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this evening if you would at this time take your hymnals and turn to hymn number 228 I love to tell
the story hymn number 228 hymn 228 we'll go ahead and start there right on the first
To tell the
Dear Father, thank you for this opportunity that we have to sing praises unto you
and to your Son Jesus. I pray that you bless this service at this time
and be with Pastor Oz as well as he preaches to us, Lord. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
For our next song, if you would, turn in your hymnals to hymn number 81.
ahead and start there.
Please raise your hand and usher will bring you one
We do have our Bible memory verse of the week, which is Genesis chapter number one verse seven
And of course kids can quote this to an adult non-family member and receive a prize or receive a ice cream
Rather immediately after the service tonight on the inside. We'll see on the left there
Our service times are listed Sunday morning at 10 30 Sunday evening at 4 30 in our Wednesday Bible study through Proverbs 7 o'clock
We also have all of our soul-winning times listed there, as well as our year-to-date statistics for soul-winning and baptisms.
And speaking of soul-winning this Saturday, an upcoming event, April, I'm sorry, August 16th, this Saturday we're going to be having a soul-winning slash pickleball day because many of us here are going to the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship.
and they're having a tournament so we got to get some practice in especially those of us like
myself who haven't played in well you know over a decade so we got to get something in before
this competition so we are actually not going to be meeting here at the church building like we
normally do on Saturdays I will send the location in our signal group Friday evening and we'll meet
We'll go soul winning, we're going to meet for lunch at noon, and then we're going to
just hang out, play pickleball, have a good time, and you're welcome to stay for all of this,
parts of this, whatever you'd like to participate in. You are welcome to do so.
If you have any pickleball gear, which I realized probably very few of you do, but if you do have some please bring that
That would be a great help and then I'm also gonna pick up some new gear and supplies as well
Just for those that don't have any but I'm looking forward to it should be very very hot
So make sure you hydrate this week and you know
It's kind of a blessing that it's gonna be really hot because hopefully that means we'll have the courts to ourselves
so looking forward to that and then
August 27th through the 31st is the fire breathing
Baptist fellowships coming up real soon. I cannot wait. Hope you guys could join us down there or at
least tune into those sermons as they're preached. September 6th is our next soul-winning marathon.
That's going to be in Ardmore, Oklahoma a couple hours south. Looking forward to that. Then the
next day is going to be our next men's preaching night followed by potluck and game night. That's
Mission trip one thing real quick. Can we go ahead and mute this real fast?
Let's go ahead and have our prayer list. There's a couple additions for this week
for the Alex Lee's asking for prayer for finances.
Whitney is asking for prayer for her grandfather's cancer healing and brother Theodore's asking for prayer for his grandmother for her shoulder
Surgery, so let's go ahead and have a word of prayer as a church family Lord
We thank you for anchor Baptist church and the blessing of prayer being able to come to you and bring our requests
I pray that you would bless brother Theodore's grandmother that her surgery would go well on the 25th
Lord that you would just give the doctor's skill that you would just guide them and help her to
We also pray for Whitney's grandfather, Ted, that he would be healed from the cancer that was found in his lip and pray that the surgery would go well in the 20th Lord.
We also pray for brother Alex that you would just bless him greatly financially, bless him in his new career and just help give him the desires that he has to do.
Start his family soon, Lord.
We also pray for brother Theodore over in the Philippines that you would continue to keep him safe
That you would just help him to keep working hard as he enters these last few months over there help him to
have a great door open unto him all the way till the very end. And of course we pray for Brother Duncan over there, Pastor Stuckey, that you just keep blessing their works and allowing them to do great things for you.
We pray for the houseburgs that you bless, Brother Miles' health, and also Lord we pray for those in our church who have loved ones who are unsaved, that they would just be softened to the gospel, that they would get many opportunities.
And I pray that you bless every aspect of the service this evening. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
All right for our next song if you would at this time take your white handouts out
and turn to Psalm chapter 15, Psalm 15 and the white handouts
and the white handouts Psalm chapter 15
We'll go ahead and start there right on the first.
Lord, give me a child.
As the offering plates are being passed around, turn in your Bibles to Proverbs chapter number
20.
Proverbs chapter number 20.
Proverbs 20 of the Bible reads,
wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging,
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion,
whoso provoked him to anger,
sineth against his own soul.
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be meddling.
The sluggered will not plow by reason of the cold, therefore shall he beg and harvest
and have nothing."
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find.
The just man walketh in his integrity, his children are blessed after him.
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away, all evil with his eyes.
diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them are like abomination to the Lord.
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure and whether it be right.
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.
Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
It is not, it is not, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
There is gold in a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
He that goeth about, as a tellbearer, revealeth secrets, therefore meddle not with him that
flattereth with his lips.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness,
and inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the ender of shall not be blessed.
Say not thou, I will recompense evil, but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
Diverse weights are an abomination unto the Lord, and a false balance is not good.
Man's goings are of the Lord.
How can a man then understand his own way?
It is a snare to the man who devoureth, that which is holy, and after vows to make an inquiry.
bringeth the wheel over them. This spirit of man is the candle of the Lord
searching all the inward parts of the belly. Mercy and truth preserve the King
and his throne is upholded by mercy. The glory of young men is
their strength and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil, so do stripes, the inward parts of the belly.
Let's buy our heads forward to prayer.
Father and Heavenly, thank You for this day, and we thank You for our church,
and we just ask that You fill our classical voice here and help us get on the floor.
Man, all right, we are in Proverbs chapter 20.
Let's read verse one.
The Bible says, wine is a mocker.
Strong drink is raging.
And whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
So here, this is an absolutely wonderful verse
that everyone should memorize
and know where this is in your Bible.
Because here we learn that there's something
that is deceptive about wine.
And there's something about alcohol and wine
that's very deceiving to people.
And that's why you see so many people in our world today
drinking alcohol, getting drunk,
and you even see, unfortunately,
a lot of Christians who are deceived by wine and there's all sorts of pastors and churches
that will lie to you and teach false doctrine saying that it's okay for Christians to drink.
Oh, let's just drink in moderation. It's only a sin to get drunk. These people are what? They're
deceived by wine and the Bible calls them something. It says there that they are not
Wise. You know what that means? You're being foolish. You're being stupid.
You ought to be wise and listen to what the Bible says.
And you know, something happened just last week that is a perfect example
of the stupidity and the foolishness and the harm
that could come in your life when you drink alcohol.
We do that SWAT team soul-winning program at our church.
And of course, we had a great weekend this weekend where we got the girlfriend of this homicide victim saved.
But when I was there, she told me the story and she told me that both her boyfriend and his murderer were both drunk.
both doing drugs. And there is a life that was extinguished in Oklahoma City
that would not have been if they were sober. Because look what it says, wine is
a mocker, strong drink is raging. A lot of times when people get drunk, they fly
off the handle and just become enraged and get in all these fights and all
these issues that they would not have gotten in if they were sober.
She was even telling me this story that basically this was according to her obviously his two sides every story
but according to her this guy attacked her boyfriend and apparently her boyfriend beat the crap out of this guy and
Just knocked him out and this guy was kind of just like embarrassed and enraged that he got his butt kicked
So he came back to the house with a gun
And she said that her boyfriend was saying like,
hey, we don't have to do this, let's calm down,
I don't want to fight you again, man.
And then the guy pulled his gun out
and shot her boyfriend in the head
and killed him on the spot.
That's alcohol for you.
That happens in our country all the time.
People all the time are killed, whether by drunk drivers,
by people who are just enraged in alcohol, committing murder,
all the time in our country because of alcohol,
because it's strong drink that is raging.
Notice wine is a mocker.
You know what else wine will do if it doesn't literally kill you,
if it doesn't cause you to get in an accident and kill someone else,
it'll at the very least mock you.
It'll at the very least make you say and do stupid things that you otherwise would not have done I mean
I thought we were all taught this in school, like, hey, when you drink alcohol, the first thing to go is your judgment, right?
So people go into drinking experiences and parties, and maybe they don't even have the intention of getting drunk,
but the problem is alcohol is a poison that affects your brain, that affects your decision-making skills,
and people go into it thinking, I'll just have one beer, then they change their mind after they've had that one beer.
Then one becomes two, becomes doing shots, becomes they're extremely intoxicated and drunk and they go do stupid things.
What are some stupid things that people do? You know, they'll start, if they're not getting in fights, they'll start like playing with guns.
Like, hey, let's play with guns and let's hold them in an unsafe fashion and let's point them at each other and let's shoot them in the house.
People die from that stuff all the time.
People will literally just walk into walls, bust out their teeth,
bust their eye open, have all these injuries that they would not have had otherwise.
Or, like what happened this winter on Route 66,
people just drive their truck into the river and drown to death because they're drunk.
All sorts of just terrible things. Or what's another thing people do?
They'll just blow up their marriage and commit adultery because they were drinking alcohol.
and their judgment's gone, and they're thinking things they normally wouldn't think,
doing things they wouldn't normally do, there's plenty of people who know adultery is wrong
and would never go down that road, but you get them drunk and they will.
That happens to people all the time.
Alcohol is one of those things that is just super, super dangerous.
And you ought to never touch it or play around with it whatsoever.
And this doctrine, this idea that comes from a lot of just weak pastors
that say, well, it's okay to drink in moderation so long as you don't get drunk.
Here's the stupid thing about that.
That is a complete lie because in order to drink in moderation,
and not get drunk, you have to have been getting drunk so much
that you build up a tolerance to alcohol.
Because if you have never drank an alcoholic beverage in your life,
or it's been 10 years since you last drank, 20 years,
and we just gave you a beer right now,
you would be past just like normal, you know, whatever state you're in right now.
You would be different.
Your judgment would be different.
Your motor skills would be different.
You know what? You would not be sober.
And what does the Bible actually say?
It says to be sober, to not be drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but to be filled with the spirit,
singing to yourselves in songs and hymns and spiritual songs.
That's what we should be doing as Christians.
You know what? It is a shame to the name of Jesus Christ when Christians go around drinking alcohol.
It's a shame to Jesus Christ when you go and do stupid things, kill people, hurt yourself,
harm your family, and here's the thing, nothing good comes from drinking alcohol.
Nothing good.
Even if you've gotten lucky in your life and you have drank alcohol and you're like,
man, thank God I never did kill anyone.
I never did commit adultery.
I didn't get in a drunk driving accident.
Even if you escaped those by the grace and mercy of God, here's what I know.
You know, no one got drunk and became a better husband as a result of getting drunk.
You know what people do when they get drunk? They beat their wife.
They cheat on their wife. They scream at her. They throw objects at her.
That's what people do when they get drunk.
No one's ever drank alcohol and became a more involved father.
And a more loving father. And a more, you know, instructive father to their children.
No, no, no. What happens is people get drunk and they become fathers
that detach from their children.
They become absent fathers. They become fathers that can't provide for them because they're spending all of their money drinking alcohol
Because they're losing their job because their life is being just turned upside down by alcohol
No one's ever drank alcohol and showed up to work and have been more productive has contributed more to the company
No one's ever drank alcohol and opened up their Bible and got more truth from the Holy Spirit
No one's ever drank alcohol and preached a good sermon
I mean, if alcohol is so great, why is it that I can't do it to serve God?
I mean, if I was drinking alcohol right now, I wouldn't be able to preach.
If you were drinking alcohol right now, you wouldn't be able to go soul winning.
You wouldn't be able to lead someone to Christ.
So if it's something that's not good, we should just stay away from it.
And not only is it just not good, it's extremely destructive and terrible is what it is.
It's a poison.
One thing that I like about my generation is that there's kind of this shift that's happening
amongst young people right now where a lot of people are just rejecting alcohol.
and look, whether you do that for a religious or a health reason,
I'm just happy that less people are drinking alcohol.
Because people who drink alcohol are stupid.
And even unsaved people should have enough smarts to say,
like, wow, this is giving me man boobs.
Wow, this is causing me to do stupid things.
Wow, this is affecting my heart and my teeth and my throat
and my stomach.
And maybe I shouldn't drink this poison.
Retards drink alcohol, folks.
Verse two, the Bible says this.
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion.
Whoso provoked him to anger,
sineth against his own soul.
So, you know, this is just how Proverbs is.
It just seems like I'm going all these different rabbit trails,
because I am.
That's just what this book is like.
But now it's just giving us this idea that, hey,
people that are in authority in our lives,
we should go through life trying to please them,
trying not to make them
You ought to show up at work with a heart that is desiring to make your boss happy.
And ultimately, the reason you're doing that is because you fear God.
Because you want to make Jesus Christ happy.
Because when we go to work as men, we're supposed to obey our bosses.
We're supposed to do service unto them as unto the Lord.
And the Bible says, don't even do this to the kind and to the gentle,
but even do it to the forward.
So it doesn't even matter if you go to work and you have a mean boss.
If your boss is unsaved and he's mean to you and he's unreasonable,
you should still try to please him. You should still want to please him.
And look, that goes for any authority in your life. You know, ladies,
if you feel like, oh, my husband's being a jerk, my husband's being unreasonable,
it doesn't matter what you think. You should try to please him.
You should try to be pleasing in his eyes. And you know what?
This goes, like I said, for any authority. You get pulled over by a cop.
And the cop is a jerk to you?
You know what you should do?
You should try to defuse that situation.
You should try to de-escalate.
You should not mouth off to police officers.
Contrary to some of the idiots that comment on our YouTube
livestreams saying we should fight police officers.
Oh yeah, you should fight back.
You're going to get yourself killed.
Don't listen to that terrible advice.
Know what you should do is the fear of a king
is as the roaring of a lion.
Whoso provoked with him to anger,
sin it against his own soul.
You're only going to hurt yourself
by pissing off the police because you're not going to win.
You've never seen anyone win before.
You won't be the one that actually wins.
You will lose.
And so you want to appease that anger.
And if they did something wrong, fight it in court.
Don't go fighting police officers.
Don't mouth off to them.
Notice what verse 3 says,
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife.
But every fool will be meddling.
Notice, it's the foolish person
that just wants to meddle in strife.
And notice, the term meddling there,
it kind of indicates to me that
it's not like the strife came to them.
It's not like it's a godly fight,
like we're supposed to contend for the faith.
It's like you're just going around
looking for strife to meddle in.
This is a sad and pathetic existence.
Like if your existence in life is just to go find some Scuttlebutt, find some drama,
find some strife to get involved with, the Bible says you're a fool.
But rather, it is an honor for a man to cease from strife.
You know, you don't need to respond to every single person that says something nasty about you.
You don't need to respond to every single comment, every single foolish person, every single fight that exists.
You know, sometimes I'm talking to people and people will be like,
oh yeah, this person said that about you and I'm like, yeah, but that person's small potatoes and I don't care.
and let them say whatever they want.
And the Bible says, hey, it is an honor for a man
to cease from strife.
What would you think about the president of the United States
if one of these like blue-haired leftist college women
like put an ex-post against Trump or something
and he's just like going back and forth with her all day?
She'd be like, this is like dishonoring to you, right?
But it's an honor for a man to cease from strife.
Verse number four says the sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold therefore shall he beg and harvest and have nothing.
So the sluggard is the lazy man and he's not going to accomplish the responsibilities that he has which is plowing the ground because of the cold.
And as a result of that he's going to suffer loss. He's going to have nothing during that harvest.
And really, this just goes to show that lazy people,
they will find an excuse to not do the things
that need to be done.
You know what this lazy person probably did?
They woke up on that cold Idaho morning
or that cold Montana morning and they looked at their field
and they were one of these people that says this,
I just don't have the motivation this morning.
Right? I just love those people. They just live their life based on motivation.
No, no, it doesn't matter if it's cold, if it's hot.
It doesn't matter. You have to do what you need to do in life.
That's how you get fed.
You know, us as men, if we just, every time we didn't feel like going to work,
we didn't go to work, what would happen to us?
We would have nothing.
At least you should have nothing if you don't work.
You know, unfortunately,
Bleeding hearts will give you money for nothing these days, but if you don't work you should have nothing
That's like the natural result of being lazy
And so in life we have to be people that overcome hardship
That do not only just focus on the things that are difficult in our life
But we're willing to face those things head on and just get over it. Yes as man. Guess what?
It sucks to wake up early. I don't care what job you have. They're gonna be days that are not fun
Even people who I know that they like have their dream job.
They're doing what they love.
Even they tell me sometimes, hey, sometimes though it's just a job.
And sometimes though it's really hard.
And so it doesn't matter what work you're doing.
You need to have the character to work hard no matter what.
Hey, think about soul winning, right?
When it's cold here, a lot of people want to quit soul winning.
A lot of people don't want to do it.
Don't be that person.
Be that person who's like, hey, you know, even though it's cold,
I'm going to be like brother Zach and put on the thousand layers
and look like one of those things from among us walking around.
But, you know what I mean?
But hey, he's out there plowing and he's going to reap.
Praise God for that.
Other people are looking real sharp and comfortable doing nothing
and they're not going to be reaping anything.
Work hard even when it's cold.
Bible says in verse 5, counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
So notice the second part of that verse. This is talking about a wise person. It's a man of understanding.
He has to draw out counsel. He has to draw out advice out of a person. Why? Because a wise person knows that other wise people
are usually not those who are always running their mouth and giving the free advice.
Here's what I've noticed.
The people who always just want to give free advice,
unsolicited, personal advice to people, those are usually fools.
Those are usually people who have no experience in anything whatsoever.
Just spend any amount of time on X, and there will just be a plethora.
There will be a horde of single guys who hate women giving you marriage advice.
They're everywhere.
You know, the fool just proclaims his own foolishness.
His mouth just pours without foolish things.
But a wise person, you know who they go to?
They go to that person they have to kind of draw out some counsel from.
Draw out some advice from why because people who are truly wise
They're generally not just vomiting out all of their knowledge. The prudent man conceals knowledge
Proverbs says now obviously it's different in a teaching setting in a preaching setting. You're going out. You're giving unsolicited advice
But like on a one-on-one level those people in your life who are just constantly
talking and giving their opinions and their thoughts and their ideas, what you should do,
those are not always the best sources to go to. Sometimes you need to go to people. And here's
the thing, if you're wise, you will do this. If you're smart, you will go to people that you know
are qualified, love you, care about you, want the best for you, have experience, wisdom, knowledge,
and you'll draw that out of them. We'll get back to advice a little bit later in the sermon.
But notice verse 6, it says,
Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness,
but a faithful man who can find.
Everyone's going to tell you, follow my advice.
I'm the smartest person. You need to listen to me.
I have the great ideas.
Everyone's going to proclaim their own goodness,
but a faithful man who can find.
It's actually rare to find someone who's faithful in life.
And one way you can look at this is just like having faith in general.
You know, everyone in this world thinks they're good, but it's few that have faith in Jesus Christ.
It's very few. You go soul-winning. You knock on people's door.
Hey, what do you think it takes to get to heaven?
Live a good life.
I'm a good person.
We even run into people who are foolish enough sometimes to think,
I've never sinned.
I've never done anything wrong.
Hey, most men, they'll proclaim their own goodness,
but a faithful man who can find.
It's rare.
then even amongst those that are saved.
Hey, Jesus heals the 10 lepers
and then everyone goes away except for one.
Only one gives glory to Jesus Christ.
Only one thanks him for the gift.
How many people do we get saved
and never thank us if you will?
Or never thank God if you will?
How many people do we go out and we get them saved, but they never come to church?
Who knows if they're reading their Bible? Who knows if they're praying?
But I bet you they think well of themselves, because here's what I've noticed.
Is that the Christians who don't go to church and the Christians who don't read the Bible
are the most prideful Christians on planet Earth.
It is insane, and again, you see this especially online, where a pastor will post something,
he'll post a Bible verse, he'll be dropping some knowledge, and then just all the swarms
of Christians, they claim the name of Christ.
But they're not reading their Bible.
They're not going to church.
You'll see women rebuking pastors.
It's like, how do you know this is a prideful person?
Well, it's just like, here's a woman rebuking a pastor.
Here's anyone rebuking a pastor, right?
And they're never pouring out good doctrine
and truth and solid teaching.
It's just foolishness and stupidity
and bad advice and bad doctrine.
But they think they're a good person.
Most men will proclaim their own goodness.
They think they're wonderful, but a faithful man
who can find it is so rare in this world.
to find someone that is faithful.
And you know what?
You ought to be the exception to that.
You ought to examine yourself and realize,
you're probably the rule in life, not the exception,
but you should strive to be the exception in this case.
And not be someone who's just talk only.
Not be someone who looks into the law of liberty
and just deceives yourself by being a hearer only.
Right? A lot of people think they're so good because their pastor goes soul-winning.
Or they think they're so good because their husband reads the Bible.
Or they think they're great because their friend goes soul-winning.
It's like, what are you doing though? Are you a faithful person?
Do you, you know, lick your finger and see where the wind blows?
Be like, am I going to church this week? It's like, are you that person?
Are you that person that it's like you'll go soul-winning every once in a great while when that motivation just hits you just right?
Or are you gonna be that person who's actually faithful? That's a rare man today, a faithful person.
That's who I'm praying for to come to a church like this. I'm praying for faithful people to come here.
You know, we don't want to just fill our church with bodies that don't care about the Bible,
that are super prideful and puffed up and bringing into vision.
You know, we want people who are faithful to the Word of God, faithful to the things of God.
Verse 7, the just man walketh in his integrity.
His children are blessed after him, you know, what does a faithful person look like?
It's someone walking with integrity. It's someone who is doing the right things in life.
Someone whose character is real. They're not a hypocrite. What you see is what you get. That's a person that has integrity and
This is something that unfortunately is just slipped away from our society. You know, many of us have heard stories about grandpa or grandma
It was like hey, their word was their bond
When they said something, they were going to get it done.
If they told you they were going to be there, they were going to be there.
You know, we live in flake out generation.
Where everyone's like, oh yeah, I'll sign up for this.
Yeah, I'll do this plan.
Yeah, I'll be there at this time.
It's just like flake, flake, flake.
And people's word doesn't really mean much anymore.
And even working for Pastor Shelley.
Pastor Shelley had to tell me this doctrine called everyone sucks.
And this doctrine I had to realize is very, very important when you're planning events.
You have to count on the restaurant failing you.
You have to count on the soul winning captain that you assigned to help you failing you.
You have to count on the person, hey, bring the maps. You have to count on them failing you.
You have to just count on everything going wrong and then when things go right, you can just be relieved and happy and excited.
Hey, praise God when that happens.
And then you can just be like, oh, nice, a faithful brother.
Oh, nice, Chick-fil-A was faithful unto us once again.
It's like, Anadarko? No. Unfaithful.
But boy, did they proclaim their own goodness, right?
You just have to adopt this mentality, especially when you have responsibility.
When things are riding on you, you kind of have to adopt this mentality of everyone sucks.
Now, this isn't like...
condescending, like you hate people, stuff like that.
He's just saying, like, people are going to let you down.
People are going to fail you.
That's what it's saying.
But man, it's nice to meet someone with integrity.
Verse eight.
The Bible says, a king that sitteth in the throne of judgment,
scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
So, the king here, the authority figure, he just has to look at people a certain way.
He just has to give a certain look and it scatters away all evil from their eyes.
How does this happen?
How is it that an authority figure could get to the point where they can kind of chastise people
cause people to stop doing wrong from just a look.
You see, moms do this.
Moms do this really well, right?
Where it's just like, la la la, kids are being crazy.
And then you see that look for mom
and it's impending doom and destruction.
And sometimes it could cause those children
to be scattered away from evil or dad's look
or something like that.
How does this happen?
It comes through enforcing rules.
It comes from enforcing laws and when authority does not ever exercise authority,
when authority does not ever crack heads, they will never have this power.
They will never have this ability.
And skip really quickly down to verse number 30.
Verse number 30, last verse of the chapter.
Notice what it says, the blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil.
So do stripes the inward parts of the belly notice how corporal punishment works folks
You know, if we took criminals out and beat them, flogged them,
canged them, caused wounds where they would have to heal from those.
That's the blueness of the wound.
It's kind of like a wound's healing over, that bruising is healing over.
Those of us who did paintball recently and shot each other a million times at point blank range,
we saw this blueness of the wound, right?
And when you've done wickedly,
and you're being punished physically,
notice it has a spiritual effect on you.
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil.
So do stripes, the inward parts of the belly.
So hey, corporal punishment, it works, folks.
People are so freaked out about the recidivism rate
and the reoffending rate of criminals
and like how do we reform them while they're in prison?
You know, oftentimes you can't.
And a lot of the times, the people you're trying to reform are reprobates anyways, and you can't.
But what the Bible does say, well actually reform some people, is beating them.
Is giving them a whooping.
And so like, if this works for adults, don't you think this will work for kids?
Now obviously the type of spankings that kids are getting are way less than what is described here
But hey, I'm not even saying there could never be a time where a kid really deserves to get lit up because you know
I think about examples like what if some grown teenage son called his mom a b-word or something like that
You know that kid needs to get dropped
That kid needs a serious whooping and today you have all these like holier than nows living in perfect la-la land
Where nothing could ever go wrong and their their families are so perfect and they can't think of situations where people are actually
Experiencing in life that might cause a necessity for something like this
But like my Bible here says the blueness of a wound cleansed the way evil
So do stripes the inward parts of the belly and so if it works for adults and it works for children
You know who else it might work for?
And that's a really weird thing that's been taught in the last couple months
that you should never spank a teenager for any reason.
And spanking teenagers doesn't work!
It doesn't work!
Okay, well then why does it work on adults?
You know what you're doing? You're preaching second opinions chapter one.
And you know what? I like preaching proverbs.
I like preaching the words of Solomon.
I like preaching the words of God,
not just getting up and preaching my opinion,
because there's nothing that I could say
that's more interesting than what the Bible already said.
You know what, I find Proverbs pretty interesting.
I find every verse in the Bible
fun and interesting.
You don't need to just hear my opinion every week.
You know what it is, if you just say like
spanking teens, never works,
hey, that's your opinion.
And you're welcome to be wrong.
You're welcome to just deny clear scripture if you just want to be a fool.
It's pretty sad when a pastor does that.
You're welcome to be wrong, but hey, that's not what the Bible says.
We are Baptists. We base our beliefs not on our emotions,
not what is socially acceptable, not what will make the world go,
but what the Bible actually says.
And so the Bible says punishing people actually works.
And you know what? Capital punishment works too.
Because people will be like, oh, you know, capital punishment doesn't work.
It doesn't work as a deterrent.
Yeah, because you keep them on death row for 50 years.
And you give them free meals every day for 50 years.
And because you put so few people to death.
But it's like if we started putting everyone to death that the Bible says to be put to death,
you better believe that would be a deterrent.
You know, we got adultery rampant in our society today.
You think a high-figured person like a CEO of an AI company would have gone in a public place
with his adulterous mistress if he knew he'd be put to death if he was caught?
No, he would not.
A lot of people would be deterred from sin.
by enforcing the rule of law.
That's why he says a king that sitteth in the throne of judgment
scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
So what's the application for leaders?
You need to enforce the law.
You need to enforce some rules.
And if you want to be a parent
that could give your kid the look
and then actually obey you,
you got to give them the rod
when they need it.
You know, if you want to be a government that's not having to worry about, like, violent uprising and looting gangs
and all this crazy violence and just insanity in our streets today,
you know, the police need to get a little more brutal, if you ask me.
Put that on a headline, Oklahoma. The police needs to get a little bit more brutal.
We need to have more executions in our state.
You know, the headline back there says, like, Oklahoma executions are at, like, an all-time low.
They're lulled. We need to bring that up.
because it should be like that the look of a police officer will scare people who are wicked.
You know what Romans 13 says? If you are wicked, you should be afraid.
I'm just afraid of cops.
Are you wicked?
Yep.
Are you a criminal?
Right.
You should be afraid.
Now, if you're doing what's right, then you've got no reason to be afraid.
You know what?
People who creep into churches, who are false prophets, who want to spread false doctrine,
who want to sow division, who want to teach lies, who want to be a flat earther, I hope
you're a little bit afraid of me because I actually will enforce the rule of law.
I actually will kick people out of church.
And sometimes churches just get out of control and pastors are like,
what's going on?
You know, I can't scatter away this evil.
Where it's like, well, here's a clear case of unrepentant sin.
Here's a clear, you know, couple in open fornication.
They're unrepentant.
You won't kick them out.
I wonder why your church is so filled with sin.
It's like, hey, here's these clear railers.
Here's all the evidence you could ever want in the world.
Are you going to kick them out?
No.
Well, you have no power then.
And you're harming your own credibility.
You're harming your own leadership capital.
You know, leadership is influence, right?
Well, that influence goes away
when you don't ever enforce the rule of law,
when you don't enforce what the Bible says.
And so look, I'm willing to crack skulls spiritually
if I need to.
Now, thank God, we don't have that issue.
We have a lot of unity,
and partially because I think all the losers
who knew that about me left right away.
It's like I moved here and just half the church leaves.
But hey, praise God, because we're doing well.
Verse number nine, the Bible says,
Who can say, I have made my heart clean?
I am pure from my sin.
Man, who can say this?
Go soul-winning, and you'll run into a bunch of idiots
that say this sometimes.
But of course, those who say they have no sin,
they've deceived themselves, and the truth is not in them.
The Bible says they deceived themselves
because none of us are buying it.
None of us are tricked whatsoever.
We know you're a sinner.
And what's funny, again, those who actually read the Bible every day,
those who actually go to church,
we usually have a much more low view of ourselves.
And we realize how sinful we are.
We realize how wicked we are, how rebellious we are,
how the thought of foolishness is sin.
We know we don't go a single day without sinning.
And anything that's good about us, you know what we realize?
That's only because of the wisdom of God's Word.
I mean, if you're seeing prosperity in your life, you're seeing good in your life,
and that's a result of you following the Bible, you don't get the credit for that.
You got it from the Bible.
You know, if our church is doing well, we don't get the credit for that.
We got it all from the Bible.
It's funny how that works, like the people who read the most scripture,
the people who are the most faithful to church are usually the most humble people.
But those who think they're so great,
they're the ones that are in the most grievous sin and open defiance to God.
Divers, weights, and divers, measures,
both of them are like abomination to the Lord.
For sake of time, we're not gonna be able to hit
every verse this evening.
Notice verse 11, even a child is known by his doings,
whether his work be pure and whether it be right.
So, you know, children in our society,
many people have been brainwashed into this belief
that, you know, kids should not be put to work,
kids should not have to, you know,
do hard labor or work and do already chores
at their parents' house.
But that's not what the Bible teaches.
It says, even a child is known by his doings,
whether his work be pure and whether it be right.
Kids should be taught how to work.
Look, young men, young boys should constantly be working.
I think one of the most damaging things for kids
is they go to school and they have summer break.
And oftentimes, in summer break, you know, if you're not putting your kids through sports
and making them do yard work and making them do chores, you know what they're going to
do during that six-week period?
They are going to sit on their butt and play video games for six weeks straight.
Now here's the thing.
This is what's scary kids start doing that at what seven eight years old nine years old and they do that 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 and then you think it's just gonna stop when they become an adult and they're just gonna become responsible and
Hardworking and you know super contributor to society. That's not what is happening
Many people are in just a state of arrested development
because they were not taught how to work hard as kids
and they're just like 20 year old babies,
30 year old babies, 40 year old babies
that don't know how to work hard.
It would be a service to your children to make them work hard.
Especially the boys because they've got to go provide someday.
But let me say this, not just the boys.
You know the world has this idea that a stay-at-home mom
Doesn't do anything and look if you're doing it, right? That should be laughable to you, right?
There are some moms there are some stay-at-home moms probably that just watch soap operas all day
Watch tiktok all day and don't do anything
But look that ought not to be the case in our homes in a Christian home
No, no, no a stay-at-home mom is working very hard
You read Proverbs 31, her candle's not going out by night.
She's laying her hand to the spindle.
She's holding forth to the disc staff.
She's making clothes and selling it to the merchant.
She's providing food for her household,
a portion for her maidens.
There's a lot of work that goes into running a household.
You know, it is an insane amount of work
and the more kids you have, the more work it becomes.
And so, look, you know it would be a good service to our young girls growing up in our church,
young ladies growing up, is make them work too.
Because you don't want to give them this false impression.
Just like the kid playing video games, he thinks, this is what life has.
This is life in the summer.
You don't want these girls growing up just think like, this is life.
I just wake up and do whatever I want in the house.
And then dad comes home and he pays for everything.
No, no, no, you need to work hard.
You want to have a good marriage? You want to have a clean house.
You want to have a good marriage? You want to cook good food.
You want to, you know, that's what wives need to be doing today, and that takes work.
Notice what it says in verse 12, the hearing ear and the seeing eye,
the Lord hath made even both of them.
Think about this first just from a purely carnal perspective.
You know, it's a blessing to be able to see and to hear.
Why? Because, you know, we live in such a fast-paced world and we're so distracted constantly but life in general is really just a beautiful thing.
Life in general is really just a gift from God and so many things that we take for granted, you would miss so bad if you lost your hearing and your eyesight.
Right? Something as simple as music, you know, singing the hymns, praising the Lord, hearing God's people, singing out to Him.
You know, that is a beautiful sound that we probably take for granted.
You know, hearing the voice of your wife,
the laughter of your wife, hearing your children's voices.
These are such sweet and precious things to us
that we often probably take for granted.
But what a gift that God's given us, that hearing ear.
That seeing eye to allow us to see our children, our spouse, you know, beautiful sunsets, the creation, the moon, the stars, all the beauty of this world.
I mean, that is a great gift from God that we can see those things and hear those things.
And of course, God uses carnal truths to illustrate spiritual truths.
How is it that you can hear and see spiritually? You know, that's from God too.
because it's the ministry of the Holy Ghost to teach us what the Bible says,
to allow us to get those deep truths of Scripture to truly see
the Word of God. How does that happen? It comes from God. That's a great gift
and blessing from Him that we should not take for granted.
Verse number 13, the Bible says, love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.
Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread."
So according to the Bible, why are a lot of people poor?
Because they just oversleep. They just love sleep.
And look, there's nothing wrong with sleep.
The Bible talks about not wanting to give up your beloved sleep.
I'm for you, getting healthy amount of sleep.
It's good for your body. It's good for you in general.
But you don't want to be a person who just loves sleep.
It's just you live to sleep.
That's not really what God has called us to do.
And people could just love sleep so much
that it literally affects their finances.
Missing work, being late for work.
And you know, I always think of the homeless population
because it's like, I'm walking into work at about 6.20, 6.30.
And I'm walking over sleeping homeless people.
And then I'll go out on service calls throughout the day.
And it's like 9 AM, sleeping.
It's like, all right, noon, sleeping.
2 o'clock, hey, they're awake.
The heroin ran out, the alcohol wore off, the fentanyl wore off, they're finally waking
up.
And it's like, oh, why are they poor?
Oh, because of oppression and because of white privilege and because of all these different
things.
No, it's because they're lazy.
It's because they won't open their eyes and again, especially proverbs it uses these like overly literal sayings
It's not just saying like oh open your eyes and you'll receive money right saying what it's saying is go work
That's what it's saying you open your eyes you wake up you get to work
And it doesn't even matter if you have a job it doesn't matter or if you're a stay-at-home mom
It doesn't matter if you're a child, you know, you should wake up and do something immediately
And not just like sitting around aimlessly doing nothing.
Hey, even if you don't have a secular job,
you clock into kids or, you know, stay at home,
wives, something like that.
Wake up, read the Bible.
Wake up, pray.
Wake up, make breakfast.
Wake up and do something productive.
Open nine eyes.
Thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Verse 14 says it is not.
It is not, saith the buyer,
but when he has gone his way,
then he boasts it.
The Bible is such a cool book
because it's not just
stories about Old Testament
prophets and miracles and stuff like that.
The best psychology book you could possibly
read
is the Bible. The Bible often gives us these insights to human nature,
even it's describing like what human nature is like during
business transactions, during some sort of like marketplace exchange
and it's warning you like hey people if they want to
get something from you they'll kind of downplay the value
of something that you own. They'll act like uh it's not that good,
oh your house is super messed up, oh this car is actually not that great,
That's not the truth.
That's not them walking with integrity and being upright.
They're trying to deceive you, trying to manipulate you.
Then as soon as they get that which they were after,
they run away and they're boasting.
Why are they boasting?
Because they know that it was really good.
They know that it was something to be desired.
And so this is what someone who's manipulative,
who does not have integrity would do.
I believe you should be someone that deals uprightly
in your business practices.
Nothing wrong with trying to get a good deal,
but you know what, there is something wrong with lying.
There is something wrong with manipulating people.
You shouldn't do that.
But you know, this tactic that the wicked
will use out in the marketplace
is the same tactic that the devil does
and his minions do to try to get you to sin.
They will try to get you mentally to devalue the commandments of God, or devalue your relationship
with the Lord, or devalue, for example, your virginity is a good example.
There's plenty of guys that would love to just snow young ladies and convince them that
their virginity is not something special.
Oh, we're just having fun.
Oh, that doesn't mean anything.
Oh, you believe in that old thousand-year-old book?
Oh, it is not, it is not, it's not a big deal,
but you better believe that when the buyer
has gone his way, he's boasting.
He's boasting to his friends about what he got from you and so you know what you'd be such a fool as a young virgin lady
To just give that gift up to some sleaze bag because guess what it is something precious
And when someone's telling you that it is not it is not they're liar
They're manipulative you ought to get away from a person like that
You know one of the most wicked people on this earth right now is like Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate
and Tristan Tate got up on video, on camera, and he was bragging about one of his favorite
things to do, is to go entice young virgins specifically.
Not just young girls, not just girls that he thinks are attractive, no, no, he's not
interested in that.
He's not even interested in it for the physical reason.
He's in it for a spiritually dark reason to defile someone.
To harm someone to hurt someone and he brags about how he goes and entices this young virgin because he's got money
And he's so cool and he can go entice these ladies
He takes their virginity and then he discards them like trash
He's bragging about how often he does this to ladies, ladies, you ought to protect yourself.
You ought not to devalue yourself and think that the Bible's out to get you and Christianity's
out to get you and your pastor's out to get you and your dad's out to get you and they're
trying to keep you from having fun.
No, no, no, all of that is there because we love you and are trying to protect you because
a man that wants to commit fornication with you does not love you.
They are saying, it is not, it is not, but when they leave, they're bragging about it.
Notice verse 15, there is gold and a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
So the Bible is saying, hey, there's an abundance in comparison.
There's an abundance of gold and all these rubies, but you know what's really rare in this world?
The lips of knowledge.
There's all these different things that are available in this world that's commonplace, like bad churches.
like bad pastors, like bad people in general.
But you know, at the lips of knowledge,
that's a rare find right there.
And you know, if you've got a good church,
you've got a good friend, you've got, you know,
pastor friends, if you're a pastor,
other churches that we're friends with
that are knowledgeable, wise, godly,
you know, that's a rare thing.
You should hang on to those things
and not discard them so quickly.
Notice says, take his garment that is surety for a stranger,
and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
So these people you don't know very well,
you don't want to trust them.
Verse 17, bread of deceit is sweet to a man,
but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
So this is, again, just human nature, human beings,
people who are wicked, or even sometimes Christians
who are very carnal and baxan, they will derive pleasure.
from doing wrong, from, for example, stealing, right?
You know, we've all seen those movie scenes,
it's like the kids are stealing and they're running away,
they're laughing, they think it's a good time
or something like that.
Bread of deceit, something you've gotten through
wicked means, through deceitful means,
it's sweet to a man.
but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
You know, sometimes your mouth can literally be filled with gravel.
You know, you think it's so fun to go shoplifting until the cop tackles you and your mouth is filled with gravel, literally.
Or again, let's think about the fornication example.
You know, freaks like Tristan Tate just think it's so much fun to go and consume this bread, if you will, this bread of deceit.
He thinks it's so much fun, but you know what? In the long run, he's not going to be laughing in hell.
And you know what, Christians that would go out and commit fornication, you're not going
to hell, but guess what, God can punish you very severely, and you're not going to be
laughing when you've got the itch, when you've got the burning, when you've got the STDs,
when you've got the bastard child you have to pay for.
Or, you know what a lot of people find themselves in a situation of, is they knock up some girl
and then she says, hey honey, I'm getting an abortion.
Boy wouldn't that be fun to face your girlfriend that you knocked up is gonna go murder your child all because you were an idiot and
committed fornication
You think something sweet in the short term,
but in the long run your mouth's going to be filled with gravel.
This is why we as Christians, we ought to just trust in the Lord with all our heart
and not lean on our own understanding. And realize, if there's something your flesh
wants in life, but the Bible says no,
God has a good reason for saying no. He's not
just trying to be a fun stickler. He's not trying to keep us from blessings.
In fact, he's trying to make us have the most blessed life imaginable.
The Bible says in verse number 18,
every purpose is established by counsel
and with, notice this, good advice
make war.
There is a lost art today
in when it comes to getting good advice.
There is all sorts of people in this world
all over the internet.
There's a podcast about every subject.
There's every flavor of false prophet you can imagine
that's willing to tell you anything you want to hear.
You know, people love to heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears, turning away
their ears from the truth.
That's what people love today and those people are willing and able to oblige at any time.
But you know what's hard to do is to find good advice.
We need to get back to, you know, because we live in this social media age that's kind
of a double-edged sword, that on one hand it's cool because everyone's platformed and
We could use that voice to share the gospel in God's word.
Here's the downside. Everyone has a voice.
And you know what? There's a lot of stupidity out there.
There's a lot of bad people out there.
And you know, it used to be in this world
that you actually had to through living an honorable, credible life.
Through being a godly person, be able to gain any influence whatsoever.
You actually had to accomplish something.
Now it's like if you just figure out the algorithms and you pay the promos and you have the right
lighting and you say the most shocking things, even if they're untrue, you too can have a
big following.
You need to be wise on how to find good advice.
Here's how to find good advice.
Find someone who has succeeded in the area you need advice in.
You know, I saw Pastor Anderson's wife today
posted that they are having their 25th wedding anniversary.
Happy anniversary to you guys.
Hey, that's a great encouragement right there.
That is, you know, if you want some marriage advice,
those would be some good people to go to.
And you know what's funny is like,
she posted some marriage advice on that post
and I was just like, checks out, great advice.
All of that was great biblical, godly advice
coming from a woman who actually knows
what she's talking about.
Coming from a godly woman who's lived a credible life in the ministry serving others, blessing other people, raising children, someone who actually deserves to be listened to.
Pastor Anderson, a man that deserves to be listened to.
not just these morons on the internet,
not these wicked Catholic women influencers
that have been going viral this week
with millions and millions of views
of all these stupid loudmouth feminist Catholic influencers
telling men and chastising men saying like
you don't need the physical relationship,
men don't need the physical relationship,
I mean look at Jesus,
you got these married women.
You've got these married women that are like fawning all over their celibate Catholic priests.
Which, let me let you in on a little secret.
A lot of Catholic priests are not celibate.
That's why your church is full of pedophilia.
Okay, but they're just like showing on the screen. Look at this masculine Catholic priest and he doesn't require the physical relationship
Look at all these. No, we don't need that. We've just been brainwashed
You're an idiot. You're a fool and you're a perfect example of why the Bible says I suffer not a woman to teach
Nor you serve authority over the man, but to be in silence
Women should not be teaching the Bible
You should leave the teaching for the home and all of that stuff for a qualified man of God.
You know what? The Catholic Church is so wicked.
It's funny how it says in the epistles to Timothy
that in the latter times, people are going to depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
And then the Bible lays out what are those doctrines of devils?
The first thing, forbidding to marry.
You want to know why? Because it is Satanic to preach to withhold this relationship.
Because if you read 1 Corinthians 7, the Bible says,
Hey, give Dubin Evelynce to each other.
The husband doesn't have power over his own body.
The wife doesn't have power over her own body.
You're supposed to give Dubin Evelynce.
Otherwise Satan can tempt you for your incontinency.
Sounds to me like men need this in their life.
Sounds to me like everyone needs this because it's saying just they could be tempted by Satan for their incontinency.
And you know what, we are not shy away from this topic.
This is a demonic teaching today that is chastising men or acting like men are pigs and men are terrible creatures because they desire this in their life.
Look, women denying this from their husband is a recipe for disaster.
If you want to ruin your marriage, then go ahead and deny this from your spouse.
Both ways. Vice versa.
And look, adultery is always wrong, and adulterers should be put to death.
But if you just refuse to have this relationship with your spouse,
it's almost like you're begging them to commit adultery on you.
You said that's scary. You should be scared.
Are you trying to scare me into being with my spouse? Whatever it takes, honey.
But stop listening to these loudmouth, stupid Catholic women
that are teaching satanic doctrine.
It's ridiculous.
You know, what are we talking about?
Finding good advice.
You know who you should go to for advice on the Bible?
How about a saved pastor?
Hey ladies, you know who you should go to for advice on the Bible?
Your husband first.
That's what the Bible says.
If she will learn anything, let her ask her husband at home.
You know, why don't you go to a saved man of God who's actually qualified?
It's just amazing to me today how little respect people have for the office of a bishop in general in this world.
I'm not saying amongst our types of churches, but just in general,
people don't view being a pastor as something that's hard or something that had to be earned,
or there's some real qualifications there that have some teeth to it.
Every moron wants to explain the Bible to you.
Every moron wants to tell you how churches should be run and tell you what the truth is.
No one wants to listen to a pastor today.
You know, if you're wise, you would listen to a pastor.
If you're wise, you would go to church.
You know, get some good advice from the Bible itself.
Get some good advice from your parents.
Get some advice from people who actually know you in real life.
You know, leave the dumb Catholic women out of it.
People today have failed at learning how to find good advice.
And people have fallen trap.
Fall into this trap of thinking that they need to give their input in every situation.
And it's frustrating to me as a pastor who cares about people, who knows that things that are preached,
things that are said, people are going to make decisions based on those things that will affect their life
positively or negatively.
And it's like everyone on Facebook wants to give the marriage advice.
Everyone on Facebook wants to tell you how to raise kids.
It's like, man, people need some humility.
People need to realize that maybe you're not the smartest person in the room.
Maybe you're not the smartest person on Facebook.
Maybe you should have some deference to people who have more experience than you,
more wisdom than you.
But again, that's why you have to draw that advice out of people who are wise
because it's the fools that are just vomiting out their opinion
and their advice to you about everything.
He that goeth about as a tail bearer revealeth secrets.
Therefore, meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips."
So it's funny how this works, but people who are flattering you, they are the ones who
end up talking crap about you and revealing secrets to you.
And oftentimes people are flattering you to receive those secrets from you.
What is flattery?
Just over the top, insincere praise.
This is what people will try to do.
They'll try to play on your pride and play on your ego by giving you all these wonderful
compliments that you don't deserve.
Which is why the Bible says that we ought not to think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think.
There's nothing wrong with like, hey, you know, you're a Formula One driver and you're just like, yeah, I'm good at driving a car, okay?
But just like, you, O thou Texan living in Houston, I can promise you, you're not a good driver.
That I know from experience, alright?
I don't know why I use that example.
But you know what I'm saying.
People, you know, if you live in Houston, someone's like, you're the best driver I've ever seen.
That's flattery, alright?
You get the idea here, don't fall for flatterers, people who flatter you want to harm you.
They want to reveal secrets about you, they want to get some sort of advantage over you.
It is a red flag when people flatter you, stay away from them.
The Bible says in verse 20,
who so cursed that his father or his mother,
his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning,
but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Oftentimes, things in life that we did not work for,
that we did not invest in and put a lot of time and sweat
and blood and tears and money into,
something that's just gotten really hastily,
Oftentimes, those endeavors or those things given to us are not blessed because you tend
to cherish and be a good steward over things you actually worked for.
Case in point, go to any house with children, and I guarantee you that dad is a better steward of the material items in that home than the kids are, right, because the kids don't really care as much.
Or, you know, go to an Indian reservation where all of these young kids receive this giant sum of money that they didn't work for, that they didn't earn, and you know what they do? They blow it.
They spend it up. They drink it up. They smoke it up. They gamble it away
Why because you know you might get that inheritance really hastily
But the end thereof is not going to be blessed things in life
That you want to really come to fruition and be very blessed in your life and really
Yield a big return on your investment. You know that takes it takes time
We need patience as Christians.
You know, if you're going to get married really, really young,
hey, praise God for that,
but don't expect to have the lifestyle that your parents have right now.
their fifties in their sixties when you're in your twenties or your thirties or
something like that but you know what you should do a you should be patient be
diligent be hard-working keep investing into that thing and then you too when
you're their age maybe you could be blessed too or how about just your
marriage in general who do you think has a better marriage people that stick
with their marriage and go through the problems and go through the fights and
go through the roller coaster and they make it to that 25 year mark
They make it to 30, 40, 50 years.
Who do you think's got a deeper, more mature, more blessed marriage?
Them or the married couple that just got married last week?
Look, that's a fun time.
The honeymoon phase is a fun time.
But you know what?
Just realize that, hey, you got to put some work
into your marriage over a long period of time.
And don't expect everything to be smooth sailing year one.
Don't expect to just totally figure out your wife.
Ladies, don't just expect to be just a rockstar,
wonderful wife, your first year ever.
No, these are going to take time.
It's going to take time to grow and to bless.
How about our church?
You know, we're in the first year of our church.
How silly would it be for us to become covetous
of other church's buildings or their money
or their programs or stuff like that?
When it's like, hey, you know what?
We just gotta keep plugging away.
We gotta keep being that faithful servant.
And guess what?
It's not my job to build the church.
It's not your job to build the church.
It's Jesus' job to build the church.
All we gotta do is be faithful.
I have zero stress about building the church
because I don't have to do anything to build the church.
That's Jesus's job.
I just have to focus on being the best pastor I can be.
Preaching the best sermon I can preach.
Being the best husband I can be.
Doing what I can and realizing, hey, over time, God's going to bless.
You know, I saw this having been at a church for a long time.
Man, there was a difference between 2020 said Fast Baptist Church
and 2024 said Fast Baptist Church.
And you know what? It didn't happen overnight.
It came through a lot of battles, a lot of struggles, a lot of long nights,
a lot of death threats, a lot of doxing, a lot of backs, a lot of just crazy things.
But man, is that church blessed today?
And man, does it bring me joy to see them doing really well?
Don't see other churches' success and be like, oh, man, why isn't that us yet?
Hey, don't worry about that. Let's just focus on doing good
and let God bless us in the long run.
We don't want to be one of these people that just like, oh, you know, this 20-year-old pastor,
he just inherited his dad's thousand-person church.
That's going to be destroyed real fast.
That inheritance gotten hastily.
The end thereof is not going to be blessed.
People that are just handed these giant ministries,
handed these things that they didn't work for,
you know, I guarantee you that Pastor Anderson
cares a lot more about faithful word Baptist Church
that he started in his living room
than if you just went on Indeed and typed up Baptist Pastor.
You could do that.
You know, you could do that.
You could just go on Indeed and type up Baptist Pastor.
You could just hire Pastor.
They're out there. You just call one from around the country and they graduate
to Bible college and they're just ready to start a journey. Who do you think is
going to care more? Who do you think is going to be a better steward? Right? So you
want something good in life? You want something that really, really is blessed
in the long run? It's going to take time.
And you know what? If you stick around, you get to reap those rewards.
But if you're one of these people that's constantly quit some things in your life,
you get married, oh, we're three years in.
I'm not happy with it. Quit. New wife.
You're just gonna repeat that cycle for the rest of your life in many areas.
Oh, I don't like this job. Quit.
Oh, I don't like this church. Quit.
You're just gonna keep doing that over and over and you're gonna lack blessings in your life.
Bible says here in verse 22 say not thou I will recompense evil but wait on the Lord and he shall save thee
Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord and a false balance is not good
Man's goings are of the Lord. How can a man then understand his own way?
One of the things I love about Proverbs is that sometimes there'll be two statements
That, if you're just reading really quickly and you're not really thinking about it, they
could seem contradictory to each other.
And I don't have this in my notes, but there's a verse in Proverbs that talks about the wisdom
of the prudent is to understand his way.
And like one of the aspects of being wise is not just doing the right thing, but knowing why you're doing it.
Not just believing the right things, but knowing why you believe it.
So on one hand, the wise person understands his way.
Then here it says, man's goings are of the Lord. How can a man then understand his own way?
And this is kind of how I think about this verse is, hey, it doesn't matter how much Bible you read at the end of the day.
of a fallen nature that is a sinful nature, and there's going to be times where your
human logic, your human opinions, your ideas are wrong.
And you know what a wise person does?
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.
How can a man understand his own way is what they're saying.
Hey, you're going to think things.
feel things, have ideas about things that are just plain wrong.
And in your mind, you're going to be convinced that it's right.
And that's why you need to be reading the Bible every single day
to constantly be cleansing your mind of your own stupidity
and your own foolishness and your own carnality.
Because at the end of the day, I don't care how godly you think you are,
who could really fully understand his way.
None of us. There's things in the Bible that go against the grain.
You know, for example, Jesus, when he taught on divorce and remarriage, he said,
hey, all men cannot receive this saying.
And boy is that true.
You want to see Christians lose their mind and start acting like extremely emotional teenage girls.
You just show them what the Bible says on drinking alcohol and on divorce and remarriage.
Because they're not, sincerely, coming to their conclusion from the Bible.
They're coming to their conclusions based on their feelings, based on their emotions.
Let me give you an example of this.
You know, in Leviticus chapter 20, verse 10, the Bible clearly lists the death penalty for adultery.
What is adultery? Adultery is when one or both parties of that physical union is married.
That is adultery. And you know what? We should have the death penalty for that.
If I could push a button and bring that into our country, I would push that button.
If I run for the governor of Oklahoma someday, I will try to get that pass.
I'm just joking, maybe. But that's an obvious case, okay? The death penalty is for that.
We agree with that. We like that, okay? Then you get to Matthew chapter 19.
Why don't we go ahead and just turn there? Matthew chapter number 19.
Matthew chapter 19, notice what he said in verse 9, what Jesus said in verse 9, and
I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, notice, accept it before fornication.
and shall marry another committeth adultery.
And whoso merrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
I love the King James Bible because it is not only accurate,
but it's precise.
And this word, fornication, is a very precise word.
A lot of people, when they read this,
or if they're reading a modern version that corrupts God's word,
they don't think about how this says fornication
and they'll just insert in their mind adultery.
Or the modern versions will literally say,
accept it before sexual immorality.
Well, what's that?
Having an impure thought?
That's sexual immorality.
Looking at something, you shouldn't have looked.
I mean, it's just going to be divorce after divorce.
Everybody's going to be getting divorced.
But it's just so stupid to read the Bible where it's like God hates putting away and Jesus saying hey if you divorce and you remarry
You're committing adultery just kidding. You know divorce is on the table for any sexual immorality
It's like that's gonna hit most people. That's gonna be most marriages then that Jesus is just excusing
Divorce the truth is the Bible here says accept it before
fornication
What is fornication? It's when that physical union happens, when they are not married parties.
One married, one not adultery. Both married, adultery. Both unmarried, fornication.
And so, what this is talking about is a sexual immorality,
ascent, fornication that would have happened before the marriage union.
You read Deuteronomy, it talks about, hey, when a man takes a wife and he sees, oh, there's some uncleanness in her.
He finds out, hey, she wasn't a virgin, she was lying to me.
and she's like spiritually unclean from that fornication,
or she's physically literally unclean from some sort of STD.
Before you consummate that marriage,
you'd be able to have what we commonly know as now
is like an annulment, and you'd be able to put her away,
and you'd be able to marry another person.
But notice, we're not going to these verses,
I'm just kind of explaining them to you.
But there's a timeframe in that verse,
because it says when he takes her,
you can't like 20 years into your marriage be like,
Yeah, she's kind of unclean, you know.
Have you seen our bathroom lately?
And just like, let's divorce her.
You can't change your mind.
No, it's when you take her.
It's that night.
It's before consummation.
That's when you make that decision.
And if you go through with it, if you consummate that marriage,
you are now married for life.
And yeah, that fornication could have been that exception.
But Jesus did not say, in case it be for adultery,
you want to know one of the reasons He didn't say that?
Because adulterers should be put to death.
Now here's the sad situation of our world is that our government does not put
adulterers to death and you know what that is a shame and that is actually
unloving because you know who you're being unloving to you're being
unloving to the victims of adultery
Because here's the thing, we as Christians, we're taught to obey the laws of the land.
We're told to submit to the government, to the rulers that are over us,
and it is not our job to be vigilantes and start killing adulterers,
or killing sodomites, or killing rapists.
You know, the only time Christians can kill is in self-defense.
Or when the legal sanctioned government institutes capital punishment.
But because our government is not doing this, this really tragic, horrific situation is happening in our society
that only happens because of the government's wrongdoing, and it's wives or husbands being stuck in a marriage
where their spouse has committed physical adultery,
and they have to be in this just wretched, terrible place
where they're debating in their mind,
do I commit this grievous, wicked sin of divorce,
or do I stay with this person that I hate, that hurt me,
that caused all this pain?
No one should even have to make that decision
because the government should be killing the adulterers.
But here's the thing, and again,
this is me not thinking with my emotions,
not my human logic, not my ideas, not my opinions.
What should someone do today?
If their spouse commits adultery on them,
they should stay married.
That's what they should do.
You say, but that's not fair.
Tough. Life isn't fair.
But I don't like that.
That hurts my feelings.
Yeah, from a human level, I sympathize with that person.
That does suck.
I do feel for that.
That is horrible, but you know what?
It's what the Bible says.
And it is not my job to walk through life
critiquing God's word
and thinking I'm smarter than God.
And whenever my opinions don't match what the Bible says,
thinking, well, put this aside
and just listen to me.
You know, all these idiots on X lately rebuking me for my post rebuking divorce saying like,
Oh, you just don't care about people. You just want people to be in bad marriages.
Oh, you want people to have to suffer through adultery.
It's like, hey, idiot, instead of getting mad at me,
why don't you get mad at the world that rejected the Bible?
Why don't you get mad at the US government?
Hey, maybe there's actually consequences for not following the Bible.
Do you know that?
People are harmed for not following the Bible.
It's not my fault. It's not Jesus' fault.
It's this world's fault.
And here's the thing. Better, better than dealing with this horrific situation
where a woman had her husband commit adultery.
Hey, if you're in that situation, you better stay with him.
Or a husband having to stay with his wife that committed adultery.
If you're in that situation, you better stay with him.
But you know what's better?
Than having to navigate that hellish
A horrific event is just like way before that,
you and your wife loving God and reading the Bible
and deciding to be godly people
and deciding of your own free will to follow the Lord,
follow his commandments, attend a church
that's actually gonna back up your marriage,
that's actually gonna encourage you guys to stay together,
that's actually gonna back up authority in the home,
that's actually gonna encourage women
in the roles that God has put them in,
encourage men in the roles God has put them in.
That's a much better plan.
then afterwards figuring out what you're going to do.
Now people get in those situations and we have to deal with it,
but man, wouldn't you rather just prevent being in that situation to begin with?
That's what we need to do today.
But hey, man, people are just leaning on their own understanding.
Go back to Proverbs.
Let's just read this one more time.
Proverbs 21.
Verse 24, man's goings are of the Lord, but how can a man then understand his own way?
You can't.
So stop relying on yourself.
Stop relying on your brain.
Stop relying on your emotions and your human logic and just look at what the Bible says.
One more thing, because I don't know if I'm going to hit this topic again, and I just
don't want to miss it.
I don't know if I'm going to hit this topic again anytime soon, but I just wanted to show
you something interesting I found today, and that is the definition of fornication, because
understanding the difference between fornication and adultery.
Well, I actually found a dictionary that was written in 1616, very close to the
translation of the King James Bible, and it has
the definition of fornication in there to kind of help us understand what Jesus is
talking about here.
So, the 1616 English Expositor Dictionary by John Bullockar defines fornication as
Hordom Committed Between Single Persons.
I agree with that definition, 100%.
Whereas, if either or both parties so offending be married, it is called adultery and punishable
with death by the common law.
I agree 100% with that definition.
That is the definition that I have always walked away from
simply by reading the Bible.
And here's a contemporary
writing a dictionary at the same time this was translated.
What did that word mean then?
It meant two single people.
And guess what? That's what that word means now too.
But people just try to
of their own lusts of not wanting to accept what Jesus said,
they'll try to just come up with this weird definition of fornication
that is not what the Bible intended.
You have to read things in their context.
Let's keep reading here.
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy.
and after vows to make inquiry.
So it's a snare, it's a trap to devour that, which is holy.
It makes me think about, hey, we shouldn't take our church for granted.
We shouldn't take the things of God for granted and just cast them aside in our life
and just trash them and stuff like that.
Also, speaking of what we were just talking about,
it says it's a snare also after vows to make inquiry.
Hey, maybe you should get your doctrine settled on divorce.
And on adultery, maybe you should make that inquiry with your dating partner before you
make those vows.
Maybe you should actually be sure about the person you're marrying before you make those
vows.
What do a lot of people want to do today?
They don't want to make inquiry.
They just want to rush to get married.
And then afterwards they're like, now I want to make inquiry.
Now I want to see if I made the right decision.
Well now I don't think he's really that good of a guy.
Well now I don't think she's a good wife.
Hey, that's your foolish decision to have not inquired beforehand.
And again, you're like, but it sucks, but I'm in a bad position, but it's hard.
Yeah, it is, but that doesn't change truth.
That doesn't change what the Bible says.
And you know what?
You're just living proof that it is a snare to do this.
And you know what it should be?
It should be a warning to everyone that is single to take marriage seriously before you get married.
Don't marry someone who thinks you could get divorced.
I mean, if they believe that divorce is on the table, you should automatically never marry someone like that.
But today, you know people what are young people talking about during dating?
I don't know, but it should be stuff like this
It should be making sure that you both agree that divorce is never on the table
Hey, you both should hate adultery with a passion before you just all want to marry the bad boy
Oh, I can't believe he committed adultery on me. What did you think was gonna happen?
Do you think this was a Hollywood movie? You should read your Bible
Oh, I just want to marry, you know, a girl that looks like Sidney Sweeney.
Weird, because I've never seen girls that are soul winners that look like that.
You want a godly mother to raise your kids?
It's not Sidney Sweeney, folks. It's not the sorority whores at your college.
It's not Sabrina Carpenter. It's not whatever, you know, the whores of this world are today.
But the guys are just like, oh, she's super attractive, so I'm just gonna marry her no matter what.
Man, you better make sure that there's more than what's on the surface there.
because you could ruin your life if you marry a bad person.
A wise king scattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheel over them.
I love this verse because it makes me think about how I'm always so frustrated with Republicans
because of course they're fake and they're fake conservatives, they're a bunch of fake
Christians.
But it's always like, oh man, the Republicans, they have the House, they have the Senate,
they have the Supreme Court, they have the presidency, and nothing happens.
Isn't that frustrating?
It's like, I'm just thinking, man, if I had the power, you know what I would do?
I would start making some changes.
I'd start cracking some heads.
I'd start, you know, implementing God's law and implementing the Constitution and good
things like that.
What is this saying?
When you have authority, use it.
One of the things that makes me so mad is like, Republicans, they'll have all the power and they're like,
well, we want to work alongside the aisle here.
We want to make sure that we're agreeing on things.
It's like, oh, okay, the people that think it's okay to murder babies, why don't you just steamroll them?
That's what I wish Republicans would do.
It's like, these liberal Democrats are the enemy, they're evil, many of them hate God,
many of them hate truth and anything that is good, why work with them?
Why work across the aisle?
Why try to make a deal?
Just steamroll them.
It's like, you know, I kind of like Ryan Walters because he's like just bringing the Bible into school
It's like, oh, you know, he's bringing the Bible into school cry all you want
Like if I had the power we're bringing the Bible into school
We're memorizing Leviticus 2013 and it's like we are going to just roll over the wicked
It's like sometimes the righteous are just a little too nice
It's like if you have the power use it for good
You know, some pastors are just too nice and they'll just let grievous sin just multiply in their church.
And they'll just let the leaven grow. They'll let the fornicators come.
They'll bring sodomites into the church.
Oh, adultery? Divorce? No problem. Oh, wife swapping? It's all good.
Oh, railing? Oh, you're just rebuking pastors? Lying about people online?
Oh, no problem. We're just going to keep going.
It's like, do you have the power or not?
Because the righteous king is gonna just roll over these people and that's constantly one of my biggest frustrations
with authority in general is it's just like
Watching cops like let people beat them up
You know because they're so afraid to lose their job and they're just like not want to do anything
It's just like man if we just steamroll them this would stop
It's like, oh, well, let's have a discussion about life.
No, how about we pass a law that says if you murder a child,
we're going to line you up against the wall
and shoot you in the back of the head?
How about that?
Oh, but that's so mean.
I don't care.
You're not going to be here soon to complain anymore,
because if you kill a baby, we're going to kill you.
How about that?
Oh, man, you have to be considerate of people
who have the LGBT in their family.
Well, if we implemented Leviticus 2013,
they wouldn't have them in their family anymore
to complain about.
So it's just like I'm so sick and tired of people who have leadership and they have the power not doing it
It's like Trump's always like yeah, we're gonna subpoena Barack Obama. Oh, yeah
We're gonna really we're gonna bring criminal charges against Obama. Well lock her up, right? That was 2016
We're gonna lock up Hillary Clinton. No, you're not because you're a liar and a fraud
Because you know what a real leader does they bring the wheel over the wicked
And you know, we could do it. We can only do what we could do.
I'm not some political figure. All I could do is preach the Word of God.
But you know what? Spiritually, I need to just roll this wheel of the Word of God
down the hill and whatever wicked person it hits, let it smash them.
And if you want to not get smashed, then get out of the way and get right with God.
I think that's a good place to end it.
Let's pray, Lord, thank you for this chapter.
Thank you so much for your word.
I pray that you would just help leaders today in our world
to be empowered to use their authority for your sake,
for righteousness, for the word of God.
Help us as we continue studying this chapter
to reveal truths to us.
Help us to apply these to our lives.
Bring us home safely this evening.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Our last song at this time if you would, take your hymnals and turn to hymn number 308.
I surrender all.
All to Jesus, I surrender all.
Good seeing this evening with that, you are dismissed.