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thank you for this church and thank you for this time that we have
unity that we gather together lord and to sing praises unto you
remainder of the service and fill us with your spirit as we sing
and fill pastor os with your spirit as well as he preaches to us from your word
in jesus name i pray amen for our next song if you would turn in your hymnals
to hymn number two glory to his name hymn number two start there right on the
first is your hand on the front is genesis chapter verse 10 is open on the
inside we have our service times listed sunday morning at 10 30 sunday evening
at 4 30 and today evening at seven o'clock below that we have our soul
winning times listed there of course of course that one in gold is our saturday
soul winning rally please join us for that below is our year to date soul
winning and baptisms statistics and then as for the upcoming events
really excited about this upcoming weekend our one year anniversary
as a church together it's a great accomplishment and i'm really just
thankful and humbled by what the lord has done
throughout one year and we're definitely going to be looking
forward to celebrating that and just so we have some details here
about the soul winning marathon we're meeting here at 10 a.m
having our regular saturday rally we'll go soul winning and come back here at
12 30 for lunch just curious from our congregation who's
planning on coming to lunch for this saturday just so i could have kind of an
idea here so thank you then we have the second round of soul
winning at two o'clock like i said before if you can only make it to part
of that please do still join us and then the next day bring your
grandma's because the destroyer of red hot is coming
to preach both services for us and please do bring your neighbors your
grandma's whoever you want to bring we're not ashamed of pastor shelly
we're going to be excited to have him and it's going to be a great weekend
for sure after that we have november 26th is our
pie fellowship after the evening service december 5th uconn christmas likes at
chism park december 12 ladies christmas party there
is a sign-up sheet over there if you are partaking in that
december 19th christmas caroling december 24th
we have our cookie bake off and one more thing we're going to
have once again our kids christmas choir we did this last year
it was really great and this year christmas eve is on a
wednesday service so we're planning on having the kids perform
for us on that christmas eve there's some more details on the right in your
bulletin there that the practices are going to start on
november 30th brother cameron hall is going to be
leading this choir and those practices are going to be
after every sunday a.m service and after every wednesday evening service
so kids 18 and under are welcome to participate
of course use discretion as to you know the age
of the youngers if they can actually participate and look i don't care if the
kids can you know make some sort of a sound joyful
noise like please do have them participate
but i'm just saying i'm leaving that up to the parents for their discretion
so yeah that's going to be awesome that's december 24th they're performing
then december 30th is our new year's eve party it'll be a men's preaching night
and food and fellowship on the back is a place for notes as well as
our prayer list if you have any requests please do let me know and i'll be happy
to add that for you but before we go to our third song let's
go ahead and have a word of prayer as a church family
lord we thank you for this evening's service thank you so much
for the great bible study that we had through proverbs i pray that you just
continue to lead and to guide us and to reveal truth to us
in this next study that we begin this evening i pray that you please be with
all the requests that our church members need help with from you god that
you'd answer these according to your will
i pray that you bless miss whitney's mother that you just help her to be
healthy i pray also for my brother that's on
deployment that you keep him safe while he's overseas
i pray for brother theodore's mother's cancer that she would be healed lord
and also that his sister would have a soft heart and be receptive to the
gospel and same for all of those in our church who
have unsafe loved ones god we also really want to lift up this
upcoming weekend and we just want to thank you very much lord for
the great works that you have allowed us to do and i would just pray that you
would be with us going forward into the next year that we would
always rely on your strength and power that we'd always want to give you the
honor and glory for everything that we do
god i just pray that you would just give us laborers for the harvest
help us to stay fired up to be servants of you
help us to be ready to preach the gospel here and abroad and i just pray
that you bless this evening service tonight love you and just let me
pray amen all right that's going to be it for
announcements we'll go ahead and go to our third
song all right for our third song if you would at this time
take your white handouts and turn to psalm
chapter 139 that's psalm 139 in the white
handouts bring it out right there on the first
your bible's two reads a servant of jesus christ
called to be an apostle separated unto the gospel of god
which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures
concerning his son jesus christ our lord which was made of the seat of david
according to the flesh and declared to be the son of god
with power according to the spirit of holiness by the
resurrection from the dead by whom we have received grace and
apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name among
whom ye also the called among whom are ye also the
called of jesus christ to all that be in rome
beloved of god called to be saints grace to you
and peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ
first i thank my god through jesus christ
for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole
world for god is my witness whom i serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son
that without ceasing i make mention of you always in my prayers
making requests if by any means now at length
i might have a prosperous journey by the will of god to come unto you
for i long to see you that i may impart unto you some spiritual gift
to the end you may be established that is
that i may be comforted together with you
by the mutual faith both of you and me now i would not have you ignorant
brethren that oftentimes i purpose to come unto you
but was let hitherto that i might have some fruit among
you also even as among other gentiles i am a debtor both to the greeks and to
the barbarians both to the wise and to the unwise
so as much as in me is i am ready to preach
the gospel to you that are at rome also for i'm not ashamed of the gospel of
christ for it is the power of god unto salvation
to everyone that believeth to the jew first and also to the greek
for therein is the righteousness of god revealed from
faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith
for the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men who hold the truth and unrighteousness
because that which may be known of god is manifest in them
for god hath showed it unto them for the invisible things
of him from the creation of the world are clearly
seen being understood by the things that are made
even his eternal power and godhead so that they are without excuse because
that when they knew god they glorified him not as god
neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations
and their foolish heart was darkened professing themselves to be wise they
became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible
god into an image made like to corruptible
man into birds and forfeited beasts and creeping things
wherefore god also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of
their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies
between themselves who changed the truth of god into a lie
and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator who is blessed
forever amen for this cause god gave them up
unto vile affections for even their women
did change the natural use into that which is
against nature and likewise also the men
leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust
one toward another men with men working that which is
unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error
which was meat and even as they did not like to retain
god in their knowledge god gave them over
to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient being filled
with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness
covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder
debate deceit malignity whisperers back fighters
haters of god despiteful proud boasters inventors of evil things
disobedience of parents without understanding
covenant breakers without natural affection
implacable unmerciful who knowing the judgment of god
that they which commit such things are worthy of death
not only do the same but have pleasure in them
that do them. Let's bow our heads for a prayer father god in heaven we thank you
for this day we thank you for the bible study through the book of
proverbs we ask that you bless this bible study in the book of romans as you did in the proverbs
we thank you for our church we love you and we sing with you right now.
Amen well we're starting a new study this evening through the book of romans
which is one of my favorite books absolutely great
epistle by the apostle paul of course he's the one who
is the author of this epistle but he was not the one who
physically hand wrote it down that was tertius as you'll see in romans chapter
16 talks about how tertius physically wrote the words down but paul is
dictating this and this is actually the longest of the
epistles of paul the longest of the epistles that he wrote
and it's obviously directed towards the romans and it's a mixed audience as
you'll read throughout this book it's kind of a mixed group of jews and
gentiles which of course is indicative of how the new testament is it's
a mix of jews and gentiles who believe in jesus christ
also it's different from other epistles of the apostle paul in the sense that
it's not like first corinthians where he's kind of responding to this crisis
that's happening at a church and he's just like laying down all of
these corrections this is a church that he has not yet
visited and he's like preemptively writing a letter
and he's giving like a really long doctrinal treaty
treaties which is why I really like the book of romans if you like
doctrine just about every new testament doctrine is going to be found
in the book of romans that's why I love this book
let's go ahead and get into it in verse one he starts his greeting here says
paul a servant of jesus christ called to be an
apostle separated unto the gospel of god so
paul when he's introducing himself he describes himself with these three
characteristics first that he is a servant of jesus christ
and you know i think above any title that any man could have
like apostle which is a pretty high title right i mean it's like the highest
of authority among men in the new testament but
that's not the first thing that he focuses on
the first thing he says is hey i'm paul a servant of jesus christ
and you know what that really is the highest honor that any of us could have
is being a servant of the lord jesus christ that's what we should look at
ourselves as whether we are pastors evangelists
or not in any type of ordained position whatsoever
we can all be servants of jesus then he says called
to be an apostle of course he was the last apostle
separated unto the gospel of god and again that would apply to all of us as
well we could all be separated unto the gospel of god
notice speaking of the gospel says there in verse two which
he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures that which there
is being referred to what the gospel of god
so when you read verse two it should say the gospel of god
was promised afore by his prophets in the holy
scriptures the gospel of jesus christ was taught from genesis to revelation
do not let the hyper dispensationalist out there deceive you into thinking
man people in the old testament they just had no clue they didn't have the
gospel they didn't have the cross no the truth
is is that all the prophets wrote of jesus all the old testament
books testified of the gospel of god that's why
he says hey which had promised afore by his prophets in the holy
scriptures specifically about what verse three
concerning his son jesus christ our lord which was made
of the seed of david according to the flesh
so hey all the old testament scriptures all the prophets
they were writing of jesus christ i remember several years ago this
hyper dispensationalist andrew sleutter he was just saying like you're not going
to find the gospel of jesus in the old testament
you show me one verse in the old testament that talks about the cross or
talks about jesus and it's like here's the new testament
which is being a commentary for us on the old and it's telling us
that all of the prophets wrote of jesus christ and if you could read the entire
old testament and not see jesus let me tell you
something you're not even saved because jesus just jumps out on every
page of the old testament and he starts off his letter letting
them know that like hey guys you know we're in the new testament here
but it's not like everything that we've been reading in the hebrew scriptures
the old testament it's not like all of that is just complete trash
no of course all of that was prophesying of this moment that we just saw
of the coming of christ of his earthly ministry of his death of his burial of
his resurrection it says in verse number three again
concerning his son jesus christ our lord which was made of the seed of david
according to the flesh now the king james bible is perfect it's
very careful with its wording here because jesus is the son of david only
in his fleshly lineage of course we know that jesus
is also god and so he has eternally existed
way before david was ever even a thought it says and declared to be the son of
god with power according to the spirit of
holiness by the resurrection from the dead of
course when the bible says this day have i begotten thee
that's referring to when jesus christ rose again from the dead
so he's declared to be the son of god with power of course
that is not when he became the son of god but it's like hey we just declare
this is an absolute obvious fact that this is the son of god
why because he rose again from the dead verse number five
by whom or by him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the
faith among all nations for his name so he's saying we have
received a few things from the lord jesus christ one of those
being grace and you're going to see that that is a huge
theme in the book of romans is the apostle paul emphasizing
this idea that salvation is by grace not of works meaning unmerited favor
we don't deserve it right the apostle paul he did not deserve salvation
he had persecuted the church of god he was injurious to it
he was a blasphemer i mean the apostle paul let's just be honest was a really
rotten guy before he got saved but if you and i are honest so were we
and maybe you got you know saved super young in life and praise god for that
and you don't have this bad past that you can look back on
but no matter what we've all sinned and come short of the glory of god
so all of us have received grace now apostleship
that's not all of us of course that's the apostle paul
and his fellow uh apostles as well you could be looking at it that way
says for obedience to the faith i like this among all
nations that's another important theme in the book of romans that we're going
to see is that the gospel and the chosen people
of god is not just for the jews it's not just
those who are the physical descendants of abraham
the gospel is for all nations and today god's chosen people is not
made up of jews living in israel people who call
themselves jews and they're not the bible says
they're liars they're anti-christ rather it is
all people of all ethnicities all nations all tongues
that believe in jesus so it's like hey can someone be in israel be god's chosen
people yeah if they believe in christ this is for all nations verse six among
whom are ye also the called of jesus christ
to all that be in rome beloved of god called to be saints grace to you and
peace from god our father and the lord jesus christ notice how
all of those that he is writing to in rome all of them are called
to be saints why because being a saint simply means that someone is saved if
you believe the gospel you are a saint you are one of god's
saints and the catholic church has kind of hijacked this word
and a lot of people when they hear the word saint they think
oh some really special guy who's really high up in the catholic church
and it's a guy that catholics will pray to and they'll have a statue of this
person that's not what a saint is and i'm sure
most of the catholic saints that people look up to
from history's past are burning in hell let's be honest all right
but here's the thing if you have believed in christ you are
a saint does that mean you're perfect no okay that's not what that word means
what it means is that you believe in him that you are saved then he says in
verse number eight first i thank my god through jesus christ for you all
that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole
world now that's pretty impressive being that this is in the first century
and he's riding to a group of christians in a place that he has not even yet
been yet this group of christians has kind of just
hit the ground running with christianity they're doing a good work
they're doing great exploits for god to where their faith
is spoken of throughout the whole world right so as christianity is getting
started these christians in rome the fact that
rome is becoming christian rome is getting the gospel
that's spreading throughout the whole world and it just goes to show the power
of christianity and the power of the truth of the gospel
how even in the old world when christians start believing
and following the bible that news gets spread abroad and and here's the thing
when it comes to like hey what's the right religion well
maybe it's the one who the name of jesus christ is known by
every single human being on earth virtually right because the gospel has
just gone out to this whole world and the the faith of jesus christ is
known abroad of all and also i think you know we should look
at ourselves and think about the works that we are doing
and not think like you know doing good works for god
it's not really attainable for us to do like a really great work to where the
world could even possibly hear about us you know i think we should go big or go
home you know we should have a big vision
and say like hey if this small group of christians in
rome in the first century you know if the apostle paul can hear of
those guys and the exploits that they're doing
what's stopping us from doing a great work today
do we have the same holy spirit of god today
in fact i believe we have so many more advantages today
than the first century christians in rome did
right we have so much freedom in america we have
air travel we can go to the bahamas we have a lot more resources
we've got the internet we've got all these different ways to reach people
and we should not just like only look to the people of the bible and the people
the churches that are in these letters and think like man we could never attain
something like that i believe we could do more
and jesus himself said hey greater works than these
will you do right not in quality necessarily but in quantity
jesus wanted us to do even more works than he himself did
it says in verse number four or verse number nine for god is my witness
whom i serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son
that without ceasing i make mention of you always
in my prayers now what a great selfless
man the apostle paul is and what a great example of christian
leadership where the apostle paul i mean he is
awesome he's just like a great christian but you know what he's doing he's just
always constantly making mention in his
prayers of other people and it's a group of christians
that he has not even ever met like he's going he's planning to go to
rome he wants to see them he's longing to see them
but this is a group of christians that all he's done is he's heard of their
faith and notice he says without ceasing i make mention of you always
in my prayers you know that should be a
reproach on a lot of american christian's prayer life today
where a lot of christians probably don't even pray for the basics
for their themselves for their own families
how much less are christians just without ceasing
always making mention of other far away works for god that are being done
all the time you know how we should apply this is i think about guys like
evangelist duncan or bannock who left the comfort and prosperity of
the united states to go in a far away distant land in the philippines
to labor there to be an evangelist there you know we should not forget about him
we should not just be like oh yeah that was cool a few years ago when we used to
know brother duncan and he was here and we kind of just forget about him you
know we should just constantly be keeping him in our prayers
we should constantly be be praying for guys like pastor matthew stuckey
who left the united states to go over and do a great work you know how about
brother james who was a part of this congregation who just of his own
volition of his own resources is just going over there and doing a
great work for god hey how about the christians in germany
that are constantly getting protested and persecuted over there
you know have you ever prayed for those guys because most of you in fact i think
all of you have never met that group of people
but i'm telling you their faith is spoken of throughout the whole world
even though they're a small group in germany hey even though they may not
have you know all the huge building like a
lot of american churches do that's a group that's full of faith that's a
group that's doing a great work for god and you know we should look at the
apostle paul and say like you know what i probably need to up my prayer game
for other people and other works for god that are being done in this world
and not just only be thinking about ourselves or even just only thinking
about our own church we should be praying for others as well
notice verse 10 he says making requests so here's his prayer to god
if by any means now at length i might have a prosperous journey
by the will of god to come unto you so notice he has not come unto them yet
he wants to come to them and one of the things he's praying is that he has a
prosperous journey by the will of god to come unto you
you know it's important for us that when we're doing anything in life
that we're praying even for the basics and not just
take things for granted right just take for granted
oh you know we're gonna have a safe trip when we go to the bahamas oh
everything's gonna go well you know the apostle paul even though he's super
righteous he's doing a great work he's still praying that god would give
him a prosperous journey to go unto these people he's got a humble
attitude verse number 11 i love this he says
for i long to see you why that i may impart unto you some spiritual
gift to the end that ye may be established
again this is the heart of a godly minister
right here is that he is praying for other people
he's wanting to make a trip to go out of his way for other people
he wants to see them not so that he could get some big love offering
right because aren't there a lot of preachers today that are in the
ministry for the money right they're covetous there's a lot of
false prophets who through covetousness make merchandise
of people with feigned words they they lie to people they deceive people
they're hypocrites they're pretending to be a minister of god
but really they're just trying to line their pockets they're trying to become
rich there's people like that everywhere but you know that was not the
apostle paul he was not saying hey i want to go on this cool trip so
that i could be blessed with the cool hotel room
and the cool car and the cool food and a nice big love offering
no he's going there to impart something spiritual unto them
to do something good unto them and look i'm not saying there's anything wrong
where if a pastor goes to another church for that church being hospitable and
putting them up i think we should treat them great
i think we should give them the love offering put them up somewhere nice all
that stuff is great but here's the thing a real man of god
does not need those things to do the work of god like hey if that if that
kind of stuff comes great that's a cherry on top
but at the end of the day i don't need that stuff and i don't go
on some trip far away or some conference thinking like oh this is going to be
great because of all the stuff i can get i'm thinking what can i give to others
that's the attitude that we all should have you know the people who
follow the lord jesus christ jesus is like hey i don't have a
place where to lay my head how's that sound i mean let's be honest when we
went on the bahamas mission strip it was a lot of fun and praise god for
that and i think we should have fun on mission strips
and i think that if we can provide those things we should try to have fun
but at the end of the day what if the mission strip wasn't going to be a bunch
of fun would you still want to go you know hey we have soul winning marathons
and we provide food and we've done the donuts and we do we do the coffee and
look there's nothing wrong with those things
but would you still go soul winning if there was none of that stuff hey we've
got a nice building we've got climate control and that's great i'm not
saying let's get rid of that but would you still serve god if we
were meeting in a parking lot if we were meeting in a house
you know i'm saying like a lot of just american christians were just so soft
and we're so entitled we're so spoiled because we've just lived in prosperity
for so long but i just it's important for us every
once in a while just to remind ourselves that we are here to serve christ
not to be served by christ and to serve other people
not to get served by others remind yourself of that
verse number 12 that is that i may be comforted together with you
by the mutual faith both of you and me he's like here's what i'm getting out of
this deal hey i want to impart unto you a spiritual
gift here's what i'm getting out of this deal
as a preacher is that i'm going to be comforted when we have a mutual faith
you know what makes preachers happy you know what makes pastors happy
is when the church is unified in sound doctrine
you know what just drives me crazy and just annoys the crap out of me
is when there's constant gossip and fighting and
issues and all this fighting about doctrine
and half the church doesn't know what the trinity is and half the church does
that's annoying right you know it's a nice thing to do to your preacher
is like read the bible and believe it and be on the same page
and he's comforted by that mutual faith that's the greatest thing you could do
for a man of god is just follow the bible have the
mutual faith of the vision he sets that's all paul is looking for on this trip
verse number 13 he says now i would not have you ignorant brethren
that oftentimes i purposed to come unto you
but was let hitherto that i might have some fruit among you also
even as among other gentiles so he's saying hey
i just want you to know that you may not be aware of this you may not see
everything that's going on in my life but i've been trying to come unto you
but i've been let hither to right so how foolish would it be if people
started like murmuring and talking crap about the
apostle paul oh paul doesn't care about us
we're not we're not good enough for paul we're not worth paul's time
meanwhile it's like he wants to go he's longing to go he's trying to go
but he's let hither to okay he's got a lot of work to do
and you know our church isn't in this situation anymore but it makes me think
about how maybe a satellite church can be
running and they have boots on the ground maybe
they have an evangelist or something like that
but the pastor is in a faraway city and it's great when the pastor can come
visit it's great when the pastor can come preach
and i could tell you he wants to do that but not not all the time can he do that
right he only has so many hours a day he only has so much work that he could
perform and sometimes he's not able to do as
much as he wants to do but what would be a wicked attitude is for
people to start grumbling and murmuring and talking bad about the pastor and
didn't that happen before even in this congregation
it's like meanwhile pastor Shelly was running four churches at the time
preaching like four or five sermons a week
driving to pure words every Thursday driving back preaching three times at
steadfast leading things running programs counseling
people training preachers doing all this and then
he got some bozo literally bozo who gets all upset and starts
complaining and whining and murmuring and talking crap about the pastor
but meanwhile hey you don't know everything that's going on right
people are so prideful they think that they know everything that's going on
in another person's life and everything that
they're doing but you don't you just don't and the apostle paul saying
look hey i want you to know don't be ignorant
oftentimes i've purpose to come unto you but i was let
hitherto i wasn't able to do that he why he says that i might have some fruit
among you also even as among other gentiles he's saying hey why do i want
to come to you it's because i want to go to rome
and i just want to get a bunch of people saved right he's not trying to build
some sort of empire of tithing members or something
like that he just wants to go to rome and see these christians and get some
fruit among them even as among other gentiles i love the
apostle paul's zeal you know he's not just content in
in one city just with one neighborhood he just wants to preach the gospel to
every creature and look this was a special man god called this man for a
special reason and this guy got christianity off the
ground basically in the first century ad he basically
spread it to the ends of the earth at least
ends of the ancient earth right and so he did a great work
and you can see that in his zeal he's like i just want to come to you guys i
just want to get people saved where you are because i'm debtor both to
the greeks and to the barbarians both to the wise
and to the unwise so the apostle paul he did not
have this attitude or he's like well i only want to minister
to this specific group of people he's just saying i'm a debtor to everyone
i'm just going to preach the gospel to everyone
i just want to love the whole world and give the whole world the gospel
of jesus christ you know this to me flies in the face
of churches that exist today where it's like a black only church
or it's like an asian only church you know when i lived in idaho for some
reason there's like all these like asian only churches
and you know it'd be one thing if it was just a specific language
of people that just speak that language that kind of makes sense but it's like
they're english speakers it's like why does there have to be a
vietnamese american church why does it have to be a south korean
america church why does it have to be a black church why don't we just preach
the gospel to every creature you know it's so funny today how you know
people just for decades have just attacked white people said every white
person is racist you're just inherently racist
critical race theory it's like last time i checked there's not a bunch of white
only churches in america but there are black only churches in america
how does that make any sense and i remember when i lived in fort worth i
called one of these mega churches of black hebreu israelites
and i asked them if i could even visit and they told me no how do you think
that would have gone down in the news if the roles were reversed you know it's
just crazy he's deader to the greeks he's deader
to the barbarians another thing this makes me think of
is that we don't want to have this attitude where we only want to minister
to a specific zip code right it's like oh man we got to stay away from southwest
okc and southeast okc we want to make sure
we're only going to nickels hills and galardia and all these really nice
areas to get all the nice tithing members you
know what we're just deader to both of them we're deader to all
and in fact if we're going to be particular about anything we're
actually going to go to the poor ghetto areas first
and in fact we'll go to the worst of the worst ghetto areas because we have
this thing called SWAT soul winning and oh there's a murderer in your ghetto
well we're coming your way next week buddy right so we're not going to be
one of these just pretentious aristocratic type churches
where all we're just focused on is the money and let me just tell you the
reality a lot of pastors today they are just
focused on the money and hey if preaching hard gets them a bunch of
members and a bunch of tithing members they'll do that
and if preaching soft gets them a bunch of tithing members they'll do that
and if soul winning in certain areas of the neighborhood gets them money
that's what they'll do you know i like pastor anderson was recently
recently talking about this about how hey when we go and do
small town marathons and it's the same way for us
we're not making money on these we're just spending money
no one's giving us any money for going to anadarko and all these small towns
like we're just spending money to do that no one's making money by sending
soul winners on a cruise missions trip we're just
spending money to do that no one's making money going to the
bahamas we're spending money to bless the people in the bahamas
you know what why because we're just we're debtors to all to the greeks
to the barbarians to the wise to the unwise you look a soul is a soul
and if there's a soul that is unsaved i want to preach to that guy
doesn't matter if they're white or black highly educated
foolish flat earthers even we want all of them to be saved
look at verse number 15 so as much as in me is
i am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at rome
also why is it that the apostle paul was used so mightily by god
to do such a great work in his life was it that god
just sprinkled the pixie dust of being an awesome man of god on him
no it was just that he was ready right he was ready to preach the gospel of god
and us today who are going to be the most effective soul winners it's those
who are ready it's those who know it's those who know
the bible those who know the gospel it's those who have memorized the verses
it's those who have put in the time and effort and energy
to go out and learn how to do it well who's more
ready to build a house today the brand new apprentice that shows up
that doesn't know the difference between an impact driver and a drill
or is it the guy who's the veteran that's been on the job for 20 years who's
worked hard who's put in the time and effort
i mean that guy's ready now look all of us are
ready in the sense that every single person who is saved
is eligible to preach the gospel and if you are saved you should become a soul
winner and soul winning is not for men only
it is not for ministers only it is for man woman boy and girl
and you know what i just want to say i'm one of the things about this year that
i am the most proud of of what our church has done is
four brand new soul winners getting their first ever salvation
that is amazing to me congratulations to all those that did that that is great
and you know what you've done that you've got that under your belt and you
are ready to keep going but here's the thing don't just sit on
your laurels and not actually get the training and
actually put you know not put the time and effort and energy
into becoming the most effective soul winner you know you need to be ready
right we had our soul winning seminar study that seminar study that handout
come to the saturday soul winning rally where preachers get up every saturday
morning and give you a soul winning tip or a
soul winning challenge don't ever think that you've just arrived and you know
so much and you're just the perfect soul winner look we're all learning every
single week we're all becoming better soul winners
every single week and you know paul was like that he was a man
he got ready and that's why he was able to preach the gospel so well
verse 16 he says for i am not ashamed of the gospel of christ
for it is the power of god unto salvation to everyone that believeth
to the jew first and also to the greek so notice not only was he
ready but he was bold and to be an effective soul winner
you need a first you need to be ready you need to put in that effort of
preparation but on top of that you need boldness
right that's why the apostle paul talks about how you should pray
that he may open his mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel
because one of the most important aspects in being an effective soul winner
is boldness people like it when you're just
normal and you're not like you know timid knocking on the door it's like
hey you know if you wanted kind of maybe sort of i could give you this card and
maybe kind of sort i could tell you the gospel
you know people just hey hey we're from anchor baptist church handed out invites
you want a church you know you got a church to go to anywhere right just be
normal be bold you see people walking across the
parking lot you see people out in the highways and hedges
hey you don't call out to them be normal have some boldness
that's going to make you effective what is there to be shy about is the gospel
embarrassing are we believing a lie today is
there something not true about the gospel is there something embarrassing
about jesus christ death burial resurrection
no it's it's glorious it's powerful it's the best message on earth
we have the truth today it's like why would we be ashamed of that
why in the world would we be ashamed of the gospel and man oh man
if you're ashamed of the gospel good luck serving god beyond that
because we shouldn't be ashamed of anything in god's word there's a lot in
god's word today that the world absolutely hates and despises
Past the gospel like if you're ashamed of the gospel, you're not going to go far in life in the christian life folks
Don't be ashamed of the gospel of christ the the apostle paul
He was ready and he was bold and he says for it is the power of god unto salvation
Notice the apostle paul's speaking ability was not the power his physical presence was not the power
His iq was not the power his personal testimony was not the power
The gospel is the power and so many churches today are more focused on the nice building and the nice soft delivery
and the you know, nice
Pressed suit and everything's looking perfect and the pastor never spits and the pastor never yells the pastor never coughs and hacks
Right. He's just so perfect. But it's like where's the power though? It's not in man. It's not in money
It's not in your building
It's in the gospel of Jesus Christ and a church that preaches the gospel is going to see results
Why because the gospel has power and it does not matter
The size of the congregation. It does not matter the person that's behind the pulpit
It does not matter who's knocking on the door
If you have the gospel you have power and you will be effective and this power is not for one group of people
It says it's unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the jew first and also to the greek again
He just he's going to constantly be hitting this idea that the gospel is not just for the jews
It's not just for those in some nation called israel the power of god unto salvation is for all
That belief that's the power look at verse 17 for therein is the righteousness of god revealed
From faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith
What is the context of this verse right here?
The context is about the apostle paul being ready to preach the gospel of jesus christ
Right to preach this gospel that he's not ashamed in and it says for therein is the righteousness of god revealed
From faith to faith. How is it that people get saved today people get saved by a preacher?
Opening their mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel now people who are lazy
And don't do soul winning will constantly attack this doctrine. They will constantly tell you that people are getting saved
Every day through a myriad, you know version of experiences, right the bright light in the bedroom and god speaking to you
And I was reading armageddon and I realized I was on the wrong side of history
And I just got saved reading armageddon. No, here's how people get saved. It's revealed from faith to faith
You say that sounds too simple
Well, you know what?
Maybe you're just too into this world's wisdom because the wisdom of god is foolishness with men but preaching the gospel
It is simple. You're right. It is simple, but it's true and it's amazing though
But here's the thing even though it's simple. It's super powerful
How do I know it's powerful because I walk up to catholics all the time who have been lifelong catholics?
And you explain to them the roman's road you explain to them the gospel of jesus christ
And they go from being a lifelong catholic believing in work salvation to accepting the free grace of god
And getting saved and calling upon the name of the lord
That's power, you know getting all sorts of different people of different religions saved who's ever gotten a muslim saved before
I've gotten one muslim child saved before one other person in here. What about a mormon?
Okay, just just me on that one. What about a
Methodist those aren't very common anymore
Anyways, we get all sorts of different people saved right and of course the most common people that we get saved are people who?
Just say like i'm christian in general, right?
Because a lot of people in america just call themselves that but yet they're trusting in their works to save them
And we bring that gospel to them and are able to change their mind
Why because that's how the righteousness of god is revealed from faith to faith as it is written
The just shall live by faith look at verse number 18
It says for the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
And unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness
So now the rest of this chapter is getting ready to explain to us
How god's wrath or one of the ways that god's wrath is revealed specifically revealed against what just just all ungodliness
Just all unrighteousness specifically of those who hold the truth in unrighteousness
You know, it's crazy for us to believe as bible-believing christians as people who love the truth
But there are people out there who know the truth but hate the truth and I cannot I cannot understand
This mentality and I don't care if this is about a spiritual truth or a carnal truth
I just cannot understand how someone could just hate truth
But according to the bible there are men that hold the truth in unrighteousness
It says in verse 19
because
That which may be known of god is manifest in them for god hath showed it unto them
So notice that which could be known about god. It says that it is manifest in them
So it's obvious to individuals that god is real says god has showed it unto them verse 20
For because the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen
Being understood by the things that are made even or specifically his eternal power
And godhead so that they are without excuse that word godhead is kind of like
And I don't even think this is a real word, but this always helps me understand godhead is like godness
God his being like godness his godhead. So it says two things are known his eternal power and godhead
So that we know that there's a god and that he is powerful. How do we know that?
Well, god has showed it to everyone. He's made it manifest to everyone
God is not hiding from people as far as like just when someone's born
It's not like god predetermined some to go to heaven and some to go to hell someone's born into this world
God has revealed his presence to them. He has made known the fact that there is a god and that he is powerful
Specifically how through creation through the things that are made the bible says you can know these things
Of the the things that are made it says it's clearly seen right
So today I saw a comment on x that said if someone could just give me any evidence for god
I'll be happy to stop being an atheist today
And i'm just thinking your problem is not that there's a lack of evidence for god
Your problem is that you are stupid is that you are wicked
That's the problem because the bible says that the fool have said in his heart. There is no god
And god has revealed the fact that there is a god and that he's powerful to every single person
Just by looking up at the sun moon and stars
Just by looking at the birds just by looking at the animals just by looking at the world that god has made
There's no way you could look at the complexity of this universe and think that it all came from nothing
That nothing exploded into everything
You know who believes stuff like that is stupid foolish people and atheists are the dumbest people on the planet
They are the most foolish idiotic people because guess what there's tons of evidence for god
It's manifest in your own heart. He made it obvious to you. It's clearly seen the bible says
And so look everyone holds the truth in a sense
Now does god reveal from heaven the fact that jesus christ is god and that jesus died on the cross
And that jesus rose again from the dead is that revealed by just looking up at the sun moon and stars
No, how is that revealed? That's revealed from faith to faith. That's revealed from preaching the gospel
That's what he just got done explaining to us
But the fact that there is a god that's revealed to everyone
So, you know everyone has a chance to get saved because everyone knows that there's a god and if there's a god
Don't you think you'd call out to him and say like god? I want to know you I want to know the truth
Well, guess what to him that ask if it's going to be found
It's going to be open
God's going to make sure that someone who wants to know the truth is going to hear it
When the apostle when there's men like the apostle paul in this world that are praying
To have some fruit among other people and there's other people that are praying to get saved
God's going to make that happen. God's going to bring those two together. That's why I always and consistently pray when we go soul winning
God lead us to those who are receptive
God lead us to those who are seeking because not everyone knows the gospel
But everyone knows there's a god and there's people that know they're that there's a god, but they're not yet saved
They don't know the full truth of the gospel. That's why it's our job to preach it
So that's why it says the end of verse 20 says they that they are without excuse
No one is going to go to hell and it's and it's like they had no choice
God gave them no savior god gave them no option. Nope. Jesus christ is the savior of all men
Especially to those that believe the gospel is open to all it's free to all they just have to seek the lord
They have to get saved and it says in verse number 21 because that when they knew god
They glorified him not as god neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations in their foolish heart
Was darkened now some people erroneously believe that every single person who is a reprobate because obviously this is the reprobate chapter
They think that every single person who is a reprobate has heard a clear
Presentation of the gospel and they 100 know that salvation is by faith alone that you can never lose it
And that they've rejected that many times and that's the case for every single reprobate. That's what some people believe
Now I will say there's many reprobates that are like that
There's many reprobates that have heard a clear presentation of the gospel, but you do not necessarily have to have a clear presentation
Of the gospel to become a reprobate. Here's what you have to do is you have to start rejecting truth
So here's the thing if god has revealed his existence and his power to everyone by his creation
And there's some ooga booga in africa, which I know people love to bring that up
It's not even real people go to africa all the time to preach the gospel
But listen, there's any person in this world that looks at creation and they know that god's real in their heart
And they just reject that and they say, you know, you actually think I think everything came from nothing
They start becoming fools, right? Well god's going to start putting that person down the path of you know, making them a reprobate
Why because they reject him they reject his truth
But i'm just saying it doesn't say because that when they knew the full gospel it just says when they knew god, right?
It just got done telling us god revealed his godhead and his power to people through creation
That's what they knew because that when they knew god they glorified him not as god neither were thankful
Right. There's a lot of people today that are not thankful for the creator that we have
There's a lot of people today that get mad
You know, I didn't ask to be born right you hear these kind of scornful wicked atheist
I didn't ask to be born into this horrible world. Sounds like you're not thankful
Sounds like you're not thankful to the creator. You're not giving him glory. You're just angry that you even exist
It says but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened, right?
So rather than acknowledging the truth that's as plain as the nose on your face. They start becoming vain in their imagination
They just start imagining empty
meaningless vain ideas things like
Evolution, right instead of giving glory to god and being thankful that god created us
And seeking that god and wanting to know the truth about that god and wanting to praise and glorify that god
They want to just bring us down to an animal's level and make up all these vain
Imaginations like the big bang theory like macro evolution, and you know, i've said it before i'll never forget in biology class
My teacher getting up and explaining to us that a whale became a deer. It's like where where did deer come from whales?
Talk about a vain thought talk about talk about your mind being darkened, right?
It's like how could someone be that stupid? How could someone be that foolish only by punishment of god only by god darkening your mind
verse number 22
professing themselves to be wise
They became fools, right?
There's a lot of atheists today and people that reject the bible that say that they reject the bible
because
Of wisdom and education and science, but in reality no one who rejects the bible is a smart person
No one who rejects the existence of god is a smart and wise person
Anyone who rejects god is a fool. Guess what?
There's a real place called hell that people are going to burn for all of eternity if they don't believe in christ
What would you call someone who knows there's a god and just rejects that and just is just jumping into that lake of fire
I'd call him a fool. What kind of a fool do you have to be to not accept a free gift?
And on one side it's hey all your sins forgiven eternal happiness and joy and bliss in heaven serving and praising god
Or eternal burning fire damnation
Darkness, no rest no sleep. No water. No food. No anything for all of eternity. What kind of a fool would do that?
Well, that's what these people are professing themselves to be wise. They became fools
You know, I would never go on and listen to some podcast to get advice on life from an atheist
I would never go to a counselor to get your marital advice by someone who has a phd
Or a master's degree if they're an atheist because that person is a fool, right?
This is why we don't want to go to the world for judgment in first corinthian 6 is saying hey
You know settle things in church among brethren because here's the type of people that exist out in the world. How about atheists?
You want someone judging your marriage or helping you with your child rearing or helping you with anything that doesn't even believe it's a god
It's a foolish person notice what they do in verse 23 and changed the glory
Of the uncorruptible god into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping
Things so here's one thing that reprobates love to do and people that reject truth love to do
Is they love to change the glory of the uncorruptible god which when you think about the things that are made
It's like what could possibly create this beautiful earth and this intricate atmosphere that no other planet has
And all the beautiful planets and stars and the sun and all these things
It's like could a little piece of wood do that could a golden idol do that?
But yet so many people today like the roman catholics will reduce god to an image
To something carved out of stone or carved out of wood and they'll bow down before this dumb idol
And it's like are you out of your mind? Are you insane?
You're changing the glory of the uncorruptible god into an image made like to corruptible man
Notice this and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things, you know
Beware of animal worship cultures that just exalt animals to an unhealthy degree
That is a reprobate culture. That is not godly whatsoever
Look god teaches us in proverbs that the righteous man regards the life of his beast
I don't believe we should be cruel to animals
But I dead sure don't believe in exalting animals on high or anything like that, you know, it's crazy
I remember when I lived in portland oregon
There was a business a a specific dedicated dedicated business to providing funeral services for your pets
I'm like talk about a racket someone's just raking in the dough
Praying on all these reprobates in portland oregon, by the way, portland's full of reprobates
It's a leftist hell hole city full of sodomites and people that hate god. There's also good people there, too
Don't get me wrong
But you know, you couldn't have a business like that in okla city, you know what we do dog gets sick
You shoot the dog you bury it you move on. All right, it's just a dog
Don't get so attached to your animals
Okay, it's all right to love your pets
But look don't start worshiping your animals and there's some people that do this there's people that you know
They can't serve god because they got to take care of their pets
And it's like dude if the chickens get blown away in a hailstorm or in a whirlwind while i'm gone
See you later. But you know, i'm gonna serve god don't worship animals verse 24. Wherefore?
You know what? I just have to i'm sorry. I have to get on this don't call them your babies either
Man, it makes me who has like, you know
You have those cameras at your house and you get that app that gets neighborhood alerts
Makes me so mad. It's like, please help me find my baby and i'm just like, holy crap someone's baby's gone
I'm just like what's strange is this on? Oh, it's a dog. It's like, uh, what's wrong with you?
I thought your baby was in danger. It's like let your dog get hit by a car just for posting that you freaking weirdo
Don't say that kind of stuff. Oh man, my baby. It's like moms will have kids and they'll be yeah, you know
Uh, we're staying real up. Oh, we're staying up late with the babies. Oh, yeah. I know i'm i'm a dog mom
Yeah, we get it. My babies are up too barking. It's just like
Stop it and get some help. All right
Verse 24
Wherefore so for this reason what reasons did we talk about? They're not thankful. They're not glorifying god
They're making him into an image like to a corruptible man for that reason
God gave god also gave them up unto
uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves
So because these people reject the truth and reject god
God just kind of allows them to or gives them up to do all these disgusting unclean wicked vile acts
Now don't misinterpret this verse. This is not saying that god is causing people to do these wicked acts
Right. These things have never even came into god's mind
God didn't come up with this kind of sick stuff
But basically through the lusts of their own heart the bible says god gives them up to the lusts of their own heart
To do what it says
To dishonor their own bodies between themselves
Reprobate culture when you see groups of reprobates, they're always dishonoring their body, right?
The bible teaches us how to take care of our vessel. The bible talks about hair length
The bible talks about many women's clothing the bible talks about not printing marks upon you
But when you see reprobate cultures, it's like let's tattoo every inch of our body
Let's put weird gauges in every part of our body
Let's cut our hair in all sorts of weird ways. Let's have men wearing women's clothing and women wearing men's clothing
It's like why are they so perverted because god gave them over god gave them over
Through the lust of their own hearts to dishonor their bodies between themselves came from their own heart
It says in verse 25 who changed the truth of god into a lie
And worshiped and served the creature more than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen
So notice at one point they held the truth and unrighteousness those things were clearly seen everyone knew the truth
But what they do is they change the truth of god
Into a lie. This is why I preach that that sermon we know jesus and you don't because here's the thing
We know the truth
We have the bible and we should not allow people that hate god or hate the bible
To try to tell us what the bible says or people who are reprobates. They believe a false gospel
They've been given over and let them lecture us on what god is like and you know what reprobates love to do
They love to just throw bible verses at you that they don't understand that they don't know anything about and they love to condemn
a godly christian
And people that are dedicating their whole life to serving god and reading the bible scores of times and memorizing hundreds of scriptures
And getting people saved every week and they want to say yeah, but but judge not it's like wow
I have never i've never read that verse before it's like maybe you don't understand that verse because you don't know god
Maybe you're training you're changing the truth of god into a lie, right?
So look don't even don't even let it cause your heart to start beating fast
When some god-hating reprobate wants to lecture you on the bible. It's exactly what the bible said they're going to do
They're going to change the truth of god into a lie
This is why it's so important for us as christians to be loud about what we believe because there's so many liars out there
There's so many false prophets out there. There's so many women pastors online and women teachers on x and roman catholics
Teaching the bible on x you know, we need some christians to be loud because we actually have the truth and they don't
We have the word of god it says in verse number
26 for this cause
God gave them up unto vile affections for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against
Nature so for this cause right they're changing the truth of god into a lie
They're worshiping the creature more than the creator. They're not thankful
They're vain in their imagination. They're rejecting the truth of god
Sounds like it's these people's fault not god's right god's giving them everything he's calling to them
He's he's pouring out, you know calling out like the wisdom's calling out in the street just by creation
But because of this because they rejected him and says god gave them up unto vile affections
For even their women to change the natural use into that which is against nature
So what is the first example that the bible tells us?
That when god is going to give someone up when god is just saying hey i'm done with this person
I've poured out my spirit on this earth. I've made it so clear that I exist
Hey, we got the gospel going out to every place on earth. The word of god is everywhere
The truth of god is everywhere when someone is just so stiff-necked and hard-hearted and wants to reject that message
You know he does he just gives them up. He says, okay, you want to worship animals?
I'll just let you be like an animal you want to worship the creature more than the creator
Well, then i'll just give you up unto vile affections. What is something that's vile something that is disgusting
Gross filthy despicable something you could not imagine doing that's a vile affection, right?
So we have natural affection as human beings like hey men are attracted to women
That's a natural affection, but you know, what's a vile affection and that's not my opinion. That's what the bible calls it a vile
Attraction is women with women women changing the natural use into that which is against nature
And it's so obvious even just to the outward appearance that these disgusting lesbians in our world
Are perverting and destroying nature why because god has created
Woman a woman to look a certain way naturally and god has created women and women are just naturally beautiful
But you know what dykes love to do is they love to change the natural use and they start changing their appearance
They cut off their hair to start look like a man
They start talking in a deeper voice and their tag name is butch or something like that, right?
And they start, you know
Wearing men's clothing and put on the wrangler jeans and the tight and the the belt and the boots and all this stuff
And they start walking around with their chest out and spreading their lats and just being weirdos, right?
Why because they're changing the natural use. Here's the thing about faggots and lesbians is that they were not born that way
You know how women are born sweet cute little innocent girls that grow up to have long hair
But you know dike karen wasn't born that way
She became that way because she hates god because she hates the truth
And you know what?
Even though right now we are living in a time and hey i'm happy for this time where everyone agrees with us on the sodomites
That's a nice change. I didn't expect that to happen a few years ago
Boy, oh boy. This country's changed fast on this issue and praise god for that. But you know what we need to keep
Sounding this alarm as long as we're alive because we don't want to make the mistake that the old ifb did
Where it just seems like the old ifb did not really preach about these issues in the 60s 70s 80s that much
And I get it like obviously hindsight's 2020
i'm not trying to criticize them or anything like that because they're just living in a normal society and it's like what kind of normal person
Thinks that you'd be a faggot that just would never enter your mind because it's not natural, right?
But here's what we have to do is we have to look at what the bible says
And you have to read leviticus and to be like wow these sins exist in this world
And if they exist we should preach against them and look i'm glad that right now
Everybody agrees with that. I i'm glad right now that it seems like a lot of the fags are running back into the closet
Hey, but you know what? Let's drive them all the way in and let them never come back out again
Let's make them scared to even exist in our societies. They should be scared
You should be scared that your neighbor is actually a bible-believing christian that he's not going to just fall for your propaganda
That you're just nice and loving and sweet and just a normal person who happens to be attracted to the opposite gender
No, no, no, we see right through you. We know what you are. You hate god
You hate truth you hate innocence you hate purity and so we hate you right back
Look what it says also in verse number 27 and likewise also the men notice leaving the natural use of the woman
Burn in their lust one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that
Recompense of their error which was meat. So not just the women the men also they do what they have left
The natural use of the woman. So is homosexuality natural are people born fags?
No, no, no because they rejected god it says hey, wherefore god gave them up because of all the things we talked about
God gave them up and because of that men now left the natural use of the woman and now they burn in lust
One toward another it is impossible for a normal man
It is impossible
For a saved person to lust to burn in your lust towards another man. That's not going to happen
It is impossible for a saved woman who has the holy spirit of god to burn in her lust towards another woman
That's not possible
Now look i'm not saying that young kids and young teenagers couldn't have been taken advantage of by these freaks and people done
You know despicable things to them and look if that's happened to you. You're the victim
You know, these people are violent predators and that person is a victim
I think because we live in a society that has tolerated this for so long
Unfortunately, he's been so many victims of these people and so I don't want to sit here and say like oh if if anyone's ever had
This type of experience or this type of act that that automatically means you're a reprobate because it doesn't being a being a homosexual
Is not an impardonable sin. Okay. You are not a reprobate
Because you do these actions. Okay, you do these actions because you're a reprobate
That is very important
So don't you know people will falsely accuse what we believe on the reprobate doctrine and be like, oh, you know
If someone was molested by a sodomite that you're saying that person can never go to heaven. Absolutely not
That's absolutely not what we're saying
But what I am saying is that if a man is burning in his lust towards another man
That is a man who has gone down the reprobate road. He has rejected God
He has hated truth and God
Supernaturally has given that person over to a reprobate mind
God has given them up to that vile affection notice. It says that men with men working that which is
Unseemly it's gross. It's disgusting. It's vile. It's
Unseemly to do something like that. Look if the Bible calls
Fornication uncleanness and it is uncleanness by the way
And if adultery is uncleanness and shameful how much more is men with men?
Disgusting and shameful women with women don't fall into this propaganda where it's like well fags are gross
But oh man lesbians are kind of cool lesbians are hot. No, that's disgusting and filthy
They're both disgusting and filthy, you know that locker room talk of young guys thinking they're funny. It's not funny. It's gross
It's disgusting. It's vile. The Bible says that it's
Unseemly and it says that they receive in themselves that recompense of their error, which was me this lifestyle
You're gonna reap what you sow in this lifestyle this death style of being a sodomite these people destroy their bodies
They die young deaths. They die in life very early. They're always living lives full of disease
They're full of HIV. They're full of AIDS. They're full of STDs
Sodomites are the most unclean group of people in America filthy disgusting
They receive that recompense of their error, which was meat verse 28 and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge
God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient meaning not natural
Does not come easy. It says that they did not like to retain God in their knowledge
You say, you know, you guys are just mean and you guys are just hateful and you guys just don't love people
Because here's what you should do to the sodomite. Why don't you just go preach them the gospel?
Why don't you just preach them the love of Christ?
It's like you don't understand how this person got there. They got there by knowing God and rejecting God and hating God
How do you preach someone the gospel that does not even want to retain God in their knowledge?
Hey, you want to hear about the God of the Bible? They don't want to hear about the God of anything
They don't believe in God. They hate God. Oh just preach them the gospel
Sorry, it says they don't like to retain him in their knowledge and you say oh, this is so mean
Well, maybe you should read the first part of Romans 1
I like how this is just his opening chapter to the Romans. He's like hey
I'm ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome. Also. Hey, I'm ready to preach to the Greeks
I'm ready to preach to the barbarians to the wise to the unwise
Hey
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God under salvation to the Jew first and also to the Greek
You think the Apostle Paul loves people you think the Apostle Paul wants to bring the gospel to the whole world?
But they say hey, let me tell you about these people that hate the gospel though
Let me tell you about these people that hate God and hate the truth
they're people that are sodomites and the fact that they're sodomite is just
Evidence that they've rejected God that they've rejected the truth and it's evidence that they don't like to retain God in their knowledge
Let me tell you something Christian you have to come to a point where you actually believe the Bible or don't just believe it or don't
If some faggot gets up on a YouTube video and tells me that they believe in Jesus Christ
If some faggot gets up and says I've converted to Jesus and I've repented of my sins
And that's always what they say because it's a false gospel, right? Oh, I've repented of my sodomy
You don't have to repent of your sins to be saved
You have to believe in Jesus, but they can't do that because they hate Jesus
They hate God so much that they don't even want to retain him in their knowledge
So which one are you gonna believe?
Are you gonna believe verse 28 that says that they do not like to retain God in their knowledge?
Or are you gonna believe the faggot on YouTube? Are you gonna believe your faggot uncle?
Are you gonna believe the person that the Bible says hates God? It's very clear folks
There is no such thing as a saved homosexual. There's no such thing
There is no such thing as a reformed reprobate. There's no such thing as a converted sodomy. It doesn't exist
It's a lie. Oh, we need to offer therapy conversion therapy. It's not possible. Why would I do this?
It's like trying to cut down a tree with a plastic spoon. It's literally just never going to happen folks
It doesn't work verse 29. Here's in my opinion of the scariest two words of this whole chapter being filled
This is the scariest two words of this whole chapter being filled with all
unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit malignity whispers
Backbiteers haters of God spiteful proud boasters inventors of evil thing disobedient to parents without understanding covenant breakers without natural affection
Implacable unmerciful other than that. They sound like really great people, right?
Hey, don't you want to drop off your kids and have them babysit?
Don't you want to have them be nursery workers in the church?
Don't you want to invite them over for Thanksgiving and spend Christmas with them folks? They're the worst scum of the earth
They are the most predatory vile
Disgusting evil people on the planet and here's the worst part about it in verse 29 all these things that the Bible says it says that
They're being filled with those things, right?
So if I'm filling up a swimming pool and I've got the hose and it's just pouring out water into that swimming pool
And I just keep that hose filling it up. I'm gonna come back in an hour
There's gonna be a lot more water in there and I'm gonna come back in 10 hours. There's gonna be a lot more water in there
Well, here's the thing about the reprobate is that they're being filled with all
Unrighteousness any evil wicked harmful thing you could possibly think of
Reprobates are being filled with it every day
So, you know what that means that means that reprobates today are more evil and wicked than they were yesterday and reprobates that have been
Alive since the 50s and the 60s. They're more evil now than they were in the 70s and 80s. They're more wicked
They're more evil and you have to realize that these people are not just your average sinner
Hey, God loves the average person. God wants the average person to be God wants all people to be saved
Of course
God wants us to get the gospel to people and hey you could be a really bad person and commit a lot of bad sins and still
Be saved but you know what?
There's some sins though that are not natural and a normal person could never do you know what?
We can all lie we can all steal we could all lust we could all commit fornication
We could all commit adultery we could all do all manner of evil things we could be prideful
We could be variant we could emulate we could have a lot of sin in our lives and people do have sin in their lives
But you know what I could never do I could never walk into an elementary school and shoot up a bunch of innocent children
But you know what fags can and that's why whenever you see a school shooting. What is it?
It's always the trannies and the fags. That's not a natural sin. You don't wake up
You know people who are walking in the flesh they wake up in the morning
They drive to work and they see that scantily clad woman walking around and their flesh is kind of tempted by that
Okay, and that's wrong, but that's normal, but no one's just like going to work and there's like man
I really feel like just chopping people up into small bits and eating them at my house and
Putting them into my freezer and burying them in the backyard, but guess what faggots like Jeffrey Dahmer do you know?
It's so funny how a few years ago Netflix made some documentary about Jeffrey Dahmer
And they put it in the LGBT section, and that's probably an accident
But it's true, and you look at Jeffrey Dahmer, and you look at these famous serial killers, and they're all fags
Why because look we are prone to wander we are sinners our hearts are deceitful and desperately wicked who can know it?
And we can commit a lot of sins, but you know what I'm never gonna be tempted by lusting after another man
I'm never gonna be tempted to go mass murder children
I'm never gonna be tempted to to eat human beings. I'm never gonna be tempted to be with a child physically
This is not natural. We're all tempted to natural things, you know for someone to do these type of sins
It just goes to show that God has turned them over to a reprobate mind, right reprobate being someone that is rejected
Reprobate silver shall men call them because the Lord hath rejected them Jeremiah 630
So the Bible defines to us. What is a reprobate? It's someone that God has rejected, right?
They weren't born that way. God didn't predestined them to hell
He didn't choose for them to reject him. The gospel was free to them
They could have been saved but they decided to harden their heart. They decided to reject him
They decided of their own free will to not glorify God to become vain in their imaginations and to hate God
And as a result God says, okay, you want to reject me then I'll just give you over to vile affections
I'll give you over to a reprobate mind. I'll give you over to these evil things. Notice how they're described
Being filled with all unrighteousness. That's just anything bad
You could possibly think of we could just stop the list right there, right? Then it says fornication, right?
Sodomites are not monogamous. They don't stick with one partner. They're with hundreds or thousands of partners
They're filthy and disgusting. They're filled with fornication
Wickedness again, just like hey unrighteousness wickedness just anything bad you can think of covetousness, right? So they're never satisfied
they're always wanting someone else's stuff which covetousness often leads to
Stealing, you know committing violent acts to get something that you want. They're just filled with covetousness
They could never be satisfied with the things that they have because their life is miserable
Maliciousness, right? So they they're never wanting good for you
Don't think that oh, you know this sodomite has my best interests at heart
Hey, they have the community's best interests at heart
You know, we want to elect this guy to office and he really wants to do good for the community
No, he's malicious. He has no good in his heart. There's nothing good. He wants to do notice full of envy
Envy leads people into a lot of wicked sins
Specifically, what's a good example about murder, right? These sodomites. What are they? They're murderous. They're violent. They're dangerous
That's why it's my job and I have to warn you about these type of people because I you know
It'd be on my hands if I just got up here and gave you the world's message that you know
What God loves everyone and we're all the same
We're all just sinners. The only difference between us and them is that they were just born being attracted to the same gender
No, let me tell you something. They're murderous. They're violent notice full of debate, right?
They're never going to assent to facts someone who's just full of debate that is a throw word person
Because you know debate thy cause with thy neighbor the Bible talks about meaning
Hey, if we have some sort of disagreement or issue, I'm a reasonable person. You're a reasonable person and facts can prevail
Hey, you did this to me. I'm upset and you say oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that
This is normal. So how normal society works, but fags are full of debate because you can't reason with them
They will never assent to truth or to facts because they hate the truth. They hate reality
They hate the reality that God is real. They hate everything involving the truth and that's the key with reprobates
It's not that they just hate the gospel is that they just hate truth. They hate truth in general says
Deceit so they're liars
malignity
Whisperers, right? So they're two-faced. Oh, they'll act real nice and kind in person
But you better believe when they know you're a Christian when they know you're a servant of the true
God when they know that you actually are one of those Christians that believe the Bible you better believe when your back is turned
it's all whispers and they're ready to
Maliciously destroy you and they would do anything to be able to harm you you have to know that about these people it says
Backbiders same thing haters of God there. There it is it black and white folks. They're not Christians. They don't worship God
They don't respect God. They don't respect anything. That's good. They hate God now
Keep your place there and go to Psalm 139, which we sang this evening
I didn't even plan that but the Holy Spirit seemed to have
Psalm 139 let me say very clearly. I hate sodomites. I hate faggots
I hate lesbians and some people will say that's not Christ-like. That's not the right attitude you as a Christian
You can't have that attitude. Well, okay. Let's look at Psalm 139
Let's look at the inspired words of God what David said in verse number 19 surely that will slay the wicked
Oh God depart from me therefore ye bloody men for they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain
Do not I hate them Oh Lord that hate thee and I'm not I grieved with those that rise up against thee
You see it's not like we're just hating indiscriminately. We're just hating everyone. Oh, we're just hateful people. We just hate everyone
That's not true. I love the vast majority of humanity
I love 98% of the world's population, but you know who I hate
I hate people that hate God and you know what if David hated people that hated God
I can hate people that hate God because David was the man after God's own heart
David was the sweet psalmist of Israel
David is speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost and in case you're wondering that notice what he says
He says hey verse 22. I hate them with perfect hatred. I completely hate them
I count them mine enemies search me
Oh God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in
The way everlasting he said hey, this just this isn't just you know, David's pet opinion
He's not just getting a little fired up a little going over and above over the top here
He's saying search me God see if there's any wicked way in me
No
This is the right attitude to have and we see elsewhere in the Bible the man of God rebuking people saying shouldest thou help?
The ungodly and love those that hate the Lord therefore wrath is upon thee from before the Lord thy God
Let me tell you what it is a sin to love those whom God has rejected
It is a sin to love those that hate the Lord now does Jesus say love your enemies
Yes, he does and when someone does wrong unto you when someone lies about you when someone backs into your car
And doesn't leave a note hey when someone does something wrong to you love that person pray for their good do good unto them
Hey, love your brothers and sisters in Christ love the poor in our community
Hey, love the people in the Bahamas love the people in South Chicago. Love the people in our country
Hey that are just normal people love them, but we're not going to love sodomites
We're not going to love people that hate God and you know what I submit to you that though people
Hypocritically judge the new IFB calling us so hateful
I believe that we love people more in this world than any other group of Christians
Because show me the group of Christians doing more soul-winning than the new IFB and yeah while we're over here hating two
Percent three percent of the population how hateful are you? Oh lazy old IFB Baptist that doesn't even preach the gospel
How hateful are you not preaching to anyone? What kind of hypocritical garbage is that and guess what well?
We're preaching is what the Bible says
Like we're not preaching our opinion. We're not getting out of our lane here. We're actually just preaching what the Bible says
I've not preached my opinion this evening. We're going with what the Bible says go to Romans 1
You know the Bible does say preach the gospel to every creature
How dare you sit here and and you know criticize us for hating the most?
Disgusting abominable filthy people on earth that are being filled with more and more unrighteousness every day
That are full of murder and debate and deceit and malignity and that hate God
While you don't even open your mouth and preach the gospel while you don't even love your congregation
Enough to warn them of these evil predators. Who's the hateful person?
You know I submit to you the hateful person is the pastor that reads Romans 1 and doesn't expound it
Hey, I've been in that church service before who's been in that old IFB church service before we get to Romans 1
And it's just like stop at verse 18
Or you just read one of these verses and just don't say anything about it or even worse the Calvinists who read Romans 1 and say
That's all of us. We're all reprobates. It's like thou sayest it speak for yourself
Nobody we're not all reprobates. We're not all like this. It's like the old IFB in Matthew 24
They just stop at verse 29, you know
Hey, I think the loving pastor is the one who actually warns you about these people and tells you hey
Don't let your kids around the gay uncle stay away from them. Oh, your wife has some faggot relative
Hey, cut that person out husbands protect your family protect your children says in verse number 30 again back fighters haters of God
Despiteful proud how ironic is that that the gay pride movement? What's their motto pride?
Well, the Bible tells us exactly what they're like how ironic is that and they take the rainbow the symbol that God used
To promise unto the world that he would never again
Flood the earth and they take that rainbow and they just wave it in God's face. They're mocking him. They hate him
They're saying come and get us God
They have no fear of God because they hate him and guess what?
They're gonna be real nice and proud up until the point where God sends them to hell and burns them for all of eternity
And you better believe that's where every faggot is going is to a fiery literal hell and God will have his revenge on these sick perverts
despicable proud
boasters
Inventors of evil things boy. Oh boy. That sounds like a dangerous person to be around
Sounds like a dangerous individual to be around that they're constantly thinking of new ways to harm people new ways to commit evil
They're inventing evil things. Some people are inventing spaceships. Some people are inventing cell phones
Some people are inventing drones and guns and cool stuff others are just inventing evil things coming up with evil sick things
Disobedient to parents boy that should wake up young Christians today that God is very angry with the child
That'd be disobedient to his mother and father and I wouldn't want to have any
Attribute in my life that is consistent with that of a reprobate
Someone who's a faggot. I mean, I mean, how would you like this if someone just said like hey stop, you know
Stop disobeying your mom. You're acting like a faggot. Hey, stop disrespecting your dad. You're acting like a lesbian
You're acting like you hate God. That's what the Bible's teaching. Hey, stop acting like that
We're supposed to honor your mother and father. You're supposed to fear your mother and father
You're supposed to obey your mother and father and you know what some some young punk that just hates their mother and father
You know
you're an evil wicked person and the Bible says that if you curse mother or father let him die the death and if you smite mother
Or father let him die the death why because someone that would hate their own mother and father someone that would curse their own mother
And father would do anything which is exactly what we see in Romans 1 the people that would do anything
Guess what they hate they hate God and they hate their mom and dad they disobey their parents
Now obviously every child is going to disobey their parents and every child is a sinner
Okay
But I'm just saying that we should make sin exceeding sinful and we should look at the sin of disobeying mom and dad
Not it just like oh, yeah, I mean, of course. Yeah, no big deal. No, that's a big sin
And God doesn't like it and you know what sodomites are just filled with disobeying their mother and father. It says without
Understanding right? So they're not gonna be able to read the Bible and understand it
They're always gonna be without understanding it says covenant breakers. So you can't make a treaty with them
You can't expect them to follow through on their word
You expect them to lie to you you expect them to break the treaty to break the covenant notice without natural affection again
That's a scary person to be around because those with natural affection
you know we would do anything for example to save a child and not even our own children, you know
You just see a child in harm's way and you run and you take care of that child and like for example
there's been many cases of school shootings where children are getting moaned down and
Women are like fighting past the police officers to get into that school to save those kids because those moms have natural affection and someone with
Natural affection is not gonna be sitting in the hallway putting on hand sanitizer like you've all DPD, you know as kids are getting moaned down
In a school like moms are gonna run through the windows and dads are gonna run through and do anything to save those kids
But you know what sodomites they don't have any natural affection
That's why they can abuse and molest children and it just doesn't bother them. You could do sick harmful things
Damaging these kids and you know what they like it
They love to defile children by showing them parts of their bodies or showing them filthy images
To defile them. This is what these people do. They love it. They have no natural affection
They're implacable meaning you can never placate them. You can never make them satisfied
There's no sort of agreement we can come to in America where it's like, alright, we'll give you tax breaks
Alright, we'll give you marriage. Alright, we'll let you adopt children. It'll never be enough
That's not going to fix anything and I'm just I'm so happy so many people are waking up to the fact that the LGBT is a
Terrorist organization and hey, even though George Bush totally sucks is one of the worst presidents ever
I at least like that
He said we don't negotiate with terrorists because that's that's not how you deal with terrorists. You don't give into them
You don't placate them. You don't like give them what they want you fight them, right?
You preach against these people you make it clear that we show God's people who they really are and not you know
Give in to their demands given and boy, oh boy
Have I seen some people try to give in to the sodomites demands where it's like, hey 2021
the protesters start protesting us and they tell the landlord you better evict these people or we're gonna be here every Sunday and
Every Sunday night every Wednesday and then the landlord just caves immediately instead of telling these losers to get lost
Because guess what when people actually stand up to them, they have no power, right?
The reason that they have power is because people are constantly giving into them
That's why so many businesses get canceled why so many bank accounts get canceled
Why so many Airbnb accounts get canceled because people just like all the terrorists are mad. Just give them everything
Let's give them everything right now. No, why don't we just tell them? No, why don't we tell them piss up a rope?
How about something like that get out of here, right?
But instead, you know our landlord just immediately caved and did that solve the problem. No, they just kept protesting
They just kept damaging his building anyways, because they're implacable, right?
You know, I like I like the landlord that says hey you guys stay over here on the sidewalk
And that's all you could do or recalling the cops and having you arrested, you know, praise God for that landlord
That's great. Do not give in to their demands notice
Unmerciful right and so with that description, you know, it begs the question
It's like how do we live in society with someone like this?
How can you coexist with someone that hates God and like God is love God is good
Everything that that is good comes from God. How can someone hate God? How could someone hate their parents?
How could someone just be full of murder and debate and deceit and malignity and
Whispers and back fighters and haters of God like all these things. How do you deal with someone like that?
Guess what? You can't you can't you cannot coexist in society with these type of people because they are just evil and rotten to the core
Look at what the Bible says in verse 32 who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things notice are worthy of
Death not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them
Not only do these wicked faggots and reprobates do all this horrible stuff that Romans one told us about
They get happy when other people do it too. They love it
They get so excited when they defile some child and try to take someone away from the church
Take them away from the Bible make them hate God, too
They love defiling people with their sodomy right gives them pleasure. And that's why the Bible says, you know what?
They're just worthy of death
They are worthy to die and people will lie to you people change the truth of God into a lie
And they'll say the New Testament says nothing about homosexuality. The Bible has no punishment for homosexuality whatsoever
Oh homosexuality wasn't added into the Bible until 1958 or something like that. Who's heard that stupid lie. Guess what the New Testament folks?
Romans 1 says let them be killed
Let them be put to death and of course, we believe in lawful capital punishment
That's another lie that we constantly get thrown at us. You guys preach violence
I'm against violence. I'm a hundred percent against violence
I do not recommend or condone or want anyone to go out and break the law
I will never recommend that but here's what we should do is that we should have a lawful system
Where we look at the Bible and we say, okay, there's a group of people that hates God
There's a group of people that don't want to retain God in their knowledge. They hate everything that's good
They're constantly being filled with all unrighteousness every day. What do we do with these people?
Well, thankfully the Bible told us exactly what we should do go to Leviticus chapter number 20
People think they're so much smarter than God that our system is so much better, you know, I'm sorry
I don't think it's loving and merciful and kind to live in a society where two faggots can buy a child
How is that love? How is that? Oh, it's so great that we live in a progressive society and two faggots can buy a child
And have them as their little slave. No, that's evil folks. The Bible says in Romans 13 love is
Fulfilling of the law what law all of the laws look at Roman or Leviticus 20 verse number 13
I'm showing you everything from the Bible if a man also
Lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman both of them have committed an abomination
They shall surely be put to death their blood shall be upon them. That is God's righteous
Holy inspired word and you know what? I'm I will never tolerate Christians getting up who claim to believe the Bible and
Judging Leviticus 2013 the law of the Lord is perfect
Converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is clean enlightening the eyes. Hey the words of God are like honey
It's glorious. It's good. This is a great law right here. You know what we would live in a better society
We would live in a safer neighborhood a safer community if every single homosexual was arrested charged
Convicted in a lawful trial and put to death by the government. We would live in a better place
Hey, make America great again. You make America great again by making it straight again
Okay, and you're not gonna make it straight by preaching the gospel to homos. They already rejected it
You make America straight by putting a bullet in the back of the brain of all these faggots
Unlawfully, let's pray or thank you for your word. Thank you for Romans chapter number one
I pray that you just bless this Bible study help us Lord to have the heart of the Apostle Paul
That we would have just infinite love that we'd be willing to sacrifice
ourselves and of our time and our effort and our energy to go preach the gospel to the lost
To the Greeks to the Jews the barbarians to the wise the unwise
But help us to hate the enemies of God help us not to stand with people that hate the Lord
Help us to always stand with the righteous judgment of your word in Jesus name. We pray. Amen
That will go ahead and sing one last song to conclude the service if you would take your hymnals at this time and turn to him
Number 13 must Jesus bear the cross alone
Him number 13 and start there right on the first