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A Street Preacher's Conversion and the Value of Evangelism

How many street preachers are out here. I just want to say thank you because I got saved through the ministry of a street preacher and It was totally by accident. Well, no. Yeah, right RC I didn't mean that That was.

This is going. Well no one day a Guy back in the 70s had a he was driving a big old blue pickup truck and I lived in Southern, California and most people that were out doing any evangelism came out of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa and.

I.

Had just got out of the brig and I had called my friends to say hey I got a few days before I go catch my ship and. So we all met up over my father's gas station on Beach Boulevard there. This truck broke down and he had painted all over the truck with a paintbrush.

Jesus lives and Jesus saves and all this. The surfboard in the back and he had blonde hair down to here and We jump out in the street and pushed him in he gets out of his truck and says praise God there must be somebody here that I need to talk to and he went ahead and shared the gospel with.

There were six of us there and we all came to Christ and went. It was pretty amazing. Yeah, I got it. Thank God. I never I'll never meet that guy. Magic till heaven, but all that to say you're. Efforts are not wasted ever.

I mean no matter how you go about doing this and I would just like to say to that. Don't you just feel and see something happen in here? I am just sit just these first speakers that have been speaking are.

It's amazing and it's pretty hard to follow these guys and but In God's sovereignty. This is what you get. If you don't like it blame him.

But.

But.

Like I preach every day of my life I'm in front of an abortion clinic Sunday mornings through Friday afternoons every week and. And that's easy for me it's much harder for me to come. There's people here I love and respect and know it's for some reason.

I don't know why it's just So much harder to do this, but you know God is faithful and I'll get through this thing. So you will as well.

But.

Psalm 58, 2 Timothy 2, and the Spiritual Condition of Those at Abortion Clinics

Trying to figure it out exactly how to start this thing, but the The main thing that I look at when it comes to abortion ministry is Assessing what's the situation? Why are these people here? Why are why is this all happening?

And.

The reason that I say this is because Why this is happening is because of Man's heart it goes to that. I know Jeff had a scripture yesterday that he said kind of Ties in everything that's going on in an abortion clinic.

I have one too that I always Look at and see and see what? How this why these people are acting like this and and I've always found that Psalm 58 3 is like the perfect scripture for what's going on there.

It says even from birth the wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward spreading lies. Their venom is like the venom of a snake like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears. That will never heed the truth of the charmer.

However skilled the Enchanter is and you think about it. I mean how many times when you're at an abortion clinic They're coming in and they're coming in with their ears plugged it's like they've got just like the scripture wearing headphones or whatever those things are and like the.

The stuff that's coming out of their mouth might as well be coming out of the mouth of a cobra because it's just poison. Really what's coming in and reflects their heart, of course, and that's what it is.

And then I always look at Realize and that's the condition they're in and of course not just them. That's every person ever born before they come to Christ, but. But it's everything's like on steroids down there right and and and the other way I look at them is It it's really freed me up in a lot of ways to look at 2nd Timothy chapter 2 Where it says to correct those that are in opposition if perhaps God would grant them repentance and open their eyes that they might See the snare of the devil haven't been taken by him to do his will.

So what we've got is people with hearts like Psalm 58 3 That are coming into a place that is actually a trap that has been set up for them by the devil himself now, I'm not saying there's. They're victims they're not victims they're definitely not victims but Spiritually, they are literally blind.

Unless God moves when you're there They are going to go through with it they're gonna kill their own baby and that's that's what's gonna Happen, but God thankfully moves. In fact, I knew I was forgetting something I wanted to pray right now for the team that I've got over in Orlando.

They're having a little bit of trouble here. So let me pray real quick. They texted me. You know, dear Lord Jesus here we are in Phoenix and Warren and Karen and Beth Goebel are out there. And Lord that Melissa that chose life for her twins yesterday has returned.

And we just asked that you would get her out of there there's a mother that keeps dragging her daughter and even though her daughter doesn't want to do it and There's those kind of battles going on. Just thank you for the fruit that has happened this week down there and I think it I just thank you for that and just ask that will that would go on everywhere in Jesus name.

Amen. In fact this week down there has been one of the biggest weeks. We've had 16 ladies have chosen life this week. Now I You know every place is different every every abortion clinic is different, you know yesterday I went to the one that Zach is taking over here and I Forget what it's called it pardon me.

Yeah, Acacia women's clinic. It was so funny in chat or we decided we're gonna go to a clinic. You can't put people to administer in abortion clinics in a hotel room for seven hours. Suspect him to sit there.

So we got bored to death. So we went went over to check this place out and the uber driver dropped us right at the front door. So immediately they call the police. I mean it was like within I'm not even five minutes and they show up there the police.

They were very nice. One of them was a believer very vocal believer actually glad we're there that all of them seemed to be pretty glad that we were there and but there. What Zach's gonna have to deal with is they have they have planted?

Cactuses and bougainvilleas Bushes all around the front where you can possibly go in to preach into the building. We did it, but my legs are literally look like they got run over by a lawnmower. Today, I mean, they're pretty cut up.

But um. But so every clinic is different now when you get to that spot where we were preaching. They could hear every word inside. There's no doubt. So there's gonna be fruit come out of that building.

There's there's no doubt over time, but All that to say every clinic is different. I've seen them like a Like I don't know a block almost a block away. Where it's pretty much just a sign ministry. I've seen all these different things.

But.

The one that I serve at is very easily are you able to speak to the people because when they come in they have to drive down a driveway and To the back and park their cars. And we're allowed to walk on the property next door.

It's a shared driveway so we can meet them at the bottom and walk up with them to the top. You got about 20 or 30 seconds that you can set some kind of seat in there hard to You know for the Lord to use and then after You know, they'll come in and out because they don't allow purses so if a girl wears it brings a person, you know, you got three shots at her and and so.

We actually do have access to be able to talk to. Access doesn't save any babies. I'll tell you that right now because we'll see like this week's been crazy. But then you'll see weeks where you're saying the same thing.

You're loving the same people. You're loving you're bringing the same word. And God passes over. I don't know why I have no clue why but It's just it's just how he works. Now what I've done here is I've tried to People asked me to if I would be able to Like say what I say there now again, every place is different.

The message that I use is You know, I just use it every day and I see God literally rip people apart with this and Because I would the like where the window is would be Probably from here to That guy filming me over there.

But.

So that's about the distance and they can hear every word inside. Our goal is to get them outside, of course and to speak to them and get them loved on. I got a team of girls that are just absolutely Incredible.

It hasn't always been that way I started. When I started doing it I spent probably three years there without another person. Coming on a regular basis, but I've got to tell you this. I never I wouldn't trade those years for anything.

I never learned so much about Jesus in my life as. As I mean honestly instead of saying where's the church say come here Lord. Let me serve with you today, you know, because he's not gonna let you go.

And he's got things he wants to teach you when you got a crowd around a lot of times. That's the worst possible thing you could ever have even for the ministry because you have to stay focused. You can't be talking about your kids.

You can't be talking about old war stories. You can't be talking about anything. It's got to be what's going on here. Now. What's going on here today? We need to be praying and we need to be preaching and none of the.

That's what our chore is. But I love those days I did there's many days when a lot of people come and I I just say man. I wish I wish these people go home I'm sure I mean, it's I. Better not go anywhere.

But.

But you know God doesn't need a crowd. He doesn't need a hundred people on a sidewalk. He doesn't he. It actually in my experience has cut down on On being able to minister to people and when a whole crowd shows up.

But I know there's people out there that disagree with that, but It depends on what you're there for if you're there to protest. Come on down with as many people as you can get if you're there to be an evangelist and to try and minister to these people do it in a in a way like.

I.

Forget that do it. Decently in an order have have an order there, you know people not. The girl comes out. Three ladies start yelling at her. She can't hear one of them because they're all doing it. It's got to be.

I always try to look at myself down. There is like Bill Belichick. You know what? I mean? He's a he's a coach. He's got a great team, but if if the coach doesn't Direct it then there's chaos. And so that that's how I look at it.

Anyway there's other people that they can do what they want, but.

I.

Forgot what it was. Oh. Well when I start out with the people and then when they're coming up the drive we'll always we'll have a little. Suggest these because they're inexpensive. To there to the point.

I should have brought one but is the living waters in the womb tract. Especially because on the back. There's a little square thing. That they can take a picture with their camera somehow and then they can watch the 180 video while they're sitting in the waiting room because they get bored in there and.

So many have come out from watching that video. Just just from that being on there and then inside of that we stick a crisis pregnancy center. We've got like five of them that we work with and they're great every one of them.

Wow, is this an old. Oh-ho-ho. Look at that. I got a new one with a little bit, but this little square thing down in the white. I mean, this is a high-tech place. They know what it is. I don't but it works.

It works.

But.

We just try to tell them all we love them that we're there for you we're here for you. We love you. We have a place we can send you to right now. You got a Ten minutes from here. It'll get you a free 3d ultrasound free medical help free financial help and whatever.

They can't help you with my church oil. Whatever it is you need. There's absolutely no need for you to kill your baby today and That's the truth. I mean, I'm so fortunate to have My church. St. Andrews is so behind this RC Sproul is so Behind this ministry as well as all of my pastors are and they put their.

They put tangible things out there. We don't just stand out there and holler at people and not offer them and.

A way out and.

There are horrible positions these people get their souls in and But We'll be in part of their life as far as they want us to. We'll go in as deep as they want if somebody's really in a need where they need the financial help There's a deacon that will meet with them.

Fill out a budget. Fill out a budget of where they are in their life and then see what we can do to Straighten it up so that she can. So the church is very valuable. The church.

Is.

So important and there's just and it doesn't take so much. It really doesn't. And and then God's glorified in their life and they see God being glorified they see the goodness of God by being blessed and It's just all good.

You know, I I don't I'm just too blessed. I guess I Can't believe my church. They they just really They really step up my pastor anything I say out there He will honor and it's. It's pretty it's an enviable position to be in.

And I would pray for You guys to get your church on board too, and I'll tell you the way to do that is Take them the fruit. You know what? I mean? Nothing works. Nothing works nothing. Works like bringing a mom and a baby into the church and Where the people in the church see God moving it's like John was talking about.

Having.

Dryness or something that will bring that will bring life even to your church. There's a guy What a guy that's a leader in Our church that said that this ministry What's been going on there has literally changed the church and for good and that is from somebody at st. Andrews that Has seen the church change completely well I mean in Expanded in ways that it had not been before and how much of a breath of fresh air.

It was to have have people coming in from the street that come to Christ or even if they don't come to Christ that that Come and get ministered to By the church. So it's it's all important to me. It truly is and it's a lot of different earth rusty.

Just talking a little bit ago about how we're not all the same and we're we all have these different things we're supposed to do and and but there's people that want you all to be the same you got to all be like this and That's not how God's nature is That that we're all you guys are all valuable.

Honestly, you all are just doing whatever it is that you're you're going to do.

I.

Anyway What I usually start saying to people after that there's there's a break in time when we're trying to talk to them and They're filling out their paperwork. It's usually about this thick. Ours goes all day.

It's not like the one you were at there Yesterday. Ours goes all day. I'm usually there from Between 7 30 and 8 till 3 or 4 in the afternoon and God moves all throughout that day but when they come.

I.

Will give an introduction of the place and It's gonna be weird. I'm not gonna be able to preach like I do there, but I will try to lay it out. Like I do there. I don't know if anybody's ever done that before but I'm gonna give it a try.

But I try to warn them first of all where they are. I'll say I'll say I'll say good morning ladies. You just want you to know that we're out here to help you. With anything you need we can help you. But you cannot trust these people.

The guy that owns this place his name's James Pendergraft. He's a convicted felon. Spent time in prison his license medical license is suspended again for the fifth time indefinitely. He owes the state of Florida $140 ,000 in fines was found guilty of destroying a young lady and fined 36 million dollars.

He can't get the money out of here. He used to anymore so he's. He's gone to other means and He got arrested and indicted for manufacturing and sales of dangerous drugs like cocaine heroin methamphetamines and While they were searching for money and drugs.

They happened upon a bag filled with bloody abortion tools with pieces of babies in them and so now they're trying to build a case against him for Before doing illegal unlicensed abortions out of the back of a beat-up old van.

That's just the owner of the place and then I could go on by and on by doctor. That's there. They're all if you look them up on mugshots calm. They're all there. Randall Whitney the main one there now has been drug out those doors twice and handcuffs and beat and arrested for battery on patients.

It's just a really evil wicked place and that's where it comes into that scripture about them being blind. Because they walk in there and they just don't get it. They don't see it and the guys all those guys those guys won't they won't even look them up.

You know you tell them look look them up Google. Just type their names into Google. See now that the state of Florida is finally put in the paperwork to try and pull their license see his trials in the middle Of June do any I don't care who cares you know and these guys don't care about these girls.

They really don't at all. It's so sad. So I go over the The fact of them being stuck in a trap and then I Explained that we wrestle not with flesh and blood but with principalities and powers of darkness, and they're all around this place that demons live in this building and There's absolutely no doubt that they live there.

And those doors are literally the gates of hell.

The Gates of Hell, Psalm 106, and the Reality of Human Sin

Now.

Rusty was talking about the gates of hell yesterday. And you know the amazing thing about the gates of hell I can spring fear in people's hearts. But you need to remember something that the wording for the gates of hell is like based on ancient cities and whenever Somebody an enemy would come the people would run into the city, and they'd lock the gate.

So the gates were always a defensive position. You know so you don't have to fear that at all. They're the ones that are fearing you. Amen, it's the truth. It's absolutely the truth. You see it every day.

Then I go in to start going into some of the hard stuff. This little thing here will probably go kind of quickly, but It doesn't when you're there it takes me 45 minutes to an hour usually to get through all this.

Because they're coming out and there's people in shock. And they're looking out the windows because especially when you say certain verses that start getting to them. Like explain about Psalm 106. Where it says how this is how God's view of this is he says they offered the blood of their children to demons.

Right so who's so I'll ask him. I'll even ask him and said I'll say cuz cuz you're here almost all the time well. I'm sending my baby back to God. I said you are. How do you know you're sitting? Where did you get that?

There's the sending your baby back to God stuff. I said if I believe that for five seconds I would be at Daytona Beach and hire a guy here to wave people in. I said There's nowhere in the Bible that you're gonna back that up nowhere.

You're not. I mean it's sad and that's what. That's what drives me more than anything if you want to know to be there. And that's what I think the weakness of the church is everybody says where's the church?

Where's the church? Where's the church? You know why the church isn't there? It's because they don't See what is happening here? If these are they gonna stay sitting in their pews if they thought all these kids were going to hell.

Would they. Doesn't that make it a little more important, or does everybody in the church. Just think all these babies are going to God somehow. Like he's obligated To save pagans babies whose parents don't want him.

I want to kill him. I don't get it. I really don't get it at all. The other problem is this theologically it says the Bible tells us in Psalm 95 5 and David's big confession of his sin you remember. He said in sin did my mother conceive me that didn't mean that his mom was a whore.

Right it meant that he was a sinner at conception. We are we're we're at the image of God at conception and we are. Given Adam's sin at conception you got them both going on. So for people I know that's hard for Baptists, but I mean it's hard for anybody.

But I mean people try to come up with things I got. You know people saying you till you're 13 then. Then all of a sudden some age of accountability or something happens, or I don't know where all this stuff comes up from.

I don't but I don't see it in the word at all. I see we're born we are born just like Psalm 58 3 said we're born from birth. The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward spreading lies their venom is like the venom of a snake.

Like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears that will never heed the charmer no matter how well the charmer plays. That's that's what mankind is in it's always been that way.

That's how.

Reformed theology has always looked at it. Calvin looks at this if you look up those scriptures and in there. This is what he did and I I heard MacArthur talk about it once and he said He said it to his church, and then they went.

Oh, and he goes. Yeah, it wasn't popular then either, but. But you know it's I don't get where we're not seeing the full Thing of what's happening. I think that if people thought if churches thought if people thought Anything other than these babies were going straight to heaven they would be there.

Unless I'm just desperately wrong I I think this is far more heinous than than We even believe. It's it's so strange because you used to have them people saying they're not babies. Nobody really says that anymore.

I don't know about you guys out in the there's it. I mean science has made that so There's nobody saying that anymore. I mean they're just saying they want to kill their kids and they'll say it literally to your face.

You.

Know that's I want you guys to think about that, but it's Adam sin is is downplayed everywhere when say and when well I'll get into that in a minute.

But uh.

Then you get the people telling you oh, no. They'll say all sin is the same. All sins are the same. And I'll say all sins are the same. Where do you get that and oh I said? I can't get a three-year-old to believe that stealing a cookie is the same as killing a baby and so.

The people that are inside the abortion clinic working there. They feed them with all these kind of scriptures that are twisted and taken out of context just like Satan did in When to Jesus in the wilderness, but All sins are not the same.

I try to explain to him in the Old Testament. You can see also some sins could be covered by a grain offering. Some could be covered by the blood of a bird a goat sheep a bull and by the way. There was none for killing your own children there was none and Because Of course God hates the hands that shed innocent blood.

And when I preach down there and trying to warn them of that I tell them it's not just the abortionist. Not just the workers. It's not just the drivers and It's not just them especially the drivers. How many you they say?

Oh, I'm just I'm just driving. I'm just helping a friend. I'm just I try to remind them That when They brought Jesus to Pilate. That Jesus looked out to the people and said they have a greater judgment than you do.

These drivers and these people they should this the sin of the people that brought Jesus to Pilate is that they should have known better. They should have moved they should have whatever that same principles going on every day at every abortion clinic in this country.

And they all think their hands are clean. They all think they're just fine. They're not they're guilty.

And.

The clear thing of that is his hands that God hates the hands. It's the people. It's not some idea about abortion or choice or any of that kind of thing. Then I'll move into choice and just say choice because you'll hear that every day choice choice choice choice, right?

Anything is a choice, you know, I'll just say Nothing has changed. You you are committing the same sin here today that Adam did in the Garden of Eden. The very first sin ever committed was not eating the fruit.

It was choosing to eat the fruit. You know when God came to Adam and Eve he said He would bless them if he if they obeyed him, but he would curse them if they disobeyed so. They disobeyed and they were cursed and He not only other than that but every single person ever Conceived and born has been put on a on a river going straight to hell.

And we forget all that we cut the we start the gospel too much forward. We don't go back enough. We don't go back to where it all began. But everybody conceived everybody born. Everybody's going to hell we drive down the street that guy in the car next to you.

It's going to hell most likely. I mean, how many believers are there? You know, I mean, that's why we got to get the gospel. That's why we got to get the gospel into that abortion clinic, especially because there's not time.

There's a life is going to die. Unless God moves real quick, I mean depending on which clinic you're at there. It could be very quick. Then I'll go move into addressing who they think God is was because they all think that God is some like genie in a bottle that just wants to.

They just got to rub this bottle and out he pops and has to do whatever they want. And surely he's gonna overlook this because they're so special and all of that kind of thing and you just get it all the.

Every day you just get this view of God and of sin of not being As horrible as it is and then I. What I do after that after dispelling their things. I tell them that you guys can't take these scriptures.

They're gonna give you in there because they actually feed scriptures to these people to make them feel comfortable. You don't tell them and I'll just say listen those scriptures don't belong to you. Those are not yours.

They're ours. There's different ones for you. And then I'll go into about how God hates the hands that shed innocent blood he truly does hate him and when he hates something it's not good and He tells us that he's angry with the wicked every minute of every day.

He's he's not a fuzzy little Jesus in your head that you think you believe in you've all told me this morning. You you believe in Jesus?

Well.

That does you about as much good as it does the demons that are sitting in here that believe in him far more than you Do and you just try to just give them the truth. I mean the hard truth. The truth is hard.

We in America make everything so. Kind of not so bad. But it is it is bad. It's very bad. And then I'll go back to. About how God hates the hands that shed innocent blood. I always say that because that scripture gets the windows open every time I say it.

So as I'm going through this, I'm trying to make sure they're not sleeping. I'll just throw it in again. You'll see the blinds start going but they're hearing it. They're hearing it. And then you. And then we'll go into Back to what the gospel truly is and explain how Adam and Eve when they sinned.

How that. Everybody was gone on a river going straight to hell, but God called the people to himself. And in fact, Jesus said that he came to save his people from their sin. It's but something had to be done about their sin.

The blood of bulls and goats and sheep and all that kind of thing could only cover it could not cleanse it. So then I'll bring up that.

That.

God loved his son More than we will ever know. I mean, I don't believe in all eternity. That we will never know the depth of the love that the father had for his son. But he sent his son down here. And his son came and lived a perfect life and he died a perfect death.

And he rose in victory over his people sin, but on the way there on the way to that cross Psalm 11 verse 6 tells us that the cup of the wicked is filled with fire and brimstone and a burning wind. Everybody's got a cup.

Everybody everybody at conception gets a cup. They're all the issue is who's going to drink the cup. Every cups going to be drank. The issue is is it going to be you? Or is it going to be Jesus. And was we look at Easter?

We just passed. As we look at Easter. And we think it's not about pretty dresses and it's not about bunnies and Chocolate and all this stuff. It's about torture. It's about misery and it's about redemption.

That's what Easter is about. That's why you need to come to Christ that's why you need to repent of this and that's why you need to keep your baby and Because there are consequences. The most amazing thing to me is that when Jesus went When he went to the cross he stopped in the Garden of Gethsemane and he said.

And his agony began. The Bible says his dessert his disciples deserted him. The Bible says that he began to sweat blood. He prayed three times father. If it's possible, let this cup pass from me. Three times he prayed for that cup that cup of God's wrath.

That cup that we all deserve. He drank it and Then his father who loved him with a love will never understand. Hung him on a cross and poured out his hatred wrath and anger upon his own son for our sin.

He drank our cup. That is so valuable. You guys cannot reject this you can have to come out of here. He has given you such a great gift to send people down here to help you to trust. That just want to help you the only people in your life that don't want to take anything from you.

And.

And I have to tell you I it's weird doing it this way when it's preaching it. It's different a way different. I don't think I'll ever do this again. I'll have to come with some. Jeff you'll have to come.

I'll come back and teach coloring eggs or something. But uh, but. It gets people. I want to tell you just about the last couple weeks. Where's Luke. Luke about. How long am I gone?

Yeah, but that's right.

You open your mouth earlier. I'm gonna I'm gonna go Durban time.

No, but.

What was I saying I'm such an idiot. Oh the last couple of weeks I gotta tell you it's amazing. Amazing what this sermon does and it's not this sermon, but it's God Putting it there, and it he puts he he applies it like on steroids.

There's a guy from this church. Well. He's not from this church. But he comes out to everything with you guys. A guy named Elvis Kesto. Do you know him? He sent me the most amazing thing last week that He said John you're not gonna believe this.