And the Bible reads, "Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish pluggeth it down
with their hands.
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord, but he that is perverse in his ways
despiseth him.
And the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increases by the strength of the ox.
A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness will utter lies.
A scornor seeketh wisdom and findeth it not, but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Fools make a mock at sin, but among the righteous there is favor.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man shall be satisfied
from himself.
The simple believeth every word, but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
The wise man feareth and departeth from evil, but the fool rageth and is confident.
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly, and a man of wicked devices is hated.
The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
The evil bow before the good and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbor, but the rich hath many friends.
He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth, but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he.
Do they not err that devise evil, but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
The crown of the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is folly.
The true witness delivereth souls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life that departeth from the snares of death.
In the multitude of people is the King's honor, but in the want of the people is the destruction
of the prince.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
The sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy the rottenness of the bones.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his maker, but he that honoreth him hath mercy
on the poor.
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding, but that which is in the midst
of fools is made known.
Righteousness exalted the nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
The King's favor is toward a wise servant, but his wrath is against him that causeth
shame.
Let's pray.
Father, we thank you, dear Lord, for this wonderful church you've given us.
Thank you for this evening, dear Lord.
Thank you for Brother Marcos.
We ask that you please fill him with your Holy Spirit, dear Lord, and that he may preach
unto us your word, holy dear God, in Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
Thank you all for being here tonight, and before I get started, I want to thank Pastor
Mejia for giving me this opportunity to preach God's word this evening, and just also just
continue to keep everybody in prayer that went to the Red Hot Preaching Conference.
Just pray for them, for them to have a good time over there, for the singles to find their
future wife, right, amen?
And just everybody to have a good time and return back safely, amen?
And we're going to be right here in Proverbs Chapter 14 tonight.
We're going to be starting off, well, the main verse I want to focus on is actually
verse 12, the title of my sermon tonight is, "Good intentions are not always right."
Good intentions are not always right.
And right here in Proverbs 14 verse 12, the Bible says, "There is a way which seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
And you know, the Bible is telling us right here, there is a way that seems right unto
a man, there is a way that seems like, hey, this is a good path to follow, this is a good
path to go down, but, you know, our intentions might be good, the man that's looking down
at that road saying, hey, you know what, this path looks okay, this path looks fine to go
down, but at the end of that road is death.
That's what the Bible is telling us right there.
And tonight I want to talk about our good intentions and, you know, how our good intentions
sometimes are not always the right thing that God wants us to do.
And you know, sometimes growing as Christians, you find yourself having good intentions to
do the things of God, to serve God, to, you know, please God.
But sometimes those good intentions are not even pleasing to God.
And you know, tonight I want to help us to be able to discern our intentions and grow
in some areas and grow in understanding and actually have God's wisdom and guidance through
them.
And in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 15, the Bible says, "See then that you walk circumspectly,
not as fools, but as wise."
And you know, the Bible is telling us right there in Ephesians that, hey, we should walk
carefully, walk circumspectly, you know, obviously like, you know, don't walk carelessly.
And you know, we should always be the type of Christians like, hey, you know what, like,
think ahead before you make a decision, think ahead before, you know, you make that intention
come to light.
Go to Genesis chapter 4, Genesis chapter 4, the title of the sermon tonight is good
intentions are not always right.
And you know, sometimes, you know, as a new Christian, you know, you find yourself doing
some things that again, like they're not pleasing to God and you think that, hey, these things
are pleasing to God.
And you know, sometimes you might be, you might find yourself on YouTube as a new Christian
and you listen to some heretic, you know, and you know, because there's, you don't know
anything about, you know, going to church, you never read your Bible, you don't know
what the Bible actually says, what you should be doing.
And you know, you know, as a new Christian, you're kind of a babe in Christ, you don't
know what to do, you don't know where to go.
And you know, tonight, like we're going to go over what some things that, hey, you know,
God is not pleased with what we think are good intentions here in Genesis 4, we'll go to
Genesis 4, here in Genesis 4, you know, we have the story of Cain and Abel and in Genesis
4, you have the story of Cain and Abel, how Abel, he sacrificed, you know, from his flock,
the first fruits from his flock.
And Cain, he offered his, his offering from basically what he tilled from the ground,
his fruits, his vegetables.
And we'll start off right there in verse 4, the Bible says, and Adam knew his wife and
she conceived and bare Cain and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
And she again bare his brother Abel and Abel was a keeper of the sheep of sheep, but Cain
was a tiller of the ground.
And in the process of time, it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground
and offering unto the Lord and Abel, he also brought of the first things of his flock and
of the fat thereof.
And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering, but unto Cain and to his offering,
he had not respect.
And Cain was very wrought and his countenance fell.
And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wrought?
And why is that countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted.
And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door and unto thee shall be his desire and
thou shall rule over him.
So we have the story right here where like, hey, Cain offers, you know, his fruit, his
fruit offering and Abel offers his offering from the flock.
And you know, what this leads me to my first point is like, our good intentions to worship
God are not always right.
Our good intentions to worship God are not always right.
Now, I don't know exactly if, you know, Cain, you know, he did this mischievously or if he
had good intentions to offer this sacrifice.
I'm guessing he just he just offered this because, you know, he didn't he didn't maybe have any
sheep to offer.
Maybe he didn't want to ask Abel, hey, can you can I borrow some of your sheep to offer
unto the Lord?
But you know, God actually had a specific way for them to offer.
And it was to be to be an animal sacrifice, not a fruit sacrifice, not a vegan sacrifice.
It was supposed to be an animal sacrifice.
And because it was supposed to be an animal sacrifice, you know, it was supposed to basically
be a representation of what Jesus Christ was going to do for us.
He was going to be the lamb of God that should take away the sins of the world.
And you know, Abel, he obviously knew that.
He obviously knew that, you know, obviously he didn't know the name of Jesus Christ yet.
But he obviously had that in mind, like, hey, you know what?
One day God is going to send a messiah, God is going to send a savior of the world to die
for my sins and this lamb, you know, it's supposed to be a representation of him.
It's supposed to be a foreshadowing of what Jesus Christ is going to do for him one day.
And, and you know what, like Kane, he offered this sacrifice of the fruit and God obviously
was not pleased with it.
The Bible says that he had, that God had no respect onto Kane's sacrifice.
And what that means is basically God said, hey, I don't want this sacrifice.
I don't want a sacrifice of fruits and vegetables.
Obviously, you know, he probably offered like broccoli or something like that or Brussels
sprouts, something like that, right.
And God did not want that.
And so God, you know, has a specific way that we ought to worship him.
And it's not by our, what we conjure up, God says, hey, the way you worship me is, you
know, the way I tell you in my work, you know, it's not the way we conjure up, try to make
God into our own image and try to do things the way that we want to do them.
And you know, God told us, hey, you need to do it this way.
And that's it.
You know, it's my way or the highway, basically, you know, kind of Kane might've had good intentions
bringing the offering, but it was wrong.
It wasn't what the Lord wanted.
It wasn't what the Lord had instructed.
It wasn't the proper way of worship, you know, and today, you know, you have a bunch of Christians
that conjure up their type of worship.
You know, go to Leviticus chapter 10, go to Leviticus chapter 10.
And you know, it's so funny about this story.
If you keep reading down, you know, in verse six, he tells him, and the Lord said, you
don't have to go there, keep going to Leviticus chapter 10.
And the Lord said unto Kane, "Why art thou wroth, and why is that countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted?"
So God is just telling him basically right there, he's like, hey, if you're doing well,
if you are doing right in my eyes, shouldn't I have accepted your offering?
Shouldn't I have had respect unto it?
But you know, God then tells us this, "And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door."
So basically he's telling him, he's like, hey, you didn't do well.
So you know what's going on?
Sin is lying at your door.
You're in sin, Kane.
You know, I specifically wanted you to offer a sacrifice of an animal, not of fruits, not
of vegetables.
He said, I need you to sacrifice an offering of an animal, you know, and because, you know,
a fruit or a vegetable is not going to die for your sins, you know, it's not, it wasn't,
it wasn't, a fruit or a vegetable was never intended to be a representation of Jesus Christ,
you know.
Obviously, you know, Kane, you know, had other intentions, but, but just for the sake of
the sermon, I believe that, you know, that Kane had obviously bad intentions, but just
for the sake of the sermon, let's just say that he had any good intentions.
God told him right there, right there, hey, if you would have done well, I would have
had respect unto your offering, but I didn't because you offered a fruit offering.
Leviticus chapter 10.
So let's look at another example over here, Leviticus chapter 10, and more of an extreme
example.
Leviticus chapter 10 verse 1, the Bible says, "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took
either of them his censer and put fire therein and put incense thereon and offered strange
fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.
And there went out a fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord.
Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is that that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified
in them that come nigh me and before all the people I will be glorified.
And Aaron held his peace.
Here we have Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu offering strange fire before the Lord.
And it's not even strange, it's not even fire that God commanded them to offer.
And you're asking like, what's the deal with that?
You know, a strange fire.
What does that mean?
Strange means something like that's foreign, something that's not supposed to, yeah, something
that's foreign, something that's queer, right?
Strange, right?
So, you know, these guys are offering this fire unto the Lord that God didn't command
them to.
And in fact, I believe it's Exodus chapter 30, God specifically instructs them that, hey,
you're supposed to grab fire from the altar and offer it unto the Lord.
Put that in your censer and you're supposed to offer that into the Lord.
As that he says right there, he's like, don't offer unto me strange incense.
And you know, and this is the same thing right here.
They're offering that fire and they're putting in their censer and they're putting that incense
in there and that, you know, God is not pleased with that strange fire right there.
And you know, you, you know, these people, they might've had good intentions again.
You know, Nadab and Abihu, they might've had good intentions.
They might've been like, you know what?
You know, I don't want to take the fire from the, from the, the altar of the Lord.
You know, I have this little fire that I already made.
So I'm going to put this in my censer.
I'm going to put this in there and I'm going to offer it before the Lord.
But hey, wrong.
That was a wrong thing to do, Nadab and Abihu.
You shouldn't have done that.
You should have grabbed the, the, the, the, the fire from the altar of the Lord and put
it in there and offer it unto the Lord and not done it the other way.
You see, there is a way that seemeth right into a man, but the end thereof is death.
No, God has a specific way that we ought to worship.
And it's not how the world teaches.
It's not how the liberal churches teach.
It's you know, what the Bible actually teaches.
It's not by setting the mood with fog machines or purple lights or dim lights.
It's not by having meaningless song services with repetitive choruses over and over and
over again that puts you like in this state of trance, you know.
We worship, we're supposed to worship God in spirit and truth, you know, in sincerity
of heart with a sincere heart.
We ought to worship him.
It's in service towards God.
That's how we worship him.
It's by soul winning, you know, leading people to Christ, teaching them the gospel, you know,
so that they can also worship God with us.
Now I'm missing some notes here or maybe I'd staple them wrong, but you know, these liberal
churches, they teach that the only way you can worship God is by singing these songs
over and over again, you know, like here I am to worship, right?
That's the most trendy song out.
You know, I always see it popping up in my reels.
Like if I see, you know, I have a meme page on there and you know, on that meme page,
like I get like a bunch of like different types.
I get Catholics, liberal churches, and the reason is because I like to troll on there
sometimes, you know.
I like to go on people's accounts and be like just, you know, just tell them, you know,
this is wrong or you're stupid, you know, stuff like that.
And not even necessarily posing a Bible verse, it's just telling them like this is stupid
or this is gay, you know.
But you know, they teach you that hey, the only way you can worship God is by singing
these songs over and over again, by, you know, being in touch with your emotions towards
God.
But it's not, you know.
The way you worship God is by serving him, is by following his commandments, is by living
a holy and pure life, you know.
It's not by singing here I am to worship, you know.
I was looking up the lyrics of that song and it's like, it's so cheesy.
I was like, when I was writing this, I was like, man, do I even want to like present
this to the church right now?
It was like, it was so corny.
At the end they just sing like this chorus like four times and it's like, did the writer
like run out of like any stuff to write about in that song?
But you know what?
That's how all these, I believe it's Hillsong, Hillsong, all these Hillsong songs are like
that.
They're just repetitive songs and it's like, it's almost like a Catholic prayer, right?
It's like a Catholic prayer that they're praying.
And you know, these people, they think that they're worshiping God.
They think they're literally worshiping God by singing.
Obviously you can't worship God by singing, right?
And we have some awesome songs in our songbook and I'm not against singing.
We just had a song service a little, little bit ago, you know, we, we, we sung praises
unto God.
Um, it was joy, unspeakable and full of glory, right?
We sung one of those songs where Alex played, uh, uh, right now for the offertory.
I haven't heard that song in a long time, but Canaan land is just in sight.
That's a good song.
I love that song.
But you know what?
These songs, they don't have no depth and they're always so focused on, you know, uh,
on the singer, you know, they sing so sensual into the mic.
They sing so like with their eyes closed, so sensual, you know, and the worst part of
it is, you know, I, you know, CCM is pretty trash, but it's when they start messing with
our hymns, you know, it's, I hate that, uh, you know, when they try to make like come
down fount into an indie song, you know what indie music the genre is?
It's like, so if you don't know what indie music is, indie music is basically, uh, it
sounds like the, the song, the, the, the singer smoked a pack of cigarettes before they started
singing.
I'll give you an example, all right, um, someone give me a song to sing.
Come on.
Anybody?
And can it be okay?
Oh man, that's one of my favorite songs kind of file that song.
So they would sing like, and I was like, come on, man, I was like, they had to see it like
with a raspy voice and it's like, just leave the song alone as good as it is.
The words are powerful, the music, the song, everything is powerful, you know, but they're
messing with our songs.
And that's what I hate the most about CCM, like, yeah, they'll make up their little songs.
Here I am to worship, you know, um, what's another, uh, CCM song?
You know, a CCM song was it?
Yeah.
They mess with it all the time.
Yeah.
And, or, or they try to like, uh, get one of our songs from the hymns and just a basic
old hymn, right?
And they just throw a little bit of like their little spice into it, right?
They start sliding and slipping and sliding in that song.
And yeah, you know, and it's like, what are you doing?
It's like, leave the song alone.
You know, it's like one of those people, I don't know if you've ever seen, there's like
this little girl, she went viral and this little girl, she was singing the national
anthem and she was singing the national anthem and she thought she cooked.
She thought she cooked, but when she was singing the national anthem, you can see the basketball
players are just like, like, they're just like, ah, I can't, I can't handle this.
Cause the camera just zooms into their face and they're just like, that's like, but that's
how it is with like, like when they sing, uh, you know, amazing grace or come down found
or be down my vision, you know, it's like, dude, just leave the song alone as good as
it is.
And you know what the problem with that is with CCM and liberal churches, they obviously
they think they're worshiping God.
The problem is, is, you know, they're, they're trying to reach that next generation and maybe
those people are able to handle it and maybe they, they actually do have, they do live a
holy life.
Maybe right?
Uh, they match it.
Maybe they actually do live a holy life.
They read their Bibles, but what's going to happen to the next generation to their children?
You know, they're going to lose their, their, their, their children.
And you know, and you know, that's, that's what I'm afraid of too, like in, in, in IFB
churches, you know, there's people in IFB churches that listen to CCM, believe it or not.
Yeah.
I went to Bible college and you know, there's kids in the dorms that would listen to CCM.
They listened to, uh, casting crowns, you know, they listened to, um, Hillsong.
And I'm like, why are you guys listening to that?
You know, and they were the most lukewarm Christians there.
They didn't want to be, they, they weren't there for the right reasons.
Uh, they were mama, mama sent, papa called and you know, they, they didn't do any soul
winning.
They didn't even want to be on the bus route, you know, and these people were the most lukewarm
Christian is why, not just because they listened to CCM, but it's because, you know, they,
they were just lukewarm.
Their parents, uh, probably listened to that at home.
They weren't real Christians at home.
Maybe they were hypocrites, but you know, we gotta be careful because the next generation
might not be able to handle it.
You know, we, the next generation might be as lukewarm as you are, or they might be, their,
their faith might not be as strong as yours or their service towards God might not be like
yours, you know, or their holiness might not be as holy as yours.
You know, there is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways
of death.
So you might have good intentions, intentions to listen to CCM.
Maybe you just recently got saved and you don't know what to listen to you.
Maybe you're trying to get rid of your rap music, your rock and roll and you're like,
man, all I know is CCM.
Well, now it's just not, now it's time to just put that away.
Now it's, now it's time to put away that Hillsong, put away the casting crowns and start listening
to good old fashioned hymns, good old fashioned, you know, just songs, hymns.
And you know, that's, that's all you need.
That's all you need.
But you know, that's what the thing with CCM, it gets to the flesh.
It gets to the flesh and you know, that's why, you know, the Bible tells us that this
wisdom cometh not from above, but as first sensual, you know, and so it's not God's wisdom.
And you know, obviously these people are trying to push, you know, like Hillsong, they're
trying to make money off you, off you.
They don't care if you're going to live a holy life.
They don't care if you're going to serve God.
They don't even care if you're really going to worship God with that song.
They just care that they're going to make a few bucks in their pocket and that's it.
And plus those singers, when I was looking up that Hillsong music group, that Here I
Am to Worship group, there was a lady with a full buzz cut.
With a full, I was like, I was like, is that a dude or I was like, is she going through
chemo?
No, she was bald, you know.
But that's the kind of people that are pushing this kind of music, you know, and that lady
is shameful from what the Bible teaches, right?
She has no long hair.
So you know, we might have good intentions, but you know, it's time to put away that music.
And a good modern example is Paul Chappell, you know, a good modern day example is Paul
Chappell.
You know, Paul Chappell is an independent fundamental Baptist, if he wants to be called
that, right?
But you know, he's a Baptist pastor out there in Lancaster Baptist Church and you know,
he started off right, started off going out, sowning, reaching people, grew his church.
But in the last, I want to say maybe 15, 20 years, I don't know, maybe even before that,
but recently he's been just bringing in all this CCM music into his Bible college, his
Christian, his Christian school, his church, all this CCM is just flooding into his, into
all his ministries.
And you know, now he's also preaching, I believe, behind the, correct me if I'm wrong, he has
a glass pulpit, doesn't he?
I think he has a glass pulpit last time I saw.
And that says a lot, you know, not hard preaching, you know.
But he has a glass pulpit, has the purple lights, the spotlight on him.
Everything that a liberal church would have, right?
But he still preaches out of King James Bible.
But now, his son Matt Chappell, who he sent out, has pastors over here in Rancho Cucamonga,
right down the street from me, he pre, now he has a church called Rock Hill Church.
It used to be called Rock Hills Baptist Church.
Now when it was Rock Hills Baptist Church, it was still liberal as the day is long.
You know, he still had the rock music, the ladies wearing pants.
He still had the purple lights, you know, the closing your eyes while you're worshiping
God kind of style thing.
And you know what?
Now he removed Baptist, now it's just called Rock Hill Church.
And you know, him and his wife are like the pastors now or something like that.
When you look it up, it says Pastor Matt and, I forgot his wife's name.
But they both, I guess, pastor that church.
But you know what?
Like, you know, maybe Paul Chappell, maybe, maybe, maybe Paul Chappell had good intentions,
you know, saying like, "You know what?
We want to reach these young people and we're going to bring the CCM in."
But you know what?
Those good intentions aren't what God wanted, you know.
He's bringing in the sensual music that's, you know, that's fleshly, that's worldly,
you know, that God is not pleased with, that focuses more on the senior, that focuses more
on the person's problems.
You know, whenever you hear these CCM songs, it's always about the person's problems.
It's never about Jesus.
It's like about like, "Oh, I'm going through this tribulation."
But you know what?
Why not point to Jesus?
Why not, you know, to God be the glory, right?
But these people are just pushing this.
So you know, what I'm trying to get at is like, "Hey, hey, maybe you started off listening
to CCM, maybe you started off, you know, going to a liberal church.
It's time to grow from that.
It's time to grow from that and move on to perfection and say, "You know what?
I'm going to listen to the hymns."
I mean, you read some of our hymns, "And Can It Be" is such a beautiful song, you know,
"And can it be that I should gain an interest in the Savior's blood," you know, even like
our Christmas songs are so awesome, you know.
Let's read one of our hymns, "And Can It Be," song number 24, such an awesome song.
I love the second verse, he says, "He left His Father's throne above, so free, so infinite,
His grace emptied Himself of all but love and bled for Adam's helpless race."
Man, that's such a powerful statement right there, that God has sent His Son, that He
left everything up in heaven, became poor for us, you know, that's what it's implying
right there, emptied Himself of all but love.
You know, He emptied, because He left heaven and came down for us, and he says, "And bled
for Adam's helpless race, to His mercy all immense and free, for oh my God, it found
out me."
Amazing love, how can it be, amen.
That's such a beautiful song, and it's so deep, just telling us that Jesus Christ came
down to bleed for Adam's race, and whose Adam's race?
We are, right, basically the human race is implying.
So get away from that CCM trash, you know, and start listening to some good old fashioned
hymns, amen.
My second point is, our good intentions to be used by God are not always biblical, are
not always right.
Go to 1 Chronicles chapter 9, 1 Chronicles chapter 9.
Our good intentions to be used by God are not always biblical.
And what I'm trying to say here is, you know, sometimes as a new Christian, you don't know
how, like, you're going to be used by God.
You want to be used by God, but you're maybe going about it the wrong way, or you're doing
things that aren't right, you know.
Sometimes like, you know, they have these groups in public school, they have Christians
on campus, right, that's what they had at my school.
And I remember when I first got saved, I believe I got invited to one, but I didn't end going.
But I remember my friend, he was telling me, he was like, "Yeah, we have this one guy,
he just teaches us, and then we kind of like, go around just, you know, trying to interpret
the scripture."
And everybody has like different interpretations, I'm like, "That doesn't seem right."
I was like, "That doesn't seem right, that doesn't seem what like, you know, I'm pretty
sure that the Bible was pretty like, you know, clear on whatever it says."
You know, obviously I hadn't read my Bible through, and I didn't know really what the
Bible said, but I'm just like, you know, I'm pretty sure if God said it, you know, like,
he's going to be absolute on it.
It's not going to be wishy washy, always changing, it's not going to be up for interpretation,
for a guess.
Obviously there is some scripture in the Word of God, maybe with like end times Bible prophecy,
where it's like some dark sayings, but it's like, you know, and God gives us, you know,
freedom to interpret right there.
But as far as like, you know, Acts chapter 16 verse 30-31 is like, it's clear, "Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."
You know, we don't have to question that.
But they were like saying that with that, like every verse, they were like, "Oh, you
know what?"
Like, I believe one, I think it was like, they were talking about like creation.
They're like, "Oh, I don't know if it was like actual six days, or actual, you know,
was it like a week or like years?"
I'm like, I think the Bible is very clear that it's like a day, every day he created
something, you know, and you know, they, I believe they fell into the gap theory or something
like that.
So right here in first Chronicles, we have the story of Uzzah.
And the Bible says right there in verse nine, first Chronicles chapter one, verse nine,
the Bible says, "And when they came unto the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put forth
his hand to hold the ark for the oxen stumbled.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah.
And he smote him because he put his hand to the ark.
And there he died before God."
You see here in the book of Chronicles, Uzzah puts his hand to try to save the ark from
falling.
But the Lord ended up killing him for touching the ark, for touching something that he wasn't
supposed to be touching, you know, he wasn't supposed to be touching that because he wasn't
a Levi, he wasn't part of the priesthood, you know, you see the priests were the only
ones that were supposed to be touching the ark.
They were the only ones that were supposed to be bearing the ark.
And you know, it wasn't supposed to be just some Joe Schmoe touching the ark.
It was supposed to be the priest, the Levitical priest from Aaron that was supposed to be
touching the ark.
But there goes Uzzah, you know, the oxen stumbled a little bit and what happened?
He just puts his hand forth to try to save it.
He should have just let it fall to be honest.
And I think God would have still been pleased with that.
And you know, they should have just, he should have just let it fall and you know, not touched
it at all.
But Uzzah touched something that he wasn't supposed to.
Well, how do we apply that to our lives today?
Well, you know, we're not supposed to touch something without God's permission.
And God obviously lays out what his parameters are, what permission he gives us in his word.
You know, you know, what about women, women preachers, women preachers, women preachers
and pastors?
You know, they're not supposed to be touching the office of a bishop.
They're not supposed to be touching the office of a pastor.
You know, the Bible clearly says in first Timothy chapter three, verse two, a bishop
is supposed, must be blame us the husband of one wife, the husband of one wife.
But today you got all these women preachers, all these women pastors that are trying to
teach the word of God onto man, onto their congregation.
And they're not supposed to be touching the office of a bishop.
And the Bible specifically tells us that it's, it's a, it's a man.
It's a man run show that's supposed to be doing that.
You know, it's, and I don't know how they interpret these, this verse.
I don't know how Joyce Meyers, maybe she just does, never preaches out of the book of Timothy.
Has anybody ever heard a sermon series?
I don't even know why I'm asking this, it's ridiculous, right?
But has anybody, someone tell me on Rumble Land, if Joyce Meyers has a series on the
book of Timothy, because if she does send it, I want to hear it.
I want to know what she says about first Timothy chapter three, verse two.
You know, I want to know what expository she gives on that, on that, on that, on that verse.
Because obviously the Bible tells us that it's a husband and a husband is a man, right?
Amen.
I know we're in 2024 and the genders or it's like a million genders now, but the Bible
specifically tells us that it's supposed to be a husband, right?
It's supposed to be a husband and a husband is a man, not a wife, you know?
So I don't know how they interpret this verse.
I don't know how they interpret that verse, but you know, you have all these women preachers
out there that are trying to teach the word of God and it's, to be honest, it's so annoying,
you know?
And they can be doing something else and doing so much better, you know?
And I told you before, like I go trolling on my new IV account.
Sometimes I'll send the brother a hike.
I'll tell him, like, "Look at the comments what I just commented," and you know, I think
it was recently there was like this girl preacher, she was like, "We got to serve God.
We got to serve him.
We got to love him," and I was like, I'm like, I think I typed, "The kitchen's still dirty."
I think I typed that, I like, "Shut up, the kitchen's still dirty," or there was one where
like this girl, she posted, it was her like, it was a "Get ready with me," and she was
like, "Here are my thoughts, here are my controversial thoughts on woman preachers," and obviously
she's for like woman preachers, and she's like doing her makeup and she's not saying
anything, and I'm like, "That's right, stay silent," and I think I put 1 Corinthians chapter
14 on there, but I love to troll people like that, and I was like, "Yeah, they should be
quiet.
They shouldn't be preaching.
They shouldn't be teaching men.
They shouldn't be serving the authority of a man," but you got these woman preachers
today that have, that wear their pants, you know, that they're trying to teach the word
of God, but they have no authority because God did not give them that authority, and
you know what?
That girl that was, you know, saying, "We got to love God," she might have good intentions
and maybe she's a babe in Christ, and they just put her up there, and you're like, "Hey,
you want to preach tonight?
This is a preaching night.
You want to preach tonight?"
And she might have gone up there and preached, you know.
She had no verses or anything like that, but she might have went up there to preach.
She might have had good intentions, and she thought she might have been, you know, exhorting
the brethren, the gay brethren there, but you know what?
Those good intentions are not what God wanted, are not what God wanted.
First Corinthians chapter 14 verse 34, 35, the Bible says, "Let your woman keep silence
in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be
under obedience as also saith the law.
And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is a shame
for a woman to speak in the churches."
Yeah, they might have good intentions, but it's not what God wants for a woman to do.
You know, the Bible tells us in 1st Timothy chapter 4 verse 14, it says, "I will therefore
that the younger woman marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the
adversary to speak reproachfully."
You know, God wants the woman to guide the house, you know, to rear up the children while
the husband's at work, while he's out there doing God's will, and, you know, the wife
is supposed to be guiding the house.
And you know what?
These woman preachers, they can still preach, but to their children, they can teach at their
children, they can teach them the gospel, they can teach them Bible stories, they can
teach them what the Bible says about end times, they don't have to have a platform or anything
like that, like Joyce Meyers.
And you know, it's so crazy because I was just thinking about this, it's like, you know,
like Joyce Meyers, she's a woman preacher, but you never hear about her children, I don't
even know if she has any children, right?
And you do know that she has a husband, because he's the wife of one husband, or she's the
wife of one husband, right?
And some of you guys are going to get that later.
But you know, it's so crazy because it's like, obviously, like, they probably didn't want
to do anything for God because they're like, "Who's going to send me out, my mom?"
I was just thinking about that today, I was like, they probably don't want to become preachers,
because like, who's going to, who's their inspiration, mom?
Like, obviously, our moms do inspire us, they do motivate us to do better and stuff like
that, but like, as a preacher, or as someone that's trying to preach unto us, like, you
know, the Word of God from a pulpit, like, I don't think they wanted to be sent out by
their mom or something, so you never hear about her children or anything like that doing
something great for God.
Titus 2, 4, chapter 2, verse 4, the Bible says that they may teach the young woman to
be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste keepers
at home, good obedient to their own husbands, that the Word of God be not blasphemed.
And it's basically the same thing that it's saying in 1 Timothy chapter 5, 14, that their
adversaries speak not reproachfully, you know, and you know, Joyce Myers up there is giving
the adversary to speak, occasion to speak reproachfully, you know, is giving that the
Word of God should be blasphemed, you know, she's giving that those kind of vibes up there.
And these women preachers, they just need to sit down, let their husband do it, if the
husband even wants to, you know, but you know, these women preachers that are just teaching
the Word of God that they should not be doing, you know, God doesn't want that for women.
God wants them to guide the house, to be keepers at home, to love their husbands, and to just
basically keep the operation that the husband has running like an oil machine at home.
And to be honest, you know, woman, you know, the more you think about it, God chose a man
to pastor, because he can handle a lot of stress.
You know, sometimes, you know, my son, he's crazy, you know, you see him running around
over here, screaming for no reason.
He's Pentecostal sometimes, so you see him going up and down the aisles.
He's Batecostal.
No, I'm just kidding.
But you see him going up and down, that's how he is at home sometimes.
And he's crazy, and sometimes my wife's like, when I get home, she's like, it was a rough
day with him.
Or, you know, it was just like, you know, he got multiple spankings, you know, he had
to get a lot of correction.
And I'm like, well, he is my son, you know.
But you know, I'm just thinking, I'm like, man, like, imagine if, obviously, I don't,
my wife will never pastor, obviously, you know, but imagine if my wife pastor, she'd
have a lot of stress on her plate.
She wouldn't be able to handle all that.
And you know, she's, but she does a really good job with my son, you know, and sometimes
he's stressful.
You know, he'll be crying for no reason, especially now that he has a sister.
You know, he's definitely like, you know, wants to be babied more, you know, he wants
more attention.
You know, he gets a little bit jealous and stuff like that.
But he, I mean, imagine if there was a room full of him, like, like, there was like, seats
full of him, and she had to pastor all those little Marcos', that's a lot of stress.
That's a lot of problems.
But you know, that's why a woman shouldn't pastor, because it's stressful, it's a stressful
job.
You know, sometimes I see pastors meet here, you know, I'm like, man, he runs his show,
like a well-oiled machine, you know, he does a really good job at, you know, just making
sure our church is doing okay, the church members are taken care of, you know, the sick
are being taken care of, you know, he just does a really good job.
He's able to handle all that stress.
And a woman, she's not meant to handle all the stress.
You know, imagine if Moses, like, you know, Jethro told Moses, like, hey, you're going
to wear yourself out, you know, by taking on all these, like, you know, these problems
from all these Israelites.
And imagine if Moses was a woman, she, her head, she'd probably suicide herself or something.
We've read something about that.
But you know, obviously, God chose a man because he was able to handle the children of Israel
for 40 years in the wilderness, you know, with all that whining, obviously, he lost
his cool every once in a while, breaking the tablets, you know, smiting the rock, he lost
his cool every once in a while, and which is, you know, I don't blame him.
But those good intentions that these women preachers have, it's not what God wants for
them.
It's not right.
You know, they shouldn't be used of God.
What about like, you know, divorced and remarried people that want to go into the ministry?
They're not supposed to be, they're not supposed to be used in the pastorate, you know, and
you got pastors today that are divorced and remarried, and they're going to the pastorate.
You know, I have a coworker, and, you know, I told him, I was like, you know, your dad
is not supposed to be a pastor.
I have a coworker and his dad's a pastor up in, I was like, first of all, he's like, he
teaches, like, you know, repent of your sins.
And second of all, he teaches, like, they speak in tongues over there, or cast out demons
and all that stuff.
He has like a radio show where he casts out demons.
I was like, dang, I wonder what that sounds like, right?
It's just weeping and wailing and ashing a tease on the radio.
It just screams from hell.
But it's just screaming on the radio.
It's like, what are you listening to?
I'm listening to KBN or whatever.
But yeah, his dad is divorced and remarried, you know, and the Bible tells us the husband
of one wife.
So if a pastor, you know, if a guy wants to be a pastor, he obviously has to desire the
office of a bishop, but the Bible says that he has to be the husband of one wife.
That means that he only has to be married to one woman, you know, not multiple women
and all that stuff.
So you know, those people, you know, the woman preachers, the divorced, you know, they shouldn't
be in the pastorate.
They shouldn't be touching that office, just like Uzzah did.
Just like he touched the Ark of the Covenant, you know, he wasn't supposed to be doing that.
And just like these people, they shouldn't be touching the office of a bishop.
They shouldn't be touching, you know, the office of a pastor.
Number three, our good intentions for our children are not always right.
Ephesians chapter six, we go to Ephesians chapter six.
You know, as parents, you know, as a single, I was pretty selfish.
I would say I was pretty selfish.
You know, I just lived for myself, me, myself, and I.
Obviously, like, once I got saved, I became less selfish, but I would still say I was selfish.
I cared about myself and my well-being.
But as a parent, now that I'm a parent, I have a wife, two children, and now I really
think about their future.
And just my family, you know, often I think about, not often, but, you know, sometimes
it crosses my mind.
It's like, what's going to happen, you know, when I'm gone?
Or what's going to happen to my son, you know, when I'm not there for him?
Or stuff like that.
What's going to happen to my wife when I'm not there for her, my daughter, as well?
And you know, you always want the best for your children, you know.
And I'm sure all the fathers in here can attest to that.
They want the best for their children.
You know, as a teenager, I didn't really understand that.
My dad would always tell me, like, I want the best for you, I want the best for you.
And you know, I was like, what, he keeps trying to push, like, the best for me, like, I don't
understand that.
But now I do.
Like, you know, you just want the best life for them.
You want them to have the best of clothes.
You know, you want them to have the best of food.
You want them to have the best life.
And you know, sometimes our best isn't what God wants.
You know, our good intentions to our children aren't sometimes what God wants for them.
And Ephesians chapter six, verse four, the Bible says, "And ye fathers, provoke not your
children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."
Excuse me.
So the Bible's telling us right there that, hey, fathers, don't provoke your children
to wrath.
And sometimes, you know, when I would read this verse, I was like, oh yeah, don't make
your children mad.
And yeah, you shouldn't make your children mad.
Don't provoke them to wrath.
You know, don't poke at them.
You know, don't try to discourage them.
But what I also think that this verse is implying is like, hey, don't provoke them to wrath
by, like, also, you know, trying to push a lifestyle onto them, trying to push a future
that you might have missed out on onto them.
You know, and, you know, as parents, we need to understand that we need to nurture them
at home and admonish them to follow the Lord on their own.
You know, a lot of parents want their children to become a nurse, a doctor, or something
that's just going to make them a lot of money.
But sometimes, that's not what God wants for them.
You know, they might have good intentions, like, hey, son, you should become, you should
study to become a doctor.
You should study to become a nurse.
You should study to become X, Y, and Z and make a lot of money.
But to be honest, that's not what God wants for them.
But we got to understand that God actually has a plan for them.
God actually has a plan for your children.
Jeremiah 1, verse 5, the Bible says, "Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee.
Before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet
unto the nations."
You see, God had a plan for Jeremiah to be a prophet unto the nations.
And, no, this isn't like a Calvinistic view, like, oh, this is one of the verses that the
Calvinists use.
Yeah, they take it out of context.
They like to use this verse saying, like, hey, you know what?
God ordained Jeremiah before even, you know, he was even born.
So you know, God, you see, God preordains, predestines people.
But I don't even think that's what the verse is implying.
You know, I believe that God has a plan for everybody when they're born.
And, you know, but I don't think that plan goes into effect until that person gets saved.
Because that's when God can actually use you.
God can actually use you as a saved person to win people for Christ, to do things for
God, to further his kingdom, and to fulfill his plan, to fulfill that specific plan that
he has for you.
But what if Jeremiah's mom was like, no, Jeremiah, you're not going to be a prophet unto the
nations.
You're going to be a doctor.
You're going to be a physician.
You're going to be a carpenter.
You're going to be a potter, you know.
And what if she just kept pushing that ideology on him?
Well, he would have missed out on what God had for him.
And, you know, the book of Jeremiah is pretty sad.
You know, like, he obviously, you know, preached the word of God, tried to warn the children
of Judah, tried to warn the children of Israel that they were going to be taken into captivity.
But you know what?
He did God's will.
He preached God's word, and he did what God wanted him to do, you know.
Even though, you know, they didn't listen to him, he still did God's work, you know.
And I'm not saying that we shouldn't, you know, try to guide our children in their future,
and we should guide them in the right direction.
I'm saying that we shouldn't push, you know, a life that we might have missed out on, onto
them, you know.
And I've seen it with the best intentions, too.
I've seen it where, like, you know, this mom and dad, they drop off their child to Bible
College in hopes that they get a heart for God, that they get a heart for the ministry.
But to be honest, those people, those kids, they want nothing to do with the things of
God.
They want nothing to do with the ministry.
You know, they just want to, you know, maybe actually go out and make some money.
And these parents are trying to push this life onto them, even, you know, this is a
good intention, putting your kid into Bible College, but it's not the best.
You know, maybe God doesn't want them to become a pastor.
Maybe God doesn't want them to become a missionary.
Maybe God has other plans for them.
Maybe God wants them to actually make a lot of money to help out the church.
And you know, these people have good intentions, but you know what?
These people that get dropped off to Bible College, that have no good, that don't want
anything to do with the ministry, they actually become, like, really bitter people, really
lukewarm people.
And it kind of, like, just, you know, it kind of just brings their morale down and just like,
hey, you know what?
I don't even want to serve God.
I don't even want to be in church, because we're trying to push this lifestyle onto them.
So what we should, what should we do?
You know, I know every parent wants the best for their child.
You know, I want the best for my son.
I want the best for my daughter.
You know, Proverbs 22 verse 6, the Bible says, "Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
You know, the Bible says here, you know, that we should train up our children, you know,
in the right ways, meaning that we need to train them up in the things of God, bring
them up in the nurture and munition of the Lord, and get them saved so that they can
be used of God.
You know, we need to acknowledge that our children are supposed to be, you know, lent
back unto the Lord.
You think about the story of Hannah in First Samuel.
You know, go to First Samuel.
You know, Hannah, she begged the Lord for a son.
You know, she was begging, she was praying unto the Lord.
And you know, the Lord finally gave her one.
But what does she do?
She says, you know what?
You know, just as God gave him to me, I'm going to give him back unto the Lord.
And that's what we should do with our children and say, "Hey, you know what?
I'm going to raise this child."
And you know, the Bible tells us that she weaned the child, and then she finally took
him to the temple to serve in the temple.
Or not the temple, the tabernacle, or serve the priests that were there.
Let me go there as well.
But you know, she said, "You know, I'm just going to give him back to God, because you
know, God gave him to me, and she just ended up giving back to him."
First Samuel chapter one, we'll read in verse 18, and she said, "Let thine handmaid find
grace in thy sight, so the woman went her way and did eat, and her countenance was no
more sad.
And they rose up in the morning early and worshiped before the Lord, and returned and
came to their house to Ramah, and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remember
her.
Wherefore, it came to pass, when the time was come about, after Hannah had conceived,
and she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, 'Because I have asked him of the Lord,
and the man Elkanah, and all his house went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice
and his vow.
But Hannah went not up, for she said unto her husband, 'I will not go up until the child
be weaned, and then I will bring him that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide
forever.'"
So Hannah right there, she's saying like, "Hey, you know, I'm not going to go up until
I've weaned this child," basically implying like, "Hey, you know, until I've raised them
up."
And you know what?
That's what we should do to our children.
It's like, "Hey, you know what?
I'm going to raise this child, and I'm going to raise him up and nurture him in admonition
of the Lord.
I'm going to give him the best life I can and help him understand like, 'Hey, you know
what?
In this house, we serve the Lord.
In this house, we love God, and when he is old, he's not going to depart from that way.'"
And we shouldn't, again, we shouldn't try to push a lifestyle that we missed out on.
"Hey, maybe you missed out on making a lot of money or making or doing X, Y, and Z, going
to college, doing all these things.
Hey, that time has ended.
It's like now it's like you just got to raise your child.
Maybe you missed out on, you know, maybe going into the ministry.
Hey, now it's just time to raise your child and to nurture him in admonition of the Lord
and give him back unto the Lord, you know.
And you know, we should never have these good intentions where like, "Hey, you know, I want
my son."
Or, you know, like I said, I've seen it with the best intentions, you know, these people
that drop their kids off to Bible college, you know, in hopes that they become a missionary
or a pastor.
You know, we should never try to even push that unto our children.
It's like, "You know what?
When my son grows up, he's going to be a pastor, you know.
We should hope for that, or we should hope for our daughters to marry a pastor one day
or something like that.
You know, I'd love that for my daughter or something, become a missionary or something.
I'd be sad for her to leave.
You know, I love her so much already.
And you know, and, but you know, obviously she's, God lent her to me.
God entrusted me to raise her up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
And that's what we should be with our children too, is like, acknowledge like, "Hey, this
child, obviously God gave him to me, but we need to raise him, we need to raise him or
her up in that nurture and admonition of the Lord."
So what can we learn tonight?
Our good intention to worship God our way are not always right.
We have to understand that God wants glory and not some sensual rock band that's singing
the same chorus seven times seven.
You know, God wants sincerity in truth and heart.
You know, He wants us to worship Him in spirit and in truth.
He doesn't want us to be robots singing, "Here I am to worship, here I am to worship, here
I am to worship."
No.
You know, He wants us to actually have some sincerity in our hearts when we're singing
unto Him.
You know, and when you're singing unto Him here in our church, it's like, "Hey, pay attention
to those lyrics of that song."
You know, they're powerful and you know, those words are powerful in there.
Secondly, our good intentions to be used of God are not always right.
You know, God has set leaders and parameters for us to be used of Him.
We just need to learn to walk and work in those parameters.
You know, no woman preachers, no divorced preachers, you know, only what God has, you know, ordained
in His word as 1 Timothy chapter three implies.
Our good intentions for our children are not always right.
We should, you know, we shouldn't try to push a future that we missed out on or try to push
a career on them because in reality, God actually has their best interests in mind.
And you know, just to end it off, you know, God always has the best thing coming for all
of us.
And you know, we might try to push this lifestyle, a career on them, you know, telling them that
they should become this or that, but God obviously has their best interests in mind.
And you know, God wants the best for them actually, you know, because if they're saved
and you know, God obviously loves them, God wants to guide their paths.
And if you're, if you're raising them and nurturing and admonition of the Lord and they're
not going to depart from that, there's nothing to worry about, you know, there's nothing
to worry about because God's going to take care of them.
Amen.
Let's pray.
We'll be dismissed.
Dear God, Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for God for your word that gives us peace,
O Lord.
And Lord, I do pray, Lord God, that the sermon of God will touch our hearts, Lord God.
And Lord, I know, Lord God, sometimes we might have good intentions, Lord God, in every aspect
of our lives, Lord God, to just please you.
And Lord, I just do pray that you would please us.
Always just give us a sermon, Lord God, to be able to discern if this is pleasing unto
you or not.
And Lord, I pray that you would please just continue to guide us and please direct our
paths, Lord God.
And as we continue to read your word, Lord God, as you say in your word, your word is
a lamp unto my feet.
And Lord, I pray that you will please just continue to guide us in the light, Lord, in
this dark world, and give us this sermon in everything that we do.
We pray now these things in Jesus' name.
Amen.
All right, we have one final song, song 183.