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Thank you for everyone evening pray Lord that you just open the scriptures to us arts and minds to word
Please fill pastor Shelley up with them to reach you in Jesus name. I pray song this evening. So send I you page
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We have our Bible memory passage psalm 53 on the inside is their service times and soul winning times
Also church stats on the right is a list of expecting ladies several ladies. You can be in prayer for upcoming of its
Tonight the missions conference at faith word Baptist Church is kicking off. I'm gonna be preaching there tomorrow
Pray that my voice will hold up and I can be in good spirits when I go over there tomorrow
choir practice for the kids
Choir starts November 9th. So that's gonna be after the evening service in our fellowship room
I'm gonna be preaching November 23rd at anchor Baptist Church for pastor Dylan Oz. That's gonna be their one-year anniversary
So that's exciting for them. We have our flag football turkey bowl November 29th, but the Marcel's leading that if you have any questions
Ladies Christmas party December 5th. It'll be here at the building. It is completely free. All ladies are invited
We'd love to have you join us. It's a dinner party Christmas caroling December 8th
Children's choirs are gonna be performing December 21st our cookie bake-off December 21st that evening
Christmas candlelight service December 24th, and then a men's preaching on
The 31st on the back is a list of our prayer
Request below that will mention the baby shower notice quickly
Saturday so it's this Saturday from 12 to 2 for miss Villarreal and miss campisi if you'd like to
Get them a gift the register on Amazon. It is nursing's only preferred
We'll go over prayer list continue to pray. We're continuing to pray for the Carlson's parents health also miss Miller
Her friend's mom has cancer. We've been praying for her
We've been praying for brother Horace and miss grace for their health
Continue to pray for brother Tony's health. We're praying for the Foley's dad's health. Also, we have health for
health care requests for miss
Madron's his daughter and friend continue to pray for brother Paul also praying for brother Goodwin sister-in-law
Who his husband had passed away continue to pray for the Rose and then we're praying for brother Wallach's aunt
Mary Lou Clark and then if you'd pray for the Burns his older brother, Joe
So that's pretty much all I have as far as prayer requests a lot of the same ones
We'll just continue to pray for them. We'll say a quick prayer as a church family now. Thank you only father so much for our church
Thank you for all these ladies are expecting. I pray you please bless them with their pregnancies
Please bless those who have recently given birth you would help them with their children's development. I pray that you would also
Just be with our friends and family that are struggling with these serious illness with cancer with
Chronic pain with these serious diseases and issues. I pray if possible you just give them healing. Please give them recovery
No matter what I pray you just please give them patience and comfort during this time of tribulation this time of difficulty
I pray that you would also just bless our church family with favor right now
And you'd please be with our evangelists in the Philippines
Please allow us to finish the year strong and to be mindful of the sacrifice that your son's given us and this is his name
We pray in Jesus name. Amen. It's pretty much all we have as far as announcements
We're gonna go ahead and sing our psalm of the week psalm
117 it's in our special binder psalm
117 psalm 117
Time you can turn in your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 6 Deuteronomy chapter 6 Deuteronomy chapter 6 chapter number 6 the Bible reads
Now these are the commandments the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God
Commanded to teach you that you might do them in the land whether you go to possess it that thou mayest fear the Lord thy
God to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command thee thou and thy son and thy son's son all the days of
Thy life and that they days may be prolonged
Here therefore o Israel and observe to do it that it may be well with thee and that you may increase mightily as the Lord God
Of thy fathers have promised thee in the land that floweth with milk and honey
Here o Israel the Lord our God is one Lord and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy might and these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart and thou shalt teach them
Diligently unto thy children shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house when thou walkest by the way
And when thou liest down and when thou risest up and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand and they
Shall be as frontlets between thine eyes and thou shalt write them upon the post of thy house and thy gates
And it shall be when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sweared unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac
And to Jacob to give thee great and goodly cities which thou buildeth not and houses full of all good things which thou filleth not
And wells dig which thou digeth not
Vineyards and olive trees which thou plant is not when thou shall have eaten and be full then beware lest thou forget the Lord
Which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage thou shall fear the Lord thy God and serve him
And shall swear by his name
He shall she shall not go after other gods of the gods of the people which are round about you for the Lord thy
God is a jealous God among you
Lest the anger of the Lord thy God be killed against thee and destroy thee from off the face of the earth
He shall not tempt the Lord thy God as he tempted him in Massa
He shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his testimonies and statutes which he have commanded thee and thou
Shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord that it may be well with thee and that thou mayst go
In and possess the good land which the Lord swear unto thy fathers to cast out all thine enemies from before thee as the Lord hath
Spoken and when thy son asketh thee in time to come saying what mean
This testimonies and the statutes and the judgments of the Lord our God commanded you then thou shalt say unto thy son
We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and the Lord showed signs and wonders
Great and sore upon Egypt upon Pharaoh and upon all his household before our eyes
And he brought us out from thence that he might bring us in to give us the land which he swore unto our fathers and the
Lord commanded us to do all these statutes to fear the Lord our God for our good always that he might preserve us alive as it
Is at this day and it shall and it shall be our righteousness if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God
As he h commanded us. Let us pray Heavenly Father. Thank you for this chapter of the Bible. Thank you for steadfast Baptist Church
Thank you for all the salvations that have been gotten Lord
I pray that you be with pastor Shelley Lord that you fill them with the Holy Spirit to preach your word unto us help us
To make applicable changes to our lives Lord and receive it and I pray this in Jesus name. Amen
Amen verse 1 the Bible says now these are the commandments the statutes and the judgments was the Lord your God commanded to teach you
That you might do them in the land whether you go to possess it
That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God to keep all the statutes and his commandments which I command thee
Thou and my son and my son's son all the days of my life that thou may and that thy days may be
Prolonged now chapter 5 kind of hammered this exact same point and we're gonna see this just
Really repeated a lot in the book of Deuteronomy and really just the whole Bible the Bible just really emphasized the idea of keeping God's
Commandments keeping God's commandments is what gives you longer life on this earth
Notice that it says specifically here in the last part of verse 2 that thy days may be prolonged
There's also no guarantee to any breath that we take God could take our lives at any moment
But to give yourself the best chance of living the longest life
It's through keeping of God's commandments and the keeping of God's commandments is what allows us to live the most blessed and the longest life possible.
Is there exceptions to this? There's always going to be exceptions, but this is the general rule. This is the general principle of the Bible that we are to keep his commandments.
Now, notice here also, he is not just wanting us to follow these commandments, our son and our son's son. We're supposed to teach them.
We're supposed to command them. We're supposed to instruct them as well. So there's a certain duty of us to command our children and teach our children God's commandments.
I think that's kind of what's emphasized in this particular chapter. I'm going to emphasize that tonight is just the idea of teaching your children.
There's a couple more verses in here that talk about this, but it's very important that we do teach our children.
and that we don't just think that they just automatically get things or that they automatically understand things.
We want to be diligent to teach them, help them understand.
I think one thing I've noticed in some churches that a lot of people might have good doctrine, but they don't know why.
They don't know why they have good doctrine.
They perhaps don't really understand why they use the Bible they use.
They may not understand why they're King James only.
They may not understand why they're Baptist.
They might understand why we have the things that we have or we believe the things that we believe.
And I think it's really important that we help our children build that foundation
to help them understand why we believe the things that we believe.
Why we do the things that we do and that we're not just shut up and believe it because I said it.
So, you know, and again, I believe that our position and I believe our faith is very defensible
and that we can instruct our children and tell them the truth and it's going to stand out against the lies of this world.
But sometimes when you don't teach your children why we believe what we believe
or where we came from or why we do things a certain way,
maybe they could get tricked or deceived into not understanding why we're doing the things that we're doing.
So to me, it's important to have that foundation being laid constantly.
Hopefully in preaching at the church, you know, I'll do a good job doing this,
but we also need to, as parents, make sure that we're taking our children back home
and we're also teaching them these type of things.
We're not just relying only on church.
And I think, you know, in a church like ours, there is a lot of instruction,
there's a lot of teaching, so it could kind of just make you kind of lulled to sleep
or get lazy or lack the daisical with teaching your own family,
but we should not be that way. We should make sure that we're still teaching our children,
even if the teaching at church is really good, even if you feel like the pastor's doing a good job
and you're learning a lot at church, it's still important for parents to also be teaching their children
and to take the time to sit down with them and explain certain things to them,
and not just your children, even your grandchildren. That's what's being mentioned here.
Verse 3, it says, "Here therefore Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with thee,
and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee,
in the land that floweth with milk and honey."
Now, I like this phrasing here, that you would increase mightily,
because, you know, if you have a lot of kids, you're going to increase,
but you may not increase mightily.
But if you're teaching your kids the Word of God, and you're following the Word of God,
you're going to not only increase, but you're going to increase mightily.
You're going to have a lot of strength with that particular increase.
Verse 4, "Hero is zero, the Lord our God is one Lord."
Now, it's kind of an interesting verse in the Bible.
It's not really--I want to go on a tangent here for just a second,
because this is a verse that is used by Jews and other religions
to essentially deny the Trinity or deny Jesus Christ.
And sometimes, if you look at this in modern versions,
they'll change this verse just slightly.
They won't say the Lord or God is one, and they won't say is one Lord.
They'll just say, you know, God is one.
And, you know, Islam just has this mantra, God is one.
And if you look at Judaism specifically, they deny the Son of God.
They deny, you know, the aspects of the Trinity in the Bible.
And they love to point to this verse.
Like, this is the verse that people that at least have some adherence to the Bible would say,
well, the Bible teaches that there's only one.
But let's slow down and think about this verse for a second.
And then I want to go to some other verses in the Bible.
But it says the Lord our God is one Lord.
What is a Lord?
It's a boss or a ruler, if you think about it.
In fact, if I were to use the word God in a synonym, to me the most closely related word is just ruler.
If you were to think about God, typically ruler is about as close as a word in our English language.
That you will get to understand what God means, okay?
And the Bible is just saying that our God is one ruler, one boss, okay?
Now, that is great doctrine.
Obviously, we also believe that there is only one God.
I mean, that is a biblical doctrine.
The Bible clearly teaches there is only one God.
But many times when the Bible uses the word God, it's referring to the Father, specifically God the Father.
And if you think about the context upon which we are understanding this verse,
verse 5 says this, "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might."
What's the context?
Why is he saying, hey, the Lord our God is one Lord?
Like, why is he making this proclamation?
Like, what's the point of this?
He's saying that we only have one God and we only have one ruler.
There's only one at the top of the food chain.
So there's only one person that we're supposed to worry about
keeping his commandments, keeping his statutes, and pleasing
so that we're not divided in our affections, right?
All of my heart can go to the Lord God.
I don't have to be divided like Hinduism
amongst, you know, this God and that God and another God.
You know, the God of war and the God of water
and the God of fire and the God of stone.
No, no, no.
We have one Lord, one God, so I can give him what?
All of my heart, all of my mind, all of my soul.
That's the essence of what this verse is really
trying to get us to understand.
We only have one God, one Lord, one boss, one ruler.
Therefore, I need to make sure that I'm observing
his commandments, his statutes, his judgments,
because he is supreme.
He is the one that I'm supposed to adhere to and follow.
And that is what the Bible is teaching.
Now, this verse is not saying, though,
that there's not such a thing as a trinity.
It's not denying the trinity.
It's just simply saying, look, there's only one God,
and this one God specifically is one Lord, okay?
Now, let's go to a couple more places in Scripture.
Let's go to 1 Corinthians, chapter 8 first.
In my Bible, it even has another reference here to John 17.
We'll go there in a minute as well.
But the Bible says in many places there's one God, okay?
There's one Lord, okay?
This is just a repeated fact just over and over and over again
that there is really only one God.
And, of course, that's consistent from Genesis to Revelation.
1 Corinthians chapter number 8 also brings up kind of this point
and is alluding to what was said in the text here.
Look at verse 4.
"As concerning therefore the eating of those things
that are offered in sacrifice unto idols,
we know that an idol is nothing in the world
and that there is none other God but one."
So, again, the Bible is saying there's only one God.
There's not multiple gods.
There's not multiple deities.
We don't worship, you know, a multitude
or a pantheon of gods.
There's only one God.
Verse 5, "For though there be that are called gods,
whether in heaven or in earth,
as there be gods many and lords many,
but to us there is but one God,"
notice this, "the Father of whom are all things
and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ
by whom are all things and we by him."
So notice when the Bible actually brings up
kind of the exact same language
as we saw in Deuteronomy chapter number 6, verse 4,
it says specifically that there's one God,
and then it clarifies, doesn't it?
Doesn't it give us a little bit more information here?
It says, "the Father."
So many times when the Bible is just saying God,
it's just talking about the Father specifically.
And if we understand God the Father,
we understand that everyone is subject under God the Father.
Even the Son is subject under God the Father.
Everyone is subject under God the Father,
and Hebrews chapter number one.
The Bible tells us when he's under the Son,
he's saying, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever."
But it says, "Thy God," specifically under the Son too,
"even thy God."
So the Son of God has a God.
Who? The Father.
The Bible makes it clear in 1 Corinthians chapter number 11
that the head of Christ is God.
That's God the Father, again, specifically.
The Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians chapter number 15
that the Son will deliver up the kingdom unto God
and He will be subject unto God.
The Bible makes it clear in the Gospel of John
that Jesus Christ came down from heaven
not to do His own will, but the will of Him that sent Him.
That is God the Father.
Of course, in the Garden of Gethsemane,
Jesus Christ clearly expresses, "Not my will, but thine be done."
So we see the subjection of the Son unto the Father
consistently throughout the Scripture
and every single place, where what?
We have one God, even the Father, specifically God the Father,
and everyone subject unto that.
But did you notice that in this verse, it also says this,
"And one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him."
So, of course, the Bible teaches a Trinity.
The Bible teaches that God, in the beginning,
created the heaven and the earth.
The Bible makes it abundantly clear that Jesus Christ
is a part of the creation process.
In Hebrews chapter number one, in Colossians chapter number one,
and many different places, it makes it clear that Jesus Christ
is the one that also created the heavens and the earth
and everything, okay?
So, God works in unison between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Does this mean that God is one?
That means He can't have a son?
No, no, that's false religion. That's Judaism.
No, that's Islam that denies the Son,
that denies the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
That verse does not just completely deny the Son,
it's just you have to understand it kind of in the context.
Again, there's God, the Father, and there's one Lord Jesus Christ.
Go through it to John chapter 17 now, go to John chapter 17.
This is an important verse because again, like,
I'm just telling you most false religions and, you know,
especially even cults within the umbrella of Christianity,
would love to go to Deuteronomy chapter six, verse four,
to deny the Trinity.
Another subset of, of Christians, so-called,
oneness heretics, they love to go to verses like that,
to try and teach that there's not really three persons
in the Trinity and that it's just one person
and really they, they make almost no distinguishment
between the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
I believe in three persons, one God.
We have one God that is eternally manifested
as three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
they've always existed, they're co-equal,
yet I do believe that the Son is
and always will be subject unto the Father.
And the Bible says here in John chapter 17,
look at verse 3,
"And this is life eternal, that they may know thee,
the only true God."
So when Jesus Christ talks about the Father,
what does he say?
There's only, only you as the true God
and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
So again, same kind of language.
In fact, in my Bible, the reference to Deuteronomy 6-4
goes straight to this verse in verse 3.
The only true God is God the Father
and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
I have glorified thee on the earth,
I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do,
and now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self,
with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
So, you know, I like what the Bible says here,
and so I agree with this terminology.
The Father has a self, and he has his own self.
So the Father has his own self,
and the Lord Jesus Christ had glory with the Father
what before the world ever began.
So before anything ever existed,
we had the Father with His own self,
and we had the Son that was with the Father,
and He shared the same glory as with the Father.
Why?
Because in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word is with God, and the Word was God.
So in some way, they share the same essence.
They're both God, they're both deity,
they're both the truth, they're both the Alpha
and the Omega, they're both the Creator,
but in some way, we have the distinction
of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
And we shouldn't allow one verse in Deuteronomy 6:4
to just throw the rest of the Bible in the trash
or to completely ignore everything else in the Bible.
You know, we want to harmonize these verses, right?
The Bible's clear that there's the Father and the Son,
but then the Bible's also clear there's only one God.
And the Bible has a lot of overlapping verses.
We wanna harmonize all of these verses
and try to do the best that we can to understand them.
Now again, when it comes to some aspects of the Trinity
and how all that works,
I don't think we'll ever wrap our minds fully around it
because before anything ever existed, God existed.
How can we then as a creation understand the infinite nature
and the majesty of God?
We probably can't ever fully grasp all of these elements.
But what we should do
is we should believe every verse in the Bible.
So anything that's stated in the Bible,
we should say, hey, we believe that.
Even if we can't fully rationalize everything,
I can't fully understand eternity.
I mean, that doesn't even make sense.
How does eternity make sense?
It doesn't, I'm a finite being.
I can't understand eternity.
I can't understand eternity past.
I can't understand eternity future.
I can't understand how no one's given in marriage
when we die and go to heaven.
I don't understand how I'm not gonna be attracted
to my wife when I'm in heaven.
I don't get it, okay?
You say like, hey, how does that make sense?
I have no idea.
But I believe it, and the Bible says it,
so it must be true.
But does it make sense to me?
No, now we see through a glass darkly,
but then we'll see face to face, right?
We don't understand everything,
but you know what we can understand?
That God the Father has his own self,
and that the Lord Jesus Christ was with the Father
before the world even began.
And Deuteronomy 6:4 does not deny the Son of God
and does not deny the Trinity.
Because if you don't have the Son,
you don't have the Father.
You have a different God, you have a wrong God.
We must have both Father and Son
in order to have the right God to have the Father.
So it's really crystal clear.
Obviously, the Jews, they worship a false God.
They're anti-Christ.
They worship the devil, really, if you think about it,
who is one person.
The devil is one person who masquerades as three.
The Lord Jesus Christ, God the Father,
and the Holy Spirit are three that are one, okay?
So you understand the devil's one that pretends to be three,
whereas God is three that are one, okay?
And the devil can't be three,
so he just tries to pretend to be something that he's not.
That's a whole 'nother sermon in itself.
Go back to Deuteronomy chapter six.
I hope maybe some of those verses just help you
with that particular verse there.
But again, this is a big, big verse for Islam.
It's a big verse for Jews and cult groups
and oneness Pentecostals
and all kinds of weirdos and freaks in between.
But we don't want to give heed to that particular viewpoint.
The Bible says in verse six,
"And these words which I command thee this day
"shall be in thine heart,
"and thou shalt teach them diligently
"unto thy children and shalt talk of them
"when thou sittest in thine house,
"and when thou walkest by the way,
"and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."
So the Bible is basically saying
there's never a bad time to talk about the Bible.
Notice if you're sitting, if you're walking,
if you're lying down, or you're standing up.
I mean, I don't even know what other options there really is.
I mean, it's just basically just saying
no matter what posture you're in,
you should be able to teach the word of God,
and it says diligently under your children.
So wherever you find yourself at any point in life,
it's a great opportunity to just tell your kids
something about the Bible.
You see something happen in the world.
You see something that's happening with your family,
with other people.
It's a good time to just say, hey kids,
I wanna show you this verse in the Bible
because this verse is explaining this situation.
And we're gonna have all kinds of life situations happen
and come and go.
And it's important that when we see
those life situations happen that we just,
hey, come over your son, come over your daughter.
And you're just like, this verse is explaining
what's happening in this situation.
This verse is why we're doing what we're doing.
This verse is why we believe what we believe, right?
And you just kinda show them these things in the Bible
to help them understand life.
If you're never showing your kids the Bible,
if you're never quoting the Bible to them,
if you're never teaching them anything in the Bible,
I believe you're in violation of this verse.
I mean, the verse is really saying
we should be diligently teaching our children.
And this is not limited to fathers.
This is fathers and mothers, right?
So I believe that both the father and mother
should be teaching their children on a regular basis
and constantly showing them all kinds of things
in the scripture.
Now, let's go to Proverbs for a moment.
And we're gonna take a pretty long detour here.
But I just wanna show you what the Bible says
in the book of Proverbs,
because if you really look at the book of Proverbs,
it hammers the idea of parents teaching their children.
I mean, the book of Proverbs is just really emphasizing
this particular point.
Deuteronomy chapter six is hammering this point.
Other places in the Bible hammer this point.
But there's the book of Proverbs,
which the book of Proverbs is one of the greatest places
to read because it's just timeless truths.
And if you think about Proverbs,
it's just timeless general truths
that just help you in your life.
And you can kind of trust and make good decisions
in your life based on the book of Proverbs.
But look at Proverbs chapter one, verse number eight.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father
and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Notice that the Bible is teaching,
children need to listen to their parents.
They need to listen to the instruction of their father
and the laws of their mother,
the rules of their mom and dad.
Kids, you must obey your parents.
You must listen to your parents.
This is what God's word is instructing.
Verse 10, my son, if sinners entice thee,
consent thou not.
What is one of the most important lessons
you can teach your kids?
There is bad people out there that want to lead you astray.
You need to say no to them.
You do not always go and just agree with any kind of person.
Wicked people wanna lead you down a bad path.
And what is he saying?
When bad friends come along,
when bad people come around you
and they're trying to get you to do bad stuff with them,
you say no, consent thou not.
Say no to bad friends.
You know, when I went to public school,
probably one of the biggest programs they had
was called D.A.R.E.
Who's ever heard of this, D.A.R.E., the D.A.R.E. program?
I guess a lot of people, yeah.
It was like, I don't remember what it stood for exactly.
It's like drugs and alcohol, something.
I don't know what it's called.
I'm wrong, apparently.
It was something about not doing drugs.
That's all I know, right?
In third grade, I had to do dare essays or whatever.
And I don't even know how.
I think I ended up winning one of the competitions
or something, not because of my great writing skills at all.
But at the end of the day, we were instructed in school,
like, hey, if kids are telling you like,
hey, let's go do drugs or hey, let's go drink alcohol
or hey, let's do this, you just say no and get away from them.
And you know what, that was a good lesson.
And you know what, as parents,
we should be doing the exact same thing with our kids.
We should be constantly teaching our kids,
hey, if kids, if someone comes around,
bad friends come around and say, hey, let's drink alcohol.
Let's go lie to our parents.
Let's go, you know, sneak off and do things
that we're not supposed to do.
You're supposed to say no.
Don't allow peer pressure to cause you to do drugs
or alcohol or learn these things.
And you know, in third grade, it's not like kids
are coming to school with a crack pipe or something,
offering it to me.
I mean, in fact, I don't even remember, maybe I'm wrong,
I don't remember any kids really getting involved
in drugs and alcohol until maybe like junior high.
Probably not even until junior high.
And again, I'm not saying it didn't exist before that,
but that's kind of the earliest that I remember
these kind of things.
And it was pretty rare, it wasn't a lot,
it was just like a few of the kids.
and then in high school, it started to ramp up even more.
But you know, it seemed like it was good
by third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade,
even maybe in the sixth grade.
I've been just hearing about all this bad stuff
way before it's even an option,
way before it's even on the table,
way before it's even a reality at all whatsoever.
Why?
Because you know what?
Kids are stupid.
Kids are foolish according to the Bible.
And they need to be warned about sinners.
They need to be warned about peer pressure.
They need to be warned about drugs
and these type of things.
And you know what?
Praise God, I've never done any kind of drugs.
I've never smoked pot.
I've never done anything
that I can consider a drug whatsoever.
Yeah, I've maybe taken like painkillers
or something like that.
But I'm just talking about like any kind of just
what you think of as drugs or street drugs.
I've never done it and I never wanted to.
It's stupid.
It's dumb.
You should never do it.
If they say, hey, try this fentanyl, never try it.
Unless you want to turn out like George Floyd.
And it wasn't just the knee on the neck, folks, okay?
It was the fentanyl in the heart.
You know, PCP, I don't even know, LSD and crack cocaine
and meth, meth was a big thing whenever I was a young kid.
There was a house pretty close to us
that just got raided by the FBI
'cause it was like this giant meth house or something.
Obviously, marijuana is probably one
of the most prevalent drugs out there
that a lot of people get involved in.
They think it's kind of cool.
But man, people that smoke pot all the time are losers.
They're lame.
They smell bad.
They're not accomplishing anything of value and substance.
You know, it's just, it's not gonna help you.
It's not gonna benefit you.
Just stay away from drugs.
Never do any kind of drugs.
And you know, if kids wanna entice you to go stealing
or rob people or hurt people or get involved in gangs,
you just say no and stay far away from it.
And you know what?
Parents need to be telling their kids this often.
You know, my mom would constantly rip on drugs
and rip on, you know, low life types of individuals.
In fact, if my pants were sagging down a little bit,
she would be like, "Pull up your pants, John,
"'cause you don't wanna be a fag."
And she's like, "That's what these thugs do in the prison
"to let you know that they're a fag,
"is they sag their pants down."
And so it was like, all right, I'm gonna button that,
you know, I'm gonna get a tight belt, you know?
Like, I don't wanna be like that, right?
I mean, that's what my mom would teach me.
And you know what?
Praise God for a mom that isn't just gonna let her son,
you know, just go into degeneracy,
go into just drugs and alcohol
and ruining their lives and becoming a loser.
You know, we want some moms
that are gonna teach their kids,
hey, if sinners can entice thee, consent thou not.
Drugs aren't that cool, alcohol's not cool,
it's just gonna destroy you.
And in fact, if you drink alcohol at a young age,
and forgive me,
'cause I don't have all the statistics with me,
but it's something like if you drink alcohol
before the age of 15 or something like that,
the odds of you becoming a lifelong alcoholic
are just astronomical.
Like essentially it's like kids
that have never drank alcohol until after 21
are very unlikely to become an alcoholic.
Whereas if you have alcohol before like 15 or 16 years old,
you're usually a lifelong alcoholic.
And so that's why it's so important
to just keep kids away from drugs and alcohol
and all these different things.
They will destroy you.
And you know what?
Parents should be teaching them that.
I knew a parent one time that told me,
oh, I want my kids to have parties at the house
and we'll give them alcohol to give them a safe environment.
This is wicked.
And if you have that idea, never invite my kids over ever.
I don't ever want my kids to be in the quotes.
There's no such thing as a safe environment with alcohol.
It's foolishness, it's nonsense.
You're trying to minimize the effects of alcohol
and make it seem like it's cool.
It's not cool, it's poison, it's wicked.
And you know what?
Parents should be warning their kids from these things,
not literally handing it to them.
Says in verse 15, my son walk not thou in the way with them,
refrain thy foot from their path.
Notice again, he's warning his kids to stay away from them.
Chapter two, verse one, my son,
if thou will receive my words
and hide my commandments with thee
so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom
and apply thine heart to understanding,
yea, if thou cryest after knowledge
and liftest up thy voice for understanding,
if thou seekest her as silver
and searchest for her as as for hid treasures,
then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
Look, we should be telling our kids,
you need to get smart, read.
Hey, children, you should read.
You should read the Bible, you should read books,
you should cry after wisdom, cry after knowledge.
You wanna live a successful life, read a lot.
You don't wanna be successful, don't read.
And just be a degenerate that does drugs and alcohol,
smokes marijuana, and just hangs out with riff-raff,
and you'll be riff-raff.
You know what, if you wanna have a lot of success
in this life, it's the reading.
The reading of God's word.
And we need parents to encourage their children to read.
Chapter three, verse one, my son, forget not my law,
but let thine heart keep my commandments
for length of days and long life and peace
shall they add to thee.
Notice again, what is the emphasis here?
Keep the commandments to have a long life.
Why would parents tell their kids this?
Because they want their kids to have a long life.
Isn't this exactly what the essence is
in Deuteronomy chapter six?
Hey, you wanna have a long life?
You wanna be blessed?
You wanna prolong your days?
Keep my commandments.
And then parents are supposed to what?
My son, keep the commandments of God
so that you can have a long life,
so that you can have peace.
Verse 21, "My son, let not them depart from thine eyes.
Keep sound wisdom and discretion.
So shall they be life on thy soul and grace to thy neck."
Chapter four, verse one.
"Hear ye children the instruction of the father
and tend to no understanding."
I'm noticing a pattern here
and we're gonna hammer way more.
It's really important for kids to listen to their parents.
Why do you think the Bible is giving so many commandments
about this?
Because it's not automatic.
Because many children will not listen to their parents.
Many children are gonna go wayward.
Many children are not gonna do what's right.
And so we need to teach them
and encourage them to do the right thing.
Look at verse 10.
"Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings,
and the years of thy life shall be many."
Notice again, keeping the commandments.
What happens, you have a long life.
Verse 20, "My son, attend to my words,
incline thine ear unto my sayings."
Look at chapter five, verse one, "My son,
attend unto my wisdom and bow thine ear to my understanding,
that thou mayest regard discretion
and thy lips may keep knowledge."
Have you noticed it's just like chapter,
chapter two, verse one, my son,
chapter three, verse one, my son,
chapter four, verse one, my son,
chapter five, verse one, my son.
It's just like my son, my son, my children, my son,
my children, my son, why?
Because we're supposed to be teaching our children
the Bible diligently.
And children, you need to be listening to your parents
and paying attention to what your parents are saying, why?
So you can live a long life.
Verse seven, hear me now therefore, you children,
and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Chapter six, verse one, my son,
if thou be surety for thy friend,
thou stick in thy hand with a stranger,
thou art sneered with the words of thy mouth,
thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
You should be careful what oaths, what promises,
what loan agreements you entrap yourself in.
It's a dangerous thing that you can entrap yourself
for a long period of your life.
Verse 20, my son, keep thy father's commandment
and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Why is that written here?
Because many people will forsake the law of their mother.
They will go against their mother's instructions.
Chapter seven, verse one, my son,
keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee.
Keep my commandments and live,
and my law is the apple of thine eye.
Chapter 10, verse one, the Proverbs of Solomon,
a wise son maketh a glad father,
but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
You know, you as a child, you get to decide
if you're gonna be a wise son
or if you're gonna be a foolish son.
Your parents are gonna be very pleased if you're a wise son.
What will the wise son do?
He will hear the instruction of his father.
He will not forsake the law of his mother.
Whereas the foolish son will what?
Totally disregard what his parents says.
Doesn't care what his parents have to say.
Chapter 13, verse one.
A wise son hear his father's instruction,
but a scornor heareth not rebuke.
Boy, you know, sometimes if you just have a kid,
it doesn't matter how many times you yell at them.
It doesn't matter how many times you correct them.
It doesn't matter how many times you punish them.
They just won't hear it.
It's frustrating.
How many times do Christians do that to God?
God's just trying to correct them and instruct them
and teach them and they just won't listen.
And of course, that's gonna happen to parents as well.
Verse 24, "He that spared this rod hated his son,
but he that loveth him chasteth him betides."
Notice it's important for us
to physically discipline our children.
Chapter 15, verse 20, the Bible says,
"A wise son maketh a glad father,
but a foolish man despises his mother."
Anybody that dislikes his mom is a fool.
What does the Bible say?
Anybody that dislikes their parents,
dislikes their mom is a fool.
You should love your parents.
You should respect your parents.
You should listen to your parents.
Chapter 17, verse two,
"A wise servant shall have a rule over a son
that causes shame,
and shall have part of the inheritance
among the brethren."
You know, the Bible's saying like,
someone that's not even related,
but just does what's right,
is better than a son who just won't do what's right.
A son who's just embarrassing,
a son who's just a fool,
a son who's just a scorner,
a son who is just gonna chase away his parents,
says in verse 21, "He that beget of the fool
doeth it to his sorrow,
and the father of a fool hath no joy."
Not really much worse than, you know,
spending 18 years raising an idiot.
But it's gonna happen, it happens sometimes.
Verse 25, "A foolish son is a grief to his father
and bitterness to her that bear him."
You know, why are these verses in here?
Because it's trying to help you realize,
look, do you just want your parents to be sad
and disappointed for the rest of their life
because you're just an idiot?
Because you just wouldn't listen,
because you just wouldn't obey?
You know what?
You need to learn how to obey mom and dad
and do what they say and follow their rules.
And if you don't, look, you won't live a long life.
You won't be successful.
Your parents won't be pleased with you.
God won't be pleased with you.
You must obey mom and dad in order to live a long life
and be prosperous and have success
and for your parents to be pleased with you.
So the Bible is emphasizing, you know what?
Parents need to be constantly teaching their kids
this stuff at a young age.
Verse 19, look at verse 18, chapter 19, verse 18.
Chasing thy son while there is hope
and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
You know, while they're little, there's hope.
Sometimes it gets to a point
where there's not really much more you can do.
You know, once they've matured,
once they've grown up,
once they've turned their heart off, their mind off,
I mean, there's not really much more you can do
and that's frustrating.
That's why it's important while they're young
to teach them and to train them,
to give them the best chance that they can for success.
They have free will, I'm not a Calvinist,
but at the end of the day, you know what?
If you want your kids to have the best chance of success,
you're gonna teach them, you're gonna train them,
you're gonna discipline them,
and you're gonna chase in them while there is hope.
While they're young, there's hope.
Get them saved at a young age, get them baptized,
teach them to become a fundamental Baptist,
and God willing, they'll stick with it.
But at the end of the day,
if you just don't even put any effort and energy in,
chances of them turning out well is just very slim to none.
I've said this before, but I'll say it again.
It's kinda like, if you do nothing,
it's very unlikely they'll turn out good.
If you do everything,
it's very likely that they'll probably turn out good.
Obviously there's no guarantees, you can only hope.
But why would I not wanna give my children
the best chance that they can?
I want my kids to have the best chance of success
that they possibly can,
and I wanna teach them and train them.
Verse 27, "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction
that causeth to err from the words of knowledge."
This is an important point.
You shouldn't listen to idiots.
What does it say?
"Cease, my son, to hear the instruction
that causeth to err."
Do not listen to idiots and fools
and bozos and trolls and weirdos.
You know, it will destroy you.
People, you know, I know you think you're tough
and you're so strong and you're so smart.
You know what?
Listening to idiots and fools will hurt you and harm you.
People cannot handle this stuff.
And you know, it will, their word doth eat as a canker
is what the Bible says.
It's like a cancer.
It's like a disease.
It's something that comes in, just affects your mind
and warps your opinions, warps your heart,
warps your affections, warps your personality.
You can't just sit there and listen to Andrew Tate
for hours and hours and not get affected by his nonsense.
You can't sit there and listen to Nick Flentes
for hours and hours and not start hating women
and not start having flamboyant tendencies
and not just being a weirdo.
Look, and you ladies, you can't just sit there
and just watch the desperate housewives
and the real housewives of whatever show
for just hours and hours and hours and it not affect you.
You'll get that covetous bug.
You'll get that just nagging, annoying boss babe bug
or whatever.
You'll get that feminism bug in your mind.
You know, the conservative women online,
they're fake and they're not real.
I recently saw this video and it's honestly,
it is shocking even though it's not,
but there was this one popular online girl personality.
She worked for Ben Shapiro.
So you already know that was pretty good.
Her name was Brett Cooper.
Who's ever heard of this person?
She had a pretty popular show while on his network
called like, I think it was called The Comet Section
with Brett Cooper or something.
Eventually she got pushed out,
I think over the Israel issue or whatever.
Now she has her own show.
And a lot of people are just acting like she's super cool
now because she's, you know, said some like mildly,
you know, mildly like antagonistic things
towards Israel or something, like mild.
But I saw some video of her.
She was basically talking about how her and her mom
went to go see some kind of a witch,
some kind of a medium who was bringing people back
from the dead and she was like interacting with them
and she thought it was super cool.
And look, you know, you listen to these online women
or whatever, look, none of them are conservative.
They're all liberal, they're all feminist.
They're not, tradwives online doesn't exist, okay?
It's an oxymoron.
And so you sit here, no, no, no,
I'm listening to this tradwife
or this online conservative woman,
doesn't exist because the conservative woman's
in the kitchen making her husband a sandwich.
You know, there are all these like little boss babes
out there, they're gonna teach you feminism.
They're like, oh, I'm not a fourth wave feminist,
I'm a third wave.
Look, I don't want the first, second, third
or fourth wave, all right?
I wanna put them back in the kitchen.
Oh man, how dare you?
Well, you know what?
I love my wife and I think that she's great
and that's why I want her in the kitchen.
She makes some awesome cookies, man.
I'll just tell you what.
For the Baptist Bias show the other week,
she made us some cookies and they were excellent, all right?
I mean, my wife's awesome, but you know what?
Why would I want my wife to get dolled up
and dress in some skanky outfit and go online
and put pictures of her body and everything all online
and talk about how she's this conservative trad wife
or whatever for a bunch of guys to go lust after?
I don't want that.
My wife is for me and I want my wife to serve me
and my children and teach my children the word of God.
And you know what, you cannot just listen
to these type of people and not get affected.
You can't listen to heretics and weirdos.
And look, why would you even want to listen to losers?
You know, it's like, sometimes people just surprise you.
They'll go listen to the trash can
for hours and hours and hours,
and then they become trash just like them.
And sometimes you have to wonder like,
what do you even see in this person?
You know, what do you see in this individual?
Like, are they producing good fruit?
Are they being steadfast in their doctrine?
Are they getting a bunch of people saved?
You know, it's just like, why would you wanna listen
to these type of weirdos and these type of freaks?
- You know, one specifically I learned recently,
you know, Tyler Baker is a guy that got thrown out
of Faithful We're Baptist Church,
becoming like a oneness heretic.
Well, now he's completely changed his doctrine again,
'cause he went to all that weird oneness ideology.
Now, he has changed the name of his church.
Now it's Sovereign Grace Church.
Just not even a Baptist anymore.
Just full, just like a full Calvinist or something like that,
probably.
Doesn't even upload his sermons anymore.
Pretty much just uploads a random sermon here or there
or whatever.
And you know, like people fall off the cliff
to follow this guy.
And I'm thinking like, what are you following?
You wanna now become a Calvinist?
You wanna now not go out soul-witting?
You wanna now not reach anybody?
I mean, what positive impact
is Tyler Baker having in the world?
I mean, what is his fruit?
It's like, even let's just say he was right
on all the stupid doctrine, which he's not.
It's like, what are you even,
what is the benefit of his doctrine being right?
You know, you look at these like tiny churches,
these people that have attacked the new IMB
and hate the new IMB,
they have their tiny little 30 person church
with no soul winning trips, no missions trips,
no good conferences, no good sermons,
not changing the culture,
pushing all kinds of weird feminism ideology.
It's like, what are they accomplishing?
Oh, but I just wanna go listen to their sermons.
They're so nice.
They've never said, you know,
let's go brand and find the pulpit.
Okay, but what, you know, what are you accomplishing?
What are you even benefiting?
Like, why would I wanna follow this guy off of a cliff
where I'm gonna accomplish literally nothing?
Look, I'm all for it.
If you find a church and you find a movement
and you find pastors preaching harder sermons,
better sermons, more against feminism
and more against the Jews and more pro-soul winning,
and they're having bigger missions trips
and they're getting more people saved
and they're bringing more new people in,
please join them.
Who am I to stand in the way
of you doing a big work for God?
But why are you gonna go rummage in the trash?
Why are you gonna go and just be a loser
with all of the Calvinist losers?
Look, I grew up in a church that was non-denom
and they hated the Calvinists even.
They call them the frozen chosen.
You know why they're called the frozen chosen?
Because they accomplish literally nothing.
They just wanna sit there and sound smart.
And let me tell you something about Calvinism.
It is the religion for pseudo-intellectuals.
What is a pseudo-intellectual?
It's someone that's not smart
wants to pretend like they're smart. They're not going to actually read books themselves.
They're not going to actually study themselves. They're just going to go read a commentary that
someone else did work and just repeat and parrot what they said, understanding neither what they
say nor whereof they affirm. But they just desire to be teachers of the law. They just desire to
have a following. They desire to be lazy, if you ask me. You know what Calvinism appeals to? Being
prideful and lazy. It is the prideful man's religion. It is the lazy man's religion.
And look, I'm sure there's plenty of Calvinists that are saved, but let me tell you something.
They're selfish, they're lazy, and they're prideful. And you know what? I don't want to listen to them.
I want nothing to do with Calvinism. I'm not going to become a Calvinist. I'm not changing my doctrine.
Isn't it interesting that our church has the exact same doctrinal statement from day one to now?
Why? Because we're steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.
We know what is right. We're not going to get off of that path. And when someone starts to try and
attack, you know, the core doctrines of the faith and soul winning and all the things that we've
known that are right. What does the Bible say here? "Cease my son to hear the instruction that
caused it to err from the words of knowledge." Don't get off the King James Bible. Don't get
off salvation by faith. Don't get off soul winning. "Ah, well, I just, you know, you're just going out
there and praying with me. Just one, two, three, you know, call upon the name of the Lord with me."
Yeah, that's what I'm doing. How are you getting people saved? How is your Calvinism getting anyone
saved? I mean, if you're right, no one's going to heaven. It's like, if we're right, thousands are
going to heaven. If you're right, no one's going to heaven. Which ideology do you want to have?
I mean, the Bible's crystal clear that there's going to be people of all nations in heaven.
How are you going to get those people saved with your frozen chosen? You're not, because you're not
of the truth. You're not doing what the Bible teaches whatsoever. Of course, you know, we need
to be careful who we listen to. You know you should listen to mom and dad. That's who you
should listen to. Look at what it says in chapter 20 verse 11, "Even a child is known by his
doings, whether his work be pure and whether it be right." You know, children, let me tell you
something. You are responsible for your actions. You are responsible for your actions. The Bible
tells us we know what you're like based on what you do even as a child. And you know, you can see
it. You can see some kids, like all of my kids are very different. You can tell some of the kids,
you know, are a little bit more responsible than others. Some work harder than others.
Some are more diligent than others. Some are more caring than others. Some are more selfish than
others. They all have their own little personalities. And let me tell you something. If they stay on
that course, they're going to be like that as an adult. You know, that's why it's important,
you know, as a child to form the right habits and the right mindset and to follow God's
commandments. And if you have problems with being selfish or lazy or not diligent, you need to work
on that because it will carry forward in your life into your adult life. Children are responsible
for their actions. Let me tell you something, teenagers who don't get saved and die will go
to hell. I do not believe that you can be a teenager and just you get to go to heaven
automatically because you didn't get saved. No, no, no, you need to get saved on your own.
And you need to choose to get baptized on your own and you need to choose to serve God on your own
because no, you're personally responsible for your actions. You know, what does the psychology tell
you? Get on the couch and what's the first question they ask you? Tell me about your childhood.
What did your father say? What did your mother say? You know, Freud is a fraud. All right. Look,
is your environment important? Yes. I'm not against the environment. Let me tell you something.
Free will is a stronger force than your environment. Here's one proof that I would offer to you.
You can go watch our movie, LGBT Terrace, but there's a twin study on homosexuals in the film
that we talk about, and it proves a lot of points. One is it proves that it's not genetic at all,
because you have identical twins. There was an identical twin study where they recognized that
there's only about 13% of the time or something like this that when one twin is a homosexual,
the other one was, which if it was based on genetics, it would be 100% every single time.
But in the general populace, we understand that the homosexual population is not 13%. It's much
smaller than that. You know, maybe four or five percent. I don't know. We're just throwing out
numbers. Maybe it's even smaller. Maybe it's two, three percent. But here's the thing.
If environment is the most important factor, then what we would see is we would see it being like
80% or 90% are homosexual based on the environmental factor. But when it's only 13%,
that means that the environment was four or five times less important than their own free will.
Their free will is still more important in that particular scenario than their environment was.
Did the environment have an impact? Yes, it did. But you know what was bigger impact was their own
personal free will. Why? Because free will is the most important factor and you are going to choose
your life and your length of days is based on your observance of your parents' commandments,
your parents' rules. Not your brother or sister, you. Do you obey mom and dad? Do you do what's
right? Children are known by their doings, whether his work be pure and whether it be right. Look at
verse 20. "Whoso curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness."
You do not want to be someone that curses your father or mother. 22 verse 6, chapter 22, look
at verse 6. "Train up a child the way he should go when he's old, he will not depart from it."
You know, we need to teach our children how to behave and how to be a good Christian and, you
know, I believe this is a general promise that if we do what's right, God is going to help our
children to stay on that course of action. You know, my parents were very dedicated to the things
of God and very spiritual, and you know what, I believe that had a major impact on me. But you know,
for me, I've seen this, and again, I'm not trying to shame people, but I have people in my personal
family that have the same parents and they're not on the same path. So is it always guaranteed?
No, it's not always guaranteed. But let me say this, hey, whenever you do what's right,
you will have a positive impact on your children. And I do believe if my parents had been even more
strict or more fundamental or more like a bad this, I probably would have been better off. I
wouldn't have been worse off. I would have been better off. But at the end of the day, why are
some kids better than others? Because some kids are better than others. Because some kids choose
to do what's right and other kids choose to not do what's right. And you know what, as parents,
we need to train them up so that the good ones will be on a great trajectory for their life.
That's what the Bible is instructing us here. Says in verse number 15, foolishness is bound.
In the heart of a child, but the rod of corrections will drive it far from them.
So they start bad. You got to beat them to be good. All right. Says in verse 13, look at chapter
23, verse 13, withhold not correction from the child for thou beatest him with a rod. He shall
not die. Thou shall beat him with a rod and shall deliver his soul from hell. My son, if thy heart be
wise, my heart shall rejoice even mine. He's saying, Hey, I'm going to, I'm going to beat you.
Hoping that it'll be wise. And then when you are wise, I'm going to be really happy. But it's,
it's frustrating when you discipline and you rebuke and you correct, and they just won't hear it.
They just won't listen. And then it's going to bring a lot of sadness to that parent.
It says in verse 19, hear thou my son and be wise and guide my heart in the way. Verse 22,
hearken to my father that begat thee and despise not my mother when she is old. Look at verse 24,
the father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice. And he that began to the wise child shall have
joy of him. My father and my mother shall be glad. And she that bear thee shall rejoice. My son,
give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways. Chapter 24 verse 13, my son eat thou honey
because it is good and the honeycomb which is sweet to thy taste. Look at verse 21, my son fear
thou the Lord and the king and men will not with them that are given to change. I don't know like
the guys keep changing the names of their churches. It's like I mean even Joe Jones just completely
changes the name of his church, deconstructs, turns away from being a Baptist. Let me tell you
something, Baptists are right folks and I didn't I didn't start Baptist but I'm gonna I'm gonna finish
Baptist. And you know what for some of our kids that are starting Baptist we need to teach them
why they should be Baptist because let me tell you something all these deconstructionists
are just following the same pattern of people before. Where do you think the nom-de-nom churches
came from? All the deconstructionists. Where do you think all the Calvinists came from? All the lazy
prideful deconstructionists. It's just a vicious cycle that keeps happening and we need to teach
our kids what's right so they don't go down these dark pathways and meddle with them that are given
to change, constantly changing the doctrine, constantly changing their viewpoint. And look,
how is it even right? How is it right to be ordained as a fundamental Baptist pastor with
all this doctrine and then completely change your doctrine and then continue pastoring? Because you
weren't ordained, you're ordained some Calvinist retard. So how do you get to be that when that's
not what you ordained, what you were commissioned to be? I think that if you completely change
doctrine, you should have to get reordained by people that actually believe that for it to be
legitimate. You know, if I was ordained as a Pentecostal preacher, I think I should have
to like retrain under the Baptist for a while to end up becoming a Baptist preacher. You shouldn't
just have some guy randomly come out and be like, "All right, before ordaining you believe anything
weird? Well, I think the earth's flat. All right, we'll ordain you anyways." You know, no, maybe you
should actually like sit down and shut up and actually learn for a while before you actually
become ordained as a pastor again. Okay, does that mean that we shouldn't be sensitive to the truth
and be willing to change and evolve a little bit? Yeah, we should. But if you're changing the core
doctrine of the faith, you're changing into a new religion. And you know what? I don't want anything
to do with people that are metal, that are given to change. I don't want to meddle with them. I
want nothing to do with those people. They will destroy themselves. Look at verse 21. Oh, we had
that. Look at chapter 27 verse 11. The Bible says my son be wise and make my heart glad that I may
answer him that reproacheth me. Chapter 28 verse 24. Who so robeth his father or his mother and
say that is no transgression the same as the companion of a destroyer? Yeah, someone that
steals from their parents is wicked as hell. Why would you ever want to be friends with that person?
Why would you want to send them money? Verse chapter 29 verse 15. The rod and reproof give
wisdom but a child left to himself bringing his mother to shame. Obviously by not disciplining
your children you're pretty much setting them up for failure. Verse 17. Correct thy son and he
shall give thee rest. Yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. Chapter 30 verse 11. There is a
generation that curses their father and does not bless their mother. Look at verse 17. The eye that
mocketh at his father and despises to obey his mother. The ravens of the valley shall pick it
out and the young eagles shall eat it. That's intense. Verse 1 of chapter 31. Here we're in.
The words of King Lemuel the prophecy that his mother taught him. What my son and what the son
of my will and what the son of my vows. Give not thy strength unto women nor thy ways to that
which destroyeth kings. Again this mother doesn't want her son to be destroyed. And what is she
going to preach against? Whores and alcohol. Whores and alcohol which destroys a lot of men.
Go back to Deuteronomy chapter 6. Go back to Deuteronomy chapter 6. Hey we took a long
detour here but this is the essence of Deuteronomy chapter 6 is that we need to teach our children.
We need to teach them diligently. Here's an idea. How about just read a proverb to your kids you
know on a regular basis you know it's it's the 10th day of the month read Proverbs 10 or whatever
and emphasize one of the proverbs to your kids teach them about this and instruct them and
and give them you know some some knowledge as regarding to the Bible. The Proverbs is a great
place in the Bible to go and to teach your kids just how to be a good son stay away from trouble.
It repeats itself a lot and you know that tells me that we need the same information over and over
and over again and we often forget it and and we're very foolish you know that's why children need
to be disciplined often they'd be told no often they need to be instructed in the same things
often I mean young men have pretty much the same temptations the same problems. So now in verse 8
the Bible says and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand and they shall be as frontless
between thine eyes and thou shalt write them upon the post of thy house and on thy gates.
This is talking about the commandments. Look I don't think you can take verse 8 literally even
though the Jews do okay the Jews will literally strap the Bible to their body or they'll strap
like this mini Bible or their head which is so small no one can even read it so it's just like
what's the point but if you think about it like you know having in your hand it's kind of like
having the Bible in your hand and if you memorize the scripture it's kind of having it in between
your eyes right it's in your head you have it on it on your brain you're thinking about it you can
sing it you can quote it it's just saying look God wants you to be constantly thinking about the
bible having the bible accessible to you but you know I think the second part could be literal as
well you know there's nothing wrong with decorating with verses on the on your walls and verses
in public places and having you know the bible just out there for people to see and to read
and to meditate upon we should be you know decorating with the bible not with mary statues
not with israel flags right we should have verses like I would rather have a synagogue of satan
than some giant israel flag up here okay that's what we should be emphasizing is the bible verse
10 and it shall be when the lord thy god shall have brought thee in the land which you swear
unto thy fathers to abraham to isaac and to jacob to give thee great and goodly cities which thou
buildest not and houses full of all good things which thou fillest not and wells dig which thou
digest not vineyards and olive trees which thou plantest not when thou shall have eaten and be
full then beware lest thou forget the lord which brought thee forth out of the land of egypt from
the house of bondage now one thing you know the bible says is the wealth of the sinners laid up for
the just you know the canaanites built these big cities these big civilizations these great areas
for the children of israel to basically just walk in and just take over to be very prosperous to
have a lot of success but you know success and prosperity can cause you to become prideful and
forget god you know i've seen it and and i think it'll continue to happen sometimes what people do
is they'll be kind of failing at life they'll get plugged into a church like ours they'll learn a
lot of bible they'll fix their marriage let's fix their family they'll get on a good track they'll
start actually working really hard and they'll start making a lot of money and then because
of the success they have in their life they'll just kind of fade away from church not realizing
where that came from not realizing that it was the word of god being preached unto them and then
reading the bible that actually gave them the tools of success and the prosperity that they have and
then forgetting god and forgetting where those things came from and you know we don't want to
be those kind of people that hey once we get our heads on right and we start making good decisions
and we get the wisdom that we just abandon god the bound abandon the house of god and stop serving
god just to go serve mammon you know we're not on earth to serve mammon in our own belly we're here
to serve the lord jesus christ and we're supposed to serve him with our own heart mind soul strength
everything that we got we're not to forget god don't allow prosperity to cause you to forget god
you know and one thing is we didn't build this nation we didn't build america you know like
tons of young people and tons of people are just like you know lots of black people like we built
america it's like frankly speaking you built nothing okay literally and how's detroit going
you built you building that too but it's like look even even their ancestors didn't build
everything but look yes a lot of people built america and we're standing on the shoulders of
giants here okay we're standing on the shoulders of giants that have built this wonderful country
that we live in and because we live in such a prosperous successful nation what is the tendency
what is the proclivity of mankind it's to forget god it's to forget why our nation was successful
it's to forget why we have the laws that we have it's to forget why we have the colleges that we
have i mean most people don't even realize that the vast majority of our our ivy league schools
were started as bible colleges harvard was a bible college to send out missionaries to preach
the gospel and now it's just some kind of a wicked leftist jew run organization why because they
forgot the god of the bible why do we have the laws that we have because of the word of god
because they were running away from catholicism and yet now people think catholicism is the answer
to saving our country and saving our nation why it's because they've forgotten where we've come
from and they've forgotten the success and the prosperity that we have you know and again i love
black people i'm not against them but a lot of them complain about slavery and being in america
but it's like did you forget where you came from you came from africa you can go back whenever you
want i mean think about it is anyone stopping them from buying a plane ticket right now you
can buy a 1400 or 1500 dollar one-way ticket and move there right now why are they not doing it
because it's not better it's that simple and look you live in this prosperous nation now
and yeah maybe the the method by which you got here was bad sinful wrong we don't like it
but at the end of the day you're here in a prosperous nation why can't you just bless
god that you live here would you have rather your ancestors were not put into slavery and
that you're still in africa right now because i guarantee none of them want that yet they want
to sit here and complain why don't you just praise god for the fact that you're in a prosperous
nation because you know none of us chose where we're going to be born hey we live in a prosperous
nation and we have the bible we should just thank god that we live in this prosperous nation
instead of complaining about all these past issues look you live in a city that you didn't build you
drive on streets that you didn't pave you use electrical wiring that you didn't wire up or
plumbing that you didn't plumb i mean you didn't you don't even know how to do anything you love
that little precious phone you don't have those tiny little asian hands over there putting all
those little components together i mean you literally are just riding on the coattails of
so many other people and let me tell you you're riding on the coattails of god god is the reason
why we have success and prosperity and blessing and you know what that's who we should be praising
and thanking you know if anything you know reparations we need to be giving more money
back to god for all the stuff that he gave us not to some group of people or whatever
we need to be giving back to the church house if you ask me because that's the one that gave us
all the success and the blessing that we have and we better not forget the lord hey and you know
what this church is pretty good and it's getting better after a while you could start to forget
what god gave you and giving us a really great church and you could forget how how awful some
of the churches are out there like you know pastor brewsman he has been reaching a lot of new people
and i remember i've seen a lot of they're like people are just saying like hey i live in tennessee
or i live in timbuktu or whatever it's like what church should i go to and i'm thinking like man
you know telling them to go to some like super pro zionist old iabee church they're going to
probably hate that they're like that's not what i signed up for and it's like the divide between
a lot of like old iabee churches and us right now is actually pretty big it's actually and it's
getting like wider in many cases and becoming a lot different does that mean that there isn't
some great old iabee churches out there i'm sure there are and i'm sure you could hold your nose
and get over some of the zionism and whatever but at the end of the day you need to realize hey maybe
god gave you this great church and you shouldn't stick your nose up at it and forget god who gave
you that kind of a great church and great gave you an opportunity to go to somewhere where you can
serve god and go soul winning and have all these wonderful things that we have we need to not
forget the god that delivered us from all kinds of just censorship and protests and evictions and
just you know all kinds of crazy weird things i mean can you i mean how can you go to this church
for like almost a decade being protested at one point like three years straight being protested
just like every service being run around all over town going to hearse going to wataga going all
over going from hotel to hotel doing baptisms randomly wherever having just crazy just
persecution a weird thing and then just just walk away from it all that's weird that's weird it's
just like the children of israel they just they put the door they put the blood on the doorpost
and they walk through the red sea and then they're just going through all these miracles and they're
like i want to go back to egypt i want some cucumbers man cucumbers of the old ib right the
cucumbers of the non-denom the cucumbers of calvinism or something and it's just like bro
it's not what it's all cracked up to be you're about to enter into the promised land a land
flowing with milk and honey you know stick with it but boy sometimes you get spoiled rotten don't
you you get spoiled rotten and you forget you know where you came from and you just you just kind
of like piss away all the good stuff that god gave you verse 13 thou shalt fear the lord thy god and
serve him and shalt swear by his name you shall not go after other gods or the gods of the people
which are around about you for the lord thy god is a jealous god among you lest the anger the lord
thy god be killed against thee and destroy thee from off the face of the earth you know oprah
winfrey famously was mad at the bible for calling god a jealous god she said the reason why she
doesn't like the god of the bible is because he's jealous but the thing is is jealousy is a good
thing now in our modern vernacular we use jealousy as a synonym to the word envy but biblically
speaking it's not used that way biblically jealousy and envy are not the same word envy is is
desiring that which is not yours envy is desiring that which is not yours jealousy biblically is
being protective of what you possess it's being protective of what you possess there's nothing
wrong with being protective of what you possess we are god's possession and he is protective of us
and he doesn't want to share us with false religion with false gods or some kind of atrocity
he wants us to be his people and dedicated him just like a husband wants to be jealous for his
wife he doesn't want to share his wife with another it is his wife she is only to him wise
are jealous for their husbands it's only their husband they don't want to share him with someone
else and so that's why it's important to realize hey jealousy is a good thing and you know what our
god is a jealous god he doesn't want to share us with false religion verse 16 you should not
tempt the lord your god as he tempted him in massa he shall diligently keep the commandments of the
lord your god in his testimonies and his statues which he command to have commanded thee and also
do that which is right and good and the sight of the lord that it may be well with thee and that
thou mayst go in and possess the good land which the lord swear under thy fathers to cast out all
thine enemies from before thee as the lord has spoken and when thy son asketh thee in time to
come saying what mean the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments was the lord our god
hath commanded you then thou shalt say unto thy son we were pharaoh's bondmen in egypt and the
lord brought us out of egypt with a mighty hand and the lord showed signs and wonders great and
sore upon egypt upon vero and upon all his household before our eyes and he brought us
out from dents and he that he might bring us in to give us the land which he swear under our fathers
and the lord commanded us to do all these statutes to fear the lord our god for our god for our good
always that he might preserve us alive as it is at this day and it shall be our righteousness if
we observe to do all these commandments before the lord our god as he has commanded us so i want to
say i'm not going to for second time i'm not going to belabor this point anymore but the bible does
tell us to be righteous the bible says be therefore perfect even as our father which is in heaven is
perfect the bible tells us to be holy the bible tells us that we're supposed to uh try to be
righteous and again that doesn't mean that we can be good enough to go to heaven you know all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags in comparison to what jesus christ has done for us that doesn't
mean that our righteousnesses are bad it's just by comparison they're not good enough they're like
a dirty rag meaning that it's insufficient and cleaning us you can't clean your body with a
dirty rag you need a clean rag that's what jesus christ represents you know isn't it interesting
that you'd have to take a clean rag to clean off your dirtiness but what happens you transfer the
dirtiness to the clean rag and then you become clean and the rag becomes dirty so that's what
jesus did for us he was that clean rag and we transferred our dirtiness to it so he became sin
for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of god in him but that does not absolve
us from being righteous in our daily lives god still wants us to be righteous and to follow his
commandments and to live the longest life we can possibly you believe in the lord jesus christ and
you're saved and you have eternal life but you know what your temporary life is based on keeping
god's commandments your your physical life is based on following god's commandments and we need
to do that the point though that i wanted to make here and i kind of alluded to it here for in a
second but i want to make a second application is again you know think about it this way you know
yeah slavery is bad it's it's wrong it's not biblical and we and you know a lot of black
people were taken out of africa and brought into america but you know weren't a lot of those black
people given the gospel and didn't a lot of them get saved as a result of that and and they were
taken out of paganism tribalism all kinds of weird nonsense that was going on in africa and so god
through a strong hand may have delivered them just like look even the children of israel were in
literal slavery as well for a while in egypt and had to be greatly afflicted by pharaoh even when
they were delivered you know at one point they had to gather straw by night just to even be
delivered out of them you could argue that hey a lot of people from africa had to go through some
hard labor and some hard bondage as a result of coming to america and the work they did but you
know what there was still probably a blessing in that and the fact they got saved and not all of
them obviously but i'm just saying a lot of them it's probably a higher likelihood that there's
that those people are saved here in america than they are if they were still in africa
and here's the thing let's compare this to other people too other people groups are in america
why they were with a strong hand taken out of europe and brought into america by god we were
taken out of the strong grip of catholicism and the church of england which was extremely
oppressive to god's people and we were brought with a mighty strong hand of god to build this
great and mighty nation and dedicate it unto god and so we should look at those things and say hey
why do we have this statute why do we have this law why was it in the 16 17 and 1800s dad why
did we have leviticus 20 13 is the law because god with a mighty hand brought us out of catholicism
and brought us out of anglicanism anglicanism whatever all of those false religions over there
in europe and allowed us to serve god why did we have the country we had why were we predominantly
christian why was jfk the first catholic ever nominated as president why did it take hundreds
and hundreds of years for this first catholic to ever be nominated why was it that not until
the late 1800s could you even be a catholic in the state of georgia we're supposed to look back on
the statutes and remember where we came from and why we are here so that we don't forget the god
of the bible and why we exist today why do we have church the way we do why are we kings aims
only well we should learn where those bad manuscripts came from in the 1800s where we
got the west cotton hort and we got the modern versions and we should understand why we use the
king's aims bible we should understand why we believe salvation by faith we should understand
why we go soul winning we should understand why we are a baptist and not a methodist or not a
presbyterian or not a church of christ or not a mormon or not a catholic you know it's funny
there was this this one guy that masquerades as a baptist but he's really just a catholic online
and he criticizes like all of my my sermons all the time and he was he always makes fun of me for
the trinity but it was funny because he's just saying like man you know if if pastor shelly
well she doesn't call me pastor she's just shelly was you know and back in the you know 1600s or
1500s or 1400s if he had these views the catholic church would kill him and i'm thinking like and
okay you know what the catholic church would also kill me if i believed in the heliocentric
model the catholic church would also kill me if i believed in salvation by faith because they
literally slit tendel's throat and burned him at the stake and the first accusation labeled against
him levied against him was first he maintained that that faith alone justifies oh boy you know if you
went back to the 1400s you know the catholics would all burn you at the stake for your doctrinal views
yeah that's why we left that's why we came to america that's why i live in texas that's why i
don't live in rome and let me tell you something if catholicism is so great why don't you move to
mexico you can have all the catholicism you could ever wish for why is it that you're not just
beating the door down to go to mexico right now because catholicism is a sucky religion
because catholicism is a false religion catholicism didn't build this world you know what it just tears
it down and yeah maybe it was a step up from the incas and the aztecs or whatever but let me tell
you something it's still a false religion and it doesn't produce the results that the king jane's
bible does and it doesn't produce the results that the baptist religion produces and look i'm
just telling you you can see the fruit a tree is known by its fruit wisdom is justified over
children wherever the king james bible wherever the word of god is there will be success and
prosperity god's hand and favor will be there when people institute god's laws they will be
the most successful area when there's liberty for the christian faith you have success and
prosperity in that area and where it is the most illegal to have a bible where is the most illegal
to go soloing where does the most illegal to have my viewpoints will be the darkest places on the
earth north korea china and some islamic country oh don't you know with your views uh in islam
they'd kill you yep in north korea they'd kill you yep in china they would kill you yep i mean
the catholics would kill you yeah that's why i don't like catholics and look i'm not saying that i
despise the persons but you know i despise the religion for sure and you know most catholics
don't even know anything they really know nothing they haven't read anything it's real obvious with
their religion and you know we can win them over and we can get them saved and we can get them on
the bible let me tell you something i'm not trying to go back to st agustin i'm not trying to go back
to the church fathers i don't want to be thomas aquinas i don't want to be in the dark ages where
we just say shut up and believe us because our our church fathers told us so no no i have you know
the church fathers i follow the apostle john and peter and paul that's that's the ones i follow
and let me tell you something we need to not forget where we came from and when our son asks
us we need to tell him hey this is why we have our country hey dad why do we have the statue watch
the sodomite deception with me why do we have the bible we have watch the preserved bible with me
why is our church here let's watch lgbt terrace and i'll tell you why our church is here right
i mean shouldn't we need to be teaching our children and you know i'm not trying to do less
of this i'm trying to do more of this we need to be diligent we need to teach our kids where we
came from and you know i think most of us need a history lesson too most of us need to remember
where we came from and why we're here and not despise why we're here either you know all this
revision is history and making it so bad and so awful and so evil and oh man you displaced all
the native americans but you know what i guarantee most of us have some native american blood in us
and a lot of us are saved hey i'm part jerarchy who in here has some native american blood oh yeah
hands all over the building right you're the ones that didn't raise you and you probably do too right
you're probably a jew too and you probably have a black uncle and whatever you know you don't even
realize it we're all kind we're all one blood anyways all right but at the end of the day you
know colonization didn't hurt anything it only made it better don't don't get so so mad at history
and whatever why don't you just praise god for colonization why don't you praise god for the
king james bible why don't you praise god that even if he brought you out of some area in a in a
crazy way that you can just be thankful anyways you know many irish people sold themselves into
slavery into america just so they could make it into america and they're as white as as dylan
awes you know pastor awes right they're as white as a piece of paper you know with their red
freckle hair you know people just they get so mad about the dumbest things you know and who cares
about someone being a slave 500 years ago or a thousand years you know you're not a slave right
now so quit trying to act like one quit trying to be a victim you know you live in america you're
free you have a bible you're saved you know what praise god for what you have and let's do something
with it all right and let's teach our children too let's go some prayer thank you to the father
so much for the bible thank you for what you've given us thank you for america thank you for
giving us the king james bible thank you for giving us a church where we can preach the whole
bible right now thank you for giving us a church where we can go out and preach the gospel freely
thank you for giving us a church where we can be around like-minded believers thank you for giving
us so many children in this room there's so many families that are so blessed with so many children
i pray that you would help us to teach them to train them to discipline them i pray that you'd
help the children to get the foolishness out of their hearts and their minds that they would
listen to their mom they'd listen to their dad i pray that you'd help us to not forget why we're
here that we could appreciate we can appreciate the works that you've done to get us to where we
are we can be thankful for the salvation that we have and the country that we have and and all the
blessings that we have in this country and i pray that instead of being bitter about things of the
past but rather we would just do what we can now to make the future better and that we would bless
our children with the knowledge that you've given us and in jesus name we pray amen amen our last
song this evening is page 443 dwelling in beulah land i'm sorry page 449 dwelling in beulah land
449 49 dwelling in newland 49 trusting jesus for baptism this evening have you trusted christ
your savior baptized in the name of the father son and holy ghost buried in lightness of his
death days to walk in newness of life make sure to congratulate our baptism this evening you are