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If you need about put your hand up and a national come I bring you a bible
is a 28.
If you need about keep a hand up and this will come by
is a chapter 28.
We'll read the entire chapter as our custom.
Is a 28 beginning verse number one.
Woe to the crown of pride to the drunkards of ephraim whose glorious
beauty is a fading flower which are on the head of the fat valleys
of them that are overcome with wine behold the Lord hath the
mighty and strong one which as a tempest of hail and a destroying
storm as a flood of mighty waters overflowing shall cast down
to the earth with the hand the crown of pride the drunkards
of ephraim shall be trodden under feet and the glorious
beauty which is on the head of the fat Valley shall be a
fading flower and as a hasty fruit before the summer which
when he that look at the planet see it while it is yet in
his hand he eat it up in that day.
Shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory and for a
diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people and for a
spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment and for
strength to them to turn the battle to the gate, but they
also have earned through wine and through strong drink are
out of the way the priest and the prophet have earned through
strong drink.
They are swallowed up of wine.
They are out of the way through strong drink.
They are envision they stumble in judgment for all tables
are full of vomit and filthiness that there is no place
clean whom shall you teach knowledge and whom shall you
make to understand doctrine them that are weaned from the
milk and drawn from the breast for precept must be upon
precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line
here a little and there a little for the stammering lips
and another tongue.
Will he speak to this people to me said this is the rest
for which he may cause the weary to rest and this is the
refreshing yet.
They would not hear but the word of the Lord was unto them
precept upon precept precept upon precept line upon line
line upon line here a little and there a little that they
might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken
wherefore hear the word of Lord.
He scornful men that rule this people which is in Jerusalem
because he have said we have made a covenant with death and
with hell or we had agreement when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through.
It shall not come up to us.
If we have made lies our refuge and under and under falsehood
have we hit ourselves.
Therefore thus say it the Lord God behold I lay in Zion for
a foundation of stone a tried stone a precious Cornerstone
is sure Foundation.
He that believeth shall not make haste judgment also will
have a to the line and righteousness to the plummet and
the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies and the water
shall overflow the hiding place and your covenant with death
shall be disannulled and your agreement with hell shall
not stand when the overflowing scourge shall pass through
then he shall be trodden down by it from that from the time
that it goeth forth.
It shall take you for morning by morning.
Shall it pass over by day and by night and it shall be a
vexation only to understand the report for the bed is shorter
than that a man can stretch himself on it and the covering
narrower than that.
He can wrap himself in it for the Lord shall rise up as
amount peers him.
He shall be Roth as in the Valley of Gibeon that he may do
his work his strange work and bring it to pass and bring
to pass his act his strange act now therefore be not mockers
lest your bands be made strong for I have heard from the
Lord God opposed a consumption even determined upon the
whole Earth give you ear and hear my voice parking and hear
my speech that the plowman plow all day to so that the open
and break the clouds of his ground when he hath made play
in the face thereof that he not cast abroad of the finches
and scatter the cumin and catching the principal wheat and
the appointed barley and the rye in their place for his
God does instruct him to discretion and to teach him for
the pitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument
neither is a cart wheel turn about upon the cumin, but the
pitches are beaten out with a staff and with cumin with a
rod bread corn is bruised because he will not ever be
threshing it nor break it with the wheel of his cart nor
bruise it with his horseman.
This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is
wonderful and counsel and excellent in working.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for tonight to God.
I thank you for your house Lord and for this conference.
I just ask you please give each one of us a tender heart
God as he please be the passage of Thompson got strength
Lord for the spirit.
We love you and Jesus ain't pray.
Amen.
All right.
Well, thanks for coming tonight.
I've got a good crowd out here before I start preaching.
I want to just say a few things here.
I wanted to make sure to thank Pastor Jimenez and Miss Joanne
for having us out and inviting us to the red hot preaching
on why am I messing with this thing?
I always do that.
Anyway, but anyway, thank you very much Pastor wherever
you're at.
I don't see him.
But anyway, thank you and Miss Joanne.
Also the food was great last night.
We really appreciate the fellowship.
Thank you very much Verity Baptist Church.
It's like being home again whenever I preach here and I'm
very thankful for all my friends that I have here and
also to all my true pastor friends.
I just want to thank you for coming also and
also friends from other churches.
I got a lot of friends here.
So and most of your names I have memorized but if I don't
I'll just say hey brother, how you doing or hit?
No, I'm just I'm just kidding.
I try.
Okay, I'm getting old here.
But also I want to thank all my church members from Sure
Foundation Baptist Church for coming all the way up here
or down here.
Whatever what you want to say and I appreciate your support
and coming down here also and I just want to give a shout
out to Maria Nico real quick and thank her for the support
and sharing our sermons all the time.
All right, and I want to announce also that two weeks
from now we have our two-year anniversary coming up and
that is going to be let's see.
It's going to be two Fridays from now.
I think so Pastor Mez is going to come up and preach for
us, but just wanted to invite everybody to our two-year
anniversary if you have a chance to come up there and so
it's already been two years and four years in the ministry.
So it's been great and also if it's okay with you Pastor,
I was going to give out some some swag after the service.
So this is we did this last year.
We had some hats made thanks to brother Joe Ritchie for
designing these.
These are the lady hats and these are the men's hats.
I don't want to see any cross-dressing going on up in here.
But if you absolutely well and here I want to say a rule
to also don't try to grab a bunch of hats for everybody
at home if they didn't come to you if they didn't come to
the Red Hot preaching conference and they don't get a hat
so because we don't have enough for everybody all we don't
have enough for all the kids either.
So if you're I'll say 15 and up then you can get a hat.
All right.
Sorry 14 year olds and yeah.
Yeah, you want one?
All right.
There we go.
Oh, sorry ladies.
There you go.
All right.
So after the service, I'll have some boxes and don't don't
try to trample me down or anything like that.
Okay.
All right.
So anyway, the title of my sermon tonight is drawing the
line drawing the line and let's pray Heavenly Father.
We thank you Lord so much for this great conference and
Lord is just a blessing to be here and amongst all friends
and Lord is pray that you'd help me be with me as I preach
tonight.
Fill me with the Holy Spirit of God.
Please name of pray.
Amen.
So drawing the line so that drawing the line is is and I
got that from Isaiah 28, which was read for you before
Isaiah 28 has a lot of great verses in it.
If you were paying attention and following along a lot of
great sermons can be preached out of this but let's look
at verse number 9 says whom shall he teach knowledge?
And who shall he make to understand doctrine them that
are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breast for
precept must be a prom precept precept upon precept line
upon line here little their little for with stammering lips
and another tongue will he speak to this people.
That's my life verse right there.
And then verse 12 says to whom he said this is the rest
wherewith you may cause the worry to rest and this is the
refreshing yet they would not hear but the word of the Lord
was unto them precept upon precept precept upon precept
line upon line line upon line here little and their little
that they may go and fall backward and be broken and snared
and taken look at verse number 17 just skip down to that
verse that says judgment also while I lay to the line and
righteousness to the plummet and the hail shall sweep away
the refuge of lies and the waters shall overflow the hiding
places.
So the reason why I titled the sermon the drawing the line
that there's a saying hey, I'm going to draw the line right
here and there's a line that we shouldn't go past and the
word of God as a Christian the word of God is what's going
to get you that line.
Hey, I'm not in really, you know drawing a hard line is
another saying that we would say but you know, it's basically
setting a limit on what one is willing to do or accept
beyond or beyond which one will not go.
So as a Christian, there's lines that we don't want to
cross, you know, how about regards to salvation?
We don't want to mix salvation up and there's a line that
we want to draw a hard line and just say hey, that's not
part of salvation and we need to make sure that we're
cutting any dross away from that teaching about salvation.
We don't want anything getting mixed up.
We don't want anything getting muddied up.
We don't want anything being mistaken because how many
people even just if you say talk about baptism, they think
that they're you know, oh, you know, I got baptized like
three years ago.
You ask them if they're 100% sure that they are going to
heaven.
So as a pastor, there are some things that I draw the line
at and take hard stands on and people get angry about them.
But you know, we still have to make those stands as a pastor.
I'm going to make those stands and I'm going to make sure
and make sure that it's clear to people in my church and
you know that any pastor worth of salt is going to make is
going to draw a line and take a hard stand on things.
You know things like the fundamentals of the faith like
faith alone for salvation, eternal security, the Trinity,
the virgin birth, etc.
So tonight I'm just going to give you three things because
otherwise we could be here all night.
I got eight pages of notes.
Each page is one hour long.
So Pastor Mejia has 14 pages.
Sorry, brother.
I'm telling on you Pastor Jimenez one time I had 20
pages of notes.
One time he said, well, there's got to be heresy in there
somewhere.
So not trying to throw any shade or not.
Just kidding.
So number one thing that we have to draw the line on and
this is something that's just been irritating me lately
because I thought we were in the new IFB.
So repentance number one thing that we got to draw a hard
line on is repentance for salvation and you're like Pastor
Thompson.
We've heard this so many times.
Well, maybe you need to hear it again because apparently
people aren't getting the message on that.
Look at Acts chapter 3 verse 19.
Acts chapter 3 verse 19 and I really do got to hurry because
eight pages notes could be like an hour and a half.
So I got to be careful here.
I don't want to take up past from his time.
He's got way more notes than I do.
So just kidding.
All right, Acts 3 19 says repent ye therefore and be converted
that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing
shall come from the presence of the Lord.
So the Bible is talking about here repentance about repentance
unto salvation because everybody in here should know and
if you don't know repentance means a change of mind or to
turn.
Okay, and so when it's when we're talking about repentance
unto salvation, we're not talking about repenting turning
from your sins.
But you know what?
That's the way a lot of people define it.
And I get so tired of that.
I came from churches to preach that I don't want to hear that
garbage anymore.
I don't want to hear it going floating around in my church.
I don't want to hear it.
I don't want to see people promoting it.
You know, I don't we take a hard stand.
We take a hard line.
We draw a line in the sand when it comes to repentance.
I don't believe you have to repent of your sins to be saved.
Is anybody else believe that in here?
If you do, I mean don't raise your hand, but we'll talk to
you after the service try to get you saved.
Amen.
All right, but we should draw a line in the sand when it comes
to what repentance is because repentance is defined upon the
context that you find it at in the Bible.
This verse in particular here is talking about you being
converted that your sins be bought out.
Well, how do your sins get blotted out?
It's not from repenting of your sins.
It's repentance unto salvation.
So so look at Acts chapter 13.
Let's turn over there.
Acts chapter number 13.
The Bible says when John had first preached before his coming
the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
So what did what did John preach?
He preached the baptism of repentance to all the people of
Israel. Now skip a few chapters over to Acts chapter 19.
And who are we talking about?
We're talking about John the Baptist.
He preached repentance and see people will grab ahold of that
and go see he said you had to repent of all your sins.
No, that's not what that means.
Let's let's see how Paul defines that in Acts chapter 19 verse
4. Paul says in Acts chapter 19 verse 4 then said Paul verily
or John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance saying
unto the people that they should what believe on him which
should come after him that is on Christ Jesus.
So what is the repentance that it's talking about?
It's talking about repentance unto salvation.
What did John preach?
He preached the repentance unto salvation, which was that
they should believe on Christ Jesus.
It doesn't say that they should repent of all their sins and
turn or burn or anything like that.
Paul defines it for us right here.
It's and he says in Acts chapter 13 that John preached this
repentance, but see people will twist this this this word
repentance and try to make it seem like you have to you have
to turn from your sins.
It's two sides of the same coin.
You know, they're two inseparable graces.
Have you ever heard that before?
It's garbage and that's not true.
Now if you're talking about repenting unto salvation where
you believe on Christ you change your mind from whatever
you believe before and put all your faith in Christ that
I'll agree with that.
That's repentance.
You do have to repent to be saved.
I would believe I would say that that's true.
But if that repentance of be to be saved is that you believe
on Christ.
I'm agreeing with you.
But how many people in here have I will let you raise your
hands here.
How many people have been to a church where they say where
the pastor gets up and says you have to repent of your sins.
Hands everywhere.
All right, it's a bunch of trash.
It's a bunch of garbage.
You know what we left that garbage behind.
We left that dross behind.
I don't want to have anything to do with that.
I don't want to even associate really with somebody that
believes that because then that is compromised because they
believe a different salvation than you if they're hardcore.
That's what so people can get mixed up.
So don't get me wrong on this.
People can get mixed up and say well, you know, because
they've heard it repeated.
So when they people hear things repeated they repeat it
themselves sometimes.
So now obviously I'm not going to throw anybody in hell.
Automatically unless you know, if you can show them the
scriptures and they turn they change their mind.
They repent.
Okay, then you're dealing with someone's probably saved.
But if someone just digs in oh no, oh you know, you have
to repent of your sins.
They're not saved in my opinion.
Turn to Matthew chapter 12.
Matthew chapter number 12.
You're like Pastor Thompson.
This has been done to death.
There's a couple other things that are going to be done to
death too, but you know what we need to hear things over
and over again and you know, the Bible is a big book.
But yeah, we got to get the fundamentals down and when
stuff starts to creep in and people start to try to bring
these little heresies back in I want to stomp them out.
I want to get rid of that stuff and I want everybody to
understand that this is a line of the Bible.
And I want everybody to understand that this is a line
that we have to draw in the sand.
Okay, Matthew chapter 12 verse 41.
Look what the Bible says says the men of Nineveh shall
rise in judgment with this generation and condemn it
because they repented at the preaching of Jonas and
behold a greater than Jonas is here.
Now I personally believe and if you don't agree with me
but I personally believe that it's literally talking about
the people in Nineveh will rise in judgment.
They will rise and judge the generation that is talking
about.
Why would I think that?
Well, let's read on another verse here says the queen of
the south shall rise in the judgment.
So you got a whole city and then it's talking about one
particular person the queen of the south shall rise up in
the judgment with this generation and shall condemn
it for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to
hear the wisdom of Solomon and behold a greater than
Solomon is here.
What is he trying to say here?
I think he's literally trying to say that these people will
rise up because why because what happens to save people
they get they rise up don't they what else happens to
save people the Bible says that we will judge the world.
We will just look at well, I'll just read it for you first
Corinthians chapter 6 verse 2 says do you not know that
the Saints shall judge the world?
And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy
to judge the smallest matters?
So does the Bible say we're going to judge or not?
Okay, so even people in the past are they going to judge
to so will they rise in judgment like the Bible says and
judge judge and judge people.
Yes.
So now look at Jonah chapter 3 were Jesus is kind of getting
that first verse from and because you know, I know people
believe different things about this, but I'm just gonna
tell you what I believe.
Okay, I believe that Jesus is being literal.
I believe that the people of Nineveh were saved and I think
that we need to understand this and again, if you don't
a hundred percent agree with me, that's fine.
You can go ahead be wrong.
That's all right.
I don't have any problem with that but the Bible is going
to be right.
Okay, so and I was joking about that.
But anyway, Jonah chapter 3 verse 1 the Bible says in the
Word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time saying
arise go to Nineveh that great city and preach unto it the
preaching that I bid thee.
So let me ask you a question.
What do you think that that preaching was?
The Bible does say some of what he preached, but do you
think that he just kept going through the town square saying
hear ye hear ye, you know in a few days this city is going
to be overturned.
The city is going to be destroyed.
Do you think that's all he preached?
What do you think God preached to them?
What do you think God had Jonah preached to them?
Turn or burn, repent of your sins and everybody's going to
be saved.
Do you think that's what he said?
Because you know what when we're going out soul winning,
don't we have to tell people about judgment to come?
Don't we have to tell people that if they continue to not
believe on Christ that they're going to die in their sins,
they're going to die and go to hell.
So I believe that Jonah actually got people saved.
Some people like, okay, so two churches ago before I started
this church, the pastor and me had a sit-down and the sit-down
was about repentance and I brought these verses up to him
and you know what he told me?
He said, he said, well, because I read those verses of Matthew
to him and then I showed him Jonah 3 and he said, well that
was just a physical salvation.
I was like a physical salvation?
Well, then how are they going to just, he said, he said they
didn't get saved spiritually.
They got saved physically.
And I would agree that they got saved physically, but I also
believe that they got saved spiritually.
And look, you can say, well, I don't believe that a hundred
percent of them got saved.
Well, that's fine.
I don't necessarily know if that's true either, but it does
say that the people of Nineveh will rise up.
So if they're rising up, that means they're getting resurrected.
If they're judging, they're judging with the rest of the
saints of God.
So it says, so I don't believe that God just had, you know,
because why would God just say, I just want to save their
physical lives.
That's all.
Hey, that's all I just want to, Jonah, I'm going to have you
swallowed by a whale and spit up on a beach and you're going
to go through all this stuff because you won't go and preach
to these people.
But the message I want to preach to you is this.
Turn or burn.
That's the one I want you to preach.
Repent of all your sins and you'll be saved.
That's garbage.
That's not what I believe.
And that's, but that's what that pastor believed.
But that's not what I believe and that's not what the Bible
says.
So look at verse three.
It says, so Jonah arose and went on to Nineveh according to
the word of the Lord.
Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days journey
and Jonah began to enter into the city of days journey and
he cried and said, yet 40 days and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
So the people of Nineveh, what do they do?
What do they do?
What's it say right there?
Believed God.
What does the Bible say about repentance?
What did Paul say the repentance was?
That they should believe on Christ Jesus, right?
So it says the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed
a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them even
to the least of them.
So they did repent of their sins.
But what did they do first?
They believed God.
So do you think that that was a salvation belief or do you
think that was just a belief for their physical for their
physical selves?
Why would God care if someone if a whole city just saved
their physical lives and didn't say get saved spiritually at
all? That doesn't make sense.
That's not how God works.
So and I want to show you something that that just I think
proves this Romans chapter 4 verse 3.
While you're turning to Romans 4 verse 3, I'm going to read
for you Galatians 3 verse 6.
It says even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted
to him for righteousness.
So why was Abraham saved?
He believed God the people of Nineveh believed God.
I was just a physical salvation.
Just physical salvation.
Is that what it was?
Here in Romans chapter 4 verse 3 and this is this is a great
this is this scripture just starts off great for what saith
the scripture what saith the script.
What is the Bible say?
Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for
righteousness.
It was just physical salvation though.
James chapter 2 verse 23 James chapter 2 verse 23.
Are you starting to make the connections that I'm am I am
I helping you make these connections here?
Okay, James chapter 2 verse 23.
Bible says in the scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham
believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness.
So the Bible saying in a different way here, but it's
the same thing.
He believed God and it was imputed the righteousness of
God was imputed upon Abraham.
It says for unto him for righteousness and he was called
the friend of God.
Was Abraham saved physically?
Or was he saved spiritually?
So I don't I don't I really just don't understand how people
could take this story about the Ninevites and say well that
was just physical salvation.
What did Jesus say?
That they will rise and they will judge.
How are you going to do that if it was just a physical
salvation?
That wouldn't make sense.
Oh, you know, by the way, you know, I'm just going to give
you this this reference for a physical salvation.
But he says a greater than Jonas is here.
You know, a greater than Solomon is here.
What's he saying?
Do you think the Queen of Sheba was saved?
The Queen of the South?
I say the Queen of Sheba.
I don't know.
I get that's probably where I don't know.
Anyway, the Queen of the South.
Okay, was she saved or not?
Why would Jesus bring two stories and two references to
them of people that just were saved physically?
It doesn't make sense.
They were saved spiritually also.
So look at back at Jonah chapter 3 verse number 6.
Bible says for the word came unto the king of Nineveh and
he arose from his throne and he laid his robe up from
him and covered him with sackcloth and satin ashes and
he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout
Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles saying
neither or let neither man or beast heard nor flock taste
anything let them not feed or drink water.
So even the animals were fasting here.
He was serious wasn't he and you know, but people will
say oh, it's just it's just a physical salvation.
So why would why would it matter whether they had a
physical salvation and you know, aren't you not are you
supposed to repent of dead works?
So wouldn't this be dead works if they weren't really saved?
I think it would be what does God care about people's
dead works?
No, he cares about our works after we get saved doesn't
mean it says but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth.
So they made little animal clothes and stuff like that
for him and cry mightily unto God.
Yay, let them turn everyone from his evil way and from
violence that is in their hands.
So I listen I agree that it was a physical salvation also,
but I but the Bible does say they believe doesn't wouldn't
God can't God destroy a believer that gets saved and
doesn't follow after Christ if we continue and sin isn't
God going to destroy us also.
I mean, he'll he'll he'll be nice for a while, but then
you just keep doing the same things over and over again
and eventually the club is going to come and sometimes
that's the destruction of our job.
That's the destruction of our marriage.
That's the destruction of our life, but it can be the
destruction.
Yeah, the destruction of your physical body and then your
life God will eventually, you know, he'll get tired of
punishing you all the time.
He's just gonna say, you know what?
This person is just not getting it.
I'm going to crown you and you're going to go home.
So look at verse number nine.
It says who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn
away from his fierce anger that we perish not I think that
God put that in there so that people could know that God's
not a sinner.
You know, because everybody says repent means to be really
really sorry and to turn from your sins.
That's like the number one definition that people will
give. You know, the Muslims believe that too.
You know, the Buddhists believe that too if you repent of
your sins and you're a good person.
I mean, this is the doctrine of devils to say that you have
to repent and turn from your sins.
That's what everybody believes.
So why would we follow along with the same garbage?
So look what it says in verse number 10 and God saw their
works that they turned from their evil way and God repented
of the evil and he and he had said that he would do unto them
and did it not.
So God changed his mind because they got saved and they
started doing good works.
And then he said, you know what?
I'm not going to destroy them.
You know 150 years later.
He ended up destroying them, but he didn't destroy them
here because Jonah went in and preach what he was supposed
to preach.
And by the way, he wasn't a very nice guy.
I think he was kind of racist, but even a mean racist prophet
can go in and get a whole city saved.
That's the power of God.
Anyway, so it's but look what it says.
God saw their works.
So are we saved by works or are we saved by faith?
Okay, so it defines works here for us that they turn from
their evil way.
All right, but that's not what saved them.
Remember it said that they believe God first and so look
we have to understand like a lot of people in here like yeah,
yeah, Pastor Thompson.
I've heard this before but listen, it's creeping back in.
And look, I don't care who it is.
I don't want it creeping around me.
Jonah 4-11 turn your page in the Bible or maybe it's a
couple pages over.
Jonah 4-11.
And should not I spare Nineveh that great city wherein are
more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern
between their right hand and their left hand and also much
cattle because all he cared about is their physical lives,
right?
No, he cared about their spiritual lives.
God cares about he wants he wants to make a man.
He wants man and God to be in fellowship again.
You know how he does that by getting people saved, you know
how he does that by sending prophets in to get people saved.
You know how he gets people saved today?
By sending prophets out, you know our little groups here by
sending them out 51 soul winners today to go and try to
get people saved by sending out.
How does God's always done that?
Not for physical salvation obviously cares about people's
lives too, but he cares about their spiritual life more.
And look, I don't want to go backwards in the repentance
fight and have to wonder what people mean when they say
repentance.
When I say repentance, you should know what I mean.
When I preaching salvation to someone they shouldn't have
to guess whether they have to turn from all their sins or
not.
And I you know, look I left that behind because I didn't
like it because it was false doctrine.
I don't want to wonder anymore.
Look, salvation should be crystal clear to anybody.
Don't be confusing.
Be crystal clear in everything that you say.
Don't make them wonder.
And look, I don't want to hang out with preachers that preach
that junk either.
I can be friends with whoever I want.
And look, you might say, well Pastor Thompson, I don't agree
with you that it was physically spiritually saved also.
I think maybe just a small remnant was.
That's okay.
You can say that.
It doesn't say how many people got saved, but God did say
he cared about the whole population there, which was how
much? 120,000 people.
How big is Sacramento?
He cares about people.
He cares about everybody here.
But what if every single one did get saved?
See, people don't want to believe that because we don't
see numbers like that now, but couldn't have God made a great
miracle to where that whole city did get saved?
I mean, how powerful is your God?
Could he have gotten everybody of salvation that was able
to understand saved?
Do you believe that that could be true?
And look, it wasn't done by someone that cared about people.
I mean, Jonah ran away.
And then even after he got all those people saved, he goes
and sits outside the city and is like, barbecue time.
I mean, that's weird, you know, and sometimes preachers
will say stuff like, you know, if you don't have the right
spirit when you're out soul winning, then you're not going
to get people saved.
That's kind of not true.
I mean, it makes for good preaching, but it's kind of not
true.
You can go out with a bad attitude and get people saved.
Now, should you go out with a bad attitude and get people
saved?
No.
But Jonah is an example of that happening.
Now, look, Pastor Thompson said you can have a bad attitude.
I'm going to go out there and knock doors.
I'm going to yell and scream.
Now, don't do that.
Well, look, we got to be crystal clear on what we're saying.
And when we're talking about repentance, because of how
much it's turned into this turn away from your sins garbage,
then we have to be extra clear about it so that people understand.
Because people throw the word repent around a lot.
And most of the time, what do they mean?
They mean that you have to turn from your sins.
You know, is it so hard for you to think that a bunch of
wicked Gentiles could get saved, by the way?
I mean, who do you see, do you see all the Jews getting
saved right now?
Who do you see getting saved?
Where's the most receptive places?
Where the Gentiles live, which is all around the world, right?
So, and look, I'm going to say this anyway, okay?
I've heard some preaching about, or I've heard people say,
well, you know, if a pastor has a bad website that says
what they believe, then we should just give them a pass.
Well, I'm not going to say that I'm going to throw every
pastor in hell that has a bad website that says that you
have to turn from your sins and repent of your sins.
But here's what I will say.
I looked at every single detail of my doctrinal statement
before I put it online.
Did you, Pastor Mejia?
Did you, Pastor Shelley?
Where's Pastor Jimenez?
He's right there.
Okay, Pastor Jimenez, I know I asked him last night.
I said, did you look at every detail of your doctrinal
statement before you put it online?
You know what I want is, you know why we make a website?
So people can go on there and click that little tab that
says what we believe, and everything should just be laid
out right there.
It shouldn't be confusing.
It shouldn't be strange.
It shouldn't be a great big text wall for each section.
You know, people want to know what you believe, and you
know what, when you go to my website, it's going to say,
you know, we don't allow homosexuals in our church,
Leviticus, 2013.
Don't come to our church if you don't want that kind of
preaching, you know, if people see our, people see our
website, and they see things that they don't like, but
you know what our website also says?
It says, we believe salvation is by faith alone.
No works.
No repenting of your sins.
No lordship.
I mean, just look at it.
You can pull it up right now.
While you're looking at newfbsingles.com, you can switch
over and look at our website real quick, and you can look
at our doctor's statement and see what it says.
You can't swipe left on that thing, by the way.
I just wanted to let you know that.
Anyway, yeah, I mean, and so when someone has on their
website, repent of your sins, you know, don't you think that
pastor is responsible for what they say on their own website?
How is it that you can have a cathedral style building with
a pulpit that looks like it came straight from heaven, and
you have American flags all over your building, everything
is in place, it's perfectly proper, but you know what?
I forgot to look at the website before I put my doctoral
statement on there.
Come on.
You don't think they looked at those details?
Now, I'll agree with you.
There's some pastors who are just too lazy to look at the
details. Someone just copy and pasted something, but still
you're still responsible for what you say on your own website.
And if you literally write yourself, repent, and then put
in big brackets, turn from sins, and you wrote that with
your own hand, and your website says that, and you preach
it from the pulpit, you know, it's not very hard to discern
where you're at on repentance.
And by the way, yes, you do have to call upon the name of
the Lord to be saved.
I don't understand that being preached.
I don't believe that you can, you know, while we're talking
about being clear on salvation, I don't think you can get
saved by an invite either.
The Ethiopian eunuch said, how can I understand except
some man should guide me?
He couldn't just pick it up and go, hey Isaiah is
preaching right to me, right to my heart.
He had no idea.
He didn't understand what was being said.
He had to ask somebody, and some man had to come and guide
him, some man had to come and show him, and we still have
to do that today.
Otherwise, we wouldn't even have to go soul when it's too
hot outside.
Let's just do Operation Dumbo Drop and just dump a bunch
of invites out.
You know, there was a pastor at a church that I used to
go to, and you know what, he went to the Philippines on
the missions trip, and you know what he did?
They threw invitations out the car windows, and there
was Filipinos picking them up and looking at them.
500 saved, 250 saved.
Because that is the mentality that comes from thinking
that you can get an invite to get you saved, and that's
not part of my sermon, but it is kind of.
But anyway, point number one was repentance unto salvation.
Number two, reprobates.
Ooh, another just over preached topic, right?
That's what people will say, that's all you got to preach
about is the reprobate doctrine.
Well, I'm actually going to preach about how reprobates
are not a trusted source of information.
They're not a trusted source of information.
If something goes down in one of our churches, the last
thing you should do is go check what the reprobates are
putting up.
Because you know what, it's filled with lies.
If you really have evidence, why do you have to lie about
the evidence that you have?
Why does it have to be skewed and all these different
views and just a bunch of garbage and lies?
You know, if you're, you know, there's a lot of sources
that we should go to.
You know, maybe your pastor might be the first source
you might want to go to.
You know, maybe the Bible might be a place you, that's
a good source.
You know, people talk about, you know, going to the source
documents of things when you're researching things.
I agree with that.
But you know who I don't go to?
I don't go to the reprobates.
Oh, let me find out what happened with Pastor Shelley.
I'm going to go to Reason Files and figure it out.
That's stupid.
If that's your, if you are trusting that as a source, then
you're fooled, you're beguiled.
Nobody's ever accused Pastor Shelley of doing anything
wrong.
I know that.
Or me or Pastor Jimenez, you know.
Look at Isaiah 28.
Let's go back to our text verse.
I do have a timer going, but it's ignored.
Isaiah 28 verse 12 says, to whom he said, this is the
rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest, and this
is the refreshing, yet they would not hear. See, sometimes
people, you know, we'll listen to the Word of God, we'll
take that in, and we'll apply it, and that's all good.
But there's people out there that they hear the Word of
God, and they won't hear.
They can't hear, they can't understand it.
But the Word of the Lord was unto them, precept upon
precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon
line, here a little, and there a little. But they might
go and fall backward to be broken and snared and taken.
Sometimes the Word of God destroys people, and it causes
them to manifest what they really are.
And it's so weird to me that these reprobates get kicked
out of churches, and people just sit there and listen to
everything they say like it's the truth. I'm leaving this
church because, you know, Todd told me to.
I'm going to leave this church, you know, because I won't
even mention his name. Anyway, I'm not going to mention
his name. He likes it too much. But again, if someone
has cold hard facts, they're not going to profit off of
lies. Okay, and so you're like, well, how do I know it's
a lie? Because they're reprobates. I mean, what do reprobates
do? They tell the truth all the time? Is that what they
do? Is that what they did while you were in your church?
Is that what they did while they were hanging out in your
church? They were just such good, great people when they
were here. Really, at first they kind of seem like they
are, but then they start fights with people. Then they
start spreading their false doctrine. Then they get their
hooks into people, right? Turn to Philippians chapter 1,
verse 27.
Philippians chapter 1, verse 27. Well, how do you know
they're reprobates, Pastor Thompson? Let me show you.
Philippians 1, 27. Only let your conversation be as it
become at the gospel of Christ, and whether I come and
see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs,
that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving
together for the faith of the gospel. That's what we're
supposed to be doing. That's what the church is supposed
to be doing, right? But then look at verse 28. It says,
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is
to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of
salvation and that of God. For unto you is given in the
behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also
to suffer for his sake. Look, we're going to get a lot of
persecution in churches like this because, you know, we're
not preaching repent of your sins for salvation, because
we're all, we are in the front lines of the battle doing
a lot of the hard work that most churches,
let's just be honest, don't do anymore. And yeah, I know
that there's other churches that are good. I know that
there's, I know we're not, we're not it. It's not just the
new IFB that has the greatest churches. I understand
that. Let's be honest about some of these Baptist churches
that bus ministry is what they call soul winning. And you
can get people saved in the bus ministry. I'm not saying
that you can't, but that's not exactly soul winning, is it?
So let's just look at this term in verse 28 says, and
nothing terrified by your adversaries. Who are the adversary?
What's our main adversary? The devil, right? So
when it says this word adversary, it's not talking about
necessarily your enemies because we're supposed to love
our enemies and do good to them and all that stuff. But
it says nothing terrified by your adversaries.
Let's talk about something else, which is to them, who?
The adversaries, an evident token of perdition. Now,
let me define these words for you really quickly. If
you're, if you're not, if you don't know what they mean,
what is evident? It means it's plain or obvious, clearly
seen and understood. That's what evident means. Evident
token, a thing serving as a visible or tangible representation
of a fact. It's the evident fact. It's something you
can see for sure it's a fact. And then perdition, a state
of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful
and unpentant person passes after death. So what does
this person, what does the Bible say that these people
are? It's evident by the fact that they are trying to
terrorize us and there are adversaries. It's evident
that they are what? Cursed, reprobates, they're in perdition.
What was Judas called? The son of what? Perdition. Was
he saved? No. So it's evident, it's an evident token of
their perdition when they try to, when our adversaries
try to terrorize us. And what happens to us all the
time in churches like this church, churches like Pastor
Mahina's church, churches like my church? There's always
someone trying to terrorize us. There's always someone
trying to destroy us. And you know what? The fact that
they do that and when they leave the church, when they
make their own YouTube channels and use a bunch of
goofy voices and do a bunch of goofy things and make
fun of people, talk about people's dads, talk about
people's moms. You know, it's not fun when you're the
one that's getting made fun of. It's not fun. It's kind
of, you know, it's terroristic. If they were decent
people, if they were legit people, that's not what they
would do. And isn't it weird how it always happened in
churches like ours? I mean, I've never seen churches
where just all these reprobates just pop out of
nowhere and they make videos about you and then they
stalk your life and try to dig up dirt on you. It's
like, get a life. Why is it so important for you to
just terrorize the people of God? You know why? It's
because it's an evident token of their perdition. That's
why. That should just tell you right there when they
do crap like that, that they're a reprobate. So hey,
don't go for them for a source of information. So,
who are you going to listen to? Your pastor or some
clown that's making videos on the internet? I mean,
I've listened to my pastor. I've listened to my pastor
anyway, you know. And again, our churches are in the
hottest part of the battle. You know, when Uriah,
when David pulled the troops away from Uriah, the
Hittite says he was in the hottest part of the battle.
That's why he was killed. But churches like ours are
in the hottest part of the battle. And guess what,
you know, think about Jesus for a second. What was
he, when he went around and preached, what did he
do? Who came to his preaching? Who was
there every single time he preached pretty much? The
Pharisees. Who else was there? The demons that would
start writhing on the ground. And who else was
with him? Judas. Judas was with him, the son of
perdition. And then, of course, he had his disciples
and then people were getting saved and people that
weren't. But I mean, everywhere Jesus went, demons
are manifesting themselves. He's got one person
that's a pretender in his group. And then he's got
a bunch of other people that are reprobates coming
to watch him preach also. But why would you think
it'd be any different in churches like ours? It's
the same thing. You know, obviously, we're not
Jesus, but it's still, he said that wolves would
come. He said that they would come and not spare
the flock. He said that there would be wolves in
sheep's clothing. He said that there would be
workers of iniquity. You know, the Bible taught,
look, this, people are like, oh, this is talked
about too much. It's not talked about enough,
apparently. Because still people are, these wolves
are still dragging people out of churches. These
tares amongst the wheat, you know what, tares look
the same as the wheat until they reveal themselves
and then they get pulled up. And then when they
get pulled up, people are like, well, I think that
he's actually a pretty good guy. I'm going to go
to Tyler Baker's church now. I'm going to go to
Eddie Fannin's church now. I'm going to, you know
what, I'm going to move my family to Wesley
Tomlinson's church. 35th Avenue Baptist Church
sounds good to me now. That's what these people
do. They go and they follow these wicked people,
these wicked pastors. Because you know what,
there's pastors that are reprobates too. They're
all over the place. But let me tell you this, we
need to expect drama to happen. And look, you don't
have to like it. It does get weird. It is a
wearisome thing to you. It is a terror to your
soul. Persecution is not fun. Neither is Beelzebub
that's trying to get in my hair right here. The
devil sent that fly here. No, I'm just kidding.
But we're like the Baptist Special Forces, the
Baptist Navy Seals. And you know, we don't, we
not all might look like Navy Seals, but it doesn't
mean that you're not a spiritual Navy Seal, okay?
But look, when we're saved and we're doing a lot
for God, there's going to be adversaries. There's
going to be battles, battle after battle after
battle. And look, we just need to prepare our hearts
for that. And get behind the man of God that's
leading the charge and don't go, Pastor, how come
this happened? What about this? What about that?
Shut your mouth. Why don't you say, Pastor, how can I
help you? Pastor, can I pray for you about
something? Instead of being in doubt of your
pastor, why don't you give him the benefit of the
doubt? Turn to 2 Timothy chapter 3.
You know what Pastor Jones calls these kind of
people? Bleeding hearts.
We have a bunch of people that turn into bleeding
hearts. Oh, I feel so sorry for getting kicked out.
You know what? You think that we just kick people
out on a hair trigger all the time? It's usually
they've done a lot of stuff that you don't even
know about. You know, pastors actually watch what
people do. Did you know that? And sometimes you
can see it coming, but sometimes you can't.
Sometimes you can't. Look at 2 Timothy chapter 3
verse 12. It says, and all that will live godly in
Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, but evil
men and seducers are going to get better and
better.
It's all going to be sunshine and roses here
pretty soon. You know, we're just, you know, as
we go soul wanting, it's just going to get better
and better. What is that? What it says? It says
evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.
It's going to get worse. It's not going to get
better because as I've just been in this movement
and a pastor for a while, I've seen them ramp
up. And guess what? It's getting worse. They're
trying to like literally ruin people's lives.
It's not a game. It's reality. Trying to ruin
people's lives, trying to ruin people's kids'
lives, trying to ruin the church of God, trying
to get people to step down and all this other
stuff. Look, it's an evident token of their
perdition.
And it says that they'll be deceiving. So they're
deceiving and being deceived. So it's just like,
you know, like Pastor Andrew preached a couple
years ago about the trash can. They all just
deceive each other and they're being deceived.
It's just like a big, you know, toilet bowl of
crap that needs to get flushed down the toilet
one day at will. Sorry about the potty talk. Turn
to 1 John chapter 2 verse 18.
Bible says, little children, it is the last time
and as you have heard that Antichrist shall come,
even now are there many Antichrists. This was
back then. This was 2,000 years ago. And if the
Bible says evil men and seducers shall wax worse
and worse back then, how bad do you think it is
now? It's pretty bad. Because whereby you know
it is the last time, it is the last time.
We've been living in the last days for the last
2,000 years and evil men and seducers are waxing
worse and worse. Turn to 1 John, okay, hold on a
second. Oh, yeah, stay where you're at. Verse 19,
they went out from us, but they were not of us,
for if they had been of us, they would no doubt
have continued with us. But they were not of us,
for if they had been of us, they would no doubt
have continued with us. But they went out that
they might be made manifest that they were not
all of us. Do we see this happen all the time?
We think they're all on our team. God, that new
guy, he's just doing so great and then all of a
sudden it just goes downhill from there. Some
people, their wolf ears are already sticking out
the minute they get in their church. It's like,
that dude's a clown. You know, all the church
members are walking up to me, Pastor, did you see
that dude? He's wearing skinny jeans. I think
he's a faggot, you know. Okay, I'll keep my eye
on him. Thanks for telling me because I didn't
notice. So, but it says they went out from among
us because they were not of us. This happens all
the time, but people are like, I'm so sad that
they left. Get a backbone. Get some discernment
in your brain. Psalm chapter 14, actually turn to
Psalm chapter 28 verse 3. I'm going to read
Psalm chapter 14 verse 4. Psalm chapter 14 verse 4
says, Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge
who eat up my people as they eat bread and call
not upon the Lord? Workers of iniquity are wicked
people. When the Bible talks about a worker of
iniquity, it's never in a positive light. It's
always a reprobate, every time. But you know,
here's a good prayer where you're at right here.
Draw me not away with the wicked and with the
workers of iniquity which speak peace to their
neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. That
should be a prayer of every single person in this
place that you're not drawn away with the wicked
because that's what they want to do. Why do they
not spare the sheep? They want to kill them all.
They want to kill you. They want to take you out
of church. They want to take you out of sowing. They
want to take you out of a good church. They want to
take you out. They want to kill you. They want to
kill your family. And I'm talking about spiritually.
Sometimes probably literally physically. I'm sure
if they could get away with it, they would kill us
physically. And eventually I'm sure that that's
going to happen. You know, the Bible kind of says
that it will. So I mean, I don't know. I believe the
Bible. But turn to Philippians chapter 3, verse
number 1. What is my point? My point is that you
can't trust information from reprobates, but you
also need to learn how to deal with them. You need
to have the right mindset when they get thrown out.
Back up your pastor. Don't be carried away and
drawn away with the wicked. You know, did you know
that the reason why there are wolves and able to
blend in is because they're good at it? It's not
like you just figure, like you can't just figure
every single one of them out. So if they get kicked
out, it's not because the pastor is trying to cover
something up or because the pastor just doesn't
like them. Well, maybe he doesn't like them now, but
in the beginning we try to like everybody. Most
people do. But it's because these people are evil,
you need to understand what you're dealing with.
Philippians chapter 3, verse 1. Finally, my brethren,
rejoice in the Lord to write the same things to you.
To me indeed is not grievous, but for you it's safe.
He's like, hey, I want to tell you something that's
going to keep you safe. Now listen up here. It says
in verse 2, beware of dogs. And it's probably talking
about physical, talking about human dogs and real
dogs probably. But anyway, beware of evil workers.
Beware of the concision. Beware of queers. Beware of
the evil working reprobates and beware of the Jews.
That's some pretty good advice from the apostle Paul.
Thanks apostle Paul. Hey, if everybody would just
put that in their heart though and keep it here and
realize that that's the truth. Realize who you're
dealing with. You're dealing with sons of Belial,
tares amongst the wheat, wolves in sheep's clothing,
reprobates, workers of iniquity. It's all the same thing.
And it is a major theme in the Bible. A major theme.
Because look, the Lord's seed is saved people.
And the seed, in Genesis chapter 3, when God's talking
and talking about the seed of a woman, talking about
bruising his head and he'll bruise your heel, you
should bruise his head. He says, I'm going to put
enmity between thy seed and her seed. There's always
going to be a fight. There's always going to be a
battle with the children of the devil and the children
of God. Get used to it. Get used to it. And you know
if you need to go to friendship Baptist church that
never goes soul winning and never gets into any
adventures, never has any problems because you can't
take the heat of the battle? I'm not going to be mad
at you for that. But don't just get out of church.
You know, but if you want to be in the heat of the
battle where all the rewards are, then you should stay
in a church like Verity Baptist Church, F-W-B-C-L-A,
Steadfast Baptist Church, Shield of Faith Baptist
Church. What did I miss? Pure Words, yeah, Pure Words
Baptist Church. That's a great church. I love that
church. Proverbs chapter 4 verse 14 says,
Enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in
the way of evil men. Avoid it. Pass not by it. Turn
from it and pass away. For they sleep not, except
they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away
unless they cause some to fall. That should scare the
crud out of you if you don't have the protection of
God in your life. There's people out there that
literally won't sleep until they cause someone to
fall. They get insomnia. Who can I destroy today
that's good? What pastor can I make a video about
today? Oh, let me splice all this together. Let me
make up a bunch of lies. Who can I destroy today? I
just, I can't sleep. These people can't sleep until
they cause someone to fall. Why? For they eat the
bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
That's who they are. They're wicked. First Corinthians
16 9 says, For a great door and effectual is open
unto me and there are many adversaries. Doesn't say
there's just a few. There's many adversaries. And
look, we do have an open door here. We're doing the
works of God. We're going soul winning. We're
preaching, you know, you're getting great doctrine
preached to you at this church. And guess what?
Because of that, there's going to be many adversaries.
That's what the Bible says. Doesn't say it's just
drama. Just new IFP drama. No, it's called Bible
believing drama. Called Bible believing problems.
You know, we're going to get persecuted. We're going
to get messed with. Learn how to deal with it. You
know how to deal with it? Let me explain it to you
real quick. In pregatory prayer, Pastor Jimenez has
a death list. Just ask him. Oh, you think I'm
kidding? We should all have death lists. Like, I
can't believe you said that, Pastor Thompson. You're
so mean and hateful. Well, there's some people
that need to die. Some people that just are
tormenting God's people. And look, we're not
supposed to take the law into our hands because
believe me, there's the new man and there's the old
man. You know what the old man wants to do with me
sometimes? The old man's like, come on, Pastor
Thompson, just go find them. Knock their teeth out.
Instead of praying for God to knock their teeth out,
I'm like, I want to knock their teeth out. Believe
me, I could do it. But how do you get rid of these
workers of inequity? Well, you pray them away. You
pray that God would deal with them. You pray that
God would destroy them. And you know what? We also
need to do? We need to pray that God will avenge
us. Because you know what? We're not supposed to
take the law into our own hands. You know in the
people's court? Have you ever watched the people's
court, anybody? I'm not advocating TV, but when I
was in the 80s, they had Judge Wapner and he was
the people's court. And he said, at the end of each
episode, it would say, don't take the law into your
own hands, take them to court. And that should be
our motto as Christians. Hey, we can't take things
into our own hands. I'd like to. Believe me, I'd like
to slap a few people that I really just hate. But
that's not what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to
pray against that person. I'm supposed to let God
deal with them. And you know what? He will. He will
deliver us out of all our troubles. You know, because
I mean, look, they're just getting worse and worse.
So what else can you do but pray for their death?
I can't believe you said that. Well, that's what the
Bible says to do. David said, break their teeth out,
O Lord. Let them melt like a snail. You know what
happened? You know how you melt a snail? Kids, don't
plug your ears right now. Salt them. And they shrivel
up. I've never done it before because, you know, I
like animals. I really have never done it before, but
I've seen it done. It's kind of gross. Anyway, so
number one was repentance. Number two was reprobates
as a trusted source of information. Look, don't trust
what they have to say. And look, if you want to deal
with them, I forgot number one. Put on the whole
armor of God. Number two, what you have to do is pray
imprecatory prayers. And then number three, let God
take care of them. The Bible says, dearly beloved,
avenge not yourselves, but rather give place under
wrath, for it is written, vengeance is mine, sayeth
the Lord. Or I will repay you, sayeth the Lord.
Vengeance is mine. It doesn't say vengeance is fine.
It says vengeance is mine. So we've got to understand
that. So number three, and this is the last point and
it's shorter, we need to have respect. Respect for
who? Respect for pastors. I've kind of already touched
on it a little bit. But before I do that, I want to
tell you about some pastors that I don't respect.
I got quiet in here for a second. Well, I just heard
that there was another conference going on. I think
it's around the same time as we're having this one.
I don't even know what the name of the conference is.
Does anybody know what the name of the conference is
called? The Trash Can Conference. Yeah, Tyler Baker
is having a conference. And so I guess he's got
Wesley Tomlinson preaching for him and Tim Coleman
from 35th Avenue, one is Baptist Church. And, you
know, I mean, I heard that they were doing like a
Q&A, you know, they're trying to kind of copy our
style. The Q&A, here's one of the first questions that
I thought that should be asked. So Wesley Tomlinson,
what was it like to kill your father?
I mean, these are the pastors that we're supposed to
I don't respect these pastors.
I heard Wesley Tomlinson's response was, it was kind
of the same feeling that you got when you stole that
printer, Tyler.
Just a little bit more of a rush.
Tim Coleman, what's wrong with your face, man?
There's a good question.
I don't respect these guys, you know why? Because
they're a bunch of oneness, modalist heretics.
And one of them killed his own father.
I mean, if that doesn't disqualify you, I don't know
what does.
But these guys also, you know, you're like, well, I
can't believe you said that about Wesley Tomlinson,
he repented.
He murdered his own father. The Bible says you should
be healed for that. You should be stoned with stones.
He didn't have to set up his dad on the phone call
and say, hey, somebody's on the phone for you, then he
blasts him with a shotgun. That's what happened.
Pastor Thompson, I can't believe you're so mean. Give
the guy another chance.
Why? So he can make up a whole bunch of more fake
profiles and try to fake everybody out with all of his
weird deception games. You know, when he was that
faithful word, he actually was hanging out with Tim
Coleman.
It's like the evil legion of doom or something.
And so, as far as respect for pastors go, I have no
respect for Tyler Baker, the little weasel that he is.
Shaggy.
Don't cross this line. Don't cross it. He crosses
over all the lines.
He crossed over the big line.
He forgot who God really was.
So I have no respect for them, but you know who you
should have respect for? Good, godly pastors that are
trying to lead you in a right way. Turn to Hebrews
chapter 13 verse 17.
Hebrews chapter 13 verse 17.
You know who the kind of pastor you should respect?
Pastor Roger Jimenez.
The Bible says, Obey them that have the rule over you
and submit yourselves for they wash for your souls as
they that must give account that they may do it with
joy and not with grief.
So that is unprofitable for you.
Hey, you know what you should do?
You should help your pastor out.
You should obey them.
You should submit to them.
I'm not talking about having where we have a monitor
in your house where you're like, hey, those dishes
don't look very clean.
Better take better care of your husband.
Don't try to meddle in people's lives.
Don't try to meddle in people's homes.
That's not what I'm talking about.
It's like, submit and obey them that have the rule
over you in church.
Don't go off on the deep end.
On some weird flat earth theory.
If someone tries to grab you and corner you and say,
hey, guess what?
The earth is flat.
Let me show you this paper plate and a flashlight.
If they start pulling the paper plate out, walk away.
Go talk to your pastor immediately so that he can
deal with it.
Look, it's a flashlight and it goes around the
Dude, don't believe that.
It's a bunch of trash.
But look, it says, you know, the pastors watch
for your souls.
We watch out.
The pastors are, we're supposed to be shepherds.
You know what shepherds do?
They feed the flock.
They watch over the sheep.
And we've got to give an account to God.
But you know what?
You should make sure that we don't have to do it
with grief or with joy.
I want to give an account to God.
You should make sure that we don't have to do it
with grief or with joy.
I want to enjoy being a pastor.
I don't want to have to deal with some pain in the neck
that's always coming to me for something dumb.
Well, it's always believing the newest false prophet
that gets kicked out.
Or that, you know, just wants to be a pain in the neck
and cause problems.
You know, we should respect the pastors in our lives.
And you can ask Pastor Jimenez,
did I ever give him any problems?
He's going to say, probably.
No, I'm just joking.
As far as I know, you know, I didn't give him any problems.
But, you know, the pastor takes care of you.
You know what the pastor prays for you every day?
You know, next to the death list, he has the life list.
The lives of the people that he loves.
The lives of the church member that he loves.
And you know what he prays for you?
To be more spiritual.
To love the Lord.
To do those things.
You know, it's really weird when pastors love you
and care for you, and then people just turn and stab them in the back.
No pastor likes getting stabbed in the back.
I mean, you go to their, you know, do their funerals,
you do their weddings and all this other stuff,
and then like two years later they're like,
Pastor, can you turn around real quick?
And just stabs them in the back.
And leaves.
Most people, we already know you're on your way out
when you're on your way out.
Just so you know.
And most people, what they'll do when they leave a church
is that they'll wait for one thing that the pastor doesn't,
that they don't like that the pastor's doing,
and then make that their excuse to leave.
You know, so this pastor that's put everything out for you,
changed his whole life for you,
got sleepless nights for you,
and then you turn around and then wait for an opportunity
because you're not spiritual,
because you're screwing up your life,
because you want to be a fornicator,
because you want to go out and think,
because you want to go out and go back to the world
and do whatever it is you wanted to,
go back to mommy and daddy so they'll accept you again,
and then you just put that load of crap
right onto the pastor's back before you walk out.
It's ridiculous.
Get some character.
If you're going to leave, just tell them,
hey look, I'm just not spiritual anymore.
I don't care about going soloing anymore.
I don't care about going to church anymore.
I don't want to be three to thrive.
I want to go where the music's better,
the disco lights and the Starbucks in the back of the room.
I mean, just be honest.
If you want to drop out of church, just be honest.
Put stabbing pastors in the back.
Pastors are flawed men.
You know what?
We make mistakes just like anybody else does,
but it's so funny how you make one mistake
or what they perceive as a mistake
and obviously we do make mistakes.
I make mistakes when I'm preaching.
I make mistakes in administration.
I make mistakes maybe in judgment calls sometimes.
Everybody makes mistakes.
I got to have a lot of good days,
but every once in a while you have a bad day.
But isn't it funny how people will just be like,
pastor did this,
and then they just kick you to the curb like you're nothing.
Like yeah, you know,
I married you, baptized you,
got you saved,
and then all this, you know,
tried to teach you the Bible,
tried to be a blessing to your family,
tried to get your family members saved,
and it's like you make one mistake
and it's like everything you did is nothing.
What a bad attitude to have toward your pastor.
And I hope that nobody in this room
acts like that towards their pastor.
I don't think anybody does,
but just in case you ever want to,
don't do it.
So, and every man has a breaking point.
Every man has a breaking point,
and I just want to encourage every pastor in this room
or anybody that wants to be a pastor,
don't quit.
The only way to fail is to quit.
I don't want to quit.
You don't want to quit either.
You know, there's a lot of pastors in this room
that deal with a lot of garbage,
and look, most people in our churches are great.
They don't want to quit.
And look, most people in our churches are great.
They love us, and they, you know,
and they pray for us,
and someone's trying to call me right in the middle.
Oh, it must be Wesley Tomlinson.
The reprobates must have, I got my ringer off, man.
Can't see.
The Tennessee number.
I'm not joking.
Tennessee.
I must be mad.
Well, there's 161 people that were watching the sermon
when it first started.
I'm sure a few of those guys were Wesley Tomlinson,
Tyler Baker.
All the people, they got,
you got enough to make a new video now.
Go ahead and make a new profile.
Take me out of context.
Well, Pastor Thompson lied when he said
that he answered back, shut up.
Anyway, I'm almost done here.
You know, it would be a shame
if any of my pastor friends quit, though.
I don't want you to quit.
I want you to, you know,
as much as everything's getting ramped up,
stay in the fight.
And you know what?
If I truly did anything or do anything
to be disqualified for,
I'm gonna be the first person that still resigns.
Do you think I actually want
to just hold on to something
because I want some kind of kingdom for myself?
People ask me to be the pastor.
I just think about it.
Don't get mad.
Moses got asked, too,
and he didn't want to do it either.
So, just saying.
Anyway, like, you don't even have
the desire to be a pastor.
He's disqualified.
Okay, Moses was disqualified, too.
Anyway, but you know,
if I decide to just take $500,000
and remodel my house,
then I will quit tomorrow.
Too soon?
You know that's a bunch of garbage, anyway.
I've seen his house.
It doesn't have $500,000 worth of upgrade.
I'm sorry, Pastor Joe.
I love you, man.
If I decide to become an ecumenical Calvinist,
I'll quit tomorrow.
All right?
That's another joke, okay?
I'm sorry about that.
I don't believe that for a second.
That's what I'm talking about.
The lies that are being spun.
The lies that are being told.
It's a bunch of trash.
Don't listen to these people.
I'm not saying don't look into things for yourself,
but don't listen to the reprobates.
And you know, when it comes to repentance,
don't listen to the people that teach
this repenting of your sins.
And you know, if you want to respect somebody,
don't respect Tyler Baker and his goons.
Don't you respect them?
Don't you respect the pastor that's legit?
Legit.
Let's turn to one last verse,
Isaiah chapter 28 verse 17.
When it comes to certain things,
we've got to draw a line.
All right?
We've got to make a stand.
We're going to say we're not going past this.
Isaiah chapter 28 verse 17 again,
it says, judgment also while I lay on the line.
It's what the Bible says.
That's what's right.
And righteousness to the plummet
and the hail shall sweep away
the refuge of lies.
You know, God's word is a straight line
that you can count on.
But you know what?
All the lies are going to be swept away one day.
The water shall overflow the hiding place.
There's not going to be any place
for these weirdos to hide anymore.
God's going to wipe all that away
and all the lies.
And one day, we're not going to be in battles.
And we're like, we'll be up in heaven going,
remember that battle?
Battle.
But at the time when you go through it,
it doesn't seem like it's a very good battle.
But you know what?
We've got to stay in it.
We've got to stay in the fight.
All right? Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord,
for this great conference.
Pastor Mejia, as he comes to preach the word of God to us,
and to pray that you'd bless everybody here,
pray that they were edified by something
that was said tonight.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.