We're going to go ahead and get started this evening.
If you would find a hymnal and turn to hymn number 428,
it came upon the midnight clear.
Hymn number 428.
We'll go ahead and start there right on the first.
It came upon the midnight clear.
That glorious song of old.
From angels bending near the earth
to touch their harps of gold.
Peace on the earth, good girl,
to men from heaven's all great just being.
The world in solitude
displayed to hear the angels sing.
Still through the COVID skies they come
with peaceful wings unfurled.
And still there are many music flows
for all the weary world.
Above its sad and lonely plains
they plant on a green wing.
And ever over its bagel sounds
the blessed angels sing.
And here beneath lies crashing down
whose forms are bending down.
The soil of the climbing way
with painful steps and snow.
Look now for glad and bold
then art will sway me on the wing.
O rest beside the weary road
and hear the angels sing.
For all the days are acing on
by concrete boards for time.
When will the ever-serving years
come found the age of old?
When we shall overhaul the earth
vegetation's splendors gleam
and the whole world give back
the song which now the angels sing.
Good singing, let's open in a word of prayer.
Dear Father, thank you for this chance that we have to sing praises unto your son
and I pray that you just fill us with your spirit as we sing praises unto you
and let the rest of the service be done decently and in order lord in Jesus name
I pray. Amen. For our next song if you would
turn the page a couple to 431. Silent night holy night, hymn
number 431.
In 431 we'll start there right on the first.
Silent night holy night
all is calm all is bright
round your virgin mother and child
holy infant, so tender and mild
secret heavenly peace
Silent night holy night
shepherds quake at the sight
glory stream from heaven afar
and the old sing alleluia
Christ the Savior is born
Silent night holy night
Son of God loves your life
pray at least from thy only face
with the daughter giving grace
Jesus, Lord at thy birth
Silent night holy night
wander on a star
playing by mine
with the angels where I sing
alleluia to our King
Christ the Savior is born
Good evening everyone. Great singing this evening.
Welcome to Anchor Baptist Church. This time
we'll go through our announcements. You
don't have a bulletin, raise your hand and
usher will bring you one. On the front is
our Bible memory passage of the week
which is our church's theme verse
Hebrews chapter 6 verse 19 and we're
almost done with this chapter. We'll
finish it out and then there will be one
grace week as well. So you still have a
couple weeks to work on this if you
want to be eligible for a prize at the
end. On the front is our contact
information, a new website there on the
left hand side. On the inside we have
our service times listed 10 30 a.m.
for the Sunday morning service, a
Sunday evening at 4 30 and our
Wednesday evening Bible study of
course at 7 o'clock. All of our
soul winning times are listed there
and just make note that this
Saturday is a special
soul winning rally, our Christmas
soul winning push. We're going to have
food here at 9 o'clock and we'll start
our rally at 10 o'clock so looking
forward to that this Saturday. Our
nursing home ministry schedule is listed
there. If you've partaken that make sure
to make note of those times and dates.
On the bottom is our year-to-date
statistics, great work soul winning.
Let's keep it up and keep pushing hard
towards the end of the year. On the
upper right hand side there is our
expecting ladies. Please be in prayer
from this Whitney Reed for her
pregnancy. Also upcoming events this
Friday is going to be the ladies
Christmas party and right after
service if I could ask the men if you
could help me move these chairs out
and get the table set up for the
ladies. That way they could be set up
for success on Friday.
And again like I said 21st is the
soul winning push. 25th is going to
be our cookie bake off right after
the evening service and
Tuesday December 31st is going to be
our New Year's Eve party and a men's
preaching night that evening. So
looking forward to that make sure if
you're a guy that wants to preach
that you sign up at the sign-up sheet
on the back there.
Online giving is listed there. Some
details about that ladies Christmas
party coming up this Friday. On the
back is our prayer list. There's some
added prayers so please do be praying
for them. I had a little bit of a
crazy day with one of my kids so I'll
be praying for Anna if you will and
also Heidi who hasn't been feeling
well. But again if you ever have
prayer requests please don't hesitate
to reach out. That's what we're
here for as a church to pray for
each other.
So at this time let's go ahead and
go to the Lord in prayer as a church
family.
God thank you for this day thank you
for the opportunity to come to church
and just thank you for the brethren
that are here the unity that we have
I just pray that we would endeavor to
keep that spirit here Lord and pray
that you just answer these prayer
requests according to your will that
you just be with all the different
needs of our church members and
those that couldn't make it this
evening Lord. I just pray for my
daughters Anna and Heidi that you
bless their health Lord and we
also pray for Miss Remy for her
visa process that your will be done
in that situation and just help
her with whatever you think is best
for that God. We also pray for
brother Moses in the U.S. who
recently came from Germany. I just
pray that you would continue to
bless his job and just help him to
adjust to the new life and seen here
in the United States. I know he misses
his friends just pray that you bless
him as he's at faithful word Lord
and bless that church and we also
pray for brother James that his back
pain would be healed Lord that you
just help him to continue to be
able to do works for you that his
pain wouldn't hold him back from the
desires he has to serve you Lord. We
also pray for brother Cameron for his
mother's salvation and healing of
her body of cancer God and pray for
brother Alex in Texas for his job
situation that you would help him to
get through this season of life and
bless him in his endeavors of work
God and we also pray for miss Sean
for her co-worker Terry who has
cancer that you just put your hand
upon her Lord and that you just
help her to be healed from that
and if she's not saved that she
would hear the gospel and her heart
would be softened and we pray that same
thing Lord for all of the members in
here that have family members who are
lost I just pray that especially around
Christmas as they hear the hymns and
perhaps here preaching that they would
just open up their hearts to the word
of God and that we would as soul
winners be looking for opportunities
to preach the gospel around the
holidays and we thank you for our
church and all that you do for us
in Jesus' name we pray amen.
All right that's going to be it for
announcements this evening we'll go
and go to our third song all right for
our third song if you would actually
take your white handouts and turn to
Psalm chapter 67 Psalm 67 in the white
handouts
start there right at the beginning
God be merciful unto us and bless us
and cause his face to shine upon us
that thy way may be known upon earth
thy saving health among all nations
let the people praise thee oh God
let all the people praise thee
oh let the nations be glad
and sing for joy for thou shall judge
the people righteously and govern
the nations upon earth the nations
upon earth see love let the people
praise thee oh God
let all the people praise thee
oh let the nations be glad
and sing for joy
then shall the earth yield her increase
and God even our own God shall bless us
God shall bless us and all the ends
of the earth shall fear him
let the people praise thee oh God
let all the people praise thee
oh let the nations be glad
and sing for joy
good seeing this evening as the offering plates are being passed around turn if
you would to first Samuel chapter number 18
first Samuel chapter number 18
good evening tonight we are in first Samuel 18 in the bible reads
and it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul
that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David
and Jonathan loved him as his own soul and Saul took him
that day and would let him go no more home to his father's house
then Jonathan and David made a covenant because he loved him as his own
soul and Jonathan stripped himself of the
robe that was upon him and gave it to David
and his garments even to his sword and to his bow
and to his girdle and David went out with or so ever
Saul sent him and behaved himself wisely
and Saul set him over the men of war and he was
accepted in the sight of all the people also and also
in the sight of Saul's servants and it came to pass as they came
when David was returning from the slaughter of the
Philistine that the women came out of all cities of Israel
singing and dancing to meet with to meet King Saul
with tavernets with joy and with instruments of music
and the women answered one another as they played
and said Saul has slain his thousands and David his 10 thousands
and Saul was very wroth and is saying displease him
and he said they have ascribed unto David 10 thousands
and to me they have ascribed but thousands
and what can he have more but the kingdom
and Saul eyed David from that day and forward
and it came to pass on the morrow that the evil spirit from God
came upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house
and David played with his hand as at other times
and there was a javelin in Saul's hand and Saul
cast the javelin for he said I will smite David
even to the wall with it and David avoided out of his presence
twice and Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him
and was departed from Saul therefore Saul removed
him from him and made him his captain over a thousand
and he went out and came in before the people
and David behaved himself wisely in all his ways
and the Lord was with him wherefore when Saul
saw that he had that he behaved himself very wisely he was afraid of him
but all Israel and Judah loved David because he went out and came in
before them and Saul said to David behold
my elder daughter Mirab her will I give thee to wife
only be thou valiant for me and fight the Lord's battles
for Saul said let not mine hand be upon him
but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him
and David said unto Saul who am I and what is my life
or my father's family in Israel that I should be
son-in-law to the king but it came to pass at the time
when Mirab Saul's daughter should have been given to David
that she was given to Adriel the meholothite
to wife and my cow Saul's daughter loved David
and they told Saul and the thing pleased him
and Saul said I will give her I will give him her
that she may be a snare to him and that the hand
of the Philistines may be against him wherefore
Saul said to David thou shalt this day be my son-in-law
and the one of the twain and Saul commanded his servants
saying commune with David secretly and say
behold the king hath delight in thee and all his servants
love thee now therefore be the king son-in-law
and Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David
and David said seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king son-in-law
seeing that I am a poor man and lightly esteemed
and the servants of Saul told him saying on this man or spake David
and Saul said thus shall you say to David the king desired not any dowry
but in hundred foreskins of the Philistines to be avenged
of the king's enemy but Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the
Philistines and when his servants told David these words
it pleased David well to be the king son-in-law
and the days were not expired wherefore David arose
and went he and his men and slew of the Philistines
two hundred men and David brought their foreskins
and and they gave them in full tail to the king
that he might be the king son-in-law and Saul gave
him my cow his daughter to wife and Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with
David and that my cow Saul's daughter loved him
and Saul was yet the more afraid of David
and Saul became David's enemy continually then the princes of the
Philistines went forth and it came to pass
after they went forth that David behaved himself more wisely
than all the servants of Saul so that his name was
much set by let's bow our heads for word of prayer
Father in heaven we thank you for this day and we thank you for our church
and our pastor and we just have to be a myth over us tonight and myth over pastors
on daughters and that we're just going to hold spirit
help us to make it up so quickly after some and we just have to pray
Amen all right we are in first Samuel chapter 18 this evening the
Bible reads in verse one and it came to pass when he had made an
end of speaking unto Saul that the soul of Jonathan
was knit with the soul of David and Jonathan loved him
as his own soul and this is kind of the beginning of the Bible telling us of
this great friendship between David and Jonathan
and we're not going to spend too much time this evening talking about their
friendship because the Bible is going to explain a lot more about it later
but I just I like it how it says there that Jonathan loved him
as his own soul you know that's a good friend right there when someone
actually loves you as themselves right they're not in
the friendship for some sort of selfish motive or what they could get out of
someone you know a lot of people for example if you have money
if you have power if you have something like that everyone want to be
your friend but here there's nothing really that
Jonathan can benefit from David you know if anything it's Jonathan
that is the king's son and he's the one that loves David you could
tell it's a sincere friendship that Jonathan is a sincere person
verse 2 it says and Saul took him that day and would let him go no more
home to his father's house then Jonathan and David made a covenant
because he loved him as his own soul and notice
the self-sacrifice here of Jonathan it says in Jonathan stripped himself
of the robe that was upon him and gave it to David
and his garments even to his sword and to his bow
and to his girdle so notice Jonathan wasn't really getting
anything from David Jonathan was actually giving to David
and that's how you know you're a true friend of someone where you're in the
friendship to see what you could give to the other person
you know because if someone just constantly is the one blessing you and
giving you money and giving you gifts you know it's very easy to be that
person's friend but Jonathan he has a really
sincere motive here he actually really loves David as a person
and the proof of that is that he's giving of himself
you know that's how we should be in our friendships in life in this
church that we should be looking for opportunities to give of
ourselves for our brethren because we love each other not just because
we're trying to get something out of a different person
verse five it says in David went out with or so ever
Saul sent him and behaved himself wisely and Saul set him over the men of war
and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also
in the sight of Saul's servants so you know it's very clear that God is
with this young man David because as we talked about last week
David was a stripling David is at this time probably a teenager
and even just as a teenager he got promoted to being
over all the men of war I mean that's a lot of responsibility
that's a high position that David has attained somehow as a teenager
and of course the reason why is because he's found God's favor
and not only God's favor it also says he was accepted
in the sight of all the people and also in the sight
of Saul's servants you know young people children teenagers
they rightly so kind of have a reputation sometimes of being
stupid being careless being irresponsible but you know David is an
example to us that it doesn't have to be that way
you know you actually could be even from a very young age
even from a teenager be someone that is
very responsible and someone that cares about what they're doing
and someone who is willing or I'm sorry worthy of trust of another person
go to Titus chapter 2 Titus chapter number 2
you know you say I want to be like David I want to be someone that is
you know put in charge of things I want to be you know having more
responsibility in my life I want other people to look at me as a serious
person well the bible gives some instruction to
young men on how to achieve that Titus 2 verse 6 notice what the bible
says it says young men likewise exhort to be
sober minded you know one of the things that the bible
hammers that's important for young men to do is to be
serious now of course you know I preach to the whole sermon on sobriety
how sobriety often is talking about not drinking alcohol not doing drugs and
of course all those things apply but also it's very important for a
young man that wants responsibility that wants
the boss to look at him and say I can give this guy more who wants the
pastor to do the same thing it has to be someone that is
serious about life serious about work serious about the things of god
you can't be just someone that just doesn't have a plan it doesn't have a vision
or just is apathetic about your life and expect
to be taken seriously look at verse number seven it says in all things
showing thyself a pattern of good works in doctrine showing uncorruptness
gravity sincerity so the bible talks about having a pattern
of good works see david wasn't just randomly chosen to be in charge of the
army here of the men of war you know he has a long
track record of being a faithful person starting from just being a humble
servant taking care of the sheep right being a
a pastor if you will and then taking on the lion taking on the bear
and eventually slaying goliath and he's built some credibility for
himself that yeah he might be a stripling he
might be a teenager but this is a serious guy
this guy has a pattern of good works and you know
young men you should strive to that same exact thing and don't just think like
well you know i'm 10 11 12 13 whatever teenager
so i don't need to take anything seriously i could just play video games
all day and not take my life seriously no now is the time
where you should be building your name to where your name
someone hears your name and they think that's a hard working
young man you know i'm gonna brag on on someone's kids at
steadfast in fort worth brother jason west
his young boys are just sharp and one of his boys i don't know exactly the boys
age i want to say he's like 10 years old but he's just opening the door for
every person that walks into that church he looks you in the eye
he shakes your hand he says please thank you yes sir no sir yes ma'am no man
and he's a little child but he is a serious person
he goes out soul-winning and he's well behaved he's paying attention to the
gospel being preached he's a good silent partner
this is a child that already in his life is building a pattern of good works
you know if someone like that keeps up keeps that going throughout their life
they'll be a stripling they'll be 16 17 years old and they're gonna be doing
great things for god they're gonna be living a good life they're gonna be
working really hard and successful in the workplace and that's what
david was david wasn't messing around in his youth
wasting it away no he was a serious man verse eight
sound speech that cannot be condemned that he that is of the contrary part
may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you
you know as christians we're gonna have people that hate us
and usually the more that you do for the lord the more people that are gonna
hate you the more responsibility you have the
more people are gonna hate you but it's nice when people hate you and
they just nitpick you about things that don't matter
because they really have no evil thing to say of you you know they can't say
here's where this person preached heresy or here's where this person lied or
here's where this person was being prideful it's just those
just nitpick you for stupid things that don't really matter
you know that's why we need to have sound speech that he that is of the
contrary part may be ashamed right that you have an iron clad
testimony that can't be spoken against i mean what are you gonna say against
david how are you gonna criticize him
you know his brothers tried to falsely accuse him of being prideful
but really he wasn't being prideful he was just trying to do a great work
for god and sometimes people will accuse you of being prideful when you do that
go back to first samuel chapter 18
first samuel 18 verse 6 and it came to pass as they came when david was returned
from the slaughter of the philistine that the women came out of all the
cities of israel singing and dancing to meet king sol
with tablets with joy and with instruments of music
and the women answered one another as they played
and said sol heth slain his thousands and david
his ten thousands so notice david is loved and adored by the people of the
nation to where when he gets done killing the philistines
you know the ladies are coming out and they're singing to sol's glory
but also they're singing to the little striplings glory too
why because he had accomplished something great for god and the nation
is loving him for it verse number eight
and sol was notice his reaction to this very
wroth and the saying displeased him i mean he's got all these girls singing that
he's slain thousands and he's not happy it's displeasing him
and he said they have ascribed on to david ten thousands
and to me they have ascribed but thousands
and what can he have more but than the kingdom and so
the rest of the sermon i want to focus on king sol and the title of my sermon
this evening is how christians become like sol
how christians become like sol because you know the bible gives us this story of
sol because you will meet sol's in your life
over and over and over and over again and especially in church life
you will meet sol's you will hear of sol's
over and over and over again in your life now stay there
i'm going to read for you deuteronomy 28 37 the bible says and thou shalt become
an astonishment a proverb and a byword
among all nations whether the lord shall
lead thee you know deuteronomy 28 god is basically saying hey if you
disobey my commandments if you don't listen to what i'm
telling you to do you're going to become a proverb
and a byword now what is a byword this is what i found it says
a word or phrase associated with some person or thing
a characteristic express expression typical greeting or the like
so like an example if i say hey this person has a
napoleon complex right it's associated with that man
napoleon and we all know what i'm saying you know he's insecure he's
prideful and so he has a napoleon complex or how about this
hey don't be a jew man don't be a jew what am i saying
don't be cheap don't be a liar right because being a jew
has become a proverb and a byword in our world don't be a jew man
you know tip the waitress don't be a jew right okay when i say
someone has become a saul one of the men tell me what do i mean by someone
being a saul what are some characteristics shout one out
what prideful exactly right hey this guy's become a saul
he has become prideful right this is a byword now
or a proverb if you will where christians can become
like king saul in that they become prideful you know think about saul's
story he starts good he disobeys god right and he
disobeys god a couple of times he gets prideful he gets envious
he attacks godly men he ends up going so far that he commands
to kill the lord's priests god is departed from him
god's not blessing him anymore and you know how he ends his life
surrounded by the enemies of god and destroyed he ends up killing himself
at the end of his life and saul is a person that god will eventually destroy
and there are lots of sauls that you will meet
in your life and let me just remind you when i talk about sauls
is that i'm talking about a saved person because saul is a saved
man this is why i'm saying you're going to see this a lot in church if you
stay in church for 10 20 30 years if you just keep going to church
you're going to see a lot of sauls in your life number one this evening
people become like saul because they are insecure
that is one of the reasons why people go down the road
of becoming someone like saul it's because they are insecure in who they
are they are not comfortable with their skill their ability
them as a person their looks their leadership you know there's something
about them that they're not pleased with on the inside
and so when they're not getting the praise when they're not getting the
adoration when they're not getting the veneration
from other people and someone else is it eats them
up inside let's read this again verse six and it came to pass as they came
when david was returned from the slaughter of the philistine
that the women came out of all the cities of israel singing and dancing
notice to meet king saul they still love saul they're coming to
meet king saul with tablets with joy and with instruments of music
and the women answered one another as they played and said saul heth slain his
thousands and david his 10 thousands now i don't know
about you i feel like this is pretty high praise for king saul
you know you got a bunch of ladies out there singing that you've killed
your thousands i mean that's that's high praise
that doesn't happen for everyone this is a pretty you know
interesting story that's happening here that doesn't happen very often but look
at his reaction verse eight and saul was very
rough meaning he was extremely angry he has wrath just because he hears
david is getting some attention david is getting some honor
and the saying displeased him and he said they have ascribed unto david
10 thousands and to me they have ascribed
but thousands so his heart is revealed here what's his problem
he's mad that david's getting the attention and that david's getting more
attention than him why because he focuses on the number
guess what if the ladies had said saul heth slain his thousands
and david his two thousand saul would still be just as mad
because it's not about the number it's not about how much glory it is it's
just that other people are getting more glory
other people are getting more attention and so that
makes him angry notice what he says notice his insecurity
and what can he have more but the kingdom he's afraid he's worried
that he's going to lose his status as a leader
and guess what he should be afraid because god is already departed from him
god has already stopped listening to him god has already said
i'm working on bringing up a new guy i'm bringing up david a man after my
own heart because you've rejected the word of god
and so i've rejected you and so yeah he's he's done he knows he's done
and when he sees these ladies singing this it's kind of like a sign
of the beginning of the end for king saul go to first samuel chapter 15
first samuel 15th put back
why is it that someone who started good used to be a man of god
suddenly gets so insecure well look at verse 28
it says and samuel said unto him the lord hath rent the kingdom of israel from thee
this day and have given it to a neighbor of thine
that is better than thou some people cannot handle the fact
that there are other people that are better than them
but you know what that's such a stupid prideful mentality
because anybody that has any humility about them whatsoever
knows that everything we do in life there's someone that does it better
i mean i'm just thinking of things that i do in my life guitar
rich caputo does it better instead fast folks he's just better
but it doesn't bother me because i'm just who i am
just trying to be a blessing where i can i know there's better preachers
i definitely know those better pastors haven't even been at it for a
month yet okay i guarantee there's better pastors out there
you know there's better it professionals than me
i guarantee you that's the case and look whatever it is in your life
ladies i'm sorry husbands you know they're not going to tell you this they'll
tell you you're the best cook in the world but i guarantee there's a better
cook out there okay all right that's just the
truth guys men there are better providers out there
it's just true we're not going to just be the best at everything
and here's the best at something that that's one person
there is only one person in the world that is the best guitarist
i have no clue who that is but there's literally only one
there's only one best singer in the world there's only one
best leader there's only one best pastor i don't know who those people are
and i don't care because all i know is they're not me
and so i don't really need to worry about that i just need to worry about being
the best person i could be you need to worry about being
the best person you can be the best husband
you can be the best wife you can be it doesn't matter what other people are
doing it doesn't matter what attention other people are getting
you run the race that's set before you don't worry what someone else is doing
look at verse 17 to the same chapter and samuel said when that was little in
nine own own sight was thou not made the head of the tribes of
israel and the lord anointed the king over israel
and samuel said unto Saul i will not return with thee for thou has
rejected the word of the lord and the lord
hath rejected thee from being king over israel
notice the difference between when king saul started
what does the bible say was his perception of himself
was that he was little in his own sight even though there was
great attributes about saul he had great qualities
he actually was not little because he was head and shoulders above all the
people but in his own sight he was little and that's why
god exalted him to the position he's even in to begin with
but somewhere along the way he lost sight of that somewhere along the way
he didn't view himself anymore as little in his own sight
he viewed himself as someone special he viewed himself
as the best guy around the best leader the best king
and he cannot fathom now anyone being king but him
this is the same guy that hid by the stuff when he was supposed to get
coronated as the king now he's just hanging on to it
just because of his pride even though he's not qualified anymore
god has taken away his blessing from him no he's just hanging on to it
because he's prideful go to galatians chapter six
but you know sometimes you see this among christians
and let's just be honest when it comes to sauls it's usually preachers and
pastors people that become sauls it's people that
usually have some sort of position have some sort of authority
but they've allowed themselves to become so prideful you know they think they're
the main character right they really think that
everything revolves around them they're the number one
and that leads them to becoming a saul look at galatians chapter six verse
three it says for if a man think himself to be something
when he is nothing he deceiveth himself you see king saul he thought he was
something great he thought well i'm the king of israel
but guess what it wasn't true you know why god said i've rejected you
god has taken away the blessing from king saul
so though he stands with a title though he stands in a position of authority
he thinks himself to be something in reality though
he's nothing in reality the one who's actually something is the
humble teenager the humble little boy
that actually fears god and there's a man after god's own heart
that's the one who's actually something in the eyes of god but notice what they do
they deceive themselves and it is so true
that pride is the most blinding sin that exists
someone who's just overcome with pride they will never
ever notice it in themselves they cannot self diagnose pride
you cannot do self help when you are just filled with pride
no because it blinds you it completely blinds you
saul is so clueless here as to what's actually happening
look at verse four here's the solution for insecurity
it says but let every man prove his own work and then shall he have rejoicing
in himself alone and not in another look the answer
to you not being happy with who you are is just become a better person
you're not happy with the type of leader you are become a better leader
you're not happy with how you provide at home
do a better job fix your problem work on your issue
but it makes no sense and it's so weak and it's so
effeminate to start getting envious of another guy that's doing better
you suck you're terrible therefore you want to stop
other people from doing good that's a wicked mentality
it is not christian and and saul from this point forward spends the rest of his
life not fighting the philistines not doing anything good for god
just attacking david and sometimes you see pastors
you know they're not they're not spending their life
reading the bible studying the bible asking god to fill them with the holy
spirit to give them a sermon that could be a
help to their people that could be a an encouragement
and to build up their congregation they spend their entire life
being anti other men they're not pro anything really
they're not spending their ministry building anything up they're just
anti other people these are the people
who have spent the last three months preaching against the new ifp
these are the sals okay these are the people
who are literally having an anti new ifb
conference in oklahoma city why because they're not focused on the
work of god they're not focused on their vineyard
they're not focused on building anyone up all they're focused on
doing is attacking other good men is attacking
other pastors that love god that are trying to do the best they can
that have never done anything to them whatsoever
they just want to waste their life being anti
other people but it's like look saul look i'm sorry your sermons suck
okay i'm sorry you're such a crappy leader
i'm sorry you're so insecure about yourself get better
don't just attack other men it's effeminate it's so weak
how insecure you are and think about king saul
right if you wanted the glory king saul you had
40 days where goliath was challenging israel
where were you at why haven't you done anything
look i'm sorry that the enemies of god don't care about you
i'm sorry you've never been protested i'm sorry you've never had faggots come to
your house for a year straight i'm sorry you weren't willing to
take on goliath but that's not my fault that's your
fault and guess what saul could have done it all
he could have gone and fight goliath but guess what he was scared
he knew he didn't have it in him to do so and so now
because god's departed from him he just wants to hang on
to his position he wants to hang on to everything he has
because he is prideful and here's the thing you know god told him that there's
someone better than him god said hey i'm going to give this to someone
better than you but here's the truth about sauls
there's not just one person that's better than saul
like like these saul pastors there's not just like another pastor that's
better than them every single faithful christian
that is actually fighting a spiritual battle that is actually going out and
going soul winning is better than saul the the ladies in our church
that actually just mind their own business and just live their lives
and faithfully go out and preach the gospel are better than saul
the children in our church that love god and are hungry
for god's word that are hungry to learn
to fight the spiritual battles to want to go out and preach the gospel
those people are better than king saul everyone's better than king saul
there's not just one person that's better look at verse nine it says and saul
eyed david from that day and forward
saul now waste the rest of his life the rest of his life from this day
forward he's envious of david he's eyeing him
he's looking how he could destroy him he's looking how he could attack him
from that day forward number two sauls will dedicate their lives
to attacking good people this is what a saul does
he does not dedicate himself to loving god studying the bible
helping god's people doing great works for god
he's not he's not consumed with zeal for the things of god
he's consumed with envy for david he's consumed
with unrighteous hatred for david and he eyes him from that day forward
for the rest of his life sauls will be sauls until either they die
or until god fixes them you cannot fix a saul
you cannot reason with a saul god would have to do that
look at verse 10 it says and it came to pass on the morrow
that notice the evil spirit from god came upon saul
and he prophesied in the midst of the house you know that you could be saved
and have an evil spirit from god trouble you you know that you could even
prophesy which means preach while an evil spirit
from god is troubling you let me show you an example of this go to
Jeremiah chapter number one Jeremiah one
notice god doesn't like that saul is acting this way
god doesn't like that he's eyeing david from this day forward
and so god punishes him with an evil spirit
and again what does evil mean it just means harmful
right this is a punishment you are going to have a harmful spirit
look what it says in Jeremiah one seventeen
thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise
and speak unto all that i command thee be not dismayed at their faces notice
lest i confound the sorry lest i confound thee before them
so notice that god tells Jeremiah look you have to preach everything that i
told you you can't hold back anything that i said
and if you don't preach the things that i told you i'm gonna confound you
before the people what is he saying i'm going to turn you into an idiot
i'm gonna make you look foolish i'm gonna make you look
stupid and sometimes you see a preacher or pastor
where maybe they used to preach good sermons maybe you've heard good
good sermons from them in the past but then all of a sudden their preaching
is just terrible just over and over again
terrible preaching preaching all all sorts of stupid doctrines and just
makes you wonder like is the evil spirit from god
just confounding you because you're you're spending your whole life
not ministering anymore but attacking david
you know here's here's some here's a stupid statement that i heard
out of pastor sol's mouth oh say my name you would love that
you'd love if i said your name no i'm not going to say your name
the sodomites have not done what pastor jonathan shelly has done to
this church the sodomites can't hold a candle
to the hatred and variance and emulations
that pastor jonathan shelly has committed against this church
talk about the evil spirit from god troubling you and making you look like
a complete idiot saying oh yeah the sodomites
that hate god oh they haven't done anything
against pure words Baptist church more than what pastor shelly has
yeah the guy that literally spent every thursday
for years doing 17 hour days driving four hours there
soul winning preaching four hours back i did it to a bunch of times
yeah pastor shelly is the one that hurt pure words Baptist church
you know who believes that a complete idiot believes that right and you know
how i could tell that he just doesn't know what he's saying
he's just confounded he says they can't hold a candle to the hatred
and variance and emulations what are you even talking about do you even
know what those words mean like that makes no sense
are we just saying bible words are we just saying things that sound spiritual
you know what pastor shelly can't even hold a joshua and a moses
and an erin to what he's done it's like what are you even saying man
doesn't even make any sense you're just an idiot who god is punished with
stupidity looks like god confounded you saw
looks like you're losing your mind and then getting your mind back for a
second and then losing it again and getting it back for a second this is
why you go post delete post delete post delete
post delete post delete because you're sol okay
this is in the course of one day in the course of one work day
this is what pastor sol spent his time doing okay
he deleted his slanderous posts on his personal page
including the one where he slandered pastor Jimenez
then he moved all of those slanderous posts into a group that he created
called new ifb exposed then he deleted all his posts
that he just posted in the new ifb exposed group
then he deleted the group that he just created
called new ifb exposed then he created a new group
called ex new ifb fellowship this was in the course of one
work day you've lost your mind you're being punished by god you idiot
wake up the spirit of god has gone from you
there's an evil spirit from god troubling you and god has confounded you
anyone with a brain cell looks at you and says who is this guy
that's what i've been hearing who is this guy this wasn't the the guy i knew
who's this pastor sol he's changed and sol's changed and that's best case
scenario is if he's changed that's the best case
scenario say my name you want to know why you let me say your name
because you're prideful and obsessed with yourself that's why
what an idiot and let me tell you why anyone that likes pastor sol
anyone that wants to be friends with him anyone that wants to go
to the hatred conference to the disunion conference
to the railer conference here do me a favor just block me
unfriend me unfollow the church pages don't ever listen to our preaching ever
again don't talk to us lose my number get out and
never come back here never come back here because we don't need
people that want to follow sol in our church
someone that is so stupid that actually thinks that this is a man of god
after the actions that you've seen from this guy
look i don't know how i could help you i pray i pray to god that god has
mercy on you because i'm telling you people that go to this conference
are begging for god to judge them you are begging
for god to punish you i'm just warning you as a brother in christ
what you're doing god hates god says it's an abomination
someone that sows discord among brethren
pastor sol getting on some podcast with other pastor sol
saying man i just i just couldn't believe how normal the people at okc were
they were just so great they were just so wonderful
now wow i can't believe that they stayed what are they doing they're
insinuating that all of you are complete idiots
that's what they're doing they're talking crap about you
those are your friends i hope not
go back to first Samuel 18
go to the feminist conference if you want
hey i i thank god i think it's a badge of honor from the lord
that god thought us worthy of a trash can church in less than one month of
being an independent baptist church not only that our trash can church was
willing to travel hundreds of miles across america
to be our trash can thank you verse 10 and it came to pass on the
morrow that the evil spirit from god came upon sol
and he prophesied in the midst of the house and david played with his hand as
at other times and there was a javelin in sol's hand
and sol cast the javelin for he said i will smite david even to the wall with
it and david avoided out of his presence
twice this is what the sols do they attack
men who are better than them and the envy that's in their heart
is very dangerous because envy often leads to other sins
first it's envy first it's pride then it's hatred of david disdain for david
and what is it next you're picking up a javelin trying to kill
david what a wicked thing to do and let me just remind you
sol is saved there could be some seriously wicked saved people
there can be some seriously wicked saved
pastors you have to get some discernment
and judgment number three how to deal with a sol how to deal
with a sol verse 12 notice in sol was afraid of david boys that the truth
isn't it because the lord was with him
amen and was departed from sol notice how in the previous verse
there talked about how david fled out of his presence
here's what you do with a sol you just get away from them
you don't talk to them you don't try to reason with him
what could david could have reasoned with him hey sol i'm actually here to
serve you hey sol i'm actually here to be your buddy
i'm actually here we're on the same team i killed goliath we're both
fighting the philistines why are you trying to kill me
there's no reasoning with sol because the evil spirit of god
is upon him and when you recognize someone is a sol
i learned this the hard way don't try to save them
don't try to don't try to reason with them there is no reasoning
with a sol god has to fix
sol someone can get so prideful that you really cannot help them god has to
help them go to proverbs chapter number one
proverbs chapter number one
and i'm serious envious people are dangerous people
i mean that spiritually i mean that physically they are dangerous people
proverbs 110 my son if sinners entice thee consent thou not if they say
come with us let us lay wait for blood let us lurk
privily for the innocent without cause so here's the thing you got someone that's
envious that's a super red flag because it could lead
to this attitude of wanting to wait for blood
lurking privily for the innocent david without cause
what did david ever do david never did anything to him
and you gotta realize someone that's envious that could grow
into a bigger sin in the future and this applies to everyone you know a
man is envious of another guy's wife that's a dangerous sin
because that could lead you down a dark road that takes you to the sin of
adultery okay another man is envious of
over another dude or something like that it could lead to hatred
lurking for the innocent without cause and literally leading to murder
where do we what do we see sol do he's envious he tries
to murder david go to proverbs four proverbs four
enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of
evil men avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away
notice this for they sleep not except they have done mischief
and their sleep is taken away unless they cause
some to fall look this is just insane
for people that are normal to fathom but i'm telling you you need to just
trust what the bible is telling you right in front of your face
that there are some people that they can't even sleep
until they have caused other people to fall and it's like you just look at the
pastor soles of this world and it's like what is consuming them
what is their facebook posts at all hours of the night
it's just trying to cause other people to fall
they're not trying to build anyone up they're not trying to do anything for
god they just want to have the x new ifb conference
and the x new ifb fellowship facebook group
dude you are a loser you are a coward you are weak and you are self obsessed
go to proverbs 6 while you're turning there proverbs 13 20 says he that walketh
with wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools
shall be destroyed i hope everyone heard that that is
thinking about going to a stupid conference
celebrating a railer a backbiter a backstabber a complete snake
a sower of discord among brethren you know not only
will you be destroyed if you just are a wicked person
but when you are a companion of a wicked person when you are a companion of a
fool the bible says you will be destroyed as well
and i say this in love i say this trying to warn you with
all of my heart you spend time with this guy
you like this guy god can punish you severely
and i don't want to see that proverbs 6 verse 12
a naughty person a wicked man walketh with a
fro-word mouth contrarian he winketh with his eyes and speaketh with his feet
he teaches with his fingers fro-wordness is in his heart
he devises mischief continually he soweth discord
therefore shall his calamity come suddenly suddenly
shall he be broken without remedy these six things that the lord
hate ye seven are an abomination unto him a proud look a lying tongue
and hands that shed innocent blood and heart that devises wicked imaginations
feet that be swift in running to mischief a false witness
that speaketh lies and he that soweth discord
among brethren if you're a god fearing christian why would you want to be around
someone that exhibits this list so closely
why would you want to spend why would you want to have fellowship with someone
that has just dedicated their life to sowing discord among brethren
to lying to being a false witness standing up as a man of god and lying
you know he gets on there and lies about me it just makes the most
bald-faced lie out of nowhere saying oh you know
pastor awes said that i'm i'm like adam fanon in the baptist bias show it's like
you could watch the whole show adam fanon never came out of my mouth
and pastor salt never came out of my mouth just completely lied out of nowhere
oh i misremembered some things about pastor awes how do you just
misremember something that never happened like sometimes people lie
about things that are like a little bit based in reality and they try to twist
right but when someone just makes up something out of complete thin air
that is a scary person that is a terrifying individual
you don't want to be this guy's friend he will hurt you
he will lie about you and then he wants to get on there acting like we're cool
no buddy i just want you to stop lying about me that's it
i've done nothing to you just do me a favor don't lie about me that's all i
ask don't want to be your friend okay
verse 13
therefore saul removed him from him and made him his captain over a thousand
and he went out and came in before the people verse 14 and david behaved
himself wisely in all his ways and the lord was with him
hey you don't got to be afraid of the sauls just get away from them
don't worry about them worry about god being with you
worry about being humble and desiring to do the work of god
and you know what god will be with you that's what you should be worrying about
verse 15 wherefore when saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely
notice again he was afraid of him realize it's the sauls that are afraid
they're the ones that are scared they're the ones that don't want to lose
their false reality of what they think they have they're not leaders anyways
they're not real pastors anyways they're just trying to hold on to a fake
reality go to first timothy chapter one first timothy
chapter number one
says in verse six wherefore i put the in remembrance that thou stir up the gift
of god which is in thee by the putting on of my
hands for god hath not given us the spirit of fear
but of power and of love and of a sound mind notice that when someone
has has fear has the spirit of fear oftentimes it's connected with them
not having a sound mind someone that's not fearful
they have a sound mind when you see someone that's just losing their mind
why is that it's because they're scared and over and over in first amul
we keep seeing that saul's afraid of david saul's afraid of david
and as a result he's losing his mind he's doing things that are irrational
that make no sense and it's just realized when you see a saul
they're a dangerous person because they've lost their mind
okay why is that it's because they're afraid go back to
first samuel first samuel chapter 18
first samuel 18 verse 16 it says but all israel and juda loved
david because he went out and came in before them see david was loved
because he was actually trying to serve the nation he was actually going to
fight god's enemies he was actually the one that would
stand up and challenge goliath and so people like
a leader that is in leadership for the right reasons
right people like a leader that they're like okay david's going out and
fighting our battles david's out leading the charge he wants what's
good and it's like if you're in any position of leadership it
should be for the benefit of your followers
but saul has completely lost sight of that he's in leadership for himself
and look this is weird to me to think about but there are people
that go into ministry for themselves there are people that become pastors
for themselves so that they can have honor they can have glory
they can be followed by people and that is their motivation
when you look at saul when you look at his actions he's basically
motivated by only two things promotion of himself
and destruction of other people right promoting himself tearing down david
promoting himself tearing down another good christian you could stay there
i'll read for you philippians 115 says some indeed preach christ
even of envy and strife i mean it's the bible plain out tells us
there are people that preach christ just out of envy
just out of strife and some also of goodwill
the one preach christ of contention not sincerely
supposing to add affliction to my bonds there are people in ministry
even people that are saved that are not sincere
people and you could tell when someone's not sincere
when just everybody thought someone was a certain way and they're just on a
dime everyone's like who is this guy of no clue who this guy is
why it's because you're not sincere you are a preacher of envy and
strife that's your motivation it's obvious to everyone
and it's the same thing with saul go if you would
back to first Samuel 18
verse 17 it says and saul said to david behold my daughter marab
her will i give thee to wife only be thou valiant for me
and fight the lord's battles for saul said let not mine hand be upon him
but let the hand of the philistines be upon him
so notice saul hates david so much that he's even willing to team up with the
enemies of god and the philistines the the worldly philistines
just to attack david he's like oh let not my hand be upon him
i know that god's departed for me i'm too weak to be upon him
he's running away from my javelin well why don't we just let the philistines
get him then right look at verse number 18 and david said to saul
who am i and what is my life or my father's family in israel
that i should be son-in-law to the king so notice david's humility
he looks at it as an honor just to be married into the family
of king saul he loves king saul he respects king saul he's done good under
king saul but saul hates him without a cause
verse 19 and it came to pass at the time when marab
saul's daughter should have been given to david and she was given unto
adriel the mehalothite to wife and michael saul's daughter loved david
and they told saul and the thing pleased him and saul said i will give him her
seems like a nice thing to do right he wants to give david michael but notice
what it says it says i will give him her that she may be a snare to him
and at the hand of the philistines may be against him
wherefore saul said to david today shout this day
thou shalt this day be my son-in-law in one of the twain
so notice even when it seems on the surface like he's doing something good
or trying to make peace or trying to do something nice for david
the bible tells us that his heart is still motivated by trying to destroy david
even when he's like hey here's michael he's saying here's michael
that she could be a snare unto you it's like let me give you my feminist
daughter you know she could be the one that you get married to
so that she'll be a snare unto you and so that the philistines
may be against him you know it doesn't sound like saul really cares
about the things of god doesn't seem like saul really cares about his
nation or the well-being of his people or the well-being of his daughter
i mean imagine giving your daughter those of you men that have sons
imagine giving your daughter to be the wife of a man that you're trying to
kill and the bible says that michael loved david
like imagine your daughter's heart is in love with the man
who's a good man who's a godly man and you're like yeah go ahead daughter
go ahead and marry him i'm gonna kill him i'm gonna be trying to kill him
i mean could you imagine the the pain that his daughter would experience if saul
was successful in that but saul doesn't care about his daughter
and saul doesn't care about anyone except himself
that's all saul cares about verse 22 and and just get this pastor sauls
okay they they don't want to fight god's enemies
what they want to do is they want to stop christians from going to a good
church they want to permanently burn people
from going to a good church that have done nothing to them
why because they're saul and they only care about themselves they only care about
their own worship verse 22 and saul
commanded his servants saying commune with david secretly
and say behold the king hath delight in thee and all his servants love thee
now therefore be the king's son-in-law so notice
he's not being sincere now he brings out the flattery saying
behold the king hath delight in thee it's like i thought you just tried to kill him
i thought you're trying to give mike out to him to destroy him
i thought you're making him the captain of the army so that the philistines
would kill him sounds like you don't have delight in it david
stay there proverbs 29 5 says a man that flattereth his neighbor
spreadeth a net for his feet beware of flatterers i think pastor shelly gave
us that warning during the ordination service didn't he say that over and
over beware of flatterers beware of flatterers
stay there proverbs 26 28 a lying tongue
hate it those that are afflicted by it and a flattering mouth worketh ruined
bible says someone that just lies to you hates you
and it's not again it's not like oh i just got caught up in a lie that's
kind of basing true it's just like out of nowhere completely baseless lies
that person is hateful that is a hateful person
and it's just it's hilarious to me the bleeding hearts it's like
liars railers backstabbers loving good people
okay then it's like pastor that says a cuss word most evil thing in the
world liars good backstabbers good
railers good people preaching weird terrible sermons
good a pastor doesn't like joe biden oh
he said something bad about joe biden worst person in the world
verse 23 and saul's servants spake those words in the ears of david
and david said seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law
seeing that i'm a poor man and lightly esteemed and the servants of saul told
him saying on this man or spake david and saul said thus shall you say to
david the king desired not any dowry but in
hundred four skins of the philistines to be avenged of the king's enemies
notice but saul thought to make david fall by the hand of the philistines again
trying to get him killed trying to destroy good men
verse 26 the witness servants told david these words it pleased david well to
be the king's son-in-law and the days were not expired
wherefore david arose and went he and his men and slew of the philistines
200 men and david brought their four skins
and they gave them in full tail to the king that he might be the king's son-in-law
and saul gave him michael his daughter to wife
and saul saw and knew that the lord was with david
and that michael saul's daughter loved him you know saul knows
the truth deep down that god is with david and that bothers him
you know there's something wrong with a with a christian that sees another
christian that god is with and is bothered by that
you know i don't know about you i want other christians to succeed
i want other churches to succeed i want other pastors to preach great sermons
and do great things for god and have great missions trips and i don't care
if the ladies are on facebook singing pastor so-and-so has killed their
thousand i don't care because we're all in the same team
right it's weird when you see your brother do something good
and you're bothered by that that is bizarre psychopathic behavior
it's like someone listened to pastor shelly sermons psycho ex-girlfriends and
said all right this is an instruction manual on how to live my life
it's like bro it was a warning of what not to do
not what to do i think you got confused you weirdo
verse 29 and saul was yet the more afraid of david and saul became david's
enemy notice continually then the princes the philistines went
forth and it came to pass after they went forth
that david behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of saul
so that his name was much set by hey let the sauls be our enemy continually
who cares because we've got some philistines to fight
we've got some works to do for the lord we've got a church to build here to
edify we've got a city to reach with the gospel of
jesus christ right we got to get this great commission going in this world
let the sauls hate us all day long what's what's our response to the sauls
let them do it leave them alone get away from them
let them be saul yeah when saul comes up in our bible study literally i'm going
to talk about saul okay but you haven't really seen me talk about saul
and in fact back when all this happened i said nothing but positive things
publicly about saul didn't i didn't i say respect him as a pastor
didn't i say go to his ordination didn't i say bless him
but he wants to have a trash can conference in our town so all right saul
you want to be our enemy continue continually have fun wasting your life
while we do the works of god while we actually love
god that is our goal and here's the sad end for saul
and this doesn't make me happy because saul was saved how did saul's life end
he was surrounded by the enemies of god alone destroyed in battle
and killed himself that was the end of saul and you know the pastor sauls
of this world they will be destroyed i hope not physically
and i hope not spiritually as well i hope they just repent
but i'm saying you continue going down the road of being a saul
your end is destruction end of story go to first samuel 31 let's look at
really quickly at the end of king saul we're gonna look at first
samuel 31 and saul chapter 12 that'll be the last
two places that we go
first samuel 31 verse 4 then said saul unto his armor bear draw thy
sword and thrust me through therewith that lest these
uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me
but his armor bear would not for he was sore afraid therefore saul took a
sword and fell upon it when his armor bear saw
that saul was dead he fell likewise upon his sword
and died with him you know that's not a happy ending
that's not something for us to rejoice about or think is great
i mean the enemies of god took saul's body and paraded it around and
celebrated over it it's not something that i want to see
but i'm just trying to warn the sauls of this world that your end is going to
look pretty ugly whether that's physically or spiritually
or both i don't know it's up to god it's just it's going to look ugly
if you keep being a saul don't hate david don't hate other
christians don't attack other men that have done nothing to you for no
reason don't be so prideful don't be so obsessed with yourself
be in it for others be in it for the work of god
let's end with psalm chapter 12 verse 1 psalm 12 verse 1
help lord for the godly man cesif for the faithful fail from among the
children of men they speak vanity everyone with his
neighbor with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak
verse 3 the lord shall cut off all flattering lips
and the tongue that speaketh proud things who have said with our tongue will we
prevail our lips are our own who is lord over us
for the oppression of the poor the sighing of the needy now will i rise
say at the lord i will set him in safety from him that puffeth
at him you know we might as well just keep reading because it's such a great
chapter the words of the lord are pure words as silver
tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times
thou shalt keep them oh lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation
forever the wicked walk on every side when the
vilest men are exalted you know i want to end with this god will judge
the flatterer god will judge the person that speaketh proud things
god will judge the fool and god will judge the companion
of the fool let this be a warning to you to stay
away from salt let's pray lord thank you for this day
thank you for this chapter in your word pray that we would take these things to
heart i pray that you would just help us to focus
on the spiritual fight help us to stay humble as a church
and to be in christianity and in serving god
for other people for getting people saved and helping them to grow in the
lord help us never to be envious of other christians that are also doing
great things for god help us rather to team up with them
to multiply our efforts to get more done for the kingdom of god
and i do pray god that you would judge the proud
the lying souls of this world and i pray that other people
would be notified and would be afraid to be around these people in jesus name we
pray amen
all right with that we'll go ahead and sing one last song to conclude the
service if you would take your hymnals and turn to hymn number 420
there's a song in the air
hymn number 420
we'll go ahead and start there right on the first
there's a song in the air there's a star in the sky
there's a mother's deep prayer and a baby's low cry
and the star rings
here
the
for the world that requirements a flame and a beautiful sea
in the homes of the nations that Jesus is being.
We rejoice in the light and we echo the song
that will sound through the night
from the heavenly home
and we shout to the love of the event
and shall we pray
and we heed in his cradle
our Savior and King.
Amen. Good singing this evening with that. You are dismissed.
Thank you.