WEBVTT 00:00.100 --> 00:05.100 Perfect. Well, first of all, let me say thank you to Pastor Oz and his family. 00:05.100 --> 00:10.100 Thank you to Anchor Baptist for the invitation, for allowing me to be here. 00:10.100 --> 00:12.100 Just give me a couple minutes to get adjusted to this height. 00:12.100 --> 00:16.100 You know, I have a really small pulpit, you know, just because it works out better for me. 00:16.100 --> 00:18.100 But I appreciate everybody being here. 00:18.100 --> 00:22.100 You know, I'm looking forward. I saw the trailer yesterday of the documentary. 00:22.100 --> 00:23.100 It looks amazing. 00:23.100 --> 00:28.100 You know, Pastor Oz apparently likes to, you know, do soul winning video. 00:28.100 --> 00:30.400 in a Catholic church and then makes everybody mad. 00:30.400 --> 00:32.100 So I thought that was great. 00:32.100 --> 00:33.500 Then, you know, just a couple of things. 00:33.500 --> 00:36.300 This is my first time ever officially in Oklahoma. 00:36.300 --> 00:37.800 Many years ago I lived in Dallas. 00:37.800 --> 00:38.900 That's where I met my wife. 00:38.900 --> 00:41.000 By the way, I'm here with my wife and my kids. 00:41.000 --> 00:42.000 And... 00:42.200 --> 00:45.040 I was a younger man and I had a couple of friends there. 00:45.040 --> 00:47.800 We just drove up to the border off of 45. 00:47.800 --> 00:50.340 We took a picture that we said we made it to Oklahoma 00:50.340 --> 00:50.960 when we went back. 00:50.960 --> 00:53.200 So that was my only experience before that. 00:53.200 --> 00:54.960 So I'm officially in Oklahoma. 00:54.960 --> 00:58.540 A couple of things that stood out is how vastly smaller you 00:58.540 --> 00:59.920 guys are than we are. 00:59.920 --> 01:02.440 It just really stood out to me. 01:02.440 --> 01:05.960 And then as I was coming in, I saw that there was casinos, 01:05.960 --> 01:07.720 and that you guys, I didn't even know that you could 01:07.720 --> 01:08.760 sell weed here. 01:08.760 --> 01:10.200 This is wild, right? 01:10.200 --> 01:14.360 But really the things that really stood out to me was I saw a couple of signs on the construction 01:14.360 --> 01:20.960 that said, you know, please be careful not to hit our workers and avoid a $10,000 fine. 01:20.960 --> 01:22.920 I thought that was an interesting wording. 01:22.920 --> 01:26.640 I was like, I thought the whole goal was not to kill somebody, you know, so apparently 01:26.640 --> 01:30.200 you can hit people here and just as long as you have 10k, it's okay. 01:30.200 --> 01:36.400 But then the speed limit said 70 miles an hour and then underneath it said no tolerance. 01:36.600 --> 01:39.320 So you can't speed, but you can hit workers all you want. 01:39.320 --> 01:42.920 And it's just like one of those things that really, I was like, man, that's interesting, 01:42.920 --> 01:44.360 the culture in Oklahoma. 01:44.360 --> 01:48.320 But all joking aside, you know, I'm really grateful. 01:48.320 --> 01:49.520 Pastor Oz is a good friend. 01:49.520 --> 01:54.060 I really appreciate, you know, his leadership and his ministry. 01:54.060 --> 01:57.980 I think, you know, as far as when you think about the next generation, as long as there's 01:57.980 --> 02:00.720 a Pastor Oz, the next generation is going to be okay. 02:00.720 --> 02:04.240 You know, they're going to be just fine leading the cause, leading the fight. 02:04.240 --> 02:04.600 Really? 02:04.600 --> 02:08.860 looking forward to the things he's got in store in the coming years and I really 02:08.860 --> 02:12.160 looking forward to what you guys are gonna be doing but let's get straight 02:12.160 --> 02:14.500 into the message we're there in Psalm 11 02:14.700 --> 02:18.200 We just read this short psalm, but I really like it. 02:18.200 --> 02:19.940 And the title of my sermon is, 02:19.940 --> 02:21.700 Sticking it to the Enemy. 02:21.700 --> 02:22.840 Sticking it to the Enemy. 02:22.840 --> 02:24.300 Let's go there to Psalm 11, 02:24.300 --> 02:26.040 and we'll just go through it really quick. 02:26.040 --> 02:27.840 The reason this stands out to me is, 02:27.840 --> 02:32.040 there's a clip that Pastor Ahl has put out 02:32.040 --> 02:34.540 from the anti-Israel conference, 02:34.540 --> 02:35.840 and I really enjoyed it. 02:35.840 --> 02:37.040 You know, there's a lot of them. 02:37.040 --> 02:39.940 And of course, coming off the cusp of the fact 02:39.940 --> 02:41.040 that we just had the... 02:41.040 --> 02:41.100 you 02:41.600 --> 02:46.060 Friends and then now we're in pride month, you know, these are the things that are you know top of mind 02:46.160 --> 02:51.600 But the one that really stood out to me was you know, he this is the exact quote it says 02:52.520 --> 02:55.820 Pastor all said what we want to do is we want to reach people 02:56.880 --> 03:02.920 And he's like, yeah, they're the synagogue of Satan. Yeah, they're evil. Yeah, they rejected the Lord Jesus Christ 03:02.920 --> 03:08.520 And you know what they're supposed to they were supposed to be the light to the Gentiles, but now that's our job 03:09.000 --> 03:10.800 And then he said, let me tell you something right now. 03:10.800 --> 03:13.240 If you really want to stick it to the Jews today, 03:13.240 --> 03:16.040 you go preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. 03:16.040 --> 03:17.760 That's how you stick it to the Jews, right? 03:17.760 --> 03:19.560 Look, let's make documentaries. 03:19.560 --> 03:20.480 Let's make the videos. 03:20.480 --> 03:22.440 Let's preach it against them. 03:22.440 --> 03:25.300 But let's also preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. 03:25.300 --> 03:27.480 And then he goes on to just quote a verse. 03:27.480 --> 03:29.640 And what I really liked about that is, 03:29.640 --> 03:32.560 that's what differentiates us from the rest of the world, 03:32.560 --> 03:34.480 is that we don't just pick an enemy 03:34.480 --> 03:36.680 just for the sake of having an enemy, right? 03:37.000 --> 03:38.620 men we like to fight. 03:38.620 --> 03:40.560 So that's why, you know, I mean, think about it. 03:40.560 --> 03:42.560 Wasn't there like a UFC fight just recently? 03:42.560 --> 03:45.340 I think it was Memorial Day in front of the White House, 03:45.340 --> 03:48.280 right, and you know, the battles of men and all these things. 03:48.280 --> 03:49.600 But when we're in the battle, 03:49.600 --> 03:51.120 we do it for the right reasons. 03:51.120 --> 03:52.580 And that's really the goal. 03:52.580 --> 03:54.500 I wanted to build on that thought, right? 03:54.500 --> 03:56.620 If you look there in Psalm 11, 03:56.620 --> 03:57.960 right there in verse one, it says, 03:57.960 --> 04:00.600 "'In the Lord put I my trust.'" 04:00.800 --> 04:06.560 How say ye to my soul, flee as a bird to your mountain, for lo, the wicked bend their bow. 04:07.300 --> 04:12.180 They make ready their arrow upon the string that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart 04:12.180 --> 04:18.020 So we know that there's an enemy they're always looking to see how they can destroy us how they can put a wedge between us 04:18.100 --> 04:19.380 I mean you've seen it 04:19.380 --> 04:25.700 I mean we have a term right x n i f b bozos for those that just have you know left or have tried to destroy 04:26.340 --> 04:31.060 The foundations of god, but you know the thing is they can't destroy us not because we're so good 04:31.300 --> 04:35.140 They can't destroy us because we serve the lord jesus christ, right? They can't destroy 04:35.300 --> 04:39.380 God but if we keep reading there says if the foundations be destroyed what can 04:39.380 --> 04:43.660 the righteous do now here is the the crux of the matter we can't destroy what 04:43.660 --> 04:47.500 Christ is doing but he can replace us with those people that are willing to 04:47.500 --> 04:51.340 stick to the foundations right and I'd rather not replace people but in other 04:51.340 --> 04:55.620 words let's build up you know let's actually be in the right foundation 04:55.620 --> 05:00.000 point right there in verse number four says the Lord is in his holy temple the 05:00.000 --> 05:03.300 Lord's throne is in heaven his eyes behold his 05:03.300 --> 05:06.180 eyelids try the children of men. 05:06.180 --> 05:11.380 The Lord trieth the righteous, but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth. 05:11.700 --> 05:18.280 It's one of those things that I love quoting any verse where God hates things because I think the modern Christianity 05:18.280 --> 05:20.700 It's kind of a shock that God would hate anything 05:20.940 --> 05:27.640 But you know as new IFB as independent fundamental Baptist as King James only as Bible believing people 05:27.640 --> 05:29.040 We love that the Lord hates things 05:29.040 --> 05:33.700 You know, I love that he hates things because it means that he also loves things extremely, right? 05:33.700 --> 05:39.560 And then right there in verse number six. This is upon the wicked. He shall reign snares fire and brim 05:39.700 --> 05:41.640 and a horrible tempest, 05:41.640 --> 05:44.240 this shall be the portion of their cup. 05:44.240 --> 05:47.200 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness, 05:47.200 --> 05:52.640 his countenance doth behold the upright. 05:52.640 --> 05:55.280 And you know, it's the Lord that holds us up, right? 05:55.280 --> 05:56.200 And so... 05:56.300 --> 06:00.300 When we're thinking about sticking it to the enemy, I only have one point for you this morning, 06:00.300 --> 06:04.460 and that's it. It's just how do you stick it to the enemy? How do you get back at them? 06:04.460 --> 06:08.300 Because, you know, when we think about the enemy, the ego or our personal 06:09.020 --> 06:13.740 feelings about things can get involved. But we always got to remove whatever we think, 06:13.740 --> 06:18.220 and we got to replace it with what God is actually telling us. And at times, 06:18.220 --> 06:21.740 there's things that line up. You know, sometimes he's like, hey, you're in a spiritual battle. 06:21.740 --> 06:24.140 I'm a man. I'm like, okay, that's great. I love being in a battle. 06:24.300 --> 06:28.420 But other times he says hey love your enemies and that doesn't always line up with the way 06:28.420 --> 06:32.800 I want to feel about my enemies right these are the things that we want to struggle with so the 06:33.360 --> 06:39.400 Enemy they want to destroy the foundations right that what if you think of just anything it's funny 06:39.400 --> 06:44.520 The more we I read my Bible and then the more I look at stuff. It's like everything is done in 06:45.660 --> 06:50.080 In contrary to the Lord Jesus Christ. I mean just TV 06:51.180 --> 06:52.300 billboards 06:52.300 --> 06:56.300 saw everything is done just to be literally against the Lord Jesus Christ, right? 06:56.300 --> 06:59.660 But what we want to do is we want to build, 06:59.660 --> 07:03.700 or if we've broken them down, we want to rebuild those foundations, right? 07:03.700 --> 07:04.700 And so... 07:05.100 --> 07:08.220 Let me, sorry, I really am kind of just getting adjusted here. 07:08.220 --> 07:11.660 I didn't realize I was that short, but I appreciate you guys being patient with me, right? 07:11.660 --> 07:16.140 But a couple of things that we want to point out here, and by the way, don't feel bad for me, 07:16.140 --> 07:20.940 the Bible, somebody, I had a, when I first got saved, I was going to an independent Baptist 07:20.940 --> 07:25.500 church in Houston, Christ Church Baptist Fellowship, Pastor Johnny Pope's the one who led me to the 07:25.500 --> 07:30.540 Lord there, and he had a right-hand guy by the name of Jerry Powell, Jerry Howell, and Jerry was 07:30.540 --> 07:32.500 He was a short man too. 07:32.500 --> 07:33.100 He was a carpenter. 07:33.100 --> 07:36.220 And I remember I was like you know one of the things I've all struggled with is my high 07:36.220 --> 07:41.320 You know and he took me to that verse that said hey who can add a cubit even if you thought about it 07:41.320 --> 07:44.640 And then after that he just gave me people you know the Bible just clears so many things up 07:44.640 --> 07:48.840 So by the way when I make short jokes as nothing to do with anything other than I just it's pretty funny, right? 07:48.960 --> 07:55.400 But let's go to the origin of that that that term right stick it to them or stick it to someone 07:55.400 --> 08:01.100 And it's funny because it doesn't really have an origin. It was starting to be used like in the 1890 08:01.100 --> 08:04.760 and then it just became this thing about what is it, 08:04.760 --> 08:08.120 to defeat, to embarrass, to revenge on them, 08:08.120 --> 08:11.200 to prove them wrong, to inflict loss or setback. 08:11.400 --> 08:14.800 And really the reason that I kind of just want to go over this is because what is the 08:14.800 --> 08:16.100 Lord really going to do? 08:16.100 --> 08:17.640 He is going to do all of that. 08:17.640 --> 08:20.840 The Bible says that He will laugh at their calamity, right? 08:20.840 --> 08:22.020 At their derision. 08:22.020 --> 08:25.480 The Lord is going to mock the enemies of God. 08:25.480 --> 08:27.940 And so we don't even have to worry about these things. 08:27.940 --> 08:33.340 So I'm just going to give you a lot of reasons why I've changed some of my thoughts and why, 08:33.340 --> 08:36.140 you know, hopefully to help you change some of your thoughts. 08:36.140 --> 08:39.240 And then the reason why it's going to stick it to the enemy, right? 08:39.400 --> 08:42.400 And that's really all my goal is this morning. 08:42.400 --> 08:44.400 You know, I thought, how many points could I give them? 08:44.400 --> 08:47.400 I'm just going to just tell them, you know, a little bit about my background 08:47.400 --> 08:51.400 and how I even got to this point here in my life. 08:51.400 --> 08:54.400 And probably it'll resonate with some of you in some ways. 08:54.400 --> 08:56.400 And in other ways, it should encourage you. 08:56.400 --> 08:59.400 Maybe you have a thought, a way of thinking about something, 08:59.400 --> 09:02.400 and you're like, oh, I didn't know that I could actually think about it this way. 09:02.400 --> 09:04.400 Right? That would be the whole goal. 09:04.400 --> 09:06.400 Because, I mean, if you think about... 09:07.500 --> 09:09.900 you know, this battle. 09:10.300 --> 09:12.300 The battle is really for us, right? 09:12.300 --> 09:17.800 One of the things that I love the Bible dispels is there's no real battle between good and evil, right? 09:17.800 --> 09:21.300 There's not like a scenario where the devil could one day win. 09:21.300 --> 09:23.300 The devil's not ever gonna win. 09:23.300 --> 09:25.300 We already have the victory. 09:25.300 --> 09:27.800 As a matter of fact, we sang this morning about conquering. 09:27.800 --> 09:30.800 The reality is the Bible says we are more than conquerors, right? 09:30.800 --> 09:33.300 We've already, you know, gone beyond that. 09:33.300 --> 09:36.300 He says greater things will do than even when Jesus was on earth, right? 09:36.300 --> 09:38.300 We're gonna have these great moments. 09:38.300 --> 09:48.440 But what's the purpose? Well, the battle is here in the flesh and the spirit against the evil spirits in the in the flesh that you know absorbs all that right? 09:48.860 --> 10:01.620 I don't know if that came out the way. We'll leave that there. But when we're thinking about these things, you think about it, what does the devil do? You know, the devil is always looking to destroy the Bible says he's as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may destroy right? 10:02.000 --> 10:06.080 But what does God want to do? He wants to build you up. Even when he chastises you, 10:06.080 --> 10:10.960 the goal is to break you down, to build you up. Right? We need to learn to recognize those things. 10:11.600 --> 10:18.560 The devil, all he does is recruit. He has no other, you know, method of reproducing. 10:18.800 --> 10:26.560 As a matter of fact, I think that's why the promotion of the LGBT, the queers and all that is huge 10:26.560 --> 10:29.360 because there's no other way to grow that army. 10:29.360 --> 10:29.860 Right. 10:29.860 --> 10:30.360 Right? 10:30.360 --> 10:34.800 Where we not only use physically, we have children, we encourage that, 10:34.800 --> 10:37.680 but we also go out so many, we reproduce spiritually. 10:37.680 --> 10:43.440 I got a good, I saw a report that there was a lot of people saved in Germany. 10:43.800 --> 10:47.960 You know, a spiritually dead nation, so when he still works. 10:48.760 --> 10:53.720 Apparently, it doesn't work as good as it does here. I watched the video from Pastor Shelley, 10:53.720 --> 10:57.080 but you know what? It still works. You know, the thing that I got out of it was, 10:57.080 --> 11:00.360 yeah, it's tougher, but it still works. You know, and there's a remnant over there, 11:00.360 --> 11:05.960 which by the way, pray for that remnant, because it's so easy for us to just take those things for 11:05.960 --> 11:06.700 for preep at the school and 11:07.320 --> 11:06.700 at the school's 11:11.420 --> 11:06.700 inton school. 11:06.700 --> 11:13.700 I mean they're in the battle. I just got back from preaching in Canoele. 11:13.700 --> 11:19.700 It's so much different than even just, I'm pretty sure Oklahoma is very similar probably to Houston. 11:19.700 --> 11:23.700 But even in the West Coast and other cities it's just hard. 11:23.700 --> 11:28.700 What does the devil also do? The devil tries to just kind of blind you. 11:28.700 --> 11:31.700 You have all these perversions, all these... 11:32.300 --> 11:37.120 Bible versions and what are we trying to do? We're trying to give you light. We're trying to give you clarity 11:37.440 --> 11:43.120 As a matter of fact one of the major battles that we take on is a clear gospel message 11:43.120 --> 11:48.740 I mean literally there's a documentary coming out about the truth of the gospel and I guarantee you 11:49.100 --> 11:52.400 that the contrast will be the clarity of the gospel 11:52.400 --> 11:56.900 versus all this confusion between all these different religions, right? 11:56.900 --> 12:01.100 And so we see all these things that happen, but let me just give you, 12:01.100 --> 12:04.100 these are not the points, but these are just my thoughts, right? 12:04.100 --> 12:08.100 When I first got saved, I didn't just change overnight. 12:08.100 --> 12:11.100 As a matter of fact, I remember getting saved at the age of 25. 12:11.600 --> 12:13.940 And there was no soul winning program. 12:13.940 --> 12:15.780 There was nobody to plug me in. 12:15.780 --> 12:17.520 I was zealous for the Lord. 12:17.520 --> 12:20.380 I remember the pastor Pope said, hey, you know, the next step is to get baptized. 12:20.380 --> 12:22.100 I was like, well, can we just do that right now? 12:22.100 --> 12:23.540 He's like, well, hold on. 12:23.540 --> 12:25.060 You know, you got to wait until at least Sunday. 12:25.060 --> 12:26.580 You know, I got baptized right away. 12:26.580 --> 12:29.380 I was like, what else can I get plugged into? 12:29.380 --> 12:32.220 And he let me preach at like a nursing home once. 12:32.220 --> 12:33.220 But then that was it. 12:33.220 --> 12:34.220 It kind of fizzled out. 12:34.220 --> 12:38.100 And the reason it feels like there's no way for me to track that result. 12:38.500 --> 12:40.000 like soul winning, right? 12:40.000 --> 12:42.300 It wasn't until I really started soul winning 12:42.300 --> 12:45.400 that you start to see, you know, 12:45.400 --> 12:47.200 how the Bible works in you, right? 12:47.200 --> 12:48.400 And the things that you do. 12:48.400 --> 12:51.500 And so when I learn, and I'm going to use I and we 12:51.500 --> 12:54.800 because these are the things that I want to leave you with, right? 12:54.800 --> 12:57.100 You know how I learned humility? 12:57.100 --> 12:59.000 I mean, sorry, before I learned humility 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 or before you've learned humility, 13:01.000 --> 13:03.200 the thing that you're probably given to is one of two things. 13:03.200 --> 13:04.500 You're either given to pride, 13:04.700 --> 13:07.820 And pride always leads to envy. 13:07.820 --> 13:09.820 Or envy leads to pride. 13:09.820 --> 13:11.820 Because if you're envious of somebody, 13:11.820 --> 13:14.380 you realize I'm trying to improve this. 13:14.380 --> 13:17.660 I'm glad you guys brought up the memorization. 13:17.660 --> 13:19.980 So I'm trying to improve my memorization skills. 13:19.980 --> 13:23.660 And I was actually on the Faithful Word Baptist website. 13:24.000 --> 13:27.800 And, you know, he has like how to memorize the Bible in five years. 13:27.800 --> 13:33.360 And then he has like these little PDF documents that he put back in like 2006. 13:33.360 --> 13:37.360 And it was kind of like the memorization schedule or the reading schedule. 13:37.360 --> 13:38.760 I don't know who's seen that. 13:38.760 --> 13:40.120 If you've not seen it. 13:40.120 --> 13:44.160 And I did the math because I didn't realize it took me a second to realize that that's 13:44.160 --> 13:46.120 a 30 day schedule. 13:46.120 --> 13:47.120 Right. 13:47.120 --> 13:50.600 So if Pastor Anderson has followed that schedule, I was telling my wife. 13:50.800 --> 13:55.600 for the last 20 years that means that he's probably the schedules to read your entire Bible in a month 13:56.320 --> 14:01.360 and memorize as much scripture in a month and if he's done that he's probably read his Bible over 14:01.360 --> 14:08.400 200 times. I mean you're either going to be like how can I do that how can I improve and that's the 14:08.400 --> 14:14.640 humility part or you're going to be like everybody else who's just envious because what really what 14:14.640 --> 14:16.600 What they're mad at is that they didn't do it. 14:17.100 --> 14:19.740 They're mad at the fact that somebody else has done it. 14:19.740 --> 14:21.880 They're getting the recognition. 14:21.880 --> 14:22.880 They're getting the glory. 14:22.880 --> 14:25.260 And they're like, that should be me. 14:25.260 --> 14:28.260 You know, it reminds me of some of the people that are just going against not just him, 14:28.260 --> 14:29.940 but anybody, right? 14:29.940 --> 14:32.780 You look at a young Pastor Oz, and I'm not picking on his age. 14:32.780 --> 14:34.820 I'm just saying, that's exactly what they look at. 14:34.820 --> 14:36.620 They're like, oh, that guy's young. 14:36.620 --> 14:37.620 You know, and look at him. 14:37.620 --> 14:39.780 He's getting up there and he's preaching and he's saying all this stuff. 14:39.780 --> 14:40.780 But what does he know? 14:40.780 --> 14:41.780 Well, he knows the Bible. 14:41.780 --> 14:42.800 the Bible. 14:43.200 --> 14:46.160 And the Bible is what changes your heart and what changes your mind. 14:46.160 --> 14:50.720 It's not just like it just because you get saved doesn't mean you're automatically just like this great person. 14:51.280 --> 14:53.440 You know, we're not like the mormons here, right? 14:53.440 --> 14:56.240 Where we just put on a nice tie and tell everybody we don't drink caffeine. 14:56.320 --> 15:01.840 So that's why we're great, right? We actually just believe the Bible. The Bible says that, you know, if I believe christ 15:02.640 --> 15:03.600 then 15:03.600 --> 15:08.560 You know i'm saved but that doesn't mean that i've changed right romans 4 or 5 but go to philippians 2 go to philippians 2 15:08.560 --> 15:10.560 really quick 15:10.640 --> 15:11.200 Right 15:11.400 --> 15:16.760 And how does this work? Well, what ends up happening is I'm going to touch a lot on on your human nature 15:17.400 --> 15:22.680 You know, I might not tonight. I'm gonna be a little I'll bring in a little bit more heat 15:22.680 --> 15:25.200 But this morning I really wanted to bring the heat directly to your heart 15:25.640 --> 15:29.060 Right and it might not you I might not get a lot of eight minutes 15:29.060 --> 15:32.040 But it's definitely gonna make you a little bit uncomfortable in some areas, right? 15:32.040 --> 15:37.020 Because here's what people tend to do you're in this church and I love it. I think it's great 15:37.500 --> 15:41.220 What most people tend to do is they start to compare. 15:41.220 --> 15:44.440 When you're still in the flesh and you're still not reading your Bible often, 15:44.440 --> 15:47.660 you're in Philippians 2, the Bible says there in verse 1, 15:47.660 --> 15:54.440 says if there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort, if any fellowship of the Spirit, 15:54.440 --> 15:58.940 if any bowels and mercies fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded. 15:59.800 --> 16:07.160 Having the same love being of one accord of one mind let nothing be done through strife or vainglory 16:08.240 --> 16:12.000 But in loneliness of mind what let each esteem other? 16:12.960 --> 16:19.040 Better than themselves look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others 16:19.040 --> 16:23.520 Hey, the problem with most people is that you're all you're worried about is what about me? 16:24.400 --> 16:26.800 Mean that you could say that's not true 16:27.280 --> 16:29.940 Look if you just talk to anybody for a length of time 16:30.220 --> 16:34.800 Just listen to what they're actually saying you can figure out if it's about them or if it's about somebody else 16:36.680 --> 16:39.380 And if it's about somebody else usually it's about a comparison 16:40.120 --> 16:45.300 Right. I mean you these are things that you you need to figure you need to work with because when you start competing with other people 16:45.620 --> 16:51.480 When you start comparing then envy kicks in bitterness kicks in and eventually you just leave 16:52.200 --> 16:53.200 You'll just leave. 16:53.200 --> 16:54.920 And you know, who cares if you were to leave the church? 16:54.920 --> 16:56.040 By the way, I'm not kicking anybody out. 16:56.040 --> 16:59.560 I'm not trying to encourage anybody to leave Anchor or any other church. 16:59.560 --> 17:02.440 But the problem is, it's not so much that you left. 17:02.440 --> 17:04.960 It's not like you're going to replace it with another church. 17:04.960 --> 17:09.320 99% of the time when people leave a church, it doesn't matter if it was the best church, 17:09.320 --> 17:11.520 which I actually think Anchor Baptist is the best church. 17:11.520 --> 17:15.160 But even if you were going to an old IFB church, if you start finding something wrong with 17:15.160 --> 17:17.440 even that church, you know what you're doing? 17:17.440 --> 17:20.200 You're just comparing your envious, your... 17:20.200 --> 17:23.440 bitter about something and eventually just gonna be like I saw some posts 17:23.440 --> 17:28.000 somebody said that they were that they were they went to Tyler Doka's church I 17:28.000 --> 17:31.560 don't know who it was and so that's why they don't go to any other church they 17:31.560 --> 17:35.360 just come up with weird excuses to not go to church you know my wife and I we 17:35.360 --> 17:38.280 went through a struggle we know when we first got saved these are the things 17:38.280 --> 17:39.300 that we went through 17:39.400 --> 17:43.280 And I mean, I'm sorry, when we first got saved, she's gonna make fun of me later for that. 17:43.280 --> 17:45.120 So just, I'm helping her out. 17:45.120 --> 17:47.300 Because I say things wrong all the time. 17:47.300 --> 17:49.360 When we first, she's been safe since she was three years old. 17:49.360 --> 17:50.800 Let's clear that thing up. 17:50.800 --> 17:56.120 When we first got married, we moved to Houston, we were going to Good Baptist Church, and 17:56.120 --> 17:57.280 then some of the doctrines. 17:57.280 --> 17:58.440 Who's been through that? 17:58.440 --> 18:02.180 Your doctor started to just like not line up with the church's doctrines, and it became 18:02.180 --> 18:03.480 a thing of tension. 18:03.480 --> 18:05.760 Not from your end, but usually it's from them. 18:05.760 --> 18:07.400 So we just quietly left and then we. 18:07.400 --> 18:10.680 We kept looking for churches and we couldn't find one. 18:10.680 --> 18:14.400 For months we didn't go to church until we ended up at Spring Crest and God blessed. 18:14.400 --> 18:19.500 Now I've been ordained this year, it'll be 10 years that I've been ordained. 18:19.500 --> 18:24.940 Go to James 3, but the Bible, but you know, you go to the, so people go through these 18:24.940 --> 18:26.900 things but you know what? 18:26.900 --> 18:28.700 We left, we left for the right reasons. 18:28.700 --> 18:30.700 We wanted to just find better doctrine. 18:30.700 --> 18:32.520 We didn't just give up. 18:32.520 --> 18:34.200 But most people will give up. 18:34.600 --> 18:39.240 I mean we we know people in our lives and my wife and I'm looking at her right now of people that just have 18:39.400 --> 18:42.920 They grew up in church. They grew up like she did they found something wrong 18:43.160 --> 18:47.640 They were envious or they compared or they didn't like somebody or they never let them sing in the choir 18:47.880 --> 18:51.800 Or they never let them lead anything and then they just gave up. Hey, we've all been through it 18:52.040 --> 18:54.040 My wife has a great singing voice 18:54.680 --> 18:56.200 but for some reason 18:56.300 --> 18:59.300 She just wasn't part of the clique in the church that she grew up with. 18:59.300 --> 19:01.300 And she just didn't get the solos that she did. 19:01.300 --> 19:03.800 But she didn't quit church is what I'm trying to say. 19:03.800 --> 19:05.800 That's going to happen. That's just life. 19:05.800 --> 19:07.800 Right? And this is part of what we do. 19:07.800 --> 19:09.800 Where did I have you turn? James? James 3? 19:09.800 --> 19:11.800 Okay, James 3. I'm in Proverbs 14. 19:11.800 --> 19:13.800 Right there in Proverbs 14 verse 30 the Bible says 19:13.800 --> 19:20.800 A sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy the rottenness of the bones. 19:20.800 --> 19:22.800 You know, don't be envious. 19:24.100 --> 19:28.500 You think about it, all the people that hate anchor baptists, that hate your pastor, 19:28.500 --> 19:32.180 you know where they are? They're envious. Because it's just a rotten attitude. 19:32.400 --> 19:36.620 I mean, I just, I look at it online, I just think to myself, it's like, does anybody pick 19:36.620 --> 19:38.180 up a Bible anymore? 19:38.180 --> 19:42.900 You know, other than just to nitpick like one verse, to throw it at you out of context, 19:42.900 --> 19:44.260 just so they can pick at you about something. 19:44.260 --> 19:49.380 Go to James 3 right there in verse 13, the Bible says, who is a wise man and in dude 19:49.380 --> 19:54.620 with knowledge among you, let him show out of a good conversation his works with what? 19:54.620 --> 19:56.780 With meekness of wisdom. 19:56.780 --> 19:59.020 Hey, don't just be bragging about your works. 19:59.020 --> 20:00.400 There's a difference between, hey, I'm telling you. 20:00.400 --> 20:04.520 you that we've won a bunch of souls to bragging about being the best soul winner. 20:04.800 --> 20:07.720 I think at one point this church might have had, I don't remember all the history, but 20:07.720 --> 20:09.840 I have followed the history. 20:09.840 --> 20:14.760 You know, I was new IFB before people knew that I was new IFB, just so you guys knew. 20:14.760 --> 20:17.600 And what I mean by that is I'm not trying to, I'm just like, I'm starting to find out 20:17.600 --> 20:20.440 as I go around that people were like, oh, you're a pastor? 20:20.440 --> 20:21.440 Oh, you're new IFB? 20:21.440 --> 20:23.800 I was like, yeah, I've been around for a while. 20:23.800 --> 20:26.040 I've been at all the conferences and all that stuff. 20:26.040 --> 20:28.680 It's like an ongoing little joke between me and some of the pastors. 20:28.680 --> 20:31.080 But anyways, but go there, verse 14. 20:31.080 --> 20:32.800 But I think that you guys at one point... 20:32.800 --> 20:36.600 when it was still steadfast, there was a guy that was like bragging about how he was like 20:36.600 --> 20:41.700 the best soul winner, had no but three quarters of the soul winning, just did all the soul 20:41.700 --> 20:44.040 winning, the guy was just amazing. 20:44.040 --> 20:46.520 You know, it wasn't about the numbers, it was just about how good he was. 20:46.520 --> 20:50.640 I mean, I'm glad that you, I'm sad that you guys don't have him here anymore, you know, 20:50.640 --> 20:52.640 your soul winning numbers would be better. 20:52.640 --> 20:58.440 Go to verse 14, the Bible says, but if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, 20:58.440 --> 20:59.080 glory not. 20:59.800 --> 21:05.720 Lie not against the truth this wisdom descendants not from above but is earthly sensual devilish 21:06.000 --> 21:10.280 For where envying and strife is there's confusion and evil work 21:10.480 --> 21:14.520 But the wisdom and I want you to pay here because I made an interesting note here 21:15.000 --> 21:19.320 Pay attention to these verses says but the wisdom that is from above its first pure 21:19.760 --> 21:26.540 Then peaceable gentle and easy to be treated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy 21:27.000 --> 21:34.000 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. 21:34.000 --> 21:37.000 And you know, I just saw this correlation, I was preparing this one. 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 What does Proverbs 11.30 say? 21:39.000 --> 21:44.000 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he that wineth souls is white. 21:44.000 --> 21:47.000 You know, at every turn, if you really start to just read your Bible more and more, 21:47.000 --> 21:50.000 you start to see that it's all about other people. 21:50.000 --> 21:54.000 It's about the lost souls that are going to hell if we don't pull them out of the fire. 21:54.000 --> 21:54.500 All right. 21:54.900 --> 21:57.800 Romans 12 you don't have to turn there go over to 21:59.940 --> 22:04.580 Sorry, I got a lot of notes here by the way usually I don't preach I try to stay in an hour 22:04.580 --> 22:09.020 But then when I do visit I might go over the spirit of pastor Shelley takes over 22:09.020 --> 22:13.100 So I don't know if that's gonna be today, but you know just stay 22:13.960 --> 22:19.860 Go to Proverbs 27 but a process I'm in Romans 12 verse 9 the Bible says let love be without dissimulation 22:21.000 --> 22:25.780 Abhor that which is evil you know that word abhor is just a synonym for what hate 22:26.280 --> 22:32.840 You should hate that that is evil. You know and it's not just on others. You should hate that that's evil in you 22:33.400 --> 22:37.660 Right that's the challenge out today. I'm dealing with you this morning with you personally 22:37.660 --> 22:43.860 What are the things that you're still working on that are causing you to not be better at what you're doing right? 22:45.320 --> 22:48.160 Let love be without the simulation meaning don't be fake 22:49.600 --> 22:56.160 Right in the south that we can align with in Texas and Oklahoma in the south. We have this saying, right? 22:56.320 --> 22:57.840 Oh god bless you 22:57.840 --> 23:04.000 Right. Usually that's not that's pretty fake. What we're really saying is, you know, we don't like you or poor little person 23:04.320 --> 23:06.320 It's kind of like a a backhanded 23:06.800 --> 23:13.120 You know insult right God, but don't do that right? I'll pour that which is evil cleave to that which is good 23:13.120 --> 23:17.740 Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love in honor what? 23:18.200 --> 23:24.280 Prefer preferring one another you know one of the hardest things to do is to actually love somebody better than yourself 23:25.000 --> 23:29.000 You know, your family is one thing. We're all prejudiced. I love my kids, I love my wife. 23:29.000 --> 23:33.320 But to sit there and love you guys with all the differences that you would have that would 23:33.320 --> 23:39.080 probably irk me to no end, and vice versa, right? I have things in my life that would irk you to no 23:39.080 --> 23:45.000 end. That's really, you know, the sign of working on your humility. So you want to stick it to the 23:45.000 --> 23:49.240 enemy, instead of promoting yourself, why don't you promote Christ? Right? 23:49.700 --> 23:53.700 The way to defeat Satan in this area is to promote Christ. 23:53.700 --> 23:55.700 You know, and you were talking about like young men, 23:55.700 --> 23:57.700 if there's young single Christians, 23:57.700 --> 24:00.700 one of the tendencies to being young and single, 24:00.700 --> 24:03.700 especially as a man, is that you want to make it all about you. 24:03.700 --> 24:05.700 And it's actually all about Christ. 24:06.300 --> 24:09.500 You know, there's nothing better, that's why young men need to get married, because there's 24:09.500 --> 24:13.320 nothing more humbling than when you think you're like this great guy, maybe you have 24:13.320 --> 24:17.540 a good job that's paying well, you know, and all that stuff, and then your wife humbles 24:17.540 --> 24:18.540 you. 24:18.540 --> 24:20.740 But what gets even better, Brother Cameron, is there's nothing more humbling when you 24:20.740 --> 24:24.780 think you have like a really good job, maybe you close a big deal, you got a promotion, 24:24.780 --> 24:26.580 and then you go home and you have to change poop. 24:26.580 --> 24:29.660 You know, there's nothing more humbling than changing your own kid's poop. 24:30.000 --> 24:32.800 You say, that sounds silly, it's not. 24:32.800 --> 24:35.960 It reminds you that you're not that important. 24:35.960 --> 24:39.160 It's just one of those things that you're like, that's why we just have a lot of kids 24:39.160 --> 24:43.880 so you still forget why you need to be humble. 24:43.880 --> 24:49.660 Proper 27, the other thing, before I accepted correction, you know what I was? 24:49.660 --> 24:50.660 I was entitled. 24:50.660 --> 24:53.960 I don't know if people have this sense of entitlement. 24:53.960 --> 24:55.640 Maybe you came in, you don't know any better. 24:56.300 --> 25:02.300 That might be the other problem. Some people know better. Some of you might not know better a different Christian walk. 25:02.300 --> 25:07.100 And so you're just maybe a little entitled because you're new IFB. You know, we know the doctrines. 25:07.100 --> 25:11.100 But what you really need to know is that sometimes you need to accept correction. 25:11.900 --> 25:13.900 Man, that's a big one. 25:13.900 --> 25:15.800 That's just a big one in anybody's life. 25:15.800 --> 25:17.740 Being told that you're wrong at something 25:17.740 --> 25:19.320 is not the funnest thing to hear, 25:19.320 --> 25:21.240 but God's always correcting us. 25:21.240 --> 25:22.080 As a matter of fact, 25:22.080 --> 25:24.160 if you just opened your Bible this morning, 25:24.160 --> 25:25.720 there was probably correction 25:25.720 --> 25:27.600 because none of us are perfect, right? 25:27.900 --> 25:32.560 The last thing that anybody wants to hear is correction, 25:32.560 --> 25:34.260 and then people get this attitude of like, 25:34.260 --> 25:35.680 well, nobody can tell me anything, 25:35.680 --> 25:38.460 nobody can judge me, nobody can do all this. 25:38.460 --> 25:40.000 One of the examples I want to give you, 25:40.000 --> 25:43.160 because it's so fresh, who followed this, 25:43.160 --> 25:46.100 the Carmelo Anthony thing that happened, right? 25:46.100 --> 25:48.880 But it's so easy. 25:49.400 --> 25:52.120 you know if we just followed the 25:52.120 --> 25:54.560 uh... and i skipped the verse I'm sorry 25:54.560 --> 25:58.480 as I are, let's go to Proverbs 27 and 17 sorry my notes are 25:58.480 --> 26:00.000 I was telling Brother Cameron that 26:00.000 --> 26:04.520 my note system changed like the I use this this uh... 26:04.520 --> 26:07.760 app called capacities and it changed like the margins and so now my notes are 26:07.760 --> 26:08.880 moved a little bit but 26:08.880 --> 26:10.480 it that it has nothing to do with it 26:10.480 --> 26:12.800 but you know one of the things that I saw on both sides 26:12.800 --> 26:14.300 of this thing is just that 26:14.300 --> 26:17.100 Everybody has an opinion, but nobody likes to be corrected. 26:18.300 --> 26:23.100 And everybody, I don't even care that you have an opinion, but look, truth is truth. 26:23.100 --> 26:25.100 Right? The kid was murdered. 26:25.100 --> 26:27.100 I don't know what else you want. That's it. 26:27.100 --> 26:30.100 There's nothing, there's literally nothing else to talk about. 26:30.100 --> 26:32.100 It was a murder. 26:32.100 --> 26:36.100 The guy should, you know, if it was biblical, it should be the death penalty. 26:36.100 --> 26:39.600 That's it. It has nothing to do with race. 26:39.600 --> 26:42.600 It has nothing to do with age. It has nothing to do with elitism. 26:42.600 --> 26:43.800 It's just murder. 26:43.800 --> 26:47.840 You know if you grab a knife and you stab someone in the heart and they bleed out, it's murder 26:47.840 --> 26:50.180 I don't know what else to tell you and as a matter of fact 26:50.180 --> 26:57.200 It's been proven psychologically from you know just if you if you've ever studied like like a bit of law enforcement that 26:57.840 --> 27:00.660 One of the most like that's actually really personal 27:00.960 --> 27:06.620 Stabbing is probably one of the worst ways to kill someone because it's actually super personal right it's close quarters, but 27:07.200 --> 27:11.960 We're there in Proverbs 27 verse 17. We know this verse, but this is a great verse as a reminder says iron 27:12.760 --> 27:14.760 sharpeneth iron so a man 27:15.160 --> 27:23.240 Sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. You know I love that verse because men especially need to get a tougher skin 27:24.320 --> 27:29.920 You know I get on to my son quite often. I mean he's eight years old. I'm not picking on him. He's just kid 27:30.800 --> 27:34.540 You know, one of the things I don't let him do though, is when I get on to him, he immediately wants to do it. 27:34.540 --> 27:37.640 It's normal. I'm like, hey, don't do this. He's like, I'm like, hey, 27:38.780 --> 27:42.360 Stand up straight, move on. We don't have time for that. 27:42.920 --> 27:48.020 But you know what's more annoying when you meet a grown adult that gets like that? It's like, bro, you're a guy. 27:48.500 --> 27:52.260 At some point, even if you just want to cry, go cry to your wife, right? 27:52.260 --> 27:56.100 I mean, that's what my wife, I can cry on her shoulder, nobody will know. 27:56.100 --> 27:59.460 But when I'm out in the world, like, you got to be a man about these things, right? 27:59.460 --> 28:04.900 Like, you just got to own up, you got to get ready to go, you know, if somebody corrects you, it's okay. 28:05.300 --> 28:08.300 You know, I'm glad that we have pastors that preach hard. 28:08.300 --> 28:09.540 It's corrective to me. 28:09.540 --> 28:10.740 When I'm listening to some of these sermons, 28:10.740 --> 28:12.900 I'm like, oh, you know, maybe I was thinking about this wrong, 28:12.900 --> 28:16.540 or I could improve this, or I remember one of the things, 28:16.540 --> 28:18.700 we were at the Mighty Mountain Friends 28:18.700 --> 28:20.660 and Pastor Shelley preached a great sermon, 28:20.660 --> 28:22.060 by the way, you guys should listen to it, 28:22.060 --> 28:23.500 about just loving your wives. 28:23.500 --> 28:24.820 And I think I love my wife great. 28:24.820 --> 28:25.940 And he made some points there, I was like, 28:25.940 --> 28:28.140 oh, I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna take some notes, 28:28.140 --> 28:29.980 and I'm gonna love my wife better in this respect, 28:29.980 --> 28:30.820 and in that respect, 28:30.820 --> 28:33.260 and there's nothing wrong with learning from somebody else. 28:33.300 --> 28:35.300 You know, it's okay. 28:35.300 --> 28:38.300 Right? But you have to learn to receive instruction. 28:38.300 --> 28:41.300 You know, I saw some of these things here. I'm not going to read it all. 28:41.300 --> 28:45.300 But I asked, you know, Grok, now we have AI for everything. 28:45.300 --> 28:49.300 You guys, by the way, this is just a side rabbit trail for one second. 28:49.300 --> 28:51.300 Especially for the younger guys. 28:51.300 --> 28:55.300 You have no idea how great you have it. 28:55.900 --> 29:00.700 Like, you live in the greatest time to be super productive and just learn anything you 29:00.700 --> 29:02.500 want in your life. 29:02.500 --> 29:07.180 The amount of effort we have to put as young men to do the things that you can do now is 29:07.180 --> 29:08.180 just insane. 29:08.180 --> 29:09.180 It's amazing. 29:09.180 --> 29:12.260 But, you know, that's just another take advantage of it is what I'm trying to say, especially 29:12.260 --> 29:13.260 for the cause of Christ. 29:13.260 --> 29:18.100 But, you know, this guy got convicted and now they're starting to release. 29:18.100 --> 29:20.780 Even from the time I wrote this, they're starting to release some of the footage and some of 29:20.780 --> 29:21.780 the calls. 29:21.780 --> 29:21.800 you 29:21.900 --> 29:27.100 I mean it's clear as daylight right? But people started getting angered they're like well I just 29:27.100 --> 29:31.500 wanted to ask that hey give me like the both sides the rhetoric on both sides. People were like well 29:31.500 --> 29:38.380 it was self-defense, it was stand your ground, you know it was bullying, it was disproportionate 29:38.380 --> 29:42.060 sentencing, it was mitigating factors right? 29:42.400 --> 29:46.160 And then of course the defense is like, well, you know, the guy shouldn't have been there. 29:46.160 --> 29:50.720 And he had, he had already been suspended for carrying a weapon and all that stuff. 29:50.720 --> 29:54.720 But what does the Bible tell us? Go to Proverbs. I mean, I'm sorry, go to Numbers 35. 29:54.720 --> 29:57.360 I didn't know. I had a note here that I didn't know if we were going to go there or not, 29:57.360 --> 30:03.360 but I want to go here really quick. And Numbers 35. We won't read it all. 30:04.480 --> 30:08.800 But this is the way that you, I want you, your life by the end of today, I want you to just. 30:09.900 --> 30:16.420 Sharpen that lens right we use cameras all the time, and if it's blurry. What would we do we adjust that lens? 30:16.420 --> 30:23.400 It's just micro adjustments, but they make everything just more clear the Bible says there in numbers 35 30:24.300 --> 30:26.300 verse 11 30:27.180 --> 30:32.420 It says then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you 30:33.000 --> 30:39.000 that the slayer may flee thither which killeth any person at unawares. 30:39.000 --> 30:44.280 So the Bible says, hey if you did it by accident, hey I'm always trying to be careful when I drive, 30:44.280 --> 30:47.880 especially when you're backing up. If I kill someone unawares it's called 30:47.880 --> 30:50.920 involuntary mass slaughter but you know what there's still a penalty for that. 30:52.600 --> 30:55.240 Right? And in here there was like obviously it's not prison. 30:56.000 --> 31:00.160 But then it says, and they shall be unto you cities for refuge for the avenger that the 31:00.160 --> 31:04.960 manslayer die not until he stand before the congregation in judgment. And of these cities, 31:04.960 --> 31:10.160 ye shall give six cities, six cities shall ye have for refuge. Ye shall give three cities on the side 31:10.160 --> 31:14.160 of Jordan and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge. 31:14.500 --> 31:19.060 These six cities shall be a refuge both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, 31:19.060 --> 31:21.180 and for the sojourner. 31:21.180 --> 31:25.780 Among them, every one that killeth any person unawares may flee there. 31:25.780 --> 31:30.060 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron. 31:30.060 --> 31:31.060 What's a knife? 31:31.060 --> 31:31.740 An instrument of iron. 31:32.400 --> 31:36.560 says so that he die, he is a murderer, 31:36.560 --> 31:39.280 the murderer should surely be put to death. 31:39.280 --> 31:42.080 It's not even up for discussion. 31:42.080 --> 31:43.600 You know what I love about the Bible? 31:43.600 --> 31:45.920 It's not like, well, was it a black kid? 31:45.920 --> 31:47.120 Was it a Mexican? 31:47.120 --> 31:48.080 Was it an Asian? 31:48.080 --> 31:48.720 Was it a white kid? 31:48.720 --> 31:52.320 No, it's just like he stuck him with an iron, 31:52.320 --> 31:53.760 he's worthy of death. 31:54.400 --> 32:00.000 I mean that's really the... you think that this kid, you know, they're gonna put him in the prison system 32:00.000 --> 32:06.080 and he's gonna be there, he has the ability to parole out in 17 years for good behavior. 32:06.080 --> 32:09.520 You know, you think, first of all, that he has the mental maturity to just say, 32:09.520 --> 32:16.240 yeah I'm gonna turn my life around in prison for 35... let's say he lives out the full 35 years. 32:16.240 --> 32:22.000 He'll come out in his like late 50s probably. I'm sorry if my math is horrible, I'm not that great, but... 32:22.500 --> 32:27.500 You think he's going to be a better and more productive member of society or be more of a danger? 32:28.500 --> 32:31.500 More of a danger. He'll probably know how to do it better so he doesn't get caught. 32:32.500 --> 32:37.500 Because it's not like they're teaching you morality and a better lifestyle in prison. 32:37.500 --> 32:41.400 They're probably teaching you how to do things like how to be a better criminal. 32:41.500 --> 32:48.940 Right? That's been my experience. I have a cousin who's my age and you know he's been in and out of prison the whole his whole life. 32:48.940 --> 32:55.820 I'm 46 now. He got thrown in prison for drug trafficking like at 18 and all his life he's been in there. 32:55.820 --> 32:58.060 You know what? It's never been better. It's always been worse. 32:58.060 --> 33:03.100 You know my heart goes out to him but once he was in the system, he was in the system. 33:03.300 --> 33:07.380 So, you know, I'm not going to read the rest of it for the sake of time, but if you were 33:07.380 --> 33:13.900 to just read Numbers 35, you get a clear picture of what is and what isn't. 33:13.900 --> 33:14.900 You know what's black and white? 33:14.900 --> 33:15.900 God's Word. 33:15.900 --> 33:17.900 That's the only black and white I'm concerned about. 33:18.300 --> 33:21.100 I don't care about the color of your skin, I just care what the Bible says. 33:21.100 --> 33:22.460 Proverbs 9 verse 8, the Bible says, 33:22.460 --> 33:25.260 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, 33:25.260 --> 33:27.980 Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 33:27.980 --> 33:33.980 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. 33:33.980 --> 33:37.180 Teach a man, a just man, and he will increase in learning. 33:37.180 --> 33:39.580 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, 33:39.580 --> 33:43.400 and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. 33:43.600 --> 33:45.800 Two things that really stand out to me all these areas. 33:45.800 --> 33:50.300 Number one, the reason people have all these personal issues is because they don't fear the Lord. 33:50.300 --> 33:55.200 Number two, is because they want to have information about the Bible. 33:55.200 --> 33:57.100 They don't want to have knowledge of the Bible. 33:57.100 --> 34:01.400 They just want to have that verse so they can put it on Facebook and get you like an aha moment. 34:01.400 --> 34:05.300 See? Well, that didn't do anything for me. Like, teach me something. 34:05.300 --> 34:08.600 You know, I don't care if you rebuke me, just teach me something. 34:08.900 --> 34:10.900 Help me be better in my life. 34:10.900 --> 34:11.980 You need to be better in your life. 34:11.980 --> 34:14.380 You know what I love about Pastor Oz as a young man? 34:14.380 --> 34:15.900 He's taught me things. 34:15.900 --> 34:17.140 I listen to some of his sermons. 34:17.140 --> 34:18.780 I'm like, oh, that was a great point. 34:18.780 --> 34:20.540 These are things that I can apply to my life 34:20.540 --> 34:22.020 that can make me a better man. 34:22.020 --> 34:24.420 You know, there's nothing wrong with a 29-year-old teaching 34:24.420 --> 34:26.580 a 46-year-old from the Bible. 34:26.580 --> 34:27.020 You know what? 34:27.020 --> 34:30.220 I won't learn from a 29-year-old if it's his opinion. 34:30.220 --> 34:31.780 As a matter of fact, that's really annoying 34:31.780 --> 34:33.100 because I have lived life. 34:33.100 --> 34:35.380 I was listening to some clip of some guy who's 34:35.380 --> 34:36.620 a missionary somewhere. 34:36.900 --> 34:40.400 I'm pretty sure you guys saw the clip, and he's talking about the bare minimum, 34:40.400 --> 34:44.860 that if you don't go to church three times a week and go sowing, you're just doing the bare minimum. 34:44.860 --> 34:48.900 And I thought to myself, you know what? That guy's not lived. 34:48.900 --> 34:52.160 Because if I read the Bible, God's really gracious, 34:52.160 --> 34:55.020 and a lot of people aren't even doing the bare minimum. 34:55.020 --> 34:58.540 You think David was doing the bare minimum when he committed adultery with Bathsheba, 34:58.540 --> 35:01.940 and the Bible says he was a man after God's own heart. 35:01.940 --> 35:03.800 So apparently he was doing enough. 35:03.900 --> 35:07.100 that he got the accolades, but you know why? 35:07.100 --> 35:10.100 Because when David got called out, he accepted correction. 35:10.100 --> 35:13.500 When they said, thou art the man, he said, I have sinned. 35:13.500 --> 35:17.100 He didn't say, well, you know, I didn't, you know, remember Saul? 35:17.100 --> 35:19.500 Saul was like, no, I did do what you asked me to do. 35:19.500 --> 35:21.100 And he didn't. 35:21.100 --> 35:25.900 Proverbs 12.1, the Bible says, go to Psalm 119, go to Psalm 119, 35:25.900 --> 35:27.900 but in Proverbs 12.1, the Bible says, 35:27.900 --> 35:29.600 who so loveth instruction. 35:29.700 --> 35:37.460 Love-eth knowledge. You know, I love instruction and it's one of the few character traits that I can actually not brag about. 35:37.460 --> 35:44.700 Just know that it's in me because when I was a young man I had a mentor and he said the one thing about you that you got going for you, 35:44.700 --> 35:49.540 he was actually really hard. He's like, you don't really have a lot of skills and he was kind of like a tough guy. 35:49.540 --> 35:50.740 He said, but you're coachable. 35:51.100 --> 35:54.220 And he said, that makes the difference between you and a bunch of the other guys. 35:54.220 --> 35:56.860 He said, you've always been, and he would tell that to other people. 35:56.860 --> 35:58.620 I love instruction, right? 35:58.620 --> 36:03.540 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reprove is brutish. 36:03.540 --> 36:04.700 And in Spanish we have a word. 36:04.700 --> 36:08.300 This word really stands out to me because my dad would say this all the time to me. 36:08.300 --> 36:09.580 He says, no seas bruto. 36:10.100 --> 36:15.420 Brutus that word brutish is just like don't be like a dummy right for the I'm not you know 36:15.420 --> 36:18.440 I don't know who's in the crowd today, but if it comes out it comes out 36:18.440 --> 36:23.440 It's a biblical word, but you know what said don't be a dumbass is basically what he's saying right don't be brutish 36:24.000 --> 36:29.000 No seas bruto, you've heard it right? Did your dad ever tell you that? I didn't know that I had a fellow Mexican here. 36:29.000 --> 36:32.000 You know so he knows what I'm talking about. That word just stands out to me. 36:32.000 --> 36:36.000 Because it was all a lot. Porque eres tan bruto, no seas bruto. 36:36.000 --> 36:39.000 You know I was like okay I'm sorry. You know like you know. 36:39.000 --> 36:42.000 You know how dads are with their boys. Well they should be right? 36:42.000 --> 36:45.000 Ecclesiastes 7 verse 5 the Bible says, 36:45.000 --> 36:48.000 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, 36:48.000 --> 36:51.000 Than for a man to hear the songs of fools. 36:51.300 --> 36:54.300 You know, I think about like Carmel Anthony. 36:54.300 --> 36:55.300 I'm not even picking on the guy. 36:55.300 --> 36:58.300 I just think about just the black community in general. 36:58.300 --> 36:59.300 And you know what they listen to? 36:59.300 --> 37:00.300 Rap music. 37:00.300 --> 37:02.300 And rap music's foolish. 37:02.300 --> 37:04.300 Like, it's just dumb music. 37:04.600 --> 37:08.400 You think about the Hispanic community because they're trying to make the Hispanics like the Blacks, right? 37:08.400 --> 37:12.700 Where we have, we carry a chip on our shoulder, we're oppressed and all this stuff. 37:12.700 --> 37:18.100 And what do they have? Reggaeton and salsa and merengue and all those that music's re- 37:18.100 --> 37:24.600 You know, in my people, Mexicans, we have corridos and baladas and it's all about like narco traficantes and all this stuff. 37:24.600 --> 37:27.700 It's like, what are we talking about here? Right? 37:28.200 --> 37:33.640 But you know why the enemy, because the enemy wants you fragile, the enemy wants you weak. 37:33.640 --> 37:35.800 But God wants to sharpen you, right? 37:35.800 --> 37:39.640 The Bible says that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword. 37:39.640 --> 37:42.080 He wants for you to be able to pierce. 37:42.080 --> 37:44.400 If you read the book of Acts, there's two things that really stand out to me in the 37:44.400 --> 37:45.680 book of Acts. 37:45.680 --> 37:49.040 When they're preaching, the people that get saved, they get pricked at the heart. 37:49.040 --> 37:53.440 But the people that hate the Lord, it says they were cut to the heart. 37:53.440 --> 37:55.440 But we need to be able to cut to the heart. 37:55.900 --> 37:58.500 Go to Psalm 119 right there in verse 105. 38:02.500 --> 38:05.420 You know, before I saw things through the Bible, you know what I was? 38:05.420 --> 38:06.420 I was spiritually blind. 38:06.420 --> 38:07.420 Right? 38:07.420 --> 38:10.260 Who loves conspiracy theories? 38:10.260 --> 38:11.260 I love them. 38:11.260 --> 38:15.500 I mean, I grew up in the good age of YouTube. 38:15.500 --> 38:20.340 A lot of you are not, you know, I experienced YouTube when it was like the Wild West, when 38:20.340 --> 38:25.700 you could just learn about any conspiracy theory at nauseam without being filtered. 38:25.700 --> 38:27.200 But unfortunately... 38:27.900 --> 38:30.900 Without the light of the Bible, some of those things are just stupid. 38:30.900 --> 38:31.900 Right? 38:31.900 --> 38:34.900 Some of them, they were kind of right, but not all the way. 38:34.900 --> 38:35.900 But some of them were stupid. 38:35.900 --> 38:37.900 Go to Psalm 119. 38:37.900 --> 38:38.900 The Bible tells us, specifically says, 38:38.900 --> 38:42.900 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. 38:42.900 --> 38:46.900 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. 38:46.900 --> 38:48.900 You know, we need to have that attitude. 38:49.200 --> 38:52.200 Now obviously the Bible and Matthew clears up that we shouldn't swear. 38:52.200 --> 38:56.200 And what it means by that is we don't want to keep an oath because we're obviously in the flesh. 38:56.200 --> 38:59.200 But here he's saying, hey, I want to keep your judgments, Lord. 38:59.200 --> 39:01.200 I'm afflicted very much. 39:01.200 --> 39:12.200 Quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word, except I beseech thee the freewill offering of my mouth, O Lord, 39:12.200 --> 39:14.800 and teach me thy judgments, my soul... 39:15.200 --> 39:19.760 It's continually in my hand, yet do I not forget thy law. 39:19.760 --> 39:24.400 The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I err not in thy precepts. 39:24.400 --> 39:27.600 Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage forever, 39:27.600 --> 39:32.080 for they are the rejoicing of my heart. 39:32.080 --> 39:35.500 I have inclined my ear to perform thy statutes. 39:35.500 --> 39:38.100 all the way even unto the enemy. 39:38.100 --> 39:39.600 You notice the enemy's put a snare. 39:39.600 --> 39:40.700 Oftentimes we think like, 39:40.700 --> 39:41.900 oh, he's just trying to catch us 39:41.900 --> 39:43.300 because we're doing righteous things. 39:43.300 --> 39:44.800 But sometimes it's just like 39:44.800 --> 39:47.100 you're down that YouTube rabbit trail 39:47.100 --> 39:49.100 and that's the snare of the devil. 39:49.100 --> 39:50.100 All of a sudden you're like, 39:50.100 --> 39:52.100 wait, is Genesis 6 really saying 39:52.100 --> 39:54.700 that there was 400 foot giants? 39:54.700 --> 39:55.700 No, that's not what it's saying. 39:55.700 --> 39:56.300 Read your Bible. 39:56.300 --> 39:58.200 You know, like, read it right. 39:58.200 --> 39:59.600 Go to Hebrews 5. 40:00.900 --> 40:01.900 Go to Hebrews 5. 40:01.900 --> 40:06.260 You know the world gives you all these opinions and trends. 40:06.260 --> 40:13.020 I mean now we have podcasts and shorts and clips and politics and conspiracies. 40:13.020 --> 40:16.500 By the way, I'm not against you being informed of the world. 40:16.500 --> 40:19.220 I mean look at what Pastor McKee has done with short clips. 40:19.600 --> 40:21.360 He's preaching the truth. 40:21.360 --> 40:23.280 I don't know if you've listened to some of those podcasts. 40:23.280 --> 40:25.200 He's knocking it out of the ballpark. 40:25.200 --> 40:27.240 Actually, my favorite one, I haven't finished it all, 40:27.240 --> 40:29.040 but is the one with the business guy where 40:29.040 --> 40:30.640 he's ripping into that Catholic guy. 40:30.640 --> 40:32.800 Who's watched that? 40:32.800 --> 40:33.800 My wife and I were listening. 40:33.800 --> 40:36.520 We're just having a great time listening to that one. 40:36.520 --> 40:40.920 But we want to see everything through the Bible. 40:40.920 --> 40:43.280 I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh. 40:43.280 --> 40:44.600 But Rush Limbaugh was unsaved. 40:45.100 --> 40:47.100 So he didn't have the right things. 40:47.100 --> 40:48.900 I grew up listening to Sean Hannity. 40:48.900 --> 40:50.700 I know these guys are no longer relevant. 40:50.700 --> 40:54.100 I guess it's Tucker Carlson now, and Candace Owens, 40:54.100 --> 40:55.700 and Clavicle. 40:55.700 --> 40:58.380 I don't even know who some of these guys are. 40:58.380 --> 41:00.380 I saw something about some guy named Clavicle. 41:00.380 --> 41:02.940 I was like, who is this guy? 41:02.940 --> 41:04.260 There you go, Clavicular. 41:04.260 --> 41:04.660 You know what? 41:04.660 --> 41:09.060 I'm thinking Clavicle because I broke my Clavicle. 41:09.060 --> 41:10.600 Thank you for helping me out with that one. 41:10.900 --> 41:15.620 You know, but what you want to do is you want to get 20-20 vision through the Word of God. 41:16.820 --> 41:20.980 You know, there's one thing that stands out about this church is that it's biblically sound, 41:20.980 --> 41:26.580 and you guys are doing things based through the lens of the Bible, right? You're picking the fights, 41:27.300 --> 41:30.420 not just to pick the fights, but because you're actually clearing things up. Hey, 41:30.420 --> 41:32.660 pick a fight, but pick the right fight, right? 41:33.300 --> 41:35.700 Did I have you turn to Hebrews 5? 41:35.700 --> 41:38.060 I'll read for you right in John 8, verse 31. 41:38.060 --> 41:39.060 The Bible says, 41:39.060 --> 41:41.860 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, 41:41.860 --> 41:45.820 If you continue in my word, then you are my disciples indeed, 41:45.820 --> 41:49.440 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 41:49.440 --> 41:53.140 We love these verses, but is the truth actually making you free? 41:53.140 --> 41:57.700 You know, is the truth really making you move on at the soul-winning door, 41:57.700 --> 42:00.820 or you're with that guy for an hour because you're trying to prove him wrong? 42:01.000 --> 42:03.000 I've had that experience. 42:03.000 --> 42:08.320 I remember one time, I was actually learning how to lead people so I wasn't as direct and 42:08.320 --> 42:09.320 as good. 42:09.320 --> 42:12.520 I had this young guy with me and we were there at the door for like an hour. 42:12.520 --> 42:13.960 He's like, what do you think? 42:13.960 --> 42:17.200 I remember thinking, I told him, I was like, dude, that was a long time. 42:17.200 --> 42:22.040 Now I would have just cut it off, but back then I didn't have all the tools I did now. 42:22.040 --> 42:23.240 Now I'm just like, bro. 42:23.900 --> 42:25.900 Let's go. We ain't got time for this. 42:25.900 --> 42:27.900 You know, like, we got to do other things. 42:27.900 --> 42:29.900 Hebrews 5, you're there in verse 12, the Bible says, 42:29.900 --> 42:32.900 For when the time you ought to be teachers, 42:32.900 --> 42:35.900 ye have need that one teach you again, 42:35.900 --> 42:38.900 which be the first principles of the oracles of God, 42:38.900 --> 42:41.900 and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat. 42:41.900 --> 42:42.800 You know, 42:42.900 --> 42:44.980 You don't want to go to a church like Anchor and be like, 42:44.980 --> 42:47.220 hey, for the time when you ought to be the teaching, 42:47.220 --> 42:49.660 the ones teaching, you still need the milk. 42:49.660 --> 42:50.260 I'm not picking. 42:50.260 --> 42:51.780 I'm not saying that's the case here. 42:51.780 --> 42:53.980 I'm just saying that should never be the case. 42:53.980 --> 42:56.420 You guys should be the ones leading the cause. 42:56.420 --> 42:59.020 It shouldn't just be Pastor Oz helping everybody understand 42:59.020 --> 42:59.660 the Bible. 42:59.660 --> 43:00.300 You know what? 43:00.300 --> 43:01.620 You should be able to talk to the congregation. 43:01.620 --> 43:03.180 Be like, hey, that was a good point. 43:03.180 --> 43:05.420 Thank you for, you know, that was a great verse. 43:05.420 --> 43:07.500 That's what this verse is alluding to. 43:07.500 --> 43:10.900 It says, for everyone that useth milk is unscathed. 43:10.900 --> 43:13.900 in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 43:13.900 --> 43:15.900 But strong meat belongeth to them that are full of age, 43:15.900 --> 43:19.900 even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised 43:19.900 --> 43:21.900 to discern both good and evil. 43:22.900 --> 43:27.660 And as man, you know this, if you eat a steak at 10 o'clock in the evening, but you didn't 43:27.660 --> 43:30.060 work all day, you're going to regret that. 43:30.060 --> 43:33.820 But the other day, this is like two days ago, I was out in the hottest day that we've had 43:33.820 --> 43:38.260 in Houston this year, and I mowed the lawn, and I was trying to get ready for the strip, 43:38.260 --> 43:42.740 and I did the weed eating, and I was hungry, and I was watching the Mexico game. 43:42.740 --> 43:44.860 I know it's bad, but it's the only thing. 43:44.860 --> 43:46.300 I grew up watching the World Cup. 43:46.300 --> 43:47.740 It's the only soccer I ever watch. 43:48.000 --> 43:54.080 I'm actually not a fan of soccer. I'm just a fan of the World Cup and even then it's horrible because 43:54.080 --> 43:58.720 they're always promoting some stupid like and racism or some crap like that it's just like 43:59.280 --> 44:05.920 but I was really hungry and I ate three eggs with ham and avocado and tortillas like and I 44:05.920 --> 44:09.600 feel like I woke up the next morning feeling great. You know why? Because strong meat belongs 44:09.600 --> 44:14.960 to those that are actually using it. I wasn't unskillful. I worked my body out. I was hungry. 44:15.400 --> 44:19.960 But you know, if I would have done the same meal and not done anything, I would have regretted 44:19.960 --> 44:20.960 it. 44:20.960 --> 44:23.520 I probably would have had a hard burn and not slept well that night and just all those 44:23.520 --> 44:24.520 things. 44:24.520 --> 44:29.760 So, Romans 12, you don't have to turn there, but verse 2, the Bible says, and be not conformed 44:29.760 --> 44:35.720 to this world, but be transformed to the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is good 44:35.720 --> 44:39.680 and acceptable and perfect will of God. 44:39.680 --> 44:41.560 And one of the things that you want to do is you want to have a... 44:41.900 --> 44:44.140 an attitude of responsiveness. 44:44.140 --> 44:47.260 Disturbance is the ability to respond. 44:47.260 --> 44:51.900 You don't want to have a reactionary method 44:51.900 --> 44:53.700 of doing things in your life. 44:53.700 --> 44:54.740 And what do I mean by that? 44:54.740 --> 44:56.260 Well, there's two ways to live life. 44:56.260 --> 44:57.820 You can react to things. 44:57.820 --> 45:00.940 You hear that a lot in clips and in podcasts. 45:00.940 --> 45:02.860 Oh, they had a knee-jerk reaction. 45:02.860 --> 45:05.700 What that means is they're just jumping, 45:05.700 --> 45:07.260 and then what ends up happening is you end up 45:07.260 --> 45:08.980 over-correcting on something. 45:09.400 --> 45:11.960 Right? You're bad out of hell. 45:11.960 --> 45:16.040 Who's ever heard the old IFB preacher who's preaching salvation, but it sounds like works, 45:16.040 --> 45:22.200 because he's like, I used to be a drunk, and I did drugs, and I fornicated, but then the Lord saved me, 45:22.200 --> 45:24.600 and now I don't do any of those things. And you're like, wait a minute. 45:24.600 --> 45:26.840 So it's because you got saved that you don't do any of those things, 45:26.840 --> 45:29.160 or is it because of the Bible? Because I'm confused here. 45:29.160 --> 45:33.720 Right? The balance is I got saved because I believed. 45:34.700 --> 45:40.700 I cleaned up my life because I started reading my Bible and I started going soul-wending and I started showing up to church 45:40.700 --> 45:45.460 And I started you know living the way God wants me to live. That's a big difference 45:46.500 --> 45:48.500 right 45:48.860 --> 45:50.860 Here's a big one 45:51.180 --> 45:56.980 Before I understood love before you understood what love was you know what you did you followed your heart? 45:57.600 --> 46:00.040 How many of you ever heard that stupid term? I hate it. 46:00.040 --> 46:01.200 More than all... 46:01.200 --> 46:06.360 Probably the thing that bugs me most about growing up and all the movies I can recall 46:06.360 --> 46:08.000 was Falling in Your Heart. 46:08.000 --> 46:13.480 Because I mean, it ruined men for this time. 46:13.480 --> 46:18.480 Like my generation got ruined by something called Rom-coms, right? 46:18.480 --> 46:20.160 Romantic companies. 46:20.160 --> 46:24.680 And people just live their life thinking that's exactly how love was supposed to be. 46:25.100 --> 46:32.100 Right? Oh, just follow your heart. Follow your emotions. Go to Jeremiah 17. Right? 46:32.100 --> 46:41.100 Disney theology. Hollywood theology. You know, just poor Ariel. She just needed to find her Prince Charming. 46:41.100 --> 46:47.100 And if you really break that movie down, it's horrible, right? Like, they even have a tranny in the movie. 46:47.100 --> 46:49.820 Literally, if you do the research, and I'm not going to go into it, but... 46:50.300 --> 46:53.300 Ursula was representing trannies of today. 46:53.300 --> 46:55.940 Like that was the idea behind it. 46:55.940 --> 46:58.420 That's why she looked so freakish. 46:58.420 --> 47:01.300 It's just, you know, talk about like the things 47:01.300 --> 47:02.420 that her parents let us watch. 47:02.420 --> 47:06.620 I mean, that movie is like traumatizing, just on a, right? 47:06.620 --> 47:09.580 Romance comedy, right? 47:09.580 --> 47:11.500 And so what, but what does it do is you got, 47:11.500 --> 47:13.260 if you follow your heart, you've got this idea 47:13.260 --> 47:15.380 of romance that's wrong, right? 47:15.380 --> 47:18.180 You've got this idea of how wives should be that's wrong. 47:18.300 --> 47:20.780 You have these false expectations. 47:20.780 --> 47:24.020 Wives have these ideas of their husbands that are wrong. 47:24.020 --> 47:28.940 The men in most television and programming and all that, the men are always portrayed 47:28.940 --> 47:29.940 as dumb. 47:29.940 --> 47:35.860 It's the woman that has to come in and save the day. 47:35.860 --> 47:36.500 The Bible... 47:36.900 --> 47:42.380 Tells us that love is a choice. It doesn't say it explicitly like that, but it constantly shows us that right go to Jeremiah 17 47:42.380 --> 47:44.380 Right there verse 5 the Bible says thus saith the Lord 47:44.700 --> 47:50.360 cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart 47:51.020 --> 47:54.380 Departeth from the Lord. Here's the problem. The heart is not with the Lord 47:55.200 --> 47:57.200 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, 47:57.200 --> 47:58.840 and shall not see when the good cometh, 47:58.840 --> 48:02.040 but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, 48:02.040 --> 48:05.120 in a salt land, and not inhabit it. 48:05.120 --> 48:07.840 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, 48:07.840 --> 48:09.560 and whose hope the Lord is. 48:09.560 --> 48:11.360 For he shall be as a tree. 48:11.600 --> 48:17.420 Planted by the waters that spreadeth out her roots by the river and shall not see when he when the heat cometh 48:17.520 --> 48:22.720 But her leaves shall be green and shall not be and shall not be careful in the year of drought 48:22.880 --> 48:26.600 Neither shall seize from yielding fruit. Isn't that what you guys are doing? 48:26.760 --> 48:33.440 You're planting seeds and you're leading souls and you just have abundance of spiritual rewards 48:33.440 --> 48:38.140 That's really the goal there right but then it says the heart is deceitful above all things 48:38.800 --> 48:41.200 and desperately wicked, who can know it? 48:41.200 --> 48:43.000 I, the Lord, search the heart. 48:43.000 --> 48:45.000 Not you, the Lord. 48:45.000 --> 48:46.500 And I try the reins. 48:46.500 --> 48:48.100 Who's trying the reins? The Lord. 48:48.100 --> 48:50.300 Even to give every man according to his ways 48:50.300 --> 48:52.400 and according to the fruit of his doings. 48:52.400 --> 48:53.300 Sometimes we wonder, 48:53.300 --> 48:55.600 man, I can't believe this guy went off the deep end 48:55.600 --> 48:58.200 because the Lord's given him the fruit of his doings. 48:58.200 --> 49:00.200 They have their reward. 49:00.200 --> 49:02.500 You know, and that's why, you know, I... 49:02.500 --> 49:04.500 I agree when I heard... 49:05.200 --> 49:08.320 I don't know that I necessarily am really good about that 49:08.320 --> 49:12.760 because I always like to know that there was a guy by the name of Zig Ziglar who 49:12.760 --> 49:16.580 knows who Zig Ziglar is if you don't know you do some of the I actually went 49:16.580 --> 49:19.680 to watch Zig Ziglar and he loved to say this thing he was a motivational 49:19.680 --> 49:22.660 speaker and he always would like to say he's like I like to read my Bible in the 49:22.660 --> 49:26.800 morning and my newspaper the morning so I know what both sides are up to right 49:26.800 --> 49:31.140 you know there's this like this mentality of this but I like what pastor 49:31.140 --> 49:33.140 Like, earlier in the year, I saw some... 49:33.200 --> 49:37.760 clip where he's like, I will not be watching anything that the haters do. 49:37.760 --> 49:38.760 Right? 49:38.760 --> 49:42.240 Because when you read some of the stuff that the haters are doing, you're like, how do 49:42.240 --> 49:43.960 you get off on the deep end like that? 49:43.960 --> 49:45.840 Well, there it is. 49:45.840 --> 49:48.000 They're just getting the fruit of their doings. 49:48.000 --> 49:52.320 Their heart departed from the Lord, and the Lord is rewarding them with evil. 49:52.320 --> 49:54.520 You know, you're like, this guy sounds insane. 49:54.520 --> 49:56.960 It's because the Lord made him insane. 49:56.960 --> 49:59.840 You know, if you're wondering who I'm talking about, I mean, just... 50:00.800 --> 50:05.520 Grab a dart, let's put the names up on the board, and you can pick your poison. 50:06.160 --> 50:08.800 And I might drop some names later, but I'm just saying it's just so easy. 50:08.800 --> 50:12.480 Like, you know, you have Pastor Hu, you just say that, right? 50:12.480 --> 50:13.200 What happened there? 50:14.880 --> 50:15.440 You know why? 50:15.440 --> 50:17.440 He was envious of Pastor Oz. 50:18.720 --> 50:20.640 I could tell just by the way he went at it. 50:21.200 --> 50:25.920 You know what? He had rottenness in his heart because he wanted the preeminence. 50:25.920 --> 50:29.840 He thought this is the church. And he belittled a group of people in Houston 50:30.640 --> 50:36.720 that are sold out for soul winning and that are serving the Lord righteously even today. 50:36.720 --> 50:40.480 You know, Brother Ben is out there preaching, you know who half of our church is? 50:40.480 --> 50:45.360 Those that left pure work when that whole thing went awry. Right? 50:46.100 --> 50:48.100 Which I love that that happened, you know why? 50:48.100 --> 50:49.760 Because I can't take any of the credit. 50:49.760 --> 50:51.220 So then it teaches me humility. 50:51.220 --> 50:53.460 I can't be like, oh I grew this church. 50:53.460 --> 50:55.260 No, you know who grew the church? 50:55.260 --> 50:56.260 God. 50:56.260 --> 50:58.460 You just got to show up and do the work. 50:58.460 --> 51:00.460 Go to Ephesians 5. 51:00.460 --> 51:03.100 Go to Ephesians 5. 51:03.100 --> 51:05.900 I might go over a few minutes, but I won't preach two hours, I promise. 51:10.000 --> 51:12.160 You know, love is a choice. 51:12.160 --> 51:14.800 It's a series of choices. 51:14.800 --> 51:16.600 But if you let your feelings get in the way, 51:16.600 --> 51:19.200 it'll lead you astray. 51:19.200 --> 51:22.640 Don't make a decision based on emotion. 51:22.640 --> 51:28.400 Husbands, reel in your wives when they're emotional. 51:28.400 --> 51:29.920 And you think I'm exaggerating? 51:29.920 --> 51:32.080 Reel them in. 51:32.080 --> 51:34.120 And any good wife will tell you, thank you 51:34.120 --> 51:37.280 that I have a husband who's like, whoa, wait a second. 51:37.900 --> 51:41.900 What's going on here? What are you talking about? 51:42.200 --> 51:45.000 You know, one of the few, when we were young, my wife and I, 51:45.000 --> 51:47.400 the one fight I told her that I hated. 51:47.400 --> 51:49.640 This doesn't happen anymore because I love my wife, 51:49.640 --> 51:52.140 she's great, she'll listen, she makes those corrections. 51:52.140 --> 51:54.620 And hopefully I make the corrections. 51:54.620 --> 51:56.620 I love my wife because she puts up with me, 51:56.620 --> 51:57.620 but that's a whole other thing. 51:57.620 --> 51:59.620 But when we were first getting young, 51:59.620 --> 52:02.780 like my wife, I'm sorry, my family's really dramatic. 52:02.780 --> 52:04.780 I come from a Hispanic household. 52:04.780 --> 52:05.780 When we got married she's like, 52:05.780 --> 52:08.460 I can't believe that your two siblings and you make 52:08.460 --> 52:10.200 more drama than my entire family. 52:10.200 --> 52:13.680 higher family. She's one of nine and they are not dramatic. I was like, Oh, 52:13.680 --> 52:17.220 welcome to a Hispanic family. Welcome to Mexican world. 52:17.220 --> 52:20.880 Like it's just like drama all over the place. They were all up in her business. 52:21.080 --> 52:24.520 Everybody's like wants to know what's going on. Everybody has an opinion. 52:24.840 --> 52:27.960 It's horrible. And every once in a while, like all of a sudden she's mad at 52:27.960 --> 52:32.360 somebody. Something happened in my family and we're fighting. And I said, 52:32.360 --> 52:35.320 I don't want to fight about something I didn't do. 52:35.900 --> 52:38.300 This is not my fight. This is not my fault. 52:38.300 --> 52:40.700 Like, I don't want to be fighting about this thing. 52:40.700 --> 52:41.940 And she finally got it. 52:41.940 --> 52:43.640 But it was my duty to be like, 52:43.640 --> 52:46.140 no, I'm not going to engage in this stupid fight. 52:46.140 --> 52:47.340 That has nothing to do with it. 52:47.340 --> 52:48.240 And she didn't know. 52:48.240 --> 52:52.680 I finally had to teach her on Hispanic culture. 52:52.680 --> 52:54.880 Be like, don't get sucked in. 52:54.880 --> 52:56.380 I was like, she's like, but they're... 52:56.380 --> 52:59.120 I was like, look, my family's long in the tooth. 52:59.120 --> 53:00.220 They will out... 53:00.400 --> 53:03.840 fight you any day of the week. That's all we've done all our lives. 53:03.840 --> 53:06.880 It's like every day, every weekend, we just know how to pick it. 53:06.880 --> 53:10.320 Don't do it. And so you know what? She just doesn't do it anymore. My family doesn't 53:10.320 --> 53:12.480 talk to me as often as they used to, but it's okay. 53:12.480 --> 53:16.000 Because I have a great relationship with my wife. I was like, I don't mind fighting 53:16.000 --> 53:18.800 with my wife. I just don't want to fight with my wife for something that happened 53:18.800 --> 53:20.080 over there that has nothing to do with us. 53:20.080 --> 53:24.080 But we need to do this, right? But what's the key though? 53:24.080 --> 53:27.080 Ephesians 5, right there in verse 22? Wives... 53:27.400 --> 53:30.300 Submit yourselves unto your own husbands. 53:30.300 --> 53:31.560 As unto the Lord, 53:31.560 --> 53:34.000 for the husband is the head of the wife, 53:34.000 --> 53:36.100 even as Christ is the head of the church, 53:36.100 --> 53:39.500 and He is the Savior of the body. 53:39.500 --> 53:42.540 Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, 53:42.540 --> 53:46.580 so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 53:46.580 --> 53:49.020 Husbands, love your wives, 53:49.020 --> 53:51.420 even as Christ also loved the church 53:51.420 --> 53:52.880 and gave Himself for it. 53:53.100 --> 53:55.820 You think my wife doesn't have opinions? Of course she does. 53:56.620 --> 53:58.860 I'm just like and on occasion she's like man 53:58.860 --> 54:03.260 I really just want it especially when people like attack me my wife loves me like she wants to go to bat for me 54:03.260 --> 54:06.420 I'm like just stay out of it. I got it, you know 54:07.540 --> 54:12.780 But it requires like someone to tell them that because that's just how women are 54:12.780 --> 54:15.300 They're emotional and they want to fight for their husbands 54:15.300 --> 54:20.060 The Bible says that you know, we're gonna have rule over them and their desire will be that we rule over them 54:21.100 --> 54:23.460 And people are like, oh, you shouldn't preach like that. 54:23.460 --> 54:25.420 That's what the Bible tells me. 54:25.420 --> 54:25.940 That's it. 54:25.940 --> 54:27.300 I mean, it says husbands. 54:27.300 --> 54:28.860 But here's the challenge. 54:28.860 --> 54:32.300 You need to love your wives as Christ loved the church. 54:32.300 --> 54:32.780 You know what? 54:32.780 --> 54:35.940 Christ is constantly correcting us in the Bible. 54:35.940 --> 54:38.400 So we need to constantly be correcting our families. 54:38.900 --> 54:40.660 And you say, well, who's correcting you? 54:40.660 --> 54:43.380 Well, hopefully, you're being corrected by God's word 54:43.380 --> 54:45.820 and by your pastor and by the hard preaching 54:45.820 --> 54:46.740 that's surrounding you. 54:46.740 --> 54:48.580 That's why men are so emasculated today, 54:48.580 --> 54:51.140 because there's no hard preaching. 54:51.140 --> 54:54.460 And men will tell you that that's what they want. 54:54.460 --> 54:56.260 People are like, who would volunteer 54:56.260 --> 54:59.500 to go to a military boot camp? 54:59.500 --> 55:01.300 Men would, because we like that. 55:01.800 --> 55:05.800 There's a preaching bootcamp coming up and I think Pastor Anderson said, 55:05.800 --> 55:07.800 hey, if you don't like being corrected, don't come. 55:07.800 --> 55:08.800 I'm actually excited. 55:08.800 --> 55:12.800 Probably of all the events that are happening this year, I want to go to that one. 55:12.800 --> 55:13.800 You know what I'm saying? 55:13.800 --> 55:15.800 I like where men are being tough on each other. 55:15.800 --> 55:18.800 It's just part of life. 55:18.800 --> 55:22.800 So you want to stick it to the enemy, you've got to change all these things. 55:23.300 --> 55:24.900 It's not about finding them directly. 55:24.900 --> 55:30.340 God's doing the fighting for us, but He can't use you as an instrument of war if you're 55:30.340 --> 55:32.060 weak in some area. 55:32.060 --> 55:33.060 Right? 55:33.060 --> 55:38.300 Now, I mean, obviously we're always correcting, you're going to be weak in some area. 55:38.300 --> 55:42.180 Let me not make a blanket statement so you don't think, well, I'm weak in this area, 55:42.180 --> 55:43.420 so I guess I can't serve the Lord. 55:43.420 --> 55:44.420 No. 55:44.420 --> 55:45.580 Keep serving the Lord. 55:45.580 --> 55:48.020 The areas that you feel you're weak at that I mentioned today. 55:48.600 --> 55:53.420 Start working on those fix those and whatever you're strong in don't give up on that strength 55:53.580 --> 55:57.300 You know people say oh you need to work on your weaknesses. No work on your strengths 55:57.560 --> 56:01.460 Let God fix the weaknesses. You know the things that I've corrected in my life 56:01.460 --> 56:04.200 It's only because of the Lord Jesus Christ, right? 56:04.200 --> 56:09.640 So the Lord does change you but you've got to get in the word go to Psalm 119 again go to someone 18 56:09.640 --> 56:11.640 I should have had you stay there, but 56:13.200 --> 56:15.560 I'm gonna close this thing out here in a couple minutes 56:16.300 --> 56:18.300 I'm going to give you these quickly, 56:18.300 --> 56:20.740 because these are just like they're going to kind of almost 56:20.740 --> 56:23.220 overlap on each other. 56:23.220 --> 56:26.340 But this is a really important one. 56:26.340 --> 56:28.260 When you're in the world and you're just 56:28.260 --> 56:30.420 living in your feelings, you know what you are? 56:30.420 --> 56:32.520 You're just willingly ignorant. 56:32.520 --> 56:35.780 So before I learn, before you learn righteous hatred, 56:35.780 --> 56:37.740 you're just ignorant. 56:37.740 --> 56:40.300 You say, why wouldn't you talk about all the... 56:40.300 --> 56:42.140 You need to learn righteous hatred. 56:42.800 --> 56:45.800 You really need to learn how to hate things. 56:45.800 --> 56:48.300 The biggest challenge in America today is not... 56:48.300 --> 56:51.000 People are passionate about a lot of things. 56:51.000 --> 56:52.400 And some of us seems right. 56:52.400 --> 56:53.600 But you know what they're not willing to do? 56:53.600 --> 56:56.300 They're not willing to cross that line to hatred. 56:56.300 --> 57:01.000 People are like, oh no, you know, homosexuality is a sin. 57:01.000 --> 57:03.500 But then they... 57:03.500 --> 57:06.000 No, we hate it. 57:06.000 --> 57:07.400 They're pedophiles. 57:07.500 --> 57:11.820 I don't want them around my kids. I even hate those guys and you know I I 57:12.340 --> 57:14.340 Don't say anything because it's not my place 57:14.860 --> 57:17.620 Because I don't know those people and all that stuff. Maybe they're not in the churches 57:17.620 --> 57:22.180 I don't like when people post those things about like all these queer couples that are abusing children 57:22.180 --> 57:24.180 I don't even want to hear about it. I already know 57:24.740 --> 57:26.740 It's gross disgusting 57:27.380 --> 57:31.380 You know pastor Oz is famous for saying line them up and shoot him in the back of the head 57:32.600 --> 57:35.100 And I would say, cut their heads off, but that'd be too kind. 57:35.100 --> 57:38.000 I think better is shooting them in the back of the head, right? 57:38.000 --> 57:39.000 It is disgusting. 57:39.000 --> 57:44.360 You know, you need to learn to hate things so that you can protect your families. 57:44.360 --> 57:48.160 You know, I hate when someone looks at my wife in an inappropriate way. 57:48.160 --> 57:50.440 And then, I mean, that's just Ben in general, right? 57:50.440 --> 57:51.440 That's his life. 57:51.440 --> 57:53.440 But if they do it, you know, I'm jealous. 57:53.900 --> 57:58.300 And it makes me think that's how God looks down when people are treating us the way they are, right? 57:58.380 --> 58:05.740 He hates those that hate him and that hate his people. We need to learn righteous hatred. You're there in psalm 119 58:07.100 --> 58:12.300 I'll read for you psalm 97 verse 10. The bible says ye that love the lord hate evil 58:12.940 --> 58:19.340 He preserveth the souls. You know, you want preservation. It says he preserveth the souls of his saints. He delivered them 58:19.900 --> 58:24.100 out of the hand of the wicked, but it's interesting he's preserving and delivering those that 58:24.100 --> 58:26.540 what hate evil. 58:26.540 --> 58:30.420 Not the ones that are just like tippy-toeing around the issue. 58:30.420 --> 58:36.660 You know I'd rather know my enemy than the guy who's not like, if I can't decipher, 58:36.660 --> 58:41.680 and I guess we can call it out, if you're not dogmatic Tommy McMurture about something, 58:41.680 --> 58:43.420 you know what? 58:43.420 --> 58:44.460 I don't know what to think about you. 58:45.000 --> 58:48.120 I'd rather know, you know, at least with the queers, I know they hate God. 58:48.920 --> 58:51.960 At least I know my enemy. I know where they stand on stuff. 58:51.960 --> 58:55.160 But, you know, if you're just tippy-toeing around the issue, I don't know who you are. 58:57.800 --> 59:03.140 I don't know who's your friend, although by the actions of recent years, we know who their friends are. 59:03.140 --> 59:05.560 Psalm 119, right there in verse 97, the Bible says, 59:05.560 --> 59:13.560 Oh, how I love thy law, it is my meditation all the day, though through thy commandments. 59:14.900 --> 59:18.740 has made me wiser than mine enemies, for they are ever with me. 59:18.740 --> 59:22.780 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies 59:22.780 --> 59:26.580 are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, 59:26.580 --> 59:30.340 because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from 59:30.340 --> 59:34.580 every evil way that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy 59:34.580 --> 59:35.260 judgments, 59:35.260 --> 59:38.720 for thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words 59:38.720 --> 59:42.900 unto my taste, yea sweeter than honey to my mouth. Through thy precepts 59:42.900 --> 59:49.180 I get understanding but here's to the part therefore because of all of this I hate 59:50.020 --> 59:52.020 every false way 59:52.740 --> 59:57.340 People love to quote stuff like isn't you know the reason I became a preacher one of the reasons I became a preacher 59:57.340 --> 01:00:00.980 Is because I hated going to church where they wouldn't finish the verses 01:00:01.580 --> 01:00:08.220 They'd stop somewhere because they didn't want to offend someone. This is a great verse. Hey do all this. Here's all these reasons, but 01:00:08.860 --> 01:00:10.500 the reason is 01:00:10.700 --> 01:00:12.700 then I hate every false way. 01:00:12.700 --> 01:00:13.700 Right? 01:00:13.700 --> 01:00:17.700 I don't have that many friends, I don't have that many great close family members, 01:00:17.700 --> 01:00:19.700 because I hate every false way. 01:00:19.700 --> 01:00:24.700 You know, I have two queer uncles, one is in hell, rotting to this day, 01:00:24.700 --> 01:00:27.700 he died about two years ago, and that's where he's at. 01:00:27.700 --> 01:00:28.700 And then I have another one. 01:00:28.900 --> 01:00:31.740 And I remember when my mom called me to tell me, she's like, 01:00:31.740 --> 01:00:34.100 hey, your uncle, Tomas, died. 01:00:34.100 --> 01:00:34.900 And I was like, OK. 01:00:34.900 --> 01:00:37.020 She goes, I knew you were going to react like that. 01:00:37.020 --> 01:00:37.500 No, no, no. 01:00:37.500 --> 01:00:38.060 Why did you? 01:00:38.060 --> 01:00:39.140 You know, my mom's great. 01:00:39.140 --> 01:00:40.900 By the way, my mom loves me. 01:00:40.900 --> 01:00:41.980 She's a great Christian woman. 01:00:41.980 --> 01:00:45.180 But she just doesn't have all the hard doctors like we do. 01:00:45.180 --> 01:00:46.340 It really throws her off. 01:00:46.340 --> 01:00:47.980 She's like, you shouldn't preach about these things 01:00:47.980 --> 01:00:48.860 and all that stuff. 01:00:48.860 --> 01:00:52.060 But it's funny, because when my dad called me, he's like, well, 01:00:52.060 --> 01:00:53.420 at least now you don't have to kick 01:00:53.420 --> 01:00:55.100 your uncle out of my funeral. 01:00:55.100 --> 01:00:56.220 I said, yeah, that's right. 01:00:56.220 --> 01:00:56.900 You know who I am. 01:00:56.900 --> 01:00:59.240 I love it right that's those were the first words 01:00:59.240 --> 01:01:03.800 He said he said well at least you don't have to worry about kicking your uncle out of my funeral because he thought he was 01:01:03.800 --> 01:01:08.120 Gonna go first my dad's the oldest right go to solve you go to verse 121 01:01:09.240 --> 01:01:13.840 The Bible says I have done judgment and justice leave me not to mine oppressors 01:01:14.340 --> 01:01:18.860 Be surety for thy servant for good let not the proud oppress me 01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:26.840 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation and for the word of thy righteousness. 01:01:26.840 --> 01:01:32.040 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy and teach me thy statutes. 01:01:32.040 --> 01:01:37.160 I am thy servant. Give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies. 01:01:37.160 --> 01:01:40.120 It is time for thee, Lord, to work. 01:01:40.300 --> 01:01:42.860 For they have made void thy law. 01:01:42.860 --> 01:01:45.900 Therefore, I love thy commandments above gold, 01:01:45.900 --> 01:01:47.420 the above fine gold. 01:01:47.420 --> 01:01:51.940 For I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things 01:01:51.940 --> 01:01:58.620 to be right, and I hate every false way." 01:01:58.620 --> 01:02:00.820 You know, I've been saying this a lot, 01:02:00.820 --> 01:02:04.980 and I'm probably going to say it more as the time goes on. 01:02:04.980 --> 01:02:06.700 Like, people just not reading their Bibles. 01:02:07.300 --> 01:02:11.860 You know, if there's anything that I would tell you that could change your life and I could leave you with anything all these points 01:02:12.100 --> 01:02:17.940 All these points came because I've done one thing consistently for the last decade read my bible 01:02:18.900 --> 01:02:20.900 You got to read your bible. Yeah 01:02:21.060 --> 01:02:23.060 If you know how to start just start 01:02:23.140 --> 01:02:28.580 Read your psalms every day then read your proverbs eventually you want to read the whole thing, but read your bible 01:02:29.140 --> 01:02:32.440 You know if you read your psalms, this is in the in the book of psalms 01:02:33.100 --> 01:02:38.500 Right here. You don't have to go to Judges 19 or Genesis 19 or Romans 1. 01:02:38.500 --> 01:02:41.500 I mean, God's hating things in the book of Psalms. 01:02:41.500 --> 01:02:44.100 Go to Amos 5. Go to Amos 5. 01:02:49.600 --> 01:02:52.600 Verse 15. 01:02:52.600 --> 01:02:53.600 I love this. 01:02:53.600 --> 01:02:56.720 This really applies to like the Jews, but I have a point on that. 01:02:56.720 --> 01:03:02.080 But you know, how can this book apply unless we're spiritual Jews? 01:03:02.080 --> 01:03:03.280 Here's what I mean by that. 01:03:03.280 --> 01:03:05.080 This is referencing Joseph, right? 01:03:05.700 --> 01:03:09.540 And in verse 14 of Amos 5, I said 15, but it's verse 14, it says, 01:03:09.540 --> 01:03:15.220 See good and not evil, that ye may live, and so the Lord, the God of hosts, 01:03:15.220 --> 01:03:17.620 shall be with you as ye have spoken. 01:03:17.620 --> 01:03:23.540 And then he says again, hate the evil and love the good and establish judgment in the gate. 01:03:23.540 --> 01:03:29.540 It may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. 01:03:29.540 --> 01:03:31.860 And we believe that the entire Bible applies to us. 01:03:32.500 --> 01:03:36.340 So if we're the remnant of Joseph, then we're the spiritual Jews, right? 01:03:36.340 --> 01:03:39.700 You know, it's just kind of a side point, but what does it require? 01:03:39.700 --> 01:03:42.100 It requires for hate the evil, love the good. 01:03:42.100 --> 01:03:46.820 Look, the modern day Jew loves the evil and they hate the good. 01:03:46.820 --> 01:03:48.500 So these verses wouldn't apply to them. 01:03:48.500 --> 01:03:55.220 They're so Old Testament, but they can't even keep up the things that are Old Testament, right? 01:03:56.420 --> 01:03:57.700 And how does this translate? 01:03:58.100 --> 01:04:03.520 Well, you know, before the Bible, before Christ, queers were weird to me, but I just, I didn't 01:04:03.520 --> 01:04:04.520 hate them. 01:04:04.520 --> 01:04:05.520 I really didn't. 01:04:05.520 --> 01:04:06.520 I just, I didn't like them. 01:04:06.520 --> 01:04:08.920 You know, obviously I didn't want to hang around with them. 01:04:08.920 --> 01:04:09.920 I thought it was weird. 01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:11.760 I just kind of kept my distance. 01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:14.080 But then after Christ, I hate them. 01:04:14.080 --> 01:04:16.960 You know, the first time I preached, it was uncomfortable for me to say the word queer. 01:04:17.600 --> 01:04:19.600 Now, I just like, say it. 01:04:19.600 --> 01:04:20.600 You know, my kids are like, 01:04:20.600 --> 01:04:22.600 Oh, you know, dad, this, this or that about queers. 01:04:22.600 --> 01:04:24.600 I'm just like, yeah, it's part of life. 01:04:24.600 --> 01:04:27.600 It should be just normal conversation 01:04:27.600 --> 01:04:29.600 to just say that you hate these people. 01:04:29.600 --> 01:04:31.600 That you're just like, uncomfortable around them. 01:04:34.200 --> 01:04:37.200 Let me see how much I got, how many more hours we can go. 01:04:37.200 --> 01:04:39.200 I'm kidding, I'm kidding. 01:04:39.200 --> 01:04:41.700 Okay, this looks like a lot, but it's really not. 01:04:41.700 --> 01:04:42.700 It's just the way it's spaced out. 01:04:42.700 --> 01:04:47.200 Okay, go to Genesis 2, go to Genesis 2. 01:04:53.400 --> 01:04:58.280 Before I understood how families work. I had my own ideas and this is not just for the single guys 01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:03.320 It is even for married people that aren't living, you know a Christian walk 01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:07.720 Everybody is gonna mold their ideas based on how they were raised 01:05:08.040 --> 01:05:13.940 You know, I got married at the age of 31 and then I had kids at the age of 36 01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:17.880 That had nothing to do with the Bible that everything do with me obeying my dad 01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:22.720 I had my own preconceived... my dad did a good job of just saying don't get married until you're... 01:05:22.720 --> 01:05:26.080 actually he didn't want me to get married. He's like, he's like just don't get married. 01:05:27.040 --> 01:05:33.840 Just live life, you know, all this stuff. And he listens, he's more blunt than I am, he'll tell you. 01:05:33.840 --> 01:05:37.360 He's like just don't get married. And then he's like especially don't have kids. 01:05:38.080 --> 01:05:40.960 And he always said that to me. I know you guys would think it's funny but I always think it's 01:05:40.960 --> 01:05:44.800 funny. He's like I didn't want to have you but you know I love you now that I had you because 01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:46.200 because your mom wanted you. 01:05:46.200 --> 01:05:48.440 And so I'm responsible for you, but I didn't want you. 01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:49.720 I was like, all right, thanks. 01:05:49.720 --> 01:05:51.480 That's really great to hear that. 01:05:51.480 --> 01:05:52.200 I appreciate that. 01:05:52.200 --> 01:05:53.960 I mean, he says that to this day. 01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:57.800 But I got married later in life, and then we finally 01:05:57.800 --> 01:05:59.800 decided to have kids because I kept reading the Bible. 01:05:59.800 --> 01:06:01.160 And the Bible says, be fruitful and multiply. 01:06:01.160 --> 01:06:03.640 And I literally, this is the conversation my wife and I had 01:06:03.640 --> 01:06:05.240 because she wanted kids for a long time. 01:06:05.240 --> 01:06:07.640 I said, we're going to have kids because the Bible says it, 01:06:07.640 --> 01:06:08.520 but not because I agree. 01:06:09.500 --> 01:06:11.420 I said, I just want to be obedient to God. 01:06:11.420 --> 01:06:12.540 I mean, be serious. 01:06:12.540 --> 01:06:15.580 You need to just obey God even when it's uncomfortable. 01:06:15.580 --> 01:06:16.860 For me, kids was uncomfortable. 01:06:16.860 --> 01:06:18.140 I was like, we're going to have kids 01:06:18.140 --> 01:06:20.260 because the Bible says so. 01:06:20.260 --> 01:06:22.260 That's really the only reason we had the first child. 01:06:22.260 --> 01:06:23.840 Lucy's there in the front. 01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:26.820 It's because God said, be fruitful and multiply. 01:06:26.820 --> 01:06:28.300 Then I had Lucy and I called my dad. 01:06:28.300 --> 01:06:29.140 I literally called my dad. 01:06:29.140 --> 01:06:31.460 I was like, what were you thinking? 01:06:31.460 --> 01:06:32.260 I'm older now. 01:06:32.260 --> 01:06:35.420 I can't have 10, 12 kids. 01:06:35.420 --> 01:06:36.900 Our goal is maybe six. 01:06:37.400 --> 01:06:39.800 I'm 46, you know, I'll be 50 in a couple years. 01:06:39.800 --> 01:06:41.100 It's just the reality of life. 01:06:41.100 --> 01:06:43.720 I'm not down on myself. 01:06:43.720 --> 01:06:44.880 Read your Bibles. 01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:47.040 You know, kids are a blessing. 01:06:47.040 --> 01:06:49.600 You know, some people, I know you guys had a struggle 01:06:49.600 --> 01:06:52.160 and it was a public struggle, so I'm not calling you out. 01:06:52.160 --> 01:06:53.840 What a blessing, amen. 01:06:54.300 --> 01:06:58.220 But some of you have the ability to do it now and you're just like, I don't want to do it. 01:06:59.740 --> 01:07:04.940 Don't listen to anybody listen to the word. Now obey your parents honor your parents until 01:07:04.940 --> 01:07:09.820 it's time to not obey them. But if it's only biblical, you're there in Genesis 2 verse 24. 01:07:09.820 --> 01:07:12.940 The Bible says there shall a man leave. Therefore shall a man leave his mother, 01:07:12.940 --> 01:07:16.940 father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh. 01:07:17.500 --> 01:07:21.900 and they were both naked and the man and his wife were not ashamed. 01:07:21.900 --> 01:07:25.340 The reason I picked this one is because people don't even have shame anymore today. 01:07:25.900 --> 01:07:30.860 You know the only place where you shouldn't have shame is in the marriage bed, in your marriage home. 01:07:31.980 --> 01:07:35.660 But outside of that it should be shameful the way some of these people dress. 01:07:36.100 --> 01:07:38.460 and some other way that some of these people act. 01:07:38.460 --> 01:07:41.980 And just fornication is rampant, and adultery is rampant, 01:07:41.980 --> 01:07:44.900 and nobody wants to touch on it. 01:07:44.900 --> 01:07:48.420 But send us your tithes and your money. 01:07:48.420 --> 01:07:51.060 For the sake of time, we've already touched on some of this. 01:07:51.060 --> 01:07:53.460 But I just think it's interesting, right? 01:07:53.460 --> 01:07:57.460 God establishes marriage, and fatherhood, 01:07:57.460 --> 01:08:00.900 and motherhood, and children. 01:08:00.900 --> 01:08:02.420 And all of a sudden, 01:08:02.420 --> 01:08:02.500 you 01:08:02.700 --> 01:08:07.020 You know what I wanted to give you permission to is like if you read your Bible one day you wake up 01:08:07.020 --> 01:08:12.380 and you're like oh I didn't know I could lead my wife. I didn't know that was allowed. Amen. 01:08:12.380 --> 01:08:15.660 It's kind of like the first time I said queer I didn't know that I could say queer from the pulpit. 01:08:15.660 --> 01:08:21.740 Amen right and wives you know they you should wake up one day and be like oh I didn't know 01:08:21.740 --> 01:08:25.420 my husband could be the head of the household and then I don't have to worry about every decision 01:08:25.980 --> 01:08:29.260 because women don't ever turn their brains off. You don't want that burden. 01:08:30.100 --> 01:08:33.380 And then the other one is like, oh, I didn't know I could spank my children. 01:08:33.380 --> 01:08:37.620 Now, I know your pastor preaches hard on that, so spank your children. 01:08:37.620 --> 01:08:39.380 People have all these weird ideas. 01:08:39.380 --> 01:08:42.260 You know what cures a spoiled child? 01:08:42.260 --> 01:08:43.540 A good whooping. 01:08:43.540 --> 01:08:44.900 And I'll say that about my parents. 01:08:44.900 --> 01:08:46.820 They whooped on me, right? 01:08:46.820 --> 01:08:50.100 And you don't want to have these weird... 01:08:50.500 --> 01:08:56.500 Ideas about marriage and gender roles and you know rearing and purity 01:08:56.500 --> 01:08:59.180 It's all it's all junk if it's not biblical 01:08:59.980 --> 01:09:03.700 It really is and the worst part is it just makes you look bad 01:09:03.700 --> 01:09:10.260 Not anybody else if your children are misbehaving who's the one that suffers most the people or you you're embarrassed 01:09:10.260 --> 01:09:15.820 Who's ever been to Walmart when a kid throws a fit? You're just you're out. You're sad for that mom, right? You're just like 01:09:16.200 --> 01:09:20.200 Just whoop on that child. If you need me, I'll help you. I'm kidding. 01:09:20.200 --> 01:09:24.200 I won't whoop on anybody else's child. That's their child. Those are their parents. 01:09:24.200 --> 01:09:28.200 Which by the way, that's another key point. This is where we get our doctrine, right? 01:09:28.200 --> 01:09:34.200 I don't lord over anybody. I see stuff that other families do and I'm just like, I wouldn't do that. 01:09:34.200 --> 01:09:38.200 But that's their family. That's that husband and that's that wife and those are their children. 01:09:38.200 --> 01:09:43.100 If they want to lead that family like that, that's their choice and that's between them and God. 01:09:43.500 --> 01:09:48.380 Now I'm going to preach it from the pulpit, but between you and God, you got to work that thing out. 01:09:48.380 --> 01:09:49.580 And that's serious, right? 01:09:52.900 --> 01:09:58.020 We'll go through some of these because at this point I kind of as far as verses I've already given you a ton but 01:09:59.540 --> 01:10:03.620 This was a big one because you guys are dealing with it before I hated false religion. You know what? 01:10:04.980 --> 01:10:06.260 Uh 01:10:06.260 --> 01:10:08.260 I I love the word 01:10:08.340 --> 01:10:13.640 And what do I mean by that? Well, we want to have the right way like so right now 01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:18.800 the Jews are being exposed. We've kind of gathered that. I mean at this point if you don't know that 01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:24.160 and you're in this church, I don't know what to tell you, right? But here's the problem. Most people 01:10:24.160 --> 01:10:30.000 are replacing one hate for another. Look, they're over correcting. They're like, oh we hate the Jews 01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:33.520 so that's why we're going to become Catholics or Orthodox. Or... 01:10:34.200 --> 01:10:36.200 We hate the Jews, so let's hang out with the Muslims. 01:10:36.200 --> 01:10:38.200 No, we hate all false religion. 01:10:38.200 --> 01:10:40.200 And you know why? Because I love the Word of God. 01:10:40.200 --> 01:10:43.200 There's only one way in heaven. 01:10:43.200 --> 01:10:45.200 Period. We know that. 01:10:45.200 --> 01:10:49.200 It's Jesus Christ. I am the way, the truth, and the life. 01:10:49.200 --> 01:10:51.200 No man cometh unto the Father but by me. 01:10:51.200 --> 01:10:53.200 Right? That's it. 01:10:53.200 --> 01:10:56.200 People say, is your religion the only one that's right? 01:10:56.200 --> 01:10:58.200 I don't know if my religion is the only one that's right. 01:10:58.200 --> 01:11:00.200 I don't know if God's Word is the only one that's right. 01:11:00.300 --> 01:11:03.100 I know that God is 100% right on what he says, 01:11:03.100 --> 01:11:04.500 and that you read the Bible, 01:11:04.500 --> 01:11:06.060 that's the only way to heaven. 01:11:06.060 --> 01:11:07.060 Period. 01:11:07.060 --> 01:11:08.900 So I hate false religion, 01:11:08.900 --> 01:11:10.780 but that's because I love the Word of God. 01:11:10.780 --> 01:11:12.620 You know, I came from the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 01:11:12.620 --> 01:11:13.620 and people got all mad 01:11:13.620 --> 01:11:15.340 because I preached a sermon on the Seventh-day Adventist. 01:11:15.340 --> 01:11:16.780 Well, I hate the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 01:11:16.780 --> 01:11:18.100 I don't know what to tell you. 01:11:18.100 --> 01:11:19.500 They're preaching a wrong gospel. 01:11:19.500 --> 01:11:20.660 They're sending people to hell. 01:11:20.660 --> 01:11:22.580 I was 25 when I got saved. 01:11:22.580 --> 01:11:25.020 It was enough time for me to die and go to hell. 01:11:25.800 --> 01:11:28.880 People are going to hell. They're gonna be there for all eternity 01:11:29.320 --> 01:11:33.940 They're gonna be tormented day and night forever and ever and you know 01:11:33.940 --> 01:11:38.380 You got all these things you're not willing to work on to make you a better soul winner because at the end of the day 01:11:38.400 --> 01:11:42.940 You want to stick it to the enemy? These are the things you fix but you know, I'm getting the conclusion 01:11:42.940 --> 01:11:46.160 I think you already picked up on it and if I don't have time I'm gonna give you the answer 01:11:46.720 --> 01:11:48.760 It's so that we are better soul winners 01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:52.880 All of these things do get in the way of your soul winning 01:11:53.600 --> 01:11:55.840 Now should you go soul winning if you haven't fixed any of them? 01:11:55.840 --> 01:11:57.680 Go soul winning, it will fix them up. 01:11:58.480 --> 01:12:01.680 But the more you fix up, the better soul winner you will be. 01:12:01.900 --> 01:12:07.100 There's a difference between showing up soul-witting after you've read your Bible and prayed and 01:12:07.100 --> 01:12:12.980 just spent time with your family and you're at the door and your heart feels that passion 01:12:12.980 --> 01:12:16.900 for just saving the lost versus like you just got in a fight or you watched something you 01:12:16.900 --> 01:12:20.980 shouldn't have watched and you said some choice words that you probably shouldn't have said 01:12:20.980 --> 01:12:23.820 and you're at the door, yeah, you're soul-witting good. 01:12:23.820 --> 01:12:27.020 At least the Lord's clearing you up and putting you in the spirit, but you might not be as 01:12:27.020 --> 01:12:27.460 effective. 01:12:27.800 --> 01:12:32.120 Now don't stop because I don't believe like what the XNIFB Moses will say that 01:12:32.120 --> 01:12:35.080 if you've got all this sin in your life you shouldn't go so any 01:12:35.080 --> 01:12:39.320 hey you're a dirty rotten no good soul winner. I have a sermon that I preached on that. 01:12:41.240 --> 01:12:46.120 You're a sinner. Just get the job done. But you still need to fix all these things up. 01:12:47.240 --> 01:12:51.160 So I'll give you the last two points and then I'm done. It's not really the points, 01:12:51.160 --> 01:12:55.600 just the things that I've already said this but you know 01:12:57.400 --> 01:13:00.840 Before I hated the fags and the queers and the sodomites, 01:13:01.720 --> 01:13:03.560 I was kind of lost on that. 01:13:03.560 --> 01:13:05.560 But now I hate them because I love the Lord. 01:13:06.200 --> 01:13:11.000 I mean I could take you to Romans 1. We know this. I could take you to Genesis 19. 01:13:11.640 --> 01:13:13.240 I could take you anywhere I wanted to, right? 01:13:13.240 --> 01:13:15.320 But the Bible says in Proverbs 13 verse 24, it says, 01:13:15.320 --> 01:13:20.520 He that spareth the rot hated his son, but he that loveth him chastened at the time. 01:13:20.520 --> 01:13:22.840 And you're just like, what does that have to do with uh... 01:13:23.300 --> 01:13:25.140 Wait, am I in the right spot? 01:13:25.140 --> 01:13:27.300 Oh yeah, I was like, what does that have to do with anything? 01:13:27.300 --> 01:13:29.060 It doesn't because I'm in the wrong verse. 01:13:29.060 --> 01:13:30.820 I was like, well you know what? 01:13:30.820 --> 01:13:32.980 Actually, you can tie it up, 01:13:32.980 --> 01:13:35.060 and let me just fix this for a second. 01:13:35.060 --> 01:13:36.660 You know why you got a lot of queers? 01:13:36.660 --> 01:13:38.420 Because somebody didn't whoop up on them. 01:13:39.200 --> 01:13:41.540 Number one, you know why you got a lot of queers? 01:13:41.540 --> 01:13:45.400 Because people stop soul winning and preaching the right thing. 01:13:45.400 --> 01:13:49.040 You know, when I grew up, it really wasn't our battle until we got older. 01:13:49.040 --> 01:13:50.840 I was born in 1980. 01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:56.440 That battle didn't really become a battle until the mid 1990s, early 2000s. 01:13:56.440 --> 01:13:59.940 You know, we played games like Smear the Queer, right? 01:13:59.940 --> 01:14:01.600 We called them out. 01:14:01.600 --> 01:14:04.000 You know, this is my contemporary. 01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:06.800 My uncles hated it because we had this thing. 01:14:07.000 --> 01:14:09.800 between my brother and all my cousins, 01:14:09.800 --> 01:14:12.060 and we're like, no seas joto. 01:14:12.060 --> 01:14:13.540 Don't be queer. 01:14:13.540 --> 01:14:15.940 I mean, that was, and I remember one time, 01:14:15.940 --> 01:14:17.980 my brother was bugging me and my uncles were there, 01:14:17.980 --> 01:14:20.540 the two queer ones, and I was, I turned to my brother 01:14:20.540 --> 01:14:23.060 and he was being weird and I said, man, no seas joto. 01:14:23.060 --> 01:14:26.460 And they're like, oh well, I mean, it is, 01:14:26.460 --> 01:14:27.940 we didn't, it wasn't the battle, right? 01:14:27.940 --> 01:14:29.580 They didn't even have the guts to fight it 01:14:29.580 --> 01:14:31.360 like they do now, right? 01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:36.640 But the reason was because I remember one time my brother, and this is a, he knows the story, 01:14:36.640 --> 01:14:42.560 because sometimes he listens to me. My brother said he wanted to get an earring. This is 1991, 01:14:42.560 --> 01:14:46.960 vanilla ice is like at the top of the charts. Remember he had an earring, he got it on the left 01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:52.320 side. And I secretly, I thought it would be cool to get an earring, right? I mean, obviously I 01:14:52.320 --> 01:14:56.240 didn't grow up safe or anything like that, but my brother had more guts than me because he asked my 01:14:56.240 --> 01:14:59.400 dad. He said dad you know I want to get an earring. 01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:01.600 And then my dad said, okay. 01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:03.600 And I thought, man, I should have asked. 01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:05.600 Because my dad was real calm. 01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:07.600 I remember we were sitting there real calmly. 01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:09.600 He's just like, okay. 01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:11.600 See me, you know, he's talking in Spanish. 01:15:11.600 --> 01:15:13.600 And then he goes, tomorrow we'll go to the mall. 01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:15.600 I'm thinking like, I should have done this thing. 01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:17.600 What in the world is going on here? 01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:19.600 And my dad goes, now before we get you the earring, 01:15:19.600 --> 01:15:21.600 we're going to go to the women's section 01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:25.600 and we're going to buy you a dress and some high heels. 01:15:26.300 --> 01:15:28.800 and then you can get all the earrings you want. 01:15:28.800 --> 01:15:30.980 And my brother is like, he's like, 01:15:30.980 --> 01:15:32.540 obviously he never got the earring. 01:15:32.540 --> 01:15:34.300 I was like, what a great way to do it. 01:15:34.300 --> 01:15:36.100 And then I was like, I'm glad I didn't say anything. 01:15:36.100 --> 01:15:37.740 Sometimes it's better to like, 01:15:37.740 --> 01:15:38.640 the Bible says don't speak 01:15:38.640 --> 01:15:40.280 so that people don't know you're a fool. 01:15:40.280 --> 01:15:41.540 That was one of the few times. 01:15:41.540 --> 01:15:45.380 But the reason is because we're not disciplining 01:15:45.380 --> 01:15:47.880 our families, we're not preaching the word of God. 01:15:49.080 --> 01:15:51.320 Turn to Matthew 21, we'll close out with this right here. 01:15:51.320 --> 01:15:53.780 I'll just close out right here with. 01:15:54.200 --> 01:15:58.200 The greatest way to stick it to the enemy is the way that we started. 01:15:58.200 --> 01:16:05.200 Your preacher said it. I want to encourage you because the one thing about Pastor Oz is that he's on it. 01:16:05.200 --> 01:16:11.200 You know, the enemy is going to attack and you'll start with your preacher and he might start with you guys. 01:16:11.200 --> 01:16:13.200 And you need to be an encouragement to him. 01:16:13.700 --> 01:16:16.300 Because He's at the peak of His life. 01:16:16.300 --> 01:16:18.580 And you guys are, you're a young church. 01:16:18.580 --> 01:16:19.780 You're at the peak of your life. 01:16:19.780 --> 01:16:21.180 You guys have the next, 01:16:21.180 --> 01:16:24.220 you can do some great things for the Lord. 01:16:24.220 --> 01:16:25.660 And the battle is strong, 01:16:25.660 --> 01:16:28.420 and I mean this is a great force here, 01:16:28.420 --> 01:16:30.900 but the greatest way to stick it to the enemy 01:16:30.900 --> 01:16:32.800 is soul winning, right? 01:16:33.400 --> 01:16:36.000 Don't get involved in your ego. 01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:37.800 Don't get involved in your thoughts, 01:16:37.800 --> 01:16:40.720 in your opinions, in the conspiracy theories, 01:16:40.720 --> 01:16:42.560 in whatever somebody says. 01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:44.720 What does the Bible say? 01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:47.440 In Matthew 21, right there, verse 42, 01:16:47.440 --> 01:16:48.960 he said, Jesus saith unto them, 01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:52.560 did ye never read the scriptures, 01:16:52.560 --> 01:16:54.480 the stone which the builders rejected, 01:16:54.480 --> 01:16:56.400 the same as become the head of the corner? 01:16:56.900 --> 01:16:59.500 This is the Lord's doing and it's marvelous in our eyes. 01:16:59.500 --> 01:17:03.500 Therefore say I unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you 01:17:03.500 --> 01:17:06.300 and given to a nation, bringing forth the fruits thereof. 01:17:06.300 --> 01:17:09.300 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken, 01:17:09.300 --> 01:17:12.200 but on whosoever shall fall it will grind him to powder. 01:17:12.200 --> 01:17:15.900 And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, 01:17:15.900 --> 01:17:18.900 they perceived that he spake of them. 01:17:18.900 --> 01:17:20.900 But when they sought to lay hands on him, 01:17:21.100 --> 01:17:24.940 They feared the multitude because they took him for a prophet. 01:17:24.940 --> 01:17:28.300 And the reason I chose this is not because of the anti-Israel conference, although that's 01:17:28.300 --> 01:17:32.220 that was good, you know, we know that applies. But the reason is he said, hey, I'm giving you, 01:17:33.020 --> 01:17:36.300 you guys have to keep take heed. If you're not bringing fruits thereof, 01:17:36.940 --> 01:17:41.100 then it's no longer plucked out and given to you, right? That light's been taken away. 01:17:41.100 --> 01:17:46.940 And if you die, you're still going to heaven, but you just don't get those rewards. Right? But then 01:17:47.800 --> 01:17:49.080 Right there in verse 46 is, 01:17:49.080 --> 01:17:50.880 but when they sought to lay hands on him, 01:17:50.880 --> 01:17:52.280 they feared the multitude 01:17:52.280 --> 01:17:54.120 because they took him for a prophet. 01:17:54.120 --> 01:17:56.720 Hey, you know how the multitudes will fear you? 01:17:56.720 --> 01:17:59.080 Preaching God's word. 01:17:59.080 --> 01:18:01.920 Their reaction, it's all puff. 01:18:01.920 --> 01:18:03.760 You know, it's all show 01:18:03.760 --> 01:18:05.360 because you guys are preaching God's word. 01:18:05.360 --> 01:18:07.960 Don't let the multitudes fear you. 01:18:07.960 --> 01:18:09.000 The only way to do that though, 01:18:09.000 --> 01:18:10.880 it's not because you're the strongest, 01:18:10.880 --> 01:18:11.720 you're the greatest, 01:18:11.720 --> 01:18:13.500 it's because you're preaching the greatest. 01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:16.600 because you're preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. 01:18:16.600 --> 01:18:20.600 You know, so in conclusion, like, I really just wanted to kind of go at you as a... 01:18:20.600 --> 01:18:23.100 I don't know this church, I know some of the people here, 01:18:23.100 --> 01:18:25.600 but you know what? I do know human nature. 01:18:25.600 --> 01:18:29.100 And everything I touched on today probably touched on somebody in here. 01:18:29.100 --> 01:18:30.600 Right? So let's close in a word of prayer. 01:18:30.600 --> 01:18:33.100 Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today. 01:18:33.100 --> 01:18:38.100 Thank you for the grace that Anchor showed me and letting me go over a few minutes. 01:18:38.300 --> 01:18:40.700 And I appreciate their attentiveness. 01:18:40.700 --> 01:18:43.700 But Lord, more important, work on our nature. 01:18:43.700 --> 01:18:45.500 And what I mean by that, our carnal nature. 01:18:45.500 --> 01:18:50.180 Fill us with your spirit, that we may live in the spirit more often than not, 01:18:50.180 --> 01:18:56.180 that we may choose to serve you every day, Lord, in every aspect of our lives. 01:18:56.180 --> 01:19:00.940 You know, the sensational, the cool topics, those are easy, 01:19:00.940 --> 01:19:04.420 but it's in the quiet moments that the characters are built. 01:19:04.700 --> 01:19:08.860 Lord, I just pray that everybody would go home, that they would humbly seek you on their 01:19:08.860 --> 01:19:13.460 knees and that they would find the way to correct any issues that they would have in 01:19:13.460 --> 01:19:16.900 their lives so that we could just be better for you, Lord, so that you would be glorified 01:19:16.900 --> 01:19:18.180 in ourselves. 01:19:18.180 --> 01:19:19.940 We ask all this, Lord, in your precious name. 01:19:19.940 --> 01:19:21.580 Thank you for the rest of the day. 01:19:21.580 --> 01:19:22.700 Bless the soul winning. 01:19:22.700 --> 01:19:26.860 Be with Pastor Oz as he travels and just fill me with your spirit tonight. 01:19:26.860 --> 01:19:27.540 In Jesus' name we pray.