Last born proud and proud, we came to Calvary.
Lest I forget Gethsemane, lest I forget Thine enemy.
Lest I forget Thy love for me, we came to Calvary.
Show me the tomb where Thou wast laid, tenderly born and bled.
Angels and roads up by the rain, guardingly wilds now slept.
Lest I forget Gethsemane, lest I forget Thine enemy.
Lest I forget Thy love for me, we came to Calvary.
Lest we are carried through the gloom, come with a gift to me.
Show to me now the empty tomb, we came to Calvary.
Lest I forget Gethsemane, lest I forget Thy agony.
Lest I forget Thy love for me, we came to Calvary.
Day I came willing Lord to bear, daily my cross for thee.
Even my cup of grape to share, now has worn all for me.
Lest I forget Gethsemane, lest I forget Thy agony.
Lest I forget Thy love for me, we came to Calvary.
Amen. Let's go ahead and open up the service of the Lord in prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for allowing us to be here on this Sunday night,
gathered together and singing praises to you.
We pray that Lord that you please bless us and fill us with your spirit as we sing
and fill pastor with your spirit, help him to preach boldly
and for us to grow in wisdom and the knowledge of your word
and we'll thank you for it all in Jesus' name. Amen.
Let's go up to hymn number 39.
Number 39, How Beautiful Heaven Must Be.
Number 39, We Read of a Place That's Called Heaven, number 39.
Let's sing it out on this first verse.
We read of a place that's called heaven
Let's sing for the pure and the free
These words of God's word he hath given
How beautiful heaven must be
Sleep over the happy and free
Fair cave and a breast for the weary
How beautiful heaven must be
In heaven I'm drooping or fining
Not wishing for a certainty
God's light is forever shining
How beautiful heaven must be
Sleep over the happy and free
Fair cave and a breast for the weary
How beautiful heaven must be
Pure waters of life there are flowing
And all who will drink may be free
Rare jewels of splendor are glowing
How beautiful heaven must be
Sleep over the happy and free
Fair cave and a breast for the weary
How beautiful heaven must be
The angels so sweetly are singing
Affair by the beautiful sea
Sweet doors from their gold hearts are ringing
How beautiful heaven must be
Sweet home of the happy and free
Fair cave and a breast for the weary
How beautiful heaven must be
Alright, it's time to go through our announcements together. If you don't have a bulletin, slip up your hand
and we'll get to you with one. On the inside we have our service times. Sunday mornings
at 1030 is our preaching service. Sunday nights at 6. Wednesday nights
at 7 is our Bible study. This week will be in Ezekiel 23.
We've got the soul winning times listed there below as well as salvation and baptisms.
The 2021 year-end giving statements are available
and can be requested by emailing the church at faithfulword1
at gmail.com. It doesn't apply to most people, but if you want one, just email
the church and we'll get you one. Please pray for the St. Croix
missions trip. Some of the people are already there. Some of them are
getting there. I know there have already been a lot of canceled flights, delayed
flights because there's a lot of snow falling on the east coast right now.
And so just pray that all that weather would clear up at some point
so that people could get out there and that they'd get their negative
COVID test so that they can be allowed to fly and so forth. And then
below that, just a praise report here that
we did finish knocking every single door in Globe. So that was a great
achievement for our church and the small town soul winning program. And so
we're moving on to Claypool and the
next trip for that is going to be on January the 29th
and we'll get a sign up sheet over here once it gets a little bit closer to that.
On the back, we've got the weekly singing class at the building at
5 p.m. Keep praying for all the pregnant ladies that they would have a
safe and healthy pregnancy and delivery. And then there's a music emphasis
night on Thursday, February 3rd at 7 p.m. You can sign
up for that over here to my left. And then other
upcoming events are listed there below. Oh, and of course everyone
happy Marxist Lucifer King Day. I almost forgot to
mention that. You know, if you haven't seen the documentary
that we did on that a while back, it's probably not
on YouTube anymore but
allthepreaching.com. There we go. So All the Preaching
has it, right? So go to allthepreaching.com
and you can watch the Marxist Lucifer King documentary
that we did many years ago. Because I mean
right away when you see the world just rallying behind
someone and just praising someone and all of the most wicked
and godless people just lift them up as the greatest hero, you probably
think for a second there's probably something seriously wrong with this guy, okay?
And just to give you just a quick version, you know
first of all Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist pastor.
That's why he's the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
And here's the thing about him being a Baptist pastor
is that he also denied the virgin birth of Jesus Christ
and he also denied the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He did not believe
in the virgin birth, the bodily resurrection, the inspiration of scripture.
In short, he did not believe the Bible or the gospel
or anything. And you say, what's that have to do with anything? Oh, I don't know
everything? Because of the fact that when you are a Baptist pastor
who doesn't believe those things, you're probably one of the most rotten
people in the world? What kind of a wicked person becomes a Baptist
pastor when they don't even believe anything that the Bible teaches?
But you see, he was using religion just as a political
platform, just becoming a pastor to use that as a soapbox
for his political activism and so forth. Well you know
what? At the end of the day, heaven and earth are going to pass away. God's word
is not going to pass away. And at the end of the day, using the house of God
and using the name of Jesus Christ and using the word
of God to promote any agenda other than the gospel
is wicked. Sorry, but it's wicked. I don't care what his agenda
was. This is everything. Jesus is everything.
The gospel is everything, okay? Number one. But not only
that, you know, he was a wicked person surrounded by
literal communists that he worked with in his organization.
He went to the communist training schools and was
yoked up with the CPUSA and all these different things.
And not only that, but he was a serial adulterer
involved in all kinds of horrible orgies and filthy
things. I mean, he was just a disgusting, scummy individual.
Now look, don't say that it's racist to be
against Martin Luther King Jr. because I thought we're supposed to judge people by the content
of their character and not by the color of their skin. So guess
what? The content of his character is garbage. It has nothing to do with
him being black. And you know what? I believe
that all races should be treated the same.
I believe that we're all the same in the sight of God. We're all
of one blood. Red, yellow, black, and white. And the house
of God should be a house of prayer for all nations. And so, you know, I believe
that the answer to any race problem is simply
Christianity, the house of God, the word of God,
the local church. The right way to bring people together
is to bring them together by the name of Jesus Christ, rally them together
in the house of God. You know, that is the right way.
The wrong way is the government forcing people
to, uh, basically accept people that they don't want to accept
or whatever. Because, you know, when you, if you force someone to be friends with someone that they
don't want to be friends with, it's probably just going to make them resent that person even more.
And here we are in 2022, and we still have all
of the racial anger and
all of the stuff. I mean, look at 2020 with all the
riots and the fires and everything like that. Because, you know what?
The world doesn't have the right answer for these things.
The right answer is Jesus, okay? The right answer is the word of God. And Martin Luther
King Jr. is burning in hell right now because he denied
the Lord Jesus Christ, okay? And said, well, look at all the good that he did.
You know what? Depart from me,
you workers of iniquity, okay? Because
you know what? The unsaved man cannot please God. Nothing he does
can please God. Nothing he does is righteous at the end
of the day. And so, I'm not a fan of Martin Luther
King. He's not a role model for anyone because, you know what?
My role models are people who actually stay married to their
spouse and actually stay faithful to their spouse and are not a serial adulterer
having orgies in hotel rooms. Those are my role models that I want
for me and my children, not some guy who's a great public speaker.
Well, you know what? Somebody who's a great public speaker but doesn't have the personal life to back
it up, you know what they are? They're a hypocrite, a rotten person
and shouldn't be a role model for anyone. And look, if you want to actually
get the data and the facts, go to allthepreaching.com,
watch the documentary. It has the exact quotes from Martin Luther King. It has
the relevant historical information. All the facts are there.
They use how he's surrounded by sodomites and communists and
weirdos that he's working with in his organization and so forth. And by the
way, you know, while I'm making people upset possibly,
you know, the thing about the civil rights movement and look,
I 100% believe in
equal rights for everybody. You know, everybody should have equal
rights and the color of people's skin should be considered meaningless
unto us. You know, it should be no different than getting a tan or
something. It should be no different than eye color
or hair color. That's how I feel about it. You know, I believe that we're all
equal in the sight of God and that skin color is
absolutely meaningless. Okay. But, you know, the problem with
the civil rights movement is that it has opened the door
now to saying, oh, well, if you can force people to hire
black people, now you can force people to hire sodomites and force
people. So it's open. You're forced to hire a transvestite now.
So that's the problem with using the government to enforce
these things instead of allowing someone to have their own business and run it
the way that they want to run it. And, you know, maybe that's not popular for
me to say that, but that's what I believe is that, you know, let's say there was some business
that didn't serve black people, then here's the thing. People should just not go to that
business and boycott that business and then that business is going to lose money
and be ostracized. That's how you bring about change the right way.
Not by forcing it and saying like, you must do it. Because now we're
living in a time where now this bakery must bake the cake
and put two dudes on it and congratulate, you know,
Stan and Robert on their wedding or something.
Or that even religious organizations would be
forced to comply with all these perverted things. Of course,
you know, our church will never comply with any of that.
I would rather die than participate in anything
like that. And so, anyway, you know,
don't just blindly get on the bandwagon tomorrow
and get all inspirational with your MLK quotes.
I got some MLK quotes for you and they're on allthepreaching.com.
Okay. So, anyway.
It's still on YouTube? It just keeps respawning.
Just got to scroll that. So, yeah, and one way to find it is
probably if you type in Marxist Lucifer King, sometimes you can filter by length
and just show me only long videos or, you know,
because it's obviously, you know, an hour long or whatever.
And scroll down and find it by hook or by crook.
If you haven't seen it, I encourage you to watch it, especially if you're
offended by what I've said just now. Watch the video and get the facts
because that's not what the sermon's about tonight. All right. Let's go ahead and count
up the soul winning from the past few days going back to Thursday, January 13th.
Anything from Thursday? Gotcha. Anything else
from Thursday? How about, is that Thursday? All right.
What about Friday?
Oh, and by the way, Marxist Lucifer King's widow
is a big advocate for sodomite rights and she says
if Martin was around right now, you know, he'd be pushing for
queer rights and whatever. She said that many times, by the way.
She's probably right because he would pretty much just say whatever
is popular. He certainly wasn't going to be preaching the gospel of
Jesus Christ, Baptist pastor that he was. All right. Saturday. Any soul winning
from Saturday? All right.
Anything else from Saturday? And then what about today, Sunday?
Scott? Three for the main group with brother Scott.
Gotcha.
All right. North Phoenix.
Two more over here. All right.
Okay.
Anything else? Okay.
All right. Very good. Keep up the great work on soul winning.
And with that, let's sing our next song. Come lead us.
And answer in the front of your hymnals with the Psalm 67.
Psalm 67. If you don't have one, please raise your hand.
We'll sing it on that first verse together.
Psalm 67.
Let all nations, let the people praise thee
O God. Let all the people
praise thee. O let the nations
be glad and sing
for joy. For now
shall judge the people
righteously and govern the
nations upon her.
The nations upon her see love.
Let the people praise thee O God.
Let all the people praise thee.
O let the nations be glad
and sing for joy.
Then shall the earth yield her in
peace and God even her own. God shall bless us.
God shall bless us with all the ends
of the earth shall fear him.
Let the people praise thee O God.
Let all the people
praise thee. O let the nations be
glad and sing
for joy.
Amen. Your Psalm is up. Let's go to hymn number 16.
Hymn number 16. Majestic sweetness sits enthroned.
Number 16.
Majestic sweetness
sits enthroned upon the Savior's
crown. His hand with
radiant glory's crown. His lips with
grace or flow. His lips
with grace or flow.
The mortal can with him compare
among the sons of men.
Fairer is he than all
the fair who filled the heavenly
train. Who filled the heavenly
train. He saw me
plunged in deep distress and flew
to my relief. For
he poured the shameful cross
and carried all my grief.
And carried all my grief.
To him I owe
my life and breath and all the
joys I have. He makes
me triumph over death.
And saves me from the grave.
Thank you.
All right, this time we'll pass our offering plates around. As the plates go around,
let's turn our Bibles to 2 Thessalonians chapter number 3.
2 Thessalonians chapter number 3, as we always do, we'll read the entire chapter.
Beginning in verse number 1, follow along silently with brother Dan as he reads.
2 Thessalonians 3.
For all men have not faith.
But the Lord is faithful who shall establish you and keep you from evil.
And we have confidence in the Lord touching you that you both do and will do
the things which we command you. And the Lord directs your hearts into the love of God
and into the patient waiting for Christ. Now we command you, brethren, in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh
disorderly and not after the tradition which he received from the Lord.
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us, for we behave not ourselves disorderly
among you. Neither do we eat any man's bread for naught, but rot with
labor and travail night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you.
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you
to follow us. For even when we were with you, this we commanded you,
that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which
walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy with you.
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness
they work and eat their own bread. But ye, brethren, be not wary in
well-doing. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man,
and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not
as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. Now the Lord of peace himself
give you peace always, by all means. The Lord be with you all,
the salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every
epistle, so I write. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Father in heaven,
we come here in prayer, Lord, to give you thanks for every day we have on earth, Lord.
We pray that you bless our brothers and sisters that are already on the island, Lord.
We pray that you bless our brothers and sisters that are on the way to the island, Lord. Please
remove all distractions, Lord, and let them get there safely, and please
be with us. Amen.
Amen.
All right, 2 Thessalonians, chapter 3, the title of the sermon is
Disorderly Conduct. Disorderly Conduct.
The Bible reads in verse number 4, and we have confidence in the Lord touching you
that you both do and will do the things
which we command you. So in this epistle, the apostle Paul
is giving some commandments to the churches of God.
He's giving some commandments to the churches of Thessalonica, and he starts
in verse 6 here, Now we command you, brethren, in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves
from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not
after the tradition which he received of us. And so here in verse 6,
the apostle Paul is expressing to them not just
a wish or a desire or a suggestion, he's saying, look,
we command you to do this. You need to withdraw yourselves
from these disorderly brethren.
Okay, so obviously there's a big problem here. The churches
of the Thessalonians obviously have a big problem with
these disorderly people. It needs to be dealt with, and he's saying, look, you've got
to withdraw yourself from these people. Now, who are these
people that are walking disorderly and not after
the tradition which he received of us? Well, if we keep reading,
context will explain to us who these disorderly people are, because
it says in verse number 7, For yourselves know how you ought to follow us,
for we behave not ourselves disorderly among you. And then look at
the next words, Neither did we eat any man's bread for not,
but wrought with labor and travail night and day, that we might
not be chargeable to any of you. So the opposite of being
disorderly, the guys who are not disorderly are the ones who
weren't freeloaders, they weren't eating someone else's food for nothing,
but rather they wrought with travail night and day, they worked hard
and met their own needs. Now if you jump down to verse 11,
we'll get an even clearer definition. It says,
For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly,
working not at all, but are busy
bodies. So it's pretty easy when you put this passage together
and you read through this passage in the context to figure out that these
disorderly people are people who are refusing to work. They're refusing
to work. That's why the Bible says in verse 10, For even when we were
with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work,
neither should he eat. Because there are these disorderly people and
they're refusing to work. So the people that he is
saying to put away from you are these people who are refusing
to work. They don't work. They're lazy. They are
freeloaders. They are disorderly. Now with that in mind,
let's start over at the beginning here and look at this verse by verse.
It says in verse 6, Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every
brother that walketh disorderly, and not after
the tradition which he received of us. And then it says,
For yourselves know how you ought to follow us. Now what does the word tradition mean?
The word tradition is simply anything that is passed down.
Anything that, for example, your grandparents did,
and then your parents picked up on that from them, and then your parents have taught it
to you, now you've picked up on it. That's a tradition. So traditions can
be either good or bad. Now we often talk
about tradition in a bad light or a negative light because
Jesus talked about people who made the word of God of none effect
by their tradition. So obviously if someone's tradition
is nullifying the word of God, that's a bad tradition.
So you think about religions that are based on tradition, like say the Roman Catholic Church, right?
The Roman Catholic Church is not based on the Bible. It's based on their traditions,
things that have been passed down from the church fathers and so forth.
But the problem is, they don't jive with scripture.
Things that the Roman Catholic Church teaches are not compatible with scripture,
and that's a whole other sermon that shall be preached at another time. But here,
in this scripture, the tradition that they're not walking after
is the tradition of working hard and paying
your own way. Because he says, they're walking disorderly,
and we kind of defined what that entails from the context.
And not after the tradition which he received of us,
for yourselves know how you ought to follow us.
We left you an example, we left you a tradition
of not being disorderly, but rather,
you know, working night and day laboring,
not being chargeable to anyone. It says in verse 9,
not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensemble unto you to follow us.
The thing is, you know, we've set an example of how to work hard.
You need to be following that example. That's the tradition
that we've left you with. We've left you with a certain style of living
and a certain mentality, and if anybody
walks disorderly and not according to that
tradition, that example, that teaching that we've given, you need to withdraw
yourself from that person. Now,
what does that mean when it says, withdraw yourselves
from every brother that walketh disorderly? He's saying, do not have fellowship with them.
Do not have fellowship with them. Now, this is very similar
to the type of scriptures like 1 Corinthians
chapter 5 that would say, you know, if any man that's called a brother be a drunkard,
or a fornicator, or an extortioner, or a railer, you know, with
such a one, know not to eat. Don't even
eat a meal with these people. Don't have fellowship with these people.
Put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
You know, I jokingly call this doctrine that I'm teaching
right now from this verse about how, you know, we need to withdraw ourselves
from people who refuse to work. I jokingly call it the Jimenez doctrine.
You know, because Pastor Jimenez was the first person that I ever heard preach this,
where he said, you know, a grounds for
church discipline is people who are just refusing to work.
They're just freeloaders, lazy, and I'm not talking about people
that are disabled or people that actually are unable to work
or they're trying to work and they, you know, they're looking for a job. But I mean,
just people who just plain refuse to work and they're just a freeloader, you know,
to basically throw that person out of the church. I call that the Jimenez doctrine, okay.
And, uh, because he's the one that I heard
preach that and I kind of joke with him, we joke with him about that and call it that.
But basically it is a great doctrine, you know, to have your
name on. So he ought to be proud, I think.
But anyway, it says,
yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we behaved ourselves not disorderly among you.
Now you might ask yourself, you know, why would these people who are refusing to work,
why are they labeled as disorderly?
You know, that's not really what you'd think of with disorderly.
Now, there's a, there's a
charge that the police will charge you with sometimes, and I know because they hit me with it
one time, but it's called disorderly conduct.
But, you know, the charges were dropped, all right. But this charge
disorderly conduct, I found that the police will sometimes use this,
you did something we don't like and it's not really a crime, so
we'll just kind of slap this label on it, disorderly conduct or whatever.
But typically it's people that are being loud and rowdy
and maybe they're, you know, I don't know, drunk
and just causing problems, making a ruckus, disturbing
the peace or whatever. You know, that's not what we're really talking about here. You know,
because if you read the context here, these disorderly people, the Bible doesn't describe
them as disturbing the peace or getting too rowdy.
That's not what we see in this passage. We gotta let the Bible kind of define itself.
The disorderly people are people that are refusing to work
and as a result, look at verse 11, we hear that there are some which walk among you
disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
Okay. Now then that are such, we command and exhort
by our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they work and eat their own bread.
So the only other thing that we really see about these people,
besides the fact that they're refusing to work, is that they're busybodies
and they need to just kind of shut up and go to work
and quit just running their mouths. So a busybody is someone who gets
involved in other people's business, they run their mouth, they gossip, they talk about
other people's business and just things of that nature. So why
would this lazy person who refuses to work be called disorderly?
Well, here's the thing about life is
that if you don't have structure in your
life, and typically that involves going to work every
day or at least having some kind of work laid out for
yourself that you do, maybe if you're self-employed or if you run your own business or whatever,
if you don't have that kind of structure
of work in your life, you're going to get into trouble, you're going to get into
sin, you're going to end up doing the wrong things because as my mom used
to tell me when I was a kid, an idle mind is the devil's workshop.
And so when you have nothing to do, that's when you get into trouble.
You think about King David. Kings are supposed to go to war, they're supposed to
defend their nation. And we see that when King David
stays home from battle and is just hanging out in Jerusalem
sending Joab to do all the fighting and everything that he should be doing,
that's when he goes up on the rooftop and he looks at Bathsheba,
he can't sleep. Why can't he sleep? Because he's not doing anything.
You know, when you work hard, you fall asleep at night. But he's up at night
and he's just looking around, he's got nothing to do because he
stayed home from the battle, next thing you know he's committing adultery and getting involved in these other things.
You see, if you are not working,
you become disorderly. What's the opposite of disorderly?
Orderly. You know, the person who has an ordered life
is the person who goes to work on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday. That brings order to our lives,
doesn't it? Going to church Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night
brings order to our lives, right? We have a schedule. We get up,
we do our work, we have responsibilities,
and that keeps us on track. We don't just wake up every day,
uh, what do you want to do today, man? Just every day.
Because I guarantee you, you're going to end up doing some sinful things,
living that kind of a disordered life.
And the disorderly conduct that I believe the Apostle Paul is referring to
in 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 is a disordered life.
A life with no structure. A life that does not
have a job to go to, or work to go to,
or at least work planned. Because obviously throughout history not everyone
has gone to work or gone to a job. But let's say you're living on the farm or whatever,
you still have some order to your life where you're working to
meet the needs of your family, you're milking the cows at a certain time,
you're plowing the field at a certain time, you're gathering in the crops,
you're fixing equipment. Whatever it is, we need to stay busy
in our lives working hard and doing the right things so that we don't
get tempted to do the wrong things. We don't want to live a
disorderly life. We don't want to be these lazy people that are
just kind of just sitting around, fooling around,
no structure, and the next thing you know they're gossiping
and talking about a bunch of stupid things because they just have nothing
productive to do with their time. We as Christians must
have order in our lives. We need to work. Men,
we need to work. Women need to work. Not necessarily outside
the home. Obviously, we believe that women should be at home
with the children, that they should be a stay-at-home
housewife and a stay-at-home mother. That's the ideal that the Bible
puts forth. That's what I preach. That's what I believe. That's
what I say. But guess what? It's still work.
You know, my wife hasn't had a job in the entire
21 years that we've been married. She's been a stay-at-home
wife, stay-at-home mom. She's not clocking in anywhere,
but yet she has work to do. She has structure to her life.
She has routines and things that she does. She eateth not the
bread of idleness. Because if you live a disordered
life, you get into trouble. You end up doing bad
things and doing wrong things. Now, today we
have just an epidemic. I'm not talking about COVID.
We have an epidemic of lazy
young people refusing to work. It's incredible.
All around the streets of Phoenix and Tempe, you see them standing
on the corner, holding up their signs. I mean, on the way
over here was a homeless dude holding
up a sign that says, you know, if you can help,
please help. Otherwise, just smile. And then
it said, so smile you cheap bastard. That's what
the sign said. It's like
huh? Excuse me? And by the way, this exact guy
with his stupid little joke that's not funny, you know, the same guy
had that sign a week ago.
The same thing. It's just hey, smile you cheap bastard.
You know, and please don't say that I'm cussing because that word is in the
Bible multiple times, you know.
But anyway, the point is
this guy is holding up this sign insulting me
because I won't give him my money that I worked for because he's too lazy.
He's a lazy bastard, okay, is what he is.
He's a disorderly bastard, is what he is.
It's not cheap to not give your hard-earned
money to these people. And let me take it a step further. You're not helping these
people by giving them money when they are refusing to
work. And it would be one thing if they were crippled or something, then yeah, give them alms.
If somebody's actually crippled, if somebody's actually
unable to work because they're so handicapped, then
you know, by all means, help them out. But I'm talking about the street corners
of Phoenix, Arizona today being filled with young, able-bodied,
healthy people. I mean, people in their 20s and 30s asking
for free money. It is wicked in the sight of God.
And you say, well, what are they supposed to do? Well, they have two options
according to the word of God here. Either work or starve to death.
That's what the Bible says. It says, if any man
will not work, neither should he eat.
How can you get any more clear than that? These people deserve
to die of starvation if they refuse to work.
You're not allowed to live on this planet and not work and eat the food.
If you eat the food, you gotta do the work. That's the way this planet
works. Alright? If you don't like it, then just stop
eating and just die. It's that simple. This is
how life works. Any questions? But when
you're giving money to these people, you are enabling them.
You're enabling them. You're teaching them that this is an acceptable lifestyle.
And people are constantly giving them money
and they think that it makes them a better person because they give money to these
derelict bums. Like, oh, now I'm going to
heaven for sure. You know, because they believe in a workspace, salvation.
People who don't have the Gospel, they think they're like earning their way to heaven or they have
some moral high ground where they'll even take pictures and
put it on social media and video. Boy, those videos make me want to puke.
Helping homeless people on video. Oh, look at this
crying homeless person as I give them a pizza.
They're crying because it's not drugs.
They're crying because it's not beer. That's why they're crying.
They're not crying because they love you.
They're crying because you're so stupid. Okay? The point is,
first of all, if you actually were doing alms, you're not supposed to let
anybody know about it. The Bible says when you actually give alms, don't let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing. Let your alms be in secret.
And your Father which seeth in secret shall reward you openly
doing alms. But it's not alms to give to somebody who's refusing
to work. What you're actually doing is you're actually hurting
that person. I mean, what if somebody's a drug addict and I give them
drugs? Am I helping or hurting them? What if someone's an alcoholic and I
buy them booze? Am I helping them? No.
And giving money to a person who refuses to work is like giving
drugs to a drug addict. Their addiction is laziness.
Their disease is laziness. And giving them free money
is just teaching them to continue in that lifestyle. Let me tell you something.
These people who are refusing to work, they're not happy.
Work makes you happy.
Work makes you feel good. You know, every man who goes to work
and puts in an honest day's work knows the joy and the satisfaction
of an honest pay for an honest job
and it makes us feel good to accomplish something, to build something,
to do something. We get achievement and a sense
of pride in our labor from that. You know, you think these people are happy,
dirty, by the side
of the road, doing nothing, just standing there. I mean, it looks boring
to me. It's humiliating.
But yet they do it because anything
except work. Now, I've been talking to these people lately.
You know, when
they're young and able-bodied
and when it's clear that they're perfectly healthy, normal people,
I roll down my window to them and I say to them, I say, you know that
literally everyone is hiring right now? I said, have you heard about the
worker shortage? I mean, folks, restaurants are now
literally, they used to be open at lunch, now they're dinner only because they're saying, we don't have the
staff. I know one that closed three days. In a week, they closed no staff.
What restaurant? It's in Cape Creek, El Encanto.
El Encanto is closing three days a week.
Yeah, what days? Yeah, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday closed.
They just don't have the staff. You know, other restaurants, brand new restaurant
was going to open in a distant city and they said, we just can't,
we can't even open because we can't hire anyone. We can't find the workers.
My son was just telling me that Taco Bell, a certain Taco Bell
went to drive-thru only.
McDonald's went to drive-thru only. They just can't find the staff.
I mean, today, if you have a pulse, you're hired.
And I'm telling you, my teenage children are being
like head-hunted for minimum wage jobs.
You know what I mean? Like, seriously, my son
works at a certain establishment. My young teenage son
that's not an adult, my third born, he's working
at a certain establishment. He has people approaching him. What are they paying you here?
I'll give you two dollars more an hour. What's it going to take to get you to come over to
Chick-fil-A? What's it going to take to get you over to In-N-Out Burger
or something? I mean, these type of jobs, which it used to be,
you know, it wasn't really that hard for them to find people.
I remember back when I was getting those kind of entry-level jobs
or looking for those kind of entry-level jobs, I remember I was 16 years old and it was time to get a job.
Right? And when I was 16, I applied
at like, you know, eight or nine fast food places or something.
None of them even called me back. None of them
gave me the time of day, but then, thankfully,
the one that called me back, Round Table Pizza, ended up
you know, and who can say, I was much happier there than working at McDonald's
anyway, because it was the last Honest Pizza, okay? And the food was
good. But my point is, back then, it was like
you know, you had to fight for those jobs. You had to fight for that
job at Taco Bell, McDonald's, whatever. I couldn't even get them to call me
back when I was 16. Alright? But nowadays,
they're shutting down. I mean, I drive by Panda Express, it's like
$17 an hour to work at Panda Express or something.
You know, I remember I was married with two kids
in California working a highly skilled
fire alarm job for $15.50 an hour. And yeah,
I get it that there's been inflation since then, but still, I mean
$17 an hour to work at Panda Express, that's incredible.
There hasn't been that much inflation, you know.
I mean, I was working at Round Table Pizza, I was making like $5.15
an hour, okay? And I realized there's inflation, but have prices really
tripled and quadrupled? Not quite, okay? And so
the point is, everybody's hiring.
I could name places for you that they'll hire you immediately.
And all the, it's like every receipt I get at the bottom says, we're hiring.
Every sign in the window, hiring. There's a worker
shortage, businesses are shutting down, they just can't get people. And I roll down my
window and I say to these people, have you heard about the worker shortage?
Do you realize that literally everyone is hiring?
If you have a pulse, you're hired. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, you know
and then it's just some stupid lame excuse. Oh, I'm
going to do that, I'm working on that, you see them the next day,
you see them a week later, you see them a month later. I mean, you get to know them after a while.
I'm not kidding. I mean, you know the guy
at this corner, this corner, this gal, this guy, I mean it's just
it's the same people over and over again. And I mean, they're like fighting for real estate now.
It'll be like, they'll be at all four corners and then one comes up and it's like, hey man,
this is my turf and it's like, oh, you know, they're like taking shifts.
These people are disorderly,
okay. These people, they refuse to work,
they're lazy, giving them money is not
helping them. Now, let me show you a key verse in this passage, okay.
Because what did the Bible say to do with these people if they're a brother?
If they're a brother, if they're a Christian doing this, now, you know, obviously
a lot of these people are not saved, okay.
They need to get saved, obviously that's their
biggest issue, okay. But, if somebody who's a
brother is refusing to work and freeloading and
just living off handouts, we're supposed to put that person away
from us. And Pastor Jimenez has done
that a few times and, you know, thus the Jimenez Doctrine.
But look what the Bible says in verse number 14.
If any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man
and have no company with him. That's the, you know, put him away from among yourselves,
don't eat with him, have no company with him, that he
may be ashamed, okay. So what's the Bible saying?
The whole point in throwing these people out or ostracizing
them or not having any fellowship with them is
to shame them. To shame
them, I said. How dare you shame these people?
What did the Bible just say? Have no company with them
that they may be ashamed. And you say, well that's not very loving of you
to do that. Okay, but look what the next verse says.
Show him not as an enemy, but admonish him
as a brother. You see, if I
shame someone for refusing to work
and admonish them that they need to, with
quietness, work and eat their own bread, if I preach to someone
this is laziness, this is slothfulness, you're a sluggard,
God says it's wicked, you're disorderly, you're
out of line, you need to get a job, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Is that me being an enemy
to that person? Is that me being unloving to that person? Is that
hateful to do that? No. Because otherwise, how could the
Bible in one breath tell me to do that and then in the next breath say
you know what, don't count that guy as an enemy. Don't hate him.
Don't consider him your enemy. Admonish him as a brother.
What's the Bible saying here? You know, sometimes
the best thing we can do for someone is to correct them.
To rebuke them. I mean, think about it. If my life were
in a downward spiral of drunkenness, what do I need?
Somebody to just throw their arms around me and tell me it's going to be okay?
And may I buy you a 24-pack?
Or do I need somebody to tell me, you're a drunk,
you're ruining your life, and you know, until you get it right, you can't
come to church anymore. Because you're a drunkard. You need to
go to rehab or whatever you need to do to fix this, but
you are a drunk and you're destroying your life, you're destroying the lives of the people
around you. You know, that's not unloving to
rebuke that type of destructive sin. Because at the end of the day,
if people would stop giving money to these people on the corner, they wouldn't be there
anymore. The reason that they're there is
because people are giving them money, and you know what you're doing? You're contributing
that person's misery. So when you give that five dollar
bill to the able-bodied
disorderly person on the corner who's refusing to work, when you give them that
five dollar bill, number one, you're participating in their sin,
you're condoning it, you're participating in it,
and not only that, but you're also contributing to their
misery. Because you're basically saying, here,
spend another day in this miserable condition.
Spend another day eating and drinking from the gas station.
Spend another day drunk. Spend another day
on drugs. Spend another day disorderly without going to work.
And that's not going to bring happiness to that person. These people are not happy.
Now, I ride my bicycle around the city a lot.
That's how I get around a lot. Because I like to exercise, and because
my wife and I share a vehicle, and I just want to reduce
my carbon footprint, okay? But anyway, I ride my bike around the city
a lot, and when you ride a bike, you see things
up close. In a car, you just kind of whiz by, but when you're on a bike
or even walking on foot, you really see things as they are.
And so, I come right up to these people. I'm standing
right next to them, waiting for that light to turn. And you know what I've noticed about them is that
they don't have any dignity. They don't have
any confidence.
We were talking the other day, somebody said,
well, if you mouth off to these homeless people,
aren't you afraid they're going to attack you or hit you or get angry or fight you
or something? And I said no, because anybody who actually knows how
to fight isn't homeless.
Because anybody who had the character
to go to a boxing gym or learn martial arts
or get a black belt and whatever, probably
wouldn't be out there. If they would have got that black belt in Taekwondo,
they probably wouldn't even be there. You know what I mean? Because of the fact
that they'd have character. They'd have some character. These people
they're just
they're a shell of a human being. They won't make eye
contact. They have no dignity. That's not a happy life.
It's a miserable life. It's a sad life.
But it is a life, make no mistake about it, that they have chosen
and are choosing it every day. Every day they choose that life.
Now look, I can feel bad for them
and pity them and show them the love
of Christ at the same time as I rebuke them and give them
a swift kick in the pants. Not literally now, but verbally. Why?
Because of the fact that I know that they are doing this to
themselves. They are choosing this path. They are lazy.
They are wicked in the sight of God and they must repent
and they must get a job.
And there are so many pathways to actually working
and living an honest life. I mean our society makes it so easy
now. I mean you've got Goodwill
has got all these programs and you know
folks, I mean anybody will hire you practically these days.
But what about places like Goodwill who have a whole program. I mean I just
drove by a place the other day and it said Goodwill Career Center.
And they said we're going to help you make a resume
we'll teach you. You can go to classes and they'll teach you some skill that you
can then take and get hired at one of these entry level jobs. Minimum wage
is so high and I mean what in the world? Like
what are you doing out here? What are you doing?
But you know Santa is like that. Santa destroys our lives. It makes us miserable.
It makes us a pitiable human being.
And we do it to ourselves but yet it destroys
us. And that's what's going on with these homeless people and I'm so
sick of this moralizing by libtards
who are like oh there's all these churches but they can't fix homelessness.
Folks you can't fix stupid. Okay? If a
person wants to be homeless what can you do?
If you can tell this person here get a
job. And folks you say well you know they have to be on drugs
and whatever. Folks you can get hired even on drugs now.
All day long. You know it used to be that it's
like well they don't have a job because they're a drug addict. Now it's like
drug addicts welcome. You know I think a lot of jobs would love to hire
drug addicts right now. They don't care what
you snort before work or whatever. Just show up and wash the dishes amen?
We don't care what's in your system.
That's literally where we're at in the job market right now. Jobs
a lot of jobs won't even drug test their employees because you know they'd lose too
many staff. Even when I was in the workforce
it was kind of like that. There were certain guys on the job everybody knew they were doing drugs but
it was like but they're good at the job.
And so you know these people have literally no excuse.
You'd be better off rather than giving them money
rebuking them and giving them a Bible verse.
And I'm all for witnessing to them as well. I've
witnessed to many of them and I'm for that. You
would expect them to be a very receptive population because you know the poor
are receptive amen? But let me explain something to you about people who refuse to
work. They're not the poor. They're not poor.
Don't tell me that I'm not helping the poor
or that I'm not regarding the poor. No no no.
I love the poor. I want to help the poor.
These people are not the poor. You know who's receptive to the gospel?
The poor. But I found homeless people to be some of the least
receptive people to the gospel. Doesn't really make sense does it? You'd expect
poor people to be receptive. Oh yeah they're not poor.
That's why they're not receptive. This is what I believe is a
poor person. A poor person is someone who works
and they struggle to make ends meet even though they work.
And it's out there. You know there are people who go and they work hard and they
put in a lot of work at their job. Maybe even work two jobs and they struggle to make
ends meet. That is a poor person. And I don't want
you to think that I don't understand what it's like to have financial problems because I do.
You know I remember when I first got married my wife and I
were very poor. Okay. We lived in
just a one bedroom apartment. It was a pretty ghetto apartment complex.
One bedroom apartment. We even when we had our second child born we were still
in a one bedroom. You know eventually we got into a two bedroom.
But we were in a one bedroom in a run down apartment complex in a kind
of rough part of town. And when we got married we didn't even have
a bed. We had a twin mattress on the ground.
Twin size for two people on the ground. You know we were very
close right away as a couple. But anyway so we have you know
twin mattress on the ground. We had no couch.
We had no dining room table at first. I mean we had
two plates, two forks, two spoons, two knives.
I mean we you know and here's the thing. I wasn't
stupid or refusing to work
or anything like that. I mean I went and I worked 50 hours a week at my job
and I just you know I just struggled to pay the bills.
Just as a young man. Just working hard. Doing
skilled work even. And so I get it. You know I
worked 50 hours a week. Eventually you know we got a table with two chairs and
then when we would have our friends over we'd say hey bring chairs. We had another
couple come over from church and they had to bring chairs over. We
ate at home. The only time we ate out was when someone else was paying. You know
if my parents would take us out to eat and they would buy. So
for a few years the only restaurant we ever ate out was Chili's because that's where my parents always
ate. So basically you know I know what it's like to struggle
and you're just you're barely getting by paycheck to paycheck. You got
$50 in your checking account and then you get an unexpected bill. I get
it that there are people that are legitimately working and struggling and so forth.
That's what I consider poor people. Other people I would consider poor
people are people that are actually handicapped. They actually have some
kind of a physical disability or handicap that doesn't allow them
to work. And so because they're physically disabled and
they're on just some meager income I would consider that a poor person
as well. Okay. Widows and
people that are struggling for various reasons. But a person who refuses to work
I refuse to give them the label poor.
So all those Bible verses about poor people do not apply to them.
Because God wants us to help the poor. God wants us to lift up the poor
and consider the poor. And the Bible says that the righteous man
regards the poor and considers his cause.
We should consider the cause of the poor. But you know okay
I consider the cause of these homeless people it's drugs, it's alcohol, it's a refusal
to work. The Bible doesn't just say indiscriminately
give money to everyone who asks for it even if they don't want to work.
No the Bible says if any will not work neither should he eat. So
he says if they won't work put them away from you
admonish them, rebuke them, don't have any
fellowship with them, don't have any, and by the way this isn't optional it's a command.
Put these people away from you. They're not your enemies
but you're helping them
you're being a friend to them more by rebuking them and telling them to get their act together.
If any will not work neither should he eat. We
hear that there are some, verse 11, which walk among you disorderly working not
at all but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort
by our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they work
and eat their own bread. But ye brethren be not weary in
well doing and if any man obey not our word by this epistle note
that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed. Yet
count him not as an enemy but admonish him as a
brother. Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord
be with you all. And so the example that Paul set was working hard
paying your own way, meeting your own needs, and then even
having extra to give to other people and help other people.
Now how do we apply this sermon besides saving
our money and not giving it out to these people
that are refusing to work among us?
And well before I get to that one more thing.
I was riding my bike two days ago and I was
rode by the dwelling of one of these bum encampments
and there was a styrofoam box
and it was open and it was just a complete meal.
It was like some kind of a steak
or something, vegetable, rice,
I mean it didn't even look like it had been touched.
Just sitting there, open, untouched, just totally
rotten. Untouched. Because the Bible says he that is
slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great
waster. And let me tell you something about these people who refuse to work. Have you
noticed how they trash our city? You ever wonder
sometimes I wonder like where does all this trash come from? Who is doing this?
Because I hate litter. And you hate to see just street
corners covered in trash. There are garbage cans everywhere.
Put your trash in the garbage. And by the way if your kids
throw trash on the ground, teach them that that is not acceptable.
Teach them that littering is wrong.
Make them put it in the proper receptacle. But you wonder where all the trash
comes from. They dump their trash everywhere. But it's always
a half-eaten food item. They never finish their food. They never
clean their plate. Why is that? Hungry. You're not hungry.
You know what? When I'm hungry, I eat everything.
You know, when I, and most of us in America
we don't even, we hardly ever even truly get hungry.
Because we all eat three meals a day and we might skip a meal
here and there but it's not a big deal is it? But man, there are situations where I've been truly
hungry. I remember being on an, someone was on an airplane
and you get desperate for food. I don't know what it is about flying but flying makes me really hungry.
So I always load up on snacks and stuff. But sometimes
I've been ill-prepared or something. And I mean when I've gotten desperate
on an airplane, I'll eat anything. And whatever dumb
snack they have on that airplane, I'll eat it. And I've had to like buy
the little snack box or whatever on the airplane. You pay like ten
bucks and it's just junky snacks.
And I remember buying one of those snack boxes and whatever it has in it
I was just like literally just like sucking every calorie out of it.
Like it just like, it had some weird little
gelled marmalade janky thing. I'm just like
I'm licking out the container. Every crumb of every
cracker, every peanut. And I'm just like gobbling it down
to where it's just, there's nothing left. Literally not, I'm
licking the plate. I mean it's just, it's done. That's hungry.
Anybody who's actually hungry will eat everything.
Imagine all this, this half-eaten food everywhere.
That's what you do when you just have an abundance of food. You have an excess of food.
And no character.
Now how do we apply this to ourselves
today is that, you know, we need to make sure that we're living an orderly life.
Okay, you need to have a job that you go to
man. Have a job that you go to Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday. You know, you need to have structure. Now perhaps
you're self-employed. Maybe you've got your own business
or ranch or farm or whatever. Then
create a structure for yourself. But you've got to have structure. Maybe you're
retired. You say well Pastor Anderson, I'm retired.
You know, what do I do? Hey, you better find something productive
to do with your life. Because if you just are idle and
disorderly, you're going to get into trouble. You're going to get into sin. You're going to get backslidden.
You know, at least find something to do. And you know, a lot of elderly people
they're retired. You know, maybe they're traveling or
maybe they take up hobbies or whatever. But ideally, you know,
it would be great to see people that are retired also, you know,
getting work done for the Lord. You know, showing up
for soul winning and, you know, getting serious about
serving God and whatever. Obviously
everybody's situation is different. But the point is,
don't just retire and do nothing. And just sit
around and watch TV and sit around and surf the internet. You know, get on
some kind of a program. Get a goal. Get motivated about something.
Get some structure in your life. Have some goals that you're working towards. Six months,
one year, two years. Plan your days.
Get up at a certain time. Read your Bible. Pray.
And do something productive with your life. We all need structure
in our lives. And you ladies that are the stay at home wives
and stay at home mothers, you need some structure in your life.
Okay, do not be that housewife or mother
who basically just freestyles it through the day
and just goes from soap opera,
I don't even know if that's even still a thing anymore, but just goes from soap opera
to just Facebook to
Candy Crush to whatever the video game,
surfing the news, reading social media. And look,
I'm not against having fun. I'm not against blowing off steam. I'm not against social media.
I'm not against even a video game
in extreme moderation. I'm not against
following the news
necessarily. I'm not going to do it, but you're welcome to do it.
But when people are just spending their whole day on that,
is that really what your life is about?
Being a housewife and a mother and actually doing it right
is actually hard work, if you're doing it right.
If you're actually cooking the meals and doing the cleaning
and homeschooling the kids, it's actually difficult.
But a lot of people, they
homeschool their kids, and then that just becomes
an excuse to basically just stay up till midnight every night,
stay up till one in the morning, everybody rolls out of bed at 9,
10 a.m. and they're all groggy because every day is a day off from school.
Now, here's the thing about school. School makes you get up
in the morning. Am I right? I mean, when I was a kid, I used to have to get up
at 5.45 every day to get ready and go to school because
you had to get the carpool or you had to get on a bus or your parents have to take
you on their way to work or whatever. So, you know, going to school forces you
to get up in the morning and have some structure in your life. Now, obviously,
I don't want my kids enrolled at the public fool system.
And so we believe in homeschooling, but you know what?
I still want my children to have some structure in their lives.
And so don't unschool your kids. If you're going to homeschool, you should still
at least have some structure of like, okay, let's get up at a certain time,
let's have breakfast, let's do schoolwork at a certain time,
let's have lunch, let's read our Bibles at this time,
let's get some exercise at this time, here's your free time, here's your
work time. Not just every day is just
do some schoolwork when you feel like it and just kind of just freestyle through the day.
You know, because that's not how adult life works, is it?
You know, as men, we have schedules, we have structure,
we have work that we have to do. Women, they should
have schedule, structure, work that they have to do even in the home.
And you've got to enforce that even on your kids and have
this is nap time, this is bedtime, this
is time to get up, this is when we eat breakfast, this is when we
eat lunch, this is when we eat dinner. You know, you don't want to become a disorderly
person where you're just lazy and just
wasting time. And you know, sometimes people ask me
like, man, I don't know how you have time to do such and such.
How do you find time to do such and such? You know,
I'm not some expert guru of time management or anything.
I find myself asking, what are other people
doing all day? Like, how can you not have time for these things?
Like, what do you do all day? You work for eight hours, there's 24 hours in the day.
Like, what do you do the rest of the time? You know, we end up wasting a lot
of time if we don't structure our time a little bit, you know. And I want to get
the most out of my day that I can. You know, I want to get the most out of Monday, the most out of Tuesday,
the most out of Wednesday. And so, we need structure, right?
We need order. Children need order and structure.
Wives and mothers need it. We as men, hopefully our
job provides most of that. And then, you know, but what about the rest of the day?
You know, have some time set aside for productive things, spiritual
things, church, soul winning, taking
care of your health, whatever you need to do, have structure in your life.
The extreme example is these disorderly people who don't
work at all. That's the most extreme example. There are some disorderly
among you, working not at all. That's on one extreme.
Okay, but here's the thing, there's also a lot of us could maybe fall into a gray area
where we get a little disorderly in our lives where, yeah, we work,
but we just basically fool around for
hours and hours and hours every day just being lazy, watching
TV, just not accomplishing anything, you know.
I just want to challenge you tonight to not give money
to derelicts on the street corner in Phoenix, and I want to
challenge you tonight to look at your life, look
at your week, look at your schedule, and ask yourself,
you know, is this disorderly? Or,
you know, can I bring some more order to my life so that I can be a more
productive servant of God? Can I get some hard and fast
goals? Maybe you're retired, you know, ask yourself, what do I want
to do with the next 10 years of my life? You know, because people nowadays, they retire
and they're still pretty young, you know, what do I want to do for the next 10 years? What do I want to do for the next
20 years? Get some goals, get a vision, get a plan,
you know, if you run your own business, man, structure your life, get some kind of a
routine going, and some kind of a schedule that you impose on yourself.
So that you don't live a disorderly life. Let's bow your heads in a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for this chapter, Lord. It flies in the
face of how so many people think now. They think that
somehow giving money to people who
refuse to work is a virtue, but Lord, help us to
follow this chapter's wisdom, help us to, when we see these people
that refuse to work, look at it as a cautionary tale and say, wow,
I don't want to drink because I don't want to end up like that guy. I better not take drugs
so I don't end up like that guy. I better get some order in my life so I don't become
lazy and a bum by the side of the road. Lord, God, help us to have
that wisdom and to hold ourselves accountable and to
impose some schedule and structure in our lives because
ultimately we're going to be able to do more for you and we
will also be happier and Lord, you
have obviously always the best advice
in the word of God on how we should live
our lives and so Lord, help us to be wise and take heed to what the Bible says
and in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen, let's go in your song books to hymn number 315.
315, Take My Life
and Let It Be.
Number 315, we'll sing this. Be it dismissed, number
315, let's sing it out together on this first verse.
Take my
life and let it be
consecrated Lord to
thee. Take my hands and
let them move at the
impulse of thy love.
At the impulse of thy love
take my feet and
let them be swift and
beautiful for thee.
Take my voice and let me
sing, always only
for my King, always
only for my King.
Take my silver and my
gold, not a fight would
I withhold. Take my
moments and my days
let them flow in ceaseless
praise, let them flow in
ceaseless praise. Take my
will and make it thine
it shall be no longer
mine. Take my heart it
is thine own, it shall
be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal
throne. Amen. Great singing tonight.
You are dismissed.
Thank you.