In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Okay, we're in 2 Corinthians chapter number six.
Look down at your Bibles at verse number four.
The Bible reads here,
but in all things approving ourselves
as the ministers of God,
in much patience and afflictions
and necessities and distresses
and stripes and imprisonments
and to molts and labors and watchings and fastings
by pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering,
by kindness, by the Holy Ghost,
by love unfeigned, by the word of truth,
by the power of God,
by the armor of righteousness on the right hand
and on the left, by honor and dishonor,
by evil report and good report,
as deceivers and yet true,
as unknown yet well known,
as dying and behold we live,
as chastened and not killed,
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing,
as poor yet making many rich,
as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
And what I want to preach on this evening
is the subject of why I love the new IFB.
Why I love the new IFB.
Now, when you think of that title,
you think to yourself, oh, he's gonna mention
why we all love the new IFB.
But here's the thing, I'm not gonna talk about that
because obviously we understand it,
the general reasons why we love the new IFB
is because it's King James only,
love soul when he has the right salvation,
hard preaching, and those are definitely reasons
and good reasons to love the new IFB.
But I'm gonna give you my biased opinion
on why I particularly love the new IFB.
And what are some reasons that I would pick
specifically as to why I admire and love
and really love to be a part of the new IFB.
Now, you say, why preach a sermon like this?
Well, the reason why is because of the fact
that recently our church and churches alike, like ours,
have been attacked by pastors and churches
of this people who were friends of the new IFB
and they basically defected,
they became these new IFB rejects,
and they backstabbed a lot of our pastor friends,
they backstabbed me,
they began to make these railing accusations,
and they would often do it under the cloak of,
well, you know, the new IFB has a bad spirit,
and they would talk negatively about the new IFB,
they'd criticize the new IFB,
but they would say it in such a general way,
you don't really know who they're talking about.
They would say it so generally
and just kinda not really be specific,
they'd be very ambiguous about their statements,
but one thing was for sure is that
they would say it's the new IFB.
Well, you know, from here on now,
I'm just letting you know that me, Pastor Bruce Mejia,
and First Works Baptist Church,
we identify as a new IFB church.
And so what that specifically means is that
anytime you refer to the new IFB,
even if you don't name a name,
I'm just gonna see it as though you're talking about me,
because I'm making a public statement saying
that I am the new IFB.
My church is a new IFB church, okay?
This is what we adhere to, this is what we identify as,
so watch your mouth kind of thing, okay?
And so, you know, there's a lot of people
who've been attacking our churches
and our pastor friends and criticizing us
and throwing shade on this great movement.
Now, let me just say this, is that obviously
there's been multitudes of movements in times past
who have done great works for God.
You know, great soul-winning works,
great preaching works, I mean,
they made eternal history, so to speak, okay?
And I'm sure there are groups
that no one even knew about,
I mean, we wouldn't know about
because they're not in the history books.
God did wondrous things through those movements,
just as He's doing wondrous things
through our movement as well.
And I'm sure those groups were not perfect, okay?
I'm sure they had mistakes because, you know,
they're sinners, I'm sure they weren't, you know,
perfect, obviously no one's perfect, we're sinners,
so we're not sinless.
But here's the thing is that I'm sure those movements,
even though they had mistakes
and maybe they had failures in certain areas
because they were sinners,
they were still considered a great movement
in the eyes of God, and there were still great people
who did great works, won a lot of souls to Christ,
did great exploits for the Lord,
and I believe the new IFP would fall into that category.
So I'm not saying that, you know, we're perfect
or that we don't make any mistakes,
obviously pastors and churches make mistakes,
but at the end of the day,
if you were to evaluate the new IFP as a whole,
you would see it's a great movement of God, okay?
That has done great works,
that has won many souls to Christ,
that have turned many to righteousness.
And so, you know, before you start listening
to these no-IFBers, these IFB rejects,
you know, and listening to their criticisms
of how we have a bad spirit
and how they just criticize and they're so malicious
and venomous and backstabbing,
why don't you go ahead and evaluate the entire movement
for what they've done, okay?
You know, why don't you actually listen to the preaching,
evaluate the fruit, see how many people get saved,
see how many people return to righteousness,
and then make your judgment on the new IFP.
Let me give you a couple reasons
why I particularly love it.
Now, the reason that we started off
in 2 Corinthians chapter six
is because the Bible tells us here in verse four
that we need to prove ourselves as the ministers of God.
And one of the approving factors
of being a minister of God
is not just never having any fights,
never criticizing anybody, and in fact,
we see that we are approved as ministers of God,
verse eight, by honor and dishonor,
by evil report and good report.
So a good indicator that we're ministers of God
is that we have people for us,
but we also have people against us.
When you have a group of people that are for you,
that love you, that pray for you,
but then you have, you know, these new IFB rejects
and no-IFBers who don't like you,
who bring up an evil report about you.
They claim that you're a deceiver, right?
They claim you're unknown.
They claim that, oh, that movement is dying,
that church is dying, okay?
And so this is a good indicator
that we are ministers of God.
Now, go with if you would to 2 Peter,
2 Peter chapter number one.
And of course, I'm particularly referring
to a couple pastors here that have been doing this.
One in particular, obviously, is Grace and Fritz
of all scripture Baptist church.
And the second one is Tommy McMurtry.
And then you have your sub-new IFB rejects
such as Boyle and Joe Major and Manley Perry
and these other idiots.
And by the way, I don't take that back, you know?
And so I know what I said, and I back up what I say.
And you know what?
You don't have to wonder who I'm talking about, okay?
You know, oh, I'm sorry,
I didn't say it clearly enough, Patrick Boyle.
Just in case there's another Boyle out there
or something like that.
Manley Perry, Joe Major, okay?
Let me give you a couple reasons why I love the new IFB.
Now, let me just say this is that when we say
the new IFB, we are referring to
the new independent fundamental Baptist.
And the reason that we're called the new IFB
is because of the fact that we are, in a sense,
a renewed movement of the old IFB,
which is the old independent fundamental Baptist.
They are basically like a grandfather of this movement.
There was a time, in times past,
when independent fundamental Baptist preachers
preached hard, they went sowing,
they emphasized the things that we emphasized
that were King James only.
But little by little, they begin to die down
a little bit and not necessarily be as zealous
and passionate and straightforward.
And so what the new IFB is doing
is it's a renewed movement of that
with some tighter bolts, you understand?
You know, we're stronger in our stance
for the King James Bible.
We love soul winning and we preach deep doctrine, okay?
That's one of the missing factors and elements
of the old IFB is that they weren't necessarily
deep in their doctrine.
They were great preachers, they were great orators,
but they lacked the element of going down
deep into the word of God
and studying these things, et cetera.
Now, let me say this is that
I didn't get saved in the new IFB, okay?
I got saved in an old IFB church.
Now, back then it wasn't known that it was an old IFB,
it was just an independent fundamental Baptist church
and that's where I got saved,
that's where I heard the gospel,
that's where I learned about the King James Bible,
that is where I learned about soul winning,
that's where I was trained for soul winning,
that's where I learned about separation.
Everything that I know today,
you know, the foundational things,
I learned in my old IFB church, okay?
Now, here's the thing is that I learned those things,
I was zealous for those things,
but after a while, the old IFB, in my opinion,
really began to die down in those areas.
They weren't really as strong,
they didn't really take a strong stance
in those areas as in times past, okay?
They were still King James only,
they still were soul winners,
they still believed in separation,
but they didn't really take a strong stand
for those things.
And when the leadership decides not to take a strong stand
on those essentials, you know,
the church members are not gonna take a strong stand either.
They're gonna go far below that standard.
And so I'll be honest with you,
there's a time in my Christian life
where I didn't really stand as strong
in the King James Bible, you know,
as I did in times past on soul winning,
and I can literally remember the time
when I felt like those passions were dying out
in my personal life.
I became very apathetic towards those things,
and down deep in my heart, I knew that this was right,
I knew that the King James Bible
is the inspired, preserved word of God,
I knew that soul winning was the right way,
but because I didn't really necessarily have leaders
to reinforce that and help me along the way
to learn more about those things,
I felt like it was dying out in my life, okay?
Which leads me to my first point
as to why I love the new IP.
Number one is because it renewed my love
for being a fundamental Baptist.
Amen.
It renewed my love for being a hell raising,
leather lung, fundamental Baptist, okay?
You know, I remember there was a time
when I felt like that was dying out
and a lot of my contemporaries, so to speak,
people I went to Bible college with
were going the contemporary way, you know,
and I wasn't really interested in that,
it seemed kind of gay to me,
and I just like, it didn't appeal to me,
so I was kind of like in limbo.
And I remember, you know, unfortunately in Bible college,
they were showing these evangelistic videos,
and it was from a guy named Ray Comfort, okay?
And I remember we were watching it,
and he was like the only one
doing confrontational soul winning, you know?
Obviously, he's not winning anybody for the Lord.
It was confrontational, but he wasn't winning anybody.
And I remember on YouTube, I was watching
one of his videos, and then, you know,
on the right was a little thumbnail
of this guy wearing a really big brown suit, okay?
And he had like a pulpit and he just looked wild eyed,
but the thing that caught my eye
other than the big brown suit was KJV only preaching.
And it said soul winning.
I'm like, whoa, I haven't heard anybody
use that term in a long time.
Soul winning.
So I clicked on it, it was Pastor Anderson.
I listened to the sermon and it renewed,
revived my love for soul winning once again.
And I thought to myself, there's more people out there
who still love soul winning, you know?
There's still people out there
who still love to preach the gospel
and are not afraid to use the term soul winning.
We're not against using evangelism,
outreach or whatever, but you know,
I like the term soul winning.
As a Baptist, folks, you know,
a lot of people, they know that that's associated
with being a fundamental Baptist.
And of course, you know, I watched that sermon,
it renewed my love for soul winning.
And then, you know, you got the recommended video
on the King James Bible.
I listen to that one, I'm like, man,
that renewed my love for the King James Bible again.
My church in times past was a very,
it took a very strong stance on the King James Bible.
There's still King James only,
but I would say that, you know,
they were stronger in times past in that stance
and they loved the King James Bible
and they would preach on it,
they would have classes and church for it
just so you could learn
what the history of the King James Bible.
And you know, that kind of died out.
And so my pride in the King James Bible
began to die out, so to speak, until the new IFB.
Who renewed my love for being a fundamental Baptist.
And here's a silly way to put it,
you know, the new IFB made
being a fundamental Baptist cool again.
It was like, forget these liberal churches.
Forget the purple lights.
Forget the liberal music and the smoke
and the skinny jeans.
Let's remain suited and booted.
Let's remain conservative.
Let's remain holy.
Let's stay with the hymns.
Let's stay with the King James Bible.
Let's stay with biblical outreach known as soul winning.
The new IFB renewed my love
for being a fundamental Baptist.
And I would say that today in 2021,
I'm far more a fundamental Baptist today
than I was in 2007 when I first got saved.
The screws have been tightened a little tighter
on soul winning.
The screws have been tightened a little tighter
when it comes to the King James Bible.
When it comes to the biblical separation.
And I owe it to the new IFB who taught me
and renewed my love and my zeal for these things.
You know, the new IFB renewed my love
for hard preaching.
And to not be ashamed of calling it hard preaching.
Old IFB unfortunately, you know, they got away from that.
They didn't want to offend people.
They kinda just, they didn't want to offend anybody.
They felt like people who did that had a bad spirit.
We've heard that recently.
But the new IFB taught me
that hard preaching changes lives.
How do you know that?
Well, you're looking at one right here.
Hard preaching changed my life.
I've been preaching God's word for 14 years now.
And I'm preaching harder today than I did when I was 21.
When I had more vinegar.
I'm preaching harder today.
I'm standing stronger on these doctrines today
than I did back then.
Why?
Because of the new IFB.
Oh, you're just idolizing the new IFB.
No, the new IFB stands on God's word
which is something that I do idolize.
Yeah, the King James Bible is something that I idolize
because it's God's word.
KJV only, soul winning, hard preaching, separation.
These are the things that were renewed in my life.
And I remember kind of being renewed
and being revived in these areas,
thinking to myself, I never want to change this.
And I felt like I was going astray at one point.
I was turning to the left at one point.
And if it wasn't for that little thumbnail,
who knows what would have happened?
I'm thankful for it.
Look at 2 Peter 1 verse 12.
Wherefore, I would not be negligent to put you always
in remembrance of these things,
though you know them,
and be established in the present truth.
Yea, I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle
to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.
You know what the new IFB did for me?
It stirred me up again.
That pot of being King James only,
not Ruckman King James, biblical King James.
That pot of soul winning,
that pot of using the Romans road.
Hey, that pot of counting salvations.
Amen.
That pot of doing marathons and soul winning
and not just leaving a door hanger on a doorknob,
but actually knocking on the door,
opening your mouth boldly
to make known the mysteries of the gospel.
Renewed my love for that.
It renewed my love for souls.
It reminded me that there's still a world
that is lost and dying, going to hell.
And it's up to us as the ministers of reconciliation
to go to them and give them the gospel
and get them saved.
And then in 2021, it's still possible to do it that way.
We don't have to rely on all these tricks
to get people saved.
We don't have to hold a rock concert
to get people saved.
You don't have to do door hangers to get a person saved.
You can open your mouth boldly
to make known the mysteries of the gospel.
You can preach the gospel to every creature.
You can be filled with the Holy Spirit of God
to get people saved.
Amen.
That's why I love the New IFP.
It brought these truths that I already knew
back into remembrance.
You ever read something in the Bible
and then maybe a year later or a couple months later,
you just kind of forget about it
and someone reminds you and you're like,
oh man, I did read that.
Oh yeah, I do remember that.
And it kind of excites you again.
That's what the New IFP did to me.
Second Peter three, verse one says this,
this second epistle, beloved,
I now write unto you in both which I stir up
your pure minds by way of remembrance
that you may be mindful of the words
which were spoken before by the holy prophets
and the commandments of us,
the apostles of the Lord and savior.
You know what the New IFP did?
It reminded me that the type of work that we do today
is the type of work that the apostles were doing.
The disciples in the book of Acts were doing.
It reminded me that we're no different from these men.
It reminded me that our churches are no different
than what we see in the New Testament.
It's a reflection of it.
It stirred up my pure mind to bring me back
into remembrance of soul winning,
of being King James only, of hating sin,
of hard preaching, all the things that liberal churches
and liberalism has sought to remove
from fundamental Baptist churches,
the New IFP placed in me once again.
Go to 2nd Kings chapter 10, 2nd Kings chapter 10.
I'm gonna read to you from 2nd Timothy chapter one,
verse six, wherefore I put thee into remembrance
that thou stir up the gift of God,
which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear,
but of power, love, and a sound mind.
Why do I love the New IFP?
I love it because it renewed my love for good things.
Oh, it's such a bad movement.
Oh, you guys have such a bad, just look at their fruit.
Yeah, look at the fruit of a fundamental Baptist
who just got a little more strict on the King James Bible.
Yeah, look at the fruit of the fundamental Baptist
who loves soul winning and leads a soul winning church.
Yeah, look at the church, look at the fruit,
look at the spirit of the pastor who preaches hard
and has cleaned up people's lives through that preaching,
who has turned people to righteousness
because of that preaching.
Yeah, look at the fruit.
The New IFP renewed my love,
and I'm indebted to the New IFP.
That's why I love it.
That's why when I run into people who are New IFP,
it's like kindred spirits.
I love the New IFP because it renewed my love
to be a fundamental Baptist again.
But not only that, I love the New IFP
because it connected me with religious zealots.
You guys, religious zealots.
I want to be around zealous people.
I don't want to be around lukewarm people.
I like being around, the only time I want to be around
lukewarm people is when they are becoming zealous.
When I can influence them to become zealous for the Lord.
But I want to be connected to religious zealous, extremist.
Look at 2 Kings 10, verse 15.
He says, and when he was departed thence,
he lighted on Jehonadab, the son of Rechab,
coming to meet him.
I think I was like Jehonadab at one time.
And he saluted him and said to him,
is thine heart right as my heart is with thy heart?
And Jehonadab answered, it is.
If it be, give me thine hand.
And he gave him his hand, and he took him up
into his chariot, and he said, come with me
and see my zeal for the Lord.
So they made him ride in his chariot.
And they sang liberal songs.
And they had smoke and purple lights.
And they put door hangers on doors.
And they had a homeless ministry.
And fundraisers.
Verse 17, and when he came to Samaria,
he slew all that remained unto Ahab and Samaria,
till he had destroyed him, according to the saying
of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah.
So when he said, come and see my zeal for the Lord,
he's basically telling him, just watch me
wipe these guys out.
Watch me just take out and just fulfill
the commandments of God.
That's what he's telling him,
because God commanded him to rid the house of Ahab,
of all the sons, to destroy them all.
That's what he commanded Jehu to do.
And so when Jehu went to Jehonadab, he said,
come and see my zeal for the Lord.
He's saying, come see me, fulfill the commandments of God.
Come see me, just leave nothing undone,
fulfill the commandments of God, obey the Lord,
see my zeal for God.
I'm glad Jehonadab went into the chariot.
I'm glad he wasn't like, I don't know,
I haven't really been on a chariot in very long.
Is it safe on there?
You know?
Are there bumpers on the side, safety bumpers?
Jehu came and said, is your heart right
as my heart is with thy heart?
That's a challenge.
He's like, yeah, it is.
He's all right, come on, see my zeal for the Lord.
Jehu's like the new I.B. to me.
Came into my life and they said,
come and see my zeal for the Lord.
And now I got my own chariot.
I'm good.
Go to Titus chapter two.
I love new I.B. because it connected me
to religious zealots, people who are passionate
for the things of God.
People who I don't have to worry about
after Sunday morning service if Ray's gonna come up to me
and say, hey, did you catch the Laker game?
He's not gonna come up to me and condemn me
for bringing up a Bible verse about a thought that I have.
He's not gonna judge me in a negative way
for wanting to talk about the word of God.
Why, because it's the norm here.
We can talk about religiously zealous things
in the house of God as it should be.
Folks, what we have here is not common.
It's common amongst our church friends,
but it's not common amongst
independent fundamental Baptist churches.
Independent fundamental Baptist churches
are filled with people who just want to come to church
to alleviate their conscience and just go home.
If you bring up biblical topics,
oh, you're just trying to be spiritual or something.
Yeah, can you help me out?
Can we talk about the Bible?
Is that weird or something?
But they want to talk about sports.
They want to talk about the Lakers.
They want to talk about the Dodgers.
They want to talk about, what else?
What other sport is there?
Football, carnal, just kidding.
Football, I'm just joking.
They want to talk about things
that don't pertain to the things of God.
And look, I'm not saying there's not a place for that,
but I'm thankful that I'm around people who are zealous.
Look at Titus chapter two, verse 11.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation
hath appeared to all men, teaching us
that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
we should live soberly, righteously,
and godly in this present world,
looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing
of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ,
who gave himself for us that he might redeem us
from all iniquity and purify unto himself,
look what it says, a peculiar people zealous of good works.
He's not saying just the segment of the church
should be like that.
He says, I want my people to be zealous of good works.
I want them to do good unto all men,
but especially the day of the household of faith.
I want them to preach the gospel to every creature.
I want them to have a heart for souls.
That's what he's talking about.
I was telling my wife this the other day.
You know, I kind of always felt,
in the old IFB, it's kind of like the black sheet.
You know, I was always kind of getting into trouble
just because I was kind of overly zealous sometimes.
And you know, people just kind of knew me
as just like, he's like the black sheet.
He loves the Lord, you know, he's a good guy,
but he's just kind of, he's a little too crazy.
This is literally how I was known, okay?
And I told my wife, I said, look,
I know maybe people in your family
or maybe, you know, people,
they would love for us to go back to that.
But I said, I am where I belong, though.
Amen.
Like, I have to be around people who are like me.
I have to be around, you know, like,
people, you know, like, these IFB rejects,
they're like, oh, these people are so crude,
and they're so rude, and they're so this and that,
or whatever, you know?
For me, it's just like, you know,
if you can't handle it, get out the kitchen.
Why are you so sensitive?
I feel like I just, these are the kind of people
I need to be around.
I need to be around real people, right?
I need to do ministry with real people.
I need my pastor friends to be real people.
Zealous people.
Not perfect people, zealous people.
People who are passionate for the things of God.
Go to 1 Thessalonians, chapter one.
Jesus said in Revelation 3.19,
as many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.
Be zealous, therefore, and repent.
I am where I belong.
Amongst people, amongst the movement
who are just crazy religious zealots.
They look at my pastor, people look at my pastor,
and he's like, these people are crazy,
and I'm like, yeah, but that's a good thing, though.
That's who I'm comfortable around.
Oh, but you guys are so crass, though.
I mean, sorry, I'm just, what do you want me to do?
This is how I am.
This is how my people are.
I mean, what do you want us to do?
And look, you get what you are, not what you want.
Amen?
So people who are at this church,
you guys are here under my leadership
because you're probably a little rough, too.
And that's okay.
You say, well, I'm not that rough,
I'm just not used to that,
then we'll help you become a religious zealot.
A zealous Christian will provoke many people.
It'll inspire people.
Zealous Christians inspire people, always.
Whether they tell you or not.
You will always inspire someone
whether they tell you or not.
I've had people tell me, like, you know,
that's Stephen Anderson, don't agree with him.
But man, he loves souls.
Man, he sees a lot of people saved, though.
You trying to tell me they don't inspire them?
That he doesn't inspire them?
I've known of churches, old IFP churches
that have changed their soul-winning
because of churches like us.
Because we provoked very many.
The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
Look at 1 Thessalonians 1, verse six.
And he became followers of us and of the Lord,
having received the word in much affliction
with joy of the Holy Ghost,
so that ye were in samples to all that believe
in Macedonia and Achaia.
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord,
not only in Macedonia and Achaia,
but also in every place your faith
that God were to spread abroad,
so that we need not to speak anything.
The Bible tells us.
Go to 2 Timothy chapter two.
The church at Thessalonica were so zealous,
they were so involved in God's work
that that message sounded abroad.
People heard of the work that was being done
and inspired them.
And look, I'm not looking to get the old IFP
all the way to where we're at.
I'm not trying to get them to where we're at.
I'm trying to get them to move a little closer.
And you know what, if they move a little closer,
I feel like we succeeded.
I mean, I had someone literally this month tell me,
someone who did not believe
in the reprobate doctrine like me,
tell me I now believe the reprobate doctrine.
Great.
Now if we could just get you to hate homos.
Then we're in.
Look at 2 Timothy 2.20, it says,
but in a great house,
there are not only vessels of gold and of silver,
but also wood and earth,
and some to honor, some to dishonor.
A man therefore purged himself from these.
He shall be a vessel and to honor,
sanctify, and meet for the master's use,
and prepared unto every good work.
Look what it says in verse 22.
Flee also youthful lusts, but follow righteousness,
faith, charity, peace.
Look what it says.
With them, they call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
God wants you to do this with them.
With who?
With them.
He wants us to be connected to religious zealots.
Now obviously, you know, we look at this as like,
this isn't being religiously zealous.
You know, this is just normal Christianity.
Following righteousness, faith, charity, peace.
Yeah, but to them out there,
it's like you're just a religious zealot,
living a holy life,
wearing a shirt and tie on a sunny morning,
carrying your Bible,
waking up in the morning to read your Bible
and pray and go soul winning
and taking your family and doing all these things.
It seems like a zealous thing to do.
You're like, you're not for doing that.
This is just normal for us.
But the Bible tells us here
that he wants us to do it with a group of people
who are also following after righteousness.
Folks, you want to be righteous?
Hang around with righteous people.
You want to increase your charity?
Hang around with charitable people.
You want to have peace?
You hang around with people
who have the peace of God, the passive understanding.
Go to Acts chapter two.
I'm sorry, Acts chapter 10.
I love the new IFB.
I love it because it renewed my love
for being a fundamental Baptist.
I love it because it connected me with religious zealots.
I'm thankful that I can go to any of our new IFB
churches, Pastor Jimenez's church, Verity Baptist Church,
Sure Foundation Baptist Church, Faithful Word Baptist Church
Stronghold Baptist Church, Shield of Faith Baptist Church,
Steadfast Baptist Church, and you know what?
It's like home.
We went to the fire breathing Baptist fellowship.
It was like home.
We're just hanging around people who joke like us.
You know, who love doctrine, love the Bible.
You know, they're just as zealous as you are.
It's family.
They're the people who are also
following after righteousness.
We hate false prophets.
We hate false doctrine.
We love righteousness.
We love the hymns.
We love getting people saved.
We love hard preaching.
I love the fact that my church members
love Pastor Jonathan Shelley.
And I think it's great that Pastor Shelley
has people who listen to me.
How do you know that?
There's two right there.
Right there, those two right there.
Manny, raise your hand.
Look at that religious zealot over there.
It's like the second time he's been here
in the last couple months.
That guy's crazy.
I love my religiously zealot pastor friends.
I like that they're crazy.
Who doesn't like that Pastor Anderson
has been on the news?
Saying some crazy stuff.
Old I.B., look at that, they're just like, ugh.
I look at that, I'm just like, that's cool.
That's great.
When we were on the news on Fox 11,
you had one half saying, I can't believe it.
Other half are like, man, that looked awesome.
You said, who are the other half?
The religious zealots?
I love the New I.P.
I love it because number three,
because of the genre of converts.
The New I.P. reaches so many people.
They get so many people saved.
But not just so many people saved,
they get so many different types of people saved.
You go to your typical independent
fundamental Baptist churches,
it's like they're all white people.
Gray headed white people.
No offense to my white folks out there, Sarah.
My wife's white.
They only have one, New I.P., they have everything.
They reach gangsters, former rappers,
doctors, terminators.
What?
Everything.
Tattoo artists?
I mean, everything that you can think of,
they've reached everyone.
And you know why?
Like, why is that?
Why are so many people attracted to the New I.P.
from different genres?
I'll tell you why, because the New I.P. is real.
And these people perceive the love of God.
We reach people who are pierced from head to toe,
tatted from head to toe.
That's a great thing.
Look at Acts chapter 10.
Verse 10, he became very hungry and would have eaten,
but while they made ready, he fell into a trance
and saw heaven open and a certain vessel
descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet
knit at the four corners and led down to the earth,
wherein were all men are the four-footed beasts
of the earth and wild beasts and creeping things
in the bowels of the air.
And there came a voice to him,
rise, Peter, kill and eat.
Peter said, not so, Lord,
for I'm only supposed to have white people in my church.
Only Jews in my church.
For I have never eaten anything that is common
or unclean.
And the voice spake unto him again the second time,
well, God hath cleansed that call,
not thou common.
This was done thrice, and the vessel was received
up again into heaven.
God is chastising Peter, saying, hey,
you needed to reach other people other than Jews.
Go reach other nations, the Parthenians and the Medes
and those of Cappadocia and Bithynia, Galatia.
You need to go out there and reach people
because I don't care about their skin color,
I care about their souls.
I want all types of people to get saved.
Doesn't matter who they are, where they're from,
what background they have,
that's what he's interested in, their souls.
I was told in Bible college,
brother Mejia, if you ever become a pastor,
you're gonna pastor a Mexican church.
He says, white people probably won't follow you.
But here's the thing, you know, I married a white girl.
She just has to follow me, you know, to start a church.
I see, I got two, there's two white people right here.
Yeah, yeah, Jordan, you.
Got a white person there, got some white people over here.
Oh, that dude's white.
There's a lot of white people in our church.
There's not only white people, there's everything.
White, right there.
Did I miss any other white people?
What else?
I already said Cody.
You want me to say it twice?
Oh, Jason.
Clear.
Russians, Armenians, Mexicans, Filipinos, Assyrians.
What else?
Blacks, we got black people in our church.
Yes, we got black people in our church too.
Where's Maury?
Maury's black?
Yes, Belizean.
The genre of converts.
You go to the different churches of our movement,
of the new IFB, you'll find a slew of different people.
Russians, you know, you'll find Hispanics,
you'll find people from Africa, everything.
Why?
Because God wants us to do that.
Old IFB had this mentality, it's just like,
well, Mexican has to pastor a Mexican church,
a black guy has to pastor a black church.
What?
Okay, Peter.
Priest the gospel to every creature.
And not just different colors,
but even different walks of life.
Go to First Peter chapter four, if you would,
First Peter chapter four.
I love the new IFB because it has reached
a slew of different people from different categories,
different backgrounds, different races, different ages.
We got a Tunisian back there.
Does anybody know where Tunisia is?
I mean, from all different walks of life.
I love the new IFB.
I love it, number four, because it normalized
and exalted talking about doctrine.
It normalized and exalted talking about doctrine.
And not just like John 3.16.
Right?
We're talking about Zechariah, Revelation, Daniel.
Aside from the fact that we preach it from the pulpit,
I'll come down and someone will come up to me and say,
hey, let's talk about this verse.
And he's not being a holier, hyper-spiritual person.
It's like he has some substance to it.
What do you think about this?
And we'll interpret doctrine, we'll exalt doctrine.
And it's not something that people are ashamed of
in our church.
Oh, what a horrible movement.
Oh, man, you guys are so mean-spirited
and vicious and malicious and delicious.
But yet, what are we doing after church?
We're talking about doctrine.
We're exalting doctrine.
I'm never gonna come, if you ever come to me
with a question about doctrine,
I'm not gonna look at you all weird.
Excuse me.
Didn't you get enough during the preaching?
People come to me, I have a question about the Bible.
Let's talk.
Pockets of people gathered together in our church
and they discuss end times Bible prophecy.
The Armenians talk about the Jews.
Replacement theology.
It's normal, but it's not only normal, it's exalted.
Look what the Bible says in 1 Peter 4, 11.
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God.
If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability
which God giveth, that God in all things
may be glorified through Jesus Christ.
To whom be praise and dominion forever and ever, amen.
I mean, isn't this the house of God?
Why should it be a weird thing to talk about the Bible
in the house of God?
Should be a normal thing.
Whereas in other churches, it's almost like
a shameful thing.
You kinda look down upon.
You kinda criticize for doing that.
Not here, it's normalized here.
You know what I like?
I like the fact that I can pick up the phone,
I can call one of my pastor friends
and literally just talk about the Bible.
Hey, what do you think about this passage?
This is my interpretation.
Let me know what you think about this.
And it's like, yeah, I definitely see it
from your point of view.
I've always thought that this was,
and we just talk about the Bible.
You say, well, did you guys ever talk about
like anything else, like sport?
No, it's just like, all right, cool, well,
talk to you later.
That's literally what we do.
That's not normal.
It's biblical normal.
And look, I'm not saying we walk around
just like 24 hours a day only talking about the Bible,
folks.
We talk about other things.
Don't take me out of context.
I'm saying that in our church,
it's just normal to talk about the Bible.
It's exalted, it's something that's emphasized.
It's not something that we look down upon.
Oh, you guys are so mean-spirited.
You guys are just so this and that.
Well, then why are so many people
talking about the Bible in our church?
Well, if they're so malicious,
why aren't they talking about
the satanic Bible or something?
If they're so venomous and malicious
and angry and mean-spirited,
why aren't they talking about like murder
and Halloween and,
right, because out of the abundance of the heart,
the mouth speaketh.
So whatever's in the heart is what comes out.
And if the Bible's coming out in conversation,
that tells you what's in the heart.
Go to Ezekiel 22.
I love the new IFB.
I love it because they made it normal
and they exalted talking about doctrine in churches.
Not only that, I love the new IFB.
Listen to this, because they are
in the hottest part of the battle.
Never really met a group like this before.
Never really met a group of Christians
that have attacked the gates of hell
with such fervor and tenacity as the new IFB.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist,
because I'm only 35 years old.
I'm sure in times past, hundreds of years ago,
many movements have existed.
I'm just saying in my generation.
This is a movement that is in the hottest part
of the battle.
And why wouldn't you want to be among soldiers
who are in the hottest part of the battle?
Those are the people who are the most bold,
tenacious, strong, filled with the spirit.
I mean, these are some pretty awesome people.
Look what the Bible says in Ezekiel 22, verse 29.
The people of the land have used oppression
and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy.
They have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
And I sought for a man among them
that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap
before me for the land that I should not destroy it,
but I found none.
Therefore, have I poured out my indignation upon them.
I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath.
Their own way have I recompensed upon their heads,
saith the Lord God.
God is always looking for a man
to stand in the hedge and make up the gap.
Thankfully, in 2021, you have more than just a man.
You actually have churches that do this,
who are willing to literally put their lives at risk
for the truth.
Men and women who literally are willing
to put their lives at risk, their jobs at risk,
their reputation at risk, for what, for the truth?
Folks, there's not many churches
who are willing to do something like that.
The new IP is in the hottest part of the battle.
Hey, Pastor Jonathan Shelley
is in the hottest part of the battle right now.
He's being attacked every single week
from different angles, from false brethren,
from the haters of God.
Yeah, that's someone I wanna be friends with.
That guy is on the forefront fighting the battle.
I wanna be next to that person
because he's standing in the gap.
You know what the greatest thing about it is?
He's not folding.
Not folding.
See, it's one thing to fight in the battle.
It's another thing when the guy doesn't fold.
He just keeps going.
First Works Baptist Church
has been in the hottest part of the battle.
So hot that the church blew up.
But you know what?
We didn't fold.
I love the new IP because a lot of men hate them.
They're hated.
The new IP is hated.
And it's not just hated by the reprobates.
They're hated by other Christians,
which the Bible says would happen.
And when you investigate why these brethren hate us,
there's never a valid reason.
It's always ambiguous.
It's never clear.
There's never really any evidence.
So we come to the conclusion
that it's envy.
I love the new IP because it's in the hottest part
of the battle.
And why, if we only have one life to live, folks,
if there's only one life to live,
if we're only gonna be here once,
why not fight in the hottest part of the battle?
Amen.
Go to Second Samuel, Chapter 16.
Love the new IP.
So if you talk about the new IP,
you're talking about me.
I love the new IP, we love the new IP,
so when you talk about the new IP,
they're talking about you.
Yeah, right.
Talking about us as a church.
Why do I love the new IP?
I'll tell you why, and I mentioned this already
to a certain extent, but we're gonna go more in-depth
into this, because the new IP,
they aren't a bunch of fakes and phonies.
They're just not fakes and phonies.
They're real.
They are willing to tell you like it is.
They're willing to give you the truth
by any means necessary.
They won't lie to you, they won't try to deceive you,
they'll just plainly tell you what the truth is.
The Bible says in Romans 12, Verse 9,
let love be without dissimulation,
abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good.
First Corinthians 2, one says,
and I, brethren, when I came to you,
came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom,
declaring to you the testimony of God,
for I determined not to know anything among you,
save Jesus Christ and him crucified,
and I was with you in weakness and in fear
and in much trembling, and my speech and my preaching
was not with enticing words of man's wisdom,
but in demonstration of the spirit and power
that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men,
but in the power of God.
We don't leave people in obscurity.
We say what we mean and we mean what we say.
I don't like to preach a sermon
and then you wonder, who is he calling out?
I'll just tell you.
You're like, so who's this,
this particular sermon right here, pastor,
what is this in response to?
Grace and Fritz.
Tommy McMurtry.
The new IFB rejects.
The no IFBers.
The Patrick Boyles.
These users and backstabbers and abusers.
That's who I'm talking about.
Just so there's no question in your mind.
I wonder who he's talking about.
There it is.
But in particular, obviously,
Grace and Fritz is the one that I'm really talking about.
Because recently, Grace and Fritz has just gone
on this rampage of just attacking the new IFB
and making railing accusations against the new IFB.
And folks, we know the severity of a railing accusation.
A railing accusation will get you kicked out of church.
So when a pastor, an ordained minister of the gospel
who has a church decides to bring forth
railing accusations against other people,
churches and pastors, that's a grievous sin
that needs to be addressed.
Look at 2 Samuel 16.
Now, last week he was a little more bold than usual.
And he made a response video and he said my name
and my pastor's friend's name
that he wants nothing to do with us.
But before, he was just kind of casting stones from afar.
And then I remember he was preaching some sermons
and one of my pastor friends said,
man, he's preaching against you.
And this is literally what I said.
That's my boy.
Why would Fritz preach against me?
We're like friends.
I'm like, nah, dude, you're tripping.
He's like, he's preaching against you.
I was like, all right.
And me and my lover of confrontation
called him right then and there.
I say, hey, what's up?
Hey, are you preaching against me?
I heard that you preached a sermon
and you're like calling me out
and you're preaching against me.
Is that true?
No, no, that was someone else.
I'm talking to my church members.
Oh, okay, all right, I'm just checking.
How's the family?
Because I'm just a confrontational person like that.
It's not that I love confrontation, I just love resolution.
That's what I love.
And confrontation is necessary to resolve things.
But then he began to get more bold
and as a reason, last week he preached a sermon
where he is bad mouthing the new IFB
even to the point where he makes this railing accusation
about a pastor in the new IFB
who condones a man praying for the death of his ex-wife
so that he can become a pastor
and that the pastor of that church
won't say anything to him.
I mean, this is very elaborate.
So I was like, whoa, that's grievous.
If that's true, that's a grievous thing, yeah.
So who is it?
Because that's really grievous.
I mean, as far as I can remember,
Grayson Fritz still believes
in First Corinthians chapter five.
I'm sure he's dealt with railers in his church.
And I'm sure he went about it the right way
as in when there's a railer that has to be two witnesses,
evidence has to be present.
If one person comes to him
accusing him of these things
or accusing another person of this,
he's not just gonna accept it at face value.
There needs to be evidence.
I'm sure that's what he believes.
I'm sure First Corinthians five
is still in his King James Bible.
I'm sure he believes in church discipline still, I think.
So let's just hold him to that same standard.
So Grayson Fritz, you know,
the way you may have church discipline,
some people in times past were railing,
and you just investigated, you looked at the evidence,
and based upon the clear evidence,
the two witnesses, three witnesses that you had,
you excommunicated someone out of your church,
well, in like manner,
who are the witnesses to what you're saying?
Where's the evidence for this railing accusation
against the pastor
who's supposedly permitting this in his church?
It's not necessarily a challenge,
it's just a normal question, really.
Look at Second Samuel 16, verse five.
And when King David came to Bahurim,
behold, thence came out a man
of the family of the house of Saul.
Didn't one of my friends preach this sermon
about staying away from Saul?
I think one of my friends preached that recently, right?
And if I'm not mistaken,
Saul in that sermon was referring to Tommy McMurtry.
Did I misinterpret that?
Is that a railing accusation?
Well, now we're not talking about Saul, though.
This is a man who came out
from the family of the house of Saul,
whose name was Shimei, the son of Gerab.
He came forth and cursed still as he came,
and he cast stones at David.
And had all the servants of King David,
and all the people and all the mighty men
were on his right hand and on his left.
And thus said Shimei when he cursed,
come out, come out, thou bloody man.
Look what he says here.
Thou a man of Belial.
Folks, a man of Belial is referring to a reprobate.
This is a railing accusation against King David.
King David's a saved man.
He's a son of God.
In fact, he is a symbolic representation
of the son of God.
Yet Shimei is casting stones,
calling him a bloody man,
because he's fighting the wars of God.
He's fighting the wars of God,
putting people to death that God told them
to put to death, fulfilling the commandments of God,
and he's saying, you're a bloody man.
You're just mean-spirited.
Thou a man of Belial, this railing accusation.
Where are you getting that from?
The Lord hath returned upon thee
all the blood of the house of Saul.
Oh yeah, you guys got blown up because you deserve it.
That's what Michael Johnson said.
And whose stead thou hast reigned,
and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom
into the hand of Absalom, thy son,
and behold, thou art taken in thy mischief,
because thou are a bloody man.
I'm sure they're saying the same thing
about Pastor Shelley and what's going on with him.
This is what you get, Pastor Shelley.
This is what you get, Pastor Aaron Thompson.
God's returning upon you
all the wickedness that you've done.
Let's just read verse nine, because I really like it.
Then said Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, unto the king.
Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king?
Let me go over there, I pray,
then take off his head.
He's like, why are we letting him do this?
Why don't we just go over there
and just decapitate him, you know?
These sons of Zeruiah were pretty crazy.
And obviously, David did not condone it.
I'm just saying, you know,
it's good to have men like this around, okay?
Makes a man feel better.
But Shimei is not coming to David and saying,
hey, stop, I need to talk to you.
I think you're a bloody man and you're a son of Belial
and this is the reason why.
No, instead, he's such a little wuss
that he stands afar off
and he casts stones at David from afar off.
Because he knew that if he got in close range
to David's sword, David would slay him
and chop him to pieces.
And possibly the sons of Zeruiah as well.
But he's making these railing accusations
for David being a bloody man
because he's fighting the wars of God.
And you know what, the same thing goes
for Grace and Fritz making these railing accusations
against the new IFB for being mean-spirited.
Who are we being mean towards?
The reprobates?
Who are we being mean towards?
The haters of God?
And he claims in this video, he says,
they call saved men unsaved and reprobates.
By the way, which is another railing accusation.
When have we, me, Pastor Anderson
or anybody in the new IFB ever said
that this saved man is an unsafe person or a reprobate?
Never.
Have you ever heard of anybody doing that?
It's a railing accusation.
But he wants to cast stones and make these claims
that we're bloody, that we're so malicious.
Malicious towards who, the false prophets?
Yeah.
I hate false prophets.
You're so vicious against who, reprobates?
Yeah.
You're so mean-spirited.
Well, first of all, I don't have an average spirit.
But if you're saying that I'm angry,
yeah, I'm angry against the sodomites, yeah.
I'm angry against false doctrine, yeah.
I'm angry against railing accusations, yeah.
I get angry when people backstab other people, yeah.
But Shimmy I wants to make this comparison.
You're a bloody man.
Yeah.
One of me, eh, you're a bloody man.
Oh, you're a son of Belial.
Turns his comments off.
Yeah.
Folks, I never turn off my comments.
Why?
It's good for the watch.
And the truth fears no investigation.
The truth fears no investigation.
That's why we just fly off the handle every Sunday
because we don't care what you say
because we're preaching the truth.
We want everyone to know it.
We're not trying to hide everything.
You know, like Manly Perry,
who literally will preach a sermon
and will not upload it for like two months or something
because he's afraid that people will watch it.
And then people watch it, they start criticizing
and then he puts it on private.
Because he doesn't want anybody to find out
that he's a damnable heretic.
Even though everyone already knows it, grandpa.
But Shimmy I, and by the way,
if they're referring to me calling Manly Perry
an unsaved reprobate, yeah, guilty as charged.
But here's the difference, he's not saved.
When you're teaching crazy damnable heresy
about Jesus Christ, saying that Mary had a bun in the oven
weird stuff about just the deity of Jesus Christ,
at that point you're a damnable heretic, grandpa.
Come out, come out that bloody man.
He's calling out the new IFB in his video.
And then when we respond, oh they're attacking me,
they're so malicious and vicious and all this stuff.
It's like, well you asked for it.
There's like these kids in the playground who do that.
I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you,
I'm not touching you, and when you slap them,
they go tell the teacher on you.
Did you slap Grayson?
Yeah, but he hit me first though.
No, no, no, no, shimmy eye is a coward.
Shimmy eye is casting stones from afar.
Shimmy eye, it preaches ambiguous sermons
against the new IFB because he wants people
to think that he's preaching against the new IFB
but when the new IFB pastors get involved,
oh it was one of my church members.
So do you like hate your church members?
You seem to have a hard time with your church members.
Like if we're to apply what you just said
to like every single time you preach,
it sounds like you don't get along real well
with your church members.
And here's the thing, you know,
let's see if he says that this time around.
It's like, well aren't you the pastor?
If you're talking to your church,
would that mean that you're the pastor
who's condoning of this?
Shimmy eye is casting stones from afar,
he's making these railing accusations,
and of course we know what happens to shimmy eye
in the long run.
God recompenses him back on his head.
Tonight I'm marking Grayson Fritz,
pastor of all scripture Baptist church
for bringing a railing accusation
against me and our church.
He's marked.
Let me read this to you.
Since I've, this is his quote, okay.
Since I've been involved in this four years ago
in this goat roping known as the new IFB,
I've ran across people that are proven liars, proven.
People that are backstabbers, didn't you do that?
People that are gossips, isn't that what you're doing?
And you preach to these people
over and over and over again
to fix their problem, fix their relationships,
and fix their issues,
but they disregard everything you say.
But you can bet your last dollar
that they will show up to every soul winning event,
every marathon, from here to Timbuktu.
By the way, we should have a soul winning marathon
in Timbuktu.
He says new IFBers are some of the nastiest,
crudest, most unmerciful, venomous people,
but everyone talks about their soul winning, don't they?
Isn't that a weird statement to make?
What does that have to do with anything?
He said everyone talks about their soul winning,
are you like mad that people talk about their soul winning?
Or are you mad that you think that they're cruel
and venomous and all these other things?
By the way, folks, let me just explain something to you.
This is called projecting.
They can treat others like garbage.
They can be unforgiving.
They can behave themselves poorly online.
By the way, where is this sermon on online?
They can backstab, they can gossip and lie.
But hey, at least there are winning souls to Christ.
And then he says this, there is another church,
I'm not gonna mention the name of the church,
but this is a major old IFB thing.
Old IFB used to do this and used to anger me
like crazy.
I don't wanna say any names.
I don't wanna say it, why?
Then why even tell me?
There is another church, I'm not gonna mention
the name of this church.
There's divorced guys, plural, in this church
and they pray for the death of their ex-wives
so that they can become pastors.
They pray for their ex-wives to die
so they can be pastors, folks, that is bizarre.
Their pastor knows about it and says nothing to them.
So when you hear that, it's just like,
whoa, that's crazy, that's bad.
And you know what, if this was true,
I'd agree with him.
Yeah, man, that's wicked, wicked!
That's evil!
We should call this guy out!
Let's find out who it is!
Hey, text me, Grayson Fritz, the name of the person,
if you don't wanna, I'll do it for you.
Send a little message, let's get an anonymous tipster
out there to call in.
You don't have to give your name,
what church you're from, we know it's Grayson,
and he'll call in and he can tell us
the name of the pastor.
Because if Grayson doesn't wanna go after him,
I'll go after him, because this is grievous.
This is unacceptable, this is wicked!
But he doesn't wanna say who it is.
Why, because that pastor doesn't exist.
No one teaches that.
And this is why he's being marked by your church tonight.
Grayson Fritz is marked by us.
We're marking him and all scripture Baptist church.
And by the way, I'm also not interested
in being associated with or have any type of friendship
with those who defend this fool.
So if you're for Grayson Fritz, bye, see ya.
I have no desire to fellowship with you.
Grayson Fritz fits the exact description
that he claims the new IFP is.
He's actually the unforgiving one.
He's the one who's nasty, he's the one who's venomous,
he's the one who has backstabbed,
and he's the one who is gossiping right now.
He claims that the new IFP has a bad spirit,
even though this isn't really even a biblical concept.
He states, I don't like the fact
that they attack men of God,
while of course he's attacking men of God.
So apparently he's the only one who's allowed to do that.
He makes the railing accusation
that we call save men unsaved and reprobates.
He states that people who make memes online
do not exhibit good Christian character
while bypassing the fact that he made
a railing accusation that merits expulsion from church.
Forget the memes.
What about the railing accusation?
He states that Pastor Anderson claims
that Fritz is pretending to be his friend,
then states, I'm not their friend,
don't want to be their friend,
I don't want anything to do with them,
of course after he got ordained.
After he got a church.
After he was promoted by Pastor Anderson
and the other churches.
He claims to not want anything to do with the new IFP
but can't seem to keep his mouth shut about it.
It's kind of weird.
For someone who hates and wants nothing to do
with the new IFP, you sure do talk about them
quite a bit.
When confronted about his railing accusation
and challenged to provide evidence,
instead of clearing the air and naming the names,
he decides to talk about why he hates the new IFP.
Buddy, we already know you hate it.
It's not a surprise to us.
You're not sharing anything new.
He states in his video that there's so much more
that he could say but he chooses not to.
By the way, Tommy McMurtry's another one.
And I want nothing to do with Tommy McMurtry
and Liberty Baptist Church too.
I don't care for the gently led sisters
or whatever sermons that he preached or whatever.
You say, why?
Well, because Tommy McMurtry made the statement
when talking about the new IFP where he stated,
yeah, they're right on Israel.
Yeah, they're right on end times Bible prophecy.
And he says this, and I quote,
and unfortunately, they're right on repentance.
Unfortunately?
Folks, when we talk about the old IFP,
one thing we say is, fortunately,
they're right on salvation.
Because we want people to be right on salvation.
It's a wicked thing to not want them
to be right on salvation.
And even the people that we would even get along with
or agree with that's old IFP,
if we found out that they're preaching the real gospel,
we're like, well, that's a good thing at least.
Man's saved, the man's preaching the right gospel.
Amen.
It's not an unfortunate thing to be right on repentance.
But it's unfortunate for you
if you want us to be the bad guy.
Because is that being stated
because you want us to be the bad guy?
Let me just make myself very clear.
I want no agreement with you.
I want nothing to do with you.
I don't want nothing to do with your church.
We're not gonna make any peace treaties.
Just stay away from me.
That's it.
Don't talk about the new IFP.
Don't talk about me.
Don't talk about my friends.
Don't talk about Pastor Thompson.
Don't talk about my sending pastor, Pastor Anderson.
Don't criticize Jonathan Shelley.
Don't bad-mouth the people that I associate with
who are new IFP and everything will be hunky-dory.
And we'll wave at each other in heaven.
I want nothing to do with them.
Folks, I thought the Bible still says
against an elder receive not an accusation.
But before two or three witnesses.
Because he's talking about a pastor.
I'm talking about Fritz.
He's talking about a pastor.
So that means he received an accusation from someone
if that's where he's getting it from.
Or if, I mean, he could be making it up himself,
but I don't know.
I'm not gonna make that claim because I don't know.
But if he's receiving it from someone else,
the Bible tells us to not receive that accusation
unless there's hard evidence for that.
And let me make myself very clear.
Anybody online who wants to criticize the new IFP
and stand with these people and you start criticizing
the new IFP and that's the way you stand with them,
okay, then you're targeted.
You're marked.
I'll unsubscribe from your channel.
Go for it.
You feel like, we shall destroy his empire
by unsubscribing from his channel.
Well, first Corinthians five is still there.
And it tells us if any man that is called a brother,
now let me ask you, is Grayson Fritz called a brother?
Yeah, because he's saved.
As far as I know, he's saved.
I believe he's saved.
Calls himself a brother.
Bible says if any man that is called a brother
be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater
or a railer or a drunkard or extortioner
with such and one know not to eat.
So I was to stay away from them.
And he's not the exception to the rule.
Folks, if I ever make a mistake preaching
and someone approaches me about it,
even if it's an enemy, I will correct it.
Because I want to have integrity in my preaching.
I remember a couple years ago, I preached a sermon
and I was ripping on Eric Ballesteros
and just out of zeal, I was like,
if you doubt your salvation, you're not even saved.
Because I just went overboard.
Someone approached me online about it
and immediately I uploaded a video
to clarify what I meant and to correct that.
Because I want to preach right.
I don't want to be ambiguous about what I say.
I'm not trying to leave people in obscurity
or in darkness or in doubt.
I'm a preacher of God's word.
I'm the man of God.
My job is to clarify what the Bible says.
So if I make a mistake, you know what I'm going to do?
I'm just going to clear it up.
Say I'm wrong, this is right, there we go.
And if I'm marking someone from my church
or marking someone from a different church,
I'm not going to leave you in obscurity
of who I'm talking about.
I love the new IFB because of preaching like this.
I love it because it's real.
Lastly, I love the new IFB because the men and women
of the new IFB are of like passions.
Because you know, we're no different than the old IFB
in the sense of we suffer too.
We go through trials, we go through tribulations.
There's marital problems sometimes.
There's child-rearing problems sometimes.
There's relational problems sometimes.
There's battles within, right?
There's people who struggle with sin.
There's people who get discouraged, they get depressed,
they get disillusioned.
They struggle in the Christian life.
We're of like passions.
We struggle with the same things, the old.
It's not like we became new IFB's,
it's like we never even mess with those things.
God protects us from all, no we suffer
in like manners, all our other brothers suffer.
We go through financial woes, health woes,
heartbreaks, tears, we suffer.
It's just that we also do these other things too.
So you know, we have the fightings within and without,
we have the care of all the churches too.
We just choose to do it all.
And I'm thankful that I am friends with churches
like Verity Baptist Church.
I'm thankful I'm friends with churches
like Sure Foundation Baptist Church,
Shield of Faith Baptist Church,
shout out to Joe Jones, Pastor Joe Jones.
You know, Stronghold Baptist Church,
Faithful World Baptist Church,
Steadfast Baptist Church, Mountain Baptist Church,
who else, am I missing anybody else?
What?
Holdfast Baptist Church, Pastor Jared Pazarski,
we're taking over California, amen.
You know, all the Sure Foundations,
I don't even want to name them all,
all over the world, UK Sure Foundation, Brother Ian.
Yeah, Brother Matthew Stuckey, new IFB, amen.
Who else?
I'm missing any?
I'm thankful for these men, thankful for these churches.
These are my friends.
I love the new IFB, folks,
and I will always be the new IFB.
Our church will always be the new IFB
because this is what we stand for.
So this is just a public service announcement
for you out there, that when you criticize the new IFB,
you better use some different code word.
Because I'm gonna take it personal.
My church will take it personal.
But you know, it's good that I'm saying this
because now whoever hates us will tread lightly
the next time they preach a sermon
and they're tempted to talk about the new IFB.
Watch it, that's right.
Father, we thank you so much for your word.
Lord, thank you for the new IFB movement.
I'm thankful for the pastors that have influenced me
and helped me, Lord.
They turned me to righteousness.
They turned their church members to righteousness.
They helped me to read my Bible more.
They helped me to pray more.
They helped me to stand for the truth.
This is the fruit.
They helped tighten up the screws of doctrine
and soul winning.
They gave depth to our love for the King James Bible.
They renewed our love just for the things of God.
They helped us to be aware of the end times
and be excited over the things
that people maybe have lost the love over.
This is a good movement.
This is a great movement.
This is a movement that I'm thankful my children
will grow up in.
And I'm thankful for our church members.
Lord, I love my church.
I love the people in our church.
I'm thankful that you allowed us to cross paths
here on this earth so we can do the work
of the Lord together.