It started this evening if you would have this time find a hymnal and turn to him number
410 is the victory
410 him for one zero go ahead and start that right on the first
This opportunity we have to sing praise unto you and to gather together as a church this evening Lord
Thank you also for the salvation that was had this evening
I pray that you'd bless the remainder of the service at this time as well as feel past or always with your spirit as he
Preaches from your word Lord in Jesus name. I pray amen for our next team if you would turn in your him knows to him number
257 look and live him number
257 start there right on the first bulletin
Please raise your hand do you have on the front of our in there our by passage of the week?
It's one was real easy for the kiddos this week Genesis 1 verse 19
Keep up the good work with the memory verse on the inside
You'll see our service times are listed Sunday morning at 1030 Sunday evening at 430 and our Wednesday Bible study at 7
Below that we have all of our soul winning times and those meet here the church building
Of course, there's a mental asterisk next to the Saturday rally because this Saturday
We're gonna be soul winning in Enid, Oklahoma. So keep that in mind, but below that we do have our year-to-date
soul-winning statistics for the month and year and like I just mentioned November 8th, that's this Saturday
We're doing a soul winning push in Enid, Oklahoma
About an hour and a half north of here and the reason we're going there again is because there's a really big Pacific Islander
Population that should be very receptive to the gospel
so it's kind of like a missions trip here at home this weekend and
It's going to be from noon to 4 p.m
So a little bit later than we normally meet up
But we'll just have one long push for soul winning and then we'll go get something good to eat after
So, please join us for that November 16th is our next men's preaching night
That's for the evening service followed by potluck and fellowship November 22nd kicks off our one-year anniversary
Weekend we're gonna have a soul winning marathon here in OKC all day Saturday
And then pastor Jonathan Shelley of steadfast Baptist Church will be preaching both services for us on Sunday
November 26th, we're having the pie fellowship after church
December 5th is going to be a fellowship event at Chisholm Park enjoying the Yukon Christmas lights show
December 12th will be the ladies Christmas party and December 19th will go Christmas caroling in the evening
Of course, there'll be some more times associated with all this as we get a little closer
December 31st will be that's our Wednesday service and we'll have our New Year's Eve
Party, so we'll have again a men's preaching night that evening followed by food and
Fellowship we do have on the right there a QR code for visitors just so that we can
Send emails about different events that are going on at our church and sermons and stuff like that
And by the way, this QR code is the same exact one that's on the back of our bulletins
Like or I'm sorry the back of our invites
So when you're out soul-winning if you want to get someone's contact info, you can just have them do it right there
You don't have to send me the email address or anything like that
And then also if you'd like to give online, there's information there on the back. We do have our updated prayer list
Don't worry. I know it looks scary with brother Cameron. He's not getting arrested or anything like that
It's not it's not a scary type thing, but he did have us pray for his court of parents tomorrow
Not criminal have to say that for the haters out there. Don't worry, but please be praying for him
He needs it all as much as he can get, you know
Also, we got my brother on there
Brother of Theodore's mother. Unfortunately, it was confirmed that she does have cancer before we were saying it's kind of tentative
That diagnosis came in and so please be praying for her
Of course, that's not a hopeless situation
We prayed for this exact thing before for God to heal someone of cancer and God definitely answered that prayer
So keep all these requests in prayer throughout the week
And if you have anything you'd like me to add please email the church email address there and I'll get that added for you
Let's go ahead before we go to our third song to go to the Lord in prayer as a church family
Lord, we thank you so much for the opportunity to be in church this evening and just to have great brothers and sisters in Christ
To serve you with I pray that you just answer these requests according to your will Lord that you would just give us mercy and favor
I pray that you'd help brother Cameron with his court of parents tomorrow that you'd help things to go in his favor that you just
Give him a blessing Lord and we also pray for my brother that you just keep him safe on his combat deployment
And bring him home safely to his family Lord
I also pray for brother Theodore's mother that you would completely heal her of her cancer
That you would just help her to have wisdom and how to approach
Treatment but regardless of what she decides is pray that you would intervene and that you would heal her body Lord
Of course, we believe very strongly you could do this for us God
We also want to pray for his sister's salvation and for all those church members
We have here whose loved ones are not saved that those people would just have soft hearts to the gospel that they would get many
Chances to hear the gospel Lord help us to be faithful witnesses and soul winners to those in Oklahoma City and also to those
In our own lives and we also pray for brother miles health
She bless him and this Rhea and I just want to pray for our soul winning marathon coming up this weekend
that she would go before us and prepare hearts and lead us to people who are receptive help us to have a great harvest for you this
Saturday and I pray that you would keep those traveling this weekend safe
We love you in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. This time we'll go to our third of song
Right for our third song if you would at this time take your white handouts and turn to Psalm chapter 15
Psalm chapter 15 in the white handouts just a reminder there there is a coda that we will sing at the very end
After the third verse go ahead to start there right there on the first
Son of Jacob to even the prophecy man spake unto
Ithiel even unto Ithiel and Ucal and more brutish than any man have not the understanding of a man
Neither lower have the knowledge who hath ascended up into heaven or descended who hath gathered the winds in his fists
Who hath bound the waters in a garment who hath established all the ends of the earth
What is his name and what is his son's name if thou can't tell every word of God is pure
He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him add thou not unto his words
Lest he reprove thee and thou be found a liar two things have I required of thee
Deny me them not before I die
Remove far from me vanity and lies give me neither poverty nor riches
Feed me with food convenient for me
Lest I be full and deny thee and say who is the Lord or lest I be poor and steal and
Take the name of my God in vain accuse not a servant unto his master
Lest he curse thee and now be found guilty
There is a generation that curseth their father and doth not bless their mother
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet is not washed from their filthiness
There is a generation. Oh how lofty are their eyes and their eyelids are lifted up
There is a generation whose teeth are as swords and their jaw teeth as knives
To devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among men
The horse leech hath two daughters crying give give there are three things that are never
Satisfied gay four things say not it is enough the grave and the barren womb
The earth that is not filled with water and the fire that saith not it is enough
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagle shall eat it. There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not. The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid. Such is the way of an adulterous woman she is.
For she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and sayeth, I have done no wickedness.
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear.
For a servant when he reigneth, and a fool when he is filled with meat.
For an odious woman when she is married, and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
There be four things which are little upon the earth, but are exceeding wise.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer.
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks.
The locusts have no king, yet they go forth, all of them by bands.
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces.
There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely and going,
a lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any,
a greyhound and an ego also, and a king against whom there is no rising up.
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil,
lay thine hand upon thy mouth, surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter,
and the ringing of the nose bringeth forth blood, so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Let's bow our heads forward in prayer.
Father in heaven, we thank you for our church this day, all the salvations that have been had this year.
We love you. We thank you for everything you do for us.
We ask that you fulfill our task with the Holy Spirit, and help us to run from the world.
We love you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Then we're in Proverbs 30, which marks a new section in the book of Proverbs.
Previously, every single Proverb so far has been written by Solomon,
and we get a new author for these remaining two chapters.
For this chapter, in chapter 30, it is a man named Agur.
It says in verse 1, "The words of Agur, the son of Jakey, even the prophecy,
the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal."
Now, who are these men? I have no idea.
But what I know is that this is the inspired words of God, and that's why it's in our Bible today.
This isn't just some random, only historical piece of literature.
This is the inspired words of God.
And you could tell, because of its power and of its beauty, I would say, in my opinion,
Proverbs 30 is the most poetic chapter in all of Proverbs,
because it uses those poetic devices throughout this chapter where he says,
"Hey, three things, yea four. Three things, yea four."
It's not like he's writing and he thinks of three things.
He's like, "Actually, I just thought of another one. Here's number four."
You know, this is beautiful poetry, but it's not just poetry.
It is the inspired words of God.
So that's why it made it into the Bible.
You know, God's people were able to recognize through the Holy Spirit that this is Scripture.
Verse number two is very interesting how he starts this off.
He says, "Surely I am more brutish."
Now what does brutish mean?
Uncivilized, stupid, animalistic, slow.
He's really just laying his credentials for you.
Like don't you want to hear what he has to say?
He says, "All right, I'm going to just give you who I am.
Let me tell you a little about myself.
Surely I am more brutish than any man and have not the understanding of a man."
That is an interesting way to start off a chapter in the Bible.
You know, and it kind of goes to show that he is writing under the Holy Spirit's inspiration
and that this is the words of God because I think he's being sarcastic here.
First of all, when you read the chapter, you're going to see that this guy is very, very intelligent.
But I think this kind of underscores an important truth when it comes to Scripture and men of God.
That when it comes to spiritual things, when it comes to the Bible, you know, it's not about having carnal intelligence.
It's not about having all these accolades and letters behind or before your name.
What matters is what you're saying is the truth.
And even someone who has not learned a lot or is not necessarily the smartest person on Earth, they can be very wise spiritually.
And they can have a lot of good things to say spiritually.
Keep your place there and go to First Corinthians, chapter number one, First Corinthians, chapter number one.
Notice what it says when you get there in verse number 26.
It says, "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh,
not many mighty, not many noble are called."
So when it comes to people who do great works for God and even men that you read about throughout Scripture
that was used by God to do great works or even to pen chapters of the Bible,
it's not like God went to find only the most smart men that lived on earth
and only the strongest men and only the richest men and only the tallest men
and only the men with the greatest education.
You know what he used? He used spirit-filled men.
He used good men. He used men that were willing vessels of the Lord.
But you know what you're going to find in the prophets that you read about in the Old Testament
and the men of God that were used in the Bible is that they were regular men.
And can you find some outliers, some men that were just outstanding in some type of an area?
Sure. You could point to David, the mighty warrior.
And guess what? Not every man of God was like David when it came to his power in warfare.
You do have guys like Solomon who was exceeding wise. No doubt about that.
You do have guys like Job who were very rich. But you know what?
The majority of the prophets were like, hey, I'm just a farmer.
I wasn't the son of a prophet. I was just a herdman.
The apostles, they were fishermen. They were regular guys.
You know, God uses today, majorly just regular people.
And that's why I think Proverbs 30 could really just resonate with everyone,
is that he's not, you know, starting to write this chapter where he's saying,
"Hey, you know, you're going to need a PhD to understand this.
You're going to need a PhD or a doctorate to be able to read the Bible."
He's just saying like, "Hey, I'm more brutish than any man."
And what I really think he's saying is he's relying on the wisdom and power of God,
not on his own intellect.
Because you'll see, the chapter is very powerful. It is very wise.
It has a lot of, you know, intelligence in it.
But that's not really coming from him, that's coming from the Spirit of God.
It says in verse 27, "But God have chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise,
and God have chosen the weak things of the world to confound things which are mighty."
So what it's really saying is that, you know, the things of God, the Word of God,
they're going to seem foolish to the world.
The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us it is the power of God.
So some people might see him say, "Oh, I'm more brutish than any man,"
and they might take him at his word for it, but we read it and we're like,
"No, there's more to it than this. He's very wise."
It's a powerful chapter. It says,
"And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea;
and things which are not, to bring to naught, things that are,
that no flesh should glory in his presence."
Go back to Proverbs chapter number 30.
So here's the thing, when you want to be used greatly by God,
the Bible is not saying you have to be dumb, you have to be short,
you can't be strong, you can't be like a man of strength or anything like that.
But what it for sure is saying is that you better not be relying on those things
and you better not be glorifying yourself in those things
because God does not want to have anyone take glory but himself.
And a lot of times, you know, perhaps God doesn't bless people with, you know,
a super high IQ or just tons of money or a great physique or being super tall,
maybe precisely because it would go to their head and they'd become prideful.
Not everyone can necessarily handle having a lot of money or handle being good-looking.
Just ask a certain ex-New IP pastor about that one.
You'll have to check out the New IP Parody to understand what I'm saying there.
Notice verse number 3 says, "I neither learned wisdom nor have the knowledge of the holy."
So he's saying, "Hey, you know, I didn't go to Bible college."
And isn't that funny today how so many people will look down on a preacher
or look down on a church or even you go out soul winning.
This has happened to me out soul winning where I'm simply there to preach them the gospel
and to talk to them about the most simple, basic doctrine.
And sometimes people have been like, "What Bible college did you go to?"
It's like, "That doesn't matter."
Because if it didn't matter for Ager, it doesn't matter for anyone.
What matters is that you study this.
What matters is that you know the word of God.
And you know what?
A preacher any day of the week that has read this cover to cover 30, 40, 50 times
than some 18-year-old that's going to college just doing his classes
and is just given a pastorate, just given an ordination.
You know, the work of God, it's not like carnal things.
It's not like, "Well, you just check off these boxes
and all of a sudden you could pastor or you could be used vitally by God."
No, you need to be spirit-filled.
And that's not limited to pastors.
That's anyone that wants to do a great work for God.
You need to be spirit-filled.
Notice he says in verse number four,
he says, "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended?
Who hath gathered the wind in his fists?
Who hath bound the waters in a garment?
Who hath established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name?
And what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?"
You know, some people think they're so smart and they have all the answers,
but a lot of the people who are smart in the world's eyes today,
you know, they wouldn't be able to answer questions like this.
And he's kind of answering, he's kind of asking these rhetorical questions,
and I believe Agar knows the answer to these things, that it's God.
You know, he's asking this rhetorically.
You know, "Who hath ascended up into heaven or descended?"
Agar's saying, "Doesn't matter about me, doesn't matter about my, you know, accolades.
What matters is, hey, it's God that's ascended up to heaven or descended.
Who hath gathered the wind in his fist? God.
Who hath bounded the waters in a garment? God.
Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name?"
Notice this, "And what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?"
You know, some people have kind of a very bizarre view of the Trinity,
where they believe that Jesus Christ became the Son of God during the incarnation.
But I believe in the eternal sonship of Christ,
meaning that Jesus Christ has eternally existed as the Son of God.
Now, of course, in the incarnation, that is when he, you know, put on flesh.
That's when he became a man, but that is not when he was created.
Jesus Christ is eternally God from eternity past.
And notice, the father and the son have had this relationship,
the father-son relationship for even during the Old Testament,
even Proverbs chapter 30 is talking about it.
What is his name and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
By the way, this goes to show that Jesus is not the father,
because that's another false doctrine about the Trinity,
saying that Jesus is the father, Jesus is the Holy Spirit,
and the Holy Spirit is the father, and the Holy Spirit is Jesus.
You know, you've kind of seen like that Catholic picture of the Trinity that says that,
but here the Bible's saying that, hey, what is his name and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
I believe that in the Trinity, of course, there is one God,
but I believe that there is three distinct persons in the Trinity.
And people freak out about this, people teach all sorts of weird false doctrine about this,
but you know what, Hebrews says that Jesus Christ is the express image of his person.
So Jesus looks exactly like God the Father's person.
It sounds like there's personhood within the Trinity.
And you know what, I don't have any notes, but I believe it's in Colossians 3 is the verse that I'm thinking of here.
Go ahead and turn to Colossians chapter number three.
Thinking of that verse about how Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
If you could help me find that if you're looking there or maybe it's chapter two.
OK, yeah, chapter number two. Look what it says.
Let's start in verse eight. Beware, lest any man spoil you through philosophy in vain deceit after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ.
So we clearly established the subject is Christ.
Notice what it says for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
I think people misinterpret this verse.
Some people will go to this verse and say, see all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Jesus bodily.
So that means Jesus is the father. That means Jesus is the Holy Spirit.
But I think you're just fundamentally misunderstanding what the word Godhead means.
What it means is like Godhood or godness.
And I know that's kind of not a word, but that's how we understand what it's saying.
So it's saying that in Jesus dwells full godness.
Like Jesus is not 80% man and 20% God or vice versa.
Jesus is 100% God. He is 100% divine.
But I think it'd be foolish to look at this verse in Colossians
and just throw out all the other clear examples we have in the Bible
that makes a clear distinction between the Father and the Son.
You know, you have Jesus praying to the Father.
You have Jesus in John 17 verse 5 talking about the love of Christ,
I'm sorry, the love of God that they shared with each other before the world began.
You have Jesus on the cross saying, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
Explain that if they are the same person. It makes no sense.
And so right away in Proverbs, we could tell this is not just man's writing right here.
This is pretty powerful that we're learning about the Son of God in Proverbs.
Go back to Proverbs 30, if you would.
And of course, we know that in Acts chapter 10, it talks about to Him, meaning to Jesus,
give all the prophets witness, even Agur, who has one chapter in the Bible.
He's still giving witness to the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's because the whole Bible is all about Jesus Christ.
It says in verse number five, He says every word of God is pure.
He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him.
So if you kind of know, if you kind of can tell what Agur's doing here,
is he's very poetically, very beautifully starting off his chapter,
trying to get people to humble themselves, to lower themselves,
and to give all glory to God.
And he kind of sets that example by saying, "Hey, I'm brutish.
I haven't learned wisdom. I don't have the knowledge of the Holy.
But let me tell you something, every word of God is pure."
And so, hey, even if you're not the smartest person,
even if you don't have all the accolades,
you know what, if you have the word of God,
you can hang your hat on every single thing that's written in here.
And the Bible talks about how the word of God makes the simple wise.
You know, we need to read it because it's pure.
Notice verse 6, "Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee,
and thou be found a liar."
You know, in talking about the word of God,
what's the first thing that's on his mind when it comes to Scripture?
It's saying, "Hey, don't add unto the words of God,
lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."
You know, it should anger us as Christians when we see people adding to the Bible.
You know, one thing that really annoys me is how people,
they just want to, instead of hanging their hat on Bible verses
and building a foundation for their doctrine on Bible verses,
they'll take some man-made terminology and instead just stake their claim on that.
You know, I'm not going to go into super deep sermon on the Trinity tonight,
but you know, you've got the social Trinity, and you've got the traditional Orthodox Trinity,
and you have all these different names that people come up with for these terms.
But you know what actually matters is what the Bible says.
And I don't care what name you give to something, don't be adding to God's word.
Don't be adding your opinion to what the Bible says.
You know, if you're going to make a doctrine,
make sure that you're staking it on a clear statement in the Bible.
You know what's adding to Scripture?
Saying that Mary ascended up to heaven bodily and never experienced death.
Here's a little spoiler for this Sunday.
I never knew this about Catholics until this week.
Do you know that the Catholic Church believes that Mary did not die a physical death,
that she was assumed up into heaven, that one of the popes spoke ex cathedra
and declared it official church doctrine, that Mary did not experience death.
She was caught up to heaven in her body and in her soul.
Talk about adding to Scripture.
Talk about being a liar.
It's insane today, the beliefs that the Catholic Church teaches.
But the Catholic Church, what's their problem?
They don't base their beliefs on the Bible.
They have to release these official doctrinal statements.
They have to refer to the church fathers.
What are they? They want to talk about education and learning
and all these things that Ager doesn't give a rip about.
What does he give a rip about? The Bible.
Every word of God is pure.
Then it kind of transitions in verse 7 to Ager's prayer to God.
It says, "Two things have I required of thee.
Deny me them not before I die.
Remove far from me vanity and lies.
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
Feed me with food convenient for me."
So first thing, he's just asking that God would remove far from him vanity and lies.
What is vanity? Just meaningless emptiness, right?
Things that don't matter whatsoever.
When I think of just people being obsessed with vanity,
it's your typical Dallas Cowboys sports fan who knows every stat,
who stays up every night just researching the latest breaking news on the team.
And they know every player, they know every stat,
they know every famous player that's ever played on that team and the history of the team.
They're just obsessed with sports.
You meet people like this, maybe not so much in Oklahoma,
but definitely in Texas there's a lot of people that are like this.
And what is it? It's just vain.
And look, we're all going to have a certain level of vanity in our lives.
It's not like you're going to be praying 24 hours a day and reading the Bible 24 hours a day.
But you know, you don't want your life to be categorized by vanity.
Vanity should be the exception in your life.
You know, just doing stuff.
We all do stuff that doesn't play in a board game, playing a video game, you know, scrolling on your phone.
Everyone in their life is going to have some level of vanity.
But please do not let your life just be consumed with vanity.
You know, people today are often addicted to vanity, addicted to their screens.
They lay in bed at night and they're just randomly scrolling that TikTok feed and just consuming vanity.
Look, it's pointless. It's meaningless.
He's saying remove far from me, this kind of stuff.
And then additionally, remove far from me lies.
You don't want to be surrounding yourself and inundating yourself with doctrine and with media coming from liars.
It is going to poison your mind.
The Bible says that a lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it.
This would be like the news media today, people that just are obsessed with listening to the news, just listening to constant lies.
Agri says, "Hey, remove me. Remove that stuff far from me."
Then he says this, "Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food convenient for me."
Now this is a pretty interesting request in the sense that I guarantee you most people throughout history and most people today
have probably not prayed to God that God would not give them riches.
Most people today are probably doing the opposite, where they're constantly asking God,
"God, I gave $1,000 to Kenneth Copeland, can you please give me the $10,000 now?
Can you please give me the $100,000?"
People are constantly wanting money.
It's not very often you see people asking for poverty.
I guess unless you're one of these ascetic Hindus that are trying to just empty yourself of all earthly pleasure.
But you know what? The Bible is a very balanced book.
And people accuse the Bible of being very extreme.
But here we see a very balanced take in the Bible asking God for neither poverty nor riches.
Why is that? He goes on to explain it.
He says in verse nine, "Lest I be full and deny thee and say, 'Who is the Lord?'"
So what is one of the downfalls of having riches, of being rich?
Is that you're going to have the opposite attitude that Agar has.
Is that you're going to get puffed up. You're going to get filled.
You're going to be oftentimes just obsessed with the things of this world
and not care about the things of God.
You know the people I look at, you see that neighbor who's got the boat.
The neighbor who just cares about the boat and every day he's out shining the boat
and he's out waxing the muscle car.
You know what you also don't see? You don't see that guy at church on Sunday.
You don't see that guy going soul winning.
You don't see that guy serving God in any way. Why?
Because the things of this world often choke people from being fruitful
when it comes to the things of God. And so we as Christians, we should not desire to be rich.
The Bible says labor not to be rich. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil.
But the American mentality today, oftentimes, you know, the American dream is just to get rich.
Make as much money as possible. And look, again, you don't have an imbalanced view because money in itself is not bad.
The money is not the root of all evil. It's the love of money that is the root of all evil.
So sometimes, you know, someone who has a good heart, someone who loves the Lord their God above anything else, you know, maybe God can bless that person with financial success.
And they're still going to be serving God. That's great.
That's what you should strive to be is a person that could actually handle when God blesses you with something.
But I've seen many times in my life where all of a sudden people been praying and praying for some sort of breakthrough financially and they get it and they're just out of church.
They're just done. They just stop serving God. And it's like, man, you know, I don't want that to happen to me.
You shouldn't want that to happen to you. And you shouldn't be so prideful as to think, you know, I could never fall out of church no matter what.
No, you should pray to God that he does not give you riches.
And you should pray that he doesn't make you poor as well, because look what it says, or lest I be poor and steal and take the name of my God in vain.
So some people, when they have too much money, it tempts them to sin.
Other people, when they don't have enough money, what does it do? It tempts them to sin.
Specifically, what's listed here? Stealing.
You know, we got the EBT cards that have run out this month, and I've seen all these videos on social media of people who previously were receiving all this money from the government,
and all of a sudden that's getting cut off, and you see videos of them talking about how they're going to go into the store, and they're going to start stealing stuff.
It just matches exactly with what the Bible says.
And in fact, I've seen other videos of people straight up just filming their children stealing stuff, and laughing about it, and ha-ha funny.
You know what? It's like taking the name of God in vain.
And shame on anyone that is a Christian that would justify stealing for any reason.
And look, it's not like we should hate these people, because the Bible talks about, "Hey, if someone's starving and someone steals to satisfy their soul, it's not like you're going to despise them for that."
But you know what? There's no justifying it.
There's no saying it's okay, especially these lazy do-nothing bums that they're not just starving because they're out working 80 hours a week and they still can't scrape by.
They're just doing nothing.
They just think that it's owed to them to get free money from the taxpayer.
It's a bunch of garbage, and it's a hateful ideology to just give people endless free stuff.
You know, this church is not your little, you know, bank ATM.
This church is not just like a free money dispenser, and I can't tell you how many calls I get per month
of people just being like, "Hey, I need you to pay my electric bill."
"Hey, I'm just calling to see if you could pay my electric bill."
It's like, who are you? Who are you, bro? You don't even come to church?
You don't even show up in the house of God, and you have the gall to just call a pastor
and just say, "Give me God's money." Who are you? It's insane.
And you know, even today, one of the things I did is I just amassed every single food bank
and every single nonprofit that exists in OKC, and if anyone comes asking for that,
and especially if they don't go to church, I'm just going to say,
"Here's all the suckers that will give you money. Bye. Leave us."
Because if a man will not work, neither should he eat.
And of course, people will twist my words, and they'll show you some sob story
of someone who actually is going through a hard time, someone who actually has character,
someone who actually works hard and is struggling. I'm not talking about that person.
Don't put words in my mouth. What I'm talking about is lazy welfare heads.
And by the way, sadly, it's just passed down generationally, where people are just not taught to work.
People are taught to take advantage of the system, and you know what? It's wicked.
And some of these people, I guarantee you, some of these people would claim the name of Christ,
and what they're doing is they're taking God's name in vain.
God does not want his name associated with a bunch of lazy, disorderly people
that just want to take money from hardworking Americans. It's gross.
Notice what it says in verse number 10.
He says, "Accused not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty."
So kind of just random change of subject, but guess what?
That's the whole book of Proverbs. It just seems like it changes like that.
It's saying, "Accused not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty."
You know, I don't think it's good to be a tattletale.
I think that there's a time and a place where we would use discretion to go to someone's authority to address an issue.
But you know what? Don't be a tattletale, though.
Those of you who have children, it gets so annoying when sister comes and tells on sister about something that doesn't matter, that you don't care about.
And sometimes when they do that, you're more mad at them for bothering you and being a tattletale
than you even are about the minuscule thing that the other child does.
You know, this also applies to bosses, to parents, to pastors.
You know, I don't need tattletaling about every single beef that you have with a person.
And some people think that they need to do this.
Some people think that if they have an issue with someone, that they just need to tell me all the details about it.
And it's like, do you know that you are allowed to not like other people sometimes?
And sometimes you're just not going to get along with people?
And it just is what it is.
I don't need to hear every grievance you ever had with a person.
I don't need to, you know, kick someone out because people disagree about something
that has nothing to do with the Bible.
It's like, stop being such a tattletale.
Just get over your issue and move on with your life.
Now, look, if there's a major issue, of course, that needs to be dealt with
and leadership wants to get involved in that kind of stuff.
But if it's just like a he said, she said, I don't like her, I don't like him, they did this, I don't care.
You know, and I'll try to help you and I'll be gracious to you.
But I'm just telling you that like in reality, stop being such a title tale, stop being so thin skinned.
Says in verse number 11, there's a generation that curseth their father and does not bless their mother.
Again, kind of seemingly randomly changing subject.
But I see the one connection there is that word curse because verse 10 he's talking about.
Lest he curse thee. He's like, hey, speaking of cursing, there's a generation that curseth their father and does not bless their mother.
Now, of course, in the Old Testament, the Bible says that if you curse your mother or father, that you should be put to death.
You know, God views it as a heinous crime for someone to curse their mother and father.
And the reason for that, I think, is this, is that if you are willing to give imprecations and hate and curses against the people who brought you into this world,
who changed your diapers, who loved you, who taught you how to read, who taught you how to get dressed, who taught you how to brush your teeth.
I mean, if you could hate those people, and if you could want evil on those people, who would you not want evil on?
Who would you not curse? Like, if you could curse your own mother and father, then pretty much anyone else is on the table.
If you would steal from your mom and dad, you'd steal from anyone. If you'd smite your mom and dad, you'd smite anyone.
You know, if you would kill your mother and father, you would kill anyone.
The Bible talks about murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers in 1st Timothy chapter 1.
You know, people that disrespect, let me say this, we should have zero tolerance for disrespected parents.
We should have zero tolerance for children disobeying their parents, for children rising up against their parents,
rebelling against their parents, it's evil, it's wicked, it is not Christianity, it's against what God wants.
And I just, I don't care what you say, you know, if there's a situation where kids are rebelling against mom and dad,
cursing mother and father, saying evil against them, I'm just going to side with the parents, period.
And you know what, I would want to go to a church, you know, I actually am raising kids, and you guys are raising kids,
I would want to go to a church where the pastor backs up the parents' authority in the home,
and doesn't get up and make excuses for here's 10 reasons kids can disobey, and here's all the exceptions.
You know what, this is not exception Baptist Church, this is Proverbs 30, 11 church.
We're going to be against that mentality.
Notice it keeps going, it says, "There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes,
and yet is not washed from their filthiness."
It's amazing how we often think that in our day and age,
there's all these new phenomenons of things that we've never seen before.
But really, there's no new thing under the sun.
We see today the coddled, privileged, spoiled brats of America today
that have grown up in peace and prosperity,
and they live in a nice house, in a nice neighborhood,
and they eat clean food, and their parents drive a nice car,
and their parents buy them their college education.
Their parents sometimes buy them their first home,
buy them their first car, all these things.
And what do they do?
They go to a therapist to complain about how horrible their mother and father is.
And they lift themselves up, and they're so lofty and prideful
in thinking, "Man, I'm so enlightened,
and I'm so glad I'm not such an evil, homophobic, racist,
Christian, nationalist bigot like my mother and father
and grandparents and great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents."
You know, kids today and young people today think they're just so much smarter
than everyone else in the world, but you know what?
A lot of young people today suck.
There's a lot of great things going for some young people today.
Hey, I like that Gen Z is waking up on the Jews.
I like that a lot of Gen Z is getting back to church.
I like that a lot of Gen Z is being a teetotaler and rejecting alcoholism,
but let me tell you what, that's certainly not all young people today.
There's still a bunch of retarded commies and murderous abortionist women.
You know, what happened yesterday, I didn't follow it,
but I heard that some communist Muslim got elected as mayor of New York City.
You want to know why?
Because a bunch of stupid, idiotic young women are voting, that's why.
Man, repeal the 19th Amendment, please, as soon as possible.
But it's funny, they lift themselves up and they're just so proud,
and they're so, oh, we're so enlightened.
And look at how progressive we are.
And isn't it so great that we've progressed in America
to where one of, if not America's biggest city, is now run by a Muslim.
How wonderful. It's insane, folks.
We today have, as one of the greatest cities in America,
run by someone who worships a pedophile named Mohammed.
By the way, an illiterate pedophile.
It's like, are you just asking for God's judgment?
I thought God was trying to wake up America enough
when 9/11 happened to return unto him.
But instead, you know, you're just bringing in Muslims
into the city of New York. It's disgusting.
And look, whether the Jews were behind 9/11
or whether it was Bush himself or whether it was Cheney,
I don't know all the details, but you know,
I do believe that there was actual Muslims flying those planes,
whether they were the Patsy or not, they were literally there.
There were real humans flying those things.
And it's pretty ironic that Muslims fly planes into the Twin Towers
and then New York citizens, what, 24 years later are like,
"I got a good idea, let's just piss off God as much as we can
and just elect an evil reprobate like whatever that guy's name is."
It's disgusting.
But today people are proud of how anti-Christian they could be.
People lift up their eyes and they're so lofty,
instead of being humble like Agur and saying,
"Hey, I'm brutish, I don't understand stuff on my own,
but let me tell you what, every word of God is pure and we should stick with that."
Look, there's a generation that are pure in their own eyes
and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes and their eyelids are lifted up.
There is a generation whose teeth are as swords and their jaw teeth as knives
to devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among men.
So their teeth are swords, kind of just symbolizing the sharp words that they're using.
And people who are prideful, they just speak sharp, cutting words against people.
They don't even know what they're talking about oftentimes.
And again, the young people, that's a lot of what's happening today.
They're going to the therapist and they're saying, "My parents were abusive.
My parents were racist. My parents were that."
When in reality, that's probably not the case.
You know, it's kind of interesting today how it's just like everyone's an abuse victim.
Everyone's a survivor.
You know, the Me Too movement, it really does like a disservice to people who are actual victims
because today it's just like every kid was a victim.
And it's like, okay, you grew up in a neighborhood where the median home value is $500,000.
Your mom drives a Tahoe, you know.
Your dad is some sort of engineer, and he paid for your college, and he did all this kind of stuff.
And it's like, and you were abused, huh?
Wow. Amazing. It's insane today.
Verse 15.
The horse leech hath two daughters crying, "Give! Give!"
There are three things that are never satisfied.
Yea, four things say not, it is enough.
So he kind of uses this carnal example of this leech.
And this leech is just crying out, "Give! Give!"
And what is a leech? It's just never satisfied.
It's going to attach itself to the host, and it's just going to suck as much blood as possible.
And it's not going to say, like, it's not going to put its fork and knife away and say, like, I've had enough, you know.
I'm going to go do something else with my time.
It's just going to stay there, and it's just going to keep leeching off of that host for forever.
You know, beware of mooches.
Beware of people who are entitled.
Beware of people who are always complaining about not getting enough when you do something for them.
We need to get back to being thankful for the things that we have.
And not being entitled, spoiled little brats.
And you know, if someone does something nice to you, be thankful for what they have done.
And don't sit here and be like, "Well, you should have done more."
You know, if someone gets you a $10 gift card, don't be like,
"Well, I mean, it should have been $100, but I'll take it, I guess."
Just be thankful, right?
You know, our church is new IFB, and you know what?
We don't charge for things in the new IFB.
All of the events that we have are free, and you know,
we're using the church money to go soul winning and to do all these events.
And you know, sometimes there's prizes.
And it's like, look, if that happens, don't complain, you know?
And I'm not saying that every single event that we're ever going to have,
it's always going to be the coolest, most expensive prize.
You know, sometimes it might just be a gift card.
And the last thing I would ever want to hear is someone complaining about that.
That would be a shame and an embarrassment.
You know, at the end of the day, what is this church here to do?
It's here to preach the truth.
We're here to serve God.
We're here to glorify God.
We're here to go soul winning.
You know, you're not here to get a special prize.
Now, I think it's cool that we do prizes when I was a layman and I went to Steadfast.
I thought it was cool that there's prizes and all these things.
But you know what?
You should never expect those things.
Anything that's extra like that, you should just be thankful.
Thank God for the abundance that we have in America.
But like, do you really think that churches in third world countries are doing this?
You know, they probably couldn't even afford to have the chili cook off that we have, just the food.
And they definitely would be putting beans in it because that would be all that they could afford.
It would just be like nothing but bean chili.
And it's like we're so blessed here, like we could put brisket in our chili and steak and beef.
And on top of that, you might get a crock pot, too.
And then imagine today just the entitlement people have to just moan and whine and complain.
It's insane. Don't be a leech. Be satisfied.
Verse 16. So notice there's some things that just, they're never satisfied.
What's one of them? The grave.
I mean, every second, the grave's just getting filled every single day.
People are just dying. The grave's always getting filled.
The barren womb is never satisfied.
Now, prior to this weird, insane, abortion-loving culture that we have today,
you know, most people who are barren, they would have a longing for that barren wound to be filled.
Today, it's kind of weird how some people, they don't even care.
They don't even want kids. They will even kill their own kids.
But hey, in general, the barren womb is just wanting more, wanting to be filled.
The earth that is not filled with water.
I mean, besides the flood happening, you know, it doesn't matter how much it's going to rain,
it's not going to, you know, fill the whole earth.
And the fire that say if not, it is enough.
You know, there has to be conditions externally to stop a fire.
Otherwise, the fire is just going to keep going.
When I lived up in the Northwest in Idaho and in Washington,
we always used to say that we have spring, summer, fall, winter and fire season.
Because once one forest fire gets going, that sucker is just going to keep burning.
It's not going to be like, "Well, you know, I'm satisfied. I've had enough."
No, it just keeps on going.
It says in verse number 17, "The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother."
Notice this, "The ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it."
So again, God's feeling towards a disrespectful, evil, disobedient child is pretty severe.
The language that he's given here, I mean, imagine a disobedient child, someone who would mock his father,
the eye that would mock at his father.
This indicates to me that God even cares about the expression on your face.
Maybe someone should preach a sermon called "Fix Your Face," where the eye that mocks at his father makes God angry.
Not only should you say the right words, not only should you obey at the time your parents say to obey,
but you should watch how you look at your parents.
You should watch how you look at authority, because having an evil eye or having an eye that mocks at his father,
it says, "The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it."
What are ravens and eagles? They're scavengers.
You know what scavengers pray on? They don't pray on living people, they pray on dead people.
So here the Bible's painting this idea of some child, whether he's grown and an adult or a teenager or young, I don't know,
but he's painting this image of this child who's dead in a field, and you know what God thinks about him mocking at his dad?
He's like, "Just let that raven just peck at his eyeball and just slurp that thing out of his head and eat it."
That's what the Bible's saying. It's pretty severe.
So again, why would I ever side with rebellious children?
Why would I ever side with children disrespecting their parents, cursing their parents?
It's like, I don't want to have to walk through life making sure that the eagles and ravens are not about to come down on me.
You know, I want to make sure I'm standing with God's word because that's a pretty severe punishment.
It says, "There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea four, which I know not."
So now it gets really, really poetic in this part of the chapter and it's just really beautiful how it's written.
"There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea four, which I know not."
Verse 19. First thing he says is, "The way of an eagle in the air."
You know, the Bible talks about how creation itself gives glory to God, how the firmament showeth his handiwork.
And honestly, all of creation, you know, it just, it fills me with awe and wonder of God Almighty.
You know, tonight, I don't know if you noticed that there was a full moon this evening.
And driving to church, you know, I was just staring at the moon.
And my wife was like, you know, I need you to look at me the way that you look at the moon.
I'm just like, all right, noted. But I'm just looking at the moon.
I'm just like, it's so beautiful. It's so amazing, right?
And you know, one of the things that I really like about the moon is it's an object that we could see
that our Lord Jesus Christ also saw when he was on this earth.
I think that's kind of cool. Like Jesus, when he was walking on this earth, I'm sure he looked at the moon.
And you know what it looked like then? Exactly how it looks now.
It's just kind of cool to be like, you know, I'm looking at the moon and Jesus has looked at the moon and Jesus created the moon.
I don't know. I just find the freaking moon beautiful. All right. Sue me. I like the moon.
And you know what? I like eagles. I like nature. I like the beauty of this world.
You know, I don't like being one of these dweebs that just only spends their time indoors or something.
Go touch some grass. Go look at the way of an eagle in the air.
Because you know what? God gave us, you know, the creatures that he created to be enjoyed.
I mean, doesn't everyone like going to the zoo? It's kind of cool to go to the zoo.
Yesterday or the day before yesterday, right by my house, all of a sudden I just see two coyotes prancing around the field.
And you know what I did? I literally stopped what I was doing and just watched them.
Why? Because they're cool. That's why.
Because they're awesome. Because God has created an amazing creature called a coyote.
And God has created just an amazing earth.
And man, I think a lot of people today are just so depressed because they're only inside all day
and they're only looking at a screen all day and they're only in darkness and in, you know, controlled temperatures.
Go outside and look at the eagle. Go outside and look at the coyote. It's beautiful.
He says it's too wonderful. He says the way of a serpent upon a rock.
Now, I hate snakes, but from a distance, they look cool.
And if you see a snake from a distance on a rock, it is really cool.
I mean, it's amazing to see how this creature can move so quickly without legs.
And again, just looking at a snake, it just puts the evolution idea into such a foolish frame.
To imagine, yeah, what did the snake evolve from? Are you kidding me?
No, this was obviously created by God.
The fact that it has the ability to move, to propel itself forward without legs,
it's not like some little tubular creature was laying down for thousands of years
and kind of just finally figured out how to slither.
No, God created it to do that.
And it's beautiful. It's wonderful to see.
Now if it gets close to me, I will kill it.
And I've killed many that get close to me.
But from a distance, okay, we're cool.
And it says, where are we at here? Verse 19.
It says, "The way of a ship in the midst of the sea."
So it kind of seems like the poetry that he's using here is he's kind of starting out heavenly,
talking about the eagle.
We kind of come down to earth, he's talking about the snake on the rock.
Then he turns to the sea and he's talking about something that's a little more human
because obviously a ship is a man-made device, a man-made creation.
But even that itself is beautiful, right?
We recently went to a missions trip in the Bahamas and we were out on a boat in the sea and it was beautiful.
And seeing the other boats on the sea, it was a beautiful thing to enjoy.
And some people would be down on like anything that man creates or anything that man does.
But I think that if you have the proper perspective, we can also appreciate the things that man creates and invents
with this mindset of, hey, God created man and God created man to be intelligent.
God created us in his own image.
And like God is a creative God, us too, we are creative.
And again, don't twist what I'm about to say, but it's like we too are powerful
in the sense that we can create things only by the blessing of God,
only by the fact that, hey, God has given us wisdom, God has given man intellect,
God has given man will and bravery and courage.
You know, that's why I personally am inspired by things like the Apollo program,
is because I think it's amazing that God created man and God created us in his own image
and us, you know, with the knowledge that God has given us, we're able to accomplish something like that.
I think that's really cool.
And so I don't think, you know, by just admiring a man's achievement is necessarily sinful.
Now, can it become that way?
Of course, people could start worshipping man and thinking of man higher than they ought to
or what's even worse is thinking of yourself higher than you ought to.
You know, if you're skilled in something, if you're good at, you know, creating some sort of product
or whatever you are skilled in your job, you know, don't start thinking like,
wow, I'm so awesome, I'm so wonderful.
It's like, hey, you know, thank the Lord that he gave me the intelligence I have,
the strength that I have, the skills that I have, all that glory should be going to him.
And even, you know, building a ship, I mean, building a ship, I wouldn't know how to do that.
Could anyone in here just build a ship? No way.
But seeing a ship, it's like, that's cool that man created something
that could just go out in the middle of the sea.
And you think about the pioneers, the first people that crossed the Atlantic.
I mean, that's pretty amazing.
It's pretty beautiful to think about.
Then it comes down even more to a human level, something that is too wonderful for him.
He says, the way of a man with a maid.
Now go to Hebrews chapter number three, Hebrews chapter number three.
So he's talking about all these things that are just wonderful, things that are just beautiful.
They're too wonderful for him.
The eagle in the air, the serpent on the rock, the ship in the sea in the way of a man with a maid.
Why is that?
That is because the physical relationship between husband and wife is something that is beautiful.
It's not something that's dirty or wrong.
Some people will act like, "Well, it's because of the sin of Adam and Eve.
It's because of the fall that this even exists."
No, no, no. Look what the Bible says in verse number four.
It says, "Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers, God will judge."
Marriage is honorable in all. And you know what?
The physical relationship between man and wife is something that God wants to give us as a blessing.
He wants us to enjoy that. But, of course, today there's people that pervert that, right?
You have something that's beautiful, something that the Proverbs author is saying like, "Hey, it's too wonderful for me."
It's something that's great. But, of course, they degrade that. They make that filthy. They make that dirty.
And, by the way, I just want to say this. You know, today, there's kind of an epidemic in America of the male loneliness epidemic, right?
Young men that are not getting married, young women even, that are not getting married, and just going through their entire 20s, not getting married.
A lot of people are down on marriage. Guys like Nick Fuentes, you know, talks crap about husbands that would be friends with their wife.
But you know what? This is causing a major issue because young men, it's not like they're just refraining from fornication and not getting married.
What are they doing? They're taking this beautiful relationship and they're just defiling themselves with fornication.
And women today are often not saving themselves from marriage and getting married and enjoying that beautiful relationship that God has given them.
No, they're just turning 18 and turning on the camera and taking the photos and getting involved in all sorts of wickedness and sin.
And it's just, you know, it's interesting how this act itself, it's not the act itself that is inherently sinful because in one context it's beautiful, it's godly, it's undefiled.
It's something that husbands and wives owe to each other that do benevolence, 1 Corinthians talks about.
But at the same time, if it's done outside of marriage, in any capacity, it's filthy, it's disgusting.
And you know, we need to get back to calling, you know, things like fornication disgusting and filthy
and stop acting like, oh you're such a macho man when you could pull all these girls.
No, you're a scumbag is what you are. You're filthy, you're dirty, you probably have a bunch of diseases.
Oh, don't slut shame because that's offensive. No, what's being offensive is being a dirty whore.
What's worse than slut shaming is being a slut. How about that?
How about being a woman that's just passed around from man on to man? That's filthy.
Oh, how dare you judge someone for their body count. It's filthy, it's gross, it's disgusting.
And you know what? It's not cool today that people are, you know, getting out of marriage and not getting married.
You know, we need to promote marriage because in marriage, it's honorable.
In marriage, it's something that is lovely. But whoremongers and adulterers, God will judge.
You know, I talked about fornication. Let's talk about adultery.
You know, as disgusting as fornication is, so much the more is adultery.
Because with fornication, you know, there is a victim in the sense that, first of all, you're the victim
because he that committed fornication, the Bible says, sineth against his own body.
So you're the victim, number one, of fornication. And of course, you're also defiling that other person.
If you're taking someone's virginity, you're, you know, defrauding that future husband.
But you know what? Adultery, that's a wicked, heinous crime.
And the Bible says in Leviticus 10 that if you lay with another man's wife, you, the wife and the man would be put to death.
You know, we need to bring back the criminal punishment of adultery and not have our country so comfortable with the idea of adultery
that there could literally be like cheat on your wife website advertisements.
Hey, go on, go on this website and find you a girl.
You know, the fact that our country, it's just like okay to openly, you know, promote that kind of stuff is horrible.
I bet you if we started putting adulterers to death that people would not be promoting that stuff.
It's evil. Go back to Proverbs 30.
But of course, you know, don't don't let anyone, you know, don't have like this weird Catholic mentality that like even in marriage, it's kind of weird.
No, it's 100% godly and good.
And you know what? It's something that should be happening in marriage.
And if it's not, that's a big problem.
You should not defraud your spouse.
The wife does not have power over her own body, the Bible says, but the husband.
And likewise, the husband, he doesn't have power of his own body, but the wife.
When you get married, you say to have and to hold till death do us part.
And so, you know, you gave consent on the wedding night.
Don't be like these weirdos that are like, oh, you know, marital rape.
That doesn't exist, retard.
You got married, you said to have and to hold till death do us part.
If you're like, what if there's rape going on in the marriage?
Here's what I would say.
Let's say that the wife is withholding that from her husband.
I would say, hey, why are you not being with your husband?
That that's the that's the real question we should be asking.
And guess what? Also, there's weird men that do this, too.
Sadly, I don't understand these people, but there's real men, too,
that would withhold this from their wife.
And the question should be, hey, idiot, why are you not doing what the Bible says?
Why are you not giving your spouse due benevolence?
Marital rape, that doesn't exist, and it hasn't existed in our country for most of our history
because it's stupid, it's foolish, it's not biblical.
And you ought to, you know, stop having your mind so much in the world
where you care about what the world thinks.
Oh, people are going to think I'm brutish.
People are going to think I don't have wisdom in learning.
Okay, well, I just care what the Bible says,
and I don't care what anyone thinks about me.
People would say that about Agri, too, but it wasn't true.
Let's go to verse number 20. He kind of talks about adultery here, says,
"Such is the way of an adulterous woman.
She eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith, 'I have done no wickedness.'"
So what's constantly being brought up in this chapter is kind of contrasting
Agri and godly people as being those who humble themselves and glorify God
versus the wicked, like the wicked children that disobey their parents,
and their eyes are lofty, they're lifted up.
Well, this woman is super prideful, right?
It's like she's eating, she wipeth her mouth, and saith, "I have done no wickedness."
You know, kind of a gross picture when you think about this.
You know, usually women eat very ladylike. Please keep doing that, alright?
Don't let the feminist world try to say, "Oh yeah, you know, just grow out your armpit hair and just put that burger."
No, let's not do that, please, right?
Ladies usually are eating very ladylike, but just imagine a woman just gorging her face,
and she's just smearing the chili sauce all over her face, and she's just being kind of like an animal,
and she just wipes her mouth, and she's like, "What? What are you looking at, huh?"
It's like, you know, maybe she's pregnant, other than that.
But it's just like, that's not normal behavior.
But you know, that's kind of what the adulterous does, is that,
realize this, adulterers and adulteresses are evil, wicked people.
You know, they're like this woman who's just acting like she's not doing anything wrong,
that this is totally normal. You know, there's no excuse for adultery.
Don't sit here and be like, "Oh, I've done no wickedness,"
because sometimes people will try to justify their adultery.
"Oh, my wife was a bad wife. My husband was a bad husband."
"Oh, things weren't going good in the marriage."
"Oh, you know, I just really connect with this person. We fell in love."
No, no, no. Regardless, it's evil and wicked, and you can't justify it.
And you know what? I will never try to preach in a way that would cause people in their mind
to justify them leaving their spouse for any reason,
because what you're doing is you're causing that person to commit adultery.
Because when people leave their spouse, 99% of the time, they're not going to just stay,
you know, away from that physical relationship for the rest of their life.
They're going to go commit adultery.
So that's why you're never going to hear me getting up and being like,
"All right, guys, you better walk on eggshells, and you better never leave by constraint,
because she can leave."
I'm never going to say garbage like that, because it's almost like you're encouraging adultery.
It's almost like you're encouraging people to leave and engage in that.
And in the same way, I'm not going to go chastise women and being like,
"Hey, you know, you need to spend a little more time in the kitchen, in the gym,
and doing this and that, because, you know, he could leave."
How would the ladies like if I said something like that?
It's like, are you trying to justify adultery or something like that?
No, no, no. Just regardless of whatever excuses you want to come up with, it's evil and wrong.
And people that try to justify adultery, you know, it's like this picture here
of this woman just stuffing her face, wiping her mouth, and saying, "I've done no wickedness."
It says in verse 21, "For three things, the earth is disquieted, and for four, which it cannot bear."
It's like, man, there's just some things that I hate, I can't put up with,
the earth can't put up with this, for a servant when he reigneth, right?
And today there's this mentality of elevating followers above the authority, you know?
And at work, it's like, please take this survey and tell us how your boss is doing,
and tell us, is your boss doing a good job?
And please, you know, tell your boss what he could be doing better.
And it's like, that's backwards, my friend.
You know, the earth can't put up with this.
And what happens in the workplace when you have a culture where the monkeys are running the asylum
is just insanity that goes on.
You need strong leadership.
And you know, just like we don't need children rebelling against their parents
and grading their parents and saying, mom, you did this wrong, dad, you did this wrong.
That's backwards. That's garbage.
Same thing at work. Same thing in church.
You know, the old IFB, they often run their church with a vote system, with a democratic system.
And, you know, I read a book, and I like Pastor Jack Hiles, and there's a lot of great things in this book,
but he was talking about, like, how to run a church in his book, the Hiles Church Manual,
and he was talking about, like, you've got to vote on every issue.
You've got to put it to the congregation about every dollar that's being spent.
And it's just like, no, that's not how it's going to work.
You know, God has created pastors to have real authority for a reason,
and we're not going to have a board of elders.
We're not going to have a board of deacons.
We're not going to have, you know, the board of deacons' wives.
That's who ends up really running the show at the end of the day.
You let democracy run long enough, and that just seems to end up happening.
It's terrible.
It's not right when the servant is reigning.
Let rulers rule.
And a fool, when he is filled with meat, there's your EBT recipients.
You know, it's just like the earth just doesn't sit right
when you're seeing the fool filled with meat.
How about verse 23?
For an odious woman when she is married.
That's a strong statement.
You know, it sounds like you definitely want to be careful who you get married to.
And this, of course, would go both ways
because it's a lifelong relationship regardless.
But you know what?
You don't want to be stuck with that odious woman
because even the earth is a little unsettled about it.
Even the earth can't really put up with that odious woman who is married.
What's odious?
Offensive, repugnant, disgusting.
You know the Bible says that there are some women that are offensive, repugnant, and disgusting.
Let that sink in.
That's the words of God.
God thinks that way about some ladies.
Hey, you know who God likes?
Sarah.
What did Sarah do?
She obeyed her husband calling him Lord.
Don't you just see this over and over in this chapter?
This idea of how prideful people are evil and wicked and gross.
And humble people are great and God likes them.
The prideful wife that she always has to correct her husband.
She don't need no man.
She don't need to obey no man.
She's going to tell him what to do.
God looks down and says you're repugnant.
You're odious.
You're gross.
You're disgusting.
That's how God feels about that.
You know, don't let that be your testimony.
And look, there's no reason for ladies to get offended with what I'm saying right now.
Because guess what?
God speaks pretty dang highly of the Proverbs 31 woman.
And says that her price is far above rubies.
So it's not like God is anti-woman.
But guess what?
God's not pro all women.
God is anti-wicked women.
And some people act like, how dare you ever preach against women?
Or how dare you ever call out a woman?
How dare you ever preach a sermon against women?
I mean, have you ever read the Bible?
Have you ever read Proverbs?
It's not just men who are on the table.
You know, wickedness needs to get called out, period.
And so, you know, ladies, don't be like this.
Strive to be the Proverbs 31 woman.
And you would never have to feel bad about a verse like this.
You could just agree with it.
You know, I hope that ladies in our church read that.
And they're just like, "Yeah, odious women suck.
They're gross. They're disgusting."
And it says, "And in handmaid, that is heir to her mistress."
Kind of similar with a servant reigning.
Verse 24.
"There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise.
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer."
Now, the theme for the rest of this chapter is very important.
And it's going to continue with everything we've been talking about.
About the difference between those that are proud and those that are humble.
The ant is not strong, right?
It's not big. It's not mighty.
It's not going to take you on in a fight.
You don't have to worry about ants charging you in the wilderness or anything like that.
You know, they're not strong, but here's the thing.
It says that they prepare their meat in the summer.
So they have some sort of wisdom about them.
And to prepare meat, what do they have to do?
They have to work as a team.
They have to work with other ants.
Now, you know what humble people are willing to do?
They're willing to work as a team.
You know what prideful people like to do?
They're better than everyone else.
They can't work with anyone else.
They can't learn from anyone else.
You know, the Bible here is praising the ants.
One of the things that's great about the ant, though they're not strong on their own,
they're very strong together.
They can do a lot of things together.
You see those videos of like the hyper speed videos of ants like moving a log somehow.
One ant's not going to do that, but you know a lot of ants working together can do that.
It makes me think about these prideful people that think that they don't need to go to church.
I know more than the pastor.
I already know everything in the Bible.
I wouldn't follow a man.
I don't need religion.
I'm better than that.
You're a fool.
What's the truth is that compared to God, we're all weak.
We're all like agar.
You know, at the end of the day, our human condition of itself is just brutish and foolish,
and we don't have knowledge.
But you know what we have is we have the Word of God.
And you know, when we all together have the Word of God, and when we all together are
striving to walk in the Spirit, and when we all together are striving for the gospel of
Jesus Christ, you know what?
That's a strong beast right there.
And you know what?
A church that's filled with Spirit-filled people is a strong entity.
Whereas, you know, think about all the work that was done in the Bahamas.
That was not the work of one person.
That was not the work of a pastor.
That was not the work of two pastors.
That was the work of a bunch of ants working together, right?
So we can look towards this animal and get wisdom from it.
It says in verse number 26, "The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses
in the rocks."
Now, does anyone know what a conie is?
I'm just curious if anyone knows what this creature is.
No one?
Okay.
I didn't know what it is either.
And you say, "Well, in that case, maybe we should get a modern version because the King
James is too hard here and no one knows what a conie is, so we should maybe get an NIV
or a new American standard or a new King James."
Well, here's what the NIV calls it.
You said conies is hard, right?
Well, maybe you should get an NIV that says hyraxes.
Maybe you should get an ESV that says hyraxes.
Maybe you should get a new American standard that says chefeneme, you know, because conie
is so much worse than the chefeneme.
I mean, really, folks?
People want to clown on the King James Bible and say, "Oh, there's hard words in the King
James Bible."
Well, you know what?
The conie is a little bit better than chefeneme, and I would never see a beast, "Hey, did you
go to the zoo and see the chefeneme?"
What are you talking about?
You know, conie is a little bit better.
You know, what have I just told you?
That this is an old book, and there's some old words in it.
And you know what?
The modern versions aren't doing a very good job of making it more understandable when
they go from conie to hyrax or conie to chefeneme.
Don't buy this idea that, "Oh, I have to read the modern versions because they're
more understandable."
No, they're not.
That's a lie.
In James it's where it's at.
What if I told you sometimes you just have to look something up?
Sometimes you just got to pull out the dictionary.
Sometimes you just have to learn something.
Sometimes, let me tell you this, sometimes you read the Bible and you read a chapter
and you don't understand it and you know what you do?
You just read the next chapter and you read your Bible through cover to cover every year.
And guess what?
There's infinite wisdom in this book.
And let me just be open and transparent with you right now.
I am a pastor and I do not understand everything in this book.
If that offends you, go ahead and leave.
Maybe you need to be a Catholic because the Catholic church has the authority to define
doctrine and we can understand everything from them.
No.
Or this is God's book and I'm a man and I'm not going to understand everything in it.
And you're not going to understand everything in it.
And don't let that bog you down when you're reading your Bible.
Why don't you read your Bible through cover to cover 10 times and then when you come to
something you don't understand you can really park it there for a while.
And of course I'm exaggerating a little bit with 10 times.
But you know for real though, at least a couple times cover to cover before you really bog
yourself down worrying about stuff.
So what is a chefeneme or a hyrax or a coney?
It's like a badger type animal.
When I read this I always pictured a rabbit, which I was kind of close.
But it's like some sort of burrowing type creature.
But let's see what the Bible says about it.
It says the conies are but a feeble folk, so again not a strong animal, yet make they
their houses in the rocks.
It says in verse 27 the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands.
So far all of these creatures, what have they done?
They've kind of used teamwork to accomplish things.
They've gotten things done together as a team, because they individually are feeble, they
individually are weak, but hey together they can do great things.
It says in verse 28 the spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings palaces.
Now it's not that God doesn't value wisdom at all, because the spider is not using teamwork.
The spider is just, you know, it's pictured as being intelligent and wise and it can kind
of slip through the crack and even though it's a little bug, you know, it could live
in the White House.
There are probably spiders in the White House and you know what?
I couldn't get in there, you guys couldn't get in there, but somehow spiders can get
in there.
It's kind of just that picture of saying that hey this is picturing some sort of wisdom
here.
So don't get me wrong, of course we should not be proud and elevate human intellect as
the end all be all, but I also think that you should try to be as smart as you can.
I think you should try to get as much wisdom as you can.
I think you should constantly be reading and learning and getting wisdom and we can learn
that from the spider.
Verse 29.
There be three things which go well, yea four are comely in going, so meaning fitting.
A lion which is strongest among beasts and turneth not away for any.
So it's comely or it's fitting that when a lion faces off with another beast, it's not
going to be the one that runs away, it's not going to be the one that tucks tail and runs.
It's going to stand its ground and if it fights it's going to win.
And you know it reminds me of how the bible says that the righteous are bold as a lion.
You know and so God gave us his creation and we could learn spiritual lessons from God's
creation.
He made that lion strong and ferocious and it's not going to back down from a fight.
You know that's how Christians should be.
We should not be these little weak people that just let everyone push us around.
No, you know what, we need to be loud about the word of God.
We need to roar the word of God.
We need to get it everywhere.
And hey, someone wants to challenge us on the word of God.
We're never backing down.
No, you know, we're not going to get up and say, oh, all religions are equally worthy
of respect.
No, we should get up and say that the Hindu holiday Diwali is disgusting abomination.
That's what a lion would say.
Instead, you got Christians today like Governor Sarah Huckabee, grosses me out.
We have a woman, you know, governor.
Isn't she in Arkansas?
Yeah.
You got a woman governor in Arkansas where she was praising the Hindu holiday of Diwali.
You know what a lion would say is, hey, the Hindu religion will send you to hell for all
of eternity.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
What a slap in the face to Jesus Christ to exalt and praise a false religion like that.
You know, she's not a lion.
That's for sure.
It says in verse number 31, a greyhound and he goat also and a king against whom there's
no rising up.
So man, that greyhound is fast and it's going to close in with its enemy and it's going
to destroy that thing.
And he goat, have you ever seen, you know, videos of in Idaho and Montana, Wyoming, the
big horned, big horned sheep, how they just smash.
I mean, they're not afraid of a fight, right?
And hey, we should not be afraid of a spiritual fight.
Obviously, God has not called us to a physical fight, but we should not be afraid of conflict
when it's over the word of God.
We should be willing to lock horns over those issues.
And hey, like as well, it says in a king against whom there is no rising up, you should expect
that if you come against a king, you're going to be met with a lot of force and power and
fury.
It would be shocking if you went to battle against the king and you saw him run away,
right?
We're kings in Christ.
Verse 32, "If thou'st done foolishly in lifting up thyself, if thou'st thought evil, lay
thine hand upon thy mouth."
Really, this whole chapter so far has just been super, super poetic, contrasting pride
and humility, right?
And so he's explaining, hey, all these animals, you know, all these animals that he's given,
they're not proud, they're weak, they're lowly, but together they're able to accomplish great
things.
And so he says, hey, reflect reader.
If that was done foolishly and lifting up thyself, or if that was thought evil, lay
thine hand upon thy mouth, realize that you have your own power.
You're not something special.
I'm not something special.
My intellect is not something special.
Neither is yours, your might, your power.
Anything that's special about us is only special because God allowed us to have that gift.
You shouldn't think highly of yourself.
Then it says in verse 33, surely the churning of milk, bring it forth butter and the ringing
of the nose, bring it forth blood.
So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife, just cause effect, cause effect.
Hey, you sit there and you churn milk long enough, sure enough, that thing's going to
become butter.
You sit there and you just grab someone by the nose, you just ring their nose, there's
going to come out blood.
I've broken my nose, I can attest this proverb is true.
And guess what?
The forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
What is the type of a person that's always forcing wrath and stirring up strife?
It's a prideful person, right?
And that's what this whole chapter is about.
The prideful person wants to constantly stir up strife, cause wrath.
What should we do?
We should reflect on a lot of these great truths in the Bible that, hey, we're not something
special in and of ourselves.
We are brutish in and of ourselves.
We don't have all this wisdom and knowledge in and of ourselves.
So here's what we do have is we have the Word of God that's pure and we have a team of
other people to work with that we could do great things.
You know what's going to stop teams from doing great things is when there's all this strife
and bitterness and envy and anger and drama within the team, right?
So hey, you know what a humble person would do?
A humble person would want to get along with their brothers in Christ at all costs, right?
Because hey, it's like the gospel is what is important, the work that Anchor Baptist
Church is doing is what is important, so you know what?
If someone offends me personally, I'm going to let that go as much as possible.
Can things escalate to the point where you kind of have to address things and deal with
things?
Yes, I'm not saying there's never a time for confrontation.
What I'm saying is that a lot of times today, people are just too prideful and too thin
skinned and too selfish to not be thinking enough about the team and what the church's
needs are to only think about their offenses.
Someone did them wrong.
Someone looked at them wrong.
Someone said something bad about them.
You know what we should do is we should humble ourselves and realize that the word of God
and the work of God is much bigger than any of us.
And all of our personal bitterness and grievances and strife, man, that is going to be a distant
memory someday.
Our life is a vapor.
Here's what matters is the souls that Anchor Baptist Church is winning in 2025 and the
souls that we're going to win by God's grace next year.
And you know what?
You could probably think now that there was bitterness and strife that you had with people
in the past, that it's so far over and gone and under the bridge that it means nothing
to you.
Well, realize whatever bitterness you have right now with other people and the fighting
that you have right now with other people, you're going to look back at that someday
and say that was nothing, that was meaningless.
You know what matters is the work of Christ.
Let me say this.
Do not get so selfish and focused on yourself and your issues and your feelings so much
that it causes you to leave the team of Christ.
You don't have to go to anchor Baptist church to be a good Christian, but please stay in
church.
Please be in a part of a team.
Find a team that you like, find some other ants that you want to build some little whole
houses with, whatever, spiritually, and get yoked up with those people and stay with those
people.
Let's pray.
Lord, thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for the lessons in Proverbs.
I just pray that you would illuminate your word to us as we finish out this book next
week.
I pray that you would give us travel safety on our way home this evening.
We love you, and as you say, 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 258, "Priest Receiveth
Sinful Men."
Hymn number 258, hymn 258.
Start there right on the first.