 Good afternoon, Pastor David. How you doing John? Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered. Well, welcome home pastor Yeah, it's nice to be home. You know I wanted to ask one of the questions is and it's not the topic I want to speak about You know when you go to places like New York or to Mexico and you speak at these different conferences You're speaking at a men's conference or a pastor's conference We know the word of God's across the board straight across. It's the same Yet when you're out of different different states or different countries is the word received differently Is there like a difference when you share? especially being from California going all the way to New Jersey or or That's an interesting question because I think that part of the way that we learn to teach here in the United States At least is by using illustrations that are Familiar to those who live where you're at for example if I speak here in California and I make a joke about or mention an earthquake We all understand that right? So it depends on You know What country you're in how you illustrate but when it comes to just a general teaching of what that word means How it applied especially we'll say in the context of during the time of Christ Then that just seems to that that goes Cross-culturally so you have to always be careful with things like your illustrations or you have to be careful with your jokes You you know in a lot of countries are humor the way we see things is so much different than how they see it and so I don't tell jokes and sometimes what happens is When you're speaking the the guy who is Interpreting for you he won't understand the joke anyway, and so it just doesn't work So yeah, when I go cross-country cross-country, you know here in the States again use general illustrations But when I go to other other nations different countries I'm very careful not to use illustrations that they might not be familiar with It looks like what they don't understand, you know, and you have to be careful with your word choices, too You know because you don't want to confuse your translator So yeah, there are a lot of little things that are related to that But the core of the word is the same everywhere And if you remain faithful to teaching the core of the word, you'll be fine Well that what I that kind of segues into the question. I wanted to ask last night We had a conversation and and I was asking you practically I was asking you How does one do ministry better nets a ministry question we can probably use for one of our mentoring classes But I really liked your response and it's a response that I've been thinking about across the board You know, one of the things I was sharing with you is that I I've really never done things well, you know It was always me that seems to mess things up the only really thing good thing I was really good at was my former life before Christ. I was good at you practiced Right, that's exactly that's what you had shared yesterday is Practicing your craft, but that response that you gave me and I wanted to ask you in a more practical sense how that works as the senior pastor of our church is The answer you gave to me in response to how do I do things better? Especially in ministry serving my wife serving my children is that you'd love and I was thinking about how you always you're known for a few things You're known teaching the word of God and you're known to love your family your wife and your children your grandchildren But you're also known as loving the church How do you do that in a practical sense pastor being that we have a good-sized church here? How is it that you're able to to communicate or demonstrate the love for our church members? You know it's difficult to be able to Express a person in a personal way Your love for a group of people it's just hard to do that You have to hope that they understand that that what you're saying at that time is is true There needs to be that sincerity And you need to do what you can to make those words Incarnate by by what you do and Sometimes I can show personal affection and attention to somebody but like you said because we have multiple services and And many people come and go you never really get to know them or sometimes I meet people that Will tell me this happened recently. I've been in this fellowship since 1998 or whatever And I have never one time spoken to them and they told me they said well, you know, I've been here a long time I have just never taken the time to walk up and introduce myself So it can be awkward. So I believe that from my perspective The most loving thing I can do for this church is to prepare the very best Bible studies I can prepare to give them the truth As clearly and accurately as I as a pastor teacher Can do I think I'm really loving the sheep when I give them the truth Because ultimately that truth sets them free and ultimately that truth from scripture leads them to to a deeper knowledge of Jesus and And and what greater love can I show than to help them to see him more clearly as a teacher and And and that's what I do John. So if you want to be a good teacher, you love the sheep You know, Jesus said that he said if Peter if you love me, he said feed my and tend my sheep and my lambs and feeding them is giving them God's word and being Faithful to him and loving him as you do that And so to be a better teacher, you have to love the the people you lead You have to love them even if you never have an opportunity to know their name or To sit down and and have a cup of coffee or tea or water or whatever with them Because in many ways I never will be able to do that and you'll be amazed at the impact that makes I was just in upstate New York just returned last night and Several people approached me who had first come into contact with our ministry over 30 years ago because we were on the radio in upstate for many years and I had a couple sitting at dinner at one of the dinners we had and a lady said Pastor David, I just want to share with you that when my husband and I first Came in and heard you because I was doing a radio rally The lady said we were on the brink of divorce. She said my husband and I were unable to to Communicate we did not have a connection She said and when I came she says I had been listening to you on the radio and she said The way you love your wife She said it just it just was so obvious and so Tangible this is 30 years ago. She says was so obvious and so tangible then that it caused my husband and me to see What you have and so she said and they've been married well over 30 years since the time she first heard You know a radio broadcast So it's it's that kind of thing. It's it's having a transparency. I had several several pastors approached me saying that the thing that they were They were ministered to In the way that I share with people one of them use that word. He said is you're very transparent Your your emotions are very real and they're they're not hidden from us and he said I I actually appreciate that now again That's just me not everybody appreciates Transparent heart like that not everybody does there are quite a number of people who prefer coming and getting information Just give me the information. I don't want relationship Well, I just want to have fodder so that when I argue with people I have good information There are a lot of people like that and there are churches built on Informing informing informing then sending them out to fight with people I don't take that route and what I try to do is I try to give the word of God with a heart You know Paul said that it pleased and blessed him to not only give God's word But he said but we also imparted our very selves to you to the Thessalonians And I think that's a heart of ministry John is to not only impart the word but to impart your life to people That's why when Paul was speaking to the Ephesian elders there in his last conversation and he shared I will see your face no longer That's why Luke took pains to record that they wept Most of all because he said I won't see you anymore So there are people who will cry when I leave for joy and then there'll be others who cry Because they'll miss me and so I do think that When you impart your life as well as the word when you love the people enough to tell them the truth when you try to be Compassionate in the way you approach things and understanding of the weaknesses that we all possess and you try to To present the word in a way that that isn't Harming to them, but but strategically surgical to help them To remove things from their lives so that they they don't have a tumor that's going to end up with them being hurt and Or die Those are things that you seek in the Lord and that I that I cover under the word It's all under the umbrella of just loving the sheet I'm into that you know because yeah, all of us could attest to that your faithfulness weekend and week out to teach I'm not asking you to say that that was in our script was that our scripts But you know one of the other ways to pastor that's demonstrated that I found Very practical is your staff also demonstrates love of others that is from you many do and Hopefully everyone I would hope I was at walls at a restaurant with my wife and some gentleman comes up to me He's staring at me right when I walk in I told my wife either wants to beat me up or he goes to the church And he comes up and he says excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt I'm here with my family. I just wanted to do some myself I said hey, it's your family here and I went over there and greeted his family came back ate off their plate But later on he came back and he says may share something with you as a guest Please he says pastor David always tells us that he loves us And if I would have came up to you and you would have blew me off I would say pastor David isn't telling the truth And it really opened my eyes that all of us are demonstrations of your love in a many ways and And and being aware of that that what you teach from the pulpit should be a vessel that we're poured into to pour into others Oh, I hope so and so that was very eye-opening because I could have said I'm eating or what do you have to you know, I could have blown them off But uh, but it's important even as staff and to represent the love that you give our church And and as you teach us weekend and week out that should be life transforming by itself Well, I think Christianity is it best described by a single word love. You know love fulfills the law You know, so yeah By this shall all men know you're my disciples if you love one another love is the earmark of the believer and I really feel that It's the one thing that sometimes is not evident Yeah Well pastor, thank you and the great evidences have come to church on sunday To hear your word you're speaking Are teaching on the great tribulation? Yeah, the conclusion and looking at the second coming of christ as he returns and so it's I haven't I don't think I've had a script Excuse me a message that has had as many scriptures as I have in this one. I'm I'm kind of scripture overloaded in this one john to be honest with you I hope the people can I'm quite serious when I say this I have I have more scriptures than Then I generally have and I just uh, I hope I don't overload people but It's it's it's as thorough a study as I can give in the morning And you know, it's important especially in these last days Is that a lot of people are are are misunderstand the event of the rapture and the second coming A lot of times they don't know the difference between the two What a great opportunity to come out and learn more about this It's the second coming. Yeah, the second coming after the tribulation And so I want to invite your friends and family to come out and join us at 8 30 and 10 45 Uh, the covet has lifted. Yeah, so we'd love to have everybody that's watching the line and come join us It's about time and come join us and worship and you know the word and for those of you who are watching Are part of our fellowship and have been avoiding church. It's time to come home. Amen to that Pastor, thank you again so much. Thank you guys for tuning in Also, remember always want to keep it in front of you that we have our israel trip coming up in march You can register online at calvaryccv.org. You can register Uh, I haven't got account for yet, but it's a nice size. They have a good group. Yes, it's going to be an amazing trip So guys, uh, come on out. We look forward to seeing you pastor. David. Thank you so much and of course welcome home Thank you and god bless you guys. We'll talk. We'll see you on sunday