Nov 14, 2021 Sunday Morning Service

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Just wanted to say a few things about our brother. Blaine will be bringing us the lesson this morning. But he and Terry they both live in Roland. I would think both of you is living Rollins. And. And so they worship with the church and our Brethren over there and Rollin and they are currently looking for a preacher. So you might think about that. But the other plane is retired US Navy naval officer, who served in the Navy for 21 years. Hoorah, is that half of the Navy? He worked for 15 years at on the staff of the University of Oklahoma where he served in the area of budgeting finance and HR. And also, if you need help with taxes, I'm sure he can help with that. They have four grown children, two grandchildren, and they have been active in the world English Institute Ministry, since 2015 and they serve as volunteer ambassadors to help recruit and train the Wei teachers, material, face-to-face and Brazil in Mongolia, and he, and Siri have a love for the people of Guatemala. And they have taught the Wei material in Guatemala City. So, brother come preach to us this morning.

Pleasure to be back with you this this morning. And I feel like that we're kind of old friends and the way we have this is our second time to be here. But we met several of you back in July at the area wide sing in Sallisaw and we have some really good memories, even though this is only our second time of the fellowshipping with you. The last time we were here of the rains and the beaches. We went to the out here at this soda, Steve's Fin and Feather. We have nice plants. And course. I always enjoy talking with brother Doug and those type of things. And, of course, as I told Brother beach, this morning, we really did like those lemon cucumbers and so we may be back next time or just to get a load of those. Okay. So we really appreciate the opportunity to come over here. I'm not a professional preacher. I'm just a Christian like you. I enjoyed telling other people about the Saving Grace of Jesus Christ, and we're really excited to be a part of the world. English Institute Ministry and I'll talk about that later on. I will tell you, I know you had your affiliated with the Indian Mission Terry and I we have been supporting that that Ministry for. I was just trying to calculate in my head. It's at least 30 years. And so, when I retired in 2015, when am I golden? Retirement was? Okay. I've been supported, we have been supporting that work for for many years. I'm going to go and I'm going to see for myself. Because I read the numbers. And yes, you may need to know brother Clayton and he a died earlier this year. And so they have a new team that's for me. And they're right now not able to go to India because India canceled, all the Visa, so they have to everyone has to apply. And I have a Visa, that was a thought was good till 25, but I learned it's no longer any good. I have to apply if I want to go. But anyway, in 2016, I went over and I spent a month in India with brother Ron and sister Clayton, sister Karen, and it's amazing Ministry and everything you read in those up. Those Mission reports their true from what I could see. And it is just there are more Christians in India there more Churches of Christ in India than there are in the United States. And Ron's philosophy was you know in case someday, we can't go back to India. You know, what I'm going to do is I'm going to train them. I'm going to trust them and then I'm going to turn them loose and that's what is his philosophy. And I think it's worked out really. Well. We went over, I went over and if it's a hard place to go, I will just tell you that if you want to travel in India, you got to be ready for some hardships and They don't use Western toilets like we do and if you're especially if you're a lady it hits. Turn to to to be there and I think a sister Karen and how she dresses try to be, you know, like an Indian and to fit in and to take care of business and to do that. It's it's 50 and I asked Ron I said what's been the greatest change and I think they've been to India and not 30 years or so. And he said, you know, we used to have to boil water for hours so that we could have fit water to drink and now we got these things and you don't realize how much time every day that saved us in to do other things and then yell course, cell phones, and other things. And so I commend you for supporting the work in India. I recommend it, highly the numbers are real. The people are hungry for the gospel there when you're a Hindu, And you're in that lower caste, you have Hinduism offers. No. Hope for you. No, hope whatsoever. You're just going to die and maybe if you've lived a good enough life, you're going to come back cuz either a dog or a human or a cow or something like that and it offers no hope for salvation. And so a lot of Twilight of the people that are converted to Christianity through. The missions are poor people because they're in the lower castes, and they've been shunned for the entire life and the gospel gives them hope. So you're to be commended and I would encourage you to a continue to support that good work. And if you have any questions about that, I can answer, of course, you know, my information will be as of 2016. So it's going to be a little David. So go ahead and turn back in your Bibles to the book of Acts chapter 20. Let me see. Again. I really do. Thank. Thank you for allowing me to be here this morning. My brother, Doug read that, and I'm up that section, acts 20:32, verse 17, through 24, but I'm just going to go back and talk about, you know, he's telling the Ephesian Elders, you know, things are going to get rough. Every place. I go to the holy spirit, says our chains and tribulations. It is beginning at verse 24. She says, None of these things. Move me. He says, you know, I'm not afraid, I'm not going to change what I was put here on Earth to do. Nor do I count my life? Dear to myself. You know, I'm he's playing now. My life is in the hands of God. It's too. It's in the hands of Jesus. But she says, I do not do nor do I count my life, dear to myself so that I may finish my race with joy. And the ministry, which I received from the Lord Jesus to testify to the grace, to the gospel of the grace of God. And so that last phrase testifying to the gospel of the grace of God. That's where we're going to put most of our focus on this morning. And of course, you all know you've been in church many, many of you for a long time, you know, the gospel means good news and you know that Grace means unmerited favor. And so when you put those together to testify to the gospel of the grace of God, what we're basically staying, his God has provided a way of Salvation and that he has done this without the Christian or the individual having to earn or Merit their salvation. And so if you're a person who likes to take notes, we're going to, we're going to have three columns in your notes today or three headings. We're going to talk about the need for this grace of God. We're going to talk about that provision of this grace and then we're going to talk about the reception of this grace. And then I'll talk a little bit about world English Institute. And then we will the lesson will be yours. So in Romans 3:23 of us were familiar with that. Says for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We need this Grace was Paul's Ministry and then in James 2:10, it says, for whoever shall keep the whole law yet stumble. In one point. He is guilty of all I left change, turn out our Bibles to Romans 6:23. It's a familiar verse, you know it, but let's read it to begin again. It says in Romans 6:23, for the wages of sin is death. So we're talking about the need of this Grace, we talked about that, we all have sinned and that we all have broken the law and that the wages of this sin is death. I'm going to take a little side trip here. This is and we'll come back to my lessons. But, you know, we often quote that verse for the wages of sin is death, but we forget that next little thing. But next little phrase. So it says,. But the gift of God is eternal life in Christ. Jesus, our lord, that's good news. And, you know, I don't know about you, but I like to look at the stars. I like, where we live. I can look up when I can see the stars in over, the times. I've had my time in the Navy and the time since, then I've learned what's the constellations are in, which stars are there in, as I look up in the heavens? It just, it's just amazing, amazing sight. I think we live in a part of the country. We don't have as much light pollution to say all the Dallas-Fort Worth area that the East Coast but Yeah, I used to think that I'd look up there and pain think. I'm so small and Missy wide vast universe. VIP here is this person this Divine being who said, let there be light and he created the heavens and the Earth and he created the the Vega and dinner, but I'll tour which is farther. The the summer triangle that we see in the summer and I think the being who created me, he wants to give me the gift of eternal life. And, you know, that's just an amazing thought I could in my lesson right here and I think we'd all be edified encouraged with that because we should be But then I someone pointed out, I read something. And it's not about me how small I may feel. Even though that's true. It's really about how big got it. It's God. Who is this big vast being? Who somehow in his grace and mercy, he loves the little human beings that are just scrambling around like ants on this on this Earth. And I just think it's an amazing thing, but I also think it's a lesson for another day Doug. So we'll have to move on. But in Isaiah chapter 59, it says your iniquities have separated you from your God and your sins have hidden his face from you and he will not hear. And then again, and Isaiah 64 verses 6 through 7 and says, but we are all like unclean thing. All of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.

So, this is not a pretty picture of the human condition. Is it? Just think about it, we lost and if we break one law, we've broken them. All of the wages of sin. The receipt, you know, we have this term the minimum wage in our country. I think it's $7 and some odd. This is the minimum you have to pay. Well what we have to pay for our sins is death. NRA this, then they separate us from God. and, We are unclean so that our righteousnesses are like filthy rags. I mean, that's a pretty pathetic condition. Paul will say in Romans chapter 7, you know, towards the end, you feel rhetorically asked this question? Oh, What A Wretched Man? I am. Who is going to save me from all of this. I'm paraphrasing a little bit there. And, of course, we know that if he answers his question, the next set of thanks be to God to Jesus Christ. And so what these verses mean to us first, we almost all have to plead guilty. Every accountable person has sinned and we cannot demand entrance into heaven, based upon our own Merit based upon anything that we have done because even the best of our abilities are as filthy rags in the sight of God. And so when I stand alienate us from God, our relationship is broken with him, you know, whenever in the garden Adam and Eve had a close relationship with God, but when they send everything changed and that relationship with could never be the same again. Because God is a pure and holy and righteous judge. and so, Open our Bibles to 1st Peter chapter 3 First, Peter chapter 3.

Let's look at verse 12 1st, Peter 3:12.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

And so this is actually a quote from Psalms 34 that Peter rights there. And soda think about that. Do you really want the face of the Lord to be against you? If you do evil? And so, we can't run away from this guy. We cannot work our way out of this Gill. So clearly we have identified. There is a need for this grace of God. And so let's talk about this words, then for a moment, you know, we kind of assumed things. We everyone knows what's in. Is But you know, it's gets translated to me. It's an archery term if I understand it correctly, when you take a bow and arrow and you shoot at a Target and you missed the bullseye, the idea is that person would Sam and so it's about missing the mark and sew in English. That's how it's been translated for us. And so think about it, God is Holy. And so when we do or say or think Unholy things, we missed the mark. And God is faithful. And if we are Unfaithful, We Stand because we missed the mark and God is loving and kind and gentle. And when we say and do things that are not kind that are unkind, their course, they're harsh, we missed the mark and so we sin and God is righteous and if we think and do and say things, which are unrighteous, we miss them are, and so we sin, and God is pure. When I have an impure thought, when I watch him pure things, when I read a things, I missed the mark because that's the standard that God has set. And so we Echo what Paul said earlier who will save us from this wretched condition. And so now under the P, the provision of Grace, let's see what God has done to provide an escape from this fate that we've talked about. Well, first of all out of love, he provides his son, Jesus for us, and we're familiar with John, 3:16 1st. John 4 verses verse 9. So let's turn to 1st, John 4. 1st John chapter 4? And let's read.

Verses 9 and 10. 1st John chapter 4? Vs9.

+ 10. In this, the love of God was manifested toward us. That God has sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him in. This is love not that, we loved God, but that he loved us. And sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. No, we don't use that word propitiation much in our vocabulary today. But you know, some versions use the term and atoning sacrifice. The idea is as one of the substitution that God has made Jesus, his son, the substitution. For us. Yes, we deserve death. Yes, we deserve punishment that God has substituted Jesus. He punishes him. He puts the sins on him and he is Jesus. As soon as the obligation of our sins. And so God offers that is a sacrifice. He sees that sacrifice. He accepts that sacrifice and he says their sins are toned for And he does this because he has to, because God is a just God. He cannot let sin go unpunished. But because he loves us, God's grace provides us, Escape Route. His Justice requires the sacrifice. He provides it through Jesus and then he recognizes Jesus's sacrifice on the cross as the suitable payment for the sins of men and women. And so to satisfy both his Justice and his love, he gives he provide this Grace. But is this Grace unconditional? It is not because otherwise everybody would be saved. There are some man-made religions who do believe, because Jesus offer to sacrifice once, and for all that, everybody is saved. Doesn't matter what you do, doesn't matter what you think, doesn't matter how you act, how you treat your neighbor, what you do called, universalism Christian Universe, Christian universalism in at The Falls Dr. And it's simply not true. Just think of it. I don't have to know any Bible to know that if that is true. Why would Paul and all the apostles go through what they did? If everyone was already say, why would they even go down that road? They just say, okay, everybody saved. Let's go and have a nice party. Let's eat drink and be merry. We have no work to do, but just the false Doctrine, every God wants everybody to be saved. But not everybody will be saved. Only those who accept this grace of the Gospel of God. I'm so that brings us to our third point, the reception of Grace.

And so, Jesus is the author of our Eternal salvation to all who obey him. We read that in Hebrews chapter 5, verse 9. And when someone decides to be obedient, what will they do? Well, they'll believe that Jesus is the Christ. They'll believe that he is a Son of God and they'll put their faith or trust in him. But you know, Jesus said a lot about repentance as well. He talked about having faith. That's true. But he also talked about repentance. And what is that repentance? Will it simply changing our heart and are alive? And you cannot be if you're say I believe and I want to be baptized but you're not willing to repent, then you really are not. Completing what God has asked you to do. Sometimes we're in such a hurry. We got to get someone to the baptistry because we need to have them be baptized. But if they're not willing to change their life, they're not willing to change their heart. As soon as they come up with the water. They're going to keep living like they used to live. Then they may just have just got wet. And so, we need to remember that repentance is changing our heart and our lives, and it's a slow process. It takes a lot of time. You look at the, the life of Jacob. The Jacob was a liar. He was a cheat, and he found out once he was after he lied to, and cheated other people. He was lied to and cheated himself, and he didn't like it, and he had favoritism in his family. He saw what it did in his fat, head between his mother and himself and his father and later on. He said he did exactly the same thing. He favored Benjamin. He favored Joseph and it brought all kinds of problems to this house. But yet he is considered faithful. You look at the end of the the Book of Genesis and there he is. He's blessing to the the 12, boys. He's worshiping God as he lands on his staff. Can repentance and in changing our hearts and our lives takes time. I just like the Jacob in the, in the Old Testament. He wasn't always the man that God wanted him to be, but he was faithful. He's, he's mentioned in that. Famous Hebrews 11 chapter, as someone who was not perfect as people were perfect, but they were faithful. And when they made a mistake, they got up and they said, God forgive me. I'm a sinner. I want to repent and they kept trying, that's what God calls us to do. And then, if we're willing to change our heart and life, after having put our faith in Jesus, then we will be buried with Christ in baptism for the Forgiveness of our sins. And you said that's an amazing thing that we talked about our how that we are simple people. But if we will obey what God tells us to do an amazing thing, happens it, God will forgive us of our sins were United with Christ. We put on Christ, you know, if I take off this coat, I'm not in this code. It's, it's my put it here on this table and I put on this coat. Now. I have the blessings in the benefit of this coat and it's the same thing. When we put on Christ in baptism. We are united with him to his death of Aaron resurrection. And now we're close, we put put on Christ and then two of us, I mean the first things amazing. Our sins are forgiven, but there are two other amazing things that happened in the first. One is God gives us this gift of the holy spirit, this non miraculous personal indwelling that we have with of the Holy Spirit. And I don't always understand how that works. And I don't understand how it's manifested but by faith, I believe that I that I've been given the gift of the holy spirit because that's what Peter told. The people would happen. If they became a Christian. And if I have done the same things that has people have done and they receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. That's what I have to. And that's what you have. If you're a Christian and then the third thing that happens at amazing is a god asked you to the church. She adds you to the body of Christ, your sins are forgiven. You receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, your attitude, the church, and that is good news. But we never need to make sure that we understand. We need to understand one thing salvation always has been, and it always will be by grace. It is not by works of righteousness, which we have done. It is by Grace. We have been saved through faith from a fusions 2:8. And so, when a penitent sinner comes to Jesus is baptized into him. They have their sins, forgiven, their added to the church. They receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. And that's the good news. That's the gospel of the grace of God and we should be thanking, God everyday that he has. Given that to us that we have had the opportunity to hear that to believe it and Obey it and then trust it. Now I want to say one thing really, really quickly. And that is we cannot save ourselves. Humans do have a part. We have to obey God has to clear about that. But when you stop and think about it, it's God who does all the work. And so let's turn in our Bibles to Colossians chapter 2.

Because I think there are so many people who want to accuse us of of work salvation, and I'm I'm going to get to that. But let's talk about this Colossians chapter 2, verses 9, through 12. Colossians 2.

Verses 9 through 12. 4 in him. Dwells all the fullness of the godhead bodily and you are complete in him. Who is the head of all principality and Power in him. You were also circumcised with a circumcision. Not made made without hands by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh with a circumcision of Christ buried with him in baptism. And which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

So God, part or his grace is far better as far more important than my work. That I anything I do. It is God, who is doing the work? It is God. Who is doing the cleansing? It is God, who is take it? He given it by doing this, by the pay, his own power. And so let's keep reading 2, verse 13 and 15. There Colossians 2.

And you being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh has made alive again with him. Having forgiven. You all trespasses having wiped out the handwriting of the requirement that was against us, which was contrary to us, and he is taking it out of the way, having nailed to the cross having disarmed, principalities and part Powers. He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them triumph over them in it. And so it is God who makes it a lot of it is Christ to forgive us and Jesus, who cancelled the debt, and Jesus, who disarms the powers in the principalities, it's Jesus who triumphs over by the cross in any victory that we might enjoy. As a direct result of the work that God and Jesus have done. And so, when we talked about our car, our conversion, Are we talked to anybody about receiving this Gospel of the grace of God, if they're honest, they won't mistake us for thinking of speaking of work salvation, but they will understand that is always been by grace that we have been saved through faith and then not faith that calls us to obey what God has told us to do.

And so, We talked about the need for this Grace. We talked about the provision of this Grace. We've talked about the reception of this grace. And so you may ask yourself if this is such a great and wonderful news, why isn't this place packed with people? Why are people knocking on the door to get? Well, it's maybe that you really don't understand that the need for Grace is and their lives. They think of a good moral person. I don't cheat on my taxes. I try to obey the speed limit, you know, I get to the Boy Scouts when they come to the door. When I go to the Walmart and there's a Salvation Army guy who's going to start ringing that Bell. Now, they put a $5 bill in there. And I think you know, I'm a good person. But you would be surprised. I know you wouldn't because your Bible student, most of the people that were converted in the book of Acts already. We're good, right? Just people Saul of Tarsus. He was a Jew of Jews. He thought he was misguided and what he was doing, but if you wanted to know, he says, as far as the law, I was faultless. Cornelius, then when he was a Roman Centurion, but he was considered a devout and a godly man. But yet he was still lost Lydia, Ann Phillipi, Paul went down to the river, looking for a place to pray and he finds Lydia there. Obviously, she was a Godly woman. She wouldn't have been with the price of prayer. She accepted the word of God and became a sister in Christ, but she was still lost no matter how good she was. And what about the Ethiopian eunuch. He had just come from the temple. He was worshipping he was reading the Bible as he was going down the road. He was re-reading. Isaiah, scroll, that was available to him. So, here's a guy in our let's use our language. He had just been to church. He was studying his Bible, the still, he needed to hear the gospel of Christ, didn't they? And so, is Isaiah says, you know, all of our righteousness is as filthy rags. And you know, it may also be so they don't understand the need. They may not be aware of the provision of Grace.

God wants everybody to be safe. And that's where we come in. Just telling the provisional you're going to do some door-knocking next week. There was a good way to give them that information and maybe they don't know the right way to receive disgrace. You have to turn on the TV this morning and some was going to say, just say this prayer with me. And you if you're in a bar, if you're at the sportscar complex, if you're at your home, just say this prayer with me and, you know, you're going to be safe. You're going to be a Christian. And if we've talked about this morning, this is not a Biblical concept, is it? It just doesn't work that way. And so people need to listen to what Jesus taught and what the Apostle taught and know where will they find this? Say this prayer and you'll become a Christian read, the book of Acts. If so, I want to just end pause right there. When I tell you a little bit about world, English Institute, it began in 1989. It's a it's a Bible study alternative for people to study the Bible on the internet. What we do is we try to get people who are interested in improving their English were not for people who don't know any English, this with people who had two to three years of English. And what we do is we use the Bible to help them improve their English. You want to talk about nouns? Pronouns demonstrative pronoun, adjective, just take a skinny sentence out of the Bible. We can take Acts 2:38. You can break that down. You can learn about verbs. You can learn about subjects. You can learn all about certain thing. You can learn to read. You can learn to your listening comprehension. And so what we do is we take that interest. The people who want to learn English or improve English, we use the Bible as the textbook and then we hope as we know that is. You study the Bible. Are going to get their English, but they're most of all going to get the Bible. And, you know, I tell people that we were an English Teaching Ministry, but If it's really not. So we are at we're gospel Teaching Ministry. We want to preach the gospel and if in the process of that we can help you with your English, then that's what we're going to do. We're going to start the Book of Genesis. We're going to go to the book of Acts and we're going to take it and tell you about this God who created you? He has a plan for your life. And here's the plan of how you can receive salvation. This Gospel of the grace of God, that we've been talking about this morning.

English is the language of the modern world. If you want to get ahead in today's business and economic climate and you're living in a country where English is not your second language, you're at a disadvantage. It's allows you to get a better job and get a promotion. It allows you to get into a better school. If you're a student, all the technical journals of Medicine of Technology. All computer programming is done in English. And so, if you do not have the skill of being in having English, and you want those things in your life, then you're going to try whatever you can and because our lessons are free students can get on and they can help improve their English. You know, if you're in the cockpit, I don't care where you are. If you're in Kathmandu, Nepal, and you're in the cockpit and you're approaching the tower, you're not going to be speaking. Nepalese. You're going to be speaking English in the tower. English is in the cockpit. That's the only thing that spoken. So it's important for people who want to improve themselves. And so, we use the Bible as an English text and that's not foreign to us as Americans. There was a time in our country as we had the westward expansion. There were no schools and people families taught their children, how to read by reading the Bible every night. And so it's not a far-fetched concept to use this. And so I'd like to encourage you to think about becoming a world English teacher. Let me, let me, let me La, some of your concern. There's no record with the keep everything is kept on the internet. You do not need to be an expert in English because all the in grammar questions are answered with true-false, the computer grades those for them and it sends them back and is in addition of giving the students, if they missed the question or will they even get it? Right? We're going to tell them why the why the answer was correct. So it's going to do to, you don't have to do that. Your job is to help answer the three or four thought questions are there at the end of every lesson. The first introduction lesson is over the prodigal son and it asked two or three questions. What? Why? Why did the boy want to leave his home? Why was the older brother angry when he came back? And what do we learn from this about God? What is a parable teaches the students? Write their answer? You you help them? In two ways. Did they were they able to read the story and comprehended enough to tell you? It might be in broken English, but did they tell you what the story was about? Did they answer the question? Why did the younger brother? Want to leave home? So you want to make sure that you do. They get it biblically, correct? And did they write it in comprehensible English? And if they did this help them, maybe they said he did want to go and leave his family. Will, he did want is not good English and he just said he wanted to leave his family and it's very small things like that. Punctuation, spelling, those type of thing. And sometimes a student will write, you know, the equivalent of the New York City telephone, directory there. And you'll say, wow, what do I got to do? I just usually pick one or two sentences and say, I understood what you meant. Here's two sentences. I would recommend you. Write them this way, instead of the way you did and students, appreciate teachers, who are personal people who are treated, don't want to be treated like numbers. I'm learning Spanish, and it's hard and you rethink all English. It's so easy because we've grown up with it, but it is hard and your students will sometimes ask you some question. I had a student one day said we were talking about something completely different. He says, why does God hate homosexuals? Well, we had to stop at we're teaching there and we chased this rabbit, but we have to make sure we get back. And so they're going to ask you some question, Sometimes some of your students and it's going to help you to become a better Bible student because until you start teaching something, you don't really know something. And so and then sometimes they just asked really will tell you a very personal things. I haven't had a she's no longer students as she quit, but she lived in a Muslim country and she was studying to become a doctor. And she was diagnosed as being depressed that with depression and she said, you know, you are the only person that I can talk to about this because in my culture, women do not talk about depression, even though I am a medical student. And I know if I go and talk to my medical teachers, I'm going to be marked as somebody who is unfit to be a doctor. And so you're the only person that I can talk to you. And then we'll tell you stories, it just break your heart and you'll think it's okay. I'm making Headway with this person and then one day, they don't, they never take another left. Then you just Do your heart breaks, but then you going to get another person to teach and step dad. And that's what we do. We have every day on our side. There are two hundred people who have completed the lesson on the prodigal son and are waiting for a teacher. And so that's what we do. We we need teachers and so we don't want those students the way. And so that's why we're here. I'm not here to ask for money. I don't want to be a part of your budget. I could care less about you put in support to World English. I'm here to recruit somebody, someone who will serve as a internet teacher. Now to Doug. I know when you go to Webber's Falls next week and you knock on the door and if 200 people are going to knock on to Alyssa, you mark Moroccan 201 door. If 200 of those people say, I'll do one lesson with you. Would you say what a failure that was? You'd be dancing in the house. If only one person just said that, wouldn't you? So there are two hundred people right. Now who said I'll do one lesson, but I need a teacher. So that's what we're here to do, is to recruit teachers. And I know that you may be saying, you know, I don't have internet. I don't have a laptop, a computer or tablet, I can't do this, but I bet you and I understand that and I'm not asking you to to, to sign up if that's that's your situation. But I bet, you know, somebody a grant brother, I sign a daughter and nephew someone who's a Christian faithful Christian. This might be exactly what they need. You know, I see we have a couple of young people here.

Do you do to girl? Do you spend at least one hour on the internet a day? Would you say you do? Okay. Alright, I do too. I'm not condemning you for that but there's a lot of young people who spend a they they get on there and they said they would watch cat video that older people to, I know they watch his cat videos and these butterfly thing and let you know, they know all these things. But what if they took, if they spent 5 hours on the internet every day, and one hour of that 5 hours, they spent helping somebody learn the Gospel of Jesus, wouldn't that be amazing? That everyone we could do that? And so, if, if we're not for you, please don't feel obligated to, but take one of our brochures in the back there. We have a brochure. Take one of its a yellow piece of paper. We have some bookmarks. I want a sister Dixon there. I want you to take a flier. There's a bookmark there. We even have some mats in case you have bad breath and I'll get one of those and we have, there's also a little sheet back there. You may know somebody who needs to improve their English. Sometimes. I'm in Walmart and I'll hear people speaking, you know, in Spanish or something like that. Take one of their cards, put it in your wallet. And next time, that happens that they would you like to improve your English. Here's where you can sign up for free. To improve your English. Are you interested? And then I say yes or no. I don't know what your daughter or your neighbor, they might do. So.

Let's back there so I can charge you to take that. I want to say two more things and then they lesson will be yours. You may have heard of world Bible school. We love World Bible school. We are not in competition with them. We are collaborators and every sense of the way. They help us, we help them. We have the ability to go to countries because we're English instructions. So we have a lot of Muslim Students. We have a lot of a Hindu student. We had students from 192 countries, you can choose whichever country, whichever student, young old male, female. We have Jews. We have people who are atheist. We have people who hinders Buddhist all kinds of religions. And we had last year. We had 37996 students, sign up, and take one, at least one lesson. From 192 countries. We do have students or here in the US, Canada Australia, the UK, most of those are immigrants or come to those countries and they want, they know they got a fit and I got to stimulate and so unless they learn English, they're not going to do well. And so, you may think well, we probably don't have many students from Australia, but we do English it. I was the language there, India for that. Last one was 5,000 students from India or Ron or rock each of those about 300. Saudi Arabia. Let's see, Saudi Arabia that 57 students, you know, if you dug you and I couldn't go to Saudi Arabia and preach on the corner. Well, we could, but we wouldn't last very long, right? But here's 57 people, from Saudi Arabia who said, you know, I'll take one lesson. So, you know, we're just planning seeds. I'd like to tell you the thousands and millions of people become Christian. People are people there, like here, they don't, but we're planting seeds and we do have conversions teachers, get a quarterly newsletter, talk about all those things. If somebody wants to become a Christian and we use our resources were for a bible school and other Mission points to get them connected with a faithful church that they can become Christians. Then we had, it happens all the time that we have everything, in our newsletter. We have all kinds of stories about that. So that's what it World Bibles World English Institute is and so I hope you all at least take a flyer and talk to us afterwards and appreciate that opportunity, you know, this morning, we talked about the gospel of the grace of God and talk about how people need it. We talked about how God has provided it, and we talked about how a person can't receive that gospel. And if you're here today, and you've never become a Christian, I want you to think about what we talked about. And if today is the day, you want to act upon that and faithful, obedience. Please do that. If not, encouraged to talk to the elders and brother, Doug, hear about this Gospel of the grace of God, because it's an amazing thing. And you're missing out on such a marvelous and wonderful thing. If you're here, is that a Christian and you need the prayers of this body. I'm sure they'll be willing and happy to talk with you and encourage you and help you in any way. So if the brother would come and lead us in our song of invitation, please stand and thank you for your attention this morning.