycle of its dying in order to give birth to something new. But if it doesn't shed its called it won't grow it will rot. But if it dies, it produces a large crop one of the things I've always understood is whenever you print something if you plan it, right if you water it till it and all of the other things that are necessary you will always get more than what you plant. You will always get it. And it will always be much more than what you started off with. But again if it doesn't die. It rots and produces nothing. But if it does. It produce now there's a there's a scale that used. Informing that I didn't understand what the name of it was but I experienced it through my grandfather tell me about the scale. He never called it this but it's called the feet scale and many farmers use it to determine which of the four levels of maturity the week has reached. That's any crap that's planted. They use four levels of maturity to find out at what stage is the we ready. When will it be ready for Harvest? So let's look at this scale.

This is the Fig scale. If you look at the top of the diagram you find Tailoring. stem extension heading and ripening and if we look at that it says there are 11 steps at the bottom. It starts off with one suit that Springs up out of the ground. You see that little twig on the front end it Springs out of one little leaflet not even much other than just you can just see that it's out of the ground. And the rest of the steps happen according to what we do with the soil in order for the seed to produce what we're looking for. So these are the four stages of the scale according to farming. Tillering that means you have to have to prepare the Man and the Sea then you have the stem extension when it starts to really grow and you see a lot of evidence of the grow then it reaches the headache front with the seed the seed pods starts to develop and you can see him but that doesn't mean that it's ready to harvest because you have the ripening aspect of it, but let's move in the first stage. We find the one where Jesus said the seed sprouts. In in the terms of the Fig scale, that's the tillering stage. That's where you have to get out there. You have to break up the ground May shake it loose enough so that when you plant something it will go in the ground instead of laying on top and as as this dates for grasses, there's always a lot of effort in order to give it the best chance of growing. And it's labor-intensive much much today many farmers. Now, they have huge machineries and stuff that used to do what we did when I grew up we had to go out there and do it by hand. When the week first emerges from the ground it starts to wave around a few baby leaves and you seen this yourself you may have had an experimenting in school in your early school where you planted a seed and you you water it and you had it in a little pot and you and you kept going to it every day and you didn't see anything and it's anything in about 2-3 weeks later something pops up through the little soil and you see you start to see what's what is going to be produced. But when it first emerges it only has a few baby leaves to go around. And during this. Care must be taken at this stage because the plant is so tender it can be divided and damaged by insects or ceiling disease or even the weather. Many of our farmers in America in over last several years Dave had devastating crops that were destroyed by floods by drought by fire you name it and that was nothing that they could do to reconstitute the seeds that had died. And I mean they did they didn't have anything left in order to grow from it.

The second stage is the stem extension. This is the one where Jesus says it grows tall the week grows tall. And it's called the stem extension State and if you look at the diagram, you see one two, three, four five stages in the strip extension. It starts off in the tailoring stay as a little little leaflet one or two leaflets and then it in the Stella sentient. It's really starts to show its growth that it is growing that it's getting enough nourishment and it grows tall and strong during this stage the stem elongates and learns to stand upright. I've never seen anything growing in a field that was leaning over normally if is leaned over is dying or something has happened in this truck. It grows the stem grows thick strong and straight and Tall always growing toward the sun. Why because that's where they get energy in order to to to create photosynthesis that allows it to grow. And you you may have remember this from science and in school. But it is vulnerable to weeds at this point. It doesn't mean you can leave the stem the growing stem out there like this to itself because if you don't take care of it, the weeds will come in and kill it they will choke it because it won't be able to get any nurse read from the ground. Even if there's a lot of sun if it's it's fighting to get the nurse with that weeds are taking guess what it will soon. Is vulnerable to the weeds the weather and all other kinds of stressors? The third stage is the heading is the seed pod that develop. Excusing the one where Jesus says then the head on the stop is called by six The Heading stage. This is a flowering stage where the week is full of young wheat kernels emerges from the deep within the stalk the sea kernels don't stop at the top. They don't just automatically show up. They are are the results of the growing of the stem. So if there are no seed pods at the top of of a plant then something at the bottom isn't operating like it should everything that is planted should produce sometime to see some kind of fruit. If it doesn't then Jesus says, it's good, but nothing is this like a weed And you want to know something that I found that even weeds produced and they have nobody telling them or making them stepping and broke. They do it just because is it runs? Wow? Just as the nature of Christ emerges from deep within every believer. So is the weed self-pollinating it is responsible for its own flowering. It it is it can't do it on its own to self-pollinate. Then you will have a dead plant and you've gone by driven by many fields along your life and and you may not have ever known this bat plant fertilizers its own eggs They don't mate like like mammals. Do they self pollinate in order to be able to reproduce? The pastor and the church may surprise Provide support and opportunity for us to grow but only God has given us everything. We need to be fruitful and lava nature of Christ to emerge. So if the nature of Christ is an emerging emerging from us, it's not the fault of the pastor of the church is the fault of our working of a soul and I'll heart. We have his powerful life-giving word. That's the the plow it tears up hard crusty heart that we have that makes us not love people that makes us hate people in do Despicable things. The word is powerful enough to tear it up. But not only his word is available, but his holy spirit. And guess what the transforming power of prayer and worship. I wondered this week how many people who went to Washington? for one thing wound up finding out. It was something that they didn't intend on happening. That may have happened because they did not let the life-giving word can chilling that heart as to the right way to protest. They didn't listen to the Holy Spirit speaking to them that it may turn into evil. And they they quench the holy spirit's ability to convince them that they were wrong. And then they didn't go to church to pray and worship before they go. I just want to know how many people went to church before they went to Washington to find out because you cannot do Evil by falling down at the cross. A lot of people say they do Bow Down. But the but the evidence of is when they get up because if you get if you get up with the same thing you buy down with something didn't take place Sunday and take Route. So what does Paul tells us to do that? We have the church in the pasture, but we also had the word the Holy Spirit prayer and worship. He says as we are living out I live in Christ. We need to continue to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. He does not say continue to work for your salvation because that's done and sealed at the death burial and resurrection of Christ. But what he says is the proof of our Salvation is that we work it out living in trembling and fear. Why for it is God who works in US? Not the president not even the president elect, but it's God who works in us and if it does not line up with what God is is is telling us to do but it is not coming from God. So what is God's will how do we know he's working in it? Because Paul says to work in us to Will and to act In order to fulfill his good purpose. Not a good purpose because I good purpose is Tainted is Tainted by sin selfishness and sickness and we always will come up with short of what God desires if we look at it from what we want to Will and what we want to act instead of submitting to what he wants to work in US.

But the fourth and final stage of growing in the sea process. Jesus said then the fully developed brain in the head and it's called the ripening stage. The week turns are golden color and the curls become firm hard and strong. That's when you know, it's ready to be harvested. If it's the stop the stem in the seeds are still greenish is not ready. It's not reading. If you look at the the ripening stage when it's when it is like down at the bottom of your screen when you see it, it produces grain. That's hard. Now we're now the week is ready to be harvested then crust in the flower to feed hungry or sewn again into the ground to die bring for a new generation of weed. That's the ripening stage. So mature weight is Destin to face the sickle. They're not a lot of people in America use the sickle anymore. I'm sure there's some that may not have mechanical ability to get mechanical tools and stuff to do. But I'm sure in many third world countries. They still use a sickle. And and the key to this listen the key to it is that if the mature week is Destin to harvest. It must face. This the point of being cut down in order to reproduce in other words. It has to give up its cycle of growing in order to produce more. That's what mature we does and if you leave it in the ground or standing in the field too long it rots and it's nothing you can do with it. Sometimes I remember when we when we harvest the wheat and corn all these other crops. We put them in bags. These large bags are probably 25 to 50 lb bags full of seed and then would take them to the barn and set them in the barn. But one thing I noticed was there were Vince in the barn. Where are could come through why? Because if you don't have air moving in what happens is the moisture in the siege will cause rot that happened in the bag without anybody doing anything. So there's a way that you have Harvest that is reproducible for the next Harvest to come now. That's if you got four chairs. I want you to do this example. Put Izzy's for chairs in inline just like this and find out where you are in these chairs. Cher number one is the baby stage that's in in the big scale. That's the Tillery. That's the planting and getting the preparing to share number one is the baby stage. So what is the baby stage? saved forgiven Water baptized and we wave our hands with joy of the Lord in other words. We know we're say we know we're forgiven we get back and we are happy about it. But there's some vulnerabilities being in staying and Shay number one the baby stage a lack of knowledge in God's word. Because if you don't watch out a baby who stays in the baby stage will not have the ability to know what's good for them. And what's bad for them. That's why so many babies and children have died because they could not read the labels on some of the things that we used Even in our kitchen. Not too recently tied came out with these new pod pet pods that you can use in your washing machine and they look like candy. and some children And it because they thought it was candy. It was colorful. It was soft and gooey. It was an invitation for disaster because even though they were alive they were in a house that parents were there. They did not have the knowledge to know that it was dangerous. That's what where we are in a baby State. We don't know God's word enough to handle what's going on in our life. That's why so many people this week went to Washington DC because they had a lack of knowledge of God's word. I'm not saying they were ignorant that they didn't know something they just did not know what God's word says about how to deal with problems in this world. Guess what else happens when we're in a baby stage own life baggage such as addiction poor lifestyle choices Cardinals and excetera. What you used to do is still there. If you don't get changed inside by the word of God salvation from the penalty of sin and death, but it doesn't necessarily relieves you of the problems around you without God's word being in your life. We tend to go to what we are comfortable with and most often and I'll eyes when we get in difficult situations we tend to go to our old selves we tend to do that which will be against what God calls for us to be against and as a result we leave God's word in the wind and we listen to what the devil tells us. And we heading to destruction. I can almost guarantee you there are some people who went to Washington DC that they are sorry that they ever cross the Mason-Dixon line to get there. There are some people and then there are others I said, I'm glad I went because that shows patriotism. The question is patriotism to what is surely not to the United States of America is patriotism to their own devices. That's what they're Patriots of their own devices because America even as unread I'm just human and imperfect as it is. The goal is to reach a more perfect union and let me let you in on a little secret. It will never be perfect in this world. No matter how how great we think about the Constitution Bill of Rights and all the documents of our founding fathers. None of it is perfect. The best we can do is try to make it good for everybody. And that's the problem there in lies the problem. We do not want other people to have the enjoyment of a freedom like we had But let's move on.

There are two things when we come to know Christ. There's the old me and a new me. In the old me we need to walk away from the things which hinder our growth and took the morning Christ. So somebody invited you to go to Washington DC. What should you have done? What number one I would have asked someone who would who I know would be a spiritual leader in my I'm not talking to somebody who agrees with me on everything. I I believe but somebody who agrees with God. And somebody who stands up for God. And I would ask them. Is it the right thing for me to go and participate in this situation in Washington?

and that's a choice that each of us make nobody can say that the President Trump made them do that. All he did was he open the door, but you and I know that those that went made that choice on their own but there's a new me there's an old man and there's a new me we need to wash with God's word daily and man maintain a repentant heart. We have to be crushed about our own sinfulness that we are no better than anyone else in this world. Even if we are the richest people in this world that does not make anyone better than anybody else because all of us have a tendency for it to do wrong because that's where we come into this world already doing wrong. No one has to teach you how to do the wrong thing. We already know it we come here knowing it. But let's just keep looking. For the babes in Christ altar is a place of repentance.

Nana place of Supplication not a place of calling and interceding on our own behalf. It's a place of repentance. Also a place of deliverance from sin. How many times have you gone to church or even in your own home in your own praying ground? Have you gone to it in a spirit of repentance?

Or do we go and we complain about what other people are doing?

And how many times do you do use or even I go and say Lord I need deliverance from sin. Because I'm not right in my life and areas as well. I may not have walked a Drummond of flew to Washington DC. But there's some sense still in my life. But the altar is a place of repentance deliverance and seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You have to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and baptism of the holy spirit is not about speaking in tongues.

It may happen and it may not happen. But what it is about is being covered By the Waters of the holy spirit that cleanses you continually. And if you don't do that on a daily Moment by moment basis, you will stumble somewhere along the way all of us have done that. When have the last time you drove down the freeway and somebody cut you off and you said something untoward? You don't have to admit it, but I know cuz I have done it sometime. I may not have said to audibly but I sure thought it chair number two is the Kent Stage systemic disease where it starts to grow. So what's in the kids stage is it called awkward clean living? When your children were growing up, did you allow them to continually wear the same clothes the the messy diapers and all of the stuff that can cause sickness and illness. Did you let them stay in that way? No. A good parent will clean up a child. Who's Dirty? So you have to have you have two kids days is to have a clean outward clean living a good testimony. And some people say what my testimony is good, but it's only as good as it can change someone to live, right? If your testimony is about somebody doing wrong and living wrong, that's not a good testimony. That's a terrible testimony. Regular Church attendance. I know we're under this pandemic and we have to have distance. between each other but you can get online now at any church you don't even have to go to the church that you were going to you can go to another church online. It may not be be compressed it in the fellowship, but it's some kind of attendance that we need to extend and I just wonder how many Believers right now truly truly want to be in Christ. How many people sleep in? On Sundays now because they don't have to pay to go to the church says we're not having services in person anymore until until we get through this Van Damme it. Well, if your if your church attendance is based on convenience and your comfort then you're not really in the kids day. You're in still in the baby stage. Not only good church attendance giving prayer Bible reading worship doing worship songs and fellowship we can call each other. We can text each other. We do it for other things when I do it for the glory of God. That's the kid stays. This is this is your your six seven eight. Nine year old kids, you know and it's not like when when I when I was six seven eight years old, we didn't have cell phones and all this kind of extra things that could take our attention away. But what would what we did have that was we had experiences that allow us to learn in the company of other people, especially in church when I went to church and I acted up in Sunday School. Discovery Sunday school teacher didn't go tell my grandparents. You know what they did. They came to me right there. So I just said I'm going to whip you in Sunday School. You know what that made me do it made me hurt, but I listened the next time I didn't have to get whipped twice. Or spanking is more easier were saying a faithful pure warmer is nothing is sitting on the chair how many of us even now when they're online? We we doze off to sleep how many of us also in danger. We can get too comfortable in this chair. We can we can up.

Let's move on. So what is it for? for the kid in Christ The Altar is a place of repentance.

Petition and worship that's for the kids sitting in the second chair, but let's move on. We're going to have to end it in a few minutes and we'll finish on Wednesday night. If you join us on Wednesday night at 7 at the number to we dig deeper. In chair number one, we prayed for deliverance from our sins and the bondage of addictions. Now we go deeper and chair number to we pray about sinful attitudes anger. Jealousy lust you name it. We need to pray about our attitudes sitting in chair number two because we are a child that acts out based on our temperament and I temperament is not always based on Godly virtues. Chair number three is the young adult stage. That's when some fruit of the seeds are starting to be produced. We are beginning in this they were beginning to bear fruit and to reach and teach others. So that's the question. If you're in jail number 3 you are to be bearing fruit and reaching and teaching others. If you're not reaching and teaching other than bearing fruit. You're still unsure number to you. Haven't gotten the check number 3. Furious Bible study as preparation for Ministry. That doesn't mean you just read that I when I read 10 versus they know you go beyond that and that you study you study of passing. You may take 10 versus and say what what does it say to me? What am I to learn from these Denver? What did it say to the people that it was first written to that's serious Bible study. It's not just rings and what I read verses 1 through 10, and I'm I'm going about my life. That's not yours Bible study. That means you're stealing chair number two. Learn the whole Bible. And you said well, I can't remember all that stuff. That's because you haven't Ranger mine to do it. But how many of you have forgotten how to drive?

Those that a starting off. And learning how to drive they have a hard time figuring out how to put your foot on the accelerator and a foot on the brake and your hands on the wheel and your eyes out front of you knowing what you supposed to do it takes time.

But sooner or later you get to the point you just get it and turn on the key back up put it put it in reverse backup put it in drive and drive off never even thinking about what steps you went through. You just automatically do it. That's the way it is with learning the whole Bible. I'm not saying memorizing. Because it is 66 books. That's a lot to memorize and there have been people who have memorized the whole book. What what I'm suggesting is learned Bible learn the major stories of the Bible see what God's plan is from Genesis to revelation. Also ensure number 3 cheats your family and friends. If you're not reproducing your seed has gone rotten as gotten writing. And it will not produce anyting this look around you how many people have you told or lead to Christ since you came to know him? It may have been last week last year 30 years ago. And if you haven't gotten to the point where you have had bear fruits by reaching and teaching others, then you haven't gotten off chair number one yet. And you sure not on chair number 2? But let's move on if we come to a close men and women. Do the work of the ministry. That's what Paul tells us as needed in your church. Don't go around saying pastor. What do you want me to do? Well, I tell you I know that's not how many three operate Ministry operates by SIA need and then getting about doing something about it. That's what Ministry is about. If you look in the book of Acts installation of the first Deacons. People started complaining because some people were being overlooked. Ed and Peter and Johnson listen we can't stop from studying because if we stop studying trying to do this, then you will falter on your learning and living for Christ. So guess what they did they pick seven people to come forward. Who were already doing something? Didn't fit big people who were sitting on the back bench waiting for the service to be over. They were picking people who say help people walk in the door or animals eat or give him a cup of water. Those are the people that depict out. In other words always be available and able to to be counted on don't look for your pastor to say can you come do this? Why would you pasta I can do this? The lot of churches right now that don't have the ability to pay their staff volunteer. You can do that many of us are doing much less and home now. Especially those of us who are not working a job that laid us off or we can't find work volunteer off of your service. What can I do to help lessen the load of the pastor and other leaders of our churches? More than available. B Bible Abel Celeste I think we might be able to send it.

Becoming more and more loving patient and courage Curtis without compromising the truth of the Gospel. That's where chair number three drives us toward become more and more loving. And more more patient and more and more courteous without compromising the gospel. Some people say well, how can I not compromise the gospel if I'm compromising? It in other areas was something is out of whack. Even you either. You had not gotten the correct teaching or you have shown the correct teaching because it doesn't fit your lifestyle. But in order to be a growing mature Christian in Christ, we have to be more loving. Just like all those people who who went to Washington DC. I love every one of them. I may not like them, but I'm not called to like them. I'm called to love them. So am I loving them I don't agree with what they did, but I know that they're still human just like I am. And that there may be times in my life that they may not agree with what I do. But I sure would sure would hope the think that they would love me more than condemn me. And I'm not going to condemn them because all of us Romans tells us we can't point a finger at no one. The man above all we have to be patient. It takes time for people to understand that sometimes what they're living the way they're living is not the way God intended for them to live. But if you give up on them guess what God says he may give up on you. If you think this is the last straw for some people in your life, then you have just cut off your grace from God. I'm not saying God will abandon you. But you want you give is what you get and I'm not talking about the law, But Yang Yang I'm talking about the fact is that whatever you give out you will be the recipient of and sometimes more of what then you have done, but we have to be courteous with people.

And you can write courteously disagree with people. You don't have to get up and take a lead pipe and hit somebody in the head just because you don't like what they doing or what they say. Just like the the lady that was killed trying to get in through the window in the in the in the Congress. I don't agree with her her right to do that. But I don't think she deserve to be killed either. But that's what we have lost in our lives outside of Christ and I even questioned some even myself. Am I truly a believer in who Jesus is or are do I have favorites in my in my life, and I'm not willing to call out. Because I'm out if I'm not willing to call out people who are who are in my circle who aren't right. I can't say anything about somebody else not calling.

Because their sin and nuts then to blame everybody. The one thing that we cannot do is compromise with the gospel says and then what the gospel says Jesus died for all. He was buried for everyone. And he rose from the dead to give everyone a chance at a new life. And I will not compromise that no matter where anybody is standing in this world. Even Tim Johnson deserves the opportunity to hear the gospel. Whether you accept it or not is not up to me is between him and God. But he still deserves it and I pray that he would come to know Christ. Because there is no other power on this Earth that can change the heart of men. We have evidence of its raw. I was just uriy from the first murder to the last one last week.

We cannot compromise the truth of the Gospel that it's for everybody and we need to live up to what it tells us to do. Witches to love everybody. We are so quick to quote the Golden Rule but we think the golden rule is for those who have to go.

And that is way off base with chair number three. The altar is the place of deeper cleansing petition and minister to others if those people who struck out to go to DC to perpetrate all of this if they had started off in prayer. They may still have gone to protest but they wouldn't have gotten to the point of of destroying and killing people and and and all of the devastation. Because prayer can cleanse us from my own iniquitous. Not theirs, but I own it's a place of deeper cleanse and if you're not in deep pore cleansing, you ain't Claire's at all. Cuz there's not talking about surface stuff. It's talking about deep deep stuff in our hearts that we we think about and brood on because we want to cause I will to be in