started this morning, if you would at this time,
take your hymnals and turn to hymn number 43.
We're marching to Zion.
Hymn number 43 in your hymnals.
We're marching to Zion.
Go ahead and start there.
It's me.
City
singing this morning, we'll open with a word of prayer.
Dear Father, thank you for this chance that we have
to sing praises unto you as a church, Lord.
I pray that you would bless the remainder of this service
at this time and fill us with your Holy Ghost, Lord,
as we sing unto you, Lord, in Jesus' name I pray, amen.
For our next song, if you would,
turn in your hymnals to hymn number 55.
When the roll is called up yonder,
hymn number 55 in your hymnals we'll go ahead and start there right on the first
when the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more and the
morning breaks eternal bright and fair
When the same diver shall gather over on the other shore and the role is called up yonder I'll be there
Christ shall rise, and the glory of his resurrection share.
When the chosen ones shall gather over,
home beyond the skies, and the role
setting sun let us talk of all his wondrous love and care then when all of
life is over and our work on earth is done
through some announcements. If you don't have a bulletin, please raise your hand and an usher will
bring you one. On the front is our Bible memory passage of the week, Galatians chapter number one,
verse 12 this week. On the inside you'll see our service times listed. Sunday mornings at 10 30
a.m. our evening service at 4 30 p.m. and our Wednesday evening Bible study at 7 o'clock.
Our soul winning times are all listed there.
And we do have an additional soul winning time
added to the bulletin this week.
That's on Tuesdays at 5.15, led by brother Eric.
So if you are interested in going to that time,
please get in touch with him.
We do have our nursing home schedule,
our preaching schedule listed below that.
well as our year-to-date soul winning statistics as you could see March has
been really really good for soul winning you know the Sun's coming out and it's
just usually soul winning gets a lot better around that time so we're
definitely taking advantage of that upcoming events on April 13th we're
going to have a men's preaching night that's the evening service and
following that we'll have a potluck so please bring a dish or dessert or
Is going to be our Easter soul winning marathon and that's going to meet at 9 o'clock at Frederick Douglas Park in the southeast portion of
Okay, see the address and all the information is on the sign-up sheet back there on that desk
So if you are coming let us know and how many people we should prepare food for we're gonna get coffee and donuts at 9 o'clock
Then at 10 o'clock we'll go out soul winning about noon
We'll come back to that same spot have lunch and go out for another round of soul winning
And I ordered some special Easter invitations for that weekend.
So that should be a good soul winning marathon there.
Then April 20th.
Of course, that's Easter right after the morning service.
We're going to have barbecue catered for our church.
So we're going to have a nice Easter lunch together.
Looking forward to that.
And then the evening service that night, we will be taking the Lord's Supper.
So it should be a really great weekend at Anchor Baptist Church that weekend.
Following that, we do have.
May 16th through the 18th is the King James Conference at SureFoundation Baptist Church.
Definitely encourage you to make it out to that if you can or if not at least make sure to watch
those sermons. It should be very educational. May 31st we're doing another souling marathon in
Durant, Oklahoma and that's teaming up with Steadfast Baptist Church so they'll be coming up and
June 28th, that weekend is also gonna be a big weekend for our church. We're gonna have a fellowship day at the Tinker Air Show
here in town. And then the next day, June 29th, Brother Ben Naim from Steadfast Baptist Church will be preaching both services for us then.
So that should be really fun.
August 27th through the 31st is the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship in
us in Texas at Steadfast Baptist Church and October 6th through the 11th is the
Bahamas Mission Trip. Below you see a couple QR codes if you'd like to give
to our church that is our online link there and also if you are a visitor or
even if you just need to update your information or haven't filled out one of
these before you can scan that and that is our visitor card. On the back is our
In addition for this week, brother Samson down in Texas. I think most people know him in this room
He's been having a lot of back pain causing just severe issues for him
So he's asking that we would pray for him
So keep him in prayer and you can see the rest of the requests there. Make sure to keep all those in prayer
Now, the best part of the announcements, we do have a congratulations in order for the
Reed family on the birth of, I've gotten some conflicting, you know, things if they want
to go by Ted, Teddy or Theodore, so I just, we got the proper name here, Theodore Wesley
Reed, and he was born on March 20th at 3.35 p.m. He weighed seven pounds, one ounce, and
measured 20 inches long.
Let's give them a round of applause.
And if you'd like to be a blessing to their family there was a meal train set up and the link for that is in our signal group and
So you can even if you're not a good cook you could get them gift cards
So you know this isn't just some ministry for only the ladies of the church
Anyone can help and be a blessing and there's a slot where you could sign up and you can get them
Door dash or gift card gift card or you could sign up to bring them a meal and
I know there's some slots left
But even if they're all filled up and you just want to be extra blessing to them and just do more for them by all means, you know, do that, show them some love and congratulations again to their family.
That's going to be it for announcements this morning. We'll go ahead and go to our third song.
All right, for our third song, if you would take your hymnals and turn to him number 67.
Just over in the glory land.
Sorry, hymn number 65 hymn number 65 in your hymnals just over in the glory land
We'll go ahead and start there right on the first I've a home prepared where the saints
I saved your side just over in the glory land.
Just over in the glory land.
I'll join you, enjoy a happy angel.
And just over in the glory land.
Just over in the glory land.
I am on my way to those mansions fair, just over in the glory land, I am on my way to those mansions fair, just over in the glory land, there to sing God's praise and his glory share, just over in the glory land.
Just over in the glory land, Just over in the glory land,
There is with the mighty own style stand, Just over in the glory land.
What a joyful thought that my Lord I'll see, Just over in the glory land.
the glory land. Just over in the glory land I'll join the happy angel and just over in the glory land.
Just over in the glory land there with the mighty host I'll stand just over in
We're in the
Good singing as the offering plates are being passed around.
Turn in your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter number 32.
Deuteronomy chapter number 32.
Good evening Deuteronomy 32 the Bible reads, give ear oh ye heavens and I will speak and hear oh earth
the words of my mouth my doctrine shall drop as the rain my speech shall distill as the dew
as the small rain upon the tender herb and as the showers upon the grass because I will
He is the Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are judgment, a God of truth, and
without iniquity, just and right is He.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of His children, they are
a perverse and crooked generation.
Do ye thus require the Lord, O foolish people and unwise?
Is not he thy father that hath brought thee,
that hath brought thee hath he not made thee
and established thee?
Remember the days of old.
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask thy father, and he will show thee thy elders,
and they will tell thee.
When the most high divided to the nations their inheritance when he separated the sons of Adam
He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel
For the Lord's portion is his people Jacob is a lot of his inheritance
He found him in a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness
He led him about he instructed him
he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirrthed up her nest,
fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings,
taketh them, bareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone
did lead him, and there was no strange God with him.
He made him ride on the high places of the earth that he might eat the increase of the fields and he made him to
Suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock butter of kind and milk of sheep
with fat of lambs and rams
of the breed of Beishan and goats with the fat of kidneys of wheat and now
this drink the pure blood of grape but Jesharun waxed fat and kicked that
were wax and fat that were grown thick that were covered with fatness
then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods. With abominations provoked they him
to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods
The rock that begat thee thou art unmindful and has forgotten God that formed thee
And when the Lord saw it he abhorred them because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters and he said
I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be
For they are a very forward generation children in whom is no faith
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities and I will move them to jealousy with
And I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation, for a fire is kindled in mine anger,
and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set
on fire the foundations of the mountains.
I will heap mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them.
And with bitter destruction, I will also sin the teeth of beasts upon them with the poison of serpents of the dust.
The sword without and terror within shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
I said I would scatter them into corners. I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men.
were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves
strangely, and lest they should say, our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
O, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end.
How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight?
Except their rock had sold them and the Lord had shut them up.
For their rock is not as our rock even our enemies themselves being judges
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah
Their grapes are grapes of gall their clusters are bitter their wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps
Is not this laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures
To me belongeth vengeance and recompense their foot shall slide in due time
For the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that shall come upon them make haste
For the Lord shall judge his people and repent himself
For his servants when he seeth that their power is gone and there is none shut up or left and he shall say
Where are their gods their rock in whom they trusted?
which did eat the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings.
Let them rise up and help you and be your protection
See now that I even I and am he and there is no God with me
I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal
Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand for I lift up my hand to heaven and say I live forever
If I wet my glittering sword and make in my hand
take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my enemies and will reward them that hate me.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh."
and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives
from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy,
rejoice all ye nations with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants
and will render vengeance to his adversaries
and be merciful unto his land and to his people.
And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hosea, the Son of None.
And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to Israel, and he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day,
which ye shall command your children to observe and to do, all the words of this law.
For it is not a vain thing for you because it is your life and
Through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land whether you go over Jordan to possess it and the Lord's
Spake unto Moses that self same day saying get the up into this mountain
Ibarum which is Mount Nebo
Which is in the land of Moab that is over against Jericho and behold the land of Canaan
which I give unto the children of Israel, for a possession, and die, and the mount, whither thou goest up.
be gathered unto thy people as Aaron thy brother died in Mount Hore and was
gathered unto his people because ye trespassed against me among the children
of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh and the wilderness of Zim because
he sacrificed not in the midst of the children of Israel yet thou shalt see
the land before thee but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give
That's power heads for a prayer. Father in heaven, we thank you for this day in our church and we ask you to fill our fast with the Holy Spirit.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen. All right. Well, we are in Deuteronomy chapter number 32.
And boy, that is a powerful chapter in God's word. And when I read that chapter, it just makes me want to fear God.
You know, look at what verse 15 says, it says,
but Jesuarine waxed fat and kicked.
Thou art wax and fat.
Thou art grown thick.
Thou art covered with fatness.
Then he forsook God, which made him
and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.
See, Jesuarine here was blessed by God.
He was waxing fat, yet he just lightly esteemed God.
Meaning, he didn't fear God, he didn't reverence God in the way that he should.
He just lightly esteemed the Lord, and you know, there's so many people today living
this life where it's so obvious that they just have no fear of God, where it just seems
like they're just lightly esteeming God.
God's word is nothing to them.
God's power is nothing to them.
But when I read this chapter, it makes me want to fear God.
Because of the power that he has.
Look what it says see now that I even I am he and there is no God with me
I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand
Look if you've got God coming up against you, no one can deliver you God kills God makes alive
God is not someone we should just lightly esteem
God is not playing games and that's the title my sermon this morning is God
is not playing games.
Look at verse number 21.
We just saw how they lightly esteemed God.
And it says in verse 21,
they have moved me to jealousy
with that which is not God.
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities
and I will move them to jealousy
by those which are not a people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains, I will heap mischiefs upon them, and will spend mine arrows upon them.
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them.
With the poison of serpents, of the dust, the sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
You know, this isn't what you're going to see on Hallmark Christmas cards from the King James Bible, but this is the word of God that we're reading right here about just God's anger when people lightly esteem him, when people don't fear him.
And the whole goal of this sermon is to get you to realize that you need to fear God.
God is real, my friend.
And his punishments are real. His angers are real.
And it seems like so many people today, they're living as if like they have a head knowledge of God.
But they're not living like they actually fear the Lord.
Like they actually realize that God can recompense righteous anger and judgments upon the saved and the unsaved.
Go to Psalm 76.
While you're turning there Genesis 1914 says and lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law
Which married his daughters and said up get you out of this place for the Lord will destroy this city
But he seemed as one that mocked
unto his sons-in-law.
See, his sons-in-law thought that God was playing games.
His sons-in-law thought that Lot was playing games
and that the Word of God wasn't really going to come to pass,
that it's no big deal.
Oh yeah, you know, we've heard people talk about God's wrath before,
nothing's ever happened,
but then the wrath of God really did come, didn't it?
And it burned that city, Sodom and Gomorrah,
and destroyed all the wicked people therein.
Psalm 76 verse 7 notice what it says thou even thou art to be feared and
Who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry see today?
We have a version of Christianity that only wants to focus on the love of God and how we need to have a sweet and tender
Emotional relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and look it's great to have a relationship with God, but the Bible says that God is to be feared
We should be scared of God we should be terrified of God and here praise the Lord
There's some things I don't have to be terrified about I don't have to be terrified about going to hell anymore
Because I'm saved but just because I'm saved does not mean that God cannot destroy my life if I don't fear him
It does not mean that God can't pour all sorts of judgments and punishments upon me as a
Christian just because I'm saved.
And so many people today are living with zero fear of God.
Go to 2 Timothy chapter 3.
Number one this morning is that God can severely punish the saved.
I'm talking about you in this room.
I'm talking about myself.
While you're turning there, Hebrews 12-6 says for whom the Lord loveth, he chaseneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
We know that God is going to chasen his children.
We know that he's going to discipline us when we sin, but I'm telling you, sometimes that chastisement can be severe, even for God's people.
Very serious punishments.
2 Timothy 3, if you're there...
It says in verse 16,
all scripture is given by inspiration of God
and is profitable for doctrine.
Notice, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness.
See, our whole lives, God through His word
is just begging and pleading with us
to take the reproof.
take the instruction, take the correction.
We have people in our lives doing the same thing.
Children, your parents are constantly instructing you.
They're telling you what roads not to go down in life.
They're warning you about the consequences of sin.
You have a pastor that's doing the same thing.
You probably got other people in your life
that are trying to lead you down the right path.
And what happens if a Christian just says,
nuts to my parents, nuts to the word of God,
I don't care what the Bible says, I'm going to do what I want.
You can live a life.
where God will punish you severely, severe punishment.
What's an example of this?
How about fornication?
Go to Proverbs chapter number five, Proverbs chapter five.
The Bible says,
flee fornication every sin that a man doeth is without the body,
but he that committed fornication sineth against his own body.
You know, sometimes people, they can get away with sin for a while because God is both merciful,
long-suffering, full of compassion and care, and also terrible and wrathful and angry.
And sometimes God lets people commit sin and gives them space to repent, but sometimes
that runs out and you're going to face a severe punishment.
The Bible talks about how when you commit fornication, you're sinning against your own
body.
recompense of committing fornication.
Proverbs 5 once says my son,
attend unto my wisdom and bow thine ear
to my understanding.
that thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge."
So here in Proverbs 5, it's like a dad that's like pleading with his son,
you know, giving him that reproof, giving him that instruction,
and he's saying, son, please listen to me.
Hark into what I'm trying to tell you,
because what he's about to say is for that child's own good.
Verse 3,
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb,
and her mouth is smoother than oil.
See, the author here is acknowledging, hey, this type of a sin of a carnal nature is going
to appear to be good.
It's going to appear to your flesh as something that you want, as something that's going
to be good for you.
I mean, it's like Honey, the Bible says, she's going to appear.
The lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, but appearance is not always reality.
And that's what he's trying to get him to understand before he's in the midst of temptation
This looks good, but the truth is in verse number four,
but her end is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
You know, if if in young men's mind when they are looking upon the strange woman thinking, oh, it's like honey
If instead they saw a sword they would probably have second thoughts and think oh, you know, this isn't something that's safe
This isn't something that's actually good. This is dangerous. It's like a deadly weapon
You know stay away from the strange woman her feet go down to death
Her steps take hold on hell
lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life.
Her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them.
Hear me now therefore, O ye children,
and depart not from the words of my mouth,
remove thy way far from her,
and come not nigh the door of her house."
See, someone who actually fears God,
Someone who actually is not lightly esteeming God is going to when they see the strange woman
Remove their way far from her not even come close to the door of her house
You know we talked about last week how the Bible
Reveals the thoughts and intense of the heart and you could look at someone's action and that reveals something about them
It's like what is it revealed to someone when you don't run away from the whore?
When you don't run away from the strange woman,
when you want to hang out with the strange woman,
it shows that you don't fear God.
It shows that you don't really believe the Bible,
how the Bible said that her steps go down to hell.
You don't really believe the Bible that it says
that she's like a two-edged sword,
like a deadly object to be run away from at all costs.
You don't care, you don't fear God.
That is what a fornicator is like.
It says,
unto others and thy years unto the cruel.
You know, I think this could be talking about
a financial punishment.
And boy, today they often suffer severe financial punishments
for committing fornication.
It's like God's trying to warn you not to go down this path,
but people think, get this weird idea like,
oh, I'm saved, so God will just always be pleased with me.
God's never gonna punish me because I'm saved.
No, no, no, if you commit fornication,
God will punish you in many ways.
One of those ways could even just be financially.
I mean, how do you think if the financial future looks like for a 16 year old man that
gets a girl pregnant and is a dad at 16 years old?
You really think he's got a great financial future when he commits that sin?
Absolutely not.
Or there's the fact of maybe adult married men commit that sin and now they have to pay
child support for the next 18 years and the government's not going to have mercy on you.
We're under the New Testament, bro.
We're under grace, you know, it's all under the blood.
No, they're gonna demand that you pay that money.
And so what are you doing?
You're giving your honor unto others.
You know, this could cause divorce in your life
if you commit this while married.
If you commit adultery, then you gotta pay the alimony
for who knows how long.
It says in verse 10,
Less strangers be filled with thy wealth
and thy labors be in the house of a stranger
and thou mourn at the last.
Notice this, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed.
And say, how have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof?
See, the end of this sin is a man that's sitting in pain and misery
and hating himself for being such an idiot.
To where now his flesh and his body is being consumed,
and he's saying, why was I such a fool?
Why did I lightly esteem the words of God?
Why didn't I fear God?
Why didn't I listen to my mom and dad?
And here you are now, you're lying in the bed that you made.
And you don't think that Christians around this world are going through this exact thing.
Look, it's in the Bible for a reason.
It's to get us to fear God and realize that God is not playing games.
And your little one-night stand with some flusy and some whore
is not worth the rest of your life financial suffering
and the rest of your life burning with an STD.
Being sick for the rest of your life.
Your flesh and your body being consumed.
You know, according to the CDC, one in five Americans have an STD, one out of five Americans.
You are playing Russian roulette if you go and commit fornication.
You are literally just spinning that thing and you got a one in five chance of picking up some sort of STD
and guess what? Since your God's child, God is probably going to make sure that you receive the punishment
for not listening to him, for lightly esteeming his words, for not listening to your parents and not listening to your pastor.
You know, you are going to pay the price for that.
It says 98 million people in our nation have an STD.
15. To 24 years old.
This is even affecting 15 year olds look young children and teenagers
You are not smart enough to be making these types of decisions in your life
You need to right now decide that you are going to remain pure
That's you're not gonna commit fornication that you see the strange woman you see the whore you remove yourself far from her
Because let me just tell you the reality that all the repent of your sins holier than now preachers won't tell you
I will tell you it will appear to you like honey
It will appear to you like, that looks like a good thing.
That's something that your flesh desires.
But I'm telling you right now, it's a sword.
It's going to be a source of pain and misery and destruction for possibly the rest of your life.
And so if you want to test God and see if he's playing games,
go ahead and test God then, but this is going to be your result.
This is going to be what you face.
When you don't want to listen to the Word of God,
you are going to face serious punishments.
Go to Proverbs 6, Proverbs 6.
What about adultery?
You know, granted adultery is way more severe than pornication.
In the Old Testament, when someone committed adultery, they were given the death penalty.
Adultery is a capital crime.
It's something that if you commit, you should not even be alive anymore.
Our government should literally prosecute adulterers and put them to death.
That's how wicked of a sin that it is.
Look at what verse 32 says.
He that do with it, destroyeth his own soul.
So it's like you commit fornication, you're sitting against your own body.
Okay, you commit adultery, you're sitting against your own soul.
And sometimes the word soul in the Bible is used interchangeably with your own life.
Why? Because you could literally die from committing adultery.
Whether or not it's illegal.
Whether or not the government punishes you by death,
her husband might punish you with death.
Your own husband might punish you with death if you go and commit adultery.
Look at verse 33, a wound and dishonor shall he get.
And notice this, his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Committing adultery, even if you do live,
leaves a stain on you that lasts on you for the rest of your life.
And you know, there's this stupid book that I was forced to read in high school.
It's called The Scarlet Letter.
Did anyone read The Scarlet Letter?
Okay, lots of people.
So this book, the whole point of this book is to get you to feel bad for adulterers.
It's like to make you feel bad like, oh, this woman committed adultery
and she had to wear this scarlet letter on her chest
and showing everyone that she's an adulterer in public.
What if I told you the Bible says that she should have been stoned to death?
Like, what's worse, having a scarlet letter on your chest or being killed.
And the Bible says that your reproach is not going to be wiped away.
I'm not interested in making people feel less bad about committing adultery.
Like, if you commit adultery, woe unto you.
You're wicked.
Okay?
Yeah.
Praise the Lord.
You can still be saved.
Praise the Lord.
You can have your sins forgiven.
I'm not saying if you've committed adultery, just give up and never serve God.
I don't want anyone to ever think like, oh, that's cool.
Oh, you committed that?
No worries, man.
It's all good.
No, no, no.
Just don't ever tell anyone that again, because we're going to think less of you.
You commit adultery, we are going to think less of you.
We don't want adulterers in our church.
We don't want to make it feel like just cool, oh, no big deal if you commit adultery.
No.
If you commit adultery, your stain, your reproach will never be wiped away, ever.
Therefore, he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Look, you go and commit adultery with another man's wife.
He might just show up and shoot you in the head on the spot.
right or wrong. Here's reality is that jealousy is the rage of a man and you
think oh no big deal. Oh it's just a one night stand. We're just having fun. No
problem. No, no, no. God's not playing games and neither is the husband. Okay?
You mess up in this area. There's no second chance here oftentimes. There's
no oh no worries bro. Just get it right next time. No, you committed adultery
with a woman. You literally might die.
Physically, literally, might die.
Verse 35.
He will not regard any ransom.
Neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
You could say, oh, I'll buy you a car. I'll buy you a house.
I'll give you a thousand dollars. I'll give you a million dollars.
He's just not going to regard it at all.
It just doesn't matter because a man's wife is worth more than that.
A man's wife is worth more than any amount of money or physical goods and when you defile
her like that, when you commit that wicked sin against that man, you're harming that
man by doing that, he might not regard any ransom.
And so what does the person who actually fears God do?
We read these verses in the Bible and we say, whoa, this is off the table.
We're never committing this sin. This is just something that we are never going to go down. Why?
Because we're not going to lightly esteem God's Word here. We're going to say, hey, God's not playing games.
Look at what the consequences might be and you want to play around? You're going to find out.
You are going to find out.
Go to Galatians chapter, or I'm sorry, go to Proverbs 23.
While you're turning there, Galatians 6-7 says, be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
You are going to reap what you sow that is a promise in the Word of God and
Someone who actually fears God realizes that every day every hour every minute is a choice of are you going to fear God or not?
Are you going to esteem God's words or you're going to lightly esteem them and how you act can result in punishment?
What about alcohol look at verse 29 of Proverbs 23?
who hath woe, who hath sorrow, who hath contentions, who hath babbling, who hath wounds without cause,
who hath redness of eyes, they that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth
itself aright. At the last it biteeth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Once again,
Hey, there's this drink that's red.
It's got like a beautiful color.
It's moving itself, right?
But yet it's represented by something deadly, right?
Like the woman, the strange woman,
it's the two-edged sword.
Alcohol here is likened unto a serpent that stings you.
You know, if I, I don't know about you,
when I see a snake,
I go the other way.
When I lived in Idaho and I was out shooting
and I saw a snake, you know what I did?
I killed it every single time.
I don't want that thing around me.
You know, you got some weird people
that are like really into snakes.
I'm afraid of you, all right?
Because, you know, the Bible says that enmity
was put between us and the snake, all right?
So if you like snakes, I'm a little weirded out by that.
But a normal person sees a snake
and they're like, I'm out of here.
I'm getting out of here.
But you know what, someone who has no fear?
Who lightly esteems what God says?
Oh, they're like, oh, cool, alcohol, let's drink it.
You're a fool.
You're an idiot.
You're someone that does not esteem God's warnings as meaning anything, and you're just disregarding
what he says, and notice the punishment that you're going to have, verse 33.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women.
See, when you're sober, you heard all those things I was just saying about fornication
and adultery, and you're saying, oh, I'm not going down that route, I don't want to destroy
my marriage, why would I want to blow up my family, why would I want to destroy everything
that I've been working on for all these years, but you start drinking alcohol, and all of
a sudden that judgment is gone, and then there you are committing fornication.
There you are committing adultery, ruining your life, oftentimes not even in your full
mental faculties to know what you're doing.
So the wise person says,
I'm not even gonna drink alcohol.
I'm not even gonna do any sort of drug
that's gonna affect my mental clarity.
You know, that's a stupid thing to do.
Thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Man, what a shame that would be to get drunk
and then you see a video of yourself later
saying all sorts of wicked, perverse, stupid things.
I mean, that would bring shame to you, right?
Verse 34, yay, thou shalt be as he that lieth down
in the midst of the sea,
So the idea is that you're just dizzy,
you're feeling like you're being shaken about,
you're getting sick, you're not feeling good.
Verse 35, they've stricken me, shalt thou say,
and I was not sick.
They have beaten me and I felt it not.
When shall I awake?
I will seek it yet again.
You know, how many accidents happened today?
How many lifelong consequences are gotten
as a result of accidents when someone is drunk?
You know, I saw a video a long time ago of these drunk guys playing with samurai swords while drunk.
And I wish I had never seen this.
But they're like putting up fruit in the air and they're like chopping fruit.
And one of the guys like threw the fruit in the air and just chopped off his friend's hand.
Just boom, gone.
Yeah, it's like, how insane is that?
But that's what happens when you drink alcohol.
You get wounds and you're like, oh, you wake up.
You're just like, what the?
Where's my hand?
Oh, yeah.
You didn't fear God.
You were stupid.
You were foolish.
You didn't want to harken to the warnings of the Bible or your parents or your friends
or your pastor.
He said, oh, just having a good time.
What a great time.
What a great time getting your teeth knocked out in a bar fight.
What a great time going on the road and crashing and killing someone's mother, killing someone's
wife, killing someone's husband, killing someone's child.
How would you like to live with that guilt for the rest of your life?
How would you like to be in jail for the rest of your life for manslaughter?
I mean, these are real consequences that happen to people every single day in this city alone.
Every single day.
And you know what would avoid it?
Is preachers actually getting up and telling people to fear God!
And parents telling people to fear God!
And schools telling children to fear God!
And not call it having a good time.
Oh, it's an affair.
Oh, we're partying.
No, it's called sin, my friend, and it will destroy your life.
God is not playing games and you're not cool for going out and doing these things
Young people think it's so cool to smoke marijuana. It's so cool to drink alcohol
It's so cool to brag about how many women you could sleep with or even women now in this sick disgusting culture
Think it's so cool to brag about how many bodies they slept with. No, it's called. You're a whore
No, it's called. You're a whore monger. No, it's called being a drunk
And you should be shamed.
We as a country should shame this disgusting behavior.
Why? Because it hurts people.
And shouldn't we actually love the people that are harming themselves and others?
The loving thing to do is say, no, this is wicked, this is terrible,
and you're stupid for going down this road.
That's what's actually loving to society.
The most hateful preachers in our country are the ones that never preach against sin.
that tell people, no big deal.
We're in the New Testament, bro.
We're under the blood.
We're under grace.
No big deal whatsoever.
Oh yeah, you could serve on staff
once you just divorce your wife
and get married to your faggot husband
like Andy Stanley told his staff.
Oh, no big deal.
No, no, no, we need to make this stuff exceeding sinful
and make it shameful.
Go to Acts chapter number five, Acts chapter five.
By the way, I'm still on point one
where we're talking about the punishment of the saved.
You wait and see how bad it gets for the unsaved.
But Acts chapter 5, verse 1,
but before I read this, keep in mind that everything I've been talking about so far
is really just the natural consequences of sin.
Where it's just like, it doesn't matter if you're saved or not.
If you drink alcohol, you could kill someone, you could get an accident, you could do all those things.
It doesn't matter if you're saved or not, if you go commit fornication, you can get an STD.
But on top of that, there's the supernatural aspect of God's hand coming against you and actively punishing you.
And this happens to the saved as well.
Acts chapter 5 verse 1,
But a certain man named Ananias,
with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
and kept back part of the price,
his wife also being privy to it,
and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles' feet.
But Peter said, Ananias,
Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost,
and to keep back part of the price of the land?
While it remained, was it not thine own?
And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power?
Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?
Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the ghost, and great fear came
on all them that heard these things.
So Ananias and Sapphira, a married couple, they sell this land.
and they kind of feign like they're giving all of the money to the apostles.
But the Bible says that they kind of kept back part of the price
and they laid a certain part at the apostles' feet.
But they weren't honest about that, they were trying to say,
you know, this is all of the money, yeah, we're selling all and giving all to church.
And Peter's just saying like, why are you lying to the Holy Ghost?
Why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?
No one forced you to give all your money to church.
This isn't a commandment of God that you have to sell your house and give everything to the church.
Like when it was in your hand, it was yours to do whatever you wanted with.
You could have just given 10%, you could have given 50%, you could have given nothing, no one was forcing them.
But yet they went out of their way to lie, to act like they were giving all of it.
And as a result, he dies.
And sometimes people think like, oh no big deal, it's just a lie.
It doesn't matter what the sin is.
We should fear God and realize that God is always watching, God is always listening, God sees your heart.
He knows the thoughts and intents of the heart and it doesn't matter if it's something severe like adultery
or something that you might think is lesser like lying, there was people killed in the Bible for lying.
And someone who fears God does not say,
oh, it's just a lie, no big deal.
No, no, no, lying lips are an abomination
to the Lord, the Bible says.
No, it is a severe sin, it is a wicked sin.
Verse six says, and the young men arose,
wound him up and carried him out and buried him.
And it was about the space of three hours after
when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
And Peter answered unto her,
tell me whether you sold the land for so much.
And she said, yay for so much.
So she conspired together with her husband.
Both of them were comfortable committing this sin.
You know, that's a really crappy marriage you have there.
It's supposed to be when one falls,
the other helps them up, right?
It's supposed to be like, oh, you want to do what?
Oh, no, honey, let's, let's serve God.
Let's do what's right here, right?
But they're both wicked.
They both just agreed together to be wicked.
And she lies as well.
Verse nine says, then Peter said unto her,
how is it that you have agreed together
to tempt the spirit of the Lord?
Look, Peter's baffled,
and this is the mentality that godly Christians have.
It's like, we are baffled at how people don't fear God.
Like, I know, I know people lie.
You know, when I worked for Pastor Shelley,
I saw people lying.
When I was a part of Sure Foundation and living there, I know people lie about Pastor Thompson.
And then I know it was going to happen to me too, but when it happened to me, I still was baffled.
Like, how do you not fear God?
Like, how do you just so flippantly lie about a pastor?
How do you so flippantly lie about anyone?
Like, to me, it's just mind-boggling to me.
Because I know God is real, folks.
And because I know he's not playing games.
Behold the feet of them which have buried thy husband, or at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost, and the young men came in, and found her dead, and carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
Remember what Deuteronomy 32 said, I kill, and I make alive.
That's what God said and it doesn't matter how severe you think sin is
God can kill you anytime he wants for anything he wants whether it's a lie whether it's adultery
Whether it's blasphemy you should fear God and not just think like no big deal sins not a big deal no problem whatsoever
Oh, it's all good. No, it's not all good
I'll read Psalm 36 one the transgression of the wicked sayeth within my heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes
for he flattereth himself in his own eyes until his iniquity be found to be hateful."
The wicked literally flatter themselves.
I mean, think about that statement.
How strange is that?
Like, what does that even mean, really?
Like, the way I look at it is it probably means like,
you're wicked, you're living a wicked life,
you're sinning against God,
you're lightly esteeming His commandments,
but you're telling yourself you're great.
Oh, you're a good Christian.
Oh, you love God.
Oh, yeah, I know I'm lying about people.
Oh, I know I'm railing against people.
Oh, I know I'm teaching false doctrine.
Oh, no big deal, though, because I know I love God.
God knows my heart. He does.
And He's seeing that you're flattering yourself.
and he sees that you have no fear of God in your eyes.
That's the truth.
Go to Psalm 15.
I'll keep reading it says the words of his mouth are
iniquity and deceit.
Psalm chapter number 15.
Man, by the way, this is why you've got to punish your
children for lying.
This is probably the most common sin of children.
And if you don't punish them, you're kind of cementing it
into their mind that it's no big deal.
Like oh yeah, you know we all lie no big deal whatsoever. No, no every single time your children lie you need to punish them
You must put it into their hearts
How important it is to be honest to be truthful and you know there's a spiritual connection to this because look at Psalm 15
Verse one, we sing this Psalm,
Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?
Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
Who's going to keep serving God?
He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness
and speaketh the truth in his heart.
This is an inner level of righteousness where it's not superficial and you're just saying
things in front of people to make them like you, but you're actually speaking the truth
in your heart.
Someone that speaks the truth in their heart, let me tell you about them, they actually
fear God.
It's like how we talked about Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord.
She didn't say that out loud. She said that in her heart.
She actually truly reverenced her husband.
She respected her husband. Who is it that fears God?
It's those that speak the truth in their hearts.
Their inner man is actually speaking the truth.
Go to 2 Samuel 6.
2 Samuel 6, we'll see another example where God punished even the saved.
2 Samuel 6, when you're there, look at verse 3.
And they set the Ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab
that was in Gibeah, and Uzzah in Ohio, the sons of Abinadab, draped the new cart.
And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was at Gibeah, accompanying the Ark
of God, and Ohio went before the Ark.
And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments
made of firwood, even on harps and on sultries and on timbrels and on cornets and on cymbals.
Uzzah put forth his hand to the Ark of God and took hold of it for the oxen shook it.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error.
And there he died by the Ark of God.
So, again, sometimes what we think of as being a really big sin or a really big transgression to God
isn't necessarily the same way that God views things.
Because, you know, I've heard many people, they read this story and it's like, this kind of seems like overreaction.
It kind of seems like this wasn't a big deal.
Yet, Uzzah did this and God killed him.
And so, man, shouldn't we just fear the Lord?
Like, bro, just touch the ark and die.
Why? Because God can kill.
God can make alive. God is the one we should fear.
To help you understand this story a little bit, I'll help explain what rule he did violate.
Go to Numbers Chapter 4, Numbers Chapter 4.
Because, you know, God punishes when we transgress His law.
He doesn't just punish for no reason whatsoever.
He punishes when we transgress the Bible.
Numbers 4 verse 15 says,
lest they die. You can't say you weren't warned.
He said, don't touch these things or you will die.
These things are the burden of the sons of Coath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Look, if God tells you,
if you do this, you will die.
It's not for you to sit here and judge.
Well, I don't think that's actually a big deal though.
But I don't think touching the ark is so bad.
I don't think committing this sin is that big of a deal.
It doesn't matter what you think, because it's in God's hands to kill.
It's in God's hands to make alive.
And if God just straightly tells you,
hey, if you do this, I'm gonna kill you, you should probably fear Him.
By the way, this is a good reason to read the Bible,
to even know what the commandments of God are.
Oh, you know, ignorance is bliss.
What you don't know can't hurt you.
No, actually, what you don't know can kill you.
You actually do need to read the whole Bible and know exactly what God's will is and guess what?
That's your responsibility and God will hold you accountable for his words
Regardless if you read the Bible or not. So you might as well read it. You might as well know what he says
Look at Leviticus chapter 16
Leviticus chapter number 16
And of course, most importantly, this story represents a spiritual picture.
You know, you have situations like this, like for example in Numbers 15,
the man picks up sticks on the Sabbath day and he dies.
You're thinking, what's the big deal about picking up sticks?
Well, pictures work salvation, because the Sabbath is supposed to be resting,
picturing faith in Jesus Christ for salvation.
If you try to work your way to heaven, what's the punishment going to be?
Death, right? Going to hell.
But Leviticus 16 says in verse 2,
and the Lord said unto Moses,
speak unto Aaron thy brother,
that he come not at all times
into the holy place within the veil,
before the mercy seat, notice,
which is upon the ark, right?
That's what Usa touched,
that he die not, here it is again,
for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place
with a young bullock for a sin offering
and a ram for a burnt offering.
Skip down to verse 34.
And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins, notice once a year.
as he did and he did as the Lord commanded Moses.
So this was something that was supposed to be very holy.
There's a lot of regulations on who could even go
into the holiest of holy places.
It had to be the high priest
and it had to happen only once per year.
Anyone just walks in there and touches the Ark,
they're going to die.
What is this picture?
It pictures how man cannot just directly go to God.
We're sinful, and we can't just go to heaven by our own works, our own flesh.
We have to have a holy high priest be an intermediary between us.
Which Hebrews tells us is the Lord Jesus Christ.
He's that great high priest.
who's gone into the holy of holies, he sprinkled his blood on the altar and through his sacrifice
we now have access into the holiest of holies, right? That's why when Jesus died the temple
veil was rent from the top to the bottom is because now we have access into the holiest of holies
through the death of Christ. And so this ark was a serious thing because it's picturing Jesus
Christ. It's picturing his sacrifice and you know what happens when you touch the ark?
When you try to approach God with your own works in your flesh, you know what happens?
You die and go to hell.
And so that's why Uzzah touched the ark and died.
Because God has to show, hey, this is what happens if you want to try to have work salvation,
you will die and go to hell.
Go to Job chapter 31.
So, you know, we talked about God can severely punish the saved.
Number two, let's talk about God's punishment of the wicked.
And boy, when you look at the wicked and the life they live
and the way that God punishes them,
it should make everyone fear and tremble before God.
Job 31, this is Job speaking in verse one.
It says, I made a covenant with mine eyes.
Why then should I think upon a maid?
For what portion of God is there from above?
And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high
is not destruction to the wicked?
and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
So when you're reading the book of Job,
you have to be careful to understand who's talking.
Because a lot of times, if Job's friends are talking,
the Bible's true in the sense that it's recording accurately what they said.
But in the latter part of the book, God says,
hey, what your friends were saying was wrong and trash.
And what Job was saying was right.
So when you read here, when Job says,
is not destruction to the wicked
and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity,
That is true that God often punishes the wicked in a strange, horrific, crazy manner and you look at Job and you might think well it kind of seems like Job had a strange punishment.
Well here's how we know that God is not punishing Job is because Job was righteous. Job was just going through a trial, right?
And so when you look at your life, regardless of the severity of problems that you're having, if you're following God's commandments, if you're doing what's right.
And if you're seeking the Lord and you're going through a hard time, you could safely
think like, I'm going through a trial.
The Lord is just putting me through a trial, even if you're going through something really
severe.
But if you're wicked...
If you've taken an inventory of your life and you're like, oh, yeah, not going to church, not reading the Bible, not a soul winner,
I'm drinking alcohol, I'm living in fornication, whatever it is, and you're going through strange stuff and bad punishments,
you should assume that that's the punishment of God, okay? And for the wicked, they're not even saved.
So it's for sure the punishment of God for them.
Let's look at some examples of strange punishments in the Bible. Genesis 19, Genesis chapter 19.
Strange punishments in the Bible, and then we'll close.
I'm going to show you a strange punishment that happened in real life just recently.
Genesis chapter number 19 verse 24, when you're there, it says in verse 24,
then the Lord reigned upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
Again, sometimes you need to just really put yourself into the Bible and think about this
actually happening.
Could you imagine seeing fire and brimstone being rained from heaven on a city?
That is intense.
I mean, that is a strange punishment from God.
Yet, there's this whole city of sodomites
that God literally burnt them all alive.
That actually happened, folks.
I mean, shouldn't you fear the Lord
when there's been an entire city
of people that were burned alive at the hand of God?
Oh, God loves everyone.
Was it loving to burn alive a whole city?
Like, could you say like, man, in 1945, we just love Japan.
We just gave them love by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic weapons.
That was actually an act of love to them.
No, no, no, they were our enemy, right?
And the idea of the Americans at the time was, let's destroy our enemy, okay?
God's idea of burning Sodom and Gomorrah alive was not, let me show you love, the grace.
No, it was, let's burn them and kill them.
They're the enemies of God.
He's gonna send them to hell.
He burned them alive.
Look at verse, go to Romans chapter one.
While you're turning there,
Jude 1-7 says even as Sodom and Gomorrah
and the cities about them in like manner,
giving themselves over to fornication
and going after strange flesh
are set forth for an example.
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
God made an example out of Sodom and Gomorrah
to show us today in 2025
how he feels about those types of people.
He hasn't changed in how he feels about it.
He burned them alive and killed them all
showing this is my anger and wrath
against Sodomites.
And to this day,
though God has not burned with fire and brimstone
San Francisco yet
or Seattle or Portland or anything like that,
puts his wrath upon these people with a strange punishment.
People that reject him, people that hate him,
people that refuse to believe on him,
look what it says in Romans 1.27.
And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman,
burn in their lust one toward another.
Men with men working that which is unseemly.
So what are we talking about?
Sodomites.
Homoes, people that man burning in their lust towards other men.
These are the same people that God killed at Sodom and Gomorrah.
What does he give them?
And receiving in themselves that recompense of their error, which was meat.
So God doles out a punishment inside of the person for hating him, for rejecting him.
What is that punishment?
Well, one of those punishments is a reprobate mind.
that God gives to the person that hates him and rejects him a reprobate mind.
And as a result of having a reprobate mind, that person now can never believe in Jesus Christ in the future.
Their fate is sealed, they've rejected Christ, they hate God,
and so God gives them over to a reprobate mind, and when this happens,
now they're able to do all those things which are not convenient.
They're able to do wicked unnatural sins that normal human beings would never in a million years commit.
You know, us as men, we are tempted with women.
That's just a fact, right?
But it doesn't matter, you know,
if you're on an island for a billion years,
you would never be tempted with a man.
You would never be tempted with an animal.
These are just unnatural things
that is not in the heart of man.
It's literally not possible
for someone who is not a reprobate.
Look at verse 28.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
to do those things which are not convenient, right?
So he allows them.
It's like God's taking the governor off
and now they're able to do all those wicked things
that are not convenient.
I mean, it does not come naturally.
It's not something that we would ever just
find ourselves doing if we got backslid.
No, it's not convenient, it's not gonna happen.
Verse 29 describes what these people are like.
Being filled, so every day they're getting worse, with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers, backbiter, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same,
but have pleasure in them that do them.
Here's the truth, you want to talk about a strange punishment?
God giving someone over to a reprobate mind
and allowing them to become a homosexual is a punishment.
Homosexuals' lifestyles, these fags' lifestyles, is a punishment in and of themselves.
They live filthy, disgusting, dirty lives.
The acts that they commit is a punishment in and of itself.
The wickedness in their heart that they're being filled with all unrighteousness, just
the blackness and darkness of their evil heart and having to live with themselves is a punishment
in and of themselves.
can look at these walking billboards of God's wrath and say look at how disgusting and vile
and abominable these homos are. I need to fear God. Our nation needs to fear God. Hey, you should
probably get saved. You should probably believe in Lord Jesus Christ before you harden your heart,
hate him, and God rejects you and turns you into one of these beasts. Every single sodomite,
the reason they are the way that they are is that God has actively punished them.
God has actively given them a reprobate mind and now their heart is darkened even more.
Now they're able to do these wicked things and their whole life is one big walking punishment.
These people hate themselves.
They will lie to you.
They'll have their little pride parades and it seems like they're so happy.
It's all a fraud.
They hate themselves.
They're disgusting.
They're filled with disease and let me just wake you up.
They hate God.
There's no, like, let's minister unto them and just try to convince them that God is real.
They already believe God is real.
Oh, we just need to give them the truth.
They were holding the truth in unrighteousness.
They rejected the truth.
You're not going to be able to do what against something that God has proclaimed for them.
God is the one that said, okay, I'm giving up on this person.
I'm giving them over to reprimand mine.
You're not going to be able to undo that.
And it's so prideful and stupid to think that the worst people on earth, these reprobates,
that God has punished, that we need to somehow love them.
You did not get that from the Bible.
This idea of, oh, let's have a ministry to the LGBT.
That didn't come from the Word of God.
In the New Testament, it says that what?
They're worthy of death.
Not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them why are they worthy of death?
Well because they're being filled with all unrighteousness and every single day that they are allowed to live
They become more wicked than the day before
It's kind of like it when you get saved
If you choose to walk in the Spirit if you choose to read the Bible if you choose to go to church
You're gonna grow spiritually and you're gonna be Lord willing a better Christian next year than this year
Okay, for reprobates, they will for sure be more wicked next year than they are this year.
And so when I say things like, hey, all homos are pedophiles, here's what I mean by that.
Is that they either already are pedophiles, or if they were given enough chance and opportunity,
they would commit that act.
Why?
Because the Bible says they're being filled with all unrighteousness.
anything wicked that you can imagine,
and by the way, they're inventors of evil things.
So they're coming up with things worse than you could even imagine.
They're being filled with those things every single day.
And so, you know, if we didn't live in this society
where we see stuff on the news and hear about stuff going on,
none of us would ever have imagined
that someone would walk into an elementary school
with an AR-15 and start murdering innocent children.
It would have never come into our heart, but you know what's funny?
When all of these stories come out, you know who the shooter always is?
Some faggot.
Why?
Because their heart has been filled with unrighteousness every single day, and they're
inventors of evil things.
And you know what?
People that don't want these sodomites put to death hate children.
They hate the children that these faggots molest.
They hate the children that die in school shootings, and they want to lecture us for
not being loving.
How about Screw You?
How about that?
How about you're wicked? How about you're a fake Christian? How about you don't believe the Bible?
Oh, you're gonna get in trouble. It's happened for I don't care because I fear God. I actually esteem his words
I know that he's not playing games
And you know what my future is in the Lord's hand
And I would rather face any consequence from the wrath of man knowing that I'm doing my job and right with God
Because God could prosper me God can humble me that's up to him, but I'm doing my job right now
whatever the consequences are, I'm willing to pay. Go to Exodus chapter 14.
Exodus chapter 14. Let's think about some other strange punishments that
happened in the Bible. I mean, boy, being turned over to a reprimand mind, that's a
strange punishment. Becoming a sodomite, wow, that's a strange punishment. That's
the worst punishment.
Look at this though in Exodus 14 27 and again put yourself into the story
I mean this really happened folks first 27 and Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea and the sea returned to his strength
When the morning appeared and the Egyptians fled against it and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, and all the hosts of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them.
There remained not so much as one of them, but the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea.
And the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.
Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the shore.
Hey, God's not playing games.
You want to come against God's people. You want to press God's people. You want to not harken to the prophets of God?
Pharaoh, he might just open up the Red Sea and drown you all and
Just have the waves crash upon your heads and kill all of you. That's the God of the Bible folks
And there's often a strange punishment to the wicked to the haters of God. Go to number 16
Let's look at another example of this
I mean of all the things in the Bible, one of the coolest things would have to have been seeing the Red Sea part.
I mean that is an incredible thought.
And the fact that God's people walked through on dry ground,
showing that this wasn't some weird hurricane or something like that, like some people say,
this was direct intervention of God.
And even dried up the ground for them so they could walk across and then killed all the Egyptians.
Number 16, verse 29.
If these men die the common death of all men,
or if they be visited after the visitation of all men,
then the Lord hath not sent me.
Of course, the wicked were speaking against Moses.
Verse 30 says,
but if the Lord make a new thing
and the earth open her mouth and swallow them up
with all that appertain unto them,
and they go down quick, meaning alive, into the pit,
then ye shall understand
that these men have provoked the Lord.
He's like, what's about to happen right now is you're going to understand that God is not playing games.
You're going to understand that I am a prophet of God, that I am speaking the words of God,
and you're speaking against me and you're about to see God's not playing games, verse 31.
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words,
that the ground clave asunder that was under them, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up.
and their houses, and all the men that appertained in the Korah, and all their goods.
They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit.
That's hell.
And the earth closed upon them.
I mean, that is probably the craziest part of this miracle, is like,
we've seen, you know, big sinkholes, we've seen kind of the earth open up,
but could you imagine the earth opens up?
The wicked fall into it, into hell.
And then it goes, whoosh!
I mean, you're like, okay, that's the hand of God.
And you're just like, oh, there's some weird seismic activity today around Moses.
It was like a scientific phenomenon.
No, it was God opened the earth and burned these people in hell and they went, oh, you're
right, God wasn't playing games.
Oh, God was serious.
Oh, God was to be feared.
Verse 34, in all Israel, that were round about them, fled at the cry of them, for they said,
lest the earth swallow us up also.
and there came out a fire from the Lord
and consumed the 250 men that offered incense.
So then on top of it, God's gonna chase them with fire too.
And you know, it's so crazy to me
how sometimes you could just see wicked people
What are they doing? You know, speaking against God's prophets, lying about them,
doing all sorts of wickedness, and then something terrible happens then where it's clearly the
work of God, and then they want to get all scientific. Oh, it was a seismic event. Oh, no big deal.
No, we had a weird windstorm and the fire chased them. It's like, no, it's the wrath of God.
It's a strange punishment from God. Let's look at one more example in 2 Kings 9.
2 Kings chapter 9 about Jezebel.
If you remember, she had brought false witnesses against Naboth saying that he had blasphemed
God and the king.
She got him killed.
Then she threatened to kill Elijah.
She's doing a lot of wicked things here.
And look at the result, the strange punishment that she had in verse 30 of 2 Kings 9.
And when Ji-Hoo was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her face and
tired her head and looked out at a window.
And as Ji-Hoo entered in at the gate, he said, had Zimri Peace, who slew his master?
And he lifted up his face to the window and said, who is on my side, who?
And they're looked out to him two or three eunuchs and he said throw her down
So they threw her down and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses and he trode her
Underfoot, I mean he just does not care. He's like throw Jezebel out the window
And he's just like clippity clop clippity, you know going over her dead body, right like it's nothing and when he was come in
I like he just he makes a sandwich. He says he did eat and drink got some iced tea made a good sandwich
and said go now see this cursed woman and bury her for she is a king's daughter
and they went to bury her but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet
and the palms of her hands. The dogs went and licked up her blood
and ate her butt. What a wonderful end. Oh it's just a coincidence.
No it was the wrath of God.
No, maybe you shouldn't have had Naboth killed by bringing false witnesses against him.
You know, when someone tries to ruin someone else's life by bringing false witnesses against them,
hey, you should fear God.
because God's not playing games.
He's someone to be feared.
Oh, you wanna threaten to kill God's prophets?
Okay, well, you never know when a Jehu's around.
It might just have you thrown down
right over at you a couple of times
and then go raid your fridge when he's done.
I mean, this guy was hard, right?
Would this guy be welcome in a lot of churches today?
No, this attitude would be, you know, scorned,
but I like this guy.
This is God's man.
He's a great guy.
Now let me tell you,
about a child of Satan who is experiencing a strange punishment from God,
is someone that I knew personally for years.
This person I am convinced beyond any shadow of a doubt is a reprobate,
is a child of the devil, has done extreme wicked things,
and is now being given a strange punishment from God.
His name is Ryan Gallagher, and he recently changed his name to Ryan Becker.
He got married for the third time and took his wife's last name, and with his past,
I understand why he wants to hide his name, and I'll explain some things about that.
In about 2020, Ryan was ordained as an evangelist to go to Hawaii
to start a church plant for Sher Foundation Baptist Church,
led under Pastor Aaron Thompson's leadership.
Pastor Thompson's bank statements and made all these false accusations against him, made
all these videos attacking him, accusing Pastor Thompson of stealing money and just mishandling
things and committing all these crimes.
So he was a hater that was lying about Pastor Thompson.
Then Ryan, having never been connected whatsoever to steadfast Baptist Church,
he had never been connected whatsoever with Pastor Shelley or any of the things going on in Texas.
Other than I guess that he knew me.
I mean, I knew him for the entire time I was at Sherr Foundation, went solo underneath him many times.
I knew that guy.
He decided in 2021 to do this conspiracy where he got together with Leslie Romero and Seth Bookout.
And he filed a fraudulent document with the Texas Secretary of State claiming to be a
director of Steadfast Baptist Church.
Keep in mind, he has never stepped inside of Steadfast Baptist Church.
He's never been a member.
He's never been connected to Steadfast Baptist Church in any way whatsoever.
By the way, Leslie was not a director at that time either.
The church had been handed over to Pastor Shelley.
Seth Bookout, dead sure was never a director of anything, okay?
But they commit fraud, they commit business fraud, business identity fraud.
They take this fraudulent Secretary of State document, they go to the bank, and they take
all of the money out of Steadfast Baptist Church's bank account.
They just steal all of God's money, okay?
Talk about having no fear of God.
What have they done so far?
A pretty big lie claiming, I mean, am I the CEO of Walmart?
Can I just say that?
Like, what are you talking about?
I mean, that's a lie saying that they were the directors of that, then stole the money.
Then, when we were being protested and going through lawsuits where the landlord was trying
to evict Steadfast Baptist Church, Ryan was giving advice and giving help to the protesters
to try to help get them to evict us.
One of the protesters went online and bragged about how he had spent hours and hours on
the phone with Ryan Gallagher.
How many of the straight men in here
would like to talk to a sodomite for one single second?
Not to mention hours and hours and hours?
So that's a major red flag.
You're spending hours on the phone with fags.
Like, that's disgusting, okay?
Then, Ryan and his attorney send letters
to me and Pastor Shelley firing us
from Steadfast Baptist Church.
saying like, oh yeah, we're the directors, we're firing you,
turn in all your keys, turn in all the assets that have all the passwords,
everything, just give it all to us.
You know, it's like, uh, no. How about, how about no?
Then, Ryan falsely accused me, he took a picture of me
holding an AR-15 in my own house, which is a picture of me holding my AR-15 in my house,
and he spread it abroad and made all these accusations
that I was holding my AR-15 and pointing it at protesters.
So he's accusing me of committing a crime, which if I had done that folks, I would have been in jail
Of course, I never did that. That was a complete lie, but he's going around lying then
steadfast lost the first lawsuit at first and was evicted and he got on there and he said that the
Protesters the LGBT the witches all those wicked people that were protesting said fast he went on there and said you guys are f-ing legends
What kind of Christian would call
Sodomites, legends? What kind of God-fearing person? Oh, evangelist, right?
There's someone that fears God and loves God. What kind of a person would call these people legends for
evicting a church? And again, it's like, what did you ever have to do with steadfast?
What did you ever have to do with Pastor Shelley? Absolutely nothing, okay?
But this guy is a child of Satan and wants to see the work of God hurt.
Then he left Hawaii, he became a lawyer, woe unto you lawyers.
He divorced his second wife, abandoned his kids, and married some hoe and took her last
name.
Okay?
So probably because if you're a lawyer, you don't really want to hire the lawyer who
has committed business identity fraud.
Like, oh, you're that lawyer that stole over $100,000 from a church?
Oh, I got you on retainer, no problem.
Now, you probably want to run away from that stigma, right?
So he's like, oh, I'll take my wife's last name.
So his name is Ryan Becker now.
Now here's the thing.
I prayed.
for God to punish this person for years.
So you pray against someone.
Well, go to Psalm 58.
It is biblical to pray against someone like Ryan Gallagher,
someone who is attacking the work of God,
trying to get churches shut down.
When Pastor Shelley is doing a great work of God,
making great documentaries, getting millions,
that church had billions of views, literally.
Reaching that area with the gospel,
doing all these great missions trips,
starting churches,
sending out evangelists or banics to the Philippines.
Like Steadfast Baptist Church is a top tier church, folks.
They are doing a great work of God.
And so of course the devil wants to put a target on that
and wanted to come after us.
Psalm 58, look what it says in verse six.
Break their teeth, oh God.
in their mouth, break out the great teeth of the young lions.
Oh Lord, let them melt away as waters which run continually when he bendeth his
bow to shoot his arrows.
Let them be as cut in pieces as a snail which melteth let every one of them
pass away like the untimely birth of a woman that they may not see the sun.
Before your pots can feel the thorns,
he shall take them away as with a whirlwind,
both living and in his wrath.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance.
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked
so that a man shall say,
verily there is a reward for the righteous,
verily he is a God that judges in the earth.
You see, God's not playing games, God kills, God makes alive, God is not a God that just
judges when you die.
God is a God that also judges in the earth and here the psalmist is bringing
Implications prayers against the wicked saying God break their teeth. God let them melt like a snail
God render unto these people what they deserve and that is what I and many other people were praying
Against this child of Satan who was attacking and harming our church and having us go through all these hellish lawsuits
And going through all these protests and all these problems
that was stifling some of our work and so I was praying that God would take care of this person.
Now, let me read for you an article. He is on the news all over the world,
all over the world. This comes from England. This article I'm about to read for you.
It says, Father of Six is excruciating battle with rare skin disease covering 50% of his body
in black lesions. Okay.
A young father of six who has been diagnosed with an ultra rare skin disease has been given
just six months to live.
Ryan Becker, a lawyer from Spokane, Washington, has been battling the undiagnosed skin disorder
for over three months.
It's getting dramatically worse by the day.
And baffled medical professionals.
His illness hasn't just affected his body.
It has also impacted his mental clarity.
I'll tell you what's impacted his mental clarity
is the fact that he's a reprobate.
That he has a reprobate mind.
Dating back to June of last year,
he began feeling extremely fatigued almost all the time
and had begun developing serious acne on his back.
By January, he developed the first major sore on his leg, which started out red but soon morphed into a terrifying black.
As of Wednesday of last week, 40-50% of his skin was covered in sores.
In just the last days, he has developed five more wounds on his stomach, the top of his right arms, and even the palms of his hands.
At that time, he lost $25,000 of his wife's retirement money by purchasing Tesla stock
option contracts that went bust after Elon sent a tweet.
So his wife is saying, oh, you're doing things that are uncharacteristic and you're making
bad decisions and your mental clarity is being affected.
It's like, I could tell you some bad decisions that he's made years ago.
It's not based on this disease, it's based that he's being punished by God.
Dermatologists believe Ryan, 38, has a never-before-seen form of pyriderma gangrenosum.
Never-before-seen.
A disorder that typically leaves sores only on the legs.
He has developed sores on his arms, back, chest, stomach, and even the palms of his hands.
Dermatologists say their best guess is that Ryan, 38 years old, has a never-before-seen
of pyroderma gangrenosum, a disorder that typically leaves sores on legs and hands but
neither is true for Ryan.
The sores have spread to nearly every corner of his body and doctors have not been able
to find an effective form of treatment for him, even as he reports being in agony for
large portions of the day.
She added that nearly all of the doctors they've seen have been shocked by his sheer number of ulcers and the severity of them
Everywhere we go with Ryan doctors are in shock awe and horror. I mean they can't hide it on their faces
They're trained not to show any expression, but when they see Ryan, it's like oh my god
Michael said adding that they often go get second third and even fourth opinions
He sought help at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota,
but still remains without answers.
Although his prognosis is still unknown,
given that pyroderma gangrenosum remains poorly understood
by scientists, John Hopkins gave Ryan the grim prediction
in February that he likely has six months to live.
Ryan says that his latest tests have led the heartbroken
family to believe that he's going to die
a slow, painful death.
Wow.
There's no cases that any of the dermatologists that I've talked to have seen it spread to the legs,
torsos and arms. With each new sore that appears he goes through the same grueling process.
They get red, they get raised, they blister, they pop, then they go necrotic. It essentially means
that the cells have died due to lack of blood flow. This is also when the skin turns dark black
and almost looks like frostbite.
Necrosis can be extremely painful and presents with symptoms such as fever, sensations of
crackling under the skin and brain fog.
Ryan freely admits that in this case
it has gone far beyond brain fog or normal confusion.
Even though the first sores appeared in early January,
it wasn't until early February when Michael realized
it was time to go to the emergency room.
I woke up to him having a seizure in the bed
and I'm trying to stop him from hitting his head on the bed
and his hands are flailing everywhere
and he accidentally punches me in the face.
At this time, he had also developed a chest wound
in the shape of a heart.
But Michael said he started having them during their family trip to Disney World from December 31st to January 7th.
I mean, the bro is getting, talking about a strange punishment.
Strange punishment.
Seizures in bed, not even remembering them.
Punching his wife, burning from all of these lesions all over his body.
Once at the Providence Sacred Medical Center in Spokane, the couple said Ryan was loaded
up with a massive cocktail of drugs.
They say he was given corticosteroids intravenously, a treatment typically given to deal with inflammation.
Experts also say that high doses of these types of steroids can lead to psychosis.
You know, this is a pretty long article, but I hope you don't mind.
I'm trying to get people to fear God right now.
I was definitely in a state of acute psychosis, Ryan said.
I was like, I must have murdered someone or something.
Weird that that's in his heart.
I thought all the nurses were involved in it,
that it was a sting operation, that I was going to go to sleep
and they were going to arrest me,
but that also my parents were in organized crime.
You know, the wicked flea when none pursue it.
When you've lived a debauched, wicked life for years,
attacking God's people, probably being demonically possessed,
yeah, you're going to have these weird experiences.
Michael and Ryan both said he believed Michael was an FBI agent, and that his stepdaughter, Reagan, was a CIA agent.
Coming after him for all of his federal crimes.
After that, Ryan said he had agreed to be given Dilaoude, I don't know if I'm saying that right,
an opiate weakener, weaker than fentanyl, but stronger than morphine.
And Haldal, a powerful anti-psychotic used to treat schizophrenia.
They kept me sleeping, at least I thought they did. Apparently I sleepwalked.
Wow. Let's skip some of this.
It says they completely stopped treating me, which even included the painkillers.
A resident said, so one of the staff said,
so we believe you've been using substances and you're causing these wounds yourself.
So we're going to go ahead and discharge you.
I'm like how in the world do you think I'm causing these wounds by scratching myself?
Michael said they had to jump through a lot of hoops to get the misunderstanding corrected and their version of events was
Solidified when Ryan's urine test came back negative for drugs
So like the staff is looking at him and thinking like you have to be on drugs like this is so crazy and your behavior is so crazy
That's what they thought
She also said that she would repeatedly
Just for sake of time. Let's skip here
The uncertainty that surrounds every aspect of Ryan's past progressing disease is what spurred them to travel across the country to top medical institutions
that has also had the downside of taking Ryan out of the workforce.
Then they complain about their financial situation.
They have a GoFundMe where they've raised $33,000 from poor people that don't know any better oftentimes that this is actually a child of Satan who's attacked God's work.
They think he's just some poor guy going through something.
Then it says in the meantime Ryan and Michael haven't lost their optimism or sense of humor with the couple joking that he has zombie skin
That's a weird joke a
Fear that he eerily predicted on his bumble profile. I'm guessing that's some sort of dating app. I
Think we met on bumble, right?
He had on there, what is your greatest fear?
Michael explained and he said,
Michael started before Ryan interjected,
to have a condition that causes a zombie apocalypse
to be named after me.
So Ryan's greatest fear was to have this rare skin condition
that a zombie apocalypse was named after him for.
Oh, weird how sometimes God gives people the fears
of their heart when they're super wicked.
Now he said, oh my God, my skin is like zombie skin now.
God is not playing games folks God is not playing games when this is your end right here
You say that's gross.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure David cut off Goliath's head and walked it around, so I'm just trying
to get you to fear God here today and realize that this was a perfectly healthy man who
hated God, who attacked Christians, who lied about Christians, who tried to get the workers
of Satan to attack Steadfast Baptist Church and come after us, and this is what happens
when God gives you a strange punishment.
God is not playing games.
Oh, you think that God's someone not to be feared?
I'm telling you, God's not playing games today.
And it's so poetic that he got transferred to Portland, Oregon,
where all this began when he was at Sher Foundation Baptist
Church in Vancouver.
You should fear the Lord.
And let me tell you, all the wicked people
that was teaming up with Ryan Gallagher,
all the other ex-Evangelists that were his friends,
yeah, even a pastor that was talking and helping with him.
Oh, you know, all the sodomites that were involved with him, all his co-conspirators, you better fear God.
You better stop attacking God's people.
You better stop lying about God's men.
You better stop attacking churches because God can literally melt you like a snail and
cause you to die a slow and painful death.
And by the way, I don't want him to die a slow and painful death.
I want him to die today.
You know why?
Because there's all these poor people that are giving him their hard earned money.
And of course, Judas, it's all about money to the end, right?
But you know what I wrote a little poem about Ryan and I'll admit that my
My skills are not as good as whoever this new IFB parody account guy is if you know what I'm talking about
I don't know who that is but that person you know, I salute you at whoever you are. Okay, but this is this is my poem
It just made me feel a little bit better. So just bear with me. Okay?
Ryan hunted God's faithful, his heart intent to fight.
His persecutor's hand brought anguish day and night.
Yet in his short triumph, he sowed his own despair.
The punishment of the wicked is now his to share.
Joining hands with wicked devils, that was a mistake.
Now thy flesh is consumed, their end is to your fate.
So long now, Ryan, you failed your sinful goal.
Soon not just thy flesh shall burn, but your eternal soul.
Enjoy for now, O Judas, thy cold infirmary bed,
before you go to join the long-forgotten dead.
Their name, like yours, no one cares to know.
Which one, you ask?
You took yours from a hoe.
Be warned.
O Confederates, look upon his boils, if ye fight God's men you might end up in soil.
Behold his cries, his pain, his longing to amend.
Be instructed and fear, lest this too be your end.
God's not playing games.
You want to go after God's man.
You want to lie about Pastor Thompson.
You want to lie about me.
You want to send faggots against our church.
You want us evicted.
You want to steal our money.
Well, enjoy melting like a snail for your final days
because those are the greatest days of your life
compared to what's coming for you.
Because you're about to descend into the lowest hell
and be burning for all of eternity.
So let this be a warning to the haters of God.
to the haters of steadfast, to the haters of anchor, to the haters of sure foundation,
that God is with us, not with you. And God will punish you, and God will even send strange
punishments upon you if you go against us. That I know from experience.
Lastly, go to Psalm 33. Hebrews 10, 31 says it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the
I hope you realize that God's not playing games.
I hope you realize that God is real and his punishments are real.
What should our response be?
Psalm 33 verse 8, let all the earth fear the Lord.
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
Let's pray.
Lord, thank you for your word
and thank you for the warnings found therein.
I just pray that every single person in here
would truly fear you, that they would read the Bible,
know what's expected of us, know what the punishments
you've warned are, and that we would fear God
and not have you against us, but rather for us.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
This time we'll go ahead and sing one last song to conclude the service if you would take your hymnals at this time and turn to hymn number 87
Just when I need him most
Him number 87 in your hymnals just when I need him most
We'll go ahead and start there right on the first.
Just when I need Him, Jesus is near.
Just when I falter, just when I fear.
Ready to help me.
Ready to cheer, just when I need Him most.
Just when I need Him most.
Jesus is near to comfort and cheer
Just when I need Him most
Just when I need Him
Jesus is true
Never forsaking all the way through
Giving for burdens, pleasures anew
Just when I...
Just when I need Him most
Jesus is near to comfort and cheer
Just when I need Him most
Just when I need Him
Jesus is strong
I need Him most. Just when I need Him most. Just when I need Him most. Jesus is near to comfort and