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thank you for this Wednesday evening church service. Thank you for our people
here. I pray that you would just have everything done this evening done to your
honor and glory and we thank you for your son Jesus Christ who is risen for us. I
pray that you bless us now. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Alright for our second
song we'll go to song number 12. Blessed Redeemer. Song 12. Blessed Redeemer.
Song 1-2, Blessed Redeemer.
And if I could throw the dam, would you bring me a bulletin, please?
And go ahead and raise your hand if you don't have a bulletin, and Usher will gladly bring you one.
Thank you, sir.
All right, on the front is our Bible memory verse of the week, Galatians chapter number one, verse 22,
getting close towards the end of this chapter.
Still enough time to learn it, though, so definitely want to encourage everyone to keep working hard on that.
We do have our service times listed there, Sunday morning at 10.30 a.m., Sunday evening at 4.00 p.m.
And our Wednesday evening Bible study, of course, is seven o'clock.
Also, we have our soul winning times listed below there.
And just as a reminder, all those meet here at the church building.
Definitely please join us for one of those times.
Below you'll see there was an update from our soul winners in the Philippines.
So you'll see our May total actually went up greatly and we had our all time,
one month record for soul winning at Anchor Baptist Church, 211 salvations.
And it was the previous record was this March, it was 103.
So doubled it, praise the Lord for that.
And we're really excited for the work that the guys are doing over there in the
Philippines. So that brings us year to date, 485.
So praise the Lord, some really great numbers there.
Below you will see our upcoming events.
June 15th, we're going to have after the evening service father's day pizza and floats
June 22nd is our next men's preaching night and after that we'll have a potluck
There is a sign-up sheet in the back there if you'd like to preach. Please do sign up for that June 28th
Is the tinker air show that's coming up really soon
Make sure to buy your sunscreen and chairs and everything you'll need for that, you know hearing protection really looking forward to that
I am a huge aviation fan and
Someone, I won't say who, told me that they were as well.
So I'm excited to hear there's some other plane lovers
in the church.
We're really looking forward to that day.
June 29th, Brother Ben Naim is preaching both services for us.
And quite honestly, he's a huge aviation guy, too,
which is the main reason he was even coming this weekend.
And I was just like, well, we need
to make a whole weekend out of it.
We need to have you preach, too.
And we're looking forward to that.
Ben is an excellent, excellent preacher.
He preached a great sermon this Sunday about Rebecca.
I definitely recommend you check that out.
August 27th through the 31st is the fire breathing Baptist fellowship steadfast Baptist church
That's coming up and we're really looking forward to that
And then October 6th through the 11th is the Bahamas mission trip great events coming up. Also. We do have our prayer list
And we'll actually finish with that, but there is some information there, a visitor card and also a QR code for giving online.
If you'd like to do that, no problem. Obviously, if you give online, you have to pay this company like extra fees and they get to keep those fees.
So if you want to be the most economical, writing by check is the best way to do it, but we do offer online giving for sure.
So we do have our prayer list as well.
And as always, if you have any updates,
please email the church and we'll be happy to add that for you.
But let's go ahead and go to the Lord in prayer
as a church family this evening.
Lord, we thank you for Anchor Baptist Church, we thank you for the perfect word of God in the King James Bible, and the opportunity to be here freely this evening.
We come before you this evening presenting these prayer requests, and we pray that you would answer these according to your will, Lord.
We pray for Brother Cameron and Miss Hall who are not feeling well. Just pray that you bless them, help them to improve, Lord.
I pray also for my daughter Bethany who's sick that she would feel better for all of our members who've just been out sick this week
I pray that you'd heal them and help our church to be whole and health once again Lord
We also pray for brother Travis Haberman for his upcoming test for his career
I pray that you bless him in his endeavors to move to a new field Lord pray that you bless him
We also pray for brother Eric and Theodore
Philippines. We thank you for the great results that they've already had. I just
pray that they would continue to push forward with all their strength to work
really hard while they're over there to make the most of this opportunity they
have to preach in such a receptive place. I pray that you'd watch over them, that
you'd keep them safe, that you would just allow the gospel to have free course
over there. And of course we also pray for Brother James Perry.
who does such a great work over there
and evangelist Duncan Urbanik, pastor Matthew Stuckey
and just all the great Christians
that are in the Philippines doing great works.
I pray that you just enable them to continue to do that
and to do even more Lord.
We also wanna pray for the Hall family again
that you'd help them with the final portion
of their home buying process,
that you just bless everything with that God.
Pray for the Hausberg family
that you'd help Brother Miles with his health,
that you just help him to.
Improve Lord and we also pray for brother Alex who has an upcoming job interview very quickly
I just pray that this interview would go well for him that you bless him with the job that he's been looking for
We pray for Miss Remy that you'd heal her of her tumor and help her with her car search lord
And we also pray for the members of our church who have loved ones who are unsaved that those
Individuals would just have a soft heart that they would get many chances to hear the gospel
And I pray that we'd be faithful in preaching the gospel to our loved ones and
Lord, we wanna pray for Anchor Baptist Church
during this time of persecution.
I pray that you would just watch over us,
that you would lift us up,
and that you would use us to reach more people
in this area with the word of God.
We love you in Jesus' name, we pray, amen.
All right, that's gonna be it for announcements.
We'll go ahead and go to our third song this evening,
which is actually Psalm 149.
In your handouts, Psalm 149.
In your white handouts, Psalm 149, let's sing it together.
plates are being passed around, please turn your volume down.
Proverbs 10 the Bible reads, The proverbs of Solomon, A wise son maketh a glad father,
But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, But righteousness delivereth from death.
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish, But he casteth away the substance
He becomeeth poor, that dealeth with a slack hand,
but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son,
but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Blessings are upon the head of the just,
but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
The memory of the just is blessed,
but the name of the wicked shall rot.
The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prading fool shall fall.
He that walketh uprightly, walketh surely, but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
He that winketh with the eye, causeth sorrow, but a prading fool shall fall.
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
In the lips of him that hath understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back
of him that is void of understanding.
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction, but he that refuses reproof eryth
He the heighteth hatred with lying lips and he the other uttereth a slander is a fool in the multitude of words
There once it's not sin, but he that refrains his lips is wise the tongue of the just is as choice silver
The heart of the wicked is worth is little worth the lips of the righteous feed many
But fools die for want of wisdom
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
It is as sport to it full to do mischief, but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him, but the desire of the righteous shall
be granted.
As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more, but the righteous is an everlasting
foundation.
As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to him that send
To them that sent him the fear of the Lord prolonged at the days
But the years of the wicked shall be shortened the hope of the righteous shall be gladness
but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
The way of the Lord is strength to the upright,
but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
The righteous shall never be moved,
but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom,
but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
That's about our heads for a prayer. Father in heaven, we thank you for this day in our church, our pastor, and we ask that you strengthen him and his family and that you fulfill him and the people of the street and that you bring more labors to this church.
We are in Proverbs chapter number 10,
which it kind of starts a new section in this proverb
because so far everything we've seen
has been very structured
and it's been able to be very nicely outlined,
but that is definitely not the case with this chapter
because it seems to be a lot more sporadic
and actually the headline, you know,
some Bibles it'll have like a chapter headline at the top.
Mine says this, moral virtues.
in their contrary vices.
Like this chapter is saying like,
here's something good versus here's something bad.
Here's something good versus here's something bad.
And really like the main theme of this chapter
is that when you serve God, when you fear the Lord,
when you put Him first, things in general
in the long run of things will end up being good for you.
Whereas if you do not fear the Lord,
if you do not serve God,
things are going to be terrible for you.
And so let's go ahead and start in Proverbs chapter 10 verse one.
The Bible says this, the Proverbs of Solomon,
a wise son, make it a glad father.
But a foolish son is the heaviness
of his mother so having a wise child is going to bring joy to any parent and you know I could
speak as a father that I desire greatly for my children to grow up someday and be wise you know
I am someone that puts a high value on reading on education on getting knowledge and wisdom
and you know it would bring me great joy to see my children of their own will of their own heart
more wise and to become more knowledgeable about things than even I am now or will be some day.
You know, I have no greater truth than to see, or there's no greater joy, excuse me,
than to see my children walk in truth. That brings us great joy as parents.
And you know, kids, if you want to make a glad father,
You need to be wise if you want to make a glad mother, you need to be wise, you know, no one wants to put all this effort and time and money and energy and blood and sweat and tears and vomit cleaning and all this stuff for your child to grow up and be a flat earther.
I mean, wouldn't that just be a shame for your child to grow up and be a Catholic to
be a Calvinist?
Or how about this?
To like the LGBT community.
I mean, that would just bring sorrow and pain to my heart to see that.
But a wise son make it a glad father, but a foolish son.
is the heaviness of his mother.
So you know the Bible says to honor thy father and mother
and one way you can do that is by turning out right
by actually being wise by seeking after knowledge
and wisdom and not being a fool
and bringing heaviness to your mother.
You know, if you go the way of this world
and you don't follow what the Bible says
and you get into wicked sins that the Bible warns against
like drinking alcohol or how about in Oklahoma?
Smoking pot.
You know what's going to bring heaviness to your mother.
Your mom's going to be sad and ashamed and disappointed.
Rightly so.
You know, I know we live in this society of no judgment and everyone gets a trophy.
And no matter what you do, you're always special.
No, no, no.
If your child ends up being a fool, you're going to feel heaviness.
You're going to feel sorrow.
But if they grow up wise, it's going to be a joy to you.
Verse two says, treasures of wickedness, profit nothing.
but righteousness delivereth from death.
You know, there's nothing wrong
inherently with treasures or money or riches,
but the Bible says that the love of money
is the root of all evil.
And some people in their desire to get money
and wealth and riches,
they may even sin in order to get wealth.
Sin in order to get money.
That's what I think it's talking about there
when it says treasures.
of wickedness. See, there's nothing wrong with just making an honest paycheck,
building a business and being successful. There's nothing wrong even with being rich.
There's many men in the Bible who are rich, who are very godly. But what is wrong is treasures of
wickedness. You know, making money through sinful means, lying at the job, you know,
stealing from your customers, ripping off your customers. Or how about this, usury?
You know what's a completely worthless business today is the mortgage companies
Just basically moving around numbers on a screen charging people usually stealing from people
You know the Bible says treasures of wickedness profit nothing
You know, in the long run, people who just give their lives over to seeking money,
so much so that they're even willing to do wickedly,
they think that they're getting some sort of safety by doing that, right?
The Bible says money is a defense.
And so in a way, money can make someone feel safe.
But if you're doing it wickedly, especially if you're a Christian,
let me tell you, treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing.
And so you don't want to be deceived into thinking that money is going to keep you safe in life.
No, rather the Bible says, but righteousness delivereth from death.
So it's kind of...
and oxymoron, it doesn't really make sense to our flesh.
We think, hey, if we want to be safe and secure,
what we should chase is just money at all costs.
But the Bible's highlighting here,
what we should really be seeking after is righteousness.
Why? Because righteousness delivereth from death.
You know, you look at men of God.
In the Bible, who went through hard financial times
that didn't have all the money and all the riches,
you see God bring them through those times, right?
You see, for example, God raised up Joseph
to save the whole nation of Egypt.
You see God spare Elijah, you know,
feeding him with a raven.
The Bible says that God's going to take care of us.
That's what the next verse brings up in verse three.
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish, but he casteth away
the substance of the wicked.
You know, this is a great promise that God has for us that he's not gonna allow us to starve to death.
He's not going to allow us to
famish because I think this is just a
natural fear and anxiety that pretty
much all people have is to struggle
with thinking about how were we going
to take care of ourselves financially?
What are things going to look like
in six months from now or five years from now?
It's just human beings nature to
worry about these things,
but that's why we have this promise here.
The Lord will not suffer the soul
of the righteous to famish notice,
but he cast it away.
the substance of the wicked so if you were just seeking after money even if you were successful
and even if you did end up finding all that money that you were seeking you know if you're a wicked
person if you haven't been pursuing after righteousness the bible says that god's just going
to cast away the substance of the wicked so can you are you starting to see that money really isn't
And especially in the United States of America with our Federal Reserve notes, with our joke
of a financial system that we have, let me just promise you that our economy is not safe.
You know, there's all these talk shows, there's all these TV shows, all these YouTube shows
that want to talk to you about the economy and its volatility and what it's going to
look like.
It's just always going to be volatile.
But here's something that's sure is that the Lord will not suffer the soul of the
So you want to focus on being a righteous Christian more than seeking after money.
This definitely hits home for me right now when I have a lot of wicked people coming
after me, a bunch of sodomites trying to get me to lose my job, and what are they trying
to do?
They're trying to invoke fear into me of me not being able to feed my family, take care
of the things that I need to take care of, but my Bible says that the Lord will not suffer
And so, you know, I'm not worried of starving to death because I'm a servant of the Lord.
And you know, I'm way more scared of not preaching what the Bible says, not talking
about God's commandments, not seeking after righteousness in my life than what a bunch
of sodomites could do to me at work, or losing some temporary job.
You know, every job you have is going to be gone someday.
But you know what?
Notice what the Bible says in verse 4,
he becomeeth poor that dealeth with a slack hand.
But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
You know, the Bible talks about how we should
consider the cause.
the poor and you know in general and obviously this prov especially this
chapter it's speaking in generalities you could find exceptions to the rule
but in general the reason why people are poor according to the Bible says he
become a poor that dealeth with a slack hand what is that a slack hand means
you're not really putting any strength to your work you're not putting any
effort or energy you know you're a lazy person basically if you're dealing with a
He become a poor that dealeth with a slack hand.
And you know, this is especially true
in the United States of America.
where there is so much opportunity.
There's so many jobs.
There's so many different ways to learn.
There's so many employers that are out there
that are just hungering and thirsting after people
that are gonna work hard and not complain
and obey their boss and have a good attitude.
Like, if that's all you are,
you already are so far above the rest of the workforce.
You know, if someone is just literally begging on the street.
If someone is homeless today in America and they're not disabled,
they're an able-bodied man and they're homeless in America, let me help you.
It's because they're lazy. Why are they so lazy?
Probably because they're smoking so much pot, right?
Cause they're so doped out of their mind. You know,
I've told you guys many times I walk into work and all the time I'm walking past
this guy at like 6, 20 AM, 6, 30 AM and he's asleep.
I go on service calls throughout the day and he's sleeping and I leave work at 3.30
And sometimes he's still sleeping. It's like oh help this poor homeless man
Who's just on hard times the dude's a bum
the dude's a drug addict, the dude is an alcoholic,
the dude is lazy.
That's why he's poor.
Yes, there are people who fall on hard times.
I'm not being down on those people.
Yes, there are literally individuals who are disabled.
I'm not criticizing those people.
But you know what?
If you're poor because you're lazy, that's your fault.
And it's not a Christian virtue to give money
and to give food to people who refuse to work.
The Bible says in 2 Thessalonians 3,
if a man will not work, neither should he eat.
You know the Bible saying, hey,
you should let this person starve if they refuse to work.
Now, I know we live in a society today
where people love to just lean on their own understanding
and don't give a rip of what the Bible says
and then wanna criticize and lecture Christians
who actually believe what the Bible says,
but you could actually open your Bible at any time
and read the verse that I just quoted for you.
2 Thessalonians chapter number three,
it's not a virtue giving them money.
I'm dead sure not going to give money from the House of God to homeless derelict drug
addicts.
I get so many calls and emails of random people, random people off the street asking
me to pay their bills, pay their rent.
This is not a handout place.
This is not some sort of government program here.
This is the House of God and we are going to use our money for the fulfillment of the
is what we're going to do.
We're going to use it for God's people here
to work out there in the field.
The Bible says also,
but the hand of the diligent, maketh rich.
In general, those who work hard,
those who are diligent are going to be successful financially
and have the things that they need.
Verse five says this,
he that gathereth in summer is a wise son.
But he that sleepeth and harvest is a son that causeth shame.
So notice, God's going to provide for our needs.
God's not going to allow the soul of the righteous to famish, but we still have to work.
We still have to go out and gather in summer.
It's not like you just sit down on your couch and pray, God, take care of my needs.
God fill my bank account and God's just going to rein money from heaven.
That's not how it works.
No, God's gonna make sure that you have what you need
when you go out and work hard.
And if you're struggling, God can help things stretch.
God can make your shoes last longer
like it did for the children of Israel in the wilderness.
God can make your car last longer, things like that.
God can intervene and help you,
but you still need to go do the work.
And I also like how it says he that gathered in summer is a wise son.
You know, I want to apply this to soul winning as well because we're approaching summer here
in Oklahoma City, though seemingly it's just never ending rain fest lately.
But you know, supposedly summer is coming.
Supposedly it's going to start getting hot pretty soon.
I don't know if it's a conspiracy or what, but hey, when that comes, you know, you should
still go soul winning.
You should not just forsake soul winning because it gets hot.
Look, it's just part of life.
He that gather it in summer is a wise son.
We need to keep working hard, even in the sun, even in the heat,
because people are still dying and going to hell.
And you know, if you live in different parts of the country,
there's always some excuse of why people can't go soul winning.
I remember when I went to an old IFB church in Meridian, Idaho, and they had no door-to-door
soul-winning program.
They had only street preaching, which I was not interested in.
I'm not really interested in screaming at cars driving by.
I'd like to actually look people in the eye and preach them the gospel of Jesus Christ.
But I asked the assistant pastor there, hey, can we get a soul-winning program going?
Can we do this?
And I'm not kidding you.
It is too cold in the winter and it is too hot in the summer.
This was a man, this was a pastor.
The guy who's supposed to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, he's telling
this young teenage kid, well it's too hot in the summer and it's too cold in the winter.
Now here's the thing, Boise, Idaho does get extremely hot in the summer, like I've seen
temps that are like 108 in the summer and it does get very cold in the winter, like
negative 12, negative 15, but who cares?
People are still going to hell.
You know, we still need to do our duty and when I lived in Texas, you know, it's always
still preach the gospel.
The Bible says in verse six,
blessings are upon the head of the just,
but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
So again, kind of fitting with this theme of the chapter
that if you do good, if you're righteous,
if you fear God, in general,
things are going to go well for you
versus if you're wicked, in general,
things are not going to go well for you.
Blessings are upon the head of the just.
You know, at times,
If you're righteous, you could be going through things that don't really feel like blessings.
But like we talked about on Sunday, even persecution, according to Jesus Christ, is a blessing.
And it's a reward, and it's something that we are supposed to rejoice over.
But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked you know in Psalm 11 the Bible says but the wicked and him that loveth
Violence his soul
Hateth and you know if you know something about wicked people they sure do love violence
And all you have to do is look at my emails look at my direct messages look at my voicemails to see the wicked
LGBT community who the Bible says are full of murder
The Bible says that they're haters of God.
The Bible says they're implacable.
The Bible says in Romans 1 that they're without natural affection.
And boy, can you see that in the messages of, where's your kids?
How's your family doing?
I'm going to come kill all of you.
I'm going to cut you open, you know, all these threats as I'm being falsely accused
of being a violent person.
I'm being falsely accused of preaching murder. No, no, I've never preached violence or murder
What I said is that we should have a lawful capital punishment system where one of the crimes
That's a capital punishment by death is sodomy
The capital punishment that's not preaching violence and it's so hilarious. I get all these messages
Hey, I sent your sermon to police. Cool. Send all of them to the police
You know, maybe we get more cops saved maybe we get more
You know city hall workers saved praise God for that
You know, there was some some whore on Instagram who looks like some young 20s woman and she's a lobbyist
I wonder how she got that job in DC at the young age of 20, whatever
But she had like 25,000 followers on Instagram and she posted and she tagged me in the post.
She's like, this is the hateful preacher preaching, you know, for homosexuals to be put to death
according to Leviticus 2013.
And I just direct messager.
I said, hey, thank you for the free advertisement.
Can you please also post this sermon?
And then she took it down and I was like, dang it!
I should have just left it alone.
She was literally giving me free advertisement.
But you know, all these people are like,
we're gonna blow this all over the media.
We're gonna post this everywhere.
We're sending it to the police.
Please do!
Send it everywhere.
It's literally on our doctrinal statement.
We literally livestream all of our services.
We literally go out in the community
and invite people to church.
We literally hand out a documentary
called the Sodomite Deception.
We're trying to get the message out.
You're not going to scare me by helping me with that.
Thank you very much.
Like I've been so happy the last few days.
I just want you to know that I've been genuinely so happy.
And just bring it on.
Keep doing it, please.
What does this have to do with Proverbs 10?
I don't know.
I'm just happy, all right?
Oh yeah, violence cover at the mouth of the wicked.
You know, these wicked people that want violence to me
and my family, they better be careful
lest violence come back on them.
You know, you want to act all tough and talk about killing a man of God.
Well, that might not go over too well with the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible says in verse 7,
the memory of the just is blessed.
But the name of the wicked shall rot.
You know, this is an awesome verse because in this life,
our name is not always adored, lifted up, blessed by the world.
Right? We're, you know, we're the off-scouring of all things.
People hate us.
There's a lot of people in this community that hate me
and hate Anchor Baptist Church,
but the Bible says the memory of the just is blessed.
Here's the thing.
All of us who are saved,
we're going to heaven when we die,
and we are going to live eternally with God.
And so our memory is going to be blessed,
but the name of the wicked shall rot.
In 800 billion years, people are still going to remember me and you because we're going
to be alive with all of the saints in heaven.
Our memory is blessed, but all the wicked people of this earth, the most powerful, evil
people that are running things behind closed doors, the wicked people in government today
who think that their name means something.
They think they're so powerful.
They think they have so much influence.
And when they go to hell, no one's going to care about them anymore.
You read Isaiah chapter 14, when Nebuchadnezzar, I believe, goes to hell, all the people who
are in hell are just like, oh, were you that big, strong guy who troubled the nations?
And now you're become as one of us?
Now Nebuchadnezzar, even though he was such a powerful king that ruled over the nations,
now he's a nobody.
And, you know, Satan, who goes around this world and is obviously very powerful, you
know, when Satan is cast into the lake of fire, you know he's going to be a big nobody.
And all the people that hate us, that are so prideful, that are so arrogant, that speak
so presumptuously, you know, when they die and go to hell, their name will rot.
But the memory of us will be blessed.
Verse 8, the Bible says the wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prading fool shall fall.
You know, a wise person actually wants to receive the commandments of God.
And you can tell that someone's an idiot, you can tell that someone's a fool when they don't like what the Bible says.
When they reject the commandments of God, when they reject the law of God, you can say, oh, this person's a fool.
It says in verse number eight,
the wise in heart will receive the commandments.
You know, that word receive,
it implies that you're not just hearing it,
but you're actually internalizing it
and applying the word of God to your life.
You're not just a forgetful hearer,
but you're actually receiving the commandments.
You know, that's what a wise person does.
You know, the foolish person does,
they either reject the word of God,
don't listen to it, mock it,
or maybe they hear it, but just don't apply it.
But then it contrasts against this person says but a prading fool
Shall fall now. That's an interesting word
Prading what does it mean to pray to pray basically means like to speak stupidly of or to speak at lengths
About nothing, you know someone that just goes on and on about things that aren't important
People who can just say a bunch of words without saying anything at all. This is a prading
Fool and notice this person will fall.
They're not built on anything.
They're not sturdy.
They're not upright and rooted and grounded.
The person who's just pouring out foolishness
out of their mouth, this person will fall.
And you know what it makes me think of today?
It makes me think of this weird phenomenon today
in our society where everyone wants to be like a,
an armchair psychologist.
an armchair psychiatrist and it seems like especially women are really drawn to these online videos
It's like 10 ways how to tell if your pastor is a narcissist
20 ways on how to tell if your husband's a narcissist and everyone loves these terms like you know
narcissist flying monkeys
Gaslighting some people don't know what a flying monkey is it's someone who enables a
Narcissist basically and people just are drawn to this stuff, but let me tell you what these people are. They're prading fools
They're prading fools, meaning they're speaking stupidly, on and on and on forever, about nothing.
And the Bible says that those people will fall.
So it's very foolish to be following after these type of people,
building your life off of what they say,
because they're not building it off the commandments,
the wise in heart receives the commandments.
This is where you get real wisdom.
This is where you get real knowledge.
Not from people like Jordan Peterson.
This guy is a prading fool.
And I actually have some quotes from him that I want to read
just to explain to you what a fool this guy is. You know, he wanted to describe
what God is. And this is his definition of God.
I wish I had a Canadian accent, I can't do it. He just said,
God is the mode of being we value the most.
The spirit that is trying to elevate being, that makes everything come together.
The truthful speech that rectifies pathological hierarchies.
How we imagine and collectively represent the existence and action of consciousness
across time, the selection mechanism, which judges which men are worthy.
That's his definition of God.
Now, can anyone, can any man summarize what I just said?
No, you can't, because he literally just said nothing.
He's just, you know, spitting out words.
No, let me tell you who God is.
Jesus Christ.
There you go.
The Lord God Almighty, the Lord of Hosts,
the God of the Bible.
That's who God is.
He wants to describe what it means to have truthful speech.
He says this, truthful speech is a selection mechanism
that rectifies pathological hierarchies,
which is how we imagine the existence of consciousness
trying to elevate being.
What?
Folks this guy is not smart. This guy is not intelligent
This guy just uses some high-level words and just combines them together and just throws it at you
So that you kind of feel dumb because you don't understand what he's saying
So you just assume he must be smart. No, no, no, you feel dumb and can't understand what he's saying because he's not saying anything
What is truth? The Bible says thy word is truth. There you go. How about that? He said this he must have gotten this from pastor
Who he said facts are not necessarily true
kind of like how Pastor Who said that slander can sometimes be true.
Oh, just oppositeville. There you go.
Jordan Peterson was asked this. Do you believe Jesus Christ rose from the dead?
Now, I ask people this question literally every week of my life
when I'm out preaching the gospel and I preach the death, burial, and resurrection,
and I say, hey, believe this. Okay. And I usually get a very simple answer.
Usually the answer is yes. Every once in a while, the answer is I don't know.
Okay, or no, but Jordan Peterson said this,
I cannot answer that question.
And the reason is, well, let me think about it for a minute
and see if I can come up with a reasonable answer for that.
Well, the first answer would be,
that depends on what you mean by Jesus.
Did Jesus rise from the dead?
Well, that depends what you mean by Jesus.
Well, that depends what you mean by by rose that depends what you mean by again
That depends what you mean by from that depends what you mean by the like this guy is just a moron
And, you know, it's really shameful that Christians of all people would elevate this guy, who can't even answer the question, did Jesus rise again from the dead?
I mean, even President Trump, who is far from being a spiritual guy to follow as a role model, I mean, at least on Easter, he's like,
Praise Jesus for his gift in rising again from the dead. Like, at least Trump, you know, believes that Jesus rose again from the dead.
And he can answer that, but this guy's just like,
well, that depends on what you mean by Jesus.
What a fool this guy is.
That's why it says that the prading fool shall fall.
Don't follow this guy.
The Bible says in verse nine,
he that walketh uprightly, walketh surely.
But he that perverted his ways shall be known."
So walking up rightly, what does that have to do with?
It has to do with being righteous.
Following the commandments of God, living a clean and holy and separated life, the Bible
says that when you walk up rightly...
You walk surely meaning you have confidence. You know what you're doing in life
it gives you peace really and
When the world comes after us when we start going through persecution, you know, it's nice to have the peace
It's nice to have the surety of knowing that you're doing what's right
How do you know if you're doing what's right? Well, if it matches up with what the Bible says then you could have that
Surety then you could have that confidence
Everything good back there, John.
All right, but the Bible says,
but he that perverted his ways shall be known.
You know, people who are wicked,
they may want to put on a show.
They may even convince people sometimes
that they're nice people, that they're good.
But the Bible says that he that perverted his ways
shall be known.
It's going to be revealed someday.
It's going to be made manifest someday.
So the wicked are not going to get away with it.
The Bible says in verse 10 he that winketh with the eye causes sorrow, but a prading fool shall fall now
This verse is a lot different than the rest of this chapter because so far in this chapter the first part is usually talking about something good and the second part is talking about something bad.
This verse is just both bad and so it kind of throws you off a little bit. It's like, why are these two things being contrasted?
You know, the best idea I can come up with is that it seems like the first part of this verse is talking about harming others.
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow.
Winking in the eye in the Bible often talks
about someone being like conniving
or conspiring to hurt other people.
And so kind of that wink with the eye is like,
hey, we've got some inside knowledge.
We're gonna do something bad to someone.
But then it says, but a prading fool shall fall.
So the idiot, the fool who just likes to hear himself talk,
you know, that person will end up destroying himself.
You know, a good thing to turn to,
let's go really quick to.
3rd John because that word prait is not used very much in the Bible
But it is used in 3rd John
Third, John, look at, that's right before Jude, third John, look at verse number nine.
The Bible says this, I wrote unto the church, but diatrophies who loveth to have the preeminence
among them, receiveth us not.
So notice the Apostles, John, they're going to this church that presumably they had started,
they had had influence in before.
who wants to have the preeminence, so he's prideful, he wants to be the number one guy,
he wants to be a big shot, he wants to have a big name, and he does not receive the apostles,
he won't let them come.
Then it says in verse 10,
wherefore if I come, I will remember his deeds,
which he doeth.
You know, people who do extreme wickedness in the ministry,
especially in the ministry, I should say.
Of course, when someone repents and asks for forgiveness,
forgiveness should be granted to that person,
but that does not mean that trust is granted back,
especially in a position of authority
that requires a lot of trust.
You know, the apostles were saying here,
I will remember his deeds.
I am not going to forget about this.
I am not going to let this go.
He says notice prading against us
with malicious words.
and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren."
So one of the attributes of this loser diatrophies was that he would be prading against the apostles
with malicious words.
So they're speaking harm, he's speaking harm against the apostles, even though the apostles
were great, even though they're preaching the word of God, even though they're doing
talking crap about them, you know, presumably railing against them, preaching false doctrine.
And you know, when you see a person like that in the ministry, you've got to realize this is a prading fool.
And what does the Bible say is going to happen to a prading fool?
Does it say he's going to succeed in the ministry, that things are going to go well for him?
No, it says a prading fool shall fall.
And you know what a great example of that is?
Salvador Alvarez.
Salvador Alvarez was a prading fool, and the result of his ministry in six few months being destroyed just goes to show that God's hand was not on that person.
That he was a complete failure. Why? Because he was speaking against men of God with malicious words, he was a prading fool, and the Bible says that a prading fool shall fall.
What do you mean? How about like calling Pastor Shelley a criminal pastor?
preaching a whole sermon called criminal pastors where he's preaching that
Pastor Shelley is some criminal and he acts like Pastor Shelley is some lover
of money and lover of riches you know that's a wicked accusation that's
prading against Pastor Shelley with malicious words or how about saying
that Pastor Anderson is a wife beating child abuser
Talk about malicious words.
Talk about preying against a man of God wrongfully.
And you know, you do that kind of stuff.
What does the Bible say is going to happen?
It says that you're going to fall.
You're going to hurt yourself.
And I don't know why we live in the society
where people who are insecure
and people who have just such a desire to be a big shot
think that in order to be great
they have to go tear down other good people.
But let me just help you.
It's never going to work.
You are never going to be esteemed highly.
You are never going to be respected by people
by talking crap about good people.
By denigrating good men of God.
All it does is it makes everybody lose respect for you.
And you know, though he finally lost his church
and though he's finally not a pastor,
you know, any normal person lost respect for him
a long time before that happened.
You know, so beware of the preying fool
and don't be one yourself.
Go back to Proverbs 10.
The Bible says in verse number 11, the mouth of a righteous man is a well of life.
but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
So, you know, a righteous person's mouth,
the words that they say, it is a well of life.
It makes me think, of course, of soul winning.
That the righteous, we go out there,
we preach the gospel of Jesus Christ
and we bring life to people.
We give them through Jesus Christ and His sacrifice,
the gift of everlasting life.
I also want you to go to John chapter six.
John chapter six, because
It's said there, I'm going to read it again.
He that walketh, let's see what verse was I on.
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life.
Look what Jesus said in John 6 verse 63.
It says, it is the spirit that quickeneth,
the flesh, profiteth nothing.
Notice, the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit and they are life.
Any time you're speaking the Word of God, you are speaking life.
You are speaking life because you know people will criticize us because we preach hard sermons because we preach not just the
Positive verses of the Bible, but also the negative stuff also the stuff that pastors avoid with the 10-foot pole
You know we preach all of it and people will act like you know, we're so hateful
We're so mean no no the words that Jesus Christ spoke those words are life and the Bible teaches that Jesus is the word of God
This is all
the words of Jesus Christ here.
And so when you're preaching that, you're preaching life.
Go to verse number 12 of Proverbs 10.
The Bible says,
sins. So, you know, there's a good striving for the faith and then there's a wicked type
of strife. For example, you know, Jude, the pistol of Jude, he goes to write in a pistol
and he was like, hey, I was going to write unto you of the common salvation, but it was
which was once delivered unto the saints.
For there are certain ungodly men crept in unawares, right?
So he goes to write about salvation,
he goes to talk about salvation,
but he has to fight against these false prophets.
He has to fight against these wicked people
and earnestly contend for the faith.
So some people would use this verse,
hatred stirs up strife.
and they would say, oh, you guys are striving, you guys are fighting a battle, therefore you're
super hateful. No, no, no, there's a fight, there's a striving that God commanded us to do,
right? The Bible says, earnestly contend for the faith. So when you're preaching the word of God,
it's going to naturally cause division.
The devil is not going to take that lying down.
So there's always going to be a fight and a strife if you're serving God.
But that's a positive type of strife.
The negative type of strife, the Bible says, hatred stirs up strife.
So the real hateful people, what they do is they take a situation where there was no problem,
there was no drama, there was no strife, and they create strife out of thin air.
Let me tell you who the hateful people are.
It's the Jews that run the Oklahoman.
Those are the true hateful people,
because the Bible says, hatred stirs up strife.
Look, it's loving to preach the word of God.
It's loving to preach the law of God.
Why?
Because Romans 13, love is the fulfilling of the law.
Okay, there's your definition of love.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
So you know what, we're a loving church
because we preach the full counsel of God.
And I think it's so hilarious, all these Christians, all these holier-than-thou Christians
that want to judge us and condemn us and say we're so hateful when it's like,
let's see your, let's see your bulletin in Oklahoma City.
How many souls have you won in Oklahoma City this year?
How many times have you gone out and preached the gospel this year?
How many times have you earnestly contended for the faith and a sermon this year?
Oh yeah, not that many, have you?
So I'm not gonna accept any of this criticism. I'm not taking any of it to heart. No, our church is a loving church
You know what the hateful person is the hateful person stirs up stripes
You know, it also reminds me of these ex new IFB better people
They're constantly want to go online and stir up strife
You know a few weeks ago
I saw this big effort of people trying to you know make it look like the new IFB
Didn't like Pastor Jimenez. It's like bro when I started working for Pastor Shelley. I told him I was like look
I know there's a bunch of drama
I know there's a bunch of politics in church
But I was just like Pastor Jimenez would literally have to kill my family for me not to love him like the guy got me saved
He baptized me
He married my wife and I, like I love Pastor Menes.
But I saw these bitter people trying to stir up strife
and trying to make it look like,
oh, we all hate Pastor Menes
and we're all against Pastor Menes.
You know what the Bible says?
Hatred stirs up strife.
The hateful person is the one who's stirring up strife.
But what the Bible says,
but love covereth all sins.
Again, the Bible's speaking in generalities here.
You know, if I love you and you make a mistake,
you mess up, you know,
I'm not gonna just necessarily
always have to point that out.
Now, of course, we do need correction,
especially from proper authorities in our life.
But you know, if your friend,
if your buddy messes up,
you're not gonna always point it out.
You know, if your boss messes up at work,
let me tell you this,
it's not a good idea to point it out.
love him and cover that sin, right?
He says something wrong in a presentation.
Don't stand up and embarrass him
in front of all your colleagues.
You know, that's a hateful thing to do.
That's not a loving thing to do.
You know, wives, don't stir up strife with your husband.
Don't go talking crap about him to other ladies.
Don't try to belittle him or demasculate him
or make him feel small in front of other people.
You know, that's a hateful thing to do.
But love covers all sins.
Your husband is going to be a sinner.
Your husband is going to make mistakes.
You know, a loving wife is not going to go bash her spouse.
A loving husband is not going to go bash his wife to other men.
You know, a loving person covers sin.
The Bible says in verse 13 in the lips of him that hath understanding, wisdom is found.
So someone who's actually wise, they actually have something to say.
And when people are just going on and on and not saying anything, it's because they're
not wise.
Then the Bible says, but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
The Bible is saying just like, you know, stupid people sometimes just need the rod.
Stupid people sometimes just need to get some sense beat into them because they're stupid. They're foolish.
So a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
It's just kind of like the natural consequence of being stupid.
You know, have you ever watched some police body cam videos?
Man, and look, I'm 100% against police brutality when it occurs, like when police go over and
above their authority and use too much force, I'm 100% against that.
But when police use lawful and appropriate force, I'm for it.
100% and just in my experience, you know, I like watching the police body cam videos
I feel like the vast majority of the time that police officers use force
It's justified the vast majority because the people that they're dealing with often are just so stupid
Like think about how stupid you have to be to try to punch a police officer
The rod is for the fool's back or you know the police asp nowadays
It's not really a rod anymore the asp that comes out
You know they flick that ass when the rod comes out. It's like that's for the fool's back
Don't don't you know reach into your pockets really quickly around a cop
Don't punch a police officer. Don't try to harm a police officer and then cry when you get beat up
and cry when force happens.
I mean, the Bible says a rod is for a fool's back.
You know how you don't get beat up by the police?
You just, first of all, live a clean life above reproach.
That's one good way to avoid most police interactions.
But here's another thing.
Just be friendly, be polite, obey their commands.
You know, have your hands visible.
Don't be like, hey, officer, how's it going?
Ugh, it's like, that's a good way to die.
Oh, you need my ID real quick.
You know?
That's a really foolish thing to do and you might die the Bible says in verse number
14, wise men lay up knowledge.
But the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
You know, so a wise person is constantly
wanting to seek more knowledge.
A wise person is not content with all the knowledge
and wisdom that they already have.
They're just constantly seeking more wisdom.
And it's like, I always think of, you know,
Pastor Anderson as a person like this.
Like he's just addicted to learning
and I love that about him.
I think that's such an awesome quality.
But he's like, you know what,
you know, 15 languages isn't enough.
He's just gonna keep learning languages.
Bible says wise men lay up knowledge, praise God.
But the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
You know, foolish people, stupid people
always do things with their mouth
that gets them in trouble.
Blowing off their mouth to the wrong guy, you know the proverbial bar fight when a guy started drinking
He's got that liquid courage and all of a sudden he's mouthing off to the wrong guy and the fool's mouth is near
Destruction, you know idiots are always on the verge of their life being taken from them literally or being destroyed
You know, this makes me think about road rage
You want to talk about a foolish thing to do road raging with people is a very foolish thing to do
You know, someone cuts you off in traffic and you got to flip them the bird and scream at them and yell at them and chase them down and try to get as close as you can.
Look, folks, there are psychos in this world.
You want to know how I know that?
Because one literally tried to murder me in Houston.
And what was funny is I wasn't even road raging on him.
He was just mad.
I even waved like, hey, I'm sorry.
No big deal.
Bro literally kept cutting me off,
getting out of his car,
running up to my window,
trying to get at me,
throwing stuff at my car,
chasing me through Houston.
There are some psychos in this world.
And Texas has like the highest road rage death in America.
It's just so damn hot there
that everyone's so pissed off maybe.
So especially in Texas, drive nice.
You know, when you enter Texas,
there's a sign that says drive friendly, the Texas way.
Let me tell you, that has to be said for a reason.
It's like when you tell your kids, hey, get along with your siblings.
Do you say that when they're already getting along or when they're fighting?
You say that when they're fighting.
So you enter Texas and they're like drive friendly because no one in Texas drives friendly.
I moved to Oklahoma.
I was like, wow, people drive so friendly.
So nice.
I'm not seeing road rage every day of my life.
I love Oklahoma.
the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The labor of the righteous tendeth to life,
the fruit of the wicked to sin.
So righteous people are going to produce good results,
righteous labor is going to tend to life.
And one of the ways you could evaluate a church
as being a righteous church,
is there a righteous group of people
that are doing good work,
is look at the fruit of their work.
And you know, you open up the bulletin today and you look at our salvations and hey, by God's grace,
we've had 485 salvations as a church, which is the most that this church has ever had by this
point in the year by far. Praise God for that. You know, that is a good sign, but the fruit of the
wicked to sin. What is the product of bad churches? Bad preaching.
Bad doctrine, lies, gossip in the pews, first Corinthians five sins in the pews.
How about this?
Loudmouth women, feminism.
It's a reflection of, hey, there's something bad going on in the church, there's a cancer
that's growing.
The Bible says in verse 17, he is in the way of life that keepeth instruction.
but He that refuses, reproof, arith.
You know, it's so important for us to want to be people
to receive instruction, want to learn,
want to be corrected, want to be told
when you've done something wrong.
The Bible says when you do that,
you're in the way of life.
Meaning, hey, you're on the right track.
You're on the path to blessings.
But He that refuses, reproof, reproof.
Areth, you know, don't be a person that cannot be corrected, especially when it comes from
authorities in your life.
Do not be the worker on the job that the boss cannot just tell you that you did something
wrong.
Don't be the guy at the job where your boss goes to correct you and you're just like,
but don't be that person.
Honestly, even if you think you're in the right,
it might honestly just be better to be misunderstood
and your boss know that you could take correction.
You know, that is super, super important
and of course that would go for any role
when you're under someone's authority.
You need to receive that reproof.
That's how we get better.
That's how we become better people.
Verse 18, he that highteth hatred with lying lips and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.
You know, slander, you know, lying about someone, falsely accusing someone.
The Bible says if you do this, you are a fool.
And why do people do this?
Again, I think it comes from this diatrophy's mentality of you want other people to look
at you as being so great and you as being so awesome.
other individuals. But the Bible says that the person that does that is a fool. Why? Because God
knows the truth. And you know, if you're actually spiritual, if you're a Christian, you should know
that your destiny is in God's hand. And if you're going around lying and slandering people,
you should realize that's going to make God angry. That's going to cause his blessing to be removed
from you.
Verse 19, in the multitude of words, there wanteth not sin, but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
So, you know, whenever there's just a ton of words being spoken, a ton of people giving their input, there's probably some sin there.
You know, the big Facebook groups, or how about this just democracy in general?
You know, I don't, I don't know about you, but I don't want all 320, 330, however, million Americans to all have the same voice.
You know, I don't, I really don't think that guys like, you know, men of God like Pastor Shelley and Pastor Thompson and Pastor Anderson should have their opinion, you know, on the same level as some 18-year-old girl who's got, you know, four abortions already.
You know, that's not, that's ridiculous. In the multitude of words, their want is not sin.
But he that refrained with his lips is wise verse 20 the tongue of the just is as choice silver
The heart of the wicked is little worth, you know silver is something that's precious
It's not just in abundance everywhere. We look and it's something that's of high value
The Bible says the tongue of the just is as choice silver and when I think about this I think about
Going to church and when I'm looking for a church to go to you know before I was a pastor
Obviously, I was in the pews for well over a decade. You know, I want to go to a church
That has a good pastor, that has a pastor that preaches good sermons.
Why? Because you can't find just an excellent pastor on every street corner.
The Bible says, notice what it says,
the tongue of the just is as choice silver.
This is why I think it's so silly that
some people kind of have this attitude
where they act like all churches are just created equal.
And let me tell you something, all churches are not created equal.
And some people just kind of jump from church to church and they think like and let's just use a theoretical example
Let's say that we start a church someday in Florida, which I don't think will ever happen
I hope I'm not you know manifesting. I don't believe in that
but let's say someday our church starts a church in Florida and let's say someone's going to faithful word Baptist Church
And someone's just like, oh, there's a new life, be a church.
And I've always wanted to live in Florida.
I'm just going to leave faithful word.
I'm just going to leave Pastor Anderson and go to this church.
Now here's the thing, Lord willing,
if we started a church somewhere,
we would have a rock star and a super awesome guy
that's going to be an excellent, wonderful pastor.
But you don't really know that until it happens.
You don't really know that until the guy is kind of proven.
that he is.
And some people, I see people all the time, they'll like talk about leaving a church that's
already epic, that's already awesome, that already has such a great pastor with great
doctrine and they kind of just want to take a gamble on this new thing.
And you know what, and this preaching might even be detrimental to me right now, but
I don't think you should take that gamble.
I think that you should serve in the church that God has placed you in and there is even
some people at other churches that are excellent, wonderful churches that at one point express
that they might move here and I'll be honest, I never encourage them to do that.
I'm just like, okay, yeah, all right, whatever, whatever you do.
And if they move, great, praise the Lord.
But I'm not going to be like, yeah, you should leave Pastor Shelley.
You should leave Pastor Anderson.
Why?
They're great men of God.
They're great pastors.
They're pastors that you're not going to find on every street quarter.
And if you already know that you have a good church, why would you take a chance?
You know, and it's so funny.
People act like, oh, you know, I'm just no big deal.
I could just leave a new IFB church.
No big deal.
I'm going to be thriving just as much in the old IFB.
No, you're not.
I'm sorry. No, you're not. I'm sorry. You're not going to be fed the same at an old IP church as you are at anchor Baptist Church in this city
It's just not going to happen. You're going to get the Sunday morning salvation
You're gonna get the Sunday evening Jews and you're gonna get the Wednesday night rapture
And that's going to be on repeat for the whole year
It's just a fact, folks.
And you know what?
You could just stop denying reality and acting like every church has created equal because
it's not.
And so, you know, apply this to yourself.
If you like Anchor Baptist Church, which I hope you do, if you love this church, you
know, I wouldn't recommend that you just, you know, on a whim, leave and make that gamble.
You know, if this is a good church, if I'm a good pastor in your eyes, you know, you
should get anchored here.
You should get rooted here.
You should get grounded here and not be this person that just bounces from church to church
to church.
You know, some people have told me they're like, yeah, what I want to do is I want to
travel a lot and spend Wednesday at this church, Sunday morning at this church and Sunday evening
at another church and kind of just do that on repeat.
Or you know, I go to this old IFB church one week and then I go to a new IFB church another
week.
That's stupid.
That's a bad idea.
You should just get in a good church in the best church in your area and you should stay
because the tongue of the just is as choice silver.
The heart of the wicked is little worth.
The lips of the righteous feed many.
See a good pastor is going to feed many, but fools die for want of wisdom.
I kind of like the play of words on this because fools, let me tell you, they're dying for
some wisdom.
They really are.
They need some wisdom and also fools sometimes literally die for lack of wisdom.
People who are foolish and go out and drink and drive, you could literally die from being
a fool.
Verse 22, the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he added no sorrow with it.
So wicked people, they could chase money, they could chase fame, and they could even
temporarily achieve those things, but sometimes a lot of sorrow is mixed in with it.
Sometimes these celebrities, they have the money, they have the mansions, they have the
women, they have all the things that people think they want, but inside they're miserable.
Inside, they're sorrowful.
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich.
And you know, not all riches in this world
are monetary value.
You know what is a person who is rich
is a husband and wife that love each other.
That family is rich,
because you know over 50% of marriages today end in divorce.
And if you've got a loving spouse, you are a rich person.
Hey, you know the Bible teaches that, you know, children are the reward from God.
You've got children today, you're a rich person.
Let me tell you what, you live in the United States of America, you live in Oklahoma, you are a rich person.
You know, you live in 2025 with the perfect and errant, inspired King James Bible Word of God before you.
You are a rich man, you are a rich woman.
And so the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich.
Verse 23 it is as sport to a fool to do mischief, but a man of understanding hath wisdom
So foolish port person, you know, they view sin as a joke. They view mischief as a game
Verse 24 the fear of the wicked it shall come upon him
But the desire of the righteous shall be granted, you know
The Bible talks about how the wicked flea when no man pursueth wicked people are
Fearful and they're not fear. They're not afraid of God. We should be afraid of God
We should all be terrified of God
Wicked people are just fearful in general and the Bible says that the fear of wicked people it shall come upon him
It reminds me of this one time
Back when my sermon first went viral in 2022 and it went way more viral than anything right now.
Like it was on the news in Denmark, Australia, Spain, all throughout South America, the United States,
tens of billions of views on TikTok. It was insane in 2022.
And my wife and I, after church, one time we went to a sandwich shop and I'm giving my order and this woman's just looking at me weird.
She goes you guys coming back from a business trip, and I'm like no coming back from church
And she's like okay, what church steadfast Baptist church, or she's like
Like you tell like she was shook that I said steadfast Baptist church. She's like can I get a name for your order Dylan?
Okay, and she goes and makes my sandwich and I'm just looking at my wife. I'm like, okay
This is weird like she definitely she definitely knows who we are
I'm like watching her like make sure she's not gonna spit in my sandwich or whatever
But you know at that time the protesters they had this Facebook group where they you know
Posted all their little things that they had going on and that night I went in there
I was like who is this woman and I found her I found her face
I was like that was the one from the the shop and she got on Facebook and she said today my worst fear came true
I had to make a sandwich for Dylan Oz and it's like the Bible literally says
the fear of the wicked it shall come upon him and you know I love the headline
back there it says it's terrifying well you know the Bible says that the fear of
the wicked shall come upon him and so if your worst fear is a white straight
You might have to make him a sandwich.
Maybe you shouldn't have hated God.
What a liberating feminist you are.
So liberated.
Yeah, make me a sandwich.
The Bible says in verse 25,
As the whirlwind passeth,
so is the wicked no more.
But the righteous is as an everlasting foundation.
What's a whirlwind?
It's like a tornado.
And the tornado says it passeth, so is the wicked no more.
So you know, a tornado, it's just loud, it's intense,
it's destroying everything, it's making a big show,
but then it just, it goes away.
It's gone.
And that's exactly like the wicked in this life.
Yeah, they're loud and proud and they're mighty
and they may have some power
and they may cause some damage for time,
but you know what, our life is a vapor, boom, and they're gone.
They're gone and they're in hell, but notice the righteous is an ever-lasting foundation
I love the imagery here because we're in Oklahoma
We have tornadoes and what do people do when there's a tornado coming down?
They get down into the foundation of their home
They get into that storm shelter and in fact just was that yesterday that the tornadoes were going off
Was that yesterday? Man, I'm in a time warp. I was literally in the shower
And all of a sudden these sirens start going off, we're getting the kids.
What do we do? We went down into the foundation.
Because you know, you guys all have a normalcy bias.
You've lived here your whole life and you just think, oh, it could never happen to me.
But let me tell you, that's not true. It could happen to you.
And you can't predict these things and so you shouldn't be a fool.
You should get into that foundation.
But you know, it's just like with Jesus Christ, the Bible says that we have a sure foundation.
The Bible says we have an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast.
And so the wicked, they can make their noise, they can be loud, they can be angry, they
can destroy stuff.
But you know what?
We've got that everlasting foundation to keep us safe.
And I'm not worried about the tornado, because I've got a tornado shelter.
And I'm not worried about the protests, I'm not worried about the persecution, I'm not
worried about the news articles, I'm not worried about the haters, because I have Jesus Christ.
Verse 26, as vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes,
so is the slugger to them that send him.
The fear of the Lord prolongeth days,
but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
So notice, fearing God, keeping his commandments,
esteeming the things of God highly,
it's literally gonna add years to your life.
And people are gonna wanna scare you out of serving God.
Let me tell you, quitting serving God
is the worst thing you could do.
Quitting serving God could shave ears off your life,
whereas serving Him prolongs it.
Verse 28, the hope of the righteous shall be gladness.
Now, I know we're going long on time so I'll try to speed up here.
But the hope of the righteous shall be gladness.
Hope in the Bible often does not mean just like, well, I hope so, like we kind of use
it.
Hope means an expectation, something that you are looking forward to, that you know you're
going to receive.
The Bible says that the hope of the righteous shall be gladness.
This is a super powerful verse, don't miss this.
where you're going to experience pain,
where you're going to go through trials and problems.
And there's going to be times where you're just like,
I don't feel gladness.
I don't feel happy.
But in the long run though,
the hope of the righteous shall be gladness.
If you serve the Lord.
If you are on the Lord's side, if you keep his commandments at the long run, you will be glad that you did.
Every single time, you will be glad that you served the Lord, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
You know, the wicked, they have their expectations of what they're going to get out of life.
And you know what? The wicked who don't believe in Christ, their expectations shall perish when they die and open their eyes in hell.
The way of the Lord is strength to the upright,
but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
So notice, by going the way of the Lord,
it's actually what strengthens us.
You know, in Isaiah chapter 40, I believe it talks about,
they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
And you know at times serving God can be a weariness to the flesh, it could be a weariness
financially, it could be a weariness to family, and to time, and to all the things that we
put into the ministry of God, but I'm telling you serving God is actually giving you strength
in the long run.
Why?
Because the Holy Spirit of God can renew our strength.
Even at times you feel weary, you feel tired, you feel like giving up, no, no, no, serving
God is what's actually giving you your strength.
at that position, then the Bible says verse number 30, the righteous shall never be removed,
but the wicked shall not inherit, I'm sorry, not inhabit the earth. The mouth of the just
It's all temporary for the wicked, their triumph, their hard speeches, their wicked words that they say against God and against us,
because in the long run, the throw or tongue shall be cut out.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable.
but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
I love this.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable.
We as Christians who actually read the Bible,
who actually go to church,
who actually go preach the gospel,
we know what is acceptable.
And you know what I've noticed? Christians who don't read the Bible, don't go to church,
they don't preach the gospel, they don't serve God, they don't know what's acceptable,
they don't know what sound doctrine is, they don't realize that our church is preaching
the pure sound words of Jesus Christ, but you know what, we know the words that are
acceptable.
But the mouth of the wicked, speaketh.
You know, in conclusion, this whole chapter, like I said, it's basically just saying like,
hey, in general, when you serve God, when you fear God, when you esteem the things of God highly, when you put Him first,
things in general are going to go well for you.
And let me tell you this, even though we go through hardships,
even though we go through persecutions and trials,
if we serve God and if we fear God,
we are still going to receive the best possible outcome
for our life than if we became foolish and stopped.
Then if we became backslidden and quit on God,
look at verse 30 again, it says this,
And you know what?
We need to be that righteous group of Christians today that is never going to be removed.
That is going to be anchored by Jesus Christ.
That is going to be steadfast.
Why?
Because we are the ones that have the acceptable words.
We know what the truth is today.
So you know the wicked, they can come after us, they can put us in the news, they can protest,
they could lie, they could rail, but guess what?
It doesn't matter how many death threats you send me.
It doesn't matter how many weak, watered-down Christians who don't actually know the Jesus
of the Bible want to criticize us, want to criticize our church.
It doesn't matter how many limp-risted, fake pastors and fake Christians in America want
to hate a real pastor and a real church.
We will never be moved.
We thank you for the truths in your word and these wonderful proverbs of wisdom.
Let's pray.
I pray that you would help all of us to constantly read the word of God and apply it to our lives.
I pray that you bless our church through this time of persecution,
that you would help us to never be removed, help us to be steadfast.
We love you and you see me pray. Amen.
All right, at this time we'll go to our last song, song number 93.
song number 93 art thou weary art thou languid