Thank you, Father, thank you for this opportunity that we have to sing praises unto you as a
church.
Thank you also for this day and for the service that we have.
I pray that you would fill us with your Holy Spirit at this time as we sing, and I pray
that you would also bless the preaching as well, Lord.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
For our next song, if you would flip the page to hymn number 410, Faith is the Victory,
hymn number 410.
Hymn 410 will go ahead and start there right on the 1st.
Encamped along the hills of light, ye Christian soldiers rise, and press the battle, ere the
night shall veil the glowing skies, against the foe, and veil the female, let all shall
cry in peace.
Amen and amen and amen, amen and amen, amen and amen, amen and amen, amen and amen, amen
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amen and amen, amen and amen.
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you should have the utmost reverence and fear and respect for everything that this book says
and not just get desensitized to the fact that hey you know we read this every day hopefully
you're reading it every day hey we're hearing it preached three times a week it's the word
of god every time it's opened every time it's read every time you read it at home you should
be revering and in all of the words of god and taking it very seriously that's part of
receiving the words of god and when you actually have that much of a receptive heart you know
what you're gonna do you're gonna end up fearing god and knowing god knowing who he is go to
cautions chapter number three so we saw that in proverbs two verse one we're supposed to
receive his words and it said to hide my commandments with thee now how do you hide
god's commandments with you i think one way you do that is by memorizing the bible there's
reading the word of god but another important thing is to memorize the word of god cautions
chapter three verse 16 the bible says let the word of christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace
in your hearts to the lord so letting the words of christ dwell in you it says richly in all
wisdom what i've noticed is that when i have memorized a passage or memorized a chapter in
god's word it unlocks that chapter for me more than anything else like i can listen to five
sermons on a certain passage of scripture but if i memorize it i will understand that passage
because you know we're reading the word of god you're just reading a verse and then go to the
next go to the next but when you memorize you have to repeat this verse like 50 times
and we're just thick as human beings you know we just need to hear things over and over
and sometimes i'm just memorizing a verse and on that 50th time i'm like whoa i have not thought
of that before but i've read it so many times but there's just something about getting it into your
heart that helps you to learn it and what does that do it helps you fear god and know god by
having the words of christ in your heart and then also talks about psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs you know the thing that i love about our hymn book and singing the psalms themselves is
that a lot of times what we're doing is just singing scripture and that's just getting you
know deep into our heart and those things are staying with us especially children that grow
up in church you know i feel like they know the songs better than adults do children really get
it it gets put into their heart and they don't forget it when they grow up go to if you would
psalm 119 psalm 119 now just like with reading the bible people love to make excuses oh i'm not a
i'm not a visual learner i'm not a person who learns by reading i'm an auditory person or i'm
a person that learns by doing and it's just like god gave you a book you just need to read it
regardless and you know what some people are going to be better naturally at memorizing the bible
than others i'll grant you that but just because it doesn't come naturally to you or it's a little
difficult for you does not mean you just shouldn't do it like what if i told you that you should
actually do some things that are difficult in your life and not just write off anything that's hard
like well that's not for me because that's kind of hard for me it's like all the more you should
be doing it then you know no one in here should get this idea well that's not for me no you should
learn to memorize the scripture and for you men a good time to do this is driving to work you know
if you have a commute to work there and back is usually like a good 20 to 60 to 70 minutes
depending on how far you drive every single day of your life that you could be doing something
productive with you know sometimes just listening to the bible during that drive could be good
memorizing the bible i mean listening to an audiobook just something rather than just
sitting there or turning on the radio or something dumb like that you know you can make use of that
time psalm 119 verse 11 says thy word have i hid in mine heart notice that i might not sin against
thee sounds like memorizing the bible actually gets you to fear god to where you're hiding the
word of god in your heart and as a result you're not sinning more right so you can lower the amount
of you sin by memorizing scripture it says blessed art thou oh lord teach me thy statutes with my
lips have i declared all the judgments of thy mouth i have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies
as much in all riches i will meditate in thy precepts and have respect unto thy ways i will
delight myself in thy statutes i will not forget thy word deal bountifully with thy servant that i
may live and keep thy word open thou mine eyes that i may behold wondrous things out of thy law
verse uh go down to verse 104 verse 104 notice what it says here through thy precepts i get
understanding therefore i hate every false way you know when someone loves lies and says that they
love everyone and they love all religions i'm just like this person doesn't know the bible this
person clearly is not receiving the word of god they're clearly not laying it up in their heart
because according to scripture the precepts of god's words give us understanding and what
does that understanding do it causes us to hate every false way see if you know the bible and what
it teaches about salvation you're going to hate the catholic church when you realize that god says
that a pastor has to be married and there's a religion that says you have to not be married
and it's just like you're going to hate that religion when it's just constantly against what
god's words teach that's going to make you angry and you know what you should have a righteous
hatred in your heart for the things that blaspheme god for the things that god hates how about for
things that are sending people to hell no you should not love everyone no we should not love
every religion oh coexist no i hate islam i hate catholicism i hate mormonism i hate atheism why
because i love god's words that's why because i actually know god and fear god and anyone who
teaches this love all mentality doesn't they don't fear god they don't love god because it
doesn't match up with the bible by the way you ever want to know who's on god's side just who's
preaching what the bible actually says who's actually on the side of what scripture says not
i mean well everyone knows you should love everyone right no actually that's not what the bible says
no actually you should be with what the scripture teaches go to john chapter number seven john
chapter number seven or i'm sorry i'm sorry proverbs two go to proverbs two we'll go to
john seven right after that hopefully you're keeping your place in proverbs two throughout
the sermon but let's read the next verse here in proverbs chapter two verse two it says so that
thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and notice this word apply thine heart to understanding see you
will get a certain amount of knowledge from just receiving the bible you'll get a certain amount
of knowledge just from reading it just from showing up to church and hearing the word of
god being preached fellowshipping with godly christians that are going to teach you the bible
but you know what there comes a certain amount of fearing god and knowing god that comes from
doing the bible that comes from actually performing the things that you're reading
not just keeping it all up here as a head knowledge but using the word of god and realizing
hey i know from experience what the bible says in this area go to john chapter number seven john
chapter number seven and we'll see this principle here john chapter seven verse 15 it says and the
jews marveled saying how knoweth this man letters having never learned so jesus is preaching and
they're kind of shocked at his intelligence and wisdom because jesus didn't have some sort of
high pedigree formal education they're like this guy's hasn't learned you know he didn't go to
college or whatever our modern equivalent equivalent would be but verse 16 says jesus
answered them and said my doctrine is not mine but his that sent me so he's saying these words
that i'm preaching they're not just coming out of my own heart i'm not just making these up i'm
receiving these from the father verse 17 if any man notice will do his will he shall know of the
doctrine whether it be of god or whether i speak of myself notice people who do god's will know
the doctrine and what i've noticed is that people who just show up to church every once in a while
read the bible every once in a while or maybe they just listen to online preaching they have a lot of
doctrines still screwed up you know what helps correct a lot of doctrinal issues is by actually
doing the word of god the people that i know that know the most bible you know it's funny they're
all soul winners every single one of them i can't think of a single person where i can think like
man this guy knows tons of bible but doesn't preach the gospel when you do god's will you'll
know the doctrine but but there's kind of frauds to this because you got the calvinists the reformed
types and they love to put on a front of being super smart like that's their thing they want to
be seen as so academic and so put together and they love to use fancy words but yet they preach
so much false doctrine and they're not as smart as they make it out to be and is there any
coincidence that calvinists almost never go soul winning calvinists are never almost doing the word
of god therefore they're messed up on doctrine you want to get your doctrine settled yes receive
it yes go to church yes memorize the bible but beyond that actually apply the things that you
hear the more that you apply when you learn a truth when you hear a sermon when you read a bible
verse the more that you just have this attitude that says god no matter what it is if it's from
your word i'm going to implement it in my life you're going to be a person that starts to
understand the bible very quickly and that's what differentiates people who know the bible really
well and who don't go back to proverbs two proverbs chapter number two proverbs two look
at verse number three it says yay if thou cryest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for
understanding you know picture this of someone just crying out and just yelling about how they
want to know the truth they want knowledge they are truly hungry in their heart for the things of
god those are the people that god's going to give a lot of knowledge why because they're sincere
like this to me proves sincerity and if you want a bunch of knowledge you know you should do you
should ask god for it if you want a bunch of wisdom you should cry out to god and ask him to
give you that and he will give you that you could stay there james 1 5 says if any of you lack
wisdom let him ask of god that giveth to all men liberally and abradeth not and it shall be given
him that's a promise that if you ask god's going to give you wisdom he's going to give it to you
liberally and he's not going to abrade you he's not going to correct you or chide you for asking
because i can kind of relate to this as a father sometimes your kids want to play the 50 question
game and you know what i should do what i should do is always just be there and just be like i'll
give liberally you want to ask me where trees come from or how do we get you know how does someone
get to heaven or anything like that like i will tell you but sometimes just in our flesh i'll be
honest with you it can get kind of annoying any other parents could back me up on that it gets
annoying every once in a while right but god in heaven he's not like that he's just better than
all of us it doesn't matter how many times you ask him he's just ready to give you the knowledge
and ready to give you the wisdom isn't that great that's a great promise he's not going to get tired
of you asking and here's the truth you will never stop learning the bible you know a good prayer to
pray before you read the bible lord open mine eyes that i might behold wondrous things out of thy law
he's never going to get tired of you asking that question he's not going to be like you've learned
enough bible you're good to go he's like i'll show you more this is deeper than you could ever handle
and deeper than i could ever handle keep asking him verse number four notice what it says
if thou seekest her as silver and searched for her as for hid treasures then shalt thou understand
the fear of the lord and find the knowledge of god notice it's comparing like hey if you actually
sought knowledge and wisdom as much as you would search for money you'd actually learn how to fear
god you would actually have the knowledge of god and i mean think about if this was actually
applied in in true reality imagine if this was applied today in america how many people dedicate
their entire life to getting rich their entire being from the moment they wake up to the moment
they go to bed is how they can make more money money seek more money get more things have a
better luxurious life like this is the american dream right is so that you can just live comfortably
and get a bunch of money and be happy from all your material goods what if god's people actually
sought wisdom and sought knowledge as much as people search for money i mean this world would
be turned upside down for the gospel of jesus christ but you know that actually takes someone
who's not going to just live according to their carnal desires and put their will as the forefront
in their life that's someone who's actually going to lower themselves to what god wants for them
and for what the bible says who's willing to do that you could stay there i'll read matthew 1344
jesus said again the kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hid in a field the which when a
man hath found he hideth and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath and buyeth that field
so jesus is saying like hey if someone has a field and there's treasure hid in that someone's
going to be willing to sell everything that they have just to buy that field to get those gains
monetarily to get that treasure and you think about times in history like the gold rush in
california people were literally willing to sell everything they had and to travel across the
country through the wilderness through perils just at the hope just at the chance of striking
it rich in california and being a part of the gold rush of the 1800s people do that for money
but you know what we should be willing to do anything to learn the truth you should be willing
to do anything you should be crying out to god asking him for it you should be truly desiring
in your heart the truth of god's word no matter the cost you know a lot of people have done this
a lot of people have literally moved across the country to go to what they believe in their heart
is the best church that will preach them the word of god that will send them out soul-winning that
will give them the truth uncensored and you know i could relate with that because i did that when
i was living in idaho with my parents i moved to sure foundation baptist church you know i was tired
of the old ifb but instead of being like these losers that complain about it and like backstab
their pastor or talk crap about their pastor i was like i'm just going to go behind a pastor that i
could support 100 and i went to sure foundation and i grew a ton because i was hearing the truth
but you know what i also just wanted the truth and you know we need some more people in this country
to stop caring so much about their bank account and care more about the truth because i don't know
if you've noticed our entire country has kind of been sacrificed at the altar of making money
and it just seems like so many people in america have stopped caring about the truth and about
preserving hard preaching and about preserving baptist churches and instead they've just dedicated
their life to money instead of thinking like how do i train my kids to be soul winners how do we
train the next generation to preach the word of god it's just like how do i train the next
generation to go get a finance degree and look i'm not against you if you have a finance degree
but i'm just saying like these are the aspirations of americans today for their kids make a bunch of
money i just want my kids to make a bunch of money you know what praise god if your kids make
a bunch of money but i'll tell you what i'd rather my kids be blue collar kind of scrape scraping by
but three to thrive but soul winners but love god but read the bible but have time for the
things of god than just to be rich now if they make a bunch of money and they serve god too
praise the lord but you know what americans need to stop loving money because the love of money is
the root of all evil you need to love god and it should not even be close your love for money or
things or prestige or having the best career you could possibly have it should not even be close
to your love for the things of god and for the word of god go back to proverbs two number two
this evening the source of wisdom the source of wisdom verse six for the lord giveth wisdom out
of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding the bible says that god is the one who gives
wisdom and so the bible the word of god is the ultimate source of truth the ultimate source of
wisdom and when you're thinking that you want to learn about something about life about how to
raise your kids about how to run a business about how to do anything according just to life here
where do you get that wisdom first the word of god now look there's nothing wrong with reading
other books i read other books every single day of my life okay there's nothing wrong with
reading other books there's nothing wrong with going to school of course i'm pro-education all
those things but this should always be the number one source and to me it's kind of weird how like
christians will spend all this time like reading these self-help books reading leadership books
reading psychology books listening to podcasts where they're just giving you all this life
wisdom but yet they won't read the word of god when the bible says that out of his mouth comes
wisdom where should you go first for information the bible that is the only source in this world
that is 100 reliable that's why it should be your go-to because everything you read in it
is going to come to pass look at verse seven he says he layeth up sound wisdom notice for the
righteous he is a buckler to them that walk up rightly see i've noticed that there's a connection
with people who are wise being righteous and i've noticed a connection between people who are stupid
and foolish and being wicked people there is a connection here because god lays up sound wisdom
for who for the righteous people who know the bible people who have a lot of wisdom you know
what they're righteous person and the dumbest people on this earth you know who they are atheists
and they're not righteous they're wicked people i'll show you that go to psalm 14 psalm 14 see when
someone is stupid and foolish you need to realize this that that is a red flag about that person's
character not necessarily just their mental capacity barring the exception they have some
sort of deformity or mental handicap but when someone has all their faculties and they're
foolish and they're stupid that says something about who they are as a person and it should be
a red flag to you like i had a red flag a few years ago where this guy at church who ended up
being a total bozo ended up turning against pastor shelly going online on this railing campaign
i marked this guy from this moment of my life when he called me and said that he doesn't believe
space is real and i'm just like this is a bad person like i'm gonna watch out for this person
this person is an idiot and i just realized like okay i am gonna be away from this person i'm gonna
keep my distance because the reason why someone is that stupid is because they're a bad person
look at psalm 14 verse 1 the who fool hath said in his heart there is no god and notice how
the bible describes these atheists they are corrupt they have done abominable works there
is none that doeth good see it's not a coincidence that the fool is listed here why is he foolish
because he says he doesn't believe there's a god right he doesn't think there's a god
and then the bible describes who he's like as a person that he's corrupt that he's done
abominable works now here's the thing we all are born into this world foolish foolishness is bound
in the heart of the child the bible says it's totally understandable when kids say and believe
all sorts of wild and stupid things but you know as you grow you should be doing what receiving the
word of god hiding god's word in your heart reading it going hearing preaching all these
things and you should start to mature and when someone is an adult and they believe all these
things it shows a lack of character and maturity on their part and especially because i'll say
this okay we all probably believe something that's dumb but if you're confronted with facts
if you're confronted with evidence if you're confronted with the word of god and you still
don't change your mind that's because you have wickedness in your heart that's because there's
a problem with you as a person and it's not like when you're when you're seeing facts it's not
like you get to just stand here and say well i just still have my opinion though no no no your
opinion is wrong and christians unfortunately have developed a reputation for themselves
of being people who deny science deny facts deny reality and believe a bunch of stupid things
and unfortunately there are a bunch of christians just hell bent on keeping this stereotype alive
and it pisses me off because you know what it's it's not that oh this person's not saved but it's
that they have a serious amount of immaturity in their heart and they have a serious character
problem in their heart and when you are presented with facts and truth you need to change you need
to swallow your pride and realize you could be wrong about things i could be wrong about things
and when the facts are presented just believe them regardless of whatever your preconceived notions
were believe the truth and especially the bible boy i wish that some people in the old ifb had
this mentality it's like you know you want to know why a preacher in the old ifb won't acknowledge
that the bible says that the rapture happens after the tribulation it's because he has a
heart problem it's not because he can't understand english and read the words that are on the page
it's that he has some sort of heart problem maybe he doesn't want to lose his friends
over standing up for the word of god doesn't want to lose his donors doesn't want to lose his bible
college doesn't want to lose all the prestige and so they just refuse but you know what that's
wickedness that needs to be repented of when you get truth you need to believe it immediately go
to if you would colossians chapter number two colossians chapter number two but we read there
how atheists are obviously not good people folks it's not like well they don't believe in god but
they're a pretty good person no no no they're corrupt no they've done abominable works this is
why it's so foolish and silly to go to these people for the big questions of life this is why
it's so just asinine to read these books about deep philosophical questions of life and try to
get wisdom from people like frederick nichi which is like one of the worst authors in history his
book thus spake that zarathustra is probably the worst book i've ever read it's terrible but see i
wasn't going to that book thinking oh i'm going to get some good stuff i was just interested in
the history of it i knew beforehand it was going to be trash but notice what it says in colossians
chapter 2 verse 6 as he have therefore received christ jesus the lord so walky in him rooted and
built up in him and established in the faith as he have been taught abounding therein with thanksgiving
notice this warning in verse 8 beware lest any man spoil you through notice philosophy and vain
deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after christ
what is philosophy it's just like a belief system it's just like a way of looking at the world
a way of understanding the world and viewing things in the world and there's philosophies out
there that are noticed after the tradition of men so it's not going to match up with the bible
it's not going to match up with the truth it's after the rudiments of the world and not after
christ i've kind of noticed in the last couple years that there's kind of a comeback in the
interest of philosophy does anyone else kind of notice that like i've especially noticed amongst
military and police that community there's kind of like this resurgence in the interest in
something called stoicism right stoicism is kind of making a comeback what are some other ones
um post-modernism that's making a that's made a huge comeback for a long time just go down to
the university right a lot of the universities embrace this post-modernism where they want to
deconstruct everything where they just take every belief that was handed down to us every tradition
every way of doing things and post-modernists are ready to just destroy it all they don't want to
build anything they're saying oh traditional marriage get rid of it child-rearing techniques
get rid of it church god the bible like they just want to destroy all of it and people are so into
these philosophy books people are so into listening to the the little psychologists and philosopher
philosopher podcast all these things but you know what the bible said is that out of the mouth of
the lord is where we get wisdom you want to learn the meaning of life you want to learn how to raise
kids you want to learn how to go to church what a real church looks like how a church supposed
to run all of these things are in the bible and hey how about the book of proverbs that's a good
place to start a book that's designed to give you wisdom now i bring this up because i saw that this
ex new ifb hater this person who used to be in a new ifb church who now just you know hates it
and says it's a cult and is saying that pastor shelly is a cult leader this this person posted
a video and it's from this divorced atheist feminist man-hating witch that's making a video
talking about like narcissists and spiritual abusers and all these things and on this video
there's a thumbnail that literally had a pentagram anyone else see this there was literally a satanic
pentagram in the thumbnail and here you have this christian that's going to this weird philosopher
to try to attack christians attack pastor shelly attack steadfast baptist church it's like what are
you doing are you insane like do you ever just look around and look at the battle lines and look
who you're standing with like the atheist oh but she's a good person she's trying to expose abuse
no she's corrupt no she's done abominable works no she doesn't love god she doesn't love the truth
because if she was crying after knowledge if she was crying after wisdom she'd be giving you the
book of proverbs she'd be giving you the new testament she wouldn't be giving you this damn
satanic thumbnail talking about how pastors are narcissistic abuse enablers you know what these
people who overuse these buzzwords are a bunch of idiots they're a bunch of idiots people who
always say narcissist narcissistic flying monkeys gas lighters soaring monkeys monkeys that flight
i don't care what you call it you're an idiot because if you actually had wisdom you'd have
something to say from the bible but you don't you have to go to an atheist you have to go to
a feminist to attack a pastor woe unto you how have you gotten so weak how have you gotten so
backslidden i used to know this person this person used to preach behind the pulpit at steadfast
baptist church you idiot you coward you backstabber what is wrong with these people i'll tell you what
it is there's something wrong with them why does someone love lies why does someone love stupidity
because of their character issue and i've seen all i need to see of who's on the right side one
person has the bible one person has the word of god one person saying go to church one person
saying obey your pastor and one person saying hey look at this feminist whore who's been with
multiple dudes let's go to wisdom for him you're an idiot and anyone who thinks that that's normal
should just leave this church because i don't want to be around a bunch of idiots you're mad
i'm mad about lies you should be mad about lies because when you love god's precepts you hate
every false way every false way proverbs chapter 2 look at verse 8 says he keepeth the paths of
judgment and preserve it the way of his saints then shalt thou understand righteousness and
judgment and equity yay notice every good path now that word good can be interpreted a lot of
ways if you just use the world's philosophy i mean if you're just going to the world to define
good you're going to get a billion different answers of what good is but see this is why you
have to go to the bible as your primary source why it has to be the first thing that you turn to
is because god is going to show you what the good path is and you don't get to define what's good
i don't get to define what's good we don't get to say like well you know i think it's totally good
for people to cohabitate before marriage and to get to know each other and to connect on a deeper
level before marriage doesn't matter if you think that's good because the bible will show you what
the good path is the bible says the good path is flee fornication the bible says that the good path
was that it's better to marry than to burn but people they just love to just worship their
opinion and people accuse us of worshipping the bible yep amen but you know what you worship
you worship your own mind you worship your own human intellect you worship your feminist god
hating weird atheist podcaster talking about narcissists that's who you worship but you know
what we should worship the word of god because it's going to show us the good path go to isaiah
chapter number five isaiah chapter number five because today people will say well what's good
well just whatever the general consensus is that's what people say that's good but you know those of
us who have read the bible you know that very often the general consensus of what's good does
not match with this Bible says. And so what do you do when you actually are given that discrepancy?
Well, those who fear God, those who cry after knowledge and wisdom are always going to pick
what the Bible says. Isaiah five verse 20, "Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil,
that put darkness for light and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe unto them that are wise," notice this such an important phrase, "in their own eyes and prudent
in their own sight." That's where a lot of people are getting their wisdom and knowledge today is
just whatever the lusts of their heart want, whatever their eyes think are good, whatever's
nice in their sight, that's what they're going to call good. But the Bible says, "Woe unto those
who call good evil and evil good." So you know what? Those who would look at me or Anchor Baptist
Church or Pastor Shelley, the former pastor of this church, or Stepfast, the church that planted
this church, people who look at us and say, "We're evil." You know what the Bible says? "Woe unto
them. Woe unto them." And I'm telling you, the amount of people in the last several months that
I've seen just blatantly lie about men of God, about pastors, about godly churches that are
getting thousands of people saved, that are sending evangelists, that are sending out pastors and
starting churches, the way I've seen people just flippantly lie about them just makes me realize
what a wicked piece of trash they are. And the Bible says, "Woe unto them." And I'm telling you
right now, I am praying often that God will judge these liars, that God will punish them,
that God will make it manifest to everyone who is good and who is wicked. And you should be afraid
of that. I mean, God forbid that I would have a pastor or godly Christians praying for God to
punish me. But you know what? You deserve it. You need to be punished by God because maybe it's
going to be the only thing that'll wake you up and make you repent. Where you could be like,
"Oh wow, an epiphany. When I'm standing with sodomites and God haters and witches
and atheists against godly soul winning Christians, maybe I'm on the wrong side."
Maybe your friends, quote unquote, aren't really your friends. Because all these people that hate
on the new IFB, they all get together. They don't love each other. They lie about each other. They
talk crap about each other. They're not good friends to each other. And so their lives are
just being destroyed. And they're having all these problems in their lives. I've seen a lot of lives
destroyed lately. And you know what? You should be afraid if you're one of these people. You should
be afraid to lie against the man of God. You should be afraid to attack a church. You should
be afraid to be on these people's sides because bad things are going to come onto them. That's what
woe means. Woe unto them. Woe unto them that call good evil and evil good. Go to Jeremiah,
Jeremiah chapter number four. Can someone give me another water, please? Jeremiah four. Notice
what it says in verse 22. "For my people is foolish. They have not known me. They are
saddish children, and they have none understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good,
they have no knowledge." So notice again, we see this comparison with those who are righteous.
Those who serve God, they have knowledge. They know to do good. Those that are wicked, what are
they? They're wise to do evil. Go back to Proverbs chapter two. Proverbs chapter number two. Number
three this evening, let's talk about the protection of wisdom. Verse 10 it says, "When wisdom entereth
into thine heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul, discretion shall preserve thee.
Understanding shall keep thee." So notice when you actually do cry out for wisdom and knowledge and
you want it and it enters into your heart and notice how it's pleasant unto your soul. You're
truly receptive. You truly fear God. You truly want to know the truth. Notice what the truth does for
you. It preserves you. It says, "Understanding shall keep thee." And one of the things that
especially people who are new believers or people just like starting in their faith,
one thing that I just want them all to understand is that following the words of God are going to
protect you in your life. Because we get this brainwashing from the world that the Bible is
there to constrict you and to make you have a boring life and God doesn't want you to have
any fun but that could not be farther from the truth. God loves us. God has come to give us life
and life more abundantly. He wants us to thrive in life and so all of God's commandments are there
for our benefit. There's nothing in the Bible that God's like well I just kind of want to stick it
to them on this. You know alcohol is so great and so wonderful but I'm just gonna forbid it for
Christians just because no no no alcohol will ruin your life. Alcohol will make you lose all
your teeth in a bar fight. Alcohol will make you go get some other guy's what some guy's wife pregnant.
How'd you like that? Alcohol will make you get killed by the police. Alcohol make you
get in a drunk driving accident. Like there's all these terrible things that happen to people
when they drink alcohol and God is actually trying to protect you but those who are immature they
just see the rule just like a child. Just like a a child that's just stubborn and rebellious.
He just sees the rule and gets mad at the rule but not realizing that the parents have that rule
because the parents love him or her and want to protect that child. It's the same thing with God.
He gives us wisdom and all these things to preserve us to keep us and the Bible gives
us an example a couple examples of some things that he's going to keep us safe from verse 12
to deliver the notice from the way of the evil man from the man that speaketh forward things.
So we're kind of introduced to this anonymous villain in the book of proverbs that you're going
to see a lot that is the evil man and the bible saying that knowledge wisdom are going to keep you
safe from this evil man and it kind of gives you one of the warning indicators of what an evil
person is like. It's someone that is foward. Someone who is foward is an indication that they
are an evil person. Now I looked up foward because that's not a word we usually use today
but it just means willfully contrary not easily managed. Whenever I read the word
foward in my bible I always think of this contrarian. This person's contrarian meaning
that if I say A you're gonna say B. If your mom says do this you're not gonna do it right. If
someone has an opinion you're gonna have the exact opposite. If the pastor has an interpretation of
the bible you're always gonna have an opposite interpretation right. This is someone that's
froward. Someone who is willfully contrarian. This is a bad attribute in someone when they're
just always against things that are good. Now every person has blind spots. I'm sure every person
is gonna have a wrong opinion on interpretation from from time to time but I've noticed over the
years how some people they're just like always on the wrong side of every battle and I'm just like
you a froward person like I'm kind of scared of you. You're always on the wrong side. You've always
got a weird doctrine. You're always upset at the pastor even though a sermon came right out of the
word of God. You're all you know wives you're always upset at your husband. All men are terrible
right it's just like this is a contrarian person. This is a froward person and it shows that they're
evil. It shows that they are harmful. Now go to 2nd Timothy chapter number one. 2nd Timothy chapter
number one and while you're turning there I'll read Galatians 519. Now the works of the flesh
are manifest which are these adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft
hatred and then this word variance variance someone who's just different for the sake of
being different not that they have a sincerely held opinion that they came to through hours of
diligent study of the word of god and they just happen to disagree on this one thing but they're
usually in lockstep with others no no they're just always different they've always got their
own interpretation they're always variant from other godly christians like here's this big group
of godly christians they all believe the same doctrine on calling upon the name of the lord
right but then there'll be that one guy where he's different from everyone else and it's like
you're evil because again having good doctrine what does it come from from doing the word of god
you know what's funny soul winners don't get confused about calling upon the name of the lord
people who are soul winners and especially people who are good soul winners they never
get confused on this doctrine it's like duh of course whosoever shall call upon the name of
the lord shall be saved it's not a hard verse right but then there's that contrarian guy who
oh everyone's an abuse abuser everyone's a enabler all the pastors are narcissists and just so happens
that they also believe that you don't have to call upon the name of the lord oh yeah it's
almost like god gave us a book to tell us about all the warning signs of someone who's wicked
oh thank you god for proverbs thank the lord for this book because you know what the bible
discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart where you could say action what's this coming
from oh yeah it's coming from this person being a piece of trash a wicked person a variant person
a foward person look at second timothy 113 hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard
of me in faith and love which is in christ jesus see we shouldn't be trying to sit here at anchor
baptist church and think like how different can we be from steadfast how different can we be from
faithful word or from verity or for other new ifb churches i'm trying to think like how can i hold
fast the form of sound words as much as humanly possible how can i stick exactly to what the bible
says to the best of my ability i'm not getting up here thinking like what new doctrine can i preach
oh what really exotic new sermon you know what i'm never going to preach anything new
i'm just telling you right now i am never going to preach anything new it's always going to be the
old king james bible if you're looking for a new doctrine go join a cult because that's what cults
will offer you right joseph smith he will offer you new doctrine oh yeah i've got another testament
of jesus christ you know you got that cult in waco in the 90s hey what's his name david crèche he's
got new doctrine for you really just wonderful doctrine god told me for you to give me your wife
and daughter just wonderful great new doctrine see new doctrine is bad doctrine old doctrine
that comes from the bible the timeless eternal doctrine that's what's good the old path the
right way the sound words of god i'm trying to hold fast to those things i'm not trying to see
how different i can be now look us pastors we have our differences we have different personalities
we have different preferences we have different maybe order of service or little things like that
but you know what my pastor friends i'm in like lockstep with them on like 99 percent of issues
and i'm not just thinking like how different can i be because i'm a pastor and i've got to make a
name for myself i don't care because i love the bible let this make a name for itself the word of
god go back to proverbs chapter number two proverbs chapter two but again you see people they
they always have something different, watch out.
It's a red flag.
Verse number 13, notice what it says,
who leave the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness.
See, to be froward, you inherently have to be wicked
because there's the right way, there's the good path,
there's the truth, there's the right doctrine,
and if you're gonna be variant, you know what that means?
You're gonna be on the side of lies.
You're gonna be on the side of the wicked.
You're gonna be on the wrong path.
That's why it's just, it's automatic.
If you're a forward person,
you're for sure gonna be on a wicked, harmful path
because it's not the paths of uprightness.
You're leaving the paths of uprightness.
Look at verse 14, it says,
"This is crazy, who rejoice to do evil
"and delight in the forwardness of the wicked."
I mean, this is a crazy person right here.
This is insane.
Someone who does evil
and instead of feeling just extremely ashamed,
like normal people feel when they sin,
they rejoice, they get pleasure out of it
and they delight in the forwardness of the wicked.
They love when they could infect someone else
and make them a hater with them.
They love it when there's a godly Christian
serving in church on the right path
and they could drag them down into the gutter with them.
They love that.
They actually take pleasure in that.
These are terrible people, terrible people.
Verse 15, whose ways are crooked
and they froward in their paths.
It says that their ways are crooked.
Think about if you go out into the wilderness,
if you've ever been to a national park
or just anything like that, they usually have a trail.
And what is that trail designed to do?
It's designed to keep you safe, right?
It's saying like, hey, there's dangers out here.
There are snakes, there's scorpions, there's cliffs,
there's sinking sand, whatever the perils
that are out there, this trail is telling you,
hey, if you follow this trail,
you're gonna get to your destination
and you're gonna be safe, right?
That's God's words.
That's the path of uprightness.
But the wicked, what do they do?
They wanna make their own path, right?
They wanna go off of the path that's already been created,
that's already been run by thousands of other people,
that's already been proven and tried.
They wanna create their own path.
And you know what often happens?
They get hurt, they get hurt as a result.
Harm comes upon them.
They get stuck and lost in the woods.
They get frostbite.
They get bit by that snake.
They get attacked by that bear or whatever.
And look, in just the carnal example,
sometimes it's fun to go off in the wilderness.
Okay, I'm not against you to do that.
But the spiritual example is true here.
Like God has given us the path,
and the path is the only place that there's safety.
When you go off that path,
you're gonna start feeling a lot of harm.
You're gonna start feeling a lot of issues.
It's like you see this, people stop going to church,
they turn on the pastor, they become haters,
they go off the path of what the Bible says,
and then next thing you know, it's like, oh, divorced.
And it's just like, why'd you go off the path?
You know, that path was there to protect you.
That path wasn't there to harm you.
It's not like the word of God,
the sermons preached against adultery
and divorce and remarriage and leaving your spouse.
It's not to hurt you.
Sure, it may hurt some people's feelings,
but really it's there to help you.
It's there to keep you on the safe path.
And that's anything in the word of God.
It's there to keep you safe.
Look at verse 16.
Then it tells you something else
that wisdom will keep you safe from,
this is a big one,
to deliver thee from the strange woman,
even from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Man, this is a serious danger
for people who do not pay close attention to wisdom
and knowledge and stay on the right path.
This is a serious danger today.
And it's interesting because in the book of Proverbs,
it just seems like, especially the first portion of it,
we're gonna be talking about the strange woman
like every chapter.
And it's because there's a lot of strange women
in this world.
She's on every street corner, the Bible says.
And it's obviously a serious danger for men
because God's constantly warning you.
It's like you're on the trail and like every five yards,
there's a sign that says like,
hey, there's a cliff just to your left,
stay on the path, stay on the path,
there's a cliff, there's a cliff.
And it's funny, you know what the Bible says?
A whore is a deep ditch.
It's a deep, deep ditch.
And people who are walking on the right path
and they get off and they go to that whore,
they fall in that ditch and oftentimes,
when you're in that ditch, you can't get out.
You can't escape, you're harmed.
And what's interesting is that the Bible
doesn't constantly talk about the strange man.
Have you noticed that?
The Bible's constantly not like,
ladies, be careful, watch out for the strange man,
watch out for those dudes.
It's like always telling men like, be careful
of this wicked woman.
What does strange mean?
This just means not your wife, that's what it means, okay?
Just a foreign woman, a strange woman who you don't know,
just some random chick, and she's saying,
notice flattering words, which flattereth with her words.
That is a red flag, folks.
Listen, men, if some random woman that you don't know,
or really any woman that's not your wife does this,
starts flattering you, don't fall for it.
Don't sit here and think in your prideful,
egotistical mind, like, yeah, I really am that cool.
Yeah, I am that awesome.
No, this woman's evil.
She's trying to hurt you.
She's trying to harm you.
She's that deep ditch on the side of the trail,
and you might think you're such a daredevil
and that you can handle it, but you know what?
Many strong men have been slain by her.
Many strong men.
Proverbs 31, give not thy strength unto women, right?
It doesn't say like, "Oh, only the weak."
No, no, no, even strong men sometimes fall for that.
That's why Proverbs is just constantly warning you
about the strange woman.
You gotta be careful, and look, praise the Lord.
I don't think that this exists in this church,
so I'm not saying this as a condemnation of anyone here,
but it is a warning for the future.
Don't even think that just because you're in church
that the strange woman wouldn't hunt thereto,
because the Bible says that the adulteress hunts
for the precious life.
And again, I don't think we have this right now,
but I'm telling you, even in churches,
there can be women that are promiscuous.
There can be women that wanna show off their bodies.
There can be women making inappropriate comments to men
and flirting with them and coming onto them.
And you have to realize, if you actually love wisdom,
if you actually love knowledge,
you have to make a note like,
okay, I need to be careful.
I need to separate, I need to not be super close.
I need to do everything I can to keep myself safe
because that's actually what a wise person
with real humility would say.
Not just like, oh, no big deal.
It'll never happen to me.
Then why is the Bible constantly warning you about it?
If it could never happen to you?
No, you need to realize like, hey, that's a real danger.
That's a real danger that we have to be careful
and not even get anywhere close.
Verse number 17.
I found this interesting talking about the strange woman.
It says, "Which forsaketh the guide of her youth
and forgetteth the covenant of her God."
You know, this lady, this strange woman,
she's a strange woman now.
She's a whore now.
She's flattering men now,
but it says that she forsook the guide of her youth.
So it was like, she had someone in her youth
telling her, do the right thing.
Go down the right path.
You know, follow the words of God.
Do what the preacher says.
Do what your parents say.
She had that guide of her youth,
but she forsook it.
You know, it makes me think about
how you can't force your children to turn out good.
You know that?
You can't just snap your fingers
and just order your children be godly when you grow up.
Like, wouldn't that be nice if it was that easy?
But this person had a guide in their youth,
and she forsook the guide of her youth.
Man, all we could do is just in those really young years,
do everything we can, discipline, pray for them a ton,
give them guidance, give them wisdom,
give them an environment
where they're gonna hear hard preaching.
But at the end of the day, serving God is a choice.
Doing what's right is a choice.
And you know what?
I could only make the choice at the end of the day
to truly love God and His words for myself.
You know what?
I'm responsible for warning, for preaching.
Parents, you're responsible for guiding that young lady
and telling her what's right
and giving her the good path to walk down.
But if adults, if children just grow up
and just decide to go off the path
and just jump off the cliff,
how is that your fault?
Your job is to warn.
That's your responsibility.
But look, even when she has the guide,
she can still forsake
and forget it the covenant of her God.
So it sounds like she was getting the Bible too.
Sounds like she was getting God's word.
But yet, you know what?
People who grow up in church
can still grow up to be adulterous whores.
And men who grow up in church
can still grow up to be drug addicts
and alcoholics and adulterers.
Why?
Because we have free will, that's why.
And so you need to take heed to yourself,
to the decisions that you can control,
to loving God with your heart,
and into giving all the right instruction to your children.
But you cannot force, like a robot,
for your kids to love God, it is not possible.
Look at verse 18.
"For her house inclineth unto death,
and her paths unto the dead."
Man, men need to memorize that verse right there.
'Cause elsewhere the Bible will talk about
how the strange woman will seem pleasant to you,
you know, that it'll look like something to be desired.
But like every time you see the strange woman,
you just need to think like death, destruction,
the end of my marriage, the end of my life.
Like you just need to be thinking like death, danger.
And stop being so foolish and thinking like,
oh, she looks good.
Oh, she's cute.
Just be like, oh, strange woman,
dressed like a whore, flattering me, that's death.
Run away from that, you know?
Don't play stupid games with death.
Don't sit here and get a gun
and put one bullet in the cylinder and spin it
and play Russian roulette.
That's like playing around with the whore
because notice what it says, verse 19,
none that go unto her return again.
Neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Many people who go down the road of adultery
and fornication never recover.
Many people who go down this road
never serve God to their fullest potential.
Many people, whether that's just from their own shame
or whether that's just from nuking their life
and all the complications of multiple parents
and children and alimony and all, STDs, right?
All these issues that come, whatever the reason,
many people, they just never recover from it.
It ruins their life for forever.
So don't be an idiot that thinks,
oh man, I gotta find out for myself.
I gotta see if it's true myself.
Don't be an idiot.
Be warned from the Bible.
See the strange woman and say, death!
Stay away from death.
You know, young men that wanna get married,
praise the Lord, I want you guys to get married,
but beware of the whore.
Don't marry the whore.
Don't marry the promiscuous woman.
Don't marry the woman that you just met five minutes ago
and is flattering you.
Beware of that woman.
She will ruin your life for forever.
Number four, let's talk about the paths of the righteous.
Verse 20 says, that thou mayst walk in the way of good men
and keep the paths of the righteous.
So earlier, we saw that word good.
And we learned that we don't get to just define good, right?
God defines what good is.
And the Bible here is talking about the way of good men.
You know what that means?
You could actually identify someone who's a good man.
And in fact, you're supposed to identify them
so that you could see the path that they're going in life
and follow them.
I'll show you that.
Psalm 37, Psalm 37.
You know, we're gonna read in Psalm 37 this word mark.
And usually we talk about that in a negative context,
how someone's causing division in the church
and the pastor's supposed to get up and mark them,
say, beware of this person.
They're wicked, they're turning people away.
Don't be friends with them, right?
That's one sense of marking someone.
But look at verse 37 of Psalm 37.
Mark the perfect man and behold the upright
for the end of that man is peace.
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together
and the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
So the Bible actually instructs us to identify a good man,
identify the perfect man.
And of course, that doesn't mean sinless.
It just means that complete.
He's living a complete Christian life.
He doesn't have this huge glaring issue.
He's living a godly life.
You're supposed to mark, identify that man
and realize, hey, this guy's going in a good direction.
Because notice how it said at the end of that verse,
what was the exact wording?
In verse 37, notice the end.
For the end of that man is peace.
Why are you supposed to mark a good man?
Because you're supposed to realize
that if he's following the Bible,
you know what his end is gonna be?
Peace.
And you don't always just look at
the immediate circumstances of their life
because the Bible teaches that those who are godly
will suffer persecution, right?
So you can't like look at a pastor or something, be like, oh, they've got, you know, all these protests and all these problems.
So he must not be godly. No, you have to look at where's the doctrine.
Is the doctrine matching the word of God? Is he following God's word?
Then you can assume this is a good man. And you know what?
You should follow that good man because the end of a good man is peace.
Yeah, there's going to be storms in life. There's storms for the wicked and for the righteous.
But here's the thing. The end of the righteous is peace.
The end of the godly is peace. But the end of the wicked is destruction.
Have you noticed that? The end of the wicked is their life being completely destroyed.
Not just being chastised, but being like really chastised.
Or if they're unsaved, you know, getting the wrath of God on their life.
Go to Hebrews 13, Hebrews chapter 13.
You know, a lot of people who are prideful and arrogant hate this point of actually following a man.
People think they're so godly. They're so smart that they would never follow a man.
But really what that is, is that's pride.
And let me help you understand what pride actually is.
Pride is anytime you disagree with what the Bible says.
That's always pride, every single time.
If the Bible says to do something but you think, "Oh, my idea is better," that's pride.
And sometimes people will like accuse pastors of being prideful because of,
let's read this verse, verse number seven of Hebrews 13.
"Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God,
whose faith follow," considering the what? End of their conversation.
Those that have the rule over the house of God is talking about pastors.
They've spoken the word of God. The Bible says that you should follow those people.
Now here's what people say, "That's prideful for you to say."
Actually, if I'm agreeing with God, that's not pride. That's humility.
What's prideful is if I had a different idea than Hebrews 13, 7. Do you understand that?
Because some people will accuse pastors, they'll be like, "Look at how confident he is in what he's
saying and how he's standing on doctrine. That's prideful." No, that's humility, is to say the
Bible is right for sure. You understand how that's humility? Because you're putting your
human intellect down, your opinions down, and you're putting this up high. Whatever it says,
whether it seems to benefit the pastor, doesn't matter what does God say. He says to follow,
right? So you should, like Proverbs 2 says, like Psalm 37 says, find a good man, identify,
mark a good man, and follow him. And look, I hope you can follow me at this church. If you can't,
go follow a pastor. You can. I want people to be happy in their church and content in their church
and secure in the leadership of their church. And if you don't feel that way, or if someone online
doesn't feel that way, you should move to a church that you feel that way about because God's command
is for you to mark the perfect man, to identify and follow. That is wisdom and righteousness
according to the Bible. Go back to Proverbs chapter number two, Proverbs chapter number two,
almost done this evening. Notice verse 21, "For the upright shall dwell in the land and the perfect
remain in it." Right? So on the surface, you could just look at this and say a godly and wise person
is going to have a lot of blessings in their life. They're going to have a lot of peace. I also think
about kind of a farther application, the millennial reign of Christ. When Jesus is
ruling and reigning in this earth, those who are saved are going to dwell in the land and the perfect
shall remain in it. And it's going to kind of juxtapose that with the wicked in this last
verse. Number five, the punishment of the wicked. Verse 22 says, "But the wicked shall be cut off
from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it." You know, at the end of this
chapter, God kind of gives you a sneak peek into the end of two types of people. The godly, the
upright, those who actually fear God, cry out for knowledge, want to know the truth, want to love
God. What's the end for those people? Security, peace, blessing. You know, those are great things
that we desire. Then the froward person, the strange woman, those who don't cry out for
knowledge or care about the truth, those who are stupid and wicked. What's the end for them?
Being cut off from the earth and transgressors shall be rooted out of it. And again, you could
kind of have a near and far application here. The wicked, even those who are saved, wicked
Christians, backslidden Christians that don't care about the truth. They want to call evil good and
good evil. You know what is coming their way? Pain and misery and destruction and ruining their
life. And you know what? I've seen a lot of that lately and I'm not happy about that. I would rather
that they just love wisdom. I would rather them just stand on the right side and not have to have
God come after them. But I also think about the the far application of this again is that millennial
reign of Jesus Christ where when he starts that reign he's destroyed the wicked. It's God's people
living in God's land and the wicked are cut off. Let's end in Psalm 37 again. Psalm chapter number
37 with that in mind think of the millennial reign of Christ in verse 9 of Psalm 37 it says
for evildoers shall be cut off but those that wait upon the Lord they shall inherit the earth
for yet a little while and the wicked shall not be yea thou shalt diligently consider his place
and it shall not be but the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance
of peace you know a lot of this is just true and it may kind of sound weird but it's true a lot of
your future and a lot of your destiny actually lies in your own hands it really does because
you know what you get to control you get to control if you ask God for wisdom you get to
control if you actually read the Bible you get to control if you come to church ready to receive it
searching daily in the scriptures whether those things are so you get to control if you're going
to actually apply the word of God and do the word of God and you know what God has predetermined
that the results of doing right are going to be blessings so in a large way you get to decide
what your future looks like and if you want to decide to be foolish ignore the warnings
ignore the word of God go play around with the strange woman go hang out with the evil foward
man you've just chosen destruction for your life you've chosen for God to punish you you've chosen
for pain and misery to come upon you that's your decision and you know while our eternity it's
sealed for those of us that are saved that decision has already been made when you believe on Jesus
Christ you know the millennial reign is coming someday and your standing in that reign is not
yet sealed and you know what you get to do right now you get to decide your future you get to
decide how good of a time that's going to be for you how do you get to decide that by actually
seeking for wisdom by actually calling out to god asking him to give you wisdom and knowledge and
when god gives it to you you get to choose to apply it you get to choose to not stand with the
wicked not stand with the foward not play around with the whore or the strange woman you get to
choose to fear god and if you make that choice i promise you the millennial reign will be great
for you but those christians that despise it don't take it seriously lie about men of god
stand with the wicked get involved in sin yeah they're still saved but they're not going to be
ruling and reigning in the same way that godly christians are going to they're not going to have
as high of a status in heaven and in the millennial reign when jesus comes to judge why because they
already made their decision so you know what this sermon you ought to really internalize this on
yourself and really think about like am i crying out for wisdom am i waking up in the morning and
actually wanting the words of god am i showing up to church because i was dragged here or am i
ready to hear the word of god your future is going to be impacted by every decision that you make
you know we ought to be sober with our lives sober with the warnings from god's word take those
things to heart and actually apply them in our lives let's have a word of prayer lord we thank
you for proverbs chapter 2 and the warnings and wisdom in your word i pray that everybody in here
would be moved to want to make the decision to love the truth to ask for the truth to seek the
truth to live the truth to stand behind men and women who are living the truth to not stand with
the wicked to search for you in your words to get wisdom and we love you very much in Jesus name we
pray amen this time if you would take your hymnals and turn to hymn number 191 sing one last song to
conclude the service hymn number 191 191 in my heart there rings a melody we'll go ahead and
start there right on the first