["Pomp and Circumstance"]
All right, everybody, we're going to go ahead and get started this evening.
If you would, find a seat and grab a hymnal
and turn, if you would, to hymn number 312.
Open my eyes that I may see hymn number 312.
["Pomp and Circumstance"]
We'll go ahead and start there right on the first.
Open my eyes that I may see
Glimpses of truth thou hast for me
Place in my hands a wonderful key
That shall unclasp and set me free
Silently now I wait for thee
Ready, my God, thy will to see
Open my eyes in heavenly spirit divine
Open my ears that I may hear
Voices of truth thou sendest clear
And while the wave notes fall on my ear
Everything false shall disappear
Silently now I wait for thee
Ready, my God, thy will to see
Open my ears, illumine me, spirit divine
Open my mouth and let me bear
Gladly the warm truth everywhere
Open my heart and let me prepare
Love with thy children for us to share
Silently now I wait for thee
Ready, my God, thy will to see
Open my heart, illumine me, spirit divine
Good singing will open with a word of prayer.
Dear Father, thank you for this church and for all the people gathered together here today.
I pray that you would bless the song service at this time and the remainder with the preaching service as well, Lord,
and give us a ten of ears to hear the message that you've laid on Brother Oz's heart tonight, Lord.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
For our next hymn, if you would, turn in your hymnals to hymn number 323.
More about Jesus, hymn number 323.
We'll go ahead and start there right on the first.
More about Jesus, would I know
More of His grace to others show
More of His sacred, fullness see
More of His love who died for me
More, more about Jesus
More of His saving, fullness see
More of His love who died for me
More about Jesus, let me learn
More of His holy will discern
Spirit of God, my teacher be
Showing the things of Christ to me
More, more about Jesus
More of His saving, fullness see
More of His love who died for me
More about Jesus in His Word
Holding communion with my Lord
Hearing His voice in every line
Making each faithful saying mine
More, more about Jesus
More of His saving, fullness see
More of His love who died for me
More about Jesus on His throne
Riches in glory, all His own
More of His kingdom sure increase
More of His coming, Prince of Peace
More, more about Jesus
More of His saving, fullness see
More of His love who died for me
On the front is our Bible Memory Passage of the Week.
If you are able at the end of this chapter to quote the whole thing by memory to an Adult Non-Family member you will receive a prize.
It may even be some Anchor Baptist Church merchandise. Who knows?
We will see who is going to be working on that chapter.
I definitely encourage everyone to memorize that chapter.
At least Verse 19. You have got to at least memorize Verse 19 for sure.
We do have our service times listed there as well as our soul winning times
Do encourage everyone to go out and preach the gospel
That's the way to do that is just choose one time a week that you're committed to and that is a good way to stay
Consistent preaching the gospel. We do have our nursing home ministry dates listed there. If you participate in that, please make note of that
Also our year-to-date statistics. I know we had at least one earlier today out soul winning
So keep up the good work with that and if you do have a salvation make sure to let the soul winning captain
Know please also on the front right. There is our expecting ladies list. Please be in prayer for miss Whitney Reed for her pregnancy
Also upcoming events October 31st. We are gonna have our chili cook-off
Definitely excited to see what you guys are gonna bring and kind of see the difference between
Oklahoma and Texas when it comes to the flavors, I'm excited to try things out. I'm not afraid to try new things
I like all sorts of different foods. So I'm excited for that
We do have enough judges
Like I mentioned this morning though
If you are not entering a chili into the competition and you'd like to help judges
We definitely could use some more but it's not necessary. We have enough. So just keep that in mind
November 6 through the 10th is the faith-forward Baptist Church missions conference in Tempe, Arizona and
November 24th, like we talked about this morning
Lord willing that's gonna be the day where this church becomes independent
We go from being steadfast Baptist Church to anchor Baptist Church Lord willing
And of course, you know, we're still gonna be friends with pastor Shelley and steadfast Baptist Church
We're still gonna be steadfast in our hearts and it's definitely a blessing that our church is still fairly close
Geographically to steadfast so, you know, I fully intend to participate with them on
Conferences and soul winning and missions trips and everything like that
So, you know if you just if you hate pastor Shelley, you're just not gonna like me either
So I'm just letting you know I love pastor Shelley and we plan on being friends with him
So I'm definitely looking forward to that and thankful for that day that's coming up and not just pastor
Shelly is gonna be here but also my father-in-law pastor Aaron Thompson of sure foundation Baptist Church. He's gonna be preaching here as well
So we are going to be excited to have him and I think he's bringing his wife and I think your sister's coming as well
So, yeah, some sure foundation members gonna be visiting some folks from first works gonna be here
So really looking forward to that day and hope you guys can make it out and invite your family and friends
On the back is the prayer list for our church
Please keep those requests in prayer. And as always if you have any requests, please email the church
I'd be happy to add that for you. That's gonna be it for announcements this evening. We'll go ahead and go to our third song
All
Right for our third song if you would turn in your hymnals to him number 351
Tell it to Jesus him number
351
Number 351
Oh
We'll go ahead and start there right on the first. Are you weary?
Are you heavy-hearted?
Tell it to Jesus
Are you grieving?
overjoys
Departed tell it to Jesus alone
Oh
Are you
Christ coming kingdom are you sighing tell it to Jesus alone?
Tell it to Jesus
Jesus
No
Good singing as the offering plates are being passed around turn in your Bibles to Jeremiah chapter number 34 Jeremiah 34
You
Good evening, Jeremiah 34 the Bible reads the word which came into Jeremiah from the Lord
When Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion and all the people fought against
Jerusalem and against all the cities thereof saying
Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him thus saith the Lord behold
I give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon and he shall burn it with fire and thou shalt not escape out
Of his hand, but shall surely be taken and delivered into his hand and thine eyes shall behold
the eyes of the king of Babylon and he shall speak with the mouth to mouth and
Thou shalt go to Babylon yet hear the word of the Lord of Zedekiah king of Judah thus saith the Lord of thee
Thou shalt not die by the sword
But thou shalt die in peace and with the burnings of thy fathers the former kings which were before thee
So shall they burn odors for thee and they will lament thee saying ah Lord for I have pronounced the word
saith the Lord
Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem
when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and against all the cities of
Judah that were left against Lachish and against
Azekah for these defense cities remained of the cities of Judah
This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord
after that
The king of Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem to proclaim liberty unto them that every man
Should let his manservant and every man his maidservant being in Hebrew or in Hebrew us go free that none should serve
Himself of them to wit of a Jew his brother
Now when all the princes and all the people which had entered into the Covenant
Heard that everyone should let his manservant and everyone his maidservant go free that none should serve themselves of
them anymore
Then they obeyed and let them go
but afterward they turned and caused the servants and the handmaidens and
The handmaids whom they had let go free to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids
Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying thus saith the Lord the God of Israel
I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt out of the house
Of bondmen saying at the end of seven years let ye every man his brother in Hebrew
Which hath been sold unto thee and when he hath served these six years
Thou shalt let him go free from thee, but your father's heart can not unto me neither incline their ear
And you were now turned and have done right in my sight and proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor
And he made a covenant before me in the house
Which is called by my name
But he turned and polluted my name and caused every man his servant and every man his handmaid
Whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure to return and brought them into subjection
To be unto you for servants and for handmaids therefore thus saith the Lord
Ye have not hearkened unto me and proclaiming liberty every one his brother and every man to his neighbor behold
I proclaim a liberty for you sayeth the Lord to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and I will make you
To be removed into the kingdoms into all the kingdoms of the earth
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant which have not performed the words of the covenant
Which they had made before me when they cut in
when they cut the calf and twine and passed between
the parts thereof the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem the eunuchs and the priests and all the people of the land which
passed between the parts of the calf I
Will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the into the hand of them that seek their life and their dead
Bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth
and Zedekiah king the king of Judah and
his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and into the
Hand of the king of Babylon's army which are gone up from you behold
I will command saith the Lord and cause
Them to return to this city and they shall fight against it and take it and burn it with fire
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant
Let's bow our heads for word of prayer father in heaven. We thank you for this day
Amen, all right
Well, we are in Jeremiah 34 and let's start reading in verse number 8 Bible says
This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord after that
The king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem to proclaim liberty unto them
That every man should let his manservant and every man his maidservant being in Hebrew or Hebrew s go free
That none should serve himself of them to wit of a Jew his brother
Now when all the princes and all the people which had entered into the Covenant
Heard that everyone should let his manservant and everyone has maidservant go free that none should serve themselves of them anymore
Then they obeyed and let them go
so here
Zedekiah is the king of Judah and he's making this proclamation that everyone should let their servants be free
Basically, let go of your manservant. Let go of your maidservant and when the people hear this
Proclamation from their king Zedekiah notice what they did they obeyed so that's exactly what they did
They liquidated their assets if you would and if you look at verse number 12
it says or verse number 11, but afterward they turned and
caused the servants and the handmaids whom they had let go free to return and
brought them into subjection for servants and
for handmaids
So their initial reaction when King Zedekiah gave this command to them was to obey, you know
Initially, they did what was right but as soon as they let these people go they immediately turned
They immediately repented and decided you know what forget what the king said forget what the commandment was, you know
We're gonna go back on our obedience
we're gonna actually take them back into captivity and it almost kind of reminds me a little bit of
Pharaoh the story of Pharaoh in Exodus where he keeps like what he's keep saying like yeah
You can go ahead and serve God you guys can go out into the wilderness and then as soon as they start doing he's like
No, never mind come back right and here the people they initially did right, but once they did right they changed their mind
They repented to do evil and there's a big consequence for that because it says
Verse number 12 it says therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying
Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel
I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt out of the house
Of bondmen saying at the end of seven years
Let you go every man his brother in Hebrew
Which hath been sold unto thee and when he hath served these six years thou shalt let him go free from thee
But your father's hearkened not unto me neither inclined their ear
So God's upset with these people because he's saying like look you guys were in bondage in Egypt
Pharaoh was giving you guys hard labor their taskmasters were taking advantage of you
You guys were slaves in Egypt and I delivered you from that, you know, I gave you freedom from that but in return
I told you that you when you have a servant when you have a bond man or a bond women
Every seven years you need to let that person free and they were not doing that
Look at verse number
15 it says and he were now turned and had done right in my sight in
Proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor and he had made a covenant before me in the house, which is called by my name
But he turned and polluted my name and caused every man his servant and every man is handmade whom he had
at liberty at their pleasure to return and brought them into subjection to be unto you for servants and
for handmaids
So obviously this proclamation that King Zedekiah made was something that God backed up something that God endorsed
He endorsed Zedekiah's plan
He said hey you did right at first you obeyed the king to do what was right in letting these people free
But now I'm seeing that you're turning back on it
You've changed your mind and now you're doing wickedly and notice the consequence verse 17
Therefore thus saith the Lord you have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty
Everyone to his brother and every man to his neighbor behold
I proclaim a liberty for you saith the Lord to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and I will make you
to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth and I will give the men that have
Transgressed my covenant which have not performed the words of the Covenant which they had made before me
when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof the princes of Judah and the princes of
Jerusalem the eunuchs and the priests and all the people of the land which passed between the parts of the calf
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life and their dead bodies
Shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth
and Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that
Seek their life and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you behold
I will command say it the Lord and cause them to return to this city and they shall fight against it and take it and
Burn it with fire and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation
without an
Inhabitant so get the picture in this story, you know because this story is gonna be the basis of our sermon tonight
You know God backed up the authority
God backed up the kingship when the king said you need to let all of your servants go
You need to let all of your maid servants your man servants
Let them be free and the people they immediately did right but notice how quickly it was
They changed their mind and you know, why did they change their mind because they're thinking hey this person
This servant is bringing me money. This person's helping me with my farming or livestock or anything like that
And so they're looking at this situation as a financial loss
And so they don't want to obey because they don't want to lose their money
But in doing that in wanting to hang on to their money
They actually caused the curse of God to be upon them to where God now that he saw them
You know go from obeying to not obeying. He's like, okay, you didn't want to proclaim liberty
Well, I'm gonna give you liberty to the sword to the famine to the pestilence and he's saying you guys is dead bodies
They're just gonna be piled up, you know
And so it went from them not wanting to get rid of their their servants because they wanted to hang on to their money
They wanted their money so bad now, they're facing a way worse problem than losing their money now
They're facing the sword now
they're facing Nebuchadnezzar now they're facing pestilence famine and the curse of God on their life and
The title my sermon this evening is this obedience is easier than correction
Obedience is easier than correction
Sometimes in the heart of man, we see a commandment from God or for or from any authority and we think yeah
But if I obey that I'm gonna be losing out on something or that's gonna cause something detrimental to my life
but oftentimes what we don't see the consequences behind the door if we choose to disobey and
And the point of the sermon is that obedience is always easier than being corrected, you know
It would have been so much easier for these people to have lost their servants to have lost their money
Then to lose their lives
Then to lose their their nation and lose the blessing of God on them
And I want to go through several applications of this go to Hebrews chapter number 12 Hebrews 12
Number
1 tonight it's easier to obey God than getting corrected by God and you know
We saw a good example of that already here in Jeremiah 34
It would have been so much easier just to let go of your men servants than to die by the sword
It's always easier to obey than to be corrected
Hebrews 12 5 teaches this concept it says and you have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you is unto children my son
Despise not thou the chastening of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him
verse number six for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and
Scourgeth every son whom he receiveth
So, you know even in the New Testament the Bible teaches this concept that God punishes his children
You know in John chapter 1 we learned that when we receive Christ
We become the sons of God and the Bible says whom the Lord loveth
He chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. So God is a God of correction
God is a God that is going to look at our actions
That's going to judge our life and when he sees disobedience in our life, he will correct us
Now oftentimes God is very long-suffering
God is very merciful and sometimes people can test God for a really long time before he brings the hammer down on them
But the Bible promises and the Bible guarantees that God will correct his children
Look at verse 7 if ye endure chastening God dealeth with you as with sons for what son?
Is he whom the father chasteneth not, you know, it's just obvious that fathers chasten their children, right?
And if you saw a child that had no chastening that was never corrected that was never spanked you would say where's the dad?
You know and unfortunately in our society
There's a lot of kids today that live their entire life never being spanked by their physical father
Because they don't have one and you know, that's a shame. But just like that's true physically
That's also true spiritually of this world where there's people in this world where they haven't received the Lord Jesus Christ
And they are you know without a father in a sense spiritually now if they believed in Jesus Christ
They would be adopted as a son and you know what happened God would start correcting them like his own son
Look at verse number eight
But if he be without chastisement where of all our partakers then are ye bastards and not sons
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence
shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the fathers of unto the father of spirits and
Live now go to Deuteronomy chapter number 28. So, you know, we learn here that God absolutely will
Punish his children and
some people they live their whole life in Christianity just constantly being punished by God and
Those people are the ones that need the sermon tonight that obedience is easier than correction
It's not like God is up in heaven just desiring to spank his kids all day
Because I don't know about you when my kids do bad
I wish that they hadn't obviously right and sometimes it could even be annoying having to spank your children
Because it's just a burden. It's something you got to stop what you're doing. You got to correct them
You got to spank them. You got to explain to them what they did wrong
You know that can be a little bit of a burden and I don't think God is up in heaven
Just wanting to punish us all the time
but sometimes God just has that rebellious child that child just with a hard neck a stiff neck that just constantly needs lots and
Lots of spankings and if you feel like man, I feel like I'm always just being punished by God. Well, just get this
Obedience is easier than correction. If you just obeyed God you wouldn't have to be corrected by God all the time
Deuteronomy chapter 28 look at verse number one
and it shall come to pass that if thou shalt harken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God and
Observe and do all his commandments which I command thee this day that the Lord thy God will set thee on high
above all nations of the earth and all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee and
Thou shalt harken unto the voice of the Lord thy God
Blessed shalt thou be in the city and blessed shalt thou be in the field
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle
The increase of thy kind and the flocks of thy sheep blessed shall be thy basket and thy store
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out
The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face
they shall come out against thee one way and flee before thee seven ways, so
Deuteronomy 28 this is more of a context of God's promises to a nation as a whole
but you know, we could also apply this to our lives as well that if we
Diligently observe and follow the commandments of God that we will live blessed lives in general
That doesn't mean we're never gonna be punished by God
That doesn't mean that we're never gonna go through tribulation or persecution, you know
Even godly people will go through tribulation and persecution
But in general the person that's obeying God obeying his commandments that person is going to be blessed
And notice he lists all these different areas
We're gonna be blessed in our body the fruit of our body meaning our children, you know our money our store
When you go out when you come in talking about battle, you know
God's gonna bless you in all these different areas when you harken to his voice now
What if you don't well read the rest of the chapter and it's just all negative
Let's look at a couple of it here
says but it shall come to pass if thou will not harken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to
observe to do all his commandments and his statutes
Which I command thee this day that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee
Cursed shalt thou be in the city and cursed shalt thou be in the field cursed shall be thy basket and thy store
The curse shall be the fruit of thy body
And the fruit of thy land the increase of thy kind and the flocks of thy sheep
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out
So notice the converse is true that if you decide rather not to listen to God's Word or obey what he has to say
You just decide to rebel against him not do what he says then every single aspect of your life will be cursed by God
And you know that should cause us to want to fear the Lord right to realize that hey God's not playing games with our life
And people today they take life so flippantly and they take their sins so flippantly at times
But I don't think people are often thinking about the consequences that can come on their life as a result of that
You know, especially how it talks about the fruit of thy body
You know, could you imagine your children suffering for the decisions that you make?
There's a lot of people today in this world that are suffering as a direct result of the
Decisions that their parents made, you know
There's a lot of kids that are being raised in the home of a drug addict
Right and they're not having parents that are raising them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord
They're not like I was talking about this morning learning about the days of creation
They're not out looking at the stars thinking about God at night. You know, they're doing they're seeing their dad smoking crack
They're seeing their mom being a whore
They're seeing their family being cursed by God because their families refusing to obey the Bible
Refusing to obey God and literally children are suffering as a result of that
You know
I met this guy a few weeks ago who because of his family situation because of some of the decisions that his parents made in life
He was actually
Sold to work for the cartel as a ten-year-old little boy
And he started working for the Mexican cartel from age 10 to a few years ago
And you know what his entire life has just been a train wreck
why because his parents brought him up around such this this terrible environment and
That's just a really sobering thought for me to think about that
My own children could either be greatly blessed as a result of me actually
Diligently following the commandments of God or my children can be completely destroyed because of my decisions and
While God is not holding children accountable for the sins of their fathers
You know, the truth is is that your sins though could cause
consequences that your children very absolutely will experience and feel you know you think about
children being raised maybe under the roof of a single mother and
Oftentimes single mother will get a boyfriend right and you know
We've heard this story way too many times where mom gets a boyfriend and the children are being molested by the boyfriend or by the dad
You know did those children do anything wrong? Of course not but their parents sinned by getting a divorce
You know their parents sinned by committing adultery and now their life is being hurt. Their life is being
Destroyed so, you know, we got to realize that there's actual
Serious
Consequences on us on our nation on our church on our children and it's just so much easier just to obey God
Than to be corrected by God then to deal with the consequences of sin
Go if you would to Deuteronomy 30
Deuteronomy chapter number 30
Look at verse number one
It says and it shall come to pass when all these things are come upon you the blessing and the curse
Which I have set before thee and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations
whether the Lord thy God hath driven thee and
Shout return unto the Lord thy God and shall obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day
Thou and thy children with all thine heart with all thy soul that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity and have
Compassion upon thee and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. So notice
Repentance does lead to compassion and you know
That is the good news that if you have screwed up your life if you have been constantly being you know
Punished by God because of your sins the truth is that repentance does lead to compassion, you know
God's ready to forgive God is ready to restore but you know what that doesn't undo the damage that has been done before that
You know
You can't go get a tattoo and then pray and get right with God and the tattoo just magically disappears off your body
It's not gonna work. You know, if you've lost your virginity, there's no one doing that. You have children out of wedlock
There's no one doing that
You know just terrible terrible things can happen in our lives to where yes. God can forgive
Yes, God can restore. Yes. God can still use you
Yes, God still loves you but a lot of those things the actual actions themselves cannot be undone
And so, you know, it's just so much easier than repenting and getting compassion from God is just obeying him in the first place
But today people think yeah, God doesn't care. Yeah, God's not watching
God's not gonna punish me for my actions and then they wake up and realize that they're wrong go to Proverbs chapter 23 Proverbs chapter
23
Because what you have to understand about sin is that yes, there is a
Supernatural side of sin where God sees you sin and he comes down on you personally where he's actively judging your life
But there's a lot of sins where God doesn't even have to actively punish you just the act of committing these sins themselves
Punishes you in and of themselves. What's an example of that? How about drinking alcohol?
You know, if you drink alcohol God does not have to stretch forth his hand upon your life supernaturally to punish you
You know, you are just punishing yourself by drinking alcohol
look at verse number 21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags, you know
It's so funny today when you see people supposedly in poverty in the United States of America
Who am I talking about people that are usually referred to as homeless which really they're not homeless
They're just lazy is what they are. They're not homeless. They're just drunks. They're alcoholics
They're drug addicts because look what the Bible says for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Oh
Why don't I have any money? Why can't I pay my bills maybe because you're drunk and
Guess what?
there's a built-in punishment to that sin where God doesn't even have to like put his hand on your life and curse you for drinking just
Poverty is the natural result of drinking alcohol
Why because you're not gonna be a good worker when you're an alcoholic
You're not gonna be skilled at anything when you're drunk all the time
I mean you can't do any skilled job while being drunk. You just can't
Go to Proverbs 23 verse 29
There's a lot of built-in punishment for sin
Verse 29 says who hath woe who hath sorrow who hath contentions who hath babbling who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes
They that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mixed wine. So notice
woe
sorrow
contention
Babbling
Redness of eyes. This is not God cursing you. This is not God's hand coming upon you and causing you to do these things
This is just the result of the poison that you're drinking called alcohol if you just drink poison
This is what the result is gonna be in your life with or without God's punishment. Look at verse 31
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his color in the cup when it moveth itself
All right at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder
Thine eyes shall behold strange women and thine heart shall utter perverse things
Notice God is not causing you to start lusting after women that are not your wife
God's not making you do that. That is just the natural result of drinking. Alcohol is losing your judgment
Forgetting about your station in life the fact like I don't know that you're married
That's a pretty big detail that your brain forgets about when you're drunk and God's not causing you to behold other women in your eyes
God's not causing you to utter perverse things. You know, what's causing you to do that is the poison that you're drinking and
So God doesn't even need to punish you when you're drinking alcohol though
He can he can go above and beyond and punish you extra for sure
but here's the thing even just drinking alcohol in and of itself is a punishment and
People think oh drink alcohol to have a good time
It's like you're literally punching yourself in the face and telling me you're having a good time
It's like you are retarded man
You are a stupid person to sit there and punch yourself in the face and say I'm having a great time
Hey, isn't it great? Isn't it cool how I just nuked my marriage?
Hey, isn't it cool that I've been married to my wife for 30 years and in one night of drinking alcohol
I destroyed the whole thing
Isn't it just funny that every divorced person that I know to a T drinks alcohol?
Weird how that works
Maybe because it destroys your judgment
Verse 34 yay thou shall be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea
Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast they have stricken me shout out say and I was not sick
They have beaten me and I felt it not when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again
So when you're drunk when you're drinking alcohol, God's not causing you to be dizzy
God's not causing you be like a drunken man or on a sailor or on a ship or something like that
God's not the one causing you to get into fights and have wounds that you don't even remember where they came from
You know God's not causing you to fall over and vomit all over yourself and choke on your own vomit
you're doing that to yourself and
Let me tell you there's a lot of things in life
Where the sin itself punishes you?
Where God doesn't even have to put down his hand on you though he can and though he does the sin itself punishes you
You know, how about fornication go to Proverbs 5?
Proverbs chapter number five
You know, it's just so much easier to obey God than to be corrected than to deal with consequences
It's so much easier just to never drink alcohol
Then have to deal with the consequences of alcohol or of the supernatural consequences of God punishing you for alcohol
Same thing with fornication. Look at Proverbs 5 verse 3 says for the lips of a strange woman. That's someone that's not your wife
For the lips of a strange woman drop as in honeycomb and her mouth is smoother than oil
So notice to the flesh she could appear as something that's good, you know, and when people commit fornication
They're thinking this is gonna be good. This is something that I need in my life
This is what people think in their minds when they do this, but look at verse number four
But her end is bitter as wormwood
Sharp as a two-edged sword her feet go down to death
Her steps take hold on help lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life
Her ways are movable that thou canst not know them hear me now therefore
Oh ye children and depart not from the words of my mouth
Remove thy way far from her and come not nigh the door of her house
Lest thou give thine honor unto others and thy years unto the cruel
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth and thy labors be in the house of a stranger and now mourn at the last
When thy flesh and my body are consumed and say how have I hated instruction and my heart?
despised reproof
You see obedience is easier than correction
Because it's so much easier
To avoid the whore to avoid the strange woman to not go in unto someone that's not your wife
Rather than to wake up and your wealth be filled in another man's house. Like what? How about like alimony?
When men they go out they cheat on their wife
They think this is something they need and then what do they have to do?
Their wealth has to go to a different household because the government's gonna make them pay alimony to their wife or
you know they do this and then they get a divorce and the government forces them to pay child support to that mom and
Their wealth is just being squandered because of the decision that they made and notice that's not even God punishing you
That is just the result of your sin and notice this it says when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, you know
STDs this is a natural result of these types of sins
Where God doesn't even have to move his hand from heaven to cause you to get these diseases though he can
But oftentimes it's just a result of committing these sins
And so you know what?
It's just so much easier to obey God where the Bible says remove thy foot far from her when you see the strange woman
Rather than to play with sin and then realize that you get bit at the end and now you have to deal with the consequences
Oftentimes for the rest of your life
Look, it's so much easier to just obey God than to be corrected by God go to Exodus chapter number 20
Number two, it's easier to obey your parents than to get corrected by your parents. I
Mean sometimes kids they get this feeling maybe especially in their teenage years where they feel like my parents are constantly punishing me
My parents are constantly correcting me. My parents are constantly spanking me and have you ever just considered?
Maybe your life would be easier if you just obeyed your parents rather than just constantly disobeying them
Constantly disrespecting them and then dealing with the consequences of being corrected. Look obedience is easier than correction
Look at Exodus 20 verse 12
Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God
Giveth thee, you know, it's so much easier just to honor your mom and dad rather than for God to cut your life short
Supernaturally because you dishonor your father and your mother and you know what?
You should never ever have an attitude where you dishonor your father or mother, you know, it doesn't even matter what they believe
It doesn't matter if they're Christians
It doesn't matter if they're living a wicked life because at least they brought you into this world
You could at least say that you can say hey, I'm here alive today meeting
My parents fed me my parents clothed me. My parents gave me a roof over my head my parents sacrificed for me
My parents did good for me. And so just for that alone, they deserve honor and respect
Doesn't matter if they're safe the Bible doesn't say honor your father if he's a fundamental Baptist
Honor your father if he took you to church when you were a child
And look if you have parents that did raise you Christian that are saved that did teach you the Bible
How much more should you be honoring your father and mother and you know, it is just one of the most
Disgusting and shameful things I've ever seen in my life to see children dishonoring their father
And you know you saw this many years ago where this like new gentle parenting came into our
Country and you see like five and six year olds and punching their mom at the grocery store
Mom, you're a bee. I mean we've heard these things haven't we have we seen children like this?
And we're thinking like these kids are like demons
Like what is wrong with these children?
What is wrong with our country that we never taught children to honor their father and mother, you know
When I went to the Bahamas everyone there believes the King James Bible everyone there knows the Bible and those people honored authority
They honored their teachers
They honored the preacher they honored their mom and dad and today we live in such a godless and wicked society that we have children
Dishonoring their parents even when their parents raised them as fundamental Baptists
Let me say this we live in such a wicked and disgusting
Society that we even have pastors that help children that on that dishonor their parents
What a sick and disgusting person you are to ever support a child that is dishonoring their parents for any reason
Because God literally said that if a child
dishonors his parents that he's gonna cut their life short and
Someone that would support that it just makes me wonder like do you have any fear of God whatsoever?
Or just want to act like you're the most humble godly person in the world when apparently you don't even know one of the Ten Commandments
To honor your father and your mother
look at verse 8
My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake
You
Know what? I think I messed up in my notes here. I'm just gonna read this for you in Proverbs
It says my son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head and chains about thy neck
My son if sinners entice thee consent thou not if they say come with us. Let us lay wait for blood
Let us lurk privily 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, you know when it comes to it's easier to obey your parents
Than to be corrected by your parents
You know some of the things your parents are gonna do for you in life is to give you instructions
And the Bible says not to forsake the instruction or the law of your mother and father
Why because the instruction that they're giving you is for your own benefit. It's for your own good
How about like this when sinners entice thee consent thou not when people are saying hey, let's lurk privily for blood
They're literally conspiracy there. They're could spear conspiring my English will work this evening
They're conspiring to commit murder and you know, this is pretty good advice from your parents
Stay away from people that are conspiring to commit murder
Why because there's gonna be serious consequences for being around people like that and being involved with activities like that
So, you know, it's so much easier just to obey mom and dad when they say hey son
Don't hang out with this person and you know, let me tell you this. It's a good idea as parents to tell your children
Hey, don't hang around this person
There could be bad people even in church
There could be bad children even in church and it's a good idea to tell your kids like hey
Don't be friends with that person
Why because that person is gonna lead you down a dark path and it's so much easier for children to just obey that instruction
Rather than to be drawn away with the error of the wicked and then have to deal with the consequences of that sin
Go to Proverbs 13
Proverbs 13
Verse number 20 he that walketh with wise men shall be wise
But a companion of fools shall be destroyed
You know show me someone's friends and I'll show you that person's future
Show me who someone yokes up with and who people endorse and who people like and I will tell you who is a fool
And who is wise?
Because it is a ironclad
Guarantee that if you want to go be friends with fools you will become a fool
You want to be friends with wicked people?
You will become a wicked person you want to be you want to be a teenager?
That's friends with someone that does drugs you'll do drugs
You want to be a teenager that rebels against your parents and hang out with all the kids that are committing fornication
You'll commit fornication
Why because you know what most human beings 99% of human beings are just complete followers and don't think that you're the exception
Because you're not okay
You are a follower and don't think like oh, I could just hang around all these wicked people
All these people that are disobeying authority disrespecting authority, but I'm somehow different
No, you are the same. You are the same fool. You are the same wicked person go to Proverbs chapter number 30 Proverbs chapter 30
Proverbs 30 verse 17 the Bible says the eye that mocketh at his father and
Despiseth to obey his mother the Ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it
You know the Bible is teaching there the Bible is teaching that when a son or a daughter would literally mock their parents
Make fun of
Ridicule their parents and despise to obey their parents that God can literally kill you for that
That's how serious it is to God, you know, this is this is not a game. This is not a joke
Okay, the Bible is literally saying that God can kill people for mocking their parents for disobeying their parents
and you know, I I
Have zero respect whatsoever
For any person that would assist a child that is doing this. I don't care if you're a pastor
I don't care how long you've been in the ministry
I don't care if people follow you when you have a child that's literally mocking his parents and you support that you endorse that you
Click like on Facebook on that. You know what you are wicked person not saying you're not saved
Not saying that you can't do things for God in the future
but you have serious wickedness in your heart to stand against the Bible's teaching on authority and
Decide with rebellion decide with children mocking their fathers decide with people disobeying their parents
You have a serious wicked problem in your heart. And you know what? I will not stand with people that do that
I don't care who they are go to Ephesians chapter number six Ephesians chapter number six
Ephesians
Chapter six look at verse number one says children obey your parents in the Lord for this is
right
Doesn't say obey your parents if you like them obey your parents if you agree with their parenting style
Since when have kids been the ones putting a stamp of approval on their parents parenting style. I mean that is insanity
How about just thank you dad for bringing me alive to this age
Thank you mom for feeding me. Thank you. Mom and dad for sacrificing for me
Hey, thanks. Mom and dad for working so hard for me
That should be our attitude towards our parents and look I know there's people in here where their parents are not saved
I know there's people in here where their parents have done pretty terrible things. Okay, but that does not matter
God still wants you to honor them
God still wants you to obey them if you are living under their authority and
Even if you separate from your parents, even if you have an estranged relationship from them, you should not attack them
You should not disparage them. You should not rail or lie against them or disparage them in any way
You know if your parents are just so wicked and so evil, you know, let's use an extreme example
I don't think anyone in here is like this, but let's say your parents are literally sodomites
Your parents are literal god-hating reprobates. Let's say that that's the case. Okay, just separate from them
Don't speak of them. Don't speak negatively of them. Just say like hey, my parents brought me alive
They fed me and that's about it
You know if you don't have anything nice to say about your parents don't say anything at all
And you know, that's not true of all people. Okay, but it is true of your parents. It absolutely is true of mom and dad
Go to Ephesians chapter 5 flip the page back
Let me say this it's easier to obey your husband and to be corrected by your husband say is this Islam
You know, is this an al-qaeda church right here? No, that is actually what the Bible teaches
Look at Ephesians 5 verse 22 wives
Submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord
Let's just read that again. Okay wives
Submit yourselves unto your own husbands as
unto the Lord
Maybe you need to underline that or highlight it or something and realize that this is the King James Bible that we're reading
This isn't the Quran. Okay, we're not in Afghanistan. This is the Bible belt. We're in Oklahoma
This is the King James Bible and the Bible says that wives are to submit to their husbands
why because their husband actually is in authority and
It's easier to obey your husband than to be corrected by your husband husbands can correct their wives. Yeah, that's what authority is
God can correct us. Can he not?
Parents can correct us. Can they not guess what husbands can correct their wives to why because they are in authority look at verse 23
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the Savior of the
body
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in
Everything so notice the authority structure between a husband and wife is the exact same
Authority structure as the Lord Jesus Christ and the church
Now, let me tell you this what if I got up and I said
Hey guys, I have the suggestions of Jesus right here
But you know, I'm not really gonna follow what it says, I'm just gonna do whatever I want
Would you say that our church is in subjection to Jesus Christ? Would you say that our church is obeying him yet today?
Feminism is teaching women that well, you have to come to an agreement with your husband
Well, you know if you agree with your husband's decision, then you can obey him. That's not what obedience is
Obedience is I think something else but I'm gonna go with what you're saying
I want to make a different decision, but I'm gonna follow your lead
That is what obedience actually is you say well can husbands actually correct their wives
Well, let me ask you this can Jesus correct the church
Because that's the exact same relationship that God details go to Revelation chapter number three Revelation three
You say oh well the Bible says for husbands to love their wives, yeah, what's your point
Jesus loves the church. Does that mean that he's not in charge? Does that mean that he can't correct?
Of course husbands are to love their wives. But you know what people don't know what love is
you know Bible said that love is the fulfilling of the law and
People think like Oh love means my husband does everything I want him to do
Love means my husband agrees with me all the time
Love means I asked something of my husband aka my servants and he do with it. This is what people think love is
Okay. Well, let's see what love looks like
Revelation 3 verse 19 as many as I love I
rebuke and
chasten
Be zealous therefore and repent
You know, I feel like if this world ever saw a husband like rebuke his wife. They would be calling the police
They would say like wow, this is abuse. You know, the husband just said what's a rebuke? It's a stern correction
Just be like hey stop that we're not doing that. That would be like a rebuke, right?
Jesus the Bible says he loves us and he rebukes us and chastens us. What does that mean?
That means that Jesus as a loving authority figure is allowed to correct people that are under his authority
And guess what husbands are allowed to correct their wives
Now we've been raised in this backward world in
This feminist nation in the United States of America in 2024 where we don't really see
biblical principles being carried out in our daily lives and
I guarantee you if all of us think back on our parents marriages
It probably didn't look like Ephesians chapter number five describes it
Okay
But here's the thing when you come to the Bible you need to absolutely flush your worldly influences
Flush your experiences down the toilet and just look at what the Bible actually says
This is called renewing your mind
Saying that hey, I probably believe things that are wrong. I have bad philosophies
I have bad ideas and I need to just look at what the Bible says and
Actually conform my mind to what the Bible says not just well, I mean, there's no way a husband
It can actually correct his wife. That's al-qaeda. That's terrorism. No, you're just an idiot
No, you're just carnal. No, you're just a feminist
Yes, a husband is in charge of his wife and a good husband should correct his wife
Let me prove that go back to Ephesians 5
Ephesians chapter number 5
First number 25. It says husbands love your wives
Even as meaning in the same way as
Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. So what is one way husbands should love their wives?
Well, it should be by being selfless right by giving yourself for your wife working hard to provide for her
Making decisions that are in her best interest right leading for the benefit of your wife
That is loving your wife as Christ loved the church, but that doesn't not mean that you're not in charge
That does not mean that you don't have to correct issues. Here's how I know that you have to correct issues. Look at verse
26
that he might sanctify and
Cleanse it with the washing of water by the word
So notice what Jesus does to the church is he has to cleanse us. He has to wash us
By using the Word of God meaning, you know
We open up our Bibles in the morning and it's like Jesus getting some soap and he's like Ephesians like clean up your life
And just Colossians just clean up all your issues and Psalms and Proverbs and Jesus is just constantly correcting us
I mean when I read the Bible
Jesus is constantly just fixing problems that I have I read that like I'm not doing that and
Jesus tells me the right way to do something. So if we're supposed to love our wives
Like Christ loved the church
How does that actually look well?
It looks like us leading for her betterment looks like us being selfless self less and it also looks like us
Correcting problems
That's what a leader is. I mean, that's what God does he corrects issues
This is what parents do they correct issues. This is what godly husbands should be doing as well
Why because God made you the authority in your home men and don't buy this feminist attitude
That you're not allowed to correct your wife. You just have to hope and pray that she will obey you
No, you make her obey
You correct her in the same way that Jesus Christ makes us obey and correct us with the Word of God and notice
How does Jesus correct by giving Commandments do this?
Don't do that. That's what the Word of God is, right? So it'd be very appropriate for husband to do the same thing
Hey wife do this stop doing this honey. I love you. But what you're doing right now is not right
This is actually what the Bible says and this is what you need to do. There's nothing unloving about that
That's extremely loving. You know, it's only just a wicked feminist attitude that would look at that just simple correction and think like abuse
al-qaeda
This isn't Christianity. No, what we just read was the Bible
Go to Psalm or go to Proverbs chapter number 21
And you know ladies it would just be in your best interest for your marriage to just get this idea into your head
Obedience is easier than correction
Obedience is easier than correction. You say I don't like being you know, corrected by my husband just obey him then
You know and this is what a lot of ladies do
Unfortunately is they get corrected by their husband and instead of submitting what do they do they nag?
They fight they back talk they complain why because this is just the example ladies have been shown
Unfortunately in our country and it's not like this in other countries in the world, but it sure is like this here in America
Why because we've been rejecting the Bible
But let me tell you why this is not in your best interest ladies to nag your husband to back
Talk him to fight against him. Look at Proverbs 21 verse 9
It says it is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house
So notice if you are a brawling woman and you want to you know
Rebel against your husband and not take his correction
The Bible says that it's better for him than to just go into the corner of a housetop and
What's funny about this verse is it doesn't say like well, it'll seem better to him in his carnal mind
It'll seem better to him to be separated into the housetop. It just says no it is better
It just objectively is better to be in the corner of an attic in a dusty dirty attic
Than with a feminist it just objective objectively is better. Look at verse 19
It is better
To dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and an angry woman
Doesn't say like well, he thinks it's better to go to the woods
But if he was spiritual, you know, he would want to be around the angry and contentious woman just like objectively
it's better to be in the middle of the woods in Idaho and
fighting off bears and
Wolves and mountain lions than to deal with an angry contentious feminist
and you know what it's such a shame today that so many ladies have been brought up and taught to be a
Feminist and to be an angry and contentious woman because it's just hurting them
You know why because it's turning away godly men from wanting to marry them, you know, there's all these women out there
They have so much potential. They're young. They're beautiful. They're virgin
They're just waiting for some man to take them and and that's on the table, right?
But then they're told Oh be a feminist and the only guys that are attracted to them are guys like Andrew Tate
Guys, they just want to abuse them and use them for their body
Rather than a godly man that actually wants to marry her and be with her for the rest of his life
but you know what the only woman that a godly man wants to be with for the rest of his life is a submissive and
Godly wife and you know, thank God I have that because I feel really bad for these guys that get married and
All of a sudden they wake up and realize like wow
I'm with a brawling and contentious woman and they're thinking like I need to go to the Attic
I need to go to the wilderness and they're driven that way by their wife
you know, the Bible says life and death is in the power of the tongue and
Ladies can build up their marriage by speaking kindly by obeying their husband or they could destroy it by being a brawling and contentious
Woman, but I'm telling you obedience is easier than correction in every area of life
Go to Proverbs 15 verse 17
It says better is a dinner of herbs
Where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith
To me, that's a really powerful Bible verse because in my house
I have a rule that every dinner must have meat. I am NOT a vegetarian
I don't know if you remember my sermon on vegetarianism. I don't like it at all
I am anti vegetarian but the Bible saying like it's so important
to have a godly and just a home with love and peace in it that you would rather literally eat a vegetarian meal than the best
Texas barbecue spread spread out before you but there's hatred in the home
That's saying a lot
Because I think God knows how much we love meat
Okay, that is saying a lot to say like I just rather eat, you know salad and just nothing else to have peace
But that actually is true because any man that is actually with
This type of a woman they would tell you like I'll become a vegetarian today for my wife to chill out
Right, that is just a true statement
go to
first Peter chapter number two first Peter to
You know again, I love this quote the pastor Shelley told me he said life is all about obedience
But the question is to who?
Life is all about obedience, but the question is to who every single person in here must obey someone
So it's funny. Everyone's with me. Yeah, I obey God. It's easier to obey God than to be corrected by God
Yeah, obey your parents. It's easier to obey your parents and be corrected by your parents. Like hey, obey your husband's everyone's like, oh
This is al-qaeda. It's just like no just renew your mind
Know that God wants what's best for you
God's not giving his commandments to harm you to keep you in chains to make you a poor little house slave
No, it's actually gonna make your life great when you follow his commandments
Number four
It's easier to obey your boss than to be corrected by your boss. Look at first Peter chapter 2 verse 18
Servants be subject to your masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the frontward
So notice if you're in the workplace and you have someone that's placed an authority over you you are to obey that person
Not if they're nice not if they're talented at their job
Not if you know more than them or if they know more than you it just it doesn't matter if they're good
It doesn't matter if they're froward or gentle you must obey your boss and it's easier to obey your boss
Than to be corrected by your boss. No one likes being corrected by their boss
It's not fun. If you're a man if you've had a job, you've been corrected by your boss and you know what?
That's not fun. But you know what obey your boss
You won't be corrected by him as much be a good worker show up on time. You know, if you just do this
If you just make it your mission at work to make your boss money
You will not be corrected by him at least not very often if you make it your mission at work to say
All right
I'm gonna do this work not the way that I would like it not the way that I would do things but the way that
Would please my boss you're gonna be golden
You're gonna be corrected much less at work when that is your attitude look at Colossians chapter number three Colossians chapter three
Colossians 3 verse 22 says servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh
Not with eye service as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart
fearing God
so notice when you're at work who you should really be searching seeking to please beyond anything else is God and
By pleasing your boss
You're going to be pleasing God because God is the one that told you to be subject to him
God is the one that told you to submit to what your boss says it says not with eye
Service meaning when you're at work
You shouldn't be thinking like well
I'm gonna slack off and do nothing until the boss is in the room then now that his eyes are on me
I'm gonna make sure it looks like I'm working hard and producing for the company
No rather you should just be fearing God and saying you know what? I'm gonna obey my boss
I'm gonna do what my boss says
I'm gonna seek to please my boss not because I like him or I agree with him
But because I like God and I want God to like me
And let me tell you it's easier to just obey your boss than to be corrected by your boss go to Romans 13
Let me say this number five
It's easier to obey the government than to be corrected by the government and oftentimes if you're corrected by the government
It's the final correction. You're going the long sleep after that one oftentimes look at Romans 13
says
in verse 1
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers, but there is no power
But of God the powers that be are ordained of God
So notice God is the one that ordained authority and the fact that we have human government the fact that we have
Husbands in authority the fact that we have bosses in authority that authority was ordained of God
God set that in place verse 2 whosoever therefore resisteth the power
Resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves
damnation
So when we resist any form of legitimate authority who you are resisting at the end of the day is actually God himself
Because God is the one that instituted that authority
And so our attitude when it comes to government should be that if the government is not you know
Encroaching into our spiritual lives and stopping us from doing the things that God commanded us. We should obey the government and
Man, that's hard to say because we have a really stupid government. Let's be honest
We have a government full of people that don't like God that aren't following the commandments, but if they make a law
It's not a sin. It's not harming our conscience in any way or anything like that
We should obey that law for God's sake the fact that God is the one that instituted the authority and notice
There's consequences if we don't
Romans 13 verse 3 verse 3 for rulers are not a terror to good works
But to the evil and you know even even now in 2024 though. Our government is wicked in
General our government is not going around everyday terrorizing good things. I mean, I don't know about you
I've been soul winning for about 10 years and I could count on the number the number of times like the police have stopped me
I'm like one hand and it was in Washington State where it's a lot more of a godless place
But like in Texas in Oklahoma, the police is not really out there being a terror to good works
you know, in fact one time I was in Texas in Bedford and
Some you know god-hating freak called the police on us and this big old dude of the cowboy hat
Gets out of his patrol vehicle and he's like, yeah, what's going on or whatever just oh, you know, we're out soul-winning
He goes well sounds like somebody doesn't like the Bible. He's like have a good day
It's just like okay cool, you know, the cops are not exactly out there terrorizing us here in Texas and Oklahoma
You know what they're doing? Let's be honest. They're usually terrorizing the evil. Oh, yeah, you're back the blue
You know, you're a government worshiper bootlegger
No, let's just be honest police in Texas and Oklahoma are not out there terrorizing soul winners. It's just not happening folks
Okay, get real wake up. Look what it says
Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same
For he is the minister of God to thee for good
But if thou do that, which is evil be afraid
For he beareth not the sword in vain
For he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil
You know what?
I've just noticed throughout my life is the people that are really afraid of cops or that really hate police officers are the ones doing
Evil, you know, they're so afraid and they just hate the police. Yeah, cuz you've got drugs in your car
You should be afraid or you know, you've got a bunch of illegal stuff that you're doing. You're doing all these crimes
It's like yeah, I've never been afraid of the police because I'm not breaking the law
now I'm not saying that we shouldn't you know check authority using our
Constitution making sure that we have limited government and limiting the powers of police, you know
They shouldn't be out being authoritarians, but at the end of the day if an officer gives me a command
I'm just gonna obey the higher powers
If they say show me your hands gonna show them my hands if they say hey put your hands
Excuse me on the steering wheel. I'm just gonna do that
Because let's be honest. The police are not out terrorizing me. They're not out terrorizing you you know who they're out terrorizing
People that are shooting other people people that are out slinging drugs, you know, I'll tell you an example
Right before I moved from Texas. I was with brother Jacob plant and brother Evan and we were out soul-winning
And all of a sudden right across the street. I hear gunfire
Just you know
We're in a Cedar Hill neighborhood in South Dallas and all of a sudden I hear gunfire going off and I'm kind of like in
The easement of a home and I kind of just look over at the easement and there's these two young black teenagers
With their pistol just firing their pistol down the road
Those kids should be afraid
Those kids should be terrified. Those kids have a reason to be scared
Why because if the police showed up and they have a gun and they're pointing down the road and they're firing
It the police are gonna put bullets in their brain. They're gonna be dead
why because he doesn't bear the sword in vain and
by the way, that's a good thing because I don't want to live in a society where I'm in a
Neighborhood with my family and kids are just shooting randomly down the street. I say to the police
Yeah, go take those little stupid kids out
You know again, where's the fathers in America? Where's the homes in America?
But you know what? I have never ever ever been afraid that the police are gonna shoot me
Because I've never pointed a gun at a police officer. I've never brought a knife out at a police officer. I've never gone here
Let me show you my ID
Here you go. You know, I've never done anything like that. I've never resisted a police officers order
I've never done anything stupid like that
He's like, oh man, the cops just hate black people
Cops are just ready to kill black people. Maybe if black people are shooting down the street, maybe
But I guarantee you if the black people weren't doing that those little black kids weren't doing that they'd have no issue
And guess what if a little white kid was down the street with an ar-15 shooting randomly into people's houses
You know the police would do they put a bullet in his brain
And what what's the sermon about? It's easier to obey than to be corrected
Isn't it easier just to obey a police officer then for him to throw you under the ground and make you obey
Isn't it easier to obey the police officer then for him to shoot you and kill you?
Again back to our first story. Oh, man. I just don't want to give up my money
I just don't want to give up these servants. Okay death is your other option. Which one would you have rather had?
It's like oh man. I don't want to obey this police officer cuz he's mean he's racist
It's like okay. Do you want your face smashed into the ground though?
Do you want to get shot?
No, okay
then just obey and you know what the attitude we should have as
Christians when it comes to government is that if they're not asking us to sin we should obey them
Now if the police officer says hey you guys aren't allowed to preach the Bible anymore
You guys aren't allowed to go soul in anymore that would be the time that we obey or disobey but let's be honest
We are nowhere near that right now. We're just not you know
There's other countries in the world like Germany where they literally had at the church plant there
they had a first-time visitor and the police literally followed this woman to her house and started asking her questions about why she went to
church and
Then people want to tell me about how bad American police officers are like you have no idea what the rest of the world's like
No here we actually have a lot of liberty and a lot of freedom and the police in general are not out to get us
Here in America. It's easier to obey the government than to be corrected by the government
Lastly here go to Hebrews 13. We'll make this quick
Number six, it's easier to obey your pastor than to be corrected by your pastor
Hebrews 13 verse 17 obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves
For they watch for your souls as they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief
For that is unprofitable for you. So notice the people that are ruling and in charge your pastor
He doesn't want to do his job with grief
He wants to do it with joy and contrary to what some people might think about pastors
Pastors are not wanting to go around and just correct issues and problems all day
What they really want to do is just preach the Word of God
Leave the house of God do soul-winning win people to Christ get them baptized, you know change people's lives for the better
It's not like pastors are just wanting to deal with all these drama and problems all the time
But the reality is is that the pastor is to be ruling is to be over people and you know
What that looks like is that there's gonna be issues constantly that the pastor has to deal with
I don't know where people get this weird idea from that pastors, you know can never preach against individuals
When it's literally the pastor's job to correct bad doctrines bad ideas bad behaviors
Just bad things going on in church. It's the pastor's job to fix and say oh, I don't want to be corrected by my pastor
Well, it's easier to obey than to be corrected just like in every other area of life go to Acts chapter 20
While you're turning there, let me read first Timothy 5 17 the Bible says let the elders that rule well
So notice they're ruling be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine
So the elders the pastor they are to be ruling they are to be exercising authority. Look at acts 20 28
Says take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost have made you overseers
To feed the Church of God
Which he hath purchased with his own blood for I know this that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you not
Sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them
Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years
I cease not to warn everyone night and day with tears go to 2nd Timothy 4
So there we saw that the pastor is supposed to be the ruler he's supposed to be the overseer
he's supposed to feed the flock of God and
One of the things he's supposed to be doing is watching out for false prophets or false brethren
That are gonna come and creep in among them bringing in damnable heresy and think about it. How would a pastor?
Correct false brethren or false prophets or damnable heresy being brought into the church
You'd have to correct that issue by preaching against it, right?
So don't get this weird idea like pastors can ever preach against individuals or anything like that
2nd Timothy 4 verse 2 says preach the word be instant in season out of season and notice the
instruction to the pastor reprove
rebuke
Exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. So it is the pastor's job to
Reprove to tell people that they're wrong to rebuke to sternly tell someone that they're wrong to exhort them
That is part of a pastor's job and it's I'm sure not the most fun part of his job
But if you don't want to be that person that's getting corrected
It's easier just to obey than to be corrected and look I've been corrected by the pastor before I'll be honest
I have it's not fun
I don't enjoy it
but it was because I was doing something dumb or I wasn't listening to him or wasn't doing the things that he wanted me to
And I deserved every bit of it
I've had a pastor tell me this before come to church this Sunday because the sermon is about you
Okay, I've literally had a pastor tell me that oh, how dare you preach against me? I'm quitting Christianity
I'm deconstructing from the faith. I've been abused by a church by a pastor. It's a cult
No, the pastor literally said this sermon is about you. So don't skip church this Sunday
There's like yes, sir
And I just sat there and I took it and I followed in the Bible and I took notes and I fixed the problem
And you know what? That wasn't fun. That wasn't a great time. I've experienced many other sermons
I enjoyed more than that one
But you know what? That was a necessary sermon for my life and you know, what I just learned is that hey
It's just easier to obey than to be corrected. Oh, man. I don't like being corrected
Just obey then and you don't have to be corrected go to Proverbs 13. We're almost done
Obedience is easier than
Correction Proverbs 13 15 says good understanding giveth favor, but the way of transgressors is hard
Your life will be hard when you rebel against authority
You know you want to rebel against God he says hey sell your servants, okay
I'll do that. Never mind. You go back on it
Your life's about to be really hard when you get the sword the pestilence and the famine, you know, you say oh, man
I'm gonna disobey my parents. Okay. Well, it's gonna be really hard when you're getting spanked all the time
Well, you know, I just want to disobey my husband. You're about to have a hard marriage
It's about to be a hard time for you. If you want to rebel against your husband
Oh, I want to just disobey the cops f the police
Cops can't tell me what to do man. It's about to be really hard when you get your face shoved in the concrete
Oh, you know who care? I'm gonna point my gun at the police. No, no worries. Who cares?
It's about to be really hard when you're about to get shot and killed
You know or if we had God's law, oh, you know who cares what the Bible says
I'm gonna go commit adultery man. Your life is about to be hard when you're stoned to death. Oh
You know, I'm gonna blast theme the name of God
Well, that's gonna be hard for you when you're put to death or how about this
Oh, I'm gonna go make a video cursing my father or mother
Well, that's gonna be hard for you when you're literally stoned to death when you're literally killed
You know the message that we need tonight is that obedience is easier than correction
Obey the authority in your life and you will have a better life. You will have a more happy and prosperous life. Let's pray Lord
Thank you for this day. Thank you for our fam families here and for our church family
I just pray that you would uh
Bless our church that you would help us to hold authority
Highly esteemed in our mind and that we would truly submit ourselves to the rightful authority in our lives
Not just go along with what we agree with but even when we're challenged and we disagree that we would submit ourselves
To you to our pastor and to other authorities in our lives. We love you in Jesus name we pray. Amen
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Trusting Jesus him number 149
Him number 149
We'll go ahead and start there right on the first simply trusting every day
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