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Mean alright, we're in first Samuel first Samuel chapter 22 in verse number one where it says David therefore depart of thence and
Escaped to the cave of Doolum and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it
They went down thither to him and everyone that was in distress and everyone that was in debt and everyone that was this contented
Gathered themselves unto him and he became a captain over them and there were with him about
400 men and the title of sermon this morning is from motley to mighty from motley to mighty now
Today is our one-year anniversary as I mentioned earlier
And I was really just thinking about what to preach on for our one-year anniversary
And as I began to think about some of the stories in the Bible this passage kept coming to mind
And I'm explained to you in just a little bit
But we see here in first Samuel chapter 22 the famous story of David running for his life from who from King Saul
Alright, he's running from King Saul and why is that?
Well turn back to first Samuel chapter 18 and we're gonna look at a couple verses right here
David as we know is the future king
He's not a king as of yet what in the story that we're looking at, but he is anointed. Okay
He's a man after God's own heart. We know that he plays an integral part of the Old Testament
But we see him going through some trials here look at first Samuel chapter 18 verse number 6
It says and it came to pass as they came
When David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistines that the woman came out of all the cities of Israel
Singing and dancing to meet King Saul
with tabards with joy and with instruments of music and the woman answered one another as they played and said Saul had slain his
Thousands and David his ten thousands and Saul was very wroth
He was very angry and the same displeased him and he and he said they have ascribed him to David ten thousands and to me
They have ascribed with thousands, but what can he have more but the kingdom so
David is working for Saul
He's there in his kingdom. He's doing Saul's work
I mean he's causing his kingdom to become successful and what happens they begin to sing this song
Which probably is not even true
But they're ascribing tens of thousands to David and only thousands to saw what happens to Saul rejoice at that
This all say hey, man. Hey, man, I got this soldier in my army. He's doing a great work. Praise the Lord
No, he became he becomes envious of David, okay
He becomes envious of him and look what the Bible says in verse number nine and saw I'd David from that day and forward
What does that mean now? I began to observe him
He began to become envious of David even to the point where he was just observing him. He hated him
He thought evil in his heart against him look at verse number 10 and it came to pass on the moral that the evil spirit
From God came upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house and David played with his hand
As at other times and there was a javelin in Saul's hand and saw cast the javelin for he said I will smite David
Even to the wall with it and David avoided out of his presence twice and Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with
him and was departed from
Saul now in light of all this Saul begins to pursue after David and he tries to kill him. He wants him dead
Now this really big is the story that basically
Catapult is the catalyst to him trying to pursue after David try to kill him
But we see that even prior to that Saul was already messing up
We see him in first Samuel chapter 13 doing things that he ought not to do
We see him in different portions of Scripture where he's sacrificing
And doing the work with that the priest is supposed to do and what does Samuel do Samuel comes to us on and said hey
I'm renting the kingdom from you. God is saying this
I'm taking the kingdom from you and I'm gonna give it to someone who's better than thou
referring to to David
Since that day
Saul recognizes. Hey, I'm done. And what does he do?
He become he begins to become desperate and then later on he becomes jealous of David now
We understand that David is very symbolic of the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay, and about two weeks ago or a week ago
I don't remember what it was
I preached on the ten virgins and I made the comparison of Saul and
David as well as the Jews and new believers or believers in the New Testament, excuse me
But we see very there's a lot of similarities between the two
Why is that because Saul persecuted David just as the Jews persecuted the Christians, right?
Saul persecuted David the Bible says that the kingdom was taken from Saul and given unto David
just as the kingdom of God was taken from the Jews and given unto a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof and in fact of
Exact phrase says he it's gonna be given to someone who's better than thou
Well, what is that in the New Testament the better covenant which is established upon better promises?
And according to Hebrews chapter number eight, so we see a lot of similarities here
But another application that we can make to it is the fact that Saul represents the old IFB
You see a lot of characteristics of the old IFB and when we refer to the old IP we're referring to the old
Independent fundamental Baptist, right? Not necessarily in age
But the people who decide to stick in that position of being an old IFB they stick to their own same old beliefs
They're not willing to grow and change and really David pictures the new IFB we would be considered a new IFB Church
Now as I think about our church, I can't help but apply the principles that we see here to it
This was us. Okay in first Samuel chapter 22 look at go back to first Samuel chapter 22
As we celebrate our one-year anniversary you said what is Saul and the old IP have to do with this
I'm gonna explain to you in just a moment as we celebrate our one-year anniversary. We need to think about where we came from
Okay
We need to think about where we came from
Now look what it says here in first Samuel chapter 22 verse number one David therefore depart of thence and escape
To the cave of doulam and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it they went down thither to him
So all these guys were in the cave of doulam. There were nobody's okay
In fact, these were people who were despised and more than anything David was despised to the point where Saul wanted to kill him
And I think if we had a mic and we went around the church
Everyone has a testimony
Everyone has a story of their old IFB Church where they said, you know what my pastor hated my guts or my church was a
Dispensational dipstick church, you know
My church was a was a fag loving church or whatever and they hated me because I listened to pastor Steven Anderson
And I was just ostracized for being in that position. Well, you're kind of like in a doulam's cave
His brethren in his father's house here that he's in a doulam's cave and they decide these people they decide to go down with him
And from these men we have we get the mighty group
Okay, the mighty group known as David's mighty men and second Samuel chapter 23
So often we look at chapter 22 of first Samuel and we think man. These people aren't dead. They're discontented. They're in distress
These are the guys who actually become David's mighty men later later on and
By mighty we mean that these guys were warriors
These guys fought the battles these guys won the victories these guys did a great work for the Lord
But that's not how they started. Where do they start in the doulam's cave?
Where do they start just looking for David?
You know going with them. Where do they start in distress in debt?
Discontented
Nobody's but then what happened they became somebody. Okay, they went from motley to mighty now
You said why do you call them a motley crew or what is that? What is motley?
Well a motley crew is an informal expression
Regarding a roughly organized group of people that are a little rough around the edges
In other words, they're there. They didn't go to Bible College or something, you know, they didn't go to Bible College
They didn't have you know
Maybe some of them just got saved or they're just you know, fresh out of the world, but they're zealous for God
They love the Bible. They love soul winning
They love the things of God, but they're just a little rough around the edges, by the way
I prefer an unpolished Christian who loves God the Bible and souls
Then a polished Christian who's been in church for 20 years and stop growing
Who can't be told anything who can't learn anything new they can't be told anything because they just got everything figured out
But hey, they got their parted hair by the way, I got part of their song, you know, you know
They got their suit their shirt and tie. They got their big fancy church
But they can't seem to grow in their knowledge of the Word of God. They can't be reproved. They can't be corrected. They're not humble
But the motley crew on the other hand these rough people who
You know join David
These people were ended up being the mighty crew the mighty group the mighty David's mighty men
Now you look at Saul Saul's I mean he was done
He was done thereafter
His kids never took the throne
He never did a mighty work after that in fact
We use him as a byword in a proverb to this day of what not to do
He became an example of what not to do and you know what when we look at the old IFP churches
We're thankful for the fact that they did great works for God
But you know what we often look at them and say that's something you don't do
That's not how you preach that's not how you saw wind that's not how you stand for right that's how you don't do it
Oh, we'll use them as an example, but we use them an example of what not to do just like saw
Now look at verse number two
It says in everyone that was in distress and everyone that was in death and everyone that was
Discontent to gather themselves unto him and he became a captain over them and there were with them about
400 men so this is the current state of these guys
Okay, and I think we could take those qualities and even apply them to the people in our church
Look at the first one. They were in distress
Okay, so before you came to the new I have be or before you came to faith-forward Baptist Church of LA
You know where you were you were in distress
You might have been going to a church or whatever may be but you were in anguish. You're suffering
You're just like I hate where I'm at people hate me, you know, but this is the best church in my area
My I can't get along with my pastor, you know, they they they they they're suspicious of me at all times
They don't like me. I'm in distress
You know and it doesn't specifically say why these people were in distress, but they're men of like passions
So I'm sure they're being persecuted. I'm sure I'm sure Saul was giving them a hard time
I'm sure he was persecuted him a little bit and therefore they're just like man. I don't know what else to do
I'm in distress go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4
But compare that so these guys are in distress but a couple chapters afterwards in 2nd Samuel, they're the mighty ones
They're not in distress. They're putting people in distress
You know, they're slaying the lion like man. They're going into the pay on a snowy day to slay a lion
They're doing these great works that that's not a quality of distress
That's someone who's grown out of being motley and now is becoming mighty
Okay, look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 in verse number 8 Paul writing this says here
We are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but not in despair
Persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed now as you're reading this think about when you were in your old church
Okay, think about your old church man. We're trouble to never say it, but you know not to stress
We are perplexed but not in despair
Persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not but not destroyed
Always bearing about them in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our
Body, you see there's a lot of people who even in our church they were ostracized from their old church
They were looked down upon there were there were hated on there were there were there were persecuted and often for no reason
You know a doctrine of reason regarding end times and the fags and you know, the the Jews or whatever
You know because you're associated with Pastor Anderson and what did that cause you to do it?
Well, it felt it made you feel like you weren't at home anymore
Made you feel like man, I don't even I don't even have any friends now if you're sitting here today
You're like, well, I kind of get along with my old pastor will praise the Lord
But you know what? That's not the same story for everyone
The vast majority of people who've joined the new IV, you know, they come from a place where they're distressed
You know church is supposed to be a place where we enjoy coming to now
What place will we feel obligated to come to you know what I mean?
You know when you come to church and I'm gonna be like sunny morning
I gotta gotta go to church if that's you need to get your heart, right?
But you know the elements of the church ought not to cause you to feel that way
You know the preaching on not to cause you to feel that way the friendships that you have in your church
I'm not to cause you to feel that way and sometimes people come from churches that that's exactly how they felt
You know what? It wasn't they're in distress. So what did you do? Well when you're in distress you just go home
after a Sunday night
Turn on YouTube
And listen to your red-hot fiery sermon
Right, and it was just like, you know, you're eating tofu all day long
Spiritual tofu and you come home you eat yourself a steak
But you know what God did now God allowed you to have a church now
Now you have a place where you can come to and eat steak here. Amen now
Steak and more steak is good. I still eat steak here and I eat steak when I go home, too
All right. So but here's the thing a lot of the people even in our church. It wasn't like that before
You know you felt alone in the stress. You feel like you didn't have a friend in the world. Everyone's against you
Well, it's not like that anymore
But the motley crew that we see here was just like that the Bible says in 1st Timothy chapter 3 verse 14
Verse 14 says these things write on to unto thee hoping to come unto thee shortly
But if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God
Which is the church of the Living God the pillar and ground of the truth
You see we all need a place where we can come and listen to the Word of God unfiltered
Listen be able to learn the Word of God and not have to worry that I have to go to Bible College in order to
Do so right, you know a lot of the times these churches and I preached a couple weeks ago about Bible College
You know, you don't get any deep doctrine unless you go to Bible College
You know, I don't care. You know that sermon pissed a lot of people off good
Why don't you go ahead and do something about it?
You know, they're all mad at me because I'm ragging on their bus routes and how lazy they are
They're not willing to go soul winning and then they're using their bus routes in order to inflate their numbers
Why don't you do something about it?
You know, I just heard this week a pastor who doesn't like us got up and said to his congregation
He said this he says we need to pick up our soul winning. Oh boy. Do we need to pick up on our soul winning?
Amen
You know, you can hate me for the rest of your life, but I'm thankful that I provoked you to that
Don't do more so out so in us
Go see more people saved than we do I'm all for that
Because I'm not competing with you. I'm competing with the devil
Okay, I'm competing with false religions
But I'm not competing with other Baptists and if you're able to do more than us, amen
But guess what? That's not how they treat us when we see so safe. They treat us like trash. Oh
You know, you just say all those souls saved. Where are they at in Compton and
El Monte
All the cities we go so in you want me to take you to their address
You know, I'm not gonna say that about them if they're seeing souls saved. Amen
And I'm thankful that we provoked them to do that
Even if they still hate our guts
But here's the thing is, you know, you can come to church now and actually get fed
Okay
You know and you could and it's like you can come to church and not sneak your way into church
And like ask around if anybody else listens to pastor Anderson or if anybody else is poser
Sure, what do you think about what do you think about gay people?
You know
You can come in man. This is my home. Everyone believes like like we do this is great
You don't have to be undercover
the Bible says in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11
and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the
perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ
Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God into a perfect man
Unto the measure of the statue of the fullness of Christ. See that would that's what church is for is to edify the Saints
But Church nowadays, especially in the independent fundamental Baptist realm has not become that it's become a worship of the Jews
Fight against the new IFB and the like
Whereas it's like people go there they want to learn but they're not learning anything
You know what? They're learning about the love of God and the grace of God
They get an entire month worth of grace grace and more grace
You know, they get an entire month of stewardship month
You know
Those don't park it there
Right teach you how to give to them
But when it comes to the deep doctrines of God, they leave that alone
You know
But not only that you see him in first Samuel chapter 22, so they're in distress
I think a lot of people can say yeah at one point. I remember I wasn't I was stressed out
In my church. I didn't get along with my pastor
I should be able to get along with him and I was contacted by someone in the new IFB a couple days ago
And they said they're getting along great with their pastor and he's an old IFB guy
You know, he says he's getting along great
You know, they they're they're great friends and he said that his pastor, you know, his pastor had like a Zionist flag
You know the star red fan in the back and he looked at it the other day and he said that's a wicked nation
I'm talking about the pastor said that he goes I'm taking this flag down
Amen
That takes guts to do that
But you know, that's because that member was being a good testimony in his church
There's been a blessing there and therefore he's the heart of this pastors changing and thank God for that
You know
He's not he's not Saul
He's able to be corrected, you know
And he's able to make the changes necessary to do what he needs to do
But now that we see that they're now not only were they in distress. They were in debt
And no, I'm not just talking about Bible college students
Okay, you know Bible college is like I'm in debt, you know
I spent so much money in Bible callers learning how to run a bus route or whatever
Tens of thousands of dollars to learn how to run a bus route
Learn how to dress right and act right and so on and so forth now there might be people here who are in debt
I don't know. Okay, maybe you're in debt because you basically
Gave to the building program or something, you know at your church, but go to Romans chapter 13
This is how we're gonna apply it to to our church
They
Were in dead they're in distress they were in debt look at Romans chapter 13 and verse number 8
It says here Romans chapter 13 in verse number 8. Oh no man anything
But to what love one another for he that loveth another has fulfilled the law
So what do we owe people we owe people our love?
Now specifically what is the best way to show our love for someone so winning
Given the gospel you see these men were in debt and I'm honestly obviously it's referring to financial debt
But if we were to look at it as from a spiritual perspective a lot of people who came to our church
They were in debt spiritually because they weren't doing any soul-winning
Because they came from a church that didn't do any soul-winning and even if you came from a church that did so many
Maybe they didn't do it correctly. And what what happened you were in debt spiritually
Cuz the soul-winning was not getting done. Okay, and
This is one of the reasons why it's because the leadership was in Sony
You weren't taught Sony or you tried your best to go so winning with the pastor and the pastor just rejected you said no
You know because he has to go do his visits or whatever
Whereas so the Bible teaches us that we need to preach the gospel to every creature and before we came here
It's just like well, you know, I did do so winning
I did it the best that I could I didn't really know how but I did what I could you know what you're in debt
Because you owed men your love but now guess what now you're in a church now
You can learn soul-winning and my way don't ever lose that newness of being in this church
You know before I was just like so yeah, and then all of a sudden like a couple months afterwards
It's like I guess I guess I'll go so any or whatever, you know, I want to if I'm not that tired
Whatever happened to being in debt
You know whatever happens to the fact that you came because you were in debt because you owed men your love you weren't preaching the gospel
As you should and now that you're here you're in the atmosphere. What soul-winning is being done
You're rearing back on your soul-winning. Don't let that happen to you
You know if you're here, you ought to say, you know, I want to keep growing as a soul-winner
I want to keep preaching the gospel see more people safe. Don't let that fire go out and
The things that make the fire go out is problems or just the busyness of life the love of money
You know, whatever may be you need to get your priorities straight make sure that you keep you keep preaching the gospel
You're seeing people safe on a regular basis
Because to whomsoever much is given of him shall be much required God's giving you a church where you can be sent out of
You know and you know and you don't have to worry about paying for your tracks or whatever, you know
You don't have to worry about people getting on you because you're so winning differently than they are
No now you're in a church where they're doing it just like you do it
You need to do it
You know, but these guys who basically came to David they were in distress
They were in debt go to go to go with the view to 2nd Kings chapter 7
The Bible says in Jude
21 keep yourselves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ into eternal life and if some have
Compassion making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire
Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh
You know what irritates the fire enemy is people who are in our movement who complain about you know
Who complain about their churches?
You know complain about their old IP churches or whatever, but they're not doing any Sony
They're not willing to make the the the trip to go out to a new IP church to go do that to learn it how
To do it. They're not willing to make the the drive to do it
They're not willing to put in the effort to go learn how to saw him
You know, my pastor is a pre trip. Well, do you go so winning at that church? Well, no
Then why are you complaining?
Well, my pastor he's a he's a Jew loving
Zionist
But hold on a second. Are you so winning though? Are you handling your business there?
Are you living above reproach at that church? Then you ain't got no room to talk. I
Don't care what he believes about the Jews. He might he might be a Rothschild himself
But if you're not so when you're not preaching the gospel, why are you talking crap?
You know the ones who actually deserve to talk trash are those who actually doing the work
They're given to their church. They're involved. They're preaching the gospel
They're doing what they're supposed to be doing
But no, what do you have is people just want to criticize old IV pastors while they're sitting on their rear ends doing nothing
You know, we need to have Christians who are fulfilling their responsibilities. They're preaching the gospel. They're going to church
They're they're being consistent in their walk with the Lord and not just criticized from from from the pews and don't get me wrong
I hate Judaism. I preach against Zionism all the time. I hate the pre-tribulation rapture. I hate faggots
I hate all that stuff. But here's the thing. I go so winning
okay, and
The old life be what they'll do is they'll say well, you know, they need to go soul winning or whatever
You know, let's start criticizing thinking that like we don't go so any well
You know that's true for some people who don't go to church because they don't go so any but it's not true about our church
We're out there preaching the gospel
Okay, the Bible also says in first John 3 17
But who so hath this world's good and see if his brother have need and shut up his bowels of compassion from it from him
How do I let the love of God in him my little children?
Let us not love in word neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth now
Obviously that's referring to our brethren, but we can apply that to so winning as well
you know these pastors who want to get up and say they love people but they refuse to go so winning and
Actually put that into action
You are now in a church where you have the platform and the abilities the resources necessary to actually get people saved
Don't waste that
Opportunity and don't say well someone else would do it. No you do it
You get your butt in church. You get your butt memorized in the Romans Road and get the work done
Well, I'm just a new Christian then memorize the first verse
Be a silent partner for a couple months put it put in work to be the soul winner than you need to be
You know, don't come here and start criticizing your old IP pastor if you're in doing any of those things
Now
So they were in distress they were in debt and I like this one they were
Discontented in first Sam in chapter 22
Now, what does this contented mean? They're not satisfied
Okay, and when I think of that I think of people who are in churches where the preaching was just lame as the day is long
It's just like I did not get I'm anemic spiritually right now
This is like the fifth sermon I've heard on the love of God
You know, hey, we experienced the love of God when we got saved a man
We know all about that
Can you give me anything else?
Can I can I get can you can you stop feeding me tofu and give me some meat of the word a?
Lot of people in these churches. They're just discontented
Why because the preaching was garbage it was whack
It's what it was, you know the preaching and the old IFP churches and look I'm generalizing and obviously
There's some who are not like this, but the vast majority are the preaching and old I have been churches is whack
They're garbage
It's boring
You don't learn anything
You leave like I don't even know what I learned like there's no deep doctrine. There's no nothing
They're all you know, you need to learn how to be inspired. It's not it's about inspiration not about information
No, the Bible says growing grace and in the knowledge
knowledge is
What you're learning?
Growing grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but the problem is we have churches only grown in grace
No knowledge involved. That's why they're allowing the sodomites in that's why they don't know how to defend
Salvation the salvation doctrine they don't know any doctrine they stay away from the book of Revelation wife because that requires knowledge
And you know what the people in the pews are not stupid. They're like, I want to learn
You're not teaching me. I'm discontent
Well, they need to learn to love to preach in there, you know
Despise not prophesying but prophesying means preaching out of the Bible
This prophesying means the Word of God is being preached it's being taught you're getting out of John and
Proverbs and even in the New Testament and you're using the entire Word of God to teach the congregation
See when I come to church, I want to learn something. I want a
Doctrine to be reinforced. I want to see another facet of the diamond
Oh, you know you guys always want to look for something new. No, but the Bible is inexhaustible
So, you know what? There's always something to learn from the Word of God
Okay, look at 2nd Kings chapter 7 in verse number 1
It says this story reminds me of that concept there says then Elisha said hear ye the word of the Lord thus saith the Lord
Thank you. Thus saith the Lord tomorrow about this time
shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria then
The Lord on whose hand the king leaned
answered the man of God and said behold if the Lord would make windows in heaven might this thing be and he said behold thou
Shall see it with thine eyes
But shall not eat thereof and there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate and this head went to another
Why sit we here until we die?
If
We say we will enter into the city then the famine is in the city if we shall die there if we shall sit here
I'm still still here we die
Also now therefore come let us fall into the host of the Syrians if they save us alive
We shall live and if they kill us we shall but die. So he's saying this what do we have to lose?
You know that reminds me of it reminds me of where I was a little over a year ago
Or it's like why am I gonna stay here until I die?
You know, what do I have to lose?
You know, what do I have to lose, you know, and there's a lot of people in all I be churches who are new
I have beers
They need to ask themselves this question and say why am I gonna stay here till I die till this church dies?
To this pastor just goes off the deep end
You know, some people just need to move
To a new I have be Church
You know, don't go to YouTube Baptist Church
It's a great church, but guess what it's not real church
You need to make sure that you're moving to a new I have be Church because if not you're gonna sit there till you die
Look Aaron as I preached a long time at the Red Hot Preaching Conference, you know, God told them you're gonna die there
Stripping the garments from you and you're gonna die there
You know, what Aaron is a picture of the old I have be pastor who doesn't want to change
I'm not saying for the worse change for the better
Okay, then die there
But you know what to the members who are within those churches don't die there
Why will you sit there until you die? Why will you sit there?
and look I've talked to people who are new I have beers who attend old I have be churches and
You know the longer they stay there the different our conversations become
It's almost as if they're not growing enough and the conversations are shallow
It's like they're not getting certain concepts you can tell that they're dying spiritually
You can't stay there for long
You know, especially if you're a dad if you're a dad and and you have your family new
I have an old I have be Church. You need to make a decision
Is your family gonna die there?
You know, are you gonna have your children and children's church for the rest of your life?
Well, no because they grow up and then they they go into the main service
No, no when they grow up and they get out of children's church. They're gonna go to a church
They're just like a children's church
That's what's gonna happen
Okay
But these guys this motley crew this is what was wrong with them. They were in distress
They were in debt and they were discontented. They were they were fed up with the preaching
You know, I hear it all the time. It's just a man. My pastor is just he's a good guy
But he's just the preaching is just not good, you know, and you know, you shouldn't say they should respect the man of God
Well, the man of God ought to be respectable then
I
Got out to be ripping face
And not being worried about who he's gonna offend
You know, I remember being at my old church
I was just like I was just hoping my pastor would just rip just a little bit on the faggots
And any little thing is just and I'd support them even the shallow preaching against the sodomites. I'd be like, hey, man
Come on preacher
Amen, that's old IP term and I'd be there but I'm thinking to myself. I just wish you just hit it a little harder. I
Just wish you just call him a faggot every once in a while. I just wish call him a filthy sodomite just once
You know and the thing is look you go to these churches and they'll do like the gays, you know, the people come on
Hey, man to the people that's hard preaching
To the people there they're just like man pastor rip today
You know, my old pastor called me out, but not really
Last week, he didn't say my name, but he was talking about me
It was obvious who he was talking about and I guarantee the people in those pews are like the pastor rip today
He tore it up. He called me like a complete idiot or something like that
One of the guys is like brother me. He does that like in the announcements
You know, he to them that's just a hard picture but you know what when you meet McDonald's for so long McDonald's sounds really good
Because
You got the MSG in you
You know, that sounds very good to you and you can't tell with something good
Well, you can't you can't even distinguish the taste between a filet mignon and a double cheeseburger from McDonald's
Okay, but here's the thing is in and that's how it is in most churches
They think hard preaching is just like when they talk about Trump and how Republican he is and how they you know
The the homos aren't allowed and you know, the White House is like man you got on them bad. Yeah, that's hard preaching brother
They do this. Hey, man
And it's just like but you know what once you have good preaching you can't go back to that
People are like or you know all that features. They'll say
You know, would you want us to come try to get your people? I'm like try it
You want us to come tell them about the preacher go for it I
Encourage any old IFB preacher to come try to take my members and try to and try to out preach me
It's not gonna happen
I didn't challenge any old IFB preacher to come and try to convince someone from my church about the preacher relation rapture
Go for it. You guys can meet in a coffee shop if you want on me. I
Don't scare me one bit that's good for my members. Amen
You know, let's see if you guys can defend your doctrine
You know
I encourage you to come and talk try to debunk believe only and try to try to see if you could get
The the members in our church to stumble it's not gonna happen. You know, why cuz we grow in knowledge here
And these people aren't stupid
Okay, I'm not afraid of that. You know, all that bees are for pastors are afraid of that
You know why because they're not teaching their people
You know, they're teaching their people. Don't don't don't study the Bible. Just know Jesus. That's what they're saying
Okay
now
So this is the group right here though the distress the in debt and the discontent to the discontent with the churches
They're they're tired of the fact that the faggots are allowed to just roam freely in their churches and nothing's being done about it. I
Remember even in my old church that happened it pissed me off. You know, why cuz I have a son
Okay, and my son I put my son to the nurseries. That's how we grew up
and they're allowing this this freak transvestite and
To walk around the church. They're not booting him out. I
Wasn't there if I was there I would have thrown him out
You know if we got in trouble, whatever and you're you're putting my family's life in danger
my children in danger
But you don't want to offend so you don't say nothing about it. You know what I was I was discontent
What the leadership and how weak it was?
He's a good man. They're good people there, but it's just weak leadership
Church
Leadership needs to be strong leadership
Church leadership needs to tell it like it is
Church leadership needs to kick and scream and punch and shout and say no sodomites allowed
What about my cousin not allowed? Oh
But I have a Thea she's not allowed
No faggots allowed
We don't tolerate any false doctrine. That's not good leadership, brother
You got to make sure that you're patient with people. You know what they can wait outside then
Until they change their mind, and they can come in I'll be patient
They could believe whatever they want, but they can't believe it in here
You know they can even believe that sodomites and faggots can be saved. They just can't believe it here
You know that's leadership. Not like well. You know the gay people
We got a bunch of gay people in here
I'm gay right now. I meant there's a one-year anniversary
I'm gay right now
I'm happy. I'm making you gay by even saying that amen
But the library people well, you know the gay people can't let them get married
That's as far as they'll go and then they'll say this hey turn off the cameras real quick
Turn off the hot heel don't put this online you weakling coward
Why are you so scared?
But I thought I thought you know you're you're supposed to be this bold man of God
You know what if they come protest go for it. We got a sidewalk right here. We got the gates to keep the faggots out
We got a bunch of men here who can handle business if need be
This isn't a weakling West Coast Baptist North Valley Golden Calf Church
These were some motley guys
Can we got some motley people in here hey, and I don't say that in a disrespectful way
I'm thankful that we have a motley crew in here
I'm thankful that our people are rough around the edges not all of them obviously
But a good majority of them are I mean you know people were telling me that when they saw our first video when we're gonna
Start the church. I purposely put two guys on the side of me these these Mexican guys
We got you leases and another guy, and we're just we're walking
We're like we're gonna start the church and people are like they look like a gangster church
I
Glad you think that
Good, it's gangsta
Hey, I don't care if they think that you know the old IV is like well
We can't we you're misrepresenting. No. We're not we're like the motley crew here
You know the twelve disciples weren't necessarily Bible college graduates either
unlearned men who were fishers
little motley
Nothing wrong with that, but here's the thing is
We start off motley, but if we don't want to remain necessarily motley. You know what we want to become we want to become mighty
You see this motley crew they changed and they became mighty
Okay, now go to first Samuel chapter 22. We're gonna read it again verse number one so hard
What are some steps that we can take to become from motley to mighty?
Number one
Number one they follow David
Verse number one says David therefore depart of thence and escaped to the cave of Durham and when his brethren and all his father's house
Heard it they went down thither to him see though. They were discontented in debt and in distress
They didn't use it as an excuse to say well. Yeah, we can't go
I got way too many bills to pay you know I got my job
I got this no they went to David and David of course is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ
But let me say this is that every church every movement every organization
Needs a leader
Okay, and every Christian needs to learn how to follow
We're not a house church
Where we have like five different leaders here
Then we all come to a consensus and it's a democracy. We don't do that here
Let me tell you how faithful or Baptist Church is run. Okay. This is how it's run this church was established by pastor
Stephen L Anderson
Okay, he ordained me as the evangelist of the church and as the overseer of this church
He has basically allowed me to have authority in this church and guess what? So when he's absent guess who's in charge me. Oh
No, you're just becoming a dictator you call it what you want
That's fine
That's okay. I don't care you label it whatever you want, but the fact remains is in the Bible
There's supposed to be you you're supposed to follow a man
Okay, follow a leader follow the leadership don't have this mentality
Well, I just do my own thing and no follow a leader
If you want to become successful in your Christian life
You have to follow someone and let me just say this is it if you have a hard time?
Following in this church. You probably should go to another church
If you're like, ah, I just I just can't respect you brother me here. I just I just okay then go somewhere else
No hard feelings I got thick skin people think they like certain things offend me. I'm like, I don't I really don't care
If you don't like it, then just go somewhere else
I don't have a problem with that because then you're not gonna be you're not gonna succeed in your Christian life if you can't follow
Anybody?
Okay, look
If you can follow your old IFP pastor you can follow me here
Yeah, no doubt
Because a lot of old IFP pastors are not followable but someone with character if they're able to follow them they can follow here
It's typically people with authority issues. They can't follow
Okay, where they feel like they know better than everyone else and they know how to be a better pastor better evangelist
you know then go somewhere else go to you know,
Don't even go to old IFP Church go to stinking. I don't know go to docus Church
It's at the edge of the earth, you know go there
Go learn false doctrine there and I'm it look. Hey Doka ordained
Unjust LeBlanc one month into him being there. He might ordain you too
Then there you could have the three Stooges
And you guys call and look Doka will even let you teach him new doctrine
He'll even let you can come over there whatever you want and he'll just eat it all up
He'll even let you preach for an entire week on your false doctrine if you want
It's true
He did it to LeBlanc, you know, and you even get up right before you preach and say I support this message
I endorse this, you know, he'll back you up if that's where you want to go
Go to that garbage church
And I don't even want to call it a church, but we just you know, it's lame harvest Baptist Church is what it's called
Okay
Good go to first Samuel chapter 1
Excuse me first Thessalonians. Excuse me first Thessalonians chapter 1, but you know what here there's leadership
And look that's how it's gonna stay that's how it's gonna remain
Pastor Anderson is the boss, but guess what when he's not here
He's put me in charge and in a year from now Lord willing when we go independent. Guess what then I'm the boss
You know and you are you're boasting no because every biblical institution needs a leader
Needs to be able to and under him obviously there's leaders
But we don't have a free-for-all here and in order for you to be successful to go from motley to mighty
You need to learn how to follow
David had his flaws. I'm sure he was imperfect, but these group of men followed him
He was a captain over them look at first Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 5 for our gospel came not unto you in word only
But also in power and in the Holy Ghost and in much assurance as you know what manner of men we were among you for
Your sake and he became followers of us, but look what it says and of the Lord
Haven't received the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Ghost
So in order for you to really follow the Lord you got to follow a man
And look I'm not talking about you know blind follow-ship
We had enough of that in the old IFP whereas like some of this guy is a complete false prophet Jack Scott
People still followed him
No, we're talking about following him as they follow Christ
Following the leader as the leader follows Christ the Bible goes on to say you don't have to turn there in
Judges chapter 7 verse 17 and he said unto them look on me and do likewise and behold when I come to the outside of the
Camp it shall be that as I do so shall ye do when I blow the truth with the trumpet I
And all that are with me then blow you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and say the sword of the
Lord and of Gideon
you see in order for us to be successful in order for us to fight the wars that we need to fight there needs to
Be a captain and the captain often has captains, but the main principle is this we need to learn how to follow
Okay, and not just buck the authority look when we throw someone out of the church like Samuel when we threw Samuel out of
The church no one should come and say hey, man. I thought he was cool, man. Why'd you do that for?
You know that's not cool, bro
You know what I'll do if you tell me that come here real quick
I'll take you to Paul, and I'll say Paul. Can you go show him the door real quick?
Open the door and just shove them out cuz we're not tolerating that
You know and look we need to make sure that we're on board with the leadership, and it's not just me kicking them out
It's the church right we're all for it and all the gods people said
Amen, when we kick someone out you know and we're not just throwing people out just to throw people out
You know I gave Samuel many opportunities and chances
Okay, because I wanted to make sure that I was I don't want to make I want to make sure that I'm right on my
Judgment, but obviously the evidence was there, and it was done and look we didn't have anybody who came up and said oh man
Hey, I was Samuel's best friend man. What are you doing?
You know we're like buddies and stuff, but this is only in our first year
We've already thrown people. We've already thrown the infiltrators out in our first year
imagine the next 10 years
20 years it's gonna happen and it might it might happen to someone who you love and care about
So you got to make sure you trust the leadership
When it happens okay?
But you got to learn how to follow the Bible says wherefore I beseech you be followers of me first Corinthians 11 1 be
Followers of me even as I also am of Christ
Philippians 3 17 brethren be followers together of me and mark them which walk so as he have us for an
Ensemble so the Bible tells us that in order for you to become from motley to mighty you have to follow one person
But also mark people who you want to basically imitate their attributes because look though. I'm the main leader here
There's a bunch of leaders here
What's their title there is no title?
Leadership is basically influence. It's a man who can handle his business
It's a man who knows who has character
Handles his business is serious about the things of God and is able to influence others for the things of God
We have plenty of men like that in our church, and thank God we do mark them
Okay, and look if you're a guy and you're like well. I want to be a leader one day the number one grow up
You know stop being immature
Okay, number two get yourself a wife
Those are good to have great
You know number three you need to get serious about the things of God and begin to influence
Others for the things of God as well, okay, but it starts with number one you need grow up
You know stop acting like a little kid
Okay, especially if you're a man now go to first Samuel chapter 27
First Samuel chapter 27
So
These guys they went from molly to mighty because you know number one they started following David
But number two and this is important
This is why they became mighty
They forgot about Saul
Now here's a mistake that David made okay because in first Samuel chapter 26
We see Saul coming to David, and he basically tells them hey, I'm not gonna pursue you anymore and
He's like you know you promised, and he's like yeah, I won't pursue you anymore
Well look at first Samuel chapter 27 verse number one and David said in his heart
I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul
And there is nothing better for me than that I should
Speedily escape into the land of the Philistines and Saul shall despair of me to seek me anymore in the coast of Israel
So shall I escape out of his hand skip down to verse number seven and the time that David dwelt in the country of the
Philistines was a full year and four months
you see
He didn't forget about Saul
He kept thinking that Saul was gonna still kill him now. How did David die? He died the way everyone wants to die
old
Surrounded by his loved ones accomplishing much. He did not die the way he thought he was gonna die
But here's the thing is
The way we could apply that to us today is this if you want to become mighty and not remain motley
You want to grow through that process you need to forget and stop being bitter towards your old pastor
Okay, now people will hear my preaching and think that I'm bitter towards my old pastor
I honestly am not and this is this is what people need to make the distinction
Telling someone that they're wrong. It's not bitter against them
Yeah
You know, I've said it multiple times if he calls me even if you call me today and he said hey
I want to squash this with you. I say great
You know, I forgive you, you know, I hope everything's alright
I've been praying for you and we can be friends from a distance and leave it at that
But does that mean he's right? No, you see we have the responsibility to tell people that they're wrong
Reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering in doctrine the Bible says, you know, and he said well, you know
You don't have to tell people why don't you stay out of their business?
When they put their stuff on the internet becomes our business
Right when they put their stuff on the internet it becomes our business. So when Doca put his stupid sermons all up online
He's like, why don't you leave me alone, you know, and I'm gonna disable the comments
He needs to stop being such a little snowflake or just take down his channel
And by the way, Doca take your channel down if you don't want to hear it
You know, I'll stop cutting my sermons up and trying to make us look stupid you have done that yourself
You made yourself look stupid we just magnify it by reposting exactly what you said
See you look stupid already. All we did it was just repost what you said and then you look stupider
Okay
But here's the thing. We have a responsibility to say that's wrong
What they're saying is wrong
Let me show you what the Bible says. This is right and guess what old IV pastors fall into that category
So lest you think that I hate old IV pastors
I hate the ones who are not saying we were teaching to repent of your sins. They can die and go to hell
today
Preferably, but the ones who are saved I don't hate them. I just think that they're wrong. I
Mean well, don't we have that opinion to say hey this person's wrong
You're wrong for throwing people out of your church for listening to pastor Anderson
You're wrong for believing in the pre-tribulation rapture and in Zionism, you're wrong
But I don't hate you because of that
You see I'm saying now the reason they think we hate them is because they hate us even though they disagree with us as well
They're basically treating us the way or they think we're treating them the way they're treating us
Because to them no if I disagree with you I hate you, you know for me it's like I don't hate you
I just think you're wrong and you need to correct that which is wrong. Yeah, but you're you're 32 years old
Yeah, but your Savior's 33
And you learned a lot from him
You're just a proud pompous idiot who's not willing to take any correction
Okay, but here's the thing is David
He allowed his bitterness towards his old pastor to change his direction and he stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time
You know throughout the years. We're gonna rip on the old I have been
Because really we're the new generation whether they like it or not
And we're taking over whether they like it or not. It's just fact
They may not like it. But yeah, they can scream and shout and do whatever they want kick and scream, but you know what?
We're here to stay
So you can't do anything about that, you know, but what we don't need is members who are just like
Constantly bitter towards their old IFP pastor and just like hate their guts now again if he's not saved
You know that I don't consider that bitterness I consider that appropriate
But if they're saved, you know, you ought to just leave them alone and let them die there
If that's what they want to die they can die there. Okay, cuz we're gonna be taking over
So the Bible tells us in 2nd Timothy verse 4
Excuse me in verse 13 the cloak that I left at Troas with Karpus will now come as bring with thee in the books
But especially the parchments Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil the Lord reward him according to his works
And that's really what our attitude should be is it's like man my old I old I have been pastor didn't be much evil
Well, then the Lord reward him according to his works
You know
Second Corinthians 2 10 says to whom you forgive anything
I forgive also for if I forgave anything to whom I forgave it for your sakes forgave
I am the person of Christ lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices
We got to make sure that we don't fall into the trap of being bitter
Okay, now go to second second Sammy chapter 23. We're pretty much done
So number one
We have to make sure we're following
Number two, we got to make sure that we forget Saul I went I went pasturing man is on everyone and I did an illiterate
Outline, all right, I literated everything not you litter it alliterated. Sorry and number three
In order for us to go from motley to mighty we got to make sure that we fight the battles ahead
Because here's the thing you don't become mighty by just doing nothing or even this you don't become mighty by even soul winning
You know, you become mighty by fighting
Okay, we were just talking about on Thursday
The guys were joking around it was Marcos his birthday and a brother police birthday today by the way mark
Make sure we see happy birthday for brother mark here our brother polities some other people
It's some other people and and we're talking about how back in the day
I remember back in the day when it was your birthday you'd get jumped
How many know what I'm talking about?
All right, you would get jumped for the amount of time that it was your birthday
So if you're like 13 you have 13 seconds of a whooping
And you can fight back, you know, you wouldn't tell anybody it was your birthday
You know, but if you did it's like you're getting jump and guess what you can fight back
But it's 13 seconds of whooping you're getting now. Look you look that makes you that makes you tough
Gives you bloody nose black eye or whatever, but it makes you tough. You know why cuz fights make you tough
And
Applying that spiritually this church is not gonna coast along or we're just gonna see a bunch of people saved and amen brother
This is it's a great day today. It is a great day, but you know what? There's some fights ahead
Fighting against false doctrine fighting against faggots fighting against this world. Don't be scared
Don't be a little weenie
Don't be a little snowflake and you might be in here today thinking in your heart. I am a weenie
I
Don't want to tell anybody but I'm a weenie
Okay, then it's time to work on that
Because the last thing you want us to be a weenie when we have to fight
You know, the last thing you want to do is be a little snowflake when the fight comes
Okay. Oh, you know if they start protesting I'll just come back when it's done. It's a little snowflake
You're gonna allow a little protest. I mean the persecution in the book of Acts
It's like they're dying
You can't even hack a protest. I mean as I was probably Emmanuel there at the protest that steadfast, right?
It's it was it that bad Emmanuel
Yeah, only 15 minutes it's like a fight
Like your birthday fight only lasts for a couple minutes
You know and you got to make sure that that if you're gonna go from Molly to Mighty they do have a fighting spirit
I'm just not the fighting type. Well, you need to get into the type of being a fighter
I'm not starting to talk about instigating and trying to like are you a reprobate man or what's up?
You know like questioning people but when the fight comes
It's like you're gonna stand your ground and you're willing to get down
Okay, take off the coat put up the dukes spiritually speaking, of course and fight
Look at the Bible says in second Samuel 23 verse 8
These be the names of the mighty men whom David had the takmonite the sat in the sea chief among the captains
The same was a dino the s night. He lift up his spear against 800 whom he slew at one time
Yeah, and after him was Eliezer the son of Dodo the a white one of the three mighty men of David when they defied the Philistines
They were there they're gathered together to battle and the men of Israel were gone away
Verse 10 he arose and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary and his hand clave unto the sword and the Lord wrought
A great victory that day and the people returned after him only to spoil
So this guy was fighting so much with the sword
He held the sword for so long that he couldn't even let go of the sword afterwards
It was so tired that it just claved to the sword and we want to be the kind of church that we're fighting so much
That our hands just constantly cleaving to the sword. It's not letting go
You're always reading the Bible you're making sure you're meditating you're making sure you're studying
You're making sure that you're you're you're being strong and Lord and the power of his might
Look what it goes on to say it says after him verse 11 was Shema the son of Aggie the hero
I and the Philistines were gathered together
Into a troop where was a piece of ground full of lentils and the people fled from the Philistines
but he stood in the midst of the ground and
Defended it and slew the Philistines and the Lord wrought a great victory and you can go on and on and on of the
Great exploits these guys did but you know what we see in all of them. They fought they fought they fought they fought they fought
They were fighters
One thing out of many things that the old IP did not teach their people to do
It's how to fight
You know, they tell them how to go to church and how to look right talk, right?
But they did not teach them how to how to get down
How to throw down?
Don't be afraid of a bloody nose
Don't be afraid when someone pops you in the nose and you know, your eyes start watering spiritually speaking
Okay, don't be afraid of contact
You know, they teach us when we go to Muay Thai do the kickboxing. It's like dude, you can't be afraid of the hits
Just gotta embrace it a little bit lean into it. Take the punch. It's gonna be okay. You know why cuz it makes you mighty
If
We're gonna go from Mali to mighty we need to make sure that we we embrace the fight
The Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 10 for for though we walk in the flesh
We do not war after the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal
But mighty through God through the pulling down of strongholds
casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God and
bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ and having readiness to revenge all
Disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled go to 1st Timothy chapter 6 1st Timothy chapter 6
So Bible says we have to be ready
For these fights ready to fight false doctrine ready to fight the world the flesh and the devil
We got to be ready for these fights
Okay, look at 1st Timothy chapter 6 Paul is telling Timothy this and he says beat but thou O man of God verse 11
Flee these things and follow after righteousness godliness faith love patience meekness
Fight the good fight of faith
Lay hold on eternal life or into thou also called and has professed a good profession before many witnesses now go to 2nd Timothy chapter
4 so he says fight the good fight of faith
Look at 2nd Timothy 4 7. I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course
I have kept the faith
so this is something that he exemplified in his own life and look if you are a father or
You're planning to be a father one day
But you're a weakling
You're a snowflake. You're scared of the fight. You ought to fight for the sake of the generation that's coming after you
Because Paul was telling Timothy this but he couldn't tell him that if he himself was not fighting
You can't be like well do as I say not as I do no, they're gonna do as you do
As far as their life is concerned if you're scared if you are a snowflake if you are afraid of the fight
You need to get involved in the fight because your children are gonna be just like you
One motivation for me to fight to make sure that we fight the battles ahead is that I look at my son
Whose Lord willing will be here a lot longer than I am and I want to make sure that my son is a fighter
I want to make sure because it's gonna be a hell of a lot worse
When he grows up then what it is in my time
You know
You need to make sure that you strengthen up you buckle up girl up the loins of your of your mind
Make sure you get up your loins like a man and fight for the sake of the second generation
The Bible says in Jude 3 beloved when I gave all diligence to write into you of the common salvation
It was needful for me to write into you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith
Which was once delivered unto the Saints God's telling us. Hey, you need to contend you need to fight
The only way our church is gonna survive in
The future is if we don't lose the fighting spirit
So winning yes, but fight as well. Okay, that's how we're gonna become mighty. Oh
Brother is that that you're gonna give like an encouraging message today
About the one-year anniversary and how the love of God the grace of God at two o'clock
We're gonna go talk about the love of God. Just come with us
What about the grace of God? Yeah, we'll spit out Ephesians 2 verse 8 through 9 when we're out sowing for by grace
Are you saved amen?
But you know right now I want to prepare a church because this is one year down many year to go many years
Excuse me many years to go after this
This is just one
We got we got many more years to come
Many more fights to come and it's just like man so much was done in one year
But you know so much more will be done in the next couple of years so much more
But you've got to make sure that you follow these rules right here because if not, this is your last year
It was nice knowing you
You want to make sure that you stick around to the very end? Amen. Thank God for the one-year anniversary
But this just means hey, that's round two fight
All right, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer
Lord, thank you for a great church
I'm thankful for the people here and I'm thankful that you place them in the heart of pastor Anderson to start this church and
Thank you for the vision that he had for this church
If it wasn't for this place
I don't know where I'd be and I'm sure a lot of people will think the same thing and this was an answer to prayer
I pray God that you'd help us to
Make sure we learn how to follow that we forget
Saw, but also that we continue to fight the battles ahead and embrace the fights ahead help us to do
So Lord and bless the remainder of our day in Jesus name we pray. Amen