Good afternoon everybody and what great to see everybody here.
Go ahead and find our seats we will get started with the seat.
Let's grab a hymnal and go to song number 192.
The bells have had so much for this awesome church.
The opportunity to go out soul winning this afternoon and thank you for all the souls
that were one to you.
We love you Lord we just ask you to bless this church and bless everything that we do.
Fill it with your spirit as we sing unto you tonight and it's in Jesus name we pray,
Amen.
For our next song, let's go to song number 144, if you're familiar 144, a mighty fortress
is our God.
This church, if you don't already have a bulletin, you can just lift up your hand nice and high,
make sure it'll come by, bulletin, Jude 1 verse 13 is our Bible memory passage and then
on the inside we have our service soul winning times, make sure you're updating our church
stat groups with your soul winning numbers.
On the right, just right over the cross, it has soul winning stat reporting reminder.
Please make sure you're just listing all the soul winning partners by first name and at
least the last initial.
Also if you can include a location if you ever do a special soul winning event and then
if you do get emails just put it in there.
Make sure to indicate if it's a Spanish only email just because otherwise we just don't
know we just assume it's for the English.
That really helps us.
Please prepare for expecting ladies.
We are having a business meeting immediately after the service.
So as soon as we're done with the last song, I'm just going to immediately start our business
meeting.
It's not going to be recorded or anything like that.
It's just an internal meeting that we have.
Just give an update, it's a normal thing that we do once every six months.
Lancaster Texas Soul Winning Marathon is July 19th, so I think we should have a sign up
sheet for that.
It's 20 minutes away.
Meet here at 9 a.m.
It's a great opportunity to go soul winning if you've never been soul winning.
You can even just come for the morning or the afternoon.
We should have breakfast and lunch for you.
So it's going to be a great, awesome opportunity really.
In summer, we have the details of that.
We'll probably just put it in our group chat and then maybe in the bulletin next week,
but we're looking forward to having another fun activity for our teenagers.
Then the adventure park's the ninth.
We have the men's retreat August 14th to the 16th, FBBF conference.
That's going to be August 27th to the 31st.
We're going to have lots of cool stuff.
It's going to be awesome.
There is a signup sheet that we have.
There's only a few people that really didn't maybe fill it out yet, so we might just bug
those people personally, but if you don't want to be bugged by us, you can just either
mark through it or tell us that you're coming or something.
And then Mexico missions trip, September 8th through the 12th, Brother Diego is helping
lead this.
October 6th through the 11th is our Bahamas missions trip.
We have other events, but we're just kind of giving you just a few months' notice.
If you go to our website, it pretty much has all our events listed out there, sbckjv.com,
and then just go to the preaching, I'm sorry, upcoming events tab, I'm sorry, the upcoming
events tab.
I do have the details for the conference laid out on the website, made a couple of videos
about it.
We have the spelling bee words list link is available on there, and so we're really excited
about that.
On the back is our prayer list, and that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements.
We're going to sing our psalm of the week, psalm 67, so you get your special psalms and
hymn binders out.
Psalm 67.
Let's all sing it out together, psalm chapter 67 in your binder.
Go ahead and open your bibles to the book of Colossians chapter number one.
That's Colossians chapter number one.
Since chapter one, the Bible says, "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of
God, and Timotheus our brother, to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ, which are
at Colossi, grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the
truth of the gospel, which is come unto you, as it is in all the world, and bringeth forth
fruit as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God
in truth.
As ye also learned of Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister
of Christ, who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire
that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good
work and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with all might, according to
his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness, giving thanks
unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints
in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the
kingdom of his dear Son, in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness
of sins, who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were
created by him and for him.
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the
dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.
And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things
unto himself.
By him I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven.
And you that were sometime alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet
now hath he reconciled, in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and
unblameable and unreprovable in his sight.
If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the
gospel which ye have heard and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven, whereof
I, Paul, am made a minister, who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that
which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is
the church, whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which
is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God, even the mystery which hath been hid
from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints, to whom God would
make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which
is Christ in you, the hope of glory, whom we preach, warning every man and teaching
every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus, whereunto
I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day.
I thank you for the sermon we heard this morning, the reminder to be thankful and to praise
your name.
Please help us to praise you for the rest of this service, and please help Pastor Shelley
as he preaches your word, in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Colossians chapter number one talks a lot about Christ.
If you look in verse 15, it says, "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
of every creature?
For by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether it be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.
All things are created by him and for him, and he is before all things, and by him all
things consist, and he is the head of the body, the church."
And that's really where I'm getting the title of the sermon I want to preach this evening
is how Christ is the head.
Christ is the head.
The Bible makes it abundantly clear he's the head of the body, and the body is specifically
referring to the church, which is God's people.
And Jesus Christ uses a body, a physical body, to kind of illustrate a spiritual truth about
what the church is supposed to be like, how we're supposed to be like body parts, and
how Christ is that head of our body.
And of course God uses this analogy because in a body our brain, our head is basically
what's controlling the rest of our body.
You know, if your brain dead, well, you're a liberal NBC, right, you're a Democrat.
If your brain dead, you can't control your hands or your feet anymore, can you?
Your hands, your feet doesn't work.
The head is basically the control center of our body.
It's making the decisions, it's deciding where your feet go, it's deciding what your hands
do, it's deciding what you eat, it's deciding where you go, it's deciding when you wake
up.
It's making all of the decisions and in fact, your hands don't make any decisions.
Your feet don't make any decisions.
Now obviously, our body, because we have emotions, because we have feelings, because we get hungry,
because our body hurts, we influence our brain and then our brain may make a decision based
on the rest of our body.
If my hand is injured, my brain might make a decision to, you know, deal with my hand,
help my hand, if I itch, my body, you know, my body might want it to be scratched and
my brain might say, "Okay, scratch it."
But it doesn't have to.
You could have a mosquito bite, but you try not to scratch, because you don't want to
like cause it to be worse.
So yeah, obviously we're influenced by our body, but our body's not in control.
Our body will never be in control.
If you don't have a head, you're dead, right?
You could lose a lot of body parts and still be alive.
You can lose arms, legs.
You could have a half torso.
You could have your heart transplanted.
You could put someone else's heart in here.
You can do all kinds of crazy stuff, but they haven't figured out a way for someone to walk
around without a head.
I mean, you pretty much, if you don't have a head, it's over.
And so this analogy, while not exactly perfect, it's used in the Bible often to kind of illustrate
a lot of spiritual truths about the Bible, about God, about how the church is supposed
to operate.
And of course, all things are created by Him and for Him.
God created us, Jesus Christ specifically is the creator, He created all of us, and
He created the church, and He purchased it with His own blood, and He did everything.
And then on top of that, He is the head, meaning He's in charge.
A lot of times we use this language of head to say who's in charge, who's the head of
the household.
That means the person that's in charge of the household.
And so we use this language to kind of differentiate or understand these things.
In our church, Christ is to be the head of our church.
Now he's supposed to be the head of all churches.
And in reality, he is the head of all churches.
But that doesn't mean that all the bodies and all the body parts are always working
together with the head.
Sometimes your body can make mistakes or not do what the head is wanting it to do.
And of course that causes a lot of problems.
A healthy body is one where the body parts simply do what the brain is telling it when
it wants to.
It is obeying the brain and it functions.
If my body did not do what my brain wanted, it would be out of sorts, out of whack.
There are people that have physical issues.
Whether they have some kind of deformity, maybe they have some kind of mental handicap,
maybe they have some kind of like Tourette's or some kind of problem with them.
And it causes involuntary responses or it causes them to behave in a way that's not necessarily
consistent with what they want.
And again, it's not normal, it's not healthy.
In the same way, you could have churches that are acting like they have Tourette's.
You could have churches acting like they have some kind of deformity or are just simply
mentally handicapped in some ways where they're not mature, they're not acting the way they
should.
And of course, we don't want to be that.
We want to be a body that's subject to our head and we're doing what the head wants and
we're alignment with our head.
You know, you could be out of alignment with your spine and so the messages being sent
from the brain don't meet parts of your body and it can't respond.
People that are paralyzed or people that have some kind of deformity, sometimes it's literally
the messages just can't make it to that body part appropriately and it needs to be realigned,
it needs to be put back into place so that the messages can make it to there and then
the body can work appropriately.
We could go on for days but I'm just trying to give you an essence of what we're talking
about.
Christ is that head of the church.
Everything should be built upon the head.
Now when we talk about Christ being the head of our church, we're not just talking in some
abstract, theoretical idea, he is the head in the sense that this book that I hold in
my hand, the King James Bible is Jesus Christ, and this is the head of our church, this is
the final decision maker of our church, and this is what's supposed to lead our church.
This is what's supposed to make the decisions for our church.
When I'm deciding like, "Hey, what do we do?
We should look to the Bible, we should look to the Word of God and allow that to tell
us what to do."
Go forward to Mark chapter number 12.
Now a church that's not building itself on the Bible is not part of the body in a sense.
Think of it this way because the Bible brings up another analogy about the church and about
how it's supposed to work.
It makes it an analogy of like a building project.
The Bible says about Christ that He is that first stone, He's that corner stone, He's
that headstone where you're basically laying the first foundation, the first most crucial
stone where all the other stones are supposed to be laid in congruence with this to build
the same structure.
It says in Mark chapter 12, look at verse 10, "And have you not read this scripture?
The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner."
So they rejected this stone, they don't want this stone, they said it not, and yet that
is that corner stone upon which Christianity is built.
So the Jews, they rejected that corner stone and they're not part of that building because
they're not part of Christ, because they're not part of God, and they're not part of the
body.
In order to be a part of the body, you have to believe in Jesus Christ and then you have
to be a stone that's set in that same building construction.
You have to be put in congruence with that headstone, that corner stone.
Ephesians chapter 2 brings us up to, go to Acts 4 and Ephesians 2, I'm going to go to
those two places next, but I want to look at Ephesians chapter number 2 because the
Bible talks about us being this building construction project.
In Ephesians chapter 2, look what it says in verse number 19, "Now therefore you no
more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household
of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ
Himself being the chief corner stone, and in all the building fitly framed together
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord, and also are built together for an habitation
of God through the Spirit." So we are those building blocks put together to form
a habitation, to form a house of God, and we are the house of God, the church is the
house of God, we are a habitation for the Holy Spirit, Christ dwells in us, and of course
He is to be that corner stone, that headstone that all the building instruction is based on.
Acts chapter number 4 verse 11 brings up this same concept, says this is the stone which was
set at not of you builders, which has become the head of the corner. Notice Christ is the head,
Christ is that first stone, and He's the stone that's built there. If you aren't built in that
same area in the same place, you're just not part of the building, you're not part of the house of
God, you're not part of the body, and of course this would be a false gospel, this would be work
salvation. Well, that's built on a different building, that's a different construction.
That foundation that's laid for everybody is salvation by faith, trusting in Jesus Christ.
That's what gets us in. 1 Peter chapter 2, I want to go one more place here and prove
this point, but what are we seeing? We're just seeing some really basic simple truth.
What's the basic simple truth in the Bible? Christ is the head of the church. Christ is
the head of the corner. Christ is the cornerstone. Christ is in charge of the church. He built
the church. He purchased the church with His own blood. He's the one that is considered
the "husband" of the church. We are the bride, in a sense, as a collective, as a whole, and
so we are to be subject unto Christ. 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 7, the Bible says, "Unto you,
therefore which believe, He is precious; but unto them which be disobedient, the stone
which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner." Notice again
the Bible is telling us that Christ is the head of the corner. He is in charge. He is
where everything is decided. Every decision should be based on that stone. Say, how do
I lay the next stone? Well, it's based on wherever the headstone was laid. What are
the measurements? It's based on the headstone. What is the size? Where is the foundation?
What are we supposed to lay? Every decision that you make is based on that one stone.
This stone's been laid. Every other stone is going to be based on this stone because
it's the headstone. It's the head of the corner. It's in charge. Everything is about that.
Any other decision that's not in congruence with this is false. It's bad. It's wrong.
Okay? We need to be in line with it. Go if we go to Ephesians 1 now. Go back to Ephesians
and go to Ephesians chapter 1. Christ is the head. Ephesians chapter 1, look at verse 21.
The Bible says, "Far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every
name that is named, not only in this world but also in that which is to come, and hath
put all things under his feet, and gave him to be," what? "the head over all things to
the church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all." My hand
does not get to decide which body it's attached to. It's attached to this body and this head
is the one in charge of this hand. And this hand doesn't get to say, "You know what?
I don't really like your head. I don't like how you operate. I don't like what you do."
It's like, "Tough luck, buddy." You know, we could all talk about technique, maybe a
sport. We could take it like basketball. Everybody kind of shoots the basketball a little bit
different. But you know, my hand doesn't get to say, "You know what? I kind of like how
he shoots the ball." No, no, it just does whatever my brain tells it. You're going to
do my form. You're going to do my way because you're a part of my body and you're stuck
with me, so you just do it. And you know what? You could even potentially punish yourself
for lack of a better way to explain it if your body wasn't responding correctly. I mean,
if you ever played golf with my dad, it was intense, all right? A lot of language. But
if he hit a bad shot, he would punch himself. Now, I'm not saying this is right. I'm not
even saying it's a good idea. I'm just telling you his body didn't have a choice. I mean,
I've watched the man punch all kinds of parts of his body because he was just mad at it.
I've seen people, they hit their hand, people kick things. Who's seen someone hit something,
hit their self, hit their hand or whatever when they got mad in sports? Yeah, hands all
over the room. Like, you could get mad at your body just because you're kind of mad
about what happened or you're frustrated about it. Again, I'm not recommending this. I'm
not saying that it's right. I'm just saying it happens. And as, you know, this analogy,
we are in the body of Christ, we don't get to choose who our head is. We're already attached
to the body. We believed in Jesus Christ. He is our head. So therefore we ought to embrace
the fact that Jesus Christ is our head. And while Jesus Christ isn't going to, quote,
beat himself up, the Bible does say he will chasten and scourge every son in whom he receive
it. And the Bible does make it clear that he would potentially punish us. If you overeat
or overindulge, you may end up having to diet or fast as a remedy to that. And that's going
to be suffering. And so the body, there is an idea of self-discipline mentioned in the
Bible. The apostle Paul brings up how he brings himself into subjection, lest he be a cast
away. There's the idea of self-discipline control. In fact, arguably lifting weights
or exercising, if you don't understand this, you're actually damaging your body. And what
you do, when you lift weights, you're actually making minor tears in your muscles, and then
your body responds by building them back a little stronger. So your body thinks like,
"Oh no, I'm not capable of handling this. I can't do what this guy wanted me to do."
So their body just somehow realizes, "I need to be stronger so I can handle this." So you
lift weights, and you have all these minor tears in your arms and your muscles, and then
it builds back a little stronger. And then you lift again, and it tears, and it builds
back. That's why you need a little bit of rest, that's why sometimes you're sore and
it hurts a little bit, is that process of you broke down parts of your body, it's building
back. Even your bones themselves, you're constantly causing little scrapes and little tears and
little minor fractures all in your bones. When you go running and you just shove, you're
just slamming your foot down on the concrete just for 10 minutes or 20 minutes or if you're
crazy for an hour, yeah, you're doing little mini fractures and little splinting on your
bones and then your bones will grow back stronger in those places. People that want to be in
some kind of martial arts, they'll literally kick their shins against bamboo trees on purpose
and break their shins on purpose so that they'll harden and calcify and become even stronger
so that when they kick people, it's like they're kicking people with a lead pipe or something
because they basically just harden their legs so much through all of that pain and all of
that punishment.
So in the same way, you know, when God punishes us, when God chastens us, it actually makes
us stronger if you allow yourself to get healed, if you allow yourself to respond to this.
You know, no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous.
But afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit by them which are exercised thereby.
So according to the Bible, hey, yeah, working out, disciplining yourself, doing these things,
they may not be fun in the short term, but they yield great results.
And the brain gets to decide, hey, what am I going to do?
If you never work out, this is why old people often, they break their bones often because
they're not using them, they're not going out and exercising, obviously getting old
there's other problems too, maybe malnutrition is a part of it.
But look, when you don't use it, you lose it in a lot of ways because their bodies are
designed to constantly have to repair themselves and constantly be used and worked on.
And when you just sit around and do nothing, you become weak and brittle and soft.
Christ wants us to be a body that's being used, that's working out, that's being disciplined,
that's healthy, that's in shape.
And often when us preachers or pastors, we talk about churches, we talk about it as a
body.
And I often refer to our church as like, it seems like our church is often a ripped prize
fighter because it's just like we're constantly having to go through these battles and we're
losing all kinds of fat and excess weight and we're like dieting and we're going through
intense workouts.
And so, you know, if you look at a prize fighter, I mean they lose all this weight to be able
to weigh in.
They basically have to just starve themselves and not eat so they can just basically, they
lose all this water weight, they're not really this fluff so that they can come in.
Whereas you could look at another person's body and boy, it's just they don't work out,
they don't run, they overeat, and so they have all this fat and they just, they're kind
of, that's how you can look at a church.
There's some churches out there that are just this fat blob and they're like, it can't even
do it, it can't even get out of its chair.
Look there are people in this world that can't even get out of their chair.
There's shows where people can't even get out of their house.
There are shows where people couldn't even get out of their bed.
They weren't even capable.
I saw this one, it was like they had to take the roof off and they had to airlift this
guy off of his bed because he couldn't even get out there and he was giant.
And look, I think there's churches like that.
They're giant.
I mean, they have thousands of people, but the stinking church does nothing and it would
take a stinking airlift to get them to ever do anything because they're just so fat and
they're just so obese and they don't do anything.
And why?
Because you know what?
They're not really plugged into the head and they're not doing what the head wants because
the head is going to keep you healthy, it's going to keep you balanced, it's going to
cause you to do what the right thing is.
And look, you're subject to this head whether you like it or not.
Look at chapter 4 verse 15, "But speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in
all things which is the head, even Christ."
Here's another thing about a body is a body ages.
When you first get saved you're kind of in a sense like a spiritual baby and you're supposed
to grow and you're supposed to mature.
And as awkward as it would look if you had a 20-year-old baby, it is when you have Christians
that have been saved for "20 years" and yet they know nothing, they're not serving Christ,
they have no charity, they don't really understand the Bible at all.
It's kind of embarrassing, it's awkward, it's weird looking.
And so we need to basically be maturing, growing, we need to be in line with our head.
We don't want our head to outgrow our body.
We don't want to be this giant head on this little baby body where it's just kind of inadequate.
Because look, an adult head on a baby's body isn't going to really do much.
I mean, if you just put my head, my exact head right now on a three month old baby's
head, body, like I'm not going to be able to go play basketball or something.
I'm not going to be able to swim.
I'm not going to be able to rescue anybody.
I can't even stand behind this pulpit and preach.
I'd be down here somewhere, you wouldn't even see me.
That would be awkward.
And look, it's not the head's the same because we all have Christ.
Yet there are churches today where they have this, but then they're like a little three-month
old baby attached to it, where they can't do anything.
They don't know anything.
They're not going anywhere.
And it's just you go to church and it's how to get saved every Sunday morning.
And then the other alternating Sundays is the pre-trib rapture, which is like a baby
that's just like, baby's don't even know what they're saying.
They just say dumb things.
They just say things.
They have no idea what they're saying.
They're just repeating lies and repeating nonsense and repeating sounds.
Just like, that's the same as going to church and just hearing a preacher just lie about
the preacher of rapture, just saying nonsense, just saying things that aren't in the Bible,
regurgitating some commentary, just but look, it's important to grow with your head.
It's important to age with your head.
It's important to mature with your head.
And you say, like, how could that even be possible?
It's because they're not reading the Bible, because they're not reading the Bible, they're
not studying the Bible, and then they end up getting out of balance again.
Chapter 5, look at verse 20, chapter 5, verse 20, "Giving thanks always for all things into
God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting yourselves one to
another in the fear of God.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord, for the husband is the head
of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the Savior of the body.
Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands
in everything.
Now, so far the sermon's just, it's like, yep, got it, cool, no problem.
But then you make a transition, you say, okay, the same way we're supposed to be subject
unto Christ is how wives are supposed to be to their husbands.
That's why it's so quiet in here.
But here's the thing, we need to realize, why is it that a church is healthy?
What makes a good church?
Well, a good church will be one where the pastor is reading the Bible.
Why?
Because the pastor has to make decisions.
Well, what kind of decisions does the pastor make?
He should make the decisions that Christ is telling him.
And if he's not reading his Bible, if he's not studying what the Bible's saying, well
then he's not going to be making the decisions that the head wants, he's going to make decisions
that he wants, and it's going to get out of whack.
It's going to get weird.
The pastor has to decide what to feed the body.
We're constantly eating.
If I just say, you know what, we're just going to have gushers tonight.
And then tomorrow morning, gushers for breakfast.
And then for lunch, fruit by the foot.
And then for the evening, we're going to have Twinkies.
Pretty soon we're going to get weird and unhealthy.
You could be like that guy, the Super Size Me guy, and only have McDonald's.
And then you like almost die after like 30 days or something like that, only McDonald's.
So you've got to figure out like what are you eating?
Whereas if it's like, hey, we're going to eat steak, we're going to eat vegetables,
we're going to have salad, we're going to have baked potatoes, we're going to have good
bread, we're going to have butter, we're going to have milk.
Hey, we can sustain on that forever.
In the same way, the pastor has to get up and decide like, hey, what are we eating?
We're going to have gushers or we have Twinkies, are we going to have steak and potatoes?
And it's like, hey, this is that steak and potatoes, this is that nutritious meal that
we need to be eating regularly.
And when a pastor is not feeding their flock the word of God, they're not getting the
mind of Christ, we're not being led by Christ, they're going to get unhealthy, they're going
to get weird, they're going to have problems.
And of course a lot of dietary issues cause problems for people because they're not getting
all of the nutrients that they need.
If you forego certain important aspects of a diet, whether it just be like all carbs
or all fruits and vegetables or all meat, often any of these weird variations cause
people problems.
And I'm not a doctor, I'm not saying that I'm a doctor, but I'm just saying in general
it's best to kind of have a well-balanced diet, kind of have a little bit of all the
different stuff, have some vegetables, some fruits, whatever, and people have even noticed
like hey, they had some vitamin deficiency and it caused Lyme disease, and then by eating
limes it helped them rid themselves of this particular disease because they were malnourished
in some way, and often times people are malnourished in some way, so we don't want just the popular
parts of the King James, we want the whole thing, and we need the whole thing, that keeps
us healthy. You know, pastors have to decide what to preach, and what I've tried to emphasize
and I try to scream and yell and make a big deal about is how, if anybody gets up to preach
a sermon, they need to make sure that the most important part, or the core of their
sermon, the essence of the sermon, what they're just communicating for the next hour or hour
long is a clear statement in the Bible. It's a truth that the Bible is communicating, because
we want to make sure that our signals are coming from the head, coming from Christ,
and that we're just transmitting that signal to the rest of the body. We're like the spine
just delivering those signals to all the different parts of the body, but we want to make sure
they're coming from the head. And what I've noticed, and you'll always realize, bad preachers
and bad churches, they are not starting their sermons with something in this text. They're
not explaining something that's in this text. It's something that they just wanted to preach
out of their heart, out of their mind, their ideas, their thoughts, their story, their
agenda, their experience, their whatever, and they're not making Christ the head. And
then pretty soon their body's going to be jacked up. Their body's going to be screwed
up. And look, a church is going to be successful when the pastor is reading the Bible and memorizing
the Bible and studying the Bible. And when I listen to people just preach garbage sermon
after garbage sermon after garbage sermon, you know what I think? This person's not reading
the Bible. And at the end of the day, you know, if you're reading the Bible, it's going
to be easier for you to recognize when this guy's not reading his Bible. So not only do
I need to read the Bible, a healthy church is where the members are reading the Bible
and the members are memorizing the Bible. And you know what? I'm not afraid of what
the Bible says. That's why we're constantly, I mean, that's why we're giving you gift
cards and candy and treats to memorize it. We're putting it in songs. We're singing
it. We're trying to, we're doing New Testament challenges. We're trying to get you to read
the whole thing. Because what do we want to do? We want to get in line with the head.
This is the head of our church. This is what's in charge of our church. And you know what
prevents a church from being a cult is this. This is the only thing. A church that preaches
a lot of Bible, has people memorize a lot of Bible, and the people that are reading
a Bible, prevent it from being a cult. When people get away from the text, they downplay
the text. That's when it starts becoming a cult. When they're communicating messages
that are not clearly laid out in the text, it's a cult. So you look at any cult in the
world, you look at any false religion in the world, it follows in this problem. The Catholic
Church, they're not going to get up and read all the passages on salvation by faith. You
take a Calvinist church, they're not going to go and show you all the places in the Bible
where it clearly says, "He tasted death for every man." They're not going to go that
he's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come under repentance. They're
not going to go to the places where it uses the word free will, like 17 times in the Bible.
Or where it says that if, that if, thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
What does that if mean? It means you have a choice. It means you have a decision. They're
not going to go and show you verses that say, "Hey, I've sat before you life and death.
Choose life." Just joking, no choices. No, they're going to just go to Romans 9 for the
rest of their life. And they're just going to show you Esau and Pharaoh over and over
again and they're just going to show you some nonsense. But most of the time, you know what
they're going to show you? What John Calvin said, and what Spurgeon said, and what some
Catholic theologian said. Even though they say they're not Catholic, but then they believe
everything every Catholic theologian says. And they're just going to show you all this
nonsense and then the congregation not reading the Bible, they're encouraged to read what?
Matthew Henry's commentary. They're encouraged to get some other church father's commentary.
Read C.S. Lewis about the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe. Read Tolkien. He was a Christian.
He was a Catholic. In fact, Tolkien is what helped convert in C.S. Lewis. And then we
need to read about all the church fathers and we need to read about St. Augustine. He's
not a saint. Sorry. But why is the Catholic church so screwed up? Because they don't have
this as the head of the corner because they killed William Tyndale and burned him at the
stake for wanting to give you this, for wanting to give you the right head. Why would a church
be healthy because it has this? Why is the Mormon church a cult? Because it uses a book
over this, the Book of Mormon. Same thing. Why is Islam so bad? Because they use the
Koran over this. Hey, you can show them verses in this and they'll be like, "Oh, that's good when it's translated correctly." You show this to a Catholic, "Oh, it's good when it's translated correctly." You show this to a Mormon, "Oh, it's good when it's translated correctly." You show this to someone at a college seminary at some Christian Bible school and they'll say, "Oh, it's good when it's translated correctly." And it's pretty interesting. You go into the Garden of Eden and you talk to the devil and he's like, "Yeah, God's word's good when it's translated correctly." And you realize all the religions are the same. They're trying to get rid of the head of the body. This is
the head of the body and we need to do what it says and we need to read what it says and
that's what's going to give us a healthy church. And when churches start getting away from
the Bible and they're not preaching the Bible and they're not saying what the clear things
are saying in the Bible, you know what? It's dangerous. Be careful of the church that every
sermon is just this guy's idea and not what this says. And boy, I mean, we also need to
do something. We need to emphasize what the Bible emphasizes. I think the Bible emphasizes
a lot of things. We this morning tried to spend a sermon on emphasizing the most important
commandment in the Bible, praising the Lord. And you know, people get mad at me, like they
will, or they'll kind of be disappointed or they'll be confused. They'll be like, man,
you just talk about Jews all the time. Talk about replacement theology all the time. Sorry,
that's the Bible. Show me, show me where it's not emphasized all the time. Oh, you emphasize
salvation by faith all the time. Okay, show me where it's not. Oh, you emphasize all kinds
of fighting and drama. Okay, show me a New Testament epistle where there's not some
drama or fighting. You're constantly saying people are leaving church. Show me where it's
not just showing people leaving church all the time. And the Bible constantly emphasizes
you being steadfast and faithful and enduring and not being backslidden and not walking
away with all the other losers. How do you call people losers? Well, the Bible calls
them fools. What do you want me to call them? Brute beasts are mentioned in the Bible, people
being brutish, people being prideful, people being all kinds of evil things, wicked, people
having wicked hearts. Oh, you're talking about saved people being wicked. Yeah. First Corinthians
five calls people wicked. Yeah. It's funny to me. People get mad at sermons I preach
and I'm thinking like, oh, okay. Then the next week they're mad at that sermon. They're
mad at the next sermon, the next thing. Like what part of the Bible am I allowed to preach?
It doesn't seem like you're mad at me. It doesn't seem like you're mad at the sermons.
You're just mad at what the Bible says. You just don't like what the Bible says. And at
the end of the day, we have to start preaching what the Bible says because that's going
to keep us in balance. The Bible keeps us in balance. And you know, I love to talk about
all kinds of different things. I have other interesting things that are, that are fun
to talk about in my opinion. I could talk about golf all day long, but it would be weird
if all I do is talk about golf. In fact, I would argue I almost never do. I probably
even bring up other sports because none of y'all play golf or are good at golf. So it's
like, it would be weird if I'm just constantly talking about golf. You'd have no idea what
I'm even talking about. He said albatross. I don't even know. Is that a bird? What's
happening? Is that a sandwich? I'm not going to bring up analysis that you're not familiar
with because then it doesn't help you. We're supposed to explain things to people that
are common, easy to be understood. We need to make sure that what we're saying as preachers
is that the Bible is saying. I can't tell you how many sermons I don't preach, how
many thoughts I don't preach, how many things I just don't really feel comfortable expressing
because I can't really find it in the Bible the way that it should be found. Yet many
people are getting up and they're just saying all kinds of stuff and it's just like chapter
and verse, where is it? And you know what? Their body is going to get weird. You need
to make sure you're in a healthy church. You need to read the Bible too. We want to be
a healthy church. We need to be reading and submitting ourselves and you need to be following
your pastor. I'm going to get to that in a minute. I had us read Ephesians chapter 5.
So okay, I'm going to be successful by following my head, Christ, by reading the Bible and
doing what it says. Then what does the Bible say? Therefore as the church is subject unto
Christ, so let their wives be their own husbands in everything. So how are you going to have
a successful marriage? You're going to do everything that your husband says. What? Yes.
You do everything your husband says. You say, well I don't know what he wants. Ask him.
Now this is contrary to American cultural programming, which is really just Jewish programming.
Okay. It's like we all know Jews own Hollywood. Jews own every TV station. But then you literally
watch all of their TV shows where they're teaching you to not obey your husband, not ask your husband
what he wants, not submit under your husband. And then you think that that's normal. No, it's wicked.
It's satanic. It's of Judaism. It's a false religion. The Bible says that you're supposed
to be subject under your husband's in everything, meaning you ask your husband what he wants and
you just do it. You know, when I go to work, I don't tell my boss what to do. I don't show up
and say, "Hey, boss, you need to do this today." I say, "Hey, what do you want me to do today? How
would you like it done?" And you know what? I also don't even get mad at my boss when he tells me I
did it wrong. Let me tell you something. Most marriages in America could not survive husbands
just telling their wives what to do and what they did was wrong. Isn't that sad? I mean, how
weird would it be if I got up and I just started ripping pages out of my Bible and saying, "I don't
like how this is done. We're going to do it different." "Hey, 1st Corinthians says that we
should throw railers out of the church." I don't think so. We're going to make them now the new
soul-winning captains. And now we're getting, and you know what? We're not going to do soul-winning
two by two. We're just going to do soul-winning, you know, on our own, however we want. We're going
to mail out paper paperwork. In fact, I don't even think we need the Bible. I mean, who needs the
Bible? You could be like Jack Scott and get up and start saying, "People don't even need the
Bible to get saved or know the name of Jesus to get saved." That's pretty weird, isn't it?
If you were in Bible college and the pastor started getting up and saying, "You don't even
have to know the name of Jesus or need the Bible to get saved," what would you do as a student?
I'd probably leave too. They'd think it like, "That's weird." I mean, as awkward as it be,
if I got up here and said, "You know what? We're just going to sing some hip-hop song this morning.
Turn in your hip-hop binder to get rich or die trying. Ready? Let's all sing it out on the first."
Wouldn't that be weird? Wouldn't it be weird if I said, "All right, I wrote an autobiography. Let's
turn to chapter three. This is when I was 15 and I was playing golf." Let's talk about that for a
little while. Wouldn't that be weird? But then it's not weird when wives just mouth off to their
husband, tell them whatever they want, aren't subject under their husband. It's just as weird.
It's just as awkward. It's an awkward looking body. It's dysfunctional. There's something
wrong with it. The Bible says in verse 25, "Husbands, love your wives. Jesus Christ also loved
the church and gave himself for it. Then he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water
by the word. Then he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or
any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives
as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself." Notice we're supposed to love
our wife like our own body because it's the same kind of analogy, isn't it? Price is the head. We
have the body of the church. The husband is supposed to be like one flesh with his wife. He's supposed
to love his body. It says in verse number 29, "For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but
nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord is the church. For we are members of his body,
of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall man leave his father and mother,
and shall be joined unto his wife, and they too shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery,
but I speak concerning Christ and the church." So if Christ is the head, what does the head do? The
head is making decisions that are the best for the body. It's nourishing its body. It's cherishing
its body. You know, the head's like, "I need to feed you good food. I need to take care of you. I
need to bathe you. I need to wash you. I need to keep you in good health." And the same way a husband
should be trying to take care of his wife by giving her good food and by taking care of her
and treating her well and proverbially washing her. But at the end of the day, we need the body to
respond and say, "Okay, I'm going to do it. I'm going to fall in line. I'm going to just accept
my role. I'm not the head. I'm just part of the body. And I'm just going to be that part of the
body." You know, I want my right hand to be a right hand. I don't want it to be a nose.
I don't want it to be a mouth. I don't want it to try and be my head because it can't be. I want
it to be a right hand. And you know what? There's nothing wrong with right hands. There's nothing
wrong with knee caps. There's nothing wrong with shins. There's nothing wrong with every part of
your body. There's nothing wrong with the belly button. And at the end of the day, there's nothing
wrong with wives. You know what? Wives have a specific role in this world. And you know what's
not good is when wives are not wives. When wives are trying to be the head. And just as weird as
it is when pastors are trying to be the head and not allowing Christ to be the head of their church.
Just as awkward as it is when you have Michael Todd of Transformation Church getting on his pulpit
or getting on his stage and getting a haircut for the service. Just as weird as it is when Michael
Todd gets up on stage and plays basketball or jumps on a trampoline or eats some weird food
or literally hocks loogies into the eyes of other members. Can I get a volunteer? I'm just kidding.
He had members come up on the stage and he hocked a loogie in his member's eyes. Isn't that weird?
It's gross. It's weird. It's awkward. It doesn't make sense. It looks bad. You know what a church
that looks good is when it says hey we're using the King James Bible and we're going to sing it
and we're going to preach it and we're going to say what it says. It looks good. It sounds good.
It feels right. In the same way when a wife is a wife it feels good. It looks good. When you got
this short hair woman in pants telling her husband what to do and he's carrying her pink purse around
with a little tiny Pomeranian dog in it, it looks gay and it's garbage. And yet that's the TV show
you watch, isn't it? Modern Family. You watch some TV show where the husband is this weak docile
guy that's led by his wife, told what to do by his wife. You know what? That is not the Bible.
It's not what you're getting from the head. It's not what you're instructed to do. And you know
what? It's awkward, it's weird, and it doesn't work. This world is so screwed up and it looks
awkward and it's super destructive. You know, what it says here in verse 32, this is a great
mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. "Nevertheless, let every one in particular
so love his wife, even as himself. And the wife see that she reverence her husband." Wouldn't it
be nice if we had a culture where wives spoke to their husbands the way they would speak to
their boss at work? I mean, we're not even asking for you to talk to your husband like a husband.
What if you could just talk to him like your boss at work? And look, your boss at work,
you wouldn't mouth off because you'd get fired. You wouldn't mouth off because they would drop
you like a bad habit. You wouldn't disrespect them. You would say, "Yes, sir." You would do
what he wants. You might say something behind his back, and I get it. You might be a little,
you know, in your head saying something different. But boy, I'm just telling you,
these even feminazis, they go to work and they say, "Yes, sir," and do whatever he wants.
And look, you feminists, you, you think, "Well, I don't want to, you know, I'm going to tell my
husband what to do, and I don't want to go to church like this, and I'm going to get a job,
and I'm going to be a self-made woman." You're going to say yes to some man. Some man is in
charge of you somewhere, and you get to choose who, and you might as well just allow your husband
to be the one that you say yes to. I mean, he loves you in the same way. I have to say yes to
somebody. Our church has to say yes to somebody, and instead of me saying yes to Nick Fuentes,
instead of me saying yes to some Andrew Tate wannabe, instead of me saying yes to
just some commentary out there, instead of me saying yes to the pope,
instead of me saying yes to some loser, orthodox, weirdo priest,
instead of me saying yes to Mohammed, a pedophile, I say yes to the King James Bible, the word of God.
And let me tell you something. You don't have original thoughts. You're just a puppet of your
reading and environment. You can come up to me after this service and say,
I have an original thought, and then I'll tell you exactly where it came from.
It's like, oh, I had this one thought. Oh, you've been listening to Andrew Tate.
Oh, well, I think this. Oh, because you're listening to Jewish Hollywood propaganda TV.
Oh, it's because you read this in the Hindu book. Oh, you read that it's just a lie coming from Satan.
You don't have original thoughts. And here's my reality for you.
This is where you should get your decisions from. We should subject ourselves to Christ
and what He said. And as a wife, you should say, I'm not smarter than God.
I'm not smarter than the Bible. I'm just going to submit myself
unto my husband so that I don't look like an awkward human head adult baby body or whatever.
It's like this weird baby boss or something. It looks weird. Benjamin Button.
Sorry if you don't know the reference. Don't do that. You know, you should just say,
you know what? I'm just going to say yes to my husband. I'm going to ask him what he wants.
If he tells me I need to change something, I'm just going to say yes, sir, and I'm going to do it.
You're like, wow, this is crazy. It's not even crazy. If I put this in any other context,
you would think like, yep, OK. What if I said, hey, if we see something in the Bible,
we should do it, and we should have a good attitude? Hey, if my boss at work tells me
to do something, I should just say it and have a good attitude. How about this? Do you want your
kids, whenever you give them instruction moms, to just say yes, mom, and do it? Or do you want them
to argue and tell you, no, you're wrong, I'm going to do whatever I want, you can't tell me what to
do? Is that how you want it? It's like, look, the way that you respond to the leadership and the head
and your situation is often how the people under you will respond as well. When they see mom
trashing dad, disrespecting dad, not serving dad, wanting to talk poorly about him, boy, they're
going to think, oh, it's fine to do that then. So I'll do that to mom. When they say, hey, mom
fears dad and respects dad and doesn't want to treat him this way, well, then they often do the
same. You know, it's kind of like all of us. If you go to a job for the first time, you get hired
and you go to work your first day and the other employees, they're just dressed sharp in line.
Whenever the boss says something, they just say, yes, sir. They do it. You kind of just end up
being like, okay, I guess that's how it is. I just got to be dressed sharp. I got to be in line. I
was like, yes, sir. Whatever. Where you go to other workplaces, you walk in every just laying around.
People are coming in late. People are just got their shirt, you know, just tucked out like this.
There's like, yeah, the boss is like, hey, can you do this? I don't know. I don't want to do that.
Then you just kind of walk in, you just sit down, you're like, whatever. Look, that's how life works.
And you say, man, I'm just so frustrated. My children don't respect me. My children talk
back to me. My children are constantly arguing and complaining with me. And then it's like,
look in the mirror, honey. Hey, churches, pastors are so mad at their congregation
for constantly causing them problems and talking bad about them and causing them issues. And it's
like, okay, well how are you treating the Bible, pastor? Boy, a pastor that really respects the
Word of God and really respects the things of God. Boy, I'll tell you the members act with a lot
more reverence and respect to their pastor, don't they? Everything likes to follow that example.
Now obviously you can always get out of line. You could be a perfect example and they don't follow.
But you know what? Sometimes when you're mad, maybe you should figure out who, how are you doing? Are
you subject? Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 11, go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11. Are you doing
your husband's will? 1 Corinthians chapter number 11, verse number one, you say, why are you bringing
this up? Well, the Bible brings it up. Is it in the Bible? You know, women get mad about things
that you preach, but then you're thinking like, okay, show me a passage in the Bible that's
different than what I'm saying. Bring up the passage where the where the wife's just telling
her husband what to do, where she gets a job, where she's this boss, babe. I mean, I see a couple
examples of wives being like this. They're usually called Jezebel. Yeah, is that who you want to be
like? 1 Corinthians chapter 11. Well, how dare, you know, I don't think we should follow men. I'm
not going to follow my pastor. I'm not going to follow my husband. Okay, well, look at 1 Corinthians
11 verse 1. Be followers of me. That's the Bible. Even as I also am of Christ. Why? You're going to
follow someone, period. We're all following someone. We're all just followers. And you know
what? Even me, I'm just a follower. Now, this is what you should want. You should want me to be a
follower of this. But I'm going to follow something. I don't want to follow my heart like Disney tells
me to because my heart's desperately wicked. It's deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Who can know it? I don't want to figure out what's how bad my heart is. I want to keep my heart and
subject to this. I want to renew my mind with the Word of God. I want to try and get in alignment
with this and be as close to this as I can knowing I will fall short. But at the end of the day,
we want to try and be as healthy as possible. And that is following people who following your
pastor says in verse number three, but I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ.
This is what, this is what women don't get. They think like, Oh, it must be nice to be in charge.
Well, guess what? I'm not in charge. The head of every man is Christ. We all of us, all of us men,
we have a boss. His name is Jesus Christ. He is our head. We are to do everything that this book
says. Just like you are, honey. Just like you are children. We all have a person in charge of us
and it's Christ. And you know what? Even Christ does. Did you realize the rest of this? And the
head of the woman is the man. And the head of Christ is God. Christ is even subject under the
Father. Just like we're subject under Christ. Just like our wives are subject under us. And
just like our children are subject to everyone on the whole list. You say, "Who am I in charge of?"
No one. You're at the bottom of the totem pole. So you gotta grow up. But then when you grow up,
you're gonna have to be subject to somebody. If you're the man, you're subject to Christ.
If you're a wife, if you're a lady, you become subject to your husband. Or you stay to your
father. But you have that man over you. "Ah, how dare you preach." This is the Bible. "Every man
praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonored his head." The Bible's saying these
long-haired Fabios are not right with God. They're disrespecting Christ. All these paintings of Jesus
with long hair are wrong. It's not Jesus Christ. Catholic pictures of Jesus are wrong. Catholics
are wrong on everything. And it says here, "But every woman that prayed or prophesied with her
head uncovered dishonored her head, for that is even all one as if she were shaving." It's like
saying women that have a shaved head are embarrassing their husband. And the reality is that would
embarrass me. That would embarrass all of us. If our wife shaved their head, that would be really
embarrassing. Britney Spears looks awful and ugly as sin with her like shaved head. She was like the
heartthrob of every guy back in the day when she had her long hair. Then she shaves that thing off
and she just looks like a hideous creature from Jekyll Island or something. It's embarrassing.
Long hair is what makes women beautiful. Sorry. Facts. Bible. And it's embarrassing. "For if the
woman be not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven,
let her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, for as much as he is the image
and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman,
but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless,
neither is the man without the woman, neither woman without the man and the Lord. For as the
woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman, but all things of God. Judge in yourselves
is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered. Did not even nature itself teach you that if a man
have long hair it is a shame unto him, but if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her for her
hair is given her for a covering. Now of course Amish and other cultish groups will say that
women need to have a hat on, but the Bible's not bringing up hats. The Bible's bringing up hair length
and it's saying women should have long hair and men should have short hair and it's saying men
should have short hair so that they're not disrespecting Christ and women should have long
hair so they're not disrespecting their husband. And of course it goes down the chain by disrespecting
your husband you're also disrespecting Christ and you're also disrespecting God. And so we both have
this requirement and you say oh well having short hair is easier. Is it though? Because by having
short hair you have to get haircuts all the time. You have to constantly keep it maintained and have
haircuts and whatever. By having it long, yeah you have something to deal with. It's a problem
either way. It's a burden on either on both of us. Whether you have to have constant haircuts
or whether you have to keep it long or maintained. It's going to be a little bit of a burden but you
know we do it as a symbol of what it means. Obviously it's not like there's something special
in our hair that causes this stuff. It's what it represents. Our short haircut represents that
we're subject unto Christ and we're going to obey Christ. And the long hair on a woman represents
the fact that she's going to obey her husband and she's willing to be covered. And you know what a
woman, when she's covered, she looks beautiful. When she's uncovered, it looks embarrassing. It
looks like Ellen Degenerate. Why is it that lesbians cut their hair short? Why? Why is it
that faggots put on a dress and lipstick and try to put on a wig? And why is it that lesbians put
on pants and have a short haircut? It's because they're trying to say, "I hate God." They're
trying to say, "I don't like God." And look, what is the symbol? A woman with long hair is beautiful,
but what is it symbolizing? A woman that says yes to her husband and says nice things to her husband
is beautiful. A woman that has short hair is not as attractive as she could be,
and when she's saying to her husband, "It's gross, it's embarrassing. You don't tell me that. You
don't talk to me like that. How dare you? You're not... I'm going to be disappointed and mad and
cold shoulder and whatever." It's gross. It's like having a short haircut. And so many women in here
would be so mortified and embarrassed to have a shaved head. You know what? It's even more
embarrassing when you disrespect your husband. You would be so mortified. You wouldn't even come
to church with a shaved head. You'd be so embarrassed. Yet you'll mouth off to your husband
and treat him poorly and have the cold shoulder and just act all feminist all over you want. You
know what? It's worse and it's uglier anyways. Just like as ugly as it would be for me to start
ripping pages out of this Bible and trashing the Bible and saying I'm not going to let Christ tell
me what to do is when a wife disrespects her husband. And you know what? I'm glad that you
have long hair but if you don't honor your husband you might as well just shave it off honey. You
know we could make all these outward things and just say like oh it's only about the outward
appearance and just appearing like a godly wife. No just being a godly wife that's what's important.
And we need to really work on this. I want to go to 1st Peter 3 and we'll finish. Look I've seen
so many churches where their pastor is just not preaching what the Bible says and it's just ugly,
it's embarrassing, it makes me so mad. You see posts on the internet of young girls who get
bit by this liberalism disease and they have this long beautiful hair and then they start chopping
it up and cutting it and dressing like a freak and it's just so embarrassing, it's gross. And
then you just watch wives treat their husbands like trash and let me just tell you something,
it's just so gross and it's so embarrassing. I go to work and I see people trashing the boss
and disrespecting him, it's gross, it's embarrassing. We need to set a different example.
We need to be men that honor our masters, honor our bosses, honor our head, and our head is Christ.
And look, when we act this way, we're disrespecting our head. It's your body just not functioning the
way it should. You're walking with it, you're just kind of like this, you know? And I'm not trying to
make fun of people that are handicapped or something, but that's how weird it looks. You're
walking with a gimp, with a limp, with some kind of deformity when you shouldn't be. You should
be walking like a soldier with your head up high and in lockstep and doing what your head is telling
you to do and have some respect for yourself. And you know what? We need the church to say,
"You know what? We're going to do what this book says. Preachers are going to preach what the Bible
says. Husbands are going to be obedient to Christ and the Word of God and to their boss at work.
And wives are going to be subject under their husbands and they're going to dress right and
act right and they're going to treat them with respect. And then children are going to respect
and obey their parents. And boy, it just, it makes Christ look really appealing. It makes the body
look really appealing. And look, Christ is the head. Christ will always look appealing. If we
just got that portrait view and we get the head, it always looks good. The problem is what happens
when we start zooming out? What does everything else look like? What do the biceps look like?
Does this guy skip leg day? It looks weird. You know what I mean? Is he just, he got some
kind of awkward deformity? Has he got a baby body? Is he gimp-y? What's going on? You know,
we want the whole body to just look great. We want to zoom out and it's toned, it's ripped,
it's that prize fighter, it's ready to go. This is important, 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 1, "Likewise
ye wise, be in subjection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may
without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while the behold your chaste conversation
coupled with fear, whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plating the hair and of
wearing of gold or putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, and that which
is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of
great price." Now I was listening to some, it was like a debate or something between two guys, and
this one guy was talking about how he had a hard time wanting to be a Christian because he's like,
"I went to this church and the church is saying women are not allowed to wear jewelry."
And I was just like, "Well, that's not in the Bible." Then I was thinking like, I guess they're,
I guess he's pointing to this passage. Look, this passage is not saying women can't wear jewelry,
okay? Because if you, if you took that logic and you said that's what it's saying, did you read
another one of these? The putting on of apparel. That's just wearing clothes. It's not saying women
don't wear clothes. It's not saying you can't even braid your hair. What is it, what is the
passage actually saying? The passage is not saying you could never do these things. It's saying when
you're trying to adorn yourself, when you're trying to decide how am I going to make myself better,
don't try to be better by braiding your hair. Don't try to be better by putting on nicer looking
clothes. Don't try to be better by putting on jewelry. You know what you do? Try to be better
by being more meek and more submissive to your husband. It's like, hey, what should I do all day?
Should I spend all day trying to get a new outfit? I need to go buy a new outfit. I need to buy more
jewelry and I need to go to the hairdresser. And then when my husband comes home, I'm going to give
him an earful. Or is it you didn't buy a new outfit, you didn't put any jewelry on, you didn't even
get your hair done, but he came home and you were respectful and kind. And then God says, hey, that's
the product that was I was looking for. And that's what your husband was looking for. Look, don't
adorn yourself with all this stuff that's going to fade and age anyways. Clothes are going to
eventually get out of fashion, right? Now we're back. What are we on like seventies or eighties
again? It's always in cycles or something. It's like fashion changes all the time and it's not
cool anymore. Pretty soon it'll be cool again. It's like when my brother and sister were in school,
they said every guy, what was cool is they just wore a white t-shirt. This is the white t-shirt
and like pressed jeans. Like that was like what was cool. Now it's basically like a grunge t-shirt
and jeans with holes in it or something like that, right? But pretty soon they'll be like you look
homeless and they'll probably go back to the clean white tee and like nice jeans again or whatever
and it's just going to be vicious cycles. You're going to, clothes are going to come and go on
fashion. Jewelry is going to come and go on what's nice and what people like. Your hair is going to
constantly go and eventually you just age anyways. But you know what? A woman that's just sweet and
kind, it just lasts forever man. And I just love grandma because she was so nice. I love grandma
because when we came over she just served everybody. But you know she served the most was grandpa. He
didn't sit in grandpa's chair. He didn't disrespect grandpa. Grandpa had his own cup. Grandpa had his
own everything. I mean she just, it was about, it was the grandpa show. You come over and grandma
made it about the grandpa show and you just, you just loved grandma for it. But boy the grandma that
pulled her husband off and has got the short haircut and doesn't make meals anymore. Nobody
wants to see her anyways. She killed all of her kids anyways and it's gross. We don't want to have
gross churches. We don't have gross employees and we don't have gross wives and we don't want to have
gross families. We want to have a body that looks healthy and looks good and we need people to be
in subjection and we, I'm just hearing so many messages lately that are the exact opposite of
what I'm saying today because they're so worried about exceptions. They're so worried about abuse
and all this stuff and I'm like show me the chapter on that. You don't think God ever thought about
those things? Why didn't he bring them up? He's bringing up these things because this is what the
Bible says and we need to emphasize what the Bible says. Oh if you work out you could injure
yourself. Okay but I'm just going to work out anyways. I'm not worried about every little
exception. Oh if you drive this church you could die in a car accident. Okay but I'm going to go
to church anyways. You know I'm not always worried about the exception. I'm not always worried about
some hypothetical of what could possibly go wrong. Oh you go on a mission trip to Mexico. I'm told
by everybody it's dangerous. That's why I'm going. This neighborhood's so dangerous. That's why I'm
going. I had a family member say you cannot move to Houston. It's like the murder capital of the
world or something. I'm thinking like sounds awesome you know. I get a lot of people saved
because when I say if you were to die today it means something. You know what I mean. Hey if you
were to die today they're like yeah everybody's dying today you know. They get saved. I'm just
telling you quit living your life on all these exceptions and live your life on the head the
Christ which is the head of the body. Do what he said. Read the Bible. Preach the Bible. Believe
the Bible. And we need a church that is healthy because you know what Christ is our head.
Close in prayer. Thank you, Holy Father, so much for the gift of your Son the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you for allowing him to die so we could have the church. I pray that we would realize
that he is our head whether we like it or not. And I pray that we would just get the right attitude,
that we would just embrace it, that we'd accept that Christ is our head, that we read the Bible
with zeal, that we'd study the Bible more, that we allow Christ to rule in our lives and hearts.
I pray that the wives in this church that are struggling to obey their husbands, they would just
read their Bible more, they would read 1st Peter chapter 3, they would read 1st Corinthians chapter
number 11, they would read 1st Timothy chapter number 2, they would read Titus chapter number 2,
they would read what the Bible says about marriage, they wouldn't allow culture and
false religion to influence them, they would renew their mind with the Bible. I pray that children,
they would obey their parents whether their parents are setting a good example or not,
they'd be subject unto the parents, and I pray they would encourage us all to be a glorious body,
because you have such, you're such a glorious head, such a worthy head that I pray that we
could try to be a great body for your honor and for your glory in Jesus name we pray, amen.
Right in closing, let's go to song number 179. Song number 179. Such love. Song number 179.
Song number 179.