Ephesians chapter 6. Ephesians chapter 6. And we've been doing a series here on the whole armor of God. I'd like to key in on the feet today. Ephesians chapter 6, and I know I hit some of this last week, but there's just more to hit. Ephesians chapter 6, and we see back in verse 11, there's a command to put on the whole armor of God. And you see why. It's because there's wiles of the devil. It's because you're not wrestling with flesh and blood, but you're taking on a spiritual adversary. A real, intelligent, maniacal, dishonorable, no morals kind of adversary, a predator who wants to kill you and wants to destroy you. And so we're trying to do what the Bible says from Ephesians chapter 4 where it says don't give place to them. So the armor has to be tight. You have to have it strapped on. You have to have the protection in place because the devil is trying to figure out a way to get in. And so the next piece of armor here that I want to key in on is in verse 15 says, "...and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." Let's pray, Father. I pray now that you'll please bless your words I pray that you'll fill me with the Holy Spirit, Lord, and I pray, God, that you'll do something, Lord, in the lives of your people today. God, we're going to talk about something that is age-old, but Father, as far as what a Christian can do in this life, there is no greater calling than to lead someone to you. So I pray, Father, as we get this year kicked off, Father, you'll put a fire in the heart of your people, Lord, that burns, Lord, something, God, that gets them considering where people go when they die. And Lord, if somebody in here, Lord, is lost, I pray they'll get saved. But Father, chances are everyone here is born again. And God, I'm sure there's people sitting in these chairs today, Father, that have never led anyone to you. Lord, I pray, God, that that would bother them. I pray, God, it would disturb them. It would be something, Lord, that sits in the back of their mind that they've never, Lord, that you saved them, but they've never told anyone how to be saved. So please help today, Lord, and speak through me. I pray it'd be a blessing. We love you and we pray all in your son's name. Amen. Now it says feet shod, and that's back there to shod something, to bind something, that's to shoe it, literally. And so they were, back then they were wearing sandals, and so they were supposed to be binding something onto them, and that was gonna help them in the fight. And you're supposed to be picturing a Roman soldier here, that's what Paul is writing, he's using that as an illustration. And so there's some things you gotta bind onto you, and specifically, this has to do with, the preparation, being prepared to give the gospel. And there's two different ways to look at that. One is I'm preparing myself to do it, but I'm also prepared to do it. Does that make sense? You know what that means? Whenever I go through the gas station there and I've got a gospel track in my pocket, am I prepared to give it out? Am I ready? But there's also preparation before you ever get there. There's two different kinds there. And you ought to be ready to give out these words. You ought to be ready to witness. Aren't you glad that somebody opened their mouth and told you about it? Aren't you glad that somebody messed up your day and offered you a gospel track? Or somebody prepared a sermon to preach to you? Aren't you glad that somebody pointed out that you were on your way to a devil's hell and you got saved because of it? I believe that soul winning is the best thing you can do after you get saved. Now listen to me, I emphasize this all the time, your personal relationship with Christ is the most important thing in your life, but I'm talking about the most important thing you can do. This side of eternity is lead people to Christ and give out the gospel. That's what I think. Now why is it on the feet? Because the great commission is to go. Look at Matthew 28. And so when Paul is going to give you the illustration, he's illustrating where this armor goes, he puts it on the feet. And that's because the Lord tells you to move, to go. Matthew 28, you guys know it. Matthew 28, 19, Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. So how far should you go with it? To the end of the world. Oh no, it's easier to sit on YouTube, isn't it? So that's why all these guys, and some of them are Bible believers, they got a YouTube ministry, because that's easier than going out. But that's wrong. Listen to me. The verse does not say come to church. They're not in here. It says to go. You're supposed to be going out and telling somebody and winning people to Christ. Look at Hebrews 13. Keep in mind this word go. Hebrews 13 verse 12. Here this is talking about Jesus Christ going and dying on the cross. Hebrews 13, 12, Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. It doesn't mean he didn't have a gate, it's outside the gate is what it's saying. Verse 13, Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach. You see there's no reproach in here. Everybody here is in agreement. We're all glad, I'm glad to see you here. No one is going to make fun of you for coming to church today, we all came. So he says, go out so you can suffer reproach. There's very few things you can suffer right now in this country and in this church age. Most of the church age, there was suffering. There were martyrs, and there was torture, and there was imprisonment. They'd take you and they'd put you in jail if you tried to preach and tried to give out the gospel. Those Roman Catholics in the 1500s were putting people behind bars for just translating the gospel into English. You don't have to suffer any of that. So the Lord says, won't you just suffer a little shame? Why don't you just suffer a little reproach? But you know what the problem is? We live in a society that's put so much on, I don't like the way people look at me. I don't want them to look at me badly. You know what they've done? They've given you a cell phone. It makes everything private. Everything keeps you right here and not out and talking to people. And so the Bible says to go. That's on your feet, amen? Look at Acts chapter 8. Here's the first man saved the way you and I are saved. The first Gentile saved the way you and I are saved in this age. And he saved because somebody went. Look at Acts chapter 8. Acts 8. And this is the story of Philip. And Philip's an evangelist, the Bible calls him. Philip the Evangelist. What a title, man. It would be a blessing to get to heaven and the Lord called you Matt the Evangelist, Daniel the Evangelist, Micah the Evangelist. That's forever in Scripture because he was an evangelist, he evangelized. Now watch, but here's what it takes though, ready? Acts 8, look at verse 26. And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise and go. Oh, you've got to move? Oh, they're not going to come where you are, huh? That's the lifestyle of Christianity. Well, if I dress a certain way and talk a certain way and act a certain way, they'll come to me. Maybe. But that's not the commission. The commission is to go and talk to them. Verse 27, and he arose and went. Man, what a blessing when somebody does what God says, amen. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, and eunuch of great authority, under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was returning and sitting in his chariot, reading Isaiah the prophet. Oh, the sinner was sitting, but not the soul winner. The soul winner was supposed to move to him. Verse 29, and the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him. Now that's with His feet, amen? I know I keep saying it that way. Now, turn to John, and you're going to see that Jesus Christ actually sets the example for this whole thing. Turn to John. Jesus Christ does the same. He wouldn't call you to do something He wouldn't do. So John chapter 4. Of course, He left heaven to come here, and you could say that was going, that's true, but watch Him be a soul winner, the way that He calls you and I to be soul winners. John 4 verse 1. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples, he left Judea and departed again into Galilee, and he must needs go through Samaria." You know what he says? The Holy Spirit's saying, you gotta go. I've got a special person for you to talk to. I've got a sinner in need of a savior. Verse 5, Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. He needed to go, and you need to go. And you do not need to sit in here. You won't win them. You know that during the church age, once Paul gets that gospel, the grace of God, and he starts preaching to Gentiles, there's a shift. If you were here for Bible study, Brother Matt was showing you how there's a difference between the Old Testament Jewish saints and their working and all that, and a Gentile church-age saint. And those Old Testament Jewish saints had to work for their salvation. You have to work for your inheritance. There's a shift. And the thing is, some of you aren't going to have anything to offer Jesus Christ at all because you won't do anything. Coming to church is not doing anything. I mean, I'm sure it makes the Lord happy you're here. I'm thankful when people show up. It's a blessing. But it won't get you any inheritance. It won't get you any crowns. So Jesus Christ, he goes, and you know what he does? He starts dealing with a poor law center. Here's a woman there that's basically a harlot, that's what she is, just a wicked woman sleeping around, and he starts dealing with her, and she's got all kinds of arguments, but he deals with her for a while, and then he converts her. Now I want you to stop for a second, and I want you to consider what I'm about to show you. He converts her, she gets saved, and as far as, I know this is before the cross, but as far as a conversion to the Savior, you see it in the passage. Watch what she does immediately. Look at verse 24. God is a spirit, Jesus speaking, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah is cometh, which is called Christ. When he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. He's talking to this woman saying, well, when I find the Messiah, it will all work out. I'm here. Messiah's here. Watch how she responds. And upon this came His disciples and marveled that He talked with the woman, yet no man said, What seekest thou, or why talkest thou with her? The woman then left. Oh, she had to go, huh? Immediately. Watch what she does. Left her water pot and went her way into the city and said to the men, Come see a man which told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city and came unto Him. She immediately starts bringing people to Jesus Christ. She did not attend one soul winning class. She did not learn the Romans Road. She didn't even know John 3.16. It's only one chapter old by this point, amen? John 4. She didn't go to Bible school, she didn't do college education, nothing. She was saved and just went and told somebody about it. And that's all it takes. And so that's what you need to start doing. You say, well, I'm not good at it. I'm sure she wasn't either. This woman was known to be a great sinner. Went back into the city where people knew what kind of sinner she was. And she goes, I got religion. I got saved. Let me show you something about it. Now, if you've never led anyone to Christ, I'll start by saying this. That's OK, but I would not sit right on that. If you haven't done it up to this point right now, you should start considering and praying about it right away. If you've never led anyone to Christ, there should be something in you once you're born again. There should be something in you that starts pressing you to try. Just say something, to just spread a little bit of seed, to just throw out a little bit of fish and line and try to catch something. There should be something in you to try to reach the people around you, especially loved ones. There should be something in you. That's one of the only surefire ways to tell if someone has really received Christ. If you lead someone to Christ and they get saved and just right away, just real early on, they say, man, I got to tell my brother about this. I've seen it. I remember an old story of a preacher talking to a fella. He's talking to him on the phone, and that was back in the day when they had door-to-door sales, and they were doing Tupperware at the house and all that weird stuff you ladies did. And he's talking to this fella, and the fella goes, hey, I got saved, but man, I gotta talk to you about this stuff I'm into. I want you to come over to my house. I'm doing a sales pitch. This thing's changed my life. But we'll talk about being saved later. And that preacher goes, you didn't get saved. Maybe he did, but maybe not. Maybe he didn't really realize it or something. But if somebody gets saved, you know what they normally do? They go, I've got to tell my girlfriend about this. I've got to tell my boyfriend about this. I've got to tell my daughter. I've got to tell my mom and dad. That's what this woman did. It's a sign of a real conversion. Now has the Lord saved any of you in here? Anybody in here? We're sitting there singing. Hallelujah, I have found him. And I saw some of you singing it, and you sang it different than you should have. Hallelujah, I found him, whom my soul so long has craved. Okay. Hallelujah, huh? Have you found him? Better yet, did he find you? Did he find you just hanging on by a thread as you're just about to slip off into that horrible pit and sink down into hell? Didn't he redeem you? The Bible says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Look at Proverbs chapter 24. You know why most people won't say anything? That's exactly what it is. You don't have any guts. Haven't you made a fool of yourself for something else? I don't know about you, I refuse to stand before God having not made a fool of myself a couple times for him. Some of you have made a fool of yourself for some football team, haven't you? Took off your shirt when you shouldn't have and painted yourself blue for some stupid team. You weren't even helping the team. They did not know your name. I heard a preacher say it like this one time. He said, you'll go to the game and scream and shout like Comanche Indians, but you'll sit in church and you won't say anything like a wooden Indian. That's about right. Look at Proverbs 24 verse 10. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. If thou forbear, that's holding back. If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain, if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his works? I know that's a lot of old words there, but man, it's just this. You could have said something. You could have got in the way. You could have said something. You could have been a witness. But you decided not to say anything. Well, then your strength is small, the Bible says. And the problem is most Christians are just chickens and they just refuse. And you ought to pray about that thing. I'm not asking you to get over it in one service. I know there's anxiety and all that stuff. You've never done it before, but I just think the problem is that most people, they just, they're too scared to say something. They're too scared to pass out a track. So they just don't witness. So why don't you, why don't you pray about it this week? I've given him a second to settle in. First week of the year. Why don't you ask the Lord, Lord, I'm going to try to look like an idiot for you this week. Why don't you try it? Next time somebody says, how are you doing, why don't you say, I'm doing good, I'm saved, how are you? Simple as that. I'm doing good. I'm saved. You doing all right? And just see if they ask you. You're just throwing out a little line, seeing if they'll take it. Some of you, you work somewhere where they call your preacher. Next time they say, how you doing, preacher? Say, I'm doing good, sinner. How are you? Just see how it goes. Just sneak it in there. See if somebody will take the bait. But you need to keep an eye out for an open door. and try it, and if you never have, man, I'm telling you, you're missing out. You know what Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 2? He says, what is our joy? He says, what's our crown of rejoicing? And he says, you, the people we've seen come to Christ, the people we've seen get saved, that's the joy. Some of you don't have any real joy in your life. You never led anyone to the Lord, and there ain't nothing like it. You ought to be trying it. All right, let me show you something else. Now, this is just because this is more of a study. I'm going to just break right into it. Look at Mark chapter 6. And this is just going to be a... This will go right into Brother Tyler starting up the visitation thing here soon. But there's another piece of protection that comes with going out and giving the gospel. And it's a biblical principle that I'm going to show you, I don't know, 15 places probably. This is a biblical principle. It's not going to be a very spiritual thing. It's actually just very practical. Mark chapter 6, and this is protection. The Lord shows you through scripture. Mark 6 verse 7, And He called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two, and gave them power over unclean spirits. They were sent out by two. So in soul winning, when it comes to trying to lead people to Christ, you ought to go out by at least two. At least. I don't mind more than that, but at least two. Look at 2 Corinthians 13. And this is a principle you're going to find all through scripture. Two by two. It was during Jesus Christ's ministry and it was clear into the New Testament. 2 Corinthians 13. This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. See how there's just real practical protection with having two people? Because you have a witness there. So if you're witnessing to somebody and they say, they go to cop and they say such and such happened, you can say, we have two witnesses here. See how the Lord just kind of set that thing up? It's safety. It's actual protection. That's what the Lord's given you. So you see it all through the book of Acts. Look at Acts chapter 3. We're just going to go just through the book of Acts here for a second and just look at one after another, okay? A little bit of a Bible study for you. Everybody all right? A little somber here. I'm talking about leading people to Christ, man. People getting saved, Acts 3. Look at verse one. Now, Peter and John went up together into the temple. Look at verse 12. And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people. Now, I'm just showing you that next little bit there because they're gonna start dealing with some people and one guy takes the lead and the other guy steps back. And that's important. You're gonna see that throughout this thing. Look at chapter four, verse 13. Even though both of them are there, one guy takes the lead, but watch what happens in Acts 4.13. Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, the adversaries noticed both of them. Both of them got credit for it even though Peter was the one preaching. Now, what is that? Well, Paul waters and Apollos does this and God brings the increase. And that's what's happening here. Look at Acts 8. Now these guys, now this is just taking care of church matters here. Look at Acts 8.14. Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John. So even, and specifically taking care of like a church matter to make sure things are going the right way and making sure that these guys are getting the right gospel and all that stuff, they sent out two guys. And there's wisdom in that, real practical. Why? You need a witness. That simple as that. I remember when I was in Scotland, Brother Vogelpoel had left for a year, they had to take a furlough. And one of our guys there caused some real trouble, real trouble. I won't get into it. And he left a church service. He didn't leave the church. He left mad. And I sent him a message. And I said, hey, brother, when you're ready to get this thing worked out, you give me a call. I don't want you just showing up. Because he had caused some real trouble. And he did. He just ended up showing up, which was fine. I grabbed another brother right away. And I said, come on, brother. Let's go have a talk. And the two of us dealt with the thing. That's just real practical, because you need a witness to the thing. Look at Acts 13. Acts 13, look at verse 1. Now there was in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers as Barnabas and Simeon that was called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene and Manion which had been brought up with Herod the Tetrarch and Saul as they ministered to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost said separate me and he says two guys not just one Barnabas and Saul for the work where into I have called them and they go out look at Galatians 2 Galatians chapter 2 what I'm getting on this thing because if we end up going out I want you to see the way the Lord sets this thing up Galatians 2 look at verse 9 and when James Cephas and John who seem to be pillars perceived the grace that was given unto me they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship that we should go there's the word go again unto the heathen and they enter the circumcision the Lord saying go out by two go out by two I remember in Pensacola, we used to go out there at Pensacola Beach and pass out tracks. We always went with, we always paired up. It's dangerous to go without somebody else there. It's good to have backup. You don't have to turn there, but in Acts 15, 40 through 41, and in Acts 16, 25 through 31, you have Paul and Silas, and they're going. You can go to most of Paul's greetings and closings in Romans 16, 21. He's mentioning different guys that are there with him. He does it in 1 Corinthians, he does it in 2 Corinthians, he does it in Philippians, and Colossians, and 1 Thessalonians, and 2 Timothy. Well, he'll say, hey, me and this guy are writing to you right now. Hey, me and this guy, we greet you right now. Because the Lord's setting that thing up, that's protection. Now, here's a real powerful one. Look at Acts chapter 18. And this is extremely important to you married couples in here. Because there's right there, you've got two. So in the Bible, we get a couple that the Lord uses to be a witness. Acts 18, 24, you have Aquila and Priscilla. Your spouse can be that other person. And you guys need to be on the same track. And listen to me. There's something about two that has strength to it. And that can be two guys door knocking. That can be two men street preaching. And that can be a husband and a wife. There's something about that, especially in a witness, where you're sitting there. I mean, I can't tell you. I mean, it's dozens, if not hundreds of times, where I'm dealing with somebody, and Katie's sitting right next to me, and she's going, Amen. Just like this. And there's times she's dealing with a girl and the girl looks at me and I go, and she's right. That's true. There's something about their strength in that thing. So here you have a, here's a biblical principle or a biblical example of that, Acts 18.24. And a certain Jew named Apollos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man, mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. If that's all you know, you're lost. Paulus was not a saved man, even though the Lord, he wants to do something for the Lord, he's not saved. And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue, whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard. Now stop for a second. They went to the synagogue. See how they had to go? They're not at the house. They weren't at a church service, they were at a Jewish synagogue. They learned that from Paul, by the way, that he would go, amen. When Aquila and Priscilla heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. Both of them did. And so, if you have a A spouse, you guys need to be on the same page with soul winning. That's going to be the best way to see your family saved. If they see a joint effort. You know what happens if a husband and wife get saved and start going to church and all that stuff? The rest of the family goes, something different about the two of them. And then you start dealing with them. Let me show you what we both found. And there's strength in that thing. Look at 1 Peter 3. 1 Peter 3 and verse 7. Likewise ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. You know why you're heirs? It's the same thing as Paul and Apollos. It's the same thing as when somebody gives a gospel tract to somebody and then down the road someone else leads them to Christ. They're both getting the rewards in it. But you can have it with the person in your own household. I've got some rewards because of her. She's got some rewards because of me. I have more rewards because of her. Amen? I got a soul winner for life. I'm thankful for it. I'm going to skip over that for now. Let me show you one more thing. Look at 2 Chronicles 17. Here's an Old Testament example of this thing, of this thing of going out as a band. And there's something about that as going out in a group. But here's a real good Old Testament example of this thing. 2 Chronicles 17, verse 1, "...And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel. And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Balaam." So we're seeing a great setup for the kingdom. Jehoshaphat's coming in and he's doing right, and he's a good king. Verse 4, "...but sought to the Lord, God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel. Therefore the Lord established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presence, and he had riches, and honor, and abundance. And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord. Moreover, he took away the high places and groves out of Judah." Now watch, he comes in, he's doing right, and he's taking away all the bad stuff. Don't stop there. You then replace it with good stuff. Watch verse 7, "...also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even Ben-Hel, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaniel, and to Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent Levites, even Shemiah, and Nethinah, and Zebediah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehovah, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, Oh my gosh, I should have tried these before I got up here. I read it, not out loud, in my head. Tabitha, Nigel, Levites, and with them Elisha, and Jehoram the priest, and Jehoram priests, and they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the Lord with them, and went. Oh, so they had a commission. They went. They had to go. And went about throughout all the cities of Judah, And taught the people. Now that's an Old Testament practical example. But you have a posse. They went out as a unit. They went out as a team. So listen, that's a good biblical example. So that's why we try to go out every other Saturday. That's why we're going to try to go out and door knock as a unit. Have some people go out. That's how the Bible sets that thing up. and go out and get the word out. And there's something about, let me just say this, there is something about doing it as a team, man. Anybody ever just play paintball with a bunch of people, man? You get done playing paintball and you all gather around and you're like, that was the best day of my life. Do you remember when I was around there and I did this? That's exactly what happens with street preaching, man. I know some of you don't know because you've never done it, but that's exactly how that thing goes. At the end you go, yeah man, did you hear so and so over there? That was a blessing. Did you hear that guy over there yelling at us? The Lord did such and such there. Two weeks ago we had somebody saved on the street, right here in Woodland Park. The Lord uses the thing. Alright, now here's another way. Another way. This will be it. I'll do this and I'll be done. Another way to be prepared to give out the gospel is just by keeping gospel tracts on you. It says the preparation of the gospel of peace. I try never to leave the house without them. I have them in my truck and I find them. My wife's always washing them by accident because I leave them in my pockets and all that. But that is a way to be prepared to give out the gospel at all times. I got a posse of them here. I grabbed a handful. Here's all different kinds. Now here, these two right here, that is just as in your face as it gets. Where are you going to spend eternity? That's okay. Give it out. This one is Jesus Christ your Savior. Just, I mean, just right to the point. Amen. That's fine. Those are good to give out. We have those back there. Then you got Chick tracts. And that's more of a comic book. I was reading, actually I'll read it in a minute. Some guy found one of these and he was, oh, I can't stand these things. But man, that arch real good. Yeah, get some reading the thing. That right there, that gospel track might be the cause of more people getting saved by gospel tracks than any other track. This was your life. That's a good one. Then you have Christmastime ones. I'll be giving these out till February, I always do. That one right there, the little ghost, you give out those around spoopy season, amen? The empty tomb, that's around the time of Resurrection Sunday and Easter. There we got some folks that are in the military or military bases, that's the final orders. We give those out. I'm not telling you gotta give them to everybody, leave them somewhere. This one right here, No Greater Love. We actually need to get some of those more stamped because I got a bunch more but they're not. But that one right there is a personal testimony. Katie has a tract she wrote as personal testimony. And there's all kinds of things like that. And that's a way to get it out. And listen, that's especially a good way to witness if you've never done it before. Because the tract does the talking. Here's a few things about gospel tracts. Tracts can get inside homes and stay there. Now, you go door knocking, man, there's a very big chance you're never going to step in anyone's door. And the people that finally let you in, you're like, this was the place that makes sense they let me in. Tracks can get inside a home and stay there. Tracks never lose their temper. Tracks never get involved in arguments. Tracks never flinch or show cowardice. Tracks can stick to the point without arguing. Man, listen, if you've done some personal work, brother, there's a trick there with that. Tracks never get discouraged. Tracts are willing to be sent anywhere. Tracts can work 24 hours a day. Tracts are not expensive. Gospel tracts can be read many times over. Tracts have unlimited patience. Tracts can communicate in languages you do not speak. We were just down there in Brazil, man. I mean, I probably put out a couple hundred of them in just a few minutes. They kept saying something to me, and I'm like, I would've got them. I think it's thank you. It might have been good morning. I can't remember. Tracts don't require a degree. They do not require special gifts or training or experience to use them. You just put them out. You know what I found? I'd never seen this before. And in preparation for this, I started reading. And I found out that most of these famous preachers that we love from the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, they all gave out gospel tracts. It's not a new phenomenon. After the printing press came out, they started putting it out. So here's John Wesley, one of the most spiritual men probably who ever lived, and one of the greatest preachers in history. He said this, God does nothing but an answer to prayer, and even they who have been converted to God without hearing of a Bible were converted by the instrumentality of a tract. and he put them out. He was a great soul winner. He had gospel tracts on him. Gospel tracts were used all through the Great Awakening. Jonathan Edwards gave out gospel tracts. Charles Spurgeon, here's a few things he said. He said, tracts are more useful than sermons because most people read a tract when they will not come to hear a sermon. That's true. You're gonna invite people to church and they'll never come, but they'll take the gospel tract. They'll get something. He said this, if you cannot preach a sermon, you can at least distribute a tract. This is an age of cheap and plentiful literature. Let us use the press for spreading the gospel, and let us do it with all our might." That's a pastor of a church of 10,000, and he's giving out gospel tracts. I'll tell you, that was one of the biggest blessings, was being down in PBI and seeing Brother Donovan. He's got a church of 500 people there, and I remember walking through, seeing him at the Safeway parking lot there, or Publix, I think is what it was, watching him give out gospel tracts on his way out. Just the most introverted, grumpy old man you ever saw, putting out gospel tracts and witnessing. Here's another one from Spurgeon. Tracts are one of the most useful forms of literature and we ought to use them continually. They scatter the good seed far and wide. They bring truth home to men's business and bosoms and thus they work wonders. Some of you teenagers need to start giving tracts out because they'll take them from you. Some of you kids, you need to start keeping them on you. And give a glance up to your mom and say, can I give it to that guy? I can't tell you how many times David's done it to me, William. They'll say, can I give that guy a track? And I'll walk up. They don't turn down a kid. They definitely know when I walk up, I'm like, hey, my kid wants to get in. But man, you can give them out. Give a track out. Here's George Mueller, man. Another great man of God. Started all those orphanages and just a great prayer warrior. He said, Folks, I'm just giving you my own personal testimony. I've led dozens of people to Christ using gospel tracts. Dozens. where it started with a gospel track and then opened it up. I know Katie's probably led dozens of people to Christ with a gospel track. That girl who just got saved down here at Walmart just two nights ago started with a gospel track. How hard is it? Really that big a pain in your life? You can't carry the gospel? All that blood was shed and it's supposed to be just spread out to anybody who puts their faith in it and you're going to keep it to yourself, huh? I read one time about a lost atheist who, he received a gospel tract in the mail. At the top of the tract it said, prepare to meet thy God. And it made him mad, he was about to throw it into the fire and he had the thought it'd be funny to send it to one of his other buddies who was an atheist. So he sent it to him without putting his name on it, that guy got saved. That man sent it to one of his lost buddies, that guy got saved. The Lord used an infidel to lead some people to Christ. Well, there's power in it. Now, George Whitefield, we know him, right? George Whitfield there, they estimate that 30,000 people, the most he ever preached to was something like 30,000 people. He preached something like 18,000 times. He preached something to like 10 million people who heard his preaching in his lifetime. He got saved through a gospel track. George Whitfield? 18,000 sermons? Because one little sermon preached to him. Somebody gave it to him. He wrote, we must use the printing press for the glory of God. Gospel tracts are a good means to awaken sinners and to confirm and establish those who are seeking the Lord. You guys know of the missionary Hudson Taylor. He spent 51 years in China, saw something like 18,000 Chinese saved, got saved from reading a little gospel tract. He was just a young kid there, picked it up at a library. His mom was 80 miles away praying that he'd get saved. Hudson Taylor, George Whitfield, just a little track. The thing is, you don't know what kind of ground you're hitting. I was thinking about this. I've been working on some material there for the blowout, and it hit me the other day. I've got that sermon where I talk about sowing the seed, and the passage says they sowed by the wayside. And it occurred to me, you know what the wayside is? It butts right up next to somebody else's field. You know what you need to be doing? Just let the seed fly, man. Because it might just land on somebody else's good ground, and you don't even know it. I've told that story before, Katie dealing with that woman in a Walmart up in New York. She shops a lot. That's what you should get from all this, amen? And she's dealing with that girl, and the girl says, my brother keeps giving me these. He keeps telling me I'm going to go to hell if I don't get saved. I think I'll get saved today. She was sowing by the wayside, and it fell on his good ground. You don't know where it's going to go. So plant the seed. Put it out there. Here's a few testimonies of some people that got saved through Chick tracts. When I was in college during the early 80s, I was a heavy drug user. One night, there sitting on the table across from friends was a tract that one of them had received. It was so convicting because I knew what it was. I had read a few when I was younger, and it convicted me. about how far away I'd gotten from the Lord. And that fellow joked about how bad it was and mocked the thing. Some crazy religious guy gave this to me, but man, the artwork is nice. A couple years later, the Lord brought me out of that backsliding, but it started right there, seeing that gospel track. Here's another one. Back in 1989, I found this was your life chick track in a bathroom stall at Camp Pendleton, USMC, and I liked it. I clung to that little track for a long time until I found someone who looked like they needed it more than me. I didn't know it then, but reading that track was the first baby step in getting saved. One more. My wife was saved from a This Was Your Life track in 1971. She's a pastor's wife now, and we've now passed out thousands and thousands of these things, seeing people saved. They work. That's the testimony. I'll close with one more illustration. I'm just trying to give you something to think about. I hope and pray maybe you'll consider this thing on gospel tracks. Before you leave today, you'll grab some. We've got plenty. They're free. If you don't have them on, you won't give them out. There's an old pastor friend of mine from Tennessee. He's actually from Texas originally, and he was a kid. They moved up to Tennessee, and that pastor, his family was just, I mean, when I say drunks, they owned part of Budweiser. I mean, they were filthy drunks. Horrible, horrible life. Something like 13 years old, he's moved up to Tennessee. I think that was about the age. That town in Tennessee was just an old redneck town, but they had a bunch of Christians in that town. To this day, that same town is the only dry county in Tennessee, because they keep going out. And he goes, I went there, and he goes, I go to a public school, and the teacher says, how many of you were saved? And she said, he looked around, and every kid in there raised his hand, and he goes, and raised his hand, and they went, no, no, no, hold on. And those kids started dealing with him, witnessing to him, and he kept putting it off, putting it off, just a real rough family. And one day, he had some family there, it was late night, and he had friends inviting him out to go out and get into sin and get into trouble, and he said, I was walking through the house, and he goes, and sitting there, we'd never touched it, we'd never read it, we had an old Bible just sitting there. And he goes, I walked, and if I would have gone this way, I would have followed my brothers, I would have followed those cousins, and all that sin was just right out the door, and something just told me to grab that Bible. And he goes, I grabbed that Bible and I went this way. And he goes, I went outside, there were no lights or anything, it was out in the middle of nowhere, all that was shining down was the moonlight. And he goes, and I opened up that Bible, and he goes, I didn't know anything. I didn't know where a chapter was, I didn't know a verse mark, I didn't know anything. But right in the middle of that Bible was a little bookmark gospel tract. that had the plan of salvation on it. He goes, that night, I learned where the books of the Bible were. I went to the concordance and I followed that thing, that gospel track. He goes, I learned what chapters and verse markings were that night. At 13 years old, under God's light, he followed a gospel track and went down through that thing and got saved on his own. 13! Because of a gospel track. Now what would keep you from giving them out? The thing is, I'm telling you that it's one of those things that's going to seem trivial. You're going to say, well, I'm not going to give it to her. I'm not going to give it to that guy. It's not important this time. Listen, man, why don't you have some guts? You act tough and you think you're tough and all this stuff, but you won't even give it out to somebody? Why don't you pray about it today? All right, let's all stand