Thank you very much.
Thank you.
It's the same way, man.
Deep breaths.
Alright folks, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
It is that time.
So we're going to go ahead and get started.
If you'd find a seat and grab a hymnal.
If you grab your hymnal's turn, our first hymn this morning
will be hymn number 65
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65,
6-5
just over in the glory land.
Thank you.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Hymn number 65, 6-5
just over in the glory land.
Amen, let's pray.
Heavenly Father we thank you for this day
we thank you for the opportunity to gather together
and sing praises under your name.
I pray that you'd be with us for this service
that everything would be done decently
and in order that you'd fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit
for a bold sermon this morning
and just incline your ear to us
as we sing out praises unto you.
These things we pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
Alright for our next hymn this morning
turn if you would to Hymn number 4
The Way of the Cross Leads Home.
Hymn number 4
The Way of the Cross Leads Home
I do want to draw your attention
at the very last line
which is going to be on the top of the second page
there's two fermatas or as
Brother Salvador has taught me, owl eyes
is another way that people probably know it by.
There's one over go and the.
We're going to hold go
the is going to be, we're just going to sing it straight through.
So, sweet to
know as I onward
go
the way of the cross
leads home.
We're going to do it that way, that's kind of how we practiced it
so if you just have any questions
watch me or Brother Salvador.
Number 4, The Way of the Cross Leads Home.
I must needs go home
by the way of the cross
there's no other way
but this
I shall there
inside of the
gates of life
if the way of the cross
I missed
the way of the
cross leads home
the way
of the cross leads home
it is
sweet to know
as I onward
go
the way of the cross
leads home
I must needs go on
in the blood sprinkled way
the cap and the
safe you're drawn
if I ever
climb to the
heights of life
where the soul is at home
with God
the way of the
cross leads home
the way
of the cross leads home
it is
sweet to know
as I onward
go
the way of the cross
leads home
then I bid farewell
to the way of the
world to walk
in evermore
for my
Lord says come and
I seek my home
where He waits at the open
door
the way of the
cross leads home
the way
of the cross leads home
it is
sweet to know
as I onward
go
the way of the cross
leads home
Amen
Good morning, thank you so much for coming
to Steadfast Baptist Church. If you need a
bulletin, just slip your hand nice
and high and one of our ushers
can come by and get you a bulletin
and
we have 1 John chapter 2
verse 5 there for bio memory verse
if you want to work on that. Also
on the inside we have our service
and soul winning times
as well as our church stats
The fifth Sunday
fellowship is
October 2nd
and the theme is to be
determined so that sounds pretty
ominous but I'm sure
it will be fun right? And then also
we have our expecting ladies continue
to pray for the reeds
we have some upcoming events
the 17th is the
Steadfast Zoo field trip
and on the 22nd
I'll be back that Thursday
preaching
October 6th that's actually
being adjusted
I'm sure
I think I moved when I'm preaching
to another Thursday but
we are actually having a conference
in the Dallas Fort Worth
area called the Heritage of
the Lord conference and it's actually
geared towards the youth
and so we're going to have
all the preaching and
a lot of the activities and the events
geared towards those ages
between 5 and 18 approximately
and so
I'm going to be there
for that we're actually having some guest preachers
too that Thursday
we're going to have a special service down there
for us with Pastor
Roger Menes coming and preaching for us from
Verity Baptist Church and then Friday
evening we're going to have
Pastor Bruce Mejia from First Works Baptist
Church coming and preaching for us
on Saturday we're going to have a couple of events
we're going to have a kids spelling bee
and we'll have some other fun activities
and some soul winning and things
like that so it's just kind of a
just kind of like a little mini conference
specifically geared towards
the youth and try to encourage
them and kind of give them
some fun things to do as well
and so I'm not going to
be here that Thursday I think I
shifted it but then October 20th
October 31st
y'all are
going to have a chili cook off and I guess
you know you're trying to introduce Halloween
with your beans being welcome or something
you know we're supposed to try and keep
the world out you know
no longer going to walk in the way of the
world I thought is what the song said but
you know some people just won't
listen and
you know we just let them do their work
you know some people say oh you can't disagree at
steadfast Baptist Church but this is a major disagreement
here okay
it's major and
maybe I'm a weak leader for even
allowing that to happen but
you know if you want to be full of hot air
we'll let them so there you go
also November 5th is the
mid-city soul winning marathon
there's a couple other soul winning
events that our church
down in Dallas Fort Worth area
are having if you are interested
we're going to have a Shreveport
Louisiana soul winning marathon again
this month the last
Saturday of the month I believe it's the 24th
let me just double
check what that is
yeah 24th so
24th of this month we're going to be going to
Shreveport Louisiana and we went
last year and it was very
receptive a lot of fun
and so I don't know exactly
how far is it from here brother
do you remember
5 hour drive okay yeah
it's about 3 hours from the DFW area
maybe about 5, 5 and a half hours from here
but it's definitely a lot of fun
the reason why I wanted to go there
because I remember several years ago
when I was researching just like the
poorest cities in the United States
it was like number 1 on
almost every single list
and so I just thought
that might be a pretty good place to go soul winning
and it really was it's a pretty
it's still a pretty large area so a lot of people that live there
and
it kind of reminds me of
Las Vegas too because they have a lot of casinos
so they have like their little casino
strip that's real nice but then everything else
is just really deteriorated
the roads are very deteriorated in that area
you can tell that the government
local government there is not putting a lot of money back into the city
but that's good for
soul winners you know
soul winners look at the world in a different way
you know you roll into an area
and you feel like you're going to get shot but you're excited
about the soul winning opportunities
and you know most people
where if you roll in the nice neighborhood
and you're like this is really pretty but it's like if you were a soul winner
you'd be like this looks terrible I don't want to go soul winning here
and so it just changes your perspective
on life
also we're doing another
Mexico missions trip
so we went
last year we pretty much go every year
multiple times a year even just because it's so receptive
but we're going to Matamoros again
and
we typically go down to
Brownsville
so that's the most southern tip
of Texas basically
and then Matamoros
is just on the other side
and it's so close
that I mean it would be
much closer than Oklahoma City is to Moore
or Norman so it's essentially
like the city just keeps running
and then there's just a border just randomly in the middle
of it and then you just go onto the Mexico side
the only thing though is as soon as you cross that
border I mean English has dissipated
so you do
definitely want to be able to speak Spanish
if you're going to cross the border also
you want to bring a passport if you're
going to go with us just so you make sure you come back
I heard you can still swim
across but you know I prefer
to just ride across so
but it's great
I mean honestly foreign missions
is one of the funnest things you'll do because
you don't really
understand how people
are just much different as far as
receptivity to the gospel when you go to
a different country and obviously
there's a language barrier for Mexico but
you know just even just going across
the border and talking to these type
of people they're much more receptive
much more interested
humble people
willing to listen to people
and so it's a lot of fun
to go to other
countries and preach the gospel so if you ever get a chance
to go on a foreign missions trip I really
encourage you
I've taken a couple into the Caribbean
as well and hopefully
we'll do another one eventually
but even
just going to the Caribbean very receptive
a lot of fun going and preaching
to different parts of the world
the closest thing I would say you can get to
is Shreveport so even if you can't go
Shreveport is probably one of the most receptive
places I've ever gone soul winning
and so it's a lot of fun
honestly Oklahoma City is a pretty receptive place
you know you guys are pretty
fortunate you don't even realize it
there's some churches in the United States
where I go and I visit
and we go soul winning they'll have 30 or 40
people go out soul winning on a Sunday afternoon
and they might get one person saved
if they have a really good day
and that's going to the poorest areas
the most receptive areas
and so you know you
come here to Oklahoma City and it's
actually very likely if you go out
soul winning that you could probably get someone saved
maybe if you go into the nicer
neighborhoods not as much but I mean
you go to some of these poor apartments and it's just
a lot of people are interested in hearing the gospel
and so I love coming
here and I love going soul winning
last Thursday we went and someone got
saved and it felt even more
receptive than where we were at in the DFW area
so it's definitely
fun being here
I brought my family today so it's great
for them to be able to come up with me
and I appreciate them coming and supporting me
and so that's pretty much all I have
four announcements
we'll go ahead and go to our third song
song number 18
Take the Name of Jesus with You
song number 18
alright hymn number 18
Take the Name of Jesus with You
take the name of Jesus with you
take the name of Jesus
take the name of Jesus with you
take the name of Jesus
take the name of Jesus with you
After this, Absalom prepared him
chariots and horses and fifty men
to run before him and Absalom rose up
early and stood beside
the way of the gate
and it was so that when any man
that had controversy came to the king
for judgment, then Absalom
called unto him and said
of what city art thou? and he said
thy servant is
one of the tribes of Israel and Absalom
said unto him
see thy matters are good and right
but there is no man
but there is no man to but for the king
to hear thee. Absalom said moreover
oh that I were made
judge in the land that every man
which hath any suit
or cause might come
unto me and I would do him
justice and it was so
that when any man
came nigh to him to do him
obeisance he put
forth his hand and took him
and kissed him and on this matter
did Absalom to all Israel
that came to the king for
judgment and so Absalom stole
the hearts of the men of Israel
and it came to pass after forty years
that Absalom said
unto the king I pray thee
let me go and pay my vow
which I have vowed unto the
Lord in Hebron for
thy servant vowed a vow
while I abode in Gishur
in Syria saying if
the Lord shall bring me again
indeed to Jerusalem then I will serve
the Lord and the king said
unto him go in peace
so he rose and went to Hebron
but Absalom sent
spies throughout all the tribes
of Israel saying as soon as
ye hear the sound of the trumpet
then ye shall say
Absalom reigneth in Hebron
and with Absalom
and with Absalom went
two hundred men out of Jerusalem
that were called and they
went in their
and they went in their simplicity
and they knew not
anything and Absalom sent
sent for
Ahiphathah
the Gileanite, David's
counselor from
his city even
from Gilo
while he offered sacrifices
and the conspiracy was
strong for the people
will increase continually with Absalom
and there came a messenger
to David saying the hearts
of the men of Israel are after
Absalom and David said
unto all his servants that were with him
at Jerusalem arise
and let us flee for
we shall not else escape
from Absalom make speed
to depart lest he overtake
us suddenly and bring evil
unto us and smite the
city with the edge of the sword
and the king's servant said unto
the king behold thy servants are
ready to do whatsoever my lord
the king shall appoint and the king
went forth and all his
household after him and the king
left ten women which were concubines
to keep the house
and the king went forth and all the
people after him and tarried in a place
that was far off
and all his servants passed on
beside him and all
the Carathites and all the
Pelethites and all the
Gittite, six hundred men which
came after him from Gath
passed on before the king
then said the king
to Tyah the
Gittite wherefore goest
thou also with us
return to thy
place and abide with the king
for thou art a stranger
and also an exile
whereas thou camest but
yesterday should I this day
make thee go up and down
with us seeing I go
whether I may return
thou and take back thy brethren
mercy and truth be with thee
and Atai
Atai answered
the king and said
as the lord liveth and
as my lord the king liveth
surely in what place my
lord the king shall be
rather in death or
life even there also
will thy servant be
and David said to
Atai go and pass
over and Atai the Gittite
passed over
and all his men and all the
little ones that were with him
and all the country wept with a loud
voice and all the people passed over
and the king also himself
passed over all the
all the brook
all the brook Kydron
and all the people passed over
toward the way of the wilderness
and lo Zadok also
and all the
Levites were with him
bearing the Ark of the Covenant of God
and they set down the Ark of God
and Abiathar went up
until all the people
had done passing out
of the city and the king said
to Zadok carry back the Ark
of God into the city
if I shall find favor in the
eyes of the lord he will bring me
in and show me both
both it and his
habitation but if he
but if he does say I have
no delight in thee behold
here am I
let him do to me
as seemeth good unto him
the king said also
unto Zadok the priest
art thou a seer
return into the city in peace
and your two sons
with you Ahimez
thy son and
Jonathan the son
of Abiathar see I
will tarry in the
plain of the wilderness until there
come word from you to
certify me Zadok therefore
and Abiathar carried
the Ark of God again to Jerusalem
and they tarried there and David
went up by the
accent of all of it
and wept
as he went up and had
his head covered and went bare
foot and all the people
that was with him
covered every man
his head and they went up weeping
as they went up
and one told
David saying Ahiphathah
is among the
conspirators with Absalom and David said
oh lord I pray thee
turn the counsel of Ahiphathah
unto foolishness
and it came to pass that when David
was come to the top
of the mount where he worshipped
God behold
Hushai
the archive came
to meet him with his
coat rent in the earth upon his
head
unto whom David said if thou passeth
on with me then thou shalt
be a burden unto me but if thou
return to the city I say
unto Absalom I
will be thy servant oh king
as I have been thy father's servant
hitherto
so will I also
be thy servant then mayest
thou for me defeat
the counsel of Ahiphathah
and hast thou
not there with thee
Zadok and Abiathar the
priest therefore it shall be
that what thing so ever
thou shalt hear out of
the king's house thou shalt
tell it to Zadok and Abiathar
the priest behold they
have there with them
their two sons Ahimez
Zadok's son and
Jonathan
Abiathar's son and by
them ye shall send
unto me everything that ye
can hear so Hushai
David's friend came unto the city
and Absalom came unto
Jerusalem heavenly father lord we
just thank you so much that we could
be here today lord we just ask you at this
time to be with Pastor Shelley as he
preaches your word we just pray that you
fill him with your spirit and just be
over this congregation and help us to
focus and be edified by your
word we love you and we thank you in Jesus
precious name we pray amen
you
well they can hear me inside in here okay
so that's that's the important part right
so we have here this phrase
found in verse number 12 the
conspiracy
was strong the conspiracy was
strong and really the word
conspire conspiracy
or some equivalent is actually found
in the Bible very often
and I find that this chapter
really focuses on
the conspiracy
of Absalom against his father
David and I've been preaching through
second Samuel and I've
been going through kind of verse by
verse and trying to talk about these
subjects and you know this this sermon
this morning is not really about a Bible
study verse based on this
this section it's more just kind of
taking this one little topic and kind
of expanding it because
the Bible teaches that there's a
lot of conspiracies that exist
in the world that we live today
and I find that
there's a lot of varying degrees
of views when it comes to conspiracy
theories and I've also
been preaching kind of a sermon series on
extreme views and what you have to realize
is that the Bible is actually
not extreme it's usually
just true and then there's
extremes that go in every direction
away from the truth
and so the word of God is what's right
it's normal it's what we
should be striving for
and the devil ends up
trying to bend the truth or pervert
the truth in every direction
so as to try and get you away
from what God would have you believe
and there's no difference here when it comes to any
topic I've already preached on a lot of
subjects but this morning I want to preach
on extreme views on conspiracy
theories extreme views
on conspiracy theories
and you'd say
why is that important well
first of all you have to
deal with just the reality of your society
you have to determine who you're going
to trust who you're not going to trust
do I trust the
institutions of this world
do I trust the institutions that God has
given me you know the Bible says that the
church is the pillar and ground of the truth
and really
I personally believe the only place
you are going to find truth
unfiltered is the church
that is the institution that God has
established for you to find out the
right information good
information whereas all of these other
institutions that exist in our world
today because they are man
made they have problems
they're not always reliable
they can be corrupted
and the government is no different
the government is corrupt
in our country it always
has been corrupt
every other government is corrupt
and every government we see in the Bible
is corrupt now
of course there's varying degrees
of corruption you could even
argue that David
has a corrupt government because did he
not in the previous chapters
end up lying with another man's
wife and trying to cover that
up and even killed Uriah
I mean isn't that a conspiracy
now the Bible never even used the word
conspiracy in connection with David
doing all that but I would say it was a conspiracy
now even to understand
what is a conspiracy
I looked up in the dictionary
but I also looked up the Wikipedia
definition and I think
the Wikipedia one gives us a little bit
broader of an understanding when it comes
to what a conspiracy is but
according to Wikipedia a conspiracy
is a known plot
is a secret plan I'm sorry
it's known as a plot
a secret plan or agreement between
persons for an unlawful
or harmful purpose
such as murder
or treason especially
with political motivation
while keeping their agreement secret
from the public or from other people
affected by it
that seems to fit very well with what David
did because David ended up
concealing the death of Uriah
and it was specific to murder
him in an effort to
conceal his sin, his wickedness
to allow him to stay in power
because if David
everybody knows David's just killing
people's husbands to steal
their wives that could cause a lot
of people to revolt or to
overthrow him in his position of
being king and so
in an effort to basically conceal that
maintain his position and
everything to continue as it were
he concealed that, he hid
what he had done and the same
is with Absalom here in chapters
15 where Absalom is wanting to
overthrow his father in the government
but he can't just walk up to David and just say
hey dad I'm going to overthrow you today
or hey dad I really want to conspire
against you. Now the whole aspect
of the conspiracy is
that they're going to conceal their actions
because if their
actions were known or open
they would be foiled, they would not go
forth as needed
and so the conspiracy
in the Bible of here of Absalom
is one that we find continually
throughout the scriptures
but I want to
focus on it for just a moment
to draw out a couple points
whenever I'm evaluating
whether something is true
or not we need to kind of
try to apply the same principles every
single time and to me number
one is you want to determine the motive
is there a motive
involved in this particular situation
and when you can't have a clear motive
often the conspiracy to me
seems to fall flat. Motive is a very important
aspect to a conspiracy
for understanding why people are doing
the things that they are doing
now of course Absalom
in his story, his brother
Amnon is kind of a half brother
ends up taking advantage of his sister
Tamar who is a full sister
and he ended up conspiring
against his brother and slew him
now he had to do that because his father David
refused to put Amnon
to death or to deal with that situation
so I believe that
you can kind of see there is a little bit of animosity
built between
Absalom and his father David
Absalom probably perceives that he is a better
judge or makes better decisions
than David that may motivate
him to have wanted to come into power
to feel the necessity to
take that position
but we also have to think about Absalom as a person
is Absalom a spiritual person or is
Absalom a carnal person?
we have to think about his actions and what he has done
let's think about before this chapter
look at chapter 14
and when Joab refuses
to talk to
Absalom, how does Absalom
handle that situation?
well, if we
look at verse number 30
therefore he said unto his servants
therefore Absalom sent for Joab
to have sent him to the king
but he would not come to him
and when he sent again the second time he would not come
so Absalom is like hey Joab, hey Joab
no response, verse 30
therefore he said unto his servants
see Joab's field is near mine and he has barley there
go and set it on fire
and Absalom's servants set the field on fire
now does that sound like a pretty nice guy
or a guy that is really spiritual
hey if you don't call me back
in five minutes I am going to set your field on fire
I mean that's a pretty extreme
emotion, this guy doesn't really seem to be very
stable, not making very good
judgments here, not necessarily
very spiritual, think about how Jesus
is telling you to turn the other cheek, if someone smites
you on the cheek to turn them the other also
this guy won't even allow you to ignore him
I mean is it really the
same, I mean would you say it's the same for someone
to ignore you or to literally just smack
you across the face, I would say getting smacked
across the face is worse than being
ignored, but according to Jesus
you just turn the other cheek, what does Joab do
I set your field on fire
so you certainly wouldn't want to smack
Absalom around, okay you smack Absalom on the cheek
what would he have done to you, probably taking your head off
and so we see he is a pretty unstable
person, not a very spiritual
person
the very verse is beyond this
in chapter 15, when people
are coming to see David
it says in verse number 3
and Absalom said to them, see thy
matters are good and right, but there is
no man deputed of the king to hear
thee, Absalom said moreover
oh that I were made judge in the
land that every man which hath any suit
or cause might come unto me and
I would do him justice
and it was so that when any man
came nigh to him to do him
obeisance he put forth his hand and took him
and kissed him and on this manner
did Absalom to all Israel that
came to the king for judgment, so
Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel
now do you think it's good to steal
away the hearts of
the men of Israel from the king
shouldn't a good loyal servant
or a son
bolster people's affections
towards the king and try to
encourage people to love the king more
and to speak positive of the king
yet what does Absalom
do, he subverts
the kingdom, he tries
to plant bad ideas
in people's minds suggesting
oh David doesn't have time for you
nobody wants to hear what you have to say
but I would hear everything that you have to say
and of course
we see the flattery of
Absalom, so Absalom is someone
that's quick tempered, irrational
we see that he's a flatterer
also he's filled with pride
now I believe this is before
we read this passage in chapter
number 15 based on the
timeline but I can't be a thousand percent
certain but if you go to chapter
18 and look
at verse number 18
so this is further in the future
but it's kind of remembering something in the past
it says now Absalom in his lifetime
had taken and reared up for himself a pillar
which is in the king's dale
for he said I have no son to keep my
name in remembrance and he called
a pillar after his own name and it is called
on this day Absalom's place, now a couple
things to think about, Absalom actually according to the
bible does have a few sons
so I believe that this pillar must
have been set up prior
to actually having any sons
also in chapter 15
it's pretty quick paced because Absalom
takes over the kingdom and then he goes
out and then he's immediately killed so he
doesn't have a lot of time to set up this pillar
or whatever so I believe that that pillar had been
set up prior to chapter
number 15 so we can already discern a lot
of things about Absalom
prior to this
situation that we're reading about where
Absalom's setting people's fields on fire
he's killed Amnon which
was not according to the law, not only
did he kill Amnon, he's
being a flatterer and just
telling everybody he loves everyone, I mean think
about this, were there really no reprobates
in all of Israel
at that time, I mean he's like
kissing the hands of reprobates
and telling them how wonderful they are
I mean this guy is really just
a pretty scummy person, really
just a politician at heart, right
what do politicians do, they kill people in their
past, they flatter
everyone, they're really prideful
they set up statues in their name
and they call things after their name
right, and
really if you don't call them back
you know, you don't want to get on their bad list
right, so we kind of see though
from Absalom's perspective, is this really
a man up to God's own heart
is he a humble shepherd
is he like David that was going and killing
the bear and killing the lion and keeping
the sheep and the sweet
psalmist of Israel, was
he serving King Saul
I mean think about David's life
predecessor to being king, he is
going and playing music for
the king, playing spiritual
songs, him
spiritual songs, helping the evil
spirits depart from Saul, he never
says a crossword about Saul
Saul even throws a javelin to try and
kill him and he's not like you know
going around telling everybody about it
I mean if anybody had a reason to be mad
about the king, wouldn't it be David
couldn't David be like hey, you might
be careful around Saul, he might throw a javelin
at you, okay, but is that
really fair for Absalom to be
ripping on David and talking negatively
about David, so we see like a
diametrically opposed
type person when it comes to David and
Absalom, they're completely different people, David
completely humble, meek
lowly, spiritual
Absalom is of high value
importance, prideful, and
a very wicked carnal person
but
think about David, David, this is
his son and I believe because of nepotism
he kind of probably has bad judgment here
also he's been in sin so it's probably
reverted his judgment a little bit
but Absalom comes to David
and look at verse number
seven, and it came to pass after forty years
I believe he's talking about Absalom
being forty years old
that Absalom said unto the king
I pray thee let me go and pay my vow which
I have vowed unto the Lord in Hebron, now think about
this, we have
a forty year
example of Absalom's life
when has Absalom
been spiritual in those forty years?
So why would I then
suggest, why would I then think
okay here's a forty year old that's never been spiritual
in their life but I think
all of a sudden now they're just
God's chosen, now all of a sudden they've
got it right with the Lord, they're going to want to serve
God with their life
that's wishful thinking, now I'm not saying it
couldn't happen, but I'm just saying we don't really
have a pattern of that yet
you could be a little skeptical
of his spirituality
at this point, he says in verse eight
for thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Gishur
in Syria saying if the Lord shall bring me again
indeed to Jerusalem
then will I serve the Lord
and the king said to them go in peace so he rose
and went to Hebron, now again
this is bizarre
why does he have to go to Jerusalem
to serve God, number one
why did he make a vow
vows aren't even really necessarily
the best course of action
and additionally why if you're being brought back
to Jerusalem then you go back to Hebron
to then worship the Lord
his story doesn't even make sense
his story doesn't add up
and number one
we see there is a possible motive
why would Absalom
conspire against David, number one
he doesn't like his judgment, number two
because he wants to be king
why is the motive oozing out
every time he talks to all these different people
all the children of Israel, oh that I were made
judge of the land
so don't we have a clear motive for Absalom's
conspiracy, number two though
is we need to examine the facts
and anytime you're examining
a situation you need to look at
both sides of an argument
or of a situation, let's give
Absalom the benefit of the doubt
and let's look at the most favorable
options or information
about the situation and then let's look
at the least favorable
and honestly when we examine the facts
I don't know what the favorable things
are for Absalom
I mean in what way, you could say
okay well Absalom
took Tamar in after she was taken advantage
of, that was a pretty nice thing to do
seems like he loved his sister
he cared about his sister, it's kind of a
perverted justice but obviously slaying
Amnon kind of shows that
he thinks that obviously rape is
a sin worthy of death
but if we were to try to
evaluate all these things like where we
put an Absalom on the spiritual meter here
I mean he's really wanting
seems pretty carnal
seems like he's got some really bad
motives here, seems like
he has a lot of
negative facts stacked against
him illustrating that
this guy's not really wanting
to serve God here
and so when I'm trying
to think about this conspiracy theory
I want to think about the motive, I want to think about the facts
but then I also want to think
about Bible doctrine
and think about
does his actions
match the scripture
why
what verses
in the Bible relate
to what Absalom is doing
and illustrating
his heart, so we've kind of seen these
actions and some of these are really kind of overlapping
related but what if we go to Proverbs
and we look up some verses on flattery
is this going to say that this person's a
pretty good guy or is it going to say that this guy's
got seven abominations in his heart
is it going to say this guy
you can't believe anything that comes out of his mouth
I mean when someone flatters you
you can't believe anything that they
say and so
we already see from a biblical perspective
this looks like the writings
on the wall, Absalom's going to
commit this kind of conspiracy
and then when we start reading it makes perfect sense
the conspiracy was strong
now let's look at a few more verses in this chapter
look at verse 31
so again, what is
a conspiracy? It's a plot that's
secret to cause harm or evil
who's the harm or evil against?
David, and who are the
conspirators? Ahithophel,
Absalom, most of his servants
didn't even actually know, the Bible says that when they
went to Hebron they thought they were going to serve God
that's how silly they were, you know and it's funny
there's a lot of people that go to church today
and they think that they're serving God
with their little pastor, they think their pastor
and their church is serving God, why?
because they don't even know anything in the Bible
and they don't even understand why all of the
actions they're taking are actually not spiritual
or not scriptural whatsoever, because they don't even
know what the Bible says
and you would think like, hey we're just going to
Hebron to serve God with Absalom
it's like, well he's like killing people
and flattering people and it's like
what do you think? You think he's going to serve
God in Hebron? Really?
it's like how dumb are you?
but that's how a lot of people are, they're just so simple minded
and so gullible, they just believe
everything that someone tells them
I mean, just anything someone says
they just believe it all
Go to 2 Kings 9
So we've kind of
looked at a couple
places where the Bible brings up
conspiracy or conspirators
and we've seen that
there's some important elements when we evaluate
a conspiracy, the motive, the facts
and basically what does the Bible say
about those facts? What is the doctrine
associated with that?
Now when it comes to extreme views
I kind of want to identify
a couple
camps as it were
when it comes to extreme views on conspiracies
one side of the aisle
is kind of this idea that
you know what, I just inherently believe people
are good and that the government
would not lie to me
and that conspiracies are just too difficult
to pull off, so
I honestly don't believe
that there's any such thing as real conspiracies
it's just
hyperbolic and
kooks and nuts believe in conspiracy
theories, that's one side of the camp
and also by the way I've had 10
booster shots
and you know everything the government
says I believe
and I'm just really excited about the new
87,000 IRS agents
I mean I'm glad they have guns
and
you know I mean honestly it's hard to even
put a lot of people in this camp because
typically even people that trust the government
they believe that Donald Trump's a conspirator
you know so they, it's usually
it's very hard to find people that just believe
no conspiracies whatsoever
but essentially
from a grander perspective
we're saying this person kind of just believes
all government conspiracies are a lie
the government's trustworthy, they would never
do anything wrong
now the other side is the side that believes
everyone's lying about everything
and
that you can't trust any institution
nothing the government
has ever said or done is true
everything's an illusion
we are probably living in the matrix
so this is this is kind of like
the other side of that extremity
where they start
denying just the
nose on your face as it were
they deny that the earth is a sphere
okay this is your flat earth
crowd okay so you got your flat earth crowd
and you got your 10 boosters guy
alright this is kind of our two
extreme views when it comes
to conspiracy and really
from a biblical perspective
the bible is saying don't be either of these guys
you know don't be the guy that just says
the government can't lie to me
and then don't be the guy that says they lied about everything
you know this is not a healthy
perspective on life and you can
find yourself going in really weird
directions with both
of these perspectives now
I get why people
gravitate to either
of these aisles and this is why
it's easy to just be
black and white but the
bible teaches that you have to use discretion about
events and circumstances
here here's the ways that christianity likes to
be black and white love everybody
right I mean isn't that easy
isn't it easy to just say love everybody
doesn't matter if they're a serial
rapist a child molester
sex trafficker it doesn't matter if
they're just the most hardened satanist
you know just love love love love love
or you could have an opposite side like
just hate hate hate I don't like
anyone I'm an incel
I just stay home and everybody's bad
you know that's easy what's
takes a little bit of effort is to
say you know what there's some people we love and there's
some people we hate you know and you say well what's
the determining factor whether you have any
potential of being saved or saved
love if you can't ever be saved
and you're damned for hell I don't love
you you know now that's it's really
not that much more complicated
it just takes a little bit of biblical discernment
so the same would be applied
in this conspiracy idea of like well I don't
want to have to evaluate conspiracies
they you know they're not interesting
to me pastor Shelley I don't care
you know what's going on but this is a
foolish attitude because you live in a world
that's dominated by a government
that's constantly mandating and forcing you to
do all kinds of activities and things
to just suggest like I'm just going to believe it
all or I'm just going to reject it all
is going to put you in a dangerous
environment a dangerous situation
so you have to as the Bible
describes prove all things
we as God's people should be highly
educated we should constantly be testing
things the Bible says test the spirits
why do we test the spirits because some
spirits are bad some spirits are good
it's not okay to be
apathetic in this area of life
because if you're apathetic in this area of life
you will make bad decisions
and you'll make decisions that affect you
and your children for their entire
lifetime what
are these decisions I don't know how
to educate your children what kind of
health choices you're going to make for your children
what kind of religious decisions are you going to make
for your children all of these things
honestly stem
a lot from your even views
when it comes to conspiracy theories and how much
trust you're going to put in the government
how much trust you're going to put in church
how much trust you're going to put in the Bible how much trust you're going to put in your
parents and where you're actually
lining these priorities up and
of course what does the Bible teach we should put all
our trust in this number
number one is the Bible
number two from my
personal opinion would be
the institution of your family so this would be
your father your mother
number three would be your church
so whatever your pastor
and whatever the church is teaching would be
your number three so if there's
a misalignment here
who am I going to believe
well if the world's telling me one thing and my
church is telling me another I'm going to believe church
if church is telling me
something and my father or the husband
is saying something I'm going to believe the father
or the husband if the father or husband
is saying something but the Bible is saying something
well I'm going to believe the Bible right
so we kind of have these spheres
of influence and who's over
who and who we're going to trust
whereas the world just simply says
government right parents wrong
church wrong
Bible wrong that is a dangerous
philosophy is a dangerous perspective
on life we want to say
Bible number one
your father figure the head of the house
number two church number
three and everything else we don't
care about so
no I'm not saying obviously
we still want to then put some
level of trust even in the institutions
we have in this world okay but
we want to make sure they're all in alignment
we don't want them to get out of whack and we never
also want to let the institutions of this world
redefine what the Bible says for us
we let the Bible and our father and their
church to tell us what how to interpret the world
and how to view life
so that just gives you kind of
a little sample here let's look at some more verses here
about conspiracy 2 Kings chapter 9 verse
14 so
the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshai
conspired
against Joram so you see
a king conspiring
against another king look at chapter 10 verse 9
and it came to pass in the morning
that he went out and stood and said to all the people
he be righteous behold I
conspired against my master
and slew him
but who slew all these so not only did you
conspire all of the nobles
all of the princes conspired
against Ahab's
household and slew all
of the wicked kings
and leaders that were basically the sons of
Ahab look at chapter 12
verse number 20
and his servants arose
and made what a conspiracy
and slew Joash in the house of
Mylo look at chapter 14
and look at verse number 19
now they
made a conspiracy against him
in Jerusalem look at chapter
15 verse 15 and the
rest of the acts of Shalom and his
conspiracy which he made
behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel
look at verse 25
but Pekah the son of Amaliah a captain
of his conspired
against him look at verse
30 and Osheh the son of Elah made
a conspiracy
against Pekah I mean how many times
does the Bible have to bring this up
for you to realize this is not a one-off
thing we see
end of the biblical record and of course
it makes sense that it's in this section of the scripture
because what is this section of scripture
it's king coming after king after king after king
after king what do we see a king conspiring
against another king after another king after another king
there's always these all these vying for
power everybody wants power
everybody's constantly trying to overthrow
and there's no new thing under the sun
the world that we live in today is no
different where kingdoms and
rulers and leaders and presidents
are constantly involved in
conspiracies to overthrow one another
governments overthrowing each other
all these different plotting and
planning and all kinds of assassination
attempts that are continually
happening even in today's world
and it would be naive
to think that it just
all stopped everybody's now just happy
and we just go with the flow and no one's ever
conspiring against another person
every conspiracy theory is just bogus
you know that would be a very naive approach
now I looked up a couple
articles
and they talk about conspiracies that are true
so they'll say like
you can even find websites though you go on and they'll
just say look these are conspiracies
that everyone just agrees that they're true the US
government won't even deny that
these things happen and
I didn't use all of them
I'm just using a few one of them
was that in the past
big tobacco knew that cigarettes
cause cancer and lied about it
now it says the conspiracy
for decades tobacco companies buried
evidence that smoking is deadly
and in fact in the 1950s research
was shown an indisputable statistical
link between smoking and lung cancer
but it wasn't until the late 1990s
that Philip Morris
the nation's largest cigarette
maker at the time even admitted
that smoking could cause cancer
so we're talking about decades and decades
of
propagandistic type
messaging coming from cigarette
manufacturers even articles
even just advertisement
like TV commercials
where they're saying the exact opposite of the truth
I remember I watched a clip
of this and this ladies
like you know they find a really attractive woman
you know smoking a cigarette
and it's like ooh the
clean air that's coming from the cigarette
it's like what are you talking about
you know it's
so funny to look at
these things from hindsight
obviously and just
to realize how willing
they were to lie back then
and then think like oh but they wouldn't do that today
right the government
and manufacturing companies and industries
would never lie to the American
people about the effects
of drugs or alcohol
these different type of
marketing
ploys that they have I mean there's products
that were made in the past Coca-Cola
who knows is that Coca-Cola
is literally infused with cocaine
at the beginning they were putting
cocaine and they said
man they're really addicted to this drink
and why would I think okay they're putting
cocaine and coke back then
given cigarettes saying that they're good
and they were lying about it
what kind of health
and medical advice is the government
telling me today that might
later be found out to be a fraud
that might later be
realized like you know what that's not actually good
medicine they were suppressing
certain information about it I mean when
it comes to vaccination
I believe that there's a lot of questions
there that we don't know
simply because
they won't do double blind studies on it
simply because vaccine
manufacturers can't even be sued
for the ramifications
of their product you know that sounds
like they're pretty have a lot of reliability
in their products you know we don't want
to sue we don't want you to sue us for that
you can't even talk about it or you're just
instantly censored or
deplatformed or this YouTube channel probably
shut down pretty soon just for mentioning
that you know
that how does that not rise suspicion
in your heart I mean think about this
you say okay well let's examine it for a second
let's just examine vaccination for a
second motive is there any motive
I don't know how about the trillions
of dollars that are given in government money
to buy a product that's given to you for free
so then you don't even have to market it
really because frankly speaking
it's already been paid for
and I think that a couple trillion
dollars would motivate a few people
out there I've heard I don't know
you could think about that for yourself
what about just the facts on it
okay fact double blind studies not
being done you can't sue the manufacturer
there's no
a lot of the more recent vaccines
especially related to COVID-19
we haven't even had time to experiment
that like it's basically a brand new
technology that hasn't stood the test
of time hasn't gone through a lot
of experiments to see what's
actually going on plus
people don't even realize the complexity of the
human body to understand how
difficult it would even be to
understand the ramifications
of a vaccination in
your body I mean because there's so many different
environmental factors that affect your health
and your you know your
future plus how do we even
know that you could take the vaccination
and it wouldn't hurt you five years from now
10 years from now 20 years from now we don't
even know that because we haven't had the
time to study it so it's like there's
all these different facts that are asking you saying
like this is weird this is suspicious this doesn't
really make any sense
and then if you look at it from a biblical perspective
from a biblical doctrine show me vaccination
in the Bible
show me anywhere in the Bible that teaches
that you're not healthy
and you need to be injected with some kind of
disease in order to be
healthier show me that logic
the Bible typically has the exact
opposite logic saying hey if someone's sick
stay away from them hey if there's something
unclean wash your whole body
and stay away from everyone else
until you basically had enough
time for those germs or that bacteria
to dissipate
and no longer be active on your
body I mean the Bible has
really extreme standards when it comes
to sanitation and health that
most of our society doesn't even employ
I mean if a woman gave birth in
the Bible they would have to stay
shut up and kept up for
a long period of time several weeks
here whereas most women
they'll give birth and they'll be out in about
five days later seven
days later and I'm not telling you how to live
your life I'm just saying that
obviously the Bible's standard for health
and practice is often a
little bit more stringent than we even employ
today but it's certainly not saying hey
drink poison
inject yourself with disease
hey someone's sick and
they're coughing get in their face and just kind of like
soak it in or whatever
my mom took me to what
would call a pox party when I was little
who took their kids or knows their kids
went to yeah my mom would take me to this
and it's like to me the logic of that's kind of bizarre
now I'm not saying that you're a
bad person for doing this I'm just saying
that really
does that fit the biblical model though
does the Bible say like hey someone got leprosy
over here let's all go have a party at their house
or does it say like let's
get them outside of the camp you know let's
not talk to them and let's have them cover
their mouth even just masks
in general you know they
want to force you to put a mask over your nose
but did the Bible when it talked about
someone with leprosy to cover their
nose or just cover their mouth
it's like why is me not being able to
breathe help you not
get sick also where in the Bible
did it say that healthy people wear masks
I thought it was the sick people that were wearing
the mask so when we start looking at
biblical doctrine we say
this doesn't line up we see the motives
there the facts aren't making sense and the Bible's
not making sense sounds like a conspiracy
sounds like something that I should be skeptical
of
here's another
admitted
conspiracy by the US government
it's called Operation Northwoods
now who knows anything about this or heard about that
Operation Northwoods
this is a proposed false flag
operation against American citizens
that originated within
the US Department of Defense
of the United States government in 1962
so in the 60s
there was a cold war
situation there was a lot of pressure
from Russia
where America and
Russia were kind of at odds with
one another there was a lot of threats of
nuclear warfare and
Russia had basically procured
some kind of an agreement or
affinity with Cuba
and why that's important is Cuba's pretty close
to the United States so if you could actually
put nuclear weapons in Cuba
then they could actually launch from Cuba
into America and actually hit
some really important target cities in
America whereas Russia and America
were pretty far apart they couldn't
necessarily send missiles that far from
parts of Russia over in America
at the time okay I'm not saying
I don't even know what the technology is today I think it's
advanced quite a bit or maybe that's
more realistic today but
at least back then that was a threat
Cuba was a very unstable place
had a lot of communism
so the
US department organized
a bunch of documents
suggesting that the government
would perform false flag operations
as a pretext to invade
Cuba and just to
ensure that they didn't have these nuclear
weapons or they couldn't actually
nuke the United States that was
basically the essence of what
this was now John F. Kennedy
was the president at the time and
John F. Kennedy was assassinated
I'm not going to talk about that that would
be an interesting subject for this sermon but
John F. Kennedy had a lot
of investigations later into his
assassination and things and some of the
documents associated with him being
president were released later this was one of them
so it's an unclassified document
that we get to see what they
literally set before the president to say
hey John F. Kennedy do you want to do this
now I've read the actual
document I looked at the actual documents
you can go look this up you can just type it in the
internet you can read it
and when you read it it will really blow you away
what they wanted to do
I'm not going to read all of it but I'm going to read some of it
this is what the US government was
wanting to do
we could blow up a US ship in
Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba
so they said we'll just blow up a military
ship and we'll just blame the Cuban
this is what they're saying hey president do you want to do this
talk about domestic terrorism
they said we could
develop a communist
Cuban terror campaign
in the Miami area
in other Florida cities and even
in Washington now this what they're
suggesting is that they would have fake
people in
Miami that are Cuban
terrorists doing terrorist type activities
in the area and then just blaming
Cuba like I don't antifa
or something right
here's one hijacking
attempts against civil air
and surface craft
should appear to continue as a harassing
measures are condoned by the government of Cuba
so they said they want to
hijack civil
airplanes
and water crafts
and then blame the Cubans
for having hijacked these vehicles
this is not 2001
this is 1960 ok folks
just wait
number 8
this is all of the suggestions
it is possible to create an incident
which will demonstrate, I'm sorry
this is in context of hijacking
it is possible to create an incident which will demonstrate
convincingly that a Cuban
aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered
civil airliner
in route from the United States
to Jamaica, Guatemala
Panama or Venezuela
the destination would be chosen only
to cause the flight plan route across
Cuba passengers could be a group
of college students off on holiday
or any grouping of persons
with a common interest to support chartering a
non-scheduled flight
since they want to get a bunch of college students in an airplane
fly it over Cuba and shoot it down
they say this
also about this plan specific to this
airliner
the aircraft an Eglin AFB
would be painted and numbered
as an exact duplicate for a
civilian registered aircraft
belonging to a CIA
proprietary organization in the Miami area
at a designated time the duplicate
would be substituted for the actual
aircraft and will be loaded
with the selected passengers all
boarded under carefully prepared aliases
the actual registered aircraft
would be converted to a drone
take off times of the drone aircraft
and the actual aircraft will be scheduled
to allow a rendezvous south of Florida
from the rendezvous point the passenger
carrying aircraft will descend to minimum
altitude and go directly into an
auxiliary field at Eglin AFB
where arrangements have been made to
evacuate the passengers and return the
aircraft to its original status
the drone aircraft meanwhile will continue to fly
the flight plan
when over Cuba the drone
will be being transmitted on the
international distress frequency a mayday
message stating he's under attack
by Cuban MiG aircraft
the transmission will be interrupted by destruction of the
aircraft which will be triggered
by radio signal this will allow
ICAO
or that's the international
I think like commercial airline organization
radio stations in the western
hemisphere to tell the US what
has happened to the aircraft instead of the US
trying to sell the incident
this is what
they're proposing they're saying
they're going to get a bunch of just
government workers to pretend like they're
college students get on an airplane
that's a military
plane that's been painted to look like a commercial airliner
they're going to fly near Cuba
and then once they're going to go really
low where radar can't quite detect
them and they're going to have
a drone kind of
fly and then kind of pick up
that pattern and they're going to go
down and land so that way from like a
radar perspective that you just see the dot
going and then it just keeps going
essentially or it just kind of appears
like the plane just kept going whereas
the plane will deboard everybody will get
off and they were all fake just
paid you know government workers
whatever to get off of that flight
and then they'll just blow up
this plane somewhere in the ocean and say
Susie died and Johnny died
and all these fake people that they've created
they'll say all these US citizens
died get everybody all upset
about it and then say we got invade
Cuba that's what they're saying
number nine this is another suggestion
is it is possible to create an incident
which will make it appear
that the communist Cuban MiGs have
destroyed a USAF
aircraft over international waters and unprovoked
attack. Approximately four or five
F-101 aircraft
will be dispatched and trail from
Homestead AFB, Florida to the vicinity
of Cuba. The mission will be to reverse
course and simulate faker
aircraft for an air defense
exercise in southern Florida. These
aircraft will conduct variations of these flights
at frequent intervals
crews would be briefed to remain at
least 12 miles off the Cuban coast
however they would be required to
carry live ammunition in the event the hostile
actions were taken by the Cuban MiGs
on one such flight
a pre-briefed pilot
would fly tail end Charlie at
considerable interval between aircraft
while near the Cuban island this pilot would
broadcast that he had been jumped by MiGs
and was going down
no other calls would be made the pilot would
then fly directly west at
extremely low altitude and land at
a secure base at Eglon auxiliary
the aircraft would be met
by the proper people quickly
stored and given a new tail number
the pilot who had performed the mission under
an alias would resume his proper
identity and return to his normal place of business
the pilot and aircraft would then
have disappeared at precisely
the same time that the aircraft was presumably
shot down a submarine or small
service craft would disperse F-101
parts parachute etc.
at approximately 15 to 20 miles off the Cuban
coast and depart the pilots returning
to Homestead would have a true story
as far as they knew such
search ships and aircraft could be dispatched
and parts of aircraft found
so they're basically saying they're going to take an aircraft
fly it low again make it land
and then they're going to
have him make the distress calls like he got blown
up then they're going to take a bunch of blown up
aircraft parts dump them in the sea
and then just pretend like
our pilots are being
shot out of the sky and killed
and this guy was being murdered
this is what the government was
proposing in 1960
they're handing it to the president
saying we're ready to go like we're ready to
plan this and get this stuff underway
not only that I mean there's a lot more
elaborate they were going to take a bunch of military
bases and like bomb them and pretend
like there's like actual war
and all these threats they're going to do a lot of stuff in Texas
because it's close to Cuba
this is what they were literally planning
and it's funny to me because
you'll bring up certain things that
have happened in our country's history and say
like I think the government might have faked this or
there might have been crisis
actors or something like that oh you believe in crisis
actors what do you think these people were
according to the
actual government documents and they
weren't even suggesting like it couldn't happen they're saying like
oh yeah definitely
these are the people that would
work with us or
do the thing go to Ezekiel 22
for a moment go to Ezekiel 22 for a moment
now it's funny is
September 11th you know
we need to remember
September 11th right
9-11 now what happened in
9-11 didn't a bunch of airplanes get
hijacked as a
pretext to say that these bad
people that we should go to war with that
doesn't sound like a familiar narrative
that doesn't sound like and you know people say like
oh you really think the government's going to kill a bunch of people
well number one yeah I do but
number two notice that in a lot of their
plans the people that were actually on these flights
were just fake people they
weren't actually real people they're
personalities that have been made up
and they're government workers
essentially I think that
one of the air flights
the one either the
Pentagon or the one that crashed down
in Pennsylvania because there was four planes
that were hijacked supposedly
in 2001
it was like
you know 180 seats or something like that
or 150 seats type of airline
but it was only like 30 people on the flight
and they just all worked for like the
Pentagon or like the airplane company
and it's just like oh okay
I wonder you know
why they have only specific government workers
that were on this flight that were scheduled
if they could just walk away
after this flight wasn't
really going to hit into any
kind of building plus
you know a lot of eye witnesses in 9-11
said that when they saw these planes going in
they didn't actually even look like commercial airlines
they're dark looking or they're
different
shapes they're different sizes
different speeds different all kinds of
eye witness accounts that happen
but if we were going to evaluate 9-11
let's just again
think about my three fold test right
what was the number one thing how about motive
okay well is there any motive for
9-11 to have been fake
well it's the
world's largest gold repository was under
the twin towers
and the majority of that gold was not recovered
after the 9-11 attacks
that sounds like a possible motive
Larry Silverstein
who
had an insurance policy on building
7 was the first person
to ever get a domestic
terrace insurance on a building
and collected on that policy
a multi billion dollar policy
I don't know if that's a
motive to you know collect on a big insurance
policy insurance scams never
happen right
how about the Patriot Act which is already
written before this then just
is easily passed in Congress
stripping people of a lot of
privileges and rights how about the
war in Iraq which then
affords us oil
also heroin and a lot
of other things that were going on in the Middle
East that give us how about just all the
manufacturers of military
equipment that we're going to later leave and
give to the Middle East
you know to the Afghan
East or whatever I mean
I think there's like so many motives it's not even
funny
number two how about the facts
you know this is what I say if someone's like I don't think that 9-11
is an inside job I don't think there was anything weird about
it I just say okay
well how did a 47 story
skyscraper building 7 fall in 7
seconds flat due to office fires
you know it's like that's a pretty
big smoking gun like explain
to me how has no building ever fallen
to fires like
that before that event
and after that event like it's just never
happened what
he's like well
I mean I don't even know what they say
they just don't say anything
and you can't even talk about it right there used to
be all kinds of videos online
of this but a free
fall speed means that there's zero
resistance from
a building most controlled
demolition experts will suggest
like that's not even possible unless you
take out the lower beams and it's just
falling straight down because the
structure itself would slow down any type
of collapse let alone office
fires this the
47 story skyscraper Solomon's
building which is building 7
which did not get hit by a plane
in the middle of it had a bunker
built
specifically for Rudy Giuliani the governor
of New York to
withstand the most intense
hurricanes and
all kinds of natural disaster events
that if there was anything bad ever happening
in New York he could be safely and secure in this one
building but this is the building that failed
with office fires
right a government building filled
with all kinds of government institutions
ranging from like
IRS activities other
type of government agencies
has the most secure bunker ever built in
it fell in seven seconds flat
due to office fires what a house of cards that
is I mean
who knew it was like hey we can
withstand any kind of hurricane any
kind of natural disaster what about a small
office fire well no
I mean that's just gonna totally the building's
gonna fall in its own footprint like that
it's like oh man
you know that's that's scary
I mean this this is the kind of bizarre
logic yep but so many people today you bring
this up and they'll just no
that's dumb you're you're not
you're cuckoo whatever
you
really are just showing that you don't care
to know what the truth is about a subject
and you know I'm not saying you
have to believe that 9-11 is a conspiracy
theory to be right with
God or to be a Christian or any
of those things but it just shows that you kind of
have an issue with truth in general
and if you're gonna be so gullible
as to believe those type of things
what else are you gonna believe the government
what other kind of information would
you just say no problem
in fact you might just believe anything
anybody will tell you which is scary because even churches
can lie to you now
you say I don't think churches would do that
I don't think pastors would lie I don't think
pastors would be involved in conspiracy we'll look at
Ezekiel 22 verse 25
there is a conspiracy
of her prophets
in the midst thereof
like a roaring lion ravening the
prey they have devoured souls
they have taken the treasure and precious things
they have made her many widows in the midst
thereof the Bible is saying that
the prophets were even conspiring
together and
it's a sad day that we live in America
where so much Christianity is so
apostate and the preachers
and all these prophets
are just on the take
and you say well how do they conspire
you know I think a lot of them
if you think about it a lot of these
churches nowadays are these mega
corporation types you guys
know it very well because you have Life Church
this Life Church thing
that exists here is so
giant I mean it is a
major company bringing
in millions and millions and millions of dollars
tons of locations
this is a serious operation
here's the question
what kind of things would people look the other
way to just to make sure that this organization keeps
running and
often that's what happens a lot of these churches
they get so big and there's so much
concentrated power so much money
being poured in that when pastors
start doing shady things
start being pedophiles or all kinds of weird
junk they always want to sweep it under
the rug or they want to conceal
it or hide these things look
the other way because they just don't
want the whole thing to get turned down
for the house of cards they are
and they end up conspiring
against the people concealing
information from the people allowing
wolves to come in allowing people
to hurt and harm on top of the fact that they don't
have the right Bible doctrine I mean Life Church is a joke
ok folks they're not
serious about the things of God
this is like going and following Absalom to
Hebron to serve God
you're an idiot if you think that Life
Church is serious about the things of God
just like if you
think that 9-11 official story
is legit you're also an idiot
now maybe you could be ignorant
you know you could be pretty ignorant if you've never
looked into those things I can get
that but you know if you've looked at the
facts and you still just
walk away saying everything seems
reasonable then
you really just are so
detached from reality
that you need a reality check
that's why I'm calling you an idiot ok
Acts chapter 23 go to Acts chapter 23
for a second
now I
kind of talked about one side
mostly people that are just
so anti
conspiracy theory these
people need a reality check hey there's some conspiracies
out there see the Bible
9-11 was an inside job folks
ok now I'm not going to get up and tell you
exactly all the ins and outs of that you say
ok well how many people really died or
what planes did they use or which government
officials are in on it I don't know
I just know that what they're telling us is not
true I just know there's a lot of shady
stuff going on I just know that the building
that fell
instantly in its own footprint
the passport didn't you know magically
make it through all that you
know we didn't find the black box
on the airplane but we found the hijackers
passport laying on the street
and you think I'm joking that is the official
story they say that there was
people just walking up and down the street of all the
debris of all the destruction and they just found
the passport of one of these hijackers
you're an idiot
if you think that happened
I mean that is bizarre
that people could even
kind of believe these things ok
but let's
let's talk about the other side for a moment
because then you start thinking like oh man
the government is lying about everything
everything the government said everything the government
did is just all fake
and to me it always leads to
flat earth that's where you finally
just get to the point where you're just a
complete brain dead
person where you literally
get to the point where you think the earth is flat
because if you think the earth is flat you are
an idiot
at best case scenario you're an idiot
worst case scenario you're wicked too
and
it's just a complete
and absolute denial
of all reality and truth
and I think that there's some gateways to flat earth
some gateway drugs
here's one that just bothers me
personally and I'm going to get a few
things off my chest this morning but it's the
moon landing being fake ok
people will
will start falling for the idea that the
moon landing is fake and then they'll eventually
become a flat earther just because
it's kind of
it's a lot of the same concepts
because all it's just saying is everything
that NASA does is fake
everything NASA does is wrong and you kind of have
to buy into all that to even get to flat
earth because of all the
thousands of images
and videos and just
anything that has anything with math or
science or reasoning or logic
you have to deny all of that
to then say that the earth is flat
well stair stepping
that is saying like
well if the earth is
is flat then we didn't go to the moon
because they have pictures of them being on the moon
and looking at the earth and it being a sphere
so it's like you'd have to
believe in that you'd have to believe in a lot
of weird things you know
you have a lot of bizarre attitudes
and energy and frankly
I won't ride in the car with someone that's a flat earther
so you know if I
ask if I haven't ridden with you before and I ask
you don't be too offended
because it's not that I take I'm not saying
that you're a bad person I just ask everybody
okay it's kind of like at the door right
I ask everybody if they're going to heaven and I
ask everybody that's going to drive me anywhere
what shape is the earth okay
because I don't want them to drive me off the edge
folks okay
now when it comes to the
moon landing being fake
I
surprisingly enough it's weird
going to public school
my science teacher
in the sixth grade I believe it was
six or seven something like that
made us watch an entire documentary
about how the moon landing was fake
and
I didn't believe it then
and I've never believed that it was fake
so it's not that I haven't been exposed
to it it's not that I haven't sat down
and heard all the evidence you know there was
a special done on NBC I think it was
where they aired a whole documentary
exposing the moon landing
being fake and that was kind of like where
a lot of this is coming from
and most all the arguments they use in this
documentary in the 90s or whatever it was
is where what everybody still says
today it's just the same tired
old arguments of the same stuff
they just keep recirculating
and it just really bothers
me because if you just take like five
seconds to examine any of the evidences
they bring up it just instantly
shows that these people don't
do any real research just
kind of like flat earthers they'll literally take
a level and put on the ground
and be like see it's flat
you're just like
what or they'll take binoculars
at sea and they'll look out and they can see a little bit
further oh see it's flat
I'm
like are you looking at the horizon
do you realize that there's clouds touching
the horizon
have you ever just looked at the highway and you see clouds
touching the horizon and then if you drive
like an hour in that direction those
exact clouds that you were looking at are now
above your head
and then they go over your head
and then everything that's
true just goes over the flat earthers head
okay it's like whoa buddy
you're that dumb
but it's kind of similar with the moon
landing stuff now
go I had you keep say say where
you are in X but go to Proverbs 2 go to Proverbs
chapter 20 I want to show you in the verse here
but
let's think about it my three
test motive what is the motive of
lying about going to the moon
it's like oh well we wanted to
we want bragging rights against Russia
you know space race
yeah but that's kind of silly because
technology was advancing so rapidly
at that point and people didn't really know where it was going
that if we lied about it how
we wouldn't how would we know that Russia wouldn't figure
out that we lied about it and then make
us look like idiots for having lied
about it or faked it or something like that
and it's kind of a bizarre motive
plus what does that really
accomplish
I mean oh we went to the moon and you didn't
okay
you know like we're still
going to send nukes into Cuba and nuke you
it's like you know how does that impact
anything really you know
oh well money
the money grants for NASA
research to go into space
they probably have plenty of money
anyways I mean yeah I get
that there's some money to be spent there
but that would be to suggest
that every government institution is
in the same way like I don't even
believe there's roads
no the Department of Transportation really makes roads
it's like well they're getting they're they're taking
skimming money off the top sure but they're still building
roads I mean have you seen only the roads
have you ever used water or electricity did you
realize the government's giving water electricity
public transportation police force
fire department I mean
yeah I believe in government corruption
at every level but let's not forget
that they actually provide a lot of services military
there really is a navy there really is an army
there really is an air force there really
is satellites I mean we're benefiting from so many
things that come from the government institutions
why am I thinking to say but but NASA
there's no benefit they're not doing anything
it's just all a scam for money
it's like that's a little bit extreme
that would be almost suggesting to me there's no
roads or something
of course we sent rockets off we've seen it
people have seen them shooting the rockets
off we have satellites
we use the satellites for all kinds of technology
that we have today so really
you would have to suggest that we went all the way
near the moon but we just didn't get on the surface
or we just shot rockets up and just
pretended as we went in a little circle or something
but
this is what I thought was funny I
saw someone making fun of these people
that don't believe we
went to the moon saying it would
be more difficult to fake the moon
landing than just going to the moon
so like I think we just
went you know it's like
but here's usually the number one
evidence that I see
is they'll have pictures of the
American flag on the
moon's surface and it'll be
it'll look like the flag's waving
and they'll say well there's no wind in a
vacuum so therefore it's
obviously done in a studio by Stanley Kubrick
and they had a fan
and I'm like okay well
let's just take five seconds to look at
the picture because if you just look at the picture
there's a giant metal
rod stretched across the top
of the American flag and
you can see that the flag's scrunched up on top
of the metal rod so
because here's the thing they aren't stupid
like you they realized
too that there wasn't wind in space
and that if they just took a flag it'd just be
you know just limp
that doesn't make a good photo op
does it so of course they put a
metal rod at the top of an American flag
so they could scrunch out the flag over
and again it's a little
wavy on purpose so it looks like it's
blowing it's a picture
it wasn't a video of it waving
it was a picture
you can't tell if something's in motion
in a picture necessarily
you can do all kinds of tricks
you can make it look like someone's running backwards
just because you're playing in reverse
right or you could make the flag
but that's a silly thing I don't believe you're laying on the moon
just because a picture of the flag
looks like it's waving
that's a silly argument
number two reason I've seen
they say well you can't see any of the stars
in any of the photos
but anybody that's ever taken a picture
or realized that the exposure rate on any camera
affects lighting so much
because if you turn the exposure high enough
up to see the light it would just be all white
the screen would just be white
whereas if you turn it all the way down then you can't see
any of the lights in the background
it's you know I've been working on this film
for our King James Bible documentary
and some of our
filming didn't come out that great
so we'll try to change like the exposure
and stuff
sometimes even the settings
get a little weird
but we filmed this guy named Dr. Phil Stringer
and he's wearing kind of like a
light colored shirt and he's kind of
on a light colored background like this
and when it exposed
it looks like a floating head with a tie on
because the shirt
and the background just to get so white
it's just colored out of the white
and it'd be like oh color
making things up with floating heads
on ties or something it's like no it's just the
filming didn't go that well
and we're talking about modern day cameras
we're not even talking about the cameras that they're using
in the 1960s folks
sorry that they didn't get all of the stars
exactly how you wanted in every single photo
that they took in space
that's not, how can I just
instantly disprove the moon landing
because their exposure rate
is not capturing every single
light source that's out there
number three I've seen oh the shadows
aren't right
well
most of the time this is what they
say about this is you'll see images
of Neil Armstrong or somebody
coming off of the spacecraft
and they're in the shadow
so like you have the sun obviously as a main light source
and he's kind of on the back side of it so
there's a shadow but he's like lit up
and they're like well that means
there had to have been another light source
Ergo, Stanley Kubrick, he had all these lights
in his studio or something
but have you ever read in the Bible
where God made two great lights
or made two lights a greater light and a lesser light
do you ever realize that the moon is a light
have you ever seen the moon
you know
walking on the moon it's like you're walking on
an illuminated surface
so of course all of the sunlight
hitting the moon you know what happens
it bounces off the moon
and it creates light
I mean
the moon is bright
can you imagine walking on something like that
of course it's going to be lit up
you're going to have all the light reflecting
off of the moon's surface and coming onto you
so of course that's instantly disproven
as well and then they have the Van Allen
radiation belts
which I'll talk about in a second
look at Proverbs 20 verse 14
the Bible says
it is not saith the buyer
I brought up this proverb for a reason
because the point of this proverb
is that people will conceal their motives
they'll tell you one thing
but they conceal their true motives
and then later
when they get what they want out of you
they'll brag about it
and this is what I kind of
would call the guru
fallacy
and this is what's frustrating
that people will do
is they will reject a whole group of people
it's information and advice for a guru
so you will literally
the people will watch a YouTube video
with one person
saying things like the moon landing is fake
and radiation belt blah blah blah
and then you'll reject all of what NASA
is saying for this one person
and let's be real
people who don't believe in the moon landing
they are not radiation experts
they did not
study and develop testing
for the Van Allen radiation belts
that they've gone through
and seen how it doesn't work
they're trusting the opinion of this random person
on YouTube saying you can't travel
through the Van Allen radiation belts
but they don't actually know any of that
they have no idea why that's true
they don't understand radiation
they don't even understand how many
rads are there
they don't know anything about a CAT scan
they don't know anything about going to the dentist
and getting their teeth on an x-ray
right?
they're going to do nothing but they're just going to reject
all of the moon landing
for this one person's opinion
and that's going to be the same
with purchasing or buying something
right? if you just get one person
that has a vested interest
in it they might just give you false information
hey I want to buy your house
and you're like oh okay I was thinking like
$100,000 for it oh man it's not worth that
at all you'd be lucky to get
50 you know what I'll give you 60 for it
you know it's like you're
trusting the guru
whereas wouldn't it be better to get a bunch of people together
and a bunch of counselors and the multitude of counselors
that are safety and get a lot of opinions
you know isn't that what they do truly
to find the price of a
property is they'll go and get comps
they'll go and see a lot of houses that have all
been sold that are relatively
equivalent to your particular property
and then by that
research they'll suggest a price
whereas you get this one person
that wants to buy it but he's telling you how terrible it is
how can you even trust that person's opinion
so you get one
flat earther on a YouTube video
that's telling you
oh the moon landing is fake why because the
moon landing has to be fake or his
stupid flat earth nonsense even makes sense
so he's lying
to you about it and just making stuff
up and just throwing information at you that
you don't know anything about to try and
conceal his true motives this makes me think of a lot of pastors
in this world today that'll get up
and say you know what that's not what it says
actually in the Greek
let me tell you what the
Bible actually says here
but you don't know Greek
and so you're going to throw out the 54
scholars of the King James Bible
you're going to throw out William Tyndale you're going to throw out
the Bishop's Bible you're going to throw out all the manuscript
evidence that throughout all
history is pointing you to the actual words
that you have on your hands today for one
guru to just stand up and just say
you know what actually this is what the
English Bible should say
that is a dangerous philosophy
and people constantly do this
why would I sit here and just accept
a guru over
the multitude of counselors
in any subject
especially when I'm not well versed
in it myself
I don't have the time ever and energy to go and read all
the Greek and study every aspect of it
all the Hebrew and study every aspect of it
look at every manuscript that's ever
existent and then decide
if I believe that this is the proper English translation
or not I have to put my trust in
someone am I going to put my trust
in the King James translators
and the history of the King James Bible
or am I going to put in this guru
who has a vested interest
to tell me whatever he wants
oh am I going to
believe all of NASA
and all of the United States and all of history
or this one guru
on a YouTube channel that happens to also be a
flatheard you know I saw some guys say the
reason why the moon landing was fake is because there wasn't
six million years of dust
in the set
well that's because the earth isn't
six million years old buddy
you know it's like what kind of stupid logic
was that
and again it just it makes me mad
because well
there's no way to get to the Van Allen radiation
belts how do you know that
you
really know that according to
NASA and a lot of the research they say
that if you go through the thinnest parts
of the radiation belts it's only
point one six or one point one
four rads approximately
which I know all of you know everything what that means
right of course since all these gurus going to
tell you that you can't do it
if you were to get a CAT scan
or something like that it's about
two CAT scans worth
of radiation someone that works in a
radiation profession they can
get annually
five rads or five REMs
and it's still be considered
so these astronauts are getting less
than one fifth of that in many cases maybe
about one fifth of the radiation
that people that work in a radiation
atmosphere where
they do the radiologist or whatever
they a dentist or something
like that
so again you know who are you going to
trust well
I'm going to I have I have
not enough time to finish this
but I just want to
reflect on what we've kind of talked
about quickly
there's a lot of conspiracies out there
you know and from a biblical
perspective the Bible basically teaches that this
is the truth and everybody else is a liar
every man's a liar
whereas the other philosophy typically
tries to say you know what
I think that
everyone's telling me the truth everyone's kind of a good
hearted person we don't want to get to that extreme
we want to say that this is the only
source of truth but then we don't want to get such an extreme
that everyone's always a liar
about everything because
then you just start denying reality
you start denying the world that we
live in and you start becoming crazy
why would I bring up the moon landing being
fake because here's the thing our church
obviously does a lot of people in this room do
believe that a lot of conspiracies are true
but I don't want us to walk around
looking like flat earth retards
and ruining our testimony
with normal people out there that maybe
are a little they don't necessarily
haven't considered a lot of these conspiracies or a lot
of the truth in general
because what's the biggest conspiracy isn't
the biggest conspiracy the devil just sending everybody
to hell
and what is what is he trying
to do he's trying to get you to not trust this
not trust the word of God not trust salvation
by faith and when
we look at the Bible itself
you know it really
it really passes our
our tests when we think about it because what's the motive
I mean what is the motive of God
giving us this Bible
and letting us do whatever we want
I don't see an ulterior motive
I mean
how could how could giving you
complete free will
you know be a negative thing or a bad thing and I mean
from the Bible respective God's letting you
do whatever you want
when we look at the facts everything in the Bible is always
true it's the most
reliable document
that we've ever had of antiquity it's the
the document we have the most of
from antiquity it's the number one
best selling literature
in the world
everything that you could ever think of
is found in the scripture I mean you can't
think of any situation that the
Bible doesn't address you can't think of any
topic that the Bible doesn't address and
of course from a doctrine perspective
the Bible especially the
King James Bible
doesn't have any kind of error
it doesn't have any kind of
what's
I can't think of the word
contradiction it doesn't have any contradictions in it
so this seems like a
reliable source of
information you know the
conspiracy is really on the devil's
side it wants us to go to hell
reject the reality there is no
God well all physical reality
you know testifies
there's a God the Bible itself
testifies that there's a God
you know where did this book come from
that's what I
would ask the people that don't believe in the Bible
okay well where did this come from
where did the greatest literature
that's ever been written the most
complete narrative and story that's
ever been told I mean show me a work that's
outdone this show me a work that's
more cohesive show me something that
explains the beginning from the end
you can't find it
that's why we put our
trust in the word of God and in the Bible
and we need to be skeptical
of man's institutions that exist in this
world that are arguably
designed from the devil
to take away our trust in this
because all of these
institutions are basically saying trust
the Bible or trust the government over the Bible
trust the public school
over the Bible trust whatever
this is what we trust number one because
you guys are a bunch of conspiracy
people the government is a bunch of
conspirators the public
institution is a bunch of conspirators
medical industry has a bunch of conspirators
there's a lot of people out there that want to hurt you
and harm you and they're all under the influence of the
devil
and even any lie
even believing that the earth is flat or
the moon landing is fake that will cause you
to get into some weird heresy
weird junk it'll destroy your life
believing everything will
put weird stuff in your body
weird chemicals and everything else
so we want to have the right balance
of saying what does the Bible say
about this test all things
and make sure
that we're not just a simpleton that believes everything
don't believe everything
and
don't be so apathetic that you're not going to
test it out be the person that tests
everything trust but
verify right let's go some prayer
thank you Heavenly Father for the word of
God thank you for giving us
a way to test things
that we can check the scripture
that we can see does this
match with reality with facts
thank you for giving us logic so that we could
understand how things
actually work that we wouldn't
just have incoherent thinking
we understand that
we get reasoning and logic and truth
and math and science all these things
from you from the word of God
I pray that we wouldn't
venture off into weird ideas
to strange ideas we wouldn't trust
the wrong people but rather we would
be diligent we'd be vigilant
that we would test the spirits we would try the spirits
we would try to see if
people are lying to us we could
discern flattery we could discern
ulterior motives we could
discern those that want to
hurt and harm our family that want
to steal our money and ultimately want to
dam our soul want to
dam the souls of our family and dam
the souls of our city I pray that we
be motivated by the truth
by the scripture to go out and preach the gospel
and to bring people to the
truth which would set them free and in Jesus name we pray
Amen
Final song is 110
in the hymnal, song 110
Alright hymn number 110
All the way my savior
leads me
110
All the way my savior
leads me
All the way
my savior
leads me
What have I
to ask
beside
Can I now
extend
her mercy
Through July
and past with my guide
Let me be
divided
stronger
Where I pray
with him to dwell
For I know
what e'er
befall me
Jesus to
evolve things well
For I know
what e'er
befall me
Jesus to
evolve things well
All the way
my savior
leads me
shares each
mighty
path I tread
gives me grace
for every child
leads me there
above every thread
For my
peace
gushing from
the rock before me
lo a spring of joy
I see
gushing from
the rock before me
lo a spring of joy
I see
All the way
my savior
leads me
Oh the fullness of
his love
to me is
promised in my
father's house
above
when my spirit
glowed immortal
wings its flight
to realms of day
This my song
through endless ages
Jesus led me
all the way
This my song
through endless ages
Jesus led me
all the way
Amen. Good singing this morning
and with that you are dismissed.