Maybe we will provide, God will take care of you.
Nothing you ask will be denied, God will take care of you.
God will take care of you, through every day or all the way.
He will take care of you, God will take care of you.
No matter what may be the test, God will take care of you.
We weary one upon his breast, God will take care of you.
God will take care of you, through every day or all the way.
He will take care of you, God will take care of you.
All right, good seeing you this evening.
If you need a bulletin, raise your hand and we'll come around and get that to you.
On the front there of our bulletin, we do have our verse for the week.
We are memorizing 2 Timothy 2.
On the inside, we have our service times and our soul winning times for this upcoming weekend.
I did have three salvations to report for today, so we'll get that added to our totals.
Continue to be in prayer for my wife as the expecting mother here of the church.
And our next 5th Sunday fellowship, July 28th.
This is a church provided fellowship.
So we're going to be having hideaway pizza.
I encourage you guys to stick around after the evening service for some good food and fellowship and some upcoming events to look forward to.
Of course, brother Oz, him and his family are here for this tonight and he'll be preaching for us.
Looking forward to hearing from him.
And then we have August 15th through the 17th is the men's conference.
We do have a sign up sheet on the back table.
I'm pretty sure most everyone has signed up.
If you need to do that, please, I encourage you, you won't be disappointed.
Pastor Shelly is going to be preaching that Thursday and then Pastor Jimenez is going to be preaching that Friday.
So, I mean, a great lineup of preachers.
And then, of course, we have the Saturday men's preaching as well.
So definitely looking forward to that and encourage you if you can just make it out for one night.
If you can free up some time on your schedule, make sure you're there for that.
And then August 24th is a ladies event and we'll get the details as we get closer to that date for you.
And then August, I'm sorry, October 4th through the 6th.
So a couple months away is going to be the Heritage of the Lord Conference.
And as I mentioned on Sunday, this is a conference that's really kind of geared towards young people,
towards the children, and it's a way for Steadfast Baptist Church to invest in our children.
I've been to all the conferences in the past.
The last one was two years ago and it's always been a great time.
The kids have always loved it and I encourage you guys, if you can make it down for that,
you won't be disappointed either.
So definitely some fun things to look forward to on the horizon.
At this time, we'll go through our prayer request list.
I do have several updates to make for everyone this evening.
Brother Scott, he had texted me today and gave me an update.
Of course, little Mark Scott, he had a heart operation surgery today and he is doing good.
Everything went well there.
So I did want to give an update just straight from him.
Brother Michael said he's still sedated and on the ventilator
and will continue to be sedated until they see it fit to take him off the ventilator.
After that, they'll keep him in the hospital for one to two weeks
to see how he's recovering overall.
So definitely keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
I mean, they still have definitely a good road ahead
and hope that Mark is able to heal quickly from that operation
and that everything comes out positive from that.
Also, we've added brother James Perry.
He's about to have hernia surgery later on today.
And he's actually in the Philippines.
Am I right on that?
Yeah, so definitely be in prayer for him
that he's going to be going through that surgery.
It's not as invasive,
but as anytime you're being put under
and having the night put on,
you definitely want people praying for you.
So definitely keep him in your thoughts this evening.
And also I want to add my cousin Brandon Bush.
This week, he ended up having an accident
and was burned pretty badly with some fire.
By starting a fire, he had second and third degree burns.
He got out of the hospital.
He's actually back home now, but he's in pretty bad shape.
He's definitely going to have to have surgeries
in the future as well.
So if you could think to pray for him.
And from my understanding, he's not saved either.
So if you want to add that in there as well.
Just the times I've talked with him,
he definitely needs to be saved.
So if you can think to pray for him.
Also continue to be in prayer for Miss Remy.
She's dealing with a tumor.
And I just pray that as she works with the doctors,
that she can find a path forward that works for her.
I know she wants to be able to do and go forward
without having to have any surgery if possible.
So be in prayer that God would perform a miracle there
and help her through that difficult situation.
Also continue to pray for the Oz family.
They're going to be moving to Oklahoma City soon
in the coming weeks.
I'll let him talk more about that and fill us in on that.
But definitely continue to be in prayer for them.
We have Eddie Paul as well as my wife's grandpa.
He's dealing with some heart issues, some back issues.
Also Cole Holyman for salvation.
Continue to be in prayer for him.
Christian Cornell recovery from some accidents and surgeries.
I need to get an update there on him.
So I'll plan to do that next week.
And then continue to be in prayer for Brother Kevin.
Also the Reed family, they're kind of wrapping up
or hoping to wrap up the custody issues
that they're dealing with right now.
And so just be in prayer for them.
We have Zach's mother and brother.
I continue to pray for them for salvation
and also Elizabeth Dexheimer.
Just be in prayer for her that God would continue
to bless our families with more children obviously.
We want to continue to pray for that.
And then we have our foreign missionaries
and then evangelist Alvarez and Pastor Shelley as well.
So lots to be in prayer for.
Again, just remind you to take these things home
and be praying for these individuals each week.
But at this time, I'll say a quick prayer.
Heavenly Father, God, again, just so thankful
for all that you do for us, the many blessings,
most of all just salvation through your son, Jesus.
Thank you for the three salvations
that we had out this afternoon
and just the ability to go out
and preach the gospel freely.
God, I pray that you would be with those on our list
that are dealing with different health issues.
God, some of these are pretty severe.
And God, we just pray
that you would have your hand of healing upon them,
Lord, that you would protect them.
God, we pray that you would guide them,
guide their decision-making
and give them wisdom on what to do.
And Lord, we pray that you would be with the doctors
that are involved with those various issues, Lord,
that you would, Lord, just that you would be with them
and you would strengthen them, comfort them.
God, we pray that you would be with those
who are in need of salvation.
I know we have several family members
that we're praying for to be saved.
God, I pray that you would open a door for them
to hear a clear presentation of the gospel.
God, we pray for just our families here
that you would continue to bless our families with children
and to grow this church in that manner.
God, we pray for the Oz family.
We know that they're gonna be moving up to Oklahoma City
and just all the things that go along with that.
Lord, just pray that you would
just have all the right pieces in place
for that to go smoothly.
And God, we pray for Pastor Shelley and his family,
pray that you would keep them safe
and also evangelist Alvarez as well.
And I know that he's still dealing
with some difficulties there in Houston
with some of the weather they've had.
Pray that you would just help them
and open a door for those things to be resolved.
And God, again, we're just so thankful for all that you do,
thankful for the men that are across this world
that are doing great works for you,
the ministries that they have.
Pray that you would continue to further those ministries
and that you would help us to stay motivated
to preach the gospel to our city
and the place that you have given us at Oklahoma City.
Lord, we pray these things in your son's name, amen.
All right, we'll go to our next song,
hymn number 179, Such Love.
Hymn number 179 in your hymnal.
All right, hymn number 179.
Hymn 179.
We'll start there right on the first.
That God should love us sinners
Such as I should yearn to change my sorrow into bliss
Nor rest till he hath planned to bring me nigh
How wonderful is love like this
Such love, such wondrous love
That God should love us sinners
Such as I, how wonderful is love like this
That Christ should join so freely in the scheme
Although it meant his death on gallery
Did ever human tongue find noteworthy
Then love divine had ransomed me
Such love, such wondrous love
That God should love us sinners
Such as I, how wonderful is love like this
That for a willful outcast such as I
The Father plant, the Savior bled and died
Redemption for a worthless slave to buy
Who long at law and grace divine
Such love, such wondrous love
That God should love us sinners
Such as I, how wonderful is love like this
And now he takes me to his heart of sun
He asks me not to fill a servant's place
The far off country, one drinks all are done
While I open his arms of grace
Such love, such wondrous love
That God should love us sinners
Such as I, how wonderful is love like this
Good singing, as the offering plates are being passed around
Turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter number two
Genesis chapter number two
Good evening, Genesis chapter number two, please turn in your Bibles
Genesis two, we'll read the entire chapter
Please follow along silently in Genesis chapter number two
The Bible reads, thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of
them
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made
And he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made
And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from
all his work which God created and made
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth
And every herb of the field before it grew for the Lord God had not caused it to
rain upon the earth
And there was not a man to till the ground
But there went up a mitzvah from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground
And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground
And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
And man became a living soul
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden
And there he put the man whom he had formed
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight
And good for food the tree of life also in the midst of the garden
And the tree of knowledge of good and evil
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden
And from thence it was parted and became into four heads
The name of the first is Pison
That is it which compasses the whole land of Havelah
Where there is gold and the gold of that land is good
There is Bdellium and the onyx stone
And the name of the second river is Gihon
The same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia
And the name of the third is Hetikhel
That is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria
And the fourth river is Euphrates
And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it
And the Lord God commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it
For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die
And the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone
I will make him and help meet for him
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air
And brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them
And whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name thereof
And Adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the field
But for Adam there was not found and help meet for him
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam
And he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof
And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman
And brought her unto the man and Adam said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh
She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife
And they shall be one flesh and they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed
That's about it for prayer
Father God in heaven we thank you for this day and the souls that were saved
And we just ask that you fill the halls with your Holy Spirit
And that you help us to learn from your word
Jesus we pray, Amen
Amen, well great to be here this evening, great to see you all
I've got my family and I in town this evening because we're trying to tie up a few loose ends with this move that's coming up for us
But things are moving in a very positive direction for us and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel
So we're very very excited to be here and Lord willing we should be here within the next month
So we're very excited for that
It's a blessing to be able to preach here for you guys this evening and of course thank you Pastor Shelley for always allowing me the opportunity to do that
Tonight we're in Genesis chapter 2 and recently I was reading this chapter and something kind of interesting that was stood out to me in Genesis chapter 2 verse 15
Look at verse 15 it says, and the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it
Now let's get some context of where we are in the period of time
This is actually after the creation week, of course, but this is before man sinned
So that's very important to what I'm going to be talking about tonight
This is post-creation, but pre-fall and notice what God gave Adam to do
He gave him a job. He gave him work to do
He put him in the garden and he said hey your job is to dress and to keep the garden now
Now that's work isn't it? Now here's the thing I've heard this said before that the reason why men have to work is a result of the curse of sin
But notice that this is before man ever sinned and God actually gave Adam work to do
So the fact that we have to work as men that is actually not a result of the curse of sin
Look at verse number 18 it says right here in Genesis 2 18 and the Lord God said
Is it not good? It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him and help meet for him
So notice not only was man assigned work before the fall before sin ever happened
But even the woman as well she was assigned to be the help meet
Well what is she helping do? She's helping Adam with his work
And so we know we know that work itself is not a result of the curse
Now let's refresh ourselves. What was the curse?
Okay let's go to Genesis chapter 3 flip the page and look at verse 13 and let's refresh ourselves on what the curse actually was
Genesis 3 verse 13
And the Lord God said unto the woman what is this that thou hast done
And the woman said the serpent beguiled me and I did eat
And the Lord God said unto the serpent because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle
And above every beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go
And dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life
So first the first curse is the curse of Satan himself
That's who God curses first but going on here it says in verse number 15
I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed
It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel
Verse 16 unto the woman he said I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception
In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee
So when it comes to the curse specifically being applied to the woman
It's not that she had to work because she already had a job before they ever sinned
But what is her curse that basically childbirth is going to be very painful
And those of you ladies who have been through that can testify that that is true to this day
Right that hasn't changed why is that the case why is it that childbirth hurts so much
Well it's because of the sin in the book of Genesis it's because of the curse
Now look at verse 17 we're going to shift to the man's curse
And unto Adam he said because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife
And hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying thou shalt not eat of it
Cursed is the ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee and thou shalt eat the herb of the field
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground
For out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return
So what is the curse that was given to man well it's not that he had to work because he
already had to work before that but it's that his work is going to have to be a lot harder
Why because the ground itself is cursed when you're living in the garden of Eden when
you're living in the pre-sin state the only job that exists is tending to the garden
being a farmer taking care of plants you know bringing forth vegetables and fruits
that's the only work that there is to do but now after the sin of man
God curses the ground itself to where it's going to bring forth thorns and thistles
and he's going to make farming he's going to make taking care of these things way harder on
Adam to where he's going to have to work by the sweat of his face all the days of his life
and he's going to do so in sorrow the bible says but here's the question
is this exact curse still around today okay go to genesis chapter number eight genesis chapter
number eight now of course of course the curse of sin exists today right i mean we're all
sinners that curse is still in this world today and it's our job to bring the gospel to people
so that we can free them from that curse by them putting their faith and trust in jesus christ
and him basically erasing all of their sins past present and future but this curse of the
ground does that exist today look at genesis chapter 8 verse 20 it says and noah builded an
altar unto the lord and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl and offered burn
offerings on the altar and the lord smelled a sweet savor and the lord said in his heart
notice this phrase i will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake for the
imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth neither will i again smite any more every
living thing as i have done so he says there's two things that i'm not going to do ever again
i'm not going to curse the ground and i'm not going to kill every living thing right look at
verse number 22 it says while the earth remaineth seed time and harvest and cold and heat and
summer and winter and day and night shall not cease now why is he all of a sudden bringing up
hey just so you know there's always going to be these seasons these are never going to stop
well it makes me kind of wonder if when in genesis earlier in the book how god says you're
going to work by the sweat of your face and that the ground is cursed that's bringing forth
thorns and thistles it kind of makes it seem like perhaps god cursing the earth was making
it to where it was only like one season of the year kind of perpetually because that would
definitely curse the ground i mean if it was just only summer you would have a lot of thorns
you would have a lot of thistles it'd be very hard to be a farmer if there was no such thing as
fall or winter or spring or anything like that and i think what this is saying he's saying hey
don't worry i'm not going to curse the ground anymore there's going to be harvest there's
going to be sea time there's going to be cold there's going to be heat there's going to
be all these things these things will never cease i will not curse the ground anymore for
this reason now of course that doesn't mean that farming is just like at the state of
the garden of eden now today but what i'm saying is that the bible is indicating here
that the exact curse that god gave during adam's time is no longer in place today
so why bring all that up this is why i want to bring all that up is because i want to stress
this idea to you that work is not a curse work is actually a blessing that is the title
of my sermon this evening work is a blessing some people have a false idea saying well
because of the curse of man that's why we have to work and work is just such a curse right
and so many people today want to complain about going to work they hate going to work
and that is kind of just a natural feeling that man has but have you noticed that when men
don't have a job they know they don't think that a job is a curse anymore they actually
think it's a blessing why because work actually is a blessing and this evening i want to talk
to you about three areas in our lives that god has given us to work in go to
second thessalonians chapter number three second thessalonians chapter number three
so first let's talk about work in this world or kind of in church vernacular we often call
this secular work right this is your nine to five this is the job that you go to every day
to put food on the table for your family look this is actually a blessing in our lives
this is not something that's a curse this is not something that you should just have such a
negative attitude towards no actually before adam ever even sinned god gave adam a job to do god
gave eve a job to do now while you're in second thessalonians 3 i want to read for
you philippians 4 10 the bible says but my god shall supply all your need according to his
riches in glory by christ jesus you know god has promised to provide for our needs but how
does he provide for those needs it's by men working it's not like you're just going to sit
there in your house and just say well you know philippians 4 said he'll provide for me
and money's gonna fall out of the sky and food's gonna fall out of the sky and dinner's
just gonna make itself and your cars are just gonna show up out of nowhere no god supplies
all of our needs yes he does but it's through work and guess what that's a blessing the
fact that we are able to purchase things the fact that we are able to buy clothes that we're
able to have air conditioning in our homes that we're able to buy good food these are blessings
from god you know it doesn't come from nowhere it comes from working and you know children are
very selfish by nature and they don't understand this they don't understand that someone has to
go work by the sweat of their face to provide and you know what it's a blessing if you have a
father that does that and fathers dads men that work it's a blessing if you have a job and
you're able to provide for those children look at second thessalonians 3 verse 6
now we command you brethren in the name of our lord jesus christ that you withdraw yourselves
from every brother that walketh disorderly and not after the tradition which he received
of us for yourselves know how you ought to follow us for we behaved not ourselves
disorderly among you neither did we eat any man's bread for not what he's saying is hey
we didn't just fill our bellies without paying for it without working for it we didn't just
have things fall out of the sky and provide for our needs what does it say but rot with
labor what does that mean it means the apostle paul was working it means that he was working
for money and travail night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you and if
you read the new testament you'll know that the apostle paul he worked a secular job
so that he wasn't a burden on these churches he had every right to take a paycheck from these
churches but he decided he wanted to set the example that he wanted to work hard and he
wanted to work a secular job verse 9 not because we have not power he's saying look i can
i have every right to take a paycheck and it's a i think it's a good thing for pastors and
church workers to get paid for that so that they're not having to spend as much time
worrying about the work in the world and they could work you know in the in the house of god
and in the kingdom of god and studying the bible and winning souls to christ and training
soul winners and building the church working with christ to build a church that's good but
that's not what paul chose to do he said but to make ourselves and in sample unto you
to follow us for even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not work
neither should he eat now let me ask you this is it a blessing to eat food
yes well then that means it's a blessing to work because he's saying if you don't work
you shouldn't even be eating food this is something our country doesn't understand
for some reason our country actually thinks it's a christian virtue to give money to the
homeless and look of course there's people that are down on their luck there's people
that are amputees there's people that have you know gone through really hard things in life
but the people that are begging on the sides of the street in america the vast majority of
the time it's just because they're lazy and oftentimes they are literally making more money
by suckering stupid christians into giving them money than them just getting a job and
so they're kind of incentivized to keep being lazy but if we follow the biblical example
here if they didn't eat or if they didn't work they wouldn't eat that would incentivize
them very quickly to start working and they would start to see work as a blessing not as
a curse that needs to be avoided verse 11 for we hear that there are some which walk among
you disorderly working not at all but our busy bodies now them that are such we command
and exhort by our lord jesus christ that with quietness they work and eat their own
bread so we see right here it's literally a command of god to work to work to work with
quietness to eat your own bread to provide for yourself and look the commandments of god
are not grievous god doesn't give us commandments just to burden us or just to be mean to us
no he gives us commandments because he loves us and knows what's best for us and god telling
us to go to work is actually a blessing in our lives so we talk about work now let's answer
this question who should be working go to first timothy chapter number three or first
timothy chapter number five first timothy chapter number five who is it that should be
out there working today this is something that our society is pretty confused on actually
but look at first timothy chapter number five verse three it says honor widows that are widows
indeed now the word honor in the king james bible often means to pay for someone financially
to take care of someone financially you know when the bible says to honor your mother and
father that one way to apply that is to take care of them in their old age when they're no
longer able to provide for themselves and the bible saying hey widows that are actually truly
widowed they're basically helpless in this world and you should support those people that
are actually widows but look at verse four it says but if any widow have children or nephews
that word nephews in the king james bible is talking about grandchildren so what it's saying
is but if any widow have children or grandchildren let them learn first to show
piety at home and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before god so notice
it's it's a showing godliness or it's showing holiness or piety at home if the children or
grandchildren of a widow would financially support that widow verse five now she that is
a widow indeed and desolate trusteth in god and continueth in supplications and prayers
day and night and day but she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth and these
things give in charge that they may be blameless but if any provide for not for his own and
especially for those of his own house he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel
notice it doesn't say children and granddaughters it doesn't say but if any provide
not for her own house especially for those of her own house she hath denied the faith
no this is masculine here why because it's obvious and it's implied that it's men that
are supposed to be the ones working in this world it's men that are the ones that are
supposed to be the primary breadwinners in this world and this is something that
human beings have understood from the creation of the world up until pretty much the 1900s
and now this whole world has everything backwards where they think that it should be
women out there being girl bosses and working in the world and being ceos that's not the
picture that the bible is painting here now we know this because go to first timothy chapter
five verse nine it gives some more instruction here to the younger women it says let not a widow
be taken into the number under three score under three score years old having been the wife of
one man well reported of for good works if she had brought up children if she had lodged
strangers if she had washed the saint's feet if she had relieved the afflicted if she had
diligently followed every good work but the younger widows refuse for when they have begun to
wax wanton against christ they will marry having damnation because they have cast off their
faith and with all they learn to be idle wandering about from house to house and not only idol
but tatler's also in busybodies speaking things which they ought not now pay attention
to verse 14 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
notice god's will the bible says i will therefore that the younger women marry bear children guide
the house that is god's will for ladies in their lives and today that is viewed as something
that is hateful by society or something that's backwards or something that's too old-fashioned
but this is what people have been doing for thousands of years and there's a reason for it
because you want to know who was really pro getting women into the workforce and really
wanted women's rights it was called the communists it was called the russians in world war ii
where women were so liberated that they got to get slaughtered and brutally tortured on
the battlefield during the most bloody war in human history oh isn't that so loving towards
women the battle of stalingrad the single most bloody battle in human history just just
absolute mountains of women were just ravished killed in the most brutal ways you can imagine
because women's rights is that god's will for women to go out on the battlefield and die
in cold blood no his will is for them to be home and his will is for men to be out working
hard and providing for them and protecting them that's god's will for women and you know what
it's this world that's backwards that wants to say oh women should go out and spend their
whole life getting a job women their whole goal in life should be to climb the corporate
corporate ladder no actually your whole goal in life should be to invest into your children
to be invest into your husband and we'll talk about that a little later
flip the page go to titus chapter number two titus chapter number two
it's not just one chapter of the bible that teaches this
look at titus two verse two the aged women likewise that they be in behavior
has become a holiness not false accusers not given to much wine teachers of good things that
they may teach the young women so here's what older women are supposed to be teaching younger
women to be sober to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet chased keepers
at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of god be not blasphemed
you know this isn't a degrading thing this is actually a great honor for a woman to stay home
to invest in the next generation to invest into her husband to take care of the dwelling
place for her family where they will serve and worship god for the rest of their lives
but you know what is actually dishonorable you know what's backward is not listening to god
in that commandment because look what it says it says that it's actually blaspheming the
word of god when women do not do this it's blaspheming god's word it's backwards it's
gross and look there is a lot a lot of consequences in our society today by having so many women in
the workforce there's a lot of consequences you know one big one is that in america
we talk about this thing called the birth replacement rate and it's basically the average
number that each american woman is having of kids right and in 2022 the birth replacement
rate for american women was 1.62 look that's dangerous for society that's dangerous for a
country even just carnally speaking take all the spirituality out of it we will literally
die off as a nation if that continues we literally i mean just do the math you cannot
replace yourself and so now because we're just brainwashing women that they need to get a job
they need to get a career they need to go to college now they're not having kids anymore
purposefully intentionally or they buy the brainwashing for a while they spend all their
teenage years on birth control they spend all their 20s on birth control then they wake up
in their mid-30s and realize that they're not fulfilled and realize that god didn't create them
to do this and then they can't have kids then now they want kids but they can't do it and
that's why we literally have a 1.62 birth replacement rate in our country and look that can't
go on for forever and you know what's happening as a result of that is we're just bringing in the
third world into our country to replace our workforce because you literally can't have a
workforce to supply the population that currently exists by the americans that are here we have
to literally import the third world just to survive and you know what that's having huge
consequences on our society i mean look i i hope that we get the gospel to the whole world
i hope that any person that comes here that we try to reach them with the gospel
but it is foolish for a nation and it is not biblical to say that just anyone can come into
our nation no matter what that is absolute stupidity and there should be policies on that
and we're seeing we're seeing crime increasing we're seeing our culture deteriorating we're
seeing just a uh a disunity in our nation unlike anything we've seen since like the civil war
why is that well partly it's because there's just so many different cultures in america
and so many different belief systems look how could i as a christian coexist with a muslim
i can't because i believe in the one true god jesus christ and you know what they believe
oh he's just a prophet hey how can i as a christian as a fundamental baptist uh just
get along with hindus seems like there's a lot of compromising christians that want to do that
since at the rnc some woman's putting on a headdress and praying to vishnu or whatever
the stupid false god's name is i don't know what false religion it is who cares
but isn't that a prime example that there's consequences of this happening sure is
you know think about this by having so many women in the workforce it's actually causing it
to be harder for men to provide for their families on a single income because just the
law of supply and demand if employers can just hire a bunch of women to do things cheaper
then they don't need to pay the man as much it's just simple economics kids have to be public
school do you want to talk about the ramifications on our society because so many
kids have to be public schooled because women are in the workforce being taught evolution
being taught humanistic ideas not being taught the bible now i've heard oklahoma's trying to
change that praise god for that you know that needs to be pushed as hard as humanly possible
but quite frankly public school shouldn't even exist i mean if it is going to exist
yeah let's teach the bible but quite frankly every woman should be teaching her children
but instead they're out at work higher household costs because you have to have two cars
you have to have eating out all the time you have to have a work wardrobe and you have
to have more expenses daycare expenses right so it's just there's a lot of negative ramifications
how about this how about women being put into jobs that they don't qualify for
i don't know like maybe the secret service maybe like the presidential protection detail
we're having women do that now that is insanity folks that is just completely suspending
all logic and reason look here's the thing when it comes to protecting the president of the
united states i don't even think any person in this room even if you trained for 10 years
on being a trained assassin would ever be qualified for it you know why because you
should be as tall or taller than the person that you're protecting so you could stand up and
take bullets for them right whereas this little woman that's in front of trump is at his belly
button she's like oh man i hope someone doesn't shoot him and he's like way up here
it's like that's retarded that's retarded for a man to be in that type of position how much
more a woman what a joke of a country we're becoming where even the secret service is being
run by a woman literally the head of secret service is run by a woman and the the people
protecting trump ran by women and you see just like the one of the worst security failures
i could even possibly fathom in my life at best if that was even true everything that's going on
but like i feel like we could have just printed off google maps and just shown the buildings and
just given it to any like wife in this church would be like where should security be and i feel
like every single person here probably would figure it out better than they did it's just
such a terrible terrible job that was done so we talked about who should be working men
should be the primary breadwinners in our society and this is seen as something that's
hateful today but it's just what makes the world actually run well how should men be working
go to colossians chapter number three we talked about who should be working how should we be working
colossians 3 verse 22 it says servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh
not with eye service as men pleasers but in singleness of heart fearing god
so notice the way that men should be working on the job site is that they should be working
in an obedient fashion when the boss gives a command you should be ready to obey that command
you shouldn't sit there and just have such a rebellious attitude where you just hate everything
that the boss is saying you don't want to submit yourself to the authority in your life
no the bible says you are to obey yourself to your masters this is not with eye service
meaning you're not just trying to do a good job whenever the boss is looking
but rather you're supposed to fear god and know that god is always looking at how you work
and that no matter if the boss is there or not you should be putting in your full
effort and energy into the work that you're doing why verse 23 and whatsoever you do do it
as to the lord and not unto men you know that's the attitude that every man should have at work
whether you like your job whether you like your boss or you don't is that hey forget who
the boss is forget what the job is because at the end of the day you should be working for
the lord jesus christ and god jesus christ himself is the one that gave you the command
to work he's the one that gave you the command to obey your boss and so you're not even
really obeying the boss at the end of the day who you're obeying is jesus christ
and when you shift your perspective that will help you when things are tough your job
that may help you when you may not like your boss that may help you when you may not like
your job when you realize it's actually jesus christ giving me this task and i should obey
it i should do it heartily but he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath
done and there is no respect of persons look if you don't obey what the bible's saying here
you decide not to obey your masters according to the flesh if you decide not to work hard
you just want to work with eye service you're going to reap what you sow you're going to receive
of the wrong that you're sowing you know i haven't been on social media for several
months it's been great but several months ago i saw someone post a prayer request
he said hey i quit my job today and i ripped up my boss's uh feedback that he gave me and
i threw it all over his office and i just chewed him out and let him have it will you please
pray for me that i could find a new job it's like you are an idiot my friend the bible says
right here it says but he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done
hey now you're jobless now you can't provide and you're receiving the wrong that you've done
because god does not want christians treating their bosses that way just the utter disrespect
makes me sick i mean i used to work a job where i just saw people all the time disrespect
the bosses and it just annoyed me to death you know at this job we started at 6 a.m
and i remember one time the boss came in at 5 59 a.m and started giving orders to the team
and they're like it's not 6 a.m yet you can't talk to us and i'm just like
you are insane like there's something seriously wrong with you if you have that attitude
towards your boss look if your boss talks to you before you clock in who cares just be the
best employee anyways i'll read for you proverbs 18 9 it says he that is slothful in his work is
brother to him that is a great waster you know god doesn't want us to work in a way that we're
wasting company time or company resources but man you see this all the time and even on social
media people like to brag about how little they do on their job i mean i remember back when
elon musk bought twitter which is now x or whatever he was talking about all the twitter
employees that they would make videos like a day in the life of a twitter employee and this girl
would like she'd clock in and then she'd go to starbucks and then she'd go play pool and then
she'd go get a massage and then she'd send an email then she'd get some bubble tea and then
she'd go to lunch she's like clock out and it's like wow talk about someone that's a great
waster someone being paid for a job and doing nothing that's not how god wants us to be working
go to ephesians chapter number four ephesians chapter number four
ephesians 4 verse 28 says let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labor working
with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him that needeth
when the bible here is saying hey you're you were stealing don't steal anymore now what you
need to do is you need to work with your hands i think what this is kind of symbolizing here is
working an honest job you know god wants us when we go to work to be putting our time effort
and energy into something that is actually profitable for society profitable for customers
something that is actually a positive uh work in this world you know there's some jobs that
christians should just not have you know there's some sinful jobs out there how about uh
loaning on interest you know that is a sin the bible teaches that interest is a sin and if your
whole job is just to steal people's money look that's that's not a good job to have
you know there's a lot of these mortgage companies where they just do something called
churning where they literally just try to refinance you over and over and over just to get
the processing fees and they don't care about if they're ruining you financially they just want
to just all they're doing is just shifting money around and they're just making millions and
millions of dollars off doing nothing that's not profitable right that's not a good job
payday loan businesses taking advantage of the poor this would not be a good job to have this
is not working with your hands that which is good okay selling scam products there's always
companies out there that will lie to you about what the product is or about the functions
that it has you know that would be an example of a job we should avoid how about being a bartender
right that would be a job that's not working with your hands that which is good
how about being a drug dealer that's not working with your hands that which is good
no just because you're making money doesn't mean it's a good job no you have to be doing
an honest job there's nothing wrong by the way working with your hands literally there's
nothing wrong with having a blue-collar job there's nothing wrong with you know working and
doing construction or some sort of job where you're working with your hands but that's
honest work and that actually is providing people benefit and value in this world
it's not something that should be looked down or despised no that's actually honest work
go to proverbs 21 i'll read for you first thessalonians 4 it says and that you study to
be quiet and do your own business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you
the bible says that we should study to be quiet this isn't saying that never talk on your
job never talk to your co-workers never send an email to your workers or or communicate in any
way what it's saying is actually be working honestly right not just talking not just wasting
time no actually just be quiet when you when you clock in put your head down and work hard
until the very end of the day and don't waste time did i have you go to proverbs 21
proverbs 21 verse 5 the thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness but of everyone
that is hasty only to want what is someone that's hasty it's someone that's not patient
the bible saying that if you're just really hasty with your work you're really hasty to get
rich that basically your life is going to tend only to want or to lack or you're needing
things this is the get rich quick scheme people that's not the type of jobs that god wants us
to do you know god doesn't want you to go to andrew tates website hustlers university and try
to learn to get a get quick rich scheme by basically selling pornography you know that's
what andrew tate did to make all his money was that working with his hands that which is good was
that an honest job was that working for the lord no it's just smut and filth and i cannot
even believe that people like andrew tate he's a complete loser he's there's nothing cool about
him he's like oh you know andrew tate you know someone told me this well andrew tate caused
me to start working out it's like okay well when i went to high school michelle obama told
us to work out so does that mean that michelle obama's cool like michelle obama gave us like
the food pyramid when i was in high school and said like eat healthy foods it's like go
michelle obama now it's like okay cool i bet you andrew tate you know uses toothpaste
too like that doesn't make him a good person what fools so we talked about work in this
world let's talk about this work in the home you know work in the world is a blessing but what's
even more of a blessing than work in this world is work in the home you know i wish that people
would adopt this mentality today because it's really true even if you are working an honest
job even if you are providing for your family you know the work that's done in the home
is of a lot more value and is a lot more long lasting than someone just erecting a building
or selling a product or selling a service no the whole the work that's done in the home
that is a real blessing and when you have that you should appreciate that go to malachi chapter
number two malachi chapter number two malachi 2 verse 14
says yet ye say wherefore because the lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy
youth against whom thou has dealt treacherously yet is she thy companion and the wife of thy
covenant so we're talking about marriage here it says in verse 15 and did he did not he make
one yet had he the residue of the spirit and wherefore one why did god make of twain one
flesh that he might seek a godly seed and you know there's a lot of reasons why god has given
us marriage and why god has given us the home you know god wanted adam to have companionship
god wanted adam to have a help meet but right here in malachi we get one of the reasons why
god gave us marriage and that's because god today is seeking a godly seed god is seeking
the next generation of christians to be raised up to be brought up in the nurture and admonition
of the lord and you know what that is work but that work even though it could be a burden
what it really is is it is a blessing the home the work that we do at home as mothers and fathers
as husbands and wives that is a blessing and today there are people like i kind of spoke
about earlier that are intentionally not having children has anyone heard of this this trend
called dinks has anyone heard of this okay a few people dual income no kids and these people
basically get online and they brag about how they're intentionally purposefully never going to
have children and they're like look how cool we are we can go to bed whenever we want look how
cool we are we could wake up whenever we want look how cool we are because of how much extra
disposable income we have look how cool we are because we can go on all these vacations
but look these people that are intentionally purposely not having children are missing serious
blessings in their lives and they're they're not understanding one of the main reasons god
even gave us marriage in the first place because it says right here that he was seeking a godly
seed that is one of the biggest reasons why you even get married is to have children look if
you purposely in your mind are thinking i never ever want to have children no matter what you
shouldn't even get married because that's the whole point now obviously there's situations
that people can't control but what i'm saying is if you're just intentionally saying i will
never have children that's a selfish attitude you know i had a family member like this who's
this idiot joe biden abortion loving freak can't stand this guy but when he married his
wife the condition of them getting married is he said hey you have to tie your tubes before we ever
even get married you shouldn't have even gotten married then that's a wicked thing to do and of
course they ended up getting divorced in like four months so she ruined her body they ruined
their life four months it's just over that's these dinks that are celebrating how great they
are no it's not great go to psalm chapter 127 psalm 127
psalm 127 verse 3 it says lo children are in heritage of the lord and the fruit of the
womb is his reward as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so are children of the youth
happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed but they shall
speak with the enemies in the gate i mean the bible here is just straightly explaining to us
that having children is a blessing and it's something to be desired like as a
mighty man that goes out to war wants to have his quiver full of arrows or in modern
day vernacular when the soldier goes out to war and he wants to have lots of magazines
for his rifle it's the same way that you should desire to have a lot of children
right and yet today there's people who are intentionally not doing that now of course why is
it that they're not wanting to do that it's because it's work what's the sermon work is a
blessing and if you live your entire life just avoiding as much work as possible well you're not
going to reap very many blessings because you reap what you sow and so if you reap a lot of
work at the workplace in our secular jobs you're going to reap a lot of blessings because you
reap what you sow and look yeah it's a lot of work having children it's not easy especially when
they're young that's the only phase i know of right now but i'll tell you this it's not easy
i have four girls there's a lot of estrogen in my house there's a lot of tears of course
there's a lot of laughter too there's a lot of fun but my oldest daughter was born in march
of 2019 and there's not been a day in my house since that date that there's not been
crying literally just like march 5th 2019 to this very day every day there's tears in my
home why because i've got i've got a lot of women in my home that's just how it works
and that's a lot of work but you know what it's a blessing i love it i wouldn't trade it
for anything in the world and yeah it is hard and people think that i'm insane because
i'm 27 and we've had we have four kids but it's like it's a blessing god says that it's
a blessing but why are people avoiding it because it's work and and don't don't miss hear me
it's work you decide to have a lot of kids it will be hard it will not be easy but it will
be a blessing go to deuteronomy chapter number six deuteronomy six and truth be told i'm probably
in one of the easier stages because little kids little problems big kids big problems
little kids little mistakes big kids big mistakes and that sounds scarier to me
than having little kids right now you know deuteronomy chapter number six
verse six and these words which i command thee this day shall be in thine heart
and now shall teach them diligently unto thy children look the bible says that we are supposed
to diligently teach the commandments of god to our children does that sound like it's easy
no it does not that takes a lot of work a lot of effort this is a big book right here
there's a lot of truth in it there's a lot of doctrine in it and it takes a lot of work
to teach someone that literally knows nothing coming out of the womb to know and understand
the word of god but god says that it's our job to diligently teach them to our children
that's a lot of work but here's the question will that reap a lot of blessings oh you better
believe that it will you better believe that it will when you put in the time and the effort to
actually train your children to teach them the word of god then that is going to carry with
them for the rest of their lives and the principles and the doctrine that they learn
from god's word will turn into blessings not even just in your life but in their lives
and i don't know about you but as a parent i would rather my children be blessed than me
i would rather my children have successful and happy lives than even myself
and so if we can deliver the word of god to them and it changes their life
man that's a lot of work but it's a blessing too it says and now shall talk of them notice
when thou sit us down when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way
and when thou liest down and when thou risest up that sounds like a lot of work just
constantly teaching and now shall bind them for a sign upon thine hand and they shall be
as frontlets between thine eyes and thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and
upon and on thy gates man the bible here is not making it sound like this is going to be easy
it's when you're sitting it's when you're standing it's when you're walking it's when you're
in your house it's when you're not in your house i mean basically the bible saying that
throughout your entire life you should be using it as a teaching process for your children
and we only have a very limited amount of time with our kids and even just my children the
oldest is five and i feel like five years have just gone by like that i feel like i'm
going to blink and all of a sudden they're going to be teenagers and they're going to be gone
and the mentality i think that sometimes parents fail to realize before it's too late is that we
are not raising children we are raising adults we are raising adults and too many parents are
just caught up in the day to day of their life and of their job and just watching what's
new on netflix or just scrolling social media away and every day their children are getting
older and older and older and all of a sudden they're gone and many parents they just have
regrets of why didn't i spend time with them why didn't i teach them the bible why didn't i
put in the hard work of raising them so that i could reap the benefits of them being godly
children it's like oh now they're gone and my son has gotten multiple women pregnant what
do i do it's like nothing you're screwed sorry it's not very you know comforting but it's
like you should have you should have thought about that before you should have put in the
work before sometimes it's like you can't you can't undo things you know your your daughter
grows up and you didn't teach her to love god you didn't show her that church was important
you didn't teach her the bible and she grows up and she just marries some worldly guy
and it's just out of church for the rest of her life it's like what do i do it's like
you could pray but you can't go back in time and so what you should do right now
is realize man i know it's a lot of work i know it's hard i know i'm stressed out i know i'm tired
but i need to put in the work of raising my children why because i want to reap the blessing
that that work provides i'm going to read for you proverbs 10 1 it says the proverbs of
solomon a wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother
look you will reap what you sow and if you put in the hard work
when you're old and your children are grown up it says that you're going to be a glad father
you have a wise son but what's the converse of that if you're a mother that has a foolish
child heaviness sorrow i mean imagine if your child grew up to vote for joe biden
wouldn't you be disappointed once you deep once you'd be disappointed if you had your your
grown son over for dinner at thanksgiving and and their their grand you know grandchildren are
there and they're thinking you know i'm not sure if these kids are boys or girls
i might have to wait till they get older and see if they want to get a gender reassignment
surgery wouldn't that give you some heaviness but you know that there's literally people in
this country that are dealing with that situation there's literally moms dealing with their
grandchildren uh being transitioned there's dads dealing with their sons that grow up to be
sodomites that's literally happening that's real pain that real people are experiencing
and it's not just something that's funny to us no it's actually really happening
why because they didn't put in the work and now they have heaviness i'll read for you proverbs
22 6 train up the child train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will
not depart from it look of course children still have free will and all human beings have free will
but at the end of the day when you train your child up in the things of god you will
have a major influence in their life you will have a major impact on how they turn out
as people and it takes a lot of work now even if even if someone doesn't have children
you know you still have work to do in the home because god has probably given you a spouse to
take care of and you know what that is an important relationship in our lives
the relationship between husband and wife and it is a lot of work to to keep up that relationship
too and it is important and just like with children you reap what you sow the people that
have the best marriages are the ones that invest the most in their marriages and if god
hasn't blessed you with children yet then you know what just invest as much as you can into
your marriage and say hey that's my work at home is my wife hey that's my work at home is
my spouse and us together we're gonna have the most christ honoring marriage as humanly possible
that should be your goal and hey you know there's there's other carnal work at home too
you know part of the job of a woman is to keep the house just like a man goes out and
sweats and makes money you know a woman is supposed to keep the house that is hard work
you know how i know it's hard work because you can literally pay companies to come clean your house
for a lot of money or that you could pay them to come clean the church
for a lot of money right and you could pay people to tutor your children and you could
pay people to wash your laundry and you could pay people to cook you meals these things cost
a ton of money why because it's a ton of work okay so i'm not minimizing the work that
women do at home and i don't think anyone ever should and women you shouldn't see yourself
as lesser or beneath a man because you don't have go to a corporate job no your work at home
is very valuable and it's very honorable and you know what more important than any of that
it pleases the lord and that's what you should care about most regardless of what people say
about you regardless of what the politics of the country is just knowing that hey i'm doing
what god wants me to do and that provides peace in our lives take your time let's go to
the last point here you know we talked about work in this world we talked about work at home
this is the last area that god has given us to work in our life and that is working in
the kingdom of god the spiritual work that we do go to eph
our lives is the opportunity to work for him that is a blessing that's not something you
should look at it's like oh i have to serve god oh i have to go to church oh i have to read
your bible no we get to serve the lord jesus christ that is awesome you know too many
christians today they don't have that attitude they think that serving god is a drag and what
a shame that there's some muslims on this earth with more zeal towards their false religion
than a lot of christians are towards serving god look at ephesians 6 verse 12 for we wrestle
not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the
rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places you know the
bible says that we wrestle wrestling it kind of invokes the idea of a fight or of a struggle
and you know our struggle or our fight or the thing that we're putting our energy into in
this world is not against flesh and blood but yet if you looked at christianity today
you would think that the bible teaches the exact opposite of this because so many christians today
they're not deciding to put all of their energy and effort into the work of god
but rather they're trying to put their work and energy into the carnal fight
pastors today are more concerned with donald trump they're more concerned with the rnc they see it
as more of a goal in their mission in their ministry to make sure that trump gets elected
into office then they care about going soul winning this saturday then they care about
spending time in their bible this week then they care about spending in time in prayer for
their church members no what are they doing they're just praying for trump and look pray as
much as you want but i'm just telling you that that's not the work that god has called us to
do in this life and so many people today they take politics way too far to where it's their whole
life's goal it's their life's work and look i don't think there's anything wrong with paying
attention to the news i don't think there's anything wrong about being interested in that
kind of stuff maybe it's your hobby maybe it's the thing that you're kind of nerdy about
whatever i get it when i was a teenager i was that nerdy guy that would literally watch c-span
okay when i was a teenager i went to programs called patriot academy and in my law enforcement
class we had to write the constitution out by hand we had to write the declaration out by hand
i get it some people are raised that way but look i care way more about way more about the
work of god than any of that stuff all that stuff could disappear tomorrow and we still have
the spiritual nation america could disappear tomorrow and we still have soul winning we still have
christianity we still have church look at luke chapter number two if you'll turn there luke chapter number two
luke chapter number two verse 49 jesus's parents have kind of lost him here and they're looking for
him in verse 49 it says and he said unto them how is it that you sought me
wist ye not that i must be about my father's business see jesus referred to the work of god
to ministry as a business and a lot of people would be so offended that if you called a church
but let me just tell you right now what a church is it's a business but guess what we're not in the
business of making money we're in the business of bringing a spiritual profit to the kingdom of
god you better believe we are looking to make a profit at this church oh yeah we're trying to
make a profit by winning as many souls as possible to christ we do want to make a profit hey this
is a business and i'm not ashamed to say that i think it's the greatest business in the world
but what kind of work should this business be doing well it's not a business it's a business
business be doing well it's not you know just selling products it's not necessarily just
providing a carnal service or anything like that it's winning souls to jesus christ that's what
god ordained the local new testament church to do is to go out and reach people with the
gospel go to matthew chapter number 21 matthew chapter number 21
matthew chapter number 21 verse 33 he said hear another parable there was a certain householder
which planted a vineyard and hedged it roundabout and digged a wine press in it and built a tower
and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country you know what this is this householder
this is an investment that he's making this is a business this vineyard is this householder's
business and look he's putting a lot of work into it he's planning a vineyard he's hedging
it round about he's making sure it has a security system and it has you know safety and all
that he's digging a wine press assets to make money he's building a tower he's really protective
of it and he's letting it out to husbandmen he's renting out this vineyard for people to work why
why would someone that owns a business be motivated to do this to make money right to build
a profit and jesus is drawing this parable he said hey there's this business owner he's
trying to make a profit look at verse 34 and when the time of the fruit drew near he sent
his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits of it what was the business
owner's goal to receive the fruits of the vineyards to make money and what is the
spiritual application of this god's business god is in it to make a profit but it's not money
because he owns the cattle on a thousand hills it's a spiritual profit he's in it to win souls
to jesus christ and that's one of the greatest works that we could do in this business in
the work of the kingdom of god is win people to christ proverbs 11 30 i'll read for you it says
the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth souls is wise and that's what
we should be spending so much time effort and energy on is preaching the gospel reaching
people with the gospel not only that training the next generation of soul winners look it's the
gospel can't just die with us we got to train the next generation you know something i've
been doing recently i've been wearing kind of like a hidden camera when i'm out soul winning
i've just been filming soul winning presentations of people getting saved and what i'm hoping that
these videos can do is be a tool for new soul winners that don't know how to preach the
gospel to be where hey you can just send them this link and they can watch a video of
a real gospel presentation of a real person getting saved and hopefully that could train
people so they can learn how to become soul winners why because we're trying to make
a spiritual profit here we're trying to get people saved and we want to train as many people
to do that as possible flip over a few pages of matthew 28 we'll go through these last ones
pretty quick here matthew 28 you know another work that god wants us in to do in this business
is baptizing people matthew 28 verse 19 jesus said go ye therefore and teach all nations
baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost you know
that's that's part two of the great commission is baptizing people and notice it's not in the
name of jesus only like the pentecostal say it's the name of the father the son and the holy ghost
hey we're going to baptize people biblically but look that is something that god wants us to
do go to hebrew chapter number four here's another great work that we could do for this
business for the work of the kingdom of god that is the preaching of god's word not just
soul winning but explaining the bible applying it to our lives helping us make changes in our
lives look at hebrews 4 verse 12 for the word of god is quick and powerful and sharper than
any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and
marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart you know the bible says
that the word of god is like a sword and boy does america need us to whip out this sword
right now there's so many things that just spiritually need to be destroyed right now in
our nation and what it's going to take is spirit-filled men taking the word of god and
wielding that sword you know we need to take the word of god today and wield that sword against
catholicism against mormonism against the pentecostals we need to raise it up high and
slay islam we need to slay this woke wicked transgender ideology with leviticus 2013 hey we
need to use the sword today god expects us to do it it's one of the good works that god wants
us to do and you know what i personally want to dedicate my entire life to doing that
you know what it should not even just be me it should be all the people in this room
you should be preaching to your mom and dad you should be explaining the bible to your co-workers
of course try to get them saved first but look christians have been so cowardly for so long
that even though christians have outnumbered the wicked in our nation for so long we're just
getting slaughtered in the culture you know i do care about doing everything we can to bring back
a christian culture to america not just stopping at getting people saved wouldn't it
be great if we could get a christian culture back in america and honestly oklahoma's already
on the right track for doing that but look we should push it as hard as we can
i love that the new ifb does the documentaries i love that they post the short videos i love
that they you know get on the news and all that stuff why because we want to make the christian
culture permeate throughout this country again and it shouldn't just be the pastor shouldn't
just be the preacher look someone asks you at work you know hey what do you think about
uh children being mutilated you're like well let me just show you real quick what the bible
says you know we need to stop being afraid of the personal consequences that we're going
to face because if you just decide to be afraid and cower the consequences you're going to be
facing are going to be way worse than the things that you're afraid of or whatever
here's another great work that we could have i'll read for you for these last couple ones for
sake of time verse thessalonians 5 25 says brethren pray for us very short verse very
succinct verse but a very powerful verse brethren pray for us a great work that you
could be doing in the work of god is simply praying for your brothers and sisters in christ
you know we have this prayer list here i think you guys have a great job doing a great job putting
this together you know don't forget about the missionaries that are overseas don't forget about
those guys i mean those guys are sacrificing a lot for the gospel of jesus christ and we're
living here in the creature comforts of the united states of america and there's a lot more
money here there's a lot more luxury here and these guys are in the philippines and let's just
be honest that's not the nicest place in the world those guys are making a sacrifice to go
there and so what what's the least we can do for them pray for them don't forget about them
look germany is listed here those guys need prayer those guys are going through serious
persecution way more persecution than steadfast Baptist Church ever went through i mean in
germany they literally got this lady saved she visited church for the first time and she went
home and the police were at her door interrogating her for going to the church these guys literally
almost all of their homes have been literally raided by police and all of their electronics
have been taken and they're being literally criminally charged that could have punishments
leading to literal prison just for attending this church look you got to be praying for
those people you know and honestly who knows if if that church if we don't pray for that church
it's possible that that church literally won't even survive that's just a reality
and so right now while that hasn't happened yet you know what we need to do we need to be praying
for those people that's a great work that we could do in the kingdom of God not forgetting
about these people i mean there's some major surgeries in this bulletin for a little baby man
we got to be praying for that i mean i couldn't imagine going through that situation we got to
be praying for that child we got to be praying for the parents because i mean that's just
heart-wrenching even to see in the bulletin quite honestly so be praying here's another work that we
could do i'll read for you again hebrews 10 24 and let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together you know
what a great work we could do in the kingdom of God is is simply fellowshipping with our
brothers and sisters in Christ simply being there to sharpen to iron to sharpen iron to be there
to sharpen the countenance of your friend and you know where you do that you do that right here
in church you know that is a work that many people are forsaking today even the bible at this
time they were forsaking it says not forsaking the assembling of themselves together as the
manner of some is meaning at this time it was already people's proclivity to skip church or
to skip out on the assembling of God's people but you know let us not be that way let us be
the exception to that you know let us realize that church is not just a building that we show
up to a few times a week no it's actually real people with real lives with real souls with real
children that are going to grow up with real problems in their life that are going through you
know real heartaches and realize that you as a Christian one of your jobs as a Christian
is to fellowship with believers and you can make a big difference in someone's life just
by showing up to church you don't necessarily know all the effects you're having on people
by simply you just talking to them by simply you just being a true friend to them let me tell
you something true friends are hard to find in this world this world's cut throat people will
just stab you in the back on a dime and look it's nice to be around some people that are
actually real and you know we're going to find that you're going to find that in the
local new testament church you're not going to find that anywhere else last thing i want to
talk about is another great work we could do in the kingdom of god is visiting the fatherless
and widows in their affliction and i just i know you guys are already doing this because
you have the nursing home ministry but i just want to encourage you guys to not give up on that
to keep going on that and i've done that before i've preached in those ministries before
i know at times it can be hard when you're preaching and joe biden's talking to himself
back there he's having like a dementia you know episode and he's like yelling at you while you're
preaching like it happens i get it but you know what that is a good work that you're doing
and in fact in james chapter number one the bible says that that's what pure religion even is is
visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction you know a lot of those peoples are
are literally widows or their widowers and you know my mom for a time worked in a nursing
home and would take care of them until they literally died and she said that sometimes no one
ever comes to see them no family member ever calls them and they they literally just die alone
with the employee of that nursing home and you know what not all of them are like my mom
where she's gonna love on them and take care of them and pray with them i'm sure some of
them couldn't give a care less they couldn't care less about those people right that is a
terrible situation and look by us going there by us loving them by us preaching to them that
is a good work that you're doing and don't give up on that keep doing that for as long as you can
that's a great work in the kingdom of god honestly i think it's kind of a miracle that's
even happening because i thought that after covid that that would be done for forever
so praise the lord that that's happening you know just in conclusion just realize that
there's a lot of work to be done in this life there's a lot of things that you could decide
to put your energy and effort into and rather than complaining about the fact that you have
to go to work or the fact that it's so hard to raise children or the fact that it's so hard
to go to church three times a week it's so hard to get out there and go soul winning so
hard to read the bible why don't you just realize that work is a blessing realize that
you were put on this earth to work not to lay around and just live for the pleasures of this
life and to just watch tv all day and to just stack as much money as you can and just to go on
as many vacations as you can no god told adam before he ever sinned to work and god told eve
listen eve you're his help me way before they ever sinned so look working is not a curse
work is a blessing let's close with the word of prayer lord thank you so much for this day
thank you so much for the work that you've given us to do in our lives thank you for the jobs
that you give us thank you for our families and thank you most of all for the ministry of
jesus christ thank you that we're all included in that and have opportunities to be profitable
for you i pray that you would just turn all of our hearts to you and that we would truly
desire to work for you as the main goal of all of our lives in jesus name we pray amen
all right we'll go ahead and sing one last song to conclude the service if you would grab
a hymnal and turn to hymn number 422 hymn number 422
thou didst leave thy throne
hymn number 422
so
we'll sing that right on the first
for thy holy nativity oh come to my heart lord jesus
there is room in my heart for thee heaven's arches rang when the angels sang
proclaiming my royal decree but of lowly birth didst thou come to earth and in great humility
oh come to my heart lord jesus there is room in my heart for thee
the foxes of rest and the birds their nest in the shade of the forest tree
but thy couch was the sun old house son of god in the deserts of galilee
oh come to my heart lord jesus there is room in my heart for thee
thou came mr lord with the living word that should set thy people free
me but with mocking scorn and with crown of thorn they bore thee to calvary
oh come to my heart lord jesus there is room in my heart for thee
me when the heavens shall ring and the angels sing at thy coming to victory
let thy voice call me home saying that there is room there is room at my side for thee
me my heart shall rejoice for jesus when thou comest and callest for me