That is amazing. Thank you, Brother Mario. Grab your Bibles. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 1. 1 Corinthians chapter 1. Notice verse 20. Let's start reading verse 20. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that is the wisdom of God. The world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." Notice verse 22, we'll take our text from there. For the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom. Today we're going to speak for just a few moments on obey the signs. Father, we ask you this morning to help us. Lord, I pray that you'd be with Brother Nichols and help him to get feeling better and get back to church. We miss him when he's not here. Lord, I can't replace Brother Nichols. I've never tried. I'm not him, and I'm a different person than him. So I pray, Lord, this morning that you'd just speak through me. Lord, the things that you gave me in the last few days as I was thinking on this sermon, Lord, that you would help me to get across to the people this morning the thoughts that you gave me. Lord, that they'd make sense, that they'd be a help, and they'd be a blessing. Lord, that you would use them this morning to help and change lives. In Jesus' name, amen. Now, for those of you that don't pay attention, and that's usually teenage drivers or folks who are always talking on the phone, you probably really don't even see signs. And one of the things that an officer will often ask you when he pulls you over is he'll say, didn't you see the sign right back there? And by the way, you telling him you didn't see it doesn't change the fact that you're going to get a ticket, okay? He'll tell you that the fact that you, the ignorance of the law does not remove you from the responsibility of obeying the law. But many times they put out signs, and they put signs there for a reason. Now, the Jews were one that was looking for signs. They often asked for signs, and I think sometimes Jesus got tired of showing them signs, but he simply said, the Jews are always looking for a sign. They say something like, is there going to be a sign of his coming? Is there going to be a sign about this? Is there going to be a sign about that? And by the way, there are some things in the Bible that, for instance, we know that the rapture is the next thing on the schedule, because we know some other things have already happened that had to happen before the rapture could happen. They've already happened, so the rapture could happen at any time. Now the rapture's when all of us that are saved leave here, and all those who are lost will spend some time here, and it'll be a terrible, terrible time, and then not too long after that, everybody stands before God and faces God, and by the way, those who are saved, the Bible says, those who have their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life, will enter into their blessed hope, and by the way, their reward, those who are lost will be cast into hell. Not a good time for the lost, a great time for the Christian, but the truth is, There are lots of signs, so I started paying attention when I thought about this one day. I just saw some signs, and I got thinking, man, them signs preach. And I didn't realize there were so many signs, so I ended up with a lot of signs that I couldn't even use. But you say, which ones did you use? The ones that fit my sermon, of course, but that's the ones that I use. But I want to give you some signs today. First, I want to speak mainly to the lost, some advice to the lost, based on some signs in the Bible. with some verses in the Bible that talk about some things. So first I'll speak to the lost, then I'll speak to those of us that are saved. Now, I realize that most everybody here today is probably saved, but Liberty Baptist Church cares about sinners. So every service we have, we always try to give an invitation. So if there's, by the way, if there's one lost person in here, we'd want them to hear the gospel and get saved. Say, how important is that lost person? Well, I don't know. Let's put it on Jesus' terms. Jesus said if he had a hundred sheep and one of them got lost, he would leave the 99 and go find that one. Say, what about the 99? Well, they're safe in the fold, so he's not going to worry about them. By the way, those of you who are saved this morning, I mean, the worst thing that can happen to you is you go to heaven. That's the worst thing. If you die or something happens to you, I mean, you're on your way to heaven. So the truth is, I mean, now, there are some things that we want to speak to the saved about this morning, but again, every service at Liberty Baptist Church, we always give an invitation to the lost. We go out on soul winning on Saturday and on Thursday, and some of the ladies go out a different day, but we go out and we knock on doors, we invite people. Now, a lot of churches don't have that. But we have that, and we've had it for all the years that I've been here, and we call it soul winning. And we also have visitation, but we, I mean, we want to go out and we talk to total strangers, total strangers. Sometimes we go to parks, sometimes we go door to door. This last week, they went door to door. We had probably 25 or 30 people out on Thursday night, maybe more than that, maybe 40. Had a good crowd Thursday night. Had several vehicles went out, and then we had some that went and visited, some folks that had visited as well. But the main group went out soul winning. They went out and knocked on doors. Talk to people. I mean they didn't know we call it going cold turkey because we don't know those people say knowing these people Nope, I have no idea never met him for in our life knocked on the door came in track invited him to church Asked what they were saved they listen if they'd let us show them out of Bible how to be saved You say you did that at their house. Yep. We did that at their house Talk about door-to-door service. That's what we have How many of you have ever you got saved your day of salvation was at your house? Someone came and led you the Lord at your house anyone in here like that You got saved. Gabby got saved at her house. I know some of the rest of you did, too. Now, I got saved. How many of you got saved in church? I got saved in church. Now, my preacher came to our house, talked to us. My dad got saved in the hospital and took us to church, and I got saved in church. But again, we go out knocking doors, talking to people about the Lord. You say, Brother Block, I've never done that before. There's a lot of things I've never done before until I did it the first time, so the best thing to do is come out and learn how. I said, I don't know how. Not a problem. We have folks that do that will show you how. We have some that think they know how, and they'll show you what they think as well. But we have a good group that goes out every Thursday. By the way, we have a lot of young people, and I appreciate that. I don't know how many we had. Roy, how many young people had? Probably 20, 25 Thursday night? Had about 20 young people. Now, most young people act foolishly. We had some young people that showed a little wisdom that night. Instead of being at home watching TV or playing video games, they were out talking to people about their souls. So if you're here today and you're lost, let me say this about Liberty Baptist Church. We care about you. We love you. We don't want you to leave. If you came here lost, we surely don't want you to leave here lost. You say, what are you talking about this lost stuff? I know exactly what I'm talking about. I'm at 7421 Marbach Road. I give that because half our church members don't even know our address. Someone called in, they said, Bill Block, what's the church's address? I said, kid, Lord, you've been here for 15 years, you know the church's address? Of course, what am I talking about? I sometimes can't remember my own name. But the fact is, we care about the lost. So for the first few moments, I wanna speak to the lost. Those of you that are saved, you can listen in, because you got no better else, no better else, no better place else to be. I'll get it right in a minute. Also, that's another thing that happens when you get old, you can't speak. You can't think and you can't speak. So I can still eat, thank goodness, but the other two problems I have. First, the first sign we want you to pay attention to, and if you flip it over in your Bibles, you can go to John chapter 14, verse 6. John chapter 14, verse 6, probably John 3, 16 is the most famous, but John 14, 6 is known fairly well as well. In John 14, 6, Jesus made this statement. Jesus says unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes unto the Father but by me. So the first sign I want you to listen to this morning, if you're here and you're lost this morning, is realize there's only one way. Now, when they say one way, what that means is it's going one direction. You can only, I mean, and by the way, it's, there's sometimes people get hurt because they go the wrong way down a one-way street. Now, in this case, being one way, notice what the Bible said. It says, He is the way. He is not a way. He is the way. Now, let me explain something to you if you're here this morning. Much as we love sinners, we don't make the rules. I've had a yard service for many, many years, and years ago I mowed a yard in Heritage. And the lady I'd witnessed her and talked to and gave her tracks, she went to another church that wasn't a Baptist church, and I'm sure they didn't believe in being saved the way we do. And by the way, the way we show people how to get saved is not the Baptist way, it's called the Bible way. And by the way, any other church that wants to show you how to get saved, you better make sure they're telling you what the Bible says, not what they think, because what they think doesn't matter. That'd be like me telling you what you could do at brother Ramirez's house or brother Marino's house. By the way, you know who controls what goes on at their house? They do. I can't tell you what, just go over to his house, get in the fridge, get something to eat. I could tell you that, but that doesn't mean when you get over there, that's going to happen and you're not going to get in trouble for that. So the fact is, This lady had known me for years. We had a great relationship. I went by one day, and her and her husband, and there was another couple there, and they said, oh, there you are, Bill Buck. We were just talking about you. Anytime someone says something like that, you don't know if that's good or bad. So he said, come on in here. I need you to settle something for me. She said, you go to that church down there, Liberty Baptist, right? I said, yes, ma'am. And she said, I was just telling these folks, you're a really nice guy. She said that you guys don't believe that all of us are not all going to the same place, we're just taking different routes. She said that you teachers, there's only one way to get to heaven, and that's the only way you can get to heaven. She said, but that's not true, is it? I said, yes, ma'am, it is. She said, but you're so nice. She said, how could you be so mean? I said, ma'am, I don't get to make the rules. Jesus is the one that says, I am the way, not a way, I am the way. See, how many ways are there to get to heaven? One. Now, if there's more than one way, I'd tell you that. Now, there's more than one way to get to my house. Now, there's a way that I like, but there's more than one way to get to my house. So if you don't go my way, you can still get to my house. But by the way, there's only one way to get to God's house. And again, in that case, there's only one way, and that is through Jesus. He says, I'm the way. He refers to himself as the door in John chapter 10 if you flip over there John chapter 10 Verse 7 says then said Jesus unto them again verily verily I say unto you I am the door of the sheep verse 8 and all that ever come in before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them Verse 9 I am the door by me if any man enter he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture He said he's referring to himself as the shepherd the door to the sheepfold by the way. He refers to us as sheep Symbolically and if we're gonna get to heaven by the way, we're gonna have to go in through the door and he says that's me He told us in John chapter 14. I'm the way and he says here I'm the door So if you get in any other way, guess what? You are a thief and a robber. You're not gonna get in Thief and a robber there's only one way Not only is He the door, but by the way, He gives us an invitation to come in the door. Revelation chapter 3 verse 20, again, one of the probably most well-known verses. And you see it sometimes when you see a picture, you see this verse at least pictured if you didn't even realize where it was coming from. But if you've ever seen the vine-covered door with Jesus on the outside, and by the way, He's wanting admittance. If you've ever noticed that door, and some of you have because Brother Nichols or other preachers have mentioned it, that door is missing something. It's missing a doorknob. And the reason it's missing a doorknob is the only way that door can be opened is from the inside. Jesus doesn't open the door and come in. You must open the door and invite Him in. Notice that verse, Revelation 3, verse 20 says, He's talking about your heart's door. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and sup with him and he with me. Now he would like to come into your heart today, but he will not barge his way in. He will not kick in the door. He will not force his way in. He will only come in if you open the door and say, come in. That's really what all of us, regardless of what type, what we prayed exactly in our prayer, our prayer had to have something about come in. I mean, get in. I mean, I want you. I receive you. And that's how salvation happens. We invite him into our heart. There's one way. Second truth I want to give, second sign to the loss this morning is that you need to take a right turn only. A right turn. Now sometimes you can take left turns, but in this case you want to turn from the left and you want to turn to the right. Notice in your Bibles in Mark chapter 1 verse 15. And saying, this time is fulfilled in the kingdom of God's at hand, repent ye and believe the gospel. Now the word repent means to turn. Now, we want to turn from the direction we was headed, and we want to turn to God. We want to take a right turn. We want to turn to the right. He tells us that in Mark 6, verse 12, and they went out and preached that men should repent. Luke 13, verse 3, Now, He wants us to turn. He wants us to make a right turn. Now, there are times it doesn't matter if you take a left turn. There are some things that make no difference. But when it comes to your salvation, you've got to turn to God. By the way, you can turn to worldly wisdom. You can turn to good works. You can turn to baptism. You can turn to church attendance. You can turn to giving money and alms to the poor. While those are good things and nice things, those do not bring salvation. The only way that you can turn and get salvation is when you turn to the Lord. You make that right turn. The third sign, again, to the loss this morning would be don't drive into smoke. How many of you have ever seen that sign? If you've ever driven the Oklahoma Turnpike or some of those places where you have a lot of pasture land, they'll say don't drive into smoke. You know why they don't want you driving into smoke? Because a lot of times with that smoke, it's accompanied by something else. What is it? Fire. And there are people that get burned up because they don't have enough sense not to drive into the smoke. If you're lost here today, let me say this. Don't drive into the smoke, because that smoke's coming from a place called hell, and that's a very, very dangerous and very, very deadly and a very, very awful place. Go in your Bibles to Revelation chapter 19. We're going to read three verses in Revelation. Now again, those of you that don't know me know that I cheated. I have all the verses written out. So if you can't always keep up with me, I do not, I'm not a fast turner. I'm just a big cheater and I have, I have all the verses written out. And so it makes it where I can get through my message. When my wife saw my message, she said, we're going to be there a long time today, aren't we? I said, no baby, we're not. I'm going to talk fast and I have all the verses written out. So, so I'll get you out by, But, at the very least, probably 1 to 130. So, I mean, you're good. Now, I'll speak fast. If you listen fast, I'll speak fast. So, don't drive into smoke. Notice Revelation chapter 19. Notice verse 20, "...and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone." So again, fire burning with brimstone. Again, that would be don't drive in smoke. You say, well, that case for the block, that's the beast and the false prophet. Okay, notice chapter 20, verse 10. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake with a fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented there day and night forever and ever." You say, Brother Block, that's the devil. Yeah, and if it's stopped there, That would be nice for the lost, but it doesn't stop there. Notice chapter 20, verse 15. So not only will the beast and the false prophet be there, not only will the devil be there, but everyone whose name is not found written in the book of life will be there. Lake of fire you don't want to drive in the smoke you do not now and by the way You don't want to put it off till too late many many people What they think is I'm gonna live my life and to my fullest I'm going to have all the fun I want to have and when I get old right before I die right for I mean I take my last but it'd be like Jesus saved me I mean they think that's what they're gonna do, but I don't know if you've read the obituary today You can read it any day, and you know you're gonna find a bunch of older folks to die last night and But you'll also find there's some young folks that died last night, and some babies that died last night, and some teenagers that died last night, and some 40 years old and 50 years old. Whatever age you are this morning, trust me, there'll be someone in the obituary that's close to you that died last night. And by the way, many of them died in what we call accidents. They did not expect to die. They left feeling great, and they woke up standing before God. And if they made preparations ahead of time, by the way, which is what I'm encouraging you to do today, That was a happy reunion. It wasn't a problem. It was like, wow. If they were not prepared, it was a very sad case. And by the way, then it only got sadder because Jesus said, depart from me, I never knew you. And he cast them into hell. You say, well, Block, does God want me to go there? I thought God was a God of love. He is. No, he doesn't want you to go there. We'll talk about that in a moment. But understand, you don't want to drive in the smoke. Go to your Bibles, Matthew chapter 25. The fourth sign for the loss today that we want you to pay attention to is dead end ahead. I can tell you this, you continue to go on the route you're going, you continue to live the life you're living, you know where you're going to come? To a dead end. You will not only physically die, but by the way, then you will face death forever. You will be suffering, and you'll face eternal death. While those of us who are saved, you know what we get? We get eternal what? Life. And for those of you that are lost, and you stay in your lost condition, and you die, you will face eternal death. And you will be tortured, and you'll be punished, and you'll hurt for the rest of eternity. Listen to me almost anything we can bear if there's an end in sight If we know that I mean, you know only four more hours. I mean we can get through the workday I mean only only only ten more days or only I mean there's another six months and I'll be done with this I mean, but if there's no end in sight, that's one of the biggest torches. I mean if you're just gonna go on And on and on and on by the way, that's how the suffering in hell. That's how long it lasts It goes on and on and on by the way Those who died a thousand years ago are still screaming and suffering and burning today and a thousand years now They're gonna be screaming and suffering and burning the thin by the way a thousand years from then they'll still be doing that because it's eternal We either receive eternal life or we face eternal death And by the way, if you're lost today the road you're on is a dead end notice Matthew chapter 25 Verse 46, these shall go away into, notice the next word, everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal. Now, by the way, you have two choices. It's not really all that difficult. Now, sometimes you ladies, when you go shopping, what makes it so hard is there's so many choices. It's like, oh, do I want that one? Oh, that one? Oh, that one? Now, it's always easy for us men. My wife often brings two dresses. She'll bring two dresses. She'll say, which one do you like? And I'm a smart guy. I'll reach down and grab that little tag. I'll look at that one. That one's $49.99. I'll look at this one. It's $21.99. I'll say, I like that one. Say, Brother Block, why'd you do that? Well, she liked both of them, so I cannot go wrong, okay? It's not like, I hate this one, and I love this one. If she did that, that's a tough one. It's like, oh, I love you, baby. I guess we'll take that one. But if she says, I like them both, it's really quite simple. I like the one that's cheapest. By the way, sometimes I'll flatter her, and I'll say, let's just get them both. That doesn't happen very often, so don't bank on that one. But the truth is, with a lady, it's like, oh, you walk in your girl's closets. Good Lord Almighty. You know why they made walk-in closets? So the husband can still have his about a foot and a half, and you can have all the rest of it. You have clothes you have wore 20 years ago, you have clothes you wore yesterday, and you have clothes you're going to wear one of these days. I mean, you have the whole arrangement. You have your winter clothes, your summer clothes, your spring clothes. We just have clothes. I mean, we have our jeans we wear today, and the jeans we wear tomorrow, and the jeans, by the way, we might even wear them two days in a row. I mean, but the fact is, I mean, we don't have all that stuff. Our life is so much simpler than you. But you struggle because you have choices. But in this case, by the way, the choices are pretty simple. Life eternal or punishment eternal, but that's all you have say what about that other place? What about that place the Catholic Church teaches about what about that limbo place that what they call that again? What's the name? Yeah, there is no such place You say, why do they teach it? Because they want you to feel good about your relative that died and went to hell. And by the way, they also want you to keep paying them to try to get them out of that place to the next place because it's good for them. You can go burn those candles and pray those prayers and spend all that time and you don't want to accomplish that person that's in hell. Nothing. You want to help your Catholic friend? Take him to a Baptist church to preach the gospel and get him saved. That's the best way you can help your Catholic friend. They think they're gonna go to some some in-between place and you can finish I mean if they didn't quite make it they didn't quite get up the ladder and they didn't quite live good enough They can get pushed on over the edge by you and me that's not happening The Bible doesn't teach that find that grab your Bible leaf to read us through several times. I have and it's not in there They made that up because it makes you feel good and it's profitable for them, but it's not the truth Jesus who's by the way sets rules because it's his house says you either come in through the door through me and you get to live with me eternally Well, if not, you're gonna go to hell Bad news for the loss. Great news for the save. It's dead end ahead. The fifth sign that the loss, I want to give you this morning, is do not enter. By the way, that's a warning to you for your protection. When you see a sign that says do not enter, by the way, lots of times there's a reason for that. They didn't just put that there because they were driving down the road, they put this one out, stop sign here, yield sign here, and it's like, what are we supposed to do with that? I don't know, stick it over there. I mean, that's not why, they didn't stick it there for that reason. They put do not enter because there's a danger there. There's a problem there. They're trying to keep you away from that problem. So I say today to you, do not enter. Go in your Bibles to 1 Timothy chapter 1. 1 Timothy chapter 1. Notice verse 15, 1 Timothy 1, verse 15. Let me show you why Christ came today. This is the faithful saying, verse 15, chapter 1 of 1 Timothy, verse 15. This is the faithful saying and worthy of all the acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. of whom I'm chief." 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 9 makes this statement, "...the Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but as longsuffering to us would." By the way, He calls and calls and calls and He convicts and He convicts. You say, why does He keep bothering me? Because He doesn't want you to be comfortable being lost. He wants you to understand you need something. You've got to change. You need Christ and He's trying to just get that across to you. He's not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Again, Do not enter. It's a warning to you. For your protection. You continue to go the way you're going, lost person. You continue to live without Christ, and you will go to hell. Now, again, understand, you'll have to do that over, I mean, walk through the blood of Christ, because He's between you and hell. That's why He came. He didn't come just to live a good life and be a good person. He came to die. We sing a song that He was born to die. And by the way he was. That's why I didn't fight it. That's why I laid, they didn't, now listen to me. You try to nail my hand on the cross, we're gonna have a struggle. The other day I took the school kids. How many of you have been to Rodriguez Park? Some of you don't even know where it's at. Most of you don't even know where it's at. Shame on you. We used to, at the end of the school year, now we go to this one up here, I don't know the name of it, we used to, we go to this park here and play softball and stuff on the end of school, but used to, we went to Rodriguez Park. So we took him over there and we played a little basketball that day, and then I took him down by the creek, I said, let's go down the creek, I'll take you on a little hike, so we went down the creek, and I said, this creek brings back old memories. Rick, still remember that creek? Because the last day of school, the teenagers only thought it was a big deal to throw the principal in the creek. Now, And they usually did accomplish that. But trust me, I didn't go alone, okay? Usually some of them got in the water before me, and always some of them went in the water with me, because I was pretty strong back then. Now, I mean, my chest has fallen into my drawers, but back then, I mean, you know, this was up here, and I mean, you know, these muscles that are down here now were up here, but I mean, but I was, I looked a little different, okay? I weighed, I didn't weigh very much. I only weighed about 130 pounds, 140 pounds. Now I weigh, but the fact is, I weighed a lot less back then, but I was pretty strong, and I was pretty wiry, so they'd say, let's get him! So they'd come over, and that one would go in the creek, and then this one would go in the creek, and while they're trying to throw me in the creek, I'm throwing him in the creek. It was a big time. I mean, and when they finally drug me on the creek, I mean, I've got one wrapped around this leg, and I've got one in this headlock. I mean, we go in the water together. And the kids that day said, huh, think we can throw you in the creek? I said, it ain't enough for you to throw me in the creek, so you didn't want to try that. Besides, the water is only about that deep. It's going to be pretty hard to get wet in the creek that deep. But they used to love to go to Rodriguez Park, and they used to love to throw me in the creek. But I didn't go willingly. Now listen to me. Jesus went to the cross willingly. He made the statement, I lay down my life. No man took it from me. He laid that hand there, and they put the nail in. He laid that hand there, and they put the nail in. He put the feet together, and they nailed it. I mean, listen to me. He did not fight them. He wasn't kicking and cussing and screaming. I mean, he laid his life down, because he wants you to get saved. So again, if you go to hell, it'll be your own fault. It's not because of his lack of trying or his lack of invitation. He knocks on your door, and he wants you, and he tells you don't enter there. Don't go in there. It's a bad and dangerous place. Don't go to hell. You don't need to. You don't have to, and I don't want you to. The sixth sign, and I'll be through with picking on the lost this morning, so if you're lost, say, I thought you said there's some Christians here, too. Can you talk to them? One last sign, and I'll give you a break for just a moment. Then I'll fuss at you again at the end of the service. Last one is no outlet. Now, you know what it means by no outlet? You drive in there, there's not, I mean, you've got to turn around and go back. There's no getting out. By the way, there is no outlet in hell. When you go to hell, We read that verse earlier, Matthew chapter 25, verse 46, and here's what it said again. These shall go away into everlasting punishment. There's no outlet. It'd be one thing if, now again, think about the rich man. Now, after he'd been there just a short time, you know what he was immediately asking? For a drop of water. He didn't ask for a drink of water, he asked for a drop of water, because he thought it would just feel so great. By the way, if you've ever been really, really thirsty, I mean, just a little bit, I mean, it feels so good. Then he begged him, please send him back, that he can talk to my brothers, because I don't want my brothers to come here. I mean, if I'm going to be stuck here, please don't let my brothers come here. Now listen to me, there's no outlet. You get into hell, you're stuck for eternity. You don't get another chance. I mean, it's not like parole. It's not like in 15 or 20 years they're going to rehear your case and you get another shot at it. Not like that. If you die without Christ, you'll be cast into an eternal place of punishment. Luke chapter 16 verse 26 says, and besides all this, between us and you there's a great gulf fix, so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us that would come from hence. He said, you know what? There's not any leave in that place. Once you're there, you're stuck there. you're there for eternity. Signs. Obey the signs, lost person. Listen to me this morning. You need to make sure you realize there's one way to Christ, one way to heaven, and by the way, you need to take that right turn and head to the Lord. Some advice to the saved, and I'll speak quickly. Now for those of us who are saved. How many of you are saved? You died right now, you're going to heaven. That's most of us. Say, but, Lord, if I'm lost, how come you didn't have me raise my hand? Because I didn't want to embarrass you at all, and I'm hoping at the end of the service you'll be able to raise your hand like the rest of us, and you're saved. Shouldn't be anyone leave here today without Christ, because we're going to give you an opportunity to receive Him today. But some advice to the saved. First off, the first sign that I want you as a Christian to obey is the no parking sign. Go, if you would, to your Bibles, to John chapter 9. John chapter 9. Now think about it. Why would I say no parking? Well, first off, when you park, what does that usually mean has happened? You have what? You stop, or you think you have arrived at your point. I mean, you've arrived where you're going to. Now, in our Christian life, do we ever get to the point that we have arrived? The answer to that is no. You know what Paul said? Paul says, I'm in a race. Paul says, I'm in a fight. And by the way, Paul said at the end, I have finished my course. I've finished the fight. But by the way, that's because he was getting ready to die. He fought until he died. I don't care whether you—now listen to me. In life, there's retirement. In life, there's retirement. 62, 65, 67, there's retirement. In your spiritual life, there is no retirement. You say, but, Block, I'm 75. What do you expect me to do? Well, I don't know. We have these blue things called tracts. Does your hand still do this? Can your mouth say, read this, or take this, please, so you can pass out tracts? Do your legs still work? Oh, yeah, Brother Block. I mean, you know, I just, you know, I just, I walk around that park. I mean, I make five laps a day. That means, I don't know how many blocks that is, but that's quite a bit of area. Wouldn't it be better to get your exercise just, even if you didn't talk to anyone, just put a track on the door? You want your exercise, ladies? Pass out tracks. Why walk around a big circle? I mean, you know, you know, walk from one door, put it on. Walk to the next door, put it on. You can get your exercise and be spiritual at the same time. Wow, that'd be quite an improvement. You'd get fat spiritually while you're getting skinny physically. Woo! Best of both worlds. But the fact is there is no retirement in the Christian life. When you park, that means I'm done. I've arrived. I'm here. Get out of the car. Let's go in. There's no parking. Notice that verse I told you to read, John chapter 9 verse 4, I must work the works of him that sent me. While it is day, the night cometh when no man can work. He said, you know, it'll be dark soon. So you have to work till it gets dark. And by the way, when it got dark, that means the day is done and hopefully the work is done. And then you go inside and rest. Bible talks about the Christian's rest. You know where it is? In heaven. It's not, we don't rest down here. Our rest is up there, which means we finished our work. Now we get to go to heaven. But until God takes you to heaven, He's not done with you. I've had old people say, but block, I'm this many years old. What can I possibly do? I don't know something. Because if God, by the way, God is not a waster. Doesn't he teach against wasting in the Bible? Yes or no? He does. He teaches you if you hunt, you eat what you hunt and don't be a waster. He teaches against wasting in the Bible. If God, and by the way, you breathing, you eating, you're living on this earth, you're taking up space, if you didn't have a purpose, He'd take you home. He has plenty of room up there. By the way, He already has a room for you up there. So it's not like He's still getting it all ready to you. I mean, He has it ready for you. He's prepared your place if you're saved. So if you're still here, you know what that means? If you're still breathing His oxygen, you're still on this earth, there's something you can do. Now, I may not know what it is, Now, I don't have all the answers, but I guarantee there's something you can do. Amaze me. Years ago, someone came by the church. He had a car full of boxes, and he says, there's this little old lady, she got crippled years ago, she's in a wheelchair, couldn't do anything else. She'd made a bunch of quilts, those little squares. He gave me a box, there's probably a hundred quilts in it, and inside each quilt, she put a track and a Bible. She sat in that wheelchair, and she made quilts. She says, I want you to pass these out to people, and inside each one of them, I mean, gives them, and it has a little, even the little, Quilt at the top. She made a little pillow thing. Had a little pillow in there, but she fixed it. She spent hours, hundreds, thousands of hours. She couldn't get out. She was stuck in a wheelchair. So she sat there and made quilts and put Bibles in it and tracts in it so that people could still have some physical comfort while they read the Word of God and while they learned about Jesus. I mean, again, she was stuck in a wheelchair, but that didn't stop her. While she was still breathing air, she figured, you know what? God has a purpose for me, so I better figure out what it is. No parking. Second rule, second sign about advice to a Christian this morning would be no loitering. You know what loitering means? Just stand around doing nothing. Accomplish nothing. Find people that stand outside of the store, you know what they'll say? No loitering. What it means is if you've got no place to be, don't let it be this place. I mean, get out of here. For a Christian, we don't need to be loitering. Notice your Bible, 1 Corinthians chapter 9. I talked about Paul and the race. He talks about it in chapter 9 of 1 Corinthians. Notice verse 24. So run that ye may obtain. So what he says is, you know what? You're in a race, so run. Now, understand I'll always run the same speed. But the thing, if you've ever seen a distance race, and by the way, the Christian life is a distance race, a hundred yard dash, it's all based on speed. And by the way, it also depends on how fast you get out of the blocks. If you don't get out of the blocks, you're already beat before you get out of the blocks. I mean, because it's less than 10 seconds. But if you've ever run, I mean, a big marathon, I mean, it isn't a speed race. It's an endurance race. You just got to keep going. Just keep plodding ahead. How many of you have ever done at least a 20 mile walk? We used to do 20 mile walks. I don't know who invented it. Probably me, but back then I was young and stupid. Now I'm a little wiser than that. Now if we do 20 miles, it's called a bike-a-thon. And by the way, bike is much easier for 20 miles than a walk ever was. We did those 20 mile walks. Now again, I'm one of those guys that didn't want to spend, you know, you can walk, if you walk normal speed, you walk about three miles an hour, which means I was going to spend seven hours walking. I had no intention of walking for seven hours. So I would jog a while and walk a while and jog a while and walk a while. And of course I was young back then and also had a little pride issue. So I didn't want to, I always wanted to be the first one. So I'm, all the teenagers with me, because it was a school event. So, almost always, I was the first one, if not, I was first or second. But, I mean, I didn't want any of the kids to beat me, so I'm trying to stay in front of them. Of course, they want to beat the fat principal. At that time, I wasn't fat. They want to beat the principal. So, they, so, I mean, I was out, I was having it, but 20 miles is a long ways. It'd be like, if you go out to 1604, and you take 1604, and you go to Castorville, and back. That's 20 miles. It's 20 miles. It's 10 miles from the, from 1604 Bridge to the, to the city limits of Castorville, and then back. That's 10 miles there, and 10 miles back. 20 miles is a long stinking ways, trust me. You get blisters on your feet. I mean, you hurt. I mean, you get about, usually about 12, 13, 14, you get hurting so bad, you just, I mean, you're just like, Jesus, take me home. I mean, you're hurting. Now, for some reason, you kind of get a second wind or just double the pain. But I mean, sometimes you get a second wind and then you get, but it's tough. And by the way, then you hurt for several days after. I mean, tomorrow, it's not like you wake up and feel good. I mean, you wake up hurting. But the fact is, the Christian life is like that. I mean, now listen to me. The fact that someone's ahead of you right now, first off, you're not racing against them anyway. In this race, it's not an out. In that case, I was racing against somebody. But in the Christian life race, you're racing against yourself. Actually, all you're required to do, the Bible tells you, is the best you can. Works with thy hand, find what to do, do it with thy might. What he says is, just do the best you can. All of us, by the way, are different people. We have different talents, different abilities. Someone might have five talents, someone else might have three, someone else might have one. All of us have at least one, but we all have different talents. We're not the same. God doesn't compare us. God doesn't hold us, He doesn't hold all of us to the same standard. The fact is, we're all different, but He wants us to race. So again, no loitering, get moving. The next sign for the saved this morning is there's obstruction ahead. Obstruction is sometimes in the Christian life. You're gonna go through some struggles some battles John chapter 15 verse 18 says if the world hate you You know that it hated me before he hated you. He said there's gonna be some times I mean the Christian life there might be some folks that don't like it. I'm gonna be ever had a door slammed in your face Maybe I had someone take that track and tear it up in pieces right there in front of you because they think they're cool and throw It around the ground or tear it up and give it right back to you. Here's what I think about your track By the way, if you passed out very mean tracks that's happened to you. I Say, what'd you do? Go in your car and cry and have a big, I mean, feel sorry for yourself? No, you just go to the next door. Because, by the way, the next door, that person said, thank you. And then they listened to you, and then they got saved, and they shook your hand or hugged you and said, thank you so much. I mean, well, by the way, maybe that, like that young man that one of our teenagers went by one Saturday. He knocked on the door, no one answered. He knocked on the door, no one answered. He knocked one more time, and that, about that time, someone came to the door, and he said, what? And Andrew, brother Prairie's son, talked to him, told him who we were. And that young man said, the reason I didn't answer the door right away was I was sitting in the bedroom, I had the pistol in my mouth, and I was getting ready to blow my brains out because I was tired of it, I didn't have all the answers, and my life wasn't worth living, I was going to kill myself. And I just had said, before you knocked on my door, God, if there's any reason for living, show me. And then he heard. And Andrew Prairie led that young man to the Lord that was going to kill himself 30 seconds ago. By the way, when he finally did die, and not from suicide, He's in heaven. Now, again, there might be some obstruction. Sometimes everybody's going to be pleased to see you. Jesus said, don't think that's odd. They hated me. Why do you think they killed him? They hated him. They didn't kill him because they loved him. It wasn't his friends that put him on the cross. He goes on in Acts chapter 16, verse 22, and makes this statement, and the multitude rose up together against him, and the magistrates ran off their clothes and commanded to beat them. The disciples, those times, now listen to me. You and I, I don't know anyone in this room that's ever got beat for the gospel. I got spit on once, and I can tell you if they'd spit on me a few years before that, I'd have punched them in the face, because there's two things that infuriate me, being spit on and being slapped in the face. But by that time, I'd already been saved a few years, and I realized, you know what? It ain't about me. I was out sewing, and someone spit on me. Now, the truth is, you might face some problems. You might face some obstructions, but guess what? You go around them. You go under. Brother, when you say, go over it, you can't go over it, go under it. You can't go under it, go around it, but get through it. Don't let the devil stop you. Don't let discouragement stop you. Don't let some little hindrance stop you. If you really want something bad enough, guess what? You'll find a way to get it done. So if you really want to, I mean, you want to get the gospel or something, you say, Bro Block, you don't understand. I got relatives. It's really hard to find a way. And if nothing else, if it's grandma or grandpa, stick the grandkids on them. No grandparent can be mean to the grandkids. Well, I mean, take it back. Some might be able to, but it's really hard for a grandparent to be mean to a grandkid. Have the grandkid go and say, Grandma, I don't want you to go to hell. Would you please listen to Mom and Daddy? I mean, I want to see you in heaven. I mean, when you die, who told you that? Well, the Bible. Jesus said that. Well, I mean, send the grandkids. I remember years ago, my wife and I were out after church one day. We was over in this parking lot up here by It used to be Kroger's, I think, or some other grocery store. Now it's the Dollar Tree and some other stuff. But we went to get something to eat there, and it was right before Revival, and they told our kids, or during Revival, they said, pass out tracks to people. My kids were like 8, 9, 10 years old at that time, little kids. And there was a bunch of bikers there, a big circle of bikers in the parking lot. I mean, 20, 30 Harleys or Hogs, whatever you call them, or Dolphins. I don't know what they were. But I mean, all of them there in the circle, and they was all standing around talking. And my kid said, can we go give them a track? And I thought, are you crazy? So I thought, well, I guess we'll be crazy together. We're all going to die. I mean, they'll blame it on the kids. So we grabbed tracks. And my kids said, well, Dad, we'll do it. And so, by the way, every one of those bikers took a track from my daughter and my little kids. They have a hard time telling a little kid no. Now, they probably would have looked at me and said, get out of here, punk. But they were nice to the kids. They took a track from them. I mean, every one of those bikers, every one of those rough bikers took a track from my children. Next sign, and I'll have to speak quickly because we're about out of time. Yield to the right of way. James chapter 4 verse 7 says, Now, by the way, one of the biggest problems that people have today out on the highway that I notice, you know what they hate to do? Yield. I'm coming off the highway, and I mean, and they're in my lane, and I've got my blinker on, hat on, and they just act like they don't even see you. You say, but Block, do you ever get road rage? No, I've wanted to a time or two, but I never have. I wish there was no rules. Then I'd just drive my old beat-up pickup that sort of got so many dents in it that nobody would notice them anyway, and I would just, I would just drive, I'd just bump them over and just put them, you know, like roller derby. I mean, you know, throw them over the rail. I mean, the fact is, most people don't like to yield. By the way, you know what most Christians don't like to do? We don't like to yield. We don't like to give ourselves. You know what yield means? To give the ride away. To submit. You know what most Christians hate to do? We hate to submit ourselves, and that's what the first verse said. First, he said, submit yourself to God. Resist the devil, and he'll flee from you. But the submission is the hard part. You know why? Because to submit means we have to give ourselves, and we hate to do that, especially as men sometimes. We have a hard time with submission than women do sometimes. That's why in many godly churches, there's a lot of faithful women and a few men. Thankfully, the Liberty Baptist Church has some faithful men as well. A lot of churches are full of godly women, and it's hard to find a godly man. Submit. The next Advice to the saved is watch out for the workers. You see that all the time. We'll say, work zone ahead, watch out for our workers. Now, in the Bible, when you talk about doing that, sometimes what that means is pray for. What it means is look for. When we think of watch out, it means look for the workers. In this case, notice in your Bible, it's in Matthew chapter 9, verse 38. Jesus tells us to look for workers as well, but in kind of a different way. Matthew chapter 9 verse 38 says, Luke 10 says, What he says is there's so much work and there's not enough workers to do it. Now, by the way, when the harvest is ripe and it doesn't get picked, guess what happens to it? It rots. When it's ready to be picked, if it's not picked, it spoils. A few days, years ago, last year, every year it happens. I'll come to church and I'll say, blackberries are ready. Anyone wants blackberries? You see me, I'll get you some blackberries. About a month later, someone will come and say, hey, so you got some little blackberries out there? And I'll go, hey, no, they're gone. When they're ripe, they're ripe. And by the way, after they're ripe, you do not, you pick one that's overripe and it's, I mean, all you get is just mush. Or it's dried out, one or the other. It's either really soft, or it's turned into almost a raisin. I mean, but the fact is, when they're ripe, they're ripe. He said, you know what? I need you to send some—I need more workers. If you could hear the cry of Brother Nichols today, what it'd be is, need more workers, send two more over here, three more over here. I mean, because listen to me, the world is, I mean, speedily going to hell all around us. And there's a few workers that's trying to get the work done, but they're outnumbered. And there's no way we think about it. Even when we're out passing out tracts, there's just so many people going by us that we can't get tracts to. So many people that we're missing because there's not enough people. Let me say this also. If you're one of the workers, like the road workers, that you're wearing the uniform and have the equipment, but you're not doing anything with it, we always tell jokes. I told my wife the other day, I said, if I was a road worker, I think I'd resent that, and I think I'd just work twice as hard. Because usually, if you're like me, you go and see all the road workers. There's 20 guys. Two of them's working. I guess the other 18 are all bosses. I don't know. I think this one's a boss of that one, and that one's a boss of that one. I don't know how it works there, but there seems to be a lot of chiefs and not very many Indians. But the fact is, in the Christian life, sometimes that happens, too. Sometimes Christians just stand around and watch others work. I remember in my yearbook, they had a kid's picture, and it said, work fascinates him. Sometimes he can stand around and watch it for hours. That's how some Christians are. Work fascinates them. It's like, wow. My daddy used to have a rule. If you're not going to work, get out of my way. My dad would be kind of rough. I mean, if you stand around not doing his thing, he'd be like, get out of the way so I can get this done. I mean, if you're not going to do it, get out of the way so I can. And he had no patience for me just loitering around there and just standing around, I mean, enjoying the breeze. So again, watch out for workers. And the last thing I'll be through, share the road. Now, that's a sign about motorcycles. But in our case, I want to refer it to the gospel. You know what we want to understand? We have to understand that there's plenty of room in heaven. Not going to run out of space. Fact is, remember what the verse I read to you earlier, Jesus was not willing that what? Any should perish. The truth is, what that means is he would like for everybody to be saved. Now, not everybody will be saved, but Jesus's plan was, I mean, he would like, his intent was, he would love for everyone to be saved. So there's plenty of room. It's not like we're going to be like, if I get so many people saved, is my space going to get smaller? No, you're still going to get the mansion. Quit fretting, okay? We'll be in selfies. Plenty of room. Share the road. Go in your Bibles to Acts chapter 9, then I'll be through. The great evangelist Philip, in Acts chapter 8 verse 29, the Bible says, And the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near and join thyself to this chariot. Verse 30, And Philip ran thither to him, chased down a chariot, and ran over to a chariot. It's like, chase that car! And he ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and he said to him, Understandest thou what thou readest? Verse 31, the guy said to him, this was the eunuch, and he said, How can I accept some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come and sit with him. Verse 35 says, And Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him, Jesus. Remember who Jesus is earlier? Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. You know what Philip did that day? He shared the road. What he said was, come on over. Come on in. Plenty of room. Come on. I mean, you can come to heaven with me. And Philip showed the Ethiopians how to get saved, and guess what? He did. And some people think that when that union went back, that that's one of the reasons several other countries got the Gospels, because that guy went back, and because of him, the Gospels spread. One guy. By the way, you never know the person you lead the Lord. Think about it. The person who led Brother Nicholas to the Lord, who ever thought at that time he was going to be pastor of Liberty Baptist Church? Or the fellow that led some of you to the Lord. Some of you won hundreds of people to the Lord throughout your years. I mean, who realized when they led... By the way, sometimes the person who led you to the Lord, you were the only person they led to the Lord, but you led hundreds to the Lord. You never know. Again, understand today you and I are supposed to be sowers of the seed. That's what he tells us in Matthew chapter 13. You know what that means? We're out there scouring. We're trying to get more crops. We're trying to get more people saved. That is the Christian's goal, to bring forth fruit. The Bible says, he that winneth sowers is wise. You want to show a little wisdom today? Go out and reach the lost. If you're here today and you're lost, I told you I'd come back to you, and I am right now, and then we're done. Don't have to look at your clock. It says it's 12 o'clock, so you're doing good. I lied. It wasn't 1 or 1.30. It was much earlier than that. Now, I'm going to have about a 30-minute invitation, so it's not going to be too much earlier than that, so don't get too encouraged, but just joking. If you're here today and you're lost, you came lost, you do not have to leave lost. Now, you say, what happens if I come down there in a minute and have you talk to me from the Word of God? You gonna make me a Baptist? Well, first off, if I made you a Baptist, we wouldn't have accomplished anything. Of course, being a Baptist isn't gonna make you any better than you were when you came in. If you came in lost and you became a Baptist, guess what? You're still lost. No, what we would do is we'd take the Word of God, we'd show you what the Word of God says, because by the way, that's what matters. Because again, what I just said was the Word of God. We're gonna tell you what God says you need to do to go to heaven. We're going to show you a sinner. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that. We're going to show you what happens because of your sin. By the way, I'm not the one that makes the rules. God does. And he said, if your sin is going to send you to hell. I said, but Bob, was your sin going to send you to hell? Yes, it surely was. And he'll show you that Jesus doesn't want you to go to hell. He offers you eternal life. It's a free gift. All you got to do is accept it. We'll show you the Word of God and show you how to be saved. If you're a man, we'll have a man show you. If you're a lady, we'll have a lady show you. But we'll show you from the Word of God how to get saved. Not a Baptist, but saved. Now you want to become a Baptist later and knock yourself out, but today we're concerned about your soul. We want you to get saved. So if you're here today without Christ, we want you to realize Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. And no man does come to the Father but by Him. If you're here today and you're saved, and you're parking, or you're ordering, or you're standing around watching others work, get busy. Lost souls all around us, plunging into hell. Say, Brother Blackworth, they don't listen. Then just do your part and stand out and wave your arms and yell, Stop! Stop! By the way, the Bible says if the watchman warns the people and the enemy comes and destroys them, the watchman is not responsible. No blood on his hands. If he doesn't warn the people and the enemy comes and destroys them, there's blood on their hands. I doubt there's anyone in this room that won't have blood on their hands, but you will determine the degree of blood and how much blood you have on your hands based on whether you live for the Lord or not and what you do for the Lord once you're saved. Are there people that I should have witnessed too that I didn't? Oh yeah. And I'll probably fail some more in the future. But I can tell you there are a lot of people that I have witnessed to in lots of tracks, hundreds of thousands of tracks I've passed out through the years, and lots of doors I've knocked on trying to warn people. Did all of them listen? Of course not. I can't make anybody get saved, but I can show them how to be saved, and at least let them know they need to be saved. A lot of people are convinced because they go to church all the time that they're okay. I got it. I'm good. Then when we ask another question, she's like, well, I'm not so sure I'm so good. I thought, because again, the Bible is convicting. The Holy Spirit is convicting. My job is not to get back. If I came back today and say I saved that person, you might understand what I mean. But the truth is, I can't save anybody. But I can show you someone who can save you today. So if you're lost today, we want you to be saved. If you're saved today and not living to the Lord, I mean, not running the race to your fullest. Now, I don't know what your fullest is. Your speed's not my speed. My speed's not yours. But if you're not living to the fullest, you ought to get busy today. Stop lorrying. Surely you shouldn't be parking. By the way, if you're a worker already, you know what you're supposed to do? Pray the Lord, send in more workers. Not that it'll make your job easier. Trust me, you're still going to have plenty to do. but we'll just reach more people. We have one soul winner, they can pass out so many tracts. We have two souls, we can pass out more. Three, I mean, when we multiply the soul winners, multiply the people, we multiply the work that gets accomplished. What did you accomplish this week for the Lord? Oh, I know you put in 40 hours at work, I know you made this much money, and you purchased this, and you purchased that, but I'm talking about spiritually this week, what did you accomplish? If you didn't accomplish something, then you better get busy, because God holds us accountable. Now, I'm lucky. I'm one of those guys. I get paid to do this. I mean, and I get paid to be at the school and church. I know you work a public job, and I work some public jobs as well, so I know it's a little harder for you than it is for me. I mean, part of my work is getting to do this. Man, I am privileged. By the way, whether you're an associate pastor of Liberty Baptist Church and principal of the school or not, you still have a spiritual responsibility. Before I was a principal, before I was an associate pastor, I was winning people aboard and passing on tracts and talking, because that was my responsibility as a Christian. you'll say today you have that same awesome privilege and responsibility. Father, thank you for today. I don't know everybody today that's here, Lord. I don't know many faces I do recognize. Some I know