Good morning, everyone.
Welcome to Anchor Baptist Church.
It is time to go ahead and get started.
If you would, find a seat and grab a hymnal.
Our first hymn this morning will be number 49,
Meet Me There.
hymn number 49,
49,
Meet Me There.
49, we'll sing their starting on the first verse.
On the happy golden shore, where the faithful art no more,
When the storms of life are o'er to keep me there,
Where the night dissolves away into pure and perfect air.
Amen, at this time we'll open with a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day
and for your many blessings that we just have a church
to be able to gather without persecution,
to sing praises and to learn from your word.
I pray that you'd be with us this morning,
that everything would be done decently in an order,
that you'd open our ears to the message
that pastor has prepared for us.
These things we pray in Jesus' name, amen.
Our next hymn, 143, blessed assurance, 143, 143, blessed assurance, 143 there on the
first.
of God, born of his spirit, washing his blood. This is my soul.
This is my story, this is my song, raising my saviour all the day long.
go through some announcements.
If you don't have a bulletin, please raise your hand
and Usher will bring you one.
We do have on the front our Bible memory
verse of the week, Genesis chapter number one.
Verse seven of course, there'll be a prize after completing the whole chapter and for those under 18
There's a ice cream after the Wednesday service if you can quote this on the left hand side
You'll see our service times are listed Sunday morning at 10 at 30 Sunday evening at 4 30 and our Wednesday Bible study through Proverbs at 7 o'clock
We do have our soul winning times listed there and of course the one highlighted in gold is
our Saturday rally. We have a short soul winning sermon and a song. We go out and preach the
gospel in really receptive areas. And of course you know about our SWAT team that we implemented
a few months ago. The soul winning action team where we go out and preach to areas that recently
experienced tragedy. And if you haven't seen the video that we posted yesterday, yesterday was an
we went to an apartment complex where a homicide took place on Thursday and as I'm getting out of
the car and getting my kids ready this woman walks across our path and she kind of makes a snide
remark to me she's like oh you guys don't look like you belong here I'm like well what do you mean
and she goes well on second thought maybe you guys should come here more often because my boyfriend
was just murdered this Thursday and I'm just thinking like hey you're the person that I came for
And thankfully we were able to talk to her and she was very receptive.
Like I say, tragedy can either push people towards God or away.
And thankfully she was really receptive to the gospel.
But it was very crazy because in the middle of the gospel presentation, the friends of the killer showed up.
and they kind of started getting to a verbal altercation.
This one guy, he's got his gun hanging loose,
carrying an appendix style with absolutely no holster.
And so I realized that these SWAT soul winning events
are serious things that we're doing.
We're going to rough areas,
so at least please be vigilant when you're out there.
Paying attention, we're literally showing up to crime scenes.
And so thankfully nothing crazy happened,
but just be aware that anything can happen at any time,
but we do need to have
vigilance wore out there and again if you just like hey I want a regular map I
will always give you a regular map you don't have to worry about that I don't
need that on my hands you know if something crazy happens but hey it was
great preached to the gospel she got saved so that you know that's why we
started that ministry was for people like her there's not a lot of people
in even in Christianity that care for the poor and ghetto areas and so Anchor
Baptist Church we want to be a church that goes out into the rough areas and
love people when other people often don't. So pray for that ministry or join us if
you would and then also we have our year-to-date statistics we got an update
from our soul winner over in the Philippines and so our year-to-date total
for Anchor Baptist Church is 1650 definitely praise the Lord for that.
We do have the baptistery ready so if anyone would like to get baptized today
Please let me know.
We do have, below that, our upcoming events, August 27th through the 31st, is the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship at Steadfast Baptist Church, coming up real soon.
Looking forward to it, there's lots of great fellowship events, and of course preaching as well, so please join us for that.
September 6th is our next soul-winning marathon, and that's in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
We had done this before back when I was going to Steadfast.
up and it was really receptive then it's been a while so we're gonna hit that
again September 6th then the next day September 7th is the men's preaching
night followed by a potluck and game night and you know I don't know who's
gonna bring it but I'm craving sourdough bread from someone and I know there's a
lot of ladies that do that really well so whoever whoever wants to bring that
you know I'll bring the nice butter but I'm just asking that someone brings
sourdough bread
for that. October 6th through the 11th is the Bahamas mission trip less than 60
days away. It's coming up real soon. I'm going. I'm really excited. I know a lot
of the church here is going as well. So definitely start preparing for that and
it's going to be a great time. Prayer list on the right. There's a couple of
additions for this week. Brother Alex is praying for his finances.
Sister Whitney is praying for her grandfather Ted's cancer healing and surgery I believe he was diagnosed with some sort of lip
Cancer if that's correct. Yeah, so be praying for him. I believe he's in his 90s, right? Yeah, be praying for him
Also, there's just a lot of people out traveling right now pray for their travel safety as well
And then on the right there's an information about a visitor card for filling out online
And also our online giving that's going to be it for announcements. We'll go ahead and go to our third song
Our third hymn this morning number 441. Great is thy faithfulness.
441. 441. Great is thy faithfulness.
Oh God, my Father, there is no shadow of turning with thee.
Thou changest not by compassion's face.
As the offering plays are being passed, turn if you would to Exodus chapter number 20.
Exodus chapter number 20.
Exodus chapter 20, and God spake all these words saying,
I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above
or that is in the earth beneath
or that is in the water under the earth.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, the Lord, thy God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children under the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that take it his name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
Six days shout thou labor and do all thy work.
But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
In it thou shalt not do any work.
Thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant,
nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle,
nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
For in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day,
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day
and hallowed it.
Honor thy father and thy mother,
that thy days may be long upon the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery,
thou shalt not steal,
thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's wife
Nor his manservant nor his maidservant nor his ox nor his ass
nor anything that is thy neighbors and
all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings and
the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking and
When the people saw it they were moved and stood a far off
they said unto Moses speak thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak
with us lest we die. And Moses said unto the people fear not for God has come to
prove you and that his fear may be before your faces that ye sin not and the
people stood afar off and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God
And the Lord said unto Moses, thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, ye have seen
that I have taken with you, talked with you from heaven, ye shall not make with me gods
thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burn offerings and thy peace offerings,
thy sheep and thine ox. In all places where I record my name, I will come unto thee and I will
bless thee. And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone.
For if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Neither shouts thou go up by steps under mine altar,
that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon."
I was afraid.
Gracious Lord, thankful for the beautiful weather,
thankful for this church, Lord, a place
that we have to worship, a very Lord
that you help us have center hearts to the message,
a Lord that you feel past your odds with your spirit.
Jesus, don't be afraid.
Amen.
Well, I'm going to preach a sermon this morning regarding a recent trip we did out to Anadarko,
Oklahoma.
We did a soul winning marathon out there.
And the reason I chose that area is because within an hour of the OKC Metro, it has the
highest per capita population of Native Americans.
And so we wanted to go out there and give it a shot and try to minister to those people.
But honestly, the report coming back is that it was super unreceptive.
Unfortunately, it was not a very receptive place.
It was not the greatest soul winning marathon.
Now, look, I still had fun, you know, I love soul winning marathons.
It's always fun, but it just was not the most receptive place.
And the demographics of the people there obviously is lots of Native Americans
and the biggest tribe that's there is the Cato Indian tribe.
And, you know, one of the things that attracted me to moving to Oklahoma was the fact that
there is so many Native Americans here because it's kind of like you have a foreign mission
field within our state.
You know, I love foreign missions trips.
It's fun to go to the Bahamas and Mexico and others have been to the Philippines.
But it's kind of cool that here in Oklahoma, there's all these different nations, the
Cato tribe, the Cherokee, all these different Indian tribes.
plan, and I hope to reach all the Indians in our state with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
And just because we kind of started out rough with this Anadarko Soling Marathon, you know,
we're not going to give up on these people, we're not going to give up on the Native Americans.
But let's just be honest, there are a lot of spiritual issues in the Native American
communities today.
There's a lot of carnal issues, spiritual issues in the reservations and in just areas
where the Native Americans live.
Talking about the Native Americans is like the sacred cow.
Like you cannot criticize the Native Americans.
It's just like blasphemous to say anything against their culture.
But you know, we as Christians, we should adhere to what the Bible says,
regardless if that impedes on our culture or the way we're living,
or if it hits us at home.
Because you know, there's a lot of sins in our lives that the Bible corrects.
And there's a lot of things about Native American culture that is wicked
and evil and is causing them harm.
And you know, I love the Native Americans.
This sermon is going to come from a place of love, of wanting to reach them.
You know, stay there, but I want to quote for you, Leviticus 19-17, the Bible says,
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart.
Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor and not suffer sin upon him.
So notice, according to the Bible, it is loving if you notice that your brother is sinning
or there's something wrong in your brother's life that's causing him harm, that's causing him issues.
If you just ignored that and didn't talk about it, that would actually be hateful.
You know, what's loving is if there's an issue in someone's life and it's causing them harm, causing them pain,
you want to correct that because you love that person.
And let me tell you, the people who just are afraid to ever criticize the Native Americans
and we can never say anything bad about them,
we have to respect every single thing about their culture regardless of whether or not it's Satanic
or against God's word, those people actually hate the Native Americans.
The people today that want to enable the wicked lifestyle and the wicked religion and the wicked culture that they're living,
those are the people that hate the Native Americans.
The title of my sermon this morning is Hope for Native Americans.
Hope for Native Americans.
The message I'm going to bring this morning is how is it that the Native Americans can truly have hope today?
Because the US government has one idea, right?
Give them a bunch of free money.
What do people talk about today?
Giving them their land back.
Reparations, free money, free health care, all these things.
And they view that as like, that's what's going to give the Native Americans hope.
Really, because it doesn't seem like it's working.
Every time I go to a Native American reservation, it's like one of the saddest places I've ever been.
It's just sad and everything's run down and closed and they're in poverty and they're addicted to drugs and alcohol and it's just terrible places.
So it doesn't seem like this method is working.
Okay, how is it that the Native Americans can actually have hope today?
Number one, they have to forsake false religion.
Look at Exodus chapter 20 verse 3.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
God is a jealous God and it does not matter if you are white, black, brown, Native American, from New Zealand, it doesn't matter.
You are to have no other gods before the Lord.
He is the God of the whole earth.
He is not just the God of the white man or the brown man or the black man.
He is the God of the whole earth.
cultures are deserving of respect, that's garbage. You know what? If there's something about a culture
that's not sinful, go ahead and celebrate that. That's fine. But you know what? It's not okay to
celebrate false religion, especially as a Christian. And some people, they have their minds so warped
in the world that they'll stand more with their blood. They'll stand more with their heritage
than with the Bible. And look, you see this with white supremacists.
Right? You see this with white supremacists and like the Nazi ideology.
You know the Nazi ideology was a complete humanist ideology.
It was the exaltation of man and his image
and his strength and his intellect and the Germans in World War II they just
thought man the Aryan was the master race and look today there's a lot of
Native Americans that are just so proud of their culture
that they think it's superior to everything else but you know what there
And anyone worshiping a false God is on their way to hell.
And if you actually love the Native Americans,
you would tell them to forsake their false religion.
And that's what we do when we go out there.
Look at verse four.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath
or that is in the water under the earth.
Hey, that is a huge thing in Native American culture.
Taking pieces of wood or stone and carving it into some sort of face or a horse
or some sort of creature or person and involving that in their religious rituals,
that's called idolatry and it is an abomination to God.
And people who practice idolatry, God's like,
man, you know, these idols, they don't have ears,
they don't have eyes, they can't taste.
And guess what?
The people that make them are like unto them.
What is that saying?
People who worship idols are just fools.
They lack understanding.
They're being stupid and idiotic and moronic.
And that is what the Native American culture is, folks.
Worshiping would.
Worshipping stones, worshiping trees, and Father Moon, and Grandpa Coyote.
And we're supposed to actually pretend like that's respectable.
It's not.
It's not something that should be respected.
It's something that should be rebuked because you love them.
And you want them to go to heaven when they die and not split hell wide open and burn for all of eternity.
That's the hateful thing. Look at verse 5.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God.
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
Let me just say it, the truth this morning is that there is a lot of Native Americans now and throughout history that hate the Lord Jesus Christ and that hate God.
And they blame their problems on the white man's religion, even though it's not the white man's religion.
and they attack God, they refuse to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you know what they do?
They pass that down to the third and fourth generation and they're bringing the wrath of
God on their children. And it's so sad today that these completely made up pagan, just insane
out there religions that were created by a bunch of pagans hundreds of years ago are still being
God is a jealous God and he is going to visit the iniquity of people that passed that down to their children.
Now, I want to read to you a little bit about the Cato religion because that is the primary tribe that lived in Anadarko,
and it's a big tribe in this state, in Texas, throughout America.
This is what I found online. It said,
The Cato people have a rich pantheon of deities,
each with their own distinct personality,
role, and significance within the tribe's belief system.
Some of the primary deities in Cato mythology include,
before I get to that,
notice it's just saying like,
hey, the Cato Indians, they just worship a plethora of deities.
They just worship a plethora of God.
Explain to me, how is this different than Hinduism?
How is this different than the pagans of Norway, the Viking pagans?
This is not something that should be respected.
This is gross.
This is an abomination.
This is not a religion that should be respected in a Christian country in the United States.
Just say, oh, oh, because you're Indian, we just have to love you and love your religion.
And look, we do love you by telling you your religion is false.
It's wicked.
Here's who they worship.
Ayantaka.
The Supreme Being and Creator God, Ayantika, is responsible for the creation of the world and all living beings within it.
He is considered omnipotent, omnipresent, and a benevolent force.
So they worship this God called Ayantika.
They worship Kati Ayo, often associated with the sun.
He's the primary deity of light, warmth, and life.
They believe he provides guidance and protection to their people.
Kauntu is responsible for the changing seasons and the movement of the celestial bodies.
Kiwaha, the earth goddess.
So now they worship female gods too, female false gods.
Kiwaha is the mother of all living things
and is revered for her nurturing and protective nature.
Right, so mother nature, right?
This is, you know, a lot of people get caught into
this weird, you know, hippie movement of mother nature.
What you're doing is you're playing with Satanism
is what you're doing because these people
are worshiping devils.
She is associated with fertility, abundance, and the cycles of life.
Nisha, the God of rain and water. Nisha is responsible for providing the necessary sustenance for life to thrive.
He is considered a generous and caring deity essential to the well-being of the Cato people.
Go to Isaiah chapter number 45.
Now look, obviously this is a completely wicked, false religion.
It's like, how do you know that your God is not truly the God of the whole earth?
Well, it's like, why is your tiny little tribe in one weird, you know, obscure section of the earth
the only people that worship these gods? It's because it's completely made up.
It's their false gods, they're actually devils.
Notice what Isaiah chapter 45 verse 20 says,
They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image
and pray unto a God that cannot save.
Right? So the Bible is saying,
hey, there's people out there that are involved in false religions
and they're devoted to that God,
they're making idols to that God,
they're praying to that God,
but that God cannot save.
Why? Because obviously that God's not real.
Right? But it's real in their minds.
And, you know, we went out to Anadarko and I talked to people who said,
I'm native and, you know, we just need to be one with the earth.
That's how we get eternal life is being one with nature and one with the earth,
kind of like this mystic, pagan type religion.
Look, you could pray to Kuntu and Kewaha and Nisha and Kati Ayo and Ayananka,
whatever these things are, you're still going to burn in hell for all of eternity
because that's a God that cannot save.
Verse 21.
Tell ye and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together, who hath declared this
from ancient time, who hath told it from that time, have not I, the Lord, and there is no
God else beside me, a just God and a Savior, there is none beside me.
Hey, the only true God is the God of the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ, he is the only Savior.
And look, there's a reason why the name of Jesus Christ has been proclaimed throughout
His word has gone out into the ends of the world.
Everyone knows the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why? Because he's really God.
Because he really did rise again from the dead.
Because he really can forgive you of your sins.
But no one but the Cato Indians and Baptist pastors
who are researching for sermons knows who Ayanaka is.
And Kawaah in Nisha.
Raise your hand if you've ever heard of these false gods before.
Even Oklahomans don't know and look Oklahomans are real taught about the Native American culture in the history
Look if you don't know that's how you know it's a false God. Their their name has not gone out throughout the earth
Look unto verse 22.
Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else.
Go to 1 Corinthians 10.
See, the Lord Jesus Christ, he loves the whole world and he's drawing men unto him.
He's calling men unto him saying, hey, be ye saved all the ends of the earth.
And you know, people today who hate God, who hate Christianity,
Movements like ours that have a desire to go out and reach the whole world with the gospel.
And they'll say like we're colonizing people.
We're like religious colonists.
But it's like, hey, God's calling all the people of the earth.
We need to go to the Native Americans.
We need to go to the Bahamas.
We need to go to the Philippines
because God loves these people and wants them to be saved.
But here's the truth.
The false gods that the Indians are worshiping,
and all these weird names who they are really worshiping according to the Bible is the devil.
Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 19.
It says, what say I then that the idol is anything or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?
You know, some people get superstitious and they think like, oh man, this physical piece of wood is spooky and cursed or whatever.
It's just a piece of wood. The idol's just a piece of metal. It's just a piece of wood. The false God does not exist.
It's not real. Verse 20, but I say...
that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice,
they sacrifice to devils and not to God.
And I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
So notice, when the heathen, they're practicing idolatry,
when the Gentiles are making sacrifices to their false gods,
the Bible tells us who they're really sacrificing to is demons.
And what is the call to action for us?
I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
I believe it would be wicked for a Christian, even if you have Native American heritage,
to go and involve yourself in the religious type culture of the Native Americans.
That would be a sin.
Why? Because you are not supposed to partake and have fellowship with devils,
which is who they're worshiping.
Verse 21.
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils.
You cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of devils.
So, you know, you cannot mix these things.
And a lot of Native Americans today,
they may not be fully just into their pagan witchcraft,
satanic religion of a couple hundred years ago.
A lot of times they try to mix Christianity
and their native religion.
And guess what? That's wrong too.
You're not going to get to heaven
by just adding Jesus Christ to your pantheon of gods.
You have to completely reject
your Native American false religion 100%
and you have to embrace Christianity.
Go to Psalm 96.
Psalm 96.
Psalm 96, look at verse 4.
For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised.
He is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens is like
Hey, what's the difference between the Native American religion and Christianity is that their idols are just wood just metal
But our God made the heaven and the earth and you know, what's funny?
Like whenever you read the creation stories of these weird pagan religions
It's always just like off the charts in mythology
and just like crazy made up stories.
It sounds like a little kid made up
in their like school project or something.
But the Bible's account of creation is just super logical
and super, it just makes sense.
But it's like the Indian,
the Native Americans idea of creation is like,
hey, you know, this special Indian came out of a cave
and like a turtle followed him.
And then that turtle created the world.
Like these are the types of mythological creation stories
that they have.
Whereas it's like, hey,
God actually made the heaven and the earth.
Honor and majesty are before him.
Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
Give unto the Lord, O you kindreds of the people.
Give unto the Lord, glory and strength.
Give unto the Lord, the glory due unto his name.
Bring an offering and come into his courts.
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Notice fear before him, all the earth.
Go to Psalm 97. Let's look at another one right here.
Psalm 97 verse 7.
Confounded be all they that serve graven images.
that boast themselves of idols.
Worship Him, all ye gods.
So notice the Bible describes people
that commit the sin of idolatry.
They're confounded in their mind.
They do not have a sound mind.
They are confused.
They do not have the truth.
They even boast themselves of their idols.
And man, that for sure is the Native American culture.
They are so proud.
of their mystic, weird, pagan religion, and it's nothing to be proud of.
And look, I've preached this before. Whatever your culture is, whatever your background is,
if there's a part of your culture that doesn't go against the word of God,
celebrate it. That's fine. There's nothing wrong with embracing things about your culture
like that. But hey, if something goes against the Bible, we should always be more loyal to God
than to your blood, than to your family ancestry or anything like that.
advise that no Christian involves themselves in these like pow wow dances and weird satanic parties
because it's not of God. You know we had a visitor in here one time that came here and it's like
how do you know that you're dealing with a Native American? It's like they'll tell you in the first
five seconds. They're just like super super proud of that and we had this guy come and visit and
just immediately he tells me he's Native American but that he's saved because like but I go to all
That's idolatry is what that is, and you know what, we need Baptist pastors today that are not afraid of being called names for preaching the truth.
You know, people are going to hear the sermon and say, oh, Pastor Oz is a racist.
Even though I go to their rundown communities, I go to their ghetto, I go to their homes, I love on them and present them the gospel, but I'm the racist for telling them the truth.
No, actually, you're the hateful one for enabling their religion that's sending them to hell.
That's the real hateful thing to do.
Again, a lot of them have this idea of, well, let's just mix Native religion culture, Native American religion with Christianity.
Let's just mix these things.
But notice what Jesus Christ said in Matthew 4, verse 10.
That is the message that needs to be brought to the Native Americans today, is hey, here's the Gospel,
but look, you can't just add this on to your false gods, you have to reject them completely and serve only the Lord Jesus Christ.
Go to, if you will.
Judges chapter 11, I'm going to read a few verses for you.
Psalm 9, verse 17, the Bible says this,
They were basically wiped out.
The reason that they exist today is because the US government made these treaties
allowing their nations to exist today, allowing their tribes to exist today.
But if it was just like a fight that would have just gone on,
let's be honest, they would not exist today.
And the Bible says that all the nations that forget God will be turned into hell.
Look, I am not defending every injustice that was ever done to the Native Americans.
You could point out at things in history where it was like, hey, they were mistreated here.
They were lied and deceived.
You know, there was people that made treaties with them that broke those things.
I'm not defending those things. I'm not saying that that's good.
But let's be honest today.
The reason that the Native Americans were destroyed was because God allowed that to happen.
Why? Because they're serving false gods.
So here you go. You have this Christian nation starting.
You have all these people coming over from Europe for what?
To practice the religion of Christianity and to spread Christianity across the world.
You have a nation starting with laws that match up with the Bible.
Capital punishment laws that match up with the Bible.
You have requirements to be in government. You have to be a Christian.
We had a Christian nation here.
And God sees that, and then he sees all these brute savages that are serving false gods that are worshiping Satan that refuse to repent.
Huh, I wonder why they got destroyed.
And look, that's like the most offensive thing you could possibly say today in Oklahoma,
but look, it's true.
If God was for them, they would not have been destroyed.
And it's like all these moronic white supremacists who love Adolf Hitler and love the Nazis.
It's like, if the Nazis was such a great movement, and if God was just for the white supremacists
and was for Germany, why did the nation get raised to the ground?
Why did million of women and children and men get destroyed and Germany was turned into hell?
Why? Because it was not a Christian nation. It was a wicked pagan nation.
Just like the Native Americans are pagan, the Nazis were pagans, folks.
They did not believe in Jesus Christ. They believed in those weird Norse mythology
and worship of humanity and worship of self. And so God destroyed the Nazis.
Does that mean that everything the Americans and British did was good?
No.
And it's like, you know what I believe?
I believe God destroyed the Native Americans.
Does that mean that everything that Andrew Jackson did
and all of the Americans did was good and that they treated them humanely?
No, and I'm not condoning that.
But what I'm saying is that God allowed them to be destroyed.
Why?
Well, don't you realize that if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, the Bible says
that his wrath is abiding on you?
I'll read for you John 3.36, He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideeth on him.
So, what does God think today about Native Americans who refused to believe in Him and who want to worship their false God, His wrath is upon them.
And His wrath was upon them in the 1600's, 1700's, 1800's, 1900's and now in the 2000's as well, unless they repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
And guess what? The Gospel is open unto all.
It's a free gift. Jesus died for every man.
God loves all. He wants them to be saved.
But if they refuse that free gift, God's wrath will abide on them.
And that's the reason they got destroyed.
Judges chapter number 11.
Now, I think there's a story in here in Judges 11
regarding a land dispute
that I think we could make some application today with the situation
with Native Americans because many Native Americans today
regular Americans as well, we'll say like,
oh, the land was stolen from the Native Americans
and we need to return that land to them,
or we need to give them their own sovereign nations
in Oklahoma with their own laws,
their own police force, their own system.
Let's look at a story in the Bible
that addresses something similar.
Judges chapter 11, verse four, the Bible says,
and it came to pass in process of time
that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
Alright, so they're going out to fight, just like how in the United States there was a constant war between the settlers, the Europeans that came here, and the Native Americans.
So here's a war going on, verse 12, and Jebtha sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon saying,
What has thou to do with me that thou art come against me to fight in my land?
He's like, why are we fighting in my land here? Look at verse number 13.
And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah because Israel took away my land.
When they came up out of Egypt from Arnon, even unto Jabbaq and unto Jordan,
now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
This is a pretty similar situation here, right?
This guy, he's saying, hey, you know, you took my land, man.
Why don't you give me my land back?
Okay.
Let's see what happens in the story.
Verse 14.
And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the children,
unto the king of the children of Ammon,
and said unto him, thus saith Jephthah,
Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,
but when Israel came up from Egypt and walked through the wilderness unto the Red Sea,
and came to Kadesh, then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom saying,
Let me I pray thee pass through thy land.
But the king of Edom would not hearken thereto.
And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab, but he would not consent,
an Israel abode in Kadesh.
Then, they went along through the wilderness, encompassed the land of Edom, and the land
of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side
of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab, for Arnon was the border of Moab.
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon.
And Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land, into my place.
But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast, but Sihon gathered all his people together,
and pitched and jahaz, and fought against Israel.
So, Israel's trying to pass through this land.
Sihon is not trusting them, saying, No, I'm not going to let you peaceably pass through.
We are going to fight. They have war.
21, notice this phrase right here,
and the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon
and all his people into the hand of Israel.
and they smote him.
So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites,
the inhabitants of that country.
Now, is this guy writing out of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit or not?
Is what he's saying true or not?
It is.
They had this fight.
They had this land dispute.
But notice in verse 21,
it was the Lord God of Israel.
It was God who delivered that land into them.
Delivered the enemies into...
their hand. And oftentimes throughout history, not just in the Bible, I believe even today God can work
throughout nations fighting with each other, disputes like this. Sometimes God judges a wicked
nation and causes them to be defeated in battle, causes them to lose their land, causes them to
be dispossessed of their land. That's exactly what happened here. The children of Israel were coming
caused their enemies to be delivered into their hand,
and God caused the land to be delivered into their hand.
Let's think about this with the Native Americans.
Is it reasonable to think that, okay,
you have a whole group of people coming to this continent
to spread Christianity and to worship the Lord
and to exalt God,
then you have a bunch of pagan savages
that hate the God of the Bible,
that worship demons,
that do all these wicked practices of sacrifice,
I wonder which one God would bless.
I wonder if it's possible that God would deliver the Native Americans into the hands of the
Christians and deliver their land unto them to possess it for God's glory.
Does that happen in history or does it not?
Does it happen in the Word of God?
Yes, it does.
Is that really that unreasonable to think that that's what happened?
No, I mean, look at the history of our nation.
We became the biggest powerhouse for the Gospel that's ever been seen on the face of the planet.
You don't think that God would dispossess the heathen to do something like that?
He absolutely would.
Notice verse 22.
And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites.
From Arnon, even unto Jabbaq.
And from the wilderness, even unto Jordan.
Notice verse 23.
So now, the Lord God of Israel
hath dispossessed the Amorites
from before his people, Israel.
And shouldest thou possess it?
It's like, hey, why am I going to give you this land back
if God gave it to us?
If God dispossessed you, if God delivered you into our hands, if God dispossessed you of the land,
why would we give it back?
You know, that's exactly how I feel about the situation today.
Why?
Today, when we look at the Native American culture, and it's like, okay, what is it that you want us to go back to?
Worshiping mother nature?
Worshiping false gods?
Doing weird sacrifices?
Doing all sorts of satanic seances and ghost dances and rituals?
And doing drugs?
Smoking peyote?
Drinking, rubbing alcohol? Is this what you want us to go back to?
Why would we give the land back to that when God, I believe, delivered it into the hand of our forefathers?
You know, I'm just, I'm done. I'm sick and tired of the garbage of us being taught.
Like, we have to hate all of our forefathers. We have to hate the Christians that built this country.
They were all just evil, racist, terrible people. Why is it then that America became so great?
Because it's a bunch of lies.
Here's the truth, is that the Native Americans were worshiping demons and other people from other countries came here
and were worshiping the Lord and God caused one to be defeated and God caused one to prosper.
That's what actually happened.
Look at verse 24.
So whomesoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us,
then we will possess."
He's saying,
If we give this land back to you to possess it,
what is it going to be possessed back to?
To Kimosh thy false God.
He's like, hey, no, if God delivers something unto us, we're going to take it because God gave it to us.
Now, again, don't twist my words.
People are going to say like, oh, Pastor Oz is for genocide and Pastor Oz is for giving them, you know, smallpox blankets and harming them and killing.
No, that's not what I'm saying.
I'm not excusing injustices that we're done to them.
But what I'm saying is that sometimes God allows wicked nations to be judged.
because all the nations that forget God will be turned into hell, is what the Bible says.
All means all. We're not Calvinists here.
The Nazis, the Native Americans, whatever nation wants to present God,
you can expect to be defeated and destroyed and wiped off the face of the earth.
And look, the Native American tribes today would not exist
unless it was for the benevolence of the United States government.
And it's funny, people are like, the Americans are oppressing them, and they did in the past,
but it's just like, how do you exist today?
because we allow you to exist.
That's just the truth.
Now, look, it's not because it's not like God delivered the Native Americans up to our forefathers because one was brown and one was white.
This is like the simple minded retardation that people have today, where it's just like white racism, you know, took over everything.
Here's the thing, you know, even when we went out soul-winning, Brother Cameron was told by Native American, you know,
get your white beep out of here. We don't need your white man's religion. We don't need your white man's Bible.
Here's what's funny is, would everyone agree that I'm pretty white?
I think I'm pretty white. I think I'm one of the whitest people like ever, right?
Well, guess what? My ancestors on both sides of my family were pagans.
You want to know why? My great, great grandfather moved to the United States from, guess where,
Norway. And you want to know what the religion in Norway was? It was not Christianity.
It was not worshiping Jesus Christ. It was worshiping
Odin and Valhalla and all the pagan gods of Norway.
So it's like, hey, my ancestors need also to convert to Christianity and they were white.
Christianity is not the white man's religion.
Okay? Then on my mother's side, my ancestors came from Ireland.
And guess what religion Ireland is?
Catholic!
Which guess what Catholicism is?
It's paganism mixed with Christianity.
It's worshiping wood and stone and idols and having multitude of gods.
They call saints that they pray to.
So it's like all of my ancestors were complete pagans.
How foolish and prideful would it be for me to be like,
oh, you know, I just have to stick with my culture
and I'm gonna grow out of beard and braid it
and have a weird viking haircut and worship Odin
because my ancestors did.
Why do I have to go to hell?
Just because my ancestors were stupid and foolish.
And why can't people have enough loyalty to Jesus Christ
that if our ancestors did wrong and worship the false God,
we would say they're wrong.
We need to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
My Irish ancestors that were Catholics are burning in hell right now.
And you know how much affinity I have with them? Zero.
But they were white. Who cares?
Your skin color is meaningless.
You know, all my ancestors from Norway that practiced that false religion,
they're all burning in hell and I want nothing to do with their culture.
I want a Christian culture.
I want to stand with the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the Native Americans today
need to stop being so tribal for lack of a better word.
Being so tribal, we just got to stick with our tribe
and stick with our ancestors
and stick with our culture.
No, you need to forsake all of it and believe in Jesus Christ.
Or you'll be ghost dancing in hell,
except no, you won't.
You'll be burning and screaming for all of eternity.
This, I mean, it sounds offensive,
but what I'm saying today is love.
What I'm saying today is the only hope for the Native Americans.
It's not their Kato religion.
Let's read some more about what they believe.
The Kato religion practices something called the ghost dance.
Who's ever heard of the ghost dance? Has anyone heard of this before?
Yeah, okay. One person.
The ghost dance is a religious movement that emerged in the late 19th century
among several Native American tribes, including the Kato.
The dance aimed to bring about the return of deceased ancestors.
That doesn't sound satanic at all, right?
The restoration of the tribe's traditional ways of life
and the disappearance of European settlers.
That's the goal of this dance.
We're going to do this like satanic dance
so that our deceased ancestors can come back from the dead
and we can return to our Native American ways
and we can make the white man disappear.
What an interesting dance this is.
The ghost dance movement was ultimately suppressed by the United States government. Amen
The dance typically lasted two four or five days often performed at night
So this dance goes on for like two four five days, you know, what other type of people do you know stay up for two four five days?
People who do drugs and guess what? The drugs are a big thing in Native American culture and in Native American
Religious practices. That's how they're staying up this long
with participants dancing for extended periods to induce
spiritual
experiences
Vovaca instructed dancers to perform the ritual every six weeks, continuing for four nights.
So you know, we have like a potluck every five weeks.
How would you like to have a four night long drug bending dance every six weeks?
Well you too can become a Native American.
Followed by a communal bath in a river.
Wonderful.
So we're just going to all do a bunch of drugs and dance for four days or four nights, and then we're just going to have a communal bath.
Oh, such a beautiful culture. We need to preserve this. No, we don't need to preserve this.
Dancers often entered trances during the prolonged dancing, experiencing visions of deceased relatives, ancestors, or spiritual beings, also known as becoming demon-possessed.
worshiping devils, communing with the spirits, witchcraft.
These visions were shared with the group, reinforcing the spiritual significance of the ritual.
Now go to Deuteronomy chapter number 18.
So they have this shared group experience where they're all doing the drugs and doing the satanic seances
and doing the dance and doing the communal bath.
And, you know, this like binds them together that they had this shared satanic demon worshiping experience.
Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 10.
The Bible says there shall not be found among you
anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire
or that useeth divination or an observer of times or an enchanter
or a witch or a charmer or a consultant with familiar spirits
or a wizard or a necromancer for all that do these things
are an abomination unto the Lord. Notice this.
And because of these abominations, the Lord thy God,
doth drive them out.
from before thee.
Does it sound like I'm making this up today?
Or does it sound like if God looks down on a group of people practicing witchcraft, practicing
necromancy, communing with familiar spirits, doing all this wicked evil stuff, does it
not say that God's going to drive those people out?
That's why they were driven out.
That's why they were destroyed is they were presented with the gospel, they refused to believe it,
they hardened their hearts in their pride,
they continued worshiping the devil, and they got driven out from before God's people.
Here's some other things about the Cato religion. They have something called the big drum.
The Cato people practice great importance on the use of the big drum in their religious ceremonies and rituals.
The drum is believed to have power to summon spirits and deities.
and its rhythm is thought to represent the heartbeat of the universe.
They have something called the medicine dance.
Now, everyone, okay, you've had to have heard of the medicine dance, right?
Okay, the medicine dance.
Is this just like a harmless thing?
Well, the ritual is performed to heal the sick
and maintain the health and well-being of the tribe.
Medicine men and women who possess unique knowledge of herbal remedies and spiritual healing techniques lead the dance.
The ceremony involves the use of sacred objects, prayers and chants to invoke the healing powers of deity.
What is this? It is Satanism.
It is worshiping the devil. It is witchcraft.
And look, you have to be careful because even today there's people that are really, really into like the holistic medicine
and like the natural path medicine.
And look, I'm not necessarily against all these things, but there can be a point where it's getting pretty close to like the medicine dance here.
Where it's like you got all these, you know, crunchy mamas online that are like,
Hey, my grandma's having a heart attack. What do I do?
Uh, you know, seed oil under the tongue.
You know, do the dance, spin around three times and you know, put some cayenne pepper in their eyes and say a prayer to Makishua and you'll be good.
It's like, I'm obviously exaggerating a little bit, but you know what I'm saying?
Like there's a super crunchy ladies that are out there that are like, you know, way off into this natural path medicine.
Be careful about going too deep down that road because it's really not that much different than the medicine dance from the pagans, from those that reject the Lord.
Vision quests are an integral part of the Cato spiritual tradition.
Serving as a rite of passage for young men and women,
the purpose of a vision quest is to seek spiritual guidance
and personal growth through fasting, isolation, and meditation.
Participants often receive visions or messages from the spirit world,
which are then interpreted by tribal elders.
Look, I believe that, you know, demon possession is a real thing.
And if someone is receiving messages from spirits, messages from another world,
that's probably demon possession is what that is.
It's not something righteous.
This is a quote from a guy named Fray Hidalgo, and this guy was not saved.
He was a Catholic missionary to the United States.
So, you know, I'm against this guy, too.
A whole different sermon could be preached against the Catholics.
But he wrote in his diary an observation about the Caddo tribe.
He was sent from Spain. He said this on November 4th, 1716.
He said, as far as we have determined, all of this nation is idolaters,
which is really funny coming from a Catholic, but it is true still.
They have houses of adoration and they have the perpetual fire which they do not let to be extinguished.
They are very superstitious and they will believe the visions related to them by the Indian male and female
who get drunk on the peyote or the small bean during the dances that they hold.
First of all, wow, it's funny how hypocritical this is because, you know, the Catholics are superstitious
and they, you know, worship idols and all that stuff.
But he's saying like, hey,
They have this thing where the Indian male and female,
they get drunk on peyote or they take the small bean,
whatever, I don't know what drug the small bean is,
he's referring to, but what happens,
they get all these visions and voices and revelations
and they just pass that on to the people
and the people just accept it, right?
So just this super wicked witchcraft type religion.
You know, I don't understand how any Christian, anyone who loves God, can hear the things
that we just talked about.
You know, if you're a saved Native American, I don't know how you can love God and be
like, oh, I just still have so much affinity with this.
I just still love this culture so much.
I just so I really want to go to the pow wow and do the ghost medicine dance, the ghost
dance or the medicine man dance.
How could anyone feel that way?
Well, it's a lack of loyalty to Christ if you feel that way.
First Corinthians 10, verse 19, for though I be free from all men.
Yet have I made myself servant unto all that I might gain the more and unto the Jews
I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jews to them that are under the law as under the law that I might gain them
That are under the law to them that are without law as without law
Not being without law to God but under the law to Christ that I might gain them that are without the law
So of course Jesus or I'm sorry not Jesus Paul
He became all things to all men.
He wanted people saved.
So, hey, he was going to kind of change his lifestyle a little bit
to match the people he was around.
But he was never going to do that if it caused him to sin against God.
And so look, I've said it before, I'll say it again.
you like your culture, there's some cool things
about Native American culture.
I remember when I was going to elementary school,
we had a day where some supposed tribe members came
and everyone claims to be an Indian now these days.
I don't know if they really were or not,
but they had Obsidian Rock and they taught us
how to make arrowheads out of Obsidian Rock
and they taught us how to make spears
and we got to throw spears and shoot bow and arrow.
I mean, this was back in the day
where schools weren't so scared.
We could shoot bow and arrow at school.
But that's cool.
that you could just make boats out of tree like that is cool.
I'm not going to lie.
I wish I could do that kind of stuff.
And you know, you could probably find just about any culture
where you could say something positive about it,
where it's something good.
And look, you're Japanese.
You like sushi?
Awesome.
You know, you're, I don't know, what's cool about Ireland?
I don't even know anything cool about Ireland.
You know, hey, you're German and you just really like their German engineering.
Hey, German engineering is awesome.
They make great planes.
They make great cars.
They make great roads.
That's cool.
Right?
There's a lot of things about America I love.
I love barbecue and baseball and fighter jets, and you know, I love these things, but
we're not going to embrace things that are sinful.
We have to draw the line there.
We have to be loyal to Jesus Christ.
Let's skip some of this for some of time
sake of time here. What is the hope for Native Americans? Number one, they have to forsake their false religion.
Number two, get away from welfare culture and go to work.
This is another thing that is so important that today, Native Americans today, they are not being destroyed by the Winchester Rifle.
They are being destroyed by the welfare check. That is what is harming. That is the weapon that's being used against them today.
There's this thing called individual money.
or sorry, individual Indian money accounts.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs oversees IIM accounts which hold funds
for Native American individuals including minors from sources like land leases, mineral rights,
or court settlements. For minors, these are supervised accounts and the funds are held
in trust until the individual turns 18. Someone here has experience, like their family has
experience dealing with these types of things, dispersing these types of funds. So a lot of
these Native Americans, they grow up and they just get money deposited into their account every,
And all of a sudden, these young, foolish, inexperienced kids are just throwing this huge
sum of money and it does not bless them.
They haven't been trained how to wisely use their money.
They don't go and buy a house.
They don't go and buy a car.
They often just go and blow it at the casino, blow it on drugs and alcohol.
And you know what?
It's funny how they're getting all this free money, but you go into these communities
and what do you see everywhere?
Poverty.
You see destruction, you see homes falling over, you see businesses caving in, you see trash everywhere.
I mean, it's not all this prosperity, but that's what we're told today.
What's the solution? We just got to give them more money.
We just have to give them more welfare.
You know, if I ever ran for governor of Oklahoma, I would run on the campaign of eliminating all welfare.
And I don't think I would get elected because that's a really big thing here.
But that's what should be done.
You know, get rid of this welfare, it's harming them.
It says the funds are invested in government securities earning interests and are distributed
according to approved distribution plan when the account holder reaches their age of majority.
Some tribes, particularly those with significant revenue from enterprises like casinos,
set up trust funds for their members.
For example, the eastern band of Cherokee Indians distributes casino profits to all tribal members
with children's shares placed in a minor fund that accrues till they turn 18.
In 2016, I couldn't find super recent numbers, but in 2016, these payouts could reach more than $105,000 after taxes.
That's 2016. I mean, we've had quite a bit of inflation since then. Who knows what it is now.
But a lot of these 18-year-olds are after tax, turning 18 and being handed $100,000.
from settlement agreements, land leasing agreements, mineral rights agreements,
oil rights agreements, or casino profits.
Just all this, you know, money that's profited by sin, by wicked means, by gambling,
handing it over to 18-year-old kids.
This is not a blessing to them.
This is a weapon to them.
And that's why you're seeing them get destroyed.
Free money is not a blessing to people.
It actually harms people.
Especially if the people themselves are not wise.
Look at what the Bible says.
Proverbs 1 verse 32.
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them.
Notice, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
If you are a fool, it doesn't matter how much money you're given.
If you're given 50 grand, 100 grand, a million dollars.
If you are a fool, that money will destroy you.
That's why you constantly see rich people, celebrities, pro athletes.
They have more money than we'll ever see in our lives.
Yet they're constantly going bankrupt, getting arrested for stealing,
dying of drug overdoses, getting in drunk driving accidents.
Why? Because the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Throwing free money at people is not necessarily going to fix people's issues.
And it's like, here's this foolish 18-year-old, and he's given 100 grand,
and what does he do? He takes it straight back into the casino and loses it all, right?
Or he just goes and just flushes it down the toilet, buying drugs and alcohol.
Proverbs 13, flip the page. Proverbs chapter number 13.
A few pages over.
Look at verse 11. Wealth.
Gotten by vanity shall be diminished.
But he that gathereth by labor shall increase.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with making $100,000.
There's nothing wrong with making money when you gather that by labor,
when you got it through honest means,
but wealth gotten by vanity.
What's vanity?
Just emptiness.
You didn't do anything.
You're just like, oh, you were just born with a certain blood type.
And so here's $100,000 from casino earnings.
What's going to happen to that money?
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished.
What do you see today in the Native American communities?
You see poverty, extreme poverty.
Even though I was never given $100,000 when I turned 18,
anyone, no, don't raise your hand if you were.
But I'm just saying, like,
Most of us here were not just given $100,000 when we turned 18,
but it's yet, but yet I see people doing a lot better here financially
than the Native American communities.
Why? Because wealth gotten by labor is going to be blessed by God
and wealth gotten by vanity is going to be cursed and diminished and squandered.
Go to Proverbs chapter 24.
Let's look at another verse regarding this.
Proverbs chapter 24, verse 30, the Bible says,
I went by the field of the slothful,
and by the vineyard of the man, void of understanding,
and lo, it was all grown over with thorns,
and nettles had covered the face thereof,
and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
It's like the author of Proverbs
took a trip to Anadarko, Oklahoma,
described in his notebook what the neighborhoods look like there and what
the houses look like there that is what it was like there folks you I mean you
literally see houses completely overgrown with thorns like the whole
house there's no siding it's just weeds it's just thorns it's just like these
vines going over the entire house and what else you see you just see a bunch
of trash everywhere and you see the stone wall thereof was broken down
Now, according to the Bible, why is it that the neighborhood looks like this?
Is it because they were oppressed?
Is it because they didn't have good opportunities?
Or is it because, verse 30, I went by the field of the slothful?
You know what happens to people that you constantly give free money, free welfare, free benefits
that they had to do nothing for?
It makes them lazy.
And that is why welfare is a weapon.
Even when you go to Yosemite or Yellowstone, you're told,
don't feed the bears because they'll forget how to hunt.
They won't be able to take care of themselves.
Look, that is what has happened to the Native Americans today.
And even though they're giving all this free stuff,
they live in complete poverty because it has made them extremely lazy.
Here's how lazy it is.
We go there and we're like looking for a restaurant to eat.
Now, the first one, that was my bad.
The first one I picked, it actually said in advance it would be closed on Saturday.
I take responsibility for that one.
But then, we tried to look for any other restaurant, just like,
oh, closed Saturday.
This burger place closed Saturdays.
Oh, this barbecue place closed.
Oh, this Mexican place closed.
Every restaurant was closed besides national chains.
Why because just there's laziness going on there, but what's funny? Hey when we drove out we went past the casino
Boy, they were open weren't they the casino was open and the casino was packed full of cars
The bar was open if I wanted to take us there
We could have gone there the bar was open the casino was open, but all the restaurants were closed
Everything was closed on a Saturday
What kind of restaurant is closed on a Saturday like that's when people go out to eat, right?
We go there? No, it's all closed. We had to go to the national chain of subway,
which is like the worst subway I've ever been to in my life.
You walk in and like the drop tile ceilings are like broken down.
There's water coming through the ceiling.
There's like some sort of cracked out meth woman that's serving it for us.
And she takes our whole order and she deletes it in the system.
We have to do it all over again.
Okay. The food, like the chips were expired.
Was it the chips or the drink that was expired?
The drink. Okay, both.
laziness folks. And like, here's the thing. Subway, sometimes you can go to subway and
you have a good experience, but this was like the worst subway experience ever. The food
was horrible and I felt like a really bad pastor. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry that that
event, you know, turned out so crappy. That's why afterwards I was like, all right, we're
all going to Longhorn in Yukon where people are open and we're going to eat some steak.
So hopefully I made it up to you guys.
But hey, why was the town like that?
Laziness, that's why.
The whole town was just broken down, destroyed, dirty.
Everything's closed except for the bar and the casino.
Why?
Because of laziness.
What a sad state of affairs.
Lastly here, let's talk about hope for Native Americans.
Number three, Native Americans need to stop doing drugs and drinking alcohol.
And look, everyone needs to stop doing drugs and drinking alcohol.
But boy, oh boy, is this a major issue in Native American communities more so than the
average person.
Way more so.
Here's some statistics from AmericanAddictionCenters.org and from IHS, the Indian Health Services.
From 2016 to 2020, Native Americans had an alcohol-related death rate of 51.9 per 100,000 people compared to 11.7 per 100,000 for the general U.S. population.
That is a major difference.
51.9 Native American death by alcohol rate.
Regular American rate, 11.7.
That is a huge discrepancy.
That's not some sort of coincidence, statistical coincidence or something.
There is a correlation there.
Native American youth ages 12 to 17, so they define youth as 12 to 17.
They have the highest rate of alcohol use among all ethnic groups in America
with 20% engaging in underage drinking.
20% of Native American kids, one in five, between ages 12 and 17 are drinking alcohol.
That's sad.
Native Americans report higher past month drug use,
17.4% and past year drug abuse,
28.5% than any other ethnic group.
So of all the ethnic groups in the United States,
they beat all of them in last month and last year drug abuse.
28% of Native Americans will admit to abusing illicit drugs last year.
Methamphetamine use is notably high with Native Americans reporting the highest rates
of lifetime, past year, and past month use compared to all other groups, not just other
ethnic groups.
The biggest methamphetamine users in the United States, all of them, is Native Americans.
That is sad.
Native American youth on or near reservations
show significantly higher substance use rates.
For example, 56.2% of Native American 8th graders
report alcohol or marijuana use.
56% of 8th graders.
Compared to the 16% of 8th graders in the general population.
Everyday American, 16% of 8th graders are smoking pot or drinking alcohol.
That's horrific.
Amongst the Native Americans, Indian reservations specifically 56% of 8th graders.
That is a serious problem going on today in the Native American cultures, in the Indian
reservations.
Go to Isaiah chapter number 28, Isaiah chapter number 28.
You know, the loving thing would not be like,
oh, let's just give them all this tax-free alcohol
and make drugs, you know, tax-free drugs on the reservation
and the US can't enforce any of their laws
on the reservation lands.
And let's give them tax-free casino-winning money
and let's bring gambling into their society.
How's that been working out for them?
Look at Isaiah 28, verse seven.
But they have also aired through wine and through strong drink are out of the way
The priest and the prophet have aired through strong drink. They are swallowed up of wine
They are out of the way through strong drink. They air in vision
They stumble in judgment for all tables are full of vomit and filthiness so that there is no place clean
That's how I would describe Native American communities. There's no place clean
They're filthy communities, they're dirty, they're rundown, their houses are falling apart.
Why?
Laziness and drugs and alcohol.
I saw so many people drunk or drugged out or just the destruction of the effects of alcohol in that town.
Look at verse 9.
Whom shall he teach knowledge?
And whom shall he make to understand doctrine?
Them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breast.
The Native American populations are not really going to be contributing much to society and
much to the nation when they're constantly drunk and high and not working and just collecting
free money and doing absolutely nothing with their life.
Yet they in their pride, hardened in their pride, I mean their lives are sad and impoverished
and destroyed, but in their pride they want to sit here and say like, you need to.
accept our culture, and you need to love our culture, and we need to exalt Native American culture,
and you need to give us the land back. Why? What are you doing with the land that you have right now?
I mean, how is that working out for you? You think God is going to bless? Oh, yeah,
you don't believe in God. Whatever kind of false gods you worship. But look, God's not going to
bless the Native Americans until they believe in Jesus Christ. God is not going to bless the Native
and start working and through labor getting wealth and then they'll actually be a blessing to their children.
God's not going to bless Native Americans until they put the bottle of whiskey down
and put the heroin down and put the methamphetamine down
and actually have a sober mind.
You know, then maybe you'll have a chance.
That's the hope today for Native Americans.
Go to Genesis chapter number nine. Genesis chapter number nine.
Now, today...
We have so many people that just make excuses for alcohol.
So many Christians want to act like alcohol is something that's okay,
or they'll twist verses like in 1 Timothy 3,
use a little wine for their stomach's sake,
talking about how, oh, wine's a gift from God.
Well, here's the thing.
The Bible has this idea called the principle of first mention,
where if God mentions something for the first time in the Bible,
that's usually very significant.
Let's look at when alcohol was first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 9, verse 20.
It says Inoa began to be in husbandman and he planted a vineyard and he drank of the
wine and was drunken.
and he was uncovered within his tent.
So, first of all, we understand that he's drinking fermented wine.
He's drinking alcoholic wine because it says that he's drunken.
If you've ever read the Bible, you know there's a difference
between wine and alcoholic wine.
Sometimes wine in the Bible can simply be referring to juice.
We'll talk about that more in another sermon.
It says he was drunken and notice as a result of being drunk,
he's just uncovered.
And right, what do you often see like homeless people doing?
Just laying down on the street, half naked, or God forbid, fully naked.
Unfortunately, some of us have experienced that too in our life.
But it's like, that's what alcohol does.
You know, he's out of his mind. He has no judgment.
He decides just to get naked. He's uncovered in his tent.
Notice in Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father
and told his two brethren without.
and Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon their shoulders
and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father
and their faces were backward and they saw not their father's
nakedness. So Shem and Japheth they want to preserve their father's
dignity.
They heard he's naked. They don't want to look back and see him. They just kind of
get a sheet on one hand
each side and they kind of walk back and cover him to preserve
But notice verse 24,
And Noah awoke from his wine
and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Now the Bible is kind of using a euphemism here
for what I believe was some sort of sick perverted assault on Noah.
That is the first introduction of alcohol in the Bible.
Hey, doesn't, oh, what a blessing.
What a great substance alcohol is.
Oh yeah, what does it make you do?
Lay down naked and be able to be preyed upon by sodomites.
by Predators.
You can stay there.
Herbacic215 says,
"'Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that putest thy bottle to him, and makest
him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness.'"
You know, I guarantee you that in these Native American communities where there's all this
drug use and all this alcohol use, that there's got to be a lot of people being taken advantage
of, a lot of rape, a lot of sexual assaults, probably a lot of sodomy as well because
when you have alcohol, you're going to have these things as well.
Hey, the loving thing is to tell them, stop drinking alcohol, stop doing drugs.
What do they need to do? Go to Ephesians chapter 5. We're almost done this morning. Ephesians chapter number 5.
Ephesians chapter 5 verse 17.
It says, Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is, and be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit.
speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
God does not want people taking any substance that's going to cause them to be drunk.
He wants us to be sober. So anytime you see a verse in the Bible
that's condemning alcohol, guess what? That also should condemn your peyote.
That also should condemn your methamphetamine,
your marijuana. And here, here's the thing, in these Native American
It's not just regular drugs they're doing too.
I've talked to first responders and people who've lived in this area.
It's like drinking Lysol.
Drinking rubbing alcohol, drinking gasoline.
Like, alcoholism is a serious major issue there,
where the level of drunkenness happens there,
where people just do any type of substance.
CO2 cartridges, huffing CO2 cartridges.
Like, be not drunk with any of that stuff.
How about that?
How about be sober?
Don't be drunk with any of that stuff.
Be filled with the spirit.
To do that, though, you gotta get saved.
You have to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
I'll quote for you Leviticus 19 verse 17.
The Bible says this,
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart.
Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor
and not suffer sin upon him.
Look, I realize that your average person today,
your average Oklahoman today,
if they heard of this sermon,
you know, they'd be highly offended.
They would think it's crazy.
But honestly, I am coming at this sermon
from a heart of love for the Native American people.
I want them to get saved.
It breaks my heart to go into their communities
and see the way that they're living,
see their houses being destroyed,
see the drug and alcohol abuse
and all the horrific auxiliary sins that come with that,
prostitution and sexual assault.
Look, this stuff breaks my heart.
And if you actually love the Native American culture today,
you would rebuke that culture.
You would stand against it and you would present them the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And you know what? That's what we're gonna do in this state.
I've already got a spreadsheet of a whole bunch of towns that I want to hit in this state.
And a lot of them are heavily Native American.
I'm not gonna give up on these people, but I'm also not gonna pretend like they're okay how they are.
And that we should just respect everything about their culture the way they are.
No, no, no. They need to change and adopt the Bible's culture.
Just like how I need to say, hey, I'm not going to follow my Norwegian ancestors to hell.
I'm not going to follow my Irish ancestors to hell.
I'm going to submit to what the Bible says.
And you know what? Just the last thought I want to leave you on.
Again, go to 2 Corinthians chapter number six.
Takeaway, just a takeaway for those who are Native Americans who are already saved.
I know we have some in our church.
And look, there's just a ton of Native Americans in Oklahoma.
You look, don't be offended by the sermon this morning.
You should realize that, hey, if you too love your fellow Native Americans, they need the sermon this morning.
They need the gospel of Jesus Christ.
You know, don't get offended at a sermon like this, and I don't see you at the soul-winning marathons to the Native Americans.
You know, don't be a hypocrite like that.
But here's the takeaway for those who are saved in our native.
Verse number 16 of 2nd Corinthians 6.
Notice, and what agreement at the temple of God with idols?
For ye are the temple of the living God.
As God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye separate, say at the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you.
Notice how God wants us to identify. We should identify as the people of God.
and not be so tribal and so into our skin color, our race, our heritage.
You know, I don't call myself like Irish American and a region American
and today the natives are just so into themselves and into their cultures.
If you are saved and you are native today, here's the attitude that you should have is like,
hey, I am the people of God.
I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
I'm a Christian.
That should be how you identify.
You should come out from among them and be separate,
say to the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing,
and I will receive you.
Do not mix yourself into sinful practices
of the Native Americans.
Be proud, for lack of a better term,
of whatever part of the culture that's not sinful,
but do not embrace the sinful parts of the culture.
Embrace Christianity.
Let's pray.
Lord, thank you for this day and Lord I do pray for the Native Americans in our state that you
would soften their hearts to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I pray that you would give Anchor Baptist
Church the tools and resources and manpower to be able to reach those people in our state,
help us to always have a vision to bring them the gospel and to bring them the teachings of
the word of God. Hey Lord, I don't want to see their nations destroyed. I don't want to see them
constantly being cursed and suffering. I want to see their communities thrive and be blessed.
and that their children would grow up and be saved,
and be blessed.
But Lord, we know the only way that could happen
is through accepting you.
I pray that many soul winners would share this vision
and reach them for the gospel.
And Jesus' name we pray, amen.
For our last hymn this morning,
number 261.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus 261 261 turn your eyes upon Jesus
261 there on the first