Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said,
It is not because the Lord hath anointed thee the captain over his inheritance.
Then, when thou art departed for me today, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's
sepulchre in the port of Benjamin and Zelphin, and they will say unto thee, The
asses which thou wentest to seek are found, when lo thy father had left the care of
the asses in sorrow for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to plant a table, and there
shalt meet thee three men going up to God to bed, though one carrying three kids, and
another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine, and
they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread, which thou shalt receive
from their hands. After that, thou shalt come to the hill of God, where as the
heiress and the felicity is in, and shall come to pass, when thou art come,
thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down
from the high place with the salt tree, and a taffirid, and a harp, and a
pike, and a harp before them, and they shall prophesy. The Spirit of the Lord
will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into
another man. Let it be when these signs come unto thee, that thou doest occasion
serve thee, for God is with thee, and thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal,
and behold, I will come down unto thee to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice sacrifices
of peace offerings. Seven days shalt thou tarry till I come to thee,
and show thee what thou shalt do to them. And it was so that when he had turned his back to go
from Samuel, God gave him another harp, and all those signs came to pass
that day, and when they came thither to the hill, the old company of prophets met him.
The Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.
It came to pass when all that knew him before time saw that,
behold, he prophesied among the prophets, and the people said one to another,
What is this that is coming to the son of Kish, his soul also among the prophets?
And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore became a proverb,
that Saul also among the prophets. And when he had made an end to the prophet's time,
he came to the high place. And Saul's uncle said unto him, and to his servant,
Whither went she? And he said, To seek the asses, and when we saw that they were
nowhere, we came to the same. And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray to you,
of what Samuel said unto you. And Saul said unto his uncle,
He told us plainly that the asses were found, but of the matter of the kingdom, what of Samuel's faith
he told them not. And Samuel called the people together under the Lord to misbe,
and said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I brought
Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand
of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you. And give this day rejected your God,
who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations.
And you have said unto him, They but said a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves
before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands. And when Samuel caused
all the tribes of Israel to come to you, the tribe of Benjamin was taken. And when he caused
the tribe of Benjamin to come by their families, the family of Matriah was taken.
And Saul, the son of Kish, was taken. And they saw him, he could not be found.
And therefore they inquired of the Lord further, If the man should yet come
with her. And the Lord answered, Behold, he hath hidden himself among the stealth.
And they ran and fetched him thence. And when he stood among the people, he was
higher than any of the people, from his shoulders and up with them. And Samuel said to all the people,
See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen. There is none like him among all the people.
And all the people shouted and said, God save the king. Then Samuel
told the people the manner of the kingdom and wrote it in a book and laid it up before the Lord.
And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
And Saul also went home to Gibeah, and there went with him a band of men whose hearts God
had touched. The children of Belial said, How should this man
save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents, but
he held his peace. God has a word for him. Father, thank you for the Bible and thank you for church
and a place where we can come together and be with like-minded believers. And I pray that
you would please just bless the sermon and guide me and direct me as I preach
now. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. And in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Now this is the story, of course, of Saul, the anointed king of Israel.
The first king of Israel, after the period of the judges, lasted about
the space of 400 years. And in verse number 5, Samuel is
instructing Saul about some signs that are going to come upon him that day
and things that are going to happen. And it says in verse number 5, after that, Thou
shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines, and it shall
come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt be in
company of prophets, coming down from the high place with a psaltery
and a tabern and a pipe and a heart before them, and they shall prophesy.
And here's the part that I want to focus on. The Spirit of the Lord will come
upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and
shalt be turned into another man. Now the phrase that I really
would like to focus on here in this chapter is that phrase where it says, Thou
shalt prophesy with them. You see, here's a
man who had never preached before, never prophesied before,
and when men heard him begin to preach and prophesy, they
said, Is Saul also among the prophets? I mean, Saul, the son
of Kish, is preaching? We never would have dreamed, we never would have thought that.
His dad's not a prophet, his grandfather's not a prophet, and then they said, Well, you know,
who's their father? Eventually it goes back to some guy whose dad was not a
preacher, who just decided to go out and preach the word of God, and so
they kind of got some wisdom from this and it became improbable, Is Saul among the prophets?
Who is their father anyway? And so we see here that a man Saul
getting around people upon whom the Spirit of God is,
getting around people who preached and prophesied the word of God, he said,
When you come upon them, when you join up with this group of men
who are coming down from the high place, and they are preaching, they're prophesying,
he says, Thou shalt prophesy with them.
You will also begin to prophesy with them, and he said, Thou and that, he said,
the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you also. Now look at
Acts chapter 4, turn to the New Testament, Acts chapter 4, the fifth book
of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts.
Look at Acts chapter 4, verse 31, a famous verse
and a verse that I love, verse number 31 of Acts chapter 4, the Bible
reads, And when they had prayed, the place was shaken
where they were assembled together, and they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Now isn't it interesting here that we have the early church and
many members of the early church, many of the disciples and apostles
and their brethren and their other believers and brethren in Christ, they're all
together, praying together, and notice the Bible says that
they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. Now let me ask you something,
don't you think that in that group there were probably a little bit
different variances of who was a better Christian than others? I mean
I'm sure some of them had been saved longer than others. Some of them had actually probably
physically walked and talked with Jesus Christ, others had probably
become believers in the first part of the book of Acts, and maybe they didn't know the Bible
as well, maybe they hadn't read as much or studied as much
or been in church as much, there were probably a great diversity of people there,
but the key is that they were there, and because they were there,
they were filled with the Holy Ghost because they were there, and the Spirit of the Lord
came upon that assembly, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they all
began to speak the Word of God and polls. It reminds me of the story in
1 Samuel chapter 10, when Saul came upon a company of prophets that had the Holy Ghost
upon them, they were preaching, they were prophesied, and he began
to prophesy among them.
You see, it's very important what group you're in, is what I'm trying to say to you tonight.
What I'm saying to you is that if you want to be
a preacher, and I'm not just talking about someone who stands behind the pulpit and
preaches as I'm doing right now, but if you want to be a soul winner, the real important
preaching is not what's done behind the pulpit of Faithful Word Baptist Church, it's what's
done on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona, daily in the temple
and in every house, they cease not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
That's the real preaching of Faithful Word Baptist Church. You say, oh, I love the preaching of Faithful Word Baptist Church.
Really? Have you been out soul-willing with us? Because that's how you know whether you love
the preaching of Faithful Word Baptist Church, because that's the real preaching.
The real preaching is when you roll up your sleeves and go up and down
the street, every street, it doesn't matter the economic level,
it doesn't matter what color the people are, it doesn't matter what language
they speak, it doesn't matter what side of town it is, it doesn't matter north, south,
east, west, when you have the love in your heart to go preach the Gospel to every
preacher, hey, that's Faithful Word Baptist Church. And I wish it could be said
that if you come to Faithful Word Baptist Church, go to Faithful Word Baptist Church
and thou shalt prophesy with them.
Think about that. Go down and meet
this company of prophets, go down and be with these preachers, these
Spirit-filled, zealous men of God, and when you get there, you will begin to
prophesy with them.
I wonder how many people have come to this church and thought, I'm never going to go out
and knock doors and windows, that's not my gift. I wonder how many people thought that
every single person is here. They say, no, I don't do that, that's not my gift.
Pastor Anderson is gifted in that way. No, I'm not. I don't have that gift either.
In fact, nobody has that gift, because the Bible talks a lot about spiritual gifts.
Read about it in Romans chapter 12, you can read about it in
1 Corinthians chapter 12, and you'll find that there's a gift that's not listed.
It's not a gift, it's a command. And God said, with
very lips and with an unknown tongue will I preach to this people. How many times have I
stammered and stuttered to preach the gospel to somebody in Spanish?
And I, you know, I used to be very good in Spanish,
lately my Spanish is a little bit rusty. And every once in a while I throw in a German
word, I don't know why, because my wife and I speak German a whole lot. And so I
must all throw in a little German. Yeah, that doesn't help at all.
And so, what I'm trying to say is, I've stammered and stuttered and been embarrassed.
Stammering, stuttering, embarrassed, I don't know what I'm doing,
and I'm doing the best I can, but I've had somebody bow their head and trust Christ
as Savior as a result. It's not a gift, it's not about talent,
it's not about how smooth you are, it's not about the
presentation that's just right, it's just perfect. Hey, it's about the
Spirit of God, that's what it's about. It's not about having
the perfect presentation, it's not about intelligence, it's not about talent,
it's not about wisdom, it's about a person who's willing to go out
and preach the Gospel, and God can use anybody to preach the Gospel.
And I guarantee you that everybody who was out knocking doors today and yesterday,
there probably was a time when they said, that's not for me.
But what happened? They came upon this company of prophets called Pickford Baptist
Church. And you know, I'm talking about male and female, by the way. We have a
church of soul winning ladies, thank God. How many ladies went on soul winning?
If you're a lady and you were out knocking doors, soul winning. Oh yeah, see?
Look around. Hey, this is your church where the ladies are out soul winning. The Bible said
in Acts chapter 2, upon your sons and upon your daughters
will I pour out of my Spirit that day, and they shall prophesy. Your old
men shall, your young men shall dream dreams, your old men shall see visions. Hey, God
said upon the servants and the handmaids will I pour out of my Spirit.
And being filled with the Holy Spirit is for male and female. It's for young and old.
And when you come to this company of prophets, and I hope that's what we are, Pickford Baptist Church,
hey, you just might find yourself prophesying among us.
You just might get here and say, wow, here I am, and the Spirit of the Lord came
upon me, and I'm going to go out and preach the Gospel right beside them. Don't be
surprised if it happens. You see, part of the reason why is that
in Proverbs 27 and 17 the Bible reads, iron sharpenedeth iron,
so a man sharpenedeth the countenance of his friend. Proverbs 13
and 20, he that walketh with wise men shall be wise,
but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. You see how important
it is who you run with? You see how important it is what church you go to?
You go to some fool Baptist church, you will become
a fool. Well, you say, well, I'm going to become a fool. Okay, but this will be destroyed, because a companion
of fools will be destroyed. But you come to a church that when souls, you'll become
a soul man. Because if you walk with the wise men, you'll become
a soul man. And the Bible says, the fruit of the rice is a tree of life, and he that winneth
souls is wise. So if you want to be a soul winner, don't just
listen to the soul winner, walk with the soul winner, and you will become
a soul winner. I like what Jesus said in Matthew 4.19,
he said to them, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
He didn't say, sit down for a minute, let me explain to you how to be a fisher of men. No, he said,
come with me. I'm not going to tell you how to be a fisher, I'm going to show you
how to be a fisher of men. He said, follow me.
Now, you ought to be able to say the same thing this morning.
If you're part of this church, you ought to be able to say to anybody, hey, follow me.
I'll make you a fisher of men. Come with me, you'll prophesy with me.
You see, follow me to the bar
is what some people say, if they're telling the truth. Hey, follow me
after church to the movie theater to watch the smut of Hollywood.
Follow me to the video store so we can rent the same smut and call ourselves
independent fundamental Baptists, because we don't go to the theater, bless God.
We just rent the same trash at the theater. Hey, follow me
to the video store, follow me to the liquor store, follow me
to all the sin and worldliness and ungodliness. No,
you ought to be able to say, follow me, and I'll make you fishers of men.
Paul said, follow me as I follow Christ.
You see, if I'm following Christ, he's making me a fisher of men, and if you walk
with me, and walk down the street with me, and you go to the door with me
and you don't even have to say a word, I'll knock that door, I'll preach the gospel, you
stand there, you know what, I promise you, if you do that wrong enough, and the Spirit of the Lord
will come upon you, and you will prophesy also.
It's true. I mean, people say, I just want to be a silent partner. That's great, and we encourage that.
We love that. How long were you a silent partner? Three months? He came with me for
three months, and he went for multiple hours, for two, three, whatever
hours, every single week, he went with me for months.
And he just listened pretty soon, you know what, he was pushing me out of the way,
we'd go out soloing, it's an all out fight.
We don't go soloing. It gets ugly.
It gets to be like, hey, how you doing, and I'm shoving each other out of the way.
And I told him, because after a while, once he started
doing the talking, he was upset, because I would just keep talking.
You don't get it. You have to push me out of the way, you have to start talking first.
I'm telling you, I can't contain this.
You know, I was with you, Kevin. I thought you were just like, hey, can I get to the next door?
You know, I'm not going to offer. You've got to step
up and say, I want to get to the next door, and then I let you get to the next door.
And then I was back to me, you know, I'm just kidding. I let you get to the rest of the hour.
The point is, that if you get around the right company,
the company of prophets, that's when the Spirit of the Lord comes upon you,
and you'll begin to prophesy also. You see, where two or three are gathered
together in his name, there he is in the midst.
And you've got to understand, you go to a church where the Spirit of God is present,
where people are being saved, where others are filled with the Spirit of God, hey,
the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you also, and you'll begin to prophesy.
Let's see a little more about that story.
Something else kind of jumped out at me. Whenever we're studying
the Bible about the Spirit of God, most notably
the external manifestation, the Spirit of the Lord
upon you, the Spirit of the Lord coming upon men of the Old Testament,
like he came upon Samson, and he came upon Saul, and
how the Spirit of God came upon David, and how he came upon
God, the prophet, and how he came upon all these different men in the Old Testament,
and all these different preachers, and prophets, and warriors. It's interesting
how often you'll find the Spirit of God
related to music in the Bible. Have you noticed that? I mean, how about this verse, the famous
verse, be not drunk with wine, or as it says, be filled with the Spirit,
speaking to yourselves in songs and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. And if you remember
Elijah, in 2 Kings chapter 3,
he said, bring me a minstrel, and as the minstrel played with his hand,
the Spirit of the Lord came upon Elijah. Remember that story? And so
we see in the Bible a correlation between music
and the Spirit of God. Look at verse number 5
of chapter 10. After thou shalt come to the hill of God,
where as the garrison of the Philistines, and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither
to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets, coming down
from the high place with a psaltery, these are musical instruments,
and a tablet, and a pipe, and a harp. This is not a peach pipe,
okay, this is not a drug, this is a musical instrument, okay, a pipe,
an organ, okay. He said they're coming down on these musical instruments,
and music was involved in their services.
Now, we don't have music, we say, why didn't we have singing before the circle?
This is what Baptists do, I don't know, that's what I've always done, that's the way I grew up, so I just keep doing it.
Now, it's very important that the songs that we sing are
extremely important. Now, part of the formula is speaking to yourselves
and songs and hymns and spiritual songs.
Now, let's analyze that. Speaking
to yourselves. Now, is that talking about me talking to myself?
No, because that would say speaking to thyself, because
in King James 5, thy is singular and your is plural.
So he's talking about a group speaking to themselves.
Are you following this? Speaking to yourselves.
You know what that means? That means everybody singing to one another.
That means that not Little Susie's up here wowing us all
with her beautiful American Idol singing voice, and Star Search Baptist Church,
and we can all sit back and admire her wonderful talent.
No, let's speak to ourselves in songs and hymns
and spiritual songs. Hey, here's another one for you, Colossians 3.16
Let the word of Christ well you richly with all wisdom, teaching and
admonishing one another with songs and hymns and spiritual songs.
Hey, in the midst of the congregation, I will sing praise
to thee. Now, show me in the Bible, in the midst of the congregation,
I will sit and listen to praise you to thee. Show me.
Well, not everything is in the Bible. It sure is.
It certainly is. And I can't find it.
Now, I can find one guy who listened to spiritual music
in a story that references the Spirit of God, and it's the same man, King Saul.
Later on in his life, he decided to ditch
the company of prophets and the singing and preaching with them,
and he decided he was going to sit back and listen as David played
with his hand on the harp, and he basically just put on his iPod and just began
to listen to Christian music. Was it the wrong music? No. It was the right music.
I mean, David was playing spiritual music.
But if you remember what happened, Saul had disobeyed God.
Saul had a spiritual problem with God, and his advisors erroneously
told him that in order to solve his spiritual problem,
all he needed to do was listen to the right music.
Just listen to the right music and you'll be fine. That's not what he needed to do. He needed to obey God.
He needed to get out of there. And he said, no, you just need to call for a man
who's a cunning player, and when he plays this godly music,
the evil spirit will depart from you. You remember that?
Well, this is what happened. David came, great guy, played with his hand, cunning player
in the harp, a mighty man of war, the Bible says. Young David played with his hand,
and the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and lived happily ever after.
Well, no, because you've got to read the next chapter. In the next chapter,
the same thing. The evil spirit from the Lord came upon him.
And what happened? David began to play with his hand.
It didn't work anymore. It was just a temporary fix. It was like a band-aid. Because the next thing you know,
while David was playing two different times, Saul takes the javelin
and tries to smite David to the wall with it.
It's like he took his eyeball and just threw it across the wall. I don't know.
And I look toward the source of the music. And so you've got to understand that
listening to music is not, I'm not saying it's a sin,
but I'm saying it's not prescribing the Bible any word.
And why would I spend time sitting around listening to a bunch of music when God gave me two lungs
and a throat to sing at the top of my lungs the praises of God
Bless his terms, Jesus is mine! Oh, what a poor taste of glory did I.
And I just have a funny feeling that even though my voice is not
the American Idol quality or Star Search quality or
whatever the case may be, I'm not going to be in some kind of a Christian
choir touring America anytime soon. I just have a funny feeling
that God would rather listen to me sing his praises
than some paid musician in Nashville somewhere, in a
studio somewhere who is not a Christian, who probably doesn't love
God, who doesn't win souls, who doesn't use the King James Bible. I have a feeling
that I don't care what your voice is like tonight, I have a feeling that God wants to
hear you sing his praises. I believe that. I don't care
who you are. See, I don't have a good voice. Says who? Britney Spears?
Says who? Christina Aguilera? Says who? The world? Hey,
God gave you your voice. Are you saying that God didn't create you properly?
And some of you would become better at singing if you do it more often.
Practice makes perfect. And if you only sing Sunday morning,
Sunday night, and Wednesday night, that's why you can't sing as well.
But if you sing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, you will become
a good singer with practice. You say, Pastor Anderson, this theory is not
holding up because you're claiming that you do all this singing and yet you're singing.
This theory is not holding up. Okay, sorry, I better move on.
What I'm saying is, if you begin to, and by the way, you know what kind of singing
that God likes, and you know what kind of singing that I like? Loud. Amen.
Loud. Do you sing loud? I like it.
No, I don't measure it in quality. I measure it
in quantity, alright? I want you to sing loud. I just like
to just try and sing as loud as I can. I remember when I was a teenager, I'd come to church
and just sing loud as I could. And you know what's funny? When I started singing
as loud as I could, the people around me started singing louder. It's true.
I mean, I'd go out to church where everybody's singing quiet. I sang quiet.
I didn't want to stand out and just...
But man, if you go to a church where everybody's singing loud, you'll begin to sing loud.
Which illustrates further my point here. You get among the company of the prophets,
you'll begin to profit. You get around people who like to sing.
And you know, I love, part of the church that I like is singing.
That's one of my favorite parts. You know, I've gotten
out of the hymn book and got together with friends or family and just sung for
three hours straight. Love it. Love doing it.
Me and my buddy one time, we were working on a job in Indianapolis
and we both worked for the same company. We were in the hotel room. We got done after a long, hard
day of work, work overtime. We got to a hotel about 10 o'clock at night
and we sang till 1 o'clock in the morning in the hotel room, standing on
top of our beds with the hymnal, and we sang the third verse only
of every song in the hymnal. You say why? Because every church you go to
is like they sing one, two, and four. Or they'll sing like just one and two
or one and four. And so we're like, we need to sing, I want to, I'm just like,
I want to sing the third verse. And so we just start at the beginning, but all
the way in to sing the third verse. Man, did we have fun. Man, did we
have a good time. The third verse revival in the hotel room in Indianapolis
in the end. Hey, that's what I like. Singing loud!
See, what did the other people in the room sing? I don't know, nobody knocked on the door,
thank God, but we sang loud till 1 in the morning. Man, was it
a good time. And so you have to learn to love singing.
Singing to the Lord, a new song. Praise the Lord.
Let everything have breath. Praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
What command is repeated more in the Bible than this imperative verb, praise
none. It's the imperative verb that's repeated more
in Genesis and Revelation than any other verb. Praise the Lord.
The whole book of Psalms. Praise the Lord. That's a command. Praise the Lord.
Sing praises. Praise him all ye nations. Oh, give thanks to the Lord for
he's good, for his mercy endure forever. Hop on a CD
and listen to some worldly southern gospel musician, praise the Lord.
I don't know, I haven't read that verse. No,
God wants to hear his people. And I think, I think the more you love God
the better your voice sounds. I don't care what it really sounds like. Okay, you know, I'm
just saying in my mind, I believe in God's mind, God likes to hear
a joyful noise unto the Lord from his people that love him. His
saints singing with a loud voice. And so we see music is part of
the equation here. Do you see that in 1 Samuel chapter number 10? Hey, they weren't just prophesying
but they had music. And you know what, they had the right music.
You know, the converse is also true. You get the wrong music.
You get the wrong music. You're bringing in
a bad spirit, my friend. It's true, it's the truth.
Say, well, what's the wrong music? Well, let me ask you this, what does the Bible say
is the wrong music? Because, you know, man has his
definitions about what the wrong music is and I think as independent fundamental
Baptist, many have become Pharisaical and legalistic. Oh, man, how are you?
Look, man, I'm as strict on music as anybody you've ever met
in your life. But I'm going to tell you something. Some of these rules that they have are crazy
because this is what they say. Well, as long as they don't have drums, it's fine. And then they have
women up here singing that are singing in a sensual voice.
Just like the Lord. Now, that makes me ill to hear somebody
sing about Jesus in an erotic, sensual voice. You say, well, what is that? What are you talking about?
Look, there are certain voices that are not for outside of the bedroom.
I mean, for women to get up and sing in these sensual voices.
And you know what I'm talking about. You know how these worldly singers sell albums?
They sell albums by alluring to the lust of the flesh. That's what they do.
And they sing in a sensual tone. And I've sat in church and heard male and female
stand up on the platform and sing in a sensual,
sensuous bedroom-type voice. And you know what? It makes me sick.
And it's wrong. And you go, oh, I don't have any drums in it. It's wrong.
It's sin. It's wrong. And you say, oh, as long as I don't have drums, it's fine.
Okay, well, here's a song that doesn't have drums.
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
No drums. No electric guitars.
You think it's alright for me to sing the Beatles tonight?
Because that's what I'm singing. You think that's okay? Do you think that's what we should sing?
Why don't we sing it congregationally? Take your songbooks.
Turn to 532. Yesterday by the Beatles.
first, would you approve of that? Well, I'm going to tell you something. I went to a church
youth group before in Sacramento, California, at Perilx Presbyterian Church, and some of
my friends from the Christian school, I always grew up Baptist, but some of my friends
went to this Presbyterian church. I went to Perilx Presbyterian Church. We sang
Brown Eyed Girl congregationally on Thursday night at the youth group. Literally, I
mean the song is up on the screen, and there's a guy out there with an acoustic
bar, and we sang Brown Eyed Girl as a congregational song. Who knows the song, what I'm
talking about, from those tix-tees or whatever. I don't know. Am I right about that? We
sang John Denver, Country Roads, Take Me Home. We sang it as a congregational song
in church at this church. Now look, you see how that doesn't make, you think that's
okay? You think that's okay? You see, what's wrong with the song yesterday? I'll tell
you what's wrong with it. What's wrong with it is the source. Because it's not
of the Father, it's of the world. That's what's wrong with it. It comes from a man who hated
God, who hated Jesus Christ. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who spoke against Jesus
Christ, they were against Christianity, they were against all this holy, they were communist
God-hitting devils, and I'm going to tell you something, their music is not welcome
in this church, it's not welcome in my CD player, it's not welcome in my house. Why?
Because of who they are! That's why. Amen.
Does a fountain send forth at the same place, salt, water, and fresh? Can the big tree,
my brethren, bear all the berries, either a vine or figs? So can now no fountain both
yield salt, water, and fresh. See, a fountain gives forth either good or bad. Hit it.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good
fruit. And so you see, consider the source. Is it of the Father, or is it of the
world? Not only should we consider the source of music, and that doesn't have always to
do with just drums or rock and roll beats and everything like that. That could have
to do with the singing voice, who the song came from. But not only that, doesn't
the Bible say in Romans chapter 12, be ye not conformed to this world, but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and
acceptable and perfect will of God? Now what does it mean to be conformed,
conformed, conformity? We think of a shape is what that word form means. And if we were to take
the shape or the outline of something and trace that outline, when I hear that word,
you know, be ye not conformed to this world, here's what I think of. I think of sewing.
I don't know anything about sewing. I've never sewed in my life. But when ladies sew,
I've seen my mom do it, I've seen my wife do it, they have these patterns and they cut out the shape
and the pattern. And then they'll use the same pattern. They can make five of the same dress or
five of the same pair of pants or whatever the case may be. And they'll take this pattern
and they'll lay it on the fabric and they'll cut it out exactly the shape and pattern.
And when they take it out, the pattern and the cloth are the exact same shape. Now that
might be a different color, right? Could be a different texture. You can make one that's blue.
I remember my mom used to make us swimming trunks and she'd make us three pairs for the summer.
And they'd all be identical, just a different color. You know, we'd have a red kind of pattern
and a blue kind of pattern and a green kind of pattern. And these are our trunks for the
summer. But they're all the same shape. They're the same form. Now they looked different.
It looked like three different pairs of shirts, but really the form was the same.
The shape was the same. The pattern was the same. Don't be patterned after the world.
That's what conformity is. When you pattern yourself after those around you. Should you pattern
yourself after good godly righteous Christians? Yes. But should you pattern yourself after the
world? No. Be not conformed to this world. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind
that you may prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
You see, much of the music that's out there in our Christian circles is conformed to the
world. You say, well, what's wrong with this? Put out by Christians, Christian music.
Well, first of all, ask yourself this question. Is everybody who calls himself a Christian
really a Christian? No. There's no one. I mean, if you took...
You take his music. Oh, this is Christian music. Okay. Is he Baptist?
I know that's a crazy question. Oh, okay. Do they believe the King James Bible
or the Dead Bible? Also known as the Living Bible. And I call it the Dead Bible.
Uh, are they using the RSB or the ASB or the HIV or the STD or the NLTB or are they using
God's word, the King James Bible? Yeah, it does matter. Because if they're going to teach
and admonish me in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, they better know what they're
talking about. Do you want me to bring a preacher behind the pulpit here that preaches out of
a different version? Do you think I should bring some southern Baptist and get him behind
the pulpit with this lordship salvation and you must turn from your sins and make Jesus the Lord
of your life in order to go to... Do you want me to bring him behind this pulpit and have him
preach to you? Do you want him to teach and admonish you? Do you want me to pass out
these books and his literature and his preaching tapes so you can be taught and admonished
by a southern Baptist, taught and admonished by a Nazarene, lose your salvation, now I'm
saved, now I'm not, lose your salvation, assemblies of God, Church of Christ, Church of God,
Church of God in Christ, Church of the deep freeze, African Methodist, Episcopalian,
Zions, hey, I don't want them to teach me. So why would I listen to their music? Think about
that. I mean, you say, well, it's not preaching, it's not teaching, it's just music.
Music teaches and admonishes you according to the Bible. So first of all, let's take all the...
First of all, we know the world's music is wrong because it's not of the Father,
it's of the world and because of the lies and the testimonies of the people who sing and produce it,
we know it's wrong. Now, let's put all the Christian music in a big pile right here.
Okay, it's all on the pulpit right now, use your imagination. We have this big pile of
all the Christian CDs and we're trying to figure out, okay, Christian music though, what is
right and what is wrong? Well, first of all, it's got to come from people who are actually
saved, right? I mean, okay, there goes like 90% of it. You know what I mean? Because they're
from all these different religions, Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, people even work
salvation. So yeah, don't follow up all that. Okay, so we're like another pile.
And then we got to say, okay, is it conformed to the world? Like, I know it didn't come
from the world, I know it came from born-again Christians, but is it conformed to the
world? Is it patterned after worldly music? You know, I can walk into the Christian
music store, they used to be called the Bible Bookstore, now it's like the Christian Rock and
Roll store. I mean, there's barely, you know, there's barely any Bibles in the thing and
whatever. And then you got to find the King James section through, you got to wade through
all the different translations and the Bible of the Month Club. And when you get in there
and you walk up to that CD rack, I can tell you, you know, you see some guy,
you see some black dude with braids coming out of his head, you're like, this guy can see
Snoop Dogg or Coolio or whatever. You can almost tell what worldly star they're trying
to impersonate. You know, or you see some, you see some white guy with long hair and
he's got a goatee here. You can name the stars of the world that they're trying to be
like, that they're patterning themselves in their music after. And I've even seen stickers
in the Christian Bookstore on the front of the CDs that say, if you like, and then it names
the worldly girls that you'll love, you know, if you love Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Public Enemy,
you will love, you know, Christian Brother or whatever, whatever the rapper, MC for Jesus or
whatever, you know, whatever they're like, if you love Metallica, man, you're going to love
heavenly metal, whatever, you know, music, you know, it's not heavy metal, heavenly metal.
They have a magazine, the Christian Bookstore, a heavenly metal magazine.
They come up with that all by themselves? No, they're just patterning themselves out
the world's term, heavy metal, the rap, the country western, and boy do I hate country
western music. You know why I hate country western music? Because country western music
is always talking about God and Jesus and it makes me sick. They're talking about Jesus
and God and drinking beer and going down to the river and getting drunk and committing
adultery and all this garbage. I heard some song about, I heard a song and I don't know
anything about country music, but I was on a job site, you know, a construction site and
some redneck was blasting this stuff and he said, this is the chorus of the song,
it's where I drank my first beer, it's where I found Jesus. Who's heard this song? Put it
down. Yup, see, a couple of hands are going up. What are you doing listening to that?
Okay, you work in construction, we're proud of the same job. But anyway, the point is,
that's the core, you know, country western music is like they're mixing a little Christianity
because it's from the Bible belt and they're mixing in Christianity and the Bible and beer and
adultery and sin. Hey, I don't like that. I'd rather listen to something that's wicked as hell
than something that's going to drag my savior's name through the mud and bring up Jesus in the
middle of it. I hate country western music and if you listen to all this Garth Brooks and
all this Garth, you need to get right with God. Get that stuff out of your library.
By the way, the Bible belt's a joke. I get phone calls and emails and letters from people
who live in the Bible belt saying, I can't find a good church in Jordan. I drove an hour
and a half to find a church that even uses the King James Bible. But they, boy, they're
all Christians down there. They're all Baptists. It's a lie. They're worldly. They're right.
There are two good churches down there and I tried to stereotype, but I'm stereotyping.
You say you're stereotyping Las Vegas. I just like to make these broad generalizations.
But the point is that I'm not saying that the whole Bible belt's bad, but you know what? It
ain't the Bible belt. It's the Pharisee belt. It's the, we think we're a Baptist belt.
Oh man. But you know, I talked to somebody and he said, oh yeah, well, you know,
it's really fundamental here because we live next to Bob Jones University.
Bob Jones University doesn't even know how to spell fundamental. Bob Jones University
still left me. I can't even see him. Bob Jones University started as an all white college
back in, you know, 1927. Only whites are allowed. And Bob Jones said, here's a quote from
Bob Jones for you, your buddy. Bob Jones, he said, God is the author of racial segregation.
And if you're against segregation, you're against God Almighty.
Oh wow. That's great. Isn't it? That came out of the Bible. Wrong. Didn't God say that
his house, we call it the house of prayer for all nations. And that included all different
races in one house and one church and one building. And so that's a lie. That's false
doctrine. Bob Jones University, which has never been Baptist, although all the Baptist
students there, all the Baptist students are great. It's never been Baptist. Bob Jones
here is a Methodist who believes, brace yourself that you can lose your salvation.
Look it up. It's true. And so the point is that the Bible belt and the Pharisee belt
is where all this music's coming from and the Nashville and the country western and
the secular worldly country that throws Jesus in next to a bottle of beer and next
to adultery and exiles. And then you get the Christian genre, which is basically they
got Jesus, but you know, they're having a beer as soon as they get out of the studio
or whatever. And so we took the music, we threw away all the ones that are not from
a stated Christian. Okay. Then let's get out, get rid of everything that's conformed
after any worldly group. Anything that's conformed after the world's sound. And
by the way, let me just, it breaks on me. The world came up in rock and roll.
I mean, it didn't come from church. It didn't originate in church. It's only gotten
into church recently. Only in my lifetime has it begun to really get into church.
I'm a young man. And so it was originated by people like, uh, who are the pioneers of
rock and roll? Elvis? Elvis, who was not even allowed on television because of
his perverted gyrating of his hips. And then he had to be filmed in his first
television appearance from the waist up. Did you know that? Did you know that
Frank Sinatra said that Elvis was vile and wicked and perverted when he first
came out? Did you know that, uh, Elvis Presley, uh, died of, of drugs and
alcohol overdose? And so these are the types of people that, that, that
pioneered, you know, rock and roll. Ray Charles, a heroin addict. Uh, he's
that queer guy, that queer looking queer in real life. What's that guy's
name? The, uh, the Tutti Frutti. Yeah. What's that song about? Tutti Frutti by
the Frutti, uh, Little Richard, some queer, some pervert. Yeah, these are
the pioneers of rock and roll, not Baptist preachers and Baptist
Christians. He said, why are you against all this rock music? Because
it's patterned after the world. Why are you against all this rock music?
Because it's put out by people that aren't even saved in most cases. Why
are you against all this rock, Christian rock and roll? Because it's
put out by, uh, people that are patterning it after the world or, or
that are Charismatics or Pentecostals or whatever. I don't want to hear
it. And, and by the way, I don't want to listen to music anymore. So
then I just take the rest and, you know, there's nothing left. Oh,
wait, something's left. Oh, yeah. Here we go. I got some music
left. I thought I got rid of all my music, but here's the one
thing that's left standing. Say, well, I don't know if the
performers, right? Performers me. I'm Baptist. I'm King James. I love
God. I win souls. And this is what, you know, I said before,
first thing I'm, first thing I do when I get a car is just rip
out the stereo and just stick this in the same slot. Fits
perfectly. That's what you have to do. Just rip out your
stereo, rip out all the wires, shove the wires. There might be a
few sparks. Don't let those bother you. It's a spark,
though. That's normal. And then just shove the button, shove the
hymnal in that same slot. Okay. And then there's your
stereo. Here's your music right here. And it's got, boy,
you got how many, how many megabytes does it hold? Well,
it holds what? This one holds like what? 479 tracks. 479
tracks of audio. I don't know how many, how many megabytes
does that translate to, Mr. Computer? I don't know. And so
it's high definition. I mean, look, this stereo sounds
so good. You feel like you're actually right there. This, I
mean, it's that real. I mean, it is that there's no static
ever, no feedback. I mean, it's crystal clear. You almost
think you were the one singing. Okay. And so that,
this is my music right here. Okay. But let me, let me
hurry because I want to get into a little more in the
sermon. Look at 1 Samuel 19. 1 Samuel chapter 19. And
we're going to continue to a similar story in the life of
Saul. This is after, this is later on in Saul's life.
Remember, we saw in 1 Samuel 10, it's when Saul being an
ointed king. It's after he's been king for a long time and
David has already chosen his replacement and the whole
debacle with the David playing the harp and trying to throw
spears at him. That has all gone on. We're way into
the future here where Saul is pursuing David and trying
to kill him. And so that's where we are in 1 Samuel 19
and Saul hears about where David is in verse 19. It
says, and it was told, Saul saying, the whole David is
set nigh off in rainbow. 1 Samuel 19. And Saul sent
messengers to take David and when they saw the company of
the prophets prophesied and Samuel standing as appointed
over them, the spirit of God was upon the messengers of
Saul and they also prophesied. So here he comes to
this group and and Samuel's there and he's kind of the
one who's running the service. He's he's standing
over them kind of running and these guys are getting up
and preaching. They're getting up and prophesied. You
can imagine and it's hard to imagine sometimes exactly
what things are like in these days, different culture,
different time, but I can picture a great group of men
and Saul is or Samuel's presiding over them and
they're getting up to preach and you say, we're
all preaching at the same time. No, because in 1
Corinthians chapter 14, it says that he was preaching
one after the other. If you have more than one
preacher in service, you know, all right, let's all
start preaching at the same time. Ready to go. That
doesn't make any sense. Okay. So there was an order
to the service. Samuel's the one running the service
and these guys are getting up and and preaching
and maybe they're saying some songs. I saw in
first chapter 10 possibly and and maybe another guy
gets up. All right, it's your turn. Come on up
here and preach. I've been in services where or
different young men get up and preach one after
the other and everybody gets a chance to preach
who wants to preach. I've been in a really
enjoyable services like that and these guys are
preaching and and these messengers come and you
can imagine. I don't know what that was like.
You can imagine they walk in to this service where
this preaching is going on and they walk in and
some guys up there preaching and they were coming
to to find out where David is but they hear
Samuel preaching and they just kind of take a
seat and they begin to listen to Samuel preach
and the spirit of the Lord comes upon them as
they begin to listen to Samuel preach and pretty
soon next thing you know, they're saying I got
something to say and they're getting up and
they're preaching. Let's keep reading. He says
and when it was told, Saul told Saul, he said
these guys to find David and find Samuel. They
just got involved in this service. You know,
they're preaching. He's behind his open. You
know, the guy that you said and so they're
just preaching. They're just they because I've
had to I remember one time this girl came to
this this kind of where my this girl came to
our church one time because she was assigned to
come here by her college. You know, she
had to come to a church of a different
religion and she was a Mormon and so she came
she chose our church off the internet for
whatever reason and she came and she brought
him up and she said for the first two minutes
she was taking notes you know just to write
this paper that she was writing and I started
yelling and screaming after about 10 minutes
of the sermon she just like put her pad down
close the pad and started listening and all
the rest of the time she was just surprised
you know just and I asked her I said is this
kind of preaching they have in the Mormon
church? She said no. One time I knew a
converted Mormon guy who actually got saved
and he and somehow got to know a Baptist
preacher in the Bay Area and he started going
to Sunday school at the Baptist church
because it was before his Mormon service
and he was going there because he wanted
to be a a pastor in the Mormon church or
whatever they call them he wanted to be a
preacher in the Mormon church he wanted
to learn how Baptist preached because he
said we need this you know we need we
don't have any fire we don't have any
power and so he and in the process he got
saved just from going there every morning
he said what am I doing? Why am I doing
Mormon? And so he was listening to that
preaching he said I want to take it back but
that's the same thing you know she
came to take notes but she ended up
just being surprised by the preaching
and just interested in wanting to listen
and uh I think it's the same thing
here you know they came to do one
thing they just got caught up and
forgot why they were there next thing
you know there they grab the songbook
start singing they're up there
preaching and having a good time and
then it says that and when it was
told Saul verse 21 he sent other
messengers and they prophesied
likewise and Saul sent messengers again
the third time they prophesied like hey
this is a great church
this was a great church I mean when you
just walk in and you're like wow
can I go so away? You know I didn't
think I was gonna go so away when I
woke up this morning
but let's go or man get live I want
to get up and preach
and the spirit of the Lord was upon them
then when he also the rainbun he says
I'm gonna go down there myself
see what the deal is he gave also the
rainbun came to the to a great well
that's in siku
and he asked and said where Samuel
David once said the whole day be at
Nyoth and Rhema
and he went to the Nyoth and Rhema and
the spirit of God was upon him also
and he went on and prophesied until
he came to Nyoth and Rhema
so the spirit of the Lord came upon him
just while he's on his way down there
he begins to preach and prophesy
and it says look at this it says
and he stripped off his clothes also
and prophesied before Samuel might say
what's that about
well this is something they would do
in the bible say the bible and yell
maybe a little bit different culture
than we're used to okay
but they would rend their clothes
remember this they would tear off
their clothing they would rent their
garments and it was a sign of
being very upset or grieved or angry or
whatever the case may be they would
rent their clothing and then just
literally tear their clothing off their
body okay
i'm not recommending this or anything
i can't see anywhere that the bible
tells you that
oh that makes me mad i mean i think
i've seen the whole kogan theory a
couple times an hour it turns out
but i'm not saying that this is what
you should be doing but that's what
for some reason in those days that
was a custom and it was all men
here you know i don't think he's
tearing out his clothes in front of
any ladies but he tears off his
clothing
and look what it says and lay down
naked
so how much was clothing they tear off all
of it okay that's what it says
and lay down naked all that day and
all that night wherefore they say so
also among the prophets and
and you see that uh in the again
study the bible when people were in
great mourning and grief and upset
they would lay on the earth all
night i mean they would literally
go out of their house and just lay
their face in the dirt
and just lay there and be praying and
just would not get up they wouldn't
eat they wouldn't drink
they would just lay outside exposed to
the weather just as a sign of extreme
grief and sadness and sorrow okay and
so that's what he got i mean
stripped off his clothes and just lay
down on the ground for 24 hours
okay so he's here here's it is it's
all right with god
here no he's chasing david he's doing
wrong he's committing sin
and so i think that you say what's
going on here in the story
i think what's going on is that the
spiritual lord came upon me realize
how wretched he was
later on he's going to be crying and
saying each other i played the fool
i've been a fool i'm sorry i've done
wrong and i think that it just i think
that it was just conviction for the
wickedness of his life
and for his wickedness of pursuing
david because he's so
sick that he tore off his clothes just
lay outside naked for 24 hours
okay well i don't understand why he
did you know maybe it'd be good if
somebody got upset about their sin in
2008 anyway i mean you know sin is
a lot more wicked than we made and so
all these realized
how wretched he was and he uh and he
you know he's already saved and saved
for a long time and christened for a
long time but he was away from god
and he realized how wretched his
condition was and so he's mourning
and weeping
at in this place but what did he say
what's the point of the story where
you're reading that i'm just showing
you
that we have two stories here in first
daniel chapter 10 chapter 19
about people coming to a group of
people
and the spirit of lord came upon them
because of where they were
that's what happened i mean it came
upon them because they were in that
company
because they were in that group is
why the spirit of lord anointed them
and i'm going to tell you something
you ought to go to a church where you
come and you'll prophesy with that's
the right kind of church
when you walk in you start singing
with them you walk in you start
prophesying with them
you walk in next thing you know the
spirit of lord
is upon you in mighty power you say
church can do that for me well you
need to judge we just read it in first
hand at 10
we just read it in first time in 19 we
just read it in act chapter four
we could have read it in act chapter
two when the spirit of lord came upon
the early church in act chapter two
and so you have to understand that
where you are and who you're with
has a great influence on the
spirituality for life
it's important what church you go to you
better know it's extremely important
what church you go to you say oh i'm
going to be a Christian anywhere you
go
uh let him think that he's
hand-picking that's the call
oh man i'm so spiritually strong i'm
going to go to this other liberal
church and straighten it out
they'll straighten you out
they will straighten you out you better
come to a place
where the spirit of the lord is going
to come upon you because it's upon
others already
because they're already prophesying
because they're already winning souls
they're already preaching the gospel
let's bow our hands in that word of
prayer father we love you and thank you
for this great story in the bible
thank you for a man like Saul that
was uh filled with the holy spirit of
god that had the power of god in his
life and
he wasn't perfect he definitely had
major problems in his life with sin
and wickedness but god at least
here's a man
at least here's a man who knew god
and knew what the spirit of god
uh meant and the power of god and
father i pray that our church
would be like samuel's church
i pray that our church would be like
samuel's church and like that other
company in providence in first
samuel 10 where people walk in
and next thing you know somebody's
putting a bible in their hand and a
bunch of invocations in their hand
next thing you know they're out
soloing
next thing they know they're
preaching next thing they know they're
filled with the spirit of god and
their life has been transformed not
what they expected
but not what these men expected either
god i pray that you would please
just help our church to be that kind
of church and help
those that are here to have the
wisdom to know that you can't do it
alone you can't do it by yourself
you must surround yourself with
spiritual people in order to be
spiritual you must be a companion of
wise men in order to be wise
and god help us understand the
importance of iron sharpening iron
in the friendships that we choose in
jesus name i pray amen