Man, it's good to be here tonight and good to be with my good friend Pastor Roger Jimenez
and it's good to be preaching in my hometown, Sacramento, California where I was born and
raised to have my family here, lots of old friends and I want to start out tonight in
John chapter 15, if you'll turn there, John chapter number 15, I'm going to come back
to Genesis 37, but the title of my sermon tonight is Why They Hate Us. Why They Hate
Us. In Genesis 37, we have the story of Joseph, who was a godly young man and the Lord was
with him, but he was hated of his brethren. It says over and over again in that chapter
how they hated him and it actually gives us a few different reasons in that chapter why
they hated him and I'm going to go over those reasons tonight, but before I get into that,
I just want to explain to you who hates us, who are they and who are we, right? Why do
they hate us? Well, the Bible says of Christians, you shall be hated of all men for my name's
sake. So it should come of no surprise that godly Christians are going to be hated in
this world. Look down at your Bible there in John chapter 15 verse 18. The Bible says
if the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the
world, the world would love his own, but because you're not of the world, but I've chosen you
out of the world, therefore the world hated you. Remember the word that I said unto you,
the servant is not greater than his Lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute
you. If they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also, but all these things will
they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I have not
come and spoken unto them, they have not had sin, but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that
hated me, hated my father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did,
they have not had sin, but now have they both seen and hated both me and my father. But this
cometh the past that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law. They hated me
without a cause. So Jesus Christ talks about the fact that he was hated, and he tells his disciples
that if they hated me, they will most certainly hate you. The disciples not better than his master.
The servants not better than his Lord. So if they hated me, they're going to hate you as well. In
Luke chapter 6, if you would flip over to Acts 28. In Luke chapter 6, it says,
Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company,
and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil. For the Son of man's sake,
rejoice ye in that day, and leave for joy. For behold, your reward is great in heaven. For in
the light manner did their fathers unto the prophets. So the Bible says the prophets were
all hated, and I'm hated, and you're gonna be hated. But when they hate you, just leave for
joy, because this just comes with the territory. It's part of being a godly Christian. He says in
Acts chapter 28, this is when the Apostle Paul is imprisoned in Rome, and he has some of the
Jews coming to hear from him. He's going to preach the gospel of Jesus unto them, and they don't
really know anything about Paul. They don't really know anything about the gospel. Here's what they
say in verse 21, And they said unto them, We neither received letters out of Judea concerning
thee, neither any of the brethren that came, showed, or spake any harm of thee. Say, we
haven't really heard anything bad about you specifically, but we desire to hear of thee
without thinkest, for as concerning this sex, we know that everywhere is spoken against. We can't
really pinpoint what's so bad about you, but all we know is that everywhere we go, everybody hates
you. Everybody's talking bad about you, so we want to see what you're all about. You know, it's funny,
I just talked to a pastor. I went out to lunch with a pastor yesterday, and he said that he first
heard about me because he just wanted to figure out why does everybody hate this guy? Everyone I
talked to, everywhere I turned, they just all hate Pastor Anderson, and I was just trying to figure
out why do they hate this guy? So I wanted to listen to a bunch of sermons and just get to the
bottom of it. You know, and that's true of our movement. It's a hated movement. You know, a lot
of people hate me. They hate Faithful Word Baptist Church. They hate Pastor Jimenez, that's for sure.
I mean, look what they did to him in the media last year, and none of his brethren, the fundamental
Baptist pastors in California, did they come to your defense? Did they encourage you? They say,
hey, we love you. We're praying for you. We stand with you against the perverts and weirdos. How
many of the hundreds of fundamental Baptists in California reached out to you like that? How many
of the pastors? None of them. They hate him. Why? They hate me. Why? They hate our church. They
hate your church. They hate a lot of us. They hated Jesus. They hated the prophets. They hated
the apostles. Why? Why do they hate us? That's the question tonight. Well, let's get the answer from
Genesis chapter 37. Go back to Genesis 37. We'll start there with why they hate us. We're going to
Ezekiel chapter 34 and X for those that are slower with navigating the Bible. We're going to go to
Genesis 37, then we're going to end up in Ezekiel 34. But the first reason that they hate us tonight
is because we bring their evil report. That's why they hate us, because we bring their evil report.
Look down at your Bible there in Genesis chapter 37 verse 2. These are the generations of Jacob,
Joseph, being 17 years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, and the lad was with the sons
of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wife, and Joseph brought unto his father
their evil report. This is where they begin to hate Joseph. They were shepherds. They're taking
care of the flocks of their father, and they're doing evil. They're doing wrong. They're doing a
bad job, and their dad doesn't understand that or know that, and Joseph is out there working with
them, and he realizes what's going on, and he brings their evil report, and that's when they
begin to hate him in their hearts, the sons of the concubines. The Bible says in John chapter 7
verse 7, this is Jesus Christ speaking, the world cannot hate you. Who's he talking to? His unsaved,
physical half-brothers, you know, the other sons of Mary that she had with Joseph. He says to them,
the world cannot hate you. They were unbelievers at that time, but me and Hadith, because I testify
of it that the works thereof are evil. Jesus said the reason that the world hates me is because I
testify of the world that the works thereof are evil. They don't hate you, but that's why they
hate me, because I bring their evil report, and today the reason why the world hates Christians
in general is the fact that we bring an evil report on them. Why? Because we speak out against
fornication. You know, the world just accepts fornication, that it's normal, that it's commonplace,
that you go out on a date or two, and then you wind up in the sack, you wind up sleeping together,
and Christianity says no! You condemn that! The world hates us for it. Why? They don't want to hear
that that's bad. They don't want to hear anybody speaking out against adultery. They don't want to
hear speaking out against drunkenness. They want to go out. They want to get drunk. They want to
party. They want to have a good time. They don't want anybody to tell them that that's wicked and
the sign of God. They don't want to hear that. They don't want to hear that evil report. This
world's filled with covetousness. The people that are lifted up are the people that have the most
money. The people that flash the most expensive clothing and expensive toys, and they exalt you,
and if you do good unto yourself, then man will praise you for that. When you buy the expensive
houses and cars and clothes, and they look up to that, and they lust and have greed for money,
and when Christianity comes along and speaks out against that, and when we worship somebody who
walked around humble and poor in his sandals and in normal clothing that didn't go in long fancy
robes or anything like that, he preached the Word of God humbly, and he was poor, and the Bible
says that the love of money is the root of all evil. That's not what the world wants to hear.
We testify that the world and the works thereof are evil, and therefore they hate us for that. In
John chapter 3, you don't have to turn there, but the famous passage in John chapter 3 talks about
right after talking about salvation in John 3 16 and giving us those famous scriptures that
whosoever believeth the name should not perish but have everlasting life, and it talks about how
God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be
saved. Why? Because he that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he believed not the record that God gave his son, because he had not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God. But listen to the next verse, and this is the
condemnation that light is coming to the world, and men love darkness rather than light because
their deeds are evil. So the reason that men love darkness rather than light is because their deeds
were evil, but then he takes it a step further and says for everyone that doeth evil hated the light.
They don't just prefer the darkness to the light, they actually hate the light, neither do they come
to the light because they don't want their deeds to be reproved, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they're wrought
in God. Go to Ezekiel chapter 34, Ezekiel chapter 34. But today it makes sense that the world would
hate us, that unsaved people, unbelievers, people who live a really godless or lascivious life,
would not want to be around Christianity, not want to be reminded of the God of the Bible,
because it's a condemnation to them. Because they're living such a sinful life, they want to
forget that these rules even exist. They want to think, well no, fornication is normal, as long as
you love each other. You know, drinking is fine, just so long as there's a designated driver. You
know, get drunk, puke your guts out, but just have that designated driver. You know, go ahead and do
whatever you want. You know, it makes sense that the world would hate Christians because their
deeds are evil, they don't want to come to the light, they want to forget that God even exists.
Many of them that are reprobates, they don't even want to retain God in their knowledge. But here's
the thing about that, those aren't the only ones who hate us. It's not just unsaved people who hate
us, it's not just the world. I mean, the Bible says marvel not, my brother, if the world hates you.
It's no marvel that the world hates us, but the sad fact is, today, that even our fellow
preachers hate us. Even our fellow independent Baptists hate us. Even many saved, born-again
children of God, hate us tonight, and the question is what? See, Joseph wasn't just hated by the
Amorites or by the Hittites that he was around. Joseph was actually hated of his own brethren.
The sons of Zilpah and the sons of Bilhah were his own brethren. Even Jesus was hated by his own
brethren there when they're mocking him and ridiculing him in John chapter 7. But today,
we're even hated of our own brothers and sisters in Christ. Why do they hate us tonight? I'll tell
you why, because we bring up their evil report, that's why. You see, if you get the literal story
here, the sons of Zilpah and Bilhah were actually shepherds, that's what they did. And what's a
synonym of a shepherd, a pastor, right? So a flock of sheep with the shepherd, that's symbolic of a
church with a pastor. The Bible tells the pastor to feed the flock of God, and so forth. So these
guys are shepherds, these guys are pastors, and they are not doing what they're supposed to be
doing. They're doing a terrible job, and Joseph brings up their evil report, and they hate him
for it. Now look, if you would, at Ezekiel chapter 34 verse 1, the Bible reads, and the word of the
Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds, Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that
do feed themselves. Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? You eat the fat and you clothe you
with wool, with the wool you kill them that are fed, but you feed not the flock. The disease that
you not strengthen, neither had you healed that which was sick, neither had you bound up that
which was broken, neither had you brought again that which was driven away, neither had you sought,
listen to this, neither had you sought that which was lost, but with force and with cruelty have you
ruled them. And they were scattered because there's no shepherd, and they became meat to all the beasts
of the field when they were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every
high hill, yet my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or see
after them. Therefore ye shepherds hear the word of the Lord as I live, saith the Lord God. Surely
because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because
there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherd search for my flock, but the shepherds fed
themselves and fed not my flock. Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith
the Lord God, Go not against the shepherds, and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause
them to cease from feeding the flock. Neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore,
for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. For thus saith the
Lord God, Behold I, even I, will both search my sheep and seek them out. As the shepherd
seeketh out his flock in the day that he's among the sheep that are scattered, so will I seek out
my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they've been scattered in the cloudy
and dark day. Today we have shepherds, we have pastors, and they are not going out and seeking
that which is lost. They're not seeking them at all, the Bible says. They're not going out to seek
and to save that which is lost. I'm talking about soul-winning tonight. Jesus Christ said that he
came to seek and to save that which was lost, and he said to us, As my Father hath sent me,
so send I you. But we've got a bunch of sons of Bilhah, and sons of Zilpah, pastoring churches,
where they're out there feeding themselves, and gorging themselves, and getting fat on their
lazy rear end instead of going out and doing some soul-winning. They're wicked and slothful today.
That's why they hate us. You see, everywhere I go, and I go a lot of places.
I go a lot of places. I go a lot of places around the state of Arizona. I love Arizona,
and I like to see all the different parts of Arizona because of the fact that there are
just a lot of interesting places, a lot of different Indian reservations, and little towns,
and mountains, and canyons, and places. I like to go all over Arizona, and we have a thing that
we've done at our church for about a decade now called the small town soul-winning. Small town
soul-winning marathons. We go to these just really small towns out in the middle of nowhere,
and we knock every door in one day and give everybody the gospel who will listen.
Now we're really focusing in on the Indian reservations because we found some of the
Indian reservations to be some of the most receptive places that we've ever been soul-winning,
and some of these Indian reservations are so receptive that it'll just blow your mind. I spent
two days on the White Mountain Apache Reservation, and I presented the gospel more times in those two
days than I've ever done in my life. I think I presented the gospel about 23 times all the way
through in two days, just going through the whole plan of salvation about 23 times. In fact, one of
those two days, I literally the entire day did not knock a single door where the person was not home.
Everybody was home, and I did not even run into one person who said no to listening to the gospel
in a whole day. I think we're about five hours of actual soul-winning in a town called
Civic U, Arizona, out in the middle of nowhere, you know, just a is surrounded by mountains and
totally off the beaten path. No one's passing through this town for any reason
unless they're going there on purpose, and I mean just everybody I talked to said yes.
Now they didn't all get saved. About half of them got saved, but everybody was home. Everybody said
yes, and I'm thinking to myself, wow, how did we find this place? Who's ever even heard of this
place? This place is out in the middle of nowhere. We've never even heard. We don't even know how to
pronounce the name of it, and we drove down this windy road to get there, but you know
who was already there when I got there? You want to know who was already there? The Mormons and the
all the witnesses. We see them out knocking doors. We think, here we are. We're going to the ends of
the earth. We're going deep into this canyon. We're going deep into this Indian reservation,
and it's like that every single time we go to any small town. We go to any Indian reservation.
We go to any nook or cranny of the state of Arizona every single time. We're seeing the
Mormons, and we're seeing the Jehovah's Witnesses. Then we come back to Phoenix, and who do we see
on their little tricycles? The Mormons going down the street,
and we see the name tags, and we see the 17-year-old elder. I've got an oxymoron.
We see the elders, and we see the Jehovah's false witnesses. They're everywhere. I guarantee you it's
the same thing here in Sacramento. They're out in force. How many of you have ever had your door
knocked by a Jehovah's Witness? Put up your hand. How many of you have ever had your door
knocked by a Mormon in your life? Put up your hand. They're everywhere, but you know what I
don't see in these small towns? I don't see the Baptist household winning, and when I go up and
down the street to Phoenix or Mesa, Arizona, or when I travel to California, or when I travel to
other places across the country, I'm not constantly running into other Baptists out
soul-winning. I'm not constantly running into other evangelical Christians out soul-winning.
I'm not constantly running into a Bible-believing soul-winner, but it seems like the Mormons are
everywhere. It seems like the Jehovah's Witnesses are everywhere. Well, you know what? Why don't
you do a little research and figure out whether there's more Baptists or more Mormons?
There are a lot more Baptists than there are Mormons. There are a lot more Baptists
than there are Jehovah's Witnesses. Did you know that if you go to the south of this country
in the southern states, Baptists are more than 50 percent of the population?
It's true. Look it up. It's the truth.
Why is it that the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses have the reputation,
and you know what? They have that reputation for a reason because we see them out there
everywhere we go. Can somebody explain to me why we're not seeing Baptists out there by the groves?
Why there aren't a million Baptists knocking doors this Saturday all over America? Look,
if every Baptist would go out soul-winning, every door would be getting knocked so many times,
people would have to put up a sign that said no Baptists allowed.
We don't want to hear that. Our door was knocked 25 times by Baptists last year
because there are millions of Baptists, millions and millions of them.
Let me tell you something. When these shepherds, when these pastors are not going out and seeking
the lost, they're not going out and seeking to save that which is lost, they're not going out
there and doing any soul-winning. You know what? That's an evil report and my name is Joseph here
today and I'm here to bring you and to pray God and everybody their evil report that the average
independent fundamental Baptist in America is as a spiritual son of a concubine, a spiritual
bastard of Zilpah, a spiritual bastard of Bilhah. They're not doing what they're supposed to do.
And when we bring that evil report, they hate us for it but it's the truth.
Why do they hate us tonight? I'll tell you why, because they're lazy as hell and we're out there
winning souls, doing something for God and it's like the testimony said earlier today,
when you're not doing anything for God, you don't like to watch other people doing something for God.
They hate us in their hearts today because we bring their evil report, we make them look bad
because they're lazy and they're doing nothing today. It's wicked. It's wicked today. I don't
care if they cross the fundamental T and got the fundamental I. I don't care how short their
haircut is. I don't care if they got the white shirt and the crease and the pants and the tie
and the cufflinks and they've got it so dialed in with the polish on the shoes and they're sharp as
a tack. You know what? If they're not a soul winner, they're not following Christ because
Jesus said, if you follow me, I'll make you business. Imagine the stupidity of actually
giving somebody the time of day of actually listening for five seconds to somebody
criticizing our church or his church or any of the other pastors here that are that are
zealous about soul winning to listen to somebody for five seconds criticize our soul-winning
churches when they have little or no soul winning at their church. Who are they to talk to us about
anything? I mean think about that. See the Bible says, judge not that you be not judged for with
what judgment you judge you shall be judged and with what measure you mean it shall be measured
to you again and why beholdest thou the moat that is in thy brother's eye and behold a beam is in
thine own eye. Well how will thou say to thy brother let me pull out the moat out of thine eye
and behold a beam is in thine own eye thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye
and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the moat out of thy brother's eye. You see today
your average baptist or even your average independent baptist has this gigantic beam in
their eye called no soul-winning. Call and listen to me and you listen to me good a door hanger is
not soul-winning. Cracks aren't soul-winning. Visitation isn't soul-winning. That is a cheap
substitute it's not even a cheap substitute it's just not even the same thing. I'm talking about
real soul-winning. They got soul-winning once a month or once a year or once in a blue moon
they go out they hand out a few door knockers or they have they knock three doors and then go to
donuts because they knock the address and the door to the right and the door to the left they hope
nobody's home they touch the door gently and get out of there for them to have this gigantic beam
in their eye of little or no soul-winning weak soul-winning if it's even there at all.
All right and this is what's going on in most independent baptist churches across America
and then they have the gall to say I don't think you guys believe right about Israel.
Here let me get this look look who gives a rip about some country on the other side of the world
you won't even go across the street and when the soul that's across the street and you're worried
about what's going on the other side of the world why don't you worry about your own house
why don't you keep your own vineyard why don't you clean up your own backyard before telling me
about what some battle that's going on in the middle east because you're watching a bunch of
fox news and you're watching a bunch of talk radio and pundits and news and everything like that
you're filling your mind with that stuff and you're just like well you know did you know that
those who support Israel you know who gives a rip because we're giving the gospel to more Jews by
accident than they gave the gospel to on purpose
we're doing more for Israel
than these people are just by uploading videos to youtube
click on the analytics some of the people watch if you're in Israel
but it's just so stupid to sit there and say oh well you know I can't believe you
go to that red hot preaching conference I mean did you know that those guys don't support Israel
you know what you can shut your foolish mouth until I see you out there doing
one tenth of the soul winning that we're doing then let's talk
oh those guys aren't loving at the red hot preaching conference you know they're so mean
down there right as you sit on your fat rear end and let the whole world go to hell not feeding
the flock just feeding yourself just feeding yourself and have the gall to hate on us when
they don't love the lost it's wicked and slothful right I mean just think about how foolish it is
your church has no soul winning program your whole city's going to hell your whole state's going to
hell there's an Indian reservation an hour from you two hours from you three hours from you where
people are sitting there just ready to hear the gospel if you go knock that door they will open
that door they will listen to the gospel many of them will be saved the fields are white under
harvest people are just ready to get saved even in your neighborhood even in your own backyard
even in roseville and elk grove and south sack and sicker's heights and pharaohs and west
sacramento they're all just waiting in carmichael and waiting in orange vale and waiting in woodland
and waiting all over this just waiting for someone to bring them because there are people out there
like that who cares about all the doors that aren't interested shake it off and move on because
eventually you'll get to that one that's just sitting there and you're waiting and they want
to know the gospel and they want to know the truth and right now some pastor somewhere is
sitting back off smug like oh man that pastor he's wrong on bible prophecy
what a joke
you know i mean i'd rather hang around with pre-trippers who are soul winning
yeah than somebody who's right on pope's trip free wrath and letting the whole world go ahead
any day of the week i'd rather hang around with the most zealous zionist
pro-israel person ever that's a soul winner than if somebody understood every replacement theology
point in the whole bible and doesn't love the lost it doesn't care and it's letting people go
to hell where in the world do these people get off criticizing a soul-winning church a red-hot
soul-winning church that's having people saved every week constantly having people baptized
constantly seeing lives change reaching atheists muslims hindus jews agnostics catholics and
everybody else with the gospel but you know you know they're messing up on bible prophecy don't
you that's what they say about us he's a heretic because he thinks that you know it's pre-wrath
instead of pre-trips he's wrong on israel well you know last time i checked we don't live in israel
who here has ever been to israel before put up your hand who here's been to israel all
right the rest of us don't care we've never even been there we've never been there
i never want to go there until jesus is there when jesus gets there i'll go there until then
i don't want to go there i have no interest in going there it's the holy land this is the holy
land you know where the holy land is wherever god's people be on their knees on any piece of
dirt somewhere and pray down the power of god and go out stolen that's the holy land for me
that's the only holy land i'm interested in is arizona is sacramento california it's new orleans
louisiana it's wherever bible believing churches are wherever god's people are assembled hey when
two or three are gathered together in christ's name he's right there in the midst of us
but he's not over there in uh hearing the prayers of people who don't go through the sun
come to the father for jesus the son amen no man not without the father but by him
it's so ridiculous to have this gigantic beam in your eye go to first john chapter three
first john chapter three of not loving the loss not going solely not and then you're worried about
bible prophecy you're worried about who batman is you know you're worried about you know uh whether
we voted republican in the last election or whether we went soul winning that day and said
yeah right yeah right well they pick us apart today they hate us they do they see us coming
with our coat of many colors and they want to rip it off our backs they want to feed us up
they want to throw us in a pit somewhere they wish we would die they would rejoice when we die that's
what hate is hatred means you wish harm upon someone that's right you want them to fail you
want them to suffer you want them to be destroyed that's how even many of our brothers and sisters
in christ feel about us why don't they love us why don't they even if they disagree with us
why wouldn't they just say well you know what i agree on the homo thing because i i watch a lot
of tv and and i don't agree on you know israel because i watch a lot of fox news and i don't
agree on the end concept but those guys winning some people in the lord man i'm alive yeah come
on man those churches are growing man those people get people saying how are they rallying
100 souls in every city they show up in across america what's going on where do we sign up
no no it's just oh those guys oh literally i've heard over the last two months from from two
different muslims two different muslims who got saved as a result of watching the film marching
to zion and getting into the preaching and getting the gospel who were literally persecuted and
thrown out of their local church for listening to pastor anderson and they're like well that's how
i got saved and i wonder how many muslims they've got saved but you know what they want to do they
want to bomb the muslims into the stone age they want to kill them all and let god sort them out
and you know what i want to get them saved we i just had a young you know oh pastor anderson hates
jews that's what they claim right i don't hate jews we had a young man come to our church within
the last two months i have a bad concept of time it's probably like a month and a half ago
he was born and raised in an orthodox jewish home he was a hebrew of the hebrews
and he got saved as a result of hearing the preaching from faithful word baptist church
over the internet and he got saved and i was able to baptize him at faithful word baptist
church and then an entire muslim family came about six months ago and got baptized
at faithful word baptist church because they heard the preaching and and and look
jews are getting saved muslims are getting saved hindus are getting saved atheists i have people
come up with so many marathons say i'm an atheist i got saved several but none of that matters
because we're not pro-israel none of that matters because we don't believe in the pre-trip rapture
why do they hate us here's why the bible says in first john chapter 3 verse 11
but this is the message that he heard from the beginning that we should love one another
not as kane now let me stop and say this to you kane was a wicked person king was of the wicked
one kane was of the devil kane was unsaved and what this scripture is saying here is that we as
christians we their saints should not be as kane so we're not talking about kane here we're talking
about christians who are asking everybody understand he said this is the message that you're
beginning that we should love one another meaning loving our brothers and sisters in christ not as
kane who was of the wicked one and slew his brothers and brothers and sisters not as kane
who was of the wicked one and slew his brother wherefore why and why and wherefore slew him
because his own works were evil and his brothers he said don't let that tendency be in you that
kane had you're not kane you're not unsaved like kane was unsaved you're a child of god
you have the holy spirit living inside of you don't be like kane love your brother in christ
and dead sure don't be like kane in the sense that you hate your brother because your own works are
evil and because his are righteous you see when we see someone who is more righteous than ourselves
when we see a church that is more zealous than our church when we see a church that's doing
greater works than our church when we see soul in it that is surpassing the soul that we do
we can either have a wicked spirit of envy and hatred because they're doing better than us
or we can sit back and say wow praise god because i'm just glad people are being saved
and what can i learn right how can i how can i implement that in my church in my home and look
i visit other churches sometimes i don't visit other churches very often because i don't i don't
miss the services of faithful work but sometimes i've been in a situation where i where i got to
visit other churches because of uh traveling or illness or whatever the case may be sometimes we
you know we had to go to the hospital for example and in la for a special treatment
because of a pregnancy complication at one point and i'll tell you what i i walk into some churches
from what we affectionately call the old ifb movement the old independent criminal
baptist movement and and i honestly have to say i walk in and i see certain things that i like
better about their church or things that they're doing better or things that they're really
excelling in or doing a good job and you know what i'm taking notes of how i can be a better pastor
and be a better christian and have a better church because i see what they're doing and it doesn't
mean that i necessarily think that everything they're doing is great but i see some things
that they're excelling in and i want to be like them i want to learn from them i want to be the
best that i can be i don't just get all mad and be like oh man you know i'm gonna make sure
everybody knows that faithful work better you know i'm just thinking hey they're doing great
on this area let's do that let's learn from that amen go to first john chapter four first
john chapter four does anybody know what time it is i don't think there's a clock up here
first john chapter four verse 20 says if a man say i love god and hated his brother
he's a liar for he's unloved not his brother whom he had seen how could he love god whom he has not
seen and this commandment have me from him that he who loveth god love his brother also
whosoever believeth that jesus is the christ is born of god and everyone that loveth him
that the cat loveth him also that is begotten of him by this we know that we love the children of
god when we love god and keep his commandments listen i don't know
if everything that i preach is always a hundred percent right because i'm a human being and i'm
not perfect and i don't know where i rank or where he rates or where any of us rank as far as you
know who's the the greatest preacher or the greatest church you know we're just trying to
be the best that we can be but let me say one thing i know for sure i know for sure
that i'm going to heaven and i know for sure that this guy is going to heaven and that he's safe
you know i've known him long enough to know that about him and let me tell you something
anybody who hates me and hates him and hates any other true born-again child of god does not love
the lord they don't love the lord that's what the bible just said did you just read it the bible
says if a man say i love god and he did his brother he's a liar he's a liar anybody who
hates me anybody who hates him and look we are not perfect but we are preaching the gospel of
jesus christ we are winning souls to christ our heart burns within us with love for the lord
we love the king james bible we love soul winning we love each other and let me tell you something
if people hate us thank you for the lord it's that simple
and i don't care if they say that they hate us you can tell who hates us
all right
and the bible says that if we love god we're to love our brothers and sisters in christ if
we don't love our brothers and sisters in christ we don't love god
and so right away when somebody hates me i'm not saying that they're not saved because there are
a lot of saved people who are asking and they don't love their brother in christ but you know
what when somebody hates my ever-loving guts i just mark it down that person doesn't love the
lord and you say well that's private no no i'm a child of god and when somebody hates me that
tells me that they don't love them why would they hate a preacher who's preaching the true gospel of
jesus christ who's winning people the lord who's teaching the you know the king james bible and
it doesn't make any sense amen except that even though they're saved they're like king
let me hurry up here uh genesis 37 back to genesis 37
why did they hate us today because we bring up their evil report that's why
number two they hate us because god's blessing us
yeah number one they hate us because we bring up their evil report
and number two they hate us because god's blessing us the bible says in genesis 37
verse 4 when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren
they hated him and could not speak peacefully again don't turn there but in genesis 27 41
it says that esau hated jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him
and esau said in his heart the days of mourning for my father are at hand
then will i slay my brother jacob that's hatred they hate us because god's blessing us and then
i'm going to hurry on to point three number three they hate us because we have a great vision
we have a great dream i have a dream today look at uh genesis 37 verse 5 it says joseph dreamed
the dream and he told it to his brethren and they hated him yet the more and he said to them
here i pray you this dream which i've dreamed for behold we were buying these seeds in the field
and lo my sheep arose and also stood upright and behold your seeds stood round about and made
no basis to my sheep and his brethren said to him shout down deed reign over us or shout out
indeed after menial breast and they hated it yet the more for his dreams and for his words
and he dreamed of another dream and told it his brother and it said
we all have dreamed to dream more and behold the sun and the moon and the 11 stars made no basis
to me and he told it to his father and to his brethren and his father rebuked him and said to
him what is this dream that thou has dreamed shall i and thy mother and thy brethren indeed
come to bow down ourselves beneath the earth and his brethren envied him but his father observed
the same i don't believe that joseph was a prideful person i don't even think that he
had a desire to rule over his brethren and the reason i say that is because when they finally
come to see him he doesn't rule over them with vigor he does not uh you know want to subjugate
them he actually wants to give them the best of the land he wants them to thrive and succeed and
proffer i don't think he was prideful and wanted to rule over them at all amen this is just what
god is showing him is going to happen you know i had a dream i had a dream that i went out solely
and boldly preached the gospel from door to door every week for the last 19 years
and i had a dream that you guys were out hanging out a door hanger
i had a dream that we all had a big sheep of wheat and my sheep of wheat went soullening
and your sheep of wheat was sitting on its fat rear end watching tv
i i had a dream that the the sun moon and stars
were all out uh doing lifestyle evangelism and and i had a dream that i was actually
doing real soul-winning oh well who do you think you are you just you think that you're the new
leader you think you just want to rule over us i had a dream that two-thirds of my church went
two-thirds of my church went out soul-winning on a regular basis
and that the only person that goes soul-winning in your church
is the person who downloads sermons
and he's trying to get you to come out and be a solid partner
oh how dare you
and let me tell you something let me tell you something i would love nothing more
i would love nothing more and you know what god is my witness i would love nothing more
than to become the laziest pastor in america the lamest pastor in america
the least soul-winning pastor in america because all these guys got out there and prove me wrong
and organize a big soul-winning campaign and organize a big soul-winning marathon
and say all right get out of the way pastor anderson you young punk it doesn't matter how
old i get i just had another birthday but i'm still a young punk no matter how old i get no
no matter how many children i sire but i just wish that these pastors in arizona would say
get out of the way you post-trip anti-israel homo hating little punk we're going to show you
how the old school isd movement does soul-winning and i see your two i see your 100 soul winners
you know in in uh whatever portland oregon or wherever oh i see i'll raise you 200
you know some of these churches are a lot bigger than ours you know okay faithful word
i see your 11 i see your 11 so many times per week
i'll raise you another 11 i'll have 22 so many times per week all of them filled with
soul winners all of them active all of them thriving i love that god is my witness i would
love it if the fundamental baptists in america got so on fire and started preaching such awesome
sermons and they actually figured out how to use youtube figured out how to use social media
and they actually just started uploading a bunch of red hot sermons and they drove the sodomites
back into the closet and they you know preached hard and had soul winners going up and down
and we would every time we see these people we wouldn't think it's the mormons we wouldn't think
it was the dole's witnesses we would know as an independent fundamental baptist to the point
where people say steven anderson who
who yep forget him man jack dreiber there's the ones going all over america ripping it
out with all these solanine marathons
right i mean forget verity baptist church man it's steven nichols down in regency
that's that's that's ripping it up and he's he's the one that's on the news
telling sodomites to go to hell
amen wouldn't you would you oh you're in competition with him or would you love that
he's all the way in orangevale i love it i can you know what i still love pastor nichols
and i thank god for everything he did in my life i thank god for what he did in past three minutes
his life i thank god that he used to rip the sodomites so hard and he used to say
put them all on a boat and give them enough gas to get halfway out
you know what he taught us so many yep that's right pastor nichols you made us
i think pastor nichols one of the greatest influences i have in my life
i think pastor nichols one of the greatest influences in my life i love
i will love him till the day i die
amen
you know he is going to get some serious rewards in heaven
i'm serious for his own works and for the works of those that he taught
you know his star pupil here pastor roger you know i mean whether he'll claim us or not
i'm serious i love that we're a product of his ministry
man i would love for his church to be three times as big as very baptist church
and to have hundreds of soul winners out in the field yeah and i'm not down with them
i don't know how much soul eating they do or don't i'm not criticizing them at all when i
was there it was a lot of great soul they're probably doing so with me now they're doing
great but let me tell you something there's no competition but you know what i would i would
love it if half of my church left tomorrow and joined some red hot soul winning church right
across the town that was even more fired up than we are we need to care because we're all on the
same team that's right
but you know what they don't feel that way that's right you know they don't like our greed yeah
they don't like our vision they don't like what we see of of a vision of knocking every door in
america of knocking every door in california every door in arizona every indian reservation
every town every village every hamlet they don't like our vision they see us
coming with our coat of many colors and they see us coming with our great dreams and vision
and they gnash on us with their teeth why do they hate us
it doesn't make any sense except that they don't love the lord in a man's sense
nope except if they are slothful then it makes sense yeah except that they're starting to act
like pain then it makes sense why they hate us well the reason that they hate us the same reason
they hated joseph they hate us because we bring their evil report they hate us because we are
being blessed by god and they hate us thirdly because we have a great vision and let me tell
you something we are the de facto leaders of soul-winning in america right now people look
just type in soul-winning and see what comes up right grace it on the internet
all the internet doesn't matter well welcome to 2017
type in independent fundamental Baptist type in soul-winning type in hard preaching type in
red hot preaching and so the point is that we're not trying to be the the leader we're not trying
to be the tip of the spear you know what we're trying to do we're just trying to be like joseph
we're just trying to save much people alive that's what we're trying to do there's a famine of
hearing god's word there's i i had a dream where there were these seven skinny cows that
represented seven fundamental baptist churches in my area and then i had a dream that these seven
fat cows came full of meat and steak and sirloin and filet mignon and and and and all kinds of
rump roast and beef and i saw those seven fat kind were called they had they had little bells
and on the bell it was a grave with the name faithful word
verity baptist faith baptist old path baptist steadfast baptist word of truth baptist right
you know liberty baptist you know and you know it's just the way it is it's just it's just that
joseph did what the lord told him to do and the rest of them were goofing around and not getting
the job done yeah that's why he became the leader amen amen we don't care about being the leader
we want people to pass us up amen we want people to blow our doors up yeah preach it
we love them we love our fundamental baptist brothers and we love lost souls and we just
want people to be saved that's all we want and you know oh you guys are so hateful yeah we hate
queers okay there i said well you know what we don't hate we don't hate our brothers and sisters
in christ and you know what what do you think's the big let's let's pretend for a minute that
hating queers is a sin which it's not you seem not to men but hey that's another song
but listen let's pretend for a minute that it were a sin let me ask you a question everybody
just listen up what's the bigger sin yeah hating your brother in christ or hating a transvestite
just ask yourself that question even donald trump doesn't want the transvestite
can we at least get a baptist preacher to ban what trump has banned
trump's not exactly a fundamental baptist
if he can ban him from the u.s army can we ban him from the lord's army
but you know they have this great beam in their eye of hating god's people of hating a muslim
six months ago because he listens to pastor anderson yeah i'm hating rogerie myth because
he makes us look bad in the media the best you ever looked is when somebody compared you
that's the best you ever was when you're like oh you're a fundamental baptist like verity baptist
for a second until you began to curse and swear and say i know not to me
but let me tell you something hating your brother in christ is a big sin hating your sister in the
lord's a big sin but you're too worried about people hating them on trannies and weirdos and
you know look we're living in a world that's upside down that's right
you say what's what's the moral of the story well the moral of the story is
we're going to be hated for doing right we're going to be hated when we bring out the evil
reward we're going to be hated if we are blessed by god we're going to be hated if we have a big
vision a big dream because people say oh you're trying to lead us oh sorry i wasn't trying to
lead it's just you guys are going so slow i ended up in the front even though i'm a bad runner
even though i'm an amateur even though i you know i'm i'm i'm just mediocre at best sorry i ended up
in the front because you didn't even enter the race you didn't even sign up you haven't even
stopped walking you haven't even broken into a light job excuse me for laughing you
they're gonna hate you they don't just say me and him they're there they hate us all
they're gonna hate you
it's something to rejoice in and we're not to hate them back
that's what the sermon's about don't be like pain don't be like look i don't care if they hate me i
love them every one of them that's saved and a and a child obviously if somebody's a false prophet
who's teaching you know a false salvation let them be a curse and if somebody preached another gospel
let him be cursed but let me tell you something every pastor who is saved and who preaches the
gospel of jesus christ i don't care how zionist they are how apple pie eating flag waving
pre-trib whatever they are i love them and i'll be their friend
and you know what if they need help i would help them and i want them to succeed i want their
church i've had these pre-trib zionists contact me and say how do i succeed on youtube and i go back
with detailed instructions step one start preaching good stuff no i wrote back and said hey you know
here's here's how you name the videos here's how you handle the tags here's how you use facebook
here's how you use the ads here's how you do you know and i gave step-by-step instructions why
because they believe the gospel i want them to succeed i don't hate them i love every single one
and you know what just because people hate us we don't need to hate them back
we are to love our envies and love those who hate us that's right
and that's what the bible is teaching you so yeah they're gonna hate us but you know what
doseph didn't hate his brethren he could have crushed them he became the ruler of egypt
when they came in he could have just said off with their heads torture them first destroy them
but you know what he did he fed them he gave them gifts and he said you guys live in the best of the
land i love you guys oh but what about all that bad stuff we said about you what about when we
saw you and you know what i'm not god i forgive you i love you that's a christian attitude right
there and you know what they hate us without a cause that's right the world hates us that makes
sense when christians hate us it's sad that's right but does it bother us no because it's just
more rewards right we'll leave for joel let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer father we
thank you so much for loving us lord and dying for us and and and forgiving us lord and and
if we if you forgave us we can forgive anyone for anything they've ever said or done to us
lord help us to not hate our brothers and sisters in christ lord and i pray that those who hate us
would repent lord and i pray that every single person in this room who maybe they go to a church
where they get persecuted or people hate on them or maybe their family hates on them or maybe uh
people at their job hate them because of their godliness lord i pray that they would not get
discouraged or get down lord help them to realize they're not alone christ was hated the prophets
were hated the apostles are hated we're hated lord help them to rejoice in persecution and help them
to overcome evil with good and love those who hate them lord and in jesus name we pray amen