Now here at First Timothy chapter four,
there's one verse I just really wanted to kind of cherry pick
and really think about here is verse 12,
where the Bible says, "Let no man despise thy youth,
"but be thou an example of the believers
"in word and conversation, in charity and spirit,
"in faith and purity."
Now, this verse is obviously given to a young pastor,
a young man in the faith, Timothy,
and it's very clear that he has a really important task
to be a pastor.
But really what I think's important about this phrasing
or what I like is how he's supposed to be an example.
And the word example can mean a lot of different things,
but I believe in this context,
another way that you could kind of look at this
is to call Timothy a hero.
And he's supposed to be kind of a hero of the faith
to the next generation, to his church.
And it tells them all these different places,
obviously in word, conversation,
charity, spirit, faith, purity, basically just everything.
He just wants them to be a hero,
and he wants them to be an example
to the rest of the congregation,
to those that are gonna be in his church,
and those whom he's gonna be leading.
And what I think's really important
is that we realize that we also need
to take this admonition seriously,
and we also need to be a good example
unto other individuals,
and we all should try to be someone's hero.
And the title of my sermon this evening
is just Be Someone's Hero.
Be Someone's Hero.
Now, what kind of gave me the idea for this sermon,
or what I was thinking about originally,
was the idea of when we die and go to heaven,
just kind of wanting to see some of the heroes of the faith.
You know, going to heaven.
And of course, the most important person to see
is the Lord Jesus Christ himself, and to be with God.
And of course, all the praise and honor and glory
is going to him.
But I also believe there's an aspect of heaven
that is us also enjoying fellowship with other believers
and getting to meet and hang out with certain heroes
of the faith.
You have a few different pictures in the Bible of this.
You have the poor guy that was like a leper his whole life,
and he eventually ends up getting
to be in Abraham's bosom.
Now, this wasn't paradise in the center of the Earth, folks.
What it was is that Abraham literally
has his arm around Lazarus, and he's got him in his bosom,
and they're buddies.
And I guarantee that guy's hero was probably Abraham.
He probably looked up to Abraham.
It was really cool to get to meet Abraham in his life.
And a person that I think a lot of us
could relate to as being a hero would
be maybe the Apostle Paul.
I think of the Apostle Paul as being
a great hero of the faith and someone
who would be really interesting to see and talk to
and fellowship with.
And he's someone I look up to personally.
And what I was thinking about is, while I have heroes
of the faith, and I know you have heroes of the faith
that we look to in the Bible and in our own personal lives,
is the Apostle Paul, I'm sure also,
had the exact same experience where he had heroes
of the faith.
And I was thinking about, who would Paul's heroes be?
And I was like, well, I think one of them
would probably be Ananias, considering the fact
that he was sent unto him.
He was willing to give him the gospel
and to help him get saved.
And Ananias had to be pretty brave to seek out Paul
and to be willing to give him the gospel
and be willing to help him, considering the fact
that the apostle Paul was Saul back then.
That was what he was referred to.
And Saul was breathing out threatenings
against the church.
Saul was hailing people off the prison.
He was what you would consider a Fed, OK?
He was the Fed in the group.
And you didn't want to go and search out the Fed,
because he was hailing everybody over to prison
to the American gulag.
And so it was a lot of bravery and courage
for him to talk to Ananias.
And I'm sure that the Apostle Paul, to him,
he wants to hang out with Ananias.
Another person I think that Paul was probably excited to see
and to fellowship with in heaven was Stephen, someone
that was a great hero to Paul.
And I believe that Stephen was a great hero that
caused the apostle Paul to be the man that he was.
What could motivate the apostle Paul
to go through all the difficulty, persecution,
and really several near-death experiences?
I believe seeing Stephen being so faithful and willing
to die for the faith.
And so the apostle Paul has the hero Stephen.
And we can find this all over the Bible.
Elisha has Elijah as his hero, and he
gets to follow his faith.
He gets to follow his example.
You have great men in the Bible like Moses,
who ends up having Joshua.
And of course, who's Joshua's obvious, very clear hero
of the faith, it was Moses.
But what you see in the Bible is after Joshua leaves,
there's no one that really ends up becoming
another hero for a while.
You kind of have this drop off for a while,
and then you have to go through the book of Judges
for God to keep raising up a new deliverer, or judge,
or savior.
And those heroes of the faith would bring back the nation,
or would bring back people.
And what's important is that we have heroes
in every single generation.
And that we realize, even though we have heroes
and we like to look at them,
that we don't just glorify our heroes,
but rather we become heroes for the next generation.
And let me tell you something,
any of you guys in here that have children,
any of the men in this room that already have children,
you're already a hero of your children, like automatically.
They already think your dad is the strongest guy,
dad is the best guy, dad is amazing,
dad is like basically their instant superhero.
They already love him.
But what can happen as men don't strive to be a hero
and then their children lose faith
in that dad that was that hero.
They don't end up becoming the hero
and they don't stay the hero in their children's lives.
And it's important that men and young men have heroes
to model their life after.
Men that they can look to and men that they can follow.
And when the apostle Paul says,
"Hey, follow me as I follow Christ."
That was a great example that he was setting down
to say, "Hey, I am living the right life.
I'm the one serving God.
I'm doing good so that you can follow my example."
He's telling Timothy, "Hey, you need to be a good example.
You need to set the example."
Why?
You need to be a hero for the next generation because the apostle Paul is going to die.
You know what?
Who's going to carry that torch?
Who's going to lead on to the next generation?
We need more men that are willing to say, "You know what?
I can be someone's hero."
You don't have to be a pastor to be a hero.
You don't have to be the apostle Paul to be a hero.
You know what?
It's very easy to be a hero as far as just what you have to do.
It's just hard to do it.
Knowing what to do is not necessarily as difficult as it is doing it.
And what makes someone a hero, there's a lot to it, but I have three points this evening
that I kind of want to talk about.
You know, how can we be heroes and what could we do to try to be someone's hero?
Well, the most important point I think is number one is you need to be disciplined.
You have to be disciplined to be a hero.
If you go to 1 Corinthians chapter nine, I want to go to another place in scripture,
1 Corinthians chapter number nine, but our society lacks heroes.
Think about, think about the presidential election that's coming up.
No one's excited about it because we don't really have any heroes.
There's no one for a godly Christian to get super excited about.
You know, a lot of people are rallying around Trump right now and he's kind of like the
only quote hero I would argue in our generation.
But isn't it pretty sad when Donald Trump's the hero?
Like which comic book do you want to read where Donald Trump's the hero?
You know, it's just really embarrassing.
It's just a shame and a mockery that we don't have any men in this country that could be
a legitimate hero.
And it's like, we're America.
We're supposed to be the greatest nation on earth.
And it's like every time you look at the presidential candidates of the last few decades,
I'm thinking like this is our best and brightest?
This is, how can we claim that we're such a great nation when this is the people that
would lead our nation?
People that are covetous and people that are prideful and people that have no real accomplishments
of value anymore.
No character.
They can't even maintain a family.
And yet these people are supposed to be the leaders of our country, the leaders of our
nation.
And it's just sad.
It's an embarrassment.
And of course, a generation that has no leaders and no heroes is going to really lower itself,
really degrade itself, really destroy itself, because everything rises and falls on leadership.
And when there's a void in leadership, what needs to happen is someone needs to step up
and be a hero.
You say, well, how does someone step up to be a hero?
You know how you become a hero?
You have to discipline yourself.
Heroes are made through discipline.
I don't care what hero you look to, they were all disciplined.
Whether you look at Michael Jordan, whether you look at Wayne Gretzky, whether you look
at Tiger Woods, these men are some of the most disciplined people you will ever meet
in your entire life.
Practice meticulously, put in so much effort and energy, worked harder than their competition,
and they put their talents to use.
You know, you don't just automatically become the best at anything overnight.
It takes a lot of discipline.
And the best and the brightest and those that are going to achieve great things are very
disciplined.
Now look at 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 25, "And every man that strives for the mastery
is temperate in all things."
Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
"I therefore, so run, not as uncertainly, so fight I not as one that beateth the air,
that I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I
preach to others, I myself should be a castaway."
So the Apostle Paul is making a comparison here to athletic competition or not even just
necessarily athletic, but just competition in general, mastery of any particular practice,
whether that be intellectual practice or whether that be an athletic competition or whether
that be a business practice, he says if you want to master something, you have to be temperate
in all things and you have to keep under your body.
You have to exercise self-control.
You cannot expect to be someone great without putting in an extraordinary amount of effort
and energy.
You know, we'd love to think of just being Superman where you just came from a separate
planet and you're just automatically the strongest, fastest, smartest, everything.
You didn't have to try.
But you know what?
Superman doesn't exist.
That's a fake.
Okay.
It was written by a Jew, folks.
Okay.
Of course, Jews would love to have infinite power and wealth and be lazy at the same time.
Okay.
That's what, that's what they inherit.
But when it comes to the Christian faith, you know what God wants people to work really
hard and put in a lot of effort and energy and to discipline themselves and to be temperate
and to exercise subjection where they simply say, you know, I know I want this.
I would like to do this, but I'm going to say no to myself.
If you can't say no to yourself, you're never going to conquer anything.
You have to first conquer yourself.
You want to be a hero.
I want to defeat great enemies.
Well, how about you start with you?
You are the first one that needs to be conquered.
You're the first.
You have to die to your flesh.
You have to crucify the flesh.
And you know what?
There's many men who ended up failing because they couldn't say no to themselves.
Go to Proverbs chapter 23 for a moment.
Go to Proverbs chapter 23.
Now you know some people that were not heroes of the faith.
How about Nadab and Abihu?
Now here's a question.
How many people in here are named Nadab and Abihu?
Why do you think it is that no one is named Nadab and Abihu?
Because they're not anyone's hero.
They were never, you know the title of the sermon is be someone's hero.
You know who's hero they are?
No one.
No one likes them.
No one wants to be them.
No one is thinking like when I grow up I can't wait to be like Nadab and Abihu.
And of course we don't know exactly what they did.
I can't prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt but the Bible says they offered strange fire
under the Lord.
And then right after this Moses makes it clear he says hey no one's supposed to be drinking
wine in the house of God.
And so it's kind of like wink wink nod nod okay.
It's like hey I threw someone out of church and FYI fornication will get you thrown out
of church.
It's like I wonder why they got thrown out of church you know.
It's like well we kind of know what happened don't we okay.
And so it's really important that as men we don't allow ourselves to be taken over by
some other substance and probably the most you know abused thing out there is alcohol.
I mean if you were going to say what has subdued the vast majority of American men and probably
men across the world it's just alcohol in general.
Alcohol has conquered so many men and destroyed so many men and you know what alcoholics are
no one's hero.
No one looks to alcoholics and say wow there was this really raging alcoholic in my life
and I can't wait to be like him when I'm older.
You know I mean the Bible is clear in Proverbs chapter 20 wine is a mocker.
Wine is a mocker.
You want to be made fun of?
Drink alcohol.
Drinking alcohol will only encourage people to make fun of you and to laugh at you and
to ridicule you and look down upon you.
Strong drink is raging.
You want to get in bar fights.
You want to destroy your life, destroy your physical body.
Drink liquor.
Drink all kinds of alcoholic beverages that have a high level of potency and boy you can
destroy yourself fast.
The Bible says and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
You are an idiot.
If you drink alcohol, you're a loser.
You're not a hero.
You are a loser.
And our society has become a society of sawtish children, as God describes them, which means
a bunch of drunkards, which is a bunch of losers.
Our country is filled with losers today and they're not their children's hero anymore
because they're a bunch of drunks and you know what being a drunkard does not impress
anyone.
Look at verse chapter 23, look at verse 21, the Bible says for the drunkard and the glutton
shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
What will drinking do for you?
It'll make you poor.
And let me tell you something, drinking is an expensive habit, boy is that an expensive
behavior.
Boy, it just costs so much money just to even buy the booze alone.
Let alone the bar tab.
Let alone the munchies you have afterwards.
Let alone all of the tickets.
Hey, you want to get a DUI, 10 grand, probably way more because inflation, I don't know,
Biden economy, you know, it's like, what is it 20 grand now?
I mean, you could go to jail, you kill someone, you destroy someone's life.
I was listening to somebody give a testimony online on YouTube and they were saying that
their dad had gone to a bar, drank a few alcoholic beverages, probably three or four beers, which
again, I think all drinking is sinful, but especially getting drunk, having three or
four, he probably wasn't drunk, but he was across the legal limit and legal limits are
not that high.
I mean, it's only, I think in Texas, like 0.08 BAC and so this guy was over the limit.
He's just driving home at night, drove perfectly.
He didn't do anything wrong, but you know what?
Some random kids and a family pulled out in front of him, ran a red light, pulled out
in front of him, hit him head on, killed all of them, and then went to jail for decades.
You know why?
Because he drank.
He was a perfect driver.
He's like, "Oh, I'll drink.
I'm a great driver when I'm drinking."
Yeah, but what happens when someone pulls out in front of you and you smash into them?
It wasn't his fault, but you know what?
Just because he was drinking, automatically his fault, automatically going to go to jail,
automatically going to get prison time, automatically destroyed his life.
How much did that cost him?
How expensive is that?
You know what?
Drinking alcohol is stupid.
And let me tell you who's going to most likely have that scenario is you in this room that
have heard this sermon and then you decide to go drink.
You know, God is so much more merciful to the unsaved, to people that don't know any
better.
I'm sure your buddy that's not saved drinks and drives every day of his life and he may
never face the consequences of that.
But you know what?
You sitting in this room are so much more likely.
And when Nadab and Abihu drank in the house of God, what did God do?
He just killed him right away.
How much is that worth?
You know, drinking alcohol is one of the dumbest decisions you can ever make.
And I'll tell you what, it will instantly destroy you from ever being someone's hero.
You know, when you get drunk and you hit your wife in the face, your children instantly
lose all respect for you.
When you get drunk and you come home and you hit your kid, you kick the dog, you do whatever,
you totally ruin the reputation of your hero status that your children had for you.
You totally destroy it and ruin it, and they don't look up to you the same way, and you're
no one's hero anymore.
Why?
Because you're just not disciplined.
You know, the disciplined man says, "You know what?
I'm not going to have alcohol in my house.
I'm not going to go and hang out with people that are drinking.
I'm not even going to look at it.
I don't even need to go down the aisle at Walmart."
And you know who drinks a lot of alcohol?
Faggots do anyways.
So, I'm not even interested in drinking Faggot Lite.
Okay?
I mean, is it interesting that the biggest promoters of trans faggots is beer companies?
Oh, that really shocks me.
It was like, "Oh man, I'm never going to drink Bud Light again."
It was like, "Join the club."
Hey, if you have that stance, just stop drinking all of them.
Because let me tell you something, Coors is one of the first to ever promote faggots.
You know, their love train or whatever.
You know, that's just the age train is what they should have been promoting it as.
And let me tell you something, you know why fags love alcohol so much?
It's because they rape men through alcohol.
Have you ever read the Bible?
What happened to Noah?
I mean, the first example of sodomy, how does he even get it accomplished?
Because think about it, the first person ever even try sodomy had to try it with a straight
person.
It would never happen.
So you know what they had to do?
They had to get him drunk just to even try and do some kind of a inverted sick act.
And you know what, that is what fags do, is they try to prey on people when they're weak,
when they don't know what's going on, what's happened to them.
How would it be worth it if you drank alcohol and some sodomite did something to you?
How could you even live with yourself?
Like that would be the worst, the absolute worst.
Like I can't even imagine, like it's just too inconceivable.
I think people would literally even kill themselves because they would just be like, this is just
so embarrassing, this is so disgusting, this is so silly.
Just that risk alone, why would I ever want to touch alcohol?
I mean it's just, dude, there's no reason to ever drink alcohol and we've never seen
anybody do anything wonderful through drinking alcohol.
They break through windows and shatter their hand, they crash their car, they destroy themselves,
they commit adultery, they do even worse things than committing adultery, they vomit
in the night and die in their own vomit.
I mean it's just the worst thing and it just pisses me off when people that go to our
church end up going back to drinking and you know what, it happens, it is real.
Don't sit in here and think like, "Why are you peaching about drinking?
No one's going to drink."
Oh, it happens.
And let me tell you something, I already know your cousin and your uncle and your brother
and your co-worker and your best friend and your roommate and your father-in-law and your
dad, they drink and they constantly put pressure on you to drink and they constantly want you
to go around and hang out with them and go to the bar.
Hey, I've been there, I've done that.
I remember working at my place of business, they're just bringing the booze in right through
the door and saying like, "Hey, everybody come to cocktail hour.
Everybody come to the bar, you know, it's in the office."
And I'm just like, "No, I'm just not going to do it.
I'm not going to hang out with them."
And I don't care what they say about me.
You know what was embarrassing is how I'd work with people in Arizona and Christians
would be like afraid to say that they don't drink.
But the Mormons didn't have a problem.
And it was so funny because I would say like, "Oh, I don't drink," and they're like, "Oh,
are you Mormon?"
No, I'm a fundamental Baptist.
You know, why don't we bring it back where they realize like, "Oh, don't offer fundamental
Baptist booze because they'll always say no.
They'll never drink it when you drink alcohol because I want to be my kid's hero.
That's why."
And you know what?
There's not a good reason to drink it anyways.
It tastes like piss.
Go to Jeremiah chapter 35.
But just decide, "I'm never going to drink alcohol ever again."
Just have that discipline and just say, "I'm not going to do it."
And you say, "I struggle with that."
Okay, well, here's how you fix it.
Never be around it.
You know, you can't drink something that's literally not in your presence.
You're like, "Oh, how am I going to do that?"
Take all the booze and throw it in the trash.
Well, what about the bar?
Don't go to the bar ever.
Well, what about my cousin's house?
Don't go to his house.
Well, then I'm never going to be able to drink.
Exactly.
That's the point.
If you don't go around it, you can't drink it, okay?
And it's really important to just stay away from it.
Now, there's men in the Bible that were given this admonition to not drink any kind of drink
like this and not even just literally alcoholic type beverages, just anything related, just
anything like it.
Let's read a little bit of this passage, Jeremiah 35, look at verse one.
The word which came into Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of
Josiah, king of Judah saying, "Go unto the house of the Reckobites and speak unto them
and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers and give them wine
to drink."
Then I took Jazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habezaniah and his brethren and
all his sons and the whole house of the Reckobites and I brought them into the house of the Lord
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdalia, a man of God, which was by
the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Messiah, the son of Shalem,
the keeper of the door.
And I sat before the sons of the house of the Reckobites, pots full of wine and cups
and I said to them, "Drink ye wine."
But they said, "We will drink no wine."
What are you, Mormons?
No, they didn't say that.
For Jonah Dab, the son of Rehkab, our father commanded us, saying, "Ye shall drink no
wine, neither ye, nor your sons, forever."
Forever.
"Neither shall ye build a house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any.
But all your days ye shall dwell in tins, that ye may live many days in the land where
ye be strangers."
Thus that we obey the voice of Jonah Dab, the son of Rehkab, our father, in all that
he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days.
We, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters, nor to build houses for us to dwell in, neither
have we vineyard nor field nor seed.
We have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonah Dab, our
father, commanded us.
You know who was a hero in the Bible?
Jonah Dab.
I love this portion of scripture in this context because Jonah Dab is not only telling
him, "Hey, don't drink alcohol."
He's like, "Don't even drink anything close to it.
Don't even have the zero percent beer.
Don't even have anything that even resembles it.
Just get all of it out.
Hey, don't even have a vineyard just so you're not even tempted to even go that route or
even go that direction or even want to create any kind of wine."
Because of course, if you're making grapes, if you have the vineyard, well, there might
be a big temptation to finally partake, drink.
But I really like also, think about how they follow this commandment.
They said, "Hey, we haven't drunk and you know who also didn't drink?
Their wives and their sons and their daughters.
And how long could this last?
It could last forever.
As long as each generation, the man said, "You know what?
I'm going to be the next hero in my family.
Hey, Jonah Dad was a hero in our family and I'm going to be the hero for my son and my
son is going to be the hero for his son and you know what?
Our house is just done drinking alcohol forever."
Say, "Hey, I'm not going to drink it.
My wife's not going to drink it.
My daughter's not going to drink it.
My sons are going to drink it.
Hey, we're going to stay far away from it.
We're not even going to build a vineyard.
We're not going to go anywhere over there."
Well, how are you going to send your kids out to college?
I'm not.
We're not going to that vineyard of Sodom because let me tell you something.
You raise your kids to love God and to serve God and be soul winners and then you send
them to college, they will reverse course.
Maybe not the first six months, maybe not the first year, but I'm telling you, you put
your kids in that disgusting filth hole, many of them.
Maybe not all, but many of them would fall because the pressure is just too big.
The sin is too tempting.
You just have to just be like, "I'm not even going to go anywhere near it.
I'm not even going to build a vineyard.
I'm not even going to have anything to do with it."
They exercise their self-control so well.
Why?
Because Jonadab was obviously a great hero.
We need more heroes in the faith that just say, "You know what?
We're just not going to do this ever again."
They took it really serious.
This is a commandment that everybody knows about.
His wife knows about, his kids know about it.
He's not just hiding it or thinking, "Well, maybe we'll just try it."
No, they've already established we're just never going to do it forever.
I like this man's authority.
Think about what he's saying.
He's saying, "Hey, none of you or your wives or my grandchildren or any of them, they're
ever allowed to do this ever."
Talk about man.
Talk about the patriarchy, okay?
Hey, I'm all in.
I like that men realize, "Hey, you know what?
I can make rules for every single one of my descendants forever."
And think about this.
These weren't even young kids or teenagers.
These are grown men.
These are grown ass men, okay?
You know what they're doing?
They're obeying dad.
They're saying, "Hey, dad told me not to drink forever, so I'm never going to drink ever."
It's not like, "Oh, well, dad's old now.
Dad's an old fart.
Dad doesn't know any better."
No, "Dad told me to never drink, and I'm never going to do it.
I'm just going to stay away from it."
You know what?
We need sons that actually respect their father.
You know why a lot of sons don't respect their father?
Because the father's not respectable.
Because the father's not a hero.
Be a hero so that your sons can follow that example.
Do what Paul said to Timothy and be an example in faith.
Be an example in what?
Purity.
Now look, there was nothing wrong with drinking juice, but you know what?
He's so extreme.
He just wants to make sure.
There's nothing wrong with living in a house, but you know what?
He was just like, "I'm going to create certain boundaries that we're never going to cross
into this threshold."
And one other thing that's really important about this chapter, it is that in the midst
of one of the worst generations that has ever lived, one of the most wicked societies, where
I quoted from you how the children of Israel were satish children.
What is that?
Drunkards.
When the society was literally all drunk, everybody was a drunkard.
Everybody's drinking alcohol.
Everybody's going the way of the world.
Everybody's going the way of Sodom.
Everybody drinks alcohol every single day at their job.
You know what they said?
"We don't."
Well, we don't.
If you take care of every single person who drinks alcohol, me and my family don't have
to.
Me and my family aren't going to do that.
You know what?
We're going to follow the Lord.
But, you know, there's a lot of people in the Bible that are just not ever going to
be a hero.
They destroyed their heritage.
You know?
How about Lot?
How many Lots have you met in the world?
I mean, this guy allowed alcohol to cause him to become a dad and grandfather at the
same time.
It sounds like a country song.
It's Genesis.
Okay?
Genesis 19.
I mean, if Genesis 19 couldn't have gotten any worse, and then it took that turn.
And then he said, and then when it happened, it happened again the next night.
Like, if it wasn't enough to become grandpa and paul at the same time, he did it twice.
Why?
Only one reason.
Alcohol.
It would have never happened.
It would have never, ever happened.
Alcohol.
And, of course, they're two of the biggest feminist movements in the Bible.
The Mobites and the Ammonites, they end up worshipping false gods and all kinds of wickedness
and evil.
And you know what?
He gave his strength unto women and you know what?
Women can take advantage of you through alcohol because for some reason, you know, it's already
that like 50% of girls look good.
When you drink alcohol, it's like 150%.
I don't know.
And you know what?
Those lady boys aren't the extra 50% you wanted.
Dude, it's getting gross out there.
You think that I'm kidding.
And let me just say something, okay?
This is a men's preaching, okay?
Let me just say something.
Jesus Christ said to look upon a woman and lust after her is to commit adultery with
her in your heart.
How about you guys that are looking at trannies online and you didn't even know it?
Let's put that into words.
Whosoever looketh at a tranny and lusteth after her hath committed adultery with a tranny
in his heart.
Aren't you excited to look at the internet all of a sudden?
I'm telling you, alcohol will destroy you.
Don't go down that road.
Our society is sick and disgusting, but you know what, even in the worst generation that
could ever possibly exist, you can still serve God.
You can still say, "You know what?
Hey, I'm going to be a wreck-a-byte.
Hey, I'm going to follow the example of Jonadab."
But you know what?
They would have never done this.
It would have never happened if Jonadab wasn't a hero, if Jonadab wasn't disciplined.
You need to decide, "I'm going to be disciplined.
I'm going to be different, and you can be a great person."
Now go to 2 Timothy chapter one, go to 2 Timothy chapter one, after you all just vomited, it's
basically like the end of Ace Ventura Pet Detective, where they turn the female detective
around and the whole police department is just throwing up, alright?
Because they didn't just lust, they kissed that, okay?
Oh man, that's an epic scene, when Jim Carrey is brushing his teeth for like 10 hours, it's
like, you can't, but here's the problem, you can't get clean from that.
That's a permanent department, that's like AIDS, that lasts with you forever, okay?
Second Timothy chapter 1, look at verse 8, "Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony
of our Lord, nor of me as prisoner, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel
according to the power of God."
Now, the apostle Paul is trying to encourage Timothy to be strong about the fact that,
look, you're going to have to go through some hard things, but you know what, just become
a partaker of the afflictions of the gospel.
Just already decide in your mind, already choose, you know what, I'm just ready to be
a partaker of whatever afflictions or suffering or whatever tribulation I've already counted
the cost and I've determined I'm going to finish the course.
I've determined I'm going to be a partaker of these sufferings.
And you know what, in order to be a hero, you don't only have to be disciplined, you
also have to be determined.
You have to decide right now, you know what, I'm making this rule and I'm going to carry
forward with it.
I'm going to do it.
I'm going to stick with my discipline and I'm determined to finish.
I'm determined to be a partaker.
I'm determined, hey, whatever afflictions may abide me, hey, I'm going to do it.
I've already decided.
I mean, what's the great hymn?
I have decided.
You know what I like about that song?
It's got a D at the end of it.
It's not like I am deciding if I will follow Jesus, perhaps I'll follow, no.
I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back.
It's not like, well, maybe I'll just try Christianity.
I'll try being a fundamental Baptist.
I'll try being a hero.
Know what?
I'm going to be a hero.
I've already decided, I've already determined that it's too important for me to be my child's
hero that nothing should move me.
Nothing should get me off the course.
I don't care what afflictions I'm going to partake of those afflictions because it's
worth it to be a hero in my kids.
It's worth it to be a hero in the next generation.
It's worth it to be a hero in the faith and you know what?
To glorify God and the Lord Jesus Christ through my example of being a partaker of
the sufferings.
And you know what?
You'll never suffer as much as Christ did so why don't you get over yourself and just
be a partaker of Christ's sufferings and count it a blessing that you even get to suffer
for his namesake.
You know when the Apostle Peter and John suffer they rejoiced that they were counted worthy
to suffer for his namesake.
They weren't like well I don't know if I want to do this anymore.
I don't know if I want to be an apostle anymore and you know Peter kind of struggled with
that because he's kind of like asking like you know what about John you know like what's
going to happen you know what's happening with me and Jesus is like hey you're going to die
in a really bad way so FYI but you know what he's kind of saying you know what Jesus is
kind of saying to Peter be a partaker of the afflictions just do it just just just man
up and just say you know what it's going to hurt but I'm going to do it anyways like the
mighty men's conference tomorrow it's going to hurt okay but be thou a partaker of the
afflictions you know what what kind of competition would it be if we gave you a soft pillow we're
going to we're going to see who can fall asleep the fastest on a king bed I'm sure I could
get you all right you know I'm pretty good at this just ask my wife all right go to James
Chappellner one you know one of the worst things you can do is be someone that can't
make a decision because really that's what makes you a woman get married for five seconds
and you'll realize something about every woman now when I say every I what I mean is all
and not the Calvinist all I'm talking about all women cannot make decisions and why do
they always put them in a management role okay talk about this disaster okay women are
not the decision makers men are the decision makers what was the first decision we see
woman making oh yeah eating of the fruit on the tree that she's not supposed to eat from
great decision nope that was a really bad decision wasn't it her next decision wasn't
very good either give it to her husband okay hey I send why don't you send with me you
know and of course you know as men we're supposed to be decision makers and what makes a great
man is someone that can make decisions but a weak man an unstable man a double minded
man is the opposite look at verse 8 a double minded man is unstable in all his ways you
know what you could just say he's not a hero he's just not a hero he's easily destroyed
he's not going to ever succeed in anything he can't make up his mind well i don't know
if i'm going to not drink or not i'm just going to go to the bar and i'll just kind
of see what's going to happen he's going to drink well i know i shouldn't hang out with
this girl but i probably won't do anything mistake well you know i know that i should
go to church but it's not you know i don't need to go like every time i need to get this
extra job i can do this other thing you know the person that just can't make any decision
i don't know where to live i don't know where to go i don't know what to do with my life
hey i'll just try this job for five months and then i'll try another job for five months
and i'll try another job for five months and it's just the guys are so unstable well you
know i i like this girl but i just don't know if i want to get married i don't know what's
going on you know why can't you just be like isaac and rebecca and it's just like day one
bam you know why can't you just be like samson be like break up with your girlfriend i'm
picking you up at seven you know what he was determined all right hey you know what women
like a determined guy you know women like women like it when you're just like hey i'm
gonna marry you you're like they're like when you know it's like yes you know what they
don't like indecision you know don't ever do this to me and other people have done this
but it just really pisses me off when they're when they're just like hey we're gonna get
married and i'm like oh okay well when did you ask her to marry her i didn't when's the
date i don't know but i was just kind of like hey we should get married i think right and
she was like yeah what are you talking about that's so weak it's so lame i'm like where's
the ring it doesn't sound like you're very determined you know can we stop having this
weak men like hey i get that you're cheap and everything like that but wow that's what
you're going to say about your wife like she's not even worth a cracker jack box ring like
you couldn't even get on one knee and ask this woman to be your wife for the rest of
your life i'm like dude get a ring for her be determined you know they always say when
you got a girl woman it's like put a ring on it there's why because of saying you're
mine i like you i want you i'm into you and you know what girls like a guy that's like
i like you you know what girls don't like well he's kind of he kind of likes me he kind
of doesn't i don't know like you know girls like to be pursued they like to be desired
they want a guy that's determined that says hey you're mine i and of course there's been
lots of times where girls a guy's like comes up to her and is like really interested in
her really determined and she's kind of like eh she's playing hard to get and you got to
be like the benjamites and just catch her when she's dancing and just and be like look
you're going to be my wife whether you like it or not and eventually you'll like it okay
it may not be the day but you know there's plenty of women that did not like their husband
at first or at second or at third you know but then just eventually they're just pursuing
them so much they're just like i guess and you know what you can marry up we all can
because they're all better looking than us okay they're the glory of the man as the bible
literally says i've never seen a good looking guy they're all ugly okay i don't care how
much dress makeup lipo and chopping off their member it's still ugly as sin all right and
i don't want it and you know what a hero is someone to determine you know the hero isn't
like you know i don't know if i want to rescue the princess from the dragon or not no no
he's just like i'm going to slay the dragon like i am going to rescue the princess no
i do want this princess it doesn't it doesn't matter what obstacle it doesn't matter how
many levels are in the game it doesn't matter how many fire motes i have to cross like my
life's goal is her my life's goal is to get to the princess and to rescue her and to deliver
i'm already determined you know i'm already determined in the decisions that i make and
you know what as a man you need to just start making decisions you know it's it's weak when
people are like hey i'm about to graduate from college it's like what are you gonna
do i don't know are you gonna ever make a decision you know usually they're still 28
and in portland and living with mom and dad in the basement still wondering what they're
gonna do with their life still wondering if they're gonna become a professional video
game player and it's not gonna work out get determined just just pick something okay it's
more respectful to pick something than to just never do anything just never make any
decision you know just just commit to something and stop being so double-minded because you're
just you're destroying yourself if we get in a car and we get on the highway and you're
headed on the tollway and it eventually forks you have to pick a decision otherwise you're
just gonna crash and die there's nothing worse than just not making decisions and as men
you have to grow up and just say you know what I don't like option A or B but I'm gonna
pick A you know and hey you young single guys you might be looking at all the girls out
there and be like I don't really like A B and C just pick one because like you know what
A B and C is better than nothing I remember we were arguing about this was like would
you rather be celibate for the rest of your life or marry like a leftist chick and I was
like I'll take the leftist all day long I'll show her what a man is like dude that other
option was off the table dude I can make her a fundamental Baptist you watch me okay because
I'm determined you know but I can't you know what I can't do I can't take my imaginary
girlfriend and turn into a wife you know you can you can do a lot of things with a young
lady but you can't do anything with nothing you got to start somewhere and let me tell
you something get determined you know you want to get married just decide I'm gonna
get married I'm gonna pursue what you got to find one you got to get out there you got
to put in the effort you got to put in the energy and you know when you get married when
you find that one be determined that she's your one for the rest of your life too say
hi i'm dedicated to you i'm determined to be with you forever i'm determined to be your
husband not to just not to just say like well i won't sleep with anyone else no no i'm determined
to be your husband i'm determined to love you i'm determined to have the best marriage that
we could ever have instead of saying like you know my marriage isn't very good okay well just
do the best have the best marriage that you can because i guarantee you're probably not married
to jose's wife okay i'm pretty sure you're not married to the worst woman ever you're not married
to amber herd okay you're not married to rosie o'donnell okay you're not married to lizzo all
right you're not married to hillary clinton you're not married to katelyn jenner okay folks that
which is crooked cannot be made straight right and you know what there's a lot of room to work with
if you would just become disciplined and a hero and determined i guarantee you would make major
differences in your marriage but why can't you just say you know whatever quality marriage we're
going to have it's going to be the best that i could whatever it was you know maybe it maybe
it isn't the greatest marriage that's ever been in the history books we didn't both write a love
song duet and sing it for everybody or anything but you know what we we i gave it my all i put my
effort energy into her and i'm not just putting my focus and effort energy into some tranny online
that i didn't realize was a tranny okay because that'll just wreck your life you know joe even
made had to make a covenant with his eyes that he wouldn't think upon a maid you know that tells me
joe was interested in other women why would you have to it wasn't like joe was just like i've
never had a thought for another woman i don't want i don't like other women women are gross
ooh no i guarantee joe is epic he's like epic chad okay every girl wants to be with joe
joe is the man okay so he has the he has the like really perfect he has to be really determined
that he's going to only think about her and you know he did a good job because he had 20 kids
all right so i know he was i know what he was doing all right he was real determined and you
know what's great about being married is that you can enjoy that whenever you want be determined
all right go to joshua chapter one go to joshua chapter one when are men are just going to take
their life seriously and and just decide you know what i am for the rest of my life i'm going to
just take church seriously for the rest of my life i'm never going to drink alcohol ever again
you know what i'm going to read my bible every single day i'm determined to be the hero for my
children i'm determined to be a great husband i'm determined to be a great father i'm determined to
be a great provider i'm determined to be a spiritual leader of the faith i'm determined
to be a soul winner for the rest of my life i'm determined to be a hero for someone i've decided
i've already made up that decision i'm not going to let my life just go up in the smoke and be
worthless i'm going to redeem the time i'm going to redeem the days i mean you only have so much
life why waste it why not do something great with your life and you know we're not all going to
necessarily be david we're not all going to necessarily be you know the apostles or
moses but you know what you could be jonah dab you could be a hero for your family i guarantee
that jonah dab was not just a hero to them i guarantee his friends and other people and
even us today we're looking at jonah dab's example we're looking at timothy's example
we're looking at paul's example and i guarantee if i asked men in this room today are there people
in your lives that you look up to that were not in your family i bet many of you would say yes
you know i look up to men like pastor hannerson as a great hero and you know i look at pastor
jimenez as a great hero you know i look at other of our friends pastor thompson is a great man he's
a great hero to look to a great man that's willing to do all kinds of i mean no one is willing to
start more churches than pastor thompson he's determined to preach long sermons no matter what
and obviously as he's my hero so i follow and his footsteps okay i'm telling you hey
there are men there are men that aren't even necessarily that spiritual but i look to as
heroes because they're just great men you know why they're great because they are really disciplined
and they're really determined they work super hard they're really diligent they're really smart
they're putting a lot of effort they put a lot of energy and you know it's a common denominator
between all the heroes in my life none of them drink alcohol and none of them are cheating on
their wife you know i mean i'm not i'm just being honest with you when i when i just think about
people i'm like man i really like this person or i really look up to this person they always have
that in common and you know what those two things destroy men they cause them to not be the hero that
they could be they they're the heir and the onan they're the demis you know the names that you never
hear i've never met a demis i've never met an heir okay never met an onan he can't exist because
literally his parents didn't allow him to exist okay your name onan it didn't work okay lot it's
just no one wants to ever be named lot ever again okay even even the satanic people don't
want to be named lot right satan satanic people be like judas that's their hero right judas priest
or avenge sevenfold or kane or some weird thing like that lucifer damien or whatever you know
they'll have those names you know just no one wants to be lot no one wants to be heir no one
wants to be onan no one wants to be these nadabs and abiyus of society and you know what we should
decide i'm not going to be heir onan i'm going to be someone's hero joshua chapter one look at verse
16 the bible says and they answered joshua saying all that thou commandest us we will do and with
us over thou sendest us we will go according as we hearkened unto moses in all things so will we
hearken unto thee only the lord thy god be with thee as he was with moses whose server he be that
doth rebel against thy commandment and will not hearken unto thy words and all that thou
commandest him he shall be put to death only be strong and of a good courage you know the word
comes to mind when i think of these people determined i mean wow hey if we don't if you
don't want to follow all the commandments we're just going to kill you i mean how do you think
church attendance would be if this is our policy it's like hey thanks for visiting on sunday morning
just fyi if you don't come to sunday night we're just going to kill you but we're going to break
the record and get ice cream so you know unless you don't show up then we're coming to your house
it's a different kind of visitation all right i mean think about what they're saying here and look
this is the word this literally happened that's determination when you say look we are going to
succeed or die trying but you know what failure quitting is not an option i've already decided
you know what i'm gonna be someone's hero i'm gonna follow joshua i'm gonna fall and you know what
they had great success the book of joshua is a story of success victory after victory after
victory after victory conquering the promised land and giving their nation the greatest land
to ever inherit for hundreds and hundreds of years you know they did something epic they did
something amazing they conquered the philistines and they conquered the hyvites and the canaanites
and they conquered so many people and got to inherit the land that their grandchildren and
great grandchildren enjoyed for centuries as a result of their dedication their determination
and you know you can never know if your great great great great grandchildren will keep going
but you know what you can put a really big dent into the enemy and you can put a really great
heritage forward and you can have a lot of generations follow you when you get this
determined and all those that knew joshua and all those around him they stayed determined
but you know what was the problem no one after this decided to be the next hero no one after
this decided to be the next hero go if you would to judges chapter two this is where it's kind of
sad and this is what i want to tell you no one in this room will ever be pastor stephen anderson
no one in this room will ever be pastor roger jimenez but let me tell you something one day
they're going to die and we need another hero we need another person to follow and you know what
after you die as the hero we need another hero and we need another hero and you know what why
can't you just be someone else's hero you know we can't let other people be the hero and just
always hope that someone else will step up or hope that someone else will do good you know and if
you're the man of the house you're the only hope you're the only option donald trump isn't going
to raise your family for you i know andrew tate certainly isn't going to raise your family for
you he might knock up your wife but you know he's not going to raise that child he's not going to
do anything for you he might pimp out your daughters online for you but you know what andrew tate
isn't going to help you out you know you're the only hope you're the only hero in your family's
life don't let someone else be their hero either because here's here's another thing that's that's
the reality is when there's not a real hero they still find someone they're going to make someone
their hero everyone has heroes whether they're good or bad heroes they're going to make someone
the hero and if you're not the hero then andrew tate will become his hero then some freak will
become their hero some drug addicted rapper will become their hero some cokehead football player
will become their hero some adulterer will become their hero some hollywood faggot will become their
hero robert patterson oh you know the twilight guy can you imagine if your son say like i want
to be like the twilight guy that's just you just failed as a father if he's the hero and you're not
i mean that's just sick it's just but you know it's happening it's happening in our society all over
the place because men refuse to be the next generation's hero what does it say in judges
chapter 2 verse number 10 and also all that generation were gathered under their fathers
so it's talking about the generation that was with joshua and it says and there arose another
generation after them which knew not the lord nor yet the works which he had done for israel
and all the children of israel did evil in the sight of the lord and served balam and they
first took the lord god of their fathers which brought them out of the land of egypt and followed
other gods of the gods of the people that were round about them and bowed themselves under them
and provoked the lord to anger now notice in this chapter of course they they don't know the lord
but but notice what they end up doing it says in verse number 12 and followed other gods notice
this word and followed and followed let me explain something to you every generation follows every
generation follows every person follows you can't help but follow people say like oh you're gonna
follow a man everyone's following a man everyone is following a man it's just which man is it
going to be and when there's no hero to follow they follow other gods they follow the vekra
swam away you know the hindu that is embarrassing that in america we have a hindu that is running
for political office that's a shame and a mockery how in the world can we have a country where
literally people are looking at a hindu and saying i want to follow him i saw a lady ask a question
which shouldn't have been allowed to vivek and she's like what do you think about christianity and
and christian you know values and jesus and he's just like whoa you know i have the same christian
judaic values as you do no you don't you're a hindu no you're an idiot no you have other gods
literally if you were in the 16 17 1800s the citizens of america would have dragged you out
in the street and stoned you to death eveck that's the values that they had you don't have their
values you're a false prophet you know it's it's wicked that our country has devolved so much
that the hindu has more moral value than the christians of today but you know why because
there's no hero to follow there's no one that stood up and said hey i'm a fundamental badness
i'll run for the presidency of this country i'll run to lead this country i'll do something for
this country because you know what we should be a nation of priests we should be an entire country
filled with fundamental badness it should be only fundamental badness therefore the president's a
fundamental badness but you know what the embarrassment is we didn't have all the men
be a hero for the next generation and so they allowed their children to what follow other god
to get drunk and to get high and to smoke weed and to just go out and fornicate and allow their
daughters to become whores and just go to the whorehouse and we've denigrated ourselves so far
and so bad that we have hindus running for political office you know and there's obviously
open faggots in our government. Pete Buttigieg the faggot. How embarrassing we have faggots,
hindus, you have Ilan Omar who married her brother who married her brother in political office,
a Muslim. I mean what country is this? George Washington would take us out in the back woods
and beat our behind so bad. Our forefathers would be so embarrassed and ashamed. George
Washington would fight for our country by himself he'd be so embarrassed. He'd be like I'm gonna be
an army of one but I'm not gonna live in this country and look I don't even think the guy was
saved. I don't even know if he was I don't even care but isn't that it's still embarrassing that
that's where our country has evolved to. Why? Because we don't have any heroes anymore. We
don't have any heroes and you know nothing's going to change until you decide to start being a hero.
I can't I can't do it by myself. Pastor Andrew can't do it by himself. You know it takes a whole
generation of men to say we're going to all be the heroes in our family. Go with the second
Timothy chapter number two go to second Timothy chapter two and you know what the Bible says
that God ended up raising up deliverers says nevertheless the Lord raised up judges which
delivered them out of the hand of those that swirled them. How did they get out of the
cycle that they were in every time they were in this cycle and judges? Someone rose up
and became the deliverer. Someone became the hero. How do you get your family out of a
horrible cycle, generational curses? Someone has to stand up and be a hero for the family.
Someone has to say, "You know what? We're not going to be Pentecostal anymore. We're
not going to be Catholic anymore. We're not going to drink anymore. We're not going to
smoke weed anymore. We're not going to..." The men in our household are going to be faithful
to one woman forever.
The men in our household are going to work hard and make good money and provide and be
sacrificial for the next generation.
The men in this household are going to spank their children, they're going to use the rod
of correction and they're going to actually get their children under control and they're
going to get their children saved.
And they're not going to let their children go to the world and be like the world and
just destroy their youth and ruin their virginity and ruin their minds and ruin their brains.
You know what?
Don't be the Amish and give your children to a four-year rumspringer called college.
Be very careful with that.
Look, I'm all for a high education and if kids can, in the safety of your home or in
the safety of very tight-knit boundaries, get a high level of education, go for it.
I'm not against education, but dropping your kids off at some random school hundreds of
miles away to live in some dormitory, you're literally just forsaking your child.
You're like the ostrich that just lays the eggs in the dust and just allows all kinds
of beasts and animals to trample on them and destroy them and to ruin them.
And you know what, I'll be honest with you, 18, 19 and 20 year old men are not good at
making decisions on their own.
I don't care what the world says, you know, at 18, you're not capable of saying no to
young women.
At 19, you're not capable of saying no to young women.
At 45, you're not capable of saying no to young women.
At 75, you're not capable of saying no to young women.
At 80 years old, David was in bed with Abishag
and she was a young maiden.
But you wanna know when you won't be attracted
to young women?
When you're dead.
(audience laughing)
And even then, I don't know, okay?
I'm not even sure.
And you say, well, how do I avoid that?
You go from mom and dad to wife,
and you always have an accountability partner somewhere.
'Cause roommate is not it.
Brother is not it.
Friend is not it.
On your own, not it.
You know, Joseph had to literally run out of the house.
Because, I mean, and you know,
I don't even think I could be Joseph.
I don't even know if I would have been Joseph.
Let's be honest.
I don't know if we would have been as,
had as much integrity as Joseph.
Joseph is a unique person.
Okay, most every other man would have failed.
He was determined to serve God,
and when he found himself in the wrong situation,
he literally sprinted in the other direction.
His parents dropped him off at college, and he ran away.
Okay.
He stumbled in the sorority house and was like,
"Ah!" and he just ran, okay?
He didn't, he literally lost his garment.
He was in such haste.
He's just like, "I can't even stick around for a second."
Why?
Because if you're honest with yourself,
women have a lot of power over men.
Don't even let them touch you.
When a woman starts touching you, you've already failed.
Don't let it happen.
And I'm telling you what,
this world is filled with women in the workplace.
That's why customer service
and everything's destroying itself, okay?
That's why companies lose so much money.
I mean, look at Bud Light.
Why do they lose so much money?
Woman marketers.
No man would have ever put a tranny on the can.
Only a fag hag would do that, okay?
No straight guy could ever, like,
what?
On the beer can?
(audience laughing)
Hell no!
Are we gonna, like, blow it up?
Like, what do you mean?
Where are we going with this?
It's like, it would have never happened.
Straight guys hate fags, okay?
Every straight, if you don't hate fags, you're not straight.
I'm, I don't wanna be around you.
You're already too effeminate for me, okay?
There's something wrong with your brain.
Now, girls obviously get confused on that,
but, you know, men are not confused,
and if you're confused, you're a fag, so there you go.
Second Timothy chapter two, look at verse three.
Thou therefore endure hardness
as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Now, here's my last point.
I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on this one,
but, you know, we need to be durable
if we're gonna be heroes, because, hey,
you could get disciplined for a while,
you could be determined, but if you can't last,
it doesn't really matter.
You gotta have all three.
You gotta be disciplined, you gotta be determined,
then you gotta be durable.
You gotta actually last, you gotta endure hardness.
You gotta be someone that can actually compete
and finish the battle and do things
that are gonna be hard, and let me tell you something.
Being a hero is not easy, it's hard.
If you say, "I wanna be a hero,"
well, don't think that you're signing up
for an easy task here.
It's a difficult task, it's a hard task.
It's something you're gonna have to endure.
It's gonna have to be something
that you put a lot of effort and energy into,
and you're gonna have to go through struggles.
It's not gonna be the easiest path,
it's gonna be the hardest path.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
I wanna go to another verse here real quick on this point.
But of course, we as our church,
obviously we're kind of got a couple churches here,
but the church that is kind of putting on this conference
is Steadfast Baptist Church.
And I like that name, I've always liked that name.
And why is it?
Because it's a core component of being a hero
is being someone that's steadfast.
And look, I would argue one and two are super important
and elaborate on those points,
and we need to accomplish them.
But if you never have number three,
you'll never be a hero.
Like heroes are only the ones that finished.
You don't, no one wins the race
if they don't finish the race.
You have to finish to get to the end.
You have to decide, you know what?
I'm just not gonna quit.
I'm not gonna slow down.
I'm not gonna let the enemy get the best of me.
I don't care what pace I'm at.
I'm just not gonna give up.
I am gonna be steadfast.
I'm gonna be unmovable.
You know, I love the title of Dylan Sermin, you know?
Why we won't shut up?
You know why?
Because we're steadfast.
"Hey Pastor Shelley, when are you gonna start changing your tune on the fags?"
Never!
"Oh, when are you gonna stop preaching against faggots?"
Never!
If after we kill all of them, I'm still gonna preach about it.
"What do you mean by kill all of them?"
You know, spiritually.
And when the government passes it legally, okay?
I don't advocate for unlawful killing, okay, murder.
I only advocate for lawful execution.
Now here's the thing, if Texas says we need someone to execute homos, I will volunteer.
And when I said volunteer, you don't even have to pay me.
I'll go a step further.
You don't even have to pay for my equipment.
I will buy every bullet.
This is what I'm willing to do.
I mean, there's never been a government program run more efficiently.
And I guarantee I will find all kinds of deputies that will be willing to help me round them
up.
And frankly speaking, it won't even take long because all the other ones will run away screaming
so fast and it'll be Texas again.
You know, you got to get the beans out of your chili and you got to get the fags out
of Texas.
Okay.
Just telling you.
Got to make Texas, Texas again.
Your state's not, you know, as cool as our state.
But you know what, our state literally has a law against being a faggot, at least.
Yours doesn't.
So there.
California.
Well, you know what?
It's legal to be a faggot there.
So you know, I wonder why there's so many fags there.
First Corinthians chapter 15, look at verse 58.
"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding the work of the
Lord, for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord."
Look, we need to be steadfast.
We need to be durable.
We need to last.
We need not be a flash in the pan.
And let me tell you something.
When I started pastoring Steadfast Baptist Church, till now, there's a lot of people
that didn't last, a lot of people that weren't durable.
You know, when I started Pure Words Baptist Church to today, boy, is that a different
congregation.
Boy, is that a lot of different people.
And think about what I'm saying.
I'm saying in a period of five years, it's way different.
What about 50 years, 50 years?
Who's going to be serving God in fundamental and in church in 50 years?
You know what?
The person that's already disciplined, determined, and say I'm going to be durable.
I'm going to endure hardness.
I'm going to be steadfast.
Because you know what?
Christianity isn't measured in years, it's measured in decades.
It's measured in lifetimes.
You know, when we look at Hebrews chapter 11, every single name endured to the end.
Every single name was steadfast to the end.
Every single name in the hall of faith was durable.
I said, "Hey, you know what?
This isn't my home.
I don't care about this.
I care about what God wants me to do with my life, and I realize that I'm not going
to allow the corruption of this world to stop me from being someone's hero, from being my
children's hero.
I only have one life to live, and you know what?
I'd rather die today as a hero in the faith for my children than to live to be 99 and
be a loser for my children to ruin their lives.
I'd rather some other man raise my children and then remember me as a hero of the faith
than to allow myself to be the most derelict loser that gave up on church, that quit on
God, that didn't go soul winning anymore, that was just a drunk, derelict, adulterer,
loser that looks on online images at AI trannies and thinks that it's women, I mean, and then
votes for Donald Trump Jr.
Well, we got to vote harder this year and we'll just outvote the machines this year.
You won't even make it to then.
You know what?
We need some people that are going to say, I'm going to be a hero because it's more important
to just stay steadfast and to stay faithful.
You know, God is a faithful creator and if God wants me to go through affliction and
God wants me to die, God wants me to do whatever, then so be it.
You know, if God wants me to be the pastor, you know, that has all the negative articles
and the most protesters and the most difficulty and the most problems, then I just say, yay,
praise God that I get an opportunity to serve him.
Whatever God says, hey, I want you to have to do this, you know.
I want you to have to pastor in the area that's never going to get rain again, you know.
It's just like, then so be it, right?
And if they drive me out of the land and I have to go out into the wilderness, then you
know what?
I'll be the pastor in the wilderness.
And if they put me here, then I'll be there.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what article they write.
It doesn't matter what they do to you.
You know what?
All they can do is destroy your body and after that they're done.
They can only kill you once, but God can kill you for an eternity in hell.
Here's another thing that you can have, disappointment for all of eternity.
If you had one opportunity to be a hero, what are you going to do with that opportunity?
You know what heroes do?
They capitalize on the one opportunity they had.
Heroes were heroes the one time they had the chance to be a hero.
Don't be the person that says, "You know what?
I could have been a hero.
I wish I had been a hero."
No.
Just be the hero.
Go to Proverbs chapter 24.
You know what I like about this sermon?
You can be a hero no matter what.
No one in here doesn't have the opportunity to be a hero.
All of you can be a hero.
All of you can decide right now, I'm going to be disciplined for the rest of my life.
I'm going to be determined for the rest of my life.
And you know what?
I'm going to endure.
I'm going to be durable for the rest of my life.
I've already decided to follow Jesus.
There is no turning back.
And you know what?
I'm going to be a hero to the people in my life.
I'm going to be a hero to my wife.
I'm going to be a hero to my children.
I'm going to be a hero to my grandchildren.
I'm going to be a hero to my church members in my church.
I'm going to be a hero to my soul-winning partner.
I'm going to be a hero to my pastor.
You know what?
There's people in my church that I look at and I say, "Wow, that guy is my hero."
Because you know what?
He was willing to get fired for preaching the Bible, and he's not even going to pastor.
You know what?
That's a hero to me.
A person that's a soul-winning captain in my church is a hero to me.
The person that, you know, is willing to just come to church when the doors are open,
they're heroes to me.
You know, let me tell you about a couple of heroes in our church.
How about Tony and Eva Garcia?
Talk about some heroes.
But let me ask you this question, and I love them, and I don't think they'll ever quit,
but what if they quit church tomorrow and then we never heard from them?
They wouldn't be remembered as heroes.
And look, they've done a lot of great things.
They're great people.
You know what makes them a hero?
They die a hero.
They die a hero, which means they didn't give up, which means they didn't stop, means they
didn't just allow themselves to be destroyed.
What does it say in Proverbs 24 verse 10?
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
That's not a hero.
The person that gives up, the person that quits, the person that doesn't want to do
it, you know what?
They're just not heroes.
And you know what?
And your church and our church, almost everyone's not going to be a hero.
That's probably the reality.
But you know what?
No one is stopping you except for yourself from being a hero.
You can be a hero.
You can say, you know what?
I've seen hundreds of people come and go from this church, but I've been here.
I've seen hundreds of people go from church, but I'm in church.
I've seen hundreds of people come and go as soul-owners, but I'm a soul-owner.
I've seen hundreds of people come and say, you know what?
I'm going to change my life, and then they went straight back to it.
But you know what?
Me and my children, my sons and my daughters and my wife, we aren't going to drink wine
forever.
We're never going to stop being fundamental Baptists.
We're going to be fundamental Baptists.
We're going to be Christians forever.
We're going to be heroes.
Me and my sons are going to be heroes forever.
Close on prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father for giving us such a great example to follow through your Son
and how He is the ultimate hero and Savior of our faith.
And of course we understand He's a hero because He was willing to go through the ultimate
suffering.
We understand that He was perfectly disciplined.
He was perfectly determined.
And He endured the cross despising the shame.
And of course He's durable because He ever liveth, making intercession for us.
And I pray that we'd also look at the great men of the faith that are mentioned in the
Bible.
We look at their example and we realize the importance of us also being examples for the
next generation.
And how being a mighty man is something that we all need to strive for.
We should all strive to be the heroes in our lives.
And I pray that you would put in every man's heart a desire to love their children enough
to be their hero.
To love their wife enough to be a hero.
To love the Lord Jesus Christ enough to be a good example to give Him honor and glory.
I pray that you would help strengthen us all for the fight of our life.
and in Jesus' name we pray, amen.