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All right, good afternoon everybody and welcome to steadfast baptist church
It's great to see everybody here this morning. We can go ahead and find our seats. We'll go ahead and get started
And for this morning, we'll start off in song number four hundred and forty one great is thy faithfulness
Song number four hundred and forty one
Song number four hundred and forty one great is thy faithfulness. Let's all sing it out together on the first song four hundred and forty one
Great is thy faithfulness
Oh God my father
There is no shadow of turning with me
Passion
Great is thy faithfulness
All I have needed thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness
Summer and winter and spring time and
harvest
Sun moon and stars and their forces above
Join with all nature and man and bold witness
To thy great faithfulness
Mercy and love
Great is thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness
Pardon for sin and of peace that endureth
By all dear presidents to cheer and to guide
Strength for today and pride hope for tomorrow
Blessings all mine with ten thousand beside
Great is thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness Lord unto me
All I have needed thy hand hath provided
Down in the valley with my savior I would go
Where the flowers are blooming and the sweet waters flow
Everywhere he leads me I would follow follow on
Walking in his footsteps till the ground is one
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
Anywhere everywhere I could follow on
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
Sing it out for a second
Down in the valley with my savior I would go
Where the storms are sweeping and the dark waters flow
With this hand to lead me I will never never fear
Danger cannot frighten me if my Lord is near
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
Anywhere everywhere I could follow on
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
Everywhere he leads me I would follow on
Down in the valley o'er upon the mountain steep
Close beside my savior would my soul ever keep
He will lead me safely in the path that he has trod
Up to where they gather on the hills of God
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
Anywhere everywhere I would follow on
Follow follow I would follow Jesus
Everywhere he leads me I would follow on
All right, great singing everybody.
Good morning everyone. Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
Thank you for being here this morning. If we're going to go through the bulletins at this time, if you don't have one,
go ahead and raise your hand and the usher will bring you one. On the front there we have our
verse of the week Proverbs 31 verse 8. If you
are under the age of 18 and you quote this on Wednesday to either myself, Pastor
Shelley, or an usher, you are eligible to get an ice cream of your choice from the freezer.
And if you're wondering where Pastor Shelley is this morning, he has been visiting Faith
Forward Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. They've been having a missions conference
down there and he preached on Friday about our Bahamas missions
trip. It was a great sermon. Definitely recommend you guys check that out if you get a chance.
It's uploaded on our Rumble page, so just go to our Rumble and you can watch that sermon.
Definitely a great reminder of what an awesome trip that was. Raise your hand if you went to that
trip. It was a great time. Listening to his sermon just got me really fired up
for if there's ever a potential to go there again. It was a really fruitful trip and
it was a blessing to be able to go to that and there's been some great sermons preached at Faith
Forward in this conference, so definitely check that out if you can. On the front left
of our bullets in here, we've got our service times listed there, our
church-wide soul-winning times that meet here at the building and then our regional
soul-winning times that meet in various locations of DFW. One
change to that this week, Brother Sam Foley's time was changed
from 6 p.m. to 5 p.m. I think just because of the time change, it's getting dark
really early, so there's that change. Below we have our
stats for our church, November stats and our year-to-date and
because of the Bahamas, praise the Lord, it's November and we've already broken the
record for the most salvations our church has ever had in one year and we
still got several weeks to go in this year, so definitely let's get that final push
to our soul-winning and just try to get as many people saved as we can. So that's really encouraging to see
that number there for our year-to-date. Praise God for that. We do have
on the top right there our list of expecting
ladies. Please keep them in your prayers and great news,
we do have a congratulations in order to the Zermano family on the birth
of Priscilla Zermano. She was born on
11-9-23 at 11-26 p.m.
Weighing 6 pounds, 7 ounces and was 19 and a half inches long, so
that's a beautiful picture there of Miss Priscilla for sure. Make sure to congratulate them when you
see them. I don't see them this morning, right? Okay, good. Just making sure they're not here, okay.
Get some rest, right? So we do have our prayer list on the other side,
some new prayers there and if you do have a prayer request
that you would like, please email that into the email address listed there. If it's something you
want to keep in for a long time, please note that, otherwise we do update those
weekly. Upcoming events, November 30th we have our
Mexico missions trip. I think we have about 10 or 11, maybe 12
people signed up for this so far. If you're going and you haven't signed up, there is a sign up sheet
at the front. Please do sign up for that so we can get accommodations booked.
December 8th is the ladies' Christmas party. December 11th
is Christmas caroling. December 16th is our children's Christmas
music recital. December 24th is our cookie bake-off.
And December 31st is our New Year's Eve party and
men's preaching night. I always love that party. It's always fun.
Back when I used to attend Sure Foundation Baptist Church, they did the same thing there.
It was always a great time. You know, one of the funniest games that we ever played
during this New Year's Eve party is one year we had someone get up and they had
the message, Bible, and they had to read a verse and you had to
guess what verse it was trying to say because it's such a perversion
that it's hard to even know what it's saying. So it's like, it's
a pretty funny game. So that's always a good time, the New Year's Eve party
and then men's preaching night. Pastor Shelley's going to have some more details for the men that would like
to preach. Definitely want to encourage every single man that can preach to sign up
for that. It's a men's preaching night so we need you to sign up. We need you to be willing to
preach. I don't know if it's going to be a 15 minute long sermon or a 5 minute sermon but
you know, definitely want to encourage the men to preach on that night.
It's going to be a great time. That's it for announcements. At this time we'll go to Psalm 139.
Psalm 139.
Alright, that was Psalm 139.
Psalm 139. Everybody sing it out together.
Sing it out together.
Great singing. Everybody now as the offering plates are being passed around
go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Proverbs chapter 31.
That's Proverbs chapter number 31.
Proverbs chapter 31.
We're going to read the entire chapter
starting in verse number 1 as is our custom. Proverbs 31
the Bible reads, the words of Jesus are
the words of the Lord Jesus.
The words of the Lord Jesus are the words of the Lord Jesus.
The Bible reads, the words of King Lemuel the prophecy that his
mother taught him. What my son and what the son of my womb
and what the son of my vows. Give not thy strength
unto women nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
It is not for kings O Lemuel it is not for kings to drink wine
nor for princes strong drink lest they drink and forget
the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those
that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty
and remember his misery no more. Open thy mouth for the dumb
and the cause of all as are appointed to destruction.
Open thy mouth judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor
and needy. Who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far
above rubies. The heart of her husband does safely trust in her
so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not
evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool and flax and
worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants ships
she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while
it is yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens.
She considerth a field and buyeth it with the fruit of her hands
she planted the vineyard. She girdeth her loins with strength and
looseneth her arms. She perceiveth that her merchandise is good.
Her candle goeth not out by night. She layeth her hands to the
spindle and her hands hold the distaff. She strengtheneth out her hand
to the poor. Yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of the snow for her household for all her household
are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry.
Her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the
gates when he sitteth among the elders of the land. She maketh fine
linen and selleth it and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Strength and honor are her clothing and she shall rejoice in time to
come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the
law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household and
eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call
her blessed. Her husband also and he praiseth her. Many daughters
have done virtuously, but thou excelest them all. Favor is
deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord,
she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands
and let her own works praise her in the gates. Let's bow our heads
for a word of prayer. Father in Heaven, we thank you so much
for Stepfast Baptist Church. I pray that you would just be with Pastor Shelley
and his family as they travel back. I also pray, Lord, that you fill
Brother Dylan Oz with the Holy Spirit now and enable him to preach the sermon
you've laid on his heart with boldness. Soften hearts in the room, Lord, so that we may receive
your message and be more complete Christians. We love you, and in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Amen. Well, first of all, thank you, Pastor Shelley, for the opportunity to preach
to you guys today. It's always honor and blessing, and thank you guys for being in church to
hear it this morning. So we're here in Proverbs 31, and let's start reading in verse
number one. The Bible says, The words of King Lemuel,
the prophecy that his mother taught him, What, my son? And what, the son of my womb?
And what, the son of my vows? Give not thy strength unto women,
nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
So we're here in Proverbs 31, and as you guys know, this is the chapter that we're memorizing
as a church, so these verses are probably fresh in your mind. And as
I was memorizing this chapter, this verse really stuck out to me
where it said, Give not thy strength unto women. You know, this
is something that we see in our modern day America. It seems like more and more
men are just flippantly giving their strength to women in our society,
and we can apply this in a multitude of ways, but this is definitely something
that we see today. And of course, you know, the Bible highlights that men have
strength, right? In order to give your strength away, it implies that you have strength
to begin with, right? This is something that unfortunately we have to remind people
of in 2023 that it's men that are strong. Men are the ones that are
strong. Let me read for you Proverbs 20, verse 29. It says, The glory
of young men is their strength.
What is it that would be praiseworthy or something good to look out
about a young man is the fact that he's strong. Now, this is something
that we have to, you know, understand from the Bible nowadays because it's not as necessarily
as clearly evident as it used to be. It used to be that just every man was
strong, the men in our culture were strong, the men of America were strong. Now, that's not
necessarily a given. Now, most of our country is extremely
weak emotionally, physically, spiritually.
I mean, men in our country today are getting weaker and weaker, and as a result, our country
is getting weaker and weaker. So, we have to make men strong again.
Now, go to 1 John, chapter number 2, and keep your place in Proverbs 31.
I put a bookmark there throughout the sermon.
1 John, chapter
number 2, look at verse 14.
1 John 2, 14 says, I have written unto you fathers,
because ye have known him, that is from the beginning. I have written unto you young men,
because ye are strong. And the word of God abideth
in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. So, again, the Bible
is constantly reiterating the fact that young men are strong. What is it that gives them glory?
Their strength. What is it that characterizes a man? His strength.
And here in Proverbs 31, King Lemuel's mother is saying, hey, don't just
give that strength away to women. Don't just give it away to women.
What are some ways that men give their strength away? Well, of course, let's think about
in some ways how men are strong. Their physical strength.
Their providing ability to make money. Their protection.
Their giving of a woman a child. These are all ways that men have
strength. And the Bible is saying we ought not to just give this away to women.
The title of my sermon is Give Not Thy Strength Unto Women.
Give not thy strength unto women. And, you know, when
I preach, I like to find modern examples that
show in our current day and age just how true the Bible is and
just how living and wonderful the word of God is and how you could really apply it to every
situation in life, even in 2023 America. So I want to bring up one
individual as a case study that we can look at and say, here's
a man that gave his strength unto women and let's look at what happened to
him. And this guy's name is Trevor Bauer. I doubt anyone in here knows him.
Does anyone know who Trevor Bauer is? Okay, there actually are a couple people that know who he is.
Okay. This guy is a former pitcher for the L.A. Dodgers.
This is the same L.A. Dodgers that Pastor Shelley was talking about on Wednesday that had all the
tranny drag queens, you know, doing their dances mocking the Lord Jesus Christ.
Okay, this is an extremely wicked organization. This guy, Trevor Bauer, he was a star
pitcher for the L.A. Dodgers. And I believe he was in 2021.
He was accused of battery and sexual assault
by this woman named Lindsay Hill. And he was never
convicted. There was no criminal charges even brought against him because
the evidence that was brought to the police, the police said, there's no evidence. We're not even
going to bring charges against this guy. There's not enough for even a criminal trial.
But that doesn't stop people from going to civil lawsuits, right?
So he was never accused criminally, had no charges against him whatsoever.
But he did just have this false accusation against him. And just because
of one accusation with no evidence, not even enough evidence for the
police to investigate it, the Los Angeles Dodgers fired him,
cut off his MLB contract, he lost all of his, you know,
commercial contracts and all the things that professional athletes have to make money.
He ended up being cut from Major League Baseball and had to move to Japan to go play baseball
because he was just blacklisted just from one woman's
accusation against him. Now, since then, there's been
like this two year long civil court battle where
he hasn't really been able to speak about what's going on because when you're going through court, you can't really do that.
But just recently, he won his case. Lindsay Hill was
awarded nothing. This guy was proven innocent as
much as the law possibly could prove him. And so now he's able to speak about
what happened and now he's able to actually defend himself. So he made a short
video defending himself about what happened. And I just want to read you the transcript
of what he says, just so that we can say, here's a man that
gave his strength unto women. What does it look like for a man to do that? And what are the
consequences of someone that does this, okay? So
he has this video and some of what I'm going to read to you, he's quoting
texts from Lindsay Hill. So he says, he's reading a text
from her. It says, next victim, star pitcher
for the Dodgers. A text Lindsay Hill sent to a friend before she ever
even met me. So before this whore ever even met this guy,
her goal was to destroy him. She didn't like
him. She didn't want to be in a relationship with him. She just wanted to destroy
the man, okay? That was her goal and there are women like this.
What should I steal? She asked another in reference to visiting my house for the first time.
The answer, take his money. So how might that work?
I'm going to his house Wednesday, she said. I already have my hooks in.
You know how I roll. Then after the first time we met,
net worth is $51 million, she said. You better secure the bag,
was the response to her. But how was she going to do that?
I need Trevor to choke me out, she said. Being an
absolute whore to get in on his $51 million.
So I'm going to be referring to this woman as a whore. Why is that?
Maybe because she called herself a whore, okay? So don't be offended
on her behalf. She says, hey, I'm going to be a whore to get on
his money. That's what she said. Then after the second time we
met, former San Diego Padres pitcher Jacob Nix told her,
you got to get this bag. I'll give you $50,000, she replied.
Her AA sponsor asked her at one point, do you feel a tiny bit
guilty? Not really, she replied. Since then, her legal team has approached
me multiple times about coming to a financial settlement. But as I have done since
day one, I refuse to pay her even a single cent. In August 2021,
Lindsay Hill's claims were heard in court and during those legal proceedings, critical information
was deliberately and unlawfully concealed from me and my legal
team. Information like this video, which was taken by Lindsay Hill herself
the morning after she claimed she was brutally attacked, emotionally traumatized
and desperate to get away from me. And now we have the metadata
so there can be no dispute that it was taken mere minutes before she left my house on the morning
of May 16th, 2021 without my knowledge or consent, of course.
But in this video, you can see her lying in bed next to me while I'm sleeping,
smirking at the camera without a care in the world or any marks
on her face. I think it paints a pretty clear picture of what actually happened the evening of
May 15th and why the video was originally concealed from us.
After hearing the evidence available to her, Judge Diana Gold Saltman
found that Lindsay Hill had misled the court. She found her claims to be
materially misleading. She denied her request for domestic
violence restraining order and she found that no sexual assault or non-consensual
conduct took place. The fact is I was never arrested.
I was never charged with a crime and I won the only legal proceeding that took place
without my side of the story even being heard. Most importantly,
as I've said from day one, I never sexually assaulted
Lindsay Hill, or anyone else for that matter, so I sued her which prompted
her to counter sue me. Quite frankly, regardless of the outcome in court,
I've paid significantly more in legal fees than Lindsay Hill could ever pay me in her entire
life. And I knew that was going to be the case going into the lawsuit, but it was never about
money for me. It was the only way for me to obtain critical information
to clear my name. The discovery process in that lawsuit
recently concluded, at which point Lindsay Hill's legal team came again to us with another
proposal to resolve the case. This time, however, they weren't seeking any money from me.
Having received much of the information that had been hidden from us, a small portion
of which I've referenced here, I was willing to agree to the terms proposed.
Both parties would drop their respective lawsuits and neither of us would pay either side any money.
I also retained my right to speak publicly about the case.
Now, over the last two years, I've been forced to defend my integrity and my reputation
in a very public setting, but hopefully, this is the last time I have to do so
as I'd prefer to just remain focused on doing my job, winning
baseball games, and entertaining fans around the world. So today, I'm happy to be moving
on with my life. That's a pretty crazy story, right?
And on one sense, you kind of feel bad for the guy, because this woman
is just a complete predator that was just seeking to destroy him, to
steal his money, to ruin his reputation, and just by her one
accusation, he lost his contract with the LA Dodgers. I mean, the guy
probably spent his whole life working super hard to be a Major League Baseball pitcher, gone
because some whore falsely accused him. Did the Dodgers do any due diligence?
Did they give him the presumption of innocence? No, he was just accused
and he lost everything. So in one sense, I kind of feel bad for the guy,
but on the other side of the equation, you know that this is 100% his
fault still? You know that this 100% could have been avoided
if he would have listened to what the Bible said? Because let me tell you something, Trevor Bauer
gave his strength unto women. He decided to give
his strength unto women. He decided to commit fornication with some random whore
that wasn't his wife, that he shouldn't have been doing, and if he would have never
done that, he would still be a pitcher for the LA Dodgers. He never would have lost his money.
He never would have had to gone to court for two years. He never would have had all these horrible things happen
to him. But guess what? When you give your strength unto women, there's consequences for it.
And that's why King Lemuel's mother was so wise when she told her son,
hey, don't give your strength unto women. Don't give your strength
unto women. So how is it that we can avoid
a situation like this and not give our strength unto women? Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 6.
Number one, how to not give your strength unto women is abstain from
fornication. Abstain from fornication.
None of this would have ever happened if Trevor Bauer did not commit fornication.
He probably thought, no big deal. I'm just having some fun.
I'm a professional athlete. I'm so cool. I could get all these ladies.
Yeah, these whorish, psychopathic, disgusting
women that want to take you for everything you've got. Yeah, of course she'll be
with you. Of course she will. Look at 1 Corinthians 6
verse 15 says, Know ye not that your bodies are the members
of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them
the members of an harlot? God forbid. What?
Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?
For two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one
spirit. Notice verse 18. Flee fornication.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without
the body, but he that commiteth fornication sinneth against
his own body. If Trevor Bauer would have
listened to God's command to flee fornication, he wouldn't have had all the
suffering and misery that he experienced. And take this as a lesson
that you might, you young people in here that aren't married yet,
you might think, no big deal. I could commit fornication.
It's not really going to have any serious effects on my life. Yeah, that's what a fool
would say. That's what an idiot would say. Someone that doesn't trust God's
word, that's what that person would say. When you should realize that, no, actually
the reason God gave us commandments is as a blessing to us and to protect
us. And guess what? King Lemuel's mom wasn't just being a jerk,
wasn't just being mean to her son by saying, hey, don't give your strength
unto women. No, she loved him. She cared about him and she knew that was what
was best for him. And so don't ever get this stupid idea that you think,
oh, I can go out and commit fornication and nothing bad is ever going to happen to me. Wrong.
Especially as a Christian, you are not going to get away with that.
I'll read for you 1 John 5-3 says, for this is the love of God that
we keep his commandments and his commandments are not
grievous. You know, I wish that Christianity would get back to a point
where we would actually love God's commandments. We would actually love
the things that God tells us to do and love the things that God tells us not to do
and not look at the word of God as so grievous. You know, Christianity
today, it seems like they're always wanting to apologize for the Bible. Preachers
always wanted to apologize for God's commandments. No, this is the love of
God that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous.
Hey, don't be ashamed of the fact that you're not a fornicator. Praise God
that you're not a fornicator. But you know, the world will want to shame you today if you don't
commit fornication. If you're a young person in here and you decide, I want to
stay pure, I want to wait until I get married, people will make fun of you for that.
And I'm sure, especially in the Major League Baseball culture,
if you're some hotshot pitcher and you decide, no, I'm going to wait until I get married,
oh, I'm sure you're going to be made fun of for that. But what would you rather, be
made fun of by the world, be made fun of people that aren't even
saved, that don't even understand the Bible, that are fools, or would you rather
lose all of your money, lose your contract, lose your
presumption of innocence, lose your good name, lose everything
because you wanted to commit fornication. Was it worth it, Trevor Bauer?
Absolutely not. And look, I don't want to beat up on this guy too bad because I don't even know if
he's saved. I hope he gets saved. I hope he, you know, serves the Lord someday. Obviously
I'm sad for what happened to him, but we should look at his example and be like,
whoa, I need to stay away from fornication. I need to stay away from whores.
I need to not give my strength unto women.
1 Corinthians 1, I'll read for you John 10.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to
destroy. I am come that they might have life and that they might
have it more abundantly. Notice the Lord Jesus Christ,
He came to give us an abundant life. He didn't come and try to see
what's the least amount of fun we could have in life, what's the most He could just put us under
lock and key and keep us away from anything good. No, Jesus came to
give us an abundant life. And anything in His word, any commandment
that He gives is only for our benefit 100% of the time.
And don't be a fool that you have to have experience
teach you that what I am saying is true. Just listen to me, listen
to the word of God, and just trust that the commandments of God are given for your own good.
Don't wait until you're like Trevor Bauer where you're like, yeah, the Bible's right, stay away from whores.
Let me tell you what this whore Lindsay did to me. No, just realize
what the Bible says and trust it. 1 Corinthians 1
verse 4, it says, I thank my God always on your behalf
for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ.
And I love this next phrase, that in everything ye
are enriched by Him. You know, the world
wants to tell you that Christian marriages are worse,
you have less fun as a Christian, you gotta go to church three times a week,
you gotta read the Bible, you gotta pray, you gotta abstain from alcohol,
you gotta do all these things and you're withheld from all this fun, but the Bible says that in
everything we are enriched by Jesus Christ.
Every single aspect of our life is better than the world because
of Jesus Christ. Our marriages are better, our kids are better,
our jobs are better, our happiness is better, everything
is better in Christ. Everything is richer in Christ.
And someone needs to remind young men today that God's
plan is the best way. Going your own way and deciding to be
a complete whoremonger is a bad idea. Going your own way and deciding just to avoid
women and give up on women and think all women are bad, that's a bad idea too.
Go God's way rather than your own way and remember that everything
that God tells us is for our benefit. Everything, we're enriched in all things
by Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 5
Flip over to 1 Corinthians 5
You say, oh, what's the worst thing that could happen
if I commit fornication? There's a lot of bad things that can happen.
I mean, look at Trevor Bauer for one thing, right? Then there's the fact that one
in four Americans have STDs. That's fun, right?
Is that something that you really want to risk? Then there's the fact that you could be cut off from fellowship
from God's people. Look at 1 Corinthians 5 verse 1, it says
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you and such fornication
as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have
his father's wife. So we see that even the apostle Paul, he addressed this issue
in his ministry. He addressed the issue of fornication, something he had to deal with. Look at verse 2
And ye are puffed up, notice their reaction, and have not rather
mourned that he that hath done this deed might be taken
away from among you. You know, the church at Corinth, when he
addresses their fornication, what's their reaction? They're puffed up. And it kind of
makes me think of America and modern American churches, how they want to
be puffed up and brag about how accepting they are about sin. Look at
how godly we are because we accept fornicators and you don't. They're literally
puffed up, they're literally bragging about how sinful they are. They're literally
bragging about how tolerant of fornication they are. That's nothing to brag about.
But yet, that's something that happened then, it's something that happened now.
Notice verse 3, For I verily, as absent in body, but present
in spirit, have judged already, as though I were
present concerning him that hath so done this deed.
Hey, we need to bring back judgment in America. We need to
bring back judgment in the house of God. And I wish Trevor Bower had
grown up in an independent fundamental Baptist church where he would feel the fear
of being judged for committing fornication. Let me tell you young
people something in here. If we find out that you're committing fornication, every
single person in this church is going to judge you. Yep, we're
all going to judge you. Why? Because we hate you?
No, because we know that it's going to destroy your life if you commit fornication.
You want to commit all these horrible sins that are worthy of being kicked out
of church? Every single person in here will judge you. Because we're going to
back up the pastor in exercising church discipline. Look at what the
Bible says here in verse 4. In the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, when ye are gathered together in my spirit with the power of our
Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one unto Satan
for the destruction of the flesh, that the Spirit may be saved
in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not
good. Is that not a judgment? Is that not Paul making
a judgment and saying, hey, the fact that you're glorying over being accepting of
fornication is not good. That is judgment.
And today, we have a whole generation of Americans that are
afraid to judge. They're afraid to say, thus saith the Lord, this is
what the Bible says. It doesn't matter if it hurts your feelings. It doesn't matter if your best
friend is a fornicator. It doesn't matter if your parents are fornicators. The Bible says
what it says, and if you want a glory in that, that is not good, the Bible says.
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump? You say, why would you judge someone? Why would you judge someone? Doesn't the Bible
say not to judge? In certain contexts, it says not to
judge hypocritically. It says to judge righteous judgment.
But should we never judge? No, of course we should judge. Why? Because a little leaven
leaveneth the whole lump. If someone in here is committing fornication and it's not
addressed, it goes unchecked, people act like it's no big deal.
You know what message you're sending to everyone else? Is that committing fornication is fine.
Committing fornication is good. And then you're going to have all the young people
in the church infected and ruining their lives because people don't want
to judge. But instead, you know, if there's a young Trevor Bauer in this room,
they're growing up in a church and saying, hey, fornication is wicked, it's not allowed,
and if it's found out, you'll be kicked out of church, and we will judge you for it.
That's good. You say, that's harsh. Yeah, it's harsh, but guess what? That person isn't going to grow up
to lose all their money, all their job interests, all their reputation,
their health, from some stupid whore. So which one
would you rather have? Look at verse 7.
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened, for even
Christ our Passover is sanctified for us. And then it goes on
to give a list of the different types of people that are not allowed in
church. And you know, this is something that we may take for granted, a steadfast Baptist church,
but most Christians do not believe this chapter right here. Most churches
do not practice church discipline, and you should count it a blessing and a privilege
to be in a church that does, because it is what the Bible says.
So number one, we want to abstain from fornication. That is a great way
to never give your strength unto a woman. If you never commit fornication,
you're not going to give your strength unto a woman. Here's another way you could
avoid giving your strength unto women. Number two, avoid
whores. So number one, abstain from fornication. Number two,
avoid whores. Don't just not commit fornication. Don't even
be around whores. You say, I don't like that word. That's a Bible word. Do you not like the word of God?
That's a Bible word. Go to Proverbs chapter number five.
Proverbs chapter number five.
You know, unfortunately, the flesh of man is sinful. All of us are
sinful. Every single person in here is sinful. And the flesh of man
desires the bad woman sometimes. Let's just be honest, right?
That's why there's so many admonitions in the Bible against it, is we have to
arm our spirit and arm our mind with this knowledge that we're not just
like slaves of our flesh, listening to every desire that our flesh gives us.
Look at Proverbs five, verse one. It says,
A strange woman drop as a honeycomb
and her mouth is smoother than oil. Notice how the
strange woman is described from the perspective of the man,
right? It's that her lips drip as a honeycomb
and her mouth is smoother than oil. She appears to be
delightsome. She appears to be something that you want. She appears to be something
that would be good for you. But is that the reality? Is what you see the
reality about her? No. Look at verse four. But her end is bitter
as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
You know, if Trevor Bauer would have seen Lindsay as wormwood
and as a sharp two-edged sword walking around, he probably wouldn't have wanted to mess
with her. He probably would have said, Get away from me, whore. Back off, whore, as Pastor Shelley
likes to say. Hey, avoid whores. Don't give your strength
unto women. Look at verse five. Her feet
go down to death. Her steps take hold on hell.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are
movable that thou canst not know them. Notice her ways
are movable. She's insincere. So the strange woman
when she comes to you, you can't trust what she says because what she says
is insincere. And let me tell you something. If you have
a guy that has a lot of money and a girl wants to be with you the first time,
she comes over to your house, she's probably insincere. She's probably a whore.
She's probably someone you should stay away from.
And I'm telling you, there are some women that are
predators. Just like there are men that are predators like Andrew
Tate, the piece of garbage pornographer that he is, there are
women that are also predators. The Bible says that the adulterous
hunts for the precious life. There are women out there that are
predators. Look at verse 7, it says, Hear me now, therefore, O ye children, and
depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her.
Notice, avoid whores. And come not nigh the door of her house, lest
thou give thine honor unto others. Does that sound familiar?
And thy years unto the cruel. What's honor? Oftentimes it's money
in the Bible. And he's saying, hey, stay away from the whore. Why?
Otherwise you're going to give your money unto others. Like what? Maybe like blood-sucking
lawyers, Trevor Bauer, that you have to pay for two years to go through a lawsuit to clear
your name. Then it says, and thy years unto the cruel.
Hey, maybe spending two full years of your life in lawsuits
is not something that sounds like a lot of fun. You say, how do I avoid that? Avoid whores.
Stay away from the strange woman. Look at verse 10,
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labors
be in the house of a stranger. And thou mourn at the last
when thy flesh and thy body are consumed.
So what does that have to do with flesh and body? Well, we already talked about STDs. How about just
stress? I mean, stress and heartache, that'll
do a major damage on your body. Just always being stressed out literally can
affect your heart. You know, that could really destroy your flesh.
And what's the end of it going to be? Look at verse 12 and say, how have I hated instruction
and my heart despised reproof, and have not obeyed the voice
of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that
instructed me? And you know, I pray to God that verse 12 and verse 13
is never something that some young person at Steadfast Baptist Church ever
says someday. And I hope that you take the admonition to never
be around whores, to not commit fornication. I pray that you take that seriously, because
this is going to be the end result of your life when you disregard God's commandments.
You're going to be saying, man, how have I hated instruction? How have I despised reproof?
Why didn't I obey the voice of my teachers? Why didn't I listen to the word of God?
That's going to be the end. Look at Proverbs chapter number
7 verse 5. You say, how do you know
if a woman is a whore? Because we're saying avoid whores. How do I know
if a woman's a whore? She'll tell you. She'll tell you.
And she'll tell you in multiple ways. Maybe she'll be like Lindsay Hill and literally just call herself a whore.
Appreciate that. Thanks for letting us know. But there's other ways that she tells you too.
Look at Proverbs 7 verse 5. It says that they may keep thee from
the strange woman. Notice what the strange woman does. From the stranger
which flattereth with her words.
What is flattery? It's insincere, over-the-top praise.
If you have a woman that is over-the-top praising you,
over-the-top flirting with you, it's called flattery.
And that should be a red flag to you that this is a bad woman. But unfortunately,
us men are so stupid that we actually think we are all that in a bag
of chips. So when a woman comes up to us and starts saying all these great
things, they're like, yeah, you're right. That is true. That's what a fool would think.
That's what an idiot would think. No, you should realize, hey, this woman's flattering me.
I'm not all that in a bag of chips. When she's saying I'm this great, I'm
realizing, okay, this woman is a whore. This woman is flattering me.
That's not how reality works. You don't just have godly women coming up and just
flaunting themselves all over you. That's not a godly woman that does something like that.
A godly woman gets pursued by a man. She doesn't come throwing herself on a man.
That's what a whore does. Look at verse 6.
In the window of my house, I looked through my casement,
and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young
man, void of understanding, passing through the street
near her corner, and he went the way to her house. Notice, the point is
a void whore. What is this person doing? He's going near her house. He's not avoiding her.
Verse 9. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night,
and behold, there met him a woman with the attire
of an harlot and subtle of heart. Here's another way that a woman
will tell you that she's a whore. By what she's wearing.
The Bible says that there exists something that's called the attire of
an harlot. What is a harlot? It's a whore. So there's women
that dress like whores, and what are they projecting with their body? They're saying,
hi, I'm a whore. Okay? So as a young man,
if you see a woman that's wearing the short shorts, that's wearing the short
skirt, that's wearing the inappropriate clothing, that is likely a whore.
You say, well, I wear those things, and I'm not a whore. Why are you dressing like a whore?
Because there is something, according to the Bible, that's called the attire of
an harlot. And you know what? Some men in this country need to
check their wives before they walk out the door. Some men
need to check what their daughters are wearing before they walk out the door. And please, check your
family before you walk into the house of God dressed like a whore. It's disgusting
when a woman comes to church dressed like a whore,
showing her thighs, showing her body. That is
despicable. That is something you should, as a man, it's your
fault when that happens. Don't allow your women to dress like that.
Look at verse 11. She is loud and
stubborn. Her feet abide not in her house.
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in weight at every
corner. These women are everywhere. It's easy to find
a whore. It's hard to find a godly woman. The virtuous woman,
the Proverbs 31 woman, she's like a ruby. She's hard to find.
She's valuable. She's of great price. But a whore
is on every corner. And so don't fall for the same old tricks
of the same old whores. Verse 30. So she caught him and kissed him
and with an impudent face said unto him, I have
made peace offerings with me. This day have I paid my vows.
Therefore came I forth to meet thee diligently
to seek thy face and I found thee. Again, here's the flattery saying
I've only been looking for you. I've been looking my whole life just for you.
I've been preparing everything just for you. It's a lie. It's flattery.
I've decked my bed with coverings of tapestry,
with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. I've perfumed my
bed with myrs, aloes and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love
until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with
love. Let's skip down a few verses here. Let's go to
verse 22. He says, He goeth after her straight way as an ox
goeth to the slaughter. Think about this imagery.
Or as a fool to the correction of the stalks till a dart
strike through his liver as a bird hasteneth to the snare and knoweth not
that it is for his life. I mean, the Bible couldn't really get any stronger
about how badly you need to avoid the whore.
It says, Hearken unto me now, therefore, O ye children, and attend
to the words of my mouth. Let not thine heart decline to her ways. Go not astray
in her paths, for she hath cast down many wounded, yea, many strong
men. We're talking about giving your strength unto women. Many strong men have been
slain by her. Her house is the way to hell,
going down to the chambers of death. Don't think that because you're a strong man
physically or because you're a strong man spiritually that you can never
fall to a whore. You have to keep this danger
alive and fresh in your mind and not think that you're too spiritual to
ever fall or you're too good of a Christian to ever fall. No, you need to always avoid the whore.
When you're single, avoid the whore. When you're married, avoid
the whore. When you're 90 years old, avoid the whore. Just avoid the
whore your whole life until you're in heaven and you never have to deal with them ever again.
Now, let me just say this, because we do live
in a culture and in a society in the United States of America
where just about 99% of women are dressed immodestly,
right? And, you know, I've heard some single guys think like,
well, I'm not going to ever approach a girl that's wearing short shorts or I'm never going to
approach a girl that's dressed immodestly. But the problem with that is then you're probably just never going to
address a girl. You're probably just never going to talk to a girl. So what you should do,
there's nothing wrong with trying to get a girl saved that's worldly, that's
unsaved and try to disciple her. But, look, if you're talking to a girl for some length of
time and she's unwilling to change on that, if she wants to keep dressing
like a whore, then you should find a different girl. You shouldn't talk to that girl. But
there's plenty of women that grew up living a loose
and fast lifestyle that with the right man to lead them would want
to live a godly life, would want to put on the skirt and the dress and want to
be modest for her husband and in the house of God and those women
are everywhere. Women are followers. So
if you're a good leader, you can get a woman to follow you, okay? So I'm not
just saying write off all the women of America, don't talk to them, don't approach
them. That's a stupid mentality. I'm saying avoid the whores,
okay? But there's plenty of women that just grow up not knowing anything different.
This is the way that their parents dressed them. As sad as that is,
you've got to realize that parents literally dress their kids like whores.
And so if you're a young child and you've been dressed like that your whole life, how are you going to be expected
to do anything else, right? It's not really that person's fault.
So you could try to get to know that person and try to test their heart, but then
their heart's going to reveal themselves. Do they want to just keep dressing like that? Okay, find a different girl, fair enough.
But don't just write off all women. But, definitely
avoid whores. Number one, abstain from fornication. Number two, avoid
whores. But it's not just enough to avoid whores. Number three, you have to
arrange safeguards. You have to arrange safeguards. Go to Romans
chapter number 13.
It's not just enough to will yourself into never committing
fornication. It's not just enough to will yourself into never committing adultery. It's not just
enough to will yourself to never give your strength unto a woman. You have to make it
as hard as humanly possible to ever happen,
if not impossible, if you could make it that way. You have to arrange
safeguards into your life so that if you have a weak moment,
if you're having a rough patch in your marriage, you don't just decide to give your strength
unto women. You don't just decide to go commit fornication or adultery.
Romans 13 verse 13, it says, Let us walk honestly
as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering
and wantonness, not in strife and envying, but put ye on the
Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh
to fulfill the lusts thereof. You know, when you think about
providing, when we provide for our families, what are we doing? We're giving our family
clothes, food, a place to live. We're giving them all the things that we need
for them to thrive. Don't provide for your flesh.
Don't give things that are going to feed and satisfy your flesh. Completely cut that
off and set up safeguards to where you don't even have the temptation
to commit that sin. And so there's some safeguards that I've
put in my life, and I think you guys should do the same thing that'll help you
to not give your strength unto women. Number one, here's one of them,
never be alone with the opposite gender. Never be alone
with the opposite gender. You say, You're crazy. This is insane. This is a cult.
No, I just don't want my reputation destroyed. No, I just don't want to ever give into that
sin if I'm ever tempted, or I don't want some whore like Lindsay Hill to
accuse me of something I never even did. Our job as
soul winners, our job as ministers of Jesus Christ, it's too important
to be ruined by a whore. Screw your MLB career.
That doesn't matter. You know what matters? Serving God matters. And I'm not going to let that get ruined
by some whore, so I'm never going to be alone with the opposite gender.
Now obviously I'm not talking about family or women that are old enough
to be your grandma or something like that. Obviously use some common sense.
But look, the Bible says to abstain from all appearance of evil.
Not just avoid fornication, but also just avoid
the whore, and just avoid the appearance of being by a whore. I mean
when you have all these steps, how hard is it going to get all the way to fornication? It's like, don't even look like you're
around a whore. Don't be around a whore. Don't commit fornication.
It's going to be kind of hard to commit fornication when you have those other two standards, right?
Put those in your life. And you know, I've taken this very
seriously. I do not allow myself to be alone with another woman.
And if by the off chance, you know, some situation happened where I wasn't
expecting, where all of a sudden I find myself in a situation like that, I've
even called my wife before and had my phone in my pocket
so that she hears everything going on, and it's like, hey, you say
you're crazy. That's wild. That's too extreme. No, I'm not going to let some whore ruin
my life. I'm not going to let some whore accuse me of anything.
And I'm not going to ever give in to that situation if I put up those safeguards.
How are you going to give in to that sin when your wife is on the phone? It's not going to happen.
Right? You say, this is going too far. Well, you could destroy your life then if you want.
Here's another thing. Give your spouse
full access to your phone, social media accounts, and bank accounts.
When you get married, you've become one flesh. And you shouldn't
be having separate bank accounts that your spouse doesn't know about. You shouldn't be
having all these social media apps that your spouse doesn't know about.
Me and my wife, we have our location on our phone. I always know where she is. She always
knows where I'm at. When notifications for my social media accounts come up
on my phone, they always come up on her phone. She knows every message that's sent to me.
I know every message that's sent to her. Why? Because we don't trust each other?
No, because this is just a smart safeguard to put up in your life so that you can never be
falsely accused or you can never actually have this situation happen to you, God forbid.
This is just a smart thing to do. And a
humble person says, hey, I know that I have the flesh and I know that I
can fall and I know that I can mess up, so I need this stuff in my life.
The prideful person says, oh no, I'm fine. I can never fall. I can never be tempted by a woman.
Look, if you're a man and you can never be tempted by another woman, you either need to
go to the doctor or you need to get out because you're a fag. It's one of the two. You have some
serious problems if you're never tempted by a woman. You need to put up safeguards
so that nothing ever happens, okay? Number three, here's another personal
standard I have, and I don't think you should ever have friends of the
opposite gender. I don't think you should ever have friends of the opposite gender.
Me and some girl, we're not going to go hit up the batting cages any time soon.
We're not going to go play softball. We're not going to go out to eat. Now, here's the thing.
I'll take my guy friends to batting cages, no problem. Hey, let's go. Let's have some fun, right?
Let's go play baseball. Let's go play softball. That's fine. I'm not going to be doing that with another woman.
Now, look, some people
I guess it's better to be on this extreme of what I'm about to say
than the other extreme, but look, don't get this so weird that like a husband
and wife walk into church and you can only say hi to the husband. You have to like, oh,
Mrs. So-and-so, I can't even speak to a woman. Like, I feel like sometimes
in churches, that culture kind of exists where it's like, hey, it's okay
to say, hey, good morning, brother so-and-so. Good morning, Mrs. So-and-so.
It's okay to look a woman in the eyes and say hello and be polite, okay? You don't have to be rude to a woman.
You don't have to be weird or anything like that, but don't be
friends with someone of the opposite gender. Don't hang out with someone of the opposite
gender. And look, it's okay to have couple friends. It's okay to go over
to someone's house and be friends with a husband and wife, but even that, you should be careful
of stuff like that, too. And if a couple friend situation,
if there was anything that started ever to get inappropriate by any parties
involved, you should be willing to back off from that in a heartbeat.
Why? Because your relationship with your spouse is way more important than any friendship you have.
And if any party starts getting any type of feelings that are
inappropriate or starts being flirtatious or anything like that, you need to cut
that off. And, you know, you need to be jealous over your spouse and watch
out for stuff like that and be willing to cut that stuff off.
Because, hey, it wouldn't be the first time someone committed adultery
by having a really close couple friend, right? There's nothing wrong
with having couple friends, but you should be very cautious and you should pay attention.
So when it comes to not giving your strength unto women, we
talked about number one, abstain from fornication. Number two, avoid whores.
Number three, arrange for safeguards. Here's number four,
award your strength to one woman. The Bible
says, give not your strength to women, plural. But you know what you should do
as a man? You should find one woman that you love and that
loves you, and you should be with her and be faithful to her
and take care of her for the rest of your life. It's called marriage.
Don't award your strength to women, plural, but award your strength
to one woman and one woman only. Go to Proverbs chapter
number five. Proverbs chapter number five.
Don't get this woman-hating attitude where you just hate all women
and the Western woman's horrible and American women are all whores.
Sure, there's whores out there. Sure, there's bad women and avoid those people.
I already preached that. But find one and award your strength
to her. Proverbs chapter number five verse fifteen. Drink waters
out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well.
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of waters in the streets.
Let them be only thine own and not strangers with thee.
Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Let her be as the loving hind in the pleasant row. Let her breasts
satisfy thee at all times and be thou ravished always with her love.
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman
and embrace the bosom of a stranger? You know, like I said,
the Bible commands us not to give our strength unto women, but give your strength
to one woman, your wife. You know, I wish Trevor Bauer was taught
that as a young man because carnally speaking, Trevor Bauer's got a pretty
great life. Carnally speaking, right? I mean, he's a professional athlete,
makes a ton of money. He could get a great wife. He could get a good wife
that he could love and rejoice and be happy with all of his days, but instead
he gave his strength unto women. He awarded it to a whore and it destroyed him.
But you know, what if Trevor Bauer would have just found a godly woman and awarded all the
strength to her? They could have had a great marriage. And so remember
that as a young person, hey, don't give your strength to women, give your strength to
one woman. And don't give your strength to her until you're married.
Be strong. Don't be a weakling. Don't give away your strength
before the time. That's something a weak man does. A weak man commits
fornication. A weak man commits adultery. No, be strong and say, no, no, no.
I'm the one that's strong. I'm the one that's going to retain my strength and I'll
give that lady my strength someday when I marry her. That's when she gets my strength.
You know, we hold the power in this world. Despite what the feminists want to tell you,
men hold the power. And anything that feminism
has destroyed in America has been because men have awarded their power
to them. That's it. Basically every problem in America comes
down to two things. Feminism and fags. You want to know who's responsible
for that? Men allowing it. We're stronger than
fags? Why are we letting fags ruin America? We've got the power.
We're stronger than women? Why are we going to let feminists ruin America?
Hey, why is Nikki Haley running for president?
Get back in the kitchen, Nikki Haley. That's disgusting.
You're not going to be the president of the United States? Absolutely not.
You know, a nation that lets a woman be president is a nation that didn't listen to
King Lemuel's mom that said, give not your strength unto women.
You say, this is offensive. This is the Bible. This is the word of God.
This is what made America great to begin with.
Don't be ashamed of it. Love it. Preach it. And as a man,
give your strength to one woman only.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 7.
You know, God's not just trying to withhold pleasure from us, right?
He gave us the institution of marriage. He wants us to enjoy that, but He wants us to
do it on His terms. He wants us to do it with
righteousness, with holiness. Look at 1 Corinthians 7, verse 1.
Notice this.
You know, God created marriage, and God created the physical relationship between man
and woman to be enjoyed. He gave us that as a blessing to us, right?
But the thing is, people want to cheat God's system and try to get that
outside of the blessings of marriage, and God's never going to bless that.
That's never going to bring joy to your life. That's only going to bring pain and misery.
But within marriage, it could be a great blessing, and it could be a source of joy
and fulfillment and happiness. And let's be honest, this is what men are seeking for
in their lives. But when they seek that outside of marriage, it's just
misery and destruction every single time. Every single time. And people think
that that area of life is somehow better in the world.
But hey, according to the Bible, you have to get consent not to do that
with your spouse. So in God's system, it's even better.
You know? God getting Amen in here. Let's go, right?
According to the Bible, to withhold that from your spouse would actually be fraud.
It would be fraud. It would be a sin to do that, right? But in the world,
I mean, these people are just always trying to find the next hookup.
When can I get the next hookup? When can I get the next girl? It's like when you're married,
you have your spouse with you at any time. It's better in marriage.
God's ways are always better. In all things, our lives are enriched
by the Lord Jesus Christ. In all things. Don't let the world tell you
anything differently. Go to Ephesians chapter 5.
I'll read for you Proverbs 31 verse 10. It says,
For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband
doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
You know, a whore will always harm you. The harlot will always harm you.
But you know what? The godly wife, the Proverbs 31 woman,
will do you good as a husband and not evil all the days
of your life. And so as a man, you should be seeking that godly woman
and award your strength to that one woman. Ephesians
5 25 says, Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ
also loved the church and gave himself for it. Think about this.
Jesus Christ is the strongest man that's ever lived, right?
When we talk about men having strength, no one has more strength
than the Lord Jesus Christ. But who did he award his strength to?
His bride. The local New Testament church. Jesus gave all
of his strength for his bride. He gave all of his
passion, his life, everything. Jesus gave his life
literally for the church. Why? Because he loved it.
Strongest man that ever lived gave his life for the church. Us as strong men,
hey, award that to your bride singular. Award
that to your wife. Don't go after the whores. You know, there's so
many ways that men are awarding their
strength unto women today. But I feel like fornication and adultery has to be
at the top of that list in our country. And it is something that we
as Christians have to constantly be preaching against and remind
our young people that the lie that the world tells you about how great that
relationship is outside of marriage is just that. It's a lie.
It needs to be called out. It needs to be avoided. And we need to teach our young men
and even the men that are married right now and even the men that are in their 40s and 50s and 60s
and whatever, however old you are, never award your strength unto women.
Award it to your wife. Let's pray. Lord, thank you for this day
and thank you for the Word of God. Thank you for the admonitions inside of it.
Thank you for the good and things that are also sometimes harder to hear for people.
But I pray that you'd please just soften the hearts of every person that heard this message
that they would search the Bible, that they would see if what was preached was
true according to the Word of God. And I just pray that you would protect the young people in here
and that you would help their parents to realize that they can't just be trusted,
but they need to be supervised, Lord, and that we need to help our children
not to make these mistakes. And we love you very much. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Alright, in closing, let's go to song number 449.
Song number 449,
Dwelling in Beulah Land.
Song number 449.
Song number 449, everybody sing it out together on the first.
Far away the noise
of strife upon my ear
is calling. Then I know
the sins of earth be set on
every hand. Doubt
and fear and things of earth in vain
to me are calling. None
of me shall move me from Beulah
Land. I'm living
on the mountain underneath the
cloudless sky. I'm drinking
at the mountain that never
shall run dry. Oh, yes, I'm
easy on the meadow from a
bountiful supply for I am dwelling
in Beulah Land.
Far below the storm
of doubt upon the world is beating.
Sons of men in battle
on the enemy withstander.
Save am I within the
castle of God's worry treating.
Nothing that can reach me
is Beulah Land.
I'm living on the mountain
underneath the cloudless sky.
I'm drinking at the mountain
that never shall run dry. Oh, yes,
I'm easy on the meadow
from a bountiful supply for I
am dwelling in Beulah
Land. Let the stormy
breezes flow. Their cry cannot
alarm me. I am safely
sheltered here protected by
God's hand. Here the sun
is always shining. Here there's not
can harm me. I am safe
forever in Beulah Land.
I'm living on the
mountain underneath the cloudless sky.
I'm drinking at the
fountain that never shall run dry.
Oh, yes, I'm easy on the meadow
from a bountiful supply
for I am dwelling in Beulah
Land.
You would hear the works of God I seek
in contemplation.
Hearing now His blessed voice I see
the way He planned. Dwelling
in the Spirit here I learn
of full salvation. Gladly
will I carry in Beulah
Land. I'm living
on the mountain underneath the
cloudless sky. I'm drinking
at the fountain that never shall
run dry. Oh, yes, I'm feasting
on the meadow from a bountiful
supply for I am dwelling
in Beulah Land.
Great singing everybody. You were always missed.
Thank you.