There's a green dot. There it is. We got a green dot now. Good to be with y'all this morning. Appreciate y'all asking us to be here and appreciate Brother Marcus coming along with us and driving. I would say helping drive, but he's done all the driving, so he's more than helping, that's for sure. The work of Ship to Shore Regions Beyond International is the ministry of the Elliott Baptist Church in Elliott, Mississippi, where I pastored for a number of years. And we reach out to the world one ship at a time. We have folks that come to us from all over the world. We've been able to reach over a hundred nations now. I kind of quit counting, but it's over 100 nations, maybe 112 or so by now. I'm not sure. But we're excited about it. What we do is we reach out to them with the Bible, reach out with Gospels of John and Romans. We preach on board ships. We take them off the ship. We take them to their favorite place in all the world, which is called Walmart. Everybody loves to go to Walmart, I guess, except me. And we have been able to be a help in seeing men and women on board ship come to know the Lord and encouraging those who are, are saved, who are saved to continue on in the faith, even though they're away from home. The normal contract. for a person on board a cargo ship is nine months on and three months off. So they will spend nine months on board a ship, and then they go home for three months, and then they're back on contract for another nine months. They have to get a contract every time they go. So there are those, like the captains and that, who get a little bit of shake in all of that. It's not an easy life. I grew up working on a shrimp boat, Marcus is working for my cousin Earl, and that's all he's ever known. His whole life has been working with shrimp and oysters and fish. He continues to do that, but as I mentioned earlier, Foreign seafood is coming in and it's really hurting the business plus our shrimp Season has not been the best that we've ever had a lot of different things Play in to that and brother Marcus grew up on the mission field There in Uganda and he understands what missions is all about and And that's part of getting the gospel out as well. I want us to turn this morning to the book of Romans in the book of Romans, the first chapter. verse number 14 Romans chapter 1 the book of Romans we're gonna look there and then we're gonna go over into some other scriptures that we want to deal with this morning Romans chapter 1 and verse number 16 where the Bible says for I am NOT ashamed of the gospel of Of Christ for it is the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believe it to the Jew first and also to the Greek for their in their in speaking of the gospel for their in is the righteousness of God revealed. From faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. And this morning, I want to speak on the subject of why evangelize if God is sovereign. Now, this is a sovereign grace Baptist church, but it is not a hard shell Baptist church. And there's a big difference between a hard shell and a grace church. I know some folks who are hard shell. I know a friend of mine who is a primitive Baptist, yet he does mission work, and he'll have me come in and preach on missions at their work. So I don't know how he can be primitive, but yet he does pastor a primitive Baptist church up around Starkville, Mississippi. And good friend with brother Chris Duckin who is at Derma there at the church there will be with the Lord willing on Tuesday. But the scripture says, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. We should never be ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believe it. Now, who is going to believe? I don't know. That's not my business. My business is to get the gospel out. Your business as Philadelphia Baptist Church is to get the gospel out. I leave my tracks wherever I go. Marcus has been with me on several different journeys now, and I never leave a motel room without leaving a tip for the maid. and without putting that tip inside a good gospel track that speaks of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. The sovereignty of God has freed me up, has freed me up to reach out to whosoever will. I don't know whosoever will is, do you? I don't know who will believe. I don't know who will not believe. I started this morning to preach on the fish net. You know, in the fish net, you catch all kinds of fish. We used to troll for shrimp. And in trolling for those shrimp, we would catch all kinds of fish. Now, some of them are not worth keeping. They're not keepers. You've heard that, a keeper. There are cigar fish, and they look like a cigar. There are blowfish, and they blow up. I mean, they get real big, you know, blowfish. Of course, there's sharks and stingrays and all that kinds of stuff, but we would have to call those out. But we were to be fishing. We were to be shrimping. We were to catch the good, which were the shrimp and the good fish. All of the Lord's churches ought to be in the business of fishing. We ought to all be evangelistic. We ought to all be reaching out, yet knowing that God has a people, but we don't know where those people are or who those people are. Paul preached Christ wherever he went. He preached Christ at every opportunity. He used the word door. We came in through the door today. Now, down in Mississippi, where I used to live, a lot of people call it the Doe. Come in the Doe. Now, that's Delta people. And they're an odd bunch, but they're a good bunch, the Delta folks. Cotton pickers. You heard of cotton picking? Y'all have any cotton around here? You do? So you know about that. But anyway. Paul speaks of the door in 2 Corinthians 2, 12. And that door means an opportunity. And we need to remember that God chose preaching to reach the lost. And preaching is not confined to the four doors of a church, if you got four or more. It's not confined to this building. We're to preach the gospel to everyone, not just the elect because you don't know who the elect are. We don't know who they are. God does know. Now, there are those who are afraid of the word elect. Well, look it up in your Bible. Is it in there? Why is it in there? Why does the Bible speak of the elect? Because there are those who are elect. I'm not afraid of that. came to know the doctrines of grace it freed me up to just tell everybody about Jesus. To give the Gospel to everyone. If I only have a short time I'll just say I want to share the Gospel. And the Gospel is how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture. And that He was buried and how that He rose again the third day according to the Scripture. Now have I shared the Gospel? Amen. You ought to do that. I ought to do that. That's what we ought to do. We have gotten to where we want to sit on our laurels and trust in the sovereignty of God. Well, bless your heart, there are opportunities for those who believe in the sovereignty of God to get the gospel out to everyone in all of the world. Why do we send missionaries? Why are there missionaries in Africa? Because there are people who will believe in Africa, amen? There are folks who will hear the gospel and be saved. David Livingston went there because, and he believed in sovereignty, he believed God had a people. And so he went. I am ashamed of the fact that a lot of churches are not doing anything because they're resting on their laurels. They'd only pass out of track. And they kind of get this idea, us four and no more. You don't have that attitude. You'd like to see this building filled with you. You'd like to see you having to expand. But there are those who are resting. But we're not to rest, we are to work. The old song says, we'll work till Jesus comes. I was in a church, and after being there a while, I would sing, ♪ We'll work till Jesus comes ♪ ♪ We'll work till Jesus comes ♪ ♪ We'll work till Jesus comes ♪ ♪ And we'll be gathered home ♪ At the end of the service, after preaching, and them with their heads down and not listening, and all of that, and I've been in churches where people were just there because they were there. I don't think they wanted to be there. And so I sang at the end of the service, we'll shirk till Jesus comes, we'll shirk till Jesus comes, we'll shirk till Jesus comes and we get in our car and go home. But there are those who that's all they're doing. We have to have a heart. For a man who's headed to hell, a woman who's headed to hell. We need to have a heart. Do you believe Paul had a heart? He had a heart for those that were lost. We're to preach the gospel. God is pleased when we evangelize. He is pleased when people are saved. Yes, but He is pleased when we evangelize whether people are saved or not. He is pleased. God is pleased in our obedience to get the good news out. Oh, I love this. It's in 2 Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 15. Where the Bible says, for we are unto God a sweet saver of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish. Why are we a sweet saver in the nostrils of God even if people are saved or not? It's not our responsibility to save anybody. It is our responsibility to get out the gospel to everybody. We can't save anyone. Not everyone's gonna like the message that we give them. To some, we're the odor of death unto death. Others, to life unto life, where the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 2, verse 16, to the one, we're the savor of death unto death. And to others, we are the smell, the sweet smell of life. To the other, the savor of life. Oh, how wonderful. A fullness of life, a full life, abundant life. The sovereignty of God does not diminish our responsibility. It does not. It does not. We have a, we have a responsibility to evangelize. There are those who only want to hear sermons on sovereignty and on election. And I love those sermons. I do. I believe in the sovereignty of God. As I was saying earlier, I was raised in the Mormon church. I had no idea about the sovereignty of God, had no idea about salvation by grace. I believe I was going to get my own planet and maybe more and have all these wives. And after being married 51 plus years, I don't want any more wives. One's enough. Amen. Amen. But it's only by grace that I was saved. It's only because a preacher came to me with the truth of the gospel. Were any of you here saved without hearing the gospel? Not a one of you. You're not saved without hearing the gospel, but yet we're not very motivated to tell others about it. You understand what I'm saying? And some people really get chafed when we preach about evangelism. They say, we don't want to hear that. We don't want to hear that. We like it like it is. That's because we're sitting in our comfort zone. Marcus has been with me enough to know that if I get the opportunity, I'm going to leave the track. I'm going to tell somebody about Christ. I'm going to give them a gospel witness. Why? Because it's in me to do so. Because of what Christ did for me. It may be because I was raised a Mormon. And the truth is so precious to me, even after all of these years, that I want to let people know that Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, was buried and rose again. Do you know that sovereignty is taught in the Bible? But do you know that evangelism is also taught in the Bible? It's in the Word of God. And one is as true as the other. And we're to give a balanced treatment. Truth out of balance leads to heresy. That's where you get the hard shells. That's where you get the primitives. You understand what I'm saying? Truth out of balance leads to heresy. And so we need to be balanced in our evangelism. We're to give that balanced treatment. God is delighted when we have a balanced ministry. The Bible says in Proverbs 11 one, a false balance is abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight. I remember when you'd go to the feed store and they had these weights that they would put on the scale. and you would buy something and then they would weigh it and they would give you a just balance. If you're way over here and you say, well, God's sovereign, he's gonna do as he pleases, it's not my job, it's not my responsibility to tell anybody about Christ, it's not my responsibility to evangelize, not my responsibility, God's gonna do as he pleases, then you're out of balance. And then if you go over this way and say, well, God doesn't have to work. All they gotta do is pray a little prayer. If they'll pray this prayer, they'll be saved. Then you're out of balance. Amen. I don't believe that salvation's in a prayer. It's not in a plan, but it's in the man, Christ Jesus. I don't believe you'll truly pray until you get heart change. You say, if you'll pray this prayer, you'll be saved. to folks go into malls and different places and say, do you want to go to Heaven? Yes. The Bible says, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Will you pray this prayer? And they will pray a prayer and you never see them again. Why? Because salvation is a work of the Holy Spirit of God. The Bible says, and you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins. I believe that word dead means graveyard dead. I was preaching in a church not long ago and I said what I just said. I said, what we're talking about here is dead, spiritual death. and you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins. Graveyard dead. And there was a black man sitting back in the back and he said, you mean graveyard dead? I said graveyard dead. And let me tell you this, if you're here and you're saved, there was a day that you were graveyard dead in sin. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by what? the Word of God. Are we publishing the Word of God? You say, well, we support missionaries. Bless your heart. That's good. But you are a missionary. You have a responsibility to get the gospel out. Deuteronomy 29 verse 29 says this. Here's a balanced verse, all of them are balanced, but it gives us the balance, balanced view of evangelism and sovereignty. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 29 verse 29, the secret things belong unto the Lord, our God. Amen. They do. The secret things belong to God. I don't know. He knows he's sovereign. I'm not. There are some things that you and I are not to know. It's not our business to know. There are things that belong to God and him alone. The secret things belong to God. What are they? Well, they include this, the time of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, he's going to come. I've got a book in my library. It is stuck on the shelf. It says 88 reasons why Jesus Christ is coming back in 1988. I think this is 2000 and something. Amen. And that fella, he gave away more than he sold. But there were those who believed it and they started getting ready and selling their stock and doing this and doing that. No, no, no, you don't know. That belongs to God. The secret things belong to the Lord our God. There are secret things that you and I do not know. We're not going to know that's his business. The Bible tells us watch therefore, for you neither know the day nor the hour when we're in the son of man coming. And I believe it'll be when the last of his are saved, he'll be coming the names of the elect and the number of the elect. You don't know whose secret is that. Gods, the secret things belong to the Lord, our God, but you don't get in on that secret. So you have a responsibility to tell everybody about a savior who died, was buried and who rose again. The method, the thing that brings them to Christ by which God purposes to save the elect and the time and place of conversion are his secret. How it's done, that's His secret. These things belong to God. These things which are revealed belong to us. There are those things that are revealed and they are ours. Those things which are revealed belong to us and our children. One of the things that God has revealed to His people is a place of evangelism in His eternal plan of salvation. It is the responsibility of God's people God's elect to evangelize. Mark 16, 15, and he said unto them, go ye into a piece of the world, go ye into your family, go ye into Alabama. No, Mark 16, 15 says, and he said unto them, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to the elect. No. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. And whosoever will may come. And whosoever will come. And we don't know who the whosoevers are, so we give the gospel to everybody. It freed me up. I felt like a failure. I felt like a dum-dum. We give out dum-dum suckers on the ships because they can work and still have that dum-dum. And so we get those in big bags. You say, that's not part of evangelism. Oh, yes it is. The goodness of the Lord leads to repentance. The goodness of God's people leads to repentance, where we are kind to people and good to people and give them the gospel. Do any of y'all get the Voice of the Wilderness newspaper? All right, I get those out on the ships. I ship them around the world. I've got a picture on my phone of a fella. I gave it to him. He's an Indian, dot, not feather. And he just stood there and read and read and read. He didn't even move. Do you think that's good? What are you doing? What are we doing? Huh? You understand what I'm saying? We've got to get busy. We love to go to our conferences. We love to hear the preaching, but we're not doing much. I got that Mississippi in me, but we ain't doing much. I want to do more. I want to be in the field. I want to be plowing. I want to be one who's in the harvest. We don't know. The Bible says in Matthew 25, 13, watch therefore for you know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of Man cometh. Those things that are revealed do belong unto us. The secret things belong to him, but there are things that have been revealed and they belong to us. One of the things that God has revealed to his people is the place of evangelism. to go into all the world, to preach the gospel. That's what we are to do. Luke 14, number 23, And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. Go out into the highways and hedges. That means you've got to leave your house. You say, I don't like doing that. That's not what God called me to do. He did. If you're a child of God, he's called you to do that. He said, well, I believe in election. Bless your heart. So do I. Why do we send missionaries around the world? Well, that's different. No, it's not. You are a missionary. Matthew 4, 19, and he saith unto them, follow me and I will do what? Make you fishers of men. You follow him and he'll make you a fisher of men. Fishers of men. One of my neighbors, a young man who graduated from high school, and I always give graduates a little bit of money, but I also gave him the gospel. Gave him the gospel. Gave him some gospel materials, gave him a Bible, and gave him the truth of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. He said, well, did he get saved? Not yet. And will he get saved? Don't know. My responsibility is to give him the gospel. Amen. That's my responsibility. Hey, that's not just my, you're a preacher. No, you're a preacher too. Not called to preach, maybe, but you're a preacher. You're a foreteller. That's what preaching is, foretelling, telling others about Jesus. Acts 1.8, but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. That's everywhere. Why evangelize if God is sovereign? because we're commanded to. We have a command. No matter what you believe about the sovereignty of God, the fact remains that he has commanded us to preach the gospel to every creature. Are there some creatures here in Decatur? He said, there's some creatures living around me, I guarantee you. Well, a creature is just one of us, we're creatures. And we're to give the gospel to every creature. Say preacher, I thought you'd come here and build us up and, and you'd just come here and give us this message on God's sovereignty. This is a message on God's sovereignty. This is a message on what we're to do. Preach the gospel to every creature. That's in the Bible. The Bible says that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. To the Jew first, also to the Greek. for folks to be saved, they must hear the gospel. We don't believe in cosmic salvation. We don't believe, oh, I've never heard of God, but I believe in him. No. I grew up believing you had to work your way into heaven. But then I learned about Ephesians 2, 8, 9. For by grace are you saved through faith, and not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. And now I rest in Jesus. I rest in Him. But I'm not sitting on my laurels. I'm resting in His grace, but I'm working in His field. We're to work. to work, to work. That's what we're to do. The Bible tells us the method of bringing people to the Lord. And it will do us good to carefully read and think about some of these verses, Romans 10, nine and nine and following nine through 17 Romans chapter 10 and verse nine. We're gonna go down through several of these verses. Romans 10, nine, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth under righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. That's one of the best verses that ever came to know about. Because found out, it's not some prayer, it's not some plan, but it's belief. You got it? Now the baby will cry after it's born, will it not? I've got five of them. Some of them still, even in their 40s, cry, but anyway. But they have to be born before they cry. I believe this, I believe the prayer comes after. Even if they say, Lord, save me, they've already been saved, because with the heart man believeth with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. And I know there are those, if they get this broadcast, or if they get this tape, well, he's a heretic. He doesn't believe in praying the prayer. I believe in praying the prayer. I believe you will pray the prayer if you get saved. If you come to know the Lord, you'll do some praying, amen? For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Isn't that plain? For with the heart man believeth, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. It's what the scripture says. For the scripture saith, whosoever believeth in him shall not be ashamed. Romans 10, 17, so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Hey, faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God. Hey, that means you and I need to take the word of God outside this building. We're waiting for them to come here. They're out there. I don't know the population of Decatur. But I imagine it's more than 3,000. And I would imagine there are a whole bunch of folk never heard the true gospel. And there's only one gospel, it is the true gospel. So we have that responsibility of getting the gospel out. We'll get the fellas in the van. And I was with Joe McDarris just this past week, and we were in the van and he was driving, and I turned around and gave the gospel. Gave the gospel. You know what? That's all I can do. I can give them the gospel. I can give them the truth. And that's what I want to do. You say, but that's different. You give that to foreigners. They haven't heard it. Hey, there are a bunch of folks here that never heard the truth. They've heard some junk, but they've never heard the truth. The true word, the true gospel, The Bible tells us, for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, with the mouth confession is made of that salvation and to that salvation. For the scripture saith, whosoever believeth in him shall not be ashamed. That means you'll tell others. So then faith cometh by hearing. The pulpit ministry is not the end all of this church. You got a young man coming to pastor. If he doesn't get out here and knock on some doors and go out here and evangelize, he's not doing his job. You say we pay him to do that. He gets paid for doing good. So what you're saying is you're good for nothing. You've got to be good for... No, you have the same responsibility of sharing the gospel, not the pulpit ministry, but sharing the gospel as your pastor does. He has a calling, it's to preach the gospel, but you've been called unto salvation. You say, I don't like this preaching. Sometimes I don't either. But when I go through this, it makes me understand I still need to keep going. I need to go on and tell others about Christ. We're compelled to do so. Go quickly. The parable of the feast says, go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in hither the poor. and the maimed and the haunt and the blind. Luke 14, 21. I pastored a church one time where I brought in some poor people. I'm talking about dirt poor. Before all these welfare programs and all, I mean, I'm talking about dirt poor. And I had one of the deacons said, we don't want that kind here. Do you want that kind here? Do you want some people that are different than you? Some people that are poor, they might even stink. You see what I'm saying? We want to have our own enclave. We've got to get out of our safety zone. As, as independent sovereign grace Baptist, we've got to see that there's a world that's lost and dying. We have to have that burden. We do. Luke 14, 23. Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in. John 4, 35. Say ye not, there are yet four months. And that's what we'll do. I'll do it later. I don't have to go today. I don't have to go tomorrow. I'm going to do it one day. I'm going to share the gospel with my neighbor one day. Well, the Bible tells us Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in. This may not be good English, but who are them? Do you know who they are? They're the lost. Compel them to come in. Would you please visit our church? Would you please come and hear our preacher? Would you? You say, I ain't asking nobody. Please. Pretty please? You know why we don't ask them please? Because we don't want to. We don't really have the heart for it. Our hearts have become stony. And what do we have to do with the fallow ground? What does the Bible say about the fallow ground? It is talking about the heart. It says break up the fallow ground. Break it up. Get it open. Believers are not only to feel the urgency, but the responsibility. Paul said, I'm a debtor. You know why? He was a heathen and God saved him. And then he became a debtor to tell others about what happened to him. What happened to you? What happened to you? Huh? You heard the gospel. The Lord opened your heart. You believed on the Lord Jesus. Came to know him. And that makes you a debtor. You have a debt to pay. What's that debt? Tell somebody else. Romans 1 14 to 15. I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians. Not just people just like you are just like me. Now this may gall, I don't know. I just have to preach what's on my heart. Where we go to church, we've got blacks, we've got some Koreans that come, we've got some Vietnamese that come, we've got these different people. Are they welcome? Or not? Now, you were talking about Red. Finest black man, Red, and his daddy, Jean-Pierre Deschateur. Finest people I know. But we've had this thing in the South for a long time that we don't want that. But we're to go to all the world. We're to reach all the world. And somebody said last night at supper, we didn't go in because it's big. They had a lot of cars there. I wish you'd have come on in. Because you'd have heard the gospel. You'd have seen people rejoicing, not shouting and carrying on. We don't have that. I'm a member of a different church, but I go where I can go. And there are no churches like this down where I'm at. So I go where I can get the gospel. And not easy-believerism, amen? Get the gospel. And because of the Air Force Base, and because of the culture there, you work with Vietnamese every day when you work. You work with them. Because they're there. What are we supposed to do? Well, you can't come to our church. Remember when we, in the South, they were met at the door and turned around. And now they just don't come. You say, I'm uncomfortable. I am too. I am. I'm uncomfortable about the state of our churches. I'm uncomfortable about the lack of urgency that we find in our churches. Ezekiel 33, 8 and 9, we are to tell everybody. We're to warn the wicked. It's our responsibility. Ezekiel 33, eight, when I say unto the wicked, Oh, wicked man, you shall surely die. If thou does not speak to warn the wicked. If thou does not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood shall I, will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. In other words, your hands are clean. And I want to stand before the Lord with clean hands. I do. We stopped in It was either Greenville, Alabama. It's a Greenville, Alabama. We stopped at the Shoney's. Our waitress was black. The lady who is the hostess is black. Did we leave a track? Did we give them the gospel? Amen. Why? Because preach the gospel to the whites only. To the Chinese only. To the mission field, but don't bring them here. You say, preacher what are you saying? I'm saying we need to get the gospel out. God will do a mighty work if we'll do it. We have the responsibility to tell people. Then it says, nevertheless if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, If he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thyself. Your hands are clean. Now you may say, but we like it the way it is. And we're not changing. We don't care what anybody says. We don't care what you preach. I'm preaching about the sovereignty of God. And God's word tells us what we need to do. And you may be doing that. But we need to be reminded to keep on doing it, amen? Never quit. I like what the old bulldog over in England, somebody tell me his name. Churchill, Winston Churchill. You know what he said? And when things were dark, they were bombing London. Never, never, never give up. Never give up. He said, well, if we don't, something happens, this church's gonna die. How many young people we got here? Okay. And what happens if you don't have youth? You die. And let me say this. Churches, you say, well, big church, and you know, it's all out of cars, all that kind of, and I'm just preaching my heart, is that okay? That's all I know how to do. And I'm not gonna just stand and give you a potty once a cracker sermon. I belong to the Trinitarian Bible Society because they translate from the Textus Receptus, and we get scripture from them. So I was invited to go to Spurgeon's Tabernacle for the 193rd meeting of the Trinitarian Bible Society, and it was held at the Tabernacle. People say if you preach the doctrines of grace, if you do this, church will die. You're just gonna have a few, and that's that and the other. I went to the tabernacle. Dr. Peter Masters is the pastor. If you wanna look him up, you can look it up. Got to meet him, got to talk with him, got my picture taken with him, and was there for the service. I got in there a little bit late, so I had to sit in the balcony. You know why? Building was full. Probably 900 people there, maybe 1,000. And they preached the doctrines of grace. He got up there and preached a strong sermon on the sovereignty of God. In the evening, they have around 400 young people that come for the evening where they teach, and most of them are foreigners from other countries, and they teach and preach. to those young people who are in London. You say, but there's Sovereign Grace and you can't have a Lord's Church if you're Sovereign Grace. Who said? Well, most of our churches. Well, bless your heart. Ours? I thought they were the Lord's. Amen. Let me give you this. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Amen. And I give that gospel over and over, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. I'm not looking for the favor of man. I just wanna do what God's called me to do. I don't care nothing about all the rest of it. Why do I go on board ships? Why do I go to the Coast Guard? Why do I do that? Because God's got a people. And he's got a people in this city. And I'm not here by mistake today. Am I here by accident? Do you believe it was God's timing? Do you believe God wanted me here today? I do. I don't like what I preach sometimes. I mean, when I preach, I preach to me. I don't ever wanna go anywhere without having tracks in my pocket. When I get up in the morning, I load my gun. In other words, I'm gonna put tracks in my pocket. Have you ever gone with me anywhere that I didn't have tracks? Never. Why? Because I'm responsible. to God to get the gospel out. That's all you can do, amen? I can't save anybody. I'm not gonna lead them in a potty once a crack of prayer. But I'm gonna give them the gospel. And then the work of the Holy Spirit. Is that what you do in Africa? Give them the gospel. Give them the gospel. They come to believe by hearing the gospel. Heavenly Father, thank you for the sweet spirit of this service today. Lord, I thank you for your word. And Lord, I'm convicted that there's more to be done, more nations to reach. I know we could say, well, we've reached over 100 and that's enough, but Lord, you tell us to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Lord, I thank you for opportunities that you give us to reach out. And I think about that Ethiopian on board the ship who didn't have scripture. And when we gave him scripture, he was so delighted. And his eyes lit up. And he was just so happy. And it reminds me of that Ethiopian eunuch in that chariot riding. And Lord, how he heard the gospel and was saved. And so we pray you'll save the lost. And Lord, you will save your people from their sins. That's your job. That's your responsibility. Our responsibility is to tell everybody about Jesus, who died, was buried, and who rose again. And whosoever will may come, and whosoever will will come. Bless in Jesus name, amen. God bless you. Thank you, ma'am. I'll take this off.