["Pomp and Circumstance"]
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be in your house this evening.
I ask you right now to give Pastor Anderson boldness and clarity to preach your word.
Help us to put all distractions from our minds so we can focus on this word.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Man, it's good to be here tonight and good to be with my good friend, Pastor Roger Jimenez.
And it's good to be preaching in my hometown, Sacramento, California,
where I was born and raised to have my family here, lots of old friends.
And I want to start out tonight in John chapter 15, if you'll turn there.
John chapter number 15. I'm going to come back to Genesis 37.
But the title of my sermon tonight is Why They Hate Us.
Why They Hate Us.
In Genesis 37 we have a story of Joseph, who was a godly young man,
and the Lord was with him, but he was hated of his brethren.
And it says over and over again in that chapter how they hated him.
And it actually gives us a few different reasons in that chapter why they hated him.
And I'm going to go over those reasons tonight.
But before I get into that, I just want to explain to you who hates us,
who are they, and who are we, right?
Why do they hate us?
Well, the Bible says of Christians,
You shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
So it should come of no surprise that godly Christians are going to be hated in this world.
Look down at your Bible there in John chapter 15 verse 18.
The Bible says,
If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
If you were of the world, the world would love his own.
But because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
Remember the word that I said unto you,
The servant is not greater than his lord.
If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
If they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake,
because they know not him that sent me.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin.
But now they have no cloak for their sin.
He that hateth me, hateth my father also.
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did,
they had not had sin.
But now have they both seen and hated both me and my father.
But this cometh to pass that the word might be fulfilled
that is written in their law.
They hated me without a cause.
So Jesus Christ talks about the fact that he was hated,
and he tells his disciples that if they hated me,
they will most certainly hate you.
The disciple is not better than his master.
The servant's not better than his lord.
So if they hated me, they're going to hate you as well.
In Luke chapter 6, if you would flip over to Acts 28,
in Luke chapter 6, it says,
Blessed are ye when men shall hate you,
and when they shall separate you from their company,
and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil.
For the son of man's sake, rejoice ye in that day,
and leap for joy.
For behold, your reward is great in heaven,
for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
So the Bible says the prophets were all hated,
and I'm hated, and you're going to be hated,
but when they hate you, just leap for joy,
because this just comes with the territory.
It's part of being a godly Christian.
He says in Acts chapter 28,
this is when the apostle Paul is imprisoned in Rome,
and he has some of the Jews coming to hear from him,
and he's going to preach the gospel of Jesus unto them,
and they don't really know anything about Paul.
They don't really know anything about the gospel.
Here's what they say in verse 21,
and they said unto him,
We neither received letters out of Judea concerning thee,
neither any of the brethren that came, showed,
or spake any harm of thee.
Say, we haven't really heard anything bad about you specifically,
but we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest,
for as concerning this sect,
we know that everywhere is spoken against.
We can't really pinpoint what's so bad about you,
but all we know is that everywhere we go,
everybody hates you, everybody's talking bad about you,
so we want to see what you're all about.
You know, it's funny, I just talked to a pastor,
I went out to lunch with a pastor yesterday,
and he said that he first heard about me
because he just wanted to figure out why does everybody hate this guy.
Everyone I talked to, everywhere I turned,
they just all hate Pastor Anderson,
and I was just trying to figure out why do they hate this guy,
so I wanted to listen to a bunch of sermons
and just get to the bottom of it.
You know, and that's true of our movement.
It's a hated movement, you know.
A lot of people hate me,
they hate Faithful Word Baptist Church,
they hate Pastor Jimenez, that's for sure.
I mean, look what they did to him in the media last year,
and none of his brethren,
the Fundamental Baptist pastors in California,
did they come to your defense?
Did they encourage you?
Did they say, hey, we love you, we're praying for you,
we stand with you against the perverts and weirdos?
How many of the hundreds of Fundamental Baptists in California
reached out to you like that?
How many of the pastors? None of them.
They hate him. Why?
They hate me. Why?
They hate our church. They hate your church.
They hate a lot of us.
They hated Jesus. They hated the prophets.
They hated the apostles. Why?
Why do they hate us?
That's the question tonight.
Well, let's get the answer from Genesis chapter 37.
Go back to Genesis 37.
We'll start there with why they hate us.
We're going to Ezekiel chapter 34 next
for those that are slower with navigating the Bible.
We're going to go to Genesis 37,
and we're going to end up in Ezekiel 34.
But the first reason that they hate us tonight
is because we bring their evil report.
That's why they hate us.
Because we bring their evil report.
Look down at your Bible there in Genesis chapter 37 verse 2.
These are the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, being 17 years old,
was feeding the flock with his brethren,
and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah,
and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives,
and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
This is where they begin to hate Joseph.
They were shepherds.
They're taking care of the flocks of their father,
and they're doing evil.
They're doing wrong.
They're doing a bad job,
and their dad doesn't understand that or know that,
and Joseph is out there working with them,
and he realizes what's going on,
and he brings their evil report,
and that's when they begin to hate him in their hearts,
the sons of the concubines.
The Bible says in John chapter 7 verse 7,
this is Jesus Christ speaking,
the world cannot hate you.
Who's he talking to?
His unsaved, physical half-brothers,
you know, the other sons of Mary that she had with Joseph.
He says to them, the world cannot hate you.
They were unbelievers at that time,
but me it hateth because I testify of it
that the works thereof are evil.
Jesus said the reason that the world hates me
is because I testify of the world
that the works thereof are evil.
They don't hate you,
but that's why they hate me
because I bring their evil report,
and today the reason why the world hates Christians in general
is the fact that we bring an evil report on them.
Why?
Because we speak out against fornication.
You know, the world just accepts fornication,
that it's normal, that it's commonplace,
that you go out on a date or two,
and then you wind up in the sack,
you wind up sleeping together,
and Christianity says, no!
We condemn that.
The world hates us for it.
Why?
They don't want to hear that that's bad.
They don't want to hear anybody speaking out against adultery.
They don't want to hear speaking out against drunkenness.
They want to go out.
They want to get drunk.
They want to party.
They want to have a good time.
They don't want anybody to tell them
that that's wicked in the sight of God.
They don't want to hear that.
They don't want to hear that evil report.
This world's filled with covetousness.
The people that are lifted up
are the people that have the most money,
the people that flash the most expensive clothing
and expensive toys, and they exalt you.
And if you do good unto yourself,
then men will praise you for that
when you buy the expensive houses and cars and clothes.
And they look up to that,
and they lust and have greed for money.
And when Christianity comes along
and speaks out against that,
and when we worship somebody who walked around
humble and poor in his sandals and in normal clothing
that didn't go in long, fancy robes or anything like that,
he preached the Word of God humbly,
and he was poor,
and the Bible says that the love of money
is the root of all evil.
That's not what the world wants to hear.
We testify of the world that the works thereof are evil,
and therefore they hate us for that.
In John 3, you don't have to turn there,
but the famous passage in John 3 talks about,
right after talking about salvation in John 3.16
and giving us those famous scriptures
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish
but have everlasting life,
and it talks about how God sent not his son
into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through him might be saved.
Why?
Because he that believeth on him is not condemned,
but he that believeth not is condemned already.
Because he believeth not the record that God gave his son,
because he hath not believed in the name
of the only begotten Son of God.
But listen to the next verse.
And this is the condemnation that light is coming to the world,
and men love darkness rather than light
because their deeds are evil.
So the reason that men love darkness rather than light
is because their deeds were evil,
but then he takes it a step further and says,
For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light.
They don't just prefer the darkness to the light.
They actually hate the light.
Neither do they come to the light
because they don't want their deeds to be reproved
lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light
that his deeds may be made manifest that they're wrought in God.
Go to Ezekiel chapter 34.
Ezekiel chapter 34.
But today it makes sense that the world would hate us,
that unsaved people, unbelievers,
people who live a really godless or lascivious life
would not want to be around Christianity,
not want to be reminded of the God of the Bible
because it's a condemnation to them
because they're living such a sinful life.
They want to forget that these rules even exist.
They want to think, Well, no, fornication's normal
as long as you love each other.
You know, drinking's fine
just so long as there's a designated driver.
You know, get drunk, puke your guts out,
but just have that designated driver.
You know, go ahead and do whatever you want.
You know, it makes sense that the world would hate Christians
because their deeds are evil.
They don't want to come to the light.
They want to forget that God even exists.
Many of them that are reprobates,
they don't even want to retain God in their knowledge.
But here's the thing about that.
Here's the thing about that.
Those aren't the only ones who hate us.
It's not just unsaved people who hate us.
I mean, the Bible says,
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hates you.
It's no marvel that the world hates us,
but the sad fact is today
that even our fellow preachers hate us,
even our fellow independent Baptists hate us,
even many saved, born-again children of God
hate us tonight, and the question is what?
Joseph wasn't just hated by the Amorites
or by the Hittites that he was around.
Joseph was actually hated of his own brethren.
The sons of Zilpah and the sons of Bilhah
were his own brethren.
Even Jesus was hated by his own brethren there
when they're mocking him and ridiculing him
in John chapter 7.
But today we're even hated
of our own brothers and sisters in Christ.
Why do they hate us tonight?
I'll tell you why.
Because we bring up their evil report.
That's why.
You see, if you get the literal story here,
the sons of Zilpah and Bilhah were actually shepherds.
That's what they did.
And what's a synonym of a shepherd?
A pastor.
Right?
So a flock of sheep with a shepherd,
that's symbolic of a church with a pastor.
The Bible tells pastors to feed the flock of God
and so forth.
Now, these guys are shepherds.
These guys are pastors
and they are not doing what they're supposed to be doing.
They're doing a terrible job
and Joseph brings up their evil report
and they hate him for it.
Now look if you would at Ezekiel chapter 34 verse 1.
The Bible reads,
And the word of the Lord came unto me saying,
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel.
Prophesy and say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds.
Woe be to the shepherds of Israel
that do feed themselves.
Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
You eat the fat and you clothe you with wool,
with the wool you kill them that are fed,
but you feed not the flock.
The diseased have you not strengthened,
neither have you healed that which was sick,
neither have you bound up that which was broken,
neither have you brought again that which was driven away,
neither have you sought, listen to this,
neither have you sought that which was lost,
but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them,
and they were scattered because there's no shepherd,
and they became meat to all the beasts of the field
when they were scattered.
My sheep wandered through all the mountains
and upon every high hill,
yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth,
and none did search or seek after them.
Therefore ye shepherds hear the word of the Lord.
As I live, saith the Lord God,
surely because my flock became a prey
and my flock became meat to every beast of the field,
because there was no shepherd,
neither did my shepherd search for my flock,
but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not my flock.
Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord God, behold, I am against the shepherds,
and I will require my flock at their hand
and cause them to cease from feeding the flock.
Neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore,
for I will deliver my flock from their mouth,
that they may not be meat for them,
for thus saith the Lord God,
behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep and seek them out.
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock,
and the day that he is among the sheep that are scattered,
so will I seek out my sheep,
and will deliver them out of all the places
where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Today we have shepherds, we have pastors,
and they are not going out and seeking that which is lost.
They are not seeking them at all, the Bible says.
They are not going out to seek and to save that which is lost.
I am talking about soul winning tonight.
Jesus Christ said that he came to seek and to save that which was lost,
and he said to us, as my Father has sent me, so send I you.
But we have got a bunch of sons of Bilhah and sons of Zilpah
pastoring churches where they are out there feeding themselves
and gorging themselves and getting fat on their lazy rear end
instead of going out and doing some soul winning.
They are lazy.
They are wicked and slothful today.
That is why they hate us.
You see, everywhere I go, and I go a lot of places.
I go a lot of places.
I go a lot of places around the state of Arizona.
I love Arizona, and I like to see all the different parts of Arizona
because of the fact that there are just a lot of interesting places,
a lot of different Indian reservations and little towns and mountains
and canyons and places.
And so I like to go all over Arizona,
and we have a thing that we have done at our church for about a decade now
called the small town soul winning.
Small town soul winning marathons.
And we go to these just really small towns out in the middle of nowhere,
and we knock every door in one day and give everybody the gospel who will listen.
And now we are really focusing in on the Indian reservations
because we found some of the Indian reservations
to be some of the most receptive places that we have ever been soul winning.
And some of these Indian reservations are so receptive
that it will just blow your mind.
I spent two days on the White Mountain Apache Reservation,
and I presented the gospel more times in those two days
than I have ever done in my life.
I think I presented the gospel about 23 times all the way through in two days,
just going through the whole plan of salvation about 23 times.
In fact, one of those two days, I literally the entire day
did not knock a single door where the person was not home.
Everybody was home,
and I did not even run into one person who said no to listening to the gospel.
In a whole day.
I think we were about five hours of actual soul winning
in a town called Sibicue, Arizona, out in the middle of nowhere,
just surrounded by mountains and totally off the beaten path.
No one is passing through this town for any reason
unless they are going there on purpose.
And just everybody I talked to said yes.
Now, they did not all get saved.
About half of them got saved.
Everybody was home.
Everybody said yes.
And I am thinking to myself, wow, how did we find this place?
Who has ever even heard of this place?
This place is out in the middle of nowhere.
We have never even heard.
We do not even know how to pronounce the name of it.
And we drove down this windy road to get there.
But you know who was already there when I got there?
You want to know who was already there?
The Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses.
We see them out knocking doors.
We think, here we are.
We are going to the ends of the earth.
We are going deep into this canyon.
We are going deep into this Indian reservation.
And it is like that every single time.
We go to any small town.
We go to any Indian reservation.
We go to any nook or cranny of the state of Arizona.
Every single time we are seeing the Mormons
and we are seeing the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Then we come back to Phoenix and who do we see?
On their little tricycles.
The Mormons going down the street.
And we see the name tags.
And we see the 17-year-old elder.
Talk about an oxymoron.
We see the elders and we see the Jehovah's false witnesses.
They are everywhere.
I guarantee you it is the same thing here in Sacramento.
They are out in force.
How many of you have ever had your door knocked by a Jehovah's Witness?
How many of you have ever had your door knocked by a Mormon in your life?
Put up your hand.
They are everywhere.
But you know what I don't see in these small towns?
I don't see the Baptists out soul winning.
And when I go up and down the streets of Phoenix or Mesa, Arizona
or when I travel to California
or when I travel to other places across the country
I am not constantly running into other Baptists out soul winning.
I am not constantly running into other Evangelical Christians out soul winning.
I am not constantly running into a Bible believing soul winner.
But it seems like the Mormons are everywhere.
It seems like the Jehovah's Witnesses are everywhere.
Well you know what? Why don't you do a little research
and figure out whether there is more Baptists or more Mormons.
There are a lot more Baptists than there are Mormons.
There are a lot more Baptists than there are Jehovah's Witnesses.
Do you know that if you go to the south of this country
in the southern states Baptists are more than 50% of the population?
It's true. Look it up. It's the truth.
Why is it that the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses have the reputation
and you know what? They have that reputation for a reason
because we see them out there everywhere we go.
Can somebody explain to me why we are not seeing Baptists out there
by the droves, why there aren't a million Baptists knocking doors this Saturday all over America.
Look if every Baptist would go out soul winning,
every door would be getting knocked so many times
people would have to put up a sign that said no Baptists allowed.
We don't want to hear that. Our door was knocked 25 times by Baptists last year.
Because there are millions of Baptists, millions and millions of them.
Let me tell you something. When these shepherds,
when these pastors are not going out and seeking the loss,
they are not going out to seek and to save that which is lost.
They are not going out there and do any soul winning.
You know what? That's an evil report.
My name is Joseph here today and I am here to bring you
and to bring God and everybody their evil report
that the average independent fundamental Baptist in America
is a spiritual son of a concubine,
a spiritual bastard of Zilpah, a spiritual bastard of Bilhah.
They are not doing what they are supposed to do.
And when we bring that evil report they hate us for it.
But it's the truth.
Why do they hate us tonight?
I'll tell you why because they are lazy as hell
and we are out there winning souls doing something for God
and it's like the testimony said earlier today
when you are not doing anything for God,
you don't like to watch other people doing something for God.
They hate us in their hearts today
because we bring their evil report.
We make them look bad because they are lazy
and they are doing nothing today. It's wicked.
It's wicked today.
I don't care if they cross the fundamental T
and dot the fundamental I.
I don't care how short their haircut is.
I don't care if they got the white shirt
and the crease and the pants and the tie and the cuff links
and they've got it so dialed in with the polish on the shoes
and they are sharp as a tack.
You know what? If they are not a soul winner
they are not following Christ because Jesus said
if you follow me I'll make you fishers of men.
Imagine the stupidity of actually giving somebody the time of day
of actually listening for five seconds
to somebody criticizing our church or his church
or any of the other pastors here that are zealous about soul winning.
To listen to somebody for five seconds
criticize our soul winning churches
when they have little or no soul winning at their church.
Who are they to talk to us about anything?
I mean think about that.
See the Bible says judge not that ye be not judged
for with what judgment you judge you shall be judged
and with what measure ye meet it shall be measured to you again
and why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye
and behold a beam is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother
let me pull out the mote out of thine eye
and behold a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite!
First cast out the beam out of thine own eye
and then shalt thou see clearly
to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
You see today your average Baptist
or even your average independent Baptist
has this gigantic beam in their eye
called no soul winning.
And listen to me.
And you listen to me good.
A door hanger is not soul winning.
Tracks aren't soul winning.
Visitation isn't soul winning.
That is a cheap substitute.
A cheap substitute is just not even the same thing.
I'm talking about real soul winning.
They got soul winning once a month
or once a year or once in a blue moon.
They go out, they hand out a few door knockers
or they knock three doors and then go to donuts
because they knock the address
and the door to the right and the door to the left.
They hope nobody's home.
They touch the door gently and get out of there.
For them to have this gigantic beam in their eye
of little or no soul winning,
weak soul winning, if it's even there at all.
And this is what's going on
in most independent Baptist churches across America.
And then they have the gall to say,
I don't think you guys believe right about Israel.
Here, let me get this.
Look, who gives a rip about some country
on the other side of the world?
You won't even go across the street
and win the soul that's across the street
and you're worried about what's going on
on the other side of the world.
Why don't you worry about your own house?
Why don't you keep your own vineyard?
Why don't you clean up your own backyard
before telling me about some battle
that's going on in the Middle East
because you're watching a bunch of Fox News
and you're watching a bunch of talk radio
and pundits and news and everything like that.
You're filling your mind with that stuff
and you're just like,
well, did you know that Pastor Jimenez
doesn't support Israel?
You know what?
Who gives a rip
because we're giving the gospel to more Jews
by accident than they gave the gospel to on purpose.
We're doing more for Israel
than these people are.
Just by uploading videos to YouTube,
click on the analytics.
Some of the people watching are in Israel.
But it's just so stupid to sit there and say,
oh, well, you know, I can't believe
that you'd go to that red hot preaching conference.
I mean, did you know that those guys
don't support Israel?
You know what?
You can shut your foolish mouth
until I see you out there doing
one tenth of the soul winning that we're doing.
Then let's talk.
Those guys aren't loving
at the red hot preaching conference.
You know, they're so mean down there, right?
As you sit on your fat rear end
and let the whole world go to hell.
Not feeding the flock, just feeding yourself.
Just feeding yourself.
And they have the goal to hate on us
when they don't love the lost.
It's wicked and slothful.
I mean, just sit there.
I mean, just think about how foolish it is.
Your church has no soul winning program.
Your whole city's going to hell.
Your whole state's going to hell.
There's an Indian reservation an hour from you,
two hours from you, three hours from you,
where people are sitting there
just ready to hear the gospel.
If you go knock that door,
they will open that door.
They will listen to the gospel.
Many of them will be saved.
The fields are white unto harvest.
People are just ready to get saved,
even in your neighborhood,
even in your own backyard,
even in Roseville and Elk Grove
and South Sac and Citrus Heights
and Fair Oaks and West Sacramento.
They're all just waiting in Carmichael
and waiting in Orangevale
and waiting in Woodland
and waiting all over this,
just waiting for someone to bring them,
because there are people out there like that.
Who cares about all the doors that aren't interested?
Shake it off and move on,
because eventually you'll get to that one
that's just sitting there and they're waiting
and they want to know the gospel
and they want to know the truth,
and right now some pastor somewhere
is sitting back all smug,
like, oh, man, that Pastor Jimenez
just isn't loving or he's wrong on Bible prophecy.
What a joke.
You know, I mean,
I'd rather hang around with pre-tribbers
who are soul winning
than somebody who's right on post-trib pre-wrath
and letting the whole world go to hell
any day of the week.
I'd rather hang around with the most zealous,
Zionist, pro-Israel person ever
that's a soul winner
than if somebody understood
every replacement theology point
in the whole Bible
and doesn't love the lost and doesn't care
and is letting people go to hell.
Where in the world do these people get off
criticizing a soul winning church,
a red hot, soul winning church
that's having people saved every week,
constantly having people baptized,
constantly seeing lives change,
reaching atheists, Muslims, Hindus, Jews,
agnostics, Catholics, and everybody else with the gospel,
but you know they're messed up on Bible prophecy, don't you?
That's what they say about us.
He's a heretic because he thinks that, you know,
it's pre-wrath instead of pre-trib.
He's wrong on Israel.
Well, you know what, last time I checked,
we don't live in Israel.
Who here has ever been to Israel before?
Put up your hand.
Who here has been to Israel?
All right, the rest of us don't care.
We've never even been there, right?
We've never been there.
I never want to go there until Jesus is there.
When Jesus gets there, I'll go there.
Until then, I don't want to go there.
I have no interest in going there.
It's the Holy Land.
This is the Holy Land.
You know where the Holy Land is?
Wherever God's people get on their knees
and get on any piece of dirt somewhere
and pray down the power of God
and go out soul winning.
That's the Holy Land for me.
That's the only Holy Land I'm interested in.
It's Arizona.
It's Sacramento, California.
It's New Orleans, Louisiana.
It's wherever Bible-believing churches are,
wherever God's people are assembled.
Hey, when two or three are gathered together in Christ's name,
he's right there in the midst of us.
But he's not over there hearing the prayers of people
who don't go through the Son.
Come to the Father through Jesus the Son.
No man cometh unto the Father but by Him.
It's so ridiculous to have this gigantic beam in your eye.
Go to 1 John 3.
1 John 3 of not loving the lost,
not going soul winning,
and then you're worried about Bible prophecy.
You're worried about who Babylon is.
You're worried about whether we voted Republican in the last election
or whether we went soul winning that day instead.
They pick us apart today.
They hate us.
They see us coming with our coat of many colors
and they want to rip it off our backs.
They want to beat us up.
They want to throw us in a pit somewhere.
They wish we would die.
They would rejoice when we die.
That's what hate is.
Hatred means you wish harm upon someone.
You want them to fail.
You want them to suffer.
You want them to be destroyed.
That's how even many of our brothers and sisters in Christ feel about us.
Why don't they love us?
Even if they disagree with us,
why wouldn't they just say,
well, you know what?
I don't agree on the homo thing
because I watch a lot of TV
and I don't agree on Israel
because I watch a lot of Fox News
and I don't agree on the end time stuff,
but boy are those guys winning some people to the Lord.
Man, I'm alive.
Man, those churches are growing.
Man, those people get people saying,
how are they rallying a hundred soul winners
in every city they show up in across America?
What's going on?
Where do we sign up?
No, no, no.
It's just, oh, those guys.
Literally, I've heard over the last two months
from two different Muslims,
two different Muslims,
who got saved as a result of watching the film Marching to Zion
and getting into the preaching
and getting the gospel
who were literally persecuted
and thrown out of their local church
for listening to Pastor Anderson.
And they're like, well, that's how I got saved.
And I wonder how many Muslims they've got saved.
But you know what they want to do?
They want to bomb the Muslims into the Stone Age.
They want to kill them all
and let God sort them out.
And you know what?
I want to get them saved.
I just had a young, you know,
oh, Pastor Anderson hates Jews.
That's what they claim, right?
I don't hate Jews.
We had a young man come to our church
within the last two months.
I have a bad concept of time.
It was probably like a month and a half ago.
He was born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish home
He was a Hebrew of the Hebrews
and he got saved as a result of hearing the preaching
from Faithful Word Baptist Church over the Internet.
And he got saved and I was able to baptize him
at Faithful Word Baptist Church.
And then an entire Muslim family came
about six months ago
and got baptized at Faithful Word Baptist Church
because they heard the preaching
and look, Jews are getting saved.
Muslims are getting saved.
Hindus are getting saved.
Atheists, I have people coming up to me
at so many marathons saying,
I'm an atheist, I got saved.
Several.
But none of that matters because we're not pro-Israel.
None of that matters because we don't believe
in the pre-Trib rapture.
Why do they hate Jews?
Why do they hate us?
Here's why.
The Bible says in 1 John 3 verse 11,
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning,
that we should love one another,
not as Cain.
Now let me stop and say this to you.
Cain was a wicked person.
Cain was of the wicked one.
Cain was of the devil.
Cain was unsaved.
And what this scripture is saying here
is that we as Christians, we that are saved
should not be as Cain.
So we're not talking about Cain here.
We're talking about Christians
who are as Cain.
Everybody understand?
He says this is the message that ye heard from the beginning
that we should love one another,
meaning loving our brothers and sisters in Christ,
not as Cain who was of the wicked one
and slew his brother.
Wherefore, why and why?
And wherefore slew he in?
Because his own works were evil
and his brother's righteous.
He's saying don't let that tendency be in you
that Cain had.
You're not Cain.
You're not unsaved like Cain was unsaved.
You're a child of God.
You have the Holy Spirit living inside of you.
Don't be like Cain.
Love your brother in Christ.
And dead sure don't be like Cain in the sense
that you hate your brother
because your own works are evil
and because his are righteous.
You see, when we see someone
who is more righteous than ourself,
when we see a church
that is more zealous than our church,
when we see a church
that's doing greater works than our church,
when we see soul-winning
that is surpassing the soul-winning that we do,
we can either have a wicked spirit of envy
and hatred
because they're doing better than us
or we can sit back and say,
wow, praise God
because I'm just glad people are being saved
and what can I learn?
How can I implement that
in my church, in my home?
And look, I visit other churches sometimes.
I don't visit other churches very often
because I don't miss the services of Faithful Word.
But sometimes I've been in a situation
where I got to visit other churches
because of traveling or illness
or whatever the case may be.
Sometimes we had to go to the hospital,
for example, in LA
for a special treatment
because of a pregnancy complication at one point.
And I'll tell you what,
I walk into some churches
from what we affectionately call
the old IFB movement,
the old Independent Fundamental Baptist movement.
And I honestly have to say,
I walk in and I see certain things
that I like better
about their church
or things that they're doing better
or things that they're really excelling in
or doing a good job.
And you know what, I'm taking notes
of how I can be a better pastor
and be a better Christian
and have a better church
because I see what they're doing.
And it doesn't mean that I necessarily
think that everything they're doing is great,
but I see some things
that they're excelling in
and I want to be like them.
I want to learn from them.
I want to be the best that I can be.
I don't just get all mad and be like,
oh man, you know.
I got to make sure everybody knows
that faithful words better, you know.
You know, I'm just thinking,
hey, they're doing great on this area.
Let's do that. Let's learn from that.
Go to 1 John 4.
1 John 4.
Does anybody know what time it is?
I don't think there's a clock up here.
What time is it?
8.41.
1 John 4, verse 20 says,
If a man say, I love God,
and hateth his brother,
he's a liar.
For he that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen,
love God whom he hath not seen.
And this commandment, have we from him
that he who loveth God,
love his brother also.
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ
is born of God.
And everyone that loveth him that begat
loveth him also that is begotten of him.
By this we know that we love the children of God
when we love God and keep his commandments.
Listen, I don't know
if everything that I preach
is always 100% right
because I'm a human being
and I'm not perfect.
And
I don't know
where I rank
or where he ranks
or where any of us rank
as far as who's the greatest preacher
or the greatest church.
We're just trying to be the best that we can be
but let me say one thing I know for sure.
I know for sure
that I'm going to heaven
and that he's saved.
And I know for sure that this guy is going to heaven
and that he's saved.
I've known him long enough
to know that about him.
And let me tell you something.
Anybody who hates me
and hates him
and hates any other
true born again child of God
does not love the Lord.
They don't love the Lord.
That's what the Bible just said.
Did you just read it?
The Bible says if a man say I love God
and hateth his brother, he's a liar.
He's a liar.
Anybody who hates me
anybody who hates him
and look
we are not perfect
but we are
preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ
we are winning souls to Christ
our heart burns within us
with love for the Lord
we love the King James Bible
we love soul winning
we love each other
and let me tell you something
if people hate us
they don't love the Lord
it's that simple.
And I don't care if they say
that they hate us
you can tell who hates us
and who doesn't.
And the Bible says
that if we love God
we're to love our brothers and sisters in Christ
and if we don't love our brothers and sisters in Christ
we don't love God.
And so right away when somebody
hates me
I'm not saying that they're not saved
because there are a lot of saved people
who are as Cain
and they don't love their brother
in Christ, but you know what
when somebody hates my ever loving guts
I just mark it down
that person doesn't love the Lord.
And you say well that's prideful
no no no, I'm a child of God
and when somebody hates me
that tells me that they don't love the Lord
why would they hate a preacher
who's preaching the true gospel
of Jesus Christ
who's winning people the Lord
who's teaching the King James Bible
and winning so it doesn't make any sense.
Except that even though they're saved
they're like Cain.
Let me hurry up here
Genesis 37, back to Genesis 37.
Why did they hate us today?
Because we bring up their evil report
that's why.
Number two, they hate us because God's blessing us.
Number one, they hate us because
we bring up their evil report
and number two, they hate us because
God's blessing us.
The Bible says in Genesis 37 verse 4
when his brethren saw that their father
loved him more than all his brethren
they hated him
and could not speak peaceably
unto him. Don't turn there
but in Genesis 27, 41
it says that Esau hated Jacob
because of the blessing
wherewith his father blessed him
and Esau said in his heart
the days of mourning for my father
are at hand then will I slay
my brother Jacob.
That's hatred.
They hate us because God's blessing us
and then I'm going to hurry on to point three
number three, they hate us
because we have a great vision
we have a great dream
I have a dream today
Look at Genesis
37 verse 5 it says
and Joseph dreamed a dream
and he told it to his brethren
and they hated him yet the more
and he said unto them
here I pray you this dream which I've dreamed
for behold we were binding sheaves in the field
and lo my sheaf arose
and also stood upright
and behold your sheaves stood round about
and made obeisance to my sheaf
and his brethren said to him
shalt thou indeed reign over us
or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us
and they hated him yet the more
for his dreams and for his words
and he dreamed yet another dream
and told it his brethren and said
behold I've dreamed a dream more
and behold the sun and the moon
and the eleven stars made obeisance
to me and he told it to his father
and to his brethren and his father
rebuked him and said unto him
what is this dream that thou hast dreamed
shall I and thy mother and thy brethren
indeed come to bow down ourselves
to thee to the earth
and his brethren envied him
but his father observed the same
I don't believe that Joseph was a prideful person
I don't even think that he had a desire
to rule over his brethren
and the reason I say that is because
when they finally come to see him
he doesn't rule over them with vigor
he does not want to subjugate them
he actually wants to give them
the best of the land
he wants them to thrive and succeed
and prosper
I don't think he was prideful
and wanted to rule over them at all
this is just what God is showing him
is going to happen
you know I had a dream
I had a dream that I went out soul winning
and boldly preached the gospel
from door to door
every week for the last
nineteen years
and I had a dream
that you guys were out hanging out a door hanger
I had a dream
that we all had a big sheaf of wheat
and my sheaf of wheat
went soul winning
and your sheaf of wheat
was sitting on its fat rear end watching TV
I had a dream
that the sun, moon and stars
were all out
doing lifestyle evangelism
and I had a dream
that I was actually
doing real soul winning
oh well who do you think you are
you think that you're the new leader
you think you just want to rule over us
I had a dream
that two thirds
of my church went out soul winning
on a regular basis
and that the only person
that goes soul winning in your church
is the person who downloads sermons
from Verity Baptist Church
and he's trying to get you
to come out and be his silent partner
oh how dare you
and let me tell you something
let me tell you something
I would love nothing more
and you know what
God is my witness
I would love nothing more
than to become
the laziest pastor in America
the lamest pastor in America
the least soul winning
pastor in America
because all these guys got out there
and proved me wrong
and organized a big soul winning campaign
and organized a big soul winning marathon
and say alright get out of the way
you young punk
and it doesn't matter how old I get
I just had another birthday
but I'm still a young punk
no matter how old I get
no matter how many children I sire
but
I just wish
that these pastors in Arizona would say
get out of the way
you post-trib
anti-Israel
homo hating
little punk
we're going to show you
how the old school
IFB movement does soul winning
and I see your
I see your 100 soul winners
you know in
Portland, Oregon
or wherever
I'll raise you 200
and you know what some of these churches are a lot bigger than ours
you know okay faithful word
I see your 11
I see your 11 soul winning times per week
I'll raise you another 11
I'll have 22 soul winning times per week
all of them filled
with soul winners
all of them active all of them thriving
I would love that
God is my witness
I would love it
if the fundamental Baptist in America
got so on fire
and started preaching such awesome sermons
and they actually figured out how to use YouTube
and they actually figured out
how to use social media
and they actually just started uploading
a bunch of red hot sermons
and they drove the Sodomites
back into the closet
and they you know
preached hard
and had soul winners going up and down
and we would every time we see these people
we wouldn't think it's the Mormons
we wouldn't think it was the Jehovah's Witnesses
we would know it was an independent fundamental Baptist
to the point where people said
Steven Anderson who?
who?
forget him man
it's Jack Treiber
it's Paul Chapel
that's who we ought to be following
they're the ones going all over America
ripping it up with all these soul winning
marathons
right?
I mean forget Verity Baptist Church
man
it's Steven Nichols down at Regency
that's ripping it up
and he's the one
that's on the news
telling Sodomites to go to hell
wouldn't you?
oh you're in competition with him
or would you love that?
he's all the way in Orangevale
I'd love it
and you know what?
I still love Pastor Nichols
and I thank God
for everything he did in my life
I thank God
for what he did in Pastor Jimenez's life
I thank God
that he used to rip those sodomites
so hard and he used to say
put them all on a boat
and give them enough gas to get halfway out in the ocean
and let the sharks eat them
that's what he said
you know what?
he taught us soul winning
Pastor Nichols you made us
you created a monster
hey I think Pastor Nichols
is one of the greatest influences I had in my life
what do you think?
do you agree with that?
I think Pastor Nichols is one of the greatest influences in my life
I will love him until the day I die
you know he
is going to get some serious rewards in heaven
I'm serious
for his own works
and for the works
of those that he taught
you know his star pupil here
Pastor Roger Jimenez
you know I mean
whether he'll claim us or not
it's true
I'm serious I love Pastor Nichols
we're a product of his ministry
he made us this way
I'm serious
I'm not kidding
you think it's funny but I'm serious
man I would love for his church
to be three times as big as Verity Baptist Church
and to have hundreds of soul winners
out in the field
and I'm not down on them
I don't know how much soul winning they do or don't
I'm not criticizing them at all
when I was there it was a lot of great soul winning
they're doing great
but let me tell you something
there's no competition
you know what
I would love it
if half of my church left tomorrow
and joined some red hot
soul winning church right across the town
that was even more fired up than we are
I wouldn't even care
because we're all on the same team
but you know what
they don't feel that way
they don't like our dream
they don't like our vision
they don't like what we see
of a vision
of knocking every door in America
of knocking every door in California
every door in Arizona
every Indian reservation
every town
every village
every hamlet
they don't like our vision
they see us coming with our coat of many colors
and they see us coming
with our great dreams
and vision
and they gnash on us with their teeth
why do they hate us?
it doesn't make any sense
except if they don't love the Lord
then it makes sense
except if they are slothful
then it makes sense
except if they are starting to act like Cain
then it makes sense
why do they hate us?
well the reason that they hate us
is the same reason they hated Joseph
they hate us because we bring their evil report
they hate us because
we are being blessed by God
and they hate us thirdly
because we have a great vision
and let me tell you something
we are
the de facto leaders
of soul winning in America right now
people are looking
just type in soul winning
and see what comes up
on the internet
oh the internet doesn't matter
well welcome to 2017
where the internet matters
type in independent fundamental Baptist
type in soul winning
type in hard preaching
type in red hot preaching
you might end up watching this very video
and so
the point is
that
we are not trying to be
the leader
we are not trying to be the tip of the spear
you know what we are trying to do
we are just trying to be like Joseph
we are just trying to save much people alive
that's what we are trying to do
there is a famine of hearing God's word
I had a dream
where there were these seven
skinny cows
that represented seven fundamental Baptist
churches in my area
and then I had a dream
that these seven fat cows came
full of meat
and steak
and sirloin and filet mignon
and all kinds
of rump roast
and beef
and I saw those seven fat kind
were called
they had little bells
on the bell it was engraved with the name
Faithful Word
Verity Baptist
Faith Baptist
Old Path Baptist
Steadfast Baptist
Word of Truth Baptist
Liberty Baptist
you know
it's just the way it is
it's just
it's just that
Joseph
did
that's what the Lord told him to do
and the rest of them
were goofing around
and not getting the job done
that's why he became the leader
we don't care about being the leader
we want people to pass us up
we want people to blow our doors off
we love them
we love our
fundamental Baptist brothers
and we love lost souls
and we just want people
to be saved
that's all we want
for in the like manner did their fathers
unto the prophets
so the Bible says the prophets
were all hated
and I'm hated
and you're going to be hated
but when they hate you just leap for joy
because this just comes with the territory
it's part of being a godly Christian
he says in Acts
chapter 28
this is when the Apostle Paul
is imprisoned in Rome
and he has some of the Jews
coming to hear from him
and he's going to preach the gospel of Jesus unto them
and they don't really know anything about Paul
they don't really know anything about the gospel
here's what they say in verse 21
and they said unto him
we neither received letters out of Judea
concerning thee
neither any of the brethren that came
showed or spake any harm of thee
saying we haven't really heard anything
bad about you specifically
but we desire to hear
all of thee what thou thinkest
for as concerning this sect
we know that everywhere
is spoken against
we can't really pinpoint
what's so bad about you
but all we know is that everywhere we go
everybody hates you
everybody's talking bad about you
so we want to see what you're all about
you know it's funny I just talked to a pastor
I went out to lunch with a pastor
yesterday
and he said that he first heard about me
because he said unto you
the servant is not greater than his lord
if they've persecuted me
they will also persecute you
if they have kept my saying
they will keep yours also
but all these things will they do unto you
for my name's sake
because they know not him that sent me
if I had not come and spoken unto them
they had not had sin
but now they have no cloak for their sin
he that hateth me
hateth my father also
they had not done among them the works
which none other man did
they had not had sin
but now have they both seen and hated
both me and my father
but this cometh to pass
that the word might be fulfilled
that is written in their law
they hated me without a cause
so Jesus Christ talks about the fact
that he was hated
and he tells his disciples
that if they hated me
they will most certainly hate you
and his master
the servant's not better than his lord
so if they hated me
they're going to hate you as well
in Luke chapter 6
if you would flip over to Acts 28
in Luke chapter 6
it says blessed are ye when men shall hate you
and when they shall separate you from their company
and shall reproach you
and cast out your name as evil
for the son of man's sake
rejoice ye in that day
and leap for joy
your reward is great
Thank you for watching!
everywhere I turn
they just all hate Pastor Anderson
and I was just trying to figure out
why do they hate this guy?
so I wanted to listen to a bunch of sermons
and just get to the bottom of it
and that's true of our movement
it's a hated movement
a lot of people hate me
they hate Faithful Word Baptist Church
they hate Pastor Jimenez
that's for sure
look what they did to him in the media last year
and none of his brethren
brethren, the Fundamental Baptist pastors
in California
did they come to your defense?
did they encourage you?
did they say, hey, we love you
we're praying for you
we stand with you against the perverts
and weirdos
how many of the hundreds of Fundamental Baptists
in California reached out to you like that?
how many of the pastors?
none of them
they hate him
why?
why do they hate our church?
they hate a lot of us
they hated Jesus
they hated the prophets
they hated the apostles
why?
why do they hate us?
that's the question tonight
well, let's get the answer from Genesis chapter 37
go back to Genesis 37
we'll start there
with why they hate us
we're going to Ezekiel chapter 34 next
for those that are slower
friends
and I want to start out
tonight in John chapter 15
if you'll turn there
John chapter number 15
I'm going to come back to Genesis 37
but the title of my sermon tonight is
why they hate us
in Genesis 37
we have a story of Joseph
who was a godly young man
and the Lord was with him
but he was hated of his brethren
for how they hated him
and it actually gives us a few different reasons
in that chapter
why they hated him
and I'm going to go over those reasons tonight
but before I get into that
I just want to explain to you
who hates us
who are they and who are we
why do they hate us?
well, the Bible says of Christians
you shall be hated of all men
for my name's sake
so it should come of no surprise
that godly Christians are going to be hated
in this world
look down at your Bible there in John chapter 15 verse 18
the Bible says
if the world hate you
you know that it hated me before it hated you
if you were of the world
the world would love his own
but because ye are not of the world
but I have chosen you out of the world
therefore the world hateth you
remember the word that I said