["Pomp and Circumstance"]
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All right.
Good evening.
Welcome to the first night of the Next Generation Youth Rally.
We're going to go ahead and sing a chorus that is in your bulletin.
If you have a bulletin, go ahead and open it up.
And we've got a chorus. We've got two sheets in there.
You're looking for the one that says, Tuesday evening, March 7th.
And we're going to sing, Oh It Is Wonderful To Be A Christian, Tuesday evening, March 7th.
Oh It Is Wonderful To Be A Christian. Let's sing it out.
For on the first life has purpose now it never had before.
There is meaning to each day and even more.
For a joy and peace I can't explain is mine.
Since I found new life in Christ my Lord divine.
Oh it is wonderful to be a Christian.
Oh it is wonderful to be God's child.
Oh it is wonderful to have your sins forgiven.
Oh it is wonderful to be redeemed, justified, forever reconciled.
All right. We're singing, Oh It Is Wonderful To Be A Christian.
The sheet there in your bulletin. Sing it out.
On the second, I can go directly to the Lord in prayer.
He told me I may boldly enter there.
And he listens as his promises I plead.
I find mercy there and grace for every need.
Oh it is wonderful to be a Christian.
Oh it is wonderful to be God's child.
Oh it is wonderful to have your sins forgiven.
Oh it is wonderful to be redeemed, justified, forever reconciled.
And the hope of heaven's glories thrills me so.
Where I'll live with Christ forevermore I know.
That is why the things of earth I loosely hold.
I've eternal riches better far than gold.
Oh it is wonderful to be a Christian.
Oh it is wonderful to be God's child.
Oh it is wonderful to have your sins forgiven.
Oh it is wonderful to be redeemed, justified, forever reconciled.
Amen. All right. Well, let's begin the service with a word of prayer.
Let's bow our heads together.
Heavenly Father, Lord, we do love you.
We thank you for allowing us to gather together this evening.
Lord, we pray that you bless this evening.
Bless all the things that will happen.
Help these kids have a good time.
And Lord, we ask that you would meet with us in the matchless name of Christ.
We pray. Amen.
All right. Well, let's go ahead and take our song books.
If you want to grab a song book there.
And go to page number 248.
Page number 248.
And we're going to sing Now I Belong to Jesus.
248.
Sing it out on the first.
Jesus my Lord will love me forever.
From him no power of evil can sever.
He gave his life to ransom my soul.
Now I belong to him.
Now I belong to Jesus.
Jesus belongs to me.
For the years of time alone.
But for eternity.
248. Sing it out on the second.
Once I was lost in sin's degradation.
Jesus came down to bring me salvation.
Lifted me up from sorrow and shame.
Now I belong to him.
Now I belong to Jesus.
Belongs to me.
Not for the years of time alone.
But for eternity.
Good. Sing it out on the last.
Joy floods my soul for Jesus has saved me.
Freed me from sin that long had enslaved me.
His precious blood he gave to redeem.
Now I belong to him.
Now I belong to Jesus.
Jesus belongs to me.
Not for the years of time alone.
But for eternity.
Amen. Good singing.
All right. Well, let's take our bulletins.
We'll look at some announcements real quickly tonight.
If you do not have a bulletin, raise your hand and one of our ushers can get one for you.
If you need a bulletin, just put your hand up and we will get one for you.
We've had a very good day today, of course, here at the Youth Rally.
And we have a special night lined up for you as well.
If you notice there in the schedule, we are, of course, on Tuesday, March 7th.
And we had a good morning session this morning.
We had a good lunch and competitions at the park.
And then, of course, we had dinner tonight and we are at the evening service.
And we're going to have a lot of fun tonight, a lot of things we're doing tonight.
We do want to invite you that right after the evening service, right after the service,
everybody is invited to go to our fellowship hall.
And we are going to have cookie fellowship and desserts after the service.
And then, of course, there's going to be a wrestling show after the service.
And the young people found out this morning that I'm going to be wrestling Dwight Kidd.
All right? So, we encourage you to be there.
I hope you're rooting for me. All right?
Root for me and pray for me.
And I would appreciate that.
It's going to be a good time and we appreciate you guys being here.
So, tomorrow morning, tomorrow, of course, is the second day of the youth rally.
We just want to let the young people know that 10 a.m. is the morning session.
10 a.m., we want you to be here.
Of course, we've got the two teams that are going against each other.
We've got Team Atilius sitting on this side.
Let's hear a cheer from Team Atilius.
All right? That was okay.
And then let's hear Team Spartacus.
Team Spartacus. That was better.
All right. Let's give Atilius another chance.
Team Atilius. All right. That was good.
Team Spartacus. Oh, they stepped it up.
They stepped it up. Let's give these guys one more chance.
Atilius. All right. All right.
Good, good. Let me give you the point.
So, morning session, 10 a.m.
And if you guys like the skit this morning, I'll give you a little hint.
The skit tomorrow is better.
And so you don't want to miss that.
We, of course, had competitions today.
Let me give you all of the numbers where we're at with the competitions.
Well, actually, let me finish this.
Morning session, 10 a.m. tomorrow.
Make sure you're here for that lunch.
We'll be at the Fellowship Hall.
And then we've got games in the Fellowship Hall.
We've got a Bowl-a-thon tomorrow.
You've got the address there and the place.
The two teams are going to be competing against each other.
We've got five kids from Team Atilius going against five kids from Team Spartacus.
And they're going to—there's 12 lanes.
So we've got five versus five, five versus five, five versus five.
They're going to earn points for every game that is won.
They're going to play several games.
Every game that is won will earn them points.
And then they'll earn bonus points for every strike and bonus points for every spare.
All right? So make sure that you're ready for that.
And then, of course, we've got the dinner tomorrow at 6 p.m.
and the Fellowship Hall for the delegates and family.
And, of course, delegates are people that registered,
the young people that registered to come to the conference.
Evening service is at 7 p.m.
And we'll have a Cookie Fellowship tomorrow night
and then the end of the wrestling show as well.
All right?
And, of course, I want to remind you a couple of things.
First of all, we've got a lot of games that we are having and competitions.
So, of course, for every game that is played tonight,
we've already set up one of the games here.
For every game that is played tonight,
everyone that wins a game is going to win a $10 Amazon gift card.
So we've got a $10 Amazon gift card for all of the winners,
plus the points that are going towards your team.
If your team wins, we've got a prize for the entire team at the end of the conference.
And then, of course, we've got the raffle.
The big raffle is the electric scooter there, the Ninebot Kick Scooter.
It's a $630 scooter.
And it's really – I'm pretty impressed with this thing.
It's pretty good.
And we're going to raffle this off.
All right?
So the kids have an opportunity to earn tickets.
There's going to be some games that you don't get awards for,
that you don't get the Amazon gift cards.
And for those, you'll get tickets.
Of course, after the preaching, make sure you're paying attention.
After Pastor Anderson is done preaching, I'm going to come up here.
I'm going to ask you questions about the sermon.
And any right answers are going to earn you tickets.
And, of course, there's already a few tickets in here.
But when you get a ticket, young people,
make sure that you don't forget to – just the one that says ticket,
we just need you to write your name and put it in here.
And then on tomorrow night, we're going to raffle off several things we're going to be giving out.
But the main thing, of course, is the scooter.
And if you can take it with you, we'll help you put it in your vehicle.
If you flew here, then we will ship it to you.
But we just want you to be aware of that.
So we're going to play some games tonight.
Let me just give some real quick announcements for the adults.
We do have mother-baby rooms and daddy rooms available for your convenience.
All of the rooms have comfortable seating.
They have monitor set up so you can watch the service and listen to it.
So if you have a child that's being distracted during the service
or if you need some privacy, we'd encourage you to use those rooms.
If you need to be baptized, please let us know.
The baptistry is filled and the water is warm and we're ready to go with that.
You can just let one of the staff guys know and we'll get you situated for baptisms.
And we do have a baptism tonight, so praise the Lord for that.
And also, please don't forget to turn your cell phones off or place them on silent during the service.
All right, let me give you just totals of where we're at right now for the game.
So this morning or this afternoon at the park, we started with jousting.
And we had all the teens get up there and compete against each other in jousting.
And the total points for the jousting games, we had Spartacus at 22,000 points.
So praise the Lord for that.
And we had Tillius at 30,000 points for the jousting games.
And then, of course, we did the obstacle course.
And for that one, we had Spartacus at 11,000 points and we had Tillius at 17,000 points.
And then we did the push ball soccer and pretty much everybody lost at that.
That didn't really work out very well, but they ended up getting some goals in there.
So we ended up with Spartacus having 7,000 points and Tillius having 2,000 points.
So up to this point tonight, we have a total of Spartacus at 40,000 points and Tillius at 49,000 points.
So good job, Tillius. You're in the lead.
But it's only by 9,000, all right?
So you can make that up.
And we're going to go ahead and get into some of these games tonight.
And the first game is a jello colosseum eating game, all right?
So we're obviously going with a gladiator theme.
So we've got a couple of jello colosseums up here and we're going to have two young people.
We're going to do this twice.
We'll have two young people come up here and we're going to see who can eat the jello colosseum the fastest, all right?
So I need a volunteer, a boy from each team.
Raise your hand.
Your hand came up first.
Come on up.
Boy from here.
Any guys?
Nobody wants to take them on?
They're all scared.
All right, Daniel, come on up and help me get this situated.
Let's set up a couple chairs for them.
Set up a couple chairs.
Let's move this out of the way.
All right, give us your name and your team.
Elijah from Spartacus.
Give him a round of applause.
All right, your name and your team?
Daniel Atelius.
Daniel Atelius, give him a round of applause.
Go ahead and take your place back here behind the table.
We were going to get your chairs, but you might not need it.
All right, so do you understand the game?
It's not super complicated.
I'm going to say go and you've got to eat the jello.
Do you like jello?
Yes.
Do you like jello?
On good days.
Next question, is it a good day?
All right, you both ready?
So you can't use your hands.
Hands behind your back?
Did I forget to mention that?
And we're giving points for cheering on for your team, all right?
Also, Mrs. Anderson was kind enough to send us some of these
Next Generation Youth Rally hats that we're going to be giving away as well.
These, we're just going to be throwing them to the crowd as you cheer, all right?
So make sure you cheer for your team.
Are you both ready?
On your mark, get set, go!
Almost there.
Do we have a barf bag?
I think we might need a barf bag just in case.
Yeah, you can move the plate.
Okay.
This game is for 20,000 points.
Are there any teammates that would like to help them?
We're almost there.
Almost there.
We're going to count this down.
See who eats the most in the next five seconds.
Five, four, three, two, one!
You're on, you're on, you're on, you're on.
All right.
I'm going to let the adults judge.
Who thinks?
Atelius, can you guys see that?
Spartacus, can you guys see that?
I think Spartacus got it.
Congratulations.
All right, hold on.
Hold on.
Okay, 20,000 points.
Spartacus, $10 Amazon gift card.
You both get a raffle ticket.
Good job, good sport.
All right, good job.
That was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be.
All right, we need a couple of ladies.
Is there any ladies who want to do this?
Any girls?
I see hands up.
All right.
Are there any two girls that are willing to do it together?
Because that seemed like a lot.
No?
All right, who wants to do it?
Come on up, come on up.
You want to do it together?
Come on up.
Are there any girls on this team?
Two girls?
Or a girl?
Just any girl?
We don't have enough over here.
Is there any girl on this team who wants to do it?
Any guy want to go against a girl?
No?
All right.
Do we have a knife?
Let's cut this thing in half.
Give me a knife.
Okay, I need two players from this team.
Anybody from this team?
How about adults?
Any adults?
Somebody tell...
All right, we got two girls.
Come on up.
Let's get two more chairs.
Can I get two more chairs?
Can the ushers help me?
I need two more chairs.
Two more folding chairs.
And maybe a couple of barf bags.
Maybe a couple of barf bags.
All right, come on up.
Get me a knife.
Let's cut this thing in half.
Those boys look like they're going to throw up.
Yes, we're bringing the chairs right now.
There you go.
Okay.
I think it's fine.
Whatever.
All right.
Is that fine?
Okay.
All right.
Hold on.
Please give us your name and your team.
Suzette Spartacus.
She said Suzette Spartacus.
Mercedes Spartacus.
Angelina Atelius.
Kayla Atelius.
All right.
Hair ties.
Good.
Thank you.
All right.
Are you ladies ready?
Do any of you like jello?
Do any of you like green?
Do any of you like green throw up?
Okay.
On your mark.
Get set.
Go.
Is it for 25?
Is it 20,000 points?
20,000 points?
20,000 points.
Let's go.
Come on, Juliette.
Go, Kayla.
Go to step.
Cheer on your team.
Go, Kayla.
10,000 points for Spartacus.
10,000 points for Ciri.
scrambles
Okay.
All goes on.
limit on this 30 seconds 30 seconds 30 seconds
the longest 30 seconds of your life
let's get her a barf bag, let's get her a bag
you're on your own
okay 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
you're on
all right let's take a look at this
I was going to try to show it to the crowd but it's just going to fall over
it looks to me like Atelier's got it
all right good job here you go $10 Amazon gift card
and you all get a raffle ticket, raffle ticket, raffle ticket
could you give that poor girl a raffle ticket, thank you I appreciate that
can I get somebody to help me with this, thank you
all right good job, I think
so we're serving jello for dessert after the service
okay next game, let's get rid of these chairs please appreciate it, thank you
next game I need 3 volunteers from each team
you're going to be building a spaghetti marshmallow tower
so we're going to give you 4 minutes to build a marshmallow
so you're going to be given spaghetti, the pasta
you're going to be given marshmallows, you're going to be given 3 minutes
3 players from each team, you got to work together at the end of 3 minutes
the team that has built the highest spaghetti tower
all right you got to build the tower, it must be able to stand on its own
must be able to stand on its own, put your hands down, put your hands down
first 3 to put your hands up here, go
I saw 1, I saw 1, put your hands back down
go, I saw 2, hands back down
go, I saw 3, oh you already did it, you already did it, we can't use you
all right Montel, come on up, all 3 of you, okay 1, 2, 3 go
I saw that, 1, 1, 2, 3, you got to put your hands down
1, 2, 3, I saw that
one, I think that was you, come on up, hands down, 1, 2
3, I think I saw that one, come on up, all right so
we've got 3 on this side, 3 on this side, just ended up being
boys versus girls, all right, Spartacus versus Otillius
you cannot touch anything until we say
go, you've got
give me 1 minute
we're going to give you 4 minutes
okay, does everybody understand the purpose of the game?
you use the spaghetti noodles, you use the marshmallows, you build a tower
the highest tower in 4 minutes wins
it has to be able to stand on its own, on your mark
get set, go
1,000 points to Otillius
the girls look like they had a plan
the guys look like they're
roasting s'mores
all right
so guys
remember, you're supposed to build a tower
you should count the costs
you've got less than 2 minutes
all right, 1 minute 30 seconds
it has to be able to stand on its own
the highest tower that can stand on its own
1 minute
it's got to stand on its own
1,000 points for everyone
30 seconds
20 seconds
30 seconds
5, 4, 3, 2, 1
you're done, you're done, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
I think Otillius has it
they still got it, all right, praise the Lord
there you go, okay
what will you do with your Amazon gift cards
I wonder, there you go, there you go, there you go, 3 tickets each
you can share those, good try guys, good job, all right, let's give them a round of applause
all right
last game for the night, this one's
an interesting one
we're going to need a minute to set up a little bit
okay, I'm going to need 2 players from each team
I have not played a game, 2 players from each team have not played a game
come on up, you haven't played a game, come on up, 2 players
now I haven't played a game, come on up, Celise come on up
all right this one's going to take a minute, we're going to have 2 against 2
and then we're going to do it again, 2 against 2
this game is called balls and buckets
we're going to set up
some buckets up on the platform and when I say go, you will stand behind the line, you
see the lines over there, the black lines, you're going to stand behind the lines, you're
going to pick up the balls from those buckets and you're going to try to get as many balls
inside the buckets in 30 seconds, as many balls inside the buckets in 30 seconds. You're
going to get 1,000 points for every ball that makes it into a bucket and you will get 5,000
bonus points. You're going to get 1,000 points for every ball that makes it into the bucket.
You get 5,000 bonus points if you make a ball in every bucket. Make a ball in every bucket.
You're both going to shoot at the same time. You're going to work together. Let's go ahead
and have team Spartacus go first. Go stand behind the line there and you can start when I say go.
You have 30 seconds. Give me one minute to reset. On your mark, get set, go.
Twenty seconds. Ten seconds. Five seconds. Three, two, one. We're done. All right,
let's look at this. We do not have a ball in every bucket, but we do have one ball.
It's my bad time. Two balls, three balls, four balls, five balls, 5,000 points. All right,
good job. Next team, come on up. Come on up. You got 30 seconds. You ready? You got to stand
behind the line. Stand behind the line. You girls ready? Do you need to say a word of prayer? On
your mark, get set, go. Thirty seconds. Ten seconds. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four,
three, two, one. We're done. All right, let's take a look at this. There is not one ball in
every bucket, but we do have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 8,000 points. Good job.
All right, Spartacus. That was a tip. Spartacus two, who wants to do it? Come on up. Come on up.
Saw your hand up. Come on up. All right, and then we need two from this side. Who's, who's, who's,
you two? Come on up. Come on up. All right, you got to stand behind the line. We're gonna have
your team go first. Your team go first. Thirty seconds on the clock. Make sure we don't have
anything here. All right, you ready? On your mark, get set, go. Oh, she's good.
Ten seconds. Five, four, three, two, one. Done, done, done, done.
All right, we do not have one ball in every bucket, but we do have one, two, three, sorry,
four, five, 6,000 points. All right, next team, last team. Good job. Oh, uh, who you, well, we
got to wait for you guys. The other team that I give you a prize, who won? You guys won? You won?
I can't trust you. Good night. I should take tickets from you. Okay, come on up if you want.
I need to give you a prize. Who won? Good job, good job, good job, good job. All right, let's get them
around the clock. Wait, you do get, you get tickets for participating too. Raffle tickets for
participating. Raffle tickets for participating. Want to share that? Raffle tickets for participating.
Want to share that? All right, good. All right, guys, come on up, come on up.
What did they just get, 9,000 points? All right, do you guys understand the game?
Nothing in there? 30 seconds? On your mark, get set, go.
10 seconds.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, done, done, done. All right, all right. I don't, this one doesn't count.
Okay, we have 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 points. All right, hold on, hold on, hold on. You get, you get
raffle tickets for participating. Raffle tickets for participating. There you go. You want to share
that? There's two on there. No, actually there's one on. Yeah, the two. All right, and where's my
other team? I need more gift cards. Can you get me more? Where's my team over here? Who part, who did it?
Was it just you? Who's your partner? All right, come on up. You get participation tickets
and you get your Amazon gift cards. I ran out of Amazon gift cards. Can I just give you an IOU?
I'm just kidding. It's coming, it's coming. Just give me a second. It's coming, it's coming, it's coming.
It's coming. All right, they'll get it to you. They'll bring it to you. All right, we got the gift card.
All right.
Okay, praise the Lord. Let's see, that's it for the games for tonight. So let's go ahead
and we're going to sing a song. These guys are going to take this
and set it up. Go ahead and look in your bulletin and find the chorus of the week, the, the insert
in your bulletin and we're going to sing, rejoice in the Lord as we prepare to receive the offering
this evening. Rejoice in the Lord. Go ahead and find the insert. Rejoice in the Lord as we
prepare to receive the offering. Let's sing it out on the first. God never moves without purpose or
class. In his servant and molding a man. Give thanks to the Lord. Seems long.
He giveth a song. All rejoice in the Lord. He makes no mistake.
He knoweth the end of each path that I take for when I am tried and purified,
I shall come forth as gold. Good. Sing it out on the second.
I could not see through the shadows ahead. So I looked at the cross of the savior instead.
To the will of my foster that day.
And tears fled away. All rejoice in the Lord. He makes no mistake. He knoweth the end of each path
that I take for when I am tried and purified, I shall come forth as gold. Good. Sing it out on the
last. Now I can see testing comes from above. God strengthens his children and purges in love.
My father knows best and I trust in his care. Through purging more fruit I will bear.
All rejoice in the Lord. He makes no mistake. He knoweth the end of each path that I take for when
I am tried and purified, I shall come forth as gold. Amen. All right. We're gonna have the guys
come up and help us with the offering at this time. And then we will have the reading of the
text. And then of course we'll have our preacher for tonight. Pastor Steven Anderson from Faith
Word Baptist Church is here to preach for us. And when he gets announced, let's make sure we give
him a good welcome to the next generation youth rally pulpit here. Let's go ahead and bow our
heads and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord we do thank you for allowing us to gather
together. We thank you for these young people. Lord we pray that you bless them. We pray you
bless the gift and the giver tonight. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Amen.
Please open your mouths to 1 Corinthians 11. 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. If you need a bow,
you can put your hand up and one of the ushers can come by and bring you a Bible.
1 Corinthians chapter number 11. If you need a bow, keep your hand up or she will come by.
1 Corinthians 11. We'll read the entire chapter as our custom.
Just keep your hand up and she will come by. 1 Corinthians 11 being the verse number one.
Be followers of me even as I am also of Christ. Now I praise you brethren that you remember me
in all things and keep the ordinances as I deliver them to you. But I have you know that the head of
every man is Christ and the head of the woman is the man and the head of Christ is God. Every man
praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonored his head. But every woman that prays
or prophesied with her head uncovered dishonored her head for that is even all one as if she were
shaven. For if the woman be not covered let her also be shorn. But if it be a shame for woman to
be shorn or shaven let her be covered. For man indeed ought not to cover his head for as much
as he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the
woman but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for the
man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless
neither is the man without the woman neither the woman without the man in the Lord. For as woman is
of the man even so is a man also by the woman but all things of God. Judging yourselves is it
calmly that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man
have long hair it is a shame unto him? But if woman have long hair it is a glory to her for
her hair is given her for a covering. But if any man seem to be contentious we have no such custom
neither the churches of God. Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not that you come
together not for the better but for the worse. For first of all when he come together in the church
I hear that there be divisions among you and I partly believe it. For there must be also
heresies among you that they which are proved may be made manifest among you. When you come
together therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating everyone
taketh before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken. What? Have you
not houses to eat to drink in or despise you the church of God and shame them that have not? What
shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. For I received of the Lord that
which also I delivered unto you that the Lord of Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took
bread. When he had given thanks he break and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you
this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup when he had subbed
saying this cup is the new testament in my blood this do ye as oft as you drink it in remembrance
of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you do show the Lord's death till
he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall
be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of
that bread and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh
damnation to himself not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly
among you and many sleep. For if we will judge ourselves we should not be judged but when we
are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world. Wherefore
my brethren when you come together to eat tarry one for another and if any man hunger let him
eat at home. Let me come together not into condemnation and the rest will I set in order
when I come. Let's pray. Heavenly father I thank you for this evening God I thank you for this
youth rally Lord and I pray that you please meet with us tonight meet with the teens as well and I
say be with pastor Anderson tonight just strengthen him with their spirit. Lord we love you and in Jesus
name we pray. Amen. Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth.
God is telling us to seek the Lord at a young age.
If you spend your teens and twenties seeking after the pleasures of this world
someday you're going to look back on that as just a wasted decade.
And now introducing our preacher for the night from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe
Arizona give an exciting next generation youth rally welcome to Pastor Steven L. Anderson.
And I hope every child and every teenager is listening to me because now is the time for you
to start seeking after the Lord where that is what consumes you that is what drives you
that is the most important pursuit in your life is I want to seek God.
All right well it's great to be here I'm having fun everybody having fun?
All right so if you're there in first Corinthians chapter number 11 the title of my sermon tonight
is let her also be shorn let her also be shorn. The Bible says if it be a shame for a woman
to be shorn or shaven let her be covered if the woman be not covered let her also be shorn. Now
what does that mean? Well let's kind of break down this passage before I get into what I want
to preach tonight. The first thing I want to point out is beginning in verse 14 where the Bible says
does not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him
but if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for a covering.
So what the Bible's saying when it says does not even nature itself teach you it's that you know
we all kind of just know naturally obviously dudes are supposed to have short hair and women
are supposed to have long hair and instinctively we know that that's right obviously there are
going to be some men who have long hair and go against that natural order of things they're
going to be women with short hair but even nature itself teaches you that it's shameful for a man to
have long hair and then the Bible says but if a woman has long hair then it's a glory unto her
and it says that her hair is given her for a covering. Now let's back up with that in mind
to verse number three it says but I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ
and the head of the woman is the man and the head of Christ is God. Then it says in verse four
every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonors his head. Now let's let's stop
and think about this for a minute what did we say the covering is according to this passage
long hair right if a woman has long hair it's a glory unto her because her hair is given her
for a covering so when the Bible says here if a man pray or prophesy having his head covered
if we compare scripture with scripture in this passage we're talking about a man
praying or prophesying having long hair so if a man has long hair and he prays or prophesies
he's dishonoring his head now who does the Bible say is the man's head in verse three
Christ the head of every man is Christ so if a man prays or prophesies having his head covered
meaning that he has long hair he's dishonoring to Christ this is what the Bible says
and then it says every woman that prayeth or prophesy with her head uncovered dishonoreth
her head now who is the head of the woman according to verse three the man the head of the
woman's the man right so she's dishonoring her husband if she's praying and prophesying and she
has her head uncovered meaning that she has short hair so if you see a dude with a short-haired wife
basically that's kind of embarrassing for the dude that his wife has short hair and then it says for
that is even all one as if she were shaven so basically when you see a woman who has short hair
it's saying you know why doesn't she just butch it all off why doesn't she just shave it all off
but if that would seem weird if that would be embarrassing or strange for a woman to just
completely shave her head bald or have it clipped super short then let her also be covered meaning
let her have actual long hair not short hair and then it says in verse number six for if the woman
be not covered let her also be shorn but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven
let her be covered right then let her have long hair
for a man indeed ought not to cover his head for as much as he is the image and glory of god
but the woman is the glory of the man now a couple things i want to say about this some people will
try to say well this passage it's talking about women need to wear some kind of a shawl or some
kind of a cloth covering or some kind of a hat over their head and you'll have these head covering
baptists or meninites or presbyterians that will actually cover their head with something but
remember first of all number one let's let the passage define the passage said that the long
hair is given her for recovery number one but number two in the old testament the men who
ministered in the temple and the tabernacle were actually commanded by god to wear hats
so when aaron and the priests were given their garments in exodus part of that outfit that
aaron the priest wore was a hat upon his head so if god is commanding men for all that time in the
old testament you know 1500 years of old testament if he's commanding them wear this hat while you
serve me in the tabernacle how can he then turn around in first corinthians and say oh even you
know i mean doesn't even nature itself teach you it's well hey wait a minute why would god switch
it up and all of a sudden say women need to wear a hat because guess what it's not about hats
because if it were about hats dudes would be wearing the hats because that's what that's who
wore it in the old testament and god wouldn't just change the game all of a sudden no we're not
talking about hats we're talking about long hair if a man has long hair it's a shame unto him the
bible says if a woman has short hair she's dishonoring her head which is her man and if a
man has long hair and prays or prophesies if he's speaking in the name of christ while he has long
hair that's dishonoring to his head which is jesus christ and in fact the bible says in verse 7 for
a man indeed ought not to cover his head for as much as he is the image and glory of god now what
in the world sense would that make if jesus had long hair so if jesus christ had long hair why
would the bible say well hey listen dudes you shouldn't have long hair it's a shame for a man
to have long hair because you're in the image of god because guess what no one was in the image of
god more than jesus because jesus was actually the express image of god the father's person
and so if anybody's in the image of god it's jesus christ and guess what he didn't have long hair
because he's the image and glory of god and it's a shame for a man to have long hair now this is
not what i'm preaching on tonight though this is just right now i'm explaining to you the basics
of this passage so that you can understand the passage here about the fact that men are supposed
to have short hair but what i want to preach about tonight is i want to focus in on verse
six specifically where it says for if the woman be not covered let her also be shorn but if it be a
shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven let her be covered and what i want to preach about tonight
is this that god is not interested in us seeing how close to the line we can get and still
technically be right with god so basically saying well you know i'm a woman but i'm gonna try to be
as masculine as i could possibly be but still technically dressing like a woman or okay well
i'm a man and i'm gonna be as effeminate and queer as i pop but you know i'm still technically
dressed like a man like you'll see these guys in bible colleges and everything where they have
rules about you know women wearing skirts and dresses and men wearing pants but they'll try
to do the pink and the lavender just basically trying to get as girly and effeminate as they can
while still technically being in men's clothing and you know what the bible is saying here is look
if you're gonna sit there and have short hair as a woman why don't you just shave it all off
why don't you just go all the way and just butch it all the way and you know what god wants us to
be either cold or hot get in or get out and quit trying to straddle the line between what's right
right why don't you just get all the way on the right side and get all the way in and if it's a
shame to be a faggot then why would you want to be even a little bit effeminate why don't you
just be all the way manly you know if it's a shame to be cross-dressed then don't get as close to
that line as you can get far from that line and get all the way on one side or the other right
with god now i'm gonna i want to move on to the next point in the sermon but first i'm going to
need a volunteer okay from the teens and it's it's going to be a boy now you're already raising
your hand do you are you willing to be baptized with the bath can you drink of the cup that i'm
going to give you because you haven't even heard what this is yet now let me tell you this i need
a boy as a volunteer and i'm going to be cutting your hair okay so that's the you're getting four
warning you're getting a haircut okay now whoever comes up and does this how many how many raffle
tickets are we giving them how many points we got to sweeten the pot a little bit here
okay ten thousand points for your team and who okay do we have any volunteers
okay now hold on a second let me just before you get too excited there all right
we're you're going down to a three you're getting buzzed down to a three
all right are you you're willing to do this
this ain't your mama's haircut this is gonna be worse all right come on up here all right
give him a big hand
okay all right thanks for being a good sport i've only given out one haircut in my entire life
and so i don't really i don't really know what i'm doing so all right
oh yeah this is easy piece of cake all right
so okay
all right now look this way no no no no i'm not i'm not interested in that so i just
all right now we're gonna we're gonna just pause for a minute we're gonna take a little
intermission so just stop right there okay all right now let's turn our bibles to second
samuel chapter 10 okay so second second samuel chapter 10 in your bibles okay
all right so second samuel chapter number 10 we're gonna begin reading verse number one
and the bible says and it came to pass after this that the king of the children of ammon died
and hayden his son reigned in his stead then said david i will show kindness unto hayden the son of
nahash as his father showed kindness unto me and david sent to comfort him by the hand of his
servants for his father and david's servants came into the land of the children of ammon
and the princes of the children of ammon said unto him and their lord thinkest thou that david
thinkest thou that david doth honor thy father that he had sent comforters unto thee
hath not david rather sent his servants unto thee to search the city and to spy it out and
to overthrow it wherefore hayden took david's servants and shaved off the one half of their
beards and cut off their garments in the middle even to their buttocks and sent them away and
they told it unto david no don't worry i'm i'm only doing the haircut i'm only doing the haircut
yeah when they told it unto david he said to meet them because the men were greatly ashamed
and the king said terry at jerusalem or terry at jericho until your beards be grown and then return
and when the children of ammon saw that they stank before david the children of ammon sit
and hired the syrians etc all right so i'm not going to finish this haircut so just go ahead
and have a seat i'm done with you okay so i'm gonna leave him with a half a haircut okay he's
you're gonna get the rest of the haircut after the service okay so here's the idea here in this story
these guys get half of their now i was merciful because i went down to a three but i mean these
guys got it shaved all the way bald right just completely shaved off on one side and their
clothing was cut down the middle and so they're half naked okay but not the half that they would
want to be because it was down the middle so half of their buttocks was exposed one of their butt
cheeks is exposed in this story right so the whole point is that they did this to embarrass
them right they did this to humiliate them by doing this but there's a spiritual lesson that
we can learn here just as in first corinthians chapter 11 we saw this idea that god's saying
look if you're not going to actually do things the right way if you're not going to have your
hair the way that i told you to have it then why just go all the way you know you want to be a
short-haired woman then just shave it all off just go bald why don't you just be let her also be
shorn why not why not just go all the way right either get in or get out is what he's saying and
you know when you look at this passage he's showing here that it's a shame when you're half
shaven and half not shaven half a beard half no beard half clothed the other half naked
it's embarrassing they look foolish and so therefore he says hey stay in jericho until
that grows back because you don't want to come home to your family and you show up looking all
weird like that you know they want to wait until they look a little bit more normal and the thing
that we can learn from this is that when you try to have it both ways where you're trying to be
a godly christian on one hand you're a fundamental baptist on one hand but then you're trying to fit
in with this world and you're trying to be liberal and trendy and modernistic on the other side you
know what you end up looking silly you end up looking foolish in this world when you try to
have it both ways now go if you were to acts chapter 20 acts chapter 20 and you know i was
just preaching on sunday night about this new movie that's out in theaters right now
and it's the biggest christian movie right now and it's been a huge success
financially and it's already taken in 30 million dollars of ticket sales you know who even i don't
even i didn't even know people even hardly ever still go to the movies because i thought they
just stream everything at home now but apparently 30 million dollars worth of tickets at the movie
theater have been sold for people to go watch this movie jesus revolution
and of course in this movie the main character the hero of the film is this long-haired hippie
who's preaching the word of god with long hair and he's preaching the bible but what they don't tell
you in the movie i mean i haven't seen the movie but from what i understand what they don't tell
you in the movie is that the guy is a sodomite in real life a literal just known sodomite who
died of aids because guess what that's the punishment for being a sodomite and going around
and living that filthy lifestyle so he died of aids he's an open known sodomite in fact it's
even now known that while the events in the movie are going on where he's supposedly leading some
great revival for christ and bringing all the hippies to christ and helping found calvary chapel
that he was quote partying on saturday nights and then preaching on sunday morning and when
they say partying they're talking about him going out and being a sodomite on saturday nights
this guy's name was lonnie frisbee and he's the hero of this new movie jesus revolution
and so this is the kind of garbage today that christians are eating up because instead of just
getting all the way on board with the word of god and the bible and preaching they're trying
to fit in with this world and they're trying to say well hey you know we can be like the hippies
because this this movie takes place in the early 70s so it's like hey we could be like the hippies
we can have the long hair we can have all the hippie music the hippie lifestyle the hippie
ethos plus jesus mixed in and we can uh basically have just an explosion of growth in our churches
by quote you know reaching people where they're at and and and you know coming down and and
meeting them at their level but let me tell you something that is not god's plan for our churches
to become super worldly and pattern ourselves after the sinful people of this world in order
to reach them we can reach people just fine with the bible and the holy spirit and standing on
god's promises and standing on god's methods in the bible instead of feeling like we have to
you know compromise in order to reach people and and especially when it comes to youth
there's this attitude today that says that we need to be cool or hip in order to reach the youth
and they say hey you know if we could just uh become more approachable to them
and dress like them and bring in their music and and their attitudes then somehow we're going to
reach the youth for christ but but isn't it amazing how in our movement of independent
fundamental baptist churches we're reaching all kinds of young people we we have a a house packed
full of of youth here today but the difference is that we don't have to become teenage look-alike
clowns in order to bring teenagers in to come hear us preach and let me tell you something
when you've got a bunch of grown men in their 30s and 40s trying to pretend that they're teenagers
and dressing all trendy like teenagers and putting on the skinny jeans and the jeans with the holes
in them and they've got like the tight little graphic t-shirt that they're bulging out of
and they're up here you know and they don't talk about being a christian talk about being a jesus
follower you know what i mean like i'm a jesus follower man and they're up here with their bar
stool and they're up here trying to look and you know what to me they just look like a total idiot
and you know what i think to a lot of people in this world they look like an idiot too
i think they look like an idiot to christians and they look like an idiot to this world because you
know what they're trying to have it both ways instead of getting all the way in or all the way
out and they end up looking stupid you know what i've noticed that a little bit of christianity
can actually make you look like a dork in this world but then when you get all the way on board
with christianity you're no joke to anyone but we've got too many watered down christians
that are trying to have it both ways and they're going to be a a hippie for jesus they're going to
be a rap artist for jesus and they're trying to have it both ways and they end up just looking
stupid they end up looking like the guy who's got half his beard shaved off half his butt
crack is showing and he's just out there uh you know you know what is he doing what is he
you know there are a lot of men here tonight that are clean shaven
they look good there are a lot of men here that have a beard and they look good but you know what
it's gonna look stupid for anybody to have a half of a beard on one side and no beard on the other
side you know you look like a clown i mean if somebody walked in to our church and they had
a beard that just started right in the middle and just went this way and there's nothing on this
side you know what i would think this person is a clown this person's trying to get attention
this person is is making a fool of us like this person's not taking life seriously this person's
not taking church seriously this person doesn't take themselves seriously and you know what that's
exactly how i feel about this new modern version of christianity that tries to dress up church and
make it look like the world and tries to make the pastor some kind of a social media influencer
or some kind of a fashion model or some kind of a rock star and that's why these churches
call him the lead pastor instead of just calling him like the pastor or like the senior pastor
he's the lead pastor like he's the lead guitarist is what they're trying to do with that
right i mean what what okay who's the rhythm pastor right you got the lead pastor and the
rhythm pastor right but you know what they're trying to be cool and they just end up looking
stupid and today you see all of these churches that have come out of that jesus revolution
movement the jesus freak movement the the jesus people or the calvary chapel type of a mentality
and this neo-evangelicalism today and you know what it ends up just making christianity look
stupid is what it ends up doing and they don't end up reaching more people because they've been
doing it for the last what 50 years if we go back to when that movie when those events are
taking place that's 50 years ago so let me ask you this do we have more christianity in america
than we did 50 years ago do we have more righteousness more standards more clean living
or do we have more ungodliness more sodomites more wickedness less people going to church less people
taking christianity seriously and you know what when i go off soul winning every week i've noticed
that more and more every week people are more hostile to christianity than they used to be
you know it used to be you go out soul winning 20 25 years ago obviously a lot of people weren't
interested obviously a lot of people didn't want to listen but people weren't as hostile as they're
getting now now it's getting to where you'll get so many people just no you know oh church no way
oh christian no i'm not religious no you know it used to be if you ask somebody are you a christian
they would usually say yes even if they're not even saved they were vaguely some kind of christian
you know my grandpa many years ago asked somebody are you a christian they said well i'm not a
cannibal they thought those were the only two options living in america like if you're not a
christian you must be a cannibal but today it's just are you christian no are you christian no
are you christian no we're getting more no answers to that question than we've ever before
as our country gets more and more de-christianized every single day so let me ask you this is this
attitude that says make the church worldly make it cool is that really working to reach people in
the long run if they would have reached that young people generation from the 60s and 70s
then you know the churches right now would be packed with godly christians and church
attendances would be an all-time high and america would be experiencing revival and and and having
all these great but it's not happening is it you know why because it doesn't work let me tell you
what works the holy spirit works the bible works preaching works and you know what we need men of
god to get up and stop trying to be cool and stop trying to be hip and stop trying to be trendy and
to just spend their time with their face in the word of god with their face on the floor
praying and getting god's power on their life and reading the bible than to try to figure out what
you know what can we do to reach the young people what's going to be cool for the young people and
you know what here's one thing i appreciate about pastor he doesn't try to be cool at all
at all and i'm not saying that to insult him he doesn't
and you know what neither do i i don't try to be cool at all either
this man is not trying to be cool you don't see him trying to be all hip and trendy and trying
to figure out how he's going to dress to impress you and show you how cutting edge he is with his
fashion we don't care about fashion do you care about do you give a rip about fashion at all
we don't care we're pastors we're preachers we're men of god our spiritual ancestors walked around
in sheep skins and goat skins being destitute afflicted and tormented they weren't doing a
fashion show we're men of god we wear a rough garment we wear rough clothing that's what the
bible says we don't care about trying to be cool to young people because you know what coolness
isn't going to get the job done it's bible preaching that's going to get the job done
it's sad when churches feel like they have to fit in with this world and have the cool music and the
cool clothes and the cool program and constantly be on the trendy cutting edge and and it's supposedly
all about reaching the young people but what i find is that at these liberal non-denominational
watered down community churches here's what i find the young people are not interested in the things
of god i've gone to these liberal churches as a teenager and you know what they weren't into it
the young people weren't into reading their bible or going to church or anything like that
you know they go to these trendy churches and they're just kind of like yawn and i'll tell you
why because of the did i have you turn to acts chapter 20 i'll tell you why because you know
when you when you come at people with this half this halfway this this half shaved half beard
right let's say the beard and the hair represents actual real biblical christianity and then let's
say the shaven represents the lack thereof here's what happens when when you come at young people
with this half in half out mentality you know what the young people are going to do they're just
going to say why don't you just shave it all off like if you've already shaved half the beard
shave the other half if you've already you know you need to just take that other half of that
pair of pants and just it just throw it in the trash it's not you know it's it's no good anymore
and so what you see is that young people just end up just discarding christianity
and just going all the way to the world i mean if you come at them with a christianity that looks so
much like a rock concert pretty soon they're just like let's just go to the rock concert like what
why are we going to this watered down half rock concert at church let's go to the full-blown rock
concert let's go to metallica or whatever you know what are we doing here okay why not just go all
the way i mean if it's a shame for a woman to be uh uncovered you know then let her all you know
let her also be shorn if she's not going to be covered why not just go all the way with it
now look at acts chapter 20 verse 7 it says upon the first day of the week
when the disciples came together to break bread paul preached unto them ready to depart on the
morrow and continued his speech until midnight and there were many lights in the upper chamber where
they were gathered together and there sat in a window a certain young man named eutychus
so this is a young guy i picture him as a teenager being fallen into a deep sleep so this guy's
asleep because paul preached a sermon that's so long he's preaching till midnight he sunk down
with sleep and fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead so this guy falls out the window
and they think the guy's dead but he's actually not dead paul went down and fell on him and
embracing him said trouble not yourselves for his life is in him when he therefore was come up again
and had broken bread and eaten and talked a long while i like how paul is just like i'm still not
done preaching like he preaches so long that the guy falls out the window and almost dies
he's already it's already past midnight and then it's like he's okay all right let me finish my
sermon and then he keeps on preaching all the way it says he talked a long while even till break of
day and he departed now if we look at this illustration spiritually right because this is
a literal story about a guy who's literally sitting in the window falls out they think
he's dead he's actually like but let's take a spiritual view of this what the bible is teaching
us here is not to be half in half out because if you're sitting in the window what are you
you're half in and you're half out and so this guy's in church but he's not all the way in church
he's in church but his heart's kind of somewhere else he's half in half out he falls asleep during
the sermon and so the first point i want to draw from this passage is that when you're half in half
out you're going to end up getting all the way out you don't typically fall into church you don't
fall into being a godly christian you don't accidentally fall into reading your bible more
you know when you're right there on the edge the tenant it's like the you know if the hen
well the joke is that if the rooster lays an egg you know on the very peak of the roof which way
is it going to go and of course the answer is that roosters can't lay eggs you know the point
of the roof but it's like which way are you going to go well when you're half in half out with the
things of god you're always going to end up going out you're always going to have falling out and
that's what the bible is teaching us here don't be on the line don't have one foot in the world
don't be right there on the edge because you're going to end up falling out and then the other
thing i want to point out is that when he falls out of church people think that he's dead and so
a lot of times you'll have young people that are half in half out and when they fall out people
assume oh they they're maybe they're not saved right like they think they're dead like oh uh
he's not saved that's why he fell away but in reality even many saved young people do fall out
of church because the guy's not really dead he's actually alive and paul looks at him and says no
this guy's alive and you know you'll see young people that grow up and then they quit the church
and you might be tempted to just think oh well they must just not be saved
but let me tell you something saved people get out of church all the time saved people
quit the church all the time they fall out of church all the time it doesn't make them save
their life may still be in them you know they're still saved because of course you can't lose your
salvation but when they end up falling out of the house of god people think that they're not saved
and in many ways obviously they're as good as dead they're unconscious they're asleep they're
out of it they're not serving god they're not being used by god and you know you young people
that are here today you know obviously the vast majority of you are saved i hope all of you are
saved and i want you guys to get all the i want you to get out of the window i want you to get
all the way in and i want you to decide that you will serve the lord with your life and that you're
not going to try to have it both ways but that you're going to get all the way in and get sold
out for the things of god and serve god with all your heart mind soul and strength you know
obviously this youth conference is to show you a good time but at the end of the day we don't just
want to show you a good time we want to get you fully clothed in the armor of god so that you
don't have half your buttocks showing because you're trying to be half christian and half
worldly and trying to fit in with this sinful world and look a minute ago i was preaching
about how silly these pastors are who are trying to fit in with this world 40 year old man 50 year
old man and they got their super tight t-shirt on and there's really two styles of these liberal
pastors all you got to do is just go on youtube and just look at the big mega church pastors that
are preaching to thousands with their purple lights and their and their churches that by the
way we go out soul winning and find a lot of the people in the pews are not even saved in
these churches because the gospel is so watered down the preaching is so watered down that you
talk to the members and you know you can pretty much it's 50 50 whether they're even saved or
even worse but you see these guys up there and they they look like idiots am i the only one who
feels this way because there's two styles either they're the kind where they have like the dad
bod and a beer gut but a super tight shirt it's like okay you got this you got a belly but you
got a super tight shirt on and then you have these super skinny pants so you have like these
bird legs and then this kind of muffin top thing going on why are you wearing clothes that
accentuate that you know if i were shaped if i were shaped like a chubby birdie then i wouldn't
wear super tight clothes that show every flab and fold of my body amen what's the point and then
the other kind that you'll see so that's what you see a lot of you see a lot of these little bird
leg little chubby 50 year olds dressed like a 17 year old and i'm sure the 17 year olds are just
thinking oh man this guy's so cool you think that that's what they're thinking he dresses just like
my favorite band no they're thinking my band is cool and this guy's a dork that's what they're
thinking you know why doesn't he just be himself and dress like himself but instead he's trying
to dress like the guy that they is in their favorite band or whatever but that doesn't make
him cool because he's a cheap imitation okay and then the other kind you'll see is these liberal
mega church pastors who are just in the gym all the time they're probably you know i don't know
maybe they're even taking steroids because they have arms that are like twice as big as they
should be who knows what i'm talking about where their arm is just like double the size of a normal
arm and you're just like what like they look like a clown like cartoon character and they got that
and then again what's the common denominator the tight shirt the super tight shirt so you either
have the guy that's out of shape in a super tight shirt or you have the guy that's like in shape in
a super tight shirt except he spends way too much time on his arms so he has like these giant
clownish balloonish arms and he's just like you know my hobbies are lifting and being a Jesus
follower and you know he's like trying to be all cool and trendy and whatever and either way he
looks like a dope he looks like an idiot he looks like a clown it's a circus right why can't he just
be himself why can't he just be normal why can't he just be the way that god made him you know and
hey i love lifting weights i'm all for lifting weights but you know what why can't we just have
normal arms the size of our normal body why can't we just be the way that god made us why why why
would we have to take drugs or do some weird program to have arms twice the size of a normal
man's arms i'm not interested and you know when i talk about these pastors these these 50 year old
adolescents these midlife crisis teenagers trapped in a 60 year old body you know it's easy to laugh
at them as you teenagers can laugh at them and say oh man they're trying to be cool they're trying
to be like us they don't get it they're trying to use our slang they don't get it you know whatever
but here's the thing let me talk to you teenagers a little bit you know why don't you teenagers quit
trying to be cool too because you know what what's the point of trying to fit in with this wicked
ungodly world and and why do you want to look like that band why do you want to look like those
actors why do you want to look like those actresses let me tell you something you're a child of the
king you're bought with a price you're kings and priests unto god and the lord jesus christ why
would you say oh man i want to dress so i can look just like that guy who's going to hell
just like that guy who one day is going to be cast into lake of fire forever just like that guy
who's going to go into a literal trash can someday for all eternity i want to be just like this guy
who's a person who doesn't love jesus christ who doesn't love the lord who who is on his third wife
or he's filled with stds and i want to be just like this band where the lead singer is covered
in tattoos like a cannibal and i want and you say oh you're so judgmental oh hey you know what the
bible says judgment needs to begin at the house of god and somebody needs to stand up and say right
is right and wrong is wrong and you know what i am not going to sit here and just let our young
people follow a culture that wants to look like cannibals and lesbians and sodomites no we ought
to be different than this world the bible says be not conformed to this world but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind you know what's funny about teenagers is that teenagers they're kind
of ironic in the sense that they want to be cool they want to fit in but at the same time they also
want to be different and it's like these are kind of two tensions these are two things that
are in tension right like teenagers on the one end they want to be cool they want to fit in
but at the same time they want to be different and so they're like yeah i want to be different
and i'm gonna you know get the same piercing that everybody else has be different i'm gonna
be different by getting a tattoo like everyone else is being different by getting a tattoo
does everybody see what i'm saying it's kind of ironic but you know what christian teenagers
need to just take this idea about being cool and just throw it in the trash where it belongs
this whole concept of wanting to be cool wanting people to look at you you know what it's it's a
sinful attitude and let me tell you a few reasons why number one because the bible says all that is
in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and we always talk about those two how
about the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world and the world passeth away and the
lust thereof but he that doeth the will of god abideth forever you know it's the pride of life
that says i want everybody to look at me and see and think how cool i am i mean think about it if
i'm going to put all this effort into being cool you know what i'm basically saying is i want people
to look at me and exalt me and lift me up and i want to take pride in who i am and i'm mr cool
and everybody look at me because you know what you're not doing that for yourself you're doing
that for other people you know it's it's funny the one of the slang words that you hear a lot
these days i hear this all the time is like based right b a s e d based that guy's based
okay now here's the thing this is my understanding of that i you know my understanding of that term
based because people will often tell me pastor anderson you are based
okay and i'm like okay all right amen whatever but here's the thing here's my understanding of
this term based and and you young people can tell me if i'm getting this right my understanding of
this term based is that i don't give a rip what other people think or how other people are telling
me that i need to live my life i don't care what hollywood or madison avenue or the school system
or this world is telling me that i'm supposed to do supposed to believe supposed to feel you know
what hey i am gonna do what i believe is right and my life is based on my values not what someone
else is telling me that i'm supposed to be am i right about that is that what the who will raise
their hand and say i think you understand the term based okay i have a five-year-old girl over here
okay am i right if i'm wrong tell me tell me what it means that's what it means am i right
so let me ask you something then if it's so cool to be based then why are 99 of teenagers not
based that's what i'd like to know you know what what could be more based than being based on the
bible than being based on christ how about basing our lives on christ and the word of god and the
bible instead of just being carried about with all the trends and whatever's cool and whatever
the musicians are doing and whatever the disease-filled whores and whoremongers of
hollywood are doing i don't care what they're doing i want to follow the path that god has
laid for me i don't need them to tell me how to dress i don't need some disease-filled idiot in
the media telling me how to act how to dress how to talk what to believe and you know what all the
young people today they're so it's so cool now to accept queers isn't that considered cool now
in fact i think there are a lot of young people claiming to be queers right now that probably
aren't even really queers but they're just they just it's just so cool they're just like
i want to be lgbtq too like it just because it's like a trend or something right who thinks that
i who thinks that probably some of these people are pretending some of these kids and teenagers
i mean you see little kids and junior high oh you know well i'm bisexual it's like what
what folks in a world where it's considered cool to be for the sodomites i don't want to be cool
okay why don't you get your life based on what the word of god says and quit letting the world
drag you into all these stupid things in the name of being cool or fitting in or being trendy
now if you would go to leviticus chapter number 13 leviticus chapter number 13
we need christian young people to stop trying to fit in with this world and be cool
and show how they can follow the trend and you know you think i'm exaggerating when i
talk about people being filled with disease let me tell you something you know it's funny i was i
was talking to my daughter this week we were we were chatting about these things and i mentioned
to her i said yeah i i said i i just saw a statistic that you know 25 percent of the
population uh of new york city is infected with an std right now and my daughter was like whoa
that sounds kind of like an incredible statistic that can't really be true it can't really be that
high i said well let's do some research on it we did a little research on it we went on google and
we found that you know what in fact it turns out that it's 20 of america not new york city
i'm talking america in general 20 of america right now is dealing with a sexually transmitted
infection right now now not in their lifetime now and in fact according to the centers for
disease control 50 of america on average has an std in their lifetime
50 and i wonder which 50 is it is it the 50 that's going to church being a virgin when they get
married so here's the thing you know i was talking about this with my children i've preached about
this to my church many times and i've told them i said look you know if you go out there and
sleep around it's not that you might get an std it's that you will get an std it's that you are
virtually guaranteed and you say well i've got a 50-50 chance no because the people on the 50
side that's not getting an std it's probably just because they're not out fornicating
and so if i know that these hollywood actors and actresses and rock stars and rap artists
are whores and whoremongers you can pretty much take it to the bank that they're filled with
disease okay and if you don't like it take it up with the center for disease control
go look up the website they're the ones who are saying 50 of americans are going to have
this in their lifetime 20 have infections right now whether it's hiv or hpv or chlamydia or
syphilis or gonorrhea but you know what let's dress like the the gal the gonorrhea gals
that we see on tv and on the and that we hear on the radio let's just let's just dress like
all of the syphilis filled hiv filled hpv filled chlamydia filled just these filthy disease filled
whores and whoremongers oh but they're so cool
it's so cool hey kids don't you want to be hip do you want to be cool
you got to look like the stars man now let me let me explain something to you about being cool it's
vain it's vanity it's prideful number one and number two it's it's just it's empty it's vanity
and you know what i've noticed the people that try the hardest to be cool
end up making the biggest idiot of themselves
now look at look at leviticus chapter 13 what what's the sermon about tonight the sermon is
about getting all the way in not trying to mix the world with christianity not trying to fit
in with these world this world and be cool with the world and you're serving christ and you're
serving what does the bible say i mean the bible says no man can serve two masters you'll either
love the one and hate the other or else you'll hold to the one and despise the other you can't
serve god and mammon choose you this day whom you'll serve be not conformed to this world
you say preach the bible okay be not conformed to this world
don't don't pattern yourself after this sinful filthy world
and you say well i think it's offensive when you talk about these diseases you know what the bible
says the filthiness of her fornication that's what the bible says the bible calls fornication
filthiness filth okay that's what it is
now in leviticus chapter 13 we have some laws about leprosy and this is my favorite part of
the leprosy chapter so the leprosy chapter is not necessarily always the most exciting chapter in
the bible when you get here in your bible reading and you're deep you're like halfway into the book
of leviticus so it's like you know you can't really see the beginning or the end you're deep
in the middle of it no end in sight no light at the end of either end of the tunnel and you get
into this leprosy chapter and you got the scab and the white hair is the white hair is it yellow is
a black hair and you're going through this but you know there's this one part that i always
thought was kind of a little fun part in this chapter okay and it's this part look at verse
number nine it says when the plague of leprosy is in a man then he shall be brought unto the priest
and the priest shall see him and behold if the rising be white in the skin and it have turned the
hair white and there be quick raw flesh in the rising it is an old leprosy in the skin of his
flesh and the priest shall pronounce him unclean and shall not shut him up for he's unclean
and so it's like okay blah blah blah you know this guy's got some leprosy he's unclean if you
see leprosy that means he's unclean but here's the part that i always thought was a fun part
it says in verse 12 and if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin and the leprosy cover all the
skin of him that has to plague from his head even to his foot so so the bible says this guy has so
much leprosy that it's just head to toe every square inch of this guy becomes a hundred percent
covered in leprosy everybody getting the picture now you'd think like this is a mega leper
right like whoa like it's one thing got a little leprosy here little leprosy here no no this guy
i mean top of the head to the bottom of the foot every square inch of this guy's body is leprosy
is everybody getting the picture then the priest shall consider verse 13 because it says look from
head to foot wherever the priest look it's all leprosy verse 13 then the priest shall consider
and behold if the leprosy have covered all his flesh he shall pronounce him what excuse me
he shall pronounce him clean and you're like wait is this a misprint in my bible you know you're
checking other bibles like is this a typo this guy's got nothing but leprosy from head to toe
every square inch is leprosy and the bible says the priest shall uh pronounce him clean
it's all turned white he's clean now isn't that kind of a wild concept
but here's what the bible's saying that if you have no leprosy at all you're clean
and if you are just 100 leprosy from head to toe you're also clean now why now look you might think
this is crazy now let me just give it to you from like a medical or a scientific standpoint
you know just so you don't think the bible's being weird here okay is that the reason that
the guy who has leprosy 100 head to toe and obviously this isn't the same disease of leprosy
that we have today because disease are constantly adapting and changing remember all the covid
variants and everything i mean now give that a few thousand years and yeah disease has changed
dramatically over time but the idea here is that if the whole body has already been turned to
leprosy there's no more infection or inflammation the job's done he's just been totally that all of
it is just turned white it's over the process is over so because the process is no longer happening
he's no longer contagious anymore that's why he's pronouncing him clean he's not contagious because
there's no activity there's no action it's just done but that aside i want to talk about more of
a metaphorical or spiritual application like a figurative application here of what is this
concept of you know if he's just got leprosy all the way head to toe then he's clean again you know
this kind of goes to what we were saying earlier about being all the way in or all the way out
all the way in you're good to go all the way out you're good to go half in half out unclean
if you're half leprous you're unclean if you're all the way you're good to go now think about
this think about when it comes to uh this world and what they consider cool
right
because that's what everybody's so concerned with right that's what teenagers are so concerned with
right being cool and that's why they end up sometimes doing some of the stupid things that
they do or or dressing in weird ways or doing strange things with their hair you know it's he
didn't choose this strange thing with his hair but you know uh doing all these bizarre things
because they're trying to be cool but let me tell you something
the people that go all the way worldly the actual rock stars and hollywood whores and
whoremongers you know they're considered cool by this world aren't they they look cool
because they're all the way rock and roll they're all the way that hip-hop lifestyle they're all
the way that hollywood lifestyle all the way madison avenue and people look at that as wow
that's cool but you know let me tell you something if you actually get all the way as a christian
and you have no coolness at all just totally forget the concept of coolness just quit
caring about what other people think just quit even trying to wear the trendy clothes or follow
the hip-hop lifestyle you know and you know you got the hip-hop lifestyle some people are into
that you know uh the rock and roll lifestyle you know when i was a kid it's like you have the
skaters and then you have kind of like the the drug crowd and then you have like the hippie crowd
and they they're kind of like a retro hippie crowd because i'm not that old you know
but it was like a retro hippie crowd and then you had like the hip-hop crowd and then you had like
a gothic crowd you know if you actually just put all of that aside and just say i'm sick of trying
to fit in and follow these and just i'm not going to be conformed to this world coolness doesn't
matter to me i'm just going to be myself i'm just going to put on clothes i'm a man i'm going to
dress like a man a lady is just going to dress like a lady and just put on christian clothes
just be who you are i'm a born-again christian i'm a child of god i'm conservative i'm fundamental
i'm a baptist i believe the king james bible if you just go all the way let me tell you something
you are cool again you're cool again because you see to this world christianity is like leprosy to
them and you have a little leprosy you try to be a little bit christian and you know the world's
gonna scoff at you and say oh you're goody two shoes oh a little preacher boy oh you're a little
good girl why because you're trying to fit in with this world and be a little bit christian
and you've got this little bit of leprosy and it's like ah look at you oh you know you're not
christian are you well yeah oh man you know what's the way you don't drink what
what's wrong with you don't you want to get a tattoo with us
but let me tell you something you know i i said a little bit earlier past three
minutes doesn't try to be cool at all but that's why past three minutes is super cool
i'm serious you know there are a lot of people who hate past three minutes
you know we were just talking today about about how uh you know there's a ministry uh that he
was trying to get involved in and then as soon as they looked him up as soon as they heard it
was pastor Roger Jimenez they said no you know we're not interested because just ah yeah no
there are a lot of people who hate there are a lot of people who hate pastor Jimenez
there are a lot of people who hate other pastors in our movement because they stand for the word
of god because they're preaching the truth and it offends them but you know what
nobody thinks that pastor Jimenez is a dork nobody thinks that pastor Jimenez is is is weak
nobody thinks that pastor Jimenez is a joke you know what pastor Jimenez is a serious guy
whether people love him or whether they hate him
he's based
i mean you know you you right i mean you can't you can't get around that and and see here's
the thing about that is that i remember as a teenager being a christian in the public
school system and getting made fun of for being a christian and i remember one time
in the public school system when i was when i was 11 years old literally just being surrounded by
kids who were chanting christian brother christian brother like to mock me and they're literally just
calling me that making fun of me and whatever and but but here's the thing about that i'll tell you
why because i was a weak christian that barely talked about christ that barely you know was was
serving god at all and so when they found out that i'm a christian it was just it was just it
was a joke to them it was funny but you know what as i got older and i got serious about serving god
and i became dedicated to serving god to the point where i'm just i'm just bringing my bible to
school and just slapping it down on the desk i just walk in and just bring my bible i'm just
reading my bible in class reading my bible at lunch just proudly proclaiming that i was a
christian and you know what nobody made fun of me for that no one did i would go to my job and i
would go to school and i would go to college and you know what no one made fun of me for being a
serious christian but i was made fun of when i was trying to fit in and be half christian why because
you know what a clean-shaven man looks totally normal but you know who looks stupid is the one
who has half a beard and the other half clean shaven you know it's it's one it'd be one thing
to just be uh wearing shorts and a t-shirt but then it'd be another thing if you had like
one pant leg down to here and then you got shorts over here and it's a tank top on one side and it's
a it's a long sleeve you know turtleneck on that you'd look like a clown or a freak
and you know what the bottom line is this go if you were to revelation chapter three
trying to be cool and fit in with the worldly music scene the worldly hollywood scene
and be a dedicated christian is a fool's errand it's not gonna work
you're not it's not gonna work you can't pull it off if you want to see if it works
look at these trendy pastas in their tight shirts whether they're the gym kind or
the don't go to the gym kind they both look like a spaz okay it doesn't work
and so what you got to choose is which way you're going to go if you want to be the big man on
campus and you want to be cool and you want everybody to think that you're so cool first
of all you're prideful arrogant person and that's wickedness but you know what if you want to do
that you're going to have to go all the way worldly they're not going to be happy if you're
a little bit worldly you're going to have to go all the way you're going to have to go all the
way and you know what you can't serve christ that way indulging in all the world's stupidity and
fitting in with what the world wants i mean look let me let me put it to you this way let's say
i wanted to be a successful pastor in 2023 i pretty much have two choices if i want to be a
successful pastor i can go all the way liberal if i just go all the way liberal and i just bring in
just a total rock concert and just modern bible versions niv 15 minute sermon give people exactly
what they want apologize to homos apologize to everybody and just become faithful word community
church and just anything goes preach exactly what people want to hear you know if i did that
i would be successful in the sense that it would be a big crowd it would be money in the offering
plates right because people are doing that every day adventure church right all these different
fun centers it works they run thousands they start churches and boom they're running thousands
but you want to know another way i could be successful as a pastor
is i could just not be worldly at all not be trendy at all not give in to any of that stuff
and just stay old-fashioned stick with the bible fundamental preach the word of god
win souls preach everything in the bible doesn't matter who it offends not trying to be cool at all
just preach only what god says and take a stand and pray and read my bible and just
eschew all of the liberal lame worldly modernist junk and i'll be successful if i do that
because i'll have god's blessing i'll have god's power and there are people out there who want that
there are seven thousand men who have about the knee to bail and that's what they want
they want something that's all the way king james fundamentals straight down the line
those are the two ways to be successful but but you want to know how i would fail as a pastor
if i'm like well we're king james preferred we're not king james only we're king james preferred
and i tried to have the best of both worlds where i get like a purple light and a bar stool and a
tight t-shirt and i start calling myself a jesus follower instead of a christian
and then but i'm still like but i'm still against homos i'm still you know it's like it wouldn't
work would it if i'm just like you know let's say we had we had a rock band at our church purple
lights and it's a 15-minute sermon but the 15-minute sermon is like hey let's turn to
leviticus 2013 for 15 minutes you think it's gonna work no because you know why i'd lose
both crowds because the fundamental baptist be like i don't want this worldly trash i'm out of
here god's like i don't want to bless this this weak sauce worldly liberal church but then at
the same time i'm not worldly enough to bring in the worldly crowd so i'm not worldly enough for
the worldly crowd and i'm not godly enough for the godly crowd i'm just right there trying to
be in the middle it's going to be a failure and let me tell you something we're talking about
at this conference the next generation okay the next generation is going to be cold or hot
because let me tell you something the only way that the independent fundamental baptist movement
can survive is to either go super worldly or to go all the way godly all the way fundamental
all the way with the word of god and that's what's going to happen and that's why many old
ifb churches are dying because they're they're trying to be soft and fitting and not offend
people but then trying to be fundamental at the same time it's not working and so we're going to
be the branch of fundamentalism that actually goes all the way hardcore hell-bent for leather
preaching soul-winning missions reading the bible we'll preach long and we'll preach uh
you know without gimmicks without without having to say hey let's get a long-haired hippie up here
preaching no nuts to it we're not going to dress in a way to make you happy we're not going to
bring in the music that makes you happy no we're going to just do what's right
amen
but you know what there is another path that will work which is going all the way liberal
and just leprous from head to toe
that'll work too that's a clean strategy no leprosy is a clean strategy and total leprosy
is a clean strategy according to the word of god both of those are clean
and that's why the bible says in revelation chapter 3 verse 15 i know thy works that thou
are neither cold nor hot i would that work cold or hot so then because thou are lukewarm
and neither cold nor hot i will spew thee out of my mouth you think god likes this weak sauce
liberal half in half out neo-evangelical hippie dippy christianity
well we're baptistic we're not baptized but we're baptistic
let me tell you something my friend you teenagers need to take a left i think when i talk about
churches and pastors you understand what i'm saying don't you how we got to go all the way
we got to be what we are we got to be who we are we got to quit apologizing for who we are
amen and we got to just own it just own it pastor jimenez is a fundamentalist baptist he owns that
you know he preaches hard against sin he makes people mad he doesn't fit in with this world he
will never be loved in this community by the politicians or the business people or anything
like that no he is what he is and he owns it and you know what i think young people look at that
and they respect that and they say you know what i'll follow this man of god is it because he's
the coolest dude he's not even trying to be cool he's not cool at all if cool means being conformed
to the world and hollywood and rock star he's nothing like he's which mu which music star is
he remind you of the most which hollywood actor which i can't think of any but let me tell you
something it's easy to say that about the churches and the pastors but you know how about you
teenager why don't you quit trying to be cool why don't you quit trying to be eudicus half in half
out next thing we know you're out of church and everybody's saying you're dead and we're like no
he's alive he's just half in half out he was just sleeping let me tell you something you young men
are the next generation you young ladies are the next generation and you know what if a few of you
don't rise up and stand up and decide to be the next pastor anderson and the next pastor himenez
and the next pastor pazarski then there won't be a fund there won't be a fundamental baptist
movement anymore unless a few of you guys stand up and rise and build and lead and if you have
some strategy that says well i'm going to be like past three minutes but i'm going to be a cool
version of past three minutes i'm going to be like pastor anderson but i'm going to be a cool
version no you're not you're going to be a failure okay and let me tell you something you young
ladies you young men all of you even if you're not going to be a pastor right even if you're
just going to be a christian hey why don't you just own the fact that you're a christian how
about when you go to school or when you're in the community or you go to your job or whatever
why don't you just tell everybody that you're a christian and just own the fact that you're
a christian and not be ashamed like oh i don't want them to realize that as a lady i only wear
skirts and dresses because you're afraid of what this gender bending queer bait society is gonna
think of you this society is so confused who cares what they think why would i want to make happy some
society that doesn't even know which bathroom to use and i really care and you're like oh what
if they find out i only wear skirts and dresses they don't know what bathroom to use why don't
you just own the fact that you're a godly christian own the fact that you love the lord talk about the
bible let the redeemed of the lord say so tell your friends that you're a christian and better
yet win them to christ and be who you are and be a hundred percent all the way sold out god's
people and don't you just you know when somebody tries to say like oh man you know what you know
why aren't you wearing the skinny pants what's with the big pants see i don't wear skinny pants
because i don't want to look like a faggot you know what nobody's gonna think like oh that guy
he's a he's a weak sauce no people will respect that actually people respect you when you take a
stand people respect you when you're all the way one thing or another and you know obviously i
didn't necessarily take the time to prove from the bible every single thing that i said tonight but
if you study to show yourself approved unto god you're gonna find that everything i'm saying about
fornication disease sodomites long hair on men short hair on women clothing worldliness is all
in the bible everything i'm saying tonight is true choose which side you're on kids and you know what
i promise you one thing if you get all the way on the lord's side and stop worrying about being cool
at all you will be cool and the world can't guarantee you coolness m and m can't get up and
tell you hey be exactly like me and people will think you're cool who are the big who are the
cool people today tell me who the coolest people out there today help me out thank you who are the
who are the who does the world consider cool i know you guys don't but who does the world
consider really cool right now beyonce and tom holland okay can beyonce guarantee you hey follow
my plan and you will be considered cool by by your peers i don't think beyonce can make that claim i
don't think tom holland can make that claim i don't know who that is but but i promise you that if you
stop caring what anybody thinks and just start serving god 100 with your life and just don't
give a rip just just forget about it you i guarantee i will bestow upon you the coolness
guarantee it's a money back guarantee okay you get all your tithing back if no i'm just kidding
but you know what i'm serious right now because guess what you know what the definition of being
cool is the real definition it's not giving a rip what anybody thinks because you know what
trendy little conformist followers aren't cool they've never been cool okay so quit trying to
be cool coolness doesn't even matter and you shouldn't even care about my coolness guarantee
if you care about the guarantee the guarantee won't work on you so this is a paradox tonight
so if you come back and say it didn't work this is why i could never be proven wrong
because if you come to me and tell me it didn't work i'm not cool i'd be like well
the fact that you're bringing this up shows that you care and that shows that you didn't follow
the formula see the reason i can guarantee that no one will ever be disappointed is because if
you're disappointed you didn't follow the plan and if you follow the plan you're not disappointed
because you don't care think about it let's borrow is enough word of prayer father we thank you so
much for uh this church lord and this conference lord and i pray that they this this uh attitude
of of conforming to the world and being cool lord i pray that pastors would quit doing it but lord
i pray that teenagers would just grow up and and and get past all of these trends and trying to
fit in and be be cool lord i pray that we would just worry more about being right with you lord
than fitting in with a sinful and adulterous generation lord
bless the rest of the conference and in jesus name we pray amen
amen all right thank you very much pastor anderson let's let's give him a thank you
great sermon praise the lord great sermon great sermon i hope you kids get that okay let me give
you some some questions i need some questions somebody help me out grab those for me real quick
i've got some questions to help you earn some raffle tickets and points questions and raffle
tickets and points you want to hand me one just hand me one and and you you can uh take it to them
actually all right so here's question number one from the sermon first hand up can you help me see
who which hand goes up first okay what does nature itself teach you i think she was up
she's got it all right give her give her a ticket give her a ticket okay round of applause
a thousand points atilius let's see if spartaxis can get one
okay let me see let me see let me see what is the name of the young man that fell out of the window
all right you it was you no eutychus eutychus all right good all right good give him one
thousand points thank you sir all right let me go look through here according to the bible if
you have leprosy from head to toe you are now what who was it let's do it again hands down
you are now what i think i saw the hand over here i think i saw a hand over here
was it one of you two noah you are now clean all right let's give them
this is just a question for me who's tom hall i don't i don't know i've never even heard that
name that's not a real thing okay what does it mean ready i need to pay attention what does it
mean to be based i man she's good she got it i saw her hand first yeah to knock that's not fair did
that's not fair did you look at the sermon notes before okay this was emphasized
a lot for some reason according to pastor anderson what is pastor him and is not at all
go ahead all right cool got it i think that was a compliment
okay last one last one you gotta you gotta help me somebody's gotta help me your hands already
kind of halfway up you gotta get all in or all out no i'm just kidding okay what was the main
point of the sermon i think your hand did go up first what was it
yes and what does that teach us
you go all the way in or all the way out all right good job
okay so let me give you the status points uh where we're at right now so it is about 908
we're going i'm going to give you the points we're going to sing a song we got a baptism
and then we still have a wrestling show all right so teenagers like to stay up late so that's good
uh we have a wrestling show you're not going to want to miss it it's continuing on our escape
from this morning so make sure you're there let me just give you a status point up to this point
first of all yes my wife will finish your haircut all right we'll take care of you don't worry about
that you can go to the break room and she'll take care of that after the service she does take tips
atelius at this point has earned 88 000 points good job 88 000 points
spartacus at the end of the competitions today before the preaching started
let me finish this all right was at 82 000 points
but after the 10 000 point haircut they are at 92 000 points
all right you're just you're just within range 92 000 88 000 we're going to continue this
tomorrow we're gonna have brother rj come up and lead us in a song as we prepare for baptism tonight
all right let's grab our songbooks and turn to page number 401
song number 401 as we prepare to do some baptism this evening we're going to sing set my soul
of fire song number 401 and sing it out on the first set my soul of fire lord for thy holy wood
burn it deep within me let your voice be heard millions grope in darkness in this day and I
are I will be your witness fill me with thy power set my soul afar lord set my soul afar
make my life a witness of thy saving power millions grope in darkness waiting for thy would
would set my soul afire lord set my soul afire set my soul afire lord for the lost in sin
in give to me a passion as I seek to win help me not to falter never let me fail
fail me with thy spirit let thy will prevail sing it out set my soul afar lord set my soul afar
make my life a witness of thy saving power millions grope in darkness waiting for thy would
set my soul afire lord set my soul afire
all right well we've got help me out with that okay we've got uh Jackie de Dios coming for
baptism tonight and Jackie is brother Edgar's sister so we're excited to have her baptized
Jackie have you accepted lord jesus christ as your personal savior yes all right Jackie by
your profession of faith I baptize you my sister in the name of the father and of the son and of
the holy ghost buried in the likeness of his death raised to walk in newness of life I bless you
okay thank you very much it is 9 15 9 15 so we're going to dismiss with the word of prayer
and then we'd like for you to head into the fellowship hall if I can get the ushers and
the staff to help me let's make sure we have enough seats in there if you could help us let's
make sure the kids get the front seats the front seats if we've got to open up the roll-up doors
and set up more chairs let's do that probably a lot of the old people are going to go home anyway
so that's fine but we've got a wrestling show we've got cookies and fellowship so we're going
to pray right now dismiss you you can start with the cookies and the wrestling show we're going to
start at 9 30 it is 9 15 right now we're going to start at 9 30 so make sure you're in your place
for the wrestling show brother rj would you mind dismissing us with the word of prayer
and also playing a prayer blessing on the desserts and all that thank you
your heavenly father lord
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