Song number 397. A little as much when God is in it.
Song number 397. Everybody's singing out real loud on the first.
In the harvest field now ripen, there's a work for all to do.
Hark the voice of God is calling to the harvest calling you.
Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame.
There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus name.
Does the place you're called to labor seem so small and little known?
It is great if God is in it and he'll not forget his own.
Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame.
There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus name.
On the third are you laid aside from service body worn from toil and care.
You can still be in the battle in the sacred place of prayer.
Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame.
There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus name.
Everybody out on the last. When the conflict here is ended and our race on earth is run,
he will say to all the faithful, welcome home my child's name.
All right, great job everybody. Let's all pray. Thank you so much for
Steadfast Baptist Church, Lord. We thank you for allowing us to come together and worship you,
Lord. We love you and we just ask you to bless the services tonight in Jesus name. Amen.
All right, for our next song, let's go to song number 343.
Revive us again.
Song number 343, revive us again.
On the first, everybody. We praise thee, O God, for the son of thy love for Jesus who died and
is now gone above. Alleluia, thine the glory. Alleluia, amen. Alleluia, thine the glory.
Revive us again. We praise thee, O God, for thy spirit of light,
who has shown us our savior and scattered our night. Alleluia, thine the glory. Alleluia, amen.
Alleluia, thine the glory. Revive us again. Everybody on the third. All glory and praise
to the lamb that was slain, who has borne all our sins and has cleansed every stain. Alleluia,
thine the glory. Alleluia, amen. Alleluia, thine the glory. Revive us again. Revive us again.
Fill each heart with thy love. May each soul be rekindled with fire from above. Alleluia,
thine the glory. Alleluia, amen. Alleluia, thine the glory. Revive us again.
All right, great job. Thanks so much for coming to Set Fast Baptist Church. If you need a bulletin
still, lift up your hand nice and high. One of our ushers can come by, get you guys a bulletin
on the front. We have our Bible memory passage as well on the inside, service soul-winning times.
We have our expecting ladies list. We have our prayer list. Make sure to report your
soul-winning numbers to your soul-winning captains. Again, on the back is the note about
our theater premiere of the Preserve Bible. And then we also have February 4th is the
Cleburne, Texas small town soul-winning marathon. We have March 15th, the Old West Wednesday,
April 1st, the Dallas, Texas soul-winning marathon. And then in April, we're having,
God willing, our Bahamas missions trip. And so definitely a lot of cool activities to look
forward to. Really, I don't really have any additional announcements, so we'll just go
ahead and go to our third song for the evening. Looks like, is it 36, Christ Rose.
Fair haven of rest for the weary, how beautiful heaven must be. In heaven no drooping nor pining,
no wishing for elsewhere to be. God's light is forever there shining,
how beautiful heaven must be. How beautiful heaven must be.
Sweet home of the happy and free. Fair haven, gold hearts are ringing,
how beautiful heaven must be. How beautiful heaven must be.
Sweet home of the happy and free. Fair haven of rest for the weary,
how beautiful heaven must be. All right, great job everybody. Now
I'm going to go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Judges chapter 19. Sorry, Judges chapter 19.
Judges chapter 19.
He went after her to speak friendly unto her and to bring her again, having his servant with him
and a couple of asses and she brought him into her father's house and when the father of the
damsel saw him he rejoiced to meet him and his father-in-law the damsel's father retained him
and he abode with him three days so they did eat and drink and lodge there and it came to pass on
the fourth day when they arose early in the morning that he rose up to depart and the
damsel's father said unto his son-in-law comfort thy heart with a morsel of bread and afterward
go your way and they sat down and did eat and drink both of them together for the damsel's
father had said unto the man be content I pray thee and tarry all night and let thy heart be
merry and when the man rose up to depart his father-in-law urged him therefore he lodged there
again and he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart and the damsel's father said
comfort thy heart I pray thee and they tarried until afternoon and they did eat both of them
and when the man rose up to depart he and his concubine and his servant his father-in-law the
damsel's father said unto him behold now the day draw toward evening I pray you tarry all night
behold the day groweth to an end lodge here that thy heart may be merry and tomorrow get you early
on your way that thou mayest go home but the man would not tarry that night but he rose up
and departed and came over against Jebus which is Jerusalem and there with him two asses saddled
his concubine also was with him and when they were by Jebus the day was far spent and the servant
said unto his master come I pray thee and let us turn into the city of the Jebusites and lodge in
it and his master said unto him we will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger that is
not of the children of Israel we will pass over to Gebaiah and he said unto his servant come and
let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night in Gebaiah or in Ramah and they passed
on and went their way and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gebaiah which belonged to
Benjamin and they turned aside thither to go in and to lodge in Gebaiah and when he went in he
sat him down in the street of the city for there was no man that took them into his house to
lodging and behold there came an old man from his work out of the field at even which was also of
Mount Ephraim and he sojourned in Gebaiah but the men of the place were Benjamites and when he had
lifted up his eyes he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city and the old man said whither
goest thou and whence comest thou and he said unto him we are passing from Bethlehem Judah
toward the side of Mount Ephraim from Dansemi and I went to Bethlehem Judah but I am now going to
the house of the Lord and there is no man that receiveth me to the house and there is and yet
there is both straw and preventer for our asses and there is bread and wine also for me and for
thy handmaid and for thy young man which is with thy servants there is no one of anything and the
old man said peace be with thee howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me and only lodged on at
the door of the man's house where her Lord was till it was light and her Lord rose up in the
morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way and behold the woman his
concubine was fallen down to the door of the house and her hands were upon the threshold and he said
unto her up and let us be going but none answered then the man took her up upon an ass and the man
rose up and got him onto his place and when he was come into his house he took a knife and lay
hold on his concubine and divided her together with her bones into 12 pieces and sent her into
all the coasts of Israel and it was so that all that saw it said there was no such deed done nor
seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day
consider of it take vice and speak your minds let us pray father we thank you so much for this very
important chapter and that's why we love the bible so much because we know your word is true
and we just thank you so much for sending uh we thank you so much for this church and
pastor Shelley and his family and we just pray that you'll fill pastor Shelley with
their holy spirit today lay in his heart the message that we need to hear and we just thank
you for all the souls that were one to Christ today and we just thank you for uh your son
justifying us from all things and the free gift of salvation and we pray these things in Jesus name
amen so we're here in judges chapter 19 and um it's not really the greatest story in the bible
as far as it's the most uplifting but uh it's definitely one that I think a lot of people
are very unfamiliar with just because a lot of churches never really teach this chapter
they pretty much would avoid sections of the bible like this because of how gruesome they are
and ultimately the reason why they're afraid to preach these passages is because they're bullied
into not preaching the bible and the title of my sermon this evening is bullies bullies and you
know there's a lot of bullies in this world and you say what is a bully well a bully according
the dictionary is one who seeks to harm intimidate or coerce someone who they perceive is vulnerable
and you know bullies definitely like to prey on the weak they like to prey on people that
they can take advantage of and you know at the end of the day you have to realize that bullies
are going to exist in this world they're going to exist in your life and we have to understand
what's the best way to handle them now in the book of judges we learn that being bullied around
never really goes in your favor and it's not good to allow yourself to just be bullied and into
making bad decisions but it's interesting you know just going through life circumstances and
living the christian life will sometimes give you a little bit different perspective
on passages you read in scripture and this is one where it's a chapter that i've definitely read
several times and heard preached several times but there's something that kind of stuck out to
me differently as i was kind of listening to some sermons on this and thinking about this chapter
but look at verse 15 the bible says and they turned aside and it says in chapter 15 when they
and when he went in he sat him down in a street of the city for there was no man that took them
into his house lodging so according to the bible they go into this town and no one's willing to
host them no one's willing to allow them to stay anywhere they're basically just being rejected by
this entire city and of course back then things weren't exactly the same as they are today you
know today we have a lot of different options when it comes to traveling you know you could
stay at a hotel or motel or rv park or have sometimes travel arrangements so to be a
hospitable city you would put people up you'd consider putting up strangers or different
individuals now according to scripture he has literally nowhere he's just in the street he just
has to sit down and no one would take him in now you could look at this as saying well it just
seems like these people are just kind of jerks like they're just they're not really very
hospitable they're not being very nice they're not willing to accommodate someone but i think
there's a little bit more to it and i want to keep reading here let's read a few more verses
it says in verse 16 and behold there came an old man from his work out of the field at even
which was also of mount ephraim and he sojourned in gibeah but the men of the place were benjamites
so there's it's showing there's a distinction there's yet no one will allow them to stay with
them verse 20 and the old man said peace be with thee house or howsoever let all thy wants lie upon
me only lodged not in the street so he brought him into his house and gave provender under the
asses and they washed their feet and did eat and drink so it seems like the story is great oh okay
you know hey i am out no one will put me in hey the old guy i'll put him in and not only is the
old guy going to give you a place he wants you to actually eat of his food and eat of his drink and
he's going to put you up and he's going to take all the burden and he's he's here to rescue them
save the day verse 22 now as they're making their hearts merry behold the men of the city
certain sons of belial beset the house roundabout that means they encircled the house they enclosed
the entire house says and beat at the door and spake to the master of the house the old man
saying bring forth the man that came into thine house that we may know him now of course these
people are very wicked the bible describes them as being sons of belial meaning they're children
of the devil and of course the children of the devil love to bully people they love to encircle
outside a property and make demands now they don't want to hang out they don't want to provide
any money or resources they just want to simply stand outside and make ferocious demands and try
to bully people and to giving them whatever they want and say hey give us those people
now this is what i find interesting about this chapter is the fact that now i understand why
in verse 15 and verse 18 no man received them why is it that no man received them it was because
they realized if we receive these people all of the sons of belia are going to come and circle our
house and beat at our door and demand things from us so what ended up happening is basically all
the locals finally had given in and caved in to all the bullies in their area to the point where
now they're not even willing to do business with anybody because they've succumbed to the sons of
belial they've allowed the bullies to stop them from even living their lives normally or having
a normal society because they've empowered the bullies and anytime you cave into bullies what
you're really doing is giving them power and strength and you're saying please tell me what
to do for the rest of my life you know bullies once you've been bullied it's not like they just
stop they recognize oh now you're my servant now you're my slave you do whatever i want you to do
that's why it's so dangerous to allow a bully to get his way with you because it's never going to
stop they're never going to be satisfied or appeased and ultimately what you're doing is
you're saying you're in charge of me tell me what to do and their demand list is going to get really
bad and really gross really fast and of course the old man he's not like that it says in verse
23 the man the master of the house went out of them and said to them nay my brethren nay i pray
you do not so wickedly seeing that this man is coming to my house do not this follow folly so
he's trying to reason with them let me tell you something you can't reason with sons of belial
and you can't reason with bullies because they don't want to be reasoned with they're unreasonable
and wicked men according to the scripture some men have not faith and they're decided they're
considered unreasonable they're wicked and it's funny because the republicans always want to
reason with the unreasonable they always want to say well if we just gave them enough arguments
we just explained things to them better or if we had better statistics you can't reason with
unreasonable people now the bible says in the next verse behold here is my daughter a maiden
and his concubine them i will bring out now and humbly them and do with them what seemeth good
unto you but under this man do not so vile a thing so according to the bible we have this man
being threatened and bullied and yet according to the scripture he is willing to offer up his maiden
or his concubine now think about how ridiculous that is to offer up your daughter or just some
other man's wife some other man's concubine at the the whenever you cave unto the bully
there will never be a stopping point in chapter 20 go to verse 12 just maybe flip the page
what what makes it really sad though is sometimes you can get bullied into the point where
you'll even fight battles that you would never want to fight just simply because you're being
pushed around and and i've noticed it seems like our culture is going through this and it's like
a psychological warfare where you have these sodomite bullies in our society and not only
are they able to make terroristic demands onto all the businesses and essentially communities
and groups and organizations in our culture and force them to do things that they won't
but because they put so much pressure on them they say you have to also fight for us
because they'll say hey if you're you don't have to just do us business
you actually have to actively fight our enemies for us or we'll then actually terrorize you again
we'll terrorize you more and so they end up fighting people they don't even want to fight
they fight people they like or their brethren in an essence just simply because they don't want
the bully to terrorize them now how does it make sense i don't want to fight anybody
but then they end up fighting yeah because you never get what you want when you succumb to a
bully it's never going to go well for you when you're in with the bullies and notice that
benjamin's going to get wrapped up in this weird fight and they will not deliver them it says in
verse 12 and the tribes of israel sent men through all the tribe of benjamin saying what wickedness
is this that is done among you now therefore deliver us the men the children of belial which
are in gibbia that we may put them to death and put away evil from israel but the children of
benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of israel so it's like you
bring up the death penalty with these people and instead of actually just going through and
getting rid of the wicked people of society what they do is they end up banning together
and then fighting for the sons of belial fighting for the evil wicked people it says in verse 14
but the children of benjamin gather themselves together out of the cities under gibbia
to go out to battle against the children of israel think about this absurdity they are willing
to go against and fight against their own brethren for these sons of belial and and again
this story just never made any sense to me because i'm just thinking like how could you be so
like brainwashed or so pro the sons of belial but you know why they're like that now i realized
it's because the sons of belia are probably going around town threatening them and coercing them and
forcing them into this battle and forcing them into this fight now of course when you're into
a fight for your life you're going to fight as hard as you can it doesn't really matter whose
team you're on it doesn't matter if you believe benjamin just really just earnestly just really
want to fight for sons of belial what's probably happening here is they're being forced into this
battle they're being forced into this fight why because they've been given into the bullies of
their society and the bullies in their society are forcing them to do things that they don't
want to do but what is the consequence verse 35 and the lord smote benjamin before israel
and the children of israel destroyed of the benjamin it's why because they don't realize
they're canceling people that aren't even giving them money in the first place
it's like this person was doing me no good wasn't going to use my services are the dregs of society
they have no real influence nobody likes them and when you cater to a bunch of terrorists
you will lose you will always lose and it seems like our country our state and even our city
is foolish enough to believe that they should just harken to bullies and let bullies do whatever
they want and get their way every single time but what they don't realize is they are empowering that
mob to tell them what to do every time in the future it doesn't matter what it whoever they
want canceled they'll cancel it like that whatever they say hey bring us all cookies out or we'll
protest you they'll bring cookies and right now just terrorizing the city throwing rocks
through all kinds of businesses lighting police cars on fire and you say oh man how do we solve
that it would take five seconds just unleash the police just say you have no consequences
in the problem and they would but you know what the police are so terrified because the city's
already given in to the bullies and as soon as a cop ever does anything to someone in antifa
what'll happen he'll get fired and the all the police will get protested and again it's just a
vicious cycle and what we're really doing in america is we are creating domestic terrorist
organizations right called blm called antifa called the sodomite community lgbtq is a mafia
they are a mafia and they are bullies and you know what i'll tell you something people in our
country want someone to stand up to these bullies but nobody will no businesses and no
organizations seem to want to stand up to them because why because then they'll get you know
protested or whatever then they'll have people not like them you know it's so funny to me because our
church is still thriving is still getting people saved why why do they think that they can't
survive if they actually stand up to these bullies and you know what if everybody would
stand up to these bullies we could end the bullies but the problem is no one will stop
the bully problem they're making it worse and pretty soon they're going to be like the children
of benjamin where they're literally fighting for bullies and they don't even want to be in the
fight they don't even like the fight but they just find themselves in the fight why because a bunch
of bullies riled them up and it happens you see people doing all kinds of weird stuff go to john
chapter number seven go to john chapter seven you know people will sue you even though they like you
why because bullies threaten them and you know it's so funny to me it's like you got to tell
businesses you know sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
you know it's like these businesses they get one email that says something mean and it's just like
they have to bend over backwards it's like here's here's how you solve bad emails delete
block it's like oh but what about that person's feelings i don't care about bullies feelings
you know we need to stop catering to bullies just say no and say well i don't want to fight against
them you know usually when you just say no they just go away because what is what is the
definition of a bully let me read it for you again they seek to harm intimidate and coerce
someone perceived as vulnerable you know what when you don't when you're not perceived as
vulnerable they don't pick on you you know little children let me help you people that bully you
don't give into their bullying right you know it'd be better to just take a punch than it would to
allow a bully to trample on you because then they'll take you for everything you've got
you know bullies are all talk and no bite they're like a chihuahua
i mean it's just like why why am i so intimidated by a chihuahua i mean you can punt the little
thing but people they get they get so terrified they think it's like a grown lion or something
and it's just like that's not something to you know cave into it's not something to cater to
you know if you cater into the chihuahua it just shows how weak you are it shows how you have no
real gumption and whenever you say i can be bullied not only do you allow that person to
bully you you're you're basically saying is there any other bully out there that would like to take
advantage of me and what happens the bully group starts growing and it's just like oh it's not that
it's just well it's not the lgbt adl wants to get in on that action too and the splc wants
to get in on that action too and just any group pita wants to get in on that action too whenever
they perceive someone as weak they will just sit there and every bully will come out of the
woodwork and they'll all take advantage of you they'll all rip you off they'll all treat you
like the scum that they believe that you are the best thing to do is to not allow a bully to take
advantage of you now look at john chapter 7 and look at verse 11 the bible says this then the
jews sought him at the feast and said where is he and there was much murmuring among the people
concerning him for some said he is a good man others said nay but he deceiveth the people
verse 13 how be it no man spake openly of him notice this for fear of the jews you want to know
who's a bully in society jews jews are a bully in society and they want you to be so afraid and
cower to say things publicly right and notice no one was willing to say they believe in jesus for
fear of the jews a bunch of bullies now what do bullies try to do bullies try to get you to shut
up in fact that's the most common thing that happens is bullies want you to stop talking
and you know what they really want you to stop talking about is them
they want you to stop telling everybody what a bully they are they want you to stop telling
everybody how much a liar they are and how much a fraud they are why is it that they hated jesus
did the jews really hate jesus because he did miracles did the jews really hate jesus because he
gave them bread did the jews really you know why they hated jesus because he opened his mouth and
told everybody what they're really like that was the reason they hated jesus it's because he
testified of the truth because they were evil and he made it clear that they were evil he didn't
hold back any punches and that's why they wanted to destroy him of course many times he couldn't
even just say things plainly he had to use a parable because if he had just said it plainly
they wouldn't be able to handle it he had to kind of use a parable just so he could live long enough
to get crucified because if he had just said everything plainly they would have stoned him
or thrown him off a cliff or done anything to destroy him and it's always a bully's goal to
shut you up and to shut you down that's why it's important to not shut up when you're bullied
is to not just give in and just say oh i won't say that again i'm sorry i'm sorry look the
censorship in our country is perpetuated by people that are afraid of being bullied
right they're afraid and look everybody's censoring themselves these days it doesn't matter
what sports broadcaster what internet personality everybody's what i'm so afraid to say something
because then i'll get boycotted then i'll lose advertisers then i'll lose money then i'll lose
my job then people won't like me then i'll have a bad reputation i'll have 20 articles written
against me online it'll be hard for me to get another job and so what they do is they just let
bullies tell them what to do in their lives but you know what it's better to live in a world
where you can just speak freely and speak the truth is to live shackled to the bullies than
it is to be a slave to the bullies and to empower the bullies in your life and say well if you
threaten me enough i'll shut up if you're evil enough if you're a terrorist enough then i won't
anything now look at what it says in john 9 just flip the page john chapter 9 look at verse 13
they brought to the pharisees him that aforetime was blind and it was the sabbath day when jesus
made the clay and opened his eyes then again the pharisees also asked him how he had received his
sight he said unto them he put clay upon mine eyes and i washed and do see therefore said some
of the pharisees this man is not of god because he keepeth not the sabbath day others said how
can a man that is a sinner do such miracles and there was a division among them notice
jesus brought division verse 17 they say unto the blind man again what sayest thou of him
that he hath opened thine eyes he said he is a prophet but the jews did not believe concerning
him that he had been blind and received his sight until they called the parents of him that he
received his sight you know why the jews didn't want to believe that this guy had been healed
because it didn't go with their doctrine and it conflated with their doctrine that this guy was
already bad so any other interpretation is available on the table but not the one that
he's actually been healed because they can't argue that so they just reject that they just can't see
it they can't believe it verse 19 and they asked him saying is this your son who you say was born
blind how then doth he now see his parents answered them and said we know that this is our son
and that he was born blind but by what means he now seeth we know not or who had opened his eyes
we know not he is of age ask him he shall speak for himself these words spake his parents because
they were being honest these words spake his parents because it was the truth these words
spake his parents why because they feared the jews notice what the jews got them to do censor their
speech they changed their words because of what the bullies were saying and they were afraid to
speak what was true because of the bullies in their society what is it that bullies really
want you to do shut up everybody just wants you to stop talking and you know it doesn't really
matter to them why they just want you to stop speaking why is it that they stone stephen
or what he was saying in fact they were so adamant about it they stopped their ears
they were just like i can't even listen to this guy and they just started throwing stones at him
and kill him what horrible thing does stephen do preached the bible opened up his mouth and
said what the bible said and they just couldn't stand the guy they just had to kill him they just
run on him what is it that got jeremiah put in the stocks what he preached what he said
what is it that kills every guy in the bible this their mouth their mouth is what they want to stop
and unfortunately for the for the evil and for the wicked the only way to shut a man of god down
is to kill him because he just keeps preaching and he just keeps preaching and they can never
really shut him down and we as god's children and we as the men of god and the women of god we need
to make sure that we're keeping our mouths open you know why do the apostle paul have to pray for
boldness that his mouth would be open because there's the intimidation factor they want you
to shut up they want you to stop talking about it stop preaching the bible stop saying what they're
really like that is the whole goal of the devil is to shut down people's speech why is free speech
such an important liberty in the american constitution why was it the number one what's
the number one issue when it comes to the constitution i mean when it comes to our freedoms
it comes to the freedom of religion and the freedom to speak freely and the freedom for
a press to go out and actually share articles and to say what's really going on and what is
the number one goal of the enemy to shut down free speech and to shut down what people say
and you know what bullies want to just shut people down from what they're saying
that is their goal that is what they have to do why because they cannot defeat your arguments
with reason or logic because they're wicked because they're evil so they just want people
to stop spreading the truth about them stop telling everybody these people are predators
and pedophiles and evil and wicked why is it that there's so much censorship in america
it's because there's a lot of evil people in america there's so much there i mean there's
so much evil and wickedness going on in our country that there's there's too many things
for them to censor it's hard for them to censor everything that they need to censor these days
i mean there's just so much stuff going out and they and they they can't really even control it
right now that's why it's getting to a tipping point where you know you got like people in the
world economic forum and you've got a lot of these high ups they're really wanting to just
make the internet like china they're really wanting to just crack everything down really
hard because there's too much corruption there's too much evil there's too much wickedness
and everybody's finding out about it and they're getting all nervous about it and the worst thing
that we can do as a society the worst thing the businesses can do in this world is to give in to
these censorship bullies is to allow them to stop doing business with people and to stop trading and
to stop doing things i mean every business has said nuts to these animals nuts to these beasts
they can't burn the whole city down folks they can't destroy everything but you know what it's
isn't it interesting to me all the businesses that cater to them and put their flag out they
still walk up and down their downtown area and burn all their business down anyways
i mean where do you think businesses in america cater to these bullies the most like if i was
to say what part of our country is the most pro sodomite and most pro jew in america
it's california it's not even a question folks and it's like what businesses are being ransacked
with criminal theft with stealing looting they're just i mean san francisco and new york are being
just robbed blind folks and you say what is the commonality between san francisco and new york
is it the weather no how beautiful those areas are not really they're way different there's
one thing they have a bunch of fags and jews yeah and it's like why is it that they're just
being ransacked and destroyed it's they cater to them so much and you would think about this oh
well if we cater them we won't have problems well then have you ever heard of new york and
san francisco yeah they cater to them more than anybody on the planet there is not an area that's
catering to these bullies more than san francisco and new york and they're being ransacked and
destroyed and literally just crapped on i mean have you ever seen their streets they're literally
just being filled with needles and drugs and disease because these people are giving in to
the bullies and it's like why would i think that dallas fort worth is going to be any better if we
cater to these bullies if we give in to these monsters and these domestic terrorists now as
soon as you show weakness more of them will come out and even more will come out you have to deal
with these people appropriately and you have to say we're not going to shut up you know get out
of our of our hair we're not going to deal with this issue and why isn't that businesses can just
be agnostic just be a business to say i don't like them and i don't like you give me money or go away
i mean why can't why can't every business just say i don't care give me money or go away
it's like that would be the best business model for them is to say is your money green okay your
money's green come on in you know if you don't have green money then buy you know what's really
dumb is to say hey this guy's gonna give me money let's get him away oh you're not gonna give me any
money uh let's cater to you that makes no sense folks that that just defies all logic and reason
and of course they're not even and jesus does it and then you're so afraid you can't even say that
you like jesus you can't even say jesus did it why because you're so terrified of the bullies
it's it's ridiculous like what it says in verse 22 these words spake his parents because they
feared the jews for the jews had agreed already that if any man did not confess that he i'm sorry
had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was christ he should be put out of the
synagogue canceled hey you like steadfast baptist church canceled hey you like jesus cancelled you
like the bible canceled you know it's just the same tactic it's the same bible it's the same
situations it's the same people the jews say hey you like jesus canceled yeah hey you're gonna get
up and tell us about jesus canceled you're gonna call him the christ canceled that's their only
method we're gonna put you out of synagogue i don't want to be in a synagogue anyways thanks
thanks for canceling me you know that's the silly part oh i'm so afraid of being out of the
synagogue get out of the synagogue anyways verse 23 therefore said his parents he is of age ask him
then again called they the blonde the man that was blind and said in him give god the praise
we know that this man is a sinner that's what certainty they have uh this guy's evil this guy
is wicked sinner he answered and said whether he'd be a sinner or no i know not i like how
you respond he's like i don't even trust you guys hey i'm immediately saying i don't know
if that's true or not this is how you should treat all jewish media anytime the jews get up
they say we know for a fact this is true it's like probably not in fact it might be more likely that
they're lying than it is that you can give them the 50 50. one thing i know that whereas i was
blind now i see then said they to him again what did he to be how opened he thine eyes
he answered them i've told you already and you did not hear wherefore would you hear it again
meaning like why would you want to hear me why did you really want me to tell you that again
will you also be his disciples he said hey you're gonna get converted then
then they reviled him and said he could do nothing so you know what this guy does he's
like hey let me reason with y'all look if this guy is a wicked sinner then of course i would
have never been healed but if he's actually following god's commandments and he's right
with god and i've he's performed the greatest miracle that we've ever seen that we've ever heard
of then he obviously is of god so you know he did sound logic a plus b equals c what
they should all be converted then right i mean who can argue with this lot this logic is perfect
it's sound they answered and said him that was all together born in sins and just now teach us
and they cast him out hey you told us the truth you gave us the logic you reasoned with us and
you know what they did just cast them out anyways why because they're unreasonable
right why because the jews are bullies you can't reason with a bully you can't
make a negotiation with a bully now go to romans chapter 12 for a moment go to romans chapter 12
for a moment it's so silly to reason with the unreasonable it makes no sense to cater to a bully
to allow a bully to tell you what to do now i want i want to make a distinction here because
of course in the bible there are times when a christian may compromise there's a time
when a christian may cater there's a time when a christian may humble himself and lower himself
at the behest or wishes of others there's a time when you become a servant of all men you know the
apostle paul you know under the week he became weak okay so there's a time to change our character
in the sense of you know we don't try to be lofty and lifted up and you know we condescend
to men of low estate as the bible describes it and of course here's a verse verse 18 if it be
possible as much as lieth then you live peaceably with all men so you know the bible talks about
someone asking to hey will you go a mile with me and the bible says go twain hey can can i get a
coat here's a cloak also right isn't that going above and beyond and of course the bible says hey
someone slaps you around you just turn them the other cheek that's not the context of what we're
describing here so i want to make a distinction here you know someone treats you poorly you still
help them out you still do them good someone rips you off a little bit but you know it's just it is
what it is you could still be nice to them you could still do good under them but there's a
difference between people being bad there's a difference between people doing you wrong there's
a difference between someone being your enemy and someone being a sodomite bully and some being a
god-hating bully and people trying to bully you around and notice where the bible says if it be
possible did the bible say just let's just skip you know if it's maybe it's the niv i don't know
just live peaceably with all men niv version i don't know if it actually says that i don't
know what it says probably just probably says something completely different like dogs and cats
live together or something you know what does the king dame say if it be possible that means that
sometimes it's not possible you say well i don't know you seem to just be cherry picking what you
want pastor shelley and you just seem to cherry pick that the sodomites are unreasonable no no
the bible explains that they're unreasonable well i think the bible says always be nice no
it says if it's possible meaning that there's sometimes it's not meaning that there's some
groups of people that are not reasonable that you can't talk to go to second thessalonians
chapter number three second thessalonians chapter number three and pretty much all the t's are kind
of just marked there together if you get to timothy you've gone too far flip back second
timothy chapter number three
look at verse one finally brethren pray for us that the word of the lord may have free
course and be glorified even as it is with you and that we may be delivered from unreasonable
and wicked men for all men have not faith notice that the bible doesn't say hey let's reason with
the unreasonable it says hey deliver us from these people because there are certain people
that are unreasonable and wicked how dare you say that about someone the bible did welcome to the
bible welcome to second thessalonians like wow this is new testament this is new testament this
is as new as you're gonna get there isn't a newer testament that's called the book of mormon and and
let me tell you something that's not the bible that's not the word of god this is as new and
as fresh as it's gonna get for you buy a brand new bible if you want but it's gonna say the same
thing as the 1611 king james bible and the bible back then said that there was unreasonable and
wicked men and the bible taught there was unreasonable wicked men in the old testament
and the bible says in the new testament there's gonna be unreasonable and wicked men and you know
what you don't cater to the bully right you don't let the bully tell you what to do you know you do
you pray to god to be delivered from the bully and one of the best ways to pray this is in
precatory psalms break their teeth in their mouth oh god and you know maybe we need more
of god's people to start praying in precatory prayers you know god hears the saves and god
cares about our prayers you know and we need to not lose faith we need to pray that we'd be
delivered from unreasonable and wicked men you know look at verse three but the lord is faithful
who shall establish you and keep you from evil so
first corinthians 15 last verse verse 58 therefore my beloved brethren
be steadfast unmovable you know what this tells me i don't cater to a bully i'm unmovable
right i don't allow them to shut me up i'm steadfast what always abounding in the work
of the lord always you say when always say when do y'all go soul winning always
when are y'all a christian always when do you hate sodomites always
when are you a fundamental baptist always hey when do you like steadfast baptist church always
hey we're not going to quit we're not going to stop we are unmovable and they always laugh
they're like oh you've moved a lot oh yeah but i keep going soloing and i keep preaching against
you freaks that's what it means try and stop me yeah i might move everywhere and then everybody
will know how stupid and wicked you are everybody i know what kind of terrorist you are you know
you don't want me to move because i keep moving around and more people realize how wicked and
evil y'all are because i won't shut up go over to first peter chapter number five first peter
chapter number five you know the bible says the fear of man bringeth the snare but whoso
put of this trust in the lord shall be safe i thought we loved psalm 23 isn't that every
christian's favorite psalm psalm 23 you know the bible says that he's going to prepare a table
before me in the presence of mine enemies a presence you're going to eat donuts in the
presence of your enemies you're gonna you're gonna hear sermons in the presence of your enemies
and there's nothing they can do about it why you know god gets it's like it's like fun for
god or something they're probably like i'll never eat five minutes later they're like
you know and they're like what happened well you know because they're losers
and they're gonna lose and they tried to destroy paul and they couldn't do it and think about this
if they had not persecuted paul paul may not have traveled as many cities as he did
as quickly as he did you know a lot of times it seemed like he wanted to stay and everybody
wanted him to stay and everybody wanted him to be around there but then it was like nope time to get
out of here and they were just they circled the house of jason and they just like went all kinds
of crazy they got certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and they just draw people out of their
houses and they persecute paul in one city and he goes to the next and then he goes to the next
and then he goes to the next and he goes the next and pretty soon the whole world's been turned
upside you know everybody i talk to they like craft coffee or something better or something
like that or you're a good person you don't like coffee no i'm just kidding that doesn't resonate
well but i didn't come to please you all right so and you know what you can't bully me drinking
coffee i will not cater okay first peter chapter five look at verse eight be sober be vigilant
because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour
so here's a guy here's a bully i want you to devour people what does the bible say just give
into all of his demands be a coward about it no no no no no what is the bible we walk by faith
is faith something you can see or sight something you can see sight is what you can see sight is
what you know sight is what is for sure but let me tell you something this church and our christian
walk will never be sure things you know and the things you can see yeah but what will it be faith
it'll be faith and let me tell you something three years ago whenever this church pastor
stepped down there was no sight that this church was going to be good in the future was there
i mean who in the world could look and just know for certain by sight by carnal means this church
was going to go well i didn't in fact i was thinking it might just implode or something
and there was all kinds of turmoil but you know what a lot of people said i believe in this church
like faith and look what's happened i mean look look where we are now and i i love to
reflect on those things to help you realize you've taken a lot of steps of faith already
and look where it's led you and you say wow i'm in a really good place well you know what you need
to do take another step of faith then and then take another step of faith and then five years
you'll look back and be like man i took a really cool path of faith again and what it's supposed
to do is supposed to remind you that we're supposed to be steadfast in something the faith
and you know what maybe god just doesn't want you to get comfortable because then you'll start
walking by sight instead of faith he wants you to keep being uncomfortable to see hey are you
going to keep walking by faith buddy you know when peter walked on the water it didn't become calm
it became even more tempestuous the more the wind started blowing and the more the waves started
crashing but he stopped taking steps of faith and he started taking steps of sight and when
you take steps of sight on water you sink the only way to walk on water is not look at it
is not think about it it's not know about it and you say hey pastor celly are you worried about
all the stuff i don't know i'm not looking down well what did you see what's behind i'm not
looking back i'm just i'm just looking forward by faith and i'm just not going to let the bully
tell me what to do i'm going to ignore the bully nuts to the bully he can go to hell for all i care
for all i care and notice what it says knowing that the same afflictions are
accomplished in your brethren that are in the world he says you're not special
everybody else that saved the devil is trying to attack and afflict and bad things are happening
to them and you know what's important is especially when there's a spotlight on you
to not cower to not cater to not back down because it will discourage your brethren you know one of
the most wicked things was when the children of israel said hey we'll stay on this side of the
river you guys go across no no no you go across the river with your brethren you go to fight with
your brethren and you know if christians can be christians in china today if christians can be
christians and muslim nations today how much can god's people be christians in america and to get
up and to fight in america and to fight for the faith and to be steadfast in the faith and not
let the bullies get you down you know what we have the easiest walk yet it's just so hard for
people in america because they're just so lazy they're so apathetic and they've been
spore they afflicted them the more they grew and the more they multiplied and i guarantee
the sermons from apostle paul were lit i mean i'm sure they were great you know when everything's
on easy street the sermons is like okay well we're here you know but you know what when you
go through some fun stuff you hear some good preaching at least yeah you know go team
we had more baptisms when we were on the run the last time
i was like what in the world i feel like people just want to see me get in
the swimming pool like i just want i just want to make sure pastor shelley get in the freezing water
sometimes it was cold okay you know what i got down there and i'm like get in there you know
so you should not be steadfast for you you should not be steadfast for your wife you should not be
steadfast for your kids you should not be steadfast for this country you should be
steadfast for one reason and that one reason is god why did jesus christ have to go some of the
most humiliating things and have to suffer so much shame you don't have to be pleasing to god
to give god the glory and you know what if my life has to be a life of martyrdom and evil and and
terrible things it just gives more glory to god and i don't even believe that's going to happen
but even if it did then you know what praise god he gave me an opportunity to serve him
you know we're supposed to be a partaker of his sufferings you know the bible doesn't say be a
partaker of christ's infinite blessings in this life we get that the next one we get that at the
resurrection you know what we have one time to suffer there is only one time you'll ever suffer
in your entire life and it's now don't skip out now don't take the epidural now okay
if your wife can do it you can do it okay god
you're here to serve god we're all here to serve god otherwise we miss the boat
there's one reason we're here is to give glory to god go to matthew chapter 10 you know what
god gets glory in people being willing to suffer for his namesake it gives him way more glory than
us being willing to get fed you know getting fed by jesus wasn't the coolest suffering was the
coolest you know god didn't commend the 5 000 for having come and eaten of the loaves he commended
his disciples for being willing to lay down their lives for him that's who he really commended and
you know it's real easy to go to church when everything's fun and and exciting but you know
what come to church when you have to suffer a little bit what would happen if we actually went
through what paul called light affection you know and it could be me and my family coming to church
but you know what i want to be steadfast in the faith and i want to prepare myself and i want to
prepare my congregation prepare us to say you know what whatever happens let it happen matthew
verse 16 behold i send you for the sheep in the midst of wolves be therefore wise as serpents and
harmless as doves but beware of men for they will deliver you up to their cows no no what does the
bible say and you should be hated of all men for my namesake but he that endureth to the end shall
be saved but when they persecute you in this city flee into another rarely i say unto you you shall
not have gone over the cities of israel till the son of man become you know i i like in this
application like you're not going to every city in texas before jesus comes certainly not austin
okay the disciple is not above his master nor the servant above his lord it is enough for the
disciple that he be as his master and the servant as his lord if they have called the master of the
house beelzebub how much more so they call them of his household say man if they're calling jesus
the the chief prince of the devil i mean beelzebub the god of the devils he's saying
the sky's the limit on you guys i mean if you're going to call him that you would call us anything
and everything under the sun fear them not therefore for there is nothing covered that
shall not be revealed and hid that shall not be known so to get to this point and and in this
section you know he's going to send out his disciples to what preach and preach the word
of god and he's trying to give them instructions and he's trying to warn them of certain things
and he's trying to give them advice hey beware of these people you know and notice he didn't say
beware of certain people he's saying beware of every person why because all men are going to
hate you eventually everyone's going to dislike you eventually it's like you know i hear the
they're like oh pastor shelley they hate everyone what are they trying to say they're like there's
a sermon out there that would reproach you and it's like it's probably true there probably is
a sermon that would rub you the wrong way there probably is something i preached that would cause
you to get mad at me you just don't know it yet you just haven't experienced it yet and of course
the same is about jesus there's always something in this book that people don't like the unsaved
aren't just like in love with jesus or something they don't like the bible they hide from the
bible they don't want the the light to shine on their darkness and he's saying they're going to
persecute you flee so there's one advice as far as how you handle a situation but what else do you
do when you have the bullies or you have these bad things happen you know what is he's he's telling
them in verse 27 what i tell you in darkness that speak ye in light and what you hear in the ear
that preach ye upon the housetops so did he say hey when you get persecuted from a city
don't preach that again slow down your preaching censor yourself a little bit don't talk about that
anymore no no he said hey go to the next city but then preach all the same things again in fact
scream it from the housetops preach everything in the bible it's so funny to me that modern
christianity they they want to pretend like just being their liberal version of christianity is
going to upset people it doesn't upset anyone you know you'll get up and you'll preach things
like why did you have to preach that you know well it's in the bible and like well i don't think you
should preach you should just preach the gospel you really think that people are standing on
housetops preaching the gospel and everybody getting really mad at them
look it's all the other stuff it's the gnarly stuff john the baptist didn't get beheaded for
preaching the gospel in fact john the baptist preached the gospel to everybody every single
person because the bible says all of judaita came out to him even the pharisees every single person
came out and they all heard his preaching and he told them all to believe on christ and he told
them all to repent he even rebuked the pharisees openly and said that they were supposed to bring
forth fruits worthy of repentance meaning they needed to change their mind and believe on the
lord jesus christ and openly confess christ and they didn't do it but why did john the baptist
get killed because he opened his mouth about harry but you know what christ didn't say well
john the baptist was pretty good but he just shouldn't have preached that part of the bible
no he said he's the greatest man to ever live and you know what the bible says just keep preaching
it and you say hey pastor shelley you know what are you going to do next wednesday preach
everything the bible says what about sunday whatever the bible says what about next year
everything the bible says but are you going to stop screaming it no are you gonna stop yelling
it no are you gonna stop promoting it no when are you gonna stop handing out sodomite deception
dvds when no one has a dvd player and then we'll hand out the you know thumb drives or something
it's like when it when are you gonna stop saying the things that the bible says
never because as soon as you kill me i'll say i'm in heaven too and then you know i'll come
back in the millennial reign or whatever and i'll still say them i'm never gonna stop saying them
you can never shut me up ever you could only stop me on this earth temporarily you know what maybe
god will let me pour out a vial or something you know i'm just kidding i'm sure i won't be the
person that does that but that would be cool you know i'm willing i'm willing lord
i am willing if you want me to pour out vials i'll do it if you want me to say whoa whoa whoa
under the inhabitants of the earth i'll say it you know i'm practicing my lines you know
i don't know if there's like auditions or something you know that'd be cool
i'm ready i'm not one of the two witnesses okay i already got that one all right
okay you're not either okay none of us are but the bible is telling you don't be afraid preach
what the bible says and verse 28 and fear not them which kill the body but are not able to
kill the soul now do you think it's any coincidence that he's telling them to not be afraid and then
look at verse 26 fear them not verse 27 preach ye upon the house tops verse 28 and fear them not
you think that's a coincidence that it's like don't be afraid preach everything in the bible
sandwich no he's trying to get you just don't stop opening your mouth preach it preach the bible
preach the word of god go out and be steadfast buy him another pulpit i'm just kidding some people
got nervous he says hey don't fear them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul
you can't kill my soul i'm going to heaven that's right but rather fear in which is able to destroy
both soul and body in hell man that's that would suck to get a new body that will never be
destroyed in hell i mean it's not going to burn up it's not going to burn away it's just going
to burn forever an instructable and non-destructible body that just is forever
just the tongue that never gets quenched of thirst the skin that doesn't melt away
with the inferno i mean the best part about our human bodies is when it touches that hot flame
all of those nerve endings burn away and you don't feel the pain all of those nerve endings
are there in hell it's there's no relief there's no adrenaline in hell there's no relief in hell
and and think about this the people that hate our church the bullies they're not even afraid
of hell because think about what they're doing like they're willing to sacrifice their lives
and money and effort and energy realizing they're going to go to hell and having no fear of it and
then we're afraid of physically dying it's like which one is really to be afraid of yeah physical
death can hurt and it could be excruciating and there's a lot of torture out there but
no torture could even kind of compare to hell and if they're willing and motivated to do all
things they do with hell on the table how are we so afraid of just physical death
it's nothing it's nothing getting rocked asleep like stephen you know isn't that whatever he
wants to do die in their sleep says in verse 29 or not two sparrows sold for a farthing and one of
them shall not fall on the god i believe i believe that if we have really strong faith and we are
steadfast in the faith and we are doing what's pleasing in god's sight we are the most likely
to never suffer any of the evils to not actually go through the real types of affliction that could
exist you know it's it's like counterintuitive because you think like no i want to go to the
liberal church i want to go to the church that's never going to have any problems so i avoid any
kind of issues but you're actually probably more likely to suffer the affliction than the ones on
the front lines having the faith and just saying i think god's going to somehow get me through all
of it and i'm not promising that to you so if you you can't call me back and be like pastor
shelly this bad thing out is like okay well sorry you know there's martyrs in the bible i get it but
you know what more often than not god's people come out without a scratch they come out they
don't even smell like smoke they come out and the lion's mouth was shut they come out unscathed
and i believe that if you get fast you can be unscathed don't let the bullies intimidate you
and scare you into actually getting destroyed they're just hecklers they just want to get you down
verse 34 think not that i'm coming to send peace on earth i came not to send peace but a sword
for i am come to set it a man at variance against his father and the daughter against her mother
and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and a man's foes shall be they of his own household
you know we talked a lot about bullies but you know one bully that often happens to a lot of
people is a family they let their family bully them oh well you can't come over for thanksgiving
you can't come over for christmas you can't you know we won't come over and you're like
oh please don't threaten me with that you know you can't come to the big family reunion you're like oh
no but you know sometimes it is a real threat you know you love your family you love your friends
you love whatever but you know what at the end of the day you still don't give into the bully
you don't say you know what i'm gonna stop saying what's right because what the bully may do you
know i'm gonna say you know as for me and my house we're not gonna drink alcohol and i'm not afraid
of what bullies and my family may say about it oh you're a goody two-shoes you know i'm gonna still
go to church i'm gonna go to steadfast baptist church i'm gonna raise my family according to
bible i'm gonna keep having kids no matter what they say they try to bully you into not having
more kids oh you're having more kids oh you know what causes that oh yeah i i think i figured it
out that's it's a weird coincidence i have no idea will you explain it to me
you know it's like don't let people bully you and just stop doing the things of god and to
stop serving god uh he's nuts to any friend or any person or any business or any job or any
house or any bank account or any building or anything nuts to it because i'm not going to
stop preaching the bible and i don't care what i lose i don't care what's taken away from me
you know what we as god's people need to stop catering to bullies because you know what i don't
care about any of that stuff i care about what this book says i care about the lord
jesus christ and being right with him you know what nuts to the trolls and the gainsayers and
all the people that want to get you down and the liberal christians you know i don't care about
you bullies you're not you know what it's always a goal to censor you it's always a goal to shut
you down and shut you up make fun of you say whatever oh he just sounds like pastor anderson
or oh he just uses he uses bad words or whatever you know whatever they want to say you know i'm
not going to shut up bring it on oh the lawsuits bring it on i learned a lot more now okay you know
what everything that's attack what is what is their goal what is the goal the lawsuits and the
family members and the friends and the memes and the slanderous video it just to get you to stop
talking and we are not going to stop talking we are going to keep preaching the bible and keep
telling people what the truth is would have the strength that others would have the knowledge and
the wisdom and the understanding to to stand up to bullies to not allow themselves to be taken
advantage of to not succumb to the terroristic threats of the sons of belial to the devil to
those that want to hurt and harm them i pray that you would help open the eyes of the blind today
you would help people realize who the real terrorists are in the society that you would
allow god's people to have strength and courage to face the foe and no matter what bullies are
in their life they'll never