Acts chapter number four, verse number 31. Again, the final message from this passage of scripture tonight. And as you're turning there, I want to say a heartfelt thank you for the opportunity to be with you. I love you and I appreciate you. Thank you for your faithfulness and grateful for your family. And thank you for allowing us to be a part of your ministry this week and the opportunity to invest in your people. I don't consider that lightly. I've sought the Lord in much prayer and just travail just for the Lord's touch upon everything that's said and done. And thank you for trusting us to be able to come and to minister. And I don't know about you, but my heart has been stirred this week. And these are not just sermons just pulling out to preach. I mean, these are things that God has truly burned my heart about, convicted me about, and the Lord is growing me. All of us are a work in progress, amen? And thank the Lord for His work, and I'm grateful for you as a church that you're so receptive and attentive to the Word of God and all the different things, and some of it has been heavier. Some of it has been harder. But thank the Lord for a church that's so tender and receptive to the word of God. And thank you for, of course, your years of faithfulness and your desire, I believe, I really believe this, I'm not just patronizing or just saying things, I really mean this, that you desire to be a Bible church. You desire to be a first century church in a 21st century world. I pray that this has been encouraging to you and the Lord has helped us and strengthened us in these areas as we look forward in the future of what God has for this church. I believe the best days are yet to come for this church. I don't believe that God would have any church to Settle to shut down. I believe every church should strive and thrive and unfortunately We do see churches that do die over the years and things, but I don't know. I'm not convinced. That's God's design I believe that God would desire his church to keep on marching forward. Amen And so let's stay faithful and not faint as we preached in the chapel hour here this morning with the young people not quit But give it all we've got and we find that emphasis tonight here in Acts chapter number 4 verse number 31 the Bible says and when they had prayed God desires for his church to be a house of prayer. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together. And last night we studied, he desires his church to be a haven of peace. It continues, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. And for two nights we emphasized the great need for us as a church, not a building, but the people of God many members making one the church being the body of Christ that we would be each and every one of us individually but also corporately a habitation of God's presence and power the fullness of his indwelling the fullness of his anointing. And now we see toward the end of this verse the Bible says and they spake the word of God with boldness. And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul. Lord, we ask that you help us tonight, this final service. I pray, Lord, that this wouldn't be the end of things, but rather just the beginning. Lord, this may be a close of a meeting, but I pray that this is just the commencement, the beginning of you continuing to encourage the church and breathing upon this church and working through this church. Lord that we would rally together and Lord we certainly have a great cause to live for as we'll look more into tonight to be a testimony to be a witness to be faithful to your word we ask Holy Spirit of God we beg of you please have great liberty we ask for an anointing a fresh interlude of thy spirit, thy power to rest upon us, help us to listen quickly and attentively for the sake of being able to learn from it and heed it and apply it to our lives. I pray tonight that the message, the truths that you'd have us to emphasize, that it would encourage this church, encourage us, each and every one of us, myself included, to not quit, to stay faithful. to realize that there are lost souls at stake, a great world in desperate need of truth in a darkened hour. And please help Lighthouse Baptist Church to be that city set on a hill, to be that light in the midst of darkness, not screaming at the darkness, but reaching the darkness with hope. and with the light of your glory, of your grace, and of the gospel. We love you, and we all look to thee from the pulpit tonight. Each one of one of us in our seats, we're looking to thee. Help us to sit at thy feet and draw closer to you. We love you, Lord, and thank you for the privilege of being able to live for you and serve you in this day and age in which we live. In Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen. I came across a quote that Charles Spurgeon once wrote, really encapsulates the message. And tonight, really being a two-parter, as you read these verses and what we've seen here in this text, God desires for his church to be a hall of principle. They preach not their opinion, they preach not what men believed, but rather they preached the word of God. A church that was not gravitating unto trend. A church that was not gravitating unto what individuals thought to be right, but rather the timeless truths of the Word of God, and they preached it with boldness. There was passion. They were not ashamed of the Word of God. I think of that children's song. The kids may even sing it tonight. Who knows? The B-I-B-L-E. We all know it tonight, may it not just be a song, but may it be a way of living. Something that we grab ahold of, and man, it is a rousing tune, yes, within our heart, but it's words and lyrics that we live by, and it's our legacy, it's our testimony, the B-I-B-L-E. Yes, that's the book for me. I'll take nothing else, just give me the word of God. The word of God being our sole authority for faith and practice. soul, S-O-L-E, or the only authority for faith and practice. And I'm not trying to get weird tonight or be difficult or contentious, all right, or ornery. And I understand what's meant by the Bible should be our final authority. But I believe that the better way to say it is the Word of God should be our sole authority. The Word of God doesn't have the last say. The Word of God should have the first and only say. And if there are any other books or things that are in my life that I'm seeking to glean from, then all of that is being filtered through the context of the Word of God. I know it needs to be our foundation, and I understand the context of that, and praise the Lord for it. But as Christians, may we have a biblical worldview. We see this certainly underneath attack in the day and age in which we live and all the agendas of hell itself really that's being launched in our corrupt culture to turn the hearts and minds of men and of women and of children and of young people away from the things of God. And now more than ever God needs a church that's going to stand fast in the faith a church that's gonna preach the whole counsel of God's word, a church that's going to engage fully in the Great Commission, and not only see them saved and baptized, but also teaching them, investing in them, educating in them, seeking to impact them, teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. Praise the Lord, we've got the blessed promise, and Lo, I am with you always, even at the end of the earth, end of the world. No matter where we go, God will be with us. And even at the end of time, God will be with us to the moment of his return there in the rapture. Amen, church? But a church that's going to stay faithful, the Bible being our sole authority, the Bible being your final authority. Say them both. It's first and last. It's everything. It's all-consuming. We're concentrated and committed under the Word of God. They preached the Word of God with boldness. And Charles Spurgeon, I actually found this quote about an hour before the service tonight, and copied and pasted it into the notes, and here we go. He went hot off the press. He said this, and it's a little lengthy, but he made this statement, and how powerful this is, it encapsulates both emphases of the message tonight. He said, churches are not made that men of ready speech may stand up on Sundays and talk, and so win daily bread from their admirers. These places of worship are not built that you may sit comfortably and hear something that shall make you pass away your Sundays with pleasure. A church which does not exist to do good in the slums and dens and kennels of the city is a church that has no reason to justify its longer existing. A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight with evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood. A church that does not exist to hold up righteousness is a church that has no right to be. The glory of the church is when she lays aside her respectability and dignity and counts it to be her glory to gather together the outcasts and her highest honor to seek amid the foulest mire, the priceless jewels for which Jesus shed his blood. to rescue souls from hell and lead them to God, to hope, to heaven. This is her heavenly occupation. Oh, that a church would always, he wrote, feel this. A church that's a hall of principle. Last night, we went to the text and we were preaching about unity. And if we could go back to Philippians chapter number two, Philippians two, verse number 13, down to verse number 16. If you don't mind putting that on the screen for us tonight, that'd be fantastic. Verse number 14, verse number 14, thank you, do all things without murmurings and disputings. Verse number 15, that you may be blameless and harmless to sons of God without rebuke. Notice how, in the midst, not on the sidelines, but on the front lines. In the midst, and I'm not trying to be negative tonight or pessimistic, but these next few words kind of sound like our generation and our culture and our nation. A crooked and perverse nation. America right now is living in a dark day. America is currently experiencing its highest rates of suicide and depression and addiction and crime and theft and murder. And what America needs is truth. Now we are to be as a church in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. May the Lord help us to be in the right place. among whom, in the midst of, in the thick of it, among whom you shine as lights in the world. We got the right purpose. We'll get more into that here in just a little while. Next verse, if you'd be so kind, he says, holding forth the word of life. When this old world takes a look at Lighthouse Baptist Church, they see Jesus Christ being exalted, they see the word of God, and it's being clenched in our hands, and it can never be ripped or stripped from us. The only way they'll be able to take the Bible out of our grasp is over our dead bodies, amen? We're holding forth the word of life. It's not what we think, it's not man's creed or opinion, but rather we're holding to the word of God, a hall of principle. I'm not going to say that I don't even know why I'm going to say this. I presume the Lord has impressed my heart to say it. Men. At some point the next week or two. Shake your pastor's hand. And thank him for preaching the Bible. I presume that you do this on a regular basis. Thank him for being bold and unashamed preaching the truth in love. That it has the right position and disposition. I'm not gonna, I don't wanna belabor here, get down to the weeds, but this is so vital to have both. Because both are biblical. Position, the Bible says it, we've said this statement all week. The Bible says it, I believe it. The Bible says it, that settles it. The right position, we're not standing on what we think. We're not standing on our opinion of what the Bible says. We're not standing on what we're seeking to manipulate or draw in some random fleshly conclusion and carnal state of what the Bible declares. No, we are simply at face value and with fervency reading the word of God with a common sense theology and say, that's what it says, I'm gonna believe it even though my flesh doesn't like it, even though I don't wanna accept it, even though I've gotta die to self and swallow my pride and get over my arrogance and self will, this is what we're gonna do. The right position. More than a pastor, God give us men like that, leading their tribe, their home, leading their wife and leading their children to be men of God. That your children tonight, your teenage boys, your daughters, they know that you're a man of God and you're a man of that book right there. You have absolute passion for God's word. You're principled by God's word. You're proactive about God's word as Joshua was standing before an entire civilization. He understood, man, if I could make the decision for you, I would, but I can't. And to be honest with you, I just gotta back up on this thing and realize that I'm accountable for myself and I know that I'm leading you, but I've got a home that I've gotta take care of as well. And as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord and we're gonna serve him in sincerity. We're all in. This is not something that we're putting on and putting off. There is no form of godliness as is being described in 2 Timothy chapter number three, where there's a facade and there is a going through the motions and I'm literally two different people, I'm double-minded, I'm one way in church and I'm a different way as I live the rest of this week, no. We're gonna serve the Lord in sincerity and in truth. Principled, passionate, proactive. toward truth. God give us people like this and God help us to be people that will stay this way. We will not compromise from the truth. We will not become careless with the truth. We will not be an individual in our lives that will grow complacent unto it or toward it. Rather, we are gonna be a generation that is going to continue in it as the Bible encourages us and challenges us. In 2 Timothy, chapter number three, if you could put it on the screen, verse number 13 and 14, the Bible says clearly, but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. Well, that's real positive preaching. It's getting worse and worse. Deceiving and being deceived. We see that today, don't we? Like, it's mind-blowing. Things that are being done that I never dreamed would even become a reality. You know what I'm saying? Are you kidding me right now? You gotta pinch yourself and like, is this reality? Yes, it is. Deceiving and being deceived. However, verse number 14, the next three words, I presume you're familiar with. God says, yes to the church, but to the individual, but, or in spite of all of that, what may be going on in culture, continue thou. Even if others are not faithful, you stay faithful. Even if others will quit or compromise, become casual toward the truth, complacent about the truth, careless with it, critical about it, cold concerning it, cutting corners around it, questioning it, compromising away from it, you continue and you stay faithful. I need you is what God's saying. I need you. I want to use you. I desire for you to be a hall of principle. Don't water down the word. but you stand and stay faithful with the right position. Speak that truth and thank God for a pastor like that in love. The right position but also the right disposition. Our disposition, our spirit is Christ-like. Our spirit is filled with compassion. You know what gives preachers a boldness and a heart to say the hard thing, love. Now, there ought to be that. There's some guys that are just preaching, and they're just ripping your face off, and that's uncalled for. It's wrong. The pulpit is not a bully place. And the Bible is not a bat to beat people over the head with. Stop it. I'm very burdened about that and passionate about that. The Word of God is a hammer, but it's not a hammer in your hand, sir. The word of God, it's a hammer in the hand of God. And he'll take that hardened heart and put it on the altar, not you. I know I don't need to say any of these things, but it just shares my heart. And God wants to take that hard heart and smash it into a million pieces. That's not your job. You let the Holy Spirit of God do the work. You just preach what God tells you to preach. You are not the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit. The right disposition. There's conviction, but we're being Christ-like. This applies to everybody, not just us preachers or teachers or those who may be involved in classes or so on and so forth. This is for every Christian. You as a parent, apply this to yourself as a father, as a mother, as a soul winner, as a witness and seeking to be a testimony to those around you, the right position and the right disposition. There is a compassion that consumes us and it's the love of Christ that constrains us and understanding and knowing the terror of the Lord and knowing that hell is real and the outcome of sin and the way of the transgressor is hard. We persuade men, we're gonna do everything we can to love on them and pull them to Jesus and to truth. There's a lot of people I'm concerned, just in America, and I don't have anybody in mind. I'm not being passive aggressive. I'm just sharing my heart. They have the right position, but the wrong disposition. They are doing more hurt and harm for the cause of Christ than help. There's a lot of people, and especially my age group, and I'm not trying to throw us underneath the bus, although we do need a good thrashing and a good talking to, because we think we're very opinionated, and we call adults by their first names. Are you kidding me? I know I'm 36, but have I called one of you men in this room by your first name? I think it's disrespectful. That's just my two cents. You can't buy anything with two cents. And here I am talking about millennials being opinionated. Well, that was my opinion. My opinion is we're too opinionated. Be real good for us, 25 to 40 year olds, just be quiet. Maybe you know more in some areas, just be quiet and listen. Because wisdom is far more valuable than a plethora and overabundance of words. Just be quiet and listen. Let them invest in you. but my generation, the right disposition, kind, considerate, compassionate, Christ-like, but the wrong position. This crowd right here, whoever they may be, is doing more harm and hurt for the cause of Christ than help. God wants both. The right position, The B-I-B-L-E. Yes, that's the book for me. I stand alone in the word of God. The B-I-B-L-E. Bye bye. but also the right disposition. Speaking the truth in love, and there's so much throughout scripture that teaches that, and may God help us as a church to remain this way, to stay this way, to never delineate or deviate from this way. May God help us to be people who are passionate about the word of God, holding forth the word of life. We're in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. We're shining as lights in the world. We love people. We're trying to draw people unto the Lord. We want them to know that there is hope, and they can have truth, and they can experience Jesus Christ for themselves, and we know that we have the answer. We have the message of love and of joy, peace and righteousness and everything that brings fulfillment to every man's need. God give us Christians and God give us churches and God give us men and women and young people who will unashamedly follow and preach this book without compromise. Keep saying this word compromise. And we're not parking there. As it is, we've been driving a little too slowly anyway through this message. What is compromise? And there's no new truth under the sun, but this is something that God gave me and helped me with. Last year, the Lord gave me this definition. I'm sure it's not original. I'm sure somebody else said this is some other point in history. Compromise is when I change my mind about something God has not changed his mind about. Truth is truth. God is not, let me feel the ebb and flow and the shift of culture and society and I'm going to go ahead and bend with it. Truth is truth, period. Right is right, wrong is wrong. God's definition of right will never be wrong. Wrong will never be right. And compromise comes when I change my mind about what God doesn't change his mind about. It then affects me, because as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. He'll become that. He'll become that. And the truth is, people compromise inwardly before they compromise outwardly. If they've compromised inwardly, it's only a matter of time. And what's sad is that when someone does compromise outwardly, it influences everyone in their sphere of influence to possibly begin compromising inwardly. You stand upon the word of God. You live for Jesus Christ. There are people who say, well, you know, I'm so burdened about this. They'll say, well, this is just, you know, who I've become, and so on and so forth, and I've heard it all. And sure, maybe it's not affecting them, though it is, big time. They have blinders on, they don't even realize how it's going to affect their children and the generations to come. And how that your compromise will become their way of life. And even through your testimony, it's setting a pattern for them to question the validity and authority of the word of God. The Word of God says, hold you to the traditions which ye have been taught. By the way, we gotta be careful of all these type of things. Parents, I beg of you, and my wife and I, we're so burdened about this, and just day by day, pray for us. Man, I don't wanna compromise. Man, the man who thinks he stands, take heed lest you fall. Listen, the person who thinks, I've got it, I'll never do it, you're setting yourselves up for destruction. May the Lord help us all to realize that we're all susceptible unto this. May God help us to continue to run to Jesus Christ, be resolved for Christ, and remain yielded unto the Lord and say, God, I will place myself in complete submission to your authority, and I will follow it with a heart of total obedience. You know, I don't read the Bible to find truth. I read the Bible because it is truth, period. Well, that's not what he meant. Who do you think you are? And who do I think I am to question the dossier of the Lord? People like to have strife and debates. That's carnality. We saw it chapter and verse last night. We just need to swallow our pride and pursue Christ. And thank the Lord that we have the privilege of being able to live for Christ. Thank God we've got the Bible. I believe it's somewhere around 2,000 languages, give or take, that don't even have one single word of this precious book in their language. A hall of principle. I believe your community is depending on you. Whether people want to listen or not, in spite of that, we stay faithful. They need a lighthouse. They need, and I believe they deserve, a hearing the truth place. Because God wants all men to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Timothy talks about that. A hall of principle. Notice the Bible continues where we are in Acts chapter number four, verse number 31. They spake the word of God with boldness and the multitude of them that believed. Wow, what an opportunity they were able to preach the gospel there in Acts chapter number four, verse number 32. The sound guys are scrambling, that's why I inserted that reference right there. Where is it? All right. The multitude, man, they had an opportunity to preach the Word of God with boldness to all sorts of people. They were proactive in the Word of God and being able to be a witness and being a testimony of this. And I believe tonight, number five, and in conclusion, God desires the church to be, and it dovetails beautifully with Charles Haddon Spurgeon's quote, also with what we've been preaching about and what we referenced in Philippians 2, verse number 14 and 15. desires his church to be a harbor for the perishing. The word of God was preached. They were drawing the net. They were pointing people to Christ and souls were getting saved. You study the legacy and the testimony of the early church, they were proactive in being a witness for Christ and they were looking for all sorts of opportunities and moments that God would give them for the hearts of the multitudes. It wasn't just a few here or there, they were going for the masses. It wasn't just a little witness, but it was a big witness. God ever increase our fire tonight and our burden tonight and our boldness tonight to reach the multitudes. Not just a block, not just a street, but an entire neighborhood. I can't get in there. It says, you know, no soliciting. That's the word soliciting. Well, you know what? We're going to go ahead and figure out a way to circumvent that. Oh, novel idea. Every door direct mailers. Sure, pastor, how much is it going to cost? I'll help invest in that. They want to try to keep us out there. Ain't happening. We're going to put something directly in their mailbox. where they can know that there is a hearing the truth place. Even on that we're going to have the gospel and the presentation there so they can read it and the word of God could penetrate and the word of God and the gospel can take root in their heart. And who knows maybe somebody will get saved by reading it because we all know that people get saved by reading gospel tracks. The joy of traveling we meet multiple people more people than I can remember to be honest with you. There's so many that we've met that have gotten saved by a gospel track. Very briefly, and not to delay, one lady over in Simi Valley, she shared this with us, I don't know, seven years ago, when was that, six or seven years ago, and preaching revival, and she said, you know, Brother Garroway, a sweet Oriental lady, she said, Brother Garroway, I got saved because one of my coworkers was faithful in giving me a gospel track on lunch break. She hung her head in shame and she said, I don't like giving this part of my testimony, but it's a part of my testimony. She said, this coworker would give me the gospel track and right there in front of her, I'd take it and I'd just throw it in the trash. But little does that coworker know that after she left the break room, I waited till she was gone and I would go to that trash can and pull that track out because I was ashamed. that I did it in front of her. Nonetheless, I did it all the time to her, whenever she would give me a track. The word of God took root in her heart. Every single time she'd take it out of the trash, she told me and my wife, she would put that track in her lunch pail and take it home. She had a collection of them. And finally, she cracked one open and read it and got saved just by reading the track. Some of the others that we could share with you. A harbor for the perishing, John Wesley declared this, you have one business on earth, to save souls. We all know tonight that God has given us the great commission. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature in all the world is as we said 10 minutes ago or so, door to door. And by the way, that was a pattern of the first century church. from house to house and even the testimony of Paul, how that he did this and he did it with tears and man, he was persuaded seeking to reach a lost and dying heathen culture to Christ and the love on them and to tell them that there is an answer and there is a remedy, it's Jesus Christ, you need Jesus. From door to door to foreign shores, to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. This is not the great consideration. It's not a suggestion, good advice, or some random opinion. Rather, as someone once said, Christ's last command must be our first priority. I believe tonight, and I don't say this in a hard spirit, but I believe this tonight, it needs to be said, that any Christian or any church who is not actively seeking to reach the lost as God gives them opportunity is backslidden. They are living in complete and open disobedience before a holy God. This Great Commission is not the Great Commotion or we know how to fill up a website and a letterhead with all sorts of ministries, busy work, busyness but not business. I say that a church should cut any ministry that's not somehow involved with the Great Commission, seeing people saved, them following the Lord and believers baptism or teaching them to observe all things. I'm thankful for fellowship and praise God for it. We need that. Iron sharpeneth iron. And from that, man, there can be an ignition and God can do a work. But may the Lord help us to not get our priorities out of whack. Thank the Lord for 71 signing up. I hate to say this, but that is almost unheard of in churches of this size across America that we're in. I don't say that tonight to shame them, but I say that tonight because my heart is burdened. God has left us here for a purpose. It's to be a harbor for the perishing. We've been given orders by the King of Kings. Our purpose is clear. Our mission is direct. I love Acts 26, verse number 16. The Bible says, as God is speaking to Paul, rise and stand upon thy feet, for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness. God's desire tonight is for every single one of us, as many members in this church, to all be ministers or servants, to all be witnesses or soul winners, and may the Lord help us to be unified in this, striving together for the sake of the gospel. In verse number 18, what a noble, noble thing it is. The Bible declares, it says, this privilege that we're a part of, look at what it's doing. It's opening their eyes. God wants us to turn them, to turn them from darkness to light. from the power of Satan and a God that they may receive forgiveness of sins. Do you remember the day that you got saved? Do you remember what it felt like to know that your sins were forgiven, that you were going to heaven, that your name was written down in the last book of life? Don't you think a lost and dying world deserves to have that exact same chance too? Jesus died for all men, not a select few. He would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. The Great Commission tonight is not to be the ministry of choice for a few hyperactive believers in the church. The Great Commission is the purpose of the church. By the way, it's interesting, God gave us the Great Commission not just one time. Now, if at one time, Bible says it, I believe it, let's do it. He gave it to us five times. This is an urgent matter. As Jesus said in the verse Paul said in my mind, I believe it's John 4.35, say not ye, there are four months and then cometh harvest. Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes, right now, right now, look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest. And living in Iowa, two blocks from cornfields, we're rarely there, but the farmer's markets are really good. We have a lot of farmers in our church, and it was actually five farming families that started our church 50 years ago this year. bought the church in the square as we talked about the other night. The building was built in 1869, yes. That's how old our church building is. And it's still standing. But every time we enter harvest season in our church, our men will sleep in their combines to just get a few hours of shut eye. so that they can get back out there and reap the crop. Because it's a brief window that they got. Oh, you got two, three weeks. An unfathomable harvest. Multiple, multiple hundreds of acres. Oh, so much to reap. And there's a danger. The window is narrowing. There's a danger of not reaping at all. That's exactly what this says. They are white or ready to harvest. Their past due. It needs to be done now. It's in danger of falling off the vine or off the plant. Souls are perishing. An average of two every single second. There are still two billion. It's mind blowing. I presume it's true. I hope it's not true. Two billion human beings who have never once heard the name of Jesus right now in 2023. Over 500 people groups that don't have one Christian living among them and no one at all attempting to reach them with the gospel right now. God has given us the privilege of being able to be his witnesses. We can sense the urgency. It's been given to every believer. It's been given to reach every person. It's been given to save every nation. Not one town, village, or city on the planet is exempt from the Great Commission. Not one Christian is exempt from the Great Commission. Not one church is exempt from God's mandate for reaching souls. I'll say this and this is somewhat of a difficult thing to wrap our minds around, Lord increase our faith. I thoroughly believe it's possible to reach every person with the gospel in our lifetime. God would not call us, God would not commission us to preach the gospel to every creature if it was something that could not be done. It can be done, I believe that. But it can only be done with the full indwelling of his presence and the full anointing of his power. It can only be done if everyone is on board and everyone is bold. When we think of the millions of people who are spending eternity in a place of eternal torment, Two billion in danger of this, not knowing of Christ even. How can we keep on going as normal, business as usual? We need the unusual business of revival. The stirring of God and that quickening of the spirit saying, oh Lord, in my heart I want to be a witness, but I've not been as passionate as I ought to be, as I need to be, as I should be, as I get to be, Lord. What am I doing with my life? God give us a passion for souls. In conclusion tonight, two quotes and a verse. David Brainerd, he kept a diary. He was a missionary to the American Indians in the 1700s. Of course, when you write a diary, it's not like you plan to publish it. Someone grabbed a hold of that and at least I don't think that was his intention. He died at a younger age and someone grabbed a hold of this and it's been published. I encourage you to read it. It's so convicting. His prior life, his passion for souls. He said this, I cared not where or how I lived or what hardships I went through so that I could gain souls for Christ. While I was asleep, I dreamed of these things. When I awoke, the first thing I thought of was this great work. Could it be? It's a harsh thing. Could it be we're more concerned about where we live and where lost souls will someday live? Charles Spurgeon said this, if sinners be damned, let them leap to hell over our dead bodies. If they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped around their knees. If hell is filled, may it be filled in the teeth of our exertions. Let no one go unwarned or unprayed for. Church, our lives should be completely consumed with the spread of the gospel. Last verse and we're done. I love this verse. This is a heart cry of mine. Psalm two, verse number eight, Psalm two, verse number eight, the final verse of the revival. This is something that I claim, something that I'm so burdened about with our ministry, of course, with the gospel film and other things. But remember when we preached where God said, ask and he shall receive? Psalm two, verse number eight, ask of me, ask and I shall give thee the heathen for that inheritance. and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. My dad was called to preach at the age of 53. God could be working on the heart of some adult in this room of the need to answer the call to preach, To the call of missions, God's been stirring in your heart. It's something that's been consuming you and you're just wondering about this. Give your life to God. Don't waste any more time. Don't squander any more of your existence. Maybe a young person that you've been sensing this tug and this pull and there's been a fire that's been ignited in you and your heart is hot and it's heavy and there's something that's consuming you. Please! There are lost souls depending on you, I believe that. And when we circle back to missions conference, all that our hearts would be sensitive, the great need that there are people just waiting for someone to tell them about Jesus. Just waiting for a missionary. God has called us here. We're not able to go because it's humanly impossible to be in two places at once. So we will give without even batting an eye. And as we give faith promise missions, we're giving as the Lord leads us to give, and we're completely open to whatever it is that God would have us to give. Okay, Lord, I'm all in. I'll never meet those people, those children, those families, those marriages that are gonna be salvaged, the community that's gonna be reached and blanketed with the Bibles or New Testaments or the Gospel, your word never returning void, it's accomplishing and prospering, and the thing where to it's sent, I'll never know, but God, someday I will see them and meet them for myself at thy feet and at thy throne. I'll go. This is my heart's cry. When we started the gospel film it was our heart's desire that within 50 years we would reach 1 billion people with the gospel. It's only been two years and we're at 130 million. It's the Lord's doing and it's marvelous in our eyes. We have nothing to claim. We're just so thankful for what God is doing. Church, let's continue to stay faithful and stay fervent. God bless you. Let's be this first century church in a 21st century world. Heads are bowed, eyes are closed. My wife, if she could come tonight and play on the piano that song, Burning for Thee, that she wrote when she was 16 years old. Tonight, Did God speak to your heart about standing for truth and staying faithful to his word? We all feel the pull of the world and of the flesh to just give in a little, to compromise, to quit. But God is urging us to continue. America needs this church. America needs you. Is there one who would say, but the Garroway God has spoken to my heart about staying faithful to the word of God, not wavering. That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Are there some tonight, a very difficult question to ask? I've never asked it before. This is not to make anybody feel awkward, but let's ask the question. By the way, I have been giving over and giving myself to compromise in subtle areas and little areas here and there, and God has dealt with my heart about this tonight. And I'm thankful God has spoken to me about this to get it right in my life. That's me. That's me. Would you raise your hand? Is that you tonight? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. The privilege of being able to reach a world with the gospel. Is there one tonight who says, with a gear away, God has convicted my heart and burdened my heart to be the sole winner and the witness that he would have me to be. I want to be used of God to see people saved. I don't want this fire, this urge, this passion to dwindle. God has spoken to my heart about this tonight. That's me. Would you raise your hand, hug above your head? That's you tonight. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you. I know we asked this on Tuesday night. Maybe there's another still in our midst that says, Brother Garroway, I need to surrender, dedicate, or maybe resurrender my life to Jesus Christ. God has just burned it within me. I must, I need to, I get to. That's me tonight. Is that you? Would you raise your hand? God bless you. Oh, God bless you tonight. Oh, God bless you. Final question. Put the gear away. God is doing a work of my heart, calling me into full-time ministry. Maybe it's called to preach, called to missions, called to some capacity. The Lord's been working on you about this tonight. He's made that evident and plain in your heart. You're not gonna resist that, but you're resolved to fulfill the work of God. That's me. Would you raise your hand tonight? God bless you, brother. Is there another? God bless you, dear brother, over there. God bless you. Oh, church. Would you stand to your feet tonight? Let's seek the Lord. Would you be willing to come into an altar tonight? Would you come out of your place and would you pray for souls and pray for a fire to make a difference in this world?