Baptist Church. This time, take your hymnals. Turn to hymn number 406. Hymn 406. Who is on the
Lord's side? Hymn number 406. Hymn number 406. We'll go ahead and start there right on the first.
This evening, we'll open with a word of prayer. Dear Father, thank you for this opportunity that
we have to gather together and sing praises unto you. I pray that you would fill us with your Holy
Spirit at this time. I pray that you'd bless the remainder of the service, the Bible reading,
and the preaching as well, Lord, and be with us as we leave this evening. In Jesus' name I pray.
Amen. For our next hymn, if you would turn in your hymnals to hymn number 217, included me,
hymn number 217, 217 there, right there on the first. I am so happy in Christ today that I go
singing along my way. Yes, I'm so happy to know and say Jesus included me too. He said who so
else includes. Please raise your hand. We'll come and bring you one. We're still on Genesis chapter
number one verse 18. On the inside, our service times are listed on the top left there, Sunday
morning at 1030, Sunday evening at 430, and our Bible study on Wednesdays at seven. We do have all
of our soul winning times listed there below as well. And make note that our Saturday rally is at
10. We have our year-to-date soul winning statistics. Praise Lord, one extra for this evening
despite the opposition. Oh, sorry, two more this evening. Thank you. Despite the opposition of the
friendly Black Hebrew Israelites. So that's always a real fun one. So great job for that.
We do have our upcoming events below. This Friday at 630 is our chili cook-off. So make sure to
please attend and participate. It's going to be like I said at 630. There's going to be first,
second, and third prizes for the general competition. And then there'll be a pastor's
pick prize as well. And of course you're welcome to hang out and just fellowship after the event.
We do have November 8th is our Enid Oklahoma Pacific Islander soul winning push different than
our normal marathons. We're just going to meet there at noon and go soul winning till four. So
if you're not a super early riser then this is the soul winning marathon for you. You get to show
up at noon and it's going to be a great really receptive area. November 16th is our next men's
preaching night for the evening service followed by a potluck and game night. We do have our one
year anniversary weekend on November 22nd. That Saturday we'll have a big soul winning marathon
meeting here at the building at the normal time that we have our soul winning rally and we'll
have of course a second round in the afternoon. Then the next day pastor Jonathan Shelley will
be preaching both services for us. Pastor Shelley is a great friend of ours and on top of that just
an excellent preacher. You got to listen to his sermons from this Sunday they were both
bangers highly recommend 10 out of 10 definitely got to check those out. November 26th is the
Pi Fellowship on that Wednesday. December 5th is a fellowship event at the Chisholm Park in Yukon.
Just enjoying the Christmas lights displayed together. They already started putting up
Christmas lights there like three or four weeks ago to give you an imagination of how many
Christmas lights they put up. They've already been working on it there so it's going to be
really cool. December 12th will be the ladies Christmas party. My wife will have more info
for you ladies on that shortly. December 19th will be our Christmas caroling and December 31st
our New Year's Eve party. For that Wednesday service we'll have a men's preaching night
followed by some food and just hanging out as long as you'd like to that evening.
On the back we do have our information about our first time visitor card and our online giving as
well as our prayer list and there's one update. Brother Theodore's mother we were wondering is it
potentially cancer? Found out that it is so please be keeping his mother in prayer for that and as
always if you have any requests please let me know email the church and I will update that for you
but before we go to our third song let's go ahead and pray as a church family this evening.
Lord we thank you for anchor baptist church and the people we have here gathered I pray that you
would answer these prayer requests according to your will that you would just give us grace and
mercy and favor in our lives lord help us to always stay dependent on you I pray that you
please keep my brother safe on his combat deployment bring him home safely to his wife and to us lord
also pray for brother Theodore's mother that you please just help with her healing path that she's
chosen to take that you just help her to fully heal of this cancer that you just bless her body
lord and we also want to pray for his sister's salvation that she would just be humble and that
she would get many chances to hear the gospel and we pray that for all of our members here who have
unsaved loved ones especially as the holidays are approaching I pray that you just help the holy
spirit to prick the soul winners in here to be a witness for christ family functions or wherever
we can and I pray that you just give us favor in that area I pray that you please bless brother
miles with his health lord and that you'd give miss ria strength and that you just overall bless
these last few months of the year that you'd help our church to continue to be blessed help us to
continue to work very hard for you and lord we thank you so much for the door that you've just
opened unto us this year help us not to sit back and be satisfied but to always be pushing forward
to do more for you we love you in Jesus name we pray amen all right this time we'll go to our
third song all right for our third song if you would at this time take your white handouts and
turn to holy holy holy that's holy holy holy in the white handouts and start there right on the
first in your bibles to 29 he that being approved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed
and that without remedy when the righteous are in authority the people rejoice but when the wicked
beareth rule the people mourn whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father but he that keepeth company
with harlots spendeth his substance the king by judgment establisheth the land but he that
receiveth gifts overthroweth it a man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet
in the transgression of an evil man there is a snare but the righteous doth sing and rejoice
the righteous consider it the cause of the poor but the wicked regardeth not to know it scornful
men bring a city into a snare but wise men turn away wrath if a wise man contendeth with a foolish
man whether he rage or laugh there is no rest the blood thirsty hate the upright but the just
seek his soul a fool uttereth all his mind but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards if a ruler
harken to lies all his servants are wicked the poor and the deceitful man meet together the lord
lighteneth both their eyes the king that faithfully judges the poor his throne shall be established
forever the rod and reproof give wisdom but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame
when the wicked are multiplied transgression increaseth but the righteous shall see their
fall correct thy son and he shall give the arrest ye he shall give delight unto thy soul where there
is no vision the people perish but he that keepeth the law happy is he a servant will not a servant
will not be corrected by words for though he understand he will not answer seest thou a man
that is hasty in his words there is more hope of a fool than of him he that delicately bringeth
up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length an angry man stirreth up
strife and a furious man aboundeth in transgression a man's pride shall bring him low but honor shall
uphold the humble in spirit whoso is partnered with a thief hateth his own soul he heareth cursing
and berayeth it not the fear of man bringeth a snare but whoso putteth his trust in the lord
shall be safe many seek their ruler's favor but every man's judgment cometh from the lord
an unjust man is an abomination to the just and he that is upright in the way is abomination to
the wicked this power heads forward a prayer father god in heaven we thank you for the stay
in our church the bible starts here in verse 1 he that being often reproved pardoneth his neck
shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy and you know we got to remember that
this book and especially this portion of the book is solomon writing to his son and he's trying to
warn his son i mean this is a pretty scary verse he's trying to get his understand his son to
understand this kind of unpleasant truth that we can as people whether saved or unsaved permanently
destroy our lives now of course we know that god is very long suffering god is very gracious
god gives us a lot more than we deserve because what we deserve is hell but there can come a point
where being often reproved meaning god's trying to you know prick at your heart you're hearing
preaching you're hearing the bible you're reading the bible someone who's being often reproved but
they harden their neck what does that mean they don't listen to it they don't change they kind of
view god as like a paper tiger that person can be suddenly destroyed where they think hey everything's
great one moment and they think i'm getting away with it and they think god doesn't care god's not
watching but then all of a sudden they're just suddenly destroyed and here's the worst part it
says and that without remedy you know you could think about how first of all this could happen
just in a physical sense and he's warning his son hey you know take my corrections take my reproofs
because if you don't you could be destroyed i mean don't all parents teach their children to you know
do things that'll just keep them safe in life right look both ways when you cross the street
don't play with fire do all why because there's some things that you can't come back from you know
you get run over by a car you're not coming back from that most likely you get in a house fire you
get engulfed in that thing you know most likely you're not getting out of that you're not coming
back from those things and so this idea of fear which is stigmatized and looked at as some sort
of a bad word in our society today can actually be a good thing it could be a good motivator
you know as parents your your children should fear you the bible talks about how everyone should fear
their mother and their father well guess what it's the same exact thing with god and if we're wise
we're not going to constantly look at god's commandments and the reproofs of god the
reproofs of godly people in our life and just shrug those things off because if we do we could
be suddenly destroyed and that without remedy keep your place there and i was thinking of hebra's
chapter number 12 hebra's chapter number 12 now when someone's reproving you your flesh doesn't
really like that right at the moment it doesn't seem like something positive and foolish children
especially foolish teenagers they'll complain about mom and dad that are always on my case
and oh mom doesn't like me that my dad doesn't like me they have all these rules not realizing
that those rules and getting on them is actually because they love them and they want to protect
them well guess what it's the same thing with god verse 11 the bible says now no chastening for the
present seemeth to be joyous but grievous right so when the reproof comes whether that's the form of
god supernaturally chastising you by making something bad happen in your life you know god
could punish us in all sorts of different ways he can make you sick he can make your stuff break
he can make you lose your job he can make you get caught by the police he can do all these different
things to us and in the moment of course that's not fun just like when you receive correction from
anyone in the moment it doesn't feel good but notice it says nevertheless afterward it yielded
the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby right so if you
actually take those reproofs and take that chastening and you actually apply the lesson
that god wants you to learn or the lesson that your authority wants you to learn you're actually
going to receive a blessing from that and you're going to have the peaceable fruit of righteousness
as a result but that's if you're actually exercised by that correction meaning you actually take that
reproof and you apply it to your heart you change in your life then you could actually have that
peaceable fruit of righteousness but what's the exact opposite of that that's the proverbs 29 one
person he that being often reproof what does he do he hardens his neck right and today we definitely
live in a culture that hardens its neck against reproof against rebuke i don't know if you
realize this but hard preaching is not just in every church on every corner it's not something
that exists everywhere why because people would rather keep to themselves teachers having itch
ears people do not want to be reproved or corrected for the way they are living their life
people do not you know people who have been divorced today do not want to be told that that
was wicked and wrong they you know misery loves company and even though divorced people are more
miserable on average it's just true i mean ask the people who who grow old and live alone in the
nursing home with no one to take care of them and no one to share life with ask them who's happier
the married couple or the divorced couple oftentimes people they just want to they know
they're rebellious and they just want to have other people miserable with them hard preaching
is not popular today it really is not and you know what i've seen over the years and years and
years of being in church is that you know every year there's a new batch of christians that just
decide to stop liking hard preaching but you always see something happen as a result you see
their lives become a train wreck why because god is not playing games i feel like some people just
think that church is a joke the bible is a joke sometimes people just i feel like they come to
church to be entertained to hear about a topic that they think is entertaining or to watch a
pastor scream and yell but some people are just not taking it serious some people do not take
church seriously they don't take the bible seriously they don't take the reproof seriously
and they they want other people to make changes in their life but they don't want to make changes
in their life they love the hard preaching when it's about other people's issues but then you
preach on their sin and now people have a problem now people face change but you got to realize that
what is hard preaching it's for your benefit it's for my benefit because what's going to happen
when you just harden your neck and you refuse to change is that eventually God's mercy is
going to run out not talking about salvation actually Christ is always with us when it comes
to salvation but you know what there can come a point where you've just like metaphorically spit
in his face so much that he's just going to allow you to suffer the consequences of your actions
and you know what there's some things that you can just never fully recover from you can be
forgiven you know as Christians God's always going to forgive us but you know what if you just decide
hey church is a game the preacher's a joke the bible's a joke and you know even though i've
heard all the preaching i'm just going to grow up leave the house and go shack up with a bunch of
whores okay you could do that but when the scd comes guess what it's never going to be healed
it's something that's with you for the rest of your life when the bastard child comes
it's not so much of a funny game anymore church doesn't become a game anymore when god drops the
hammer on you you think oh you know everyone rips on alcohol but i'm going to be the exception
yeah until you wake up in the hospital and you've killed someone or your friend dies next to you in
a car crash or you know you destroy your vehicle all these sorts of different things that can
happen to you man god could just come down on you so hard and you would be an idiot to read
something in the bible and look at it as a joke you would be an idiot to hear a sermon on your
sin and look at it as a joke you know god is giving us all these chances constantly
because we sin all the time and god's giving us all these reprovers in our life he's given
us good examples he's given us the bible and when those things present themselves to you realize
this is an opportunity for god to show mercy on you and you stop doing what you're doing
but a lot of people they just take god's grace for granted they despise it go to hebrews chapter 10
hebrews chapter number 10 the bible talks about people like this and funny enough specifically
it's in the context of people forsaking the assembling of ourselves together and you know
today for a lot of people church is such a low priority for them the the job is way above church
for most people the career money relationships family time are all above church for a lot of
people but people who forsake the assembly it says something in verse 26 it says for if we sin
willfully notice after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more
sacrifice for sins so sinning willfully skipping church not just skipping church but especially
forsaking the assembling but it could too apply to skipping church if you're doing that not because
you're sick or something but you're just like oh i'm just not going to go to church anymore
you know the bible says that that's sinning willfully why because you've received the knowledge
of the truth and you know what everyone in this room has received the knowledge of the truth
and knows what the bible says it says there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins again not
talking about salvation you read leviticus they had all these different sin offerings for sins of
ignorance to restore your fellowship with god hebrews makes it very clear that the
blood of bulls and of goats never purged away sins it never took away sins that's impossible
but what it's saying is that you know when you sin willfully now in the new testament you can't
just go kill a chicken in your backyard you know like i do often not for sacrifice but for meat or
you know kill a goat or kill a bullock or something like this and god's just gonna you know restore
that relationship with you you know it's saying there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins here's
what you have to look forward to it says but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation which shall devour the adversaries notice he that despised moses's law died without
mercy under two or three witnesses right so you know sinning willfully moses had the law he talked
about hey don't pick up sticks on the sabbath day don't break the sabbath day guy goes up he
picks up sticks on the sabbath day and what happens to him he dies god says put this person to death
may seem like a very severe punishment but you know what first of all check yourself and fear
god first of all don't even sit here in judgment of god and what you think if his punishments are
too harsh god is god whether you like him or not you know his punishments are they are whether you
like him or not i believe why the punishment was so severe was because when you're breaking the
sabbath it's a picture of not being saved because in the new testament jesus is our sabbath jesus
is our rest and if you miss that new testament sabbath you know what you got coming for you hell
the second death you have coming for you so it makes sense that picture was there in the old
testament but notice what it says in verse 29 so already that was pretty severe but it says in
verse 29 of how much sore punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trod and
underfoot the son of god and have counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified
by the way that's talking about a saved person an unholy thing and have done despite unto the spirit
of grace you know people think that oh man god really softened up in the new testament and in
the old testament god was just full of wrath and he was having people wipe out heathen nations that
were wicked as hell but man in the new testament judge not man in the new testament god loves
everyone man in the new testament you could do whatever you want and there's you know always
going to be god giving you another chance and look some of these things are based in a grain
of truth like of course salvation is a different topic but when it comes to just god's chastisement
on your life you know his grace is not infinite when it comes to that i mean hello parents do
you have infinite grace for giving spankings to your kids maybe someone some people do and that's
a horrible example but you know what there should be rules in your house that are enforced and you
know a child that's often reproved and hardens his neck well you need to you know soften their
butt with the rod that's what you need to do you know and if you have a child who is you know humble
and meek and repentant and apologetic you're not going to come down on that child as hard as the
person that stiffens their neck the child where you catch them in a lie and you're like tell me
the truth and they just lie again you're going to punish that child more severely by the way you
should because it's for their own good just like god punishes us for our own good and sometimes
god sees us going down a path that's going to lead to the destruction of ourselves or our children
or our families or other people and you know what sometimes god has to stop us physically from doing
that and sometimes god will even take you out of this world if you're such a wicked person
god even kills saved christians in the new testament i mean let's talk about the old
testament for a minute you have king saul king saul god loved king saul god chose king saul
king saul had a great start but you know what he got super prideful he got super envious he just
kept attacking david over and over he disobeyed the word of the lord he didn't wait for samuel
to come you know he was presumptuous he took over samuel's position and just you know i'm
the king i can do whatever i want i'll just take this upon myself to do and you know what he just
kept hardening his neck over and over and over and finally god said hey i'm taking the kingdom
from you you're done oh how do you come back from that oh yeah you don't he says you're done and
look like i said god's very long suffering he does give us many chances he is long suffering for us
he does give us chance after chance but sometimes though it's the last chance and if you do it again
he's going to punish you severely and sometimes there are permanent consequences for your actions
and then what ended up happening he kept digging in he kept rebelling he went so far as to consult
a witch to get into the occult to do witchcraft and these satanic things and finally god said
okay you know not only am i taking the kingdom from you but i'm gonna kill you i'm gonna allow
you to die in combat right samuel comes up and says hey tomorrow you'll be with me and my sons
and what happened the next day is that he got mortally wounded and he ended up killing himself
and of course god allowed those events to happen so when i say god killed Saul i'm not saying that
god smote him but god allowed those situations to happen to put him in that position why because
of his own stiff neck and so you know what's what's the the story of verse number one if you go back
to proverbs 29 is that we need to fear god actually fear the lord you know you need to
respect and fear the authorities in your life and when someone is reproving you do not stiffen your
neck that's the road to destruction verse number two when the righteous are in authority the people
rejoice but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourn who so loveth wisdom rejoice at his father
but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance so you know connecting this with
verse one imagine that a father is reproving his son he's giving his son instruction and correction
and one of the things that throughout this book that solomon has been warning his sons is to avoid
the strange woman avoid the harlot avoid the horus woman avoid the woman that's going to flatter you
with her lips and if you love wisdom and you obey your father's commandments and you obey the bible
what's that's going to do that's going to rejoice your father right just like how when we obey god's
commandments it's going to rejoice our heavenly father he's going to have pleasure in us he's
going to bless us and it's funny you know god is to you kind of how you are to him he's he's either
your best friend and he is just you know being super kind and gracious and he's happy with you
or he could be your worst enemy you know it's the same way with parents sometimes but notice
says he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance you know what's one of the ways you
could destroy your life is by being with whoreish women you know men going out and cheating on their
wife or men going out and committing fornication or men going out and hiring prostitutes you know
a lot of people in the world act like this is no big deal they act like this is totally normal in
fact people in america plan entire vacations to this hellscape known as las vegas for the
express purpose of cheating on their wife or if they're single shacking up with some prostitute
it's like a whole sector of the vacation you know market in america that's how normalized it is
it's legal in nevada people travel there to go commit fornication but you know what they end up
doing they end up destroying their lives people don't go to vegas and they have this life-changing
experience for the better they go there and they have a life-changing experience for the worst
you know what often happens to them they lose all their money what does the bible say he that
keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance why that could be for a multitude of reasons
number one any woman is expensive period okay when you start literally hiring that's going
to get expensive real fast you know on top of that men want to impress women so they'll do all
sorts of things that they can't afford to wine and dine their new girlfriend their new fling
or whatever you know floozy they got with them and they'll go to the most expensive expensive
restaurants that they can't afford and they'll go you know just max out the credit cards on whores
just because that's how desirable it is for some people to go do this not i mean then when you
think about this people doing this in las vegas where there's gambling and you know what happens
when you gamble you lose all your money and guess what the exception proves the rule except not
really because even people that win the lottery and even people that end up winning all this money
in gambling they end up losing it very quickly anyways you know because wealth gotten by vanity
shall be diminished the bible says god is not going to bless you when you're out doing this
so again here's one very specific instance in our lives where we should fear god is that if you're
married you should be faithful to your wife till death and if you do not look i'm not saying that
the police are going to come arrest you and beat you because guess what adultery is not illegal
in our country we don't have these laws we don't have like these physical punishments
they're going to come from you but last time i said i checked the bible says that adulterers
and whoremongers god will judge and so look if you're smart if you're wise you're going to be
afraid of what god will do to you if you go out and cheat on your wife and you know what it's
sad and sick today the level of adultery that we have in america where 20 percent of men will
admit to have committed adultery if 20 percent of men are admitting that they're doing that who
knows how many people are hiding that because i would assume that most people would have some
shame to hide that right but yet 20 openly say that they're doing that why because people have
no fear of god but you know what you as a christian you as the son as a son of god as a daughter of god
you better realize that god is not going to get allow you to get away with things that the world
gets away with you know the world they're bastards not sons and you know what i don't go around
spanking other people's kids generally unless you know family members kids stay with me then i
will spank them but i'm not going to generally go around spanking other people's kids well guess
what it's the same way with god god has a punishment coming for the unsaved it's called hell
and the unsaved that continuously hardens their neck against the gospel they're going to be
suddenly destroyed and that without remedy someday as well in a place called hell but you know what
for christians on earth you are going to reap what you sow and god is not going to allow you
to get away with that wicked sin even if you're not married you think oh it's just fornication
oh you know no big deal no god will still punish you and you can and you could destroy your life
in a way where it's hard to come back from or certain aspects that you just can't come back
from verse number four the bible says the king by judgment establisheth the land but he that
receiveth gifts overthroweth it you know i like that word judgment that's a word today that has
become a bad word again because people just have this mentality of god and of christianity
that god is just super permissive and loose and is a paper tiger and doesn't care about anything
but you know what when you live in a society that doesn't fear god because you think there's no
judgment you end up living in a wicked place you know when when sentence is executed against
evildoers quickly that actually is going to cause people to fear authority you know the bible talks
about how he beareth not the sword in vain when you actually have a righteous king which of course
we don't have a king today but you can you know conceptualize this with the fact of just
government in general when you have a righteous government that actually has this great word
called judgment that's going to bring fear back into the land and it's going to bring
better behavior back into the land think about you know if you've ever had a workplace
where the boss was super hands-off laissez-faire you know the boss that wanted to be everyone's
friend and didn't actually want to enforce rules they were just everyone's buddy everyone's pal
there's probably a whole bunch of shenanigans and nonsense and bad work going on in that workplace
whereas if you have the boss that's going to get in your face and scream and yell at you
and threaten to fire you and impose rules people are going to mind their p's and q's very much so
right but today we have this you know unionized workforce which i hate i hate the unionized
workforce because you know it's it's the servant having ruler over the prince it's completely
backwards where the employers are going to demand of their boss certain things and you know i get
when you're living in the the 17th century and 18th century and in 19th century when you're working
in sweatshops and when you're getting paid you know not even enough money to really eat and you
know children five years old and six years old are putting in 12-hour shifts i understand that
but today we don't live in those times we live in the most coddled easy you know you poor little
house slave and you poor little easy you know white collar man too life imaginable and what we need
more of is not more workers rights we need more judgment we need more judgments from authority
we need more judgment from pastors today more judgment from the government i mean i'll give
you a perfect example when i lived up in the northwest no one likes speed traps right no one
likes to be judged for how fast that they drive right no one likes that until you move to texas
all of a sudden you want some judgment and i moved to texas and i found myself like why are there not
more speed traps because you know up in the northwest people are speeding going like 10 or 15
miles out an hour over the speed limit and then in texas it's like this person is going 90 over
in the right shoulder you know you ever have that motorcycle past you where all of a sudden just like
and they're just gone you know it's like where are the cops you want the judgment and you know
people think that they want you know all this freedom kids teenagers they think they want all
this freedom and you know workers they think they want all this freedom until you end up living in
a complete crap hole and you realize like rules are good authority is good structure is good i mean
you have some people today that that don't even think we should have police that want to defund
the police right liberals okay that that works great until you have a situation like i did where
you're walking down the road going soul winning in south dallas and these two kids pull out their
pistols and just start randomly shooting it randomly into the neighborhood i mean yeah you
want police in that situation don't you it's crazy judgment is a good thing verse number five a man
that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet verse six in the transgression of an evil
man there is a snare but the righteous doth sing and rejoice so transgression sin wickedness it
brings a snare it brings a trap and you know so so people really could only have as much liberty
as they can handle because when you just have total you know anarchy and no rules and people
are just transgressing they're taking advantage of that you know or christians using our liberty
as an occasion to the flesh crap it's going to bring a snare it's going to bring problems
verse seven the righteous considereth the cause of the poor but the wicked regardeth not to know
it you know so judgment people say judgment's a bad thing but judgment's a pretty important
thing when it comes to this during the cause of the poor you know is it good to just assume
that all poor people are evil and wicked and stupid is that a good judgment absolutely not
and you know people who are like really into helping the homeless and they're really into
giving them money every time you see them and they're really into giving them food would they
like this position that just says every single poor person is evil and stupid and wicked no
they would not okay then you have people who actually understand what the bible says that
if a man will work neither should he eat and you have people understand that hey you know not all
homeless people are these poor little oppressed people you know you could flip that around on
the other side and say are all um so sorry i'm losing my train of thought here at first i said
they're all stupid and wicked would we also say that all poor people are just poor little oppressed
victims and they're just you know by no fault of their own they found themselves in that position
no what would you want to do is consider the cause of the poor what does that take it takes this word
called judgment it takes this word called discernment and actually investigating to the cause of the poor
notice the righteous consider it the cause of the poor so would it be righteous to just see a
homeless person and automatically assume that they're a poor little victim and that they're a great
person and just give them your money and just give them food would that be righteous no it would not
not before you consider the cause of the poor or vice versa would it be would it be righteous to
look at someone who's poor and just immediately think the worst of them that would not be a
righteous judgment either the Bible tells us how to judge in these things in second Thessalonians
second Thessalonians 3 it talks about how the brethren should not be walking unruly and says
don't keep company with any brother that's walking unruly and it defines that as someone who is not
working at all right so someone who's just not working and the implication there is that it's
not that they can't work it's not that they're a quadriplegic it's not that they're on the death bed
it's that someone has just chosen not to work guess what the majority of the homeless population
in america is today people choosing not to work why because they instead choose smoking pot all
day instead they choose the thc pen all day instead they choose fentanyl instead they
choose alcohol instead they choose the nomadic bum lifestyle you know what those people do not
deserve my family's hard-earned money and food they don't deserve that in fact they don't even
deserve to eat at all because the bible says if a man will not work neither should he eat but you
know what consider the cause of the poor we also are living in very difficult economic times in the
us it's hard to make ends meet on one income many guys who are a single income family are working
two jobs themselves or three jobs themselves to provide for their family you know if someone like
that falls on hard times that's a different story i'm more inclined to help someone that's in that
situation than the homeless bum throwing his shoes at people on the side of the road you know
screaming and yelling at everyone you know i can't tell you how many times even surprisingly in
oklahoma city where i've been walking around the downtown area and some homeless guy is like
getting in my face and he's just gone he's cracked out he's laughing he's just completely
out of his mind oh let's give that guy money no tell those people no and like i don't even tell
these people i don't have anything on me i just say no bye idiot loser drunk fool why don't you
get a job why don't you get to work there's so many people hiring today oh yeah because these
people are lazy whereas hey a hard-working person that is struggling you know that's someone you're
way more inclined to help and you know what if it's a man i usually still won't even just give
them stuff i'll just you know do this job you know because real men actually want to work
and real men actually are willing to work for the things that they have and you know what that
actually brings satisfaction in your life not just getting all these handouts handouts are destroying
people's lives you know everyone's freaked out that the government's shut down right now and the
ebt cards are not about to be used and everyone's on tiktok you see all these welfare heads making
videos saying how they're going to commit acts of violence against people if the taxpayers don't
give them their free money the taxpayers better pay for my kids i've lit i literally saw a woman
saying like it's the taxpayers job to pay for my kids wow you know this mentality destroys people
you know slavery does exist today it's in the form of this culture that has allowed people to
think that they should live their whole life sucking off the government's teat and living
off of the government's handout the government's hand you know that is a form of slavery and to
the point where like oh so the government shuts down so now you're going to starve i have a great
idea go work go get a job you know all these churches in oklahoma city are in the news right
now how they're coming together and they're going to help all the welfare heads you know what i
think the churches should do is not give them a single dime that's what i think i think the
churches should you know show them the job applications and maybe instead of feeding the
bears to where they forget how to hunt on their own let's teach them how to hunt again why don't
we actually give them some freedom in their lives and see people will look at something like this
and say this is hateful but this is actually loving because this is actually going to help
their life you know it's not a fun life just being poor your whole life not being able to
provide for your family unless the government is giving you free money you know government
housing is not cool you ever been soul winning it's not fun you look at the crime maps in those
areas do you want your kids growing up there no what would be better is that people learn how
to work what does this take it takes judgment the righteous consider it the cause of the poor
but the wicked regardeth not to know it scornful men bring a city into a snare but wise men turn
away wrath if a wise man contendeth with a foolish man whether he rage or laugh there is no rest i
love this verse because again when it comes to the fool there's just no winning right you know in
the last chapter we talked about instances where you'd want to rebuke a fool instances where you
would not want to well here you know if you engage with the fool it's just saying whether you're
laughing at their stupidity or whether you're raging and angry at how dumb they are here's just
the truth of the situation is that there's no rest it's just saying like it's not really profitable
it's not really going to help anything and there's no winning and i'll be honest with you i think i
think we've all failed in this area before giving someone our attention that did not deserve it and
i i felt both of these i felt just laughing and just being kind of delirious at the stupidity that
i'm experiencing and also the rage right it kind of like triggers you you ever heard of rage bait
right rage bait is when a fool wants to trick you into engaging with their stupidity for the
sole purpose of making you angry and they they're not sincere it doesn't matter how much evidence
you show them it doesn't matter how many bible verses you show them you're never going to change
their mind they just want you to engage so here's the lesson realize that not everyone is worth your
response is worth your attention is worth your effort is worth your energy you know learn to
ignore foolish people i definitely have learned this a lot in the ministry because you would be
just like laughing or raging one of the two if you just saw like every comment that i see
you know for example i didn't respond to this but i guess i'll say in a sermon so i kind of am it's
okay just this once all right i saw this comment it says like you know pastor aus you did you just
in your sermon teach that if someone struggles with sin that they're unsaved and that they don't
know jesus and i'm just like no in fact i did not ever say that but it's like why would i respond
to someone who is either that insincere or that stupid you can't listen to my sermons and come
away walking away saying pastor aus believes in work salvation pastor aus believes that you know
if you're not living right if you're struggling with sin that you're not safe no sincere person
could ever come away with that conclusion so i i have two options like either this person's
insincere in that case a dialogue is not going to help or they're too stupid to understand anything
in that case a dialogue is not going to help you just ignore them and pray that they get some
wisdom in the future and just hope that you know they could get some learning and instruction in
the future this is why the bible talks about you know inheritic after the first and second admonition
reject knowing that he that is subvert that is such is subverted and sinned right so some people
could just be subverted you can't help them after the first and second admonition just walk away
move on you know i understand sometimes you have to play interference with crazy people out
soul winning you know you got your soul winning partner here they're preaching the gospel and the
proverbial or not proverbial black hebrew israelites show up and sometimes you got to play
interference but you know what if i'm out soul winning and it's just like the black hebrew
israelites start talking to me i'm just going to end that conversation as soon as possible and move
on because i'm not going to make this fool understand anything you know someone who is
that stupid to think that african americans are the jews of the old testament you know just move on
it's not going to help it says in verse number 10 the bloodthirsty hate the upright but the just
seek his soul a fool notice uttereth all his mind man keep it until afterward not every person
merits your response not every person merits you getting worked up and and upset about something
and look sometimes especially people who have never endured criticism have never been publicly
slandered have never gone through all like public fights sometimes it really shakes people to their
core and like you know someone said something bad about me online and it like shakes their world
and you know what you should do you should just sometimes turn off the phone and you know
proverbially or or literally touch grass read a book go work out go hang out with your wife hang
out with your kids do something productive because it's really a shame to you when you let some fool
online get you all riled up it's a shame to you and you know what even uh even if you are someone
who generally has wisdom and intelligence and wit and uh understanding if you're just uttering
all your mind at the dumbest person it kind of makes you look dumb kind of makes you look like
a fool and so you really just need to learn who is worthy of a battle who is worthy of a response
and people will people all the time hey look what this person said about you are you gonna respond
it's like who is that who even is that you know and it's like we don't even know who this person
is no i'm not going to respond to that you know you should have the same mentality verse 13 the
poor and the deceitful man meet together the lord lighteneth both their eyes the king that faithfully
judgeth the poor his throne shall be established forever so when it comes to judgment what's a
good way to judge well faithful judgment meaning judgment that's faithful to the word of god
faithful to the truth faithful to that which is i think also faithful here could be interpreted
as being consistent and you know when it comes to judgment if you're in any position of authority
being consistent in your judgment is super important it's important for your credibility
it's important for your integrity and notice that's going to help this king the king that
faithfully judgeth for his throne shall be established forever apply this to any position
of leadership how about parenting when you're judging uprightly in your home one of the biggest
keys to this is judging consistently you know it's not good judgment when your children in
their mind are thinking well last week mom gave me three chances and today she gave me 17 chances
and you know yesterday it was it was one chance and they're thinking in their mind when my mom
and dad says something do they actually mean it is there actually going to be a consequence
and you know what your children should never have to question that if you tell your children hey do
that again and you're getting a spanking you better spank them and look i understand we live
in a weird liberal society and it's not always easy or appropriate to just write in front of
everyone do that but trust me my kids know this if we're in a public situation and i can't spank
them right now and i tell them hey you will be getting a spanking later they absolutely 100
of the time receive that spanking because they need to know now obviously best case scenario is
to discipline right there on the spot especially for young children but you know what sometimes
you can't do that but follow through on your word look at verse 15 it says the rod and reproof give
wisdom but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame notice these two attributes of
effective child discipline number one the rod a lot of people need that preaching today because
a lot of people think that spanking is child abuse and spanking doesn't work and spanking is
you know barbaric and ancient wisdom no no no you need the rod and reproof right in order to
reprove your children you know what you have to do you have to have these things called rules and
you know i'm kind of aghast sometimes where it seems like parents have no standards or rules for
their children and it seems like a lot of parents just you know living off the seat of their pants
and just when things you know turn into an absolute volcano eruption of bad behavior then
the rod will come out you know you need to set expectations for your children in any position
of authority you need to lay down rules expectations and when those boundaries are crossed you need to
fall through with discipline what's the opposite of this is a child left to himself right and a
child left to himself not supervised not anything imposed on them no rules no consequences they're
just off on their own you know what it says it brings the mother to shame and you know we want
to live in this judgment-free world don't judge me for my work performance don't judge me for my
health don't judge me for anything well you know what the bible says is that a child left to himself
brings shame to the mother because dad's out working most of the time and don't have this
attitude where it's like well dad disciplines and when dad gets home you're in trouble you know what
you mom don't leave your children on their own don't be the mom that just sits down all day
you just wake up at 10 a.m and you just play on your phone and you just watch netflix and
you just worry about yourself as your kids just you know veg out you know what's going to happen
you're going to bring shame to yourself you're going to bring shame to yourself and i'm going
to preach a whole sermon on this pretty soon so i won't spend too much time on that this evening
but look at what it says in verse number 16 when the wicked are multiplied transgression
increases but the righteous shall see their fall correct thy son he shall give thee rest
yea he shall give delight unto thy soul you know that having children is a delight and if you don't
experience that let me tell you something having children should be a delight for you having kids
is a blessing young children are a delight is it a walk in the park no but nothing good in life
you know is just super easy and just comes to you naturally you know good things are worth working
hard for being patient for being diligent with but you know the bible says something that if you
correct your son he's going to give you this thing called rest and i'm sure that's something that
every parent wants a little bit more of in their life regardless if you are a great parent you know
who's knocking it out of the park and look i know a lot of wonderful parents you know we can all
improve in our parenting every single one of us can improve but you know there's some people where
they don't experience any rest there is no peace in their home you know i have a rule in my home
that my kids are not allowed to yell in my home that's a rule that i impose i tell my kids hey
no yelling in my house do they do that yes they do and guess what they get spanked for it because i
want to have peace in my home and you know if you have one kid you might not understand this yet
but when you have four under six years old you know it could get real loud real quick and i just
don't want to live in a chaotic zoo and so i have a rule that i enforce no yelling in my house can
we go to the park and play and kids scream and go to the water park and and all these fun activities
absolutely we're not expecting our children to be drones that never have fun that never express
emotion. But you know what? When we're at dinner and we're sitting at home, you know, if my kids
just start screaming, that's unacceptable. And you need to actually correct your son and he'll give
you rest. It's amazing to me how some people, their kids do things that are just awful and
socially unacceptable and is making everyone miserable. And it's like, there's no correction
that comes. It's just like, apparently this is just allowed. That's not okay. That's going to harm
you. That's going to allow you to not have any rest. And it's going to rob you of delight. And
you know, as Baptists, we like to have a lot of children, don't we? We like to pump out the babies.
Praise God for that. The Bible says, "Be fruitful and multiply." The Bible says, "Happy is the man
that hath his quiver full of them." I would hate for us to be an example of having a bunch of kids
and everyone sees us as miserable and just the stricken mothers with the, you know, black sags
under their face. Looks like they just came out of a combat zone. You know, I like moms that smile.
I like moms that are happy to be around their children and they're not always speaking negatively
about their children. You know, you should not be that type of person and if you are just constantly
feeling like you have no delight in your children, especially when they're young and you can control
them so easily, you're the problem. You're the issue. Correct them and he will give the rest.
I am not preaching about teenagers because I've never experienced that. My preaching on child
rearing is limited right now to young kids, but let me tell you something. Young children, you can
correct. You get the behavior from toddlers that you allow. Yeah, I understand a way where a child
can grow up and leave the house and go to college and smoke pot against your will and fornicate
against your will, but your toddler, you can physically control. And if you're not doing it,
let me tell you something. That's your fault. And you're making your own life miserable.
Look at verse number 18. Where there is no vision, the people perish. But he that keepeth the law,
notice this, happy is he. See, what gives us vision is the word of God, right? So the verse
we just read, how do we get delight unto our soul when it comes to child rearing by correcting our
son? Is that just natural human wisdom that we're going to spank our kids? Maybe a little bit,
but certainly not in 2025, when there's constantly brainwashing going against us
to not spank our kids, to not raise our kids according to the Bible. But you know what's
going to make us happy is when there's open vision leading us in the right way in life.
And people who just despise the Bible, don't want to listen to the Bible's way of doing things,
they're idiots because they make themselves miserable. You know, people who disobey God's
word are less happy than fundamental Baptists. And people just see snippets of sermons where
we're screaming and yelling, they say, "Baptists are angry people." Look, Anchor Baptist Church
people are the happiest people that I know. We really are. Fundamental Baptists are happy folks.
We have delight unto our souls. We are enjoying our life. You know, we are not the people who are
sad and depressed like all the whores of this world that have SEDs. Like all the whores of this
world that have aborted and killed all their kids reach age 40 and say, "Oh crap, what am I going
to do with my life? Why doesn't any man want me? You know, how am I going to, you know, live through
my old age?" You know who's not happy is the moron who drinks alcohol and is puking his guts up right
now. I'm sure someone in Oklahoma City right now at 809 is puking their guts out because they're
retarded and they drink alcohol. But you know what? They'd be a lot happier if they were sober.
There's a lot of people who have all these health problems because they're super lazy
and sedentary and they don't live a healthy lifestyle. And you know what? They're miserable
and sad. And if you actually put some work in and put some effort in and stop being lazy,
you'll actually have happiness called health. You know, being healthy brings happiness. Being
sick is awful. Being sick is terrible. Chronic illness is horrific. You know, you don't want
these things. Sometimes you can't avoid them, but there's a lot of pain. This is what I'm trying to
get you to understand. There's so much pain in your life that is avoidable. And you know what,
how to avoid that stuff? It's right here with the open vision of God's word. And where there's no
open vision, the people perish. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, right? But he
that keepeth the law, happy is he. You just need to learn to like the hard preaching. You just need
to learn to like reading Leviticus and Exodus and Numbers and all parts of the Bible, because you
know what? The open vision of God's word is only going to help you in your life. It's only going
to help you. There is nothing negative in this book as far as if you follow it, it'll hurt you
in life. No, God's commandments are there to protect us, to make us better. Verse 19, "A servant
will not be corrected by words, for though he understand, he will not answer." Right? So again,
just this theme of having consequences, whether good or bad, you know, some people, the Bible
calls them "froward" or "scorners." Some people, you cannot just correct them with words. Now,
a wise man, the Bible says, "Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee." This is not saying that
just nobody can be corrected with words and that you always have to have the rod and sharp
consequences for people, but you know what? There's some people where you correct them,
you're making them understand what they did wrong, you tell them what the rules are,
and they'll nod their head, "Yes, okay, yeah, yes sir, no problem, I got that, I understand."
And as soon as you're gone, they're breaking the rules, right? There's definitely employees like
this that live their life with what the Bible calls "I service," right? So the boss sees them
and they're obeying, they're following the rules, they're doing a good job,
and when the boss is gone, not working, not doing anything, right? There's all sorts of people,
servants is the specific examples given here. A servant will not be corrected by words,
for though he understand, he will not answer. Notice he understands, he knows the rules,
he understands the correction, but he's just not going to obey. That person needs, you know,
actual consequences. And this idea of just like, that every single subordinate that you have in
life and every single follower that you have in life will become a great follower, as long as the
leader is a good person, is just once again proven by the Bible to be false doctrine, right? You
know, oh, if you're just a good boss, if you're just a hard-working boss, if you're just an
intelligent boss, if you just love your employees, well then that means for sure they're going to
work hard and be diligent. No, sometimes it's rotten employees, where though they understand,
they're not going to be corrected. And you know what those people need? Consequences.
You know what those people need? Some of them need to be fired. Some of them need to have some sort
of punitive, you know, imposition put on them to punish them. And this works with all areas of life.
"Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him." Verse 21,
"He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length."
So notice, in one breath we have a servant who understands but he's not corrected with words.
Then in the next breath, hey, there's a servant that you could delicately bring up from a child,
or yeah, from a child, and he'll become your son at the length. You know, you could look at this
as being like the same master because not every follower is the same. Not every follower is a
good follower. Not every person fears God. Not every person hears the preaching and makes any
changes whatsoever, but there's plenty of people who hear correction and they take it. They accept
it. They make changes. Yeah, there's bad employees at work, but there's also great employees that the
boss could just tear into them and they'll take it and improve. And when they do that, they probably
don't have to tear into them as much. There's some employees you don't even have to tear into them.
You could be actually delicate with them and they'll take the correction. You know, if you are under
someone's authority, my word of advice was be that person where you're so teachable and you're so,
you know, malleable that your authority doesn't even have to be so stern. You know, he could
treat you delicately and you'll take the hint. You'll take the correction. You don't have to
be come down on super hard. And you know, it's like a lot of husbands today are terrified of
their wives and you know, they won't ever correct their wives until it's like this giant blow up.
And then, you know, the man has to blow up and, and you know, getting this big fight, you know,
it'd be so much better for both of you is if your husband could delicately bring something to you
nicely and you take it. And when you take it the first time, maybe he doesn't have to get escalated
and you have to be the fool that has to have all these consequences. Verse number 22, an angry man
stirreth up strife and a furious man aboundeth in transgression. What is the sinful way of responding
to criticism and you know punishment or some sort of correction is to get angry instead of just
humbling yourself and saying hey boss is right i'm wrong or even if that's not the case he's the boss
i'm the employee and i'm going to take it hey husband said i'm the wife you know you got to take
that correction but what does an angry person do stirs up strife they make it worse they make it
worse it's like the last thing you'd want to do when your authority is already mad at you is to
make it worse but this is what stupid people do you see it and it's just like you are so dumb
your boss is correcting you and instead of saying i'm sorry sir i'll do better i'll fix that right
away well you didn't see what this person did you didn't notice the last project that i did oh and
by the way you had something wrong in your email today you're an idiot and even if you're right
you're wrong and you're just hurting yourself an angry man stirs up strife and a furious man
aboundeth in transgression a man's pride shall bring him low but honor shall uphold the humble
in spirit just be humble when you're humble honor's coming your way you may feel like you're
lowering yourself and you may feel like it's not honorable to submit to someone else at times
you may feel like it's not very honoring getting you know rebuked by your boss or approved by your
authority but when you take it well what actually happens is that person sees you in a much better
light and the employee that takes correction the boss whether he says it you know externally or
not he's thinking that's the best employee that's my favorite employee that's the one that he's
going to you know give the days off to and if you need some sort of assistance he's going to help
you the most not the one who's angry and furious and causing all of this strife it says verse number
24 whoso is partner with a thief oh one thing that just popped in my head that last verse a
man's pride shall bring him low but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit you know i don't know
why you know christians find it so hard to submit to authority men find it hard to submit to their
boss at work but i'll tell you a crazy story one time i saw this person i don't know who this
person is i don't think any of you know who this person is this is a random facebook group but they
posted a prayer request they said hey i quit my job today i went into my boss's office and i tore
up all of his paperwork and i threw it in his office and i chewed him out will you please pray
that god blesses me with a good job and i told this person no i will not because you need to
humble yourself you need to go apologize for doing that because god is not going to bless someone
that just completely disdains and disrespects and has zero respect for authority uh for their
authority god's not going to bless a person like that i don't care what happens at work that is
not the way to go out you give your two weeks notice you thank him for the opportunity and you
move on with your life but you don't go into your boss's office and scream at him and yell at him
and rip up the paper in front of him and you sure don't have the audacity to ask for prayer
afterwards i'm going to pray that god humbles your stupid butt and that you you know get punished
because that's what you need you need correction you need to be brought low a man's pride shall
bring him low but hum but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit whoso is partner with a thief
hateth his own soul he heareth cursing and berayeth it not i think this verse is really
just warning you not to keep company with wicked people and to be careful who your friends are
because if your friend was someone who's a thief you know you're going to end up getting in trouble
and being around them while they're doing wicked stuff for example he heareth cursing and berayeth
it not you know people who are are man pleasers their followers they often end up in a bad crowd
because they just kind of want to be accepted by someone and you know wicked people will accept
people that are weak that they can impose their will on that could get them to do sins with them
hey kid let's go steal something or you know gang initiations right gangs will often recruit
young teenage boys with no father with with no one in their life they struggle with self-esteem
they want to be people pleasers and so what ends up happening is you end up seeing sin around you
you end up participating in sin around you your partner with a thief you know for example he
heareth cursing and berateth not right so someone you know for example could say like oh man if you
don't do this i swear to beep i'm going to kill you i'm going to kill your family and people
because they're in this situation are scared and they're people pleasers they're not going to go
tell the police they're not going to go tell mom and dad they're going to not berate that or betray
that information because they're people pleasers because they want to be friends with these
thieves makes me think about you know kids they get in the wrong crowd and even though they're
christian let's say a safe person a safe child he starts hanging out with a bunch of bad kids
oftentimes kids don't have the boldness and and gumption to stand up for what's right and
to stand up for themselves so for example you know kids can be around other kids and those kids
are saying like oh my god or they're using jesus christ name as a cuss word they're blaspheming
christ i mean how many kids how many christian kids do you think has been in that situation
where they've heard that it vexes them they don't like it but they don't say anything about it
right what does that tell you be careful about who you're around be careful about the friends
that you have especially if you're this you know people pleasing person i think that's kind of
what this chapter is going to end on is this idea of being a people pleaser because notice verse 26
many seek the ruler's favor but every man's judgment cometh from the lord right so you know
everyone wants to be pleasing to the ruler to the king to the person that has authority and power
and they want to be liked by them and they want to have you know privilege and prestige with that
person because they're people pleasers but what we should really realize is that hey every man's
judgment cometh from the lord who we should be fearing is god if you're in a situation
where you're around sin you know you shouldn't be afraid to stand up for jesus christ because who
you should be afraid of is jesus christ you should be afraid of god you should be afraid of his
judgment then it says in verse 27 an unjust man is an abomination to the just and he that is upright
in the way is abomination to the wicked this verse should just cause you to stop being a people
pleaser stop trying to please the world stop trying to please the wicked stop trying to please the
abominable because no matter what you do if you're righteous you're always going to be an
abomination in their sight you're always going to be hated by them and so you know by virtue of being
righteous just by the virtue of being righteous you are attracting hatred did you know that
people think you can just live on an island you know pastor thompson touched on this when he was
here people think you can just be a christian and be righteous and that you can just keep your head
down and that no one's going to know that's not how it works yay and all that will live godly in
christ jesus shall suffer persecution and you know what if you are righteous you are going to be seen
as abominable by this world and don't think that it's just pastors it's not it's every christian
people are going to look at you oftentimes as the scum of the earth and so you know what as early
in life as you can get rid of this childish people pleasing mentality and just wanting to be friends
with everyone and at peace with everyone just get that thought out of your mind you know what we are
going to have enmity with this world and you know if you love this world the bible says you're at
enmity with god so you're you can't please everyone if you want to please the world and you want to
give in to their standards give into their sins you know not be vocal about your faith okay now
you've just pissed off god great is that really going to be better for you you know i would just
rather god be pleased with me and let the whole world hate me now look i don't think it's going
to literally happen the whole world because you're going to have brothers and sisters in christ but
guess what a lot of this world will hate you and the the bigger of a stand you take for christ
the more hardcore you are about the bible the more strict you actually stay to the words of
jesus christ not the more liked you'll be the more hated you'll be you know the churches that are
liked are the ones who don't care about second thessalonians three and are praised by the news
media for giving all the homeless food that's who the world likes you know what the world's not
going to like anchor baptist church but guess what i don't care and if you want to come to a church
that is liked you're in the wrong place if you're like man i just one day i just want our church to
be that pillar in the community that's in the newspaper oh every the oklahoman today we're
celebrating anchor baptist church's 50th anniversary here's all the souls they've won in the community
and here's all the baptisms they've had and here's the lives that have been changed that will never
happen and you know what if i saw this should be a wake-up check for some people if i saw a bunch
of wicked people praising me praising my sermons liking things that i post on facebook liking my
doctrines liking you know all the things that i do i would have to take a serious pause and ask
myself what am i doing wrong because when the abominable like you when fags team up with you
when you know bloodthirsty abortionists say well but that pastor is okay ah but that church is okay
you are not pleasing to god so just make the decision do you want to be pleasing in the eyes
of god or do you want to be pleasing in the eyes of man because you can't have it both ways i know
what i want to choose i think if you're coming here it's the same thing but every once in a while
we just need to remind ourselves of this fact and not allow the world to jade you you know what just
embrace the hatred be righteous let's pray lord thank you so much for your word and thank you for
proverbs i pray that you would just bless uh the remaining two studies we have through this book
that you would reveal truths to us help them to apply to our lives i prayed that you'd help us
to be strong in our faith to make a stand for you in any way that we can help us to be bold and not
to cave in to the devil or this world's demands of us and i prayed that you'd bring us home safely
this evening in jesus name we pray amen with that we'll go ahead and sing one last song to conclude
the service if you would at this time take your hymnals and turn to hymn number 220 jesus is all
the world to me hymn number 220 start there right on the first