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Good morning everybody and welcome to St.Fast Baptist Church.
It's great to see everybody here this morning.
If we can go ahead and find our seats, we will get started with the service's first song.
And for our first song of the day, let's go to song number 17.
7 was filled with his praises, song number 17, let's all sing that out together on there.
gathered here. Thank you for this wonderful church. We get to attend, Lord.
We just thank you for the awesome songs. We get to sing together, Lord, and we
ask that you fill this room with your spirit and help us sing out unto you.
And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. All right, for our next song, let's go to
It's all singing out together.
Hello everyone, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you need a bulletin, just raise your hands nice and high.
The ushers will be more than happy to get one to you.
And we'll notice there on the front,
we have our Bible memory passage.
We're working on Jude.
And this week we're in verse 12.
If you're 18 or younger,
and you quote this in our midweek service,
you can get an ice cream.
I'd highly recommend for all of us though,
to memorize the whole chapter,
some spicy verses in there.
We have the service times and our
church-wide
soul winning and regional soul winning times on the inside of the bulletin along with our
Church stats as well some of our soul winning stats. Please keep our expecting ladies in prayer as well and
want to give a shout out to the
soul winning effort that occurred over the 4th of July weekend
With brother Samuel leading the way on Friday, July 4th. They had 66 salvations
This was in Springdale, Arkansas by the way
Friday, July 4th 66 salvations on Saturday, July 5th 114 salvations for a total of a hundred and eighty
Salvation on this trip
So a great job to everyone who participated, you know, we all appreciate the effort that
you put in there.
Some upcoming events to keep in mind, mark your calendars for, the semi-annual business
meeting will occur July.
13th. So make sure you're here for our services for that one. We have a soul-winning marathon
taking place in Lancaster, Texas on July 19th. There's a bowling night as part of our teen
summer events, and that'll be on July 29th. Make sure you sign up. There's a sign-up
sheet over in the hallway so that leadership knows how many people may show up. Additionally,
at Boulder Adventure Park on August 9th.
Again, there's a sign up sheet for that.
The men's retreat is August 14th through the 16th.
Again, August 14th through the 16th,
there's a Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship Conference.
It's back August 27th through the 31st.
Make sure you sign up there because again,
the church just wants to get a general count
and sort of be able to anticipate
how many people are going to show up.
There's a missions trip to Mexico City Mexico on September 8th. That's going through the 12th
If you have any questions at all about that you can talk to brother Diego
He's sitting here in the front row and then on the back. We have our prayer list, but before I finish I want to
just
Mention here that we have a missionary update from brother Duncan or Bannock and you should have this
There were some over there in the hallway.
If you want one, I think one of the ushers
would be happy to give one to you.
But I just wanted to highlight a few things here
that Brother Duncan mentioned in his update.
He says, we're happy to report a total of 673 salvations
for the month of June.
Those are crazy good numbers.
He says, from January through June, we have had 2,975 salvations averaging 495 per month.
I mean, it speaks for itself, folks.
He brings up that Brother James was there
during the month of June to provide some help,
and he teamed up with Verity Baptist Church,
Pastor Stuckey's church to get 48 saved at a school.
He preached at a school, and on the back,
Gives us an update on his church services. He says he says we've begun to start holding monthly church services in
the aforementioned area there, which is a
couple hours east of Manila and he says the third service we held was on June 29th and
They had 38 people come out for the first service and 27 stayed for the afternoon service
So I would consider that a rousing success
And he mentions that earlier in the month, he preached a sermon at Verity called the Abomination of Pride Month. Amen.
And there were nine new visitors who showed up for that, including seven children that they met out souling at a nearby park.
Two of them got saved at the park. He also mentions, we actually had another few children come, but they all left when we kicked out two of their faggot friends.
He says that they tried to tell them no homosexuals allowed.
Amen to that. So I appreciate Brother Duncan. You know, it's not just that he's getting people saved
But he's also red-pilling people on the reprobate doctrine and the sodomites and of course I appreciate that very much
He brings up that unfortunately sometimes there's a fag in the midst when you're preaching to big groups out there
But regardless he's getting the job done and so keep brother urbanic in your prayers
But that's all I have for announcements at this time. We'll move on to our final song with brother Dustin leading us
Hi for our third song we'll do the Psalm of the week
For this week's song, we're doing Psalm 58.
Psalm 58 in your binders.
You could use your King James Bible,
but it's a lot easier to use the sheet music.
Psalm 58.
Let's all sing that out together on the first.
Our deep world, making its way
To the poor old son of Charmershahar
We purchase this.
Oh, congregation.
I shall say, verily there is every war, war, war, war.
The righteous, verily he is the God that judges, judges.
Go ahead and open your Bibles to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5.
That's the book of 1 Thessalonians chapter number 5.
First Thessalonians chapter number five, we will read the whole chapter as is our custom.
But of the times and the seasons brethren you have no need that I write unto you for yourselves know
Perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night for when they shall say peace and safety then sudden
Destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape
But ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief
Ye are all the children of light and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness
Therefore let us not sleep
as do others, but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night,
and they that are drunken, are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober,
putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Wherefore, comfort yourselves together and edify one another, even as also ye do.
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you, and are over you in
the Lord, and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love for their worksake,
and be at peace among yourselves.
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that our unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support
the weak, be patient toward all men.
both among yourselves and to all men.
Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing.
And everything give thanks, for this is the will of God and Christ Jesus concerning you.
Quench not the spirit, despise not prophesies.
Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
And the very God of peace sanctify you holy.
And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless into the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Brother, pray for us.
Greet all the brethren with the holy kiss.
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read
upon all the holy brethren.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, amen.
Let us pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be here at church.
Thank you for all the salvations that we've had.
Pray that you bless Brother Ben
and fill him with your holy spirit
to preach your word unto us
and help us to make applicable changes in our lives.
And I just pray this all in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Amen, I want to thank Pastor Shelley
for the opportunity to fill in.
This morning, we're there in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5.
Let's take a look at verse number 6, where the Bible read,
therefore, let us not sleep as do others,
but let us watch and notice this right here.
Be sober.
Verse 7, for they that sleep, sleep in the night,
and they that be drunken are drunken in the night,
but let us who are of the day be sober.
Putting on the breastplate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation. Hey in the end times
There are going to be many who are caught off guard
by the tribulation period and certainly by the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ,
but we as Christians are supposed to be different than they are.
We're supposed to be separate, they're supposed to be something about us that's sanctified
compared to the rest of this world, which is what? That we are sober. There's something different.
We are supposed to be sober the Bible says to be sober those that are drunken
They often do it at night drunkenness occurs at night when people think nobody can see them
That's when all the debauchery
Occurs, but we are of the day. That's why the Bible tells us to walk as children of light
So what do I mean by soberness? I'm talking about no intoxicants at all no alcohol
No weed. No drugs whatsoever. That's what I'm talking about. Be sober.
Now I want to offer this preface, all right. We had Fourth of July weekend.
I'm not some foreigner, first of all, I was born in New Jersey, all right.
I'm not some foreigner up here to lecture Americans on how to celebrate their country in the sense that as long as it's biblical,
do whatever you want.
And I like celebrating our country.
I celebrated the 4th of July this weekend.
I went and did something that is so American,
watching things explode in the air,
and listening to Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue
by Toby Keith, which you could argue,
maybe kinda glorifies the military industrial complex,
but you know what, I still love that song.
wave the American flag and went to an air show last weekend and hey I love
Mama's apple pie and Americana I'm on board but here's what I'm not on board
with there's a special component of our culture there's something that our
country celebrates that our country glorifies especially over 4th of July
weekend that I don't like it's called alcohol
and people choose to celebrate their country by getting inebriated.
People choose to celebrate their country by going out and getting drunk out of their mind,
and that's what I rebuke.
That's what I stand against. That's what I don't like.
There is a problem in America with alcohol.
There is a problem in America with drunkenness.
There is a problem with people getting intoxicated for fun and if you don't believe me, look
at weekends like this one where people celebrate by basically poisoning themselves.
And other weekends as well, spring break is another one, New Year's Eve is another one.
Heck, even if there isn't a special day, people on a weekly basis will go out to the bar on
destroy themselves. That is part of our culture. Alcohol use in the United
States, I found this, according to the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and
Health, 224.3 million people ages 12, 12 and older. Now I find that to be
79.1% in this age group reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
4,126,082 alcohol related emergency department visits in this time period.
2,023,178,307 deaths annually.
Due to alcohol, 117,245 chronic liver disease cases due to alcohol, 1.8 million youth ages 12 to 17 reported that they drank in the last month.
What is going on in our society that this is happening?
Somebody needs to say something.
61.4 million people ages 12 and older
reported binge drinking in the past month,
not just in their life, in the past month,
according to this survey,
in 2023,
23.5% of people ages 18 and older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month,
60.4 million adults.
And you say, well, I don't think alcohol is a big problem.
Well, these numbers say otherwise.
It does not take very long to find this on the Internet.
America has an alcohol problem.
And I feel like it's up to the churches to say something.
Like, who's going to shine the light on this topic if it isn't the church, if it isn't
the local assembly of believers, if it isn't us specifically?
And that's why I came up with a solution, I came up with a sermon title that is a response
to this mess, this issue that we have as a society, as an American culture, and the title
Make America sober that's what I want. I want this country to be sober now at one point
Yes, alcohol was banned the prohibition era from 1920 to 1933
Look, this is my personal opinion.
I'm not even necessarily for that.
Now, if it were to come back again,
I'm not gonna cry about it.
I don't think it has to be necessarily illegal to drink,
but if it were brought back,
you're not gonna see me shed a tear, that's for sure.
But here's my point.
Although there was this era,
and although there was a time when drinking was...
really shamed in our society and people had to go to the underground, they had to go into the
corners and dregs of our society to do it because of how it was shamed, because it was embarrassing.
Yeah, I'm for that time. I'm glad that we had that time. But even during the prohibition era,
according to my research, and again, this is my personal opinion, drinking was still a problem.
They did it in the underground and there were different things like that, but it's not like the country was necessarily totally sober
That was a lot better than it is today. I mean, there's no question
But it is my opinion that America has always had an issue with this
in the full context of history
The United States has always had an issue with drunkenness it has been the United States of drunkenness for a long long time going
I think all the way back to the beginning
That's my opinion and so that's why I'm not saying make America sober again
I'm not totally ripping off Donald Trump. I came up with my own thing here make America sober to begin with
Job chapter 12. Let's look at that together Job chapter 12
To be sober means you're not drunk.
Pretty easy to understand.
It means you're not intoxicated.
It means also another definition
that I think we can derive from Scripture.
You're serious, a serious person.
Clearly, if you're drunk, you won't be serious.
And you know what it's time for especially young men in our country to start taking their life seriously and go out and get a job
and go out and prepare to
feed a family and to take care of their wife and to take their life seriously and not as just one big
social media joke to go get likes and
To go become this like idiot doing YouTube pranks online and get a following that way
It's time for people to take their life seriously today and go out and get a job.
Not everything's one big joke and you know what?
If you know me, you know I like to have fun.
I like to laugh and joke around, but there's a time to get serious.
And I think there's, you know, that time is right here in the house of God, by the way.
We should come to church with a serious attitude and say, we're here to work.
We can have the fun afterward, but right now it's time to work.
It's time to pay attention.
It's time to follow along in our Bible.
It's time to learn as much as we can in the service.
Let's take our lives seriously.
If you're drinking, if you're doing drugs,
now some might ask the question,
what is it that constitutes drunkenness?
And for that, I think it's appropriate for me
to appeal to Pastor Shelley,
because he's preached on this,
and I agree with everything he has said about this.
He's talked about this before,
and he's brought up what would lead to someone
per First Corinthians five,
getting kicked out for this issue.
And if I'm going to talk about that, it's important for me to tell you what he has said,
which is also what I believe, but he's the one with the authority.
Excuse me, he's the one with the authority to make the decision-making on this that he said if you mix drugs and alcohol
You're a drunk. He talked about in a previous sermon if you drink and drive
You're a drunk and let me add a little bit of commentary to that if you drink and drive
You're also an irresponsible idiot putting other people's lives at risk for no reason whatsoever
Grow up
You're gonna kill someone
He says if you drink every day, you're a drunk
He's also said that if you frequent bars, you're a drunk
Hard liquor, I don't know if I mentioned that I'll just say it again just in case if you drink hard liquor. You're a drunk
That'll get you kicked out per first Corinthians chapter 5 now
That's not necessarily what my sermon is about
But I wanted to at least give you his opinion if you have any questions on
What he believes I think I represented him
totally accurate, but if you have a question...
Just contact him and he can give you more detail.
I had you turn to Job 12 and look at verse 23.
Job 12 and verse 23.
The Bible read, he increaseeth the nations.
In Job 12, 23, he increaseeth the nations
and destroyeth them.
He enlargeeth the nations and straighteneth them again.
Hey, God can exalt and bless a nation,
but guess what, he can also destroy a nation as well.
And folks, that's why I'm preaching the sermon, because I want blessings on our country.
But how in the world is God supposed to bless us if the country is filled with people frying
their brain?
I don't want God's wrath on our country.
I want His blessings.
But the obsession that our nation has with drunkenness is going to hold us back from
that.
And I would make this argument, the obsession with drunkenness that we have in our country
is also contributing to the dumbing down of our society.
Why can't wisdom be exalted?
Instead we lift up these, and again, the social media personalities who their main claim to fame
is getting intoxicated, their main claim to fame is acting like a complete low IQ moron
And for money is what it is.
Why don't we exalt wisdom again in our country?
We are dumbing down our society and we're doing it
because we have departed from sobriety.
And this is why you'll see videos,
and some people say they're selectively edited, whatever.
I think it's legitimate.
You'll see videos where people are being interviewed at,
I think it's like Venice Beach or something,
somewhere in California where people are interviewed
and they're asked,
hey, why are you celebrating the 4th of July?
And they'll say like, well, I mean, I don't know, man.
You know like Pearl Harbor like bomb the Germans or something. I don't know Matt. Where's the bar?
What the hell is that?
This is embarrassing. I don't want that representing my country
This is the representative of the United like people in foreign countries will watch a video like that and say wow
Is that what Americans are really like?
It's like no, no, they're not supposed to be that way
Oh, you know it's about when we you know won the Civil War or something like that
People say this stuff
Why because they're drunk out of their mind. This is the only thing on their mind. Where's the bar?
That's all they care about
It's ridiculous
Make America sober
And here's the thing you guys you can all you can call me crazy if you want that's fine. You could say I'm being naive
Oh, there's no way this will ever happen, but you know what?
I believe that the preaching of God's word makes a difference.
I believe that if churches would do what we do regularly
and preach the word of God on this issue,
that our society would actually change.
I think it's possible that we could go back to a time where this kind of behavior was shamed,
where it was embarrassing, where they had to go into the darkness and underground to drink their booze,
because everybody would point and laugh at them and mench and basically just call them an idiot, call them what they are.
And say, you are a complete moron, why are you drinking this poison? Why are you drinking this stuff? That is embarrassing.
Hey, we could go back to a time like that.
I think the preaching of God's Word does make a difference.
And it was Jesus Christ who said,
What I tell you in darkness, that's speak ye in light.
And what ye hear in the ear,
That preach ye upon the housetops.
And folks, that's about all issues, including this one.
So yeah, I'm going to lift up my voice like a trumpet. I'm going to get animated
I'm going to get for lack of a better term pissed off about this subject
Because somebody has to get angry about sin today
Let's look at Deuteronomy 32
The Bible tells us righteousness exalted a nation
But sin is a reproach to any people. It is righteousness that will exalt America
You know, if I were to run for president, this would be my campaign speech.
And some people would think, oh, this is a religious zealot.
And I would say, thank you for the compliment.
You know what you just said?
You called me zealous for the things of God.
Thank you.
I love that comment.
Yeah, I am a religious zealot.
The Bible also tells us, I had you turn to Deuteronomy 32.
It says, the king's favor is toward a wise servant.
I'm just quoting this.
But his wrath is against him that caused the shame.
Let's add Christ to the text here.
I had you go to Deuteronomy 32.
I'm just quoting something from Proverbs.
But you know, we need the favor of Jesus Christ as a country.
And look, you can get behind political movements and things like that, but let me tell you what'll make a real difference is putting Christ first as a nation, exalting Christ's words and Christ's commandments, and it'll be sobriety that'll make America wise again.
That's why my first point is this. Hey, make America sober because alcohol is poison.
Make America sober because alcohol is poison.
And let me tell you something, I don't need anything else other than the Word of God to prove that.
Now there's plenty of evidence, and I'll talk about it, but the Bible tells me this.
Look at Deuteronomy 32 and verse 31.
For their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
You know, their false religion has nothing on ours.
Verse 32, for their vine is the vine of Sodom
and of the fields of Gomorrah,
their grapes are grapes of gall,
their clusters are bitter.
Notice this, their wine is the, what does it say there?
Poison, poison of dragons
and the cruel venom of asps.
The vine of the heathen is as Sodom the Bible is telling us their wine is
Poison it is poisonous. It is a toxin. It is cruel
That which may seem harmless to you that which may seem harmless to the untrained eye
According to the scripture is poisonous. It will wreck you. It will wreck you stay away
grapes rot they ferment
It gets bitter after a while.
It becomes this poisonous concoction, an alcoholic beverage.
Later on, it became hard liquor, which was invented.
Whisky and rum and the Jack Daniels and things of that nature.
And if you're a teenager, look, this isn't just
a rebuke for our country.
If you are a teenager in the room,
If you are a child in the room,
you better listen up to what I'm saying.
I'm not up here just blowing hot air.
Okay, this isn't just some entertainment or something like that.
I'm not here to just fill the hour because somebody has to preach.
Okay, I'm here to pour out my heart to you right now
and tell you if you are a teenager,
you need to take heed to this warning
because you will be, I think,
over the course of your life pressured to drink.
If it doesn't happen, if you're homeschooled,
it could happen, maybe if you're in public school,
it happened to me in public school,
I went to public school and the bozos there
tried to get me to drink, but it'll for sure happen,
if it doesn't happen in your schooling,
it'll for sure happen in the workplace.
You know, raise your hand if you've had someone
at least one time try to pressure you to drink
in the workplace.
Okay, look, okay, there's plenty of hands there. Thank you. There's plenty of hands mine included multiple times
Why don't you go get a margarita? Why don't you go get a beer?
Why don't you go get whiskey because I have a brain in my head and the Bible says no
You ever thought of that?
You go to a sports game. Oh, you want to go to the bar after no
I'm different than you. I'm not going to do that
Maybe you could be a little more polite than that, but I don't really care. You know as long as you say no, you're not gonna offend me
Here's my point teens. You're going to get pressured to do this. I think it's at least most likely and
So you need to be warned because pure pressure is dangerous
And listen, don't you dare think,
oh, well, you know, let me just try the sin.
You know, I've heard from all these adults that it's bad
and they make a big deal about it,
but you know, let me just try it once
just to kind of see for myself, you know.
I just kind of want to like,
I just want to, you know, just try it and confirm,
you know, what they're saying.
No, never, never do that.
Right.
Never open that door, never do that.
You run away screaming in the other direction
from anybody offering you to drink this poison.
You say no, you say I'm loyal to Christ.
You say I'm loyal to my parents.
I'm loyal to the Bible.
They told me no, and I am not interested.
Let's look at Proverbs 23.
You say,
Ben, you are just such a stick in the mud, man.
Okay, fine.
Call me whatever you want.
Stick in the mud, whatever.
People who know me know I like to have fun.
And I'll laugh, and I'll joke, and I'll do whatever,
but you know what?
I don't have to freaking fry my brain to have fun.
Right, yeah, right.
And shame on you if you have to do that.
Look at Proverbs 23 and verse 29.
Proverbs 23 and verse 29.
If you don't believe me, would you at least believe the Bible?
If you think I'm over the top,
if you don't like what I'm saying,
would you at least believe the Bible this morning?
Look what it says in verse 29.
Who hath woe?
Who hath sorrow?
Who hath contentions?
Who hath babbling?
Who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes they that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mixed wine
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red
Don't even look at it when it giveth his color in the cup when it moveth itself a right
Hey, you're not even supposed to look at fermented wine
You say well, are you trying to tell me that drinking any amount of alcohol is a sin?
Let me put it to you in a very easy to understand way.
All right, read my lips right here.
Yes.
It is a sin.
I don't care if it's a drop.
I don't care if it's an entire jar.
It is a sin to drink alcohol, period.
That's my standard.
That's the Bible standard.
That's, I'll speak for him, he'll be okay with it.
That's Pastor Shelley's standard.
It is a sin to drink alcohol.
Wine in the Bible, you have to understand, could mean fruit juice.
It could be non-alcoholic.
It could be we determine whether it is alcoholic or not based on the context.
The context determines whether we're talking about alcoholic wine or simply grape juice.
The context is key and determines whether we're talking about an alcoholic beverage or not
So please keep that in mind when you interpret the scripture that context is key
Context is key because people will pull scriptures out of context that imply that
Or I should say that put wine in a more positive light, not understanding it's talking about fruit juice or grape juice in that scenario and not alcoholic and not an alcoholic beverage.
Let's look at verse 32, at the last it bite it like a serpent and sting it like an adder.
Wine is compared to venomous beasts.
Why would it be compared to venomous beasts? I'll tell you why because it's poison
because it is poisonous because it will hurt you and
The scripture on this issue and on every issue is an alignment with reality
It is in complete alignment with what we can observe with our eyes and by the way
It is in complete alignment with what you can search on the internet. It'll take you
30 seconds, if that, to confirm what the Scripture is saying online.
I asked Google.
Now last time I checked, Google is not an independent, fundamental Baptist search engine.
We can agree on that, at least.
I asked at this question, I said, is alcohol a poison?
Pretty simple question.
It contains ethanol, a psychoactive substance that can damage the body's organs and systems.
Alcohol can cause a variety of health problems including liver damage.
Does that sound fun, teens? Is that what you want?
Pancreatis, heart disease, cancer, brain damage.
Do you want that? Does that sound fun? Does that sound fun?
Brain damage sound fun to you?
Oh, how wonderful, how cool.
What does drinking alcohol do to your body?
Consuming alcohol in any quantity has been shown to increase the risk of cancers.
In fact, the National Institutes of Health writes that an estimated 5.5% of new cancer
diagnosis and 5.8% of cancer deaths worldwide are linked to drinking alcohol.
Karen Hague says the longer someone has been drinking, the more likely they are to develop
cancer.
Let's look at Isaiah 28 Isaiah chapter 28
Sometimes all you need to do is stop for a second and just think about the word
Let's think about the word here in
toxicated
in toxic
Aided
It's a toxin
People are literally filling their stomachs with poison and toxin and they think it's fun
They are destroying, America is destroying itself with alcohol.
And look, I love this country too much to say nothing about it.
I love this country too much to sit on my hands as it destroys itself.
As it is regarded as the United States of drunkenness,
I'm not interested in that.
I'm gonna say something,
even if it's just a drop on a frying pan
and maybe it doesn't make an immediate difference,
I think that we as God's people have to stand up
and say something and declare, hey, make America sober.
Proverbs 20 and verse one says this,
I had you turn to Isaiah 28.
So you can go to Isaiah 28, but the Bible tells us wine is a mocker strong drink is raging and whosoever is
deceived
thereby
Deceived thereby is not wise. You say I've heard these verses before we're gonna get a chance to hear him again
Hey, you know what there's a
Deception in our country. What is the deception? It's called alcohol and here's the deception of alcohol that it's cool
That it makes a social gathering that much more exciting
That you have to have it to truly have fun
Well, no, it is poison
The deception is that it's harmless the deception is oh, I'll just drink it socially the deception is it doesn't really make a bit
It's not really a big deal. It's not a problem. Come on. Let's go to the bar. No, it is poison
And America is under a deception that, you know, drinking alcohol is necessary to celebrate our country as what happened over this weekend.
The same thing that happens every year over 4th of July weekend.
People go out and they get drunk and they drink poison at the tailgate, at the 4th of July party, at the football game.
It is woven practically into the fabric of our culture to go out and to drink, in some cases, every single weekend and even in an extreme case, every single day.
Some people drink.
America is under the deception that you have to get intoxicated to enjoy a get-together.
And I know I've already mentioned this, but I'm going to do it again.
The reality is, you don't need that.
And this is proof of that right here in this building.
Each and every one of us are proof that you don't need to get drunk out of your mind to have a good time.
You just need the people of God to come together and fellowship.
Amen.
I don't need to fry my brain to have fun with you.
You put me in a room with nothing else than the people of God, and I'm going to have some fun
Because I enjoy fellow shipping with the people of God
We don't need spirits to have fun
We have the Holy Spirit in dwelling in us, and this is how
We have a great time when we're fellowshiping look at Isaiah chapter 28
Isaiah chapter 28 and verse 7
You say, I don't like that you're yelling so much.
How about you don't like that people are poisoning themselves with alcohol and don't worry about
me?
How about that?
Let's look at verse number seven.
But they also have aired through strong wine, excuse me, I added a word there, let me try again.
Let's look at verse number seven.
But they also have aired through wine and through strong drink are out of the way.
The priest and the prophet have aired through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine,
they are out of the way through strong drink, they air in vision, they stumble in judgment,
for all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
What do we have here? This is moral decay. This is moral corruption in, I should say,
amongst people who are supposed to be spiritual, the spiritual leadership of the land in Isaiah
chapter 28. These so-called spiritual leaders in Judah specifically, what is it saying here
that they've aired through strong drink? They're drinkers. They're drinking alcohol.
40% of evangelical leaders say they socially drink.
Roman Catholics think it's okay.
The Orthodox Church, quote-unquote, thinks it's okay.
There's a lie out there that says,
oh, if it's in moderation, no.
Here's Todd Wagner, by the way.
I'll give you a quote from him.
He says, alcohol is okay if it's sanctified by prayer.
Look, it's not, it gets worse.
He said, well, wait a minute, Todd, does that mean heroine's okay?
Now if you have a functioning mind, of course you would say no,
but he does not have a functioning mind, so let's see his answer here.
Well, wait a minute, Todd, does that mean heroine's okay? I would say yes.
There is a way to use heroine
sanctifying with the word of God in prayer.
You say, you're taking him out of context.
I don't care what context you want.
This is idiotic.
Out of context.
Doesn't matter what context it is.
I don't care if it's out of context.
I don't care if it's in context.
I don't care if it's around the context.
Why would you ever say this?
This guy, if you sanctify it with prayer,
you know, this guy was Joe Jones
before it was cool, apparently.
He's the original. Maybe we know where
The Idaho guy got his doctrine from folks. Here's the thing
All right
These false teachers are making America more drunk than it already is
These false teachers are contributing to the destruction of our country by telling people to go out and drink and that it's okay
If it's sanctified by prayer
What is that?
Notice the environment described in Isaiah 28 vomit filthiness
That sounds like a bar and make no mistake about it teens. You want to go check it out?
You want to see if it's really as bad as it is?
First of all, don't you ever do that and second of all what you'll notice is it smells like piss. It smells like vomit
It's disgusting
Why would you ever want to put yourself in that environment?
It's gross, it's evil, and there's all kinds of sin that takes place there.
Adultery starts at the bar, fornication starts at the bar, all kinds of ungodliness starts at the bar.
Inside that bar, there's people who end up dying at the bar because they get so drunk
that they end up picking a fight with somebody they shouldn't and then they get shot.
Oh, how fun, how fun does that sound?
You know, I want to mention something here, because we have this bozo Todd Wagner, and
it just made me think of something, and I believe it's in Micah.
It says, let me see if I can find the verse.
He says this, the Bible says this, so this reminds me of Todd Wagner, if a man walking
in the spirit in falsehood do lie saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong
Micah chapter 2 verse 11 this is what's happening you say why why do we have to preach a sermon called make America sober because the
Prophets of our country are telling people to go out and to drink alcohol the telling him
It's all right if it's sanctified in prayer because there isn't a man of God preaching hard about this or at least it's rare to find
And so that's why we're in the mess that we're in today as a country.
I blame the churches, I blame the so-called prophets,
I blame the men in the skinny jeans who are too cowardly to preach the truth on this issue.
That's who I blame.
Yeah, I'm yelling, I understand, but I'm pissed off.
Let's look at Proverbs 23.
You say, oh, you're going over the top.
It kind of sounds to me like you're deceived.
I'm not going over the top, you know it's over the top, people dying every day from drunk driving.
You know it's over the top, people dying from alcohol poisoning.
This country has been deceived, alcohol is a deception.
Don't be mad at me, why don't you get mad at the prophets who are enabling this to happen.
The false prophets and the false teachers who don't even have salvation right, ruining people's lives.
My second point is this, make America sober because alcohol makes people stupid.
Proverbs 23, look at verse 29,
who hath woe, who hath sorrow, who hath contentions,
who hath babbling, who hath wounds without cause, who hath redness of eyes.
So the wine here is alcoholic and it causes one to babble,
which is foolish talking. This is why
People who are inebriated, they can't speak correctly.
They slur their words.
Easy for cops to determine that they've been drinking
because they can't get out a sentence.
They can't even speak right. They're babbling.
They remind me of toddlers.
Toddlers can't speak right because they're still learning.
Drunks are glorified toddlers who babble.
Drunks are glorified toddlers who piss themselves.
They're overgrown toddlers.
And this is what we pedestalize as a country.
Through the TV, through the movies, through the music.
You know, Google says alcohol plays a prominent role in American pop culture.
The Jews of Hollywood, they want a dull-witted population
dumbing down our society.
Why don't you say no?
Make America sober!
Let's flip backward to Isaiah, or I should say,
you were in proverbs.
So forward.
Isaiah chapter 5 and verse 11.
You're going to go forward in your Bible to Isaiah chapter 5 and verse 11.
My third point is, make America sober because alcohol is addicting.
Look at Isaiah chapter 5 and verse 11.
It says woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that they may follow strong drink that continue until night
till wine in flame them.
One of the many woes for Israel in this chapter
is that people were rising up in the morning to drink alcohol
because it is addicting.
Once you open that door I'm warning you I've heard it from too many people now
It is extremely hard to close it. This is why they have to check themselves in to rehab
This is why they have to go out and get
help
from organizations,
Alcoholics Anonymous and other groups
specialize in getting people clean because it is addicting believe it or not, even though it tastes like crap,
even though it burns your throat, even though
it looks like piss in many cases. Beer.
Even though it destroys you, even though it's not even pleasurable,
people get addicted to it because of the ingredients and they seek help.
It says in verse 22.
So again, why are people doing this in the morning?
They're addicted.
That's the only explanation I can come up with.
Look at verse 22.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine.
Another woe here pronounced against.
The people of God at this time and men of strength to mingle strong drink
People were mighty to drink wine and they incurred the judgment of God at this time
We know what I say, you know, I think it'd be a heck of a lot better if instead of guys being mighty to drink wine at the ball game and
Mighty to drink wine on 4th of July weekend and mighty to drink wine at the tailgate that they were mighty in the scriptures
I think that'd be a lot better. I think our society would be a lot better off
Let's go back to Proverbs 23
Maybe if we made America sober there would be less idleness in the land. Maybe there would be less
fornication in the land. Maybe there would be less
bastard children being born in the land.
Maybe there would be less foolishness in the land. Maybe there would be less ineptitude in the land.
28.9 million people 12 and older suffered from alcohol use disorder in 2023. Alcohol is addicting.
Don't you dare try it. Don't ever open that door.
Look at verse 35 here in this chapter, Proverbs 23 and verse 35.
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick.
They have beaten me, and I felt it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
How?
You were beaten.
He just seeks it again. How in the world could this happen?
Because it's addicting.
It doesn't matter the negative experiences that alcohol puts you through, the people who are destroying themselves
seek it yet again because it's addicting.
They're addicted to it. It is an unimaginable vice for some.
And they'll say this, just one more drink and I'll quit.
And then they have it, and they say, oh, just one more drink, and then I'll quit.
And then they have it, and they say, just one last one, and then I'll quit.
And then they have it, and they say, just one last one, and then I'll quit, and then they die.
Is that the life you want?
Do you want something to have power over you like that? Do you want to be a slave to poison?
Is that what you want?
I would think not but that's what America wants apparently because that's why it is glorified in all of media
That's why I can't drive ten feet in my car without seeing a stupid billboard trying to get me to go buy a bud light
And become an effeminate potbelly. Yeah, cuz that's what beer does to you
Hey men you want to look pregnant drink a beer
Drink ten you'll look pregnant. You'll look like a goblin
My fourth point is this make America sober because alcohol makes you vulnerable
Look at Habakkuk too Habakkuk chapter 2
Alcohol makes you susceptible to bad things bad things will happen to you if you drink
You understand me bad things will happen to you
And this is what the Bible tells us, some examples, lots daughters made him drink before committing
depraved acts from which you have the Ammonites and the Moabites.
Drunk in Noah, Genesis 9, he drinks, he gets drunk, and it leads to the insinuation that
Revolting and abhorrent that I'm not going to get into detail on
Habakkuk 2 look what it says in verse 15
woe unto him that giveth his
Notice that right there
his neighbor drink
That put a side bottle to him and make his him drunken also that thou mayest look on their nakedness
Thou art filled with shame for glory, drink thou also and let thy forescan be uncovered.
The cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall
be thy glory."
You want to vomit all over yourself?
Then drink alcohol if that's what you think is appealing.
Because that's what happens when you drink.
It irritates your stomach to the point
that it rejects what it contains.
And it comes out a shameful spewing.
How embarrassing.
But that's not the point.
Talks about woe unto him.
So we have judgment pronounced on the individual who
gives his neighbor drink so that he can look on his nakedness.
Uncomfortable, but it's the word of God.
And so I'm going to preach it.
Homoes take advantage of their victims through alcohol.
Homoes take advantage of you.
I'll put it to you this way.
Homoes can take advantage of you
if you put yourself in a situation like this
by giving you alcohol and praying on you.
We need to make America sober
because I don't want this happening in our country anymore
because guess what?
This is how faggots are recruited.
This is how they're recruited to the devil's team.
This is their recruitment process,
inebriate the victim and assault them.
That's what they do.
They don't reproduce they recruit and we see the man you will hear the Bible is warning us of exactly how they do it
They inebriate their victim and then they assault them
They inebriate their victim and then they prey on them because faggots are predators and they will use
Alcoholic beverages to prey on you
So why in the world would you put yourself in that situation?
Why when the world would you put yourself in that environment?
Why would you do that to yourself?
When you get drunk at a party when you have one too many
Hey, you could get assaulted just like Habakkuk 2 says you could get assaulted by some filthy faggot
Hey, does that sound like something you would want to happen to you kids?
Make America sober so we don't have to worry about this anymore
Say why does this thing happen?
Let me tell you why I'm gonna kill two birds with one stone here. Let me tell you why no pun intended Leviticus 2013
But here's the thing you have to realize
Faggots are vile predators
They are vile predators who will take advantage of people when they can't make decisions when they're injudicious when they can't make good judgment calls
And they take advantage of that.
They will use whatever it takes to hurt you, including liquor.
It is because this is who they are.
So be sober.
Be sober.
Make America sober.
So this can stop happening, so fags can stop recruiting people in this way, so that people
can stop being victimized by a bunch of filthy, disgusting, faggot predators.
I don't want that happening in our country anymore.
Be sober, kids.
Be sober, America, and stay away from faggots.
Elah reigned for two years over Israel while he was drunk in the house of Arza. You know what happened to him?
He is slain because he made himself vulnerable
Alcohol makes you vulnerable make America sober because alcohol makes you susceptible to attack and
this country is
vulnerable
to propaganda
From the Jews and the media because it is vulnerable as a result of being drunken
Because all people care about is where's the bar?
So why would they care about anything else going on? Why would they care about the word of God?
Why would they care about spiritual warfare? Why would they care about how the establishment is destroying their life?
They're too busy drinking. They're too busy at the bar. My fifth point is this make America sober because alcohol kills
Alcohol kills James 1 it says in verse 14
James 1 in verse 14
As a quick aside, 1 Peter 5 reminds us to be sober so you're not vulnerable to satanic attacks as well.
So that theme occurs in Scripture.
But moving on, in James chapter 1 and verse 14, again my fifth point, make America sober because alcohol kills.
Alcohol kills.
It says, but every man is tempted in verse 14, when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed.
Then, when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death.
That's the word of God.
Lust brings forth sin.
That brings forth death.
It brings forth death.
And here's where the decline begins, ladies and gentlemen.
Then they purchase it and then they drink it once then they drink it twice then they're addicted
Then they develop a de-abilitating disease and they're dead
Done
You know it is my personal opinion that every soul born on this earth
Because we have free will has potential to do something great for God
Every soul has the potential to get saved and serve the Lord with their life.
It's unfortunate though that many choose the wrong path.
They choose to reject the gospel.
They choose...
some cases to join the devil's team to become reprobate. It happens. But once
they're born they have that potential and I can't even count the number of
people that I've known in my life who have wasted their potential because of
this garbage. And it's sad.
People who could have been great servants for God, people who could have been great soul winners for God,
people who could have done mighty works for God, dead and in the grave, because they chose the bottle.
And I'm not exaggerating. You want it, you get it, you get addicted, like I said, you die.
You know, they call it, what are they, they call it liquid courage.
Well, I say it's liquid death is what it is. It is liquid death
Here's an article six ways alcohol can kill you
Alcohol poisoning slash overdose with wonderful symptoms by the way such as vomiting slash seizures
drunk driving
34 people die every day in drunk driving crashes
You know, how is it fair that I have to worry about my children like I legitimately worry about this?
Thankfully, I know that God has a hedge of protection about them
But I still worry about the day when they're gonna get behind the wheel because I just can't help but have a little bit
Of anxiety about the fact that it puts them at risk to get run into by some degenerate drunk driving fool
That could happen how is that fair for us to have to worry about that?
Because people make idiotic decisions with their lives and get behind the wheel after they had
Something that impairs their judgment
12,429 dead, roughly 30% of all accidents in 2023 due to a DUI, driving under the influence.
Liver disease, this is how people die when they drink alcohol.
Certain types of cancer, I've talked about that, end-stage alcoholism.
There are four stages of alcoholism, with the last and most severe being end-stage alcoholism.
Cells lose the ability to regenerate.
The liver struggles to supply essential nutrients to the rest of the body,
and complications can occur in the central nervous system.
Individuals in end-stage alcoholism become more susceptible to severe illnesses
like pneumonia, bronchitis, and other life-threatening conditions.
Oh, how alluring, right?
Yeah, how gratifying does that sound?
How appealing does that sound?
Let's look at Titus, too, and I'll be done
People die from alcohol
That is a fact it is biblical fact it is reality
It is a statistical reality as well that alcohol kills and you know what?
I am sick and tired of hearing about the sweet grandma
Drinking herself to death by herself
No where to turn but the bottle dying alone
a drunken mess, rather than going to the house of God.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about children who grew up with a horrific childhood,
a horrific childhood because their mother was a drunk,
because their father was a drunk.
Children who become orphans because their parents drank themselves to death.
Sick of hearing about that crap.
Sick of hearing about it.
So that people don't needlessly throw away their lives make America sober so that people could stop killing themselves with alcohol
Sick and tired of drunks wasting away their lives in this country.
Just waiting to die in a ditch somewhere, vomiting all over themselves,
drinking themselves to death, so intoxicated, so drunk,
that when you walk up to them with the word of God to try to get them saved,
they can't even understand English until they die and go to hell.
That happens outside these walls.
If you go soul winning for any amount of time you will meet someone who can't even understand you
They don't know what planet they're on because they've been drinking and so they die and go to hell
This is happening
How about we just turn how about as a nation we turn back to God how about we make it cool
Not to be a drunken moron, but rather to be a Bible believing Christian
Let's get back to the book.
My sixth and final point is this.
Make America sober because the Bible
commands it and that as a Christian is all we need to hear.
The Bible commands you to be sober and so let's make America sober.
That's what Jesus commanded. Do you believe the Bible or not?
Make America sober, because God commanded it.
I had you turned to Titus 2, I'm going to read to you some scriptures in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 6.
Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober.
1 Thessalonians 5 and verse 8, but let us, who are of the day, be sober.
1 Timothy chapter 3 and verse 2, a bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober.
1 Peter 1 and verse 13 wherefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober first Peter chapter 5 and verse 8 be sober
Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walk at the bout seeking whom he may devour
The Bible also tells us young men likewise exhort to be sober. I
Will scream this
Until the day that I die, be sober.
Children, be sober.
Teenagers, be sober.
Men, be sober.
Women, be sober.
Oh, but people will laugh at me.
And?
So what?
We ought to be laughing at them.
They're the ones destroying themselves.
They're the ones poisoning themselves.
Well, they'll laugh at me.
You know what? How about you have a backbone and stand for something that is righteous and stand for the Word of God and stand for
sanctification and
Depart from this world, you know, the Bible addresses this I had you turn to Titus, too
I want to quote this for you though because I think it's relevant in 1st Peter 4 it says for the time past of our life
May suffice us to have wrought
the will of the Gentiles that we've walked in, excuse me, when we walked in lasciviousness,
lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquettings, and abominable idolatries, wherein they think
it's strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you,
if you choose to reject the bottle and smash it on the ground or throw it in the trash where
But you know what I say so be it let them say whatever they want because this world apparently doesn't understand that is Bible believing Christians
We're not here to please them. We're not here to please man. We're here to please God
We're here to please the Lord Jesus Christ and he commanded us to be sober
And so when we are tempted to take the bottle that they're pressuring us to drink what we ought to say is no no no no no
I'm loyal to Jesus
Not interested
Take that somewhere else.
Let somebody give that to them that are perishing Proverbs 31. Go give that to someone else. Go give that to some loser.
Go give that to some moron. Go give that to someone who has no life. Go give that to someone who has no friends.
Go give that to someone who has no goals in their life. Go give that to someone who doesn't take their life seriously.
Go give that to somebody else in this world. I'm not interested.
And of course we don't actually want them to give it to anyone else. It's just you know
a figure of speech here.
My point is, don't give it to us.
We don't want it.
And we need to build this reputation back up again.
Because here's what people will assume.
Oh, you don't drink?
You must be Mormon.
Excuse me, I do not look Mormon.
I look a lot of things.
Certainly not Mormon.
I want it to be.
Where people, this is what I want. I want to live in a world. I want to live in an America where people
Hear that you don't drink and you know what they assume? They don't assume that you're in some cult
They don't assume that you're a Jehovah's Witness
They don't assume that you're a Muslim
They assume that you're an independent fundamental Baptist
That's the America I want to live in.
I want to live in an America where drinking yourself drunk
and pissing on yourself and vomiting all over yourself
is regarded as embarrassing again.
I want to live in an America where those people are going into the shadows of society into the underground bars and into the
Underground establishments to hide from the rest of us because they're too shamed and embarrassed to do that out in the open
I want to make America sober. That's what I want
And I believe the preaching of God's word if it's thundered forth on a regular basis can actually
Accomplish that it could actually make a difference
Make America sober, Titus 2 and verse 11.
This is the last place we're going to here.
Bible says, for the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly.
You say, you are repeating yourself a lot.
No, the Bible is repeating itself a lot.
We should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.
What does the grace of God teach us?
To live soberly.
So you do not destroy yourself.
America has been given the grace of God, folks, with all of its wickedness and all of its
moral decay, it has been given the grace of God, because God has not stomped it yet.
It has been given the grace of God through soul-winning churches that make their abode
here in the United States of America.
And what does that grace teach this country to live soberly?
Make America sober.
Make America sober and you know where that starts. I'll tell you exactly where that starts
You want to make America sober if you're on my team and you want to accomplish this task and you want to make America?
Sober let me tell you exactly where that starts right here in the house of God
Let this at least be a place where everyone's sober
You say I don't drink great be serious then
Yeah, let's have some fun. Let's joke around, but let us be regarded as serious people who have our lives together
We've got things figured out. We have a job men to provide for our family
We're not making a fool of ourselves on social media acting like a low IQ moron
Hey, let it start right here in the house of God.
Let this be a place where everyone is sober.
Let this be a place that sets the example for the rest of America.
Let steadfast Baptist church set the example for this country,
unlike all the other churches out there,
literally giving their congregants beer.
You say that doesn't exist?
Oh, yes, it does.
A.K.A. Durban of Apostasia Church, who makes the argument that Jesus turned water into
very fermented wine.
So what he said, he said, he turned water into wine with a strong fermentation.
That's his argument.
And just a very quick commercial break.
I did not have time to address their arguments just really quickly here.
They make a few arguments to argue for alcohol in the Bible. They say Jesus turned water into alcoholic wine
We're not gonna have time to get into it in detail
I'll just say this if that's true, then Jesus gave alcohol to a bunch of people
Who were already well drunk
That is preposterous, ladies and gentlemen. That is completely preposterous.
They also make an argument in Numbers chapter, excuse me, in Deuteronomy chapter 14
that the Israelites could procure strong drink for themselves if they wanted to.
I had someone argue me about this for months, argue with me about this for months on end.
But here's the reality that is not telling them to consume the strong drink.
That is supposed to be poured out for a drink offering and the proof of that is in Numbers
Chapter 28.
I believe it's in verse 7, but look in that chapter and you'll see exactly what I'm talking
about and finally another argument they'll make is that, oh, you know, non-alcoholic
wine wasn't invented until just a few hundred years ago.
To claim that the Bible is making reference to wine that is not alcoholic
They claim that that is anachronistic that
It wasn't invented till a few hundred years ago. They didn't have it back then so let's follow their logic to its inevitable conclusion
This is what they're saying
the idea that someone takes a fruit and
Squeezes it was not invented until just a few hundred years ago
Taking an orange and squeezing it into a cup is a recent phenomenon according to these people
I'm not even going to respond anymore that speaks for itself
You know what?
Let's set the example of sobriety in our country
Let's set the example in our country as independent
Fundamental Baptists and let's thunder forth a message that says make America sober
Hey, so that one day as a nation, we can throw away the beer bottle.
We can throw away the wine bottles.
We can throw away the Jack Daniels, and instead, we can celebrate our country, not by going
out and getting quote-unquote wasted, but by celebrating the King James Bible.
Because that is what this country was built on, the Word of God, not alcohol.
Hey, would to God that people would hear a message like this, and they would hear messages
and other independent Baptist churches like this rebuking alcohol and calling for America
to be sober, and as a result, they would take their liquid poison, their liquid death, their
liquid sin, and they would pour it down the drain.
Make America sober.
And once we do that, once we get back to the book,
once we reject the bottle and we get back to the book,
I believe we can make America great again.
And you know what?
In the process, we will make America sober.
Make America sober!
That's what I'm calling for.
That's what I want to see happen.
And I'm done preaching.
Father, in heaven, I just pray, Lord God, that someone out there would listen to this
and be incentivized to clean up their life and to be sober.
And Lord, that our country would embrace sobriety like it once did.
Bless our soul winning time and protect us at two o'clock.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
All right, for our last song,
let's go to song number 70.
Song number 70.
Will Jesus find us sober?
I mean, watching song number 70.
Let's all sing it out together.
When Jesus comes to reward Him.
Whether it be here or not, faithful to Him will He find us watching, with our backs all trimmed and bright.
Oh, can we say we are ready, brother, ready for the soul's bridal?
He shall call us one by one, when to the Lord we restore our talents, will the answer be well done?
Oh, can we say we are ready, brother, ready for the soul's right home?
Waiting, waiting, when the Lord shall come.
Have we been true to the trust he left us?
Do we seek to do our best?
If we obey all the Lord commands us,
we shall then be truly blessed.
Oh, can he say we are ready?
watching, waiting, waiting with the Lord shall come. Blessed are those whom the Lord finds
watching, and his glory next shall share. If he shall come at the dawn or midnight, will
Bright home, say can you find you and me still watching, waiting?