If you have your Bible with you tonight, I want to invite you to take a turn and read Matthew chapter 9. Matthew 9, if you will, to the scripture tonight. Matthew chapter 9. For our scripture passage for tonight. Beginning tomorrow night and going through the rest of the week, we're beginning to preach some very clear evangelistic messages. I want to encourage you to be back tomorrow night. I believe we're going to be looking at the subject of three men on the mountain. And sometimes we read our Bibles, and although our eyes read the words on the page, our minds are someplace else, and we have to read it all over again for comprehension. But sometimes we even read and understand what we have read, but we don't get the greatest blessing of God because we don't take the time to meditate on it, to really think it through. And so we're going to be doing that with the passage of Scripture tomorrow night regarding three men on the mountain. And then I think probably on Thursday night we'll be looking at that quintessential conversation regarding salvation And that's between the Lord Jesus Christ and Nicodemus. If you know somebody who doesn't think you know for sure, you're going to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and make sure you get them here for that night. As we'll see what the Lord Jesus Christ Himself had to say about that salvation and whether or not you can know and how you can know that. And then I think on Friday night we'll be preaching on the subject that life is short. So I would encourage you to be bringing folks along with you. Maybe you know somebody that has heard the gospel before, knows they need to be saved and putting it off or whatever. That would be a good night to get them here to hear the word of God as well. So let me encourage you to be inviting and asking folks to come. Don't forget we're going to give away both of the child drawings we've already done, plus the one we do on Thursday night, as well, to the folks who bring the most visitors all week long. So, how many of you have been inviting somebody? How many of you have invited somebody today to come? How many of you have invited somebody today? I know most of the families here were busy, tied up with the pastor's fellowship or whatever, but I'm glad to have somebody to ask somebody to invite to come. Let me encourage you to be inviting somebody tomorrow and Thursday and Friday. Don't take no for an answer so you can get to join you for the services. I was in a meeting where there was about a 12-year-old boy who got saved. on the first Sunday morning of the week of meetings. And he was so excited, he came by and he shook my hand at the door on the way out, and he said, guess what, Brother Webb? I said, what? He said, I got saved today. I said, that's wonderful. He said, guess what else? I said, what else? He said, I'm going to go home this afternoon. He said, I'm going to come back tonight. He said, I'm going to invite my cousin this afternoon, and my cousin's going to come with me tonight, and my cousin's going to get saved. I thought, well, amen. Well, he disappeared out the door. And when the evening service came around that night, he showed up again, and guess who was with him? His cousin. He sat in the second row with his cousin. He shared his Bible with his cousin, because his cousin didn't have one. And when the invitation time came, he asked his cousin if he'd like to be saved. His cousin said yes, so he brought his cousin forward, and his cousin got saved. And they both went by me at the door, and he had an even bigger smile on his face as he said, See, Brother Webb, I told you I was going to come back tonight. I told you I was going to bring my cousin, and I told you he was going to be saved. Oh boy, praise God for a faith like that. You know, I was preaching in Australia and a young man heard me share that illustration. And immediately he thought about an older cousin of his in his thirties who was antagonistic completely to the gospel. But he thought, well, we only have one more night left in the special meetings. It's going to be an evangelistic message. So as soon as the service ended, he shot a text off to his cousin, inviting him to come to the meeting. And he was shocked to get, within a few minutes, one back from his cousin saying, I'll be there. He thought, well, yeah, I'll believe that when I see it. He came to the service earlier the next night while I was setting up the puppet stage, and he said, boy, I sure hope that I have the same kind of faith that 12-year-old boy had, because I'd love to see my cousin come and get saved. Well, believe it or not, his cousin ended up there that night to the service, and out of 14 people we saw come to know Christ as personal Savior that night, one of them was his cousin. So if God can use a faith like that in a young man and then in a little boy, God can use our faith as well if we'll have faith to the salvation of souls and those around us. So let me encourage you to be praying about those who you need invited and listening to the Holy Spirit of God and paying attention to his promptings to share a word of invitation, a message of the gospel with someone else. Maybe it would even be better than bringing somebody with you tomorrow night that comes and gets saved. You'll be bringing somebody tomorrow night that you already had a chance to lead to the Lord tomorrow, wherever it was you were. That's what counts as well. So let me encourage you to be laboring and sharing the gospel with other folks. We're going to Matthew chapter 9 tonight in the Word of God for our scripture passage this evening. You can find your way there. Let's stand please, if you would, in honor to God's Word as I read our passage. This evening, Matthew chapter 9, we're going to be reading it, verse 35. And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then say at the end of his disciples, the harvest truly is plenteous. but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. Let's remain standing for prayer tonight. Lord, thank you for bringing out to the service tonight each one who's attending. We pray, Lord, that you would open all of our hearts and ears to the truth of the Word of God. We pray, Lord, that if there should be even one here tonight who doesn't know for certain if they died, they'd be on their way to heaven. May they not leave until they've settled that matter with thee. But we would ask, Lord, tonight For those of us who belong to you, who have trusted Christ as Savior already, may we, Lord, hear what you say about the lost souls and men, women, and young people, and may we be those who are willing to be used of you in any way you see fit to draw them to Christ. Use us, we pray, in the message time tonight. We ask a blessed girl she teaches the children to, and we ask it in Jesus' name and for his sake. Amen. You may be seated. I know that your pastor has a burden for those who are lost, and I'm sure often encourages you in talking to others around you about the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have other missionaries here, the Homesteads are with us as well. I'm sure perhaps missionaries come through from time to time and share their burden for reaching others around them as well, and evangelists like myself may come through and encourage people as well. But I'd like us tonight to look at what the Lord Jesus Christ Himself had to say about the lost condition and lost men and women and boys and girls as well from the Word of God. I want us to look at the subject tonight of the Savior on souls. The Savior on souls. Would you notice what he said in verses 37 and 38 first of all. Notice the Lord Jesus said first of all there's a great potential. There's a great potential. He said, then said at the end of his disciples, the harvest truly is what? Plenteous. The harvest truly is plenteous. The Lord Jesus Christ said there's no problem with the harvest. There are souls that are ripe and ready to come to Christ if we'll just get to them with that message of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not the only place in the scripture He said such a thing. In John 4 and verse 35 He said, Say not ye there are four months, and then come at the harvest, for I say unto you, lift up your eyes unto the fields, for they are white already to harvest. There are folks about us who would come to the Lord Jesus Christ if someone would get to them and explain to them the message of the gospel. I was headed for one of our mission trips once several years ago. It was a commuter flight from Baltimore to Boston, Massachusetts where I was to connect to another flight overseas. And I was in a small plane, just two seats on one side of the aisle and one seat on the other side of the aisle. I'm sitting in the aisle seat on the two-seat side, put my luggage in the airbred compartment and wondered if I'd get to put up that armrest and spread out a little bit and there's the smaller seats on that aircraft. But as the plane continued to fill up, about 50 minutes before takeoff, a young woman came down the aisle and pointed at the window seat next to me. So I got up, helped her put her luggage in the overhead compartment. She scooted past me and sat down in the window seat. And I sat back down and we started to talk. She said, well, what do you do? I said, oh, I'm a preacher. She said, really, what do you preach? Well, she asked for it, amen. So I reached up in the overhead compartment and pulled out the pocket Bible, I carry on trips for that reason, and began to share Christ with her. Before even in the air 15 minutes, that young woman bowed her head and right out loud, I looked around to see if anybody was listening, and somewhere she prayed right out loud and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to come into her heart and to forgive her sin and to save her. And before we landed in Boston, she was already asking me, Brother Webb, you're an evangelist. You travel around the country. I'm from Rhode Island. Do you know of any good Bible-preaching churches I can go to to learn more about this? And she said, How can I share this with my boyfriend? I want him to get saved too. He said, That's extraordinary. Believe it or not, there are people like that in Lonehead. or in Edinburgh, or wherever you happen to live, where you lay your head down on your pillow, there are folks like that in your community that don't know Christ as Savior, who would come to Him, if someone faithful to the Gospel would go to them with a message of God's Word and share it with them, they would come to know Christ as Savior. My pastor is being particularly helpful with us. One time when we were at home, he usually is, and if he can be there from work when When we get back and are hooking up, he'll come over and help hook up. And he was grabbing the wire and pulling on the cable and plugging it into the wall. But he didn't realize that when he pulled hard on the end of the plug, he pulled the ground wire loose inside. So when he plugged it in, I noticed there was a problem. I happened to be in the rig at the time, and the refrigerator started to smoke. I thought, well, that's not good. So I hovered out the window, he disconnected the wire again, and we traced things down and figured out what the problem was, then put the ground wire back again and plugged things in. But now we had a big black burn mark in the back of our refrigerator. And I wondered whether it was OK to continue to run or whatever. So the very next week of meetings we had in New Jersey on the east coast of the US, there was an appliance repair shop just down the block from the church. So I called them and asked if they could send a repairman to look at the refrigerator. So the next day, this fellow showed up with all of his tools and got them out and came into our rig and opened the refrigerator and did this test and that test. And he finally turned to me and he said, well, he said, it does appear to be operating. Even though there's a big black mark here in the back of the fridge, it does seem to be working OK. He said, you know what? fix it, do you?" I said, no, I've got a little rule. If it isn't broken, don't fix it. So he started to pack up his belongings and get ready to leave. And I said, he said to me, why are you living in a trailer, or you would call it a caravan here, why are you living in that behind a church? I said, well, that's because I'm an evangelist. I have the opportunity to travel all around the world, all over the country, telling people how they can know for sure if they died, they'd be on their way to heaven. He said, you know, I've got a lot of friends that have been getting involved in religion lately. He said, I've always wondered how you can tell who's right. I picked up my Bible off the table where I've been reading and I said, do you know what this book is? He said, it's a Bible, isn't it? And I said, yes, sir. Do you know what the main idea of that book is? He said, oh, the church I went to, they never encouraged us to read our Bibles. I said, if I could show you in 15 minutes or less what the main idea of this book is all about, would you let me do it? He said, you can do that in 15 minutes? I said, yes, sir. He said, go right ahead. So I went to one verse of scripture, Romans chapter 6 and verse 23, had him give me the definitions of the words and the verse. put it all together, asked him if he understood what it said. He said, yes. I said, you know what you need to do? He said, yes. I said, would you like to bow your head right now and ask the Lord to save you? He said, yes, I would. And he bowed his head right there and asked Christ to come into his heart and to save him. I'll never forget what he said when he was loading his tools back into his work truck to go to his next appointment. He said, Mr. Webb, he said, I don't know why you called me out here today, though, but your refrigerator, there's not anything wrong with it. But he said, I know why I was supposed to be here today. God wanted me here so that I could be saved. Now again, believe it or not, there are people like that in your neighborhood, there are people like that on your street, there are people like that at your workplace, there are people like that that ride the bus you ride, or the train you ride to work every day, or to school every day, who will come to Christ if somebody will get to them with the message of the gospel. The Lord Jesus Christ said, there's no problem with the harvest. The harvest truly is plenty. As I was telling the pastors and their wives today at the Pastors Fellowship, how we saw thousands of folks who trusted Christ as Savior in the Fiji Islands, Last year and we've seen many come to Christ in other past trips there if I were to take you to Moldova to one of the Christian camps that our mission has there and where I've preached myself for summer camp the largest of the two camps runs about 380 campers a week in the summertime and you we don't even give an invitation until at least Thursday in the week of meetings because you have to start all the way back with a how I know there is a God that's made they've been taught there is no God and so you have to start there and work your way up but it is nothing at all I've seen it week after week after week it's nothing at all on the night when the first invitation is given to see over half the camp walk the aisle, teenagers or younger children, many of them in tears, to come and receive the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. Praise the Lord for that. I can take you with me to Malawi, Africa, where I've been involved with our mission there and preaching there. We spent two summers taking a team into a different village every day to do day camps in a different village every day, sometimes driving three hours, four hours, one direction to be able to do that and arriving early in the morning and preaching presenting the gospel through puppets, through ventriloquism, through drama, through music, and twice a day preaching of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we've seen hundreds of people there come to know Christ as personal Savior. Same thing with the medical team ministry that we have there, where the folks come and they wait to see the doctor, and before they can see the doctor, they've got to listen to the preaching. That's me. And we've seen many people come to know Christ as personal Savior there. In fact, in the last seven years, we've seen over 250 churches planted in the borders of Mozambique and in the country of Malawi alone. And we're thankful for the way the Lord is working there. There are places in this world where there are souls that are ripe and ready, that are coming to the Lord Jesus Christ. And there are other places that need someone to come and take the message of the gospel there, because there's no one there. Jesus with a message. And that brings me to the second thing Jesus said in this passage. Not only did he say, first of all, that there's a great potential, the harvest truly is plenteous, but he also said, secondly, there's a great problem. There's a great problem. What's the problem? The laborers are few. The laborers are few. You know, in many of our Bible colleges, even back in the United States of America, they used to, when I was going to college, have over a thousand preacher boys. Only has barely over a hundred. So many other churches, so many other colleges, even Bible colleges have shut down or closed down, aren't even training anyone for the ministry anymore. So many places that have no preacher to preach the gospel. One of the times that I was in Nova Scotia, Canada preaching, out of 12 churches that sent their young people to the Christian camp, 7 had no pastors. People that could be trained to win the loss, lost folks that needed to be won, but nobody to train them to do that work. By the way, do you know what language is spoken in Nova Scotia? English. English. Why, there are folks here that could go and fill that responsibility and take that opportunity and to do the use of God and to be able to do work and reaching others with the gospel. When I was in the Fiji Islands, one of the last places that we've been the last few times there is the town of Raki Raki. That's on the north side of Viti Levu, the largest of the islands there in the Fiji Island group. It's a place that's famous because one of the most notorious cannibals during their time of cannibalism was based out of there. His name is Undre Undre. I don't know what it is about double words, Undre Undre in Raki Raki, but in any case, We had the opportunity to go in there twice and spend four days preaching evangelistic meetings. The first time we went and preached, we went to Sugar Factory Hall and preached the gospel there and saw many people come to Christ. And because of that, the Solid Rock Independent Baptist Church was planted in Racky Racky. And we've been back there again to preach last year and to see other people saved and added into that church. But do you know that church still has no pastor of its own? two or three missionaries are going together to take turns preaching and sending men from their churches to go preach, but no permanent pastor there to reach those folks who want to hear the message of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Fijian people are some of the kindest and most gracious people you'll ever meet anywhere, but nobody there to do that. By the way, do you know what language is spoken in Fiji? English. English. There are lots of places where there is a tremendous need, and there are souls ready to come to Christ, but no one there to reach them. I was in a Christian camp once in Pennsylvania preaching for a week, doing a morning service and an evening service, but they also had a missionary, who was the head of a mission board, who was doing a missions class every morning as well, before lunchtime. And I would sit on that class. I talked with that missionary director. He said that as far as they could figure, with their mission board that he was head of, he said for every ten missionaries who were coming home off the field, too ill or too old to go back again, only one new candidate was going out. Think about that a minute. Ten missionaries coming home from mission fields, only one new going out. Somebody said, well it won't be too long before it'll be the false religions sending missionaries to us. Have you looked around lately? How many new mosques and how many new Hindu temples have you seen going up? We've seen them in the United States from place to place, large ones. And there are lots of those missionaries from false religions that are spreading their false gospel everywhere. And yet fewer and fewer of those who know the truth presenting the gospel. There's no problem with the harvest. The harvest is truly plenteous. The problem is that the laborers are few. I was preaching in a church just south of where I grew up in the eastern part of the United States, northeast of the U.S. It was kind of an interesting meeting because my father used to preach in that church back in the 1970s. The pastor I was preaching for was, I don't know how many pastors after that man, but he was the son of the man my father had preached for. So here I was, the son of my father, preaching for the son of his father. It was kind of a time warp or something like that anyway. But what was interesting was it wasn't that large of a church, but there were three times during that week of meetings that particularly older folks took me next door from the auditorium over across the hallway to their fellowship hall where they had their missionary board. Now most churches that have their own building have a place to put up a missionary board. there's a board there with the missionaries prayer cards up there and maybe lines to where they're serving or lights you can push a button and lights up where they are or something else that way. They wanted to take you over there because they wanted to show me that that small church was supporting 30 missionaries on the mission field. What a tremendous job they were doing at the size they were but even more impressive and the reason why they wanted to show me as well is because every single missionary on that board was out of their church. Can you imagine that? Every single one of the missionaries was out of their church. It wasn't somebody from somebody else's church who got called to mission and came around a deputation wanting to get support. They were people who were born in that church, who had been raised in that church and gone off to Bible college and come back and got married and got married at Bible college and then come back and God worked in their heart and called them to missions. I can remember in my own home church that was not far north of that. having special services on Wednesday nights when a couple from our church that had been called into missions would come and sit before the whole church congregation and folks would stand and read promises from the Word of God to those people. and encourage them. And then toward the end of the night, the leaders of the church would have them kneel down on the platform, and they would lay their hands on them, and they would pray and ask God to bless them. And we knew that in the next week they were going to be leaving. You got on board a ship, or climb on an airplane, and end off in a foreign mission field somewhere serving the Lord. And that picture stays indelibly in my mind, remembering folks like that who are going forth. But you don't see that happening in an awful lot of churches these days. I would ask, when's the last time somebody from Free Baptist Church in Lonehead has gone off to the ministry. The missionaries say, well, we haven't been around all that long yet. Hey, that's true. But you know, there are folks who can be headed that direction, who are desiring to do that work that God has for them. The problem is that the laborers, if you, you know, there was still a problem with that missionary board. There wasn't a missionary on that missionary board of all 30 of the missionaries who was under the age of 50. They were all older folks, and I said to them, you know, I know you're excited about what your church has done in the past, but don't tell me what you used to do. What are you doing now? What are you doing now for the Lord Jesus Christ? I would ask you today, have you thought about that fact? The great potential, the hardness is truly plenteous. There's a great problem though. What's the problem? The labors are few. So Jesus said thirdly, there's a great prayer. There's a great prayer. Notice verse 38. Pray ye therefore. Whenever you see a therefore, look and see what is therefore. It's there for a reason. Because the harvest is plenteous and because the laborers are few, the Lord Jesus said the remedy to that is this prayer. Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. Hey, listen, I don't know whether even the young church has the opportunity to support missionaries yet, but if it does, do you know what their name is? Do you know where they're serving? Do you know what they're doing for the Lord Jesus Christ? Because I find back in the U.S. where we have churches that have lots and lots of missionaries, a lot of people don't even know who their church missionaries are, and they hardly ever, if ever, pray for them. Oh yeah, church supports missionaries, what are they? Well, I think there's this one, and there might be that one, or whatever. I remember a church in North Carolina was preaching in two years ago, and there was a young man who was mentally challenged in his late 20s. But he came every night to the services, to the prayer time before service and prayed with the men and the ladies were praying in a different place. But do you know that every single night he prayed, he prayed through the names of every single missionary that church supported and what field they were on. He knew them all by heart. Are you praying for the missionaries you already know? I know after listening to some of the folks being here for the pastor's fellowship today that there are some who are concerned about what's going on in other preachers' works and other mission works and praying for some of them. And that's a tremendous thing. That's what we need to be doing. But we need to pray. The Bible says we not only need to pray for them, but we need to pray that God will send forth more laborers into His harvest. That He would send forth laborers. There are an awful lot of believers who say, I don't want to pray that prayer! Why? Because I'm afraid, if I pray that prayer, God might call me. God might call me. Hey listen, have you ever stopped to think about the fact that if it is God's perfect will for you, that you do a work of missions for Him somewhere, that if you're rebelling against that, you're the one that's hurting your own self? Robbing your own self of the blessing of God? Robbing your own self of the joy of the Lord? How could you possibly expect God to bless you or your family, your business, or anything else if you're in rebellion to Him? No, listen. If God calls you somewhere else to do mission work, He will always supply your need. You're His representative. He takes care of those who represent Him. God's people ought to be willing to go, but it begins with a prayer to say, Lord, Lord, send forth more laborers. Are you willing to pack on in the end of that prayer? And Lord, can you use me? Would you use me? Where can you use me? Or where do you want me to go for you? Are you willing to pray that kind of a prayer? Are you willing to let God use you to do that work? I remember talking with a fellow that's a been in India for many, many years now, preaching the gospel, planting churches. He's Indian. His wife is Indian. They had left India many years ago and gone to the United States and had gotten good paying jobs. When he was saved, he was the number one insurance salesman in the entire state of Colorado, which is a large state in the western part of the United States. Number one insurance salesman, making lots of money. His wife was in the medical field. She was making all kinds of money being a nurse in the medical field in the position that she had in the hospital. But there was a missionary that came through the church to do a mission conference once and he went out to eat with this fellow. His name is, not the missionary, but the Indian fellow I'm talking about. His name is Matthew Thomas. He went out with Brother Matt and asked him if he could go out to lunch with him one day. And so he sat down across the table from Brother Thomas. And he said, Brother Thomas, he said, there's something I'd like to ask you to pray with me about. He said, oh, if I can help with anything, let me know. He said, look. He said, there's a man that's from India. He's here in the United States. He's making lots of money, he's doing really well financially, he's very successful here, but he needs to go back to his own country and reach his people with the gospel. He said, would you be willing to pray with me about that man? He said, I'll not only pray with you about that man, but you tell me who it is, and I'll go and talk to him about it. You know what happened, right? The missionary said, it's you, Brother Thomas. It's you. That got into his heart that night. He couldn't sleep all night long, and the next morning when his wife came downstairs from her bed, he informed her that God had called them to go back to India. And they left their jobs in the United States and moved back to India, and they've planted I don't know how many churches there, and have done a tremendous job of evangelizing with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen, I'm not at all against people who come from all kinds of places in the world to get a better life, other places, but, you know, the best people to reach people in their countries is them. They're better to reach their own people than some foreigner coming in and trying to read. They already speak the language. They don't have to have all the training and all the rest of that. I wonder tonight, are you willing to pray and say to God, Lord, I'm willing to go wherever you want me to go. Lord, would you send forth more labors? And if you want to use me, I'll go. You show me. Are you willing to pray a prayer like that? So, first of all, there's a great potential, Jesus said. The harvest is truly plenteous. Then He said there's a great problem. The problem is the laborers are few. Then He said there's a great prayer to pray. Pray the Lord of the harvest and He will send forth more laborers into His harvest. But I want you to realize that whenever the Lord tells us to do something, He isn't telling us to do something He's not willing to do Himself. Because this is His work to be done anyway. Evangelism, missions, He's the one who's the center of all of that. And I want you to realize that when we look at this passage of scripture we read tonight, not only do we find a great potential, and a great problem, and a great prayer, but we'll also see a great pattern. There's a great pattern given to us here in the verses preceding what Jesus said. Look at verses 35 and 36. Because here we find the Lord Jesus shows every one of us, demonstrates to us and for us, what we all need to win souls for Him. What do we need? Notice verse 35. And Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. First of all, would you notice? He had a boldness to go. He had a boldness to go. The Lord shows us that one of the things we need to be an effective witness for Him is a boldness to go. Now look, I'm going to tell you, I am the last person to walk up to a total stranger on the street and say, Hi, I'm Barry Webb. Can I talk to you about the Lord Jesus Christ? I'm a very shy person. You may not realize that when I'm preaching, but that's because God empowers where He calls. You say, well, by the way, do you do that kind of thing? Yes, but I have to ask the Lord to do that, because that's not me. My father was the outgoing person in my family. When he walked into a room, everybody knew he was there. The rest of us lived in the shadows somewhere. But I did not inherit that outgoing personality. And yet I find that God is able to use me and use anybody else who's willing to put themselves in a place where they can be used and say, Lord, if you'll empower me, I'll do what you want me to do. And that means having a boldness to go, having a willingness to step out by faith and take the message of the gospel to where you might be uncomfortable to go. And you have to realize that if the Lord is the one who's directing you and he's the one that's leading you, he's the one that's with you every step of the way as well. Do you realize that when the Lord opens a divine appointment, he's already prepared that heart? I don't think we realize that sometimes. We think we're going to start from the beginning of everything and we're never going to be able to... Hey, if the Lord opens a divine appointment, He's already prepared that heart for that appointment. For us to plant that seed, or water seed that's been planted. How many times Think about it. How many times have you been talking with somebody and maybe the subject of death came up at work or someplace else in the community where you're out talking with somebody in a ball field or in a park somewhere or something and the subject of death came up or maybe the subject of religion came up and you know how the Holy Spirit of God in your heart says, now, now, now. Have you felt that? If you're a believer, you should. Now, what do we do? No, no, no. Not now. Not that person. Not here. Listen again. He's prepared that heart. He's set up that divine appointment. I'm not talking about forcing something. I'm talking about being sensitive to the Holy Spirit of God. So when the Holy Spirit of God says, no, don't say no. We need a boldness. Some of us need to come to God even tonight and say, Lord, would you help me overcome my shyness, my shy streak? Help me overcome my backwardness. Help me overcome my fear. And Lord, give me a boldness. to open my mouth and proclaim the truth of the gospel as you give me opportunity to do so. The Lord Jesus showed us, number one, we need a boldness to go. We need a boldness to go. Look, God sets these things up all the time. My wife and I were flying back from visiting our two daughters out in the western part of the United States a couple of years ago. And we were flying through Philadelphia on our way back to Baltimore, where we had parked our truck at the hotel we'd spent the night in before we started the park-fly-ride deal that we got to do that. And when we got to the Philadelphia airport, we arrived late, so we were worried about missing our next flight to Baltimore. And so we hurried to the gate, and we didn't really need to hurry because the flight was delayed, and then it was delayed again, and it was delayed again, and finally at 1130 at night, they canceled the flight. The co-pilot decided to have his own personal strike against the airline and not show up at all. So there were no other flights of any airline going to Baltimore that night. And the next best thing they could do was put us on a flight at three o'clock the next afternoon, which was totally unacceptable because first of all, we needed to get back and get our truck that night because we had to drive home before a terrible ice storm that was supposed to come through that night would make it almost impossible for us to get home again. We need to get back and work on some music. I was supposed to be preaching in our home church there on that Sunday, and so we just we need to get back that night. And then we're standing in the line waiting. I said to my wife, hey, I have an idea. Listen, I'm from Philadelphia. Baltimore's only a couple of hours away. I've driven that road I don't know how many times back and forth between there. Listen, let's get our luggage back from the airline. We'll rent a car. And we'll drive there tonight. And that way we can get back there and get our truck on time. Well, we decided that's what we do. So we informed the airline. We went downstairs to where the luggage spits out to you and waited for that to come. And while we were waiting there, there were other people. They'd been given vouchers by the airline to spend the night in a hotel or something else that way. But there was a lady doctor down there who was asking if anybody was going to Baltimore because she needed to get back that night. She had a very important appointment the very next day. And the only people who were willing to offer her a ride were some of these charlatans that wanted to charge her $500 one way to go down there all by herself. And she was smart enough not to take them up on any of that. But I just watched her for a couple of minutes and finally I went over to her and I said, ma'am, I'm an evangelist, not a terrorist. But my wife and I need to get to Baltimore tonight as well. And I understand you need to get there. We're going to rent a car and drive it. I'm from this area. I can drive there without any problem, no difficulty at all. We're just going to rent a car. We're going to drive it. And if you'd like to go along with us, you're welcome to go. If you want to help pay for the rental car, you can. I'm going to try to get that out of the airline later on anyway. But I said, listen, even if you don't want to help pay for it, that's all right. That's fine. We're driving to Baltimore. We're going to have an empty backseat in the car if you don't fill it. So she went over and sat down with my wife and talked to her for a couple minutes, I guess, until she was satisfied we weren't terrorists. And she finally said, OK, I'll take you up on that. So we got our luggage when it all came together, and we took the shuttle out to the rental car facility, and we rented our car, and we put our luggage in, and we started up. Honest, my wife will tell you, we were not even out of the rental car parking lot before that lady doctor leaned up over the front seat and said, so what's an evangelist? And the Holy Spirit said, no! for two and a half hours all the way to Baltimore. That lady hung over that front seat and asked question after question and asked us to repeat it again and explain this about the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We had the opportunity to thoroughly share the Lord Jesus Christ with her and we dropped her off at her car finally at the parking garage in Baltimore. My wife and I both looked at each other and went, well, we know why that flight got canceled tonight. God has divine appointments set up for us. If we'll only be willing to have a boldness to open our mouths when he says to do so. He'll put the words there. But that brings me to the second thing Jesus showed us we need. Not only does the Bible say he had a boldness to go, but it says he went about all the city and villages teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. He had the Bible to plant in their hearts. The word of God. He wasn't preaching psychology or philosophy or some other kind of ideology. He was preaching and teaching the word of God. His word. He was proclaiming the truth of the gospel to them. I'm convinced that one of the major reasons why the average Bible-believing Christian in our Baptist churches tonight are not being much of an effective witness, or is not being an effective witness, is because they don't know enough of the Gospel Scriptures to tell somebody how to be saved. I would ask you, do you know enough of the gospel to be able to tell somebody how to be saved? Do you know the Romans Road, for example? What do you mean? That's a list of six or seven verses or so that are all found in the book of Romans. You don't even have to leave that book. All you have to do is go to the first verse, and if you mark it down before you use it, write the next chapter and the next verse you're going to, all you gotta do is follow those verses from place to place, all the way around, read the verses, tell them what the verses say, and you can share the gospel with somebody. Do you know the Romans wrote? Some Christians say, well, yeah, I've got that marked in my Bible. Okay, great, that's not all you need. That's a good start. Lots of other verses regarding the gospel that you and I need to learn. Why? Because the Bible says that we need to be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks us of the hope that is within us with meekness and fear. We need to be prepared to share the Word of God with folks. To tell them the scriptures, look, let's face it, it doesn't do any good for any one of us to stand face to face, nose to nose, or kneecap to kneecap with anybody and tell them this is what my parents taught me to believe, this is what my pastor taught me to believe, this is what my place of worship teaches me to believe, because they can say the same thing. There's no authority there. The only authority we have is this book. That's why we need to be planting the seed of His Word in hearts, not our opinion, not what we think, but what God's Word says. Your opinion is not going to get anybody out of their bed in the middle of the night and on their knees accepting Christ as Savior, but I've heard of well-placed verses of Scripture doing that in people's lives. Give them the Word of God. The Bible says in Isaiah 55, 11, they'll never return void. will accomplish the purpose we're on to. He said, well Pritchard, wait a minute, all this sounds good, but I've taken the time to share the Bible with people before, and they didn't get saved. Pardon me, anybody here know any farmer that expects to reap his field the same day he plants it? I don't. I don't. But the farmer, when he plants that seed, realizes that it needs to be watered, and it needs time to germinate, and eventually God brings forth the harvest. Same thing is true with the gospel. Some plant, others water, God giveth the increase. If you share the gospel with somebody and don't get saved, you're not the first person this has ever happened to. Read the New Testament. The disciples of Christ preached the gospel. Paul went to cities and preached the gospel. The Bible says some believed and some did not. You and I are not responsible to determine people's destination for eternity. We're responsible to plant the Word of God in their hearts. And I would simply challenge you, if you don't know enough of the Gospel Scriptures to be able to answer people's questions, or be able to share clearly the message of the Gospel with them, then I would challenge you, if you're a lady, young lady, see Sister Katie, see my wife, or if you're a man or a young man, see me, or see a pastor, or you can see the homestead while they're here. But we can show you how to take your Bible and lead somebody to the Word of Jesus Christ. To make you a weapon in the hand of God, not a wimp in the hand of the wicked one. Let God use you. to bring others to Christ. But that involves being able to know how to share the word with your heart. Oh, you say, Preacher, I can't even remember my own phone number. Never mind a bunch of verses. Look, if God made your mind, made your mouth, and made his word, don't you think he can intersect those three things anytime he wants to, to win people to himself? Sure. I don't know how many conversations I've walked away from saying, Lord, where did that come from? I don't think I've ever really worked to try to memorize maybe that verse, but I've read it enough in my Bible that you brought it back to mind. You'd be amazed, the more scripture you put into your heart and your mind, it's like giving the Holy Spirit more ammunition to you. Whenever the option for witnessing comes up, there's more for Him to get a hold of. There are more answers to give to people, the more scriptures that we know. We need to ask God. Maybe some of us tonight need to say, Lord, would you give me a boldness to go? And maybe others of us need to come and say, Lord, would you give me the Bible? Give me a knowledge of your word. Help me to be able to find the gospel scriptures, mark them in my Bible, meditate on them, memorize them. That way you can use me anywhere and anytime. Top of my mouth. So when you say, now, I won't say no, and I'll know what to say. The Lord Jesus showed us we need a boldness to go. We need a Bible to plant in people's hearts. But would you notice the other thing He showed us that we need to win souls to Christ? Verse 36, But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion on them. For they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. The Lord Jesus showed us that we need a burden. We need a burden for those who are lost. We need compassion for them. Does it make a difference? God thought so. In Jude 22, He specifically stated, And if some have compassion, making a difference. I don't know how many times in meetings I've seen people that nobody thought would ever get saved, who came to Christ because someone in their family, so concerned for the lost condition, didn't nag them, or argue with them, or debate them, but wept before them. One thing I've learned in 38 years of full-time evangelistic ministry, the average lost person doesn't mind arguing about religion. In fact, some enjoy a good debate on religious philosophies. But I have found the average lost person does not know what to do with a believer who, first of all, is so convinced of the truth of the gospel, and secondly, so concerned for their lost condition that they weep when they win. I know that sometimes goes against some of our brains. We're not used to doing that kind of thing. But you know what? God's able to give us the tears that we need. The compassion that we need for the lost. How many times do we read that Jesus Christ himself stood looking over the city of Jerusalem saying, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that have been sent unto thee? How often do I gather thee unto myself as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not? The Bible says Jesus wept when he saw all these multitudes. He was moved with compassion. We need to ask God to give us a burden for those who are lost. Compassion, a broken heart, tears for those who are lost. The Lord Jesus said regarding souls, there's a great potential, the harvest is truly plenty. He said there's a great problem, the laborers are few. He said there's a great prayer to pray. Lord, send forth more laborers into your harvest. And then he had a great pattern for us. He showed us what we need to win souls. We need a boldness to go. We need the Bible to plant in hearts. We need a burden for those who are lost. We're going to bring them to the Savior. Let me close tonight with a true story. My father was preaching in a church that had a large pulpit and a tall platform. He had finished the message. He was putting his notes away at the end of the time that night. And he heard someone calling, Mr. Webb! And he looked around, and he didn't see anybody. So he went back to what he was doing. And once again, he heard that voice. So I thought, well, maybe there's somebody right up close to the platform here down on the front where I can't see him because of this massive pulpit. So he got up on his tiptoes, and he leaned over the pulpit and looked. And sure enough, there was a short, rich lady down there. He said, you can tell she was rich because she had golden diamond earrings on and jewelry on. She had a big old fur coat on. She had all of her hair plus somebody else's piled up on top of her head. She had big old false eyelashes that flitted in the wind and so much purple over her eyelids. She looked like a jack-o'-lantern with a canterbun out. And my father said, yes ma'am, what can I do for you? She said, Mr. Webb, I can't win my husband to the Lord. Just like that. Now understand my father was just a young man, hadn't been out of Bible college that long. And before he realized it, he leaned over the pulpit and mimicked her tone of voice and said the following. Well with that attitude, you never will. She was already upset and stomping her way up the aisle out of the church. He dashed down off the platform, rushed up the aisle, grabbed on her hand like a vice grip and said, Ma'am, I'm so sorry. I'm a young foolish preacher. I shouldn't have said what I just said. Would you please forgive me? She said, You've insulted me and I'm leaving. He said, No, ma'am, please. I won't let you leave here. Forgive me. She said, You're hurting my hand. He said, Well, I won't let you go until you forgive me. She said, Well... All right. He said, Ma'am, what I should have told you. is that you can't win your husband to the Lord because you're not going about it God's way. Your eyes are too dry. And he counseled her and they had prayer for her husband and her two unsaved teenage boys, one a bit older than the other. And he wondered whether she'd ever come back again after what he'd done that night. But he said the next night, there she was again seated in the same place she was the night before, but he noticed that part of the way through the sermon she reached into her pocketbook and she pulled out a Kleenex or a tissue, depending on how rinsing you are, rolled one corner up to a little bitty point, and she dobbed in the corner. And then she rolled up another corner of the thing, and she dobbed in the corner of that. I heard my father say, well, praise God. God's beginning to work in her heart. And he said, the next night she came back again, and a whole truckload full of tissues wouldn't have done her any good. Right in the middle of the sermon, she got to crying right out loud. One hour later, she came loose, went to half-mast, and that mullet kept running down her face in the streams, turning her white blouse to a color one. And my father said, well, praise God, God's going to do something in that family, yeah. And I'll finish the story the way the woman told my father it happened. She said she went home that night, she couldn't sleep. She was still broken for her family, still weeping since she started in the service. And she got on her knees by her husband's bed, sighed by the bed she shared with him, and began to weep and ask God to save her husband and her two boys. Her husband was awakened by her sobbing. He rolled over, grumble, grumble, what's all the racking about, woman? She said, oh, honey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to wake you up. I'm just praying. I don't want you to die in good health. I want you to be saved. Rolled over, grumble, grumble, grumble, went back to sleep again. In the middle of the night, the two teenage boys woke up. My father says he thinks an angel pinched them. They were hungry, that's natural for teenagers, and they decided they were going to get up in the middle of the night and get a snack, so they had to get past their parents' bedroom to get to the kitchen, and as they started by, the door was ajar a bit, and they heard their mother sobbing and murmuring, saying something, so being nosy like some teenagers are, they crept to the door and they listened for a couple of minutes, and they heard her call their names in prayer. No snack, they went back to bed. The next morning she was in the kitchen stirring the oatmeal, She was making breakfast and salting it with her tears, still weeping, since she had started the night before, still weeping. When the two boys came downstairs to go outside, she said, oh boys, tonight is family night at the revival meeting, and I've been praying all night, and I'm praying this morning that you'll go, you'll get saved. And the older boy turned around and ran out of the house and slammed the door so hard, my father says 14 shingles might have come off the neighbor's roof, I don't know. Anyway, the younger one spun around and hugged his mother and said, Mama, Mama, quit crying, Mama, I'll go with you tonight, I'll go, I'll go. Later that afternoon, she was in the living room vacuuming the rug and settling the dust with her tears, still weeping. When the front door of the house burst open and in ran the older teenage boy. He tackled her on the couch like an American football fullback, hugged her up and said, Mama, Mama, quit your crying. Mama, we got up last night. We're going to get something to eat. And we heard you crying and praying. And Mama, I'll go, too. I'll go, too. Ah, but her husband had a second job at night. He would come home from his day job and he would eat a quick dinner and he would run up the stairs and take a shower, dress in a business suit and go out and sell insurance every evening. She could hardly even see him across the table that night at dinner because her eyes were still swollen with tears. She was still weeping. He wolfed his food down, dashed up the stairs. They heard the water running in the shower. They hang around in the closet. And down he came in that suit he always wore to sell insurance. And she began to cry even harder than possible. Oh, honey, tonight is family night. And both of the boys have said they're going to go. And I'm, please don't go sell insurance tonight. And before she could finish what she was saying, she felt her husband's arms around her. And he hugged her and he said, honey, stop crying. I'm not dressed in a suit to sell insurance tonight. I'm going with you and the boys to church. My father said he saw that whole family walk into the back of that auditorium that night. He didn't want to preach the sermon. He wanted to skip that part and go straight to the invitation first. But at the end of the message, when the invitation was given for anyone that would like to be saved to step out of their seat and come, the first one into the aisle was that grown man, that husband of that woman, followed by one, two teenage boys. And they all linked arms together, and all three of them came marching down the aisle to receive Christ as personal Savior together with a leap in praise of God, Mama, right behind them all. And that whole family was united in the Lord. And that lady didn't do a thing different than what the Lord Jesus said tonight, and what he showed us tonight. And I believe we have three more nights left of special meetings here. And then, of course, there are many services the Lord willingly deteriorates to come. But perhaps tonight someone needs to come and say, Lord, give me a boldness to go. Lord, give me the Bible, the knowledge of the Word of God in my head so I can plant it in people's hearts. Lord, give me a burden, a broken heart, tears. Maybe you'd quit fussing at mom or dad or quit arguing with that spouse. They'd come to Christ if you'd ask God to break your heart. Give me tears. Give me compassion. This is what the Lord Jesus had to say. about souls. Let's bow together for a prayer this evening. As we bow, our eyes are closed. I wonder tonight, first of all, how many here tonight can lift a hand and say, Preacher, you know, praise God, I knew, know I'm saved. If I was to die right here, right now, today, I know for sure I am going to be going to heaven. How many can lift a hand in testimony to that tonight? Let the Redeemer, the Lord, say so. Amen? Amen. God bless you. Put those hands down. Question number two, is there anybody here tonight that would say, Preacher, I can't say that. Do not know if I died right here right now tonight whether or not I'm going to heaven But would you remember my hand in prayer tonight? I'd like to know it. I'd like to be sure pray for me Here's my hand who would lift a hand tonight. Yes. Thank you. I see that and is there someone else tonight preacher? I do not know I Do not know but I would like to know I'd like to be sure Here's my hand pray for me. Yes, ma'am. Thank you Anyone else tonight preaching while you're praying for that one? Will you remember me too? I I'd like to know. I want to be sure. I want to know. Anyone else? Let me ask a third and final question tonight. How many of those who are here tonight could say, yes, sir, praise God, I know for sure if I died tonight, I am on my way to heaven. I do know I have eternal life. But you say, Preacher, God's Spirit spoke to my heart about being a testimony to the lost, about being a witness. I need to ask God to give me a boldness to go. I need to ask God to give me the Bible in my heart, to plan in people's lives. I need to ask God to give me a burden for those that are lost, that He can use me to bring others to the Lord Jesus Christ. Brother Will, would you remember my hand in prayer tonight? God spoke to my heart about that. How many would lift a hand to say that this evening? Yes. Amen. Praise the Lord for those hands tonight. You may put them down. Would you stand with me, please, together for a word of prayer this evening? As you've asked for prayer, I want to pray for those who've asked for prayer. Miss Katie's going to come to the keyboard again tonight. And after I've prayed, we want to give an opportunity for folks to respond to the word of God again. Heavenly Father, I thank you tonight for your precious word. Thank you for the simplicity and the clarity of what Jesus said in this passage. And not only what he said, but what he showed. Lord, I thank you. Lord, I pray that you'd help each one of us. to take the steps that each of us needs to make to be the effective testimonies for you that you want us to be. Lord, you didn't take us to heaven the minute we got saved, because there's still work to be done here. There's still others that need to be reached, and Lord, I pray that you'd use us to reach them. Lord, may each one of us be willing. Lord, maybe there's even someone here tonight with whom you're dealing about being involved in full-time service for you, Lord, in evangelism, or as a pastor, or a missionary, or the wife of one of those things. Lord, I pray that you would help us to be willing to do what Your will is for each one of us. Help us, Lord, to desire to know it. Thank You that we can know it. Thank You You tell us we need to know it. And Lord, help us to know it and help us to fulfill it. Lord, I pray that we'd find Your will and walk in it, that You would help us to be sensitive to Your Spirit day by day so that as You bring along the divine appointments that You place before us, we'll not say no when You say no. Lord, help us to know what to say. Help us to be willing to be used of you. And Lord, I pray for at least one here tonight who's not even certain whether or not if they died tonight, they'd be on their way to heaven. May they not leave tonight without settling that matter once and for all with Thee. We ask in Jesus' name. Our heads are bowed, our eyes are still closed, and as Katie plays just a verse or two of an invitation song, I want to give you an opportunity tonight to respond to the Spirit of God, to talk with Him about what He's dealt with you about. There's room if you want to come to the front and sit on an empty front chair or come and kneel at the edge of the platform or something to talk with God there, but you don't have to do that. You can pray right where you are tonight. You can have a seat where you are tonight. You can kneel where you are tonight. You can take the time to talk with the Lord this evening. If God's Holy Spirit is speaking to your heart, I want to encourage you to respond to Him. Ask for whatever you need tonight. He's not going to say no. It's His will in your life. Secondly, if you're with us tonight and you don't really know for sure whether or not if you were to die, you'd even be on your way to heaven, then please, would you allow us to have someone take a Bible for a minute and sit down with you and show you how you can be certain of that fact tonight? If you would, pastor is here. He'd be glad to have somebody take the Bible and pray with you. You can make your way to him. He'll be happy to have somebody take the scriptures and pray with you tonight if that's a need in your heart. If you're a lady or a young lady, we'll have a lady pray with you. If you're a man or a young man, we'll have a man pray with you. But I would encourage you tonight not to leave if you're not sure if you were to die whether or not you're going to go to heaven. You say, Bridget, do I have to go and talk with somebody else? No. If you understand tonight that you are a sinner and you're truly, honestly sorry for that sin and you believe the Lord Jesus loved you, that he died on Calvary's cross for your sin, that he rose again from the grave for your salvation. You believe that only he can save you. Tonight, you'd like to accept his free gift of eternal life. You can do that right now, right where you're standing, right there in your seat. Well, you say, but Preacher, I don't know what to pray. I have no idea what to say to God about it. I'd be happy to lead you in a simple prayer. You can pray right where you are tonight, if you'd like to. But let me encourage you, don't pray the prayer unless you truly mean what you're asking God for. If you don't mean business with God, He doesn't do business with you. But the Bible does promise in Romans 10 verse 13, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. So if you're not sure tonight whether or not if you died you'd go to heaven and you'd like to be sure of that, you'd like to settle that, why not just bow your head tonight, right now, right where you're standing. And pray this simple prayer in your heart to God and mean it with all of your heart as you pray. You don't even have to pray it out loud if you don't want to. You can pray silently in your heart. Some do pray out loud. Why not pray this prayer just now like this? Dear God, I know I'm a sinner. I'm sorry for my sin. But I believe that Jesus died for me. And that he rose again. And that only he can save me. So right now, God, I turn from my sin. Please forgive me. I take Jesus as my only Savior. Please give to me now your gift of eternal life. Save my soul tonight. Thank you, God, for hearing my prayer and for the promise that if I called, you would save me. So thank you for saving me tonight. Now may I live for Jesus, for it's in his name I ask. Now, if you prayed that prayer just now, right where you are tonight in your seat, and you truly meant what you prayed, I can guarantee you God heard that prayer and He's answered it tonight. You say, I don't feel any different. It has nothing to do with how you feel. It has to do with what God promised. He said if you would call and ask Him for that salvation, He would save you. And He's done that tonight. If you truly called upon Him and meant what you prayed. But that same passage that gives us that promise and that assurance says two verses ahead of that, whosoever believeth in Him shall not be ashamed. So let me just ask one final question before Pastor Short comes to close our service tonight. Is there anyone here tonight that might say, you know, Brother Webb, when I walked in here tonight, I did not know for sure if I died, whether I'd be going to heaven. Maybe I raised my hand, maybe I didn't. But when you prayed that prayer, you just prayed that prayer of salvation. I prayed that prayer after you, or with you, right here in my seat. And Brother Webb, I'd just like you to know, tonight I did ask Jesus to save me. If you did that tonight, would you let me rejoice with you in that just by slipping your hand up high enough for me to see it? If you prayed that prayer tonight, yes, man, God bless you. Yes, God bless you tonight. Anyone else do that this evening? Preacher, I prayed that prayer and I meant what I prayed. I would challenge you tonight, if you did so, let Pastor know or let his wife know, let somebody else know about that decision you made this evening. Don't keep it to yourself. Share it with others. Pastor, would you come? And then you can look up this way. I was thinking about a lady that I witnessed to last week in Edinburgh. And as I witnessed her, she was a Dutch atheist. And she sat on a bench in Edinburgh. And I just, an older lady, and she was pretty cynical when it came to the gospel. I said to her, I said, if I could give 1,000 pounds and you'd get saved, I'd give it. You know, she didn't want it. You know, she's thinking I meant give it to her. You know, I stopped and I thought, you know, Jesus gave his life so that she could get saved. You know, what have you given so that your family can get saved, so that your neighbor can get saved, so that this community can get saved? What does the gospel cost you? What have you paid so that others can get saved? Jesus paid it all. Praise God he did. I gave my life for thee, 546. I gave my life for thee, my precious blood I shed, that thou might'st ransom be and quicken from the debt I gave. I gave my life for thee, what hast thou given for me? 546. I give my life for Thee, my precious blood I share. That Thou might ransom me, And quaken from the dead. I gave, I gave my life for Thee, What hast Thou given for me? I gave, I gave my life for Thee, What hast thou given for me? My father's house of thy, Thy glory's circle grown, I left for earth. I left, I left it all for Thee, has now left all for me. I left, I left it all for Thee, has now left all for me. I've suffered much for Thee More than Thy tongue can tell A pitiless death I'll meet To rest with Thee from hell I've mourned, I've mourned in love for Thee What has the Lord for me? I've borne, I've borne it all for Thee. What has the Lord for me? And I have brought to Thee from my own mother. Salvation full and free, my guardian and my love. I bring, I bring rich gifts to Thee, God bless Thou brought to me. I bring, I bring rich gifts to Thee, God bless Thou brought to me. me. And I'm so glad that you're here tonight. Praise God. Good to see you all. We have three more nights. And so there's three more opportunities to pray and ask God, please, help me touch somebody's life. This is a great platform for the gospel. Jesus Christ did die for this. It's that important. And we need to be burdensome. God, by your grace, if there's somebody that I could help get to these meetings, I'm going to do my part. And I mean, they got to get themselves here. But I'm going to do my best to get them out. And we're praying in faith for God to really work in some hearts. God can. God is able. And so let's just keep going in faith. Appreciate Brother Webb, his ministry tonight, and Mrs. Webb, and their hard work for the Lord today. God bless the pastor's fellowship. It's great. Great blessing. And thank you for praying for that. We had a really sweet time today. And thank God for just a great day. All right, let's go ahead and pray and conclude our meeting here. Father, we're thankful for the grace that you give. And Father, it's real. It is life and death. And Father, more than physical life and death, it's eternal life and death. And Father, I pray that we'd be very sober in our heart to think that someday we're going to stand before the Son of God who died for the sins of those that, Lord, we neglect, we don't care about. We care more about our pride, what they think about us. We care more about our things and what we want to do. We care more about everything. other than the cause for which Christ died. Father, I pray tonight that the Spirit of God would help us to enter into the labor. Father, how are we going to pray the Lord of the Harvest Day and send forth laborers in the harvest field unless we ourselves are involved in evangelism and seeking to see souls saved. And Father, I pray that we get involved wholeheartedly, and that by the grace of God, we could cry out with passion, God, send forth laborers into the harvest field. And Father, we need it. And Father, we don't need poor workers in Scotland. We need citizens. We need nationals. We need this country to rise up and reach this country. And Father, I pray that the Spirit of God would do that. Even in our hearts tonight, we might think, well, I can't make that big a difference. But Father, Jesus Christ can, and the Holy Spirit of God can. And Father, you've used weak things, things that are not to bring to naught things that are. We don't need great talents, great abilities. But Father, we need to be available. And Father, I pray tonight that in our heart, we'd surrender to do our very best to be a gospel light. And Father, use us. and enable us. Bless our speaker tonight. He is a blessing to us. Bless the love offering, Lord, that we're giving to him this week. And bless those that are able to participate in that. And give. God bless them. Give to them. And Father, we pray that you would just unite our hearts in what you're doing here. Lord, this is good. This is what we need. And Father, I pray that you bless what's been done tonight as you blessed it as it happened. It's in Christ's name we pray. Amen.