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find a seat and grab a hymnal. Our first hymn this evening number 244, Amazing Grace. 244,
244, Amazing Grace. Sing it out nice and loud.
244, they're on the first.
will open with a word of prayer. If you'll bow your heads with me. Heavenly Father, we thank you for
opportunity to gather together freely. Lord I just pray as always that it's not something that we
would take for granted that we do genuinely appreciate the opportunity that we have to gather
together. I pray that this service would be decently held and in order that everything would be to
your honor and glory. I also pray that you just fill pastor with your spirit this evening and open
our ears to the message. These things we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. All right our next hymn number
The Old Rugged Cross,
hymn number 2727, The Old Rugged Cross.
27, we'll sing there starting right on the first.
is our Bible memory verse of the week and remember those kids that are under 18
can quote those to an adult non-family member and get an ice cream after
service. If you'll open up on the left hand side there we've got our service
times listed Sunday morning at 10 30 Sunday evening at 4 30 and our Wednesday
study of course at 7 o'clock tonight. We do have all of our soul winning times
listed below as well.
and just make note that one highlighted in gold that's our Saturday rally
where we have a song we sing together and a quick soul winning sermon
and then go out and preach the gospel we do have I forgot to update this on
sunday so the numbers that you see for our year-to-date statistics
if they were maybe these were printed a little earlier actually
so the numbers let me go ahead and grab
So on Sunday I did not have these in, but I did get numbers from Theodore and Eric, who are in the Philippines of course.
And let me find their numbers here.
All right, so the Filipino the soul winners that are in the Philippines are up to
989 salvations for the year and so that brings our church total so far to
1359 so we're praising the Lord for that great work to those guys that are out there
We do have below that our upcoming events July 27th is the next men's preaching night followed by a potluck and game night
Just hanging out having fun
August 2nd, we're doing a Solaning Marathon in Anadarko, Oklahoma, which is about exactly an hour away from here
So hope you guys could join us for that
Of course, the big one, Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship at Steadfast Baptist Church, August 27th through the 31st.
It's looking like it's going to be an amazing conference. I cannot wait for it.
I hope you guys get to make it out or at least tune into the preaching for that conference.
And then very shortly after October 6th through the 11th is the Bahamas Mission Trip.
On the right, we've got information about visitor card there and online giving as well as our prayer list and if you have any updates, please do email the church.
But 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 the opportunity to come before you in prayer that you would hearken to us, Lord.
I pray that you'd answer these requests according to your will.
Pray that you bless our brother Travis at his new job and his new career really that you just give him favor
Give him skill and his new trade help him to learn and absorb as much of the trade as possible
And that you just allow him to prosper in his new trade lord
And I pray also for brother Eric and brother Theodore in the Philippines that you help keep them safe
That they would just continue to work hard and take advantage of the great opportunity that they have
to be in a very receptive area over there.
I pray that you just give free course to the gospel
for those soul winners, as well as Brother James
and Evangelist or Banach, Pastor Stuckey,
so all the great Christians that are over there.
I pray that you bless them and prosper the works
that they're doing.
I pray that you would bless the Hall family in their home buying process that
these latter portions of the process would go as smooth as possible for them
Lord and that they would just be blessed in this new home. I also pray that you'd
bless the Halsberg family for the Miles's health.
and Mrs. Reed and Brother Coagis family members who are unsaved.
I pray that you would just help those people to have soft hearts to the gospel.
And of course, Lord, we want to pray for the work here in Oklahoma City of Anchor Baptist Church.
I pray that you would just give us favor, that you would enlarge our coasts, Lord,
that you would send us more soul winners for the harvest here in Oklahoma City.
And I just pray that Oklahoma would continue to be a receptive place.
And we love you and Jesus' name you pray. Amen.
in your white handouts for our next Psalm, Psalm 150.
Psalm 150, 150 in your white handouts
for the next song this evening.
Psalm 150.
Psalm 150, we'll sing there right on the first and only verse.
Praise be the Lord. Praise God in His sentiary. Praise Him in love.
Permanent love His power. Praise Him for His mighty eyes. Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.
Benz promise, Benz
plates are being passed. Turn, if you would, to Proverbs chapter 16. Proverbs chapter number 16.
Good evening, Proverbs 16.
the Bible reads, the preparations of the heart and man, and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
All the ways of a man are pure and clean in his own eyes, but the Lord wayeth the spirits.
Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.
The Lord hath made all things for himself, yea, even the wicked, for the day of evil.
Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord.
though hand joined in hand, he shall not be unpunished. By mercy and truth,
iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil. When a man's ways please
the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to eat at peace with him, better is a little with righteousness
A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directed his steps.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king, his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
A just weight and balance are the Lord's.
All the weights of the bag are his work.
It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness, for the throne is established by righteousness.
Righteous lips are the delight of kings and they love him that speaketh right
the wrath of a king is
As messengers of death, but a wise man will pacify it
The light of the king's countenance is life and his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold and to get understanding rather than to be chosen than silver?
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil.
He that keepeth his way, preserveeth his soul.
Pride goeth before destruction,
and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with a lowly
than to divide the spoil with the proud.
He that handleeth a matter wisely shall find good.
And whoso trustseth in the Lord, happy is he.
The wise in heart shall be called prudent and the sweetness of the lips increase if learning
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that doeth unto him to have it but the instruction of fools is folly
The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth and addeth learning to his lips, pleasant words
are as in honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
He that laboreth, laboreth for himself, for his mouth craveth it of him.
A froward man saweth strife and a whisperer separated his chief friends.
A violent man enticed his neighbor and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things, moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
The hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Then he that takeeth a city, the lot is cast unto the lap, but the whole, disposing thereof, is of the Lord.
Let's bow our heads forward to prayer, Father, and have we thank you for this day and for our pastor.
We just have to see if he'll help us with the service, and if he'll pass us over to the Holy Spirit, and if he'll send a prayer to the man.
Amen. Proverbs 16 verse one, the Bible says, the preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Now, this is one of those chapters in the Word of God
that you definitely want to be paying close attention
to context of this whole book
that we've been going through so far
and just the Bible in whole,
because if you kind of take some of these statements alone
without context of the rest of the Bible's teaching,
you can kind of start running into
some Calvinist leaning views.
But you know, this verse is not saying that,
you know, everything that's going on
inside of every single person's heart
coming off of every tongue in the world is somehow of God.
It says the preparations of the heart and man and the answer of the tongue is from the
Lord.
You know, there's a couple ways you could look at this.
One way you could look at it is that.
The fact that we as human beings can think and make plans and have
conscious ideas and speak, that is from God.
Obviously we're created by God with that ability.
But really what's the context of this whole book, especially the last like four or
five chapters, it's really drawing a contrast between the righteous,
those that fear God, those that seek after wisdom and knowledge and the wicked,
those that forsake knowledge and are foolish and are not prudent.
What this is really talking about is that if you are that person that fears the Lord,
that's seeking good, that's seeking after knowledge and wisdom, then this blessing would apply to you
that the preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
What does that mean? It could mean that, you know, you in your life, you're seeking God,
you're praying, you're asking God to help you as you're making decisions, as you're walking through
making all these decisions on your own,
but God can kind of bless you
and supernaturally guide you to the right doors in life
and keep you away from certain pitfalls in life
by being someone that fears the Lord.
And so that's a great promise and a great blessing
that we as God's people can have,
but you gotta be that person that fears God.
You gotta be the one that's praying
and asking him to guide you and to direct you.
And then you usually wake up
after your decisions are made,
of a big event and you realize, hey, God led me.
You know, Jesus Christ led me all the way.
And that is a great, great truth there.
Verse two, the Bible says, all the ways of a man
are clean in his own eyes, but the Lord wayeth the spirits.
So man, you know, sinful man thinks
that everything they do is right.
We think all of our ideas are right.
You know, people today talk about this moral relativity.
where there's no some sort of objective truth.
And for me, one of the things that appealed to me
shortly after getting saved and even before getting saved
was just this idea of just truth.
Not based on my opinion or my feelings or my experiences,
but that there's just truth out there
that doesn't care about your feelings.
And you know, all the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes,
but the Lord wayeth the spirits.
It's God who is the judge.
And people love to parrot that today.
Oh, God's the judge.
Yeah, and that's kind of scary if you've actually read the Bible and people today would be like, you can't judge anything.
You can't say anything in a definitive sense.
Oh, you can't know for sure you're going to heaven.
Yes, I can.
You want to know why?
Because of the judgments of God.
Because of God's Word.
Yeah, because I'm not sitting here just trying to see what's clean in my own eyes.
I'm looking at what the Bible says and then once the Bible's made a decision, I'm saying, I'm sticking with that.
That's the rock solid truth.
That is God's Word.
Verse number three says this commit by works unto the Lord and thy thoughts
Shall be established now. This is a great verse
It is a really really powerful verse because of the fact that our thought life as Christians
Let's just be honest. It's probably one of the hardest things to control
You know people talk about today intrusive thoughts and just struggling in your mind with certain
ideas or people maybe kind of get back slid in where in their mind and in their heart they're
not really on fire for the things of God like they once were. You know maybe they used to be
actually excited to show up to soul winning and now it doesn't seem as fun anymore reading their
Bible gets stale going to church gets stale and it's like how do you fix that?
Well, here's the thing, you don't wait for this pixie dust from heaven called motivation.
You know, it's like that word that I hate, motivation.
You don't wait for motivation to sprinkle down from heaven to just change your heart.
Here's what you do.
You do the right actions and the right attitude follows.
And this is just true in every area of your life.
You know, really think about our jobs.
A lot of people, they're down on their jobs,
they complain about their jobs, they don't have fun at work.
But really work is kind of what you make it.
You could make work kind of like a little game with yourself
of how hard you're gonna push yourself,
how good to the customer you're gonna be,
how, you know, outwork your coworkers, outwork your boss,
you know, you can come up with these little games
inside of your mind that can kind of make work better
when you actually commit your works to something,
your thoughts can be established.
And so when people get backslidden.
When people the fire kind of dampens down in their life for the things of God, what is the solution for that person?
It's why don't you just go to church?
Anyways, even without the fire. Why don't you just go soul-winning anyways, even without the zeal?
Why don't you just rip open the Bible and put your eyes on those words?
Even if you're not super excited to do it then, because if you do that long enough, then the desire comes back.
You know this would be a good idea for your marriage too because contrary to what Hollywood
has told you where we grew up watching these stupid movies where marriage is just like
this super high roller coaster that always stays up there you know that infatuation
phase of a relationship is what Hollywood and songs really focus on but you know that
infatuation phase isn't everyday life.
Your marriage is going to go through ups and downs and there may even be a time in your marriage
where you're not really feeling that on fire for your spouse and you know I think it's important
for me to tell that to you so that you don't think you're in some sort of end of the world situation
if you ever feel that way because I think a lot of people they'll just like act like that'll never
happen to them a lot of passers will kind of act like there's never any issues in their marriage
whatsoever so then people in the pew they have a rough spot and they're thinking oh crap I'm about
Oh, crap. My wife's about to leave me because we're going through a rough patch and I'm here to tell you, no, you're going to go through times or maybe things aren't as hot as they were before, but here's the result.
Here's the solution, rather, is commit your works to the Lord. Do the right works.
of serving God and do the right works of being a good spouse,
which these things are connected anyways.
And then you know what you're gonna find
is you're gonna find that your thoughts are established
and that your relationship can improve.
And don't just think like,
just because you may be at a low point of your marriage
and maybe you're not feeling the feelings
that you once felt,
don't think that that's like a forever curse
and that you can't climb out of that
because you can, you absolutely can.
And you know, one other thing I wanted to say
with this verse is,
You know, I've talked to people in the ministry that have told me that they struggle with like suicide, like suicidal thoughts and just not being able to control these intrusive thoughts in their mind and oftentimes it comes from this guilt of things that they've done in their past.
And what happens is people have that guilt and they kind of
sulk in the mire of themselves and they're really focused on
themselves and their problems and their issues and they're not
really focusing on doing the right works I've noticed and so
they kind of just sit in that self despair and their thoughts
get super far off track and you know if you're ever feeling
that way I'm not saying like oh you're bad you're dumb like
that that could be a normal emotion that people go through
but I'm telling you what's the solution to that you might not
feel it right away but the solution is to change your
especially to start focusing on other people.
You wanna take the misery off of yourself and your own life.
It's when you start investing in and helping and praying for
and preaching the gospel to other people.
You know, that takes the focus off of you
and you'll start to feel like,
man, I have a purpose in life.
And let me tell you, if you are a Christian,
you have a purpose in life
because we've been called to preach the gospel.
and it's not like there's a sin threshold of who is and is not allowed to preach the gospel.
It's not like, oh, in my past I committed fortification or adultery, so I'm banned.
No, no, no, if you're saved, you could preach the gospel.
Because what are you doing when you go out and preach in the gospel?
Are you saying, oh, repent of your sins?
No, because people would say, oh, I'm living a bad life,
so I don't want to go preach the gospel because I'm being a hypocrite.
How are you being a hypocrite unless you're telling them it's work salvation?
I mean, if you are just a low-down, super backslidden, in the gutter, you know,
lot situation, bad Christian, whatever, you could still preach the gospel because
you're telling them it's a free gift that has nothing to do with your lifestyle
and your, you know, works. It's just the faith of Jesus Christ. So you do have a
purpose.
The Bible says you know the wicked have a purpose to look at verse four the Lord have made all things for himself
Yay, even the wicked for the day of evil again
You got to think about the context of this whole book and of the Bible
This is not saying that God created people to be wicked
This isn't saying like God just made Jeffrey Dahmer before he was even born to be predestined to be some sort of wicked sodomite, some sort of sick person.
No, he's just saying that the wicked exist and God has a purpose for them.
God could often use the wicked to judge other wicked people, you know
You got wars that are happening all over this world between two wicked countries and it's like well
Who's right between Israel and Iran? They both suck
They're both terrible nations. They both believe in sick satanic religions that are sending all their adherents to hell
And you know sometimes God just uses one set of wicked people to judge another
You know the devil serves a purpose even in this world
Because, you know what, people have the choice to love truth and you know what, if you don't
receive the love of the truth that you might be saved, well, God just says, let you be
damned then.
And in 2 Thessalonians 2, talking about end times events, you know, there's this great
delusion that's poured out on the earth and wicked people are going to be used in that
delusion.
But guess what?
It serves a purpose.
and by the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil.
You know, there's a lot of people today,
we've heard a lot of it recently,
of people just discounting the fear of God
and acting like it's not an important thing.
And instead of preaching hard against any sin
or telling us to fear God,
they just give us these like really vague platitudes
of just walk in wisdom.
Hey, I'm for that which is right and I'm against that which is wrong. You guys know to do right, right?
You're wise, right? No Bible tells us we need to fear the Lord and how do we fear God?
Hey, we preach what his word actually says. We show people the God of the Bible.
We show the God of the Bible that is even killing people in the New Testament.
You know, you got Ananias and Sapphira that lie to the Holy Ghost and God kills them in the New Testament.
You know, God is one to be feared.
And yes, we have grace, yes, we have mercy.
And it's all of these things, it's not just one,
because look what it says.
It says by mercy and truth, iniquity is purged.
And by the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil.
See, it's all of these characteristics of God
that cause us, that leads us to repentance,
that leads us to purge from iniquity.
You know, usually when you first got saved,
what was it that really drove you to getting saved?
It's usually the fear of God.
And you know, if you're living a really wicked life and you're hearing hard preaching about things like alcohol, drugs, fornication, often it's that fear of God that causes you to change.
But hopefully, you know, the goal is that after you're just really on the fear of God, hopefully you can move to more the mercy of God motivating you to do right.
The love of God motivating you to do right.
There's nothing wrong with either of these things.
It's just that at different points in your Christian life, you're going to need different things.
Verse number seven, the Bible says,
when a man's ways please the Lord,
he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Again, this is a general statement.
This is not saying that every single person
who's right with God is just gonna have peace
and no enemies whatsoever,
because you know, you look at guys like David.
Did David's ways please the Lord?
Yes.
Yet, did he have enemies?
Yeah, Saul's constantly trying to kill him.
And he's got all, you know,
the Philistines coming after him as well.
But, you know, God can choose,
and it's real nice when he does this,
when a man's ways please the Lord.
You are fearing God.
You are purging yourself of iniquity and walking in truth.
You know, God can make even your enemies
to be at peace with you.
And sometimes those enemies aren't necessarily as severe as like a Saul situation or as a enemy military situation.
Sometimes it could be co-workers, sometimes it could even be family members, sometimes it could be neighbors.
And look, I always say you should strive for peace as much as possible in every area of your life.
You know we want to contend and fight for the things that God tells us to fight for and when I'm behind the pulpit
It's time to fight, but I'm not really just trying to get into arguments with people
in my personal life.
I'm not trying to like stoke more enemies in my personal life.
You know, I talked to an old boomer this week who is saved and he was right on the post
trip.
He was right on salvation.
He was right rejecting infant baptism and he was kind of making fun of the Catholics
for doing that.
But he was telling me how much God, you know, the Jews are God's chosen people.
And, you know, I just was kind of like, this is a person that, you know, I'm close with and I just kind of like let the conversation go.
I was focusing more on what we agreed on. I'm not trying to cause strife with this person that I see all the time.
You know what I mean? I don't want my to have my peace taken.
Verse number eight, the Bible says this,
better is a little with righteousness
than great revenues without right.
Of course, we talked a lot about that on Sunday
with the rich man and Lazarus.
Verse nine, it says, a man's heart devises his way,
but the Lord directed his steps.
Again, in the context of someone who fears God,
someone who's seeking after him,
we could have this great blessing of,
hey, we're devising our way.
We're thinking,
I'm gonna move here, I'm gonna pick this career,
I'm gonna get married to this person,
I'm gonna follow this path in life.
But we also are praying for God to guide us along the way.
We're seeking to his word and seeing what is it
that he wants us to do.
That's guiding our decisions along the way.
And so in an effect, God is guiding our steps.
You know, the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,
the Bible says.
Notice verse number 10,
a divine sentence is in the lips of the king.
his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
So again, if you were just an idiot Calvinist,
you'd have to read this and just say like,
wow, no king or leader has just ever
transgressed in judgment, right?
Oh man, a divine sentence is always
in the lips of the king.
Is that the reality of this world?
Do we just see our leaders always making great decisions
like President Trump covering up the Epstein files,
like the whole government just deciding
they're gonna cover up.
this sex trafficking pedophilia network of reprobates that are high up in government,
high up in finance, in Hollywood, in the news media. Yeah, sorry, not all of the kings of this
world are righteous. In fact, most of them are wicked as hell. We fight, we wrestle against
the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
And the one thing that's kind of positive about all this that's going on with Epstein and Epstein files
is that I'm seeing like all of Trump's supporters like rebuke him
and just lambast him and say like we're not standing for this, we're not getting on board with this,
we're not drinking the Kool-Aid, and at least it goes to show that the average person in America
knows that there's a bunch of sick, disgusting, sodomite pedophiles that are running our government.
And you know what? The whole thing might just come crashing down if they were all released,
because who knows how many people are implicated in this thing.
It's like you got Gislaine Maxwell, who's in federal prison for what?
Human trafficking. And Attorney General Pam Boddy says, yeah, there's 250 plus victims
for Gislaine Maxwell's human trafficking. Just kidding, there's no lists. Just kidding,
there's no human trafficking. So there was 250 victims, now there's none.
So who are the clients of the 250 victims Pam Bondi? Yeah, there's a lot of wickedness happening right now
But at least the average Joe it seems like and especially the average Christian at least are preaching over the last decade
Plus has really been waking people up to issues like the sodomites and how they are a bunch of pedophiles
And how our leaders are super wicked and how the Jews are running things
Man, it's like it's almost like the Jews are just trying to people make people anti-Semitic
It's almost like it's their goal is to just try to get people to hate them.
It's crazy today.
But you know what it should be like what it should be is that a divine sentence is in the lips of the king
You know, it'd be nice as if rulers and leaders and people in authority
Actually, we're speaking for it the words of God and exalting the King James Bible and saying hey Leviticus 2013
Let's bring the wheel over these sodomites and put them to death like the Bible says
Yeah, let's bring out the list and then let's bring out the shotguns after that. That's what it should be happening
instead of covering it up, and you know what, it's just harboring wickedness,
covering up sins so evil, like child trafficking, it's going to bring the wrath of God on our nation.
And you know the least we could do is yell and scream about it and say that we're not happy about it
and say please release it because harboring that stuff is just going to destroy us.
Notice his mouth transgressive, not in judgment.
You know, that's what a king should be.
He should be just, he should be righteous.
He should be ruling in the fear of the Lord,
exalting God's word.
And you know, a lot of times kings let us down.
But you know, thank the Lord, the king,
the Lord Jesus Christ,
he never transgresses in judgment.
There's always a divine sentence in his lips.
And you know, that's why I love the King James Bible.
because this doesn't transgress in judgment like the modern perversions of the Bible do,
where they remove from God's word, where they twist doctrines to make Jesus Christ a liar,
for example, in the book of John, when Jesus says in the King James Bible,
hey, I'm not going up yet to this feast. And then you read a couple chapters later,
he goes up to the feast, whereas like the new international version just says like,
making him a liar.
And of course, there's way worse examples than that.
But you know what?
There's no transgression and judgment
in the King James Bible.
Verse 11, adjust weight and balance are the lords.
All the weights of the bag are his work.
So God would like to have a just financial system
without all the usury going on,
the jeusery that's going on,
the financial manipulation that happens
from the Jewish cartel known as banks
where they just attack and destroy the poor
and the middle class through this thing called usury.
And you know, I bought a house a year ago in one month.
In one month, it'll have been a year ago, and it's crazy.
I'm just paying this monthly mortgage payment.
I'm paying all this money, and you
want to know how much of my principal
I paid in 12 months?
$1,000.
Thank you, Jews.
You know, you got a bunch of Jews today
that are making billions and billions of dollars
by stealing from people.
And you know, it's just these mortgage companies, these financial companies are so wicked and
evil.
Why is it that I've had a mortgage for 12 months and it's been bought and sold four times?
Every three months I get a letter.
Your loan has been sold to another Jewish company.
What are they doing?
They're just like shifting numbers around in their computers and just making money off
of fees and interest and charges.
They're not even producing anything for society.
You got people that are software developers, that are building, you know, websites and all these great things that are actually of use and of value.
What do these wicked Jews bring to our country? Nothing.
Oh, they bring pornography is what they bring.
Oh, they bring wicked Hollywood movies telling young women to divorce their husband.
Oh, they bring usury that just absolutely rakes the American average person over the coals.
That's what they bring to our country.
Starting to understand maybe why they got banned from 109 countries.
You know, maybe they're not all crazy.
Maybe they actually are predatory and wicked.
And look, I'm not talking about a race right now.
I'm not talking about someone who's born in Israel.
I'm talking about people who are of the religion
that hates and despise Jesus Christ.
The one that the Bible says is anti-Christ.
The one that the Bible says is of the synagogue of Satan.
That's who I'm talking about.
I'm not anti-Semitic.
You know, I've got a good friend whose name is Ben Naim,
and he's from the Middle East.
Okay, I'm not against Semitic people.
Good night.
The Bible says in verse number 12,
it is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness,
for the throne is established by righteousness.
See, everything that the Trump administration is doing right now is just an abomination.
And I'm glad that at least it seems like the American people are just feeling like it's all an abomination
and they're rejecting it and they're hating it and they're not going to stand for it anymore
because the throne is established by righteousness.
You know, someone who's in a position of power,
you know, you may have gotten that position through different means.
It could have been given legitimately through voting.
It could have been bestowed upon you by someone else.
You could have usurped authority
and gotten yourself in there.
But here's the thing, being in a position of authority,
being in a position of power,
is not the same thing as being established.
in that position, and it's like if you're in a position of authority,
whether that's in your home, work, church, the government,
how is it that you establish your reign, if you will, your rule, if you will?
Well, it's by righteousness. It's by doing right.
You want to know how you actually build credibility in people's eyes?
It's by consistently doing right over a long period of time.
This is how you build credibility in any area of your life.
You consistently do well, consistently do good work,
consistently do honest, moral, upright things.
for a long time, that's how you build credibility.
You know how you destroy credibility?
It's saying that you're running for president
to expose Epstein and to expose all the pedophiles.
And then the second you actually can do so,
you cover it up, you lose all your credibility.
And it's like there's so many people that were thinking like,
man, maybe he's actually for real.
Maybe he's actually gonna be trying to do some stuff.
You know, because there has been some good that he's done.
And he's like, he got shot in the ear, bro.
I mean, maybe these people are coming after him.
But then it's like, oh, you're gonna cover up for Epstein.
Okay, so you're not gonna see his presidency established and you know apply this to yourself as a leader as well
The Bible says in verse 13 righteous lips are the delight of kings and they love him that speaketh right.
So you know if you've got a righteous leader, he's going to be pleased by righteousness, by righteous lips, by pleasant words, by truth.
And you know if you find yourself surrounded by a leader where you speak righteous things, you say the truth and they despise you for that or they punish you for that, you know that's a red flag.
You know, it's a red flag if you're around a pastor where you're just like on eggshells about quoting the Bible
or about reading certain passages of the Bible.
This is a lot how the Old I F.B. is like, where it's like, you can't talk about Matthew 24 and the Old I F.B.
You can't talk about Romans 1, you can't speak righteousness around them.
Why? Because they're not righteous themselves.
Because they don't love the whole Word of God themselves.
but a wise man will pacify it.
So look, if you've got the king mad at you
or apply this to any ruler or person of authority
that you have over you,
if someone is over you and they're mad at you,
you're in trouble.
You're in a bad situation.
And it's saying, hey, if you're actually wise,
you know what you'll do?
You're not gonna buck up to the leader.
You're not gonna back talk to the leader.
You're not gonna make things worse.
You know what a wise person would do
is you're gonna pacify it.
Now, we live in a weird culture
where it's like the boss gets mad at an employee or doesn't even get mad.
But just like in the slightest way reprimand something that they said or did
and they're showing some sort of displeasure towards their employee
and you see the reverse happen.
You see the employee get mad at the boss for correcting them.
Like I see this stuff happen where it's just like employees get corrected in the nicest way possible
And there's like he was so condescending
Patriarchy how can a man talk to me like that because there's a bunch of women in the workplace now
And it's just like, when a ruler is mad at you,
when a king is mad at you, you should realize,
man, I should do everything I can to please this person.
I'm not thinking like, you're mad at me,
well, I'm mad at you for being mad at me.
That's insanity.
But this is the backwards world that we live in.
And you know what, this idea has even crept into marriage.
where it used to be that the husband was actually the boss of the home
and that actually meant something and it wasn't just boss of the home
in title he was the boss of the home in reality
and if dad said something people listened and if dad came home from work and was mad at the kids
those kids were in subjection and in fear of their father
and it used to be that if the husband corrected his wife
and said hey I'm not pleased with something that you're doing or you're wrong in the situation
That's wicked as hell is what that is.
You know what a wise wife would do if her husband is upset at her?
She'd realize, hey, this is the king.
You know what I need to do?
I need to pacify this.
I need to humble myself because he's in charge.
I'm the one in submission.
I'm the one following.
And I need to say, OK, boss is mad.
I'm going to do whatever I can to please him.
Here's a back rub, honey.
Here's a glass of water.
Here's your favorite meal.
Here's some cookies.
Do something nice rather than acting like he's the bad guy
for getting mad.
No, no, no, you don't judge your husband.
You don't sit there in judgment of, oh, you're being mean.
No, no, no, you're to obey is what the Bible says.
And do you think I go to work and if my boss corrects me?
And look, I've gotten strong criticism and rebuke from my boss before.
You think I sat there and gave him a mean face?
You think God forbid I would hang up the phone on my boss?
Let me tell you something.
If you ever hang up the phone on your boss and ladies,
if you ever hang up the phone on your husband,
God have mercy on your soul because you are just so far away
from what the Bible teaches of being in submission.
It's not even funny.
And look, I don't say that because I hate you.
I say that because I want you to realize
that God's not pleased with that type of attitude.
And if you want to be blessed as a wife or blessed as an employee,
hey, when king's mad, you pacify.
You don't sit there and say, like, you change your attitude.
You stop being mad at me.
No, no, no, you pacify.
You submit to the authority.
The Bible says where we at here, verse number 15,
in the light of the king's countenance is life.
And his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.
Hey, when the king's pleased with you,
when the boss is pleased with you,
ladies when husband's pleased with you,
things are going well.
Your life is going to be blessed.
But when you're just adding to the conflict,
you're just going to make everything worse.
And here's the thing.
You know, your boss, your boss might not even want to like you.
You know, your boss might just genuinely dislike you.
and just kind of want to mess with you and stuff like that.
But it's like, at least your husband likes you.
And here's the thing, your husband wants to be pleased with you.
Your husband wants things to be going well.
He wants to just shower you with love and affection.
And it's like, if he's not, and if he's angry at you,
it's probably your fault, honey.
Because you know what? Happy husband, happy life, and the husband's always right.
Sorry, this is Anchor Baptist Church.
This is an ex-New IFB feminist church, alright?
You want the feminist church? You can go to Pastor Jared Pozarski's church.
You could go to Pastor Salvador. Oh, yeah. No, he doesn't have one
because no one likes this feminism anymore, because it's trash.
Man.
Look what the Bible says in verse 16.
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver?
See, money is not going to just make all your problems go away or make all your, it's not going to just make your life so great
because a lot of people get a bunch of money without wisdom and knowledge and it actually destroys their life.
The Bible says the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
So just getting gold and silver and earthly treasures is not necessarily going to make
your life better, but what will for sure make your life better is wisdom.
and knowledge, and actually understanding principles like submission,
obedience, you know, being a ruler, things like this will actually make your life better.
And people don't like to hear it today, but unfortunately a lot of people just don't like to hear the truth.
You know, unfortunately, people don't like to hear the truth so much that Jesus Christ, who never said anything wrong,
never taught any lie, all of his doctrine was perfect, he was killed.
You know, so you need to check your heart and make sure that you're seeking wisdom and understanding.
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil.
He that keepeth his way, preserveeth his soul.
Pride goeth before destruction
and in haughty spirit before a fall.
Very important verse that every single person should know.
Hey, pride goes before destruction.
Do not get haughty.
Do not get lifted up and thinking, you're so wonderful.
You're so great.
You know, I've played a lot of sports growing up.
And I've even done it recently, like with steadfast with the softball team.
And one of the things that just makes me real mad in sports
is when I hear one of my teammates start to trash talk.
And I'm like, thanks, man, you know, we're going to lose now.
Because pride goes before destruction.
You know, you see these guys, oh, we're for sure going to kill this team.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, these guys are Catholics.
You know, we're going to destroy them.
And then we lose.
And I'm just like, you're the, you're, you're, it's your fault.
You were prideful before, right?
So don't have this attitude of being all lifted up and proud because, you know,
that brings destruction.
Anything good we're doing as a church is as a result of the Lord,
is as a result of His Word that's giving us the wisdom and the instruction and what to do.
You know, us going out soul winning, we didn't come up with that ourselves.
It's been passed on to us from other generations of great men,
and all the truths that we believe and preach comes right out of the King James Bible.
You know what, anything good about me or you or Anchor Baptist Church is all God.
And you know what, all the bad things about me,
that was all me, my friend.
All the bad things about you, that was all you.
Anything that we've got, any issues we have as a church,
you know what, that's our responsibility.
That's not God's fault.
We should have a humble view of ourselves.
Verse 19, better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.
A lot of people today, they are just seeking of just climbing the ladder of success,
climbing the social ladder in this world to try to get as high up as they can
around as many rich people or famous people or politicians.
And for a lot of people, it's just a dream to, you know, work for the White House someday or something like that
but yet the Bible says that it's better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly.
And you know, my favorite people, my kind of people is church people. My favorite people on
earth are the members of Anchor Baptist Church. These are the people that I want to be around.
I'm not interested in just dividing the spoil with the proud. You know, and it's just such
an empty vain thing that people chase today, trying to get famous or get rich, because they often
They're around a bunch of people that hate them,
that would backstab them in a second
to climb just a little bit higher than them.
You know what you'd like as a friend?
Someone who's humble.
Because someone who's humble actually cares about other people.
The proud, they only care about themselves.
And so you want to make sure you're surrounding yourself
with those that are humble, with the lowly.
Verse 20, he that handleeth, a matter wisely shall find good, and whoso trusted in the Lord happy is he.
So this is kind of what I was saying about building credibility. How do you build credibility?
You know, how do you become known as a wise leader, rather, is that you handle things well?
And that's obviously a lot easier said than done.
But that's the truth.
If you want to build credibility in your life, you do well.
You do good consistently over a long period of time.
And then you will have good.
And whoso trusted in the Lord, happy is he.
And you know, I've noticed that the happiest people that I know are always Christians are always those who are not just Christians, but who are serving the Lord.
You know, it's funny. I saw that Sure Foundation Baptist Church, Indianapolis is getting persecution and some of their members preached against the sodomites and they're going super viral.
My phone, you know, has basically been blowing up since 2022, but some of my messages have been because of Sure Foundation recently.
And I'm just like, praise the Lord for that.
And I saw some videos of those guys during the protests
and they're just laughing, they're cutting it up,
they're having a great time, they're enjoying themselves.
Hey, cause those people trust in the Lord.
And you know, that's really where real happiness is,
is knowing that you're doing right
and knowing that God is on your side.
Then no matter what type of trial you're going through,
you could have that joy of the Lord.
And it just kind of surpasses all understanding.
The Bible says in verse number,
22, understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it, but the instruction
of fools is folly.
Understanding is just like so pleasant.
It's so enjoyable to people that actually have understanding.
People who understand, they constantly
want to understand more.
They want to learn more.
They never want to stop learning.
But the instruction of Fools is folly.
The heart of the wise, teacheth his mouth.
So he's just a lifelong learner, continuously learning,
and addeth learning to his lips.
Pleasant words are as in honeycomb,
sweet to the soul and health to the bones.
And when I read this, I think about how in Psalm 19,
the word of God is described as being sweeter
than honey of the honeycomb.
You know, that word of God is just the ultimate,
pleasant, sweet book that is out there
that adds health to your bones, that's sweet to your soul.
Verse 25, there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof, or the ways of death.
That verse was repeated word for word in another chapter of Proverbs, so God really wants us to
understand that. We need to renew our mind and do things God's way. He, that laboreth, laboreth
for himself, for his mouth craveneth it of him. Notice verse 27, an ungodly man digeth up evil.
You know, there's nothing wrong with dealing with evil that's come that's kind of come into your life.
You kind of have to deal with issues that present themselves.
But you know what? It's a wicked person that they just want to find something out bad about you.
They just kind of want to dig up something evil about you.
They had no reason to think that you were involved in something.
They just kind of want to get you. They're out to get you.
You know, especially amongst Christians, we ought to never have this attitude in this church.
You know, we absolutely should give people a second chance at life and realize that,
hey, not everyone is blessed like our children to be being raised in a new IFB church.
A lot of people, unfortunately, they're going to go out and sow their wild oats.
They're going to go out and do stupid things.
And Lord willing, those people get saved someday and want to change.
And here's the thing, when they come to this church and want to change, we should allow
And once a Christian has sinned and has confessed to the Lord their sin and they've dealt with it with God and it's something in the past, it should never be mentioned to them ever again.
You know, this is just a wicked attitude that people have where they want to be like, oh, did you know brother so-and-so had a marriage issue 10 years ago?
or so so so you know drink alcohol five years ago or they smoke marijuana when
they were a teenager you know what that is a wicked attitude to be digging up
evil against people like that you know I had this added I had this thought in my
mind the other day when some of us we went to that 4th of July event
And man, I was just so thankful for my wife because I was standing in line and behind me were these just extremely,
extremely worldly raunchy women.
And I'm like sitting there with my child Bethany. We're trying to like keep her looking forward.
And the things that they're saying is just super wicked and things I couldn't say from behind the pulpit.
And I'm just thinking, man, how embarrassing for these ladies?
Because Lord willing, someday these ladies are going to grow up and like want...
a husband, all right, and want like children and want to like, you know,
not be involved in just the raunchy lifestyle that they were talking about
living. And here's the thing. It's like, if one of those ladies 10 years from
now or whatever, whenever they got saved and got right with God, it came into
this church, I'd be happy.
I'd be pleased that someone is like turning their life around and wanting to serve God.
And I wouldn't think like, oh, but that one time I heard what you were saying.
And here's the thing, like we're going to know things about each other.
You're going to know things about family members, about friends.
Don't bring those things up.
Don't, and especially don't spread those things to other people.
Don't even bring it up to that person.
Don't try to rub that person's nose in it.
Don't try to make them feel bad about something in their past,
about people's past sins that is super wicked, you know, God's not even going to remember our sins.
He's not even going to remember. He's not going to have it in his mind. We should strive to do the same.
Verse 28, a froward man so with strife.
and a whisperer, separated chief friends.
So that's what this ungodly person is doing,
or this bro-word person is doing,
is that they're not just involved in strife
because strife came to them,
or it's not some sort of godly strife,
or godly fight that they're fighting.
They're going around sowing strife.
They're trying to cause problems.
They're trying to cause division.
And what are they doing?
They're whispering.
That's why I said going around and telling other people,
you know, when people are just
Telling you things just like whispering to you and no one else can know about it and the pastor can't know and you know
Don't tell my husband. Don't tell my wife. It's probably a bad conversation that you're having and if someone's going around
Whispering to you about other people. You should just take it to the bank that they will do that about you
Why is it my opinion? No, the Bible says this is an ungodly person
This is a person that is froward, meaning they're contrary.
They're hard to corral, they're hard to correct.
They don't want to listen to what the Bible says.
They're just doing their own thing.
And so look, here's the thing.
The truth is, we all have said things before
that we probably shouldn't have said.
We all probably have gossiped about someone before.
And look, that's wrong, that's wicked.
But here's the thing, let's not excuse our actions.
Once we see verses like this in the Bible,
we need to say, hey, enough trying to dig up crap on people.
enough trying to bring up people's sins in their faces,
and enough talking crap about people behind their back.
Do not go around being a gossip that is a sure-fire way to destroy the unity that we have at this church
And you know what? That is too important to me because I think we have great unity now
I love the spirit of our church and if you're going around
Gossiping about someone lying about people railing about people you will be cast out of this church
Because we cannot allow a cancer to destroy the whole lump here. We cannot allow that
The Bible says in verse number 29
a violent man, enticeth his neighbor, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
So we have some other verses in the Bible that tells us to go from the presence of an
angry man.
And why is that? Because they often drag you down with them.
And they get into some sort of fight and you're there and you're just kind of in the fight with them.
They get into a road rage spat. You're in the passenger seat, you're kind of involved with it.
So someone who just loves violence, someone who's always angry and wrathful, that should not be your friend.
That should not be someone that you want to be around.
That is a person that's going to drag you down in life.
Verse 30, he shutteth his eyes to devise forward things.
Moving his lips, he bringeth evil to pass.
So you know, the forward person is just so mind blowing
to me and just one of those people that you rarely
have to just trust what the Bible says about them.
Cause it's just kind of hard to think of ourselves
as just normal Christians that are just trying
to serve the Lord the best we can of just shutting
our eyes at night and just devising forward things.
That is a sick puppy right there that just goes to bed at night and is just thinking
about forward things, contrary things against what the Bible says.
Trying to harm people.
It says moving his lips.
He bring it evil to pass.
If he's talking, he's trying to do evil.
If he's talking, he's lying about someone.
He's crap talking someone.
He's gossiping.
He's doing all these things at all times basically.
Beware of those people verse 31 the Bible says the whorey head means like the white head
The whorey head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness
So you know today
The people of our country all our culture is kind of very terrified and shocked and horrified by getting old
Right, that's why people do all these plastic surgeries and pay all this money to be trying to look as young as they can at all times
But you got to realize and think about things from God's perspective is that getting old is not a shame
Getting old is not something that is to be looked down upon as something. That's not valuable or not honorable
Actually getting old is a crown of glory
if it be found in the way of righteousness.
And so you know what, man, we need way more Christians
in our types of churches that are of the older generation
to kind of stand in the gap and make up the hedge
for the boomers that have destroyed our country
and let down our churches and ruined a lot of things.
Because man, there's a lot of gray heads out there.
And it's like, I want to give them honor because there are elders and they've seen some stuff,
they've been through some stuff, but you know what, unless that hoary head is found in righteousness,
it doesn't end up getting the respect that it deserves. And so it's like, hey, I want to get
to my old age someday and actually kind of enjoy that status of being at that time and hopefully
get respect from younger people. But you know how that happens is by being righteous. It's not just
And you know what today, people put way too much emphasis on a number where it's like they won't go to a church
because the pastor's 28 years old or something like that.
But it's like, look, and maybe I'm a little biased here, okay? I understand that.
But I would rather go to the church where the pastor's 28, but he's preaching the Bible than going to the Boomer Church,
the Old Iveby Church, where it's God bless Israel.
Where it's let's send money to Israel. Let's send missionaries to Israel. Let's pray that the temple gets rebuilt in Israel
It's like man, that's the hoary head, but it's not found in righteousness
You know, I'd rather go to the church where the generation of pastors. Yeah, they might be a little bit younger
But hey, they're preaching hard against the pedophilia and sodomites of our nation
And you know what? It's not because of the younger generation that we have faggots and wicked people like Jeffrey Epstein
and all that crime syndicate,
it doesn't exist because of the young generation,
because the young generation is sick and tired
of the filth of sodomy.
And the young generation is sick and tired
of just obey Israel without question.
Love Israel without question.
Oh, just, oh yeah, the Bible says
that their God's chosen people, right?
No, it doesn't, actually.
Oh, I mean, I heard it from my Sunday school teacher.
That's what Ted Cruz said.
Oh, ever since I was a kid, my Sunday school teacher told me that God has a special chosen
people for Him, and it's the Jews.
No, no, no.
The special chosen people are Jews and Gentiles that believe in Jesus Christ.
It's a spiritual Israel.
It's a spiritual nation, and you know, it's so frustrating to me how the older generation
of pastors have just stopped fighting, have stopped aggressively soul winning, have stopped
And look, if you want to make it to your old age and actually have that crown of righteousness of being old,
you ought to be righteous.
You ought to not give up the fight.
And man, you read books like Titus and first Timothy and the Bible speaks positively about,
you know, elder women that are teaching the younger women that are being a good example
in their conversation and encouraging them to love their husband, to love their children,
to be obedient, discreet, chaste keepers at home, to do these things.
You know, it doesn't just need to be coming from the pulpit.
It's great when also mom and dad are telling you.
the same things that the Bible says and when grandma and grandpa are telling you
the same things that the Bible says and all the authority figures are just saying what the Bible says
that's going to make for a much better society and for a much healthier church and country and just everything.
verse 32 says he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that
ruleeth his spirit than he that taketh a city. We're not going to really talk
about this verse this evening because I'm preaching a whole sermon on it on
Sunday so we'll come back to this verse on Sunday but then we'll go ahead and
finish it off here verse number 33 the Bible says the lot is cast into the lap
but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
So a lot of pretty challenging verses in this chapter
where again, as long as you're reading it in context,
the context of Proverbs and of the whole Bible,
these verses start to make sense
and you don't come away with this weird.
Hyper Calvinist God's just controlling everything view because you know some people would read this verse and just think like hey
We don't have any free will God's controlling everything and you know what?
I might as well just go through life
Casting lots or you know when I was like an elementary school
It was like that piece of paper that girls folded up and handed to you
You know you do the little thing and you guys know what I'm talking about. Okay. All right. It's like going through life
It's just like you know should I marry her?
Oh, all right, go on to the next girl, right?
Should I take this job?
It's not what this verse is saying, okay?
It's not saying you need to start casting lots
or have a magic eight ball or the little square thing
or anything like that.
I think what this is saying is that, hey,
there's some things in life that if you're pleasing God,
if you're serving him, if you're seeking after him,
some things that might happen in your life
that seem random, but they're really not.
And you know what, that could be comforting as a Christian to know that, hey, God is real and he's not some far distant God that doesn't have any interest in my life,
or isn't, you know, really caring about taking care of me or intervening when I need him, you know, the angel of the Lord encompassed around them that fear him, the Bible says.
And so, hey, if you're serving God, if you're fearing him, if you're seeking him, sometimes something might seem random in your life, but it was really God opening that door for you.
It's really God making something happen.
You know, I think about the job I have right now
is a great blessing.
I love the job that I have right now.
But what's funny is like, I didn't even really know it existed.
the supervisor that I had at the time he just said like hey there's an opening
here do you just want to start filling it right now and like I didn't even
apply I didn't go through the whole process I just kind of was like in the
interim in the acting role doing the job and it just was kind of given to me
and I'm just feeling like that kind of seemed random but you know it was
probably the Lord you know I was praying about these things I'm doing my best to
seek him and sometimes God just opens up opportunities for you now here's the
where anything that happens to you you attribute to God or anything bad that happens to you,
you attribute to the devil. Here's what you want to do. What does the Bible say first and foremost?
Because, you know, some old divorced boomers, they'll be like,
wow, this man just came into my life. Let me ask you a question. Is your husband still alive?
Then you're not to get divorced and remarried. That's not God opening up a door for you.
That's not God intervening and helping you with something.
You know, if what you're doing, the path you're going down,
is clearly violating scripture, that's not God.
Okay?
So, but here's the thing.
If you are a sincere person,
I don't know if you're a sincere person,
only you know if you're a sincere person.
Only you know if you actually seek the Lord.
Only you know if you really cry out to Him and pray to Him
and read His word and allow God's word
to penetrate your heart when you're listening.
Only you know if you're that person.
But let me tell you something.
If you are that person,
you can have a lot more peace in life knowing,
hey, stuff's gonna happen.
Things are gonna happen in my life that seem random.
But you know what?
Happy is he that trusted in the Lord.
Sometimes those random events are not as random as we think.
And so we wanna make sure we're that person
that's seeking Him with all we got.
so that God can come through in these supernatural ways.
Let's have a word of prayer, Lord.
We thank you for Proverbs chapter number 16
for the great truths that are found therein.
I just pray for our country, for our state,
for individuals that we would seek you, Lord,
that we would want to hear your word thundered forth,
that we wouldn't shy away from any of the doctrines
that are offensive or people don't want to hear today.
I pray that we would thunder forth your word.
and that we as individuals would be the Christians
that wanna seek you and please you Lord.
And I just pray that in our lives when we need you,
even if we can't articulate all the things
that we need at that moment,
I pray that you would just supernaturally intervene
for us and direct our steps.
We love you and Jesus, let me pray, amen.
At this time, we'll turn to our last hymn.
And your hymnals, number 472, this is my father's world, 472, 472, this is my father's world.
472 starting there right on the first.
This is my father's work.
or dismissed.