all right first chronicles chapter one please first chronicles chapter one okay so the people so the younger kids they can leave and they can do their service if they want to stay here that's fine too whatever way you prefer so brother jack will be taking care of the english-speaking kids and sister joyce will be taking care of the koreans first chronicles chapter one please All right, I just want to make sure, who's doing kitchen duty today? Okay, Sister Barbara, Nat, okay, and Daniel, okay then. So if we run out of food, then you know what to do, right? Okay, just making sure everything's all good. All right, 1 Chronicles chapter one, please, and then we'll read verse one. All right, first of all, I just want to mention before some people online and other people think that I'm sick, so I am not sick. I know I sound sick, so if I shake your hand, if I come forward to you, please don't run away, okay? So I am not sick. What's going on is that I'm taking this new medication. For my as you know I have severe allergies and some onliners already knew that as well But I think it's healing actually so I was surprised I didn't think would heal me, but it's in a healing process so because of that There's a lot of stuff over here. Okay, so I don't know how long this will last I don't know how many YouTube videos will be posted me talking like Like that but Just put up with me for a couple days or weeks, God knows how long. Maybe the rapture will hit before then. Alright, 1 Chronicles chapter 1 and verse 1. And yes, you're reading the right verse. Adam, Sheth, and Enosh. Our whole nearly one hour sermon will be based on that one verse right there. Adam, Sheth, and Enosh. Now if you look at these names, what are your thoughts running in your minds concerning these names? So Adam is obviously a name that we all know very easily concerning the details of his life, but concerning Sheth and Enosh, not so much. So I believe that one day when we die, before, and then we come before the judgment seat of Christ, there's going to be people's information that we're going to know. Like, we hear big names. We hear the big names of John Wesley, Martin Luther, John Wycliffe, John Huss, J. Frank Norris, Mordecai Ham, Sam Jones, Billy Sunday, Hudson Taylor, William Carey, etc, etc. All these big names we would know. Let's say your pastor right here. You would know all the information. But then what about other information? Then there are some people that you kind of know and you kind of don't know, alright? Sean Lawler you kind of know, you know? Kind of know with his video on Divide. Robert Garcia, maybe you know him a little better because you hear his voice in the background, you know? Then you know Tom Cho, and some of you confuse me with him, I don't know why. But you'll know him a little more. And then other people, they don't know so much. And then there's Enosh, and you don't know who they are, Enosh. And perhaps this can refer to a lot of the people in our church. I will not name who you are so that you don't feel bad, okay? So, Enosh, you have no idea, no clue about these people. I would like to preach to you a sermon about concerning about information on each of these people and how significant it will be, how much of your information you are unashamed to reveal to the world. That's why there are those quiet people in church that you don't know much information about and perhaps the people like to remain that way. Why? Is there something ashamed? Is there something you're ashamed about? About your life? You don't want other people to know. See, that's the thing. I hope today would be a blessing to you. If the Lord were to show the world your ID, I wonder how you would feel. Today my title is, Show Me Some ID. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, one day our IDs will be showed before the judgment seat of Christ, and a lot of people might know some of these big names, other people we know a little bit about, and sadly, the greater majority of Christians we don't know. I pray that today's preaching will help every single Christian because this sermon will apply to every single Christian. But I am weak and I am frail and I cannot preach without your power, Lord. God, I know I'm unworthy, but worthy is the land that was slain. May you look upon his worthiness and fill within me so that your son can be lifted up more and more on his worthiness. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. My first point, look at your verse, Adam. Adam. He will be our first point. The first point is the father with the maximum info. The father with the maximum info. That's my first point. So Adam, we all know who he is. His name is mentioned 27 times in the Bible. There are a lot of details given about his life. But there is something that we mostly know him of. Despite of knowing Adam's information majority of the times, compared to Sheth and Enosh, there is one thing that we do know mostly about Adam. And that's not he lived a good life. He loved the Lord Jesus Christ. If I were to ask you what's the one thing that you know mostly about Adam, I think I would guess what it is. He's the one responsible for bringing sin. upon this world. See, the thing is, there are Christians here who can be confident about their life testimony. You might even be a great minister or missionary, and there are some Christians in Bible-believing churches who are confident and unashamed about people knowing about them, and they think they've done a lot of good work for Jesus Christ, and then because of that, they attempt soul winning all the time. Sunday school, Sunday sermons, they help out in the kitchen, they clean the room, they preach and teach on this pulpit, they sing and they help out the church, and then what happens is when you're faithful serving the Lord, then you start comparing yourself with other people. And then because of that, you have no idea that you don't mean to be prideful deliberately, but pride always comes in unconsciously. It starts from there. And then because of that, because you do so many works for Jesus Christ, you think people at least got to be somewhat to your level. And if someone is lower than you, then they must not be really right with God. But then if I were to do that with you or someone who is more righteous did that with you, how would you feel? See, that is wicked and that is sinful and that's what prideful Christians who faithfully love and serve Jesus Christ don't think. They don't think about their one sin problem. See, they always compare themselves and they always look at, look at how many souls I want to Jesus Christ and they will testify that to the church. They would unashamedly give enough money in the offering plate and then they would teach and even preach on this pulpit and then they, and then what do they have? They have the audacity, they have the audacity to have the pride sink in their hearts and think that Oh, you know what? So-and-so must not be right with God. The other person must not be right with God because they're not like me. But if somebody more righteous than you start to point out your sin problem, how would you feel? And see, that's the thing. You don't think about that one sin problem you got. that someone can accuse you of. And that's what you're accusing of this other person of, of that one sin problem. See, it doesn't matter how much maximum information that we know about you as a good testimony in this church, you can be mostly known for one big sin. Here's one thing. I notice in Bible-believing churches there are these people who've done great things for God. I've been to so many Bible-believing churches. They will teach. They will preach on the pulpit. They've done soul-winning street preaching and done so many works for Jesus Christ. But you know what happens when that person doesn't come back to church? You know what the church will mostly know that person as? This was the guy that started trouble for the pastor. And that's the one thing they will remember about that person despite of him teaching and preaching on the pulpit. Are you being for real? Yeah, I'm being for real. I'm not gonna name the people, obviously, but I'm being for real here. So you gotta watch your testimony. Hey, will you be willing for everyone in this church to see everything that you thought in your mind? Everything that you saw with your eyes? Are you confident of people knowing that kind of information about you? Or how you felt in your heart? No. So who do you think you are? You're a good Christian? You got to realize the judgment seat of Christ is not just displaying, oh what a great guy and the maximum information you think about. It's truly the maximum information that you didn't think about either. what you thought in your mind, what you saw with your eyes, what you said with your mouth, and how many things do you think you remember what you said out of your mouth? How many times have you thought that you remember how many things that you thought in your mind, even by accident? How about that? And didn't you know the judgment seat of Christ has to show every single one of those things? You ever thought about that? You ever thought about it so you think that you're right with God, you repented of every sin, and you got it right with God on the altar, you've done so many things for God in the church, but you don't think that... What about every single thing that you've done in your life? You gotta realize the judgment seat of Christ must show every single thing that you've done in your life. You're not a good Christian like you thought you were, huh? We get all mad at the wickedness rising in this world, the churches falling into apostasy, and the liberals giving a fit, but we get so preoccupied looking at their sins that we don't even look at our sins. And then we can't wait for God to fry them at the judgment, but we don't think about ourselves getting fried ourselves at the judgment seat of Christ. When I say fried, obviously I don't mean that you're going to burn in hell, but metaphorically seeking. God's going to grill you out. God's going to chew you out. That's what I mean. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5, verse 10. If you can't expose the maximum details of everything you thought in your mind, saw with your eyes, how can you be ready for the judgment seat of Christ? And you're too busy looking at all the lost sinners in this world and other Christians and even, say, Bible believers in this room. You're too busy seeing that. You're too busy looking at the pastor and other people, but you can't look at yourself? Especially at this judgment seat of Christ, you better be ready. Psalms 139, verse 23, it says, Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. You know, the verse says that when we get our thoughts judged at the judgment seat of Christ, that we want God to know our thoughts, that we want God to search us. You know why that verse is important? A lot of people think this way. You know, just because that you committed just these small little sins or sins that are probably minute detail, I can confess that plead under the blood and I'm taken care of. And that's why a lot of so-called righteous Christians think that they're okay with God. But you got to realize this is that the problem is we need to ask God to search what kind of sins we committed that we didn't even think about as well. You know why that's important? Pay attention now. That verse is so important because the reason why you became a self-righteous, prideful Christian is because there are things that you thought you got right with God. There are things that you thought that you'd done good things for the Lord Jesus Christ. There are sins that you thought you've taken care of and got the victory over. And Satan, he knows to attack your weaknesses, and then he'll let the unconscious sins start to come out of your life, in your thinking, out of your speech, out of your attitude, and everything without you even knowing about it. That's why it is so important that when you confess your sin to the Lord, that you also pray, Lord, if there be any sin that I don't know, please show me so I can get it right with you. Why is it there are people in churches and even pastors who don't realize that they're deceived, that they're in the wrong? Simple. They don't ask God to search them on what they did wrong. They think that they got it all right. And that's just a typical, even a lost atheist would think like that. Oh, I got it all right. You Christians don't know what you're talking about. See, just because you think you got it all right doesn't mean that you're right with God. Sincere people who love Jesus, who think they're right with God, and Pastor Kim is so mean to point out their sin and their problem. Yeah, you know why? Because these people are blind and in ignorance. They think they're in the right. Isn't that sad? I'm talking about sincere, genuine people. That's sad. That's why it's so important that you gotta have humility every single moment of your life and say, God, can I be in the wrong? Can I be in the wrong? Can I be in the wrong? And that's how judgmental people, self-righteous people come out easily. They don't think they're in the wrong. Don't I have to do that? Yes, I have to do that. You know why? Because I'm in the position of pastoral leadership. And because I have to guide them into all truth, you don't think that there is no fear of God in me? When I die, when I preach, when I teach, when I counsel anybody, I have to. I have to think, Lord, search me, make me say the right things, the right judgment, the right attitude and testimony that I should show to these people. Don't let me fall into wrongdoing. And guess what? Do you know how many times this pastor may have been in the straight and narrow way and not compromised, yet he still made mistakes after 10 years in the ministry? And you don't think that you're okay? You think that you're okay with God, huh? That's why you gotta ask God to search your heart. That's why you always have to be humble, realizing you could be wrong, you could be wrong, you could be wrong. You always have to have that attitude. That way you can correct yourself easily, and that's why God can raise you up more. I strongly believe the Lord lifted me up this much. Why? Because I always had to have that thinking. You know what the problem is, is that when this knowledge grows, and then what's going to happen is that this preacher can say, oh this pastor's wrong here, this pastor's wrong right there, this pastor's wrong right there, and he can't listen to good godly counsel. That's the danger with my case. You know that? Because I'm 31 years old, because the Lord blessed me with a lot of fruit. If there are older preachers around me who point out counsel and wrongdoing, you know what's so easy for this mind to do? Oh, I'm all right with God. I already prayed up. I already did all this, and I thought about it. No, you always have to have a humble mindset. Lord, search me and show me what I'm wrong. Mrs. Hannah Whithall Smith in The Christian Secret of a Happy Life, who wrote that work, she once talked about pressing upon a group of Christians about the duty and privilege of stepping into the promised land of holiness. But there was a lady who asked her, who said, well, I believe it's growing in grace. Mrs. Smith mentioned to her just how long Have you been growing into this experience? And then the lady, she answered, well, I've been doing it for 25 years, trying to grow in grace. You know what Mrs. Smith asked? How much more worthy and devoted to your Lord are you now than when you began? You know what the lady sadly confessed? I fear I am not nearly so much so now as I was then. You know what the problem with Christians who do all these works for Jesus Christ think? They think, oh, you know, I may not be that perfect, but I've done a lot for the Lord, and you know, I've done enough, and then, okay, how many months and years has it been, and is there a change? How much have you grown? Not so good after all, are you? So you're telling me then, okay, if you haven't grown as much compared to, I'm gonna even give one year, do you know how long one year is? And last year, if you're the same as you were last year, there's something wrong with you. And amen to that. I don't care how holy you were. Oh no, you're telling me to do more and do all this preacher, I'm perfect for Jesus Christ. Okay, you're telling me last year you never sinned? You're telling me last year you never sinned? So last year you never sinned, up to this year today you never sinned at all. So that, if you never sinned, then you don't have to change. If you did sin, then you know you have to change, and you have to improve this year compared to last year. Alright, my second point. The father with the medium info. The father with the medium info, and that's Sheth. Sheth. So his name is actually Seth. So some people know concerning about Seth that he's the son of Adam. So a lot of people have heard that name, or some people, excuse me, because it's like a medium information. His name is mentioned about nine times. Not many details of his life are given compared to Adam. But there is an information that we do know. He's known for replacing Abel's line for Christ, because Abel died. Genesis 4.25 and Genesis 5.3 would give that salient information we pretty much know about him. Now, there are Christians who are not confident with their life being revealed to the world, so they'll hide some details, obviously. So they're probably within that middle range, right? That medium range? But what you've got to understand is this, is that in 1 Kings chapter 15, verse 5, it says, because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, but then it has to, it has to close it with this, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. That verse shows that David did everything right for the Lord, and it has to close with except one sin. He committed sin. with Uriah's wife Bathsheba and murdered Uriah. Now notice that David was this close in being a perfect testimony. He was this close. But all it took was just one sin for the devil to take advantage of and completely ruin and hurt his life. You gotta realize this, is that despite of all your accomplishments and strength for the Lord that you've done in your life, you know where Satan's going to attack? He's going to attack your weak spot. So you may be the Christian that is in the middle range, you know. Now there are some services I skip, but you know I mostly made up most of the services. You got to realize this, it is those days that you skip that Satan will attack you. And it is those certain days that Satan eventually gets you away from church permanently. Is there a conviction here? It's those days where Satan gets on you, where you skip Bible reading and prayer. Oh, I've done my Bible reading and prayer, even though there were some days that I skipped. It is those days that you skip that Satan can take you a mile. It was just one time, pastor, that, you know, I said something wrong, or looked at something wrong, or heard something wrong in my ears, and yeah, but you know what? It was just those one times or couple of times that Satan takes advantage of. Those times. You think that you can give Satan an inch? No, Satan's not the type that, oh, I will be content with an inch. Okay, I will not pass this line. Gene, Kim, give me that inch, okay? I promise I won't pass this line. I'll never lie to you. I'm a good boy. No, Satan is the father of lies, master of manipulation. You give him an inch, he'll tear it even a mile. That's right, brother. Amen. Watch out. Watch out. Now, obviously, I'm not bashing everybody in here. You know that, oh, you know, I expect perfect church attendance, perfect soul winning, perfect Bible reading, etc. We're not that type of church. But I'm supposed to preach to you the Word of God and make sure that you get right with the Lord and get things right with God. To be quite honest, I could care less. Well, you know, part of me wants everybody to come, obviously, and then fill up the room. But another part of me really don't care, because I know God's in control. So because God's in control, numbers don't matter to me. But here's the thing, is that even though I may not care about that, you should care about yourself. You should care about yourself, how you're living for Jesus Christ. Let's use some common sense. Satan will not attack you in an area where you're really good at, such as soul winning. You're good at soul winning? Satan's not going to attack that. But he knows that you're putting the wrong things in your mouth, and he's going to attack that. See, Satan's not going to attack you where your armor is strong. He's going to attack you where your armor is weak. And some of you know what your weaknesses are. And Satan, he's gonna keep punching that hole. You know what the Bible says? The darts, right, of the enemy. Now if you've got your armor here, that dart's just gonna go like this. If he's a really smart enemy, okay, Satan's not stupid. Alright, a lot of us, we think Satan is stupid every day, so we gamble with sin, we gamble with God, we play church, you know, we don't do serious for the Lord, because we think Satan's stupid. We think Satan's so stupid that when he's throwing the darts, that when he throws the darts, it's going to hit us in an area that I'm ready for, that I'm strong. That's how stupid you think Satan is. But you're so stupid. I'm sorry if I offended you, but you're so stupid because Satan, he's throwing a dart at an area where you're exposed. And you're so stupid that you think, oh, the dart's going to hit me here. So it's not going to hit here. I'm going to be fine. There's an opening right here, but rarely is it going to happen. What are the chances that I go home? I'm going to be tempted with that same temptation. And that Satan is going to just put me into that kind of persecution and family problem, the financial problem. And then when Satan starts attacking here, you come crying to church and say, Oh, I didn't expect this would happen to me. Why didn't you? Why didn't you expect it? The enemy with the dart is going to, he's not so stupid to go, okay, I'm going to hit you at your armor. I'm going to hit you at your armor. No, he's going to see it right here. And he said, I'm going to hit right there. If you're a good enemy, if you're a good attacker, he's going to hit you at your weakness. You ready? Turn to second Chronicles 25, please. Now keep your hand here. Keep your hand here, because we're going to return to there. 2 Chronicles 25. 2 Chronicles 25. We're going to look at 2 Chronicles 25, verse 1. 2 Chronicles 25, verse 1. In this passage it talks about Amaziah who followed God rightly, but guess what? He didn't do it perfectly. If he did it perfectly, the Bible says God could have given him so much more. You know what the problem is? I know, I know this, that majority of Christians in here, a greater majority of Christians in here are not all the way in perfect blessing with Jesus Christ. I'm not saying everyone, but I have a feeling that it's going to be most people here. Because a lot of you have that love and desire to serve God. You want to help out the church, and you are being a blessing to me and people in here, but there are some things you're not willing to let go. And those some things, that's why God, you know what? He can't fully bless you. Do you know how much more God can bless your life if you let everything go? That's why your whole life has always been struggling and blessing, struggling and blessing, struggling and blessing, when he could have probably blessed. Why not get the complete blessing, huh? Why not the full blessing? Why not the full joy? Are you happy with just being half happy with your Christian life? Seems like most of us want to be half happy with our Christian life. Do you like the feeling of depression and misery? Don't you want the full joy of Jesus Christ? I want it, Pastor! Then let him have all! Why not? 2 Chronicles chapter 25 verse 1, Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem and his mother's name was Jehoadam of Jerusalem and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord but what? Not with a perfect heart. Imagine if I said Tom Cho did that which was right in the sight of the Lord but not with a perfect heart. Tom Cho preached in pastor's place here, but he wasn't serving God with a perfect heart. He came to soul winning despite the busyness in his school, but he was not with the perfect heart. All right, Tom Cho is not here. That's why I can grill him right now. But see, that's the thing. Put your name in there. Put your name in there. You helped out pastor, thank you, thank you so much, Tom Cho. But did you do it, but not perfectly, right? I helped out the church, I helped out the pastor, I talked to the brother and sister, made them feel welcome, but not with a perfect heart. Not perfect, huh? Look at verse 14. Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them." Wow. Well, verse 14, he ended up in wickedness and in sin, and that's where Satan is aiming at. It is said that in the diamond mines of South Africa, they often find a substance that is half charcoal and half diamond. It was intended to be a diamond, and the guy was searching. Imagine if you were searching for it, and then you found the diamond, and you're like, oh, this is great, and when you pick it up, ugh, the other side, half charcoal. Somewhere nature's chemical processes was interrupted somehow. Somehow it left partly a cinder and partly a jewel. It stopped short and will never get into, what, the king's crown in South Africa. They were searching for these diamonds that they could put it for the king's crown. And when they find it, it's right there. OK, perfect. And then, oh, it's just that charcoal there. And that's God Almighty putting you up, putting you in his crown, giving you something big at the judgment seat of Christ, giving you a great calling, giving you a great task and a great blessing. And then, oh. Why, Gene? Why? Not yet. You're going to have to wait longer now for the full blessing. You're going to have to pray more. You're going to have to struggle more. I'm going to have to deal with you more until you finally get it right with God. Sorry. Imagine, man, you stopped short of the judgment seat of Christ. Why? Because somewhere in nature's chemical process, somewhere in your life, it stopped short. And you better figure out what that is and get that right with God. My last point, the Father with the minimum info. The Father with the minimum info. If you return to our main text, which you don't really have to turn to because you probably memorized the verse by now. Our announcer should have given you this verse to memorize, right? In Philippians 4, yeah. Notice the last part of the verse, Enosh. Enosh. And that is the father with the minimum info. How many of you know who Enosh is in the Bible? I'm not talking about Enoch who got raptured, okay? I'm talking about Enosh. See? No. Hardly anyone. His name is mentioned seven times. No details of his life given in the Bible. You're not going to find it except his name being mentioned. The only thing that you'll know him for is that he's in the line of Jesus Christ. That's it. Genesis 5, 9 through 11. But see, that's the thing, is that there are Christians in this world, and this makes up the greater majority of Christians, if not 99% of the Christians. The greater majority of Christians in this world, nothing we know about their lives, the only thing that's good about them is that they're a safe Christian. And that's it. Is that you? Is that you? That's the only good detail that we can confidently show about you at the judgment seat of Christ. At the judgment seat of Christ, you're a saved Christian. After that, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. And then you lose your reward at the judgment seat of Christ. You're ashamed. Are you that person? You might be a saved Christian, but are you the person who is this person right here, Enosh? You better realize this, is that 1 Timothy 1, 19 through 20, it says, holding faith and a good conscience. Holding it, why? You have to hold it, because which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrecked, of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. You know what that verse shows? That verse shows that you might be a saved Christian But you know I'm right when I say this. If you're the saved Christian who's living wickedly, you do know that your conscience has gotten seared. At first you're under conviction, but you're losing the conviction. Especially if you haven't been to church for a while, been around Bible-believing brethren for a while, you know that you lost your conviction real quick. And then you don't have a care in the world with how you talk, how you behave, and your Bible reading, your prayer life, how you serve Jesus Christ. You hardly give a flip. And that conscience, that's so dangerous. You know what happens now? You lost your conviction. And that's what Satan wants. He wants you to lose your conviction. That way you can live every day in your life saying the same old dirty words, looking at the same old dirty things, listening to the same old dirty things in your mouth, in your ear, listening to the same old dirty things. And then going to the same old dirty places where your feet go. Same old dirty things that your hand touch, you hardly felt the Holy Spirit convicting you. You know why? If you're not careful, it will soon be turned over to Satan. What? Really, Pastor? A safe Christian can be demon possessed? Yeah, a safe Christian can be demon possessed. How many churches you heard teaching about that? Oh, I don't believe in that because Satan can't go inside me because the Holy Spirit's in there. Hey, a lot of people, they're very ignorant of doctrine, and because they don't know much doctrine, that's why Satan takes advantage of them. The Holy Spirit may be inside you, but guess what? The Holy Spirit is part of the spiritual nature, not of your fleshy nature. You've got two natures, a spiritual nature and a fleshy nature. That spiritual nature has a boundary line that's not going to touch the fleshy nature. That's why you're eternally secured, see? That's why your soul cannot be contaminated with sin, see? Because you're a part of the spiritual nature that has a boundary line around it. But outside of that is flesh, flesh, flesh. This is flesh. This is flesh. This is flesh. This is flesh. And don't tell me you don't do things wickedly with these things. And you don't think Satan can't contaminate this when this is a wicked thing? This is not sinless. This is sinful. And that gives Satan every advantage and right to do what he can with this. You know, it is only by God's mercy and grace, and perhaps some Bible-believing Christian who cares about you and loves you, that Satan didn't get a full control over you yet. I really believe that. I say that over and over again. The reason why I'm able to survive like this as a Bible-believing pastor is two things. Truly the mercy and grace of God and the prayers of the saints. That's all that I am that I am. I really mean that. You got to realize this. If you're this person right here with the minimum info, you're in dangerous ground and God's mercy and grace is what only kept you alive. Some Bible-believing Christian was the only one who kept you alive. That Satan didn't get a full control over you. So this one, you should, man, pastor, you're scaring me. Good, you need to be scared because this world all the time, you got too comfortable with the world that you lost your fear of the Lord and you don't care about how you live your life for Jesus Christ. You need this fear of God back. You need to realize Satan can control your life. You need to repent and you need to get right with God. But I know the difficulty that these type of Christians will say. It's so hard to live holy. It's so hard to live for Jesus Christ. Why are you telling me to do this? Why is it so hard? Well, you gotta realize this. It's still a command, 1 Peter 1, 16. Be holy, for I am holy. Well, that's so hard. No, the Bible says, 1 Corinthians 10, 13, God is not going to give you a temptation greater than you can bear. Do you think God told you, OK, hey, you're going to have to be persecutive and not deny my name and you're going to be burnt at the stake? Did God give you that kind of trial and temptation like so many other Christians He gave? Come on, man. God didn't give you that kind of temptation and trial. He gave you a temptation and trial that He knows you can handle. See that? Your temptation and trial is not the same as my temptation and trial. God gives everyone differently. Why? Because God knows what's best for you and what you can handle and what you can take care of. The reason why you complain it's so difficult is because you're so infatuated with only looking at your own difficulties, your own temptation and trials, and you've gotten so spoiled and rotten that you think all the world's pain revolves only around your own temptation and trial. What about the gazillion other temptation and trials that you have not experienced in life? You don't know what a heart is. It's not hard, it's because you've gotten so comfortable in this America comfortable life. So comfortable you have to have something pop out every two seconds and then it's not fast enough. You've gotten too comfortable and spoiled. That's why. God's never going to give you a command that's impossible. So you gotta take comfort and peace in that. You gotta say, you know what your problem is? You don't have faith. You don't believe in God. You don't believe God is there to give you the victory, to give you the strength, that this is a trial you can handle, that you can overcome. You don't believe in Him, period. That's your problem. You gotta have faith that God is a good God, that God is a powerful God, and you can do all things through Him, and stop getting so much into the flesh where you feel pain. Start getting into the spirit where you say, I'm gonna defeat this flesh. Many might be despaired about being in Enosh, in the church. Some of you, after hearing this message, you might go, man, pastor, You know, what's the point of living for Jesus Christ? There's so much work and I'm such a wicked person. You got to realize this, there is so much hope. Didn't you know that you could be the person who's an Enosh, but could be better than all of us? No, I don't believe you pastor. See, that's your problem. You have so much little faith in God's power. You can be better than me. I strongly believe in that. You know why? You got a God who's more powerful. Oh, pastor, like, you know, I haven't been through the trials and temptation. I got to go through many years of experience like you. I got to do this and this and this. Hey, man, who are you looking at? Are you looking at my race or are you looking at Jesus Christ? You better be looking at Jesus Christ. You got to realize this. God can make you better than anybody else at the judgment seat of Christ. You might go, no, I'm too despaired. Well, you got to realize this. If you read Genesis 5, every generation seems to get worse. Enosh, right here, is the third in line from Adam. But if you keep reading down, the Bible says that wickedness was so great that no one was righteous pretty much except Noah. So God killed the whole world. Man, that's despairing. I get it. But guess what? There was a person. whose name was Enoch. And he had the best record, better than Adam, the first person. Enoch was much better than Adam. That the Bible says because he walked with God, God raptured him. Before that tribulation of Noah's flood came down and drowned the whole world of God's judgment. Now get this now. You've got to realize that God, He can transform an Enoch into an Enoch. I'm an Enoch and I can never get right for God. No. There's an Enoch. There's an Enoch here. But will you be willing? That's the thing. Who are you today after you heard this message? Are you an Adam? A person who had the maximum information that you're proud of for the Lord Jesus Christ. But to be quite honest, you're not so perfect after all. You're just self-righteous and unconsciously prideful. Are you Seth, are you a Seth? You might be a person, which I think is a greater majority. There are people who do great things for the Lord Jesus Christ and love God, help out this church. There are some things that they didn't let go. Some things they're still sitting and messing up. Or perhaps some of you, you're an Enosh. You're a person that you're not proud to be a Christian because you're such a wicked person. You messed up. But guess what, God can transform any of these people, Adam, Sheth, Enosh, into an Enoch. What was Enoch known for? He was known for simply, nothing great, not preaching on the pulpit, not teaching, not drawing little doodles, and not winning hundreds of souls to salvation. Just one simple thing that you should have known all this time, Enoch walked with God. And he was not, for God took him. That's all it is. Just walk with God. The temptation trial God gave you to bear. And trust me, naturally, you will grow. Naturally, you will become that person that can be better than anybody in this room. At the judgment seat of Christ, don't let me be the person as the best person in this church at the judgment seat of Christ. You be the one. Every head bow and every eyes shut. The altar call is open. If the Lord laid upon your heart, you can come forward here on the altar's floor. We got room over here, you can come forward here or on the aisle if the Lord laid upon your heart. You can pray in your seats or you can pray here on the altar's floor, however way the Lord laid upon your heart. Are you an Adam? Are you a Seth? Are you an Enosh? Which one are you? What is your ID? One day at the Jesuit seat of Christ, God's gonna say, show me your ID. What will it be? We always want to make sure each and every person is saved. We don't want anyone to burn in hell after they die. So I would like to ask you this question. If you were to die today, are you 100% sure you can go to heaven? You might say, man, pastor, I'm not sure if I can go to heaven. We want you to get saved right now. It's so easy, so easy to get saved. Three simple steps. Step number one, you've got to realize that sin is the problem and God judges every sin with hell forever. You might say, well, pastor, I've sinned in my life before. I don't want to burn in hell. Well, step number two, Jesus is God who died, buried, and resurrected. And every one of you heard that story like a thousand times, you know, Jesus died, buried, resurrected. But do you know what that story means? A lot of people heard the story, but they don't know what it means. You gotta realize, remember, because you sin, you burn in hell, right? That's the problem. Why can't you go to heaven? Why are you gonna burn in hell? Because you sin, right? The only thing that can wash away the sin is the blood of Jesus. That's why. Jesus died, went through the bloody mess. You see that's your only means, your only ticket to go to heaven. So a lot of people make the mistake thinking that, you know, to go to heaven, I've been to church, I got baptized, I've done good things, I cleaned up every sin that I've committed in my life. My friend, anything you do cannot save you. Those are good works. No work, no effort you do saves you. If you think good works save you, why did Jesus even bother dying for you? See? He died because that's the only thing that can save you, what he did on the cross. So we're in step number three. So step number three, all you need to do is just say to God, say to God, God, I know sin is a problem that puts me to hell, so I repent. I can only just believe in what you did on the cross to save me. I'm not believing in my good works. I'm not believing in my baptism, my church, my religion, my cleaning up of my sins, my getting myself right with you. No, I'm not trusting, I'm not believing in those things to save me. I'm only believing in what you did on the cross, your shed blood to save me. If you would simply say that, then you're saved. It's that easy. 15 seconds or less. You might say, I don't know how to say it to God. Could you help me out, Pastor? Sure. I'll be glad to help you out. I could give you the words and you can repeat after me. But remember this, repeating words in a prayer does not save you. Just saying some prayer doesn't save you. It's believing in what Jesus did on the cross to save you. I'm just giving you the words how to say it, that's all. Look, this is completely private. No one knows who you are and every head is bowed and eye is shut and I'm not gonna call you out. You don't even have to repeat after me out loud. You can just say it inwardly. You don't even have to repeat after me out loud. You can just say it inwardly. You can repeat after me in this way. You can tell God, dear God, I repent as a sinner. I believe. Jesus is God who died, buried, and resurrected so his blood can wash away my sin. I'm only believing in what you did on the cross to save me. I'm not believing in my good works. to save me in Jesus name I pray amen amen if you could bow your head and close your eyes just one last time please this is out of respect for the people next to you now I'm if some of you have just repeated those words after me if you say preacher I just got saved right now I told God that I repent and believe what He did on the cross to save me. Could you just slip up your hand real briefly right now, please? I'm not going to point out who you are, and every head is bowed and every eye is shut. I just want to, when I close in prayer, I just want to thank God for your salvation. Could you just slip up your hand real briefly right now and say, Preacher, I just got saved right now. Did anyone get saved today? Anyone? Okay, thank you for your honesty. We're gonna close with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, I trust that every single person in this room with a repentant heart have trusted in what you did on the cross to save them. Thank you so much for salvation. Now that we are saved children of God, we've got to get to work. because our information will be shown at the judgment seat of Christ. And I pray that we will not be in despair about our ID, our information being shown. May we not be ashamed, may we be glad. The reaction we should see at the judgment seat of Christ is gladness, Lord, and not sadness. But it is so sad, Lord, how many Christians have fallen into the praise of the flesh, of the world, and of the devil. I pray, Heavenly Father, that our ID information of San Jose Bible Baptist Church will be the best at the judgment seat of Christ. We believe in your power and promise, and we can become that. Will you help us? In Jesus' name we pray, amen.