that leadeth me, he leadeth me, he leadeth me by his own hand. Faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me. Lord, I would clasp thy hand in mine, nor ever murmur, Content whatever lot I see, since tis my God that leadeth me. He leadeth me. He leadeth me by his own hand. He leadeth me. His faithful follower I would be, for by his hand And when my task on earth is done, when by thy grace the victories won, In death's cold wave I will not flee, Since Thou through Jordan leadeth me. He leadeth me, He leadeth me, His faithful follower I would be For by his hand he leadeth me For by his hand he leadeth me What a blessing that was. Amen. I highly doubt that song would be sung at John MacArthur's church, but you never know. Some Calvinists don't believe that God leads, but that's another subject. I'm thankful for the leading of God. Amen. He leads through His Word. Amen. We're thankful for that. All right, be back tonight if you would, and Brother Yankano will be preaching tonight. I'm looking forward to that. He really messed things up this morning and taught about a 15-minute Sunday school lesson, and I will never be able to measure up to that. And everybody got left happy and joyful, and God did a great work in 10 minutes, you know. Anyway, so, no, that was good. We'll show the video again this evening. And if there's any other questions, they'll be in the back for any questions that way. And it's exciting to see missionaries able to go somewhere where there's a work that's kind of been started and just needing somebody to come in and pastor it and bring it along and build it. And so we're thankful for that. And we'll be looking forward to see some more of that here tonight. All right, Brother Jim read a text for us out of Revelation chapter 5. It's not where we're going to be today, but I wanted you to focus on every nation, every people, every tribe, every tongue. and on the subject for the message today. And the subject this morning is, we'll see here in just a little bit, but I was thinking about missions, I was thinking about things of the gospel getting out into all of the world, and though everybody in the world has needs, not everybody really has the same need, right? I mean, think about it, a villager in Africa doesn't have the same need as a villager in Sweden. Could you imagine in Africa when they got, who just lost the Super Bowl this year? Who was that? The Chiefs beat the, what is going on? I forgot who they beat. Well, anyway, just imagine inside of a box of T-shirts of the losing football team last year in the Super Bowl, right? All those losing shirts go to Africa, right? I mean, they're all walking around with, you know, anyway. Could you imagine if they, well, they do, I mean, well, could you imagine taking that out and in there, right? are some, is a snowsuit, right, and some long underwear, and some, you know, some winter-type boots. And just so happens, somebody up in Sweden had a compassion for these Africans in Nigeria, so they sent them a snowsuit. I mean, that really wouldn't fit a need, would it? It might kill them, right? It might be a little too hot. And so, although everybody has, everybody in the world has needs, not everybody in the world has the same needs. And even when people across the world have the same problems, they don't always have the same remedy, right? They don't always have the, how many remember, how many remember COVID, right? Anybody remember that? So long ago. Some of you young ones don't remember that. And I mean, they had all sorts of different things of what would fix it, whether it was Moderna's vaccine, or Pfizer's vaccine, or Johnson & Johnson's vaccine, or ivermectin, or whatever, vitamin D, and go walk out in the sunshine, or whatever it was. I mean, everybody had a different idea of what would fix that as a remedy. I mean, think about it. In the United States of America, If you get sick with the flu, what do you do? Well, you take chicken soup, right? Chicken soup, right? There's not always the same remedy. You get the flu in North Korea and what do they do? Well, they'll shoot you, right? And they'll just take you off the planet and it's cheaper, okay? I mean, what am I... just because everybody has the same need, they don't always have the same remedy for the need. But I want to look at today, there is a problem across the planet that has the same origin, that has the same symptoms, that has the same diagnosis. Hey, and it has the same remedy. and I want to look this morning at the need, the need for every race. There is a need, every race, every kindred, every tongue, every people across the planet, they have the same problem and they have the same need. What is the same problem? Well we know what it is, you know what it is, and I know what it is. The problem that we all have is three letters, S-I-N. It's sin. That is the problem we all have. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Judy, is Jana a sinner? Oh yeah, see? Sisters know. Jana, is Judy a sinner? Oh, let's do tell, huh? Let's not. right no no we're all sinners a man for all we believe the Word of God we don't need hey listen you can even say I don't believe that verse well fine it is true by experience and by by what we can see all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and may I tell you the verse is true amen let me ask you this can anybody raise their hand today and say I have never sinned anybody anybody a taker Right? It's pretty incredible, isn't it? It actually makes it absolutely stunning that the Lord Jesus Christ stepped out in front of that religious crowd and said, which of you convinces me of sin? Oh my, I would never say that. Can I tell you nobody stepped up? Amen. Because he was sinless. Amen. Hey, listen, everybody in this room, we listen, we are all sinners by nature, by choice. Romans 310, as it is written, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans 310, for there is, this is what it says, for there is none righteous No, not one. There is a universal symptom of every person on this planet and everybody who has ever been born and everybody who ever will be born has the same symptom of sin. With that, with the symptom, there is also a universal diagnosis of every person on the planet as well. Listen, if you have been infected by sin, the diagnosis is not good. If you were to go into the doctor and say, well doctor, here's the symptoms I'm having. I lied. I cheated. I stole. I didn't honor mother and father. right? Go down the list, right? I have a problem. The symptoms are, these are the symptoms and the doctor would say, oh this isn't good. Well, what can I do for it? Well, nothing. What's going to happen? Well, you're going to die. Well, is there a remedy? No. No. There's no remedy for this. You are going to die. It even tells us, right, Romans 5, 12, wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men for all have sinned. Amen. Hey, listen, we can't deny it. And we know that in this room that it is the symptom of every person on this planet. There is a diagnosis for everybody on this planet. And we have found out and we know that it is true that sin is the most deadly disease on the planet. Hey, it's more deadly than the Spanish flu. It is more deadly than cancer. It is more deadly than covid. It is. Everybody has been infected and everybody will die because of it. Think about it. There are estimates out there. I don't know how accurate they are. I haven't spent the time to count. I can't count that high. But there are estimates that since, in the last 6,000 years, there have been 130 billion people on the planet come and go. Right now, there's 8 billion people on the planet, close to 8 billion people on the planet. And can I tell you, everybody who has ever lived, died. Everyone living, you're gonna die. Can I tell you in this room, think about this, by the year 2094, most of these little ones will be sitting around a table talking about us, because we'll be gone. Some of these little ones may be on a mission field. Some of these little ones may be serving God somewhere, and they'll be sitting around the table talking about a service they were in when they were a kid. They'll be talking about their mom or their dad, or they'll be talking about their grandparents. Why? Because we'll all be gone. We'll all be in the grave. By 2094, 99% of this room is going to be gone. By 2124, almost everybody living on the planet today will be gone and in the grave. Oh, it's going fast, isn't it? Why? Why? Because of sin. Wherefore is it appointed unto men once to die, and after this, the judgment. There is a universal problem. There's a reason why we're meeting here today. There's a reason why we've been praying about what the Lord would have us to give to worldwide missions. There's a reason why we bring missionaries in and send them out. There's a reason why we go out into our own neighborhood, into our own stores or wherever we do business and all around where we live. There's a reason why we go out because there is a universal problem, which is called sin. And the problem with that is that we're all going to die. Now, has anybody here ever been bitten by a snake? I mean, I've been, yeah. Did it once. I used to love catching snakes when I was a kid, until they caught back, and I didn't like that. Anybody been bitten by a venomous snake? Jack, and you're alive. We'll call you Jupiter. Anybody else been bitten by a venomous snake? when I was in Western Australia last year to visit our missionaries, the Shropes over there, and we were going over, we were in Margaret River, we were going over towards the coast and just driving this back road, and I saw this snake, took about half the road up, and I said, oh, that was a snake, and of course, he turned around and went back, and he said, oh, that's a dugite, and this thing's pretty cool. Pretty small, right? I mean, that big around, but the thing was maybe five, six feet long or more than that. And in Australia, if you don't know this, I think most everybody knows this, most things living there will kill you, one way or the other, they'll kill you. And so the dugite is one of the top of the deadliest snakes in the world. It's right up there with the cobra and the taipan and some of these other ones. And it's pretty bad. They say a drop of its venom will begin, if it gets in your body, a drop of venom will start to cause your blood to clot and it can kill you. And 30% of the bites of Western Australia are from the dugite. But if you do get into the hospital, okay, and you get to there, you can get the anti-venom, you can get the anti-venom put in you and you can live, okay, you can live. And so, here it is, there is an antivenom. I remember it was, Brother Butch told me, he goes, you know, they say if you're bit by the dew guide, if you can, and you're out in the bush somewhere, if you can lay flat and not move for eight hours, it's possible your body will build an immunity to that and you'll be fine. And if you are able to just rest that thing off, I mean, you have your own antivenom now and you'll never be bothered. And I had this thought of laying on the ground somewhere in the bush in Australia. I think I'll die. Because while you're trying to, I don't see how you can keep your heart rate down when the bird-eating spiders are looking at you and the scorpions are walking by and the Taipans are, I mean, it's like, just shoot me in the head, please. Right? That'd be much worse. My nephew, he was a little boy, he was up in it when they lived in eastern Australia. He was climbing up in a tree and my niece said he just screamed like a girl and jumped out of the tree, almost fell out of the tree. And as he got up into the tree, he was looking face to face with a bird-eating spider. And he's still not right, friend. He has problems, right? Absolutely. Listen, if you've been bit by a snake, you have a problem and you need to fix it by a venomous snake. And I want to show you three individuals in the New Testament that illustrate the problem and the remedy. I want you to turn to Acts chapter 8. We're going to look at Acts chapter 8, Acts chapter 9, and Acts chapter 10. Are you nervous now? We're making up for all that time lost in Sunday school. Acts chapter 8, Acts chapter 9, Acts chapter 10, In Acts 8, verse 26-40, we are introduced to the Ethiopian eunuch. He was that treasurer of Kandesi. And we know what happens there. We're going to look at that in Acts chapter 9. We're going to be introduced to Saul of Tarsus. In Acts chapter 10, we're going to be introduced to Cornelius, that centurion of the Italian band. Every one of these men had the same problem. Look at Acts chapter 8. Look at verse 26. And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south, unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, and eunuch of great authority under Kandese, queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure." This guy was very important. He was the top bean counter in all of Ethiopia. This guy would have been a CPA of all CPAs, alright? This guy was something else. And so, who had the charge of all of her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was returning, and sitting in the chariot, read Isaiah the prophet. Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I? Except some man should guide me. And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scriptures which he read was this, He was led as a sheep into the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his shearers, so opened he not his mouth. And in his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. And who shall declare his generation? For his life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? Of himself or some other man? And look at verse 35, Philip opened his mouth. It began at the same at the same scripture, here it is, and preached unto him Jesus. I like that. Here is this Ethiopian eunuch, it said he was up to worship, he understood, he knew he was worshiping the God of Israel, he was worshiping the eternal God, and here he was for some reason, he was reading the scroll of Isaiah, what was going on? Well he had a need he was trying to fulfill. Something was going on in his life, and here God sent Philip to preach to him, Jesus Christ. Over in Acts chapter 9 you see in verse 1 just right there we're introduced to Saul of Tarsus. When you come to chapter 9 you realize back in the beginning of chapter 8 Stephen was preaching to the religious crowd and he gave them an incredible history lesson from Abraham all the way up to the Messiah and He was telling them all of their history and he came to the very end and that very point of telling them that it was Jesus Christ who was the Messiah who they had slain on the tree, who they had crucified, who they had rejected. And through the preaching and the conviction of the Spirit of God, those religious crowd began to rise up and they got so angry that they took Stephen and they dragged him off to be stoned. But the Bible says that they took his garments and they laid them at the feet of a man a man named Saul. Now according to what I have read, sometimes you hear some customs of the day and I don't know, I didn't live in that day and I'm sure some of these things are true, so I'm just supposing the things that I've read are somewhat true, but they have said that it was commonplace that when there was some type of a debate, whether it was religious or otherwise, if there was some type of debate between the two individuals, that whoever won the debate, right? The outer garments or whatever the garments of the one who lost would be set at the feet of the one who won the debate. Well the Bible says, I think that's very interesting, I don't know if I've proven that yet or not, but I do know this, the Bible says for some reason that the clothing of Stephen was laid at the feet of Saul. And the Bible says that Saul was consenting unto his death. For some reason Saul had the ability to say thumbs up or thumbs down. Saul had the ability and the authority to say yes or to say no. And so here we are, he put thumbs down and Stephen was stoned. But I'll tell you this, we see in verse 1 of 9, Saul is yet breathing out threatenings and slaughters unto the disciples of the Lord, and he went unto the high priest and he wants letters, he goes, now I want to go to Damascus. It was brought up in Sunday School, 1 Peter 5, 8, that the devil is a roaring lion, walketh about seeking to whom he may devour. And I know we've gone through 1 Peter just recently, and if you'll remember I mentioned that, and a little bit of a lion, that when a lion receives a death blow, Its roar can be heard for up to two miles. And it will go and start this process of taking out everything in its path. It just wants to wipe out everything. And here by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit of God included in that passage of 1 Peter that He is as a roaring lion walking about seeking whom He may devour. He is out, and here's the apostle Paul. He's yet breathing out threatenings. Why? He had been wounded. What was he wounded? He was wounded by the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was under the, hey, watch this. Jesus says, when down here in verse four, and Saul is going to Damascus, he is knocked down to the ground by the brightness and the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Jesus calls out to him, and he says, Saul, Saul, Why persecutest thou me? This is for you. Who was Paul going out to go after? He was going after churches, right? He was going after the churches. What did Jesus say? You persecuted me. Listen, hey, friend, don't touch the church. Don't, you're touching the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians 118, it says, he is the head of the body, the church. It is his church. He said, I'll build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Be careful how you undermine a church that is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul was going out, and the glory of the Lord Jesus knocked him down, and Jesus said, why persecutest thou me, right, in verse four? And what did Paul say, or Saul at this time, what did he say? He said, Who art thou, Lord? Oh, he knew. He knew. How do you know that? He said, I'm Jesus whom thou persecuted. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And we know what that is. They're those long poles with a sharp end on them used to direct animals. to poke him, to prod him, to get him to go in the direction that you desired them to go. What do we know by this? Well, here's what we know. That ever since the time of Stephen and the stoning of Stephen, that Paul heard the gospel and he watched the stoning of Stephen. Ever since that time, Paul went on a rampage to take out everything that he could and in his destruction, on his road of destruction, Jesus showed up and he said, kind of hard to kick against the pricks, buddy. What was going on? The apostle, Saul at this time, what? He was under conviction. Ever since the preaching of Stephen, the Holy Spirit of God had been goading him in a certain direction. And Saul had said, no, no, no, no. And Jesus finally intervened and said, no, you're going to stop. I like what Saul said. Lord, what will thou have me to do? Can I tell you what that Bible word for that is right there? It's repentance. He was going a direction. He was presented with truth. And he said, okay, let's go this direction. This is what we see here in the Saul of Tarsus. And then finally, in Acts chapter 10, we see Cornelius. Acts chapter 10, look at verse 44. Acts chapter 10, verse 44. And the Bible says, while Peter yet spake these words, remember, he was at Simon the Tanner's house, he was in a trance waiting for lunch, and God began to speak to him, and he said, I have called clean, don't call thou unclean. The Gentiles are not unclean, they need the gospel, is essentially what God was saying. He said, you need to go to see this man named Cornelius. What was Cornelius doing? He was praying, he was giving alms, he was worshiping the God of Israel, but he didn't know Jesus. And so God told Peter to go to Cornelius and give him the gospel. In verse 44, While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost." Well, hold on a minute. When did the Holy Ghost fall on them? Well, He couldn't have fallen on them before they believed, right? Obviously, while Peter was preaching, Cornelius and all of the house that he filled with his friends and neighbors, they heard the gospel and they said, yes, this is Him. I believe it. In the moment of their belief, the Holy Spirit of God indwelt them and filled them. And we see this here, for they heard, verse 46, them speak with tongues and magnify God, and then answered Peter, can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized? Why are they being baptized? because they believed, right? They believed. Which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we, and he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him, to Terry, certain days. They needed disciples. And so Peter sat around, stayed around, and he's gonna disciple these new believers. If you'll notice this here this morning, three men at different stages of life, when we are introduced to them, the Ethiopian is researching. Saul is running away from God. Cornelius is ready for the gospel. They are researching. There is the researcher, there is the runner, and there is the one who is ready. Three different people. Three different people groups. Let me show you this. Remember when Noah got off the ark, who was left? Him, his three sons, their wives, and Noah's wife. Right? And three of those sons, who was it? It was Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And all of the world was populated after the flood, the world was populated by Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Well, who are these people? Well, Shem, right, are the Shemites. You would call them today Semites. They are the Jews. Ham went down into Africa and the lineage of Ham are Africans. Japheth went off into the Europe and this would be us who are European of some sort are the line in the lineage of Japheth. Watch this, Ethiopian eunuch was of the lineage of Ham. Saul of Tarshish, a Hebrew of Hebrews, a Pharisee, a Sanhedrin, trained under Gamaliel, a Jew, was of the line of Shem. And here you have Cornelius of the Italian band, of the line of Japheth, a European. Do you see this? The Gospel has reached to every tribe, to every tongue, to every people, right here. Ham and Shem and Japheth. Three different people groups are here in these three chapters. And finally, notice here, three different avenues of trust. Now in Psalm 20 and verse 7, the Bible says, Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. Amen. But you notice here, this Ethiopian, he wasn't trusting in God. No, he was researching and he was reading, but really his trust was in the financial system. He had worked his way up under, under Kandese of the Queen of Ethiopia. He'd worked his way up, and his trust, no doubt, was in the financial system. That was his expertise. He was all about money. And you look at Saul of Tarsus. He was a man of great authority, a Pharisee, a Sanhedrin, as I said, taught under Gamaliel. He was a Jew of Jew, a Hebrew of Hebrews, and his trust was in religion, right? Jesus, remember when Jesus told them over there search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life." That's where you think your eternal life is. And Jesus said, and they are they which testify of me. And here you have Saul whose trust was in religion and you have Cornelius no doubt maybe You can see trust in government. A man of military authority. Over a hundred, listen to this, over a hundred men of the military of the great world empire at that time, the Roman army. These guys had different avenues of trust. They were from different people groups and they are in different stages of their life in their relationship to the God of heaven. Watch this please. None of them were able to remedy the problem of sin that was in every one of their lives. They couldn't do it through money. They couldn't do it through religion. They couldn't do it through power. Listen, and neither can you, and neither can the rest of this world. Hey, listen, when we go out into the world, the problem isn't money. It's not they don't have enough wells to drink water. It's not that they don't have enough housing. It's not that they don't have enough to eat. No, the problem is sin Sin, sin, and that is what needs to be remedied in their life. None of them were able to remedy the problem of sin in their life. Your sins have severed you. If you're here today without Christ, they have severed you from your Creator. But can I tell you the good news? He wants you back. He wants you back. He created you. He made you. He loves you. He died for you and He wants you back. And you know what? If you don't realize it, I think those of you who are saved and born again, you realize it now, but maybe then you didn't and sometimes the world doesn't realize it. But listen, they want them back too. They want them back. Oh, no, no, they try to fill it with all sorts of things. There is an emptiness and a vacuum inside of each and every one of us that I believe that God has created, but you know what the world does? They begin, and we did it, right? We did it. We tried to fill the void with money. We tried to fill it with religion. We tried to fill it with authority and with power, but you know what? It didn't work. It never worked. There was always something missing that we said, I just can't put my finger on what's wrong. Oh, we know what's wrong now. We know what was wrong, don't we? Yeah. The thing you were trying to fill that void with, it didn't work, did it? It didn't work at all. The only thing that can remedy the sin problem and reconcile you back to the Creator who wants you back is the atoning blood of Jesus Christ and that's it. That's all. There's a universal problem, but praise the Lord, there's a universal remedy. I don't care, hey, I don't care what village you go into, I don't care what island you find yourself on, I don't care what jungle you find you can get to, I don't care where you go on the planet, you will never find somebody who is not a sinner, and you will never find somebody of whom the blood is not powerful enough to wash away every sin and bring them back into a relationship with God. Everybody. Universal remedy. It is. But let me leave you with one last thing. The Ethiopian Saul of Tarsus, Cornelius, Ham, Ham, Ham, Ham, Sham. I like that. Ham, Shem, Japheth, the world, all had the same disease. all took the same remedy. Hey, listen to me. They all had the same disease as we did. It all takes the same remedy, but somebody had to tell them about the remedy. Amen? Somebody had to tell them. Hey, the Ethiopian eunuch, he was reading the Scriptures and he said, what does this mean? Who is this? Is it speaking of Isaiah or is it somebody else? Paul and Saul had heard the gospel and rejected it. Right? He had heard it. Cornelius was praying to the God of heaven. He had no problem, but somebody had to come and tell him about Jesus Christ. Somebody had to go. Somebody had to preach. Somebody had to teach. Somebody had to get out of their comfort zone, Peter, and go to somebody that he thought he should never go to. How shall they hear? How shall they call on him who they have not believed in? How shall they believe in him? in whom they have not heard, and how shall they hear without a preacher?" The command given to the church by Jesus. Can I tell you something this morning? It's still enforced today. No, that's really why we're here this morning. It's not to see how well-dressed Brother Earl is. It's not to see how Brother Martin looks today, how closely shaved he is looking good today. We're not here for all sorts of things that some people come to church for. We're not here for business contacts. This would be a bad place. Most everybody is retired. Not a good place to come here for business contacts. We're here because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We're here because the world needs to hear. We're here because somebody's got to go. And we're here because somebody has to send them. It's not rocket science. It's really easy, amen? It really is. God is a missionary. This is a missionary book. Jesus came and he preached. Peter preached. Philip preached. Stephen preached. Watch this. A deacon preached. An apostle preached. A layman in the church went out and preached the gospel and was martyred for it. Boy, the power of the Holy Ghost was on him. You say, well, no, I have my role and the preacher has his role. Well, I'll tell you what, the same Holy Ghost that empowered Stephen to preach up to his own martyrdom is the same Spirit of God in you that is empowering you to go out and preach the gospel just the same way. So what about you? What about you? What are you doing with the gospel? Forget going around the world. What are we doing across the street? There is a need for every race. And the church has the remedy. We have the antidote. We have the vaccine. We have it. What is it? It's the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Tell you what, you get that blood in your veins and you'll live forever. Amen. But they've got to hear about it. They've got to hear. What good is the remedy if it stays on the shelf? If it stays in the cabinet, if it stays between, inside the walls of the church, if it stays inside the walls of your home, if it stays within the walls, listen, of your heart and mind, what good is it? This might be kind of a little silly, but I don't think it, eh, it's not, now that I got your attention. You can't spell the word gospel without the word go. You can't do it. You gotta go. And you can't obey the command to preach the gospel without going. Let me ask you again, what are you doing to reach a dying world with the gospel? You say, well, I give the missions. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. But that's not it. That's not all. That's not all. Because there's people that you can go to. I like what Brother Peace said to me the other day. I'm a Christian first and then a pastor. We're all Christians first. What does that mean? We're all ambassadors for Christ. We all represent the King of kings and the Lord of lords. The great, the commander of our salvation has told us to go on to all the world and preach the gospel. It's exactly what he said. What are you doing to reach the world with the gospel? Let me ask you today. You know what I've learned in my own life? When I get away from the Lord, I know you're shocked, I know. My wife's not at all, she's like, I know, yeah. You know what I found out the problem is when you get away from the Lord? I can list all sorts of things, and they're right to list. I can say, well, it's work, it's phone, it's, you know, disappointment and discouragement and bitterness. I can list all of these things that can be the problem, right? But they're a symptom of the problem. You know what the problem is? Just right here. Just a heart. That's all it is. My heart got away from the Lord. Why? Well, maybe you got bitter. Maybe you got disillusioned. Maybe you got entangled with the things of this world again. You got drawn away and enticed of your own lust. You just got away from the Lord. It all still comes back to the heart. Because you know what I found out? When I'm desperately in love with Jesus, some of these things, they don't even show up on the map. They don't. Hey, do you remember the days when you first got saved? I've known people, I've had the joy of seeing people get saved and leading people to the Lord and having them come back and say, this week's been awesome because this hasn't even bothered me. I haven't even said this wrong all week. What was going on? They were so in love with the Lord Jesus Christ. They had no care for anything else. You know what I'm saying is, the reason we get away from the goal of the Gospel is because the heart just has gotten away from the lover of our soul. And I think one of the best things that we could do today as we conclude an emphasis on missions, I think one of the best things we could do today is get alone with the Lord. If it's an issue and say, Lord, would you change my heart? Can I tell you something? You can't change your heart, but God can. God can. And sometimes the heaviness of this world just steals our heart. The trials of the world, they steal our heart. We get disappointed and discouraged. Well, I thought he would have done this and I thought he could have done that. Don't let your heart get stolen. And today what you may need to do to get a heart for a lost and dying world again. You just ask the Lord to give you a heart for Himself again and Him alone. And you know what will come? A heart for the world. If you're here today, you're watching online or maybe you're even here, and you're an unbeliever, you've never been born again of the Spirit of God, You put all your trust in religion, right, and your goodness and your righteousness. But can I remind you, the Lord Jesus said, we're told that your righteousness is as filthy rags. Yeah, that's right. Listen, nothing can remedy the problem you have this morning. Nothing can fill the void that you're trying to fill this morning. You need Jesus. And if you would come this morning, if you would call, if you would email, whatever you need to do, If you had come, we can show you through the word of God how you can have a relationship with the God of heaven. Amen. Yeah. There's one need for every race. There's one remedy for the entire race, the human race, and that's Jesus Christ. Are you going? Are you going? Our Father, thank you this morning for the simplicity of thy word. I'm thankful for those who have a heart to go. I'm thankful for those that can look out upon the panoply of the human race and be gripped in their heart by the condition of lost people that are just like blind people, like groping in the dark, trying to find truth and trying to find satisfaction in their own selves. And we can sit here and know that, no, it won't work. It never will work. Lord, we have the gospel, we have the truth, and Lord, would you just work in our own hearts that we would be gripped again by the condition that's out ahead of us, and that we would be busy with the gospel in going and in giving, in going and in giving, not one or the other, but both, in going and giving. God, would you just change our hearts? Would you enlarge our hearts? Lord, I know there's some here that love you, that give, they go, they love you. But Lord, they might even ask that you'd enlarge their heart, that they could go more and give more. Father, we thank you for what you're gonna do today. And we ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen. Let's stand this morning, if you would please, the instrument will play. I don't know how the Lord has spoken to you this morning, but the invitation is open. Are you going? Are you going? Could you go more? Could you give more? Maybe you just need to spend a little time with the Lord and say, Lord, would you enlarge my heart today? Maybe you could be honest with the Lord and say, Lord, would you change my heart today? It's been away from you. I've gotten entangled. I've gotten entangled with things of this world. And the very thought of missions, though I know it's right, though I know it's necessary, though I'm behind it 100%, it just doesn't grip my heart like it ought to. You can get down and pray right where you are. You can come. There's room up here. There's still room. Maybe you're here today and you need to be born again. You've never been saved. We have people who are trained in the Bible that can take the Word of God and show you how your sins can be forgiven and you can be reconciled again to your Father. Would you come? It's not in your religion, it's not in your baptism, it's not in your good works, it's not in any of that. You need to meet Jesus Christ. It's a personal thing between you and Him alone. For who knows what may be on your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time. For who knows what may be on the morrow? It says, for what is your life? It is a vapor that appeareth for a little time and vanisheth away. Can I tell you that it's possible there may be some in this room that will not be here next year. They will not be here the year after. They may not be here. Listen, we don't have any assurance of tomorrow. And if you've never been born again to the Spirit of God, you've never been saved, you need to get saved today before it's too late.