WEBVTT 07:03.100 --> 07:05.980 Good afternoon everyone and welcome back to Steadfast Baptist Church. 07:06.780 --> 07:09.580 If you could all find your seats we'll go ahead and get started with the service. 07:15.800 --> 07:19.960 Once you've got a seat, go ahead and grab a hymnal. We're going to start in song number 410. 07:22.600 --> 07:27.160 Song number 410, Faith is the Victory. 07:30.500 --> 07:34.500 Song 410, Faith is the Victory. 07:36.500 --> 07:38.500 Sing it out together. 07:38.500 --> 07:40.500 On the 1st. 07:41.500 --> 07:43.500 In Canterlot. 10:58.400 --> 11:00.860 Let's go ahead and bow our heads for a word of prayer. 11:00.860 --> 11:02.420 Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day. 11:02.420 --> 11:03.920 We thank you for everyone that's gathered here. 11:03.920 --> 11:04.900 We thank you for all the souls 11:04.900 --> 11:06.580 that were one out soul winning, Lord. 11:06.580 --> 11:08.540 We ask that you please help them and guide them 11:08.540 --> 11:10.540 and bring them to a good church, if not ours. 11:10.540 --> 11:12.700 We also ask Lord God that you fill Pastor Shelley 11:12.700 --> 11:14.520 with your Holy Spirit and help him to preach 11:14.520 --> 11:16.580 an edifying sermon unto us so we can walk out 11:16.580 --> 11:18.380 better Christians knowing your word better 11:18.380 --> 11:19.500 than we did before. 11:19.500 --> 11:21.200 It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen. 11:22.280 --> 11:25.020 All right, next up we have song number 128. 11:27.100 --> 11:30.100 Song number 128. 11:37.700 --> 11:42.700 Each step I take, Psalm 128. 11:43.500 --> 11:45.400 Sing it out on the first. 11:46.440 --> 11:51.440 Each step I take, my Savior come before me. 11:53.020 --> 11:54.900 And with His loving- 14:32.100 --> 14:33.780 Thanks for coming to Set Fast Baptist Church. 14:33.780 --> 14:35.060 If you didn't already get a bulletin, 14:35.060 --> 14:36.980 you would like one, just lift your hand real quick. 14:36.980 --> 14:38.660 On the inside, we have our service 14:38.660 --> 14:41.140 and soul winning times, our church stats. 14:41.140 --> 14:42.700 We have a lot of expecting ladies. 14:42.700 --> 14:44.760 Please be in prayer for them. 14:44.760 --> 14:47.140 If you can make it all services for the month of August, 14:47.140 --> 14:49.060 you can get a $10 gift card. 14:49.060 --> 14:52.700 Only exception is a church sponsored event or missions trip. 14:52.700 --> 14:54.860 Somebody already asked, I'm going to another church. 14:54.860 --> 14:55.700 Sorry. 14:57.900 --> 15:00.300 That's not my problem, that's your problem, alright? 15:00.800 --> 15:05.840 So, upcoming events, we have several events there, lots of missions trips. 15:05.840 --> 15:12.240 Take notes of September 20th, Pastor Matthew Stuckey is going to be guest preaching for us. 15:12.240 --> 15:15.000 And I really encourage you to participate for that service. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.680 We'll feed you brisket. 15:16.680 --> 15:20.200 And it should just be great to have him out visiting. 15:20.200 --> 15:24.520 If you'd like to write him a card of encouragement or just a note, that'd be a great time to 15:24.520 --> 15:25.860 give it to him. 15:25.860 --> 15:28.800 And they're doing a really big work over there in the Philippines. 15:28.800 --> 15:34.960 It's kind of crazy and maybe it's just because of the bad reputation a lot of 15:34.960 --> 15:39.160 mooch scenarios have given missionaries that they're kind of lazy but Pastor Stuckey 15:39.160 --> 15:43.380 seems like the exact opposite one of the most hard-working people and really 15:43.380 --> 15:47.840 diligent and he gives a good name to missionaries and so we want to be we're 15:47.840 --> 15:48.900 really 15:49.300 --> 15:54.300 It's a great honor that we can be friends with him and support his work. 15:54.300 --> 16:00.300 And so, you know, we really appreciate their friendship and the work that they're doing over there and seeing many people saved. 16:00.300 --> 16:03.300 And we also have a couple of conferences and events. 16:03.300 --> 16:13.300 And if you'd like to go out there to visit them, February 12th through the 20th is kind of just the dates that I've marked when we're going to be out there officially. 16:13.300 --> 16:16.820 Some people asked, can I just come for like a smaller portion? 16:16.820 --> 16:17.300 Because I think that 16:17.300 --> 16:20.440 It's like a, forgive me, it's either Friday or Saturday. 16:20.600 --> 16:25.000 to like a Saturday or something or it's it's like it's like more than like a whole week or something 16:25.000 --> 16:28.920 so even if you're going to make a portion that's fine you can show up for as much you can go there 16:28.920 --> 16:32.920 now if you want I mean you can do whatever you want okay so I hope that people don't get confused 16:32.920 --> 16:38.040 you can always do whatever you want even if you can't make the whole trip you could still obviously 16:38.040 --> 16:43.480 go out there and participate in as much as you would like. On the back is a prayer list please 16:43.480 --> 16:48.600 keep our church family in your prayers and we'll sing our psalm of the week Psalm 140 16:48.600 --> 16:52.960 Psalm 149. 17:03.200 --> 17:07.440 Psalm 149 should be on page number 19 in your handouts. 17:14.500 --> 17:16.500 Sing it out on the first. 19:29.400 --> 19:31.880 body as the offering plates are going around would you please turn your 19:31.880 --> 19:37.800 Bibles to Judges chapter number 17 the book of Judges chapter number 17 20:42.400 --> 20:48.160 Judges chapter number 17 the Bible says and there was a man of Mount Ephraim whose name was Micah and 20:48.600 --> 20:55.700 He said unto his mother the 1100 shekels of silver that were taken from thee about which thou cursed and spake 20:55.700 --> 20:57.700 us of also in mine ears 20:57.720 --> 21:04.920 Behold the silver is with me. I took it and his mother said blessed be thou of the Lord my son and when he had restored 21:04.920 --> 21:06.960 the 1100 shekels of silver to his mother 21:07.700 --> 21:13.580 His mother said, I had wholly dedicated this silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, 21:13.580 --> 21:16.220 to make a graven image and a molten image. 21:16.220 --> 21:18.820 Now therefore I will restore it unto thee. 21:18.820 --> 21:21.020 Yet he restored the money unto his mother, 21:21.020 --> 21:25.100 and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the founder, 21:25.100 --> 21:27.980 who made thereof a graven image and a molten image. 21:27.980 --> 21:30.180 And they were in the house of Micah. 21:30.180 --> 21:35.260 And the man Micah had in house of God's, and made an ephod and teraphim, 21:35.500 --> 21:39.140 and consecrated one of his sons who became his priest. 21:39.140 --> 21:41.540 In those days there was no king in Israel, 21:41.540 --> 21:44.460 but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. 21:44.460 --> 21:46.840 And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah 21:46.840 --> 21:49.260 of the family of Judah who was a Levite. 21:50.100 --> 21:51.380 And he sojourned there. 21:51.380 --> 21:54.620 And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehem Judah 21:54.620 --> 21:57.500 to sojourn where he could find a place. 21:57.500 --> 22:00.140 And he came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah 22:00.140 --> 22:01.140 as he journeyed. 22:01.400 --> 22:04.120 And Micah said unto him, Whence cometh thou? 22:04.120 --> 22:07.800 And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, 22:07.800 --> 22:10.760 and I go to Sojourn, where I may find a place. 22:10.760 --> 22:13.080 And Micah said unto him, dwell with me, 22:13.080 --> 22:15.960 and be unto me a father and a priest. 22:15.960 --> 22:18.760 And I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, 22:18.760 --> 22:21.240 and a suit of apparel, and thy vitals. 22:21.240 --> 22:24.040 So the Levite went in, and the Levite was content 22:24.040 --> 22:26.600 to dwell with the man, and the young man was unto him 22:26.600 --> 22:28.120 as one of his sons. 22:28.900 --> 22:34.400 And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest and was in the house of Micah. 22:34.400 --> 22:40.500 Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. 22:40.500 --> 22:41.300 Let us pray. 22:42.400 --> 22:46.240 Dear Heavenly Father, I want to thank you for this day. I want to thank you for our salvation. 22:46.240 --> 22:50.480 Thank you that we have the victory through our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 22:50.480 --> 22:54.080 Thank you for the King James Bible and all the blessings that you've given to us. 22:54.080 --> 22:57.200 I pray that you would fill Pastor Shelley now with your Holy Spirit and help him to 22:57.200 --> 23:01.600 preach the Word of God to us. Help us to learn and become better Christians. In Jesus' name, Amen. 23:09.300 --> 23:13.300 Amen. The title of my sermon this evening is Hireling Pastors. 23:13.300 --> 23:15.300 Hireling Pastors. 23:15.300 --> 23:20.300 And I want to just kind of read through Judges 17 and 18 here 23:20.300 --> 23:22.300 and just kind of go through this particular story 23:22.300 --> 23:27.300 because we have a great example here of kind of this hireling. 23:27.300 --> 23:30.300 Now, hireling is just basically someone that's paid a wage. 23:30.300 --> 23:36.300 So they're hired to do a work and they're paid a wage for that particular work. 23:36.300 --> 23:37.140 Now here in. 23:37.300 --> 23:38.580 Verse 1, it says, 23:38.580 --> 23:42.940 there was a man of Mount Ephraim whose name was Micah. 23:42.940 --> 23:44.580 And he said unto his mother, 23:44.580 --> 23:49.000 the 1100 shekels of silver that were taken from thee, 23:49.000 --> 23:53.360 about which thou cursest and spakeest of also in mine ears, 23:53.360 --> 23:56.020 behold, the silver is with me. 23:56.020 --> 23:57.260 And I took it and his mother said, 23:57.260 --> 23:59.260 blessed be thou of the Lord my son. 24:00.100 --> 24:00.940 Now. 24:02.300 --> 24:05.100 This is like the weirdest story, okay? 24:05.100 --> 24:07.900 And we're going to slow down and meditate on these first four verses 24:07.900 --> 24:12.060 because when you actually just pay attention to what it's saying, it's a weird, weird, weird story. 24:12.620 --> 24:16.860 Okay, but it kind of makes sense to me growing up in these non-denominational, 24:16.860 --> 24:22.060 you know, fun center type churches because people just say praise the Lord about everything. 24:22.400 --> 24:24.080 And you're just kind of like, it's weird. 24:24.080 --> 24:27.280 You're just like, why did you say that for this particular context? 24:27.280 --> 24:29.720 And she's like, hey, mom, I stole money from you. 24:29.720 --> 24:32.080 Praise the Lord. 24:32.080 --> 24:33.480 Isn't that weird? 24:33.480 --> 24:37.400 Hey, mom, remember you cursed the guy that stole the money from you? 24:37.400 --> 24:38.240 That's me. 24:38.240 --> 24:40.600 Well, praise God. 24:40.600 --> 24:43.960 Isn't that kind of a weird reaction to that kind of a story? 24:43.960 --> 24:45.720 Wouldn't you be like, oh, man, well, that's bad news, 24:45.720 --> 24:48.200 because I cursed the person that took this money. 24:49.200 --> 24:52.840 Now, of course, when you have the hindsight that we do, 24:52.840 --> 24:55.280 we realize that Micah was cursed, 24:55.280 --> 24:58.520 and that it was a cursing that's going on in this situation. 24:58.520 --> 25:00.040 But the whole story, 25:00.040 --> 25:03.840 what you're going to see is how both of these people are extremely fake, 25:03.840 --> 25:06.600 insincere garbage people. 25:06.600 --> 25:08.720 Unfortunately, that's what our world is filled with, 25:08.720 --> 25:11.000 is a bunch of fake, insincere garbage people. 25:11.000 --> 25:12.920 But talk about stealing money. 25:12.920 --> 25:15.500 I mean, we're not even talking about a small amount of money here. 25:15.500 --> 25:18.500 1100 shekels of silver. 25:18.500 --> 25:22.500 I have no idea what the modern, you know, equivalent would be. 25:22.500 --> 25:28.500 I don't even want to guess, but you know, we think about Judas selling out the Lord Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver. 25:28.500 --> 25:33.400 I mean, 1100 shekels of silver is a lot of money. 25:33.500 --> 25:38.500 This is an exorbitant amount of money that has been stolen from his mother. 25:38.500 --> 25:43.500 And you can see why she was cursing mad, you know, when she finds out someone stole this money from her. 25:43.500 --> 25:51.500 But he said, hey, I stole it. And she's like, blessed be thou the Lord, even though she cursed the same person. 25:51.500 --> 26:00.500 So I noticed it was like this respect of persons who steals, like, oh, well, if it's still this person stole, it's a good thing. If this person stole, it's a bad thing. 26:00.800 --> 26:04.040 You know, how about just stealing's bad, right? 26:04.040 --> 26:05.040 Stealing's bad. 26:05.040 --> 26:08.360 She should have said, hey, that was a foolish thing, son, or you shouldn't steal, or that 26:08.360 --> 26:09.360 was wicked. 26:09.360 --> 26:11.600 Now, this is where it gets really funny. 26:11.600 --> 26:15.080 It says that when he had restored the 1,100 shekels of silver to his mother, his mother 26:15.080 --> 26:16.640 said, so now she's talking. 26:16.640 --> 26:18.800 Now listen to what she says. 26:18.800 --> 26:23.680 I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord. 26:23.680 --> 26:26.700 So how much of the money did she dedicate to the Lord? 26:27.600 --> 26:31.240 1100 pieces of silver, 1100 shekels of silver. 26:31.240 --> 26:34.840 I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord, 26:34.840 --> 26:38.520 notice this, from my hand for my son. 26:38.520 --> 26:43.520 So she said, oh son, I had given this 1100 pieces of silver 26:44.320 --> 26:46.120 to God for you. 26:46.120 --> 26:47.360 Like this is a dedication, 26:47.360 --> 26:49.520 I dedicated this money to God for you. 26:49.520 --> 26:52.100 All of this money, I wholly dedicated all of it to you. 26:52.300 --> 26:54.860 to make a graven image and a molten image. 26:54.860 --> 26:58.220 Now therefore I will store it unto thee." 26:58.220 --> 27:02.020 So she's like, hey, don't worry son. 27:02.020 --> 27:05.900 All of that 1100 was supposed to go to you 27:05.900 --> 27:07.420 to make a graven image. 27:07.420 --> 27:09.980 It's for God, for you to use. 27:09.980 --> 27:11.500 It's molten image for you. 27:11.500 --> 27:12.380 Okay. 27:12.380 --> 27:15.660 I'm gonna wholly restore it unto you. 27:15.660 --> 27:17.700 And it says, yet. 27:17.900 --> 27:19.900 He restored the money under his mother, 27:19.900 --> 27:23.900 and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the founder. 27:23.900 --> 27:26.900 So, it's like, it's a family of thieves. 27:26.900 --> 27:28.900 It's a family of thieves and liars. 27:28.900 --> 27:31.900 It's just like, hey, I stole this money from you, and she's like, 27:31.900 --> 27:36.900 don't worry, I'm gonna give the whole eleven hundred pieces of silver to you. 27:36.900 --> 27:37.900 And then she's like, oh. 27:38.300 --> 27:41.660 I'm only giving 200 to the founder, so he's none the wiser. 27:41.660 --> 27:47.100 It's just like everybody's a liar and a thief and just a flatterer. 27:47.100 --> 27:51.100 And of course, God doesn't want you to even make a molten image. 27:52.380 --> 27:54.060 How can you dedicate something to God? 27:54.060 --> 27:58.380 Like, I'm going to dedicate this lying or this stealing to God. 27:58.380 --> 27:59.660 Like, that doesn't even make sense. 28:00.220 --> 28:03.180 You can't dedicate a false religion to God. 28:04.400 --> 28:08.960 But again, don't we see that she wasn't even sincere, even her own statement? 28:08.960 --> 28:14.160 Because again, notice in verse three, I had wholly dedicated the silver under the Lord. 28:14.800 --> 28:20.080 And she's saying, I'm going to restore it unto you. And that's why the word yet is used in verse four. 28:20.080 --> 28:27.200 Yet, did she really do that? No, she only gave 200 of pieces of silver. 28:27.200 --> 28:31.280 So obviously this woman's morals have been, you know, given to her son here. 28:32.600 --> 28:36.600 So she gets this graven image and molten image and they were in the house of Micah. 28:36.600 --> 28:39.800 So now Micah has this silver image. 28:39.800 --> 28:43.800 Now, I guess it's not silver necessarily, but it was bought with the silver money. 28:43.800 --> 28:45.800 So he has this molten engraven image. 28:45.800 --> 28:50.300 And it's funny because we get the backstory of where this even graven image even came in the first place. 28:50.300 --> 28:51.800 Someone stole money. 28:52.200 --> 28:55.800 then gave it back to the mom that cursed the money that was stolen, 28:55.800 --> 29:01.160 and then she lies about how much money she's going to use to give him a false god. 29:01.400 --> 29:04.600 Wow. And again, that's usually the origin of false religion. 29:04.600 --> 29:09.400 It's really shady, lots of lies, horrible, you know, beginning. 29:09.400 --> 29:12.200 It's like this is where idolatry comes from. 29:12.200 --> 29:14.200 Liars and scam artists. 29:14.200 --> 29:20.000 Is it a coincidence that the Hindu religion produces the biggest scammers in this world? 29:20.900 --> 29:24.780 I mean, man, because the whole religion is a scam, folks. 29:24.780 --> 29:29.620 So it makes sense that people that are in a religion that's a scam would be scammers 29:29.620 --> 29:32.580 themselves, okay? 29:32.580 --> 29:37.300 Now he says in verse 5, and the man Micah had a house of gods and made an ephod and 29:37.300 --> 29:40.180 tariff him and consecrated one of his sons who became his priest. 29:40.180 --> 29:44.140 Again, in verse 5, there's no indication of the house of gods. 29:44.140 --> 29:45.100 What is that? 29:45.400 --> 29:47.800 You know, this isn't about the Lord of the Bible. 29:47.800 --> 29:49.400 This isn't about the God of the Bible. 29:49.400 --> 29:51.100 It's total paganism. 29:51.100 --> 29:52.600 It's idolatry. 29:52.600 --> 29:55.400 Really, it sounds like a Catholic Church, if you ask me. 29:55.400 --> 29:59.200 Liars and idolatry and a house of gods, okay? 29:59.200 --> 30:01.700 And then he just makes his son a priest. 30:01.700 --> 30:03.600 How does that work? 30:03.600 --> 30:05.900 Son, you're my priest now. 30:05.900 --> 30:06.800 What? 30:06.800 --> 30:09.600 I mean, this is just a wild story, okay? 30:09.900 --> 30:12.300 But this is what the world is like, unfortunately. 30:12.300 --> 30:15.660 The world is filled with people like this that want this kind of religion. 30:15.660 --> 30:17.900 They want a man-made religion. 30:17.900 --> 30:19.580 They just make it up as they go. 30:20.380 --> 30:22.700 It's just the idolatry is crazy. 30:22.700 --> 30:24.380 It doesn't make any sense. 30:24.380 --> 30:27.580 It's all about money and it's all a scam. 30:27.580 --> 30:31.580 And people are just, you know, ripping other people off with their idolatry. 30:31.580 --> 30:34.140 Hey, you go to Mexico on your way back. 30:34.600 --> 30:38.600 When you're crossing the border, there'll be all kinds of vatos there, 30:38.600 --> 30:42.900 ready to sell you some kind of idolatry, ready to sell you some kind of graven image, 30:42.900 --> 30:45.800 and I'm sure they'll get you a real good deal, 30:45.800 --> 30:48.800 that they wholly dedicated unto the Lord, okay? 30:48.800 --> 30:53.700 Because that's what false religion produces, is liars and thieves and scandal, 30:53.700 --> 30:58.100 and this weird idolatry that makes no sense, okay? 30:58.100 --> 31:01.100 He just makes his son a priest. However that works. 31:01.700 --> 31:05.900 Then in verse 6, in those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which is right in his own eyes. 31:05.900 --> 31:07.900 Basically saying just full anarchy. 31:07.900 --> 31:09.900 People can just do whatever they want. 31:09.900 --> 31:12.700 It's the wild, wild west as it were. 31:12.700 --> 31:15.100 People can just kind of live and do as they see. 31:15.100 --> 31:17.900 And look, this is what you get when you have no government. 31:17.900 --> 31:20.300 And like people say like, oh, government's bad. 31:20.300 --> 31:22.600 This doesn't sound great either. 31:23.100 --> 31:26.100 Wild Wild West isn't great either. 31:26.100 --> 31:30.100 You have to understand limited government is kind of the best man can do. 31:31.000 --> 31:33.400 Okay? Big government, bad. 31:33.400 --> 31:35.000 Dictators, bad. 31:35.000 --> 31:36.900 No government, bad. 31:36.900 --> 31:40.500 And look, there's really not such a thing as no government anyways, 31:40.500 --> 31:44.200 because even in an anarchist system, it's just mob rules, what it is. 31:44.200 --> 31:45.800 It's mafia rule. 31:45.800 --> 31:49.000 It's just whoever has the guns and the power and the might 31:49.000 --> 31:51.600 is gonna be in charge and you're gonna do as they say. 31:51.600 --> 31:54.100 Okay? That's typically how it works. 31:54.100 --> 31:56.300 So, you have to understand that 31:56.300 --> 31:58.600 there's never gonna be this idea of just 31:58.600 --> 31:59.000 COLD 31:59.000 --> 32:03.620 freedom and no one's gonna tell me what to do. It just, either you choose someone 32:03.620 --> 32:07.660 to tell you what to do or they'll choose for you. And it's like we like the idea 32:07.660 --> 32:10.880 of representative government of a republic of limited government and 32:10.880 --> 32:14.800 that's what America's experiment was and it's been pretty successful. Albeit 32:14.800 --> 32:18.320 we've had enough time for it to corrupt itself and now we have big government 32:18.320 --> 32:22.460 and we've we've lost sight of where we're at because people got greedy and 32:22.460 --> 32:25.600 selfish and didn't care about history. They don't care about morals and they 32:25.600 --> 32:26.900 don't care about the God of the Bible. 32:28.500 --> 32:31.700 Because if the people of America cared about the God of the Bible, and cared about what 32:31.700 --> 32:35.420 the Bible says, and cared about what history says, we wouldn't tolerate what our government's 32:35.420 --> 32:40.300 doing, we wouldn't be voting for the lesser of two evils, we would hold people accountable, 32:40.300 --> 32:41.940 and we would have a different country. 32:41.940 --> 32:43.260 The problem with America is the people. 32:44.100 --> 32:47.100 It's not the government. The government is simply chosen by the people. 32:47.100 --> 32:50.100 The problem with our world is not the politicians. 32:50.100 --> 32:55.100 We've chosen the corrupt politicians because we're too lazy and selfish to actually pick good politicians. 32:55.100 --> 32:59.100 We could. I mean, no one's stopping us from not voting for good candidates. 32:59.100 --> 33:01.100 But here's the thing. What if a good candidate ran for office? 33:01.100 --> 33:03.100 Are we going to expect everyone's going to vote for it? 33:04.800 --> 33:08.440 And we, of course, have gotten really far away from even letting the right people vote 33:08.440 --> 33:11.400 and all the other kind of stuff, and I get it. 33:11.400 --> 33:14.920 Voting is a different whole argument about how much we should allow voting, and I get 33:14.920 --> 33:15.920 some of these things. 33:15.920 --> 33:17.240 But what's the point? 33:17.240 --> 33:21.440 Is that people, by and large, make a lot of bad choices, and they pick a lot of bad people. 33:21.440 --> 33:22.440 And what do they typically do? 33:22.440 --> 33:24.360 They pick a lot of bad pastors for them. 33:24.360 --> 33:26.520 Like just making your son a priest is just a bad idea. 33:27.300 --> 33:29.700 These daddy ordained preachers are bad. 33:29.700 --> 33:30.200 Okay? 33:30.200 --> 33:32.200 And I'm not saying all of them. 33:32.200 --> 33:34.200 Maybe there's an exception out there. 33:34.200 --> 33:36.200 But I'll be honest with you, I don't know of one. 33:37.000 --> 33:39.800 Okay? So I'm not saying that it couldn't exist, 33:39.800 --> 33:41.600 but I am saying I don't know of it. 33:41.600 --> 33:42.300 Okay? 33:42.500 --> 33:45.400 And I'm going to show you some more in this passage, 33:45.400 --> 33:47.400 but we're also going to talk about some examples of that. 33:47.400 --> 33:50.800 But, you know, it's just a bad idea where someone's just 33:50.800 --> 33:52.800 becoming a pastor because dad said so. 33:52.800 --> 33:54.100 You even hear this phrase, 33:54.100 --> 33:56.300 mama called, papa sent. 33:56.300 --> 33:58.000 Who's ever heard this phrase or whatever? 33:58.000 --> 33:59.400 It's kind of real though. 33:59.500 --> 34:02.300 You know, there are some people out there where you're just thinking like, 34:02.300 --> 34:06.900 man, I don't even know if this guy wants to, but his parents are just kind of like leading the charge. 34:06.900 --> 34:11.300 And they're just so concerned. It's like mom just cares so much about him being a pastor. 34:11.300 --> 34:16.100 And it's like the only one that'll ordain him is mom telling dad to ordain him. Okay? 34:16.100 --> 34:18.700 And so it's his mama called, papa sent, you know? 34:18.700 --> 34:21.700 And it's out there, okay, whether you believe it or not. 34:21.700 --> 34:27.300 You know, it's probably a bad idea when the only person in the world that thinks you should be a pastor is your dad. 34:27.900 --> 34:29.900 because your mom told him to believe that. 34:29.900 --> 34:30.700 Okay? 34:30.700 --> 34:33.200 You know, that's a bad situation. 34:33.200 --> 34:37.100 That means you should probably reconsider your occupation. 34:37.100 --> 34:38.700 Okay? 34:38.700 --> 34:40.700 Now, I'm not saying that your parents shouldn't believe in you. 34:40.700 --> 34:42.600 I hope they do. 34:42.600 --> 34:45.000 I'm just saying they shouldn't be the only people that believe in you. 34:45.000 --> 34:45.900 Okay? 34:45.900 --> 34:47.300 Like, if your mom doesn't even believe in you, 34:47.300 --> 34:48.900 you really should change occupations. 34:48.900 --> 34:49.800 Okay? 34:49.800 --> 34:52.200 Like, if mom's saying it's a bad idea, 34:52.200 --> 34:53.900 it probably is a really bad idea. 34:53.900 --> 34:54.600 Okay? 34:55.300 --> 34:57.700 But we have here a guy ordains a son. 34:57.700 --> 34:59.260 All right, let's keep reading the story and see how it goes. 34:59.260 --> 35:01.580 Verse six, in those days, oh, it's verse seven. 35:01.580 --> 35:03.100 And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah 35:03.100 --> 35:05.220 of the family of Judah who was a Levite. 35:05.220 --> 35:06.180 And he sojourned there. 35:06.180 --> 35:07.660 And the man departed out of the city 35:07.660 --> 35:10.380 from Bethlehem Judah sojourned where he could find a place. 35:10.380 --> 35:12.780 And he came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah 35:12.780 --> 35:13.980 as he journeyed. 35:13.980 --> 35:16.420 And Micah said to him, whence cometh thou? 35:16.420 --> 35:18.860 And he said to him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah. 35:18.860 --> 35:20.260 And I go to sojourn. 35:20.600 --> 35:22.360 Where am I feigned to find a place? 35:22.360 --> 35:23.960 It's just like, I don't know what I'm doing. 35:23.960 --> 35:27.240 I'm just looking for somewhere to live and someone to hire me to do my thing. 35:27.240 --> 35:31.560 And Micah said to him, dwell with me and be unto me a father and a priest, 35:31.560 --> 35:34.200 and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, 35:34.200 --> 35:35.960 and a suit of apparel in thy vitals. 35:35.960 --> 35:37.000 So the Levite went in. 35:37.720 --> 35:41.000 Now again, this is like the formation of the first Catholic Church, you know? 35:41.000 --> 35:42.600 It's like you're going to call him father, 35:42.600 --> 35:45.000 and you're going to give him money, and he's going to be your priest. 35:45.600 --> 35:50.400 And it's just like, did the guy say, hey, I'm looking to serve God. 35:50.400 --> 35:53.360 Hey, I want to make sure that the house of God is good. 35:53.360 --> 35:56.240 Hey, I want people to serve the Lord God of the Bible. 35:56.240 --> 35:58.640 Or he's just like, I'm just looking for a job. 36:00.560 --> 36:02.400 And the guy's like, well, I'll hire you. 36:02.960 --> 36:04.240 You want to be my father? 36:04.240 --> 36:05.840 You want to be my priest? 36:05.840 --> 36:09.040 And it's like, but who's really in control of this power dynamic? 36:09.800 --> 36:17.680 Is this priest, is this father, gonna really be able to push Micah around and tell Micah 36:17.680 --> 36:22.760 what to do and step on his toes and preach the hard sermons and the hard truths of the 36:22.760 --> 36:23.760 Bible? 36:23.760 --> 36:25.960 Or is he gonna be subject to the guy paying him? 36:26.600 --> 36:29.480 And let me tell you something, most preachers today, 36:29.480 --> 36:32.160 they are not willing to speak the hard truths 36:32.160 --> 36:34.200 because they've been hired by Micah 36:34.200 --> 36:36.320 and they don't wanna piss Micah off. 36:36.320 --> 36:38.840 And Micah is the one that really runs the church. 36:38.840 --> 36:41.320 And so you have these deacon run churches, 36:41.320 --> 36:43.480 these elder run churches, 36:43.480 --> 36:47.040 and it's really just some Micah in this congregation 36:47.040 --> 36:49.200 that has the money and he's the one 36:49.200 --> 36:50.800 that really pushes everybody around. 36:51.000 --> 36:53.400 and he's the one that really tells everybody how it goes. 36:53.400 --> 36:56.400 And look, there's a lot of churches in America 36:56.400 --> 36:59.400 where the preachers are coming and going like crazy, 36:59.400 --> 37:01.300 especially in Southern Baptist churches. 37:01.300 --> 37:03.600 Southern Baptist churches, by and large, 37:03.600 --> 37:06.300 are churches where they're having pastors come and go, 37:06.300 --> 37:07.600 and they have all these committees, 37:07.600 --> 37:09.200 and all the committees make the decisions, 37:09.200 --> 37:10.700 and they don't like what the pastor said, 37:10.700 --> 37:11.900 well, they'll just vote them out. 37:11.900 --> 37:13.400 And then they'll just vote the next guy in, 37:13.400 --> 37:15.500 and it's like, hey, are you going to tell us what we want to hear, 37:15.500 --> 37:17.100 or are you going to get voted out? 37:17.800 --> 37:20.300 Are you going to step in line or are we going to vote you out? 37:20.300 --> 37:24.100 And they just are hireling preachers, they're hireling pastors. 37:24.100 --> 37:28.000 Come here and tell us what we want to hear, tell us what we want to do, 37:28.000 --> 37:30.200 and they just make them their slave. 37:30.200 --> 37:32.200 They just make them their hireling. 37:32.200 --> 37:34.400 And you wonder why they don't preach anything, 37:34.400 --> 37:37.200 because they don't want to lose their job. 37:37.200 --> 37:41.700 Whereas here, you can't fire me, ha! 37:42.800 --> 37:44.300 Now you think you could all leave, right? 37:44.300 --> 37:48.000 I mean, you could all quit and then by effect fire me in a sense, right? 37:48.000 --> 37:50.600 I'm not saying there isn't some accountability, but you know what? 37:50.600 --> 37:55.200 There's no one in here that can twist my arm and get me to preach whatever I want. 37:55.200 --> 37:58.300 There's nobody who's like, well, I'll leave and my ties go with me. 37:58.300 --> 37:59.700 Well, let the door hit you too. 37:59.700 --> 38:01.900 Okay. 38:01.900 --> 38:06.700 You know, we shouldn't have a church where the pastor is getting pushed around by Micah. 38:07.100 --> 38:11.700 Let me tell you something, the higher-ling pastors are pushed around by sometimes not 38:11.700 --> 38:15.740 even Micah, but Micah's wife. 38:15.740 --> 38:17.340 By Mikella or something. 38:17.340 --> 38:21.180 And she ain't gonna pull up with it, you know what I mean? 38:21.180 --> 38:24.680 She's gonna tell that pastor what to preach and what to say and look, there are churches 38:24.680 --> 38:26.340 where women are running that church. 38:27.000 --> 38:29.300 and you better not preach on those women issues, 38:29.300 --> 38:30.800 you better not preach on gossip, 38:30.800 --> 38:33.100 you better not tell those women to sit down and shut up 38:33.100 --> 38:35.400 and listen to their husband and make him a sandwich. 38:35.400 --> 38:37.500 Boy, you'll get in trouble fast. 38:37.500 --> 38:40.100 Look, how many churches could I get up in 38:40.100 --> 38:44.100 and not offend the congregation by getting up and saying that? 38:44.100 --> 38:45.600 How many churches could I get up and say like, 38:45.600 --> 38:47.600 hey, you women need to get a long haircut, 38:47.600 --> 38:50.000 put on a dress, sit down, shut up, 38:50.000 --> 38:52.300 you shouldn't vote and do everything your husband says? 38:52.900 --> 38:54.900 Boy, they would kick me out of there faster than they know. 38:54.900 --> 38:56.400 They're like, get him out of there. 38:56.400 --> 38:57.900 You know, how dare he say that about me? 38:57.900 --> 38:58.400 You know what? 38:58.400 --> 38:59.900 You can tell him right, you know? 38:59.900 --> 39:03.900 He said, you're like, well, I kind of agree with what he said. 39:03.900 --> 39:05.400 Isn't that what the Bible says? 39:05.400 --> 39:05.900 You know? 39:05.900 --> 39:06.900 And he's like, yes, ma'am. 39:06.900 --> 39:08.400 I'll go over there. 39:08.400 --> 39:13.400 Hey, son, you can't be saying that out loud to the lady folk, 39:13.400 --> 39:15.900 because they don't like that kind of preaching, you know? 39:15.900 --> 39:18.400 You're getting me in trouble with the missus. 39:19.300 --> 39:25.000 And you know, it's like, you have to understand feminism is because men are allowing their 39:25.000 --> 39:29.020 wives to tell them they need feminism. 39:29.020 --> 39:31.460 There's never been a woman that's enforced feminism. 39:31.460 --> 39:32.660 She can't. 39:32.660 --> 39:36.020 She has to go nag some guy into enforcing feminism somewhere. 39:36.400 --> 39:38.640 and twist his arm in order to do it. 39:38.640 --> 39:40.840 But of course there are men like Micah in this world 39:40.840 --> 39:43.040 that want to be the big shot and they want to, 39:43.040 --> 39:44.480 they want to be the person in charge. 39:44.480 --> 39:45.840 And look, there's many churches out there 39:45.840 --> 39:48.080 where the rich guy runs the church. 39:48.080 --> 39:49.960 And you know what? It's a bad philosophy. 39:49.960 --> 39:51.040 It's a bad principle. 39:51.040 --> 39:52.760 And we shouldn't have hireling preachers. 39:52.760 --> 39:54.960 We shouldn't have hireling pastors, okay? 39:54.960 --> 39:57.240 That doesn't mean that pastors shouldn't get paid. 39:57.240 --> 39:59.000 It means that there shouldn't be someone 39:59.000 --> 40:01.040 that's there because they want to get paid. 40:01.600 --> 40:04.600 That's not the motivation, that's not the reason why they're there. 40:04.600 --> 40:06.600 The guy is saying, I'm just looking for a job. 40:06.600 --> 40:09.600 No, no, no, you should be looking for a work to serve God. 40:09.600 --> 40:13.600 Okay, and that's the kind of preacher and the pastors that we want. 40:14.100 --> 40:15.940 He says in verse number 11, 40:15.940 --> 40:18.340 and the Levite was content to dwell with the man, 40:18.340 --> 40:21.380 and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. 40:21.380 --> 40:22.820 Now, look, you have to understand 40:22.820 --> 40:24.260 that the Bible's telling us what they said, 40:24.260 --> 40:25.700 and then the narrator's telling us. 40:25.700 --> 40:28.340 He's like, hey, be a father and a priest unto me. 40:28.340 --> 40:31.060 And then the narrator's like, he was one of his sons. 40:31.060 --> 40:33.060 So what was the power dynamic? 40:33.060 --> 40:36.500 Was he the father and the priest, or was he the son? 40:36.500 --> 40:37.940 Oh yeah, he was the son. 40:38.100 --> 40:40.740 because we know who's in charge, it's Micah. 40:40.740 --> 40:41.860 It's not the pastor. 40:41.860 --> 40:42.580 And you know what? 40:42.580 --> 40:44.660 We need pastors to be the one in charge of churches. 40:44.660 --> 40:45.460 Amen. 40:45.460 --> 40:46.260 Not Micah. 40:46.700 --> 40:52.360 Okay, Micah already screwed up Micah is making a house of God Micah is a thief 40:52.880 --> 41:00.760 Micah is a liar Micah is one who is simply setting up a house of gods and false gods and ordaining his son 41:00.920 --> 41:05.180 This is not the guy to be making spiritual decisions in the church and you know, unfortunately 41:05.440 --> 41:07.940 I'm not saying I'm not trying to criticize someone has money 41:07.940 --> 41:13.520 But a lot of rich people have made money by dishonest gain and it's like do we really want to put that person in charge? 41:13.520 --> 41:14.600 then of the church 41:14.800 --> 41:19.800 And it's like it's sad, I see so many churches where their deacon board is just the richest people in the church. 41:19.800 --> 41:22.800 And I'm thinking like, I don't know if that guy's the most spiritual though. 41:22.800 --> 41:26.800 I don't know if the lawyer is the most spiritual in the group. 41:26.800 --> 41:29.800 I'm sorry, I don't know if the banker is the most spiritual of the group. 41:29.800 --> 41:32.800 I don't know if the used car salesman is the most spiritual of the group. 41:32.800 --> 41:34.800 Why is he the deacon? 41:34.800 --> 41:37.800 I don't know if the single guy owning his own business is the most spiritual of the group. 41:37.800 --> 41:39.800 Why is committing open fornication? 41:40.500 --> 41:43.140 It's just like, but they're the quote deacons. 41:43.140 --> 41:45.940 Okay, and again, this is just, 41:45.940 --> 41:48.020 I could go on a whole rabbit trail of this, 41:48.020 --> 41:50.420 but I'm just saying it's gross. 41:50.420 --> 41:53.460 We're not, we shouldn't be playing church. 41:53.460 --> 41:54.740 You know, and it seems like these people 41:54.740 --> 41:56.260 are just playing church. 41:56.260 --> 41:58.420 Like it's not even real, they don't even care. 41:58.420 --> 41:59.940 We're not even consulting the Bible. 41:59.940 --> 42:01.300 At what point in the story they're like, 42:01.300 --> 42:02.980 this is what the Bible says. 42:03.400 --> 42:06.200 This is what the law said. This is what Moses said. 42:06.200 --> 42:09.600 You know, it's just like nothing so far. 42:09.600 --> 42:11.000 And it's like, again, Catholic Church. 42:11.000 --> 42:14.700 Nothing is going on there as anything to do with the Bible. 42:14.700 --> 42:15.600 Okay? 42:15.600 --> 42:17.900 In fact, most of the time it's the opposite of the Bible, 42:17.900 --> 42:20.000 which is exactly what's happening here too. 42:20.000 --> 42:21.300 Now he says here in verse 12, 42:21.300 --> 42:23.400 And Micah consecrated the Levite, 42:23.400 --> 42:25.600 and the young man became his priest and was in the house of Micah, 42:25.600 --> 42:28.500 then said, Micah, now I know. 42:29.000 --> 42:34.040 Or now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. 42:34.040 --> 42:37.000 So it's like, this is a train wreck times a thousand. 42:38.040 --> 42:42.200 It's like you have 99 things going on, 98 are wrong. 42:43.000 --> 42:44.840 The exact opposite of the Bible. 42:44.840 --> 42:47.320 The one thing there's a leap, he's a Levite. 42:48.120 --> 42:48.680 Right. 42:48.680 --> 42:51.480 And it's just, it's just like, that's how it is with like the Catholics. 42:51.480 --> 42:53.400 It's like they're 98% wrong. 42:54.000 --> 42:56.440 And then it's just like, but they use the name Jesus, right? 42:56.440 --> 42:57.480 And he died on the cross. 42:57.480 --> 43:01.320 And she's like, well, that doesn't make you right on everything else though. 43:01.320 --> 43:02.840 And it's just like, sorry. 43:02.840 --> 43:07.400 No, God's not going to now bless you because quote, he's a Levite. 43:07.400 --> 43:10.520 It's not just like have a Levite and you're blessed. 43:10.520 --> 43:12.560 It's like, how about following God's commandments? 43:12.560 --> 43:14.360 How about not having idolatry? 43:14.360 --> 43:15.680 How about not stealing? 43:15.680 --> 43:19.040 How about the fact that Micah is not allowed to ordain anybody? 43:19.040 --> 43:20.440 Have we even asked that question? 43:21.000 --> 43:25.400 Where did Micah get authority to just ordain whoever he wants? 43:25.400 --> 43:28.400 And you'll notice some of these preachers and pastors out there, 43:28.400 --> 43:30.300 they're self-ordained. 43:30.300 --> 43:32.200 They just ordain themselves, 43:32.200 --> 43:36.200 or they get just a few bozos in the congregation to quote ordain them or whatever. 43:36.200 --> 43:38.900 And it's like, Micah's not the guy to ordain you. 43:39.200 --> 43:45.040 Why would you even want Micah to lay hands on you when the guy's making false graven images and ordaining his son? 43:45.040 --> 43:49.520 Look, this is what hirelings are like though. They'll let anybody lay hands on them. 43:49.520 --> 43:53.040 And they don't really care about the integrity of their ordination. 43:53.040 --> 43:56.240 They don't want to seek ordination from a legitimate party. 43:56.240 --> 43:58.800 They'll take it from anybody that'll lay hands on them. 43:58.800 --> 44:02.000 And I'm not even joking, I mean, I can't even believe it. 44:02.000 --> 44:05.440 There are people that are going out seeking for ordination overnight. 44:06.600 --> 44:09.640 There's been people that have emailed pastors in our movement that said like, 44:09.640 --> 44:12.360 hey, can I visit this weekend and you ordain me? 44:14.120 --> 44:19.800 There's people that like pretend to be like us and they'll go out and they'll get ordained in a few 44:19.800 --> 44:24.280 weeks. Just a few weeks, six weeks, one month, whatever. They'll go serve in church and just 44:24.280 --> 44:29.880 thinking like, what is this? Obviously you can even literally go online right now. 44:30.100 --> 44:35.360 And there's some like Colorado church or ministry or whatever and you can buy an ordination certificate right now 44:35.920 --> 44:38.560 That's why people can get married by Adam Sandler 44:39.640 --> 44:43.900 Was it Taylor Swift got married by Adam Sandler started to keep you up with pop and culture or whatever 44:44.520 --> 44:47.520 Taylor Swift got married by Adam Sandler folks 44:48.280 --> 44:50.280 How does that even work? 44:50.880 --> 44:53.280 Who would even want to be or married by this guy? 44:53.900 --> 44:58.500 Aren't you just like proving that your whole marriage is a joke when Adam Sandler is the pastor? 44:59.740 --> 45:04.980 Marrying you? Like how is that even real or sincere? Like does that seem like a commitment? 45:04.980 --> 45:07.500 It just seems like a movie gag or something like that. 45:08.480 --> 45:10.960 The guy from grown-ups. Yeah, okay. 45:12.620 --> 45:18.420 This is the world that we live in where people will make anyone their priest. Adam Sandler is now their priest. 45:19.000 --> 45:20.720 They'll make a woman their priest. 45:20.720 --> 45:21.920 They'll make whoever their priest. 45:21.920 --> 45:23.160 They'll just ordain anyone. 45:23.160 --> 45:25.680 And people are just seeking ordination from anyone. 45:25.680 --> 45:27.360 It doesn't even matter the origin. 45:27.360 --> 45:28.840 It doesn't even matter the status. 45:28.840 --> 45:30.320 It doesn't even matter the integrity. 45:30.320 --> 45:32.240 It's just ordain whoever. 45:32.240 --> 45:33.600 And you wonder why America screwed up. 45:33.600 --> 45:35.800 It's because we have all these Micas out there 45:35.800 --> 45:39.120 ordaining whoever they want and whatever they want. 45:39.120 --> 45:41.520 And you got all this crazy nonsense. 45:41.700 --> 45:48.540 And again, there's more than one specific situation, but what I've noticed in a lot of independent 45:48.540 --> 45:53.860 Baptist churches and a lot of similar churches is this is daddy ordained ordination stuff. 45:53.860 --> 45:56.340 And it's just not good. 45:56.340 --> 45:58.780 Now let's keep reading the story. It doesn't get better. 45:58.780 --> 46:01.220 Verse 1, in those days there was no king in Israel. 46:01.220 --> 46:02.980 Isn't it funny the Bible keeps telling you that? 46:02.980 --> 46:05.380 Hey, by the way, it's like, why are people getting away with this? 46:05.380 --> 46:07.140 Because there was no one in charge. 46:07.140 --> 46:09.460 Like, this is what happens when the... 46:09.700 --> 46:11.700 inmates are running the asylum, okay? 46:12.220 --> 46:16.680 In those days there was no king in Israel and in those days the tribe of the Danites 46:17.060 --> 46:19.060 sought them inheritance to dwell in. 46:19.380 --> 46:25.920 From that day all their inheritance not fallen under them among the tribes of Israel and the children of Dan sent of their family 46:25.920 --> 46:32.260 five men from their coast men of valor from Zor and from Eshtiol to spy out the land and to search it. 46:32.700 --> 46:35.340 and they said unto them, Go search the land, 46:35.340 --> 46:37.940 who in the kingdom of Ephraim to the house of Micah, 46:37.940 --> 46:38.780 they lodged there." 46:38.780 --> 46:42.060 Now, the word valor here, you just gotta think like, 46:42.060 --> 46:45.020 these are guys that are like buff, athletic, and strong. 46:45.020 --> 46:47.100 It's not saying that they have high character. 46:47.300 --> 46:51.300 Okay, the valor sometimes I think of like someone is having high character. 46:51.300 --> 46:54.800 It's no, it's guys that are like someone you wouldn't want to mess with. 46:54.800 --> 46:57.300 Okay, they're valiant in war. 46:57.300 --> 46:59.300 They're valiant and going out and fighting. 46:59.300 --> 47:01.600 They're not somebody you would want to mess with on the battlefield. 47:01.600 --> 47:08.300 Okay, that's what they mean by men of valor here, but they have low character and low morals. 47:08.300 --> 47:13.300 Verse 3, when they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man, the Levite. 47:13.700 --> 47:16.140 And they turned in hither, and said to him, 47:16.140 --> 47:18.020 Who brought thee hither? 47:18.020 --> 47:20.380 And what makest thou in this place? 47:20.380 --> 47:22.300 And what hast thou here? 47:22.300 --> 47:25.220 And he said to them, Thus and thus deals Micah with me, 47:25.220 --> 47:27.580 and hath hired me, and I am his priest. 47:27.580 --> 47:30.660 Now this is the Bible just like summarizing quickly. 47:30.660 --> 47:32.900 And he's just like, blah, blah, blah. 47:32.900 --> 47:34.900 He made me his priest. 47:34.900 --> 47:36.600 Micah did it. 47:36.600 --> 47:38.200 He said in verse 5, and they said to him, 47:38.200 --> 47:40.000 ask counsel, we pray thee of God, 47:40.000 --> 47:42.900 that we may know whether a way which we go 47:42.900 --> 47:43.700 shall be prosperous. 47:43.700 --> 47:46.300 Now think about this. 47:46.300 --> 47:47.600 I know you. 47:47.600 --> 47:48.600 I know who you are. 47:48.600 --> 47:51.100 You're just some random dude, right, that lived with us. 47:51.100 --> 47:51.900 Yeah. 47:51.900 --> 47:53.500 Why are you out here? 47:53.500 --> 47:57.900 Some random dude just hired me to be his preacher. 47:57.900 --> 47:58.800 Just randomly? 47:58.800 --> 47:59.400 Yeah. 48:00.100 --> 48:02.100 Hey, tell me about God. Like what? 48:03.540 --> 48:07.380 Like wouldn't you think like, yeah, this is a scam, isn't it? 48:07.380 --> 48:08.980 Yeah, it's a scam. Okay. 48:09.620 --> 48:10.820 Well, tell me about God though. 48:11.380 --> 48:14.820 Like wouldn't you think like this is not the guy to get advice from 48:14.820 --> 48:18.660 when he just told you that he randomly got ordained by Micah? 48:19.380 --> 48:22.580 Like you kind of realize like, hey, this guy's a bozo, but then it's just like, 48:23.220 --> 48:24.900 more people fall for it. 48:24.900 --> 48:27.860 Well, I guess if you're a pastor, then I'll just ask you. 48:28.600 --> 48:34.400 And you know what? This is what I find to believe, is they probably were just indulging him. 48:34.400 --> 48:36.400 I don't even know how sincere they were. 48:36.400 --> 48:44.000 But sometimes it just seems like some people are just indulging them because they just want to hear their own opinion repeated from a yes man. 48:44.000 --> 48:49.600 And look, what do these hirelings do? What do they have professional in telling you what you want to hear? 48:49.800 --> 48:55.000 because that's what they do. That's their job. Their job is to simply tell you what you want to hear. 48:55.000 --> 48:59.480 That is the only thing they're hired to do and that's the only thing they will do. So it's just 48:59.480 --> 49:04.760 like this guy agrees with me. It's like hey I went to the non-denom pastor and he agreed with my 49:04.760 --> 49:12.680 opinion. Shock! I'm so shocked that you got a non-denom pastor to agree with you. Yeah he told 49:12.680 --> 49:14.840 me that my marriage is bad and I knew it. 49:15.400 --> 49:22.900 You know, and I knew that that guy was a zero and I just knew that, you know, I just, he just agreed with every opinion I had. 49:22.900 --> 49:28.900 Yeah, you go girl. The non-denominational pastor will always agree with you. 49:28.900 --> 49:32.400 You're always right. It's just like Absalom. 49:32.400 --> 49:36.900 Thy matters are good and right. I haven't even told you. I just already know it. 49:36.900 --> 49:41.400 Let me give you a kiss. No? That's the non-denominational counseling, all right? 49:41.800 --> 49:44.100 Go in there ladies and they'll be like, you want a kiss? 49:44.100 --> 49:46.140 Oh, you're already good. 49:46.140 --> 49:49.600 That's what they're like, because they're all predators too. 49:49.600 --> 49:52.140 And look, this is the kind of preachers and pastors 49:52.140 --> 49:53.240 that America has. 49:53.240 --> 49:53.740 Why? 49:53.740 --> 49:55.000 Because people want it. 49:55.400 --> 50:00.820 Because people want a stinking yes man because they want this evil wicked person just tell them what they want to hear 50:00.820 --> 50:08.020 They don't want to go sit and be told that they're wrong or that they're wicked or that they're sinful or they need to change 50:08.700 --> 50:14.160 They don't want to hear any of that kind of stuff. They want to hear the Levite tell them everything you want to hear 50:14.340 --> 50:17.040 Hey, tell me it is God gonna prosper our way 50:18.820 --> 50:21.820 Might as well just get the lucky eight ball or whatever and shake it 50:23.300 --> 50:26.500 Even that'll tell you you're wrong occasionally, okay? 50:26.500 --> 50:29.600 And the priest said to him, go in peace. 50:29.600 --> 50:30.500 Isn't it funny? 50:30.500 --> 50:32.600 You know, you have a king in the Bible 50:32.600 --> 50:35.400 that's asking for an opinion if God's gonna bless it, 50:35.400 --> 50:37.900 and it's just like 400 preachers are all just like, 50:37.900 --> 50:40.100 go in peace, you're gonna have success. 50:40.100 --> 50:41.400 And then it's just Micaiah. 50:41.400 --> 50:43.100 You know, that one, I hate Micaiah. 50:43.400 --> 50:45.840 He never prophesized good of me, you know? 50:45.840 --> 50:47.200 He's like, what does he say? 50:47.200 --> 50:48.880 And even he, when he shows up, he just mocks. 50:48.880 --> 50:50.280 He's like, yeah, you're gonna have success? 50:50.280 --> 50:51.640 He's like, don't lie to me. 50:53.200 --> 50:54.680 Because I know you never preach good. 50:54.680 --> 50:56.680 He's like, you're right, you're gonna die. 50:58.400 --> 51:00.160 But it's just so funny. 51:00.160 --> 51:03.360 It's like the false preacher, what does he always do? 51:03.360 --> 51:05.840 What is the false preacher always like? 51:05.840 --> 51:09.280 Nice and peace and positive, every time. 51:09.800 --> 51:12.400 And then people that get mad at you like, oh, you're not nice. 51:12.400 --> 51:14.200 You're not you're not always positive. 51:14.200 --> 51:16.200 What do you want to be like a false prophet? 51:16.200 --> 51:20.100 You want to be Joel Osteen and just only be positive? 51:20.100 --> 51:23.900 It's like, hey, if someone's only positive, then they're only a false prophet. 51:23.900 --> 51:27.000 I see no one in the Bible. 51:27.000 --> 51:30.000 Show me the man of God that's only positive. 51:30.000 --> 51:34.400 Show me the legitimate guy, the legitimate priest, the legitimate prophet. 51:34.400 --> 51:35.300 That's only positive. 51:35.300 --> 51:36.000 Never happens. 51:36.700 --> 51:41.700 But the false prophets, it's just uncanny how they're always positive. 51:41.700 --> 51:45.200 The only thing false prophets hate is the real man of God. 51:45.200 --> 51:46.200 That's the only thing they ever hate. 51:46.200 --> 51:47.500 That's the only thing they're ever mad about. 51:47.500 --> 51:49.200 They lose their mind about that guy. 51:49.400 --> 51:51.240 It's just like, I'm mad about Micaiah. 51:51.240 --> 51:53.240 They go over there and smite Micaiah. 51:53.240 --> 51:56.040 Hey, how dare you say that an evil spirit 51:56.040 --> 51:58.360 came from the Lord to say what I said? 51:58.360 --> 51:59.720 You know, how do you know that? 51:59.720 --> 52:01.640 Micaiah, he smites Micaiah or whatever. 52:01.640 --> 52:03.800 You know, smite Jeremiah, smite whoever. 52:03.800 --> 52:07.080 Let's just beat up the false, you know, the real preacher. 52:07.080 --> 52:08.520 We call them the false preacher. 52:08.520 --> 52:11.480 They're traitors and they've fallen away to Babylon 52:11.480 --> 52:12.120 and whatever. 52:12.120 --> 52:14.040 He's always lying about the real preacher. 52:15.100 --> 52:20.100 Isn't it funny? The only enemy you have in the world, the only person you don't like in the world is a preacher. 52:20.100 --> 52:22.100 You probably are bad. 52:22.100 --> 52:27.100 If that's the only person you don't like, I mean you like sodomites. 52:27.100 --> 52:33.100 You like murderers. You like Israel. You like everything, but you hate preachers. 52:33.100 --> 52:37.100 Like the only person you can't stand on this planet is a preacher. 52:37.100 --> 52:38.900 And she's like, there's a problem there. 52:39.300 --> 52:43.140 Because there's a lot of people to not like, you know, like there's a lot of people to get mad about. 52:43.140 --> 52:48.900 There's a lot of issues like, hey, I get it that there's some things that legitimately be grieved about. 52:48.900 --> 52:52.580 But it's like if it's only a preacher, you got problems, man. 52:52.580 --> 52:54.940 OK, again, what's the false prophet like? 52:54.940 --> 52:57.620 He only hates the real man of God. 52:57.620 --> 53:03.700 But he's going peace before the Lord is your way, where you go. 53:03.700 --> 53:05.740 Praise the Lord, brother. 53:05.740 --> 53:06.540 Peace, man. 53:07.000 --> 53:11.000 Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people that were therein, 53:11.000 --> 53:15.960 how they dwelt careless after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure, 53:15.960 --> 53:20.040 and there was no magistrate in the land that might put them to shame in anything. 53:20.680 --> 53:24.120 And they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any man. 53:25.080 --> 53:29.720 And they came unto their brethren to Zohar and to Eshtael, and their brethren said unto them, 53:29.720 --> 53:30.600 What say? 53:30.800 --> 53:31.800 And they said, Arise! 53:31.800 --> 53:35.760 And they may go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. 53:35.760 --> 53:37.000 And are ye still? 53:37.000 --> 53:40.440 Be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land. 53:40.440 --> 53:45.200 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure into a large land, for God hath given it into 53:45.200 --> 53:48.960 your hands, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth." 53:49.600 --> 53:54.560 And there went out from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshteyl, 53:54.560 --> 53:59.360 six hundred men appointed with weapons of war. And they went up and pitched in Kirjath-Jeram and Judah, 53:59.360 --> 54:04.720 wherefore they called that place Mahan-e Dan unto this day, behold it is behind Kirjath-Jeram. 54:05.680 --> 54:09.200 And they passed thence unto Mount Ephraim and came unto the house of Micah. 54:09.200 --> 54:13.920 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto the brethren, 54:13.920 --> 54:14.920 Do you know? 54:15.100 --> 54:20.140 that there is in these houses an ephod and terafem and a graven image and a molten image 54:20.140 --> 54:25.340 now therefore consider what you have to do and they turned to the word and came to the house of 54:25.340 --> 54:28.060 the young man the levite even into the house of mica and saluted him 54:28.500 --> 54:31.300 and the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, 54:31.300 --> 54:34.400 which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate. 54:34.400 --> 54:38.400 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up and came in thither, 54:38.400 --> 54:42.900 and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the terrapim, and the molten image, 54:42.900 --> 54:46.100 and the priests, stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men 54:46.100 --> 54:47.900 that are appointed with weapons of war. 54:48.600 --> 54:54.280 And these went into Micah's house and fetched the carved image, the ephod and the terafim 54:54.280 --> 54:59.160 and the molten image, then said the priest unto them, what do ye? 54:59.160 --> 55:04.440 So those five guys that came through, they're like, hey, we got some graven image, molten, 55:04.440 --> 55:05.440 let's go take them. 55:05.440 --> 55:06.440 They walk in, take it. 55:06.440 --> 55:09.480 The priest is like, hey, what's going on? 55:09.480 --> 55:14.160 And he said to them, hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth and go with us. 55:14.500 --> 55:17.400 and be to us a father and a priest. 55:17.400 --> 55:19.560 Is it better for thee to be a priest 55:19.560 --> 55:21.400 in the house of one man? 55:21.400 --> 55:23.740 Or that thou be a priest unto a tribe 55:23.740 --> 55:25.980 and a family in Israel? 55:25.980 --> 55:29.120 And the priest's heart was glad. 55:29.120 --> 55:30.740 And he took the ephod and the pterophim 55:30.740 --> 55:31.680 and the graven image, 55:31.680 --> 55:34.420 and he went in the midst of the people. 55:34.420 --> 55:36.220 So what does the story say? 55:36.220 --> 55:38.460 This guy comes in to steal all of his stuff, 55:38.460 --> 55:40.180 take him out of the job he has. 55:40.500 --> 55:43.200 And you know, you would kind of think like this is a bad thing. 55:43.200 --> 55:45.380 You kind of think like, oh, man, this isn't very good. 55:45.640 --> 55:46.880 And then what does the Bible say? 55:46.880 --> 55:50.980 The priest heart was glad he was so happy 55:51.380 --> 55:56.420 to be taken out of this little church and be taken to a big church. 55:57.900 --> 56:02.460 And you know what you notice in the Southern Baptist Convention is, you know what? 56:02.460 --> 56:05.260 You just get ordained through their little Bible college, 56:05.260 --> 56:11.020 go take on a little church, and just wait your little time for some bigger church to just sweep 56:11.020 --> 56:15.180 you up and you become their priest now. Not because you actually love God, not because 56:15.180 --> 56:19.900 you did a work, not because of anything other than, hey, we need somebody, you're here, 56:19.900 --> 56:25.660 I'm just going to take you. And look, this is the common pattern of most churches in America. 56:25.900 --> 56:28.400 of most churches, even in the Southern Baptist Convention, 56:28.400 --> 56:30.300 even independent Baptist churches, 56:30.300 --> 56:32.700 where they just basically have these little guys 56:32.700 --> 56:35.100 go bid their time, do their due, 56:35.100 --> 56:38.400 and just get swept up by a bigger Micah. 56:38.400 --> 56:42.300 Hey, and then they're just so happy to get out of that work. 56:42.300 --> 56:44.300 Because their heart was never in that work, 56:44.300 --> 56:45.900 their heart was never in that church, 56:45.900 --> 56:47.500 their heart was never in that location, 56:47.500 --> 56:49.900 they just wanted to get swept up by somebody. 56:50.800 --> 56:52.300 They're so glad. 56:52.300 --> 56:56.100 Hey, yeah, now we get to go be their people's pastor or whatever. 56:56.100 --> 56:59.500 And he doesn't even care about, does he care about Micah? 56:59.500 --> 57:01.400 Is he sad about Micah? 57:01.400 --> 57:03.400 Is he sad about leaving these people? 57:03.400 --> 57:08.000 No. The Bible says his heart was glad. 57:08.000 --> 57:12.800 And you say like, okay, so is it bad for a pastor to switch churches? No. 57:12.800 --> 57:15.500 Is it bad for a pastor to move? No. 57:15.500 --> 57:17.600 But here's the thing, it shouldn't be glad. 57:17.800 --> 57:19.400 It shouldn't be happy. 57:19.400 --> 57:22.000 You shouldn't want to drop him like a bad habit. 57:22.000 --> 57:26.400 I mean, I've heard of churches where the pastor literally is just like, 57:26.400 --> 57:29.700 hey guys, this other church is hiring me. 57:29.700 --> 57:33.000 I'm leaving. Bye. 57:33.000 --> 57:35.400 And then the church just doesn't have a pastor. 57:35.400 --> 57:37.700 It just literally is just gone. 57:37.700 --> 57:39.900 And you're just thinking like, what in the world? 57:40.100 --> 57:41.440 But that is really happening. 57:41.440 --> 57:45.340 That is different than someone taking on another church 57:45.340 --> 57:46.840 or continuing to help that church 57:46.840 --> 57:48.480 or finding another pastor for that church. 57:48.480 --> 57:50.520 That is way different. 57:50.520 --> 57:51.680 Okay, because again, why? 57:51.680 --> 57:53.020 The heart was not in the work. 57:53.020 --> 57:54.020 The heart was not in the people. 57:54.020 --> 57:55.360 The heart was not in the church. 57:55.360 --> 57:57.080 The heart was in the higher link. 57:57.080 --> 57:58.620 And it's just a bigger job. 57:58.620 --> 58:01.860 And he's just like, sweet, see you later suckers. 58:02.200 --> 58:05.200 He doesn't care about Micah. He doesn't care about the things of God. 58:05.200 --> 58:07.800 He just simply wants a bigger job. 58:07.800 --> 58:10.300 And you know what? You have a lot of higher-ing pastors in this world. 58:10.300 --> 58:12.400 They just care about having a big church. 58:12.400 --> 58:16.800 They don't even care who's in it, what's going on, where it's at. 58:16.800 --> 58:20.700 None of that. It's just have a big job and a big church 58:20.700 --> 58:24.000 because of money, because it's the only thing they care about. 58:24.000 --> 58:27.300 Of course, I can lie to Micah. Why not lie to a lot more people? 58:27.700 --> 58:33.700 And of course this is what you see is a lot of higher-ling pastors just like this particular Levite. 58:33.700 --> 58:41.700 Now, this is just a bad system in general, but this is why we have bad preachers and bad pastors in the world. 58:41.700 --> 58:46.700 Is because you have higher-lings that are just there for the money and just there for the wrong reasons. 58:47.100 --> 58:51.600 He says here, So they turned and departed and put the little ones and the cat on the carriage before them. 58:51.600 --> 58:54.860 And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses 58:54.860 --> 58:58.020 near to Micah's house were gathered together and overtook the children of Dan. 58:58.020 --> 59:01.260 And they cried to the children of Dan and they turned their faces and said to Micah, 59:01.260 --> 59:05.160 What aileth thee that thou comest with such a company? 59:05.160 --> 59:08.980 And he said, You have taken away my gods which I made, 59:08.980 --> 59:11.900 and the priest, and you're gone away. 59:12.000 --> 59:15.600 And what have I more? And what is this that ye say unto me? 59:15.600 --> 59:17.200 What aileth thee? 59:17.200 --> 59:21.760 He's like, bro, you just stole all my stuff and stole my priest and stole my church. 59:21.760 --> 59:24.000 What do you mean? Why am I upset? 59:24.800 --> 59:28.320 What aileth me? What are you talking about? Of course I'm mad. 59:29.360 --> 59:32.960 And the children of Danonson, let not thy voice be heard among us. 59:33.760 --> 59:38.560 Lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, which the lives of thy household. 59:39.300 --> 59:41.740 He's like, hey, you don't talk to us like that. 59:41.740 --> 59:44.080 You want us to come over there and give you 59:44.080 --> 59:46.240 a different attitude, buddy? 59:46.240 --> 59:48.740 You want us to get over there and get mad on you? 59:48.740 --> 59:50.120 There's a lot of trash talk in the Bible. 59:50.120 --> 59:51.680 I don't know if you ever noticed it. 59:51.680 --> 59:54.820 People trash talk each other a lot. 59:54.820 --> 59:58.320 And he says here in verse number 26, 59:58.320 --> 01:00:00.660 and the children of Dan went their way when Micah saw 01:00:00.660 --> 01:00:02.020 that they were too strong for him. 01:00:02.020 --> 01:00:03.660 He turned and went back in his house. 01:00:04.100 --> 01:00:06.260 Well, he's mad, but he can't do anything about it, 01:00:06.260 --> 01:00:07.060 because he's weaker. 01:00:07.060 --> 01:00:10.300 He has less men with him, so sorry. 01:00:10.300 --> 01:00:11.500 Guess who wins? 01:00:11.500 --> 01:00:12.740 The mafia wins. 01:00:12.740 --> 01:00:13.900 The mob wins. 01:00:13.900 --> 01:00:15.780 The bigger muscle wins. 01:00:15.780 --> 01:00:17.900 The guns win. 01:00:17.900 --> 01:00:19.100 Oh, I want anarchy. 01:00:19.100 --> 01:00:19.540 Why? 01:00:19.540 --> 01:00:21.460 So just the bigger mob can win? 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:26.400 So you can be run over by gangs and overlords and mafias? 01:00:26.400 --> 01:00:28.200 Like that's bad. 01:00:28.200 --> 01:00:29.600 You don't want that kind of stuff. 01:00:29.600 --> 01:00:33.400 You don't want to just have bands of thieves ruling over you 01:00:33.400 --> 01:00:36.100 in a barbarous, anarchist way. 01:00:36.100 --> 01:00:39.000 You know, having legitimate government is superior. 01:00:39.100 --> 01:00:43.100 Now again, limited government, probably the best man's ever gonna do. 01:00:43.100 --> 01:00:46.100 Okay, I get it. We've done that experiment, it worked. 01:00:46.100 --> 01:00:49.100 Now we're in big government, it's not working very well. 01:00:49.100 --> 01:00:50.100 And I get it. 01:00:50.100 --> 01:00:52.100 But you know, the problem is not anarchy. 01:00:52.100 --> 01:00:54.100 Or the solution, I'm sorry. 01:00:54.100 --> 01:00:56.100 The solution's not anarchy. 01:00:56.100 --> 01:00:58.100 The solution's not dictatorship. 01:00:58.100 --> 01:01:00.100 Okay, we don't want to go in either of these extremes. 01:01:00.100 --> 01:01:03.100 And I get there's a lot of political ideologies, you can have your own. 01:01:03.100 --> 01:01:06.000 I'm just telling you what I think, alright, and what the Bible says. 01:01:06.900 --> 01:01:08.900 This anarchy is not a good option. 01:01:08.900 --> 01:01:10.900 It is not a very good option. 01:01:10.900 --> 01:01:13.900 We could debate about kings and all this other stuff. 01:01:13.900 --> 01:01:16.900 But, you know, when it comes to this particular situation, 01:01:16.900 --> 01:01:19.900 isn't it interesting that the guy starts a story? 01:01:19.900 --> 01:01:22.900 How does the guy's story start? How does Micah's story start? 01:01:22.900 --> 01:01:25.900 He steals 1,100 shackles of silver. 01:01:26.900 --> 01:01:31.140 And then everything that he stole is taken all away from him. 01:01:31.140 --> 01:01:32.860 All the work, all the effort, all the energy. 01:01:32.860 --> 01:01:35.340 Because, you know, false religion won't get you anything. 01:01:35.340 --> 01:01:38.740 And you reap what you sow, and God didn't bless him. 01:01:38.740 --> 01:01:40.340 Oh, I got a Levite now. 01:01:40.340 --> 01:01:42.740 Yeah, but you hired a Levite that doesn't care about you 01:01:42.740 --> 01:01:44.060 or care about the work of God, 01:01:44.060 --> 01:01:46.660 so he dropped you like a bad habit as soon as he could. 01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:51.200 Okay? And again, there's a lot of preachers and pastors out there that'll drop you like a bad habit 01:01:51.200 --> 01:01:52.500 because they don't even care about you. 01:01:52.500 --> 01:01:54.500 Because they weren't there for you anyways. 01:01:54.500 --> 01:01:57.200 They were there for the paycheck, for the money, or whatever. 01:01:57.400 --> 01:02:01.080 And again, that's why, you know, we should really think about these things as a nation, 01:02:01.080 --> 01:02:02.480 as a culture, as a country. 01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:04.800 Like, you know, what kind of pastor do you even have? 01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:05.920 Why is he even there? 01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:07.160 Like, what is his motivations? 01:02:07.160 --> 01:02:08.320 Like, what is his work? 01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:09.680 Like, what's going on here? 01:02:09.680 --> 01:02:14.240 And it's just sad that we have so many people that are literally going to a higher link 01:02:14.240 --> 01:02:19.680 pastor and they're just hiring them to tell them what they want to hear. 01:02:19.680 --> 01:02:22.000 You know, that's why our country is so screwed up. 01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:29.400 And then they wonder like, oh man, I'm shocked that this hireling pastor went bad. 01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:32.400 It's like, bro, you hired him. 01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:35.400 Bro, he's a hireling. Of course he's bad. 01:02:35.400 --> 01:02:41.400 And then people just want to keep saying, why do we keep having all these bad pastors and bad preachers and bad churches? 01:02:41.400 --> 01:02:44.400 Because you keep hiring hirelings. 01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:46.400 Because you keep supporting a hireling. 01:02:47.200 --> 01:02:49.640 Because you keep going for the bad guy, 01:02:49.640 --> 01:02:52.560 and then you're shocked he turns out to be a bad guy. 01:02:52.560 --> 01:02:56.000 Isn't it like the young teenage girl goes for the bad boy, 01:02:56.000 --> 01:02:58.080 and then he's like, man, he really sucks. 01:02:58.080 --> 01:02:59.520 Right, he's a bad boy. 01:03:01.040 --> 01:03:03.000 Why do you think, I mean, he's, he was, 01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:05.160 bells against his parents, your bells against government, 01:03:05.160 --> 01:03:06.240 he doesn't want a job, 01:03:06.240 --> 01:03:08.400 but he's just gonna love you, honey, right? 01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:11.360 Like, what kind of weird narrative is this? 01:03:11.360 --> 01:03:14.160 No, he's gonna treat you like trash because he's trash. 01:03:14.600 --> 01:03:19.200 And you know what? You get a trash pastor and he's going to treat you like trash. 01:03:19.200 --> 01:03:21.000 So you should be careful. 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:25.300 They took the things of Micah, oh but it's going to go well for the other people, right? 01:03:25.300 --> 01:03:27.300 Well, let's just skip down. It says in verse 30, 01:03:27.300 --> 01:03:30.900 And the children of Dan set up the graven image, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, 01:03:30.900 --> 01:03:33.400 the son of Manasseh, he and his sons are priests 01:03:33.400 --> 01:03:36.300 to the tribe of Dan under the day of the captivity of the land. 01:03:36.300 --> 01:03:39.400 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, 01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:42.200 all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. Now, here's the thing. 01:03:42.700 --> 01:03:44.900 He goes off with the Danites and it just seems like, 01:03:44.900 --> 01:03:46.400 oh, it's so great. 01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:48.900 But it's like him and then he ordains his sons. 01:03:48.900 --> 01:03:52.500 So it's just daddy ordained preachers down the line 01:03:52.500 --> 01:03:54.540 after they got their little hireling. 01:03:54.540 --> 01:03:56.040 And then it says, till when? 01:03:56.040 --> 01:03:56.940 Till their captivity. 01:03:56.940 --> 01:03:59.020 Doesn't sound like it turned out very good. 01:03:59.020 --> 01:04:01.480 And if you know anything about Dan in the Bible, 01:04:01.480 --> 01:04:02.680 which you're like, I don't know much about Dan. 01:04:02.680 --> 01:04:03.520 Exactly. 01:04:04.900 --> 01:04:08.000 because they're not spiritual, they're not blessed by God, 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:09.800 and they were one of the first captives. 01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:11.500 They're one of the first ones taken captive. 01:04:11.500 --> 01:04:14.800 Oh, they take this land over captive, and then they're taken captive. 01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:16.200 Isn't that interesting? 01:04:16.200 --> 01:04:18.000 They go to take this captivity, 01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:21.300 and then it's like, oh yeah, you had this false prophet, false priest, 01:04:21.300 --> 01:04:23.200 until your captivity. 01:04:23.200 --> 01:04:25.600 Why? Because you reap what you sow. 01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:31.800 they go and capture these people under not serving the Lord and not the right ways to serve God, 01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:34.300 then God allows them to be taken captive as well. 01:04:34.500 --> 01:04:38.100 There's nothing wrong with technically taking the land because God had promised it to them, 01:04:38.100 --> 01:04:41.160 but they weren't doing it seeking the Lord, and because they weren't following God's 01:04:41.160 --> 01:04:45.820 commandments, God did not bless them, therefore they become captives of the land again. 01:04:45.820 --> 01:04:49.200 And God warned the children of Israel that if they entered the promised land and turned 01:04:49.200 --> 01:04:51.360 away from them, He would make them captives. 01:04:51.360 --> 01:04:53.160 He would oppress them. 01:04:53.160 --> 01:04:57.780 He would bring them under the iron rule of a foreign nation and of foreign gods. 01:04:57.780 --> 01:04:59.540 It's like you want foreign gods to rule you? 01:04:59.540 --> 01:05:01.280 Fine, have foreign gods to rule you. 01:05:01.280 --> 01:05:02.500 Now, there's a problem in America where... 01:05:02.500 --> 01:05:05.380 we're bringing Islam and Hinduism and all this stuff into our country. 01:05:05.380 --> 01:05:08.020 Do you really want to serve Islam? 01:05:08.020 --> 01:05:12.420 Like, I mean, what do Christians really want here? 01:05:12.420 --> 01:05:16.820 It's like you either serve this book or he'll find some false God for you to serve. 01:05:16.820 --> 01:05:20.220 But you don't get to say like, oh, but I want to be free. 01:05:20.220 --> 01:05:21.220 Doesn't exist. 01:05:21.220 --> 01:05:23.220 Oh, I love anarchy. 01:05:23.220 --> 01:05:26.740 Oh, I love America because you can just have freedom of religion. 01:05:26.740 --> 01:05:30.260 Look, that was in the context of Christianity. 01:05:30.900 --> 01:05:37.900 Because there's no such thing as a nation where you can just have all religions as a free for all and you won't serve somebody. 01:05:37.900 --> 01:05:41.540 If you won't serve the God of the Bible, well then he'll make you serve Baal. 01:05:41.540 --> 01:05:44.980 Then you'll just serve a false God and a wicked religion. 01:05:44.980 --> 01:05:52.260 And let me tell you something, Christians need to wake up and recognize, hey, I don't want to serve the God of Islam. 01:05:52.260 --> 01:05:54.780 I don't want to serve the gods of Hinduism. 01:05:55.200 --> 01:05:59.600 I don't want to serve the God of Judaism, which is the devil. 01:05:59.600 --> 01:06:02.560 I don't want the devil to be ruling over me. 01:06:02.560 --> 01:06:06.480 And so we need to get some real preachers, some real pastors, 01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:10.000 that are not hirelings and support them. 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:12.640 Oh, but no, I just want to go to church where they're going to tell me what I want. 01:06:12.640 --> 01:06:15.600 Well, pretty soon you're going to be doing what Islam wants you to do. 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:18.400 Pretty soon you're going to be doing what Hinduism wants you to do. 01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:20.600 Pretty soon you're going to be doing what Satan wants you to do. 01:06:20.600 --> 01:06:21.900 And it's called communism. 01:06:21.900 --> 01:06:22.900 And let me tell you something. 01:06:22.900 --> 01:06:25.200 Communism isn't very nice to Christians. 01:06:25.200 --> 01:06:30.200 Communism isn't very nice to people that want to be married and have a job and work hard. 01:06:30.200 --> 01:06:32.000 You know what communism doesn't want you to do? 01:06:32.000 --> 01:06:34.300 Make extra money for working harder. 01:06:34.300 --> 01:06:36.000 I love that. 01:06:36.600 --> 01:06:39.600 I switched careers because of that specifically. 01:06:39.600 --> 01:06:42.800 Because I worked in a bank where it was like a communist system. 01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:47.900 It's like, you just show up and you have your number of years and you get this paycheck. 01:06:47.900 --> 01:06:50.300 You know what's also like that? The school system. 01:06:50.300 --> 01:06:54.600 You're a teacher, it's like, are you a five-year teacher, a ten-year teacher, and that's your paycheck. 01:06:54.600 --> 01:06:59.300 It doesn't matter if you're the worst teacher in the world, you got 20 years, 20-year paycheck. 01:06:59.300 --> 01:07:03.000 You're the best teacher in the world, one year, one-year paycheck. 01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:04.500 It's like, I hate that system. 01:07:04.700 --> 01:07:06.000 I don't like the system. 01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:07.500 Now you know who loves this system? 01:07:07.500 --> 01:07:10.600 Lazy people that have been it for 30 years. 01:07:10.600 --> 01:07:11.600 I don't like the system. 01:07:11.600 --> 01:07:12.600 I don't want the system. 01:07:12.600 --> 01:07:16.440 I like a system that says, hey, you want to work a little harder and get a little extra? 01:07:16.440 --> 01:07:19.140 You can work as hard as you want and you can get as much extra as you want. 01:07:19.500 --> 01:07:22.700 I like that kind of system. I like being able to be rewarded for what I do. 01:07:22.700 --> 01:07:27.400 And you know what? That's God's system anyways, because it's not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, 01:07:27.400 --> 01:07:32.500 which you do show toward His name. Hebrews chapter number six, things that accompany salvation. 01:07:32.500 --> 01:07:40.100 And you know what? Praise God that we don't serve God in vain. We serve God for reward and blessing. 01:07:40.100 --> 01:07:44.700 Hey, God is a capitalist in a sense, to where he's basically just saying, 01:07:44.700 --> 01:07:47.100 and hey, you can have as much rewards as you want. 01:07:47.200 --> 01:07:50.400 Go out there and just you can work in the field. 01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:54.800 24 7 buddy, you want to get people saved? Go for it. 01:07:55.200 --> 01:07:58.880 and there's no shortage of opportunity to go work in the field. 01:07:58.880 --> 01:08:02.640 I mean, he's just like, hey, you can go out there and get many people's help. 01:08:02.640 --> 01:08:07.200 And not only is it just getting reward, you're doing a valuable work where you're actually 01:08:07.200 --> 01:08:12.240 saving souls from hell. It's not even just mindless activity or something like that. 01:08:12.240 --> 01:08:16.160 It's not even meaningless work. It's the most important work you could possibly do. 01:08:16.160 --> 01:08:20.160 And then you're getting rewarded on top of it. And God will never forget it. 01:08:21.200 --> 01:08:24.960 You won't work five minutes over your 40 hours and not get paid for it. 01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:27.840 Who's on salary in here? Yeah. 01:08:27.840 --> 01:08:31.040 Don't you just love that extra five minutes you put in you didn't get paid for? 01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:36.800 Or hey, sometimes five hours or sometimes a weekend or an extra night. 01:08:37.440 --> 01:08:40.880 God's like, I mean, wouldn't it be nice if your boss is like, 01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:43.680 hey, I know you had to pull a couple extra hours that week. 01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:45.200 So here's 300 bucks. 01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:47.840 You'd be like, sweet, that was awesome. 01:08:47.840 --> 01:08:50.180 That was pretty cool. That's God. 01:08:50.180 --> 01:08:54.540 God's like, hey, I got you on every second on the clock. 01:08:54.680 --> 01:08:58.180 Every time you did something, every little cup of cold water 01:08:58.180 --> 01:09:02.220 you gave only in the name of a disciple, you show and no wise lose your reward. 01:09:03.380 --> 01:09:05.320 I like that system. 01:09:05.320 --> 01:09:06.020 And you know what? 01:09:06.400 --> 01:09:10.560 Hey, we need to reward the right kind of preachers and pastors by supporting them 01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:15.120 and not bringing in some higher link pastors and not allowing ourselves 01:09:15.120 --> 01:09:19.560 to go down a communist hell hole where we just serve Satan and other religions. 01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:21.960 And let me tell you something that I'm really against. 01:09:22.080 --> 01:09:24.400 Is these daddy ordained preachers? 01:09:24.400 --> 01:09:25.840 Notice didn't work out for them, did it? 01:09:26.300 --> 01:09:29.980 Look at verse 30 again. Jonathan, and again, I hate that this guy's name is Jonathan. 01:09:29.980 --> 01:09:33.340 Okay, there's like a good Jonathan in the Bible, it's a bad one, all right? 01:09:33.340 --> 01:09:38.460 But not all Jonathans are trustworthy, okay? Jonathan the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, 01:09:39.020 --> 01:09:45.660 he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan. So it's just an unbroken chain of 01:09:45.660 --> 01:09:49.500 daddy or dame guys in this system until their captivity. 01:09:49.800 --> 01:09:54.800 Okay, and again, these daddy ordained preachers, it just doesn't make sense. 01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:56.800 It's not an unbiased opinion. 01:09:56.800 --> 01:09:58.800 And I want to talk about a couple, okay? 01:09:58.800 --> 01:10:00.800 So have the board with me, all right? 01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:06.800 So bear with me, but... 01:10:06.800 --> 01:10:08.800 There's an interesting guy, daddy ordained preacher. 01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:11.800 His name is Kenny Baldwin. 01:10:11.800 --> 01:10:13.700 Who's ever heard of this guy? 01:10:14.100 --> 01:10:21.360 Yeah, pretty recently he became real famous because Kenny Baldwin has been caught texting 01:10:21.360 --> 01:10:23.660 young men in his church. 01:10:23.660 --> 01:10:26.180 And I don't even want to tell you what he was texting, but you don't need to know it 01:10:26.180 --> 01:10:27.180 was bad. 01:10:27.180 --> 01:10:28.180 All right? 01:10:28.180 --> 01:10:30.860 Disgusting pervert freak. 01:10:30.860 --> 01:10:32.300 Okay? 01:10:32.300 --> 01:10:34.820 Now what's interesting about this little Kenny Baldwin... 01:10:35.200 --> 01:10:38.640 is he was born in 1979 in Washington, D.C., 01:10:38.640 --> 01:10:40.440 okay, he was born in this area. 01:10:40.440 --> 01:10:45.440 Two years later, his dad started a church, okay? 01:10:46.180 --> 01:10:49.180 So he started this church, Crossroads Baptist Church, 01:10:49.180 --> 01:10:51.040 in this D.C. area. 01:10:51.040 --> 01:10:53.960 I think it's like technically Fairfax, Virginia, 01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:56.920 which is generally the D.C. metro, okay? 01:10:56.920 --> 01:10:59.720 I'm not super knowledgeable about that area, 01:10:59.720 --> 01:11:01.620 but it's generally the same area. 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:05.200 And so, starts the church two years later. 01:11:05.200 --> 01:11:07.300 Supposedly, according to Kenny Baldwin's timeline, 01:11:07.300 --> 01:11:09.800 so this is just public information that I found online. 01:11:09.800 --> 01:11:11.000 I don't have any private information. 01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:13.700 This is what the internet says, okay? 01:11:13.700 --> 01:11:15.800 Internet says, according to his own testimony, 01:11:15.800 --> 01:11:18.500 he was saved at age four. 01:11:18.500 --> 01:11:20.800 I said saved because he's not saved. 01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:22.600 He's a false prophet reprobate, okay? 01:11:22.600 --> 01:11:23.100 Yep. 01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:29.080 It's so sad how people, like I've heard multiple pastors get up and they're like, 01:11:29.080 --> 01:11:30.840 I'm not sure if he saved or not. 01:11:32.520 --> 01:11:36.600 Like Tommy Mertre said that, okay, he's just like, I think it's hard to think that he saved. 01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:39.560 It's like, is it hard to think about it or is he just not saved? 01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:46.360 You know, Stacey Shifflett, Stacey said it's like, oh man, it would be really, you know, 01:11:46.360 --> 01:11:50.040 hard for me to imagine what it would take for me to go down this road to do the exact same thing. 01:11:51.800 --> 01:11:53.800 How about it's just not possible? 01:11:53.800 --> 01:11:55.800 Like, what? 01:11:55.800 --> 01:11:57.800 This is just so weird 01:11:57.800 --> 01:11:59.800 when you have people getting up and acting like, 01:11:59.800 --> 01:12:01.800 I don't want to fall like this guy fell. 01:12:01.800 --> 01:12:03.800 Why are you worried about that? 01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:05.800 I'm not worried about that at all. 01:12:05.800 --> 01:12:07.800 Will never happen. 01:12:07.800 --> 01:12:09.800 Save at age four. 01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:11.800 Now here's the thing. 01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:13.800 Please don't hear me wrong. 01:12:13.800 --> 01:12:15.800 I obviously believe children can be saved. 01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:17.800 I believe young children can be saved. 01:12:18.100 --> 01:12:23.300 I personally, this is my personal opinion, I think it's extremely rare, if not almost 01:12:23.300 --> 01:12:25.100 impossible for four-year-olds to get saved. 01:12:25.100 --> 01:12:26.100 Okay? 01:12:26.100 --> 01:12:27.220 This is my personal opinion, okay? 01:12:27.220 --> 01:12:29.020 You can take it or leave it how you want. 01:12:29.020 --> 01:12:35.560 I think there's some kids that are extremely precocious that maybe they could get this. 01:12:35.560 --> 01:12:40.740 And I, look, I have seven children, many of them are past the age of four, and I've talked 01:12:40.740 --> 01:12:44.620 to them, and I've tried to give them the gospel, and just the chances of a four-year-old getting 01:12:44.620 --> 01:12:45.380 the gospel. 01:12:45.900 --> 01:12:49.100 Like, getting it is pretty rare, okay? 01:12:49.100 --> 01:12:54.300 Now look, could I get my four-year-olds to repeat the right doctrines and the right statements? 01:12:54.300 --> 01:12:55.300 Absolutely. 01:12:55.300 --> 01:13:00.500 I could totally, I could totally get every four-year-old in here saved, okay? 01:13:00.500 --> 01:13:05.900 But there's a danger in just trying to get a three-year-old and a four-year-old saved or whatever. 01:13:06.300 --> 01:13:09.300 Because usually it's coming from holier than owls or something like this. 01:13:09.300 --> 01:13:14.300 And look, I'm not saying that there couldn't be some genuine parents who just love their kids and they don't know any better. 01:13:14.300 --> 01:13:17.300 But like a good soul winner is probably going to realize they didn't get it. 01:13:17.300 --> 01:13:19.300 Because they actually asked some questions. 01:13:19.700 --> 01:13:25.460 And it's like you ask a couple questions that aren't just like pointed like yes questions and then you realize it's like, 01:13:25.460 --> 01:13:29.220 hey, where do we go if we sin? They're like heaven. 01:13:29.220 --> 01:13:34.020 It's like no, that's not, you know, it's just like, hey, what do we have to do to be saved? 01:13:34.020 --> 01:13:38.820 It's like believe it's like you have to be a good person. Like, oh yeah, but they don't ask those questions. 01:13:38.820 --> 01:13:43.140 And look, I think we should be diligent in getting our children saved. 01:13:43.140 --> 01:13:45.060 But, you know, we should be careful. 01:13:45.200 --> 01:13:50.200 And I'm a little bit skeptical of these four-year-olds or whatever, okay? 01:13:50.200 --> 01:13:55.600 Now again, our policy at our church is if you get your young child saved and you want to get him baptized, 01:13:55.600 --> 01:14:00.400 that we have someone else on staff or one of our leaders check with them, 01:14:00.400 --> 01:14:04.600 and they ask them some pretty, you know, challenging questions. 01:14:04.600 --> 01:14:08.100 Because I just don't want to just baptize random kids, 01:14:08.100 --> 01:14:12.000 and they don't really get it, and they didn't really understand, and whatever. 01:14:12.400 --> 01:14:19.780 Okay, so I think that we should have like some level of accountability here and look I do believe five-year-olds can be saved 01:14:19.780 --> 01:14:24.660 I'm not even saying four-year-old can't I'm just saying I think it's I personally opinion my personal opinions is very rare 01:14:24.900 --> 01:14:29.840 Okay, don't feel this uncomfortable pressure like my kids for he's not saved. It's like it's probably not gonna happen 01:14:31.040 --> 01:14:34.880 Most of my kids. I don't even think they were capable of getting saved until six 01:14:35.400 --> 01:14:39.640 because like we would talk to them and it just wasn't clicking, it just didn't make sense. 01:14:39.640 --> 01:14:43.320 And I don't think it's because they're not smart, it's just, hey, they're just not ready. 01:14:43.320 --> 01:14:47.160 You know, maybe it's seven, maybe it's eight. I don't think there should be this pressure 01:14:47.160 --> 01:14:52.440 where it has to be a specific age or whatever. Some kids are just going to get things quicker 01:14:52.440 --> 01:14:56.840 than others or whatever, but I'm just saying like he didn't get saved, number one. 01:14:57.700 --> 01:15:02.400 And number two, to me, like, this is kind of suspicious to me, is all I'm saying. 01:15:02.400 --> 01:15:07.400 When people are coming to me like, I got saved at four, it's like, I don't know. 01:15:07.400 --> 01:15:14.000 1988, at nine years old, he was called to preach. 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:18.900 How do you know you're going to be the bishop, you know, a husband of one wife having faithful children, 01:15:18.900 --> 01:15:20.700 not accused of riot or ruley at nine? 01:15:22.300 --> 01:15:26.300 Look, this is an atmosphere that's going on in churches today 01:15:26.300 --> 01:15:29.800 where they're trying to get nine-year-olds to have a call to preach, 01:15:29.800 --> 01:15:31.800 and I think it's wrong. 01:15:31.800 --> 01:15:37.800 Now look, I think every nine-year-old should have a call to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, 01:15:37.800 --> 01:15:42.300 but it's weird to have this kid at nine years old already knowing he's going to be a pastor. 01:15:43.100 --> 01:15:46.700 Because that's what they're really saying when they say this call to preach. 01:15:46.700 --> 01:15:51.900 Okay. And again, when you just have people that just know at nine years old they're going to be a pastor, 01:15:51.900 --> 01:15:56.200 well then it doesn't matter how wicked, bad, or whatever they are, because they just have this calling or whatever, 01:15:56.200 --> 01:15:57.800 and they just have to obey this calling. 01:15:57.800 --> 01:16:02.400 It's like, no, no. The calling is called 1 Timothy chapter 3, verse 1. 01:16:02.400 --> 01:16:05.200 Okay. It's not, you at nine years old, 01:16:05.300 --> 01:16:08.300 at some camp just saying like, I like the pastor, 01:16:08.300 --> 01:16:10.300 I think it'd be cool to be a pastor one day, 01:16:10.300 --> 01:16:12.300 and you just feel special about that. 01:16:12.300 --> 01:16:13.300 That's not the calling. 01:16:13.300 --> 01:16:15.300 And you know what, I would hope every nine-year-old 01:16:15.300 --> 01:16:17.300 would like their pastor and would like church 01:16:17.300 --> 01:16:19.300 and would think being a pastor is cool. 01:16:19.300 --> 01:16:21.300 And if you want to be a pastor, I'm not down on you. 01:16:21.300 --> 01:16:22.300 I think that's cool. 01:16:22.900 --> 01:16:26.900 I would love it for this church to send out tons of young men to be pastors someday, okay? 01:16:26.900 --> 01:16:33.060 I'm not down on that, but do not trick yourself into thinking God called you at nine years old to be a pastor. 01:16:33.060 --> 01:16:35.300 We don't know that, okay? 01:16:35.300 --> 01:16:37.940 And it's weird when people are saying this kind of stuff. 01:16:37.940 --> 01:16:43.700 In 2000, he became on staff at his daddy's church, okay? 01:16:43.700 --> 01:16:47.460 So you can get the age there. He's about, give or take, 21 years old. 01:16:47.900 --> 01:16:51.500 21 years old, pastor on staff at Daddy's Church. 01:16:51.500 --> 01:16:57.100 Now, who in here wants me to just start hiring 21 year olds to be a pastor of this church? 01:16:57.100 --> 01:16:59.700 Does it matter that he's the son? 01:16:59.700 --> 01:17:01.200 Like, that doesn't make sense. 01:17:01.200 --> 01:17:02.200 But this is what we see. 01:17:02.200 --> 01:17:03.600 This is the common pattern. 01:17:03.600 --> 01:17:07.700 The common old IP pattern is that 17, 18 years old, you go to Bible college. 01:17:07.700 --> 01:17:12.800 As soon as you graduate Bible college, you're now on staff as a pastor at a church somewhere. 01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:14.600 But you're just the youth pastor. 01:17:15.100 --> 01:17:17.800 You're just the assistant pastor or whatever. 01:17:17.800 --> 01:17:19.800 And it's like you're not even married. 01:17:19.800 --> 01:17:22.100 Two years later he gets married. 01:17:22.100 --> 01:17:25.900 He's a pastor on staff at Crossroads Baptist Church, 01:17:25.900 --> 01:17:28.900 at 21 years old, not even married. 01:17:28.900 --> 01:17:32.300 He didn't even go to Bible college that we know of. 01:17:32.300 --> 01:17:34.500 He's graduated high school. 01:17:34.500 --> 01:17:37.700 So now the qualifications of being a pastor at Crossroads Baptist Church 01:17:37.700 --> 01:17:39.600 is being a high school graduate. 01:17:39.800 --> 01:17:43.640 But more importantly, this is what it is, being the son of the pastor. 01:17:43.640 --> 01:17:44.440 Yeah. 01:17:44.440 --> 01:17:46.200 This is not legitimate. Okay? 01:17:47.640 --> 01:17:49.720 September 11th, it's a weird date. 01:17:50.440 --> 01:17:55.400 2011. He became the senior pastor of Crossroads Baptist Church. 01:17:55.960 --> 01:18:00.440 Dad ordains, dad becomes emeritus, appoints a son, he becomes the pastor. 01:18:00.440 --> 01:18:01.880 Why did they pick that date, man? 01:18:01.880 --> 01:18:07.160 I just, exactly 10 years after September 11th, on that day, isn't that weird? 01:18:08.200 --> 01:18:09.200 It's just weird. 01:18:09.200 --> 01:18:12.360 It's like a bad omen or something. 01:18:12.360 --> 01:18:16.960 And then it's like, lo and behold, then people are like, oh man, I wonder why Kenny Baldwin 01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:20.960 went bad. 01:18:20.960 --> 01:18:26.540 And then this is what I heard, because of the youth conference culture, it's like, 01:18:26.540 --> 01:18:28.660 why is youth conference now the blame? 01:18:28.660 --> 01:18:31.500 What about the fact that he's daddy ordained? 01:18:31.500 --> 01:18:33.640 How about the fact that his mama called Papa sin? 01:18:34.400 --> 01:18:36.400 How about any of those facts? 01:18:36.400 --> 01:18:39.100 How about the fact that he became a pastor before he's married? 01:18:39.100 --> 01:18:41.600 How about that he was called to preach at nine? 01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:43.200 Okay, how about any of these things? 01:18:43.200 --> 01:18:45.300 How about the thing that, how about the fact that he's a faggot? 01:18:45.300 --> 01:18:47.700 How about that? Does that count for anything? 01:18:47.700 --> 01:18:51.800 How about the fact that he endorsed the Born That Way Ministries book? 01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:55.600 Which the Born That Way Ministries book said faggots aren't faggots. 01:18:55.600 --> 01:18:59.200 They were born to be a faggot, but they're really a eunuch. 01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:03.440 and these eunuchs are great children workers. 01:19:03.440 --> 01:19:05.100 That's what the book says. 01:19:05.100 --> 01:19:06.400 Not only does the book say this, 01:19:06.400 --> 01:19:08.560 the book says that these eunuchs, 01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:10.520 suppose, which is their faggots, 01:19:10.520 --> 01:19:14.840 can platonically live together as eunuch buddies. 01:19:16.800 --> 01:19:19.400 That's the book that this guy is endorsing. 01:19:20.320 --> 01:19:21.160 And there's like, 01:19:21.160 --> 01:19:23.360 oh, I wonder why he came out to be a faggot. 01:19:25.400 --> 01:19:30.360 I don't know. You know, we just keep getting tricked by these pastors 01:19:30.360 --> 01:19:36.760 who are literal hirelings, daddy ordained guys endorsing born that way nonsense. 01:19:37.320 --> 01:19:39.320 It's like, why are we so shocked here? 01:19:41.320 --> 01:19:45.720 It's like Spencer Smith's like, I'm just so shocked how we can be tricked by these people. 01:19:47.320 --> 01:19:51.640 Why are we tricked? Who got tricked here? Okay. 01:19:53.500 --> 01:19:55.720 All right, let's talk about another guy for a minute. 01:19:55.720 --> 01:19:57.780 Tommy McMurtry. 01:19:57.780 --> 01:19:58.900 All right. 01:19:58.900 --> 01:20:03.060 His dad, Tom McMurtry, founded Lighthouse Baptist Church. 01:20:03.060 --> 01:20:05.640 At age 19, Tommy McMurtry started 01:20:05.640 --> 01:20:09.540 working for his daddy's church as an assistant pastor. 01:20:09.540 --> 01:20:13.460 OK, age 19, started working at daddy's church 01:20:13.460 --> 01:20:14.460 for his assistant pastor. 01:20:14.460 --> 01:20:14.960 OK? 01:20:15.700 --> 01:20:22.020 and 2003 graduated from the Bible College of their church or whatever, their daddy's Bible College. 01:20:22.020 --> 01:20:26.980 That's where he gets ordained by daddy. Ten years assistant pastor. I think he's maybe, maybe he's 01:20:26.980 --> 01:20:30.180 like the youth pastor here, sorry, excuse me. Maybe he's like the youth pastor. He's working at the 01:20:30.180 --> 01:20:37.060 church. Then he's like an assistant pastor for ten years. And then he started Liberty Baptist Church 01:20:37.060 --> 01:20:40.020 ten years later. What date do you think that was? 01:20:44.800 --> 01:20:49.800 He started on September 11th, 2011. 01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:00.600 Interesting. 01:21:00.600 --> 01:21:01.600 You know, I'm... 01:21:01.600 --> 01:21:02.600 It's... 01:21:02.600 --> 01:21:03.600 It's... 01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:07.000 But, but you know, he's a good guy. 01:21:07.000 --> 01:21:11.600 Now again, he made a whole video attacking Kenny Baldwin and saying that the youth conference 01:21:11.600 --> 01:21:15.200 culture is the reason why he's bad. 01:21:15.200 --> 01:21:18.280 Maybe it's because he's a daddy ordained preacher. 01:21:18.280 --> 01:21:20.520 But can he say that? 01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:21.520 Hmm. 01:21:21.520 --> 01:21:26.200 And it's like, look, this guy has been a pastor for a really long... 01:21:26.200 --> 01:21:27.200 I mean, 2011? 01:21:27.200 --> 01:21:27.300 you 01:21:27.400 --> 01:21:30.280 I mean, what are we at now, like 15 something years or something like that? 01:21:31.000 --> 01:21:33.640 And you got to wonder, like, what has this guy accomplished so far? 01:21:34.920 --> 01:21:36.520 Who has he gotten saved? 01:21:36.520 --> 01:21:38.640 What are the works that they've done? 01:21:38.640 --> 01:21:41.360 Like, who are all these people they've ministered to? 01:21:41.360 --> 01:21:42.960 Like, you know, that's a lot of time. 01:21:42.960 --> 01:21:45.000 Like, you know, what have you accomplished? 01:21:45.400 --> 01:21:47.080 And it's just like, then you keep wondering, it's like, 01:21:47.080 --> 01:21:49.840 why do we keep having a terrible nation? 01:21:49.920 --> 01:21:52.600 It's because we keep having these daddy ordained preachers. 01:21:53.700 --> 01:21:58.500 Which the Bible doesn't say. The Bible says a man desires the office of a bishop, he desires the good work. 01:21:58.500 --> 01:22:01.940 Not just a job, because you have no skills. 01:22:01.940 --> 01:22:06.740 You know, it's sad how we have all these guys who are pastors because they have no skills. 01:22:06.740 --> 01:22:09.940 And you know what? There was a survey that went out where they asked pastors, 01:22:09.940 --> 01:22:17.140 and they said almost 50% or more said they would quit immediately if they could make the same money doing anything else. 01:22:18.800 --> 01:22:22.300 The problem is we have so many pastors in the pulpits today in America. 01:22:22.300 --> 01:22:25.700 We have so many pastors that have no skills. 01:22:25.700 --> 01:22:27.500 And look, they're getting good paychecks. 01:22:27.500 --> 01:22:29.100 I mean, they're getting a good salary. 01:22:29.100 --> 01:22:30.800 They're making a decent means. 01:22:30.800 --> 01:22:35.200 And they can't just go day one and make anything equivalent to that. 01:22:35.200 --> 01:22:42.100 So they just keep pastoring only for the paycheck, only for the money, only because they're a hireling. 01:22:42.100 --> 01:22:43.600 But the Bible warns about hireling. 01:22:43.600 --> 01:22:45.000 Go to John chapter. 01:22:45.000 --> 01:22:46.500 I think it's 10 that we want to go to. 01:22:48.700 --> 01:22:50.900 He's like, oh, why is America screwed up? 01:22:50.900 --> 01:22:55.740 Because we just hired all these hirelings. 01:22:55.740 --> 01:23:00.220 We have these hireling pastors, daddy-ordained pastors. 01:23:00.220 --> 01:23:01.740 And let me say something. 01:23:01.740 --> 01:23:05.180 I have no problem if my children want to be a pastor. 01:23:05.180 --> 01:23:07.780 I have no problem with my sons if they seek that, 01:23:07.780 --> 01:23:09.740 or they want to become a pastor someday. 01:23:09.740 --> 01:23:11.300 And I will love them. 01:23:11.300 --> 01:23:13.500 I will teach them everything I know. 01:23:13.500 --> 01:23:15.300 I would train them as much as I possibly can, 01:23:15.300 --> 01:23:16.700 but I will never ordain them. 01:23:16.900 --> 01:23:19.700 And if they want to be ordained, they need to go to a different church, 01:23:19.700 --> 01:23:23.700 and they need to serve that pastor, and have that pastor approve of them. 01:23:23.700 --> 01:23:27.060 But look, I have no problem with it, and I will love them, 01:23:27.060 --> 01:23:32.580 but I will not lay hands on my son and ordain him as the ordaining pastor. 01:23:32.580 --> 01:23:36.100 Won't do it. And if I even try to do it, you can stand up in the middle of the 01:23:36.100 --> 01:23:39.620 service and scream at me. You can tackle me. 01:23:39.620 --> 01:23:42.100 Okay, because I'm never going to do it. It's never going to happen, okay? 01:23:42.700 --> 01:23:46.700 But you know what we need less of are these daddy ordained preachers. 01:23:46.700 --> 01:23:52.700 And look, again, I have no problem, if one of my kids loved the Lord and served in another church, 01:23:52.700 --> 01:23:56.700 and another man said, hey, I think he should be a pastor and wanted to ordain him, God bless him. 01:23:56.700 --> 01:23:58.700 I have no problem with that. 01:23:58.700 --> 01:24:01.700 But let me tell you something, I will not lay hands on my son. 01:24:01.700 --> 01:24:04.700 And that's the last thing America needs is another daddy ordained preacher. 01:24:04.700 --> 01:24:08.700 And you know what? It will definitely not be on September 11th, okay? 01:24:08.700 --> 01:24:09.700 All right? 01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:12.600 This is weird. 01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:13.600 Of all days. 01:24:13.600 --> 01:24:15.600 Like, why did you pick that day? 01:24:15.600 --> 01:24:18.600 John 10, look at verse 11. 01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:20.600 I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd 01:24:20.600 --> 01:24:21.600 giveth his life for the sheep. 01:24:21.600 --> 01:24:25.600 But he that is in hireling, and not the shepherd, 01:24:25.600 --> 01:24:28.600 whose own the sheep are not, seeeth the wolf coming, 01:24:28.600 --> 01:24:31.600 and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf catcheth them, 01:24:31.600 --> 01:24:32.600 and scattereth the sheep. 01:24:32.600 --> 01:24:34.600 The hireling fleeth. 01:24:34.900 --> 01:24:38.100 because he is an hireling and careth not for the sheep. 01:24:38.100 --> 01:24:39.800 You know why pastors should be pastors? 01:24:39.800 --> 01:24:42.800 Because they actually love people. 01:24:42.800 --> 01:24:46.400 You know what? Micah needs someone to love him and tell him the truth. 01:24:46.400 --> 01:24:48.600 And say, hey, your idolatry is wrong. 01:24:48.600 --> 01:24:50.000 Your stealing is wrong. 01:24:50.000 --> 01:24:52.600 You need to get right with God. 01:24:52.600 --> 01:24:55.300 And we need preachers that love the work of God 01:24:55.300 --> 01:24:56.600 and they love the people of God. 01:24:56.600 --> 01:24:58.200 That's why they're a pastor. 01:24:58.200 --> 01:25:00.900 And if you don't love those things, then you shouldn't be a pastor. 01:25:01.400 --> 01:25:04.400 If you don't really like people, just don't be a pastor, okay? 01:25:04.400 --> 01:25:06.400 Because you've got to love people. 01:25:06.400 --> 01:25:10.400 And loving people is telling them that they're wrong when they don't want to hear it. 01:25:10.400 --> 01:25:12.400 It's saying the hard things. 01:25:12.400 --> 01:25:16.400 It's being willing to lose people by telling them the right thing. 01:25:16.400 --> 01:25:21.400 And you're going to put a lot of effort and energy into people that will lie about you, 01:25:21.400 --> 01:25:24.400 stab you in the back, treat you like trash, 01:25:24.400 --> 01:25:29.400 and you just invest all this time and effort and energy in people that don't reciprocate. 01:25:29.800 --> 01:25:31.800 And you know what? It's because you just love people. 01:25:31.800 --> 01:25:33.800 It's called... You know what it's like? It's like being a parent. 01:25:33.800 --> 01:25:38.800 Because your kids will never truly be able to thank you and appreciate all the work you did in your life. 01:25:38.800 --> 01:25:42.800 And sometimes they don't even pan out, unfortunately. 01:25:42.800 --> 01:25:45.800 But you know, you do it because you love the kid. 01:25:45.900 --> 01:25:50.180 And the thing is, the pastor should have a love for his congregation that mimics that 01:25:50.180 --> 01:25:54.820 type of attitude, where you're willing to just invest in people even if they don't reciprocate, 01:25:54.820 --> 01:25:57.620 even if they don't appreciate it, even if they don't like it. 01:25:57.620 --> 01:26:02.100 And it's not about you, it's about you loving people and helping other people serve God 01:26:02.100 --> 01:26:03.100 better. 01:26:03.100 --> 01:26:06.420 It's always been my philosophy and always will be my philosophy that I want to be a 01:26:06.420 --> 01:26:09.180 pastor only to help other people serve God better. 01:26:09.180 --> 01:26:13.540 It's not about me, it's not about what I want, it's about, it's not even what you want. 01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:17.700 It's you helping you serve God to the best of your ability. 01:26:17.700 --> 01:26:20.000 And if you want to listen to the message, I can't do anything for you. 01:26:20.000 --> 01:26:23.700 But if you want to hear the message, hey, I'm trying to help you hear what God's trying to say. 01:26:23.700 --> 01:26:25.300 And you know what God's trying to tell you to say? 01:26:25.300 --> 01:26:27.100 Don't get a hireling pastor. 01:26:28.200 --> 01:26:29.800 We don't need higher-lengue pastors. 01:26:29.800 --> 01:26:33.500 We need to support people that actually care about the work of God and the people of God. 01:26:33.500 --> 01:26:37.300 And of course, why would I want to go to a church that even if he did care about me, 01:26:37.300 --> 01:26:41.300 he doesn't care about the work of God, and so he won't preach all the Bible, 01:26:41.300 --> 01:26:43.900 he won't make the bold stands that need to be made, 01:26:43.900 --> 01:26:46.800 and he won't prioritize evangelism. 01:26:47.300 --> 01:26:50.500 And you know, I want the work of God to be successful in this church. 01:26:50.500 --> 01:26:53.860 I've tried really hard and I feel like our church has been doing really good 01:26:53.860 --> 01:26:55.860 at increasing evangelism every year. 01:26:56.740 --> 01:27:00.500 And I've tried really hard to preach anything and everything you could think of. 01:27:01.060 --> 01:27:04.500 I try to challenge myself to do all kinds of different sermons. 01:27:04.500 --> 01:27:07.780 I try to challenge myself to preach provocative sermons. 01:27:07.780 --> 01:27:10.420 I try to stand against the wickedness going on in our nation. 01:27:10.700 --> 01:27:13.700 And you know, hey, because I want that to go forward. 01:27:13.700 --> 01:27:15.000 But I also think about this. 01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:17.400 What do you guys will be helpful to you guys? 01:27:17.400 --> 01:27:18.300 And you know what I've seen? 01:27:18.300 --> 01:27:20.000 I've seen personal growth in our church. 01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:23.200 I've seen people come way better soul winners. 01:27:23.200 --> 01:27:25.200 I mean, if you just let's be honest for a moment. 01:27:25.200 --> 01:27:28.400 If you go back five years, seven years, eight years, 01:27:28.400 --> 01:27:30.500 aren't you a better soul winner now? 01:27:30.500 --> 01:27:32.800 Don't you have a better gospel presentation? 01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:34.600 Aren't you a little bit more bold? 01:27:34.600 --> 01:27:37.100 Don't you know how to do missions trips a little bit better? 01:27:37.500 --> 01:27:40.780 I mean, just the knowledge that we have as a group, as we grow, 01:27:40.940 --> 01:27:43.740 how about just knowing the Bible, understanding the Bible stories, 01:27:43.740 --> 01:27:46.380 Bible verses you've memorized at some point in your life. 01:27:46.700 --> 01:27:50.020 I mean, I guarantee we all just feel like we know a lot more 01:27:50.140 --> 01:27:53.180 and have a lot better understanding and we're growing in the Lord. 01:27:53.420 --> 01:27:55.580 Good decisions. People were born. 01:27:55.820 --> 01:27:58.780 Marriages were formed. People have gotten right. 01:27:58.780 --> 01:28:00.580 I mean, that that's the work of God. 01:28:00.580 --> 01:28:02.500 We want to see that in people's lives. 01:28:02.500 --> 01:28:05.500 Now, look, sometimes people go through hardships, sometimes people. 01:28:05.500 --> 01:28:10.260 don't pan out, sometimes people get backslidden and I get it. Not everything turns to gold, 01:28:10.260 --> 01:28:15.260 but at the end of the day we see the fruit of the Word of God working in people's lives. 01:28:15.260 --> 01:28:19.460 Whereas when I look at these non-denomination churches, I see people getting divorced. I 01:28:19.460 --> 01:28:24.740 see people not going soul winning, not doing evangelism. I see people getting more feminist, 01:28:24.740 --> 01:28:28.140 more worldly. These churches are getting worse by the years. 01:28:28.500 --> 01:28:33.140 They're becoming more of a circus, more of a train wreck, more feminism, more false doctrine, 01:28:33.140 --> 01:28:37.620 more unsaved people, more Bible versions. They're not getting right on doctrine. They're not getting 01:28:37.620 --> 01:28:42.820 right on the Bibles. And we need to stay away from these hirelings. And look, we shouldn't be shocked 01:28:42.820 --> 01:28:44.980 when the bad guy turns out bad. 01:28:48.200 --> 01:28:54.920 It's like it just but this is what happens. There's some people that their whole ministry is just pointing out bad people and then it's been like church bad 01:28:56.140 --> 01:28:57.640 but it's like 01:28:57.640 --> 01:28:59.560 Why are we shocked? 01:28:59.560 --> 01:29:02.440 When the Levi and judges 17 turned out bad 01:29:03.080 --> 01:29:05.920 Why should we shocked when he left Micah like a bad habit? 01:29:06.160 --> 01:29:11.280 We shouldn't be shocked that the higher link flees when the wolf comes because he was a higher link 01:29:11.280 --> 01:29:15.000 We knew he was going to okay. We should have known Kenny Baldwin was bad 01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:21.600 You know, it's like, I was like thinking, what are some other famous daddy ordained preachers that I could just even think of? 01:29:21.600 --> 01:29:24.100 Not just bad or good, I was just like, any. 01:29:24.100 --> 01:29:26.600 Tyler Baker, there's another one. 01:29:26.600 --> 01:29:28.900 Only person that would ordain him. 01:29:28.900 --> 01:29:31.100 Martin Luther King Jr. 01:29:31.100 --> 01:29:34.300 Joel Osteen. 01:29:34.300 --> 01:29:37.400 The list is pretty good so far, don't you think? 01:29:37.400 --> 01:29:41.600 Jonathan Falwell from Jerry Falwell. 01:29:42.600 --> 01:29:47.300 Thomas Spurgeon from Charles Spurgeon, and there's some other guy named Ian Paisley. 01:29:47.300 --> 01:29:50.000 I was just asking the internet, like, give me any name, you know, give me all these people. 01:29:50.000 --> 01:29:51.600 I couldn't find a good one. 01:29:51.600 --> 01:29:55.200 I mean, his last two were like Calvinist or Pentecostan guys. 01:29:55.200 --> 01:29:59.600 Now look, is there a guy in this world that's been ordained by his dad and he's good? 01:29:59.600 --> 01:30:00.600 Maybe. 01:30:00.600 --> 01:30:03.100 God bless him. He's an exception though. 01:30:03.600 --> 01:30:09.120 And you know what? I've never treated a preacher wrong or bad because he's been daddy ordained, 01:30:09.120 --> 01:30:13.760 but let me tell you something, I will not do that. I will not support that. I'm not going to 01:30:13.760 --> 01:30:18.480 encourage that. I want nothing to do with that. And I don't want to get any of these hirelings 01:30:18.480 --> 01:30:24.560 involved. You know, if you can't find another guy on this planet to agree that you should be a pastor 01:30:24.560 --> 01:30:28.000 that's not dad, do you really think you should be a pastor? 01:30:29.100 --> 01:30:33.100 And if it was such a good model, why is it always a train wreck? 01:30:35.700 --> 01:30:41.700 I mean, the Bible's examples, every modern example that we have, I mean, it's just trainwrecks. 01:30:41.700 --> 01:30:44.700 They'll say, oh, well, the Aaronic priest, you know, was ordaining their sons. 01:30:44.700 --> 01:30:46.700 Sure, but did that turn out very good? 01:30:49.200 --> 01:30:52.560 I want to go to one more place we'll finish, Hosea chapter 4. 01:30:52.560 --> 01:30:56.960 Look folks, we need to be careful in who we're selecting as pastor and 01:30:56.960 --> 01:30:59.520 you know you go into church is your selection process. 01:31:03.600 --> 01:31:07.200 And we need to make sure that we understand why this role is important. 01:31:07.200 --> 01:31:09.760 It's keeping us from going down really bad paths. 01:31:10.800 --> 01:31:13.600 But I'm just sick and tired of these deconstructionists 01:31:13.600 --> 01:31:15.360 trashing church because of people like this. 01:31:17.120 --> 01:31:18.720 And you know, why preach a sermon like this? 01:31:18.720 --> 01:31:20.800 Well, get these people out of the stinkin' pulpit 01:31:20.800 --> 01:31:23.440 so they can stop ruining the ministry for everybody else. 01:31:23.700 --> 01:31:26.900 and causing reproach on Christ and making us all look bad. 01:31:26.900 --> 01:31:28.900 Now look, I get there's going to be Judas's and stuff, 01:31:28.900 --> 01:31:31.400 but can't we see some of the hirelings for the hirelings they were 01:31:31.400 --> 01:31:34.400 and who they were, it was kind of obvious. 01:31:34.400 --> 01:31:37.400 It was like, hey, this guy doesn't really match. 01:31:37.400 --> 01:31:39.300 Let's get somebody else. 01:31:39.300 --> 01:31:42.900 Hosea chapter 4 verse 9, 01:31:42.900 --> 01:31:46.200 And there shall be like people like priests, 01:31:46.200 --> 01:31:51.600 and I will punish them for their ways and reward them their doings. 01:31:51.900 --> 01:31:58.020 Look, this whole chapter is important, but let's read verse 8, too. 01:31:58.020 --> 01:32:01.660 They eat up the sin of my people and they set their heart on iniquity. 01:32:01.660 --> 01:32:05.040 You know, you got bad people, you get a bad pastor. 01:32:05.040 --> 01:32:06.040 And that's what it is. 01:32:06.040 --> 01:32:10.140 Micah's a bad person, so he sets up a bad preacher. 01:32:10.140 --> 01:32:15.460 You have the Danites, bad people, get a bad guy to be their preacher. 01:32:15.460 --> 01:32:17.140 And whether you like this or not... 01:32:17.700 --> 01:32:21.700 Whether you want to admit this or not, in many cases you get the pastor you deserve. 01:32:21.700 --> 01:32:22.200 Yeah. 01:32:23.700 --> 01:32:26.700 So if you want to be fake, you'll get a fake pastor. 01:32:26.700 --> 01:32:29.700 It's like, oh, I wonder why the old IFB has all these fake pastors. 01:32:29.700 --> 01:32:31.700 Well, maybe because you guys are kind of fake. 01:32:31.700 --> 01:32:32.200 Yeah. 01:32:32.200 --> 01:32:33.700 And kind of insincere. 01:32:34.700 --> 01:32:36.700 And it's just like, oh, I'm shocked that this guy's fake. 01:32:36.700 --> 01:32:38.700 It's like all these conferences we go to seem fake. 01:32:38.700 --> 01:32:40.200 Yeah, because they are fake. 01:32:40.200 --> 01:32:42.200 They're like one verse and all this fluff. 01:32:43.700 --> 01:32:45.700 And they're not really that sincere people. 01:32:45.700 --> 01:32:48.700 They won't let you hear about other views on the End Times, 01:32:48.700 --> 01:32:51.700 and other views on the Rapture, other views on Zionism. 01:32:51.700 --> 01:32:53.700 They're so scared of all this stuff because they're fake, 01:32:53.700 --> 01:32:55.700 and then you're shocked that all the preachers are fake. 01:32:55.700 --> 01:32:57.700 You're shocked that all their friends are fake. 01:32:57.700 --> 01:32:59.700 You're shocked that they're all phonies and stuff like that. 01:32:59.700 --> 01:33:04.700 Well, you know what? You sometimes get the preacher that you are. 01:33:04.700 --> 01:33:07.700 It's like if your whole congregation is once a flat-tard weirdos, 01:33:07.700 --> 01:33:10.700 well, then you get a flat-tard weirdo pastor. 01:33:11.300 --> 01:33:14.300 You know, and you're in Florida somewhere, you know, whatever. 01:33:14.300 --> 01:33:18.300 But it's just like, hey, you know, you want a good preacher, you want a good pastor, 01:33:18.300 --> 01:33:21.300 then you work on yourself and you be a good Christian. 01:33:21.300 --> 01:33:23.300 And you desire the truth. You want the truth? 01:33:23.300 --> 01:33:25.300 Beg for the truth, ask for the truth. 01:33:25.300 --> 01:33:28.300 You want to be shady and weird and lying and slanderous and whatever, 01:33:28.300 --> 01:33:31.000 then hey, you'll probably get a preacher like that. 01:33:31.400 --> 01:33:36.900 So it's really important to think about, you know, we want to blame preachers all day long and blame pastors all day long. 01:33:36.900 --> 01:33:41.700 How about you look at yourself in the mirror first and say, hey, what kind of pastor do I even deserve? 01:33:41.700 --> 01:33:44.200 What kind of preacher do I even deserve? 01:33:44.200 --> 01:33:48.400 And, you know, what is God going to give me if I don't have a good attitude? 01:33:48.400 --> 01:33:51.100 If you don't want to hear the truth, then God will send you a liar. 01:33:51.100 --> 01:33:53.600 Because, look, if all you all just say, I don't really want to hear that anymore. 01:33:53.600 --> 01:33:56.300 I don't want to serve. These sermons are too long. I don't want this guy. 01:33:56.300 --> 01:33:58.000 Well, then go have your pastor. 01:33:58.200 --> 01:34:02.700 Go have your preacher. Go have whatever you want and go prop them up and let them lie to you 01:34:02.700 --> 01:34:05.700 and then be shocked when it turns out to be a faggot. 01:34:05.700 --> 01:34:07.700 Texting the boys in your church. 01:34:07.700 --> 01:34:10.700 I mean, is that what you want? 01:34:10.700 --> 01:34:15.200 Well, we had 15 years of fun until it turned into this. 01:34:15.200 --> 01:34:20.200 Until two planes flew into your building or whatever. 01:34:20.200 --> 01:34:21.700 You know? 01:34:21.700 --> 01:34:23.200 It was a big scam. 01:34:25.100 --> 01:34:29.500 Hey, you know, I love you guys, I love this church, I appreciate you being here, but I 01:34:29.500 --> 01:34:30.740 want us to understand what we're doing. 01:34:30.740 --> 01:34:32.700 We're not playing church here. 01:34:32.700 --> 01:34:35.020 We should stop playing church as America. 01:34:35.020 --> 01:34:39.940 The Americans wake up and reject the hirelings and find a real man of God, a real preacher, 01:34:39.940 --> 01:34:43.020 that you can't twist his arm and let him tell you what the Bible says. 01:34:43.300 --> 01:34:44.300 Let's go to prayer. 01:34:44.300 --> 01:34:45.800 Thank you Heavenly Father so much for your word. 01:34:45.800 --> 01:34:52.500 Thank you so much for these chapters to warn us of just pure anarchy and bad decision making. 01:34:52.500 --> 01:34:56.340 I pray that you would help us as a congregation to desire the truth, to desire good preachers, 01:34:56.340 --> 01:34:57.340 good pastors. 01:34:57.340 --> 01:35:01.800 I pray that you would help us to warn America and warn this world from the hirelings that 01:35:01.800 --> 01:35:03.520 are out there that... 01:35:03.900 --> 01:35:09.020 We could have a nation wake up and not desire the hireling anymore, but desire real men of God 01:35:09.020 --> 01:35:13.020 that care about the work of God, that care about the sheep of God, and want the work of God to be 01:35:13.020 --> 01:35:16.540 successful and love the truth. And in Jesus name we pray, amen. 01:35:23.900 --> 01:35:27.900 Amen. For our last song, we're going to go to song number 451. 01:35:33.300 --> 01:35:39.940 Song number 451, Where Could I Go? 01:35:43.500 --> 01:35:47.500 Song 451, sing it out on the first. 01:37:53.600 --> 01:37:54.480 you're all dismissed.