Man, tonight is the ordination for brother Richard Miller, so I'm gonna have brother
Miller come up and sit in the seat up here tonight as I preach.
And tonight I want to preach from this famous passage in Proverbs chapter 3 to start with,
and the advice that I want to give brother Miller as he goes out to start a church is,
you know, some of the most important advice for any Christian to be given, and that's
to trust in the Lord with all your heart and to not lean on your own understanding.
Now let's start here in verse number 1 of Proverbs chapter 3.
The Bible reads, my son, forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments,
for length of days and long life and peace shall they add to thee.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee, bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table
of thine heart, so shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and
man.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Be not wise in thine own eyes.
Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
You know, the Bible's telling us here that we need to trust what God says in his word.
We need to trust in the Lord and not lean on our own understanding.
We need to acknowledge him, let him direct our paths.
We need to just depart from evil.
We need to just flee from it, stay away from it, do what's right, and let the chips fall
where they may.
See, we had too many pastors today that are doing way too much thinking about things that
are none of their business, that are only God's business.
Thinking to themselves, well, what's going to happen if I preach this verse, or what's
going to happen if I preach on this subject, or if I preach this truth, instead of just
trusting the Lord and saying, you know what, God told me to preach everything, I'm just
going to preach everything, and I'm just going to let God worry about that.
I'm just going to let God worry about the outcome.
Thinking way too hard about, well, you know, how am I going to build this church, or how
am I going to succeed as a pastor?
The Bible just says that Jesus said, upon this rock I will build my church, and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
You know, it was a good day when I realized that it's not my job to build the church,
because that's kind of an overwhelming thought, or an overwhelming responsibility of building
a church as a human being.
But when you realize that God is the one who builds the church, and then you just realize
all I have to do is obey the Lord, keep his commandments, win people to Christ, and just
let him do the work that he's going to do, I'll do the work that he told me to do.
You know, if we go out and win souls to Christ, if we go out and preach the gospel, we're
going to prosper, we're going to succeed, we're going to have success.
If you get up behind the pulpit three times a week and preach the Bible, people's lives
are going to be changed.
If you preach the whole Bible, and if you preach it with boldness and power of the Holy
Ghost, you know, people are going to respond.
The church is going to grow.
People are going to get saved.
You're going to do something big.
But yet today, pastors are thinking way too much about how they're going to do it, or
what they're going to preach, and they're really leaning heavily on their own ideas,
and their own understanding, or they're leaning on someone else's understanding, maybe a Bible
college or a mentor that taught them, do this, don't do that, instead of just approaching
it with an attitude that says, the only person that I'm here to please is God.
Now go if you went to Galatians chapter number one in your Bible, Galatians chapter one,
this is a key verse on this subject.
See, we shouldn't compromise what we believe.
We shouldn't trim the message of our preaching in order to grow a bigger church, or in order
to succeed, we can kind of hold back on some truth.
No, no, no, we should just preach everything.
And if people don't like it, well, that's the way life is.
And God will send a group of people, like he did with King Saul, where there was a band
of men whose hearts God had touched, that will join and be a part of that church and
want to hear the hard preaching, and want to stick around for the real thing.
And when you go out and you preach the gospel, people are going to be saved.
It's a fact.
The Bible says, he that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come
again with rejoicing, bringing his sieves with him.
What am I saying?
I'm saying it's impossible to fail.
I mean, if you go out preaching the gospel, you're a success.
If you get up behind the pulpit and you preach the whole counsel of God, you're going to
succeed.
The only way to fail is to quit or to compromise.
And that's up to you.
So as long as you decide, I'm not going to quit, I'm not going to compromise, you can't
fail.
I mean, if God's for us, who can be against us?
He always gives us the victory.
We're more than conquerors through Christ.
We just got to be careful not to let our own understanding creep in, our own wisdom, the
world's wisdom creeping in and giving us all the modernized methods and all the modernized
ideology and getting away from just a simple preaching of the Bible.
Preaching everything that the Bible says.
Look at Galatians chapter 1 verse 10, this is one of my favorite verses.
For do I now persuade men or God?
Or do I seek to please men?
If I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
So I love that word persuade, he says, who am I trying to persuade?
What's another word for persuade?
Convince, right?
So he's saying like, who am I trying to convince?
Am I trying to convince God or am I trying to convince man?
You know, convince God of what?
You know, I'm trying to convince God that I am preaching the truth, that I'm doing what's
right.
I want God to be pleased with me.
So I'm trying to convince him that I'm his servant.
I'm trying to convince him that I'm worth investing in.
I'm trying to convince him that I love him, that I care about what he thinks, that I'm
his servant, that I'm willing to do what he wants me to do and go where I want to be.
I'm trying to convince God when I preach a sermon.
I'm not trying to convince man because man is not my primary person that I'm accountable
to.
You know, I'm primarily accountable to God.
And here's the biggest thing that we need to understand is that God holds our fate in
his hands.
God holds our destiny in his hands.
So whether or not soul winning Baptist church in Nashville, Tennessee is a great success,
God has the power to make it really successful, mildly successful.
God has the power to make it grow as big as he wants it to grow or keep it small.
And so the person that we need to worry about persuading is God.
Let's get God on our side.
Make sure God is pleased with us.
Make sure the power of Christ is resting upon us.
And then God is going to build his church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it.
The only thing that matters is whether God is pleased with faithful word Baptist church.
The only thing that matters is whether God is pleased with soul winning Baptist church.
And if God's pleased with you, if God's for you, no one could be against you.
So we need to worry a lot more what God thinks and less about what the people around us think.
You know, when it comes to you at your job, you ought to worry more about what God thinks
about your job performance than what the people around you think about your job performance.
Because the Bible says that we should do our work as unto the Lord and not unto men.
And it says that we should not do it with eye service as men pleasers, but as the servants
of Christ doing the will of God from the heart with good will doing service as to the Lord
and not to men.
And just worry about what God thinks.
We don't always have to show everybody, Hey, look, everybody, what a good job I'm doing.
Hey, boss, did you notice the extra overtime I did?
Look, God sees that extra work that you put in.
God sees the extra effort.
God's going to bless you.
The Bible says that promotion comes from the north.
And if you're going to get promoted at your job, God's the one who has the power to get
you promoted or to hold you back.
God's the one that can keep you healthy or make you sick.
God's the one that can bless you financially or take all of your money away in an instant.
I mean, he took all of Job's money away in an instant because it fit his purposes.
That's why he allowed that to happen.
God can lift you up.
God can put you down.
God will make you succeed.
God can destroy you at any moment financially, physically, socially.
It's all up to God.
He holds your very breath in his hand.
He decides that you take the next breath.
He decides if you win or lose.
He decides if you succeed or fail.
So it's all about pleasing God.
Whether we're a man, a woman, a boy, or a girl, our life is about pleasing God.
He created all things for his pleasure.
And we are here to please him.
This church exists to honor and glorify him.
And he said, Herein is my Father glorified if we bring forth much fruit.
So why do we go out and want to win a lot of people to Christ and bring forth fruit?
Because the Bible says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth souls
is wise.
Well, I'll tell you why.
Because it pleases God when we bring forth much fruit.
And it's all about pleasing God.
It's all about doing right by God.
It's all about God looking down on us and being pleased with us.
God looking down on us and being happy with us.
God looking down on us and approving of us.
And if we find favor in the eyes of the Lord, if the Lord is with us, then the Bible says
that whatsoever we do is going to prosper.
So it's all about pleasing him.
Not worrying about all of our human wisdom and human logic of how to do it.
Now Brother Miller is going to Tennessee.
And Tennessee is a place that's known as the Bible Belt.
You know, it's in the south.
I'm not sure why he's going to the south.
No, I'm just kidding.
Anyway, he's from Virginia.
But he's from the part of Virginia that's not really the south, right?
He's like barely from the south, right?
He's just a few miles south of the Potomac River, right?
But anyway, he's going to the south.
He's going to a place where there are already a lot of Baptist churches that are already
there.
It's not like he's planning the first Baptist church in Nashville.
But you say, why go to Nashville?
Why start a church in Nashville when there's already so many Baptists?
Well, I'll tell you why.
Because the Baptists in Nashville and the Baptists across America and the Baptists across
the so-called Bible Belt have apostatized.
And they've gone soft.
They're not preaching hard on sin.
They're watered down.
The soul-winning program has become a joke in most churches.
And you know, are there some good churches in Tennessee and some that are so?
Of course, there are some good churches and soul-winning.
But the vast majority of churches throughout the south of the United States have gone completely
lame, watered down, stopped.
They're not preaching hard on sin.
Now, Richard Miller is not going there just to be another Baptist church in Tennessee.
You know, he's getting there to light a soul-winning fire, to light a forest fire.
I mean, to go there and start up a great movement of soul-winning like that place has never
seen.
And listen to me.
A lot of these so-called Baptists in the Bible Belt are not even saved, a lot of them.
They just go to these big churches that are just like a social club of the first Baptist
church of this, first Baptist church of that.
But they don't really know the gospel.
They don't really.
I mean, look, 51% of the people in a lot of these southern states are Baptist, more than
half of them.
But when you actually talk to them, you'll find out that many of them are not trusting
Christ as their savior.
They believe in a work salvation or they don't even really believe in it at all.
They just go to church and go through the motions.
I've been soul-winning in the south.
I've been soul-winning in Georgia.
I've been soul-winning in South Carolina.
I've been soul-winning in other parts of the south.
And I'm here to tell you, there are a lot of people that aren't saved.
You'll run into people all day long that aren't saved in those places.
They need to be saved and we need a church in that area that's going to be a serious
soul-winning church.
Look, we went soul-winning in Atlanta, Georgia and had 171 people saved in one day with 125
soul-winners even in the south.
And so the south needs some fired-up, fire-breathing churches.
They need some soul-winning churches.
But I'm glad the name of the church is Soul-Winning Baptist Church.
You better not become Soul-Winning Church.
He's going to draw a Baptist from the name.
You better not.
But anyway, the reason that it's called Soul-Winning Baptist Church is because that's something
that's important to Brother Mill.
It's important to all of us.
He loves soul-winning at this church.
But that's not the only thing that his church needs to stand for.
If it's really going to be a lighthouse in Tennessee, if it's really going to shine the
light of God's Word in all areas, he needs to also be willing to preach hard on sin.
That's what's going to set him apart from a lot of these watered-down Bible Belt churches
preaching hard on sin.
The Bible says, preach the Word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
You know what rebuke means?
It means to strongly tell someone that they're wrong.
You know what reprove means?
It means to tell someone that they're wrong.
You know what exhort means?
It means to tell somebody that they need to start doing something that they're not already
doing.
The Bible says, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
It's not about just getting up and telling people what they want to hear, telling people
what they already believe, patting everybody on the back and having a big pep rally.
No, it's about stepping on some toes when you preach.
And you know what?
If you preach the truth, you're going to step on toes.
You're going to make people mad.
People are going to quit the church.
People left Jesus while he was preaching.
People walked out on him.
They said, this is a hard thing.
This is a hard sermon.
And they went back and didn't follow him anymore.
Why?
Because when you preach the truth, you're going to offend people.
But it's our job to preach the whole truth of the Bible, totally uncensored, totally
unfiltered, thus sayeth the word of God.
And listen to me.
People in the south, many of them, and I'm not going to paint them all with a broad brush,
but a lot of people in the south, they have a totally fake Christianity.
They're a bunch of fake phony hypocrites, a lot of them, that basically pretend to be
Christian and pretend to be Baptist, but they live a wicked life.
And they ought to be rebuked for their sins.
And it's a lot of just rah rah, apple pie, God bless America, and just going through
the motions down there.
Somebody needs to go down there and light a fire on these people and preach hard, get
them out doing some real soul winning, and give them a swift kick in the pants on their
sins.
Talking about sins like drunkenness, fornication, adultery, gambling, all the wickedness, all
the sin that people are involved in.
Somebody needs to get up and preach hard and rebuke it and call people to live a righteous
and clean and godly life.
And not to just go through the motions of Christianity as some kind of a cultural thing,
which is hypocrisy, but rather to dedicate themselves seriously to the Lord.
I get this newspaper all the time at my house, they send this to me, the sword of the Lord.
The sword of the Lord is from, I looked at a map, these are your neighbors, because this
is like 30 miles from Nashville, it turns out, where the sword of the Lord is published.
I got this, and this just burned me up because I got this in the mail, and I usually never
even read this thing, but I was sitting and reading it yesterday, and it got me so fired
up just about kind of what's wrong with our mainstream independent Baptists in this country.
The mainstream independent fundamental Baptist movement is dropping the ball, otherwise we
wouldn't even need to start new churches like this.
We have to start our own new churches because what we're basically trying to do is we're
trying to stay by the old paths, and the independent Baptist churches in this country are modernizing,
they're going soft, and they're changing with the times.
When the world changes, they change.
And we don't want to change, we want to stay with the old paths, the old time religion,
old fashioned hellfire and damnation preaching, and standing up for what's right.
And the typical independent Baptist church today is not going the same direction that
we're going at Faithful Word Baptist Church.
We don't fit in with that movement anymore, unfortunately.
Now in the 1990s, I fit in with that movement just fine, but nowadays not so much.
But anyway, I read this article, and to me this article just summed up so much of what's
wrong with our typical independent Baptist churches, why we need guys like Brother Miller
to come in and light things up with some fire-breathing preaching, because they've lost their minds.
But anyway, I looked at the front page of this paper, and it says real big right on
the front, let's everybody vote on November 8th.
They got the American flag and the eagle here.
And I read this article, and look, I've got pages of Bibles supporting my position.
And here's the thing, you remember what I said about stepping on toes?
I'm going to step on some toes right now.
And you know what?
I've got pages and pages of Bible that say that I'm right, and you're wrong.
There's virtually no Bible in this article that I'm going to read to you, and the verses
that are used are so far taken out of context, it's going to blow your mind.
But down at the very end of this article, you'll see what's wrong with America and what's
wrong with our Baptist church.
This newspaper pretty much represents your mainline independent Baptist.
Thousands of churches take this newspaper and would kind of fall in line with this crowd
of Shelton Smith and the sword of the Lord.
So listen to this article by the editor.
This is by the head of the sword of the Lord, Shelton Smith.
Why I will vote on November 8th by Dr. Shelton Smith.
Doctor?
Get off the stethoscope.
With the 2016 national election fast approaching on November 8th, I continue to hear folks
saying that they're not going to vote.
What they don't seem to understand is that if you refuse to vote, that is your vote.
No, Shelton, you're the one who doesn't seem to understand that.
Because you just said people are refusing to vote, but then you turned around and said
that by not voting, that is their vote.
Okay, well then I'm voting.
By refusing to vote, that is my vote.
So I guess I can just stay home and just put on a sticker that says I voted today.
And let me just make it real clear where I stand.
I'm not voting in this election.
I didn't vote in the last election.
I'm probably never going to vote again in my life.
So this isn't me being political or politicizing.
Let me just make it real clear.
I couldn't care less about this election.
It's meaningless to me.
It means absolutely nothing to me.
I don't even care.
It means less than nothing to me.
I mean I'm thinking about all the things that are important to me over the next few weeks,
over the next few months, all the things that matter to me, all the things that I want
to happen and don't want to happen, and this doesn't even come into my mind.
So this is not a political sermon.
I couldn't care less about politics.
They're meaningless to me.
What they don't seem to understand is that if you refuse to vote, that is your vote.
Yeah, I know.
When any of us is a no-show at the ballot box, the worst candidate is the one that you've
helped.
In a very real way, your vote counts whether or not you go to the polls.
Well, it sounds like I'm fine then.
The question you must answer is do you want your vote to help create the worst possible
outcome?
If you think all the candidates are the same, you're greatly mistaken.
Just look at the party platforms.
They're as different as daylight and dark, good and evil.
Those platforms are not perfect, but they give you a pretty good idea of what you're
going to get if you vote for their candidates.
Yeah, in what universe does the platform give you an idea of what you're going to get if
they actually get elected?
When has that ever happened?
And look, you say, well, I'm mad because I'm a Republican or I'm mad because I'm a Democrat.
Just forget about all that for a second.
When has anybody ever done what they said they were going to do when they get elected?
From either party.
Yeah, but if you read the platform, you're going to get a pretty good idea of what you're
going to get, right?
I've been to the polls on previous occasions through the years when I wasn't particularly
excited about my choices, but I went out and I voted and on November 8th, I'll cast my
vote again and I'll do so without hesitation.
Here's why.
And he's got a list of reasons why he's going to vote.
Number one, so much is at stake.
Our country's in a super colossal mess.
We are teetering on the brink socially, economically, and morally.
The last few years have brought us to the edge of the cliff where one wrong step could
be totally disastrous.
With so much at stake, I'm going to vote.
Well, here's the thing about that.
In this article, it's crystal clear who he's telling you to vote for.
If you read the whole, you'll see as I read this thing, it's crystal clear who he's telling
you to vote for.
It's not Hillary.
He wants, he's telling you to vote for Donald Trump.
This article is about why you should go vote for Donald Trump.
Anybody can read that.
It's very clear.
So I mean, with so much at stake morally, how could you not vote for Donald Trump?
Right?
I mean, come on.
With so much at stake in our country morally, how could you not vote for a beacon of morality
like Donald Trump?
I mean, because we'd hate for that other, you know, filthy perverted woman to get in
there.
Look, and here's the thing.
They're all wicked.
Trump, Hillary, oh, Gary, Gary Johnson's a fake libertarian.
He's wicked.
They're all wicked.
I'm not voting for any of them.
They're all terrible.
They're all horrible.
And you know what's funny?
If you were to ask somebody from these churches, if you were to ask this guy, if you would
ask the pastors who are with him and who are saying the same thing right now, if you were
to ask them three years ago, hey, what do you think about Donald Trump before he was
running for office?
You know what they'd say?
Oh, man, he's a dirtbag.
He's a scumbag.
He's sleazy.
He owns a strip club.
He owns casinos.
He makes all his money off gambling and ruining people's lives with, listen, casinos ruin
people's lives.
And if you don't know that, that's not my fault, but they ruin people's lives.
Anybody who's been involved in a casino knows that.
They used to be run by only criminals and gangsters and mafia, the Jewish mafia, Italian
mafia, right?
That's who ran it, a bunch of murderers and wicked, filthy people.
It's one of the most wicked, godless industries that there is, casinos.
All this financial wheeling and dealing, all this juicery, I mean usury, sorry, and all
this stuff.
Look, it's wicked.
Anybody would have said this guy's sleazy, this guy's wicked, but now all of a sudden
it's like with so much at stake morally, how could we stay home?
We've got to support Trump, right?
I mean with so much at stake socially, economically and morally, I mean we're going to go off
the cliff.
No, we already went off the cliff morally, number one.
But number two is socially, what's he going to do for us socially?
What does that even mean?
I mean whatever Trump's doing socially, I'm not into it.
You know, I mean what kind of social skills are we talking about here?
I mean don't you come at me, listen to me you little Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Rush
Limbaugh head, coming at me you little ditto head, you know telling me, look why don't
you shut off that stupid talk radio and why don't you read the book of Psalms and read
the book of Proverbs and you might actually learn that everyone, everyone, everyone that
is proud is an abomination to the Lord and Donald Trump is the most prideful, arrogant
person on the planet.
Even his supporters would admit that.
And everyone that's proud is an abomination to the Lord.
Except Donald Trump.
He's going to fix us morally and socially.
But they come at you with, ah you're just mad about what he said 11 years ago or whatever.
He says that kind of stuff every year, every month.
There are thousands of quotes like that from the guy.
I mean look, I can't even talk about it from the pulpit because it's so filthy.
I mean just look, do a little research and the guy just filth pours out of his mouth
just every year.
I mean the guy just openly committing adultery, openly bragging about adultery, bragging about
fornication, bragging about perverted things that he's been involved in.
I can't even mention it.
It's a shame to even speak of those things which are done to them in secret.
But this guy sends this to my house and you think he's the only one independent fundamental
Baptist pastors all over America are promoting this guy to me and promoting this guy to their
congregations.
Hey, we need to support this wicked strip club owning, casino owning freak, this scumbag,
this dirt bag because otherwise the world's going to come to an end or something if we
don't.
But you know what?
They said the same thing in 2008, they said the same thing in 2012 and you know what?
The world didn't come to an end and we're still here and you know he said, oh the worst
possible outcome.
If you read his article, it's clear he's promoting a certain candidate, Trump, and he's attacking
another candidate, Hillary.
I'll attack them all.
They're all scum.
They're all disgusting.
I'm not going to vote for any of them.
I'm not going to vote period.
Voting only encourages them.
But he sits there and they said the same thing in 2008.
They said the same thing in 2008.
Isn't that the definition of insanity when you keep doing the same thing and expect a
different result?
They always bring out some candidate that we all hate, that we're all disgusted with
and to vote for him anyway.
I got to hurry.
I want to crank through this article real quick.
I'm making too much comment.
That was only point one.
Point two in his article, I love my country when I see the red, white, and blue waving
in the wind.
I want to sing, oh say can you see and pledge my allegiance to one nation under God.
I know something about our history and our heritage.
I'm aware of the blood, sweat, and tears of patriots handed me the freedom I've inherited.
No, God gave me the freedom I inherited.
I thought it comes from the creator, but what do I know?
Whether I'm on the mountains or the great plains or at the ocean, this beautiful land
is my country.
I'm an American.
I'm a citizen and I'm a patriot.
Hey, newsflash, every country is beautiful, the part that God made.
Mexico is beautiful.
Germany is beautiful.
Botswana is beautiful.
I mean, every country is beautiful if it's the part that God made.
It's the sin that's disgusting.
Yeah, nature is beautiful.
Yep.
Let's go vote because nature.
Why should we ... Like politicians are what gave us mountains and oceans and streams in
America.
Vote.
I'm voting because nature.
Number three.
This is the one that just got me burned up.
I'm voting, number three, because I'm a Christian.
Listen to this.
My Christian convictions and my moral scruples will not permit me to sit it out as an ambassador
for Christ, 2 Corinthians 5-20.
I have an obligation to be found faithful, 1 Corinthians 4-2.
My Bible says that I'm to adorn the doctrine of God our savior in all things.
Well, that's real relevant to voting.
Now, listen to me, O thou who's offended by my sermon.
Why don't you come up here?
There's what?
250-some people here tonight?
Why don't you come up here and show me the verse that tells me I'm supposed to vote since
you don't like what I'm preaching right now?
Why don't you come show me where I'm supposed to vote for anybody, where the Bible commands
me to vote for anybody, where it's my Christian duty and obligation to vote for anybody?
Come show me right now.
I dare anyone to come show me.
Come on up.
Well, yeah, but we're an ambassador for Christ.
Oh, well, okay, yeah, case closed.
What does being an ambassador for Christ have to do with voting?
What does adorning the doctrine of God our savior in all things have to do with voting
for Trump?
Can somebody explain that?
What does being found faithful mean to go vote?
What?
I simply cannot remain silent in the midst of the crisis.
My Christian witness must be expressed every day in whatever way that day affords.
Because I'm a Christian, I'm going to vote on November 8th.
You're a bad testimony if we don't go vote, apparently, according to this guy.
Number four, the Supreme Court will be reshaped by the incoming president.
With the death of Justice Scalia, there's already one vacancy.
During the next four years, several aging justices will most likely be replaced.
When you vote for president, you're voting for the philosophic makeup of the Supreme
Court and much of the federal judiciary.
As we've seen on the marriage issue, what the liberals could never have wanted an up
or down vote at the ballot box.
They won easily when so many liberal judges do their bidding.
What about all the liberals that the Republicans put on the Supreme Court?
What about Sandra Day O'Connor?
What about John Roberts?
What about all the other bunch of liberal phonies that were put there by Republicans?
Number five, the liberal revolution is destroying us.
I'm not a liberal.
I'm against liberals.
So I wonder which candidate he's telling us to vote for, right?
I'm not a liberal.
I'm against liberals.
Whoever they are and whatever they are calling themselves, they're the enemies of America
and they're my enemies.
Abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, assisted suicide, big government, deficit spending,
sodomite marriage, men and women's restrooms, all of this is the handiwork of the liberal
crowd.
Oh, really?
Because when George Bush had a Republican House and a Republican Senate, they did nothing
to stop abortion when he controlled the whole thing.
That's funny.
Big government, that's funny because Ronald Reagan tripled the size of our government.
Sorry to mess with your idol there.
He tripled the size of the government.
He deficit spent.
Okay.
What about George Bush who?
Deficit spending, huge government, big government, big deficit spending, sodomite marriage.
Yeah, funny because the Republican candidate Donald Trump said that he's better for the
LGBT than Hillary is.
He said, I'm more pro-LGBT than Hillary.
I'll do more for them.
Look folks, this is just a crock when they tell you that, oh, the Republicans are going
to save us and fix everything.
You know what?
Honestly, and I preached about this when I was up in Vancouver, Washington, but listen,
your independent fundamental Baptist today, they shouldn't even be called Baptist.
They should be called independent fundamental Republicans because anything that they preach
that's hard preaching, they only preach hard about stuff that the Republican party platform
agrees with them on.
See, these guys are all big and, you listen up to me right now, don't you zone out on
me.
Listen, these guys, they preach all big and tough when they have a hundred million Republicans
behind them, then they'll preach hard.
When they have a hundred million Republicans behind them cheering them on, that's why in
this whole newspaper, there are probably 10 articles on transgender bathrooms and sodomite
marriage, but they'll never preach what the Bible says about homosexuality, never.
They'll never preach it.
That's why when they list all the evils, they list sodomite marriage and men and women's
restrooms.
Now, where does the Bible mention a man and a woman's restroom?
Can somebody help me out with that?
Oh, it's not there.
Where does the Bible mention sodomite marriage?
Nowhere.
So instead of listing as the big evils sodomite marriage, how about just legal sodomy?
How about just being a homo in general?
See the Bible says that homos are disgusting and filthy and wicked.
That's what the Bible says, but they don't teach that.
And the Bible used the word filthy.
The Bible used the word vile.
The Bible says that they're an abomination.
The Bible says they shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them.
The Bible says that they're reprobate.
The Bible says God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
These guys will never preach that, but they talk on and on about bathrooms and they talk
on and on about sodomite marriage.
Why?
Because that's what the Republican Party's talking about.
That's what Sean Hannity's talking about.
That's what Glenn Beck's talking about.
That's all they take a stand for.
And so to them, it's just, I mean, when they look at that Republican Party platform, it's
like light versus darkness, good versus evil.
No it isn't.
It's Coke versus Pepsi.
That's what it really is.
It's the same drink.
Caramel color, high fructose corn syrup, and brown whatever coloring, you know.
But the Bible says here, or not the Bible, I'm going to get to the Bible in a moment.
Let me finish this article here.
The liberals are destroying us.
You know what?
The conservatives are destroying us too.
Why?
Because none of them are taking it to the Bible.
None of them are moral.
I mean, when both of them are committing adultery, when both of them are wicked, when both of
them won't take a stand for Christian values, then, you know, who cares at that point?
They're all wicked.
And you know what?
In the 1990s, when Bill Clinton was committing adultery in the White House on the job, everybody
was horrified by that.
You remember that?
Is that too long ago?
You remember back in the 1990s, 20 some years ago, when people were horrified, and they
said he's dragging the office of president and it's a disgrace.
But when a Republican does it, it's fine.
Right?
If Trump is committing adultery repeatedly with these young women, that's fine.
If he's abusing his power as a business owner with younger women, that's fine.
If he owns a strip club and a casino, that's all fine.
Well, you know what?
God's not a respecter of persons.
And if it was wicked for Bill Clinton, it's wicked for Donald Trump, because adultery
is his wicked period, and no adulterer should have the support of God's house and churches.
And then these people whine about, oh, the 501c3 doesn't let us endorse candidates.
Because they're all chomping at the bit to endorse Donald Trump.
So they have to do it in like code language.
This code language here.
Why would you want to endorse this adulterous scumbag?
He's wicked.
Unrepentant, filthy, wicked person.
I want nothing to do with it.
And this all ties in with the sermon.
Just hang in there.
I'll get there.
Number six, one vote can be the decider.
That's a lie.
No election in this country has ever been decided by one vote.
That's a lie.
I'm not even going to dignify that with any comments.
It's stupid and untrue.
There's 300 and some million people in our country and it's not decided by one vote and
never has been.
He's a liar.
The closest ever was decided by like a couple hundred votes in the Florida, you know, the
hanging chad and all that.
Oh, but thank God we ended up with Bush.
Dodged a bullet on that one.
I mean, imagine the other guy might have tripled the size of government.
Oh yeah, that's what he did.
Abortion might have continued.
Oh yeah, it did.
It might've filled the White House with sodomite employees.
Oh yeah, Bush did.
He might've walked around holding hands with the president of Saudi Arabia.
Oh yeah, that happened.
Anyway, and then number seven, he says, I refuse to give up.
I'm not a quitter.
The day may be dark, but I'm an emissary of him who is the light of the world.
I will not forfeit the birthright of my citizenship by refusing to vote.
I will not forgo the privilege to vote simply because the candidates do not suit me perfectly.
So count me in.
I will be there.
I will figure out who the worst candidate is and I will vote against him or her hint.
It's her.
But believe you me, I will be there ready to do business on November 8th.
I'm well aware that the great need of our country is revival.
I know that we need a generation of leather-lung, spirit-filled, Bible-believing preachers to
barnstorm across this country making converts.
I know that we need thousands of fundamental, doctrinally sound, soul-winning, separated
churches who will have a compelling presence in their town.
I know that we need to see a fire-from-heaven revival break out across the land.
I know these things and I pray and work diligently for them.
This is the most telling paragraph.
But let there be no mistake, if the liberals get their way and if our freedom is stripped
from us, none, and I do mean none, of these things will be happening.
If our freedom is gone, we will be driven into hiding and the work of God will be shut
down across the nation.
You know what?
Speak for yourself, Shelton Smith, because you know what?
I'm not going into hiding, buddy.
I'll never go into hiding.
You're already hiding.
They're worried about Hillary and her hate speech legislation.
They never preach any hate anyway.
What are they worried about?
They call me hate preacher.
They don't preach any hate.
They only preach that which is Republican, that which is politically correct for the
conservatives.
That's all they preach.
I mean, look, the persecution hasn't even come yet.
He's already talking about hiding.
I mean, listen, listen to this.
If the liberals get their way and if our freedom is stripped from us, none, and I do mean none
of those things will be happening.
What are the things that he mentioned?
Preachers preaching and soul winning going on.
All the soul winning and all the preaching is going to stop, he said, if the liberals
get their way because we're going to be driven into hiding and the work of God's is going
to be shut down.
No, it's not.
They're never going to shut me down.
Now look, I do believe it's biblical if the persecution gets too great to where you just
can't, uh, you know, operate to go to another city.
The Bible says if they persecute you in this city, flee into another.
If they persecute you in one country, I think it'd be biblical to go to a different country,
but the Bible never tells a man of God to go into hiding.
He said, preach from the housetops.
I mean, is that what Peter, James and John did?
Did they go into hiding?
They went and stuck their finger in the face of those government officials and said, we
ought to obey God rather than men.
And then they're whipped and beaten and then they go preach it again the next day.
Then they're thrown in jail.
The angel lets them out of jail and then they go preach it again.
They get thrown in jail again.
They preach it again, thrown in jail again.
Preach it again.
Go to jail.
Go to another city.
Preach there.
Get done.
Look, has anybody ever counted how many times they go to jail and acts?
It's like every chapter, it's a jailbreak story.
They're breaking out of jail.
The angel's getting them out of jail.
They're getting thrown in jail almost every chapter.
These guys are never going to get thrown in jail because whenever something becomes illegal,
they just hide it.
Hide it under a bushel.
No, I'm going to let it shine.
I remember they taught me this thing when I was a kid.
They said, oh, you know, the early Christians, they use that fish symbol, Dagon, the fish
God.
Oh, this is what they do.
They'd walk up to each other.
You heard.
Yeah, I know Garrett's heard this because he went to seminary.
They'd walk up and one of them would kind of go make half the symbol, kind of like test
in the waters.
And if the other person was a Christian, they'd come up and go, we found each other.
Hey, you listen to me and you listen good.
Until I die, I'm going to walk up to people and I'm not going to draw a fish on the ground
or a half a fish and let them draw the other half to make sure they're already a Christian.
Until I die, until my last beating breath, I will walk up to people and say, do you know
for sure if you died, you'd go to heaven.
I'm going to walk up to strangers for the rest of my life.
I'm going to either knock doors or walk up and down the highways and hedges and I'm going
to confront strangers and say, do you know for sure if you died today that you'd go to
heaven?
And if I can't do it here, I'll go somewhere else and do it.
And if I can't do it anywhere, then I'll just keep doing it until I get thrown in prison
and they can kill me and beat me and do whatever they want.
But I will never stop soul winning and I will never stop preaching the word of God and I
will never go into hiding for more than just a couple of days just to get from one country
or town to another.
I'm not going to go hide, so why don't we go hide?
And then people are storing up a bunch of food to go hide out in the woods during the
tribulation.
You're not going to hide during the tribulation.
Why?
Why would you go hide?
If you know that you're almost to the second coming of Christ, if he's coming in a few
weeks anyway, if he's coming in a month or two anyway, then I'm just going to go hide
so I can be alive when he gets here.
Why don't we go get some more rewards before he gets here?
Why don't we win one more person to Christ before he gets here?
If we're going to die or be raptured anyway, what's the difference?
For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Go out with the bang.
No, we're all going to be sent into hiding.
Only Trump can save us now.
Obi Wan can Trump, you're our only hope.
Save us.
Save us from the Hillary death star.
Look, it's going to blow up our whole planet.
It's all going to explode.
You know what?
Listen to me.
This is stupid.
Like, oh, it's all hanging in the balance.
No, no, this, this election has nothing to do with our nation morally.
Look, let me just make this real clear.
The problem with our country is not in the White House.
It's in the church house.
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek
my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their
sin and will heal their land.
Look, if our problem is morally, if our country is morally wicked, if abortion, sodomy, murder,
drunkenness abound, no matter who's in the White House, God can't bless us.
He can't bless.
And if we get right with God, we'll get the leaders that reflect that.
God will bless us with good leaders because a bad leader is a curse.
A good leader is a blessing.
When you look at these two worthless pieces of dung that are the major candidates, and
then if you look at the worthless pieces of dung that are the third party candidates,
then just look at that and say, this is what God believes that we deserve in our country
as our leader.
This is who should be leading us.
So I'm not on all pins and needles about who wins, and you know what?
Maybe it's better if Hillary just wins.
Maybe that's better.
Maybe it was better that Obama won.
Why?
Because it's better the devil we know than the devil we don't know.
Look, he says we're on the brink of going off the cliff economically in this country.
Well, I hope we do go off the cliff.
In fact, I think I'm going to pray that the finances in this country tank and that we
go into a recession.
Let's start praying for a recession.
Let's pray for a drought.
Let's pray for a famine.
Then maybe we can be like Elijah who prayed that it wouldn't rain for three years and
six months.
Amen.
Why?
Because it brought a nation to their knees and turned them back to God, and then they
got saved and went to heaven when they died.
But when people are prosperous and when everything's going good, then they eat, drink, and they're
married, and they go into wickedness, and they get prideful.
Hey, maybe our country needs to be brought to its knees.
Maybe our country needs to be humbled.
Maybe bad things need to happen.
Maybe our country just needs to be pushed off the cliff economically so that people,
maybe if they're poor, maybe they'll be poor in spirit, and maybe they'll actually listen
to the word of God.
I mean, look, my grandpa was a wealthy man.
He was a prosperous man, but he was unsaved.
And my grandma prayed that God would do whatever it took to get him saved.
And she said, God, if it means losing everything, if it means losing all his money, get him
saved.
And you know what?
He lost all his money.
He was never wealthy again, but he got saved, and he became a soul winner.
Oh, but we need Trump to fix the economy.
No, let the economy go down the toilet.
Let people in this country miss some meals.
Let's all be poor in this country.
Let's all suffer.
We deserve to suffer when we're a wicked country, when we're morally repugnant in the sight
of God.
And maybe then, you know what I've noticed, hey, Brother Garrett likes to go soul winning
a lot.
What's more receptive area, a poor neighborhood or a rich neighborhood?
You like going in soul winning in the poor neighborhoods?
Hey, what if God just turns this whole city into a poor neighborhood?
That'd be some cool soul winning, huh?
Maybe God can just turn the whole United States into Botswana's level of prosperity.
Then we could save the plane ticket to Botswana and have receptive soul winning right here.
But you know what?
These people are just so brainwashed.
And you know what?
The guy that they're looking toward as their savior, he's obsessed with one thing, money,
the love of money.
And you know what?
The love of money is the root of all evil.
And you know what?
Hey, look, I don't want to be dirt poor.
I don't want to suffer.
But you know what?
If God needs me to be poor and if God needs me to be suffering and if God needs me to
skip a meal, then you know what?
That's up to him.
I'll leave that up to him.
And you know what?
If God wants our country to become poor so we can win more souls, then so be it.
Amen.
And you know if Hillary is going to come in and destroy our country, well, maybe it just
needs to be destroyed by her.
Let her ruin it.
That's what we deserve.
Sorry, am I making too much sense tonight?
But you're listening to a bunch of Mormon talk radio hosts.
You're listening to a bunch of Jews on the radio.
You're listening to a bunch of Catholics on the radio.
You need to listen to the Word of God.
The Word of God says that it's not about money and it's not about prosperity.
It's about blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
We'd be better off poor.
It's better to have a dinner of herbs and love and the love of Christ in our hearts
than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Then a bunch of sin and wickedness.
Look, it's better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a brawling and rebellious
woman.
Why?
Because there's more things to life than just being in a wide house.
If you're in a wide house and your wife's a pain in the neck, you'd be happier in a
tiny apartment with a wife that loves you.
That's what the Bible says.
There's more to life than just money and prosperity.
You could be happy with less.
I can be happy with less.
You know what?
If God could bless us and have prosperity and we could be righteous, so much the better.
But you know what?
If this country has to be brought to its knees financially, amen.
Let's see what the Bible says about Donald Trump.
Go to Psalms chapter 40.
Go to Psalm 40.
Look, Psalms and Proverbs are the two key books if you're confused on this subject.
Psalms and Proverbs will drive this in literally hundreds of times if you study them.
Let me just say again, this is not a political sermon.
It's sad that I have to say this because whenever I've said anything negative about Trump in
my personal life, people are like, so you support Hillary?
How could I support someone as wicked and godless and abominable as Hillary?
How could I support that effeminate geek, Gary Johnson, who's a total fake ... He's
not even a real libertarian.
How does he even call himself libertarian?
I don't support any of them.
I don't care about the election.
This sermon is not ... I'm not trying to get you to go vote for this person or vote for
that person.
I'm trying to get you to understand that our country is in such bad shape and our churches
are in such bad shape that this is what's on the cover of the sword of the Lord, is
to tell us to vote for this pornographer, this strip club owner, this filthy adulterer
who brags about it.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what they want.
Then you go to the noteworthy news and they have 20-some news items.
It's all just Republican talking points.
It's all it is.
What about the noteworthy news?
This person wasn't forced to pledge allegiance in a school.
Isn't that terrible that they weren't forced to pledge allegiance to the flag?
This person got picked on in their school for giving the gospel.
Funny, they didn't think it was news when we went to Botswana, had 600 and some people
saved so far and counting because there's still people that we've won to Christ over
there are still there.
Look, I just got an email today from somebody in South Africa that said, hey, since the
soul winning marathon, my family and I have won a total of 18 people to the Lord in South
Africa, in Pretoria.
But going to South Africa, going to Botswana and getting hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of people saved, lighting a soul winning fire over there and getting thrown out by the government,
independent Baptist missionaries are thrown out by the government.
That's not news to these people.
Even though it was on the BBC, CNN, Huffington Post, every media outlet in Africa, it's not
news to them.
No, no, the news to the sword of the Lord is that some little girl pledged allegiance
in some classroom somewhere or didn't to the flag.
Got our priorities all wrong people.
You get off the political bandwagon, get on the Lord's bandwagon.
Everyone that's proud is an abomination to the Lord, though hand joint in hand, he should
not be unpunished.
Psalm 40 verse four, blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust.
Remember Proverbs three, trust in the Lord and respecteth not the proud nor such as turn
aside to lies.
Go to Psalm 119.
I'll read for you from Proverbs chapter eight verse 13.
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride, arrogance and the evil way and the froward
mouth do I hate.
Psalm 119 verse 21, thou has rebuked the pride that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
Go to Proverbs chapter 11, Proverbs chapter 11, while you're turning there, I'll read
for you from Psalm chapter 10, where the Bible reads for the wicked boasteth of his
heart's desire and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorth.
Should we bless the covetous?
Whom the Lord abhorth, the wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek
after God.
God is not in all his thoughts and you know, this wicked person, Trump, what's your favorite
Bible verse?
Donald Trump, all of them.
You know what that means?
None of them.
I mean, at least, at least Bill Clinton had the decency to say, Oh, I love John 16, three.
Oh, me and Hillary just love John 16, three.
You know, he meant John's three 16 folks, but John 16, three says these things will
they do unto you because they've known neither me nor the father.
That's just, you know, Hey, he said he really, he also said he really liked the book of John.
I love two Corinthians.
Hey, there's no book in the Bible called two Corinthians, buddy.
It's called second Corinthians.
All right.
Oh yeah.
I love two Corinthians.
Yeah.
All the whole Bible, whole Bible's my favorite book.
Where did I have you turn?
Proverbs 11 look at verse two.
When pride comment, then come a shame, but with the lowly is wisdom.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of transgressors shall
destroy them.
Rich is profit, not in the day of wrath, but righteousness deliver it from death.
Look at chapter 16 verse 19 while you're turning there, I'll read Isaiah chapter two for the
day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and lofty and everyone that
is lifted up and he shall be brought low.
Isaiah 13, 11, I'll punish the world for their evil and the wicked for their iniquity and
I'll cause the arrogance of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
And no one would disagree that Donald Trump is the most prideful and arrogant person on
the planet.
Even his supporters say, well, yeah, I know he's like that, but we like it.
Well, you know what?
God hates it.
Chapter 16, 19 better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil.
What's spoil?
Riches with the proud, you know, somebody should have told that to all of his ex-wives
or his current wife or however many wives he's had, not to mention all his concubines
and adulterous liaisons, but you know, it's better to be humble with the lowly than to
divide up the spoil with the proud.
He's a gold digging whore, right?
Dividing up the spoil with a guy like Donald Trump.
They didn't marry him for his looks, folks.
Proverbs chapter 21 verse 4, a high look and a proud heart and the plowing of the wicked
is sin.
Go to Psalms if you would.
Flip back to Psalms.
I just want to crank through these scriptures.
Go to Psalm 26, Psalm 26.
I'm going to tie this all together in a minute.
I have pages and pages of notes that I'm not going to get to, but it's just one of those
days, but look at Psalm 26 verse 4.
I've not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
I've hated the congregation of evildoers and will not sit with the wicked.
I will wash my hands in innocency.
So will I compass thine altar, O Lord.
Go to chapter 28, just a few pages to the right in verse 3.
Draw me not away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity which speak peace
to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
Give them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their endeavors.
Give them after the work of their hands, render to them their dessert because they regard
not the works of the Lord nor the operation of his hands.
He shall destroy them and not build them up.
Go to chapter 36 verse 1.
While you're turning there, Psalm 12 verse 8 says the wicked walk on every side when
the vilest men are exalted.
Look at Psalm 36 verse 1, the transgression of the wicked saith within my heart that there's
no fear of God before his eyes for he flattereth himself in his own eyes.
Does that sound like anybody you know?
Till his iniquity be found to be hateful.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.
He left off to be wise and to do good.
He deviseth mischief upon his bed.
He seteth himself in a way that is not good.
He abhorreth not evil.
Go to chapter 37 verse 16.
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked, for the arms
of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholdeth the righteous.
Look at verse 21.
The wicked borroweth and payeth not again, but the righteous showeth mercy and giveth.
I have pages of notes on Trump borrowing and paying not again through his bankruptcies
and all the different things that he's done there with all of his casinos and strip clubs
and wicked places that he owned and all these different investments.
But I'm out of time for all that.
Look, there's plenty of Bible that tells us what God thinks about the proud.
The haughty, the arrogant, the wicked, the ungodly, the adulterous man.
The Bible's real clear that we should have nothing to do with them, that we should have
no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but that we should rather reprove
them.
But all this newspaper article comes down to from the sword of the Lord is just a leaning
on our own understanding that says, well, here's what we have to do to save our nation.
Go to this wicked man and he's going to save it.
Even the Bible told us how to save and had nothing to do with them.
Listen to me.
You can go down and vote for whoever you want to go and vote for, but let me tell you something.
I'm not going to have anything to do with these wicked people and their wicked policies.
I want nothing to do with it.
Oh, but we have to do it to make sure that the worst possible outcome doesn't happen.
You don't even know what the worst possible outcome is.
How do you know whether it's God's will that one be elected or the other?
How do you know?
Can anybody really stand up and say it's God's will that Trump be elected or it's God's
will that Hillary be?
We don't know because we don't know which one's going to do more damage to our country,
but whichever one's going to do the most damage, that's probably the one that God's going to
give us because God's angry, he's mad and it all comes down to a philosophy that says
that we know better than God and that we're going to just compromise and get in bed with
the wicked because we just have to, okay?
It's like Jehoshaphat where he just has to team up with the king of Israel to save his
nation.
He has to team up with the Baal worshipers and the wicked people of the northern kingdom.
It's just man compromising because he knows better than God.
Let me tell you something, we need some real men of God in this nation, some Elijahs that
are going to get up and it doesn't matter whose toes they step up.
I know that where you're going, they're also full of conservative talk radio in that Tennessee
and they're all going to these churches that are pumping them up with this stuff.
You know what?
We need a real man of God who's going to go in there and not tell them what they want
to hear but what they need to hear.
Listen, that same philosophy can creep over into a church that says the ends justifies
the means, let's just team up with these people.
No, no, no, Richard, if you want to succeed, here's the formula to success.
You trust in the Lord with all your heart.
You lean not on your own understanding.
You don't be wise in your own eyes and you depart from evil.
You depart from evil.
You don't support evil.
You don't write newspaper articles and send them around the country, hey, support this
evil guy because nature, because the Bible said ambassador for Christ, because the Bible
said, well, I know it's not in the Bible but it's America.
Richard, you can't lose if God's for you and even if you get thrown in prison, Richard,
the Lord's going to be with you just like he was with Joseph in the prison, just like
he's with Daniel in captivity.
Look, we need to decide as preachers in America that we don't fear Hillary, we don't fear
Trump, we don't fear the government, we don't fear the devil, we don't fear anybody except
God.
Fear God.
And we don't care about pleasing anybody except pleasing God.
And it doesn't matter if that hairlips every dog in the county.
It doesn't matter if the Republicans don't like it and the Democrats aren't going to
like it and your fellow Baptists aren't going to like it and the sword of the Lord's not
going to like it.
You know what?
Your face is probably never going to be in the sword of the Lord if you preach right.
See all these faces?
You're never going to be one of them.
I'm never going to be one of them.
And you've got to choose this day whom you're going to serve, right?
You've got to choose are you there to please man or are you there to please God?
Are you there to live in fear and start planning the hideout when the persecution hasn't even
started?
And you're already planning, well we're going to have to go to hiding.
Speak for yourself.
Are you going into hiding Richard or are you going to stand with me shoulder to shoulder
rebuking sin until the bitter end?
Are you going to say, well, you know, gays, are you going to call them filthy sodomites
like the Bible calls them?
You know, that's what we need.
And you know what?
Thank God that Richard is that kind of guy.
And that's why we're sending him out because he loves soul winning and he also doesn't
just love soul and he also loves hard preaching.
Right Richard?
That's why he's going to do a great work in Nashville.
And so all in favor of brother Richard Miller going and starting this church in Nashville,
say Amen.
Amen.
All right.
Listen, we're going to pray now and we're going to pray for God's blessing upon Richard
Miller as he goes out to start not just another Baptist church in the Bible Belt, but to start
a leather lung, you know, the kind of church that he talks about wanting to see started.
He wasn't thinking about you, but that's what you are.
That's what we need.
So we're going to pray for God's blessing on brother Richard Miller as he goes into
the Bible Belt and shakes things up and preaches hard and knocks every door and turns that
place upside down and does a big work for God.
Let's pray God's blessing upon him right now.
Dear Lord, we thank you so much for brother Richard Miller and for the many years that
he's been at our church serving faithfully, Lord.
And we thank you for the heart that he has and the desire to go into the ministry, Lord.
And we thank you that he's willing to leave his home here, to leave the home in Virginia,
Lord, and to go to a place that you're sending him to do a great work for you, Lord.
And we pray that you would do a mighty work through this man, Lord.
I pray that you would just allow the Holy Spirit to rest on him mightily, Lord.
Help him to do greater works than Faithful Word Baptist has done in Phoenix, Lord.
Help him to, through your spirit and power, preach faithfully, Lord, and that every person
in that whole region, Lord, would hear the gospel and would also hear a call to repentance
from the wickedness that Christians have delved into, Lord.
Please, Lord, just do everything to prepare the way for brother Miller.
Bless his family, bless his wife, his children, Lord, shield them from attack.
And Lord, I just pray that you would right now work in the hearts of the people of Nashville
and the surrounding area and work in the hearts of people who are even moving into the area
to be a part of this work, Lord.
Work in their hearts, touch their hearts, Lord, and bind them to follow this man that
you're going to use, Lord.
And Lord, we pray all of your blessings upon him, a safe trip, and a glorious ministry
through your power, and may you receive all the glory for it.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.