Exercise Yourself to Godliness — Paul Washer

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Media used by permission of HeartCry Missionary Society. Visit us online at heartcrymissionary .com. It is just such a wonderful joy to hear missionaries talk about their work. I was at that young lady's table yesterday with my wife, and I just looked at my wife and I said, Don't you wish you were young again?

She said, I am. You're the old guy. I said, just to you remember being out there so young, so naive and idealistic in all the right ways, believing that God can use you. And I so appreciate that question that came from somewhere over here about are you going to teach them the Bible?

After talking to that young lady for a few minutes at her counter yesterday, we have no worries about that. She will teach them the Bible. She knows that she's going over there not for temporal, but eternal reasons.

You know, you ask a lot of questions about Africa. Africa is a beautiful place, beautiful people. And maybe you would have thought, well, couldn't they train them more? Maybe a technical school or something like that?

Yes, they could. If there were more people holding the rope, you know, missions. There are a lot of people who have gone worthy people. And there is a lot they can do. The problem is on this side. We forget.

We just forget even good Christians, people who love the Lord, truly born again, just forget. I know a church in South Georgia. I would say it has about, I don't know, maybe a hundred members. And no doctors, no lawyers, no businessmen, just blue collar.

They're averaging about $215 ,000 a year that they're giving to missions directly straight to missions. And I asked him, I said, I've never seen any place like this. Because you walk any place you walk into their humble abode, their buildings.

Every hallway is covered in pictures of missionaries. Every place except the closet, in the auditorium, everywhere you go, you're confronted and reminded about the need. There are some of you here tonight that you love the Lord more than I do.

Much more mature than I am. But you have to admit, in the daily routine of life, all the pressures that are on us, we forget. We forget about the great commission, the great commission, the great commission.

The Pharisees' Zeal Without Knowledge

Tonight, I want you to go to Matthew chapter 23. Before I read, I would like to pray. Father, I come before you in the name of your son. And I know that you hear me because of him. Lord, I am aware that nothing happens.

Apart from your decree, your will, your judgment. Nothing happens apart from the power, the life of the Holy Spirit. And I pray that you would honor your son by moving in the hearts of your people. Moving them to you, to the center of your will.

Moving them to the world. To look outside of themselves. To a glorious reason for being alive. The redemption of men. Father, take away the veil that the world glues upon our eyes every day. The fog that causes us not to be able to see clearly.

Even the lusts of the flesh that war against the spirit. That cause us to detour. Father, set our minds upon Christ and his task. In Jesus name, amen. Go to Matthew 23, verse 15. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.

Because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte. And when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. Let me read that again. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.

Because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte. One convert. And when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. I could say the Lord has given me a word for this church.

He's given me a word for everyone who's gathered here this evening. But it would be more accurate to say that a while back reading through this text. I discovered what kind of application it had for me.

For me being no less or no greater than any other who's been redeemed. I must believe it also has an application for you. And our evangelistic and our missionary endeavors. Now, from reading this, you would think that I'm going to come at you tonight with a hard word.

With a judgmental word, with a condemning word. And I can assure you, I am not. I am going to simply speak to you. The things that this text has done for me. I read it one day. Always just looking out from the text.

Seeing how it applied to the Pharisees. But not seeing how it could apply to me. And how it could apply to my people. My Western Christianity. My evangelical community. I assure you, it ended up that day.

After much heartbreak, it ended up in blessing. And I will assure you that it will do the same for you tonight. Now, first of all, I want you to look at something. The Pharisees were zealous. Even the Apostle Paul tells us that in the book of Romans.

They had zeal. But they had zeal without knowledge. They were active. Very active in their religious duty. And they were very active in their missionary endeavors. Look what it says. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.

Because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte. They did. There's not much written on this. But what is written lets us know clearly. That these men were about winning converts to themselves.

To themselves. Now, the problem is. Not that they were active. That's not the problem. Not that they were doing missions. The problem was found in what they were exporting. What they were doing to make proselytes.

What they were teaching. And the fruit of their endeavors. What those proselytes were becoming. And in reality, the proselytes were becoming even worse. Than the Pharisees themselves. Now, what does that have to do with us?

A Gospel Worth Exporting

Well, let me ask you some questions. And I don't want this to be about some group outside of here. And I don't want this to be about some Christian sect. And I don't want this to be about the whole group of you.

I'm asking this to each one of us. Every individual. Don't hide in the group. I want you to ask yourself these questions personally. Especially the men. Do we have... Do you have a gospel worth exporting?

Do you have a gospel? Do you so clearly understand the gospel? Is your gospel biblical? And genuine? So that it should be exported to the nations? Or should it be quarantined? So that it doesn't infect other nations?

I was speaking with one of the dear brothers who's here. Who's going out to be a missionary. And we were talking about the great damage. That has been done around the world. By American evangelicalism.

The great damage that has been done by some missionaries. The great damage that has been done by many itinerant evangelists. And short term missionary endeavors. Where they will go over to a country for a week.

And run around and come back with stories. That 10 ,000 people were converted. But the preacher who's left behind in Romania. Or Zambia. Or Peru. Gives a different report. Those 10 ,000 people. Hardly a one of them showed up to church the following Sunday.

Or a gospel. That is not a true gospel. But something reduced. Do you want to go to heaven? Would you like to pray this prayer? Welcome to the family of God. Let's write that one down. Do we have a gospel worth exporting?

I remember several years ago after the curtain fell in Romania. I was invited to Romania to preach. And then as I was there. I was in Bucharest. And there's a Baptist church there. Called the Holy Trinity Church.

Very established. Very important church in that community. And as I was going up to the platform to speak. I watched the pastors. And for some reason. It just seemed to me that they weren't too happy.

That I was there. And so I thought. Well who asked me? How did I get here? Because I really feel like. They don't want me here. And so I got up. And I said open up the Bible. And I preached on the gospel.

Out of Romans chapter 3. Expository message. Just word. Word. Word. Word. And afterwards. The total attitude of all those pastors completely changed. They were happy. They were hugging me. They were doing all.

I mean they were just so excited. Some of them were even broken. And I said. What's going on? And they said. We thought you were just another American. Coming to tell us that God loved us. We know God loves us.

We thought you were another American. Coming to tell some stories. And get an emotional response from our people. But you actually preached. You actually taught us something about God. That we had not understood so clearly.

A young man. Phoned me one time years ago. And this is going to sound a little hard. But I assure you. I did it in love. He phoned me years ago. And he said. Brother Paul. I want to come to Peru. And work with you.

I said. Why? He said. I just want to give my life away. I said. Well young man. How are you in your studies? Where do you sit theologically? Well brother Paul. Theology is just. Doctrine is not that important to me.

I just want to give my life away. I said. How are you in preaching? Well. I just want to give my life away. I said. Young man. How are you in intercessory prayer? He says. I'm not much of a prayer warrior.

But I just want to come there. And give my life away. I said. Young man. No one in Peru. Needs your life. They need God. And they need someone. Who can open up. Their mouth. And tell them. About God. Never forget.

A Devotional Life Worth Exporting

It is the gospel. Preached. To men. So do we have a gospel. Worth exporting. Second question. Now this is more on a personal level. And I have asked myself. And it's called a stamp. It's caused a stammering.

At least in my heart. Sir. Sister. Dear Christian. Do you have a devotional life. Worth exporting. If you were to go overseas. Or witness to your neighbor. And they came to know Christ. Would you want them to have the devotional life.

That you have. Would you be happy to lead them to where you are devotionally with God, your passion, your consistency and meeting with him and reading his word and praying? Would you and I want for an angel to descend from heaven right now and just reveal?

I suppose they know how to use multimedia, just reveal up there the time that you and I spend with God. Do you can't do you really want to teach the world to have the same devotion that you have? Or should it rather be quarantined so that it doesn't spread any further?

Personal Godliness and Sanctification

Another question, do we have a personal godliness worth exporting the evidence? And I know this is it's misunderstood in America. It's not believed in America, but it's biblical. It's true. It has the greatest preachers throughout the history of Christianity standing behind it.

And it is this. Without godliness, no one will see the Lord, without holiness, no one will see the Lord. It's not talking about a works based salvation, it's simply saying this, the evidence of justification.

That your sins. Have been forgiven that you stand before God legally declared right with him, the evidence of that of justification is the continuing ongoing work of sanctification. The God who saved you from the condemnation of sin is now saving you from the power of sin.

Would you want your godliness, your personal godliness, holiness packaged in a box and sent to that orphanage that those children might have the same degree of godliness? That you bear, have I hurt you?

This has hurt me. These are important questions again. Another question, do we have a uniquely Christian lifestyle worth exporting when someone, if someone, a co-worker who's an unbeliever, a relative, a friend who knows you, would they look at your life and see and bear witness that this life of yours is uniquely Christian, that Christianity, biblical Christianity, it pervades, it passes through, it permeates every aspect of your life?

Or are you. Kind of compartmentalized, you have your religious life over here that's practiced a few hours a week and then your secular life. Certain things that belong to God, certain things that belong to you, certain areas where scripture may have some influence, other areas where the great influence is the world.

Do you have a Christian, a lifestyle that is so uniquely Christian that it's worth exporting? Would you want someone to honestly have what you have? You see, in the Christian life, there's no such thing as secular.

It's gone. That's the idea of a division between secular and sacred, it's all religious language, has nothing to do with the Christianity. In Christianity, the moment you walk into the kingdom of heaven, what do you have?

Everything now is sacred. To quote from the prophets, even the pots and pans are sacred. I see everything you do, whether it is the most menial task, the most insignificant thing like eating or drinking, you are to do so unto the glory of God.

You are to think unto the glory of God, see unto the glory of God, hear and speak unto the glory of God. Your heart is to be guided by a passion for the glory of God, the working of your hands, the direction of your life, symbolic, your feet, the direction they move.

Everything is about him, your marriage, your children, your family, your job, absolutely everything. A uniquely Christian life. Do you have a Christian life worth exporting? Would you want someone to have what you have?

Christian Marriage and Family on the Mission Field

Another thing, do you have. A marriage. Worth exporting, would you honestly want that on somebody else? Why do I keep bringing this because let's just face it, folks, there's nothing more central in the life of a man and a woman than their marriage tells everything about them.

It's humbling, isn't it? Humbling, but true. Would you want this Christian marriage that you live every day with this other person? Would you want that on someone? You say only on my worst enemy. Well, you see, here's one of the things and let me share with you about missions and if there are missionaries out there, let me let me instruct you on some things.

One of the things that's most overlooked on the mission field is just that marriage and family. One of the few times that I have preached, actually, I think of it the only time that I have preached to a conference of nothing but missionaries and pastors.

It was in a foreign land and I got up and preached and I preached on marriage and the family is one of the few times that I actually saw the Holy Spirit sweep through a place and almost everyone in the room was down on the floor weeping and could not be consoled.

I mean, if your marriage, your family isn't Christian. You can't even be in the ministry. You see that I don't want to run a rabbit here, but let me just say this, I have become so disillusioned. With everything about American Christianity, I just have to admit, you can say that I'm in a crisis point.

How did it all get so confusing, so loud, so noisy, so showy, not only would I like to, I'm going to say, stop the carnival, I'm getting off. I don't just want to run around the world preaching this stuff.

I actually just want to live it. Can it be done? Yes, it can. Simplicity of Christ. Christianity is about the simplicity of Christ, simply seeking out his will, growing in his commands with regard to the aspects of our life.

Do you have a marriage worth exporting? Let me ask you this, do you have a do you have a family life worth exporting in Eastern Europe? Many of the pastors have been taught that it is a badge of courage.

It is a badge of, well, not courage, but godliness to neglect your family for the sake of the ministry. Of course, that's that's absolutely absurd. And why is that? Because you can't fulfill God's will in one area of the Christian life by breaking it in another.

In order to win the world, the will of God, I'm going to disobey God with regard to my family. That's like the young girl who says, I'm going to date this lost guy in order to save him. Doesn't work, does it?

And so I remember at a conference, here's a missionary conference. In Eastern Europe, and it was all the missionaries that we support throughout Eastern Europe, a whole bunch of people there, and I said, all right.

I pulled rank on them, I said, I am the international director of the HeartCry Missionary Society. And this is the way this is going to work, you are all supported by our missionary society. This is the way it's going to work.

Let's say that you've promised your wife and your children that you're going to take them to the park on a certain Saturday all day and you're going to play with your children and you're going to spend time with your wife.

But as you're walking out the door at nine in the morning, I show up at your doorstep and I tell you, look, it has taken me 24 hours to fly here. I have very urgent business with you. I need to talk to you about expanding the ministry and things such as that.

I said, if if on hearing those words of mine, you turn around and look at your wife and your children and say, I'm sorry, I can't take you to the park today because some urgent things have popped up, then know this, you're fired, you're fired.

I want you to look at me and I want you to say, brother, Paul, I will do absolutely anything I can do, but I have given my word to my covenant partner, my children. They have looked forward this for a long time.

I will not betray them. One of the most important things on the mission field is to teach about family, because the reason why the church is in such a terrible predicament here in the United States is because the families are disintegrating right before our eyes.

And no, they're not Christian. Do we really want to export this stuff? And here's a question, do we have a church worth exporting, a church worth exporting? Is this the way church ought to be done? In the last year, I have sought out the study of the New Testament and through reading.

Lord. If you want me to go out somewhere and start a church, what is it really supposed to look like? Here's the only thing I can tell you. Assume nothing. Just because it's the way everybody else is doing it and just because it's the way it's always been done in America, assume nothing.

Go back to the text. We must constantly we must not only reform, but we must constantly be reforming. We must constantly be scrutinizing our lives, our ministries, our churches, and saying, is this so or have I just accepted something that that my mentor accepted that he accepted from his mentor and so on and so forth?

Is this really what Jesus wants? These are questions I have asked myself. They're hard questions, but they're good, aren't they? They are. Now, I want us to go to First Timothy, chapter four, verse one, but the spirit explicitly says that in latter times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons.

Apostasy and the Marks of False Prophets

That's frightening. Very frightening, Timothy, in the latter times. Now, let's talk about the latter times for a moment, because there's something you should understand. The latter days began with the death, the resurrection and ascension of the Messiah.

We have been in the latter days for two thousand years. But as time goes on and goes on and goes on, we also see things turning somewhat darker and darker and darker, not on a localized level only, but throughout the entire world.

He's basically telling Timothy, Timothy, listen to me, there's a real sense in which. The world's going to hell in a handbag. The very foundations are being torn down, there is chaos, there is confusion, there are people who will fall away that will apostatize people who will identify themselves with Christianity, but they will fall away from genuine Christianity, proving that they never were of us to begin with.

But what's amazing here today. In this country, you can apostatize, fall away theologically and ethically, and no one will hardly even notice. As a matter of fact, you can apostatize, go right down the street and find a Christian church that will take you in feel theology is no longer that important.

We are told doctrine is not necessary and ethically, if anyone even begins to speak about a moral standard, they're labeled legalist, difficult times, Timothy. He he goes on and he says this. Verse two, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience, as with a branding iron that within Christianity there would rise up men who could do ludicrous things.

Horrible, immoral things and still be followed. By countless people who identify themselves with Christianity, isn't that amazing? Timothy, there's going to come a time when the lines are so blurred that even in the midst of those who identify themselves with Christ, men will rise up who have no conscience whatsoever, whose God is their belly and will mislead many.

Timothy, you're going into a war. A terrible war. He goes on and he says men who forbid marriage and advocate is abstaining from food, which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

Let me give you three things about a false prophet. Now, this is going to get back to missions, I promise you, let me give you three things about a false prophet. First of all, their message is not centered in Christ.

It won't be all about Christ. It'll be about little nitpicky things that are exalted. So that those things become the absolute marrow of Christianity, you must do this, you must not do that, it's not all about Christ.

It's all about all sorts of other things other than Jesus. And when any group. Any Christian group gets under any banner other than Christ alone, they're in trouble. Can God prosper his people? Yes, he can, but it's not all about prosperity.

Can God heal someone according to his will? He can, but it's not all about healing. But let me throw this one at you. I had a pastor that called me a few years ago from Texas, a dear man, and he said, Brother Paul, I want you to come preach to my church because I believe that many of them are lost.

And I said, why do you believe many of your members are lost? He said, because they're homeschoolers. Now, I homeschool, so does he. And I said, brother, you homeschool. He goes, yes, I do. But any time a group of people make homeschooling their banner rather than Jesus Christ, they have gone astray.

Gotcha, didn't I? You see, you're off center unless it's all about Christ, all about him. Do you know when someone is newly converted and it's not a honeymoon experience, it's just that they haven't lived long enough to grieve the Holy Spirit so much out of their life.

But when someone has been newly converted and they may not be able to say things correctly and all this, but they're just glowing and the only thing that comes out of their mouth is, is, is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

That's what kind of missionary we need to be. That's what kind of preacher we need to be. That's what kind of church we need to be. It's all about Christ. Yeah, we do all sorts of wonderful things in this church.

We have all sorts of convictions and ministries. But none of it is our banner, not even missions. Christ is our banner goes on. Says in verse four, for everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude, for it is sanctified by the means of the word of God and prayer.

Christian Freedom, Legalism, and the Authority of Scripture

Now, let me share something with you, the extremes. One extreme is this groups of people who are truly swallowed up in legalism. In legalism, where everything is about their certain set of rules. They have heaped things upon themselves and other believers that Christ never commanded and it's death.

But then the other side is just Jesus. As though Jesus never taught anything, as though Jesus never commanded anything, as though Jesus never demanded anything. My dear friend, listen to me in the words of Conrad Murrell, a very wise preacher.

He said this walking in the truth is like walking on the edge of a razor blade and you can fall off on either side. You can walk a thousand miles that way and be in false doctrine and a thousand miles that way and be in false doctrine.

But to walk in the truth is like walking on the edge of a razor blade. And we all taught her the one I love, verse five says, well, verse four, for everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude for is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.

There's three things I want you to notice here that are very, very important. This will help you in your Christian life. What is what should you do and what should you not do? Well, look at our text is sanctified, you should do that which is sanctified by the word of God.

You can do that which God's authoritative word says you can do. And you better not do what God's authoritative word tells you not to do. I talked about do we have a Christianity worth exporting? I want you to know what was said.

In the book of Judges applies today. As in a way never before in the world, they did what was right in their own eyes, the one thing that I love, well, I love many things about the Puritans, but one thing I truly appreciate about them not debating whether they went too far or not far enough, I'll tell you this.

They were a group of men and a group of women who sincerely desired to conform every aspect of their life to the word of God. They scrutinize scripture and they sought to apply it in detail to every aspect of their life.

We are today we have a Christianity of vagueness. A fog. Everything gray, nothing black, nothing white. We don't even consider in making a decision about the things in our life, about how we should talk, how we should walk, what we should wear, what we should listen to.

We don't even think about going to the scriptures and say, God, what have you commanded? One of the things of knowing the will of God is that the authoritative will of God. Is revealed by the authoritative word of God clearly written, he has shown you, old man, what is good and what the Lord requires of the.

Also, thanksgiving prayer, how can we know? That something is acceptable, that we find it authorized in the word of God and we can prayerfully render thanks unto God for it. With a conscience undisturbed.

You know, in the in Christianity, in the scriptures and also throughout history, the conscience, especially among Baptists, is very important, the conscience. But let me share with you something. Your conscience must be refined.

You know, have you ever gone to one of those really, really expensive restaurants every once in a while? I had an uncle, he's gone on to be with the Lord, but he would take my wife and me to one of those restaurants.

One of the first things this country boy, Hillbilly, noticed was in those really expensive restaurants, they don't give you much food. I mean, it's like, what is this? I am brought up and go into one of those buffets that ought to be named just simply the trough.

Everyone recognizes the food is really no good and it's no good for you, but you get all of it you want and then you go like my wife. She's much more refined than I am. She's sitting there and she knows what fork and everything.

And she's tasting it. And I'm just sitting there going, this is a rip off. She could appreciate the nuances. I couldn't even read the menu. Now, what is the problem? Same problem is this. In spite of my upbringing, I love art and I love the French Impressionist, the beauty and love Monet, the water lilies, even love Van Gogh.

He was actually a Baptist. Can you believe it? But a lot of people can look at that. They don't see anything there. They have to take an art appreciation class. So that their appetite for art will be refined so that they can appreciate.

What's being painted before them, it's the same way with regard to morality and the will of God, we have been so influenced by paganism, we can swallow anything, we can't discern anymore what is right and what is wrong, and that can only be remedied by what?

Renewing the mind. In the word of God and making a break. Look, listen, if you're going to follow Christ, you're not even you're not only going to have to make a break. With secular culture, you're going to have to make a break with contemporary Christianity, and you're not only going to have to make a break with contemporary Christianity, you're going to have to make a break with even evangelicalism, because the term evangelical means nothing nowadays.

I'm not trying to be a rebel. I'm just saying this, we have to get back in the word of God and realize that all the things we swallow are not what are to be swallowed. Now it goes on. Now we're going to get to the part of this that is just so important.

Discipline Yourself for Godliness

In four, chapter four, verses one through five, we're understanding that this world is disintegrating, it's coming apart at the seams, havoc is breaking out. Now, what does he tell Timothy to do? He doesn't tell Timothy to start a missionary organization.

He doesn't tell Timothy to get active with some new ministry, some new way of doing things. He doesn't tell Timothy to join some coalition. What does he do? He addresses Timothy in this matter. Timothy, the world is going to hell.

There's mass confusion. The devil is running rampant. Now, here's what you must do. If you're going to be a force against it all, you must be godly. One thing I know how the preachers down through the ages have said that over and over, Wesley, who I greatly admire.

He said, give me men who fear nothing but God and sin. Today, my great concern was not over the nuances in the Greek. Today, my great concern was not about delivery. Today, my great concern there in the bed crying out to God was, am I clean?

Am I clean? Am I clean? You want to be used of God, then become usable. Become usable, never forget a track that Leonard Ravenhill gave me, others can, you cannot, but others exercise their Christian freedom and this and that and every other thing.

But if you want to be used to God, you cannot. You cannot go to some of the places they go, you cannot do some of the things they do, you cannot listen to what they listen to. One of my favorite illustrations, maybe an urban legend, but it works.

I don't know, can't validate it. But the story of a man who is ending his career is one of the greatest violinists of Europe, old man playing his last concert. And as he lays down his fiddle, a young man walks up to him at the same concert and says, sir, I would give my life to play like you.

And he says, son, I have given my life to play like me. Do you see that St. Timothy godliness? I have seen missionaries with great promise, brilliant intellects, eloquent, even in street preaching, never used of God.

And I have seen men who you thought, can they even put two sentences together? Can they even read the text coherently and yet mightily used of God, clean vessel? He says, Timothy, first of all, in verse six, in pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, pointing out what things for them not to stray from Christ.

Pointing to Christ. Warning them about things that will take their eyes off of Christ, that will distract them from Christ, Timothy, tell them about Christ, point them to Christ, everything you do ought to be Christ, Christ, Christ.

I believe that is the reason that God so exalted the ministry of Charles Hatton Spurgeon. I do every sermon, Christ, Christ. We have to point men to Christ, to Christ. People so sometimes misunderstand because I will preach a righteous standard, but if I am down on the streets witnessing to a prostitute, I'm not talking to her about the length of her dress.

I'm talking to her about Christ. Oh, dear, oh, dear, dear, precious little woman, Christ, my children, they don't just need rules, they don't just need homeschooling and they don't just need moral character, they need Christ or it's all rubbish.

They must have Christ, point them to Christ, point them to Christ, but you can't give something you don't have. You can't instill a passion for Christ if you don't have a passion for Christ. I was preaching at Sam Waldron's church a while back, Ted Chrisman and the others, Sam Waldron, theologian, a friend of mine.

I count it an honor to know him. I'm always intimidated when he's in the audience. I can never preach when he's looking at me. And I was up there and I was just going at it and I just felt so horrible because he's just so correct and intelligent and man, God's just blessed him with such a mind.

And I came down and I felt so horrible and I said, I'm sorry, I just I don't know my passion. I just exploded. And he said, Paul, when you get back up there tomorrow morning, explode over across every wall in this building.

I don't have his mind. I don't have his scholarship. I don't have his intellect. I can explode. I just love it when when there is so much passion in a man's heart or in a woman's heart or a child's heart for Christ that they almost seem like they're about to have a fit.

And that every sermon for them is a sadness at the end because they know no matter from where they have pulled words, it didn't even begin to describe Christ, point them to Christ, pointing out these things to the brethren.

You will be a good servant of Christ. Jesus constantly nourished on the words of faith and the sound doctrine which you have been following. Now, I want us to look at two things here for our missionaries, for our church members, for everyone.