 Hey man, can everyone hear me okay? Okay. Alright, so keep your place in James Chapter 2. I had an idea for a sermon tonight and I got into James Chapter 2 and it was based on James Chapter 2 and I decided that, you know, since I was kind of into half of James Chapter 2, we're just going to rip up James Chapter 2 tonight and just dissect the whole thing for you. So we're going to get a little bit doctrinal right? So just put your thinking caps on. James Chapter 2 is a chapter in the Bible that I actually didn't really enjoy that much when I first started reading the Bible. You know, I read things and I was like oh, why did God have to say that? You know, that's kind of confusing. You know, because it sounds, it's a chapter where people, especially when you're out soul winning, especially in a Catholic area. So it's going to be very valuable tonight if you listen and take some notes on these things. They're going to throw some verses in your face from James Chapter 2. Okay. So what I want to do is I just kind of want to expound James Chapter 2 to you into three points tonight. So I want to break it down into three easy points for us to understand. Now the book of James is written by James the brother of Jesus. There was two, two James in the Bible. The first James was of course killed in Acts Chapter 12. He was James the son of Zebedee and he was killed by Herod. The Bible tells us this was James, this was the other James. He's a man that's in Jerusalem. We don't know exactly James's title in Jerusalem but we do know that he was somebody of merit in Jerusalem. He was somebody in the church in Jerusalem that had some he had some pull. If you remember in Acts Chapter 15 we won't go there but there was a question about the Gentiles being circumcised because the Gospel was going out to the whole world and Paul and Barnabas came back and he questioned about how do we handle these Gentiles that are getting saved and what do we tell them to do and everybody kind of expounded their opinions but it was James who gave sentence. So James was somebody of respect in the church. So what James does in the book of James is he's basically teaching us how he's teaching us how to do this religion. He's teaching us how to do this religion and that's the title of my sermon tonight is how to do your religion. Okay so I want to give you three points tonight from James Chapter 2 on how to do your religion. The first point I want to make tonight let's just start with James Chapter 2 in verses 1 through 4 where the Bible reads, my brethren have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory with respect of persons for if they're come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring and goodly apparel and they're come in also a poor man in vile raiment and he have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto him sit thou here in a good place and say unto the poor stand thou there or sit here under my footstool So the first point tonight that James is making in James Chapter 2 is don't be a respecter of persons. The church, the New Testament church is going to be this place where people of all different backgrounds come together. You know you're going to come from different maybe there's going to be rich people in here maybe there's going to be poor people in here. But what he's saying and I kind of tend to think when I'm reading this that this was a specific issue that the church in Jerusalem was dealing with. So James Chapter you know the verses 1 through 4 he's telling you hey don't have respect to the rich people that you know the rich people aren't any better. You know and just aside from just the rich and the poor you know this is going to be a meeting place of all different cultures. You know people from all different backgrounds you know I remember you know I have many people at Verdi Baptist Sacramento where I've talked with them. We're great friends now but we almost laugh about it that they came from such a different culture that I did. But it matters not okay because you know the Bible turned to Acts Chapter 17 and let's look at this idea of cultures in the Bible. You know there's a lot of talk about race today especially in America today of different races. But the Bible teaches that there is one race the human race that we are all of the same blood and there is one race. In Acts Chapter 17 we can see this and starting in verse number 24 the Bible reads you know Paul here is talking to the Athenians and he's explaining to them you know about this God that we have the God of the Bible. And in verse number 24 Paul says God has made the world in all things therein seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands. Neither is worshiped with men's hands as though he needed anything seeing he giveth to all life and breath seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things and of course the Athenians were worshiping all these different gods all these different statues and have made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth and have determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation. Now we may come from different cultures all of us here or some of us here but we're all of one the blood the Bible teaches and we're not to have respect to any person period that's in this church. Now we're not going to have a hip hop culture in this church but on the flip side of that coin we're not going to have a honky tonk redneck culture either. We're going to have the culture of the Bible in this church so it doesn't matter where you came from the culture you came from what James is saying is that they have no respect for different persons. We're all brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. So this is a very simple point that he's making in the first few verses here and then in verse number 5 it gets even better. We get back to this economic disparity that he's seeing in the church in verse number 5 James says have not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom of promise to them that love him. Now just go ahead and underline rich in faith in your Bible. Now hath not God chosen the poor of this world now what does that mean is that Calvinists are certain people chosen by God. No the answer is that they are rich in faith. Now in verse 6 it gets even better. If you ever get confused by some certain statement in the Bible just read another couple verses that's a good tip for you but you have despised the poor see he's like you've despised the poor but do not the rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seat. So he's like why would you despise the poor it's the rich who are throwing you in jail who are torturing you who are doing all these terrible things to you. This was under the Roman Empire I mean the persecution that was coming to these men to this church in Jerusalem under the Roman Empire made the persecution of the Jews look like a land. It was coming. So he's saying the rich men are the ones that oppress you why would you lift them up of all people. If you ever read about oppression in this world it's an ugly picture no matter what part of history you read in. I remember reading about I read about a lot of Soviet Russia the communists in the early 1900s under Stalin the things that were done to people there. Men are hunters of evil things and men will oppress each other now when you think about one thing I like to think about about salvation just think about the design of salvation. You know the Bible says here that he has chosen the poor of this world rich in faith. Now think of the design of salvation in an oppressive world. Okay belief. Salvation according to the Bible is according to your faith your belief. Now isn't it funny your belief is the one thing that no one can take from you or force you into. Isn't that funny I mean I remember there was a book I read about this same book about communist Russia and this guy who had been thrown into the Gulag system was talking about you know they would basically go into these towns and arrest dozens and dozens of people. Stalin had quotas on how many people to arrest and they would go and they would pull all these people out of these towns and they would make them sign these confessions they were all just made up to fill the quotas but they would say hey you know brother David you've done this you sign this confession and the guy the author said it was stupid for people to resist because they were beaten and tortured to the point where they were almost killed where they would just sign it anyway. Because you can oppress men to sign confessions and to say things and to do certain things and to rat other people out and make things up but you cannot force belief isn't that beautiful that God designed it that way you know belief is something that's yours and no one can take it from you which is why you know he's chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith. Now look salvation by belief takes humility right it takes you know we'll often say this to people soul winning I'll ask people do you think most people are going to heaven I'll ask that question to certain people then you know depending on what their answer is you know I'll out you know because it's a free gift why wouldn't everybody get it because it's hard and it takes a humble person to say you know what I have nothing to do with this I have nothing to do with my salvation that takes a humble person and guess who are the most humble people it's the people who are who are poor in this world and you're going to find that if you're not a soul winner tonight you're going to learn that as you come out soul winning it will for this church and with this church you are going to learn when we go into the the lower income neighborhoods people are much more receptive to the gospel because they're rich in faith see because the Bible is true because everything in the Bible is true and you're going to find when you go to higher class neighborhoods where the houses are nicer and you know I mean there's soul winners who pull up into this nice neighborhood with million dollar homes and they're just like ugh because they know look rich people can get saved I mean we've all seen it and in a sense we're all rich here so we're kind of proof that rich people can get saved but you're going to just see it's much less receptive because somebody that is wealthy and you know richer than the poor person they think they have things figured out they don't have that humility so soul winning will show you this soul winning will show you so many things about people you know that's one thing it's so profitable to you and I don't want to talk about profit yet we'll get there but so that's the first thing don't be a respecter of persons we're all coming together we all came from different backgrounds James is saying don't be a respecter of persons economic, culturally, whatever we're all brothers and sisters in Christ continue looking down at James chapter 2 and this my second point is this let's look at James chapter 2 and let's start in verse number 9 actually where he's finishing up the respect of persons thought and he says but if you have respect to persons you commit sin and are convinced of the law as transgressors and then we get into verse number 10 for whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all now this is another verse that will be thrown in your face I use this all the time soul winning I'm sure a lot of people do but this is a verse that just basically explains that if you have broken the law at one point you become a transgressor of the law period this does not anywhere say that all sin is equal and that all sin I mean is that what it says once again read the verse before and read the verse after he's talking about but if you become respect of persons one specific thing he's talking about he commits sin and are convinced of the law as transgressors for he said if we look at verse 11 the verse after for he that said do not commit adultery he said also do not kill now if they'll commit no adultery yet if they'll kill they'll art become a transgressor of the law so it's just about becoming a transgressor of the law he's just showing that one sin is enough to get you to be a transgressor of the law because really there's two ways to heaven right the first way is be perfect the second way is you know grace through faith alright now no one's perfect obviously so he's pointing out that all sin is equal to the whole sermon in itself I don't want to get too deep into that but that's a common thing that's out there it's a liberal Christian thing it's weird it doesn't make any sense another good tip of the Bible by the way is if something doesn't make sense to your logic I'm a very logical person I like to think through things maybe almost to a fault sometimes if something just doesn't sound right logically look into it more because God gave you your common sense you know God wrote the law in your heart the Bible is a very logical book it makes sense to us okay now let's continue in verse number 12 and the second point is this that James is going to make and the second point in James chapter 2 is don't be a hypocrite okay and James chapter 2 continuing in verse 12 he says well let's just go back to verse 11 for he that said do not commit adultery said also do not kill now if they'll commit adultery that if they'll kill that art become a transgressor of the law so speak ye and so do is they that shall be judged by the law of liberty and verse 13 is the verse turn to Matthew 7 while I'm reading this for he shall have judgment without mercy that hath showed no mercy and mercy rejoices rejoiceseth against judgment now that sounds a lot about a lot like Matthew 7 where Jesus says judge not that not judged and then he says for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged and with what measure you meet it shall be measured unto you again so the Bible here is saying that you need to walk the walk and if you continue reading in Matthew chapter 7 in verse number 3 the Bible says and why beholdest thou the moat that is in thy brother's eye but consider is not the beam that is in thine own eye or wilt thou say to thy brother let me pull out the moat out of thine own eye behold a beam is in thine own eye thou hypocrite notice how he doesn't say just leave the beam in your brother's eye he says thou hypocrite you're being a hypocrite you're doing what you're judging people against first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the moat out of thy brother's eye so basically what James is saying in these next few verses don't be hypocrite know that you're going to be judged by the same judgment that you judge other people by and if we know that maybe you'll show a little bit more mercy towards people you know so he's teaching this church at Jerusalem which is great lessons for us on how to do church with your brothers and sisters you know have a little bit of compassion and a little bit of mercy with people you know because you're going to be coming down hard on your brothers and on your sisters God's coming down hard on you and I want I need God's mercy in my life and I think you probably need it in your life as well alright now let's get into the best part of James chapter 2 in verse 14 we start with the best part now I want you to answer to everything that I'm about to say is in the first four words of verse 14 what James is talking about here and the Bible reads in James chapter 2 in verse 14 what doth it profit my brethren though a man say he have faith and have not works can faith save him now just underlining your Bible what doth it profit what does it profit what doth it profit the third point tonight is be profitable be profitable in your Christian life if we continue and read in verse 15 if a brother or sister be naked in destitute of daily food and one of you say unto them depart in peace and be warmed and filled not withstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body what doth it profit even so faith if it have not works is dead being alone faith without works is dead you have faith and I have works show me your faith without works and I will show you my faith by my works so here's Bible reading tip number 2 tonight base your doctrine on clear scriptures period turn to Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 through 9 which is probably I'm sure most of you haven't memorized which is debatably one of the most clear scriptures in the entire Bible. Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 and 9 I'm going to wait for everybody to get there so you can read the words as I read them. So whenever we're reading the Bible we read some obscure verse or not even a verse but a phrase that sounds like it might have one or two or three meanings but it goes against a clear scripture in the Bible that's a clear statement in the Bible not a parable not a story but a clear statement in the Bible we must be interpreting the verse that we read wrong because we should always base our doctrine on clear statements and clear scriptures in the Bible. Ephesians 2 verses 8 through 9 reads for by grace are ye saved through faith and not of yourselves it is the what? the gift of God just to make sure we all get it he says it again he says not of works lest any man should boast there it is folks for by grace are ye saved through faith it wouldn't make any sense if what James chapter 2 in that one phrase meant that suddenly you're not saved anymore first of all that's not even what it says now what James is getting at well first of all think about it this way and maybe I overanalyze things but think of God as an engineer God designed salvation and he could design it any way he wanted now I have an object lesson here I have a contraption God is the engineer he created this entire world he created you he created me he created everything in it he created all the systems in nature that we deal with we're going to talk a lot about this on Thursday night let's say that I'm an engineer see part of an engineer and part of an engineer's job when he designs something or creates something is let's say I created this widget and this widget is the best thing that's ever been created and I'm going to give it to brother angel here brother angel come take it it's got a bunch of buttons on it and if you push the buttons in the right order there's a lot of buttons and if you push the buttons on that thing in the right order that thing will turn into a car and you can drive it to work but what if I don't tell you what order to push the buttons in does it become of any value at all to you if I don't give you any instructions or any manual for that device right it's worthless to you right so here's the thing thank you just sit down if faith is by works even a little bit like just a little bit of works this book is not good enough for us it doesn't tell us what we need to know if faith is by works I need more information right I need to know what the approved works are I need a list of approved works to keep me saved or to well first of all to get me saved the second of all to keep me saved I need to know if I do bad things which works will I mean each work has to be weighted I need a manual on how to stay saved otherwise God's just throwing it up in the air and maybe I'm going to go to hell maybe I'm not but the Bible says I can know that I'm going to heaven so that doesn't make any sense so it can't even be a little bit by works it doesn't make any sense because I need a different book because this one doesn't tell me everything I need to know but if salvation is by grace through faith I have everything I need right here right Michael I love him for that I love him for a lot of things what James is really talking about here is he's talking about a spectrum of dead faith versus perfect faith okay let's look at that now James chapter 2 and verse 20 let's start reading but wilt thou know Ovein man that faith without works is dead there it is again he said it again was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar what in the world seeest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was his faith made perfect there you have perfect faith so we have this dead faith and we have this perfect faith does it say that if you have dead faith that you're going to hell no it says you have dead faith it's the opposite of having perfect faith and how do you get perfect faith well by doing works right was not Abraham our father justified by works well let's look into that look at verse 23 and scripture was fulfilled with saying Abraham believed God and it was imputed to him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God you see then that by works a man is justified and not by faith only turn your bibles to 2nd chronicle chapter 20 who called Abraham a friend of God who was that let's investigate and he was called a friend of God by who that's what I want to know in 2nd chronicles in chapter 20 is where you're headed you get into those 1 and 2 books 1st 2nd Samuel 1st 2nd Kings 1st 2nd chronicles chapter 20 look at verse number 5 we'll start reading there and the Bible reads and Jehoshaphat who was a king of Judah stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord before the new court and said oh Lord God of our fathers art not thou God in heaven and rule us not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen and in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand thee art not thou our God who did drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel and gave it to the seed of Abraham thy friend forever Jehoshaphat called Abraham the friend of God why did he call on that so basically what I'm trying to get you to understand is that Abraham was called the friend of God because he was justified before men by his works he was justified before men you say I don't believe you turn to Romans chapter 4 Romans chapter 4 New Testament Acts Romans and Romans chapter 4 starting in verse 1 the Bible reads what shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found Abraham were justified by works he hathware of to glory but not before God you see there's the answer Abraham was justified by his works before men when he sacrificed when he went to sacrifice Isaac on the altar and he was willing to do it men saw that how was he justified how was righteousness imputed to him because he believed God I'll often say it to people that I'm soul winning with hey you know I'll check with them as I'm going through the gospel presentation with them do you believe these things do you believe what I'm telling you right now and here's the truth of it they'll tell me if they believe it or not but I don't really know right I mean I don't really know I'll say that I'll say you know only God sees your heart even before I pray with people how many times say you know it's the belief in your heart that saves you because only God can see your heart I'm just a man you're just a man the only way I can see your works is by or your faith is by what you do because I'm just a man so that is what James is saying show me faith without that works and I'll show you my faith by my works that's what he said so that is the answer now in Romans 322 we see you know we can see how were justified or how were imputed this righteousness of God is given to us and the Bible reads even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all of them that what believe for there is no difference so the conclusion here is that Abraham's works justified him before men isn't the Bible a deep book you can't just skim over these things and be like oh there's three words sounds kind of funny I'm going to base all my doctrine on that you know it doesn't make any sense at all Abraham was justified by works and you know another thing I love about the Bible and what James did here is gives us another example it's kind of a complicated subject he gives us another example turn to Hebrews 11 Hebrews chapter 11 and then if we look at James 225 I'll just read it to you James continues he says likewise meaning another example of the same thing is what he's going to tell you likewise also was Rahab the harlot justified by works now so Rahab the harlot was justified by works look what he says next when she had received the messengers and sent them out another way now if you remember before the people of Israel came into the promised land the very first battle was the battle of Jericho they sent spies in to find out what was going on and Rahab the harlot received them she had heard about this God that was destroying all these people and she had faith in this God it will see this and she helped them we see these spies they're spies it's espionage for crying out loud right it's espionage how are they to trust her how was she justified how was she justified to these men well she was justified because she sent them out another way by her works that's how she was justified to them and if you look at Hebrews chapter 11 in verse 31 we see how Rahab was how she was saved and the Bible says by faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not when she had received the spies with peace by faith she was saved but she was justified before those men by what she did for them by her works okay so it's beautiful the only way that I can see your faith is through your works period and then if we go all the way back to the verse I told you to underline in verse 14 the bottom line is your works are directly proportional meaning as your works go up your profit goes up so as you have more works in your life you will profit yourself and especially those around you more and you won't have dead faith I mean who would want to have dead faith so I mean look folks we talk to people all the time about how you are not saved by your works that's what everybody's hung up on in this whole world they're all the same there's only two religions in the world I mean it's not even creative when you think about it there's only two religions in the whole world there's the religion that you have to do these things to get yourself to heaven you know the Muslims the Buddhists the Catholics the Pentecostals you know the poor Pentecostals they're just living in fear constantly you know the devout Pentecostal and the devout Catholic just trembling in fear but they're all the same Hinduism you know the devil's creative but it's all the same game plan it's justified by works if I can get you to believe in your works and not the Lord Jesus Christ I got ya that's the bottom line now I'll often tell people out soul winning you know because you'll get a devout Catholic who's maybe an older person and they'll say you can't tell people that you can't tell people so you're saying you can just go do whatever you want yeah that's exactly what I'm saying and you're still going to go to heaven you individually but I'll often tell people you know it's silly to think that just because I am saved by faith and it has nothing to do with my works it's silly to think that my works don't matter because guess what I have three children and if I live the life of a drunkard and the life of a wicked person what are the odds that my children when I open the Bible up to them when they're five years old or six years old and say hey son let me show you what the Bible has to say what are the I will be a curse upon them and you can read plenty of places in the Bible where fathers were curses upon generations of their families so if I could make a choice if somebody gave me a choice like hey your son your son's going to go to hell or you're going to go to hell pick one I would much rather go to hell and take the place of that punishment for one of my children I mean who wouldn't make that choice you know what good man would not make that choice but that's exactly what you could be doing when you're living a wicked life and you have no profit and you have this dead faith you're cursing your children you're cursing those around you you have no profit to them okay look let me close with this this idea you know who do you profit in your life as we start this new church you know I think I think about the church service this morning and some people are still here you know Verity Baptist Sacramento these people profited us greatly this weekend but these people I don't know I'm not familiar with everyone's background I can't wait to get to know you all better but these people that came here from Verity Baptist Sacramento these people are sold out they are separated and they are soul winning machines and they are extremely profitable people they are extremely profitable people they profited all kinds of people around these neighborhoods this weekend they profited me they encouraged me I'm sure they encouraged a lot of you but they're profitable people so my question is I just have two you know we could have a sermon series for a whole year on how to become a profitable Christian but you know the two things on my mind today and this weekend and the coming weeks is just your profit first of all in involvement in this church how much are you going to profit this church let me tell you something when you look at these people and I think about the individuals that came from Sacramento I remember this time in my life when I started coming to church and I started coming three times a week and soul winning it's a culture shift in your life it takes some getting used to you know it's an adjustment from going to watching to not being in church to watching YouTube sermons to actually being in church being here you know it's a real cultural adjustment let me tell you something it will make you a profitable person it will make you a profitable Christian in Matthew chapter 4 I'll just read it for you you don't have to turn there Jesus says Jesus has just been fasting for 40 days and 40 nights and the Bible says afterward he was afterward in hungry when the tempter came to him he said if that would be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread and he answered and said it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeded excuse me out of the mouth of God so do you like to eat because that's what the Bible says that you know the preaching of the word of God and the reading of God's word should be like to you that's how much you need it in your life you say oh I can go a long time without eating well maybe what about your family you know how long does your family how long can they go out without eating how long do you want your family to go without eating you know how long do you want your family to go without hearing the word of God you know so the first thing you know the first thing I want to say to the Fresno people here is you know just focus on you see it's overwhelming right focus on showing up just be here just be here and then you're gonna grow you're gonna grow just show up that's the first thing in Hebrews 10 25 it was in the bulletin not forsaken the assembly of ourselves together as the manner of some is as the manner of a lot of people is unfortunately but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching so here we are Fresno we're here I'm moved here here we are don't forsake it the second thing I think about when it comes to profit last point I want to make in Mark 16 15 and he said unto them go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature soul winning you know in a lot of people have asked me when we moved here or when we you know the time was approaching when this was actually happening you know in the last month or so like are you nervous because it kind of got to this point where people realize well this is really happening I mean I kind of felt it happening a while ago but a lot of people like this is actually we're actually doing this it's actually happening they're like are you nervous are you nervous about it and you know there's there's things that I am nervous about you know you're reaching three to three times a week you know that's that's a little nerve racking but you know I'm gonna get better at that as time goes on I'll just take it you know one sermon at a time those things aren't big but let me tell you what I'm terrified about what I'm absolutely terrified about turn to Revelation chapter 2 and Jesus is talking to the church at Ephesus and I'm not joking when I say I'm terrified because this was the scariest thing for me as we took this new step in our lives in Revelation chapter 2 starting in verse 2 Jesus says I know thy works and thy labor and thy patience and how this can't snot bear them which are evil and now has tried them which say they are apostles and they are not and has found them liars these people are doing some good things and has born and has patience and for my name's sake has labored and has not fainted still good things nevertheless I have somewhat against thee because I've just left thy first love remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works or else I will come unto thee quickly and remove thy candlestick out of his place except thou repents. I'm terrified of I want to do the first works as hard as I possibly can and the first works to me is preaching everything that's in this book whether you like it or not because I'm not nearly as afraid as I am of the Lord Jesus Christ and the second thing is we're going to do the first works of going out and preaching the gospel to every creature and we're going to take it seriously and this is the kind of church I'm telling you right now that this is Verity Baptist Church Sacramento and Verity Baptist Church Fresno if I can successfully bring that culture here this is a hard church to be halfway in on I'm telling you that right now I mean this is they said it this morning this is big boy church folks ok we're not joking around people might be against us who cares who cares because when we preach all this book people are going to get mad and they're not going to like it you know we're starting on Thursday night in the book of Romans because Romans is one of my favorite books in the Bible I mean it just is you're all laughing but you know it's because there's so much deep doctrine in Romans I love it but here's the thing with Romans it starts with Romans chapter one so you better decide if you're going to be in this church that you're just going to accept what the Bible says you're not going to do well here because we're going to preach everything that this Bible says there's a lot of love in this book there's a lot of judgment in this book as well and we're going to do our religion right and we are not going to forget the first works at this church so I'll be here Thursday night we're going to start in Romans chapter one we're going to I'm going to show you on Thursday night how you can prove to people that God exists using a glass of water that's fun alright I'm going to be here Saturday soul winning I'm going to be here Sunday morning I'm going to be here Sunday soul winning and I'm going to be here Sunday night repeat that's how it's going to go and if you're here you know I challenge you here today get plugged into this church you ask some of these people from Verity Sacramento the ones I'm even looking at right now what getting plugged into a good church has done for their lives you get plugged in here for a year and then you talk to me if I was right or not this book learning this book and the preaching of this book will profit you your family greatly and who doesn't want to be profitable be present become profitable let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer dear heavenly Father we thank you for today we thank you for this entire weekend we thank you for all these people that sacrificed all this time Lord I just thank you for pulling excuse me I thank you for pulling all this together and just such a great group of brothers and sisters to help support us to get this thing on its feet Lord I ask for your blessing you know we need your candlestick Lord and you know just help us be motivated help me to motivate people help people to motivate me to just do these first works Lord because that's why we're here to help people to profit each other to profit our families Lord to profit our children and to profit you know those people outside outside the walls of this church in this community Lord we love you we thank you for everything Jesus name we pray Amen