church. Very good to see you all here for our Wednesday night
service. At this time, please find your seats and take a
hymnal. Go to hymn number fourteen. We'll begin tonight.
Hymn number fourteen. Kneel at the cross. Hymn number fourteen.
Once you find your place, we'll begin together on that first
now. Hymn number fourteen. Kneel at the cross. Christ will
meet you there. Hymn number fourteen. Blessing on the
service. Let's go ahead. Dear heavenly father, the lord, we
come before you this evening. We give you thanks for here
tonight to assemble this unto you. We just ask that you
would meet with us at this time. Worship you in spirit and
ask also your blessing upon preacher to be here so that you
preach with us to receive the message tonight that you would
uh just have everything that's said and done in Jesus name.
Hymn number 132 is next number 132. Never alone. Hymn
number 132. I've seen the lightning flashing and heard
the thunder roll. Somebody will come by and give you a
bulletin as soon as they can. If you have it, please open it
up. We'll just quickly go over the service times. You know, we
have obviously Sunday morning, Wednesday night, and Sunday night
as well. Service times are right there right below that.
It's our soul winning times and at the very bottom of the left
hand page on the inside is the regional soul winning times and
the salvation and baptisms for the year. Once again, we have a
Father's Day weekend coming up and we're also going to have a
soul winning hike slash or soul winning trip slash hike. So
this is something that's going to take place on Friday, June
13th. And so you can see the schedule right there. 8 AM
breakfast, 8 30. They leave the building at 11 30. They're
going to have lunch and Flagstaff and then 1 to 5 PM.
There will be some soul winning and then the next day on
Saturday, June 14th, there's going to be a hike to Mount
Humphreys. The church vans will provide transportation on a
first come first serve basis. The church will provide lodging
for those who fully participate in Friday soul winning. And if
you want more information, talk to brother Ramon. If you want
to RZP, email us at faithful word one at gmail.com or you
can talk to brother Ramon and he'll take you or he'll write
you down. And besides that, the hike is going to be about 8
hours. You know, it has been said that is a very difficult
hike. It's suitable only for the physically very fit,
whatever that means. It is 6 miles each way and very steep.
There's also a shorter, easier hike nearby or you can just
partake on the hike as much as you can. However, if you are
traveling with a church van and you're not intending to hike,
you will be at the mountain all day long. So please turn your
bulletin around and we have an announcement. We have Pastor
Dylan Oz coming to preach for us this Sunday and this will be
on May 25th for our morning and our evening service and in case
people are wondering where Pastor Anderson is, I'm sure
you guys all probably know, but he's right now just on a
vacation. He's with his family in Germany slash also doing
missions over in Germany trying to get as many people as
he possibly can save while also having some recreation with his
family and Amen. He needs it Roger that so I'm very glad that
he's able to enjoy a little bit of time, but also from
Germany is going to go another missions trip to Greece and
it's going to be preaching not preaching is going to be
soul winning in Greece as well. So he might as well take
advantage since he's going to be in that part of the world.
So he's he's going to be gone for about three weeks. I think
we're already one week into it, but he'll be back soon. You
ain't going to have to deal with me much. Amen. Alright, so
besides that, please pray for the expectant ladies and our
upcoming events are right there. Take a look at them when
you get a chance and let's go over the so many numbers as
fast as we can. So, if you got somebody saved on Monday, go
ahead and raise your hand and give me a number starting on
my left hand side. Looks like we have no one on this side and
we have one back there. Alright, on Monday, we got one.
Any salvations for Monday? Tuesday. Any salvations for
Tuesday? Four? And good. One? Alright. And today? Four? Three? Anybody
else? Two? Alright, we got two salvations right there. Anybody
else? One? Alright. Anyone? Anyone? Alright, going once,
going twice. We're good. Alright, brother Daniel. You
should find the answer in front of your hymnal with Psalm
twenty-four. If you don't have an answer, please raise your
hand. One of the ushers will hand you one. And we'll begin
singing on that first year. This is the Lord's and the
fullness hymn number nine. This one begins, oh save to the
rock that is higher than I. Hymn number. Bibles to Isaiah
chapter number fifty five. Isaiah chapter number fifty five.
Isaiah chapter fifty five. Oh, everyone that thirsteth, come
ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye buy and
eat. Yea, come buy wine and milk without money and without
price. Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not
bread, and your labor for that which satisfieth not? Harken
diligently unto me, and ye that which is good, and let your
soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and
come unto me. Here and your soul shall live, and I will make
an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of
David. Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a
leader and commander to the people. Behold, thou shalt
call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that
knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy
God, and for the holy one of Israel, for he hath glorified
thee. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him
while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord,
and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God,
for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down,
and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and
maketh it wring forth in bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread
to the eater. So shall my word be that goeth forth out
of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing
whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy,
and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth
before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall
clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree,
and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree. And it shall be to the
Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign, that shall not be
cut off. Father in heaven, thank you for the
opportunity to hear your word preached once again.
We ask you fill Bratsagura with your spirit and give him wisdom and
understanding as he preaches your word to us, Lord. We
also lift up our pastor Anderson to you, Lord, and his family. Lord, we
pray that you'd give him a great time of refreshment and keep him safe. We
thank you for the great work that you're doing through Faithful Word Baptist
Church. We love you and we ask for your blessing now. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen. Isaiah 55-8, the verse that I want to focus on,
it is Isaiah 55-8 that says, "For my thoughts
are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, saith the Lord." And the title of my sermon
is this, "You're stinking thinking. You're stinking thinking." What do I mean by
that? Well, let me explain. Stinking thinking, what is that?
Well, as best I can explain, it's a simple way of saying
bad or sinful thoughts. It means thinking in a negative,
wrong, unbiblical way, having a mindset that leads you away from God,
not towards Him. Letting your mind be filled with doubt,
pride, fear, lust, anger, bitterness, or lies. Here's some examples. Have
you ever heard people say this? "God doesn't care about me." How many
times have you heard that out, soul-winning? Well, that's not coming
from the mouth of God. There's some people that think that God hates them
and doesn't want them to get saved. How many of you guys ever heard this?
"Well, if you only knew what I did in combat, bro, if you only knew,
you know, you would realize that God, He hates me. He doesn't want me."
But that's not what God says. For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son. Last time I checked, the world's not talking about the animals
or the plants. It's talking about people. How about this one? "I'll never change."
Is that what God tells you to do? Never change? Last time I checked, God wants us to grow,
to grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. True? So for those people that
have said, "Oh, I like the old Pastor Anderson. This one has changed." Well, what do you want
him to do? Disobey the Word? Just stay the same? Never grow? Stay where he's at? I think he's
gotten better. How about you? How about this? Sin isn't that bad. Come on, bro. God knows our
hearts. Who's ever heard that? Well, that's your stinking thinking. Those aren't God's words.
Those are your words. How about this? I hate that person and I'll never forgive them. Who's heard
people say that? I have. Well, that's their stinking thinking. But that ain't coming from
God. Amen? See, God wants us to clean out the stinking thinking that we have in our hearts
and replace it with the truth of His Word. It's like having polluted thoughts that smell bad
spiritually. That's what I'm saying. It's your stinking thinking. You know, they'll ruin your
attitude. It's going to hurt your faith and it's going to lead you into sin. And I don't know about
you, but I got sick of sin real quick when I got saved. When I was 23, hey, I was the average
unsafe young guy. Once I started going to church and I started to read God's Word and I started
to see what God likes and what he doesn't like, I didn't want to stay the same. I wanted to grow
as fast as I could. So I took advantage as much as I could of everything I possibly could have.
And so one of the things that I started to do was just attend Bible studies, you know, with the
assistant pastor, the pastor's actual son. And so once a week on a Thursday, 10 lessons, 10 weeks,
he's like, "Hey, if anybody wants to grow, have a discipleship, one-on-one, hey, go ahead and sign
up." I'm like, "Hey, I want to learn." So I signed up. I wasn't working at the time. I just got out the
military. I was still on what they called, I forgot what it is, where they're still paying you,
but for 30 more days in case something happens and they recalled you back. So I was just going
to church, trying to learn, and it was what it was. I went to my first Bible study, and I don't know
what he thought. Maybe he just noticed that my hair was getting a little too long for whatever
reason. But the first topic was hair. And I'm thinking, "Hair? Really? The Bible talks about
hair?" And he explained that it is a shame for a man to have long hair. And I was like, "What?"
Because I was already sick of military haircuts, and I had maybe 90 days before I had to go to the
police academy. So I'm like, "Forget it. I'm just going to grow my hair long, try to grow a beard,
still can't do it." You don't want to know what I look like when I let it grow for more than a day,
man. It starts looking really patchy, really weird. It's like, "Oh man, I covet beards like
Brother Varence. He can grow one really good, like Pastor." As long as you don't look like
Osama Bin Laden, hey, we're good. But besides that, hey, there was other opportunities to grow.
And one of the other opportunities the church provided was a Friday night Bible study.
It was called Reformers, I believe it is, Unanimous. Who's ever heard of Reformers Unanimous?
One, two, three. I was hoping nobody did. But either way, this was a program on Friday nights
that was catered to helping you overcome sin. And one of the things that I've heard right away
in that Bible study was this phrase. It's your stinking thinking, but this is what they were
saying, that's going to lead you to drinking. Your stinking thinking is going to lead you to
drinking. I'm like, absolutely true. Absolutely true. But I'm going to give you a few more.
Not only will your stinking thinking lead you to drinking, maybe this will rhyme, maybe it won't,
but your stinking thinking is going to lead you to inking. Inking your body as in tattoos.
Because like it says in Isaiah 55-7, "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous
mend his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him."
We see that your thoughts matter. They matter to God. He says, "Forsake your ways,
forsake your thoughts, return unto the Lord." And I like verse 8, "For my thoughts are not
your thoughts." You will never convince me that you reading the Bible is what convinced you
to go get tattoos, especially one of a big fat snake on your arm. You will never convince me
you got that from this book. No, my friend, you thought it was a cool idea to get tattoos,
but let me tell you where those thoughts came from. Those thoughts didn't come from the Bible. They
didn't come from God. Those were your thoughts, not his thoughts, your thoughts. And that goes
for everything else. It's your stinking thinking that's going to lead you to drinking. It's your
stinking thinking that's going to lead you to inking. And I got one more, doesn't rhyme that good.
Maybe I'll add a fourth one. It's your stinking thinking that's going to lead you to linking,
linking up with the wicked. You're not going to convince me that this book made you realize
that it's totally okay to commit for an occasion. That it's totally okay as a young lady to start
dating a divorced man, twice divorced, with kids with each baby mama. You're not going to
convince me that you got that from this book. Absolutely not. So where did it come from?
It's your stinking thinking that led you to those sins. It was not the word of God,
it was your stinking thinking. Not God, your stinking thinking. Darn it again. Oh well,
maybe God just wanted me to cut that part out. That's all right, I can yell. Oh man,
this thing just appeared. It's all right. Guess I gotta go old school. Another jacket. Last time
my wife was trying to get my attention, I'm like, well next time do jumping jacks. What the heck?
How bad do you love me? Gonna let your man over here get all embarrassed and stuff.
Heard you went on microphone, microphone was down in his belt buckle and everything.
Come on love, do take one for the team. But what I was saying was that we need to realize
that the majority of the time when we get into sin is not God's thoughts that are popping into
your brain. It's the ones you have in your heart. That's what's causing you to go into sin. You
ain't going to convince me that it's okay for somebody to go out there and start doing drugs.
Name the drug. Whether it's crystal meth, whether it's marijuana, whether it's LSD,
you ain't going to convince me that that came from this book. And unfortunately we've had people from
this church who has gotten into those sins and yet they want to claim that they know the word,
they've read the word, they understand the word, and that you guys aren't the only ones that
understand scripture, or apparently you don't. Trying to gaslight us, convince us that no,
it's our dumb thinking, you know, that made them leave. You guys are just too judgmental.
Well I'm not judging, I'm just telling you what the judge says, amen. No ink upon your flesh,
stay sober, amen. But one of the things that this program did is it gave us principles,
principles to help you break bad habits. In other words, sin. And one of the principles,
I'm gonna go through six as fast as I can, I'm 10 minutes in, I'm trying to get through as much as
I can. Obviously it is what it is, it's a Wednesday night, I know you're tired, I know some of you
came from work, so it is what it is. I'm gonna do my best to try to preach the best sermon I can
and give you something to go home with and think about. But already I think the title will make
you think about this sermon for a while, amen? Next time you start thinking of something, hey,
you better cast that imagination down before it gets worse and worse and worse. But let me give
you one principle, the first principle that they taught us is one that I remember to this very day.
When I think of the RU program, the Reformers Anonymous, this is the first thing that pops in
my head and I have used this many times to help me just overcome sin. When I have moments of
weakness and I repeat this principle, it's like, "No!" Principle number one, if God is against it,
so am I. If God is against it, so am I. Hey, you want to have a victorious Christian life?
There's a lot of things you're going to need to start changing in your brain and one of them is,
if God's against something, you better be as well. This is why you have to know this word. You have
to read this word. That's why you have to come to church. The more you come to church, the more you
read the word, the more you'll know what God is against and what he's for. So you're not confused
or easily offended when you hear something you never heard before and it turns out if you just
read the problem of the day, you probably would have figured it out. But what we need to remember
is that if God's against something, it's going to be foolish of you to not be against that. You have
to learn that if God's against it, that includes our thoughts. Amen. Whatever it is that you're
thinking, make sure it aligns with the Word of God. Okay, he's walking, so my mic is still good.
All right. So besides that, let me just give you some verses. Romans 12.2 says this, "And be not
conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." This is a good verse.
You know, if God obviously is against it, this is one of them where God wants you to be different.
He says you're a new creature, and He wants you to understand that there's certain things that
God hates Him, and He wants us to hate Him as well. For example, Romans 12.9 says that, hey,
let love be without the simulation. Abhor that which is evil, God wants us to cleave to that
which is good. And one good way is to keep listening to preaching. You're going to know
what's good, you're going to know what's bad, keep reading the Word as much as you can. You're going
to learn right from wrong, and simply put where it says abhor that which is evil, this is what
abhor means. It means to hate strongly, to hate strongly. Could you say that about sin? Do you
hate sin that strong? Or you can say I abhor sin? If not, pray that God will help you. I remember
the story that pastor gave once when he was preaching. I forgot what sermon it was, what
the topic was about. I'm sure it was about sinning or something, but here's what he said. He said
that he prayed, and he said, "God, help me to hate sin. Just help me to hate it. I don't hate it
enough. I'm worldly." He preached that as a teenager, I believe. Well, we can all look back
now and say, "You know what? I think God answered that prayer." But that's what God wants for all of
us. He wants us all to not just be against sin, but abhor it, hate it. God tells us not to tolerate
it, not to accept evil, but to hate it, just like He hates it. If God says something is evil, hey,
we are to abhor it. No excuses. Don't ignore it. Don't try to be neutral. It's only going to go
bad for you. So just remember, if God is against it, we must be against it as well. Here are a few
more verses that support this. Psalms 97-10, "Ye that love the Lord, hate evil." Nuff said,
"He preserved the souls of his saints. He delivered them out of the hand of the wicked."
Proverbs 8-13 says, "The fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride,
arrogance, and the evil way in the forward mouth. Do I hate?" Ephesians 5-11, "Have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." Amos 5-15, "Hate the evil and love
the good and establish judgment in the gate. It may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious
unto the remnant of Joseph." And one powerful story that illustrates this, you know, if God's
against this, so am I, is the story of Phinehas in Numbers 25. Who knows what I'm talking about? Go
to Numbers 25-6 if you can. Go to Numbers 25-6. And listen, we're all at a different stage
of our Christian walk. Some are babes, you could say. Some have been here for two or three years.
Some have been here for 10 years. Some have been here close to 20 years. You know, we all have
different stages. But keep improving. Keep improving. Keep getting better. Keep doing what's
right. And I guarantee you, you're going to end up at some point waking up and thinking, "Man,
you know, I've come a long way from when I first started coming to church, from when I first got
saved." But hopefully he can go from being a baby in Christ to being like Phinehas hearing this
story. You're right there in Numbers 25. Let's go to verse number six. It says, "And behold,
one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren and met a nightish woman in
the sight of Moses." Just skip a little bit. "While they were weeping before the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation." Verse seven, "And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar saw it,
he rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand." Verse number eight,
"And he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through."
And I'll just finish reading. "So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel,
and Phinehas he turned." The Bible says, God says, "He turned my wrath away from the children of
Israel while he was zealous for my sake." Verse 13, "And he shall have it in his seat after him,
even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God." Not a really
popular story, I think. I think it's mostly popular in Baptist churches, because this is
the story of a guy who was so zealous that he actually got sick of somebody that was sinning
so bad that he took his own life. Now, I'm not saying to go around killing fornicators,
because that's not what God wanted in 2025. But this was open sin, and in case you haven't
figured it out, I guarantee you, hey, if you're human, you probably have some sins you're
struggling with. You know what? Do yourself a favor and never rub them in our faces like
this guy. Because you know what? I heard this a long time ago when I first started going
to church, and the preachers were warning us that God judges open sin a lot quicker
than a sin that somebody's struggling with behind the scenes. Because God loves you.
He doesn't want to embarrass you. He's letting you get it right. He's long-suffering towards
us. He's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But
when you're at the point where you're not just wicked, you're also causing other people
to be wicked, and then you're rubbing it in other people's faces, you better believe that
judgment is going to come a whole lot quicker. May not be today, may not be tomorrow, may
not be next year, and may not be the year after that, but your life is by the vapor.
And if it comes in the next 10 years, I would say that is fast. People may not think so,
but I think if somebody gets punished in the next 10 years, that's pretty fast. But even
if it takes 20, or 30, or 40, or 50, or 60, or 70, or 80, or 90, I mean, how old is Joe
Biden? He's been wicked for a while. He's been promoting the LGBT agenda for a while.
He's been pushing Catholicism for a while. And the fact that he's gone this long shows
that he's not a child. He's a bastard because he had not received any trust heismen in all
those 50 years of him just being a politician. By now, it's time to pay the piper. I wouldn't
want to be him for all the money in the world because the cancer that he has, I don't think
he's going to make it to the end of the year. He's going to be gone very, very soon. But
ever since I've been hearing about Joe Biden, man, till now, it's actually gone pretty fast
in my opinion. So be careful that you're not this fornicating fool that's rubbing his sin
in people's faces. Why? Because it is what it is. The guy's a wicked individual, but
you know what? There was somebody that was against this because God was against it. And
for people to say, "Man, do you think he went overboard?" I don't think so because God blessed
him in his generations. Now of course we have different rules, different laws, don't go
around doing this, but at the end of the day, back in the day, it seems like God, he wasn't
mad at this, this action, and he was even saying that because of this person, my wrath
was stopped. So in a way we can thank him for his service, amen? And a lot of times
people don't ever give Christians credit. They may look at us as the bad guys. They
like giving the military credit. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service. But you know what? I'll say to everyone here on a Wednesday night,
I'll say to everyone who's righteous, living for the Lord, that goes so many. You know
what? Thank you for your service. Because last time I checked, it ain't the military
that exalted the nation. It's righteousness that exalted a nation. So to the Democrats
and the Republicans, you know what? Hey, you can thank me for my service whenever you want.
Because if we stop being righteous, you think it's bad now, you think Biden was bad, hey,
let's just have all the Christians backslide when they see what happens. I'm not saying
it's going to happen, but I'm just warning you that we know why God blesses this nation.
Righteousness is what makes this nation great. No matter where you are, Africa, you name
it, you live for the Lord, guess what's going to happen? God's going to bless you. And
because of your deeds, He may bless your nation. Because you notice if He curses it, it's going
to affect you. But if you're living for the Lord, just like Noah, the whole world just
goes astray. At least you can save yourself and your family by being what in His eyes?
Righteous. And God will have grace in you, amen? So obviously the Israelites, they were
sinning by mixing with the heathen, committing fornication. But you know, Finhaz, this one
guy, this bold guy, or this other guy was sinning in public and this guy came and he
decided if God's against it, so am I. And he ended up pretty much taking care of business.
So besides the first principle, if God's against it, you know, so am I. The second
principle is this. Every sin has its origin in our hearts. Every sin has its origin in
our hearts. We need to realize that that's where it all starts. If people were to come
to me and say, "Brother Sakura, I want to get my life straight. Brother Sakura, I want
to start living for the Lord. Brother Sakura, I'm sick of living a destructive life. How
can I start fixing myself? Where do I begin?" You know what I'm going to say? You can begin
with your stinking thinking. What do you mean? You need to start getting the mind right.
Because the body does what the mind tell it to do, and so you've got to fix that. And
how do you do it? Well, you can start by realizing what's right and what's wrong. Once again,
it's through the Word. Once again, God gives you a conscience where you can tell, "Hey,
this isn't right." You don't really have to be told every little thing that's wrong
in this world. God gave you a brain. As long as you haven't fried it with drugs, it should
work enough so you can at least have a conscience to tell you no to certain things. But we
need to be careful trusting our heart. That's what I would tell someone that would be like,
"Brothers and girls, how can I start fixing my life? Where can I begin? Where can I start?
I'm a disaster right now. Yeah, start with your stinking thinking." And here's a verse
for you, Jeremiah 17, 9, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately what? Wicked.
Wicked. Who can know it? Everybody in this room has this heart, so you need to do your
best to control it, or it's going to control you." So when you realize that, it kind of
gives you a wake-up call. Above all things? Yes, above all things. The devil? Yes. It
says above all things, more wicked than the devil is our heart. Really? More than that
shady car salesman at the lot? Yes, more desperately wicked than that guy. So your biggest enemy
is the guy you look at in the mirror every morning. That's the guy you need to worry
about. Not people on the internet talking smack. The guy in front of you. That's the
guy you need to smack. Get the beam out of your eye. Then you can help us all take the
most out of ours. Because you're not just here to just live life and die. I mean how
many of you guys, I don't mean to embarrass you, how many of you guys want to be great
known as great in God's eyes? It's okay if you don't. Well, if you want to be great,
you got two requirements. Those that do and teach shall be called great in the kingdom
of heaven. That's what Jesus says. But if you break one of these least commandments
and you teach men so, you shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. So you
want to be great? Start with what? Yourself. Start what? Obeying those that do. What's
next? Teach. Who can I teach? Also winning. That's a good start. Amen. Ladies, you're
not going to be preaching any time behind this pulpit, amen, but you can teach your
kids. Right? The virtuous woman. Bible study here and there. Might go far. So let's step
it up. You want to be great? Got to do those two things. Those that do and teach. So I'm
here to teach you that listen, your biggest enemy is you. Take the beam out of your face.
Work on yourself. Start getting it under control. It's not Obama. It's not the world. It's
not the sodomites. I saw this video where some Republican was freaking out. He's like,
"Why do you want Donald Trump in power so much?" "Because the Democrats are trying to turn me
gay." "The Democrats are trying to turn you gay?" He's like, "You think they can do it?"
"No, no, not me. I'll never be gay, but they're trying to make me gay." That's what this guy
said. I'm like, "Well, if I was standing right there, it's like, you know what? If I had to
worry about something, it's not carnal things." This is what it says in 2 Corinthians 10, 4,
"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal by mighty through God, to the pulling down of
strongholds, casting down imagination, and every high thing that exalted itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."
The world's trying to brainwash you. The devil's trying to brainwash you. What do I mean by the
world? Unsafe people are trying to brainwash you. The devil's trying to brainwash you. His minions
are trying to brainwash you. And it's going to work if you don't get your face in the Word of God
and do your best to bring every thought to the obedience of Christ. Perfect example of someone
who the devil caused to fall was Eve. Got her to start thinking about the wrong things.
Started to twist the Word of God. Make her start doubting the Word of God. And if you got your
Bible, just go to Genesis 3, 4. If you can get there, if not, no worries. I'm going to start
reading, but I guess if you can, you can meet me in verse number six. I'll slowly, if I can,
read verse four to give you time to get there. Genesis 3, 4. "And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die. For God doth know, that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be
open, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." And when the woman saw, see that's where
it kind of starts as well. Be careful what you're looking at. It's not just your stinking, thinking,
it's your stinking, seeing. Just seeing if you're paying attention. So it says in verse six, "And
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree to
be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also unto her husband
with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them were both open, and they knew that they were naked,
and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of
the Lord God walking in the garden, and called the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the prison of the Lord amongst the trees of the garden." And isn't that what happens when we
get into sin? We don't become bold, we become cowards. Because what? The wicked flee when no
man pursues it. You want to be strong, you want to be bold, you know what? Steroids ain't gonna
do it. Lifting at the gym four hours a day isn't gonna do it. Yeah, you may get physically strong,
but more important than that is being mentally strong. Last time I checked, David wasn't scared
of the giant at all. He didn't walk towards the giant, he ran towards the giant. Why? Because he
had a strong mind. He had a spiritual mind because he was able to bring every thought to the
captivity to the obedience of Christ. Imagine if he would have thought, "Well, what if God doesn't
step in this time?" Then next thing you know, he may not be as bold. But it was his mindset.
It wasn't his physical fitness. That wasn't what got him to be so brave. It was his mindset. And
that's what we need to remember. You want to have a strong mindset? You have to think spiritually.
Yeah, you can probably get a little bit of mental strength when you're big and buff and you're like,
"Yeah, I can take care of myself. Baby, come hold my arm, honey. I'll show you." But at the
end of the day, we got to make sure that our mind is stronger. And this is what's going to keep you
from falling is knowing the Word of God. And this is what happened to Eve. She started to doubt it.
She started to misquote it because God never said, "Hey, if you touch it, you're going to die." He
says, "If you eat of it, you're going to die." I'm 29 minutes in. Don't worry, I'm going to wrap
it up. But she's a perfect example of what can happen to us as well. If we start doubting God's
Word and we're misquoting it because we don't have it down like we should, we start thinking
about things that we shouldn't, and it all started with her seeing. And next thing you know, she's
thinking about it, thinking about it, thinking about it. And like principle number two says,
"Every sin has its origin in our hearts." Let's move on. Principle number three,
"It is easier to keep the heart clean than to clean it after it has been defiled."
Romans 8-7 says this, "Because the cardinal mind is enmity against God."
If you end up having the cardinal mind, you're at war with God. You don't like the things of God.
You'll read the Word and you'll be all offended by the Word of God. Why? Because you don't love
the Word of God. "Great peace have they which love the law and nothing shall offend them." It doesn't
mean that nothing in this world is going to offend you. It means nothing in the Word of God is going
to offend you. Every little law, everything you read, everything you see, you're just smiling and
loving it as you're going from Genesis to Revelation. Amen. But when you're worldly,
you're filled with the world, you got worldly thoughts, you ain't thinking that Brothers and
Girls sermon is so hot right now. You're counting down like, "Man, hurry up. I got my favorite show
tonight. I want to go back to bumping my favorite music. Hurry up. Speed it up. Let's roll. Come on
now." Take it to the bank. If that's what you're thinking right now, you're a carno, brother.
Proverbs 23, 7 says, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he." What does that mean? What you think
about the most is what you're going to become. Once again, it's your thoughts that are going to
lead you into sin. It's God's thoughts that are going to keep you away from sin. It's your
stinking thinking that leads you to drinking. It's your stinking thinking that leads you into what?
Inking. You're going to tattoo yourself thinking you're so cool. Why? Because your mind is warped.
Like it says in Proverbs, as you think in your heart, so are you. If you think having tattoos
is going to make you cool, you're going to get them. And obviously there's a lot of people in
this building that has tattoos. Hey, I love you to death. I'm not even tripping about you.
I'm just trying to warn everyone else. Hey, if you think tattoos are cool, it's because you're a fool.
The Bible didn't teach you that. That's your stinking thinking. Those are your words coming
out of your heart. Those are not the words of God coming out of the word. It's just not happening.
And listen, I know it can happen because I was worldly as well. There was a point when I thought
tattoos were awesome. There was a time when I almost got a tattoo. I was at the tattoo parlor.
Why? Because my brain was warped and for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. In my heart,
I thought I would be even more cool getting a tattoo. I saw this movie once and the actor had
a tattoo from his neck all the way to his wrist, a tribal tattoo. And it's a little bit muscular.
It gets out of a Porsche. And the actor's like, "Wow, that looks thinking cool." And it's like,
"I think I want to do that." I'm in the Marines, 18, 19 years old. Everybody's getting tattoos.
I'm like, "Man, you know what? What's up, bro? That guy looks so cool, man. You know what? Let
me go see what they got." Go with my buddy, one tattoo artist. Who's going first? He's ready.
I'm not. I started looking at the posters, trying to find my perfect tattoo. And then I see it.
Yeah. Nothing says America like an eagle that's a tribal design. Yeah, baby. That's the one I want.
Big, bad eagle right here. Right here. All the way down to my elbow. And we're working my forearm,
but I don't think it can handle so much pain. So we'll just start here, all right? And then I'm
waiting. I'm sitting. I'm waiting. I'm ready. I got my card. I got money. I'm ready to do this.
The other guy, my buddy, he's just sitting in his chair. One hour passes, 200 passes. Man,
I started getting the munchies. And I'm like, "Bro, finally he's done." And they put a little
plastic thing on him. They're like, "Don't touch it." So what's the first thing I do? "Touch it."
Boy, that he hit me hard. I didn't realize it hurt that bad, but I just touched it like, "Boom!
Oh!" Bam! He punches me in the chest. "Sorry, bro. What are you doing, stupid? That hurts."
And then I'm thinking, "Maybe I shouldn't get one." But the guy's like, "You ready, bro?" And I'm
like, "I am, but I think I'm going to faint if I start getting stabbed, bro. I'm hungry. Let me go
get something to eat." So I did. Then you know what happens when you eat. What happens to me,
this afternoon? That mix starts to hurt. I ate too fast. I'm trying to get back to the tattoo shop.
Next thing you know, I'm just like, "Oh man, I don't know. I feel so tired. Let's go do another
day." So I didn't get a tattoo that night. Then I'm at the chow hall on base and I see some dude
walking by with the tattoo that I wanted. And I'm looking and I'm like, "Whoa, is that what it looks
like after a few weeks? That thing looks faded. Like, what? Like, dude. No, I think I'll wait."
And I wasn't against tattoos until guess when? I started going to church. And then guess what
was the next Bible study the following week? Tattoos. Tattoos. And he shows me the verse in
Leviticus. No ink, nothing. I'm like, "Wow, I didn't know they were sinful." Nope. If God says no,
that means no. And I'm like, "Whoa, I'm glad I didn't get one. I feel bad for my brother
because he did get one. I feel bad for my other brother because he did get one." So I'm thinking,
man, well, I'm glad I didn't get one because I was still pro getting one. I was even thinking,
once I'm a police officer, just get it up to the wrist because they say as long as you wear long
sleeves, you're good. But praise the Lord, I never got one. Now, I despise them. I don't despise
people that have them, but the thought of just tattoos just makes me sick. When women get tattoos,
I'm sorry, but it makes you uglier. It doesn't make you better. And I'm not saying if you got
tattoos, you're an ugly one. I'm not saying that. I know, I know. But here's what I am saying,
that anybody that tells a girl, "Wow, you look awesome with those tattoos," guess what? That's
his stinking thinking. That ain't God's thinking. That's his stinking thinking. Because guys that
are right with the Lord, we despise that because it's sin. You're a walking billboard for sin.
We don't think you're pretty. We're thinking, "Man, what the heck? I like to punch the tattoo
artist that ruined that body." They didn't make it better, made it uglier. Even the smallest tattoo,
it's just like you look at it and it's just like sin, disobedience, rebellion. Now I'm merciful
unto the unsaved. They're ignorant. They don't know any better. But as God's people, if God's
against it, so should we. And if you're not, you need to get right and stay right. That's why I
want you guys to remember that it's your thoughts that are going to ruin your life more than anything
else. So we need to be careful before we make that crucial decision like Eve and destroy her
husband's life, everybody's life, everybody blames Eve. But you know what? Adam, what's up bro? You're
in trouble too. But we need to realize that hey listen, God's against it, we must be against it
as well. And every single sin starts in our thoughts. So we need to cast it down when it pops
in our head. Start thinking of something else. You use what you want. Sometimes I use verses. You
know, my favorite verse to use when sin starts creeping into my brain is Proverbs 14 34.
Righteousness exalted the nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. I keep reminding myself,
no man, I don't just take myself down, I take everyone around me down. I need to just hurry
up and get that thing out of my heart. Sometimes I use just a saying. This is what I say. You know
what? Heck no. I'm not gonna help people go to hell. That's one of the things that keeps me from
wanting to continue with my little thought life or continuing whatever little sin I have. I just
remind myself, no, you know what? I don't want to help people go to hell. What do I mean by that?
Listen, if you don't take care of that little sin, it can get bigger and bigger and bigger and
bigger to the point where next thing you know, you could be committing something serious and then
your life is over. Like snorting a line or something or drinking that first whatever beer. Next thing
you know, you're drunk, you're driving and you kill yourself or you kill someone else. Now who's
going to win souls? For my illustration I was thinking of getting the barbell that I have over
there and throwing the 300 pounds that we have over there and asking for some volunteers to
stand up here and hold it over their heads. And then one by one I was going to say okay you can
take a seat. Okay now you take a seat. Now you take a seat to the point where I was going to
get the muscular guys okay. I'm not that dumb you know. I was going to get you and I was going to
get you. Okay I was going to get you too okay. Don't feel left out all right. And then I was
going to get whoever looked like they got some muscles because I wanted you guys to kind of
realize that hey those 300 pounds that's God's mission for us you could say. You know it's like
hey that's God's will for our lives and obviously God's will for our church is to seek and to save
those which are lost to go reach all these people out there and if one person is gone it gets harder
on the rest of us. If another person just gets back slitting and leaves that weight gets even
harder on us everybody is important don't get yourself kicked out of church because you get
bitter back slitting start railing on people and then we got to tell you to go because believe it
or not we don't want you to go we want everybody to stay we pray that everybody stays but you know
what the reality is that the devil is that good and we need to be careful when we start having
stinking thoughts we need to cast them down before it gets too late amen don't worry i'm
39 minutes in i'm gonna wrap it up so that was the third principle i didn't really get to finish
it but how do you clean your way songs 119 just a preview songs 119 says wherewithal shall a young
man cleanse his way by taking heed therefore according to thy word you know so the christian
life is won or lost in the mind what you think leads to what you do perfect example is david
and basheva i'm not gonna have you go to those verses but we know what happened with him once
again what is principle number three it's easier to keep the heart clean than to clean it after
he's been defiled not only did he commit adultery did he get right no he didn't he got worse instead
of confessing and forsaking and getting right with the lord he got worse he went from adultery to what
murder because he just wasn't cleaning his heart it was getting dirtier and dirtier and dirtier
and we need to be careful because the mind they say it's like a toilet you got to keep flush you
need to keep that sucker clean amen so you can't stop every wicked thought from entering your brain
just like we can't control the thoughts of our children i can control their actions but i'm
hoping they get to the point where internally they're controlling their thoughts when they
get tempted i hope on the inside they're doing everything they can to resist temptation and the
bible says if you do you'll be blessed blessed is the man that endured temptation so it's worth it
god will bless you he sees you he can read your thoughts he read the thoughts of the pharisees
who can forgive sins but god who is this man speaking blasphemy and it angered the lord
because he was able to hear their thoughts and he can hear your thoughts so that way you can pray
anytime you want so you can talk to him internally he hears you he can hear your thoughts he can hear
you talking in your little brain so of course when you're calling out to him god i'm tempted
right now help me out you know give me strength help me give me give me the power to just you know
stop lusting right now whatever the case may be he's going to help you unless you got sin in your
life but he will help you and we need to be careful not to end up like david where it was
just like oh he saw a woman you guys know the story she was showering then guess what that's
where the thought crept in he didn't clean his heart if he would have just confessed it and for
circuit lord i'm sorry for stirring that this woman i shouldn't have done that that was wicked
of course we know that he knows that was wrong because he's the one that said i would say no
wicked thing before my eyes i hate the work of them to turn aside it should not cleave onto me
but he continued to just get worse and worse from staring at her inviting her hanging out with her
then next thing you know not a shocker commits adultery gets her pregnant gets even worse instead
of i don't know what would have done at that point but one thing he we all know he would should have
never done is murder the husband but he did and this was a saved man a god-fearing man so if it
can happen to him it can happen to all of us but how did it start with him easy he got the thought
in his heart and he didn't clean it he didn't cleanse it he kept rolling with it until it was
too late and that can happen to every single one of us we need to take heed lest we fall amen
principle number four it's not possible to fight a fleshly appetite by indulging in it he that
loves silver should not be satisfied with silver but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of
his own lust and entice and when lust has conceived it bring it forth sin and sin when it is finished
bring it forth death you cannot satisfy the flesh by feeding it lust grows when you indulge in it
victory comes not by giving in but by starving the fleshly appetite until it dies translation
i have a problem with tv you gotta figure out a way to get rid of it you gotta kill that appetite
my favorite shows are really bad you gotta stop watching the shows what do i do if your hand up
and you cut it off no i'm just kidding but the principle is true cut it off whatever it is cut
it out throw it away but you have to replace it with something godly or else you're going to go
back to it this happened to me i'm sure it's happened to you i've tried and i tried and i
tried when i was going to church to get rid of rap music i was addicted to rap music i was addicted
to m&m i was addicted to 50 cent his album just came out and the club was bumping everywhere
i'm like you know what i gotta get rid of this and i knew it was bad but i couldn't get rid of it i
was addicted i just listened to it as much as i could even to this day i'm tempted by it hey just
being honest with you but i remember this one day i'm just driving and the club is bumping in my
truck fit back serial system i'm with my cousins and i'm just driving and i'm safe and my heart's
getting grieved and i know i'm backslidden and i know i'm being wicked at this time i'm being a
bad influence to my little cousins and next thing you know i just push eject grab the cd back when
they had cds roll down the window and i tossed it out the window no amen because two weeks later
i went and bought a new one back to my sins why because i didn't clean my heart like i should have
my wife was trying to help me at the time listen to this i'm like okay sure no problem
gave me christian cds and i didn't really give it a chance because i didn't want to listen to it
but that's what we need to understand we need to keep our heart clean and keep it clean keep
flushing that mind amen because it's a toilet principle number five small compromises lead
to great disasters i'll quickly wrap it up on 45 minutes in first corinthians 5 4 says this in the
name of lord jesus christ and when you are gathered together in my spirit with the power of the lord
jesus christ to deliver such a one at the satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may
be saved in the day of the lord jesus your glory and it's not good no you're not that a little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump let me repeat that again a little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump so what the little things is what it's saying because the little things will become
big things so you need to be careful compromising because they can lead to big disasters and i don't
know of the best bible example i can think of but i think of lot all i wanted to do was the right
thing he decided hey we got too much stuff uncle abraham we need to split hey i agree abraham was
the bigger man you take the left i'll take the right you take the right i'll take the left
whatever the case may be but he didn't think spiritually he thought financially well you
know what if i go this route it's water nice and pretty oh man you know what he probably should
have just gave it to his uncle if he was the bigger man it's like no i'm rich because of you
won't you know what you go take that nice land over there you take care of that i'll take this one
he put himself first and it got worse next thing you know he's looking at sodom next thing you know
he's in sodom he compromised he should have just done the right thing let abraham take the best
the best piece of land who knows how his life would have turned out but that small little
compromise of being what selfish destroyed his family hey let's just learn from this man because
he was righteous according to the bible principle number five just said it small compromise that
leads to great disasters hey that little thought you just have in your heart that little whatever
foolish thought you better get rid of it before it's too late because that's where it starts it
starts in the heart and once again don't blame god well i just feel that god wants me to no no no no
no that's yours thinking thinking that ain't god's words your words are not his words your ways are
not his ways you better do it his way because your way is wicked principle number six this is the last
one but it's an obvious one those who do not love the lord will not help us serve the lord once again
those who do not love the lord will not help us serve the lord i didn't know somebody loves the
lord oh that is easy by this we know that we love the children of god when we love god and keep us
what his commandments so somebody says i love god and is walking in sin it's a liar anybody says i
love god but hates his brother in christ it's a liar and that person you need to cut him off
until they get right and stay right because if you let him come back he's going to ruin you it may
seem like something that hey it's a no-brainer but john 15 9 says this if you're of the world
the world will love his own but because you are not of the world but i have chosen you out of the
world therefore the world hateth you these are unsafe people no need to hang out with them
because at the end of the day hey if you're really who you are they're they're not part of you you're
not part of them they just don't love you and it'll be a blessing when you stop hanging around
foolios when you stop hanging around those that don't love the lord when you stop listening to
those that don't love the lord and it could be physically or through your phone let's just be
honest you can tell who's been listening to the wrong person by the things that come out of their
mouth by how easily they get offended of stuff that's not even offensive to those that love
god and keep his commandments so let's just be careful spending our time giving giving the
devil our time you know with his minions and his prophets we need to be careful that we listen to
the right people because those people that are maybe got something decent to say they always
have some poison to throw at you somehow some way because they will love nothing more than for you
to just stop serving the lord because now it's less so it's harder than the rest of us and we
got to do our best to stay right get right amen and psalm one says blessed is the man that walking
down the counts of the ungodly no standing in the way of sinners no scene to see the scornful but
his delight is in the law of the lord and in his law does he meditate day and night and he should
be like a tree planted by the roots of water to bring forth his fruit in his season and leave also
enough wither and whatsoever he do it shall prosper so worldly friends will not help you walk with
god and ladies say if your boyfriend is causing you to do sinful things leading you in the wrong
direction he don't love you he just don't let me be the first to tell you this he don't the guy who
wants wants you to do right is the one that you should go with because they will try to pull you
back with those that don't walk with the lord so really quick how can we prevent our brain from
getting out of control well you have to be careful with what not only you see but also what you hear
because what you hear can also affect you in negative ways when the mind is right you know
your actions are going to be right and like they always say you're not who you think you are but
what you think you are whatever you listen to the most that's what you're probably going to end up
becoming you listen to wicked people that's what you're going to end up becoming you listen to
righteous people you're probably going to end up the same way it's just how life is. Proverbs 23
7 says this for us he thinketh and it's hard so is he eat and drink says he to thee but his heart
is not with thee. In order for a Christian to alter your behavior you have to think differently
you have to start doing things differently drugs alcohol all that stuff it's just going to mess
you up and if everything oh well God understands no he doesn't if he understands he understands
you'll be rebellious and wicked God knows my heart he knows I'm weak he understands you need
a whooping that's for sure and you're going to get one if you don't repent because at the end of day
Saul was saying the same thing I'm obeying the Lord I am but was he no was God on his side no
was God hearing them no and it blows my mind how you can see people's Facebooks they come across
your path and these are people claiming to be right with God and they're doing the craziest stuff
and you're thinking to yourself yep is there stinking thinking that's making them drink
is there stinking thinking that's making them get tattoos is there stinking thinking that's making
them hang out with the wrong people linking up with the wrong people and ain't God's thoughts is
their own thoughts but they're too blind to see it and you got to be careful because your mind is
like a computer whatever you put in it guess what it's going to it's going to do something to you
you put 30 hours of tv in your brain guess what's going to happen you're going to act like the world
you're going to talk like the world you're going to think like the world you're going to vote like
the world and we're just standing by wondering like man it all started somewhere hopefully you
can figure it out before it's too late but that's what we all have to realize that we need to start
transforming our brain hey I beseech you brethren by the mercy of God present your bodies to live
in sacrifice holding acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service don't worry I'm 52
minutes in I try to finish before an hour does anybody know why try to finish under an hour
anybody I probably think it's because pastor told me an hour that's all you have no because of TikTok
baby if it goes over an hour you can't upload it so I gotta keep this thing at 59 minutes and 59
seconds or you know TikTok's gonna be like nope too long buddy try again but listen you're either
one of these three minds in this building right now you're either the natural mind let me explain
what that is that's an unsafe person I don't know who you are but God does I'm not going to be dumb
enough to say that we don't have infiltrators in this church hey if you're a good church if you're
a church that's on fire if you're a church that the devil hates you bet your butt we got tears in
this room right now and this is the natural mind first corinthians 2 14 says this but the natural
man receiving not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he
know them because they are spiritually disorned this is a non-christian no spiritual appetite for
the things of God he cannot comprehend spiritual truth he is dead and trespassing sins like
Ephesians 2 1 says he may outwardly be religious and morally clean but cannot comprehend the
Christian life his thoughts will be what is right in his own eye situational ethics humanism whatever
the natural man thinks whatever comes natural to a lost person you know what that's how they
usually act this is why we have Mr. Pothead you know prophet talking about how like God's chosen
me God's chosen me and then the stuff that comes out of his mouth is crazy he's lying going around
telling people that we kicked him out and then at the same breath he's like and then even tell me
where to go can you believe how wicked they are they kicked me out of church and then he told me
where to go hey numbness when we kicked you out of church we don't want you to go anywhere we want
you to get destroyed by the devil so you can get right but this is somebody who's filled with the
spirit of God they can't even realize what they're saying why would we tell you to go somewhere else
and cause drama when we kick you out you're done you can't go anywhere yeah go hide under the church
but you're still under a curse the other person on 55 minutes in don't worry tick tock you ain't
going to get me this time the carnal mind that's the worldly christian romans 5 8 because the carnal
mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God nothing did canopy a carnal
means of the flesh the carnal mind is the same person who lives for the flesh the church at
corns were full of carnal christians paul called them babies he said that they can only swallow
the milk of the word you know they have to be taught when they should have been teaching they
were clickish immature divisive easily offended the christian with a carnal mind is not satisfied
in christ the law he chases after things amusements and delights rather than the things of god he is
coarse and touchy and often is a source of church problems he has a feeble digestion he cannot get
his own food spiritually these scriptures do not interest him this is very little difference if
any between a natural man and the carnal-minded man the lacino difference they have no conviction
when around a carnal-minded christian the carnal mind needs to get right with god and stay right
with god and then hopefully this is the majority of our church which i believe it is it's the
spiritual mind 1st Corinthians 2 15 says this but he that is spiritual judges all things
yet he himself is judged of no man this is a christian who is filled with the holy spirit
has a mind full of scriptures he is mature has understanding of spiritual things has the ability
to teach other bible truths and is fruitful he has the mind of christ philippians 2 5 says this
let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus not your mind his mind so let's remember
that when you start thinking stupid thoughts those are sinful thoughts confess them and forsake them
say lord don't let these thoughts get worse please forgive me for even having that thought
whatever thought it may be lust whatever you name it god knows exactly what you're thinking 24/7
the eyes of the lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good that's why i don't worry
about our haters because God's beholding the evil and our good and He's going to make sure
they get what they deserve and He's going to make sure we get what we deserve.
But you're never going to do that and think spiritually, you're going to end up panicking
when people are after you and you know what, that's what I said earlier that hey, people
attacking us, it humbles us when you know people are out to destroy you.
They're not just out to make fun of you, they want to destroy you.
They want to destroy your church.
They want to destroy everything you guys are doing because they hate you, they despise you
and we need to have the right mindset to deal with these people.
And when you're in a panic, that's not coming from God, that's your stinking thinking and
you need to get right, amen.
Let's go.
Dear Father, we thank you so much for all that you've done Lord.
Obviously Father, you're the one that has given us so much and yet Lord, you keep giving
us more.
And we ask you Lord tonight to just bless everyone that's here and ask you dear Father
to strengthen everybody's mind, get them to get more serious about your word, get more
serious about memorizing your scripture and help us Lord to do big and great things for
you Lord in this year and the years to come.
And we ask you to do all this for your honor and glory in Jesus name, amen.
Amen.
Alright ladies and gentlemen, take your hymn notes please.
Go to hymn number 152, hymn number 152.
We'll sing the hymn entitled "Security."
Hymn number 152.
More secure is no one ever than the loved ones of the Saviors.
This is how this begins, number 152, sing it out.
♪ Once upon a time ♪