- Good morning, everyone.
Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
Thank you for being here this morning.
We're gonna start out by singing song 437,
"Battle Hymn of the Republic."
437, "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Let's sing it out nice and loud together.
437, "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
♪ I've seen me that who's the man can read ♪
♪ His righteousness ♪
♪ Trumpet that shall never sound retreat ♪
♪ Disifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat ♪
♪ Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him be due ♪
Thank you for this great church.
Thank you for everyone here gathered together.
May that you please bless this service and the soul winning.
To every aspect serving you today,
we fill our hearts with love for you.
We love you in Jesus' name, we pray.
For our second song, we go to 247, 247, saved.
Out nice and loud.
Thank you so much for being at St. Fast Baptist Church.
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if you don't normally come Sunday nights
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It's not gonna be broadcasted or anything like that.
And it is for members only that portion of the service.
And so it shouldn't necessarily be too, too long
to try and keep them pretty short and sweet.
But, and I also though,
am gonna make just kind of give an update
about some of the future of our church
and some plans and things like that.
So if you are a member,
I do highly encourage you to participate in that.
On the back, we have church reminders,
also upcoming events.
There is consent forms that we have to fill out
for our men's conference.
And so if you have those out there,
'cause you might die.
But other than that, it's a lot of fun
and we really enjoy it.
But of course, there is risk, all right?
So October 12th through the 15th, the FBBF.
And then November 4th is the Abilene,
Texas Soul Winning Marathon.
So really looking forward to that as well. That's really all I have for announcements this morning. We can go ahead and go to our third song
We're gonna do Psalm 119. It's in your special handouts or if you would like to turn your Bible you can it's a little bit easier though
If you have the handouts, all right Psalm 119
As the offering plates have been passed around please turn your Bibles to Philippians chapter number two, Philippians chapter number two
Philippians chapter two the Bible reads if there be therefore any
consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies
Fulfill ye my joy that ye be like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind
Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory
But in lowliness of mind let chasteem other better than themselves look not every man on his own things
But every man also on the things of others let this mind be in you
Which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God
but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and
Being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and
That every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the father
Wherefore my beloved as he have always obeyed not in my presence only but now much more in my absence
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of
This good pleasure do all things without murmurings and disputings that you may be blameless and harmless
The sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom ye shine as lights in the world
Holding forth the word of life that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain
Neither labored in vain yay, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith
I joy and rejoice with you all for the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send to Mothias shortly unto you that I also may be of good comfort
When I know your state for I have known man like-minded who will naturally care for your state for all seek their own
Not the things which are Jesus Christ's but you know the proof of him that as a son with the father
He has served with me in the gospel him therefore
I hope to send presently so soon as I shall see how it will go with me
But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly yet
I supposed it necessary to send to you a papyriditis my brother and
Companion in labor and fellow soldier, but your messenger and he that ministered to my wants for he longed after you wall
And was full of heaviness because that ye had heard that he had been sick for indeed
He was sick nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only but on me
Also lest I should have sorrow
I sent him therefore the more carefully that when ye see him again ye may rejoice and that I may be the less
sorrowful receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and hold such in reputation
Because for the work of Christ, he was nigh unto death not regarding his life to supply your lack of service toward me
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer father in heaven
We thank you for pastor Shelley and his family and I pray that you fill him with your spirit now and just help him
Lord to preach the message you've laid on his heart with clarity of mind and with boldness and help us
Father God to pay close attention to what he has prepared for us Lord so that we may glorify you better in
Everything that we do. We love you and in Jesus name. I pray amen man, so I'm continuing my series that we started
about the shiny happy people documentary and
specifically, I just feel like this documentary touches on a lot of accusations against
fundamental Baptist Baptist Christians and
I felt like it was important to kind of address and talk about a lot of different issues and we've talked a lot about
all kinds of things that are prevalent in a church like ours large families and
the importance of being fruitful and multiplying
Discipline proper discipline and of course, I think they take the IBLP because they have a lot of the right ideas
But then they kind of go to extremes or they go overboard or you see some abuse going on in those circles
but I really want to make it clear that the vast majority of things that the IBLP or
the Duggars or other people like them do are actually found in Scripture a lot of the things that they have and and most of
The people that are really interested in this kind of a documentary or expose a they just hate the Bible
They hate Christianity and really they're just God-hating atheists in most situations
But the topic I wanted to talk about this morning is that of Christian nationalism?
Christian nationalism now who who's heard that term?
Christian nationalism, it's actually a very difficult term to define
Because many people have their own definitions. It's it's kind of a broad
Scale of what that even particularly means
But this is something that's brought up in the documentary and it's something that they're very afraid of
They really upset about and they talk about how the IBLP would train young men to
potentially enter into the political realm
Maybe be involved in their local politics or potentially in the federal government
Learning about the Constitution learning about the mock, you know
the democracy or democratic processes learning about the Republic learning about all the different things that are associated with
being an American and being an American citizen frankly and trying to prepare many of them if
Possible that they would enter into the political realm in the future
One kind of loosely connected idea that they have in this documentary is something called the Joshua generation
Which was a program designed to raise up the next generation to greatly influence
America and its politics and you know it kind of makes sense where they're coming up with that name because
The children of Israel are wandering in the wilderness
they're not able to go into the promised land because they've sinned because they have too many problems but their
Children which is Joshua's generation have the opportunity to end up going into the promised land and having great success
Whereas they failed and honestly, you know to some degree that even seems like a pretty good idea
Because let's be honest the boomers and that kind of generation kind of just failed and they really just left a lot
of things to be desired and
While it may be impossible for us right now to just reclaim America
we could raise a future generation that could actually have a big impact on
America and the world and so we should never give up on the youth or the future just because our
Situation isn't that great or just because we may have to go through a lot of difficulty and adversity
Or because we have to wander through the wilderness now again. I don't know everything about these programs or these
Institutions or what they train them in but that's just generally what the documentary is bringing up and what is very against now
Why is it that they're very against this is there something really?
Sinister or criminal about teaching people about American politics or teaching them about
Christianity or trying to have them influence the culture no no no
But you know what terrifies them is the fact that our country go back to being Christian again
Why because being Christian again?
Will not allow them to live the life that they're living and it will not spread their
Satanic message throughout this world and so they hate it now when it comes to Christian nationalism
I'm gonna mostly focus my sermon this morning on just what the Bible says
History and just kind of my perspective. So I'm kind of giving you a trifecta here of what the Bible just clearly plainly says
What history of America has been and then just kind of my personal interpretation of the facts that we have here this morning
But Philippians chapter 2 makes it clear that we as Christians
Should be Christ like and we should affect the culture that is around us
Look what it says in verse 13 for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure
So, you know what God lives inside of us and God wants us to be Christ like now, of course
This is unique to Christians, you know, don't listen to Vivek Reswami or whatever you want to say
Reswami Hindu or whatever this presidential candidate who someone asked him like, you know, what's the difference between Christians and you and he's like
Oh, well, we basically have the same Judaic Christian values and like well, first of all, I don't have Judaic Christian values
I have Christian values and my Christian values are not your Hindu values. Have you ever visited India?
Okay, very different. All right, the whole place stinks literally. Okay now he's trying to say well
You know, I've learned from the the Christian God and you know Hinduism that we have this commonality about how
God lives in all of us and you know, we're all image bearers of God. And so therefore God lives inside of us
Well, here's the thing technically man was made in the image of God women are not so you're already half wrong
Additionally only those who are saved those who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ have God living inside of them
And they are the habitation of God. So as God living inside of us
it's important that our lives are living in a way that's pleasing unto God and we're fulfilling his will because it's God's
Opportunity to still walk on this earth
Jesus Christ already came and Jesus Christ ascended back up in heaven and Jesus Christ isn't going to literally walk on the earth
Anytime soon. He wasn't doing it for the last 2,000 years
He's been in heaven
you know what he lives inside of us and us walking on this earth gives God an opportunity to still be walking among us and
Preaching his word and showing his works and as God that's enabling and empowering us
To be his hands and his feet and to go out and to preach the gospel and to be a bright and shining light
Therefore it says in verse 14 do all things without murmurings and disputings everyone hates complainers
Okay, just shut up verse 15 that you may be blameless and harmless the sons of God
Without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom you shine as lights in the world
So some people really they get so offended by the perverseness or the crookedness of their particular
Nation that they just hide and I get that I get the desire to just want to get away or to separate and
Just basically not confront the world as far as on its crooked and perverseness
But the Bible says that we are supposed to shine as lights in the world
So we are supposed to be in this world being Christian and affecting the culture. Isn't it?
Interesting that Mormons have no problem affecting the culture. They're they're in a literal cult folks
Mormons are a literal cult cult
I mean their women
Have to like marry a certain prophet in a temple in order to go to heaven and they have to have like a million babies
Afterwards, I mean their beliefs are so much weirder than yours could ever be and they're going out in dresses and skirts not afraid
They've been a little name tags elder
18 year old girls walking around with some like name tag and name badge going around talking to people confronting people
I've literally been approached by Mormon girl missionaries multiple times and as soon as I start giving them any Bible
They run away like scared or whatever, but I've had Mormon guys Mormon girls all of them
I've had tons of Mormons approached me in my personal life and
Why is it that I've never been approached by a Baptist ever?
I've never had a fundamental Baptist ever knock on my door and try to get me the gospel
I've never had a fundamental Baptist approached me randomly out in the parking lot or wherever and try to give me a tract or anything
Like that now I've had Jehovah's Witnesses do it. I remember one time I was at a gas station now
They're not always super bold I get it
But they still approach me ever one time at a gas station and I'm getting gas and I noticed someone parked far away
But I'm not really paying attention
I don't really care and just kind of out of the maybe the corner of my eye kind of noticed they're walking towards my direction
But so I mean they're going to the store or something, right?
So I'm just sitting there just not paying attention to my phone
I don't know and all of a sudden they get really close and I hadn't noticed how close they got and
They're just like hey
do you want this pamphlet or something and and just kind of them talking to me and being so close kind of just
Gave me a little bit of maybe startled me a little bit
So I just like no and then these are like ran away and I was just thinking like wow
That wasn't very bold like if you sneak up behind someone hoping to give them an invite
They might just be startled at first, right? But you know what? I've never even had a Baptist startle me
I've never even had a Baptist try to like hand me anything. Isn't that a shame?
Isn't that embarrassing that Baptists are so afraid of the gospel to give it out? Whereas Mormons?
Muslims, I mean the the outfit that Muslim women wear is so ridiculous folks. It's like clown world
I mean that they're wearing like a tent
I remember going to the airport recently and I saw this lady kind of I mean
I saw like a little bit of her eyeballs or something
She's just wearing like this giant tip and it's hot like that is there's no way that that's comfortable. So think about it
They're physically uncomfortable
Socially uncomfortable and yet they're willing to go out and proclaim their faith
How come Christians then can't go out and affect the culture and be unashamed of being a Christian and being a Baptist and being a
Fundamentalist and loving the Bible and loving Christianity, you know, we should be shining as lights in this world
We should not I mean how can Westboro Baptist Church not be ashamed of their church and then people be ashamed of steadfast
Baptist Church or embarrassed or not willing to affect the culture or whatever
I mean these people are a laughingstock of the world and they don't care. They don't care
Isn't it isn't it a shame that false prophets can have more courage and more bravery than sometimes God's own people
Than Christians today and you know living in the Dallas forward area. It's not even really that
Difficult to be a Christian because it's like everybody's fake Christian at least, you know
I mean you go to Chick-fil-a and there's like eight Bible studies going on at Chick-fil-a or whatever and it's just like
What's going on here? You know that usually makes me upset because it's all like the NLT and NLV and
Faith healers and all kinds of weird stuff going on at Chick-fil-a
But we as fundamental Baptists should be the ones that are influencing the culture and being Christian
So when we talk about this concept of Christian nationalism, I'm breaking it into the two words first ones Christian sounds good to me
Hey, let's be Christians. Let's be Christ like let's affect the culture. Let's be a bright and shining light
Verse 16 holding forth the word of life
Okay, so we should be the ones giving out the Bible and and preaching the gospel go if you went to Revelation chapter 5 for a moment
So if we look at the first word Christian, I think that's a no-brainer anything Christian
I mean we should probably be already on board with now
Of course, there is a lot of fake Christianity out there and I get that but there's nothing wrong with the word Christian
We should embrace the term and love the term and we should be Christian in our actions. So what about nationalism?
Well, what is nationalism? Usually this is kind of in contrast with different
government policies or ideals as far as economics or just how we're gonna govern our
Citizens and really, you know, you got a different you got several different options here
But I think it's kind of in contrast of you know
Globalism in essence because that's really what's affecting our culture and our world today
There's a lot of other things out there, but you know if we were really trying contrast like why are people against nationalism?
Typically, it's because they're they want to be more global or globalism is kind of what they're advocating for
Where we don't really necessarily have the boundaries at a nation level but more we have governing bodies that police the entire world and
and becoming more
Unified as an entire one world system now economically. This is pretty much already happened
you could even argue in some ways there's certain coalitions and groups the UN and
Other groups that have kind of already started to create some governing bodies that police more than just a particular nation
but nationalism would be the idea of having separate nations and
mostly from the context of
Legal governing bodies. So I think that it comes to economics
You could make the case that throughout the Bible people are constantly trading with foreign nations
There's always been kind of a global currency global economy
Goods are always going to be transported from one nation to another but when it comes to the laws
Legality the identity of a particular area the Bible heavily influence. I'm sorry
advocates for
nationalism and nations
Okay
you could think of this in Genesis chapter 11 with the Tower of Babel where
It's kind of a one-world government being formed there at the very beginning stages and God does not like that and God literally
Confounded the languages so that there would not be a one-world system now frankly speaking
It's probably impossible to ever have a very successful one-world system when we all still have varying languages
And you know what God didn't get rid of languages languages still exist and because of that. It's important to have
Varying countries and varying nations you know that language is a really important component
And as long as we have languages that are diverse you know this thing could never work
And I'm I'm not for the idea of just merging everything into one language
I like the idea of having the multiple languages and having the different nations
You know who's ever been to Epcot anybody ever been to Epcot okay few of you worldly people like me are out there
All right, but the cool thing about Epcot, and this is a park in the Walt Disney World area
But it's one of their I think they have seven parks or something like that maybe five parks
But one of their parks called Epcot, and it's not necessarily a roller coaster theme park
It's more of just like eating food. Okay. That's that's basically the whole point you go
There's this little tiny ride at the front. It's called the small world after all it's not it's not cool
It's just you just basically go on a long journey around all these different countries
But then they have this big pond in the middle and then in the back of the theme park
They just have all these different countries and whenever you walk from one section of the next it just transforms dramatically
so all the architecture is a particular country all of the
Gifts that they have at the gift shop are based on that country and then all the food is kind of based on that country
so you walk into Italy and
It's got Italian architecture, and it's got Italian style dishes, then you walk into France
And they've got croissants and you know all kinds of great pastries you go to Germany
And it's like sausages and all kinds of everything they'll have music
That's from that country, and it's cool because when you go from each country. You know what it's not a bunch of Muslims
Now you go to Europe and you go into France
And it's just Muslims and then you go to Sweden and it's Muslims
And then you go somewhere no no you know what's cool is that they had some diversity and some culture and you get some croissants
You know what what food did the Muslims ever bring to this world? I don't even know they're hiding their women
You know and the women there. I guess they're not cooking
What they just ruined women didn't they Muslims you know and I'm not talking about an ethnicity folks
I'm talking about the religion okay, if you happen to be ethnically Muslim
I don't care whatsoever, but I'm talking about this religion that can't read
hides their women and
Essentially, they don't even make any good food. Okay, so I don't know about that pestilates. I don't eat halal all right
So you know what I don't because they sacrifice under their God Allah
And you know what I'm not gonna eat it, and I don't know what they bring to the table
They bring basically nothing to society the oil okay
They own a bunch of oil, and they rip everybody off on it
that's basically what they do, but Islam is a religion of the devil and
You know that's that's the one place you know when you go to Epcot
You know they didn't have a Middle East section because it's not cool. There was nothing unique about it
There was nothing fun about it. You know you walk into that section everybody gets arrested and jihad and or something
You know it's like it's like what is this you know it's like you go out into the desert somewhere
It's like that's not cool. It's not fun
But you you go and visit all these European countries
And you say like why why is Europe interesting and cool because that's where Christianity was for a long time folks
Hey, you know what Christianity is what makes a nation great
Christianity is why they had such great architecture
Christianity is why they had such great food Christianity is why they were really cool all those reasons
You know they didn't want to visit all the other places the worldwide because Christianity wasn't really there
It is not nearly as cool and let me tell you something Christianity brings the good food
It brings the good culture it brings the good architecture brings everything that's wonderful in society
And you know there's nothing wrong with having various versions of this
Nationalism right the French version the German version the British version the American version all these different versions
It's wonderful
But what we don't want to do is to just try and meld all of this into just one melting pot of just no culture
No heritage no just nothing it will is not what God has designed
It's not what God wants and every time the world did it was the most wicked evil country whether that was Egypt
Whether that was the Assyrians whether that was the Babylonians
Whether that was the Medo-Persian Empire
Whether that was the Grecian Empire or the Roman Empire or hey the new Babylonian Empire, which arguably could be
America it's very wicked and we don't want to go that route. It's best if we stay in nations
Okay, now Revelation chapter 5. I want you to look at verse number 9
I want to show you something when it comes to people getting saved
People get saved according the Bible out of every single nation in the world
Look what it says and they sung a new song saying thou art worthy to take the book and open the seals thereof for thou
Was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation now
I think this is important to think about okay when we get into heaven
You are still going to observe something you are still going to observe
Diversity you are going to observe
What every kind of kindred tongue people and nation in heaven?
It's not like when we all go up into heaven
We just all turn into Mormons or something or just all these white
Because that's what Mormonism taught Mormonism literally taught that the more sinful you are the darker your skin color is
And they literally taught that black people are more sinful than white people. Okay, so like I guess when you get to heaven
We just all turn snow white or something. That's not true. That's not what the Bible teaches when the when we get into heaven
We're still gonna have that diversity of every tongue
How could you even tell if they all looked identical if they just turned into NPCs or something just a bunch of robots
No, no, they kept their
Diversity. Okay. Now this is important go if you went to Revelation chapter 22 go to Revelation chapter 23
So at the very beginning
It doesn't really make sense with Adam and Eve in the garden to have nations since there's two people, right?
I mean, you're not gonna really have a Russian nation and a European nation and an African nation
When it's Adam and Eve, okay folks
So it makes sense that when we start the Bible there wasn't really a thing about nations yet because there wasn't any people yet
So we had to wait until human population got to a certain point where nations becomes relevant becomes a part of society
But almost instantly God then starts giving us nations
I mean Genesis 11 is not that far into the book
We basically just start with nations now Revelation 22 if you know anything about the Bible. This is the last
Chapter in the Bible. There's a last chapter in the New Testament
Look what it says in verse 2 in the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river
Was there the tree of life which bear twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were for
the healing of the
Nations. Hey, when are we going back to this one world government? We're not God wants
Nations and in fact Jesus Christ is gonna rule over the
Nations because God is a nationalist
God likes
Nations God wants nations
When we get into heaven you see people from every nation every tongue. Oh, what do you think about Christian nationalism?
It's gonna happen whether you like it or not. Let me tell you something. It is the right
Philosophy it is the correct ideology. I am for
Nations and of course even before the millennial reign even before Christ is ruler and before we have that particular system
Nations keep us in safety because when you don't have as much concentrated power
It's much more difficult to oppress people to have tyrants come in for top-down corruption to come in the more
Spread out the powers are then the more difficult it is to take them over
And so having separate nations all over this world
It's gonna bring more freedom to this world than if we have just a one-world government or a one-world system
So even from that perspective it is in the best interest of every single person of separate nations
And you know it is a biblical concept. I'm not gonna go all the way into that forever
But I basically have three things that I want to kind of talk about that was just defining our terms number one Christian
Sounds good to me number two nationalism sounds good to me. Let's mix them together
It's not beans and chili folks it works
Okay, so Christian nationalism makes a lot of sense that we're gonna influence our nation
And we want to have a separate nation from the rest of the nations of the world. I'm on board
okay, now let's emphasize a couple of these points a little bit point number one is this as
Christian nationalists or someone that believes in this ideology
You should influence the culture go if you would to John chapter 17 in the Bible go to John chapter 17
It is our job to influence the nation now
It's kind of sad, but I was just thinking about this about how it feels like
independent fundamental badness are in hiding.
And what I mean by that is, you know, I grew up Christian my whole life.
I lived in Texas my whole life.
And you know, I knew a lot about churches.
I went to I went to several different kinds of churches.
I remember going to school.
I would sometimes visit the Baptist Church, the first Baptist Church in my area.
I visited the Methodist Church in my area.
I visited the University Church of Christ in my area.
Especially because they would have youth programs and I would sometimes just go because I didn't
really understand that these people didn't believe the gospel.
If I had known that they didn't believe the gospel, I would have not wanted to go into
their establishments.
But many of the people there seemed to believe similar to me.
I know that a lot of these programs they had at school, they would just pick people up
for lunch and you could go to the Methodist Church on Mondays and have pizza for free.
I was like, "Sure, yeah."
Or go to the Church of Christ and they would have pizza on Wednesdays.
Or they have different youth programs.
Or there's a cute girl that goes to one of these programs and you're like, "I'm just
going to go.
I'm just going to go so I can hang out with her."
Just going and you're trying out all these different churches.
I knew a lot of the churches in the area, I heard a lot of these things, but I'll tell
you, even into my young adulthood, I didn't even know that independent fundamental baptists
existed.
Isn't that sad?
Isn't that kind of just ... Look, I think a lot of us could probably attest to this.
If you weren't raised IFB, you didn't even know it existed until you kind of got exposed
to it for the first time, which is probably Pastor Anderson.
Let's be honest about it.
I had not really even heard about fundamental baptists very much before Pastor Anderson.
I think my first exposure was Ken Hoeven.
I knew that Ken Hoeven was kind of an independent fundamental baptist, but I didn't even know
there was all these distinctions between Southern Baptists and American Baptists and missionary
Baptists and independent Baptists and primitive Baptists and free will Baptists.
Hey, there's a lot of Baptists out there, okay?
There's a lot of different sects.
But you know what's sad is that I just didn't know.
And when I finally figured it out, I realized there was eight independent Baptist churches
in my area.
I was thinking like, "Wow, that's a lot."
But you know what?
It's really hard to find information about them, and they're not going out and reaching
anybody in their area and telling anybody what they believe.
They're not going soul winning.
They're not preaching the gospel.
They're not knocking on doors.
And so it seems like a lot of independent final Baptists are just hiding.
And they live in an echo chamber.
Most independent final Baptists either homeschool or their church offers a private Christian
school.
So from that perspective, they're not interacting with the world at all.
And they just go to church.
They just go to their little private Christian school.
They just do their little homeschool or something like that.
And then, you know, you just never hear about them.
They're not saying anything at work.
They're not making any controversy.
They're not doing anything.
And it's just, it's like they're hiding in plain sight.
And here's the question.
Is that really what God wants us to do is just to hide in plain sight?
Well, look what it says in John chapter 17 verse 14.
"I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the
world, even as I am not of the world."
Now, let me ask you this question.
If no one even knows who you are, has never heard of you, and you basically don't exist
to them, do they hate you?
No, because they don't even know who you are.
In order for them to hate you, they have to get to know you a little bit.
Verse 15, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou
shouldest keep them from the evil.
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth.
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world."
Now, Jesus Christ for the first 30 or so years of his life was basically, you know, a nobody.
Nobody really knows about him.
He's not a public figure.
He's not someone that anybody really is going to pick out of a crowd.
Even John the Baptist was given instructions by God the Father about the fact that he would
know it was Jesus when he saw the heavens open and the dove descending upon him and
the voice from heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."
It was like a special thing because it wasn't just like looking at, "Oh, there's Jesus!"
You couldn't do that.
There wasn't anything necessarily really unique about him amongst his own people.
What was unique about him was his words.
What was unique about him was the fact that he was the Son of God, okay?
But it wasn't necessarily obvious in flesh.
And the same is with, you know, a lot of Christians where they live in this world where no one
even knows who they are.
But you know what?
Jesus eventually got sent into the world by God the Father and now all of a sudden everybody
knows who he is.
Everybody's hearing about Jesus.
He has an opportunity to be exposed to Jesus Christ.
And I would argue that fundamental Baptists should not live this life where no one in
the world knows who they are.
We should be known.
We should be out there.
Now does that mean we're of the world?
Am I going to get the skinny jeans and a tight tee, graphic tee up here and get a, get one
of these clear podiums and we're going to black, black out everything and turn down
the lights and it's going to be a 20 minute sermon.
You know I can't do that anyways.
Oh and we're just going to go out and be super cool.
We just love everybody, yeah, soup kitchen man, just love Jesus.
I noticed there was some Baptist church I saw in Tennessee.
I was looking at it for some reason last night and this, this pastor gets up there, he looks
super cool man, just super awesome and he's like trying to shame the congregation and
he's trying to tell them this story and he's like there's this, there was this pastor of
a, a mega church, 10,000 people and no one's ever met him before and so he decided he would
just try to look like a homeless man and he would just like grow out his beard and he'd
put on gross clothes and didn't shower for a long time and then he just showed up outside
the church right before the service and just, he wanted to see, you know, how many people
would interact with him, you know, and so he's like approaching people as they're coming
up to the church and he's like, this pastor realized that only three people even interacted
with him, you know, out of the thousands and thousands that are pouring into this building
and they didn't even give him any, you know, no one gave him any money.
So then he decided to walk in and come and just plop himself down right on the front
row and the ushers came and they were like, hey, do you mind kind of sitting over in this
other section?
And they were kind of monitoring him or whatever.
So then they say, oh, it's time to introduce you to our new pastor.
And then this guy from the back dressed like a homeless bum that smells like garbage walks
up and he's like, hey, I'm your new pastor.
And I want to read a passage from Matthew 25 where it's, you know, and we can go there.
Let's just go there for a second.
Let's go to Matthew 25 and he starts in verse 34, then shall the king say unto them on
his right hand, come you blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world for I was hungered and you gave me meat.
I was thirsty and you gave me drink.
I was a stranger and you took me in naked and you clothed me.
I was sick and you visited me.
I was in prison and you came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungered and fed thee
or thirsty and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in naked and clothed thee?
Or when saw we thee sick or in prison and came unto thee?
And the king shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you in so much as you have
done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.
He says, It's so shameful that I came here and know none of y'all are going to be entering
in the kingdom of heaven.
None of you.
You know, it's just like he basically just telling his whole congregation of 10,000 people
how none of them are Christian, none of them are saved.
Thanks for twisting Matthew 25, buddy.
Because let me tell you something, if a smelly homeless bum was sitting next to the front
door and I'm bringing my children in, yeah, I'm not going to say like, Hey kids, you
want to sit on his lap and ask him for a present on Christmas?
Yeah, I probably wouldn't drag my family over there because the guy might knife me or stab
me or, or be filled with rabies or whatever.
I don't know what's going on with this guy.
Okay.
And yeah, I'm sure that some of our ushers or security team would probably approach the
person and see what's going on.
Like, Hey, you smell like booze.
Hit the road, Jack.
Did it say, Hey, I was a drunk homeless person and you offered me more booze money?
No, it didn't say that.
Did it?
Okay.
Obviously, you know, there's truth to this story.
I'm not trying to mock the Bible here, but you know, who is someone that was like hungry
and naked that was helped?
How about the guy that got beat up along the side of the road and the good Samaritan came
along and helped him out?
Not the guy that's purposely not showering and smelling like a bum, refusing to work
because the Bible says that person should not be allowed to eat.
That's what the New Testament literally says.
This guy should have, you know, gotten slapped in the face with, you know, second Thessalonians
chapter number three.
Hey buddy, we're not even gonna give you a paycheck until you take a shower.
Stupid pastor.
And then you know what's so funny about this story?
Then I look it up, it's fake.
Everything I just told you is not even real.
That pastor just told a fake story.
Somebody is just putting out this fake story and this gullible idiot preacher got up and
retold it.
And I was thinking like, wow, how much research did you put into this?
Zero.
Just like you do in your Bible study and in your church and everything.
And look, I'm telling you something about this world is that Christians aren't influencing
the culture anymore.
They're not influencing the culture because they're listening to these fake stories by
false prophets.
Like you know what happened if that really did happen to the church, everybody just go
find some random homeless bum and give them more drug money.
How is that going to fix society?
How is that going to benefit society when that's the message, when that's being brought
forth in the service?
You know what?
Even Independent Fund of the Baptist, I'll tell you something, they're getting away from
influencing the culture as well, and they seem to be going the same way as these non-denom
megachurches.
And you know what?
We should have nothing to do with them.
We should never be like them, ever, because they're fake.
They tell fake stories and it's garbage.
Why in the world would you want to get a random pastor you've never even seen or heard
before anyways?
Just like, "Hey, we found this homeless bum up the street.
He's going to come preach to you."
The whole story is just bizarre, but it's so funny that this guy is just literally telling
lies to his congregation in an effort to get them to, what, feed more homeless bums?
Because even though that was a fake story, it's a real story that this pastor preached
it to his congregation of 10,000.
So it has the same effect, though, of the fact that they're going to go out and feel
like, "Oh, man, we better go feed some homeless bum and bring him into our house."
I'm not doing that.
I'm not going to go find the derelicts of society that refuse to work.
And let me tell you something about homeless people.
They're like 30 or 40 percent sodomites, if maybe not even higher than that.
So you better know, I'm not going to just bring in stray cats off the street and start
giving them milk.
You know what?
Hey, they need to figure out how to clean themselves up a little bit before they can
start coming into the house of God.
And we need to be the ones that are going out and influencing the culture and telling
people, "Hey, homeless people that can work should not get any handout.
Zero."
Why is it that there's such a homeless problem in our society?
Because of fake Christianity, and because people aren't preaching what the Bible says
on this issue.
Where are all the thousands of fundamental Baptists getting up and ripping on people
helping these homeless, derelict losers?
You know what?
If you really wanted to help them, you would preach the truth to them.
You would tell them, "Hey buddy, sober up.
Hey buddy, get a job.
Hey buddy, quit being lazy."
Because let me tell you something, if you don't give food to a man, he'll get a job.
I've never even heard homeless man dies of hunger.
Most homeless guys are fat anyways.
The worst thing you can do is help that guy continue to be a slob and helping him be lazy
and help him be a derelict in society.
I have with me the laws of Connecticut, an exact reprint of the original edition in 1673.
Jesus literally even said you would get fined, you would be penalized criminally if your
child was not a productive member of society.
If your kid is like one of these derelict bums of society, you would get criminally
punished for doing that.
I like that law.
You know what, he's a drain on society.
He's not helping society.
And you know what, Jesus wasn't going around helping homeless bums, folks.
The few people that he helped in this situation were blind or a paraplegic or couldn't walk
or whatever.
And as soon as they could, they started working.
"Hey, pick up that mat and go home, you know, go get a job."
Jesus was helping people get jobs.
Like now you have legs, go, work, you know.
The parables that he gives are people standing around doing nothing and he shows up and gives
them a job.
He didn't come up and just say, "Hey, do you guys want a penny for the day?"
Don't do any work.
No, no, no.
He said, "Hey, go work in my vineyard."
Hey, why has no man hired thee?
And they were like, "Well, we're just, you know, we're just living alternative lifestyle,
man.
Cool."
No, no, no.
When God created man to work, He didn't create them to lay around and be a lazy jerk today.
And let me tell you something, He also didn't create fundamental Baptist to do the same
work as a homeless person and just hide from society and do nothing.
What makes fundamental Baptist better than the homeless guy doing nothing?
When you're hiding and you won't preach the gospel and you're not affecting the culture,
you know what?
It's meaningless.
God doesn't want us to go and hide in some commune somewhere, hide in the jungle somewhere,
hide in the wilderness somewhere, and do nothing with our lives.
No, no.
He wants us to be in the world.
Why is it that people won't do it?
Because people hate you.
People hate you.
You know what?
Why do we even have the country we do today?
It's because Christians were affecting the world around them.
And when did Jesus, the apostles, the disciples, or any of the churches in the New Testament
hide?
I mean, I'm pretty sure anytime Paul walked into a city, everybody figured out who he
was real quick.
Pretty sure when Jesus walked into a town, everybody figured out who he was real quick.
I'm pretty sure everybody knew who John the Baptist was.
Oh, well, John the Baptist went out with us.
Yeah.
Everyone knew where he was though.
Literally everyone went to go see him.
They're bringing out the news reporters and the whatever.
They're like, hey, this guy moved out there.
We're going out there to see him.
You know, it doesn't matter how far they move out.
They're going to come find you and hear what you have to say.
So that's what a New Testament church should really be like.
It should be riling everyone up.
We should be influencing our culture.
Christian nationalism.
Do you think we should be influencing the culture?
Yes, I do.
Wow, Estevez Baptist Church, you have such a bad reputation online.
Good.
Sounds like we're in the world then.
And it also sounds like we're not of the world either.
So it sounds like we're doing exactly what Jesus said.
Hey, be in the world, but don't be of the world.
Oh, well what happens when you're in the world?
They're going to hate you.
Go find me the positive article about our church that we didn't write, okay?
You know?
Like it doesn't exist, okay?
And that's fine.
I don't expect a bunch of Jews to write good articles about us.
And that's the only media that exists.
So go through to Psalm 19 for a second.
Now, I want you to still pay attention, but I'm going to read several things to you real
quick, okay?
And what I'm going to read to you is the laws of America from years past.
And this is important, because some people would be like, "Oh, you're trying to make
us Christian.
That's not what the founders wanted."
Or, "Oh, you're trying to make us a theocracy."
They don't even know what a theocracy is, number one.
They couldn't define it.
Number two, I think people have no idea.
They have zero concept of what our country was really like.
Let me just give you a sample of what our country was like from pre-constitution, pre-1776,
and then a little bit after.
This is the laws of Connecticut, 1673.
So this is for the entire colony, or as we call it, a state now.
And if you just open it up, this is like the very beginning of it.
Okay, so this is just how they introduce us to the subject.
To our beloved brethren and neighbors, the inhabitants of the colony of Connecticut,
the general court of that colony, with grace and peace in our Lord Jesus.
This is how the law, the government of the entire colony of Connecticut starts.
Wow, are you trying to make us Christian?
We were, folks, okay.
The serious consideration of the necessity of the establishment of wholesome laws for
the regulating of each body politic hath inclined us mainly in obedience unto Jehovah, the great
lawgiver.
You know what I love about that word, Jehovah?
Find that in another religious text.
Find that in the NID.
Hey, I like the word Jehovah because it's in the King James Bible, folks.
We're getting real specific, real fast.
Obviously, you've got the Joe's false witnesses, but I mean, we're not talking about Hinduism
here.
We're talking about the God of the Bible.
And they're saying, Hey, it's necessary that we establish good laws in our country.
Let's figure out who's the best lawgiver.
Oh yeah.
Jehovah.
Why don't we use his laws?
It says this, who have been pleased to set down a divine platform, not only of the moral,
but also of judicial laws suitable for the people of Israel.
You know, I like about this in 1673, they realized that the old Testament was broken
apart into moral law and judicial laws because they're saying, Hey, God didn't just tell
us that things are right and wrong.
He told us how a judicial system should work, how a government should literally regulate
itself and that there are certain laws that are judicial.
You know, when Jesus Christ died on the cross, he didn't just throw out the judicial law
and say, you know what?
These judicial laws aren't relevant.
Don't worry about those.
No, no, no.
Those are still relevant.
And you know what?
They thought they were relevant.
1600 years later, you're trying to bring us back into the law.
This is 1600 years after Jesus Christ has died, buried and rose again.
And they are saying, let's use the laws of Jehovah.
Why?
Because they're not a bunch of brain dead leftists.
All right.
Says, suitable for the people of Israel as also in conformity to the manifest pleasure
of our sovereign Lord, the king and his majesty's gracious charter requiring and granting liberty
thereby of making of laws and constitutions, suiting our state and condition for the safety
and welfare of the people of the colony of Connecticut.
So he said, look, God has granted unto our king and our king is also granting unto us
the ability to make our own constitutions and our own local governments for the safety
and welfare of the people.
You know what laws do?
They bring safety and welfare.
Anarchy brings chaos, destruction, death.
We need wholesome laws, laws that are good laws.
How do you get good laws?
You get them from the Bible.
And it makes it very clear in this particular document that the king of England or the king
over these colonies was allowing them to pass their own laws as long as they're in accordance
with British law and the laws of God.
And of course, that's what you get in this particular document.
So there's a lot about, I would love to just read the whole thing to you, but I'm just
giving you a little sample, okay?
Fact, they already were praising the Lord Jesus Christ and making it clear that their
laws are coming from God.
That's why when you read the capital punishment section, it's basically just the Old Testament,
albeit they, I don't think they were right on adultery the way they did it in this, but
other than that, it's virtually exactly what the Bible says on capital punishment.
It even has a section on heretics, alright?
Well, I'm not going to get there.
How about another document from Pennsylvania?
This is 1682, so just a little bit further into the future.
So this is the Act for Freedom of Conscience in Pennsylvania, chapter one.
Almighty God being only Lord of Conscience, Father of Lights and Spirits, and the Author
as well as object of all divine knowledge, faith and worship, who can only enlighten the
mind and persuade and convince the understandings of people and do reverence to His sovereignty
over the souls of mankind.
So this is how they start it.
They're already praising the God of the Bible.
They say this, "Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person, now or at any
time hereafter living in this province, who shall confess and acknowledge one Almighty
God, to be the Creator, Upholder, and Ruler of the world, and who professes him or herself
obliged and conscious to live peaceably and quietly under the civil government, shall in
any case be molested or prejudiced for his or her conscience's persuasion or practice.
Nor shall he or she, at any time, be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious worship
place or ministry, whatever contrary to his or her mind, but shall freely and fully enjoy
his or her Christian liberty in that respect, without any interruption or reflection.
And if any person shall abuse or deride any other for his or her different persuasion
and practice in matters of religion, such person shall be looked upon as a disturber
of the peace and be punished accordingly.
Let me explain this.
The protestors would not be allowed to do what they're doing.
They're disturbers of the peace and would be punished for doing what they're doing,
according to this statute.
And this statute is basically saying, if you don't want to be Catholic, you don't have
to be Catholic.
If you want to be Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, you can basically be whatever
denomination of Christianity you want.
And someone can't interrupt your services if you're worshiping the God of the Bible
as you see fit.
Now, this is an important next paragraph, but that's a good word, right?
But to the end, that looseness, irreligion, and atheism may not creep in under pretense
of conscience in this province.
So they're saying, even though we're saying you have religious liberty, we're not saying
this so that you can be an atheist.
We're not saying this so you're not religious.
We're not saying this so you can just be loose and permissive.
It says this, "Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that according to the
example of the primitive Christians, and for the ease of the creation, every first day
of the week, called the Lord's Day, people shall abstain from their usual and common
toil and labor, that whether masters, parents, children, or servants, they may the better
dispose themselves to read the scriptures of truth at home, or frequent such meetings
of religious worship abroad, as may best suit their respective persuasions."
So you know what they said, they said in order to try and make sure that our colony never
gets away from Christianity, no one's allowed to work on Sunday so that everyone is basically
just forced into reading the Bible.
Everyone's just forced into having some kind of religious worship because frankly everything's
shut down but church.
So then what's going to happen?
People are going to go to church because there's not really anything else to do.
So it kind of helps society realize, look, this is the Lord's Day, we're setting, as
our society, we're setting a whole day to dedicate to the Lord, we're going to read
the Bible, go to church, serve God.
This is the government's own document, this is Pennsylvania's governing document.
Our founding fathers weren't Christian.
What?
What are you talking about?
How about this?
This is where it gets even more interesting.
1682, same year, Charter of the Liberties and Frame of Government of Pennsylvania.
So same colony.
So this is another document also passed around this time.
In provision 34, it says that all treasurers, judges, masters of the roles, sheriffs, justices
of the peace and other officers and persons whatsoever relating to courts or trials of
causes or any other service in the government, and all members elected to serve in provincial
council and general assembly, and all that have right to elect such members shall be
such as possess faith in Jesus Christ.
Did you hear what I just said?
Every single person in the government had to, had to profess faith in Jesus Christ.
"Oh, they're not Christian."
What are you talking about?
It's literally saying the government has to be Christian.
The government has to be people that have faith in Jesus Christ.
That's why even up to the most recent time frame, every single president has claimed
to be Christian.
Did you not realize that?
Every single president gives lip service to having faith in Jesus or being a Christian
because you know, in fact, many different statutes, it's still the reality.
And people wouldn't vote for him anyways, they just want to give lip service to it.
But at the end of the day, this nation was founded as a nation under God.
Have you ever heard that phrase before?
I mean, you could go to the local city council and before the city council, you know what
they're going to do?
They're going to basically pledge allegiance to the flag and they're going to, they might
even sing a song and they're going to talk about we're one nation under God.
They're going to get some pastor up there to pray before the ceremony.
And then you're going to try and convince me that we're the secular deist nation.
No, we're not secular.
That's ridiculous.
How about 1732?
So we're fast forwarding.
This is religion in the Georgia charter.
So this is not we've talked about Connecticut, talked about Pennsylvania.
Let's talk about Georgia for a moment 1732.
So this is coming directly from the law.
And for the greater ease and encouragement of our loving subjects and such others as
shall come to inhabit in our said colony, we do by these presents for us, our heirs
and successors grant established and ordain that forever hereafter there should be a liberty
of conscience allowed in the worship of God to all persons inhabiting or which shall inhabit
or be resident within our said provinces and that all such persons except papists shall have a free
exercise of their religion. Now that's pretty funny. It says so they be contented with the
quiet and peaceful enjoyment of the same not giving offense or scandal to the government.
So you know what they said in Georgia? You can be any form of Christian except for Catholic.
Like that's the law. The law is saying we're not even allowing Catholics to be in Georgia,
period. Now of course this is still in the context of also being Christian. It's not even going to
be a Hindu. How bizarre would that be? And look if you understand anything about Georgia it is
filled with Baptists. I mean it has all kinds of Baptists in it. Why? They wouldn't even let
Catholics be in there folks. They were a lot closer to the truth when it comes to their origin.
Now it started to slowly erode of course. Here's some commentary about what happened in Georgia
after this. It says although Catholicism was the only region expressly forbidden in the charter,
the Georgia trustees also decided to forbid Judaism in the new colony. That's a good idea,
but they should have gotten that in the law. Okay that was their problem. It says but the harsh
realities of colonial life opened the doors for Judaism to enter Georgia. The first summer the
colonists lived in savannah they suffered from the heat and illness that accompanied it. I guess
heat you know waves were back then too right climate change. At at one point 60 colonists
were dreadfully sick and it was thought they wouldn't be able to recover. There was no real
doctor except for noble jones who himself had taken ill but fortunately that's a questionable
word a ship with jewish passengers unexpectedly arrived included a doctor Samuel Nunez. Dr Nunez
went to work healing the sick all of whom are covered and the doctor refused payment for his
services even though the trustees expressly forbade jewish people from settling in the new
colony oglethorpe allowed the group to stay based on legal advice that the charter did not allow
religious freedom for all non-catholics or sorry did allow religious freedom for all non-catholics
so oglethorpe in defiance of his fellow trustees went further by allowing the jewish immigrants to
own land in the new colony they founded the temple mikvi israel the third oldest jewish
congregation in america and the oldest in the south in 1733 so here here was the mistake i believe
of a lot of our founders is every one of our documents was always in the context of christianity
but they just didn't explicitly state it so it allowed and opened the door for then other of
course if they're not letting catholics invoke you really think they want jews i mean that's
insane they and they didn't want it but they just didn't have the law in place and then they just
have the jews start infiltrating coming in creating their synagogues of satan and that's
how they started creeping in by the 1790s finally the catholic church was established the first
catholic church was established in georgia so it just starts to just slowly degrade and get to just
a worse and worse spiritual situation but the fact is that for a long period of our history
of the colonies and even leading into past the constitution many of these places were strictly
christian not allowing other kinds of sex i mean this has literally a passage about even heretics
within the christian sex not allowed to be in their colony and you know what that is why we have the
country we have today a lot of people think this sounds horrible can you imagine america being
christian again enforcing christianity and making it where people have to be christian in our country
yeah i can because that's why we have such an amazing country people act like it's such a
horrible thing but it's like where do you think america came from do you think america was a
super world power in 1673 do you think that america could have taken taken over or conquered any
country in 1673 they were barely able to survive so what took a bunch of random pilgrims and
colonists from just basically starting from scratch to becoming the most dominant superpower
in all of the world it was the fact that they were built upon the rock that's why oh that sounds so
scary what if we went back to that sounds like we'd have a great nation again but let me tell
you something you know what makes america great again it's not donald trump it's jesus christ
it's not donald trump in politics it's jesus christ in politics it's the god of the bible
in politics it's this book in politics that would make america great again and you know even in
texas if you look today at texas constitution present day this is how it opens humbly invoking
the blessings of almighty god the people of the state of texas do ordain and establish this
constitution how am i supposed to sit here and say that we're secular when literally our own
constitution today is is already talking about almighty god you know atheism is not a concept
that was allowed for in america it wasn't tolerated it wasn't appreciated yeah was there
some people that probably were there a few people that were atheists back then i'm sure there was
atheism is going to always exist in society because there's always people that reject god
there's going to always be people that hate god there's always going to be fools in the society
but you know what we shouldn't allow them to take over our government we shouldn't allow them
to take over our country we shouldn't allow them to take over our churches we shouldn't allow them
to take over this world that just is that's absurd you know we need laws that are based on
the word of god if we're going to have a wholesome country now i had you turn to psalm 19 a long time
ago but look at verse 7 the bible says the law of the lord is perfect converting the soul the
testament of the lord is sure making wise the simple the bible will make us wise as a nation
it made america wise because they based their country on the bible and that's why our country
is so much better than other countries go to psalm 119 for a moment go to psalm 119 you say
are you saying that we should influence the laws in our country yes i am yes christians should be
putting forth the law putting forth the law of god and saying this is what our laws should be
advocating for wholesome laws advocating for abortion to be illegal you say at what month
all of them every month it's it's you know we give a whole month to a bunch of sodomite perverts we
should give a whole month to abortion like the idea of like pro-life right just saying hey we're
advocating for life this whole month as a reminder that you should never kill children like it's
wicked it's satanic it's always been evil look what it says in psalm 119 verse one blessed
are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the lord you know what it makes you undefiled
walk in the law of the lord look at verse nine wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way
by taking heed thereto according to thy word you know you're not going to cleanse your way
watching andrew tate videos that'll defile the way that'll destroy young men the only way for
young men to end up getting on the right path and living a clean life is they have to take heed to
this word this is what changes people's lives nothing else this is your this is your ivermectin
okay for your covid-19 all right sorry if my analogy is not very good i don't know i've never
taken ivermectin so but this is your antidote this is your cure to the disease that's out there in
this world and this is the only antidote this is the only cure to the society that we live in
go to the Ephesians chapter six and we'll kind of wrap these thoughts together quickly but look
folks the only way we're going to change america is the king james bible and i mean it literally
king james now think about when did american society really start to road quickly i mean i
think a lot of people would agree that kind of the 60s 70s and 80s we saw a rapid decline of culture
obviously there's always been bad people in politics obviously the federal reserve was
wicked obviously there's been a lot of issues of the past and i get that but just whole scale
our society is radically different from the 1950s because we went through the 60s 70s and 80s
now what's another interesting thing that happened in the 60s 70s and 80s people got away from the
king james bible and started going to modern versions we saw the literal explosion of people
getting away from the bible and that had a big influence on our culture now this makes perfect
sense and and from a really basic perspective and for me i feel like i hadn't really thought about
this way but it's just it's so basic i feel like i should have but you know when we talk about the
bible a lot of times it'll use the terminology of like turning to god or turning away from god
and and it it just kind of seems abstract to me but then when you just think about it practically
that god is the bible it's like people are turning away from the king james bible that's literally
all it is and you know when you study it throughout the bible people are always turning away from what
hearing the word of god from what the prophet was saying they didn't want to hear what the
prophet was saying they didn't want to hear what the bible was saying they didn't want to hear what
the word of god was saying the word of god was put on the shelf and you know what the devil knows
that that tactic works but he knew he couldn't get rid of these things everywhere so he replaced
them with garbage versions with fake versions and we're living the fruit of that today and the only
way to fix america today is to take all of the christians and get them back on this book this
one specifically the king james bible that's why it's so important look at ephesians 6 verse 12
for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against
rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places so point
one is we need to influence our culture point one we need to influence the laws and point
three though we need to influence souls and you know we fight a battle today but it's not a
physical battle it is a spiritual battle and christianity has never you know since the new
testament has never been successful through physical violence and physical force you don't
see any great christian societies coming from the result of some religious holy war that's a
physical war you don't see the catholics doing a great exploits for god forcing people to be
catholic or murdering them or killing them and i do not believe that we will ever have success
as christians or a christian nation or as a church trying to force people through physical violence
to be like us and we shouldn't but that doesn't mean that we aren't still fighting it's just we're
not fighting physically we're fighting spiritually and the spiritual battle is always a spirit is a
battle over words it's about information about the information being spread and they know the
truth is so powerful that if they gave us or churches like us or other preachers that preach
the truth a platform it would change the culture like that because the bible is so powerful and so
it's so important for us to engage the culture with this and how do we do that we go out soul
winning it's like how how do i become a christian nationalist pastor Shelley go soul winning step
one go slowly step two getting people baptized step three getting people into church that is how we
win the christian nationalist movement over we need to get people saved and baptized into church
that is the only way to fix this nation we have to just get tons and tons of people saved and
baptized in the church and then we also need to be speaking the truth in the gate you know the
bible says in amos chapter 5 they hate him that rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him that speak
of them rightly let me tell you something christians were always preaching in the gate and we shouldn't
stop now we shouldn't say you know what we're going to go and hide you know jude 1 tells us
that we're supposed to earnestly contend for the faith go to acts chapter 17 i want to show you
a few verses here acts chapter 17 so our primary goal is sewing baptizing church but i think that
we also need to be going into the marketplace of ideas and challenging the culture on the
scripture because think about this the apostle paul left israel the nation of israel and went
into a completely heathen pagan god-hating world i mean there was not a fundamental baptist church
out there he wasn't going anywhere it was very pagan very ungodly and think about this america
came out of that eventually so if the apostle paul can go to a hundred percent pagan world
and get to a point where literal multiple christian nations are formed out of that
eventually and we even have countries like america being formed we could always do it again i mean
it's way easier now than it would have been back then so the the solution is already there but
what did the apostle paul do he went out preaching the gospel getting people saved he got people
baptized he was getting them plugged into church also he was going into the marketplace of ideas
and preaching the truth and exposing mass audiences to the truth look what it says in
acts chapter 17 verse 17 therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the jews and with
the devout persons and in the market daily with them that met him notice where he's going the
synagogue and the market daily and he's just telling everybody just large groups of audience
the marketplace of ideas he's just going out there and just trying to spread it daily just all the
time just trying to get the truth out there trying to talk to people you say ah well the jews didn't
get saved true but a lot of people did look at verse 34 how be it certain men clave unto him
and believed among the which was dionysius the aeropagate pagite and a woman named demarius and
others with them so how effective is it well you're not going to get already saved but he
got some people saved didn't he look at chapter 18 verse 19 chapter 18 verse 19 and he came to
episis and left them there but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the jews so
the apostle paul you have to understand something about him he's not a street preacher okay but he
is emphasizing soul winning baptism and church but you know he also do he would go and enter the
marketplace of ideas and he would go and engage with a ton of unsaved people and constantly try
and preach the truth to them and reason with them and debate with them and discourse with them trying
to win them over trying to get people saved look at verse 26 and he began to speak boldly in the
synagogue whom when akilah and priscilla had heard they took him unto them and expounded on him the
way of god more perfectly now this is one of the disciples of the apostle paul apollos he also went
in and this marketplace of ideas and no he didn't necessarily get someone saved in this verse but
what this verse is saying he ended up networking with other people and you know sometimes you just
going out there and preaching and these marketplace of ideas you may not only get people saved you
might end up hooking up with other like-minded godly people and getting them on the right course
or getting them plugged in or influencing their lives as well look at chapter 19 verse 8 and he
went into the synagogue and spake boldly for the space of three months disputing and persuading the
things concerning the kingdom of god so notice that the apostle paul is constantly going into
the marketplace of ideas constantly challenging the narrative and did the jews by and large get
saved no because they're not but a lot of gentiles did tons and tons scores and scores of
gentiles are getting saved by him going out there and you know what we need to be the people that
are going into the marketplace of ideas and preaching the truth unashamed reasoning with them
giving them the scripture you know some of the activities i do they're not even really church
related they're just trying to get information out there and i think that we should try our best
to just get our ideas out there and be willing to contend with them that's why they don't want to
debate us that's why they don't want to platform us that's why they don't want to put us on the
show because they realize when they see the two-edged sword placed up against their lies
it's going to slice and dice them to pieces they're so afraid of the truth today because
it's so powerful so what does the devil do well the devil tries to not contend with you
but also he just gets a bunch of Christians that just trade out their two-edged sword
for a plastic knife and then they realize it's so weak and puny that they don't even want to go
out there and fight with it so then they do nothing they do nothing let me tell you something this
thing is a two-edged sword we shouldn't fear anyone and I don't care who it is they're going
to lose in the marketplace of ideas of this every time I don't care if you're smart brilliant
whatever it makes the wise the simple we need to go out there and engage with the culture go to
second chronicles chapter 7 we'll finish there how about john the baptist what did he say to
hear it it is not lawful for you to have thy brother's wife oh this guy's hiding no no this
guy was challenging political authority preaching the truth getting in the face of political leaders
calling it like it is saying it like it is you know we need bold men to get up and to get in
the face of joe biden and call him the pedophile for that he is and call these liberal wicked
politicians i mean hunter biden is a pedophile he should be six feet under are you saying
spiritually well he's already twice dead but let me tell you something pedophiles should be put to
death legally are you calling to arms no i never have i never will but let me tell you something
our government should have so much pressure on it right now to be putting pedophiles to death
everyone should be saying like we need to put the pedophiles to death put them and you say like are
we ever gonna get leviticus 2013 i don't know but just eliminating pedophiles will get rid of a
large swath of them you know it's so funny you'll be like ah all these christians against pedophilia
it's really anti-semitic and anti-lgbtq i'm thinking like why is me being against pedophiles
so obviously against jews and facts because jews and facts are pedophiles that's why they
literally admit it and you know what we need more politicians that aren't afraid of these labels
like oh you're anti-lgbtq yes i am praise god i don't want to be pro that i don't want to be
for this nonsense i don't want to be for satanism literally you know we need to get people back on
the king james bible and to adhere to the laws of the king james bible we need to turn back to god
as a nation and the only way our nation will be better as we get back to this book this book is
what will save our nation turning to god and we need to model our lives based on this without
compromise the apostle paul engaged with the gripa he appealed to caesar he reasoned in the
synagogues he reasoned in the marketplace hey you know what we need christians to get out there and
be a bright and shining light but what happens when we decide to just hide or not do anything
you know it's just failure and you know people have been complaining about it being hot
and not having any rain well look what the bible says in second chronicles chapter 7 verse 13
if i shut up heaven that there be no rain or if i command the locusts to devour the land
that's hunter biden or if i send pestilence among my people that's michelle obama okay verse 14
if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
turn from the wicked ways then i will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal
their land you know america could be fixed today if every christian would just say you know what
we're throwing out the niv we're gonna burn it in a bonfire we're all getting a king james bible
and we're gonna do what it says and you know when the bible is your boss you're a baptist
and you know what god wants us to turn back to him and you know what god is willing to do anything
and the question is if we turn back to god is he gonna give us revival or are we gonna turn away
and he's gonna give us the arrival okay are we gonna have the arrival of jesus or we're gonna
have the revival of jesus you know is based on us if we're gonna turn to him or not and we need to
influence the culture you know what christian nationalism sounds great to me closing prayer
thank you heavenly father for giving us the word of god for giving us the truth i pray that we
wouldn't be afraid of the truth that we wouldn't be ashamed of the truth that we're willing to
influence our culture and world around us i pray that we could be christians wherever we go and
that we would embrace and love the the nation that we live in that we wouldn't look to radically
change it from what it was but rather we turn back to the godly principles that it was established
on and we try to influence our culture and our world around us to become more christian and to
love the things of the bible in jesus name we pray amen all right for our final song 316 i have
decided to follow jesus 316 have decided to follow jesus 316 i have decided to follow jesus
go ahead and turn to song 64 shall we gather at the river song number 64 shall we gather at the
Is that the river?