We'll start some.
This church is very good to see you all here for our Wednesday night service.
At this time, please find your seats and take a hymn.
I'll go to hymn number 14.
We'll begin tonight.
Hymn number 14, kneel at the cross.
Hymn number 14, once you find your place, we'll begin together on that first now.
Hymn number 14, kneel at the cross, Christ will meet you there.
Everyone has a blessing on the service.
Let's go ahead and bow our heads together.
Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we come before you this evening.
We give you thanks for allowing us the safety
and the health to be here tonight.
We thank you for allowing us to assemble
and just to lift up our voice unto you.
We just ask that you would meet with us at this time,
that you would help us to worship you in spirit
and in truth as we have opportunity to do so.
And Lord, we just ask also your blessing
upon the preacher tonight.
Fill in with power, with your spirit
so that he may preach with a.
open hearts and ears to receive the message tonight and Lord that you would
just have everything that's said and done bring back the honor and the glory
that you deserve for it and we'll thank you for it in Jesus name amen him number
132 is next number 132 never alone him number 132 I've seen the lightning
Bye!
raise your hand and somebody will come by and give you a bulletin as soon as they
can. If you have it please open it up which is quickly go over the service
times.
You know, we have obviously Sunday morning,
Wednesday night and Sunday night as well.
Server 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 gonna 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 a.m. breakfast, 8 30 to leave the building, 8 11 30. They're going to have lunch and
Flagstaff and then one to 5 p.m. 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 RSVP email us at fade41 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 eight hours you know it has
been said that it's a very difficult hike it's suitable only for the physically very fit whatever
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 the 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 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 on another missions trip to Greece, and it's going to be preaching, not
preaching, it's going to be so many 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 going to be gone for about three weeks, I think we're ready one week into it, but
he'll be back soon, you ain't going to have to deal with me much, amen.
All right, 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
All right on Monday. We got one and the unsalvations for Monday
Tuesday any salvations for Tuesday for?
Looking good
Make sure I write it down one. All right, and today
Four three
Anybody else two? All right, we got two salvations right there
Anybody else one? All right
Anyone anyone all right going once going twice. We're good. All right, brother Daniel
All right, you should find the answer in front of your hymnal with Psalm 24.
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.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
Hiding in the him number 91 this will begin so safe to the rock that is higher than I
the offering in place please turn your Bibles to Isaiah chapter number 55. Isaiah chapter number 55.
Isaiah chapter 55. Ho everyone that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money
come ye buy and eat. Ye 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
satisfies not, hearken diligently unto me, and eat 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
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, sayeth 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 ring forth in bud, that it may give seed to the sower,
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 where to I sent it
For you 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 that shall be to the Lord for a name
For a never-lasting sign that shall not be cut off
Our Father in Heaven, thank you for the opportunity to hear your word preached once again.
We ask that you fill Brother Segura 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 Faith Award 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 sayeth 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 also, 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,
You know you will realize that God he hates me. He doesn't want me
But that's not what God says for God to love the world that he gave his only begotten son
Last time I checked the world is not talking about the animals or the plants is 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
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. True? So for those people that are upset, oh I
like the old pastor Anderson. This one has changed. Well what do you want him to do?
This obey the word? Just stay the same, never grow, stay where he's at. I think
he's got him better. How about you? How about this? Sin isn't that bad. Come on
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 is your stinking thinking.
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, I was the average unsaved 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 of.
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, yeah, 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 to 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 recall 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 they 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. You know, I'm just gonna help 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
Covered beers like brother Varen's
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, you know, 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, yes, three, oh, 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
What's 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 gonna give you a few real a few more
Not only will your stinking thinking lead you to drinking,
maybe this alright, 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 righteous 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 on to the Lord and I like first aid for my thoughts
Are not your thoughts
You will never convince me that you read in 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 know 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's goes where everything else
Is your stinking thinking that's going to lead you to drinking, is 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.
Is 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
That is 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.
The word that it comes from is your stinking thinking that led you to those sins.
It was not the word of God, it was your stinking thinking.
Darn it again. Oh well, maybe guys just want me to cut that part out
That's all right acting yo, oh man this thing disappeared
That's all right, I guess I got a gold 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?
I'm gonna let your man over here to get on bears and stuff preach you in on microphone
Micro's 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 got stars 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 gonna 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 gonna 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, well apparently you don't.
Trying to gaslight us, convince us that no, it's art of thinking, you know, that made them leave.
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 going to go through six as fast as I can, I'm ten 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 you're some of you came from work,
so it is what it is, I'm going to 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, right man?
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 gonna 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 to says this and be not conformed to this world
But be it transformed by the renewing of your mind
This is a good verse. You know if God 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 are certain things
that God hates them and He wants us to hate them 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 cling 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
and simply put where it says, I've hoared that which is evil.
This is what I've hoared means, it means to hate strongly,
to hate strongly.
Could you say that about sin?
Do you hate sin that strong?
We can say I have hoarse 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 it out as a teenager, I believe
Well, we can all look back now and say, you know what? I think I 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 too abhorrent.
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.
Enough 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,
efficacy, 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, and 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 Finnehas.
and 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 ten years. Some have been here close to twenty 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 you can go from being a baby in Christ to being like Finnehas, hearing
this story.
You're right there in Numbers 25, let's go to verse number 6.
It says, and behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren
and met an Irish 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 7, It went, Fini has a son of a Liazer.
Sod, he rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand.
Verse number 8, 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 Phineas, 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 and his seed after him,
even the coming 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 a 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 wants 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 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 to end your parish, 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 the 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 about a 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 working 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 hiesement in all those 50 years
of him just being a politician.
By now, it's time to pay the piper and 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, until 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, hey, God, he wasn't mad at this action.
And he was even saying that because of this person,
my wrath was stopped.
And a lot of times people don't ever give Christians credit.
They may look at us as the bad guys.
They like giving them military credit.
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,
they go 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 binding was bad.
Hey, let's just have all the Christians backslide when they see what happens.
I'm not saying this is going to happen, but I'm just warning you
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 ignore it,
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 sitting by mixing with the heathen,
convening for an occasion, but, you know, Fin has this one guy, this bold guy,
hey, or this other guy was sitting in public and this guy came and he decided,
hey, 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, I want to get my life straight.
Brother, I want to start living for the Lord.
Brother, 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 just thinking, thinking.
What do you mean?
You need to start getting the mind right.
because the body does what the mind tells it to do,
and so you gotta 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 trust in our heart. That's what I would tell someone that would be like brothers girl
How can I start fixing my life? Where can I begin? Where can I start? I'm just 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?
Wake it wake it 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, 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 mode 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, man, so you shall be called
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 gonna be preaching anytime 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 at 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?
You think they can do it?
No, no, I mean, 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 a word about something, it's not cardinal things.
This is what it says in 2 Corinthians 10 for for the weapons of our warfare are not cardinal by mighty through God to the
Pulling down the strongholds cast it 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 I mean by the world unsafe people trying to brainwash you
The devil's trying to brainwash you his minions are trying to brainwash you and it's gonna 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 cost to fall was Eve
God has 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
6.
Genesis 3-4, and the serpent said unto the woman,
ye shall not surely die, for God does 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 6,
And when a woman saw that 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 cool the day
and Adam and his wife hit themselves
from the prison of the Lord amongst the trees of the garden.
And this is in doubt what happens when we get into sin.
We don't become bold, we become cowards.
Because what?
The wicked flea went, no man pursuant.
You want to be strong, you want to be bold,
you know what, steroids ain't going to do it.
Lifting at the gym four hours a day isn't going to do it.
Yeah, you make it 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
And that's what we need to remember.
You want to have a strong mind, said?
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 my soul.
Baby, come hold my arm, honey.
I'll show you.
But at the end of the day, we've 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 and nowhere 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 the 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 a warrior 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 wished 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 world of God is going to offend you every little all
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
Got my favorite show tonight. I want to go back to bumping my favorite music
Hurry up speed it up. Let's row. Come on now take it to the back. And that's what you're thinking right now
You're a car. No, brother
Problems twenty three seven says as he think it in his heart. So is see what does that mean?
What you think about the most is what you're gonna 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 yours thinking thinking that leads you to drinking.
It's yours thinking 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 I said, it's improbable 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's 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 I was just like, wow, that looks thinking cool.
And I was 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.
Woo!
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'm thinking handle so much pain
So we'll just start here, 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's just sitting in his chair
One hour passes to our passes man. Let's start getting the munchies
And I'm like bro finally he's done and they put a little plastic thing on them. 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, baby punches me in the chest
Sorry, bro. What are you doing stupid? I heard 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 happened to me this afternoon?
Stomach 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, 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 and he shows me the verse in Leviticus no ink nothing. I'm like wow
I didn't know they were sinful. No if God says no that means no
And I'm like whoa, I'm glad I didn't get one
Filled back for my brother cuz he did get one. I feel bad for my other brother cuz he did get one
Something in man. Well, I'm glad I didn't get one cuz I was still pro getting one
I was even thinking, once I'm a police officer,
just get it up to the wrist,
because 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 I just, 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 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 thinking thinking.
That ain't God's thinking, that's his thinking 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?
Like I like to push the tattoo artist that ruined that body
They didn't make it better made it uglier even the smallest tattoo. It's just too. It's just like you look at it
And this is like sin
This obedience rebellion
Now I'm merciful unto the I'll say they're ignorant. They don't know any better
But it's God's people if God's against it
So should we
And if you're not you need to get right
stay right. That's what 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 they 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 going to 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 gonna win souls
For my illustration
I was thinking of getting the bar bill 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 gonna 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 I was going to get whoever looked like they got some muscles because I wanted you guys to kind of realize that a those 300 pounds
That's God's mission for us. You could say you know, it's like a that's God's will for our lives
And obviously God's will for our church is to seeking 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.
Another person just gets back slitted 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 slitted,
start railing on people, and then we gotta 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's 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 going to 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,
You know, so the Christian life is one or lost in the mind.
What you think leads to what you do.
Perfect example is David and Bathsheba.
I'm not going to 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 it'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, is like a toilet.
You got to keep flushing it to keep that suck of 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 when 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 read the thoughts of the Pharisees who can forgive sins but God who is this man speaking blasphemy and then 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. Think 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 up this woman
that 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 to work out then to turn aside.
It should not cleave on to me.
But he continued to just get worse and worse
from staring at her, inviting her, hanging out with her.
The 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 should we all know he would should have never done is murdered the husband
But he did and this was a saved man a Godfrey man
So if it can happen to him it can happen to all of us by 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 love is 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 come to the eve, bring it forth sin, and sin when it's 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 in 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. It's 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 Eminem, I was addicted to 50 Cent.
His album just came out and the club was bumping everywhere.
I'm like, you know what, I got to 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 in the club is bumping in my truck fit back cereal system
I'm with my cousins and I'm just driving and I'm saved and my heart's getting grieve 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 pushy Jack grab the CD back when they had CDs
Roll down the window and I tossed it out the window
No, amen cuz two weeks later went about a new one
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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 said
First Corinthians 5-4 says this and the name of the 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 with the saving
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 not did 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 lot 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 British because of you, uncle.
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.
He compromised. He should have just done the right thing and let Abraham take 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
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 your stinking 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.
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.
How do you 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 by Jesus 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 gonna ruin you
It may seem like something that a 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 hated 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 fulios
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 have nothing more than for you to just stop serving the Lord because now it's less
So it's as hard on the rest of us and we got to do our best to stay right
Get right amen
And Psalms 1 says,
Blessed is the man who walked in on the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth the way of sinners,
nor see the seed of the squirmful,
but his delight is in the law of the Lord.
And in his law, does he meditate day and night,
and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
to bring forth his fruit in his season.
He'd leave also no 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 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.
And like they always say, you are 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 the 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 as he thinks it's in his heart,
So as 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 go well,
God understands, no he doesn't.
If he understands, he understands to be rebellious and wicked.
God knows my heart. He knows I'm weak.
If 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 the day, Saul was saying the same thing.
I am obeying the Lord. I am.
But was he?
No.
Was God on his side?
No.
Was God hearing them?
No.
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
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 gonna it's gonna do something to you
You put 30 hours of TV in your brain guess what's gonna happen?
You're gonna act like the world you're gonna talk like the world you're gonna think like the world
You're gonna 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.
Yeah, I precede your brethren by the mercy of God,
present your bodies to live in sacrifice,
holding them accountable 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?
Yeah, I probably think it's because Pastor told me
an hour, that's all you have, no.
It's 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 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 gonna 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 in 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 eyes,
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 what we have Mr. Pothead, you know prophet talking about how like God chosen me God 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 even where to go
Hey numbness when we kicked out of church. We don't want you to go anywhere
It wants you to get destroyed by the devil so you can get right
But this is somebody who's filled with the spirit of God that 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 in the church, but you're still under a curse
The other person on 55 minutes in no way tiktok. You ain't gonna get me this time
The car no mine. That's the worldly Christian
Romans 5-8, because the cardinal mind is eminent against God,
for it is not subject to the law of God,
nothing there can be.
A cardinal means of the flesh.
The cardinal mind is the same person who lives for the flesh.
The church at Corinth is full of cardinal 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 and mature, divisive, easily offended.
The Christian with a cardinal mind
is not satisfied and crushed the law.
He changes after things, amusements and delightments
rather than the things of God.
is the sorts 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 the
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. First Corinthians 2.15 says this,
But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judge of no man.
This is a Christian who is filled with the Holy Spirit, has a mindful 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 simple thoughts.
Confess them in forsaken, 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 are 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.
Your Father, we thank you so much for all that you've done,
Lord.
Obviously, Father, you're the one that...
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 their Father to strengthen everybody's mind,
get them to get more serious about your word,
get them to 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. The right ladies and gentlemen, take your hymnals please. Go to hymn number 152, hymn number 100, and 52.
We'll sing the hymn entitled, Security. Hymn number 152.
More secure is no one ever than the loved ones of the Saviors. How this begins, number 152. Sing it out.