But if you go to Psalm chapter 11, back to Psalm 11 verse 3, the Bible says
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
The title of the sermon tonight is We Are a Fundamental Church.
We are a fundamental church.
Two weeks ago I preached that we are an independent church.
Today I'm preaching that we are a fundamental church.
Another way of saying fundamental is foundational.
Something that's foundational is fundamental.
These two words are very similar.
The reason in our logo I didn't say independent foundational Baptist church
is simply because churches of our style are known as the IFB,
are known as the independent fundamental Baptist.
So I went with that name and I'm going to talk about that a little bit today.
But why are we a fundamental church?
Now the first thing I want to cover is the history of fundamentalism.
There's a historical aspect before we even get into the scriptures themselves.
There's a historical understanding that I want you to understand about fundamentalism.
Why are some Christians, why do some Christians refer to themselves as fundamentalists
and some do not?
Well we've got to go back to the late 1800s and the early 1900s.
It's interesting that the timing of all this is roughly when dispensational
as well was being accepted by many denominations as well as the pre-Trib rapture.
But there was a lot of different views of the Bible that took place in this time.
A lot of cultural trends.
People were saying hey we can't just take the Bible as it's written.
We also have to look at our cultural trends.
We've got to see how our society has evolved to be able to understand the scriptures
in light of our new culture.
There's also the progressive knowledge or the progressive sciences.
Things like evolution started to take a foothold in the community
and the churches started to have to either answer against evolution
or accept evolution in the teaching.
Some churches started to say well we can understand the book of Genesis.
We can understand the account of creation with evolution.
Instead of it being six days of creation they can say well each day represents millions
or billions of years.
So there was this progressive learning that people wanted to take
and change what the word of God said.
There was also the teaching of humanism.
Now humanism is kind of the idea that man is God.
It's about rational thinking.
How we think as men by not acknowledging the supernatural.
Not acknowledging the things that we can't see.
Not acknowledging a deity but seeing just rational thinking.
How can man understand this world and the world that we live in?
So obviously people started to look at that
versus then just taking the word of God for what it says.
Of course during that time as well there was biblical criticism.
This is the time as well as all these new bibles as well were coming into play.
Going back and saying well we don't have an accurate record of what God said.
We don't know whether these things were really written by these authors
or whether this was put together by other men.
Can we really take this as a historical reading of the word of God?
There's all these kind of thoughts that were taking place
in churches in the late 1800s early 1900s
before the independent fundamental baptists even existed.
Okay as we know them today.
And so some churches obviously started to take these ideas on board.
Started to preach man's wisdom rather than the word of God.
Started to interpret the word of God with this progressive learning of man.
And of course other Christians stood against that said hey this isn't right.
The final authority we have is the word of God.
And we can't take what man says.
We know the wisdom of the world is foolishness to God.
We know that the wisdom of the man is foolishness to God.
And so they took a stand and said look we need to stand against this movement.
And the first denomination that really started to take a stand against this
were the Presbyterians.
And then eventually other denominations started to do the same thing.
And so when we look back in the early 1900s
when we talk about fundamentals or fundamentalism
it was spread amongst a number of denominations.
A number of protestants.
And the baptists were one of the last to get on board.
If you look at church history the baptists are always the last.
And I reckon because we're the most stubborn.
Like it takes us the longest to get on board with something.
And then it takes us a long time to change once we've dug our heels into something.
And you guys can relate to that you know discussions you have with baptists.
Very hard to get them to change you know.
Even when they acknowledge that they might be narrow it takes them a long time to learn.
And that's just the nature of baptists.
It takes them a long time to change.
But what's interesting is even though the Presbyterians
that started this movement against Christian modernism that was called back then
it was a baptist that coined the term fundamentalism.
That term fundamentalism was coined by a baptist as an identification
that we stand against all this progressive learning that's taking place.
You know we take the word of God as our final authority.
So that's where the title fundamentalism came from.
Okay and it started to be applied primarily as a Christian title.
Okay now in those early days in the early 1900s
you know these different preachers would get together from different denominations say okay
what makes us fundamentalist?
What are we standing against?
What do we need to identify so someone that wants to believe the word of God
that believes it's the final authority it's the word of God.
How can they know that the church they're attending is not a fundamental church?
And so they came up with these five fundamentals.
Five fundamentals and I just took these out of Wikipedia.
But if I looked up basically a lot of people talk about these five fundamentals
but they could be a little bit different.
Like it's mainly saying the same thing but I took these from Wikipedia.
The five fundamentals are number one biblical inerrancy.
Okay so the number one thing that makes you fundamentalist
is believing that the Bible is without error.
Okay that it's perfect and by the way that's why we stand on the King James Bible.
This is why I can tell you that we have a perfect word of God.
We can trust what it says here and it doesn't matter what I say
what my opinions are what your opinions are.
The word of God will always trump our opinion.
Okay that's why we stand strong on the King James Bible
because I can actually say I've got an inherent Bible.
Like they say the Bible is inerrant but many of them cannot produce you that inerrant Bible.
Okay so we stand for that.
Yes I do believe that the Bible we preach from and teach from and we read from is inerrant.
There is no error it is perfect.
The second fundamental is taking the biblical accounts as literal events.
Okay in particular to do with miracles because remember that these guys were saying
hey we can understand the word of God without you know thinking of the supernatural.
You know we just have to have rational ideas of how these miracles so-called miracles took place.
Okay and so of course I believe in the miracles.
I believe in the things that are not rational to mankind that we don't see happen day to day.
Okay I believe in the miracles.
I believe that God became a man.
I believe that God healed the lame and that he healed the blind and gave the blind to see.
I believe all these miracles took place.
I believe that Israel when they were delivered out of Egypt
that God put down destroyed Egypt with all these plagues.
You know I believe that the staff that Moses held in his hand became a snake.
You know as we read about in the accounts of scripture.
I believe all those things so that makes us a fundamentalist.
The third thing they've got is the virgin birth of Christ as a fundamental.
Because obviously if they don't believe in a miracle then they're going to ultimately
get to a point where well it's impossible for a virgin to give birth.
So she must have you know slept around.
She must have had you know maybe Joseph.
You know she must have she must have committed fornication to give birth to Christ.
And so obviously that that same idea of miracles.
No it's a miracle.
The virgin birth of Christ was a miracle.
The other thing that makes the virgin birth of Christ so important is that it reinforces his deity.
Because if he just had a a natural husband a natural father and natural mother
that would make him a hundred percent man.
Just man and nothing of God.
Whereas we know that he was born of Mary who was a his mother.
But also the spirit of God came upon Mary and gave her the ability to conceive without knowing a man.
So we know that Jesus Christ is 100% man and 100% God because of the virgin birth.
So you can see how when you start to move away from the miracles
now you start moving away from Jesus Christ being God right and becomes another Jesus.
So that's the third thing the third fundamental.
The fourth fundamental was the bodily resurrection of Christ.
You know that's why you've got cults like the Jehovah Witnesses
that don't believe Christ was resurrected bodily.
Okay they would not fit a fundamental church.
Okay and I'm not sure I'm not sure of any other.
I'm trying to think of other churches that don't believe in a bodily resurrection of Christ.
But anyway that was one of the fundamentals.
So if people were in one of these churches that were teaching hey Jesus did not resurrect bodily.
They would know hey this is not a fundamental church.
And the fifth fundamental was the substitutionary blood atonement of Christ.
Okay the blood atonement of Christ.
That Christ came as our substitute died on the cross for our sins so we can go free.
So we can be right through God because God's wrath God's judgment was put upon Jesus Christ.
So these are the five fundamentals and if you look up the five fundamentals
uh like I said there can be differences in different websites that you look at.
But very very similar.
Okay a lot of them are very similar.
Maybe they're just worded slightly differently.
This was just the beginning.
What happened afterwards was a bunch of Protestants and Baptists got together
and they created this 12 volume 90 essay booklet.
Well multiple books.
It's 12 volumes of books of 90 essays and 64 authors.
So there's more authors to this than the Bible.
And so I've not read through these essays by the way.
I've not gone there because I've got the Bible.
Why do I need to go through these essays?
But I just want to give you the historic understanding of fundamentalism.
These essays were finalized in 1915 and then they were printed and distributed across America.
Distributed to missionaries across the world.
And I looked through, I looked at the table of contents of these essays
and I just put out some other fundamentals that they believe in.
I'll just go through them very quickly.
The deity of Christ.
So we believe that.
The deity of the Holy Spirit.
We believe that.
The existence of God.
You know I guess because of evolution and things like that.
The historical accuracy of the Bible.
Okay so all the archaeological evidence would prove the Bible right is what they're saying.
Salvation by grace through faith.
The inspiration of scriptures.
Okay so it's not just without error but it's been inspired.
It's the word of God.
You know the Holy Ghost moving men.
And it's not just the words of men that are without error
but it's the words of God that are without error.
Against modern philosophy and higher criticism.
That Jesus is also 100% man.
It was against evolution.
It was against Mormonism.
It was teaching that prophecy had been fulfilled.
Okay so fulfillment of prophecy.
It taught about the physical return of Christ.
Okay the return of Christ the coming of Christ.
It rejected the Roman Catholic Church.
It covered personal evangelism.
So the need to preach the gospel.
And also the need for foreign missionaries to be able to preach the gospel to all nations.
So and there are other things but these are just the things that I pulled out of the
you know just looking at the the table of contents.
And you know I have no problem with any of those things.
You know if I lived back then in the early 1900s
you know we would be considered a fundamental church.
You know we would be considered part of fundamentalism.
So you know I thought about that that that title.
I thought about do we really need that fundamentalism fundamental title?
Because you know today fundamentalism is often associated with Islam.
You know extreme and I'll go into that later on.
So I thought you know could this mislead people?
But then I thought no.
You know what it stands for something right.
It stands for something honest.
It stands for the word of God is our final authority.
It stands for taking the Bible literally and just believing what God says.
I thought it was important for us to be seen as a fundamental church.
And that's what we are.
One of the things that I thought was interesting as I went through this essay
is that or went through the different titles.
I did look at the physical return of Christ.
Because I know dispensationalism and pre-Trib rapture
was was increasing in popularity at the same time.
And by the way this is why so many independent fundamental Baptist churches are pre-Trib.
It's because when that movement started it started at the same time
as dispensationalism and pre-Trib rapture.
So it kind of went together.
But when I looked at it basically the physical return of Christ as far as the fundamentals
there were three headings.
The first one was that his coming will be personal.
Okay so like a bodily local coming.
Not some figurative spiritual coming of Jesus Christ
but a physical bodily coming of Christ.
That was number one.
Number two it said that his coming would be glorious.
Okay so by that they meant it'd be triumphant
and it'll be like a powerful glorious coming of Christ.
Which kind of makes me scratch my head about the secret rapture.
Because that's not glorious at all.
It's just secret.
It doesn't you know like it just people disappear and nobody knows what's going on apparently.
So I don't even know how the pre-Trib fits that understanding of the coming of Christ.
But yeah number two was that his coming would be glorious.
And the third one this was interesting his coming will be imminent.
Now if you guys know that word imminent you know that it has
strong connotation toward the pre-Trib rapture.
So I thought okay is this where they're teaching about the pre-Trib rapture.
But I had a look and they're saying well it's imminent but it's not immediate.
So I went to the dictionary and looked up the two words
and they mean exactly the same thing the synonyms one to another.
So it's imminent but it's not immediate they're saying.
And what they mean I had a look and he goes this is what we mean.
He goes every believer should have an expectation that Christ might come in their lifetime.
That's what he meant by imminent this this author of this essay.
That every believer should consider that Christ might come in their lifetime.
I have no problem with that.
You know Christ might come in my lifetime.
I'm watching I'm waiting I'm hoping for Christ.
But at the same time he could come in a hundred years from now.
I don't know but you know I am looking for the coming of Christ.
So you know I do believe it could be in my lifetime.
So no problem there at all.
But there's one thing in particular that I thought was interesting and sorry
I'm going a little bit off topic but I thought it was interesting.
I just put out a little extract out of that essay and it says this.
Talking about you know the coming of Christ it says
the gospel must first be preached to all nations.
Matthew 24 14 which is kind of funny because Matthew 24 says after the tribulation.
But anyway the gospel must first be preached to all nations.
The church must continue to make disciples of all the nations even until the end of the age.
This is therefore a time not for unkindly criticisms of fellow Christians
but for friendly conference not for disputing over divergent views
but for united action not for dogmatic assertion of prophetic programs
but for the humble acknowledgement that we know in part not for idle dreaming
but for the immediate task of evangelizing a lost world.
And so what was interesting is this guy's not saying it's a preacher rapture
but he's saying look there are believers that hold different views.
Okay but just because we hold different views that shouldn't stop us
from being able to work together to preach the gospel to every nation.
And I'm a big supporter of that you know.
I have no problem if a pre-treat believer wants to be part of this church
as long as they want to get on the program the three main goals preach the gospel
baptize believers and teach all things in the word of God.
If you're on board with that hey you're welcome to this church.
You don't need to believe in a post-treat pre-raft which is and I've not taught in that yet.
But you know I just wish more Baptist preachers would be like this author
and say hey you know what we do differ on this.
Yes it is an important doctrine we do differ
but let's not stop that from having us work together for the cause of Christ for the gospel sake.
So you know I just wish other people were like that but you know I'm definitely like that.
So I just wanted to show you the history of fundamentalism.
We line up perfectly.
I have no problem look I'm sure if I read through the 90 essays I'll find things I disagree with.
I'm not going to bother doing that but I'm just showing you as the core teachings
you know yep we line up perfectly with fundamentalism.
So let's move it on to biblical fundamentalism.
Okay now turn to first Kings chapter 5.
First Kings chapter 5 verse 13.
Verse 13.
The bible says and King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel.
What's a levy?
That's a tax right?
When you think of a levy that's a tax.
And King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel and the levy was 30,000 men.
So normally when someone raises a levy or raises a tax it's money right?
The government wants money from you.
But this tax this levy is like we need men we need workers you know.
Verse 14.
And he sent them to Lebanon 10,000 a month by course by courses
a month they were in Lebanon and two months at home.
So King Solomon gets these you know Israelites 10,000 in courses.
So it's this rotating roster where one month they'd be in Lebanon
and two months they'd be at home okay.
And the whole purpose of this was to build the temple of God.
And primarily what we're reading about here is building the foundations of the temple of God.
And then in verse 15.
And Solomon had three score and 10,000 that bear burdens.
So if you don't know what a score is the score is 20.
So three score is three times 20 that's 60 and 10 that's 70.
So he had 70,000 that bear burdens.
So he had 70,000 laborers okay.
And four score four times 20 80 four score 80,000 hewers in the mountains.
So he had 80,000 people that would go into these quarries in them into the mountains
mining rock for the foundation of the temple.
And then verse 16.
Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work
3,300 which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
So these are 3,300 supervisors overseeing all these workers.
And the king commanded that they brought great stones,
costly stones and huge stones to lay the foundation of the house.
And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them and the stone squarers.
And they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
So I just want to show you how important it was
when Israel went to build the house of the Lord the temple in the Old Testament.
How important it was to get as many people as possible as many workers
as they could manage to work and mine for these rocks.
The bible says what were they?
They were great stones.
So they weren't just little pebbles they were mining.
They were getting they were cutting out of that mountain.
Great stones for the foundation of the temple.
Costly stones and I don't know if that costly means
like it can be expensive because of the manpower required to do that.
But I think it's probably got more to do with like marble kind of expensive stones.
Things that are not easy to mine and that are extra strong than your average stone.
And then it says and huge stone.
So these stones were cut they were smoothed out
they were worked on to lay the foundation of the house.
So what I want to show you just as a principle how important our foundation is.
How important being a fundamentalist is.
Having before we can build anything we must have a strong foundation.
Solomon who is wise what did it say there?
Well actually I didn't read that verse 12.
And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom.
So Solomon had the wisdom when he goes I'm going to build this house of the Lord.
I must have strong foundations and I want you to have the wisdom of Solomon.
And you can say to yourself hey we need strong foundations in our life.
We need strong foundations in our church.
Turn to Hebrews 11.
Hebrews 11 verse 8.
It says by faith Abraham.
So we're talking about Abraham now.
By faith Abraham when he was called to go into a place which he should after receive
for an inheritance obeyed and he went out not knowing whither he went.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob the heirs with him of the same promise.
For he looked for a city which have foundations.
Okay so Abraham when he was called by God to leave his people,
to leave his family, to leave his nation he went with this promise.
This promise that was also given to Isaac and Jacob.
And a lot of people think you know there was an earthly representation of that
which was the land of Israel which was the land of Canaan the promised land.
There was an earthly representation of that yes.
But the city that he was looking for was a city with foundations whose builder and maker is God.
Okay he was looking for this place and I would say that's heaven.
I would say that's New Jerusalem.
Okay we read about New Jerusalem in Revelation with these foundations of very costly stones
and it has the name of the apostles written on those foundations.
So I believe that ultimately he was referring to that New Jerusalem.
But I just want to show you that the foundation was important.
Not just a foundation but a foundation whose builder and maker is God.
Okay and so we ought to be like Abraham.
What did it say in verse 8?
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise in a strange country.
Okay we ought to be here in our in Australia here on the Sunshine Coast.
We ought to be the same way.
We ought to be seen as sojourners.
We ought to be seen as someone in a strange country.
Okay why?
Because our home is heavenly.
Our home is the New Jerusalem.
We're looking for a city whose foundations and the builder and the maker is God.
Okay we ought to be the same way.
We ought to get stuck in our ways and think well this is our home.
Let's get settled in.
Let's get comfortable.
No be a sojourner in this land.
Don't get too comfortable with where you are and be prepared to go where the Lord wants you to go.
To do the things that God wants you to do.
Look for the foundations that are built by God not foundations that are built by man.
Okay so we need to be like Abraham.
Now go to Luke chapter 6.
Luke chapter 6 one of Jesus's teachings.
We know it very well.
Luke chapter 6 verse 48.
Luke 6 48.
So why are we fundamentalists?
Why is this a fundamental church?
Because we want foundations whose builder and maker is God.
Okay Luke 6 48.
Let me see if I should start before that actually.
Luke 6.
Let's start in verse 46.
Luke 6 46.
And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like.
So the one that listens to God.
Who listens to the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Okay who does the things that Jesus says to do.
He says I will show you what they're like.
In verse 48.
He is like a man which built an house and dig deep.
So what are we talking about?
We're talking about the fundamentals of the house.
We're talking about the foundations of the house.
He's going to build a house but he wants to dig deep.
Okay and lay the foundation on a rock.
Okay something stable.
A rock like what the Old Testament temple of God was built on these huge rocks.
And when the flood arose the stream beat vehemently upon that house and could not shake it.
Why?
For it was founded upon a rock.
And I want us to be Christians that are not shaken when the trials of life comes our way.
I don't want to be a church that's shaken when the opposition comes and says hey you're preaching
hate.
Hey you're preaching too hard.
No we're going to build our foundations and we're not going to be vehemently moved like
this man was that built his house upon a strong foundation which is that rock.
Verse 49.
But he that heareth and doeth not.
So the one that hears what Jesus says but doesn't do them is like a man that without
a foundation built an house upon the earth against which the stream did beat vehemently
and immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great.
So let me tell you if you want to destroy a church build it upon the earth.
Build it upon the sand.
Don't build it upon the rock of God's word.
Okay.
If we want to destroy this church tomorrow let's just move away from the teachers of Christ.
Move away from the rock from the words of God.
Move away from doing the words of God.
That's another thing.
I can preach the words of God but we can say hey let's not do him.
That's another sure way to destroy our church.
But no we're a fundamental church.
We're going to set the word of God as our foundation and we're going to build upon that
word so we're not going to be vehemently moved
and our house is not going to fall down and be ruined by those when he gets beaten upon.
Okay.
1 Corinthians 3 11.
I'll just read that to you.
You don't need to turn there.
1 Corinthians 3 11 says for other foundation can no man lay then that is laid which is
Jesus Christ.
So not just the word of God as our foundation but Jesus Christ.
Okay remember he came to set an example.
He came to deliver us from our sins.
So we set that as our foundation.
Yes we're here because we've trusted on Christ.
Now what are the examples that Christ left us?
Let's do those examples.
Let's walk like we're saying footprints of Jesus.
Let's follow those footprints of Jesus in our life.
Okay let's let's do what we hear the word of God says and that is our foundation and
then we can build everything else all our other doctrines all our other teachings all
our other ministries upon that foundation which is Jesus Christ and his word.
Ephesians 2 19.
I'll just read it to you.
Ephesians 2 19 to 22.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints
and of the household of God.
So here Paul is writing to the Ephesians to these Gentiles and says hey you're no longer
strangers you're no longer foreigners to Israel.
Okay your fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God and are built
upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.
So we know Jesus is our foundation but not just that but the foundation is upon the apostles
and prophets.
Guess where we read about the apostles and prophets?
Right here.
All right this is where we read what they wrote this is what we can read about what
they said and Jesus Christ is that chief cornerstone.
So he's like the foundation of the foundation.
Okay we get it from the word of God talking and then talking about us talking about the
church in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the
Lord in whom ye also build it together for an habitation of God through the spirit.
So when you're saved the Holy Spirit comes and indwells in you comes and lives in you
and it describes just like the holy temple in the Old Testament that was built upon the
strong foundations.
It says hey the Bible is a strong foundation in which our church our building ought to
be built upon okay and our church is the house of the Lord in the New Testament.
It's an amazing thing to think God looks at us and says hey I'm going to dwell here
I'm going to be here I'm going to be in my house as little as we are of a size of
a church but God still looks at this church and says hey that's my house and that's
where I'm going to dwell as long as we have the foundation of Christ and the teachings
of the apostles and the prophets.
Now I'm almost done so Islamic fundamentalism I find it so weird that people refer to Islam
well extreme Islam terrorist Islam as fundamental Islam.
Now there's probably some truth to that okay because their book their holy book does teach
that they need to go and kill the infidels so in some way they are fundamentalist they
are believing what their holy book says okay but I was looking this up I found it interesting
why would you give this this term fundamentalism that was coined by a Christian that was coined
by a Baptist why is it now being used to describe Islam terrorism and I pulled this out of Wikipedia
it says this the Iran hostage crisis of 1970 1980 so I don't know this was before I was
born marked a major turning point in the use of the term fundamentalism so it was this
hostage crisis this act of terrorism that was a turning point for the use of the term
fundamentalism.
The media of course the media in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini
and the Iranian revolution of a western audience described it as a fundamentalist version of
Islam by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the United States.
So the Christians that termed that coined the term fundamentalism because we stand for the
word of God the media saw this hostage crisis saw this act of terrorism and say well they're
like the Christians let's call them Islamic fundamentalism and that's why you keep hearing
this in the media to this day and that's why now fundamentalism has this negative connotation
of this you know people that just want to go and murder you know without law.
Thus was born the term Islamic fundamentalist which became a common use of the term in following
years so we can see how the media you know took this term of the Christians brainwashed
society and now we're calling Islamic terrorism fundamentalism I wonder why you know I just
think about the antichrist come in hey we need to take care of these fundamental hey
we've got to bring peace in the world we've got to take care of these fundamentalists
we've got to take care of these people that are going around killing you know raping women
murdering oh and the Christians as well the Christian fundamentalists as well you know
we're going to take care of those as well so I just found that unusual and very very
weird but it doesn't surprise me that the media is the one that wants to taint this
title hey but I'm going to wear it proudly okay we're a fundamental church
in conclusion when we read this already in Psalms 11 if you can go back to Psalm 11 that'll be good
Psalm 11 verse 3 if the foundations be destroyed so this is a thought this is a thought of David
okay well the Psalmist I'm not sure if it's David that wrote this in Psalm 11 oh it is it says here
to the chief musician a psalm of David it says if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous
do okay so without the foundations without the word of God without Jesus Christ Christians the
righteous just have no hope they have no goal anymore what can the righteous do what can you
do without the word of God nothing again this just becomes a social club you know we can't win souls
because we're not we're not talking about Christ we're not talking about his sacrifice what can the
righteous do but if we have a look at the context here it says at the beginning verse one in the
Lord put I my trust in the Lord put I my trust what is the foundations of David it's the Lord
the Lord is who he's put his trust in why how say you to my soul flee as a bird to your mountain
so someone was telling David hey run flee remember David was always under attack
he always had enemies against him and someone was saying hey just flee flee as a bird to your
mountains but remember he said no in the Lord put I my trust for lo the wicked so this is the one
that's saying flee for lo the wicked bend their bow they make ready their arrow upon the string
that they may privately privately shoot at the upright in heart so there are people that want to
hurt the upright in heart now I'm not righteous of my own I'm righteous because the imputed
righteousness of Christ is upon me but there are those that want to hurt Christians that want to
damage Christianity but we just say hey in the Lord put on my trust my foundations is the Lord
if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do hey we're not going to flee like
a bird to the mountain we're going to stand on the foundations of God we're going to stand on
Jesus Christ verse four the Lord is in his holy temple why are we so confident in our Lord why
can we put our trust in the Lord and not be moved the Lord is in his holy temple talking about
heavenly Jerusalem the Lord's throne is is in heaven the Lord's throne is in heaven his eyes
behold his eyelids try the children of men so these people that want to hurt believers that
want to hurt Christianity he says look God sees them okay God knows what's going on it's not like
we need to tell God hey God help us you know you're not helping us God knows we should ask
him to help us hey but he knows what's going on right he tries this is in verse five the Lord
trieth the righteous but the wicked in him that loveth violence his soul hateth people hey guys
look there are people in this world that the Lord hates okay let's just let's not pretend like
that's what we just read are we fundamentalist or not do we believe the word of God or do I need to
explain this away God hates those that are trying to hurt the righteous he hates the wicked he hates
those that love violence upon the wicked he shall rain snares fire and brimstone in horrible tempest
this shall be the portion of their cup talking about God's final wrath upon them you know either
future the future wrath to come or hell whatever however you want to look at that for the righteous
Lord loveth righteousness his countenance doth behold the upright so the righteous Lord loveth
righteousness he hates the wicked but he loves righteousness and I'm just reminded with this
whole same-sex marriage nonsense this postal vote that Australia voted for some 60 percent
some 60 percent of our nation believes it's fine for two men to get married has the world gone nuts
two women to get married what in the world but what does the Lord say hey I'm gonna have
foundations hey I'm not going to get rid of my foundations I'm gonna put my trust in the Lord
and I know that the Lord hateth the wicked the Lord hates the fact that 60 percent of Australians
support homosexuality it drives me insane to think about that okay but what makes us fundamentalists
it means that I hold this word of God above everything else I don't care if 60 percent of my
Australians said it's fine when the word of God says it's not fine then I'm just going to stand
on the word of God if God says the death penalty is applicable to the crime of homosexuality hey
I'm a fundamentalist that's what I believe I believe the word of God so I support the death
penalty on homosexuals okay the least thing I'm worried about is them getting married but
should I be surprised should I be surprised when our nation allows 250 babies to be aborted every
day I mean that's even worse 250 babies being killed every single day in abortion clinics
it's even worse than homosexuals getting married this shouldn't surprise me but am I going to flee
am I going to flee from this no I'm going to put my trust in the Lord and I'm going to stand strong
on the foundations because we are a fundamental church nothing's going to change that no matter
what persecution we may face no matter what problems I might face preaching the word of God
that's been in existence for hundreds of years people have been preaching this for hundreds of
years I tell you now this change in our in our laws oh no it hasn't changed our laws just yet
but this change in culture is just going to have other pastors behind the pulpit
supporting homosexuality more than ever there's going to be more homosexuality in churches more
than ever and I'm telling you the truth I will never in my knowledge no I will never allow a
homosexual in this church never ever any pedophile any homosexual any reprobate like that never ever
will I allow them to come into this church and become predators to people here in this church
okay I'm just telling you the truth you know if it happens by accident it happens because I didn't
know okay just to tell you I'll never allow that these people ought to be put to death like the
Bible says and I can say that because I'm a fundamentalist let's pray