find your seats we're gonna go ahead and get started have a hymnal near you
share with your neighbor start off song number two to his name to his name song
number two father Lord thank you for this day bringing us all morning and
God please fill pastor Shelley with the Holy Spirit preach a edifying sermon
success in our soul winning today for your honor and glory this in Jesus name
I pray amen turn the page cross have taken so much for coming instead service
of the year today and then front we have our Bible memory passage Proverbs 31
verse 15 any child 18 or under that converse of the week receive a special
treat during the midweek service we have our service times so many times all the
service times there are the regular scheduled times ever our evening service
is gonna be a little bit different instead of me preaching this evening so
they do some popcorn preaching from men in our church soul winner over the age
of 18 have a button-up turnt and tie you can put your name in into the bucket
we'll basically just draw names and can preach a five-minute sermon so we'll
pretty much just go through however many we have then reason about an hour so
after the service you're welcome to stay in fellowship until midnight we're gonna
basically just hang out if you'd like to we're gonna have pizza delivered so if
you'd also like to stick around have pizza you can there's no pressure to
stay either so if you have little kids or whatever you say I don't want to
start the first day of the year off staying up late and sleeping in then of
course you can still go home at a reasonable hour but if you would like to
hang out you're in you're you know one of these young single guys you have
nothing to live for then you can come and you can hang out all night I'm just
kidding just kidding this is obviously the party we want you to be at all
right so you won't get in as much trouble if you were going to anyways I
don't know but I'm really appreciative of you being here excited for this
evening service we have our church stats down below and then on the right we have
the list of expecting ladies please continue to pray for all of them we
have our prayer list we add this our update to this every single week so if
you have any other additional prayer requests please just add that to our
prayer list we'd love to be praying for you on the back only event is December
31st the New Year's Eve party I've had actually a lot of people ask me they're
like hey what what's the plans for next year and it's like I literally have
planned zero okay so I wait until the next year to start planning it all right
but I'm sure we'll do something all right but just enjoy the end of the year
we also had a soul winning marathon yesterday we had about 65 soul winners
and 32 salvations so congratulations going to Midlothian I'm really surprised
that's that's pretty good that's pretty good numbers I would think so thank you
again to everybody who participated in that event that's pretty much all I have
as far as announcements we'll go ahead and sing our third song of the week and
it's gonna be a psalm holy holy hill I'm sorry we're gonna do holy holy holy in
our separate handouts if you can turn to that holy holy holy holy holy if you
don't have one just ask your neighbor and they can share with you
passed around you can turn in Timothy the spirit get expressly that in the
life shall depo key to seducing spirits of Dev see I mean their conscience seared
with a hot bidding to marry and command to be received preacher of be as if it
be for it is sanctified the word of God in prayer if thou put the brethren in
remembrance of these things thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ
nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine whereunto thou hast
attained but refuse profane and old wives fables and exercise thyself rather
under godliness for bodily exercise profiteth little but godliness is
profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of
that which is to come this is a faithful saying and worthy of all
acceptation for therefore we both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in
the living God who is the Savior of all men especially of those that believe
these things command and teach let no man despise thy youth but be thou an
example of the believers in word in conversation and charity and spirit in
faith in purity till I come give attendance to reading to exhortation to
doctrine neglect not the gift that is in thee which was given thee by prophecy
with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery meditate upon these things
give thyself holy to them that thy profiting may appear to all take heed
unto thyself and under the doctrine continue in them for in doing this thou
shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee let's pray father God we thank
you for our church Lord and I pray that you fill pastor Shelley with your
spirit and enable him to preach the sermon you've laid on his heart with
boldness with clarity of mind minimize distractions in the room Lord so that we
can pay close attention to the preaching of your word and be edified by the
preaching of your word Lord and apply the message to our lives and we love you
in Jesus name I pray amen amen I wanted to take a small passage out of here in
first Timothy chapter number four and I just want to look back at verse number
12 again where the Bible says let no man despise thy youth but be thou an
example of the believers in word in conversation and charity in spirit in
faith in purity now the instructions here are given to young Timothy he's
identified as someone who is an elder as a pastor and we have these few sections
of scripture first Timothy second Timothy and Titus kind of known as the
pastoral epistles where they're giving a lot of instructions about church and the
leadership and the pastor and the pastor is supposed to be a good example and why
I bring this up is if the pastor is supposed to be a good example that means
people should follow his example right there's a there's a meaning for him to
be a good example it's so that people would follow that example and they too
would do things that he's doing well in chapter 3 it explains for us things
about a pastor and what he's supposed to be like and I think what some people
skip over or think differently on is well this is for the pastor so I don't
have to do that but wait a minute the pastor is supposed to be doing those
things well so that you also will do them he'd be a good example of doing
them so that you will follow his example and you likewise would follow in the
exact same way of life manner of life and the same behavior so the title of
my sermon this morning is this are you a good example are you a good example and
you know this is not just for the pastor really it's for all of us to try and
examine ourselves and try to identify if we are a good example and others you
know another way you could word this sermon or another way to think about it
is what if everyone else was like you what if everyone else was like you and
you know that's sometimes a tough scrutiny that we could apply to
ourselves and if we did oftentimes we would realize we have a lot of issues
and there's a lot of things that people do better than us and we should always
strive to do better and better now look at chapter 3 for a moment let's just
see kind of generally what the pastor is supposed to be like it says in verse 1
this is a true saying if a man desire the office of a bishop he desire a good
work a bishop then must be blameless the husband of one wife vigilant sober of
good behavior given to hospitality apt to teach so every single man woman and
child should strive to be blameless just like the pastor is blameless every man
should strive to be blameless you know it's it's frustrating when it seems like
the pick of the litter or the people that want to become pastors a lot of
times the thing holding them back is they just don't even meet really basic
requirements where they just have things in their past that just totally
disqualify them and then it's like well if we had somebody that could meet the
qualifications then we would ordain people you know I wish that the
opposite were true where virtually every single man meets the requirements and
then the thing that decides between if we're gonna send somebody or not is they
actually have aptitude they actually have a strong desire it's not just like
they meet the basic requirements on the form you know we should have every man
in this room strive to meet every single one of the qualifications of a bishop
and that what really separates bishops is not so much the qualifications it's
more the desire and the aptitude you know that's what we really want to
strive for and you know I think that some people have this idea that if they
just meet the basic requirements that they could be a pastor you know there's
a lot more to being a pastor than just meeting basic requirements but it's good
for us to also have a standard to have some level where we say you know you
have to at least achieve some certain status you know and you can't
necessarily go into the ministry having all these glaring issues because if you
do it's just gonna make the ministry look bad and you know we're here to make
Christ look good and of course we as sinful man will always fall short you
know I try to be a good example I try to be someone that's a good ambassador of
the Lord Jesus Christ but if you scrutinize my life of course I have
issues I have sin I do things that would bring reproach upon Christ but we have
to have at least some standard where we say you know what sure everybody's
sinful but there's certain things there's certain portions of a person's
past that we're just not going to enable that person to become a pastor you know
things like being divorced you know we just don't want to have someone that's
been divorced and remarried or vice versa any of that to end up being the
pastor because think about a divorced man giving marriage advice to people that
are struggling I mean I'm just being honest with you wouldn't that seem like
maybe he might not be the best person to give advice because what did he do he
ended up getting divorced and of course you know it could be that maybe you were
married for ten years and then you know you've kind of let your marriage go for
the last five so that last five years is just horrible and then what typically
people do is they get divorced and then they get remarried and they actually put a
lot of effort energy into the marriage for the first year or so again and
they're like wow this is great I'm so glad that I'm now at this new person so
in their mind they have a warped sense of reality and they even think that
divorce is good there are people out there that will advocate divorce they'll
say it was a great thing I'm so glad that I got divorced I'm so glad I'm with
this other person or this new person okay and so then when someone comes to
them and they're saying hey my marriage is struggling and perhaps one person in
that marriage is is pretty obviously worse than the other it could be that
someone's just genuinely like I just think you need to let them go or get
rid of them or whatever you know that would be horrible you need a pastor
that's not been divorced that doesn't believe in divorce so that he can
recommend that to the congregation you know there's gonna be certain sins and
certain issues of a man's past like if he killed his own father where he should
probably not be the pastor right I mean you would kind of think like maybe
that's a disqualifying factor when the person's literally murdered their own
father you know the Bible says that if you even strike your parents that you'd
be put to death how about someone that killed their own father I mean that's
extreme and you say well you don't know you don't know my father did to me look
I'm all for self-defense to some degree but think about it Isaac his dad was
going to kill him and he didn't even fight back I just I don't think that
there's ever justification to harm your father if your father is a bad father
and even even if we went to the extreme of those abusive I still think the right
thing to do is to not lay hands on your father does that mean that you should
you should like abuse or I'm pro abuse you know a man that would abuse his
children is a wicked person okay is an evil person you're seriously messed up
you should never harm your child in that way obviously we discipline our children
but that's not to cause permanent bodily harm we should never abuse them we
should never cause them any kind of discomfort for no reason punishment is
for bad behavior specifically it's identified it's talked about it's
addressed and whenever you just hurt the child indiscriminately that's abuse
you know we shouldn't go around just hurting our children or hurting people
indiscriminately that's wicked you know also doing that to your wife that would
be super wicked you know what you should never strike the authorities in your
life you shouldn't strike them you shouldn't hit them you shouldn't do
anything to them look at what it says also in this passage that you're sober
how about just not drinking alcohol not being a drunkard you know we need
pastors that are not drunkards today so because whenever they're drunkards you
know what they start saying that Jesus drank wine too and what they mean by
that is liquor or booze they think that Jesus has had a party at a wedding
where he's getting all these people drunk and you know what these people end
up encouraging their congregation to drink a lot of alcohol and what would be
a night where a lot of people drink alcohol how about tonight what a horrible
way to start the year is by stumbling into it drunk by getting arrested and
going to prison for driving drunk or hurting someone because you got drunk
you know a lot of abuse physical abuse is the result of drinking alcohol you
know and if a guy is just seriously involved in drugs and alcohol or had a
serious issue with that in the past do we really want that guy to be the pastor
because you know why people often drink alcohol or do drugs it's because their
life is very stressful because of their life becoming very stressful and then
basically just needing some kind of an outlet they often turn to drugs and
alcohol well let me tell you something being a pastor can be very stressful at
times like if there was something that could cause a person to want to do take
some kind of a substance I guarantee pastorings right up there with lots of
other jobs where there's a lot of stress a lot of problems that could
potentially arise a lot of desire to just want to hit the escape button at
times and do we really want a guy that in his life he was constantly taking
drugs and alcohol as a way of escape you know what that person is gonna end up
destroying themselves just like Perry Noble did Perry Noble would get up and
talk about out drinking alcohol is not wrong and then basically got thrown out
by his entire church for literally being a drunkard past it's not like pastors
can't drink alcohol I mean look at the Calvinist and the Presbyterians they
don't even think drinking alcohol is wrong they're smoking cigars getting
tattoos drinking liquor and they're just acting like oh they're so mighty to
drink strong drink and to drink wine but you know what the Bible says woe unto
them that drink and of course we need a pastor that can be sober today and not
drink alcohol and people can actually respect the office of a bishop again
because it's ridiculous you live in America today where virtually every
single person drinks and gets drunk and they're not sober they do drugs they
do alcohol all these states in our country are constantly contemplating
whether or not they should pass marijuana law or laws marijuana laws are
you kidding me have you ever been to Oklahoma recently boy has that place
gone downhill boy is that place gone in the junker because people are taking all
kinds of drugs and it's destroying the minds of the youth it's causing youth to
not work hard and let me tell you something we need men that are actually
sober and faithful and blameless to be a good example under the youth so that
when they look for someone for leadership in their life they can say
hey I want to be like my pastor hey I want to be like my dad who doesn't drink
alcohol I want to be like my dad who doesn't do drugs I want to be like my
dad who's sober and faithful and doesn't abuse me and I want to be a faithful
God-fearing man like him you know what it's not just the pastor we need the men
in this room to do likewise you know the pastor supposed to be a good example so
that the congregation will be a good example and what if the pastor gets up
and starts drinking alcohol and telling people to drink alcohol well I guarantee
the members are gonna drink way more than the pastor and then they're gonna
destroy their families and look when children that are young teenagers 12 13
14 try alcohol they often become an alcoholic for life they become an
alcoholic for life and I know people in my personal life that they started
drinking very young and they are a drunkard they drink all the time they
drink in just exorbitant amounts of alcohol more than could even be
conceivable I've seen people drink an entire 24 pack of beers and one day and
one day and they're still walking around and they still decide to drive
vehicles people are getting blacked out drunk and going around just destroying
their lives destroying their liver you think that that person's not gonna have
a high chance of dying from cancer and the liver and cancer in the throat and
cancer in the mouth and you know what cancer is caused by drinking alcohol
virtually all of them why because you're just drinking poison it's like you're
slowly trying to kill yourself it's like you're basically Muhammad and the the
Jewish woman gave you that poison you're just purposely drinking it you know the
founder of Islam was poisoned by some Jewish woman some Jewish servant she was
feeding him like food or drink that was poisoned and it's like people in America
are willingly drinking poison it's called alcohol alcohol does not benefit
you it does not bless you the only reason people really even drink alcohol
in my opinion for the for the most part is for social pressure but just how weak
are you to have to succumb to the world's pressure for them to say oh well
I might not get promoted at work if I'm if I don't drink with everybody or when
I go to the company party I don't want to be ostracized so I better drink you
know what I've been to plenty of company parties I've worked for plenty of
businesses I've made plenty of I make plenty good money and I never drink I
tell them that I don't drink and I have no problem having that standard and you
know it's it's embarrassing that when I go to places and I say I don't drink you
know they asked me oh are you Mormon no I'm not Mormon they're like how many
kids do you have five one on the way are you Mormon no I'm not Mormon I go to you
how often you go to church I go to church times week are you Mormon no it's
like we need to make it Baptist again we just say hey I don't drink oh are you
Baptist yeah yeah I'm Baptist oh you have a bunch of kids oh you're Baptist
oh you're knocking on my door for soul winning oh it must be the Baptist again
you know we didn't make things Baptist again and you know it's doesn't just the
pastor it's every single man woman boy and child and you know what we need some
good examples in this country we need some men in this country that say I
don't drink oh why do you have a problem with it no I don't want a problem with
it why don't why don't you drink are you better than us well you internally you
can be like yeah but no I just don't want to drink poison no I don't want to
waste money and look alcohol is expensive alcohol is so expensive and then it gets
way more expensive when you start drinking all the bad decisions you make
all the things that you destroy the property damage the health issues you're
gonna have the the emotional damage you're gonna cause to so many people in
your personal life it's just untold and you know what children don't have
respect for people that drink alcohol I remember when I was younger I would go
out to restaurants and I would run into teachers and notice that they were
drinking and lose respect for them I went to I went to Outback and I saw a
pastor of my church drinking a beer and it just it just told I just I couldn't
even believe it because I was young and I just I was flabbergasted as a young
child I'm thinking like what's wrong with him like it to me it was almost
like if he was at a table with another woman or something I mean I was just
thinking like what are you doing like in the open in public you're just gonna
drink alcohol as a pastor it just and you know it didn't encourage me or make
me want to drink but I'm sure some people would oh well pastors drinking
well then my I better get a beer too I want to be like the pastor you know the
pastor supposed to be an example and when people see the pastor drinking
they're like well I want to I don't want to be a whip I want to try drinking too
I want to be cool like the pastor I want to be the guy that can handle it you
know no one can handle alcohol it's stupid stop drinking never drink again
and you say well I struggle with that okay well then never put yourself an
environment where you can because I'll be honest with you when you have a real a
serious temptation you cannot trust yourself no one can trust themselves no
one is spiritual enough it's not like well I quoted the entire New Testament
this morning so now I'm not gonna be tempted with alcohol false yeah so now
I'm gonna go and hang out with my family that loves to drink alcohol look you
could be going so you could go so many for 20 hours straight read your Bible
all day and then if you just hang out with the wrong person you'll just
totally succumb to that temptation it's not like the Pentecostals where I've
been delivered I don't want to drink no more it's like that doesn't happen okay
like you're just gonna have struggles and temptation and evil I mean if it was
that easy why do Christians struggle ascendant why does the Pentecostal seem
to be the fakest I mean you want to know who are some of the worst people in the
world they were former Pentecostals like Elvis Presley like Katy Perry like all
kinds of the most popular celebrities you know what they were raised
Pentecostal and they got a little too much of that singing spirit so then
instead of just being a nobody in the Pentecostal church they went big time
became a major celebrity and I'm telling you what you need to never ever touch
the stuff stay away from it don't go around those people you say well I was
invited to a party that's gonna be have alcohol tonight have pizza at church
take your family home play a board game and go to bed you say well I have some
liquor in the cabinet at home throw it away burn it I there's not no one can
overcome these type of temptations especially if you've already gone down
that road get rid of it be a good example on your children don't don't
discourage their heart and of course if you're taking them to this church it's
even worse because how many times do I preach and rip on alcohol and then if
you drink in front of your kids I mean you're just such a giant hypocrite like
if you're gonna be a drunkard just don't even come to this church because you're
just gonna make your children's minds so confused and let me tell you something
children if your parents don't follow the Bible you follow the Bible if your
dad drinks you don't drinks kids if your if your mom drinks wine you don't drink
wine if your parents don't obey the Bible you kids you follow the Bible I
don't care what they do I don't care if it's your uncle aunt grandpa I don't
care if it's your grandma I don't care what they do you follow God's Word you
dare to be a Daniel and you say I'm not gonna eat the King's meat I don't care
what my friends are doing I don't care my brothers doing I don't care what any
of them are doing as for me in my house we will serve the Lord and you know we
need some people that's encouraged today to follow what the Bible says and you
know we need men of God to rise up and say I'm gonna do what the Bible says no
matter what kind of social pressure there is that's why it's important when
our church has gone through battles that there's been men willing to stand in the
gap and say we're not gonna back down to social pressure nuts to you and you know
what when you don't back down to social pressure it shows the world that you're
not a coward and usually they're the ones that run away screaming you know
the righteous are as bold as a lion but the wicked flee when no man pursueth no
man zero you know we need to be with people that are righteous and a right
raising godly families that's what it even says look what it says in verse four
one that rule as well as own his own house having his children this objection
with all gravity for if a man do not how to rule his own house how so they take
care of the church of God notice family is a big component here I want to read
a few more verses go to verse 11 even so must their wives be grave not
slanderers sober faithful in all things let the deacons be the husbands of one
wife ruling their children their own house as well you know what I love about
pastors and deacons they tell their wives what to do look at this he's
trying to tell he has to tell his wife you need to be serious you need to make
sure that you're not slandering anybody you need to make sure that you're sober
and notice this little caveat faithful in all things wow that's a big list
isn't it you know what the pastor and the deacon are supposed to tell their
wife when they're not faithful in every single thing and you know what that
takes a real man real men are not led by the nose of their wife real men can
actually lead their families and this they lead their family and their wife is
happy you know what you can of course boss a slave around and they're not
going to be happy you know what it takes a real man to tell his wife what to do
and then that she's still happy with them when they go home how do you do
that well you know it takes real men it takes genuine love it takes a man that
doesn't just tell his wife what to do but actually sacrifices for and loves
her and cares for and does things for because you know when you have those
things out of balance she might become a slave and do what you want but she's
gonna be like a lot of mumbling and grumbling and the faces oh man women
have some faces man I'll tell you what you know they can scrunch up their face
and make it all you know what but if you tell your wife what to do and she can
still smile at you hey I'm telling you that's a real man they think that real
men today just sleep with a bunch of whores that want their money but you know
what a man that can tell his wife what to do and not give her any money that's
the real man that's the real guy the guy that can stay faithful the guy that can
say no to whores is the real man I mean we all look at Samson as being this
great strong man but he can't say no to women it doesn't matter what woman tells
them what to do he's gonna do it they have more power than him a weak fragile
women woman just because she's attractive can destroy Samson and
destroy a lot of men you know we need some real men today that some whore
comes around and you're just like get off me whore go back to tik-tok I mean
we need we need some real men today to beat down the whores and we know we need
young men to have the same attitude and not just fall victim to every woman
because it's it's tough when you're a young man and any woman is giving you
attention it's a strong temptation and I remember not realizing this because I
grew up and I was really short growing up so I didn't really get a lot of
attention from from young ladies growing up but then you know eventually I grew
and things changed and I didn't realize that a lot of times women give you
attention just because they're a whore not because they're actually interested
in you and that was really confusing to a young man who's never really
experienced that never really had that my parents didn't teach me anything all
I see is movies and stuff like that movies just warp your mind on what is
reality and let me tell you something you know what young men can get
destroyed by a lot of whores because they don't understand how to deal with
that kind of attention but you know let me tell you something young men do not
date the girl that finds you date the girl that you found okay the girls that
find you are whores you know if you look in Proverbs chapter numbers five six and
seven and you look at that whores woman in the attire of a harlot you know what
she said she said that she was looking for him and that she found him you know
what that's the wrong kind of woman and be like my mom where if a girl called
the house asking for me she was hung up bad connection you know it's just like
no you're not gonna talk to my son and you know we need men and women to keep
their young men pure and to help guard them and protect them and keep them away
from the whores and the harlots and you know as a dad you need to be a good
example not taking your kids to Hooters are you kidding me and there's probably
lots of other restaurants like that I don't know for sure but the name seems
so provocative I'm thinking like that's probably just Hooters light or Hooters
the B team which is even worse you know that doesn't even make any sense go
over the go over to Proverbs chapter 13 go to Proverbs chapter 13 we need some
men to raise men not a bunch of boys to raise more boys and you know what our
society is lacking in men say what what kind of men men that get married men
that are blameless in their past men that actually want to be faithful to
their wife men that get married men that tell their wives what to do men that
make their wives happy men that have lots and lots of children men that
actually raise those children men that work hard you know it's so hard to find
this and it's so hard to find any men that are actually investing in their
children and you know we give the black community a hard time for not being
there for their children but let's be honest what are what is anybody else
doing I mean what are the white men doing they're just sending their kids
to public school and then sending them to some sports teams fitting into the
football team and then sending them to college and just letting the government
run them and the government teach them what to do or whatever I mean it's not
like they're just so much more active most men in this world are just not
investing in their children they don't teach them anything they don't know
anything and you say oh you're just giving dads a bad rep well then why is
it every time I run into the young people today they don't know how to do
anything literally it's like do you even know what a screwdriver is or a wrench
or a pipe wrench or it's like what they're all wrenches right you know it's
like they don't they don't know how they don't know any kind of tools they
don't know how to make anything they don't know how to do anything they they
don't know how to just be tough and just suck it up and not complain and not
be entitled and not think that everything's gonna be handed to them I
mean it's just like what what is being raised in this generation that actually
knows something I mean there are men in this country advocating for feminism
what an embarrassment to dads out there if your son is advocating for feminism
if your son is advocating for communism there are American citizens advocating
for communism there are white men advocating for BLM that is a communist
organization that doesn't even care about black people and you're not black
I don't even get it they don't even like you it would be like Dylan joining the
black Hebrew Israelites it's like what are you doing they don't even like you
it's like when black people join the Mormon church do you realize they hate
you inside they think that you're way more sinful than they are I mean it's
just like this doesn't even make any sense but this is what the young people
are doing why because they have no direction because they didn't have a
good example because they have no men in their lives to show them this is the way
you know it used to be your last name was your occupation and that the son
would just automatically do whatever the dad did it's like blacksmith I wonder
what they did right I mean it used to be people would just do whatever their dad
did they would learn that trade they would learn that skill they would
follow in his footsteps he would be a good example under them he was the man
to teach them to become a man we need to teach boys to not cry and whine so that
they become the liberals of the day there are liberal men crying it's like
why why are you crying he misgendered me you know what you should be put to death
if you need a different gender I don't care what pronouns they use whenever
they line you up against the wall and put a bullet in your head obviously the
government okay but it's just it's just ridiculous how our culture is just
pandering to weak effeminate men I wonder I wonder who wants our country to
be filled with weak and effeminate men do you think China likes the fact that
American men are becoming weak and effeminate and easily dominated do you
think that Russia likes the idea that American men are weak and effeminate and
docile do you think that Israel doesn't mind that America gets weakened and
effeminate and docile I mean think about it from every single carnal reason it's
a win because number one you're gonna win the Olympics you know America just
dominates sports and just rubs it in the noses of people did you realize that in
the Olympics for basketball America used to only send college athletes we didn't
even send a single professional player we would literally send only our best
college basketball players and we would wipe the floor with every other country
in the world we were so much better at basketball than them now of course we
have to use some of our NBA players who never played defense in their life they
have to learn defense again to go and play that's how good America was that's
how exceptional America was we would dominate in virtually every kind of
sport every kind of event and you know anytime foreign countries would dominate
an event and America could end up beating them it just rubbed it so the
wrong way I mean Russia used to dominate in chess and then Bobby Fischer comes
along and boy did that just make them mad you know these countries are prideful
they would love to destroy America in every sport in hockey and football and
basketball and chess and every kind of academic achievement and GDP and
everything and look about make car manufacturing I mean American-made cars
are junk these days I mean if you want a car to actually be worth the sticker
price and actually last for a while you often have to buy a foreign car you
know it's so funny to me how everybody hates Hitler and then almost everybody
drives a German car that he designed you know that he was part of the
manufacturing process isn't that interesting how much you like Hitler
with your Volkswagen or whatever right it's just people don't realize from
every carnal reason America becoming weak and docile men and divided is great
for them but then you know who else loves that the devil who's running all
of these unsaved people because he doesn't want real men to raise more real
men and actually go out and make a difference and actually preach the
gospel and get people saved and raise soul winners and raise pastors and raise
deacons and raise evangelists and raise real people to actually change this
culture so he just wants us all to be weak and docile and so what he's done is
he's encouraged people to live a life of pleasure rather than spending time
investing in their children. What does the Bible say? Proverbs chapter 13. Look
at verse number 24. This is really important that we invest in our sons and
daughters. "He that spareth his rod hateth his son but he that loveth him
chasteneth him." But times, times meaning early, meaning often, meaning the fact
that you're constantly disciplining your children, you're raising your children.
You know there's so many things to do every day and disciplining isn't that
much fun. Training your children how to do stuff isn't fun. It's not, it's not
enjoyable. So you know what people do? They just don't. They just don't
discipline them. They just don't teach them anything. They just don't train them.
Hey your kids, you ask them to clean the room and they do a bad job. Instead of
actually taking the time to show them how to do it right, they just don't do it.
Well just let them live in, just let them have a messy room. That's the bad
approach. Discipline them and then tell them how to do it right. Oh he doesn't
know how to tie a shoe or he doesn't know how to use a wrench or he doesn't
know how to do this or you asked him to clean something and he didn't do it
right. You asked him to fix something. You didn't fix it right. You know what?
Discipline them and then show them how to do it right. That's what we need. We
need to teach our children and teach our sons and teach our daughters how to do
things and how to do them right and discipline. Well how am I gonna get all
my NASCAR watching in? Stop watching NASCAR. They're going in a circle folks.
What more do you want? I mean you're gonna really you're gonna give up your
children to watch cars drive in a circle. That's how stupid it is. You're like no
that's way cooler than that Pastor Shelley. All they do is this is a left
turn. Every once in a while do a pit stop okay and then they're okay. I noticed I
saw this video and it was like pit stops over the years and it's like pit stops
used to be like seven seconds and now they're like one point eight seconds or
something just because it makes that much of a difference. Who cares? I mean
think about how much time effort and energy was spent trying to get a pit
stop down from seven seconds to one and then people won't even discipline their
kids at all. It's like what if we put that much effort and energy into improving
the efficiency of our children? I mean they're improving the efficiency of
driving in a circle. We can't we can't spend some effort energy in our sons and
teach them how to do things. And you know what? You're gonna enjoy your sons so
much more when you teach them how to do stuff. You know I sometimes I'm thinking
like man I wish I had someone to throw the football around and like tackle and
play basketball and do all this stuff. But it's like I can just not today I
have to teach my sons how to do that. But you know eventually they're gonna be
15, 16, 17, 18 and we can have a lot of fun. You know if I'm not teaching and
training them now then they're just gonna be awkward and they're gonna throw
like this. Dude that's embarrassing. Teach your sons how to throw. It's weird okay
and you can tell I mean look you can't learn how to throw over in five minutes
you know why kids can throw a ball well because they learned when they were 8, 9,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and now they're a teenager. Boy they're hurling that
thing right and look I don't care it didn't have to be the best at sports or
something but teach them how to do something. Teach them how to be good at
something. Fixing things, making things, building things, being active. I think
that they should have some level of athletic ability because it just helps
them in their life. Helps them to be healthy. You know whether that's running,
jumping, some kind of athletics, some kind of eye-hand coordination. It's just gonna
help them in life and frankly it also helped them get a girl because girls
don't like guys that can throw like a girl either. You know for some reason
girls always seem to like the same thing. An athletic guy that has a nice
car and money like that's pretty much just what it is right and look to some
degree there's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure a lot of ladies like David and
David liked a lot of ladies. The guy's athletic. Have you ever seen him sling a
stone? He killed Goliath. This is what we need to do is we need to train our men
to be the gladiators of this world. To be the spiritual gladiators and you know
what there's nothing wrong with being a physical gladiator on top of that.
Instead of just raising a bunch of weak effeminate men wearing pink shorts
crying because their latte was ruined. Crying because they had a hard day at
work because their boss asked them work an extra five minutes. Like this is the
type of world that we're we're existing in. It's sad. It's weak. It's pathetic. We
need to we need to discipline our children and we need to not
spare the rod. Look at chapter 15. Look at verse 20. Here's a question. Are you a
good example under your sons? And you say well I'm not that great at some of
these things. Well you know what? Start improving yourself too. There's never a
bad time to start learning. You get better at things and take your sons with
you and you learn them. You learn them together. You grow together. Exercise
together. Work out together. You know they should be your tag along. They should be
your personal helper. They should be your personal assistance. They should be doing
all these kinds of things. You know and you learn by experience. Being an
intern is one of the greatest ways to learn how to do things. Just shadowing
somebody, following them, them letting you do it and and mentoring them. You know
mentorships. Mentor your sons. Allow your sons to do your work, do your job.
Especially since we do homeschooling. You're afforded so much extra opportunity to
actually take your kids with you and teach them the trade and teach them
manners. Teach them business relationships. Teach them how to handle
different situations. Being out in the world. Look eventually we're gonna have to
kick them out of the nest and that's a scary dark world out there. They need to
learn how to say no to temptation. They need to see how dad said no to
temptation out in the world. They need to learn to see how dad handles himself
around drunk people. How dad handles himself around loose women. How dad
handles himself around the workplace. How dad handles himself with all these
different activities so then they know how to handle themselves. Because if you
never show them anything and then you just stick them to the wolves, what are
they gonna do? They have no example to follow. So you need to be that good
example. Taking them out there. Showing them how to talk to people. Showing them
how to approach people. You know, sowing is one of the best ways because you're
gonna run to everybody. Rich, poor, ugly, mean, fat, LGBT, all of it. And you say,
how do I handle that situation? Well, how did dad handle that situation? And you
know, you often realize that without even trying, you often follow dad's
footsteps, whether you like it or not. Like, Abraham, he, when he's in a difficult
situation, just lies and says that his wife is his sister. And then do you
think, is it any coincidence later when Isaac runs into the same scenario, he's
like a sister? Where'd he learn that from, I wonder? You know, what if Abraham had
handled it differently? Isaac would have probably handled it differently too. And
you know, whatever example, good or bad, your children will often follow. That's
why we need to set a good example. Look at verse 20. Hawaii's son making the
glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother. Notice having great children
will make you happy. You know, just enjoying pleasure is not going to really
make you happy. It's never going to make you satisfied. And honestly, the thing
about pleasure is it's fleeting. You kind of only enjoy it in the moment. But what you
can do is if you raise your children right and once you let go of them,
they'll constantly give you joy without you even doing anything because they're
just working hard. They're just producing all this. They're going to
produce children and they're going to produce good works and they're going to
call you and they're going to do kind of stuff for you. And you've already built
that in. You've already set that up and it's already going. It's just going to
generate pleasure for you and make your heart glad over and over and over.
Whereas all the temporary pleasures of now, they're not going to give you joy
everlasting. They're not going to give you joy for tomorrow. They're going to give you
sorrow in the morning. They're going to give you pains and aches and disease, cancer.
Drinking alcohol is not going to benefit you in the future, but you know what?
Raising your children will. Seeking pleasure, watching NASCAR is not going to
benefit you in the future, but raising your kids, teaching your kids how to
drive and how to do activities. You know, I've never been the biggest... I've never
really enjoyed watching things. I like being the participant, right? I don't
necessarily like just... I remember Thanksgiving. We're always just sitting
around watching football and I'm like, "Why don't we just play?" Like, I would
rather just play football. Like, I would have never... There's probably never been
a time in my life where if a bunch of guys were like, "We can either watch the
game or go play football," that I would be like, "I want to watch it." I don't care
what... if it was the Super Bowl or what teams, the fourth quarter, I don't really
care. And frankly speaking, you know, watching just the highlights of
football is way better than watching football anyways. Because you can watch
like a whole game in like three minutes and it's like three hours if you
actually watch the thing with all these stupid commercials in it, with Lizzo, I
don't want to watch it anyways. I mean that's the world that we live in.
Look at chapter 19, look at verse 18. See, what's the point of the sermon? Are you a
good example? Hey, you know, I'm focusing on a few different areas. What I'm
focused on right now is just family. Are you a good example with your family? Are
you a good example as a husband? Are you a good example? Is your wife a good
example? Because, you know, the Bible is saying that the man was supposed to
make sure that his wife was faithful in all things. That's putting the onus on
him. Like, he has to be the one leading and guiding her and instructing her and
helping her. You know, if you're not spending time with your wife that's
good, she's probably not gonna want to make changes. Like, if the only time you
ever spend with your wife is correcting her, you're just, you're not gonna really
have a good marriage and she's not gonna really do what you want. You have to
spend a lot of time doing things that she enjoys and loving on her and caring
for her so that then when you do offer the correction, she's more willing to do
it. And of course, women are still human too. They're not gonna be perfect. So you
have to understand that no woman's ever gonna be perfect. That's reality. But if
you want her to make improvements, you know, love on her, treat her well, do good,
you know, discipline your children. But you know, your children are also gonna
respond well to discipline when you love them. We discipline our children a lot.
I'll just be honest with you, it's a lot. It's probably a lot more than I would
ever thought before having children. Like how much I would even think was
necessary. But what I've noticed is that our children, really, their attitudes
towards us have almost never changed. They always want to hang out with us, they
love us, they don't, they're not like distant or anything like that even though
they get disciplined a lot. And the reason why I know they're like that is
because we love them a lot. We do good under them a lot. We bless them a lot. We
help them a lot. And so even when we discipline them, they know that we still
love them so much. And so it doesn't really change anything. It actually just
makes it better. We need to discipline our children but love them. A parent that
just disciplines is a military sergeant. And most people don't really love their
military sergeant. Most people don't like their drill sergeant. Most people don't
really love that type of relationship because the drill sergeant wasn't ever
nice. The drill sergeant wasn't really empathetic. The drill sergeant didn't
give a lot of freedom. The drill sergeant didn't extend grace. He was just do as I
say or get punished. And if you don't, even if you do it right, I might punish
you anyways because I'm a drill sergeant. You know, it's just like, oh thanks. But
you know what? At least they would make people be a man back then. I don't know
anymore. You know, now they walk in high heels in the military. So how does that
work? I've seen it. Can you can you imagine how how you would make fun of
the enemy when the men are walking out in high heels? Like how did they, like you
can't even dream this stuff up. It's like, hey we're gonna get the American
soldiers to walk around in high heels. It's like never in a million years. But it
happened. That's how weird and perverted our culture is. Proverbs 19 verse 18.
"Chasing thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying."
Go to chapter 27. I want to show you one more here. We need some men to be a good example
for their family. Chapter 27, look at verse 11. The Bible says, "My son, be wise and make
my heart glad that I may answer him that reproacheth me." Notice that your children's behavior
is also correlated to how other people view you and how people will criticize us, criticize
Baptist, criticize Steadfast Baptist Church, and act like, "Oh, they're occult brainwashing
their kids." But you know what, when we end up raising the greatest generation ever, it's
going to be really hard for them to be like, "Oh yeah, they're occult," you know. When
their kids are all having bastard children, strung out on drugs, can't even hold down
a job, and our children are happy, getting married, being successful, working hard, loving
the Lord, know the Bible, can preach the Bible, are articulate, they're going to be like,
"Wow, I was wrong." Don't make the stereotype of homeschooled kids being weird a thing.
Make it homeschooled kids are better. They're 10 times better than the world's children
and what they're producing. But you know what? The only way to do that is put a lot of work
in it. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. Keep your finger in progress, we're going to come
right back. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. First area that I brought up is family. And
you know, honestly, that's just the most important. There's so much to it. That's why we could
talk about it forever. I could probably just, I could keep talking about it. But ask yourself
this question. Are you a good example? Here's, here's really the test, man. Do you want your
sons to be exactly like you? Like if we could just press a button and now all of a sudden
they're having your life with your past, with your attitude. Do you like that? And you say,
wow, I really don't want that. Well, then you know what? You need to make some changes.
You need to make changes. And you know what? You need to raise them differently than you
were raised to. Because if you're raising them exactly how you were raised, don't think
they're going to magically make different decisions. This is honestly the thing that
motivated me most to get serious about Christianity was when I thought about my life and who I
was and decisions I had made and how I didn't want my son to do that. And I said, right
now on the trajectory that I'm headed, my children will be just like me. Like there's
not really, I'm not giving them any hope for a better future. I said, I have to change
if I want my sons to be better. And you know what? I should give them that opportunity.
I should allow them to have an opportunity to be in more church, know more Bible, be
more pure, not hang out with dumb people, be instructed, actually taught things from
their father, learn things. You know what? That's important. And you know, I have a
great dad. I love my dad. And he did teach me a lot of things. He taught me how to play
golf and, you know, a lot of choice words. But at the end of the day, I wish that he
taught me more. I'm not sitting here thinking, like, I wish I'd spent less time with my dad.
I wish I'd had more time even. And you know what? We as men need to recognize, hey, we
should spend more time with our children. We need to invest more in our children. And,
you know, living in the same household, my brothers and sisters, they didn't necessarily
make all the same decisions I did either. And it could even be worse. And what I've
also noticed is it seems like if you don't put a lot of energy into your children and
your family, a lot of times they're even worse than you were because the world's gotten worse.
So like, people, if you have the same level of apathy and laziness as your parents did,
they're not going to be you. They're going to be even worse than you because the world's
just that much worse already. You have to go like way above and beyond just to try and
drag them out of the filth and the smut of the world that we're in right now. Because
a lot of things were a lot easier in times past in America and previous generations and
they took that for granted and they allowed their children to kind of get slowly corrupted.
We need to be on guard. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 6. Now these things were
our examples to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. Neither
be idolaters as were some of them. As it is written the people sat down to eat and drink
and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed and
fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them
also tempted and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured
and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happen unto them for in samples
and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come. So notice
the Bible saying the things that are written in the Bible are for our admonition. All the
stories all the examples and notice these people are constantly being killed. Literally
dying as a result of their evilness. Go back to Proverbs chapter 22. Go to Proverbs 22.
Don't think that anything I'm saying from the Bible is hyperbolic because the Bible
is saying this is the reality of the world that we live in. People are very tempted with
fornication. They're tempted to murmur and complain. They're tempted to lust after things
that they shouldn't have. And it's not like, oh, I'm saved. I'm not going to do these
things. No, no, no. A very big reality. And the reason why a lot of times people make
these problems and have these issues with family, all these areas, is just basic laziness.
Just being lazy. Just being apathetic and just being lazy, not guarding yourself, not
putting any boundaries. It's easy to start lusting after things when you don't have
any boundaries in your life. When you just, you know what, I'm just going to spend five
hours just surfing the internet to see what I can find. I'm sure you're going to find
something bad. It doesn't even take five hours folks. It probably takes five minutes, right?
But is that really any boundary? I have no boundary. We need to have some boundaries
in our lives. We need to have some accountability in our lives. We need to make sure that we're
protecting ourselves from the evils and the dangers that are out there. And you know what,
that takes some work. And you know when David got into trouble? When he started getting
lazy. He's not going to work. He's not going out to battle. He's just hanging out at night
just dreaming about whatever he can dream about. And oh, there's a pretty woman out there.
I'm sure he didn't realize that if you go on the balcony at a certain time at night
you might happen to take a glimpse of something. I'm sure it was just a pure accident, right?
I'm sure King David is not a wise man that doesn't happen to know where he can go at
night and go look at something that he shouldn't look at. Look, every man knows that. Because
men are tempted with women. If you're not, you're a faggot and get out of this church.
Okay? It's like, what man in the Bible didn't struggle with women? Even the fags were married.
Did you read in Genesis chapter 19? Even in Judges 19, they were still with a woman. You
know, the only guy that doesn't seem to really struggle with women is Daniel, and there might
be a reason. He might have had that taken from him. Okay? But boy, it's a real struggle.
And you know, one of the best ways to avoid this is just to work hard. You know one of
the best ways to avoid sin? Just work. Just do something. Just find something to do. Just
work. You know, "Oh, I have to go to church two times a week." Well, I bet it gets you
out of some trouble. I bet by just going to church more, you're less likely to sin while
you're here than you are just at home doing who knows what, whenever, however. How about
on New Year's Eve? You know, how do I not sin? How about party at church? You know,
it's probably a lot easier to do the right thing when you're just hanging out with God's
people. You know, "Well, when I have a party, how am I going to make sure I don't sin?"
Like, people that have high standards don't invite people that don't have high standards.
And you say, "Oh, so just church people." Look, not everybody in this room has high
standards. Not everybody in this room. Like, you would think, like, because of the preaching,
like no one in here would even think about drinking alcohol. But that's not true. You
would think, like, nobody in this room would ever dress inappropriately. Okay, you're deceiving
yourself. No one in this room would ever say something off-color. No one in this room would
go down a dark road. Look, you're just mistaken. Just because someone comes into this church
does not mean that they're a good example. Otherwise, they wouldn't need to preach this
sermon. Oh, good job, guys. Way to go. Yeah. Yeah. Every man in here is dressed in a sharp
suit. Every man's got their children lined up in a row looking perfect. Every wife in
here is smiling ear to ear and says, "Yes, sir. A yes husband." And she made him breakfast
and rubbed his back and does everything he wants whenever he wants. I mean, right? Oh,
I'm sorry. Is that not reality? Every man in here makes tons of money and he doesn't
have any need to spoil and he works super hard and he goes soul winning all the time
and he loves his wife and he does everything perfect. Look, we obviously have issues, folks.
And the reason why we have issues is because we want to be lazy. We literally go to the
store and there's a chair and it's called the lazy boy chair. And it's fitting. It's
not the lazy man chair, it's the lazy boy chair because men are working. Lazy boys are
just sitting around doing nothing, getting a fat beer belly and getting, you know, man
boobs and just basically just wasting away. And they look so weird. It's like they're
like a big bowling ball on pencil sticks. And it's like, like, what's wrong with you?
You know what? You need to have some big, you know why your legs are so skinny? Because
you don't walk, you don't run because you don't jump because you don't lift anything
because you don't do anything. And why is your belly so big? It's because all you do
is feed yourself. All you do is feed yourself. You know, a guy with big legs and a skinny
belly feeds other people. A guy with a big belly and skinny legs, he just feeds himself.
Why? Because he's lazy. He's a lazy person and he's a glutton. And you know what? America
is filled with these weird looking men. Make men look like men again. I mean, it's just,
it's just disgusting how our society is literally destroying itself and they don't even understand
it. They don't even realize that they look weird. And then they have this attitude. Look
at Proverbs 22 verse 13. "The slothful man sayeth, There is a lion without. I shall be
slain in the streets." What a stupid excuse. You know what? There's a lion in the street.
So I grabbed my gun and I shot it in the head. And I took the head and I cut it off and I
put it on the wall of our house. It's like, where'd that lion head come from? It was in
the street and I killed it and I hung it up on the wall because I worked hard. You know,
you're going to literally starve to death because there's a lion outside. But you know
what? That is how many men are today. It's too hard. It's too difficult. They look, oh,
I would work hard if our government was better. But boy, they're just so ferocious. They're
just so, they're just so bad. Nuts to the government. Who cares how ferocious they are?
Who cares how much money they take from us? Now again, I care, but I'm saying it doesn't
mean I'm going to quit working. If they tax me 90%, I'm still working. You know, I was,
I've heard this and I can't verify, but you can look it up for me. Verify this for me.
Fact check it, okay? I've heard that in certain European countries, if you get a second job,
sometimes they tax your second job like 90%. But you know what I thought? I was like, I'd
probably still work the second job just so I could get that extra money. Because if you
live in the socialist environment where you can't get ahead, the only way to get ahead
is to work that hard. I mean, is that terrible? That's evil to tax someone 90%. Obviously,
I'm for tax. Tax should exist. We need public roadways. We need airports. We need certain
communal services. We need a military. We even need limited government. We need to buy
bullets to put in the head of every faggot and tranny and vest-thigh, everything with
an acronym, just all of it. See, I'm liberal. I'll give them all fair treatment. They can
all get a bullet, okay? I won't discriminate against any of them. And any time you invent
a new category and add it in there, automatically graft it in, okay? Go to Providence 24. But
you know what? It takes a little bit of effort to go and find the faggot, put cuffs on him,
take him to the court, have a fair trial, identify the disgusting, evil, wicked crap
he did, and then line him up against the wall, shoot him in the head, put a hazmat suit on,
scrape it all up, put it in the fire and burn it and, you know, that should be televised.
Tell everybody, like show everybody, this is an example of everyone that's a homo suffering
the vengeance of eternal fire.
You say, "Oh, do you think fags can get saved?"
No, they're going to burn in hell, just like their physical body should.
You know what?
They should never be buried because they're not going to be resurrected.
You know why people get buried?
Because they're going to be resurrected.
They're planted and sown so that they can be born again and resurrected.
So you know, getting cremated or burned in the fire shows how you're just going to be
perishing in hell for all of eternity, where there are worm-die-if-not and the fire is
not quenched.
And, you know, we need people to actually work hard and actually clean up this country.
They say, "How in the world are we going to clean up America?"
By working hard.
By doing some real work.
By actually getting people.
You know what this country needs?
It doesn't need politicians.
It needs saved people.
Because it doesn't matter what politician we get in office.
Our country is filled with so many unsaved idiots that we could never have any kind of
semblance of morality in this country.
You really think that our country is voting in morality?
I mean most people in this country are pro-choice to some extent.
They're horrified by the idea of just banning abortion period.
They think, "Well, I think there should be all these exceptions and let's figure out
a compromise.
16 weeks or 18 weeks or whatever."
It's just like so stupid how we're arguing about dividing this child in half.
It's like you're obviously not the mother when you want to cut it in half, no matter
how many weeks it's into.
That's how sick and evil our country is.
Why?
Because men don't work hard.
You say, "Well, women, they have all this power."
You know what's going to take men to take it back?
It takes men to marry all these women and put them back in the kitchen so they stop
being in political office.
I'm not really for ... I don't think we need to just pass all these laws, legislating morality.
You know what we need?
We need to change the culture.
We need to just get men to actually tell women what to do and put them back in their place
and their role.
Then we don't need the law to do it for us.
We're just doing it as a society, as a culture.
As a culture, we're just rejecting it.
As a culture, we're redefining and shaping everything.
You know what that means?
We need bigger churches with more pastors, more money, bigger programs, more soul winners,
more people getting baptized, more people getting saved.
That sounds like a lot of work.
Now you're picking it up.
Why is our country being destroyed?
Because Christians are too lazy to revive it.
They're praying for revival from their pouch.
I want to lay down and go to sleep and just let God fix our country.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You need to walk through the wilderness.
You need to walk into the promised land.
You need to slay the giants.
You need to march around Jericho seven times.
You need to build the house of God.
We need people to actually get motivated to work.
I remember seeing this comment online, it said, "Oh, I hate going to smaller churches because
they always try to put you to work."
Well, I wouldn't want you to have to do anything too hard, would I?
Why don't you go to Fun Baptist Church where you can sit and you're lazy boy and watch
a movie.
And you say, "You're joking."
No, the modern churches just watch movies.
Are you kidding me?
God created you as a man to go and sit in a theater and eat popcorn and watch a movie.
That's what's wrong with our country.
And you know what?
The men that go to those churches aren't real men.
Become a real man.
A real man can sit there and actually listen to Joyce Meyer preach at them and try -- think
about it.
You're taking your wife to a church to have Joyce Meyer tell you as a man that you're
wrong and that you need to actually obey your wife because you know they're doing that.
You know they're coming in the church and their wife's sitting there, "Now sometimes
you husbands, you shouldn't talk that way to your wife.
Look, I get to talk to my wife however I want, period.
If I want to be mean, I get to be mean.
Now should I be mean all the time?
Okay.
But you know what?
No one is going to tell me that I'm wrong, I'm right every time, because I'm the man.
I get to decide.
And you know what?
Sometimes people need to get rebuked.
"Oh, that's mean."
Show me in the Bible where it says, "Thou shalt not be mean."
Show me the verse.
Obviously the Bible says that we should be kind, and I get that, but you know it also
says rebuke.
And a lot of times what Jesus said wasn't really nice.
It wasn't always the most loving.
I mean when we read the book of Proverbs, boy, it gets harsh quick.
Look at Proverbs 24.
Look at verse 29.
"Say not, I will do so to him as he had done to me.
I will render to the man according to his work.
I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding."
You know what it means when it's void of understanding?
An idiot.
I went to the house of the idiot.
I went to the house of the stupid person.
I went to the house of the guy that has a TikTok channel.
And lo, it was all grown over with thorns and nettles and had covered the face thereof.
You know why?
Because he's making videos and his yard looks like trash.
And the stone wall thereof was broken down.
The house is falling apart, but you know what?
He's got a lot of subscribers.
Verse 32, "Then I saw and considered it well.
I looked upon it and received instruction."
Yet a little sleep, a slumber, a little folding of the hands of sleep.
So so thy poverty come as one that travels and thy want as an armen.
It's saying if you're lazy, you're going to be poor.
You want to know why most people are poor?
Because they're lazy.
Now, I give a caveat because there's other countries where you're in a communist scenario
or something.
You don't even have much of an option.
But in America, it's pretty much 99.999999% of the reason you're poor is because you're
lazy.
That's it.
That's the only reason.
There's really no reason for you to be poor in America, except for the fact that you're
just not hardworking.
You're lazy.
Well, that's me.
It's the reality.
That's just the truth.
Go if you would to 2 Thessalonians chapter 3, go to 2 Thessalonians chapter 3.
You know, are you a good example of working hard?
Are you teaching your children how to work hard?
Oh, but inflation.
You know what?
Inflation kicked everybody in the shin.
Inflations hurt everybody.
But you know what?
The people that work hard are actually better off still.
And you wouldn't realize this necessarily.
But you know, wages didn't go up for everybody.
But the people that are really skilled and hardworking, the wages went way up for them.
The people that own property or own lots of property, you know what happened when inflation
hit?
They made tons of money, like tons and tons of money.
Look, I'm against inflation.
It's a Jewish game.
But you know who benefits from it?
The hardworking people.
The people that have already been working hard.
The people that actually do well with the things that have been given under them.
The guy that takes his one talent and buries it in the ground, boy, inflation is going
to hit him hard.
Boy, it's going to sucker punch him.
Well, I spent my youth, I played beer pong in college for four years.
Well, you know what?
Inflation is going to hit you like a sucker punch.
But I got like $200,000 in student loans.
Well now, you know, daddy Biden is going to pay for that, right?
But this is what people don't understand.
When they pay off those student loans, they didn't pay them off.
You know what's paying them off?
You're still paying them off.
Actually, we're all paying it off.
But you know who's really paying it off?
It's still that student.
Because you know what happened?
All the really skilled labor jobs just got a little bit more higher in wages.
And all the low level jobs are even worse now.
Because the prices are going to go up and the wages are going to stay the same.
So by you graduating from that college degree that was worthless, it was actually a detriment
to society, you actually became stupid, less educated from it.
You know what you did?
You destroyed society, prices are going to go up, and the wages of a job that you can
get are going to stay the same.
That's what happened.
And they're destroying society because you know what?
They don't want to work hard.
They want to continue living their plain beer pong, just living their white collar life
on daddy's dime.
But you know what?
They're a worthless individual.
You know why our country is just struggling?
Because no one is good at working.
I don't care what industry.
I am not impressed with the workforce of America.
The workforce of America is pathetic.
They want so much time off, they're so entitled.
They can't even work when they get the sniffles, especially with this COVID thing.
Everybody's like overreacts.
It's like I coughed once and it's like now I can't even go to work for like a week and
it's just like dude just man up.
I mean it's just like it's it's just so frustrating how people can't get anything done and it's
like oh my my ankle hurts.
Well wrap it up and get to work buttercup.
Do something.
You know why you hurt everywhere and you're just so frail?
It's because you don't eat good food and exercise and then I have to accommodate you.
That doesn't even make any sense.
You know what?
Do some real work, exercise, work hard, you know, we should not give handouts to men.
Look what it says in 2 Thessalonians chapter number 3, chapter 3 verse 7, "For yourselves
know how you ought to follow us, for we behave not ourselves disorderly among you, neither
do we eat any man's bread for naught, but rot with labor and travail night and day,
that we might not be chargeable to any of you, not because we have not power, but to
make ourselves an example unto you to follow us, for even when we are with you, this we
commanded you that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Notice what the Bible says, don't let these people even eat if they're not willing to
work.
It's sickening.
I went down to like downtown Dallas, I took my wife on a date and we haven't been there
like at all, hardly.
We're just walking down and it's like a nice area and there's just homeless people everywhere
and it's frustrating.
I'm thinking like, can we just buy them a one-way ticket to San Francisco?
Like we'll save tax dollars by just doing that.
We're constantly busing migrants, why can't we bus the homeless to San Francisco or something?
It's so weird.
We can bus all these migrants to D.C., why can't we bus them like five miles back across
the border?
Wouldn't that save a little bit of money?
Although I guess if you have to build a migrant army that's going to take away our constitutional
powers, then you've got to ship them everywhere, right?
Oh, Greg Abbott wouldn't do that, okay.
Hey, oh, you know, these migrants that are crossing the border, it would be so inhumane
to not give them food, right?
I mean, let's give them a phone and let's give them a backpack and let's give them checks
and let's give them a shelter and let's give them money, even though the vast majority
of them are able-bodied working men who don't work.
You know what they should get?
Nothing!
Oh, you're so cold-hearted, Pastor Shelley.
No, you're not biblical.
You're destroying America.
You know how much money and food and clothing I'm going to give to an able-bodied man that
doesn't work?
None.
You know what he needs to be told?
You're a lazy jerk.
Get to work.
And you know what?
No one should ever be allowed to migrate to this country without a job.
Look, I'm all for, if people want to work here, we should have a pretty liberal policy
and bringing in people.
But at the same time, you know what?
We should never be giving handouts to people that won't work.
But churches have destroyed this.
I mean, I drive all the time and cars just randomly slam on their brakes to hand money
to some homeless bum standing on the corner.
And I'm thinking like, you're the part of the problem.
Because if everybody was like me, homeless people wouldn't exist.
And if everybody was like you, giving them money, we'd have way more homeless people.
They'd be called college students and liberals and BLM, where the government's just giving
them money and handing them out.
Everybody acts like they hate all these protesters going up and down the street.
You realize they're people that don't work, they just get money from the government handouts?
Stop giving people money, indiscriminately.
Look, there's a reason to give money to people, because they're poor and working and they
can't make it.
Because they have a life event that's a tragedy.
They have some kind of a problem and you just want to bless that person.
You know what, if a guy comes into our church asking me for money, I'll give him a job.
That's what I'll give him.
I will not give him money.
And if, you know what, it's not just my policy, that should be every man's policy in here.
Do not let these lazy jerks come into our church.
And we've had it.
We've had people come in here, and all they do is just basically just find the next sucker.
"Hey man, can you help me out?"
And then they go to the next guy.
"Hey man, can you help me out?"
And then they go to the next person.
They just go, they just do a whole circuit, and then they come all the way back around.
And it's just NASCAR.
They're just going in a circle.
And it's just as worthless as NASCAR.
It's going to destroy our country.
Do not do that.
"Oh, you're so mean.
Where's your soup kitchen?"
It's called getting a job.
And then you can buy yourself steak.
We don't have a soup kitchen.
We have a steak, build your own steak.
Think your own steak.
That's the ministry that we have.
"Oh, I don't like this kind of a sermon."
"Yeah, because you're lazy.
Yeah, because you're not a good example."
Think of the era, and look, there's so much more that I wanted to say, but, you know,
and I'm not preaching tonight, but here are just some thoughts I have.
I'm just going to finish on some thoughts, okay?
What if everybody was late like you're late?
We wouldn't even be able to start church.
What if everybody didn't watch their children like you didn't watch your children?
What if everybody didn't go soul-wanting like you, and we'd have zero numbers in the
bulletin?
Wouldn't that be embarrassing?
That's the end of the year, and it's like soul-wanting, zero, for this month and for
the year.
There's some churches, it's a zero, folks.
That's embarrassing.
That's why, you know what they do?
They just don't put it in the bulletin.
Go to the church where it's not in the bulletin, it's zero.
What if everybody hated women like you hate women?
Then we just have a, it would be a guys club, it wouldn't even be a church anymore, so I'll
play chess or something.
What if you quit on people, what if I already quit on you like you quit on people?
Don't be a quitter.
What if you, what if people didn't keep their word like you didn't keep your word?
What if people didn't come to church?
I mean there's some people that are just like, I'm just not going to go to church today.
What if everybody was like you?
What if one day I just show up and just no one was here?
What if everybody asked everybody for money?
How would that work?
Right?
What if every guy just said, you know what?
The guys at our church are really generous.
I'm not going to work.
I'm just going to ask everybody else to pay my bills.
What if everybody showed up and we just all asked each other, will you pay my bills?
No, will you pay my bills?
Will you pay my bills?
How is anything going to work?
Who's going to do the work?
What if everybody didn't bring anything to the potluck?
Like you didn't bring anything.
What if it's like cookie night and there's like three, there's just three cookies that
we all have to fight over.
I mean some of you guys had like 50 cookies on the first plate and you didn't even eat
any of them.
I mean if we only had three, I mean I tried to say like make lots and lots of cookies
because some of you guys had like cookies just stacked for days coming out of there
and I'm thinking like what are you doing?
What if everybody stacked their plate full of 50 cookies and didn't eat any of them?
What if nobody ever signed up for an event?
And then we show up and there's like 80 of you.
It's like well I ordered myself lunch, have fun.
You know we can't all be Jesus and multiply our lunch for everybody, okay?
We have to actually figure out how much to order ahead of time.
What if everybody used the bathroom in the service like you did?
That'd be a long line.
It's just a line of people just using the bathroom.
What if everybody wasn't serious?
What if everybody else didn't clean up?
I mean think how dirty our church would be if everybody was like the majority of y'all
where it's just like you let your kids.
I mean sometimes it seems like you just take like saltine packets and you just like go
like this your kids go like this and then just go I like look at them thinking like
how did this even happen physically?
Like I couldn't even make it this dirty if I tried on purpose and then it's just like
someone else can have fun cleaning that up.
What if no one ever said thank you like you don't say thank you?
What if no one did the memory verse?
Alright time to hand out the prizes.
No one did the memory verse.
What if when we sing the final song no one's saying like you don't sing?
That'd be awkward.
Alright on the first.
When are we done?
Like I don't even know how to do that.
My question, are you a good example men?
Do you sing loud so that your kids will sing loud?
You know we need to do some self introspection and we need to see are we a good example because
you know we're building the next generation and church is important our lives are important
Christianity is important and you know we have to work hard.
It's the end of the year.
You got all your laziness out.
Let us start tomorrow by working hard and being a good example and doing right and
focusing on the things that matter let us build Christianity back and everybody wants
America to be back.
I don't care about America.
I want Christianity back.
I don't care if we become a completely different country who cares about the flag you know
I care about the Church of God you know there could be cooler flags out there the Confederate
flag looks cooler the Texas flag looks way cooler just make everything Texas everything
bigger in Texas let's just become Texas as a country right let's just make Texas so amazing
and so strong and everybody else is so weak and effeminate that they're just like Texas
will you just take over us and we're just like of course we already did have you seen
they have this map I think it's at the salt grass but you can find in other places it's
just like what Texas thinks they look like and it's just basically like 80% of the United
States who knows what I'm talking about yeah just look it up like these Texas like that's
what we need to do and we need to bring people here make them Texan and then send them back
to wherever they're from like Oklahoma or something and make Oklahoma just Texas you
know what I mean and then everybody's eating chili with no beans in it because they're
real men and they're not offended by words okay they're not offended by everything that
could possibly be done they're actually you know what strong and they love the Bible and
they care more about what the Bible says than society because society is destroyed folks
quit caring what they think stop drinking alcohol work hard love your kids and let's
start off the new year with an attitude of which let's be a good example goes a prayer
thank you heavenly father so much for this church thank you for the men of this church
I pray that you would just strengthen them that you would help us all to have an attitude
and a zeal to work hard that we would invest in all the right areas that we would try to
get rid of some of our selfishness and personal desires and we would focus on our family our
wives our children we would focus on the things of God on building the church on being spiritual
that we would encourage the youth to do the right thing not to follow the world's example
and I pray that we would take church seriously more than ever that we would take our spiritual
lives seriously and I pray that you would help us to be a bright and shining light into
a dark world and that you could actually help us to build revival where we're at and in
Jesus name we pray amen.
Everyone for our final song we're going to be singing song number 389 bring them in
song 389 bring them in 389 bring them in.