clothed immortal wings its fly to realms of day this my song through endless ages jesus led me all
the way this my song through endless ages jesus led me all the way amen good singing this evening
brother jeff would you open us in a word of prayer
amen all right for our second hymn this evening one for the kids if you'll turn to 176
jesus loves the little children 176 now this is a shorter one so what we're going to do is sing
it twice through and we'll just keep going right after we end we'll just loop back around in time
sing it through one more time give the kids a chance to sing it out 176 jesus loves the little
children 176. 176 let's sing remember we're going to do it twice let's start on the first there
jesus loves the little children all the children of the world red and yellow black and white
they are precious in his sight jesus loves the little children of the world jesus loves the
little children all the children of the world red and yellow black and white they are precious in
his side jesus loves the little children of the world amen thank you for coming to pure
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our thanksgiving service we also have our christmas candlelight service and this sunday grabbing
brother duncan he's going to be coming down and he's going to be preaching for you guys
um in november you're going to have a double dip of past i'm sorry brother chris agura he's going
to be coming november 14th and november uh 28th so a lot of good guest preachers coming out here
and that's exciting to have them out and be a blessing unto us prayer request if you've been
in prayer for brother edward domino's health and if you have any other prayer requests you can
always submit those throughout the week your words baptist um there in the back so and thanks
to all that participated in our conference it went really well we had a lot of fun uh in the
dowsport area and it was a great spirit and so i encourage you you can listen to those sermons i
i think one of them was on our our backup viewers channel and a couple of them were and then some
of them were on our other steadfast channel and we had a great time of fellowship and fun and so
thanks for you guys driving up there i know a lot of y'all went up there and we had a pretty good
time so that's pretty much all i have for announcements we'll go ahead and go to our third
song 106 abide with me brother cameron's relief for us 106 abide with me
all right 106 106
we'll sing there starting on the first abide with me fast falls the eventide
the darkness deepens lord with me avoid when other hell first fail and comforts flee
me help of the helpless so abide with me swift to its close ebbs out life's little day
earth's joys grow dim its glories pass away change and decay in all around i see
me oh thou who changes not abide with me i need thy presence every passing
power what but thy grace can boil the timpters power who like thyself my guide and stay can be
me through cloud and sunshine oh abide with me hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes shine
through the gloom and point me to the skies heaven's morning breaks and earth's vain shadows
flee in life and death oh lord abide with me amen while the offering plates are being passed around
turn if you would to ax chapter number 19 ax chapter number 19 we'll read that chapter as
all right we're there in ax chapter 19 the bible says and it came to pass that what apollos was
that quorum having paul passed through the upper coast came to ephesus and finding certain disciples
he said unto them have you received the holy ghost since you believe and they said unto him
we have not so much as heard whether there be any holy ghost and he said unto them what then were
you baptized and they said unto john's baptism then said paul john barely baptized the baptism
of repentance saying unto the people that they should be believed on him which should come after
him that is on christ jesus when they had heard this they were baptized in the name of the lord
jesus and when paul had laid his hands upon them the holy ghost came on them and they spake with
tongues and prophesied and all the men were about twelve and when he went into the synagogue and
spake boldly for the space of three months disputing and persuading the things concerning
the kingdom of god but when diverse were heard and hardened and believed not but spake evil of
that way before the multitude he departed from them and separated the disciples disputing daily
in the school of one tyranas and this continued by the space of two years so that they all they
which dwell in asia heard the word of lord jesus both jews and greeks and god wrought special
miracles by the hands of paul so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs
or aprons and the disease departed from them and the evil spirit went out of them
then the certain of the vagabond jews exorcists took upon them to call over which the hand of
evil spirits the name of the lord jesus saying we adjure you by jesus whom paul preaches and there
were seven sons and jews and chiefs of the priests which did so and the evil spirit answered and said
jesus i know and paul i know but who are ye and the men in whom the evil spirit was leaked on them
and overcame them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of the house of naked and
wounded and this was known to all the jews and greeks also dwelling at ephesus and the fear fell
on them all and the name of the lord jesus was magnified and many that believed came and confessed
and eschewed their deeds many of them also which used curious arts brought their book together
and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it 50 000 pieces of
silver so mighty grew the word of god and prevailed after these things were an ended
all purposed in the spirit when he had passed through mesdonia and akia and to jerusalem saying
after i have been there i must also see rome so he went into mesdonia to them that ministered
unto them timotheus and arastus but he himself stayed in asia for a season in the same time there
arose no small stir about the way but a certain man named demetrius silversmith which made silver
shrine for diana brought no small gain unto the craftsman whom he called together with the workmen
of look occupation like occupation and said sirs you know that by this craft we have our wealth
moreover you see then here that not alone this diffusion pieces but almost throughout all asia
this paul hath persuaded and turned away much people saying they be no god which are made with
hands so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught but also that the temple of the
great goddess diana should be despised and her magnificent magnificence should be destroyed
whom all asia and the world worshiped and when they heard these things they were full of wrath
and cried out saying great is diana of this vision and the whole city was filled with confusion
and having caught gaius and iraq when a mesdonia halls of companions and traveled
they rushed with one accord into the theater when paul would have entered into the people entered
into the people the disciples suffered or not and a certain of the chief asia which were in the
friends sent unto him desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theater some
therefore cried in one thing in some another where the assembly was confused and the more part knew
not wherefore they were came together and they drew alexander out of the multitude and the jews
putting him forward and alexander beckoned with the hand and wound and would have made his defense
unto the people but when they knew that he was a jew all with one voice about the space of two
hours cried out great is diana of the fission and when the town clerk had appeased the people
he said ye men of the pieces what men is there that knoweth not how the city of the fission
is the worshiper of the great goddess diana and of the image which fell down from jupiter
seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against ye ought to be quiet and to do nothing
rashly for ye have brought hither this men which are neither robbers of churches nor yet blasphemers
of your goddess wherefore if demetrius and the craftsmen which are with him have a matter against
any man the law is open and there are deputies then them impede one another but if you inquire
anything concerning the matters it shall be determined in a law full assembly for we are
in danger to be called in question for the day's uproar there is being no cause whereby we may give
an account of this concord and when he had thus spoken he displeased dismissed his emperors
let's have a quick word of prayer
thank you
men so we were going through the book of acts and we were in chapter 19
last time i was preaching and i didn't finish the entire chapter and so i just want to kind of finish
this chapter and we're going to pick back up in verse number 18 and the setting is that we're
in ephesus and so we haven't really changed locations in in chapter 19 you can even see in
the verse one it had said and it came to pass that while paul's was at courant paul having passed
through the upper coast came to ephesus and finding certain disciples so the setting is
ephesus and it's going to continue being uh ephesus and then we pick up in verse 18 it says
and many that believe came and confessed and showed their deeds so the apostle paul is there
he's doing special miracles he's getting people saved he's preaching the gospel they end up seeing
a lot of these special miracles of healing and devils being cast out because of that it says that
many believe and because they believe they're confessing now their confession it's really
important to understand the confession here is really a confessing that christ is the son of god
they're confessing jesus christ is their savior it's not necessarily they repented of all their
sins or they were confessing their sins of the priest or some catholic interpretation here
it's simply that they're confessing that they're now a christian their their faith is in christ
and it says a little bit more in this uh verse it says and showed their deeds now
now in connection with believing in jesus christ obviously the most logical thing to do
after you've believed in christ would be to abandon whatever false religion you had before
and wholeheartedly accept christ now we understand that someone doesn't uh have to do that to be
saved i mean the bible makes it clear that salvation is not of works so theoretically
someone can believe on jesus christ and just go on with their life and do nothing different
and they're still headed for heaven but that's not a good idea that's not something that we
emphasize after salvation we emphasize getting what baptized we emphasize you know going to
church we emphasize reading the bible and obviously a big thing to do would be to turn
away from whatever false religion you'd been connected with in the past that's why i don't
really like it when people uh going soul winning will kind of uh they'll be real
gentle about someone's false church you know they'll be really gentle about them going to
a catholic church or some wicked church that they weren't saved in at all and be like well
we don't want to take you from a good church or you know it's not a big deal which church you go
to or i don't you know things like that you know you want to be careful to say uh things that are
true and you know not give them the wrong impression you know that's why a lot of times
when i'm done giving someone the gospel i'll make it real clear i say the church you're going to is
bad it's wrong you shouldn't be going there this is a false religion and in today's world is a
little bit more nuanced than it was back then back then or at least in this specific chapter
an example it wasn't like another form of christianity they converted from they're
committing converting from literal idols or they're converting from a complete false religion
and in this case it's even worse than that look what it says in verse 19 many of them also which
used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men and they counted
the price of them and found it 50,000 pieces of silver so mightily grew the word of god and
prevailed so not only that some of these people are mixed up in what you know appears to be some
kind of a witchcraft or sorcery these books could have been false religion you know is the seven
part series of harry potter and i mean these people just brought them together and they're
burning them and look this is a pretty important uh thing to understand is that they burn these
books as an evidence and a sign that they're no longer going to want to serve you know a false
religion have anything to do with a false religion they're burning bridges as it were they're saying
you know what i'm a christian now i'm going to do christian things and honestly this is a hefty
price that they're paying now we don't know for sure i just want to give you just an idea
of what this is because we read 50,000 pieces of silver and we're just like okay what does that
even mean it's kind of hard to put a tangible price with that but i want to give you an idea
so keep your finger here go to exodus 21 for a moment go to exodus chapter 21 now this is a long
time ago exodus in comparison to the book of acts however you know the bible doesn't really teach
the concept of inflation it's not a it's not a biblical principle it's not something that god
wanted it's not something that god's really inventing that's in in my mind a more modern
invention of economics and it's really just a wicked invention to steal money from the poor
but i don't want to get super deep into that economic theory really the point that i just
want to make is that the price of goods wasn't drastically changing for you know the old testament
or even into the new testament you know the same amount of money should have been about the same
price of goods for year after year after year century after century even millennia after
millennia it should have been the exact same price now in today's world a lot of things that
are laws in the books they've gotten kind of obscured by inflation because they would literally
put monetary value for theft or for other kinds of issues or criminality type pieces of legislation
and they'd put like twenty dollars or five dollars which at the time of writing legislation that
twenty dollars might have been more like two thousand in modern day times or something like
that whereas twenty bucks today is almost like nothing and so you know because of inflation it's
kind of altered our viewpoint on things but i think when we look at exodus there's not a great
chasm of inflation or something that's really altering the price of goods from then into acts
so it's probably a relatively similar figure when it comes to trying to calculate the price i say
that all to give you some idea x is 21 look at verse 32 the bible says this if the ox shall push
a man servant or maid servant he shall give unto their master 30 shekels of silver and the ox shall
be stoned so notice it gives you a price of killing this ox so you know and again reading
this chapter it's probably a very uh a very reasonable price for the ox it's probably not
really inflated there's probably not necessarily attached penalties so we could say generally
speaking an ox is worth about 30 pieces of silver okay let's go back to our chapter now let's think
about some math for a moment how much is a an ox worth today now i'm just going to assign just
a generic price for cow because if you get a very specific bull in today's breeding market it could
be real expensive i mean it could be ten thousand bucks or fifteen thousand dollars but just on
average a cow or you know something that's used in as a heifer today would be around fifteen hundred
to thirty five hundred dollars depending on weight specifically but also just brand and you know how
it's fed and certain things that kind of go into its quality of the beef you know it's marbling
things like that but let's just say it's about two thousand bucks okay if it's about two thousand
dollars and it was thirty pieces of silver how much would that make one piece of silver anybody
know any homeschoolers can do some math for me in their head two thousand dollars divided by thirty
pieces of silver what would that roughly be for a piece of silver about sixty seven all right sixty
seven dollars for a piece of silver now if you you you kind of bump that up maybe use a higher
end number for a cow maybe or this was an ox you know maybe it was like the thirty five hundred
then you're getting even closer to like over even a little bit over a hundred dollars
per per piece of silver so i would say you know based on that number it's anywhere from about sixty
seven dollars to maybe a hundred and twenty dollars um if you look at other places in in
scripture it seems to be a pretty reasonable number there's all kinds of places where it puts
these numbers and it's kind of interesting when you think about it like does anybody remember how
much samson was sold out to the lila how many pieces of silver it was eleven hundred okay so
it's eleven hundred pieces of silver now if we put our modern number with that that would be about a
hundred thousand dollars you know that she ended up getting to sell out samson now what about jesus
how many pieces of silver was he sold out for how many pieces thirty there we go all right someone
reads the bible and so it was thirty pieces of silver so what would that be that would be like
you know maybe three thousand dollars or something like that so we kind of have some idea of some of
these numbers what about this one though fifty thousand pieces of silver if we put you know
around a hundred dollars for the price of a silver that would be five million dollars
five million now if you go a real low in number maybe it was like only a half a million dollars
but it's like almost probably at a bare minimum a half a million could even be all the way up to
like six seven million dollars that is the the equivalent in today's currency how much money
they're literally burning in their books now that tells me a couple different things first of all
it tells me that false religion has got some big bucks attached to it doesn't it
i mean that's some serious money uh when it comes to the amount of money that's attached to these
type of books and this false religion and everything that's going on it also tells you
another thing that these people are real serious about serving god weren't they i mean you don't
just burn five million dollars just on a whim i mean that's a real serious thing you know you
must actually believe you know this is real and this is important and you're burning bridges and
here's another thing you also don't care about money that much because wouldn't some people say
like well let's sell them you know like i'll get rid of it but let's just sell it right they're
not even selling it they're burning it and you say why are they burning it well they just don't
want the next part they don't want someone else to get entrapped in the false religion they're
saying this stuff is wicked it's not just like well i'm not going to use it anymore it's like
a garage sale item you know one man's trash is another man's treasure they're like this is just
trash and so they just want to burn it they want to get rid of it they want nothing to do with it
anymore and they made a public showing of it signifying how much they were willing to serve
the lord how they've changed their mind i mean this is some serious stuff here now that's going
to freak people out you know it's going to freak people out the ones that make those books the ones
that sell those books the ones that are distributing those books they're going to say
thinking like whoa this is going to start hurting our profits you know people are burning books here
they're burning our are the ones that we're selling that's not going to be very good publicity
for our merchandise you know for the stuff that we sell and really i think the latter portion of
this chapter is really going to hit and hammer this one thought of you know thinking about the
cost of serving christ and thinking about money and monetary things let's keep reading it says in
verse 21 after these things were it ended paul purposed in the spirit when he passed through
mastodonia nakaya to go to jerusalem saying after i have been there i must also see rome and he sent
into macedonia two of them that ministered unto him to motheus and rastus but he himself stayed
in asia for a season in the same time there was no small stir about that way for a certain man
named demetrius a silversmith which made silver shrines for diana brought no small gain under the
craftsman whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation and said sirs you know that by
this craft we have our wealth moreover you see and hear that not alone at ephesus but almost
throughout all asia this paul persuaded and turned away much people saying that they be no gods which
are made with hands so that not only this our craft is in danger to be said it not but also
that the temple of the great goddess diana should be despised and her magnificence should be
destroyed whom all asia and the world worshipeth now we just saw the burn all these these books
which was of great price of a lot of money now someone takes notice of what's going on in this
situation and they start freaking out it's that demetrius and notice a few things about
demetrius it says in verse 24 who brought no small gain under the craftsman meaning
that the stuff that he's making the stuff that he's selling is of high value he's making huge
profits on the silversmithing that he's doing what is a silversmith it's one who graves or makes
graven images you know he carves he molts uh you know graven structures that are going to be diana
are going to be other false gods that then he can sell at a really high price and of course it's
going to be real expensive because the material being used is silver itself so just the fact that
it's already silver is going to make it costly the fact that it's going to take a lot of skill a lot
of effort a lot of creativity in order to form these kind of images and to make them into
something that's really attractive that someone wants to buy takes a lot of attention to detail
you know you have to do these probably in small batches and everything like that he's going to
have a huge profit margin that he can attach to these type of goods and he's saying look i make
these little silver shrines you know i make uh these little houses and huts for diana and and you
know he's make he's he's part of the program now again there could be all manner of different
people involved in this maybe he only makes the houses he's probably also making graven images
too but obviously whoever diana is or however they worship diana they've got the graven images
they've got the little houses and really when i think about this you know i think about catholics
let's just be honest because if you go into a catholic neighborhood you know you're going to
find all kinds of shrines for mary and they worship mary and they literally have all kinds
of statues to marry and if you want to go see this go to a restaurant called bucket of beppo
okay who's ever eaten at a bucket of beppo anybody i don't recommend it but i did it on accident
because i didn't realize how catholic it is this restaurant literally you walk it like in the wall
they have all kinds of mary shrines and one of the tables that i walked by on my way to the bathroom
literally had a pope head just like right in the center of the table freaked me out i'm just like
you just walk you just see a head on a table and you're just like what was that you know it's like
the catholic head but look catholics literally have all manner of false graven images and all
kinds of housing and huts you know there's certain areas in phoenix i saw this a lot where you'd go
into a real hispanic neighborhood and they're very catholic that they literally just have like this
mini house like right in their front yard it's like a mini house that's like a little hut that's
got like all these graven images in them and then they like decorate it and it's got lights and
whatever and it's just it's bizarre you're just like what is this type of stuff but obviously
someone's selling that merchandise someone's selling those graven images someone's selling
those shrines someone's selling those huts so you know you walk in and you convert them all
to christianity that's not going to be good for business that's not going to be good for the
catholic superstore when everybody becomes a christian it's not going to work out very good for
diana the superstore or whatever you know who's selling all these goods whenever you're bringing
in true religion whenever you're bringing in christianity in the bible and notice in verse 26
this is what paul was saying saying that they be no gods which are made with hands meaning
every graven image is false so he's saying i make stuff for diana but i'm going to bring this up to
all of the guys that are involved in making graven images all the people that are involved
in this kind of merchandise because we're all affected and so he's kind of creating a confederacy
or a conspiracy and kind of this group and he's plumping them all together saying look if we don't
do something you know we're going to lose our wealth he said in verse 25 he said ye know that
by this craft we have our wealth so the the rich people are what the ones selling the merchandise
to false religion and it's no different today you want to you want to know where a lot of money is
it's in false religion and it's the people that are selling false religion today they're selling
you know worshiping devils and literally you know the bible tells us in first corinthians
chapter number 10 that that which they sacrifice unto idols they sacrifice unto devils so this is
literally the devil's religion it's literally that they're giving money to it and and they're
paying for it and a lot of money funnels into false religion now keep your finger here because
there's another guy in the bible that's mentioned go to second timothy chapter number four there's
another guy mentioned in the bible that's going to be really related to this kind of a subject
matter to this chapter now i don't think it's the same guy as demetrius maybe it is i don't know
there's no way to know for sure there's another guy in this chapter that actually has his name
could be a different guy could be the same guy i'm not exactly sure but it's the same situation
second timothy chapter four look at verse 14 alexander the coppersmith did me much evil
the lord reward him according to his words so he's probably a different guy than demetrius
just because demetrius is a silversmith alexander is known as the coppersmith but there is another
alexander that's mentioned in this chapter probably a different guy but at the end of the day
he's the same person as demetrius meaning what people that are making graven images hate
christians why because christians are coming in and destroying their wealth destroying their money
and they don't have the same attitude as all the people they got saved notice all the people that
got saved they burned all their books they literally lit five million dollars on fire
but the guy that's not saved he doesn't want to lose his job he doesn't want to lose his
silversmithing position he doesn't want to stop making shrines into a false god he doesn't really
care that much about diana he obviously alludes to that fact it's like oh man we're gonna you know
this is a great place where people come to worship you know he probably says that
not because he really wants to worship diana but think about it this way
when in any when any time there's an epicenter of false religion what do you often have you
have a lot of people coming into that area you have a lot of people traveling into that area
do you have a lot of tourists you have a lot of people making their sojourning pilgrimage
and what do they like to do they like to buy merchandise have you ever been to walt disney
world okay and have you ever been to a football game ever been to a baseball game what do they
sell you they sell you a hot dog for twenty dollars you know it's like how how much money
did it cost you to make that five cents okay how much do you sell for twenty dollars all right
i mean it's like you want a coke yeah ten bucks you want ice cream ten bucks you want anything
i mean it's it's egregious prices that they're charging because you traveled into that area
because it's a special center it's a special area so this is an epicenter of worshiping diana
you know this is one of the places where it's really big it's really popular it's kind of
like a main area worshiping him then these guys are real nervous about everybody coming to christian
and shutting down their tourist trap you know shutting down their heavy operation their heavy
hitting operation here of all this money that's being brought in and you know what like i said
false religions big bucks you know you go down to mexico and you know you'll see right at the border
when you're trying to come across idols you'll see i mean literally it's just lined up with
all manner of of graven images and idols and you have all these guys out there pedaling and selling
all manner of these big graven images and i mean these things are fancy i mean they got like wings
and they're like i mean they're like this big and they're all intricate and then got all kinds of
colors and they've got all manner of of graven image and they've got the dawn and they've got
you know the mafia boss and they've got angels and mary's and i mean just anything and everything
you ever imagine is a graven image they got it all lined up right there and they're trying to
sell it to everybody it's big business if you walk down there and you start preaching christ
on that street corner they might get mad at you they might turn on you because you're literally
driving away their customer base you're literally ruining their profits that are coming in and
there's a lot of false religion that's making some big bucks on it the catholics look at the pope
look at the where they're at you don't think there's a lot of money there in the vatican
in the vatican city i mean that thing's flowing with money that thing's overflowing with all
kinds of wealth and goods and money so you know what the catholic church doesn't like christians
preaching the gospel of jesus christ you want to know why they're killing christians throughout
the dark ages because it was costing them money it was costing the catholic church money and ties
and all the indulgences that they were selling it was indulgences you'd literally go to the catholic
priest and you would say hey i'm gonna i'm gonna steal the tomorrow here's 20 bucks so you can you
can pay for my sin hey i'm gonna go commit fornication tomorrow here's my how much money
do i owe you and then they would basically say oh you're exonerated from your sin that you commit
in the future literally that's what indulgences were they were paying the sin that's big bucks
because you know what i know for all sin it comes short of the glory of god if you can if you can
literally get people paying for sin i mean you're there's the sky's the limit there you're just
gonna be raking it in talk about since just start that business in vegas sin city i mean you're just
gonna get all kinds of money and in fact if you think about it casinos are like that because even
just to pay you have to pay to play in a lot of places you have to have an ante just even gamble
so you're like paying an indulgence just to get started gambling and sinning and there's all this
money attached to what sin and the false religion and the evil there's no new thing under the sun
and so when you start preaching the gospel of jesus christ you know what you do you start
turning off the gravy train of false religion you start turning off the gravy train of sin
and evil and smut and what's going to happen is they're going to end up turning on you
they're going to get mad at you for stopping their gains whether that be the catholics islam hinduism
any of those things why because it's affecting their pocketbook go to the first timmy chapter
number six first timothy chapter number six and there's an important point you have to realize in
the bible and i think this is something that we often don't necessarily trace backwards but when
it comes to evil in the world there's only one route to all evil what the bible tells us first
timothy chapter number six look at verse eight and having food and raiment let us be there with
content but they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish
and hurtful lust which drown men in destruction and perdition for the love of money is the root
of all evil which while some coveted after they've erred from the faith and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows but thou o man of god flee these things and follow after righteousness godliness
faith love patience meekness fight the good fight of faith and we could keep going in this chapter
you cannot overemphasize preaching against the love of money the love of money is the root of
all evil and i really like this chapter that we're reading in act in acts chapter 19 because
we see a strong dichotomy we see those who are willing to burn books and cost themselves
millions of dollars potentially and then we see the others who are holding on to their wealth
they're holding on to their money and it's going to cause all manner of evil and when it comes to
wickedness in this world when it comes to evil when it comes to harm it's always traced back
to the money money is the problem people love money and money is at the root of all the evil
that you see today it's like why do they destroy the twin towers as an inside job
well it doesn't hurt the fact that there was the world's largest gold repository underneath
and a large portion of that just happens to go on go missing afterwards it doesn't hurt the
fact that they get to enter into the middle east and do all kinds of war exploits which then just
puts all this money in the pocketbooks of the military industrial complex which then the
military industrial complex puts money in the pocketbook of a lobbyist which then a lobbyist
puts money back in the pocketbook of all the politicians and then it's just this recirculating
you know just constantly circulating money and money and money and look then they have inflation
more money you know any banks more money interest more money all the things that are going on in
this world that are just causing so much problems it's all about money my friend it always trace
backs to money you say hey i wonder why they want everybody to get a vaccine not because they care
about your health it's because of money what it's all about money and power and wealth and just
having all that control and look they think through money they have power and control and
all these things but really it's a vain it's a vain attempt at getting those things because
you'll never have enough you'll never get there it the devil doesn't care about you anyways the
devil's never going to hand you over the keys it's the devil that's the god of this world you know
and you can be his pawn for a little while but at the end of the day you're never going to have
enough you're never going to get that that's why we're supposed to just be content isn't that what
it said with food and raiment let us be there with content so you know it's not in that list
your curious books okay burn those hey everything else just get rid of don't care about don't worry
about look at the point that you're starving to death or the the point that you're freezing to
death yeah you need to worry about that you need to be like i need to get some food i need to get
some clothing right away i can't just be content uh perishing literally perishing but when you have
food and clothing can't you exist anywhere for any reason i mean homeless people seem to do
really good and and what do they need food and clothing right i mean as long as they got those
two things they can exist in california forever they can exist there until you know it basically
falls off in the ocean or whatever it is and at the end of the day that's all you really need
now i'm not saying be a homeless jerk or a homeless bum but what i am saying is this we
should stop caring about money we should stop caring about the things of this world and only
care about spiritual things and when we look at the great men of the bible that did great things
they were never chasing money you know paul's not chasing money on his trip and he's not looking to
see how many bucks he can get in fact he's kind of doing the opposite in a way because he doesn't
even pay himself legitimately he's just working on the side just even pay uh you know his partial
bills or whatever he's a tent maker on the side he's having to work his way through and at the
end of the day false religion is going to be the exact opposite they just want the money they just
want the income gimme gimme gimme and we look at all the churches today and in houston i feel like
they all have the same problem the love of money the love of money and it's causing a lot of issues
you know it'd be good if churches could just decide that they're not going to love money
and as soon as the church starts loving money you're going to see the ministry start to fail
start to turn into something that it's not supposed to have all kinds of weird issues
creeping into it that's why we have to get rid of the the love of money in our hearts
and we have to appreciate the only thing that has real value which is the word of god
you know the true riches today and look these things we'll give them give you one for free
i mean it's not going to cost you a lot of money you know if you when we burn all the false bibles
you know that costs a lot of money you can get a king james bible for a dollar but you know you
want to get an id you want to get you know the action bible you want to get that faggotty queer
bible he got how much was that thing 15 man it looked like it was expensive i mean some
bibles are 30 40 50 bucks i mean you get a scofield reference bible you get a john mcarthur study
bible or you get one i mean these things are like 50 bucks apiece and you know when we burn our
false bibles back here i guarantee if you looked at the the stock price of those items i mean it
was hundreds hundreds probably thousands of dollars all the books that were burning back
there and you say oh why would you do that because they're wicked trash because we're here to serve
god because we're pure words baptist church we're going to leave the pocketbook out of it and we're
going to say we just want the king james 1611 text and you know what instead of selling bibles
we give them away for free we're not here to see if we can make our own version of the bible
and start selling it like the southern baptist convention does with their home and christian
standard bible and with their bookstore called lifeway which notice lifeway is a failure anyways
why because it's not biblical and you know what i don't care about selling things or selling goods
that's why this church has never sold anything we don't sell stuff we give it away i'm not
interested in seeing how much money we can make as a church you know what even if people take all
of our money notice we can still show up and have church can't we notice we can still hear the word
of god being preached can't we youtube you can still upload for free hey you know they might
delete your channel but you just start a new one you know and you have like a hundred subscribers
but you know whatever then we gain a few here there and then once you hit like a thousand
they're like nuke him again you know and then you're like i'm back all right and you just keep
popping up and they just keep you know smashing them down or whatever and it's just a fun game
but at the end of the day you know church is us in person anyways you know i'm not trying to see
what kind of weird atheists i can reach online or whatever you know nuts to them you know it's
about the people that are in the room it's about us coming together it's about the holy spirit
being with us it's about jesus christ being in our midst and we need to say nuts to all the money
go to luke chapter 16 for a moment luke chapter 16 stop worshiping money today you know stop
caring so much about money today it means it's meaningless you know when you get into heaven
you're not going to know how much money anybody had on this earth when you're in heaven you won't
it's not like oh wow you must have had a lot of money on earth no you won't know no one will know
because it doesn't matter it doesn't there's no impact it doesn't matter where you lived it
doesn't matter what house you had it doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wore it's not
like oh sweet you must have wore the the cool jeans you know back on earth who cares you know
none of that stuff matters whatsoever it's vanity vanity of vanity say it the preacher all is vanity
you know the thing that matters is going to be how much you serve god what's going to matter
is the works that you did for the lord look at luke chapter 16 look at verse 13 verse 13 no
servant can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will
hold to the one and despise the other he cannot serve god and mammon and the pharisees also were
covetous heard all these things and they derided him and he said to them he or they which justify
yourselves before men god know with your hearts that which is highly esteemed among men is
abomination in the sight of god and here's the reality you cannot serve both money and god that's
what mammon pictures mammon represents money in the bible because what does money get you it's
bread right a lot of people even call money bread you know it's kind of a slang term about money and
at the end of the day you cannot serve both at some point there's going to be a breaking point
for you where you say you know what i'd rather have my money than god or you said rather have
god than my money and you know the people that in acts chapter 19 started off pretty good by saying
you know what let's just burn all these books what did they say money doesn't matter to us we want
god we want to serve the lord and you know what you're going to have a lot of pressure in the
future and you're going to have to decide who do you really serve where is your heart really at
people say i don't want to keep going to church and serving god and going soul winning and reading
my bible and praying no i need to worry about my job right now i need to worry about making
money right now i need to worry about my clothes right now i need to worry about my career right
now i need to worry about my education right now you know what none of those things matter
whatsoever and if you add eternity in mind you would say like i can't miss church i can't miss
soul winning i don't want to miss a payment i mean how many of you want to miss a paycheck this
this month anybody nobody nobody wanted to miss a paycheck that's weird how many of you want to
miss a spiritual paycheck though you know people won't won't just quit on their job i mean you know
people in this room all right obviously there's a lot of people that just are lazy in this world
today but if you don't want to skip a paycheck what do you do you show up at work because you
say i'm not going to miss my paycheck it's like people don't even want to go to work at all
people say i hate going to work i despise work i don't even want to go i there's no i know
nothing inside me that wants to go what's driving you to go there though your paycheck isn't it
because you know if you don't go they won't pay you they'll fire you but you know what the same
exists spiritually when you don't serve god guess what you're not getting a spiritual paycheck
but people are fine skipping spiritual paychecks but not the physical paycheck
and i'm telling you if you had eternity on your mind if you actually considered what's real
and what's going to have everlasting value you would say i'd rather skip a whole bunch of
physical paychecks and make sure that my spiritual paychecks keep getting checked
and keep getting cash and keep going into my 401k up in heaven
and you know what i want to get double payment i want my employer to pay the portion and i pay my
portion i want it all you know but what kind of person has that kind of a attitude one that walks
by faith and not by sight the person that walks by sight is so much more concerned with the physical
things that they have in this world rather than the spiritual things that they have in this world
and you know when you preach against the love of money it hurts because the flash is screaming
no what is this guy saying this guy's is crazy don't listen to him let's have cake you know
let's buy a fancy car let's let's live it up let's be like the hollywood celebrities
you know you got the devil on the one side and the angel on the other side
but at the end of the day you know what it's going to always be a constant war with your
flesh and with your spirit and you have to die daily and you have to say no i don't want to
serve money i don't really care about money all it gives me is problems anyways i'm just going to
lose it all anyways you know i don't like looking at george washington that much anyways or andrew
jackson or any of these other presidents you know imagine we're so far removed from them so it's a
little bit more palatable but imagine if your bucks were just bill clinton barack obama and
joe biden wouldn't you just love looking at that wouldn't you just love all that look george
washington was a free mason you really think he was just so much better of a person than these
other guys really so much more honorable and maybe some of them were i mean maybe at least some of
them knew that they were actually still a person and they knew their first name but at the end of
the day i mean they were probably still wicked some of these founding fathers literally wrote
their own bible i mean some of these founding fathers were wicked as hell thomas jefferson
he literally wrote his own version of the new testament taking out all the miracles of the bible
taking out everything that was negative i mean they he would make the joe of his witness blush
about how much he didn't believe in hell i mean he was just a freak it was a reprobate and it's
crazy i don't want that on my dollar i don't want that on my money i don't want to look at
thomas jefferson and be like oh man this is so great i got this god-hating reprobate
that i'm worshiping right now that i'm bowing down to it's like oh i don't bow down to diana
of the effusions oh yeah how about thomas jefferson how about andrew jackson how about
george washington how about abraham lincoln how about sakajawea you know you got your little gold
coin a sakajawea coin or whatever who you worshiping now who do you really serve now at the
end of the day you know we it's really easy to look at these chapters and be like oh what kind
of fools you know they worship raven images you know it's no different than just the the dollar
bills you got in your wallet and nowadays you don't even get that satisfaction it's just numbers on
a computer screen that are completely meaningless a fiat currency that's completely fake nobody
even realizes that we have to accept number 19 i mean who's to say you don't just add numbers
on the computer screen what does that even change i mean that's all they do anyways they're just
printing money they print money electronically they can just do whatever they want at this point
and people just don't even realize it it's all fake it's not real you're chasing the wind when
it comes to the money of this world today and you know what those that serve god he's going to make
sure you got clothes he's going to make sure you got food but at the end of the day you can't keep
take it you can't keep it and inflation will ruin it moth and rust and thieves will break through
and steal i mean you can't protect yourself these days no matter how much protection you try to have
no matter how many policies you have or whatever insurance or whatever bars or gates or locks or
anything that you have today you know what they can still figure out a way to rip you off take
advantage of you and you know what i say nuts to it take all that i got so i can get more rewards
in heaven just steal it from me because you know god would pay back like double quadruple five
times in the bible and i'm thinking like i wish i had more money for you to steal from me i wish
i lost more you know like come and take it or or give it away you know because god says you're
going to receive a hundred fold in this life in the next and i'm thinking like sweet and you know
what you say well i don't have a lot of money to give well what about your percentage of money that
you give away because the woman who had two mites who basically gave like two nickels or whatever
it was a hundred percent of her income and jesus said that she gave more than they all
that sounds pretty cool for her she lived a really poor a really lowly life having almost nothing but
she's gonna be filthy rich in heaven maybe it's not filthy but that's just pardon my phraseology
she's gonna be loaded in heaven all right i mean she's gonna be walking on the streets of gold
and having a huge mansion and we're gonna we're gonna be like there's gonna be this giant house
everywhere that everybody can see and we're like who's that and it's like that poor widow woman
with the two mites yeah that's her you know she's got the house on the hill right i mean she's the
one that we're all looking at people think like oh man i'm not bill gates i don't have all this
money in this life or whatever it's meaningless it was all a test anyways the question is how are
you doing on the test and you know the more money you have the harder the test gets honestly
the less you have the easier it is it's easier to give the two mites than it would be to give
millions of dollars than to burn the five million you know dollars worth of books or whatever it is
and so if you have riches you know you should be careful where your heart is if you don't
chase it don't try to go after it look what it says in verse 28 and when they heard these sayings
they were full of wrath so what was the sayings that they were going to take away their money
that diana of the fisians might you know no longer be a big deal and they cried out and said great is
diana of the fisians greatest mary of the catholics you know great is zeus you know
they're just worse they're just so disappointed that they're false god
verse 29 and the whole city was filled with confusion yeah because you're worshiping a woman
okay and having caught gaius and rusticus men of mastodonia paul's companions and travel they
rushed with one accord into the theater isn't it weird all these guys are so into like this woman
goddess false guys like what in the world they must have been the guys that would go watch joyce
meyer preach too huh verse 30 and when paul would have entered in under the people the disciples
suffered him not and certain of the chief of asia which were his friends sent unto him desiring him
that he would not adventure himself into the theater some therefore cried one thing and some
another for the assembly was confused and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together
this is just a chaotic scene where they're just people are just screaming and yelling as violent
and here's some tips don't get involved don't go running and settle it you know whoever
was paul's disciples here did a good job saying like don't get involved in this
stay away from this look whenever you're in a situation where people are not interested
in hearing the things of god don't try to force the issue don't try to get involved in it you know
stay away from it and it's just this confusing mess because look that's all that false religion
brings is confusion and a violent dangerous situation says in verse 33 and they drew alexander
out of the multitude the jews putting him forward and alexander beckon with the hand and would have
made his defense unto the people when they knew that he was a jew all with one voice about the
space of two hours cried out greatest this is like the football game or something you know they're
just like two hours straight of just screaming for their false god and this is the this is the
sad reality of the unsaved is they just don't know their left hand from the right hand you know they
just don't even know what up and down is and they they're real excited they're real passionate
they're real sincere but you know what they're still going to hell they're still worshiping a
false god and don't let sincerity don't let zeal don't let the excitement of you know worshiping a
false god draw you away into false religion or into something that's wrong realize that there's
a lot of people that are just wrong he says in the bible says in verse 35 and when the town clerk
had appeased the people he said he meant of ephysis what man is there that knoweth not out
that the city of the ephisians is a worshiper of the great goddess diana and of the image which
fell down from jupiter seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against he ought to be
quiet and do nothing rashly for ye have brought hither these men which are neither robbers of
churches nor yet blasphemers of your goddess wherefore if demetrius and the craftsmen which
are with them have a matter against any man the law is open and their deputies let them and plead
one another but if you inquire anything concerning other matters it shall be determined in a lawful
assembly for we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar there being no
cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse and when he had thus spoken he dismissed
the assembly so essentially they're trying to take the law in their own hands you know the
demetrius has riled up a crowd riled up an angry group of people to try and attack them and hurt
them and the town clerk just kind of speaks some common sense of them saying look if this is a
real issue let them just take them to the court let's just take them to the law let them handle
this civilly let them handle this you know appropriately but what you're doing you guys
are gonna get in trouble for doing and you know i think that a couple things can be learned here
you know sometimes it makes sense to reason with the unsaved to some degree to just say look you
know let's still obey the laws let's still you know be reasonable here you don't want to suffer
consequences for attacking or whatever but at the end of the day you know you can't necessarily
control the unsaved you can't know what they're going to do but what i noticed throughout the
book of acts is that god always makes sure to keep the unsaved at bay and it looks really dangerous
and really scary at this point but then just some random guy shows up calms them and it moves on
and a lot of times that god uses people like this in the bible he'll use roman soldiers or he'll use
gamaliel and some of these people aren't even saved but he just allows these other people to
kind of uh to speak up for them to to hold back the tidal wave to try and prevent them from
you know being destroyed and so never underestimate god's ability to preserve you or protect you in
any situation and he could even allow unsaved people to give you favor or to basically protect
you from evil just so as that you the gospel is not destroyed or hurt or harmed or damaged in
any way go to luke chapter number 14 go to luke chapter number 14 for a moment and so really you
just have to have your faith in god you can't know what's going to happen and it looked really bad at
the moment and i say this when it comes to america let's let's try to make a modern application of
this okay what would be a modern application of this well i would say right now we're kind of
as a country a little bit in the scene where everybody's screaming and yelling and it's
confusing and it's really dangerous i mean if you just look at our economy you look at our politics
you look at what's going on it's really confusing there's a lot of people that don't know what's
going on there's a lot of evil happening it's a really dangerous situation what would be a
really stupid idea is to get directly involved in that you know you needed some disciples to say
paul just stay away just don't have anything to do with this right now just just walk away from this
issue okay and you say well then how is it going to get resolved how am i going to fix it well
notice in the story did paul fix it did the disciples fix it did any christian fix it no
none of them what happened a random town clerk that's probably not even saved we don't even know
he ended up saying like guys this doesn't make sense let's just move on and then it just became
a nothing burger and then they just got to move on and it's settled and it's all fixed so that
tells me this it's plausible that god could just raise up some town clerk in the united states
or some random person it's not saved doesn't have our best interest in mind necessarily
but it's just like guys let's just kind of like move on fix things and just kind of just squells
the issue and then life just keeps going on and you know what i don't need to be that town clerk
i don't need to you know go and campaign for the town clerk i don't need to go vote for the town
clerk i don't need to get involved in all the town clerk issues of today or try to settle all
of their confusion because yeah they're stupid they're literally screaming great is diana of
the athesians you know this makes me think of people standing up like great is the vaccine of
pfizer great is the vaccine of moderna great is joe biden great are the celebrities they always
know what's right you know it's like you're an idiot you know these people are foolish they're
stupid but you know what you can't reason with those people either there's no purpose and me
getting involved and trying to consume my life and trying to you know get involved with all these
other people and all these other events i can only do so much you can only do so much with your
life and instead of getting wrapped up and chasing all the carnal issues of today why don't you just
focus on what you can do spiritually and you say well but that means i could maybe lose things
carnally right if i don't get involved in all this maybe i could lose my job or lose my position of
authority or lose some of my goods or whatever yeah you have to count the costs you have to
decide what's really important in this life today and you know what the people that are
going to chase all those goods they're probably going to end up losing them anyways they're
probably going to get destroyed anyways but look what it says in luke chapter 14 verse 26
if any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren
and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my disciple and whosoever does not bear his
cross and come after me cannot be my disciple for which of you intending to build a tower
sitteth not down first and counteth the cost whether you have sufficient to finish it less
happily after you lay the foundation and is not able to finish it all that behold it begin to
make means against him i'm sorry to mock him yes mocking is a thing that happens whenever you make
a stupid decision and look it's foolish to say you know what i'm gonna i'm just gonna sell all
and i'm gonna serve god and then all of a sudden they change then all of a sudden they're not what
they really set out to be you know and it's a really stupid idea and and here's the thing you
say well what happens to that guy he gets made fun of he gets made fun of for not actually counting
the cost and not really going all the way and and not going full in you know who doesn't get made
fun of the guy that's just steadfast the guy that's just rock solid the guy that's willing to
put it all on the line and not look back not saying well no if you want to be christ's disciple
you have to just stay the course ugly good bad whatever happens you lose your money lose your
job you lose whatever you just say you know what i'm not changing the people that change the people
that compromise are going to be made fun of and going to be ridiculed and really you know it's
for good reason because when you get made fun of you have one or two reactions you fix it or
you know you basically just burn you just you just you bite the dust right or whatever it just kind
of pushes you a little bit in in the direction you were going to go hey you're going to fix it
we give you an opportunity by making fun of you or we just push you down you know and we kick you
while you're down a little bit you know and it's like but at the end of the day the the mocking
didn't actually hurt you it actually helped you because it gives you an opportunity to realize
wow i'm stupid wow that was dumb maybe i should actually fix that you know whenever you're you're
like look stupid like maybe you got something on your face you're wearing something ugly or
whatever what happens all your friends start laughing at you and you know what that does it
gives you an opportunity to fix it because if they weren't laughing at you and making fun of you
you wouldn't know you wouldn't know that you're doing something foolish or stupid or looking ugly
or we're having some kind of a problem or issue so it's not that them mocking you is the problem
you're the problem and you know i'm going to give you a real specific example of this
and and you know people might not like that but it is biblical who's someone who didn't really
count the cost decides to change on a dime and now he's getting made fun of it's uh grace and
fritz of all scripture baptist church now here's something that he did he got let go and fired
from his position for preaching against the sodomites preaching against the homos and
preaching its fags and getting all like he was screaming and yelling and just beating the pulpit
and yelling and just really hardcore which i was thinking like praise the lord this is great this
is awesome you know they've got it right front and center on their website how they feel about
fags and everything like that guess what now all of a sudden the section that he had against
homosexuals on his website or against fags gone why why now after you've already lost everything
anyways it's like what what they're gonna fire you from your lawn mowing job or whatever i mean
it's like they don't really care they're gonna fire you from your dead-end job now i mean it's
like at this point why not just go ahead and embrace it at this point when you already had
a huge loss but you know when you when you just you don't continue you don't keep building the
tower when you don't have enough to keep going you don't have the stamina you don't have the
integrity to just stick with the word of god you know what ends up happening people start making
fun of you for it and you say i don't like people that make fun of it well you're the reason that we
have an opportunity to make fun of it you know things are funny because they're true and it's
not fun to make fun of things that aren't funny like you know the left and democrats try to make
jokes all the time and it wasn't for their laugh tracks no one would be laughing it wasn't through
their fake audience with the sign saying applaud then they wouldn't have anybody laughing and
smiling at their jokes you know and at the end of the day you know if this guy would just have
counted the cost and said you know what i'm all in we would never be able to make fun of them
you'll be looking at you as a great example it's embarrassing though to start out one way and then
completely change on a dime it's embarrassing to have the guy that literally ordained you
that literally told your whole church that you should be their pastor and set you up and laid
hands on you and prayed over you and as your friend to then turn your back on him and say
like i don't know the man you know it's embarrassing when peter says like i know not jesus
to the little damsel it wasn't a cool moment it wasn't like good job peter
that was great no you make fun of peter you say like peter you a little girl is saying do you
know jesus and you said no you say i know not the man i mean it's just like that was stupid peter
you could make fun of peter for that there should be a meme of peter you know being afraid of a
little girl because that's sad that's pathetic and at the end of the day you know when people
aren't going to be steadfast you know it makes christianity look bad you know the last thing we
need is more pastors backing down compromising not willing to take a stand because you know
when the pastor won't take a stand how are the congregants going to take a stand how are christians
going to take a stand and you know what when they don't get called out for being a compromiser
for being fake and being lily livered and being a wet noodle then you know what it sends a bad
message to all their church members too and a bad message to other christians because they say oh
well look at your friend being a compromiser why didn't you say anything about him no i will say
something about it because you know what you're not supposed to compromise you're not supposed
to quit you're not supposed to stop serving god realizing that you're supposed to sacrifice for
other people what kind of a bad example sets up and says you know what this is how i feel
about fags but if i get a little bit of pressure i'm going to take it off of the website i'll send
through the comments i'll turn my back on the people that you know have loved me and done good
unto me you know even if pastor anderson went bad tomorrow i would still at least be able to
appreciate him for all the good he's done in my life and and feel sad about it and feel bad about
it and not want to just be like i don't want to have anything to do he's such a mean person
such a meanie all these people are making fun of me it's like why are they making fun of you though
what can you just stop and think for a second and be like maybe what they're saying is true
you know maybe people are being mean to me because i deserve it maybe i'm a liar you know and he of
course is a liar he lies about me he lies about all kinds of different people go to Philippians
chapter 3 his last place of return he said that i had preached a sermon against his wife
saying that his wife's hand should be cut off and i'm like that's so stupid because i i did preach
you know in the bible where it talks about two men that are spat they have a spat they're they're
fighting they're striving with one another it says that if the wife of one of those men goes
up and grabs the other man by the secrets that her hands supposed to be cut off and it's like
yeah i believe that and in fact if we live in a righteous society i would say that that should
still be the law but beyond that law you have principles that can be taught with that in the
sense that women shouldn't go and take cheap shots against other men when they're in a spat
with their husband you know when it's some kind of a disagreement again we're not putting this
setting as like a criminal breaking into your house okay women if a criminal breaks in your
house shoot them in the face with a gun okay double tap him all right obviously we're not
talking about defending yourself against a rapist or a predator or a criminal breaking in your house
but it's like two guys is having an argument or a fight it's not appropriate for the wife to walk in
and start taking cheap shots on the other guy so as to protect her husband you know no the husband's
supposed to be man enough to be able to take care of himself and defend himself and dana fritz was
taking a bunch of cheap shots at my friend pastor erin thompson and so i use that biblical principle
to say you know what she should stop from making these railing accusations online
and i said her hands should be cut off anyway i said the next breath not literally
because i wasn't saying literally i'm saying in the figurative sense just like paul saying
these people should be cut off you know it's funny the niv will say that these men should
emasculate themselves because they don't understand the difference they don't realize that he was
speaking hyperbole and saying look i want them to quit doing it not like literally cutting
themselves off or something you know not literally cutting the hand off right i said it's not sharia
but then they get up in a book and say oh pastor jonathan so he lied about my wife
he said that you know her hand should be cut off boo hoo you liar and he's like i don't like
these guys because they always twist my words liar because you twisted mine i didn't no one
in the in their right mind would have thought i literally taught her why his wife hand needed
to be cut off okay this isn't the japanese game show with chris farley when you miss a question
and your hand gets cut off okay that was an inside joke for anybody that's watched that all right
it's pretty funny skit philippians chapter number three let's read a few more verses at the end of
the day we need to just count the cost and say i'm all in for christianity no turning back i
mean isn't that what we sit up and sing i mean what kind of a shame that you literally sing that
no turning back and then it's just like oh but i'll delete all the things i believe and hide what
i believe and hide all the comments and hide all the videos i can't answer any of the questions
that anybody has for me you know i get sick and tired of hearing about these repent of your sins
pastors who are offended by people calling them and asking them what they believe
there was a controversy where there's a pastor pastor stacy shifflett
where he was getting so offended at people calling him and asking what he believes about
salvation and i'm sitting here thinking like how do i sign up where people literally just call me
and say sirs what must i do to be saved i'm like sign me up i mean if there's one thing a pastor
should want is people to ask him what he believes about salvation what kind of a weirdo doesn't want
people asking them what they believe about salvation i want to tell everyone what i believe
about salvation that's the whole goal of soul winning is we go out and we say hey do you know
what i believe about salvation i want to tell you i get mad when they don't want to hear not when
they want to hear what kind of bizarre you know who doesn't want to tell you that is a false prophet
who doesn't want to tell you believes in a workspace salvation that's who doesn't want
to actually tell you that's the kind of person that's afraid of telling people what they believe
and that's why you should be afraid of a church that'll hide their doctrinal statement hide what
they believe you know does that cult do that the mormons do that manly perry does that apparently
now grace and fritz is hiding what he believes about facts what do you believe now do you still
believe the saying i mean it's just sick it's stupid it's disgusting it's a shame you know
what we're supposed to preach upon the housetops what we believe we're not supposed to hide it
under a bushel you know the bible says when assault loses its saltness it's good for nothing
but to be trodden under foot of men and at the end of the day you know what i don't care who it
is that quits it's a shame to quit it's a shame to be a compromiser it's a shame to backslide you
don't have to be my friend until jesus comes but you know what you should be jesus friend
you shouldn't be ashamed of christ and his words because he does whosoever's ashamed of me and of
my words of him shall i be ashamed you know it's embarrassing it's a shame it's a mockery
i don't like you guys spirit well you know what i don't like liars i'd rather have a mean spirit
i'd rather be the harshest meanest jerk that tells the truth than to be the sweetest liar
than to be the most syrupy sweet kindest gentlest nicest looking sweetest spirit liar
i'd rather just be an annoying sounding young whatever you want to call me jerk
just inconsiderate harsh truth teller than your syrupy sweet lies
why because i've already counted the cost i've already decided you know what i didn't start
pure words baptist church to see how much money i can make in fact all it was was a money pit for
me when i started the church all it was was just me just writing checks constantly to try and get
this church off the ground because it's not how much money i can make and then whenever i went to
take steadfast on oh yeah i had to sell my house which was like a negative twenty thousand dollar
loss and then on top of that i have to take a 20 pay cut whenever i get up there and i'm constantly
getting ripped off by thieves and liars and robbers and having all kinds of evil happen
and you know what i say bring it on who cares it's not if i have to go get a job i'll go get a job
i'll make tents if i have to but at the end of the day we shouldn't be compromisers we should
count the cost we should be steadfast in our hearts we should decide we're going to serve
god with our lives i'm sick and tired of people that want to serve god get away from me then
don't be my friend all right he's like i don't want to be pastor shelly's friend
he might call me out if i quit well then don't be my friend
look at philippians chapter number three and look what paul's opinion is verse number six
concerning zeal persecuting the church touching the righteousness which is in the law blameless
what things were gained to me those i counted loss for christ yay doubtless and i count all things
but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of christ jesus my lord for whom i have suffered the
loss of all things and do count them but done that i may win christ look at paul's attitude
hey it's all done hey i gave it all up hey i don't want any of it just get rid of all of it
none i want none of it i just want christ i just want the word of god i just want people to get
saved i just want the christianity to be good in the whole world nuts to this world nuts it all
sucks anyways it's all going downhill houston sucks all of a sudden and it's not all of a sudden
look i mean hurricanes come through and it just runs all of our bridges and all of our roadways
and it just deteriorates everything there's trash everywhere there's more homeless people by the
second and you know who's cleaning it up no one when do they fix any of the roads over here they
just get worse and worse and worse and you look at all the apartment complexes we go to they get
worse every year more deterioration no the pools aren't being filled up the pools are just like the
swamp creature area and there's more there's more bugs and mosquitoes and cockroaches everywhere
this building when's the last time the the business owner put more money into the building
into the property property owners aren't putting any money into the buildings anymore
i mean america is literally on fire burning and people are so afraid of losing it it's like you
lost it it's gone it's being destroyed it doesn't matter what matters is the word of god what
matters is christianity and you say oh but if you preach it without fags people will get mad
okay well let's make a dvd about it and hand it out to everyone i'm not afraid you know we're not
supposed to be afraid of this world we're supposed to be fearing god and it makes me
sick when i see people not afraid of god they're supposed to be the man of god that are supposed to
be servants of god that are supposed to be the children of god you know what it's gross when
you watch little kids disrespect their parents isn't it isn't it gross when you see kids they're
just running around screaming and yelling and dad says stop running and they're like
yeah yeah just do whatever i want you know that tells me they don't fear they don't fear dad
and it's embarrassing it's kind of you're like whoa you know you ever seen a kid mouth off to
their mom or dad it's like it's horrible looking you're just like oh that's terrible but then we
have christians today who don't fear god they just lie and they rail and they steal and they compromise
and they're just saying to god and you know what god is going to rain on them you're going to rain
on their parade we ought to fear god today of what he can do to us and we ought to start counting the
cost so that when we uh you know go through difficult times we're already prepared and
that we don't fold like a deck of cards we don't fold like a compromiser like a wet noodle and
everybody makes fun of us you know i'm in it to win it i like and i preached this up in uh
fort worth but i like the fact that whenever i started this church before i started you know
brother samson called me and you know what he said to me he's like i'm a lifer
and i'm like sweet but you know what as much as i love brother samson and he's a great person
i hope i always tell that story in a positive light
because as soon as he quits that story it doesn't it doesn't sound as cool does it
it's really cool right now it'll be cool whenever he dies serving god and we're like this guy was
a lifer you know what it's really stupid to say things like that if you don't mean them
just go ahead and meet him so go ahead and just decide in your heart hey i want to serve god
you know there's people that came to this church at the very beginning i remember this is one guy
this is this is the one that we mocked i had a guy come up to me the first service pure words
baptist church we have our service he's like i'm so excited about this church he's like i'm going
to every soul winning every soul winning time i'm coming to every single service i'm going
to every marathon i'm going to every event i'm so excited never saw him again
i'm like okay and you know at this point when people tell me things like that i'm just kind
of like sure buddy you know cool it doesn't matter if you say it what matters is you know
i don't care if you told me that or not you don't need to tell me that in fact you probably shouldn't
but you should do it and if you do say it you really should do it then because it's
better not to meet some kind of an oath or a promise or a swear and then not to do it
than to have you know just basically kept your mouth shut let's close in prayer thank you heavenly
father so much for this chapter for our church i pray that we wouldn't uh we wouldn't take
christianity lightly thanks for the example of the christians in the book of acts where they
were willing to just burn books they were just willing to just burn it all down and just say
you know what nothing in this world matters except for christ and we see examples of paul who says you
know what i count it all done the only thing that matters is christ and realizing that's going to
make a lot of people mad it's going to make a lot of people angry all the false religion they can't
understand because they only care about money today but i pray that god's people would not be
infected with the love of money today but rather they would just say nuts to it they would say it
doesn't matter that they would fight the good fight of faith that they would flee those things
that they would just pursue christ that they would consider their life uh you know their works journey
more about a spiritual paycheck than a physical paycheck and that you would encourage and
strengthen our hearts that as we go through hard times that we've already counted the cost and
we're just going to continue to endure to the bitter end and in jesus name we pray amen
for our last song psalm 67 all right psalm 67 in your white handout
or alternatively in your bible psalm 67 psalm number 67
so
let's sing god be merciful unto us and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us
that thy way may be known upon earth by saving up among all nations let the people praise thee oh
god let all the people praise thee oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy for thou shall
judge the people righteously and govern the nations upon earth the nations upon earth say
love let the people praise thee oh god let all the people praise thee oh let the nations be glad
and sing for joy then shall the earth yield her in peace and god even our own god shall bless us
god shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall fear him let the people praise thee oh god
let all the people praise thee oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy amen
with that you are dismissed have a safe night
you