Angels with
get to that chorus. We're not in a hurry. Lift it up to our Lord this morning and let our
voices be heard. Sing it on that last verse now.
Welcome everyone to steadfast baptist church. Let's find our seats and open our hymn books to page 40
Welcome to steadfast baptist church. Let's open our hymn books to page 40 sing our first song
There shall be no disappointment in heaven
Page 40 no disappointment in heaven
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for today and for the preaching and the preaching we'll hear this
evening. Pray, Lord, that you would bless the service and the fellowship here this evening and that
thank you for the salvatans and the soldiers who went out today in your field and to do work for
you. Pray, Lord, that you would fill Brother Marcel with the Holy Spirit as he preaches unto us your
word and that we would apply it to our lives. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Amen. Our second song will
page 177 when love shines in.
announcements. Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. Our Bible
memory passage is again, Jude verse five. If you have that
passage memorized, you can get a ice cream cone. If you've
memorized the whole book, you can get a gift card is what I'm
hearing. So memorize the whole book, you get a gift card.
That's pretty cool. Our service times, our Spanish service is
at 9am on Sundays.
Our Sunday morning is at 10.30 AM Sunday evening right now for 30 PM.
Then we have a Wednesday evening Bible study at 7 PM.
We have Churchwide Soul Winning.
Pastor Shelley runs one on Sunday at 2 PM and also on Wednesday before the service at 5.15.
We have a list of our regional soul winning.
If you want to go soul winning throughout the week,
you can get in touch with one of the members there on the list and get a location.
If you want to go soul winning throughout the week.
We have some of our church stats, Salvation's year-to-date, Salvation's this month, and keep it up.
Let's try to beat Evangelist Urbanik out there in the Philippines. Who's winning right now?
Does anyone know who's winning? Are we winning? Good job. Keep up the good work.
We will beat Evangelist Urbanik. He's doing a great job out there. Praise the Lord.
We have baptisms here today. Let's crush our last year's baptism.
Elijah and Olivia Scott, praise the Lord, they had their baby boy born this
morning at 6.50 a.m. weighing 5 pounds 10 ounces and 19 inches long. You can clap
again.
Make sure you congratulate the Scott family on their new baby boy.
That is a blessing.
Continue to pray for our expecting ladies on the bulletin.
You can look at our upcoming events here in the bulletin.
We have a soul-warning marathon in Klebern.
Is that how you pronounce it?
Klebern, Texas.
It sounds like we're just going to meet on location out there in Klebern.
So it's not going to be like a breakfast or anything here at the church beforehand.
Just we're going to meet out there in Cleburne.
It doesn't sound like it's door to door.
It sounds like there's a baseball event or some sort of event going on out there.
So there's going to be a lot of spectators, people watching.
So might be a good opportunity for you to go out there and get a lot of people saved.
On May 31st, we have a soul winning marathon in Durant.
That's going to be coming up after the Cleburne soul winning marathon.
I don't know exactly what the Father's Day floats is, but that's coming up on June 15th.
Some of you might know what that is.
So many Marathon in Shreveport, Louisiana, that's going to be cool.
June 28th, so put that down on your schedule.
June 28th, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Continue to pray for all the people on our prayer list on the back of the bulletin.
Keep them in your prayers and in your hearts and minds.
And I think that's pretty much it for our announcements.
Let's go ahead and get into our third Psalm this evening.
It's going to be a Psalm, Psalm 126.
So you have your Bible or a binder in front of your seat.
Psalm 126.
days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt
say, I have no pleasure in them.
While the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds
return after the rain."
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble,
when the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few,
and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets,
when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird,
and all the daughters of music shall be brought low."
Also, when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and
the almond trees shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail,
because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets, or ever the
silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain,
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it
Vanity of vanity sayeth the preacher all is vanity and moreover because the preacher was wise
He still taught the people knowledge, yea, he gave good heed and sought out and said in order many proverbs.
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies which are given from one shepherd.
And further by these, my son, be admonished of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the Word of God.
Thank you for the King James Bible.
I ask you to please give Pastor Shelly safe travels back home.
And I ask you to bless Brother Marcel now
as he preaches the Word, give him boldness,
and help us to be attentive to your Word.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Amen. I want to begin by thanking Pastor Shelly for the opportunity to be able to preach is always a privilege and our honor
To preach the word of God. This is not something that I take lightly or any man should take lightly
Whenever you're behind the word of God because you know your God's man preaching God's word and this is a big responsibility
But if you're there in Ecclesiastes chapter 12, look at the Bible reads in verse 13
The Bible says let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter
fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man.
And the title of my sermon this evening
is fear God and keep his commandments.
Fear God and keep his commandments.
Now, what it means to fear, it just means to be afraid.
But you're afraid of something
that's gonna possibly happen.
So a definition is anticipation of the possibility
that something unpleasant will occur.
And I'm gonna go through
and kind of say a lot of unpleasant things that can occur
when you don't fear God and you don't keep His commandments.
Now, we live in a society today that doesn't fear God.
We live in a society today that passes laws
that is contrary to the word of God,
like same-sex marriage.
We have men that don't fear God anymore.
Women don't fear God.
Children don't fear God.
And the Bible says that we need to fear God
and keep His commandments
because this is the whole duty of man.
And if you will, turning your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 10.
Now, what is duty?
A duty is a task or chore that a person is expected to perform.
something that somebody is required to do.
When something is your duty,
this is what you're required to do.
If you work at Subway, your job is to make sandwiches.
If you work at In-N-Out, your job is to make burgers.
If you work at, you know, McDonald's,
you make burgers, fries, Chick-fil-A, doesn't matter.
That's your job that you're required to do.
And if you don't do what you're required to do,
you're gonna get fired.
The Bible says, in Deuteronomy chapter 10,
What does the Lord thy God require of thee?
But to fear the Lord thy God to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God
With all thy heart with all thy soul to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes
Which I command thee this day for thy good. So the Bible said that you need to fear God again
And this is what you're required to do. God is not asking you to do this
God is requiring you to do this which commandments all of them
the big ones, the little ones.
God requires us to keep all of his commandments
and to do them, to love him, and it's for our good.
Now, if you would, turning your Bibles to Matthew chapter 10,
I'm gonna give you three reasons tonight
why we should fear God.
Three reasons why we should fear God.
Number one is because God can destroy your life.
Now when I say destroy your life, yes, he can destroy your life financially.
He can destroy your health, which are some things we're going to go over tonight.
But I'm talking about God can physically kill you.
Not only physically kill you, God can kill you spiritually as well.
Now look what the Bible says in Matthew chapter 10 verse 28.
The Bible says and fear not thumb which kill the body
But are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body and health
So the Bible is very clear on this topic
We shouldn't fear people that can kill the body
You know a lot of people may be afraid of the Taliban a lot of people because you know
They might try to kill you but the Bible tells you don't fear them which kill the body
The person that we should fear is the person that can
kill both soul and body in hell.
Now right here, when the Bible says
that the person that can kill you,
they can't kill your soul,
what this is talking about is when somebody dies
as an unsafe person, that their soul will go to hell.
they will be in hell until the resurrection of damnation. They will be
in hell until the resurrection of the unjust. Now the Bible talks about that
there's two resurrections. The first resurrection is when us saved believers
we get raptured up. And you know when Jesus died, Jesus says destroy this
temple and in three days will I raise it up again.
and he spake of the temple of his body.
Now we believe that when Jesus Christ died
that he physically arose from the dead.
He showed his hands to his disciples, his apostles,
they saw him, they ate with him.
So we believe in a literal bodily resurrection.
And the Bible talks about that the resurrection of the unjust
is going to be, I believe, is a bodily resurrection as well.
So at the Great White Throne Judgment,
when these people who are not saved,
when they get resurrected,
when they stand at the Great White Throne Judgment,
God is going to judge them according to their works.
And they're going to be cast into the lake of fire,
which is the second death.
And the Bible says whosoever was not found
written in the book of life
was also cast into the lake of fire.
Now, the reason why I also believe that, you know,
that God can destroy both soul and body and hell
is a physical, your physical body will go to hell.
There's many examples, but number one is
because the resurrection of the unjust,
you know, you're resurrecting your body.
But also, when you see the battle of Armageddon,
we see that the Antichrist and the false prophet
that they're cast alive into the lake of fire.
And there are only ones that's there.
Then Satan is gonna be cast into the lake of fire
after a thousand years,
and then whosoever was not found in the book of life.
So, you know as Christians because we know this the Bible says won't if you preach not the gospel
You know as Christians. This is our whole duty. This is what we're required to do
We need to fear God and keep his commandments and go soul-warning and not only just you know
Sometimes all the time whenever we have an opportunity. We need to open our mouths boldly and make known the mystery of the gospel
There's a whole world that doesn't know
Every time you talk to people, you're knocking the doors.
Like, hey, do you know for sure if you die today,
you're going to heaven?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, what do you got to do to go to heaven? Oh, be a good person. Follow God
Nobody knows and the Bible said that if our gospel be hid
It is hidden to them that are lost the person that is lost the person that is unsafe
They have no idea what it takes to go to heaven. They could read the Bible all day
Try to learn scriptures. They will never figure it out
So it takes us to go and do it and that's our duty. This is not what this is not a suggestion
This is not an option. This is what God requires of us
And the Bible says, if any man in me that bears my fruit,
God take it away.
So if you are saved, you know, you're not going to go to the
lake of fire.
You don't have to worry about going to the lake of fire.
But if you are saved, God can kill you physically.
And that is also something that you should fear.
You should fear God because he can destroy your life physically.
He can physically kill you on this earth.
Now if you would, turn your Bible to Acts chapter five.
We're gonna go through a story of saved believers that God kills that God destroys
Why because they don't fear God and they don't keep his commandments and that's their duty
Lugrida says in Acts chapter 5
Verse one,
But a certain man named Ananias with Sapphira his wife sold a possession and kept back part of the price
His wife also being privy to it and brought certain and brought a certain price and laid it at the Apostles feet
But Peter said Ananias why has Satan
filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the land
Who also remain was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own power
Why has thou conceived this thing in thine heart that has not lied unto men but unto God and
And an eyes hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghosts and great fear
Came upon all them that heard these things and the young man arose wound him up and carried him out and buried him
So we see Ananias dropping dead because he lies to the Holy Ghost.
You know, Peter says, why has Satan filled that heart?
Why has Satan filled that heart to conceive this thing?
You know, so a lot of times, you know, somebody lies,
people think they're going to get away with it,
but a small sin like telling a lie, somebody is dying for that sin.
And the Bible says in Colossians, you don't have to turn there,
it says, lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man.
So one of the ten commandments is thou shalt not bear false witness.
And these people, because they don't fear God, they didn't keep his commandments.
They actually had a false witness.
And because of that, they died on the spot because of that.
And the Bible says that the young men in rose,
wound them up and buried them.
So imagine somebody coming to church.
Just imagine this, and Pastor Charley said,
hey, did you sell the land for this much?
Yeah.
Boom, dead right there.
You guys will be freaked out.
Kids will be screaming.
And then it says, the young men are rose,
and they bombed them up and took them out.
So that's going to be your job.
If somebody dies in here, you're going to rise and bound them
up and take them out, bury them.
That's the young man's job right there.
So we see the young men arise, they wand them up,
Now, God does not respect the persons.
God killed this man for lying, but you know what?
Woman, you're also responsible for your own actions.
God is not a feminist.
You know, God will kill a man for sinning,
God will kill a woman for sinning.
You're not off the hook either.
You know, your job, you're required to fear God
to keep God's commandments as well.
And if you don't, God can kill you too.
You're not off the hook.
Look what it says in Acts chapter five or seven.
And it was about the space of three hours after
when his wife not knowing what was done came in
and Peter answered unto her,
tell me whether you sold the land for so much.
And she said, yeah, for so much.
Then Peter said unto her,
how is it that you have agreed together
to tempt the spirit of the Lord?
Behold the feet of them which have buried that husband
right at the door and shall carry thee out.
Then she fell down straight way at his feet and yielded up the ghost and the young men came in and found her dad and
Carried her forth and buried her by her husband and great fear came upon all the church and upon as many as her these things
So right away goddess cracking heads sooner the church starts
Mendeying woman dying just for lying for bearing false witness, you know, you have the young men coming in they're like another body
Like the wife comes now she's lying and then she gets carried out and she gets buried as well
If you will turn your bibles to Ephesians chapter 5
Ephesians chapter 5
And I guarantee you the busybody woman
They were spreading this thing like wildfire because the Bible says that upon as many as her these things that great fear came upon them
So they were going everywhere telling everybody. Hey, did you hear about these people? Yeah, and a nice as a fire
They got killed. Why that pastor, man. I don't know that pasta man. Those guys are crazy. Why would they do that to her?
And you know what?
Great fear came upon all the churches of God. So men are not safe. Women are not safe now
This is an important doctor for ladies men for everybody to understand is that you know, we are we believe in
Server to we believe in being obedient to our masters
But there's always an extent that we have to go to we never break God's commandments to keep the commandments of the man of man
We are supposed to obey the highest power and act chapter 5. You're still there in Ephesians chapter 5
I'm going to read this verse again about Ananias as a fire when they saw the possession and
said that and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it.
So the wife, she was in cahoots with this, she was a part of the plan as well.
And we believe that wives are supposed to submit unto their own husbands as unto the
Lord in everything.
There's no questions asked.
When it comes to breaking God's commandments,
they're not supposed to submit until their husbands,
you know, their husbands asking them
to break God's commandments.
But, you know, we believe that wives
are supposed to submit until their husband,
men are supposed to submit until their bosses.
But look what it says in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 21.
This is an important note.
It says,
So a wife she's supposed to submit her husband in the fear of God
You know when her husband tells her to do something is as if God is telling her to do something
You know, when your boss is telling you to do something is as if God is telling you to do something because God gave that person that authority.
When your pastor is telling you to do something, you know, you're supposed to do it in the fear of God.
Not because of who the person is, it's because God put them in that position and you need to fear them the same way that you fear God.
So you're submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Like I'm not afraid of this individual, but I'm afraid of God
So I'm gonna keep his commandments because when I keep his commandments. I'm keeping God's commandments
So, it says in Ephesians 5, it says submitting yourself unto another in the fear of God, verse 22,
wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the Savior of the body.
Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
So, a husband has the full authority over his wife.
A wife, she's not volunteering.
You know the Bible never said that hey, you know when you get married and still death do you part when God made you from the woman?
And he said you're gonna be a help me you never volunteered the moment you said I do you sign up to death
There's no leaving you're like if my wife wants to leave we're dying together
There's no there's no leaving by yourself. There's there's no way out
Now think about this
If you're a lady in this church and you're hearing this kind of preaching and you know what the Bible teaches that you're supposed to be
With your be with your husband until death
And then you leave your husband in rebellion.
If God kills a fire, just for lying,
what do you think God's gonna do to you?
You're required to obey your husband as unto the Lord.
It's not when you want to, it's not when you feel like it.
It's not because you're trying to get something.
No, you're required to keep God's commandments.
You need to fear God and keep God's commandments.
This is something that you're required to do.
You're didn't volunteer.
And husbands,
You're required to love your wives, to provide for your family, to lead your children, and
you should never try to have your wife lie to God, lie to the Holy Ghost, lie to church,
lie to pastor, because God will kill you too.
You know God is not a feminist God doesn't care man woman boy or girl if you're in sin
God can kill you and you need to be afraid of that
You know we live in a society today that this kind of preaching is from the pond
Have you tell the average Joe the average lady in society today what we believe they will they will there will be horrified
They will never want to get married. They will never want to do this stuff
But the Bible has capital punishment for ladies and men
We see that men and women are dying because they're lying to
the Holy Ghost. Now, what if they're committing adultery?
According to the Bible, the Bible said that they need to be
stoned to death. You know, if we implemented these laws,
today in America, every lady, every man will be afraid.
If you want to stop adultery in America, that's the remedy.
The death penalty.
You know we implemented a death penalty today in America
We will fix this whole country right away if you want to give it up every faggot in America
Implement the death penalty that'll be fixed right away
now
Not only um, you know men and women should fear God
But also members in the church need to fear their pastor
If you would turn in your Bible to first Kings chapter 20
first Kings chapter 20
Why are you turning that I'm going to continue this thought if the death penalty was implemented?
And it was on the news that people who committed adultery. They both got stoned to death and
The videos was out and the pictures were out and they see what that looked like
Man, there'll be great fear in America right away. I mean America will be one of the most righteous countries
Literally overnight and when Jesus comes back again, and he puts his laws in place
We're going to have a whole world full of peace.
Why?
Because we're using the laws of God.
Great fear is going to be in the whole entire world
because the laws of God are going to be implemented.
People are going to think twice
before doing such wicked sense.
Now, you should be there in first Kings chapter 20.
Before I go there, what I was saying is this,
you know,
Our pastor, you know, he has authority over the church and the Bible says that you need to submit yourselves unto them to have the higher power
Obey the elders. I want to just quote this. I want to just say this verse clearly
It's in Hebrews chapter 13
It says obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves for they watch for yourselves
So when pastor Shelley
Tells you hey, don't drink any water from the fridge unless the soul any that means you don't drink any water in the fridge
It's unless the soul in it
And listen, God will kill you for disobeying the man of God.
You know, if God tells children, don't go in the kitchen,
God will kill you for disobeying the man of God.
Look what it says in 1 Kings 20 verse 35.
And a certain man of the sons of the prophets
sat unto his neighbor, in the word of the Lord,
smite me, I pray thee, and the man refused to smite him.
Because that has not obeyed the verse the voice of the Lord behold as soon as our departed from me in lion shall slay thee and
As soon as he was departed from him a lion found him and slew him
The man of God says hey look smite me and the guy didn't obey him and as soon as he left a lion slew him
He was dead
Now I could you imagine like there was an old pastor. He was a pastor. He quit like a bozo
I wish he would have told me, hey,
the Lord said to smite me, because I'd have, bang!
Quick, Mike Tyson on them.
Now Pastor Shelley told me that I was like, no,
I might have died for that one, I don't know.
But the point is this, he said to smite him
and you need to obey him.
And you know what, Pastor Shelley says, hey,
when he gives us the rules on that checklist,
we need to obey him as if that's the Lord.
We're submitting ourselves in the fear of God.
It's not just pastor, it doesn't matter what pastor it is.
If you're under authority from a pastor, from any church,
you obey them.
No running in the church, no children behind the pulpit.
You know, we need to make sure that our children aren't
on the, you know, on the poor, on the, the poll to the stadium.
Our children aren't running around.
This is the house of God.
This is not a free-for-all.
This is, you know, everything needs to be done decently
in order. When we have guests come in,
we need them to be in awe.
By how we represent ourselves, you know, when you have the Queen of Sheba, she went to Solomon. She was in awe
by his servants, the way they sat, the way they ate,
the way they presented themselves,
and we are a reflection of Jesus Christ
and we need to make sure that we're representing God
in the right way.
We need people to come in here and be like,
wow, I want my children to listen to me like those children.
I want to have a marriage like this marriage.
I want to have peace like the peace
that they have in that church.
That's how we need to represent God.
And when the man of God tells you,
hey, you need to do this, you do it.
Even if the pastor tells you to smite him, you need to smite him because whatever God says,
you need to fear him, keep his commandment because that's the whole duty. That's what you're required
to do. It's not up for discussion. That's what you're supposed to do. Turn to 2 Kings chapter 2.
Women aren't safe when you break God's commandments. God will kill you man. God will kill you ladies
God doesn't care. He cares about his word, you know
Whenever we break God's commandments, we're blaspheming his word
When the Bible said that wives need to love their husbands love their children be good obedient that the word of God be not blasphemed
When we're not obedient, we're blaspheming the Word of God, and God cares about His Word.
He says, that Word has now exalted above all else.
You know, that Word is exalted above thy name.
It's the Word of God that is exalted.
Now if you would hey, I want every child if you're awake to look at me and pay attention because this goes to you
You also need to fear God
You also need to fear the man of God and you need to fear what the Bible tells you even as a child
It doesn't matter that you're a child because God can kill you too
Look what it says in 2nd Kings chapter 2 verse 23
This is Elisha the man of God
It says, and he went up from thence unto Bethel.
And as he was going up by the way,
they came forth little children out of the city
and mocked him and sat unto him,
go up thou bald head, go up thou bald head.
And he turned back and looked on them
and cursed them in the name of the Lord.
And there came forth two sheebears out of the wood
and tear 42 children of them.
So little kids, if you're ever mocking the man of God,
God can kill you we see that two she bears took 42 children
They said 42 of them that means there's probably 50 60 who knows how many how many kids there were and 42 of them
Got tore apart. Let me just let me just show you what this looks like. This is the kid
That's what the she bear did to him
guts everywhere
blood everywhere
body parts everywhere
Oh, but God, why do you do that to God?
Because you should fear God to keep his commandments.
Don't think that God has something to play with.
And you know, as a child, you need to fear God now.
Don't just try to think that you could get away
with whatever you want, because you're not.
God can kill you today and won't even think twice.
You need to fear God to keep his commandments
because that's the whole duty of man.
God doesn't care.
And what's worse is this.
When you have children that mock the man of God,
but also they're cursing their parents.
You know, it makes me think of the Anderson children.
How can you publicly shame your father?
One of the greatest men of this generation
that had done so many works.
Raise your hand if you was influenced by Pastor Anderson.
Yeah, this whole entire church.
Because of Pastor Anderson, this whole entire church,
for the most part,
influenced by Pastor Anderson. We've got saved by him, we've learned better
doctrine by him, we came to church because of him, we cleaned up our lives
because of him, and these people, his children, want to mock him and they want
to ridicule him and destroy his ministry. God doesn't play when it comes to church.
God doesn't play with the man of God. You know, and if I was his children, I will
pray every day that God doesn't tear me apart. I will pray for mercy.
And, you know, the oldest one, or Isaac, whatever,
this guy thinks he's so big and bad,
and he's like talking down on his dad,
like, oh, he's only 180 pounds.
Like, you know you're not that tough
when you have to talk about how tough you are.
Tough people don't have to talk about how tough they are.
You know they're tough.
You're like, I'm not gonna mess with that guy.
Well, when you have to pontificate so much
that you're so tough, and you know what?
When you, as a person that is tough,
you know there's always somebody tougher.
There's always somebody bigger batter. He can't beat my little brother. He's about same height same size. He can't beat him
You know what?
They should be happy and appreciative that they had a dad that raised them in the new IV church that talked in the doctors of the
Bible because my dad wasn't there
My dad got deported when I was a kid and I wish I had a father that was there to teach me and to guide me to lead me
They should be grateful that they have a dad, you know what because I didn't have a father figure in home
I made a lot of mistakes that I wouldn't have made if I had a dad and they need to be appreciative of that
You know and little and John do looks like a faggot. It's like he needs to cut his hair and be a man
Stop painting his fingernails look like a man act like a man talk like a man walk like a man
Stop being so effeminate and flamboyant
You know these people that are says he that curse his father and mother let him die the death
This is the Jesus of the New Testament
The Jesus of the New Testament says of a child marks her father and mother let them die the death
You will be killed and you know what if if if that happened in this church or in our society
Every teenager every child will fear God
They'll keep his commandments and they will honor their father and their mother like the Bible told them and their life will be prolonged
Because they're fearing their parents like God told them to do and the Bible said remember at the beginning is for thy good
God God's commandments are not grievous
God is God gives us these great commandments to make our lives better and it's not grievous for us
If you were turning your Bible to Haggaiath chapter one.
So my first point, why we should fear God
and keep his commandments is because
God can destroy your life.
God can kill you physically.
And if you're not saved, God can kill you spiritually.
But if you are saved, you don't have to ever worry
about God killing you spiritually.
You have eternal life.
Once you're saved, you're always saved.
You will never be plucked out of his hands.
You will be a no wise cast out of his family.
He will never leave you nor forsake you.
But God will still kill you on this earth and if God doesn't kill you on this earth
God my second point can destroy your finances
Now as men we work very very hard to provide for our families to make sure they have a roof over the head
Sometimes working 40 50 60 hours
Sun up to sun down so that we can make sure that our family has a roof over our head
But this is what you have to remember,
that things of God come first.
You never forsake the things of God for anything else,
for work, for nothing.
God always comes first.
God is your number one priority in your life.
And if you don't put God as your number one priority
in your life, God will destroy your finances.
So if it doesn't kill you, he'll destroy your finances.
Look what it says in Haggai chapter one.
Thus speaketh the Lord of holes.
Verse two.
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts saying this people say the time has not come the time that the Lord's house should be built
so
The nation of Israel they have been in captivity for about 70 years the house of God is decimated
Nehemiah he goes back to Israel back to Judah
So that way he could rebuild the house of God and you have Ezra Nehemiah all these guys going back to build the house of God
Well, when these guys get there, you know, they should start working right away.
But these people are saying, the time has not come.
The time has not come that the Lord's house should be built.
So they're putting off the things of God.
Why?
Let's see what it says.
It says, then came the word of the Lord by Haggad the prophet saying, first four, is
So the reason why that they're putting off the things of God the reason why the time has not come is because
They're dwelling in sealed houses that so that means their house is all furnished as nice as done and
The house of God lie waste
Now here's the thing if they were
Fixing up their house and fixing up the house of God at the same time. There's no problem
But what happened?
They forsake, fixing the house of God and doing the things of God and they would just
focus on their own house, their sealed houses.
And the Bible says that, you know, it says, Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness
and all things shall be added unto you.
So what they should have been doing if they were smart, they should have been working
on the house of God first, and after they were working on that, then God will provide
God is not gonna lie, he's gonna take care of them.
But what they're doing is they're fixing up their house
and the house of God lies waste.
It's kind of like this, you know,
if I hire somebody to help come work for me,
and I say, hey, I need you to do X, Y, and Z.
I'm gonna use Brother Sonny as an example.
So Sonny's job is to mow the lawns.
But let's say Sonny opens up another business
and he mows all of his lawns.
And he could do whatever he wants, I don't care,
I just need my properties done.
Right, and he goes and works on all his properties all his properties look good, but my properties look like crap
It's the same thing with God people are working on their business
They're spending their whole life making money the speakers spending their whole life building their 401k and the house of God is just lying
Waste what are things gonna happen?
The Bible tells us right here. God is destroying their finances because they've forsaken things of God
Now, Sonny's a great worker, and in fact, when Sonny first started in April, I had about
10 clients.
And what he did with those 10 clients, he did good with them, and he doubled, actually
tripled.
The first month, we went to 30 clients.
After he was done working those houses, he was putting out some signs, door hangers,
working relentlessly.
And you know what?
Didn't Pastor Shelly give Salvador Alvarez a church that was fully functioning on his feet ready to go?
And instead of you know, Salvador Alvarez doubling or tripling the church
He actually destroyed the whole entire church like a bozo like a loser
The biggest loser I've ever heard of and met in my life
Like how do you know why when I visited Pure Words Baptist Church about four years ago the house was full
It was everything was functioning everything was working great
How did this guy come and destroy it now think about this if God is so upset that these people are just
Fixing up their houses and forsaking God's house. How do you think God feels that when his house was fixed?
And it was functioning and running and somebody comes and destroys it. How do you think God feels about that?
God doesn't care about a stupid carnal business
I don't care about a super car no business. I care about the house of God
I care about doing the things of God
I'm using my business as a way to do more work for God to help the work of God to go and you know what?
What's interesting is this, you know as I started my business
Nobody gave me nothing. I mean what I'm saying is like I didn't have a set amount of clients
You know, I didn't have none of that.
I had to go knock doors every single day after work,
working at nine to five to make some clients.
And then I had to gain clients like that.
So why is it that you need, as a pastor,
to have a flock ready to go?
Why can't you, like Pastor Anderson did,
just go to a location, to a city, knock doors,
get people safe, and build a church from the ground up?
Why is it that when it loses people,
you have to shut the church down?
Why don't you work hard?
Worry about the house of God and build the house of God from the ground up and let God answer the church daily such as should be saved
That's what he should do
But he quit
And you know what?
When you quit, when things get hard,
you're gonna always quit all the time.
When I was young, my football coach,
this is the one thing I still remember.
He was like, if you quit practice, if you quit football,
you're gonna quit on your family when things get hard.
You're gonna quit your job when things get hard.
You're gonna quit everything.
And you know what?
There's no growth in the comfort zone.
In order for you to grow and to get better and to build,
you have to go through that, you know,
that purgatory phase.
You have to go through the harsh of the difficulty
for you to get to the next level.
You don't just quit when things get hard.
You know, if the church is running one person,
you better grow that thing up as much as you can
because you know what, you're doing everything
you're doing unto God and not unto man.
And this guy's a loser.
It says, look what the Bible says in, um...
Haggaiot chapter 1 verse 5 it says now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts consider your ways
Ye have so much and bring in little you eat, but you have not enough you drink
But you're not filled with drink ye clove you, but there is none warm and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put in a bag with holes
So this is the scripture I'm trying to show you guys
that God can destroy your finances.
God can kill you, destroy your life.
God can destroy your finances.
Why? Because you're putting off the things of God.
You're not putting God first.
Look at verse nine.
You looked for much and lo, it came to little.
And when you brought it home, I did blow upon it.
Why? Say it to the Lord.
Why is God blowing upon your finances?
Because of mine house that is waste and you run every man to his own house
Therefore the heaven over you has stayed from dew and the earth has stayed from her fruit
And I call for a jot upon the land and upon the mountains and upon the corn and upon the new wine
And upon the oil and upon that which the ground bringeth forth and upon men men and upon cattle and upon all the labor of the hands
Listen because of God's house that is lying waste God is calling for a drought upon everything your finances your fruit
Everything you have God is gonna call for a drought
You should fear God to keep his commandments. What is one of his commandments?
for sake, not the same thing of ourselves together.
That's a commandment from God, you know what?
And the Bible says there's so much to more
as you see the day approaching.
You shouldn't just go to church Sunday morning,
Easter early, you should go to church
every time the door's open.
The Bible says so much more as you see the day approaching.
As we see the day approaching of Christ's return,
there's gonna end up being more church
because this world is gonna be more and more wicked
as we see that day approaching.
And the Bible says that this house is like waste.
So you need to consider.
You need to think to yourself when things are not working out,
when things are not going good, when you have,
when you're earning wages and they're going into a bag of holes,
you need to consider, the Bible says to consider.
Think why this is happening to me.
Why?
Well, did you stop going to church as much as you used to?
Were you three to thrive and now you're Sunday morning only?
Do you come only on Easter?
Why is this happening to me am I not keeping some commandments from the Bible?
That's clear and I have a clear sin in my life
You need to consider you need to think about it so that way you don't earn wages and put them in a bag with holes
God takes this house serious like this is the most important institution
I don't get how people will literally spend their entire life going to work every day nine to five
But they'll skip church all the time, you know when I was working for somebody I made it very clear from the beginning
I don't come to church on Sundays and on Wednesdays I have to leave at this time because I got to be at church.
Why? Because I'm seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and because of that as a result of that I'm not the smartest guy,
I'm not the most savvy guy but you know what I can tell you right now I've never starved, I've never missed a meal, God has always provided for me
and I've always made it to church even when church is an hour away. I don't know how I always have gas, I just always do.
Because God always provides because I'm seeking first the kingdom of God and we need to make sure that we're prioritizing church
Before anything else in our lives, and if there's anything in our lives that is stopping us from going to church
We need to put that on pause. We need to stop it
You know, I joke with brother Sonny and I say hey if I don't see you there. I'm taking out your pay
I'm deducting it from your pay now here's the thing I really won't do that, but God will
And if I don't come to church,
God would destroy my business.
God would destroy everything that I have.
And I work so hard just to make a decent living.
Why would I want to just put church on the back burner
so that God can destroy everything that I have
like a so much and nothing comes in?
You know, we need to just be doers of the word,
do what the Bible tells us, and it's for our good.
God is trying to look out for you.
You know, my son,
He's running around, and I say, hey, don't run.
It's for his good, because he's going to bust his head somewhere.
Now, he's a Lugo, we got big heads,
so he might be able to handle it.
But still, it's going to hurt.
Now, look at the 7th and verse 7.
This is the remedy.
How can you be blessed?
Well, look at the 7th and verse 7.
And so, thus saith the Lord of Hosts,
consider your ways, go up to the mountains,
and bring wood.
build the house and I will take pleasure in it and I will be
glorified, say, at the Lord. So, the remedy is this, go to the
mountains, get some wood, come back to the house of God, and
build it up. That's it. Let me just make it simple for you. The
Bible says in the New Testament that we have a spiritual
house. It's not a physical house, but the same principle
applies. You don't have to turn there. It says in Luke chapter
It says, what man of you having a hundred sheep,
if you lose one of them,
does he not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness
and go after that which is lost until he find it?
And when he hath found it,
he laid it on his shoulders rejoicing.
And when he comeeth home,
he calls together his friends and neighbors,
saying unto them, rejoice with me,
for I have found my sheep which was lost.
So we see that the man,
he's going up into the mountains
to find that one sheep which is lost.
You're going to the wood to bring a piece of wood down,
and bring it back to build the house of God.
That's how we build the church of God, folks.
We go soul-winning, we knock doors,
we find that one sheep which is lost,
and we try to bring them back to the house of God.
And when we do that, God will take pleasure in it.
God is pleased with you, God is happy with you.
When you show up to church and you go soul-winning,
God is happy with you, God is pleased with you.
And so, you know, that's step one.
And then step two is making sure you're doing everything else
that the Bible commands you to do.
Now look at it says in Haggag chapter one verse 12.
It says then is the Rubble Bull, the son of Shatiel and Joshua, the son of Joseph Decc,
the high priest with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their
God and the words of Haggadah the prophet as the Lord their God has sent him and the
people did fear before the Lord.
You know, when you hear that God can destroy your finances, you need to fear God and keep
his commandments and make sure you're showing up to church.
Not just when you want to, all the time.
Stop making excuses for it.
And sometimes, you know, life happens when you're in a position
where you can't come on a Wednesday night or something like that.
Fix that right away as fast as possible
so that way you can try to make it to church Wednesday night.
And pray to God that He shows you mercy.
You know, if you're not soul-winning,
if you're not going into the woods to bring woods back down,
pray to God that He shows you mercy
and get out there to the doorstep and get people saved.
This preaching is supposed to put fear in your heart knowing that God can kill you
and destroy your finances. So if you don't want God to destroy your life or your finances,
keep his commandments and do what he says. If you will, turn to Deuteronomy chapter 28.
My third point is this, God can destroy your health. So if you don't fear God, if you don't
keep his commandments, not only can God destroy your life, God can destroy your finances and God
And it doesn't matter how much you work out.
It doesn't matter how good a shape you are.
God can destroy your health overnight.
I mean, we see Job.
Job was very healthy.
Job had everything.
And God was trying Job.
He was testing Job to see if God would curse him in his heart.
And we saw overnight he lost all his finances.
Overnight he lost his health.
Overnight he lost all his children.
as God was testing him.
So it doesn't matter if you're super healthy or not.
It doesn't matter if you run every day,
it doesn't matter how fit you are.
God can destroy your health like that.
That's why I just eat drink and be married
because you know what?
I am not gonna stress myself out trying to eat good
because you know what, God can keep me alive,
God can take me out.
So Deuteronomy chapter 28, look what it says in verse 21,
The Bible says he's going to make it happen.
All right, you can't resist it, you can't fight it,
you can't stop it.
The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee
until he have consumed thee from off the land
wither thou goes to possess it.
The Lord, look at the set of verse 22,
the Lord shall smite thee with a consumption.
with a fever and with an inflammation and with extreme burning and with the
sword and with blasting with mildew and they shall pursue you until thou perish.
I don't even know what a consumption is but he's gonna make a cleave to you. The
fever is gonna cleave on to you, the pestilence is gonna cleave on to you.
God can destroy your health. Look at it says in verse 27, the Lord shall
Man, that sounds terrible. The botch?
What is the botch?
Like bro, you got a botch on your face right now
Man, that looks bad
But he could destroy you with the botch of Egypt and with the emeralds and with the scab and with the itch
Whereas thou canst not be healed
Listen, and it doesn't matter how many physicians you go to they can't do nothing about it
Like, when God gives you the botch and the itch, man, could you, like, if somebody's sitting
in the tear and they're just, like, itching like this, man, I feel bad for you.
That's going to be hot, man, that is terrible.
The itch, the botch, I mean, there's no remedy either, like, you're done.
You can't, the Bible says, thou canst not be healed.
I mean, that sounds terrible.
The Lord shall smite thee in the knees and in the legs with a sore botch that cannot be healed
From the soul of thy foot unto the top of thy head
man
Do you guys want the botch to cleave unto you?
So fear God I keep his commandments because you could get the botch
You get the botch the itch the em rods the scabs the fever and you'll have that for the rest of your life
So like that's why like yeah, you should try your best to stay in shape your body's a temple of you know
The holy ghost so you should you try to stay in shape or have a job
That's physically keeping you in shape and if not do something obviously we should be good stewards
But ultimately the way you have health is by keeping the commandments of God is by fearing the Lord
It's not it's about putting the things of God first. That's how you avoid getting the botch
This is another point
Point number four
But this is just an extra point God can also destroy your food
He can destroy your health your finances your health, you know
You can kill you and he can also make you starve
And I'm talking about extreme starvation. It doesn't matter how good of a job you have God can make you star
He could call for a famine like that. Look what it says in Deuteronomy chapter 28
Verse 53 now this is this is crazy
and thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body."
Did you hear that?
You're gonna eat the fruit of your own body
when you don't fear God and keep his commandments.
The flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters,
which the Lord thy God hath given thee
in the siege and in the straighteners
where thy enemy shall distress thee,
so that the man that is tender among you
and very delicate,
His eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his children
Which he which he shall leave so that he would not give any of them the flesh of his children
Whom he shall eat
Because he has nothing left him in the siege and in the straightness where a dying enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates
Listen, he said the tender man, that's a, that's a monk she, you know, you know, you think of the big strong guys, you know
You think of big J Jason
He's like no the tender guy among you
He's gonna be evil towards the wife of his bosom that means he's gonna eat his children and he's not gonna share
because
When you don't fear God to keep his commandments, God can call for a famine.
God can destroy your land.
God can send you to captivity.
The nation of Israel, they got put into captivity because of their sin, because of their wickedness.
And there's multiple stories in the Bible when God's people literally ate themselves, I mean, ate their children.
I remember there's a story.
This lady, she's like, you know, there's two ladies, like one lady, like, hey, we're going to eat my son today, and then tomorrow we're going to eat your son.
Like, could you think about starving that much
when you're gonna eat your own child?
You know, you spend so much time raising your children,
loving your children, you're up with them
when they're sick, and in three years later,
you know, they're toddlers, two years old, they're toddlers,
and you know, they're mommy and mommy, they're so sweet,
and then you're starving so much that you eat them.
You will lose your mind when you're that hungry,
that your children look like food.
Now, you better fear God and keep his commandment
because this is your duty.
You don't want God to make you eat your children.
look what it says in verse 56 the tender and delicate woman among you so
just think of whoever you could think of as a tender delicate woman you know
that's fine for women to be tender and delicate that's great I love it but for
a man to be tender and delicate he needed to fix that the Bible says a tender
and delicate man like what a weirdo come come to the gym we take what what's
Strauss straight iron in there. We'll pump some iron. We'll get you we'll get you right
You know me come eating with us and some some brisket will get you right. You won't be tender and delicate no more
You know, this is one thing I love about Jason is like every time we shake hands is it just power
You know, I love it, you know, if I shake a man's hand is like this and the soft like bro
What the hell is that like you better shake my hand like a man a little wuss
little tender boy
But Deuteronomy 28, 556 said that tender and delicate woman among you
Which would not avenge to set the soul of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness
She's so tender and delicate
That she won't even try to put a foot on the ground how tender and delicate she is
Some women are like she bears nowadays
Like they go home. That's how they're screaming yelling at their kids or husband. It's just like man
What happens to the tender and delicate woman?
It says that...
Let's read it again it said the tender and delicate woman among you which would not have ventured to set the soul of her foot
upon the ground for delicateness and
tenderness
Her eyes shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom and toward her her toward her son and
toward her daughter and toward her young one that coming out from between her feet and
Toward her children which she shall bear for she shall eat them
For want of all things secretly in the siege and straightness where her enemy shall distress thee
in the gates. She's even gonna eat her kids. She's not even gonna share either. That's how starving
she is. Now, what does it say in the next verse? If thou will not observe to do all the words of
this law that are written in this book that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name,
the Lord thy God. That's what can happen to you if you don't fear the name of the Lord.
And just because God has longed suffering towards you,
just because God is not raining the hammer down on you,
when God says he's gonna do something, he's gonna do it.
Just like God says, people are gonna go to the lake of fire,
they're literally gonna go to the lake of fire forever.
When God tells you he can kill you, he can literally kill you.
And you need to fear God.
And unfortunately, there's like pastors nowadays
that are teaching that, you know, we preach legalism,
that we're trying to preach the word of God
to scare people into submission.
They mark the fact that you know, you have to keep all these rules so we can be accepted
Well last time I checked that's that's everywhere in the Bible. The Bible says keep his commandments and live
Your life is dependent on whether you keep God's laws or whether you don't and if you want to keep if you want to live a long life
You better keep his commandments
Now I just want to think past a show me one more time. Thank everybody for coming. If you don't remember one thing
God can kill you
Husband, wife, children, he could destroy your finances,
he could destroy your health, God can make you starve.
And if you want to be blessed by God,
you keep His commandments, simple, you know?
Like I tell my children, if you want to be on my good side,
listen to what I say.
If you want to see Dad go crazy,
don't listen to what I say.
You don't want to see Dad go crazy.
Because when I go crazy, there's no stopping it.
So we want to be on dad's, you know, our father's good side in heaven
We want to make sure we're pleasing him want to make sure we're we're putting the things of God first
We're taking the things of God seriously, you know
We want to make sure that we're considering where we are in our life to make sure that we're progressing and we're not
Regressing because of our own sins
So with that, let's pray.
Lord God, we just thank you, Lord, for this day.
Thank you for allowing us, Lord,
to be able to hear your word.
Thank you for preserving your word
so we could be able to use the word of God
to help us to grow, to be edified.
We ask, Lord, that you put fear in all of us, Lord,
to keep your commandments, the small and the big ones.
That way, Lord, we could live a life
that's pleasing unto you, Lord.
We could be a shining light in this world.
So we can glorify your son, Jesus Christ, Lord.
We love you.
We thank you so much for everything you do for us.
And Lord God, please forgive us for the things, Lord,
that we do that's unpleasing to you, Lord.
And we pray all these things
in your precious son, Jesus's name, amen.
Amen, let's go ahead and sing our last song this evening.
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