Churches in Robertsdale

“``The third group of people here, now I used a different word. I didn't use the word invites, but we can expect when we share the gospel that this is something that may happen as well. The gospel offends. Offends the contentious. That's the word I I put there. You you can you can substitute your own word, the snarky, the grumpy, whatever, the contentious. As Paul sets up in Rome, he discovers that there's Jews that seem at first pretty willing to listen to him. But within a very short time, just about two days as he's sharing with them at his own place, they become contentious. They leave him.”

“Risk of rejection, risk of promotion, risk of somebody thinking we're just not somebody they wanna be around anymore. But God sends help. We may be assigned a task that is not easy, but we are not the only one on that task. There's others on the road with us. And as we share, God will provide encouragement. God will provide people. God will provide a sense of his presence. You know, the last part of the great commission, the very last words in the book of Matthew, Jesus says, and behold, I am with you always even to the end of the age. God's with you. God will be with you. And when you share the gospel, mark it down, he's gonna help you.”

“If we become faithful gospel bearers, we will attract the weak. We will run into the people who are interested, who are kind, who are spiritually minded, and who are absolutely lost. They don't even know how lost they are. That's how lost they are. They're confused. They're gonna mix and match Christianity with ancestor worship, with mystical values, with new age religion. They don't know what they believe. They're gonna they're gonna mix in superstitious omens as it suits them. They're gonna misquote, misunderstand, and misapply scripture over the place.”

“These are people that will bring out scripture like judge and you won't be judged. Whereas the bible, that's not the context it uses for that verse at all and other verses. And they'll think that baptism and church attendance and doing good things will get a person to heaven. You ask them, are you saved? And it says, yes, I I was baptized on so forth a date, on such a date, and I joined under brother So's preaching, and I went to camp meeting VBS as a kid, and they won't have answered your question at all whether they're saved. Right? They're confused. They're weak.”

“"Prayer is not talking to the sky it is petitioning a holy all-powerful god do we know that do we believe that when we pray are we praying as if one who just goes through ritualistic words thank me lord for this food all that or do we pray and do we grip our bibles and do we bring our spirits and our souls to bear and say god what i'm bringing before you today you are the only one who can do something i know we have those needs in our life you guys know i do but god is the one who can do something"”

“"Throughout history the world and our enemy our spiritual enemy has proven that he'll go after the church in any way he can there was one Roman emperor maybe it was two even who who his whole goal was to eliminate the written word of God burn copies everywhere he could he didn't succeed there's been movements against the church who discredit the leaders of the beliefs there's been movements against the church to strike against the under shepherds and there has been movements against the church to to infiltrate it with heretical beliefs and cause splits and dissension and in some corners these things seem to have had an effect and yet the church of Jesus still prevails today his true are still true and my friends there's something bigger than the attacks that are against us Jesus said Matthew 26 31 you will all fall away because of me this night talking about his own crucifixion for it is written I will strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered and they were we know that the disciples ran every which way and they were missing in action for the most part during the crucifixion but they came back they came back and they changed the world through the power of the Holy Spirit within them you know sometimes bad things do happen if you go to enough churches you're gonna find bad things happen to churches too if you read the news you'll find bad things happen to pastors and sometimes pastors are the bad things that happen right and if you read the news if you read comment court comment boards online yeah the Christian church has been guilty of a lot of stuff we don't even need the attacks against us sometimes we've been guilty of a lot of stuff hurting a lot of people in this world and I get that but my friends there's something bigger than this there's something bigger than this we have a true high shepherd we have a true high shepherd who will come catch his bride the church and in good times and in bad and plenty and in persecution when the church is under attack and when believers are under attack you"”

“"Acts chapter 12 tells of a moment when the faith of the fledgling New Testament church was tested, sorely tested. When the leader's persecution was striking against members of that early church. People were being imprisoned. They were being slain for the name of Jesus Christ. Before we get to our text, let me just ask us today, how do we react when we are opposed, when we are persecuted, when we are targeted, when we are neglected?"”

“"The priority of the persecuted is prayer. It is the first step. It is the most important step. Because when we take our problems to prayer, we are talking to the only one who can truly do something on our behalf. I can't make problems go away for the people that come to this church. Oh, how I wish I could. Wouldn't that be great? Pastor Harvey, I need to come speak to you tomorrow so that you can solve all my problems."”

“"How do we react when we are neglected, when we are passed over for the promotion? How do we react when we are made fun of and ridiculed? What is our response to even just a bad day or a bad time? Do we glorify Jesus Christ in everything, even under criticism? My text is Acts chapter 12. We're going to be in the first five verses of that chapter when you find that, and if you are able, I invite you to stand in honor of the reading of the word of the Lord."”

“"And even if we were to cast doubt on the authenticity of that story, we could easily find hundreds of stories just like it, going all the way to modern day, where people have had to put their faith over fear, over injury, over death itself. Many people, even today, many people are believers at great peril and danger, because we know the world we live in has always tested the faithful."”