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of Jesus. Hymn number six beneath the cross of Jesus. Hymn number six, we'll
Heavenly Father, we thank You for another day
to gather together freely, to worship in Your name.
Lord, I pray that You would just put Your hand of protection
on us for this service, that You'd fill us with Your spirit
and that everything would be done decently and in order.
And these things we pray in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, for our next song, 134, My Anchor Holds.
One, three, four, my anchor holds.
Genesis chapter number one, verse one,
and you have until February of 2026
to memorize this chapter.
So I think you can do it.
Hope everyone works on this chapter.
And we have on the inside, our service times
are listed Sunday morning at 10.30 a.m.
Sunday evening at 4.30
and our Wednesday study through Proverbs at seven o'clock.
We do have all of our soul winning times listed there.
This Saturday is going to be another SWAT team soul winning time.
So if you'd like to join us for that, we'd be glad to have you this Saturday.
We have our year to date statistics for soul winning.
Praise the Lord 524 for the for the month of June.
It was a great, great month. We do also have our upcoming events.
We have July 27th is the next men's preaching night
and there'll be a potluck immediately after that.
August 2nd, we're going to do a soul-winning marathon in Anadarko, Oklahoma.
So that's coming up in August. One more thing actually, let me grab my phone here because
Passagelli did give some more details regarding Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship,
which is August 27th through the 31st, so I'll just give you some highlights here.
First of all, man, I love the new FB because they're soul-winning every single day at the conference,
so that is really great.
August 27th, Pastor Corbin Russell is going to be preaching. August 28th,
there's a family activity and Pastor Thompson's preaching from Sure
Foundation Baptist Church. August 29th, there's another family activity. There's
a singles activity. I'll be preaching that evening and there's going to be a
man's activity after the service in the evening.
August 30th, there's going to be a spelling bee, a cookout, men's football game, and
Pastor Anderson preaching.
August 31st, Pastor Reyes is going to be preaching in Spanish in the morning, Pastor Shelley preaching, and then Pastor Reyes preaching in English in the evening service.
And then I guess that night there's also going to be a late night pickleball tournament. So start picking your teams.
It does say here sign up for pickleball by email before Wednesday night at 10pm to be put in the bracket.
and make sure you email steadfastbaptistchurch with your team before that cutoff, but man,
sounds like an awesome conference. I'm going to be there for the whole time. I'm really looking forward to it.
We also have after that October 6th through the 11th the Bahamas mission trip
And I was already really excited about this trip
But then I'm just seeing the results of our soul winners in the Philippines and it's got me even more excited
So I cannot wait the only thing I'm not excited for is the sunburns
So, you know me and brother Cameron know how that is got a sunscreen better and we'll be prepared. All right
On the right, we have our visitor card and information about giving online and before we go to our third song,
let's go ahead and go to the Lord in prayer as a church family.
Lord, we thank you for Anchor Baptist Church.
We thank you for the freedom to preach the gospel and to serve you with the ability that we have here in the U.S. Lord.
I pray for our evangelists that are in the Philippines right now that you bless brother Eric, brother Theodore, brother James.
All the people over there that are just doing such a great work
I pray that you would bless them that you'd keep the door open for them to get many people saved
And of course Lord we also pray for their safety that they'd be brought home to us safely soon Lord
Pray that they would remember to work hard and keep doing a great job over there
We pray also for the Hall family that you bless their process of buying a home that you would allow everything
At this latter phase to go very smoothly and that you just bless them in their new home Lord willing god
We also pray for the houseburg family that you bless their health that you bless myles and rena lord
And we also pray for mrs. Reed brother koaja
Who have loved ones who are unsaved? I pray that the loved ones would just have a soft heart to the gospel
And Lord, we want to say a special prayer for the family affected by the murder suicide
where that young girl died in our city this week. Lord, I pray that you be with that mother
and I pray that you would allow us to run into her out soul winning this weekend. I pray that
we'd be able to preacher the gospel and get her saved if she's not saved. And if she is saved,
I just pray that we'd be able to minister to her and to be a comfort to her. And same thing for
Our third song this evening will be in your white handouts, Psalm 139.
In your white handouts, Psalm 139.
So I'm 139 we'll sing there on that first verse
Good singing this evening as the offering plates are going around turn a few it to Proverbs chapter 14
Proverbs chapter
Good evening Proverbs 14 the Bible reads every wise woman buildeth her house
But the foolish plucketh it down with her hands he that walketh in his uprightness
Feareth the Lord, but he that is perverse in his ways despises him in the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride
But the lips of the wise shall preserve them
where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness will utter lies.
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not, but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceive not in him the lips of knowledge.
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Fools make a mock at sin, but among the righteous there is favor.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
Even in laughter, the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man shall be satisfied
from himself.
The simple believeth every word, but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
A wise man feareth and departeth from evil, but the full rageeth in his confident.
The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
The evil bow before the good and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbor, but the rich hath many friends.
Do they not err that devise evil, but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good?
In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tinneth only to pinnury.
The crown of the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is folly.
A true witness delivereth souls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence.
and his children shall have a place of refuge.
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life
to depart from the snares of death.
And the multitude of people is the king's honor,
but in the way...
But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding,
but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh,
but envy the rottenness of the bones.
He that oppresses the poor reproacheth his maker,
but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor.
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous have hope in his death.
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding, but that which is in the midst
of fools is made known.
righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. The king's
favor is toward a wise servant, but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
That's by our heads for a prayer. Father in heaven we thank you for everything
that you give us. All the blessings that you give us and we thank you for our church.
Man, all right, we're Proverbs 14 verse 1 the Bible says every wise woman
Buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands
So ladies, you know all the construction projects at home the Bible says that's all on you right every wise woman
Buildeth her house right now, of course, this is a metaphor here, and it really goes to show that
Ladies, women of the home, you have a lot more power than you often recognize or think about
because of the fact that the husband is gone for many hours of the day.
He's out making money. He's out providing for the family. And while dad is away, you know,
mom is that authority in the home. Mom is spending a lot of time with her children.
And when it comes to raising children, man, what a huge impact that moms make directly on their
that are oftentimes there to provide the training,
the education, the discipline, the love,
the biblical training, you know, a lot more than dads can.
And so the Bible's saying here that,
hey, a wise woman buildeth her house.
A wise woman's gonna realize what a grave
and serious responsibility she has, both as a wife
and as a mother and she's not going to just take that lightly.
You know she's not the wise woman is not spending her entire day
scrolling social media or you know I guess back in the day it used to be the
soap operas and the TV shows. Now you know ladies
that aren't wise they're just spending all day
scrolling social media doing nothing productive with their time
but you know that's not a wise thing to do. The wise woman is going to be
The Bible says in verse 2,
he that walketh in his uprightness,
feareth the Lord.
but he that is perverse in his ways despise with him.
Now this verse is pretty interesting because it goes to show that your actions can reveal your heart towards God.
And of course Jesus told us this because Jesus said in John 14,
If you love me, keep my commandments.
So your love for Jesus Christ is not displayed by necessarily what you say
or having a Bible verse in your bio or something like that,
but it's by you keeping God's commandments.
That's how you actually show that you love Jesus Christ,
and you know, we ought not to minimize the commandments of God today.
You know, of course, we preach that salvation is free,
that it's not of works.
You don't have to do any works to be saved.
But you know what?
Should we just make the law of God void
because we're saved by faith through grace?
Absolutely not.
You know, we should value the commandments of God.
We should take it very seriously.
And what's kind of ironic about this verse is it says here that He that walketh in His
uprightness, feareth the Lord.
You would think that people who are living super wicked, raunchy lives, that since they
have the most to fear from God, that they would be the ones fearing God, but no, rather,
it's those who are walking in their uprightness are actually the ones that fear God.
Isn't that interesting?
Because, you know, a lot of people, they're out drinking, fornicating, committing adultery,
scoffing at the things of God, they're like that scorners that Proverbs constantly talks about,
but yet here's someone walking in their uprightness, they're living a pretty clean life.
Now of course, compared to Jesus, we're all just extremely wicked, we're sinful, we're just,
you know, sinful man, but we could still walk in that uprightness, that's the person that fears the
You know, you could tell someone that just despises God by their perverseness of their
ways.
And sometimes in the Bible, hate or despising can mean simply to esteem something less than
something else.
So even a Christian, they're not obviously like a hater of God, like a reprobate is,
but they could still be showing despite to the Lord and despising God by their actions.
and they know that they should be going to church
and they're just not going to church,
they are despising God in a sense.
Because here you have Jesus Christ,
who died for the church.
He shed his blood for the church.
You know, he said that the gates of hell
will not prevail against the church.
And then many Christians today just don't care.
They don't respect the house of God.
They're showing despite unto the Lord.
Someone walking in their perverseness,
it's showing, hey, you're despising God.
Well, the Bible says in verse three in the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but
the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
So one of the attributes of a fool is that they are prideful.
realize being prideful is foolish. It is silly. It is stupid. Why? There's many
reasons why. One reason why is because if you're proud, if you're all you know
conceited and puffed up in your mind about how great you are, here's why that
silly is because there's always lots of people that are better than you.
Like, does it really make sense to get all puffed up about a certain skill or ability
you have?
When let's just be real, you're probably not the best at that thing.
There's probably people that are better than you.
So what are you doing bragging?
Also, anything that you're good at, it's only by the grace of God that you can do that anyways.
You know, if you're good at sports or you're even just good, you know, mentally,
these are gifts from the Lord, and every breath that we breathe is by the grace of God.
Everything that we do is by the grace of God, so it doesn't really make sense to be prideful.
You know, another reason why it's so foolish is that someone who's just, you know, consumed with pride...
They need to be validated by other people.
They need other people to think that they are as great
as they're convinced that they are.
Here's the problem with that,
is that you will never ever be satisfied with it.
Being prideful like that it's never going to you know quench your thirst in a sense because we're not all stupid
We're not all gonna get and drink your Kool-Aid about how great we are because we know you're not
We could see you and we're not drinking the Kool-Aid that you are of yourself
You know pride is one of those sins that are very blinding
That's what's so dangerous about pride is that you often don't see it in yourself
This is why we need to constantly be going to the Bible where the Bible is telling us what prideful attributes
look like. This is why we need to be surrounded by good friends that can help us when we're
getting out of line a little bit because it is very blinding. The Bible says in verse 4,
where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
And when I read this verse, I always think about having kids because, you know, before you have kids
the house is clean man before I had kids for those very very long nine months of
our marriage where we didn't have kids really long time I was blown away and
people were like yeah you know the first five years of my marriage I'm like
man what would that be like that's crazy but anyways you know that first nine
months it's like the house is clean everything's pretty easy to pick up but
then the oxen come
And boy, oh boy, does it get dirty fast.
Just yesterday, I got home from work
and I just sat down and then I look over and Bethany goes,
dad, look at the chair.
And one of my girls just got a marker
and just put it all across the fabric in the chair.
And I'm just like, we're no oxen are, the crib is clean.
But here's the thing,
but much increases by the strength of the ox.
See, it's worth it to have children
because the things of this world,
who cares about a chair?
Who cares about the carnal temporal things of this earth?
You know, it's important to have kids
because we're raising up the next generation of Christians.
We have a spiritual heritage here that we're passing on.
And so at the end of the day, yeah, we can't have nice things,
but you know what, kids are better than having nice things, right?
And it's kind of like, it's just like with animals too.
You know, my backyard is a mess, you know why?
Because we have like 16 chickens back there.
At least every once in a while we butcher those roosters and we have some roosterlottas
in the fridge and it's like I could have a really nice manicured, clean backyard or I
could just have the produce of all these chickens, right?
Well you know it's the same thing with children.
We want to raise up the next generation of Christians and also just the Christian life
in general.
A church that's really trying to have a great increase that's trying to do great things
for God.
Sometimes the crib isn't going to be exactly clean.
I always talk about the old IFB, how you go to their churches, and boy, it's just a pristine
palace, and their programs are so well run, and they've got the Bible College, and they've
got, you know, the big choirs and the big orchestras, there's nothing necessarily wrong
with those things, but man, it's just everything's dialed in.
It's a well-oiled machine.
Now, here's the thing, it doesn't have to be that they're not producing anything.
They could go out soul winning, and thank God some old IFB churches do.
We've got some of those in our vicinity here in Oklahoma City.
But then you got other Baptist Bible colleges, like West Coast Baptist College, and what
are they producing?
They're producing effeminate preachers, preachers that are toning back the Word of God.
to other churches in the United States.
And so it's like, hey, I'd go to the church.
I'd rather go to the church where, hey,
sometimes things are a little messy.
Sometimes the pastor's gonna call out sin specifically.
Sometimes people are gonna get thrown out of the church.
Sometimes there's gonna be battles and fights.
But hey, there's increase though.
Hey, the church is getting thousands
and thousands of people saved.
I'll take that over a little museum.
Just like I'll take a house full of children that we're raising for God over this perfect nice little museum of a home
Why because there's much increase by the strength of the ox
The Bible says in verse 5 a faithful witness will not lie
But a false witness will utter lies, you know, this is very important that you understand this principle
Because in life, we're gonna have to make judgments.
In life, we're gonna hear testimony from people
about other people.
And you know, the court system understands this,
that you're supposed to consider
the reliability of a witness, right?
And if a witness is known to be a liar,
they're known to be a scammer or a criminal,
that witness would then be discarded
or at least discredited.
Now, look at what this verse is saying.
will not lie.
So if someone has a reputation in their life
of being faithful, of being honest,
chances are when they tell you something,
chances are they're not gonna lie to you.
That just makes sense, right?
Now, what's the flip side though?
But a false witness will utter lies.
Someone just has this reputation, they're just constantly lying, it's known about them.
This person is a false witness, just realize that they will continue to utter lies.
This is why the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 5 that railers should be cast out of the church.
Because usually when people are bringing railing accusations, it's not just a one time deal.
It's kind of just who they are.
and something big needs to happen in their life oftentimes for them to correct that or they could
just never correct it and stay outside of the house of God because we're not going to tolerate
railing bringing false accusations against people. Hey, we're supposed to treat others the way we
want to be treated. How would you like it if someone's going around railing against you?
You wouldn't like it very much. So you know what? You should think about that when you're
And you should realize like, hey, is this person a liar?
Is this person have a bad reputation?
Well, the Bible says that he's gonna keep lying.
Meanwhile, you got a faithful person
who has a good reputation,
who's known for being an honest and truthful person.
Well, by default, I'm gonna be giving that person
the benefit of the doubt.
That's what this verse is teaching.
Verse six says the scorner seeketh wisdom and findeth it not.
But knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
Verse seven, go from the presence of a foolish man
when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
You know, obviously we want to be long suffering
with people, we want to be gracious with people
when they're struggling to understand concepts.
But when someone is a fool, there just comes a point
where you just need to give up on trying to fix this person and just remove yourself from them.
And today in our day and age of the internet and social media,
this verse needs to be really deeply ingrained into your head
because you could spend hours going back and forth online with a fool.
And guess what? You're going to get nowhere.
Have you ever seen someone like take correction in a comment section?
Because I haven't.
I've never seen someone presented with facts, presented with Bible verses, and presented
with logic.
And they're just like, yeah, yeah, you're right.
No, it's just like, you worship Satan, you're a NASA shill or whatever.
It's always that type of accusations that come from it.
The internet is not really a great place to have conversations with people like that.
Where we like input Christianity and input our videos and input our doctrine and then kind of bouts
But beware of just being the person that just consumes everything on the internet and especially beware of just going back and forth with fools
All day because it's not productive and you're not really accomplishing much
Realize that hey some people they just cannot be helped. You just got to go from the presence of the fool
The Bible says in verse eight,
the wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way,
but the folly of fools is deceit.
I love this verse because I kind of think about this.
You know, the wise person does not just believe the right things.
The wise person does not just have the right Bible.
The wise person does not just happen to attend the right church.
The wise person understands his way.
You know what that means?
When you're asked what you believe, you actually know what you believe and why you believe
it.
You're not just this simple person that believes every word.
They're told that they have certain standards, they have certain beliefs, but if you ask them to show you that in the Bible, they have no clue.
What does the prudent man do though? The prudent man understands his way.
Hey, you could ask any person in this church who's saved how to get to heaven and they'll be able to show you.
They'll be able to point you the right direction in the Bible and explain salvation and you know when it comes to other doctrines
We believe it's the same thing. Hey, why do you believe the post-trib rapture?
Everyone would just flip open their Bible to Matthew 24
And let me tell you something, if you right now could not do that, you need to seek wisdom
and realize, hey, it's not enough that I've just been told the right things from the pastor.
I actually need to read the Bible myself and understand my way.
Because what I've noticed what happens is people who just, they just believe everything
they hear, believe it because the pastor said so, they believe it because the church said
so.
As soon as man behind the pulpit starts teaching error, people will go right with them.
You know, it's like well when the pastor said that ladies should be wearing skirts and dresses only you believe that
But when Pastor Jones says that that's not the case anymore. Boom. You just change
Boom, you just change your doctrine change your idea. Why because you're a fool
Because the wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way
See a person who's wise is not going to be constantly changing major doctrines
Look, we're going to grow as Christians and we're going to read the Bible and maybe something
that I understand right now.
I may have a different interpretation of a passage someday, but you know what, I'm never
just going to wake up one day and just be like, yeah, you know what, I think Calvinism
is true.
No, I think you actually can lose your salvation.
You know, I actually think that we shouldn't fear God.
You know what? God doesn't even discipline his children.
You know what? Deuteronomy 22.5 doesn't even say that a man shouldn't even be putting on a woman's garment.
This is a fool. And let me tell you, it's such a shame.
for a person in the congregation
to just immediately change
every time they hear something new.
Whatever their pastor says, they're just gonna believe it.
Look, the Bible says to follow men of God
as they follow Christ.
And how do we follow Christ that we learned from
Brother Ben this weekend? We follow Christ
by following the words of Jesus Christ.
So the moment a pastor deviates
from this, you stick with the Bible
and you stop following that pastor.
Okay? The wise person
understands his way.
But the folly of fools is deceit.
Fools are just deceived by everything.
They're so easily tricked.
You want to know how you could be a person
that is not easily deceived?
Read this a ton.
And by the way, just read books a ton.
And you'll be someone who's not easily deceived.
The Bible says in verse nine, fools make a mock at sin.
But among the righteous, there is favor.
Here's another thing that fools do.
They will make light of, or make fun of, or mock at sin.
And you kind of see this with atheists a lot of times,
where they mock the idea of God,
they mock the idea of Christianity.
So anything that the Bible says is wrong,
they just automatically mock.
So for example, we'll teach that fornication is a sin.
And people who are atheists will scoff and mock at that and be like,
you know, you should live together first to find out if you're compatible
and you're just crazy and they'll laugh at these kind of things.
But hey, the type of person that would laugh at sin is a fool.
You know what that means? You are an idiot.
You are a stupid person.
And look, this is another thing that's just epidemic in our society today.
is just fools.
And again, when I think of this verse,
I think of the internet,
and there's this like new trend of pranksters online,
guys like Cassidy Campbell, you probably know,
where their whole channel, the whole way they make money,
the whole reason they exist is just to mock at sin.
And worldly people, backslidden Christians, or unsaved people, they love this.
They eat it up.
It's so funny to see people making light of social norms, which usually our social norms
are based in biblical roots.
You know what I mean?
So, for example, you got this guy Cassidy Campbell, who his videos, much of his videos
is him as a married man, or at least formerly married man, going around and just hitting
picking up women, you know, or he'll purposely go to like women who are unattractive and like give them the time of day
So that they feel special because they're not used to that and then of course it's all fake
You know what I mean? And what is that? Let me tell you what that is. It's sin
And it's foolishness and you ought to be sober the Bible says men ought to be grave
And if you sit here and take pleasure in a bunch of stupid prankster YouTube videos
You need to get right with God you need to mature a little bit and realize hey
This is foolish. This is stupid. This is not something that a Christian should be involved in you
Let me give you another example of a video that Cassidy Campbell made he had his wife
go on an adultery website and plan a hookup with some guy and
invited the guy over to the house, he's got the camera showing his wife,
invited the dude over to the house, and then Cassidy Campbell pops out of a closet
to scare the guy. How funny, how hilarious it is that you're just making light
of adultery, of a married woman just meeting with another guy.
And by the way, why the hell would you ever plant seeds like that in your wife's mind?
Because you know what she just realized? Like, wow, that was pretty easy.
You know what if your marriage hit the rock someday like apparently did since he divorced his wife because he's a piece of crap
He left his wife, which is wicked as hell
But you know what who's to say like in a different situation?
Oh your marriage hits the rock someday and your wife remembers boy
That was pretty easy when I got a guy to come over to my home
Why would you plant that in your wife's mind and all you got the millions of people watching you?
Young Christian man young Christian women and they're just thinking this is funny. No, it's foolish
And you're going to see, you know, when someone like that is saved,
you're going to see God come down on a person like that very, very hard.
Beware of people like that.
The Bible says in verse 10,
The heart knoweth his own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy
The heart knoweth his own bitterness when I was thinking about this verse
This is kind of a thought that came into my mind is that we are commanded as Christians to rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those that weep
But truly, our empathy as human beings can only go so far.
The heart, knoweth his own bitterness.
When I'm going through something, truly only me and God knows what I'm really going through.
And same thing for you.
If you're going through something difficult, really only you and God know the depth and
severity.
or lightness of whatever you're going through the heart.
No, with his own bitterness, this is this,
and a stranger does not intermedal with his joy.
You know, if you're happy and full of joy
and excited about something,
truly only you and God really know
how happy you are about something.
I mean, don't you have times when you're reading your Bible,
when you're just kind of like flooded with emotion?
You know, you're reading the scripture and you're just filled with the Holy Ghost
and just something hits you and you're just flooded with emotion
and it's like, if you just read that verse to a random stranger they're gonna be like, you know, what's the big deal?
But like, it hit you hard.
And like, God knows that it hits you hard.
I remember that happened to me around Christmas when I was writing a sermon about Mary.
And I was just reading all the verses about Christ's suffering
and thinking how Mary read those verses in Isaiah.
And it just hit me hard.
It was just one of those, you know,
mountaintop Bible reading experiences
where I just felt really close to the Lord.
But it's like, hey, at that moment,
only me and God really knew what that was like.
But here's the thing, though,
I cannot fully empathize with your pain
and I can't really fully get as excited as you are
during your times of triumph.
Here's the thing, Jesus can.
I mean, that is pretty cool because we have not and high priests, which can't be touched
with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are yet
without sin.
So, Jesus Christ, he knows truly everything that you're feeling because he's experienced
it.
He became a man and lived the human experience.
So, you're feeling lonely, he's been there.
You're feeling sad and forsaken, he's been there.
You're feeling joyful, he's been there too.
And so, hey, your best friend is always Jesus Christ.
He always is the one who truly knows what you're going through and that is a great blessing.
The Bible says in verse 11 the house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tabernacle
of the upright shall flourish.
There is a way which seameth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
We talked about pride a few minutes ago.
Pride what is that?
Thinking all your ideas are right, all the things that you do are right, your philosophies
are right, your ideas are right.
And the Bible verifies that because it says, hey, there's a way which seameth right unto
Generally speaking, when we take a course of action, when we do something, we think we're right, don't we?
But there's a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
See, a wise person will humble themselves and realize, though I'm thinking this way, though I have this idea, I could be wrong.
And so you know what we should do is we should always go to the Bible as our final authority.
And when the Bible says something's wrong,
hey, we shut our mind and we say this is what the Bible says.
Though I may have thought differently before,
nope, I'm changing my mind, I'm going with what the Bible says,
because it's the fool that just thinks that everything that they do is right.
The Bible says in verse 14,
the backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways,
and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
So kind of this idea of reaping what you sow.
The backslider in heart is filled with his own ways.
Here is what is just the reality,
is that oftentimes people will get bitter at God,
bitter at church, they'll start to backslide,
they may even start to dislike the church or the pastor,
and they may start gossiping and stuff like that.
But it's like at the end of the day,
when you get back slid in,
you're hurting yourself more than anyone else.
Because here's the truth,
like no matter who comes to this church
or doesn't come to this church,
I'm going to serve God.
My family's going to serve God.
I'm gonna be soul winning this Saturday.
I'm gonna be preaching the word of God.
I'm gonna be reading my Bible.
I'm gonna be praying.
But it's like the back slider in heart
shall be filled with his own ways.
You're gonna have to be the one
that reaps the consequence of your sin.
And when I send, I'm going to be the one that has to reap those consequences, but also this is flipped around because it says and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
What's funny is it doesn't say like a good man will be satisfied from God though that is true as well
But there's just a carnal law with the Bible that when you do the things the Bible says you're gonna generally reap good
And so you're gonna be filled with good from yourself from your own good decisions
Or you're gonna be filled with problems and issues from your own stupidity and foolishness
Here's a great verse, verse 15, the Bible says,
the simple believeth every word.
But the prudent man looketh well to his going.
This needs to be like painted on your wall.
It needs to be your screensaver on your phone.
This is like the verse of our generation.
And what's funny is I saw a perfect example of this this week.
I was on Instagram and I saw this video where President Ronald Reagan was speaking and it
just was this short clip and you just hear President Reagan, he says, there is no evidence
that there was 6 million put in camps.
There wasn't even 6 million alive.
There was only 18 million and I heard that.
I look at the comments.
Everyone's like, oh, President Reagan's talking about, you know, the forbidden topic.
President Reagan was based on that.
But I heard this.
I was just like, there's no way this is real.
And I started doing some research into it, and I found the whole quote.
Now, keep in mind, everyone's sharing this, reposting this.
Look how base President Reagan is.
He's questioning the Holocaust, or people mad at him for doing that.
Can't believe that President Reagan questioned the Holocaust.
He was talking about Vietnam.
He was in a Q&A with college students and this one communist college student said what about the six million
That were put in camps in Vietnam and then President Reagan's like well
I question your history on that because there's no evidence there was six million put in camps
But you know what the simple believe it every word and you need to be careful and
Realize that not everything you see not everything you hear in fact you should just immediately question anything you see on the internet
You know, with AI coming out now?
Look, if you see like a video of me being like,
hey, I love the devil or something like that,
you might want to question if that's AI.
But I'm telling you, there's so much stupidity
and people are so foolish and so gullible
that that video is just going viral,
everyone's sharing it.
Ha ha, President Reagan denied the Holocaust.
No, no, no, you're a fool.
Because you believe every word you know what you should do you should be careful
You should take information that you get with a grain of salt here's something that you should do
Fact check things. This is like a lost art in our society of people receiving information and saying hold on a second
Let's see if this is true. What do people do today? They hear something. They immediately believe it
They see a tick-tock video believe it
Conspiracy video believe it. They did no research and people say research. They watched a documentary
They watched other TikTok videos.
They went to a Reddit channel.
They talked to their pothead friends from high school,
and they're like, I've done a lot of research on this.
No, you've done none.
You've done zero.
You know what research is?
Being like, huh, let's go to Reagan's presidential archive
of all of his videos.
Find out what this video is.
Watch the whole thing in context.
Oh, he's talking about Vietnam.
This is a skill you need in 2025.
and realize that, hey, a lot of stuff on the internet is false.
I mean, it is a weapon of mass distraction.
The internet and social media today
because it is able to manipulate millions and millions of people's minds with lies.
You think about, in the end times, that there's going to be this great deception, this great delusion?
Boy, I could see how easy that would be.
Who things like AI boy, oh boy, is that going to be easy and it's never ever been more important for you to gird up the
Loins of your mind to think critically to check information and here's a spiritual application
Don't believe everything you hear about the Bible
Don't believe every preacher you see online.
Don't believe every prophet online.
You know, someone recently asked me, hey,
you know how much stock do you put in these preachers online
that are saying like, you know, in July of 2025,
there's going to be a massive event.
God spoke to me. God told me this.
I'll tell you how much stock I put in it, zero.
Why? Because Hebrews 1 said that God, who had sundry times in undiverse manners, spake in time past through the prophets,
hath in these last days spoken unto us through his Son.
Hey, how do we get God's word today? It's through the Bible.
Someone claiming that God is speaking to them in 2025 is called a false prophet, but the simple believe with every word.
It is a dangerous thing to do that. You must have a critical mind.
Where we at? 16, a wise man feareth, and departeth from evil, but the fool rageeth, and is confident.
You know what is so annoying about a fool?
Not just that they're wrong, though that's annoying.
Not just that they're super prideful, though that's annoying, but they're like confident in their wrong belief.
That is the most annoying thing ever.
It's like, yeah man, I saw!
President Reagan denied the Holocaust and you're an idiot if you think otherwise it's just like
oh you know you get secondhand embarrassment for them it's kind of like this out-soul winning
when you're running people they're just like so confident salvation's by repenting your sins
it's like can i show you from the bible no no no i already know i already know everything
no it's by it's by works and you're just like hey the fool rajith and is confident it's so cringy
But they're confidently wrong.
And that's the type of person that the Bible is saying hey, go from the presence of a foolish
man when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
It's that type of person out soul-winning that you go to the next door.
It's that type of person at the workplace or your friends or whatever that you just
like, okay, you know, we're done talking about the Nephilim, we're done talking about the
Flat Earth, okay?
I'm not having this conversation with you because they're just a fool that rages and
is confident and you're not going to help them.
Just give up on trying to help that type of person move on.
The Bible says he that is soon angry dealeth foolishly
and a man of wicked devices is hated.
So some people like to make it out that being angry is always a sin,
but it's not necessarily a sin to be angry.
It's not necessarily foolish to be angry,
but what is foolish is being soon angry.
Why? Because that goes to show that you're the type of person that doesn't have control of your spirit.
You're not really like taking in data and facts and logic and reason and saying,
you know what, this is something worth getting mad about and you kind of just blow your top.
You know, that's fine. But when it's just like, oh, someone cut me off, just pull out the gun and shoot them.
It's called Texas. Happens all the time.
The most road rage murders by far is Texas,
specifically San Antonio.
One year I preached about this
and I did a bunch of research at the time.
I think it was 2022.
San Antonio, Texas had more road
rate road rage murders than like
the next 40 states in America.
It was like, OK, Texas needs this
preaching love Texas. But man, it
needs the preaching on the road rage.
They're just soon angry, man.
You gotta watch out.
That's why that sign when you drive
into Texas, it says drive friendly
the Texas way. It's just like telling
your kids, hey, get along with your
siblings because they're not getting
along with their siblings. So it's
just like, hey, watch out for the soon
The Bible says in verse 18, the simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
So the simple person, they're going to reap just stupidity, vanity, emptiness.
What's funny is I was memorizing this verse this week as I was just driving down the road.
And as I'm quoting this verse, I see this homeless person who's got like this stick
And I'm just like the simple inherit folly. It's just like it's before my eyes right now
I'm just seeing that the Bible is true. It was just poetic timing. It was great
The simple inherit folly. Why is this person shadow boxing the air?
Why are they you know using their stick as a sword against nobody? It's just like they lived a very foolish life. That's why
You don't just like wake up one day unless you're an epicaneser, okay, and just like all of a sudden you have the mind of an animal
No, it's just from years and years of just not doing what the Bible says
Doing drugs smoking pot doing LSD drinking alcohol being around fools not departing from fools
Just spending the time with fools and then you wake up and your shadow boxing on on Reno Boulevard
Man watch out for Reno Reno is is where you'll see some crazy stuff
And it says, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
The evil bow before the good and the wicked
at the gates of the righteous.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbor,
but the rich hath many friends.
Now, the book of Proverbs, sometimes not everything
that it's saying is saying like this is necessarily right.
It's just saying like this is how it is.
This is just the truth, the reality of the situation
that the poor is hated even of his own neighbor.
clear statements in the Bible that we're not supposed to despise the poor.
We're supposed to consider the cause of the poor, but the Bible is also telling
us the reality of the world that, hey, regardless of what's right, most people
are going to hate the poor.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbor, you know
If your neighbor is poor you could start to have a bad attitude towards them because you see them
And you think like what are they gonna ask from me? And let's just be honest when we live in, you know, okay
See first of all the homeless population here is not what the Bible is talking about when it's talking about the poor
The homeless population here are called the lazy. They're called the drug addict
They're called drunkards.
They're generally speaking not poor people
because poor people are those who are working hard,
but they still struggle to make ends meet.
That's the poor.
You know where the poor is? Guyana.
You know where the poor is? The Bahamas.
You know where the poor is? The Philippines.
The poor is not in Oklahoma City, folks.
The poor is not in Los Angeles, California, in San Francisco, California.
No, no, no.
The people here that are in that lifestyle are choosing so by their own actions.
But you could see even with those people, sometimes you just have a negative feeling
walking by them because you're just minding your own business, like, hey, oh man, can
you give me some money?
Can you give me some stuff?
And you kind of get annoyed by just seeing them, right?
At least I do because I walk by them every single day and it's like, you've asked me
every single day and I always say no and you still ask.
It's like I'll go out to do something and I'll come back like three minutes later and it's like their brain is so fried
They forgot that they just asked me three minutes ago. I'm just like, bro
You know, it's just kind of annoying, right?
But this is saying like hey, sometimes this could happen even to people who are just legitimately poor and you know
That's not right for us to just despise the poor
But here's just another fact of life the rich have many friends
Right or wrong if you're rich people often just leech on to you
be around you and so you know take that to heart if you're someone that is a man of means you have
money realize hey watch out for the flatterers watch out for the clingers on people that just
want to use you for your money because hey if you're rich you'll have many friends everyone
wants to hang out with the rich guy
Now, that's not necessarily how it should be.
That's just the reality.
Verse 21, he that despises his neighbor, Sineth.
So now the Bible is making a clear statement
like it's wrong to do that.
It's wrong to despise the poor.
But he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
You know, you're gonna be happiest in life
when you're thinking of other people,
when you're serving other people.
In all labor there's profit, but the talk of the lips
tend only to penury.
The crown of the wise is their riches,
but the foolishness of fools is folly.
A true witness delivereth souls,
but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
You know, that's what we strive to be
as a church is a soul winning church.
What does that mean?
We want to deliver souls from the fire of hell.
We do that how?
By speaking the truth.
by preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Then you've got people today that call themselves Jehovah's Witnesses,
but what are they? They're false witnesses.
How do you know that? Because they speak lies.
Because they teach that Jesus Christ is not God.
Because they teach that Jesus Christ did not even die on the cross.
They teach that heaven's not real, that only 144,000 people are going to be saved, which
is funny because it's just like, oh, and you just happened to be one, right?
You're one of those male virgins from one of the 12 tribes of Israel that just happens
to be saved.
Yeah, no, you don't understand the Bible, you're a false witness.
Verse 24 or 26 says in the fear of the Lord is strong confidence and his children shall
have a place of refuge again one of those kind of paradoxical verses where you're thinking
you know if I'm fearing God aren't I going to be in a constant state of like unrest and
uneasiness but no when you fear God you actually have strong confidence because you realize
that hey the most powerful being in this universe is God he's the only one that I got to worry
You don't got to worry about your job, you don't got to worry about people coming after
you, your family who doesn't like you, protesters, media, persecution, bad laws, bad governments.
At the end of the day, the person who has our destiny in his hands is God alone.
And so when you fear God, what do you have?
A strong confidence to know, hey, I've got the peace, I'm doing what's right, God's
on my side, and hey, if I lose in a situation or it seems like things don't go well for
me, at least I know I'm in God's will.
And then in the long run, I know things are going to go well.
And his children shall have a place of refuge.
Verse 27, it repeats a verse from chapter 14.
It says,
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life to depart from the snares of death.
Man, it really seems like the author of Proverbs wants us to fear God.
I mean, I'm just constantly seeing this in every chapter.
Just like, fear God, fear the Lord.
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, right?
Look down on this word fear and be like,
you know, God doesn't want you to be afraid of him.
God doesn't want us, you know, trembling at his chastisement.
Yes, he does.
Yes, God in fact does want you to fear him.
And guess what? By fearing him, it's a fountain of life.
your life is going to be so good
fearing God because you're going to
depart from the snares of death.
Let me tell you, people who have no fear of God
you know what they're constantly doing?
All the things that the Bible says are going to get you in trouble
and cause pain in your life
and cause, sometimes, literally death.
You know, if you fear God, if you're a Christian
and you fear God, you're going to think,
man, I'm never going to try drugs
because God's going to punish me.
It's like, not only do I have the natural cause and effect of doing drugs, but I have
to worry about God also stretching forth His hand against me.
You see people out there today that are drugged out out of their mind and they're shadowboxing
and they're doing all that crazy stuff and it's like, you don't want that to be you.
But you know what, if you just spit in the face of God and don't fear Him and you walk
in perverseness and you are just despising God in that way, He can come down on you really
And you know what you've fallen into? You've fallen into the snares of death.
Fearing God will help you depart from that.
The Bible says in verse 28,
in the multitude of people is the king's honor.
but in the want of people is the destruction of the Prince.
So of course, you know, leaders are going to be honored
when they have lots of followers.
And when I read this verse, the first thing I thought about
is how Jesus Christ is the true God
and he's the best leader bar none.
Why?
Because he's got the most people following him.
He's got billions and billions of people
and you know, unthinkable numbers in heaven.
that are following the Lord Jesus Christ and you know what, he gets the honor for that.
You know, not very many people are following Buddha in comparison to the King, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible says in verse 29, he that is slow to wrath is of great understanding,
but he that is hasty of spirit exalted
So, again, anger, wrath, not necessarily sinful, but it's important to be slow to wrath.
When I think slow to wrath, I think, remember the story where Jesus Christ, he saw the people
buying and selling in the house of God, in the temple, and he's angry, saying, like,
why are you turning my father's house into a house of merchandise?
And the Bible says that he sat down and he fashioned a whip, meaning he sat there and
and he premeditatedly assaulted these people.
You know, this wasn't like a heat of the moment,
a fit of rage, he's just like sat down
and I was like, all right,
I'm going to whip the crap out of these people.
So I'm gonna make a weapon, you know,
but he's not hasty to anger.
He's being slow to wrath here.
He's, I mean, how much time does it take to make a whip?
That's gotta take hours, right?
So he's sitting there, he's just pissed for hours.
And then he walks in, he starts whipping juice.
That's the Jesus of the Bible.
Oh, Jesus would never, you know, I saw someone comment this day, you know, anyone who is
for violence in any situation is not Christ-like.
Now if you take the Bible definition of violence, which means like violating people, people
who are unjust of whatever you're dishing out, I would agree with that, but most people
in our modern vernacular, they think violence is like two dudes boxing in a ring.
That's not violence. Mutually agreed combat is not violence.
But it's like, okay, anyone who uses any physical force is being un-Christ-like.
Was Christ un-Christ-like?
Because he literally made a weapon and started whipping human beings.
That has to hurt, folks.
I mean, has anyone seen the pictures from the late 1860s of people who lived through slavery
and you just like see the scars on their back? It's horrific. It's horrific, right?
And then Jesus is in the temple whipping people for what? What did they do? Did they kill someone?
They were buying and selling merchandise. Sounds like that's a pretty big sin in the eyes of God
where Jesus is willing to whip people for it.
Verse 30, it says this,
a sound heart is the life of the flesh,
but envy the rottenness of the bones.
You know, I love it when the Bible gives us
a carnal truth to illustrate a spiritual truth.
Your heart is the life of the flesh.
If your heart has issues, you've got big issues, right?
And you know, by the way, a carnal tip,
take care of your heart's health.
Don't stop working out.
Yes, model the exercise profiteth little.
but it still profits, okay, so we don't want to be like the old IFV where we glorify obesity and
glorify obese preachers. No, a sound heart is the life of the flesh. Get your cardio in,
all right? Work out, we need that. But then it gives us the spiritual application, but envy
the rottenness of the bones. Could you imagine having bone cancer?
Where your bones are rotting. It's just gonna destroy your life. I mean, there's nothing else you're gonna be able to focus on
There's nothing else you're gonna do. You're just gonna be focusing on the fact that your bones are rotting
Well, it's like this is what an envious person does is that their whole life becomes obsessed with other people
And you see it destroy their lives, you know, sometimes preachers even will be envious of another preacher
Usually pastor Anderson and it'll just consume their mind and you'll see them literally destroy their ministry
destroy their life. Just like someone who has bone cancer, you see their life just
deteriorate and destroy and they die. It's like a lot of people die in their
Christian walk because of envy, but it's such a carnal mindset because at the
end of the day, who are we here serving? Jesus! It's not about us. It's not about
me. It's not about Anchor Baptist Church. It's about the work of God. And it's like
we should see our fellow Christians as being on the same team.
We should see fellow pastors as being on the same team.
It's like, we're not like, oh man,
we got a thousand salvation,
so we're better than everyone else.
No, no, no, anyone else getting people saved?
Praise God.
We're on their side.
And guess what?
There's lots of churches getting way more people saved
than us.
Praise God for those people.
There's lots of pastors preaching way better sermons than me.
Praise God for those pastors.
We ought not to just be envious of our brothers and sisters in Christ and take this to heart
for yourself.
Don't sit here and compare yourself among other people.
The Bible says that anyone who does that is not wise.
Why?
Because you're just destroying yourself.
The Bible says in verse 31 he that oppresses the poor reproacheth his maker
But he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor the wicked is driven away in his wickedness
But the righteous hath hope in his death
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding
But that which is in the midst of fools is made known
Verse 34, righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
This is a very fitting verse for this week as we're celebrating the 4th of July coming up this Friday.
What does the Bible say it takes for a nation to be blessed, to be exalted?
It's not the strongest military in the world.
It's not having all Republicans in office.
It's not getting your pet law passed.
It's righteousness.
righteousness, exalteth a nation.
And look, I'm not saying we necessarily need
to neglect all that other stuff.
Some people have this weird view
that Christians should be so separated from society
that we shouldn't have any Christian judges
or Christian cops or Christian lawmakers.
To me, that's just such a stupid idea.
It's like, yeah, I'm a Christian.
I believe the Bible's the best system,
but no Christians can be in government or making laws.
It's like...
What are you talking about?
Like that is a crazy idea.
But at the end of the day,
we're not focused on those things.
We realize those things are not the most important things.
The most important thing is us being righteous.
And, you know, I come from a family where military service was the norm.
I've got grandpas on both sides or World War II veterans.
I've got, you know, Iraqi veterans.
Both of my brothers are active duty right now.
And so, like, I kind of grew up around this culture, it's like, serve your country, serve
your country.
And I'm not necessarily against people who have done those things.
But at the end of the day, the most important way to serve your country is by being a fundamental
And I'm telling you right now, you want to serve your country, okay, righteousness, exalted
the nation.
Why don't you go get someone saved today, then you're serving your country.
Hey, why don't you go to a fire-breathing Baptist church, that's serving America, that's
helping our city, that's helping Oklahoma, and here's the thing, hey, oh, you want to
serve your country so much?
Why don't you get the sin out of your life?
You know, instead of sitting here and always just complaining about how things are getting
so bad, yeah, but you're bad.
Oh, you know this world's getting so bad. Yeah, but you're lazy. Yeah, but you're a gossip. Yeah, but you're a backbiter
It's like why don't you start cleaning up yourself?
Righteousness exalted the nation and you want to know why America has been great and I still believe this is the greatest country on earth
And I thank God that I live in this country
I thank God that we have the freedoms that we do but let me tell you why we have those freedoms is because of the Bible and
Because of Christianity here and hey, this is the Bible belt. Why is Oklahoma so great because it's so Christian?
It's not Christian. We have the King James Bible in public schools folks and you know
Some Christians need to stop being so black-pilled or they can't ever get happy or enjoy anything in life
It's like I saw when Oklahoma passed this bill saying that the King James Bible is gonna be in public schools
And then people are like Oklahoma is gonna be the reprobate producing factory of America because all the teachers are gonna be false
Prophets and they're gonna be preaching a false gospel. It's like you're such a railer
And you're so black-pilled.
It's like righteousness exalted the nation.
Yeah, we got the Bible.
Can we be happy that the King James Bible is in schools?
Hey, can we be happy that we just had Pride Month?
And I only saw one business have a Pride Flag
in this entire state.
And it was like some arts and crafts store.
It's like, what do you expect from the arts and crafts store in Yukon?
I saw nothing else, not in a Starbucks, not in, you know, the summer moon coffee shop.
Nowhere else did I see it.
You know, I did see one more, Methodist Church.
Okay, so the worshipers of Satan, the Methodist Church, and the worshipers of Satan at the
arts and crafts store.
That's it.
I didn't hear about it. I didn't see any flags. I didn't see any parades. I didn't see any emails
I didn't see any campaigns. I didn't sign anything. I didn't have it was just great
It was just like normal again
Hasn't been that way in a long time and hey, can we just like celebrate some victories? You're like, all right
We're going the right direction. I'm not saying that we're in the millennial rain
I'm not saying we should strive for that because that's impossible
And here's the truth. Here's why people get black-pilled because in the long run
It is hopeless in the long run to fix this world.
You know why? Because of sin. That's why.
So in the long run, it's hopeless.
But here's the thing. People are always like,
well, you know, Christ can come at any moment.
But first of all, that's not true.
There's things that have to happen first.
But why do you just assume in your mind that we're always in the end times?
Here's the thing. We could be in the end times.
That's possibility.
It's a possibility that Christ can come in the next 10 years.
It's a possibility that He won't come for hundreds and hundreds of more years.
You know, it's a possibility he won't come for thousands and thousands of more years.
You don't know, and I don't know.
No man know what the day or the hour, there's signs to look for, but it's like, hey, we
could live a full life here, and our children could live a full life here, and their children
could live a full life here.
So why would we not strive for things to get better?
Why would we not keep preaching what the Bible says?
Why would we not encourage the state of Oklahoma when they introduce legislation that says,
hey, we're going to ban pride celebrations at the state level?
But you got a bunch of people that are holier than now and blackpilled and it's like look I don't want that attitude here
Righteousness exalted a nation, you know 4th of July. You know what? I'm gonna be thinking about I'm gonna be thinking about
Thank God that I live in a country that was built on the King James Bible
And I am going to spend my life fighting to keep it that way
And hey if we descend in the end times and the great whore Babylon starts killing us
Well, you know what my allegiance is always to Jesus Christ
end of story and you're never gonna find me having a contradiction between America and the Lord Jesus Christ
No, no, the Bible is always right. We're always on Jesus's side
But it's like every once in a while when a government says like hey, let's ban pride. I'm just gonna be like
I'm for that. I'm happy and like there's something wrong with you
If you could just never be happy about anything and it's like something happens
And you just always have to see the worst in every situation
And it's like you know if a Jew in President Trump's cabinet proposes to cut taxes
You're like well now I love taxes
If a Jew eats vanilla ice cream, you're like well now vanilla ice cream is bad
bro
It's okay, chill a little bit, you know, let's celebrate the wins, let's be on the Bible side and if the world or our government happens to be on the Bible side on something, let's celebrate that.
Let's be excited about that.
Verse 35, the Bible says the king's favor is toward a wise servant, but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
We can close on this thought that, you know, who's our king, the Lord Jesus Christ, and all of us, hopefully, want the Lord's favor towards you.
I want God's favor towards me. It says, hey, the king's favor is toward a wise servant.
The Bible's talked a lot about in this chapter. What is a wise person? Well, the Bible says that a wise person fears God.
The wise person goes from the presence of a foolish man.
The wise person, the prudent person, looketh well to his way.
He doesn't just believe everything he hears.
So there's lots of things that we could do to be that wise servant.
That's why it's so important to study Proverbs,
is because if you are that wise servant,
what do you get?
The favor of God.
The favor of Jesus Christ.
But flipped over, but his wrath is against him that caused it shame.
There are a lot of Christians in this world who are saved, but they are causing shame to the name of Jesus Christ.
You know what? Though God's wrath against you is not that of hell, because you can never go to hell once you're saved.
You know, God can still come down on Christians very hard in this life, and I don't know about you.
I don't want to just be saved. I want to be saved and live a blessed life.
I want to be saved and have things go well for me and kind of enjoy my time while I'm on this earth and then enjoy eternity too.
Foolish servant where it's like they get saved and it's just spakings and wrath and anger and things going wrong
And then they get to go to heaven, you know, why not strive to have it good at both times?
Serve the Lord depart from evil fear God and you'll get that
Favor from Jesus Christ. Let's pray Lord. Thank you for this chapter
Thank you for the blessings that you've given to us, especially in the King James Bible,
in church, in the ability to worship you, and to preach the word of God in freedom.
I do thank you, Lord, for our country and for all the blessings that we have here.
I pray that we would fight every day to preach the word of God and to have righteousness exalt
this nation.
Jesus, may we pray.
This evening will be number 30, nothing but the blood.
Him number 30, 30, nothing but the blood.
Hymn number 30, we'll sing their starting on the first.
What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.