Sowing for Souls | Adam Fulghum | Sunday Evening Sermon

0:02 SERVICE TONIGHT. PSALM 126 IN YOUR BIBLE IS SOMETHING THE LORD HAS LAID ON MY HEART AND I WANT TO SHARE WHAT I BELIEVE THE BURDEN OF THE LORD IS TONIGHT. BEGINNING AT VERSE 1. PSALM 126:1. WHEN THE LORD TURNED AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF ZION WE WERE LIKE THEM THAT DREAM AND THEN WAS OUR MOUTH FILLED WITH LAUGHTER AND OUR TONGUE WITH SINGING THEN SAID THEY AMONG THE HEATHEN THE LORD HATH DONE GREAT THINGS FOR THEM. THE LORD HATH DONE GREAT THINGS FOR US WHERE OF WE ARE GLAD. CAN ANYBODY SAY AMEN TO THAT TONIGHT? TURN AGAIN OUR CAPTIVITY OH LORD

0:48 AS THE STREAMS IN THE SOUTH. NOTICE WITH ME IN PARTICULAR VERSE 5 AND 6. THEY THAT SOW IN TEARS SHALL REAP IN JOY. HE THAT GOETH FORTH AND WEEPETH BEARING PRECIOUS SEED SHALL DOUBTLESS COME AGAIN WITH REJOICING BRINGING HIS SHEAVES WITH HIM. NOW LOOK WITH ME TO GALATIANS 6:7. THE WORDS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. BE NOT DECEIVED, GOD IS NOT MOCKED FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP. FOR HE THAT SOWETH TO HIS FLESH SHALL OF THE FLESH REAP CORRUPTION, BUT HE THAT SOWETH TO THE SPIRIT SHALL OF THE

1:38 SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING AND LET US NOT BE WEARY IN WELL DOING BECAUSE IN DUE SEASON WE SHALL REAP IF WE FAINT NOT. LET US NOT BE WEARY IN WELL DOING FOR IN DUE SEASON WE SHALL REAP IF WE HELP NOT. I WANT TO SPEAK ON THE SUBJECT ZOOING FOR SOULS. WOULD YOU GO TO THE LORD WITH ME IN PRAYER. FATHER I COME BEFORE YOU HUMBLY AS I KNOW HOW IN THE NAME OF YOUR SON JESUS. I REALIZE MY UTTER HELPLESSNESS AND MY NEED FOR YOUR TOUCH

2:24 TONIGHT AND I'M ASKING YOU LORD TO SEND A MIGHTY ANOINTING FROM HOLY ONE AND SUPERNATURALLY ENABLE ME TO OPEN UP YOUR WORD FOR THIS PEOPLE TONIGHT AND PRAY FOR LORD YOU TO ANOINT THOSE ASSEMBLED IN THIS PLACE AND THOSE THAT WATCH BY WAY OF SONLIFE BROADCASTING. LET THEM HEAR AND RECEIVE THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD. LET YOUR WORD GO FORTH IN POWER AND MIGHT AND THE DEMONSTRATION SPIRIT BE ACTIVE IN THIS PLACE TONIGHT AND DO ASK AS A RESULT OF THIS SERVICE THAT MANY SOULS WOULD COME TO A SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. WE PLACE THE RESULTS IN YOUR HAND BELIEVING THAT EVERY GOOD GIFT AND PERFECT GIFT COMES FROM YOU TONIGHT. WE GIVE YOU PRAISE FOR IN JESUS'

3:10 NAME WE ASK THESE THINGS AND EVERYONE THAT LOVED HIM SAID AMEN. AGAIN FOR JUST A LITTLE WHILE TONIGHT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE SUBJECT SOWING FOR SOULS. BOTH THE PSALMIST IN 126 AND THE APOSTLE PAUL IN GALATIANS 6 THEY DEAL WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF SOWING AND REAPING. THIS PRINCIPLE REALLY IS AN IMMUTABLE UNCHANGING UNIVERSAL LAW THAT GOD HAS INSTITUTED IN THE WORLD. WE READ THAT TOWARD BEGINNING OF YOUR BIBLE IN GENESIS 8 THAT NOAH EXITED FROM ARCH AND BUILT AN ALTAR TO THE LORD AND GOD SPOKE TO HIM AS HE OFFER AND SACRIFICE AND SAID WHILE THE

3:56 EARTH REMAINS, SEED TIME AND HARVEST SHALL NOT CEASE. SOWING AND REAPING WILL NOT COME TO AN END. THE TRUTH IS TONIGHT THAT WHATEVER YOU SOW YOU WILL REAP. WHATEVER YOU PLANT YOU WILL HARVEST OF THE SAME. THIS IS TRUE IN THE NATURAL WORLD BECAUSE NO MAN PLANTS AN APPLE TREE AND EXPECTED TO PULL ARRANGES FROM IT. NOBODY PLANTS WHEAT AND EXPECTS CORN. NOBODY PLANTS COTTON AND EXPECTS TO RECEIVE SOMETHING THAT CAN SATISFY AND NOW RICH THE BODY, BUT WHAT'S TRUE IN THE NATURAL IS ALSO TRUE IN THE SPIRITUAL. ONE BIBLE COMMENTATOR PUT IT THIS WAY. THE LAW OF SOWING AND REAPING IS

4:42 JUST AS MUCH OF A LAW OF THE SOUL AS IT IS A LAW OF THE SOIL. I'LL SAY THAT ONE MORE TIME. THE LAW OF SOWING AND REAPING IS JUST AS MUCH A LAW OF THE SOUL AS IT IS OF THE SOIL. SOWING AND REAPING IS FOUND ALL THROUGHOUT THE WORD OF GOD. WE READ THE WORDS OF JESUS IN MATTHEW 7 WHEN HE SAID YE SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS. THE MEN GATHER GRAPES AND THORNS AND THISTLES AND EVEN SO EVERY GOOD TREE BRINGETH GOOD FRUIT, BUT CORRUPT TREE BRINGETH FORTH EVIL. GOOD TREE CANNOT BRING FORTH EVIL FRUIT NEITHER CAN A CORRUPT TREE BRING FORTH GOOD FRUIT.

5:30 JOB 4:8. WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS EVEN AS I HAVE SEEN THEY THAT PLOW INEQUITY AND SOW WICKEDNESS REAP THE SAME. PROVERBS 1:31 THEREFORE, CALL THEY EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THEIR OWN WAY AND BE FILLED WITH THEIR OWN DEVICE. MANY KNOW THE WORDS OF PROPHET ISAIAH SAYING THEY SOW TO THE WIND AND SHALL REAP THE WHIRLWIND. THAT CORRUPT TREE IS CUT DOWN AND CAST INTO THE FIRE. BUT THERE'S ALSO A VERY POSITIVE SIDE TO SOWING AND REAPING. WE READ IN PROVERBS 11-18 THE WICKED WORKETH A DECEITFUL WORK,

6:16 BUT TO HIM THAT SHOWETH RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE A REWARD. HOSEA 10:12. PAUL SAID HE WHO SOWETH SPARINGLY SHALL REAP ALSO SPARINGLY AND HE THAT SOWETH BOUNTIFULLY SHALL REAP BOUNTIFULLY. I'M TRYING TO SET UP THE FOUNDATION TODAY THAT SOWING AND REAPING IS UNMUTABLE UNCHANGING LAW AND PAUL TOLD THOSE IN GALATIA WHATEVER THEY PLANTED SPIRITUALLY THAT THEY WOULD HARVEST OF THE SAME. HE SAID FIRST OF ALL THAT THE ONE WHO SOWS TO THE FLESH. HE THAT SOWETH TO THE FLESH SHALL OF THE FLESH REAP CORRUPTION. THIS MEANS THE INDIVIDUAL WHO LIVES LIFE ACCORDING TO EVERY

7:02 HIM WITH AND CRAVING OF THE FLESH THEY ARE ASKING FOR WORLD OF TROUBLE BOTH IN THIS LIFE AND ESPECIALLY IN THE NEXT. AS ONE MAN PUT IT, SAMPSON SOWED TO HIS FLESH AND REAPED BLINDNESS AND BONDAGE. DAVID SOWED TO HIS FLESH AND EVEN THOUGH HE WAS THE MAN AFTER GOD'S HEART HE REAPED TREASON AND BETRAYAL IN HIS HOME AND EVEN THE DEATH OF A CHILD. BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT, ALTHOUGH PAUL SAID HE THAT SOWS TO THE FLESH SHALL REAP CORRUPTION HE SAID HE THAT SOWS TO THE SPIRIT SHALL OF THE SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS MEANS THAT INDIVIDUAL THAT PLACES HIS OR HER FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST

7:47 WILL HAVE ETERNAL AND EVERLASTING LIFE IN HEAVEN. BUT I BELIEVE THAT IT MEANS SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT. I BELIEVE THAT IT MEANS THE ONE WHO SPENDS HIS TIME READING AND STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD WILL HAVE AN ANSWER IN THE TIME OF NEED. THE ONE WHO PRAYS WITHOUT CEASING WILL BE IN CONSTANT FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD AND WILL BE DISCERNING OF HIS TLCHLT ONE THAT GIVES OF HIS TIME AND OF HIS TALENT AND OF HISTORY SURE, HE WILL BE BLESSED ABUNDANTLY. JESUS SAID I'VE COME THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ONLY REFERS TO HEAVEN. NOT ONLY DOES IT REFER TO OVER THERE, BUT I BELIEVE IT REFERS

8:33 TO LIFE RIGHT HERE. SO PAUL SAID, IF WE WOULD SOW THE RIGHT THINGS THAT WE WOULD REAP THE BLESSINGS OF GOD. NOW JESUS THE LORD OF THE HARVEST, I BELIEVE THAT HE SPOKE OF SOWING AND REAPING IN TERMS OF PEOPLE. HE SPOKE OF A HARVEST IN TERMS OF THE SOULS OF MEN AND THAT'S REALLY WHERE I WANT TO CENTER IN AND DEAL WITH TONIGHT. THE MESSAGE I WANT TO BRING TO YOU IS QUITE SIMPLE AND IT THIS IN THIS CRITICAL DAY AND HOUR IN THE LAST DAYS THE CLOSING DAYS OF HUMAN HISTORY WE MUST WIN SOULS FOR JESUS CHRIST. PROVERBS 11-30 SAYS THE FRUIT OF THE RIGHTEOUS SARAH TREE OF LIFE AND HE THAT WINNETH SOUL SOCIAL SECURITY WISE.

9:21 AND THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WINNING SOULS OF MEN IS EXACTLY WHAT THE LORD HAS BOTH CALLED AND EQUIPPED US TO DO. THE PURPOSE OF THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY GHOST AND THE PURPOSE OF THE FULLNESS OF THE SPIRIT THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED IS NOT SO WE CAN JUST ENJOY OURSELVES AND HAVE A GOOD TIME WHEN WE COME TO CHURCH, BUT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THIS BLESSING, THIS BAPTISM IN THE HOLY GHOST SO WE MAY GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. JESUS SAID IN ACTS 1:8 YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER. AFTER THAT THE HOLY GHOST HAS COME UPON YOU, AND YOU SHALL BE WITNESSES UNTO ME.

10:07 WE'RE GIVEN POWER TO BE WITNESSES BOTH IN JERUSALEM AND IN SAMARIA AND THE UTTER MOST PART OF THE EARTH. WE'VE BEEN COULD AS THE CHURCH. WE HAVE BEEN EQUIPPED AS THE CHURCH TO WIN SOULS, BUT IN ORDER TO REAP I BELIEVE WE MUST SOW IN ORDER TO HARVEST WE MUST PLANT SOMETHING, AND IF WE REALLY DESIRE TO SEE SOULS SAVED IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD EXPANDED IN THE LAST DAYS, THERE IS A WORK WE'VE BEEN CALLED DO. IF WE'RE GOING TO REACH SOULS BORN INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD WE MUST SOW THE RIGHT SEEDS. I WANT TO SHARE THREE OF THE SEEDS THAT WE HAVE TO SOW TO

10:53 REAP HARVEST OF SOULS. THIS ONE SEEMS SIMPLE AND ALMOST KINDERGARTEN AND ELEMENTARY BUT IF WE PUT IT IN PRACTICE I BELIEVE WE'D SEE A DIFFERENCE. THE FIRST SEED I WANT TO SHARE TONIGHT IS IF WE'RE GOING TO WIN SOULS WE HAVE TO SOW THE SEED OF PRAYER. THEY THAT SOW IN TEARS SHALL REAP IN JOY. HE THAT GOETH FORTH AND WEEPETH BEARING PRECIOUS SEED SHALL DOUBTLESS COME AGAIN WITH REJOICING BRINGING HIS SHEAVES WITH HIM. THE TEARS THAT WE READ OF SPOKEN IN THE TEXT. THEY SPEAKING OF HAVING A BURDEN. IF WE'LL SEE ANY SUCCESS IN WINNING THE LOST WE MUST SOW IN

11:38 TEARS AND MUST HAVE A BURDEN FOR THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING. WHETHER THAT IS THE PHYSICAL TEARS THAT FALL FROM EYES OR THE TEARS OF A BROKEN HEART IF WE'RE GOING TO SEE SINNERS DRAWN TO CHRIST AND THE LORD WILL USE US FOR ANY MEASURE OF SUCCESS IN WINNING THOSE LOST, WE MUST CRY OUT TO GOD IN PRAYER. I BELIEVE IT WITH ALL OF MY HEART THAT A BROKEN HEART WILL ALWAYS SEE A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST AND WE FIND IT ALL THROUGHOUT THE WORD AND ALL THROUGHOUT CHRISTIAN HISTORY THAT THE MEN AND WOMEN GOD USES GREATLY ARE THOSE WHO WEEP OVER PEOPLE. THOSE WHO HAVE A BURDEN FOR THE LOST. JEREMIAH HAS BEEN CALLED THE

12:24 WEEPING PROPHET AND WE READ THAT HE SAID ON ONE OCCASION IF YOU WILL NOT HEAR, IF YOU WILL NOT HEED THE CALL OF GOD AND RESPOND TO THE MESSAGE OF GOD, HE SAID MY SOUL SHALL WEEP IN SECRET PLACES FOR YOUR PRIDE. MINE EYES SHALL REAP SORE AND RUN DOWN WITH TEARS BECAUSE THE LORD'S FLOCK IS CARRIED A WAY. PAUL TOLD THE EPHESIANS THAT HE CEASED NOT TO WARN EVERYONE NIGHT AND DAY WITH TEARS. OVER AND OVER AGAIN WE READ HOW THAT JESUS WEPT. HE WEPT AT THE TOMB OF LAZARUS. HE WEPT OVER JERUSALEM BECAUSE OF THE REJECTION OF HIM AGONIZEED IN THE GARDEN OF

13:09 GETHESAME KNOWING HE WAS ABOUT TO PAY THE PRICE FOR SINS OF MAN NOT FOR OURS ONLY, BUT FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD, BUT I BELIEVE THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO PRAY RIGHT AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BURDEN FOR THE LOST WE MUST FIRST PRAY AND WEEP CONCERNING OUR OWN SINFUL CONDITION. IF WE'RE GOING TO BE WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO BE OR USED OF GOD FOR THE PURPOSE OF WINNING THE LOST WE FIRST MUST BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES AND BE HONEST WITH GOD. IF WE WANT OTHERS TO COME INTO RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IT SHOULD TO BE A PREREQUISITE THAT WE MUST BE RIGHT WITH HIM, OURSELVES. WE MUST WEEP FIRST CONCERNING

13:56 OUR OWN FAILURES AND OUR OWN SHORTCOMINGS AND I SUBMIT TO YOU TONIGHT THAT IF EACH OF US WOULD LAY OURSELVES ON THE ALTAR BEFORE GOD AND ALLOW HIS SPIRIT TO SEARCH OVER OUR SOULS AND PRAY WITH DAVID, SEARCH ME OH GOD AND KNOW MY HEART IF WE WOULD PRAY LIKE THAT I DOUBT THE SPIRIT OF GOD WOULD HAVE VERY MUCH TROUBLE FINDING SOMETHING TO PUT HIS HAND ON. FINDING SOMETHING. SOME AREA OF OUR LIFE THAT NEEDS HELP. IT MAY NOT BE YOU AS A CHRISTIAN STRUGGLE SO BAD WITH THOSE AWFUL SINS OF COMMISSION. THOSE SINS THAT YOU STRUGGLE WITH BEFORE YOU WERE SAVED. IT MAY BE THAT YOU STRUGGLE WITH THOSE THINGS, BUT I CAN AS SURE YOU THAT EVERYONE OF US IF WE

14:42 ARE HONEST WITH OURSELVES WE ALL STRUGGLE WITH THOSE SINS OF OMISSION. IT WAS SAMUEL THE PROPHET THAT SAID GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD SIN AGAINST THE LORD BY CEASE TOGETHER PRAY FOR YOU. HE IMPLIED THAT PRAYERLESSNESS SARAH SIN AGAINST GOD. IF YOU ARE NOT FELLOWSHIPPING WITH THE BODY OF CHRIST THE BIBLE SAYS NOT FORSAKE TEN ASSEMBLING OF YOURSELVES TOGETHER. THAT IS SIN AGAINST GOD. IF WE'RE NOT OBEYING WITH OTHERS THEN WE'RE COMMITTING THE SIN OF OMISSION. IT SAYS IN JAMES FOR THE ONE THAT KNOWS TO DO GOOD AND DOES IT NOT TO HIM IT IS SIN.

15:29 THAT IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO WHEN WE REALIZE OUR OWN SINFULNESS WE NEED TO TURN TO GOD IN WEEPING AND IN PRAYER. AFTER DAVID SINNED SO TERRIBLY WITH BATHSHEBA HE CRIED OUT IN PSALM 51. CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART GOD AND RENEW A RIGHT SPIRIT WITHIN ME. CAST ME NOT AWAY FROM THY PRESENCE AND TAKE NOT THY HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME AND RESTORE UNTO ME THE JOY OF THY SALVATION AND UPHOLD ME WITH THY FREE SPIRIT THEN WILL I TEACH TRANSGRESSORS THAT WAY. DO YOU SEE IT AND SINNERS SHALL BE CONVERRETTED UNTO THEE. LORD WHEN I COME BACK INTO RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU AND WHEN

16:14 MY SINS ARE CLEANSED AND WASHED AWAY AND WHEN I AM RESTORED PERSONALLY THEN I'LL BE PREPARED TO GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND TEACH TRANSGRESSORS YOUR WAYS. THEN SINNERS WILL COME TO A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. I READ THE WORD OF GOD TO SOLOMON WHEN HE SAID, IF MY PEOPLE. NOT THOSE OUT IN THE WORLD THAT HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP, NO RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, BUT HE SAID IF MY PEOPLE. THOSE WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS THEN GOD SAID I WILL HEAR FROM HEAVEN. I WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN AND I WILL HEAL THEIR LAND.

17:01 I THINK TONIGHT IF WE'RE GOING TO BE WHAT GOD CALLED US TO BE WE NEED TO ENSURE WE ARE RIGHT WITH HIM AND THEN WE CAN PRAY EFFECTIVELY FOR THOSE WHO ARE LOST. CHARLES SPURGEON SAID AS IT REG REGARDS PRAYING FOR THE LOST. YOU MUST CULTIVATE THE IS CREDIT PASSIONS. YOU MUST THINK MUCH UPON THE DIVINE REALITIES UNTIL THEY MOVE AND STIR YOUR SOULS. HEAR HIS WORDS TONIGHT THAT MEN ARE DYING AND PERISHING. THAT HELL IS FILLING. THAT CHRIST IS DISHONORED. THAT SOULS ARE NOT CONVERTED TO CHRIST. THAT THE HOLY GHOST IS GRIEVED AND THAT KINGDOM DOES NOT COME

17:47 TO GOD, BUT SATAN RULES AND REIGNS. ALL THIS OUGHT TO BE WELL CONSIDERED BY US AND OUR HEART OUGHT TO BE STIRRED UNTIL LIKE THE PROPHET WE SAY OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS AND MINE EYES A FOUNTAIN OF TEARS. HE SAID THE USEFUL WORKER OF CHRIST IS A MAN OF TENDERNESS. NOT A STOIC OR ONE WHO DOES NOT CARE IF SOULS ARE SAVED OR NOT. HE SAID THE WEEPING SHOWS YOU WHAT KIND OF MAN IT IS WHOM THE LORD OF THE HARVEST LARGELY EMPLOYEES. MAN OFFERNESS AND TENDERNESS AND A MAN IN LOVE WITH SOULS AND A MAN WRAPPED UP IN A CALLING. CARRIED A WAY WITH COMPASSION

18:32 AND A MAN WHO FEELS FOR SINNERS IN A WORD A CHRIST LIKE MAN. NOT A STONE, BUT A MAN WHO IS TOUCHED WITH THE FEELING OF OUR INFIRMITIES. A MAN OF HEART. MAN READY TO WEEP BECAUSE SINNERS WILL NOT WEEP. CAN I ASK YOU A DIFFICULT QUESTION TONIGHT? IF WE AS THE CHURCH BRING IT RIGHT DOWN TO WHERE WE ARE, IF WE AS FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER IN BATON ROUGE WILL NOT WEEP OVER THOSE WHO ARE LOST. IF WE'LL NOT GET A BURDEN OVER THE LOSTNESS OF THE LOST, THEN WHO WILL? WHO WILL PRAY FOR THEM? WHO WILL CALL OUT THEIR NAMES IN PRAYER AND BEG AND PLEAD WITH GOD FOR SALVATION OF THEIR SOULS? WE'RE THE ONES THAT MUST PRAY AND WEEP.

19:21 WE'RE THE ONES THAT MUST SOW IN TEARS FOR SOULS OF MEN. I'M REMINDED OF A POWERFUL STORY THAT I HEARD. THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN THAT STARTED OUT IN THE MINISTRY AND HE WAS SEEING ONLY MEAGER RESULTS. JUST SHALL RESULTS OUT OF HIS MINISTRY AND HE WAS TERRIBLY DISSATISFIED AND HEARD OF A MAN BY THE NAME OF ROBERT MURRAY IN SCOTLAND AND HE DECIDED ONE DAY BECAUSE I'M SO DISSATISFIED WITH MY RESULTS I'M GOING TO HIS CHURCH AND SEE IF I CAN FIND SOMEBODY THERE WHO KNEW HIS SECRET. HE WAS A MAN WHO LIVED FOR GOD. HE WAS A MAN WHO WAS VERY MUCH

20:07 ALIVE EVEN THOUGH HE ONLY LIVED TO 29 YEARS OF AGE HE SAW SUCH A HARVEST OF SOULS AND SAW AND MADE SUCH AN IMPACT ON THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THIS YOUNG MINISTER SAID, IF I CAN JUST GET TO HIS CHURCH AND FIND SOMEBODY THERE MAY BE I CAN FIND OUT HIS SECRET. WHEN HE GOT THERE TO THE CHURCH HE EXPLAINED HIS DILEMMA TO AN OLDER MAN WHO SAID, I KNEW HIM. WOULD YOU COME IN THIS LITTLE ROOM WITH ME AND HE BROUGHT HIM INTO A SIDE ROOM AND HAD HIM SIT DOWN THERE IN THE CHAIR AND HE SAID YOUNG MAN I WANT YOU TO TAKE YOUR FACE AND PUT IT INTO YOUR HANDS. THE YOUNG MAN FOLLOWED HIS INSTRUCTIONS AND SAID, NOW START CRYING. THE YOUNG MAN PUT HIS FACE INTO

20:56 HIS HANDS AND THE OLDER GENTLEMEN SAID THAT'S HOW SHANE USED TO DO IT. FINALLY AFTER A WHILE HE TOOK THE YOUNGER PREACHER OUT TO THE PULPIT AND SAID NOW STAND BEHIND HIS SACRED DESK AND PULPIT AND OPEN UP YOUR ARMS WIDE AND START WEEPING AGAIN. THAT IT WAS SECRET TO HIS SUCCESS. A MAN WHO HAD A BURDEN FOR THE LOST SOULS OF MEN. A MAN THAT WAS WILLING AND READY TO WEEP BECAUSE OF THE LOSTNESS AND THE ETERNAL DESTINY OF THOSE WHO ARE LOST. I REMEMBER THE STORY WAS TOLD NOT LONG AGO FROM THIS VERY PLATFORM. BISHOP TIM HILL SAID WHEN HE WAS JUST A YOUNG MAN HE WENT TO A

21:44 JIMMY SWAGGART CRUSADE IN DALLAS AND HE WAS IN THE NOSE BLEED SECTION AT THE TOP OF AN AUDITORIUM AND FROM HIS SEAT UP IN THE BIRD'SNESS HE SAID I COULD LOOK DOWN AND SEE A MAN STANDING ON THAT PLATFORM WITH TEARS RUNG FROM HIS EYES. THERE'S NOT ONE OF US THAT HAVE NOT SEEN THOSE TEARS. NOT A ONE OF US WHO HAVE NOT BEEN IMPACTED BY THOSE TEARS. YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY THIS MINISTRY HAS SEEN THE SUCCESS IT HAS? YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY SO MANY SOULS HAVE BEEN SWEPT INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD? BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE JIMMY SWAGGART. PEOPLE LIKE ROBERT MURRAY MASK SHANE WHO HAD A BURDEN FOR THE SOULS OF MEN THAT WERE NOT CONTENT TO SIT IDLE AND LET THE WORLD GO TO HELL. FRIEND, THIS IS NOT A GAME THAT

22:30 WE'RE PLAYING TONIGHT. THIS IS NOT A PERFORMANCE THAT WE'RE PUTTING ON. WE ARE HERE. WE EXIST FOR THE SOULS OF MEN. THERE IS A WORLD THAT IS LOST AND DYING, BUT WE HAVE THE ANSWER. WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE PLAN OF SALVATION AND WE NEED TO HAVE A HEART FOR THOSE WHO ARE LOST. SO WE'VE GOT TO SO THE SEED OF PRAYER. I BELIEVE SECONDLY THERE IS ONE THAT WAS EXEMPLIFIED IN OUR LORD JESUS. WE HAVE TO SOW THE SEED OF PURSUIT IN JOHN 4 JESUS WAS COMING UP ON THE VILLAGE.

23:15 HE SENT HIS DISCIPLES INTO THE VILLAGE TO BUY FOOD AND PREPARE FOR THEIR FEEDING THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE AND YET JESUS DIDN'T GO WITH THEM. I KNOW THAT WASN'T BY ACCIDENT. THAT WASN'T BY HAPPENSTANCE. EVERYTHING JESUS DID WAS DIVINELY DIRECTED BY HIS FATHER IN HEAVEN. JESUS WENT INSTEAD TO A WELL CALLED JACOB'S WELL, AND WHILE HE WAS THERE, HE ENCOUNTER AND WOMAN OF SAMARIA. SINFUL WOMAN THAT HAD BEEN MARRIED FIVE TIME AND WAS LIVING WITH A MAN THAT WAS NOT HER HUSBAND AND JESUS DEALT WITH HER ON A PERSONAL LEVEL. HE GOT DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF BUSINESS WITH HER SIN. HE CONFRONTED THE WAY SHE HAD BEEN LIVING.

24:02 HE WAS STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH HER, BUT HE NEVER DID THIS TO EMBARRASS HER. HE NEVER DID THIS TO SHAME HER. HE SPOKE WITH HER DIRECTLY FOR ONE PURPOSE AND THAT WAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF REACHING HER SOUL. AND WHAT A SUCCESS STORY HE HAD THAT DAY. HE PURSUED THIS WOMAN AND WENT AFTER HER SOUL AND SHE WENT TO THE VILLAGE PROCLAIMING COME SEE A MAN. TELLING ME ALL THINGS EVER I DID IS NOT THIS THE CHRIST? CAN I BE HONEST WITH YOU TONIGHT AND TELL YOU THAT WE AS THE CHURCH, AND WE'VE ALL BEEN GUILTY OF IT. WE MAKE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE WHEN WE WAIT FOR THE LOST TO COME TO US US. I STAND BEFORE YOU JUST AS

24:49 GUILTY AS ANYBODY OF SAYING THINGS LIKE SINNERS, JUST DON'T COME TO CHURCH ANYMORE. IT IS A BLESSING WHEN YOU HAVE A HANDFUL SPRINKLED THROUGHOUT THE CONGREGATION THAT MIGHT NOT KNOW CHRIST AND THEY COME TO A SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF HIM, BUT BY-AND-LARGE SINNERS DO NOT JUST COME TO CHURCH ANYMORE. I REMEMBER MY DAD TOLD ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN GROWING UP. HE SAID THAT WHEN HE WAS A CHILD THAT HE WOULD GO TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY WITH MY GRANDMOTHER AND HE NOTICED EVERY WEEK THERE WERE SINNERS IN ATTENDANCE. DIDN'T MATTER WHAT THEY WERE DOING ON SATURDAY NIGHT OR WHAT PARTY THEY ATTENDED AND WHAT THEY HAD DRUNK OR SMOKE, THEY GOT SOBER BY SUNDAY MORNING BECAUSE THEY WERE GOING TO BE IN CHURCH. IT WAS THE CULTURE AND THE ORDER

25:35 OF THE DAY. PEOPLE WERE IN CHURCH ON SUNDAY AND I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU TONIGHT THAT OUR CULTURE HAS CHANGED. OUR WORLD HAS TOTALLY SHIFTED. IT IS ABNORMAL FOR A SINNER JUST TO COME TO CHURCH. I KNOW THERE'S CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS WHEN THE LORD WILL DEAL WITH SOMEBODY'S HEART AND I HAVE NO DOUBT GOD HAS SPOKEN TO MANY SOUL DRIVING PAST THE CHURCH SAYING YOU NEED TO PULL IN THERE AND GO ON SUNDAY. I HAVE NO DOUBT AS TO THESE THINGS THEY HAPPEN ALL THE TIME, BUT BY-AND-LARGE SINNERS DO NOT COME TO CHURCH ANYMORE. BUT HERE'S THE BOTTOM LINE. EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT SO MUCH COMING TO US THESE DAYS, THAT DOES NOT CHANGE OUR RESPONSIBILITY BECAUSE I NEVER

26:21 READ ONE TIME IN THE SCRIPTURES WHEN JESUS SAID, LET THEM COME THE YOU, AND WHEN THEY COME TO YOU, SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH THEM. BUT I DO READ OVER AND OVER AGAIN WHERE JESUS USES THAT POWERFUL TWO LETTER WORD, GO. THERE'S A PARABLE THAT HE TOLD IN LUKE 14 THAT I BELIEVE EACH OF US WOULD DO WELL TO CONSIDER. HE SAID THERE WAS A MASTER THAT MADE A GREAT FEAST. HE PREPARED FOR GREAT SUPPER AND THERE WERE MANY INVITED GUESTS. MANY HE INVITED TO JOIN IN THIS CELEBRATION AND FINALLY AS THE DAYS WENT ON THE TIME FOR THE FEAST ARRIVED AND HE SENT HIS SERVANT OUT AND SAID, GETTING EVERYONE TOGETHER BRING IT IN FOR EVERYTHING IS MADE READY.

27:07 IT'S TIME. THE PLACES ARE SET AND THE FOOD IS BEING PREPARED. GO AND CALL THE INVITED GUESTS. THE SERVANT WENT OUT AND DID WHAT WAS COMMANDED, BUT CAME BACK WITH TERRIBLE NEWS. HE SAID, I WENT TO ONE, I WENT TO ANOTHER AND THE NEXT ONE AND THEY ALL HAVE MADE EXCUSE. THEY ALL GAVE A REASON WHY THEY COULD JOIN IN THE FEAST SO THE MASTER SAID EVEN THOUGH IT MUST'VE FRUSTRATED HIM AND CUT HIM TO THE HEART. HE SAID NOW GO OUT QUICKLY. CAN I TELL YOU THAT WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THIS DAY, WHAT WE'RE CALLED DO IN THIS DAY WE MUST DO WITH URGENCY.

27:54 WE MUST DO IT WITH SPEED BECAUSE JUST AS SURE AS I STAND ON THIS PLATFORM TONIGHT. JUST AS SURE AS YOU ARE SUITE SEATED IN THESE CHAIRS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS SOON TO COME. HE'S SOON TO RETURN SO WHAT WE DO, WE MUST DO WITH URGENCY. THE MASTER TOLD THERE SERVANT G OUT AND FIND THE MAIN AND THE BLIND AND WHAT WE MIGHT CALL THE PITIFULEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND BRING THEM IN. THE SERVANT SAID IT'S DONE ALREADY AND THERE'S STILL A FEW MORE SEATS LEFT AT THE TABLE. HALLELUJAH. THE MASTER SAID ALRIGHT NOW GO OUT AND GO TO THE HIGHWAYS AND GO TO THE HEDGES AND HERE'S THE WORD.

28:40 COMPEL THEM TO COME IN. THAT WORD IS POWERFUL. THAT WORD IS A PUNCH THERE. IT MEANS TO BEG THEM. GO OUT AND IMPLORE THEM. GO OUT AND PLEAD WITH THEM THAT THEY WOULD JOIN IN THIS FEAST THAT MY HOUSE MAY BE FILLED AND THAT EVERY PLACE MAY HAVE A PERSON SITTING IN IT. I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT'S NOT GOING TO BE LONG BEFORE THERE IS A BAN GET IN HEAVEN. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE LONG BEFORE THERE IS A SUPPER HELD IN HEAVEN AND I'M OF THE OPINION TONIGHT THAT THERE IS STILL A FEW MORE SEATS LEFT AT THE TABLE. I'M OF THE OPINION TONIGHT THAT THERE'S STILL A FEW MORE PLACES THAT ARE EMPTY AND THE LORD IS CALLING EACH AND EVERYONE OF US TO GO OUT TO THE HIGHWAYS AND GO

29:26 OUT TO THE HEDGES AND GO AND TEACH ALL NATIONS AND GO AND PREACH THE GOSPEL. GO AND COMPEL THEM TO COME IN. THIS IS LIFE OR DEATH CHURCH. IT'S TIME WE GO FORTH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD AND WHEN WE GO WITH HIM, HIS ANOINT WILLING GO WITH US C. [APPLAUSE] >> WHEN JESUS GAVE THEM THE GREAT COMMISSION IN MATTHEW 28 HE SAID GO THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS BAPTIZING THEM IF THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON AND THE HOLY GHOST AND LO I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS. THAT'S THE PROMISE THAT WE HAVE THAT WHEN WE GO FORTH DOING HIS WORK, WHEN WE GO FORTH WEEPING,

30:12 WHEN WE GO FORTH FULFILLING THE WILL OF GOD THAT WE DO NOT GO ALONE. WE HAVE THE POWER, THE ANOINTING AND THE ENABLEMENT AND THE MIGHT OF THE HOLY GHOST. WHEN YOU FIND A SINNER THE GROCERY STORE. WHEN YOU FIND A SINNER ON YOUR JOB. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPEAK TO THEM BY YOUR OWN INTELLECT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPEAK TO THEM BY YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS, BUT YOU CAN SPEAK IN THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY GHOST. YOU CAN SHARE THE GOSPEL MESSAGE AND HIS GOSPEL IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION. SO MANY WORRY, I'M JUST NOT ABLE TO ARTICULATE IT. I'M JUST NOT ABLE TO SPREAD IT AS I SHOULD.

30:57 BUT I'M REMINDED OF THE STORY OF A YOUNG MAN WHO HAD GROWN UP IN A UNITARIAN CHURCH. IF YOU NO NOTHING ABOUT A UNITARIAN CHURCH YOU CAN BE SURE HE NEVER HEARD THE REAL GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, BUT FINALLY DESIRING TO GO INTO THE BUSINESS WORLD AND DESIRING TO MAKE A LIFE HE MOVED AND STARTED ATTENDING A BIBLE BELIEVING CHURCH. HE WAS WORKING IN A SHOE STORE AT THE TIME AND THERE WAS A SUNDAY SCHOOLTEACHER OF HIS THAT GOT UNDER A BURDEN AND STARTED WEEPING OVER HIS SOUL. THERE WAS A SUNDAY SCHOOLTEACHER THAT FELT THE LEADING OF THE HOLY GHOST TO GO TO WHERE HE WAS AND SHARE THE GOSPEL. SURE THERE WERE ALL KINDS OF THOUGHTS, OF OPPOSITION THINKING YOU DON'T NEED TO DO THAT, MAYBE

31:45 HE'S BUSY OR WITH A CUSTOMER, MAYBE HE WON'T HAVE THE TIME TO TALK, BUT BY THE LEADING OF GOD'S HOLY GHOST THAT SUNDAY SCHOOLTEACHER STEPPED INTO THE SHOE STORE AND SHARED THE GOSPEL WITH THE YOUNG MAN AND HE WAS BORN AGAIN ON THE SPOT. JUST A LITTLE WHILE LATER HE WAS BEING INTERVIEWED TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH. THAT IT WAS PROCEDURE OF THE CHURCH HE WAS PART OF AND ONE OF THE DEACONS OR LEADERS OF THE CHURCH ASKED OF THE YOUNG MAN, WHAT HAS JESUS DONE FOR US? AND JUST TO SHOW YOU HOW IGNORANT THIS YOUNG MAN WAS AT THE TIME. JUST TO SHOW YOU HOW MUCH HE DIDN'T KNOW AND COULDN'T ARTICULATE IT WELL, HE LOOKED

32:31 BACK AT THE DEACON AND SAID I KNOW HE'S DONE AN AWFUL LOT, BUT I CAN'T SAY FOR SURE ONE THING. THEY PUT HIM IN A BIBLE BASICS CLASS AND HE GREW AND BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT THE GOSPEL, BUT EVEN INTERVIEWED ALMOST A YEAR LATER HIS ANSWER HAD JUST LITTLE IMPROVED YET BECAUSE THEY KNEW HE WAS SINCERE AND KNEW THAT HE REALLY MEANT BUSINESS HE WAS A BORN AGAIN INDIVIDUAL THEY ADMITTED HIM TO THE CHURCH. MANY WOULD HAVE SAID HE CAN NEVER ARTICULATE THE GOSPEL WELL. MANY WOULD HAVE SAID THIS IS AN UNLIKELY CANDIDATE TO SHARE CHRIST WITH THE WORLD. AND YET GOD PLACED HIS HAND ON D

33:16 WILL MOODY AND HE BECAME ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL EVANGELISTS THE WORLD HAD SEEN. IT MAY NOT BE THAT YOU HAVE TELL AGAINST. IT MAY NOT BE THAT YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO SPEAK WHERE PEOPLE CAN JUST FLOCK TO YOU AND BE MESMERIZED BY YOUR ABILITY BUT IF YOU HAVE THE POWER OF GOD'S SPIRIT YOU CAN GO FORTH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. [APPLAUSE] AS I'M COMING TO A CLOSE TONIGHT, I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THE THIRD AND FINAL SEED THAT WE HAVE TO SOW. WE HAVE TO PRAY FOR THE LOST. WE HAVE TO PURSUE THE LOST, BUT FINALLY WHEN WE GET TO THEM AND HAVE THEIR ATTENTION, WHEN WE ENGAGE WITH THEM, WE CAN'T LEAVE THEM HANGING. WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM THE TRUTH

34:03 OF THE GOSPEL. WE MUST PREACH THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL. PAUL PUT IT IN PLAIN WORDS WHEN HE SAID IN FIRST CORINTHIANS 1:17. CHRIST SENT ME NOT TO BAPTIZE, BUT TO PREACH THE GOSPEL. NOT WITH WISDOM OF WORDS,LESS THE CROSS OF CHRIST SHOULD BE MADE OF NO AFFECT. FOR THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS IS TO THOSE THAT PERISH FOOLISHNESS, BUT TO US THAT ARE SAVED IT IS THE POWER OF GOD IS FOR WRITTEN, I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE AND BRING TO NOTHING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRUDENT. WHERE IS THE WISE AND THE SCRIBE? WHERE IS THE DISPUTER OF HIS WORLD? HATH NOT GOD MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD?

34:49 FOR AFTER THAT IN THE WISDOM OF GOD THE WISDOM KNEW NOT GOD. IT PLEASED GOD BY THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING TO SAVE THEM THAT BELIEVE. PAUL SAID THE JEWS MAY REQUIRE A SIGN AND THE GREEKS MAY SEEK CHRIST CRUCIFIED. WE PREACH LET ME TELL YOU TONIGHT THERE MAY BE THOSE THAT COME TO YOU AND THEY ASK YOU QUESTIONS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF ABOUT THE BIBLE. THERE MAY BE THOSE THAT COME TO YOU AND TRY TO STUMP YOU WHEN YOU SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH THEM, BUT THERE'S ONE MESSAGE THAT YOU HAVE GOT TO KNOW. THERE'S ONE THING THAT YOU HAVE GOT TO HAVE PLANTED DEEP IN YOUR HEART AND KNOW IT WELL, AND THAT IS, WE PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED. JESUS CHRIST. THE SINLESS SON OF GOD.

35:36 HE LEFT HEAVEN. HE LEFT THE PRAISES OF ANGELS. HE LEFT IT ALL TO COME DOWN TO THIS WORLD THAT WAS MADE BY HIM NOT AND TO HIM JESUS LEFT HEAVEN AND HE CAME TO THIS EARTH AND HE WAS CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS AND HE DIED FOR THE SINS OF MAN, BUT ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN AND HE ASCENDED TO GOD THE FATHER AND TODAY HE SITS AS THE INTERCESSOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. LET ME TELL YOU WE HAVE TO KNOW THAT ONE MESSAGE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE ANSWER FOR THE

36:22 SINFULNESS OF MANKIND THAT IF A SINNER WILL ONLY PUT HIS TRUST IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HE'LL BE BORN AGAIN AND WILL EXPERIENCE A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION IN HIS HEART AND IN HIS LIFE. WHEN YOU GO FORTH PREACHING CHRIST THE POWER OF GOD AND THE WISDOM OF GOD, YOU WILL SEE RESULTS. IT WAS TRUE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. ENOUGH VERY WAS COMPLETELY DEVOTED TO DARKNESS AND SIN, BUT THEY REPENTED AT THE PREACHING OF JONAH. SIMON PETER STOOD ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST. HE PREACHED THE GOSPEL. HE PREACHED THE SIMPLE MESSAGE OF CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 3,000 WERE SAVED.

37:10 JUST A LITTLE WHILE LATER HE PREACHED AGAIN AND EVEN GREATER RESULTS WERE AFFECTED AND EVEN GREATER HARVEST WAS REAPED. 5,000 BELIEVED. WHERE THE WORD OF GOD IS PREACHED WITH THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, SOMEBODY WILL BE SAVED. SOMEBODY'S LIFE WILL BE CHANGED AND I WANT TO LEAVE YOU WITH THE PROMISE OF GOD TONIGHT THAT IF WE GO FORTH PROCLAIMING HIS WORD. IF WE GO FORTH WITH TEARS, WE WILL SEE RESULTS. THE BIBLE TELLS US THEY THAT SOW IN TEARS REAP IN JOY. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TONIGHT, CHURCH IF WE KEEP ON SOWING, WE WILL REAP. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TONIGHT,

37:56 CHURCH. IF WE FAINT NOT, IF WE DON'T STOP, IF WE REFUSE TO QUIT, WE WILL SEE A HARVEST. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU PREACHER. KEEP ON PREACHING THE GOSPEL. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU SUNDAY SCHOOLTEACHER. KEEP ON TEACHING GOSPEL. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU SINGER. KEEP ON SINGING THE GOSPEL. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU CHRISTIAN. KEEP ON SHARING THE GOSPEL. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU MOM AND DAD. KEEP ON PRAYING FOR THOSE LOST LOVED ONES. KEEP ON PRAYING FOR THE LOST CHILDREN TO BELIEVE THE GOSPEL. YOU MAY NOT HAVE THE HARVEST IN YOUR HANDS YET, BUT YOU HAVE GOD'S WORD TONIGHT THAT HIS WORD WILL NEVER RETURN VOID, BUT THAT

38:41 IT WILL ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH HE SENDS IT TO DO. WHEN WE GO FORTH WEEPING BEARING THE PRECIOUS SEED OF GOD WE WILL COME AGAIN WITH REJOICING. SINGERS AND MUSICIANS MAKE YOUR WAY BACK. THERE'S A PHRASE THAT WE READ IN THE WORD OF GOD THAT EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT SHARING THE GOSPEL AND SOING FOR SOULS THIS PHRASE COMES TO MY MIND AND IT IS THIS. FREELY WE HAVE RECEIVED. SO FREELY WE MUST GIVE. SO FREELY WE HAVE RECEIVED THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. WE DIDN'T HAVE PAY A PRICE FOR WITH SALVATION. JESUS PAID IT ALL. ALL TO HIM I OWE.

39:28 JESUS PAID THE PRICE. WE HAVE FREELY RECEIVED SO BY THE GRACE THE HELP AND THE ANOINTING OF GOD LET US GO FORTH AND FREELY GIVE TO THE WORLD AROUND US. CAN I TELL YOU TONIGHT THAT THERE IS A HARVEST RIGHT HERE IN BATON ROUGE THAT'S READY TO BE REAPED BY FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER? THERE'S A HARVEST OF SOULS THOUGH THEY MAY BE LOST RIGHT NOW. WHEN YOU GO FORTH SHARING THE GOSPEL THEY ARE COMING IN. I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU DON'T FAINT IN THE WORK OF GOD. DON'T GIVE UP IN SHARING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST FOR WHEN YOU SOW YOU WILL REAP. GOD GIVES THE INCREASE. WOULD YOU BOW YOUR HEADS TONIGHT?

40:14 LORD I PRAY THAT YOU TAKE YOUR WORD THAT I'VE TRIED TO PREACH. I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD LET IT BE AS A SEED IN THE HEART OF EVERY CHILD OF GOD TONIGHT. THOSE GATHERED IN THE SANCTUARY AND THOSE WATCHING BY WAY OF SONLIFE BROADCASTING. I PRAY YOU WOULD DEAL WITH ALL OF US ON A PERSONAL LEVEL. LORD LET EVERYONE OF US HAVE A RENEWED BURDEN FOR SOULS. LORD LET US FALL IN LOVE WITH SOULS. LET US LIVE AND BREATHE TO SHARE THE GOSPEL THOSE AROUND US. I PRAY TONIGHT THAT YOU WOULD BIRTH A BRAND NEW BURDEN IN EVERY HEART GATHERED HERE AND THOSE WATCHING BY TELEVISION LORD WOULD YOU DO IT TONIGHT?

40:59 THERE'S A HARVEST FOR US TO REAP CHURCH. IT'S READY. JESUS SAID DON'T SAY THAT THERE'S FOUR MONTHS AND THEN COMES THE HARVEST. HE SAID IT'S WIDE ALREADY. HE SAID IT'S READY TO BE REAPED RIGHT NOW. WE'RE PROMISED SUCCESS. WE'RE PROMISED THAT SOMEBODY WILL BELIEVE. SOMEBODY WILL BE SAVED. ALL OVER THIS PLACE WOULD YOU STAND? I'M GOING TO ASK YOU, IF YOU WANT THE LORD TO GIVE YOU A BRAND NEW BURDEN FOR SOULS. IF YOU WANT THE LORD TO ENABLE YOU AND ANOINT YOU AND HELP YOU TO SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH THOSE AROUND YOU, IN JUST A FEW

41:45 MOMENTS AS THEY BEGIN SO SING I'LL ASK YOU TO COME AND WE'RE GOING TO PRAY TOGETHER TONIGHT. WE'LL PRAY GOD WILL USE US IN A MIGHTY WAY NOT ONLY TO GROW THIS CHURCH HERE, BUT TO GROW HIS KINGDOM WORLDWIDE. I BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING GOOD IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN AS WE GO FORWARD DOING THE WORK OF GOD. IF YOU WANT THE LORD TO USE YOU WOULD YOU COME RIGHT NOW AS THEY BEGIN TO SING? ♪ SEND THE LIGHT, THE BLESSED GOSPEL LIGHT ♪ ♪ LET IT SHINE FROM SHORE-TO-SHORE ♪ ♪ SEND THE LIGHT ♪

42:37 ♪ THE BLESSED GOSPEL LIGHT ♪ ♪ LET IT SHINE FOREVER MORE ♪ ♪ THERE'S SEND THE LIGHT, SEND THE LIGHT ♪ ♪ THERE ARE SOULS TO RESCUE, THERE ARE SOULS TO SAVE ♪ ♪ SEND THE LIGHT ♪ ♪ SEND THE LIGHT, THE BLESSED GOSPEL LIGHT ♪ ♪ LET IT SHINE FROM SHORE-TO-SHORE ♪ ♪ SPREAD THE LIGHT THE BLESSED

43:38 GOSPEL LIGHT ♪ ♪ LET IT SHINE FOREVER MORE ♪ >> THERE'S A SPECIFIC PRAYER THAT I WANT US TO PRAY TONIGHT IF WE CAN AND I FEEL THAT IT WOULD BE BEST PRAYED WITH HANDS UP LIFTED. THE PRAYER OF ISAIAH. HERE AM I, LORD. SEND ME. WOULD YOU BEGIN TO PRAY THAT FROM YOUR HEART. HERE AM I, LORD, SEND ME. THERE IS A HARVEST THAT'S GOT YOUR NAME ON IT. THERE ARE SOULS THAT HAVE YOUR NAME ON THEM FOR YOU TO REACH. FOR YOU TO SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH. FOR YOU TO LEAD TO JESUS CHRIST. IF WE'LL PRAY LIKE THAT TONIGHT I BELIEVE GOD IS GOING TO USE SOMEBODY. I BELIEVE GOD WILL PLACE HIS HAND ON SOMEBODY. LET'S CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD.

44:24 FATHER, I LIFT UP THESE STANDING BEFORE ME. I LIFT UP THOSE WATCHING BY WAY OF TELEVISION. I PRAY FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN THAT YOU WOULD GIVE US A BRAND NEW DESIRE TO REACH THE LOST. HELP US TO WIN THE LOST AT ANY COST ALMIGHTY GOD. I PRAY FOR A RENEWED BURDEN FOR SOULS. LORD, LET US BREATHE FOR SOULS AND LIVE SO THAT SOMEBODY WOULD COME TO THE SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS. LORD WE KNOW THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT AND WHY WE ARE HERE AND WHY YOU HAVE CALLED US SO THAT SOMEBODY MIGHT BE SAVED. NOW I ASK LORD THAT A SPECIAL TOUCH OF GOD WOULD BE PLACED UPON EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL. LORD GIVE THEM SPECIAL GRACE TO SHARE THE GOSPEL EVERYWHERE THEY

45:09 GO. LORD OPEN UP DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THE WORD OF GOD TO GO FORTH AND LET A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST BE REAPED BEFORE YOU COME AGAIN. HERE AM I LORD, SEND ME. ONE MORE TIME. WOULD YOU RAISE YOUR HANDS ALL OVER THIS PLACE AND WORSHIP THE LORD? HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU JESUS. >> OH HALLELUJAH. YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE HEARD US SAY THIS, BUT I WANT TO SAY IT AGAIN. IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PASTORAL STAFF TO BUILD THE CHURCH. IT'S NOT.

45:55 IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. GOD HAS GIVEN THAT RESPONSIBILITY TO YOU. IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DISCIPLE YOU. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE THAT INTO THE HIGHWAYS AND THE BY WAYS AND I WOULD CHALLENGE EVERYONE OF YOU, EVERYONE OF YOU. THERE IS SOMEBODY IN YOUR LIFE THAT GOD IS DEALING WITH. YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT. THEY MAY NOT HAVE ARTICULATEED TO YOU, BUT THERE IS QUESTION IN THEIR HEART AND MIND. IT MAY BE A NEIGHBOR OR SOMEBODY ON THE JOB, IT MAY BE SOMEBODY JUST YOU KNOW IN PASSING AS AN ACQUAINTANCE, BUT I WANT YOU TO BEGIN TO ASK THE LORD, LORD,

46:41 POINT OUT THAT PERSON. THAT ONE PERSON THAT YOU ARE DEALING WITH AND THEN BRING THEM TO CHURCH. ASK THE LORD TO OPEN UP THAT DOOR TO TALK TO THEM. ASK THE LORD TO QUICKEN THEM TO YOUR HEART AND MIND AND BRING THEM TO CHURCH AND YOU ARE GOING TO SEE LIVES CHANGED. THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH ADAM FOR THAT MESSAGE. DIDN'T YOU ENJOY THAT? [APPLAUSE] USHERS? WE WANT TO ONCE AGAIN SOW INTO THE LIFE AND MINISTRY OF EVANGELIST ADAM. HE'S BLESSED US. MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THIS.

47:27 ADAM IS ONLY 24 YEARS OLD. BUT I BELIEVE HE'S THE BEST EVANGELIST IN AMERICA UNDER THE AGE OF 30. WE BELIEVE THAT. [APPLAUSE] DAD SPECIFICALLY SPOKE TO ME THE LAST TIME HE WAS HERE AND SAID, WE WANT TO HELP HIM. WE BELIEVE IN HIM AND WE WANT TO SEE GOD USE HIM. WE WANT TO SEE HIS HORIZONS EXPAND. WE WANT TO SEE DOORS OPENED, NOT JUST IN THE SOUTHEAST WHERE HE PRIMARILY TRAVEL BUT ALL OVER THIS NATION AND THE OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD SO BE LIBERAL IN YOUR GIVING TO NIGHT, AND IF YOU WANT TO MAKE OUT A CHECK MAKE IT OUT THE FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER. TURN AROUND AND HUG SOMEBODY'S NECK AND WE'LL SEE YOU SUNDAY MORNING, WEDNESDAY NIGHT, I'M

48:14 SORRY. WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ♪ THERE'S A CALL COME RINGING OVER THE RESTLESS WAY SEND THE LIGHT, SEND THE LIGHT ♪ ♪ THERE ARE SOULS TO RESCUE, THERE ARE SOULS TO SAVE ♪ ♪ SEND THE LIGHT, SEND THE LIGHT ♪ TEND LIGHT THE BLESSED GOSPEL LIGHT ♪ ♪ LET IT SHINE FROM SHORE-TO-SHORE ♪ ♪ SEND THE LIGHT THE BLESSED GOSPEL LIGHT, LET IT SHINE

49:00 FOREVER MORE ♪ ♪ SEND THE LIGHT THE BLESSED GOSPEL LIGHT ♪ ♪ LET IT SHINE FROM SHORE-TO-SHORE ♪ ♪ SEND THE LIGHT THE BLESSED GOSPEL LIGHT ♪ ♪ LET IT SHINE FOREVER MORE ♪ >> WE HOPE YOU WERE BLESSED AND ENJOYED THIS LIVE SERVICE FROM FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER. FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER LOCATED IN BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA AT JIMMY SWAGGART MINISTRIES HOLDS THREE SERVICES WEEKLY. SUNDAY MORNING AT 10:00 A.M., EVENING AT 6:00 P.M. AND WEDNESDAY AT 7:00 P.M. ALL

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