← ArchiveSunday, November 3, 2013DateNovember 3, 2013SpeakerChris BurnsTextNumbers 21Passages in this sermonNumbers 21:4–90:38Numbers 210:57Ezra 91:04Leviticus 101:04Leviticus 10:111:11Hebrews 1231:00John 334:17TranscriptClick any line to jump there.0:00once again i thank y'all for that standing ovation and my coming to preach oh jesse i'm sorry i thank you baby girl you tired amen amen she's just happy i tell you i wish uh i wish we all knew that kind of joy i wish we did i honestly wish we did if you have your bibles with you mind you um the sermon this morning is have you been bitten lately have you been bitten0:29lately and and there's a reason for it i want you to turn to numbers chapter 21 verse four through nine and uh there are three sections that we're going to look at as we teach today and as we preach today because i think they're very important uh in understanding uh some of the issues that are going on in people's life you know as you turn to numbers chapter 21 uh verse 4 also we're0:57going to look at ezra chapter 9 and then we're and that's verse 1 and then leviticus chapter 10 so you got all those there in the old testament so it shouldn't be too hard for some of you numbers 21 ezra 9 and leviticus chapter 10 these are all three very depressing passages so let me just get you ready okay they are they really are uh and uh the the the problem is is that you know i've i've1:20talked gail and i talk uh and have talked yeah we really do we've been married a long time we still talk and uh sometimes she does most of the talking i do a lot of the listening uh but but but we've been discussing we've discussed this with other people as well and so let's just let's just take a poll here today do you sense and this is not a good thing so you know it's really not but but but you you put1:45your two cents in you say hey i don't ever get to put my two cents in you can say amen anytime i say something wonderful but uh thank you here's the poll have you noticed how angry the society and the culture that we live in is today would you agree with that if you do you if you agree that you feel2:10like they're angry or or just lift your hand up so we're pretty much all on track some of you go i don't know i ain't gonna raise my hand he probably wants money no really i don't i i just want you to think about it you think about the people you meet i i was talking to my sunday school class this morning and and and man had a full house today it was real great blessing um and uh the the the thing is is2:33that it seems like when something good gets going god gets doing something good in your life and you're really getting excited about it uh you you you walk out and all of a sudden something smacks you in the face and and it happens sometimes when i when i come to church and sometimes when i'm i'm not at church i'm i'm out in the world but i'm here more than i'm anywhere else so for the most3:02and it's like i'm really excited about something and somebody comes to brother chris there's something you all know and i want to say no i don't i want to be ignorant i like ignorant don't you like ignorant sometimes just don't tell me i just don't want to know well you'll need to pray about it i don't want to pray about something bad you know i'm feeling good right now that's that's how we feel but but normally it is something that just kind of wants to snatch the joy or snatch the the presence3:30and and i think we fill it in the church i think that sometimes the overflow of that anger and frustration that is out there in the world overflows into the hearts and lives of people in the church and and sometimes we just you know you we we've talked about it before we're we're in the uh you know we're just angry we we really don't know what we're angry at but let something come up and i'll be3:56angry at it you know let somebody slip up and i'll be angry this past wednesday night man we had a great wednesday night here at church and and um uh i had a small group in in our prayer meeting but but we had a huge uh group of children and and and brad had a great group over in the youth room and uh they had a big cookout uh uh of uh marshmallows and had some corn dogs and i had a great night4:23and so i i i hung around and uh met one of one of my deacons met with me just wanted to talk was very encouraging very uplifting said you know just say hey i just want you to know i love you and appreciate you and uh just so some of you other deacons that aren't doing that would know that he did it and i really enjoyed that um uh but uh anyway i i thought wow this has been a good night and kind of put my4:47hands in my pocket and said boy it's good i'm i'm going home so i got in my truck and i headed to the house and i got to the fourth four-way stop sign any y'all drive a red dodge pickup truck well i want to tell you something a four-way stop sign means once i've stopped i've got that dad burned5:09right away but whoever you were you come creaming across the way and it was kind of a tie there was another car and i had as much right away to turn right as you did to come all the way across and want to hit me but i showed you i got right behind you and i got the big old four-wheel drive pickup truck i love it because5:39i can hit my bright lights on and go right through the back window of whoever's in front of me and as soon as i did that god said great night tonight huh anger frustration so what i guess i'm saying is preachers are not immune to that we all deal with it but it's really bad out there in the world there's a lot of anger and a lot of6:07frustration and it does flow over into god's people and so when we read numbers chapter 21 we see what happens when it flows over into the hearts and lives of god's people uh in numbers 21 we have the experience of moses and god with the children of israel complaining and beginning in verse 4 he says then they set out for mount whore by the way of the red sea to go around the land of eden and the6:33people became impatient because of the journey the people spoke against god and moses why have you brought us up out of egypt to die in the wilderness for there's no food no water we loath this miserable food the lord well before i go to the next verse it's pretty tragic is that they're complaining to god7:01when god has just brought them out of captivity in other words god has just set them free they're no longer making brick out of straw they're no longer living in a neighborhood condemned and considered uh off limits to everyone else as they would have been where they were at they were no longer slaves under the heavy hand of pharaoh but they had actually experienced god's great protection as he brought them7:31out across the red sea as they walked on dry ground and the waters held back and and so they had everything in their world just like that just a few days from all the good experiences and now they're at a point of tremendous complaining and tremendous whining and and they're doing it all against the lord and and before7:56you get you know before we think briefly that that you know and we talked about this also this morning we talk about let's just petty sins listen when you complain about what god's doing that's not petty when we bring the world into the church and complain that's not petty it's not it's it's it's very serious to god8:19and so that's what's happening there now we'll go back in a minute and read what god does but but for just a moment i want to you can listen or you can uh follow along in ezra chapter 9 a revival is taking place in israel uh because they've returned from captivity again once again god has kept his promise8:45after 75 years he's released them from the babylonian captivity they've been led out by nehemiah they've been led out by ezra and uh different bands and different groups of people have come there are some that were left and they have been given their opportunity to be make it right with god because they've always been there they never were in captivity but they had suffered through being there without the presence9:10of god and uh people in captivity were excited to be able to be released and come back and there's an issue that that comes up but it's just a petty issue now when these things had been completed the princes approached me now this is ezra speaking saying the people of israel and the priest and the levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands according to their abominations those of the9:38canaanites the hittites the pezzarites the jebusites the amorites the moabites the egyptians and the amorites for they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons so that the holy race has been intermingled with the people of the lands indeed the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness now before you try to make a judgment say well what in the10:01world is god doing that for talking about a holy race and holy uh intermingling i thought we were beyond that and that race and culture did not separate us anymore today it doesn't but back then it did and it did because these things that you read about were taking place for convenience sakes they were using various excuses for marrying foreign wives like well they're not of our own kind around10:29and you know whatever and i'm sure uh that you when you when you read this passage you begin to understand there are very beautiful people in the foreign land the hittites the emorites the pezzarites the canaanites the uh these egyptians they were beautiful women and it was really easy to go find you a foreign wife and marry her and and you feel really big about who you are because you're an israelite and they not done anything about it that upset god and so now we may again say well that's10:54petty uh but to god it wasn't petty it was a very serious sin in god's eyes let's look at another event that that we may do the same thing with leviticus chapter 10 verse 1 god has specifically designed how he should be worshiped to the nation of israel he gave no leeway in his designation in his11:20commandments to them as to how they would dress and to what they would do how they would design their worship center how that he would be worshiped in every area and every facet of worship and so in leviticus chapter 10 you have and nadab and abihu the sons of aaron took either of them his censer and put fire therein so they used their own fire and put incense therein and offered11:48strange fire in other words they did not obey the law that god had given him or the commandments that god had given him or the precepts that god had given him or the instructions that god had given them and so they offered their own fire before the lord which he commanded them not petty i mean all these guys were were innovators they were just saying you know hey we got this12:16this is at our hands it's simple it's easy let's do it folks this is not unlike where we are in the church today and why i i bring this out as i study these passages and as i relate to them i see the children of israel as they've been brought out of egypt and as they are making their way to the promised land and god is going to take them on what would be a very few day journey to kadesh barnea and then12:43ultimately in the promised land that cost them 40 years and after the 40 years uh they they went across still whining and complaining but but the tragedy was is that they come to the place where they're complaining and whining to god not only about god but about god's man moses as well and god does not take this lightly and so when i titled this sermon have you been bitten lately literally what happened was13:12while the serpent of the old testament in genesis was one in whom satan used to speak to eve in this particular passage in in deuteronomy or excuse me in numbers we see the serpent being used as an instrument of god that's actually biting and killing his people now to me that would be a pretty serious offense would it to you notice what he says the lord sent fiery serpents13:43the lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people so that because we have spoken against the lord and you intercede with the lord so the excuse me i i skipped the verse it says so they that many of the people of israel died and so the people came to moses and they said we've sinned uh because we've spoken against the lord and you intercede uh with the lord that we may remove the14:11serpents from us and moses interceded for the people because it was the heart of moses listen folks it's real easy can i tell you i believe with all my heart i i believe listen to me i believe with all my heart we can double our attendance and it's not important that we double our attendance it is important if we reach lost people for jesus christ okay that's what's important it's important we reached our unchurched14:40neighbors it's important that we reach our unchurched family members but i want to tell you something as long as they see the anger and the frustration of the world in our lives why in the world do they want to come to the church where it's magnified let me tell you if it's little if it's big out there and yet so part of what we are that we don't often see it can you imagine how magnified it is when it comes to seed15:09in the church when it comes to the place where in the church that we're not happy about ourself out there we're not happy about ourself in here we're not happy about this and listen to me i'm i'm not complaining i'm i'm speaking the truth and i'm speaking it in in as much love and compassion as god will let me and i've had many people come and say to me brother chris i just want you to know i love15:37you but your messages just aren't speaking to me and i and i go back and i'm going okay god what's going on in my life and what am i doing that i'm not in the word enough that i'm not portrayed enough to speak to the heart of the people and and listen folks i want to tell you i pray i study i do the very best i can but that's not to say i'm not asking for your sympathy i'm saying that i truly believe16:05that the anger and the frustration of the world has spilled over into the church to the point that we don't know how to enjoy all that god has given us and we complain just like the children of israel did and when the people of israel begin to boil up and complain to the extent they said god we don't like that you took us out of captivity you know i want to tell you something it would be far easier16:32for me to just say hey i'm gonna live like the devil that's the inclination of my nature anyway and i'm going to enjoy it but that's not what god would have me to do so the spirit of god thank god fights within me to keep me from doing that which i know i shouldn't do and so that i can do that which i know he wants me to do but the problem still exists that are we willing to look at ourselves16:59as the children of israel were as people begin to die out among them and say god i am so sorry about my whining and complaining when you've provided grace and you provided sacrifice and you provided atonement and you provided a propitiation a mediator for me you have blessed me with every spiritual blessing in17:26high places according to paul in ephesians you have promised me eternal life you brought joy into my life but god i have taken my eyes off all the things that you have given me and i have began to focus on the little things that that just frustrate me and so we begin to focus on those things and then the only17:48thing that can truly make a difference in our life is to make some sort of a change instead of confronting the sin in our life we just want to make a change and so we make changes by swapping churches and we make changes by moving out of communities but folks it doesn't matter where you go or what you do when you go if you take that same attitude same frustration that same anger that same misgiving that you've18:16garnered in the world garnered in the world to begin with it's going to happen again we come to i come to church not for you to make me happy but i want to bless you and what if we all came to church and said hey i'm going to be a blessing in somebody's life today by jingles i don't care what they say how they look how they're dressed what they smell like what they're walking like what they do there i'm going to be a blessing18:42today i want to tell you we had changed this church double its attendance and the people of god would be the people of god again and we'd be a light so bright on this this hillside that god has placed us on this flatland in this valley that we'd light up the whole valley and i want to tell you it's exciting when you walk out of the driveway now where i'm at it is dark but i can look to to to what the moody side19:07of the mountain where i live and i see lights in the middle of the night you can see the glow of light or i can turn into my backyard and i can look toward trustful and i see the glowing light and i think to myself that means that trust was over there and moody's over there how awesome can you imagine what it would be like if a lost man lost in darkness were looking around to find light and he said i see the light it's blowing going out of that church because of the glory of god is shining through the hearts and19:33lives of the people of god again and that's why we need to look and make sure that when we walk into the church that we do like we do when we walk into people's houses sometimes we take our shoes off because we won't get the dirt from outside inside oh i'm gonna put my shoes back on my feet are cool but i never will forget i had a little boy one time and we used to do children's church up on the20:02podium up here where i was at up at at a church up in tennessee and and this little boy and we'd ask the little children when they'd come up there wouldn't be about 10 or 12 of them because it's a small church and we'd say well what's going on in your life i didn't do it my minister of music did it he he he was brave and vicious and uh and he would say to the little children said what did you do this week20:26and they would tell oh well we went i went to school today and then they'd get around and one little boy i'll never will forget he said we put new carpet in our house now my wife's sitting here so she knows this is true and he said oh you put new carpet in your house he said yep and my mama said even if that preacher comes to our house he's taking his juice off before he comes in20:55well my friend i want to tell you something we ought to come in to the lord's house and let's get rid of the world let's get rid of the draws let's get rid of the dirtiness let's get rid of the field let's get rid of the attitude that robs us of the joy of being in god's house let's come here saying you know i don't know if brother chris is going to preach anything i'll even need today or understand but21:22i'm going to be a blessing to somebody today i'm going to hug somebody's neck and tell them i love them today i'm going to go find somebody that needs lifting up i'm going to pray that god give me the opportunity to reach my love out to somebody that needs me i'm going to find somebody and let them know that they've truly got a brother or sister in christ that loves them there's a tragedy21:44that took place and that tragedy was that complaining took over for com for praising now i want to ask you something let's just say the russians took over and we all had to start wearing uniforms and we all had to live in certain22:12communities and we all had to have certain we couldn't do anything we all you know nothing but but but then all of a sudden god set us free we're going to walk out of that saying more i wish i still had my old uniform instead of having the choice of what you got we're going to walk out of the presence of god after we've been glorious redeemed forgiven for our sins names written in the22:41lamb's book of life the holy spirit placed in our heart our names written in the lamb's book of life and and and our our life affirmed and certain for glory and go well god you could make the journey a little better you know i don't even like color the carpet uh i wish we i wish we didn't have so many blame instruments22:59i wish i wish i wish listen folks it's not about what we wish it's about what he wants he wants his people to glorify him with their love for him listen you think you're saved for you23:23no you're saved for his glory god did what he could and did what he did so that he would be glorified through your redemption it is about him and it's about him after him and so there were those complainers and then there were those convincers and those convincers are i should say conveniencers uh not convincers but conveniencers23:52now you said brother chris that's not a word i know it but it sounds good doesn't it you know what a convenience sir he is don't you it's someone that's looking for convenience they're always looking for convenience i mean everything in our life has got to be convenient my wife makes me watch that tv program where they go in and sell these houses to people and you go look at three houses we do it she calls she says we just want to watch it where they're going worldwide so24:20we can see what it's like living in other countries but we watch it and we'd watch it anywhere but anyway they go in they look through the house and they're going well this dishwasher is just not convenient to this sink and i'm thinking oh okay they're saving ten thousand dollars but the dishwasher is not convenient well these cabinets are just not convenient to today it look like 70 cabinets because they're yeller listen oh they're they're not they're not hardwood they're they got that linoleum down24:51listen i've been where they're just glad to get a poured floor instead of walking on dirt you know we're looking for convenience my wife went out looking i'm gonna tell on her she went out25:17looking for us a coffee pot every one she bought at a thrift store broke i got tired of saving money i told her to use her birthday money and go get us a good one and so she did and she said now this is what we're looking for you got to be able to fix it tonight before set the time on it push the buttons and then when we get25:47up in the morning all we got to do is go in there and pull it out and pour our cup convenience you know why because i'm not going to get up i don't want to i'm not saying i'm not i will for you uh but i don't want to but these conveniences and listen it is it's funny this is so sad but i want26:09you to look how serious god is when it comes to people that are looking for convenience in their faith and their walk with him listen there's churches that are that are right in in line in this community right down the road from here that are going to tell you that job and that paul sinned against god and that's why they suffered let me tell you that's a lie out of hell26:35these guys suffered the same reason that you and i are going to suffer if we're born again if you are a believer and born again in jesus christ paul says get ready to be persecuted but we don't want to but these people they didn't want to live for god while the other people were gone into captivity so it became convenient for them to go off and take foreign wives knowing what god's word had told them knowing that they've been taught from a child that it was27:01wrong and that god would one day account for them on these issues they didn't want to do that but they had to so they went out and they found their foreign wives and then when god wanted to bring revival to the people that were returning back they found out that their leadership had sinned and was still living in sin for convenience and then the other one is self-expression you know and and sometimes i think that that's what we want we27:34just we just like self-expression in the church you know it's just be self-expressed you know if it's self-expression nadab and abihu said we're just going to do some innovation i'm going to tell you you can take innovation a little far and i want to tell you i read it this week and all you got to do is go back and read leviticus and read28:05numbers god is serious about his worship god is very serious about his worship he don't want to share his worship with me he don't want to share it with brother rick that's why we as the potential worship leaders in this church me preaching him leading worship that we don't get in the middle of what god is doing and that we just continually point you to god when we become so let me tell you something we've programmed ourselves right out of the church28:38we've come up with every program that you can imagine to grow the church when the one only program that i think will ever work for the true church of jesus christ to grow jesus gave it when he said if i'll be lifted up i'll draw all men unto me i want to tell you something we quit we need to quit lifting up preachers we need to quit lifting up music directors we could lift up music we need to quit complaining about this we need we need to come in here whether we raise29:04our hands or hold them at our side we need to have our hearts open to the lord jesus christ and to god almighty who made all things possible through him that's what we're called to do nadab and abihu can you imagine being there that day they're going to have worship there's moses there's there and and there's the table of incense and nadab and abihu bring it in and here's the29:31congregation of israel they're getting ready to worship god they're all standing out there man they're they're worse getting ready to worship god god's god's there man they're excited this is one of those times when god's going to come in and they'd have an abihu come in and they offer their false fire fire comes down burns them up ashes in the floor moses looks over there and says don't open your mouth you know what god said don't say it don't say it and the people were taken back30:02you know why the people were taken back because god made a move in their midst do you know why the people were taken back in numbers when the fiery serpents because god made a move in their midst in their midst you know why the people were taken back in ezra because god moved in their midst oh there's a tragedy and that tragedy more than not comes from the disobedience of the30:30people of god did you notice that it wasn't those old pagan lost people out there in the world it was the people of god that brought about the tragedies in their lives and wanting to blame it all on god for doing what he did but then there's the truth and i tell you the truth is this and it's an awesome passage it's found in hebrews chapter 12 and the truth is is that that god sent the fiery31:00serpents to bite the people it's true that god brought down the fire and swallowed up nadab and abihu it's true it's true that god's word had declared that these men must put away their foreign wives before he's going to to bring revival and listen to what god tells us in hebrews chapter 12 before we get too upset with all the preachers just preaching on discipline31:28he's just whooping the fire out of us i'm gonna tire this listen this it is for discipline that you have to endure god is treating you as sons for what son is there whom his father does not discipline if you are left without discipline in which all have participated then you are an illegitimate children and not sons besides this we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them shall we not much more be subject to the father's spirits and live for they disciplined us for a31:56short time as it seemed to us to them but he disciplines us for our good that we may share his holiness for the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who've been trained by it the people cried out to god i want to tell you the strangest weirdest thing happened in numbers32:26now you tell me if it makes any sense to you all right you're israel you've been bitten you know you're about to die maybe your children have been bitten your parents been bitten maybe you've had neighbors that have died you don't want to die and so god goes and gets with moses and says moses this is what i want you to do and i'm thinking to myself i'm moses god says moses i want you to get this pole i want you to take this snake and i want you to put it on top of the pole a golden snake he said i want32:56you to put on top of the pole i want you to hold it up to the people and he said i want you to tell all the people those people that'll look to the snake will live but those people that don't look to the snake they're going to die now i want you to think about that for a minute how strange is that i mean that's not strange folks that's just weird i mean be honest with me i know it's god's word but it is but it is weird isn't it that we put a snake on a pole and tell everybody to look at the pole the snake on the pole what if i came in here one day with a snake on the pole said everybody needs33:25to look at i'm gonna tell you what i started to do for this morning's message i started to put me a box right here beside my pulpit i started talking about fiery serpents i was gonna put my hand in that box and i was gonna have one of them little things that you buy down there at uh yep cracker barrel that rolls around and i'm gonna say folks i want to do a real live illustration of my sermon but i was scared to death that wouldn't be nobody left in here for the rest of the sermon33:55to death that wouldn't be nobody left in here for the rest of the sermon34:04look at the pole look at the serpent on the pole he said if you look at the serpent on the pole you'll live well you know that don't seem so weird to us because we go to john chapter 3 in john chapter 3 jesus tells us about verse 18 19 20 somewhere there that he said just as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so must the son of man be lifted up34:27that he can draw all men unto him speaking the bible says of his death on the cross don't seem so strange now does it that god would go to such extremes that throughout time in history he's left little messages for us to understand how he wants us to live for him34:55it's no mistake that israel was bitten and many died as a lesson for us that we're not supposed to bring the complaining and the whining of the worldly attitude into the body of christ and bring confusion and distortion to who we are it's it's true that when when god's word says don't do something god means don't do it if you do it35:22they're going to be consequences for what you've done and sometimes those consequences are extremely painful sometimes they're very tragic sometimes they're very sad but if the children of israel had just not married foreign wives god would not had to have said hey i can't bring revival until this is straightened out and how different might have been for aaron35:50if his sons had said okay god this is the design these are the ingredients this is the incense now provide the fire instead they said god we think we got a better way to this and we can do it better i want to tell you something i confess to you as your pastor for 20 years i wanted to grow a church with numbers and god has broken my heart and burned my heart and it's not the numbers that he seeks but it is your36:18spiritual aptitude that he wants god wants to grow you god wants you to come to the place where you magnify him with your life not taking things from the outside and bringing them inside but taking what he's done on your inside and using it in the outside36:45you see god cannot use man's fire to bring revival it has to be the fire of his holy spirit that falls on this place and fills every life i can tell you i could get down here and i could manipulate most of your emotions by telling you a sad story i don't have any sad stories today37:12i could get out here and i could tell you this or i could tell you that but i want to tell you this unless we as god's people are willing to individually look at our own hearts and lives and say you know i relate to the children of israel in the wilderness i'm a whiner and i'm complainer and god forgive me maybe you're one of those that's holding to an ongoing sin in your life like the children of israel37:40your sin may not be that you've got a pagan wife don't look at her and tell her that but maybe it is another sin that you're holding on to maybe you're caught up in pornography maybe maybe you just can't cut that computer off maybe you just can't quit watching that tv when that show comes on maybe you just got too much of yourself involved in your life and not enough of god and you're consistently holding on to that like the children of israel consistently holding on to their wives38:09or maybe you're one of those and i run into this all the time people will come to me right a minute and they'll go brother chris i heard what you said but let me tell you what i think you know something god doesn't give a rip what you think when his word says something different god doesn't give a rip what i say when his word says something different so that's why we kind of come to the place today that we look at these passages and we say god i've been bitten and i want to be healed and jesus says look to the cross for it's god's discipline38:38upon you god's remedy for man's sin was that jesus christ be lifted up it is john 3 but it is chapter it's john 3 verse 14 as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the son of man be lifted up so that whoever believes in him will have eternal life god's remedy must be complete in our life we don't stop at salvation and say wow i got i got saved today it's all i need no it isn't39:07you start a journey and you start a walk and that walk might be slow at the beginning but that walk is learning how much god loves you and learning what god's got in store for you for adonai and judson that walk was to go from england to the americas and then from the americas to burma where he would be a burmese missionary until he died on his way back across the ocean because his39:34health was so depleted and his grave is marked by latitude and latitude because there was no grave for that there was no grave for him adonai judson was one man who suffered so much because he believed so hard that there was a god who loved people and we needed to hear about him can i tell you how to double39:57attendance in church next sunday go out here believing that god has placed somebody in your life specifically so you can invite them to hear the good news of jesus christ and don't come thinking well i wonder what they're going to have in store for me come thinking i wonder what god's going to do40:25in my friend's life and watch what god does in your friend's life let's pray father as we gather here this lord's day we come to give you praise and adoration and thanksgiving because god you are worthy and lord i ask you to forgive me for complaining i ask you to forgive me for being someone who seeks convenience god i pray that father you can forgive me for for trying to be innovative in the past but40:52realizing that really all i have to do as a preacher is to pray and study your word and to lift up jesus pray study your word lift up jesus god that's the same the same formula that would cause everyone in this building for their lives to change completely pray read the word tell somebody about jesus oh god today if there's someone here and they just want to hear about you may they come41:22may they come with open hearts and minds to confess the king of kings and lord of lord as their savior you've brought them here to become workers and servants in your church may they come and be a part of the fellowship today god they're here because their hearts have been broken they know in their life they've sought and they've been like these people that i've mentioned god they don't want to be that way anymore and god why would anybody want to come to church41:53when there's nothing but whining complaining innovation and convenience oh god forgive us for making your house anything but your house in jesus name we pray amen42:29Thank you.More sermons on Numbers →
