Thank you.
All right, folks.
We're going to go ahead and get started.
It is about that time.
If you would, grab your hymnals.
We'll get started this evening.
Our first hymn will be hymn number three,
Jesus Paid It All.
Hymn number three,
Jesus Paid It All.
Hymn number three,
Jesus Paid It All.
Let's sing there on the first.
I hear the Savior say,
Thy strength indeed is small.
Child of weakness,
watch and pray.
Thy strength indeed is small.
Child of weakness,
watch and pray.
Bind in me,
thine all in all.
Jesus Paid It All.
All to him I owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain.
He washed it white as snow.
Lord now,
indeed I find.
Thy power
and thine alone
can change
the leper's spots
and melt
the heart of stone.
Jesus Paid It All.
Hymn number three,
Jesus Paid It All.
All to him I owe.
Jesus Paid It All.
All to him I owe.
Sin had left
a crimson stain.
He washed
it white as snow.
For nothing
good have I.
Whereby
thy grace
to claim,
I owe
all to
him I owe.
Sin had left
a crimson stain.
I owe
wash my
garments white
in the blood
of Calvary's lamb.
Jesus Paid
It All.
All
to him I owe.
Sin
had left
a crimson
stain.
He washed
it white as snow.
And where
before the
throne
I stand
in him complete.
Jesus
died my soul
to save.
My lips
shall still repeat.
Jesus
Paid It All.
All
to him I
owe.
Sin had
left a crimson
stain.
He washed
it white as snow.
Amen.
Let's open with a word of prayer.
Dear Lord, we just thank you for this day and
for all your wonderful blessings, Lord.
I just pray that you would be with those souls
that were saved this evening and also any
that weren't saved, Lord, that they would just have
that seed planted and that they would
just find it in them to desire
and seek after the truth.
Lord, I just pray for all of our families
this midweek service that are having health
issues or otherwise that you would just be with
them and bless them, Lord.
And I also pray that you would just
fill, Brother Dillon, with your spirit this evening
and prepare our hearts for
the sermon, Lord. And lastly, Lord,
I just pray that you would incline your ear to us as we
sing out praises unto you, Lord. It's all for you.
We love you very much. These things we pray in
Jesus' name. Amen.
All right, for our next
hymn this evening, turn, if you would, to
hymn number 14,
Kneel at the Cross.
Hymn number 14, Kneel
at the Cross.
Christ will meet you there.
Hymn number 14,
let's sing there starting on the first.
Kneel at the Cross.
Christ will
meet you there.
Come while He waits
for you.
List
to His voice.
Leave with Him your
care.
And begin life anew.
Kneel
at the
Cross.
Leave
every care.
Kneel
at the Cross.
Jesus
will meet you there.
Kneel at the
Cross.
There is room for all
who would
His glory
bear.
Bliss there awaits
or can there
befall
those who are anchored
there.
Kneel
at the
Cross.
Leave
every
care.
Kneel
at the
Cross.
Jesus
will meet you
there on the
third. Kneel
at the Cross.
Give your idols
up.
Look on to
realms above.
Turn not
away
to life's
sparkling cup.
Jesus
is love.
Kneel
at the
Cross.
Leave
every
care.
Kneel
at the
Cross.
Jesus
will meet you
there.
We're gonna go ahead and go through our announcements.
If you need a bulletin, go ahead and raise your hand.
Brother Brandon's got those, and he can
get you one. If you need a bulletin,
raise your hand. Brother Brandon
has those. Of course, welcome
to Pure Words Baptist Church.
I don't see any visitors here,
but if you need them, if you just have a little bit of
lapse in memory, our service times are the first
thing you'll come across.
We had a soul winning time
this evening and actually had three
people saved, so Amen.
Praise the Lord for that. Is there anything
else to report soul winning for
earlier this week? That's gonna be Monday
through today.
Does anyone have any soul winning report
Monday through today?
All right, with the numbers from Sunday,
we had seven, and this
is Sunday's bulletin, so
with what we have from today and Sunday,
that actually brings our total
to 307. So we
broke 300. The goal's a thousand.
So we have a lot of work to do,
but Amen for 300 souls that'll never
taste hell, because we went out and
did the work. That's a good accomplishment, folks.
You should really be happy about that.
Of course, we have our
Bible memory there as well. Romans
chapter 8, we're on verse 13.
Romans chapter 8
verse 13. Of course, kids,
I know for a fact, because I saw brother
Nick stock the freezer, there is no
shortage of ice cream. So if you
can memorize this for next
week, I believe this is Sunday, if you can
recite this or even verse 14
on Sunday, you can help yourself
to the promised land,
of ice cream that's there.
And for the adults, if you're 18 or
over, just be
diligent to memorize those
verses, as well as Romans 1.
The pastor is doing for Pride
Month a special for Romans chapter 1,
so try to memorize that.
Really, all you have to memorize for Romans 1 is the first
part, because verses like 20 onward,
you probably already know.
It's like 22, right? 21.
You're like, I know that. You can really
get that down. Memorize that first
part, and here's the thing, the
longer the chapter, the better the prize.
Ultimately, the prize is writing
the word of God in your heart,
and having that. No one can ever take
that from you. But just memorize that
for your carnal reward, too, because we like those,
in the flesh. Obviously, be in prayer
for our expecting
mothers, Mrs. Carrie Shelley
and Ms. Sarah Gomez.
Definitely be in prayer for them. The church is
definitely growing organically, and that's always a blessing.
We have a lot of new
children that are here, and look,
don't stop praying just because they make it off the list.
Once they have that baby, I'm sure they're like,
I really need your prayers now.
Now is the time to keep praying.
So keep that up.
Of course, this is the midweek service,
and I don't have
a printout of people who
or a list of people who have requested prayers,
but just remember, if you
do need prayer, if there's something going on
in your life that you need extra prayer for,
send that into the church.
Email that to brother Nick.
I almost said email
that to Stead Past Baptist OKC,
but that's a different email.
Then your stuff is going to go
to OKC, which, hey, we'll get them on board, too.
Email that to brother Nick.
Obviously, prayer
is super powerful.
The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much is what the Bible says.
So we want to keep that up.
We do have a soul winning marathon coming up in
Baytown. That is going to be Saturday, June
26th. Saturday, June
26th. Breakfast and lunch is
covered, so we will feed
you. I heard this from pastor.
We'll feed you if you'll feed people
with the gospel. Alright, so
come out. It'll be at a place.
I actually have the details. I've got this
planned out. I've got a lot of apartments,
about 30 massive
apartment complexes that we can hit.
We're going to meet at a place called Roseland
Park. It's very
close to Brother Sam's house,
so they're familiar with the area. It's got
bathrooms, like nice bathrooms.
So ladies, that's what I know important. My wife
was like, you have to pick a place with a bathroom.
Alright, so we've got bathrooms. We've got
the pavilion. We should be able to meet there, no problem.
If anything changes, we'll let you guys know.
Once those are more official, we'll have that in
writing in the bulletin. We're just nailing
down those last little
bits of the events. Of course, also, don't forget
that there's the Ardmore soul
winning marathon in Ardmore.
That's going to be on
June 13th. So that's
12th, I'm sorry. You're right. 12th is the Saturday.
13th is Sunday. So
12th, Saturday, June
12th, this weekend. If you can make
it to Ardmore, I think from here, Ardmore's
about 5 hours,
6 hours. I'm not 100% sure.
We were looking at it. My wife
and I won't be able to make it, unfortunately, but
if you can, I know they would really be happy
to have your support. The DFW
guys, I know a lot of guys from OKC, they're
making their way down
there. Of course, upcoming, before I get
into the October event, we
have another upcoming event on June 13th
and that is, Brother Ben Naim
is going to be preaching for us from DFW.
Be in prayer for him and his wife and
of course their baby, they're going to make that
travel down here. They'll be here on Saturday
and I've heard they will be at the game
night on Saturday. This Saturday evening at 6pm,
we're just having a fellowship game
night. Whoever wants to come, it's only $50
head chart, I'm just kidding.
Whoever wants to come,
it's kind of like a bring your own food
or whatever. I'm sure once people get here,
someone will run and grab food, probably for
whoever wants it. It's just a fun night
to build fellowship, to have some fun together
and like I said, I've heard
that Ben the Baptist is going to be here.
Who doesn't want to meet him?
He's already been here to preach for you guys,
but who doesn't want to have more time with him?
He's a great guy. You can really get him riled
up. Just bring up a random topic and he's sure
to go off on it for a while.
We have that in common.
Upcoming events, a little in the future,
put on your calendar October 6th through the 10th
is the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship.
Now here's the thing,
along with Brother Nate, I don't know what the lineup
of preachers is going to be, but it's definitely
going to be great preachers.
I could probably submit to you that
Manly Perry is not going to make
this one. I'm sorry if you're holding
out for that. We just want people that
are saved to be preaching probably.
That's upcoming.
Put that on your calendar. Mark that.
Of course, any prayer request, there's the email there
PureWordsBaptist at gmail.com
There's a space for notes on the back.
We are blessed to have Brother Dylan Laws here
preaching for us, so just be in prayer for him.
He's come a long way down here to preach
for us. He's got a long trip after this.
Just be in prayer.
With that, we're going to go ahead and move on to our
next hymn for this evening,
which is hymn number 41.
Our next hymn this evening,
hymn number 41,
sweet by and by.
There's a land that is
fairer than day, number 41,
sweet by and by.
41, sweet by and by. Let's sing
there on the first.
There's a land that is
fairer than day.
And by faith
we can see it
afar.
For the Father
waits over
the way
to prepare
us a dwelling place
there.
In the sweet
by and by
we
shall meet on that
beautiful shore.
In the
sweet
by and by
we shall
meet on that beautiful
shore.
We shall
sing on that beautiful
shore.
The melodious
songs
of the blessed.
And our
spirit shall sorrow
no more.
Not
aside for the blessing
of rest.
In the
sweet
by and by
we shall meet
on that beautiful
shore.
In the
sweet
by and by
we shall meet
on that beautiful
shore.
To our
bountiful Father
above
we will
offer our tribute
of praise
for the
glorious gift
of His love.
And the
blessings that
hallow our days.
In the
sweet
by and by
we shall
meet on that beautiful
shore.
In the
sweet
by and by
we shall meet
on that beautiful
shore.
Amen. Good singing this evening.
While the offering plate
is coming around if you would turn to
Matthew chapter number six.
Matthew chapter number six. We'll read
that whole chapter as is our custom.
Brother Brandon if you'll read for us.
Matthew chapter six.
Take he that
ye do not your alms before men
to be seen of them.
Otherwise ye have no reward of your
Father which is in heaven.
Therefore when thou doest thine alms
do not sound a trumpet before thee
as thy hypocrites do in the synagogues and
in the streets that they may have glory
of men. Verily I say unto
you that they have their reward
but when thou doest alms
let not thy left hand know what thy
right hand is doeth.
That thine alms may be in secret and
thy Father which seeth in secret himself
shall reward thee openly.
And when thou prayest thou shall not be as
the hypocrites are for they love
to pray standing
in the synagogues
and in the corners of the streets
that they may be seen of men.
Verily I say unto you they have
their reward but when thou prayest
enter into the closet
and when thou has shut thy door pray
to the Father which is in secret
and the Father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly.
But when ye pray
use not vain repetitions as the heathen
do for they think that they shall
be heard for their much speaking.
Be not ye therefore like unto them
for your Father knoweth what these things
ye have need of before ye
ask him. After this manner
therefore pray ye. Our Father
which art in heaven allow be thy name
thy kingdom come, thy will be done
in earth as it is in heaven.
Give us thus they our daily bread
and forgive us our debt as we forgive
our debtors.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver
us from evil for thine is thy kingdom
and the power and the glory forever and ever.
Amen. For if ye
forgive men their trespasses your heavenly
Father will also forgive you.
But if ye forgive not men
their trespasses neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses.
Moreover when ye fast be not
as the hypocrites of a sad
countenance for they disfigure
their faces
and they may appear unto men to
fast. Verily I say unto you they have
the reward. But thou when you
when thou fastest anoint
thine head and wash thy face
as thou appear not unto men fast but
unto the Father which is in secret.
And thy Father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly.
Lay not up for thy selves
treasures upon earth where the moth
and rust doth corrupt and where
these break through and steal. But lay
up yourselves treasures in heaven where
neither moth or rust doth corrupt
and wherefore these do not break
through nor steal. For when
ye are treasure for where your
treasure is there will your heart also be
be also. The light of the
body is the eye. If
therefore thine eye be single
thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil
thy whole body shall be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in thee
be darkness how great is that darkness.
No man can serve two masters
for either he will hate the one
and love the other or else
he will hold to the one and
despise the other. Ye cannot
serve God and mammon. Therefore I say
to you take no thought
for your life. What
ye shall eat or what ye shall drink
nor yet for your body what ye shall
put on. It is not the life
more than meat in the body than
raiment. Behold the fowls of the air
for they sow not neither
do they reap nor gather in
barns yet your heavenly father feedeth
them. Are ye not much more than they?
Which of you by taking
thought can add one cubit
unto stature?
And why take you thought for
raiment consider the lilies of the valley
how they grow they toil not
neither do they spin. And yet
I say unto you that even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore if God so
clothe the grass of the field which is
which today is and tomorrow
is cast into the oven
shall he not much more clothe you of
ye little faith? Therefore take
no thought saying what shall we eat
or what shall we drink
or wherewith shall we be
clothe? For after all these things
do the Gentiles seek
for your heavenly father knoweth that ye have
need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness
and all these things shall be added
unto you. Therefore
no thought for the morrow
for the morrow shall take thought for the things
of itself. Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof.
Is there a word of prayer?
We thank you for everyone here. Lord, we thank you for
the many blessings that you do for
Lord. We just pray that you just feel
better dealing with your spirit and help us
be patient in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen. Alright. Well first I want to thank
Pastor Shelley as always for giving me the opportunity to preach
and it's good to see everyone here.
Gonna be back down here in Houston with all of you guys.
And tonight we are in
Matthew chapter 6. Now Matthew
chapter 6 is in the middle of
the Lord Jesus Christ's Sermon on the Mount.
His Sermon on the Mount goes from
chapter 5 to chapter 7.
And it's arguably one of the best sermons ever preached.
It's definitely better than any sermon any
other man has ever preached. And there's
just so much great truth in this
chapter. And really when you look at the
Sermon on the Mount it's
really where the rubber meets the road in our
Christianity. It's really just real
Christianity when you read the
Sermon on the Mount. And there's so much great
doctrine. And if I had to pick one verse that
would sum up the Sermon on the Mount
I would say it's Matthew 5 48.
If you just look back to one verse before
Matthew 6 it says
Be ye therefore perfect
even as your Father which is in heaven
is perfect. That really is the theme of
Matthew of the Sermon on the Mount because
he gives us so many admonitions
on how to be great Christians.
So many great teachings and doctrines
that the Lord Jesus Christ gives to us.
And so the title of my sermon is
What Does a Good Christian Look Like?
What Does a Good Christian
Look Like? Because that's really
what you can get from Matthew
chapter 6. He gives us so many great
topics. And there's so
much material in this sermon to where
I can't cover it all. So I would really encourage everyone to
read Matthew 5 6 and 7 and get the
full thing. But we're just going to cover a few
things in Matthew chapter number 6.
So number 1
Matthew chapter 6 verse 1
A good Christian strives to please
God, not man.
A good Christian strives to please
God, not man.
Look at Matthew 6 1
The Bible says take heed
that you do not your alms before
men to be seen of them.
Otherwise you have no reward of
your Father which is in heaven.
Now what is alms? According to
dictionary.com alms is
money, food or other donations
given to the poor or needy
or anything given as charity.
And so Jesus Christ right off the bat in
chapter 6 says take heed, be careful
that you do not your alms before
men to be seen of them.
Don't try to go give money to the poor
to help out your brother in Christ
to do it in front of everyone else so that they can
see you do it. So that you can just have
glory in front of men. But rather
a good Christian is someone that strives to
please God, not men.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 13.
1 Corinthians chapter
number 13 covers
the topic of charity.
Now if we look at verse number 1
it says though I speak with
the tongues of men and of angels and have not
charity I am become a sounding
brass or a tinkling symbol.
And though I have the gift of prophecy
and understand all mysteries and
all knowledge and though I have all
faith so that I could remove
mountains and have not charity
I am nothing. And though I bestow
all my goods to feed the poor
and though I give my body
to be burned and have not charity
it profiteth me nothing.
You know this could be one of the scariest verses in
the Bible in 1 Corinthians 13
it's talking about all these things that
you can do but if you do them
for the wrong reasons if you do
not have charity in your heart if you're doing them
to be seen of men you're
nothing. To the point where you could literally
give all your goods
and you could actually give your body to be
burned but when you do it without charity
it's nothing. And so
that's why Jesus Christ admonishes us
to make sure that when we do our alms
when we do nice things for our brothers in Christ
to make sure that we're not doing it to be seen of men
because it's completely vain and pointless
when you do it like that.
Now look at verse number 4 of 1 Corinthians 13
Charity suffereth long
and is kind. Charity
envieth not. Charity
vaunteth not itself
is not puffed up. Doth
not behave itself unseemly
seeketh not her own
is not easily provoked
thinketh no evil. So notice this
one of the aspects of charity
is that you're not seeking to lift
yourself up when you have a charitable heart.
So today in our modern
vernacular a lot of times people say, oh I
gave money to charity. I'm giving
to charity. But the Bible actually says
that you could give all your goods
and if you don't have charity
it's nothing. So it matters how
you give. It matters how you give
your alms. It matters how you do things
for your brothers in Christ. If you don't have charity
in your heart then it's completely pointless.
But what does a good Christian do? A good Christian
strives to please God rather than
men. Motives matter. Motives
matter to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Go back to Matthew chapter number six.
Matthew chapter
number six. So he
tells us not to do things to be seen of men.
Verse two. Therefore
when thou doest thine alms
do not sound a trumpet before thee
as the hypocrites do in the
synagogues and in the streets
that they may have glory of men.
So during the time of our Lord Jesus Christ
there was these hypocrites
that would literally when they go to the
corners to give someone money
they see the homeless person or whatever and they go
doo doo doo doo just so everyone can
see them. Hey look at me I'm about to give money
to the poor. That literally
happened. And Jesus is saying hey
don't be like these hypocrites
that sound a trumpet. So what would that
be in our modern times? Because I'm sure
there's only one person in here that has a trumpet.
And he's using it to glorify God. He's not saying
oh look at me. Most of us don't even
have a trumpet. But you know what a lot of us can do?
We can draw attention to ourselves
in other ways, can't we? When we're doing
our alms, when we're doing things for our brothers in Christ
when you're doing things that are good
when you're drawing attention to yourself
it completely ruins it.
It makes it completely vain. Look at the last
part of that verse. He says
verily I say unto you they
have their reward.
See the sad part is that a lot of people
even Christians can do all these great things
give money to the poor
help your brothers in Christ. But when you do
it for to be seen of men, Jesus says
you have your reward. And so if you
want your glory to be of men rather
than of God. If you want to look great in the sight
of men, you can get that.
You can absolutely have that. The only problem
is you can't take that with you when you die.
That's completely vain. That's completely pointless.
And that's why Jesus is giving us
these admonitions in Matthew
chapter 6. Let's look at
Matthew 6 verse 3.
But when thou doest thine alms
let not thy left hand
know what thy right hand doeth
that thine alms may be in secret
and thy father would seeth
in secret himself shall
reward thee openly.
So what is he saying? He's telling you when he says
not to let your right hand know what your left hand is doing
it's saying be very discreet.
Be very careful not to let everyone know
every good work that you're doing
because otherwise you're going to be seen of men
and you're going to lose your reward in heaven.
It's very important that we have the right
motives. And then he says
thy father
which seeth in secret.
I think the reason why God is going to reward
those that do things to please God
rather than men is because it takes faith
to believe that God sees you in secret.
See a lot of times the reason why
people have to do things to be seen of men
is because they lack faith.
Because they forget, oh yeah
God actually does see me.
God actually does know my heart. God actually
does see every single work that I do.
He sees all the good that I do.
He sees all the evil that I do.
And a lot of times Christians may get this attitude
where they want to just be lifted up.
They want to be seen of men. Why?
Because they're lacking faith that thy father
which seeth in secret. He does see you.
And guess what? If you do that to be
seen of God in secret, the Bible says
he'll reward you openly.
And isn't that what men want?
Isn't that what our human nature wants?
Right? And the prideful go about that in a way
to directly seek that goal.
But it's actually a paradox when you do things
the right way. It says do it in secret and I'll actually
reward you openly that way. So the prideful
aren't going to get what they want anyways.
God is going to bless those
that do things in secret. And you've got to think
you know
there's so many different ways that we can serve God.
There's so many different ways that the
children, the ladies, the men can serve
God. And it doesn't matter how menial
of a task you think that what you're doing
is. God sees what you're doing in secret
and if you're doing it for the right heart, he
will reward you openly. You know
ladies, when your husband gets
home, you know that you don't have to tell
him every single thing you did that day
at home. You know you don't have to tell him, okay
I changed diapers today. I
cleaned the house today. I fed the kids today.
I kept them alive. I homeschooled them. I taught
them the Bible. You know I cooked you dinner.
Do you know that God just sees all
of that work anyways? And you know that
if you're just doing that for the Lord that
he's going to reward you for that. Hey men
when you go to work, do you know you don't have to tell your boss
every single thing you did for the company that day?
Do you know that you could just be a blessing without telling
anyone? You know that you could just put your nose to
the grindstone and get to work and
do things your boss doesn't even ask you about
and do things your boss will never even know about
and you could just do that because you're serving God?
Do you know that actually
you could preach the gospel without posting on Facebook?
Now I'm not saying anyone
in here does this, but I remember
this guy Doug Trowbridge who used to go to
Steadfast Baptist Church. A lot of you probably were friends
with him on Facebook. And I
noticed something weird about him.
He was constantly posting pictures of himself
taking selfies with people
out soul winning. And what is he doing?
He's doing his works
to be seen of men. That's what he's doing.
Number one because it turns out he's a false prophet
so of course he's not going to have any rewards in heaven.
All he can get is the glory of men
on this earth, right? But you know we don't have
to be that way as Christians.
In fact Jesus told us not to be that way.
And I'm not saying you can never talk about the work
you do. And I'm also not saying that you can't have
a public ministry. Because there's
many things in Christianity that's public.
You know, preaching a sermon is a public
thing to do. Going out and
preaching the gospel. People are going to see
you do those works. But
whether it's public or private
what matters in the sight of God
is your heart and your motives.
You can have a completely public ministry
and do works that are seen of men
every single day. And if your heart is right
you'll be rewarded for that in heaven.
But if you have a public ministry and
every single thing that you're doing is just to get
honor and praise for men, then you lost
your reward. You have your reward. It's the
praise of men. And that's pretty lame if you
ask me. That's pretty cheap. I'd
rather have the praise of God.
I'll read for you 1 Timothy chapter 5
verse 24 says,
Some men's sins are opened beforehand
going before to judgment
and some men they follow after.
You know some people you could look at them and just be like
wow this is a really sinful person.
You know if you're on the wrong side of town
and you see a prostitute it's like okay
some women's sins are opened beforehand
like we understand this is a very simple person
but you know some people can hide it.
Some people can act like they're very
holy and they're very separated
and they could even be in the ministry
and they could even be doing all these works
for God. But you know sometimes
they're hiding things. And at the
judgment seat of Christ it's going to reveal
who we really are. We can
hide from men but we cannot hide
from God. And then verse 25 says
Likewise also the good works
of some are manifest beforehand
and they that are otherwise cannot
be hid. You can't hide your
good works from God either. He knows
you're evil. He knows the good works that you do.
And so since we know that
God sees everything that we do
if we're going to spend all of our time
serving God if we're going to put time
and energy and money
and all of our efforts into serving
God wouldn't you want to get a reward for it?
Well if we know that God sees us
in secret we know that he's going to reward
us openly. We know that
they that are otherwise cannot be hid
that should motivate us to do things out
of a right heart. And not to be seen
of men but rather to please
God. You know so what are
some ways that people do this today? We've
already talked about some of them but how about giving
money to church? Hey that's a good thing
to do. The Bible teaches that we should pay
our tithe that we should pay 10%
of our increase to the Lord. I believe in
that but you don't have to go telling everyone
about it. You really don't. And especially
if you're going to give above and beyond your
10% and give a free will offering
to the Lord that's something that if you
do hey I want you to get a reward for
that because that's a great sacrifice
to give of your extra money to
the Lord but if you tell everyone
about it then you have your reward
everyone thinks you're awesome. Everyone thinks that
you're so gracious and so generous
and that is your reward that we
think that about you. But what I'd rather
is for you and I to not be
thought that way of men but to be thought that way of God
and get rewards in heaven.
Helping a brother in Christ
you know simple things
like giving someone a ride. You don't have to tell
every single person you know the things you do
for your brothers in Christ.
Helping the poor. Preaching
the gospel. You know how about
preaching a sermon? You know you don't have to
post literally every single sermon
that you preach to all of your social media accounts
right? What example
of a pastor do we see where the
pastor's just reposting all of their preaching?
No they don't draw attention like that. Obviously the
church posts the sermons
and I'm not saying it's wrong every once in a while
to post one of your sermons. You're like, hey I got
the opportunity to preach at this new church. You know
praise God for this opportunity or hey this
sermon was very interesting for me to study or something
like that. But look if you're just posting all
of your sermons and just constantly trying to
gain attention to yourself
it gives the appearance that you're prideful.
It gives the appearance that you're puffed up.
And hey maybe someone's doing that and
you have the pure right heart
and if you have that heart that's fine
but it could be a trap for people
who preach to just
gain all this attention to themselves and to start
getting puffed up and get all the glory of men
rather than the glory from God.
How about prayer? Let's go back to
Matthew chapter number six. Jesus
covers this topic.
Verse five, and when thou prayest
thou shall not be as the hypocrites
are for they love to pray
standing in the synagogues and in the corners
of the streets. Why?
That they may be seen of men.
Why? Because they care about pleasing men
more than they do about pleasing God.
Verily I say unto you
they have their reward.
Boy does this fit a lot of religions today.
How about Judaism?
Where they're at the wailing wall just banging their head
against the wall so everyone can see how much they
pray to God. What a joke.
Is that really going into your
closet and shutting the door and praying
to thy father which is in secret?
No, it's making a fool out of yourself
because you want to gain all this attention
so everyone can see how spiritual you are.
Right? Or the Catholic priest
that wants to repeat a bunch of Latin
just over and over and over
so that everyone can think he's such a holy man. You know what Jesus
says? They're a hypocrite is what they are.
When I see a Catholic priest you know what I call
him? Hey hypocrite.
Because that's what Jesus called him.
Bunch of hypocrites. How about Manley
Perry? Praying in the
comment section. It's like
that's not how you pray to God.
We're all seeing that.
And there's nothing wrong with public prayer but you know what
the vast majority of your prayer life
should be in secret to God.
In fact that's what Jesus is about to say.
Look at verse number six.
But thou when thou prayest
enter into thy closet
and when thou has shut thy door
pray to thy father which is in secret
and thy father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly. Once again
you want to know why a lot of people want to just
pray openly to gain all this attention
because they lack faith. Because they
forget oh yeah my father actually
does see me in secret. Oh yeah
praying actually is
talking to God and he actually
hears me. Because a person that actually
believes that they can just talk to the
creator of the universe it's not going to matter
whether that's in front of people or by yourself.
But people who are just carnal
and just fleshly and don't actually
believe that God sees you in secret you have to do it
in front of men so that everyone can see how
spiritual you are. So that you can get your glory
from men rather than of God.
Let's look at verse number seven.
But when ye pray
use not vain repetitions
as the heathen do. For they
think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be ye therefore not
sorry be not ye therefore
like unto them for your father
knoweth what things ye have need of before
ye ask him. After this manner
therefore pray ye our father which art
in heaven hallowed be thy name
thy kingdom come thy will be
done in earth as it is in heaven
give us this day our daily bread and
forgive us our debts as we forgive our
debtors and lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil
for thine is the kingdom and the power
and the glory forever
amen. So Jesus
he tells them he's giving them instructions on how to
pray and he's saying when you pray do not
use vain repetitions like the heathen do.
And then basically he says after this
manner pray ye. So he's giving them
a sample prayer. He's telling him this
is the way that you should
pray. He's not saying this is what
you should pray because he just said don't
vainly repeat prayers
like the heathen do. But
people that like to be seen of men like the
catholic church you know what they do they repeat
this exact prayer
right after Jesus just said
don't vainly repeat things
and they're just like that looks like a good prayer to repeat
over and over and over.
It's like you just want to be seen of men
that's it. Because you don't care about
pleasing God if you cared about pleasing God you would have
listened to what Jesus just said
to not repeat prayers
vainly. How's another way
what's another way people try to please God
over pleasing men how about fasting
Jesus covers this topic as well
look at verse number 16
moreover when ye fast be not as
the hypocrites
of a sad countenance for they
disfigure their faces that they may appear
unto men to fast
verily I say unto you they have their reward
but thou when thou
fastest anoint thine head
and wash thy face
that thou appear not unto men to fast
but unto thy father
once again which is in secret
and thy father which seeth in secret shall
reward thee openly. Sounds like Jesus is trying
to reiterate something to us over
and over and over but a
person who does not want to please God and just wants
to please men they're not worried about the father
that sees in secret they're worried about
the men that see them
and so Jesus is saying when you're fasting
what you should not do you should not appear
unto men to fast don't have a sad
countenance don't go walking around like
you're so emaciated and you're so
tired and you don't have any energy
because you're fasting he says don't disfigure
your faces
to make it look like you're fasting and it's so
funny the Catholic church has a
holiday called Ash Wednesday
and basically they're
fasting and you know what they do? They disfigure
their face they get a thing of ash
and put a cross on their forehead and you know what the
point of this cross is? To let everyone know
hey guys I'm fasting
doo doo doo doo because they're
hypocrites because they want to
be seen of men it's just like
they just look at what Jesus
teach and then just do the exact opposite
that's what people do that want to please men
it's unbelievable it's
almost comical if it wasn't a religion that
damned so many people to hell you know
it's disgusting
but Jesus is teaching us over and over
thy father would see it in secret
shall reward thee openly we have to do
things to be pleasing to God
not pleasing to men
what's another way that people try to please men
over God how about preaching
aren't there a lot of people that
preach to be seen of men rather than
to please God or what they preach
to please men rather than pleasing
God you go ahead and turn to John chapter 3
and I'll read for you Philippians 1
15 the Bible says some indeed
preach Christ even of envy and
strife and some also
of good will the one preach
Christ of contention not
sincerely supposing
to add affliction to my bonds
you know the Bible says that some people
some preachers literally preach Christ
just because they envy
other people and just because they want to
strive just because they're full of pride
and they want to contend and you'll see
these guys who since
they're envious and since they're prideful
you see them have to lash out at
other men of God why because they're not
preaching Christ to glorify Christ
they're preaching Christ to glorify themselves
and so it's like uh oh I'm not getting the glory
I wanted oh I'm not getting the recognition
from man that I wanted
I guess now I have to be envious
and strive and attack my brothers in
Christ why because you're doing
it to be seen of men and when someone is
just attacking good men of God
for no reason it's just
a proof that they're prideful
it's just proof that they're preaching Christ
not sincerely
when someone does stuff like that but you know
John the Baptist wasn't this way
John chapter 3 verse 26
says and they came unto John
and said unto him rabbi
he that was with thee beyond Jordan
to whom thou barest witness behold
the same baptiseth and all
men come to him
these people are trying to play on John the Baptist's
pride and saying hey do you see
you know that guy Jesus you're with yeah all men
are coming to him now what do you think about that
John how do you feel about that
where are your disciples at they're all with Jesus now
you can see how this is trying to just
pick on John's pride right
verse 27 John answered
and said a man can receive nothing
except to be given him from heaven
ye yourselves bear me witness
that I said I am not the Christ
but that I am sent before him
he that hath the bride is the bridegroom
but the friend of the bridegroom which
standeth and heareth him rejoiceth
greatly because of the bridegroom's voice
this my joy therefore is
fulfilled he must increase
but I must
decrease who do these
guys think they were talking to this is the same
guy who said hey I'm not even worthy
to take this guy's shoe latchet
he's like I'm not worthy of
anything around this guy and
he's saying look my joy is fulfilled
by this news you're
bringing me that people are following Jesus
Christ why because he must increase
and I must decrease
and every single preacher
needs to have the attitude that the Lord
Jesus Christ must increase and
they must decrease you know why
is this such a revolutionary concept that
preaching should be about glorifying God and
not yourself why is this such a revolutionary
concept that preaching should be about glorifying
the Bible the Lord
Jesus Christ and not the preacher
the last person I ever
want to listen to preach is someone
that is glorifying themselves someone
that is prideful because that's not
glorifying God no one comes
to church to hear the preacher
just glorify themselves people come to
church because they want to hear God's words
and it's so weird when preachers
won't even preach the Bible what is
that that's an evidence that you just want
to be seen of men and that you're just prideful
because nothing I can say
can be as interesting or
as powerful as Matthew chapter
6 and the preaching of the Lord Jesus
Christ and nothing any preacher
can say can be as interesting and powerful
as the Bible and so preachers
need to not just be puffed up and do
what they do to be seen of men
but rather to be seen of God
to glorify God
but you know often times
when it comes to
pleasing God or pleasing men as
preachers it's often times just as
much about what the preacher doesn't
say as much as he does say
a lot of times you can look at a preacher and be like
oh yeah all he's doing is talking about himself
clearly he just wants it for the glory of men
but you know you could also tell a lot about a preacher
by what he does not preach about
by what he does not
say
go to Galatians chapter 1
and I'll show you an
example
of a man who was not afraid to preach anything
the apostle Paul
he wasn't doing what he was doing to be seen
of men he wasn't afraid to preach something
that was unpopular
he wasn't afraid to preach something that was a little
bit negative
Galatians chapter 1 look at verse 1
he says I marvel that you are so soon
removed from him that called you into the
grace of Christ unto another gospel
which is not another but there be some
that trouble you and would pervert
the gospel of Christ
but though we or an angel from heaven
preach any other gospel unto you
than that which we have preached unto you
let him be accursed
the apostle Paul's not taking a middle
of the road approach on this he's not
worrying about who this is going to offend
he's saying listen if anyone preaches a
different gospel than we preach
unto you whether it was ourself whether
it was an angel from heaven let
him be accursed let him
go to hell is what the
apostle Paul made his stance on
does it sound like he's trying to please God or trying to please men
that doesn't win you very many points
when you're saying hey I'm
just going to accurse this person
that's not exactly doing
things to be getting all this attention from men
no that's pleasing God look at verse 9
as we said before so say
I now again if any man preach
any other gospel unto you than that
you have received let him be accursed
now verse 10 is the key for
do I now persuade men
or God or
do I seek to please men for
if I yet please men I should
not be the servant of
Christ and so sometimes you
could tell that a preacher
is not the servant of Christ and that he
does seek to please men by what he
won't say and if a pastor
will never stand up if a preacher
will never stand up and make a clear line
on salvation and say hey if someone
preaches a false gospel let them be accursed
hey let the Mormons be accursed
let the Jehovah's Witnesses be accursed
we're not going to try to make friends with them
okay because that would be trying to be a
man pleaser not pleasing God
and how funny is it
that some pastors when you
call and ask them what they believe about
salvation they get all offended
they don't want to talk about it they don't want to answer that question
why because they want to please men
if you would have asked the apostle Paul
and you preached another gospel to him
he would have just told you to go to hell
he's not trying to win you over
he's not trying to please men he's not going to get
offended when you ask him about salvation
you know what that is that's a pastor that wants
to please men that does not
fear God who's not the servant of Christ
and people often accuse
preachers of being prideful
for calling people out by name
but really it's the preachers that won't call anyone out
that are prideful because they're seeking to
please men because calling people out
by name is not easy and it
doesn't win you very many points it wins you a bunch of
enemies is what it does but that's
what pleasing God is hey how about
a group of people today that
preachers they want to please men so
much that they won't call out how about the
sodomites hello it's June
pride month
and you know most Baptist churches
won't call these filthy beasts what
they are sodomite
reprobate pedophiles why
because they want to please men that's why
because they're worried about everyone in their church
leaving they're worried about offending
people they're not worried about what the Bible
actually says what does the Bible
say go to Proverbs
chapter 8 I'll read for you
Leviticus 2013
hey anti pride month
Leviticus 2013 if a man
also lie with mankind as he
lieth with a woman both of
them have committed an abomination
they shall surely be put to death
their blood shall be upon them
hey if you're a preacher and you actually want to please
God and not men you know what you would read
that verse and actually believe it
and please tell me how
if this verse doesn't apply today you know
the Bible says all scripture is given by inspiration of
God and is profitable for doctrine for correction
for instruction and righteousness please tell me
how we are supposed to be edified
by this verse today if it's not supposed to be in effect
just at least give me an answer
but you won't even give an answer because these
preachers won't even touch this topic
with a ten foot pole why because they want to please
men that's why Proverbs 16
5 says
everyone that is proud in heart
is an abomination to the Lord
though hand joined in hand
he shall not be unpunished
hey where's all the preachers calling these
freaks what they are an abomination to God
they're not doing it because they fear
man that's why
Proverbs chapter 8 look at verse 13
the fear of the Lord is to hate
evil pride
and arrogance and the evil way
and the froward mouth do I
hate hey show me the preacher
that fears the Lord and I'll show you
the preacher that hates pride
and that hates pride month
how can you hate pride and not
hate pride month our nation
has a whole month of the
year where we spit in the face
of God and we celebrate
the most disgusting horrible
wicked people on this planet
and we call them happy about it too
we call them gay
we spit in God's face and
Christians are silent about it
Christians are scared to talk about it because
they fear man
you know what at this church
we believe that every single homosexual should
die and go to hell we believe
every single homosexual pervert
pedophile should be stoned by the government
and burn in hell for all eternity
and you know what that's not my opinion
that's what the Bible says go to 2 Peter chapter 2
2 Peter chapter number 2
near the end of the
New Testament 2 Peter chapter 2
look at verse 6
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
into ashes
condemned them with an overthrow
making them an ensample unto those
that after should live ungodly
and delivered just the lot
vexed with the filthy conversation
of the wicked for that righteous man
dwelling among them in seeing and hearing
vexed his righteous soul from day to day
with their unlawful deeds
the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly
out of temptations and to reserve
the unjust unto the day of
punishment of judgment to be
punished notice how in verse 6
the Bible says that when God condemned
them with an overthrow he was
making them an ensample to those
that afterward should live ungodly
so in pride month in the month of
June what's the example
in the Bible that we look to to say
huh I wonder what God would think about pride month
I wonder what God would think about all
the sodomites I mean even in Houston
Texas deep in south Texas
here in the Bible belt I saw
a billboard on the way to church today that was saying
protect trans youth
here in the Bible belt
why aren't people reading
the Bible what God said is the example
is Sodom and Gomorrah when God burned
these sodomites alive
with fire from heaven that's
what God thinks should happen to these people
protect trans youth kill all
the trans youth stone all the trans
youth with stones is what the Bible says
go to Jude chapter number 1
the only chapter in the book of Jude
right before the book of Revelation Jude
1 verse 7
the Bible says even as Sodom and Gomorrah
and the cities about them in like manner
giving themselves over to fornication
and going after strange flesh
notice this are
set forth for an example suffering
the vengeance of eternal
fire so these sodomites
made God so angry that not only
did he burn them alive on this earth
but he's going to make sure that they suffer the vengeance
of eternal fire
eternal fire
what is that that's hell and God
says the example for these sodomites is that
every single one of them are going to burn
in hell in eternal fire suffering
the vengeance that they deserve
you say why is God
so harsh about this why does God
so harsh about the topic of the
sodomites go to Romans chapter 1
you know the Bible explains this to us
in Romans chapter 1 but even just the verses
we've already looked at how is it that
Christian preachers are not talking about this
how is it that Christian preachers are going to pretend
like the Bible doesn't say what it does
how is it that Christian preachers are going to pretend
like we should love these people
and that we should even let them into our churches
oh yeah because they fear man
because they want to please men
rather than God
here's why these people should be put to death
here's why we need to continue to preach
against these people and why
we need to stand on this doctrine
Romans 1 25 it says
who changed the truth of God into a lie
and worshipped and served the creature more
than the creator who is blessed forever
amen for this cause God
gave them up unto vile affections
so when we call them disgusting that's
not our opinion the Bible says it's a vile
affection for even their women to change
the natural use into that which is against nature
and likewise also the men
leaving the natural use of the woman
burn in their lust one toward another
men with men working that
which is unseemly and receiving
in themselves that recompense of their error
which was me
and even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge God gave them over
to a reprobate mind to do those
things which are not convenient
being filled
now I wish every single
person would understand these two
words being
filled the Bible does not say
that sodomites are
filled with all unrighteousness
the Bible says that they're
being filled with all unrighteousness
now here's the problem with these
sodomites that are being filled is that
they're not automatically at the peak
level of wickedness
every single reprobate
gets more and more evil
the longer that they're on this earth because
they're being filled
with all unrighteousness
they're being filled with fornication
you see a lot of us in here probably
went to public school if you think about back in
public school the girl who was the really
really bad whore maybe she slept with
like 10 guys that's horrible
that's extremely disgusting and
wicked but you know what they do
all these surveys of sodomites where they
just openly tell
them how many partners that they've been with
and it's thousands
of partners
thousands of partners you know what that is
that's being filled with fornication
because your average unsafe person
who's not a reprobate is not going to be
with thousands and thousands of
partners even though 10 is disgusting
and horrible and wicked and you're
going to get diseases and God is going
to judge you for that that's
a lot different than what the sodomites are because
every single day they're being filled
with fornication every day
that they're alive longer on this earth
they will become more of a fornicator
than they were the day before
that's why you have reprobates
that get to Jeffrey Dahmer level
and get to you know the level of these
psychopath reprobates if you watch
the documentary psychopath reprobates it talks about
a lot of examples of these serial killers Ted Bundy
you know what I mean day
one of reprobation you're not Ted
Bundy you know just like every Christian
has a point in time where they trusted
on the Lord Jesus Christ and they became a child of God
every reprobate has a point in time
where they became twice dead
and day one of being twice dead
you're not Ted Bundy
no but you know when you become Ted Bundy
when you're being filled each day
when you're being filled until
imagine being filled as this cup until you're just
falling over every day with wickedness
evil fornication
being filled with wickedness
being filled with covetousness
being filled with maliciousness
being filled with envy
being filled with murder
being filled with debate
being filled with malignity
being filled with whispers
does this sound like people that we want in our society
people that not only commit all of these sins
and not only have the capacity
to commit these sins at way higher levels
than normal saved or
unsaved people but people who are
getting worse in all of these categories
every single day of their existence
verse 30
backbiters being filled
being filled with being a hater of God
being filled with despite
being filled with pride
being filled with boasting of themselves
being filled with inventing evil things
you want people alive on this planet
that literally invent evil
evil that we don't even know about
evil that you can't even fathom
and these people every day are just
continuously inventing more evil things
is that the type of people we want
even alive?
that's why we don't stand just that
oh well you know we don't want them in church
oh we just don't want them around our kids
I just don't think they can be saved
no we stand that they should be put to death
that they should be killed why? because they're being filled
they're being filled with all of these things
disobedient to parents
without understanding
covenant breakers without
natural affection
you want to talk about the most sick
human beings alive is pedophiles
pedophiles and what are they?
they're without natural affection
and every single day a pedophile lives
he gets more and more sick
and more evil I know someone who's a detective
and they were telling me how they
ended up catching this person
who was trying to commit all these
horrible acts with young children he was a school teacher
and this person arrested him
put him on the stand
this person had his trial
and this pedophile who's 24 years old
he literally got on the stand
and he said I will never stop
I will never stop
every time I get on the phone
every time I get on the computer I have to
go and do this sick stuff
I will never stop no one can ever help me
and then this stupid
psychologist got up and said
I can help him but he can't be in prison
so this faggot, this pedophile
got like 7 years in prison and is scheduled
to get out in like 2028
by the way I'm praying for his death
he's on my imprecatory prayer list because
this guy's going to be in his 20's still
when he gets out and he literally just says
I will never stop
why? because he's without natural affection
and he's being filled with it every single day
implacable
unmerciful
and you just got to think
how can the Bible
be any more clear on this subject
it can't be ignorance
is not the reason people are not preaching
about this topic why did I just go through all
of that well number one because it's anti-pride
month and we need to talk about it
but number two because it fits this theme
that Jesus is teaching in Matthew chapter 6
of doing things to be pleasing
to God or doing things to please men
and why is it that it was just a coincidence
that 50 years ago every
single Christian agreed on this and now
we're the only ones the Bible hasn't
changed people haven't just changed their
mind about this they're scared is what they are
they fear men
that is the bottom line
Matthew chapter number 10 if you'll flip over
to Matthew chapter number 10
and look at verse number 32
Matthew 10 32 it says
whosoever therefore shall confess me before men
him will I confess also before my
father which is in heaven but whosoever
shall deny me before men him will I
also deny before my father
which is in heaven and so you need
to just pick a side are you gonna deny
the Bible are you gonna deny what God says
about these people and be shameful
in the sight of God or are you just gonna
say yep that's what the Bible says
and be shameful in the sight of men
make your choice but people who want
to stand with these sodomites you know God
is gonna be ashamed of them and
they're they're a disgrace
to God you know recently steadfast
we tried to we tried to get
a company to make a product for us
and one of the things on this product
it just had the verse reference
Leviticus 2013 it didn't even have the words
just the verse reference and we were gonna pay these people
a lot of money to make this product
for us and they rejected us because of that
because they're ashamed of God's word
you know what but God's gonna deny them
God is gonna deny them and all of
these Christian preachers that are
too afraid to preach what needs to be said
God is gonna be ashamed of them
someday go back to Matthew chapter
6
we'll make these last two points short I went a little
long on that one but we'll make this one
short look at Matthew chapter 6 verse 19
number
two a good Christian strives to
lay up treasure in heaven not
on earth so the first point a good
Christian strives to please God rather than
men number two a good Christian strives to
lay up treasure in heaven not on
the earth Matthew 6 19 the Bible says
lay not up for yourselves
treasures upon earth
where moth and rust of corrupt
and where thieves break through and steal
so this is a direct command from the Lord Jesus Christ
not to lay up treasures
for ourselves on this earth but you
know what most Christians in 2021
United States of America
completely disregard this one
that's all they care about most Americans
care about nothing more
than their money and their toys and
mammon in fact when I went to Mexico
you know after I preached people the gospel I was
just curious and I was asking
them hey what do you guys think about Americans
like when you think America what do you think
of and you know they all told me lazy
love money you know
it's just like you got it right
that's that's pretty much exactly what America
is like you know but
let let that be said of
pure words Baptist Church don't let that be
said of steadfast Baptist Church no we need
to be Christians that are laying up our treasure in
heaven and not on the earth what a sad testimony
we have that all the Mexicans are like you guys are
lazy and you love money and it's like
a lot of Americans you know have that
lazy stigma about the
Mexicans but it's actually the reverse when you
actually see the truth on that
I'll read for you Romans 8 5 it says
for they that are after the flesh do mind
the things of the flesh but they that are after
the spirit the things of the spirit
for to be carnally minded is
death but to be spiritually
minded is life and peace
because the carnal mind is enmity
against God for it is not subject
to the law of God neither indeed
can be so then they
that are in the flesh cannot
please God
and that should be some sobering words to anyone who
wants to live their life focused
on gathering up treasure on this earth
because they that are after the flesh do
mind the things of the flesh and what does the Bible
say they that are in the flesh
cannot please God I don't know about you I
want to please God and so if I want to
please God I can't be living a life
that's just gathering wealth that's
just wanting to gather all these toys gather
all this mammon in my life and lay up
all this treasure in heaven it's impossible
it's impossible to please God that way
it's impossible to please God
when you're in the flesh yet I don't think
most Christians in America realize today
that they are this percent pleasing to God
because they're so covetous
because all they care about is laying
up treasure for themselves
on this earth let's go to
Ecclesiastes chapter number 2
King Solomon
tried this he was very successful
at it he's probably the richest man
that has ever lived in the history of the world
he's very successful at laying up treasure
on earth but let's see how that turned out for him
verse number 10
of Ecclesiastes 2
and whatsoever mine eyes desired
I kept not from them
boy that sounds like the American dream right there
isn't that what most Americans would just tell you
I just want to be able to do anything I want to get
that is what Americans want today
that's what Solomon did
I withheld not my heart from any joy
for my heart rejoiced in all my labor
and this was the portion of all my labor
then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought
in all the labor that I had labored to do
and behold all was
vanity and vexation of spirit
and there was no profit under the sun
for the sake of time let's skip to verse 17
therefore
I hated life
now does anyone here want to hate their life today
okay well of course not
but that's what happens when you give your eyes
just anything or you give yourself
anything that your eyes desire
you may think that you'd be happy
if you just got everything that you wanted
but you would actually hate your life if you got everything
that you wanted you know a lot of times it's nice
to just work hard and maybe
you have something that you're working towards a goal
a reward or something like that and it's
satisfying when you reach that goal right
it's satisfying when you can treat yourself every once in a while
it's satisfying when you can splurge every once in a while
but if you're just living a life that's just
continuously splurging just anything
you want you give yourself eventually you're going to run
out of things that you want and you know what
all you're going to be able to do is just look at all your stuff
all the treasure that you've laid up on earth
and you're just going to hate your life
that's why so many of these millionaires
and billionaires are drunks
and drug addicts and end up committing
suicide you think that they'd be the happiest
people on planet earth you know
we saw a shirt today when we were out soul winning
it was this little Mexican kid and it said
happy is the new rich
I'm like that's awesome that's awesome
because I'd rather be happy than rich
I'd rather be happy than rich
I'd rather lay up treasure in heaven
that I could actually take with me
go back to Matthew chapter number 6
and also keep a place in 1 Corinthians
number 3 Matthew 6 and 1 Corinthians 3
Matthew 6 20 the Bible says
but lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves
do not break through nor steal
for where your treasure is there
will your heart be also Jesus is telling
us hey lay up your treasure in heaven
because that stuff you could actually take with you
and so Jesus wants the best
for us he's come to give us life and that we may have it
more abundantly God wants the best
for us and he knows that if we lay up treasure on earth
we're not going to be happy anyways
even when we attain that goal he'd rather
us lay up treasures in heaven by doing
things of eternal value because
that actually lasts we could actually take that
with us for where your treasure is
there will your heart be also
where's your treasure tonight where is
your heart tonight you know if we were
to do a financial analysis on your life
would we see that
what you really love is alcohol
would we see that what you really
love is cigarettes would you see
that what you really love is all these vain
things or would we see what you love is the Lord
serving God you know I know a lot
of people that get one vacation
a year and they spend thousands of dollars
to do one thing to go to the red hot preaching
conference that's awesome and I'm not
saying that you can't go on a vacation just
to do something fun as well but
hey that's great that a lot of people
aren't laying up their treasures on earth
rather they're laying up treasures
in heaven and I think one way
that we can help ourselves all of us can help
ourselves to lay up treasure
in heaven rather than on earth is to think about
a very important day that's coming up
for all of us in the future and that's in
1 Corinthians chapter number 3 look at verse 9
every man's work shall be manifest
for the day shall declare
it because it shall be revealed by
fire and the fire shall try
every man's work of what sort it is
I think one of the ways we can help ourselves
not to want to lay up treasures on
earth but rather in heaven is to be
thinking about the judgment seat of Christ
this is a day that should be on
all of our minds all the time
thinking about how someday you
will stand before the Lord Jesus Christ
alone your husband's not going to be there with you
your wife's not going to be there with you
your pastor's not going to be there with you
you are going to be there alone and God is going to judge
your works and try your
works by fire and anything that burns
up you will suffer loss
and anything that remains is the gold
the precious silver or the silver and the precious
stones the things that you want to remain the good works
the souls that you won to Christ
all the times that you prayed for someone
that's the kind of stuff that you want to remain
but you know what a lot of people
are going to stand before Christ and be ashamed
and suffer loss on that day
and just literally all their works are going to be burned up
but they are still going to be saved
but we don't want that to be the people in this room
some people are going to stand before Christ
and their computers, their guns
their money, all the things
that they loved in this earth and gave
all their time, money and energy into
all that stuff is just going to be burned away
and you know what, eternity
is a long long time compared to this earth
the bible says that our life is like a vapor
it just vanishes away
and all of us are going to wish that we had done
more for Christ when we stand before him
and so one thing that could help us
not to be covetous, not to lay up treasure
on earth is constantly be thinking about that day
constantly be thinking about how you are going to stand
before the Lord Jesus Christ
and what are you building? What are you spending your time doing?
Are you building the gold
the silver and the precious stones
or is it all wood, hay and stubble?
You know a good Christian is one that lays up treasure
on earth and not in heaven
lastly number three
a good Christian
concerns himself with serving
God today
not with worrying about tomorrow
a good Christian concerns himself with serving
God today not with
worrying about tomorrow
go to Matthew chapter 6 and we will finish out this chapter
verse number 25
Jesus said
therefore I say unto you
take no thought for your life
what you shall eat or what you shall drink
nor yet for your body what you shall put on
is not the life more than meat
and the body than raiment
hey isn't there more to life than worrying about the things
you are going to eat, the things you are going to wear
I mean that's like there is a lot more
important things to that but especially
with our country coming out of this coronavirus
crisis that our year has had
you know a lot of Christians have been
caught up with these things
worrying and thinking about food, clothing, raiment
all of these things but
God says don't take any thought for those things
Jesus says take no thoughts for those things
and in fact he gives us a
carnal example that shows us really
how silly it is to worry about this kind of stuff
look at verse number 26
he says behold the
fowls of the air, what are the fowls
kids what are the fowls, does any kid in here know
what a fowl is
ok pay attention, here is what a fowl is
bird, ok, bird
so Jesus is telling you behold
the fowls, the birds of the air
for they sow not, the birds
aren't going out and starting up the tractor
and sowing the seed are they
neither do they reap
during harvest season, you know they are not getting
in the combine, they are not getting
you know to the fields and working hard like this
nor gather into barns
yet your heavenly father
feedeth them, are you
not much better than they, Jesus is saying
like look how silly you are for worrying
about this kind of stuff, even these
little birds, they don't go
out and do all these things yet God takes care
of them, aren't you a lot better than a bird
you are his son, you are his daughter
he loves you, of course
he is going to take care of your needs
verse 27
which of you by taking thought can add one
cubit to his stature, and why take
he thought for raiment, he is going to give us another carnal
example here, consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow
they toil not, neither do they spin
you know the lilies aren't
getting up bright and early and strapping on
their boots and toiling all day and working
a 12 hour shift, they are not spinning yarn
they are not doing any of these things, they are
flowers, they do nothing, okay
but look at verse 29
and yet I say unto you that even Solomon
in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these, wherefore
if God so clothed the grass of the
field, which today is
and tomorrow is cast into the oven
shall he not much more clothe you, O ye
of little faith, he is saying God
takes so much care for these birds
God takes so much care for these flowers
for the grass, which are nothing
they are just going to be burned, but you
an eternal soul, his son
someone he loves, his daughter, someone he loves
he is going to take care of you
he is going to give you the food, the drink
the clothing, all the things that you need
if he gives that stuff to the birds, why wouldn't he give it to you
so a lot of Christians, hey
if you want to be a good Christian, stop worrying
about tomorrow, stop worrying and being stressed
out about all the cares of this life
tomorrow, but rather just worry about
serving God right now, worry about serving
God today
look at verse number 31
therefore take no thought, saying what shall we eat
or what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed
for after all these things do the Gentiles
seek, for your heavenly father
knoweth that you have need
of all these things, and what does this come down to
again, faith
do you actually believe that God knows that you need all these things
hey, do you actually believe that our father
which seeth in secret will reward us openly
all of these things that Jesus is talking about
it really comes down to faith
and that's what a lot of people lack today
verse number 33
but seek ye first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness
and all these things
shall be added unto you
take therefore no thought for the morrow
for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself
sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof, sufficient unto the day
seek God first
seek the kingdom of God first
serve God first and he's going to take care
of all your needs, all the things
that you are stressing about
even other things that we can plan in the future
about, like, this Bible verse is not telling us
not to plan anything, okay
we have to balance the scripture, it's not like Jesus
is just saying, literally only think
about today, and don't plan a career
don't plan finding a wife
don't plan having kids, that's not what he's saying
we have to balance the scripture, I'll read for you
Proverbs 4 26
it says, ponder the path of thy feet
and let all thy ways be established
so the Bible does tell us to ponder the
path of our feet, what direction am I going
in life, what is my plan
what are my goals, but once you know your plan
and your goal, which number one should be to serve
God, serve God today
and stop worrying about tomorrow
just worry about where you are
today, make sure
instead of worrying about
your financial stress, your job stress
your marital stress, you know, have you read the Bible today
have you prayed to God
today, have you gone soul
winning this week, are you at church
every time the doors are open
because that's what seeking the kingdom of God
first actually looks like
doing all those things first, and Jesus said, hey
if you do those things, that he's going to take
care of you, that he's going to provide all these
things for you
the last verse I'll read for you, is Proverbs
3 5, the Bible says, trust in the Lord
with all thine heart, and lean not
unto thine own understanding
in all thy ways acknowledge him
and he shall direct thy paths
so instead of, you know, looking at your
financial situation, saying, oh I'm stressed
out, you know, I can't tithe, I'm not going to have enough money
trust in the Lord with all thine heart
oh, but you don't understand, I don't have enough money
and lean not unto thine own understanding
that's your understanding talking
trust in the Lord
he will direct thy paths, God has
never forsaken one of his children
God has never let one of his children down
if you follow the principles in the Bible
it's never going to fail you, you're never
going to go wrong doing what the Bible says
and so a good Christian should just
serve God today and not worry about tomorrow
even the good things that you can plan in this life
don't get stressed out about those things
rather, get busy serving
God, so in conclusion
number one, a good Christian strives
to please God, not man
number two, a good Christian strives to lay
up treasure in heaven, not on earth
and number three, a good Christian concerns himself
with serving God today, not worrying
about tomorrow, and I would really encourage every single person
in here to read the whole Sermon on the Mount
because that's just one chapter
and you can just preach forever on the Sermon on the Mount
there's so much great doctrine
and truth in these chapters, so I really would encourage
every single person to read those chapters
and with that, let's have a word of prayer, Lord, thank you so much
for this day, and thank you for your word
thank you that we have the preserved word of God
that we can read exactly
what your son preached to us, Lord
and I just pray that every single person in here
would treasure the word of God
and that they would work hard on becoming a better Christian
not so that they could be seen of men
but rather so that they could please you
and serve you, and in Jesus' name we pray, Amen
Alright, for our last hymn this evening
in your white handouts
we're actually going to sing Psalm 149
in your white handouts
Psalm 149
Psalm 149 in your white handout
Let's sing
Praise ye the Lord
sing unto
the Lord
a new song
and his
praise in the
congregation
of saints
Let Israel
rejoice in him
that made him
Let the children
of Zion
be joyful
in their
King
Let them
praise his name
in the dance
Let them sing
praises
unto him with
the temporal
and heart
for the
Lord
taketh pleasure
in his people
he will
beautify the
league with salvation
Let the saints
be joyful
in glory
Let them sing
aloud
upon their
beds
Let the high praises
of God
be in
their mouth
and not to
edge its sword
in their hand
to execute
vengeance
upon the
heathen
and punishments
upon the
people
to
bind their
kings with
chains and
their
nobles with
fetters
of iron
to
execute upon
them the
judgment
written
this honor
have all his saints
praise
ye
the Lord
Amen
and with that you are
dismissed, drive safe