you
just
Wow
you
it's just like
Jesus
you
you you
you
you you
that's about it
if you're visiting with us
we've got waters, refreshments, things
help yourself, make yourself at home
if you need anything you can ask one of our ushers
people who are at the doors
or ask myself
and finally if there's anyone here tonight that hasn't been
baptized after you've been saved
if you haven't gotten baptized
by getting dunked under the water
full immersion baptism
and something that happened after
you called on the name of the Lord
and we can get that taken care of for you tonight
let us know, we can fill up the tub
it's real easy to do
get it done in a matter of minutes
it's no problem, we can get that settled for you
and then you can just make sure you've got that
that piece of obedience checked off the list
and yep, I'm born again
and I'm baptized
so just let us know again
speak to one of my ushers, speak to myself
and we will be happy to do that for you
alright, well with all that being said
I'm going to turn the service back over to brother Peter
who will lead us in our next song
when peace like a river
does head get my way
when sorrows like sea billows grow
whatever my loss
thou hast taught me to say
it is well, it is well
with my soul
it is well, it is well
with my soul
it is well, it is well
with my soul
no Satan should love him
no trial should come
let this last assurance control
and rise as regarded
my helplessest state
and hath shed his own blood
for my soul
it is well, it is well
with my soul
it is well, it is well
with my soul
I sin all the bliss
of his glorious life
I sin not in part
but the whole
is nailed to the cross
and I merit no more
praise the Lord, praise the Lord
oh my soul
it is well, it is well
with my soul
it is well, it is well
with my soul
and Lord, praise the King
when my faith shall be signed
the clouds we roll back
as a stroll
the drums shall resound
and the Lord shall be sent
even so
it is well with my soul
it is well, it is well
with my soul
it is well, it is well
with my soul
Amen, church.
Once again, that's 2 Timothy 3.
You can follow along silently
while I read, starting in verse 1.
The Bible reads,
This know also that in the last days
perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
without natural affection, truce breakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good,
traitors, heady, high-minded,
lovers of pleasures,
more than lovers of God,
having a form of godliness
but denying the power thereof,
from such turn away.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses
and lead captive silly women laden with sins,
led away with divers' lusts,
ever learning and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth.
Now as Jannes and Jamborees
withstood Moses, so do these also
resist the truth.
Men of corrupt minds
reprobate concerning the faith,
but they shall proceed no further,
for their folly shall be manifest
unto all men as theirs also was.
But thou hast fully known
my doctrine, manner of life,
purpose, faith, long-suffering,
charity, patience,
persecutions, afflictions,
which came unto me
at Antioch, at Iconium,
at Lystra,
what persecutions I endured,
but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Yea, and all that will live godly
in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
But evil men and seducers
shall wax worse and worse,
deceiving and being deceived,
but continue thou in the things
which thou hast learned,
and hast been assured of,
knowing of whom thou hast learned them,
and that from a child thou hast known
the holy Scriptures which are able to make
thee wise unto salvation,
through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
All Scripture is given
by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness,
that the man of God may be perfect,
thoroughly furnished unto all
good works. Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much
for this opportunity that we have to come
together here in this church,
dear Lord, to not only sing praises
to your name, but hear from the
word of God, hear from your word,
dear Lord. I pray that you would please
fill Pastor Mejia with your spirit.
I pray that you would please endue him
with power, and help all of us
that are here tonight to stay attentive,
not to be distracted in our own minds,
but to hear the things that
you would have for us to learn, that you'd
have for us to grow, dear Lord, and help us
to understand the meaning
behind your words. And Lord,
we love you. Thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen. All right. I am excited
to be here this evening,
especially for the Fundamentals Conference.
Let me just say congratulations to Pastor
Birdman for paying his light bill.
I don't want to speak to you soon, though.
You never know.
Great to be here for the Fundamentals
Conference. For me,
it's one of those conferences where
half of that goes wrong. It's always like
in different places, right?
It was like in Ohio. Then we got kicked out of
Ohio and went to Kentucky.
And then it was in Ohio again.
And then now it's in Georgia. Who knows
where it's going to be next year. I'm pretty sure
it's going to be here, hopefully. And so it's
exciting that this conference is still
going on. And I'm thankful to
Pastor Birdsons and his friendship.
And we love him out there at First
Works Baptist Church. And we
appreciate your pastor. He's doing a great work here.
And I hope you appreciate your pastor as well.
Pray for him. Pray for his family.
And pray that
he can continue to have
great vision for the church.
And by the looks of it, great things are happening
here. You guys started a church plan and that's
exciting. And so he obviously has a
heart for people. And so continue
to pray for him and pray for the work here
as we're praying for you as well.
And so the title of my sermon this
evening is Fundamental
Baptist Preaching. That's the title.
Fundamental Baptist
Preaching. You say, well pastor, why don't you
just call it Bible preaching?
Why don't you just call it preaching?
Why don't you just call it preaching that's
biblical or something? And I'm going to tell you why.
It's because of the fact that there is
a major difference between
fundamental Baptist preaching and
everything else. There is
a major distinction
between new independent fundamental
Baptist preaching and everything
else. And so tonight
I want to give you some of those differences
and explain to you why it's
important to be explicit about what type of
preaching we do. And obviously there's
nothing wrong with saying Bible preaching
and preaching that's from the Bible,
biblical preaching.
But let's just be honest here. There's a lot
of reformers, there's a lot
of liberal churches that have hijacked
those terms. And when you actually
listen to the content that's being put out
by these churches, you come to find out, well
that wasn't very biblical at all.
That was more church fathers than it was
the Bible. That was more
commentary than it was the
Word of God. And so it's important
for us to label
the kind of preaching that we do. And you
know it's unfortunate because in the day and age
in which we live, you have
churches that are Baptist churches that
don't want to really associate with being a fundamental
Baptist. And even if they
do fundamental Baptist preaching, they don't want to call it
that because they're afraid it might offend someone.
They're afraid it's going to cause people to not
come into their church and listen to the preaching.
But it's important for us to label
it because it gives people an
expectation of what they're going to be listening to
when they come to church.
And let me start off by saying this.
Look at 2 Timothy 3
and verse number 10. It says
here in verse number 10, the Apostle Paul
speaking here says, but thou
has fully known my doctrine.
You know what that means? You don't have
to wonder what the Apostle Paul
believed or what he preached
about or what he believes about
a certain subject or about the culture or what the
Bible says. He says thou has fully
known my doctrine.
What he believed was not obscure.
He wasn't beating around the bush.
It's something that he was very much open about
and that's why he told Timothy, you know everything
about me. And obviously it's in contrast
to the false prophets that he's talking
about in 2 Timothy chapter 3.
Those who had a form of godliness but denied the
power thereof. These are the individuals
that creep into houses leading
silly women captive.
It says that they're ever learning, never
able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
It talks about Janus and Jambres,
withstood Moses, so do these also resist
the truth. Men of corrupt minds
reprobate concern in the faith. And he goes through
all of these characteristics of these
false prophets and then he says this,
but thou has fully known my doctrine.
You see a lot of these people who
he's talking about that even exist today
they're very
cunning when they preach.
They're not very honest
when they
want to expound upon the word of God.
They have deceit, they're
cunning, they lie,
they are obscure in what they're talking about
because they don't really want you to know
fully what they actually believe.
And this is why it's important for us to just
be open about
our faith, open about
our preaching, and
here's one thing that you can always expect
when you come to a fundamental Baptist church
like ours,
like this one, is that when you
leave you're never wondering, hmm,
I wonder what Pastor Burzins meant about that.
You know, no one ever
walks away from a Baptist church like ours
and says, you know, I just don't really
understand what he meant. What did he mean by
I hate facts?
I don't
really quite understand.
He was kind of cryptic about that.
No, you fully know
what he meant by that, right?
You fully know what his position is
and that's what you should want when you go to church.
You should walk away
with all doubts
removed, you should walk away
with all doubts diminished,
walk away fully understanding
what he meant. And here's the thing,
even if people don't agree with the preaching, at least
they know fully
what the doctrine is. That's why it's important
to label ourselves, our preaching,
as being fundamental
Baptist preaching. And here's what
I tell my church every once in a while.
If I preach just a really hot sermon
and I'm stepping on their toes
and, you know, they kind of give me that look.
They're like, whoa, you know, you're just kind
of going over. I always tell them, it's like, you chose to
come here.
You came to church tonight.
You came to church this morning.
You knew this was a fundamental Baptist church.
I was not obscure
about what I'm talking about at all. You
knew what you were getting involved with
when you came to our church. Thou has fully known
my doctrine. You came in June.
You should know
what to expect.
Fundamental Baptist
preaching is a label that we should
use as Baptists.
And I'm here to remind us tonight, I want to stir
up by way of remembrance.
I want to stir up your pure minds by way of
remembrance of things that you already know,
things that you've heard in times past, but just
as a reminder why
we call our preaching fundamental Baptist
preaching. The Bible says, you don't have to turn
there in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 1,
the Apostle Paul speaking once again,
he says, but I've renounced the hidden things
of dishonesty, not walking
in craftiness, nor
handling the word of God deceitfully,
but by manifestation of
the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience
in the sight of God. What is
he saying? He's saying, you know what?
I'm no longer a Pharisee
and a Pharisee does what? They handle
the word of God deceitfully.
Right? They are dishonest.
They walk in craftiness.
They try to construe their teachings
in such a way that you walk away
not necessarily understanding what they mean
because they're trying to take advantage of you.
And he's saying, we've already renounced the
hidden things of dishonesty. I want to be out
in the open about what I believe,
about what the Bible says, so that
you're not confused about it.
Now, here's the thing is that people,
this is all introduction by the way,
we'll get into the points in just a bit.
People will criticize this type
of preaching a lot.
And quite frankly, it's not even
unsaved people that do it.
It's other Christians.
The biggest critics of our type of preaching
is other Christians, believe it or not.
Now, whether we want to debate
whether they're saved or not, it's probably a mixed group
of just both.
But they'll often, you know, they'll listen to
Pastor Burzen's preaching, they'll listen to my preaching,
and they'll say something to the effect of
you know, you're going to
cause people to go away from Christ
because of that preaching. That's going to scare people off.
That's going to cause people
to, you know, not
want Christianity.
You're going to start pushing people away from
Jesus because of that preaching.
But think about this for a minute.
I was thinking about this on the way over here.
I was thinking about, you know,
how many churches really like ours preach
like us? Obviously, churches like
ours preach like us, but how many churches
that with this type of preaching
exist in the United States of America? Not very many.
Right?
In comparison to all of Christian churches
in America. So the vast majority
of preaching that's actually being promoted
out there is by the guys who are
saying that stuff.
They have more content out there.
They have more views. They got more
videos. They have a wider audience.
They got bigger churches.
They got bigger, more
subscribers on their channel.
More viral videos.
They have more preaching out there.
And then here's our preaching, which
is a very small percentage in comparison to the rest
of the world in the rest of America.
So think about this. Is it
really our preaching? So if you were to look at the
America today and say, oh man, there's so many people
that are just walking away from churches, walking
away from Christ. Is that really
our fault if it's the preaching
from these people that's the biggest
in America? The Joel Olsteins?
The liberal churches?
They're the ones who are getting the most attention from
masses. They're the ones who are people
listening to the most. So it sounds to me that
as though it's their preaching
that's causing people to get
away from Christ. It's pushing people
away from the truth. It's pushing
people away from the Bible. It's not
ours because ours is just a small percentage.
They have
the platform. They have
the big churches, the mega churches.
They have the big voice. They're the ones that
everyone is listening to.
Not to say that we don't have
viral videos out there, but let's just in comparison
they have far more
of an influence than we do
towards, you know, in America.
Let's just say in America. And so when they say
well, your type of preaching
is going to push people away from Jesus,
away from the Bible, that's a
complete lie because at the end of the day
what our preaching does is it
gives them a biblical alternative
to the lies that are being promoted out there.
You know, people listen to that kind of
preaching by the non-denoms
and by the Calvinists,
by the reformers, and
they're sick and tired of that. They actually
want something of substance
so they go to
fundamental Baptist preaching.
They see, well, these people
actually use the Bible. These people
are actually believing in the Bible. They teach
what the Bible says. They teach doctrine.
They're not constantly talking about the church fathers.
And let me just say this, I'm sick
and tired of hearing about the church fathers.
Aren't they all dead?
They're all gone.
And I thought the Bible says call no man father.
But at the end of the day, you know,
our preaching, no matter how crass it is,
how rude it might be,
it still accomplishes
that which God determined to do.
So even though we're imperfect vessels,
we're not the sharpest
tools in the shed or whatever,
you know, for the masses, and people don't
necessarily think of us as being
great Bible preachers. At the end of the day,
when they listen to the message,
they're going to be affected by that message.
They will be impacted by the word of God.
And I've had many people come to my church
and literally just
flat out say they don't like my church
and they don't like my preaching.
But then they keep coming.
And then after a couple of weeks,
they're like, actually, I kind of do like this.
You know, and it kind of grows on them.
You know, I've had people who are just like,
I can't stand the way you preach
and I think you're wrong about this
and you just kind of just mean
and just the way you said that
and, you know, you use these words
or whatever.
And in the back of my mind, I'm just like,
just give it a couple of weeks.
Because at the end of the day, you know what?
They may still not like my personality
a couple of weeks from now, but they're
seeing that this person is expounding
the word of God, which they do like.
And so at the end of the day,
God gets more glory through that anyways.
What's important is that God
gets more glory through that anyways.
What's important is what the Bible says
and you know what, that resonates with someone
who actually wants the truth.
Go to Jeremiah chapter 23, if you would,
Jeremiah chapter 23.
Fundamental Baptist preaching
is attractive to the person
who's actually looking for the truth.
Okay? And I'm not saying
that there are no churches out there
that, you know, that their
sermons aren't biblical, if they're not
Baptist or something like that. I'm sure there's
some churches out there that are preaching
the right gospel, they're preaching
right doctrine, but let's just be honest,
there's something distinctly different
about fundamental Baptist preaching.
And I'll get into that in just a bit,
but look at Jeremiah chapter 23, verse 28.
It says here, the prophet that hath the dream
let him tell a dream, and he that
hath my word let him speak my word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat,
saith the Lord?
Is not my word like as a fire, saith the Lord,
and like a hammer that breaketh
the rock in pieces? So what is God saying?
You know, the guy who just wants
to talk, wants to give you a TED talk,
let him tell the dream.
The guy who just wants to give you a motivational
speech, let him tell the dream,
you make sure you preach my word faithfully.
And he's saying there's a distinction between the two.
The person who tells the dream,
and the person who preaches the word of God.
And he says there that
his word, meaning the preaching
that stems from the word of God,
is like fire.
And he says it's like a hammer that breaks
the rock in pieces. Why is it like it's a fire?
Because it purges believers, that's why.
It lets a fire under your
rear end to get you doing something for God.
It makes you zealous for the things of God.
It purges you,
and it burns, as the disciples
said on the rotating medias, did not our
hearts burn within us while he walked with us by the way
and while he opened to us the scriptures?
It causes your heart to burn, amen. It gives you Christian heartburn.
And he says it's like a hammer.
Why is it like a hammer?
Because it destroys false doctrine.
No commentary needed.
No articles needed.
No archaeological
discoveries needed.
Just a pure unadulterated word of God
that breaks the rock in pieces.
It destroys false doctrines.
It destroys doubts.
It destroys that which is contrary to the
word of God. He says in verse 30
Therefore behold I am against the prophet
sayeth the Lord that steal my
words every one from his neighbor.
Behold I am against the prophet sayeth the Lord that
use their tongues and say
he sayeth.
Now folks this is something that's so
prevalent today. God
told me.
And it's just some you know
about divorce or something like that.
God told me I should get a divorce.
Well what God
told me is that
fill in the blank and it's just like where is that in the Bible?
You're saying he sayeth and he never said that.
People speaking in
God's stead and haven't even read the word of God
once.
It's wicked. Look at verse 32. Behold I am
against them that prophesy false dreams sayeth
the Lord and do tell them and cause
my people to err by their lies
and by their lightness.
Yet I sent them not
nor commanded them. Therefore they shall not
profit this people at all sayeth
the Lord. And you know what this kind of preaching
the alternative to what fundamental Baptist
preaching is. It does people
believers especially
a major disservice. And it causes
them to really be discontented
with what biblical preaching really is.
This is why people can't handle the truth
sometimes. They can't handle biblical
terms sometimes. You know why? Because
they've been saturated with the wrong kind of preaching for so
long. If someone just raises the decibels
of their voice when they're preaching it's just so offensive.
You can scream Jesus
is like well you know I like what you said I just don't like
how you said it.
You just raise the decibels of your
voice. You bug out your eyes like I do
when I preach and all of a sudden it's just really offensive
or something. Get over it.
But you know that's what this modern
type preaching does to people.
It causes individuals to be soft
effeminate spiritually
spiritually castrated
no backbone
can't handle the meat
of the word.
He says what is the chaff
to the wheat? What is chaff? Chaff is essentially
referring to the husks of grain that are separated
from the wheat and he's saying this is trash.
You know why are you going to compare
oh man you really got to listen to this preaching
here done by you know
some Calvinist reformer or whatever
what is the chaff to the wheat?
You know have you ever had
someone like give you some sermon and they're just like
well this is hard preaching right here.
You know this guy
he called out Kamala
Harris.
He takes a stand for Trump.
This is really hard
what is the chaff to the wheat?
That's chaff.
It's worthless.
It's meant to be burned.
It's nothing and you know if you
you know you're a good Christian so you're going to be like oh
I appreciate it you know and then in the back of your mind you're like
this is weak.
This guy thinks this is hard.
He's all
you know this pastor says freak.
You know.
This pastor you know
this guy's crazy.
He speaks out.
He talks about gay people.
He
really calls them out.
You know.
Oh man.
It's chaff.
You know they hand you they're just like
oh I thought it was wheat
you're giving me chaff.
You know someone hands you a preaching CD
to send you a link.
What is this chaff?
You know they hand you
oh man you really look at this Bible
verse that I found it's from like the ESV
it's like what are you giving me chaff for?
This is chaff.
I want wheat.
The point that I'm making
here is that there is a major difference
between our preaching and everyone else's preaching.
And again I'm not saying
that you know there's people out there
who are not fundamental Baptists that aren't preaching
right because there are. Even amongst
fundamental Baptists, Baptist churches
there's a lot of churches that preach the right
gospel the right doctrine
but you know what there's a reason
we are in a fundamental Baptist
church and not in those
churches though.
You know we often will say you know there's
good preaching out there and I agree with that
but you know there's a reason why I'm a fundamental Baptist
pastor and not a non
pastor or just a regular
missionary Baptist or something like that because there's
a distinction there's a major difference between
the two.
And so we don't want chaff preaching
chaff Christianity
chaff doctrine
which the wind driveth away
as Psalm 1 says
tossed about carried about with every wind
of doctrine by the sleight of men
cunning craft in this whereby they lie in wait
to deceive we don't want that.
We want something of substance.
And that's what fundamental Baptist preaching is
it's preaching that has substance
to it. It's basically
when you leave the church service you're just
full spiritually.
You're like well I got a lot
of food spiritually in tonight.
You know you come here on a
Sunday morning and you're like well that was a
good meal. Come back Sunday night and you're like
well that was a good meal. You come back Wednesday and you're like
well that was a good meal. You're just spiritually
full all the time because you're being fed
the word of God in such a way
that it helps you and nourishes
you spiritually speaking.
And so let me give you some characteristics
of fundamental Baptist.
So go to Matthew chapter 7 if you would.
Matthew chapter number 7.
I'm going to give you
five points tonight and it's all
alliterated. Okay. Kind of help you to
remember some of these points here.
Fundamental Baptist preaching
let me start off by saying that
fundamental Baptist preaching number one
is supported by the Bible.
This is a fundamentalist conference right.
And so because it's the fundamentalist
conference we're talking about the foundational
things of Christianity
of the word of God. And you know what fundamental
Baptist preaching is important
and it's superior because of the fact
that it's supported by the Bible. Meaning that
it stands on God's word.
And I've already mentioned this but it's
worth mentioning it again. It doesn't stand on
church fathers or history
books like the Roman
Catholics. This
bastardization of Christianity
that is now making its comeback
even though obviously it's been around for
for a couple thousand years or whatever.
But here's the thing is that now
it's making a comeback. A lot of Gen Z'ers
are being converted to Roman Catholicism.
But when you ask them what got you
into Catholicism they're like oh history
did. You know what
got you into being a Catholic
and converting to Catholicism and
believing Catholic doctrine. History
I research history. It's not I research
the Bible. It's not I research
the word of God. You know why? Because the foundation
of Catholicism is not the Bible.
It doesn't matter what Catholics
say. And you know what you'll run into
Catholics and it's just like you tell them that and they're
just like oh we gave you the Bible though.
Yeah we gave you
then why don't you believe it?
Why don't you know it?
You couldn't quote a verse if your life depended on it.
You know more of
Catholic church history
more of the church fathers than
you do the word of God. Whereas
the Bible says that he's magnified his word
above his name.
Fundamental Baptist preaching
is supported by the word of God.
Okay. It's built upon
the King James Bible amen.
You know and if the
foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?
And you know what Catholics will
criticize people like us like oh man
yeah you guys you guys say sola
scriptura. No I don't.
I just say I use the Bible amen.
I don't speak solo whatever Latin whatever.
You're quoting the wrong person.
I don't say that. You know I
believe in the word of God being
the final authority and they
will mock that.
Show me a verse in the Bible that says
you know that the Bible
is your final authority. Show me a verse
in the Bible that uses the term
Catholicism.
Show me a verse in the Bible that says
Pope. Show me a verse in the
Bible about the ascension of
Mary or whatever it is that they call it. All these
false doctrines that they believe you won't find it.
But here's a good verse
for you.
You know what that means? It means the word of God is
our final authority.
It perfects us for all matters
of faith and practice. There you have it.
No we won't find a verse
that says faith alone.
Yet they can't find me a verse that says Catholic.
They can't find a verse that
says purgatory.
They can't find a verse that says worship Mary.
They can't find a verse
that says sacraments. I mean the list
goes on and on and on. You know why? Because their
final authority, their
foundation is not the word of God.
It's Satan.
Look at
Matthew 7 verse 24.
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth
them I will liken him unto a wise man
which built his house upon a rock.
And the rain descended and the floods came and the
winds blew and beat upon that house
and it fell not. Why?
Because it was founded upon a rock.
That rock is Jesus Christ.
So what is this telling us?
It's telling us that if we
build our doctrine, build our
preaching, build our church
on the word of God, which is
Jesus Christ, you can
have the winds blowing,
floods coming, beating upon
that house and it just will never fall.
It'll beat on it.
You know they'll criticize us.
They'll make all kinds of videos about us.
They'll expose us. But you know what?
It will never fall because it's founded upon
Jesus Christ.
He says in verse 26,
Then everyone that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not
shall be likened unto a foolish man which built
his house upon the sand.
And the rain descended, the floods came, the winds
blew and beat upon that house and it fell
and great was the fall of it.
Now I thought that was very interesting that he says
great was the fall of it.
So the result of not building
your preaching on
the rock is that
there's a great
falling away.
And falling away in the Bible
is apostasy.
That's what it means. That's literally what it means.
So any church,
any denomination
that puts forth
preaching that's not built upon the rock
will eventually lead into apostasy.
That doesn't use the word of God
as its final authority for all matters
and faith and practice. They will eventually
fall away.
They will eventually
apostasize, get into
false doctrine, and
you know, become an apostate church.
Methodists,
Lutherans,
Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses,
Catholics, these are all
institutions that did not build their house
upon a rock. They built it
on the sand. And this is why it's important
that when we listen to preaching,
we listen to it by
we listen to preaching that's being given
by a person who's saved.
Who has a
pastor who has Jesus
Christ as their savior.
That foundation should be Jesus
Christ. This is why
I don't listen to reform preaching.
And I know there's
probably some reformers out there that are saved,
but I'm not trying to fish through
sewage to find it.
I'm not trying to, you know, look through
hours and hours of
sermons and say, well, what are you going to do to find good
preaching? Look up fundamental
Baptist preaching.
And then, you know, luckily, because we have
the internet, you know, you can even get
more specific and just put new independent fundamental
Baptist preaching. Because
at that point, you know, you know for sure
that the guy preaching that is saved.
Preaching the right gospel and everything.
You know,
it's important for us to have the right foundation.
The Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians
chapter 3 verse 11, for other foundations
can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. Now if any man build
upon this foundation, gold, silver,
precious stones, wood,
hay, stubble. Not only that,
you have the sandy foundation of
salvation, but you also have the sandy
foundation of the Bible versions that they use
as well.
And let me take, go to 1 Peter chapter 1 if
you would. 1 Peter chapter 1.
1 Peter chapter 1. Now
obviously we know that
the modern versions of the Bible
are trash.
They are sandy,
not built upon the rock.
They are versions of the Bible that
fell away.
They are, you know, I mean what else
can we say about them that has not already been said?
We essentially as
fundamental Baptists determine what
church we will attend
based upon the Bible version that they use.
And we're not ashamed of that.
And we pick that up from our
spiritual ancestors,
the old IFB,
who were King James only, amen.
And you know a lot of old IFB churches
even though maybe they may not put KJV
only or they're not very open
about it, in general you go to their pews
they're using the King James Bible.
And if you told them like, hey, you know
can we use the ESV? They'll be like, no,
no. They'll be like really nice
about it. No brother, you know.
But at least they'll
tell you no.
You know there's a major problem
though amongst fundamental Baptist churches
that is like a thorn
in my flesh.
That just drives me absolutely
bananas. And that is that
fundamental Baptist churches in general are King James
only, meaning that they will readily
reject the ESV, NIV, HIV,
NKJV, all
these modern versions of the Bible, but they'll
also allow the reign of
Valera in 1960 in their church.
That is
the elephant in the room when it comes to
fundamental Baptist churches.
King James only, 1960.
They won't preach from a
New King James Bible
because obviously it's wrong,
it's a modern version,
it's not the word of God. They won't preach from
an ESV, they'll actually preach against the ESV.
But for some reason they
allow their Spanish ministries
to use a reign of Valera
1960.
And if you don't really know anything about the topic,
let me just tell you, the reign of Valera
1960 is essentially a hybrid
of the New King James and the ESV
together. It's basically what it is.
And you know you talk to
these people like, no this is the one we've always
used. What do you mean always? It's from
1960.
That's not long,
very long ago.
And here's the thing, let's just use the
principle of association.
If something like the Bible came out in
1960,
the 60s,
it's probably not good.
I mean let's label all the things that came out in
the 60s. Did anything godly
come out of the 60s? Absolutely not.
And all of a sudden this Bible
shows up and just they completely
throw away the old versions
of the Spanish Bible that
Spanish churches and Spanish believers
have used for hundreds of years
and then all of a sudden go with this
modern version of the Bible known as the
1960. Let me say why this is important.
Because you know you'll have people
who, you know, they
like our kind of preaching,
they like one saved always saved
doctrine, they like our position
on the Jews, they like our
position on end times, but they
will listen to a Spanish pastor
that uses the 1960
even though he's preaching the same
doctrines that we do. I don't know
about you, I'm not going to listen to some pastor
who believes in replacement theology
but uses the NIV.
It's not going to happen.
I don't care if he's right on the Jews.
I'll just say a broken clock is right twice a day.
I'm not going to listen
to pastors, preachers
who maybe
folks, Kirk Cameron believes in the Posture
pre-wrath. Are you going to listen to him?
You know you guys don't even know who I'm talking
about. He's the guy that
left behind you.
Do you now know what I'm talking about?
Does anybody know? Raise your hand if you know
what I'm talking about. Okay, all right.
This guy, he's post-trip
but he's not a King James
only guy. So I'm not going to flock
to his page to know what he believes
about the Posture pre-wrath because he
probably got it from someone else who actually uses the
King James. And mark it down,
anytime you find a pastor who
uses a false version of the Bible but he's preaching
the right doctrine, he got it from someone who's
actually using a King James.
I guarantee it. And in fact, I've
spoken to Spanish pastors who
believe like we do
in a lot of the details of what we believe
as new IP churches and they told
me we learn everything from
English pastors. That's what they said.
They don't get it from the 1960.
The 1960 is
a perversion of God's word.
It's not faithful to
the Texas Receptus in the
New Testament. You know, for example,
1 Peter 2
2 says,
as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the
word that ye may grow thereby. In the 1960
it says that ye may grow into salvation.
Oh, but you have
fundamental Baptist churches
allowing that Bible
in their pulpits.
Well, brother, I don't really know Spanish
though. Then find someone
who does and have them read it to you.
It's like, well,
you know, I kind of stay away from
that version.
You know, I don't really get involved in those things
there. Pastor Burzins
is as wide as can be. And you
know what? He learned some Spanish.
He's putting it in the work.
Amen.
Why? Because he actually cares about the
issue.
But it's just like, well, I'm gonna turn a blind eye to it
and it's just not. No, it's the elephant in the room.
You know what? You're allowing
a false version of the Bible
into your church or you're associating
with people, pastors
who claim to preach the right doctrine
but they're using a modern version of the Bible,
the 1960. It's a sandy
Bible. Folks, fundamental
Baptist preaching, listen to me,
is supported by the word of God
not by some false
version of the Bible.
Fact.
And that's only one of many
examples of what's wrong with the 1960.
Okay, and I know we got
predominantly English-speaking people
here, but this affects
us because we are fundamental Baptists.
And we don't want to be ignorant of this
issue because you're gonna get it
at the door. Someone's gonna ask you what Spanish
Bible I should use or, you know,
my mom speaks Spanish.
What Bible should she use or whatever?
Or I saw this Spanish pastor
online. Is he good?
This is what you say. Well, what version does he use?
Plain and simple.
You're like, well, you know, it's really hard out there.
You know, I just don't know many Spanish
pastors. There's one right there.
There's one right here.
And he uses a right
version in Spanish.
Steadfast has services every single Sunday
where they're preaching the word of God
from the right version of the Bible.
They have a Bible
that's supported, they have preaching
that's supported by the word of God itself.
Okay. Look what it says in 1 Peter 1.22
Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth
through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the
brethren, see that you love one another with
pure heart fervently, being
born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible
by the word of God, which liveth and abideth
forever. This is something that I have to
constantly bring up in our church
and when I have the opportunity
in other people's churches as well, is this
issue of the 1960. It is trash.
Let me just go on record to say it's trash.
It belongs in the trash
can. And you know,
yeah, but there's not that many people out there
that use the Gomez. There's not that many people
out there that use the Antigua.
Yes, there is. You just got to look for them.
Plain and simple.
It's like saying
there's not that many people who use the King James.
There's plenty of people who use the King James.
It's just that those who use the modern versions of the
Bible outnumber us.
It doesn't mean we don't exist, though.
And so, fundamental
Baptist preaching uses the King James
Bible and it uses the right
version in Spanish. Okay.
Which, by the way, you know, you say which one?
Well, probably the most popular
one that we use is the Gomez. I think that's a
great version to use.
Others would like to use the 1602.
If you really want to go way
back, you go to the 1569
Bible of the Bear. Okay.
These are great versions of the Bible for people to use.
The one that's more readily available
that you can just purchase right off the bat is the Gomez, though.
It's a great Bible.
And it's better than the 1960.
Because the 1960
says, sons of the gods.
It says, grow into salvation.
You're like, well, you know,
you know, I
saw that the King James
doesn't match up with the Greek. You don't even know
Greek, so just keep your mouth shut.
You don't even know what you're talking about.
Here's one.
And here's the thing. Like, there are certain
variations and changes that these modern versions
make, like the 1960, that doesn't
necessarily affect doctrine, but
it's just wrong because they changed it.
Like Jude 22.
Jude 22 says, and if some have compassion,
make it a difference.
In the 1960, it says, those who doubt, convince them.
Now, that's not a bad
phrase, right? I mean, those who doubt, convince them.
Sounds like a, you know,
something you find on the calendar,
you know, words of encouragement,
you know, those who doubt, convince them, or whatever.
But here's why it's wrong, because that's not
what it says.
So they think they have the liberty to just change it.
And then you have these Spanish pastors
from First Baptist Church of Hammond,
from all these big churches
out there that are just saying,
well, the 1960 is faithful
to the TR. How can you say it's faithful to the
TR when it's saying something completely different?
That's called
either you're ignorant or you're lying.
And so,
fundamental Baptist preaching
requires preaching
that is built upon
the right foundation.
Built upon the Word of God
without compromise. And we need Baptist churches
to start getting
zealous about being King James only
and zealous about using the right versions
of the Bible in other languages as well.
And not just be,
well, I don't know the issue, therefore I'm going to
stay away from it. Then you need to learn the issue.
Because if there's Spanish,
if you have a Spanish ministry
in your church,
you should know what you're talking about then.
You should have
requirements.
There's certain qualifications that need to be met.
Well, it's just a Spanish ministry though.
Well, those people, they need the Word of God too.
You wouldn't let
your members use NIVs
or ESVs in your congregation.
But all of a sudden, what, the Spanish ministry
is inferior or something?
I literally had a Spanish pastor tell me this,
because I showed him all these examples,
and he was using the 1960 and he still does.
I showed him all these
examples,
and this is what he said. He goes, well, let me just tell you something.
He goes, I used the Gomez in my personal
Bible reading. But when I preach, I use
the 1960. What?
Oh, so it's good for you,
but then when you preach
into your church, you use the
crap. You use the chaff.
You want to eat the wheat
on your own and leave the chaff
for your members.
It's wicked.
Folks, we need to make sure that
we understand that fundamental Baptist preaching
is built upon the right foundation.
Alright, let me move on here. Go to 2 Corinthians 11.
2 Corinthians 11.
Everyone still with me?
Alright, 2 Corinthians 11.
Fundamental Baptist preaching
is supported by the right
Bible.
But let me also say this. Fundamental Baptist
preaching is spirited.
What do I mean by that?
It gets a little wild when you hear
a sermon by a fundamental Baptist preacher.
That's one of the major distinctions
between fundamental Baptist
preaching and everything else.
You know, let's say we
run into two churches that preach the same exact
doctrine. One's a fundamental Baptist, one isn't.
I guarantee you, one
of the major differences between the two
is that one seems to be a little more wild
when he preaches.
It's almost as if they actually believe what
they're saying.
It's almost as if they're
zealous about the things of God.
You would think that they actually
hate sin.
You might be even mistaken
to think that, you know, they possibly love
the Lord.
They kind of sound like a prophet of the
Old Testament.
And you know what? That's a major
distinction between fundamental
Baptist preaching and everything else.
That's a major one. Spirited.
They are very, yeah, they're
animated.
They, when they talk
about the abominations of the
land, they raise their voice
a little bit. When they talk about the false
modern versions of the Bible,
they get a little angry about it.
It's because they actually believe it's coming from the heart.
Now,
people, mainly
fundamental Baptists, unfortunately,
will say, see, that's what we don't like about you guys.
You're just mean-spirited.
I like what you
said about the gays.
But you just, you're just,
you know, it's just the way you say it.
And I kind of want to say, like,
what do you want me to do? You want me to lower the decimals?
You want me to whisper,
faggot?
Like, what is it
that you want? Is that what's really bothering you?
Is that really the problem here?
Well, the problem is, is that you
know that the truth is right, and you don't
really, it just kind of rubs you the wrong way
when someone's just rubbing it in your face and saying you're
wrong about this.
But you know what, that's what prophets are supposed
to do, though.
The prophets of the Old Testament were not likable men
to the masses.
I mean, think about Micaiah.
What did Ahab say to Micaiah?
I hate him.
It's like,
why is he wrong on doctrine?
Did he steal from you?
No, because he never preaches good
concerning me, but evil.
Why, you little snowflake?
You little
sissy.
You know what that means? It means that Micaiah
was spirited.
And he preached hard.
Yeah, but, you know, well, look at 2 Corinthians
chapter 11, verse 6. I love this verse here.
The apostle Paul
speaking says this,
But though I be rude in speech,
yet not in knowledge,
we have been thoroughly made
manifest among you in all things.
I love that.
He said, yeah, you can call me rude,
but you can't refute the knowledge that I'm giving you,
basically saying, like, what I'm telling you is the truth, though.
And, you know what?
Saying it in a nicer way doesn't change the truth,
but I say it in a meaner way
so that you don't forget it.
Right?
Like, which one's better?
Fornication is wicked.
Or, fornication is wicked!
You'll believe the second one rather than the first one.
You'll almost think, like,
okay, like, if I were to say this,
if I had just told you,
brother adultery is wicked,
you'd be like, dude, back up.
There's a reason why God gave a pattern of how preachers in the Old Testament should preach.
In fact, go to Ezekiel, if you would.
Go to Ezekiel chapter 6.
Ezekiel chapter number 6.
Look at Ezekiel chapter 6 and verse number 11.
This is God instructing the prophet Ezekiel on what to preach, but also how to preach.
He says in verse 11,
Thus saith the Lord God,
smite with thine hand.
He said, what did he smite?
Doesn't matter, smite anything.
Smite the pulpit, smite yourself, you know,
and you better be careful if you're in close proximity
because you might get smitten.
Smite.
What does that mean?
It means get their attention.
Smite with thy hand.
Stamp with thy foot
and say, alas, for all the evil abominations
of the house of Israel.
Notice the exclamation point there.
With emphasis, right?
For they shall fall by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Oh, you know,
I agree with what you said, Ezekiel.
It's just the way you're saying it.
I just don't like the way, you know,
the whole, you know, and the,
you know.
Well, how else am I going to get your attention?
See, God understands
that the message
is as equally important
as the delivery of the message as well.
Because people don't take you serious
when you're up there in,
you know, skinny jeans
and behind a glass pulpit
giving a TED Talk
about promiscuity.
Who's going to take that serious?
Who's going to be inspired by that?
Who's going to repent of their sins
based off of that?
Who's going to get right with God
because of that? Nobody is.
That's why sin is just rampant
in churches like that.
Because they're not taking the man of God serious
because let me just let you in on a little secret.
He's not a man of God.
He wants to remove the skinny jeans
and the short sleeve
whatever
and remove the goatee
you know, and actually
look like a man, talk like a man,
and smile with his hand and stamp with his foot
and get angry.
We're like, well, you know, we just hear,
we just like to convey a message of love.
And look, I've had many people tell me this
and they'll say, you know, the Bible says
speak the truth in love.
Speak the truth in love.
And I'll often answer this
and I'll tell them this and I'll say
does that mean speak the truth nicely?
Because in love
that doesn't mean nicely.
When it says speak the truth in love
it means speak the truth with the right motive.
Right? Like when I'm preaching to you
I'm preaching with the motive that it would impact you
eternally.
That it would help you to get right with God.
That it would cause you to hate sin more.
That it would cause you to love God.
I'm doing it out of love for you.
It's not referring to how nice you're saying it.
You've got to speak the truth in love.
I do speak the truth in love.
But my speaking the truth in love is just
louder than yours.
But he tells Ezekiel there
smile with your hands, stamp with your foot
and then he gives them the message
of what he is to say.
Now the contrast to this
you don't have to turn there. Back in Jeremiah
23, it says
He told I am against them that prophesy false dreams
saith the Lord and do tell them and cause my
people to err by their lives and by their
lightness.
Lightness.
They're a little lighter than their toes
when they preach the word of God.
No one's going to take people like that serious.
And you know people can make fun of us all they want
and make montages on
YouTube of how
we slobber and
yell and scream all they want
but at the end of the day
this is how God has instructed us to preach.
And this is
how the men of God in the Bible have always
preached. They've always been crass.
They've always been rude.
They've always been mean.
And you know what? You can't
say, you know by the way you can say that
I have a mean spirit just you can't deny that I
have the Holy Spirit though.
Plain and simple.
And at the end of the day no I don't have a mean spirit
because mean means average and the Holy Spirit is not average.
I have the
Superior Spirit which is the Holy Spirit.
And when the Spirit of God is
upon me and I have to deal with
situations in my church about fornication
about adultery, about drunkenness
about the abominations of the land
well you know the Spirit of God comes upon
me and it's time to bug out the eyes
raise my voice, stamp with my foot
stomp with my foot, slap with my hand
and watch out.
Because that's the, because why?
Because fundamental Baptist preaching is spirited.
And look I told you know some of the
guys in my church if you're gonna preach you gotta like
you know you can't be
like you know these reformers.
You can't preach like a James White.
That kind of preaching sucks.
Moves no man's soul.
Okay.
If you're gonna preach you gotta have some
my father-in-law used to say
you have to preach with belly fire.
You know actually believe what you're saying.
Get angry with the things that God
gets angry about. Love the things that
God loves. Love the word of God.
Love the truth.
Preach with passion.
And so fundamental Baptist preaching
is supported by the truth
but it's also distinctly different
because it's spirited. It's very
much zealous. Okay.
You know I think of
J. Frank Norris
for example who was a preacher
in the roaring twenties
and he was a very spirited preacher
in times past. And what's funny is
the old IFB pastors and churches
they uphold him as being a great man
of God. I mean they
literally have awards that they give
their Christian school students called the
J. Frank Norris award.
So they approve of this man.
But that man was crazy.
The guy was wild.
I mean there's literally stories
of J. Frank Norris you know
in his days there's a man
who he was a drunk
driver and he died
in a car accident and I don't want to get
like explicit here but basically his brains
were just splashed all over the road
and J. Frank Norris
came with a broken bottle of alcohol
scooped up the brains went to church and preached against
alcohol.
You're like well that's a little too much.
Yeah but I guarantee you no one
drank thereafter.
Kind of got the point across.
I mean
if you think that's too much then look at the illustrations
that the men of the Bible did.
Preaching on their side.
Preaching to trees.
His ego
is like preaching to the mountains.
He's like telling
he's going to cast them out
and he's going to destroy them.
You know you got Isaiah preaching
you know
naked.
I mean there's so many examples
of men of God in the Bible who just did some wild stuff.
But you know what here we are talking about it
thousands of years later and I guarantee
the recipients of that message in those days
it got to them.
And they'll never forget it.
Go to 2 Timothy chapter 4.
2 Timothy chapter 4.
The point that I'm making here is that fundamental Baptist
preaching should not be
despised. Despised not prophesying.
You shouldn't think well you know
it's just like
you know you guys are just crazy
and you know you say King James only.
Yeah we're saying these things because
this is a style of preaching
that gets the job done.
This is a style of preaching
that gets people saved.
It gets people living right.
It gets people to love the Lord.
It mobilizes soul winners.
It builds churches.
It builds people.
And it honors God above all else.
What kind of preaching is that?
Fundamental Baptist preaching.
Yeah but you've only been
doing this for a couple of years.
Fundamental Baptist for at least 17 though.
And even before I was a pastor
I was part of an old IFP church that did
fundamental Baptist preaching. You know what?
It saved me from a lot of heartache.
It made me clean up my life.
It taught me how to love the Lord Jesus Christ.
It taught me how to love the Bible.
It taught me how to love people.
It taught me how to hate sin.
It kept me on the right track.
So therefore I'm not ashamed to call it
fundamental Baptist preaching.
Number 3.
So fundamental Baptist preaching is supported
by the Bible.
It's spirited.
But it's also saturated with Scripture.
And this is another big difference.
Because I've been in churches where
it's just like one verse close your Bibles
look up here.
And you know what? I don't know about you
but I've been in churches where it's just like
no I want more though.
Or you know you've had the thought
in your mind like man I really
I wish you would have like explained
the verse before that.
Because I've always wondered about this.
Or I've always wondered about the verse after that.
Or I've always wondered about this particular passage here.
You know?
And it's just like they just leave us
anemic spiritually.
Just starving for more.
But thank God for fundamental Baptist preaching
of 2024 that's just saturated
with Scripture.
And that's how preaching should be right?
I mean you say yeah but you guys do that
and you know not everyone
does that. Well think about Stephen
in the Bible.
Remember when he preached?
The guy gave an entire history on Israel
in his sermon.
He like went from the very beginning
and then he said well what was
the purpose of his sermon? Just to call out the Jews?
So he just went
through the entire history
saturated the crowd with Scripture
just to tell them that you know
they're resisting the Holy Ghost.
That's Baptist preaching right there.
Just chasing all kinds of rabbits.
Just getting off course.
Talking about everything
under the sun and then it's just like oh yeah
I'm talking about fundamental Baptist preaching.
But it worked.
Made them mad. And you know Peter did the same thing.
And you know that's how preaching should be.
It should be saturated with the Word of God.
Either being quoted or being turned to.
And you know what? Saturating a
sermon, saturating preaching with Scripture
is necessary in order for the
church to know how to navigate through the
Bible.
That's important.
A lot of churches they don't even know like
they probably can't even find
you know Joshua in the Bible.
They probably don't even know
where Proverbs is or Ecclesiastes.
They probably can't even find
Zephaniah.
Because they don't navigate through the Bible like that.
But fundamental Baptist
preaching on the other hand we have
sought in this generation
to just saturate the members
with as much Scripture as possible.
Quote Scripture.
Read Scripture. Explain Scripture.
Give context of Scripture.
I mean essentially the
service is centered around the Scriptures.
But you know what? Today we have
even amongst Christians those who can
quote the Church Fathers more than the Bible.
I've gone into discussions with people online
and it's like they're quoting the Church Fathers.
And I'm like this means
absolutely nothing to me.
Like you're quoting this as if like
I care.
Like I'm
playing chess and you're playing checkers.
Like I'm playing rugby
and you're doing figure skating.
Like what is this?
This is chaff.
But that's because whatever church they go to
that's all they give is
commentary, Church Fathers
and I keep bringing up Church Fathers because
Gen Z
has been won over by this crowd.
By this crowd.
They're just constantly listening to these apologists
of Catholics and Protestants or whatever
and that is their ultimate authority.
They're not saturating their messages
with the word of God. They're saturating with the opinions
of men. The words of man's
wisdom that has no power whatsoever.
We need to continue.
Look what it says in 2 Timothy 4 verse 2.
Preach the word. Be in season
out of season.
Reprove, rebuke, exhort
with all long suffering, I want you to notice this
and doctrine.
Give attendance to reading
to exhortation to doctrine.
He says you need to
preach doctrine. Teach doctrine.
Show them what the Bible says. Saturate
the people with the word of God.
I think you guys are just
over the top on that though.
50 scriptures in one sermon.
Really is that necessary brother?
You know what?
More is necessary.
And I'm sorry I only brought 50.
You said why?
Why with doctrine?
Why so much doctrine?
Why so much teaching?
Why so much preaching used in the Bible?
Why? Why can't we get a movie night
where we explain biblical
principles from Superman or something?
Right?
Or from the Avengers or something like that.
I know non-denim churches do that, don't they?
They have like a movie night or something.
Why not just
use some modern
methods to
teach the Bible?
Because the Bible tells us to use doctrine.
Why? Look at verse 3.
For the time will come, and I will
even say, and now is,
when they will not endorse
sound doctrine, meaning you can't handle
it. Do you know why it's important
to just kind of load you,
saturate you with scripture
during services?
Because if I don't, if your pastor doesn't,
there will come a time that you can't endorse
sound doctrine. I mean,
I've had new people come to our church,
and they're just kind of like,
that's a lot to take in.
I'm sure you've had the same. People are just like,
that's just a lot
of scripture you're going through. I wasn't able to fall
all the way. I just, I've never heard so much scripture
before, like, used. And it's
kind of like sensory overload for them.
But for the, but the
church member that's been here for five years,
they're just like,
I know where he's going next.
You know, the Bible's
all used. It's all dirty because your fingers are all
dirty, and you're just, you know, you already
know what it says, and you love,
you read along.
It's just, you're on this spiritual
bulk, and you're just
consuming it, and it doesn't bother you.
But you give a brand new person
that, they're just like, I can't handle this much, but this is
too much. You guys preach
for an hour? That's a lot.
Folks, there's just people
out there that preach for like 15 to 20 minutes.
15 to 20 minutes is like my introduction.
They literally
preach for like 15 to 20,
maybe 25 minutes.
Because the people can't,
they can't endure
sound doctrine.
It's too much Bible for them.
You know what we want to
create within our church is people who are
able to handle preaching for a really long time.
Why not?
I remember when I was in an old
IFP church, I was preaching
for like a tour group, and I was at this church,
and it was filled with gray heads,
okay, and there was
no young people there, and
the pastor, you know, he was kind of going liberal,
and so he told
me, he's just like, hey, the sermon's about
30 minutes or so, and then there's
a guy there, there's an
older man there, and
he was a member of
J. Frank Norris' church.
Not when J. Frank Norris was around, because that would make him like
extremely old, but like he was there when the guy
who took over after J. Frank Norris
pastored, and he came to me, and he was like,
listen to me, son,
you better preach for an hour and a half
back in my day. We used
to go an hour and 45, and no one
even cared, and I was just like,
an hour and 45, I already got enough content
for like, you know, 30 minutes or something,
and he was like rebuking
me, and
I was like still kind of new, and
I was just like, whoa, you know,
an hour and 45, an hour and
30, he was like, back in my day,
an hour and 15 was nothing,
that was normal,
now we got these 15, 20 minute
sermons,
and I'm just like, yes, sir, yes, sir.
He was right, though.
You know what I'm saying? Saturate.
I mean, Pastor Shelley,
he goes to the hour and
30 mark sometimes,
right? Yeah.
You know, sometimes I go
to the hour and 30 mark or something,
and sometimes I'm at the hour and 15,
I'm not encouraging Pastor Burzins to do this,
but he might do this, I don't know, but you know,
sometimes I'm at the hour and 15, I'm like, I got to stop,
and people are like, keep going.
Yeah, yeah.
They're like, saturate us!
Give us more!
And then other people are like,
well, I can't endure this.
Oh, really? Why?
Because you could doom scroll for like two hours
on your phone.
You know how to endure doom scrolling?
You could endure Facebook,
you could endure Instagram
and TikTok,
and all the social media platforms for hours on end.
Folks, we need to saturate
the members with scripture!
Teaching of the Bible!
Yeah, but why, though?
He says, verse 3,
For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine, but after their own lust shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears,
then they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned unto fables, the Bible says.
You know why it's necessary to saturate
churches with the Bible?
Because if we do not,
they're going to go look for the fables.
They'll be turned unto fables!
They'll be turned to the
liberal preaching that doesn't do anything for them.
They'll be turned to the 50 minute
sermonette.
They'll be turned to the Dave Ramses of Baptist
churches.
They'll be turned to
false doctrine.
All they're going to look for is a person who just,
you know, tickle their fancy or whatever,
make them happy.
We, fundamental Baptist preaching
is known for being saturated with the
word of God.
In order to keep you sound in the faith.
In order to help you to endure
sound doctrine, so that you're not
turned away unto Jewish fables,
etc.
I'm going long.
Go to Titus 1, I'm almost done.
I'm almost done, Titus chapter 1.
Can you endure?
Amen.
Saturated with the scriptures.
I mean, that's one of the reasons why
children in our churches get saved
so early.
Because they're constantly listening to preaching,
they're constantly listening to
thorough
explanations of the gospel
in church.
The pastors get enough teaching on how to do
sowing in church, teaching about the word of God
in church. The children are hearing this,
they're soaking it up like a sponge.
And
that's biblical. You know, the Bible says
that from a child that was
known the Holy Scriptures, which is
able to make thee wise unto salvation,
the Bible says.
And it's important to saturate the membership
with scriptures because the little ones need to
hear it too.
And they take in a lot.
You know, and it's saturating their
soul, it's saturating their heart.
You know, I have children in my church,
they think deeply about the things of God.
It kind of surprises me sometimes.
It does, but it doesn't. It's just like, well, that's how it should be.
But then I'm like, wow, that's pretty cool
that they have such a high view
of the Bible and of God.
But it's because we're trying to
financially saturate them with the
Word of God, give them the Word of God.
Fundamental Baptist preaching
esteems saturating the membership
with the Bible.
We're not ashamed of it.
We want people to endure it. We want people to be able to
have an appetite for it.
Next.
Fundamental Baptist preaching
is sound as well.
Meaning that it's not
it doesn't, there's no defect.
And obviously
there's no preacher that
is perfect, but in
general, the preachers
within churches like ours
are very much mature to
the point that they can give you
a full course meal, so to speak.
And they are right on a lot of things.
On the vast majority of things, I would even say.
Not perfect, but they're right on the
vast majority of things.
And I truly believe in my heart
that the pastors in the new
Fundamental Baptist movement
have made it their goal
to make sure they give preaching
that is just absent of defect.
Just give you what the Word of God says.
Strive to teach you the Bible.
Strive to not be
erroneous in their claims
or erroneous in their preaching.
They want to give you sound doctrine.
It says in Titus 1 verse 9
holding fast the faithful word
as he hath been taught that he may be able
by sound doctrine
both to exhort and to convince the
gainsayers. There are many
unruly and vain talkers and deceivers
especially they of the circumcision.
And by the way, this is why I don't like
to really use history
or even church fathers
especially in my
arguments of why
the Bible is true.
Because those are man's
devices that
often have defect.
They're errors.
And it's just like, well,
they reinforce what the Bible says.
But does the Bible need reinforcement?
It stands alone.
Obviously you can point to things in history
and all these things that will
essentially show you
that what the Bible says is true.
But at the end of the day, the Bible stands alone.
And it doesn't need some dead dude
who people are still arguing
2,000 years later whether he was Catholic or Christian.
We don't need that.
The Bible stands alone.
It's sound. And that's what we need to use.
We need to hold fast the faithful word
and make sure that we use it
in order to convince the gainsayers.
You say, well, I know someone
online or I went at it with
someone and I gave them scripture
and they just rejected it. They kept throwing
church father quotes and this article
then they're a heretic.
That's what the Bible says.
You just reject them
and say, oh, okay.
Be a sucker.
You just rejected the word of God.
Want nothing to do with you.
Plain and simple, right?
Fundamental Baptist preaching is sound.
And you never walk away wondering like,
man, I still don't get it.
Never walk away wondering
like I wonder what that verse really meant, though.
Sound, it's without defect.
It is sound in its doctrine.
It is whole.
It is perfect.
And part of that is because of the fact that the pastors
who are preaching it are not diminishing from it.
Right?
Because to be sound means it's without defect,
meaning that when the pastor's preaching, he's giving you
the entire counsel of God.
That's why Pastor Burson is preaching through Jeremiah
on Wednesdays.
I don't know many churches that are doing that.
That is a monster of a book to go through right there.
And that's probably why a lot of
churches don't want to go through it.
In our church, we're going through the book of Isaiah
and it's going to be just a monster of a book as well.
But you say, why go through
verse by verse?
Because we want to give you the entire counsel of God.
We don't want our preaching to have
deficiencies and defects
where you're not getting something.
Look, we only have, you know,
like 80 years, 70, 80 years as pastors.
We have to do like,
we have to give it all to you in that time.
And so it's just like
Sunday morning sermon, Sunday night,
and then we have to reinforce those
and get a lot of that stuff.
And then we got to teach through different books of the Bible.
Why? Because we want to give you it all.
It's what God commanded us to do.
Not, you know,
Psalm 23
for 23 weeks.
Come on.
Psalm 23 for that long.
Folks,
and I get,
you could do a teaching
on Psalm 23 for a couple weeks for sure.
But after a while,
it's like we get it.
Pretty much every unsaved person
knows Psalm 23.
You know, if they've been to a funeral, they've heard it.
Let's hear Psalm 139.
Amen.
Let's hear about Psalm 55.
Let's hear about those other Psalms.
You know, we all know
that God is our shepherd
that I shall not want.
We know that He
leads us beside the still waters.
We know that.
Watch me the other stuff.
Because here's the thing, there's people in churches
that are just like, man, I really wish you would talk about this, though.
This is very
interesting.
Tell me about the other Psalm.
Tell me about the other Proverbs.
Tell me about the controversial stuff in the Bible.
Well, you should be in church because you want to learn the Bible.
Exactly.
So give me the good stuff.
Give it to me all.
I'll take Psalm 23, but give me some other stuff, too.
May the preaching be without deficiencies.
Sound.
And that is how Fundamental Baptist
preaching is.
Go with me, if you would, to
Isaiah chapter 58.
Isaiah 58. Here's my last point.
Let me just review briefly.
Fundamental Baptist preaching
is supported by the Bible.
Fundamental Baptist preaching
is spirited in its demeanor.
Fundamental Baptist preaching
is saturated with Scripture.
Fundamental Baptist preaching
is sound in doctrine.
And lastly, Fundamental Baptist
preaching is specific
about sin
and about names.
You know one thing I love
about our churches? You never have to
wonder who he was talking about.
They'll tell you.
I love that.
Because I've been a part of churches
and churches are just like, who is he talking about?
You know what I mean?
Like whatever false prophet of the day is just like,
who? Just say it.
Call the name.
Say the name!
But Fundamental Baptist,
they don't care. They'll tell you the name.
They'll give you the address.
They'll give you the zip code.
They'll say the name of the church.
They'll tell you who it is.
They have no quarrels of giving you the details.
Why? Because Fundamental Baptist churches,
their preaching is specific.
It says in Isaiah 58 verse 1,
cry out loud, spare not.
Lift up thy voice like a trumpet
and show my people
their transgressions
and the house of Jacob their sins.
He says, show them.
Show them where they have aired.
Highlight the specific sins
that they're guilty of.
And you know what? We need to get back to just
talking about and
describing, defining
sins.
You know, just like in Galatians chapter 6, right?
The works of the flesh are made manifest, which are these.
And go through that whole list and explain to people
what each sin is.
Because if we don't, then
a lot of these words will begin to lose their meaning.
And this is something that's
very common even amongst Fundamental Baptist churches.
This is why a lot of Baptist churches, listen to me,
this is why a lot of them
think that adultery and fornication are the same
exact thing.
Right?
It's a sexual sin.
Pornia.
And the Greek.
But it's because they don't use those words
in a practical way to preach against them.
So they're just
like, adultery, fornication,
pornia.
And then
what happens is just all kinds of false doctrine
stems from that.
Then they'll start using
Matthew 5 and 6
to teach in Matthew 18,
to teach that, oh, divorce
is permissible
if your husband's watching porn or something.
Because they haven't used
these Biblical terms enough
and they've lost their meaning.
So it's important to
teach the congregation,
teach the people, teach believers
specific sins.
Or the definition of
specific sins, sorry.
Teach them what the Bible says about these specific sins and what they mean.
Because we don't want to lose
the meaning of what God is saying here.
If God is giving us a list of things
in the Bible, He wants us to know
what those things mean.
And so, I'm thankful
for fundamental Baptist preaching because it is specific.
It's specific when it comes to sin,
but it's specific when it comes to the wolves as well.
You know,
Adam Fanon
is a false prophet.
This guy is wicked as hell.
And it's just like, okay, I know who he's talking about.
Stay away from that guy.
You know.
Tyler Doka
freaking idiot.
Thinks he's Jesus.
Now he's got tattoos on his face.
The guy's always doing something new.
But you know, at least you,
you know, what if I just told you, yeah, that one guy,
you know, he just, he says he's someone
that he shouldn't say that he is.
Says a lot of weird stuff.
He thinks that the place in which we live
is kind of flat.
You're like,
what the heck is he talking about?
Just say Tyler Doka.
At least you know, like, okay, I know who he's talking about.
I mean, the worst feeling is to walk out
and be like, I wonder who he was talking about.
But the purpose
of preaching against false prophets
and wolves is to,
is so that you avoid them.
Can't avoid someone you don't know.
And then you have to, like,
figure it out on your own or something like that.
And so the point of the sermon
this evening is this, folks,
is that here at
Stronghold Baptist Church,
fundamental Baptist preaching is taking place.
At
First Works Baptist Church,
at Steadfast Baptist Church,
fundamental Baptist preaching is taking place.
Churches like ours,
fundamental Baptist preaching is taking place.
Don't despise that prophesying.
And understand there's a major
distinction between
that kind of preaching and everything else.
And if you say, well, no,
it's all the same, then why don't you just go to a different church?
I'll tell you
why. You stay because of the preaching.
You know there's a major
difference.
And lastly, I just want to say this. Don't be ashamed of that difference.
Don't be
ashamed of the preaching
that comes from Pastor Dave
Berzins, amen?
Don't be ashamed, like, well, you know,
you should come because it's a good fellowship.
It's a little wild, you know.
Like, no, the preaching is great.
You'll love the people.
You'll love the fellowship. They've got a little basketball
thing going on back there.
But above all else,
the preaching is awesome here.
What kind of preaching is it?
Is it like Bible preaching?
What is it? It's actually fundamental
Baptist preaching is what it is.
Oh,
I don't know about that.
I've heard about that.
Yeah, it's really good.
It'll help you grow in your faith a lot.
It's really exciting preaching, too.
You'll learn a lot.
All right, I'll give it a try.
Because here's the thing.
We don't want people, we want people walking away
to the point where we can say,
thou has fully known my doctrine.
You know who I am.
You know what we believe.
We're not trying to hide anything.
We want to be honest about everything.
And so it's just all out in the open. Amen?
Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your
word and thank you for the
preachers who have come before us, Lord, who've
given us this great example.
And Lord, help us
to take up the torch,
the baton, so to speak, of
fundamental Baptist preaching that we may not
be ashamed of it, but maybe
be grateful for it.
Recognize
that it's changed thousands, that I
wouldn't even say millions of lives.
And may we continue to
use it to make an impact in this world
for Christianity. We love you. We thank you.
Pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen.
All right. Thank you so much, Pastor
Mejia. We really appreciate you flying out here
from California. I know it's a long flight
and it's a difficult travel day.
And I know you got to head back tomorrow
earlier.
So we appreciate you being out here. Great sermon.
Great
spirit with a fundamentalist conference
here. So I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
Again, come on out tomorrow.
We got soul winning all day long. It's going to be
great. And if you
don't, you know, if you're not comfortable,
maybe you haven't been soul winning before,
we don't worry about. Just show
up. We'll hook you up with someone who knows
what they're doing. You can just
go along. We'll pair you up with someone.
You don't have to say anything. You can just see how we
give the gospel to people. It's the most
important thing that we
can be doing as believers
is showing other people how to be saved.
And that is the job of all of us. So
you know, there's nothing more
fundamental with the fundamental Baptist
than going out soul winning, right?
This is it's
foundational. You have to go forth
and preach the gospel in order
to continue in order to grow in order
to thrive. We have to be leading more
people to Christ. So we're
dedicating all day tomorrow to
doing that. So come here in the morning.
Like I said before, we'll have
some refreshments. We'll have some snacks
Okay, some breakfast type foods
Danish is things like that will
be here in the morning. I
want to start getting people paired up
by 9 45
some parent up partners
given out maps so
that we can be on the street
hitting the road, going to our
location by 10 o'clock. I want to be
out of here. So please do
your best to get here on time
and not cause
any causes extra problems
if you come in late and you're like, Oh, man,
I don't need a partner. Now, you know,
get here on time.
Be here like 9 45
latest. Okay, latest
9 45. Get here a little bit earlier.
We have snacks. Like I said, we'll
equip you with lunch, assuming that
it's actually they do their job. Sometimes
they're not always good at getting it done on time. But
if they have it done on time, we'll have it here for you.
Send it out and
yeah, it's gonna be an awesome day. So
again, thank you to both of our
pastors for being here, and we're gonna have a little bit
of time of fellowship tonight. So feel free to hang out
this evening and
encourage the pastors are visiting with us.
Thank them for coming out here to Stromlo Baptist
Church for this conference
and say an extra special thanks to brother
Brett Stockton, too, who is
really instrumental in making sure that this
conference happened. So with all
the conferences fundamental,
it was the Midwest fundamental Baptist
conference. Now it's the southern
not southern Baptist
but southern fundamentalist
conference. Okay,
we are Baptist, but
it's taking place in the
south now. So he
was really very, very helpful in getting this thing
going and really encouraging and
making sure that we put this on
again. And it's important fundamental conference,
right? People need to know why
we're fundamentalists and the fundamentals of the faith
can't forget that. We need
to hold on to that. We preach that. So
great event. It's gonna continue to
go strong. So be here tomorrow for the soul winning
and then following finalizing
on Sunday with
with this conference. So I'm
gonna turn the service over to brother Peter, who
can lead us in our last song before
dismissed.
My church
serves out the soul number 125
solid body
will stand here
at the exit
everybody stand
and sing this out on the first
my hope is
built on nothing
less than Jesus' blood
and righteousness
I cannot trust
the sweetest wind
but wholly lean on
Jesus' name
on Christ the solid
rock I stand
all underground
is sinking sand
all underground
is sinking sand
when darkness fails
his lovely face
I rest on his
unchanging grace
in every high and
stormy gale
my anchor holds within
the veil
on Christ the solid
rock I stand
all underground
is sinking sand
all underground
is sinking sand
his hope is
covenant
his blood
support me in the
world with blood
when all around my soul
gives way
even is all my hope
is staying
all underground is
sinking sand
all underground
is sinking sand
on the last singing sound with all you've got
when he shall come
with trumpet sound
oh may I get
him if he found
rest in his righteousness
alone all best
to stand before the
cross
on Christ the solid rock I
stand all underground
is sinking sand
all underground
is sinking sand