the notes, but I'll try to play it loud just to balance it,
to help.
All right.
So seeing it, you can actually see the.
Are you ready?
So which one are we doing first?
Or what?
Start backwards.
So 150 would be easy to run.
149 would be easy to run.
OK.
You can lead into it, right?
Like, if you start off at 128 and nobody knows it,
the less comes in.
Oh.
OK.
Go backwards.
OK.
All right, everybody.
Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
Glad you could all make it here this Sunday night.
Let's go ahead and take out our white handout.
We'll be in that, the entire service this evening.
So we won't be in the hymnal tonight.
We've got a few psalms we're going to sing.
If you don't have a white handout, raise up your hand
and usher and try and bring one to you.
There should be one in all the seats.
So you could probably find one nearby you
if you just look under the seat in front of you.
We're going to start off in Psalm 150.
Make sure I have it here.
All right.
Here we go.
Psalm 150 in your white handout.
And if you don't have one, you can always take out
your King James Bible.
Psalm 150.
Praise ye the Lord.
Praise God in his sanctuary.
Praise him in the firmament of his power.
Praise him for his mighty acts.
Praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet.
Praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance.
Praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Praise him upon the loud cymbals.
Praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
Let everything that hath breath.
Praise the Lord.
Praise ye the Lord.
Praise God the Father.
Praise God the Son.
Praise God the Holy Ghost.
Praise God in three persons.
Amen.
Great singing.
Let's pray our prayer.
Heavenly Father, we just thank you again that we
would be here to hear the preaching of your word.
I just pray you'd speak to us tonight through
Brother Ben, that you'd fill him with your Holy
Spirit and help him to edify the people here.
And just please help us to apply this preaching
to our lives so that we can all serve you better
and to love each other more.
And we love you, fathers.
Please continue to bless this church with soul
that we could reach our community in this whole world.
It's in Jesus Christ's name we pray.
Amen.
Next is going to be Psalm 149 in your white handout.
We're going to try to do all our new Psalms tonight.
So we've got 150, 149, 148 with our new one.
Psalms 149 in your white handout.
All together on the first.
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 a temple and harm.
For the Lord, taking pleasure in his people,
he will beautify the meek 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 a two-edged 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.
We're glad you all make it here tonight.
I love singing those songs because this is straight
and come from the word of God,
so it can't get really better than that.
So we'll go through our announcements at this time.
If you're not already aware, Pastor Shelley,
he's up in our church plant in Oklahoma City,
so he's been preaching the services there.
He preached this morning, and he's preaching there right now.
So he's not going to make it tonight,
so I'll be doing the announcements.
We have Brother Ben somewhere in here.
He'll be preaching for us tonight.
So we're excited to have him.
He knows the Bible really well,
so I'm sure he could teach us all a few things here tonight.
If you don't have a bulletin, go ahead and raise up your hand,
and one of the ushers will try and bring one to you.
I want to announce this first, just before I forget it.
Sister Emily Hernandez, she's in labor right now,
so Alberto just asked the church if we could just pray for her now.
So I'd just like to pray together as a church
that everything will go well.
So let's bow our heads again.
Heavenly Father, we just thank you so much
for the Hernandez family.
They've been such a blessing to so many people in this church,
and we just pray you'd strengthen her right now.
She goes through labor.
You just please just give her strength,
help to go quickly and easily for her,
and please help that baby to come out healthy and strong
and that you would just be with her whole family during this time
and just give them a swift recovery.
We know you'll take care of them, Lord, and we just love you,
and we just ask these things in Jesus Christ's name.
Amen.
So I'm not sure exactly how far along,
but I think she's past the midpoint, okay?
So I think they're doing well the last time I checked,
so just keep praying for them.
And then so, yeah, we'll go into the bulletin.
We have our Bible memory passage, Psalm 148.
We're finishing this up.
You have our grace week.
Thankfully, Pastor Shelley, he gives us some grace
because sometimes we don't quote it on time.
So finish this up.
If you're working on it and you're not quite done yet,
try to get it wrapped up and finished.
That way you'll receive your special prize.
But even now, you know, the best reward
is just having the Word of God memorized.
So if you don't get, you know, rewarded by Pastor Shelley,
at least you know there may be a blessing from God.
And I encourage you next time, after this week is up,
when we go to our new chapter,
that you can just start over fresh with that one,
and that way you'll have a good passage of the Bible memorized.
On the inside of our bulletin,
you'll see our service time Sunday morning at 10.30.
We have our Spanish service every Sunday at 4.30
and Sunday evening at 5.30.
Wednesday nights is our Bible study.
So right now Pastor Shelley is going through the book of Genesis.
And that's great because he's just going line by line
to give you more insight on that specific book of the Bible.
And then we have our church-wide soul wanting times listed there below.
I'll go ahead and get a soul wanting from the last few days.
Is there anything to report?
I guess it'd be for Thursday.
Any salvations for last Thursday?
I see one.
And how about for Friday?
Two.
Two for Friday.
And then how about for Saturday?
Is there any salvations?
Okay.
Ten for Saturday.
I think I got everybody.
And then how about for today?
I had five for the van.
So if you were outside the van today,
was there any salvations for today for Sunday?
Okay.
So that's 15 for today.
So praise the Lord for that.
Keep up the good work on soul wanting.
And then if you'd like to go out soul wanting,
we meet up here at the church Sundays at 2 p.m.
Pastor Shelley leads that time.
The ladies will go out 10.30 on Tuesday.
And Mrs. Shelley leads that one.
And then Wednesday 5.15,
Pastor Shelley will head that up before the Wednesday service.
And then Saturday at 10 with Brother West.
And then if you'd like to go other times,
we have regional soul wanting.
They meet in Weatherford.
Steve Malton, he's in Fort Worth.
And Brother Suhail, he's in Dallas.
So if those are closer for you, more convenient,
I'd encourage you to get in touch with them.
I think they're all here tonight.
So if you'd like to go soul wanting with them,
just try and get their number.
And then there's a note there.
If we give you a soul wanting map,
just please make sure you turn that in
so we can keep track of all the soul wanting our church does.
You can give them to Pastor Shelley
or the soul wanting leader.
You can just turn them into this bin right here by the map.
That way we just properly record everything our church does.
And then we have our church stats so far for the year
for salvation and baptism.
I mean, that's amazing.
Look at that.
1,700 people over that have been saved this year.
I mean, that's a lot of people.
And that's just the people who get saved.
I mean, there's probably like over 10,000 people
that we attempted to get saved.
So that's great.
And just keep praying the Lord will bless our church.
On the next page, you'll see our expecting ladies,
which that list is always nice and strong.
So thank God for that.
So just keep praying for those ladies
throughout their pregnancies
that them and the babies will be healthy.
And we have our prayer list.
If you have anything specific you'd like to ask,
you can email that to the church at steadfastbaptistkjvatgmail.com.
That way we can know to pray for you.
On the back of our bulletin,
you'll see we have our yearbook pictures.
And so if you'd like to be a part of that,
there's a sign-up sheet right here on this front cabinet.
And they're doing pictures.
They did them today.
They're going to do them next week and the 28th.
They're going to be before and after the service.
And there's a bunch of times listed there below.
I mean, it's completely free.
So why not get a nice family portrait for you
and your family?
And then we have a baby shower.
That's for Mrs. Megan Wood.
And all ladies are invited to come.
That's going to be on December 18th from 1230 to 230.
And if you'd like to get her a gift,
she's registered on Bye Bye Baby.
And if you're able, please bring a Gist to share.
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of good food,
so it's another good reason to show up
for the ladies event right there.
And then it's nurselings only preferred.
It's a preference.
Obviously, if nobody can wash your kids,
you know, you can bring them.
There's no harm in that.
We just prefer the nurselings only
so the ladies can have a good time,
get a little bit of rest.
Hopefully, the husband can wash the kids
or you can relax or you can get a break for an hour.
So you see our upcoming events listed there below.
I mentioned the pictures.
The Thanksgiving dessert fellowship,
you're not going to want to miss that night, okay?
There's going to be a lot of good desserts that night.
I mean, if there's one service you come for the year,
that should be the one on your list, okay?
And then we have our Brownsville,
Matamora Soul Waning Marathon.
That's December 9th through the 11th.
Christmas caroling, that's going to be on Tuesday,
the 14th at 5.30.
And then Pastor Shelley is having pizza
for everybody after that.
So I encourage you, if you can make that,
it was actually a lot of fun going out Christmas caroling
and it was a great time for the kids
and everybody out there.
They just loved it.
So if you're able to go,
I'd encourage you to make it out for that.
December 18th is the baby shower.
December 24th, we're having a candlelight service
and a cookie bake-off.
So that's like your second service for the year.
Make sure you come on that one.
Got the dessert fellowship and the cookie cook-off.
So, captives like to eat, okay?
We like good fellowship.
We like good food, okay?
So we preach hard, but we also feed you good as well.
December 31st is our New Year's party.
So if you don't want to get drunk
and wasted with the world,
you can actually have some good Christian fellowship
here at the church.
It's going to be at seven.
And then last announcement there listed below.
If you want to donate, you can still give cash here,
but if you're writing out a check or online,
just do it through Pure Words Baptist
because we're having issues with our banking right now.
So just go everything, write it out,
your check to Pure Words,
or you can just do it online at the website there.
So I think that's all we have for announcements.
All right, let's go ahead and turn to our third song.
We'll still be in our white handout there.
The song 148.
This is the new one.
So if you don't know it that well, that's okay.
You can learn it together with us tonight.
You can just silently sing it to yourself.
Psalms 148 in your white handout.
You can also turn to your King James Bible.
Sing it all together on the first.
Praise ye the Lord.
All right.
We'll get it.
Praise ye the Lord.
From the heavens
praise him in the heights.
Praise ye him
all his days.
Praise ye the Lord.
From the heavens
praise ye him.
All his angels
praise ye him.
All his hosts
praise ye him.
Sun and moon
praise him.
All his heart
praise he
the heavens
and his heart.
Above the heavens
let them praise the name
of the Lord.
He commanded
and they were
created
he hath also
established them
forever
and ever
he hath made
a decree
which shall not pass
praise the Lord
from the earth
ye
dragons and all
these fire and hell
snow and vapor
stormy wind
fulfilling
his word mountains
and all hills
fruitful trees
and all cedars
bees
and all cattle
creeping things
and flying fowl
kings of the earth
and all people
princes
and all judges
of the earth
little young men
and maidens
old men and children
let them praise
the name of the
Lord.
For his name
alone is
excellent
his glory
is above the earth
and heaven
he also
exalted
the Lord
of his people
the praise
of all his saints
even of the
children
of people
near unto
him praise
ye the
Lord.
Amen. Thank you for bearing with us for that one.
The new Psalms. We'll get the hang of it.
As an offering place of being passed around,
please turn your Bibles to Philippians chapter 2.
Philippians chapter 2.
Philippians chapter 2 the Bible reads
If there be
therefore any consolation in Christ
if any comfort of love
if any fellowship of the Spirit
if any bowels and mercies
fulfill ye my joy that ye be like-minded
having the same love being of one accord
of one mind.
Let nothing be done through strife
or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind
let each esteem other better than themselves.
Look not every man on his own things
but every man also on the things of others.
Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus.
Who being in the form of God
ought it not robbery to be equal with God
but made himself of no reputation
and took upon him the form of a servant
and was made in the likeness of men.
Being found in fashion as a man
he humbled himself and became obedient
unto death even the death of the cross.
Wherefore God also
hath highly exalted him and given him a name
which is above every name that at the name
of Jesus every knee
should bow up things in heaven
and things in earth and things under the earth
and that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory
of God the Father.
Wherefore my beloved
as ye have always obeyed not as in my presence
only but now much more in my absence
work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling
for it is God which worketh in you
both to will and to do
of his good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings
that ye may be blameless and harmless
to God without rebuke in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation among whom
ye shine as lights in the world
holding forth the word of life
that I may rejoice in the day of Christ
that I have not run in vain neither labored
in vain. Yea
and if I be offered upon the sacrifice
and service of your faith I joy and rejoice
with you all for the same cause
also for ye joy and rejoice
with me. But I trust in the
Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly
unto you that I also may be of good
comfort when I know your state
for I have no man like-minded who will naturally
care for your state for all seek
their own not the things which are Jesus
Christ but ye know the proof of him
that as a son with the father he hath served
with me in the gospel
and therefore I hope to send presently
so soon as I shall see how it will go with me
but I trust in the Lord that I also
myself shall come shortly.
Yet I supposed it necessary
to send to you Epaphroditus my brother
and companion in labor
and fellow soldier but your messenger
and he that ministered to my wants
for he longed after you all
and was full of heaviness because that ye had heard
that he had been sick. For indeed
he was sick nigh unto death
but God had mercy on him not
on him only but on me also lest
I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
I sent him therefore the more carefully
that when ye see him again ye may rejoice
and that I may be the less sorrowful.
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all
gladness and hold such in reputation
because for the work of Christ
he was nigh unto death not regarding
his life to supply your lack of service
for me.
Let's pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you for all the souls that were won this weekend.
I pray you would fill our brother Ben
with your spirit. Allow him to preach boldly.
Help us pay attention and apply the message to our lives
and in Jesus' name, Amen.
Man, you're there in
Philippians chapter 2. Let's look at
verse number 12 where the Bible read
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have
always obeyed, not as in my presence
only but now much more in my
absence, work out your
own salvation with fear and trembling
for it is God which worketh in you both
to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings
and disputings that ye may be blameless and
harmless the sons of God without
rebuke in the midst of
a crooked and perverse
nation among whom
ye shine as lights
in the world.
Philippi, this Greek city, was not godly.
It was wicked. And we see
that the Apostle Paul acknowledges
that referring to it as what?
A crooked and perverse
place. That kind of sounds
familiar. I think we can relate to that
in fact as
people who live in the United States of America.
He says here that the saints
shined as lights in the world
even in the midst of
depravity. And so the title
of my sermon is derived from
this portion of scripture. The title of
my sermon this evening is Shining in a
Crooked and Perverse Nation.
Shining in a
crooked and perverse
nation. I want to thank Pastor Shelley
for the opportunity to fill in
this evening. I really appreciate it.
There's two phases to this
message tonight that I want you to pay attention to.
Phase number one is this. I'm going to
demonstrate, I'm going to help you understand
that in fact, yes, America does
fit this description
right here. It is a crooked
and perverse generation.
Phase two of the message
is going to illuminate
for you, no pun intended, what
we can do about it. What
exactly we can do about it. Head over to
Psalm chapter 125 if you would.
Psalm chapter 125.
Let me go
ahead and define some words
for you to start things off. The word
crooked oftentimes in
scripture can be defined as
devious or going out
of the path of rectitude
which is another way to say
righteousness. I'm sure you've heard the word rectified
before that means to
make something right. Well, when
you depart from that which is righteous,
that's crookedness.
Perverse, I believe
is synonymous with the word
crooked and that can be
defined as contrary to the accepted
or expected standard
or practice. So that's
what I mean when I use those two words
and I'll be using them a lot over the course of the next hour.
Crooked and
perverse, that's what I mean by those words.
That's how they can be defined. The Bible
itself says in Deuteronomy 32
I had you turn to Psalm 125
again that was Psalm 125
but I'll quote to you from
Deuteronomy 32 where the Bible read
they have corrupted themselves. Their spot
is not the spot of his children.
They are a perverse and
crooked generation.
Deuteronomy 20, I should say 32
describes a particular generation
as what? Perverse
and crooked.
Philippi matched that
description and our generation
right now that we're living in matches
that description as well.
Psalm 125 says in verse number 4
Do good, O Lord,
unto those that be good and
to them that are upright in their hearts
ask for such as turn
aside under their, notice this,
crooked ways. The Lord
shall lead them forth with the workers
of iniquity but peace shall be
upon Israel.
If you want peace in your life
you need to avoid the crooked ways.
Don't be known as someone who's
crooked and perverse but rather be known as someone
who's righteous. Be
the exception like Pastor Shelley preached
a number of weeks ago.
There are certain people
they turn aside the crooked ways as if
it's part of their DNA. That's
just who they are. That's what they
do. It's instinctive
for them and of course that's the inverse
of what? That's the inverse of
uprightness. What does it mean to be
crooked? Well crookedness in a sense
to help you understand it's a deviation
from what ought to be.
That's what crookedness is. It's a
deviation from what is objectively
righteous because there's an objective
standard of morality in this world today
that atheists completely reject
and that objective standard is the word of
God and anything that departs I don't
care how slightly from this is
crooked. That's what the Bible says.
It's a deviation from the
established moral standard
that we all follow,
that we all appeal to.
Even if we don't in action
follow it 100%
if somebody were to ask
you why is killing wrong?
Why is
abortion wrong?
Why is adultery
wrong? What we would do is appeal to this
in order to give them the answer.
But you see our society today is crooked
because it's departed, it's deviated
from this standard. Look
if you would at Proverbs chapter 28.
Proverbs chapter 28.
As you turn to Proverbs 28
I'll remind you that when the disciples
couldn't cast out a devil
Jesus said this, he said
O faithless and perverse
generation how long shall I be
with you and suffer you? Bring
thy son hither. If that
generation was
perverse I wonder what
Jesus would say about this one.
Probably something similar.
I would imagine.
Proverbs 28 is
where I had you turn. Look
at verse 6.
Proverbs 28 verse 6 the Bible read
better is the poor that walketh in his
uprightness than he
that is perverse in his ways
though he be
rich. Guess what? The rich
and perverse are
worse off than those who are
poor yet upright.
Because money doesn't mean anything. It's all
vain anyway. As long as you can provide
for your family you're good. You are not
defined by the digits in your bank account.
What defines you is who you are as a
person with respect to your walk
with Christ. That's what matters
and we see that theme constantly
throughout scripture but
what you have to understand is this. Again
let's get into the first phase of the message.
What I need you to realize
this evening is that this
is a perverse and crooked
nation. And this is going to hurt
some of the red, white, and blue
pride type people.
For those of you who
you take pride in your country.
You wave your American flag.
Maybe you
would define yourself as
someone who's patriotic. This is
going to sting a little bit for you but I implore
you to listen very carefully to what I'm
saying because I'm not saying this
because I want to say it. It's
unfortunate. I wish America was
godly. I wish America was
upright. I wish it wasn't a crooked
and perverse nation. I wish the opposite was true.
But the reason why
I'm going to hammer this in right now
is for your benefit.
Because it's time that people
would shake Christians out of their trance
a little bit. Go to Isaiah chapter 1.
Isaiah chapter 1. Again this might
hurt your feelings a little bit
if you are
someone who would describe his
or herself as
patriotic.
If you have the blinders on
this is going to hurt. This is going to sting.
But I'm about to
say what I'm about to say because I love
you and I want to ensure
that you know the truth. This is the
pillar and ground of the truth, is it not?
That's what church is supposed to be.
And you're going to get the truth.
I had you turn to Isaiah 1. I'm going to read
for you from Jeremiah 7 where
the word of God said, But thou shalt say unto them,
This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice
of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction.
Truth is perished
and is cut off from
their mouth. Truth
perished in the southern
kingdom of Judah. And truth
is perished in America.
Truth is perished in this nation.
You know,
regarding Judah,
it had turned into a nation that
engaged in what? Idolatry
and smut and deviancy.
The Bible says in Jeremiah chapter 2
that it became a degenerate
plant of a strange vine.
That's not what God planted but it's what
it turned into. It's what it degenerated
into. And the same is true for
this country that at one point would appeal
to the word of God in
order to establish its laws, the
laws of the land. We talk about it in the
Sodomite deception. It's one of my favorite parts of the movie
where we go through in the timeline and show
how at one point we appeal
to Leviticus 2013 and Romans
chapter 1 to establish the
laws of the land. But it's not that way anymore.
Now,
the opposite is true.
Now you get lambasted
for believing in the laws that
this nation at one point had
in the books.
You see, this country is
following the same trajectory that you
read about in the Old Testament
regarding Judah and
Israel. It's going down the
same path. This is a nation
that has lost its mind. This is a nation
where men call themselves women.
This is a nation
that, you know, where a bunch
of filthy, disgusting, Sodomite
dogs are extolled. They're
celebrated. They're lifted up as
the model for our society.
This is a nation that hates
God and ultimately, let me tell you this, it's going to hurt
your red, white, and blue pride, but it's the truth.
This is a nation that's on
an express lane directly
to hell.
We're on a bobsled to hell.
And I don't like to say that.
It doesn't bring me joy.
But it's the truth. You say,
what's so bad about our country, though?
Well, we have crooked
and perverse leadership. Isaiah
says in 1 verse
23, Isaiah chapter 1 verse 23,
it says thy princes
are rebellious
and companions of thieves.
Everyone loveth gifts and
followeth after rewards.
They judge not the fatherless,
neither does the cause of the widow
come unto them. Notice it says that
everyone loveth gifts. Does that
not describe perfectly the politicians
of our day on both sides of the
political spectrum? You know,
they prostitute themselves to corporate
lobbyists and special interests.
These people are nothing more than
prostitutes. When people go out
and vote every four years for the
president, let me let you in on a little secret,
they're voting for a prostitute.
They're voting for a whore.
They're nothing more than whores
and whoremongers. And in the case of Kamala Harris,
she literally is a whore.
You know, this is what Donald Trump said
in 2015.
He said, I gave to many people,
believe me, before
this, before two months ago,
I was a businessman. I gave
to everybody. When
they call, I give. And do you know what?
When I need something
from them two years later, three years later,
I call them, they're there for
me. He's bragging about it. He's bragging
about the fact that he's sort of the puppet master
of these politicians, that when he calls them and
bribes them, they do his bidding.
Because that's the system. There's no
hope in that system.
This is what a lobbyist said, quote,
I was a lobbyist between
2003 and 2010 in Washington,
D.C. I quit in disgust.
This is someone with a conscience.
Years of legalized bribery
had exposed me to the worst
elements of our country's political workings.
Not even my half million a year
salary could outweigh
my conscience.
Folks, that's hopeless corruption.
It's helpless corruption and
you know, there's nothing we could ever do to fix it.
From a
political avenue. Obviously
there's a spiritual remedy, but
a carnal remedy does not exist.
The cycle continues no matter
who it is that you vote for.
And think about the leadership that we have
today in this crooked and perverse
nation. Joe Biden,
a demented man who
could barely string a sentence together
who wants to force you to reject
yourself with a clot shot in order
to keep your job. That's
Joe Biden. Kamala Harris
who slept with a 60 year old
politician to advance her political career
that makes her a whore.
And people get mad at me when I say that
and I get calls the next day
she's a whore!
Alright here, I'll spell it out for you.
W-H-O-R-E
Whore!
And I'm not going to apologize for that.
She's a filthy whore.
And you know what else?
It doesn't end there. In fact, you could
argue it gets even worse. You know who our
Secretary of Transportation is?
Booty
Judge.
Pete Booty Judge.
This is an open
sodomite.
Open sodomite!
Pete the faggot!
He's the secretary of-
He just bragged on social
media about how he took time off
to raise- because he just
got a child. He adopted
a little baby.
He's going to abuse that
baby. Sick,
disgusting pervert.
Who's the assistant secretary
of health today?
It's a tranny!
It's a transvestite!
It's a transvestite
freak that calls itself Rachel!
That's our secretary
of health! I feel like I'm going crazy!
Secretary of Health
is a tranny!
Calls itself
Rachel!
It's an it! I'm just going to call it
it! It's the assistant
secretary of health!
This is who we rely on as our leadership
in the area
of health?
A filthy tranny? A guy
that wears a dress? Some freak that wears a
dress? And people
share this things
picture all over Facebook. Listen to me, I don't
want to see that.
I'll unfriend you.
I don't want to see that! It's disgusting!
It defiles my eyes! Don't share that
photo! I don't care if you're exposing it!
I don't want to see it!
It's disgusting and perverted and filthy!
And that's
who we're supposed to look up to.
This is our assistant secretary
of health.
Would Isaiah chapter 59?
What else is wrong with this country?
How about crooked and perverse
justice?
Crooked and perverse justice?
Again, this is a problem with
God's people and it's a problem
with us.
Isaiah 59 is where I had you turn. Notice
verse 14.
Isaiah 59 verse 14 where the Bible
read, And judgment is turned away
backward, and justice standeth afar off.
For truth is fallen
in the streets, and equity cannot
enter. Yea, truth
faileth, and he that departed from evil
but pray, and the Lord saw it, and noticed
that it displeased him that there
was no judgment.
How about that for you judge not?
How's that for the judge not crowd?
God's displeased that there was no judgment!
It's
wrong to judge.
Never judge anybody. Judge not!
Have you finished the verse,
buddy? I want to take things out of context.
Here we see God upset that there
was no justice. This is crooked
justice. And let me tell you what I mean
when I went to this passage of
scripture here. What do I mean by crooked justice?
Here's what I mean by that.
Let's take a look at what happened
in Kenosha, Washington.
You
had rioting and looting
Black Lives Matter domestic
terrorists burning buildings
down with impunity.
And who's the one on trial?
Is it those
mentally insane freaks
burning down the city,
attacking innocent people, destroying
private property, all based on
lies from the corporate media about
racism?
And yes, I said it with a W on purpose.
Who's the one? Who's on
trial? Oh yeah, that's right. It's Kyle Rittenhouse.
That's the crooked and perverse
justice that we have in this nation.
Kyle Rittenhouse, a
17 year old boy who defended
himself. Look, I'm not
advocating. I'm not saying that he should have even been
there. I wouldn't have even been there. I wouldn't have
even gone there. Just let it burn.
Whatever. I'm concerned about that
which is spiritual. But you know what?
You put me in a situation where some
Antifa left
hard with a weapon
has it pointed at my face
and I have an AR-15 with me.
You better believe I'm pointing that thing at
his face and pulling the trigger every single
time. If that makes me a domestic
terrorist, you have no idea what that phrase
even means.
And you know, here's the thing about the Rittenhouse
situation. If that's not self defense,
there's no such thing as self
defense. There is no such
thing as self defense. It is the clear
it's so clear as day.
Look at the video. Clear self defense.
And who did he shoot? I want to talk about
crooked and perverse justice. Who did he shoot?
He shot three men.
And two of the three should have been
dead anyway. I said it.
The first one was a domestic
abuser. And I'm just
going to leave it at that. The second one,
a literal pedophile. You look this up
if you don't believe me. I don't want to get into detail
for the sake of the children. But you look this
up if you don't believe me. A literal pedophile
who assaulted boys.
I'm leaving it at that.
That's who he shot. And we're supposed
to sympathize with him. Because
Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself.
We're supposed to sympathize with a literal
pedophile. And the news media is saying
he's a domestic terrorist.
White supremacist.
For defending himself.
You know, if we lived in a righteous country,
that pedophile, Joseph Rosenbaum
or whatever his name is, would have been taken out
by the US government lined up against
the wall and shot.
That's what would have happened if this nation
wasn't so crooked, if this nation wasn't
so perverse.
And notice I said government, by the way.
Whenever we preach something like
this, people always go crazy.
I'm not advocating for Christians to go
out and do Grand Theft Auto in real life
and go, no.
It's the government's job.
It is the government's job. Let me repeat it one more time
so I'm as clear as possible. It is the
government's job to execute
those who are guilty of a capital
crime.
The government's job. It's not our job.
And it certainly wasn't...
We shouldn't have to rely on Kyle Rittenhouse
to do that. But of course when you have no justice,
when there's a crooked and perverse justice
in this nation, then that's who we
have to rely on to do it. And I think it's interesting
how God will orchestrate things like that
when man fails.
How about this? Our sense of morality is
crooked and perverse. I don't think I told you
to do this yet, but if you would, go to Micah
chapter 3. Micah chapter number 3.
We're going to look at the first two verses
in this chapter. Micah chapter number
3. Our sense of morality
is backwards. Of course Isaiah talks
about a certain kind of judgment
for those who would put sweet
for bitter and good
for evil, etc.
But here we have in Micah chapter 3
communicating the same thing.
And what I'm trying to explain
to you is that our sense of morality in this
crooked and perverse nation is itself
crooked and perverse. It's twisted.
It's like we live in opposite land.
I was wearing a shirt. I think it's from
Mark Dice's YouTube channel. I don't know.
But it's a long sleeve shirt. It said
2 plus 2 equals 4.
And you know, I'm thinking that's a
controversial statement to make
in 2021 America.
I'm waiting for somebody to walk up to me and call
me a white supremacist for wearing a shirt
that says 2 plus 2 equals 4.
But it's 4 whether you like it or
not. Look at Micah 3 verse
1. And I said, Here I pray you, O
heads of Jacob and ye princes of the house of
Israel. Micah 3 verse 1.
Is it not for you to know judgment? Now
notice this right here. Who
hate the good and love
the evil. Who pluck off their skin
from off them and their flesh from off their bones.
Ladies and gentlemen, in the good old USA
in 2021,
well, our society,
this is a nation that hates the good
and loves the evil.
That's how it is. Hates
the good, loves the evil.
Sagatry is commemorated
in the United States of America,
in the good old USA
while Bible preaching is
censored. That's why we have
like 6 YouTube channels now.
What do you think happened to the main channel?
Censored. Every time you say
well the Bible says, Cancelled.
Leviticus went cancelled.
Romans went cancelled.
Romans went cancelled. That's how it works.
The second you try and open your mouth
to preach the Bible, expect to be
cancelled in this crooked and perverse
society that we live in, in which its
morality is inverted. How about
this, rioting on the streets is encouraged
while self-defense
self-defense is demonized.
That's what we're seeing with this Kyle
Rittenhouse situation.
That rioting is encouraged. In fact,
that moron politician
AOC who has the
IQ of a squirrel put on her
she posted this on her Instagram
how to riot. She gave people instructions
on how to go out and destroy
private property and assault innocent
people. Feminism is
endorsed in this nation while godly
women are shamed.
Hey ladies, who appeal
to the Bible for your morality, you walk outside
you walk out in that world
guaranteed there's people, whether they say it to you
or not, there's ladies, there's feminists out there
pink-haired, short-haired, bull-dyed
looking feminists that are looking at you with
disdain. They hate you.
Why? Because you're godly.
They think it's something to be shamed. You know what?
Abortion is celebrated in this country
and big families
are ridiculed.
You know how many stories I've heard of big families
going to the supermarket, going to the store
and having people look at them weird
and having people give them looks and try
and shame them, make them feel embarrassed.
No, no, no. They should be embarrassed.
The people who celebrate abortion should
be shamed and embarrassed, not those who love
children and have big families.
Now you say, what do you mean by abortion
being celebrated? Well, I'll read something
for you from Wikipedia.
There's this hashtag that's been going around
on social media since
2015. It's called
Shout Your Abortion. I'm not sure if you guys
have heard of this, but Shout Your
Abortion is a social media campaign
where people share their abortion experiences
online without sadness,
shame or regret.
For the purpose of
destigmatization, normalization
and putting an end to shame.
Tens of thousands of people
worldwide have shared their abortion experiences
online using the hashtag
Shout Your Abortion.
Now you say, well that sounds like a global issue, not
necessarily emanating from
the USA. Well,
Shout Your Abortion campaign was started on September
19th, 2015 by American
activists, Lindy West,
Amelia Bono
and Kimberly Morrison.
Folks, our sense of morality
is so twisted in this
culture that it hates the good
and it loves the evil.
Psalm chapter 106
says in verse 37,
they sacrificed their sons and their daughters
unto devils. That's what God's
people did.
And that's what's happening here. Folks,
you need to wake up. You need to wake up today.
It's happening in your backyard.
It's happening right now.
America is sacrificing
its sons and its daughters
on the altar of
cultural Marxism,
on the altar of feminism.
It is sacrificing its babies
to who? The devil himself
ultimately. That's what this
nation is doing. Unborn babies
are being slaughtered in the womb
by the hundreds of thousands in this
crooked and perverse nation which has a
twisted sense of morality.
And you have people on social media
bragging about it. You have people on social
media encouraging this behavior
with their little hashtag shout your abortion
trying to destigmatize it. It makes
me want to throw up.
But that's the nation we find ourselves in today.
It's being encouraged. It's being
advocated for. With no
shame. No conscience.
People don't care.
No remorse
for the most innocent lives among
us. You say, well what do we do about it?
What do we do about this?
Well here's what I think we should do.
I think each and every one of you tonight
should get on your knees before bed.
I think you should put your hands together and
close your eyes. And I think
this is what you should do. I think you should
pray for every
single planned parenthood
clinic in America to be
destroyed. This is what I think you should pray.
I think you should pray that God
would open up a sinkhole under
every single planned parenthood clinic
in this nation and that they would all descend
quickly into hell.
That's what I think you should do and you know some
folks might not like that and they might say
well that's offensive.
That's hateful.
That's not very nice Ben.
But you know
if you're thinking that right
now, here's my problem with you.
Why don't you get offended over
the hundreds of thousands of babies that are being
slaughtered in the womb every year in this country?
Why do you get offended at a preacher
getting up and telling it like it is but
you don't get offended about the babies
who are being slaughtered in this country?
About the babies that are being slaughtered
in the womb. Why don't you get offended
over things that you ought to get offended about?
Instead, oh it's the person who's
actually calling it out that you get
mad at.
Folks, we live in a nation that
mocks God. That sheds innocent
blood and that brags about it
while waving around
a rainbow colored flag.
And if that doesn't make you
angry, you have
lost your mind.
I'm not the crazy one.
You're the crazy one. If that doesn't
make you emote Chad Morgan,
the guy can't get angry at anything,
that's kind of an inside deal.
You can ask me after the service what I mean by that.
He doesn't get mad at anything, this guy.
Anyway,
we'll get into that some other time.
Folks, if that doesn't make you angry,
the problem is with you.
Go to Zephaniah 3, if you would.
Zephaniah chapter 3.
You're in Micah, you just go past
Nahum, Habakkuk,
and then you get to Zephaniah.
Here's the root of the problem.
I'm laying the foundation down for you that this is
a crooked and perverse nation.
Then I'll talk about what we can do
about it. But what you have to
understand is this. The root of
the problem is with what? It's with the churches.
The root of the
issue is the churches.
We have crooked and perverse
churches
in our nation.
Zephaniah 3, where I had you turn, look at verse 4.
This is talking about Jerusalem.
It says, Zephaniah 3,
verse 4, her prophets are
light and treacherous persons.
Her priests have polluted the sanctuary.
They have done violence to the law.
You ask the question, why is it so dark
out there? And I mean that figuratively.
Why is it so dark out there?
Here's the reason why. Because
the prophets in this country are treacherous
persons.
And they've done violence to the law,
meaning that they've distorted and dismissed
God's law. That's what they
do. They warp the Bible.
They warp the Bible
to conform to societal
norms, to the whims of society.
Whatever they deem to be
justifiable and right,
they warp the Bible to fit that.
And here's what you have to
understand. The reason why we preach so hard
against these false churches is because the apostate
Christian, so-called
churches in this country, the false churches
preaching a false gospel, the
churches that compromise
on what the word of God actually says, the watered
down churches in this nation
are contributing to the destruction
of America.
That's the truth. That's what's happening.
That's the red pill that you need to swallow.
That the churches in this
nation are contributing to the destruction
of this nation.
You know, John MacArthur,
you're so happy that John MacArthur's
church stayed open through COVID,
right? Because he's right on COVID.
Well, John MacArthur's church with his
false gospel is
contributing to the destruction of
America.
Paul Washer's church, the guy who
says there's no such thing as a
carnal Christian,
Paul Washer,
he is contributing to the destruction
of this country.
Ray Comfort,
the guy who thinks it's not enough to believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ for salvation by grace
through faith alone. That false
prophet devil going out and sharing those
damnable heresies with the world.
He is contributing to the destruction
of America.
That's the truth, folks. James
White, the guy who brainwashes
people into believing that the
King James only movement is flawed
and that rather they should embrace the
modern perversions of the Bible.
This guy is
contributing to the destruction
of America. I don't care what
he's right about. He's not even saved.
He's a false prophet. He's destroying
America. Hey, that
limp-wristed, that of the non-denom church,
the limp-wristed, skinny-jeans-wearing
fake pastor who dresses like he's a
15-year-old boy is destroying
America. That's what's happening.
That's what's going on.
You know, that United Methodist Church
down the street, destroying America.
You know,
queer-bait Baptists
are destroying America.
Go to
Judges chapter 7, if you would. Judges
chapter 7.
Folks, this
nation is crooked and perverse, but
the question is, what do we do, right?
Because I can get up here and I can yell
and I can scream about it until the cows
come home, as they say.
But
the reality is, I want to give
you a remedy.
I want to make sure you walk out of
the service this evening understanding
how we should, as Christians, respond.
And it's not going to be in the ballot box.
It's not going to be through some sort of
carnal means.
Now here in Judges chapter 7,
what are we talking about? Well, we're talking about
the nation Israel that is currently
being occupied by the Midianites.
And I would consider Israel during this
particular time period to be, yeah,
crooked and perverse. I think they
were. The nation of Israel
was occupied by the
heathen here during
this timeline. And the
United States is also, obviously, crooked
and perverse and occupied by demonic
forces today. So I think that's the parallel.
But I want you to look at Judges chapter
7 verse 16, if you would.
Judges chapter number 7 and verse 16.
And notice what the Bible says there
in Judges 7 verse
16.
It says,
And he divided the three hundred men into
three companies, and he put a trumpet in every
man's hand with empty pitchers and
lamps within the pitchers.
So here we have Gideon's
three hundred men and we see what they had
with them. Look at verse number 19.
It says,
So Gideon and the hundred men that were
with him came onto the
outside of the camp in the beginning of the
middle watch, and they had but newly set
the watch, and they blew the trumpets and break the
pitchers that were in their hands. Verse
20,
And the three companies blew the
trumpets and break the pitchers
and held the lamps in their left
hands and the trumpets in their right hands
to blow withal, and they cried, The sword
of the Lord and of Gideon!
And they stood every man in his place round
about the camp, and all the host ran
and cried and fled. Now notice Gideon,
what does he do? He surrounds the enemy
who are the Midianites. He surrounds
them. This is in an effort to
liberate Israel,
to deliver them from the hands of the
Midianites. And what happens with his people?
Well, they break the pitchers.
They lift up their lamps. This is
how they were victorious. Through what? Trumpets
and lamps. That's what they had with
them. Trumpets and lamps. Gideon's
army, again, they achieved victory by
blowing the trumpet, breaking the pitcher,
and lifting their light up,
or using their light, rather, to make
the enemy believe that there were millions
of them, and then they turned on each other.
That's how they won. Again,
trumpets and lamps.
Well, I'll read this for you.
You don't have to turn there. In Isaiah 58, the Bible
says, Cry aloud, spare not,
lift up thy voice like a trumpet.
Psalm 119 says, Thy
word is a lamp unto my feet.
I think we can take these
stories here and we can apply them to our situation.
We can apply them to what we're going through
today. You see, just as
Gideon used trumpets and lamps to achieve
victory, you know, here's how we achieved
victory in the midst of this crooked and
perverse nation. In the midst of
2021 America, hey, when
preachers lift up their voice
like a trumpet and we collectively
let our light shine
in the darkness, that's how we win.
And how do we do it?
Not through our own opinions.
We do it. We let our lights shine through the
words of God, the very words
of God that are sitting on your lap this evening.
That's how we do it. That's how Gideon
did it. Trumpets and lamps.
The trumpet being your voice.
The lamps being the word of God.
You know, the Bible says in Matthew chapter 5,
Ye are the light of the
world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hid. Neither do men
light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a
candlestick and give it light unto all
that are in the house. Let your light so
shine before men that they may
see your good works and glorify your
Father in heaven. The remedy that we
have to adhere to as
a spiritual nation
in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation is this.
Shine. That's why the
title of the sermon was what? Shining
in a crooked and perverse nation. Let your
light so shine before men. Go back to Philippians
chapter 2 if you would. Philippians
chapter number 2. Don't cover your
lamp. Don't put it under
a bushel. But shine.
Let your light shine.
The darker it gets out there,
you know what? The brighter you're going to look
in comparison. If I were to light a candle
in this building, the juxtaposition of it all
would be such that you can't really
notice it because it's already bright in here.
Now it's great that that lamp is lit,
don't get me wrong, but it's harder to notice
in a vicinity
that's already lit up rather
than out there. If I stood outside with a candle
it would be a lot easier to spot me, wouldn't it?
And so that's
the good thing we can take from this nation,
this train
wreck of a country that we live in today, with its
train wreck, disgusting leadership.
It just offers us an opportunity
to shine that much brighter
in comparison.
Now I had you turn to Philippians
2, let me quote for you from Luke 11
where the Bible read,
If thy whole body, this is Jesus talking,
therefore be full of light, having no part
dark, the whole shall be full of light
as when the bright shining of a candle
doth give thee light. Hey,
where light's in the darkness,
when you got saved, you became
the light in the Lord, the
Bible says in Ephesians chapter 5.
So let your light shine.
Let your light shine.
Look at Philippians 2 verse 15.
Philippians 2 verse 15.
Notice what the Bible says in Philippians
2 verse 15, that you may be blameless
and harmless, the sons of God,
meaning that you're acting like sons of God,
without rebuke. Nobody
can rebuke you for anything that you do
and all they have is just how you
worship your God like the Bible says about
Daniel. In the midst of a crooked
and perverse nation, we already covered that,
I can go on all night if I want to about that
but I'm going to move on.
I should say, among whom ye
what? Shine
as lights in
the world. How do we survive in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation?
Well, let's look to the word of God for the answer
shine. The darker it gets, the
brighter you look in comparison. Folks, it's
time to shine.
Time to shine.
Now you might be wondering how exactly do we do that?
Well,
again, Philippians 2 I believe
will give us the answer. I'm going to derive the next
four points from Philippians chapter
2. How do we
shine? Be specific, you might be
thinking. Well, how about this?
Fear God. That's my first point.
Fear God.
Look at Philippians 2 verse 12.
It says, Wherefore, my beloved, as he have always
obeyed, not as in my presence
only, but now much more
in my absence, work
out your own salvation
with what? Fear
and trembling. Now this is a tough
verse for some people because they
would twist it, a lot of false prophets
would twist it to teach a
workspace salvation. If you want a whole
sermon about this topic, Pastor Shelley's preaching
about that right now, so you can go check
it out when you get home or after the
service sometime, but I'll just give you my
interpretation if you want to call it that.
Basically what it's describing here
is working out that which God
has worked in. It has nothing to do with heaven or hell
salvation, but rather working
out what God has worked in you.
Letting your light shine before men.
That's why it says to work out
outwardly your
salvation and it says
with fear and trembling.
What you ought to do is outwardly display good works.
What's this basically communicating
to us? Outwardly display good
works in order to
potentially avoid your flesh
being afflicted on this earth.
Whether it's through God's chastisement or
the devil. If you want to be delivered
from these
people who want to hurt you
then outwardly display good works.
Let your light shine as
somebody who's a child of the light.
If you want to potentially
survive threats
that are being aimed at your flesh
whether it's by God or the devil
work out your salvation. Work
outwardly what God has worked inwardly.
Spiritual salvation is inward.
But you know what? It doesn't end there.
We ought to, we should, work outwardly
that which God has worked inwardly.
We ought to let our lights shine like I've been
saying. Go to Deuteronomy chapter 6.
Deuteronomy chapter 6. But again the focus
that I wanted to really touch on
here in Philippians chapter 2
it's talking about doing
this, working outwardly
with fear and trembling.
Another thing also you have to understand is that
word salvation doesn't always have to be
spiritual.
It describes doing this
with fear and with trembling
because a healthy fear of God goes
a long way. And if you want to
shine in this crooked and perverse
generation then
fear God. You know the Bible says in
Proverbs chapter 14,
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord.
But he that is perverse in his ways
despiseth him. You know a healthy fear of God
is oftentimes related
to keeping the commandments.
That's what you'll notice. That's the pattern that we see
in scripture. In fact in Ecclesiastes
chapter 12 the Bible says that
fearing God and keeping his commandments
is the whole duty of man.
That's why we're on this earth.
To fear God. To keep his commandments.
But check out Deuteronomy 6.
Look at verse 1.
Let's read Deuteronomy 6 verse 1. It says,
Now these are the commandments, the statutes
and the judgments which the Lord your God commanded
to teach you, that ye might do them
in the land whither ye go to possess it.
That thou mightest fear the
Lord thy God. Why?
To keep all his
statutes and his commandments
which I command thee, thou and thy son
and thy son, son, all
the days of thy life and that
thy days may be prolonged. The Bible
says in Hebrews chapter 10 that it's a
fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God. You know we ought
to be afraid of the
fiery indignation that
could follow someone who decides to
backslide and live a wicked life and turn away
from the commandments of the Lord. And we see
in Deuteronomy chapter 6, what's the
formula? If you're afraid of the
Lord, if you have a healthy fear of God, that'll
enable you to follow his commandments.
That'll enable you to clean up
your life, toss away those pet
sins that are responsible for placing
an opaque covering on
that light that you ought to be shining.
Go to
Proverbs chapter 8 if you would. Proverbs
chapter number 8. Let's look at another way
in which you can fear God.
Because again, I could get
up here and I could regurgitate some
platitudes but what good does
that do for you? You need
specifics and here's specifically
what the Bible says that you can do
in order to fear God, in order
to fear the Lord. What does it mean
to fear the Lord? Well we see that defined here
in Proverbs chapter 8 verse 13.
You guys have probably heard this verse before.
Look what it says in Proverbs
chapter 8 verse 13. It says
the fear of the Lord is to
hate evil, pride
and arrogance and the evil
way and the froward mouth
do I hate.
When I see that a
preacher is being
designated a hate
preacher and he's being accused
of preaching hate, you know what that says to me?
Hey, that preacher fears God.
Because the Bible says what?
That the fear of the Lord is to
hate evil. The fear of the Lord is
to hate pride, to hate arrogance, the evil
way. How is it possible for a
preacher not to hate
these things and then get up and preach against it?
That's going to be a real lame, weak, watered
down, limp-wristed sermon, isn't it?
They ought to hate these things, but
it's not just preachers, it's you as well.
You know what will help you turn away
from these sins in your life?
Hating them with everything you've got,
every fiber of your being.
And you know what else?
That constitutes fearing
God. Say, I fear
God. Well, let me ask you this question. Do you hate evil?
Do you hate evil?
I think that's a
relevant question to ask you.
And we see that's what fearing God is
defined as in Proverbs chapter number
8. And again, we find ourselves
in the midst of what? A godly nation? No.
It's a crooked, it's a perverse
nation where people have no fear
of God. Why do you think those freaks
stand outside the sidewalk there?
Stand on the sidewalk. No fear of God
whatsoever. Why do people
afflict this church? No fear of
God whatsoever. Whether they
fear him or not, he's going to come down on them pretty harshly.
Even if it's not in this
life, it'll be in the next.
And you know, in this nation
that has no fear of God, that
blasphemes the Lord Jesus Christ, that's
rejected the truths of God's word, in the
midst of a nation that's getting darker and
darker by the day.
Folks,
shine. Shine
your light. Before
men, shine your light by fearing God
and keeping his commandments. Shine your light
by fearing God and deciding in your heart,
I am going to hate
evil.
That's how we shine. In a nation
that doesn't have a single ounce of
fear for the Lord whatsoever.
You want to be different? You want to be the
exception like Pastor Shelley preached? I'm about to just
re-preach his sermon. You want
to be the exception like he talked about?
You be the one person in your
neighborhood, the one person in
your city, the one person in your state, the
one person in your entire country if it has to
be that way. And it is in some European
nations with no good church.
You be that one person that fears
the Lord while everyone else mocks him.
Be the one person who decides
I'm not going to follow a multitude to do
evil. And you know what? Be more afraid
of chastisement
and punishment. Be more afraid
of what God might do to you
as punishment on this earth.
Be more afraid of divine chastisement
than whatever man may say.
Why is it
that pastors in this movement
never compromise?
They never apologize for what the Bible says.
They never compromise on what the Bible
says. Why is that? Because they're more afraid
of God than the potential
ramifications for
preaching the Word of God from the world.
That's why. Because they're more afraid
of what God might do to them if they
compromise than
the response they may get from the
media or from freaks
waving signs outside.
Go back to Philippians chapter 2, if you would,
Philippians chapter 2. My second point is this.
Apply the preaching.
I said, first of all, fear God. My second
point is this. You want to shine in the midst of a
crooked and perverse nation? Time for you
to apply the preaching.
We don't just come here to be entertained by
Pastor Shelley's sermon.
He's a good speaker. He's a dynamic
preacher. There's no doubt about that.
But you know what?
You can come here, you can be entertained all you want.
If you're not applying anything he preaches, he
thunders forth behind this pulpit, then
what's the point? What's the point?
Philippians chapter
2, look what it says in verse 13.
For it is God which worketh
in you both to will and
pay attention to this, to
do of his good pleasure.
You want to shine? Apply the preaching in your life.
You want to shine? Don't be a
do-nothing Christian who walks up to the pastor after
the service and says, oh, good sermon, pastor,
and then adheres to none of it.
And then adheres to nothing.
Nothing at all that he said.
Nothing at all that he'd been admonishing
you about. Hey, don't be a
do-nothing Christian. And folks, if you find
yourself in a situation where you lack the desire
to do the works of God, let's say you lack that desire.
Let's say you just spend too much time
playing video games. You're too busy
playing Call of Duty, trying to get your ranking
a little bit higher on the online leaderboards.
Maybe you're too
busy playing Madden.
Maybe you're too busy watching NFL football
on Sundays to come to church.
Maybe you just lack that desire because of
those carnal things that have taken over your life.
Well, why don't you pray to God to give you that desire?
To be a doer of the word.
Get down on your knees and pray that God would
give you that desire to
serve him. And Philippians 2 says,
for it is God which worketh in you
both to will and to do of his
good pleasure. And you pray and you ask God
to give you that inward desire, that desire in
your heart to serve him, and then it's up
to you to actually work out
that which God has worked in,
like I said earlier.
Now look if you would at Matthew 7,
Matthew chapter 7.
As you turn to Matthew 7, I'll read
from James 1 where it says,
but be he doers of the word and not
hearers only, deceiving your own self.
Obviously this would apply
to an individual who's just reading the word of God
on their own, right? And that they should be a doer
of what the Bible is commanding them
to do, whether that's soul winning or
studying the word of God, whatever the case
may be. But it also
applies to preaching because when you come
to a church like this, you get a lot
of Bible. What I noticed
about Brother Duncan's sermon
is that Brother Duncan's sermon
as a layman of this church had more
preaching in it than most
pastors will include in their sermon in
these dead as a doornail churches
that are out there in the world today.
And that's why I'm thankful
for this movement. That's why I'm thankful
for the new IFB. But you hear the word of God
preached behind this pulpit,
actually do it. Matthew
7 says in verse 24, this is
where I had you turn, Matthew chapter 7,
look at verse 24 where the Bible read,
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings
of mine, Jesus talking here, and
doeth them, I will liken him unto
a wise man which built his house
upon a rock. And the rain descended
and the floods came and the winds blew and
beat upon that house and it fell not, for
it was founded upon a rock.
Just to take something from the morning
a little bit here. I'm gonna go ahead and
steal something. Borrow
a little bit from what was said in the morning.
What did he talk about? Your faith being
tried. How could you possibly
survive that if you're not built upon
a strong foundation
which is the rock, which is Jesus
Christ, not Dwayne Johnson.
Jesus
is the real rock.
Matthew 7, look at verse 26, And every
one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth
them not shall be likened unto a foolish
man which built his house upon the sand
and the rain descended and the floods came
and the winds blew and beat upon that
house and it fell and notice
great was the fall of it.
What's the difference between a Christian who's tried,
who's tempted, who goes through hardship,
who goes through depression and sorrow
and things just not working out the way they'd
like it to but they stick with it and they still
come to church, they're built upon the rock.
What's the difference between that person and those
who quit? Well that individual, that
quitter built upon the sand, not
a doer of the word, not a
doer of the word. If you hear and do,
you're built upon a rock and you're capable
of withstanding the adversities, the
many adversities that life throws at us.
If you're built upon the rock, you can
withstand that abuse but if you're built upon
the sand, well the second things
don't go exactly the way you want
them to, well, you collapse
like a deck of
cards that collapses.
You hear the word of God behind
this pulpit, I'm
imploring you. Do it.
Take action. Think of all
the sermons you'll hear that you've
already heard in the past that you're going to hear in the future.
How about a sermon on tithing?
Let's say you come here to church and you hear a
sermon on tithing and you're
the kind of person that unfortunately
you keep that 10%.
You're saving up for a gold boat
and so you're not tithing.
But you come here, you hear a
sermon on tithing. You know what it's time to do?
Time to tithe. Time to get
that right. It's time to be a doer,
not a hearer only. You hear a
sermon on Bible reading
and you never do it?
Time to crack that thing open, especially today.
Time to crack that, it might be
dusty, maybe you dust that thing off a little bit.
Dust that thing off and start
reading.
Hey, that's how
we fight back.
That's how we shine in this crooked
and perverse nation. You hear a sermon about loving
your spouse and you've been neglecting your marriage.
I think it's time for you to
maybe start demonstrating more
love for your spouse. Take her out on a date.
Try and impress her like you did when you were
dating her.
You hear a sermon against
alcohol and in your mind you have
you've been warped by this
world, you've been warped by the beer commercials,
you've been warped by the false preachers out there telling you
it's okay and you think that drinking
alcohol is permissible.
But you hear a face ripping sermon
against alcohol from behind this pulpit.
It's time for you to go home.
It's time for you to grab every single
alcoholic beverage you own and
throw it in the trash where
it belongs.
Actually,
you know, do something about the preaching.
Take action, be a doer of the word.
That's how you shine.
That's how you lift your light up
so that men would glorify your
Father in heaven if you hear a sermon
against being unevenly yoked with
unbelievers and every single one of your
friends are unsaved
and it's time to either get them saved or
it's time to get some new friends.
And I'll tell you this, if that's
you, if that's you this evening, I'll be your
friend. Hey, I'll be
the first one, I'll be your friend.
You come to me after the service, you say, I don't have any friends
and they're all unsaved. I'll be
your friend. As long as you're not a weirdo,
we could be friends.
Look, if you believe the earth is a sphere
and you're just normal,
just be normal.
My bar isn't high.
You normal? Great, we can be friends.
Hey, if you hear
a sermon against rock and roll music,
it's time to maybe
replace that Metallica CD
with a CD filled with
hymns. If you hear a sermon
against rap music, it's time to replace
that Lil Wayne CD,
Lil Wayne, and it's time to replace
that nonsensical
garbage with maybe a CD
that's filled with psalms instead.
And you can rock that down the street with
your chrome rims or whatever.
You could
turn the volume up high on that one
and we can hear the bass of Psalm
150 instead of Lil Wayne.
Instead of these idiot
rappers. These morons
who dumb society down.
Hey, you hear a sermon about
loving the brotherhood?
And in your heart you have some malice
against a brother or sister
in Christ? It's time to let that go.
Time to take action. It's time to apply
that sermon to your life and say, you know what?
You know, I love so-and-so.
I'm going to go make it right with so-and-so.
I'm going to make it right. I'm going to forgive them
for what they did to me, even if they didn't necessarily
come to me and actually repent.
I'm just going to forgive them anyway. I'm going to let it go.
I'm going to love my brothers and sisters
in Christ like the Bible says when it proclaims
that we should love the brotherhood. And you hear
a sermon about that and you have some
anger or vitriol against someone who's saved
and it's time to let that go. It's time to take action.
The Bible says, now is the accepted
time. Don't wait to make the change.
Don't wait to apply the preaching
till next week, next month, next year.
If you procrastinate, you'll never do it.
Do it now.
Shine. How? By applying
the preaching. Go to Numbers 11
if you would. Numbers chapter 11.
You say, when's he going to stop preaching?
Eventually, alright? Calm down.
I'm almost done. Just chill
out, alright? You guys can go
to the buffet later.
Numbers chapter 11.
Here's the third
thing, and again I derived this from Philippians 3.
Avoid murmurings and
disputings. If you're a whiner,
if you're a complainer, that's a pretty good way to put
a bushel on your light. You're not going to shine
as bright as you could.
My question for you is this,
as we turn to Numbers 11, my question
is, are you satisfied
with God's manna? Are you satisfied
with God's manna? Look at verse 4.
Numbers 11 verse 4. It says,
in the mixed multitude that was among them,
talking about the children of Israel,
fell a-lusting. And the children of Israel also
wept again and said, who shall give us
flesh to eat? We remember the fish
which we did eat in Egypt freely,
the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the
onions and the garlic.
They're lusting after what? The Egyptian
delicacies. They want to go right back
into Egypt again.
Look at verse 6, but now our soul is dried
away. There was nothing at all beside this
manna before our eyes. And the
manna was a coriander seed and the color
thereof is the color of Delium.
And the people went about
and gathered it and ground it in mills
or beat it in
a mortar and baked it in pans
and made cakes of it. And the taste of it
was as the taste of
fresh oil.
Now Jesus, what did he say in John chapter 6?
Well, he made it pretty clear that this
symbolizes him. That he is that
manna that came down from heaven that
God used in order to
feed the children of Israel in the
wilderness. And if you're paying attention
notice that in Numbers chapter 11
God's manna isn't enough for them.
They're whining. They're complaining.
They want to go right back into Egypt
and there are Christians, unfortunately, it pains
me to say this, that are saved and yet
they're not satisfied with God's manna.
They're right in the world. They're right back
in Egypt, just
gorging themselves on the Egyptian
delicacies, the melons, the leeks, etc.
that it talks about in Numbers chapter
number 11. Christians today not satisfied
with God's manna.
They're not satisfied with God's manna.
They're looking to the world to satisfy their
fleshly lusts. Now turn to Numbers
chapter 14. This was a problem
Let me go there with you. Numbers chapter 14.
This was a problem with the children of Israel
in the wilderness.
And remember, what did the Bible
say about this manna? I forgot to mention
this. What did the Bible say about the manna?
Jesus was beaten. Well, Jesus Christ
was beaten. He was battered
for you. Manna was
baked. Jesus went to hell
to pay the penalty for your sins.
What a shame for you not to be
satisfied with his word after he accomplished
that for your salvation.
Numbers 14 says in verse
4, here the same problem
pops up again. It says in verse
4, and they said one to another,
let us make a captain and let us return
into Egypt.
So they're not satisfied with God's
manna. They're not satisfied with God's
leadership. They want to go back into Egypt again.
And this reminds me of the Jews.
You know, Jesus said, I mean, obviously they
derived from the tribe of Judah,
but Jesus said in John chapter
5, I am coming in my father's
name and you receive me not. If another should come in his own
name, him ye will receive.
They wanted, not the captain that
God gave them, they wanted someone else.
This assures the Jews didn't want Jesus
Christ. They want a different captain. The captain
they're going to get is the Antichrist, by the way.
I believe that's who he's referring to
in John chapter 5. So we see that the
children of Israel rejected God's manna.
They rejected God's leadership.
You know, Christians are doing the same thing today
when they stay at home and watch
football all day. When they stay at home and eat
Cheetos off their chest and play World of Warcraft
instead of going to church.
Get your rear-end in
church. This country's
burning around us. What are you doing
sitting on your hands doing nothing?
But they'd rather be in Egypt.
They'd rather eat the melons. They'd rather eat those
Egyptian, like I've been saying, those Egyptian
delicacies. Head over back to
Philippians chapter 2.
Here's what I'm trying to explain, folks.
What was the purpose of the nation of Israel
at this time? To be a light to lighten the Gentiles.
And why did God get so
angry with them murmuring?
Because if they were a bunch of complainers
and whiners and murmurers, then
how could they be a light to the Gentiles?
It would dim their light.
The same is true for the spiritual Israel
today. Be satisfied
with the words of God in your life, even if you don't
have an impressive bank account.
Even if you don't have the toys
that you'd like. That Ferrari,
you can just Google a picture of it that's the closest
you'll get.
Even if you don't have the giant home,
six, seven, eight bedrooms
with the mansion, you can get a mansion
in heaven. You might not have those
materialistic things in your life
but be satisfied with what God has given you.
Be satisfied with this, with God's
manna. There are countries on
this earth where this is
illegal and yet
it collects dust on the night stands
of some Christian home.
What a shame. Philippians 2,
we're back there, look at verse 14.
Again, I'm deriving my points from this
chapter. It says, do all things without
murmurings and disputings
that you may be blameless, meaning
above reproach, and harmless
the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of
a crooked and perverse nation among whom
ye shine as lights in the world.
How do we shine? Avoid whining,
avoid complaining, avoid
disputings, murmurings
and instead be grateful
for what God has given you. Be thankful.
Thankfulness in America, I
believe, is a rarity.
Say, what do you mean by that? Well, people celebrate Thanksgiving.
What did they do the very next day?
They go trample over themselves
at Best Buy to go get a half-price
TV set.
People die on Black Friday, folks.
Literally.
They die.
The next day after Thanksgiving.
Anyway, I don't want to go down that rabbit hole.
Folks, be thankful.
Have gratitude in your life. Be thankful
for your home. You say, well,
you know, it's kind of broken down. Hey, be thankful you have
a roof over your head. Be thankful for your
job. Be thankful for your health.
You have good health. Be thankful for
your meals, the food that
you put on the table every night for your family.
Be thankful that you have something to eat.
There are nations where skipping a meal
is normal. That's just a
way of life. That's how it is
there. Be thankful for your friends.
Be thankful for your children.
Be thankful for your family.
Be thankful for your
spouse. And ultimately,
how about this? Be thankful for your
salvation.
Be thankful that you're saved while the majority
of this entire world
is going to hell.
Let me just get something off my chest real quickly.
You know who are the most annoying church members?
As a layman, you know, I've gone to
several churches, you know,
in my life. Not too many.
Mostly steadfast. But some of the most
annoying church members I've gone to church with
are who? The murmurers. The whiners.
Nothing's ever good enough
for them. They just got to nitpick every little
thing about the church. Nitpick every
little thing that the church does.
Instead of just getting on board, being a team
player, just got to complain
about everything. And there are people
who every single
church they go to is not good
enough for them. I mean, if the
church disagrees with them on who the two
witnesses are, all bets
are off. They're not going. Doesn't matter
how minute the doctrine is.
If they disagree with even 1%
of the doctrine, they'll badmouth the church.
They won't be a team player. They
won't get on board. And those are the worst
kind of church members to be around.
Thankfully, that's not an issue here,
but this is more preventative. But my point
still remains the same. Don't
be a murmurer. Don't be a whiner.
Be thankful for your church. Don't be the guy
that's going around complaining behind the pastors.
Pastor preaches too long.
Why does he go over an hour
every week? He preaches too long.
Why does he mention Manley Perry again?
I think Manley Perry's staying. He's a brother
in Christ. Go ask brother Camery
about Manley Perry. He can educate you a little
bit on that fake church
that doesn't even post their sermons online.
People say,
how come I'm not preaching? I want to preach.
I've got to
listen to Duncan and Ben. Why are the
laymen preaching today?
I don't like it. Look,
don't let the door hit you where the
Lord split you.
Look, this is how it is.
This is a steadfast Baptist
church. Don't be somebody who just nitpicks the
church. Where else are you going to go?
And look, there's old IFB. I'm not saying
there isn't...
Let me just be clear. You can serve God
at old IFB churches in Texas
in the DFW area. There are good
churches in this city. Don't take what
I'm saying out of context.
But my point is,
think of what... We basically agree
on everything.
Look, you might have a different view on
a particular chapter in the Bible or whatever
and you might argue with me about it
and I might beat you in that argument
and that's fine.
Okay, that's no problem, right?
I'm just kidding, by the way.
Sometimes I'm wrong. Just not all the time.
But here's the point. Folks, we agree
with... Okay, let's say this. At worst, you probably
agree with what? 95% of the doctrine
at steadfast Baptist church. Why be
a murmurer and a whiner and a complainer
and focus so heavily on
the 5% that you disagree
with? Probably, you know, it's
secondary doctrine anyway. How about you be
thankful that you go to a church that's sound
on doctrine, that hates sin?
How about you go to a church with
strong leadership? Think of everything that
we've gone through as a church and we've had strong
leadership as the backbone of this church from the
very first day
that he became the pastor.
Be grateful for the fellowship.
Be grateful for the soul-winning
program. Be grateful for the Bible
preaching. Be grateful for the
strong leadership. Be grateful for the sound
doctrine. Hey, be grateful that you go
to a church that is hated
by the scum of the earth.
Be thankful for that. Hey, why don't you
leap for joy? Why don't you rejoice that this place
is hated? It means we're doing something right
like Duncan said.
You know, we ought to be coming into church,
you know, we walk into church every Sunday
morning, we ought to be going, woohoo!
This is great! They hate
us! I love it! Bring it on!
Hate me some more.
I know you can.
Alright, here's my last point.
My fourth point is this.
Go back to Philippians 2 if you're not there.
Philippians 2 verse 16
is what we're going to look at. My final point is this
and then I'll wrap it up.
Broadcast the truth.
Obviously when people hear this word, they're thinking of what, like a radio
broadcast or a television
broadcast or something to that effect.
But what I'm talking about is just in general
disseminating the truth. Information.
Promulgating information.
Look at Philippians 2 verse 16.
It says, holding forth
the word of life that I may rejoice in
the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain,
neither labored in vain.
You know what would make Paul rejoice?
When it comes to the Philippians,
the saints at Philippi would
make him rejoice when he sees them
serving God. And the same is true for your
pastor. You know what makes him happy?
You know what makes him rejoice?
You know what makes him feel like he's not doing all this in vain
when he sees you serving God?
And when he sees you broadcasting
the truth? And you know when I see
that phrase here in verse 16, holding
forth the word of life, this is what I'm thinking.
Holding forth
the word of life as we go soul winning.
Holding forth the very words
of God in this King James Bible.
Holding forth the word of life and
knocking doors and explaining
to people how to be saved, that it's by
grace through faith alone.
Sharing the love of God
with the community out there, the darkness
out there, being lights in the community
of Hearst, Texas by holding forth
the word of God and knocking on doors
trying to make sure people understand what it
takes to get to heaven. Let's look at
2 Corinthians chapter 4. 2 Corinthians
chapter 4. Every time you
knock a door with your King James Bible
in hand, you're holding forth the words
of life and you're helping
someone understand what it takes to
be saved. The Bible says, and we're
about to read it, that the devil has blinded
the minds of them which believe not.
We're going to read that scripture. I want you to see it.
You know, the Bible says,
2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3,
it says,
But if our gospel be hid,
it is hid to them that are lost,
in whom the God of this world hath
blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ, who is the image of God,
should shine unto them. For we preach
not ourselves, but Christ Jesus
the Lord, and ourselves,
your servants, for Jesus'
sake. For God, who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts
to give the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
You know, the devil,
what has he done? He's blinded the minds of
them which believe not, which is why when you go
out soul-winning, you notice everyone gives
the exact same answer, don't they?
Pretty much the same thing.
They're just like NPC, and I don't try to
make fun of them. You know, the Bible says that
for we ourselves also were sometimes
foolish, disobedient, deceived.
Okay, we used to be in that state.
But again, you know, they all give
the same answer that it's by works, you've got to be a good
person to get to heaven, and they're relying on
a faithful soul-winner, knocking on their door
and giving them the light of what? The gospel.
To help brighten some of this
darkness that we're surrounded by.
The darkness of this world, folks,
it bounds them in hopelessness.
You know, when I was really into politics,
I felt hopeless.
When all I had was the Alex Jones
show, I felt absolutely
hopeless. I felt completely
hopeless. I felt like there was
nothing, there's no remedy.
I just lost all hope
until I got saved, and then everything
changed. See, the light
of the gospel, it breaks people free from that
bondage of hopelessness.
It breaks people free from that bondage of
understanding that, you know, they're going to
hell when they die. But it breaks people
free from that bondage, that fear
of the second death. You know,
we can let our lights shine by sharing
the gospel with anybody who's willing to hear it,
and that's what we do at every single soul-winning time.
You want to shine, show up at the soul-winning
time. You want to shine, open your mouth boldly
and preach the gospel. You want to shine, you want
to be a light to this dark
area, this dark world that
we live in. Go preach
the gospel.
But it's not just the gospel. I'll read for you
this in Matthew chapter 10, it says,
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light,
and what you hear in the ear, that preach ye
upon the housetops. Folks, it's not just the gospel
that we ought to be broadcasting. How about this?
All of the truths
of God's word from Genesis to Revelation
in season, out of season.
And how do we do it? Well, we take advantage
of the technologies that we have at our disposal
in 2021, the technologies
that can be used for evil, but we use them
for good. What am I talking about? I'm talking about
YouTube. I'm talking about
social media. I'm talking about
the internet. You know, some people ask this question,
Why do you guys upload your sermon?
You guys got to post your sermons online, huh?
Why don't you just preach it only to the congregation?
Well, here, let me answer that question
for you. Maybe you misunderstood
Matthew 10, 27. Let's read it again.
What I tell you in darkness, that
speak ye in light, and what
you hear in the ear,
that preach ye
upon the housetops. Jesus
said to preach on the
housetops. So we ought to find every
available medium that we can
to brainwash people
with what? The word of God.
And I mean that literally, to wash
their mind, to wash
their brain, which
has been filled with the filth of this
world and the smut of this
world. Let's wash them with
what? The words of God, with Bible
preaching coming from men of God
all over this nation, from
Pastor Anderson to Pastor Mejia
to Pastor Jimenez and others, who are
utilizing the internet to preach
from the housetops. And I
endorse that 100%.
You know, to those who say, Well, why do you guys upload
your sermons? What's the point of that?
Again, preach from the housetops.
Paul said this, Thou hast
fully known
my doctrine.
Thou hast fully known my doctrine. We ought to use
every available medium. Paul would have been on the
internet if it was available at that time. I believe it.
He would have used that
platform. And folks, we use
the internet as a platform
to reach the masses. How many of
you got saved from online?
That's a pretty sizable portion
of the congregation.
And by the way, myself included.
We use that platform for what?
To reach the masses,
to get people saved, to change
people's lives. One
YouTube video
which featured the gospel,
you know, one sermon even,
it might have been one sermon that changed
someone's life and got them outdoor
knocking and got them serving the Lord with their life.
You know, leftists are using
social media platforms to
defile the minds of young
children in America and to defile the
minds of those people who are living
in this country, who are around the world.
They're using social media, leftists are
to defile. They're using social media
to indoctrinate people with their
doctrine, their false religion of
libtardism which emanates from the
devil himself. They're using
that platform themselves. I say we jump
into that warfare. I say that we
jump right in and we shine
in that darkness and we red pill
as many people as possible
in the process. I love it.
I love that we're online.
Think of the documentaries, the sodomite
deception. You know what Pastor Anderson said?
I'll go ahead and reveal it.
I don't know if he wants to, but I'll say it anyway.
He said it made him hate sodomites
even more. This is Stephen L.
Anderson. What do you think it did
to your average Joe
who watched that documentary? Think of New World
Order Bible versions which got people to switch over
to the right Bible. Think of Marching to Zion
which got people to understand that the Jews are not God's
chosen people. Think of all these documentaries
that have gone viral and we're working on
a King James Bible documentary
which I'm really excited about. Think of
the podcast, the Rod of Iron podcast
and how that brings in a whole new segment
that has been largely untouched
and we're working on
a podcast for this church as well, The Baptist
Bias which I'm really excited about
and we're going to use that as a mechanism
to bring in people who
otherwise would have never listened to our preaching.
We ought to use these platforms
that we have to shout from the house
tops the truth of God's word. Go to Ephesians
5 and we'll be done. Ephesians
5 is the last place I'm going to have you turn.
You want to
shine in that darkness, support the ministries
that are actually
shining, that are using
the mediums
that they have at their disposal
to shine
the light. Ephesians 5 says this,
we'll be done right here, I'm done. Ephesians
5 says in verse 6,
Hey, you were sometimes darkness when you were
unsaved. You were sometimes darkness when you
didn't understand what the gospel of Jesus Christ
really was, but now you're light in the Lord.
The Bible says you have been designated
as light in the Lord.
Don't take that
and just sort of dismiss it.
Excuse the pun, but don't take
that lightly.
So here's what I want from you.
I want you to fear God.
I want you to fear God. You want to
shine, you fear God.
I want you to avoid murmurings and disputings.
In addition to that,
let me find it here.
I want you to be a doer of the word.
And again, avoid murmurings and disputings,
but in addition to that, I want you
to broadcast the truth. That's how you shine
in a crooked and perverse nation.
Folks, it's going to get darker and darker.
It's going to continue
to just go, we're going down the wrong path.
We're going down the wrong trajectory
and I implore you,
if you're going down the wrong path,
if you're going down the wrong trajectory
and I implore you as we live in 2021
America to the best of our ability,
I implore you to do this simply.
It's just one word. That's all I want you to take
from this sermon. If you haven't been paying
attention for the entire sermon, just pay
attention to this right now.
John, let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for
this church that we have
and I pray that you would
help us to shine, Lord, in the midst of a
crooked and perverse nation.
I pray, Lord, that
even though it's getting darker
out there, that you would enable us to shine
brighter than we've ever shined before
by doing the things that are
described in Philippians chapter 2.
And Lord, I just pray that you bless this church
and protect it from its enemies.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
Thank you for the sermon. Brother Ben,
let's go ahead and take out our white handout
again. You should have one out in
your seat in front of you.
We're going to sing a holy, holy, holy.
Again, that's holy, holy, holy.
It should be in your white handout.
Sing it all
together on the first.
Holy, holy,
Lord God
Almighty,
early
in the
morning,
our song shall rise
to thee.
Holy,
holy,
merciful
and mighty,
God
in three
persons
blessed
Trinity.
Holy,
holy,
all the saints
adore
thee, casting
down their
golden crowns
around the glassy
sea.
Jerubim
and
Seraphim,
falling
bound before
thee, which
word and
art and
evermore
shall be.
Holy,
holy,
though the
darkness
hide thee,
though the eye
of sinful man
thy glory
may not see,
only
thou art
holy,
there is
none beside
thee.
Perfect
and
love and
purity.
Holy,
holy,
Lord
God Almighty,
all
thy works
shall praise thy name
in earth and
sky and sea.
Holy,
holy,
merciful
and mighty,
God
in three
persons,
blessed
Trinity.
Amen. Thank you all for being here tonight.
God bless. You are dismissed.