One thing pastors NEED to remember
00:00:00.000 | How do you trust the Spirit of God's Word?
00:00:04.000 | Men who love God's Word, and they want to do a great job for the Lord, and they want
00:00:08.440 | to see the Lord use them in ministry, all of that is noble, and it's great.
00:00:15.260 | But a man must really come to grips with whether they trust the work of the Spirit of God through
00:00:22.960 | His Word.
00:00:24.800 | If they do not trust that, but think that they do, they're going to be tested in it.
00:00:32.500 | Because in the end, ministry life is going to be coming at them as it always does with
00:00:40.040 | the challenges, the difficulties, the trials, the burdens, plus the weekly cycle of ministry.
00:00:45.840 | But what gets you through all that is this implicit trust in the work of the Word of God,
00:00:54.780 | in people's lives, both in private admonition and public proclamation.
00:00:59.700 | And when the seats are empty or whether they're full, you're not putting your eyes on yourself.
00:01:05.660 | You're just saying, "Lord, you do your work.
00:01:08.020 | I don't want any more people here or souls here to care for than you want me to have in
00:01:13.120 | any season.
00:01:14.120 | I don't want any less because of something sinful in me.
00:01:19.060 | I just want to trust the work of the Word of God in people's lives.