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Welcome to steadfast Baptist Church if you please find your seats and grab your song books. We're gonna start off with song
405 the banner of the cross
405 let's sing it out the banner of the cross
There's a royal banner given for his claim to the soldiers of the King, as an ensign fair we lift it up today, while there's ransom once be seen.
Marching on, marching on, for Christ's count, everything but loss, and to crown with King, toil and sing, be the banner of the cross.
Alright, we're gonna have to do way better than that. Time to wake up!
405 on the second.
Over land and sea, wherever man may dwell, make the glorious tidings known, of the crimson banner, now the story tell, while the Lord shall claim his own.
Marching on, marching on, for Christ's count, everything but loss, and to crown with King, toil and sing, be the banner of the cross.
When the glory dawns, tis dawning, buried here, it is this day, day by day.
Then before our King, the boat shall disappear, and across the world shall sway.
Marching on, marching on, for Christ's count, everything but loss, and to crown with King, toil and sing, be the banner of the cross.
Alright, let's open up in a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank you for this Sunday morning at Steadfast Baptist Church.
Thank you for all the folks here this morning.
Pray that you bless those that couldn't make it.
And I pray that everything we would do today would be in your honor and glory.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
For our next song, let's go to 213.
There is glory in my soul.
213, there is glory in my soul.
Song 213, let's sing it out.
Since I lost my sins and I found my Savior, there is glory in my soul.
Since by faith I sought and obtained God's favor, there is glory in my soul.
There is glory, glory, there is glory in my soul.
Every day brighter grows and I conquer all my foes.
There is glory, glory, there is glory in my soul.
There is glory in my soul.
Since He cleansed my heart, gave me sight for blindness, there is glory in my soul.
Since He touched and healed me in loving kindness, there is glory in my soul.
There is glory, glory, there is glory in my soul.
Every day brighter grows and I conquer all my foes.
There is glory, glory, there is glory in my soul.
There is glory in my soul.
Since with God I've walked, having sleep, coming in, there is glory in my soul.
Brighter grows each day, in his heavenly union, there is glory in my soul.
There is glory, glory, there is glory in my soul.
Every day brighter grows and I conquer all my foes.
There is glory, glory, there is glory in my soul.
There is glory in my soul.
Since I entered pain and on my way to heaven, there is glory in my soul.
Since the day my life to the Lord was given, there is glory in my soul.
There is glory, glory, there is glory in my soul.
Every day brighter grows and I conquer all my foes.
There is glory, glory, there is glory in my soul.
There is glory in my soul.
Good morning. Thank you for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you need a bulletin, just lift your hand up nice and high.
One of us just can come by and get you a bulletin.
On the front we have our Bible memory passage.
We're working on Psalm 59.
Inside is our service times, soul winning times, as well as our church stats.
On the right is a list of several expecting ladies.
Please be in prayer for them.
We have our prayer list as well.
If you have any additional prayer requests, please just email them to us
and indicate in the title that it's a prayer request.
Upcoming events.
Pure Words Baptist Church is hosting a soul winning marathon July 6th in San Antonio, Texas.
Who's interested in going to this?
Or you think you're going to probably go, okay.
So we'll probably have a sign up sheet and everything like that.
And it's already out there? Great.
So we have a sign up sheet. It's already out there.
If you'd like to just go ahead and put your information down
so that way we can plan to do that as well.
And that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements.
We'll sing our third song, Where the Spirit Blows.
I just got back from the Red Op Preaching Conference.
And boy, the building there at Verity Baptist Church is really nice.
And the sanctuary was beautiful.
And it was funny because I was talking with Pastor Anderson
and he's like, we're like slowly turning into the old IFB.
No, I'm just kidding.
It was the best of the old and the best of the new.
All in one.
And it was really great.
So if you ever get an opportunity to go out to Sacramento
or you're in that part of the country,
you've got to check out Verity Baptist Church.
Great church, great fellowship, great spirit.
And so I had a great time.
I wish I could have been there longer,
but I wanted to be here with you on Sunday.
So let's go ahead and sing our third song,
Where the Spirit Blows.
All right, let's sing it out together, Where the Spirit Blows.
All around, to every town, not just the Jews.
Let's go and choose, where the Spirit blows.
We will go, go, go, go.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
Father, Spirit, Son, these three are one.
Holy Trinity, always with me.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
Go, go, go.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
He buys a crown, sent Christ around.
But He arose, rushing our foes.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
Go, go, go.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
He gives away all on His name.
Faith of our saves empties the graves.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
Go, go, go.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
As the offering plate is being passed around, please turn in your Bibles to 1 Chronicles 28, 1 Chronicles chapter 28.
1 Chronicles chapter 28 will read the entire chapter as is our custom.
The Bible reads, and David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes,
and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by a course,
and the captains over the thousands and captains over the hundreds,
and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king and of his sons,
with the officers and with the mighty men and with all the valiant men unto Jerusalem.
Then David the king stood up upon his feet and said,
Hear me, my brethren and my people.
As for me, I had in my heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord
and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building.
But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name,
because thou hast been a man of war and hast shed blood.
Howbeit the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever,
for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler, and of the house of Judah the house of my father,
and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel.
And of all my sons, for the Lord hath given me many sons,
he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts,
for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
Moreover, I will establish his kingdom forever,
if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments as at this day.
Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the congregation of the Lord and in the audience of our God,
keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God,
that ye may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you forever.
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father,
and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind,
for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.
If thou seek him, he will be found of thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.
Take heed now, for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary, be strong and do it.
Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof,
and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof,
and of the inner parlors thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,
and the pattern of all that he had by the spirit of the courts of the house of the Lord,
and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things,
also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord,
and for all the vessels of service in the house of the Lord.
He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service,
silver also for all instruments of silver by weight,
for all instruments of every kind of service, even the weight for the candlesticks of gold,
and for their lamps of gold by weight for every candlestick,
and for the lamps thereof, and for the candlesticks of silver by weight,
both for the candlestick and also for the lamps thereof according to the use of every candlestick.
And by weight he gave gold for the tables of showbread for every table,
and likewise silver for the tables of silver.
Also pure gold for the flesh hooks and the bowls and the cups,
and for the golden basins he gave gold by weight for every basin,
and likewise silver by weight for every basin of silver,
and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight,
and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims that spread out their wings,
and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
All this said David, the Lord made me understand in writing by his hand upon me,
even all the works of this pattern.
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it.
Fear not nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee.
He will not fail thee nor forsake thee until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
And behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites,
even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God,
and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship,
every willing, skillful man for any manner of service,
also the princes and all the people will be holy at thy commandment.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Father in heaven, we thank you so much, Lord, for today, for Pastor Shelley and his family,
and I pray, Father, for the spirit and power of the Holy Spirit,
of the Holy Ghost, Lord, to be on Pastor Shelley as he preaches the sermon to us.
And I pray, Lord, that you give him clarity of mind and help us to apply this message to our lives
so that we can be more complete Christians. We love you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Amen. I want to look at verse 8. The Bible says,
Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the congregation of the Lord,
and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God,
that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you forever.
And thou, Solomon of my son, know thou the God of thy father,
and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind.
For the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.
If thou seek him, he will be found of thee.
But if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.
So we have a charge by King David unto his son Solomon to build the house of God,
to do the work of God, and he tells him that if you seek God, if you keep his commandments,
then not only you, but the entire children of Israel will possess this land.
You'll be blessed by God, you and your children forever.
But he warns him, if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever as well.
And so there is a reward to seeking God and doing the work he has for you,
but there's also a punishment for forsaking him.
Now, he also encourages him to be strong.
It says in verse 10, take heed now, for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary.
Be strong and do it.
So Nike didn't come up with that slogan, okay? Just do it.
But he's telling Solomon, you know, look, God wants you to do this.
He's picked you to do this.
I've laid up all the materials for you.
You have this great opportunity before you to build the house of God,
to do this great work, and you need to be strong,
and you need to man up, and you need to just do the work.
But why it's so great to do the work of God is because of how faithful he is unto us.
And it says later in this chapter, I want to skip down to verse number 20,
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of a good courage, and do it.
Fear not, nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee.
He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee until thou'st finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
So David tries to encourage Solomon and to let him know, while this may be a difficult task,
while there's a lot of work, while this is a great work because you're not building a house for man,
you're building a house for God, yet be strong, be of good courage. Why?
Because he will not fail thee. He will not fail thee.
And we see this phrasing or this idea and concept taught in the Bible consistently about how God will not fail you.
And so that's why I'm even drawing a title for my sermon is, He Will Not Fail Thee.
And what will God not fail you on is the work of God that He's chosen for you to do in this life.
God has set forth for a specific work to be done by your hands.
And if you trust in the Lord and you're strong and of good courage, God will not fail you.
He will allow you to accomplish that work.
Now go if you would to Ephesians, chapter number two in the Bible, and I want to look at a couple different places here.
We're going to go to a lot of different scripture.
And I have seven points actually that I want to make this morning.
But number one, God will not fail you in the work that He has called you to do.
He will not fail you. He's going to help you to accomplish the work that He has for you.
Now, of course, in order for that work to be accomplished, considering the fact that we have free will,
we have to freely walk in that path He has set before us.
We have to freely and willingly choose to do the work that God has set before us.
But if we do our part, God will not fail.
Ephesians, chapter two, verse eight,
For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves,
and of the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
So according to the Bible, salvation is a free gift.
And once you get saved, you could never lose it for any reason.
But it's not God's desire that we would get saved by faith and then do nothing for the rest of our lives.
It's not God's perfect will that we would believe in Christ by faith alone and then never have any works.
While we're never saved by our works, God greatly desires for us to still walk in the works that He has chosen for us to do.
It says in verse 10, very specifically, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Meaning, before you got saved, before you were born, before the world even existed,
God chose works for you to accomplish.
There was a path of works.
There is a goal that God has for your life that He wants you to accomplish.
There is a significant work that God wants you to do, and He chose you to do it, but He gave us free will to see if we would.
He gave us the opportunity to choose to serve Him.
And, of course, then He can what? Reward us according to the choices that we make.
But when we decide, I do want to serve God.
I do want to commit my mind and my heart and my soul and my strength unto God.
I do want to build the house of God like Solomon.
I do want to increase the kingdom.
I do want to give glory unto His name.
I do want to do mighty works for God.
What the Bible is saying and what God is trying to communicate to you is that He will not fail thee.
That He will give you all the necessary resources.
Just like David had provided and accumulated an endless amount of resources for that building construction,
the Lord Jesus Christ and the true David, Jesus Christ, has prepared for us all the necessary resources that we could ever need to build the house of God.
We have an endless storehouse here with the King James Bible of resources,
of things to use at our disposal to accomplish the work of God if we would simply just employ them in our lives.
And God will not fail you.
When you read something in the Bible and you say, I'm going to make a change,
I'm going to start doing what this book says, you're never going to fail walking down that path.
You're never going to fail making that change.
Your life is not going to go backwards because you start drawing closer to God.
You're not going to end up going down a bad path because you're reading the Bible more.
Your life isn't going to get worse because you start going to church more.
You know what I notice?
People that start getting plugged in at church and start coming three times a week,
their lives seem to get better and better.
And the people who start to fade and start to disappear and we slowly see them go off,
their lives usually don't have the same type of blessing with it.
And you see the consequences of not drawing close to God, of not seeking the Lord.
But many people, they're not really trusting in God, realizing that He won't fail you.
You know, the world will fail you.
Your job could fail you.
Your boss could fail you.
Your president could fail you.
Your country could fail you.
Your state could fail you.
A judge could fail you.
Your parents could fail you.
People can fail you.
You know what? God will not fail you.
When you trust in Him, when you seek Him, when you walk the path that He has laid out for you in your life,
He will fail you.
You won't be disappointed ever serving God.
No one serves God a lifetime and looks back and says,
Man, I wish I was an atheist.
Man, I wish I had just lived a life of sin and debauchery.
Man, I'm so disappointed that I loved my wife all the way to the bitter end.
I'm so disappointed I had all the kids that God wanted me to have.
I'm so disappointed I went soul winning so many times.
You know, this never happens.
People will say the exact opposite.
They'll say, I wish I had stayed with my first wife.
They'll say, I wish I had had more kids.
They'll say, I wish I had gone to church more.
I wish I had drug my kids to church more.
I wish I had drug my grandchildren to church more.
I wish I had spent more time reading and studying the Bible.
I wish I had been more faithful to church.
I wish I had given the gospel to more people in my life.
I wish that that one uncle, I had went and visited him and given the gospel.
I wish I had visited those cousins and given them the gospel.
I wish I had gone to this country that I had always heard about in church called the Bahamas.
I wish I had gone there and preached the gospel.
Because I don't know what it's like, but I just heard it was so awesome.
I wish I had just been in church.
I wish I had been in Steadfast Baptist Church when it was small and only running a couple hundred.
To see the glory days.
I wish I had just been faithful my whole life.
That's what people are going to say.
Because God will not fail you.
And they know that God will not fail you.
And the people who choose to serve God for their entire life, when they get to the end,
they are going to have a great testimony of how God did not fail them.
Oh, I wish I had tithed more faithfully to God so that I wouldn't be in the financial shambles that I am.
I wish I had worked hard like God commanded me and provided for my family.
I wish I had loved my husband the way that God had said that I should do.
I wish I had educated my children.
I wish I had preached the gospel to my children.
I wish I had made sure that my children got baptized
and that my children are actually going out preaching the gospel with me.
These are going to be the things that people say and they think and they regret.
But the person that does all of them won't have the regrets.
He'll have this testimony.
He will not fail thee.
He will never fail thee in the work that God has set out for you to accomplish.
Now of course we should have great works and to do what I'm saying is very difficult.
It's being a disciple. The Bible says it will cost you everything.
The Bible says you have to deny yourself.
You have to take up your cross daily.
That you have to be spiritual.
That you have to deny the flesh.
You have to crucify the flesh.
Go to Hebrews chapter 13.
And many Christians, many believers, many Baptists will fall short.
Most people will not do what I'm saying.
I mean Jesus Christ even said the harvest truly is plenteous but the labors are few.
And you know what I think sometimes when I preach this or I talk about that
you in your mind what you're thinking about is all the people that are saved that go to these like lame churches.
But I'm talking about people in this room.
There are many people in this room who you will not see five years from now.
You will not see ten years from now.
Very few you will see twenty years from now.
You know it's crazy to me but it's just like I keep very detailed records of our church
as like attendance and membership and all that kind of stuff.
You look at it we've had like over we've had over hundreds like 150 people
that have been active members of our church that are not here.
I mean just think about that.
Hundreds.
And you know some of those people have just moved.
Some of them go to a different church.
But a lot of them they're just not even in church.
Or they go to a weird church or a lame church or they're just not even serving God whatsoever.
And you know what that's going to just constantly happen.
You're going to have constant just people just not serving God
not being faithful for a really long time.
But you know what's still encouraging about that?
Here's the encouragement I have for all you lame Christians.
Okay.
So any of you guys that quit at some point or stop serving God
I still want to give you a word of encouragement.
You're still saved.
Because he will not fail thee.
He's not going to fail thee in the work.
If you trust in him he'll help you accomplish great works for God.
But even if you're lazy.
Even if you're carnal.
Even if you do nothing for God.
From the context of salvation he will not fail thee.
The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 13 look at verse number 5.
Let your conversation be without covetousness.
And be content with such things as you have.
For he has said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.
So let me boldly say the Lord is my helper.
I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
In the context of salvation God will never leave thee.
Now of course if you're trying to build something and do a work for God.
And you end up forsaking him.
Well he may end up forsaking you for that work.
But when it comes to salvation.
God will never leave thee.
Nor forsake thee.
Ever.
You're sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.
There's no way you could ever lose your salvation.
And because God will never leave us.
Will never forsake us.
No matter where we find ourselves.
What is the Bible telling us?
That we shouldn't be covetous.
We should live a life without covetousness.
What is covetousness?
It's desiring things that you don't have.
You know.
There's nothing wrong with improving your life situation. Right?
When you first start out in life.
You gotta live somewhere.
And a lot of times we have what we call a starter home.
And as your family grows and expands.
It's nice to eventually have the opportunity to maybe buy a larger property.
So you have more room for your children and your family's growing.
And there's nothing wrong with constantly needing stuff.
You know your vehicle has to start growing with your family potentially. Right?
There's a lot of different things as your clothes get worn and torn.
You know hopefully you don't have to have your wardrobe grow with you. Okay?
Over time.
But you know as time goes on we all need new stuff.
We always have to get different things.
And you know there's nothing wrong with even saying.
You know we have this smaller modest home.
And you know 20 years from now we'd like to have a nicer home.
So we're gonna save money.
We're gonna work hard.
We're gonna build up equity.
So that we can purchase a better property in the future.
There's nothing wrong with this.
But what is wrong is just every single day just not liking the house that you do have.
And constantly just thinking about all the stuff that you don't have.
And just wishing.
Well I just wish I had this other house.
I hate the house that I have now.
Or I hate the car that I have now.
Or I hate the clothes that I have now.
Or the first part of the sin of covetousness in the Old Testament law.
Is thou should not covet thy neighbor's wife.
You know thinking about someone else.
Is basically saying to God.
I don't like the wife you did give me.
I don't like the husband you did give me.
And I mean how disrespectful.
How dishonoring to God is that.
That when you don't even like the spouse that God gave you.
Maybe you don't even deserve the spouse you have.
And you're sitting here thinking about one that you don't have.
And it just shows a level of discontentment.
That is inappropriate.
And no matter where you find yourself in life.
If you feel like well I just don't really like my life situation.
Well you know what God is not going to abandon you.
And he gave you all these different things.
And he's going to be with you.
And sometimes.
You know especially when it comes to houses and cars and stuff.
That stuff can change.
When you're faithful to God.
And you're serving God.
You know I mean it's going to be pretty tough to be content.
When you're Joseph.
And you're thrown in prison falsely.
For taking advantage of your boss's wife.
I mean what does Joseph even have.
Joseph lost his family.
Joseph lost his coat.
Joseph lost his dignity.
He lost his nation.
He lost his native tongue.
He lost his position.
He's in prison by himself.
But you know what.
The Bible says that the Lord is with him.
So even in that situation Joseph could be content.
Job could be content even though he had lost all.
And had a nagging wife.
You know what.
I guarantee once things turned around.
Job's wife kind of got normal again too.
I mean he had 10 more kids.
So you know something happened.
Right.
And he got a lot.
He got his money back.
That makes your wife a lot happier.
Okay.
But it's just.
In the reality of the situation.
God sometimes wants to test you.
And he wants to see.
You know are you going to be content with your spouse on their worst day.
Are you going to be content with the house that you have when it's maybe not so great.
Are you going to be content with the clothing and the job and all the different things that God has blessed you with.
Maybe in the low spots.
Because when you're content with the things that are very humble.
Maybe God will give you something great later in the future.
Maybe God will bless you with much more in the future.
But you know what.
We're supposed to not have a love of money anyways.
We're supposed to just be content and recognizing that this world.
The fashion of this world is going to pass away anyways.
This is all just a little test.
To see what you're like.
And God's saying no matter where you find yourself.
Poor or rich.
God is with you.
And he's not going to forsake you.
He's not going to leave you.
And we could feel very discontented.
But the Bible even says that God will give us the desires of our heart.
And I struggled with this verse because I'm thinking like what in the world does God not abandoning us for salvation have to do with not being covetous.
But this is where the connection fits together.
God will give you the desires of your heart.
What is covetousness?
Feeling like the desires of your heart are not met.
Feeling unsatisfied with your desires, your lusts, the things that you want to have.
And God's saying no no no.
Trust me.
Just trust me.
If you do what I say.
I'm not going to leave thee. I'm not going to forsake thee.
And I'll give you the desires of your heart.
I'll give you all the stuff that you truly really want.
And many times you don't even know what you really want.
I think of us as like children.
Children think that what they want is just like ice cream and desserts for every meal.
But they don't really want that.
Now again if we tried to reason with them they wouldn't believe us.
They'd be like no no I really want it.
Like I really just want ice cream and candy and cake.
But they don't understand the ramifications of doing that.
And so when we give them a good meal and then give them a little dessert.
That was going to be their best situation.
And in hindsight when they grow up and they get older they would recognize yeah that was what I wanted.
That was the best thing for me.
Even though in the moment I couldn't see it.
Even though in the moment I couldn't understand it.
And you know many times for us God is giving us just a regular meal.
And not just a bunch of sundaes and banana splits and shakes and blizzards or whatever.
And we're thinking like I want the blizzard.
And God's like you don't want the blizzard.
You want green beans.
And you're like I don't want green beans.
But then later in life we'll look back and be like I'm so glad I had the green beans.
I'm so glad I had the lean chicken.
I'm so glad I had all these meals.
And now I have strength.
What do the children of America today look like that are constantly eating junk food, processed foods.
They're not eating any legitimate meats.
I mean imagine what these children look like that are being raised by celebrities.
Where they're putting them on these vegan only diets.
And just strange exotic diets and stuff like that.
They're going to be malnourished.
They're going to have sicknesses, illnesses.
They're not going to have muscle.
They're just going to be weak and emaciated.
And it's gross.
And many times when it comes to us and our spiritual condition.
We can't recognize exactly what's going on.
And we have to just trust in the Lord.
And you know because we're saved.
You know the Bible says all things work together for good to them that love God.
To them that are called according to His purpose.
All kinds of things in our life.
And at the end of the day you'll make it to heaven.
You know what a great promise that God gave us that'll never leave us nor forsake us.
And that no matter where we find ourselves and no matter how much we fail in life.
God's still there.
I mean that's what it's saying here in verse 6.
That we may boldly say the Lord is my helper.
You know you could have this attitude of like well.
I think God is that guy's helper because he's a pretty good Christian.
But me, I'm not a very good Christian.
I keep failing.
I keep disappointing God.
I struggle in this area of my life.
And I don't feel like God wants to help me.
But that's the wrong attitude.
Because if you're saved, you can say this.
The Lord is my helper.
The Lord is your helper if you're saved.
He is always there. He's always ready to assist and to bless people.
In fact there were some really wicked people in the Bible that were not serving God well.
And then just they decided you know what I need God's help.
And they just cried out and then God would just help them.
People like Manasseh.
All kinds of different people in the Bible.
As soon as they humble themselves and just sought God.
He just would bless them and do good under them and rescue them and help them.
You know it's not like oh I have to be a good Christian for God to want to help me.
Nope. God will even help bad Christians.
Backslidden Christians.
I mean even think of Samson.
Samson was a very backslidden Christian.
Had greatly disappointed the Lord.
But even in his last moments he cried out unto God and said God give me strength one more time.
And he helped him to do the greatest work that he'd ever accomplished.
He actually slayed more Philistines at the end of his life than at any other point.
Plus you know we kind of talk about how he committed suicide.
But he didn't know for sure he was going to die.
Number one.
And number two.
Samson it's kind of a merciful thing that God allowed him to die.
So that he wasn't further tormented for the rest of his life.
I mean his eyes are poked out.
He's being tortured by the Philistines.
I mean how much of an existence does he really have.
It's probably better if he just goes home at that point anyways.
So it's almost merciful that God allowed him to die with the Philistines.
And then of course he gets memorialized for all of eternity as picturing the Lord Jesus Christ and his death and sacrifices that he made for us.
So even in Samson's demise.
Even Samson was a bad Christian folks.
Samson is lying with multiple harlots.
He's not seeking God.
He didn't marry the wife that God wanted him to.
He lost his first wife.
He ends up sleeping with all kinds of harlots and prostitutes.
Then he sleeps with Delilah.
Then he gets tricked by the Philistines.
Then he's captured by the Philistines.
I mean the guy's life is just kind of a constant train wreck all the way towards the end.
But you know what?
God was still with him.
And God will not fail Samson even though Samson failed God.
And it's just to show you that no matter how far you fall, well, if you're saved, you're still saved.
And even at the last moments of your life, if you call out to God, he can still do a great work in your life.
You know, even if you're, you know, someone's out there and they're not in church and they're just listening.
And they say, I haven't been to church in a long time.
There's never a bad time to get back into church.
There's never a bad time to start reading the Bible again.
There's never a bad time to call out to God.
Hey, I've been failing in this one area of my life.
There's never a bad time to say, God, will you just please help me?
God, I'm sorry.
Will you please just give me strength one more time?
Will you please just help me one more time?
Because God will never leave thee nor forsake thee.
Go to Deuteronomy chapter 31.
So in the context of salvation, God is always there.
God always has something for you to do.
As long as you have breath in your lungs, you should know that God has a work for you to still do.
Because I believe that if you had nothing left to accomplish on this earth, if you have no other works to walk in, God would just take you home.
So as long as you're physically alive, I believe God has at least one more task for you to do.
Now, of course, it's up to you to do that.
But we should look at that as God's giving me an opportunity. I'm still in the game.
There's still something for me to accomplish. I need to do the work that God has for me.
Now, in your life, if you forsake God, you may lose opportunities.
You may lose your position.
And you may even lose your life.
But He's still with you.
He's still with you.
He'll never leave thee nor forsake thee.
And so, you know, we serve just a great God.
I mean, think about Him. He's basically just always open.
He's like a 24-7.
He's always there. He's always ready.
And really, most of our failures are not as a result of God.
In fact, none of them are a result of God.
It's us not trusting in Him, walking in the path that He has for us,
allowing Him to mightily use us.
And it's us that need to make the change.
Now Deuteronomy 31 says in verse 6,
Be strong and of a good courage.
Fear not, nor be afraid of them.
For the Lord thy God, He it is that doth go with thee.
He will not fail thee nor forsake thee.
That sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Pretty much the same admonition that David gave in to Solomon
was actually way before, and it's Moses giving commandment unto Joshua
about going and entering into the Promised Land
and talking about how they're going to have great success in battle.
And so, number one, God will not fail you in the work He has for you to do.
God will not fail you in salvation, but He will accomplish it and you will be saved.
And thirdly, God will not fail you in the battles that you have to enter in your life.
When there is a spiritual battle, God will not fail you.
In fact, the Bible says here He will go with you.
And so we're supposed to have strength and we're supposed to have courage
and realize we will win the battle.
We will win the battle.
You know, I was at Verity Baptist Church at the Red Op preaching conference
and there's hundreds and hundreds of fundamental Baptists
and I couldn't find one Sodomite.
If I had, he would have left, okay?
By force.
But, hey, what's the first Red Op preaching conference like?
The first Red Op preaching conference?
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Sodomites circling around that building
screaming, yelling, saying they're not going to go away.
Saying we're here.
Threatening them.
And you know what? They even got them evicted from their building in a sense.
Basically their lease was about to expire
and their landlord decided to cancel their renewal
and not allow them to continue being in that building.
That's a battle, folks.
That's a war.
But what does the Bible say?
Does the Bible say, well, you know what?
The enemy is too strong and our God can't
so we're going to just pack up and go home.
What does the Bible say?
No, be strong and of good courage
because he will not fail thee.
Just keep doing what God said.
Well, no, we need to go on television and apologize.
I'm sorry.
I know the Bible says for y'all to be put to death
but I don't believe it.
I don't believe it.
I didn't really mean it that way.
It's out of context.
Is that is that what God wants us to do?
But how many people do that today?
How many people put out an apology and say
that's not really what I meant?
That's not the words that I wanted to say?
Or how many people are going to be like pastor Jimenez
and walk up to the media and just say
thanks for the free publicity and then walk away?
You know, and where is Pastor Jimenez now?
Oh, look, he has a great building.
Hundreds of people coming to the church.
Where are the sodomites?
Well, half of them probably have died
and gone to hell by now.
Or they've got AIDS or something.
Suffering and dying and being diseased
and no one loves them.
But you know what?
In the moment sometimes you can't really see the future
and you might think, wow, we're so outnumbered
because they were.
I mean, I don't know what the numbers were exactly
and probably at least two to one, three to one,
sodomites to fundamental Baptist ratio
for that first conference.
Now where is it?
What's 500 divided by zero?
For all you math geeks.
You can't divide by zero.
It's an infinite win.
It's just like not a real number.
That's what the answer is.
And you have to realize that God will give us
the victory if we trust in him.
If we lean in our own strength, our own wisdom,
we won't win.
What would be leaning in your own strength?
I'm gonna solve the problem.
I'm gonna get out there and I'm just gonna start
taking some names, you know?
Kicking some A and taking some names.
But you know what?
You wouldn't win that battle.
The cops would come arrest you,
you'd have all these legal issues
and have all these problems.
And of course if you did win, you'd be like,
you know why we got the glory?
Because of righty and lefty, yeah.
It'd be giving all the glory to you, wouldn't it?
But when you do nothing but just preach the Bible
and do what the Bible says, you know who gets the glory?
God gets the glory.
And say God won the victory.
God drug them out of there.
And you know what?
It's no different than virtually every story
in the Old Testament how God's people
would be encircled with the wicked,
with the enemies of God,
and if they would just trust in the Lord,
he'd grab them by the nose and rip them out of there
and destroy them for them.
And don't go calling for Egypt to rescue you.
Don't go hoping that Donald Trump
and the MAGA movement will rescue you.
Trust in God.
You know, people today are confused
and they don't recognize that this book still works.
That our God is still alive.
That our true strength will come from the word of God
and he is going to battle for us.
When we have future battles,
if we have to battle against the Catholics,
hey, God will deliver us.
And look, the Catholics have been at times
the worst enemy of God's people in Europe.
But you know what?
God prevailed.
I guarantee William Tyndale felt the heat
trying to translate the Bible into Egypt
in English under the threat of that Catholic pressure.
And boy, what a battle.
And even for William Tyndale,
he wasn't even personally able to see
the success of the movement that God had started.
He was like a modern day Stephen.
Because think about Stephen.
Stephen didn't really get to see
how the church exploded beyond his death.
In his physical life, obviously from heaven,
he's got a great view of it.
I'm just saying like in his lifetime,
he didn't get to see the big impact
was going to happen with the church
and the spreading of the church
going out throughout all the world
and the huge impact yet.
William Tyndale didn't get to see
the final work of the King James Bible
and how it spread over the entire world
the way that it did.
But the Catholic church was trying to make it
to where you and I could not have
a physical Bible in our hands, folks.
That the only people that could have a Bible
were a Catholic pedophile priest in a dress
and it was in Latin.
How many of you want to go to a church today
where you have to listen to a sermon in Latin
from a guy in a dress
that's molesting the children in that parish?
You know what?
Praise God for brave men like William Tyndale
that stood up to the Catholic church
and the only reason that we have
a Bible in our hands today
is because of many brave men laying down their lives
literally being burned at the stake, literally,
so that you and I could read this book.
Why?
Because he will not fail thee.
It wasn't William Tyndale.
It wasn't the King James translators.
It was God that gave us this book.
It was just men that decided
I'm going to trust in God
and trust in the word of God
that he will not fail us
and he saw them through
and he was able to produce
the most popular book in human history.
It was God that gave us this book.
It makes me so mad when people say
oh the King James Bible is based on
a divorce from King Henry.
King Henry
watched the preserved Bible
because the opening sequence of the preserved Bible
King Henry literally is condemning the Tyndale Bible
and saying that it's not allowed to be read
in his kingdom
and the Tyndale Bible is 85% verbatim
this King James Bible today.
For you to say that King Henry
is the reason why we have a King James Bible
is just complete and utter foolishness.
That would be like attributing
the work of steadfast Baptist Church to Joe Biden.
Well you know why steadfast Baptist Church exists
because of Joe Biden's endorsement.
What are you talking about?
What do you mean?
That's so silly to think that
it came from.
No, it was people of God,
people of faith
that decided to trust in God
and you know it's impossible to know
who was saved and who was not saved
and all the different things
but you know if William Tyndale
is burned at the stake
and the first accusation against him
is first he maintained that faith alone justifies
he sounds saved to me.
I mean if you're going to say
like the number one reason why
the Catholic Church wants to kill you
is you sound saved to me.
I'm just going to throw it out there.
I mean because it's not like
the Catholic Church didn't believe
contrary to that.
They of course did.
So someone standing in great opposition
to them was probably a believer
and I believe that many
of those men were believers.
Now were they fundamental Baptists?
No, but they didn't have time
to become one yet, okay.
They would of course joined our church.
Go over to Psalm 71.
We're going to have battles in our life.
We've had battles.
Steadfast Baptist Church has had battles
and I'll be honest with you.
I was ready and willing to say
we may be protested forever
because especially some of them
seem paid for sure
and I'm like you know people go to work
that they hate, you know.
People go to jobs they don't like
just to get paid.
The fact that we haven't been
protested for months is just like
it's kind of surprising to me
and I hope to God you don't think
that the message changed
because it didn't.
I don't think we didn't back down.
If anything we doubled down
when Dylan's like saying
we won't shut up, okay.
And we haven't.
And we won't.
And you know what God's still blessing
our church.
And God's the one that gave us
the victory on that.
We didn't do anything special.
If anything we only tried
to screw things up
and God just still just gave us
victory anyways.
God just keeps giving us victory
and when we have future battles
we need to recognize we need
to trust in God.
And you know I don't think many
of us believe that
pure words Baptist Church
I believe that pure words Baptist Church
is the most protested church
in the world right now.
I mean they've been being
protested hardcore
for weeks and weeks and weeks
while we've been sitting over here
just living it up and having fun
they've been being protested hard.
Not only that the protesters
have been trying to protest
the landlord at his own personal offices
and just harassing them
I mean they're bringing
you know a short barreled rifles
to these protests
and even waving them at people.
I mean I walked up to them
and they're just like
the guy's just like got the gun
like holding it up near me
I'm just like what in the world?
I mean all kinds of threats
and you know pure words
is way smaller than us.
It's a much smaller church
and more intensified
and you know this would be my encouragement
if you're the number one
most protested church in the world
let me explain something to you
you're important
I don't know if you can't understand this
if the devil is going to take
so many resources
and attack you so viciously
over and over and over
that means that you are really important
and let me explain something
Pure Words Baptist Church
is an extremely important church
in many ways
I almost think it might be
more important than ours
because whenever I was thinking
about starting a church
and I was evaluating
all the different situations
you know Dallas Fort Worth
actually has several decent
Baptist churches here
I mean if this church
just immediately just shut down
the soul winning church
in fact you'd have multiple to choose from
you know when it comes to Houston specifically
that is not the case
there is not just a cornucopia
of good options
and decent churches over there
it is just a wasteland
it is filled with all the same
heretics you can imagine too
Joel Osteen
all the kind of weirdos
and freaks and garbage churches
tons of Pentecostal churches
in fact whenever I started
the church down there
the landlord said
there is 500 churches
within a 5 mile radius of this area
and I was like yeah
and they all suck
in the shopping center
that I started Pure Words Baptist Church
there were 8 other churches
8
and it is tiny
like it was basically like
Pentecostal, Pentecostal
Spanish Pentecostal
Pentecostal, Pentecostal
and then it was just like us in the corner
fundamental Baptist
now today
I don't even know if any of those
those churches when I started
are still there
maybe the Spanish one
I can't remember
it might be gone though
I don't know
like they pretty much just all disappeared
but you know what?
I have a breath in my lungs
and as long as I'm a pastor
I will do everything in my power
for Pure Words Baptist Church
to be a church in Houston
it does not matter
now of course we're God willing
going to ordain
evangelist Salvador Alvarez
in the future to be its pastor
but I'm just saying
my commitment level is
that even if anything happened
it's still in my back pocket
I'm still going to make sure
as long as I have the ability
to effect that
I will make sure that that church is going on
because Houston needs a church
I mean it's 8 million people
8 million people
on paper
the amount of people
that actually live there
it's wildly unknown
and there's a lot of restaurants there
so you know there's a lot of people
that aren't even on paper
okay?
and guess who works in the kitchen?
Jose and Martinez
and you know Garcia
we all like Mexican food apparently
you know?
but the reality is
you know Pure Words should recognize
hey we're in a battle right now
what do we do?
what do you do?
you know what?
you trust in God
because He will not fail thee
God will not fail thee
and you know no matter where you're at
and I mean man
you're getting that much heat
and you're getting that much persecution
you should just know you're on the right path folks
you're doing what God wants you to do
and that church is an important church
it is a beacon of light
in a very dark city
in a very dark area
that needs the gospel
and frankly speaking Houston is one of the most receptive
places to preach the gospel you can imagine
like if you say
I want some easy soul winning
it is great
if you speak Spanish it's even that much better
because it is just some of the best soul winning
you know when we were in Watauga
I was still driving down to Pure Words regularly
I was still preaching down there every Thursday
and it was very discouraging
because when Watauga on Wednesdays
I don't even know for the time we were there
I got a single person saved on Wednesday
which is pretty rare for me
because I usually get people saved
when I go soul winning
I just never could
but it was like Pure Words on Thursday
just pretty much like every single week
it's just like you know Wednesday zero
Thursday okay I got one or two
just like almost every single time
I'm going down there
and boy that was refreshing
boy that helped me go
and most of the time it was in Spanish too
just to be admitted
be honest
I might have you know all the souls I've gotten saved in Houston
I wouldn't even be surprised
if more than 50% of them were in Spanish
and I'm not even the best Spanish speaker
ask anybody that speaks Spanish
but I'm just telling you
that it's right under the harvest
and what we have to do is we have to trust in God
for the battles that we go through
and recognize he will not fail
you know there's been there was times
you know I'm driving down to Houston
because I don't know exactly how long I did that
forgive me if I say wrong
maybe two and a half years three years
I mean it was it was a long time
that I was doing that regularly
and you know there was moments
and times where it was difficult
I mean there was a few services
where I drove down there
and it's like one minute to start service
and there's no one there
I'm just me
and I mean think about it
to drive four four and a half hours to church
and you're by yourself
can can seem discouraging
I don't know if you've ever experienced that
a little bit disheartening
but I think even in that service
a few people came in late
so I wasn't I never had a service by myself
but I'll tell you the thought was there
I was like all right
but you know what
I would have still had the church service by myself
because you know what
I can still praise God by myself
and I can still do everything that I need to do
and I can still trust in the Lord
and you know what sometimes there's even moments
in the Bible where they just needed one guy
to trust in God by himself
and then others would follow in like suit
I can't affect other people
the way I would like to
I can't force you to serve God
but I can affect myself
I can make sure that I serve God
I can't force you to do it
but you know what
if I serve God and I'm faithful
I could influence you to do that
I could exhort you
I could give you a further zeal to do that
and you know when it comes to a battle
sometimes you don't know
you just need one
you just need that one David
to say why have we not
cut the head of the stupid Goliath off
like this guy's defying the armies
of the God of Israel
what are you doing
David wasn't sitting here thinking like
I'm so much stronger than this guy
I'm bigger than this guy
I'm better than this guy
he was thinking our God is better than their God
our God will not fail me
he said hey when I had to defeat
the lion and the bear
God was with me
and God gave me the victory
and God's gonna give me the victory
over this Philistine
it doesn't matter how big he is
or how ugly he is
or how strong he is
I will slay him
and he trusted in that rock
and that rock is Jesus Christ
and you know who gave him the victory
the rock did
the rock gave him the victory
in the vicinity of him
he would have been slain
but from afar he just trusted in God
and that rock sunk into that guy's forehead
and he went and cut his head off
with the sword of the Spirit
which is the Word of God
you know we need to trust in God more
God's so faithful
and we're just so afraid
of trusting in him sometimes
I think that the preachers in America today
their biggest problem
is they just are afraid
of trusting in God
there's so many pastors
and so many preachers today
they know what the Bible says
and they're afraid to put it out online
they're afraid to preach it from the pulpits
they're afraid to trust in God
because they're worried
about getting some persecution
or getting some attention
and many times they're afraid
of their own shadow
and they just don't realize
that God he will not fail thee
well we could lose the building
we could lose the position
you know you could lose all those things
by not serving God
I think there's gonna be
and this is what's sad
I think in the next 10-20 years
we're gonna see an epidemic
of old IFB churches shutting down
because they won't trust in God
and they have such a dying
and old congregation
and they'll get to a point
where they just
they have no one to even leave the keys to
and they'll just be
in the infrastructure
with no personnel
you know what we can do in the next 20
like 10-20 years
we can raise up a giant crop
of new independent fundamental
Baptist preachers
that'll say hey I'll take your old building
and maybe that's what God's doing
God's just using that old
baby boomer generation
to just kind of hold on to those properties
just a little bit longer
and raise up a giant army of preachers
that we can raise up
just so many of our youth
so many of these young children
to be God fearing people
to fill those buildings
and the wealth of the sinner
is laid up for the just
you know
but if we just trust in the Lord
hey he'll give us great victory
and you know what's sad
if those guys would just trust in God
their churches would start flourishing
and growing and they'd bring in young people
we don't bite
you can like the new IFB
it's okay
Psalm 71 look at verse number 8
let my mouth be filled
with thy praise
and with thy honor all the day
cast me not off in the time of old age
forsake me not
when my strength faileth
for mine enemies speak against me
and they that lay wait for my soul
take counsel together
those that have forsaken him
persecute and take him
there is none to deliver him
oh God be not far from me
oh my God make haste for my help
let them be confounded
and consumed that are my
that are adversaries to my soul
let them be covered with
approach and dishonor that seek my hurt
but I will hope continually
and will yet praise thee more and more
my mouth shall show forth
thy righteousness
and thy salvation
all the day
for I know not the numbers thereof
I will go in the strength of the Lord God
I will make mention of thy righteousness
even of thine only
oh God
thou hast taught me from my youth
and hitherto have I declared
thy wondrous works
now also when I am old and grey headed
oh God forsake me not
until I have showed thy strength
unto this generation
and thy power to everyone
that is to come
that he has called you to do
God will not fail you in the salvation
that he has given you
God will not fail you in the battles
that you have
and God will not fail you in your old age
what a great testimony
that you can have
of being a faithful soul winner
even in old age
being someone that is going out
and preaching the congregation
and not only that teaching your children
and your grandchildren how God
did not fail you
I mean when we go through
a lot of these battles
just think about all the amazing stories
that we can tell our children
and our grandchildren when they get older
and try to encourage them
try to give them zeal
this specific individual
is making it abundantly clear
in verse number 18
that he wants to show the strength of God
unto this generation
and thy power to everyone that has come
you know we're kind of missing this
a little bit
when we looked at the Adventist Baptist Church
we were there we've done that
we've been trust God
he'll get you through this battle
he'll get you through this difficulty
we kind of happen to repioneer some of this
but you know what we don't want to leave
our children and grandchildren in the same place
where they have no one to tell them
about how faithful God is
we want to be those parents and grandparents
that come alongside and say no no no
I know this looks bad
but God will get you through it
God will deliver you
they don't even get old age
you know God's not failing
when you're a faithful Christian
the Bible says if you honor thy father and thy mother
that your days are going to be longer on the earth
that's God not failing you
when you're faithful in church
there's so many promises about you
staying in church even into your old age
look so many people die young
and they don't even get old age
so many people they have sickness
and disease and illness
so they don't get to enjoy anything
any of their old age
they actually just suffer their entire old age
some people have physical ailments
and they're not able and capable
to enjoy the elder parts of their life
some people have mental issues
and they just they're not even really there
they have Alzheimer's
which is such a terrible disease
and it seems like you're just pointless and worthless
when you have a disease like that
when you have dementia or Alzheimer's
but you know what gave me hope about people that have that disease
no matter how old and how diseased of the mind that you get
you can still be the president of the United States of America
that was a joke okay folks
but in all seriousness
you know if you trust in God even in your old age
he can keep you what
here physically
not get you sick
not give you all the physical ailments
not give you all the mental issues
to where you could still be doing great things for him in your old age
but you know what it's going to come through following
all of his commandments very diligently
being a good godly Christian
sticking in church
and you know we see a lot of that
go to any old Ivy church
you'll see all kinds of people in their old age
and you know what they're still trying to serve God
albeit they're not necessarily in the best church
but I guarantee those were some of the cream of the crop
of those Christians
they're faithful to church
they love their Bibles
they were serving God in their own personal lives
many of them were even probably even soul winners
I've been to old Ivy churches
where some of the older people do
are evangelistic even though their church isn't
and their pastor isn't
and they're the ones that are just kind of
in a Sardis Baptist church just hanging on
and they're so faithful and they're so loyal
they're going to go down to the ship
which isn't necessarily the worst attribute anyways
go to Lamentations chapter 3
God will not fail thee in your work
God will not fail thee in salvation
God will not fail thee in the battle
God will not fail thee in your old age
probably one of the most comforting things
is the fact that God will also
not fail thee in his compassion
he's not going to fail thee in his compassion
and Lamentations of course is written
at a time that's very low
for the children of Israel
they've been destroyed
they've been taken into captivity
into Babylon
and to me it kind of illustrates
for us on a personal level
the idea of just being at your worst
maybe being the most backslidden
you've ever been
you're not in church because they've been
literally drug out of Jerusalem
it's gone so in a metaphoric sense
it's almost like someone that's
away from God away from church
away from these things
and Jeremiah is giving this limitation
but in the midst of it
it has hope it says in verse 22
it is of the Lord's mercies
that we are not consumed
because the compassion's failed not
they are new every morning
great is thy faithfulness
you know when we sing that
beautiful hymn
great is thy faithfulness
what are we singing about
you know what we're singing about
we're singing about how God
will not fail thee
even when you've failed him
when you don't deserve grace
when you don't deserve mercy
when you don't deserve compassion
and yet God is still there
every morning with new mercies
and new compassion's
and new grace
afforded to us
you could have been the worst
Christian yesterday
but all you do is you say
God I'm sorry I want to start over
will you give me a fresh start today
and he says yes
great is thy faithfulness
how faithful is he unto us
he will not fail us
you know that should give you
motivation to keep serving God
because you're like well I was
okay but he gave you a new
opportunity today
and he's going to give you
a new opportunity tomorrow
and he's going to give you
another new opportunity on
the morrow after that
and so great is thy faithfulness
we should continually serve God
because of the grace
and the mercy he gives us
he's always ready to restore us
and he's always ready to use us
if we would just simply
come to us I can never say
embrace grace anymore
just ruin for me
still a good message but
you know think about how
much the children of Israel
screwed up go to Hebrews 4
you know in Romans chapter
number 10 when he talks
about the children of Israel
you know in the last
portion of that scripture
it says but to Israeli saying
all day long I stretch forth
my hands unto a disobedient
day long meaning that God
was just like always trying
to offer them grace and
always trying to give them
mercy and always trying to
give them a fresh start I mean
you read the book of Jeremiah
is so long you know why
Jeremiah is so long because
God's so long suffering
because he just keeps being
like come on guys here's
another chance here's another
chance here's another chance
all right swap Kings here's
like the dumbest king he's
just like dude what's wrong
with you and you can tell
he's like he's like a secret
fan too because he's always
like coming to Jeremiah he's
like hey what did God say
it's like dude it's the same
message have you not read
chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 I mean
like how many chapters do you
need it's the same message
repent get right with God
trust in the Lord but it's
just like he can't do it he
can't do it 6 7 8 9 and then
it's just like eyes poked out
death you know it's like okay
I'm going to slay all your
children before you poke your
eyes out drag you into
Babylon where you're going to
die and rot in prison but I
gave you a lot of
opportunities and you know that
should warn us that when we
don't embrace the mercies and
the compassion and the
forgiveness that God's constantly
offering to us well when he
gets done with you you need to
just go ahead and embrace the
new opportunities he gives us
regularly because when he gets
done with you he gets done
with you you're discarded it's
over you know in Numbers
chapter 14 when he's talking
about the children of Israel he
said that they had tempted him
10 times that's a scary thing
to think about because there was
nothing in the Bible that says
hey when you get to 10 that's
when it's over because you
tempt him once there's no there's
no reason why he couldn't just
destroy you right then and
there but then you just do it
again and again and again and
again and again and then
finally he's like you're never
going into the promised land but
you think about how many
opportunities he gave you and
this is the warning to us that
say how many times is God
just stretching forth his hands
all day long unto you and
you've been gainsaying and you
won't trust in God in some areas
in your life you know it's a
dangerous place to be because
as soon as he's done whoa it
gets rough God is so merciful
and he will not fail thee but
sometimes he may destroy you
but the point that I'm trying
to make is the fact that you
have while you have breath you
have opportunity while you still
are alive even if you're not
you still are alive even if
there's doom spelled out for
you I mean think about Nineveh
yet forty days God shall
overthrow that wasn't a message
of hope but you know what
they had left breath in their
lungs and they repented and
they said who can tell whether
God will repent but you know
what God is faithful and God
still rescued them God still
delivered them and us that
are saved you know we have the
Lord Jesus Christ as a mediator
between God and men we have a
great advocate we have someone
that's constantly trying to
seek for the Lord's mercy for
us and that's great because
me asking is not that special
but Jesus asking God the
Father for mercy that special
because Jesus is perfect and
God only has love for the
Lord Jesus Christ and this is
why we should have boldness
when we ask for help from God
not because of our perfection
but because of Christ's
perfection says in Hebrews
chapter 4 look at verse 15 we
have not a high priest which
cannot be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities but
was at all points tempted like
as we are yet without sin let
us therefore come boldly under
the throne of grace that we
may obtain mercy and find
grace to help in time of need
when you are struggling when you
are failing when you're not
doing what you should come
before us and don't miss verse
15 verse 15 is a very it's
very difficult for us to fully
grasp what it means but on
the surface it's trying to
say that Jesus Christ
understands that the temptations
of this world are real that
when we fall it's not
necessarily just because we're
these bad people that just hate
God and don't want to serve
God but rather that the
temptation is actually strong
that we have a sinful nature
that our flesh is weak that
the devil is conniving that
the temptations out there are
real and that many of us the
things that we fail at and
the things that we do that are
wrong we don't want to do the
Apostle Paul explains in graphic
detail in Romans chapter number
seven the things that he
doesn't allow he does the
things that he would not he
does and I think a lot of us
there could be there could be
something in our life that we
say I don't like this over
here and if I could just press
a button and it would go away
I would press that button I
don't want to do this even
though I keep doing it or I
keep struggling with it or I
fail you know whether that's
being lazy you know or or
fighting or being covetous or
you know prideful or just
anything that we have even we
love to just press that button
but you know what we need to
realize we're never gonna get
that until we go to heaven you
can't come down the aisle and
I smack you on the head and
it's over okay no button on
your forehead that's gonna do
that but you know what you do
have you have a button called
grace and when you fall you go
and you seek God and you say
I'm sorry can you give me help
and God's there and ready
no matter how much you fail go
to Zephaniah chapter three I
only have two more places I
want to finish this is a quick
points just kind of bonus
points for you point number
one God will not fail you in
salvation God will not fail
you in the work that he's
given you to do God will not
fail you in the battles that
you come across God will not
fail you in your old age God
will not fail you in his
judgment God will not fail us in
judgment we see wicked people
doing wicked things and boy
sometimes it can be very
exhausting to think about how
they're not getting punished how
they seem to just be getting
away with murder getting away
with all kinds of evil you
know here's here's an example
for me Robert Morris where it
says for so long I mean I
preached against this guy for
10 years for 10 years I've been
preaching against this guy and
it just seemed like every year
just more money more prosperity
more fame more attention bigger
church but boy would no one
ever want to be him anymore and
has the world just everyone just
come down on this guy so hard
and you know what I'm fine
with that but look what it says
in Zephaniah chapter 3 verse 5
the just Lord is in the midst
thereof he will not do iniquity
every morning doth he bring his
judgment to light he faileth not
but the unjust knoweth no shame
God will judge be not deceived
God is not mocked for whatsoever
man soweth that shall he also
reap hey you sow pedophilia
you're going to reap the
consequences of rape buddy and
boy is he feeling it right now
and wouldn't God he would just
bring even more destruction but
let me tell you something when
God brings destruction it's a swift
destruction I saw I mean just like
everything like even his fake TV
preacher friends they're all
condemning him they've taken all
his sermons down he's losing all
of them everybody's hating on him
all of his former colleagues are
trashing him the church doesn't
like him I mean even the church
is saying we didn't know this you
know I mean good why well go
through it to Psalm 58 go to Psalm
58 don't sit here and think like
oh these wicked people are just
going to get away with everything
you know I won't be surprised I
will not be surprised if in five
maybe sooner maybe it's ten years
I would be very surprised if it's
more than ten years if the whole
world doesn't just trash the Biden
family if at some point we don't
like obviously a lot of us
already kind of recognize this but
the mainstreams is kind of holding
off I won't even be surprised at
some point is going to finally
come out and we just all it's
just like Biden is such an
embarrassment and a traitor and a
traitor and look how evil they're
just kind of waiting until he's not
in power anymore and then they're
going to just trash him and
there's going to be so much
destruction and just so much shame
and contempt and evil and
everybody's going to look down upon
them why well look what it says in
Psalm 58 verse 10 the righteous
shall rejoice when he see at the
vengeance he shall wash his feet in
the blood of the wicked so that a
man shall say verily there is a
reward for the righteous verily he
is a god that judgeth in the earth
you could be the Joe Biden you
could be the Ravi Zacharias of the
world and just your whole life
you're just this great person
everybody loves you and you're so
wonderful but then when you die and
you're rotting in hell everybody
remembers you as a rapist as a
disgusting fake hypocrite rapist all
of the communist leaders of the past
we look on with disdain and
contempt and reproach and we just
think of Joseph Stalin as being
wicked as hell and Mao Zedong being
wicked as hell and all these
communist traitors being wicked as
hell and just all the shame and
contempt on these evil and wicked
and rotten and villainous people all
the pharaohs of the past all the
Roman emperors of the past all these
Alexander the Great or really just
Alexander the faggot just remember
the disgusting person that he is
whereas that sweet old grandma in
that fundamental Baptist Church that
died a faithful soul winning
Christian everybody still loves her
why because he will not fail thee
he will not fail thee in judgment
don't think oh man I'm just getting
nothing and these people are getting all
this recognition no they'll be
remembered as trash and the trash
that they were in all of eternity
whereas those that were righteous are
remembered as being great for all of
eternity go over to Luke 12 we'll
finish God will not fail you in
salvation God will not fail you in
the works that he has to do God
will not fail you in the battles that
you come across God will not fail
you on the stage God will not fail
you in compassion God will not fail
you in judgment and here's the cherry
on top Luke chapter 12 look at verse
33 sell that you have and give alms
sounds like you're not very
covetous provide yourselves bags which
wax not old a treasure in the
heavens that faileth not
God will not fail you in treasure
you serve God faithfully you do works
for God and you have a treasure
that's awaiting you in heaven that
faileth not he will not fail thee in
treasure I mean what a great God that
we serve I can't lose my salvation
he's not going to fail me in
salvation God's not going to fail me
in the works that he set out for me
to do God will not fail me in the
works that he has to accomplish in
this life God will not fail me in old
age God will not fail me when I
screw up but he's going to give me
new mercies every single morning
God will not fail me in judgment
but he will condemn the wicked and
he will exonerate the righteous and
guess what God will not fail me
there's a crown up in heaven waiting
for those who are faithful and not
just for me only but for all them
that love his appearing and he will
not fail thee in the treasure that
he's laid up in heaven for us
the treasure that faileth not where no
thief approaches neither moth corrupted
verse 34 for where your treasure is
there will your heart be also let us
put our hearts into the Lord let us
put our hearts into the one that will
not fail us so that we can have
great treasure in heaven let's go to
prayer thank Heavenly Father so much
for being such a faithful God great is
thy faithfulness what a mighty God that
we serve and have a great opportunity
to do we understand that in order to
receive all these great promises they
all come through faith increase our
faith and give us just the confidence
to trust in you in all the areas of
our life so that we can have the
great and victorious life at the end
that you can help crown us in the end
we can have great treasures and that
all the honor and all the glory will
go to Jesus Christ in his name we
pray amen for our last song this
morning let's go to song 288 I am
resolved song 288 I am resolved 288 I
am resolved
I am resolved no longer to linger
charmed by the world's delight
things that are higher things that are
over these have a lord my side
I will hasten to him hasten so glad
and free Jesus greatest highest I
will come to thee I am resolved to
go to the Savior leaving my sin and
strife he is the true one he is the
just one he hath the words of life I
will hasten to him hasten so glad and
free Jesus greatest highest I will
come to thee I am resolved to follow
the Savior thankful and true each day
he what he's saying do what he will
do
thank you all for coming god bless you
are dismissed