He is living for me, up in the skies, He is living for me, day by day He is greeting and praying.
Now sing, O how I praise and peace, coming for me.
And then as the offering plates are being passed,
turn, if you would, to Proverbs chapter 22.
Proverbs chapter number 22.
Proverbs, chapter 22.
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,
and loving favor rather than silver and gold.
The rich and poor meet together.
The Lord is the maker of them all.
A prudent man foreseeeth the evil and hideeth himself,
but the simple pass on and are punished.
By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches
and honor and life.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the forward.
He that doth keep his soul shall be far from them,
train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
The rich ruleth over the poor,
and the borrower is servant to the lender.
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity,
and the rod of his anger shall fail.
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed,
for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Gast out the scorn and contention shall go out, yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips, the king shall be his friend.
The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
The slothful man saith, there is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
women is a deep pit. He that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall
drive it far from him. He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he
that giveth to the rich shall surely come to one. Vow down thine ear, and hear the
For it is pleasant for it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them with thee they shall with all be fitted in thy lips
That thy trust may be in the Lord
I have made known to thee this day even to thee have not I written to thee excellent things and counsels and knowledge
That I may make thee know the certainty of the words of truth
that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that
sent them to thee.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor.
Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate.
For the Lord will plead their cause and spoil the soul
of those that spoiled them.
Make no friendship with an angry man,
and with a furious man.
Thou shalt not go lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul
Be not thou one of them that strike hands or of them that are
sureties for debts
If thou hast nothing to pay
Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have said
See us thou a man diligent in his business
He shall go. He shall stand before kings. He shall not stand before mean men
Let's pray
All right, well we're in Proverbs 22 and let's read verse 28 where the Bible says remove not the ancient landmark
Which thy fathers have set now?
What is a landmark a landmark is something that just signifies something else right?
It could be
Signifying a border like a property line or something like that and it's used that way sometimes in the Bible
Other times it's used in the Bible. It's kind of a memorial to where you would see this landmark
and it would cause you to think of something else.
And really, it's good to have these things in our society.
And us as Christians, every new generation
is given landmarks, both good and bad, quite honestly.
We're passed down things from previous generations.
And it's our job as Christians to make sure
that we're not removing the ancient landmark
that our fathers have set.
That's what Proverbs is saying here.
And of course, we should examine the good landmarks
that they've given us and not remove those things.
The title of my sermon this morning is,
Remove Not the Ancient Landmark,
Remove Not the Ancient Landmark.
Now go to Joshua chapter number four,
Joshua chapter number four,
and we're gonna see an example of how the Bible uses
this idea of a landmark.
Number one this morning is we need to remember
the works of previous generations.
We need to remember the works of previous generations.
This is kind of a disease in our society,
and maybe it's always been this way,
where the younger generation that's coming up
kind of scoffs and ridicules everything
that the previous generation has done.
And like I said, I think that's kind of been
that way for most generations,
but it just seems amplified today.
where it seems like so many things in our society,
we're just completely turning around on their head,
things that have been accepted
for thousands and thousands of years,
where our society is just looking at the ancient landmarks
and saying, oh, these are bad,
let's tear these things down.
Look at Joshua 4-5, it says,
and Joshua said unto them,
pass over before the ark of the Lord your God
into the midst of Jordan,
and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder.
according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,
that this may be a sign among you.
That when your children ask their fathers in time to come saying what mean ye by these stones
Then ye shall answer them that the waters of Jordan were cut off
Before the ark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off and these stones
Shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel forever
So if you remember the story God performed a miracle
similar to when God split the Red Sea to where the children of Israel walked
through the Jordan River on dry ground and Joshua did not want the coming
generations to just forget about that. I mean that's kind of a big deal when God
splits the river right and so in order to preserve this memory now of course we
have it in the Word of God and that's great but also Joshua said hey we need
to set up a memorial.
And I want everyone to gather these stones and place these stones on top of each other so that the pre the coming generations will look at these things and ask their fathers what mean by these stones.
And when you have landmarks, when you have memorials in your society, it provides a teaching opportunity for the next generation.
Right? And we need those things in our society. We need wisdom from the older generation and customs and practices that are good and biblical to be passed down to the younger generation.
Keep reading in verse 20.
It says,
For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you until you were passed over as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea.
Which he dried up from before us until we were gone over that all the people of the earth
Might know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty that you might fear the Lord your God
Forever so notice the whole purpose of having these landmarks is so that the coming generations
Will know the great works of God and that they will fear God
And when you start removing landmarks, when you start erasing history, when you start just
disregarding everything from the previous generations, you end up with a society that
has forgotten God and that does not fear God.
And, you know, that's kind of where we are in many ways as a country.
We're definitely seeing some positive changes and praise God for that.
But I mean, just your average young person today in America is not reading their Bible
cover to cover every year.
They're not soul winners.
They're not three to thrive.
And part of it is because the previous generation has failed to set up some landmarks.
Now the good news is that we have the ultimate landmark right here is the word of God
And so anything that previous generations have failed on we as a church
Get to examine the landmarks that God has given us and it's up to us to preserve those landmarks
It's up to us not to forget the works of the previous generations
And honestly, our church kind of represents a new generation.
We're a new church.
This is a pretty young group of people here.
You know, we represent a new generation
and it's incumbent upon us to decide to be a church
that looks at the good landmarks of our past
and decides to honor, respect, and preserve those things
and not just forget about them.
Go to Proverbs chapter four.
You know, today the people on the left,
they're called what?
But really, they're not progressing, they're just destroying the foundations of our society.
Right? They look at the things of the past, things that our grandfathers and great-grandfathers believed,
and that people believed for thousands of years.
They look at those things and they want to tear down those landmarks so that people forget God
and forget to fear God, but it's up to us to preserve them.
Now, look at Proverbs chapter 4 verse 1.
It says hear ye children the instruction of a father.
and attend to no understanding for I give you good doctrine for sake ye not my law.
Hey, here's a great previous generation that children should be looking up to as their parents.
And you know, it's the parents' job to make sure that they're giving a good doctrine and good law to their children
and you should listen to your parents' children.
Do not buy into this modern idea.
of, oh, all the previous generations, they don't know what they're talking about,
we have to reinvent the wheel every generation. No, your parents are giving you good doctrine.
And let me tell you, parents that come to this church, parents that are three to thrive,
parents that are reading the Bible, I guarantee you they're giving you good doctrine.
They're giving you good things to learn, and you'd be wise to obey those things. Look at verse three.
For I was my father's son tender and only beloved in the side of my mother
He taught me also and said unto me let thine heart retain my words keep my commandments and live get wisdom
Get understanding forget it not neither decline from the words of my mouth for sake or not
And she shall preserve thee love her and she shall keep thee
Wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding so notice how
this father here is giving wisdom to their children and he's explaining like look this is going to
preserve you this is going to keep you this is going to keep you safe and many of the landmarks
that our fathers have placed in this world and the landmarks that have been given to us by the
king james bible they're there to preserve us they're there to keep us safe and it is a foolish
that looks at the previous generations and just wants to tear it all down,
just wants to dismantle it all, things that we've always believed.
And we'll get into some specifics of those, but we're still laying a foundation here.
Go to Psalm chapter 78, Psalm 78.
Psalm 78, when you're there, look at verse one.
Give ear, O my people, to my law.
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable.
I will utter dark sayings of old verse three,
which we have heard and known, noticed,
and our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from their children.
Showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord
and his strength and his wonderful works
that he hath done.
You know, like I said, it seems like the previous generation, you know, the baby boomer aged people,
it seems like they really dropped the ball in preserving some of the landmarks that we've had in our country for a long time.
And it seems like many of the older people in our country are some of the most liberal and some of the most non-religious,
which is very strange. It's usually not like that in the society.
But, you know, as we are raising our children,
or if you're a grandparent and you're helping out with grandchildren,
you know, you need to take this mentality seriously in verse 4 where it says we will not hide them
from our children. You know, we need to make sure that we are putting up these important landmarks
and explaining when they say, hey, what me need by these stones and explaining the great works of
God and the great works of previous generations. Hey, one of the things that says
showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord.
Hey, one good thing to pass down to the next generation is singing.
I mean, that's an important thing.
And it seems like a lot of people, because many young people now,
you know, they came to Christ maybe in their 20s,
or they started going to church in their 20s or something like that.
They didn't really grow up in church.
They didn't grow up, you know, around music or grow up around singing.
And so it seems like music is kind of a weak point for our movement,
And, you know, we want to make sure that we're showing a good example now to the generation coming up,
showing the praises of the Lord.
You know, singing should be a major part of the Christian life.
Don't be the type of person that comes to church and you're just mumbling, you're not singing aloud,
because what you're doing is you're failing to put up that landmark for the next generation
to where they look at that and say, like, this is what we do at church.
We sing out loud. We praise the Lord.
We learn instruments, you know, we try to do our best to play skillfully and learn these things.
That's something that needs to be passed down to the next generation.
And you know, we don't want to, we don't want to look towards like the new evangelical style of
music because that's just faggity, if you ask me. You know, I remember I could, I only went to church
like a handful of times when I was a kid, but it was to this like rock and roll style, purple lights,
church service that's just geared towards like divorce
women, let's be honest, that's what these churches are.
Okay, and it's like, you know, the swinging and swaying
and the high pitch, falsetto singing and stuff like that.
And I'm just like, this is weird.
This doesn't seem like Christianity.
This doesn't seem very masculine.
It doesn't seem very strong.
You know, real Christianity is spiritual warfare.
Real Christianity is a strong religion
and many false religions even mock Christianity
It's so pathetic.
And it's like, yeah, that fake Christianity is weak and pathetic.
But you know, we're going to sing out loud to the Lord here,
not in some sensual way, not in some feminine way.
No, we're going to sing out to God as God's people.
Go to if you would.
Let's keep reading verse 5.
It says,
See, it's our job to make known the word of God to the next generation and you know what?
That's not just the pastor.
because the pastor's only preaching three times a week.
What about the rest of the week?
You know, parents need to be as they're walking in the way,
as they're rising up, as they're lying down,
constantly using these situations of life
to teach children what mean ye by these stones.
Mom, dad, why do we do these things?
Why do we go soul winning?
Why do you dress that way?
You know, these are landmarks that we need to preserve
for the next generation.
Verse 6, that the generation to come might know even the children which should be born
who should arise and declare them to their children that they might set their hope in
God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments.
See we ought not to be a selfish generation that says well as long as there's peace and
truth in my days you know that I'm good you know we want to make sure that our children
and not just say nuts to what America is going to look like in a hundred years,
nuts to what the independent fundamental Baptist church movement is going to look like in a hundred years.
No, we need to be preserving those landmarks and taking it very seriously.
Go to Psalm 16, Psalm 16.
And as you're turning there, I'll read for you Isaiah 51 verse 1 says,
Ye that follow after righteousness,
ye that seek the Lord.
Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn,
and to the whole of the pit whence ye are digged.
And you know, the best way to learn ancient wisdom,
the best landmarks that we could learn from and look to
are the landmarks from the Lord Jesus Christ.
When he says, hey, look to me.
And this is the good thing is that we could actually take ownership of our beliefs
and not just say like,
Oh, well, here's why a lot of churches are screwed up today because it was just passed
down to us that way.
No, that excuse doesn't fly.
We have to take ownership of how this church is and the things that we preach, the things
that we believe.
Why?
Because we have the Bible.
We have the King James Bible and we could hearken to the Lord and it doesn't matter
even if previous generations did hand down some bad things.
It's our job to look at what we've been handed down and compare it to the Bible.
We need to remember as Christians, and I feel like some people are starting to take this for granted
and starting to slip back a little bit here,
that our final authority is the Word of God.
And pastors and preachers, they must preach with authority what the Bible says,
not their opinion.
And look, if you are going to preach your opinion,
that's okay as long as you're saying this is my opinion.
But you know, it makes me mad when I see preachers and pastors
getting dogmatic about things that are not in scripture.
Things that the Bible does not explicitly say.
You know what I'm going to be dogmatic about?
The things that I heard from God in the Bible.
That's my job.
And it makes me mad because people are easily swayed.
People are easily tricked and let me tell you why people are easily tricked because they don't read the Bible.
If you want to be someone who's not easily tricked, read the Bible.
and you will be anchored to the truth.
You'll be standing on the solid rock.
But it's so easy for pastors and preachers to get up
and just spout off their opinions
and just pontificate their worldly wisdom.
And because the people in the pew are also backslidden
and in the flesh, they're like, oh yeah, I agree with that.
Oh yeah, that sounds good.
But the question is, what does the Bible say?
It doesn't matter necessarily the landmark that was put up.
You look at the landmark and you say,
okay, is this a good landmark that matches the Bible?
If it is, let's preserve it.
Let's follow it.
And if it's wrong, let's discard it.
And so we actually have to take ownership of what the previous generation has preached
and done as practices and culture,
and we get to look at the Bible to see those things.
Psalm 16 verse 6 says, the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yea, I have a
goodly heritage.
And you know, thank God in America, us as Christians, we do have a goodly heritage.
You know, the previous generations in our country have done a lot of good, have taught
a lot of good.
This book right here was the book of our fathers, and we should not look at just everything
that they've done and everything that they've taught and just throw that in the trash.
You know, we need to kind of have a guardianship mentality here where we're going to guard
the works of our fathers.
Now go to Hebrews 12.
So we want to appreciate the works of previous generations.
But number two, we want to build upon the works
of previous generations.
We don't want to have this mentality that looks at the past and says,
oh, in the past is when great works for God were done.
Oh, in the past, that's when you could build a church.
That's when you could preach hard sermons.
That's when you could actually believe what the Bible says and not get in trouble with anyone.
No, we want to appreciate and honor the past, but we want to build upon those works as well.
Hebrews chapter 12, look at verse 1, it says,
With so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Now, most of the time when I've heard this verse preached, I've heard it as the people
in heaven looking down at us.
And I do think that there is some truth to that.
I do think that the people in heaven are aware of things going on in earth.
You see that in Revelation.
However, I believe that the primary teaching of this verse is not that people in heaven
are looking down at us.
I believe that it's we're looking at the witness that they bore.
Okay?
And I'm going to explain to you why I think that.
Isaiah chapter 43, Isaiah chapter 43,
because what does it mean to be a witness, right?
So a witness could be, certainly could be,
someone that's seeing something.
That's a fair interpretation.
I mean, that's a fair thing of what a witness is.
But also a witness could be someone
that's bearing testimony of something.
Let me show you that in Isaiah 43 verse 10.
It says, ye are my witnesses, sayeth the Lord.
Now, when he's saying, you are my witnesses, he's not saying, you guys are physically seeing
me.
It's not like the people here are physically laying their eyes on God.
It's saying, you are my witnesses, sayeth the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen,
that ye may know and believe me and understand that I am he.
Before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
I, even I am the Lord, and beside me there is no Savior.
They're witnessing saying God is the true God. He's the only Lord. He's the only
Savior. They're bearing witness. They're they're preaching in a sense a truth. That's what they're witnessing there
It's not saying that they're seeing God now go to Hebrews chapter 11
So a witness is someone that bears testimony
Hebrews chapter 12 does not exist in a vacuum.
It's within the context of Hebrews 11.
And what is Hebrews chapter 11?
It's known as the Hall of Faith,
where imagine you're going through,
you know, like the Baseball Hall of Fame
or some sort of museum where you're walking from exhibit
to exhibit to exhibit where God's saying,
look at this person, look at all the great works
that they did through faith.
Look at the next person, right?
Let's start reading some of that.
It says in verse 32,
And what shall I more say, for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephtha, and of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets, who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousnesses.
Righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lion, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight.
Turned to flight the armies of the aliens women received their dead raised to life again and others were tortured
Not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings
Yay moreover of bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sauna Sunder were tempted were slain with the sword
They wandered about in sheepskins and goat skins being destitute afflicted
tormented
Beautiful words up next.
Of whom the world was not worthy.
They wandered in deserts and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
And all these, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise, God
having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should be made perfect.
Should not be made perfect.
And of course, this is just a beautiful passage here,
but it kind of fits into our first point of God
is giving us all these great stories
of the previous generation, right?
God doesn't want us to forget all the works of these people.
And so he records it in Hebrews 11 saying, look,
hey, don't forget the great works that these men did.
Why?
Because it was God that helped them.
And then when you get to Hebrews chapter 12, verse one,
it says this, wherefore, so wherefore
because of all these great works?
that these men in the past did, seeing we also encompassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,
and I believe it's just they're witnessing to God's faithfulness.
They're witnessing to all the great works that God accomplished through them.
Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us,
and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
I believe the primary interpretation of this passage is not that the people in heaven are
looking to us, I believe that it's we're looking to them, we're looking to the witness that
they witnessed, the confession that they confessed, and that we say, look at the great works of
this previous generation, not because we say, oh, they're so great, it's because the God
of those people are so great.
And we realize, hey, because the great works that previous generations did through faith
by the power of God, we have access to do the same thing.
We have the same exact access to God to do great works through faith.
That's why he says, wherefore, let us lay aside every weight.
and the sin which doth so easily be set us,
and let us run with patience,
the race that is set before us.
See, all of Hebrews 11 culminates in Hebrews 12.1,
where the goal, the action, the application of...
Him listing all those previous generations is so that we would run the race is so that we would do great works for
God and so yes
We want to look at the previous generations and we want to honor their works
But we have to realize that the reason that they did those works was from the power of God and realize that we ourselves
Could also do great works for God
And we don't have to have this mentality that the dispensationalists have where they look
at our world and say, well, the reason why churches aren't thriving and growing, and
the reason why great sermons aren't being preached, and why many people aren't getting
saved is because we're in the Leo to see in church age.
They'll preach that history is recorded into seven different dispensations or ages and
that right now we're living in the Laodicean church age, which means that we're just kind
of doomed to failure.
We're doomed to apathy.
We're doomed to be living in a generation that doesn't care about God.
Look, that's like weird Calvinist garbage.
We get to take ownership of the works that we do.
We don't have to just sit here and just pray for revival to come.
We could actually just look at the works of the previous generation,
believe that God helped them,
believe that God can help us,
and just get out there and do the work.
You know, this weekend, Steadfast Baptist Church
had a great soul-winning marathon in Mexico
where they got almost 200 people saved, I believe.
You know,
While they're sitting around praying for revival, some people who actually want to put aside
the weights and run the race are going to Mexico and opening their mouth and people
are getting saved.
People are doing great works for God.
And so, yes, I love history.
I love the old generations, but we don't look at that and just be like, man, must be nice.
It must have been so cool back when America was on top, back when Christianity was on
top.
No, we could just do that right now.
We could just make church great today.
We don't have to say,
oh, the best days of church was in the 1960s.
That'll never be topped again.
No, the greatest days of church could be ahead of us.
And guess who gets to decide that?
We get to decide that.
Oh, isn't God going to be the one to decide that?
No, because God already wants the Great Commission to be fulfilled.
We already know God wants the Word of God to be preached.
God wants people's lives to be changed.
God wants pastors to preach good sermons.
This isn't a question of, is God going to sprinkle pixie dust on America and have revival
come?
It's going to be a matter of, are we going to obey the Word of God or not?
Are we going to look at the landmarks that are given to us in the King James Bible and
We're going to build upon those things.
We're going to put up better landmarks than just throw up our hands and give up and say,
oh, all that's in the past.
You know, that's a lame attitude.
That is not an attitude that we should take.
Go to John 14, John chapter 14, John 14 verse 12 says, Jesus said this,
I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater
works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified
in the Son."
Like I said, we have to realize there's nothing stopping us from doing the greatest works
because Jesus already told us how He felt about it, right?
Hey, greater works will they do.
Verse 13, and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name,
that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
You know, a faithful man who could find, the Bible says.
The Bible talks about a wicked generation, a rebellious generation.
You think that if we actually decided as a church that we're going to pray to God and
say, God, we want to believe exactly what the Bible says.
We want to fulfill the Great Commission.
We want to do all the works that you want us to do.
We want to follow you with all of our hearts.
Please bless us, God.
Because do you think there's very many people in this world praying that?
Do you think there's very many churches that actually, above all else, above money, above buildings,
that they just want to preach what the Bible says?
No, many churches today, they're concerned about money.
They're concerned about having a nice appearance and being good with the community
and not having a disgusting protester outside the door like we have today?
You know, those are the things that they're worried about, where it's like,
okay, I preached that in 2022, let me check the landmark here.
Oh yeah, Leviticus 2013.
Yep, I still believe that.
Yep, that's still a landmark that we're going to stick with.
Doesn't matter how the world changes.
Doesn't matter who likes it or doesn't like it.
And guess what, a lot of people are starting to like it.
I mean, Oklahoma's the wrong place to be protesting against this, because this is the most conservative
state in America, okay?
And look, there's even governments now that are petitioning the Supreme Court to get rid
of gay marriage.
You faggots better be scared, because change is coming.
And we're going to keep preaching what the Bible says.
And it doesn't matter if it's in season or out of season,
we're going to stick with the landmarks.
We're going to preach what the Bible says.
And I don't care how many people decide to come to this church.
I don't care how many people like me or don't like me
because I want to preach the truth.
That's why I'm in the ministry.
And I would rather preach the truth, not my opinion.
I'd rather preach, I'd rather be dogmatic about what the Bible says and grow very slowly,
yea, or never grow than be one of these compromising, fake Christians that get behind the pulpit
and preach lies.
I'm not in this to preach lies.
I want to preach the truth.
Go to Philippians chapter 1.
Philippians chapter number one, and you know what, I'm not going to look at previous generations
and say, man, that was really cool back when you could rip face against sodomites.
Oh, man, that was cool back in the day when, you know, pastor Jack Hiles would say, hey,
some of you men ought to ask your wife's permission to say amen once in a while in the sermon.
Right?
Back when pastors would call out feminism.
Back before pastors were cow-towing to feminism.
Back before pastors were subtly jabbing at authority, biblical authority,
and stripping authority away from parents and husbands and pastors.
Oh man, must have been cool back in the day before the pulpits were filled with a bunch of weak, spineless preachers.
You know what? We could just do that right now. We could just preach the truth right now.
And guess what? We're an independent Baptist church.
We don't have to worry about what anyone else is preaching or what they're doing.
We here get to decide to preach and believe the truth.
Philippians 1-8,
For God is my record.
How greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
And this I pray that your love may abound yet more and more
in knowledge and in all judgment.
See?
The Bible teaches us that we should not just get some knowledge and just coast.
Get some Bible preaching, get some soul winning, get some church programs, and then just ride that till Jesus comes.
The Bible is saying that we should abound more and more.
And we as Christians should constantly be thinking about the more that we could do for the Lord Jesus Christ.
How can we get more people saved?
How can we reach more people?
How can we preach more good sermons?
How can we teach more good doctrine?
We should constantly be having this growth mindset, not saying like,
well, we're in the leo to see in church age,
so let's just all show up, pay your tithe,
have a two-minute sermon and go home.
No, we're going to actually do our best to abound more and more.
Deuteronomy 27 so number one we want to respect previous generations
We want to look at the landmarks. They've given us number two
We don't want to just take those landmarks and do nothing with them
We want to actually build upon those things right we want to do our own works and not just ride on their coattails
Number three, we need to protect the ancient landmarks of previous generations.
So we're going to get a little more specific now, but Deuteronomy 2717 says,
Cursed be he that removeeth his neighbor's landmark, and all the people shall say, Amen.
What does the Bible say?
The Bible says that when there's a landmark that has been placed,
and it's a good landmark, it's a godly landmark,
it's something that God wants there.
When a society takes those things away, people are cursed.
A curse comes upon your nation,
and us as God's people, we're supposed to have the attitude that says,
hey, if someone wants to take away landmarks,
hey, that's a curse, we're supposed to say amen to that, right?
The most obvious curse upon our nation the last several decades is this filth of sodomy
where it starts off with people just being told that they're normal that they're born that way
and it progresses to 2015 allowing them to get married and then it turns into you know
trannies going into schools reading to kids and indecently exposing themselves taking kids
which 100% of children that are being adopted by sodomites you better believe those kids are being molested.
There's no reason that anyone should ever give a sodomite a child.
But what have we done? We've taken down the landmarks where it's like for thousands and thousands of years in our world.
Sodomy has been looked at as an abomination, as a crime, as one of the most disgusting things imaginable.
And all the empires of the past that ended up destroying themselves and getting destroyed by God,
what did they embrace right before the end? Homosexuality, Pompeii, Rome, Greece.
These places were destroyed by God and they were filthy, abominable places that practice homosexuality.
I mean, Sodom and Gomorrah!
Why did God destroy them?
Because it was all the people of the city, young and old, were compassing about Lot's
house to abuse him and the angels that were there.
Why?
Because they're predators.
You know, it is a curse.
It's a curse when we take the landmarks that God's given us to protect us and we decide
to remove those things.
just the insanity of the world we're living in. Like I said, some people are
starting to realize how gross this is and how insane this is and how
thankfully the state of Oklahoma passed through committee and Lord willing
that this gets signed into law where they are going to ban all state run
promotions of LGBT Pride or Intersex Pride Month
or anything like that.
And all of these policies are gonna be scratched
from our state and that it will be illegal to fly
an LGBT flag on any state property.
Look, praise God for that.
Hey, this is Oklahoma.
That's a good start, right?
We're sick and tired of people taking down
the ancient landmarks.
We're sick and tired of sitting here
and having to pretend like the LGBT are not pedophiles.
I'm sick of having to pretend like when you're giving up a child to a sodomite, to a dopp,
that we're not just giving up this innocent child to be destroyed by this wolf.
We're not pretending anymore.
Look, we're not going to pretend, we're not going to call you ma'am when you're a servant.
I'll call you a filthy freak.
How about that?
Is that better?
I'll ask you to, you know, take some lead to your head from the government.
I am sick and tired of our society acting like this is normal and pretending and playing
the games.
No, we're done playing the games.
Why?
Because the Bible says, if a man also lies with mankind as he lies with a woman, both
of them have committed an abomination, they shall surely be put to death, their blood
shall be upon them.
And guess what?
I'm going to say that dogmatically because that's not my opinion.
You want to know what my opinion is?
My opinion is also that they're gross and disgusting.
The Bible says that it's an abomination.
So my opinion is in line with what the Bible says.
Now just so happens, my opinion also agrees.
Guess what? There's going to be times where your opinion does not agree with the Bible.
You know what you should do? You should submit to the landmark.
You should look at the ancient landmark that's been set up and say,
that must be there for a reason.
Let's not take down that ancient landmark.
No, maybe you just lack wisdom.
Maybe you just haven't read the Bible.
Go to Jeremiah chapter 6. Jeremiah chapter number 6.
Jeremiah 6, 16 says,
Thus sayeth the Lord,
Stand ye in the ways,
and see, and ask for the old paths.
Where is the good way?
And walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls."
But they said, we will not walk therein.
So notice, walking in the old paths, it's the good way the Bible says, and it provides
rest.
You know, God's commandments are not grievous.
Everything that God gives us in the law of God is to protect us, to protect the innocent,
to establish justice.
You know what that brings? That brings bondage, sin, destruction, pain, people's lives being destroyed.
You know, when you start removing landmarks, you start destroying society.
And go to Psalm chapter number 12, Psalm chapter number 12.
What are some ancient landmarks?
Besides, you know, we talked about homosexuality.
What are some other ancient landmarks that our fathers have set up for us that we should protect?
How about the King James Bible?
We are going to stick with the King James Bible.
We're not interested in changing to the modern versions.
Why? Look at Psalm chapter 12 verse 6.
The words of the Lord are pure words.
As silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Verse 7, notice thou shalt keep them, O Lord.
Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
You know, the Bible teaches that it was God's job.
It was God's responsibility.
He was the custodian of His Word, and it was His responsibility to preserve the words of
God from this generation when these things were written forever.
And you know, it takes faith, of course, to believe that.
But you know what?
I do believe that.
I do believe that God has preserved his word through all generations.
I don't believe that man has just corrupted the word of God to where it no longer exists
on this world because you know many church doctrinal statements, they'll say like, hey,
we believe the word of God that it's the final authority in all matters of faith and practice
so long as it was written in the original manuscripts.
Hey, isn't it great to know that you could know what the Bible says and you could follow
it and we could submit ourselves to it if we had those original manuscripts.
But man, shucks, they got destroyed, they got buried.
So here's our, you know, NIV where it's the best we have.
It's like, I thought you were a Christian.
I thought that you believed through faith that Jesus Christ died?
and rose again from the dead.
Like, don't we believe that our Savior died
and came back to life?
Isn't that a miracle last time I checked?
So, it's like, you'll believe
that Jesus died on the cross
and rose again,
but you won't believe that God preserved His words?
Like, who believes...
Raise your hand if you believe
God created the heaven and the earth.
Okay, yeah.
God created the universe,
but He can't preserve His word.
That's the level of faith that these churches have today.
The original manuscript onlyists.
Oh, you guys are so uneducated, you know, you King James onlyists.
Bro, I actually believe God created the heaven and the earth.
I believe that Jesus Christ rose again from the dead.
Yeah, I believe he preserved a book for us.
And guess what?
It's nice to read a book that has authority that can correct my opinions.
And that can correct your opinions, but you want to know why a lot of pastors don't want to be King James only is because they want to be the final authority.
They want to be the landmark where they get up and say, oh, let me correct what the Bible says in front of you because here's my non-existent knowledge of Greek and I'll tell you what the Bible actually says.
And then now you're supposed to just submit to a man.
And so now man is your final authority.
Yet, we're the cult for being King James only when we actually have statutes and a law book
here that we must submit to.
Where pastors who aren't King James only, they got to make up whatever they want and
say, oh, this is what the Bible actually says.
Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 2.
Now many people today would scoff at the idea that there is a conspiracy to corrupt God's
And, folks, what is a conspiracy?
It's multiple people agreeing to do something.
That is what a conspiracy is, right?
Conspiracies do exist in this world, especially conspiracies that the Bible tells us exist.
Okay?
How about 2 Corinthians 2, verse 17, for we are not as many which corrupt the Word of
God.
But as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ see the apostles were saying look
We are not like the many people meaning there's lots of people that do this that corrupt the word of God
Now, how do people corrupt the Word of God?
Well, one way is just by preaching lies out of it.
Preaching things out of context and just preaching false doctrine, trying to make the Bible say
something it doesn't say, you know, that's one way that people try to corrupt the Word
of God.
But here's another really obvious way, when they translate the Word of God into something
that's not true.
When they take what the Bible says and they change it into something completely different.
And people that are against King James' onlyism, they'll often say, oh, well, the modern versions
There's nothing important that's changed in those versions.
Okay, let's see if that's true.
Go to Isaiah chapter 7 and I'm going to show you some important doctrines that are corrupted
in the modern versions.
And look, there's plenty of minor doctrines too that are affected, but let's just talk
about some major ones.
Isaiah chapter 7.
You know, this is a landmark I'd like to hold on to.
How about believing in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ?
I believe he was born of a virgin.
Why?
Isaiah 714.
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign.
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel.
Now that is important. You know why it's important is because the Lord Jesus Christ never sinned and why is it that he never sinned?
Because he didn't have an earthly father. His real father was God. So when he was born, he was 100% man,
but also 100% God in the flesh. And so that's what enabled Jesus to live his life perfectly, never sinning.
It's because he was born of a virgin. Here's what the RSV says.
Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign.
Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel.
There's a big difference between a virgin and a young woman, okay, and it makes a big
doctrinal difference because Jesus was not just born of a young woman, because guess
what?
Lots of people are born of a young woman, but he was born of a virgin.
That is an important doctrine.
And look, it's not just the RSV, it's the NRSV, it's the NET, it's the CEB.
All of these Bibles all say young woman.
Go to Colossians chapter one Colossians chapter one
What about the blood of Christ that's pretty important isn't it the the blood of Jesus Christ that atones for our sins
Colossians 1 verse 14 says in whom we have redemption through his blood
Even the forgiveness of sins, we have redemption through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
It was not just his perfect life that saved us, it was that, and also the shedding of
his blood, and also his burial, and also his descending into hell, and also his resurrection
from the dead.
The whole gospel, all of Jesus' life is what culminated into salvation.
The NIV which I call the non-inspired version is says this in whom we have redemption the forgiveness of sins
So the blood of Christ is just removed
Why would you remove the blood of Christ? I mean we're Christians here. Who's gonna be reading the Bible Christians?
What does the Bible teach that through the blood of Christ we have redemption? Well, that's gone in the NIV
Go to 1st John chapter 5 1st John chapter 5
You know, how about the Trinity?
It's a very important doctrine, a doctrine that we take for granted here in America and
here in Oklahoma because pretty much everyone believes in the Trinity here.
The only time I run into someone that doesn't believe in the Trinity is usually when I'm
talking to a Muslim, which is very rare.
And when I talk to a Muslim, I have to spend a lot of time on the Trinity because they
reject that concept.
You know, even on the dome of the rock that's on Mount Moriah to this day,
there was an inscription written on the inside of that dome in like the year 670
or something like that AD that says like it's not fitting for Christ or for God to have a son.
Speak only the truth of God, it's not fitting for God to have a son.
You know, they deny the Trinity.
First down on 5 7 says for there are three.
that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
That's a very important verse. It's a very famous verse.
The NIV says this, for there are three that testify. That's it. That's the whole verse. Isn't that helpful?
I mean, isn't that a really helpful verse? For there are three that testify. Next.
That's garbage. That is corrupting the Word of God. That does make a serious doctrinal difference and many people today,
many textual critics want to tell you that 1st John 5-8 should not be in your Bible.
But I'm reading that and the Holy Spirit's bearing witness to the truth of that verse for me saying,
yeah, there's three that bear record in heaven. The Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. These three are one.
How about John chapter one? Go to John chapter number one.
John chapter 1 verse 1, you probably all know it in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.
Again, another great verse about the Trinity, another great verse about the deity of Jesus Christ because we know that the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and that's talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well here's what the New World translation says, in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was a God.
You think that makes some doctrinal difference between saying that Jesus Christ is God, capital
G, God, or A God, little G. Yeah, that makes a big difference, okay? That's a false doctrine
to say that Jesus is not God. Go to Matthew chapter 5, Matthew chapter number 5.
Here's a big one, and this one has ruined so many people's lives in our country.
This one is preached all the time and causes people to sin.
There's doctrinal differences, those are terrible, but there's also application differences
that ruins people's lives, and this is one of those.
Matthew 531 says, It has been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her
a writing of divorcement.
But I say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of what?
fornication
Causeeth her to commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committed adultery
Jesus said that if you divorce your wife
For any other cause than fornication, you're committing adultery, you're causing her to commit adultery.
Now the Bible uses a very specific word there, fornication.
What is fornication? It's carnal relations before marriage.
What is adultery? It's carnal relations with someone else other than your spouse while you're married, right?
And so the idea here is that, okay, yeah, if you were lied to, if there was fraud in the marriage where you think you're marrying this virgin,
and you come to the wedding night and you find out she's got diseases or she's unclean,
she's lied to you about her virginity, yeah, you could put away, you had that annulment
provision in God's word where it would not be adultery for you to put that woman away,
but any other cause would be adultery.
But here's the thing modern versions don't teach this modern versions do not teach
Hey, the only reason that you could divorce and which which here's the thing also
Let me just make this clear is that Jesus made it clear that because of the hardness of their hearts
Moses gave them this commandment
So it wasn't even God's will to have divorce for any reason you have to understand that right off the bat
Why because there's a difference between what's right and what people do right?
God did not want polygamy, but he gave permission provisions. Here's what you do if you do take another wife
That's not God saying, please go take another wife.
He's just recognizing that this is something that people do.
You know, he said, hey, let not the wife depart from her husband.
Don't let the husband depart from her wife.
But and if she depart, right?
So it's not God condoning divorce.
He's just saying like because of the hardness of your hearts,
this provision was allowed.
Now here's what the modern versions say.
In the NIV, they say this, it has been said,
Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce,
but I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality,
makes her the victim of adultery,
and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
So, according to the modern versions, you could get a divorce for sexual immorality.
Now, last time I checked, Jesus said not even to lust after a woman in your heart.
that if you do that you've committed adultery in your heart. Would that fall
under sexual immorality? I would say it would. And so what are these modern
versions doing? They're basically giving a license to divorce for any reason. And
people are struggling in their marriage and instead of having a man of God tell
them, look stay married!
Fight for your marriage!
Be faithful to your vows!
You said till death do us part!
Don't give up on your marriage!
Instead of hearing that, they're hearing,
oh, sexual immorality!
What did he do?
Did he look at a picture he shouldn't have looked at?
Oh, did she talk to someone?
Oh, did they, you know, commit literal adultery?
Which, according to the Bible, has the death penalty.
But that's not a reason to divorce.
The Bible does not say that if you commit adultery, you are allowed to divorce your spouse.
The Bible does not say that if your spouse is looking at something on the internet that
they shouldn't be looking at, that you have grounds to divorce your spouse.
You do not get to divorce your spouse.
Once you've consummated that marriage, you say there was no fornication, there was no
marital fraud, it's till death do us part.
And if you marry someone else after you are divorced, you are committing adultery.
That is what the Bible teaches.
But look, these modern versions, they are hurting people.
Go to Galatians chapter number two. Galatians chapter number two.
Hey, here's an obvious landmark that we should fight for.
How about salvation by faith alone?
Look, we are never going to change on that doctrine.
That is a foundational doctrine that salvation is not obtained
by you turning over a new leaf.
Repenting of your sins, being a good person, it's only faith alone in Christ.
Look at Galatians 2, and I love this verse here because the Apostle Paul just like repeats
this ad nauseam at how much it's only by faith.
Verse 16, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith
of Jesus Christ.
Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ
and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
That was one verse, folks.
I mean, how many times is he going to tell us in one verse that you're not saved by
the law?
You're not going to be justified by the law.
You're only going to be justified by faith.
Hey, by the way, have I said we believed in Jesus Christ too?
By the way, we've been justified by faith.
And look, we're not even going to entertain this debate.
Oh, well, is it by repenting of your sins?
You know, oh, because you see all these stupid gospel tracts all the time where it's like,
what do you have to do to be saved?
Oh, you just have to believe in Jesus and repent of your sins.
False information, folks.
Should you repent of your sins?
Yes, you should.
Do we teach people to repent of their sins?
Yes, we do.
To get to heaven?
No.
To get to heaven, to receive salvation, the Bible says, is a gift.
And last time I checked, when you received a gift, no one charged you anything for it.
No one gave you some, you know, little terms and conditions saying, like, if you receive
this gift, you're admitting that you're going to pay me $300 in the future, that's not a
gift, folks.
And this is so simple, but look, there's been some landmarks that I look at that have been
so simple that our generation has forgotten.
Like homosexuality. It's like, duh, this is disgusting.
This is a crime. Why would we ever support this?
You know, but it's like, hey, this is a landmark that we need to fight for,
that we need to contend for.
And even sometimes we're going to piss off other Baptists about this.
But you know what? We're never going to compromise on this repent of your sins gospel.
It is a false gospel.
Go to, if you would,
Isaiah chapter 58, Isaiah 58.
Here's another great landmark that we've been handed down as Baptists that we need to defend and fight for and that is hard
preaching and this landmark is in serious threat of disappearing today
There are not that many churches out there that are really preaching hard. Look at Isaiah 58 verse 1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression
and the house of Jacob their sins.
You know I do not want this church to be built upon positive only preaching and upon giving
some sort of soft watered down message and making sure that everything that's said is
so nice and well polished because here's the problem, when you win people to that type
When you win people over with that style,
you have to keep them with that style.
And preachers sometimes shackle themselves
because they're so eager to grow at any cost
that they water down the message.
You know, they soften the tone.
They're not crying aloud.
They're not sparing not.
Most churches in this country you will walk into
and you will never hear a preacher lift his voice.
You will never hear a preacher yell.
I mean, so many, I see all these clips all over YouTube, Instagram, Facebook or whatever
of these churches and preaching clips and it's like every church I see lately, the preacher
is always sitting down now.
It's like he's always sitting down on a bar stool and it's like, what is this, a TED
talk?
Those things are super gay anyways.
Like no, this shouldn't be some sort of TED talk.
This is cry aloud, spare not and notice, show my people their sins.
It is specific. It is corrective.
That's what hard preaching is, is when you're actually preaching the word of God,
showing people where they're wrong.
And, you know, a wise person loves to hear that kind of preaching.
You know, I can honestly say that when I got saved and when I started listening to hard
preaching, that was all that I desired.
I would never want to go to a church that preaches soft.
I would never want to get up and hear a pastor who's sitting down on a stool whisper sweetly
into the microphone.
I am not interested in that type of church and I'm just being honest like if that was my only option growing up as a teenager
I might not even be here today. You know, I thank God that there was some men that preserved that landmark
that said hey let the world get liberal, let the churches get soft, let the
preachers get quiet and soft, but they're gonna still preach hard. You know,
thank God that I had that preaching to listen to and to grow to grow from
because like I said I probably would not be here today. Go to 2nd Timothy chapter
4, 2nd Timothy chapter 4.
But realize, hard preaching, what is it?
I mean, a pastor's job is to correct bad behaviors, bad ideas, bad attitudes, bad doctrines.
And then people today will be like, well, a preacher should never preach against an individual.
A preacher should never preach a sermon where you kind of know what he's talking about.
And it's like, cry loud, spare not, show my people their transgressions.
That's the preaching that God has prescribed.
Look at 2 Timothy 4-1, I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who
shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom.
Preach the word!
Again, like I was saying today, preachers need to preach what the Bible says.
And if you're preaching your opinion, make that known.
That's fine, but I get sick and tired of hearing preachers just dogmatically preach their
opinion.
You know, I'm going to preach a whole sermon about this pretty soon, but let me just give
you a little preview of what's coming.
You know, I've heard this recently that it's just wrong to always spank a teenager.
It's just carte blanche, it's wrong to spank a teenager.
Teenagers should not be spanked.
I've heard this, I've heard these exact words, that if you spank someone over the age of
This is coming from an independent fundamental Baptist pastor.
Now, guess what that's called?
That's called Second Opinions Chapter 1.
Because the Bible doesn't say that!
Let me just go through this logic, okay?
We could all agree that the Bible says to spank kids.
We could agree with that, right?
We could also agree that in the law of God,
a stubborn and rebellious son who's a glutton and a drunkard
and who, after he is chastened,
doesn't repent that he's supposed to be put to death.
Okay, okay, okay.
Spanking a child. Good.
Capital punishment for a child in certain situations.
Good. Okay.
There's also corporal punishment for adults for criminals.
There's capital punishment for adults for criminals.
But a teenager can never be spanked.
Where are you getting this from?
You know what it is?
It's you not being dogmatic about what the Bible actually says.
It's people just saying, like, here's my philosophy on child rearing.
I read these books and I heard that it's going to cause a teenager to feel humiliation.
And I heard from a teenager who grew up in a home that was spanked where they said that
they didn't like being spanked.
Yeah, because it's called a punishment.
It sounds like if you didn't like it and you don't want it, sounds like it was probably
the best punishment for you then.
And I was just like, oh man, I loved it when my parents gave me this punishment because
Dude, if it was bad, it sounds like that's the good punishment then.
Stop preaching your opinion and people in the pews, read your Bible.
Read your Bible.
Do not take the words that you hear as a hundred percent gospel truth.
What you should do is be ready to receive it and then look at your Bible and say, is that
what the Bible says?
Okay, never spank your teenagers.
Oh yeah, the Bible never says that anywhere.
Okay, if that's your opinion, cool, have your opinion, say your opinion.
But you know what?
Hard preaching is actually preaching what the Bible says.
Hard preaching is not getting up and screaming and making other people feel small and less
than you as you stand on your opinion.
That's not hard preaching.
Hard preaching is saying what the Bible says.
And look, I'm sure there's a ton of people
that would be offended at me saying
that the Bible does not condemn spanking your teenagers.
But guess what? It doesn't.
The Bible does not condemn spanking your teenagers.
The Bible says to beat your son with a rod.
The Bible says that a stubborn or rebellious son
would actually be put to death.
So, you know, there's something wrong with your logic here.
Where it's like, spank them, put them to death, but in between here, they're just safe.
Like, it's like the city of refuge.
You know, when you're a teenager, you're in the city of refuge.
You can't be touched.
That is stupid.
And you know what?
Preaching that undermines authority pisses me off.
I would rather die kicking and screaming, fighting for biblical authority than to ever
I am not going to sit up here and preach a whole sermon about the exception to obeying
authority.
Oh, you know, wives, if your husband tells you to sin, you don't have to obey.
That's true.
But guess how many times that's been true for my wife in our marriage?
Zero!
Guess how many times my parents have ever told me to sin?
Zero.
I can't even think of a time that the government has told me to sin.
But we're gonna sit here and just emphasize all right kids if your parents tell you to sin you have to disobey them
Yeah, no crap, but is that what I'm gonna emphasize or am I gonna emphasize what the Bible teaches obey obey obey obey?
You know what? I'm so sick and tired of these pastors preaching the opinion. It says preach the word
The instant in season, out of season,
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering indoctrin.
Longsuffering indoctrin refers to the fact
that when you preach the word of God,
people are not always gonna immediately
jump on board with that.
Sometimes you preach a doctrine and it's a landmark that's so foreign to our society and it's so
Foreign to our carnal minds that you have to preach it over and over and over and over again
And sometimes people aren't gonna agree with you. They're not gonna get it right away
But preachers should have the long suffering to continue to preach the truth no matter what
And as our world gets more and more crazy and more far away from God's word,
it's going to require a more long suffering on our part as preachers to say like,
hey, here's another sermon on this topic.
And, you know, you guys need to be patient and realize that we live in a crazy world
and that sometimes I've just got to preach the same things over and over again.
And it's like, I just preach about spanking your kids.
Guess what I'm going to preach about next weekend?
You're going to hear it again.
You know, be patient because I need to have long suffering on these issues.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers
Having itching ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto
Fables that's what's happening on mass right now is people are turning away their ears from the truth people. I mean it's so
Important for you to be reading the Bible you you better not have this prideful mentality and things like I've read it before in the past
I'll be able to spot false doctrine
You know, my heart would never be changed from the truth of God's word.
No, you have to every single day be reading the word of God and anchor yourself
in the scripture. Otherwise, you will be a person that whose opinions
will be driven by other men's opinions rather than what the Bible says.
I'll skip some of this for sake of time here.
Let's go to Romans chapter 10, Romans chapter 10.
Romans 10. Hey, here's a landmark that was handed to us that I want to defend.
And that is door to door soul winning.
Confrontational soul winning, not just at the end of each service,
we're going to have the music play and you can come up to the altar
and someone will talk to you. No, we actually want to go out and preach the Gospel.
Romans 10, verse 13, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
By the way, you must call upon the name of the Lord to be saved.
You must ask for the gift of salvation.
That's how you put your faith in him.
Verse 14, how shall they call on him in whom they have not believed, and how shall they
believe in him of whom they have not heard, and how shall they hear without a preacher?
And how shall they preach, except they be sent?
You know, God's kind of given us like a backwards process of salvation, right?
So someone calls upon the name of the Lord to do that, they believe, to do that, they had to hear.
To hear, they had to have a preacher, to have a preacher, they had to have been sent.
And so us as an institution, what are we focused on? We're focused on sending, right?
We want to send out soul winners and they're going to preach, and people are going to hear,
and people are going to believe, and people are going to call upon the name of the Lord.
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things?
But they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah sayeth Lord
who have believed our report.
So then faith cometh by hearing
and hearing by the word of God.
You know, there's probably plenty of books
on how to get someone to come to Christ
and how to grow a church.
But you know what I'm interested in,
what I want to be dogmatic about is what the Bible says,
that it comes by hearing the word of God.
And so we as Christians need to go out,
Bibles in hand and go confront people with the gospel
and teach them the word of God and preach the gospel.
Go to Deuteronomy chapter 22 Deuteronomy 22
Here's another great landmark that was handed to us. How about biblical dress standards?
Biblical dress standards. I mean, this is one of those landmarks
That definitely sticks out a little bit today in our society because it's just so common
For people not to dress the way the Bible teaches go to Deuteronomy 22 5 it says
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man
Pertain means having to do with being assigned to there's a clothing that is a signed or
Associated with a man neither shall a man put on a woman's garment
for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
I would venture to say 95% of America,
unless you're just some God-hating reprobate,
would say that a man wearing a dress is gross,
that it is an abomination,
that it's something that we should not allow in society.
But here's the thing, that's because in our culture,
we don't see it all the time.
And so it shocks us still.
When we see a man in a dress, we're like,
what the, what is this?
This is disgusting.
But you have to realize that throughout all of human history, that same feeling is the
feeling that someone would get if they saw a woman wearing pants.
Why?
Because pants are something that pertains to a man, and it used to literally be illegal
in America for a woman to wear pants.
I'm not 100% sure on this fact-check me, but I believe Hillary Clinton was the first person who wore pants in the Senate
During a Senate session someone fact-checked that later, but that's that wasn't that long ago
I mean Hillary Clinton still alive today somehow. I don't know how but the power of Satan I guess
But look like this was not that long ago where everyone would agree that I'm saying right now
Everyone would take these things for granted. Why because this landmark was just so obvious
But again, we can't just take things for granted.
And this is a good example of why we can't take things for granted.
Because a couple generations go by, and now if you're a lady
and you wear skirts and dresses, sometimes people
are going to think, what's wrong with you?
There's something weird about you.
Or people get offended that you wear skirts and dresses only.
And it's like, why are you offended?
Is it because you know that it's wrong that you're wearing pants?
Otherwise, it wouldn't really make sense.
Like if someone was wearing a baseball hat, I'm not offended.
Why are you offended when other ladies are only wearing skirts and dresses because it's written on your conscience and in your heart
That you are dressed like a man when you wear pants and according to the Bible the people that do that are in abomination
Meaning it's gross. It's disgusting
It's something that provokes a negative feeling in God himself when he sees a woman dressed in pants now
Here's the thing because unfortunately, this is so accepted in our culture
It's not like some lady that walks into our church
visiting wearing pants.
Please don't say anything to them about it.
Don't make any weird faces or anything like that.
I will never police people in this area.
If a lady came to our church and wore pants
for the rest of her life, as long as she's okay
with hearing the preaching that I've said about it,
she's welcome to come, okay?
Now, a man in a dress is a different story.
Usher's, you better stop that before it ever
even comes into this place, okay?
That is not allowed whatsoever.
Let's, again, I just keep ranting so much here.
Yeah, let's just do one more.
Ephesians chapter number five.
Go to Ephesians chapter number five.
You know, how about the landmark of male authority?
Yeah, we already talked about this a little bit,
but you know what?
I am not going to let this landmark be destroyed.
I am not going to let men who are just weak and afraid of their wives and of ladies in
their congregation who are little closet feminists or something like that, or closet feminist
passers-wife, I am not going to let these people sway me from the words of God that
the Bible teaches.
Because the Bible teaches, we talked about last week, woman preacher detected, sermon
rejected.
Right?
Oh, why?
By virtue of the content of her sermon?
The Bible literally says that a woman should not teach that a woman is not to usurp authority over the man
Look at Ephesians 5 verse 22
Wives submit yourselves to your own husbands as unto the Lord
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church
And he is the savior of the body therefore as the church is subject unto Christ
So let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. It can't really get much more clear than that folks
Oh, but what about the husband who's commanding his wife to sin?
Okay?
Of course.
She would obey the higher powers in that situation.
But how about we focus on what the text is focusing on, which is wives obey your husbands.
Hey, how about men at work obey your boss?
People, obey your government, church, obey your pastor.
This is what the Bible emphasizes.
Yeah, you could talk about the one weird scenario
where a husband saying, hey, let's hide a body, baby.
Let's go commit a murder.
OK, yeah.
Please disobey your husband if he's
asking you to hide a body.
But I'm just going to take a wild guess
that there's not a single lady in here whose husband's ever
asked them to do that.
If so, we might need to have a chat, all right?
But let's focus on what the Bible focuses on.
God put up a landmark that said men are in authority.
Men are in charge of the church.
Men should be in charge of the government.
Men should be in charge of their wives.
Let's not let that landmark get destroyed.
You know, we've seen our country suffer so much damage
by letting this landmark get destroyed.
I mean, we gave women the right to vote,
and it's like, what is women's...
and I'm not saying godly Christians in this room, of course,
but I'm just saying, like, your average American woman voter,
like, what's her big issue?
Shout it out. What do women voters care about more than anything?
Abortion!
Yep!
Oh, let's give women right to vote.
And what do they care about?
They care about murdering their babies.
Sounds like this was a failed experiment, folks.
Sounds like we should repeal the 19th Amendment.
Because, you know what, men aren't all jazzed about killing
children.
Now, there are those wicked people out there as well.
But look, that's a disgusting, abominable sin.
And why is it that we give all these leftist women...
I mean, you gotta realize that Satan hates you ladies.
Communists hate you, the leftist Democrats hate you, and they want to rip you away from
your father, rip you away from your husband that loves you, and they want you to depend
upon the government, and they want you to get your self-worth and your financial needs
taken care of from the government providing for you so that you could help the Jews and
the Wicked People and Authority pass all these terrible laws.
Because, guess what, women that stay home, women that are married, women that have children,
are much more conservative than these foaming at the mouth leftist women at the University
of Texas, for example.
You know, there's a big difference between those two because one is walking after the
way of Satan, and one has actually stayed with the ancient landmark and realized that
when God gives you a commandant, when God sets up a landmark, it's for your own good.
And what does Deuteronomy say?
Curse it be he that removes that landmark.
And it brings a curse on our nation.
And we know we've had the curse of abortion
because of this issue.
We'll finish in Proverbs 22, where
we started Proverbs chapter 22.
Proverbs 22 verse 28 says, remove not the ancient landmark,
which thy fathers have set.
You know, we need to be sober and realize that in our country, in our movements, in Baptists, in general,
there is always a serious threat of our landmarks being removed. Always.
And, you know, big battles have happened recently over topics I never would have imagined that we'd be fighting over.
Let me tell you, big battles will come again in the future.
And we have to defend the landmarks that God has given us.
We are a new generation in this room.
We are a young church, both in age and just in time existing.
And we have the opportunity and the mandate from God
to look at what previous generations have given us
and look at what the Bible says and say,
hey, do these things match?
If so, let's defend those things.
If not, let's put up our own landmarks.
So, number one, remember the works of previous generations.
Number two, build the works of previous generations.
Number three, protect the ancient landmarks of previous generations.
Lord, thank you for your word.
Thank you for the landmark that we have in the King James Bible.
I pray that you'd help all of us to put our pride aside and our fleshly wisdom aside and
that we would just fully submit ourselves to what the Bible teaches.
that we wouldn't become dogmatic on our own opinions or philosophies,
but that we would truly allow the Word of God to correct us.
And I just pray that you would just help us as a new generation
to have a vision to do the greatest works that we could possibly do
and help us to defend the good landmarks that our Father set up.
We love you in Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
All right, our last hymn this morning will be number 36 Christ Arrows
Hymn number 36
36 Christ Arrows we'll sing there starting on the first
day. Jesus, my Lord, hark from the great heroes, with a mighty triumph, glorious foes.
He arose a victor from the dark domain, and he lives forever with his sins to bring.
God, God, God