WEBVTT 00:01:33.790 --> 00:13:19.370 be heard tonight. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. Great to see 00:13:19.370 --> 00:13:24.820 everybody here tonight. If we can find our seats we will get started with song number 258 tonight. 00:13:24.820 --> 00:16:11.980 Song number 258 in your hymnals. Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer. We just 00:16:11.980 --> 00:16:16.350 thank you for the opportunity to gather here again together and sing unto you. We want to thank you 00:16:16.350 --> 00:16:19.900 for this great church Lord and thank you for everything you're doing here and we just ask now 00:16:19.900 --> 00:16:25.750 that you bless the service and it's in Jesus name we pray amen. All right for our next song let's go 00:16:25.750 --> 00:16:43.030 to song number 334 song number 334 time around singing this song this week so hope to hear it 00:16:43.030 --> 00:16:49.940 nice and loud tonight song 334 make me a blessing song 334 let's all sing that out together. 00:16:49.940 --> 00:19:41.360 I'm gonna say vast baptist church if you need a bulletin you can lift up your hand nice and high 00:19:41.360 --> 00:19:46.170 for us just can come by and get you guys a bulletin on the front is our bible memory passage we're 00:19:46.170 --> 00:19:52.510 working on psalm 53 on the inside we have our service and soul winning times church stats 00:19:52.510 --> 00:19:59.170 have a handout here for congratulations to adam and megan wood on the birth of their daughter 00:19:59.170 --> 00:20:08.710 sydney cate she was born on the 15th 2 32 a.m six pounds 11.4 ounces measuring 20 inches long so 00:20:08.710 --> 00:20:17.830 congratulations to them it's great to have our expecting ladies list keep turning into 00:20:17.830 --> 00:20:23.490 blessings like this but we have several there you can be in prayer for as well upcoming events we 00:20:23.490 --> 00:20:28.280 are continuing our choir practice after the evening services however this sunday 00:20:28.280 --> 00:20:33.570 we are going to be skipping that one i'm going to be up in oklahoma city and we're going to be 00:20:33.570 --> 00:20:37.350 participating in the anchor baptist church's one-year anniversary service 00:20:37.350 --> 00:20:45.270 just in preparation they're having a soul winning marathon and push that saturday 10 a.m 00:20:45.270 --> 00:20:49.450 and pastor aus just asked me like who is planning on coming just so i can get kind of a head count 00:20:49.450 --> 00:20:54.160 for lunch i put it posted in our chat but is there anybody planning on going to that saturday 00:20:54.160 --> 00:21:01.980 soul winning time that did not already indicate anything to me thank you so much and then if you 00:21:01.980 --> 00:21:07.420 can just at least pray that the services and everything could go well up there we have a flag 00:21:07.420 --> 00:21:13.680 football event turkey bowl november 29th brother marcel is going to be leading that for us um 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:18.000 we'll get as we get a little bit closer we'll probably this sunday we'll have like an address 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:22.290 or put a location so we can meet up for that our ladies christmas party december 5th it's going to 00:21:22.290 --> 00:21:27.770 be here at the church building it's going to be a catered dinner and so we'd love all ladies 00:21:27.770 --> 00:21:32.920 to attend and participate in that christmas caroling december 8th children's choir is going 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:37.310 to be performing december 21st or cookie bake off is also that evening christmas candlelight 00:21:37.310 --> 00:21:42.090 service is december 24th and men's preaching and pizza is the last day of the year on the back is 00:21:42.090 --> 00:21:47.340 our prayer list we'll go over our prayer requests we're continuing to pray for the carlson's health 00:21:47.340 --> 00:21:52.920 their parents the miller's friends mom's cancer treatments we've been praying for brother uh horace 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:58.150 and miss grace for their health also continue to pray for brother tony please pray for the foley's 00:21:58.150 --> 00:22:04.290 dad for his kidney disease and then we're praying for the uh daughter of miss madring and also our 00:22:04.290 --> 00:22:09.160 friend who also have health issues here continue pray for brother paul and his recovery we're 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:15.300 praying for the goodwins family uh his sister-in-law his husband had passed away and so we're praying 00:22:15.300 --> 00:22:20.640 for her family also if you continue pray for miss lola and her daughter for the passing of their 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:28.080 husband and father pray for brother wallock's aunt uh his family she had passed away and so pray for 00:22:28.080 --> 00:22:33.250 them also if you'd pray for the burns his older brother brother joe he's visited here and been 00:22:33.250 --> 00:22:37.540 part of our services several times just pray for him and his health and then if you'd also pray for 00:22:37.540 --> 00:22:43.190 the warners so several prayer requests here listed in our uh bulletin we'll just say a quick word of 00:22:43.190 --> 00:22:48.750 prayer as a church family thank you only father so much for steadfast baptist church thank you for 00:22:48.750 --> 00:22:52.820 all these ladies and our lists who are expecting and those who are pregnant i pray that you'd please 00:22:52.820 --> 00:22:57.540 bless them during their pregnancies please help them give them a timely birth i pray that you would 00:22:57.540 --> 00:23:01.770 bless those that have recently given birth you just help them to recover and for their children's 00:23:01.770 --> 00:23:06.480 development to go smoothly i pray that you would just help our church to be healthy and help those 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:11.270 that have temporary illness to just have quick recovery and get back into church i pray that 00:23:11.270 --> 00:23:15.900 you'd be with these uh these lingering issues these chronic issues these serious illnesses that 00:23:15.900 --> 00:23:20.620 we've been praying for please father if possible that you just give them mercy give them health 00:23:20.620 --> 00:23:26.530 grant them a miracle if possible i pray they'd also just give them just patience and give them 00:23:26.530 --> 00:23:31.720 peace during this difficulty please help those that need help with their work or jobs or they 00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:37.150 need favor i pray they would bless our upcoming missions trips and our missions efforts and our 00:23:37.150 --> 00:23:41.380 soul-winning efforts i pray that you would allow us to just continue to reach many people for the 00:23:41.380 --> 00:23:47.690 gospel and i pray that you continue to bless this holiday season in jesus name we pray amen pretty 00:23:47.690 --> 00:23:50.450 much all i have as far as announcements we're gonna go and sing our psalm of the week psalm 00:23:50.450 --> 00:25:51.610 126 psalm 126 that was psalm 126 in your black binders psalm 126 singing everybody now as the 00:25:51.610 --> 00:25:55.900 offering plates are being passed around go ahead and open your bibles to deuteronomy chapter number 00:25:55.900 --> 00:27:00.590 eight that's the book of deuteronomy chapter number eight on me chapter number eight bible reads all 00:27:00.590 --> 00:27:04.870 the commandments which i command thee this day shall you observe to do that you may live and 00:27:04.870 --> 00:27:10.400 multiply and go in and possess the land which the lord swear unto your fathers thou shalt remember 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:15.370 all the way which the lord thy god led thee these 40 years in the wilderness to humble thee and to 00:27:15.370 --> 00:27:20.530 prove thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no and he 00:27:20.530 --> 00:27:25.790 humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna which thou knewest not neither 00:27:25.790 --> 00:27:31.200 did thy fathers know that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but by every 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:37.030 word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the lord doth man live thy raiment wax not old upon thee 00:27:37.030 --> 00:27:42.300 neither did thy foot swell these 40 years thou shalt also consider in thine heart that as a man 00:27:42.300 --> 00:27:47.420 chasteneth his son so the lord thy god chasteneth thee therefore thou shalt keep the commandments 00:27:47.420 --> 00:27:51.870 of the lord thy god to walk in his ways and to fear him for the lord thy god bringeth thee 00:27:51.870 --> 00:27:56.830 into a good land a land of brooks of water of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys 00:27:56.830 --> 00:28:02.270 and hills a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates a land of oil 00:28:02.270 --> 00:28:07.420 olive and honey a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness thou shalt not lack 00:28:07.420 --> 00:28:13.390 anything in it a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayst dig brass 00:28:13.390 --> 00:28:19.290 when thou hast eaten and are full then thou shalt bless the lord thy god for the good land which 00:28:19.290 --> 00:28:24.390 he hath given thee beware that thou forget not the lord thy god and not keeping his commandments 00:28:24.390 --> 00:28:28.930 and his judgments and his statutes which i command thee this day less when thou hast eaten and are 00:28:28.930 --> 00:28:33.950 full and has built goodly houses and dwelt therein and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply and 00:28:33.950 --> 00:28:38.980 thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all that thou hast is multiplied then thine heart be 00:28:38.980 --> 00:28:43.680 lifted up and thou forget the lord thy god which brought thee forth out of the land of egypt from 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:49.820 the house of bondage who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness wherein were fiery 00:28:49.820 --> 00:28:56.130 serpents and scorpions and droughts where there was no water who brought thee forth water out of 00:28:56.130 --> 00:29:00.660 the rock of flint who fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not that he 00:29:00.660 --> 00:29:06.000 might humble thee and that he might prove thee to do thee good at thy latter end and thou shalt 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:11.650 and thou and thou saying thine heart my power and the might of mine hand have forgot have gotten me 00:29:11.650 --> 00:29:16.930 this wealth but thou shalt remember the lord thy god for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth 00:29:16.930 --> 00:29:22.030 that he may establish his covenant which he swear unto thy fathers as it is this day and it shall 00:29:22.030 --> 00:29:27.210 be if thou do at all forget the lord thy god and walk after other gods and serve them and worship 00:29:27.210 --> 00:29:32.710 them i testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish as the nations which the lord 00:29:32.710 --> 00:29:38.690 destroyeth before your face so shall you perish because ye would not be obedient unto the voice 00:29:38.690 --> 00:29:44.850 of the lord your god let us pray heavenly father thank you for allowing us to be here in church 00:29:44.850 --> 00:29:48.100 lord thank you for your word thank you for this chapter pray that you bless pastor shelly fill 00:29:48.100 --> 00:29:51.760 him with your holy spirit to preach your word unto us help us to receive it with an open heart lord 00:29:51.760 --> 00:29:56.700 make applicable changes in our lives to become better christians praise in jesus name amen amen 00:29:56.700 --> 00:30:03.160 here in deuteronomy chapter 8 we are being reminded of certain facts about what happened 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.750 in the last 40 years and and that's really it's a second telling of the law it's kind of a 00:30:07.750 --> 00:30:13.850 remembrance of the events that has happened now my goal you know in doing this bible study i'm 00:30:13.850 --> 00:30:18.670 kind of trying to change things a tad i want to do my best to just get through the chapter quickly 00:30:18.670 --> 00:30:23.470 and just kind of get we kind of have an idea and then go back and kind of like revisit some 00:30:23.470 --> 00:30:27.300 of the themes and some of the points that are made in the chapter but in verses one through 00:30:27.300 --> 00:30:30.800 three let's read this again it says all the commandments which i command thee this day 00:30:30.800 --> 00:30:35.030 shall you observe to do that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which 00:30:35.030 --> 00:30:39.890 the lord swear in your fathers and thou shalt remember all the way which the lord thy god led 00:30:39.890 --> 00:30:44.430 thee these 40 years in the wilderness to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine 00:30:44.430 --> 00:30:50.580 heart whether or whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no and he humbled thee and suffered 00:30:50.580 --> 00:30:55.510 thee to hunger and fed thee with manna which thou knewest not neither thy fathers know that he might 00:30:55.510 --> 00:31:00.050 make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but by every word that proceeded out of the 00:31:00.050 --> 00:31:05.220 mouth of the lord doth man live so here in verses one through three the bible tells us that god was 00:31:05.220 --> 00:31:10.550 testing them that's what he means by proving here he says he was testing them and trying to humble 00:31:10.550 --> 00:31:17.240 them and to see what was in their heart what is it well he really wants to see will they keep his 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:21.950 commandments or not and what was one of the tests the test was that they had to go out and they had 00:31:21.950 --> 00:31:28.730 to gather manna at a daily rate and if they gather you know specifically on the sabbath was kind of 00:31:28.730 --> 00:31:32.470 an important day they couldn't gather in the sabbath they kind of had to gather just in the 00:31:32.470 --> 00:31:38.060 day before and then it would multiply or would satisfy them for two days and they weren't allowed 00:31:38.060 --> 00:31:43.560 to go out on the sabbath and there's a big deal about this and of course that's picturing a lot 00:31:43.560 --> 00:31:48.670 of things like salvation obviously we enter into God's rest and we simply just trust in him to 00:31:48.670 --> 00:31:53.990 give us and sustain us with life you know think about it without food you die and so in a sense 00:31:53.990 --> 00:31:59.080 by just trusting God to provide for food that doesn't really make sense you kind of really have 00:31:59.080 --> 00:32:03.860 to trust in him to keep you alive in the same way we're trusting in what Jesus did for us to give 00:32:03.860 --> 00:32:08.480 us eternal life so that we don't go to hell so it's kind of like a similar test that he was 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:14.570 giving them additionally you know they're not going out and providing themselves crops they're 00:32:14.570 --> 00:32:19.240 not like planting they're in the wilderness they're in the desert so you know in order to survive 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:26.580 they need a miracle by god every single day to go out and just gather this manna that is just a 00:32:26.580 --> 00:32:32.000 straight miracle from god it's angels food as the bible describes it and that they're by this 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.380 miracle they're just living just one day at a time and god is kind of getting them there one 00:32:36.380 --> 00:32:39.970 day at a time and you know that's what god wants us to do he wants us to live one day at a time 00:32:39.970 --> 00:32:44.590 just trusting in him allowing him to sustain us allowing him to be the one that gives us that 00:32:44.590 --> 00:32:50.010 provision and it's it's a humbling experience why because you're not trusting in yourself 00:32:50.010 --> 00:32:55.340 you can't do anything to produce the manna the manna is a heavenly gift it's a it's a heavenly 00:32:55.340 --> 00:32:59.860 bread that's coming down from heaven so it's not like well i'm going to work really hard today to 00:32:59.860 --> 00:33:04.580 make sure manna shows up tomorrow you can't do anything to procure manna manna is just simply 00:33:04.580 --> 00:33:08.090 what god is going to bless you with and so by being right with god he's going to give you the 00:33:08.090 --> 00:33:12.710 manna so you're trusting in him which is humbling yourself saying i can't take care of myself 00:33:12.710 --> 00:33:18.930 i can't sustain myself i need god and so i'm going to get that manna and of course the manna is 00:33:18.930 --> 00:33:22.440 often also represented as the word of god that we need the word of god that we need god's 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.070 commandments that we need him to lead us and to guide us and to help us on a daily basis 00:33:27.070 --> 00:33:32.490 and by making this a daily process by making this a 40 year process he gets to see what you're 00:33:32.490 --> 00:33:37.300 really like because it's one thing to follow god for a day it's one thing to follow for a week 00:33:37.300 --> 00:33:43.220 it's another thing to follow for 40 years and anybody that's been in a church for a while 00:33:43.220 --> 00:33:49.670 they will notice people come and go and it's you know it's not like oh well that's just steadfast 00:33:49.670 --> 00:33:55.420 or oh that's the quote new ifb no no that's just church i don't care what church you go to 00:33:55.420 --> 00:33:59.090 i don't care if it's pentecostal i don't care if it's catholic i don't care if it's orthodox i 00:33:59.090 --> 00:34:04.990 don't care if it's the synagogue i don't care what institution people come and go like clockwork and 00:34:04.990 --> 00:34:10.250 so you have to realize even in god's house even in the right institution people are going to come 00:34:10.250 --> 00:34:16.150 and go and we get to see what they're really like we get to see what's in their heart just like god 00:34:16.150 --> 00:34:21.250 got to see what was in the children of israel's heart by having this long test see who's really 00:34:21.250 --> 00:34:26.540 steadfast you know steadfast cool name i like it you know it's way better than the name is someone 00:34:26.540 --> 00:34:32.880 just that is steadfast a steadfast person a steadfast church a steadfast group of people 00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:38.380 a steadfast pastor you know that is way more important than having the name or the title or 00:34:38.380 --> 00:34:43.240 whatever and so again this passage is talking about it's more important to follow god's 00:34:43.240 --> 00:34:48.670 commandments than it is to even care about bread or physical needs whatsoever verse number four 00:34:48.670 --> 00:34:54.010 thy reignment wax not old upon thee neither thy foot swell these 40 years so he's reminding us 00:34:54.010 --> 00:34:58.500 here in verse four as well that they were sustained by miracles the manna from heaven 00:34:58.500 --> 00:35:04.580 is a miracle not only that their shoes not breaking for 40 years you know that's not like 00:35:04.580 --> 00:35:09.180 because they're they're the jewish cobblers were so great at making shoes or something like that 00:35:09.180 --> 00:35:15.090 okay folks no they're the same as they always were it's just it's a literal miracle that 00:35:15.090 --> 00:35:21.730 their shoes it's a literal miracle that their clothes did not just deteriorate in the wilderness 00:35:21.730 --> 00:35:29.580 for this 40 years and so you know god is allowing them to be sustained and this kind of just proves 00:35:29.580 --> 00:35:35.110 maybe a point that when you trust god sometimes he just gives you financial provision or helps 00:35:35.110 --> 00:35:39.740 you get through things that you wouldn't normally get through whereas when you don't have god on 00:35:39.740 --> 00:35:44.180 your side well your rain that's probably going to wax old your foot is going to swell you're going 00:35:44.180 --> 00:35:49.660 to have problems in these areas you know it's better to have less money and be right with god 00:35:49.660 --> 00:35:54.480 than to have more money and not be right with god and that's basically the the point that he's 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.910 kind of driving here verse five thou shalt also consider in thine heart that as a man chastened 00:35:58.910 --> 00:36:02.960 at his son so the lord thy god chastened at thee therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:06.980 lord thy god to walk in his ways and fear him why do we fear god because if we don't he'll 00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:13.370 chasten us why do why do my kids obey me because they'd all spank them if they don't i mean and 00:36:13.370 --> 00:36:18.070 you say well that's that just seems barbaric okay i don't care what you call it that's what 00:36:18.070 --> 00:36:22.640 the bible says and that's how god deals with us god says hey i'm gonna punish you just like you 00:36:22.640 --> 00:36:29.190 punish your kid and god uses that analogy because it's very similar and yes god punishes people 00:36:29.190 --> 00:36:35.400 who does he punish his sons his children as a man chastened at his son so the lord thy god chastened 00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:39.990 at thee why we're the sons of god and if we're without chastisement the bible says the new 00:36:39.990 --> 00:36:45.550 testament then you're a bastard and not a son so you know if you're not getting punished by god 00:36:45.550 --> 00:36:52.030 you know really you're kind of the only option is that you're just not saved because according 00:36:52.030 --> 00:36:57.450 to the bible he chastened and discouraged every son in whom you receive it so you got to think 00:36:57.450 --> 00:37:01.790 about this way if you're saved then no if you break god's commandments you will be punished 00:37:01.790 --> 00:37:06.380 the only way you won't get punished in this life is if you're not saved and if you're not saved you 00:37:06.380 --> 00:37:11.590 should feel no comfort in being not saved because if you die at any moment you're going to hell so 00:37:11.590 --> 00:37:17.020 the thing is is you fear god no matter what person you are if you're not saved you need to fear god 00:37:17.020 --> 00:37:21.410 and get saved if you are saved and you fear god because he might punish you when you break his 00:37:21.410 --> 00:37:26.580 commandments and do wrong and of course it's not like being unsaved you get away with it too it's 00:37:26.580 --> 00:37:31.650 just you're more likely or god might be more long-suffering or merciful to you because he's 00:37:31.650 --> 00:37:38.620 just hoping you get saved right but when you're saved he will punish you he's that dad that says 00:37:38.620 --> 00:37:44.090 like hey when i come home you're getting spanked and he really means it you know and so you want 00:37:44.090 --> 00:37:49.890 to be careful with god and keeping his commandments because he will punish us like how do you read 00:37:49.890 --> 00:37:54.890 deuteronomy how do you read the old testament and think god doesn't punish people i mean the whole 00:37:54.890 --> 00:37:59.590 time he's just like killing this person killing that person smiting this person leprosy over i 00:37:59.590 --> 00:38:05.120 mean miriam gets leprosy aaron gets punished his sons get killed i mean just constant just 00:38:05.120 --> 00:38:10.900 punishment punishment punishment punishment it's just no one saved in the old testament yes they 00:38:10.900 --> 00:38:17.590 are saved because god still punishes the saved you know don't fall for this hyper grace mentality 00:38:17.590 --> 00:38:21.960 that thinks like oh now that you're saved god will never punish you you should never be afraid you 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:27.040 should never fear god look these are lies from the devil only the devil would ever tell someone not 00:38:27.040 --> 00:38:32.650 to fear god the bible consistently teaches to fear god in fact that's the whole the whole point of 00:38:32.650 --> 00:38:38.240 the bible to fear god and keep his commandments that's the whole duty of man at no point are 00:38:38.240 --> 00:38:42.400 you ever instructed to not fear god and to not keep his commandments it's just that doesn't get 00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:49.090 you into heaven but at no point was i supposed to stop doing it i should still do it the reason why 00:38:49.090 --> 00:38:53.370 you need to get saved is because you didn't do it and so you need to make sure that you get saved 00:38:53.370 --> 00:38:58.770 because no one can go to heaven by their works but we need to keep keeping we need to try our 00:38:58.770 --> 00:39:03.920 best to keep god's commandments no matter where we find ourselves in life verse number seven says 00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:09.180 this for the lord thy god bringeth thee into a good land land of bricks of water and fountains 00:39:09.180 --> 00:39:15.710 and depths that spring out of valleys and hills a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees 00:39:15.710 --> 00:39:21.700 and pomegranates a land of olive oil and honey a land wherein thou shalt be bred without scarceness 00:39:21.700 --> 00:39:28.540 thou shalt not lack anything in it a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest 00:39:28.540 --> 00:39:38.830 dig brass now think about this god obviously is not this over the top god that just wants you to live 00:39:38.830 --> 00:39:48.470 a life of just pure puritan just you asceticism where you just can't enjoy anything like the earth 00:39:48.470 --> 00:39:56.440 is is evil and food is evil and goods are evil brass is evil no no no he's saying like i want 00:39:56.440 --> 00:40:00.590 to give you the best i want to give you the best land i want to give you the best food i want to 00:40:00.590 --> 00:40:06.090 give you the best stones i want to give you the best brass i mean the bible does not paint god is 00:40:06.090 --> 00:40:11.430 this god that just says like you have to live this is life of asceticism and just hate all material 00:40:11.430 --> 00:40:16.520 possessions and just hate anything and you just you have to eat mcdonald's that's the nicest food 00:40:16.520 --> 00:40:21.840 you can ever have or something you just have to you just have to live this just like life of poverty 00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:26.450 or something like that why would he be bringing them to the land flowing with milk and honey if 00:40:26.450 --> 00:40:31.800 he doesn't want them to actually have some fun and enjoy their life now again i i'm kind of on 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:36.800 the jesus program not the john the baptist program okay john the baptist lived out in the wilderness 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:42.200 with wild locusts and honey and stuff and just kind of lived a really aestheticism life and yet 00:40:42.200 --> 00:40:48.000 they said that he was crazy they said he had the devil right and then jesus is hanging out with 00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:52.370 you know the the publicans and he's hanging out with different people and they called him a wine 00:40:52.370 --> 00:40:56.900 bibber and a glutton and they're basically just like oh look at this guy just partying too much 00:40:56.900 --> 00:41:02.250 having too much fun enjoying food too much which again both of those statements were false jesus 00:41:02.250 --> 00:41:06.850 was not a glutton jesus was not a wine bibber of course john the baptist did not have a devil 00:41:06.850 --> 00:41:12.190 but you can kind of just read between the lines and realize jesus was kind of enjoying life 00:41:12.190 --> 00:41:17.360 john the baptist is not enjoying life and you know i just lean into this i like this side okay i want 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:24.830 to be like jesus so i try to enjoy life and look people they will criticize me all day long for 00:41:24.830 --> 00:41:29.820 trying to enjoy life and part of me sometimes thinks like man it'd be easier to just be over 00:41:29.820 --> 00:41:34.410 here in aestheticism land so that i don't get the critics but john the baptist got the critics 00:41:34.410 --> 00:41:40.760 anyways so then i'm like well if i'm gonna get criticized no matter how i live i might as well 00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.490 just enjoy it you know what i mean and then i just kind of decided i don't care anymore because all 00:41:45.490 --> 00:41:49.750 the critics just gonna come and go and they just hate their lives and and usually it's the critics 00:41:49.750 --> 00:41:54.560 it's just because they're lazy and stupid so that's why they don't enjoy life and then they get mad 00:41:54.560 --> 00:42:00.060 at people that actually work hard and have you know some money in this life and it's just like 00:42:00.060 --> 00:42:05.750 oh man how dare this guy actually enjoy food or life or have fun every once in a while and it's 00:42:05.750 --> 00:42:10.200 just like look that's the kind of life i'm trying to have why would i not want to have fun why would 00:42:10.200 --> 00:42:14.450 i not want to enjoy food now look obviously we should thank god for these things and we 00:42:14.450 --> 00:42:19.180 should be appreciative of god and we shouldn't allow these things to take us away from god but 00:42:19.180 --> 00:42:24.010 the bible is not saying that you can't have good things and this passage is not teaching that you 00:42:24.010 --> 00:42:28.210 can't have good things it's not saying you can't enjoy life you read ecclesiastes and it's saying 00:42:28.210 --> 00:42:34.440 explicitly like to enjoy your food and enjoy your wife and enjoy your life and enjoy all these 00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:38.900 things you know the catholic is the one that wants to live this ascetic type of lifestyle 00:42:38.900 --> 00:42:44.550 standing from meats and and i'm standing from the joys of marriage even and just the enjoyment that 00:42:44.550 --> 00:42:48.370 you get with your wife and your husband and all this it's just like they try to make your life 00:42:48.370 --> 00:42:54.350 just miserable and look the devil wants to make your life miserable now look if you're living a 00:42:54.350 --> 00:42:59.980 very ascetic life if you live well below your means if you decide like hey i want to live a very 00:42:59.980 --> 00:43:05.270 simple life and i just i don't really care about those things and i just want to eat you know 00:43:05.270 --> 00:43:13.310 a pineapple mayonnaise sandwich for every meal you know go for it okay i mean my dad is the most 00:43:13.310 --> 00:43:18.590 simple person i know and just lives a very simple life and you know what praise god for him i love 00:43:18.590 --> 00:43:24.860 my dad but you know what i don't have to be like that and you know you don't have to be like that 00:43:24.860 --> 00:43:30.660 you get one life you might as well enjoy it okay and again my dad doesn't have that opinion 00:43:30.660 --> 00:43:34.710 because he would always tell me he said look son i'm gonna give you some advice this is advice 00:43:34.710 --> 00:43:41.300 from my father okay he said there's nothing wrong with spending the money you have he said 00:43:41.300 --> 00:43:45.260 the problem is when you start spending the money you don't have and honestly that advice has been 00:43:45.260 --> 00:43:50.930 pretty good for for for my life and so you know hey i'm not i'm not up here saying like don't 00:43:50.930 --> 00:43:55.430 enjoy your life you know if you want more just work harder right and if you don't want more and 00:43:55.430 --> 00:44:00.310 you want to live simpler life then you get more time to just do whatever you want we all get to 00:44:00.310 --> 00:44:06.660 to pick and choose you know our plight in life but god is not dragging them into the wilderness 00:44:06.660 --> 00:44:11.000 to suffer he's trying to drag them out of the wilderness it was by their own stubbornness 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:15.660 and laziness and refusal to believe in him that they were stuck in the wilderness but by trusting 00:44:15.660 --> 00:44:19.720 in him having great faith in him he brings them into the promised land he brings them into a great 00:44:19.720 --> 00:44:25.700 land and what does he say then in verse 10 when thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt 00:44:25.700 --> 00:44:30.210 bless the lord thy god for the good land which he hath given thee what's the point hey when you 00:44:30.210 --> 00:44:35.130 have good things when you have been blessed when god is doing good unto you you need to make sure 00:44:35.130 --> 00:44:42.380 that you're blessing god that is the main emphasis of this chapter is that hey you follow god he'll 00:44:42.380 --> 00:44:48.760 bless you and then when you get blessed make sure that you bless god as a result what's the opposite 00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:54.660 verse 11 beware that thou forget not the lord thy god and not keeping his commandments and his 00:44:54.660 --> 00:44:59.050 judgments and his statutes which i command thee this day lest when thou hast eaten and art full 00:44:59.050 --> 00:45:03.670 and has built goodly houses and dwelt therein and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply 00:45:03.670 --> 00:45:08.690 and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all that thou hast is multiplied then 00:45:08.690 --> 00:45:14.110 thine heart be lifted up and now forget the lord thy god which brought thee forth out of land in 00:45:14.110 --> 00:45:20.250 egypt from the house of bondage now i want to keep reading here but what did he just say he said 00:45:20.250 --> 00:45:25.530 there's a tendency that when you get full there's a tendency when you have everything there's a 00:45:25.530 --> 00:45:31.160 tendency when you have more money than you need you have more goods than you need you have all the 00:45:31.160 --> 00:45:36.520 food that you could want that your heart gets lifted up that you get prideful as a result of 00:45:36.520 --> 00:45:41.920 that and by becoming prideful you start to forget god and it was god that gave you all of these 00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:48.550 blessings and so instead of blessing the lord you're you're thinking highly of yourself that's the 00:45:48.550 --> 00:45:53.070 contrast here right is there anything wrong with having the goods no but there's a danger when you 00:45:53.070 --> 00:45:59.830 get them that you might go down this road okay now it says here in verse number 15 who led 00:45:59.830 --> 00:46:04.260 thee through that great and terrible wilderness wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions and 00:46:04.260 --> 00:46:10.000 drought where there was no water who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint who fed thee 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:14.650 in the wilderness with mana which thy fathers knew not they might humble thee and they might prove 00:46:14.650 --> 00:46:23.080 thee to do the good at thy latter end and thou say in thine heart my power and the might of mine 00:46:23.080 --> 00:46:29.080 hand have gotten me this wealth what is the tendency the tendency is this that you follow 00:46:29.080 --> 00:46:36.180 god's commandments here's the thing you follow god's commandments and apart from a few exceptions 00:46:36.180 --> 00:46:43.050 you will be blessed if you do what this book says you will be greatly blessed the reason why 00:46:43.050 --> 00:46:48.700 people are not blessed is because they're not doing what this says and please humble yourself 00:46:48.700 --> 00:46:54.460 a little bit because again this book is saying with all thy getting get wisdom i want to know 00:46:54.460 --> 00:47:00.110 from five years old to now did you spend every single ounce of your effort and energy to get 00:47:00.110 --> 00:47:05.440 as smart as you possibly could or were you lazy or did you cheat in school or did you not read 00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:10.610 or did you use the cliff notes did you use spark notes did you not actually put a lot of effort 00:47:10.610 --> 00:47:16.140 energy and getting wisdom does the do the bible says like whatever your hand finds to do do with 00:47:16.140 --> 00:47:21.310 all thy strength and with all thy might are you going every day at the workplace all day just 00:47:21.310 --> 00:47:23.740 just using all of your effort and all of your energy 00:47:23.740 --> 00:47:25.810 and all of your strength and all of your wisdom 00:47:25.810 --> 00:47:27.720 and praying to God faithfully, 00:47:27.720 --> 00:47:29.400 and you kept all of his commandments 00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:30.990 and you were a virgin on your wedding night, 00:47:30.990 --> 00:47:32.660 and you married a godly wife. 00:47:32.660 --> 00:47:34.420 You're like, "Well, I didn't do any of that." 00:47:34.420 --> 00:47:37.890 Well, then don't expect to be super blessed, okay? 00:47:37.890 --> 00:47:40.750 But I'm just telling you, you young children in here, 00:47:40.750 --> 00:47:43.210 you put all your effort and energy in your homeschooling 00:47:43.210 --> 00:47:46.430 and you learn and you study and you work super hard 00:47:46.430 --> 00:47:48.770 and you have a good ethic and you stay clean 00:47:48.770 --> 00:47:50.910 and you're a virgin, you marry a godly person, 00:47:50.910 --> 00:47:55.780 you're in church, you will be blessed, okay? 00:47:55.780 --> 00:47:57.480 And you look at people that are greatly blessed 00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:00.160 in this world, they're oftentimes even keeping 00:48:00.160 --> 00:48:03.570 the commandments, even if they're Christian or not. 00:48:03.570 --> 00:48:06.240 I mean, they're not just over here, drug addicts. 00:48:06.240 --> 00:48:08.640 Drug addicts are not being successful in this world. 00:48:08.640 --> 00:48:10.660 Whores and whoremongers are not being successful 00:48:10.660 --> 00:48:11.480 in this world. 00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:15.080 People that are thieves and robbers and gamblers. 00:48:15.080 --> 00:48:17.390 I mean, even professional athletes today, 00:48:17.390 --> 00:48:19.620 there are professional athletes making, you know, 00:48:19.620 --> 00:48:21.680 20 million dollars a year, 30 million dollars a year. 00:48:21.680 --> 00:48:23.190 They're broke, they're in debt, 00:48:23.190 --> 00:48:24.420 they don't even have any money. 00:48:24.420 --> 00:48:25.770 They have a bunch of bastard kids, 00:48:25.770 --> 00:48:27.870 they have a bunch of whores, they have a bunch of diseases. 00:48:27.870 --> 00:48:31.540 Their lives are a miserable train wreck. 00:48:31.540 --> 00:48:32.450 You know what gives you success? 00:48:32.450 --> 00:48:34.230 This book. 00:48:34.230 --> 00:48:35.020 Why? 00:48:35.020 --> 00:48:36.020 Because it's the truth. 00:48:36.020 --> 00:48:39.020 And the truth is what gives you success, not lies. 00:48:39.020 --> 00:48:42.110 And at the end of the day, the truth shall make you free. 00:48:42.110 --> 00:48:44.680 The truth is gonna give you success in this life. 00:48:44.680 --> 00:48:46.560 So people start doing this book, 00:48:46.560 --> 00:48:47.400 and then guess what happens? 00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:48.880 You start getting blessed. 00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:51.830 But then they start forgetting why they're blessed, 00:48:51.830 --> 00:48:53.830 and they start thinking it's because I'm smart. 00:48:53.830 --> 00:48:56.030 No, you're not smart, you just did what this said. 00:48:56.030 --> 00:48:57.320 This is smart. 00:48:57.320 --> 00:48:59.810 You just started following whatever this is, 00:48:59.810 --> 00:49:01.460 and you were following the leading of the Holy Spirit 00:49:01.460 --> 00:49:03.080 of your saved, and so of course, 00:49:03.080 --> 00:49:03.950 that's what actually started 00:49:03.950 --> 00:49:05.450 giving you blessing and success. 00:49:05.450 --> 00:49:08.000 Look, I've seen a lot of people over the years 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.820 start coming to church or start getting plugged to church, 00:49:10.820 --> 00:49:13.390 and then fast forward five, six, seven years, 00:49:13.390 --> 00:49:15.870 they're a way different person. 00:49:15.870 --> 00:49:18.100 Maybe they wouldn't admit it, but I'm like, 00:49:18.100 --> 00:49:20.880 you're a lot better off than you were when I met you. 00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:23.180 You're a lot different than you were five years, 00:49:23.180 --> 00:49:24.840 six, seven years ago. 00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:25.910 And you know why? 00:49:25.910 --> 00:49:27.260 It's because you're plugged into church, 00:49:27.260 --> 00:49:29.050 you're reading your Bible, you're serving God, 00:49:29.050 --> 00:49:30.690 you started doing the right things. 00:49:30.690 --> 00:49:35.490 And yet, then they might forget why they became successful, 00:49:35.490 --> 00:49:37.060 why they have the spouse that they have, 00:49:37.060 --> 00:49:38.500 why they have the marriage that they have, 00:49:38.500 --> 00:49:39.830 why they have the kids that they have, 00:49:39.830 --> 00:49:41.510 why they have the blessings and the system in life. 00:49:41.510 --> 00:49:43.970 And when you forget God, you know what? 00:49:43.970 --> 00:49:46.440 It goes down a dark road. 00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:48.430 You just forget the power and the wealth 00:49:48.430 --> 00:49:51.110 that came from God, you think, I'm special. 00:49:51.110 --> 00:49:52.230 And of course, that's always the problem. 00:49:52.230 --> 00:49:53.790 You should not think that you're special. 00:49:53.790 --> 00:49:56.480 You should give the glory and honor 00:49:56.480 --> 00:49:58.850 to the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:49:58.850 --> 00:50:01.780 Verse 18, but thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, 00:50:01.780 --> 00:50:04.910 for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, 00:50:04.910 --> 00:50:06.330 that he may establish his covenant, 00:50:06.330 --> 00:50:08.830 which he swear unto thy fathers as it is this day. 00:50:08.830 --> 00:50:10.620 And it shall be, if thou do it all, 00:50:10.620 --> 00:50:13.160 forget the Lord thy God and walk after other gods 00:50:13.160 --> 00:50:14.110 and serve them and worship them. 00:50:14.110 --> 00:50:15.620 I testify against you this day, 00:50:15.620 --> 00:50:17.850 that ye shall surely perish 00:50:17.850 --> 00:50:21.450 as the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, 00:50:21.450 --> 00:50:25.020 so shall ye perish, because you would not be obedient 00:50:25.020 --> 00:50:28.180 under the voice of the Lord your God. 00:50:28.180 --> 00:50:31.650 Now, of course, I've been making this very personal, 00:50:31.650 --> 00:50:34.740 but notice that the text is also bringing into concepts 00:50:34.740 --> 00:50:35.950 the nation as a whole. 00:50:35.950 --> 00:50:38.040 If the nation as a whole forgets God, 00:50:38.040 --> 00:50:41.110 if the nation as a whole gets lifted up in their mind 00:50:41.110 --> 00:50:46.070 of being proud and being just so proud to be an American. 00:50:46.070 --> 00:50:48.530 Well, wait a minute. 00:50:48.530 --> 00:50:50.700 Is it being in America or being in North America 00:50:50.700 --> 00:50:52.610 that makes you successful? 00:50:52.610 --> 00:50:55.990 Or was it the Christian morals and the King James Bible 00:50:55.990 --> 00:50:59.370 and the word of God that made America successful? 00:50:59.370 --> 00:51:04.100 And why are we proud to be an American today 00:51:04.100 --> 00:51:06.230 when our country's in shambles, 00:51:06.230 --> 00:51:10.210 we have just some of the worst leaders imaginable, 00:51:10.210 --> 00:51:14.510 we have abortion, we're trying to be the world police. 00:51:14.510 --> 00:51:16.470 We, I mean, there's a lot of reasons 00:51:16.470 --> 00:51:18.730 why America is not so great anymore, 00:51:18.730 --> 00:51:20.780 from at least a moral perspective. 00:51:20.780 --> 00:51:23.280 Obviously, we're still a superpower in the world. 00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:27.450 Obviously, we still wield just an inordinate amount 00:51:27.450 --> 00:51:31.410 of military strength and power in the world. 00:51:31.410 --> 00:51:36.330 We have just technology beyond most countries' capabilities. 00:51:36.330 --> 00:51:40.530 Our defense budget is beyond, our economy is beyond, 00:51:40.530 --> 00:51:43.550 our human capabilities are beyond in many cases. 00:51:43.550 --> 00:51:45.330 I mean, yeah, we still have a lot of strength 00:51:45.330 --> 00:51:46.730 and a lot of power and a lot of wealth. 00:51:46.730 --> 00:51:47.560 But you know what? 00:51:47.560 --> 00:51:50.530 We've been attributing it to ourselves. 00:51:50.530 --> 00:51:52.750 We're attributing it to the wrong places. 00:51:52.750 --> 00:51:55.670 And of course, Israel could do this as well. 00:51:55.670 --> 00:51:58.160 Notice again, you know, I'm gonna make an application 00:51:58.160 --> 00:51:59.550 to America here for a second. 00:51:59.550 --> 00:52:00.370 Wait a minute. 00:52:00.370 --> 00:52:02.050 Who is this actually written to? 00:52:02.050 --> 00:52:04.210 Wasn't it written to Israel? 00:52:04.210 --> 00:52:07.500 What did he say that they would perish? 00:52:07.500 --> 00:52:10.590 I thought that God would never be done with his people. 00:52:10.590 --> 00:52:12.200 Oh, God's not done with Israel. 00:52:12.200 --> 00:52:14.320 Well, he says here, if they don't do what's right, 00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:16.900 he'll just perish like any other nation. 00:52:16.900 --> 00:52:17.700 He doesn't care. 00:52:17.700 --> 00:52:19.180 They're not a special nation. 00:52:19.180 --> 00:52:21.170 He didn't say, you're a special nation 00:52:21.170 --> 00:52:23.390 that can never be destroyed for any reason. 00:52:23.390 --> 00:52:25.230 It doesn't matter what you do. 00:52:25.230 --> 00:52:27.230 No, he says, hey, if you don't keep my commandments, 00:52:27.230 --> 00:52:29.350 you're gonna perish just like any other nation 00:52:29.350 --> 00:52:30.650 that perished. 00:52:30.650 --> 00:52:32.600 Because you're not special in that regard. 00:52:32.600 --> 00:52:35.150 And in fact, the nations that have the most success 00:52:35.150 --> 00:52:37.900 are the ones that are doing what this book says the most. 00:52:37.900 --> 00:52:40.550 And the nations that don't will be destroyed. 00:52:40.550 --> 00:52:42.230 God will humble them. 00:52:42.230 --> 00:52:45.390 God will show them who's really the God of the world, 00:52:45.390 --> 00:52:48.540 the God of gods, the Lord of lords, the King of kings. 00:52:48.540 --> 00:52:51.800 And you cannot rebel against God and have long-term success. 00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:53.320 He will eventually humble you. 00:52:53.320 --> 00:52:55.150 He will eventually destroy you. 00:52:55.150 --> 00:52:58.090 And just like America, just like Israel, 00:52:58.090 --> 00:52:59.650 God can do these things. 00:53:00.680 --> 00:53:02.130 We're gonna come back to this. 00:53:02.130 --> 00:53:03.750 I wanna finish on this point for a moment. 00:53:03.750 --> 00:53:05.160 Go to Proverbs chapter 30 for a minute. 00:53:05.160 --> 00:53:09.570 Go to Proverbs chapter 30. 00:53:09.570 --> 00:53:13.540 You will and can be destroyed and punished 00:53:13.540 --> 00:53:16.200 for forgetting God. 00:53:16.200 --> 00:53:18.750 And, you know, prosperity is good, 00:53:18.750 --> 00:53:20.540 but obviously prosperity can go to your head. 00:53:20.540 --> 00:53:24.530 Proverbs 30, look what it says in verse number eight. 00:53:24.530 --> 00:53:26.820 Remove, far from me, vanity and lies. 00:53:26.820 --> 00:53:28.500 Give me neither poverty nor riches. 00:53:28.500 --> 00:53:30.060 Feed me of food convenient for me, 00:53:30.060 --> 00:53:32.590 lest I be full and deny thee. 00:53:32.590 --> 00:53:35.870 And say, who is the Lord? 00:53:35.870 --> 00:53:38.030 Notice by being rich, you could have a tendency 00:53:38.030 --> 00:53:40.120 to think like who is God or who is the Lord 00:53:40.120 --> 00:53:41.980 or forget who he is, right? 00:53:41.980 --> 00:53:44.710 That's what's in view of Deuteronomy chapter eight. 00:53:44.710 --> 00:53:46.720 That's what's in view of this proper. 00:53:46.720 --> 00:53:49.760 And I feel like America has gone down this road as well, 00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:53.370 where we've forgotten why America is successful 00:53:53.370 --> 00:53:56.090 and then we attribute it to ourselves 00:53:56.090 --> 00:53:59.370 and we praise all kinds of crazy things. 00:53:59.370 --> 00:54:01.110 You know, I was talking to college students. 00:54:01.110 --> 00:54:02.770 They said the reason why America is great 00:54:02.770 --> 00:54:06.630 is because it's secular. 00:54:06.630 --> 00:54:08.920 Like that's just completely forgetting God, 00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:11.210 completely forgetting where we came from. 00:54:11.210 --> 00:54:16.280 And again, it's just, it's so devoid of actual history 00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:18.990 that it's hard to even want to respond to. 00:54:18.990 --> 00:54:22.050 Being secular is just, it's not even in view 00:54:22.050 --> 00:54:24.990 of our government whatsoever. 00:54:24.990 --> 00:54:28.190 But additionally, you know, a lot of Americans would say, 00:54:28.190 --> 00:54:29.440 well, no, no, no, we're successful 00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:32.160 because of our government, our government structure. 00:54:32.160 --> 00:54:33.350 You know, we have a superior government 00:54:33.350 --> 00:54:35.130 than other governments and we have a democracy, 00:54:35.130 --> 00:54:36.560 even though it's not a democracy, 00:54:36.560 --> 00:54:38.900 it's constitutional, you know, republic, 00:54:38.900 --> 00:54:40.360 but even if it's constitutional republic, 00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:42.890 that's not what made us successful either. 00:54:42.890 --> 00:54:44.970 And then they're like, "Oh, well, we're so great 00:54:44.970 --> 00:54:46.510 because of our constitution." 00:54:46.510 --> 00:54:49.520 Look, our constitution isn't what makes us great. 00:54:49.520 --> 00:54:53.200 The thing that makes us great is God giving a blessing 00:54:53.200 --> 00:54:56.530 unto the early settlers and the early Americans 00:54:56.530 --> 00:54:59.300 actually wanting to follow God's commandments 00:54:59.300 --> 00:55:01.710 and actually establishing good churches 00:55:01.710 --> 00:55:05.600 and having Baptist churches and a lot of Baptist heritage 00:55:05.600 --> 00:55:07.980 and people actually observing God's commandments. 00:55:07.980 --> 00:55:11.450 That's what made America the nation that it was. 00:55:11.450 --> 00:55:14.570 And that's what gives us success is God, 00:55:14.570 --> 00:55:17.010 is the word of God, is keeping his commandments. 00:55:17.010 --> 00:55:20.100 That's what makes a nation blessed or successful. 00:55:20.100 --> 00:55:22.580 And we've gotten far away from that. 00:55:22.580 --> 00:55:23.640 We don't even understand that. 00:55:23.640 --> 00:55:27.270 We've forgotten why our nation is the nation that it is. 00:55:27.270 --> 00:55:30.050 Now we're giving lip service to false gods. 00:55:30.050 --> 00:55:33.050 We're praising Hinduism. 00:55:33.050 --> 00:55:37.670 I mean, our president is celebrating Diwali. 00:55:37.670 --> 00:55:40.100 I mean, how can you literally celebrate Diwali? 00:55:40.100 --> 00:55:41.530 That is going after other gods 00:55:41.530 --> 00:55:43.390 like this passage is brought up. 00:55:43.390 --> 00:55:44.820 And it's because he's full. 00:55:44.820 --> 00:55:46.910 I mean, Donald Trump is super rich, 00:55:46.910 --> 00:55:49.040 has all the money, has all the goods, 00:55:49.040 --> 00:55:51.490 has all the food, has everything that he needs. 00:55:51.490 --> 00:55:53.250 So now he just praises Diwali, 00:55:53.250 --> 00:55:58.020 not even realizing the country was built on Christianity. 00:55:58.020 --> 00:56:02.030 Not even realizing, hey, I'm being lied to 00:56:02.030 --> 00:56:06.100 and manipulated by Jews who did not found America, 00:56:06.100 --> 00:56:09.150 who were not part of our American heritage and history, 00:56:09.150 --> 00:56:10.810 going after other false gods, 00:56:10.810 --> 00:56:12.850 allowing Islam to come into our nation. 00:56:12.850 --> 00:56:17.190 I mean, there is a lot of Islamic synagogues 00:56:17.190 --> 00:56:20.100 or whatever you call mosques or whatever you wanna say 00:56:20.100 --> 00:56:22.750 here in the Dallas, Fort Worth area. 00:56:22.750 --> 00:56:24.360 They're popping up everywhere. 00:56:24.360 --> 00:56:27.240 They wanna make like some mega city, 00:56:27.240 --> 00:56:29.440 some kind of a Mecca around here somewhere. 00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:31.390 You know, it needs to be destroyed. 00:56:31.390 --> 00:56:35.740 All of those stupid mosques need to be burned to the ground. 00:56:35.740 --> 00:56:39.110 Not only that, I mean, you have just lip service, anything. 00:56:39.110 --> 00:56:41.850 Buddhism, just any new age spiritualism, 00:56:41.850 --> 00:56:44.260 just anything but Christianity at this point. 00:56:44.260 --> 00:56:46.540 Just forgetting our heritage, just forgetting our nation. 00:56:46.540 --> 00:56:47.960 Why? Because they got lifted up. 00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:49.300 And you know, that could happen to an individual, 00:56:49.300 --> 00:56:50.460 it could happen to a nation. 00:56:50.460 --> 00:56:51.580 It happened to Israel as well. 00:56:51.580 --> 00:56:54.460 Israel forgot the Lord God, went after false gods, 00:56:54.460 --> 00:56:56.860 started sacrificing unto false gods, 00:56:56.860 --> 00:56:57.970 doing the same play. 00:56:57.970 --> 00:57:02.760 But go to Malachi chapter three, Malachi chapter three. 00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:07.060 And you know, the Bible tells us 00:57:07.060 --> 00:57:08.180 that we're supposed to bless the Lord. 00:57:08.180 --> 00:57:11.770 And I wanna come back to that at some point as well. 00:57:11.770 --> 00:57:15.280 But what was Deuteronomy chapter eight about? 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:17.450 Well, number one, he said in the first two verses 00:57:17.450 --> 00:57:19.350 that he wants to prove us and he wants to test us, 00:57:19.350 --> 00:57:20.970 he wants to humble us to see whether 00:57:20.970 --> 00:57:22.680 we're gonna keep his commandments or not. 00:57:22.680 --> 00:57:25.640 He showed and talked and reminded them about miracles 00:57:25.640 --> 00:57:27.260 of provision that they've already received. 00:57:27.260 --> 00:57:28.670 He says he's gonna chase in them 00:57:28.670 --> 00:57:30.240 if they don't keep the commandments. 00:57:30.240 --> 00:57:32.220 And then he commands them to bless the Lord 00:57:32.220 --> 00:57:35.780 when they get success and not to forget the Lord 00:57:35.780 --> 00:57:39.230 and go after false gods or go after false religion 00:57:39.230 --> 00:57:42.360 or really just attribute their success to themselves. 00:57:42.360 --> 00:57:44.700 And it's very easy for people 00:57:44.700 --> 00:57:46.710 to attribute success to themselves. 00:57:46.710 --> 00:57:48.200 Well, just look how athletic I am. 00:57:48.200 --> 00:57:49.600 Look how smart I am. 00:57:49.600 --> 00:57:52.200 Look how, you know, look at my skin color. 00:57:52.200 --> 00:57:53.430 That's why I'm successful or something, you know, 00:57:53.430 --> 00:57:55.420 like just something stupid, superfluous, 00:57:55.420 --> 00:57:57.050 something that's not real. 00:57:57.050 --> 00:57:58.720 They just think like, I'm so wonderful. 00:57:58.720 --> 00:57:59.550 I'm so great. 00:57:59.550 --> 00:58:00.370 I'm so smart. 00:58:00.370 --> 00:58:01.460 Look what I've done. 00:58:01.460 --> 00:58:03.130 And they think they're better than other people 00:58:03.130 --> 00:58:04.680 and not realizing God is the one 00:58:04.680 --> 00:58:06.330 that gives us our power to get wealth. 00:58:06.330 --> 00:58:07.670 God is the one that blesses us. 00:58:07.670 --> 00:58:10.030 God is the one that opens and closes doors. 00:58:10.030 --> 00:58:12.870 And what should we do in response? 00:58:12.870 --> 00:58:16.890 Instead of blessing ourselves, we should bless the Lord. 00:58:16.890 --> 00:58:21.300 Now, again, blessing the Lord is kind of a big category. 00:58:21.300 --> 00:58:23.370 We're gonna look at a lot of definitions here. 00:58:23.370 --> 00:58:26.520 We can bless the Lord, obviously, with our lips. 00:58:26.520 --> 00:58:28.730 Maybe a big portion of blessing the Lord 00:58:28.730 --> 00:58:31.050 is like gratitude, saying thank you. 00:58:31.050 --> 00:58:34.030 But I believe also, if you're blessing the Lord, 00:58:34.030 --> 00:58:36.450 it's gonna be in your actions as well. 00:58:36.450 --> 00:58:39.740 It's gonna be in your disposition, what you do. 00:58:39.740 --> 00:58:42.470 Instead of going and blessing yourself, 00:58:42.470 --> 00:58:43.980 if I said I'm gonna bless myself, 00:58:43.980 --> 00:58:46.490 what does that sound like I'm gonna do? 00:58:46.490 --> 00:58:48.860 Buy something for myself, right? 00:58:48.860 --> 00:58:50.650 I mean, isn't that kind of what you think? 00:58:50.650 --> 00:58:52.490 Like if you say I'm gonna go bless myself, 00:58:52.490 --> 00:58:55.800 I'm gonna go get a new truck, a new car, a new suit, 00:58:55.800 --> 00:58:57.990 a new watch, a new whatever, right? 00:58:57.990 --> 00:59:00.960 I mean, if anybody said I'm gonna go bless myself, 00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:02.150 pretty much everybody thinks 00:59:02.150 --> 00:59:03.830 they're gonna do something good on themselves, 00:59:03.830 --> 00:59:05.000 buy themselves something. 00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:07.110 So let's just flip it around. 00:59:07.110 --> 00:59:09.980 If I'm gonna bless the Lord, what does that sound like? 00:59:09.980 --> 00:59:12.280 I'm gonna do something good for God, right? 00:59:12.280 --> 00:59:14.200 And I want the house of God to be blessed. 00:59:14.200 --> 00:59:15.590 I want the things of God to be blessed. 00:59:15.590 --> 00:59:19.690 I want, you know, something to do with Christianity, 00:59:19.690 --> 00:59:21.990 with God to do well. 00:59:21.990 --> 00:59:25.150 If you look up blessed according to the dictionary, 00:59:25.150 --> 00:59:29.210 it says to show affection or benevolence towards someone dear. 00:59:29.210 --> 00:59:33.640 Show affection or benevolence towards someone dear. 00:59:33.640 --> 00:59:35.870 And of course, I wanna look up some verses 00:59:35.870 --> 00:59:36.680 that talk about the affection, 00:59:36.680 --> 00:59:38.850 but also when we think about the benevolence, right? 00:59:38.850 --> 00:59:43.370 If I have an attitude of a blessing towards someone, 00:59:43.370 --> 00:59:46.130 then I'm gonna do things for them. 00:59:46.130 --> 00:59:48.460 Imagine your dad is about to die 00:59:48.460 --> 00:59:51.140 and he's sitting on his deathbed and you come up to him 00:59:51.140 --> 00:59:53.990 and he says, hey son, I wanna tell you about this person 00:59:53.990 --> 00:59:56.210 in my life that did me a lot of good 00:59:56.210 --> 00:59:58.720 and was really kind and I really liked them. 00:59:58.720 --> 01:00:02.200 I'm not gonna be there to return that kindness, 01:00:02.200 --> 01:00:03.680 so I want you to be there and I want you 01:00:03.680 --> 01:00:05.230 to bless this person. 01:00:05.230 --> 01:00:06.410 What do you think he's trying to say? 01:00:06.410 --> 01:00:08.150 He's saying like, hey, I want you to go there, 01:00:08.150 --> 01:00:10.340 not only be nice to the person, not only be kind, 01:00:10.340 --> 01:00:12.900 do stuff for them, buy them stuff, you know, whatever. 01:00:12.900 --> 01:00:15.040 You're gonna go around and you're gonna bless that person, 01:00:15.040 --> 01:00:16.630 you're gonna do good unto this person. 01:00:16.630 --> 01:00:18.460 So if I'm gonna bless the Lord, you know, 01:00:18.460 --> 01:00:21.520 I want my attitude and my mindset and my heart 01:00:21.520 --> 01:00:23.890 and my affections to be towards God, 01:00:23.890 --> 01:00:26.460 to where I'm willing to spend my time and my effort 01:00:26.460 --> 01:00:30.700 and my energy and my money into blessing the Lord. 01:00:30.700 --> 01:00:31.830 Because at the end of the day, it's like, 01:00:31.830 --> 01:00:33.950 it's kind of weird when we think about, 01:00:33.950 --> 01:00:35.970 like this for me, blessing the Lord, 01:00:35.970 --> 01:00:38.740 'cause I think like, well, how am I gonna bless him? 01:00:38.740 --> 01:00:41.010 He's the one that needs to bless me, right? 01:00:41.010 --> 01:00:44.430 But in the same way, yes, the Bible talks about us 01:00:44.430 --> 01:00:47.000 getting blessings from God and asking for blessings from God, 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:50.130 but we too, in return, can bless the Lord by what? 01:00:50.130 --> 01:00:53.390 Through our mouth, through our praise, through our worship, 01:00:53.390 --> 01:00:57.010 but also in our actions and showing benevolence 01:00:57.010 --> 01:00:59.270 towards the things of God. 01:00:59.270 --> 01:01:01.920 If America is going to bless the Lord, 01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:03.170 what would that look like? 01:01:03.170 --> 01:01:06.570 Well, it would be like praising the King James Bible 01:01:06.570 --> 01:01:08.580 instead of the Constitution, 01:01:08.580 --> 01:01:10.730 instead of praising other documents 01:01:10.730 --> 01:01:12.400 and other governmental institutions. 01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:15.780 It would be praising the church and blessing the church 01:01:15.780 --> 01:01:18.310 and trying to make the church really successful 01:01:18.310 --> 01:01:21.630 and not other institutions, not other organizations. 01:01:21.630 --> 01:01:23.420 You know, everybody is so obsessed 01:01:23.420 --> 01:01:26.720 with the Department of Education. 01:01:26.720 --> 01:01:29.070 They're obsessed with Medicaid and Medicare 01:01:29.070 --> 01:01:31.360 and all of these different, SNAP. 01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:35.440 We need to make sure that we have SNAP and EBT programs. 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:36.990 You know what we need to worry about? 01:01:36.990 --> 01:01:39.630 Having good churches in America and blessing the Lord. 01:01:39.630 --> 01:01:41.820 That's what we need to worry about. 01:01:41.820 --> 01:01:44.300 You know what, people are using their wallet 01:01:44.300 --> 01:01:45.800 on everything but God, 01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:48.840 shows me that they're not blessing the Lord. 01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:51.890 And a lot of people are just trying to bless themselves. 01:01:51.890 --> 01:01:55.490 And what does Malachi chapter three say in verse seven? 01:01:55.490 --> 01:01:56.870 Even from the days of your fathers, 01:01:56.870 --> 01:01:58.570 you're gone away from my ordinances 01:01:58.570 --> 01:02:00.030 and have not kept them, return unto me. 01:02:00.030 --> 01:02:01.770 And I will return unto you, say the Lord of hosts. 01:02:01.770 --> 01:02:03.300 But you said, where and shall we return? 01:02:03.300 --> 01:02:05.060 Will a man rob God? 01:02:05.060 --> 01:02:06.750 Yet you have robbed me, but you say, 01:02:06.750 --> 01:02:08.020 where and have we robbed thee? 01:02:08.020 --> 01:02:09.890 In tithes and offerings. 01:02:09.890 --> 01:02:12.070 You are cursed with a curse. 01:02:12.070 --> 01:02:14.370 For you have robbed me, even this whole nation, 01:02:14.370 --> 01:02:16.870 bringing all the tithes into this door house, 01:02:16.870 --> 01:02:18.860 that there may be meat in mine house. 01:02:18.860 --> 01:02:21.580 And prove me, now herewith, say the Lord of hosts, 01:02:21.580 --> 01:02:24.210 if I will not open you the windows of heaven 01:02:24.210 --> 01:02:25.950 and pour you out a blessing, 01:02:25.950 --> 01:02:28.650 that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 01:02:28.650 --> 01:02:30.500 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, 01:02:30.500 --> 01:02:32.440 and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground. 01:02:32.440 --> 01:02:34.730 Neither shall your vine cast your fruit 01:02:34.730 --> 01:02:36.930 before the time in the field, sayeth the Lord of hosts. 01:02:36.930 --> 01:02:39.980 And all nations shall call you blessed, 01:02:39.980 --> 01:02:42.080 for ye shall be a delightsome land, 01:02:42.080 --> 01:02:43.640 sayeth the Lord of hosts. 01:02:43.640 --> 01:02:46.750 And then it says, your words have been stout against me. 01:02:46.750 --> 01:02:51.520 But think about the context of Deuteronomy 8 with this. 01:02:51.520 --> 01:02:54.490 He's saying, hey, if you actually give the ties 01:02:54.490 --> 01:02:56.130 and the offerings unto me, 01:02:56.130 --> 01:02:57.800 then you'll be a delightsome land. 01:02:57.800 --> 01:02:59.550 Isn't he saying, if you keep my commandments, 01:02:59.550 --> 01:03:01.560 you're gonna be in this delightsome land, 01:03:01.560 --> 01:03:02.600 and you're gonna have this land 01:03:02.600 --> 01:03:03.550 flowing with milk and honey, 01:03:03.550 --> 01:03:05.300 and you're gonna have all these blessings. 01:03:05.300 --> 01:03:07.360 And if you don't, you're gonna be a curse. 01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:08.850 And he's saying, hey, in Deuteronomy 8, 01:03:08.850 --> 01:03:10.040 if you don't do these things, 01:03:10.040 --> 01:03:12.520 you're gonna be perishing from the land, 01:03:12.520 --> 01:03:15.020 and you're gonna be destroyed from this land. 01:03:15.020 --> 01:03:16.620 And again, at the end of the day, 01:03:16.620 --> 01:03:19.500 obviously, you get wealth, 01:03:19.500 --> 01:03:21.100 but what do you do with that wealth? 01:03:21.100 --> 01:03:22.850 Well, if you're not willing to give 01:03:22.850 --> 01:03:25.420 some of that money to blessing the Lord, 01:03:25.420 --> 01:03:26.590 well, you know, at the end of the day, 01:03:26.590 --> 01:03:28.800 it just shows where your heart is. 01:03:28.800 --> 01:03:30.740 It just shows what your attitude is. 01:03:30.740 --> 01:03:32.050 It shows where your affections are. 01:03:32.050 --> 01:03:33.230 And you know, the problem with America 01:03:33.230 --> 01:03:35.680 is that we're not building great churches anymore. 01:03:35.680 --> 01:03:37.600 We're just trying to bless ourselves. 01:03:37.600 --> 01:03:39.030 And we're more concerned with ourselves 01:03:39.030 --> 01:03:41.350 than we are with concerning God. 01:03:41.350 --> 01:03:43.120 And when the children of Israel returned 01:03:43.120 --> 01:03:44.650 after their decimation, 01:03:44.650 --> 01:03:47.580 what was the first place that they were supposed to build? 01:03:47.580 --> 01:03:49.800 The temple, they're supposed to build the house of God again. 01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:51.590 Because we should care more about the house of God 01:03:51.590 --> 01:03:53.050 than we should about our own houses 01:03:53.050 --> 01:03:55.490 and about our own things and about our own possessions. 01:03:55.490 --> 01:03:57.770 We should be seeking first the kingdom of God 01:03:57.770 --> 01:04:02.490 and his righteousness and then, hey, God will take care of us. 01:04:02.490 --> 01:04:04.530 Right, but when you don't put God first, 01:04:04.530 --> 01:04:08.720 oftentimes you won't get the blessing that God has for you. 01:04:08.720 --> 01:04:09.540 We need to bless him. 01:04:09.540 --> 01:04:10.630 Go to Deuteronomy 29, actually. 01:04:10.630 --> 01:04:12.610 Go to Deuteronomy 29. 01:04:12.610 --> 01:04:14.430 And I know we're kind of approaching this chapter 01:04:14.430 --> 01:04:15.250 a little bit backwards, 01:04:15.250 --> 01:04:17.250 but I wanted to just kind of get through it 01:04:17.250 --> 01:04:18.430 to make sure we get through these verses 01:04:18.430 --> 01:04:20.120 and then kind of hammer a few points. 01:04:20.120 --> 01:04:25.380 Deuteronomy 29, look at what it says in verse number 18. 01:04:25.380 --> 01:04:27.340 You know, it's a shame and an embarrassment to me 01:04:27.340 --> 01:04:32.480 that every institution that's just vain is just thriving 01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:34.900 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, in Texas, in America, 01:04:34.900 --> 01:04:38.350 and then the church houses have to be in the poorhouse, right? 01:04:38.350 --> 01:04:41.090 And it's not like false religion is struggling. 01:04:41.090 --> 01:04:42.860 I mean, look at the Catholic cathedrals. 01:04:42.860 --> 01:04:46.470 Those things are booming, man. 01:04:46.470 --> 01:04:47.970 Look at the Mormon buildings. 01:04:47.970 --> 01:04:52.440 How is it that false religion can spend all their money 01:04:52.440 --> 01:04:55.430 on false religion, lies, and then God's people 01:04:55.430 --> 01:04:57.110 don't want to spend their money on the things of God? 01:04:57.110 --> 01:05:01.070 Like, that's kind of embarrassing, it's kind of a shame, 01:05:01.070 --> 01:05:04.580 and we should be willing to invest 01:05:04.580 --> 01:05:06.580 in building great churches. 01:05:06.580 --> 01:05:08.490 And of course, we don't have to necessarily 01:05:08.490 --> 01:05:10.900 build some beautiful cathedral or something like that. 01:05:10.900 --> 01:05:12.870 I'm not saying we have to build something like that. 01:05:12.870 --> 01:05:15.420 But we should have plenty of money so that we can do what? 01:05:15.420 --> 01:05:16.940 We can go out and preach the gospel. 01:05:16.940 --> 01:05:18.510 We can go on missions trips. 01:05:18.510 --> 01:05:19.920 We can do the work of the Lord 01:05:19.920 --> 01:05:22.070 because we want to bless the Lord, right? 01:05:22.070 --> 01:05:24.380 And by blessing the Lord, it's by having a powerhouse. 01:05:24.380 --> 01:05:27.200 And look, you know what, to me is the most important part 01:05:27.200 --> 01:05:29.930 of building the church, it's you, it's me, 01:05:29.930 --> 01:05:31.450 'cause we're the church. 01:05:31.450 --> 01:05:32.510 We want to build people. 01:05:32.510 --> 01:05:34.740 So I try really hard with the money of our church 01:05:34.740 --> 01:05:38.060 to reinvest in the people, to reinvest in the individuals, 01:05:38.060 --> 01:05:40.770 to try and make them great soul winners 01:05:40.770 --> 01:05:43.840 and go on mission trips and go on soul winning 01:05:43.840 --> 01:05:45.550 and becoming just a better person, 01:05:45.550 --> 01:05:48.030 becoming a better Christian and building the church of God. 01:05:48.030 --> 01:05:49.720 Because you know what, it doesn't matter 01:05:49.720 --> 01:05:51.120 if you have a beautiful building 01:05:51.120 --> 01:05:53.150 filled with rotten, ugly people. 01:05:53.150 --> 01:05:54.720 I'd rather have an ugly building 01:05:54.720 --> 01:05:58.230 filled with beautiful, godly, you know, Christians. 01:05:58.230 --> 01:05:59.880 That's what I would rather have. 01:05:59.880 --> 01:06:01.400 And that's the house of God anyways. 01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:03.880 That's the real house of God that we're trying to build. 01:06:03.880 --> 01:06:05.270 Now, if we can have both, let's do it. 01:06:05.270 --> 01:06:06.430 I'm not against it. 01:06:06.430 --> 01:06:08.280 I'm just saying, you know, we should focus more 01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:11.220 on the people and investing on the people 01:06:11.220 --> 01:06:12.960 and investing in the things of God 01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:15.490 and trying to build the house of God. 01:06:15.490 --> 01:06:17.310 Bringing people in, obviously, 01:06:17.310 --> 01:06:19.400 there's nothing wrong with growing as a church. 01:06:19.400 --> 01:06:20.210 But at the end of the day, 01:06:20.210 --> 01:06:23.160 I care more about the quality of the construction 01:06:23.160 --> 01:06:25.740 than I do the size of the property. 01:06:25.740 --> 01:06:28.950 Deuteronomy chapter 29, look at verse 18. 01:06:28.950 --> 01:06:31.740 It says, "Lest there should be among you, 01:06:31.740 --> 01:06:33.900 man or woman, or family or tribe, 01:06:33.900 --> 01:06:36.280 whose heart turned away this day from the Lord our God, 01:06:36.280 --> 01:06:38.410 to go and serve the gods of these nations, 01:06:38.410 --> 01:06:40.450 lest there should be among you a root 01:06:40.450 --> 01:06:42.450 that beareth gall and wormwood. 01:06:42.450 --> 01:06:45.060 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, 01:06:45.060 --> 01:06:47.460 that he bless himself in his heart, 01:06:47.460 --> 01:06:49.860 saying, I shall have peace, 01:06:49.860 --> 01:06:52.210 though I walk in the imagination of mine art, 01:06:52.210 --> 01:06:56.930 to add drunkenness to thirst, the Lord will not spare him." 01:06:56.930 --> 01:06:59.870 Now, here's the thing, what is the Bible saying? 01:06:59.870 --> 01:07:02.510 It's contrasting someone from blessing the Lord 01:07:02.510 --> 01:07:03.340 to doing what? 01:07:03.340 --> 01:07:04.880 Blessing themselves. 01:07:04.880 --> 01:07:06.600 They hear the curses of God, 01:07:06.600 --> 01:07:08.150 and they hear the warnings of God, 01:07:08.150 --> 01:07:10.140 and they hear you need to keep God's commandments, 01:07:10.140 --> 01:07:12.380 and they think, no, I'm gonna be fine, 01:07:12.380 --> 01:07:14.460 I don't need God, I don't need church, 01:07:14.460 --> 01:07:15.850 I don't need following the commandments, 01:07:15.850 --> 01:07:18.150 I don't need these things, I'm gonna be good, 01:07:18.150 --> 01:07:20.540 I got this, and what's gonna happen? 01:07:20.540 --> 01:07:23.400 God will not spare him. 01:07:23.400 --> 01:07:25.580 God will destroy that person. 01:07:25.580 --> 01:07:26.890 What is the humble? 01:07:26.890 --> 01:07:29.760 Hey, you need church, you need the Bible, 01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:32.600 you need the things of God, you need to go soul winning, 01:07:32.600 --> 01:07:34.680 you need to actually do what the Bible says. 01:07:34.680 --> 01:07:38.020 You can't just ignore God's commandments and have success. 01:07:38.020 --> 01:07:39.930 Don't think you can just bless yourself. 01:07:39.930 --> 01:07:42.740 No, the blessing is gonna come from God. 01:07:42.740 --> 01:07:44.700 And we have to keep God first. 01:07:44.700 --> 01:07:46.850 Go, if you would, back to Deuteronomy chapter eight, 01:07:46.850 --> 01:07:50.590 and I wanna remind us of a few verses here, 01:07:50.590 --> 01:07:51.960 but let's keep on with this theme here 01:07:51.960 --> 01:07:53.550 of blessing the Lord. 01:07:53.550 --> 01:07:55.890 It said in verse number seven, 01:07:55.890 --> 01:07:58.220 "For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, 01:07:58.220 --> 01:08:00.200 "a land of brooks of water and fountains and depths 01:08:00.200 --> 01:08:02.020 "that spring out of valleys and hills, 01:08:02.020 --> 01:08:03.640 "a land of wheat and barley and vines 01:08:03.640 --> 01:08:04.950 "and fig trees and pomegranates, 01:08:04.950 --> 01:08:07.150 "a land of olive oil and honey, 01:08:07.150 --> 01:08:09.980 "a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness. 01:08:09.980 --> 01:08:12.820 "Thou shalt not lack any thing in it." 01:08:12.820 --> 01:08:15.740 I mean, that just reminds me of America. 01:08:15.740 --> 01:08:18.990 I mean, don't we have just whatever we want? 01:08:18.990 --> 01:08:21.320 Bread without scarceness? 01:08:21.320 --> 01:08:23.610 "A land whose stones are iron, 01:08:23.610 --> 01:08:25.790 "and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 01:08:25.790 --> 01:08:27.300 "When thou hast eaten and art full, 01:08:27.300 --> 01:08:29.810 "then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God 01:08:29.810 --> 01:08:32.360 "for the good land which he hath given thee." 01:08:32.360 --> 01:08:35.310 We should praise God for Texas. 01:08:35.310 --> 01:08:37.160 We should praise God for America. 01:08:37.160 --> 01:08:39.840 We should praise God for the Dallas Fort Worth area. 01:08:39.840 --> 01:08:42.740 We should praise God for the food and the goodness 01:08:42.740 --> 01:08:45.440 and the money and the riches and the cars and the houses 01:08:45.440 --> 01:08:47.580 and all the things that we have in this good land. 01:08:47.580 --> 01:08:49.650 We should bless the Lord. 01:08:49.650 --> 01:08:51.410 So what does this mean? 01:08:51.410 --> 01:08:53.130 What does this mean to bless the Lord? 01:08:53.130 --> 01:08:56.230 We should escape from our beautiful houses 01:08:56.230 --> 01:08:59.400 and our beautiful cars and our money and all of our food 01:08:59.400 --> 01:09:04.160 and come and worship God together and bless him 01:09:04.160 --> 01:09:06.520 and take that beautiful, wonderful car you have 01:09:06.520 --> 01:09:10.920 and drive 30, 40 minutes in it to come bless the Lord. 01:09:10.920 --> 01:09:12.080 Right? 01:09:12.080 --> 01:09:14.240 And not just use it for selfish ambition. 01:09:14.240 --> 01:09:15.410 Use it for yourself. 01:09:15.410 --> 01:09:17.340 Well, I'll drive an hour to the lake. 01:09:17.340 --> 01:09:19.370 I'll drive an hour to this restaurant, 01:09:19.370 --> 01:09:22.140 but I'm not gonna drive an hour to church. 01:09:22.140 --> 01:09:23.830 I'll only drive five minutes to church 01:09:23.830 --> 01:09:26.120 because that's how I wanna bless the Lord. 01:09:26.120 --> 01:09:28.580 Go to Psalm 26, go to Psalm 26. 01:09:28.580 --> 01:09:33.120 I'll tailgate all day long in the Cowboys parking lot 01:09:33.120 --> 01:09:36.570 and I'll go to the football game for hours and hours 01:09:36.570 --> 01:09:39.660 and I'll spend just stupid money on food, 01:09:39.660 --> 01:09:42.980 just absolutely stupid money on food. 01:09:42.980 --> 01:09:46.540 And then they'll complain like, oh, you went to church? 01:09:46.540 --> 01:09:47.910 Oh man, what a burden. 01:09:47.910 --> 01:09:51.100 It's like, you spent just like eight hours 01:09:51.100 --> 01:09:56.210 in a parking lot with a bunch of hillbillies 01:09:56.210 --> 01:10:01.080 drinking overpriced beer and overpriced goods. 01:10:01.080 --> 01:10:03.580 I mean, how is that, how is that better? 01:10:03.580 --> 01:10:05.130 How is that less of a burden? 01:10:05.130 --> 01:10:07.540 I mean, you just wasted your whole day as well, 01:10:07.540 --> 01:10:09.450 you know, in a carnal sense. 01:10:09.450 --> 01:10:10.520 But again, coming to church 01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:14.120 isn't gonna be wasting the day. 01:10:14.120 --> 01:10:14.980 Who are you gonna bless? 01:10:14.980 --> 01:10:16.260 Well, I'm gonna bless them cowboys. 01:10:16.260 --> 01:10:17.080 Well, you know what? 01:10:17.080 --> 01:10:19.560 They always let you down. 01:10:19.560 --> 01:10:22.410 God doesn't let you down. 01:10:22.410 --> 01:10:24.270 It's not making you smarter to go to the game. 01:10:24.270 --> 01:10:26.510 It's making you dumber. 01:10:26.510 --> 01:10:27.780 Bud dumber. 01:10:27.780 --> 01:10:29.360 It's not Budweiser. 01:10:29.360 --> 01:10:30.480 You wanna get wisdom? 01:10:30.480 --> 01:10:32.850 It comes from God's word. 01:10:32.850 --> 01:10:34.910 And we need to bless the Lord. 01:10:34.910 --> 01:10:36.620 You know, God's the one that gave us 01:10:36.620 --> 01:10:37.540 all this wonderful stuff 01:10:37.540 --> 01:10:39.040 that we're enjoying every single day. 01:10:39.040 --> 01:10:40.200 We should go and thank him 01:10:40.200 --> 01:10:41.470 for the things that he's given us. 01:10:41.470 --> 01:10:43.140 The Cowboys didn't give you anything. 01:10:43.140 --> 01:10:44.730 The Cowboys don't wanna bless you. 01:10:44.730 --> 01:10:50.250 The Cowboys just wanna take your money and then lose. 01:10:50.250 --> 01:10:51.510 You know that you don't get a refund 01:10:51.510 --> 01:10:53.340 if they lose the game. 01:10:53.340 --> 01:10:55.520 They're like lawyers. 01:10:55.520 --> 01:10:58.930 You lose the case, they still get paid. 01:10:58.930 --> 01:11:00.250 They're gonna bill you the exact same. 01:11:00.250 --> 01:11:02.580 There's not a special rate for like, we win the case, 01:11:02.580 --> 01:11:03.480 I'm gonna bill you at this rate. 01:11:03.480 --> 01:11:05.600 And if we lose the case, I'm billing you at this rate. 01:11:05.600 --> 01:11:08.570 It's like, no matter what, I'm billing you. 01:11:08.570 --> 01:11:12.040 So, you know, with lawyers, you just wanna get in and out, 01:11:12.040 --> 01:11:14.230 you know, or just stay away. 01:11:14.230 --> 01:11:16.460 And at the same place, look, the Cowboys, 01:11:16.460 --> 01:11:21.110 they could just totally fail, just lose, be awful. 01:11:21.110 --> 01:11:24.370 And they already got your money before you showed up. 01:11:24.370 --> 01:11:27.080 You already paid for it. 01:11:27.080 --> 01:11:29.390 Look, that's not gonna bless you. 01:11:29.390 --> 01:11:30.170 But you know what? 01:11:30.170 --> 01:11:32.720 You bless God, you actually give money to God, 01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:34.060 and he says he'll pour you out a blessing 01:11:34.060 --> 01:11:36.620 that you can't even receive. 01:11:36.620 --> 01:11:38.490 How does that make sense? 01:11:38.490 --> 01:11:43.300 Well, look, it's a for sure loser at the football game. 01:11:43.300 --> 01:11:46.190 It's a for sure loser at what most people 01:11:46.190 --> 01:11:48.950 are just wasting their money on, on the lottery system, 01:11:48.950 --> 01:11:52.060 at the casino, playing cards, 01:11:52.060 --> 01:11:53.750 you know, whatever they're wasting their money on. 01:11:53.750 --> 01:11:55.000 You know, you might as well realize 01:11:55.000 --> 01:11:56.300 where all the money and wealth is coming from, 01:11:56.300 --> 01:11:57.860 it's coming from God. 01:11:57.860 --> 01:11:59.850 Psalm 26, verse 12, the Bible says, 01:11:59.850 --> 01:12:02.060 "My foot standeth in an even place. 01:12:02.060 --> 01:12:05.580 "In the congregations will I bless the Lord." 01:12:05.580 --> 01:12:08.000 The Bible says we're supposed to bless the Lord. 01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:10.650 Notice the text is giving us a location. 01:12:10.650 --> 01:12:12.060 What's the location? 01:12:12.060 --> 01:12:13.710 In the congregations. 01:12:13.710 --> 01:12:15.450 You know what, that's called church. 01:12:15.450 --> 01:12:16.720 Church means congregation. 01:12:16.720 --> 01:12:18.190 Congregation means church. 01:12:18.190 --> 01:12:19.370 It means assembly. 01:12:19.370 --> 01:12:22.220 It means, hey, instead of blessing God wherever you want, 01:12:22.220 --> 01:12:23.450 you should come to the congregations 01:12:23.450 --> 01:12:25.730 and that's where you're gonna bless the Lord. 01:12:25.730 --> 01:12:28.860 You should be in church blessing God. 01:12:28.860 --> 01:12:32.300 Look at chapter, Psalm 28 verse six. 01:12:32.300 --> 01:12:35.960 Blessed be the Lord because he hath heard the voice 01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:37.140 of my supplications. 01:12:37.140 --> 01:12:38.280 Now, for a second time, 01:12:38.280 --> 01:12:39.390 I'm not gonna go to all these passages, 01:12:39.390 --> 01:12:40.290 but think about this. 01:12:40.290 --> 01:12:43.060 He says, I'm gonna bless God, why? 01:12:43.060 --> 01:12:45.910 Because, because why? 01:12:45.910 --> 01:12:48.500 Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. 01:12:48.500 --> 01:12:50.390 Now, if you look at Jacob, 01:12:50.390 --> 01:12:54.140 Jacob actually says in Genesis, 01:12:54.140 --> 01:12:56.440 he says, hey, if you bless me, 01:12:56.440 --> 01:12:58.380 if you give me money, if you give me all this, 01:12:58.380 --> 01:13:00.610 then I'll give you the 10th. 01:13:00.610 --> 01:13:01.650 So think about what Jacob's saying. 01:13:01.650 --> 01:13:03.980 He's saying, hey, if you bless me, 01:13:03.980 --> 01:13:05.910 then I'll bless you, right? 01:13:05.910 --> 01:13:07.670 Jacob's saying, I'll bless, I'll give this back to you. 01:13:07.670 --> 01:13:09.610 You give me wealth, I'll give you the money. 01:13:09.610 --> 01:13:12.260 Here it's saying, I'm gonna bless the Lord because what? 01:13:12.260 --> 01:13:14.310 He heard the voice of my supplications. 01:13:14.310 --> 01:13:15.420 You say, hey, I want more money. 01:13:15.420 --> 01:13:17.790 Why don't you pray and ask God to give you money? 01:13:17.790 --> 01:13:18.620 But here's what you need to do. 01:13:18.620 --> 01:13:20.090 When he gives you money, 01:13:20.090 --> 01:13:22.700 you make sure you bless the Lord. 01:13:22.700 --> 01:13:24.690 In return, you then bless the Lord. 01:13:24.690 --> 01:13:26.680 Don't then be selfish with that and think, 01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:28.780 oh, my power and my wealth got me this. 01:13:28.780 --> 01:13:29.610 No, no, no. 01:13:29.610 --> 01:13:31.750 Hey, if God blesses you, then bless the Lord, right? 01:13:31.750 --> 01:13:34.090 With your time, with your money, with your effort, 01:13:34.090 --> 01:13:37.230 with your lips, in the congregation. 01:13:37.230 --> 01:13:40.840 Look at chapter 34, verse one. 01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:43.730 I will bless the Lord at all times. 01:13:43.730 --> 01:13:46.500 His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 01:13:46.500 --> 01:13:48.790 So here's what I think's the most common usage 01:13:48.790 --> 01:13:51.580 of the word bless here, is just the praise of our lips, 01:13:51.580 --> 01:13:52.810 just saying thank you to the Lord, 01:13:52.810 --> 01:13:54.980 just praising God with our lips. 01:13:54.980 --> 01:13:58.270 But again, if I'm praising the Lord with my lips all times, 01:13:58.270 --> 01:13:59.960 did you notice what it said? 01:13:59.960 --> 01:14:02.660 I will bless the Lord at all times. 01:14:02.660 --> 01:14:04.970 It's gonna be pretty hard to be that thankful 01:14:04.970 --> 01:14:08.760 and that grateful and it not affect your actions. 01:14:08.760 --> 01:14:10.640 You know, if you have an attitude and a heart 01:14:10.640 --> 01:14:12.450 that's just very thankful and very, 01:14:12.450 --> 01:14:15.840 you just have so much gratitude towards the Lord, 01:14:15.840 --> 01:14:18.180 it's gonna be reflected in your decision making, 01:14:18.180 --> 01:14:20.020 where you're gonna go, what you're gonna do. 01:14:20.020 --> 01:14:21.310 I'm just so thankful for God, 01:14:21.310 --> 01:14:23.800 well then I'm gonna go to church on Sunday, right? 01:14:23.800 --> 01:14:24.790 I'm so thankful for God, 01:14:24.790 --> 01:14:25.990 I wanna go out and preach the gospel. 01:14:25.990 --> 01:14:28.130 Hey, I'm so thankful for what God's given unto me 01:14:28.130 --> 01:14:30.010 and blessed me with, so I wanna bless other people 01:14:30.010 --> 01:14:32.120 and help other people in their situations. 01:14:32.120 --> 01:14:34.980 You can't really have that attitude of gratefulness 01:14:34.980 --> 01:14:37.370 and it not affect your actions. 01:14:37.370 --> 01:14:41.510 Look at Psalm 103, go to Psalm 103, 01:14:41.510 --> 01:14:43.580 and I wanna look at just the first few verses here. 01:14:43.580 --> 01:14:51.130 Psalm 103, and a lot of songs are based on Psalm 103. 01:14:51.130 --> 01:14:55.410 But it says here, bless the Lord, oh my soul, 01:14:55.410 --> 01:14:56.930 and all that is within me. 01:14:56.930 --> 01:14:58.710 Bless his holy name. 01:14:58.710 --> 01:15:03.820 Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. 01:15:03.820 --> 01:15:05.300 Notice what the text is saying. 01:15:05.300 --> 01:15:06.950 It's saying, I need to make sure I'm blessing God 01:15:06.950 --> 01:15:09.030 with all my soul, why? 01:15:09.030 --> 01:15:11.210 Because of the benefits that he's been giving me. 01:15:11.210 --> 01:15:13.310 And isn't that what Deuteronomy chapter eight is hammering? 01:15:13.310 --> 01:15:14.990 Hey, I'm gonna give you all these benefits, 01:15:14.990 --> 01:15:16.890 all these blessings, all these good things, 01:15:16.890 --> 01:15:18.220 so then you can in turn what? 01:15:18.220 --> 01:15:21.030 Bless the Lord, right? 01:15:21.030 --> 01:15:23.910 Why would God wanna pour you out a blessing financially 01:15:23.910 --> 01:15:25.800 if you're not gonna then use that money 01:15:25.800 --> 01:15:28.290 to further the kingdom of God in any way? 01:15:28.290 --> 01:15:31.670 God obviously wants to pour money into you 01:15:31.670 --> 01:15:34.020 because you're gonna use that money for him. 01:15:34.020 --> 01:15:36.600 Just like he gives the guy that 10 talents, 01:15:36.600 --> 01:15:39.380 he's like, hey, he wants them to gather 10 talents. 01:15:39.380 --> 01:15:41.050 And then he's gonna bless him with even more 01:15:41.050 --> 01:15:42.120 because he did that, right? 01:15:42.120 --> 01:15:44.560 The guy that buries his talent and does nothing with it, 01:15:44.560 --> 01:15:46.330 well, he takes that away from him. 01:15:46.330 --> 01:15:47.280 Because you know what? 01:15:47.280 --> 01:15:49.030 You need to make sure when God's blessing you 01:15:49.030 --> 01:15:50.220 and giving you things, 01:15:50.220 --> 01:15:52.410 that you're still taking care of the Lord. 01:15:52.410 --> 01:15:55.020 And you know, you say, hey, well, I was faithful to God. 01:15:55.020 --> 01:15:56.510 I've been giving him money in times, 01:15:56.510 --> 01:15:57.810 but now that I got a lot of money, 01:15:57.810 --> 01:15:59.030 I don't know if I wanna do that anymore. 01:15:59.030 --> 01:16:01.330 No, you better double down, right? 01:16:01.330 --> 01:16:03.660 If God's like really blessing you and doing good for you, 01:16:03.660 --> 01:16:04.490 hey, you wanna make sure 01:16:04.490 --> 01:16:05.950 that you're continuing to bless the Lord 01:16:05.950 --> 01:16:07.270 and doing good to him. 01:16:07.270 --> 01:16:09.030 Hey, he's been helping you. 01:16:09.030 --> 01:16:10.060 You better be in church. 01:16:10.060 --> 01:16:11.030 You better serve God. 01:16:11.030 --> 01:16:12.400 You better read your Bible. 01:16:12.400 --> 01:16:14.300 You know, don't think like, oh, things are going good. 01:16:14.300 --> 01:16:17.030 I need to back off or take more time to bless myself. 01:16:17.030 --> 01:16:19.730 No, make sure you're blessing the Lord. 01:16:19.730 --> 01:16:21.250 And I do it with my soul. 01:16:21.250 --> 01:16:25.000 All that is within me, bless his holy name. 01:16:25.000 --> 01:16:26.540 Every ounce of me needs to make sure 01:16:26.540 --> 01:16:27.940 that I'm putting God first, 01:16:27.940 --> 01:16:29.910 that I'm seeking first the kingdom of God 01:16:29.910 --> 01:16:31.000 and his righteousness. 01:16:31.000 --> 01:16:36.000 Look at verse 21. 01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:38.580 Bless you the Lord, all ye as hosts, 01:16:38.580 --> 01:16:43.110 ye ministers of his that do his pleasure. 01:16:43.110 --> 01:16:45.750 So notice, again, it's kind of tying this idea 01:16:45.750 --> 01:16:49.120 of doing his pleasure, his ministers. 01:16:49.120 --> 01:16:49.960 Why? 01:16:49.960 --> 01:16:51.520 Because that's another aspect of blessing the Lord 01:16:51.520 --> 01:16:53.510 is us making sure church is going well 01:16:53.510 --> 01:16:54.930 and the things of God are going well 01:16:54.930 --> 01:16:56.320 and the Bible's going well. 01:16:56.320 --> 01:16:57.150 You know what? 01:16:57.150 --> 01:16:58.900 Praise God for the ministers 01:16:58.900 --> 01:17:01.330 who gave us the King James Bible, 01:17:01.330 --> 01:17:03.610 who are blessing the Lord and blessing us 01:17:03.610 --> 01:17:04.800 and blessing the kingdom of God 01:17:04.800 --> 01:17:06.290 with a King James Bible. 01:17:06.290 --> 01:17:07.710 You know, there are languages, 01:17:07.710 --> 01:17:08.620 there are people groups 01:17:08.620 --> 01:17:11.150 that don't have a King James Bible in their language. 01:17:11.150 --> 01:17:14.960 They don't have this magnificent work that they can use. 01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:15.790 You know what? 01:17:15.790 --> 01:17:17.690 Praise God for them that did his pleasure 01:17:17.690 --> 01:17:20.050 and translated the word of God. 01:17:20.050 --> 01:17:24.430 One more exact translation out of the holy tongues. 01:17:24.430 --> 01:17:25.550 One more. 01:17:25.550 --> 01:17:27.770 Hey, they said, we're not satisfied with the Geneva. 01:17:27.770 --> 01:17:29.360 We're not satisfied with the bishops. 01:17:29.360 --> 01:17:31.380 We're gonna give you the King James Bible. 01:17:31.380 --> 01:17:33.720 One more exact translation 01:17:33.720 --> 01:17:36.350 of the holy scriptures into the English tongue. 01:17:36.350 --> 01:17:37.750 Praise God. 01:17:37.750 --> 01:17:39.500 Praise God for the English tongue. 01:17:39.500 --> 01:17:41.450 Praise God for the King James Bible. 01:17:41.450 --> 01:17:44.560 Praise God for the works and the fruits that it's given us. 01:17:44.560 --> 01:17:45.390 Hey, you know what? 01:17:45.390 --> 01:17:49.260 We should bless people with the things of God as well. 01:17:49.260 --> 01:17:50.680 Hey, I love this church. 01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:51.510 This church is great. 01:17:51.510 --> 01:17:52.770 We should bless our children 01:17:52.770 --> 01:17:53.980 and we should bless other people 01:17:53.980 --> 01:17:56.310 with a great church like this. 01:17:56.310 --> 01:17:57.700 Hey, why do we send people out? 01:17:57.700 --> 01:18:00.950 Why do we send Pastor Dylan Oz to Oklahoma? 01:18:00.950 --> 01:18:02.940 'Cause we're trying to bless the Lord 01:18:02.940 --> 01:18:05.120 by creating another great church in Oklahoma 01:18:05.120 --> 01:18:06.270 and to bless those people 01:18:06.270 --> 01:18:08.300 and to bless the things of God. 01:18:08.300 --> 01:18:11.060 Why do we send Evangelist Urbanic to the Philippines? 01:18:11.060 --> 01:18:12.330 'Cause we wanna bless the Lord 01:18:12.330 --> 01:18:13.960 and we wanna bless the work of the Lord 01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:15.990 and we wanna start more churches over there. 01:18:15.990 --> 01:18:18.090 Look, it's not like having Pastor Oz 01:18:18.090 --> 01:18:22.850 and Evangelist Urbanic in our church wouldn't bless us. 01:18:22.850 --> 01:18:25.820 He would, but we wanna use those people 01:18:25.820 --> 01:18:28.610 and use resources to further the work of God 01:18:28.610 --> 01:18:30.180 and to bless the Lord 01:18:30.180 --> 01:18:33.580 and to do things to further his kingdom. 01:18:33.580 --> 01:18:39.280 We wanna do his pleasure, not our pleasure. 01:18:39.280 --> 01:18:47.550 Go to Psalm 134, go to Psalm 134. 01:18:47.550 --> 01:18:49.160 We want our hearts and our affections 01:18:49.160 --> 01:18:50.720 and our minds and our resources 01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:57.890 and everything we have to bless the Lord. 01:18:57.890 --> 01:19:00.290 Psalm 134, look what it says in verse two. 01:19:00.290 --> 01:19:04.940 "Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord." 01:19:04.940 --> 01:19:08.620 Notice, again, the location, church. 01:19:08.620 --> 01:19:11.410 So I don't want you to get this arbitrary, 01:19:11.410 --> 01:19:13.760 imaginary idea of what blessing the Lord is. 01:19:13.760 --> 01:19:15.470 It's something tangible. 01:19:15.470 --> 01:19:16.660 What is it? 01:19:16.660 --> 01:19:18.160 It's being in church. 01:19:18.160 --> 01:19:19.690 It's actually singing the hymns. 01:19:19.690 --> 01:19:21.980 It's singing the songs with your heart and with your soul 01:19:21.980 --> 01:19:25.370 and having affection towards the Lord. 01:19:25.370 --> 01:19:26.190 What was the definition? 01:19:26.190 --> 01:19:29.490 It's affection or benevolence towards someone dear. 01:19:29.490 --> 01:19:30.680 God is dear unto us. 01:19:30.680 --> 01:19:32.060 The Lord Jesus Christ is dear unto us. 01:19:32.060 --> 01:19:34.760 So we wanna have our affections towards the things of God, 01:19:34.760 --> 01:19:38.080 towards God, towards the Son of God, towards Jesus Christ. 01:19:38.080 --> 01:19:41.100 We want our hearts and our minds and our souls knit 01:19:41.100 --> 01:19:43.950 under the things of God, under the word of God. 01:19:43.950 --> 01:19:46.260 And then of course we want our benevolence 01:19:46.260 --> 01:19:48.000 to be towards God and the things of God. 01:19:48.000 --> 01:19:49.460 We want church to be successful. 01:19:49.460 --> 01:19:51.240 We want church to thrive. 01:19:51.240 --> 01:19:54.870 We want church to have all the things that it needs. 01:19:54.870 --> 01:19:56.880 And whenever church is going poorly, 01:19:56.880 --> 01:19:58.520 the things of God are going poorly 01:19:58.520 --> 01:19:59.910 and the nation's going poorly. 01:19:59.910 --> 01:20:01.910 When you want your nation and your family 01:20:01.910 --> 01:20:04.720 and yourself to be blessed, you bless the Lord 01:20:04.720 --> 01:20:06.230 and then he blesses you. 01:20:06.230 --> 01:20:07.570 When you get away from church 01:20:07.570 --> 01:20:08.670 and you get away from the Bible 01:20:08.670 --> 01:20:10.370 and you get away from keeping his commandments, 01:20:10.370 --> 01:20:11.870 well then your nation is gonna be a curse 01:20:11.870 --> 01:20:13.810 and it's gonna perish. 01:20:13.810 --> 01:20:16.460 And it's just, these things are just tied one to another. 01:20:16.460 --> 01:20:18.880 We have to understand where the source of success 01:20:18.880 --> 01:20:20.460 and prosperity and blessing comes from, 01:20:20.460 --> 01:20:23.360 it comes from God and from us blessing him. 01:20:23.360 --> 01:20:25.470 You pour into him, he pours into you. 01:20:25.470 --> 01:20:27.340 He pours into you, you pour into him. 01:20:27.340 --> 01:20:31.550 And it's just a cycle, just like the water cycle, 01:20:31.550 --> 01:20:34.090 just like the rock cycle, there's the spiritual cycle, 01:20:34.090 --> 01:20:35.830 there's the blessing cycle of God. 01:20:35.830 --> 01:20:37.890 You bless him, he blesses you. 01:20:37.890 --> 01:20:39.680 Then you bless him again and then he blesses you 01:20:39.680 --> 01:20:41.820 and it's just a perfect little cycle. 01:20:41.820 --> 01:20:43.920 Now again, this is true 01:20:43.920 --> 01:20:46.730 and prosperity teachers love to preach this. 01:20:46.730 --> 01:20:47.940 It's not saying though you're gonna get 01:20:47.940 --> 01:20:51.190 necessarily like filthy rich. 01:20:51.190 --> 01:20:52.780 Okay, and again, what's filthy? 01:20:52.780 --> 01:20:54.870 It's unjust gain. 01:20:54.870 --> 01:20:57.790 Take getting money from lies and deception. 01:20:57.790 --> 01:20:59.700 You know, Joel Osteen is filthy rich 01:20:59.700 --> 01:21:02.690 because he preaches lies to get money. 01:21:02.690 --> 01:21:04.660 Kenneth Copeland is filthy rich 01:21:04.660 --> 01:21:07.060 because he lies to get money. 01:21:07.060 --> 01:21:08.720 Look, people that have money, 01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:12.810 that have gotten it by hard work and diligence, 01:21:12.810 --> 01:21:14.930 there's nothing wrong with those people. 01:21:14.930 --> 01:21:17.430 God will give you wealth with no sorrow. 01:21:17.430 --> 01:21:19.320 God can bless you without that. 01:21:19.320 --> 01:21:21.330 You know, you don't wanna be filthy rich 01:21:21.330 --> 01:21:23.640 by getting money through deception and lies 01:21:23.640 --> 01:21:27.100 and cheating and stealing and robbing from God 01:21:27.100 --> 01:21:29.730 and robbing your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ 01:21:29.730 --> 01:21:32.590 and charging usury and doing all these 01:21:32.590 --> 01:21:34.660 unjust gain activities. 01:21:34.660 --> 01:21:36.890 You wanna make money by just working hard 01:21:36.890 --> 01:21:38.920 and loving people and being diligent 01:21:38.920 --> 01:21:40.550 and allowing God to bless you. 01:21:40.550 --> 01:21:44.420 And look, if God blesses you, then so be it. 01:21:44.420 --> 01:21:46.850 Obviously, we have to work in a sinful world. 01:21:46.850 --> 01:21:49.310 You can't, there's no such thing as a clean business, 01:21:49.310 --> 01:21:51.570 but at the end of the day, there's working hard, 01:21:51.570 --> 01:21:52.800 and then there's doing things that are just 01:21:52.800 --> 01:21:56.450 obviously sinful, overtly bad, overtly criminal, 01:21:56.450 --> 01:21:57.760 and we don't wanna get money by that. 01:21:57.760 --> 01:21:59.620 We don't wanna lie to people. 01:21:59.620 --> 01:22:00.570 You know, you can be a salesman, 01:22:00.570 --> 01:22:02.930 you can be a good salesman, or you can just lie to people. 01:22:02.930 --> 01:22:04.430 You know what, just be a good salesman. 01:22:04.430 --> 01:22:06.430 Be someone that has character and integrity 01:22:06.430 --> 01:22:08.130 when they sell a product, right? 01:22:08.130 --> 01:22:10.410 If you do service, do a good service. 01:22:10.410 --> 01:22:11.580 Don't do a cheap service 01:22:11.580 --> 01:22:13.970 and try to take advantage of people, right? 01:22:13.970 --> 01:22:17.200 You work in, you know, the world that we live in. 01:22:17.200 --> 01:22:20.190 Hey, you know, sometimes usury is just part of the game, man. 01:22:20.190 --> 01:22:21.980 I mean, good luck with that kind of stuff. 01:22:21.980 --> 01:22:23.850 But hey, at least just be honest 01:22:23.850 --> 01:22:25.760 and use integrity in that industry, 01:22:25.760 --> 01:22:27.600 in the finance industry and banking 01:22:27.600 --> 01:22:30.660 and, you know, any kind of lending 01:22:30.660 --> 01:22:31.500 or any of that kind of stuff. 01:22:31.500 --> 01:22:33.490 I mean, hey, make sure you're on the up and up 01:22:33.490 --> 01:22:34.770 and you're not some of these, you know, 01:22:34.770 --> 01:22:36.600 crooked, evil, wicked people. 01:22:36.600 --> 01:22:38.440 But at the end of the day, hey, 01:22:38.440 --> 01:22:39.950 God is not gonna bless those 01:22:39.950 --> 01:22:41.730 that are not keeping his commandments. 01:22:41.730 --> 01:22:42.820 And you don't wanna be filthy rich. 01:22:42.820 --> 01:22:44.490 You don't wanna be loaded. 01:22:44.490 --> 01:22:45.930 But let me tell you something. 01:22:45.930 --> 01:22:48.280 If you bless God, he will bless you. 01:22:48.280 --> 01:22:49.390 It's true. 01:22:49.390 --> 01:22:51.470 It's not like it's not true. 01:22:51.470 --> 01:22:52.550 But at the end of the day, 01:22:52.550 --> 01:22:57.120 you're not gonna probably have Elon Musk wealth, okay? 01:22:57.120 --> 01:23:00.300 You're not gonna have a Silverstein wealth. 01:23:00.300 --> 01:23:02.930 You're not gonna have a Rothschild kind of wealth, right? 01:23:02.930 --> 01:23:04.910 'Cause the only way to get that kind of wealth 01:23:04.910 --> 01:23:08.800 is just to be a dirty rotten scoundrel, okay? 01:23:08.800 --> 01:23:12.440 And talking about them, this chapter is about Israel, okay? 01:23:12.440 --> 01:23:15.640 But I wanna just make one more point 01:23:15.640 --> 01:23:17.820 from this passage that I thought was important. 01:23:17.820 --> 01:23:21.080 And it's the fact that we need the Bible. 01:23:21.080 --> 01:23:23.220 And again, I've been hammering that point, 01:23:23.220 --> 01:23:25.020 but that's what actually gives us the wealth, 01:23:25.020 --> 01:23:26.030 that's what gives us our life, 01:23:26.030 --> 01:23:27.540 that's what gives us success. 01:23:27.540 --> 01:23:29.150 Everything comes from the Bible. 01:23:29.150 --> 01:23:30.170 And that's what's emphasized 01:23:30.170 --> 01:23:31.420 in the very beginning of this chapter 01:23:31.420 --> 01:23:33.300 in verses one through three. 01:23:33.300 --> 01:23:37.680 And he has a famous quote here in the passage 01:23:37.680 --> 01:23:39.480 that's quoted in Matthew chapter four and Luke four. 01:23:39.480 --> 01:23:42.520 Go if you would to Matthew chapter four. 01:23:42.520 --> 01:23:46.680 But it said that man does not live by bread only, 01:23:46.680 --> 01:23:48.310 but by every word that proceedeth 01:23:48.310 --> 01:23:52.220 out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. 01:23:52.220 --> 01:23:55.330 So the Bible is emphasizing that the most important thing 01:23:55.330 --> 01:23:58.460 that we can even have in this world is the Bible, 01:23:58.460 --> 01:23:59.260 is the word of God. 01:23:59.260 --> 01:24:04.110 And not just the word of God, every word of God, 01:24:04.110 --> 01:24:05.470 every single word of God. 01:24:05.470 --> 01:24:08.380 Now this is quoted in Matthew chapter number four. 01:24:08.380 --> 01:24:12.420 And it's kind of interesting because it's like Jesus 01:24:12.420 --> 01:24:15.240 kind of goes through a mini exodus 01:24:15.240 --> 01:24:16.750 like the children of Israel did. 01:24:16.750 --> 01:24:18.980 'Cause you know, they're like 40 years in the wilderness. 01:24:18.980 --> 01:24:21.290 He's like 40 days in the wilderness. 01:24:21.290 --> 01:24:23.230 And you kind of like have a lot of parallels 01:24:23.230 --> 01:24:24.640 between what Jesus goes through 01:24:24.640 --> 01:24:26.170 and what the children of Israel went through. 01:24:26.170 --> 01:24:27.720 He's tempted of the devil. 01:24:27.720 --> 01:24:29.350 But he's the thing, the children of Israel failed 01:24:29.350 --> 01:24:31.370 and Jesus Christ is successful. 01:24:31.370 --> 01:24:33.040 And he overcomes them. 01:24:33.040 --> 01:24:36.460 And of course the manna is way to test them. 01:24:36.460 --> 01:24:38.970 Him not eating is his way to be tested. 01:24:38.970 --> 01:24:40.720 Is he gonna keep the commandments or not? 01:24:40.720 --> 01:24:42.070 And then that's what the devil's doing here 01:24:42.070 --> 01:24:42.900 is tempting him. 01:24:42.900 --> 01:24:44.650 It says in verse three, "And when the tempter came to him, 01:24:44.650 --> 01:24:46.020 he said, 'If thou be the son of God, 01:24:46.020 --> 01:24:48.930 command these stones to be made bread.' 01:24:48.930 --> 01:24:49.880 But he answered and said, 'As written, 01:24:49.880 --> 01:24:51.650 ye shall not live by bread alone, 01:24:51.650 --> 01:24:53.490 but by every word that proceedeth 01:24:53.490 --> 01:24:55.030 out of the mouth of God.'" 01:24:55.030 --> 01:24:57.420 So hey, we need every single word of God. 01:24:57.420 --> 01:25:00.050 Luke 4.4 also says this a little differently, 01:25:00.050 --> 01:25:01.630 but basically says the same thing. 01:25:01.630 --> 01:25:02.890 Luke chapter number four, verse four, 01:25:02.890 --> 01:25:04.890 and this has gotta be one of my favorite verses 01:25:04.890 --> 01:25:06.470 in the Bible. 01:25:06.470 --> 01:25:08.190 I like a lot of passages. 01:25:08.190 --> 01:25:10.370 You know, Psalm 12, six and seven is a great passage. 01:25:10.370 --> 01:25:14.460 I love Romans chapter number 10, nine and 10, and verse 13. 01:25:14.460 --> 01:25:15.820 I love lots of different verses, 01:25:15.820 --> 01:25:17.920 but Luke 4.4 has just gotta be one of my favorite verses 01:25:17.920 --> 01:25:19.050 in the Bible. 01:25:19.050 --> 01:25:21.930 And it's removed in a lot of modern versions. 01:25:21.930 --> 01:25:25.270 The second phrase here mentioned in Luke 4.4, 01:25:25.270 --> 01:25:27.330 but it says that man should not live by bread alone, 01:25:27.330 --> 01:25:29.490 but by every word of God. 01:25:29.490 --> 01:25:31.530 Whereas the every word of God is taken out of the NIV. 01:25:31.530 --> 01:25:32.560 It's taken out of the ESV. 01:25:32.560 --> 01:25:34.610 It's taken out a lot of these modern versions. 01:25:34.610 --> 01:25:35.880 And you know, it's just a shame. 01:25:35.880 --> 01:25:38.330 It's embarrassing for them. 01:25:38.330 --> 01:25:40.860 They should obviously just burn their translations 01:25:40.860 --> 01:25:42.810 because they're not every word of God. 01:25:42.810 --> 01:25:44.140 And more important than, you know, 01:25:44.140 --> 01:25:49.470 having organic bread is having an organic Bible, okay? 01:25:49.900 --> 01:25:52.930 That's actually got all the nutrients and all the minerals 01:25:52.930 --> 01:25:54.630 and it's got all the words 01:25:54.630 --> 01:25:56.850 because you need every word of God. 01:25:56.850 --> 01:25:58.740 You know, there's bozos out there today. 01:25:58.740 --> 01:26:01.810 There's liars out there today that downplay the Bible 01:26:01.810 --> 01:26:03.110 and the importance of the word of God 01:26:03.110 --> 01:26:04.770 and act like it's not needed 01:26:04.770 --> 01:26:07.120 or it's not what God even wants us to have. 01:26:07.120 --> 01:26:09.590 You know, the Bible's dangerous. 01:26:09.590 --> 01:26:11.910 You know, people like Nick Flentes, 01:26:11.910 --> 01:26:15.900 which this bozo online that has captured 01:26:15.900 --> 01:26:17.510 a lot of people's hearts and minds 01:26:17.510 --> 01:26:20.920 because he just says stupid things and he attacked Israel. 01:26:20.920 --> 01:26:22.310 And I guess if you just attack Israel, 01:26:22.310 --> 01:26:25.030 it's like, oh, I'm just some automatically friend. 01:26:25.030 --> 01:26:29.100 Well, look, not liking Israel is a normal attitude, okay? 01:26:29.100 --> 01:26:31.500 Don't act like this is special. 01:26:31.500 --> 01:26:34.250 The Bible says they're contrary to all men. 01:26:34.250 --> 01:26:37.240 Okay, so that just makes you a normal person 01:26:37.240 --> 01:26:41.070 and not a grifter, not someone that's just being paid to lie, 01:26:41.070 --> 01:26:45.300 not getting paid $7,000 every post that you make, okay? 01:26:45.300 --> 01:26:48.620 So yeah, not liking Israel doesn't make you special. 01:26:48.620 --> 01:26:52.020 But this guy, this Nick Flentes guy is a Catholic 01:26:52.020 --> 01:26:55.090 and this is a quote that he had in a recent video. 01:26:55.090 --> 01:27:00.120 He said, "Christ left us a church, not a Bible." 01:27:00.120 --> 01:27:02.660 And then he said, "The Bible was not canonized 01:27:02.660 --> 01:27:05.090 "until centuries after the gospel." 01:27:05.090 --> 01:27:06.970 And he said, "In the book of Acts, 01:27:06.970 --> 01:27:10.210 "we were left a church, not a Bible." 01:27:10.210 --> 01:27:13.170 Now again, this is just such a Catholic attitude. 01:27:13.170 --> 01:27:16.360 It's not like this one guy is just a bozo 01:27:16.360 --> 01:27:18.140 and the Catholics have a different view. 01:27:18.140 --> 01:27:19.720 This is a Catholic view, 01:27:19.720 --> 01:27:23.050 that you need the church to tell you what the Bible says. 01:27:23.050 --> 01:27:25.900 And that by having a Bible and being able to read the Bible, 01:27:25.900 --> 01:27:26.910 it's actually dangerous 01:27:26.910 --> 01:27:28.870 and people are gonna come up with weird ideas, 01:27:28.870 --> 01:27:31.490 like transgender pastors. 01:27:31.490 --> 01:27:33.170 He said, "The Protestant Reformation 01:27:33.170 --> 01:27:34.510 "and giving the Bible to people 01:27:34.510 --> 01:27:36.670 "is what gave us transgender pastors." 01:27:36.670 --> 01:27:38.630 Well, I'd love to see the passage in the Bible 01:27:38.630 --> 01:27:43.330 that someone read that decided to have a transgender pastor. 01:27:43.330 --> 01:27:44.970 Look, no one read the Bible and thought, 01:27:44.970 --> 01:27:47.750 "You know what, we need trannies, you know?" 01:27:47.750 --> 01:27:49.850 No, people read the Bible and said, "Let's kill them." 01:27:49.850 --> 01:27:51.360 That's what the Bible says. 01:27:51.360 --> 01:27:52.550 Says to stone them with stones. 01:27:52.550 --> 01:27:53.660 That's what the Bible says. 01:27:53.660 --> 01:27:55.370 The Bible says he made them male and female. 01:27:55.370 --> 01:27:58.620 There's no such thing as transgender or tranny or whatever. 01:27:58.620 --> 01:28:00.570 Look, obviously a man could dress like a woman. 01:28:00.570 --> 01:28:03.190 That's called being effeminate or a cross dresser. 01:28:03.190 --> 01:28:06.200 And in Deuteronomy 22, it says you're in abomination. 01:28:06.200 --> 01:28:10.020 It doesn't say like, "Hey, let's make this guy the pastor now." 01:28:10.020 --> 01:28:11.850 That's nonsense. 01:28:11.850 --> 01:28:15.240 Look, just because people say things in the name of Christ 01:28:15.240 --> 01:28:17.210 doesn't mean the Bible is what caused them to do it. 01:28:17.210 --> 01:28:18.870 In fact, those churches hate the Bible 01:28:18.870 --> 01:28:21.390 and they're not reading the King James Bible. 01:28:21.390 --> 01:28:24.090 So it'd be silly to then accuse the Bible 01:28:24.090 --> 01:28:26.020 of actually causing them to be like this 01:28:26.020 --> 01:28:27.130 or to act like this. 01:28:27.130 --> 01:28:28.240 They hate the Bible. 01:28:28.240 --> 01:28:29.310 They hate the King James Bible. 01:28:29.310 --> 01:28:32.550 They burn the King James Bible. 01:28:32.550 --> 01:28:35.580 But the Bible's clear that we need every word of God. 01:28:35.580 --> 01:28:38.870 It's not like, oh, well, God, we just need church. 01:28:38.870 --> 01:28:39.670 We don't need the Bible. 01:28:39.670 --> 01:28:41.620 Look, I'm for church. 01:28:41.620 --> 01:28:42.730 I've already spent a lot of time 01:28:42.730 --> 01:28:44.330 talking about the pros of church. 01:28:44.330 --> 01:28:45.160 Let me tell you something. 01:28:45.160 --> 01:28:48.150 The Bible is just as necessary 01:28:48.150 --> 01:28:50.590 or more necessary than church, in my opinion. 01:28:50.590 --> 01:28:51.930 And we shouldn't downplay either. 01:28:51.930 --> 01:28:53.240 Church is super important. 01:28:53.240 --> 01:28:55.610 The church was bought by the blood of Jesus Christ. 01:28:55.610 --> 01:28:57.870 Christ died for the institution of the church. 01:28:57.870 --> 01:28:59.890 But at the end of the day, we need the scripture. 01:28:59.890 --> 01:29:01.380 We need the Bible. 01:29:01.380 --> 01:29:03.950 And to say that Christ left us the church 01:29:03.950 --> 01:29:05.570 without a Bible is just retarded. 01:29:05.570 --> 01:29:07.190 I'm sorry. 01:29:07.190 --> 01:29:08.000 It's retarded. 01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:08.910 Go to Acts chapter 17. 01:29:08.910 --> 01:29:10.600 Go to Acts chapter number 17. 01:29:10.600 --> 01:29:12.680 It's like, it's so funny. 01:29:12.680 --> 01:29:14.020 This is what Catholics say. 01:29:14.020 --> 01:29:15.860 They're like, oh, you should thank us 01:29:15.860 --> 01:29:18.850 for giving you a Bible. 01:29:18.850 --> 01:29:22.240 It's like, you know, I just love this type of an attitude. 01:29:22.240 --> 01:29:23.450 You know, it's like, oh, okay. 01:29:23.450 --> 01:29:25.020 You know, thank me for America. 01:29:25.020 --> 01:29:28.320 It's like, I didn't even build America, number one, okay? 01:29:28.320 --> 01:29:29.700 You didn't give me a Bible. 01:29:29.700 --> 01:29:31.300 So I'm definitely not gonna thank you. 01:29:31.300 --> 01:29:35.360 No one alive gave me the King James Bible, okay? 01:29:35.360 --> 01:29:39.040 It was translated 400 years ago, buddy. 01:29:39.040 --> 01:29:41.380 You can't take credit for that. 01:29:41.380 --> 01:29:44.580 I don't care who your daddy was, okay? 01:29:44.580 --> 01:29:47.340 It's like, it's so silly to act like, 01:29:47.340 --> 01:29:48.990 yeah, my great, great, great, great, great, great, 01:29:48.990 --> 01:29:51.430 great, great grandfather was a translator 01:29:51.430 --> 01:29:52.430 on the King James Committee. 01:29:52.430 --> 01:29:54.330 Well, you still didn't give me the Bible, okay? 01:29:54.330 --> 01:29:56.010 Even if that was true, which it's not 01:29:56.010 --> 01:29:57.950 for a lot of these Catholics, okay? 01:29:57.950 --> 01:29:59.020 But it's just silly to say 01:29:59.020 --> 01:30:00.530 that the Catholics gave us a Bible. 01:30:00.530 --> 01:30:03.490 What do you do before the Catholic Church? 01:30:03.490 --> 01:30:05.700 Did the Catholic Church invent Hebrew? 01:30:05.700 --> 01:30:07.510 Did the Catholic Church go back in time 01:30:07.510 --> 01:30:10.740 and give the tablets of stone to Moses on the Mount? 01:30:10.740 --> 01:30:13.300 Like how in the world is the Catholics gonna take credit 01:30:13.300 --> 01:30:15.110 for the Bible? 01:30:15.110 --> 01:30:17.350 And look, Acts chapter number 17, 01:30:17.350 --> 01:30:18.770 look what the Bible says in verse 11. 01:30:18.770 --> 01:30:21.080 Let's see, did God give us just a church in Acts 01:30:21.080 --> 01:30:22.430 or did he give us a Bible? 01:30:22.430 --> 01:30:24.390 Well, let's see what the Bible says in Acts chapter 17, 01:30:24.390 --> 01:30:25.640 verse number 11. 01:30:25.640 --> 01:30:27.470 These are more noble than those in Thessalonica 01:30:27.470 --> 01:30:30.470 and that they received the word with all readiness of mind 01:30:30.470 --> 01:30:32.730 and searched the scriptures daily, 01:30:32.730 --> 01:30:34.530 whether those things are so. 01:30:34.530 --> 01:30:36.440 So here's a group of people that go to church, 01:30:36.440 --> 01:30:37.680 but you know what made them better 01:30:37.680 --> 01:30:38.900 than the people that go to church? 01:30:38.900 --> 01:30:43.370 Is that they went home and actually read the Bible. 01:30:43.370 --> 01:30:46.850 But Nick Fuentes has no idea what the Bible actually says. 01:30:46.850 --> 01:30:49.240 And so that's why he makes stupid statements 01:30:49.240 --> 01:30:50.090 like the Catholic church. 01:30:50.090 --> 01:30:51.310 Oh, you need the Catholic church 01:30:51.310 --> 01:30:53.220 to interpret the Bible for you. 01:30:53.220 --> 01:30:56.400 But that's just gonna take you back to the dark ages, buddy. 01:30:56.400 --> 01:30:58.070 Go to the second Timothy chapter number three. 01:30:58.070 --> 01:31:00.380 Here's clear text, clear proof. 01:31:00.380 --> 01:31:02.470 In the book of Acts, they were going home 01:31:02.470 --> 01:31:04.000 and reading the Bible to make sure 01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:05.610 that the Bible matched the church. 01:31:05.610 --> 01:31:06.500 Why? 01:31:06.500 --> 01:31:09.450 Otherwise, the church can lead you down a bad path, 01:31:09.450 --> 01:31:13.310 like the Catholic church, which will lead you to hell. 01:31:13.310 --> 01:31:16.610 There is no salvation in the Catholic church, 01:31:16.610 --> 01:31:17.950 which again, the Catholic church, 01:31:17.950 --> 01:31:20.020 their official doctrine is there's no salvation 01:31:20.020 --> 01:31:21.760 outside the Catholic church. 01:31:21.760 --> 01:31:23.850 You have to literally be a part of a Catholic church 01:31:23.850 --> 01:31:25.490 in order to be saved. 01:31:25.490 --> 01:31:27.120 And while you're part of the Catholic church, 01:31:27.120 --> 01:31:28.900 you have to be taken to Eucharist, 01:31:28.900 --> 01:31:30.250 because they believe you have to literally eat 01:31:30.250 --> 01:31:32.350 Jesus' physical body and physical blood 01:31:32.350 --> 01:31:34.210 in order to go to have salvation. 01:31:34.210 --> 01:31:36.030 You have to be in a state of grace. 01:31:36.030 --> 01:31:37.500 And so when they excommunicate you, 01:31:37.500 --> 01:31:39.570 they refuse you to have the Eucharist, 01:31:39.570 --> 01:31:41.190 thereby believing that you're not saved. 01:31:41.190 --> 01:31:43.390 You will die and go to hell, 01:31:43.390 --> 01:31:45.380 or go to purgatory or whatever nonsense they have. 01:31:45.380 --> 01:31:46.270 I know that, but I'm just saying, 01:31:46.270 --> 01:31:47.680 they don't believe you will be saved 01:31:47.680 --> 01:31:48.750 if you're not in a state of grace. 01:31:48.750 --> 01:31:49.590 And to be in a state of grace, 01:31:49.590 --> 01:31:51.340 you have to be actively attending mass. 01:31:51.340 --> 01:31:53.280 And actively attending mass, you have to eat the Eucharist, 01:31:53.280 --> 01:31:55.030 because you have to literally eat his physical body 01:31:55.030 --> 01:31:57.660 and his physical blood in order to go to heaven. 01:31:57.660 --> 01:31:58.450 And then they'll say like, 01:31:58.450 --> 01:32:00.530 "Yeah, we believe in faith alone too." 01:32:00.530 --> 01:32:04.820 Liar, you don't even know what faith means. 01:32:04.820 --> 01:32:07.650 They believe in hardcore works. 01:32:07.650 --> 01:32:11.170 They believe in cannibalism salvation. 01:32:11.170 --> 01:32:14.550 You have to eat human blood and human body 01:32:14.550 --> 01:32:16.470 in order to go to heaven. 01:32:16.470 --> 01:32:19.260 That's what the Catholic Church officially teaches. 01:32:19.260 --> 01:32:20.410 And of course, you know, 01:32:20.410 --> 01:32:22.430 Nick Fuentes would be someone that would adhere to that 01:32:22.430 --> 01:32:24.880 and believe those type of arguments as well. 01:32:24.880 --> 01:32:26.780 And they downplay the Bible, 01:32:26.780 --> 01:32:29.950 which that's actually what gives you salvation 01:32:29.950 --> 01:32:31.580 because faith comes by hearing and hearing 01:32:31.580 --> 01:32:32.410 by the word of God. 01:32:32.410 --> 01:32:33.520 You actually believe what the Bible says. 01:32:33.520 --> 01:32:35.750 You believe John 3.16 and that's what gets you saved. 01:32:35.750 --> 01:32:37.650 The Catholic Church lies to you and says, 01:32:37.650 --> 01:32:39.990 come down to this pedophile in a dress up here, 01:32:39.990 --> 01:32:41.460 let him shove a cracker in your mouth 01:32:41.460 --> 01:32:42.790 and you're gonna go to heaven. 01:32:42.790 --> 01:32:44.150 Now you just sound like a parrot. 01:32:44.150 --> 01:32:46.300 Oh yeah, the parrot, Nick Fuentes. 01:32:46.300 --> 01:32:49.470 Bawk, probably want a cracker, bawk. 01:32:49.470 --> 01:32:50.850 Give me some mass, bawk. 01:32:50.850 --> 01:32:52.560 You don't need a Bible, bawk. 01:32:52.560 --> 01:32:54.790 The guy's just gonna die and go to hell. 01:32:54.790 --> 01:32:58.660 Like a stupid little parrot that worships a woman statue. 01:32:58.660 --> 01:32:59.840 What a simp. 01:32:59.840 --> 01:33:01.810 And then he wants to sit here and act like he's so manly 01:33:01.810 --> 01:33:02.630 and so tough. 01:33:02.630 --> 01:33:05.320 You know he's gonna drag everyone back to the dark ages 01:33:05.320 --> 01:33:07.230 like the idiot that he is. 01:33:07.230 --> 01:33:10.310 Let me tell you something, the Bible gives you wisdom. 01:33:10.310 --> 01:33:12.140 And the Bible tells you the Catholic church 01:33:12.140 --> 01:33:16.170 is a den of idiots that can't read and don't wanna read 01:33:16.170 --> 01:33:18.350 and don't wanna study the scripture 'cause they're lazy. 01:33:18.350 --> 01:33:20.530 And so they're gonna die and go to hell. 01:33:20.530 --> 01:33:22.000 You know what, faith comes by hearing 01:33:22.000 --> 01:33:23.310 and hearing by the word of God. 01:33:23.310 --> 01:33:24.810 And you know what, I don't hate Catholics. 01:33:24.810 --> 01:33:27.310 I just want them to get out of that stupid cult 01:33:27.310 --> 01:33:29.530 that they're in and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 01:33:29.530 --> 01:33:31.080 and get saved. 01:33:31.080 --> 01:33:32.760 'Cause Catholics will not go to heaven 01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:35.780 by getting a cracker shoved down their throat 01:33:35.780 --> 01:33:38.800 and then drinking a little bit of alcohol to top it off. 01:33:38.800 --> 01:33:41.350 Chase it down with some wine. 01:33:41.350 --> 01:33:43.830 You know, that's not gonna save you whatsoever. 01:33:43.830 --> 01:33:48.020 It's just gonna, you know, burn your throat a little bit. 01:33:48.020 --> 01:33:49.830 And look, you think I'm lying. 01:33:49.830 --> 01:33:52.310 That is exactly what the Catholic Church is doing. 01:33:52.310 --> 01:33:55.120 Whether you like it or not, that is being Catholic. 01:33:55.120 --> 01:33:57.090 The Bible says that we need the word of God. 01:33:57.090 --> 01:34:00.870 And yes, Christ didn't physically hand a King James Bible 01:34:00.870 --> 01:34:02.720 to people before he ascended up into heaven. 01:34:02.720 --> 01:34:03.550 But let me tell you something, 01:34:03.550 --> 01:34:05.270 the scriptures were already in people's hands 01:34:05.270 --> 01:34:08.190 before he even showed up. 01:34:08.190 --> 01:34:11.580 And when they're going around in the book of Acts, 01:34:11.580 --> 01:34:14.010 they're showing up in Greek places 01:34:14.010 --> 01:34:15.440 where they already have the word of God. 01:34:15.440 --> 01:34:17.060 The Bible says in Acts chapter number 15 01:34:17.060 --> 01:34:20.080 that Moses was read in every synagogue. 01:34:20.080 --> 01:34:22.720 People that wanted the Bible could have scripture. 01:34:22.720 --> 01:34:25.750 I get it, that it was not necessarily as easy, 01:34:25.750 --> 01:34:27.830 they didn't have the printing press and blah, blah, blah. 01:34:27.830 --> 01:34:29.970 But you wanted the Bible in the Old Testament, 01:34:29.970 --> 01:34:31.570 you were gonna have the Bible. 01:34:31.570 --> 01:34:32.630 Reason why people didn't have the Bible 01:34:32.630 --> 01:34:34.370 is 'cause they didn't want it. 01:34:34.370 --> 01:34:36.170 Second Timothy chapter three, 01:34:36.170 --> 01:34:40.720 look what it says in verse number 15. 01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:42.640 And that from a child, 01:34:42.640 --> 01:34:44.180 thou hast known the holy scriptures 01:34:44.180 --> 01:34:45.210 which are able to make thee wiser 01:34:45.210 --> 01:34:46.120 than the salvation through faith, 01:34:46.120 --> 01:34:47.180 which is in Christ Jesus. 01:34:47.180 --> 01:34:48.520 Oh, you need someone to interpret it. 01:34:48.520 --> 01:34:49.490 You need some priest to interpret it. 01:34:49.490 --> 01:34:50.370 No, no, no. 01:34:50.370 --> 01:34:52.460 A child can understand it. 01:34:52.460 --> 01:34:55.130 No, even a little child can read the Bible 01:34:55.130 --> 01:34:57.100 and it can make him wise in the salvation 01:34:57.100 --> 01:34:58.960 because it's believing on the Lord Jesus Christ 01:34:58.960 --> 01:35:00.370 that saves you. 01:35:00.370 --> 01:35:01.210 And you know what? 01:35:01.210 --> 01:35:02.750 It's the Bible that gives him his salvation. 01:35:02.750 --> 01:35:04.340 Notice it doesn't say the church. 01:35:04.340 --> 01:35:05.850 Notice it doesn't say catechism. 01:35:05.850 --> 01:35:07.280 Notice it doesn't say some priest 01:35:07.280 --> 01:35:08.670 absolved him of his sins. 01:35:08.670 --> 01:35:09.740 No, it was the Bible. 01:35:09.740 --> 01:35:10.550 It was the word of God. 01:35:10.550 --> 01:35:11.490 It was the holy scriptures 01:35:11.490 --> 01:35:13.510 that made him wise in the salvation 01:35:13.510 --> 01:35:15.410 because it's by putting your faith in Jesus Christ. 01:35:15.410 --> 01:35:16.800 And let me tell you something about the Bible. 01:35:16.800 --> 01:35:18.030 Oh yeah, it's Jesus. 01:35:18.030 --> 01:35:18.940 In the beginning was the word 01:35:18.940 --> 01:35:19.770 and the word is with God 01:35:19.770 --> 01:35:20.610 and the word was God. 01:35:20.610 --> 01:35:23.110 This is Jesus, welcome to Jesus. 01:35:23.110 --> 01:35:24.060 How in the world can you say 01:35:24.060 --> 01:35:27.840 Jesus didn't give us a Bible when he is the Bible? 01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:30.320 That's the ignorance that comes from the unsaved mind 01:35:30.320 --> 01:35:32.080 of the Catholics today who will lie to you 01:35:32.080 --> 01:35:34.030 and send you to hell. 01:35:34.030 --> 01:35:38.630 Look at 1 Timothy chapter number four and verse number 13. 01:35:38.630 --> 01:35:39.460 1 Timothy chapter four, 01:35:39.460 --> 01:35:41.090 not only do you need to read the Bible at home, 01:35:41.090 --> 01:35:42.510 you need to read the Bible in church. 01:35:42.510 --> 01:35:44.130 And look, you go to the Catholic mass, 01:35:44.130 --> 01:35:45.750 they're not gonna sit there with a King James Bible 01:35:45.750 --> 01:35:48.150 following along with their little homily. 01:35:48.150 --> 01:35:51.210 It's just a fancy show where they're gonna get a bit, 01:35:51.210 --> 01:35:54.990 they're just gonna get a smoke machine. 01:35:54.990 --> 01:35:57.500 I need to just do this for an example lesson sometime. 01:35:57.500 --> 01:36:00.330 They just walk around and it's like poofing smoke thing. 01:36:00.330 --> 01:36:02.880 This is like smoke, and they're just like 01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:04.900 putting smoke on the bread. 01:36:04.900 --> 01:36:07.110 It's like, look, we smoke brisket, folks. 01:36:07.110 --> 01:36:10.440 We're not smoking crackers, all right? 01:36:10.440 --> 01:36:12.820 They're over here smoking crackers, 01:36:12.820 --> 01:36:16.530 and then they just do their little stupid song and dance, 01:36:16.530 --> 01:36:17.810 and then they have everybody walk down, 01:36:17.810 --> 01:36:20.890 they just shove crackers in everybody's throat and go home. 01:36:20.890 --> 01:36:24.480 It's like, that is not what the Bible teaches at all. 01:36:24.480 --> 01:36:27.010 What does it say in 1st Timothy chapter four, verse 13? 01:36:27.010 --> 01:36:28.600 "Till I come, give attendance to reading, 01:36:28.600 --> 01:36:30.310 to exhortation, to doctrine." 01:36:30.310 --> 01:36:31.730 You know, that sounds like "Steph S. Baptist Church." 01:36:31.730 --> 01:36:33.730 You show up, we're gonna read a lot of Bible, 01:36:33.730 --> 01:36:34.910 and I'm gonna scream at you, 01:36:34.910 --> 01:36:37.740 and it's gonna be a lot of doctrine. 01:36:37.740 --> 01:36:39.450 I'm not gonna shove a cracker down your throat. 01:36:39.450 --> 01:36:42.600 I'm gonna shove Leviticus 20, 13 down your throat. 01:36:42.600 --> 01:36:43.630 I'm gonna shove 1st Timothy. 01:36:43.630 --> 01:36:44.460 I'm gonna shove 2nd Timothy. 01:36:44.460 --> 01:36:45.880 I'm gonna shove John 3, 16. 01:36:45.880 --> 01:36:46.940 I'm gonna shove the word of God. 01:36:46.940 --> 01:36:48.980 It's gonna be Deuteronomy chapter number eight, 01:36:48.980 --> 01:36:50.640 is what it's gonna be. 01:36:50.640 --> 01:36:53.180 And we're gonna see what's really in your heart. 01:36:53.180 --> 01:36:54.530 Do you like the Bible or not? 01:36:54.530 --> 01:36:55.560 Because if you like the Bible, 01:36:57.270 --> 01:36:59.600 and if you don't like the Bible, you don't like Jesus. 01:36:59.600 --> 01:37:01.980 That's why Catholics are always downplaying the Bible 01:37:01.980 --> 01:37:04.380 because they don't like Jesus. 01:37:04.380 --> 01:37:06.580 And they're always stripping the power away from the Bible, 01:37:06.580 --> 01:37:08.600 and they're stripping the authority away from the Bible, 01:37:08.600 --> 01:37:10.380 just like they stripped the power and the authority 01:37:10.380 --> 01:37:11.820 and the personhood of Jesus away 01:37:11.820 --> 01:37:15.170 with their stupid Catholic trinity too. 01:37:15.170 --> 01:37:17.000 And look, it's the same as oneness. 01:37:17.000 --> 01:37:19.860 Tonight I ran into a oneness Pentecostal pastor. 01:37:19.860 --> 01:37:22.660 Just go figure, you know? 01:37:22.660 --> 01:37:24.000 Go through it to Psalm chapter one. 01:37:24.000 --> 01:37:26.190 I wanted to just go through a couple Psalms. 01:37:26.190 --> 01:37:28.460 Oneness Pentecostal pastor. 01:37:28.460 --> 01:37:29.940 I'm like, this guy's not gonna get saved. 01:37:29.940 --> 01:37:31.460 Okay, I get it. 01:37:31.460 --> 01:37:33.500 But I was like, I've never ran into somebody like this. 01:37:33.500 --> 01:37:36.770 I just want to ask him some Trinity questions real quick. 01:37:36.770 --> 01:37:38.870 Now again, he testified clearly 01:37:38.870 --> 01:37:40.900 he does not believe in salvation by faith. 01:37:40.900 --> 01:37:44.130 I mean, this guy is the most hardcore work salvation. 01:37:44.130 --> 01:37:46.770 He's just like, he just, I didn't even ask him questions. 01:37:46.770 --> 01:37:49.370 He's just telling me without me even asking. 01:37:49.370 --> 01:37:50.880 He's just like, oh, and I was gonna let you know, 01:37:50.880 --> 01:37:51.830 like if you commit suicide, 01:37:51.830 --> 01:37:52.990 there's no way you could repent of that. 01:37:52.990 --> 01:37:54.610 So I don't believe they could ever go to heaven. 01:37:54.610 --> 01:37:57.600 And you know, you definitely can lose your salvation. 01:37:57.600 --> 01:37:58.710 And if you commit any sin, 01:37:58.710 --> 01:37:59.860 you're gonna lose your salvation. 01:37:59.860 --> 01:38:02.520 I don't believe you can trust Christ 01:38:02.520 --> 01:38:05.620 and commit any sin and then go to heaven. 01:38:05.620 --> 01:38:07.560 'Cause he said, "Anybody that sins is not going to heaven." 01:38:07.560 --> 01:38:09.850 And I'm just like, "Wow." 01:38:09.850 --> 01:38:11.590 And I was like, "Are you a simple, he's a guy." 01:38:11.590 --> 01:38:12.770 And he's like, "No, Pentecostal." 01:38:12.770 --> 01:38:13.950 And I was like, "Like oneness?" 01:38:13.950 --> 01:38:16.320 And he's like, "Yes." 01:38:16.320 --> 01:38:19.380 And I'm like, "Okay, I wanna ask you questions." 01:38:19.380 --> 01:38:20.920 So I just started asking about the Trinity. 01:38:20.920 --> 01:38:22.700 And look, it's the exact same as these 01:38:22.700 --> 01:38:24.600 classical Trinitarians. 01:38:24.600 --> 01:38:26.760 Just everything about God's a metaphor 01:38:26.760 --> 01:38:28.730 and it's just one person. 01:38:28.730 --> 01:38:31.870 And you know, it's funny because it's like the oneness guy 01:38:31.870 --> 01:38:33.370 is just honest about his language. 01:38:33.370 --> 01:38:35.670 He's just honest about the words that he's using. 01:38:35.670 --> 01:38:37.450 It's just the classical Trinitarians know 01:38:37.450 --> 01:38:39.360 they can't just say certain things. 01:38:39.360 --> 01:38:41.580 The weirdest thing this guy did say though, 01:38:41.580 --> 01:38:44.060 is when he said, "Jesus sent his own son 01:38:44.060 --> 01:38:45.540 "to be the savior of the world." 01:38:45.540 --> 01:38:48.150 And I was just like, "Wow, that's weird." 01:38:48.150 --> 01:38:49.770 I was asking him like about spirits. 01:38:49.770 --> 01:38:51.280 He's like, "You can't see a spirit 01:38:51.280 --> 01:38:53.540 "unless it comes in flesh." 01:38:53.540 --> 01:38:55.060 And I'm like, "Oh, okay. 01:38:55.060 --> 01:38:56.270 "What about the Holy Ghost? 01:38:56.270 --> 01:38:59.910 "Isn't it a sin in bodily shape as a dove 01:38:59.910 --> 01:39:01.660 "and didn't John the Baptist see it?" 01:39:01.660 --> 01:39:05.870 And he's like, "Well, the spirit can do whatever it wants." 01:39:05.870 --> 01:39:06.880 Okay. 01:39:06.880 --> 01:39:08.470 I was like, "Hey, what about John 17, five, 01:39:08.470 --> 01:39:11.870 "where it says, 'Glorify me with thine own self, 01:39:11.870 --> 01:39:15.090 "'with the glory that I had with thee before the world was.'" 01:39:15.090 --> 01:39:22.470 He's like, "Oh, that's about Gentiles." 01:39:22.470 --> 01:39:27.390 I said, "Oh, Exodus 33, when Moses hands covering his face 01:39:27.390 --> 01:39:30.220 "and he sees God's back parts." 01:39:30.220 --> 01:39:32.480 I was like, "Did he see the Father? 01:39:32.480 --> 01:39:34.500 "Did he see God?" 01:39:34.500 --> 01:39:37.790 And he's like, "Oh, he saw the fire." 01:39:37.790 --> 01:39:38.910 And I was like, "The fire?" 01:39:38.910 --> 01:39:41.690 And he's like, "Yeah, the fiery, the burning fiery bush." 01:39:41.690 --> 01:39:43.240 And I was like, "Isn't that exodus like four 01:39:43.240 --> 01:39:44.950 "or something like that?" 01:39:44.950 --> 01:39:49.190 And he's just like, "The spirit can do whatever it wants." 01:39:49.190 --> 01:39:50.940 I'm just like, "Hey, Genesis one, two, 01:39:50.940 --> 01:39:52.660 "the spirit's moving on the face of the waters. 01:39:52.660 --> 01:39:54.490 "Yeah, the spirit can do whatever it wants." 01:39:54.490 --> 01:39:57.670 And I just said, "So then what about all these passages 01:39:57.670 --> 01:39:59.270 "like God sitting next to the Son, 01:39:59.270 --> 01:40:01.480 "like Jesus Christ is the right hand of the Father, 01:40:01.480 --> 01:40:03.540 "and you see God in heaven." 01:40:03.540 --> 01:40:05.520 And I'm like, "Are they all metaphors?" 01:40:05.520 --> 01:40:07.690 And he's like, "Yeah, they're all metaphors." 01:40:07.690 --> 01:40:09.470 Like, wow. 01:40:09.470 --> 01:40:11.880 Go believe like this guy, you know? 01:40:11.880 --> 01:40:14.720 The oneness Pentecostal heretic. 01:40:14.720 --> 01:40:16.390 It's just funny. 01:40:16.390 --> 01:40:18.450 And again, these people, if you think about it, 01:40:18.450 --> 01:40:20.160 they just hate the Bible. 01:40:20.160 --> 01:40:21.830 You just show them things in the Bible 01:40:21.830 --> 01:40:24.050 and they hate the Bible, they downgrade the Bible, 01:40:24.050 --> 01:40:27.230 they attack Jesus because they don't like Jesus. 01:40:27.230 --> 01:40:29.970 And the doctrine about Jesus gets screwed up and messed up. 01:40:29.970 --> 01:40:33.200 And look, why does the Catholic have a screwed up Trinity? 01:40:33.200 --> 01:40:36.020 Because he doesn't believe in Jesus. 01:40:36.020 --> 01:40:37.650 And what is Jesus? 01:40:37.650 --> 01:40:39.170 It's the Bible. 01:40:39.170 --> 01:40:42.960 Look, you can't be so screwed up on the Bible 01:40:42.960 --> 01:40:45.020 and be right about Jesus. 01:40:45.020 --> 01:40:46.330 Why? 01:40:46.330 --> 01:40:49.470 Because Jesus is the Bible. 01:40:49.470 --> 01:40:52.510 You know who's gonna have the best view of Jesus? 01:40:52.510 --> 01:40:54.540 The person who has the best view of the Bible. 01:40:54.540 --> 01:40:56.500 The person who has the best doctrine 01:40:56.500 --> 01:40:59.260 is gonna be the one that has the best view of who Jesus is. 01:40:59.260 --> 01:41:01.910 And is gonna understand who Jesus is the best. 01:41:01.910 --> 01:41:03.730 And of course, the one that understands Jesus the best, 01:41:03.730 --> 01:41:05.170 the one that's doing the works. 01:41:05.170 --> 01:41:07.260 So it's like, oh, why do you guys always point to 01:41:07.260 --> 01:41:09.470 salvation and the fruit and whatever? 01:41:09.470 --> 01:41:12.290 Well, buy their fruits, you shall know them. 01:41:12.290 --> 01:41:16.680 Hey, hey, Nick Fuentes, let's compare fruit for a moment. 01:41:16.680 --> 01:41:17.650 Right? 01:41:17.650 --> 01:41:19.880 Like what, he said, oh, the Protestant Reformation 01:41:19.880 --> 01:41:22.220 is like screwed us all up and gave us trainee pastors 01:41:22.220 --> 01:41:23.770 and Steven Anderson and all this stuff. 01:41:23.770 --> 01:41:26.790 It's like, okay, what's the better fruit after 1600s? 01:41:26.790 --> 01:41:29.170 After the 1611, we got the King Day's Bible. 01:41:29.170 --> 01:41:31.870 So from 1611 to now, what gave us better fruit? 01:41:31.870 --> 01:41:34.660 The King Day's Bible or the Catholic Church? 01:41:34.660 --> 01:41:35.860 What did the King Day's Bible produce? 01:41:35.860 --> 01:41:39.240 Well, the Kingdom of UK or Britain, 01:41:39.240 --> 01:41:44.060 from the 1600s to the 1920s became the world empire. 01:41:44.060 --> 01:41:46.490 That's interesting. 01:41:46.490 --> 01:41:50.620 And in fact, they basically just conquered like everything. 01:41:50.620 --> 01:41:53.820 Colonization, oh no, is a scary word. 01:41:53.820 --> 01:41:57.310 It's like, okay, what did the Catholic Church produce? 01:41:57.310 --> 01:42:00.270 And again, it's like in Italy, it's in Spain, 01:42:00.270 --> 01:42:02.780 it's in France, did they take over the world? 01:42:02.780 --> 01:42:04.790 Are they world superpowers? 01:42:04.790 --> 01:42:05.620 Were they empires? 01:42:05.620 --> 01:42:07.650 Now look, admittedly Spain and France 01:42:07.650 --> 01:42:08.870 did conquer a lot of places. 01:42:08.870 --> 01:42:10.450 It didn't colonize a lot of places. 01:42:10.450 --> 01:42:12.790 But let's compare the colonizations as well. 01:42:12.790 --> 01:42:15.270 You know, Britain colonized America. 01:42:15.270 --> 01:42:17.800 How did that turn out? 01:42:17.800 --> 01:42:20.040 Oh yeah, it's the world superpower. 01:42:20.040 --> 01:42:22.510 It's the greatest nation on earth. 01:42:22.510 --> 01:42:25.460 Other places, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, 01:42:25.460 --> 01:42:29.350 South Africa, India, the Caribbean, Singapore, and Hong Kong. 01:42:29.350 --> 01:42:31.280 I wonder if those are some of the most developed, 01:42:31.280 --> 01:42:34.010 most blessed places in the world. 01:42:34.010 --> 01:42:36.170 Or are they the most third world countries? 01:42:36.170 --> 01:42:37.980 The most subservient countries. 01:42:37.980 --> 01:42:40.920 Now, the Catholic Church, they were influential 01:42:40.920 --> 01:42:43.630 in Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Eastern Europe, 01:42:43.630 --> 01:42:46.230 then Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and the Philippines. 01:42:46.230 --> 01:42:48.150 These are some of their most notorious things. 01:42:48.150 --> 01:42:50.790 Now look, I'm not against Brazil, Mexico, 01:42:50.790 --> 01:42:53.170 Philippines, these places, 'cause they're very nice, 01:42:53.170 --> 01:42:56.040 they have good people, but let's just be honest, 01:42:56.040 --> 01:42:58.430 they are not the more blessed nations 01:42:58.430 --> 01:43:01.100 in comparison to the British colonies, 01:43:01.100 --> 01:43:03.840 and it's simply because of the King James Bible. 01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:05.910 It produced better fruit than the Catholic Church. 01:43:05.910 --> 01:43:08.140 If the Catholic Church was the truth and this was a lie, 01:43:08.140 --> 01:43:10.370 why are we producing better nations 01:43:10.370 --> 01:43:12.800 for hundreds and hundreds of years? 01:43:12.800 --> 01:43:16.990 Now, Britain fell and you say, oh, that's what Protestantism 01:43:16.990 --> 01:43:19.670 eventually leads to, it leads to the fall. 01:43:19.670 --> 01:43:22.210 Now, Britain eventually became secularized, 01:43:22.210 --> 01:43:24.220 in fact, it got so bad in 1966, 01:43:24.220 --> 01:43:27.130 the Beatles, John Lennon got up and said this, quote, 01:43:27.130 --> 01:43:29.360 we're more popular than Jesus. 01:43:29.360 --> 01:43:31.080 That's a pretty blasphemous statement, 01:43:31.080 --> 01:43:33.290 but you could argue that it's at least accurate. 01:43:33.290 --> 01:43:36.700 He's probably just describing the culture of that day 01:43:36.700 --> 01:43:39.270 that Britain had gotten so far away from God 01:43:39.270 --> 01:43:42.830 that now a band, just a musical group, 01:43:42.830 --> 01:43:44.750 is just more of the heartthrob. 01:43:44.750 --> 01:43:45.580 Who are they blessing? 01:43:45.580 --> 01:43:46.400 They're blessing the Beatles, 01:43:46.400 --> 01:43:47.290 they're not blessing the Lord God 01:43:47.290 --> 01:43:48.720 that gave them the wealth and the power 01:43:48.720 --> 01:43:50.020 and the nation that they had. 01:43:50.020 --> 01:43:52.440 And because they turned away from God and they forgot God, 01:43:52.440 --> 01:43:54.660 now they're invaded by a Muslim horde. 01:43:54.660 --> 01:43:57.480 Now they're under Muslim regime. 01:43:57.480 --> 01:43:58.320 Why? 01:43:58.320 --> 01:43:59.890 Because they forgot the Lord God 01:43:59.890 --> 01:44:02.270 and he's gonna make them embarrassed 01:44:02.270 --> 01:44:04.020 and a shame and a mockery. 01:44:04.020 --> 01:44:04.830 And you know what? 01:44:04.830 --> 01:44:06.150 America could go down the same path 01:44:06.150 --> 01:44:07.710 if we do the same things. 01:44:07.710 --> 01:44:09.660 Look, what gave us prosperity and blessing 01:44:09.660 --> 01:44:12.130 with the King James Bible is the word of God is God. 01:44:12.130 --> 01:44:14.360 Bible, okay? 01:44:14.360 --> 01:44:17.420 But look, we need the word of God. 01:44:17.420 --> 01:44:18.650 We need the Bible. 01:44:18.650 --> 01:44:19.700 And I know this is a long sermon, 01:44:19.700 --> 01:44:20.790 but hey, you need some more Bible. 01:44:20.790 --> 01:44:21.960 We're testing you, all right? 01:44:21.960 --> 01:44:23.660 Psalm one, look at verse two. 01:44:23.660 --> 01:44:26.110 But his delight is in the law of the Lord 01:44:26.110 --> 01:44:28.410 and in his law that they meditate day and night. 01:44:28.410 --> 01:44:29.870 Hey, I'm for church, 01:44:29.870 --> 01:44:33.140 but you need Bible more than you need church. 01:44:33.140 --> 01:44:35.020 I want you to read your Bible every day 01:44:35.020 --> 01:44:36.980 more than I want you to go to church. 01:44:36.980 --> 01:44:38.460 But the person that reads the Bible every day 01:44:38.460 --> 01:44:40.270 is gonna wanna go to church. 01:44:40.270 --> 01:44:41.760 That's why I want you to read your Bible. 01:44:41.760 --> 01:44:43.110 You know the reason why people quit? 01:44:43.110 --> 01:44:44.880 It's probably 'cause they stop reading their Bible. 01:44:44.880 --> 01:44:46.560 And then they go to a church 01:44:46.560 --> 01:44:48.400 where they don't wanna hear the Bible being preached 01:44:48.400 --> 01:44:49.960 'cause they stop reading their Bible. 01:44:49.960 --> 01:44:52.050 You read the Bible every day. 01:44:52.050 --> 01:44:53.050 You read the Bible. 01:44:53.050 --> 01:44:55.010 You read the King James Bible every day. 01:44:55.010 --> 01:44:58.270 You are not gonna go to a non-denominational church. 01:44:58.270 --> 01:45:00.950 You read the Bible every single day. 01:45:00.950 --> 01:45:02.700 You're not gonna go to the Catholic church. 01:45:02.700 --> 01:45:05.250 You're not gonna go to one of these weird fun centers. 01:45:05.250 --> 01:45:06.770 You're not gonna wanna go to some lame church. 01:45:06.770 --> 01:45:08.320 You're gonna say like, I wanna go to a church 01:45:08.320 --> 01:45:10.930 where I'm hearing the Bible being preached. 01:45:10.930 --> 01:45:13.230 That's why I want people to read the Bible. 01:45:13.230 --> 01:45:16.210 Psalm 78 verse one, "Give ear, O my people, to my law. 01:45:16.210 --> 01:45:19.770 "Incline your ears to the words of my mouth." 01:45:19.770 --> 01:45:21.610 What kind of instruction would he be giving here 01:45:21.610 --> 01:45:22.770 if you don't even have the Bible? 01:45:22.770 --> 01:45:23.590 Psalm 119. 01:45:23.590 --> 01:45:25.480 And let me tell you something, Nick Fuentes. 01:45:25.480 --> 01:45:28.640 Psalms was written before your little Catholic church 01:45:28.640 --> 01:45:31.120 is before Jesus Christ showed up. 01:45:31.120 --> 01:45:34.170 Why would God be giving these scriptures 01:45:34.170 --> 01:45:35.870 and these admonitions for you to read the law 01:45:35.870 --> 01:45:37.440 and to read and meditate on his word 01:45:37.440 --> 01:45:39.460 if you couldn't even do it? 01:45:39.460 --> 01:45:42.320 Psalm 119 verse one. 01:45:42.320 --> 01:45:44.730 And of course, this entire psalm should be read 01:45:44.730 --> 01:45:45.680 in the context of this, 01:45:45.680 --> 01:45:46.490 'cause it's all about the Bible. 01:45:46.490 --> 01:45:48.640 It's not about church, it's about the Bible. 01:45:48.640 --> 01:45:50.460 Blessed are the undefiled in the way 01:45:50.460 --> 01:45:52.550 who walk in the law of the Lord. 01:45:52.550 --> 01:45:54.350 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies 01:45:54.350 --> 01:45:55.970 that seek him with the whole heart. 01:45:55.970 --> 01:45:58.110 You know, we should be seeking God. 01:45:58.110 --> 01:46:00.130 We should be walking in the law of the Lord. 01:46:00.130 --> 01:46:01.520 Those are the people that are gonna be blessed. 01:46:01.520 --> 01:46:02.930 Look at verse nine. 01:46:02.930 --> 01:46:05.300 Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? 01:46:05.300 --> 01:46:07.970 By taking heed thereto according to thy word. 01:46:07.970 --> 01:46:10.730 You know how you're gonna get success as a young man? 01:46:10.730 --> 01:46:14.870 Shut off Nick Fuentes and read your Bible. 01:46:14.870 --> 01:46:16.800 You know how you're gonna clean up your act? 01:46:16.800 --> 01:46:18.670 Read the Bible, which'll tell you, 01:46:18.670 --> 01:46:21.880 hey, whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing 01:46:21.880 --> 01:46:23.460 and obtaineth favor of the Lord. 01:46:23.460 --> 01:46:25.640 You ask Nick Fuentes, he says women suck. 01:46:25.640 --> 01:46:26.820 He says he doesn't like women. 01:46:26.820 --> 01:46:28.790 He says women can't be your friend. 01:46:28.790 --> 01:46:30.510 He downplays marriage. 01:46:30.510 --> 01:46:33.480 And then you wonder why he's not married. 01:46:33.480 --> 01:46:36.380 Look, it's a doctrine of devils. 01:46:36.380 --> 01:46:38.010 You know what? 01:46:38.010 --> 01:46:40.480 The devil wants a nation to have no marriages 01:46:40.480 --> 01:46:41.900 so you can have a bunch of angry men 01:46:41.900 --> 01:46:43.820 that are ready to go to war. 01:46:43.820 --> 01:46:45.290 You know what? 01:46:45.290 --> 01:46:47.530 A bunch of happy married men that have kids 01:46:47.530 --> 01:46:49.710 aren't ready to just go enter into some war 01:46:49.710 --> 01:46:51.180 and go kill themselves. 01:46:51.180 --> 01:46:52.010 You know what? 01:46:52.010 --> 01:46:54.450 They're also gonna be blessed financially 01:46:54.450 --> 01:46:56.700 and they're gonna be protecting their nation. 01:46:56.700 --> 01:46:57.700 You know what? 01:46:57.700 --> 01:46:59.310 The devil's the one that wants to destroy marriage 01:46:59.310 --> 01:47:01.170 and stop people from getting married. 01:47:01.170 --> 01:47:02.070 And you know what? 01:47:02.070 --> 01:47:03.520 It's a satanic doctrine. 01:47:03.520 --> 01:47:05.680 We should encourage young men to go 01:47:05.680 --> 01:47:07.530 and find a young woman to marry. 01:47:07.530 --> 01:47:11.400 One in the flesh, not one of these e-girls online. 01:47:11.400 --> 01:47:14.770 Let me say, I have too much to say. 01:47:14.770 --> 01:47:17.290 You know, everybody decides on a video 01:47:17.290 --> 01:47:18.600 in like the first few seconds, 01:47:18.600 --> 01:47:19.830 whether they're gonna watch it or not. 01:47:19.830 --> 01:47:22.000 It's like this phenomenon, like shorts or reels or whatever. 01:47:22.000 --> 01:47:24.140 You have to get them in the first three seconds or whatever. 01:47:24.140 --> 01:47:29.100 Let's be honest for a second about every video 01:47:29.100 --> 01:47:30.930 that pops up with a girl on it. 01:47:30.930 --> 01:47:34.760 If you're a guy and a girl was dressed very modestly 01:47:34.760 --> 01:47:37.940 with no makeup on, you would immediately go like this. 01:47:37.940 --> 01:47:40.830 'Cause you could not care less what she has to say. 01:47:40.830 --> 01:47:44.920 What's the only reason why a guy would sit there 01:47:44.920 --> 01:47:46.140 for a second and actually listen 01:47:46.140 --> 01:47:47.680 to what the girl has to say? 01:47:47.680 --> 01:47:50.000 'Cause she's dressed inappropriately 01:47:50.000 --> 01:47:52.660 and gonna say something, or not necessarily, 01:47:52.660 --> 01:47:55.930 she's dressed inappropriately and just attractive, right? 01:47:55.930 --> 01:47:57.950 'Cause if she was dressed inappropriately and ugly, 01:47:57.950 --> 01:48:00.900 you would go even faster, all right? 01:48:00.900 --> 01:48:02.800 But let's just be honest. 01:48:02.800 --> 01:48:03.940 You're not sitting there like, man, 01:48:03.940 --> 01:48:05.660 I just can't wait to see what this young woman 01:48:05.660 --> 01:48:08.100 wants to say to me or whatever. 01:48:08.100 --> 01:48:09.110 Meaning what? 01:48:09.110 --> 01:48:14.850 All the women online are whores, quit listening to them. 01:48:14.850 --> 01:48:17.120 Quit listening to the online whores 01:48:17.120 --> 01:48:21.650 and go find a real girl and go talk to her. 01:48:21.650 --> 01:48:22.560 Because you know what? 01:48:22.560 --> 01:48:24.220 It's so stupid to think like, 01:48:24.220 --> 01:48:26.230 oh man, I can't find a good woman. 01:48:26.230 --> 01:48:27.620 We're not gonna find her online 01:48:27.620 --> 01:48:30.080 'cause the women online are whores. 01:48:30.080 --> 01:48:32.990 The good women aren't putting themselves online. 01:48:32.990 --> 01:48:35.550 The good women are not making reels of themselves 01:48:35.550 --> 01:48:37.180 because they know dressed modestly 01:48:37.180 --> 01:48:39.640 and doing whatever people aren't gonna wanna listen, 01:48:39.640 --> 01:48:40.550 they're not gonna get the clicks, 01:48:40.550 --> 01:48:41.380 they're not gonna get the likes 01:48:41.380 --> 01:48:42.850 so they don't do that, they're not online. 01:48:42.850 --> 01:48:44.810 Only the whores are online. 01:48:44.810 --> 01:48:47.630 And then you get this appetite for a whore that's online. 01:48:47.630 --> 01:48:49.330 Quit going through all the reels 01:48:49.330 --> 01:48:51.110 and watching Nick Flint as trash women 01:48:51.110 --> 01:48:54.030 and go find a real woman and just like her. 01:48:54.030 --> 01:48:58.340 You can't marry your phone. 01:48:58.340 --> 01:49:00.410 I don't know, it's AI, people are gonna be like, 01:49:00.410 --> 01:49:02.090 "Yes, you can." 01:49:02.090 --> 01:49:05.200 Don't tell me that, I don't wanna know. 01:49:05.200 --> 01:49:07.440 Read your Bible, look at verse 18. 01:49:07.440 --> 01:49:10.260 "Open thou mine eyes, that I may hold wondrous things 01:49:10.260 --> 01:49:11.500 "out of thy law." 01:49:11.500 --> 01:49:15.140 God wants you to watch the Bible. 01:49:15.140 --> 01:49:17.350 What it says in verse 97. 01:49:17.350 --> 01:49:20.870 "Oh, how I love thy law, it is my meditation all the day." 01:49:20.870 --> 01:49:22.450 Verse 99, "I have more understanding 01:49:22.450 --> 01:49:23.990 "than all my teachers, for thy testimonies 01:49:23.990 --> 01:49:25.130 "are my meditation." 01:49:25.130 --> 01:49:27.140 Look, you're not gonna learn by going to the Catholic Church, 01:49:27.140 --> 01:49:28.910 you're gonna learn by reading your Bible. 01:49:28.910 --> 01:49:30.800 You wanna become the smartest person alive? 01:49:30.800 --> 01:49:34.570 Read the Bible, memorize the Bible, study the Bible. 01:49:34.570 --> 01:49:36.530 The only thing stopping you from being the smartest person 01:49:36.530 --> 01:49:40.320 on the planet is your laziness and not reading the scripture. 01:49:40.320 --> 01:49:42.870 One more place, go to Proverbs 13, 13, we'll finish. 01:49:42.870 --> 01:49:45.230 Proverbs 13, verse 13, "Hey, God's testing you, 01:49:45.230 --> 01:49:47.050 "God's proving you every single day. 01:49:47.050 --> 01:49:49.600 "What's in your heart, what do you like? 01:49:49.600 --> 01:49:51.610 "Are you gonna read your Bible? 01:49:51.610 --> 01:49:54.540 "Are you gonna meditate on his word? 01:49:54.540 --> 01:49:56.510 "Are you gonna bless the Lord? 01:49:56.510 --> 01:49:59.670 "Or are you focused on yourself, blessing yourself, 01:49:59.670 --> 01:50:02.470 "focused on listening to liars and weirdos?" 01:50:02.470 --> 01:50:04.670 Look, Nick Fuentes is not gonna save our country 01:50:04.670 --> 01:50:06.230 from anything. 01:50:06.230 --> 01:50:07.240 If he had his way, 01:50:07.240 --> 01:50:09.980 we would immediately go back to the dark ages. 01:50:09.980 --> 01:50:10.770 And you know what? 01:50:10.770 --> 01:50:12.960 I would be killed for my views on the Trinity. 01:50:12.960 --> 01:50:14.360 I'd be killed for my views on salvation. 01:50:14.360 --> 01:50:15.780 I'd be killed in my views on the Bible. 01:50:15.780 --> 01:50:19.890 I'd be killed for even having a Bible. 01:50:19.890 --> 01:50:21.730 Why would I wanna vote that in? 01:50:21.730 --> 01:50:23.770 Why would I want that? 01:50:23.770 --> 01:50:25.260 And no one married? 01:50:25.260 --> 01:50:26.640 No men are married? 01:50:26.640 --> 01:50:30.040 This guy is not curing anything. 01:50:30.040 --> 01:50:31.110 He's not helping anything. 01:50:31.110 --> 01:50:32.460 He's not blessing anything. 01:50:32.460 --> 01:50:34.700 The guy is not even athletic. 01:50:34.700 --> 01:50:38.210 At least some of these Catholics work out and look strong. 01:50:38.210 --> 01:50:40.180 I mean, what does this guy have to offer? 01:50:40.180 --> 01:50:45.120 Nothing, absolutely nothing. 01:50:45.120 --> 01:50:46.790 He's a liar. 01:50:46.790 --> 01:50:49.100 Proverbs chapter 13, look at verse 13. 01:50:49.100 --> 01:50:53.930 "Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed." 01:50:53.930 --> 01:50:56.090 This guy is telling you, you don't need a Bible. 01:50:56.090 --> 01:50:57.220 You need the Catholic church. 01:50:57.220 --> 01:51:00.610 He will be destroyed. 01:51:00.610 --> 01:51:02.010 What do you believe? 01:51:02.010 --> 01:51:03.420 Oh no, there's no way God can do, 01:51:03.420 --> 01:51:05.060 God can do whatever he wants. 01:51:05.060 --> 01:51:08.830 "But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded." 01:51:08.830 --> 01:51:11.400 Don't fall for these stupid online personalities 01:51:11.400 --> 01:51:12.780 and these people downplaying the Bible 01:51:12.780 --> 01:51:13.800 and saying you don't need the Bible. 01:51:13.800 --> 01:51:15.460 You need the Bible. 01:51:15.460 --> 01:51:16.510 You need the word of God. 01:51:16.510 --> 01:51:18.170 That's what gives us success. 01:51:18.170 --> 01:51:19.700 The person that despises the word, 01:51:19.700 --> 01:51:21.800 that's the guy that's gonna be destroyed. 01:51:21.800 --> 01:51:24.200 And you know, you need to be steadfast with your Bible, 01:51:24.200 --> 01:51:26.420 not with these guys online 01:51:26.420 --> 01:51:28.570 or these influencers or whatever. 01:51:28.570 --> 01:51:29.560 You know what? 01:51:29.560 --> 01:51:31.020 It's the word of God that gives us this power 01:51:31.020 --> 01:51:33.190 and the wealth and success. 01:51:33.190 --> 01:51:35.570 You know, if you're a young man, you know, 01:51:35.570 --> 01:51:38.050 read your Bible, get a girlfriend, 01:51:38.050 --> 01:51:41.920 marry her, come to church. 01:51:41.920 --> 01:51:44.190 That's simple. 01:51:44.190 --> 01:51:45.720 And people want to make it really hard. 01:51:45.720 --> 01:51:46.940 People want to make it really difficult 01:51:46.940 --> 01:51:50.780 because they want to get away from those simple commandments. 01:51:50.780 --> 01:51:51.610 You know what? 01:51:51.610 --> 01:51:52.480 The Bible will give you its success. 01:51:52.480 --> 01:51:54.020 Read it and enjoy the blessing. 01:51:54.020 --> 01:51:54.850 Let's close in prayer. 01:51:54.850 --> 01:51:56.030 Thank you Heavenly Father for the word of God. 01:51:56.030 --> 01:51:59.490 Thank you for all that you've given us, all the blessings. 01:51:59.490 --> 01:52:02.380 Thank you for giving us an opportunity to live in America. 01:52:02.380 --> 01:52:05.530 Thank you for all of our forefathers 01:52:05.530 --> 01:52:08.760 for building a nation and giving us a heritage 01:52:08.760 --> 01:52:11.050 that's based on the scripture and based on the word of God. 01:52:11.050 --> 01:52:12.360 I pray that we wouldn't forget 01:52:12.360 --> 01:52:13.860 why we have such a great nation 01:52:13.860 --> 01:52:15.210 and why we have so many blessings 01:52:15.210 --> 01:52:16.330 and why we have so much food 01:52:16.330 --> 01:52:18.120 and why we have so much prosperity 01:52:18.120 --> 01:52:20.430 and why we can have so much freedom 01:52:20.430 --> 01:52:23.810 and why we can have so much just opportunity 01:52:23.810 --> 01:52:26.290 to live our lives and do as we will. 01:52:26.290 --> 01:52:28.450 I pray that with all that opportunity, 01:52:28.450 --> 01:52:30.020 with all that blessing, with all that money, 01:52:30.020 --> 01:52:33.840 with all that food, we would in return bless the Lord. 01:52:33.840 --> 01:52:36.100 We wouldn't forget where we came from, 01:52:36.100 --> 01:52:37.410 that we wouldn't forget the Lord, 01:52:37.410 --> 01:52:38.980 we wouldn't forget the Bible, 01:52:38.980 --> 01:52:40.330 but rather we would read our Bibles 01:52:40.330 --> 01:52:41.600 and we would bless the Lord in our hearts 01:52:41.600 --> 01:52:43.590 and our minds and our actions 01:52:43.590 --> 01:52:45.210 and that you would continue to bless us in return. 01:52:45.210 --> 01:52:50.880 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:52.010 - All right, for our last song, 01:52:52.010 --> 01:52:58.350 let's go to song number 42. 01:52:58.350 --> 01:53:04.800 Song number 42. 01:53:04.800 --> 01:53:07.660 Latest sun is sinking fast. 01:53:07.660 --> 01:55:47.530 Song number 42. 01:55:47.530 --> 01:55:49.310 Singing, everybody, you are all dismissed.