verse number six and they said unto him there came a man up to meet us
and said unto us go turn again unto the king that sent you
and say unto him thus saith the lord is it not because there is not a god in
israel that thou sent us to inquire of bale
zebub the god of ekron therefore thou shalt not come down from
that bed on which thou art gone up but shall
surely die and he said unto them what manner of
man was he which came up to meet you and told you these words and they
answered him he was a hairy man and girt with a
girdle of leather about his loins and he said it is
elijah the tishbite that's where i take the
title of my sermon this morning the title of my sermon is this
he was a hairy man now it's interesting to me that
that's the first thing that stands out to these people i mean they go and they
see this great man of god one of those most powerful
preachers one of the most powerful men of the old testament
and they ask the question uh what manner of man was he what was he like
and basically they say well he was a hairy man
and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins and the king knew right away
who they were talking about he said it's elijah the tishbite now if
you would turn to genesis chapter 27 genesis
chapter 27 you'll understand in a little while why that's the title of
my sermon but in genesis 27 i want to show you
some hairiness in the bible and i want to show you the opposite of
being hairy okay look at genesis 27 11 the bible reads
this and jacob said to rebecca his mother
behold esau my brother is a hairy man and i am a what smooth man so what's the
opposite of being hairy smooth right so he said i'm a smooth man
my father peradventure will feel me and i shall seem to him as a deceiver
and i shall bring a curse upon me and not
a blessing now turn to isaiah 30 we're turning a lot in the beginning of the
sermon but it'll all make sense by by isaiah chapter
30 those three big books at the end of the
old testament are isaiah jeremiah and ezekiel
look at isaiah chapter number 30 verse number 9 the bible says this
that this is a rebellious people lying children children that will not
hear the law of the lord which say to the seers
see not and to the prophets talking about the preachers he says
prophesy not unto us right things speak unto us
smooth things prophesy deceits get you out of the way turn aside out
cause the holy one of israel to cease from before us
wherefore thus saith the holy one of israel because he despised this word
and trust in oppression and perverseness and stay thereon
therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall
swelling out in a high wall whose breaking cometh
suddenly at an instant so he said in verse number nine that these rebellious
people these lying children they refused to want to hear the law of
the lord they didn't want to hear god's word preached
and so they would basically say to the seer or the prophet or the preacher
they'd go to the preacher and say hey don't preach to us what's right
tell us what we want to hear preach us smooth
things we're looking for a smoother softer less hairy of a message we don't
want this kind of hard preaching we don't want somebody exposing our sins
look at isaiah 58 1 you're in isaiah chapter 30
go to isaiah chapter 58 verse 1 and they even said
prophesy unto us smooth things prophesy deceit
because when you hear smooth preaching it's deception
according to isaiah chapter 30 just as jacob the smooth man was a deceiver
he pretended to be hairy if you remember he put the the skins of an animal around
his neck so that his father would feel his neck
and feel the hair of his neck but he was a very smooth man
and he was also a deceiver at that point in his life later on he got right with
god but he was practicing deception at that
time smooth preaching is a farce it's deception
look if you would at isaiah 58 and we'll see god's kind of preaching
god explaining to his preacher isaiah great man of god that he was how to
preach he says in verse 1 cry aloud spare
not lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression
and the house of jacob their sins you see it's a preacher's job
to get up and scream and yell and point out
the sins of the day we're living in not to get up and deliver a smooth message
not to get up and deliver what people want to hear not to take requests
there's no suggestion box up here that what do you want to hear preach
how would you like to see pastor anderson's preaching change
most people probably say you know tone it down a little bit right
now hopefully not the people in this church but most people say how about you
can turn down the volume a little bit well let me explain some of you
there's no sound system there's no volume knob
there's no microphone there's no pa there's no dial i only come in one
volume and it's the volume of cry aloud spare
not lift up thy voice like a trumpet because
i'm trying to show you something today and it may or may not be something that
you want to hear but it's your sin and god said that's my
job as a preacher to show people their sin
now nobody likes to be showing their sins do they nobody likes a hairy man
they like a smooth man and see here he says
show my people their sins we are living in a wicked and adulterous and sinful
generation today and the preachers of today will not
stand up and expose that that's the problem
you see i just took a little trip to california
i did a drive i left on friday morning i drove into southern california
i did a did a job in southern california then i drove up all the way to northern
california up to olivehurst was the furthest that i went north just
about 45 minutes north of sacramento so i went all the way up to sacramento
and all the way back i just got back this morning it was a
really long drive did like i think i put about 1700 some
miles on the car in just a couple days and i saw a lot of
billboards and let me tell you something i saw a lot of wicked
filthy billboards i couldn't even believe that this is what our country is
coming to me i saw the billboards advertising the tv
shows of today because i haven't watched tv
in about eight or nine years have i even watched anything on tv literally
you know i quit watching that garbage but the thing is i can't even believe
the tv shows that are advertised on the billboard
i saw a billboard for a tv show and maybe you've heard of this show i don't
know what it is i just saw billboards for it all over la
called my generation who's ever heard if you've heard of the show
everybody's afraid anyway world they all the world that people
raise their hand on my generation you know i don't know what the show is
about but the show was being advertised on a
billboard it was a woman that looked like she was maybe 40 or so
you know and she's basically saying oh this ring comes off you know that
just talking about adultery just promoting adultery how she's going to
commit adultery on this upcoming episode
hey i don't want to watch adultery i don't want to watch smut and
pornography that's why i threw my tv out a long time ago
i'm not watching my generation it's filled it's sin you say i don't like
that of course you don't like that go to
smooth baptist down the street and you'll never hear preaching like that
but that's the truth adultery is wicked it's being promoted on that show
christians ought not be watching that we can try it it's true because the bible
says i'll set no wicked thing before my eyes
i hate the work of them to turn aside it should not come to me
you see i saw another uh ad for the same show
another billboard as i was driving it said oh you remember
uh your prom night meet our son you know just glorifying and promoting
this uh going to bed on this prom date look this is the filth that's on tv
that i want nothing to do with and i know want no part in that's why god
said love not the world neither the things that are in the world
for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh
and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father but is of
the world and that's the kind of sin that needs
to be preached against today christians who go home and fill their
mind with adultery and fornication on that tv show my generation whatever it
is maybe it's a movie i don't know what i
think it's a tv show it looked like a show
nobody will admit it nobody will tell me okay fine
but anyway i'm glad that's good good job somebody told me recently i think
it was uh i don't remember exactly who it was
somebody told me in fact two people told me the same story
they said that there's a commercial on tv that they play in the evenings
for a website and and it's basically advertising a website to go commit
adultery it's basically telling you go to this
website if you're married and you want to commit adultery
that is filth and garbage you think i'm going to sit my children in front of
that you think i want my little three-year-old
girl that being where she first understands the idea
of adultery is a tv show and a commercial promoting it no and let
me tell you there are a ton of shows that promote adultery
there are a ton of sitcoms a ton of soap operas that's one of the main
storylines today of these evening shows is adultery
people on the job and they're on the job and they they're married deciding they
kiss somebody else that's disgusting amen it's horrible
we need to stay true if we're married we need to stay with that one person till
death us do part and i should not be having physical
contact with any woman besides my wife i'm not going to flirt around with women
on the job or anywhere else or kissing or or flirting or whatever
hey i want to be pure and this book is going to help me be pure
and the tv is going to try to get me to commit adultery
and that's why i'm not going to feed the flesh i'm going to feed the spirit
right here and if you're smart you come to a church
with a preacher that'll get up and preach this
instead of going to some smooth little church and i'll get to that in a moment
i saw another tv show advertised and these are the only shows i saw
advertised i didn't see one that looked like a decent show
some other show dextre anybody heard of this
it was some it was it was the i can't even tell you what was on the billboard
because it was so depraved and demented and sick
i can't even tell you what it was it was too weird
i mean it's a it's a it's a wicked show it was promoting the worst kind of
violence that's where it was promoting it
unbelievable couldn't even believe it i can't even believe it
how did we get this way i'll tell you how
because you got a bunch of smooth preachers up in the pulpit
preaching messages that everybody loves to hear
and boy they can pack the place out and boy they can bring in a crowd
and boy they can bring in the offerings while our country
and our children go to hell because nobody tells them the truth anymore
you see i don't care so much about the church attendance here
that i won't get up and preach you say if you preach like this you'll lose
people well you know what then so be it but i
am gonna be like elijah a hairy man i'm not trying to be some smooth little
pretty boy sissified preacher up here i'm gonna get up and preach god's word
the good the bad and the ugly and you know you can put it in your pipe and
smoke it or go find another church because there's plenty of churches that
won't preach like this they're everywhere
we'll do like pin the tail on the donkey we'll blindfold you spin you around and
just send you and you'll bump into one before long
it won't take you long but a hairy preacher is rare
and elijah's rare a man that'll get up and preach on set and i'm not claiming
to be elijah this morning i'm not claiming to be a great christian
i'm not claiming to be as great of a spiritual man as elijah was
a man who the spirit of the lord rests upon greatly i could not even hold a
candle to the man elijah but let me tell you something at least
elijah's my role model though at least i look at elijah and recognize
him for the greatness that he was at least joel osteen's not my role model
at least i love elijah at least i read about elijah and want to be like elijah
and you'll probably never be as great as elijah but you know what that's who i
want to be like a real man of god a true preacher of
god's word and look i don't claim to be a
wonderful uh christian i you know i try to do the
best i can i'm growing it you know i'm pressing on
the upward way new heights i'm gaining every day
still praying as i'm overbound lord plant my feet on higher ground
but let me tell you something i do one thing i read the bible a lot
i spent 30 to 40 hours reading my bible this week
period and you know what let me tell you something and all that reading and
memorizing and bible that i was in this week
you know what i figured out something that i already knew but i figured out
that the preachers of the bible were nothing like the preachers of today
that's what i figured out amen and that's what you'll figure out if
you do some serious bible reading my friend
i'm not trying to put myself on a pedestal but i'll put the men of the
bible on a pedestal and say that they're nothing like the
preachers that we see out there today that's what i'll say to you right now
my dad i was talking to my dad and my dad told me he said he said man i
used to love the history channel he said i used to love the history
channel my dad is a big history book i love history too
history is a fascinating thing but he said
he said to me he said steve he said the history channel
he said there's nothing decent on it anymore he said it used to be
you'd watch stuff about the old west you'd watch stuff about the civil war
you'd watch stuff about the roman empire he said now
it seems like everything on there he said is just something based on
evolution he said it's all aliens it's all ufos
it's it's it's evil and you know the aliens and ufos aren't any weirder than
this evolution so-called science theories you know
it's just all this weird stuff he said he's like i don't know if it's just
ted turner owns it he said and ted turner's a weirdo
but he said every time i watch the history channel it's like they're not
even talking about history it's like talking about outer space
and the big bang and all this evolution type science and bogus physics
falsely so-called he said that's all they're playing now he said it's just
ridiculous he said i'm sick of it you know we need to point this stuff
out and fight against it instead of partaking in it and enjoying
it and going with it you know history is great but that's not
history it's brainwashing you know it's great to get the news
except that the news on tv is a bunch of brainwashing you know it's got all
bunch of political slant it's what they want you to think is
going on and so on and so forth i'll get off tv but look at matthew chapter 16 if
you would matthew chapter 16
matthew chapter number 16 it's funny because i was talking to
somebody else and they talked about going to a new church you know
as in uh visiting a new church they were looking for a new church in their area
and this person walked into a church and this was just a couple weeks ago
and it was an independent fundamental bachelor's church
they looked at the website the website looked good listed all the right
doctrines all the fundamentalist type doctrines
and bible believing doctrine and you know it said they were king
james only everything was great you know king james bible and and
independent soul winning so they show up at this church
and uh you know the sermon was good i mean it was it was good it wasn't
anything controversial or anything but i mean it was
there's nothing wrong with it pretty good sermon pastor was a real nice guy
but there was just a whole row on the shelf of
bibles kind of like we have a shelf out there filled with bibles you know these
people don't have a bible with them or what have you
and it was all the new king james you know all the way across the shelf
and so this person i was talking to basically said to the pastor he said hey
are you king james only like is this or he said is this church
king james that's let me get the story right
he said is this church king james and the pastor said yep king james only
and this person just didn't say anything he just went like this
at this point and the pastor said oh oh uh i've only been here a year
i've only been here a year he said you know we're he's like i
in fact i've already got i've already had all the
you know replacement of the king james like i got a big stack of black
king james birth you know ready to go he's like just i've only been here a
year
no that does that sound like elijah to you
boy you know you remind me of john the baptist i mean can you imagine that
he's been preaching a year he doesn't even have the guts to just walk up and
just change out to the king james version you
know he's preaching the king james good night he's obviously not preaching
any doctrines on on what the word of god is
and he's allowing all these different versions and saying
that he doesn't believe it but then it's just there it is
why don't you grow some hair on your legs and stand up and say
no amen that's right you know what i mean
some of these preachers i wonder if they shave their legs from the way basically
on the way because they don't want they want to be smooth they want to be hairy
you know it's unbelievable but uh where did i return
please matthew matthew 16 look at verse 13 i love this
when jesus came into the coast of cesarea philippi
he asked his disciples saying whom do men say that i the son of man am
so he basically says unto his disciples so who do people think that i am
what do people say about me who am i look what they say
and these are just people of the world who don't really know jesus right
they they just he's not saying who do you say i am he's saying who do other
people just what does the public think of me
whom do men say that i am look at the first thing out of their mouth
and they said some say that thou art john the baptist
some elias elias is the new testament spelling of elijah
so basically they're saying well some people think you're john the baptist
some people think that you're elijah and then look what else they bring up
and others jeremiah's or one of the prophets he say unto them
but whom say ye that i am and simon peter answered and said thou
the christ the son of the living god they knew who he was
but when the world saw jesus from a distance
when they heard jesus preach or they heard about jesus preaching
they confused jesus with some of the most hairiest preachers in the bible i
mean we're talking about guys like elijah we're talking about a
man who preached hard we're talking about john the baptist
who preached hard who lived out in the wilderness i mean
he was one that would point out the pharisees point out the sadducees
that's who they confused jesus with they confused him
with these preachers who were men of god who were not smooth men they were not
polished men but they were men who were filled with
the spirit of god and they preached hard on sin
look at jeremiah i mean you want to talk about a man with boldness
you want to talk about courage you're looking at jeremiah right there
there was a man with great boldness as a preacher john the baptist
who was willing to preach even to the king of israel
harrod and preach against him specifically and preach and say
you are committing adultery with your brother's wife and you're wicked because
you're committing adultery with your brother i mean pointed out his sin
right there and preach it and you know what happened because of
that he was thrown in jail he was thrown in jail
for preaching against the king's adulterous affair
and then he was beheaded by the same guy that's who they thought jesus was they
did not mix up jesus with a dope smoking hippie but you
know if you look at the typical pictures of jesus today that's who you confuse
it for who is that john lennon i mean you could
confuse it more with you know some say that thou art john lennon
you know some say thou art jim morrison and you know if you looked at the
typical pictures of jesus on the greeting cards today and on the walls
of people today that's who you'd mix them up with a pothead
a long-haired hippie a sissy that's who you think of
you wouldn't think of elijah john the baptist you wouldn't think of a fire
breathing hair-legged preacher no you'd think of a smooth little sissy
that's what you think of today because we've got a jesus that's different
than the jesus of the bible right and we've got churches that are different
than the churches in the preaching of the bible
you see there are two kinds of people in this room today there are those who've
read the bible cover to cover and those who don't and
everybody who's read the bible cover to cover knows that what i'm saying is true
that the preaching of the bible was direct
it was hard-hitting it was fiery preaching those who've read it know
that that's true they know that jesus and john the
baptist and jeremiah and isaiah and ezekiel
pointed out the sin of their day called it by name
called the names of the wicked leaders of their day called the names of the
false prophets of their day and they would know that what i'm saying
lines up with the bible but those who've been growing up but
smooth baptist and smooth community
they're the ones who are wondering you know what in the world is he talking
about but the bible says in matthew 11 look at
matthew 11 you're in matthew 16 just go back a few pages to matthew 11 verse 7
who was the first person they compared jesus to john the baptist
who was the second person elijah who was the third person jeremiah
we already saw that what elijah was like he was a hairy man he had a leather
belt he preached hard he was kind of a mean
guy if you ever read first kings chapter 17 he was kind of a mean guy
look if you would at uh matthew 11 let's see a little bit about john the baptist
this is jesus it says and as they departed jesus began to say under the
multitudes concerning john what went you out into the wilderness to
see a reed shaken with the wind he's saying
look when you went out to see john the baptist preach
did you go out expecting a reed shaken with the wind
you know a reed is one of those plants that grows by the river
you can pretty much just knock it over you can pretty much just walk over and
just step on it put it to the ground now you can't do that to an oak tree can
you or a pine tree no but a reed is just a weak
it might grow up real tall but it's very weak it's
blown with every wind that comes by any little animal can knock the thing over
and destroy it he said what did you expect when you went
to hear john the baptist priest did you expect a reed shaken with the
wind a man who goes with the flow is that what you expected a man who goes
with the flow who's carried about with every wind of doctrine
who goes like this he licks his finger and holds it up in the air to see which
way the wind is blowing he's like is that what you expected when you went to
the wilderness to hear john the baptist but what went you out for to see
verse 8 a man clothed in soft raiment behold
they that wear soft clothing are in king's houses he's like look when you
went out to see john the baptist what did you expected a guy in soft
raiment you expected him to have like a lavender
tie a pink shirt and be all soft and smooth and polished
and pretty he said they that wear soft clothings
are in king's houses he said this was a man who was living in
the wilderness preaching god's word not some pretty boy but a hairy man
not a smooth little polished specimen not a little metro little emo or
whatever you want to call it today that these little queer looking sissies
he said well they're not queer well they look like they're queer and i'm sick of
it dressed like a man look like a man boys
that are listening to me teenage boys and older
you are a man be a man grow up talk like a man walk like a man and
dress like a man don't buy clothes and Abercrombie and
Fitch don't go to urban outfitter don't get all these little sissified
don't get your little tight jeans and your little low rider pants
and your little form-fitting shirts and you're showing your underwear
pull up your pants and wear a leather belt like elijah wore
there's only two things about it number one they said what manner man was he
number one he was a hairy man get some hair on your legs number two
get some hair on your chest guys all right number two
i mean this is the first thing that stood out to him he was hairy
and number two he had a leather girdle about his lines
he wasn't sagging he wasn't wearing these little tight little bird leg
muffin top four fitting pants he was a man therefore he put on a leather belt
did you know the bible records that jeremiah wore a belt did you know if
the bible records that elijah wore a belt
that jesus wore a belt that john the baptist wore a belt
why the emphasis on the belt
you know just wear a belt you know that in fact i'm changing the title of this
wear a belt be a man but you see if the preacher's not a man
how do you expect the kid in the pew to grow up and act like a man
when the queerest sissy of all is the song leader
the queerest little sissy of all is the man that's behind the pulpit
mr smooth mr splooper isn't he sweet now there's one thing that nobody says
about me you know i like that church but i i
quit going to church because he was too smooth
he was just too sweet
he was just too nice i was a little suspicious
he was afraid to get up and preach what he really believed
that's why i left that church and you know why people leave this church
you know what it's not because i'm too smooth
it's because i got too hairy that's why they like that's why they leave it's
true these bunch of little punks these little
uh arrogant little pompous little girly men
who can't take hard preaching they can't take anybody ever telling them they're
wrong they can't take anybody who's a man who
says hey i'm not a reed shaking with the wind here
i'm a man of god here and i'm gonna preach it and do it
the way the bible says or hit the road jack because that door swings both ways
and let me tell you something if you think this preacher's too hairy
then hit the road you know if i'm too hairy for you i don't know what to tell
you i don't think i'm the hairiest preacher that's ever been known to man
i don't think i'm as hairy as elijah was i don't think i'm as hairy as john the
baptist was if you can't handle this level of hairiness
you know i'll give you directions to calvary chapel or wherever you want to
go you know and if you want to go to the
independent you know what the difference is between faithful word baptist church
and the other independent fundamental baptist churches in phoenix
you know what the difference is smooth versus hairy that's the difference
you know because most of the doctrine is going to be the same or a lot of the
doctrine is going to be the same but here you got a hairy preacher but
guess what some people don't like a hairy creature that's why it says in
second timothy four go to second timothy four
and while you're turning there i'll read you this it says you know what went you
out for to see a man clothed in soft raiment
behold they that wear soft clothing are in king's houses
but what went you out for to see a prophet yea i say unto you and more than
a prophet he said verse 11 verily i say unto you
among them that are born of women there has not risen a greater than john
the baptist now is saying he that is least in the
kingdom of heaven is great as he what a stupid reason to leave a church
the pastor was too mean thank god you have a mean pastor
you know the pastor was too mean not the doctrine was wrong
not the soul winning was wrong not the preaching was wrong not the music was
wrong not that the vibe was wrong it's just
that he was too mean little crybaby if then if that's where you feel right
now that i'm too mean and you're the male gender if you're a woman okay you
know we'll i'll i'll talk to you after the service
but you know what it's like if you're a man today
and you think that i'm too mean then get out of here you little crybaby
and go to a little wussy little church that'll tell you what you want to hear
and come here and you'll get the truth and you'll get it from somebody who
maybe is a little hairier than you want him to be sometimes
i'd rather have a preacher that was too hairy and too smooth
if i had to choose between the two because you know all you have to do is
just knuckle under and just take it if it's a little too hairy for you
just suck it up and be a man and take it you know if it's too smooth you're going
to get backslid that's all there is to it
that's what happens but look at second timothy four it says in second timothy
four one i charge thee therefore before god and
the lord jesus christ who shall judge the quick and the dead
that is appearing in his kingdom this is paul preaching unto timothy
his young protege in the ministry paul was a great preacher
he already had the successes for decades he'd had
thousands of people saved started all kinds of churches
i mean he'd done all the great work well he's trying to pass this on
unto this young man timothy you know and timothy had already done a lot of great
work for god at this time too but he was a younger man and so paul is
trying to before he dies he wants to give him final thoughts he wants to make
sure that timothy is going to stay on the same course
after paul's gone and so here's what he says to him in
verse two preach the word be instant in season out of season
reprove he's saying timothy don't fall into this positive only preaching
reprove reprove means to tell somebody they're wrong
rebuke you know what that means to tell somebody they're wrong
and you're never going to guess what exhort means
to tell somebody they're wrong it's just it's three different ways of telling
people that they're wrong you know what i mean that's pretty much
what it's saying reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering he's saying
look be patient be patient with people and teach he's
saying and doctrine you know don't just get up and scream and yell
you know teach the bible explain it to people
teach it to them in patience give people time to learn you know we never want to
jump down somebody's throat or something you know i'm getting up here preaching
and and yell but you know i'm a patient person i ought to be a patient person
because i need to teach the bible line upon line you know nobody's going to
become a great christian overnight are they
no i mean it takes years and years and then you're still not a great christian
you know what i mean i've still got a way to go and i've been a christian for
23 years i got saved 23 years ago none of us has
arrived we ought to have patience and long suffering okay we all
ought to have long suffering and doctrine but guess what
guess what though it's still a rebuke it's just a patient rebuke
you know that's all it is so he says uh a little further though
in verse three for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine
but after their own lusts shall they keep to themselves
teachers having itching ears so the bible says that the day will come
when people won't want to hear sound doctrine they won't want to hear
accurate biblical preaching instead they'll keep unto themselves basically
they're the ones choosing now by the way there was no election
nobody voted to elect elijah he just showed up on the scene and
started preaching nobody hired him and said hey we're
gonna we're gonna pay you we're gonna train you we want you to be a
preacher no he was just called by god he just
preached god's word okay but the bible says there will come a
day where the people will choose their own teacher
and it'll be someone who will tell them what they want to hear because they'll
they'll get preaching that's according to their lusts like you know if they
want to hear the tv's okay you know to watch my generation and
dextre and all this junk you know that they'll find a teacher
that'll tell them that and it's easy to find
yeah somebody gave me a cd somebody was telling me
oh this great preacher in this town in phoenix they gave me a cd and on
on the cd of the preacher that they said was this great preacher he's talking
about the movie that he watched on hbo last night
and he was basically relating this hbo movie and teaching a lesson from that
that was where he was getting his moral to the story some r-rated
movie off of hbo and i'm thinking like wow this is
god's preacher this is god's man i think not
and so he says here the time will come when they'll not endure
sound doctrine now sometimes sound doctrine has to be what
endured you know sometimes the truth hurts doesn't it sometimes you don't
want to hear the truth now a lot of times you come to church
and you love it you know you enjoy it it's great it's uplifting it's
motivating it's encouraging and a lot of sermons are like that
they're very encouraging they're motivated
but many times you just have to endure it because it's god's word
because we know it's the truth he says the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own
lusts shall they heed to themselves not preachers
but teachers you say what's the difference between a preacher and a
teacher well when it comes to a preacher every
good preacher is a teacher isn't he because the bible says that the pastor
should be apt to teach and the bible says that our preaching
should be with doctrine doctrine means teaching
and so every great preacher is also a teacher because he's teaching the bible
as he preaches but let me tell you something every
teacher is not a preacher
because a preacher is somebody who teaches
while yelling and beating the pulpit okay that's you know this
i don't think that's what the dictionary says but anyway you know preaching
is delivering the message with a little more power behind it
you know with a little bit more charisma behind it with the spirit of god
upon you not just teaching but teaching and preaching preaching is
you know i mean look have you ever gone to math class
and the math teacher was like yelling and saying
you know i'm sick of people saying you know
two plus two is five no no he's not a preacher see what i mean
he doesn't have to get mad and stomp and say i know you know hey go ahead and
go to the math class down the way huh they'll tell you to do the parentheses
last do the parentheses first please
please please excuse my dear aunt sally is the way you parentheses exponents
you know multiplication division addition
subtraction that's the order that you're going to do it
and i'm sick you know is that have you ever been to a math class like that
you've been to one like that yeah
what school was that not
you know maybe the guy was just maybe god called that guy to be a preacher
that math teacher that you had like that trent
maybe he was supposed to be a preacher but he was out of god's will
you know i mean he got into math and everything and it was like burning
inside of him and that guy's out of god's will that guy should have been a
preacher i like that guy anyway the point is they'll heap to
themselves teachers you know and every and by the way if a
preacher is not a teacher that's not good preaching
just yelling and screaming without teaching the bible line upon line
without turning to the scriptures without giving you god's word
but people would rather have a teacher than a preacher because a teacher
doesn't stomp on anybody's toes except that one guy yeah he doesn't step
on your toe he doesn't say things that offend you i don't
think anybody's ever walked out so i'm never going to this math class again
i can't believe that he hit on my problem you know
who told him that i was struggling with that
you know and you know most of the time when the preacher's preaching he's not
trying to offend you or make you mad he loves you i'm not up here because i
hate you i'm up here because i love you and a lot of times i'll preach things
and people will think i'm preaching right at them but i don't even know that
they're guilty of that you know what i mean like like i've
gotten up before and i'll start ripping on smoking or
something and there's like five people who think he's talking to me he knows i
smoke he found out you know i mean literally i can remember a
summer where i preached against smoking and four people specifically said
you were preaching to me weren't you you know and two of the people i didn't
even know smoked until they said that you know i didn't
even know you smoked you know the bottom line is i'm going to preach
the whole word in season out of season and sometimes
it's going to hit you where it hurts sometimes i mean sometimes if it's if
it's your sin look nobody likes to hear their sin
pointed out and i'm not pointed out by name or anything but just when i hit on
something if the shoe fits you know you might get a little offended like oh
man my dvr was already sent to record that show
and then he hit on it and then my and then my wife is going to
look down on me when i watch it because she heard the same sermon i heard
or all my husband's going to get offended by it you know
or the kids you know it's not as parents will bring their kids to a church like
this and you know why they'll quit the church
because then their kids will be like dad isn't that the show
shut up and go to bed at bedtime you know parents who tell their children
this isn't for kids while they watch bad stuff on tv
but guess what your kids are going to do as soon as you're out of the house
they'll go and see what's not for kids and as soon as they grow up they'll go
watch everything that was not for kids because the bottom line is that if it's
not for kids it's probably not for adults either if it's on the television
you know but a lot of people will use that you know it's not for kids
because it's because it's pornographic you know
because it's wicked because it promotes adultery well guess what
it's not for adults either right we none of us should be partaking in that
and anything that i would ever participate in it should go through the
litmus test of is this what i want my children to do when they grow up is this
what i want them to be like because that's what they will be like
everything brings forth after its own time my friend
and so your children will grow up and do not what you say but they'll do what you
do he said they'll heap to themselves
teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from
the truth and shall be turned into fables but
watch thou in all things he tells timothy
endure afflictions he's saying look you're going to go through persecution
and affliction if you really preach the word right
do the work of an evangelist he's telling him to be a soul winner
evangelism you know what evangelism means it's giving out the gospel
preaching the gospel he says pastor do the work of an
evangelist he said it's your job to win souls to christ
not to just preach about soul winning and then not go soul winning yourself
he says no timothy you need to set the example do the work of evangelist
timothy make full proof of thy ministry for i
am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is in
hand verse 7 i have shared a good share
is that what it said i've shared a good share
i have a hug doing a hug no paul said i fought a good fight
you know i fought a good fight i have finished my course
i've kept the faith he's saying timothy i'm at the end of my life i'm now ready
to be offered the time of my departure is at hand i'm
about to depart and to be with christ i know i'm going to be dead soon
all my soul will go to heaven i'll depart and be with christ but he said
timothy i can honestly say i fought a good fight
i finished my course i've kept faith how about you timothy
will you be saying that 50 years from now he's saying will you be saying that
60 years from now timothy that you kept the faith that you fought
the fight that you finished the course because it's a lot
easier said than done it's a lot easier to say oh yeah
i'll endure all the way i am a die hard died in the wool faith before baptist
church soul winning fundamentalism you know but you know it's a
lot harder to live that life and i've seen a
lot of people come to this church and other churches
that i grew up in and they'll get fired up
they'll get excited about things of god they'll do a bunch of soul winning
they'll be on fire for god and then you know what'll happen
they'll get they'll fizzle out they'll get backslidden they'll go soft
and if you know a year goes by a year and a half two years and they start to
fade now look everybody goes through the same
pattern pretty much when you first get saved
or you first get in it maybe you're already saved but you first get in a
real bible preaching church a real soul winning church when you first
get there you're excited about it you're excited about getting people
saved you're going out and preaching the gospel to every creature
you're you're you're seeing the blessings and at first it's exciting
every sermon is new to you i mean you've never heard any of these
verses you turn into it you've never heard the stories it's all
new it's all fresh but then what happens is inevitably
you're going to get to a point where you start to get weary and well-doing
you know you start to get the newness the newness wears off
have you heard this expression the honeymoon's over you know what i mean
and people get that way with church where the honeymoon's over
the newness wears off but you know character
and spirituality and christianity and daily bible reading
that's what's going to keep you going through that period because everybody
gets that period i guarantee you if you talk to anybody who's been to this
church for a long time or who's been a christian for a long time
they'll tell you that when they first got saved or they first got right with
god after they got sick you know they were really excited but
then they went through some time where it was
it was hard to go to church or it was hard to read the bible they didn't feel
like reading they didn't feel like going to church but
they did it anyway and that's why they're still here
they did it anyway even when it stopped being as fun
even when pastor anderson's sermon was not as interesting they just they they
got what they could out of it they tried to learn
they tried to apply to their lives and they ran out of care whether they wanted
to or not they just forced themselves to read
to do it they endured they kept going and they finished the course because
there are so many washups that are out there i mean honestly
so many people now i can name people that i've been soul winning with
years past 10 years ago i was so winning with them today they don't even go to
church anywhere today they're worldly today
they're going to rock concerts and they have nothing to do with things of god
i mean they're i mean they were definitely saved and they'll still
stand on what they believe but they're not doing the works anymore they're not
living the life they're backslidden and they're out of church
you know i can tell you about people like that but that person at one time
was excited they were fired up but see that's what's
wrong with the emotionalism of modern day christianity
the emotionalism of the of the smooth church movement
if it's based on emotion let me tell you something emotion's not always going to
be there if it's all just a feel good get worked
up laugh cry yeah if it's all based upon that
it's not going to last but if you actually read this book
and learn it and study it and meditate upon it
i'm telling you it will make you like a rock not like a reed shaking with the
wind not somebody who's up and down up and
up have you ever noticed how babies are up and down like a roller coaster
i mean at the drop of a hat a one-year-old or two-year-old or a baby
can go from being completely happy to just you know this was horrible
now hold on a second stop and think for a moment
how much would it take for you to cry like you see a toddler cry
what would it take what would have to happen to you just think about this
you're an adult what would have to happen to you for
years ago
i mean it would have to be like most people would probably never even feel
that way in their whole life or maybe once in their life right how
often do you feel that extreme of an emotion where you would just
scream at the top of your lungs or just fall on your
or the what's worse is silence you know you know your kids have really got hurt
bad when they don't when you don't hear a cry
because it's just silent the longer the silence the worse the cry is when it
finally got you know you'll just hear like
and it's like they get hurt and then you just hear nothing it's just like
you know but it's that silent just shaking
i've seen some kids where they'll do it they'll do it so long
that they'll just pass out they're not breathing
they're just gone but i learned the trick though
you just blow in their face it's amazing my kid one time one time one of our kids
fell out of a swing and was doing the silent cry and passed
out or whatever from it then you know it's fine but it's just
because they're not breathing right i finally figured out the trick whenever
my kids do the silent cry i just walked up and just go
just blowing their face and then all of a sudden they go
but the point is children babies are an emotional roller coaster aren't they
you know one minute they're having the best time in the world
the next minute it's like their loved ones is dying
and then the next minute it's like this is the great
it's easy to make them laugh and it's easy to make them cry
right the older and more mature you get you're more even keeled right you get
bad news you can stay calm when somebody brings you good news it's
not always just yeah wow you know your boss walks in or
something oh yeah you know i'm gonna go and give you that raise
yes you know you're just like you're just like
okay all right thanks
and if you're fired it's not just like
you know if you're fired it's just like oh man
i guess i'm gonna find a new job because mature a sign of maturity is that
you're not ruled by your emotions let me tell you it's a baby christian
whose christianity is based upon emotional experiences
it's true these guys didn't come back from their meeting with elijah saying
it was an emotional experience they said he told us we're all wicked and going to
hell and that you're going to die that's what his message was if you read
the chapter with us you know it's like it wasn't exactly an
emotional service it wasn't a charismatic service they
just said all we know is that he said a lot of really negative stuff and
he was really hairy and he had a leather belt that's one
thing that's all they said there i got it's elijah
you know i somebody came to our door you know
it's like were they on a tricycle no were they walking at one quarter of a
mile per hour no okay it wasn't joe's but this is
you know we're not a tricycle it's a mormon you know he was a hairy man oh
faithful word
just kidding but anyway the point is you know our church may not have the
reputation for being the smoothest church in town
the smoothest preacher in town but you know usually people that are really
smooth and slick where are they a deceiver yeah you ever meet people
they're just a little too slick a little too smooth you get a little
nervous about them a little too much of a smooth operator
a little too perfect you know they're smooth
and then there's harry we got to hurry up here we're on
low on time i'll skip some stuff skip some stuff
let's go to first kings 22 just look at a few places just
i just want to point out a couple of other great preachers in the bible
they were hairy men uh let me just go ahead and do this and again we're not
talking about obviously it's an illustration we're not
talking about the physical amount of hair
okay definitely not long hair because long hair is for ladies according to
the bible right i'm not up here preaching that you
have to have hair on your chest and that you have to
have hair on your face and that you have to have hair on your legs because you
know i realize that a lot of that's just what nationality you are you know
i mean that's just basically just everybody's different
oh boy it has nothing to do with the physical hair
you know it's if we could see you on the inside how hairy you are man
you know what i mean because it's not i'm just kidding but anyway
i'm not saying that it's the physical hair
upon your chest that makes you a man or the but what i am saying is that it's a
spiritual illustration it's an analogy for being
smooth or being hairy you know are you smooth
if you want to preach a smooth sermon are you going to preach a right sermon
because look let's face it men are hairy by and large you know what
i mean and if they're smooth you know maybe
god made them that way that's fine but you know what can you imagine a
man shaving his legs just to be a little smoother
it's disgusting and i know you've been on the swim team or whatever but i still
won't condone it
but today we're living in a day where preachers are more interested in
being smooth they're more interested in what people think about because look the
world's going to look at you when you're hairy
they weren't saying that as a compliment when they said he was a hairy man
the world is never going to recognize a real preacher a real man of god
they didn't say what manner of man was he this guy was the greatest preacher
i've ever heard that's not what they said that's what
they probably should have said i mean if you and i went and heard elijah preach
and somebody said what manner of man was he you'd say
this guy was the most powerful preacher i mean he was he was expounding god's
word it was it was motivating i mean it was
the best sermon i've ever heard he was a powerful man he had boldness he
was righteous godly no he was hairy you know the world
can't even recognize what real preaching is they can't recognize
it's funny when you have people that are atheists tell you that you're not
christ-like
it's like how would you know how many times have you had somebody who's just a
total atheist you're not being christlike
you don't even know christ and christ never knew you
you know and people that are in this world they can't recognize
what the right kind of preaching is and what is the wrong kind of preaching
that's why they love the joel osteens and the billy grahams and lift them up
because they're positive only preachers they the only hair
on joel osteen is the bouffant on the top of his head i mean
that man is a smooth preacher and god said the opposite of hairy is smooth and
the opposite of smooth is right preach right and don't get too
caught up on this hairy thing it's just the title of the sermon get over it
it's just an illustration look at first kings 22 6
then the king of israel is that where i told you to turn first kings to 22 6
then the king of israel gathered the prophets together
so he gets all the preachers together about 400 men
and said unto them shall i go against raim up gilead to battle
or shall i forbear and they said go up for the lord shall deliver it into the
hand of the king now that was a really motivating positive message wasn't it
yes do it god's blessing you you god things are gonna happen great to
you today you know it's a really positive message
but the problem was it wasn't true yeah they were lying now jehoshaphat
was not as foolish as king ahab jehoshaphat
knew these phony preachers were not preaching the bible he listened to what
they said he said there's something not right about these guys they're a little
too smooth so he asked this question in verse 7
and jehoshaphat said is there not here a prophet of the lord besides
now how many preachers did he bring to him 400
400 phony smooth preachers that told him what he wanted to hear and
he said isn't there someone else like don't you
have another preacher because he could just tell that all 400 of these guys
and you say oh you're so picky all 400 of them are wrong
and jehoshaphat's like these guys are not preaching the truth
look what he says in verse 7 the king of israel king ahab that is
said unto jehoshaphat there is yet one man
micaiah the son of emla by whom we may inquire of the lord
but i hate him and why did he hate micaiah the preacher for he does not
prophesy good concerning me but evil and jehoshaphat said let not the king
say so he said i don't like him because it seems
like everything he's preaching is is is bad about me it's never good about
me so i found these 400 guys that always tell me good things
and it's really helping to be a lot more positive in my life
so basically they call in this other preacher
in uh verse number nine it says then the king of israel called an officer and
hasten hither the son of uh or micaiah the son of emla
so they're sitting on their robes the prophets are prophesying before them and
preaching and so forth we'll hurry up but look what it says verse 13
and the messenger that was gone to call micaiah speak unto him saying
behold now the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one
mouth he's saying look all 400 of these guys are saying the
same thing and it's all positive let thy word i pray thee be like the word
of one of them and speak that which is good
now look what if somebody came to your pastor pastor stephen anderson and said
pastor anderson
there's 400 other churches in this town they're all saying good they're all
being nice they're all they're all nice you know smooth
good they're saying good things people like to go there
people want to hear it let your word be good like what now look is there
anything wrong with being good does it good sound good it sounds pretty
good doesn't it but it just wasn't the truth and josh
in fact uh i'm sorry it says uh and micaiah said
in verse 14 as the lord liveth what the lord saith unto me that will i speak
he said i'm not gonna i don't you know it's not whether it's good or bad it's
just i'm just gonna say what god told me to say
i'm just gonna preach this this book whether it's good
to you or bad to you okay one more place turn to
first samuel chapter number 16 i've had to cut out a lot of my sermon
here but first samuel chapter 16 we see samuel now samuel was another
great powerful preacher wasn't he first and second samuel
another great man of god notice the common denominator among these men it
says in first samuel 16 four and samuel did that which the lord
spake that's good and came to bethlehem
and the elders of the town trembled at his coming
and said comest thou peaceably okay are you getting the picture here i
mean this guy this is the preacher coming to town and they're
afraid of it saying comest thou peaceably
and he said peaceably i'm come to sacrifice unto the lord sanctify
yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice
and he sanctified jesse and his sons and called him to the sacrifice
can you imagine these little milk toast preachers of today
nobody's trembling before them nobody's afraid of them
oh that's good there's this lovable fuzz ball
i just feel so much more comfortable around them because i feel like i can
let my hair down and i can just really cozy up with that preacher
because he's not so judgmental is that all they felt about samuel
when samuel showed up they're like oh man what are we doing what's he gonna do
now what's he gonna say to us now what's he gonna rip on now they were
afraid of him why because he was not a pansy
because he was not a namby pamby and let me tell you something today
the preachers are afraid of the people
instead of the people fearing this and oh man
you know it's samuel it's like they're scared like oh man i don't know if i
i don't know those new king james i don't know if i should move those or what
what are people gonna do
next year next year next year i'll do it next year god i promise
i'll switch to the king james only next year but if anybody asks me i'm gonna
tell them i'm king james only but i'm afraid to move those books until
next year you think that's what samuel's attitude
samuel would have had those things in a bonfire
so fast your head would have been spinning samuel would have come in
and they would have been they you know what would happen if samuel would have
been the pastor of that church
when samuel took over that church they would have gotten rid of those new
king james before samuel even walked through the front door
because they would have been afraid what he was going to think about it
instead of him being afraid what people would think when he removed him it would
have been the exact opposite they would have been like oh man
samuel's the new pastor get rid of the new king james now what
are you doing get rid of these song books that have
verses from the nib in them you know get rid of this liberal program what is
he going to think he is going to cloud up and rain he's
going to breathe fire now look am i saying be mean yes
yes i am because listen i'm not saying to be mean all the time
and most people who know me know that i'm a pretty nice guy
most of the time but let me tell you something there's a time to be mean
and there's a time not to be mean and today everybody wants to be nice all the
time this is the problem with parents who want
to be nice all the time and they let their children do whatever
because they're just afraid to ever be mean they're afraid to be the one who
says no they're afraid they want to put their breath out
but that's what being a parent is loving your children
is sometimes telling them what they don't want to hear
but today every parent just wants to be their child's buddy
and you know my children are my buddies but you know what
i'm their parent first buddy second seriously i mean i'm the dad first buddy
second because it's tempting to just want to be
mr cool mr nice guy mr anything goes but you know what sometimes you got to
be mean and if you don't if you're one of these
people that doesn't have a mean bone in your body
don't do do a salt paper don't ever become a pastor
because we don't need another namby pamby we don't need
another preacher who will not fight who will not stand up for what he believes
in we don't need it there's too many we need some men who are not just being
mean for the sake of being me but they know that there's a time to be
me and it's not that often and hopefully
it's not very often at all but there's a time to get a little
hairy isn't there as parents there's a time to get hairy
as a preacher it's time to get hairy sometimes and you know
my children i'm their friend i'm their buddy but i'm their dad first
and i will never be their buddy at the expense of being their dad
and you know what it's the same way with this church i'm your friend
i'm your buddy but you know what i'm your pastor first
and if i have to choose between being your pastor and being your buddy i'll be
your pastor i'd rather get up and alienate somebody
by telling them what they need to hear and there have been many good people
i'm thinking of someone about four years ago
good people good people who i told what they needed to hear
and it caused them to leave the church but they got it right
they corrected that which needed to be corrected
and so i thank god that i told them what they needed to hear even though i lost
them as a friend even though i lost them as a church
member they grew in the lord and and moved on and grew in their life
because i told them what they needed to hear
and i thank god that the one that i'm thinking of today is still serving god
today because of the fact that four years ago
they were told what they needed to hear and it's not always going to make people
like you but it proves one thing it's not going
to make them love you but it proves that you love them
and your love's not always going to be reciprocated but if you love somebody
you'll speak the truth in love and you'll tell them the truth
the hairy truth sometimes but the truth nonetheless
let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer father i just pray that every
single person would take this message to heart and always remember it dear god
help everyone who's here to always remember this sermon for the rest of
their life and instead of getting upset when they
hear the word of god preached and saying oh that preacher's too hairy
that they would stop and say wait a minute wasn't elijah a pretty hairy
preacher wasn't john the baptist a pretty hairy
preacher wasn't jesus christ compared to the hairiest preachers in the bible
and to realize that the elijah or the jeremiah or the john the baptists of
this world and i could never attain under those great men but
that those men are the men who really love
and they really did the most good and they really helped so many people and
and performed miracles and and helped people and
and saved people and gave people the gospel
help us dear god to not get the world's definition of oh man that guy's hairy
help us rather to say god i want the truth and i'll go where the
truth is preached and i'll endure it i'll endure the
truth i'll endure sound preaching and sound
doctrine father we love you and thank you for the great church that we have
dear god and we thank you for the many souls
that have been saved through knocking doors dear god thank you for a church
that loves people and that goes out and preaches the gospel
and help us today as we go out with the glorious good news
the gospel of jesus christ help us to see many saved your god help us to find
those that maybe can look past our hairiness
dear god and and receive the truth and receive the message dear god
because we love them and in jesus name we pray amen