Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the place we work after this church.
So nice to see you all here for our Sunday night service.
Find your seats, please, and take a songbook.
Go to hymn number 205.
We'll begin tonight.
Hymn number 205.
205.
He keeps me singing.
Hymn number 205.
Once you find your place, we'll lift our voice together right on that first.
205.
There's within my heart a melody.
Hymn number 200.
And five, lift up your voice on that first together now.
205.
There's within my heart a melody
Jesus whispers sweet and low
Fear not I am with thee, peace be still
In the love I send and flow
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
as I go.
All my life was read by sin and strife.
This broke my heart with pain.
Jesus slept across the broken strings,
stirred the slumbering cords again.
Deep in the sheltering wing
Always looking on this smiling face
Matters why I shout and sing
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
Sweetest name I know
Fills my every longing
Gives her singing as I go
deep. Trials fall across the way, though sometimes the past seems rough and steep. See his footprints
all the way. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, sweet as
He's coming back to welcome me Far beyond the snoring sky
I shall wait my flight to worlds unknown I shall reign with Him on night
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
As I go
My good start to our thing tonight. We only go before Lord has his blessing on the service
So I've asked for the fidelity and solace if you will disperse please
We thank you for the life the world Jesus Christ
We thank you for the beautiful weather Lord. We ask you to bless our voices as we lift them up to you in praise
Phil Pastor Anderson with your Holy Spirit Lord and make his message be edifying to us all it's in Jesus name
We pray amen
Amen, up to hymn number 229, number 229.
Since I have been redeemed, hymn number 229.
I have a song I love to sing since I have been redeemed.
Hymn number 229, lift it up now.
I have a song I love to sing since I have been redeemed.
Since I have been redeemed, since I have been redeemed, since I have been redeemed, I will glory in His name, since I have been redeemed, I will glory in My Savior's name.
I will glory in his name, since I have been redeemed, I will glory in my Savior's name.
Since I am every being, I will glory in my Savior's name.
On the last, I have a home prepared for me.
Since I am every being, where I shall dwell eternally.
I will glory in His name, since I have any name.
I will glory in My Savior's name.
Thank you, Saint.
All right, this time we'll go through our announcements together.
If you don't have a bulletin, slip up your hand nice and high.
And we'll get to you with one on the inside.
We have our service time Sunday mornings at 10.30 is our preaching service Sunday nights at 6 Wednesday nights at 7 is our Bible study.
This week will be in second Chronicles chapter 32.
We've got the soul winning times listed there below as well as salvation and baptisms.
We've got the wedding coming up this Saturday for Isabella and Micaiah.
And that is four o'clock right here this Saturday.
So.
Everyone in the church is invited to that.
Don't be shy.
If you don't know them, come and get to know them and celebrate with them.
You're more than welcome to come to that on Saturday at 4 p.m.
And then below that, we've got the list of expectant ladies.
Keep praying for them to have a safe and healthy pregnancy and delivery.
On the back, we've got a baby shower coming up
a couple of weeks from today,
and that is on Sunday, February 2nd.
It looks like actually three weeks from today,
and that's from two to four right here,
and food will be provided.
And again, if you don't know Lola,
again, show up and get to know her.
Everyone's always welcome at these.
Ladies and girls, that is.
Teenage girls want the kids to ideally stay home,
and just for the adult ladies and teenage girls.
Then below that, there was an online soul-winning marathon.
It was a big success.
Six soul winners had 42 saved.
And of course, this is like a video chat,
face-to-face preaching the Gospels.
It's really...
In many ways the same thing as door to door soul winning or any other kind of like face
to face soul winning is just a 21st century version of that because you're still talking
to people and seeing the whites of their eyes and able to have a dialogue conversation.
And so it's been an effective way for getting people saved.
And so thank you to everyone who has participated in that activity.
Also, I myself was down in the Caribbean this last week and my
Daughter Rebecca and I went down there and we had a total of 43 people saved the Bahamas is so incredibly
receptive and you know, I was really inspired by
Pastor Shelley getting up and talking about how soul winning is so easy in the Bahamas and everybody's so receptive and
He was not exaggerating. It was all true. And so we had a great time down there
And we have a guy down there that just a friend of ours,
brother Kenton that we've known for a long time,
like I think I've known him for about eight years or something.
And he ended up moving, he's originally from there,
lived in the US for a long time.
And then he just moved back there like a year and a half ago.
And so it's nice that he's there,
he's doing soul winning on a regular basis,
but he's also there and willing to work with us
and other people.
who show up even just from other churches just you know he he really just wants to go soul winning
and uh is is looking forward to working with uh people who jump on this idea that we're doing
in 2025 of the cruise ship uh missions trips and so anybody who gets on that program and gets on
those ideas you know uh it's nice to have somebody there in Nassau that can uh you know work with
And so it was really good to fellowship with him
and get to do soul winning with him.
He took us straight to, you know, the breakfast place
to get the local breakfast.
You know, I never thought I'd be eating fish soup
for breakfast, but hey, it was really good.
I just made sure to pop a breath mint afterward
because I didn't want to just be emanating
that fishy smell as I'm preaching the rest of the day.
But, you know, we had some sheep tongue
and we had some fish soup.
and good fellowship.
Then we just went out to the university, just went soloing,
and there was just white under harvest,
all kinds of young adults, super receptive.
People really wanted to talk to us,
and they weren't just wanting to talk to us,
but they were actually taking an interest
in the material, the spiritual things.
They wanted to know the truth.
They wanted to get saved.
In some cases, I kid you not,
people were kind of lining up to hear what we had to say.
and they were really happy to get saved.
Obviously, a lot of people rejected the Gospel
and scoffed at what we were saying,
but many people got saved.
So it's a really good place to go somewhere.
And I think the population of that general area
around Nassau is like around 250,000.
And so we have barely even scratched the surface.
So we could send scores of people out there.
We plan to send scores of people out there.
And God willing, get a multitude of people saved.
in such a receptive place.
You know, soul winning week after week in Phoenix obviously yields salvations.
but it's also really refreshing to get to go somewhere that's more receptive
because let's face it, when you're soul winning in the U.S.,
a lot of people are telling you no and you can sometimes go weeks without a chance to present the Gospel.
One of the things that my daughter commented too is that
she really gained a lot of confidence in her personal soul winning on this trip
simply because she was able to just preach the Gospel for so many hours on end
that she was able to really get a lot of practice in and just really hone her gospel presentation.
So it's almost like a soul-winning boot camp to just be out there soul-winning for like five
hours where you're just preaching almost non-stop. And so it's really good practice, it's encouraging
and obviously it's very important for the people that you're talking to that they find out the
in 2025. We're planning on doing a lot of mission strips and we're going to be having a mission
strip to the Bahamas in particular from March 23rd to March 28th and so if you need details about
that talk to us and we hopefully can get you out there and you know make it we're making it really
economical and easy for people to get out on the mission field for the first time.
So, and there's nothing to be scared about
or worried about because you're in like a really controlled environment
because you're, you know, the cruise ship is all a controlled environment
and then you're only going to be at these foreign countries like in the daytime
and you're going to be with other people and everything so you don't feel scared
because let's face it.
when we're going soul-witting in these places,
we're not doing it in the really tourist areas.
We kind of, the first thing we want to do is get away
from the tourist area and get to where the real people are.
And so if you're by yourself
or if you don't really know what you're doing,
that can sometimes be a little bit scary
for Americans sometimes to kind of go to a foreign country
and then just kind of, you know.
go out into the scary unknown of some foreign country.
So, you know, being a part of a group
or being a part of a trip like this
makes it really easy to experience it.
All right, enough about that.
Just wanted to share that though,
the exciting report about what we accomplished this week
by the grace of God.
And I think that that's about it for announcements.
So let's go ahead and count up the soul winning
from the past few days.
So going back to Thursday, anything from Thursday, okay?
Any soul winning from Thursday?
Yes.
Okay.
Got it.
Okay, and then how about Friday?
Okay.
Okay, and then what about Saturday?
Gotcha
Okay, and oh
Right, we'll put in the number from the online which was 42 for that
Very good, and then anything else from Saturday, and then how about today Sunday, but it's got
Nine for the main group with Brother Scott.
Got other groups over here.
Gotcha, any other teams from today?
Very good, keep up the, yeah, I put that on.
Anything else from today?
All right, very good.
Keep up the great work on soul winning it's going to be our greatest year. It's already going great. And so we're super excited about
continued soul winning missions
Everything full speed ahead. And so thank you for being a part of it. All right, let's go ahead and sing our next song come lead us
All right, you should find the insert in front of your hymnal with the hymn entitled sweeter as the years go by
You don't have an insert you raise your hand and you'll receive one
We'll sing it out on that first together of Jesus love that saw me when I was lost and since we'd are as the years go by sing it out
than the sea. My queen shall ever be sweeter as the years go by, sweeter as the years go by.
On an old Judea, lies path way long ago.
The people thought about him, his saving grace to know.
He healed the broken hearted and caused the blind to see.
And still is great our journey in love for even me.
Sweeter as the years go by,
Sweeter as the years go by.
Rachel, Fuller, Deeper, Jesus' love is sweeter,
Sweeter as the years go by.
Twas, Wanderer's love which led him for us
To suffer loss, to bear.
the cross with saints redeemed and glory let us our voices raise till heaven and earth
we at go with our redeemed praise sweeter as the years go by
sweeter as the years go by
Richer, bolder, deeper, Jesus love is sweeter,
sweeter as the years go by.
Thank you, thank you, everybody.
Take your hymnals now.
Turn to hymn number 336, number 336.
Constantly abiding, hymn number 336.
There's a peace in my heart that the world never gave.
Sing those parts if you know them number three hundred and thirty-six
There's a piece in my heart
That the world never gave
A piece they cannot take away
Though the trials of life
Maze around like a cloud
I'm a piece that has come there to stay
Constantly abiding, Jesus is mine, Constantly abiding, Raptured divine, He never leaves
me lonely, Whispers of soul.
All the world seemed to sing of a Savior and King
When peace sweetly came to my heart
Troubles all fled away
And my night turned to day
Blessed Jesus, how glorious thou art
Whispers of so kind
I will never leave thee
Jesus
On the last
This treasure I have
In a temple of clay
While here on this bussual
He never leaves me lonely, whispers also guide, I will never leave me, Jesus.
We'll pass our offering played around.
As the play goes around, let's turn our Bibles
to Proverbs chapter 26.
Proverbs chapter number 26, as we always do,
we'll read the entire chapter,
beginning in verse number one.
Follow along silently with Brother Dan as he reads,
Proverbs chapter six, starting in verse number one.
Proverbs 26, the Bible reads,
As snow in summer and as rain in harvest,
So honor is not seemly for a fool.
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying,
So the curse causeless shall not come.
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass,
And a rod for the fool's back.
Answer not a fool according to his folly,
Lest thou also be like unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly,
Lest he be wise in his own conceit.
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool,
Cuteth off the feet and drinketh damage.
The legs of the lame are not equal, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honor to a fool.
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool and rewardeth transgressors.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so will fool returneth to his folly.
See a thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
The slothful man saith, there is a lion in the way, a lion is in the streets.
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
The slothful hideeth his hand in his bosom, it grieves him to bring it again to his mouth.
The sluggered is wiser in his own conceit that seven men that can render a reason.
He that passeth by, and meddleeth with strife, not belonging to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, so is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith,
Am not I in sport? Where no wood is, there the fire goeth. Goeth out. So where there is no tail-bearer, the strife ceaseth.
As coals are to burning coals and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
The words of a tail bearer are his wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a pot shirt covered with silver dross.
He that hateth dissembles with his lips, and layeth up to seat within him.
When he speaketh fair, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation.
Whoso dig at the pit shall fall therein, and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
A lying tongue hated those that are afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Father, thank you for faith. We're Baptist Church. Thank you for the opportunity to come and hear your holy and your precious word
I see Phil Pastor Anderson with your Holy Spirit open our hearts and ears to receive your word. I pray this in Jesus's holy name. Amen
Men, in Proverbs chapter number 26, there's a lot of mention of the fool, his attributes,
how to deal with the fool.
And this part of the book of Proverbs starting from chapter 10 all the way up to chapter
29, is a lot of just individual Proverbs and a lot of these chapters are just sort of an
In certain chapters, there'll be certain themes that come up over and over again,
or certain connecting threads that connect a lot of the proverbs in that chapter.
And so we're going to spend the entire sermon tonight in...
Proverbs chapter 26 and we're going to look at some of the attributes of fools and how to deal
with fools that we come into contact with in our lives and, you know, we want to make sure that
we're not fools because, you know, that's one of the big things about the book of Proverbs is it has
certain villains, right? The strange woman, the fool, the scorner, the slothful man, right? And
then of course we want to be wise. We want to be godly and we want to be the exact opposite of
And so we can apply this by, number one, not being foolish, and number two,
dealing with fools properly, staying away from them, etc.
So look if you would, first of all, at verse number one.
And the first point that I want to make is that fools should not be lifted up,
honored or celebrated because fools are an embarrassment.
The Bible says in verse one,
as snow in summer and as rain in harvest,
so honor is not seemly for a fool, right?
It isn't appropriate for a fool to be lifted up and honored.
They should be shamed.
because they're an embarrassment, right?
And today, in our culture, we have a lot of celebrities
and people that are idolized
that are just frankly stupid people.
They're ungodly people, they're unrighteous people,
they're foolish people, according to God's word.
We should not exalt and celebrate those kind of people.
The Bible says in verse number eight,
is he that bindeth a stone in a sling,
so is he that giveth honor
to a fool. So what the Bible is saying here is that when you do give honor to a fool,
you are in many ways weaponizing him, right? It's like
putting a stone in the sling. You're basically like loading his weapon.
as it were. And so when our society lifts up and exalts
fools and gives them a platform, puts them on TV, puts them on the radio,
platforms them on the internet and gives them an audience,
they're weaponizing them. And let's face it,
if you do stupid things in life,
there will always be ungodly people there to cheerlead you
as you do wrong.
Right, if you are going to go against your husband,
if you're gonna go against your parents,
if you're gonna go against the church,
if you're gonna just do all these rebellious,
sinful things, there are always gonna be those people
that are cheerleading you
and exalting your foolishness and your folly.
And basically,
promoting that lifestyle, whatever you choose, right?
And so they're basically binding the stone and the slaying
by giving honor to a fool.
By saying, you go girl, you drop that zero
and get you a hero or whatever, you know,
because they want you to leave your husband and whatever.
They're always gonna be people that want you
to just burn it all down and are gonna tell you
that you're doing the right thing,
even as you commit all kinds of sins
against God and the Bible.
And so, we do not want to be lifting up, honoring, or celebrating fools the way this world often does.
Okay, we want to celebrate and honor those who are wise, righteous, godly people, not ungodly people.
Number two, sometimes fools just need to be ignored.
Okay, the Bible says in verse number four,
answer not a fool according to his folly,
lest thou also be like unto him, right?
So therefore, it's tempting sometimes
to just argue with idiots on the internet, for example.
And just sort of engage with foolish people
and argue with them, but the Bible says,
answer not a fool according to his folly,
lest thou also be like unto him,
you don't want to get involved in a stupid conversation
that just ends up making you look stupid.
because you're talking to somebody who's really just that dumb, okay?
Now, in the next breath, though, the Bible actually says in verse 5
the opposite of what it just said in verse 4, right?
Because in verse 4 it says,
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise and his own conceit.
And so what the Bible is saying here in verse 5 is that
if you don't answer the fool according to his folly, he's going to think that he's smart.
He thinks that he won the argument.
You know, and I've run into this so many times out soul-winning,
where I'll knock a door out soul-winning and somebody just wants to argue
and they're not really receptive to the gospel,
they want to just argue and push their own false religion or whatever.
So I usually just want to get out of there.
I'm just like, friendly, all right, have a great day, see you later.
And sometimes they will just want to just follow you down the street
and keep arguing or something like that.
But a lot of times, as you're walking away,
they'll say something along these lines.
Yeah, that's right.
You don't have an answer, do you?
That's what I thought.
Yeah, you better walk away.
Yeah, because you're wrong or whatever.
And sometimes our pride can make us want to just kind of,
you know, get back in there and show them that they're wrong.
And it ends up being a big waste of time.
So why are we getting these two contradictory pieces
of advice?
In verse four, we've got answer,
not a fool according to his folly.
lest thou also be like it, because look if you if you answer the fool according to this fall you just get sucked into some
Stupid conversation you end up wasting your time, and then you end up sounding stupid
Sometimes just because you're arguing with some about something stupid like for example flat earthers
Right the flat earth is so dumb that basically if you try to correct flat earthers you end up sounding kind of dumb
because you're just talking about something
that's so obvious to normal people.
And I remember the first time I saw someone
addressing flat earth from the pulpit.
I thought like, that's kind of weird.
Like, why are you preaching about that?
Like, it's kind of an embarrassment
that you're even talking about it.
You're kind of dignifying this by even talking about it.
But that was because I didn't know
that it was like a big thing.
And so then, you know, fast forward a few years
and I'm preaching a whole sermon against it.
You know and I was that guy
Answering those fools according to their folly because you know, but when I first saw it
I was like is this really necessary and then a couple years there. I was like, yeah, I guess it is necessary apparently
But that's what I'm talking about right, you know, you just you got the one hand answer
Not a fool according to his folly because you don't want to end up being like him being stupid wasting time getting in a dumb argument
but then
Answer fool going to his folly because otherwise he walks away thinking he's right, he's emboldened,
maybe other people think he's right.
I think that the takeaway here, obviously the Bible is doing this on purpose.
And there's a point being made by this juxtaposition, this dichotomy, this dissonance between verse 4 and 5.
And I think the idea here is you just can't win when you're dealing with idiots.
You just, you can't win.
It's like if you answer him, it's a pain.
If you don't answer him, it's a pain.
You just can't win.
So it's best to just sort of avoid fools.
How about that?
Because if you answer him, if you don't answer him,
there's pros and cons to both basically.
It's kind of a lose, lose situation in some ways,
which is why if we go to the New Testament,
the Bible says avoid foolish questions.
avoid foolish questions, right?
Because then you're neither answering or not answering,
you're just sort of trying to avoid dumb arguments
as much as you can.
And look, sometimes these things do need to be dealt with,
but in general, it's best to just ignore fools,
stay away from them, whatever.
But sometimes fools do need to be rebuked, don't they?
So we said, number one, fools should not be lifted up
honored or celebrated because they're an embarrassment.
Number two, sometimes fools just need to be ignored,
and that's where verse four would kick in.
And number three, sometimes fools need to be rebuked,
and that's where verse five comes in.
You know, they need to be straightened out, rebuked, corrected.
Or, better yet, sometimes they even need to be physically punished.
Okay, look what the Bible says in verse three.
a bridle for the ass and a rod for the fool's back, right?
The best thing that would happen for a lot of fools is that they would be whipped,
that they would be beaten or caned.
Now, unfortunately, we live in a society where that is not really a thing, right?
So I'm not suggesting that you go out there and just, you know, start whipping fools.
beating fools. Obviously, that's not our place to do that. But in many cases,
that's what they need. Okay? And ideally, their parents would whip them when
they're young and hopefully whip most of the stupid out of them when they're
young. Right? Because the Bible says foolishness is bound in the heart of a
child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from it. And so part of the
way that foolishness gets corrected is by parents disciplining their children.
Obviously, that's not necessarily going to guarantee all foolishness be gone, because
let's face it, even kids who are physically disciplined, growing up, can still grow up
and do and say stupid things.
And ultimately, we all occasionally say and do stupid things, right?
But we want to have as little foolishness in our life as possible.
Why do we want to answer the fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit because look at verse 12
See us thou a man wise in his own conceit. There's more hope of a fool than of him
The only thing worse than the fool is the fool who thinks that he's right
The fool who thinks he's smart right at least if someone's dumb and they realize that they're dumb
There's a potential for learning there
And there's a real realization, okay, I can grow my knowledge.
But what I find is that some of the dumbest people think that they're the smartest.
They're wise in their own conceits, right?
The slugger is wiser in his own conceit than ten men that can render a reason.
And so that's why they need to be corrected and rebuked in many cases.
But number four, fools will often misuse parables and other scriptures to their own destruction.
Of course, Peter talks about this in his epistle in the New Testament, how people will rest the scriptures.
They will twist the scriptures onto their own destruction.
And so, a lot of stupid people will quote the Bible, but they will quote it wrongly and they will misuse especially the parables of the Bible because the parables of the Bible are, frankly, just the easiest to twist.
Clear statements in the Bible are hard to twist. Parables, though, are more open to interpretation and so they can be twisted by fools.
Look what the Bible says about this in verse 7. It says, the legs of the lame are not equal.
So a parable so is a parable in the mouth of fools
So if you think about a person who one leg is longer than the other
And I think a lot of people have this to an extent
You know like maybe one legs like a quarter inch or half inch long and the other and you end up just kind of
Adapting and figuring it out and you go to the chiropractor or something. They tell you that you're all goofed up or whatever
So, obviously there are minor differences in our body where we're not quite symmetrical.
But if you have a really serious discrepancy, it could really cause you problems and cripple
you and make it difficult for you to walk or function.
And sometimes you'll be out in public and you'll see people that are struggling to walk
properly and their legs and feet are not functioning properly.
And so when the Bible says the legs of the lame are not equal, the idea here is that
right, there's a difference in length and this is preventing them from walking correctly, okay.
And so the Bible says that a parable in the mouth of fools is like that. So basically one leg is
the parable and the other leg is the application.
where that parable is being applied to a real life situation, or a doctrine, or whatever.
And basically what it's saying is that they don't match.
Just like a lame man whose legs don't match, the lengths are different, he can't walk properly,
then what the fool is doing is he's taking a parable and applying it to something to which it does not apply.
And so it's a wrong use of that parable.
And so it says the legs of the lame are not equal, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Then in verse 9, we have a similar statement.
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard,
so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
So the latter half of the verse is identical.
So is a parable in the mouth of fools.
But this time, it's a thorn going up into the hand of a drunkard.
Now, when you think about a drunk person...
You think of them being clumsy, right?
Because you think of somebody like stumbling around,
staggering around, knocking things over.
And so the clumsy drunk man,
he ends up taking hold of some kind of a branch
or something that has thorns
or maybe falling into it or whatever.
And he ends up with a thorn going up into his hand.
which is obviously painful, harmful, it could get infected, it could cause all kinds of problems.
And so the idea here is that if you are a fool and you misuse a parable, right,
it's because you're basically being clumsy.
interpretation of that parable so you're kind of like the drunkard who
takes hold of a branch or something and gets a thorn up in his hand he ends up
hurting himself and you know he's not accomplishing what he set out to
accomplish and so the idea is that we need to be careful in our use of
parables and not just sloppily or clumsily apply them however we want
We need to make sure that we rightly divide the word of truth and not just sloppily grab
a verse here, grab a verse here, and just apply in things to situations that are out
of their proper context, okay?
And look, people will always use the Bible to justify their sin.
They'll use the Bible to justify their stupidity.
And let me just give an example.
And it's a folly that a lot of people in our society engage in.
It's stupid and wrong, but people, they love to drink, right?
You see a lot of drinking in our society.
Now you say, well, why do you say that it's stupid?
Because the Bible says wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging,
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Anybody who's deceived by wine and strong drink is not a wise person.
Now what does that mean to be deceived by it's it's to somehow think that it's okay
It's not like oh, I know it's wrong, and I'm gonna do it anyway. No, no, they're deceived by they think this is good
This is fun. This is even healthy or whatever right and these lies are out there like oh doctors are saying alcohol is good for you
It's not good for you
It's poisonous, it's toxic, it's harmful, and like, oh look at a glass of wine is giving
you all these vitamins and minerals and antioxidants.
Yeah, so does grape juice.
All those benefits from the so-called glass of wine are coming from the grape juice, not
the alcohol.
And yeah, fermented foods and drinks can have health benefits, but guess what?
You can drink and eat plenty of fermented things that are not alcoholic.
Like for example, you can drink kombucha, you can drink vinegar, you can eat yogurt
and cheese and other living foods and cultured foods and sauerkraut and pickles and whatever.
You can still get all those same benefits.
Take Scripture, twist it, and try to teach that the Bible is promoting the use of alcohol,
like for example, when the apostle Paul tells Timothy,
drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and then often infirmities.
Well, first of all, here's the thing, alcohol is not good for your stomach.
Okay?
You don't have to be a medical doctor to understand that alcohol is harmful to the stomach.
Okay?
It's not something that is helping your stomach be better off.
Now look, you know what would be good for your stomach is drinking a little bit of kombucha,
you know, or something like that, or just sterilizing water with a little bit of wine.
You know, use a little wine for that stomach sake, you know, to sterilize something.
to drink the stuff that they're selling down at the grocery store in CVS that's called
wine and saying that that's what the Apostle Paul's talking about is not historically accurate.
It's foolish and it's just people wanting to engage in drunkenness, okay?
Because look, if you actually study the ancient world, the history of alcohol, the history
that what we have today in the wine section of the grocery store
has a higher alcohol content than anything that would have been available
in the ancient world in any situation, because it relies on modern technology.
And so modern technology has produced hard liquor.
Hard liquor goes back to like the Middle Ages.
It's not something that even existed in the Bible times.
So in the Bible times, there's no whiskey,
cognac, bourbon, vodka, didn't exist in Bible days.
That comes from later distillation technology
from the medieval period, okay?
What we have in the Bible days is they're making wine,
not with industrial yeast and all the modern techniques
and everything.
And sure, they could make an alcoholic beverage
that would get you drunk back then.
Of course, they made beers and wines and things like that.
Hard liquor didn't exist.
Okay, that's a modern phenomenon.
But they did make beers and wines, and the Bible warns you about it and says,
look not on the wine when it's red,
when it gives its color in the cup, when it moves itself right.
It's telling you that there's a certain kind of wine.
Don't look at it. Don't drink it.
It's red.
It gives its color in the cup. It moves itself right.
That is a description of fermented wine.
Okay, because it's red because the yeast is on the outside of the grape and so the skin of the grape is what makes the wine red.
Because if you actually peel, if you're one of those weird people like me that peels grape sometimes when you're eating them because you're bored
and then eats the skin separately then just pops a naked grape in your mouth, you'll know that the naked grape is green.
Right?
I mean if you, when you peel a grape.
It could be purple, red on the outside.
It's not red on the inside.
It is the skins that give the red color.
And what happens is if the wine is soaked in the skins,
then the yeast is there to make red wine
and to make alcoholic wine.
Now, obviously there are white wines
because nowadays, of course, they will.
You know squeeze the grape juice and then add yeast and they're using industrial
Types of yeast and so on and so forth. I'm not gonna go into some big lecture about wine making right now
But but it but oh wait, I just did no, okay, but anyway, you know, I want to go in
I don't want to go too far off on this subject
But at the end of the day, you know, you could even look at ancient texts like the Iliad and the Odyssey
Where they're talking about diluting their wine 20 to 1
like 20 parts water
to one part wine.
I mean, we're talking about just using a little wine,
literally a little wine,
just to add a little flavor, to sterilize things, whatever.
Not just, and look, even, like I said,
even in ancient Greek literature,
like the Iliad, the Odyssey, other literature,
you'll find references to drinking undiluted wine
as something that idiots do.
And then they're getting drunk and being stupid and stuff like that.
So, you know, again, you have to understand that when the Bible says wine,
first of all, sometimes it's just a reference to fruit juice
because it literally talks about wine being in the cluster of a grape.
You know and so sometimes it's just fruit fruit juice. It could be mildly fermented
It could be very fermented. It could be heavily diluted
You know you have to read these things in their proper context
And I've done whole sermons on wine in the Bible and all these different things and you you know
Feel free to go back and listen to those sermons if you're if you're confused about the subject or on the fence about the subject
But at the end of the day though, you know the fool
He's just gonna grab on to,
you know, Jesus turned the water into wine.
You know, every drunk's favorite Bible story.
You know, ah, use a little wine for your stomach's sake.
You know, and of course, that's just the parable in the mouth of a fool, right?
Just grab in a hold of some verse that's telling him what he wants to hear, and everybody
knows at the end of the day that alcohol is not adding value to your life, it's not making
you a better Christian, it's not improving your Bible reading, it's not improving your
prayer life, it's not making you a better soul winner, it's not helping your marriage.
It is not helping your health.
You know, of course, oh, doctors said that,
first of all, that's been debunked in more recent times.
It's so glass of wine with your dinner crap
was something from like the 80s and 90s
that now they're like, well, actually,
you know, there's nothing behind that.
Okay, but then, you know,
I could also pull out some nice newspaper ads
of doctors, you know, promoting Marlboro
and saying, hey, this is the healthiest cigarette for you.
Marlboro.
I can show you a track runner saying, hey, this helps me with my wind.
And four out of five doctors, you know, promote camel cigarettes.
I mean, those ads, go look it up.
But at the end of the day, the Word of God, when it's rightly applied, rightly divided,
when you actually read the entire Bible and you actually approach it sincerely looking
for truth and you're using it properly, you're not going to come away thinking that alcohol
is good.
Right? You're going to come away thinking that it's bad.
Okay.
And so obviously fools will misuse parables to teach works-based salvation.
They'll misuse parables to promote the use of alcohol.
They'll misuse parables to teach all kinds of false doctrines and wrong things,
which is why we should always base our doctrine on clear statements from the Bible.
Every one of our key doctrines should be based on a clear statement from Scripture.
Parables are there to support the stuff that we already believe because of clear statements.
And in fact, parables end up providing more of an emotional connection to a truth or a visceral connection.
They help us kind of understand things on a deeper level, but we should already have a clear statement as the foundation for that doctrine.
And then the parables are like an icing on the cake to help us have a greater appreciation for the truths that we derive from clear statements.
And if the parable is contradicting the clear statement,
you're misunderstanding the parable.
And you need to go back and revisit the parable
in light of the clear statement that we have.
And so fools misuse the Bible, you find all kinds of rebellious people, you'll find all
kinds of harlots and whoremongers, he that is without sin among you, let him cast the
first, right, just grabbing a Bible verse, throwing it out there, justifying what?
Fornication.
You can't judge me for being a whore because he that is without sin among you know, that's
It's a misuse of scripture to just justify your sin, right?
And, you know, that's what people are going to do, stupid people.
And so you want to make sure that, you know, just because somebody's quoting the Bible
at you, first of all, make sure that they're even quoting it right, because a lot of times
people will quote something a little wrong.
and it'll change the meaning a lot.
So it's always good when somebody is throwing a scripture at you
to justify their sin or justify their false doctrine.
You know, you should go look it up in the Bible.
Make sure it even says that in the first place.
Then, number two, you know, actually read the context
and make sure that that's even a right application
of what is being said.
Because the fool is gonna apply it to a situation
where it doesn't fit.
like the legs of the lame that are not equal, and then they will also
misuse sloppily, clumsily scripture without actually caring about context or anything like that.
So number four was that fools misuse parables in other scripture. Number five, fools are not trustworthy.
You can't trust fools. Look what the Bible says in verse six,
he that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool,
Cut us off the feet and drink it damage, okay, so you know you rely on someone like hey
Go deliver this message for me go do this job for me go carry out this task for me
And they're totally unreliable and you end up
Getting nothing done.
Number six, fools do the same stupid things over and over again.
Look at the Bible says in verse 11,
as a dog returned it to his vomit,
so a fool returned it to his folly, right?
The fool will just keep doing the same stupid things over and over again,
whereas we, as God's people that are wise,
we should be learning from our mistakes.
We do something, and we make a mistake, we commit a sin, we should learn from our mistakes.
It's like, yeah, okay, maybe you used to drink, or maybe you used to sleep around, or maybe
you used to be a gambler, but you've learned from those things.
You've learned from your mistakes, you're growing, and 2025, you're going to do better
than 2024.
You're going to do better than you did 10 years ago or 15 years ago.
You're learning and growing.
But stupid people, they just keep going back and just doing the same stupid things over
and over again.
We need to learn from our mistakes.
Figure out where things went wrong.
Correct things that need to be corrected, use the word of God to not keep doing the same stupid things,
not, you know, not fall back into the same cycles of whatever, okay.
But number seven, fools are lazy, okay, and this is part of the reason why they're dumb.
And being a fool and being lazy go hand in hand throughout the book of Proverbs.
Why? Because people that are lazy, they don't spend time learning.
They're too lazy, right?
They don't want to read, they don't want to study, they don't want to go to school,
they don't want to do their home to school, right?
What do they want to do?
They just want to sit around and rot their brain on TV, comic books, cheap entertainment,
sit around and not do anything, right?
Because think about it, study is hard work.
Much study is a weirdness of the flesh.
Reading the Bible is work.
Memorizing Scripture is work.
And guess what?
Going to church is going to give you wisdom if you're too lazy to get your butt down here three times a week, right?
Because you're just like rather just lay there on the couch and just do whatever and then you're too lazy to get your brain
Tuned in to like a sermon or the word of God or something or at least something intelligent
Maybe like an intelligent audiobook or or a lecture or something you listen to and learn something
You know, it's just so much easier to just turn on some kind of
Cargo boom a kind of you know entertainment just you know, whatever my kind of cheap thrills that you can watch
fools are lazy and
And and and people that are kind of dumb and people that are lazy like these things go hanging out. They're connected
Right because while while some people were in school as a kid like actually
Reading the textbook doing the math doing the work, you know, other kids are just fooling around
You think the intelligence is gonna be the same when they walk across that that platform in 12th grade
It's not gonna be the same
If you're lazy
and you're cheating, right, and you're not doing the schoolwork and you're cheating your way through,
you know, you're cheating yourself. You're the one who's going to end up being dumb in the long run.
Look what the Bible says in verse 13. It says the slothful man saith, there's a lion in the way, a lion is in the streets
Right, just always finding an excuse for why he can't go to work, why he can't learn, why he can't study.
Got all kinds of excuses. As the door turned upon his hinges,
so does the slothful man upon his bed, right?
So when he wakes up in the morning, instead of getting up and reading his Bible, getting up and exercising,
Reading a book, going to work, getting a job, right?
He just kind of rolls over and goes back to sleep.
Just flops over, or just lays around,
just flops around like a door on its hinges.
The slothful hideeth his hand in his bosom.
It grieves with him to bring it again to his mouth.
The idea here is just kind of an exaggeration of laziness
that he's so lazy, it kind of wears him out
just picking up food and putting it in his own mouth.
It's just too much work, you know, it's like a weightlifting to do that.
And then it says the sluggered, right, sluggered is the slothful man, the lazy man.
The sluggered is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
So the lazy man is smarter in his own mind.
He thinks he's smarter than seven actual intelligent people.
And you'll find that homeless people, according to them, are some of the smartest people in the world.
You know, and I mean, we had this one homeless guy that showed up here.
And he had the cure to all the world's diseases.
He was gonna fix the energy crisis.
You know, he was gonna bring about world peace
if we could just give him like 200 bucks.
He was gonna be able to fix everything.
And I feel kind of bad,
because like we could have fixed everything
like 10 years ago.
If we would have just given the guy the 200 bucks,
you'd think this stuff would be going on
with Russia and Ukraine right now.
If we would have given this guy 200 bucks.
You know it'd be a totally different story in Palestine and Israel right now
You know, but you know these people just they think they're super smart
and you got all these kind of internet warrior,
keyboard warrior types that are just got
all these wild conspiracies.
And I know that some of the conspiracies are real,
I get that, but then you got the wild stuff
that's just, you know, these people just have it all
figured out, you know, and really they're just too lazy
to do any real study, real work.
And you know what's funny, some of these people,
these really wild ideas, sometimes if you take them aside
and say, hey, look, you know, if you're gonna talk
about this subject, here's a book you can read.
that'll actually, you know, teach you about the subject.
And then, you know, you talk to them six months later
and they haven't read the book.
They're too lazy.
They already, and plus they already know everything,
you know, from YouTube.
And so, fools are lazy.
So what have we learned so far?
Let me just do a real quick review.
Number one, fools should not be lifted up,
honored or celebrated.
They're an embarrassment.
Sometimes they just need to be ignored, right?
Sometimes they need to be rebuked, or better yet, they need a weapon.
But unfortunately, our society is not going to whip them.
Four, they often will misuse parables and other scripture,
twist them for their own...
benefit, quote-unquote, although they're really harming themselves.
It's really a thorn going up into their own flesh at the end of the day.
I mean, they're the ones that are going to stumble down the stairs and hurt themselves with their stupidity
in mishandling scripture. Number five, fools are not trustworthy. They're not reliable.
They're not the kind of people that you want working for you as an employee
because they're not going to get the job done. You can't rely on them.
Number six, they do the same stupid things over and over again.
They don't learn from their mistakes.
They just keep repeating the same sinful patterns.
Number seven, they're lazy.
And this is part of the reason why they're dumb.
They're too lazy to do any real study or learning.
But number eight, fools love harmful pranks, quote, unquote.
They love pranks and inappropriate humor.
Look what the Bible says in verse 17.
He that passeth by and meddles with strife,
belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
so is the man that deceives his neighbor and says,
am not I in sport?
Now, don't miss this, okay?
He deceives his neighbor and then says,
hey man, aren't I just kidding?
Am I not in sport? Isn't this funny? Isn't it a joke?
And you know what this makes me think of? So-called pranking, pranks, right?
You deceive someone and then you just say, oh, you know, it's just a joke.
I was just kidding. It's just a prank.
Am I not in sport?
But notice that the Bible compares this person, who does that, to a madman, a crazy person.
who is casting firebrands, arrows, and death, right?
So this is like a crazy person
who's just throwing Molotov cocktails and grenades.
I mean, what does that make you think of?
He's casting firebrands, arrows,
basically he's just shooting a gun indiscriminately,
just firing arrows randomly.
Random acts of violence is what we're talking about.
And so what the Bible says here is that the man who deceives his neighbor and says,
Oh, I'm just kidding.
Am I not in sport is compared to a person who commits random acts of violence.
A crazy person who's just throwing grenades and Molotov cocktails, firebrands, arrows, death.
Right. And look, these are some of the most wicked people in the world,
people who just kind of perpetrate random acts of violence.
You know, what am I talking about random acts of violence? Well, you think about actual random acts of violence
What about sometimes you'll hear about these kids will like, you know, drop a boulder on the freeway or something and
cause some horrible car accident, right and other maybe less
damaging, but still just wicked things that people do like this weird like ice cream challenge where young people were
Going into grocery stores taking the lid off the ice cream licking it and then putting the lid back on and
Filming in putting on social media. Ha ha
that's gross and
unsanitary and you know you could get somebody sick or whatever doing that I mean that isn't right and
It's just you know what? It's a mentality of just I don't care who I hurt
It's wicked, right? You know, you think about what some of the people have done to our church where they, you know,
they want to punish us or something,
so they would list a bunch of items for sale
for a really good deal with our address and whatever, and phone number, and then people are coming to our house to pick up the
aquarium and they're coming to our house to pick up all these items that don't exist.
and I'm thinking to myself, okay, that was a little bit annoying
for me to have to come to the door and tell these people, no, sorry,
I don't have that 60-gallon aquarium that you're here for.
But who did they really hurt the most?
They actually really hurt the most, the person who drove across town
to pick up that item.
And it just goes to show that, yeah, we want to harass and annoy Pastor Anderson,
but we don't mind just hurting random innocent people, too, in the process
and hurting them a hundred times more just to hurt Pastor Anderson.
We're going to waste Pastor Anderson's time for 30 seconds.
It'll be so funny, but we'll waste 30 minutes of this guy's time
or an hour of this guy's time.
And all these people are driving to our house to pick up stuff that doesn't exist.
or like ordering pizzas and having them delivered to our church.
Now here's the thing, you know, when the pizza guy
shows up and we didn't order it, you know, at the end of the day
it seems like the person that would get hurt is more the pizza place
than us, but we don't want to hurt the pizza place
so even though we didn't order it, we just pay for the pizza and eat it.
Because we don't want to just hurt some random pizza guy.
We don't want him to not just waste his time,
and we're wasting his company's time, and all this stuff.
But it just goes to show you that these people don't care
about just perpetrating random acts of hostility
toward strangers.
It's wicked, it's ungodly.
It shows the lack of empathy for your fellow man.
You know of what it's like to work at a pizza place or to try to buy something on the internet
You know, you look somebody's passionate about tropical fish or something. Why we want to punish them?
By sending them on a wild goose chase
Do you want somebody to waste an hour of your time?
It's annoying and I've looked people do this they list a bunch of fake things for sale
Ha ha they're listing motorcycles and cars and aquariums for real cheap, but ha ha isn't that funny?
No, it isn't
It isn't funny to deceive your neighbor and then say,
oh, am I not in sport?
No, you're just hurting people for no reason.
Now, there's one guy in particular that I want to bring up
and I want to get on.
And I was, you know, I knew that this guy was a so-called
comedian, you know, Christian comedian.
And, you know, I knew that this guy was unfunny.
but I did not realize how bad this guy's videos were
until he made some videos attacking me and mocking me.
Then I started like looking at his channel
out of just a morbid curiosity.
And this guy's videos are super wicked.
And I just couldn't even believe the wickedness
of this guy's videos.
I'm not even gonna say his name
because I'm not even gonna promote his crap.
I'm not even gonna celebrate, lift up and honor him
by even giving him a pulpit mention
because he doesn't deserve it.
But this idiot, this bozo Christian comedian guy, okay,
has this channel where, and by the way,
I found videos like this that were like a couple months old
as well as like five years old.
So it's like, this has been going on for a long time
and it's still going on to this day.
But one of the, I clicked on just a few of the videos.
One of the videos is, and keep in mind,
this guy's married with children.
he's going out and basically just hitting on women as a prank. So bro is
married! I mean how would you ladies like your husband saying oh this is what I do
for a living, I'm a Christian comedian, I'm an influencer, I'm a YouTuber, I'm gonna
go out and hit on women on camera. You think that that is what little girls
want to marry when they grow up?
I don't care how much he's making, you should have enough dignity as a woman to be totally embarrassed and humiliated by that, no matter how much money he brings in on the ad revenue from all the weird, numb, idiot morons.
It's so funny.
It's not funny at all, it's stupid.
But like, I watched this video, he walks up to some random girl on a college campus, right?
And this girl on the college campus is like,
she wasn't ugly, but she wasn't beautiful either.
She was just kind of just an average whatever.
You know, she was just an,
she just seemed like a nice person, just a nice girl.
There's nothing wrong with her,
but she was a little overweight, you know,
but she looked fine, but she wasn't gorgeous.
She's just going, she's just living her life,
going about her business, going to school.
She's not hurting anybody, leave her alone.
Leave her alone, right? He goes up to her. Oh, man, you're so beautiful and it he's like getting her number and stuff on camera
and hitting on her and
Then and then at the end of the video just ends. That's it. That's the video
The video is just him hitting on this girl just telling her how beautiful she is and how into her
He is and everything trying to get her number
Whatever and then I guess the punchline is just ha ha this girl's not that pretty and she thought that he was really into her or something
What what like why would you just put this hurtful video online?
Just making this random girl feel bad where because like she's thinking it's real
Right so like think about you think about you're an average college girl
You're going through your life. Maybe you don't get a lot of attention from guys and this guy comes up to you
He's giving you all this attention and you think it's real only to find out later from your friends or some
Oh, you were on YouTube that guy was just making fun of you
That's just super hurtful and wrong and it wasn't funny at all
It was just like like, you know, I did not even crack a smile at any of these because they're just not funny
Well, I think of a normal person watch that video because I know I'm normal and I watched it and this is how I reacted
So this is how a normal person react
I was just thinking the whole time man
I feel so bad for this girl like she just seems like a nice girl and why is he just embarrassing and humiliating this girl for no reason
She's just a nice normal girl, you know, and it's like you're just acting like you love her
You know some guy probably will someday really think she's beautiful and really love her and actually care about her
Because beauty is in the eye of the beholder because favor is deceitful and beauty is vain
But a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised and you know what there's more to life than just your physical appearance
So why do we just have to just act like oh this woman is isn't that pretty or something?
So what and I'm sure somebody thinks she's pretty and somebody old Mary, but I'm just like I'm just watching as I'm just thinking like this is sad
This isn't embarrassment and I'm seeing all the likes all the comments. Oh, this is so funny
I'm just thinking like is this world just filled with idiots
Is there any hope for the human race? Are we you know, are we gonna make it?
As humans, you know when the son of man comes will he find faith on the earth?
You're just like what the heck is wrong with people and I mean he's just it's just hundreds of videos like this
I mean, it's like he's hitting on women in the grocery store, ha-ha.
And obviously, a lot of them think it's real.
So he's hitting on these women in the grocery store, hitting on women in the drive-thru,
hitting on women in the park, hitting on, he's just flirting with women, videos from
five years ago and five minutes ago where he's just flirting with women.
And I'm just thinking to myself, is this guy committing adultery?
Because he's pretending that he wants to commit adultery every day on video.
So he's just pretending that he wants to commit adultery with all these women.
You know, I wonder if this is just a smoke screen from actually going out and committing a bunch of adultery.
And then if he gets caught, it's just like, oh, I was just making, I was just practicing for my next video.
Right?
Say, oh, you know that's a railing accusation. I'm not saying that he's doing it
But I'm saying abstain from all appearance of evil if you're a married man
And you're going out and hitting on women all day on camera. I'm gonna assume you're an adulterer
Just like if you're a man and a woman and you're living together and you're not married
I'm gonna assume that you're living in fornication
Right. Oh, we live together. We sleep in the same bed, but it's all platonic, you know, we're waiting until we get married, right?
You see what I'm saying and you know what these kind of random acts of violence of just pranking people and look
Here's a good little rule of thumb for your stupid prank videos is if they're hurting people. They're not funny
If they're hurting look, I understand look I can understand a joke just like they're the next guy
Ha ha it's a joke
You know, you know, it's it's fun if everybody's laughing and everybody's having a good time and nobody gets hurt
But you know, hurting people's feelings, making fun of people, humiliating them, and that's
what these videos are.
They're not funny, they're stupid, and they're comparable to random acts of violence.
When you are deceiving your neighbor and then saying, oh, am I not in sport?
I was just kidding.
It was just for fun.
You know, first of all, it's just a low intellect way to have fun.
It's kind of a dumb idiotic entertainment that maybe I would have thought was funny
Maybe when I was a fetus, but probably like I don't know junior high or something, but it's like grow up
Grow up. It isn't funny
You know and I remember look when I was a teenager I participated in pranks because you know
Teenagers are just young and stupid and they do stuff and I can remember like some harmless pranks that I would do
Like I used to rig up my brother's bedroom to where my brother would walk into his bedroom and he would flip on the light switch
And I would basically connect a record player to that switched outlet
and have a song like queued up at a weird part or something
so that he would just flip his light switch and it would just be like some weird song would come on or something
or just a weird part or just like a certain like like I don't know why
but for some reason I hadn't rigged up for years I would just keep doing this as a joke
where every time he'd go in his room and flip on the switch it would say
Exodus movement of the people you know
I don't know why that song just struck us funny,
but I would just always have that little 45 of that song ready to flip on.
You know, it's like, ha, ha, that's funny.
Like it was just like nobody got hurt.
Right, but then you know I remember I'd be at this other friend's house
And we do this other prank where like we'd always be putting stuff on top of the door so that when the babysitter would come in
Like a stuffed animal would fall on her head or something, you know and that was pretty harmless
But then one time bro put batteries
On the door and then she opens the door like a battery falls on her head like that wasn't funny
It's like a D battery or something landing on somebody's head isn't really you know
It's like oh, you know, that's not funny
It's like because teenagers are sometimes stupid and taking things too far or something
But here's the thing when you know something when my brother switched the lights it everybody laughed
It was just like ha ha, you know, whatever
But when you're hurting people, humiliating people, embarrassing people, or making women who are often already
insecure about their appearance, or insecure about their bodies, or whatever, and then you're just making them feel bad,
like, as if this guy would actually be dating you.
And I'm thinking that this guy is such a piece of crap that's dating, that's flirting with you.
Like, like, the joke is that you would ever be interested in this worthless piece of crap.
Let's just say his name Cassidy Campbell
This worthless piece of crap Cassidy Campbell would be a bane on any woman that's with him
I feel bad for his wife his wife should be embarrassed and humiliated and ashamed
Then her husband goes out flirting with other women on camera
Yeah, and thank you who said that and he makes all these videos where he acts like a fag
He makes all these videos where he pretends to be a fact, and it's not funny!
It's not funny at all!
It's just gross, it's just weird, it's just uncomfortable.
But look, just pranking people and stuff, you know what?
When in doubt, don't do it.
you know occasionally
There'll be something funny that'll happen and you know that the person that you're joking with and look you go through life
And you find out there's certain people you can joke with and people that don't want you to joke with them
My wife does not like being joked with
She does not want to be pranked at all ever for any reason
So she probably is enjoying this part of the sermon because she she feels this way
Because my wife does not like that kind of humor at all
You know other people maybe you know hey if I play this little trick on him
It'll be funny. We'll all laugh or whatever, but you know what if you're if you're playing tricks on random people
No
Because you don't know what they're going through you don't know what's going on and you know what I've seen this backfire
I've seen somebody joke around or prank somebody like like one time
You know a teenager just kind of like knocked a hat off of a stranger as a joke like you mind if I just do it as a
Demonstration because you're wearing a hat. I'm not being a jerk like that
But you know just kind of like just some teenager just kind of walks up to random guy and just kind of like something like that
And I've seen that guy just grab him and just,
okay, now grab me and hurt me.
No, it's okay.
No, no, no.
All right, somebody give him back his hat.
But basically, you know, and I saw,
because sometime you're gonna do this to the wrong person.
You know, and I saw a teenager knock a hat off,
and I said, I saw the guy just grab this kid and just slam
and he's like, don't ever do it, you know.
Or, you know, or.
You'll see one teen do it to another teen and then I saw just like a Samaritan.
I don't know if I want to call him a good Samaritan.
He was just kind of a Samaritan, you know, that basically just grabbed the teenager
and started chastising him, you know, for what he did.
And because, and the guy did not think it was funny at all, was screaming,
don't pick on this kid and whatever, you know, and you'll eventually you're going to prank the wrong person.
But forget that what you should really think is whether God is pleased with you out
humiliating and embarrassing and shaming your own wife and
Just random people in the process just cast an arrows firebrands and death
Oh, and then by the way and then lecturing me on my marriage and my child rearing
Yeah, I'll be listening to you real soon. You worthless piece of crap
Think about it
Somebody like going out, doing all those kinds of evil, harmful, hurtful pranks, acting like a faggot for fun?
Please tell me how to be a better husband. You're a loser, you're a disgrace.
And you know what? The idiots who are clicking thumbs up, share, like, subscribe, you know what they're doing?
They're giving honor to a fool.
They're binding the stone in his sling.
And you know what, if you watch that and laugh at it
and think like, oh, yeah, I mean, it is kind of funny,
you know, watching him, you know,
flirting with this chubby girl or whatever.
You know what, you're also a partaker of his evil deeds
when you're hitting like and share and subscribe and ha-ha
and oh, this is funny and whatever.
It's not funny.
Grow up, quit being a fool.
All right, beloved, let's move on to the next point.
But fools they love these like harmful pranks and inappropriate humor fools make a mock at sin
You know, so they're gonna upload a ten minute video or a two minute video where they're just acting like a sodomite
Like why would you want to watch a man it look if I wanted to watch a man act like a sodomite
Couldn't I just watch all kinds of Hollywood movies that would show me that?
You know and by the way, that's how Hollywood started pushing their homo agenda all the way back
There's black and white movies where you have guys dressing up like women and all this stuff
And it's just like ha ha and then they this what they did
they started out getting you to make fun of homos and
Laugh at it and impersonate it make a joke where they're just a you know
Whatever and doing all this stuff then after they get you to laugh at it then they start getting you to feel sorry for them
Like oh the poor guy he's getting made fun of he's getting laughed at whatever you know
It's all just like a Psyop to get you
Desensitized to it to get you to enjoy it or look at it or get used to it
And then now we have a society that's starting to gradually accept the worst perversion
And so I know how we're gonna fix it. Let's get a Christian comedian to pretend to be a homo
That's how we're going to know what we need is some leather lung hellfire and damnation preaching from the Bible
rebuking
Sodomy not lay let's pretend to be a sodomite and let's approach people in public and
Pretend to be a homo and pretend to be a gangster and pretend to flirt with them and pretend to do this
But it's it's not funny
And so again, as a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
so is the man that deceiveth his neighbor and saith,
I'm not iron sport.
Well, God looks down and you know what God's saying?
It ain't funny.
You're insane.
You're a mad man casting firebrands, arrows, and death is what you are.
You're not a comedian.
You are a fool.
And my last point is this, verse 10.
The great God that formed all things both rewarded the fool and rewarded transgressors ultimately fools will be punished by God
Ultimately fools will be punished by God right you go through life
Just committing all these sins, twisting scripture, harming innocent people,
being a slob at your job, being lazy, being unreliable, untrustworthy,
because what are fools like? They're untrustworthy, they twist scripture,
they do the same things over and over again, they're lazy,
and they also love harmful pranks and inappropriate humor.
They love dirty jokes and inappropriate humor.
Now look, again, none of us is perfect when it comes to wisdom.
Right? We could talk about just the most extreme examples of folly and stupidity of like the so-called Christian comedian with his
harmful prank videos on one end of the spectrum, right?
And then obviously the godly, spirit-filled soul winner on the other side, he the win of souls is wise, amen?
You know, but there's a whole spectrum and obviously all of us have our foolish moments.
I'm not saying that I'm sinless,
and I know that everybody in this room
could think of something stupid
that they've done in their life.
I'm not the one that put the batteries on the door,
but I was there, and I was hiding,
watching the babysitter walk in
and get the batteries laying on her head.
I didn't do anything to stop it.
So I was participating in that stupidity, right?
But I was, you know what?
But the idea is you should be growing out
of those kind of idiotic things.
And the younger you can grow out of that kind of stupidity, the better.
Okay, I'm not saying that I'm perfect, but you know what, we should all be striving for wisdom.
We should be in the book of Proverbs, learning how to be wise.
We should be educating ourselves every day in the Word of God,
hanging around with people who elevate us mentally,
not people who make us stupider by spending time with them.
with their stupid humor.
And look, I'm not against humor.
I like to have fun as much as the next guy,
but you know what?
Let's have some intelligent fun.
Let's have clean fun.
Let's have fun that doesn't hurt people, okay?
And let's get around people that elevate us mentally,
not drag us down to stupidity,
where we're dumber every time we talk to them.
Okay, rotting our brains on a bunch of just foolish entertainment and things.
No, you need to stop being lazy and hit the books, hit the word of God,
hit the job site, be serious, be a serious person.
You know what, I remember my old pastor in Sacramento is not a fan of me, of course, unfortunately.
But I remember one compliment that he gave me one time that stuck with me is he one time said from the pulpit
Life is not a joke to him
He's serious like life is serious to him. That was like one positive pulpit mention that I got from my pastor
by name, and I remember thinking like, amen.
And somebody told me, they're like,
hey, you know, he brought you up in a sermon.
This is like right after I'd started the church.
And they said, hey, you got brought up in a sermon
and positively as being a person who takes life
really seriously and is not messing around
and life is not a joke to him.
And when somebody told me, I was like, yeah, that's right,
man, that's exactly how I am.
You know because look we need to take life seriously and look I like to have fun
I like to joke around. I'm not lifting myself up as the perfect example of being super wise
I've done stupid things. I've been silly at times as well, but you know what?
I do want to be known as a serious person. I don't want to be known as a joke
I want to be taken seriously, and you should want to be taken seriously as well.
You don't want to be like Lot, where he goes to tell his sons-in-law,
hey, we got to get out of here, God's going to destroy it,
and they just think, oh, he's a Christian comedian.
This is another joke, good old Lot.
They thought it was a joke, when Lot's telling them, hey, God's going to destroy the city.
Good one, Lot.
Why? Because Lot's a person that you couldn't take seriously.
He didn't know he didn't know when there's a time to put joking aside and get serious and be serious
So he couldn't be taken seriously
You know and we need to be serious people and
We want people to take us seriously in life and you know, especially when we preach the gospel to people
Right, we want them to take us seriously
Want to have a life that says hey, this is a real person and you know what here's another thing
That that that kind of cracks me up as you got you know the Babylon be and I think we've all kind of enjoyed some of their humor
I think you know some of their humor is funny. It was on point and whatever
I'm not I'm not saying that everything that they put out is bad, but they've they've done some stuff attacking me before and
None of it was true
Like, they did something attacking me, acting like I was a Ruckmanite that says that the
King James is superior to the Greek and Hebrew and stuff like, you know what I mean?
Like they were totally just twisting everything about me and they were mocking somebody else,
but saying that they're mocking Stephen Anderson because I didn't recognize the guy that they're
mocking because guess what, I'm not like that.
You know, I'm not one of these Rachmanites that believes that the English corrects the Greek or whatever
But they had it and they've had maybe I don't know two or three things making fun of me over the years
I don't remember
but but but here's the thing here's the thing about them though is that like
You can say like okay. Yeah, some of it like the political stuff is funny
And yeah, some of it's funny just like you know harmless or whatever
But but at the end of the day though like is that really what you want to spend your life doing?
Like, hey, I just want to get millions of followers so that I can just make fun of everything.
I'll make fun of church, I'll make fun of preachers,
I'll make fun of, you know, false prophets,
but I'll make fun of good preachers too,
make fun of church, make fun of the youth group,
make fun of preaching, make fun of hymns,
let's make fun of this.
So it's like, yeah, they're making fun of a lot of bad stuff,
but then they also just, they're just kind of making fun
of church in general sometimes,
and just kind of making fun of evangelical Christians
in general sometimes, just kind of making fun of it.
And yeah, some of it might be harmless,
but at the end of the day, really,
So what do you do? I'm just a full-time idiot. Full-time clown. I'm a full-time jester, right?
You know what? You're like these guys in the Middle Ages or something, the cloud.
The court jester, the village idiot that we can all laugh at you. It's like, you know what?
I'm sorry, but I hope that you want to do a little more with your life than that.
So, you young people that want to have a career as a Christian comedian, why don't you hang
that up and be a Christian preacher of the word of God?
If you're so good at communicating with your mouth, why don't you preach the gospel to
every creature?
Why don't you preach the unsearchable riches of Christ?
Because at the end of the day, there's not going to be a trophy in heaven for the most
gags online, the funniest satire of the Republicans or Democrats or the funniest jokes about youth
And you know what some of their humor maybe gets it right some of it gets it wrong and at the end of the day
I'm sorry, but I don't want to live my life as a joke
I'm you know I look and look there was a time when I was a kid when I literally wanted to grow up and be a stand-up comedian
You know and it's just like man, I'm so glad that I didn't pursue that path
Even if I was a Christian comedian a clean comedian it's like you know what I want to do something serious with my life
Because you know people are dying and going to hell
I'm not just gonna sit around with a bunch of buddies laughing about it every day
Let's make fun of church more
No, man, there's a there's a time to laugh there's a time to mourn
And so, yeah, laughter has its place, humor has its place, jokes have their place, and
I'm not against humor.
I think that God has a sense of humor.
I think there are some things in the Bible that are hilarious.
I think the book of Jonah is hilarious.
The book of Jonah has a lot of comedy in it.
Okay, there's no question about that.
I don't think any—I've never seen any theologian or Bible preacher try to claim that there's
nothing funny in that book.
throughout the Bible and so I'm not it but but you know what we need to know what is appropriate and what is not
Okay, and and we need to have the wisdom and the discretion to know that when you're making fun of
Innocent people that you don't even know it's one thing for Elijah to mock the prophets of Baal who are false prophets that should be killed
Who do get killed like a few minutes later?
It's like oh Elijah mocked them yet. They're dead in like an hour anyway
They didn't have to get humiliated for that long because they ended up, you know, being killed minutes later
But that's different. So hey, let's just go make fun of a random girl on a college campus because she's not that pretty
What is that?
right and
So all that to say this do not be a fool
Seek wisdom live a serious life take life seriously and don't be lazy work
Learn, study, improve, grow.
Don't be that fool that just keeps returning to your folly like a dog returns to his vomit.
Grow, change, improve.
Do better this year.
Let's bards and have a order of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord.
We thank you so much for the book of Proverbs in particular.
Help us all to take its wisdom to heart.
And Lord God, help us not to just rot our brains on stupid humor all day.
and help us to realize that, yeah, there might be a time when we could joke around and have fun and be merry,
but help us also to spend some time in the house of mourning,
and help us also to get serious and do something serious with our lives,
and be people that the world can take seriously as ambassadors for Jesus Christ.
And it's in His name we pray, amen.
Amen. All right, ladies and gentlemen, if you need the hymn of 133,
Safe Wherever I Go, we'll sing it twice and be dismissed.
133, Safe Wherever I Go.
Safe Wherever I Go
Peace the world cannot know
I'm safe wherever I go Man, good things and I've yards missed.