or this afternoon I guess we would turn in our hymnals to song 327
song 327 in our hymnals I love to tell the story that song 327
song 327
we had a good uh it was hot today guys i will admit so i'm glad that everybody made it out
made it back and let me just get those soul winning numbers real quick uh brother james
and i we had two brother mo you had one did anybody else get any zero three so three and three is six
so we're at six souls again this week that's great so we're now at a total of
176 for the year and our Sunday morning service is at 10 30 Sunday evening
4 30 Wednesday services at 5 30 and then our soul any time is that
2 p.m. because I mean why not go out at the hottest time of the day so it's just the way to keep it but the
Bible verse of the week is Philippians 1 1 we did change it and I explained that this morning
But also I'll explain this afternoon. We're trying to encourage all the kids to memorize Bible with us
And so we're gradually going to make the chapters harder and so but Hebrews 1 just has a lot of like
five, six, seven sentence chapters.
And so I mean, versus, so my wife was like,
well, maybe we need to give them a little bit,
show them a little bit of grace.
And I agreed with her on that one.
Plus, Philippians one is great,
because if you memorize a lot of the verses of Philippians,
they're great to have reached out
whenever you're dealing with different things.
Our August happenings, we have Jesse coming up on the 13th,
Eli coming up on the 17th, and Cynthia coming up on the 28th.
And then the anniversary the 50th wedding anniversary for Pastor Cobb and Sister Linda is on August 9th
So was that 19?
What is that 50 years? I'm
1975 no, yeah, right
1975 right yeah
Okay, man. Well, congratulations on that. And then we have pastor Stephen Anderson gets preaching on the 22nd
That's a Friday. It'll probably be at seven in the afternoon, but we'll get that ironed out
and
Then on the 23rd, I gotta fix that if you'll remind me it still says August
23rd is the soul wedding marathon. Then we have the men's retreat
August 14th through the 16th. That's in a couple weeks
Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship August 27th through the 31st and then we have the Mexico
Through the 12th and I mean honestly just help promote that on the Spanish side even the channel
We I mean in the last three weeks. I've literally not led anybody to Christ in English
I mean, it's just all been Spanish for me. So there is a lot of Spanish speakers
There's a big need and we you know, I'm trying to work with brother Diego instead fast
I'm just pushing more content out in Spanish. And then just what I had some notes here. Let me just
Oh, yeah, and then just I don't know if I've told anybody but we have a bunch of popsicles
The popsicles are strictly for the soul winners and their families because you know, it's hot
You guys are more than what if you went soul winning you're more than welcome to it. Have have have a go at it
I want I want you guys to cool down. I don't want anybody
You know keeling over from a heat stroke. It is out there
So if you want one or two go for it
I mean, I think I mean popsicle of all the things popsicles are not they're not going to put it out of business
And then the ice cream is for the memory the Bible memory
So that's for the kids if they memorize the Bible and they quote it to a fun-own family member
We'll go ahead and what the parents permission will get them some ice cream
And then I think we've got the prayer list.
Is there anything we need to update on the prayer list?
Anybody that needs to give me an update?
Well, if nothing else,
then let's go ahead and turn our hymnals to what page?
491.
Let's turn our hymnals over to page 491.
And then we'll go to the next step.
All right, we're there on page 491 in our hymnals.
on Jordan Stormy Banks with song 491.
song 499 when the roll is called up
Psalm 119
Brother James is going to read the whole chapter of Psalm 119
And all liars shall have their part
And so we're in Psalms 119 and we're going to read verses 1 through 24
So Psalm 119, we'll start in verse one, the Bible reads,
blessed are the undefiled in the way,
who walk in the law of the Lord.
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies
and that seek him with the whole heart.
They also do know iniquity, they walk in his ways.
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
O, that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes, then shall I not be ashamed when
I have respect unto all thy commandments.
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
I will keep thy statutes, O, forsake me not utterly.
Wherewith all shall a young man cleanse his way by taking he there to according to thy word
With my whole heart have I sought thee. Oh, let me not wonder from thy commandments
Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee
Blessed art thou. Oh Lord. Teach me thy praise
I'm sorry
I
Lost my place here
First of all, bless it art thou, O Lord, teach me thy statutes.
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
I will meditate in thy precepts and have respect unto thy ways.
I will delight myself in thy statutes.
I will not forget thy word.
Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
I am a stranger in the earth, hide not thy commandments from me.
My soul breaketh for the longing that hath unto thy judgments at all times.
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
Princes also did sit and speak against me,
but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
Let's pray, Father God in heaven,
thank you so much for your word,
the only truth that we have in this life.
And just thank you so much for your son
and him dying for our sins and rising again
so that any that believe can make it to heaven.
It's a free gift, it's forever.
And just thank you so much for all of your blessings.
please fill Pastor Reyes with your Holy Spirit to preach your truth boldly and please help us
understand everything he's prepared for us in Jesus' name I pray amen. All right you're there in
Psalm 119 and I was debating whether to wear this or not it's hot today. We were looking on the uh
Sorry, I thought I had gotten this ready. We were looking at the temperature the temperature is not that hot
But it was like 87%
And I'm like man
That's rough. It's like basically you're walking in a cloud of heat
Or a sauna as we would call it, right? This is it was kind of hot
Sorry about that guys
He's got us all foggy, but you're there in Psalm 119 we're there with Psalm 119 and the title of the sermon this afternoon is
practical ways to avoid sin, practical ways to avoid sin.
You know, before we get started, one of the things that we get accused of a lot is
easy believism, right, that we just tell people,
hey, it doesn't matter if you after you get saved, if you've committed some grievous sin
or you just continue sin, when you die, you still go to heaven.
And that is all true. But we also, because we
understand the grace that we've received from the Lord Jesus Christ, we actually preach on sin
and we don't want you to sin. Now that being said, we don't want you to sin, but we understand that
you will sin. And so we need to get practical applications and we need to get a good plan of
mix it up a little bit, but every once in a while I just got these practical ideas in my mind that I just need to get out of my head.
And I've been thinking about these. I've got one more, but I've obviously there's only two sermons.
I wasn't able to fit it in that I'm thinking about just things that stand out that I see like on my day to day or out in the world and things that we're dealing with.
And it's interesting because the people that preach this like hyper grace mentality or these liberal churches, they're the ones that allow the most sin.
They're the ones that preach the least amount on a specific sin and they don't even give you any
tools to just address sin. The problem with like talking about just overly hyper grace or anything
like that is the fact that hey I'm still sinning and the fact is those people sitting in the pews
realize that they're committing sin and they have no way of realizing hey how do I really stop this
There are times when I'm just like how do I overcome this or you're just facing a reality and you're like
I need some just basic tools some ideas some methods some disciplines in my life or
Management to just deal with sin and the Bible lets us add and you know if we go there to verse 11
That's really the verse that I want to focus on it says
Thy word have I hid in mine hard that I might what not sin against these so according to the Bible
God doesn't want us to sin
Obviously, we don't believe in sinless perfection or anything like that, but God also doesn't
want us to just sin willfully.
I mean, just because we know we can sin doesn't mean that we're going to go around sinning,
right?
And so these are the things, but just on a really quick side note, I don't usually do
this, but I just thought it was interesting because he was reading it.
I was trying to follow this along in the non-inspired version.
it doesn't do it justice there's nothing like the king james right verse 11 on the new inspired
verses says i have hidden your word in my heart that i might not sin against you and this is why
we like the king james right because it does the these and the thou's this very general you could be
anybody
You know you in the audience or you out in the world, but when it talks about thy word
We were talking specifically to who God Almighty his word singular
Have I hidden my heart that I might not sin against who the
God Almighty God doesn't care like if we sin against each other
That's just we need to clear that up
Ultimately what he cares about is the sin that we commit against him right because if we commit a wrong on somebody
When I mean by he doesn't care is we're not committing that wrong to that person
We're committing that wrong to who God Almighty remember when Samuel went to God and said hey
They want a king in Samuel and God said it's not you that they rejected. It's me. They've rejected
right? It's not that he doesn't care. It's actually worse. It would be better if he cared about that
because then you wouldn't get the punishment and the harshness that comes from
sinning against God Almighty. Remember Nathan said, hey, you are that man. And what did what did
David said? I've sinned. And then if we read the songs, he said only against the and only against
what's the one basic tenet we do when we go out so many? We explain, hey, what's sin to you? Or
that's what I do. I ask people, hey, what does sin mean to you? Like, if you had to describe sin,
what is sin? And most people understand that it's like doing something bad or when you go against
God. Obviously, sin is the transgression of the law. You don't have to turn there for the sake of
And by the way, 1st John speaks a lot about sin.
In 1st John 3, am I in 3?
Yeah, in verse 3, verse 1, says,
Behold, what manner of love the Father bestowed upon us
that we should be called the sons of God.
Therefore, the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and a doth not yet appear that we shall be, but
we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure, who committed
Also the law for sin is the transgression of the law and you know that he was manifested to take away our sins
And an in him is no sin. So what is sin? It's just the transgression of the law
What's the transgress is to break the law right and James 4 17 says therefore to him that knows to do good and do it
Not it is to him it is sin
you know if we know to do good things like go soul winning and we don't do it you know what it is it's a sin
I said that this morning right oh but it's not just soul winning it's everything that we know to do good
I mean that's a hard thing to do because by the way let me be clear I'm giving you practical
ways to avoid sin these are the sins that you're aware of the bible gives us an entire chapter
Ignorance or the sins of you know that we just don't know about so the thing is we need to focus on things
We know about just to kind of compensate for the things we don't even know about
There's things that we're just not even aware of that we're committing in first John 5 or 17
The Bible says all unrighteousness is sin
Notice is not righteousness, but all unrighteousness that means it includes all of us
Right and there is a sin unto death. We know that whosoever is born of God
Sineth not but he that has begun of God keepeth himself and the wicked one touches him not and we know that we are of God and
The whole world
Lieth in wickedness. Why do we preach against sin because the whole world lies in wickedness?
Look, we're the only
We're the only
I don't know, I'm trying to think of a good word.
My vocabulary is devoid of understanding this afternoon,
but we're the only thing that's going to stem the wave of sin, right?
We are the only group of people, and I'm talking about those that are saved by grace,
that could even do anything against the tide of sin,
and you still got 90% of Christians who are not doing the things they need to do to get better.
Right? Why do we want to avoid sin? Well, we want to avoid sin because it just makes us better for Christ
It kind of talks so it kind of builds on you know this morning's sermon
I guess this could be part two we want a multitude of counselors, but we also want to just recognize ourselves
How to avoid sin because it's part of our lives, you know, I was
My wife and I were having a conversation
And I told her, you know, there's a new gym open, I don't know who notices, but there's
gyms opening up all the time all over the city.
I don't know how these, I think it's a scam that personally, because that's a lot of money.
I think what they do from the financial services standpoint is they build them up, sell them
just to make it like a money, but that's, you don't need to know that.
And I don't know why I thought about that.
But you know, they have those offers is like $9.99 for the first month or for the first
year.
You know to the gym to work out because we work out at home
But there's nothing like getting out of the house to go work out. It's just it's just a different motivation
And she said, well, you know, you should go try it out.
And I thought it was interesting at first when she said, oh, you should go try it out.
And then she said, because I just keep seeing more and more and not even from Christian groups,
just in general on social media, how bad gyms are about women just basically going naked.
You know, because if women wear like what's called a sports bra and sports shorts,
it's basically bras and a panty.
And, you know, it was just a passing conversation.
It wasn't anything meant, like she wasn't calling me on.
I think she's just like, hey, I know you don't,
she knows that I don't like to put myself in this position.
She's like, I was like, I thought about it.
I was like, okay.
And then last night I was like, you know what?
Let's figure out how to make sure we work out here.
Cause you're right.
I don't want to be in a position where I'm tempted.
by the flesh and the lust of the eyes to just be, you know, have thoughts that are not supposed to be
healthy for a Christian, especially one who's leading a church. Like, so I'd rather sacrifice,
and I'm not trying to be all high and mighty, but it's the truth. If you go to the gym right now,
probably 90% of the women are just naked.
because that's what the Bible describes as nakedness.
It's not, I mean, it's been bad for a long time,
but just, I don't know if anybody's noticed,
it's just kind of hard to go anywhere now,
because women just decided that apparently
clothing wasn't important.
They just walk around and literally nothing.
You know, and as men, we need to be careful of that
because our natural instinct is to want to be lustful
for the eyes and lustful for the flesh.
So look, man, let's just be honest.
keep yourself away from it don't think that you're so high in mind you're like oh it's okay I can be
around it I'm just gonna look up you're a man just get it stay away from it I'm just gonna be you
know there's two reasons like that men get married right and both reasons are the same reason and
that's it and if you don't know what that reason is then you're just not old enough to understand
it and that's fine anybody else knows what those reasons are and number reason number one two three
I know women might not agree with it, but that's what matures us, right?
So it's better to just keep it, you know, better to get married than to burn.
We're not all like Paul.
Well, let's go to the first point.
And the first point is kind of the same point.
I didn't realize I did this on purpose, but you know, we're all creatures of habit.
My first point is like the point I had this morning.
And I think it's because I keep thinking, why do I have to even have this point?
The most practical way to avoid sin is the word of God, right?
I mean the challenge is the reason you need to come to church and the reason you need to be surrounded by people
And the reason that you need to pray the reason you need to just kind of buckle down is because most people don't read their Bibles
That's why preachers have to give you these like one two three four five steps of how to do things because you didn't
You wouldn't really even need me most of the time if you actually just read your Bibles
What really my purpose should be is to just clarify things that you're already reading and hopefully we're on the same page
You're like, oh, yeah, I was thinking that oh the pastor taught it and I've also heard it elsewhere. Great. I'm online
We're all in the same line. We're all following God. We're all making it. But go there to Psalm 119
and we're there in verse 9. We're going to go through these really quick. This because this is a
very obvious point. But what does it do? It cleanses our path. These are like many points of this
point. And that's the only one I'll do that. But it cleanses us and our class. What does it say?
by taking heed thereto, according to thy word.
Hey young men, you don't want to stay pure,
or you want to be faithful to your wives,
or you want to just have a great life?
Just do things according to thy word.
Not my word, God's word.
I mean, whatever God says to do, just do it.
What does he say?
Well, verse 11, thy word, have I hidden thy heart.
Right, I mean I want to encourage all ages all walks of life all walks of understanding
That's why we made a you know
We called an audible on the Bible memorization has nothing to do with
Hebrews, but let's just be honest some chapters are a little bit more dense than others right Hebrews is a really
It's one of the meat of the word chapters whereas Philippians has meat
But it's also just a very lovely chapter talking about the love of God and brotherly love and we want you to hide that in your heart
You know, in Psalm 119, verse 5 and 6, it says,
all that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes,
then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect
unto all thy commandments.
And that word ashamed doesn't always just mean
like you're embarrassed, but it also means let down.
Then I shall not be ashamed or let down
when I respect unto all thy commandments.
It's our source of joy and delight.
You know, it says, I have rejoiced, in verse 14,
in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Verse 16 says, I will delight myself in thy statues, I will not forget thy word.
And in verse 24 says thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors. And I actually
didn't do that on purpose, but there it is again. What's your counselor? God's word.
His testimonies. And it's interesting that when you have joy and peace and delight in your life,
you know what you're not looking for? His sin.
Because what is sin? It's that selfish nature that says you know better than God.
Why do we break God's law? If we know that God has the best for us and he wants the best for us,
why would we break his law? Because we're selfish because we think we know better
and usually it comes from a source of anger or a source of selfishness or depression.
Dwell in those negative things. It's not that negative things don't happen in our life
You don't want to dwell in the negative because our tendency is not to seek God our tendency is to want to escape into the world
Right, that's why drug uses rampant. You know, have you ever heard a guy that says? Oh, I'm just gonna go to the bar and drown all my sorrows
I'm just gonna forget about it
Right because they don't know how to deal with it. Whereas, you know, when we're Christian when we're faithful to the word of God
We're like, hey, I don't know what's going on, but Lord just lead me, right? Let me find the book of Philippians
Let me find the book of Romans Psalm 119 there verse 23 the Bible says
Princess also did sit and speak against me, but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes
So what does it do it guards us against the worldly pressures and believe me?
If you don't think that there's worldly pressures, you just not living in the world.
You guys don't even know how badly you're being programmed. You need to show up to church three
times a week. You need to show up to all the events. You need to read your Bibles more than 15
minutes a day if you really want to just fight against the tide because every time that you turn
on your phone, every time that you turn on the TV, every time that you go to the restaurant,
You know, something's always happening.
I mean, somebody's got something to say, you turn around.
I told my wife, I was like, I don't know where what I was like.
I was like, why is there so many, you know, like who watches, I mean, obviously YouTube
and stuff.
And then, you know, you get the ads and they're so random, right, but it's like five seconds
you click it.
I don't know if you've noticed, but it's like just random.
It's never the same type of ads.
And you know what's the one type of ad that I hate?
I don't want to know about women's menstrual cycles.
Like I don't need to look at a woman.
In her, you know, I mean, I'm just saying like even if it's just for two seconds or three
I just
You know, it's almost worth paying the YouTube just for that. I don't it's not my problem
I mean, I'm not trying to be a jerk
But and my wife's like, yeah, I don't know why they keep doing that all women know how to deal with it every woman of
Every generation has taught their daughters how to do it because that's part of life like I don't need a commercial
with a half naked woman telling me about all that stuff or anything like that.
Now I'm not saying I'm just even if you try to avoid it, it's just everywhere.
Like I just feel like there's certain agendas that are pushed at certain times.
I just feel like lately you just go anywhere.
You know, even rumble that's supposed to be like the.
the conservative thing, every once in a while they have these weird commercials about losing
weight and trying to get your bikini. But I'm like, what's going on here? The other ones that
are weird are also like my son really liked that. During the winter, the one that he loved was,
you're not a man. And then it was like selling you that sweater, right? You're looking at me.
And apparently you have to buy a sweater so you could be a man. I don't know what that was about.
but it's just weird, right? And they're always pushing something down your throat,
and we need to be in the Word of God. But let's focus on a couple of groups here.
This is a very practical, hopefully it's a very practical sermon. My goal is not to get too deep
in the Word. My goal is to kind of just line you right back up, because it doesn't matter if you're
if you're good right now, or if you're not good, somebody's not good.
that's just life. And if you're good, stay good. If you're on track, stay on track. And if you're
off track, this is a good sermon to get back on track, right? Right there. The first point that
I offer or the second point, but it's really the first point is that men must stay busy in God's Word
and in His work, right? The first point, the first group I'm going to deal with is the men.
All right, men need to work diligently. They need to fill their time with purpose
Like you need it. Yeah, I keep making fun or making jest of the fact that Mo left, you know
The church and he's no longer working for us, but actually I'm glad that he's working six days a week 12 hours a day
You know what he's not doing? He's not thinking about going to the strip club after working 12-hour days
Because I'm just telling you he's like I was like, how's it going? He's like it's hot. I was like, yeah good
God, I hope they work them hard. I'm not kidding. I hope they work you harder number one
You'll make more money and number two you'll stay out of trouble way more than most other guys
Right. You just show up to church, you know, Sunday morning, Sunday night
You don't want to party Saturday evening because you're just like I'm not gonna make it to church
I mean, what's the saying?
Idleness is the devil's workshop, right? Or the other one is idleness is the devil's playground playground, right? A man who fears God
He needs to labor with his hands.
He needs to just do hard work.
Like he needs to be busy.
He needs to be providing for his family.
He needs to be teaching his family the word of God.
Like he needs to get married.
He needs to help raise a family.
Like these are important things that need to be done.
Like and if men don't do this, what happens? You get adultery and pornography addiction and fornication
And those are the ones that are lewd
But you also get lazy people that are slothful that are living at 40 years old and they're living at home with their mom in
The basement playing video games all day long. That's a sin also just in case you didn't know, right?
I'm not just picking on the guys who are being lewd. You know, you don't have to be like a disgusting pig
Like, looking at women, you could just be a disgusting pig, like, you're eating chips
and not doing anything.
Either one is just as bad, like, men need to work.
There's nothing that gets me more irritated when I run into, like, grown men that are
still, like, playing.
I mean, I literally have people that I could, they're not my friends anymore, but I could
associate with.
The wives are like, oh, you know, I try to give him and his friends, like, their video
game night.
What?
My kids play video games and I don't even play with them anymore
I don't remember the last time I played a video game like at some point you got to put away childish things and just become a man
Now I'm gonna teach my son sports and stuff like that
But even then like there's more important things to do in life than just be a big goofball
Like you need to get to work you need to show up and if you're if your hand doesn't know what to do find something to do
You know one of the things my mentor taught me in business was he's like just find find someone
Then has a need and fill it and it's not just business
He's like hey if you go somewhere you be the first one to serve if you show up somewhere you ask
Hey, what can I do and if nobody's telling you what to do just find something to do and just do it
Don't even ask and if you've ever been around me. That's like my mentality. I just show up places. I'm like hey
How can I help?
They're like, Oh, no, don't worry about a pastor like I don't care what what you think my title is or not
Like if you need help, let's just get to work. You know why because I just don't want to be distracted
I just don't I don't want and you say what pastor you saying that if you got distracted you'd fall in a sin
Absolutely, that's why I just don't want to I'm just gonna work as hard as I can to the day that I die
Sometimes it feels like I'm working too much and I'll just look up and I catch myself. I'm like Lord
Thank you for all the hard work. I'd rather be spread thin than not spread at all right because that's where you get in trouble
I mean, I remember as a young man when we were in the financial services and I just had more time on my hands
That's the worst times of my life because that's when I got into the most trouble
You know, because your mind just, men will want to find, men want to fill a void, meaning
they want to do something.
We're productive by nature.
And if we're not doing something productive, we're just going to fill it with the idleness
of the world and then excuse it for productiveness, right?
We want a goal and we'll figure out a goal.
That's why it's called an addiction because most men, like it just becomes like this drive.
Right you get a drug addicted and you don't want to stop because now you have like this purpose even though
It's a false purpose. It's not a good purpose. Go to 2nd Samuel 11
Go to 2nd Samuel 11 and we're there in verse 1. You may give you an example. We know the example, but King David
Drop the ball. It says there in verse 1 of Samuel 2 Samuel 11. It says and it came to pass
After the year was expired
At the time when kings go forth to battle, the David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel and they destroyed the children of Amon and beseech Rehba.
But David tarried still at Jerusalem and it came to pass in an evening tide that David arose from Abba's bed.
You know why he has insomnia? Because he's not doing anything. He's bored.
Right and walked upon the roof of the king's house and from the roof
He saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon and also what is this?
You know woman doing washing herself on the roof in this edit like an audit
She should be asleep, too. It looks like they both are doing things. They shouldn't be doing right
And then David said, but really David said fault here. Let me just make that clear
I'm not blaming her David's the one and it's clear in the Bible and David sent and inquired after the woman and one said
It's not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam the wife of Uriah the Hittite and David sent
Messengers and took her and she came in unto him and he lay with her for she was purified for her and cleanest and she
Returned unto her house and the woman conceived and said and told David and said I am with child and we were to continue to read
What happens? Not only does he commit adultery and then has a baby with this young lady,
but then he also kills Uriah. He basically sanctions his murder through his leadership.
And then when Nathan calls him out, he realizes the severity of his sin. But where did it start?
What's the problem? The problem was he wasn't doing what he was supposed to be doing.
And I tell my wife all the time, man, I don't feel like going.
To do this or I'm gonna feel like one of that and I tell myself you better show up could at least stay out of trouble
You know there's times where I don't even feel like showing up to work
You know why I show up to work just sometimes you just got to show up to stay out of trouble
Sometimes you show up because you're happy and you're ready to work
Sometimes you show up because you're tired and you just know you need to show up
And then there's times where you're just like I just need to stay out of trouble
It's better to be honest with yourself than try to play this game like oh, I'm going to church and I'm reading my Bible
That's when the devil is going to attack you the most I
Remember specifically the day that I got saved the only like one of the things that stood out from the pastor
They let me to Christ it'll never leave my mind as he said now you're safe forever. You have perpetual rest
He goes but now things are gonna get harder
Instead of easier because now you have a target on your back
So we have a target on our back all the time. We have to be really careful in 2nd Thessalonians
Go to 2nd Thessalonians 3 in verse 6 the Bible says now we command you brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
That you withdraw yourself
Yourselves from every brother that walk is disorderly and not after the tradition which you received of us for yourselves
Know how you ought to follow us for we behave not ourselves disorderly among you
Neither did we eat any man's bread for not but wrought with labor and travail
Night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you not because we have not power
But to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us for even when we were with you
This we commanded you that if you would not work, neither should you eat, he eat.
For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all,
but are busy bodies." And this is talking about men.
Now them that are such, we command and exhort by the Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they
If any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and have no company with him
that he may be ashamed, yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
He says, hey, he's not your enemy, but also don't hang out with him.
That's why we're not ecumenical and we're not going to just fellowship with just any Baptist
or any other religion because they're not working.
Right? I mean, you heard me in the announcements.
There's things in the fridge that are for the what? The workers.
Hey, there is a reward better work. Oh, somebody's not working call them out. I'll back you
Now don't go starting stuff in the church. I'm just saying if there's abuse in the church, let me know and I'll back you
I'm just I'm also not giving you free reign like hey, you know, don't be a hall monitor. Who remembers hall monitors
So little power goes so quickly once had remember 15 year old kid. They give him a little badge
And now he's like the worst guy. He's like just everywhere. He's destroying your life, right?
It's like dude calm down. You're just I know who you are
Because he asked these nine, verse 10 says,
What's over thy hand findeth to do?
Do it with thy might for there's no work,
nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom
in the grave whither thou go.
So the time to get the work done is when?
Now, this is the time to do it.
You know who you'll find at church almost every day
at 88 years old?
Pastor Cobb.
I'll be here working, you know, because sometimes I'll work out of the church so I can get other things in the church done and
Pastor Cobb will just come in. Hey, I'm a how you doing that? He's just coming in and checking in on the church
He's taking out the trash. You know if the trash bins empty you can thank Pastor Cobb
He's not so high and mighty that you know, he's not willing to do the work
But why does he do it because he doesn't want to be idle?
You know the one thing that and by the way, we're talking about multitude of counselors just real quick
I've been watching Pastor Cobb and sister Linda for over a decade and you know
Sometimes it's kind of like makes you feel guilty sister Linda shows up and she's just like just constantly working
She's putting that stuff up changing out all the soaps
Pastor Cobb's over there with his little picker up
Kids don't touch that picker up. That's Pastor Cobb. He's out there picking up all the trash
But you know why? Because he wants to keep himself from getting distracted with it.
You think at 88 and 80, whatever, you know, that you're not tempted to sin? You are.
Look, it doesn't get any better. The devil's going to attack you no matter what.
But men, you need to work.
And I'm not just talking, and it's not just an excuse.
What I mean work, I'm talking about it all.
I'm not just talking about the thing where you clock in and you get a paycheck.
You better work at home. You better work at church.
You better work with your family. Like, you better work on yourself.
How do you deal with your family?
You know, like I said, 35, 25 year old me was a little bit abrasive with my family.
I learned to cool that down because the work is to lead people to Christ, not to be right,
right?
The work is to plant the seed, not to just always be the one that knows the most about
the Bible, because you know that they don't read the Bible.
That's not, if you do it for that, then just don't do it at all, right?
Work hard on the things that God's asked you to do, like, hey, if you're raising your family,
You know do the things because you got men that grew up and maybe their parents didn't discipline them the way that they
That they are learning from the Bible
Break all that weird feeling that you have and then just do what God tells you to do
sometimes
Like it's hard, you know, like my sons or my daughter or something's acting up and I'm like I just love them a lot
I don't want to you know when when my parents said it hurt me more than it hurt you now. I get it
But you got to do it because God doesn't care God cares that you obey him. So you raise godly children and as a man
You have to be the main disciplinary
That doesn't mean your wife is not the disciplinary, but you're the one called to lead the responsibility of their success in life
While they're in your home lies on you. God's not looking at them. God's looking at you
He said, hey, these are your children.
This is your wife.
This is your responsibility.
Eve was deceived, but Adam sinned.
People make fun and they're like,
oh, if it wasn't for Eve,
we wouldn't be in this predictive.
Actually, no, if it wasn't for Adam,
we wouldn't be in this predictive.
Because the Bible says, by one man's sin,
death entered into the world.
And who's that sinner?
Adam.
So if you ever want to take it up with someone when you get to heaven, you take it up with
that or you leave Eve out of it, you know, don't pick on Eve, she's, she's got deceived.
I don't know.
The husband should have been around.
And then the second group of people, obviously we're going to talk about is the women.
Women, I know this is not a popular statement in 2025, but they just got to submit to their
role.
I mean, women just need to do what they've been called to do.
And today, I mean you keep seeing article after article. I just saw another article just two days ago about
The same lady the the press secretary how we live in the world where women can have it all
No, you can't
not according to God
Having it all in the world is not what having it all in God's way is you can have it all if you're following God's plan
And you submit to the authority in your life
Right. I mean a godly woman avoids sin by loving her husband raising her children
ruling the home with wisdom
Like and by not looking to be like the power player, right?
In other words, she's not like getting in people's business and trying to like impose her will
Who's ever met those women like I don't know
I don't think that, I don't, I'm looking out, there's no any, I don't have any women in here that
can point to like that, but number one, women that are not like that don't like those type of women.
And you know who doesn't really like those type of women? Men. There's nothing that annoys a man
more than a woman who's trying to like be at the same level. Because any man where they're
sawed is like, look, if I really impose my will on you, like, I decimate you like not physically,
would destroy you. I don't even want to do that because you're just not in the
same level, right? Women need to know their role. And they're so, they need to
just focus on the home, right? But what do we got today? We got feminism and
neglecting your calling and going on to the workforce. And then what happens
is you get this world of confusion.
Then that ends up falling on the men too right because what do you got you got the women talking about the gym example?
You got women that are going to the gym half naked and
Then when the men look they're like oh, I'm mad that you looked what?
I don't that's like that's never understood wait you showed up in the bikini you have make it
Which you expect me to do and then they're like, oh, I just felt so used like I'm a piece of meat
You know it made me so uncomfortable. You know what makes you uncomfortable is that you went out in the public like that like
That's right. Amen. You could come up and preach it with me like I'm just saying don't be a whore
Right and I mean who's ever been down the street and you sometimes you're not even in the and then the worst one
I'm just saying don't be that woman is so it's happened to me on not a lot
But I mean it just happens we're all like I don't know any man who's ever lived long enough
Sometimes you're just minding your business and then a woman shows up and gets mad at you for something that she believes she
You wronged her on and you're like living your own world
You're like I don't know what you're talking about or why were you looking at me?
I was like, I don't even I didn't even see you
You know as men we are oblivious though sometimes right like sometimes just walking down the street just enjoying life
And they're like, there's people passing by,
and I didn't know there was people passing by.
I guarantee you, if I go up to the church when I was around,
especially the men, I'm like, hey, do you know so-and-so?
They're like, no.
I know you know why I know that because I've had those conversations with you guys and I'm like hey
You know that brother so-and-so who's that you know the guy that sits in the back of stuff
He's like how long he has he is he knew here like no he was here before you. Oh, I've never met him exactly
I don't get offended but you know, but women they'll take a fest the things like that, right?
Why because they're focused on the wrong thing go over to Genesis 39
Psalm 119 the Bible says I will delight myself in thy statues
statutes, I will not forget thy word. But go over to Genesis 39, let me give you some examples.
The main example, and I could have drawn from so many. Actually, as I was doing the study,
there were so many examples, but I kept it to just one. We have probably one of the worst
I mean, not only is she a busybody, she's also just like lewd and she's unhappy and she's a whore.
I mean, there's all kinds of issues that you can just draw from her lifestyle.
She's a gold digger, she's high maintenance, she's a liar, and she's got her husband convinced that she could do no wrong.
Right it says in Joseph found grace verse four in his sight and he served him and he made him overseer over his house
And all that he had put in his hand
And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house and over all that he had
That the Lord blessed the Egyptian house for Joseph's sake and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house and in the field
And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand and he knew not ought he had saved the bread which he did eat and Joseph was a goodly person and well-favored
I mean, Joseph does such a good job.
This guy doesn't even worry about anything anymore.
Right?
And it says, and it came to pass after these things
that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph,
and she said, lie with me.
But he refused to sit down unto his master's wife.
Behold, my master, what if not?
What is with me in the house?
And he hath committed all that he hath to my hand.
There's none greater in this house than I.
Neither had he kept back anything from me,
but thee, because thou art his wife.
How then can I do this great wickedness?
And what?
Sin against God.
So, practical ways to avoid sin, well, let's see what Joseph did, right?
It says there, when he came to pass that he spake to Joseph day by day, that he harken
not unto her to lie by her, or to be with her, and it came to pass about this time that
Joseph went into the house to do his business, and there was none of the men of the house
there within, and she caught him by his garment saying, lie with me, and he left his garment
in her hand and fled and got him out.
that he had left his garment in hand and was fled for that she called unto the men of her house and
spake unto him saying see he hath brought in a Hebrew unto mock us he came in unto lie with me
and I cried with a loud voice and it came to pass when he had heard that I lifted up my voice and
cried that he left his garment with me and fled and got him out and she laid up his garment by her
until the Lord came home and she spake unto him according to these words saying the Hebrew servant
and he came to pass as I lifted up my voice and cried that he left this garment with me
and fled out and basically what is it she contrived the situation and I don't know that
Joseph could have done I mean in this situation Joseph was a slave he did his best to avoid it
he kept fleeing and fleeing when he was cornered what he'd do he fled
So, you know sometimes is man, we just got to deal with the consequences of false people
You know Joseph just rolled with the punches and trusted God, but this woman was what relentless
Look man, you got to be careful because women are strange creatures, and I'm not even picking on them
There's young women. They like older men
There's single women. They want only married men
There's married women that only want single guys. I don't get it
Right and when they they put it in their mind to do that
They'll seek and seek and seek and seek and you just got to cut it off at you know
You got a nip it in the butt
You know, I got a lot of flack
It's a couple of months ago
I talked about like this ex-girlfriend I had in college and how my dad called her a whore and everybody got mad that my dad called her a whore
So my wife and I were just kind of ingest like in shock about not in shock
We just thought it was interesting how people reacted
But then when we sat down to analyze, we're like, she is a whore because why would a grown
woman who's known me all my life, you know, I'm 45, she's about the same age, why would
she privately reach out to me via messenger knowing that I have a wife and three kids?
There's only one reason you do things in secret is because you're trying to commit something
in secret.
And you know, the only way, a practical way for me to avoid that sin was to be like,
Read it for yourself. This is the response. I'm gonna give her to cut it off. You're all right with that
Yeah, you say, oh man, you sound like an emasculated man. No, I didn't have to do it, but that just keeps me above board
I'm a man like I want to deal with the constant
I'd rather deal with that than the fact that you know, I engage
Maybe nothing happens
I still cut her off and then what if my wife goes into my phone one day and reads it now
It's a whole other thing because it looks like you try to conceal the thing
Both are just as bad look don't be oblivious to the fact that look sometimes you're doing things and you're not even aware of it
Try to catch yourself and then make things right with with your spouse your spouse should be your best friend
She should know everything about you except for like as been there's things that we just have to keep right?
I mean as a pastor I can't just go telling my wife everything I hear like first of all
destroy her. There's things that I know as a man that she should never know and I actually,
I probably should never know, but that's just part of being a man. Sometimes you just do things in
life that you were exposed to. Like, I would never expose her to that. Like, I don't want to just
defile her mind or, you know, there's just things that men know that women shouldn't know. But
outside of that, be transparent with your wives and wives. Don't freak out when your husband's
Don't make your husband's life so difficult.
Be like, thank you for being transparent.
Thank you for communicating with me, because isn't that what women want anyways?
But sometimes you do that and then it just gets, I'm just saying, women need to focus
on the fact that if your husband is loyal to you and he's faithful to you and he's your
best friend, then you just submit and you love him and you do the best for him.
And if you do all that, then you won't be a busy body.
You know, go to Titus, well, actually go over to go over to Ephesians 6.
But in Titus 2, verse 4, the Bible says that they may teach the young women to be sober,
to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good,
obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemy, and by the way, pay
Because I'm also not like that type of guy that's just like oh because I'm a man all women need to listen to me
No, you need to listen to your own husband
I don't have rule over all women. I just want to rule one woman. That's my wife. Yeah, that's that's enough for me
I'm happy just the way it is
First Timothy 2 verse 15 says notwithstanding she shall be saved and childbearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness
with sobriety
Proverbs 31 verse 27 says she looketh well to the ways of her household and what and needed not the bread of
Look, the devil's workshop is when you're idle, it doesn't just apply to men, it applies
to women.
My wife mentions a lot all the time whenever we see like these crazy, you know, in the
new IFB, there's a lot of crazy haters, and a lot of them are women, and they'll write
these like long paragraph, sorry guys, I'm just really hot today.
But they see these crazy women, and my wife is like, she's like, when do they find the
And that's that we only have three kids.
Like we know pastor friends or preacher friends
that have like four, five, six kids.
Like you just keep adding kids,
it's just you might as well just keep adding
consumption of time, right?
Like last night, it was like 10 o'clock
and we're still trying to finish out the day.
I'm like, oh, we need to do this
and I need to prepare for this and we need to do that.
It's just like, I don't know when people find the time
to do all this gossip.
You know what they're not, they're neglecting
the things that they need to do.
In 1st Timothy 5 verse 13 says and with all they learned to be idle
Wondering around from from house to house and not only idle, but Tatlors and also
Busy bodies speaking things which they ought not
Look don't be a gossip
I've never been a fan and thank God my wife's not one of those and even if she was I'd we probably work it out now
But I've never been a fan of these women
Groups like these cackling hens right they get together only to complain about
Their life their kids and their husbands and all the other things because what ends up happening?
I've said before like you end up comparing
And you're like, well, you know, you go home and you're like, you know, Susie's husband
does this for her, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And all it does is just create animosity.
Well, Susie's husband, Susie's husband, you know, I don't know what you want me to tell
you, right?
If that was the case with me.
Like that's how I would react.
And then you get all kinds of, uh, like strife.
You just, how about you just serve your husband and husbands, how about you just serve your
wife?
That's it.
And don't look out and compare yourself.
It's not just the sin of like the lust of the flesh
and the lust of the eyes.
Also, the wife you have is the wife you have.
You should have chosen the wife you have correctly
before you got married.
Because if you're unhappy with her now, you know what?
She's still your wife.
And you do not have the right to just leave her
because she doesn't do what Susie down the street does,
or Jane, you know, across the city does.
She's your wife.
If you wanted to do something talk to her fix it
But if you if you're unhappy then take it to God
Because there's a lot of unhappy men
I mean I literally have friends from college who have sat with me and they're like my wife doesn't do these this this and that
And I'm just thinking of getting a divorce and I think to myself how selfish
like
Fix it or just own up to it. Just be a man
You say, well, that sounds kind of crappy. No, just be a man about it. And then just to close this group out
Men and women, you know how you fix it? You got married, men, you got married for one reason
So enjoy the wife of your youth and women enjoy your husband
And you know, I don't have to be lewd about it
Just you need to do that because the Bible says that you need to be intimate with each other
That way you're not distracted and you know, you're not going out in the world and being like well
What other options are there? Where are the appetizers and what other meals the only meal you need to be getting is the one at home
And the only bread you need to be getting for life is the bread of life
And it should be a church and in your home when you're reading your Bible
And then we're talking about children here and it's same thing like I just you know children need to guard themselves by what?
By the way, if there's children in the audience right now, you need to listen. Children need to guard themselves by obeying.
If nobody's listening, at least my children, you need to listen.
Because daddy's telling you to listen.
You need to avoid sin by listening to your mom and your dad.
All right, I had a conversation with someone this week and they were talking about how you know
Their job is difficult because now their kids going to school and the kid takes up a ton of the day because they've got to
Drive three hours in the morning with traffic and then in the middle of the day
They got to go what pick up the child and they were like and you know
I'm getting crap about it at work and all that stuff and then I got to do what I got to do for my child if I need to
Bend over backward for my talent. I stopped this person straight in the tracks and I'm like no
That's wrong. You don't bend over for your child. Your child doesn't pay any bills in that house.
Last I checked, you're the one feeding them, clothing them, putting a roof over their head,
you know, paying for all their stuff. They bend over backwards for us.
I'm the the one that gets up early in the morning
I'm the one that has to worry about paying bills with my wife
We're the ones that have to worry about their education. Hey, if we're going somewhere you're coming with me
You know when my kids are like, hey, what are we doing sometimes? I'm like, you don't need to know
Or hey, we're going somewhere. Why or where or why are we doing this?
None of your business why we're doing it. Just get in the car and let's go
Right, I'm not trying to like sound on monster. Just you have to put your foot down kids will take advantage of you if you let them
Right, I don't know if you know this but the one skill the kids learn very very quickly is what manipulation
You know my kids have this thing
I'm not even telling on them it's not in the bad because most of the time it's really cute, but
sometimes they'll joke around and they do what they have a might they came up
with it on their own the double please face please you know and then they do
like some weird face whenever they want something you know you know it's called
it's called manipulation it's you know they're trying to get something out of
daddy all right so kids need to learn obedience because the only way you're
gonna submit to the proper authorities of God as an adult is to learn it in
childhood
Your parents aren't perfect. So just just throw that notion out the window
All right, and so if you think that they're being unjust with you guess what they are
Because sometimes parents mess up
So kids listen up if you're like, oh, that wasn't fair chances are it probably wasn't but they're looking out for you
Because we don't have all the answers
We're just doing the best we can for you and your family and what we're gonna do is I'm not gonna feel guilty or sad
Because you think the daddy was unjust because first of all you probably don't even know what a sense of justice is
Because you're seven eight five six ten years old
Even at 15, you probably don't even know what it's since it just even at 23. I'm denouncing. I'm just kidding
You guys are you guys are I'm just thinking on all the young guys over here
But but you know go over to second Kings actually go over to second Kings
I've got about 10 minutes. Let me start wrapping this up, but
That's why we do the Bible merit memorization, right? We go back to the verse
Psalm 119 11 thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee look
Children just learn the stuff your dad's asked you to do your mom's asked you to do even if it doesn't make sense
Cuz 99% of what you're learning right now won't make any sense
And then one day you're gonna just wake up as an adult you're gonna be like oh
That's why my parents did that
Thank you. Oh, that's why my mom said that
Thank you. Oh, that's why my dad what me, you know like that think and you'll be very very thankful
I'm so blessed. I'm so happy that my dad what me all the times that I messed up
Because you know what? I'm not in jail. I've never had any criminal problems. I've never tried to do anything wrong like
You know, I commit sin, but I've not tried to defraud anybody
Or just come up with some kind of financial scheme to steal money from people
You know, these are the things that you do as a grown-up when you have no direction
I'm so glad that my mom just kept repeating the same story over and over.
Who has that parent?
You could tell the story for them.
Who has that parent?
You raise your hand.
I could verbatim.
My mom starts a story, I finish it.
She's like, but Miko, you need to, and I'm like, all right, well, I know love my wife. I
won the lottery. Thank you. I got it. So nobody can do no harm. She's the best thing that's
ever happened to me. Thank you. All right. I'll talk to you later. Bye. Yeah. It's like,
I've heard this song and dance a million times. My dad will start it on me. He's like, Hey, don't,
I know my wife. I won the lottery. Thank you very much. I got it. You know, this is the greatest
thing that could ever happen to me. I got it. Never do her any harm. Got it. Thank you. All right. Bye.
Because they love my wife because they think she's great.
But they don't realize she's also a human.
And I'm the one that gets to deal with her, right?
But I love my wife.
But my parents, they think that I won the lottery
with my wife.
I could do no wrong.
So we just need to balance them out a little bit.
But kids need to listen to their parents.
Go to 2nd Kings because there's only two verses.
You're there in 2nd Kings too.
But in Ephesians 6, the Bible says,
children, obey your parents and the Lord, for this is right.
Honor thy father and thy mother,
which is the first commandment of the promise,
that it may be well with thee,
and thou mayest live long on the earth.
And it doesn't say if they do certain things,
it just says honor your mother and your father.
Period.
I was talking to the young guy that came on Wednesday,
and it's okay, because he confessed it.
I was like, hey, Kreegan, how's your mom?
And he's like, oh, we're not doing well.
You know what I tell him?
It's like, you better call your mom with tonight,
make things right.
I don't usually get that tough on people,
but you better honor your mom and your dad.
Oh, but my mom's a pain in the rear.
So is my mom sometimes.
But my dad, he's kind of hardheaded.
Yeah, so is my dad.
Have you ever tried to like, you know, they're the generation that tries to use FaceTime and all that stuff and they get mad at you
Because you can't tell them how to use it correctly. I
This just happened to me this week
My mom was like, hey, how do I turn off my Bluetooth things and I'm trying to tell her and I'm like
Well show me on your phone and she's trying and and then she got mad at me and hung up on me
I'm like, but I you know who you but you know what I love my parents because one day I'm gonna be that parent
Right one day my kids are going to be helping me do all that stuff
So we need to sympathize but we also just need to obey the Bible and second Kings verse 2 verse 23
I'm sorry chapter 2 verse 23 the example of Elijah and the children says and and he went up from then son to Bethel
This is kind of an interesting story because these are the only two verses. It's just kind of a segue and
As he was having and as he was going up by the way
There came forth little children out of the city and mocked him and said of him go up thou bald head go up thou bald head
He turned back and look at them and cursed them in the name of the Lord and they can't there came for two she bears out of the
Wood and tear 40 and two children of them and I've heard people tell me and I disagree that says hey
It didn't say it killed him if a bear tears you up. You're dying. I'm just
Or you wish I mean, but it's rare, right? Like if you ever go to Colorado or anything, they say hey, don't get attacked by bears
That's why you carry bears bear spray, right?
Because have you ever seen the claws on those things if they're little kids and a bear got a hold of them chances are they died, right?
What you don't want is some man of God or some person that's living right to turn around and curse your children
I'm not saying bears are going to come out of the wood.
I mean, there's no bear in Texas.
They wouldn't make it in Texas.
It's too hot.
They'd be hibernating all the time, right?
But there are, you know, you don't want the world
raising your children.
You want to raise your children.
Proverbs 1 verse 8 says, My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not
the law of thy mother, for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head,
and chains about thy neck. Children, Colossians 3 says, Obey your parents and all things,
for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. And then my final point is, well, first of all,
And second, men must stay busy, right?
Men just need to stay busy.
And really the best work to do is the work of God.
And what I'm saying that is like,
God needs you to have a job.
If your job isn't preaching,
which you don't need to be a preacher,
you still need to have a job.
That's actually godly.
That's a commandment of God you need to provide
for your family.
but you also need to read your Bible and do all the things that God's asked you to do in the Bible.
Pray, raise your family, discipline them all that.
Women, you got to submit your role.
If you're at home, obey your parents.
If you leave home, obey your husband.
I know women don't like that in general, not these women, but just women,
but that's the truth.
We'd have way less problems if Hillary Clinton would just shut up, right?
She's our generation. So I don't know your generation is what AOC isn't that isn't that you're the younger generation?
The the little Hispanic ignorant girl AOC from New York. I mean that
that girl just sounds or
We have here in Houston Dora the Explorer, you know for Harris County
For the commissioner or whatever the judge so if we could just remove them all life would be better
And then the final point, I mean, obviously, children guard themselves by obedience.
They need to obey their parents.
And by proxy, they need to obey just adults in general, right here in this church, look,
my children know that if there's an adult, they better obey if something, if something's
not right, I'll fix it.
But it's not their duty to stand up for themselves. I'll stand up for them
That's why they have a dad and a mom but until that gets figured out if somebody gets on them chances are most
Most most most adults are actually getting on to the kids. Just get them to what shut up stop running or
Don't break my walls or don't paint on that wall, right? What are you trying? It's usually something like that
It's not like they're just picking on kids to pick on kids.
Kids need to listen.
If your kids are in church, they need to listen to the adults in the church.
And I'm not just saying it for your kids, I'm saying it for my kids.
My kids have very specific instructions.
When they're in church, they better just act up so nobody gets onto them.
Hey, kids, you don't want other adults getting onto you?
Just don't act up.
Now nobody gets onto you.
But the final point is that the church avoids sin
through accountability and
Hard preaching from the pulpit, right? How do how do we avoid sin come to church?
You know most people were what?
Are we already in preseason? I don't know anymore. I don't actually don't keep up with football, but it's probably around the corner
Nobody I'm glad look. This is a this is a great group of guys. Nobody knows sports. I
Used to hang around with a group of guys that knew sports
I knew all the statistics and everything but what do guys do when they hang around they're checking out the cheerleaders at halftime
They're drinking beer. Am I I wish I was a what are they doing? They're drinking beer. They're talking lewd jokes
Most of the jokes when guys hang around are not of the right frame of mind
They're eating their gluttonous that they're ignoring their wives. The wives are like, oh, it's great. It's football season
I don't have a husband for another, you know for another six to seven eight months
I mean that those are literal statements from from women
Oh, my husband's part of a of a smoke cigar club or a poker club. So I just don't see him these days a week
I'm just I just don't expect them to be around
How about just show up at your house?
You want to play a game? Play games with your kids.
Right? Make a date night with your wife.
Hang out with your I would rather I'm just gonna be honest with you
I like all the guys in the church, but I'd rather just hang out with my wife than with anybody else
I am not even kidding. I mean Kevin. I like you, but I like my wife way better, right?
I just yeah, I just I don't want to hang out with anybody to be honest with you
If you guys wanted to throw a party my wife said hey, let's go hang out ourselves. You guys throw the party
I'm going with my wife. I'm just telling you straight up. I just want to be with my wife
Right, but go to 2nd Corinthians. We're start closes thing out. I've got three minutes. I'm gonna try to keep it right in that in that time frame
So I'm 119 verse 24 says thy testimonies are also my delight in my counselors
in 2nd Corinthians 13 Paul
It's not a very happy guy right now. He's calling people out. He says this is the third time
I am coming to you in the mouth of two or three witnesses. She'll every word be established
I told you before or tell you as if I were present the second time and as being absent now
I write to to them which here to four have sinned and to all other that if I come again, I
Will not spare
Since you speak proof of Christ speaking in me which to you word is not weak
But it's mighty in you for though he was crucified through weakness yet
He liveth by the power of God for we also are weak in him
But we shall live with him by the power of God toward you and then go down to verse 10
It says therefore I write these things being absent less being present
I should use sharpness according to the power which the Lord has given me to edification
and not to destruction. Hey, don't come to church expecting a lullaby, just expect a little prickling
every once in a while. And I'm not trying to preach a negative sermon every time,
but there's a lot of negativity in the world. I want to give you great positive sermons,
and I don't even think that the two sermons I preach today are necessarily negative,
You know don't commit for an occasion. Don't don't don't do like double negative jokes. Don't don't even think foolish thoughts
Let's not even go so far as the extremes. Just don't be an idiot in church, right?
Don't be foolish in church. And what do I mean by that? Let's just not
Encourage each other to be dumb with each other and that goes for me too, right? I live warily
I know what it is to be around a bunch of guys and just make some kind of stupid joke
But this is not the place nor the time to do it
And Paul says, hey, don't make me come, because if I come, it's not going to go like you think it's going to go.
But most people go to church.
I mean, I said last week it was a roller coaster, right, at some of these fun centers.
The fun centers are also doing basketball games, like literally full out 90 foot basketball games.
Don't come to church expecting a basketball game. Just I know I don't pound the pavement the pulpit is hard
I don't scream as hard, but I'm preaching the word of God. It doesn't matter. This will prick at your heart
Soft or not soft
It's gonna mess you up if you if you're doing wrong and then I'll bring you back is
Reset you, right? Like, uh, like, uh, you know, who had that dad who would always reset you?
My dad was like that. He really would do that. Like, he would do the slap on the back of the head.
You know, if I was acting up, we'd be in public and all of a sudden he'd go, you know, like, he'd, he'd do it like this
Nobody would see it, right? He'd be like walking it. He'd always do that. It was just annoying. You know, like, he'd be like that
He'd just come by and he'd like
He's like, act right. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I got it
because you know my dad's always been a big guy. Go over Galatians 6 that's where we'll close out
but in Hebrews 10 verse 24 the Bible says and let us not consider one another to provoke unto love
and to good works not forsaking the assembling of ourselves as the matter of some is but exhorting
one another and so much more as you see the day approaching. Second Timothy 4-2 we know it right
rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering doctrine, but Galatians 6 1 says,
Brethren, if any man be overtaken in a fault, and the reason I wanted to end with
this is I thought this was a great verse. It says, ye which are spiritual restores
such a one in the spirit of meekness, but then what does it say? Consider
thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Hey, don't correct someone if you just
thinking you're high and mighty. Correct them with the Spirit knowing that you
Don't just go around being like hey you shouldn't do this or you know
I heard that you were doing that it's more like hey
I heard you were doing that and then go to the Lord and be like Lord don't let me screw up
But don't be like the public and it's like oh don't let me screw up like brother so-and-so because I'm just no it's more like I
Could be that guy
Right remember, you know, he's like I'm I'm not even worthy to be here
Like sin is the serious thing guys and and it creeps up when you least expect it and
I don't know. I mean, I don't I wish I had better words to explain just how dangerous it is
Right because it's not just the fact that you sin. God's already forgiving your sin. You're saved by grace
But the consequences of sin are really hard to overcome
Like the damage that you cause for your families and your spouses and your children and your loved one and the church is
Serious sometimes
Yeah, some sins are not as grievous as others
But sometimes you're doing something and when it's found out it's devastating
then it just destroys people who have invested in you who put their faith in
you well nobody should ever put their faith in anybody but that happens I
mean I'm just talking from a humanistic point view we need to show them to put
their faith in Christ but we also just need to try to live above approach right
so I'm not telling you you're gonna live a perfect life I'm just telling you hey
these are good ways to avoid sin
As men, I already gave you all that.
I'm not gonna repeat it all.
As women, you know what to do.
We know what those weaknesses are for both.
And then children, you just need to obey your parents, period.
And then if you're a church,
well then just try to do what the church is supposed to do,
which is love the Lord Jesus Christ,
and then we'll all be happy and, you know,
keep eating good popsicles and going to lunch
and going soul winning and celebrating the wins.
Let's close in a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.
Thank you for your blessings Lord. The Lord help us to not sin. There's so much more that we could do on this product on this
Subject there's so many more
Scriptures we could go to be literally from the very beginning. We know sin came into the world
And we're not trying to stop sinning so we can get into heaven. We know we're already going to heaven
We're trying to stop sinning so that we can serve you better and be more a better tool
and so we could be used more greatly of You, Lord.
So, Lord, help us to do that with the purpose
and the goal of just serving You
and leading more people to You
and just preaching the gospel more
and just living more and righteously for You, Lord.
At the end of the day, that's all that really matters.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
What's the hymn?
280. 280.
I'll just go ahead and let's turn our hymnals over to 280
and we'll close out. 280.
280. I hope it's 180. Oh, yeah. 280. Heavenly sunlight.
Walking in sunlight all of my journey.