The new church building and the conference

You can say what you want, but you won't around me Deep among misfits

A misfit in the trailer park at night A misprint with the sixth sense

Been sick ever since my brother died of an O .D. My two cents never made sense

Either to me or anyone else's side of the sheet fence My 9th Smith on my right side

Tell me what's the bottom line

The bottom line is I'm not right I'm not left, but this elephant won't find

And I can't find my assigned seat to sit in My theology don't fit in Black sheep of the

Reformation sheep pen Reformed, I'm just another Baptist Baptized again, the bastard child of Anabaptists Hostage child of Reformation societies

Yo, yo, yo, what's up?

Hope everybody is doing good As you can tell from the bottom of the screen It doesn't say Open Earth Theology This is my channel

And we thought we'd jump on my channel tonight And my channel is the Black Sheep Gang And so we're just saying

What's up? My name is Jeff And I am one of the co -hosts of Open Earth Theology And we're on here tonight just to Talk a little crap

Stuff like that But I am one of the pastors One of the pastors of Covenant Reformed Baptist Church In Tallahoma, Tennessee And there's really not much else to say

I'm going to pass it over to this old man over here Before he just turns to dust and flies away

Hey everybody, my name is Tom Shepard And I'm with Even of None I'm also a co -host of Open Earth Theology I'm also a member of Grace Bible Church of Birney, Texas Which is about 20 miles north of San Antonio And we do evangelism every weekend

In Fredericksburg, Birney, San Antonio As far south as Corpus Christi Sharing the gospel on the streets

I'm glad to be here And Red, I don't know if you know it But your mute button is on But it's down to you, bro

What's going on, brothers? Can you hear me? Yeah We can hear you Okay, is there any echo or anything like that?

Well, that's okay You never sounded good anyway Yeah, no Hey, wait You have like a shine right here

Yes, sir Yeah, man, got the new dude going on What's good, brother?

Tell us about you I'm a member at Covenant Reformed Baptist Church Evangelist there

And just seeking to glorify God And make His name known Amen Amen, amen

So how was church today, Red? Church is always phenomenal, man

We always have a good time Fellowship and worshiping the Lord The preaching was second to none today

Do you have a guest preacher? Do you have a guest preacher? No, man, but Pastor Jeff preached on Hebrews 2, verses 5 -17

On the purpose of Christmas And it's just a different facet of God's grace

That Jeff just played today Extolling the excellencies of Christ It was really good

That's awesome, man Mine was good, too We had a short service today

Well, actually, not a short service But we didn't have equipping classes in the morning Because of the holidays

And surprisingly Typically, I think, here at our church It doesn't really fill up with the holidays

A lot of guests were there today And Michael Beck preached in Luke 1

When Gabriel was telling Mary About the King of Kings That she was getting ready to give birth to It was

God incarnate That God became a man And lived a life in our place

And went to the cross and paid for our sin That story never gets old

Never gets old I tell you what If that story is owed to you

You might need to check your heart Absolutely, man Yeah, we did have a good

Lord's Day We've been going through So the whole month of December I've been teaching Sunday school

And I've been teaching on Christology And that's what we've been learning about The two natures of Christ Jesus is truly

God And every way that the Father and the Holy Spirit is God Jesus in His incarnation is

God And He's also truly man And every way that you and I are a human being

Look at that Bible Jesus also was a human being And so we've been going through different heresies

Such as Apollinarianism Which taught that Jesus was

His body was truly human But His mind was a divine mind

And if that's the case He's not truly human And I've even been getting down to the blood

Like a lot of people I think it was in the 70s and 80s and early 90s

With the independent fundamental Baptists They had an issue

That the blood of Jesus was divine It was not human blood

Well, if that's the case Then Jesus wasn't truly a human So just kind of pointing out that When the

Bible talks about the blood of Jesus It's a euphemism for the gospel The death that He died in our place

We're covered So basically when we say we're washed in the blood We're washed in the gospel of Jesus Christ The work that He has done in our place

And then Talking about His death Yeah, yeah

Jeff highlighted this morning In Bible study Sunday school

That there was nothing special about Jesus' blood You know, if there was

If it was If there was something special about His blood

Then He wasn't every way human like we are You know It was really good

But it was because of who He was Yes The two natures in one person

What makes His death special Is the life that He lived in our place

So He had to be the spotless lamb In order for a lamb to be sacrificed

And for that blood to please God It had to be spotless So in order for a human blood to please

God That human blood has to have a spotless record

And that's where Christ came in our place Live His act of obedience And live in the life that we could not live

His passive obedience would mean nothing Outside of His act of obedience

Right You know, it's interesting That can get really deep We've been going pretty deep

It's been fun too We've been laughing And the questions that Jeff has posed

He listed 30 questions for us to answer Throughout our

Sunday school And we've gotten through 19 of them

And he skipped a few But they've been really challenging Sure They make you think

I mean, you think about it God cannot die Which is another reason why He had to come as a man

To not put death in our place And because you can't separate the two natures So in one sense

You can accurately say that God did die And it also says God is not a man

And yet He becomes a man And yet He didn't die Yeah, He did die

But the man that had Yeah, yeah, yeah But because you can't separate the two natures

So since the incarnation You can't separate the two natures So you can rightly say that God died

Because of the human flesh that died Just like you can rightly say That Mary held

God in her arms Sure And you can rightly say that As Mary was holding

God in her arms That Jesus, as God, was holding the universe together Holding her all together

Holding the universe together by the word of His power That's exactly Most of those are true

That's exactly what I wrote down So I quoted Him this morning in my sermon notes It says Mary held God in her arms

While Jesus held the universe together By the word of His power And He's taken that from the

Chalcedonian definition But also in Hebrews chapter 1

Yeah, not only in the incarnation Not only in His birth

He was holding everything together As He was a child Think about the cross

He was holding everything together As they were nailing Him to the cross That's enough

That's enough to put a smile on a Baptist's face Ain't it? That'll make you go from juice to wine

What we say in Tallahoma In Tallahoma If that don't fire you up Your wood's wet

Hey man, the church looks great I saw a before and after picture Yeah It looks good man

There's still some things that we need But all in all Everything's coming together really good

God has been good Somebody posted on your Facebook Jeff They said that You made a change from that boring old

Baptist white That Baptist white was actually It wasn't white

It was lavender Yeah Even the walls look lavender

Because of the light coming in Reflecting off from the carpet It was bad

It was terrible You can Like when I walked in I knew that no man

Had any say so in that church Like there's that video

That's going around That black guy He says I ain't gay no more

After we painted those walls I walked in I could have swore I heard the church building say

I ain't gay no more At least they ain't woke

We might be broke But we ain't woke I'd rather be broke than woke

Amen Did you guys get any evangelism done this weekend Or past weekend I haven't been able to do anything

My Saturdays have been focusing At the church And normally usually when it gets like Super code

I don't get to go out much Because I don't like you to code I was trying to tell

Red We can take these Saturdays And work on some teaching stuff Like you know

Training him in some areas But he's too much of an evangelist He don't want to do that He wants to get out there and preach all the time

I get it But he's got a little more meat on him Which today he summarized as He's just got a little more of the

Holy Spirit That's right More room for the feeling baby

I do want to say We had gone

Well we did some evangelism Actually there was two events There's a guy by the name of Daniel That goes to our church

And he's got a big heart For the Afghan community in San Antonio The Pashtun tribe actually

And it's one of the One of the people groups That is least

Least gone to To evangelize To hear the gospel and all that And they went out

Saturday With a mercy ministry Giving them clothes And sharing the gospel with them

And stuff like that And I wasn't there My wife and I And we had some other people

From a different church Actually Ryan Denton's old church Out of Dallas actually

Or he's affiliated with Vanguard Covenant Presbyterian Anyway I went out with them

To Fredericksburg but I want to tell you So these guys Bobby and Daniel Went out and Latisha And a couple of others went out

And they met this Afghan group Mostly kids Six years old, seven year old

Ten years old And they've been trained up by their parents To just hate the infidels

They were throwing Cake at them Kicking their cars Flipping them off Cussing at them

And I mean these are six and ten year old kids Wow that is awful

Yeah And you know it's just And the parents were around And they were supporting them

And as Daniel was telling me the story Bobby was telling one of the adults He was saying you know We're coming with you in love

And you guys are responding by hate And condoning What the kids were doing

And he goes you know our kids don't act like that Christian kids You know not that they're perfect But they don't act like that You don't go over there and you don't do that to adults

But it's just horrible And these are the people that Came over, they're refugees

From Afghanistan when the whole thing When Trump brought them over Because they were helping the

United States And that's what they were treating The gospel And then we went out caroling

And I don't mean to take it all up We went out caroling To the neighborhoods

It wasn't really promoted Real big in the church at all It wasn't mentioned from the pulpit at all

And everything but it was passed around by mouth You know who's going to want to go do caroling And we started downtown

Burning Nobody was downtown burning so we went in the neighborhoods Rose 40 people

From our church 36 to be exact Came from our church I can sing as a group

But not solo Thanks for sparing us Yeah Anyway so yeah you're welcome

We went from house to house And we rang the doorbell And we just started singing And the people came out

And we gave a gospel message out there Every song, you guys it was such a blessing It was awesome

And then we went to Fredericksburg And like I've always said Every holiday time in Fredericksburg At Markerplatz when they turn out the lights

I send a video on Facebook It rose A thousand people were there

Literally a thousand people Standing around and listening to the gospel It's such an encouragement

You know it's such a good time of year To do evangelism So that was our weekend

What you were saying about the Afghans That were so hostile towards the gospel Pastor Jeff really emphasized today

Also in 2 Timothy Chapter 2 verses 24 -25 The slave of the

Lord Must not be quarrelsome You know Must be able to correct

Those that oppose the gospel With gentleness In hope that The Lord will grant repentance

That leads to the full Knowledge of Christ Or the full knowledge of the truth

Rather So that's something we have to keep In the forefront of our mind When we go out to a hostile world

One of the things in Hebrews That I think a lot of people overlook Is that Paul I believe is preaching a message

And Luke is Describing what he Preached Because the theology is

Pauline And the writing is more Lukean Is that The Hebrew Christians They're on the run

They're being persecuted by Jewish By the religious

Jews And they're being put to death They're being slaughtered They're being

Towed that Christ is Victor And they're wanting

Victory over this persecution And so Whenever You look into the

Hebrew Story, the Jewish story They held to angels

Leading them So there's stories all throughout the Old Testament How an angel would come

And either empower them in victory Or an angel would come And slaughter their enemies

So that's the kind of victory that they were looking for They were looking for some kind of Angel of the

Lord to come With a sword And to mop up the Jewish religion

To save them And Paul is saying No God did not send an angel

To subdue the world That word subdue there It's hapataso

And it means to take control of Or to put in Subjection to subdue To put under one's rule

For obedience Tell us what we have Tell us Tell us what we got

Instead of the sword He sent his son And through his life

Death, burial and resurrection Particularly in his death So this is that euphemism of the blood In his death he defeats the devil

By taking away his power Power of death And that's him being bound

So the devil can no longer deceive the nations And that although it looks It doesn't look like he has put the world

In subjection He has And the only way to see nations

Come to Christ Because a lot of people We get on this Christian Nationalist And stuff like that, that subject And the problem is

It's just like you see there They're wanting angels to come and rescue them Well because angels haven't come to rescue us

Men have picked up the sword To try and rescue themselves And we see this all throughout church history

We see this stuff starting to kick back up When in reality The sword is the word of God And so if you want to see nations

Want to Christ You have to get out there and preach the gospel Of Jesus Christ You want to see people saved

Preach the gospel of Jesus Christ And that is the only way for the revival Is going to come

Go ahead I was going to say Instead of taking matters into our own hands

Doing what we think is right Doing what is right In our own mind and our own thinking

It's the power of God And the salvation through the gospel That's the weapon That's how the world is conquered

Through the message Of Jesus Christ What he has done for us

And that's exactly what those kids need They need to hear They need to hear the message of Jesus Christ I truly believe that as one

Is throwing the cake Their heart can be changed Look at the man on the cross

The thief on the cross Was changed on the cross As he was blaspheming his name

Something happened As he was You think about that When he was on the cross

He was thinking about who Jesus was He was thinking about the miracles That he performed

He was thinking about that he hadn't done any sin And then it was like The Holy Spirit went boom

And he went like oh snap He is God I am a thief

I don't deserve this Christ doesn't deserve it I deserve this

Ephesians chapter 2 verse 4 But God made us alive Even when we were dead in our sin

And trespasses By grace you have been saved Right? To which of the angels

Did he ever say You are my son Today I have begotten you It's amazing

The Holy Spirit granted life to that thief Yes Matthew is dogging him

And then in the other gospels He is dogging him But then he asks for him to remember him And I would argue

I think I can make an argument And I was explaining This to Jeremiah The apologetic dog

That I believe those thieves Were Gentiles Because you did not crucify

Jews Yeah Because you would bring a curse on the ground

Right It was against Judaism at the time

They wouldn't allow it Only Jesus They were like crucify him

Wasn't Barnabas a Jew though And they were going to crucify him They didn't say crucify Barnabas You mean

Barabbas Yeah Because I do remember when they were saying

There's a tradition That's what Pilate said That there was a tradition But it didn't say they were going to crucify him

Like you said Jeff There's a tradition that we're going to release one to you And he was trying to Yeah Get out of the prison that Pilate was in When he knew he was innocent

And tried to release him I mean you got to think of the law code Concerning Jerusalem Right Anyone who hangs on a tree

Is accursed of God Right But you could not let them hang overnight

Right And so Would the Jews Allow for them to Have another

Jew Hanging overnight in Jerusalem I think there would have been an up war Sure Right And it was right before the

Passover I mean it's going against their law Right Do you think

Barabbas was a zealot For sure Because it says he was

A murderous insurrectionist Yeah You had the sect of the zealots

At that time I would say he was an unrighteous zealot Would that make sense

I don't think that he was for good We're all unrighteous zealots Good in his own mind

We're all unrighteous zealots brother Yeah I mean no I'm saying that I don't think it was for righteousness sake

I think that he was going against the grain Just simply Because he didn't like their power or whatever

Not for righteousness Thinking that they were just too religious And doing something wrong

I think he was just going against the grain Just because he was a rebel Just my opinion

Total conjecture For sure For sure So yeah everything is going good at the church

We have another Inspection Tomorrow So we had an inspection

So this is a codes inspection We had one Thursday And they made a list of some things

I needed to get done So I spent Thursday evening and Friday evening Getting all that done

And so we have an inspection meeting With the codes department Tomorrow At 10 o 'clock

So if all goes well Which I don't see any reason why it won't Like I think we got it done

Nailed down now If all goes well Our first Lord's Day service will be

The 29th So we plan on having A Christmas Eve service there

This Tuesday And then Throughout the week and the evenings

Me and Pastor Cal are going to be moving some stuff And then Saturday the 28th We'll make sure we move everything

From the current church building Into the new church building And have our first service there

The 29th And we're changing our Livestream a little bit Because we've been getting a lot of kickback

Because of the music And so we're only going to be Livestreaming the Preaching service

And it will be going off of this Stream yard that I have

And so the Livestream will run off of the church's YouTube channel

The church's Facebook page And probably my personal

Facebook page to kind of get More eyeballs on it Yeah Hmm Speaking of more eyeballs

More eyeballs on it So and I think we're going to be Talking about this too is that we're

Trying to figure out You know maybe Going back to the old platform

With Open Air Theology Just to get more people To see

There's Melissa, hey We miss you Melissa Hey Melissa Just our favorite dispy

Ha ha ha ha Just to get more people You know, you guys we have a conference

Coming up and we need to sell some tickets And we need We need people to, it's only $100

In Tullahoma Tullahoma, Tullahome, Tennessee Tullahome Can't do it,

I can't say it I might as well say Kofi's name Kofi abadoobadoo

Kofi Adaboon, Kofi Adaboon I can say that but I can't say Tullahoma You just did it

Good job It's not Tullahoma Tullahoma Listen This guy right here

He's a nut job Ha ha ha Oh my goodness

Has he been to the cigar bar With you guys out there Yeah he's come twice He was coming this past Friday And he shows up with his brother -in -law

Had a really good time Rub it in Jeff You were there

I was on the road brother He's got a job Right Got to work and feed my family

Yeah Mr. Are you going to be there the next Friday night

Cigar lounge night Probably not But he will be out preaching

That Saturday Wait a minute, stop for a second You realize I'm coming, I'm going to be in Tullahoma, Tennessee You realize

I have to do what my Employers say or I lose my job Right You are looking a little bit sick that day

No I'm not I'm not Because I have a week long

Trek that I have to go I have to go up to Canada and back So it's not like Okay I can get sick on Friday You know what

I'm saying And just lay out of work because I'm still driving in the truck Oh Okay Yeah You have to have a major illness

Where have you been Melissa Let me know I'll tell you Jeff's been so busy with the church

That he hasn't been able to come on the show Very often So it's been Braden and I And Red And Braden and I And what's his name

Jeremiah Jeremiah and Andrew Rappaport And we've not seen Jeff or Melissa So what's up Where have you been

And the question is have you been staying out of trouble I'm going to tell you right now She hadn't

She's a troublemaker She is She got them problems She's sick mostly

Sick mostly She's got She's got all the attributes of a reformed

Baptist Just with that This be Thing going on there

You know I'm so grateful that God can draw a straight line with crooked sticks Amen So I'm going to try to By the way

I think it's I think it's dying What is Disconnect Oh yeah

Another 10 -15 years Out of there It's gone It was a 200 year fad

I mean once you get to the point That you know

Israel became a nation in 1948 Once you get so many years past that It's hard to Make the connection

Yeah What was you saying

Red I'm going to try to I'm going to try to get another bid though So that I get

Maybe I can get back on a Monday through Friday gig Because Whenever I first started going to the cigar

Lounge with Jeff and all the guys From church I had a Monday through Friday gig and I would get

Back on Friday evening and make it over To the cigar lounge Right when they were kicking it off At 6pm so That would be ideal

But Right now Please do You are going to be there

Saturday when we go do evangelism Absolutely like I said last week We can go to the cigar lounge

On Saturday Again Jeff loves smoking cigars

I don't know if you knew this But in January On See if you were there

Friday I would buy cigars On Friday but since You're gone on Friday I think

Wasn't the rule Jeff that Red buys cigars on Saturday No I'm going to beat you

In a foot race and you're going to owe me a cigar Anyway This fat boy is going to tear you up On the track son

You better put it on the wall Bro Jeff better be

Pushing you Red I'm going to beat you in the foot race And then Jeff is going to put you in an arm bar

Both We can arm wrestle too Red I'll buy you a cigar

And you beat me in arm wrestling After I beat you In the foot race

I know you haven't ran In a long time Bro I know you haven't

I have absolutely Zero interest in running Have you seen the new videos of butt racing

Where you sit on down With your butt You kind of scoot across the floor I was going to need some clarification on that We have all the diddy talk right

I've seen a video It has these two guys Scooting on their butt racing

To the other end and then their wives would sit down And race back to the other end What the heck am I watching

I don't have any time On my hands That is a stretch From the

MMA Watching MMA I'm getting really old I can't do

MMA no more So I'm trying to figure it out I mean you know what We're going to do

Butt racing In 20 years We're all going to be Betting each other in chess You're going to be with the lord

You might have got one foot in the door Brother What happened to your beard man

Did your wife shake you What in the world happened to your beard brother

There was a problem He's trying to look like Brayden There was a problem with my beard

You look like Brayden's dad It's in transition

You're a trans You're transgender now Is that what you said

He's transbearding Oh transbearding that sounds gay Oh my gosh

By the time I get there It will be better I needed to fix it

So I started to trim it And I kind of messed it up And I was like dang it One of them has a trimmer

Where it has like guards And so my beard starts getting out there And I need to do it again I can just brush it down And it will take all the curve out of it

You should have called me You don't ever shave your beard man

Intentionally I'm sorry I might need you to trim up my beard

But I don't have time on Sundays But you know what We can do it another day

When I go to the barber Nobody knows how to do a beard You go to a barber

I don't do my own hair I do You do hair You are a barber

I know You know what Moody Texas You should have called me

If it's getting long and it's getting curly I use a blow dryer That has a comb on the end of it

Because mine gets really I look like the old Greek statues

And the beard is all like But it looks good Because it's sculpted that way

Mine has this big Wave right down Right there

That's what mine is doing Wash it And then dry it with a towel

And then take you A blow dryer With a comb attachment

And comb through it and straighten it out a bit I'm just going to say it right now I feel a little

Gay having this Hairstylist conversation on the show You look gay You look gay

You're sitting here Take a little Right here and put a blow dryer And That looked really natural

We see you have a nice Red beard What do you do for gray beard

You let it stay gray It's your crown of glory I know you better believe it

Look at Melissa I just got a message From my phone

It said time for your bed time That's some old man stuff right there

Take your Geritol Open air geology

You get that bible yet I'm going to be expecting you to Go kick a midget

Hunt and kick one I gave him one of my old ones A nice one

I haven't even showed it to him I just sent it to him And told me that you sent him one

And you didn't even have to Kick a midget I'm doing it anyway You're giving one to him

And you made me pay double price You're welcome

Tell the truth Tell the truth

Tom No He gives me a good deal I try to take care of my people

And I will say this That I am the only guy

That has On my bibles It's a retired stamp

No I have the original

The number one The first and the second So you see

You see my first battle scar What'd you do So we were taking

Communion today and my three year old Sitting next to me and I've got my wand I've got my wand in my hand

The lord's blood And she hits my hand And the wand just goes right

On top of my bible It blessed it Blessed it It's been sprinkled

Like the mercy seat So the blue one I put in my bag and it has

Like a scar from where the pen was And so this one I'm like So the bag

I use I use one of these, my wife makes them It's just like a slip case Again and it matches my bible too

So all I've put in it is the bible Hey post what Melissa just posted

If I ever get a chance to visit y 'all I get cigars, a beard trim A JMAC bible

Oh Absolutely I got you on the beard trim Melissa At least bleach that mustache of yours

We can cut some from the top And put it on there for you There we go

I want a clip on beard I want to get a clip on mullet We can make that happen brother

I would love to get a clip on mullet You and TJ will be twins I'm telling you

If I wasn't losing my hair I'd have a mullet I'm just throwing that out there

You ain't gotta have much business in the front man All you need is the party in the back

I know I might lose my past shirt if I do That seems to be a qualification

Well if we trim your beard We can take some and put it on Put it on Tom That way he's not gay anymore

It'd be like that black dude I'm not gay no more I'm not gay no more

When I come to a conference I'll have a full beard I'm not gay no more Braden will still be gay

I don't think his beard will grow It's getting full No it's not

Some people just don't grow long They just grow around and get thick It's the serpent seed

The serpent seed They just don't grow beards man My hair grows long

Versus You got the Calvin No girl

I mean for most of y 'all I'm sure y 'all remember back when my beard was like Down in here

How long did that take to get it down to My belly button I don't know man I was growing it for I think four or five years

About four About four years but I trimmed it all the time Did you?

But because I trimmed it it grew really fast Yeah It's like trimming a rose bush

If you don't trim it It's just like your hair Women don't trim their hair

You get split ends and all kinds of Naps and mats and stuff like that It doesn't do good

You need to repent She already saw it

Oh That was funny Melissa But no it's like that's what

I tell People that I trim their beard I tell them if you don't trim it And keep it manicured it won't grow

And it won't look right Do you use any oil on yours? I use an oil based

Balm I don't really like the straight oils But the

The oil based balms The thing I don't like about it is The longer it gets On the light colored shirts

It leaves a Oil ring on your shirts I never have that problem

You're using too much oil So I use oil and I use beer butter

And I also have It's basically It looks like a stick of deodorant But it's small and it's wax

Mustache wax So sometimes depending on I'll kind of rub it down Depending on how my hair is doing

I never saw one of those before Jeff showed me That little stick that looks like deodorant

Is pretty cool And you get your stuff from Live Bearded right? I have been yeah

Just because they're more sufficient I try to get stuff from other people There's a couple reform guys

I try to get stuff from It just takes freaking forever To get their product Anthony said whenever he gets that Bible And strokes out from joy

Jeff you can preach his funeral Yeah from that Bible I'll get it back Write it in your favorite verse

Hey man Anthony I was listening to you preach Like you had the whole

Organ and everything going behind you He had that Cadence That Come on down to the

Lord's house And get your Praise and worship on You're going to have to teach me how to do that That's street preacher style man

I don't do any of that I don't preach like that I don't think I can have it in my voice

Man I don't know I don't do that either When I get fired up I just Yeah Jeff gets animated but He's not really monotone

I think he's dynamic in his preaching He's not He gets animated but like I said

Yeah so like Preaching should never be this Nor should it be this

This Nor this It should be Yeah Like a heartbeat

Almost like a heartbeat Yeah You should be able to preach

Like in your normal voice You should get low And then you should be able to get excited

It should never just be Like I love Jeff Durbin But it's just kind of like One yell

It's just always that high Yell scream That he does

He speaks real loud It's like that the whole time he's preaching Yeah Jonathan Edwards Was said to be

Pretty monotone I don't like it monotone I don't like it low

I don't like the way MacArthur preaches now He's old so I give him a pass

You listen to MacArthur In the 70s and 80s Oh that was a fireball

Yeah he was for sure I like H .P. Charles Preaching Yeah I like H .P.

Charles I think he does really really good But he has that Soulfulness to him too

You can get that organ going behind him Oh yeah His worth is fun to listen to His worth is

Dynamic Yeah he is He's got a great person He's got a good booming voice too

He's got a really deep voice man Yeah Whenever I'm preaching on the streets Because I have yet to preach behind a pulpit

I talk to people like I do Anybody else I just talk to the community

Where we're at When you're ready to preach behind the pulpit You just gotta talk to me brother That's what

I'm planning on doing I'm thinking about chucking the nose band Just going straight preacher on y 'all

I know somebody with a pulpit That's a nice pulpit

I don't know if it's too early Are you still planning on doing something In the summer Jeff Yeah we're going to be

So our church So our church The people in our church has reached out to me

About having conferences Put on by our church And not the podcast

For the most part The church has been the one That's volunteered

That's been doing all the work So they want one that represents The church And it'll be taking place

In the month of July I do believe And we'll be advertising for it soon And it'll be solely based on the gospel

It'll be just a two day conference And tickets will be $50

And if you can't afford the $50 Message me and I'll pay for it for you Awesome That sounds good

I can't wait to get back out And do some street preaching man Well we're

Going for sure Third week in January So when we get straightened out

At the new building We're going to be hitting the streets Man I know you guys are going to be there before me

So I can't wait Send me We're going to be hitting the trailer park first Let's do it

And we're going to be hitting everything We'll probably do some I really want to get some

Some of those signs about praying for people Like a prayer station And just I think if we just set it up right there in front of the church

It gets so much traffic Yeah It's going to be good

And we plan on Like once it gets warmer We plan on getting the grill out

Cooking some hot dogs and hamburgers And having free food For people in the neighborhood

Yeah And doing some evangelism that way as well For sure We're about to Shake up some things

Thank you Melissa That is She's trying to make up for that saying

What she said earlier Yeah I believe her I believe her

I've been really thinking about Doing what you did Tom This past weekend Going out and caroling

I'd love to do that man I think that's something we need to really plan for Next year

What we've been talking about too In our regular evangelism Getting out there and just all having

Singing Singing songs And hymns and spiritual songs Sure That's awesome

What was the name of that coffee shop It was like a Celtic place

Celtic cup Go over there and Start doing a

Sea shanty Thank you By the Lord he said

To the Lord we go We're going to be doing one This coming up Lord's Day Next Lord's Day Stomping on that wood floor

Oh boy It's going to sound so good in that new sanctuary Oh man

I'm probably going to cry People stomping on that wood floor Beating on the pews

In a freaking War yard Is that a reformed Baptist church It'll be enough

To make a Baptist want to do a Pentecostal Twirl son That's right Jeff can't twirl though he'll fall down I spun around one day

Making fun of him about Phil Yeah So Orthodox MacArthur Just like Caroline is a great outreach

Especially with shut in fellow members It is We actually went to one of the elders house

That lives close by our neighborhood But then there was a member Of our church that You know

I knew he hadn't been in church for a while And he had an eye infection And we went over there And just totally lifted his spirit

I mean you think about it When the members of your church Go over to another member who's sick Hasn't been able to come

And you ring the doorbell And you're singing joy to the world And it just touched his heart

So yeah absolutely And not only that It's just It's a confidence builder In your membership

For people who think that Getting out there and sharing the gospel Is a hard thing to do It's a good icebreaker

You know what this really isn't that bad Once you get going You can do this

Everybody can do this God will equip you to do that I'll tell you what

I don't think it's a salvation issue But I guarantee you this Everyone Who does not get out there

And witness the gospel in some fashion It doesn't have to be the way that we do it But in some fashion When you stand before God That's going to be one of the things you wish you could go back and do

Yeah You're going to wish That you went out there and Proclaimed the gospel

Like when you go We were talking about this today And past Sundays In Sunday school

And through the preaching of the word Christ Being Made much of And being taught and being learned

In the way that God has prescribed Through his word And through the other means of grace

Like catechisms And confessions And creeds To me whenever you learn

Who Christ is What God has done And what the Holy Spirit is doing That That just fills me with confidence

And with joy to know That whenever I go out into the streets Or whenever I have one on one evangelistic

Conversations Or if we go out and sing hymns And songs and spiritual songs

That Christ Own are coming to him Yes Jesus says

All that the father has given to me Will come to me We have that promise

Why wouldn't we want to go out Just now We were talking about too And it has been a thing of mine to say

Even if none And yes God is glorifying the preaching of the gospel Period But we can't make that an excuse

To think that he's not Going to accomplish What he set out to do

And like Jeff and I were talking The other day We should be going out

Sharing the gospel With the expectation That he's going to save His people

Through the work of his labors He said that the harvest is white It's ripe

It's ripe for the picking Lord my mouth I'm not drunk guys

It's that beer It's that gay beer It's not long ago He proved that He proved what he was saying to his disciples

In John chapter 4 Because the woman brings the whole city of Samaria Back out to him

And the entire city is saved When they come and they see And they hear for themselves

Most street preachers today Or most people think that we have The ministry of Isaiah and Jeremiah But we don't

He's told us to go out And make disciples He didn't tell the disciples

To go and preach But no one's going to listen That's not what he said

To his disciples He says go and make disciples of all nations The devil has been bound

Because of the work of Christ His life, death and resurrection He can no longer deceive the nations

We're called therefore You and I should go out there With the intentions of making disciples

And my whole point has been And again I do think that we should go

To large crowds every once in a while But if you really and truly Want to see the fruit

You need to do some local evangelism Around your church And God And you will see

Because you can be traveling the world Doing evangelism and people are getting saved And you won't know

You won't see any fruit or you won't see any of them Until you die I've been very intentional

Praying that God will let me See the fruit while I'm alive And by God's grace

You can ask Red He has been allowing me to see these things I'm a piece of that fruit

Yeah, I mean yeah You're an apple I'm a pear

Get it right One of the things I was saying When you were saying we're not Isaiah, we're not Jeremiah But not only that Not only do we have the authority

And the mission and our marching orders But we have the spirit of God in us

The power of the gospel In us God is using us as an instrument

Not about our ability to sell Make a sales pitch or anything All we got to do is

Tell them And God will do the work And like you said Jeff We're going to see fruit if we're doing it locally

Because you're going to see people Coming to your church You're going to see people growing in Christ You're going to come alongside that person

And help them now What does it look like now that God has adopted you And declared you righteous How do you live a life pleasing unto

Christ And what an encouragement that is To the people who share the gospel That's huge That should encourage

What Jeff has said What he preached today Should drive Christians out into the streets

Should drive Christians to do one on one evangelism With whoever they meet Sure Because we have the truth

Because we know that God's word doesn't return void That's right He accomplishes all that he pleases in the heavens

And on the earth That's right Amen Amen And I just want to take part

I don't want to I don't want to say it in a boastful way I don't want to If God's moving in a situation

I want to take part I want to be invested in it And I know the one ministry

That God is moving in And it's saving sinners I know this because he sent his son

To die for sinners This is a trustworthy saying Paul said That Christ Jesus came into the world To save sinners

This is something that he's actively doing And he does it through the preaching of the gospel And I know the gospel

The gospel is the power of God and salvation We have it on our lips He preached

He purposed to save a people So he chose a people He sent his son to live and die for them

And the Holy Spirit applies that purpose To the preaching of the gospel And I want to be a part of it

In our reformed circles We believe that the Holy Spirit Is still raising people from the dead

You gotta believe it You know what's encouraging too Is that I know the two evangelists

That mainly go out And we had talked about this That there's probably less than five people

That go out of the local church That goes out and evangelize And I know you two are

That five percent When you go out But a friend of mine Told me this past week

He said little is much When God is in it And it's huge God will do great things

With just a little bit of faithfulness Look at Gideon's army

Everybody watching So yeah, same thing When we go out Gideon's army is a testament

He whittles the army down So that nobody can say It was because of them

You got too many people Too many people That's right I love the opposition

That's why I'm going to be a fish out of water Getting behind a pulpit Because I look forward to the opposition

And to being hated And to being scoffed And mocked at because I know

God is working Sure While you're in the pulpit I'll throw something at you I'm down I'm down When I went out

Because I'm the same way with you I'm used to going out on the streets Where nobody's paying attention to me

Eyes aren't on me and stuff like that And then if they are they'll come up Matter of fact at the park

This past week a guy came right up to my face I have a video of it Matter of fact it's on Facebook He just wouldn't get out of my face

And some big dude about your size Came over and scared him off It was kind of funny But it was so funny because I was pitching

Jeff is my bodyguard Yeah, yeah, of course And you're faster anyway

You can outrun him That's right If I'm running

Red is a lot bigger than me But as Red's under shepherd No one's going to mess with Red while I'm around If I'm running

You better take off running too Whatever is chasing me Is bigger than me

If you're running I'm out there Because I'm like you brother

I'm like you Tom I ain't got no business I used to run 8 -10 miles a day

Yeah Used to Used to Right now all

I do is run my mouth Yeah, that's true It is a different animal

You're doing about 10 -15 miles I mean miles a day Yeah, hey

If running my mouth got you skinny I'd be a rail I still get surprised man

I'm not going to lie I still get surprised When Jeff and I are out there preaching

And we have vehicles show up Or people come over and ask for prayer Or desire to have a bible

You can ask Jeff The director of the missions board For the Duck River Baptist Association I didn't know who he was

I about tackled him Before he ever got out of the truck You know what

I'm saying Just make a beeline For these folks that are coming over It's a wonderful encouragement

And a blessing to see God moving And bringing people Right after we've prayed for God to do that It's amazing

We'll be there You know 2 -3 hours And I want to stop We'll pray and I'm like God send somebody

I'm screaming send somebody I look like an idiot probably We were out there

We were out there it was raining And I was like dude let's put some speakers

Let's put some bags over the speakers Let's just go at it We got under a tree we started preaching And God started bringing people over to us

He was getting ready to pack it up I was like man let's put some bags over these speakers And built it baby let's go

We're going to put a tent up We went to the Alamo And did that at the game We put an umbrella over the speakers

And got wet and we were okay But this last Saturday This lady

Young lady she was from Austin And after Preaching the gospel to the crowd

She came up and she was just crying And she said You know I know that you were preaching to the crowd

And just started bawling saying But everything you said was right for me And it was just I just felt like crying right there

Just knowing that I mean that's the reason If she was the only one that heard it

That was the reason that we went out It was a blessing It's so encouraging Especially for people who go out and do this

To see something like that When you don't see any of it It can be discouraging

It is discouraging But when you see fruit man it's such a blessing It really is cool

We're definitely seeing Some real fruit in our church From the ministry And I think the

Lord is going to do a lot more This coming year So this year alone This has really been the biggest year

Honestly I preached on those streets Faithfully until Red came

For nearly four years And saw no fruit And this last year

We've seen fruit And God is using it To grow our church

Just that I'm out there Preaching my heart out by myself

Year after year Screaming I know

I look like an idiot I'm driving down the road To go to the place to preach And beat my steering wheel

The people were like Noah what is rain Give us a working definition for rain

Noah I was praying for two things That God would

Use me And the salvation of others To grow our church And that God would raise up someone

To be there with me And this year it's happened So this year at our church

We've been able to baptize eight people Seven of those have been salvations

And you're a small church You're a small church I've heard of it

Any kind of reformed congregation Normally we just get people From other churches What did you do so terrible

To get stuck with me I don't know A thorn in my flesh

Jeff, God's grace is sufficient bro Yeah You know

We do kind of have If you look at the other side of What Jeff said that we don't have

Ministries like Isaiah And like the prophets that come Before us We kind of do in an aspect

Because Jesus tells us we're going to be hated Because the world hates you And the message of the gospel

Is foolishness to those that are perishing It's going to be a stench of death To those that hate the gospel

And there's Christians that That hate what Jeff just said About the gospel going forth

And there's unbelievers that hate But when you look at Ephesians chapter 4

Evangelists Shepherds, preachers And teachers Do the work of edifying And building up the church

Even street evangelism Or one -on -one evangelism When you're talking to other Christians It's meant to encourage them

To build them up in the faith To give them confidence And to continue to look to Christ in faith

Yeah, definitely I also would point to the parable Of the sower seeding the soils

Only one Out of the four Who was Jesus speaking to?

He was speaking to the disciples Yeah, and We would be able to apply that In the same way

That he was preparing them That hey, when you go out And you share this message

He was basically saying Listen, there's going to be people That are going to receive that gladly And then the cares of this world

Are going to come along And they're going to fall away Because it wasn't a genuine faith There's going to be people

Who receive it And Satan will come And blind their eyes Those are the people that fell on the rocky ground

But the one good soil That it falls on The one that God Just share it, he'll prepare it

He'll grow that seed I think John MacArthur preached a sermon And it was called

The gospel of the sleep Or something like that Go, share the gospel, go to sleep And watch what

God does That was the one from Mark Where he says, he goes, he plants the seed He returns to his home

And wakes up the next day It's grown and he doesn't know how it happened Yeah, so if you apply

Matthew 13 The parable of the sower Right, so you have the four different Really three soils

One by the roadside Is not really a soil So The devil comes immediately

And snatches away the ones by the roadside You have the two One in the rocks And one in the thorns

And both of them For the most part Are choked out and driven out

Because of the word of God So when persecution Arises, they leave

Because of the word of God Whenever The cares of this world

They're choked out By the word of God And so this is that pruning process

Right, so in John chapter 15 So in this He takes some away

So some he snips off And he takes it away, how does he do so? With the sword

Right, the word of God is sharper than any Double edged sword, two edged sword And that same knife

Them same snips that he removes Certain disciples From the vine

He prunes some and grows them in holiness And so like one of the things I really hate when people say

Well I don't call myself a Christian, I call myself a disciple Well just because Many, Jesus had many

Disciples that fell away But no Christian falls away That's right If you're truly in Christ, you will not fall away

But many disciples Fall away And so when it Comes time to Whenever he calls us to go out and make disciples

Judas was a disciple Judas was a disciple Making a disciple is not necessarily making

Christians But we disciple these Christians, right

Exactly, some of these people That we think that are Christians That we have discipled

The cares of this world And the You know The word will remove them

From the vine So we have to be diligent Jesus tells the

Pharisees That cross land and sea To make one proselyte He says you make a double son of hell

You make him twice the son of hell That's right In Matthew chapter 13

Verses 3 and 4 And he told many things in parables Saying a sower went out to sow

And as he sowed Some fell along the path And that's all you hear about the sower Yeah It's anything the sower

Is basically the instrument that God Is using to spread the seed All we are are the means

Yes, that's right We are the means and I'll speak about that A little bit in my message

At the conference Yeah So Jeff is talking about His favorite verses

No, it's my life verse Life verse He says that he's a donkey

But man, he speaks through A donkey and Jeff feels that way Right? And today

I told him I said When you look at it from that perspective Because he was talking about Jesus riding into Jerusalem On the donkey

In the triumph Entry, right? I told

Jeff today, I said We're that donkey He rides along the backs Of his donkeys

Triumphantly Saving those that belong to him And we're that means in which he rides

Kind of like the saying that Charles Spurgeon had That the word of God Is the chariot upon which

Jesus rides Right? But all we are Is donkeys, we're a mouthpiece

I definitely Yeah, going along that same line I would say that the evangelists are the feet

Of the church How beautiful are the feet of those who go out and preach the gospel And everything, and I always make that joke

That some of y 'all have stinky ugly feet You got ugly feet You got ugly feet, but how beautiful They go out and share the gospel

I mean, you can have corns all over your feet Like you should have had a Pedicure 20 years ago

If you go out and share the gospel How beautiful You need to wear snow boots, man

Get the snow boots on Cover those things up That's good

I'm not used to people in public Preaching God's word Yeah, and then he follows up with this

And it's true Right, and then those That are really not in the reformed circles

If you go with someone that's not really Calvinistic Reformed circles

I mean, there are some Good Armenians that preach the gospel I'm not going to throw that out

But for the most part The evangelist A lot of these people that do go out

They don't preach the gospel No, and as a matter of fact, they wouldn't even use the word It's just They don't preach from the scriptures

It's all in their head About, I don't know Believe on the name of the

Lord Jesus Christ There's no repentance It's a soft gospel It's easy believism

It's hard to go out there There's a general call

Choose you this day who you will serve I will say that As a Calvinist, I'll say that I definitely will say it

To the church When I'm calling people To be obedient to God Absolutely I think we have a right to call

If you tell me you're a Christian And you're not being obedient I think any

Christian should have the right But especially as a pastor of a church And you're my congregant

I think I have the right to tell you To choose you this day whom you're going to serve Yeah And that's what you see

In Joshua He's speaking to the people of Israel Right These are supposed to be

God's people And you need to choose If you're people of God You need to choose who you're going to serve

And if you're a Christian If you tell me that you love Jesus And that you're a follower of Jesus And you're not serving them

Brother, you need to choose you this day Whom you're going to serve Because you could just be Christian and intellect only

Because Christians bear much fruit When they're being pruned by the Father And guess what happens to Supposed Christians that don't bear fruit

They get snipped That's right Yeah And that's not just in evangelism

That's in every aspect of serving the body Yeah, absolutely We serve And Jeff made a high emphasis on Loving one another today

You know, in his preaching That's how the world knows that we belong to Christ Absolutely It's our love for one another

And we must love our brothers and sisters And that sometimes means calling them to repent And turn

And do what the Lord has commanded Right No matter what it is

No matter whether it's evangelism Or serving tables or praying Or devoting yourself to the teachings of the apostles

Right And I think like if someone became a Christian Today I wouldn't be trying to put them

Behind a microphone And trying to witness to people But if you say Well, could they witness to people?

Yeah, for sure Like in martial arts You know, like in martial arts

Or in boxing or any kind of A trained sport like that All you gotta do

If you know one move You can teach someone that one move Right All I gotta do to train you how to fight

Is to know one move ahead of you And I could Train you to fight, right

Right And so all Immediately if someone is saved

They're gonna know the gospel by which They were saved They're at least gonna be able to articulate that This is what

I know I broke God's law But that God has paid my fine by sending his son

Jesus Christ to live the life I could not live And to take the punishment that I deserve And it's death

That's the gospel message It's hard, isn't it? I wouldn't put them on a microphone

Or anything like that But if someone was to walk up and say something to them They should be able to articulate

That message However, if they want to go out with us and hold a sign I think that that's the first step

Of being in some kind of a public ministry Right Because we have people that were just saved this year

That have gone out and held signs for us We don't put them behind a microphone They're not ready for that yet But if someone walked up to them

They could have a conversation Yeah, I think that's a good point The woman at the well

She didn't know exactly what had happened But she went back to the village And told, come and meet the man

Could this be the Christ? Yes Could this be the one?

And brought him So, yeah And that was just her testimony Bree, you know what we would actually be able to share?

You know what, man? If you're in a dojo And you just signed up To do karate

Or mixed martial arts Whatever, right And all you do is ever stand on the wall

And watch others do their moves You're never going to learn anything

Right You'll never learn anything But at the same time I think that's what

Jeff was getting to Is that the people that are going to be Doing the proclaiming

We have to handle the word rightly They have to be the ones that have Put in the time and studied

And being discipled And having somebody come alongside And like you had said

Going through the moves Let's go out with us Listen to what we say Listen to when people have a hard Is Jesus God?

Yeah, what are the verses that we're going back to To show them that yes That Jesus had to be

God Otherwise there is no salvation in anybody If he's just a mere man He doesn't qualify to die on the cross

And pay the penalty for my sin Only God can save And then the verses that show that he is

God Yeah, I mean, Red, imagine If everyone in our church

Was to attend the Sunday school class That we've had this week concerning Christology Imagine Just think about how rich their theology would be

With their Christology We have an elderly couple That's been coming to our church They've been a part of our church for a little over 4 years now

And they've mentioned to me That they've learned more in the last 4 years Than they had in the last 40 years

Wow Being under my ministry But during this month of Sunday school

And Christology They said every time they've come They've learned something about Jesus That they've never heard before They've never known this in all their years

Right So just think if everyone in our church came And they actually Invested the time to sit under this teaching

How sharp they would be If whenever they do Encounter A conversation

Especially when we're going through Christology Like let's say Saturday morning You get a knock at your door

And it says Jehovah Witness Well Jesus is created I know exactly where I'm going

I know exactly where I'm going I'm going to Hebrews 1 and Hebrews 2 Where you preached on this morning

I'm going to show them from Psalm 107 In their own book That Jesus is

God I learned that this morning Right But it would be easy to identify

Oh you're an Aaronist Aaronism You think Jesus was created That's an ancient heresy

You'd be able to walk out with them Right Just learning theology

Like I was talking I've had people tell me Just give me Jesus Keep your theology

My dear friends Do you even know what you're saying Theology is two

Greek words That's compound together Theos and logos

God Word Theology is God's word

You can't have Jesus without God's word Jesus is the sum of theology

And Christology I mean it's Christos and Logos Both of them represent him

He is the word Melissa just said you don't need to use deep theological words In order to share the gospel

Keep it clear You know you're exactly right One of the best things about Old man

Sproul He was such a great theological mind That he could take The most deep theological things

And communicate them Like in kindergarten language And at the same time

I'll accept for baptism But that's the thing If you know rich theology

You can communicate it It's simple But if you don't know rich theology

Your simple ways of communication Is gone You don't really have it

So my point is that when we go out And share the gospel We should be able to communicate the gospel

To a five year old Use the language We don't need to use

Propitiation These big theological words That he's our expiatory

Sacrifice for sins You're talking over people's heads Keep it simple

You need a substitute You need a savior You gotta understand

Who you're talking to Your target audience are people That don't know Christ You're gonna hit some

Christians With those seeds But that should encourage them But it should be judgment To the nonbeliever

And it should be Music to the person's ears That belongs to Christ And what we preach

Out in the streets is law and gospel We want to walk people through the law To show them their sin

And we want to give them the gospel To mend that Broken heart

For the person that comes to Christ With contrition And with sorrow 100 %

Sorry guys That's easy to do Even for the infant

Christian Because the infant Christian Like Jeff said earlier The infant Christian is gonna know what saved them

They're gonna know the gospel They're gonna know that they were an unrighteous Unholy wretched sinner That needed the grace and the mercy

Of Jesus Christ shedding his blood on the cross They're gonna know that And the most infantile

Christian can preach that In the streets or in one on one evangelism Absolutely I once was lost

But now I'm found Revelation 5 tells us That we overcome

By the blood of the Lamb That's the gospel And the word of our testimony

Right Like I once was Now I am

Because of Right I once was a wretched sinner Now I have been saved by God's grace

Because of the mercy of God And the sin of Jesus Christ To live the life I could not live Take upon himself the punishment that I deserve

But the main thing is To articulate that well I would argue you do need

Theology It's just like The word propitiation I think the bible uses it

Two maybe three times at most Right And then you have the real difficult

Definition of it I like to dumb it down as much as possible It's a payment for wrong doing

Yeah Satisfaction for sins Yes the satisfaction for sins

You broke God's law God has paid your fine That's the propitiation Satisfied the wrath of God Yeah In order to know that concept

I had to learn about propitiation Sure I get that I think it's really good to Fill our minds with these theological concepts

And then Work through how I can explain this to children Absolutely Yeah Whenever I'm doing family worship

My wife she used to be like You're saying such big words I'd be like listen If you listen to me

Always give them the word I would say propitiation And I would say that's an appeasement

Or a payment for the wrath That we deserve that God has provided in His son It's actually a sacrifice

An appeasing sacrifice That's a good point I don't think there's anything wrong

With using big theological terms Because they're going to need to know these things They need to come They need to grow in maturity

We shouldn't hide From using them Yeah but you should always

We're talking about the incarnation today That's what I said We're talking about the incarnation today When God became man

Right So every time I say A big theological word

I always bring it down to A child's level A hypostatic union

Yeah always Because I can remember Coming to Listening to Sproul Listening to MacArthur And all these guys

And they would say something And I'm like what? Pause, Google, what is that? You can dumb it down at one point

And say deity put on flesh Why can't I go even further The creator entered creation

The infinite became finite I just go over different ways That I can say the same thing I'm just restating something

Amen The terms are always defined In the word though Whenever Paul say in Romans chapter 3

Verses 21 -31 Paul explains propitiation In this discourse

And then he Exposits What he just preached In Romans chapter 3

In Romans chapter 4 He breaks it down And he explains how we're saved by faith

Just like Abraham was I love it Like the word righteousness

When you understand the word righteousness That it means law keeping That really is a game changer

In Romans chapter 3 It says But now the righteousness of God Has been manifested

Apart from the law Right Yeah Although the law and the prophets bear witness to it

The righteousness of God through faith In Jesus Christ for all who believe For there is no distinction for all of sin

That falls short of the glory of God And are justified by His grace As a gift through the redemption

That is in Christ Jesus whom God put forth Or forward as a propitiation

By His blood He explains and defines That centerpiece

His propitiation In the gracious gift of God In which we are justified

Through the redeeming blood of Christ Through His bloodshed Real quick on Melissa's question there

Which one? So she says Correct me if I'm wrong but sanctification will deepen our theology

And my initial thought On that would be just the opposite That your theology

Will deepen your sanctification It is by By the word of God The more we

I think both can be true Yeah so here's on one end You can go to the flip side

My thinking is this The more we learn about who God is The better understanding

We understand that We aren't like Him The higher view of God That we have by understanding who

He is By our theology By learning His attributes His communicable and His incommunicable

Attributes When we get to understand those things Then I get the view

I have a better view of myself And how high God is in the lower view of man So Wouldn't that be the sanctifying work

Of the Holy Spirit Through the washing of the word of God Bro listen I was over here looking at the verse

It says husbands love your wives As Christ loved the church And gave Himself up for her That He might sanctify her

So speaking of Christ loving the church That He might sanctify her having cleansed her By the washing of water

With the word Yeah So in the sense that you're speaking about It's that growing in sanctification

Through the washing Of the word Through learning theology

Learning about God and Christ But Positionally What you were referring to Red Is that He has positionally

Sanctified Set us apart unto holiness Romans chapter 3

That would be positionally But what I was just saying It would be more like Romans 12

Or what he What Jeff was saying About being sanctified

The Holy Spirit sanctifies us Through the washing of the word And I would say that this is

Has to do with you being a part of a local church Submitting to the

The teachings of the apostles Right So you're under the word

So primarily this is what it's talking about The means of grace You're under the word of God Secondarily you with your bible reading it

Absolutely I don't want to take anything away from that But you with your bible reading it Is secondary to having someone

Who knows the bible Well And can articulate

And interpretate the bible to you The way that Jeff puts it to the church

It's one thing to know The words To know the words

It's another thing to know why they're written To know why the words right The context

The context and rightly having somebody Explain the text to you To rightly divide the words to you

We were talking about that I think at the last show When schools in Texas Are allowing the word of God To be brought back into the

Public schools And we brought up the fact Well yeah but who's going to be teaching it

You know Who's going to be teaching this word Great that you're bringing the

Word of God back in there but If you don't have a teacher that's Accurately handling

God's word And teaching it rightly What it says after he reads the text And digs into the text and explains

The text and how to apply the text You're in deep trouble then I mean a qualified person

Like Jeff teaching Now if you go from the other end Of this so she says

Correct me if I'm wrong but sanctification Will deepen your theology Alright so we looked at it from One end right

How through learning theology God is sanctifying us

Alright now when we get to that Position of him sanctifying us We want to continue to learn that Theology right

And so in our sanctification Because we're starting now We cannot live without The word of God I'm not going to mess this

Lord's day I'm not going to mess my Time with God and Bible and prayer And stuff like that and so it's both

End right so God is Strengthening us So he's pruning us to Bear much fruit and a part of that Fruit bearing is that we

Want to be pruned by the vine dresser We want to be disciplined by The vine dresser because we want to live

Holy lives to God And so and that pushes us That causes us to want to be

Sitting under good theology To where God can all the more Prune us

And strengthen our Faith and conform us into the Image of Jesus Christ because ultimately that's

The goal I love that Jeff I was just thinking about this in Psalm 119

He says with all My heart I have sought you Do not let me stray from your commandments

Your word I have Treasured in my heart It just motivates us to love the

Law of the Lord to love his word That we can't do without It I meditate on it day and night

From the moment I wake up The word of God Is in my mind that's what

I'm Thinking about It's all over me man It consumes me

Psalm 119 105 your word is a lamp For my feet and a light into my path

That is supposed To be what our eyes are focused upon I love

Psalm 19 As well That's an amazing song It's kind of like an abridged version of 119

It speaks to somebody like me Specifically In let's see

Starting in verse 7 It says In verse 7 it says

The law of the Lord is perfect reviving The soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise

The simple I'm Barely a high school graduate Barely even graduated

High school Barely All the wisdom

All the All the treasures of wisdom are Summed up in Christ man Yeah There's nothing like the word of God What did he say about you know

These 12 ordinary men that he Chose they There wasn't anything special about them

There wasn't anything they were hard They were laborers They saw these men and they knew

That they had been with the Lord They knew that they had been with the Lord So that's

I mean Just know me that I've been with the Lord That's all I care about You want to talk about a testimony

That's a testimony You know someone can meet you and say You know

I don't I know I know one thing about him He's been with the

Lord That's right That is Sound like Sam Waldron crunching on a water bottle

Laughing Laughing What did you say

If that can be said about me I'd die happy If that can be said about me when I die

I would be happy I know That you walk with the Lord Because Scripture Pouring out of you man

I love it It encourages me It pushes me It rebukes me

And that's what prayer is for That's what our prayer groups are for That's what sitting under the word

And the preaching and the teaching is for That's what evangelism is for It's all those things

To encourage us To admonish us To rebuke us

And to cause us to Continue to Come to the foot of the cross

Amen And that's what the book of Hebrews is about He's encouraging these

Christians Preach Laughing He's encouraging

Christians to continue to look to Christ Yeah That's beautiful man

When I was going through it this way So I forgot that That today was

Incarnation Sunday Christmas Sunday So I had already put in a day and a half Of study in John 15

To do my fourth message In those few little Verses Like I've been trying to give everything

I can From that little section And I was like oh crap I've got to do a different sermon

And then I was like So then the next day I started trying to figure out

What am I going to preach on And I was like Hebrews 2 Because I've been talking about it a little bit

In Sunday school class Walking through the Incarnation Walking through the two natures of Christ He's truly

God and truly man And as I was going through it I was like man I really wish I could preach through Hebrews But that was

The last book I preached But that was over two years ago And my

Understanding has grown My mind has been sanctified In the word of God and I just feel like I understand it much more now

And so The way he tied in the last Three weeks with This Hebrews message

Today on the purpose of Christmas It was awesome I told you it was going to The last three weeks

Into Bible study this morning And Sunday school Into the message

Into the message He tied in everything That is all God's providence

In working at and giving his people Exactly what they need to hear Bro Jeff I'll tell you man

There's stuff like that that happens every single week Every single week What's going on Aren't we reformed people

Did I tell you what? Come to our church for a month You'll be like Baptocostals I believe you

The Director of missions Actually called me a Baptocostal He told me he was a free meal

Baptist He got a free meal that day too

What are you doing Celebrating Christmas But making fun of that Those people who don't celebrate

Christmas Because it's I'll tell you what I love Christmas I love this time of year

I love thinking about the incarnation I love thinking about the cross If there's anything

That's going to put our minds on Christ Give me more of that Give me more of that Or More people to be accessible to it

Right Go out on any Average month or any

Day of the week knocking on people's door And singing songs outside their house Right What in the world

During the month of December close to Christmas Yeah more acceptable to To what's taking place

Yeah In the last 50 years Have you

I've not been out And I've not known of any Church that I've ever been a part of To go out and carol

That's why I want to do it so bad I'll sing out there on the streets I don't care man I'm telling you

I googled caroling On Christmas And the only images that came up Christmas caroling

And the only images that were coming up Were ancient Well not ancient

Old 1950s 1960s 70s You don't see it anymore

You just don't And when we were knocking out on the doors We need to make Christmas caroling great again

That's what I promised on my phone I'm serious Because it is an evangelistic call

It's been so encouraging To see you and your church Go out and do it It was worship

It was worship in the public square In the neighborhoods What a better testimony than that Christmas is great y 'all

Yeah 100 % We celebrate the incarnation Every Sunday And the resurrection

I tell you what If you come to our church And I don't mention the incarnation

Death burial, life death burial And resurrection I'll give you a thousand dollars

I'll give you a free PTL Bible Custom any way you like it

If you can show me in my message That I didn't mention those things Oh I'm about to go Looking through some messages bro

Go ahead We do the gospel every week

It doesn't matter I need a Johnny Cash now You know

I do have an Allen That I might need to get redone Let's see

He doesn't He doesn't read my message The message Bibles man

I don't own a message I have my Allen's are

Man I'll tell you what This LSB that he did It's just It has got to be my favorite

Bible This is gorgeous It is beautiful Look at the ribbons Red look at that This is four ribbons

Of the number one Bible that Jeffrey Rice ever made Right here in my hands It's a beautiful Bible It's standard

Ain't nothing like those red ribbons though son That is a nice red

Bible I got some red ribbons in my preaching Bible Oh you sure do

Is that your Is that The one that's just like mine

This one right here is the Allen SCR Oh okay it's not them

Yeah Oh yeah that's sweet Is that gold or silver lining

Silver No pages either Yeah blue Silver and blue Oh it sure is yeah

Man that thing is slick Every Bible man Preaching Bible Every Bible you make dude is phenomenal

This one right here man I got another block Right here it's an

Allen I got another one So I'm going to have the margins On this one cut off I'm going to make it a handy size

So I'm going to make it smaller More of a reader To carry around This trailer park voyage

Is Bible rich And I got this one right here

So this is an O2 NASB This is the French meal paper This is hot

Bibles ever made Is that the judge right there I don't think it has a nickname

We just call it It's the 07 But I plan on sanding the goat off I'm going to sand the goat off And I'm going to do a

Johnny Cash Because I don't have a Johnny Cash Bible How in the world do you even do that How in the world you don't even have

Your own Johnny Cash Bible I'm fitting to He's just doing that To make me jealous

Like he's wearing that black hat of mine Right now I got a bunch of black hats

This one's navy son He's got a black one Because I've been trying to get him

To make me an all black Johnny Cash hat I'm trying to come up with the money

To get a stamp So I want to have a stamp Where it has the Inhofe Cigna Windchase With the

Cairo It's kind of like have it rounded With the Cairo right in the middle So I got $125 to get it made

Do you have a Cairo stamp I got two Cairo stamps But I want to get

Something special just for stamping Hats Do you have an Alpha and Omega stamp as well

I got a Cairo Alpha and Omega I was thinking about getting you to Stamp over this

Put my stamp over that And then Georgia Says Jeff how much

Would you charge to engrave The word Totalist On my

Bible So here's the thing If you're wanting it right here And the

Bible's already bound I cannot do it You could get it here As a name

If it's bound Like I have to open it like this To put it under my stamp machine

And my stamp machine has arms That stick out and this right here Gets in the way of the arms

And so I cannot But if it's on the end I can do it

But if you want it done in the middle Like I did his I have to do that before I bind the

Bible Look at that right there Like I can't stamp anything in the center

After the Bible's already bound With the stamp machine I have The stamp machine I have is a $2000 stamp machine

These things are not cheap at all They do have better ones I'm just a trailer park kid

Balling on a budget Have you ever stamped like Verses or anything like that On the front of a

Bible Like in the beginning was the word Back in the day I did

And I messed up on some And I had a football spike them and eat the cost And say a cuss word

So I'm not doing it anymore I mean because The cover so you know

Normally by the time I'm stamping I've already done stitched them and everything And so I got a lot of time

And when I screw them up For those of you that Don't know

I am dyslexic Okay And when you stamp

When you put the letters in You gotta put them in upside down and backwards Oh my gosh

I have to put everything in upside down And backwards and not to mention I'm dyslexic

By the time he's done with that I hate to stamp He's gone into Exitropia I need to make sure

The Palestine is right So like there's been plenty of times

I've had Wait a minute it doesn't say it's finished It says it's just begun Yeah you should have put that on the back

On the back Should have put it back here Yeah for the most part

People purchase a Bible and send it to me But I do sell once a month So the

Bibles that people Purchase and send to me They pay a deposit Towards the end they would pay the finished payment

And that's what I live on So that's what you know Just my gas that's what

Puts food on the table So on and so forth And then when we make Bibles to sell That pays my rent, my car bill

My lights, water and everything like that So all you listeners get your

PTO Bible Definitely So I'm hoping

It would be really Really great to eventually Get out of rebinding

As a full time job and be able to Focus more on the Pastorate Be praying for that Because I'm working 45 -50 hours a week

In the rebinding And then having to from 8 o 'clock To sometimes 1 o 'clock in the morning

Study for summer preparations And I'm doing that 5 nights a week So I got a lot of Hours that I'm Working and just wore out all the time

For those of you who don't know Jeff and me

Brad, Braden We talk every night And every time

That Jeff, we call Jeff During the day He's in his office And I'm talking working office

Doing rebinds He doesn't stop working And then He's got a little bit of time with his family

And then he's studying every night He's a hard worker man So when

In his free time In his free time He's watching butt races Yes, that's right

I was going to say When that day comes That you do full -time ministry

And stop the rebinding And you're just doing it for fun The value of these things Just double

Because there won't be any more PTL Bibles I can only imagine

Because I mean The knowledge Brother Jeff has Pastor Jeff has

His heart for the lost His heart for Proclaiming and expositing

The word of God And teaching others To become

Like him I want to imitate this brother You know I'm not trying to put you on a pedestal

I'm saying I'm saying that Everybody sees that Yeah Everybody sees

I gotta put a hashtag on me No ditty

No ditty No ditty This brother gives his life

For the work of The ministry To exalt Christ To make him known

I don't want to be like that He's somebody

When Paul says Imitate me as I imitate Christ That's what I'm saying I can only imagine

If he was full time Able to Focus completely on Preaching the word

Evangelism Discipleship amongst the congregation Dude He'd be the

Terminator We would definitely see some revival Taking place up in here

That's right Let's do it Y 'all be praying out there too

That our other pastor Kyle Would get to where he can do full time Ministry as well

If y 'all really want to pray for our church There's There's things that You know

We need So Red is

Going to be our first ordained evangelist We believe That Evangelist Is an office

Of the church Right And Red has

Again I do the work of an evangelist Red is an evangelist I am not what

Red is Concerning evangelism I do it I'm not afraid to do it

And I enjoy doing it But I recognize I just recognize other people's gifts

And I'm not afraid of Other people's gifts I like being around preachers that can preach better than me

And I'm not jealous of them Because I think that They can rub off on me

Right They can make me better preachers And Red can make me a better evangelist

But certain things that we do Need We need God to send men

Who are strong Because our church does need another elder We need someone

That if my body falls over dead That can take my place Right You know

And so Be praying for our church That God will raise up men

Who are strong in the word And who are willing to get out and do the work Amen Yeah Yeah That's key right there

A lot of times we see a lot of Churches equip men And they have

A staff full of men Who are equipped To be pastors

And they're staying in that one church Get out of there

And go plant a church for crying out loud Get out of there That or Young men that they see potential

And they're sending them off to seminaries That are nowhere around the church Right That they were grown in Right It says to take what

Paul tells Timothy To take what I gave to you And give it to other faithful men

And raise them up And plant churches And keep doing it

I think that's the whole prescription Of how God grows his church

Yep 100 % Yeah Well good show Hey so Two hours in In Tullahoma Tennessee Right did

I say it Tullahoma Tennessee In Tullahoma February 20th through 22nd

Did I say it right So the 20th through the 22nd

Will be the conference The war conference Dealing with Basically sanctification

The spirit versus the flesh It's kind of like this So when you're justified

You're positionally right Before God And so it's like well now what

How do I get from A to B Because the Bible says that He conforms us to the image of Jesus Christ How does this conformity

Take place It's through sanctification And we think it's a very Important topic

And so it's war Because as your spirit man Wants to submit to the word of God You also have to deal with this flesh

That's attached to you That wants nothing to do with it And so there's this battle that takes place

Which is why we need the pruning of the father And that's what we're going to be talking about At this conference It begins on the 20th

And it lasts to the 22nd There is a pre -conference On the 19th

Where we're going to be speaking on evangelism We're actually going to be giving Walking you through Why you should evangelize

What it looks like and what to expect It's going to be really good A lot of good fellowship time

Afterwards we're going to be hanging out At different restaurants, different cigar shops Going back to different Homes And just really

Having a good time Talking theology It's just going to be a wonderful time

So I'll guarantee you this If you come to this conference And you don't learn something

While having fun It's a blast

I'll give you your money back Tell a homie About the open air

Theology conference Yeah Tell a homie about the open air theology conference In Tallahoma Yeah man

It's going to be good And then also My church So not the podcast

My church will be having a conference in July I don't have the exact dates yet And it'll be

Focused on The gospel Like this is going to be something That's going to be really really good

So we'll probably be walking through all the aspects Of the gospel that you can think of And brothers and sisters out there

On YouTube If you're looking for A pre -conference

On evangelism We're going to be having four preachers Jeff, Brayden, Tom and myself

We're going to be having We're going to be discussing And preaching about evangelism

We're going to have an evangelism Boot camp And we're going to go out and do evangelism

Locally in Tallahoma So we're going to go out and we're going to be telling homies About Christ Amen We really

Appreciate you Melissa I'm glad you feel better Melissa 103

AM She's in it to win it Georgia and everybody else Who tuned in tonight

We really appreciate you guys We really appreciate all of you There's really no way to express

The appreciation we have for everyone That watches It doesn't go unseen

Yeah If you ever see us in person Listen If you don't come say hi

Do you even have a pulse Like Well We'll hunt you down We're going to hunt you down I'll hold you and Jeff will put you in an arm bar

And we'll do We'll do butt races We'll have a butt I tell you what

You come to Tallahoma's conference We'll have a butt race That's how we're going to race

We're going to do a butt race For a PTL Bible And watch how many people

I guarantee you We'll have a butt race for a PTL Bible Everybody will be on their butts

Yeah If we get all the All the

YouTube Interweb All of our open air theology Peoples We've all got to do butt races

Yeah That's the initiation I wonder how it's like You do like the butt lock

I don't know You're the one that's been watching all the videos I only watched one Just one We're probably going to get all kind of reels

That's one more Than Tom and I have done He's got all the

He's got all the No oil please That might That might make things

Go faster Oh man Alright let's end it

Let Melissa go to sleep Yeah Red got any last words brother

Man Make it Make it a point this week To exalt

Christ To tell someone about The bad news So that the good news

Is actually good news Tell somebody about the law And how they've broken it

And how they deserve the justice and the wrath of God And how the good news

Is that Jesus came And paid your debt It's finished Repent And believe in Christ Lift his name high this week

I can't It's you know having another evangelist On the show Just stole my thunder

Ending Both I can't agree on what he said Go out there make it a point

Find somebody walk out the door Share the gospel with someone And everybody have a merry

Christmas That world One string banjo man Yeah I know

And that string needs to be tuned up I heard him saying If you're ever in Tallahoma Tennessee Please come check us out

Again I pastor Covenant Reformed Baptist Church Here we just got into a Really cool building

And it would be a joy To worship our great God and Savior With you and have a meal afterwards