So we're going to do this acapella to practice.
We're going to sing Joy to the World.
So here we go.
That way we can do a good job tomorrow
and the people don't have to cry while we're singing out there.
Joy to the World, 423.
Let's start.
Joy to the world, the Lord is come.
Let earth receive her King.
Let every heart prepare him room.
And heaven and nature sing.
And heaven, heaven, heaven, and nature sing.
Joy to the world, the Savior reigns.
Let men their songs employ, while fields and floods,
rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy,
repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
No more the sins and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground.
He comes to make his blessings known, far as the curse is
found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as,
the curse is found.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness,
and wonders of his love, and wonders of his love,
and wonders, wonders of his love.
All right, let's pray.
Father, may you please help us as we sing.
And as we praise your name, we pray that you please bless
the service as well, be able to do as he preaches for us.
And fill him with your Holy Spirit, Lord,
and we thank you in Jesus' name.
Amen.
All right, let's go to 429.
429, heart, the herald, angel, sing.
Heart, the herald, angel, sing, 429.
All right, we're going to go ahead and start.
I think I missed my cue.
All right, one more time.
Heart, the herald, angel, sing, glory to the newborn King.
Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.
Joyful all ye nations rise, join the triumph of the skies.
With angelic hosts proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem.
Heart, the herald, angel, sing, glory to the newborn King.
Christ by highest ere'd adored, Christ the everlasting Lord.
Late in time behold him come, offspring of the virgin's womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, hail incarnate deity.
Least as men with men to dwell, Jesus our Emmanuel.
Heart, the herald, angel, sing, glory to the newborn King.
Hail the heaven Prince of Peace, hail the Son of Righteousness.
Light and life to all he brings, risen with healing in his wings.
While he lays his glory by, born that man no more may die.
Born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth.
Heart, the herald, angel, sing, glory to the newborn King.
Come, desire of nations come, fix in us thy humble home.
Rise, the womb, this conquering sea, bruise in us the surface head.
Adam's likeness, now in face, stamped thine image in its place.
Second Adam from above, reinstate us in thy love.
Heart, the herald, angel, sing, glory to the newborn King.
If you need a bulletin, raise your hand nice and high and we can have Brother Shoudor come
around and get that to you guys and we'll go through our announcements this evening.
We've got our service times and our soul winning times listed there at the top along with our
month to date, year to date, salvations.
We'll have soul winning again on Saturday at 11 a.m. if you can make it out.
We'd love to have you join us and we'll go knock some apartments pretty close to the
church so looking forward to that.
Also we've got the Oz here with us this evening and really all weekend long and so what a
blessing that is and it's good to see him and his family.
He's going to be preaching for us this evening and then also on Sunday and then Pastor Shelley
he'll be here on December 16th which is a Thursday and so put those down on your calendar
and then also we're in week number 11 finishing up week number 11 of our Bible memory passage
so be diligent to memorize the scriptures throughout the week and also as I mentioned
this Friday, tomorrow, we've got Christmas caroling that's going to be taking place at
5.30 p.m. so we're going to meet here at the church at 5.30 and leave here.
I'm going to go ahead and have the location sent in our messaging groups just so that
way everybody has a heads up.
It is going to be in Yukon and so we scoured the Oklahoma City area and there is really
slim pickings when it comes to good Christmas caroling locations and so we wanted to change
it up from what we did last year and there's a really good spot in Yukon.
It's on the east side of town so it's about 15-20 minutes from the church here and so
I'll get that location sent to you so that way you can plan accordingly.
If you would rather just meet us at that location if that's a better situation for
you we'd certainly you know you can definitely do that and then of course after Christmas
caroling we're going to meet back here at the church and have a pizza fellowship and
so we'll probably do Christmas caroling for about an hour and then we'll come back.
I think the weather is going to be really nice and so you might need a light jacket
at the most and so kind of you know you almost wish that it was a little bit colder you know
because it kind of gets you in the mood for Christmas and Christmas caroling but you know
that's Oklahoma for you so but we'll have a lot of fun please show up for that if you
can if you can make that and then Thursday December 23rd is going to be our candlelight
service we'll do that directly after the sermon Thursday evening on December 23rd and then
December 31st is going to be our New Year's Eve bash here at the church and we'll meet
here at 6 p.m. and we'll have popcorn preaching for any man who would like to get up and preach
a five to ten minute sermon it's not gonna be a live stream it's completely for fun and
so definitely prepare a sermon for that we'll probably start that preaching around seven
just to give everyone plenty enough time to get to the church and you're welcome to stay
at the church as long as you'd like or you can leave at any point as well we just want
to provide an alternative to you know what the world's going to be doing that evening
and so it would be a lot of fun we'll have some board games and some food directly after
the preaching and so definitely looking forward to that hopefully see you guys there at this
time we'll go through our prayer request list and so you pull out that sheet we'll go through
the list here we want to continue to be in prayer for our expecting ladies we have miss
bree gilham miss emily fir and then the newest addition miss jasmine alvarez i almost pronounce
her by the english name right i better get it the spanish name right and so what a exciting
time it is for them they're expecting another child and so praise god for that and i think
miss brie is due in january and my wife is the late february and you guys have a july
okay so definitely keep in prayer for those ladies and then also brother jeremy gore this
coming monday is going to be going up to the mayo clinic in minnesota so be in prayer for him and
just everything that's taking place there with that appointment and continued prayer for brother
cameron hall down in houston and then miss cindy cartwright for salvation and john cain
which is my grandfather for just continued health prayers that you'd have good health
he's turning 95 this year in december so hopefully in the next you know month or so i'll have an
opportunity to go up there and see him so just be in prayer for that that i would have that
opportunity and then brother salvador he's got a test coming up on actually he's got classes
tomorrow but then the test is on saturday so be in prayer for him that everything would go well
with his job and then just traveling for everyone for the holidays and and then also brother travis
he had mentioned to me right before service as well he's got an an appointment to go in for
the job that he was looking to get with the city of the village the village yeah and so be in
prayer for him that that would go well and that that would work out for him and then also continued
prayer for the shelley's and steadfast baptist church in fort worth and just all the things that
are going on there and just continue to be in prayer for them so i'll say a quick word of prayer
dear only father god thank you for allowing us to have this church to gather in and to come
and and worship you in song and and to hear from your word god i pray that you would be with the
preacher this evening that you bless him and and you'd help him to preach to us boldly and we would
receive from your word and just apply to our lives lord and god would pray for those who are
on this list that have health needs i pray that you would have your hand upon them in each of
those situations and those who have potential job openings and tests where we pray that
you would just continue to bless those who are working hard in your name and god we pray for
those who are in need of salvation and i pray that you would just open the door to have the
gospel preached to them and will we pray for traveling mercies for anybody who would be
traveling through the the holidays upcoming for christmas and new years and also we just want to
keep praying for the shelley's and just the legal issues and the things that he's having to deal
with on a day-to-day basis and we're thankful for him and the sacrifices that he makes for our
church and god we just pray that you continually bless this church and help us to grow and to do
great things in your name in jesus name pray amen all right with that we'll go to our next song
turn your handle to him number 434
oh come all you faithful him number 434 brother sourdough elitist
i'm pretty sure i put the wrong one so let me put here
oh come all you faithful is is uh actually 420
all right we're gonna sing it together oh come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant
oh come ye oh come ye to be
come and behold him born the king of angels oh come let us adore him
oh come let us adore him oh come let us adore him christ the lord
oh
sing an exaltation
god
oh come let us adore him oh come let us adore him oh come let us adore him
oh
yay lord we greet thee for this happy morning
word of the father now in flesh appearing oh come let us adore him oh come let us adore him
oh come let us adore him christ the lord
we're gonna go to proverbs chapter four for the bible reading
proverbs chapter four i'll give you a minute to get there
my mother yelled at me the other day for reading too fast
so we're in proverbs chapter four
proverbs chapter four the bible reads here ye children the instruction of the father and
tend to no understanding for i give you good doctrine forsake you not my law for i was my
father's son tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother he taught me also and said unto me
let thine heart retain my words and keep my commandments and live get wisdom and
understanding forget it not neither decline from the words of my mouth forsake her not
and she shall preserve thee love her and she shall keep thee wisdom is the principal thing
therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding exalt her and she shall promote
thee she shall bring thee to honor when thou dost embrace her she shall give to thine head
an ornament of grace a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee here oh my son and receive my
sayings and the years of thy life shall be many many i have taught thee in the way of wisdom i
have led thee in in right paths when thou goest thy step shall not be straightened and when thou
runnest thou shalt not stumble take fast hold of instruction let her not go keep her for she is
thy life enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men avoid it pass
not by it turn from it and pass away for they for they sleep not except they have done mischief and
their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall for they eat the bread of wickedness and
drink the wine of violence but the path of the just is the shining light that shineth more and
more unto the perfect day and the way of the wicked is its darkness and they know not at what
they stumble my son attend to my words incline thine ear into my sayings let them not depart
from thine eyes keep them in the midst of thine heart for they are life unto those that find them
the health to all their flesh keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues
of life put away from thee a forward mount and perverse lips but far from thee let thine eyes
look right on and let thine eyelids look straight before thee ponder the path of thy feet and let
all thy ways be established turn not to the right hand nor to the left remove thy foot from evil
heavenly father lord we just thank you so much for this evening that we can gather together lord
we're so thankful to have brother dylan with us here tonight lord we just pray that you would
fill him with your spirit lord and just give him the words to speak we just pray that you would
keep distractions to a minimum as this congregation opens their heart to your word in jesus precious
name amen amen all right well thank you all for showing up being faithful to church on a wednesday
night it's great to be here great to see you all again and as usual i want to thank pastor
shelley for sending my family down here for the weekend and getting the opportunity to spend some
time with you guys and preach for you all really appreciate it and also we are here in proverbs
chapter number four and the title of my sermon it's gonna be a little bit of a different sermon
tonight the title of my sermon is kyle written house and the fundamental rule of stupid kyle
written house and the fundamental rule of stupid now i don't think there's anyone in this room that
does not know who kyle written house is or the the case that's recently been happening and he
was recently found not guilty on all charges that the prosecution laid against him and i'm very
happy about that i couldn't agree more with the fact that he was not guilty but even though he
was not guilty kyle written house i would argue still suffered a lot of unnecessary evil in his
life because of the events that took place last year in 2020 where he ended up shooting those
people in self-defense but still a lot of unnecessary evil happened to kyle written house
that i believe could have been prevented and the title the goal of the sermon is not to just
you know talk a bunch of crap on kyle written house and try to you know make him feel like
garbage or whatever if i was talking with him face to face i wouldn't just berate his decisions
because you know that's in the past thank god he's alive he can move on and learn from it but
i think there's some things that we could learn both carnal truths and spiritual truths from the
things that happen to kyle written house now i've taken many self-defense and and firearms
and shooting classes before where the instructor will repeat this phrase to not only teach you
about how to shoot or how to fight but to avoid a shootout and to avoid a fight this is something
i've heard repeated by many instructors it's the fundamental rule of stupid don't go stupid places
at stupid times with stupid people now that is great advice right there you will avoid a lot
of evil in your life both physically and spiritually if you obey the fundamental rule
of stupid if you don't go stupid places at stupid times with stupid people and the reason i love
this this saying this maxim this proverb so much is because it is so biblical it's not even funny
the bible talks about all of these things now like i said the goal of the sermon is to help
us prevent the unnecessary evil that we can have in our lives by obeying this rule because think
about it even though kyle written house is not going to spend the rest of his life in prison
he just spent the last year of his life dealing with lawyers which is not fun but according to
his lawyers he has extreme ptsd he can't sleep he's throwing up he just has like terrors in the
night from all of the horrors that he's experienced and now now that he's not guilty
he could go and sue all these companies that have defamed him and he could become a multi-billionaire
you say that's great no it's not that's not what an 18 year old needs to become a millionaire to
become a billionaire either way kyle written house's life is changed for the worst because
of this event and i believe it could have been avoided so number one don't go to stupid places
don't go to stupid places now let's think about this first in the context of kyle written house's
case was kenosha wisconsin on august 25th 2020 a stupid place to go especially for a 17 year old
boy i would argue yes it was a stupid place to go and like i said i'm not so much judging kyle
written house for what he did because honestly when i was 17 years old i would have wanted to
do the same thing okay i understand he wants the adrenaline and he wants to protect his community
and he has that fire inside of him i totally understand where he's coming from what i don't
understand is where his parents were what i don't understand is when on august 25th he said bye mom
and she didn't say where are you going with an ar-15 what are you doing oh i'm going to downtown
kenosha to the riots to protect property with my ar-15 no you're not that's what any sane parent
would do that's what any parent that actually cared about the well-being of their child would do
now just a side note it it seemed to me from listening to the case that his dad lived in
kenosha and his mom lived somewhere else so it seemed like they were probably separated which
tells you the importance of having a rock-solid family structure because when there's no dad to
lay down the law mom is too weak to say no to their 17 year old that wants to go out with an
ar-15 in the middle of a riot in kenosha wisconsin he was at a stupid place and i don't blame him so
much i do blame his mother though for being at a stupid for allowing his son to go to a stupid
place now you're there in proverbs chapter 4 look at verse 26 it says ponder the path of thy feet
and let all thy ways be established turn not to the right hand nor to the left remove thy foot
from evil so the bible teaches that we should ponder or consider the path of our feet now i
think the most important application of this is where we're going in life our direction in life
are we going a direction in life that'd be pleasing to the lord that's following god's
commandments or are we going away in life that's displeasing to him that's not following his
commandments but also in a very physical sense it would be wise to ponder the path of thy feet
where your feet are taking you to physical places in this world it would be wise to consider the
path of your feet and wondering am i going to a stupid place right now there are places that are
stupid to be at i'll read for you you can just actually flip over to proverbs chapter number three
proverbs 3 and verse 5 the bible says trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not
unto thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths
be not wise in thine own eyes fear the lord and depart from evil and i'll submit to you that if
we fear the lord and if we trust the lord and we obey what the bible tells us the bible is going
to tell us the path we should go in life spiritually and also very physical places that
the bible tells us that we should avoid that we should not be around places that will bring evil
to our lives go to proverbs chapter number seven proverbs chapter number seven and we'll find a
great example of this of a stupid place to be proverbs chapter number seven look at verse five
that they may keep thee from the strange woman from the stranger which flattereth with her words
for at the window of my house i looked through my casement and beheld among the simple ones notice
he's beholding someone who's simple or stupid it says i discern among the youths a man void
of understanding and what was he doing he was passing through the street near her corner and
he went the way to her house what was it that was so stupid and so foolish that this young man was
doing he was going through the street and near the corner of the whore of the strange woman and let
me tell you it's not wise to be in a place where you know the strange woman is it's not wise to
purposely put yourself in the physical location where you may be tempted by the strange woman
that's a stupid place to be the bible says he looked out of his window and he saw among the
simple ones among someone who has no understanding and what is he doing he's by her corner now you
can't take this too far where like every time you're you know at the grocery store and you see
a whore you got to run out the building or something like that but this should teach us
wisdom that hey i shouldn't be putting myself in a physical location that's going to be tempting me
to sin it's a stupid place to be we don't need to leave the world we don't we just don't want to be
of the world now what's the consequence of making this mistake of being in this stupid place around
the strange woman look at proverbs 7 verse 21 it says this with her much fair speech she caused
him to yield with the flattering of her lips she forced him he goeth after her straight way as an
ox goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks till a dart strike through
his liver as a bird hasteneth to the snare and knoweth not that it is for his life hearken unto
me now therefore oh you children in a tent 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 have
been slain by her her house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of death the bible
paints a very descriptive picture of a person that gets deceived by the fall by the uh strange woman
as someone that's like an ox going to the slaughter just getting completely destroyed
or getting a dart through your liver and it says that she's cast down many wounded
yea many strong men have been slain by her it doesn't say that oh only really weak christians
get destroyed by the strange woman only people that are really weak and fleshly get destroyed no
the bible says that many strong men have been slain by her by the strange woman and so if you're
smart you would say okay if if the strange woman can get david the strange woman could probably get
me too so i'm not going to purposely go to a physical location i'm not going to go pass by
her house at night i'm not going to go you know pass by her corner and be in all these places
where i'm going to be tempted by the strange woman that's a stupid place to be proverbs
chapter 6 look at verse 26 says for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread
and the adulterous will hunt for the precious life the bible describes a whorish woman as
bringing a man to a piece of bread basically taking everything he has taking his wealth
taking his money taking the house taking car until he's just left with a piece of bread
you say well this couldn't happen to strong christians well really steadfast baptist
church it could even happen to pastors where their lives are brought to a piece of bread
by the whorish woman why because they're going stupid places where the whores are like casinos
it's a pretty stupid place to be these horrible places where you're going to be around the strange
woman it's it's not a matter of opinion it's a stupid place it's a stupid place to be look at
verse number 32 of proverbs six but who so committed adultery with a woman lacketh
understanding he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul a wound and dishonor shall he get and his
reproach shall not be wiped away for jealousy is the rage of a man therefore he will not spare in
the day of vengeance he will not regard any ransom neither will he rest content though
thou givest many gifts this is why it's important to avoid this situation altogether because the
consequences of being deceived by the adulterous by the strange woman are severe the bible says
that you're going to have a wound and dishonor and a reproach that will never be wiped away
you know it's possible that you know even though it's not right if a spouse commits adultery on
the other spouse it's possible that that spouse will never forgive forgive them the right thing
for them to do is to forgive their spouse they're asking for forgiveness but the bible says that
their reproach will never be wiped away that's a very serious wording it has there and it says
that jealousy is the rage of a man you know you go and commit adultery with another man's wife
you just might get killed you might literally physically get killed because you do that why
all because you're going to a stupid place the place where the adulterous is the place where the
whore is and you know kyle rittenhouse he went to a really stupid place and he's lucky that he
didn't physically die he almost did physically die beating the head of the skateboard hit with
a rock in the back of the head you know he's sustaining some serious injuries and there was
even gunshots that went off around him who knows if that person was even aiming at him or if he's
just shooting into the air kyle rittenhouse is very very lucky to be alive because why he violated
one of the rules of stupid going to a stupid place and you know if you ever find yourself in a stupid
place you need to realize okay i'm in a stupid place right now i need to have my guard up i need
to have my vigilance up you know when when i'm driving home from pure words baptist church and
it's 1 am and i'm stopping at a gas station i'm like okay i'm in a stupid place at a stupid time
probably around a bunch of stupid people this is where you need to be fully vigilant this is not
where you go and pump your gas and you're just like on facebook right it's a horrible idea you
want to be vigilant you find yourself around a strange woman you find yourself as a married man
and a woman's kind of acting inappropriately around you she's looking at you weird or vice versa
married ladies a man's you know coming on strong to you it's not your husband it's acting weird to
you you know realize hey i might be at a stupid place right now i need to put my guard up i need
to pay attention i need to be vigilant so that this evil doesn't come upon my life
first corinthians chapter number seven you know another stupid place for people to be is really
anytime that you're alone with the opposite gender anytime you're alone with the opposite
gender that's not your mom that's not your grandma that's not your sister you know that's a stupid
place to be that's a place where you're putting yourself in unnecessary temptation and you could
have unnecessary evil come upon your life why because you're putting yourself in a stupid
situation look at first corinthians seven it says in verse number one it says now concerning the
things where have you wrote unto me it is good for a man not to touch a woman nevertheless to
avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband
so the bible says very clearly that it's good for a man not to touch a woman now why is that
why is it good for a man not to touch a woman what is the danger of a man touching a woman it
says nevertheless to avoid fornication the danger there is fornication and when people are dating
when people are getting to know each other you got to realize whether you're christian or not
the danger of fornication is highest when people are alone when people when or same thing with
adultery when two people opposite genders are together alone that is a place that's very
dangerous to be in and it could be a stupid place if you find yourself alone with the opposite
gender now what's the solution though what's the solution for fornication the bible says let every
man have his own wife the the solution is marriage and that's why we believe that dating should be
for marriage not this old-fashioned it's not really old-fashioned but it was kind of popular
in the 50s where you just like date a different girl every week or whatever that's not really the
purpose of dating the purpose of dating is for marriage but during that time you need to be
protected from yourselves dating couples need to be protected from themselves because they're at
a dangerous situation and you can't just expect your kids good character your kids good christian
values your your kids uh how many times they've read the bible to get them to the marriage altar
pure that's not going to happen you can't just trust your kids you have to ensure and protect
them you know i'm very glad that when me and jasmine were dating we had eyes on us all the time
every second okay and even then it's hard it's hard to just be a hundred percent pure when you're
attracted to someone and so don't be so naive to think that oh my kids are fine they can just go
off all by themselves at all hours of the night and nothing's going to happen to them that's a
really foolish that's a really stupid thing to do you're allowing them to be in a stupid place
because they're alone with the opposite gender it's asking for trouble look at genesis chapter
number 34 genesis chapter number 34 and we'll get a story in the bible about this we have dina
the daughter of jacob now jacob is a godly man isn't he probably a good dad you know he had his
moments of failure but overall jacob is a great man of god but look what happens in genesis chapter
number 34 and dina the daughter of leah which she bear unto jacob went out to see the daughters of
the land and when sheikim the son of haymore the hivite prince of the country saw her he took her
and lay with her and defiled her now you know what happened here is basically dina is going out she's
not supervised she's just with her girlfriends or whatever and she goes out and this guy sheikim sees
her wants her and lies with her the bible is pretty clear that this is not rape this is
fornication this is a consensual thing but guess what this would have never happened if jacob had
his eyes on his daughter or if leah had her eyes on his dog on her daughter it never ever would
have happened and really the only way to ensure that your children will get to the marriage alter
pure is by making sure that someone sees them at all times i'm not saying that you got to sit at
their table at a restaurant or something like that you can sit on the opposite side of the restaurant
right or have a chaperone or something like that but your children or your people that are adults
and that are still not married need accountability when they are dating because anytime you're alone
with the opposite gender it's a stupid place to be it's a stupid place to be it was a stupid
place to be for dina and guess what happened to her she was defiled an unnecessary evil came upon
her life came upon this whole nation because of jacob's fault of not watching her not being
not supervising his daughter romans 13 14 i'll read for you says but put you on the lord jesus
christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof you know the bible
teaches us very clearly that the flesh wants to do that which is sinful wants to do that which is
wicked and we all have that flesh in us whether you're a good little christian boy or a good
little christian girl or a preacher or a soul winner all of us have that flesh and so the
bible teaches very clearly that we have to make sure that we don't make provision give opportunity
to feed the opportunity for us to fulfill the lusts of the flesh what's the lust of the flesh
it's something that you want to do anyways i mean it's a dangerous situation to put your flesh in a
situation that your flesh already wants to do anyways and then just think that you're going
to resist that temptation when the opportunity comes no you have to make not provision for the
flesh make it to where it's impossible to commit fornication why by having eyes on you you're not
going to commit fornication if eyes are on you literally it's not going to happen it's a stupid
place to be if you're alone with the opposite gender now you know a lot of people sometimes
they move out of their parents house go to first corinthian seven some people they move out of
their parents house before they're married i was in that situation i i was out of my parents house
for maybe like eight to ten months before i was married and i moved for the purpose dating jasmine
and and all that but a lot of people they move out of their parents house and then they're not
dating anyone they're just living alone for a long period of time this could also be a very dangerous
situation because if you're dating it's not like mom and dad can come to the chaperone and watch
you you know when you're 24 and you're not you know living at home anymore so what's the solution
for this first corinthian seven verse nine let me get there myself first corinthians chapter number
seven look at verse number nine it says but if they cannot contain let them marry for it is
better to marry than to burn you know if you're dating someone and you're constantly finding
yourself in that temptation or god forbid you're actually falling into that temptation you're
dating someone and living in fornication the answer is to get married because you're putting
yourself in a stupid place you obviously can't contain because no man can contain that straight
okay that's why you just have to get married that's what the bible says the answer is it's
better to marry than to burn it's a stupid place to be alone with the opposite gender go to proverbs
chapter number 23 proverbs chapter number 23 and we'll talk about another stupid place to be
proverbs chapter number 23
look at verse 29 it says who hath woe woe is like extreme sorrow or pain who hath sorrow
who hath contentions who hath babbling just gibberish speaking nothing who hath wounds
without cause breaking your arm for no reason getting your teeth knocked out for no reason
getting in a car accident and getting all jacked up for no reason at all
who has these things who hath redness of eyes they that tarry along at the wine they that go to
seek mixed wine you know what's a really stupid place to go is a bar it's a really stupid place
to go nothing good happens at a bar nothing good happens at a place where people are drinking
alcohol the only thing that's going to happen is you're going to have babbling you're going to be
sounding like an idiot you're going to have wounds without cause i mean how many times have you seen
the stupid youtube videos of people getting drunk and doing something that hurts themselves
you know the bottle they're trying to drink and the bottle goes like this and knocks all their
teeth out because they're so drunk i've seen videos of of these drunk hillbillies with samurai swords
chucking up fruit and going like this while they're drunk and a guy literally just chopped
his hand off chopped his own hand off while drunk oh it's just a good time let's just get drunk and
have a good old time next thing you know your hands chopped off why because you cut it off
with a sword i mean wow but this is the type of thing that actually happens when people get drunk
you know just this week i believe yeah just this last week a police officer in the town next where
i live bedford was off duty just enjoying a day off and some drunk driver t-boned him and killed
him and guess what that family now their dad's gone their husband's gone their son's gone you
know their brother is gone why because some idiot decided to drink alcohol and let me tell you what
going to a bar is one of the dumbest places you could ever go you're around dumb people you're
doing a dumb activity i mean it's violating all the rules of stupid you're at a dumb place you're
a dumb people it's a dumb time they're open all night long you know bars are a horrible place to
be look what it says in verse 30 they that terry long at the wine they that go to mix that go to
seek mixed wine look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth its color in the cup
when it moveth itself aright at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an
adder thine eyes shall behold strange women thine heart shall utter perverse things
yea thou shall be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea whereas he that lieth upon the
top of a mast they've stricken me shalt thou say and i was not sick they have beaten me and i felt
it not when shall i wake i will seek it yet again the bible describes a very descriptive
case of someone that drinks alcohol as someone that just has a miserable life the bible does
not sugarcoat this issue or make it seem like well it's kind of fun but there's some danger
no it's just someone that is in a miserable condition a miserable life they wake up they
have wounds on their body that they don't even know how it got there they're sick they don't
even realize that they've been beaten they didn't even feel it and when they wake up they just seek
it again and again and again they do the same thing over and over and over and so why would
you want to go to a place that the bible describes that is going to cause you to have extreme woe
and extreme sorrow and it's going to cause your eyes to behold the strange woman which we already
talked about that being around the strange woman is a stupid place to be okay so let's go drink
alcohol that's going to make me want to look at the strange woman lower my inhibitions that i
don't have any judgment so that i violate all these rules of stupid you know what i bet you
a lot of the people around kenosha wisconsin and all these people that are rioting i bet
you there's a bunch of people that are drinking and doing drugs because that's how wicked people
are drinking and doing drugs it's a stupid place to be here's another stupid place to be go to
second peter chapter number two second peter chapter number two another stupid place to be
is a bad church a bad church is a stupid place to be i mean you want to talk about wasting your time
it's actually more than a waste of time it's just a complete detriment to you being in a bad church
with a false prophet as the pastor as the preacher or just teaching damnable heresy it's a it's a
waste of time it's a stupid place to be look at second peter chapter number two look at verse one
it says but there were false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers
among you who privately shall bring in damnable heresy even denying the lord that bought them
and bringing upon themselves swift destruction and many shall follow their pernicious ways
by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of notice the bible says that many people
will follow their pernicious ways what does pernicious mean it means harmful
so many people are going to be harmed by who the false prophets so going to a place where
false prophets are going to be preaching things that are damnable heresy and drawing people away
sounds like a pretty stupid place to be when the bible says that many people are going to be
following their pernicious their harmful their hurtful ways look at verse three and through
covetousness shall they with fainted words make merchandise of you whose judgment now of a long
time lingereth not and their damnation slumber if not the bible gives an example of one of the
pernicious ways that they hurt people through covetousness through covetousness they with
fainted or fake made up not sincere words they make merchandise of you it's the churches that
want to charge you for their you know book club in the back of the church or whatever it's the
churches that want you to put your hand on the screen and donate five thousand dollars and god's
going to give you tenfold back there's people all over this country that literally get ripped off
by false prophets why because through covetousness they're making merchandise of people so being in a
bad church is a stupid place to be it's stupid to follow a person that's claiming to be a man
of god that all he's doing is he's hurting you well financially and spiritually it's a stupid
thing i'll read for you matthew chapter 23 verse 13 it says but woe unto you scribes and Pharisees
hypocrites for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men for you neither go in yourselves
neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in so the bible describes jesus describes false
prophets as people that are not going to heaven and they're actively stopping people that are
trying to go to heaven so who does that make me think of how about the mormons you know the mormon
religion is probably the worst false religion that just makes me the most mad why because they're the
people that are going and stopping people from entering heaven i i can't tell you how many times
i've been driving in a little itty bitty town in washington itty bitty town in idaho where there
it looks like there's like 10 houses there and i've seen a mormon missionary at someone's door
on their stupid bikes through the little village with 10 little houses that should make us mad
what a stupid place to go to a mormon church where they're gonna damn people to hell what a stupid
place to go to a catholic church where they're gonna damn people to hell what a stupid place
to go to a baptist church that's calvinist who believes that god just picks and chooses
it where people go to heaven and hell stupid places to be bad churches and remember we're
taking this physical truth of kyle rittenhouse and we're seeing how not only can that truth help us
physically but also spiritually kyle rittenhouse he was in a really stupid place i would argue
and it caused him a lot of pain a lot of trouble his family a lot of pain you know this big ordeal
why because he was in a stupid place and i wonder how many how much pain spiritually people have
suffered in this world because they were in a stupid place because they were around the the
woman that wanted to commit adultery with some man or the man that wanted to commit adultery
with some woman because people are around alcohol because people are at the bar because people are
at bad churches that's probably the number one cause of spiritual pain that i could think of
is going to a bad church so can you see how the bible does teach us to avoid stupid places
let's talk about stupid times what time did the kyle rittenhouse shootings occur
the first shots occurred at 11 48 p.m now is that a stupid time to be out i would say so
17 year old out at 11 48 p.m why what happens he suffers evil he has to kill a bunch of people now
i'm glad that the pedophile's dead don't get me wrong about that but i'm not happy for kyle
rittenhouse and all the evil that he's had to suffer i'm not happy that kyle rittenhouse can't
sleep every night i'm not happy that he's so anxious and nervous he's just vomiting all the
time you know i'm not happy about that whatsoever well it could have been avoided if he wasn't at a
stupid place it could have been avoided if he wasn't out at a stupid time you know throughout
most of 2020 i was still living in the portland oregon metro and like most of the country in the
summer of 2020 every single night there was riots violent riots and something that i noticed that
probably happened in other places too is that every single night in portland i was working
in the city of portland during this time protests would start at two three o'clock and they would
actually be mostly peaceful you know cns has mostly peaceful protests well at two o'clock
pm it actually was mostly peaceful at three at four at five you know but around six o'clock
it wasn't so much of a peaceful protest anymore why because that's when it starts getting into
a stupid time at least you know when it starts getting dark when it starts getting dark that
starts to become a stupid time and guess what you saw all the peaceful protesters pack up and go
home because they didn't want to be in a stupid place they didn't want to be out at a stupid time
and what happened all the stupid people came out at those stupid times and what happened is now
instead of the peaceful protests it was violent riots and there was violent riots in portland
ogre in portland oregon for over 100 days straight at the time donald trump was the president and he
actually sent federal police officers in unmarked minivans into downtown portland and these like
minivans are just driving through portland and all of a sudden all these dudes tacked out are just
grabbing people throwing them into the van and driving off like it was insane people were taking
lasers and blinding police officers they were throwing rocks they're throwing molotov cocktails
they're pepper spraying things they were destroying property they're beating people up
win at night this wasn't happening at broad daylight this was happening at night now where
what time was kyle rittenhouse out at night this wasn't the priestful protesters that he was
dealing with this was the joseph rosenbaums the multiple times convicted pedophiles that's who
was out that night uh the gauge gross crits is the people who have a felony past people that are just
insane communists you look at this guy's social media profile he's just a deranged god-hating
commie those are the type of people that are out at night at these riots go to proverbs chapter
number seven now we looked at an aspect of this already with a strange woman but i want to focus
on a different part this time proverbs chapter number seven look at verse eight it says so that
we're talking about the simple man the foolish man void of understanding it says verse eight
passing through the street near her corner and he went the way to her house in the twilight
in the evening in the black and dark night now is it a coincidence that the bible in one verse
repeats three times what time this person was out that's not a coincidence it's the twilight
it's the nighttime it's the evening it's the black and dark night the bible is trying to
get something across to us he's out at a stupid time not only is it a really stupid place he's
out at a really stupid time verse 10 and behold there met him a woman with the entire oven harlot
and subtle of heart she's loud and stubborn her feet abide not in her house and so look nothing
good happens at night it's not smart to be out on the streets at 11 48 p.m at night it's not smart
to be passing by the whorish woman's house at one o'clock in the morning it's not smart to be
in downtown portland oregon after dark it's a stupid time you know and the only good things
that happen tonight is christmas caroling okay or the the new year's eve party at steadfast
baptist church that's it other than that it's all stupid to be out at those times go to romans
chapter number 13 romans chapter 13
i love the way that romans 13 describes this romans 13 look at verse 12 says the night is
far spent the day is at hand so we're contrasting two things night and day let us therefore cast
off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light let us walk honestly as in the day
not in rioting also i wonder when rioting happenings happens according to the bible
according to the bible rioting does not happen during the day it happens at night
and drunkenness usually happens at night chambering what is chambering chambering is
lewdness or covering yourself or concealing yourself to do some sort of wicked act think
of a chamber you go into the chamber chambering covering a wicked act wantonness is it's lascivious
promiscuous used especially of women exciting or expressing lustful desires happens at night
not in strife and envying but put you on the lord jesus christ and make not provision for the flesh
to fulfill the lust thereof so notice walking in the day us as christians we're supposed to
put off the works of darkness we're supposed to walk as children of light we're supposed
to be walking honestly as in the day what's walking in the day walking in the day is walking
in the spirit casting off the works of darkness doing that which is right doing things in the open
for everyone to see honest in the sight of men honest in the sight of god that's walking in
the day but what's walking in darkness well it's all these sins that romans 13 listed and when do
all these sins happen they happen in literal darkness that's not a coincidence that is not
a coincidence that's why you know at steadfast Baptist Church we don't dim down the lights like
the mega churches do and have the ladies on the elevated stage you know singing sensually wearing
a mini skirt no because that's the works of darkness we don't want this place to feel dark
because we're supposed to be you know the candlestick we're supposed to be the light
shining the gospel to this area you know we're supposed to be children of light we're not
supposed to be hiding anything we're not supposed to be doing anything in darkness by the way if
you're doing something where you're afraid people will see you it's probably a sin if you're out
with your girlfriend and you're afraid that people are looking at you and see what you're doing
you're probably doing something wrong you don't want to be doing something where you feel like
people can't see what you're doing that's the works of darkness now I'm not saying oh you got
to be you know sinless and perfect and everything no obviously we all have sin but I'm saying
you need to examine yourself and see if you're having these works of darkness in your life and
realize that hey if it's literally dark outside there's probably a lot of rioting going on out
there there's probably a lot of drunkenness going on out there there's probably a bunch of chambering
and wantonness and envings and strife and all these works of the flesh these works of darkness
and we should avoid it and not be around it and not be out at stupid times I go to second
samuel chapter number 11 second samuel chapter number 11 and I think the story of David
committing adultery with Bathsheba is a great example of being out at a stupid time second
samuel 11 verse 1 it says and it came to pass after the year was expired and I want you to
remember this phrase at the time when kings go forth to battle we're talking about time stupid
times that David sent to Joab and his servants with him and all Israel and they destroyed the
children of Ammon and besieged Rabah but David tarried still at Jerusalem and it came to pass
in an evening tide I want you to remember that phrase as well that David arose from off his bed
and walked upon the roof of the king's house and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and
the woman was very beautiful to look upon and David sent and inquired after the woman and one
said is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliim the wife of Uriah the Hittite and David sent
messengers and took her and she came in unto him and he lay with her for she was purified from her
uncleanness and she returned unto her house and the woman conceived and sent and told David and
said I am with child so what happens here David is up late at night on his rooftop sees a woman
that's beautiful gets told that it's someone else's wife yet still lays with her and now
she's with child now I believe that David was violating the rule of stupid in two senses here
number one it was even time it was late we've already talked about physical darkness and
nighttime that's a stupid time to be out just doing nothing just looking around on your roof
with no purpose that's the time you need to be in bed with your family or being inside but also
the way he was violating the rule of stupid when it comes to stupid times his bible says that it
was at the time when kings go forth to battle and so David was not doing what he was supposed
to be doing at the time he was supposed to be doing it there's also not only literal times like
11 o'clock midnight one o'clock in the morning that's bad but also there could be seasons or
times in our life where doing something would be inappropriate so there's nothing wrong with
David being at home there's not even necessarily something wrong with him just being out on his
rooftop what's wrong though is when you're supposed to be in battle and you're at home
when you're supposed to be in battle and you're out on your rooftop when you're supposed to be in
battle and it's late at night and you're doing nothing that's what's wrong and so when it's time
when it's appropriate to be going to battle that's when you should be going to battle and when it's
not time for that then you shouldn't and this reminds me of asahel go to second samuel chapter
number two second samuel chapter number two
second samuel chapter two we get a story of a man named asahel
let's start reading in verse number 10
says here ishbe sheth saul's son was 40 years old when he began to reign over israel
and reigned two years but the house of judah followed david and the time that
david was king in hebron over the house of judah was seven years and six months
and abner the son of ner and the servants of ishbe sheth the son of saul went out from mehannaim
to gibeon and joab the son of zayariah and the servants of david went out and met together by
the pool of gibeon and they sat down the one on the one side of the pool and the other on the
other side of the pool so at this time israel had two kings israel ishbe sheth and then judah david
ishbe oh man i can't say that name to save my life i'll call him ish ish had uh abner as his
captain and david had joab as his captain they come down to this pool they get down on the
opposite sides of the pool and they're about to have a battle look at verse number 14 it says
and abner said to joab let the young men now rise and play before us and joab said who's
david's servant let them arise then there arose and went over by number 12 of benjamin
which pertained to ishbe sheth the son of saul and 12 of the servants of david so they're having
like this weird like ceremonial type battle where you got the armies on both sides but 12
representatives are going to come to the pool and they're going to fight with each other look at
verse 16 and they caught everyone his fellow by the head and thrust his sword into his fellow's
side so they fell down together wherefore that place was called hellcap hazzarim which is in
gibeon so what happens is they have this battle but it's a draw basically they're all dead and
so now they're going to have a bigger battle after that verse 17 it says and there was a very sore
battle that day so it sounds like it's a bigger battle than this little skirmish that they had
and abner who is of the house of saul was beaten and the men of israel before the servants of
david and there were three sons of zariah there joab and abishai and asahel and asahel was as
light of foot as a as a wild row so asahel is on the right team here he's on david's team
and they just had this little skirmish it was kind of a draw but then they had a bigger battle
and then joab basically beat abner so david's team is winning abner's retreating he's leaving
he's defeated in battle and he's leaving but look what happens look what asahel decides to do even
though that they've already won and the enemy's retreating this is what he does and asahel pursued
after abner and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following abner
then abner looked behind him and said art thou asahel and he said i am and abner said to him
turn me aside to thy right hand or to thy left and lay thee hold on one of the young men and
take thee his armor but asahel would not turn aside from following of him verse 22 and abner
said again to ashel turn me aside from following me wherefore should i smite thee to the ground
how then should i hold up my face to joab thy brother so abner's retreating and he's getting
followed by this guy asahel and he's like look go away don't make me kill you boy he's like i
don't want to have to like face your brother after i kill you but obviously his life is in danger
here he's being chased by asahel he's going to defend himself he's saying you might just get out
of here i'm warning you right now don't fight this isn't your time to pick a battle with me
verse 23 how be it he refused to turn aside wherefore abner with the hindering end of the
spear smote him under the fifth rib that the spear came out behind him and he fell down there
and died in the same place and it came to pass that as many as came to the place where asahel
fell down and died stood still now i'll submit to you what i was saying when it's time to go to
battle that's when you should be going to battle when it's not time to go to battle you shouldn't
be going to battle here's the thing asahel's side had already basically won the battle
they're retreating abner's retreating but he gets a little overzealous he wants to take things into
his own hands he wants to do something that's not at an appropriate time and he wants to just keep
fighting away from the group he doesn't have any support and what happens he dies you know what
this reminds me of kyle rittenhouse because here's the thing kyle rittenhouse is 17 years old he's
got a lot of ambition he wants you know i think he was in the police cadet program and the firefighter
program i didn't know which one he wanted to be but obviously he wanted to commit his life to
public service be a police officer and be a firefighter and hey that sounds great i understand
where he's coming from but he wanted to take on that role a little too soon i think it wasn't
really his time to battle if he would have waited a couple years trust me they'll still be riots in
a few years for you to deal with kyle and i wish the people like kyle rittenhouse were police
officers he seems like he's got a good head on him he seems like he's got you know the ability
to pull the trigger you know which let's get let's get these wicked people off the streets
i have no problem with that but was it his time in life to do that no and he's lucky he didn't
turn out like as hell and get killed he almost did but you know he still probably ruined the
potential of him ever being a police officer or ever being a firefighter you think that there's
any police department in this country that would see his background and put him on the police
department i highly doubt it because like what if he gets an officer involved shooting in the future
and it's like okay well you have a history of doing that that's what the other side's going
to try to do and it's just going to be too much of a headache you know he probably lost that
opportunity of doing that that career and that dream that he had why because he didn't do it at
the right time and so there's things in our life that are not necessarily bad things to do but they
need to be done at the right time when there's a time to battle that's when you battle you know if
you're a police officer and you get the call to go into kenosha that's the time and go out and
fight as hard as you can and protect your community but when you're 17 years old
it's just not the right time to do it and so i think about that in our life you know as christians
we need to make sure that we're disciplined to do things when we're supposed to be doing them you
kids hey when it's school time get your schoolwork done be doing what you're supposed to be doing at
that time doing your school work you know when it's time to go to church that's time to be in
church that's not time to be at home playing video games that's not time to be getting your
fifth overtime shift of the week that's time to be in the house of god and guess what it's gonna
be a lot it's gonna be really hard for you to suffer a lot of evil or for you to commit a lot
of sin when you're in church but it's gonna be pretty easy if you're outside of church
being at the wrong place not at the right time when it's time to go soul winning you know that's
the time to go soul winning in king david when it's even time and it's late and it's night time
it's time to go to bed it's time to go to bed when it's at night time it's not time to just
stay up all night and wander around the street by the by the horse woman's house it's not time
to be out on your rooftop just looking around just meandering through life you know and when
it's 11 o'clock at night and a riot in kenosha it's time to go home kyle go to bed kyle that's
what it should have happened and he would have avoided some evil and us as christians we will
avoid a lot of evil in our life if we are doing things at the correct time if we're not out at
stupid times go to proverbs chapter one i'll read for you john 319 it says and this is the
condemnation that light has come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because
their deeds were evil the bible is very clear that darkness is associated with sin so we talked
about being at stupid places and being at stupid times now let's really quickly talk about being
around stupid people and we are talking about cot right now think about it's a stupid place for
him to be downtown kenosha right during a riot it's a bad place to be it's a stupid time it's
a stupid time both very literally the time of day and it was a stupid time in his life it was
not the season of his life to be doing that well he also violated the third rule of stupid which
is not to be around stupid people and the bible apps absolutely does teach this but we have to
realize we have to be careful and and be cognizant of when we're violating these rules because we
need to know that we're at an increased risk of danger when we're at stupid places stupid times
with stupid people look at proverbs chapter number one look at verse 10 it says my son if
sinners entice thee consent thou not if they say come with us let us lay wait for blood let us
lurk privately for the innocent without cause let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole
as those that go down into the pit we shall find all precious substance we shall fill our houses
with spoil cast in thy lot among us let us all have one purse my son walk not thou in the way
with them refrain thy foot from their path for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed
blood you know these people the bible is describing them as violent people that are just
running to shed blood and i can't think of a passage that reminds me more of these antifa
black lives matter violent rioters than right here in proverbs chapter one and think about it
when you're alive when you're around with people like this that live their whole life to just seek
for innocent blood you know they're they're commies they want to uh cast in their law and
just have one purse right and that's what these you know antifa people are a bunch of communists
and they're violent people and it's stupid to be around violent stupid people what good is going
to happen when you're around a bunch of people that are seeking for trouble that are seeking
to shed blood and in august of 2020 when kyle written house was in kenosha he was surrounded
by a bunch of violent wicked people that wanted to cause trouble that wanted to hurt people that
have a track record of hurting people in the past and so realize that when you're around a foolish
person you are at an increased risk of danger when you're around a stupid person when you're
around a violent person you are at an increased risk of danger both physically and spiritually
go to proverbs chapter number four really quickly look at verse 14 proverbs 4 verse 14 it says enter
not into the path of the wicked so this is something you should avoid and go not in the
way of evil men avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away for they sleep not except they
have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall you want to know
why the rioters and the protesters are out protesting that late at night because they
can't sleep unless they cause some to fall and it's hard for us as christians to even believe
not for you i know it's very easy for you to believe this for for most of us that haven't
really dealt with evil people on a very regular basis it's hard for us to believe that there's
literally people that cannot sleep unless they've done some sort of evil wicked act it's just it's
almost unfathomable but thank god the bible tells us that that's the case that's why the bible says
to avoid being around them to enter not into the path of the wicked because you're putting yourself
in a situation where people these people literally cannot go to bed at night they're not
going to leave kenosha and go to bed until they've caused someone to fall and so where was kyle
writtenhouse well he's at a stupid place at a stupid time around a bunch of stupid people
around a bunch of violent people that are waiting to see someone fall i'll read for you proverbs 9
6 it says forsake the foolish and live and go in the way of understanding he that reproveth a
scorner getteth to himself shame and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot
reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction
to a wise man and he will yet be wiser teach a just man and he will increase learning so how
can you tell when you're around a foolish person when you're around a brutish person when you're
around a stupid person well it's a person that can't take correction it's a person that can't
be told no they'll throw a fit if you correct them they have to have their way that's why you
know on the night where kyle writtenhouse was going to get his his guilty or not guilty verdict
there's protests all around america saying basically if we don't get our verdict we're
burning it down and just making threats like that saying if we don't get our way we're burning this
city to the ground every precinct every town burn it to the ground basically things that they're
chanting and a person that can't be corrected a person that can't be told no a person that doesn't
get their way they're a foolish person and so us as christians if we see someone get correction
either from yourself or the pastor gives someone correction or just a man of god gives someone
correction and they don't receive that correction they dig in you know that you're dealing with a
fool and that's someone that you should be aware of because that person can cause you
damage and harm in your life spiritually these type of people they hurt a church because people
that come in here and they don't want to listen to the preaching they don't want to listen to what
the bible says they don't want to listen to the reproof of pastor shelley they just want to dig in
and stay in whatever heresy they're in that's going to cause division and harm in a local new
testament church that's why the bible says to avoid them to forsake them this is what titus 3
says a man that is in heretic after the first and second admonition reject knowing that he that is
such is subverted and sinneth being condemned of himself what does it mean to be subverted
says to overthrow to cause the downfall of the ruin or destruction of or to undermine the
principles of so someone that's subverted they're ruined they're morally corrupt their principles
are corrupt if you can show something clear as day to a person in the bible one and then two times
and i'm not saying they just don't understand it yet or they just need some time to learn
but i'm saying they reject it if you show someone something so clear out of the bible and they
reject it once and twice that person's to be rejected because they're subverted their
principles are corrupt that person is completely corrupt and they're they're condemned of themselves
because really it's their fault for having such a stiff neck go to romans chapter number 16
what are these people like that are not able to be corrected that are not able to be told no
people that cause divisions what are these people like look over uh romans 16 verse 17 it says now
i beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine
which you have learned and avoid them we already talked about that we should avoid these people
when they're teaching bad doctrine verse 18 for they that are such surf for jesus christ
but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple and
sometimes people that are simple will see someone that they think is really good get corrected on
preaching damnable heresy and they'll dig into damnable heresy and say well they're just a really
good person no they're not a really good person they actually serve themselves they serve their
own belly and they don't serve jesus christ why because they wouldn't be so stiff-necked against
the truth they wouldn't be a heretic that rejects the truth of the bible and be subverted sinning
and condemning against themselves and you know this makes me think of this guy norm diamante
does anyone know who this norm diamante guy is some guy on youtube that makes videos about
doctrine he has like an audio bible and everything like that and i didn't know that this guy was as
bad as apparently he is because a few weeks ago he made a video called is public confession necessary
for salvation and then in parentheses it says the sinner's prayer he says this will upset some so i
saw that title i'm like this is kind of weird like that's kind of a red flag to title your video
something like that because what i see from that video is him saying i'm about to teach that you
don't have to call upon the name of the lord and it's going to piss you off and i'm like you're
right it is going to piss me off because it's damnable heresy this is what he says he reads
john 12 verse 42 i'll read it for you or you could turn there john 12 42 says nevertheless
among the chief rulers also many believed on him but because of the pharisees they did not confess
him lest they should be put out of the synagogue for they love the praise of men more than the
praise of god what is this talking about there's chief rulers that believe on christ they're saved
but they're not confessing christ before the pair of the pharisees they're not telling the pharisees
hey i'm a christian hey i believe in jesus christ hey this is the son of god right here
why are they not confessing him openly telling them that they believe in him because they didn't
want to be put out of the synagogue they didn't want to be rejected they cared more about the
fear of man than they did of the fear of god they loved the praise of men more than the praise of
god that's what this scripture is about that is clearly all it is about is confessing christ
publicly as in telling people you believe in him well this is what he does he abuses this
scripture and he twists this scripture and he acts very deceitful with this scripture and when
i saw him do this i was like this is a serious red flag of a wicked heart because no sincere
person reads this verse and comes to the conclusion that he comes to in this scripture
this is what he says so here we have a clear example of an individual who is believing on
christ receiving salvation receiving eternal everlasting life without a what public confession
without repeating a prayer so you just out of nowhere throws this idea of how these people
didn't repeat a prayer and that's somehow connected to their public confession it's like
do you want to list all the things that they also didn't do in this verse as well oh they didn't
confess him publicly they didn't repeat a prayer they didn't dance on the head of a pin they didn't
ride a bicycle they didn't sit in a chair it's like you don't just get to read a scripture and
then talk about every single thing that didn't happen in that scripture and act like that
supports your stupid doctrine it's like what are you talking about oh they didn't confess him they
didn't have a public confession without repeating a prayer he just interjects that out of nowhere
repeating a prayer praying a prayer is nothing to do with the context of this verse it's nowhere in
the story and he just throws that out of nowhere he's being abusive with the scriptures he's being
sneaky with the scriptures he says but they were saved because they believe now i agree with them
there i believe that these people are saved now would you call into question the chief ruler
salvation because there was a lack of confession here of course not now he didn't straight up in
his videos say you don't have to call upon the name of the lord to be saved he didn't straight
up say that why because he's being sneaky he's acting like a false prophet would act he's acting
like what a damnable heretic would act and i did tell him that i believe that he's preaching
damnable heresy but i didn't call him a damnable heretic but this is what i asked him because i
just wanted to make him make it clear to us what he's teaching stop being so vague stop dancing
around the issue why don't you tell us exactly what you believe and i'll just read for you what
i asked him i said let me ask you did you ask god to save you out loud or at least in your heart
when you got saved he said did you just get marching orders wow real funny hilarious he
says lol show me a verse that says with the heart man asks unto righteousness always i said so you
don't want to answer whether or not you ask god to save you when you got saved he's just dodging
the question just insulting me not wanting to address the issue he says so you don't have a
verse with a thumbs up he says i got saved when i heard the gospel preached and i decided to believe
it in my heart trusting christ jesus alone to save me so now two times he's avoided my question
he's not answering if he's asked god to save him in his heart or out loud he won't answer
so here's the third time he asked him said okay so when you believe that message when you heard
the gospel you did ask god to save you or didn't you he says it's not asking that saves you it's
believe on the lord jesus christ and thou shalt be saved we're saved by faith third time won't
answer the question weird how you're all sneaky with the scriptures sneaky with your title and
then i ask you three times and you won't answer the question it almost makes me think like you're
teaching damnable heresy like you have something to hide i said you're the one that made the claim
that someone doesn't need to pray the sinner's prayer to get saved i'm just wondering if your
personal testimony matches that or if you're just preaching in hypotheticals did you pray the
sinner's prayer when you got saved or not he said that's a quotation from your favorite pastor by
the way lol no i didn't quote repeat a sinner's prayer neither did the thief on the cross or
anywhere anyone else in the bible funny i asked him did you pray did you ask god in your heart
or out loud did you pray the sinner's prayer he says no i didn't repeat a sinner's prayer it's
like who are you quoting you're quoting yourself i never asked you if you repeated a sinner's
prayer you know what have i told you you don't have to quote yourself norm just literally
quoting yourself i didn't ask you if you ever repeated a sinner's prayer i asked you did you
ever ask god to save you in your heart out loud with the sinner's prayer doesn't answer the
question i asked him again did you ask god to save you when you got saved in your own words then
if it wasn't the quote sinner's prayer he said no no i decided in my heart to place all my faith
on him when i understood the gospel message remember it's not asking that saves you it's
believe on the lord jesus christ and thou shalt be saved we're saved by faith so when he posts
his stupid deceptive title with his stupid deceptive video teaching garbage doctrine
and then i ask him multiple times when he finally answers the question what's his what's his answer
on effort he ever asked god to save him no no he didn't then he goes on more to post this
and he's since deleted this post but he said apparently i'm a damnable heretic child of hell
and unsaved because i never asked jesus to save me
thou sayest i mean are you kidding me i mean you're making yourself look like a complete
idiot and guess what you are because if you're teaching that false garbage that false doctrine
and someone approves you for it and multiple people were posting bible verses trying to
explain it to them this guy knows all the verses he just doesn't believe them he doesn't believe
him now what did romans chapter 16 say again remember what it said go back there if you kept
your finger there it says in verse 18 for they that are such serve not our lord jesus christ
talking about people that teach false doctrine contrary to what we've been taught but their own
belly and by good words and fair speeches what do they do they deceive the hearts of the simple
this is why stupid people are dangerous to be around spiritually because they deceive the
hearts of the simple and you know what i saw on that post and other posts about norm diamante
a bunch of simple people a bunch of stupid people that are just completely naive that are not
looking at the facts right in front of them where he said no i didn't apparently i'm damsel heretic
because i never asked jesus to save me they're like well he just means a public confession
yeah that's why he went to john 12 and was so crafty about it that's why you have to ask more
questions it's not what he meant if that's what he meant why hasn't he said that but instead you
know what he's done he's disabled the comments on his video and he deleted the post where he said
he's never called upon the name of the lord never has he said that he was wrong never has he changed
and all these people that are getting carried away with norm diamante you are simple you are a simple
person because you're not just looking at the plain facts that's right in front of your face
and i'm not even 100 sure that this guy is unsafe because i think it's possible that he's just so
prideful and just such an idiot that he actually has called upon the name of lord in the past and
is just too prideful to admit that he has because he doesn't want to change his doctrine but either
way if you're teaching damnable heresy you need to be called out on it whether you're lying about
it or not and so norm diamante if he's saved if he does believe in the lord jesus christ then he has
called upon the name of the lord and he's a liar and if he hasn't then i'll just take him at his
word and maybe he is unsafe i don't really care if someone's attacking the doctrine of calling upon
the name of lord that's a stupid person and a stupid person does damage and causes people to be
taken astray by false doctrine they harm churches they harm individuals with false doctrine
that's why as a church we need to avoid stupid people we ought to let people come in here we
want people to grow we want people that are unchurched to come into steadfast baptist church
and to learn the word of god and to grow and to change but look if someone is a damnable heretic
that's not someone we want in our church when someone denies the word of god claim before
plain before their face that's not someone we want go to romans chapter 10 i'll read for you
john 4 10 jesus answered and said unto her if thou knewest the gift of god and who it is that
saith to thee give me to drink thou wouldest have asked of him and he would have given thee
living water there will not be one single soul in heaven that did not call upon the name of the lord
there will not be one person in the kingdom of god that is there that did not ask god to save them
either in their heart or with their mouth in some form or fashion you must call upon the name
of the lord to be saved no one will be in heaven that did not do that so if norm diamante truly
really did not ever do that he is not saved and he will not go to heaven you know you need to get
saved and call upon the name of the lord because that is how you believe go to romans chapter
number 10 look at verse 9 it says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus
and shall believe in thine heart that god raised him from the dead thou shall be saved for with
the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation so the question is how do you get saved according to romans 10 10 by calling that's what
happens the mouth with the mouth confession is made unto that's the destination to get you to
what salvation verse 11 for the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed
and this just means that whoever believes in god will not be forsaken they will not be let down
they're not going to lose their salvation for example because they sin whosoever believeth
him shall not be ashamed this doesn't mean that whosoever believeth in him will not be embarrassed
because guess what we just saw in john chapter 12 an actually great example of someone who was
embarrassed to confess christ publicly peter was also someone that was embarrassed at one point
to confess christ publicly so when it says whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed
that means god's never going to forsake you god is never going to let you down if you believe in
him verse number 12 for there is no difference between the jew and the greek for the same lord
over all is rich unto all that what call upon him for whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord
shall be saved verse 14 how then shall they call on him and whom they have not believed and how
shall they believe in him and whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher
and how shall they preach except they be sent the bible tells us exactly how
someone is saved soul winners are sent they go out and they preach the word of god the person
hears the word of god they believe the word of god and they call upon the name of the lord i mean
and this is even a chapter in the context of salvation you're john 14 really really
come on what does the bible say about people that have not called upon the name of the lord
i'll read for you one verse in psalms 53 4 it says have the workers of iniquity no knowledge
who eat up my people as they eat bread they have not called upon god according to the bible people
that have not called upon god are workers of iniquity and you want to make a a facetious or
whatever joking post saying like apparently i'm a child of hell because i never asked god to save me
have the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people as they eat bread they have not
called upon god what are you mocking the bible stop glorying in the shame of you never asking
god to save you what could be more prideful than believing that the god of the universe exists
that he created you that he sent his son to die on the cross for your sins that all you have to do
to be saved is accept his free gift by believing on him but you're just so prideful no i won't ask
no i'm not going to ask god what kind of a mind does that it's not the mind of anyone that's saved
because every single one of us when we heard that story we're like god please save me
and that's what you see about people in the bible that want to be saved they call upon the name of
the lord they ask god to save him this guy norm diamante is wicked and stupid at best and a false
prophet at worst and so you want to have a stiff neck you don't want to accept reproof you don't
want to listen what the bible says okay you're an idiot i'm going to forsake you and i'm going
to be aware of other people that are defending you because it shows that they're being led astray
that they're foolish themselves i have some more here but i i think that's good for for time but
i want us to think about this this proverb this maxim i don't know who came up with it
but it is as true as the day is long it is so biblical don't go stupid places at stupid times
with stupid people you know from a very physical perspective this is something that you start
implementing into your daily life when you're you know getting groceries late at night and you
ladies are walking back to your car you realize man i might be at a stupid place right now at a
stupid time i'm not saying that that's never going to happen because sometimes it's unavoidable
but you know ladies if you're at a stupid place please please realize that you are at a stupid
place and please be vigilant please don't just be walking around late at night in dark parking lots
on your cell phone you know please realize your surroundings and realize the evil that exists in
this world and don't put yourself in literal physical dangerous positions it's going to cause
harm in your life and way more importantly don't go stupid places spiritually don't go stupid places
or out at stupid times where you're going to get harmed spiritually or be around stupid people
that's going to harm you and this church spiritually all these things apply in both
aspects and when you think about kyle writtenhouse and the fact that he violated all three rules of
stupid here it is a miracle that he is alive it is because there are several times in our lives
where we're probably going to violate all three of these things but just because you're violating
all three of those doesn't mean a critical event happens every time but there was a critical event
that happened when he was breaking all three of these and he walked out of it alive he should
praise god he should give glory to god for being merciful to him for saving his life and i hope
that kyle writtenhouse gets saved and if he's not saved already i have no idea what he believes
i hope he realizes that god was the one that had mercy on him that that night in kenosha and those
weeks in the courtroom could have very easily have gone the other way not because he was guilty but
because we live in such a wicked nation and so just realize hey we need to minimize this as much
as possible in our lives when you're in those positions when you can't avoid it you put your
guard up make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof let's have a word of
prayer lord thank you so much for your word and thank you for all the great truths that could be
found in the bible and how much you can just teach us on how to protect us how to protect our families
both physically and spiritually i pray that every single person in this room would be a very
vigilant person vigilant in their daily lives with their own physical protection of their families
lord we know there's a lot of evil out there in this world and while we don't want to be paranoid
people we also don't want to be foolish we also don't want to be reckless i pray that more
importantly lord every single person in this church would pay attention to be diligent and
vigilant spiritually to the evils that exist when we go stupid places at stupid times with
stupid people and thank you for all that you do in jesus name we pray amen
all right let's go to our final name 431
all right 431 is let's sing silent night
silent night holy night
round your virgin mother and child
holy infant so tender and mild
sleep in heavenly peace
silent night holy night
shepherds wake at the sight
glory stream from heaven afar
heavenly hosts sing hallelujah
christ the savior is born
silent night holy night
son of god loves pure light
rayeth peace from thy holy face
with the dawn of redeeming praise
jesus lord at thy birth
silent night holy night
wondrous star led by light
with the angels let us sing
hallelujah to our king
christ the savior is born