Good evening everyone. Welcome to Anchor Baptist Church. We are going to go ahead and get started
this evening. If you would find a seat and grab a hymnal. Our first hymn is number 45
45 there on the 1st when I can read.
And at this time, we'll open with a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day,
for another opportunity that we can gather together freely.
Lord, I thank you for the salvation
that was had this evening, and also for us.
them to a good church and do works and labor for you Lord. I pray that you would be with us for the
service this evening, that everything would be done decently in an order. These things we pray in
Jesus' name, amen. All right for our next hymn number 245. The old account was settled.
There was a time on earth when in the work of hand, the gold and gown was standing, for
sins yet unforgiven, my name was at the top, and many things below, I went up to the keeper
Thank you.
And settle on the go, on the go, on the go
Yes, the old Calvary settled on the go
And the record's clear today, for he washed my sins away
When the old Calvary settled on the go
Bolton, please raise your hand and Usher will bring you one.
You know, funny story about that song,
we have the right version of that song in our hymnal,
but there's a different version
that one time I was watching Brother Remy Thompson
and he was song leading.
And there's a lyric in the other hymnal
that says,
O sinner, trust the Lord, repent of all your sin.
And he caught it while he was song leading.
So he was like, O sinner, trust the Lord, repent.
He goes, what the, in the middle of song leading?
it was one of the funniest moments ever but at least he was paying attention you know he saw
that false doctrine he's like whoa i'm not singing that so we've got the right version
let's go ahead and get into our announcements here on the front is our bible memory verse of the
week genesis chapter number one
Verse six and on the inside our service times are listed there Sunday morning at 10 30
Sunday evening at 4 30 and our Wednesday Bible study through Proverbs at 7 o'clock
We do have our soul winning times listed there below of course Saturday is our special soul winning day our Saturday rally
We'd love it if you could join us for that
We have our year-to-date
baptism and salvation statistics below and I should get another update from brother Theodore on Friday
So looking forward to that
upcoming events really soon is the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship. It's gonna
be an awesome conference. Pastor Shelley made all these custom shirts and
whoever wins the pickleball challenge is getting Baptist bias paddles and all
sorts of cool stuff like that so we're looking forward to it.
September 6th a month from now we're going to do another soul winning marathon in
Ardmore, Oklahoma and it's been quite a while since we went to Ardmore to my
recollection I think it was like 2021 or 2022 is the last time we've been there so
it's definitely worth another visit I do remember it being very receptive and so
we're gonna go and make that trip and if anyone's listening online and they're
coming please email us and we can account for you
Then the next day September 7th will be our next men's preaching night followed by a potluck and game night
And then the Bahamas mission trip, which I believe is exactly 60 days away
So it's coming really really soon if you have yet to get your passport you got to get on it because it's 60 days
It's coming up really excited on the right. There's information there about our online visitor card as well as giving online
Also, I just do have one more announcement. The church did purchase some new hymnals
and these hymnals have Anchor Baptist Church on it, so we have a ton of surplus hymnals that
are on a table back there. If you have any use for them, they're fair game. If you want to take
them home, give them to other people, whatever is not taken by the end of the day on Sunday,
I'm going to find a way to get rid of. So whoever wants those, using them for homeschool or just
Before we go to our last song let's go ahead and go to the Lord in Prayers of
Church Family. Lord we thank you for the Wednesday evening service here and for
the Word of God and just for the perfect Word of God in the King James Bible. I
pray that you would just bless these requests according to your will Lord. I
pray that you bless brother Theodore in the Philippines, that you would just
prosper the remaining time that he has over there, that you keep him safe while
soul-winning and during his travels.
And I pray for evangelist or bannock and pastor Stuckey and just the great work that they're doing over there
I pray that you just leave that door open for them and cause things to continue to go
Well and be very receptive for them and bless them and their families as well
I do pray for the upcoming conference at steadfast Baptist Church
But that conference would bring you honor and glory that people's lives would be changed by the preaching of the word of God
That you just bless the fellowship and all the churches and pastors participating
I pray that you bless the staff at Steadfast and all the volunteers
planning and working for this.
I just pray that you bless them and bless their works, allow
things to run smoothly, Lord.
We pray for the Halsberg family that you bless brother Myles health and Miss Rhea that you bless her as well Lord
We also want to pray for the church members
We have here who have family members that are lost
I prayed that those family members would just have a soft heart to the gospel that they would get lots of
Seeds watered and many opportunities to hear the gospel
I pray that you bless every aspect of our service this evening in Jesus name you pray amen
Our third song this evening will be in your white handouts be Psalm 139
in your white handouts Psalm
139 139
Psalm 139 there on the first
Amen, good singing this evening.
As the offering plates are passed,
turn to Proverbs chapter 19.
Proverbs chapter number 19.
Proverbs chapter 19, better is the poor
that walketh in his integrity,
than he that has perverse in his lips and is a fool.
Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good.
And he that hasteth with his feet, sineth.
The foolishness of man perverted his way
and his heart fretteth against the Lord.
Wealth maketh many friends.
but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
A false witness shall not be unpunished,
and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Many will entreat the favor of the Prince,
and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
All the brethren of the poor do hate him.
How much more do his friends go far from him?
He pursued them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
He that Getteth wisdom loveth his own soul, he that keepeth understanding shall find good,
a false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
Delight is not seemly for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion,
but his favor is as due upon the grass.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father,
and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers,
and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep and an idle soul shall suffer hunger he
that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul but he that despiseth his way
shall die he that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which
he give he then that which he hath given will he pay him again
Chase a nice son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment, for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do
it again.
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise, and I latter in.
There are many devices in a man's heart, nevertheless, the counsel of the Lord that shall stand.
The desire of a man is his kindness, and a poor man is better than a liar.
The fear of the Lord tendeth to life, and he that hath it shall abide satisfied.
He shall not be visited with evil.
A slothful man hideeth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth
Smite a scornor and the simple will be where and reprove one that hath understanding and he will understand knowledge
He that wasted his father and chase it away his mother is a son that caused it shame and bringeth reproach
Cease my son to hear the instruction that caused it to err from the words of knowledge
An ungodly witness scorneth judgment in the mouth of the wicked devoureth
iniquity. Judgments are prepared for scorners and stripes for the backs for
the back of fools.
Man Proverbs chapter 19 verse 1 the Bible says better is the poor that walketh in his integrity
Then he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool
We as Christians we don't want to get into this mindset that the world has
Where a lot of times people just their default view their default nature is to view someone at that's poor as being bad
or wicked and view someone who's rich as being great and admirable.
This is just kind of how the world works. People like celebrities,
people like the actors and actresses and all of the, you know, sports stars today.
But you know, there are people who are very, very poor, who are very righteous.
There are people who are very poor, who are very wicked.
And same thing with the rich.
There's lots of righteous rich people,
and there's lots of righteous wicked people.
And so at the end of the day,
better is the poor that walketh in his integrity
than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
Go to James chapter two.
This idea is talked about in the New Testament.
I think the reason it is is because like I said,
it's just our nature to kind of just judge poor people.
And sometimes you hear people get this holier than now
attitude or this attitude of looking down
on blue collar workers or on the middle class
and act like, oh, someone's an electrician,
they're a plumber, they don't got a real job
or something like that.
You gotta be working in some sort of office
to have a real job.
But that's not the attitude that we should have as Christians.
Look at James chapter two, verse number one,
the Bible says, my brethren,
have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
For if there come unto your assembly a man with notice, a gold ring in goodly apparel,
and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment,
and you have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing,
and say unto him, sit thou here in a good place,
and say to the poor, stand thou over there, or sit here under my footstool.
Are ye not then partial in yourselves and are become judges of evil thoughts?
So notice when the Bible talks about being a respecter of persons,
what's the first situation it brings up when it comes to someone's monetary status?
Because this is oftentimes when people are respecters of people and Proverbs
19 is going to talk a lot about that. But look, we don't want to have this attitude.
Again, we just instantly judge someone. Oh, you're poor.
Oh, you're not making a lot of money. Oh, that's just because you're lazy.
A hundred percent. You know, that's not necessarily the case.
And you know, I've noticed that a lot of the older generations,
really have this mentality where they think like, oh, you don't have a house by 18.
What are you talking about? Like, how did you not buy your first house by 18?
And it's like, yeah, well, when you were a kid, the home price was like three times
your yearly income. And for Gen Z, it's like nine times your yearly income.
You know, and the average first time home buyer in the United States right now,
guess how old they are? 38 years old.
You know, I just don't believe this whole thing is just like every young person's lazy.
No one wants to work.
Now, of course, there's people like that.
But you know what? We also just live in a pretty rough economy
that's been manipulated by Jews for a long time.
And it's like the baby boomers kind of rode that post-war prosperity and it's like,
yeah, when half your men are dead, that affects supply and demand a little bit, you know?
And so, again, if you're rich, that's fine through hard work,
but don't just look down on people that aren't like you.
And don't just assume because someone's poor, that they're righteous.
I mean, hey, we went to Anadarko and there could be such a thing as two ghetto of soul winning.
too poor of an area where it's like you're too drugged out and drunk to even accept the gospel.
So again, how do you judge people?
Well, look at what this verse says, Proverbs 19.
Better is the poor that walketh in his, notice, integrity.
And you know, that is something that all of us should strive to have,
whether you're rich, poor, or somewhere in the middle,
all of us can be people of integrity.
Whether you are working a white collar job or whether you are literally the garbage man picking up trash,
we all can do our job with integrity and be Christians that walk in integrity.
That's better than being a fool.
And you know, I'd rather be around poor people who are righteous than be around rich fools.
Be around atheists.
You know, the fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
There's no more annoying people to be around than atheists, whether they're rich or poor.
Notice verse number two also that the soul be without knowledge. It is not good
And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth. So again connecting this idea of a fool
Someone that is without knowledge and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth
You know one of the attributes of a foolish person is they're very hasty in their life. They make decisions hastily
They fly off the hand the handle and get angry very hastily
And a lot of times when you're doing something with haste,
you're on a slippery slope to sin.
People sometimes will tell me, I'm
going to make this gigantic, huge decision
that I have been dreaming about all of my last three
minutes of life.
All of my last three months of life.
And it's like, man, just don't haste towards that type of stuff.
Dream big.
Try to do as much as you can, but you
don't want to be hasty in your life.
Verse number three, the Bible says,
the foolishness of man perverted his way,
and his heart fretteth against the Lord.
I love this verse.
What is this saying?
Someone who is foolish,
someone who is just void of wisdom,
void of understanding,
someone who is an idiot,
what do they do in life?
They pervert his way.
The foolishness of man perverted his way,
and his heart fretteth,
against the Lord. So stupid people will reject God's commandments,
will reject church, will reject hard preaching, and they'll pervert their way
from what the Bible says to do, and then their life will get destroyed as a result.
They'll suffer the consequences of sin, and then what they'll do is they'll
threat against the Lord. They'll blame God for their state in life.
And a lot of times people have no one else to blame but themselves.
There's just a built-in natural punishment with a lot of sins.
And you don't necessarily have to have God's hand actively judging you
or coming against you when you do things like drink and drive.
You know, people go out and drink and drive and they'll ruin their car or they'll get paralyzed in an accident
and they'll think like, God, why would you allow this to happen to me?
It's like, you're the fool that perverted your way and now you're fretting against the Lord.
And also, because of people's foolishness, they constantly end up being against God,
being contrary to God, fretting against Him by their foolishness.
Verse number four back to this idea of riches it says wealth make if many friends but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
So this is just a statement of fact of how the world is that if you have a lot of money everyone of course is going to want to be your friend.
And you know, we as Christians ought to be those friends
that are investing in our friends
and not just seeing what we can get out of our friends.
You know, that's gonna make for a much healthier relationship
rather than just trying to cling on to people
who are gonna take you out to eat and bless you
and give you money and give you toys
and give you all that cool stuff.
Wealth make, if many friends, but the poor
is separated from his neighbor.
So a lot of people, they just despise the poor,
they'll separate them from their company.
for no other reason than that they are poor and sadly even a lot of churches will do this
because a lot of churches they're not really interested in soul winning and preaching the
gospel a lot of churches if they do any door knocking outside or any you know evangelistic
activities outside of the church it's like a door hanger or it's trying to get people to come to
church and stuff like that and a lot of churches not all but a lot of churches will just skip the
And I remember hearing Pastor Jack Hiles just ripping face in his church because there was kind of this movement in his church that was wanting to have everything just super nice and classy and have all the higher end blue collar and white collar people and they were wanting to neglect the bus ministry.
And you know, Pastor Jack Hiles, his heart was inner city Chicago and the poor bus kids is who he wanted to reach because when he was a child, he was dirt poor.
He talked about how the first pair of shoes he ever owned in his life was
purchased for him by the church and he was reached as one of these dirt poor
kids by the church.
And so he's like, no, no, no, we're going to go reach the poor.
We're going to love the poor, but a lot of people, they just want the tithe
money and that's it.
And so we here, we need to have the mentality that we're willing to go to the poor areas of Oklahoma City,
the ghetto of OKC, the poor areas of Oklahoma, because oftentimes that's who's receptive to the gospel.
Try going soul-winning in Nichols Hills and, you know, Midtown for a few months and you're going to realize really quickly that what I'm saying is true.
The Bible says in verse number five,
a false witness shall not be unpunished.
And he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
So you know, under a righteous system,
there should be punishment for lying.
And especially when it comes to the court of law,
you know, in some sort of civil or criminal trial,
you're supposed to testify
under the penalty of perjury,
meaning that you could be held criminally liable
for lying on the stand.
Now, how often this is actually enforced seems to be never
because anytime I've been
you know, in a courthouse and seen proceedings.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen the other side,
just lie and rail and give false accusations.
And like, you're lucky if the judge will even
reprove this person, but notice what should be happening
is that a false witness shall not be unpunished.
Now go to Deuteronomy chapter number 19.
Deuteronomy 19, because God's law is perfect, God's system of court, of legality, of justice is perfect.
And our country would do well to get back to the Bible's standard of justice here.
Notice verse 15, the Bible says,
At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
So, according to the Bible, we should not even entertain, think about, do an investigation of
some sort of accusation that's coming from one person. Why? Because it's just one person's word
against another. And so, you know,
even within the church within our friends and family,
you should not accept accusations made by one person,
one witness, you know, especially if it's a second hand
witness, third hand witness, you know,
that you shouldn't even take into account at all.
It needs to be two witnesses to even start an investigation.
Now, today, witnesses, I don't think necessarily
have to be only human beings, because, for example, what
if you had a person who saw something and had a video of it?
And that's kind of establishing their testimony,
and you could see fact check what this person is saying.
I could accept that as starting an investigation
because you have some sort of evidence.
But what's the spirit behind this?
There needs to be some sort of legitimate case here
and not just one person running their mouth
because guess what, people lie.
And like I said, even in the workplace,
there's a lot of companies where they'll just allow
one person to anonymously report another
and then it's just like send the attorneys,
send the investigation and it's wrong.
It's wicked.
Notice verse 16,
And behold, if the witness be a false witness and have testified falsely against his brother,
then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother,
so shall thou put the evil away from among you."
The Bible is telling us to have this mentality of realizing that people lie.
People are false witnesses, people accuse others falsely.
And so when you receive some sort of accusation,
you ought to in your mind consider this person can be lying.
This person can be embellishing or omitting facts
or not giving the whole story.
And so what the judges should do,
they bring them together and they do what?
Diligent Inquisition.
What does that mean?
Like a thorough investigation.
They're gonna ask questions of both parties. They're gonna try to poke holes in your story
They're gonna try to see do you have other cooperating witnesses or evidence that could help your case
They don't just say this idea that we have you know amongst the liberals today like believe all women
Just like oh you just deserve to be believed because you made an accusation
No, no one deserves to be believed just because they made an accusation
In fact, the innocent party by default deserves to be believed because we have the presumption of innocence and it's innocent until proven guilty.
Recently, there was that whole drama with Ryan Walters where people were accusing him of watching inappropriate material in his office.
And right off the bat, I gave this guy the benefit of the doubt.
First of all, because that's just the right thing to do, no matter who it is.
Whether it's the most flaming liberal or the guy that wants to put the Bible back in schools,
he deserves the benefit of the doubt. He deserves to be innocent until proven guilty.
But I didn't believe these accusations at first just because of how the news was wording it.
and how the accusers were wording it,
saying like, oh, I saw images of nude women
on Ryan Walters TV in his office.
I'm just like, that's really awkward and unnatural way
to word something like that.
And I was just thinking, I wonder,
is there some sort of context
that can explain the situation?
We'll find out.
There's gonna be an investigation.
But I'm thinking, if they really walked in on him,
doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing,
they would have worded that completely differently, right?
That's just a really awkward way to word it.
But turns out he had one of those cox cable connection boxes.
one of the old school like coaxial cable,
just getting the cable channels that was just on.
And of course, when the hour comes up,
just whatever show is next,
just gonna automatically play.
That's how cable works.
And some movie from the 1980s just came on his screen
that had nudity in the movie.
And so there you go.
We have the explanation, we know what happened,
it's not something that he put on,
it's not something he was watching,
he just had that channel on,
and then the next thing that came on
was that Jackie Chan movie,
and it had that wicked stuff in it.
But hey, looking at the investigation,
there was an impartial third party investigation
by the police, by a technology company,
and this is what they came to,
you know, he deserves that presumption of innocence.
But everyone, just so many people are saying like,
wow, this guy's a pervert.
just calling him a pervert.
Oh, you're watching this in your office.
Oh, you should be fired.
Oh, let's fire this guy.
Everyone's just automatically coming to judgment
before there's an investigation
and just declaring this guy guilty.
All of those people are what you call fools.
and what you call wicked people, wicked individuals.
Because how would you like to be treated?
What if you were accused of a crime?
What if you were accused of something improper?
Wouldn't you want the presumption of innocence?
Wouldn't you want someone to have to prove that you're guilty?
What a scary society that we live in that so many people are just willing.
without diligent inquisition to hear from this guy and you know just a side note this is also a good
reason why you should not let your kids just have unfettered access to tv and the internet because
ryan welters wasn't even seeking this out he just had it on his tv and extreme nudity according to
the news was shown on this movie so you know you never know what's out there you got to be careful
But notice what it says in verse 19.
So, someone lies, someone falsely accuses someone,
and it's found out that they're lying.
Look at verse 19.
But life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
So first of all, notice how when you punish people who are lying,
the Bible says that you're putting away evil from among you because liars are evil wicked people,
okay, and when you do that, when you punish them, it causes other people to actually fear God
and fear the rule of law and not follow suit doing the same thing.
So, for example, if someone today accused someone of a murder.
And it came out that they were lying.
They were falsely accusing this person.
Well, what is the punishment for murder according to the word of God?
The death penalty.
So what should happen to someone who falsely accuses someone of murder?
They should get the death penalty.
Okay? How about rape?
Oh, just believe all women.
There's a lot of women who have been proven to be lying about their rape accusations.
And you know, what a horrible thing to accuse someone of
because rape is extremely wicked.
And someone who actually does commit rape should be put to death.
And so if you falsely accuse someone of rape and they did not do that,
then the accuser should be put to death.
You know, if someone brings an accusation against someone that is false
with the purpose of ruining this person's life,
getting them fired from their job, you should lose your job.
You know, maybe people would then be afraid to just start throwing random accusations.
You know, someone in church accuses another brother in Christ of a 1 Corinthians 5 sin
that would get them excommunicated, you're going to get excommunicated.
Under what authority? It's called railing.
That's what railing is.
Falsely accusing people, lying about people.
You know, lying is not just some little sin.
Oh, just little white lies.
No, it's evil.
And the Bible says that they should not be unpunished.
Go back to Proverbs chapter number 19.
Verse number 10, the Bible says,
Delight is not Seemly for a Fool.
Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Seemly meaning fitting, becoming of.
The Bible is saying, Delight or happiness or joy
is not fitting or Seemly or fitting for a Fool.
A lot of fools today, because they're fools,
they don't realize that they should be ashamed of their foolishness.
And this, to me, is just one of the most frustrating things about fools.
It's like, I'm embarrassed for them, I'm cringing when they talk,
but they're like, oh, they think it's funny.
And they're like, the Bible says the fool rages and is confident.
It's frustrating how someone could be so stupid, but yet laugh about how they're stupid.
Enjoy their stupidity.
Think it's funny.
No, it's not funny.
Delight is not seemingly for a fool.
A fool should be ashamed, sad by their own stupidity,
trying to improve,
but instead, they're just happy.
They're laughing.
They're delighting in it.
Notice, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
You know, it's not fitting, it's not becoming for servants to be ruling over their masters.
For servants to be ruling over leadership.
And we have this weird idea today, especially amongst the younger generation that thinks like,
everyone should have a vote at work and you know, we should all give feedback to our bosses.
You know, I recently did a performance review and it had a spot like, give feedback to your boss.
Thanks for doing my review.
Thanks for giving me feedback.
Like, I'm not going to tell my boss,
oh, here's what you're doing wrong.
Here's what you can improve on.
Why?
Because it's not seemly for servants
to be ruling over authority.
It's not appropriate for kids to back talk their parents
or tell their parents, I think you spanked wrong.
I think you spanked me too hard.
I think your rules were a little too harsh.
No, no, no, that's not your place to judge.
You know, as Christians, there's a right way to judge.
We're supposed to judge righteously according to the word of God.
But you also have to have the position to judge.
Kids do not get to judge their parents.
You know, congregations, the old IFB, they love to have a vote on everything.
And recently, I got a call from someone in this city
whose pastor is quitting because the church is mad that he's going more fundamental.
He's been the pastor of a church for seven years in this city,
and he's been trying to get more fundamental,
more according to the Word of God,
and all the old ladies are upset,
and all the deacons are upset,
and he just said like, hey, to not split the church, I'm just quitting.
Man, I wish this guy would just fight.
I wish this guy would just stay if he's trying to be more fundamental.
But you know what?
This is what we have today.
Churches ruling over pastors, you know, employees ruling over bosses, wives ruling
over their husband.
You know, that's not seemly either.
That's not fitting either.
Go to verse 11.
The Bible says, the discretion of man defereth his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
So, discretion is knowing when something is appropriate, what is appropriate to say or do.
It's basically just wisdom. Having wisdom is having discretion.
And the discretion of a man, notice, defereth his anger.
Mad, we're going to be angry about something on the spot.
But we need to be emotionally mature enough to realize, hey,
it's not appropriate to display that anger right now,
to show that anger right now.
Maybe I need to defer that for a later time.
You know, for example, a lot of bosses will just be over-the-top jerks to their employees in front of other people.
And, you know, they have every right to do that.
And if your boss is like that, you better submit and say, yes, sir, and do what you're told.
But, you know, a wise boss, I will just say, will not always have to do that.
You know, a wise boss may say like, hey, let's go to the side and let's talk.
And then if you want to rip into that person, okay, you know, sometimes discretion calls for that.
I think about, for example, if you have to correct a man,
let's say at work, you have to correct a man,
or maybe a pastor has to correct a man,
and maybe you're angry and you have to correct them
really, really, really hard, it might be wise
not to do that in front of their wife, for example,
because you don't wanna make their wife see their husband
get humiliated or demasculized or something like that.
I'm just throwing out random examples,
but in your life, you're gonna have your own situations
where you're just gonna realize,
hey, I need to defer this anger for a more appropriate
time.
Verse number 12, the Bible says,
the king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion,
but his favor is as due upon the grass.
What is this basically teaching?
You want to earn and obtain favor
of the leaders in your life.
And again, let's say you do have that boss
that flies off the handle at you and it is in public.
Let's say your husband just blasts you
in front of other people.
You know what you should do?
You should be seeking that favor.
You shouldn't get cold or mad.
or bristle, or be mad at them for correcting you.
You know, they're in charge.
They get to correct you how they see fit at the end of the day.
But what you should do is like, you should be trying to mend that situation.
You should be trying to come to them in humility.
You know, I talked about this before.
If my boss is mad at me, I don't think, how dare you?
Why are you mad at me?
You better come to me and make things right.
That's the servant ruling over the master, right?
Or a lot of manipulative wives will do this, where it's like,
silent treatment,
going to treat you differently.
And it's like, no, no, no.
You should be trying to win your husband over.
You should be coming to him in humility,
trying to make things right.
Not have, okay, you know,
I'm just sick of this coldness.
Now I'm going to apologize for being the boss.
Oh, I'm sorry, honey, for telling you what to do.
No, I'm sorry, honey, for correcting you.
No, no, no, that's, you got things backwards.
What is the Bible say?
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion.
You don't want to face the lion is what it's saying.
but his favor is as due upon the grass.
Verse 13, a foolish son is the calamity of his father
and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
You know, of course, when you see this continual dropping,
it evokes images of Chinese water torture, because this is a form of torture where they just strap
you down and they just drop water, just a little bead of water on your head, just over and over
and over. And what the Bible is saying is that ladies that are contentious, wives that are fighting,
arguing, bickering, bristling at their husband, you are literally torturing your husband.
It is a form of torture, it is a form of cruel and unusual punishment to constantly be contentious with your husband.
The Bible says for wives to obey your husband.
And so, you know, I heard Pastor Shelley say this once, that if you're in a position under someone's authority, you get one but sir, and then after that it's yes sir.
So, you're given a command and you say, but sir, have you considered this?
But sir, I have a recommendation, but sir, I want you to consider all the angles here
and a wise leader will want that input because sometimes we don't know what we don't know
and that input can be helpful and that input can cause us sometimes to change course.
But if you've given your but sir, here's my input and they say, no, this is what we're
doing, then it becomes yes, sir.
It's so contradicting because I think that people who are under someone's authority,
they think, oh, I'll convince them.
I'll convince them.
If I keep arguing, no, no, no, you're just making them angry.
You're making them bitter.
You might make them shut down and give up, but they're not happy with you.
They're not pleased with you.
You're not helping your marriage.
You're not helping your work relationship with your boss.
You're harming that situation by being a complainer or back talker like that.
Verse number 14, house and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
So, hey, praise the Lord. If you've got that prudent wife that works hard, that, you know, cleans the house, provides really great nutritious meals, takes care of the kids, homeschools the kids, you know, us as men, we ought to appreciate that work and realize that that is from the Lord.
Thank God.
that if you have that type of woman, thank God for that because not everyone has that.
And, you know, I was just getting on the ladies for back talking, but look,
a lot of ladies are wonderful, great wives. My wife is one of them. And, you know, I have a prudent
wife. I have a wife that, you know, makes all the kids these custom dresses and homemade soap
and puts all this work into our home. And I thank God for that. You know, y'all not to take that
Notice what the Bible says in verse 15,
slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep,
and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
So it's kind of a seemingly contradictory here
how slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep.
You think when you're really tired, what do you wanna do?
Just lay down and do nothing.
But actually by doing nothing and by being lazy,
you're making yourself more tired.
You know,
One recommendation I have,
if you just feel like when you wake up in the morning,
you're exhausted, here's a trick
that will at least temporarily fix your problems.
Obviously, you need good sleep
and you can't just go sleep deprived for the rest of your life.
But let's just say like, hey, this morning I'm super,
super tired, just drop down and do 20 pushups right there.
It's I'm telling you it will work because you're just like waking yourself up
You're getting the blood pumping you're kind of shocking your body out of its slumber and then you're working out
You're doing hard things and suddenly have more energy. It's so weird
You know you go when I'm working out consistent consistently
I have great energy when I'm running I have great energy when I'm not I feel much more tired
When I just sit in my office all day and I come home and I just sit in my other office all day,
I feel really, really tired. But when I'm working hard, man, I have more energy.
It doesn't really make sense to the flesh, but it's true.
I remember President Trump was asked,
you know, do you work out?
And he does not work out.
There's been a lot of presidents that have worked out.
You know, Bill Clinton was one who was a really, really good runner.
And I remember reading a book about the Secret Service,
how they had to have extra special guys,
because he would run like six minute miles, just consistently.
And so like these Secret Service guys had to have like their gun
and all of their stuff,
and they had to be like scanning for threats while running.
a six-minute mile pace, just continuously.
Same thing with George Bush, really, really fast runner.
Now Obama was a queer, so he wasn't really good at working out.
And Trump, he's just kind of out of shape and lazy.
But it's funny, he was asked, do you work out?
He's like, I like to save my energy.
I don't want to waste it on working out.
I was like, that's not how that works.
Now that's a lot of people think.
But really, when you work out, you're actually
going to be less tired.
That's what the Bible is saying there.
And idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Verse 16, he that keepeth the commandment,
keepeth his own soul,
but he that despiseeth his ways shall die.
So notice, by keeping the commandments of God,
you are doing your own soul a favor.
You are making your own life better.
You know, don't act like everything in the Christian life is such a sacrifice.
Like, oh, I came to church on Sunday, I could be watching the football game.
Oh man, you know, I went soul winning this Saturday, I could be sitting at my house doing absolutely nothing.
No, you're actually really not sacrificing that much. You're doing yourself a favor by serving God.
You are actually making your life better by keeping the commandments of God and sometimes especially young people.
Young people, when you are trying to live a separated life at a young age, you are the exception.
Because what are people doing at a young age?
They're going to college, they're drinking a ton of alcohol, they're experimenting with drugs, they're committing tons of fornication.
And you know, in your flesh, you're going to have this foolish thought from time to time of like, man, I'm really giving up a lot.
Man, I'm really separating myself.
I'm really missing out on some sort of experience that the world tells you is good.
But in reality, you're not missing anything.
You're doing yourself a favor.
People that skip that phase of their life, once they're past it, they're not thinking
like, man, I wish I would have smoked more pot.
Man, I really wish I would have tried heroin.
Man, I really wish I had an STD, like all the other people my age.
You know, even something like getting married young.
I'm glad I got married young.
And I'm glad I didn't just like spend my 20s doing whatever
because I've told this story before,
I got an invitation to my 10 year high school reunion
and I just went through and looked at everyone and just like,
not married, not married, not married, not married, not married.
I'm just like, what is going on?
Like I wouldn't want to be 28 and have just like missed all this time
that I have with my kids and with my wife.
You know, I'm not really missing anything by serving God
and I'm glad that I've spent my 20s serving the Lord.
And I don't have to look back at some age where it's just like,
oh man, I screwed everything up.
Wherever you are now in life, 20s, 30s, whatever.
You know, realize that serving God is doing yourself a favor.
Keeping God's commandments, you're going to make your life only better.
The Bible says in verse number 17,
He that hath pity upon the poor
Lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again?
So when you bless the poor when you have pity upon the poor God sees that and God will repay you for those actions
It's not saying necessarily God's going to repay you monetarily
But God's going to bless people that do that go to Luke chapter number six. We see Jesus taught the same
mentality in Luke chapter number six
And of course, we're not talking about homeless bums that are drug addicts and alcoholics.
We're talking about actually poor people, people who work hard and still struggle.
Luke chapter 6, verse number...
31. Jesus said, And as ye would, that men should do to you.
Do ye also to them likewise?
For if ye love them, which love you, what thank ye?
For sinners also love those that love them.
See, it's easy to be friends with a rich person,
and it's easy to love people that love you back.
You know, it's harder to love your enemy.
It's harder to want to befriend someone who's poor.
Notice verse 33. And if you do good,
to them which do good to you, what thank have ye for sinners also even do the same?
It's like, look, the whole world will, you know, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
You know, literal gangs and cartels will do this.
Oh, you help us out on this, I'll help you back.
Like, that's not special to help people that help you or love people that love you.
Notice verse 34.
And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thank have ye?
For sinners also lend to sinners to receive as much again.
You know, it's not like the Jewish banking cartel is doing us a favor by giving us a high interest loan.
It's not like we should commend them and thank them, you know, for their usury.
Notice verse 35.
But love ye your enemies.
Now that's harder.
And do good and lend.
Notice hoping for nothing again.
and your rewards shall be great.
And ye shall be the children of the highest,
for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil."
You know, what's thankworthy in the eyes of God
is not you giving your rich buddy alone
so that he could pay you back
and maybe your rich buddy will, you know,
give you some benefits as a result of that.
What's thankworthy is helping someone
who you think this person can never help me.
This person can never pay me back.
This person can never bless me back in the same way.
And by doing that, the Bible says you're lending to the Lord.
That's actually what's commendable in the eyes of God.
So, you know, here's some practical applications in life.
Those who you're friends with, those who you invite out to dinner
or invite over to your house for Thanksgiving or Christmas,
you know, it doesn't always just have to be people at your equal class.
You know, sometimes that's a really good opportunity to minister to people who are in need, who maybe don't have family, who maybe couldn't afford a Thanksgiving meal or something like that.
And by doing that, you're lending unto the Lord and God's going to pay you again for that.
You know, that is a deeper level of Christianity than just doing something nice for someone expecting the same in return.
I've said this before, if you let someone in this church or another Christian borrow something of yours,
your car, whatever it is, you let them borrow, you should expect that never to return.
And if you're not okay with that, then don't even do it.
Don't even let them borrow it because you're just going to cause problems in your relationship.
Notice verse number 18 of Proverbs 19, the Bible says,
and let not thy soul spare for his crying."
So notice there's a window in every human's life
where they are able to change, where they are able to be instructed.
And look, this could be a wildly different age for all sorts of different people.
You know, you would hope that people could be receptive
and receive instruction in their 20s, 30s, 40s.
Yay, their whole life.
You know, that's ideal.
And then there's kind of an extreme here.
There's extremes where some people are very receptive,
their whole life to change.
Here's the other extreme, reprobates, right?
Reprobates are not receiving truth.
Nothing's gonna change their mind.
They just hate God.
And so that window is different for different people.
But what the Bible's teaching here is that
there could be a window where chastening thy son
is not really that effective anymore.
Now, is that at a certain age?
Absolutely not, because you see in the Bible very many times where
corporal punishment works for adults.
So you don't want to come away from this verse saying like,
oh, see, here's why you should never spank teenagers.
And if you spank teenagers, you're in sin or something like that.
No, that's not what this is saying.
But of course, we should realize that, hey, we only have our kids
in our home for a short amount of time.
We have a short amount of time, but we have direct control and influence over them.
And especially when they're younger, it's probably a lot easier than when they're teenagers.
So what should we do is chasing our children while there is hope.
Do not wait until you just have extreme problems in your home to start chasing your children.
I've seen families where they got saved a lot later in their life
and they got saved while their kids were like mid-teen years.
And look, that's pretty tough.
If you've been raising your kid for 15, 16, 17 years
with no spankings, no corporal punishment,
and then you're just going to try to implement the Bible system,
you've got an uphill battle ahead of you.
It's just true, you know?
And I'll pray for you.
I wish you the best.
Still do what the Bible says.
And this family I'm thinking of,
they did do what the Bible says.
You know, that must have been a shock to those kids' system
getting their first spanking at, you know, 15, 16.
Better late than never.
But ideally, though, we want to make sure
that we chase in our children while there's hope,
while it's going to have the most impact on them.
And so, you know, start chasing your children
when they're very young.
Don't wait until your kids are three years old,
four years old, to start getting their first spanking.
That is crazy.
Notice verse number, or I want to read the last part of that verse too, it's really important.
And let not thy soul spare for his crying, spanking should hurt, spankings should inflict pain.
Now spanking should not injure, should not maim, should not kill, shouldn't take an eye out, a tooth out, break a bone, okay?
Obviously, you know, our church is against abusing children, abusing anyone.
But it's like, today, people just love to focus on the exception.
They hear that the Bible teaches corporal punishment for kids.
They're like, well, what about psychopath reprobates
that have kids chained up in their basement and they beat them all day?
Is that your home, though?
That's no one else's, like, of course those people should be killed.
You know, anyone that would harm and abuse a child like that is a wicked person.
No one is like, I am for child abuse.
You know, you saw, like, six months ago, all these virtue signals were like,
Our church stands against child abuse.
Wow. Congratulations.
You know, here's one, I'll up you.
Our church stands against sin.
Acre Baptist Church stands against that which is bad.
And we're for that which is good.
All right, there's some virtue signaling.
It's just stupid to say things like that.
What is virtue signaling?
Making a big deal like you're taking some sort of stand
where everyone already agrees with you.
Oh, we're against child abuse.
No crap, so is everyone,
except for like the cartel reprobates or something.
What are you talking about?
You're against child abuse.
So is every single person.
I'm against husbands, abusing their wives.
So is everyone.
You know, if I saw a woman getting just attacked by a man, getting punched by a man, I would knock that dude out.
You know, there was a guy recently when we went to this 4th of July party,
this guy like stepped up on this woman.
I don't know if it's like girlfriend, whatever,
probably boyfriend-girlfriend situation,
but he like went up in her face and was getting like he was about to knock her out
and was like, dude, I'm going to come after you if you drop this lady.
You know?
We're not going to, we're not for women getting beat up, kids getting beat up.
But look, the Bible does say that your child should get spankings
and in fact the Bible says,
and now shall deliver his soul from hell.
You know, that's a different type of SWAT soul winning.
You know, you got SWAT soul winning, soul winning action team.
They got SWAT soul winning.
And you know, we need more SWAT soul winning in our world.
I would rather someone err on the side of like,
they spank too hard than that they didn't spank enough.
Because by giving your kids discipline,
you're showing them there's consequences in life.
And hopefully that translates to them realizing
there's consequences to their sin and that's called hell.
The Bible says in verse number 19,
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment,
for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
You know, elsewhere in the Bible, the Bible tells us not to make friendship with an angry
man.
And you know, this is one of the reasons why, because people who just fly off the handle,
they get angry, they're always wrathful, eventually bad things are going to happen in their life.
They're going to suffer punishment.
They're going to get in that bar fight.
They're going to get in that road rage incident.
And notice what the Bible is saying, even if you bail him out, it says, for if thou deliver
him, yet thou must do it again.
Even if you rescue him, even if you're like,
hey man, you know, he's drunk, don't worry about this guy,
he's an idiot, he's a moron, I'll take care of him.
And let's say you bail him out of some sort of situation,
you're gonna have to do it again and again and again
because that's just how wrathful people are.
And so, you know, don't be friends with someone in life.
Even if it's like an extended family member,
you don't spend too much time with people
that are just angry, fly off the handle people.
That's how you end up in these like road rage shooting events.
when that stuff is happening.
Notice it says,
The fear of the Lord tendeth to life, and he that hath it shall abide satisfied.
He shall not be visited with evil."
So again, we see yet another verse in Proverbs emphasizing the fear of the Lord
and painting fearing the Lord in a positive light.
And there's all sorts of people today that would love to tell you that you should not fear God
that you should not tremble before the Lord,
that it just means to love Him,
or just means to respect Him, or something like that.
But the Bible says that when you fear God,
if you have the fear of God,
you shall notice, abide, satisfied.
You are going to have a satisfied life when you fear God
Meanwhile people who don't fear God. What do they fear all sorts of other things right the fear of man?
Bring it a snare the Bible says lots of people are just afraid of other people
What could happen in life the what ifs of life, but those that fear the Lord they abide satisfied they have peace
He shall not be visited with evil.
See, the wicked are visited with evil all the time.
The way of transgressors is hard.
The wicked, they're suffering overdoses
from their drug use.
They're suffering poverty because of their laziness.
They're suffering Anadarko because they're lazy, you know?
They're suffering drunk driving accidents
because they don't fear God
and they're not listening to what the Bible says.
And so evil's constantly visiting them.
Verse 24, a slothful man hideeth his hand in his bosom and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Notice the picture that the Bible paints of lazy people.
Lazy people are often so lazy that even if they have food,
it just like greaves them to bring their hand to their mouth and to eat food.
And you say, no, that sounds like it's hyperbolic.
There can't really be people that lazy.
Okay, just on the way to church this evening,
I saw two people walking on the side of the road,
and they're just walking down the road,
la la la, walking down Highway 66,
they had trash and they just went.
And you know what I did? I just went,
HONG! Just give them a little judgment honk.
But it's like, hey, those people are super lazy.
Did it break? See, see, look what laziness does.
Look what laziness does. It just ruins the carpet.
No, it's just water. It's fine.
But you know what, hey, brother Matt is a nice guy,
so he came and picked it up.
But on Highway 66, there was no one to pick it up.
They're just trashing our city,
trashing our town, because they're lazy jerks.
You know what people do who are lazy?
You're like, what?
They can't even bring their hand to their mouth?
It's like, they go shopping, they park their car,
they got their shopping cart, it's like,
there's the shopping cart returns.
It's like, mm.
They just leave it in the road for it to hit some car.
Roll down the street and hit someone, block someone's parking spot.
Why? Because they're so lazy.
I mean, this is what lazy people are like.
They can't throw away their trash.
They can't put away their shopping cart.
You know, they get the wrong thing in the grocery store
and they're like, oh, I need to put this back.
So it's like, all right, let's just put the meat on the, you know, cereal aisle.
Lazy jerk.
And like, you think this is a hyperbolic, but it's like, just look around
and you'll see people really are this lazy.
You know, you go soul winning and super, super.
you know, really, really ghetto areas.
And it's just like their whole yard is filled with trash
from 1960s, 1970, just like they never clean anything up.
It just grieves them to do any work whatsoever.
You know, that is horrible.
And when the Bible's talking about blessing the poor
and giving to the poor and having mercy on the poor,
it's not talking about people who refuse to work.
It's not talking about drug addicts.
It's not talking about drugs.
In 2 Thessalonians 3, it talks about if a man will not work, neither should he eat.
So we need to balance these things.
We as Christians, we should be the most loving, giving, generous people to the people who
are truly poor in this world.
And here's the reality Christians are.
Christians are the most giving. Christians give the most money to charity.
Christians give the most money to church of any other religion in the world.
But you know what? We shouldn't take that mentality and then just apply it to people
that the Bible says that we should not apply it to.
It is not a virtue to enable a lazy jerk.
It is not a virtue to enable a drug addict.
And people get this idea like,
well, I'm not giving them money, but I'm giving them food.
The Bible specifically says food,
that they should not eat if they don't want to work.
And so look, let's help the poor.
Let's love the poor.
You know, let's have mercy on the poor.
Let's not be respectors of people like that.
But when someone is violating that,
when they're not working at all,
when they're drinking and doing drugs
and addicted to these things,
those are not people that you help by giving them money.
by letting them hunger.
You help them by letting them reach rock bottom.
That actually is the loving thing to do to them.
That's the only thing that's going to help them
to stop going down the road that they're going.
People think like, oh man.
the poor communities in America.
Here's what we need to do.
You know, we need to give the African-American community reparations.
We need to just throw more money at the Native Americans.
We just need to throw more money at the poor.
That is not helping them, that is hurting them.
You know, and I'm going to talk a lot about this on Sunday,
but welfare is a weapon.
Welfare has been weaponized and it does not help you.
Socialism does not help you.
Communism does not help you.
It harms you.
It's just like if you've ever been to Yosemite
or Yellowstone or something, it's like,
don't feed the bears because they become dependent
and they forget to do their bear stuff in the woods,
how to hunt and all that kind of stuff.
Same thing with people.
Slothleman hideeth his hand in his bosom
and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
First 25, smite a scorner and the symbol will be wear.
and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
So notice, when you're smiting a scornor,
this can kind of be symbolic today of like calling out a scornor,
preaching against a scornor, rebuking a scornor.
It's not even necessarily for that person's sake,
or for that person's good, or that person's betterment,
that you're doing it, but the hope is that the simple will be where.
And here's the reality, here's the bad thing about bad preachers or false prophets.
Yes, there are a lot of people that follow them because they're wicked, too.
And they love false doctrine and they love lies, too.
But there's also people that are simple.
You know what simple means? Stupid.
You know that God says that there are stupid people in this world.
It's just the reality.
There are simple people that will believe anything they hear.
And if you actually loved those people,
you wouldn't be offended by me calling them simple.
You'd be offended by people praying on them.
by telling them lies.
And so this is why people are like,
whoa, independent fundamental Baptist,
you guys are different than other churches
because you'll preach against other preachers.
You'll call out false prophets.
You'll say the names.
Why do you do that?
So that the simple will be where?
So that people will not be taken advantage of.
So that people's houses won't be overthrown
by false doctrine, false gospels.
So they'll be aware, notice and reprove one that hath understanding and he will understand
knowledge.
You reprove a good person, an honest, sincere person, they take that, they become so much
the wiser.
They get more knowledge.
And it's funny, sometimes, you know, people will think like all the pastors preaching
about me.
And look, if you ever think that, it's true because the word of God is for everyone.
But you know, maybe some situation you heard a sermon in your life and you're like, no,
Okay, well, you should receive that and get more knowledge from that.
But oftentimes the person who may fit that bill, what kind of is about them,
they don't even take the review.
They don't even listen.
They don't even get better as a result of the sermon.
But then oftentimes the people it wasn't about,
they receive that knowledge and receive that wisdom
and they get more wise and they get more knowledge.
But the fool or the scorner just keeps on scorning.
Keeps on being a fool and doesn't listen.
You want to be that person that receives knowledge.
when someone reproves you.
Verse 26, he that wasted his father
and chased it away his mother
is a son that causeth shame
and bringeth reproach.
Verse 27, cease, my son,
to hear the instruction that causeth
to err from the words of knowledge.
Get away from stupid people.
Get away from bad preachers.
Get away from false prophets.
Get away from ungodly influencers.
you know, all these podcasters that want to influence your worldview in a certain way,
you know, you find out someone's wicked and trying to, you know, control your mind according to
the devil's course of this world, rather than that which is right, you know, cease listening to that
person. And you know why it tells you this? Cease my son to hear the instruction that causes it to
err from the words of knowledge is because it causes people to err from the words of knowledge.
And you know what? That is probably true of some people.
But you ought to not be prideful and you ought to be like
airing on the side of, okay, maybe this could affect me.
And have that view of yourself rather than like, oh, none of this could ever affect me.
I could just read all this stuff, no problem.
I could just listen to all this stuff.
I could just listen to all these terrible preachers all day long.
It'll never affect you.
It does affect people because I see it affect people all the time.
When someone's called out, when someone's marked,
by your pastor or ladies, your husband, mark someone for you, kids, your parents mark someone for you,
you should cease to listen to that person. Verse 28, an ungodly witness scorneth judgment.
the mouth of the wicked devour with iniquity. So notice the ungodly they
scorn judgment. I hate it when people are insincere. I hate it when people don't
actually want the truth, don't actually you know acknowledge facts. It's like you
preach against someone and you list like 50 things that are serious gigantic
terrible wicked false doctrine and then people just ignore all of that and just be like yeah but
Pastor Ross preached against someone and I'm upset about it. It's like are you just that
foolish? Are you that much of a scorn? Why don't you just love judgment? Why don't you just instead
of getting so upset that Pastor Ross preached against someone that you actually consider the
content of the sermon and say like okay well what does the Bible say? Because I want to be on the
side of truth wherever that leads.
Verse number 29, judgments are prepared for
scorners and stripes for the back of fools.
Man, you know, it'd be kind of nice if we brought this back to our criminal justice system.
I would be for that.
I would vote to bring back, you know,
corporal punishment to our legal system because today,
what do we do? We lock people in a metal cage.
And supposedly, you know, that's more humane, that's more loving.
Yeah, I don't get how that works.
Like, let's say you steal something and you get locked up in a cage for, I don't know, a year.
So a year of your life is gone.
You lost your job in that year, and now you have a criminal record for the rest of your life.
And even if you've repented and you've asked God for forgiveness,
and you've given that up and you're not going to steal anymore,
you know what, you still are just a thief for the rest of your life.
How is that more loving?
You know, oh, when you were a teenager, you got into drugs
and then your entire adult life was clean and above board
and you're living a godly righteous life,
but it's just like up criminal record.
You know, that is actually inhumane.
That's actually cruel.
What would be better is like, oh, this teenager got caught,
you know, stealing a beer or something.
It'd be nice if the cop could just pull out the whip
and just like whip that kid like 40 times in the back.
He's like, oh, that's barbaric.
How is that barbaric?
That would probably fix the issue.
That would probably send that kid a message.
And you know what?
That kid, if he had to choose,
he would probably rather the beating
than getting locked in a cage for X amount of time.
But people kind of like gain say this idea like,
well, what about like really horrific crimes?
Like serial murderers and rapists
and you know, all these horrific things.
It's like, they should be killed.
That's called capital punishment.
You got corporal punishment?
Capital punishment.
I don't know if you knew this, but I like the capital punishment laws of the Bible.
I think we should bring them back.
And you know what? We should also bring back corporal punishment.
Judgments are prepared for scorners and stripes for the back of fools.
Man, it would just be nice if, you know, back in the day I heard that public schools,
you know, the teacher could just whip you, the teacher could just cane you.
You know, that's great. It'd be nice if like little Johnny in seventh grade was like,
hey, you know, Mrs. Whatever, I think the earth is flat.
She's just like, come here. She just starts beating them.
So he doesn't become one of these retard adults that thinks that the earth is flat still.
Or that denies the moon landing. That one's for free.
Judgments are prepared for scorners and stripes for the back of fools.
You know, I just want to close about this, thinking about ourselves as God's servants, as God's children.
You know, sometimes Christians act foolish as well.
And, you know, if you want to avoid those stripes from God because whom the Lord loveth, he chaseneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth,
God does beat his kids just like he commands us to beat our kids, to punish our kids, to chastise our kids.
If you don't want those punishments from God, well, you better not act to fool.
You better not be a scornor.
You better actually have the fear of the Lord
and abide satisfied in life
rather than being the scornor and the fool
that bucks at God's word, disobeys him,
goes on your own program
because you as God's child, you are going to get punished.
Oftentimes, the world will get away with things
because they're bastards and not sons.
And I don't go around spanking other people's kids,
but I spank my own for sure.
And there's things that I see other kids doing
that I think like I would spank my kid right now for this.
But I'm not going to because they're not my kid.
But when my kids do it, they get the spanking, okay?
Same thing with God.
God sees all manner of sin happening in this world
from people who are not saved
and He gives them a lot of long suffering and a lot of grace
because if they don't get saved someday,
He'll punish it all someday in hell for all of eternity.
But for those of us who are His kids,
who are ambassadors for Him,
who bear the testimony of Jesus Christ,
he sees us acting up.
You know, we could get those stripes
on the back of fools as well.
I wanna avoid that in my life.
I don't like seeing my brothers and sisters in Christ,
their life constantly being in turmoil.
How do we do that?
We gotta fear the Lord and keep his commandments.
Let's pray to the Lord.
Thank you for Proverbs chapter 19.
Thank you for all the lessons that are found therein.
I pray that you would bless us
as we continue through this study,
that you would just reveal truths to us
and help us not just to hear them,
but to apply them to our lives.
In Jesus' name we pray.
last hymn this evening is song number 139 song in your hymnal 139 I know whom I have believed
139 I know whom I have believed
139 there on the first I know by God's wondrous grace to me he hath made known nor why ever he