The world needs the gospel. We are commanded by Christ to make the gospel known. While many believers are deligient about giving to missions and to supporting the work of evangelism we often neglect the personal, day to day opportunities to proclaim Christ. What would happen if we made it a point to try to evangelize one person every day?

Really good to be here all of you men We're bringing a bus down for our Beaumont Port Arthur mission and When I looked on the map and said wow, it's only seven and a half hours from Hopkinsville, Kentucky to Pensacola. Let's go for it. So here we are. I'm glad to be here. A couple of passages.

I didn't spend enough time, I don't feel like, on this, But something I really feel strongly about, let's start with 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 21, Which I'm sure many have have memorized. That verse 21, for after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. And then if you'll, and I'll just make one comment. This is God's chosen method.

This is it. All the other methods, scrap them. Put them on the scrap heap. God's chosen preaching. And we're to preach the gospel.

And then we'll go to Mark chapter 16 verse 15. Another one we probably all have memorized. And he said unto them, this is Jesus to the apostles, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. And the thing that has been really, this is kind of like a burning in the souls for me message. I think it's been really burning in my soul, is that we tend to look at the preaching of the gospel and we think about someplace else other than our own neighborhood, our own communities.

I was talking to a man who was at the NCFIC conference was doing some of the mission speaking about the missions and going into other parts of the world and all. And I asked him, I said, is it possible that we could really be that concerned about taking the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth when we haven't even taken the gospel of Jesus Christ to our own neighbors. Is it really that important to us? Is it really or you know another thing we talked about is some people will give a, you know, send a check to a missions organization, and it's kind of like, okay, the burden's gone, I've done my part, I've done what I need to be doing. I remember gathering the men in the church one day, and I said, you know, what if we just, all right now, we just said, you know what, let's, I'm gonna communicate the gospel to one person every single day for the rest of my life.

365, I'm not good with math, 700, whatever, you know what I'm saying. Ten men, 3, 650. It's a lot of gospel going out, even before you write the check or before your church sends the missionary just to your own community, your own people, those who are around you. And I'll tell you, being a street preacher, the hardest place you will ever preach is in your own hometown. When I set up in Austin, Texas, and I drive 50 miles in, and I'm blasting out the gospel, that's one thing.

When I set up in Burnett, Texas, and I know that person, and I know that person, I've known them for 10 years, I've known that one for 20 years. And I see the people that have known me for maybe since I was a kid. And they walk into the store and they're doing this. They're going, no, it's a different feel For sure. It's a little bit different feel, you know?

This thing of being despised, you know, in your own hometown. A preacher in your own hometown. A prophet in his own city. But we need to be taking the gospel to everyone. And one of the other things that's really impressed upon me is that you think that you have to go to a foreign nation or some other place where the people, where the gospel is not known.

But the fact of the matter is that your neighbors don't know the gospel. Your neighbors, people on the streets around us, and maybe not here, but in my hometown, they don't know the gospel. They've never heard the gospel. They've turned on their television set and they saw what TBN is saying. They've heard the prosperity gospel.

They've heard Joel Osteen talk about how they can have their best life now and they think that's the gospel but they don't know the gospel they don't know who God is they don't know what a corrupt thing man is with the wrath of God abiding on him, surrounding him, upon him, all around him, the curse of the law being a cursed thing. They don't know what man is in his offense toward God. They don't know who Christ is. They don't know who the real Christ is. They just don't.

They don't know. And they need to know. We need to bring the gospel to them. Our neighbors haven't heard it. I was at a convenience store that's where we get some fuel near a little business that we operate.

My sons have been operating it more recently since we've been on this Port Arthur mission. And There's a store owner there, he's Vietnamese, his name's Kai. And every time I go in there, I give him some piece of the gospel, the message, over and over and over again. He laughs at me and, you know. And I should put it this way, I give him different things from Scripture than I'm trying to kind of maybe get inside his world a little bit but one day I'm in there and there's no other people in the store so I've got a little bit more time and I'm talking to Kai has real broken English and he's talking talking talking talking talking really really really really fast and he takes God's name in vain.

I said, Hey, hold on, Kai. Hang on now. And you just you just you just did keep trying to talk about no no no no stop. You just you just broke the third commandment of God God who created the heavens and the earth God who created you God who gives you your next breath and is determined when you will draw your last breath this God you have you're an offense to him you've offended God you need to repent and believe the gospel and then they go into the gospel and and and well I started off I said so said have you ever heard the gospel and he said no I never hear that your neighbors people around you they just haven't heard it and then and then check this out he as I'm giving him the gospel message, this is a guy who talks, my boys will tell you, he talks 90 miles an hour, you can't stop him from talking. Talks, talks, talks, talks, talks about everything under the sun.

You can't get a word in Israel. When I got into the gospel message, he did this. He got on the little next to the cash register and he went like this. And he kept his mouth shut the entire time that I gave the gospel message. The gospel of Christ is different from anything else we can bring to people.

The actual simple gospel message that a five-year-old can understand, It's something different, and it's the power of God into salvation. And when attended by the Spirit of God, when He wields it as the sword of the Spirit and pierces the hearts of men, it's so powerful. And you see it. You see God wielding it on them. Sometimes you just feel like well you're not even a not really even a part of this except some sort of you know just the tool here being to communicate his word.

But they don't know the gospel. They just don't know it. We were thrown down to the stage of a new stage here recently the Some of you heard I guess we we ended up because of the hurricane being thrown into a city of Beaumont Port Arthur area where it's just thousands of houses just devastated completely. No, no, these people, these are 25, 30, 000 houses when they were in good shape and then they're completely devastated. All their stuff out front on the lawn, everything ripped up, everything destroyed, just no insurance, very poverty-stricken area, high Hispanic area.

And we're just thrown into this. I can't spend the time to tell you how it all happened, but we ended up there, and we ended up doing 27 of these feed and preach, I call them. Jesus said when you throw a feast, not if you do, but when you do, invite the poor. So we did 27 of these, and we invite the poor in, these people that don't have anything. And we're there and in one of these, 10, 000 people have gone through these 870 Bibles, over 5, 000 tracts, most of them have come from the printing presses in that room, right there, have been given out by the grace of God.

Thank you God, all glory to God. We're thrown into the middle of this thing, and we're putting out these paper missionaries, and we're giving out Bibles, and people want them. And this pastor came through, and he said, you know, he was just standing there talking one day, and he said, you know, he goes, if I had gone to these people's houses two months ago, and I had said, hi, I'm Joe Smith, I'm coming into your house right now. I'm gonna take your TV, your sofa, I'm gonna take all your belongings, I'm gonna take all your clothes, I'm gonna take everything, I'm gonna gut the whole bottom side of your house, I'm gonna rip the carpet out, I'm gonna take all that, throw it out into your front lawn. They would have shot me.

Run me out of town. Now they're begging me to come in and take all their stuff and get it out of their house. It was all molded, wet, destroyed, five feet of water in all of these houses. And I used that one night with these people. I said, you know, this preacher said this, and I went through all that, and they were kinda shaking their head, yeah?

We'd like you to come get it out now. I said, you know what happens when you repent and believe the gospel? When God does such a work in your heart that you now see your offense against God and you see all that's in here as sinful moldy wet disgusting stinking rotting stuff that you just want to get out at sin you just want it out You know that God is beginning to do a work, has begun to do a work in your life. You just want to lay it all on Christ, who alone can bear it before God and has borne it before God, and bore it before God on the cross, and all the wrath to it and all the cursedness of it. And people, they can kind of grasp that message.

We tell them, you know, there's a... You've experienced a great disaster, but there's a greater disaster coming. And that's eternity with the wrath of God upon you forever. They're grasping this message. They're beginning to grasp it.

They're beginning to grasp it. Isn't it an interesting thing that where the gospel is not preached, people don't get saved? And I know that the real kind of, you know, overboard Calvinistic thinking, you know, that's out there, which is not not a biblical thinking and not real Calvinism. Well, you know, that if they're gonna get saved, they're gonna get saved. Yes, absolutely.

We understand that. We understand that. But we also understand that where the gospel is not preached, people don't get saved. And where the gospel tends to be preached more, more people tend to get saved. Is it interesting how God just made it that way?

So why are we not then taking the gospel everywhere to every living creature and all the time and understanding that it is that message, that simple message and those elements of the gospel that that that must be there and the command to repent and believe it that it's that it's that gospel that's the power of God unto salvation we've got to take it We've got to take it to the world. We've got to begin with our own neighbors. And I've said many times, and I've said this to my own church, you've got to get outside of your own four walls of your house. And you need to get outside of the four walls of your church. But you know what else?

You need to get into the four walls of your house, and you need to get into the four walls of your church with the gospel. You know because there's the other side of this which is you get out and you're preaching the gospel and you reach your neighbors everything and losing your own kids and you're losing your own people in your own churches. And I stand on my back porch at night and I look up to God, cry out to God, save my children, save my children. How many are losing their kids to the world? How many are losing their kids, they're perishing, they're perishing, they're perishing in the churches.

I cry out for my children, God save our children, and I cry out for the children that are in our church. God save the young people in our church save the children in our churches Oh God and Then when we preach the gospel and we do not win but as we preach the gospel in our homes And we're preaching the God we're confronting our own wife and kids with the gospel every single day, every single day. And as we're confronting our own congregations and bringing the gospel to them, let's not forget then to take it to our neighbors and then to the other most parts of the world. It's the power of God and salvation. We need to preach it.

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