You'd find a seat, grab a hymnal.
Our first hymn tonight is number 410.
Faith is the victory.
410 410 faith is the victory. We're gonna sing there right on the first
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day, for the blessings, the
salvation that you just led us to this afternoon. I pray that
you'd be with us again for the evening service that everything
would be done decently in an order that you'd fill pastor with
your spirit and that you would open our ears to the message.
These things we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, for our
And as a volunteer, we'll sing their starting right on the first.
A call for loyal soldiers comes to one hand.
I'm dead.
through some announcements. If you don't have a bulletin, please raise your hand and an usher will
bring you one. On the front, you'll see our Bible memory passage of the week. Galatians chapter
number one verse 22. Keep working hard on that memory chapter.
Left hand side, you'll see our service times
are listed Sunday morning at 10.30,
Sunday evening at 4.30,
and our Wednesday evening study at seven o'clock.
Also, all of our soul winning times
are listed there below.
And just as a reminder,
all those meet here at the church building.
We do have our year to date statistics for soul winning.
And normally I have people report their numbers
in the signal group,
but just because we have folks from out of town today,
would you please raise your hand
if you had any salvations today?
Okay, how many, brother?
Three, okay.
Our team had three in total, two, okay, so five.
Anyone else?
Awesome.
Okay, six for the day, praise the Lord for that.
Thank you, everyone.
All right below that you'll see our upcoming events June 15th after the evening service
We're gonna have a fellowship event for Father's Day
We're gonna get some pizza and root beer floats Coke floats June 22nd is the next men's preaching night
That's gonna be for the evening service and there is a sign-up sheet in the back
If you'd like to participate in that immediately after that service, we will have a potluck
Also June 28th is the Tinker air show that's coming up really really quick
and you know I heard from some veterans today who have been through this a few
times that you got to get there really really early so that's what I'm
planning on doing getting there early beating the lines and the heat so be
prepared for that. June 29th the day after our air show event brother Ben
Naim is gonna be preaching
both services for us. Looking forward to having Ben come visit. August 27th through the 31st
is the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship at Steadfast. You definitely don't want to miss that.
October 6th through the 11th is the Bahamas.
Mission trip. So those are some great events coming up also on the right. You'll see our prayer list
Please make sure you're in prayer for all of these and like I always say if there's any updates or additions
Please email the church and I would be happy to update those for you
Just so you know the reason why I say email is because sometimes if you do it through text or our signal group
It could get buried beneath a bunch of other messages
Whereas that email I always check before I make the bulletin. So email is definitely the best way
for prayer requests.
If you could do that, I'd appreciate it.
That's gonna be it for announcements.
We'll go ahead and go to our third song.
All right, our third song this evening,
415, victory through grace,
415,
Four one five will sing there right on the first
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who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the
will of God and our Father. To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. I marvel that he is so
soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ into another gospel,
which is not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you, then that ye have received, let him be accursed.
For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men?
Please men I should not be the servant of Christ
But I certify you brethren that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man
Neither I for I neither received it of man neither was I taught it
But by the revelation of Jesus Christ for you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews religion
How that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God and wasted it, and profited in the
Jews' religion above many mine equals in my no nation, being more exceedingly zealous
of the traditions of my fathers.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by His
Immediately, I conferred not with flesh and blood, neither went I up to Jerusalem to them
which were apostles before me.
But I went to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.
Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days.
Now, the things which I wrote unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Afterwards, I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, and was unknown by face under
the churches of Judea, which were in Christ.
But they had heard only that he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith
And they glorified God and me. Let's pray.
Gracious Lord, thankful for the salvation of today.
Thankful for these that are gathered here.
Please rise.
Back in for a minute.
Open our hearts to the message.
For how strong he is here.
In Jesus' name we pray and amen.
Amen.
The Bible says I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ
Unto another gospel, which is not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ
But though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you
Let him be a cursed
You know, it's some pretty hardcore words here from the
Apostle Paul and many people would be offended at just such
a direct statement coming from a preacher where he's, you
know, talking to this group of Christians in Galatia and he's
like, look, if anyone preaches any other gospel than that,
which I have preached unto you.
let that person be accursed.
He's saying, let that person be damned to hell.
I mean, that's a very hard message that he's giving.
He says in verse nine, as we said before,
so say I now again, if any man
preach any other gospel unto you,
then that you have received.
Let him be a curse so he's you know, he's doubling it down.
He's making it clear that this is a very serious issue.
You know, the gospel is not one of those agree to disagree type things.
You know, we got to fight for the right gospel.
We have to fight for salvation by faith alone.
We can't allow work salvation to creep in or the teaching that you could lose your salvation.
He's saying if anyone's teaching any other gospel, let that person.
go to hell. Now, this is very important context for the next verse that we're going to read in
verse 10. He says this, for do I now persuade men or God?
or do I seek to please men?
For if I yet pleased men,
I should not be the servant of Christ."
You know, Paul here recognizes that the words
that he's saying could be offensive to some people.
That it's a hardcore statement
that some people could, you know, get upset by it.
But he's basically saying, look, I don't care
because my role as a preacher is not to please men.
My role as a preacher is not to be liked by people,
not to be some celebrity.
It's simply to please God.
And he makes this very important statement where he says this for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ those preachers that are out there today or Christians who are just interested in pleasing other people who are just interested at getting along with everyone at the sake of sound doctrine.
Like they'll they'll stop preaching sound doctrine. They'll water down the message. They'll change the gospel.
for getting along with people,
the Bible says that those are not the ministers of God.
Those are not the servants of Christ.
It's kind of a litmus test that we could look at someone
and say, okay, is this person a servant of Christ?
Well, if they're all just about pleasing people,
pleasing men, then that would prove that they are not.
And so the title of my sermon this evening is this,
the servant of Christ.
The servant of...
Christ. You know, I want to talk about and highlight several ways that you can identify
a true man of God and a real servant of Jesus Christ. And you know, this isn't going to
just apply to pastors. This is going to apply to all of us. You know, how can we identify
who is truly serving God and who is not? Because, you know, kind of the theme of the sermons
today is I am just really sick and tired of atheists and heathen and backslidden Christians
telling us, oh, you guys aren't the real Christians, you guys aren't the real
servants of Christ. Well, just like this morning, I'm going to use the Bible to
prove all my points, because we are Christians, we basically believe off of
the Bible. Now, turn, if you would, to John 15. And as you're turning there, I'll
read for you, Malachi 3.18, the Bible says this, then shall ye return and discern
that serveth him not.
We are able to discern between those who are actually serving God, who are the actual
ministers of God, and those who are not.
So how do we do that?
Well, number one this evening, the Bible tells us that godly Christians will be hated.
Here's one litmus test.
If someone is actually serving God, actually a righteous minister of Jesus Christ, the
Bible says that godly Christians will be hated.
This is shocking for people who don't read the Bible because there's such a warped view of
Christianity out there today. And you know, I think it comes from just decades and decades of
false prophets being in the spotlight, false prophets being, you know, the televangelists,
guys like Billy Graham right where the whole world loves this guy, guys like Joel Osteen.
He's not really making any waves. He's not really preaching any hard sermons. You know,
he's the smiling preacher who's just always nice, always has nice things to say.
And when people think of Christianity and Christian ministers,
they often think about this purple lights, smoke on the stage,
nice, kind, soft, a feminine pastor.
And like this is their idea of a minister of Christ,
but we're going to actually look at the Bible, what the Bible says.
Look at John 15.
These are the words of Jesus Christ in verse 18 Jesus said this if the world hate you
You know that it hated me before it hated you so
Foundational idea here. Jesus is letting us know that the world hated him
So if we're gonna be Christians if we're gonna be godly if we're gonna be Christ like
Shouldn't we expect that the founder of our religion who was hated? Shouldn't we expect that we ourselves will be hated?
You know, if we have Jesus Christ, who was hated by the world and supposedly all of his followers, all of his ministers were just loved and adored and praised by this world, that would be incongruent.
That wouldn't make any sense. There'd be some sort of disconnect there. You're thinking, wait, this doesn't make any sense, but look at verse 19.
Jesus said, if ye were of the world, the world would love his own.
You see that? So if the world loves you, if the world just really loves a pastor and the police love him and the mayor love him and the government and the media,
just everyone loves this pastor, what does that prove? Well, he's of the world.
It proves that he's not a righteous minister. It proves that he's of the world.
It says, but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hadith you.
So, those who were the true disciples of Christ, those who were standing with Him, those who
were preaching His words, He's been chosen out of the world and therefore the world hates
those people.
So, if we look today, hey, who are the servants of Christ?
Who are those that are actually pleasing God?
It's those that are hated by the world.
And people will be like, wow, you know, you guys are in the news, you guys are making people
upset.
That proves that you're not of God.
that we would be hated.
Stay there, I'll read for you Ephesians 612.
The Bible says, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places.
You know, the Bible teaches that we are in spiritual warfare, and though we're not going
out and fighting people with swords or guns, the battle that we fight is very real, folks.
And so what are we at war against?
We're against the principalities, the powers,
the rulers of the darkness of this world.
And you know, if we're in a war,
we should expect some resistance.
We should expect the enemy to come at us.
And you know, if we're actually effective in the war,
you're gonna get more firepower coming at you.
You know, there's a phrase talking about how,
hey, if you're getting flack from the enemy,
it means that you're over the target, right?
the enemy wants to defend their infrastructure and their city,
so they'll try to shoot the bombers that are flying over the important infrastructure, right?
So us as Christians, if we're in a battle and we're getting all this blowback,
we're getting people coming at us, we're getting news articles, we're getting hate,
hey, that just proves that we're actually making a difference in the war.
You know, it's like, oh, you know, hey, I was a part of this company, this regiment in a battle.
It's like, did you get shot at at all? No. Did you shoot at anyone at all? No.
Sounds like you weren't in a very effective, you know, company there or whatever, you know, squadron there.
Sounds like you weren't being very effective in the war.
But hey, if you're taking out a lot of the enemy, you know what's going to happen?
You're going to get shot at back.
And that's the same thing spiritually. Look at verse 20.
It says, remember the word that I said unto you.
The servant is not greater than his Lord.
If they have persecuted me they will also persecute you if they have kept my saying they will keep yours also so you know it's it's both sides of the coin here he's saying look.
There's people that hated Christ, there's people that rejected him, lied about him,
and of course Jesus had the most severe persecution because his persecution culminated in his bloody,
brutal death on the cross. And people that hated Christ, guess what? Those same people are going
to hate us. Those same people are going to come after us. But of course not everyone literally
hated Christ. There was people that received him. And the people that received him says,
And you know, of course, not everyone hates us.
You know, don't get that idea, oh, everyone hates you.
No, you know, we go out soul winning into this community,
tons and tons of days per week.
We go out a lot into this community.
And all the time, people are getting saved.
People are appreciative that we're there.
We're making good connections.
We're having good conversations with people.
We're getting people baptized.
People are coming and visiting church.
Like, it's not that everyone hates us.
It's just that the wicked people who hate Jesus, hate us.
And the people who like the Bible and like the words of Christ and love the Lord Jesus Christ,
those people love us. You should expect both sides of this coin. Verse 21 says this.
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me."
It's like, hey, why were they persecuting Christ because they knew not God the Father that sent Jesus Christ?
Why do people hate Christians today? Why do people persecute us? It's because they don't know God.
It's an evident token that they do not know God. Verse 22, if I had not come and spoken unto them, they had
They had not had sin, but now they have no cloak for their sin.
He that hadeth me, hadeth my father also.
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did,
they had not had sin.
But now have they both seen and hated both me and my father.
But this cometh to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, they hated me without a cause.
You know, Jesus Christ was hated for no legitimate reason.
Jesus never sinned, He did nothing but good unto people,
did nothing but heal people, preach people, the Word of God.
And you know, we're not greater than our Lord, we are sinners.
And of course, if Jesus was hated being sinless,
we of course are going to be hated as well.
But oftentimes, we're even going to be hated for no cause,
for no good reason.
And you know, recently our church, being in the media,
it was for no good reason.
It was for preaching the Word of God.
You know, even in the article, it's like,
yeah, he's a good worker.
Yeah, he's kind to everyone.
Yeah, he's prompt.
Yeah, he's really polite in his job.
It was just his preaching of the word of God.
And it's like, okay, it sounds like
this is for no good reason.
Sounds like this is purely for our religion
or for nothing else.
It's like, did he show up late?
No, did he, you know, rip people off?
No, did he do bad as up?
No, what did he do?
He preached Leviticus 2013.
Hmm, okay, it's very easy to see what this is.
Go to John 16.
John 16 verse 33, notice what Jesus said,
these things I have spoken unto you,
that in me you might have peace.
In the world ye shall have tribulation.
But, be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
Notice not, you might have tribulation, you kind of sorda will, no, he just said, look,
you absolutely will have tribulation.
But he wrote these things that we might have peace, right?
So we're not supposed to let our heart be troubled, we're not supposed to get all scared
and all uncomfortable when these things happen.
You know, we could have the peace of God in our hearts no matter what we're going through,
And, you know, obviously we all have human emotions and at times, you know, you're going
to feel the emotions.
You're going to feel the feelings.
But remember what we always talk about, your emotions are not always valid.
Sometimes it's OK to recognize like hey,
I'm having an emotion,
but that emotion is not correct.
You know, there could be a day at this church
where we do have something like protests and look,
I'm not necessarily asking for that to happen,
but it could happen.
It's happened before folks.
Trust me, it's happened before.
And you know, if that day comes,
you know, especially people who have not been
through something like that,
you might be walking into the church
and you might feel a certain way.
in your stomach and that's might be just a normal natural human reaction but you know what you need
to tell yourself hey that's the wrong emotion God said that we shouldn't be upset by these things
we shouldn't be scared of these things we could have peace knowing that we're on the Lord's side
but you know what would actually put a pit in my stomach is allowing the enemies of God to stop me
from serving God like that's the true scary thought for me is allowing haters of God,
to be afraid so that I tone down the preaching.
And you know, this is what the old IFB
has done over the years.
Like back in the day, I could show you
a bunch of sermons from old IFB preachers
ripping face against the sodomites, preaching hard,
but you know, they start getting some heat,
they start getting some blowback,
and then the apologies come, right?
Then they backtrack everything.
You know what, we need to never be like that.
And sometimes I think that it's because of maybe all the money that churches have and all the assets that they have, you know, they get the big building and all of a sudden the building is what's most important.
And look, I pray that God someday blesses us with a big building. That would be great. But you know what, if that would cause me to ever be tempted to tone down the preaching, then I just pray that we never get a building.
Now, if we can handle it, then I pray that God gives that to us.
But you know, I hate seeing churches where it's like, they get the building, they get
the money, they get the assets, and you can see like the culture starts to shift.
You get to see things start to get, you know, different than they used to be.
And you know what?
We need to not be that way.
Go to Acts chapter number 19.
Acts chapter number 19. So what are we seeing so far? Hey, the Bible promises that those who are godly, those who are actually the servants of Christ,
they are going to be hated by the world, hated by the devil, not liked by everyone.
It's funny, you go to the Oklahoma News publication that made the article about us, they have a whole section called Religion.
And anytime they say something positive,
just go look at the types of churches
they're saying something positive about.
It's a bunch of false prophets.
It's a bunch of people that preach a false gospel.
But when there's a real church in the news,
when there's a real pastor who actually believes
what the Bible says, it's gonna be in a negative light.
Look at Acts chapter number 19.
Acts 19 verse 13 says this then certain of the vagabond Jews exorcists took upon them
to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus saying we adjure you
by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
Notice verse 15, and the evil spirit answered and said,
Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?
So notice when it comes to spiritual warfare, the devil knows who the real servants of God are.
That's why he's coming after them.
And that's why it's a token of a righteous church when you see them being persecuted.
You know, you look at what Steadfast Baptist Church has been through, what Pastor Shelley has been through.
You know, it's a stamp of approval from God on his ministry that he is a legit man of God.
That steadfast Baptist church is the real deal and you know look at how much God has blessed that church in the last year alone
You know, it seems like God was just allowing steadfast to go through a period of trial and tribulation and just trimming the fat and then now that church is just absolutely thriving and it is amazing to see.
But guess what? You know, the devil knows Pastor Jonathan Shelley. The devil knows Anchor Baptist Church, but it's like, oh United, you know, Church of Christ, that false prophet, Lori Walker, it's like, who are you?
You know the devil doesn't know who that false prophet is because that that person's already doing the work of Satan
So Satan doesn't have to attack people who are already doing the work of Satan
You know who the devil's gonna come after those who are doing the work of Christ
Those are preaching the words of Jesus Christ. That's who the devil's gonna come after go to Luke chapter number six
Luke chapter number six
Look at verse 22, Jesus said this,
blessed are ye when men shall hate you.
And when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the son of man's sake,
rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy for behold your reward is great in heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
Look, I am not ashamed of our church being in the news recently.
I hope you're not ashamed of it because Jesus said that it's actually a blessing.
you know, what an honor from the Lord Jesus Christ that God has counted little anchor Baptist church
worthy of some persecution. You know, that is a great honor and blessing. And instead of causing
that to make us fear or be depressed or be sad, you know, that should cause us to rejoice. We should
be leaping for joy. We should be excited. You know, besides me being sick last week, my spirit was happy.
Like, my body wasn't very happy being sick, but you know what, I woke up, I was excited,
I was happy, I'm waking up and going to work tomorrow, and I'm gonna have a great attitude,
and I'm gonna do my job well, and I'm gonna be happy, and I'm not gonna let any of these
people control my emotions.
Why?
Because I'm only under one Lord, that's Jesus Christ, and He said to be rejoicing.
He said to be happy.
So I don't care how many people hate me, I don't care how many people hate our church,
And you know what? You need to have some faith today that God is with us
and that God will bless doing things the right way.
God will bless the right preaching.
God will bless the right soul winning.
And you know, you look around today and you say, oh, we don't have hundreds of people.
Okay, but you know what? If we stay faithful to the Word of God, let's see where we're at in 10 years.
You know, let's see where we're at. Let's see what a great work that we could do for God
rather than these people who back off. Stop preaching hard.
tone things down, not making as much waves as they used to.
No, we just need to go full bore ahead and let the Lord bless our works.
Go to 2nd Timothy chapter number three.
Second Timothy chapter 3.
You know, I think it's good that we just remind ourselves of these things from time to time
because it's kind of a counterintuitive idea.
You think, oh, everyone's mad at you.
Everyone hates you.
You're in the news.
Must mean you did something bad.
Not necessarily, folks.
You know, if we're doing it for the Word of God, it's a good thing.
It's a blessing.
Second Timothy 3 verse 10.
Paul said this,
charity, patience. Notice verse 11, persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch at
Iconium at Lystra. Notice this, what persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
You know, the Apostle Paul went through severe persecution.
More than anyone I know or have ever seen.
Guys getting shipwrecked, bros getting stoned,
bros getting basically killed.
Like he's going through all sorts of terrible stuff,
but yet the Bible says that the Lord was with him
and that out of all of them, the Lord delivered him.
And you know, me and my own life, the very small amount of persecution that I've received,
I've seen the Lord deliver me out of it.
And you know, Steadfast Baptist Church, when I was there, going through trial after trial after trial,
like I said, just look at them now. The Lord has delivered them of it.
And I tell you what, this small persecution that our church is going through,
the Lord will deliver it of us as well.
But we need to stay faithful to His word.
Look at verse 12.
shall suffer persecution.
You know, I'm just, I'm so sick and tired
from hearing from the Christians.
Oh, you guys are in the news.
That means you guys are bad.
No, no, no, the Bible literally says
that if you're living godly,
you will suffer persecution.
If your church is never in the news,
if your pastor's never in the news,
if you're never making any waves,
that might be a sign that your church is not that godly.
Might be a sign that you're really not making the devil
that mad.
And you say, well, I am living a godly life
and I have suffered no persecution.
Well, then it's coming very soon.
and you ought to just read these verses and internalize them.
And like I preached about a few weeks ago,
realize that the Christian life is just a constant battle.
And you ought not to get weary of the battle and say,
man, I'm just so tired of the drama.
I'm so tired of the fighting.
I'm so tired of having to deal with issues.
It's never going to stop.
It's never ever ever going to stop.
So just buckle up, get ready for the fight,
endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
And quite frankly, I don't know about you,
but I would rather be in a fight with the sodomites
and the world than the infighting
that's been happening the last year in Christianity.
And I'll fight any fight God wants me to.
I'm here for it, I'm ready for it.
But I'd rather fight those wicked people
than Christians that are perverting the word of God
and Christians that are backslidden.
That doesn't bring me joy,
but it does bring me joy fighting Sodomites.
I'll just be honest with you, it does.
I was happy, look, we got it on the wall folks.
We are happy about it, we're excited about it.
Go to first Peter, or I'm sorry, verse 13 says this.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Notice verse 14.
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and has been assured of,
knowing of whom thou hast learned them.
You know, we got one option in my mind when we're enduring persecution,
and that is to continue.
You know, it's not up for debate in my mind, like,
oh, should we change the message?
Should we stop preaching this?
That question is never entering my mind,
because the Bible says, continue thou.
And like, it doesn't matter if you got to meet
in hotel church for a year, it doesn't matter
if you got sodomites coming at your house,
it doesn't matter what the situation is,
we need to continue, period.
We need to be faithful to God.
Go to 1 Peter chapter four.
1 Peter chapter number four.
1 Peter 4 verse 12, the Bible says, beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you.
He's saying, look, when you go through persecution,
when you're going through a trial,
don't think that this is a bizarre,
you know, out of the ordinary experience.
The Bible is saying, look, you should expect this.
And you know, I don't know what all different levels
of persecution people have been through in this room.
You know, maybe this is the first time
something like this has happened.
You know, what I say to you is, think it not strange.
Don't think that this is out of the ordinary.
Don't think like, oh man, you know,
am I in a weird church here?
We're in the news?
No, no, no, this is a good thing.
This is what the Bible tells us to expect.
Verse 13, why?
It says,
The Bible says that when we are suffering for righteousness' sakes,
that we are actually a partaker of Christ's sufferings.
You know, that is a great honor.
That is a high honor to be our partaker of the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
You know, it's real easy just to think like, yeah, Jesus Christ suffered and died for me
and salvation is a free gift by grace and amen. It absolutely is.
But what about going beyond that and saying, okay, Christ suffered and he suffered immensely.
you know, immeasurably, compared to anything we could ever go through.
And if we suffer just a little bit for His name's sake, for His word,
shouldn't we count that as an honor?
I mean, shouldn't we rejoice when that happened?
You know, why would you be sad about that?
There's not very many people in this world that get to experience that high honor.
Why? Because not very many people are actually serving God.
Not very many people are actually preaching the full counsel of God.
When we go through that, that's a blessing.
Look at verse 14.
If you be reproached, notice, for the name of Christ,
happy are ye.
For the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.
On their part he is evil spoken of,
but on your part he is glorified.
When we are reproached, when people look at us
and they call us wicked names, evil names,
they think poorly of us,
they talk crap about us in the news,
the Bible says for the name of Christ, happy are ye.
And you know, if we do ever have the protest or something like that, you know, you should do is you should walk into this church with your head held high with a smile on your face because you're suffering reproach for the name of Jesus Christ.
And when I go to work tomorrow, I'm going to have a great attitude and I'm going to be smiling and I'm going to be happy because if anyone hates me, I'm just thinking, hey, it's just suffering for the name of Jesus Christ, praise the Lord.
Praise God that he counts as worthy of that.
or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters,
yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed,
but let him glorify God on this behalf.
So, you know, when you're going through something bad,
when you're going through people calling your names or some sort of persecution,
you know, it's good to sit and ask yourself for a minute,
all right, am I suffering for the name of Christ, for righteousness' sake,
or am I suffering because I did something wrong?
And you know, with our situation, it's very easy to see.
It's not like, hey, Anchor Baptist Church was lying to people.
Anchor Baptist Church was stealing.
Anchor Baptist Church was harming people.
You know, Pastor Oz was a terrible worker.
And he was mean to people.
And he lied to them.
No, no, no, it's just like, hey, he was great at work.
He's so nice.
I just couldn't believe when I saw the sermons
because he was just so nice at work.
And it's like, yeah, because my job at work is to do my job.
And at work I will always be friendly to the people I serve because I'm doing a job.
I'm not there on my own agenda. I'm there on my boss's agenda.
And I'm going to go do a good job and I'm going to work with whoever I have to work with
and I'm not going to bring the Bible into those situations.
I'm not preaching the word of God at work, but when it comes to the house of God,
my job is to preach the full counsel of God.
and News Flash, people come here willingly
and people listen to the preaching of God's word online
willingly. No one forced anyone to listen to any sermons.
No one tied you down on a bed and shoved, you know,
some headphones in your ears.
It's just like, line them up against the wall and shoot them.
No one made you do that.
There's this thing called the X button.
You know, I'm an IT guy. I can help you with that if you need to find it.
It's very simple.
Press the X button if you don't like it.
But you know what? We're not going to stop.
and preaching the word of God is not illegal.
And preaching the word of God should not forbid you
from providing for your family.
I mean, what is the goal of this article?
It's so that I can't work?
So you want to live in a country where pastors
can't preach the full counsel of God
or they could just lose their job?
Is that the kind of communist hellhole you want to live in?
You know, it's a disgusting disgrace these people.
They are wicked individuals.
It's like the news headlines like da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Pastor, who preaches Bible, also has job.
How is that news, folks?
I mean, that's literally what it is.
It's like this pastor preached Leviticus 2013,
and he has a job, fire him.
It's like, you're insane.
Did he preach it at work?
No.
Has he been mean to anyone?
No.
Has he called anyone's names?
No.
What's the problem?
Like, are you just going to do this at any job I ever have in my life?
Look, this is why they're terrorists, and this is why Christians need to get their voice back
and start preaching what the Bible says so that we stop having few people
that have to be the only ones with the guts to go through the hard things,
to go through the persecution, because if every Baptist pastor in this city
was preaching what the Bible says, they'd go back into the closet.
they wouldn't think about trying to get a Christian fired from their job
for preaching the Bible. There's way more of us than of them.
This is the Bible Belt.
This is the buckle, baby.
This is Oklahoma City.
This is as Baptist as it gets in America.
And there are millions of people who agree with us.
Millions and millions and millions of people who agree with us.
And you know what?
I'm just like woe unto the community and the group
that allows this loudmouth minority of wicked sodomites
to cause a man of God to be fired.
And look, it hasn't happened yet.
Lord willing, it doesn't happen.
But if it does happen, it's like you're inviting God's judgment
on our area.
I don't want that.
And it's like, I'm not messing with anyone.
I'm going about my business.
I'm doing my job.
I'm coming here.
I'm preaching the word of God.
There's no news to be had.
There's no story, folks.
It's ridiculous.
Go to First Kings chapter number 18.
So number one, the Bible says that real Christians are going to be hated.
Number two, men of God in the Bible were hated by the world.
You know, we have the doctrine where the Bible says if you're a real Christian, you're going to be hated.
So we should expect that if we look at the men of God in the Bible, that it follows that pattern.
Well, guess what? It does all of them to a T.
We're going to look at a few of them.
First, let's talk about Elijah.
First Kings 1817 the Bible says and it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah and Ahab said unto him art thou he that trouble with
Israel so notice ahab is the wicked person ahab is the one that's committing
Idolatry ahab is the one that's propping up false religion. And what does he accuse Elijah of doing art thou he that trouble with
Israel no, no, no, it's not Elijah. That's causing trouble. It's the wicked government. That's causing trouble ahab
You know, it's not anchor Baptist church that's causing trouble, you know, it's the wicked infiltrators in our government that has allowed this communism and LGBT ideology to permeate, permeate throughout our society.
Those are the ones that trouble our nation, not us.
Verse 18.
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel, but thou.
in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Balaam."
Let me tell you who's actually causing trouble in America today.
Those who have forsaken the commandments of God.
It's not pastors preaching the word of God.
It's not Christians standing to be counted on the King James Bible and the words of God.
It's those that are causing people to forsake the commandments.
It's governments passing laws like in the 60s making no fault divorce. No big deal.
You know, it's it's places like Oklahoma where she's like no big deal. Let's just smoke marijuana.
It's totally legal, bro. Isn't it just so great to have marijuana in our state?
Isn't that just such a blessing from God to where you drive home from church and you have to smell
that abominable smell in this state? No, it's a curse.
It's not making Oklahoma better, having marijuana.
And you know what's not making Oklahoma better?
Faggots.
Right.
It's not making Oklahoma better.
You know what's making Oklahoma better?
Anchor Baptist Church.
Why?
Because we're getting hundreds of people saved.
Because we have our SWAT team, our soul-winning action team, and we go out into the community where tragedy has happened,
where people have been murdered, where people's homes have been burned down, or destroyed by tornadoes, or whatever tragedies happen.
And we go to people who have actually been affected by tragedy, and we knock on their door and we preach them the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And we show them the love of God.
And we tell them that there's a Savior that died for their sins.
And that if they trust in that Savior, they could be saved from the everlasting flame.
That they can go to heaven when they die.
Let me tell you what, that's making Oklahoma better.
You know what's making Oklahoma better is bringing people to church,
baptizing them, and teaching them to observe all things whatsoever Christ commanded.
That's making Oklahoma better.
You know what's not making Oklahoma better?
Having a pride parade this weekend.
Having a pride parade where you get a bunch of faggots who are demented, who have an unnatural death style,
who are half naked in front of children, defiling people's eyes, celebrating pride, celebrating debauchery.
That's not making our city better, folks. That's not making our state better.
And if you disagree with me, you are an idiot. Or you are wicked or both.
But you don't even have to be saved to realize that sodomy is not a blessing.
that faggotry is not making our country better.
Because if our country is full of faggots,
we'd die off in one generation.
Tell me that your ideology sucks without telling me.
When you can't even reproduce, folks, it's disgusting.
Go to First Kings chapter number 19.
We're talking about how Elijah was hated.
He was accused of troubling the nation,
being a troublemaker.
No, Ahab was the troublemaker.
1 Kings 19 verse 1, the Bible says in Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and
with all how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
So you know, Elijah's slain the false prophets, he's going hard, he's a real man of God.
Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah saying, so let the gods do to me and more
also if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
Right? And this is always what happens. They want to shut you up first. They want to make it illegal first
and then they just want to kill you. And that's what Jezebel wants to do to Elijah.
Elijah says, and he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts.
For the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down nine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword, and I
even I only am left, and they seek my life to take it away.
You know, he's having kind of a moment here where again the human emotions are natural
But you know, he needs to remind himself that he's on the right side that he's doing the right thing
But you know, he's having these natural human emotions here. He's like I've been jealous for God. I've been doing the right thing
I've been working hard. I've been preaching the truth. He slain the prophets with the sword. That was a good thing
And he says man, I'm alone
I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away and he kind of gets depressed here
He kind of gets this idea that he's alone in this fight. Go to first Kings 22 while you're turning there
I want to read for you Romans 11 3
It quotes Elijah where it says,
Lord, they have killed thy prophets
and dig down thine altars,
and I am left alone and they seek my life.
But what say at the answer of God unto him?
I have reserved to myself 7,000 men
who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
So, you know, Elijah felt alone,
but the truth is he was not alone.
And, you know, you may at times feel alone.
You may at times feel like we're the only ones going through this battle.
But like I said, there are millions and millions and millions of people that agree with us.
And you know, it'd be nice if some of these Baptists actually had some stones and actually
stood up and actually helped us out by preaching the Word of God so it doesn't have to be Elijah
just where he's feeling alone.
It'd be nice if there were more voices to be heard to where it's very obvious and evident
that we're not.
But I'm telling you what.
Even if pastors this morning and throughout June don't even talk about this issue,
I promise you, in their heart, they agree with us.
And you know, we need to exhort people to actually get bold and start speaking the truth, not just believing it.
Here's another example of a righteous man that was hated, and that was Micaiah.
Micaiah is a great prophet. First Kings 22 verse 1.
The Bible says, and they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
And it came to pass in the third year that Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, came down to the king of Israel.
That's Ahab again.
And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth and Gilead is ours,
and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria.
And he said unto Jehoshaphat,
will thou go down with me to battle?
To Ramaph Gilead?
So Ahab's saying, hey, will you be my confederate
in this war, will you be my teammate, my ally
when we go fight against Ramaph Gilead?
And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel,
I am as thou art, my people as thy people,
my horses as thy horses.
And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel,
inquire I pray thee at the word of the Lord today.
He's got the order all messed up, you know, Ahab asks him,
Hey, do you want an alliance with me to go fight against them?
And he's like, yeah, no problem. My people are yours. My horses are yours.
Everything's great. I'm totally on your side.
By the way, you might want to inquire of the Lord.
It's like, you got your situation backwards here.
You should have inquired of the Lord first, then made your commitment.
But it says right here, verse six, then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together
about 400 men. That's a lot of men, right?
and said unto them, Shall I go against Rame of Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?
And they said, Go up, for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
Now, later in this chapter we're going to learn that what these people said was not the will of God,
was not actually what God wanted. And you know what we can learn from that is that the majority
of religious leaders are false prophets. The majority
of preachers are false prophets and yeah you can get 400 false prophets who don't care about the
word of God to tell you oh yeah pride is totally fine no big deal with pride month oh yeah Jesus
Christ he doesn't care about the moral laws of the Old Testament anymore the Bible doesn't even say
anything about homosexuality you could find 400 people like that but it doesn't make it true
does not make it correct right here it says inverse
Number seven, and Jehoshaphat said is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides that we might inquire of him?
So Jehoshaphat, he knows what's going on.
He's like, all these preachers suck.
They all say the same thing.
They're not sticking their neck out there to actually say the truth.
He's like, isn't there a prophet of the Lord besides that we could actually inquire of?
And notice verse eight, in the king of Israel, that's Ahab, said under Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man.
Micaiah, the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him.
For he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil and Jehoshaphat said let not the king say so
So notice the fake men of God the false prophets. They're numerous. They're a dime a dozen
It's like the strange woman you could find on every street corner
You could find a false prophet in Oklahoma on every street corner. Oh, you'll find someone that calls themselves a pastor
That's ready to lie to you. That's ready to tell tell you false doctrine and feed you lies
But you know, there's there's usually one
That actually has the guts like Micaiah to actually say what needs to be said.
And notice the king loves him, loves the real man of God.
Oh, the real man of God are always liked by people.
No, the one real man of God is hated by King Ahab.
There's one, there's one I can inquire of, but I hate him.
And why does he hate? It's such a funny line.
I just love reading this story.
There's one, but I hate him.
Why? For he doth not prophesy good concerning me.
You know that most people today are not interested in the truth.
Most people today do not care what the Bible actually says.
People want to go to a church today to have their ears tickled, to be affirmed.
For the pastor to tell them, everything's fine with you.
There's nothing wrong with you. Come as you are. Leave as you came. No big deal.
But you know what people hate is when people prophesy, not good concerning themselves.
that homosexuals should be lawfully executed by the government,
and of course, you know who's gonna like, not like that, homosexuals.
But the question is, does that make it not true from the word of God?
No, the truth is independent of your feelings.
And the same thing goes for Christians that hate the message.
It doesn't matter if the message steps on your toes,
if the preacher never preaches good concerning you,
what matters is what the Bible says.
What matters is what is the truth.
And let me just warn you, if you preach the truth,
if you go to a church where the truth is being preached,
you will be hated.
People will hate you. Oh man, you know, there's 400 churches in Oklahoma that are all LGBT affirming
It's like well, isn't there anyone else that we can inquire up? Oh, there's anchor Baptist Church, but we hate them
Because they don't prophesy good concerning us. Yeah, we don't because we're concerned about the truth
We're not concerned about what people feel and that's why Makai is such an awesome man of God
standing up to the king,
standing in the face of 400 false prophets.
I mean, everyone could have laughed at him
and made him feel like he was crazy,
but yet he was right and everyone else was wrong.
Look at 1st Kings 22 verse 13 in the messenger that was gone to call Micah Micaiah
Spake unto him saying behold now the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth
Notice all the false prophets are saying the same thing. They're all saying love wins
Love is love God loves everyone no matter what anyone could be saved at any time to their last dying breath
No matter what they all say the same thing. Let thy word I pray thee
be like the word of one of them and speak that which is good.
This is what people want to do to us today.
They want to change our speech.
They want our words to be just like the words of all the false prophets.
But notice verse 14, and Micaiah said, as the Lord liveth, what the Lord sayeth unto
me, that will I speak.
That should be our motto as preachers of the word of God.
If you get an opportunity to preach God's word, or if you want to be a pastor someday,
or an evangelist, or a deacon, this should be your mindset that what the Lord sayeth
That, will I speak?
Not what's gonna get me likes,
not what's gonna get me popular or famous
or loved by people,
it's just what does the Bible actually say?
And you know what we did this morning?
We went through the sermon,
we looked at what the Bible teaches.
Not my opinion, not my ideology,
what the Bible says.
Go to verse 26.
And the king of Israel said,
take Micaiah.
carry him back unto Ammon, the governor of the city, and to Joash, the king's son,
and say, thus sayeth the king, put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with the
bread of affliction, and with the water of affliction, until I come in peace." See
the real man of God, the one who was really on God's side, was what? Hated and
persecuted. Persecuted.
Put in prison, fed with the bread of affliction, with the water of affliction, and you better
believe this is exactly what the haters of God want to do to us today.
People would love to put us in jail literally for preaching Leviticus chapter 20 verse 13.
And in some hellscape countries today, it literally is illegal to preach that kind of stuff.
Right? Germany, they have a law called Volksverhabtsung.
It means like heating people up.
And like they literally have hate speech laws in Germany where if you preach these type of things,
you will literally be arrested.
And I know dozens of Christians.
in Germany personally who have preached these types of things and had the government raid
their homes take their electronics away charge them with crimes deport them out of their country
like this is happening today in real places in the world and let me tell you the wicked
communists in our nation would love for the same exact thing to happen here and don't think that
they want to stop with putting us in jail you know what they would love to do they'd love to kill
every last christian that is what the ideology of the lgbt leads to but look at verse 28
And Micaiah said, if thou return at all in peace,
the Lord have not spoken by me.
I mean, what a great guy.
What a Chad, right?
And he said, harken, O people, every one of you.
He's like, hey, if God's speaking by me,
you're not gonna return in peace.
And it's like, hey, I could say the same thing
to all these faggots that are telling us to go to hell.
Oh, burning hell, Pastor Oz, all you guys are going to hell.
Well, you know, if you escape hell,
then the Lord has not spoken by me.
But I guarantee you, you will.
That's what the Bible says.
How about Daniel?
Go to Daniel, chapter number six.
Daniel's a great man of God.
Oh, so we should just expect him to be loved and liked
by everyone and have no problems
and have all the positive articles in the Oklahoma.
And you know, the government's gonna come to his church
and exalt him and praise him.
That actually did happen in his life for a different reason.
But Daniel, chapter six, verse one.
Look what it says it pleased Darius to set over the kingdom and
120 princes which should be over the whole kingdom and over these three presidents of whom Daniel was first that the princes might give
Accounts unto them and the king should have no
Damage then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes because an excellent spirit was in him and the king thought
To set him over the whole realm so notice Daniel was just thriving in his secular job
in his government job, isn't that quite interesting?
Some people would say that Christians should not be allowed to work in government.
It's like, tell me you'd know nothing about the founding of our country without telling me.
So Daniel, you know, he's got his secular job here, and he's preferred.
He's being exalted.
Notice not because of his beliefs, not because of his preaching, anything like that,
but just because an excellent spirit was found in him.
He just does his job well.
Verse four says,
Then the presidents and the princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom
But they could not find
But they could not find none occasion, I'm sorry, but they could find none occasion nor fault for as much as he was faithful.
Neither was there any error or fault found in him.
So notice these wicked people want to come after Daniel and they want to find fault with him concerning the kingdom, concerning his job.
And so they're auditing the books. They're saying, what was his tasks? Was he late? Was he doing his job correctly?
And they can't find anything to speak against him.
They can't, you know, give occasion to anything wicked that Daniel has done at work.
That's why he says in verse 5,
You know, this is exactly the situation that Anchor Baptist Church is in today.
I mean, it's just uncanny.
I never thought this type of a situation would happen before my eyes.
But it's like, raise your hand if you've read the article, because it's behind a paywall
for some people.
Like, it is the funniest thing.
It is literally comical about how all these people who supposedly are so terrified by
me and, you know, want me fired for my job, when they actually comment on my character,
And it's like, what did he do wrong?
Well, they have to find occasion concerning the law of his God.
You know, this is as clear as day
in attempt to persecute a Christian for their religious beliefs.
This is what this is.
This isn't suffering for wickedness or sin.
It is attempting to persecute a Christian in the United States of America
for their religious beliefs.
It's not going to happen.
I don't believe it's going to happen.
Look at verse 10.
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed so just to let you know what happened
They wanted to get something against Daniel for the law of his God. So what they do they literally made prayer to God
illegal
You know, they had this decree signed that no one could pray or ask anything of any God
except for the king for a certain amount of time.
Then it says in verse 10, now, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went
into his house and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem.
He kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God
So, you know, thankfully, preaching the Word of God is not illegal in the United States.
You know, preaching against sodomites, like the Bible says, you know, hate speech laws,
not a thing in the United States.
We have the First Amendment.
We have the ability to freely practice our religion.
Prayer is not illegal in the United States.
Soul winning is not illegal in the United States.
And praise God for that.
And you know, if we want to keep it that way, we actually have to use these things and put
them into practice so that God can continue to bless us.
where part or all of this becomes illegal.
You know, this happened to Daniel,
where praying literally became illegal.
And the question is, what do you do at a time like that?
Well, of course, the Bible does command us
to submit to the government.
The Bible does say that we should obey the higher powers.
And I am 100% for Christians obeying government,
except, except when it causes us to violate God's law.
when it causes us to be in disobedience to God.
Hey, we want to live peaceably with all men.
We want to submit ourselves to the authorities
that God has placed in our country.
You know, we're not rebels here.
We're not, you know, doing some sort of insurrection.
We want to submit ourselves.
But hey, if the United States of America says
you're going to go to jail for preaching against the LGBT,
you know what we should do?
We should continue to do that
because it's the right thing to do.
You know what we should do if they say you're not allowed to go preach the gospel anymore?
We should continue to do that.
They say, oh, you're not allowed to pray anymore.
Oh, that would never happen.
It happened.
You know what we should do?
We should continue to pray and not be afraid.
And you know, I think that's why God delivered him.
Because it says in verse 16, then the king commanded and they brought Daniel and cast
him into the den of lions.
Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom Thou service continually, he will
deliver thee.
So, you know, Daniel, he didn't allow the terrorists to stop him.
He kept serving God.
He was faithful.
And even though he was thrown into the den of lions, you know what ended up happening?
God did deliver him.
You know, I think that's an example for us to realize like, hey, no matter what we're going through,
no matter the threats, no matter the intimidation, we should continue to do what is right regardless.
And sometimes we fear like, well, what if, right? The what ifs of life.
But oftentimes when we're faithful to God's word, God will deliver us from those what ifs anyways.
Go to Acts chapter number 17. Acts chapter 17. Let's talk about another guy. How about Paul?
Oh, Paul was just loved by everyone, right?
Paul was just in the news for only positive things.
No, Paul was another great Christian who was hated.
Look at Acts chapter 17 verse 1.
Now, when they had passed through Amphipolis,
I'm sorry about that, Amphipolis.
In Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, in three Sabbath days, reasoned with them
out of the Scriptures, opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered and risen
again from the dead, and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
So he's preaching the simple gospel.
That's what Paul is preaching right here.
the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.
Verse four, and some of them believed
and consorted with Paul and Silas
and of the devout Greeks, a great multitude,
and of the chief women, not a few.
So not everyone hates Paul, of course.
Many people getting saved.
Many people that are on his team.
But, verse five, but the Jews.
that believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the base or sort and gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people.
So notice, what is he doing? He's just preaching the simple gospel of Jesus Christ.
the death barrel and resurrection.
And tons of people are getting saved.
Tons of people are happy getting on his team,
but there's a specific group of people
that he just really pissed off.
You know who it is?
The Jews.
It says, but the Jews, which believe not, moved with envy.
And notice the MO of these people.
Notice the game plan of the Jews that hate Christ.
The Jews, they don't believe.
They're envious.
They're envious of the attention that Paul's getting.
They're envious of his influence, of his preaching power.
And so what do they do?
They move with envy and they take unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort.
You know who that is?
gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of
Jason.
and sought to bring them out to the people.
Notice, there was peace,
there was no violence going on,
there was no issues that were being had,
there was a man preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ,
there was people getting saved,
there was people whose lives were being changed,
but the Jews were mad about that.
The Jews were envious.
And so what did they do?
They took lewd fellows of the baser sort
and set them out like dogs
to surround the city and to cause an uproar.
This is exactly what happens to our types of churches today.
You got the Jewish media today that goes around and tries to instigate
and get all these sodomites angry to cause a problem where none existed.
Let me explain to you.
No one cares about my sermon that was preached in 2022 in 2025.
The fact that a sermon from 2022 is being brought up by a news agency is because it's
not news.
It's just because they want to stir up lewd fellows of the baser sort against Christians.
And let me tell you, the Oklahoma news outlet is an anti-Christian publication.
It is not your...
Oh, I mean, it's called the Oklahoma must be some local good old boy, nice people just
reporting the news.
No, no, no.
Let me explain this to you.
So the Oklahoma is owned by a company, to the best of my knowledge, called Gannett
Company Incorporated.
So the Oklahoma is owned by another company, very common, right?
Now, this company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
It's a public company, right, in the New York Stock Exchange.
One of the largest shareholders of Gannett Company is, does anyone want to guess?
If you, I told you at lunch, you can't answer.
Does anyone want to raise your hand and guess what the largest shareholder of this company is?
Anyone?
Okay, I'll tell you.
BlackRock.
What a shock.
Blackrock is one of the largest shareholders of the company that's owned by the Oklahoma.
Oh, you know, it's just a local news outlet. No, no, no, it's a Jewish billionaire owned company and
Last time I checked the Bible says that Jews hate the Lord Jesus Christ and that Jews are anti-Christ for denying that Jesus is the son
Here's the founder and CEO of Blackrock Larry Fink who is a Jew
No, no, no, it's not your nice little
little Oklahoma local country
newspaper. It is a Jewish
Wall Street, billion
air-owned propaganda
machine. It is the Jews
moving with envy, taking
to themselves lewd fellows
of the baser sort to rile up
the people of Oklahoma City.
That's what it is. And look, you need
to have some smarts and stop being so
easily manipulated.
just believing everything that the media says because while there's some true things in that news story
There's also a bunch of lies too like one of the things in that story said that I call for the execution of pastors
Who agree with LGBT? It's like that never happened. That was never said now. I will say they're fake Christians
I will say they're frauds, but I never said that LGBT affirming pastors themselves should be executed
Let's talk about another guy. How about the Lord Jesus Christ?
Oh, Jesus, was he a man of God?
Oh, so everyone should just love Jesus.
Everyone's automatically going to be on his side.
No, no, need I remind you that the founder of our religion
was lied about, was spit upon, was mocked,
was falsely accused, had a fake trial
where he was wrongly convicted
and then was brutally murdered to death on the cross.
That's the founder of Christianity.
Oh, you know, you guys just need to be more like Christ.
Oh, you mean, preach the truth, piss a bunch of people off to the point where they want to kill you?
Yeah, that's actually what Jesus did.
And it's like, well, my pastor's so Christ-like.
He never makes anyone mad.
He never has any hard sayings.
He never uses any harsh words.
It's like, he's not Christ-like.
You know who the Christ-like church is?
The one that the Jewish media hates.
The billionaire-owned, you know, big Wall Street...
paper hates Little Anchor Baptist Church. Why? Because this is the Christ-like church
right here. How about John the Baptist? John the Baptist was a real man of God. Jesus said
of those born among women, there's not risen a greater than John the Baptist. Great man
of God. Excellent preacher. Oh yeah, beheaded by Herod for preaching against adultery. For
saying, hey, you're not allowed Herod to have your brother's wife. I mean, this pattern
who was thrown into the dungeon, who was given to the stocks.
Why? Because he told Jerusalem and Judah to submit and surrender to the Babylonians
because that's what God wanted them to do.
because God was sending the Babylonians to take them into captivity as punishment,
and they were instructed that they should submit to the Babylonians.
And you know what? Jeremiah's message wasn't patriotic enough,
and so they hated him, they threw him in the dungeon, they put him to the stocks,
but guess what? He was the real man of God.
He was the one who was correct.
Okay, how about Stephen?
Stephen in the New Testament, the deacon, right?
Stoned to death.
killed for what? For preaching against the Jews. For recounting the whole
history of the Old Testament to the Jews and saying, man, you guys are stiff-necked.
You guys are hard-hearted. You guys, you know, you're just ridiculous for
rejecting God. You're rejecting the Holy Spirit of God and the Jews, you know, they
put their hands on their ears, ran at him and stoned him and killed him to death.
Right? They killed him. Put him to death.
How about Peter and the Apostles in Acts chapter number four, being imprisoned, being beaten, being commanded, not to preach anymore in the name of Jesus Christ.
They were persecuted, they were hated. Why? Because they preached against the sodomites? No, no, no, for preaching the gospel.
You know what's funny? I got a phone call today.
While we were out soul-winning of this angry man and this angry couple and you say what were they mad about Pastor Oz
Was it your sermon against the sodomites? Nope
It was the fact that someone knocked on their door and said if you were to die today, are you 100% sure you're going to heaven?
I posted it on Facebook. Go check it out
People are literally angry that we're preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. Oh you this is fake persecution
You guys only getting persecuted because you're so inflammatory about the sodomites. No, no, no
We're being persecuted for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ
Because those who actually read the Bible realize that real Christians are hated by the world.
And it doesn't matter what message it is from the Word of God,
when you're preaching the Word of God, people will hate you.
It doesn't matter if you're preaching against Judah and Jerusalem, of the incoming Babylonian army.
It doesn't matter if you're preaching against the Jews.
It doesn't matter if you're preaching the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.
It doesn't matter if you're preaching that sodomites are reprobates that are on their way to hell
if you're preaching the truth people will hate you.
And real men of God, all throughout the Bible, were not loved, were not liked, were not exalted by this world.
They were hated.
Have you ever read Hebrews chapter 11?
They were tortured, they were sawn asunder.
They were destroyed, they were killed for the testimony of Christ.
And look, I'm not, I'm not wishing for us to go through even worse things,
but, but here's what I'm saying. Don't be surprised if it happens.
If we're actually going to preach the Word of God, we should expect to be hated.
We should expect persecution.
And you know, what to God?
Our country would just repent.
What to God?
People would just humble themselves.
What to God?
Baptist churches would stand up and thunder forth the Word of God.
And you know what?
There'd be a lot less persecution against Christians.
But you know, if that's not going to happen, you should expect more battles,
more fighting, more persecution, not less.
Go to Luke chapter number six.
Number three this evening. I want you to understand this false prophets are loved by the world
Men of God the Bible says we're gonna be hated
The record that the Bible shows is that men of God were hated, but you know what, false prophets are not hated by the world
They're loved by the world. Look at the words of Christ in Luke chapter 6 verse 22
Jesus said, blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out
Your name as evil for the Son of Man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy for behold your reward is great in heaven
for in like manner did their fathers unto the prophets, but woe unto you that are rich, for ye
have received your consolation, woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger, woe unto you that
laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep, woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you, for so
did their fathers to the what?
False prophets you show me a pastor. That's loved by the government. That's loved by everyone
That's at the presidential prayer breakfast. That's these mega pastors all over the TV. I'll show you a false prophet
You know newsflash pastor Oz is not going to be invited to the presidential prayer breakfast any at any time
I mean if I got invited I would go it'd be it'd be wonderful. It'd be interesting prayer
You know people would learn what imprecatory prayers are and you know maybe our nation would be changed greatly for that
But you know that's not happening anytime soon. Why because it's the false prophets that are loved by the world
You know, it's the Paula Whites of this world that are going to be the spiritual advisor
to the president of the United States.
You know, what to God would be Pastor Stephen Anderson.
That's the presidential advisor.
I mean, our country would turn around fast.
Or Pastor Jonathan Shelley.
I mean, this would be wonderful, right?
But guess what?
Real men of God, they're going to be hated, they're going to be viewed as the scum of
the earth.
You know, Paul said, we are the off-scouring of all things, right?
The real men of God are going to be hated.
And you look at all these pastors and false prophets
that team up with the pride rallies and the government,
they're all false prophets, every single one of them.
Period.
Go to Matthew chapter number five,
we're almost done this evening.
Matthew chapter number five.
And you know, I know that there's a lot of safe churches
in this area.
I know there's a lot of safe pastors in this area,
but you know, I wish that they would stand up
and actually preach some hard sermons.
I wish that they would stop just regurgitating
the same salvation message every Sunday.
Look, your church members are saved,
but you know what else we need?
We need some hard preaching in America.
And so many pastors today, they have a platform.
They have a pulpit where they're able
to disseminate the Word of God
into this community and they're blowing it.
They're just regurgitating
the same sermons.
I mean, those of us who have spent some time
in the old IV, it's frustrating.
because just sermon after sermon, it's the same stuff over and over and over.
It's like salvation, God loves Israel,
and the rapture can happen at any second. And it's salvation,
and it's God loves Israel, and it's the rapture can happen.
Alright, now come up to the altar everyone. Like this is the old IFB.
Wouldn't it be nice if the old IFB actually just like said,
hey, why don't we actually preach hard?
Why don't we actually preach what the Bible says?
Why don't we actually stir some things up in this community?
Why don't we actually stop being such cowards
and such fearful preachers
and actually use the platform
that God has given us to preach His Word?
Hey, whatever comes at us, let it be so.
Who cares why don't we actually just be faithful to God's word and you know what it is a shame and here's the thing
I'm nothing I have so much to learn
I have so much to grow and I pray all the time that God gives me wisdom and teaches me how to be a pastor and teaches
Me to do things right and I want to grow I want to learn but let me tell you something. I think it's kind of
Ironic and kind of emblematic of the spiritual condition that we're in in America is like why does a 28 year old pastor
Have to be the only one that will stand up in this city and preach what needs to be preached about the sodomites
Why can't it be the gray heads? Why can't they show us? Why can't they lead the way? Oh, you're such a seasoned veteran pastor
Oh, you have such a big church. Why don't you be a big boy and preach the Bible?
Why does the young buck have to do it for you?
And you know what?
God can use the foolish things of this world.
God can use the smaller congregations.
God can use me.
God can use you.
But you know what?
I wish that these people would allow themselves to be used by God with their big money and
their big churches and their big voice and their big platform.
Wouldn't it be nice if they would stand up with us?
But you know what?
If they don't, I'll still be the guy.
If I have to be the only Micaiah, if I have to do it, I will do it.
But you know, I would love it if some pastors in this community would actually have the guts to join me and say what needs to be said and not allow terrorists to destroy our country.
Matthew chapter 5 verse 10 the Bible says blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake
Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the false
Prof, I'm sorry the prophets which were before you. You know, I'm rejoicing today that all the bigwigs of Oklahoma City don't love me
I'm rejoicing today that I'm not
numbered with all those false
prophets and terrible churches in
the religion section of the
Oklahoman. It's very clear that
one church stands out from the
rest in that news article and it's
Anchor Baptist Church and you know
what, I rejoice in that.
Why?
Because the Bible said that Christians who are actually serving Christ will be hated.
Because the Bible shows us that the real men of God in the Old Testament and in the New
Testament were hated.
And because the Bible says that people, prophets who are loved by everyone are ministers of
the devil.
Our false prophets.
Let's close it in Galatians chapter number one.
But you know this sermon isn't just about pastor standing up. This isn't about me just continuing to preach the word of God
You know you ought to ask this for yourself
Are you gonna be someone that is only interested in pleasing man or you're gonna be interested in being the servant of God?
Do you care about the praise of men?
Do you care about praising man today and being accepted of him?
Or do you care about what the Bible says and being accepted in the eyes of God?
Because let me tell you, you too will also receive persecution.
It is not just pastors that go through it.
Yes, they usually receive the brunt of it.
But look, I received persecution before I was a pastor.
That could happen to you.
Your family...
could say all manner of evil against you falsely.
Your neighbors could hate you wrongly
and say bad things about you.
You know, God forbid, I don't want this for anyone.
Your job can come after you.
These things could happen to you.
And so Christianity is not a spectator sport, folks.
You need to realize and internalize these things.
Do you actually want to be a servant of Christ
or please man?
We'll close in Galatians chapter one, verse number 10.
The Bible says, for do I now persuade men or God?
Or do I seek to please men?
For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
But I certify you brethren that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man,
for I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus
Christ."
You know, we've got to realize that, hey.
We want to be the servants of Christ.
We don't want to be man pleasers.
And hey, the good news is that we have the words of Christ.
We're not preaching man's opinion here.
We're not preaching man's words.
We're preaching the words that we received of Jesus Christ.
We need to hold fast to those words.
We need to be anchored to those words and let whatever comes.
You know what? Praise the name of the Lord.
Let's pray.
Your word and we thank you for the opportunity to endure any small persecution that we're going through
I pray that we would realize the honor that it is and I pray that every single person in here would be willing
To be hated of men not for our sins or problems that we have personally
But for your word and for the name of Jesus Christ. I pray that you bless our church
I pray that people in Oklahoma City who love you
and who love your word, would hear about our church and would join us in our mission to preach the gospel to the whole world.
Pray that you would just expand our tent, Lord, that you would enlarge our coasts, that you'd bless us mightily as a result of this.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Sound the battle cry.
The whole thing there is starting right on the verge.
Sound the battle cry.
See the poet's guide raise.
This is captain of the...
Long, amen with that you are dismissed.