Song number 66 at Calvary.
Song 66 at Calvary.
Years I spent in vanity and pride
Caring not my Lord was crucified
Knowing not it was for me
He died on Calvary
Mercy there was great and grace was free
Hard in there was multiply to me
There my burdened soul found liberty
At Calvary
Song number 66 on the second.
By God's word at last my sin I learned
Then I trembled at the light's burn
Till my guilty soul imploring turned
To Calvary
Mercy there was great and grace was free
Hard in there was multiply to me
There my burdened soul found liberty
At Calvary
My salvation's plan
Oh the grace that brought it down to man
Oh the mighty gulf that God did span
At Calvary
Mercy there was great and grace was free
Hard in there was multiply to me
There my burdened soul found liberty
At Calvary
Now I've given to Jesus everything
Now I gladly own him as my king
Now my raptured soul can only sing
Of Calvary
Mercy there was great and grace was free
Hard in there was multiply to me
There my burdened soul found liberty
At Calvary
Alright let's open up in a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father thank you so much for this day
and thank you for the opportunity to gather together
and praise your name to hear God's word preached.
We pray that we never take it for granted.
We appreciate all that you do for us.
We love you so much and in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Alright for our second song we'll go to
274 Come Unto Me
Song 274 Come Unto Me
Here the blessed Savior calling me oppressed
O ye heavy laden come to me and rest
Come no longer Terry I your load will bear
Bring me every burden bring me every care
Come unto me
I will give you rest
Take my yoke upon you
Hear me and be blessed
I am meek and lowly
Come and trust my might
Come my yoke is easy
And my burdens line
Are you disappointed wandering here and there
Loaded down with care
Do unholy feelings struggle in your breast
Bring your case to Jesus he will give you rest
Come unto me
I will give you rest
Take my yoke upon you
Hear me and be blessed
I am meek and lowly
Come and trust my might
Come my yoke is easy
And my burdens line
Stumbling on the mountains
Dark with sin and shame
Stumbling toward the pit of hell's consuming flame
By the powers of sin deluded and oppressed
Hear the tender Shepherd come to me and rest
Come unto me
I will give you rest
Take my yoke upon you
Hear me and be blessed
I am meek and lowly
Come and trust my might
Come my yoke is easy
And my burdens line
Have you by temptation often conquered men
Has a sense of weakness brought distress within
Christ will sanctify you if you'll claim his best
In the Holy Spirit he will give you rest
Come unto me
I will give you rest
Take my yoke upon you
Hear me and be blessed
I am meek and lowly
Come and trust my might
Come my yoke is easy
And my burdens line
We have our Bible memory passage John chapter 1 verse 32
If you're a child 18 or under you can quote this week's memory verse
We'll get you an ice cream
On the inside we have our service and soul wanting times
And then we have our church stats down below
Please make sure to put your soul wanting maps and everything in our cabinet back there
And also if you continue to pray for all of our expecting ladies
We have there on the right we have our prayer list
I'm gonna go over that real quick
Continue to pray for the Negira family for their health
Miss Lucy's mother's tumors
For the Cameron Hall's leg
Grady Baptist vanilla and Pastor Kevin Sepulveda
Pray for the Goodwin family
And also for brother Suell traveling
Brother Dylan Oz, grandmother Doris had a heart attack
So pray for her
Also John Naim was unfortunately bit by a dog
And this was a real dog so
But definitely pray for him
He's here with us he looks brave
So we're gonna pray for his recovery
And you know the Bible does say beware of dogs
So there you go alright
But we're gonna pray for everyone that was mentioned here alright
Thank you Heavenly Father for our church
Thank you for this evening
For giving us an opportunity to meet together
And sing praises under your name
I pray that you bless all the expecting ladies in this room
And help them with their pregnancies
Please just bless our church family with their various health issues
We know that you're the great physician
We know that you are touched with the feeling of our infirmities
And I pray that you would just give them grace
Give them blessing, give them health
I pray that you just help our friends abroad
And that you help bring back our church members
That are traveling safely
And we just thank you for all you give us
In Jesus' name we pray
Amen on the back we have the list of upcoming events
We have the Congo bridal shower
It's from 12.30 to 2.30 here at the church
July 2nd we have July 3rd, 10th, 24th, and 31st
Song leading class
And music practice
So both of those are combined
And if you still want to just show up
You're welcome to participate
The only thing I do want to say about this though
If you are planning on coming
And you have children
Please don't let them be a distraction
Like this is not like a cool time to let them like
Run around and scream and hang out
Or something like that
So if you are coming to just support another family member
Or you're here please please make sure
That they're going to be respectful of that time
We want the musicians
It's actually like a class type setting
Where people are going to be learning
So we don't want it to be really rowdy
Or loud or anything like that
But of course we don't want anybody to be turned away
We just want you to realize that
We are taking that time seriously
So please just be respectful of that time
Also August 18th to the 20th is our men conference
There's a sign up sheet
I think that's pretty much all I have on this
I do have some private announcements though
Just for our church family
Thank you
You
118 near to the heart of god
One one eight near to the heart of god
There is a place of quiet rest
Here to the heart of god
A place where sin cannot molest
Here to the heart of god
Oh jesus blessed
Redeemer
Dead from the heart of god
Hold us who wait before
The
Here to the heart of god
There is a place of comfort sweet
Here to the heart of god
A place where we are savior meet
Here to the heart of god
Oh jesus blessed
Redeemer
Dead from the heart of god
Hold us who wait before
The
Here to the heart of god
There is a place of full release
Here to the heart of god
A place where all is joy and peace
Here to the heart of god
Jesus blessed
Redeemer
Sent from the heart of god
Hold us who wait before
The
Here to the heart of god
As the offering plates are passed around turn in your bibles if you would to second samuel chapter 10
Second samuel chapter 10. We're going to read the whole chapter before the sermon you can follow along silently starting in verse number one
Second samuel chapter 10 the bible reads
And it came to pass after this that the king of the children of ammon died and hainan his son reigned in his stead
Then said david I will show kindness unto hainan the son of nahash as his father showed kindness unto me
And david sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father
And david's servants came into the land of the children of ammon
And the princes of the children of ammon sent unto hainan their lord thinkest thou that david doth honor thy father
That he hath sent comforters unto thee
Hath not david rather sent his servants unto thee to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it
Wherefore hainan took david's servants and shaved off the one half of their beards and cut off their garments in the middle
Even to their buttocks and sent them away
When they told it unto david
He sent to meet them because the men were greatly ashamed and the king said terry at jericho until your beards be grown and then returned
And when the children of ammon saw that they stank before david the children of ammon sent and hired the syrians of beth rehab
And the syrians of zoba 20 000 footmen and of king meyaka a thousand men and of ishtab 12 000 men
And when david heard of it
He sent joab and all the host of the mighty men
And the children of ammon came out and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate
And the syrians of zoba and of rehab and ishtab and meyaka were by themselves in the field
When joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind
He chose of all the choice men of israel and put them in array against the syrians
And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of abishai his brother that he might put them in array against the children
of ammon
And he said if the syrians be too strong for me then thou shalt help me
But if the children of ammon be too strong for thee then I will come and help thee
Be of good courage and let us play the men for our people and for the cities of our god
And the lord do that which seemeth him good
And joab drew nigh and the people that were with him under the battle against the syrians and they fled before him
And when the children of ammon saw that the syrians were fled then fled they also before abishai and entered into the city
So joab returned from the children of ammon and came to jerusalem
And when the syrians saw that they were smitten before israel
They gathered themselves together
And had a resource sent and brought out the syrians that were beyond the river and they came to helen
And show back the captain of the host of hadarizah went before them
And it was told david he gathered all israel together and passed over jordan and came to helen
And the syrians sent themselves in array against david and fought with him and the syrians fled before israel
And david slew the men of 700 chariots of the syrians and 40 000 horsemen
And smote show back the captain of their host who died there
When all the kings that were servants to hadarizah saw that they were smitten before israel
They made peace with israel and served them. So the syrians feared to help the children of ammon anymore. Let's pray father
We thank you for a second samuel chapter 10
and
I also pray lord that you would fill
The man of god with your spirit and enable him to teach this chapter to us
Give us ears to hear and minimize distractions in the room so we can learn as much as possible at your about your word
This evening and also lord keep us safe as we go our separate ways after the service in jesus name. I pray. Amen. Amen
So we're in second samuel chapter number 10 and we're in verse number one the bible says and it came to pass after
This that the king of the children of ammon died
Hey none, his son reigned in his stead then said david I will show kindness unto hanun the son of nash
As his father showed kindness unto me
David sinned to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father
David's servants came into the land of the children of ammon
And the princes of the children of ammon said unto hanun their lord thinkest thou that david hath honored thy father
That he has sent comforters unto thee
Have not david rather sin his servants unto thee to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it
So we start out and david
About some of the previous chapters and kind of where we've been leading
David certainly is warred with a lot of people
But the previous chapter he was showing kindness into the house of saul. He was showing kindness on a mephibosheth
And we see here in chapter number 10. David again wants to show kindness
And really he's reciprocating kindness according to the bible
but when he goes under the ammonites
the council the men
of the city has been you know, whoever's in charge of
These affairs they're not quite the king but they're essentially
leaders
they're the main servants of
the king of ammon
They falsely accused david
of being a spy
And not actually wanting to do good
unto
david or
Really just receive the blessing because david is sending servants under them to do them good
Help them out be a blessing unto them. They probably brought gifts of some sort. They're there to help console
And it was a nice thing that david is doing but they take this nice thing. They take this peace offering as it were
And essentially turn it into something that is not
falsely accused them slander them
And they're making up
Uh kind of really when you think about it
They're not even bringing up just a slander like david is just a bad guy just leave him alone
No, they're they're bringing up a false accusation that these guys are not blessing them. They're cursing them
And
to make it into a really a
Bad situation because if you have someone spying out your land ready to overthrow you
Or to take over your land
They're not just not welcome. They're an enemy
They're not just someone you don't want to hang out with this is someone you have to fight against
Or to attack or to go on the offense because you can't just let spies come in
And and let them go because they could essentially relay important military information. It could cause damage to the city
So this lie that they've concocted
Is a really extreme lie
That is causing his servants to be treated in such a terrible way
and this is
Unfortunately the world that we live in the world that we live in
You'll go out and you'll try to do something really nice for someone and then they'll turn it into
a bad situation
You know we as a church we like to go soul-winning
We like to go out and knock on doors and invite people to church and give them the gospel
But there will be few people out there
who will try to pretend like we're doing something evil or or that we're trying to attack people or
That we're dangerous or we're evil or hurting, you know, I've seen all these false accusations saying that we're hurting children
Or or we're yelling at people
Or we're just going out to spread messages of hate or something like that
You know, I ran into somebody the other day that said they were a god-hating atheist, you know, they said they're a witch
And they practice paganism and they worship the gods and that they are a lesbian
Like they were just like every check mark of a reprobate you could imagine just like all of them
And I just said, okay. See you later
I didn't scream at the person I didn't yell because you know when we go out soul-winning
We're our mission is to be like jesus where we're not condemning anything
We're just going out trying to see if people want to hear the gospel and if they don't we just move on
We're just there to spread a message of hope and grace
And and we just try to minister grace into people but then people try to say like oh you're doing evil
You're attacking people they twist the narrative
I even saw an article
Two weeks ago or a week ago. Not even long the fbi raided three churches in the united states
Like two in georgia and one in texas
And they said that these churches are going out and doing evil
by going on military bases
and soul winning
And it's like
But again, they they twisted everything that they're doing into somehow it's like negative or bad or evil or whatever
Then the fbi just like raided their church
And i'm thinking like what in the world?
You know, that's really evil to just try to suggest that
You know a church is bad because they're soul-winning on a military base where they're there and you look at these churches
They're literally just like next to a military base. So i'm sure
That if our church just happened to be geographically near
A military base or just any any kind of area we'd probably venture on there and try to get people saved, right?
Whether that's a school
How about an indian reservation, you know in arizona?
The church there in phoenix tempe arizona that I was going to was near a bunch of indian reservations
It didn't even seem like you left phoenix and you're like somehow on an indian reservation in some places
So it's like of course you would go there and preach the gospel
We weren't trying to colonize them
Or, you know, you know repress their indian rights or something like that. We're just there to preach the gospel
But of course, you know, that's what the world will do often
And and really really wicked people will do this go if you go to titus chapter one go to titus chapter one
We need to make sure that we don't misinterpret
Interpret
people's motives and intentions
and especially
when
They're not giving us any reason to
Think about this
david
his father
Was or i'm sorry. David the father of the king of ammon was basically friends with david
He had shown kindness unto david
They had a good relationship
And then when he dies david sends
Messengers over there to mourn for the loss of the father. There's nothing really weird about that
That kind of makes sense
Like why would you just invent the idea that they're a spy all of a sudden?
Why would you just bring up this railing accusation?
Also when they showed up they didn't have any like they didn't say like look they got some secret weapons on them or
Hey, they're communicating with these other people or they said this weird thing or they used flattery or you know
There was no warning signs there was no red flags there was no signals they couldn't point to any of their behavior
And really
You know, we should give people the benefit of the doubt when they haven't given us a reason to falsely accuse them
Look what it says in titus chapter number one and look what it says in verse under 15
Under the pure all things are pure
But unto them that are defiled and believing is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled
They profess that they know god but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and under every good work
Reprobate so there are people out there that will misinterpret every situation
Just everything's bad. Everyone's always bad. Every person's bad and you know, that'll even creep into churches like ours
I've seen this
And there's other people that could testify some of the bad people in our churches
They started becoming this warning signal where they thought everyone was bad
Like they're basically going around and they would just say this guy's a reprobate in the church and you'd be like really why?
I could just I could just tell
And it's like but they did they do anything weird it's like no
But I just know I just know they're bad and then they have another guy this other guy's bad
There's other guys bad and just pretty soon the whole church is bad except for them
based on nothing
Based on no situation based on no
Observable flattery or inconsistencies or weird things that they did just they're they're all bad
Really? That's a sign that that person's bad
Just like the king of ammen should have said, okay, why are you calling these guys spies?
Like what did they do?
Because david's my friend
David's sending me friends over here. Why am I going to immediately trust you over them?
Like why didn't he say like tell me why?
Because if you started investigating maybe you would have ended up realizing maybe this isn't
Legitimate information now just because cnn said it doesn't mean it's true
Just because cnn gets up and says trump's colluding with russia doesn't mean it's really true
Now, of course if there was hard evidence if there's physical evidence and there's all this financial transactions
And there's all these weird things going on then. Yeah, maybe an investigation should be happy
You know what beware of the person that'll just bring up how someone's a horrible person with no evidence
no proof
with no real information
This is very likely could be a slander
You know when people are just bringing up that someone's a bad person and again
I I want to help you understand a couple things. There's a difference between having an opinion and slandering someone
Okay
If you see an old man
Who is constantly surrounding himself with little children and snipping them?
Him
If their daughter came out publicly and said my dad took showers with me as a young girl and I thought it was inappropriate
Okay, if this person seems to be a person that just basically has
Every possible leftist agenda every kind of satanic talking point. They speak out of both sides of their mouth
Then and you say you know what I think this person's probably a pedophile they're probably reprobate
and their name is joe biden then
That's having an opinion
Okay
That's not necessarily slandering the guy
because i'm basing it on all of these really
Strong evidences and all these diff these different things that are going on. Okay, or let's say a pastor gets up and he preaches work salvation
And he preaches repent of your sins for salvation
And he preaches a bunch of weird false doctrine and I say I think this person's unsafe false prophet
Where's the thing? I can't look into that guy's heart and just know for sure that it's black as night
I can't just know for sure that he's damned to hell
But it's it's not just a baseless accusation coming out of a vacuum. It's here. It's like here's the evidence. Here's this statement
Here's all this false teaching on salvation. Here's all these bible verses in galatians chapter number one
And how could someone have studied the bible and be a pastor and not even know john 3 16, you know
Jesus christ
and the apostles
Are having no problem labeling people reprobates and labeling them children of the devil and and cursing them at times
Well, how could they even do that? Well, can you really know? Can you look in their heart and whatever?
No, no, they base it on the circumstances of the situation and they made a judgment
They said hey this, uh
alignment this sorcerer this jew
Who's in a false religion who's trying to draw away this deputy from the faith?
Who's actively blaspheming? Jesus christ, you know, paul's just like, you know, you're a child of the devil
You know, he just curses the guy in the name of the lord. He blinds him right then and there he didn't say
Well, I don't know. I just want to err on the side of caution here. He's he's basing it
On the events that are happening before his eyes and he make him judgment, nope
there's nothing wrong with forming an opinion based on all kinds of evidence just like
in america
People will go to trial
And they'll present evidence and then the jury has to find the person guilty or not guilty and you know
There's probably been times where there was eyewitness testimony
There's physical evidence and it'll just it appeared like the person was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt people said that
And then it ended up turning out it was not true
Maybe the evidence was planted or maybe new new new witnesses or evidences came out eventually
And he found that person false, but you wouldn't then say, okay
Well, all of that jury was a slanderer and all of them need to be executed for falsely witnessing or something like that
No, they were they're basing that on strong evidences and opinions
To me a slander is when you're just calling someone
something evil
based on nothing
And this happens all the time people just say oh this person's a child molester and you say why it happened. It's because
It's like what do you mean just because
You know, you don't get to go around and just call people whatever you want for nothing
You know if you have some really strong evidence and you have some really strong facts
And you're basing you're saying I have a personal opinion that this is true based on these facts
That's okay. Everybody can have an opinion and you could be wrong
And it is if you're wrong then you just you apologize for it and you move on
But sometimes people will like those they'll try to get me to like throw someone out of church for having an opinion
It's like well, this person's a slanderer
Because you know, they think
This person's a bad person and i'm like, well, why do they think that because they did a b and c and i'm like
I kind of agree with them. You know, it's like
I can see why they form that conclusion and even if someone doesn't come to my conclusion
If it's still a rational
Conclusion i'm not going to call that person a slanderer or whatever just having an opinion
you know if I thought a certain pastor was saved and somebody thought they're not saved i'm not going to be like, you know, what just
you know, you're
You're thrown out of church. You're a slanderer or whatever
But if you're just going to go around and make basis accusations then yeah, you're going to get called out
You're going to have to you're going to have to answer those things and we can't allow people to be a railer
What's a railer? It's making false accusations against people
And and you want to be careful
That especially when you repeat some information that you know that it's true
Instead of just repeating gossip
Repeating railing accusations and what they said about these servants is railing accusations and our culture
Loves to rail
And you know how they do it the associated press will come out with a slanderous article about someone
And then just every other news media will just quote them
And then they act like they're absolved of any liability because like according to the associated press
And then it's just slander slander slander slander slander and they just they have no problem running with that because they essentially have no
accountability
and and again
That's not how it works according to the bible
That might be how it works in in america and according to the media
But if you go around just slandering people and it's like well, but brent said it, you know
It's like i'm still going to hold you accountable too
Because it's not cool just walk around and brent's not a gossip that's why I use his name. All right
You're all like what did brent say, you know
It's like the most quiet person I know so he wouldn't do that, but i'm just saying like nobody
Gets to get away with just railing and lying and slandering on people
It needs to be dealt with and and of course
We don't want to be the type of people that are always just thinking everyone bad
And I could see why coming to our church I could see why
Some of the past things that have happened you could kind of get this jaded attitude where you just think that like
everybody's a bad person
And just like anybody that's not like lockstep with our doctrine bad person someone that's not good at soul winning
Reprobate, you know, it's like it's not that they could just really suck at soul winning
It's that they're just obviously unsaved because how could you be that bad at soul winning or something?
It's like some people just aren't very good, you know
Or they need to learn or they need more opportunities or something like that, you know, somebody could have
Look, there's all kinds of weird false doctrines that say people seem to have and I don't get it
I don't know why necessarily
But we don't want to have this mentality
Just everybody's always bad and every situation's bad and just always because then it really kind of seems like you're the bad person
Because what did the bible say?
Unto the pure all things are pure
You know, the greatest people are the people that are always giving people benefit of the doubt
Some of the worst people are the people that just think everyone's bad all the time
And you might need to check your own heart if you think everyone everything's bad all the time. What do you got going on?
You know because we have to make sure
That we don't have this mentality of just everything's bad because then maybe it's like there's something wrong with us
now of course
The world lies in wickedness and we use the bible to judge
So if we're going to judge the world
We could bring up sin all day long and there's a lot of things to preach against
I get that every godly preacher is going to be ripping on all kinds of stuff
But on a personal level we want to we want to see the good in people
We want to give people a bit of the doubt. We want to think things are pure
And then once they prove to us that it's not then we deal with it
Just like how the bible teaches a man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject
But notice you give them the first two
It wasn't like just immediately you're heretic. No, no you get you get to tell me heresy one time and I still don't think you're bad
But then the second time you tell me that heresy. Okay. Well, yeah see you buddy
You know, I don't want to have to deal with that type of situation
But we don't want to be like the children of amin or we don't want to be like the servants of amin here
That misinterpret a situation when there's nothing to misinterpret. I mean david's friends with the guy david's giving a blessing
It all makes sense and then they're just hurling these false accusations against these people, you know
We don't want to be that type of a person
That's so jaded and so against everything
That we're going to end up burning good people
I would rather get burnt by a few bad people than constantly burn all the good people
You know, and I don't think that there's a special reward
For catching all the bad people before it happens, you know, if you just want to never have a bad friend
Just have no friends then I guess
You know what? Jesus didn't have that philosophy
Jesus made friends and you know what in order to have 11 good friends. You have to have a 12th friend. That's terrible
You have to have a judas friend in order to have a peter friend and to have a john friend
And have a james friend and have an andrew and Bartholomew and all the different disciples
You know in order to have
some of the good
You have to accept some of the bad
Even jesus and the bible teaches this, you know in order to have some of the wheat
Sometimes you have to tolerate some tears a little bit
You know and in order to have a nice lawn you're gonna have to put up with some weeds
And you say well, I never want a weed. Well, then you can't grow anything
You're just gonna have to have rocks for your front yard
But even when you have rocks weeds somehow come out of that you're like, where did this come from? You know
So you might as well just grow the grass too
And and just enjoy the good things of this life and we shouldn't just look at every person who's always being bad
Always being evil
I'll i'll even say this, you know when we first were getting protested at our old old building
Sanson park, okay the log cabin
As my kids it's funny because my kids called it the red church
And this is this was the red church, but you know, whatever they call the red church
They have the red tin building hat, you know
We first started protesting there was a protester there. His name was bruce turg. Who knows what i'm talking about? Okay, you know i'm talking about
I went out there the first time with bible in hand and I tried to get him saved
Because he didn't appear to be a reprobate by physical appearance and I thought you know what?
Let's just give him an opportunity
but then he told me he was a baptist pastor for 30 years and then he told me he
Hated god and he's an atheist and he started blaspheming christ and then I walked away
Okay
But i'm like if I can give that guy
The benefit of the doubt why can't I give everybody else the benefit of the doubt?
People say i'm just so mean and so hateful and it's like how as a christian am I supposed to tolerate someone?
That's you that's using the f-word about jesus christ
And blaspheming god to me openly and wanting to destroy everything about me. I ain't supposed to be buddies with that guy
Like that's that's ludicrous
Of course, i'm not going to have fellowship with that type of individual
Of course
I'm, not going to hope this guy succeeds in his message of destroying the church and destroying christianity
And destroying the bible and destroying my church
How could I be a shepherd of the church if i'm letting the people that are actively trying to destroy it prevail?
What terrible shepherd i'm just like hey wolf. Here's my sheep. Come on in, you know
Just please have have at it
You know, that would be a that would be a terrible shepherd. You know, the shepherd's supposed to keep away the wolves, right?
But the the point that I think is really important that we can draw out of this entire chapter again
I'm spending a lot of times on these few verses
Because really I think this is the most important aspect that we can learn in this chapter
Is by misinterpreting a situation
Not only does it cause some problems it can cause giant problems that constantly domino and compound
because this whole chapter
Is based on just slandering these guys off the bat
All of the future problems are going to read about could have been avoided if you just didn't falsely accuse people
If you just didn't believe they were bad with no reason to believe they were bad
And sometimes you can avoid giant
issues
When you give people benefit of the doubt at the beginning
You know give your family members benefit of the doubt give your friends benefit out
Give your co-workers benefit of the doubt give your boss benefit give people
You know
opportunity
To do the right thing
Take them as sincere
You know, I I think it was a president that said this I can't remember
Maybe someone knows it's like trust but verify
I think that was a presidential comment. Does anybody know what i'm talking about? Trust but verify. Who was it?
Teddy roosevelt. Yeah. Yeah, I think it was teddy roosevelt president said hey
We have no problem trusting
We're just going to verify it because if you're honest, you have no problem getting verified
Only people that are lying don't like verification only people that are a threat don't want to have their information verified
Tested or ensured that it's accurate
What if they said hey, we want to make sure that you guys aren't spies we believe you
And we're going to put you in the nicest villa
We're going to we're going to feed you guys with grapes
We're going to you know
Bring out the red carpet for you guys, but we're going to verify that you're not spies first
Wouldn't that maybe you know avoided all this conflict avoided all this issue avoided all these problems
And and here's the thing some of us are going to have to marry up our daughters
You don't want to just think that every guy's bad now. I get it. Most of them are
But we'll trust and verify it's like you want to date my daughter. Will you get a date me first, you know
I can trust but then i'm going to verify first. Okay, and if we're not compatible you don't get to talk to her, you know
And that makes a lot of sense if you actually love your daughter now in second stanford chapter 10
Let's keep going. Look at verse number four
The bible says wherefore hanun took david's servants and shaved off
The one out for their beards and cut off their garments in the middle even to their buttocks and sent them away
It says in verse five when they told it unto david he sent to meet them
Because the men were greatly ashamed and the king said terry at jericho until your beards be grown and then and then return
now
This is weird
Because first of all if you're going to start a war
Why wouldn't you just kill the guys?
The guys it's kind of stupid to just make a mockery of them
Also, you know, why is he cutting off half their beard
And and why is he doing some of these other weird activities, you know cutting off their garments and stuff like that
He's he's trying to embarrass them
He's trying to make them
uh
Ashamed now keep your finger here and go to leviticus 19. Let me let me show you
What the bible says in this obviously if someone just cut your clothes in half that would be pretty embarrassing
That's pretty obvious
Nobody wants to have their buttocks exposed
That it has any level of of integrity or modesty
obviously our society has gotten pretty weird, but
Most people still say like no shorts. No service, you know, they says no shirt, but now it's like no shorts. Whatever. I don't know
I hope that we never get to the point where you can go into a restaurant fully new
But I know in california, there's a lot of people walking around. Holy news gross
Leviticus 19 look at verse 27
He shall not round the corners of your heads
Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard
So according to the bible you weren't supposed to mar the corners of your beard now, of course
Atheists and people that don't believe the bible they'll constantly say like you trim your beard poster. Surely
Because you'll bring up parts of the bible that you believe and they're like, oh you don't practice the bible
Do you trim your beard? Hmm, and it's like yeah, I do
But you know what this didn't say you couldn't trim your beard
Notice the wording. What does the wording say?
it says
that
Neither shalt thou mar
The corners of thy beard now unless you speak spanish you're not confused by the word mar. All right
Mars like c in spanish, but in english what is to mar something?
It's to basically ruin
destroy
Or or to you know cause it to be damaged in some way
You know marring something scarring it
There's a lot of different ways you can kind of use mar but essentially it's a really negative word
So if we're thinking about someone marring the corners of thy beard, what are they doing here?
They're basically making their hair look bad on purpose
And look people do this
I don't know if you've been
In public in america anymore, but people literally do stupid things with their hair
on purpose
And it's marring it, you know like women
For some reason right now, they're shaving half of their head
That is marring the side of their head
That is not like a cool thing
It doesn't look good
Nobody was like man. I thought you looked beautiful, but now you look great
Now people are like what happened like were you in an accident?
Or like did your head get caught in some kind of machine or something like that?
You know
It doesn't look cool
And god didn't want people to do these kind of things themselves because god created everything about you. God even has the numbers of your hair
Sorry the number of hairs on your head number
Okay
So he cares about them. He wants them to
Be the way they are now. Of course. He wants us to get proper haircuts and the bible teaches this there's nothing wrong with trimming
And and keeping yourself
in you know, uh
groomed type fashion
Those grooming is good marring yourself bad
right
Taking washing your body good printing marks on your body bad. Okay cutting your hair
Good
marring your head
Bad, right? What does it say? You should not round the corners of your head, you know again
This is not saying that you can't get a haircut. It's saying don't do stupid things with your hair
Just like I said these women that are literally rounding the corners of their head, aren't they?
They're literally just getting these super weird gi jane haircuts
And you know, it really makes their husband will smith upset when you point it out
Okay
Don't call him out
but you know
Oh, she has a disease I don't even think she has that disease but even if she does okay, it's not cool
It's not a cool thing to do
Now, okay. I don't think it's cool to make fun of people that are sick either
Obviously women could get cancer and the hair could fall out. I've had a grade teacher that was like that
You know and I felt sorry for her. I want to make fun of her
You know what if you're doing that to yourself on purpose, that's way different. You're violating god's commandment. God wants you
To take care of your body
And even though the spiritual the inward man is the most important thing
He doesn't want you to then just destroy and trash the outside of it
So when these men have half their beard shaved
They look bizarre
They look weird
and why is david saying for them to stay away because
It's honestly kind of pictured as a sin
Now i'm not saying that they sinned because they it was forced upon them
But then because it's just an shame and it's embarrassing
And people might have the wrong idea
They're like supposed to tarry let that get fixed and then they come back to the children of israel
I also think this is interesting. Why did he say why did he say this as opposed to just like shave off the other half?
I don't know but it's funny to me
There are literal preachers who will get up and preach that it's wrong for men to have beards
and preachers to have beards
And that was like a big thing. They would say only communists have beards
This is like a big thing in like the 60s and 70s and stuff like that
So like independent funnel of baptists and baptists like no beards and it's like the bible kind of teaches the opposite if anything
Now first of all, if you're clean-shaven, there's nothing wrong with you. Okay?
There's nothing wrong. Obviously every woman is clean-shaven because you can't grow a beard and there's nothing wrong with you and men that can't grow a beard
There's nothing wrong with you
Now the russians don't believe that
I went soul winning in vancouver washington
And brandon deass was my partner and he didn't have a beard at the time
And uh, we were at the door and the guy was like you're okay
He is wrong. He have no beard. I was just like
Where is your beard? I'm just like
I said look he's a kid, you know, give him a break. Okay?
You know
There are your papers, you know, it's like there's your beard, you know, like you're a christian have beard
And so it's funny how people like, you know get so mad at not having a beard or having one or whatever
but
If anything I would agree with the russian, okay?
I'm not saying though that it's wrong to be clean-shaven. I'm just saying how much even more bizarre is it?
That you have baptists out there
You have preachers getting up there and teaching for doctrines the commandments of men that having a beard is somehow wrong
You know, whereas the old testament literally
Symbolizes and talks about christ and the things he suffered and then some of them is talking about his beard being plucked out
Now it doesn't say that in the new testament, but I believe that literally happened
They ripped out jesus beard
Now the only way for your beard to be ripped out is if you have one
Okay, it makes no sense. Aaron is commended on having a beard in the bible
And frankly speaking I hate shaving. So, you know, there's that
But i'll say this if the bible said I had to shave every single day I would do it
But it doesn't praise god
And these men they could have just shaved but you know what they let their beard grow back out
And there's nothing wrong with having a beard, you know, I I hope that the men of our church, you know, have a nice beard
There's nothing wrong with that
It can be the beardest bad bearded baptist, okay?
Now if you never want to have a beard and you don't like that or your work doesn't like you having a beard
No problem
But don't don't get mad at people that have a beard or teach that they're bad for having one, you know
There's just there's just all this teaching and fundamentalism these days
They seem to have nothing to do with the bible and seem everything to do with their own personal conviction
Like washing their hands before they eat or using certain four-letter words or something like that, you know
And they get they get so uptight and so mad about things the bible doesn't even actually say anywhere
As opposed to the things the bible literally says
And of course these men
Having, you know this beard cut in half
They feel ashamed they wait for it to grow back
And and then they eventually are going to be entered back into the into the camp
It says in verse six and the soul that turned it after such as half. I'm, sorry. I i'm still in leviticus
Verse six and when the children of aman saw that they stank before david
The children of aman sent and hired the syrians of beth riab and the syrians of zoba 20 000 footmen
And of king mayika a thousand men and of ishtob 12 000 men now, here's the thing
It says and when the children of aman saw that they stank before david. Well, what do you think was going to happen?
when you cut
The servants beards in half and clothes in half and send them away in an embarrassing shame. Did you think david? That was cool
Thanks, buddy
Like it's like hey, you know, I think they're gonna be mad about this you think like that was bizarre
But they go they go even further
Instead of just saying you know what?
That was that wasn't a good idea
Let's go ahead and send some other people and say hey, we thought these guys were spies
We're really sorry
Here's some money
You know
Here's a gift for those guys. We're really sorry for doing that today
What do you think david would have done?
Probably get you know, david's a pretty gracious guy. He probably been like, you know what no problem
Water under the bridge
I get it. You thought they were spies
We're gonna we're gonna move on but what do they do they then hire men?
They hire an entire army
Look what it says in verse seven and when david heard of it
He sent joeb and all the hosts of the mighty men now notice this
Verse seven it says when david heard of it. What is david hearing of is david hearing of the shame that they did
Or is he hearing of the army that they just created?
it's the army because
Notice that even though they got ashamed david didn't end up building an army to go attack them and hurt them
It wasn't until they decided they were going to attack him that he's like, okay. Well now we need to get the troops out
You notice david was even pretty gracious and pretty long suffering even after having been pretty embarrassed
Which then goes to show again. David's character is really high
It's but but when someone's going to bring out a whole army to get you. Well now it's time to
Basically defend ourselves now keep your finger here and go to proverbs chapter 17 go to proverbs chapter 17
So we want to give people grace
And even when they screw up we give them more grace
But there does come a breaking point, you know, the bible says to live peaceably with all men
But it also says like as much
Is lie within you as if it's possible, you know, it doesn't say like just period peace
It says hey if it's possible
Because you know when someone breaks into my house with a gun that's not time for me to show them grace
Unless that's what I have etched on my gun
So
It's not it's not what i'm going to show them peace i'll show them the peacemaker
So, you know the bible is a it does teach pacifism
to an extent
Right. We don't want to enter into war. We don't want to enter into battle
We don't want to fight a physical fight, but if someone's knocking down our door
You better believe we're going to defend ourselves and we're going to defend our wives and we're going to defend our children
And you know, that's what they say in the in this verse when we get a little bit further down there
It's like to some degree
You're not right with god
If you're a man and you're just going to lie down and let your entire family and nation be destroyed
Okay
As much as you know possible we seek for peace, you know, i'm for peace, but when I speak they are for war
And proverbs 17 look what it says in verse 14
The beginning of strife is as when one leadeth out water
Therefore leave off contention before be metaled with
So it's like saying once you kind of like open the door of problems
Sometimes it's impossible
To to catch it and and re and basically fix it kind of like a glass of water if I knock off a glass of water
All the water's coming out and it's just like over it's like there's no like let's put the water back in the cup
You know like it's just it's just done
Okay, and it's bigger. It's a big mess that I didn't want to have to deal with
So it's like once these guys open this door this can of worms of hey
We've ashamed we've shamed your servants and we just hired a huge army to come attack you
Now there's kind of like no going back
Now you just basically open the door to just all these problems. You never had to do it
The children of human never had to go and enter into this war
Had to basically, you know put david in this type of situation
But once you put them in that situation, you know what you're going to suffer the consequences of those actions
Go back and look at verse number
eight
And the children of emma came out and put in the battle
Put the battle in array at the entering end of the gate and the syrians of zoba and of rehop and ishtob and mecca
Were by themselves in the field when joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind
He chose of all the choice men of israel and put them in array
Against the syrians and the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of abishai his brother
That he might put them in array against the children of ammon
Now what I like about this and you know joab's an interesting character in the bible. I think there's good and bad
But I like this part because I think that it kind of shows that joab
Is a person that's going to take
the biggest challenge
And he's not going to he's not going to shift the burden, you know a leader a good leader
Doesn't shift the biggest burdens
They take them on themselves
And and notice he says that he takes the cheapest of the men the choice men of israel
And it's he himself is going to face the syrians also telling us that the syrians
are probably the more
Skilled bat, you know warriors probably the more difficult army than the children of ammon
It's also probably why the ammonites hired the syrians because of course if you're going to hire someone you're probably going to hire the best
You're not going to hire the weakest you're not going to hire the french
It wasn't like oh and the children even hired the french to come and fight for them. It was like they already surrendered, you know
They're going to fire the syrians because and you know if you study history through the bible
The syrians and the syrian armies are always the most fierce
They're a dreadful army
They're they're really not a very fair
fight
They'll do wicked things like they'll just destroy women and children
They're vicious they're mean
They just they just like your money. They'll take your money and they want to destroy things
But notice joe is like, okay
I'm going to take the best guys and me and him we're going to take them and then abishai you get the scrub
Team you get b team and you guys take the ammonites
That's verse 11. He said if the syrians be too strong for me now shall help me
But if the children of amma be strong for thee then I will come and help thee
So also they have this idea that hey two are better than one
And of course the bible teaches this they got each other's back as it were they're all surrounded
And so we got this side you guys got that side
And if if we're if you're losing we'll come help you guys if you're losing vice versa, you know, whatever it is
We're just going to keep each other's backs. We're going to fight. This is a real battle
We're ready verse 12 be of good courage and let us play them in for our people
And for the cities of our god and the lord do that which seemeth him good
Do you know what he said? He said look?
This is a righteous fight
We're gonna fight for god and you know what if I die fighting for god
Then just blessed be the name of the lord whatever god wants to happen
Blessed be god. At least i'm fighting for god
Hey, you know what? You may not win every battle. You may not win every fight
You may even get destroyed but at least if you're on the right team
It's all worth it
I don't want to I don't want to win
And have you know because I was on the bad team. I would rather lose and be on the right team
I would rather lose winning the right battle
Than win all day long on the on the wrong team
There's a lot of people that don't feel that way a lot of people know that they're on their they're helping the wrong team
But they're just afraid of losing
It's like well
I know that there's these group of satanists that are attacking a church
But I just want to side with the satanists because I just don't want them to attack me and me lose
It's like I would rather lose
Than join up with a bunch of satanists
Than feeding a bunch of god-hating reprobates
You know, that's bizarre logic. You know, that's what a lot of people do because they get scared
They get afraid of the fight and so they just join in with the wrong side with the wrong team
And often you end up losing
When you thought you were going to lose by being on the right team because you know what god wins
God constantly wins battles and even when there's setbacks and it seems like there's losses
It's like you'd better be on that guy's side
You know when daniel got thrown in the lion's den
You don't think that all those enemies didn't have the greatest party of their life that night
and
I mean they were having a party at the building, you know with all the satanists. I mean they were just like
And then the second night, you know, and then and then they hear that dan, you know
Daniel came out and I guarantee their heart sank so deep. It didn't it was just like
Just kind of like abigail when she went and told her reprobate husband nabal
Hey, you know that guy david you didn't want to feed I fed him
And I prayed that god would curse you
And then the bible says that his heart just like basically turned to stone and he just died within himself. He's just like
And then like 10 days later he died finally went to hell
You never know I mean, of course there's going to be a night of rejoicing you don't think that judas wasn't so excited with all
those pieces of silver
The night I mean he was skipping I mean judas is a jew who just got money
Office of a guy getting falsely accused. I mean, he's just like that was the coolest gig ever. Whoo
But then a couple days later he's hanging himself
A couple days later, he's you know, he wants to kill himself
He's so distraught about the evil that he did
You know hayman you reading the bible. I mean he has the great he's like I got invited to a party with esther
and the king
And he said he wants to put he wants to do this like awesome thing for some guy
You know
This really awesome guy in the bible
I can't hear this really awesome guy and I can't think of anybody better than that guy, you know
So
And then he has to drag mordecai through the time I don't think I mean that he had to hate that so hard
Can you imagine?
If our protesters had to drag our parade float down the streets like a steadfast baptist church parade float
They wouldn't do it they would just kill themselves or something probably wouldn't they
But
But you know eventually you're going to win when you're on the right team
So you just go out there and you say you know what even if god kills some of us
Even if some of us lose even if we all lose, you know, we're still winners because we're on the right team
And it's like it's like this. It's like the finals, you know in the nba finals
You could you could lose the first game
200 to zero
And you could break both your legs and be out for the season
But guess what? You're going to win the finals
Because god because you know, jesus is going to get put in the last quarter and he doesn't miss
You know, he's going to dunk on all of them
He's going to just you know win the game so it's like even though you lost, you know
It was embarrassing or whatever whatever you did at least you're on the right team
And i'm telling you, you know, I don't know what the future beholds
For god's people for our church for the future, you know what I just know that i'm on the right team
And i've already realized i'm on the right team. And so i'm just excited that I get to fight
For the right team
And you know what i'm gonna fight I as a kid I loved fighting
I did it all the time
I played my mom was like
You just like love war and strategy
And fighting and I did and like every computer game ever played is always about war and strategy and fighting
And I was really good at some of those games
And you know what I think that all things work together for good and I think that god put a fire in me to fight
Because he knew that I would want to keep fighting for him and i'm i'm ready to fight
And to figure out new ways and sometimes you lose at first but then you figure out how to win
You know, it's really frustrating
When you play like jacob or jared and ping pong you just crush them
the first game and then they make these adjustments
And then you start losing you're thinking like what happened, you know, because they like they think about it or something
I don't think about it. So
but it's like
We're going to keep making adjustments
And we're going to keep figuring out what works and we're just going to keep fighting
And we're going to be of good courage
It says in verse 13 and jub drew nigh and the people that were with him
Until the battle against the syrians and they fled before him
And when the children of ammon saw that the syrians are fled then fled they also before abishai
And entered into the city
So jub returned from the children of ammon and came to jerusalem and when the syrians saw that they were smitten before israel
They gathered themselves together and had resor sent
Brought out the syrians that were beyond the river and they came to helum
And show back the captain of the host of had a resor went before them
And when it was told david he gathered all israel together and passed over jordan came to helum
And the syrians set themselves in a way against david and fought with him
And the syrians fled before israel and david slew the men of 700 chariots of the syrians
And 40 000 horsemen and smote show back the captain of their host who died there
And when all the kings that were servants to had a resor saw that they were smitten before israel
They made peace with israel and served them. So the syrians feared to help the children of ammon anymore now
Here's here's the point that I want to kind of finish on
And go if you would to first timothy chapter six. That's the place i'm gonna have you turn
But if you think about this the syrians also
They got into the wrong battle
You know, they're just mercenaries
And and it's really stupid
To just join up
With the wrong people. He's like, oh, I don't really care, but they hired me
So i'm just gonna go and i'm gonna fight for them or i'll be on their team or whatever
Because now they get destroyed by the righteous people
and
They get the same destruction the children of ammon did even though they had no animosity
And let me tell you something when you join up with wicked people. God will often give you the same punishment
That he was going to give to the really wicked people just because you sided with them
And I see a lot of baptists I see a lot of christians so-called
I see a lot of people out there siding with the wicked and i'm just thinking like man you are making a giant mistake
Because you may get the exact same punishment
You know, you need to just stay away from the wicked
And not help them and not assist them and not do them good and they may turn and rend you later. Anyways
They may be hired against you pretty soon
You know mercenaries just go to the highest bidder
That's why they're dangerous they're not loyal people
You know, that's what I love about our church is, you know, god's people are loyal people
They love each other. They're not they're not you know
It's it's not like someone could come in here and offer me money
To betray anybody in this room because money is meaningless to me in comparison to being loyal to my fellow church members
And I guarantee there's plenty of other people in here
That money would not be a factor on if they're gonna love or or hate their brother in christ
They're just they just love their brother and sister in christ. They're not interested in money
They're not interested in the things of this world, but you know what people that are not saved
They'll do this to you in a heartbeat
Look what they do to all the celebrities and the hollywood's, you know people
I mean people that they just love as soon as they say something that they don't like
They just cancel them and destroy them and want nothing to do with them
You know, we shouldn't have that kind of cancel culture amongst christians
Where someone in our church does something that we don't like and we just cancel them
And we just get rid of them and dispose of them and you know
People in here can do stuff. I don't like and I can still be their friend and I can still be nice to them
And I can still do good under them
You know, don't just don't just burn everybody because they're not perfect or they do something wrong or they do stuff
You don't like they dressed away or they said something or whatever, you know
Because if you just keep burning everybody you'll end up having nobody to hang out with
We're supposed to be a gracious people a loving people a kind people giving people forgiveness, you know being
Being like god who constantly gives us second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eight chances now i'll say this
I don't think that anybody in here has to be best friends with anybody else in the room
Like don't hear me wrong. I'm not saying like if you just really can't stand someone in here. Don't force yourself to like them. Okay
There's enough people in here to go around but at the same time you don't want to just have this mentality
We're just constantly burning people and getting mad at everybody and not letting things go, you know
We should be loyal to each other
We should have camaraderie with one another we should be like true brothers and sisters in christ
Which we get really mad at each other and we fight a little bit
But if someone else picks on us, we're right there to defend them
We're right there to you know, stand alongside them
And even if they were in the wrong we're still their brother we're still their sister
you know
It it's it's funny to me
It's like i've had pastor friends defend me when they totally disagree with me on things
Just because they're my friend like a real friend a real brother in christ
Whereas people that don't they don't like you and they're not really your friend. They'll pick you apart over everything
So
You know, there's been people of in my church
There's been leaders in my church that make decisions that i'm thinking like that was stupid
Like what idiot are you?
But then but I think that I don't say that and then when people talk to me I defend them
And I say look this person is doing the best they can they made this decision because you know
You know, but internally i'm like man, you're an idiot
Why do you why did you do that? That was so stupid?
But i'll defend them all day long because I love them and I want to give them grace
And you know what? It's all i'm the only one that's allowed to make fun of them. No, i'm just kidding
Isn't that what a brother's like, you know brother's the only one that's allowed to pick on their little brother or whatever
It's like I you know, I want to have the same mentality. It's like hey
I'll make fun of you all day long. But if someone else makes fun of you then you know, you're you've got a problem with me
And at the end of the day though
We're going to be in battles. We don't know what what's who's going to win who's going to lose
We don't know what's going to happen to us. It doesn't really matter
All we're all we're going to do is though is we're going to fight
And I love this verse because it says in verse 12 fight the good fight of faith
Lay hold on eternal life. There's so many things you could fight for
you could fight for
You know your your job you can fight for your house you can fight for your promotion you can fight for
All manner of things in this life carnal things you could fight to win the masters
you know
if I were to be honest if I could win any sporting achievement the masters is like
It's definitely the best. Okay, nothing embarrassing you get a green jacket, okay?
Okay
Like it's definitely the greatest achievement
I don't care what you think about any other sport certainly not baseball, okay?
But you know any any kind of achievement is like but you know to get that to win the masters. It's a fight
You know the people that are good at golf. I mean they play golf like eight nine hours a day
They train they weight lift. They have to eat a certain diet
you know, i've seen some of these golfers they wear these like
Uh trackers on their body that track everything about them their heartbeat
How many minutes they sleep?
Just like everything is like their whole life is just like about golf
And they just they're constantly practicing they go to sports psychologists, and they just like they hit balls all the time
And and you know when you get into that environment, you know in golf, it's it's the biggest mental fight
Because you know you're constantly fighting
You know a bad shot or the weather elements or you have to fight, you know, all the different environment
things that are going on
If you're going to win the super bowl or any of those kind of things you're fighting like every moment
You're fighting the the cornerbacks and the rest and the time and you know a lot of football games a lot of basketball games
They come down to the final seconds
They come down to the final, you know, hundreds of seconds
I mean sometimes a national championship is decided by a guy shooting a basket
In the final I mean the buzzer has gone off the balls in the air
And if it goes in they win and if it doesn't they lose
I mean they have to fight
Just every ounce of their being, you know, they're they're giving it every single
You know inch and every single effort, you know women giving birth
It's it seems like it's taking all of their energy times 100
To get that thing going it's just like I don't I would just die probably I was just like watching
I'm, just thinking like I don't know how they do that
That's why they lose their their brain or whatever. They're just like, I don't know what's going on
I'm, just kidding. But seriously
But here's the thing. There's so many things you could fight for in this life
But why not fight for god?
Why not put that much effort and energy into the things of god into church into soul
And I mean what if we had a group of people that they're just they're eating and sleeping the bible
They're they're teaching it to their children. They're going soul winning. They just they sing the hymns all day long
I mean, they're just they're constantly praising the lord and they say hey, here are my lord send me
Hey, i'm ready to fight and you know what? I'm gonna really lay. Hold on
I'm, not gonna lay hold on that trophy i'm gonna lay hold on eternal life because that's what i'm fighting for
I'm fighting for my home in heaven
I'm fighting for the souls that i'm going to take with me into eternal life
I'm fighting for the gospel i'm fighting for the king james bible
I'm fighting for the deity of jesus christ. I'm fighting for the trinity. I'm fighting for the post-trib pre-rath rapture
Hey, i'm fighting for all of these doctrines. I'm earnestly going to contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints
You know what? I'm going to fight for every word in the bible. I'll fight for bastard. I'll fight for hell
I'll fight for damnation. I'll fight for all of it
You know what? Because it's all under attack and it's all important and you know
I'd rather lay hold on eternal life than the things of this world
You know when you get a really tight grip on the things of this world you get a really loose grip on these things
Whereas you say you know what? This is what matters to me
Preaching this you know what matters to me leviticus
Not some mansion somewhere
Not some building somewhere not any of these other things, you know, it matters to me the romans road
You know, it can you know, it's in romans romans one
You know what i'd be afraid that they would say hey
Let's get rid of the book of romans because of romans one, but isn't that some of the greatest soul winning?
And let me tell you something every single attack
Whether they'll admit it or not is to stop getting people to believe in the gospel getting saved
You know, they nuke our youtube channel and they'll say oh it's because of the hate
But they also want to take down our gospel soul-winning videos too with it
And that's really what the devil's after and he doesn't care what lie or slander he brings up to try and disguise his motives
You know, you know why there's all this anti-white
ism in america
You want me to be let's be real frank. Okay
Hey, i'm just gonna just lay it out here
You want to know why there's such an attack on white people?
Because all the pastors doing something in this country are white
That's why
And they hate
White men because let me tell you something the pastors that are doing something major for god in this world are white men
Why is it also against men?
Because you know who's a pastor a man
And if you're not a man and you're a pastor, you're not a real pastor. You're a fake. You're a phony. You're a fraud
You know every single attack in our country
Is the stop from people getting saved is to stop them from hearing the gospel and let me tell you something i'm ready to fight
I'm not going to stop
I'm not going to back down. I'm not going to apologize for being white because you know what it's meaningless
Who cares if that i'm white, you know, and they don't care that i'm white
If every pastor doing something in this country is black, then they would just demonize black people
If they were all asian they would just demonize asian people
You know pretty soon they'll probably start demonizing hispanic people because you know what hispanic people actually
Have a high respect of the bible
And I think we're going to keep seeing a lot of hispanic people getting saved and doing big works for god
And you know, we might start having some great baptist churches for the spanish community and region and you know, they don't like them
Because they stop voting democrat or whatever
It's not furthering their satanic agenda
And they'll turn on them so fast. They're like, hey, we're letting you in the country
But if you're not going to vote our way, we'll deport you back
Because they don't really care
They just want the votes
And they'll just bring in whoever they want whoever they can and i'm telling you the devil is in full scale attack mode right now
And i'm saying bring it on
Right
Hey who who is going to fight for the children in this room who is going to fight for the children in this city?
Are we just going to let the devil have all the children of the next generation? Are we going to stand up and fight?
Are we going to say hey, yeah, take all the children and put them in a drag queen show
And take them to the public school system and let them read books that literally have pornography in them
And we're not just talking about pornography we're talking about trans
Disgusting filthy pornography that they're portraying the children in this country
And then if any child gets confused for a second, we'll drag them to some doctor
Some kook out there that will literally mutilate their body
And inject them with all kinds of drugs and all kinds of evil filth in their body
To try and convince them that men aren't women or something
Like who is going to stand up and fight them, you know, and they get all mad at our church
They're like, oh you guys believe the dick is 2013, but I don't see any of these other churches fighting this other stuff
When are they going to stand up and say anything, you know?
They won't say anything because they don't want anyone to ever fight them. They don't even want to get a fingernail, you know broken
they don't want the pastors in this country don't want to run their manicure or whatever and
their purse
You know, we need some men to actually stand up and fight against this evil and say hey
I'm, just gonna fight whatever happens to me happens to me
But i'm not just gonna lay down
And let my wife and let my children and let my neighbors and let my country and let my state just go to hell in
A hand basket and apparently what taga was fine with everybody going to hell until we showed up
Like oh we have unity. Yeah unity around the devil
unity around satanism
Unity around false doctrine. You know what i'm here to fight and i'm gonna keep fighting
And I don't care where I go or where I end up being i'm just gonna keep fighting
And we should too we should lay hold on eternal life
You know because guess what that can't be taken from me
I don't care what you do to me. I don't care what you say to me. I will always go to heaven
I'm going to heaven whether you like it or not
If you don't like me and you're going to heaven i'm going to see you there i'm going to shake your hand
You know, and if you don't start teaching god's commandments and doing them you might have to answer to me
Now, of course we'll answer to jesus and he's the most he's the star of the show we get that
You know what some people are going to rule and reign
And I know who's going to be ruling and reigning it's those that teach the least of the commandments and do them too
Not the people that are going around there giving subway sandwiches to the devil
But that guy's not even safe. Okay, so we don't have to worry about him
That guy's going straight to hell
He might be he might be under them
He's gonna be like you guys are better than me and it's like yeah, that's weird
True
It's true. I mean the false prophets are going to be at the bottom of the barrel my friend
Oh, we're so gracious and we're so kind. No, you're a wicked false prophet
And I could go on and on but look folks
The only thing that matters is the spiritual
And we need to just keep that in mind and keep that focus because it'll help us to stay fighting
If you get focused on the carnal, then you'll want to you'll want to drop out of the fight
You'll want to drop out of the fight
Let's close in prayer. Thank you heavenly father so much for our church
Thank you for giving us this opportunity to fight for you
I just thank you that i'm on the lord's side that i'm on the winning side
And not by my might not by my strength but by your might
And we already know the truth
The truth has made us free of all the sin and the evil and the wickedness that's in this world of deception
I pray that we wouldn't be embarrassed to tell people about the truth
That we wouldn't be embarrassed of what the word of god says
That we wouldn't be embarrassed that
We're righteous. We wouldn't be embarrassed of jesus christ
And we wouldn't be ashamed of him in a sinful and adulterous generation
And I pray that we would have
a deep
A deep love for the children in our hearts
so that we could fight for them so we'd know that we we don't want to just
feed them to the wolves
That we want to secure a future for them
And that the only thing that really matters is is the eternal life that we have awaiting for us
And I pray that you would just give us courage that you give us strength
To know that we are in the right fight
And that no matter what happens
We want to we would rather die
in the right fight
than to to cower and
Lay down or join the other side in jesus name. We pray amen
All right for our final song we'll go to song number
87 just when I need him most song 87 just when I need him most
Eight seven just when I need him most
Just when I need him jesus is near
Fear just when I falter
Just when I fear
Ready to help me ready to cheer
Just when I need him most
Jesus is near to comfort and cheer
Just when I need him most
Just when I need him jesus is true
Never forsaking all the way through
Giving for burdens pleasures anew
Just when I need him most
Jesus is near to comfort and cheer just when I need him most
Just when I need him jesus is strong
Tearing my burdens
all the day long
For all my sorrow
Giving a song
Just when I need him most
Jesus is near to comfort and cheer just when I need him most
Just when I need him he is my all
Answering when
Upon him I call
Tenderly watching lest I should fall
Just when I need him most
Jesus is near to comfort and cheer just when I need him most
God bless. Thanks for coming. You are dismissed