 All right, I got to put my timer on, get myself in trouble. Nobody said, do a preach it. They're like, we know Pastor Thompson. They stop saying preach it. Anyway, the timer's already up here. I see. Wow, is this just installed this morning? Anyway, I wanted to thank Pastor Bazarnsky and Mr. Bazarnsky and the whole, I mean, the stand fast family, I mean, whole fast family for all the hospitality. I'm just kidding. I just want to give them a little ribbon because that's what we pastors do behind closed doors, but I'll just do it openly in front of all. No, I really appreciate Pastor Bazarnsky, he's a good friend of ours, and Mrs. Bazarnsky and the family, whole fast. We're so thankful to be here today. And I'm going to preach a soul-warning sermon, but I'm going to run away and not go soul-warning today. So I'm sorry I have to catch a plane. That's just how it is though, but the title of the sermon this morning is Recharging Your Soul-Warning Battery. Recharging Your Soul-Warning Battery. Let's go ahead and turn to Acts chapter number one. Acts chapter number one. And for a second time, I'm just going to read three verses. You're in Acts chapter number one. Look at verse number six. The Bible says, When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel. And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power, but ye shall receive power. After that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you so much for Hold Fast Baptist Church and for the pastor, and just everybody that showed up today to go soul-warning in your harvest, Lord. Just pray that you just bless everybody as they go out, that they'd be very fruitful. Lord, we just want to also have a special prayer, Lord, for Brother Shaw and Miss Ava, and the loss of their child. We just pray that, Lord, that you'd comfort their hearts and help them and help the Verity family and everybody else to just be a blessing to them in whatever way they can. And Lord, I pray that you just fill me with your spirit as I begin to preach your word. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. So Acts chapter one, obviously, this is where Jesus kind of gives his final orders as to what they're supposed to be doing next. And basically he just left us with the we need to go soul-warning. And he said, ye shall receive power. And who do we receive that power from? We receive that power from God. So recharging your soul-warning batteries, sometimes we can get to the point where we're just like, you know, I just don't really feel like going soul-warning right now or maybe we just need to change some things up. And so I just kind of want to give some inspiration to keep going. Obviously I'm preaching to the choir here, but like back at your own home churches, sometimes it can be like, well, you know, and you want to go to event like this instead of going soul-warning at your own church. And I would just say this, that you need to stay soul-warning at your own church also. But it's good to come to things like this because it can recharge your soul-warning batteries. So now God gave us the power. He gave us the power of the Holy Spirit, but sometimes we can quench the spirit and sometimes the flesh can take over. So we don't want that to happen. So again, I'm just going to give you a few things this morning about recharging your soul-warning batteries. But let's look at verse eight again. The Bible says, but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem. So the Jerusalem for this church would be this whole fast Baptist church, this city, Fresno, California. And in all Judea, I guess that would be California, the state of California. And in Samaria, you know, I guess that'd be Mexico and Canada, our borders. And then unto the outermost parts of the earth, that means just anywhere else. So we have been commissioned to reach the whole world one place at a time. And so I went on this trip to Toronto last week. And I just wanted to talk a little bit about that. And it was like, it was a great trip. There was, and I'll read the stats to you in just a second, but even though I got sick, it was still a great trip. And I got to go slowly a few times when I was there. But I literally met people from many nations, many descents, white, Italian, Hispanic, Asian, black, Latino, German, French, Canadian, American, and, you know, and probably a bunch of other nations that I'm probably forgetting. But it was like a melting pot type of soul-winning marathon. And the entire marathon was Friday, July 28th to Monday, August 7th. So it was a long marathon. There was like all these events and things going on and it took place in America and then up in Canada. And there was 187 salvations as a result of all those people going out soul-winning. And I'm just going to read you kind of the wrap-up of the marathon itself. It was 187 salvations. The main soul-winning days, Thursday was a full day, had 25 soul-winners, 47 salvations. Friday morning, 30 soul-winners, 28 salvations. Saturday, full day, 36 soul-winners, 72 salvations. And these invitations that we were handing out had QR codes for the Bible Way to Heaven. And when you scan that code, it takes it to whatever language your phone is in. So if you're a Spanish speaker or whatever, just whatever language your phone is in, it automatically converted the Bible Way to Heaven to that language. It was really cool. Like, I want to definitely incorporate that into our invitations. But so that's from Biblewaytoheaven.com, BW2H.com. So if you pull up that site, and your phone is in English, it's going to be an English one, but you can also click on it, and you can go to all the different languages that are already on it. It was really cool, but I want to give you the stats for that too. So for the marathon, there was 56 clicks on that particular QR code for the Bible Way to Heaven. And then on the backside, there's a preaching and documentary site that had 30 clicks on it. On Friday, there was preaching, food, fellowship, and everybody watched the LGBT terrorist film. So there was 60 in attendance on that day. So on the trip I met, I was sitting there for dinner. It was a great event, but I was sitting there for dinner and I met a man named Aaron from Germany. He was already a man after my own heart after meeting him. So and he came there with his girlfriend. His girlfriend's name was Nivy Mika. And she was born in a place that I'd never heard of called Kanger Suck, and it was over a thousand miles north of Montreal. So if you don't know where that is, I didn't know either. I had to look it up on a map, but we were all kind of sitting at the same table together. And I just started chatting with them and I knew that she was probably like of some sort of Native American or Native descent. And when I asked her if she was Inuit, which is like kind of like what we would call Eskimo, I guess, but that's offensive to them, I guess, in some places. So I don't know. I'm sure it's not, you know how it is. So anyway, but the Inuit people are natives from the north regions of the earth. And Inuit is, it means the people are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories in Alaska. Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo language, L.E.O.T. languages, I probably said that wrong. Also known as Inuit and also Ascalute. I'm saying all that wrong probably, but I'm sorry, I don't speak that language. And I've never said those words in my life. So anyway, when you put it on paper, it's just like, oh yeah, I can pronounce that, and you're like, nevermind. So but the population of the town that she was from is 561 people. It became a permanent settlement in 1921 and for centuries it was an Inuit hunting and fishing like location that people, there wasn't like a permanent settlement there. They found Viking settlements there at some point. The average temperature there is minus 18.5 in January and July is an average of 53.8 degrees high. So they get highs of 55. I mean, that's cold. Like that to me, that's to you in California, that's freezing, isn't it? So but anyway, so there's like 14 communities up in that area, about 600 or 700 people total. And the only way to get there is by plane. If you try to Google search the name of the place where she's from, it says Google can't find a way to get there. And so I was just, I was interested in how she got saved because she's from such a far away region, way, I mean a thousand miles north of Montreal and Canada. So I was interested how she got saved. She told me that her cousin got her saved watching New World Order Bible versions. Well, she got, or her cousin got saved watching New World Order Bible versions. And I said, well, did he get saved watching it in that town? Yes. So somehow New World Order Bible versions, Bible Way to Heaven, got to her cousin, you know, a thousand miles north, you know, the uttermost parts of you got her saved. And the only exposure that they ever had to Christianity was that, you know, and she said her grandparents had raised her and they went to an Anglican church. So there was an Anglican church in their town and a Catholic church in their town. The other church up that way, yeah, like I said, was Catholic, but her, then her cousin got saved and then taught her the gospel and she got saved. And eventually she moved to Montreal and met her boyfriend, Aaron, who like I said, so he's German and he spoke multiple languages. And so they, so he's German, but he's living in Montreal, which is a French speaking area in Canada. So anyway, so they drove five hours from Montreal to come to Toronto, just to come to the soul winning marathon so that they can learn how to preach the gospel and, you know, just fellowship with the saints and to hear the Bible being preached in person. And it just really encouraged me to know that we think that the things that we do, the small things that we do don't matter, but even just sharing like a Bible Way to Heaven on social media or mirroring other channels and things like that, they can't make a difference. I mean, this couple came from, I mean, obviously five hours is a long drive, but then, but really it's shaking from even further than that. And it really encouraged me because, you know, sometimes even pastors need to have their spiritual batteries recharged. And I'm glad I went to that soul winning marathon. It was a blessing to me. It fired me back up for soul winning. Not that I don't love soul winning, I do love soul winning, but everybody can get into the, you know, it's just kind of like it becomes a chore sometimes, especially if you're not very receptive area, it can be like that. But I would just say this, we need to be faithful in the churches that we're at. Don't shun soul winning. Don't be a spiritual adrenaline junkie and just only go to soul winning marathons and things like that. But soul winning marathons are good too. Other churches are good to go to. Look at Psalm chapter two, verse number eight. Psalm chapter two, verse number eight. The Bible says, Ask of me and forgive the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. So even, you know, in Psalm chapter two, verse eight, obviously this is talking about the Lord Jesus Christ, you know, in the New Testament, this is where Jesus tells us in Acts chapter one, he tells us, hey, the uttermost parts of the earth. And that just means everywhere. But I would say it also means the farthest reaches of the earth. And I just, that's very encouraging to me that, and it says he'll give him the heathen for an inheritance to the other most parts of the earth. Now turn to Matthew chapter 12, verse 41. We have a great responsibility to go and reach everybody. And obviously, you know, hold fast is what, this is the second anniversary. And I don't know, you know, what plans Pastor Bazarowski has for missions later, but I'm sure that the more, the longer he's doing it, the more he's going to do, just like kind of all the pastors have done that are part of this movement. So Matthew chapter 12, verse 41, the Bible says, the men of Nineveh shall rise up with this generation and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonas and behold, a greater than Jonas is here. Sometimes we go to cities and we just do like a one big soul in a marathon. We get a whole bunch of people saved, but there's no church there after that. But like what I've learned also Paul in the Bible is that sometimes he would just go to a place like Philippi. He gets one lady, Lydia, a seller. He gets her whole house gets saved. They get baptized. Then they then they have this demon possessed lady come. And then she is harassing them and all this stuff. And then they cast that devil out of her. And then she was a gain for the people of that city. They beat them. They throw them in jail. Then Paul stops the guy from committing suicide, gets him saved. He gets his whole house saved and baptized. And then he throws them back in jail and then makes the officials of the town come and pull them out of jail themselves. But Philippi, the book of Philippians is written to a church that was formed just because Paul going in that one time and getting these two big families saved. And so when we go to a city and we get a bunch of people saved, hey great things can come from that. Great churches can be formed based upon just one little thing we do. And you know that story about the the Inuit lady getting saved, her and her cousin getting saved in the uttermost parts of the earth and then come down to go soul-winning with us. Like that's a great thing. Like people take that as a small thing but it's not a small thing because we know that the uttermost parts of the earth are being reached by the message of the gospel through efforts of pastors in this movement, from efforts of people in this movement. And it is, you know, people say the new IFB is dead or whatever these bozos online will say that kind of stuff. But I think it's greater than it ever has been because the bubble has been bounced out. I mean obviously there's always going to be bubbles surrounding us in some way, shape or form. A lot of the weird people have left. So you know it's balancing out and then there's so many activities going on right now that it's like people don't have the money or the time off to be able to go through it and I understand that, you know. It's like hey we're doing this, we're doing this, we're doing this. It's like well we can't go to that, we can't go to that, we'll go to this. Go to something. Go to something, be a part of it. Look at verse 42 in Matthew chapter 12. It says, Queen of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And that's obviously the queen of Sheba, she came, she heard everything that Solomon had to say, saw all the great things, the ascent to the house of the Lord and just all that stuff and she had no more spirit left than her. She had all these hard questions and then they got answered. And she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear that wisdom. But you know that same lady that I was just talking about came from the uttermost parts of the earth to also try to complete that circle of the Christian life where being saved isn't enough. I mean it's enough for us to go to heaven obviously but we're supposed to continue to work for the Lord. We are kings and priests and the Lord our God and what do priests do? They serve, don't they? And so we are a royal priesthood and so we are supposed to serve the Lord but she came from the uttermost parts of the earth and it says, and behold a greater than Solomon is here. Of course we have the Lord Jesus Christ to tell people about and that is obviously greater than Solomon. But people will receive the message and people will have their lives changed forever because of the work that we do as soul winners. Look at Luke chapter 24 verse 47. Luke chapter 24 verse 47. The Bible says that repentance and remission sins should be preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem. So does God want us to reach all nations? Absolutely. He wants us to reach all nations and beginning at Jerusalem but this is your Jerusalem here. So you know the plan for us in the Bible is to reach our Jerusalem, you know our Judea, our Sumeria and then the uttermost parts of the earth. So you know I have a vision to reach Washington state and we have four churches in Washington state now. So but I want to go, I want to do more. You're like pastor you're doing enough really. But we're about to ordain you know one of our men as the pastor in England soon and so then there'll be an independent Baptist church there. I know that there's plans of a pastor going into Poland. There's plans you know there's already a church in Germany and so we're kind of moving over to the European side of things and I think the great things are still yet to come. Obviously we're just scratching the surface in this movement. We've just kind of really begun to do great works. You know the Philippines is being reached by Brother Stuck and other people. He's got like, I think he's trying to compete with me right now. He's got three churches talking about two more. So I could start a church at the end of the sermon. I mean I don't make me mad. So how do we recharge our soul winning batteries? Well I'm going to give you six really quick things. You're like oh man I'm going to do it fast. Galatians 6-8. So the first thing is you ought to continue to soul win in your local church. Now obviously this is a great event. This is a perfect example of an event but not everybody here goes to this church but it's you know people that go to this church should definitely be here for an event that their church is putting on. But you know just the day in and day out soul winning at your church you should stay involved in. And you're like well how's that going to recharge my batteries? Because in Galatians 6-9, just look at what Galatians 6-9 says. And let us not be weary and well doing. For in due season we shall reap if we faint not. So don't faint in your body. Don't faint in your mind. Don't get this Black Hill attitude about soul winning in your area. Have a great attitude about the soul in your area. You know what we're not in the most receptive part in the world in Vancouver Washington but you know what we get people saved every single week and people still go out and get saved and you know people are getting saved. You know and then you can add supplemental things to help. Like if your area is not that receptive we'll go to someplace that is receptive. So the first thing is you ought to continue to soul win in your local church and don't forsake your local church soul winning. So number two go soul winning at another church on like a church I call it a church Cation. Before I was you know the leader in Verity Baptist Vancouver I was just a soul winner going to church but I like to go on what I call church Cations. I use all my vacation time just to go and visit other churches. I've only visited Pastor Menez, I went and visited a faithful word and back then there wasn't a lot of options but you know we would just I would use all my vacation time just to go to another church so I could go soul winning there and you know have fellowship and things like that. Romans chapter 16 go ahead and turn to Romans chapter 16. So I would say this it's you can do whatever you want but when your church is having a big weekend don't go to somebody else's church that you know be there to support your church. You know it's a blessing to see this whole room filled with people that are ready to go and go soul winning on a marathon here and I've heard that it's very receptive here that's great and you know but but if your church is having a big weekend don't say well I'm going to visit you know you know first works Baptist church or something today instead. I mean obviously you can do whatever you want like I said and if you already planned it well in advance you know I'm caveatting that but I'm just saying if your church is having a big weekend be a part of it and be a supportive to your pastor because it is a big deal look at Romans 161 it says I commend it to you Phoebe our sister which is a servant of the church which is at Centria they receive her in the Lord as become a saints the sister in whatever business she has need of you for she has been a succour of many and of myself also great Priscilla and Aquila my my helpers and Jesus and Christ Jesus who have for my life laid down their own necks unto whom not only I give things but also all the churches of the Gentiles. So you know Paul's writing this letter and he's like commending people to hey these people are visiting your church take care of them do good unto them they're helping the cause of Christ they're helping the churches of the Gentiles and you know so it's when people come to visit your church treat them nice you know talk to them you know they're people too they might not be in your circle but you know be outgoing you know they're coming here on their own dime you know treat them right I know Pastor Pizarra is going to do that but just you know don't don't shun other people from other churches and be suspicious of them they're they're here to help right so now three go to a conference where soul winning is done and get around other people like you that may be able to also sharpen you so of course we have the red hot preaching conference that I haven't missed one of them yet and turn Ecclesiastes 12 9 so I think it's good for you not only to go church soul into your own church to recharge your battery but also go soul winning at other churches to recharge your battery but don't forsake your local church and then go to a conference where soul winning is done because most of the conferences that are held have soul winning going on Pastor Menace has someone going on we had a King James conference but we still had soul winning going on that's the great thing about this movement it's not just a sit around and listen to great preachers preach that's that's that's a great part of it but also we're we're trying to help you get involved in the ministry and how to learn how to go soul winning if you've never been or maybe just experience another place I think it's cool going to other places I like going to other places and going soul winning and I think it's fun I think it's you know it's it's just every place is different every place that you know the bible or not the bible but people say variety is the spice of life and sometimes it's good to have some variety and get out and go to a soul winning church or go to a conference where great preaching is happening and soul winning is being promoted. Klesiastes 12-9 says more over because the preacher was wise he still taught the people knowledge yay he gave good heed and sought out and set in order many proverbs the preacher sought to find out acceptable words that which was written was upright even words of truth the words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies which are given from one shepherd so when you go to a conference you're going to hear some goading from the from the shepherds that are trying to inspire you to do better inspire you to get sin out of your life and so when you're going to like a great conference you're going to get not only you're going to get a lot of food and a lot of a lot of teachings from the word of God from great men of God but you're also going to be able to have chances to go soul in another place and that will recharge you you know going to a great conference is going to recharge you and hopefully recharge your soul winning batteries. Number four go on a missions trip to a small town or another big city go on a missions trip to a small town or another big city look at Luke 8-1 Luke 8-1 I'm not going to give you time to get there I'm just going to start reading and it came to pass that went he went through out every city and village preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God and the twelve were with him so what did Jesus do his custom was to go into what to say there every city and village every single one preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God so he's preaching the bible he's also showing people the gospel and teaching people the gospel so it is biblical to hit small towns and you're like well what are we supposed to do leave our our newborns in the dumpster or whatever and not give them a good church to go to it's better than not being saved at all isn't it so we're our mission when we go so many is to get people saved obviously we want the whole great commission to happen but you know like I said Philippi ended up getting a great church after just two families got saved number five go on a foreign missions trip to another country go on a foreign missions trip to another country I went to the Philippines and it was very fruitful as a matter of fact brother RJ was my first soulmate partner and I realized pretty quickly that there was some language barriers you know they spoke English but maybe weren't you know understanding exactly how I was put in maybe I was talking too fast I don't know but uh I just RJ was just sitting right sitting on a spot with a bible in his hand and I'm just like come here the gospel come here the gospel come here the gospel come you know over and over and over again he probably barely could talk the next day I'm sure but how many do you remember how many people you guys saved that day I think it was more than that but maybe it was just my wife had a also a native speaker with her maybe I'm just thinking I thought it was like over 30 people but it was just I just was you know it's not about me it's about people getting saved so I was just feeding them to him here you go here you go but that's what's great about going on a foreign missions trip where it's very receptive you know where people we're trying to grab people and hook them to get them in the boat but there they're just jumping in it's like when you grab the nets it's like 156 fish or whatever and they're all big you know so it's great to go like Pastor Mahia is going to Belize in what November and that's been very fruitful I think he's talking about starting a church there and you know there's lots of great things that could come out of a missions trip so I'm not going to take the time to go to the verses but actually just John 435 John 435 I'll just read it for you while you're going there says stay not ye there are yet four months and then cometh harvest behold I say unto you lift up your eyes and look on the fields for their white all ready to harvest this is in Jesus's time we're talking about Jerusalem I mean it probably wasn't as receptive as a lot of other places in the world are today because I mean a lot of the Jews rejected him right and he always had this entourage that followed him that were just constantly bothering him but Jesus said you know look look up you know this is after he meets the woman at the well and they're all off grocery shopping or whatever and he just takes the time to personally lead some woman to Christ and what happened as a result of that a whole bunch of people from that town got saved right in Samaria of all places right so number six the last thing is to go on a trip to the uttermost place of the earth go to one of these places you know I've actually yet to go to some remote village in Alaska or something but I do want to do that and you know if people will get saved in the place you know in some anyway village way up north then people will get saved everywhere and he you know in Psalm chapter two it says he'll give the you know the inheritance of the heathen to the Lord Jesus Christ and that and I believe that wherever we go wherever our foot the soul of our foot goes people will get saved when we go out and preach the gospel so you know in the Bible says in Psalm 126 verse one it says when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them the dream then was our mouth filled with laughter our tongue with singing then said they among the heathen the Lord have done great things for them the Lord have done great things for us wherever we are glad turn again our our captivity oh Lord has the streams of the south they that sow and tear shall reap in joy he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seeds shall doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaths with him so the Bible teaches that if we go out soul-warning we're gonna we're gonna reap the harvest Jesus said the the fields are already ripe under the harvest already white under the harvest so when we go people are gonna get saved but there's not a lot of laborers you know right now we have a lot of laborers in this room but compared to how big this city is it's we never seem to have enough so we need all hands on deck for soul-warning get behind your pastor get behind your your pastor's soul-warning vision and you know when you when you feel like you need to get a recharge do one of these things that I've listed here and you'll you'll definitely get a recharge if you go to a super receptive area you're gonna get a recharge but don't just get all jaded about your area I think it's very important it's discouraging when a pastor has a soul-warning program and then people don't show up for it but they'll go to other people's churches so I'm just saying have balance don't you know support your pastor support your soul-warning program but you know get get out and go other places the Bible that's what Jesus told us to do right so let's get out there today and get some people saved so whether it's a small town in the frozen tendra or a a pacific island atoll or small island in the middle of the pacific there are plenty of places to choose from share the bible way to heaven videos on social media mirror them on your platforms and you know you never know when somebody's cousin is going to get somebody saved and that person's going to come to a great soul-warning marathon and learn how to go soul-warning and fellowship with the saints so anyway let's let's pray Lord we thank