Hi this is Pastor Roger Jimenez from Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, California.
I'm just making a quick video to respond to the article put out by the LA Times
about myself and Verity Baptist Church and the Red Hot Preaching Conference.
If you have not yet seen the article we put a link in the description below so you can check it out.
And this year at the Red Hot Preaching Conference we had a journalist from the LA Times
here at the conference. We even had a photographer from the LA Times come in
and take pictures and they wrote this article and obviously when the media writes articles about us
they're not meant to be flattering. They're meant to make us look bad. They're meant to make us look
like we're in a cult. But what I want to say is this that even when these articles are written
and they're made to make us look bad the word of the Lord is still magnified because hopefully
people are going to read this article and they're going to open up their bibles and read Leviticus
2013. They're going to look up sermons from our church or from other new IFB churches. Hopefully
there's going to be a lot of people in the LA area who are going to look up the church in El
Monte that was mentioned in the article. Hopefully there's going to be people that are going to look
up the psychopath reprobates documentary that was mentioned in the article. And at the end of the
day the word of the Lord is going to be magnified. Even though the article was meant to make us look
bad. Even though it was inaccurate. You know I explained the reprobate doctrine to the reporter
very thoroughly. My wife went soul winning with her and very thoroughly explained to her what we
believe about the reprobate doctrine and obviously she misrepresented it and didn't explain it
properly. But at the end of the day it helps the cause of Christ. And for those of you that are
watching this and you're thinking is this a good thing that the media is making churches like ours
look bad? You need to realize that it is not new to have the world hate those who preach the word
of God. In fact Jesus said this in Luke chapter 6 and verses 22 and 23. He said 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 leap for
joy for behold your reward is great in heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the
prophets. And here Jesus is talking about the fact that the prophets who preach the word of God were
hated by the world. Jesus was hated by the world. They ended up crucifying him and it makes sense
that the world would hate us too. And to the LA Times I'd like to just say thank you for all
of the free publicity.