 Amen. Okay so here we are in Romans chapter 10. Just keep your place there. So Romans chapter 10 is a continuation once again of Romans chapter 9. Romans chapter 9, 10 and 11 kind of Paul is talking about the same overall theme. He's talking about you know the Jews and his heart towards you know the Israelites, his nation. He's kind of making an appeal for them that they would be saved. So it you know he really gets into the nuts and bolts of it in Romans chapter 11 and he kind of finishes up this thought. So I'm not going to dig too deep into that part of Romans chapter 10 tonight, but if you look down at verse number one in Romans chapter 10, the Bible reads, Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have the zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. So once again he's appealing you know towards Israel. He's appealing that they would be saved because they're not and they're not you know. This kind of goes to show you you know the overall state of the nation of Israel. The nation of Israel was you know a religious nation. You know it was a religion and it goes to show you that it's kind of a proof that the mainstream of the Jews did not accept Christ. Okay the mainstream religious leaders of that time of the Jews did not accept Christ. Now that should you know could be you could apply that today that you know we should you know take that as a little bit of a warning on whatever the mainstream of the religion is in the country. Is that maybe we should raise an eyebrow towards that and make sure that you know what they're saying is what the Bible saying and match that up and I mean obviously what the mainstream Christianity says today is not even close to what the Bible says. So Paul's having a problem here with his nation that's very similar to the nation that we have today and the religion of our nation as well. So in verse number two he says I bear them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge. Turn to Acts chapter 17. So he says that they have this zeal and it's not according to knowledge. Now this is this is people who we could we could compare this to people who are followers of you know false teachings today or followers of you know false prophets today. I believe that false prophets are wicked people and you know they're they're they're reprobates in in most cases I would say. And but you'll find that most there's a lot of followers out there who are just they're just without knowledge. They just don't know that it's not true. And they're you'll see this when you go out soul winning if you ever confront a false prophet of some kind like a Jehovah's Witness or some other weird false religion you'll often find that there's one main leader in the pair or in the group and the other person or the other you know people in that group are just they're just following you can tell you know I mean I've been in many situations one time in the Philippines we confronted these false prophets who were going around in the same area that we were and so we just confronted them to try to get them out of there it's really easy to confront false prophets by the way because you'll find that none of them know anything about the Bible. So they're just they're just making up a bunch of garbage and when you show them the Bible they have nothing to say. So I ended up confronting this this one you know pair these two young men one of them was in his 20s and the other one must have been you know 17 or 18 and I could tell that when I was rebuking the the older the main one I could tell that the other you know the guy that was with him was kind of like so I focused in on him and I said you know here this kid just think about this kid he's following this guy around he has zeal he wants to do what's right he wants to serve God with his life he wants to do you know he has this desire to serve in his but it's not according to knowledge he didn't know what he was doing you know you kind of see the fear in his eyes when I was quoting the Bible and talking about the things that were wrong with what they were teaching and he was like he was listening to what I was saying and I finally at the end of the conversation I just told that kid I said you better get away from this guy or you're gonna burn in hell and you know I believe that you can get to those those people who are you know full of zeal but without knowledge those are the people that we need to pull out of the fire as the Bible says okay so that's what he's talking about he's talking about there's a lot of Jews I don't believe he's talking about the Jewish leaders here many of the Jewish leaders the Pharisees you know Jesus knew that they were reprobating they could not believe Jesus said about many of the Pharisees okay so these are the ones sitting in the false churches these are the ones you know ignorantly following false religion that we need to get to we need to preach the gospel to them look at Acts chapter 17 look the Bible teaches that you shouldn't just listen to what people tell you okay look at Acts chapter 17 look at verse number 10 and the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night on to Berea who coming there there went into the synagogue of the Jews these were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all ready readiness of mind and search the scriptures daily whether those things were so so they received what Paul was saying with all readiness of mind but they were also searching the scriptures daily just to make sure that they were so that's what you should be doing by the way you shouldn't just be listening to preaching even for me look I'm telling you this I'm telling you to not just listen to whatever I tell you from this pulpit I'm telling you to read your Bible and to understand what the scripture says because then these if everybody did what I'm telling you to do there wouldn't there would be no false churches if everybody had a King James Bible was saved and was searching the scriptures daily there would be no false prophets claiming to be Christian pastors because they would be thrown out of whatever everyone would leave their church and go to a church where they're you know the guy was preaching what was right out of the Bible okay so you know a friend of mine in North Dakota that I went to church with it at the church I went to up there it was an old IFB church but he would always say he's like these people are just a bunch of bobbleheads because you know he would say that this pastor could say anything he wanted from the pulpit and everyone just like uh-huh he's like they're just a bunch of bobbleheads he's like he could preach workspace salvation he could preach anything and these people would just nod and just bobblehead away so don't be a bobblehead let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer no I'm just kidding search the scriptures and find out what the Bible says it's look it's your personal responsibility okay it's your personal responsibility look at Romans 10 chapter or verse number three for they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God now remember back in Romans 9 verse number 31 the Bible said but Israel which followed after the law of righteousness have not attained to the law of righteousness look they they were following after the law of righteousness and they couldn't attain to it because look you can't there there is none righteous you can't be good enough is what the Bible teaches where for why because they sought it not by faith the law of faith but as it were by the works of the law now look I don't know how I mean Romans is so clear on on salvation it's it's unbelievable that people could even misunderstand salvation unless they were almost trying to but look I want you to focus back on verse number three where the Bible says they have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God now look let me just say something there is a difference between because people twist this today and teach false doctrine there's a difference between submitting yourself to Christ and submitting unto the righteousness of God it's different those are two completely different things do you see how words are important in the Bible do you see how maybe you should have a King James Bible in your hand there is a difference submission turn to Matthew chapter 7 submission to God's righteousness is the reason that most people won't be saved that's the reason I will often say to people out so many I will say now you know after they understand hell and after they understand you know they're there a sinner and they deserve hell I will often say to them now do you think that most people are going to heaven I mean I don't know why I asked that I just like to hear the answer from people because some people think that because liberal Christianity today is teaching all these people that most people go to heaven and that most people are going to get there and that it's pretty much just air everybody's going to go because God's not a meanie head that would send people to hell so turn to Luke Matthew chapter 7 let me read for you Luke chapter 13 the funny thing is the disciples actually asked Jesus this question then said one unto him Lord are there few that be saved you go to Matthew chapter 7 I'm going to read you this parallel passage and he said unto them strive to enter in at the straight gate straight S.T.R.A.I.T. meaning narrow like the straights of Hormuz it's a narrow passage way for many I say unto you will seek to enter in and shall not be able Matthew 7 verse 13 the Bible says entry in at the straight gate for why does the gate and broad is the way that lead it to destruction and many there be with go that go in there at because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which lead it on to life and few there be that find it straight is the gate narrow is the way he doesn't say hard is the way he doesn't say difficult is the way another importance of words individual words in the King James Bible he says narrow is the way and few there be that find it so there will be few that go to heaven compared to those that go to hell unfortunately what so it's a free gift so why are only a few going to get it I mean that's a good question and that's a that's a question that you should make sure that you answer completely for people when you're out so many is it's because of this because it takes submission to God's righteousness that's why that's why there will be few that get it because you know what doesn't take you know total submission to God's righteousness it doesn't take total submission to God's righteousness to believe that I had this moment and I turned from my sins to be saved that does not take total submission to God's righteousness to think that it is not submission to God's righteousness to believe that I have this walk with Jesus that gets me to heaven that is not total submission to God's righteousness it's not it's not submission to God's righteousness to believe that because I'm this great Christian that because I keep asking God for forgiveness because I am repenting of my sins daily whatever that even means because I confess my sins I used to believe that one on a weekly or daily basis or just being a pious person that I'll make it look Kanye West I gotta address it here's what first of all Kanye West let me just let's look at if this is submission to God's righteousness let me just give you a quote I'm gonna read you a quote because guess what you're not gonna find a statement of faith from Kanye West you won't find it I looked you won't find it Kanye West quote now the trend the shift is going to change Jesus has won the victory I told you about my arrogance and cockiness already now the greatest artist that God has ever created is now working for him thank you for the opportunity to have given me a platform that is so vast that no one can take it away once I've turned everything over to you what that's not that's not I did find the statement of faith of his pastor by the way the one that he got saved from it's not total submission to God's righteousness to believe that you're part of God's chosen elect that is not submission to God's righteousness it is not submission to God's righteousness to believe that you have given your life to Jesus to be saved give your life to Jesus to be saved whoa that's exactly backwards God doesn't need anything from you I mean Paul said you know that as though he needed anything from you God doesn't need anything from you as look God's the one that did the giving not you I gave my life to Jesus what a bunch of garbage I mean it's exactly backwards look it's all works base salvation it's still all about you Kanye that's what it's about look I mean it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure this one out guys and gals look he's in the news constantly I mean his Google search analytics in the last few months have like gone up by like 400 percent and guess who you know he's hanging out with who he's hanging out with Joel Osteen Joel Osteen is like what this pop culture guy he's like he said Jesus get him in here get him in here that's what he's doing he's like I'm gonna write a book about this I'm not it's I'm not kidding at all that's exactly what's happening these guys are marketing geniuses and how to make money and unfortunately there's a lot of people out there was zeal and no no no I mean it's crazy get up there and you say a bunch of stupid garbage that means nothing you believe nothing except in yourself and you say Jesus four times in you know 20 minutes and everyone's like look at all the people that Kanye is leading to Jesus I mean I mean it's it's it makes me literally sick I mean all right where are we at Joel Joel look look Joel Osteen knows what he's doing I mean he's he may be he may be a false prophet is gonna burn in hell but he's not he's not an idiot as far as how to make money I mean knows how to do that he's that he's the white non-hip hop version of Kanye that's what he is I mean he's maybe a little bit even more polished a little bit better of a salesman maybe not it's debatable on which one's better as a salesman it look that's that's why you won't find a statement of faith faith by the way because statements of faith they they they tell people where you stand and it excludes people it offends people you know when you say hey I believe the Bible there's a lot of offensive things in the Bible I don't just believe you know the nice things about the Bible I believe all the wrath and I believe all the you know the judgments in the Bible I believe all of it well you know what that offends a lot of people but here's one big indicator on both of those people especially Kanye West where's the gospel in his speech where is it you will find it his speech is all about oh I've done this and I've done that and I no longer do this and I have figured all these things out now and I know what's best for the American family and I this and I that it's all about him it's no different he's just got a different niche now and he's just ripping off a whole new bunch of people Matthew 19 go to Matthew 19 it's not submission to God's righteousness it takes it takes a humble person to submit to God's righteousness it takes humility that's why that's why you'll go to nicer neighborhoods and like fewer people are going to get saved all the time it doesn't mean that people can't get saved but you're gonna see a noticeable trend that the nicer neighborhood you go into the more you know affluent people are you know the more money people have the more comfortable they are on this earth in this life it's harder for them to get saved because they believe in themselves and they don't want to submit to God's righteousness they think they have it figured out it takes a humble person to say you know what it's none of me and I I mean I deserve the worst and I can do nothing for myself to get myself out of this it's all Christ and it has nothing to do with me let's look at the rich young ruler in Matthew 19 look at verse number 16 and behold one came unto him and said good master what good things shall I do that I may have eternal life and he said unto him why call us thou me good there is none good but one that is God but if I will enter into life keep the commandments he said unto him which Jesus said thou shall do no murder thou shall cannot commit adultery thou shall not steal now shall not bear fault false witness now shall not lie he said honor thy father and mother and thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself the young man said unto him all these things have I kept for my youth up he just lies to Jesus's face imagine that imagine just standing in front of the Lord and just lying to his face I believe that Jesus was upset with this young man at this point he just lied to his face Jesus said unto him if thou will be perfect go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor and thou shall have treasure in heaven and come follow me but when the young man heard that saying you went sorrowful for he had great possessions look then Jesus says unto his disciples verily I say unto you that a rich man hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven for his harder for again I say unto you it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God you know he makes an example of this kid and he's like look that's why it's so hard for rich people to go to heaven because this kid came and he lied to my face and he told me he was perfect and he's so puffed up and proud that he thought he did nothing wrong in his life that he committed no sin I mean crazy look it takes a humble person to realize that you could never do anything to get saved or to stay saved period takes a humble person to realize that your debt was paid by somebody else you know it takes a humble person to realize you know that you have to submit to God's righteousness and not your own what submission to God's righteousness is believing on the Lord Jesus Christ that's what it is that's submitting to God's righteousness and not your own alright verse number four Romans 10 verse number four for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to any to everyone that believe it now does not say that Christ is the end of the law no it says Christ is the end of the law for righteousness not the end of the law for Moses describe describe it the righteousness of the law that the man which doeth those things shall live by them yeah you can you can have righteousness of the law if you keep it all James 2 10 says for who's to keep the whole law yet offend in one point he is guilty of all so like I've said before there's two ways to heaven keep the whole law or believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and good luck keeping the whole law you've already failed so there's only one way so the righteousness of the law he's saying here is our own righteousness verse number six but the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise now verse six and verse seven are a little confusing I want to explain those to you but the righteousness which is of faith not the righteousness of the law see the difference speaketh on this wise say not in nine heart who shall ascend into heaven and then in parentheses it says that is to bring Christ down from above or who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up Christ again from the dead look Paul's talking about the Jews and his his sorrow for the Jews here and what he's trying to get you to understand is that the Jews didn't believe that Christ died and descended into the deep by the way into hell that's a great verse for Jesus went to hell or they didn't believe that Jesus died and rose again or they didn't believe he ascended into heaven either that's what he's saying here hey the Jews didn't believe that we could go into this long treatise about how you know the Jews were living you know looking for an earthly king that was going to restore their kingdom but no basically what Paul is saying here he's not saying all that he's just saying that they don't they didn't believe in the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ that's it that's why they're not saved like he said in verse number one at the beginning of the chapter look at verse number eight but but what sayeth it the word is 90 even in their mouth and in my heart that is the word of faith which we preach now this is just quoting Deuteronomy 30 and verse 14 where the biologists read it for you the word but the word is very nigh unto the in my mouth and in my heart thou may mayest do it you know just going to show that Moses Abraham David all say it saved by the same word all saved the same way there's no dispensations they're all saved by the law of faith it's all the same throughout the Bible look at verse number nine that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation for the scripture sayeth whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him for again for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved he's talking about people who believe in their heart and call upon the name of the Lord now look now this debate I'm not even going to really get into this but this debate on whether or not you need to call upon the name of the Lord to be saved is a stupid one they don't get wrapped up in that debate it's a stupid debate as if a person who's drowning needs to be told to call for help for someone to save them from drowning it's a dumb debate you hear people do you think do you have to call upon the name of the word just believe on or I mean that's right you know what I mean I mean it's just there's never been a person who's drowning in the history of the world who did not call for someone to help get them right if they you know they knew they were drowning so if you know that you're not saved and someone teaches you how to preach the gospel to you you know and says you know you just have to ask God that you know to save you and you're like no I'm not gonna ask you didn't get it you didn't get the message you know you didn't get the memo you missed it somewhere okay look at verse number 14 how shall they call on him now this is a verse number 14 and 15 I just love these two verses how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things now Paul this just goes to show you how beautiful the writing of Paul and the Holy Spirit is together because Paul just could have said here if I was writing this I and you know the Holy Spirit said okay here's the message I want you to cross here's what I would have said go soul-winning but it's so much better how he wrote it here he's like how are people gonna know unless someone goes and tells them you know so the path of someone getting saved is this a preacher is sent he says people hear the word of God they hear the gospel from that preacher who is sent they believe the gospel after they heard it and then they call upon the Lord for salvation turn to Ezekiel chapter 33 so the question is this I mean who's gonna go out and tell these people who's gonna go out and preach the gospel how are they going to hear is the question Ezekiel 33 look down in verse number six we see we see soul-winning described in the Old Testament Ezekiel 33 in verse number six the Bible says but if the watchmen see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and people be not warned if the sword come and take any person from among them he is taken away in his iniquity but his blood why require at the watchmen's hand I mean that's a powerful verse right there look if you believe on Christ if you are saved you know the sword is coming you know and everybody here knows it I mean you know that everybody in this world the vast majority of people in this world are walking towards a cliff you know you know that hell is real guy at Verity puts it this way he's like you know we go soul-winning because you know it's not a plastic hell it's real it's a real hell and you see these people out there the vast majority of whom are not saved who don't believe the vast majority of whom are not reprobate rejects haters of God the vast majority of you just need to know the truth and the Bible says that if you don't go soul-winning you have their blood on your hands that's what the Bible says look here's the beautiful thing about soul-winning there's many jobs like there's there's a job at work where I have a if I have a cabinet that's got 500 wires in it that need to be landed on all these different places I can't put five people in that cabinet because only one man can fit in that cabinet here's the nice thing about soul-winning soul-winning is literally a linear function of man hours meaning the more people you put on the job and the more hours you put into it the more people that will get saved there's not a situation where you're like oh yeah I just can't put two people soul winning today because there's not enough room no the more people that go soul winning in this world the more people that will end up in heaven it's that simple it's it's a it's a direct correlation it's a function of man hours period you know f to the x that's what it is and the Bible says that if you don't go and you and you know the sword is coming every person that is truly saved knows the sword is coming and most people who are saved will never go soul winning it's pitiful you know I mean you have blood on your hands that's what the Bible says you say I don't I'm here and I don't go soul-winning you have blood on your hands not me Bible sorry welcome to church reverse number 16 but they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah said Lord who has believed our report look this is just him saying that you know when you become a soul winner and you go out and you you preach the word of God not everyone's going to accept it verse number 17 look this is why this is why you know belief this is why I you know it's perfect that God made salvation by belief because belief is an issue of the heart and the issue the belief in your heart is the only thing that is uniquely yours think about that it's the only thing that's uniquely yours you have total control of nobody else can change nobody else can force you to change look I can take brother Matthew and I can tell him that wall is red and you're going to believe it and he's like whatever and I could I could beat him and I could torture him and I could I could come near to killing him and he may say to me that wall is red that wall is red but I could never make him believe it see your belief sorry brother Matthew I'm gonna stop using you as an example and or you're gonna leave the church I'm sorry but you see my point your belief your belief is who you are you know your belief inside you look works can be faked you know what I'm saying I mean works can be faked God could have made it by works it's up to him whatever he wants to do he could have given us charts and graphs and timelines and things like you have to do these works every so often in order to stay he could have made those rules but you know what it's works can be because you can do something and not believe in what you're doing that's why God talks about when you give to church God you know God love it the cheerful giver you know he wants you to give with your heart right your works can be fake I can go to work and just go through the motions and not have my heart in it that's why it's by belief you know I mean that's that's why it's so beautiful that is by belief because it's yours nobody can take it from you nobody can force it out of you it's truly who you are is what you believe you can fake everything you can be fake to everybody whatever but what you believe is who you are it's the core of your of who you are that's why it's so beautiful that's by belief so once again you know the Bible what God has designed here makes perfect sense for us look at verse number 19 but I say oh I'm sorry verse number 17 so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God but I say have they not heard yes verily their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world look if you're a soul winner you're in the Bible because this is talking about you if you go to the Philippines and you preach the gospel your words are traveling to the ends of the war ends of the earth the gospel is getting spread to the ends of the world by you by your mouth if you're a soul winner I mean you're famous you're in the Bible it's great their sound went into all the earth the sound of your voice preaching the gospel can go into all the earth I hope that we have a church of hundreds of soul winners one day and it will be it will be our sound of the gospel of Jesus Christ coming out of our mouth traveling to all the earth imagine that and then you know we could say verse number 18 is talking about our church and the people in our church but it starts with individuals getting out there and learning how to preach the gospel to the people three blocks from here and then we go to all the earth we grow we grow into verse 18 we're not verse 18 right now we grow into that to the ends of the world verse number 19 but I say did not Israel know first Moses sayeth I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people by a foolish nation I will anger you but a psalm is very bold and sayeth well I've turned to Deuteronomy 32 because he's quoting Deuteronomy 32 here so he's talking again about you know the Gentiles here he says but I say did Israel not know first Moses sayeth I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people and Deuteronomy 32 turn there the Bible says in verse number 21 they have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God they have provoked me to anger with their vanity and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation so I mean the Bible is prophesying you know they're coming in of the Gentiles here I mean there's so much prophecy talking about how the Gentiles are brought in you know with the coming of Christ because you know the Jews did not believe but in again in Hosea chapter 1 and verse 10 we see another one of these I'll read that one for you you can go ahead and turn there Hosea right after Daniel you have the book of Hosea yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered and it should come to pass than the place where it was said unto them you are not my people there shall be said unto them ye are the sons of the living God talking about these people who are not God's people becoming you know the sons of God talking about the Gentiles here in verse number 20 but a pys is very bold and say as I was found of them that sought me not I was manifest unto them that asked not after me but to Israel he sayeth all the day long have I stretched forth my hand hands unto a disobedient and gain saying people that's another reference to Isaiah go ahead and go to Isaiah 65 Isaiah 65 Isaiah 65 and look at verse number 2 in the Bible reads I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people which walketh in a way that was not good after their own thoughts he says all day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gain saying people once again he's just talking about you know the Gentiles being brought in here because they believed in the righteousness of faith and not the righteousness of the law so look folks I mean it's just we're just reading Romans here and just look at how many references to the proper gospel to proper salvation there is and just we're only in chapter 10 I mean it is so do you kind of start to understand when you read through Romans and we study through and I mean kind of I kind of start feeling like I'm repeating myself a little bit like I'm preaching a gospel message every single time because the gospel is usually somewhere in one of these chapters somewhere but do you kind of starting to understand how people that go to hell deserve it I mean it's sad we don't want people to go to hell but there's none there's none with an excuse it's so obvious it is so obvious look they either didn't take you know it's not unfair is what I'm trying to get you to understand it's sad and we don't want to see especially people that we love on this earth go to hell but it is not unfair because it's right here you know these people have the everyone on this earth as we we saw in Romans chapter one and Romans chapter two and Romans chapter three they start with the law and their heart everyone starts with that we all start at the same starting line they all they all are living in the same creation that everyone else is they can see God everywhere all around them I mean they either just didn't take the time to look for the truth number one or you know they they just didn't they just didn't care to know or they either they just straight up rejected the truth so look it's not the the Bible according to salvation is not this complicated code book there's plenty of people that are twisting it around there's plenty of people that are taking a word here and changing the Bible and changing God's words there's plenty of people who are twisting verses who are pulling a verse and running with a doctrine there's plenty of those people but there's really no excuse for people who want to know the truth because the Bible is not complicated it's it's just one book we're in so far you know that's why one of the main reasons we started in Romans by the way you know we're a we're a new church we want to establish you know those building blocks you know the gospel so I mean I don't even really you know I don't feel bad that I'm kind of getting up here and I'm just preaching the gospel to you in 17 different ways you know every Thursday night because we need to know exactly what we believe and why we believe it especially we're going to go out and we're going to explain it to others we're gonna become thorough soul winners people that go out there and pull people out of the fire and get people saved through the word of God we need to know what we're talking about you know what you believe and why you believe it and all people need folks is a humble desire to know this truth and if they have that humble desire when you come up to them and you open the Bible and you ask them if they want to know they will say yes and you will be able to tell them and there's lots of those people here there's lots of those people here so look folks you know there's no excuse once again we see out of Romans there's no excuse for people not knowing the truth I've said this before that is the main trend you will see in people in churches like this in Bible-believing churches like this look how many people are here tonight I mean you know how many people were at the Kanye Joel show I don't even know but it was probably 10,000 or more and I mean there's just a handful of people here tonight because there's not that many people that want to know the truth and once you know because the truth I even said to my wife one time right before we moved I was like man you know I'm giving up all these things and you know this this worldly stuff is going to be going away for us and I said to my wife I was just like man it you know the thought crosses into your head I wish we could not you know unknown the things that we know but I didn't really mean that of course but you see what I'm saying as far as the worldly things go sometimes you know it would be maybe an easier life if you wouldn't know the truth of the Bible for sure but I wouldn't trade it for anything you know I thank God for the Bible I thank God for the truth of the Bible my wife and I were just saying the other night you know what we wouldn't trade we wouldn't trade anything for the people other that are in this church right now my wife joked with me she's like you know what I hope the church doesn't even grow and I was like alright settle down but it's just that just the people who are here you got it we have to build the right type of people you can't just we're not going to bring in all kinds of worldly unsaved people from the Kanye show and fill up this church no I don't want any of that we don't want any any of the money that would bring we don't want any of that because as soon as we open this Bible they're all going to leave anyway so look it's all about the truth of the gospel it's all about the truth of the Bible and there's no excuse for people who don't want to know it because it's not complicated and we're willing to tell them and you should be willing to tell them if you're not a soul winner let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer to your heavenly father we thank you for the book of Romans we thank you for you know Paul and just the way he so artistically you know with with your help or put this these chapters together and just just taught us all these things and continues to teach us all these things and the more times I read it or the more I learn I thank you for the depth of your word what I asked that you just inspire us and just just give us that drive to win souls Lord give us that drive to go out and preach your word give us that heart or give us that knowledge that that sword is coming for these people and help us never get desensitized to that out of all the things that we're getting desensitized in this world or help us never to get desensitized the fact that all these people are going to go to hell unless somebody reaches them or what I thank you for this church I thank you for all these people in your precious name we pray amen