and thank you for this evening and thanks on Son Jesus Christ for all the
joy that we have. Praise to you. I pray that you bless the service. We love you in
Jesus name we pray. Second song, 97. Fast Baptist Church this evening. If you
didn't get a bulletin, you like one, lift up your hand nice and high. On the front,
memory passage, Psalm 58. Also our service and soul winning times there.
Please turn in your stats to your soul winning captains. Also if you're getting
emails, send those in to us as well so that way we can add people to our email
list. We're trying to grow that. Also we have our expecting ladies and prayer
lists. Please be praying for them throughout the week. We're gonna have a
church finance meeting immediately following the service. So if you are a
member of the church, just stick around. If you've been to three services in
this for in this recent month, then you're automatically a member. If you're
first time visitor, if you haven't been here more than once or twice, then we
would just ask you to step out. I don't know if I even noticed anybody like
that. So, but just FYI, it's not gonna be really long, but we'll try to get
through it quickly. Also, church reminders, please be paying attention to those.
Upcoming event, we have our Mighty Men's Conference. There's a sign up sheet, not
sign up sheet, I'm sorry, but the consent forms for guys if you haven't filled it
out already, and then there should be a place to deposit them there as well. So,
if you have a question, Brother Oz can answer that for you, but pretty
straightforward. Also, the Fire-Breathing Baptist Fellowship, please mark that
down on the calendar. We already started planning the event, it's not
everything's locked in just yet as far as all the details, but we're trying to
get them all locked in as soon as possible, and I'll share that with you.
But just to give you some kind of an idea, we will have our normal services
on Wednesday night, and then Thursday morning there's gonna be kind of some
activities, soul winning in the afternoon on Thursdays, and then Thursday evening
we're gonna have two preachers, so we're gonna have Pastor Jimenez and
Pastor Mejia on Thursday, and then on Friday we're gonna have the same thing
where we have activity in the morning, and then we're gonna have some activities
in afternoon, and then we'll have two preachers again. Now Friday night we're
planning on doing it a little bit different where we're gonna actually
feed people in between services, so we'll kind of have like a sermon, pizza, and
then the second sermon, and I believe it's Pastor Burzins is gonna preach the
first service, and then we'll have Pastor Anderson preaching our
Friday evening service, and so then Saturday we're gonna have our spelling
bee again, and I'm trying to get that list out as soon as possible for you
kiddos so that way you can start studying, but it is gonna be a little
different we're gonna keep the same first two age groups but the third age
group is gonna be under 16 so it's gonna basically be 13 it's like 12 or 13 to
15 this year so just FYI just because you guys are too smart for me so I have
to I have to regulate it and and bring it back down but that we're gonna still
have it out there also we'll have soloing on Saturday some of the activities
are trying to get again we might God willing might get ice skating again or
we might get trampoline park or a couple things like that also we're planning to
have a ladies coffee tea during one of the days it should be it'll probably be
for ladies and nursing's only though so you guys can try to help out with that
Sunday pastor Thompson's gonna be preaching for us and then I'll be
preaching on Sunday as well so it's a it's gonna be a jam-packed event I think
we might even have kind of activities on Saturday afternoon as well so but I just
don't want to give you all of the details until they're just dialed in a
hundred percent but I just want to at least give that out there and we give
you the dates so if you want to possibly even take off time just so that you can
help out one thing I was gonna ask is Sunday night I was planning we could
have like a church dessert fellowship where everybody just brings a couple
random desserts or whatever so we'll have a lot of guests so like if we all
bring a couple desserts you know one chocolate dessert and then another
chocolate dessert then you know I can enjoy a lot of chocolate desserts okay
so I think that just be a lot of fun you guys are really good at making stuff so
I think that would be a great opportunity for us to have kind of a
dessert fellowship on Sunday after afternoon that's really all I have as
far as announcements we're gonna sing Psalm 119 one thing I want to note is
there was there's a kind of a small typo or mistake on the lyrics of the one that
y'all have and I need to get it fixed and get you a new version but in the
very bottom where we kind of have this repeating chorus of the wicked have laid
a snare for me it's that snare in four is just a little bit off from the way it
should be sung it's actually the snare shouldn't be held it should go straight
just from snare to four and then the four is held so it's like the wicked
have laid a snare for me so that's kind of so there might be a little bit of
confusion if you actually know how to read music for those of you that don't
you were like I have no idea what you're saying right now but I just you know
follow along a brother Dylan as he leads us but just for you that know how to
sing music you might have gotten confused or tripped up on that because
it's not written it's not written the way we would prefer to sing it and that
was my mistake but hopefully we'll get you a new version and so that way when
you're looking at it it makes sense but yeah they're on that that that first
repeating chorus it's the wicked have laid a snare for me yet I am not from
thy precepts so there you go all right we'll go ahead and sing it Psalm 119
let's sing it out together Psalm 119
turn in your bibles to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2
2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 the Bible reads now we beseech you brethren by
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him they
be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit or by word
nor by letter as from us as that the day of the Christ is at hand let no man
deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except their coming away
falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition who
opposeth and exalted himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped
so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I told you these things and now
you know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in this time for the mystery
of iniquity doth already work only he who now letteth will let until he be
taken out of the way and then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his
coming even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness and
then that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they
might be saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that
they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the
truth but at pleasure and unrighteousness but we are bound to give thanks all way
to God for you brethren beloved to the Lord because God has from the beginning
chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief
of the truth whereunto he called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory
of our Lord Jesus Christ therefore brethren stand fast and hold the
traditions which he have been taught whether by word or our epistle now our
Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father which have loved us and have
given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace comfort your
hearts and establish you and every good word and work let us pray father we
thank you for this church and we thank you for our pastor and his family I
pray that the fullness of the Holy Spirit would be would rest upon him this
evening and that he would preach with boldness and authority and I pray that
you would lay on his heart and help him deliver the message that you've
prepared for him and Lord we thank you for the everlasting consolation we thank
you for the free gift of salvation we thank you for Jesus and what he did for
us Lord and thank you for all your abundant mercies every day and every
morning and we love you and we love you Jesus and we ask these things in Jesus
name amen amen so we have good news and bad news this evening the good news is
that we broke our record and so we get ice cream after the service the bad news
is you have to wait until I'm done preaching so that's that's the only
downside but now I'm excited to preach in this chapter and really what I'm gonna
be talking about is the pre-trib rapture this evening and how it's a cult so the
title of my sermon is the pre-trib rapture cult okay now you know when it
comes to views on eschatology what I find really offensive is not
necessarily people having wrong views but being so obstinate when they're wrong
at the same time and it's just so annoying how especially independent
fundamental Baptist preachers today virtually all of them are pre-trib but
boy it's a cult to where they can't stand anyone else having a different
view and they can't even be friends with people that have a different view and
they almost act as if it's an attack on the gospel or something which again you
know obviously I personally don't believe that the rapture is pre-trib and
it's very clear from the Bible that that's not true but even though
they're wrong on that issue I would still be willing to be their friends and
I'd still even be nice to them about that and you know not everyone is in
this cult because we do have some friends we've had people preach here
that don't agree with us on that issue and they still can be a big boy about it
and and still you know actually be friendly and everything like that but the
vast majority of churches today that are pre-trib are in a cult where you can't
question this doctrine you can't debate them on this doctrine and if you're not
part of the club they'll kick you out they don't want anything to do with
people that are not in this cult and it just really makes me angry you know for
a lot of reasons number one because it's not true just anything is not true just
makes me angry already number two it also is kind of setting people up for the
Antichrist because they're on such a hair trigger for Jesus to come back that I
think a lot of people that are not saved are gonna end up falling for the
Antichrist because they were anticipating Christ and they themselves
are not saved and I mean the Bible warns that the Antichrist is gonna be so
believable that if we weren't saved we would even fall for it like it's just
gonna be so deceiving and it's the Bible says strong delusion when God is giving
his strong delusion it's hard to not get sucked you know into that also
illustrating that Calvinism is false because if God's sending strong delusion
at that point in time what's the point if we were all just I mean if everything
is decided by God automatically what's the point of the strong delusion we're
gonna do whatever he wanted no matter how strong it was but of course the
strong delusion is to show God's really pressing people and really trying to get
them to make decisions that he wants them to make and you know the pre-trib
rapture is scary because of those reasons many people I believe that are not
saved have been sucked into this junk and they may fall for this Antichrist
because of this pre-trib rapture lie another thing that makes me mad about it
is there's not even a verse in the Bible that they can twist like there's some
doctrines out there where they kind of have their verse you know like faith
that works is dead but it's like there's not even a pre-trib verse there's not
there's nothing that's like hey by the way Christ is coming before the
tribulation and they're taking it out of context there's not a verse to even take
out of context it just it's just not in the Bible that's why when you hear
sermons on the preacher of rapture it's charts and diagrams and a powerpoint
presentation and a bunch of emotionalism stories and whatever because they don't
have any Bible on that particular doctrine it also makes me mad because it
props up Zionism and it props up this love for people in Israel called quote
Jews and it's just not biblical and a lot of times they realize like you can't
sacrifice our sacred cow the preacher rapture because if you do people stop
wanting to support Israel and it's just like well you know that's not my problem
it's not my problem because I don't have an Israeli flag up here you know I also
don't have an American flag I don't have any flags okay now again I'm not against
people loving their country there's nothing wrong with liking your country
but you know what we're a church here and we're a church of believers made up
of all nationalities and races and everything like that and I don't even
care you know we have Canadians here you know they don't fly their flag is no
one's proud but you know even if they did I would it wouldn't bother me okay
you know we have people from all kinds of different parts of the world praise
God I don't care about it but you know what we're not gonna put some Israeli
flag up here because we're not in Israel nor we worship the devil okay
that's another reason why we don't do it and they'll get mad about the preacher
rapture you know being debunked because then it basically destroys their their
views on who the chosen are they're like well if you're gonna not believe in
preacher rapture what do you replacement theology and you're like yes yeah I am
I mean that's exactly what I am I don't believe that the Christ rejecting God
hating pornographers are God's chosen people you know like I don't know why
you think that they are it's really bizarre but what this cult does is it
does three things that really you know I want to talk about this evening is it
destroys people's faith it destroys people fellowship and it destroys
fighting and these are the three things that really you know are a danger when
it comes to believing the pre-trib rapture now I'm gonna prove all this
from the Bible go if you would well we're here so let's read a few verses
before we get there but number one the pre-trib rapture this false doctrine
destroys people's faith now what is faith faith cometh by hearing and
hearing by the word of God so faith is putting your your trust in something
that the Bible says it's not blind it's not just well God wants me to have a
Ferrari and so you know I just believe it by faith well that's not faith
that's imagination because there's not a verse in the Bible that says God's
gonna give you a Ferrari okay but what you can do is you can read promises and
scripture in the Bible and then believe them that's what true faith is okay a
lot of people get confused on that point but the preacher rapture destroys faith
because it's not in the Bible and then there's so many verses in the Bible that
contradict their view and people don't get to have faith in those verses
because these pre-trib churches won't talk about them they won't bring them up
they're they're basically taking whole sections of the Bible and hiding them
from the congregation because it destroys their narrative so easily just
the plain reading of the text will cause you to never believe in the pre-trib
rapture I mean it's just so clear in so many places so they can't really go to
those passages very often if ever in fact my church that I grew up in not
grew up I'm sorry let me the church that I went to in the area that I grew up in
they preached on the pre-trib rapture all the time and then I went to a
fundamental Baptist church and they also preached on the pre-trib rapture and I
kid you not before the service we would read Matthew 24 almost every single time
and we never ever read verse 29 not a single time and they preach pre-trib for
three months straight while I was there like we it wasn't like hey here's our
alternative view on Matthew 24 verse 29 it's like we just won't touch that verse
and they would read like the whole section before it and then they read
like after it but they just won't read that section that is destroying people's
faith because they're not having a chance to read the Bible here's another
passage second Thessalonians chapter 2 virtually no one reads why because it
destroys their doctrine look at verse 1 now we beseech you brethren by the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ could the Bible be any clearer that we're
talking about the return of Jesus Christ it's like hey FYI red blinking
light this is talking about Jesus coming back and of course we believe Jesus is
coming back amen says this and by our gathering together unto him now here's
the thing when we talk about raptures and stuff you know these aren't really
necessarily biblical words the biblical word is actually gathering our gathering
together okay and so when we talk about a rapture we're talking about is us
being gathered together with Christ now this is what the Bible's actually
describing it's saying hey Christ is gonna return and we're gonna be
gathered together with Christ okay so this is the context verse 2 that you be
not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by
letter s from us as that the day of Christ is at hand so saying I want you
to not be afraid of the imminent return of Christ I noticed that the imminent
return of Christ caused people to what be fearful have problems be distressed
have issues and it really does you know I grew up in a church that preached the
preacher perhaps for my whole life and I just remember every single year like
praying that God would give me just like one more year you know like thinking
like oh man I just I just really want to like you know go to high school and then
it was like I just want to drive and then it was like I just want a girlfriend
you know and then it was like I just want to get married at least I just want
to have a kid because like every single year was just like Christ could come at
any moment Christ could come back before I'm even finished preaching this sermon
and Christ is gonna be here and you know we're just at a tipping point and it's
about to happen and it was just like I like living my life on this edge of just
like at any moment I could be raptured you know it's just like that's a
stressful way to live your life then it's just like at any moment I could be
sucked out of here you know it's like what are you doing and you know but it
destroys people's faith in the Bible and it you kind of start getting numb to it
because you just you've been waiting for so long it's just like man it's like you
keep saying this every single year and you keep making it seem like it's just
gonna happen how so then people start becoming dead and null to it because
it's just like is this ever even gonna happen you know why do you keep saying
this you've been saying this for decades you've been saying this every single
year you've been saying this every single sermon like when is it gonna
actually happen and it's just a lot of fear-mongering and it's destroying
people's faith and you know what the the Apostle Paul doesn't want people to be
on this like tipping edge of just like when is Christ coming I don't know what
is it coming I don't know it's like he wants people to actually understand
there's a few things that have to happen before Christ returns like what well
look at verse number three let no man deceive you by any means for that day
shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin
be revealed the son of perdition so there's two things that have to happen
before Christ can return that's not me saying it that's the Bible saying it now
number one is this is a great falling away this one is arguably the most
difficult to ascertain and really I'm not going to put a lot of stock in this
point because you could probably just argue that at any point throughout
history at any time people just feel like there's a great falling away
because we live in a dark world I mean at what point in human history is
everybody saved and loves the Bible like virtually never now I could argue
it or I could see how you could argue today that it feels like there's already
been a great falling away just in the fact that we have so many false prophets
and false teachers I mean in the Dallas forward area alone we are filled with
false churches we have TD Jakes we have Kenneth Copeland we have Robert Morris
we have Todd white I mean we have just so many big false prophets so many false
teachers so many fake Christians so many fake denominations I mean you've got all
kinds of crazy churches out there and virtually no one's saved I mean you
could argue to me that there's already a great falling away and our society as a
whole you could argue this I mean they're literally telling us that men
have become women that men menstruate that men get pregnant and I'm thinking
like what what that's a pretty great falling away from truth I mean when you
fall in that far it's like wow like we're we're in pretty bad shape I don't
know how much more reality denying we can get as a society but let me just say
that I personally think it's possible that it could get even way worse than
what I'm saying right now so so I think that this particular point I'm not gonna
put a lot of stock into because we could argue this point all day long the second
one's where it's really at but just to give you an idea I think it's possible
and I think this could happen especially since we're talking about the end times
in the rapture and all this is that you know with people like Elon Musk and some
of these other individuals that are really pushing like the neural link and
some of these other chips and stuff like that look plenty of people already have
chips in their body okay and be like is that the mark of the beast it's not
because they didn't have to worship the Antichrist to get it okay I think it's
possible and I don't know what's gonna happen but just understanding this
context it's possible that chips or being imprinted with some kind of
electronic device becomes a wide scale adopted economic currency before the
Antichrist. Now why I think that is because when the Antichrist actually
comes to power and he stands in the Holy Mount and he's declaring everybody
small or great to receive a mark in their forehand or there in the right
hand or they can't buy or sell well the only way that means anything is if it's
actually enforceable right I mean if if some guys stood in the Middle East today
and just said hey you can't buy or sell unless you have this mark it really
wouldn't matter a lot of us because we go and buy all kinds of stuff with cash
and cards and you know how long would it even take to roll out this electronic
device that everybody's gonna have to get I mean it would take months and
months and months for them to even manufacture it all get it all
distributed for people already have them so in my mind it's probably something
that's all the infrastructure has already been rolled out in mass and as
soon as the Antichrist makes this declaration it's like pushing a button
on a particular computer screen that's gonna turn it on or off and it'll affect
everybody instantly that's my personal just kind of view of how that might work
okay I could be wrong I'm just saying now think about this if the US government
tomorrow said you know what we've decided we're gonna start throwing out
Biden chips everybody has to get a Biden chip if you want to buy or sell in the
American currency and we're gonna eliminate cash everybody has to bring
their cash in we have to start getting Biden chips you know what happened every
single false profit in our country would say it's the end and this is the mark of
the beast all of them said Christ is gonna come
tomorrow I mean we're finally here here's the mark of the beast Christ is
coming and what would happen is Christ wouldn't come and think about the mass
exodus that could happen from all the churches and all the fake Christians
because they are pushing it so hard and so long and then we get to the passage
in the Bible in second Peter that basically says oh where's the promise of
his coming where there's all these scoffers and mockers saying like you
guys kept acting like it was gonna happen and never did and then you just
have this giant like humongous shift away from Christianity like you've never
seen before okay that's just a theory that I have I could be totally wrong
that was just my personal opinion but I'm saying when we look at this verse I
could argue that we're not even there yet and I could argue that we're already
there yet so on one side I was arguing like we're there men are menstruating we've
fallen away from truth okay another argument is like maybe it's gonna be way
worse than we even imagine where chips have already been implemented in the
system every false prophets been prophesying is coming and we just see
like no one being Christian in America at all anymore okay I think both are
possible I don't really care but the second one is one that we can't really
argue for it of having already happened and you there's no way after it happens
that you won't have recognized it and it's the second word says that the son
of man I'm sorry the son of perdition is being revealed okay the man of sin is
revealed the son of perdition now you say well when's that when's this event
well the Bible tells us when the event is notice what it says in verse four who
opposes and exalt himself above all that is called God or that is worship so that
he as God sit it in the temple of God showing himself that he is God that was
really clear there's gonna be a guy that's doing what he's in the temple of
God showing himself that he is God and he's called God okay so there's gonna
be a guy in the temple in the Middle East saying I'm God sitting on a throne
saying he's God calling himself God I mean that's a real clear sign when has
that ever happened it's never happened you know the
preterist it's like hey preterist when did this happen in 2nd Thessalonians
chapter 2 that didn't happen okay but there is coming a day when the man of
sin the son of tradition the Antichrist he will sit in the temple and it will
clear himself of God when does he do that after he sees the deadly mark he's
healed his wound is healed he comes back to life presumably and he basically just
says look I'm God and then everybody's just like who can make war with the
beast you know who can make war with this guy and he causes everyone small
or great to receive a mark in their right hand or in their forehead and they
have to get it specifically his numbered version right the 666 version and that
they have to worship him or they can't buy or sell now what's interesting about
this is the book of Revelation already tells us where that is in the timeline
of events it's the midpoint of the end of Revelation in that midpoint you know
what happened before that all those those seals were being broken okay you
had the first second third fourth this all these seals are broken and so you
know and I believe the fifth seal is this particular event that we have in
scripture but what's super clear is that Jesus Christ can't come until this
antichrist has been revealed well this antichrist is the one that was causing
all the wars is going forth and conquering and doing all these different
things that we read about in scripture and what's so funny is every once in a
while the pre-tribbers will get to these verses and they'll just be like well you
know this coming is like Revelation 19 when Jesus is coming in the clouds or
something like that but wait a minute let's think about the language that it
used okay it said by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering
together unto him let's go to 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 let's just flip
back the page just flip back the page 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 let's see
what these other verses say because they'll say like well the 1st Thessalonians
4 is the rapture okay well what language does it use 1st Thessalonians chapter 4
verse 13 but I would not have you be to be ignorant brethren concerning them
which are asleep they sorrow not even as others which have no hope for if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring with him for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that ye
which are alive and remain under the coming of the Lord shall not prevent
them which are asleep so here's the coming of the Lord matching the coming
of the Lord in 2nd Thessalonians and he says this for the Lord himself so to
send from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel with the trump of
God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air
and so shall we be so shall we ever be with the Lord this is important okay
number one it uses the same language of together together right we're gathered
together in 2nd Thessalonians chapter number two where we're getting
together with the Lord here think about this this verse is 1st Thessalonians 4
everybody agrees the rapture I don't care if you're pre-trib or mid-trib
post-trib pre-rath post-trib like everybody's just like hey 1st Thessalonians 4
is the rapture okay what does it say in verse number 17 and so shall we ever be
with the Lord so at what point are we not with the Lord after this mark never
so then what's the point of me being gathered again later there wouldn't be
because I'm already with him there's not another gathering I'm already with him
this is the gathering there's only one gathering and how long am I with forever
now if he left again and then the okay now there's another gathering whatever
no I'm gathered together with them right now at this point in history I would be
gathered together with him so this matches the same language the same time
plus if I'm gathered with them at this point there's no need for me to back be
gathered again in Revelation 19 you know why because I'm already with Christ and
whenever you look at Revelation chapter 19 Christ is coming from heaven with us
why because we've already been gathered and we're already with him okay now
here's another thing that's interesting chapter 5 look at verse 1 but of the
times and the seasons brethren you have no need that I write unto you now that's
an interesting verse he's saying I wouldn't even have to write first
Thessalonians chapter number 4 and you would already know about this event you
would already know everything you need to know about this event now why does
that make sense how in the world do Christians already know about the timing
of being gathered together with Jesus it's because Jesus told us in Matthew
Mark and Luke but you know if he didn't tell us in Matthew Mark and Luke I don't
know how they would make sense of this verse like hey I don't you don't even
need me to tell you about this event that I've never told you about that no
one's ever told you about no no if I have no need to tell you then it must be
somewhere else right just like what if it said in verse 11 is here like I don't
need to tell you the gospel you don't need me to tell you the gospel here why
because we have it in John because we have it in Romans because we have it in
act like it would make sense because it exists somewhere else so for the
pre-tribber they have to find a passage that matches 1st Thessalonians chapter
4 that was already told to them beforehand where's that they don't have
it but I have it it's called Matthew chapter number 24 what let's go there
let's go to Matthew 24 you know why there's no need for the Apostle Paul to
have told them this because they already knew it you know what he's doing is
bringing things their remembrance right obviously sometimes it's important to
repeat things you could repeat it to the pre-tribbers all day long they just
won't get it for some reason Matthew 24 and a lot of times they they'll go to
this chapter but they just won't read verse 29 we're gonna read it today but
before we read it look at verse 3 and as he sat upon the Mount of Olives talking
about Jesus the disciples came in and privately saying tell us when shall
these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of
the world so notice the context of Matthew 24 is the return of Jesus the
coming of Jesus Christ look at verse 29 immediately after the tribulation of
those days saw the Sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and
the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken
and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven and then shall all
the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man what's the next
word coming in the cloud hey what do you think Matthew 24 verse 29 is about and
verse 30 how about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ since it literally
says that it's the coming of Jesus Christ how is this any different than
what first Thessalonians chapter number four said when I said Jesus Christ is
coming in the clouds and then we read in Matthew 24 Jesus is coming in the clouds
what's the sign of you coming in the clouds so it's saying he's coming in the
clouds here just like I said in second Thessalonians chapter two and then in
second Thessalonians chapter two it said that the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is the time
that what we're gathered together right okay well what does it say as we keep
reading it says and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory and he shall send his angels with the great
sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds
from one end of heaven to the other notice again gather together notice a
common theme second thousand journey gather together Matthew 24 gather
together first that's what it's for together and notice every time it's
being gathered together gather together gather together why because it's the
same event that we're talking about how we're going to be gathered together with
Jesus Christ at his return and of course a lot of these elements overlap
they match go if you would to mark chapter 13 go to mark chapter number 13
the Bible super clear on this topic you know what some people will say they'll
say oh well pastor Shelley you're so ignorant because it said that he's gonna
gather together his elect and I have been to a pre-trib church where they
read verse 29 and I was like I was like physically unable to control myself
thinking like what in the world just happened like did he just debunk his
whole sermon like I'm sitting here thinking like do you know what you just
read and then he's like now we want to make sure that we're not gonna apply
that verse to us okay this is for the elect and then he goes to somewhere in
Psalms and shows how the elect is Israel and so he's like see he's talking
about Israel you don't want to get screwed up on this because if you start
applying that to us it's gonna change how you behave you know as a Christian
so and I'm thinking like yeah I might start believing the Bible you know but
I'm gonna read this before I answer that question but look at Mark 13 verse 24
the Bible says but in those days after that tribulation the Sun shall be dark
and in the moon shall not give her light and the stars of heaven shall fall and
the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken and then shall they see the Son
of man humming in the clouds great power and glory and then shall he send his
angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds from the
uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. Opsie,
pastor Shelley you're just screwed up it's the elect again that get gathered
together okay what does it say in the last verse of this chapter and what I
say unto you I say unto Jews oh wait I did I read that wrong and what I say to
us in Israel oh no no and what I say unto you I say unto all watch oh the
elect is just the no no no it's to everyone everyone is being warned Jesus
Christ will come back and it's not just for the Jews now let's prove beyond a
shadow of a doubt that the elect is not just Jews go to 1st Peter chapter number
one go into the it's towards the end of your Bible 1st Peter chapter number one
here's the problem when you only use one place in the Bible for a definition is
you could be wrong you need to look at all the different uses of a particular
word in the Bible to make sure your definitions right because sometimes a
definition can be multiple like the word wine the word wine in your Bible
sometimes means an alcoholic beverage and what we would think of at the store
wine in a box or something right other times wine just simply means the juice
of a fruit okay and that's just an it could be a non-alcoholic juice that
comes from a fruit that's also wine so there's intoxicating wine there's not
intoxicating wine so then some people to go to passages in the Bible where it
talks positively about wine and they'll say see it's cool to drink booze and
you're like no how about all these other place in the Bible where it's saying not
to drink booze like wine is a mocker how is how does that match with your
drinking booze doctrine it doesn't okay because you have to look up all the
different definitions the word repent the word repent can be used in a lot of
different contexts word believe could be used in multiple context you have to
look at all of them and when it comes to elect you know it's not so much that it
doesn't mean Israel it's just that your definition isn't all the way narrowed in
to the accurate definition what is elect elect means chosen so you could
technically elect all kinds of things right and you could choose all kinds of
different things but when it comes to the elect just as a group it's just the
saved the Bible constantly makes it clear to those who have believed in
Jesus Christ so I don't care if you're red yellow black or white if you believe
in Jesus Christ you are elect and look what the Bible says in first Peter
chapter number two I'm sorry verse two chapter one verse two elect according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit
unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ grace be undue in
peace be multiplied now he's saying the reason why we're elect is according to
the foreknowledge of God but notice what made us elect we were sanctified and it
was the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ not talking about
an ethnicity here now look at verse one Peter and Apostle Jesus Christ to the
strangers scattered throughout Pontius Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia
what does he mean by strangers strangers are non-jews so the author is literally
saying hey people that are not Jews you are elect because what you believed on
Jesus Christ that is why you're elect and you know there's so many religions
out there that want to make themselves elect or a race elect or a nationality
elect but let me tell you something God is not a respecter of persons he doesn't
care what your ethnicity is and the Jews are not elect strangers who have
believed in Jesus Christ are elect I'm elect you're elect if you believed in
Jesus Christ not because I did anything special but because I believe in Jesus
Christ now let's prove it further go back to 1st Thessalonians chapter
number one 1st Thessalonians chapter number one where we kind of started off
our sermon if you run into the T's you're you're next to all the other ones
all right 1st Thessalonians chapter one look at verse number four knowing
brethren beloved your election of God is there any confusion that Thessalonians
is written to Gentiles no it's very clearly written to Gentiles but just in
case you're a naysayer let's prove it a little bit harder okay because he's
talking to those in Thessalonica those who are pagan how they're elect of God
but you know he makes a contrast in chapter 2 look at verse number 14 for
ye brethren became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in
Christ Jesus for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen even
as they have of the Jews so saying you guys are different than another group
you know it's group the Jews and you suffered things of your own countrymen
like they did of the Jews meaning that the church of Thessalonica did not
suffer at the hands of the Jews they suffered at the hands of Gentiles
because they're Gentiles you know those Gentiles are elect those Gentiles are
saved the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have
persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men are not the
elect you know it's funny I think someone had like posted on Twitter they
had said something like the Jews you know are not God's chosen people or
they're they're not elect is a is just an anti-semitic lie there was just like
someone's like some Jew or some ADL or something like hey these people that are
saying the Jews are not God's chosen people this is just an anti-semitic lie
and then it's just like down below it's community notes and it's like well
actually the Bible says that the Jews are not God's chosen it's like oh based
you know sorry facts the Bible says that well actually the Bible says that y'all
killed Jesus they're like well there's this anti-semitic lie that Jews killed
Jesus it's called first Thessalonians chapter number two who both killed the
Lord Jesus I'm just reading the Bible the Bible says that the Jews killed Jesus
they're like how dare you just lump a whole group of people together that's
what the Bible did how dare you say it wasn't every single Jew we'll take it up
with with the Holy Spirit because he said the Jews he just clumped all these
people together and just said Jews killed Jesus people like these are just
anti-semitic lies you know what I have a personal friend who's a Jew that loves
Jesus and you know what I like him I'm not anti him I'm not against him I don't
dislike him and you know what to be a Semite is not even just limited to Jews
it's basically like anybody from that region so there's other people in this
room that would fit that description I'm not gonna point their nose out or
anything okay but let's just be honest there's some Semites among us and you
know what I love them too I'm not anti-semitic I'm anti-satanism that's what
I am and you know it's so silly because it's like these pre-tribbers they're
just like oh but you gotta it's the elect we want the elect it's just like
dude the the elect that you love so much are the biggest distributors of
pornography in our country are the ones charging so much usury and interest you
know I didn't have time to read it but I was looking at that the laws of
Connecticut of 1673 that I had it has a section on usury and and I was looking
at it and it was basically like saying hey we're not gonna charge usury you
know against contrary to the Bible but they did allow for people to be fined or
something basically a portion of money if they owed a debt and it was like the
most you could be charged was six out of a hundred dollars you know and I'm using
dollars just to give you some kind of like colloquialism it was like you
couldn't be charged more than that for the year six out of a hundred dollars
now anybody knows anything about compounding interest rates knows many of
us are getting raped over the coals at rates way higher than that and just
completely devastated through usury and interest and everything like that but
they were saying like hey we're not gonna have these predatory lending
practices in our colony in our society and let me tell you something you know
the synagogue of Satan is the one oppressing the world of through usury
through pornography through smut through filth through all the evils that are
going on in our society and yet they have to hold on and cling on to this
elect definition that's not biblical now I'm going to prove it even more go to
Colossians chapter number three go to Colossians the New Testament Galatians
Ephesians Philippians Colossians look at chapter 3 verse 12 now okay I want to
read verse 11 because it gives us great context but look at verse 11 where there
is neither Greek nor Jew circumcision nor uncircumcision barbarian Scythian
bond nor free but Christ is in all I'm sorry is all and in all put on
therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved balsamers is kindness humbleness
of mind meekness long story you know he's saying it doesn't matter if you're
a Jew or a Greek or a barbarian or a Scythian male female anything if you
believed on Jesus Christ you're elect and you should act like that you should
act like a Christian act like someone who is saved now go for the second
Timothy chapter number two for a moment I'm gonna prove my point now now that
I've kind of laid a little bit of a groundwork point one was this the pre
trib rapture cult destroys people's faith now this is not a new thing to me
this is not my personal opinion this is what the Bible teaches okay I'm gonna
prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt look at second Timothy chapter 2 verse
16 but shun profane and vain babblings for they will increase unto more
ungodliness and their word will eat as death a canker of whom is hymenase and
philetus who concerning the truth have aired saying that the resurrection is
passed already and overthrow the faith of some so according to the Bible when
you have a wrong view on eschatology you have a wrong view on Jesus Christ or his
return or any of these events it literally damages people's faith and can
cause them to lose the faith and to overthrow their faith oh you know what
people have already been resurrected no that hasn't happened the rapture has not
happened and as a result of that it could cause people's faith to literally
be destroyed by having the wrong in times you and I guarantee there's plenty
of people they go to church and they hear about how Christ is basically to
come back where the sermons over and they get all hyped up and excited like
oh yeah Christ is coming back and then it doesn't happen and then it doesn't
happen that doesn't and they're just thinking like this guy seemed like a
liar this guy doesn't seem like he knows what he's talking about I've been
coming to this church for 50 years and Christ doesn't come back what's the
problem well it's because the man of sin hasn't been revealed yet we're not there
yet and why why waste so much precious church time you know trying to scare you
into thinking Christ is about to come back when it's not even true it's
literally destroying people's faith causing them to quit church not show up
not believe large portions of the Bible and frankly speaking people that have a
pre-trib rapture viewpoint cannot understand revelation at all it is just
like I mean revelation to them is like just a complete mystery it's called
revelation it's not called mystery it should reveal things like revelation is
one of the clearest books of the Bible on in times prophecy and then they'll
act like oh man it's just so hard to understand that's just because your
pre-trib rapture is false if you throw that in the trash revelation just starts
making perfect sense and you're like how does it make perfect sense because it's
just going perfectly in chronology of like everything's gonna happen you're
like you mean like when it says and next or then it actually means like next or
then like yeah it literally means that it's like literally just following a
perfect you know chronology of the events of the end time and of course
there is one overlap but once you figure out the overlap I mean it's it's easy
it's clear go over to Titus chapter 3 just flip the place to the right you're
right there Titus chapter 3 and look at verse 10 so point one is this the pre-trib
rapture cult destroys the faith of Christians and you know what it just
makes me upset how many Christians tonight are anticipating Christ to
return tonight and it's not true Jesus Christ will not come back today he won't
come back tomorrow he won't come back this year he's not coming back next year
now when we start getting to like three or four or five years in the future I
have no idea okay and I'm never gonna predict when he's coming back okay so
don't worry but I do know it's not gonna happen now I know it's not gonna happen
this year I know it's not gonna happen next year we have not entered into the
end times tribulation period by any stretch of the imagination and you know
there's a lot of evil that's happened there's a lot of problems but the mark
of the beast is not here it does not exist okay so you can go online go on
the internet the mark of the beast is here we're in the end times Jesus already
come I mean think about how many false prophets have even prophesied of Jesus
coming back and just destroyed people's faith there's the great disappointment
there was an event in history where this false prophet got up and just said on
this date in this year Jesus Christ is coming back and then guess what happened
he didn't and they're like well he came back but just us you know I'll tell you
all about it later it's like no he didn't there's all kinds of cults out
there that have predicted Christ's return and they're always wrong I think
at Robert Breaker I'm pretty sure he's he's predicted Jesus Christ coming back
the like YouTube like dry erase false prophet like dude anybody that predicts
Jesus Christ coming back and is wrong is just someone you should never listen to
ever again there's an instant you're wrong there's an instant I never want to
hear you speak again you know it's just that's that's what the Bible really says
about these people now when it comes to someone that believes in the preacher
rapture or a church that believes this I don't think it's necessarily something
that I would just decide not to be their friend or not hang out with them or not
support other parts of their ministry it's obviously I mean I'm telling you I
don't believe it okay but if someone did believe it you know what I'm gonna be
nice to that person and I'm gonna try and show them the Bible and I would
still be willing to be their friend you know what they treat us like we're
heretics now look what it says in Titus chapter 3 verse 10 a man that is an
heretic after the first and second admonition reject now I want to point
this out because even if let's just say hypothetically we live in fantasy world
and we're wrong and they're right okay it really is a preacher of rapture based
on no verses in the Bible then wouldn't you at least even if I'm a heretic
wouldn't I at least get two admonitions but they won't even give me the first
one they won't even debate you at the first they won't even show you their
stupid doctrine at first it's so complicated like well we gotta have an
expert come in here whatever like like they're not even willing to have the
first debate and it's like if you're so right and I'm so wrong wouldn't you
lovingly just open up your Bible and just show me how I'm wrong you know what
they won't do that oh you listen to pastor Anderson get out of here oh you
don't believe in the pre-trip click I mean I remember this guy called me from
Germany and he's just like talking to me about his church he's just like yeah we
need we need more support and I was like okay tell me about your church he's like
yeah you know my dad started this church and then I've taken over we've had this
church for decades and I'm like well how many people do you have in your church
12 wow yeah a lot of a lot of decades for 12 people and I was like okay well
what part of the you know Germany you're in he's like oh we're in this small
village he's like well how many people there he's like 600 like have you ever
thought about going somewhere else and he's just like yeah I've thought about
that hey I'm like why would I give you money to keep building your 12-person
church like why wouldn't you decide to go somewhere else or like is there
another option here you know so I'm just kind of trying to be like I wasn't being
hostile I was just kind of trying to be friendly and like learn about his
ministry and then he's like I think I said okay well what do you know you go
soul wedding he's like yeah okay he's like we've already knocked on every door
he's like well you know maybe you should try going some other places or whatever
and I was like well what do you what do you think about you know like salvation
or whatever and he's like yeah you got to repent of your sins and all this and I
said oh okay you know well the Bible talks about God repenting you know what
does that mean hey do you believe in the preacher of Rapture I was like well I
don't I said you know what I don't care about in times eschatology that's not a
point of fellowship for me so like I don't care he's like no did you believe
the preacher of Rapture and I was like no and he's like bye and then he's hung
up I was like what in the world you want my money you call me I don't know you
from Adam and you call me from Germany which wasted like $20 on my phone bill
it's like it's taking international calls or something I just spend $20 to
talk to you for five ten minutes and you want my money and as soon as you find
out I'm not pre-trib you just click you know why because it's a cult that can't
defend their doctrine that's why and he knows if he even took my money or had
anything to do with me he would get dropped by his cult and they wouldn't
support him anymore and so he can't have anything to do with us he also knows
that repent of your sins he's a heretic and he would have gotten called out for
that too okay that's why he made the instant connection like it this sounds
like someone you know probably related to pastor Anderson the new IV like I
better be careful and then just like their buzzword do you believe we preach
your rapture you know oh click it's a cult and they won't have fellowship with
I'll have fellowship with a pre-tribber they won't have fellowship with me it's
like hey why don't you have more friends it's like because no one wants you know
they don't want to be my friend you know they don't want to be nice to us and you
know frankly speaking I'm not interested in joining cults anyway so you know it's
not it doesn't really hurt my feelings but at the same time it just doesn't
make any sense go to Revelation chapter 2 go to
Revelation chapter 2 you know so funny is I'm such a heretic for believing in
the post-trib you know pre-rather rapture you know by them being pre-trib
you know who they hang out with hardcore dispensationalists they'll
literally they'll literally be buddies with someone that teaches that you were
saved by works in the Old Testament but they believe in the preacher rapture
but they won't hang out with me who believes salvation by faith alone in all
generations the everlasting gospel but I differ than them on eschatology how
stupid is that how have a critical is that and think about in the Bible I
mean you know am I really that scary of a person because I don't believe in your
timing of the rapture I mean look at Revelation chapter 2 verse 14 how about
this church but I have a few things against thee because thou hast them
there or they're them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balaam to
cast a stumbling block for the children of Israel to eat things sacrifice and
idols and to commit fornication so this church is literally teaching people to
eat meat sacrifice and idols and to commit fornication and yet Jesus is
talking to them like am I that bad am I really worse than this church there's
another church in here that has a woman preacher and you know what this epistle
was supposed to be sent to all seven churches for them to all read about each
other it's like these seven churches can know about each other and associate
with each other but you can't associate with me because I don't believe in your
stupid preacher/baptist give me a break oh I don't want to be ecumenical you
don't even know what that word means people get so wound up about
ecumenicalism it's like ecumenicalism is when I start having a Catholic and a
Hindu come in here and preach okay that's what true ecumenicalism is not
like well this independent fundamental Baptist preacher does close communion I
can't you know I can't associate with him you don't even know what ecumenical
means and it's so stupid it's like the whole world is destroying itself the
whole America is literally promoting men wearing women's underwear and that they
can menstruate and that they can go into the bathroom and then you can't be my
friend because of the timing of the rapture it's like you're letting the
devil win fundamental Baptist should be friends with other fundamental Baptist
folks now look if you're rolling the gospel go to hell I don't care about you
okay but you know when we're not talking about the gospel here it's like it's so
foolish for us to not be friends and why are they not friends with us because
they're in a cult but you know what people need to start leaving the pre
trip rapture cult and you know I don't care if they're pre-trib as much as just
leaving the cult and you know what I do know as soon as they leave the cult will
probably come on our side anyways because you know we have the Bible on
our side okay we have faith on our side it is ridiculous to sit here and act
like I'm such a raging heretic you can't hang out with me because my views on
eschatology when we look at some of the churches in the Bible what they were
tolerating I mean am I really worse than Pergamos here folks I mean that's
ridiculous and of course we're right I'm just saying even if I was wrong is this
really worse no good at first John chapter number four but you know what old IFB
churches all day long better not hang out with the new IFB better not hang out
pastor Anderson better not hang out with that pastor Shelley you know oh man then
you'll then you'll start thinking all crazy things he'll start thinking things
about them Jews you know and we gotta bless the Jew amen let's run with them
Israel flag a couple more times in here you know it's like dude why can't you
just read the Bible out loud you know fix these churches just forcing them to
read sections of the Bible the whole church how about this section of
scripture 1st John chapter 4 verse 20 if a man say I love God and hated his
brother he is a liar you're so funny they always talk about our churches or
me like we're so hateful oh you're so hateful and so mean or whatever you know
what you're hateful for not liking us you're hateful you're the hateful one
you're the liar because you don't love us when are you reaching out I mean I've
never had any of these pastors call me and be like pastor Shelley you're
sincerely wrong in the pre-trib rapture let me explain it to you from the Bible
you know why because they're wrong and they know they're wrong and they know
they can't defend their position so they just hide they hide and they destroy
fellowship go to Galatians chapter 4 go to Galatians chapter 4 I'm gonna
wrap up here point one is the pre-trib rapture destroys faith point two is it
destroys fellowship but point three it destroys fighting and I kid you not I
was in an old Ivy Church the sermons on the pre-trib rapture which I was
thinking how wonderful it couldn't be on any other topic the one time I show up
here but literally after reading Matthew 24 and and telling us how this is
actually for the Jews he's just like look if you apply Matthew 24 to us you're
gonna start getting involved in things that other Baptists are getting
involved in that we shouldn't be getting involved in oh you mean like the
spiritual war oh you mean like this word called persecution you want to know why
they refuse to believe that the it's a pre-wrath rapture is because they don't
want persecution it's a sign of what's in their heart they're so afraid of
tribulation and persecution they have to project this pre-tribe doctrine and the
only way for them to not be persecuted is to hide is to not say what they
believe is to not tell anybody what they believe and they just hang on for dear
life like you know it's like the world keeps getting weirder and weirder and
they're just like I can't say anything anymore I'm gonna get persecuted but
they just keep hiding and hiding I mean they're sermons you have to put in like
their little code on their website just to get the sermons why because they're
afraid of being persecuted because you know it's gonna be really hard to
convince their whole church that they're not gonna go through tribulation when
they're going through tribulation I don't know if that's a shock you know
imagine if I was like hey guys we're not gonna suffer any persecution no
tribulation Christ is gonna come and take us out before we see any tribulation
a person you'd be like what it's wrong with pastor Shelley you know this guy
doesn't understand these words right and so they they're affecting people's zeal
now look at Galatians chapter 4 verse 16 the Bible says am I therefore become
your enemy because I tell you the truth they zealously affect you not well yea
they would exclude you that you might affect them so here's the thing am I
really their enemy because I tell them the truth and of course this context is
about salvation but what I think is interesting is how they're zealously
affecting them but not well and you know the preacher of rapture affects people
but not well it causes them to refuse to stand up against the evils of this world
and it make it's just a wet blanket on zeal it just causes them to basically be
a wet noodle refuse to say anything because they just think they're gonna
get out of here I mean and the whole sermon you know the whole sermon was let
me tell you about all the horrible things are gonna happen to people and
how we're not gonna be there I'm thinking like what's the point of that
like oh man people are gonna really be suffering for Christ not us oh man you
know all these bad things are gonna happen not us oh man look at all these
sections of my life nothing to do with us you know it's just like the whole
thing it's like what how are you gonna be
zealous when none of it applies to you go to 2nd Timothy 3 we'll finish okay
2nd Thessalonians chapter number I'm sorry 2nd Timothy chapter 3 look it's
important to believe the right doctrine because it affects your whole life and
you're knowing that Christ is gonna return doesn't it doesn't change my
attitude on it's like I'm not like sitting here just like now so sad or
something like oh I just wish he was coming back you know why because I'm
already facing tribulation so I'm just like okay bring it on you know but for
the Christians that have never faced any persecution or any tribulation to them
is just so scary and just like but I just don't want to have to do it that's
like but look at the people in the Bible I mean Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
they got to go to the fiery furnace now first it sounded rough you know I'm sure
before that they were thinking like this is not something I really wanted to try
you know I didn't really want to go into a furnace that's been heated seven times
but you know what after the experience they're like that was pretty cool it's
like it's like your kids for the first time on a roller coaster ride they're
like no no no no and then after they ride it they're like I want to do that
again but you know what that is how the Christian life is you know sometimes
you're like I don't know if I want to go through that but then you go through
and you're like that was kind of cool let's try it again you know let's get a
bigger protest next time you know it's like bring it on you know that's the
kind of add and I mean anybody in here I guarantee all of you if I said hey God
wants you to go through a finding a furnace but you're never gonna be hurt
you'd be like I'm ready I want to do it but if it was like we're not sure you
probably like man you know I'm good I don't need to figure it out you know
it's like it's 50/50 whether you're gonna burn alive or make it through do
you want to try it you're like nah so like for these pre-tribbers they're
sitting here thinking like nah I don't really want to try it so they just won't
preach the truth but look what the Bible says in verse 12 yea and all that will
live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution now this point proves that
the preacher rapture is destroying people's faith destroying their
fellowship and destroying their fighting you know why because if you're godly
you're going to suffer persecution so the reason why you're not suffering
persecution it's really clear why because you're not godly you're not
godly and let me tell you something a lot of these pre-trib churches because
they're in this cult they've stopped preaching the Bible they preach feel
good messages because how in the world are you gonna preach I mean have you
even read Psalms it's all about persecution and tribulation have you
read any of the stories in the Bible about the men of the Bible it's constant
tribulation and persecution so then when you go to a pre-trib church what's
left over to preach when it's not about tribulation and persecution another
sermon on Psalm 23 today another sermon on first Corinthians 13 oh everybody
let's just feel good okay make sure to tip your Starbucks
waiter you know you know there's sometimes they give out the paper straws
but you know we can endure that persecution okay guys and it's just
like everybody's just so weak and lame and they're never persecuted they're
like you know if they have the pronoun on their name badge you know just use it
just be nice okay guys it's like that's not that's not what the Bible teaches
okay and so we need to you know help those that are in this cult realize it's
okay to leave it's okay to believe the Bible it's okay to actually live out
your faith you know what our church has suffered a lot of persecution and
tribulation but to me where I'm standing right now it's really been like
Shadrach Meshach and Abednego or I just feel like it wasn't even any singe and
it's just like you know if someone has said like hey I'm gonna tell you what
you're gonna go through I've been like yeah you know we're like sitting on the
other side of a lot of this and I'm just thinking like that was awesome let's
try it again let's get on the rollercoaster again and you know what
that's just the reality we're headed towards tribulation and persecution just
get over it just embrace it just be a faithful Christian you know some of the
people in Revelation were told to be faithful unto death and you're not even
being asked that can you just be faithful in the life can you just be faithful you
know and and we need to help other churches realize it's okay to be friends
with Steadfast Baptist Church you know and if you get a little persecution or
tribulation you know what I'll say good job on being godly let's go some prayer
thank you heavenly father so much for giving us these these scriptures and
these verses so we could prepare for the future I pray that you would just help
us to understand that even though you you want us to go through some
tribulation and some persecution in this life that it's not even the
sufferings of this life are not even worthy to be compared with the glory is
going to be revealed in us that that it's really not even a big deal and that
you're still a faithful creator no matter what we go through and even if we
do suffer greatly that will just be rewarded for it for all of eternity and
that it's better to be you know faithful and believing the Bible than to just
hide ourselves and harken to lies and be a coward I pray that you would embolden
us and they would embolden those in our lives to actually live out their faith
and to challenge this world and to get involved in the spiritual fight and to
not just cower and hide away in Jesus name we pray amen right for our final
song we're gonna go to 229 since I have been redeemed and please remember to
stick around those of you that are members for our financial meeting after
the song 229 since I have been redeemed song 229 since I have been redeemed