you
grab a hymnal
turn your song books to song number two
glory to his name
song number two glory to his name
song number two glory
to his name
on the first
down at the cross where my
savior died
down where for cleansing
from sin I cried
there to my heart
was the blood applied
glory
to his name
glory
to his name
glory
to his name
there
to my heart was
the blood applied
glory to
his name
I am so
wondrously saved from
sin Jesus
so sweetly abides
within there
at the cross where he took
me in glory
to his
name
glory to his
name
glory to
his name
there to my heart
was the blood applied
glory to
his name
oh precious
fountain that saves from
sin I
am so glad I have
entered in
there Jesus saves me
and keeps me clean
glory to
his name
glory to
his name
glory
to his name
there to
my heart was the blood
applied glory
to his name
on the last
to this fountain
so rich and sweet
cast thy poor soul
at the Savior's
feet plunge into
day and be made
complete glory
to his name
glory
to his name
glory
to his
name
there to my heart was
the blood applied
glory to
his name
187
Jesus loves me
187 Jesus
loves me on the first
Jesus loves me
this I know
for the Bible
tells me so
little
ones to him
belong they are
weak but he is
strong yes
yes Jesus
loves me
yes Jesus
loves me
yes Jesus
loves me
the Bible tells
me so
Jesus loves
me he who
died heavens
gate to open
wine he will
wash away my
sin let his
little child come
in yes
Jesus loves me
yes
Jesus loves me
yes
Jesus loves me
the Bible
tells me so
Jesus
loves me he
will stay
close beside me
all the way
thou hast bled and
died for me
I will henceforth
live for thee
yes Jesus
loves me
yes Jesus
loves me
yes Jesus
loves me
the Bible
tells me so
good singing
this time we'll go through our bulletins
and on the front page there
we have our verse of the week
Romans 8.7
because the carnal mind is enmity against God
for it is not subject to the law of God
neither indeed can be
and on the inside on the left page we have our service times
every Sunday morning 10.30 am
Sunday evenings at 5.30 pm
and Thursdays 7 pm
our Bible study we'll take a pause through the book of Acts tonight
Pastor Shelley is
at a camping trip with
the Old Baptist Church in Georgia
and so we hope him and his family have a great time
they much deserve this time of fun and rest
and they do a lot of hard work
so we're very happy for them to have that time
and then we have our soul winning times
Sunday at 2 pm
Thursday 5.15
Saturday at 10 am
and all those meet at the church
and we have a couple regional times as well below
we have our soul winning salvation and baptism
totals there
and let's go ahead and get a count for this week
on Monday, besides Monday is there anything else
for this week?
Okay, alright, sounds good
I know Brother Sampson and I did some soul warning today
so that's sometimes how it goes
you have weeks like that, but we just gotta keep with it
and as always make sure that we're continuing in prayer
for our expectant mothers at the church
some upcoming events
it's not in the bulletin, but May 16th
Pastor Joe Jones is gonna be preaching
at Steadfast Baptist Church
he's from Shield of Faith Baptist Church in Boise, Idaho
was sent out by Pastor Jimenez
he's a great preacher and friend
so we're looking forward to having him
if you want a little weekend getaway, May 16th
would be a good time to come up and visit us
up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
after that a few days later, May 20th through the 22nd
we're gonna have our men's conference
which I know many of you have signed up for as well
so we're looking forward to that
during that conference, Pastor Anderson will be preaching for us
that Friday, so that's a great reason
just in and of itself to make it to that conference
we're looking forward to that
and also, you know, any prayer requests
throughout the week, make sure to send that in to the email
and we will get that added to the list
and with that we'll go to our third song
put a song number 100 day by day
song 100 day by day
song 100 day by day on the first
day by day
and with each passing moment
strength I find
to meet my trials here
trusting in
my father's
wise bestowment
I've no cause
for worry or
for fear
he whose heart
is kind beyond all measure
gives
unto each day
what he deems best
lovingly
it's part of pain
and pleasure
mingling toil
with peace and
rest
every day
the Lord himself is near
me
with a special
mercy for each hour
all my cares
he fain would
bear and cheer me
he whose name
is counselor and
power
the protection
of his child and treasure
is a
charge that on
himself he laid
as thy days
thy strength shall be
in measure
this the pledge
to me he
made
help me then
every tribulation
so to
trust thy promises
O Lord
that I lose
not faith sweet consolation
offered
me within
thy holy word
help me Lord
when toil and trouble
meeting
ere to take
us from a father's
hand
one by one
the days the moment's
fleeting
till I reach the
promised land
Good, sing it this time. Brother Sampson will come read
Ephesians chapter 5
Right, Ephesians chapter
number 5
We'll all turn there and follow along with me
as we read this chapter together
Be ye therefore followers
of God as your children
and walk in love as Christ also
had loved us and hath given himself
for us an offering and a sacrifice
to God for a sweet smelling
savior but fornication
and all uncleanness or covetousness
let it not be once named among
you as becometh saints
neither filthiness nor foolish
talking nor jesting
which are not convenient but rather giving
of thanks for this
ye know that no
whoremonger or unclean person
nor covetous man who is an
adulterer has any inheritance
in the kingdom of Christ and of God
let no man deceive you
with vain words for because of these
things cometh the wrath of God upon the
children of disobedience
be ye not ye therefore partake
as with them for you are sometimes
darkness but now are ye light
in the Lord walkest children of
light for the fruit of the
spirit is in all goodness and righteousness
and truth
proving what is acceptable unto the Lord
and have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness but rather
reprove them for it is
a shame even to speak of those things
which are done of them in secret
but all things that are reproved are
made manifest by the light
for whatsoever does make manifest is
light wherefore he saith
awake thou that sleepeth
and arise from the dead and Christ
shall give thee light see
then that ye walk circumspectly
not as fools but as wise
redeeming the time
because the days are evil wherefore
be ye not
unwise but understanding
what the will of the Lord is
be not drunk with wine wherein
is excess but be filled with the
spirit speaking to yourselves
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
singing and making melody in your heart
to the Lord giving thanks always
for all things unto God the Father
and in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ submitting yourselves
one to another in the fear
of God. Wives
submit yourselves unto your own
husbands as unto the Lord
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. Husbands
love your wives even as
Christ also loved the church and gave
himself for it that he might
sanctify and cleanse it with
the washing of water by the word
that he might present it to himself
a glorious church not having
spot or wrinkle or any such
thing but that it should be
holy and without blemish
so ought men to love their wives
as their own bodies he that loveth
his wife loveth himself
for no man ever yet hated his
own flesh but nourishes
and cherishes it even
as the Lord the church
for we are members of his body
of his flesh and of his bones
for this cause shall a man leave his
father and mother and shall be joined
unto his wife and they too
shall be one flesh. This is
a great mystery but I speak concerning
Christ and the church nevertheless
that every one of you in
particular so love his wife even
as himself and the wives
see that she reverents her husband
bow your heads for a quick word of prayer
Heavenly Father we come before you again
thanks for joining us to get ahead of our congregation
and for blessing us again with
young brother Dylan all the coming priest
we give you thanks for the soul
winning even though more
warning than soul winning
we give you thanks for the opportunity to do that
spend time with each other and fellowship
while we do it. Father we always pray
and ask your name in Jesus Christ's name
Amen. Amen. Alright well
thank you all for coming tonight and thank you
Pastor Shelley as always for giving the opportunity to preach for you guys
I always look forward to it and enjoy it
and we are here in Ephesians chapter 5
but before we get into
this chapter the title of my sermon tonight
is snares of social media
snares of social media
and before we get into this passage or into
the sermon I just want to make it very clear that
social media is not something that is inherently
sinful. I'm not going to preach to you
tonight that you shouldn't have a social media account
that we shouldn't be on any type of social
media. I mean our church is on social
media. Our church has a Facebook
account. We're on YouTube right now
we're on Facebook right now. We use all these
alternative sites. There's nothing inherently
wrong with social media and I have to say
that because I've heard people say
and teach that there is stuff inherently
wrong with social media and that it is of
itself a sin and that is not true
it's not what I'm going to be preaching tonight
but this sermon is for
everyone. Every single person needs this sermon
myself included because
probably all of us are on social media
and social media is not going away anytime
soon. In my opinion social media
will probably be here until the day the Lord returns
it's just something that is
integrated into our society and I don't think
that it's ever going away
and because of that we have to be careful as
Christians because there are some snares
with social media that can cause you to
sin. It's not sinful in and of itself
but there are some traps some snares
that this new thing that's
been brought into our lives can cause for us
that can cause us to sin
and so we need to be careful with that.
And so point number one tonight a snare
of social media is social media
wastes a lot of time.
Social media wastes
a lot of time. According to
broadbandsearch.net
it says that the average time spent
daily on social media in
North America is two hours
and six minutes a day.
Keep in mind that's not including
television. That's not including
video games. This is only
what the average North American that includes
Mexico and Canada
and the United States over two
hours a day your average person
is spending over two hours a day
on social media. That is a
lot of time. Now here's the thing
you say oh who cares about two
hours a day. Well you know us as Christians
we have way less time
to waste than the world does
because the world really lives for one
thing and that's themselves. The world
really lives just to make more money
to have more free time to spend on entertainment
and just fulfilling the lust of the flesh
fulfilling the lust of whatever they
want to fulfill. But you know what their time
is not spent doing reading the Bible
homeschooling kids
going soul winning going to church
three times a week you know
praying memorizing scripture
we have way more to accomplish
in this life than just making
money. So therefore we have way less
time that we can waste
on social media than the world does.
So a Christian spending two hours
a day on social media is going to be
extremely detrimental to
your Christian life. Look at Ephesians chapter 5
look at verse number
15 it says
see then that you walk
circumspectly
not as fools but as wise. Now the word
circumspect means watchful
discrete careful
well thought out. So the Bible is saying
make sure you're walking make sure you're
living in a way that's well thought out
that's careful that's not
foolish. Look at verse 16
redeeming the time
because the days are evil.
So when you're walking circumspectly
you're realizing that you have
few days on this earth we don't have
a lot of time on this earth whereas
the fool is not walking circumspectly
and he's not counting the days he's
just living his life however he wants
we need to be wise and realize that we don't have much time
verse 17
wherefore be ye not unwise
but understanding
what the will of the
Lord is. So someone who's
wise someone who's walking circumspectly
what they're going to do is they're going to find
out what the will of the Lord is
and they're going to do that. Now the will
of the Lord for us as Christians is a lot of those things
that I was talking about. How about going to
church is that something that is God's will for
our life? Absolutely Hebrews chapter
10 tells us not to forsake the assembling of ourselves
together as the manner of
some is. That's something that should be a priority
in our life and guess what that takes a lot
of time does it not? I mean
most of you guys live really far away from
the church building. I'm really blessed
I live literally two or three minutes away from
steadfast but you also have to make that
extremely long commute then
you come to church then we sing the songs
then we have the hour long sermon or whatever
it is then you got the hour hour
plus drive home that takes a lot
of time and many of you do this
three times a week that's a lot
of hours throughout your week that the world
doesn't have to spend not
only that I mean hopefully everyone
in here has a goal of reading the Bible
at least one time cover
to cover per year that's going to take at
least 15 minutes a day of your time right there
you know the Bible commands us to pray
you know you know we're supposed to
pray in the morning lift up our voice to God
in the morning we're supposed to pray without ceasing
that's going to take some time in your life
we're supposed to memorize scripture
that takes a lot of time that takes a lot
of diligence that takes you
walking circumspectly
meaning thinking about how you're spending
your time being wise about how
you spend your time and thinking
about what is the will of God for my life
when you think about that you're going to spend
your time your time a lot differently
look at verse 18
and be not drunk with wine
where in his excess
but be filled with the spirit
so contrasting these two things
again the circumspect person who's the wise
person and the person who's not redeeming
the time what do they do well they get
drunk with wine and they're filled with excess
right and what is
more excess than having nothing to do
than just scrolling on your phone
I mean that you have
excess if it's like there's no work you could be doing
right now there's no Bible you could be doing
right now there's no memorization you could be doing
there's no soul winning you could be doing it's just like you have
two plus hours a day
to just scroll aimlessly
it wastes tons of time
and you know for a lot of people they think well I'll just
look at it for five minutes and then an hour
passes by and you went deep into
that rabbit hole you went to the
discover page and you're finding
stuff that you never thought you would ever see
and you're just getting dragged into who knows what you didn't
plan on going into why because
hey there's a snare with social media
that can just suck all your time from
you and if you're wise if you're
circumspect you're going to think about that
and use social media as a tool
and not let it just use you
not let social media just control your life
where it's the first thing you do when you wake up
in the morning is you open the Facebook app
and you just start scrolling and the
next thing you know two hours of your
day have passed by and you know
there was a time where I used to spend a lot of
time on social media and then I
got one of those phones that tells you that has
like an app timer that tells you how much time you're spending
on it and I'm like good night
how did I spend that much time and so
like I said this sermon's for everyone we all need
to be aware of these traps because
the devil wants to attack all of us right
and so I'm looking at this I'm like good night
that's a lot of time and so that'd be one
good way if you want to avoid this snare is set up
that app timer on your phone and it'll tell you
how much time you've been spending
on social media and it might shock you
you might think oh no I spent 15 minutes a day and you're like
whoa an hour and 15 minutes a day
and that's not working that's not walking circumspectly
I guarantee you you have
more important things to do in your life
than spending an hour plus two
plus hours a day on social media
there's a lot better things you can be doing
with your time so
social media sin no but it could
be if you're wasting all your time if it's causing
you to waste time that God has
given you to steward God has put
you on this earth to do his will
to walk circumspectly to
understand what the will of the Lord is
and then to do that not to be drunk
with wine not to be filled with excess
but to be filled with the spirit that's what God wants us
to do to understand what the will of God is
and choose to be filled with the spirit choose
to do things that will that will fill us with
with the spirit spending our time doing
things that will fill us with the spirit
I'll read for you Psalm 90 verse
12 it says so teach
us to number our days
that we may apply our hearts
unto wisdom and so it's
a wise thing to to stop every once
in a while and realize that we don't have much
time left on this earth and I don't care if you're 13
years old or if you're 73
years old you know the Bible says that our life
is a vapor it just vanishes away like
that you know you could blink your eyes
and think about your first day of kindergarten and boom
here we are in 2021 right I don't care how
old you are life goes by fast
and we don't have just endless amount
of time to be working for God
we have to teach ourselves
to number our days
and to walk circumspectly and to be wise
with the time that we have go to Exodus
chapter number 20
Exodus chapter number 20
Exodus 20 look at verse 9
one of the 10 commandments or one
of the commandments of God in verse number
9 it says six days
shalt thou labor and do
all thy work
now we live in a very blessed country
where most Americans they don't work six
days a week most Americans they only
want that 40 hour work week
there's places in the world like I believe
France has even less than a 30 or
40 hour work week and it's like
our human nature is we don't want to work
but God knows that we need to work
we cannot just be idle
we cannot just be wasting our time
and I don't care what country you're at
I don't care who you are if you have two
spare hours a day that you're spending on social media
it's because you're not working enough
period whether that's working on things in your
spiritual life or working carnally
to support your family or working in your home as a mother
or anything like that we're going to get to those things
soon but you know God wants us
to work six days
hey if God's blessed you with a job
where you get Saturday and Sunday off
Saturday is a good soul winning day isn't it
there you go six days shalt thou labor
if you come soul winning on a Saturday and you work
five days at your secular job
hey you're working six days like God said
I think that's what people should strive for
is following God's system for your life
not corporate America's system for your life
working six days a week
leads me to point number two
social media wastes a lot of time
number two to go to 1st Timothy 5
social media can make you a
busy body
social media can make you a
busy body because here's the problem
when you become lazy
when you become idle because of social media
you have so much extra time you're just scrolling
it doesn't end at that it's not
like you just become lazy and that's the only
problem that affects you
no really the laziness is
just a springboard for other sin in your life
laziness is where other
sin begins at your life because
you're not working the Bible talks about
this in 1st Timothy
chapter number five look at
verse number 13
it says and with all
they learn to be idle
wandering about from house to house
and not only idle but
Tatler's also in busybodies
speaking things which
they ought not now the Bible describes a
common issue with women specifically this is
talking about an unmarried woman who
doesn't have kids to take care of doesn't have a husband
to take care of doesn't have a house to take care of
what is she she's wandering about house to house
she's idle she's
not working and what else is she doing
she's a busybody and she's
speaking things which she ought not
it's her only issue that she's lazy
that she has all this excess time no
it's that her excess time is causing her
to lead her into other sin
her excess time is now causing her to be
a busybody her excess time is now causing
her to run her mouth and say
things that she should not say and can we just be
honest in church that the ladies
struggle a little more with the social media
than the guys do it's just a fact
you look up the statistics on social
media use women use it more than guys
do and it's just
in their nature to struggle with this a little
bit more than the guys do that's why God
describes a single woman
who's unmarried in this way now
of course men can fall into this trap
as well and many people
do but this is especially
something you should take heed to if you're a woman
you know don't just allow yourself to get
so have so much extra time
where you're becoming a busybody
or you're speaking things which you shouldn't
on social media just because you have all this
excess time it's not
just the wasting time that's the problem
is that when you're not filling your time with anything good
it's leading you into all this other garbage
this woman now is going house to house
becoming a busybody
and this is what you see on Facebook
this is what you see on social media
people being busybodies people getting
into other people's business
and not minding their own business not living their own
life they want to get involved in every single
contention and fight and drama
that they could possibly find on Facebook
why because they're not working that's why
because they have let all their free time
they've let all that excess time get to them
and now it's not only causing them to be lazy it's
causing them to be a busybody
go to Proverbs keep your place there and go to Proverbs
chapter 26
Proverbs chapter
26
look at verse number 17
Proverbs 26
it says he that passeth
by and meddleth with
strife belonging not to him
is like one that taketh the dog
by the ears now us as soul
winners in this room we have a lot of experience with
dogs don't we you know I used to really
love dogs until I became a soul winner
and now I can't stand them because
they hinder the gospel so bad
and I mean obviously I have dogs back
home in Idaho that are good dogs they don't bark when someone
knocks on the door but how annoying is it when you knock
on the door and that just demonic dog
is coming up trying to stop the gospel
it's horrible right but you know what
it's funny think about all the dogs that we've seen out so many
imagine if you just went up to one of the dogs and just grabbed
both of its ears by your hands you know what happened
to you blood would be drawn
that's what would happen to you you'd get destroyed
and you'd look like an idiot for doing something
so stupid like who would go up
to a dog and grab it by both of its ears you look
like an idiot well that's what you look like
when you go get involved with strife that
has nothing to do with you
and sometimes it's so funny on Facebook
you'll see people arguing
living on opposite sides of the country
barely even know each other one
person's rebuking the other has no
authority over the other person has
nothing to do with this person's life
and just rebuking them getting in their business
and it's like man you look so
stupid right now why are you getting so worked up
over this why are you letting this
control your day why are you spending your
life involved in
contention that does not belong to you
now here's the thing I'm not anti-contention
the Bible says to earnestly contend
for the faith which was once delivered
unto the saints and if you've ever been
in a church like Pure Words Baptist Church for any length of time
we are not shy of contention
we have no problem with contention but you know what's
stupid is contention not belonging to
us no we actually want to
contend for the things that the Bible talks about
contend for things in your personal life
it makes no sense to just be
so contentious with everyone
and everything but the
Bible describes this woman in 1st Timothy
5 who she's
lazy she doesn't have time she goes house
to house she's a busybody speaking
things which she ought not
and you know what we need to learn
this for our own sake this is good for us to learn
because we're the ones that are going to look stupid
when we get involved with contention
that doesn't belong to us it's not
like the other person is getting hurt by
you being a jerk and getting involved
in contention no you're just making yourself
look stupid you're making yourself look as
stupid in fact as someone that grabs
a dog by both of its ears and
expects nothing to happen to you you look
like a fool you look immature
and it looks like you're lazy it looks like you got
nothing else better to do in your life than
spend your time on Facebook
arguing with random people it makes
you look stupid and some people you
know would be offended by this and and not
like this type of preaching but it's really for their own good
because I don't want you to look
stupid God doesn't want you to look stupid
and he wants you to be spending your time
doing things that are profitable look at verse 18
it says
what's funny is the strife
you think oh it already existed
and then the tail bearer you know just makes things
worse it's like no where the tail bearer
is gone there's no longer any strife
and it's funny throughout life you'll notice
the same people in your life
whether it's a family member or
friend that you have on Facebook or something
like this and you will always see
their name attached
to strife whether that's with your
you know family reunions it's always
that one same family member
that's getting into fights or it's on Facebook you have
that one Facebook friend who comments
on every post and gets
in a fight on every post and
you know that if there's contention
that tail bearer will be there you'll see that name
in that comment thread you know why because that person's
a tail bearer because that person
is a busy body because that person
is speaking things which they ought
not because they have too much time
on their hands and it makes them
look foolish the Bible says look at this
verse again verse 20
where no wood is there
the fire goeth out and where
there is no tail bearer the
strife ceaseth verse 21
as coals are to burning coals and
wood to fire so is a contentious
man to kindle strife I mean
these people are just drawn to strife
they're just drawn to that dog and they just
have to grab it by both ears
but when that person is gone when that
tail bearer is gone you'll notice something
peace quiet
not a bunch of stupid arguing
and contention over nothing why because
the tail bearer is the one causing that
strife the tail bearer is just creating
strife out of their own heart
and why is it it's because they have
too much time on their hand go to Proverbs chapter
10 Proverbs chapter 10
and look at verse 19
Proverbs 10 19 it says
in the multitude of words
there wanteth not sin
but he that refraineth his lips
is wise and this is such
a fitting verse for social media is it not
you see a post and it's just a thread
this long of someone just letting
them have it just getting everything
off their chest well when there wanteth not
words or when sorry let me not
misquote that in the multitude of words
there wanteth not sin but
he that refraineth his lips is wise
the wise thing a lot a lot of
times to do in our lives whether
it's on social media or honestly in
many many areas of our life
the best thing that we can do is learn to just
close our mouth is learn to
just shut our lips
we save ourselves a lot of trouble when
we shut our lips you think about some of the most
embarrassing things you've done in your life
I bet you it has something to do with something you said
it is for me it is for me
some stupid thing that I said
and embarrassed myself or said something dumb
and just made myself look foolish
you know we all do that and it'd be a lot
wiser just to shut our mouth
sometimes and so when you see the big
contention that you have nothing
to do with when you see this on
social media a lot of times it's
the best thing to do is just to stay quiet
and just not comment on that
on that dumpster fire or whatever type of
of you know contentions going on
sometimes it's best just to not
get involved with it and stay
quiet so how do we fix
this how do we prevent ourselves from
this temptation go back to 1 Timothy 5
1 Timothy 5
1 Timothy 5 look at verse
number 14
says I will therefore
that the younger women marry
bear children
guide the house give none occasion
to the adversary to speak
reproachfully for some are
already turned aside after Satan
so the good news is that God has a
solution for this problem this this
problem of ours our temptation to get
involved with other people's matters being
a busy body our temptation with
speaking things which we ought not
God gives us a way to where we can overcome this
and what is it it's by
working it's by
working God gives him give this
list to the young lady of what he wants
her to do to get married to
bear children to guide the house to
give none occasion to the adversary to speak
reproachfully and so you know
you know in this type of church a lot of ladies
are working hard being homeschooling moms
raising kids and let me tell you something
a mother that
is doing her job as a mom a mother
that is homeschooling her her kids correctly
a mother that is raising her children
in the nurture and admonition of the Lord
teaching them the Bible giving
them the correction they need taking
care of her husband cleaning the house
she is not going to have two
plus hours a day to spare on
Facebook I can promise you that I'm not
saying that any woman that ever goes on social media
oh it's because she's not working hard enough she's not
that's not what I'm saying I'm saying if you have two
hours to spend on social
media it's because you're not working hard
enough you know I okay you got two
hours can can guests come over to your house
at any time how's your house look right now
you know if you got two hours to spend on social media have you
cleaned your house have you
made nutritious meals for your family are
you reading your children the Bible are you giving
them the discipline they need well if the answer is
no maybe you shouldn't be spending two
hours on social media
God gave ladies this
workload to solve this problem of being
a busy body but it seems
like when you go online you know
you could identify their problem pretty easily
when you see them on every single post
well they must not be taking care of the things
that God commanded them to do rather
they're sacrificing that
to spend time on Facebook
and that's why there's the stereotypical
you know mom watching soap operas
all day that was the 1990s
well welcome to 2021 now it's Facebook
all day it's not soap operas all day and
it is a true stereotype for many women
and God forbid that that would be true of the ladies
in our church though it doesn't have to be
true of the of the ladies that go to pure
words Baptist Church or steadfast Baptist
Church but you know it is a true
thing for a lot of people but it's a shame
and we should not be like that
mothers should not be acting that way and guess what
neither should the men
God gave us a lot of work to do as men as well
you know God gave us the role
of spiritually leading our families
teaching them the word of God
making sure that our families are going in the right
direction and providing for
their physical needs in a world where it's
getting harder and harder and harder to provide off
one income you know if a man has
two plus hours to spend on social media
today it's because he's not working hard
enough it's the same answer
you don't see it quite as often I don't believe
but it's the same answer and it's the
same problem a lack
of work and hey if
you tell me brother Dylan I
read my Bible an hour today I prayed
I went soul winning I obeyed
my parents I did all my school work
or mother said I cleaned the house
I did all the meals I took care of my husband I did
all these things and I still have two
plus hours to spend well you just go ahead and
call Pastor Shelley and ask him what he needs done
because I'm sure he could find something for you to do then
if you have two hours plus if still you
have two hours you're the perfect mom you
take care of the kids just like you're supposed to and you
have two hours okay I'm sure
Pastor Shelley will find you some more productive ways
to use that two hours than spending on
Facebook because there's a lot better work that we can
be doing than wasting our time
on social media you say
social media sin well if it causes you to waste
a bunch of time it can be is
social media sin well if it causes you to become a
busybody if it causes you not to be able to
ever mind your own business if it causes
you to always have to open your mouth at every time
you see something you disagree with open
your mouth every time you want to get into a
fight well then it could be a sin
absolutely the answer is getting back
to work focusing on the
things that God wants us to focus on
being circumspect
being wise caring about
what the will of the Lord is
the will of the Lord is working
hard the will of the Lord is
bearing children guiding the house giving
none occasion to the adversary to speak
reproachfully the will of the Lord
is not you spending all your time
on Instagram becoming
a an influencer
a sensi influencer
essential oils influencer
that's not God's will God's will
is for you to raise your kids
number three another
snare go to second Corinthians
ten another snare
that social media can cause
is social media can cause you to compare
yourselves to others
social media can cause you to compare yourselves
to others you say what's the danger
of that look at look at first Corinthians
oh I'm sorry second Corinthians
chapter number ten
look at verse number twelve
the Bible says for we dare not
make ourselves of the number
or compare ourselves with
some that commend themselves
but they measuring themselves
by themselves and comparing
themselves among themselves
are not wise
so the Apostle Paul here in this chapter
he's doing a lot of correction
and he's saying that it's not wise to
compare yourself among
yourself and really what
you see is you see two types of people
when they compare themselves to other people
you either see them compare themselves
and think that they're so much better than everyone else
or you see them compare themselves and
think wow everyone else is so much better
than me and I'm nothing and both
of these are harmful
both of these are bad for you
and both of these like the Bible says
is unwise so the first person
which is what you see more often
on social media is the person
that compares themselves to everyone else and
thinks that they are better that they're
filled with pride they get filled with pride
because they compare themselves to other
people's life and a lot of social media
is people just telling you how great they are
telling you how great of a house they have
telling you how great of a life they have telling you
how great of a spouse they have telling you what
what a great job they have it's just you
see the pictures they post you see the things
they talk about and a lot of it is just vomiting
here's how great I am
in comparison to you to
all of their followers all the people that they
follow I'll read for you Proverbs 7 verse 2
it says let another man
praise thee and not thine own mouth
a stranger
and not thine own lips so we got to be
careful not only of course of not
praising ourselves with our mouths we have to
make sure that we're not with our actions with the
things we post make it look like we're just praising
ourselves look at how big and bad I am
look at how great of a person
I am because what do people do
they compare followers oh I
have a thousand followers on Instagram how many do
you have 200 wow
I'm certified I have a checklist
next to my name you know people
especially in the world they actually care about this
kind of stuff and this is like so
prestigious high school kids they
care a lot about followers which is one of the
reasons why apps like TikTok is
so dangerous by the way because they're wanting
to do more and more provocative things to get
followers and to get views
and it attracts some wrong eyes we'll get
to that later you know this is a dangerous
thing this is a dangerous thing to compare your
others yourself to others and think that you're
better than them just because of some other
area of their life that they're not doing as
well in and what's funny is people that compare
themselves they're usually only
comparing one or two aspects
of their life to a
specific aspect of another person's life
like we'll talk about money or something
like oh I make
$300,000 a year and brother Jeffrey
only makes $200,000 a year
I'm so much better than he is
or they'll say you know oh you know I have a
boat but brother so and so
he doesn't have any of this stuff but it's like
yeah you know you're comparing financial things
and maybe you're in a financially better spot than them
but it's like your wife is committing
adultery on you bro and his wife
isn't who really has it better
who really has a better life well you
know what people like to do is they just like
focus on one thing but you know what it's not
impressive to find
one area of your life that you're
better at than other people anyone
can do that there's always going to be
someone who's more of a loser than you are
okay and if that's really the game you want
to play you really want to play the compare
game where you want to see how great you are
okay there'll always be someone who's a bigger
loser than you are but that doesn't mean
that you're not still a loser and that doesn't
mean that if you compare yourself to the word of God
that you're anywhere near the mark
no you just want to pick that one
aspect of your life that you perceive
as better meanwhile
what you can't see is the hand of
God working on someone's life
you know I bet you anything a poor person
who lives in a run
down house who drives a beat
up old car but who loves God
who goes soul winning I bet you have
a way better life than these rich
people that have all that they want
but they're not safe they're going to go straight to hell
it's a stupid comparison you don't want to
compare yourselves to others and think you're better than them
just because of some aspects of your
life and on the flip side
you don't want to compare yourself to others
and think that you're so much worse than
them because of one aspect
of your life you could use that same example
it's like you look at so and so and they have a lot
more money than you and you have way less
money but oh yeah their wife
is committing adultery on them who has
it worse you know what I mean there's always
something that you have better than someone
else and there's always something that someone else has worse
than you that's why Paul said
it's unwise to compare ourselves
because we all have problems
we all have issues
and no matter who you think in your life
is living up to
the best life they could possibly live I guarantee you
that they still have problems
2 Corinthians 10 17
2 Corinthians 10
I'm sorry
I might have gone to the wrong one here
and see that actually takes faith
when you live a life that's saying I don't care
what man thinks about me I'm not
going to try to post all over the internet
about how great I am how spiritual
I am how much money I have
what a great house I have all these things
why because it's not who man approves
that's commended it's who the Lord approves
but that actually takes faith
but when we humble ourselves and realize
that man doesn't matter only God's
approval of us matters we're going to be
less likely to compare ourselves to other
people we're going to be less likely to want to put
every aspect of our life out there
on display when all we care about
is what God thinks about us anyways
that's the type of life that
we should be living go back to
first timothy chapter 5
first timothy chapter
5 you know another thing
is why it's unwise to compare yourself
to someone else is because let's
say you're comparing to someone and you think that they
have everything you know settled in their life
and they're living a great life it could be fake
for all you know especially
on social media I mean you think
people post the worst aspects of their
life on social media no their
profile picture is the best picture that they could find
of themselves okay they airbrush
they put it on photoshop they airbrushed it
they put a filter over it
the ladies stood at just the perfect
angle so they looked as skinny as possible
that's what people do on social
media they present their best
image when they take pictures of
their kids and I understand because I try
to take pictures of Bethany and it takes you know
20 of her screaming to get one of her smiling
okay let's apply that to your house
when people take pictures of their house it's like
you wouldn't have wanted to see the 20 other takes
you apply that to the dinners
that people take pictures of and their vacations
and everything you don't even know if it's
real on social media especially
with people you don't even know their life
I mean it's foolish
to compare yourself to people you don't even know
you don't even know if it's real and then people get
all upset that their life isn't better and it's like
you have no idea what their problems are
you have no idea if it's even real look
at 1 Timothy 5
1 Timothy 5 look at verse 24 it says
some men's sins are
open beforehand going
before to judgment and some
men they follow after
this is saying you know some men we can just see
they're in open sin right
and we we can see that they're a wicked person
but some people it follows
after you may not know I mean you think
about Pastor Donnie Romero
who was exposed as being an adulterer
for being a gambler for smoking marijuana
I'm sure there's many people
that compare their lives to his and be like man
I wish I was like Donnie Romero I wish
I was as good of a guy as Donnie Romero I
wish I was as spiritual as Donnie Romero but it's
like no you don't want to compare yourself to
Donnie Romero why because it was fake that's why
because it was a show and
you never know what people are really
like only themselves and God
do so don't compare yourself to them
compare yourself to who you were yesterday
maybe that's fine or compare
yourself to the word of God those are really the two only
comparisons you should make especially
on social media look at verse 25
likewise
also the good works
of some are manifest
beforehand and they that are
otherwise cannot be
hid in the same way
you know you can tell sometimes when someone's a great
person you can see the great works that they're doing and
it's open it's open for everyone to see
but some people you know
they do the hidden works some people don't do
everything on display you know
you might see the guy preaching but you don't
necessarily see the people cleaning the building
you don't necessarily see the people
running a soul winning time that one person shows
up to that two people show up to
a lot of times these hidden works you don't see
and you might never think oh I should be looking up to
that person you're thinking no I got to
look up to the person who's doing everything in the spotlight
and obviously if the work that they're
doing is good amen
follow them right but what I'm just saying
is that especially on social media
it's hard to discern what's real
it's hard to discern what is
real and the person that you look up
to that seems so great
may be fake
and the person that you should be looking up to
that's real that's doing great
you might even not know their name
you might not even know their name you might not know
how wise they are because they're not running their mouth
on every comment on every post you might
not know that this person is someone
who should be sought for guidance and for
counsel on this situation because
they're not commenting on anything
they're keeping their mouth shut and so it's
dangerous to get your role models
and to get your
role models or to compare yourself to people
online and you know what
this is why I have a problem
and you do whatever you want
the men are the pastors of their own home
they could lead their wives however they want
I do not like
the housewife
vlog movement
where it's like here's a video of me
changing my kids diaper here's a video
of me doing the laundry here's a video of me
cooking dinner here's a picture of what my
bedroom looks like here's a picture of what
you know whatever type of projects I'm
doing look that is not
a wise thing to be doing
because here's the thing women are going to compare
themselves to these ladies online
and they're going to say wow
how is her home always so perfect
how is everything always so perfect
in her life how is she reading the Bible
how is she praying how is she raising
all these godly children and makes these
perfect meals and has the perfect family
and it's like it may not be
perfect it may be fake
is what it is you have no idea
some men's sins are open beforehand
you have no idea if it's even
real and then people want to compare
themselves and come up with these ridiculous
expectations for their life that
they need to be the next internet superstar
they need to be the next female
housewife influencer
no what you need to do is have a meek and quiet
spirit you know I like
that my home is a
sanctuary it is a holy
place I like that no one knows
what my wife looks like doing
laundry than me no one
knows what my wife looks like cooking a meal
than me no one knows all the things that my
wife does around the house no one needs to
know no one cares
no one
cares listen
when men go to work how weird are you
here's me starting my work truck
here's me picking up the asphalt
from the plant oh here's me
shoveling a hole here's me
writing a sermon here's me
praying here's me
answering a phone call here's
me leading a sony time it's
weird you know what it is
it's pride it's puffing
yourself up wanting everyone to see
what your life is like and like
I said it's not like
you know you can do whatever you want it's you can
do whatever you want I just don't want my wife doing that and
I think that it's unseemly I think that
it causes people to compare themselves
to other women and then think worse of
themselves because they're not hitting that
fake imaginary mark
that people put online
that you can just have your house perfect
at all times and be a spiritual superstar
and be the best wife ever
and always look perfect or whatever
you know it's fake it's completely
fake and I don't want my wife
I don't want my wife looking up to women
that are influential online
because the Bible says that a woman
of a meek and quiet spirit is of
great price and so I want my
wife to compare herself to women
that she knows in real life
that are the real deal
people like Miss Carey
Pastor Shelley's wife people like her mother
Sherry Thompson
Sherry Thompson Pastor Thompson's wife
people that she actually knows
in her life actually have
raised godly children actually
are the real deal in their Christian walk
they're not fake they're not just trying to get a following
on the internet they're not just wanting to flaunt
themselves all over the internet
for everyone to see that's not a
good role model for women
go to Titus chapter number 2
Titus chapter number 2
what does the Bible say in verse 3
the aged women likewise
that they be in behavior
remember that word
behavior as becometh holiness
not false accusers
not given to much wine
teachers of good things you say
oh see look the Bible says that women should be teaching
that means that they should go on the internet
and have a vlog and post everyday
about how to be the perfect wife
no the Bible says that they should be in
behavior they should be teaching
other women through their behavior
through their example we're not going to
sit down and have a class or anything like
that led by the ladies look at verse 4
that they may teach the young
women to be sober
to love their husbands to love their children
to be and notice this word
discrete
discrete knowing
what is appropriate and what is not appropriate
being able to withhold things that are
private information you know what is not
discrete when I've never been to someone's
home but I know what every square inch of it
looks like because their wife posts
videos of themselves in it every single day
or I know every single thing about
this woman and how she lives
her life why because she's broadcasted
it to the whole world that is not teaching women
to be discrete it's not
if you have a problem with it take it up with Titus chapter 2
the Bible says that the elder women should be
teaching younger women to be
discrete not to get a name for
themselves not to get a following
for themselves no rather the
godly woman is actually lifting up her husband
not lifting up herself not
trying to draw all the eyes to herself
it's not good
to be discrete chased
keepers at home
you know how are you going to get seen by the world
when you're keeping at home
the time when the Bible is written you know you didn't have
TikTok you didn't have Instagram you didn't have all these
things if you're keeping at home
you're not going to get a following for yourself
so if you have a following for yourself there's something wrong
as a woman good
obedient to their own husbands
that the word of god be
not blasphemed we'll talk about that
last phrase there on Sunday we're going to talk about
blasphemy but the bottom line is
you know make sure on social
media that you're not allowing yourself
to get all these example
of people or to
look up to people that you shouldn't be looking up
to that's what I'm trying to say whether men or women
men don't look up to
guys on social media that dress like
a fag that wear skinny jeans
that are prideful that are
covetous that don't take care of their family
don't look up to someone like that
and ladies don't look up to someone
that is the antithesis
of a meek and quiet spirit
I mean what's the opposite of quiet how about
talking I mean hello
and it's like all these women just want to make videos of themselves
talking and talking and giving advice
here's how you do this here's how you do this here's me doing my
whole life look don't look up to people
like that that is not the
real deal that's the person that's fake
that's the person that's putting on an image
that's putting on a show don't let your
daughters or your wives look up to people
like that it's not a good thing
lastly here
go to Genesis chapter number 34
Genesis
34 the last snare
with social media is that
social media can compromise
your safety and
your purity social media
can compromise your safety
and your purity
you know unfettered
just unsupervised
access to the internet is a
great way for fornicators
and adulterers to commit sin
and unfettered
unsupervised
access to the internet and to social media is a
great way for predators to commit
crimes it is like
it is heaven for these fornicators
and adulterers and predators
on all the tools that social media
gives them to commit these sins and crimes
you know the social media outlets
can be a good tool but let me tell you they can also
be very very dangerous
tools as well I want to read for you
an article and you
know what for every for every article
like this I read I've seen
a hundred of these in my life and I'm sure you guys
have too the title is the hidden
problem social media's role
in human trafficking and
sexual exploitation
in the midst of a national debate about social media
company's obligation to monitor
and remove volatile posts
on their platforms many believe
the easy access to child exploitation
content is largely overlooked
it's easy to get
rid of Trump off Twitter but they
can't get child pornography off of
Twitter and Snapchat said Lycoming
County detective William Weber
the county's chief investigator of
child abuse crimes so this detective
this police officer he's a detective
he's saying look these platforms
they can't rid themselves
of all the child pornography and
all the filth and all the smut on these
websites and I can't tell you how many times
I've seen a law enforcement press conference
when they're like okay parents beware
of these apps Instagram
Snapchat TikTok
you know law enforcement
is warning people about this
the US military banned TikTok
for a while for security reasons which
is a separate issue but it's like
even some people
in the world understand how dangerous
some of these apps can be and yet
some Christian parents are so foolish
as to give their children complete
unfettered access to social media
and to the internet and it's
craziness because of the stuff that is out
there and your little Johnny
is not so pure as to never
do some of this on purpose first of all and
even if he is well who's to say he's not to run
into it on accident it absolutely
can happen let's keep reading
this it says
initially Weber
said that it looked like it could have been a
sex trafficking case but
soon he realized I might have skipped
something here oh yeah for Weber the majority
of exploitation cases
involved dating apps or
websites like Snapchat
Facebook or Twitter he
recalled a case involving
a 15 year old girl
who used a dating app
to solicit let's just say relations
from two adult males
initially Weber
said it looked like it could have been a sex
trafficking case but soon he
realized that the young girl was
trafficking herself
a 15 year old
girl got on some of these websites
and was trafficking
herself and I bet you
the parents would say I would have never thought
I would have never thought that
my daughter would do something like that
foolishness is bound in the heart of the
child and you cannot just leave
this kind of stuff to chance
the parents are never going to get that one back
they messed up big time and
of course the young girl
is who's really responsible for her sin
but us as parents we have to protect our
children and protect our spouses
as well because all of this stuff
is just as vulnerable to our
spouses
the article says relations
was never really normalized
for her what's right what's wrong
detective Weber said 20 years
ago you didn't have the internet and it was harder
to find now you can sit at home
on your bed and it's all there
a 2020 study by
the tech transparency
project showed that between
January of 2013 and
December of 2019 over
300 cases of child
exploitation went unnoticed
by Facebook just children
that are either being trafficked
by wicked people or just pictures
of them being exploited by wicked
reprobates over 300
cases just Facebook didn't do
anything about and
Facebook is one of the most well
funded well established
imagine what some of these other sites
are like if it's getting past
Facebook I guarantee you it's getting past
TikTok I guarantee you it's getting past
Instagram and social
media companies like this
despite claiming to have
strict policies on distributing
exploitative content the
social media mammoth only identified
a small percentage of the cases
to the US Department of Justice
the other 366 cases
were reported to the DOJ
by individual users
on other data gathering
methods and remember these social
media companies they're only trying
to censor what's illegal
they're not trying to censor what's immoral
they're only trying to
censor the child pornography
they're not trying to censor the
adultery websites they're not trying to
censor dating apps where you can just
go meet a random stranger and
be unfaithful to your spouse they're not
trying to censor those you
think that you think that that stuff is not a
danger absolutely it is they're not even trying
to censor it it's just there
the report goes on to show
that the child exploitation cases
include disturbing images
of sexual abuse recruiting children
and sex trafficking for amber
morning star program director
at the YWCA
wise operations in Williamsport
the biggest problem for young
adults is snapchat
a social media app that allows users
to send each other photos with
the app which the app then
soon deletes afterwards
I wonder if teenagers would use that for anything
bad sending pictures to
each other where the picture just disappears
you know that sounds like a great idea
I'm sure whoever invented that had really pure motives
stupidity
we find a lot
that a girl thinks
she is in a relationship and
can trust the person and shares
a picture of herself and it is
screenshotted it's a great way for your
child to ruin their life to do
something stupid and it's not
like this child is a reprobate for doing
something like that look we're all
sinners here and kids do stupid stuff
but it's like that's a great way to ruin
your kids life for them to have some
screenshotted image of your daughter
how would you like that to happen it'd be
horrible I wouldn't want that on anyone
these images spread like wildfire
she said and can turn
into a form of human trafficking
while the line between sexual
exploitation and human trafficking through
social media can be hard to distinguish
morning star said trafficking is
anytime someone exerts power
over another person for their own
personal gain it could be something
as local as just the high school kids
sharing pictures or something larger where you
have a truck stop where victims
would be picked up so it's like
not only is it just the traditional human
trafficking where it's like you get kidnapped
and taken to a horrible place it's like no
you can just be blackmailed for the pictures
that these teenagers have been sending to each other
and the high school bullies can go around
and hang this picture that they have of some girl
over her head and force her
to do a bunch of bad stuff and it's like
the point of showing you all that is to show
you that social media has a big snare
of compromising your safety and
your purity and we should take this
and we should apply this to every single person don't
just think that because you're an adult that something
horrible isn't going to pop up on your screen
and drag you away too no we
need to all make sure that we're taking heed
to ourselves you're in Genesis 34
and I was thinking of
a verse to
to match this point
look at verse 34 verse 1
it says and Dinah the
daughter of Leah which she
bear unto Jacob went out
to see the daughters of
the land so you have this woman Dinah the daughter
of Leah and she's just going out
to see the daughters of the land dad's not with
her husband's not with her
brother's not with her she's just
on her own you could say that she's just
unsupervised she has
unfettered access to the daughters
of the land she's going to go out on her own
and see how that works out for her verse 2
and when Shechem the son
of Hamor the Hivite
prince of the country saw her
he took her and lay with her
and defiled her now
you think Dinah you think she
would have been defiled if her dad was with
her absolutely not you think she would have
been defiled if her brother was with her or if she was
married if her husband was with her no
but because she was alone because she
was by herself she had just no
supervision whatsoever she went out to
see the daughters of the land she wasn't
looking to go out and get defiled
but what happened anyways to her she got defiled
and these social media apps
you know predators use this all
the time the private message
the links that they can
send all the horrible things that people
can do on social media and you know what
to get into it in detail would be shameful
to speak of those things which are done of them in secret
we're not going to get into the details of it but
let me warn you if you don't want your daughter
or your son to be like this
where they become defiled you cannot
or your spouse or your
spouse you cannot just let them have unfettered
un just
supervised access
to social media not
only because it may cause
them to be lazy not only
because it may cause them to be a busy body
and say stupid things
and be someone that just blows their
mouth off not only because
it may cause them to compare themselves to other
people to lose their joy by comparing
people that they think is better than them or
not only because it might make them prideful
because they're comparing themselves and thinking
they're so much better but also because it
could rob them of their purity
it can rob them of their safety
and if that happens to someone
you love you will never forgive yourself
you will never be able to take that back
if something happened to my daughters
because of my negligence
man I couldn't imagine how hard that
would be and how much pain
I would feel because of that and so let's just
all take a warning tonight not
to get offended just because oh you have a Facebook
look I have a Facebook too okay
and like I said this stuff is not going away
anytime soon I don't believe
but we need to make sure that these snares are not
entrapping us and causing us to be
sinful and causing us to be
a worse Christian than if we
were not on them to begin with and maybe
your answer I don't think this is for
everyone but maybe your answer is maybe you just
can't handle it maybe you just need to get
off social media maybe you
cannot take the steps to guard yourself
from these things and if that's the case better
to just not have it and
not have these snares better to just plug out your
eye better just chop off your hand
you know if you can't deal with it
and the last verse
I want to read is Proverbs
4 26 it says ponder the
path of thy feet and let
all thy ways be established
every once in a while it's good to just take inventory of our life
and just say is there anything
I'm doing that's a hindrance
in my walk with God is there anything
I'm doing that's causing me to sin and if
any of these points hit home with you
tonight which like I said this sermon is for everyone
a lot of these have applied to me in the past
and may in the future if I'm not careful
all of us can fall to this we need to ponder
the path of our feet think about
is this something that I need to work on and
guard ourselves our spouses and our children
from the snares of social media
let's have a word of prayer Lord thank you for this day
and thank you so much for all the
tools that you do give us that we can use
to get the gospel out and
to get our message of our church out Lord and
to stay in contact with friends and
family that live far away and to
share our lives with them even though we don't
live in the same place Lord I just pray
that you would help us to be careful
for the pitfalls and the snares
that social media can prevent for
present to our lives I pray that you protect
every family in here give us wisdom
and give us grace to be able to protect our
families and ourselves and in Jesus
name we pray amen
alright for our last song
go to song one hundred
and five all that thrills my
soul song one hundred and five
all that thrills
my soul
song
one oh five
all that thrills my soul
on
the first who
can cheer the heart like
Jesus
by his presence all
divine
true and tender
pure and precious
oh how
blessed to call him mine
all
that thrills my soul is
Jesus
he is more than
life to me
and the
fairest of ten thousand
in
my blessed Lord I see
love
of Christ so freely
given
grace of God
beyond degree
mercy
higher than the heavens
deeper
than the deepest sea
all
that thrills my soul
is Jesus
he is more
than life to me
and
the fairest of ten thousand
in
my blessed Lord I see
on the third
what a wonderful
redemption
never
can a mortal know
how
my sin though red like
crimson
can be whiter
than the snow
all that
thrills my soul is Jesus
he is more
than life to me
and
the fairest of ten
thousand
in my blessed
Lord I see
every
need his hand supplying
every
good in him I see
on
his strength divine
relying
he is
all in all to me
all
that thrills my soul is
Jesus
he is more
than life to me
and
the fairest of ten thousand
in
my blessed Lord I
see on the last
by the crystal
flowing river
with the
ransomed I will see
and
forever and forever
praise
and glorify
the king
all that thrills
my soul is Jesus
he
is more than life to me
and
the fairest of ten
thousand
in my blessed
Lord I see
God bless. Thank you all for coming. You are
dismissed.