Steadfast Baptist Church, proceed. Get started for this morning's first song once you find a hymnal.
Turn to song number 412, Onward Christian Soldiers. Song number 412, Service with Word. We
just thank you again for Steadfast. Gather here, sing unto you, Lord. We just ask that you help us
voices. Praise you today. It's in Jesus' name. Go to song number 153. Number 153, Foundation.
So you know it well, sing it out. 153. Thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you did not get a bulletin and you would like one, just lift up your hand nice and high.
Ushers have those bulletins. They can come by and get you guys a bulletin on the front. They've been
working on Proverbs 31, the entire chapter. And if you can quote the entire chapter to a non-family
member, you can receive a special prize. We've actually already been handing those out. If you
have quoted that to a non-family member, you can see me or Brother Jason, our head usher over here,
and we can help get you a prize. We have a couple different options. Also on the inside we have our
service soul winning times and church stats. One thing to note about service times, and it's kind
of actually listed on the right hand side of your bulletin, but we are going to be changing and
adjusting our service times. They're going to be changing in the month of May and then moving
forward. Starting on May 5th, instead of having our evening service, 5 30, we're going to just
bump that up one hour earlier. So it's going to be actually 4 30 from now on. And what's going to
happen is the Spanish service that we were having at 4 30, we're going to move to nine in the morning.
And so I think that that adjustment is going to make sense for a lot of different reasons.
And I hope that it kind of encourages people to go out so wanting with us and stay for the evening
service as well. Plus should make it a little bit more accommodating for people to maybe go out and
have dinner or fellowship with each other later on Sunday nights and still get home at a reasonable
time. So I'm really looking forward to that adjustment. We've ordered new cards that have
that information and we're trying to work on all the other information that we need to update.
But we'll just keep reminding you until the change and then maybe after the change. And so just keep
that in mind. Also on the right we have at the top several expecting ladies. Please make sure
you're still praying for them. We have our prayer list. If you'd like to be added or you have
anything that you'd like to put in the bulletin, you can email us. We try to update it every week,
so make sure you're sending us in updates. On the back we have the note about some upcoming events.
There's a preaching class on the 27th. There is the homeschool field trip. It's going to be on the
29th. May 4th is the baby shower for the Hernandez family. The 5th is a spring swap. So that's
essentially where items of value that you no longer need or want you can just bring and then
anybody that wants an item of value they can have and so it's actually going to be in between
services this year. Usually it's done on a different day but it'll actually be on that Sunday. So if you
come you know of course to church at in between services they'll probably depending on weather
but most likely just have stuff set out here and of course it's all just free so and you
don't have to bring anything to participate so it's basically you can be a giver only you can be a
taker only we like both and any items that you give away that doesn't find a home will just be
donated to a local charity so if you do have an item that's large or a furniture I did ask that
you would have somebody that's already designated to pick it up don't just bring them just because
we may not be able to get rid of them very easily also if you do plan on bringing anything
we're not taking the donations until the Wednesday before so that's just a few instructions on that
May 11th is going to be our Mother's Day tea and of course all ladies are welcome to attend
there is a sign-up sheet over here out in the foyer so if you are planning on attending and
of course you don't invite your mom or grandmother or sister or friend of course you can invite
anybody that you would like to also attend with you but it is for ladies and their daughters
and essentially nursling boys are the only ones that are welcome so you can't bring any of the
men all right we don't want to be there anyways okay guys it's all right so but it's it's a lot
of fun make sure to sign up and if you have any questions you can always ask my wife about that
down below is the great the best announcement we have the congratulations of the aus family on the
birth of heidi laraine she was born on the 20th at 4 31 a.m nine pounds nine ounces and 20 inches
long congratulations to them with all those girls he's trying to be like philip the evangelist you
know so there you go um congratulations to them that's pretty much all i have as far as announcements
we'll go ahead and sing our third song for this morning it's going to be in our special handouts
and it's going to be psalm 126. so if you have your your special psalm booklets it's 126 chapter
126 special handout or in your king james bible psalm 126. turn in your bibles to john chapter 5
that's the book of john chapter number five "after this there was a feast of the jews and jesus went
up to jerusalem now there is at jerusalem by the sheep market a pool which is called in the hebrew
tongue bethesda having five porches in these lay a great multitude of impotent folk of blind halt
withered waiting for the moving of the water for an angel went down at a certain season into the
pool and troubled the water whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was
made whole of whatsoever disease he had and a certain man was there which had an infirmity
30 and eight years when jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been now a long time in that case he
saith unto him wilt thou be made whole the impotent man answered him sir i have no man
when the water is troubled to put me into the pool but while i am coming another step it down
before me jesus saith unto him rise take up thy bed and walk and immediately the man was made whole
and took up his bed and walked and on the same day was the sabbath the jews therefore said unto
him that was cured it is the sabbath day it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed he answered
them he that made me whole the same said unto me take up thy bed and walk then asked they him what
man is that which said unto thee take up thy bed and walk and he that was healed whisked not who
it was for jesus had conveyed himself away a multitude being in that place afterward jesus
findeth him in the temple and said unto him behold thou art made whole sin no more lest a
worse thing come unto thee the man departed and told the jews that it was jesus which had made
him whole and therefore did the jews persecute jesus and sought to slay him because he had done
these things on the sabbath day but jesus answered them my father worketh hitherto and i work
therefore the jews sought the more to kill him because he not only had broken the sabbath but
said also that god was his father making himself equal with god then answered jesus and said unto
them verily verily i say unto you the son can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the father do
For what things, soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son,
and showeth him all things that himself doeth; and he will show him greater works than these,
that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son
quickeneth whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son.
That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son,
honoreth not the Father, which hath sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth
my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into
condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming,
and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.
For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself,
and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Marvel not at
this, for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall
come forth, they that have done good under the resurrection of life, and they that have done
evil under the resurrection of damnation. I can of mine own self do nothing, as I hear, I judge,
and my judgment is just, because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath
sent me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another that beareth witness
of me, and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. He sent unto John,
and he bear witness unto the truth. But I receive not testimony from man, but these things I say
that ye might be saved. He was a burning and a shining light, and ye were willing for a season
to rejoice in his light. But I have greater witness than that of John, for the works which
the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do bear witness of me that the Father
hath sent me. And the Father himself which hath sent me hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither
heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not his word abiding in you. For whom
he hath sent, him ye believe not. Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal
life, and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me that ye might have life.
I receive not honor from men, but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not. If another shall come in his own name,
him ye will receive. How can ye believe which receive honor one of another,
and seek not the honor that cometh from God only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father.
There is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses,
ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings,
how shall ye believe my words? Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Father in heaven, we thank you for today, for our church, for Pastor Shelley as well and his
family. I pray that you fill him with your spirit and enable him to thunder forth the message you've
laid on his heart with boldness and clarity of mind and soften hearts in the room, open ears as
well, so that we may receive your message and apply it to our lives. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Amen. I want to look back at verse 44. The Bible says, "How can you believe,
which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God
only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you, even Moses,
in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me.
But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? And what's interesting about
this section of scripture is that Jesus Christ is kind of getting at a fundamentalist issue of how
can one believe the New Testament or the Old Testament and not the other. He's kind of pointing
out how it's not really possible to hold such an inconsistency. There's other places in the
scripture that bring up this idea of you can't believe in the Father and deny the Son. If you
deny the Son then you're denying the Father. And what Jesus is basically pointing out is those who
believe the Old Testament are those who believe in Jesus Christ and those who do not believe in
Jesus Christ also do not believe in the Old Testament. It's not really like you get to pick
and choose what you believe and yet many people will give lip service to believing certain
Christian doctrines. People will give lip service to believing the Bible and I find that there's
this pejorative term which we embrace holy but there's a term that some people use in a pejorative
way in a negative way to try to talk about us as Christians and they'll say oh you guys are a bunch
of fundamentalists or you're a bunch of fundies or they have all kinds of different colloquialisms
but at the same time we call ourselves an independent fundamental Baptist church and so
we embrace the term fundamentalist and really to me when I try to think about this issue of
being a fundamentalist it seems to me within the realm of Christianity within the realm of people
who claim to believe the Bible or claim to believe Jesus Christ there really is only two camps
there's fundamentalists and then there's liars okay that's really the only groups that exist
in Christianity today is there's fundamentalists and there's liars now I will submit to you I think
that there are many people that fall into the fundamentalist camp but wouldn't use that term
about themselves or don't like that term but really from my perspective fundamentalists are
the people that actually believe the bible and then there's a lot of people that say they believe
the bible but they really don't they're a liar and of course there's a wide range of scale here
some people will embrace a lot of the bible and yet they hold some inconsistencies some cognitive
dissonance or perhaps they just don't want to go all the way into believing the bible and so they
truly hold some lie some deceit within their faith and I want to try to show and illustrate from the
text and just from a lot of logic why essentially everyone should be a fundamentalist every
christian should be a fundamentalist it's not a scary word it's not like oh these people are
extreme honestly being a fundamentalist is the only thing that even makes sense okay and and I
want to again emphasize that I am going to bring up some different topics and some other things I
want to read to you but if you just look up fundamental that root word in the dictionary
this is one of the definitions it says forming or serving as an essential component of a system
or structure and and I think that that definition kind of lies at why we call ourselves fundamentalists
in the sense that we believe there are certain doctrines certain Christian teachings that are
fundamental to being a Christian fundamental to being a badness fundamental to serving God the
fact that we believe in the Bible as being the inspired word of God I mean without that belief
what are we doing here and without ascribing to the Bible as being the inspired word of God well
then you have to ask this question who's the authority and when this isn't the authority
whoever's teaching ends up becoming the authority becomes some kind of a guru and you could really
look at this as being a cult or even the Catholic church where they elevate man's opinion man's idea
over the text and they don't really say this is the final authority they say I know what's the
right teaching let me tell you what's the right teaching and you can't figure it out on your own
you need some man to teach you this is a guru philosophy and for us as fundamentalists we put
our authority on the text of scripture and we say that the King James Bible is the final authority
in this room if we were to say what is the person that's in charge in this room it's this this is
the person that's in charge and it's Jesus Christ and he is our high priest and he is the bishop
over our souls he is the chief shepherd and all of us are following underneath his authority
structure okay that is a fundamental belief but you know what i would say that is essential
in order to be a christian that is essential to being someone who believes the bible is elevating
and putting the word of god as the authority in our lives the bible tells us to trust not
and in ourselves to not lean on our own understanding but in all thy ways acknowledge
him and he shall direct thy path we're not supposed to trust in ourselves and if we're
not trusting in ourselves then our trust doesn't be somewhere else folks and it doesn't say trust
in man and princes and horses it says to trust in the word of god it tells us to trust in the
commandments of god and to trust in the lord that's how we can trust in him is through the
scripture this is an important element of being a fundamentalist i'm not going to go through our
entire doctrinal statement that's the most important point but we have several other
poor teachings that we believe are essential fundamental to our faith the fact that we believe
in the trinity god the father god the son and god the holy ghost these three persons are one god
we believe in the divinity of jesus christ we believe that jesus christ is the savior of mankind
we believe in the virgin birth we believe uh all kinds of other fundamental aspects of just
salvation that are necessary in order to go to heaven we believe in a heaven and a hell you know
if you just look at our fundamental statements now of course there are some doctrines that aren't
necessarily core doctrines they're not necessarily something that separates christians from one
another that will be things like end times bible prophecy you know we're not going to say this
person's not a christian just because they have a different view on interpreting future prophecy
or you know there's going to be sometimes distinguishments in how people run their
church practice maybe slight interpretation differences you know if they think that jesus
christ died on wednesday and we think they died on thursday well you know what that doesn't really
matter we're still friends we're still christians you know that's not a core doctrine you know
people that are baptizing by sprinkling you know that's way too extreme because really now you're
just saying you don't believe the bible you know how can you say you believe the bible and you're
doing sprinkling when it's never mentioned there's no mention of them going near water and shooting
each other with a water gun or something or just sprinkling a little water on their head no they're
going into the water why in the world if sprinkling was the practice would you go into water right and
if you go to a catholic church are they saying like here is water let's walk into the water
and then i'm going to sprinkle you no of course you are going to go into the river or go into a
large body of water because they're going to actually baptize you which means immerse you
and so really people who don't baptize by immersion they're not a fundamentalist and they don't
believe the bible they're a liar their view of baptism is just lying it's not like well this is
just our interpretation no no you just reject the clear instructions of the bible if someone
says i don't believe that jesus is god they're just denying the clear instructions of the bible
i mean the bible makes it clear that god was manifest in the flesh that's not esoteric i'm
not like trying to get some mystical teaching from the bible the bible just plainly states
that god was manifest in the flesh it just makes it manifest in hebrews chapter number one when god
the father is looking at the son and he says unto him god okay god the father when he looks at the
son he calls him god okay he doesn't say like some other abstract idea and we're just trying
to figure out how that could possibly mean god no it just says god and you know what i like about
the bible it means what it says and it's not mystical and it's not just some hidden esoteric
idea you know it's that the talmud the talmud is like that because they will often reference
jesus christ in the talmud but it's never jesus christ it's ben stada well of course that would
be an esoteric understanding if i was to try and derive the idea of ben stada being jesus christ
you know why because that has nothing to do with the name jesus christ it's not jesus christ
the word ben in hebrew means son of and stada means error and so you say what how is someone
the son of error well they believe that mary was a whore and committed whoredom and so they call
that an error call that a stada and so they say that jesus christ is the son of error because he's
coming from mary and they deny the virgin birth they deny jesus christ being born of mary through
a the holy spirit and actually they subscribe to him being the son of pantera so basically if you
read the talmud you'll find out about a character called ben stada and then you'll find out a
character called ben pantera okay like the rock band yeah the rock band that's satanic folks okay
pantera pantera is the name supposedly of a roman soldier that's the real father of jesus you know
what all of that is blasphemous and that is esoteric because no one's just going to read
the talmud and just instantly recognize that that's jesus it's a hidden occult teaching
but you know what when you read in john chapter number one in the beginning was the word and the
word was with god and the word was god you can understand the bible saying that jesus christ is
god it's not esoteric it's fundamental and of course that's why the jehovah's witnesses which
are a cult change the bible and literally change the translation to say he is a god because they
want to mess with the divinity of jesus christ and anybody messing with the divinity of jesus christ
is not a christian not a fundamentalist and is a liar they are a liar there's not an oh this is a
valid alternative interpretation of the scripture no no it's just a liar just a liar it's not
christianity it's not real and you know what they don't believe the bible oh i believe the bible
no you don't you literally do not believe the bible you're denying the divinity of jesus christ
you do not believe the bible you are a liar that is the reality just like jesus is calling out
the jews and saying you don't believe moses the jews will say this about themselves we are moses
disciple this is what the jews said out of their mouth we are moses disciple jesus is saying you
don't believe his writings well who's telling the truth here because they both can't be right
someone's a liar and who is a liar but he that denieth that jesus is the christ he is anti christ
and let me tell you something the jews today are anti christ they are anti christ and they deny the
son and they deny the father some christians out there have this wild idea that jews somehow are
worshiping god the father or have a special covenant with god the father and even though
they've denied their savior jesus christ you know what that they're still okay and they have their
covenant they're doing their thing and they're having fun no no they're being led by the devil
they're of their father the devil is what the bible says now of course i'm not saying that every
single person who's ethnically jewish is of the devil that's of course not true i'm sure there's
plenty of people that are ethnically jewish that are christian that are saved not only that i'm
not even saying that everybody who practices judaism is for sure a child of the devil because i
think it's possible that some of them may even could get saved but at the end of the day they're
still under the authority of the devil and they're still worshiping the devil whether they realize it
or not and they're taking the leading of the devil in the old testament and in the new testament
we have people worshiping idols and the bible gives us commentary in the new testament saying
that when they're worshiping idols they're not really worshiping idols they're worshiping devils
but they didn't know that it's not like the gentiles necessarily would recognize
what's really happening in the spiritual realm but they are truly worshiping devils and here's the
thing christians who are subscribing to this fake version of christianity this this judaism or this
god of the old testament that they dream up that's completely different they are not worshiping the
god of the bible it would be like jesus coming to this marriage and woman is saying you know not
what you worship okay they're really worshiping the devil and they're being led by the devil
jews are worshiping the devil that's why they're called in revelation 2 9 and 3 9 the synagogue
of satan it's the synagogue of satan it is an antichrist religion today and they don't believe
the bible they're liars but beyond that is even christians today many christians are going to a
church today and they would say i believe the bible i believe the old testament but then when
you actually show them verses in the old testament or show them verses in the bible they say i don't
believe that and they say oh i'm not one of those fundamentalists no no no you just don't believe
the bible it's not that you're not just a fundamentalist oh i'm a i'm a valid version
of christianity that's not a fundamentalist no no you're just a liar and you don't believe the bible
you're lying about believing the scripture go to john chapter eight for a moment go to john chapter
number eight i'll be honest with you the the point that i'm making this morning is something that
took me a while to figure out and it really kind of took me by surprise because i remember growing
up i grew up in church my whole life and eventually i started you know realizing that there's a lot of
doctrines a lot of teachings in the scripture that i just was very ignorant of i didn't know much
about so i was learning a lot and this is you know over a decade ago that i was learning a
lot of different things in the bible learning about you know the timeline of scripture how
essentially you know if we really study humanity and we study the history of the world it's only
about 6300 years old and i was just i was kind of flabbergasted thinking like how have i been in
church my whole life and no one's been teaching me that no one's been showing me that from the
bible and so i was really excited like i loved it i thought it was really cool i got really into
a particular doctrine that's called young earth creationalism it was exciting to me and i remember
going to other people that are christian that have been raised in church in their life and
i'm showing them what i what i learned i'm like hey look at all these things that the bible is
bringing up about this topic and it just blew me away how many of them just immediately rejected
everything i was saying in fact they were even offended by what i was saying saying you're an
idiot or you're a fool or i can't believe you think that i mean did you not type in google how
old the earth is i mean google says it's 4.5 billion years old oh okay well yeah google's
i'm sure if i asked google what happened on 9/11 they'd give me a good answer too right
i'm sure if i ask google all kinds of different things it'll tell me the truth every single time
right i'm sure if i ask google how many votes did biden get it'll be 81 million right i mean
i'm sure google just always tells me the right thing they're always so scientific so accurate
and i said but you believe the bible right oh yeah i believe the bible okay well let me show you what
the bible's saying here because the bible literally has a genealogy from jesus christ all the way back
to adam and it wasn't 4.5 billion years and not only that if you look at the six days of creation
in exodus chapter 20 verse 11 it makes it abundantly clear for in six days the lord made the heaven the
earth and the sea and all that in them is he didn't say like oh well i for billions of years
nothing was happening and i was just i was just watching like light flow towards a non-existent
planet just like we you know i mean think about how boring that is think about if you believed in
the gap theory like god just sitting here just waiting for billions of years before he can create
the next thing he's just like man this is taking a while you know i mean what really in fact you'd
have to believe that 99.99999 percent of all history nothing was happening like what why is
what's the point of that no god just like hey let there be light and there was light god just created
everything instantaneously about 6300 years ago my opinion is 6308 if you're a little off from that
is okay just don't go all the way to the jew 5,784 okay that is wrong that is not what the bible
teaches and of course people that would say oh you believe the earth is 6300 years old
you're a fundamentalist i'd say i believe the bible if you don't think the earth is about 6300
years old you're a liar if you say you believe the bible because the bible makes that manifest
the bible proves that in fact all science logic and reality and history confirm that to be true
as well there is no way to wiggle out of the idea of the universe being 6300 years old there is so
much evidence and again i don't put it in evidence i put it in faith and the bible makes it abundantly
clear that that is the age approximately of our universe and people say that's a fundamentals
belief no that's people that believe the bible let me say this that you'd probably be shocked by
10 years ago or 15 years ago somewhere not that long ago not that distant i'm not going four and
a half billion years ago saying like 10 15 years ago maybe 20 i don't know they did a survey in
america and they asked every single person how old they thought the earth was and over 50 percent
of americans said that the earth is less than 10 000 years old so don't think like you're in this
vast minority of people who believe these kind of things and if we go further back it's basically
everybody before the evolutionary theory everyone believed that literally everyone it wasn't until
evolution that that started getting challenged and some people started getting confused on that
so you know when we talk about fundamentalist beliefs they weren't always in a minority
many of them have been in the majority it's only in a modern era where we've deviated from the
scripture so much where we've seen a great falling away from truth where now people say like oh
that's a fundamentalist belief no no that's just the people that believe the bible and it's always
been the people that believe the bible and you're coming up with some term as a pejorative but you
know what we'll embrace it because i don't want anybody to get confused when they show up here
thinking that we cherry pick which parts of the bible we believe we believe all of it
and we like all of it i'm not even embarrassed of any verses in the bible like you couldn't show a
verse and i'm like yeah it says that it's like you know you know what it says in leviticus right
it's like yeah we have a whole movie you want to watch it we got the we got a poster do you
want a poster do you want the t-shirt i mean what do you want like i'm not embarrassed of any verse
in the bible i love the bible the bible is jesus i'm not embarrassed about jesus he's the best
thing that there is you know what should be embarrassed this world the things that are on
tiktok and facebook and on the internet and the things that people are wearing today and the
things that people believe today that's embarrassing what's embarrassing is you walking around with a
charles darwin book in your hand that's embarrassing what's embarrassing is walking around with the
quran because the author of that was an illiterate pedophile i mean that's embarrassing how in the
world are you embarrassed of anything in the bible anything that the scripture says you know
what that's a joke jesus embarrassed of you if you're embarrassed of his writings is what he said
look at john chapter 8 verse 37 the bible says i know that your abraham seed but you seek to kill
me because my word hath no place in you i speak that which i have seen with my father and ye do
that which ye have seen with your father this is pretty harsh words that jesus is saying he is saying
that the jews have a different father than jesus okay verse number 39 they answered and said to
them abraham is our father jesus said to them if you were abraham's children he would do the works
of abraham this is what you hear jews say i worship the god of abraham isaac and jacob
but you know what if you were of abraham you would do the works of abraham your works testify and
prove to me that you're not of abraham you don't worship the god of abraham you don't even like
abraham because abraham is the father of faith if you don't believe in faith alone salvation
you hate abraham because he is the father of faith alone those who believe in work salvation
they despise abraham you know what they're of their father cain they went the way of cain and
ultimately the way of the devil the way of a satanic gospel and that's what the point he's
going to make here book of verse 40 but now you seek to kill me a man that hath told you the truth
which i have heard of god this did not abraham ye do the deeds of your father then said they to him
we be not born of fornication we have one father even god jesus said unto them if god were your
father ye would love me for i proceeded forth and came from god neither came i of myself
but he sent me why do you not understand my speech even because he cannot hear my word notice he's
saying you can't understand what i'm saying why is it that they can't understand what he's saying
well verse 44 says year of your father the devil and the lust of your father he will do he was a
murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he
speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it and because i tell you
the truth ye believe me not notice why is it that the jews could not believe in jesus because he
spake the truth under them and they could not embrace the truth you can't handle the truth
i mean that's what jesus is saying under the jews they don't like the truth they hate the truth
they're of their father the devil because they love lies they love and embrace lies and they can't
understand the truth they don't want to understand the truth they reject the truth
so we see a contrast here you believe in jesus because you love what you love the truth and you
don't believe jesus why because you're a liar don't you see how there's a contrast here of
two different groups the people who believe and the people who are liars but there's not really
much in the middle is there either you believe what jesus said or you're a liar and you harken to
lies and you love lies now of course jews are at the extreme end of this spectrum right they're
basically the extreme of like they can't handle any truth whatsoever and then of course jesus
contrasting the idea of believing everything in the bible and of course we want to as christians
be those who embrace everything the bible teaches all of the commandments all of the instruction
we don't want to just believe john 3 16 we want to believe all the book of john and not just the
book of john all of the new testament and not just all the new testament all the old testament
as well we want to embrace every single teaching because that's what it really means to believe in
jesus you can't cherry pick it you can't just decide what you think is good or what think is
bad go to first timothy chapter 3 and i would submit to you that the idea of being a fundamentalist
when we apply it to any other context it becomes immediately obvious how silly this accusation
becomes so i want to apply it to some different contexts here for a moment because again people
will be like oh i'm not i'm a christian but i'm not one of those fundamentalists or something
okay let's apply this to any other context what if we just apply it to the constitution for a
moment right now what's the first amendment in the constitution the first amendment the constitution
is this congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances so based on the first
amendment people should be able to say whatever they want they should be able to practice whatever
religion they want and they should be able to be a journalist and ask any questions that they want
and that there's no one that's supposed to be able to stop them or not allow them to do these kind
of things that's essentially the elements of the first amendment but what if someone said yeah but
of course they can have free speech as long as it's not hate speech and you're like what do you
mean hate speech well if you know if it's if it's hateful rhetoric that we can't allow them to have
that kind of a hateful rhetoric and you say well do you not believe in the constitution yeah no i
believe the constitution but you can't have hate speech well here's the thing that person doesn't
believe in the constitution they're a liar oh i'm not one of these fundamentalists who believe what
the constitution actually says i just make up whatever i want and just add it in there and then
claim i believe the constitution no no you're a liar if you do not believe that people can say
whatever they want you don't believe in free speech you know who's in violation of this
elon musk elon musk of twitter constantly says oh man we're a free speech platform but then
they ban and censor all kinds of people for having unpopular opinions so how are you free speech
you're a liar if you believe in free speech then you would let people say whatever they want
well but this person says a lot of negative things and advertisers won't really want to
be on one of their posts so we can't really let them have a platform blah blah blah oh i guess
then you don't really believe free speech then buddy but it's silly because anybody and everybody
would recognize the fact that that person just doesn't believe it it's not like well i'm one of
those fundamental constitution people and i'm one of those you know modern constitutional people
no no there's no such thing as modern you just don't believe it what about the second amendment
second amendment says a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed basically to not be taken
over by communism you need to have a gun and that's what they do and that's what they said
and you know what they didn't say um the right to keep and bear arms that are not fully automatic
they didn't say that in fact they're even they even say that you're allowed to have your own
militia that's a military but you know what there's a lot of stuff that's going on in our country
that's prohibiting these things from happening and you know what they don't believe the constitution
let me explain something our congress doesn't believe the constitution folks and it's not like
well they're just not fundamentalists no no they just are liars is what they are they are liars
and they are the domestic terrorists of our country they have been bought and sold and taken it over
and you know what we need people to actually hold them accountable but of course you know our
country is going to hell in a handbasket because they reject truth and when you reject truth you're
going to reject it in all areas imagine if someone says i love football you're like okay yeah i believe
in football i like to play football and so you go out there and you're going to play football with
them and they run out of bounds and you say oh you ran out of bounds it's my ball oh i don't believe
in out of bounds what do you mean you don't believe in out of bounds that's the line you you ran over
the line no no no no that's not how you play football what do you mean that's not how you play
football well that's not how we play football well here's the here's the football rule book
it says that when you cross the line you're out of bounds yeah but i don't that's not how i
interpret that what do you mean that's not how you interpret that well i just don't like that
well how do you interpret it that's just not how it is oh you must be one of those fundamental
football people we actually believe in boundaries you actually believe that the line means something
right oh you know it's the fourth down and you didn't cross and got a first down oh well we do
five downs here you'd be like you just don't like football you just say you don't believe in football
you're playing your own game you're just playing yard pickup make my own rules up right and they're
like no no no i love football no you're a liar you're a liar i mean if we apply this logic to
any other circumstance people easily recognize the absurdity of it it is the same with christianity
when someone would say like hey you know i i believe in the bible okay what about leviticus
2013 oh no no i don't like that wait a minute i thought you said you like the bible no i love
the bible i love jesus i love all of the scripture okay how about this one no no no i don't like that
well let me explain something you don't like the bible you don't like jesus you're a liar
oh i'm not one of those fundamentalists yeah because you just don't believe the bible and
you're trying to mask it with this fancy word but really what you should just say is i'm a liar and
i don't believe the bible imagine if we live in a society where there's no punishment for evil
it's like well i don't like that punishment okay let's play that let's play that football
you know football if you grab somebody by the face mask and you yank them down it's a penalty
and you know why it's a penalty because if it wasn't people would tackle that way every single
time and it would injure people and it would ruin the game people would literally their necks would
be like snapped and broken and they would just injure everybody nobody could even play and it
wouldn't even turn into a competition of actually people being skilled it would just be who's the
strongest neck person right or who has the longest arms and they can get to your neck before you
can get to theirs basically and they're just going to snap each other's necks and it wouldn't even
turn into a football match anymore just be like a gladiator match so that's why they literally made
that rule and you know you get punished if you do it but imagine you're going out and playing
football and someone grabs by the face max and rips them down so that's a penalty no it's not
i don't believe in that that's a fundamentalist belief or what about horse collar tackle horse
collar tackle is another illegal move where you basically grab them by the back of their padding
and you rip them down and the reason why is just because that particular move can injure the
player it's more likely to harm the player hurt their back cause them some kind of issue so it's
an illegal move but this is what will happen you'll say i don't like horse collar tackles
they're illegal that's a penalty and they'll say like wow you're so mean to the horse collar
community i mean there's this horse collar community out there and you just are so hateful
towards the horse collar community no no it's not a community it's people committing crime
it's people committing penalties it's not a special community you know i don't have like
this animosity towards the murder community the rape community there's no such thing i hate rapists
i hate murders they should be put to death it's not like a special demographic of society the
rape community the adultery community where they're all linked together for being adulterers
just like in football it would make no sense if the media started saying like well i feel like
the commissioner is really going against the horse-caller community out there you know these
individuals that just want to live their life and horse-caller people you know i mean what's
wrong with that you know how they tackle they tackle tackling is tackling okay i am pro tackling
and it's just like this is the absurdity of applying this kind of logic to other areas of life
and say hey i can't believe you believe it's 2013 well you know what why do you not think
that's a crime how are you going to determine what's crimes i mean it's just whatever your
opinion is whatever you think is right or wrong how about god already told us is right or wrong
and we just embrace that we just say like hey he knows what's right or wrong you know even in our
society many people are committing murder and are not being put to death you know i believe abortion
doctors should be put to death you want to stop abortion it's not roe v wade it's putting abortion
doctors to death that'll stop it real fast real quick we'll end it real i mean i like arizona's
law but you know what we could go even further some people some fundamentalists supposedly
and are in the republican movement i'm using the word fundamentals kind of loosely
conservatives some conservatives in the republic they got mad about arizona's statute
and i read it the other day off the top of my head it's basically saying that you cannot have
an abortion in arizona based on an older law it's 1864 it's an older law that law said that you
can't have an abortion for rape or incest only in a situation whereas the life of the mother is at
risk and it said that the abortion doctors could be punished and i was thinking you know some
republicans came out like donald trump and carrie lake came out and said like what's you know too
extreme and that's so bad i was thinking this that's not extreme enough now again i understand
why they put the revision in there of the idea of like in the safety of the mother it's mostly
just to protect the doctor if he did like a c-section or did something and there was an
injury and the baby died as a result that they couldn't get sued or something like that it's
not like every time they're actually just trying to literally kill the baby or something like that
it's just basically some kind of revision but to say that the abortion doctor should just be
punished no it should be put to death the abortion doctor should be put to death in the cases where
there was obvious negligence or obvious guile or obvious planning and pre-meditation to end the
life of that baby yes that person should be put to death there should be diligent inquiry there
should be a trial there should be two or three witnesses and then you know what they should put
that person to death i can't believe that you're a fundamentalist no no i believe the bible
because the bible has the death penalty for murderers that are pre-meditated in fact the
bible has the death penalty for murder when you're just being negligent too and even in our society
we don't do that people get mad at me they say like oh why don't you believe all the other death
penalty statutes i do i just bring up the most extreme just to test where you're at and i already
know where your heart's at you know my heart already embraced the extreme ones because i like
the bible and that's what makes me a fundamentalist liking the bible i'm not a fundamentalist because i
just want to you know flex my muscles or something or act like i'm better no being a fundamentalist
just means you believe the bible folks that it's that simple you know the irs is a fundamentalist
because they believe everybody should literally pay the taxes that they subscribe to you they're
not saying you know what the irs isn't saying it's a legitimate view to say like well you know when
they say like seven and a half percent fica i just think that that means like you know one percent
that's just my view you know they're not going to be like that's a valid view they expect everyone
to be a fundamentalist when it comes to the tax issues doesn't it you have to pay exactly
whatever they say and go by their book exactly i mean is there any wiggle room with the irs as far
as their rules now i get that they have some vague statutes and they have some loopholes and
things like that but i'm just saying they never go like you know i know the statute says that but
we're just going to do whatever we want today no no they're like you got to do exactly what's written
in the irs code they are all fundamentalists they expect everyone in america to be a fundamentalist
when it comes to the irs code why would we not demand that that's how you would treat the bible
when it's so much more important than taxes i mean everyone is obligated to abide by the irs code
as if it was god's word why can't we treat god's word that way oh you're a fundamentalist yeah
everyone should be a fundamentalist there's there's no room for liberal modern theology here it should
just do it what about work well you know the bosses come at nine but i just don't really think that
i think nine just means whatever i want i think nine means just like come in at 10 or does the
boss expect everyone to be a fundamentalist on the rules at work oh i know you say wear a uniform
but i'm just gonna not wear whatever wear whatever you want me to wear are you really expect are you
allowed to be a modernist or a liberal when it comes to the rules at work or you expect to be
a fundamentalist at work where hey the time that you clock in is the time you clock in here's the
rule book here's the handbook here's the instructions on how you're supposed to behave at work and they
say we want you to follow exactly all these instructions we want you to be a fundamentalist
at work why is that so then radical that you would expect people to be a fundamentalist when
it comes to the bible hey the dress code at your work is not as important as the dress code found
in the bible folks are you fundamentalists think that women should dress all modest and in skirts
and dresses and whatever it's like yeah because the bible says that folks i'm not just sitting
here just dreaming up whatever i want to do no you just don't believe the bible and you'll
literally show them deuteronomy 22 verse 5 that's telling people telling women not to wear that
which pertains to another man and they'll say i believe the bible i believe the bible what do
you believe about this verse that's old testament i don't know no one could know i mean how is that
how does how would your boss feel if he's like hey here's a rule that we have no one could know
what that means boss i'm not gonna do it i refuse to do that you know i don't really care look it's
not that hard to figure out it's an unwillingness to figure it out because you don't believe it
and they'll say like oh i'm not one of these fundamentalists oh so you just don't believe
that verse you just don't you're a liar because you just don't believe the bible you know to me
to not be you know there's there's grace for people that are ignorant right there's grace
for people that you point out stuff and they say i didn't know that right i wasn't aware of that
and they want to make a change but to me if you see it and you know it and you've heard it and
then you choose not to do it well now you're just a liar when you say that you believe the bible
fundamentalism it's the only thing that makes sense go if you would to first timothy chapter
number three go to first timothy chapter number three these fundamentalists they're so obsessed
with getting people saved and who's going to heaven or hell that'd be like man this football
team's obsessed with scoring points and winning the game yeah that's the point like what are you
gonna really get mad at a football team like man you guys just seem like all you want to do is
like score points and stuff yeah that's the point of the game now here's the thing in a football
match not every play is designed to score points sometimes they're just trying to get a first down
or sometimes they just want to get the ball in a particular portion of the field or maybe they're
trying to run out the clock or heck half the time they're playing defense they're not even
necessarily trying to score they're just trying to stop the other team from scoring okay so yeah in
the Christian life we may on a micro level do all kinds of things that aren't directly related to
getting someone saved or or getting someone to heaven but that's our goal and when you lose sight
of the goal the question you have to ask yourself is what are you even doing what are you doing all
these fundamentalists are just so obsessed with salvation who's going to heaven whatever yeah
that's being a Christian that's the whole point of being a Christian and of course when we come
to church this is the one institution designated by God to be the institution of truth look what
it says in verse to me chapter three verse 15 but if I tarry long they'll may us know how they
ought to behave thyself in the house of God which is the church of the living God the pillar and
ground of the truth this is all the truth and this is supposed to be the house of truth how could you
not then be a fundamentalist because the whole goal of church is to know all of the truth and
understand all the truth and to be the pillar and ground of all the truth therefore you better be a
fundamentalist it doesn't make any sense to not be a fundamentalist when that's our job go to
Romans chapter three go to Romans chapter number three you're either a fundamentalist or a liar
now I would submit to you I think there's a lot of people a lot of Christians that go to
non-denom churches fun centers and all these other places but when push comes to shove if
you show them something in the bible they would say yeah that is true yeah I guess that's right
and maybe a lot of times they're ignorant well you know what I still think they're fundamentalist
they just don't know it yet they haven't recognized it and they need to realize hey I really am a
fundamentalist at heart so I need to get into a fundamentalist church that's the pillar and
ground of the truth I need to go to a church where they actually elevate truth over anything else
and they're focused on the truth you know I may not be the best preacher we may not have all the
coolest programs but you know what there's one thing I want to try really hard to do is make
sure that we're always saying the truth no matter how popular unpopular you know sometimes the truth
is really popular it's a lot of fun people get excited about that but then there's other truths
in the bible that people aren't as excited about they don't really like as much and you know as a
church we should try to say you know what we're going to preach the cool truths and we're going
to preach the really really unpopular truths too and you know the unpopular truths are different
for every person you know some people if i got up and ripped on homos that would be like the most
uncomfortable thing they've ever heard in their life you know and in this church that's probably
not the case you know some people if i ripped on having money that would be the most uncomfortable
thing they could have they could have rip on marriage that would be the most uncomfortable
thing being lazy and poor that might be the most uncomfortable thing like it's going to be different
for every single person and you know don't be the type of christian that says like i like all the
sermons that aren't pointed at me be a fundamentalist that says i like the truth every time and i even
like the truth when it's aimed at me in fact that's the ones i want the most that's what we should
desire but a lot of christians are going to a church today to hear all the cool truths all the fun
truths all the cherry pick truths today not the ones that are going to make them feel uncomfortable
make changes and when they start hearing truth that's challenging them to make changes they'll
be like i don't want to be a fundamentalist but you know what they're saying i don't want the truth
i don't believe the bible and they're a liar because you can't have your cake and eat it too
you can't tell me you love jesus and you love the bible but then you won't hear all the uncomfortable
truths nope the same is true if you love jesus and you love the bible you'll love everything in it
not just the cherry pick parts of course we all love the grace right salvation by grace i mean if
you don't love that you really don't like any truth i mean that's the most essential easy and
free truth salvation by grace the bible says in romans chapter 3 verse 28 therefore we include
that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law what could be a better verse than that
i mean you don't have to have any law salvation is so free you could literally do nothing your
entire life and believe in jesus and you will go to heaven something that many calvinists and lordship
salvationists could never understand they don't believe that but you know what the bible is clear
that salvation is so free you could take it and have no works and be saved and we all love that
and we go out and preach that but you know what that's not the only truth that we embrace we keep
reading is he the god of the jews only is he not also the gentiles yes of the gentiles also seeing
as one god was to justify the circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith do we then
make void the law through faith this is like do we then go to stephen furtick's church
do we then go to kenneth copeland's church do we then go to one of these hyper grace churches
that teach to joyce meyer do we then go to joyce meyer's church do we then just not even go to
church what does it say god forbid yay we established the law hey i believe that you
don't have to do anything but believe in jesus to go to heaven but you know what you should do all
the law too in fact we should establish the law we should be the people that are showing the law
we should be the people doing the law the best even though we believe it's free and you know
what a lot of christians today they want to throw out the old testament in my view there's kind of
like two major things that happen in christianities either a christians get sucked into a movement
where they either throw out hebrews or they throw out the old testament and we want to embrace both
we want to embrace hebrews the book of hebrews and we want to embrace the old testament and so
many people so many christians they they're just throwing everything in the old testament
out it's like oh that's old testament or that doesn't really apply or that has nothing to do
with me anymore and they're rejecting hebrews by doing that or you have some christians which is
even a weirder smaller subset but there's some christians they reject the book of hebrews and
they say like we should do everything in the old testament but here's what's so silly about that
position that position doesn't exist now i will admit there are a lot of people throwing out the
old testament that does exist a lot of christians are just ignoring the old testament and not doing
it there is no one on the planet that is following all of the old testament no one it's not happening
go to acts chapter 15 go to act chapter number 15 this is a silly idea now as a fundamentalist
because we love the truth and because we believe the bible we have to believe all of it that means
we have to take sections that explain other sections and we have to reconcile them we have
to fit them together we we have to make the puzzle fit and so we have to understand how the old
testament the new testament fit together and what things are different and what things have changed
and some people are like that's just too hard man wants to be lazy so they just want to either just
accept it all or reject it all like just well just everything old testament's gone or embrace
everything they don't want to actually have to understand how some things may have changed
and so you kind of see this this this idea of just basically rejecting the old testament but there
is a group that will say we should do everything in the old testament and that's preposterous
first of all no one can be perfect but even beyond that they're not even close they're not even close
but this idea gets brought up in axe chapter 15 verse 1 the bible says in a certain man
which came down from judea taught the brethren and said except you be circumcised after the manner
of moses you cannot be saved so these are people adding the law to salvation but in this context
it actually brings out a pretty good point in verse 7 says and when there had been much disputing
peter rose up and said to the men and brethren you know how that a good while ago god made choice
among us that the gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe and god
was know at the hearts bear them witness giving them the holy ghost even as he did unto us and
put no difference between us and them purifying their hearts by faith did you notice what peter
said in verse nine and put no difference between us and them oh you don't understand the jews are
special there's no difference between them and us well but you know they're god's chosen people
there's no difference between them and us but you don't understand they are they're like the
sons of abraham there's no difference between them and us but they get the promised land like god has
given them the promise there's no difference between them and us but they have their covenant
with god the father they have a different covenant there's no difference between them and us this is
and it's not like a gentile saying this this is their beloved peter peter is of the children of
israel and he's making it clear there's no difference between them and us no difference
purifying their hearts by faith now therefore why tempt ye god to put a yoke upon the neck of the
disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear did you notice what peter just said
there peter makes it abundantly clear we didn't keep the law our fathers didn't keep the law
why in the world would then we ask gentiles to keep the law it's absurd folks it's absurd to
try and go back and say like let's follow all the old testament we need to get the red heifer
stupid they didn't even do it and you're not doing it why in the world do you expect me to
do it here in texas you know what the red heifer should do he should get his head chopped off
and butchered and cooked medium rare and put on my plate and i'll eat it okay that's what should
happen that's the sacrifice that god wants me to have and you know what i'll pray over it
i'll bless it in the name of jesus christ and i'll praise jesus for what he did in his sacrifice
so that i could eat that sacrifice all right and you know what i'll actually have some bacon in my
baked potato too praise god for the new testament all right that's where we get to mix the old and
the new i get to have the fillet and i get to have the bacon i get it all it's called the better
testament folks why because of bacon that is number that is one of the reasons you think i'm
joking i'll explain why it's really really the better testament for all you men circumcision
okay there you go that's all you need to know all right because let me you know you say like oh but
circumcisions when it happens to a baby yeah but how many of you got saved as an adult or a little
bit older in life how many of you would what would one have gotten circumcised after getting
saved where's all the hands i'm just kidding the better testament folks okay wow there's a lot
more that we can talk about but it's super clear that no one kept the law peter saying they didn't
keep a lot go to glacius chapter number six now does that mean that we make void the law no of
course not we're not saying that we're not going to some extreme to say that now we just throw out
everything from genesis to malachi of course we embrace all of that but we understand so much of
the old testament was fulfilled by jesus christ and that we entered into a new covenant the bible
says the old covenant is abolished just fact second griffith is chapter number three says the
old testament is abolished you can't you can't go back it's done it's not like well maybe they
still have their covenant no it's wax old it's decayed it's gone it's perished it's abolished
it's no longer valid for any person no one has opportunity to accept it no one can enter into
that covenant it's over now glacians chapter number six look at verse 12 this is going to
further establish the point that i just made but it says as many as desire to make a fair show in
the flesh they constrain you to be circumcised only less they should suffer persecution for the
cross of christ for neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law but desire to have
you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh this is what's so funny it's saying jews don't keep
the law but you know what jews love to do they love to trick gentiles into converting and becoming
somehow a judiizer keeping the law so they can glory in them it's like a jew finding some texan
and convincing him to provide him red heifers and becomes some kind of a judiizer and basically
they're just doing it so they can glory in themselves but they don't keep the law and then
you ask them you say like oh where's your Passover animal sacrifice oh you don't have that where's
your leviticus 2013 oh yeah tel aviv is one of those faggity places on earth i mean they don't
follow the law they don't keep the law the jews don't even care about the law they reject the
old testament if they believe the old testament they would be christians and they believe in
jesus the people who believe the old testament are the people who believe in jesus so you know
what it makes me nervous i'm afraid of you when you reject so much old scripture old testament
when you don't like it when you're uncomfortable with it i'm thinking like what's wrong with your
belief in jesus because if you had believed moses in his writings you would believe in jesus
oh but i'm jesus's friend go to john 15 go to john 15 no you're not the bible talks about how
jesus christ came and he is the priest of malchizedek he's after the order of malchizedek
and it said for the priesthood being changed there's also of necessity a change also of the
law so the priesthood was changed the iranic priesthood is gone the priesthood of levi is
gone there's a new priesthood and it's not the priesthood of juda it's the priesthood of malchizedek
which is before the law and that is jesus christ is after the order of malchizedek since the
priesthood changed don't you think something else changed since the levi to the ones commanded in
order to order the sacrifices but the priesthood changed well then i'm guessing all those sacrifices
and all the things that levi did are gone you know why because they are they've been fulfilled by
jesus christ so of course the bible tells us in meats drinks divers washings and cardinal ordinances
imposed on them until the time of reformation guess what but christ being come it's gone just
like when you are 14 years old you are not allowed to drive a car legally now of course
there's some exceptions for hardships or whatever but generally speaking you have to turn 16 in the
state of texas to be able to drive a vehicle barring exceptions of course to drive a vehicle on
your own but after you've become 16 17 18 you can drive you get a driver's license you can do
whatever you want you can drive around and drive and it's not a contradiction to say like oh you
used to not be able to drive sure but i used to be 14 and it's like yeah well in the old testament
they say they're not allowed to eat shellfish and they're not allowed to eat bacon okay but
guess what we grew up guess what we're in the new covenant and that specific ordinance has changed
because i've accepted christ and i've become saved and so because of that change now i can't eat it
now i can't handle it that has evolved that doesn't mean that i disregard that and if i
personally lived in the old testament i wouldn't eat bacon and if i was 14 i wouldn't drive but
guess what i'm not 14 i'm just a little older no i'm just kidding some of you too but so i can drive
just like i don't live in the old testament so i can eat bacon that's not an inconsistency
you know who doesn't believe you should be able to eat bacon joel osteen isn't that bizarre
like the guy that rejects leviticus 2013 is the same guy that rejects first timothy chapter four
too huh you know why because if you believe the old testament you believe the new testament
and you believe the new testament you believe the old testament and these people are liars
it's not that joel osteen isn't a fundamentalist he's a liar because people who believe the bible
they believe all of it don't don't fall for this idea of this modernism and liberalism it's just
thinly veiled atheism folks oh but i'm a friend of jesus okay you're a friend of jesus okay well
this is what jesus said about his friends look at verse number 14 you're my friends if you do
whatsoever i command you oh i'm a friend of jesus okay are you going to church no do you read your
bible no but i have a relationship liar liar you know who are the friends of jesus fundamentalists
fundamentalists are the friends of jesus because they keep the law they establish the law they like
every single commandment they like going to church they like reading the bible they like going out
soul-winning go to matthew chapter number four go to matthew chapter four there's all these books
from these non-evangelicals is what i call them the fun center baptists the fun center christians
out there they write all these books about how they're a friend of jesus and they have a
relationship or they'll even say this i'm a follower oh you're a follower huh let's test
that theory too matthew chapter number four look at verse number 19 and he says unto them follow me
and i will make you fishers of men if you say you're a follower of jesus and you're not a
soul winner you are a liar liar oh i follow jesus no you don't because you're not getting
anybody saved the only people that are following jesus are getting people saved because those who
are following jesus are getting people saved and the people that are not following jesus aren't
getting anybody saved oh you're one of those flooded analysts that goes out preach to the
gospel no i'm a follower of jesus but you don't understand i got my book follower of jesus i got
a book i got a book radical called radical you know i got my book from matt chandler you know
and steven furtick and i got all these i got all these books and it says that i have a radical
reformation but you know what i can test and see how radical you are where's your sodomite
deception t-shirt okay you tell me you say that you're radical show me you're radical by your t
shirt okay you know it's just so silly the people they want to throw out these labels and acts like
there's act like there's something wrong with us oh they're fundamentalists you know what this
is what they should be saying oh they're friends of jesus oh they're followers of jesus oh they
believe the bible because that's what it really means to be a fundamentalist fundamentalists are
the ones that have the faith in all the scripture the old and the new testament fundamentalists
are the ones who are the friends of jesus fundamentalists are the ones who are the
followers of jesus christ the reason why you're not a fundamentalist is because you don't have
the faith you're not a friend and you know what guess what you're not a follower why would i want
to be in why would i want to be in christianity and not do what it says why would i want to go
and watch a football game if they're not going to care about the rules how much fun would it be to
show up at a football game and they're running out of bounds horse-caller tackling grabbing by the
face mask and at the end someone gets 81 million points by mail-in like what like what is the what
is the point like i don't want to watch that you know i have people like football because they play
by the rules and in fact you know who's the most hated person in all of every sport the ref and
you know why they don't like the ref because they feel like there was an unfair call they feel like
the rules weren't being followed and it's so funny that everybody gets so mad and they scream and
they yell so much at the ref stupid ref how blind are you but then it's like why don't you get mad
at the blind guides why don't you get mad at all the people that are misinterpreting this why don't
you get mad about something hey get mad at false doctrine hey get mad at liars out there get mad
at people that are compromisers and destroying christianity and destroying faith and destroying
what it means to be a friend and destroying what it means to be a follower of jesus christ
you know what everyone should be a fundamentalist we should be a nation of fundamentalists
it's embarrassing to not be a fundamentalist i would be embarrassed to not be a fundamentalist
in christianity just like i would be embarrassed to not be a fundamentalist in every other one
of these things oh i play chess oh how do you play chess why just move the pawns wherever i
want well that's not chess folks you can't just move the pieces however you want you have to move
them according to their rules and if you don't then it's not chess now of course when it comes
to chess there's all kinds of variations you can play rapid blitz you can play you know unlimited
time and all of that's valid chess right and when it comes to fundamentalism you know what there's
all kinds of shades and flavors and different you know ideas there's some variance between
fundamentalists and i'm not going to say they're not a fundamentalist but you know what if you're
denying scripture you're not a fundamentalist if you're not following the commandments you're not
you're not a fundamentalist and if you're not getting people saved you're not a fundamentalist
you don't have the faith you're not a friend you're not a follower and you know what
us at Steffes Baptist Church we're gonna be fundamentalist as long as I'm the pastor here
let's close in prayer thank you heavenly father so much for giving us the scripture that we can
believe in I pray that we motivate to be your friend to be your follower that we wouldn't care
about pejorative labels or accusations but rather we embrace the truths of the bible we'd care about
the truth and I pray that we could help win other people over to the truth they could recognize
their need to believe the bible they can recognize their need to actually become a friend and a real
follower of Jesus Christ and I pray that people would actually get mad about the right things
today I hope that people would actually embrace all the scripture and not just cherry pick what
they like and I pray that we could motivate many people not only get saved but also establish the
law in Jesus name we pray amen all right in closing let's go to song number 136 song number 136 master
the tempest is raging song number 136 song number 136 everybody's singing together on the first
song number 136.