Let the redeemed of the Lord
say so, the scripture says. That's what you and I are to
be doing, saying so. Telling the story, your testimony. Tell your story. If you are a
child of God, you've got a great story. I don't care who you are. I don't care where you live,
where you went to church, if God has brought you out of darkness
into the glorious light and liberty of Jesus Christ, you've got a
story. And tell it because there are
those out there that need to hear it. That if God delivered
you and saved you, he will save them. Tell them the good news. Well, Exodus 18. Now Jethro,
I may call him Jet from here on out, Jethro. Now Jethro, the
priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses, heard of everything
God had done for Moses and for his people Israel and how the
Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. And then in verse nine,
Jethro was delighted to hear about all the good things the
Lord had done for Israel in rescuing them from the hand of the Egyptians. Jethro said, praise be to the
Lord who rescued you, Moses, from the hand of the Egyptians
and of Pharaoh, and who rescued the people from the hand of the
Egyptians. Now I know that the Lord is greater
than all other gods, for he did this to the house, to those who
had treated Israel arrogantly. And he brought a burnt offering
unto the Lord. There are a few things that God
uses more than that of the redeemed of the Lord saying so. What does God use today to bring
his chosen, his elect poor sinners to himself? The story, the message
that you have of how God called you, how he blessed you, how
you were converted, how you were a long way off, how you were
down in Lodibar, how you were using drugs, or maybe how you
were just plain old Pharisee religious and self-righteous.
And God brought you out of that. I often say that those who are
in religion are far worse than those who are in the crack house,
because you are in a double darkness. You are in the darkness of your
own depravity and in the darkness of religion, thinking yourself
to be something when you're nothing, thinking yourself to have a self-righteousness
when all of your righteousnesses are as filthy rags. It is those
of us who rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the
flesh who know the truth of God's redemptive story. The old preachers
used to tell me this years ago, Kent, the best preaching you
will ever do is telling others what great things God has done
for you. But I, you know, I stutter and
I do this and I do that and I'm bashful. You're not bashful about
this. You know, those of us who have
grandchildren, we're not bashful about that. Would you like to
see some pictures? Can I tell you about my grandkids?
They are the cutest things. What about your God? What about
your redeemer? What about your savior? What
about that blessed story of how he came to seek and to save you? And that all he seeks, he saves.
Isn't that glorious? that Jesus was not lost. And
I know when you first get converted, many people have this kind of
testimony because they've heard some preachers say something
about, I found Jesus and you can find him too. Well, the truth
is Jesus wasn't lost. You were, and the truth is you
didn't find Jesus. He found you and then you found
him. So hearing is very important. In fact, Psalms 78, 4 says this,
we will not hide from them, from our children, from showing to
generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength
and his wonderful works that he has done. He established a
testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded
our fathers that they should make them known to their children. Let me tell you, if you're bashful
and backwards, tell the story of how God saved you to your
kids. That would be a good start. Set Junior down. Set Missy down
and tell her about what a great God you have, and what a great
Savior you have, and what a great Redeemer you have. that the generation
to come might know them. That is the great things that
God has done for you. Don't hide the great things God
has done for you from your children. Tell them stories they love for
you to sit on their bed and to tell them stories of what God
has done. The psalmist said, even the children
which should be born, not only the kids that are already here,
but that means grandkids and great grandkids who should arise
and declare those stories to their children, that they might
set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but
keep his commandments. Let me tell you. Every one of
you adults who are here and have been here at least six months
You have a story to tell your kids about what God has done
in this place You do Joel 1 3 says tell you your children of it
and let your children tell their children and their children their
children and another generation Jesus said this in Mark 5 19
go home to thy friends and tell them how great things the Lord
hath done for thee that he had Compassion on thee and then Deuteronomy
4 9 only take heed to thyself and keep thy soul Diligently
lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen You saw it yourself Three years
ago, this was a crack house. This was a place for a bunch
of drunks, people with problems and a nightclub. And now look at it. Tell your kids. So they began
to believe and expect God to do great things. Teach your sons
and your daughters. Hearing and telling are God's
instruments. God uses them to his glory and
to the blessing and comfort of his people. Go tell it on the
mountain. Faith cometh, faith cometh, faith
cometh, faith cometh. That means it comes from the
outside. Faith cometh by what? By hearing. And that's what Jet did. He heard
and believed. Interesting story about Jet.
He was a heathen priest. And he heard about the great
things that God had done for Moses. I'll bet there's some
more Jets out there that you crossed their path. I bet you cross their path every
day. I bet there's some hurting people out there that are lonely
and sad. And I'm not talking simply about
addicts, which we all are. I'm talking about that lonely
millionaire who doesn't have family and doesn't understand
love and doesn't understand closeness and that somebody has their back
and doesn't live in an atmosphere and climate of unconditional
love. The truth is we have each other's back here. The truth
is we're family here. The truth is we're very close
here. Hearing and telling are God's
instruments. God uses them. Faith cometh by
hearing and hearing by the word of God. How about Romans 10?
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved. What a wonderful promise. I guarantee if you call, you
shall be saved. That's a promise from God. How
then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? How are you going to believe
in this God if you haven't heard about him? If you hadn't heard
what he can do and who he is and what a mighty God he is.
How are you going to have any hope? And how shall they hear
without a preacher? I don't know how many people
we have in here today, but I guarantee you this, every person in here
has been called to be a preacher. I'm not the only preacher in
the house. There's probably four or 500 preachers in this house.
All preacher means is to cry aloud and that I do. I mean,
I get kind of loud. Some of you aren't used to loud
preachers, but I'm crying aloud. I'm telling the story. I'm excited
about my God. I'm excited about what he has
done and he's able to do. You are a preacher. God saved
you to preach. Sometimes you hear people say
this, don't preach to me. Well, I want you to know if you're
here, I'm preaching right at you. But our preaching as Christians
is what an awesome God he is. Though you followed in the stables
of sin, he comes to you and says, let us reason together. Though
your sins be as scarlet, I'll make you white as snow. Come
unto me, all ye that are laboring and heavy laden. You can tell
that story, can't you? You can say something like this
to another addict. I was sick and tired of being
sick and tired. I had lost everything that I
had my wife, my kids, my husband, my family. I had lost it all. I was a thief. I was an outcast,
but Jesus found me. Jesus came to me and now my life
has changed. I just know that there are people
out there who need to hear that. So my first point is that Jethro,
Jeth, was a heathen priest. And I would encourage you to
do this wherever I go. And when I'm talking, I get to
talk to heathens all the time. I have many heathen friends.
And I tell them just what I tell you, that I'm excited about Jesus
Christ and what he has done. I'm excited about God coming
to earth to save poor sinners. So no matter where you are in
life, no matter what your station is in life, you are a sinner
and Christ came to save sinners. So there is hope for you. You
know, Getting back to this going to church thing and being a religious
person, how boring that is. Somebody always say amen, who
knows that? And there are people in here
that went to church, you were a Catholic, a Baptist, Presbyterian,
I don't know what you were, but you hated going. But you needed
to go because you're gonna try to work it all out with God.
And you thought you were going to gain favor with God. So you
thought God didn't see you sitting there in the place of the cross
and the steeple and all of that. You were sitting there and some
of you back there right now are on your cell phones, turn them
off. You're on your cell phone. Do you think God doesn't see
that? You think God is just so happy because you're here sitting
in a church? No, no, no. The truth is God
doesn't want his people to be bored. And there is no reason
for God's people to be bored. God is doing creative things. God's taking nothings and making
somethings. It's exciting. Listen, I would
encourage you, if you're in a church that's boring, come over here.
Every day is new and different. Really exciting. I was reading
you say well pastor, you know, you sound kind of critical of
other churches No, I'm just saying if you're bored Come on over
And and I'll tell you this You need to be talking up your God
out there. We need to fill these balconies
and This place needs to be packed. We need to go to two services.
How come? Because we have a message. There's
a heroin epidemic out there and we know the cure for a heroin
epidemic. You ought to be telling somebody.
Those people you bump shoulders with that are still out there,
tell them. Tell them there is hope. I was
reading yesterday from Isaiah 46 about religion. And Isaiah
said this, Baal boweth down and Nebo stoopeth. Their idols were
upon the beast. In other words, they carried
their gods around on oxen or donkeys or whatever. And their
carriages were heavy laden with their idols. And their gods were
a burden to the weary beast. This is Isaiah 46. That old oxen
was thinking, I wish I could get this thing off my back. They
were a burden. They stoop, they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden.
He's talking about these people bowing down to these idle gods. They couldn't deliver the burden
from off the people, but themselves, now they're gone into captivity.
You better watch worshiping the wrong God. Better watch worshiping
a God that you have made yourself. You may find yourself in bondage
more than likely. Because I'll tell you this, Satan
is a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. You need a redeemer. You need a savior. You need an
intercessor. You need the Holy Spirit. Amen. Your life's going to be a mess.
I guarantee you Satan's going to win without Christ. without
Christ. Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob
and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are born by
me from the belly." In other words, I knew you before you
were formed in your mother's belly. I'm the one that brought
you out of the womb. That's why you didn't die with
pneumonia when you were six months old. That's why you weren't stillborn,
because I was bearing you. I had my eye on you all the way
along. That's an exciting God, isn't
it? Some of you haven't come to Christ yet. You don't know
him, but the Holy Spirit is going to fetch you. That's exciting
to me. Listen, I would have resigned
this place a long time ago if I didn't believe that God was
able to do exceedingly abundantly. If I didn't think God was going
to be here, because I know how stubborn you are. I know how
crazy you are. And I put myself there, we are.
I know that we do the same thing over and over expecting different
results. That's how nuts we are. We'll
use a drug over and over and over and over. We'll do the same
thing with the same results. You need a miracle. You need
a God who is a miracle worker. And the God of the Bible is that
kind of God. He said, not only did I take
care of you when you were in your mother's belly, but even
to your old age, oh, I'm glad about that. Even to your old
age, I am He. Even to you, get those white
hairs, will I care you? Or you don't have any white hairs.
I will carry you. I have made and I will bear,
even I will carry and will deliver you. To whom will you liken me
and make me equal and compare me that we may be alike?" They
lavish with gold out of the bag, their idols. They weigh silver
in the balance. They hire a goldsmith to make
their God and they fall down and worship it. I can't think
of anything more boring than that. Something I have made with
my own hands and I bow down and worship it. And yet some of you
are doing that today. You haven't cast aside all of
your idols. Some of you worship drugs. Some
of you worship money. Some of you worship alcohol.
Some of you worship shopping. Some of you worship the refrigerator. I mean, there are different things,
different idols that we have. There's only to be one. We're
to have a single mindedness toward Jesus Christ. We were, Kim was helping me.
We were looking online at sermon audio. And one of the sermons
that is quite popular that I preach from here is a single-mindedness
toward Christ. And we saw all over the world
where people were getting that message and listening to it.
I know that there are people being converted in Africa and
New Zealand and Iceland who've heard the message of a single-mindedness
toward Jesus Christ. Here's what the Lord said. They
bear him up on the shoulders, they carry him, set him in his
place and he standeth from his place and he shall not move. How would you like a God that
you made and you bow down before and you set it in its place and
it stays there? I mean, sometime you need a God
who will come to you, don't you? You need a God who's able to
rescue. When you cry out, he comes running. He's an ever present helper. He's there. They bear him up
on their shoulders. They carry him. He stays in his
place. Sometimes he gets a little crooked when the earth shakes
and they have to straighten him back up. Now here's what God says. Remember
this and show yourselves men, bring it again to mind. Oh, you
transgressors. Remember the former things of
old. Remember the former things of old. Remember what I have
done for you. For I am God and there is none
else. I am God and there is none like
me. I declare the end from the beginning
and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying
my counsel shall stand. I will do all my pleasure." And
then Isaiah says, oh yeah, you remember the story in the Bible
about the prophet who was pouting in the cave and he had no food? Calling a ravenous bird from
the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country.
He brought a bird who was a scavenger and scavenger birds don't give
up their food unless God sends the bird to the prophet to feed
the prophet. That's the God of the Bible. I have spoken it, I will also
bring it to pass. I have purposed it, I will also
do it. I love that passage. I have purposed
it. I will also do it. There's a
verse like that in Romans. And we know that all things work
together for good to them that love the Lord, to them who are
the called according to his purpose, for whom he did foreknow, he
also did predestinate. Whom he predestinated, them he
also called. Whom he called, them he also
justified. Whom he justified, them he also
glorified. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? I am persuaded that neither life
nor death nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor any other creature shall be able to separate
me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus. Hearing is
so important. So, Jet heard. That's what it says, he heard.
Before Moses got there, he heard. This heathen priest, The Medianites
worshiped all kinds of gods. But Jethro heard about this one
God who was doing mighty and powerful things down in Egypt
with the children of Israel. And the Bible says he delighted
to hear about them. Now, sometimes you will get this,
but not all the time. Sometimes you're gonna tell people
your story I get this all the time Sometimes you'll hear that
they'll go like that. Yeah, that's not for me Maybe
not yet, but maybe God isn't through with you Right there
may be a down-the-road time but but often I get this people say
to me They have somebody new that hasn't heard one of my stories
and they'll go like this. Hey pastor Tell about those pennies
Tell them about 33 million pennies. How God brought you 33 million
in pennies. Tell that story to them. And
I started telling the story, the people I'm telling it to
start to grin. What? You did what? You sold them to
the bank for two and a half cents a piece. What? 12 million pennies in your garage,
stacked knee deep. What? A branch truck came to your house
and picked them up and took them to the bank and the bank counted
off 33 million. What? Tell them the story about walking
in the bank. That time the guy asking about
your haircut and his family gives, you know, three or $4 million.
Tell them that story, Pastor. That was a good story. People have even said to me,
you ought to write a book about that. You ought to write that
down about what God's done. One man said to me, I'll back
it. And he said to me this, those stories so encouraged me. Your God stories will encourage
somebody. You know, all of God's kids,
all of God's children, all of God's children are looking for
God. They want God to show up. As the heart panteth for the
Rotterbrooks. Hallelujah. So my heart panteth
after thee, O God. Church is boring unless the presence
of God is there. Exodus 18.8 says this, Moses
told his father-in-law about everything the Lord had done.
I like that emphasis too, everything the Lord had done. It wasn't
Moses, you and the Lord. Everything the Lord had done.
The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad. What the Lord had done to Pharaoh
and the Egyptians. How the Lord protected Israel
through all the hardships of their journey and how the Lord
saved them. There's nothing like hearing
it from the horse's mouth. Moses told it. Moses, listen,
if you've had an experience with God, tell somebody. There's nobody
can tell it like you. Nobody can tell it. It's your
own personal testimony. It's your own story of what God
has done. Moses probably said did Jethro
something like this? Well Jethro I Myself was a heathen
God Converted me and call me. I was a stutterer. I couldn't
speak. I didn't have any gifts or talents But God asked me one
day who made your mouth and Of course it was him He insinuated
that he would help me to speak and he sent me to Pharaoh and
so God told me a secret to Right at the beginning. He said Moses
I've heard the groanings of the children of Israel and I am come
down to deliver them out of Egyptian bondage and Now you go to Pharaoh
and tell Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord, let my people go. Sometimes God asks you to do
things that you go, huh? And God many times does things
so he makes sure he's the one that gets the glory. Like the
story of Gideon. Gideon had all that big army.
30, 40,000 of them. God said, you got too many men
for me to give you the victory. Cut it down to about 300. Lest
Israel vaunt themselves against me, unless they brag about what
they did. My friend, make sure your testimony
is not a bragamony. It's always to God be the glory. Great things he has done. Well,
Moses said, I thought it was a setup. I went up there to Pharaoh
and Pharaoh said to me, I know not the Lord your God, and I
will not let Israel go. Huh? So Moses was a tattletale. He ran back to God and said,
Pharaoh says he's not going to let us go. And God said, oh,
he's going to let you go. And you're going to go out with
a high hand. Let me see what I shall do here. Before I get
through, everybody's gonna know that I put a difference between
you and the Egyptians. In fact, when you go out of Egyptian
bondage, three million of you, not even a dog's gonna bark.
Can you imagine all that commotion and the dogs not barking? All
of those chariots and all those people leaving town. I used to
have a dog named Snowball. Snowball would chase cars and
bark. Snowball got run over three or four times, but it was in
his nature to chase cars and bark. God said, when 3 million of you
leave, a dog's not gonna bark. And when you don't hear any dogs
barking, know this, let the love of God flood your soul. I've
made a difference between you and the Egyptians. That's what
God does. Let me tell you, if you're saved,
God's made a difference. You didn't do that yourself. You didn't have any part in saving
yourself. God saved you. Isn't it something
that you're saying you sorry no good for nothing Isn't it
something? It's some oh what a wonder right
Alaston did my Savior bleed and did my sovereign die would he
devote that sacred head for such a worm as I God said, okay the Nile River
flows through Egypt, they depend on it for water, water for their
cattle, water for themselves, water for their crops. So I'll
just turn that to blood. So the Nile River was turned
to blood. And Pharaoh began to waffle just a little bit, lying
man that he was. And then he backed out on that,
so the Lord sent frogs. Can you imagine? Frogs everywhere. And the Egyptians believed that
frogs were some type of God, so they couldn't kill them. They
found frogs in the bed, frogs in the bathroom, frogs in the
kitchen, frogs everywhere, frogs. And what about the gnats? You
wanna see the depravity of man? You wanna see the depravity of
man? All God said is, let my people go. No river turned to
blood, no frogs. How about mosquitoes? So God
sent gnats or mosquitoes. He sent flies. I hate flies,
don't you? Especially in the summer when
you got food around, flies. Then all the livestock were killed.
The boils and the blisters, the storm, the thunder, the hail,
the locusts, the darkness, and then the killing of the firstborn. And then Pharaoh said, okay,
get out of town. Get out of town. And they took
off and he changed his mind. And he pursued And Moses said
to Jethro, you know what happened? We got down there to the Red
Sea and we were for sure Pharaoh's army was behind us. You're not
going to believe this. You're not going to believe this,
but the Red Sea opened right up on both sides. And we actually went across all
3 million of us dry shod. That means with dry feet, we
didn't get wet. and Pharaoh's army's coming.
We get across on the other side and the waters come down and
drowns a whole army. And you know, Jethro was probably
like, you don't mean it. Really? Really? Don't you love to hear the stories
of God? You know, I can remember Miss Myrtle was my Sunday school
teacher at old Zoar Baptist church. She was the greatest teacher
I've ever had. But she'd tell those stories,
Ms. Myrtle would, and she would make them come alive. And you
know what I'm preaching to you today? It's what Ms. Myrtle told
me back when I was just a little boy, telling the stories of God. Hearing tell your story Jethro's
reaction to what he heard he declared He delighted to hear
the good things and he said praise the Lord That's that's what happens
when you tell your story and God becomes real to somebody
in the power of the Holy Spirit. They're regenerated. They're
born again I've had people say this to me You don't really believe that
story about Jonah and the whale. I am so excited about it. And
I don't back up at all. And I usually smile and go like
this. I believe this. If my God wanted Jonah to swallow
the whale, it would have happened. How about that? And here's what Jethro said.
Now I know that the Lord is greater than all other gods. Remember,
I told you the Midianites served all kinds of gods. And there's
some of you do too. The biggest thing in your life
is your God. If it's your babies, husband, wife, houses, land,
silver, the biggest thing in your life is your God. And there are many gods. How
wonderful it is to get to the place where you know all of those
things out there are false gods, and that you have one God, and
He's a mighty God, and He's an awesome God, and a loving God,
and a caring God, and that He's working things out, and that
you're not left to yourself. Now I know that the Lord is greater
than all other gods. We often sing here, our God is
greater, greater than any other. And then verse 12 says, Jethro
brings a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God in verse 12. Say, well, pastor, what did the
Old Testament saints know? I don't know how much they knew
and understood, but all through the Old Testament, you find this
echo, somebody's coming. in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Somebody's coming. Somebody's
coming. That's right. And though it was
a foreshadowing, every sacrifice that was offered The burnt offering
is supposedly one of the oldest offerings that were made. It
has to do with the sacrifice being consumed on the altar with
fire. And it points directly to that
day when God in human flesh condescended into this world, came down, walked
the Judean acres without sin, went up on Calvary, and God took
His wrath out upon His only begotten Son for the sins of God's people. And Jesus Christ became sin for
us, He who knew no sin, the substitute. that we might become the righteousness
of God in him. Jethro might've not, listen,
those of us in New Testament days, New Testament times here,
what an awesome thing it is to know. We see the big picture.
All we're waiting for now is his return. Somebody's coming somebody did
come in the person of Christ Kept the law for us was our representative
Went up on Calvary and died in our room place instead and therefore
there is no hell There is no condemnation to those that are
in Christ Jesus That's my story and I'm sticking to it that Jesus
Christ died in my place and And I'm going to preach it and preach
it and have preached it. And I know some of you say, have
said this, you know, we need more. You don't need more than
Christ. There is no more than Christ.
So just fill up on Jesus Christ. He's the answer. He's God's anointed. And then the last thing is this.
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Make it plain. Make it plain. And it's all right
to do this. Why don't you come over and visit
with us at church? Why don't you come over and just
hear? Not only that, I stand up here
and I noticed myself doing it this morning. I stand up here
and I say to myself things like this. You're not smiling. I say
that to myself. You know why? Because I see you're
not smiling. And you know what I do? I start to smile. I want
you to want what's in me. I want you to be saying things
like this. Pastor, I know what you mean.
When you get in high gear and you go into that, hallelujah.
Yeah, I want to say it too. Hallelujah. I feel it. I sense it. I know my God is
real. This is not drudgery. I see the
most awesome things. People who are totally lost, find life and find it more abundantly. I see the most awesome thing.
People who fall down, get up. You know, that's always an awesome
thing to me. There's nobody in here that hasn't fallen down. And I'm afraid I'm a goner. No, you always were a goner,
but then Christ came and greater is he that's in you than he that's
in the world. Let me tell you this, Christ
is greater than crack. He's greater than heroin. He's
greater than your church. He's greater than your religion.
He's greater than your baptism. He's greater than the 10 commandments.
Look to Christ and live. and church, tell the great stories
of what God has done. I close with this. Monday, I
tell you this not for you to slow down in your giving, but
we were talking about giving Tuesday and we set a goal. I
told the church this Thursday, but some of you were not here,
you were eating turkey. But some of you didn't hear this.
We set a goal of about $68,000. A man came into my office, wrote
a check for $60,000 for Giving Tuesday. Did you notice I spoke with confidence
about we're going to meet our goal? And I noticed Kim did a
little bit too, because we had a secret. A $60,000 check. So we kind of
raised it. We need $120,000 on Giving Tuesday. I know in 50-some years, I've
never had people do things like they're doing now. And I know
it comes out of God. I was thinking yesterday, too,
in naming people that I thank God for, that God has brought
into my life providentially. This church, this building, this
ministry, you think about that budget over there is about to
go to eight or $9 million. Not one penny of government funding,
not one penny of government funding. God's people, God's doing a great
thing here. This church, what God is doing
here, it's an awesome thing. And I want to tell you this,
we haven't seen anything yet. Don't get to thinking God's going
to run out of awesome things. Don't get to thinking that our
little balcony being filled. Let's go to five services on
Sunday. We might have to take the admonition
of Jethro. We may have to get 70 guys in
here and people to help the old pastor. But you know, I read
in the Bible where when God's men, this one guy, he got sold,
and he was blessing the people of God, and he got where he got
weary, and God had several men come up and hold his hands up.
See, this is not a Kent thing. This is not a Kent thing. This
is a God thing going on here. And every one of you who he's
brought here, he brought you here for a purpose. I know that
for sure. You ought to be excited about
it. And you ought to be thinking about what did God bring me here? What is his purpose in my life?
I believe purpose is the biggest word in the Bible. And whatever
he's purposed you to do, he will give you the strength and power
to do it. And he will open up doors I found out this a long
time ago. I used to try to open them up
myself. So I'd be kicking at it. And then I would blame God. How come that, you know, this
is... And then God would just steer me somewhere else and that
door would just open very gently. Come right in, kid. Here's what
I've got for you. 15 years ago, I lifted my hand
toward this building. People jumping off the roof,
whoredom going on in this building. People with red hair and blue
hair and green hair and all kinds of kids who had totally lost
their way lined up around this building. This happened this
week. And I think maybe you're here.
Who was it telling me the story that you were, there you are,
way back there in the back. He was telling me the story.
I can't believe that I'm here. You know, I was drunk and using
right, right, you know, Oh, yeah, that's just like our God. Now
look at him sitting back there praising God. That's what our
God does. That's the way he works. I wish
we could go on forever here. I enjoy the presence of the Lord,
but I know some of you have a roast in the oven. Let's stand. Let
me urge upon you today to pull a Jethro. It's very simple. If the Spirit of God has opened
your eyes, just confess Jesus Christ as the only God, as your
only Savior, as your Lord. Come into the King's army. Make
an open confession that you are trusting Christ. And it's simply
if you just want to come forward you don't want to say anything
if you just want to step out and come forward Here and by
that signifying I'm trusting Jesus Christ now coming up front
won't do anything But if you're just dying to confess him come
ahead the Spirit and the bride fake Let him that is a thirst
common whosoever will let him come. Let's sing together. I