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Alright everybody, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
Glad you could all join us this Sunday evening. Let's go ahead and take out our hymnals.
We're going to start off tonight in 149, Trusting Jesus.
Again, that's song 149.
149, Trusting Jesus.
149, Trusting as the days go by.
149, Trusting Him, whatever befall.
150, Trusting Jesus at His own.
151, Brightly doth the Spirit shine.
152, Enter this whole heart of mine.
152, While He leads I cannot walk.
152, Trusting Jesus at His own.
152, Trusting as the moments fly.
153, Trusting as the days go by.
154, Trusting Him, whatever befall.
154, Trusting Jesus at His own.
156, Singing if my way is clear.
156, Praying if the path be dreamed.
156, If in danger for Him falls.
156, Trusting Jesus at His own.
156, Trusting as the moments fly.
156, Trusting as the days go by.
156, Trusting Him, whatever befall.
156, Trusting Jesus at His own.
156, Trusting Him, while life shall last.
156, Trusting Him, till earth be past.
156, Till within the jasper walls.
156, Trusting Jesus at His own.
156, Trusting as the moments fly.
156, Trusting as the days go by.
156, Trusting Him, whatever befall.
156, Trusting Jesus at His own.
Amen. Good seeing us. Pirates, word of prayer. Dear Father, we just thank you
again that we could be here tonight to hear your word being
preached and I just pray you fill Pastor Shelley with your Holy Spirit.
Help him to edify the congregation here and help us Lord not to just be
hearers of the word but to be doers and apply the message to
our lives. In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen.
Next is going to be 406, Who is on the Lord's Side.
Song number 406.
406, Who is on the Lord's Side. Sing it all together on the first.
Who is on the Lord's side? Who will serve the King?
Who will be His helpers, other lives to free?
Who will leave the world's side? Who will face the cold?
Who is on the Lord's side? Who for Him will grow?
By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord's side, Savior we are thine,
Not for weight of glory, Not for crown and hall,
Enter we the army, Raise the warriors home,
But for love that claim it, Lest for whom we die.
Jesus' name it must be on His side, By Thy love constraining,
By Thy grace divine, We are on the Lord's side,
Savior we are thine, Jesus thou hast borne us,
Not with crow or tail, Not with thine own lifeline,
For thy diadem, With thy blessing failing,
Eat, you come to Thee, Thou hast made us willing,
Thou hast made us free, By Thy grand redemption,
By Thy grace divine, We are on the Lord's side,
Savior we are thine, This may be the conflict,
Strong may be the foe, On the King's own army,
None can overthrow, Round His standard ranging,
Victory is secure, For His truth on changing,
Makes the triumphs warm, Joyfully enlisting,
By Thy grace divine, We are on the Lord's side,
Savior we are thine.
Anything to report? Soul winning numbers from Monday?
Okay, what about Tuesday? Was there anything Tuesday?
Two for Tuesday? What about Wednesday? Was there anything from Wednesday?
Okay, what about Thursday? Anything from Thursday?
One for Thursday? Okay. What about Friday?
Anything? Two for Friday? What about Saturday, yesterday?
Yes.
Eighteen for Saturday? Okay. And then today,
I didn't even get the van, so just remind me of the van as well.
Looks like we had nine for Sunday. All right. Keep up the great work on
soul winning. And then also on the right, we have our
list of expecting ladies. Please keep all of them in our prayers.
And our list keeps growing, so that's a wonderful thing.
Congratulations to all that are mentioned there. Also, our prayer list
keeps growing. Continue to be in prayer for everyone
that's mentioned here. On the back, we have our upcoming events.
It's getting close, our chili cook-off. The next Sunday evening, right after the
service, we'll have that and a fellowship and a time to hang out and to crown some
winners. All right. So, maybe some new crop this
year, all right, of winners. And then Oklahoma City Sewing Marathon
November 13th or Brownsville Sewing Marathon December 9th.
We have a baby shower October 30th in honor of
Nexus Cooper and her baby girl, Melody. They are registered on Amazon. If you're
able to bring a snack or dessert, please attend.
Also, we have the competition rules. So, if you want to enter into the cook-off
portion, please make sure to follow all the Texas
official rules. No beans, all right. My wife put in here just in case you
hadn't heard. I mean, I don't know if you haven't heard,
but I'm not going to go on that rant again, all right.
Also, if you would like to donate online or via check, please write that out to
Peerage Baptist Church. I think that's pretty much all I had for
announcements this evening. We'll go ahead and go to our third song,
161, Our Great Savior. 161, Our Great Savior.
Again, that's 161, Our Great Savior.
Friends may fail me, close us, hail me. He, my Savior, makes me whole.
Hallelujah, what a Savior! Hallelujah, what a friend!
Save me, help me, keep me loving. He is with me to the end.
Jesus, what a strength and weakness let me hide
myself in Him. Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing.
He, my strength, my victory wins. Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Hallelujah, what a friend! Save me, help me, keep me loving.
He is with me to the end. Jesus, what a help and sorrow
while the billows o'er me roam. Even when my heart
is breaking, He, my comfort, helps my soul.
Hallelujah, what a Savior! Hallelujah, what a friend!
Save me, help me, keep me loving. He is with me to
the end. Jesus, what a guide and keeper
while the tempest still is high. Storms about me night or takes me.
He, my pilot, is my friend. Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Hallelujah, what a friend! Save me, help me, keep me loving.
He is with me to the end. Jesus, I do now receive Him
more than all in Him I find. He hath granted me
forgiveness. I am His and He is mine.
Hallelujah, what a Savior! Hallelujah, what a friend!
Save me, help me, keep me loving. He is with me to the end.
Amen. Great singing.
While the offering plates are passed around, please turn your Bibles to Luke
chapter 6. That's Luke chapter 6.
Luke chapter 6, the Bible reads,
And it came to pass on the second Sabbath after the first, that he went
through the corn fields, and his disciples plucked the ears of corn and
did eat, rubbing them in their hands. And certain of the
Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to
do on the Sabbath days? And Jesus answering them, said, Have ye
not read so much as this, what David did when himself wasn't
hungered, and they which were with him? How he went into the house of God, and
did take and eat the showbread, and gave also to them that were with him,
which is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
And he said unto them, That the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.
And it came to pass also on another Sabbath that he entered into the
synagogue and taught, and there was a man whose right hand was withered,
and the scribes and Pharisees watched him whether he would heal on the
Sabbath day, that they might find an accusation
against him. But he knew their thoughts, and said to
the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst.
And he arose and stood forth, then said Jesus unto them,
I will ask you one thing, is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good,
or to do evil, to save life, or to destroy it?
And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man,
Stretch forth thine hand. And he did so, and his hand was restored whole as the
other. And they were filled with madness, and
communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
And it came to pass in those days that he went out into a mountain to pray, and
continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called unto him
his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he
named apostles, Simon, whom he also named Peter, and
Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,
and Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.
And he came down with them, and stood in the plain,
and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all
Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon,
which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases.
And they that were vexed with unclean spirits, and they were healed.
And the whole multitude sought to touch him, for there went virtue out of him,
and healed them all. And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said,
Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled.
Blessed are ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.
Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from
their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil,
for the son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day,
and leap for joy, for behold your reward is great in heaven,
for in the like manner did their fathers under the prophets.
But woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation.
Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger.
Woe unto you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.
Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you, for so did their fathers to
the false prophets. But I say unto you which hear, love your
enemies. Do good to them which hate you, bless
them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek, offer also the other.
And him that taketh away thy cloak, forbid not take thy coat
also. Give to every man that asketh of thee, and of him that taketh away thy
goods, ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you,
do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you,
what thank have ye? For sinners also love those that love them.
And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye?
For sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to
receive, what thank have ye? For sinners also lend
to sinners to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good and
lend hoping for nothing again, and your reward shall be great. Ye shall
be the children of the highest, for he is kind unto the unthankful unto
the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your father
also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.
Condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. Forgive,
and ye shall be forgiven. Give, and it shall be given unto you.
Good measure pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give
into your bosom, for with the same measure that ye meet
with all that shall be measured to you again.
He spake a parable unto them. Can the blind lead the blind?
Shall they not both fall into the ditch? The disciple is not above his master,
but everyone that is perfect shall be as his master.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,
but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Either how canst thou say
to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that
is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou
see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit,
neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by
his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor
of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of
his heart bringeth forth that which is good,
and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which
is evil. For of the abundance of the heart his
mouth speaketh. And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not
the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my
sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like. He's
like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation
on a rock. And when the flood arose the stream beat
vehemently upon that house, and it could not shake it, for it was
founded upon a rock. But he that heareth and doeth not is like
a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth against which the
stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of
that house was great. Let's pray. Heavenly Father Lord
thank you for your word. Please Lord help us be doers of the work
and not hearers only. And please bless Pastor Shelley with
your spirit. Allow him to preach boldly and help us pay attention that we might
be edified for your honor and glory and in Jesus name
amen. Amen. I want to look back at verse number 34 again where the bible
reads and if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive
what thank have ye for sinners also lend to sinners to receive as much
again but love ye your enemies and do good and lend
hoping for nothing again and your reward shall be great
and ye shall be the children of the highest for he is kind under the
unthankful and to the evil. And the title of my
sermon actually comes from a phrase that's mentioned here in verse 35 but
the title of my sermon is hoping for nothing again. Hoping for
nothing again. This is a principle that's taught in the bible
specifically in this context is talking about lending money
but I believe that this principle is taught throughout the entire scripture
that when we do good works for the Lord Jesus Christ
we're not supposed to do it expecting some kind of return or expecting to
receive something back but rather we're just supposed to do
good hoping for nothing again and that's the title of my sermon I have
two points this evening that I want to make
go if you would to Luke chapter 14 go to Luke chapter number 14
but it brings up the fact that a sinner would lend money
and in hopes that they'll receive the same or seem the same with usury or
to get some kind of a benefit out of it this is called a bank okay
banks are not in the business of charity banks are in the business of making
money right and you know a lot of people may even
lend some things every once in a while just if they realize they're gonna have
collateral or realize they're gonna receive it back
but the bible teaches the concept of giving somebody something
or helping somebody not even expecting that they will repay it
not expecting them to do good back to you not expecting to get anything
whatsoever and you say why would anybody be
motivated to lend money or why would someone give something to someone
hoping for nothing again it's because they just love that person
you know the lord jesus christ does good unto us
and you know obviously there's going to always be some expectation in the sense
that god wants us to be saved but god does a
lot of things that are good for us and realizes that we're never going to be
able to repay him you know what jesus christ did for us by
dying on the cross there's nothing we could do to truly repay
obviously we should love the lord jesus christ and we should
repay but god himself he sent his son who died on the cross not just for the
saved but the unsaved he's the propitiation not for our sins
only but also for the whole world as the bible teaches
and the bible says he tastes the death for every man meaning that there's
plenty of people that jesus christ sacrificed himself for
and they're never going to repay him they're never going to thank him they're
never going to believe in him and we as christians should also have the
attitude that sometimes we're going to do good unto people
sometimes we're going to help somebody sometimes we're going to pray for
someone and they're never going to repay you
they're never going to give you the money back
they're never going to thank you they're never going to get things right they may
remain your enemy until the day you die but at the same time
we want to have the right attitude and the right mentality that god has
that when we do something good we have no expectation tied to it
whatever works that you have in the christian life you should learn how to
do them with zero expectation of being repaid or gaining something
back that's a bad attitude and really you in
a lot of ways are losing out on the rewards that god's going to repay you
when you're expecting some person to repay you so
point number one is this just have no expectation when you're doing good
and that way you won't ever be disappointed when you receive nothing
so if someone ends up repaying you it's just a benefit right it's just a bonus
it's just a cherry on the top but if you give money to somebody just
expect it to be gone and that's a good philosophy
never give somebody something that you're not willing to lose
you know here's things that i won't give somebody some of my possession i won't
give somebody this my children because that's not something
i'm willing to lose okay that's why my children don't leave my
sight that's why i don't just hand them off to strangers
i don't go give them to don't care or the public fool system and just say hey
do whatever you want with them now i don't want to hand off something that's
too precious to me that i'm not willing to lose so i just
won't hand that off but the things that you give away you
should just kiss a goodbye and then you're never going to be
disappointed because you already kissed a goodbye
okay now look at some more verses on this look at luke chapter 14 verse 10
but when thou art bidden go and sit down in the lowest room
and when he that bade thee cometh he may say unto thee friend
go up higher then thou shalt have worship in the presence of them that sit
at meet with thee for whosoever exalted
himself shall be abased he that humbled himself
shall be exalted then said he also to him that bade him
and thou make us a dinner or supper call not thy friends
nor thy brethren neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbors lest they also
bid thee again and recompense be made thee
when thou make us a feast call the poor the main
the lame the blind now shall be blessed for they cannot recompense thee for thou
shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just so jesus christ is also
bringing up many instances in which we should have no expectation what's no
expectation you know in this first context of chapter number 10
he's saying when you're going to a party when you're going to an event
you shouldn't just pretend or expect that you are the
the honored guest and that you take the highest chair or you're taking the best
chair he's like you should take a lowly
attitude a humble attitude just sit you know where it's respectable
and then if necessary the host will say hey don't sit there
come up to the front you know come sit over here come sit by me
because you wouldn't want the opposite you don't want to sit in the chair that
you feel like you deserve and he's like hey go sit over there you know
no one asks you to come sit over here i'm not really that interested in
talking to you or being around you you know then you're kind of embarrassed
right it's better to just have a lowly attitude
not look at yourself as expecting something or deserving something
and he also brings up the concept here in verse number 11 that if you exalt
yourself you're going to be a base if you go ahead and just have a low
expectation or no expectation of ever being exalted
then you're never going to be disappointed when you're not and you can
only receive good when you end up getting
praised and he's basically saying hey would you make a dinner
don't don't ask people to come to your parties
that you're going to expect them to return some kind of a favor to you
you know some people have this attitude some people have this idea like
well i took them out to dinner when are you going to take me out to dinner
right or you give them a gift and you say well i got you a gift when are you
going to give me a gift but here's a question if that's the
expectation is it really a gift now doesn't that kind of pervert the gospel
even in and of itself what is a gift isn't a gift supposed to
be free you know that's why i don't really like
a lot of ideas when it comes to the holidays you know when it comes to the
holidays some people have this idea like i'll get you a 50 gift and you get me a
50 gift and it's like that's not really a gift
you know a gift should just come from the heart a gift should be like i just
love you and i wanted to give you something
and if you never do good to me i still just wanted to give it to you anyways
now when it's coming to the feast he's saying hey when you have a big party or
you have some big event you know you shouldn't be looking at
inviting people based on earning some kind of street cred with them or
earning some kind of a repayment concept but rather you should just
invite people because you just want to love people you want to do good on the
people and in fact he's saying you should
purposely invite people to parties events or things that you host
that you know there's no way that they can go
tit for tat there's no way they could end up repaying you
you just know you're blessing them much more than they could ever repay you or
do good unto you and really this just kind of exonerates
the idea of just helping poor people right because poor people are never
going to be able to repay you they're never going to be able to do good unto
you you're just looking at them and saying hey
uh i just really want to help you and i don't know if all of y'all just
already have this concept that's why i'm always
invited to things or something you just look really no i'm just kidding you're
always being invited you're like oh really i must be the person that can't
help you out no i'm just kidding but at the end of the day you know you
should uh invite people with no expectation
bless people with no expectation now i don't believe
when you study the bible and you compare scripture and balance things
he's not saying that you can't have fellowship with your friends right he's
not just saying like don't ever talk to people you actually like and have
fellowship but he's essentially attacking the idea
that some people will only invite rich famous important people expecting to
get favors from them you know scratch their back you'll scratch mine and all
those different arrangements and scenarios and really
that should not be the attitude of a christian but rather the attitude of a
christian is that i want to just help people and love
people because that's the right thing to do
right thing to do is just to love people and to do good
and have no expectation when i do good go to ecclesiastes chapter number 11
ecclesiastes chapter 11 so when you have a feast what's the goal
is the goal to just have just do good unto people love people
fellowship with people or is the goal to earn some kind of a favor or
to basically have a debt give somebody a debt
this is the thing if you ever want to invite me over
thinking like well now that i've invited pastor shelley over he owes me one
never invite me over never give me anything
and in fact oftentimes if somebody does something really nice for me
i try to like never do anything good for them just so they think just so they
don't think like i'm gonna ever repay it
i'll just i'll just help somebody else that's good you know and it sometimes
makes me feel weird when people are trying to like
over the top do things or try to you know
give you something that doesn't seem appropriate or it's kind of weird
and look some people are just really nice i get that but you got to be
careful because some people will flatter you
some people try to take advantage of you whether it's in the workplace
or you know especially if you already have money
position power or you have something people try to buy you off
people will try to take advantage of you or they'll try to
put pressure on you by the things that they have you know somebody might come
up you say do you know how much i tie the church
you know you better accommodate me and i'm just like see ya
in fact if you tell me do you know much i try the church i'd be like no because
i don't care i don't look at people with a price tag above their head
i'm not sitting in church being like this guy you know like
there's probably people that don't even tie and i love them and i like them more
than the guy that's tithing a bunch because i don't care it's silly but you
know what don't let people buy you off don't let people you know intimidate you
or try to give you gifts that would pervert your judgment
and i i believe this i think you should accept gifts in general
but if you feel like someone's trying to influence you in the wrong way you
should you should refuse that type of a gift you know i'm not interested in that
type of you know the bible talks about beware of the rich man's dainties
you know diligently consider what is set before you
you know his dainty morsels and proverbs chapter number 23
because you don't want to just accept all these you know bribes or accept all
these perverted gifts and say like why would you give me this
like this doesn't seem right or there's something kind of weird
here you know and i'm not saying you couldn't accept a nice gift but you gotta
question the motive of why someone's giving you something are you trying to
just buy me off here what's the point
and while this is kind of this is kind of a two-way street we should have no
expectation but we should be aware of those that are
giving with expectation look at ecclesiastes chapter 11 verse 4
the bible says this he that observeth the wind shall not sow neither that
regard of the cloud shall not reap as thou knowest not what is the way of the
spirit nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child
even so thou knowest not the works of god maketh all
in the morning sow thy seed and in the evening
withhold not thine hand thou knowest not whether shall prosper
either this or that or whether they both shall be a light
good so the bible gives a concept here it
says hey when you go and you sow in the field and you're
planting your seed you don't know exactly which seeds are
going to be ones that germinate you don't know which planting of crops is
going to be the most successful in the planting season you know
you just have to sow in the field you know you just plant
uh the the tomatoes you plant the potatoes you plant
whatever all the different vegetables and fruits you're going to try and grow
for that season the cucumbers and the watermelons and all the different stuff
you don't know which ones are going to be the most successful but guess what
you just sow in the morning and you just sow in the evening and it
could be one works out another doesn't or they both work out or they both fail
but at the end of the day you're never going to reap when you do nothing
but notice what the attitude is you have no expectation you don't know what's
going to happen you don't care you're just essentially sowing and when
it comes to spiritual matters i think this is a
great illustration of soul winning you know when it comes to soul winning
you shouldn't really have any expectation because you never know
what's going to really happen go to matthew chapter 25 go to matthew 25
you know when i'm knocking on the door you know i'm not like mad when the
person doesn't get saved you know it's like it's not like every
door they have to get saved it's not like every door they have to
listen to me i don't know what's going to end up happening
you know what i have no expectation i just knock on the door
if you're interested i'll give you the gospel if you're not i'm going to move
on and people that have expectations will
sometimes do weird stuff and so on you know those they'll linger at a door
where the person's not interested when you have no expectation you're just
like oh you're nice to see you later right or you go through a gospel
presentation and the person starts like not
caring not paying attention and instead of just letting the person go
they just kind of keep cramming it down their throat or forcing something upon
someone when you just have no expectation it's a
lot better it's just a lot easier and you can just move on to the next
door where somebody is interested now i'm all for compelling someone to
get saved but you waste a lot of time by forcing it
on people you know you always typically regret i
especially myself regret trying to force the gospel on someone
you always think like man i should have just walked away gone to the next door
had no real expectation and just so the next time now look at matthew 25
verse 37 then shall the righteous answer him
saying lord when saw we thee and hungered and fed thee or
thirsty and gave thee drink when saw we be a stranger and took thee
in or naked and clothed thee or when saw we thee sick or in prison
and came unto thee the king shall answer and say of them
verily i say in you as much as you have done it
unto one of the least of these my brethren
you have done it unto me now this is a great
story here illustrating that the righteous are the ones that do good
and the righteous are often just helping people
not even realizing the impact that they truly have
because they were helping just the least of the brethren
but then jesus christ in this parable is explaining how
he takes that personally and when you help a saved christian
it's like you're helping jesus you know what then when they were helping them
they weren't sitting here thinking like now i i hope expect jesus to pay
attention to jesus you up there you know i'm doing
this one right no they're surprised that jesus noticed
they're surprised that jesus was aware of that because why they had no
expectation they were just helping people they're
just going to the prison they're just helping the sick they're
just helping the poor they're just doing good not thinking
about what's going to end up happening in the future
just because they love people and really when it comes to the christian life
if you want christ to reward you you got to go into it with no expectation
not going into it seeing what you're going to get out of it
getting the praise of men getting whatever uh kind of a repayment
or something out of it look the bankers aren't going to get in heaven and he's
like look at all the loans you made
no it was a sin because they charged usury anyways okay
it's not like oh you just get what was the reason why they're going to be
recompensed in heaven is because they gave without an expectation back
that's how you actually get recommended so you have to you have to look at the
motives of your heart you know christianity is done in in
your heart it's not done in your actions you know when you look at first
gryndians chapter number 13 the bible makes it really clear you
could do some of the greatest acts ever known to man
but if your heart wasn't right it wouldn't even count you could have your
body burned you could give all that you have to the poor
but if you have not charity is nothing is what the bible says
meaning that it's all based on the heart just like the two the widow woman
who gives two mites into the treasury jesus says she gave more than they all
why because it was about the heart it wasn't about the quantity
it wasn't about the monetary gift that she gave
it was about her motivation it was about her heart and so really we have to
cleanse our hearts and have the right mentality the right
focus when it comes to the christian life
where we do good having no expectation hoping for nothing again
now that would seem bizarre because you're thinking like i'm kind of hoping
for something again notice the phrasing hoping for nothing
and you say why would you hope for nothing
so then god repays you because if they repay you then there's nothing to repay
so you gotta hope for nothing it's like man i gotta find somebody that can't
help me it can't repay me and then bless that guy so then i can
hope for nothing it's like somebody shows up and like hey remember you owe
me that money i'm here to pay it back and you're like
dang it like man i was kind of hoping you would never
repay me right that's the right mentality you say
how could you have that mentality by faith go to hebrews chapter 11 go to
hebrew chapter number 11 for a moment look everything in the carnal mind is
like the exact opposite of what the bible teaches
everything that you would think naturally by your sin nature it's always
the opposite with god and so it's important that we read the
bible and when we learn how god wants us to behave
and then we can walk by faith not by sight because by sight this concept
makes no sense why would i just help somebody that
can never do good back to me why would i want to bless someone that i would never
receive anything it's because you're believing that
jesus will reward you that god will be pleased with your action
because if you don't have this mentality who's going to help the poor
who's going to help the sick who's going to help those that are in need
it has to be those that have the the ability
you know if you have this world's good and you see your brother have need
you're not supposed to shut up your balance of compassion from him you're
supposed to bless him you're supposed to help him you're supposed to do good
unto them that's what the bible teaches now what
it says in hebrews chapter 11 look at verse 6
without faith it's impossible to please it
impossible to please god without faith says for he that cometh to god must
believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him now here's a caveat to my point okay
there's nothing wrong with believing that god will
recompense you there's nothing wrong with believing that god will repay you
or trusting that the lord will make sure that you're taken care of
but at the end of the day you have should have no expectation when it comes
to mankind when you do good unto a person you should
hope for nothing again from them you should hope for nothing again from
uh any person but you can rest assured that if you're doing good
press down you know given it's shaken together it's going to come
back to you but that's going to be repaid by god
okay go to matthew chapter number six go to matthew chapter number six
so point one is this it's real simple when you land
hope for nothing again don't expect something don't have these high
expectations rather just you know don't even let what
your left hand know what your right hand doeth
and just realize god's gonna repay you eventually and do it by faith and just
say you know what god wants me to help people
god wants me to bless people god wants me to take care of people
and that's going to be my motivation in life
but i'm doing this because i have faith that god will reward me
i have faith that god will take care of me that god will bless me
and i'd rather have god have to repay me than some man
than some person down the road now here's the second point it's probably
a little bit more important point but it's that when you do good works
not only should you have no expectation but you should do it not to be seen
no expectation point one point two not to be seen look at verse one matthew
six verse one take heed that you do not your arms
before men to be seen of them otherwise you have no reward of your
father which is in heaven therefore when thou doest thine alms
do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues
and in the streets that they may have glory of men
verily i stand you they have their reward when thou doest
when thou doest alms then not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth
that thine alms may be in secret and thy father which seeth in secret
himself shall reward thee openly when thou prayest
so not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the synagogues
and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men
verily i say unto you they have their reward so the bible is teaching us not
only should we not hope for some kind of a monetary
gain in repayment or some kind of a physical
repayment of some sort we shouldn't also do things
to be seen of men because some people will give money
to someone they know could never repay them but then the whole motivation is to
let everybody know that they did that like hey look at all the money i gave to
africa they'll never be able to repay me wink
wink nod nod did i sound a trumpet yet or not no it's
like what's the whole point of that that's so
that they can look favorable they can look like they're a big charitable
person or whatever even though it's just a tax
shield even though they happen to be on the board
of the charity that they gave the money to and they're going to use that board
money to go on a cruise over to africa and go on a safari to
africa i mean it's all just a joke it's all
just a charade anyways but they just want everybody to clap and
say how great a person they are oh you gave point zero zero zero zero
one percent of your wealth away what a great person you are
you know the bill gates of this world right
the people that have all this money that they don't even know what to do with
and they just want to give it away to someone that they can't repay
but tell everybody about it just so they can get the glory of men
this is not a christian attitude either okay it's not like
hey did y'all know i invited a bunch of poor people over for dinner i just want
to let all of you know that and all the blind people hey i went in
the prison i preached everybody did everybody know that
just i want to let's take pictures let's take a bunch of pictures of me feeding
hey here's a homeless guy hey i'm going to give you some money let's take a
picture and put it on instagram and selfie look
this is stupid the bible says you have your reward
you're not doing that by faith you're just doing that to be seen of men
okay and the bible says this is what the hypocrites do
now what's a hypocrite it's someone who says something that they don't mean or
believe or actually do so what is the hypocrite saying hypocrites
saying i love this person so i gave them money
for them to be a hypocrite means they don't actually love that person
the whole motivation was just to get the publicity out of it they paid just as
much or more getting a billboard or advertising they
just look at it as a better way to advertise
but they don't actually care about the person they don't even love the person
they'll literally give the guy that's addicted to drugs
more drug money and be like look how much i love this guy
don't love the guy you just gave him more drug money
you know if you actually loved him you'd help him get a job or rebuke him
and tell him he needs to get a job and get off drugs or something like that
but they love to just pontificate about how great they are and tell everybody
how great they are and show everybody how great they are
or when they pray you know they want you to come into church and they're just on
the floor just crying and weeping and praying for
everybody just to let you know how much they care about you
it's like if you care about someone you pray in your closet
you don't pray in front of everybody to let everybody know
oh i'm praying i just want to let you know how much i'm praying
look it's just a feigned show okay go to matthew 23 go to matthew 23
when we do our works you know we have to be careful what our motivation is
now some works are to be done publicly you know the bible talks about let your
light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your
father which is in heaven you know there's certain things that we
do you can't really hide you can't really hide going to church
you know we're all here right you can't really hide preaching the bible because
guess what the whole point is preaching publicly okay
jesus preached publicly right jesus went soul winning
publicly jesus fed the multitudes publicly
jesus healed the sick publicly okay but what he's not doing is praying publicly
he's praying in private you know he's praying and obviously there's going to
be a time for a corporate prayer okay he teaches his disciples how to pray
just so they learn how to but his real deep sincere prayers are done alone
they're done in private you know he's not just uh trying to show
off or to try to you know be seen of men
some parts of ministry are going to be public and that's fine but there's
plenty of other parts that should be private
you don't even let your left hand left hand know what your right hand
do with look what it says in matthew 23 verse 1
then spake jesus to the multitudes disciples saying the scribes and the
pharisees sit in moses seat all therefore what
server they bid you observe that observe and do but do not ye
after their works for they say and do not for they bind heavy burdens and
grievous to be born and lay them on men's shoulders but they
themselves will not move them with one of their fingers
but all their works they do for to be seen of men they make broad their
phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their
garments so notice what the pharisees were like
this is interesting okay if you pay attention now the
pharisees did have some false doctrine but enlarged what jesus is teaching here
is that they would say a lot of right things
actually taught a lot of things that are right the problem is they were liars
about it and they didn't do it they would say hey don't steal and then
they would steal they would say don't commit adultery
while they're committing adultery they would say hey i abhor idols but
they're committing sacrilege okay you can read about in roman shapner
number two so they're a bunch of hypocrites
doesn't mean what they were saying was wrong though a lot of times what they
were saying was right now obviously when they're tempting
jesus or they're trying to trap jesus a lot of that
wrong and false and and they obviously have some
heresy they have some leaven but you know the pharisees believe in the
resurrection isn't that true that's right you know a
lot of the things that they believed a lot of things they taught were accurate
there's just the fact they were hypocrites about it they weren't saved
okay but why would they do works why are they doing all these things
they just want to be seen of men now this is some interesting stuff here in
verse five they make broad their phylacteries now
the word phylacteries kind of only used a few times in the bible
in like a context that you don't really know exactly what it means if you just
look it up though it's basically where they have the
scripture like they would take a bible like a small
portion of scripture i don't know the whole bible or what
but they would literally just like tie it to their forehead
they would just have they were just going around like you know
hey guys how's it going
i mean wouldn't that be kind of weird if we just had like bibles just strapped to
us it's everywhere we went you know or they
have them tied to their arms and stuff they just have it like strapped on there
and they enlarge their garment and you say like why would you do that
it's like an overly literal carnal interpretation of scripture now go if
you went to deuteronomy chapter number six
go to deuteronomy chapter number six let me show you where this is kind of coming
from okay and it makes sense because people do
this all the time the fake christians they love to like
overemphasize and over literalize what the bible is actually teaching
instead of actually taking the spiritual application okay like a catholic
catholics instead of you know believing in christ and trusting him for salvation
they think that they have to actually literally eat him
so that's why they have transubstantiation where they literally
have a cracker and juice and they believe it's turning into the body and
blood of christ and that they're literally eating
christ's body and they're drinking his literal blood
this is sick okay this is weird i mean explaining that to someone i would
freak me out like you imagine just the first you've
never really think about christianity you walk in the building like hey
we're gonna go up there and i know it looks like juice and crackers
but it's actually blood and human flesh that you have to eat
you're like hmm this is a weird religion right i mean that's more that's way
stranger than just strapping a bible here for it i'd be like let's lace it up
you know like hey we're going to strap bibles to our
foreheads it's like okay i mean i can i can tolerate that one more than just
eating flesh and drinking blood okay but that's
what catholics literally do because they over carnalize what jesus was
teaching they did the same thing the pharisees
now where do you get this go to jordan chapter 6 of gurus 4
hero israel the lord our god is one lord now so love the lord thy god with all
thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might and these words
which i command thee this day shall be in thine heart
now shall teach them diligently unto thy children and shall talk of them when
thou sit in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when
thou liest down and when thou rise up and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon
thine head hand and thou shalt be as frontless
between thine eyes and thou shalt write them upon the post
of the house and on thy gates so notice when it says hey you got to
bind this on your hand so they're like oh okay yeah let's get the tape
let's start buying this thing you know do i still have a string up here or
something you know you get the tape it's like let's
start strapping this thing you know we're frontless between our eyes you
know let's just start getting the bible it's like what is he saying what's the
whole essence of this chapter it's saying like don't have the word of
god in your hand have it readily available to you right
what's in between your eyes your head you know what god wants you he wants you
to think about the word of god on a regular basis he wants you to
meditate on the scripture so instead of the pharisees actually
learning the scripture having it readily available in their
hand having it in their head having in their heart they'd rather just
tape it to them but not believe any of it but not
actually have it inside have it just strapped to them on the
outward wait why because on the outward then they can pontificate about how much
they know the bible you know when you walk around with a
bible strapped you're like oh you must really know that thing
oh yeah i shower with this baby it's a waterproof bible
you know whereas if you have the scriptures deep in your heart nobody
knows unless they talk to you right i mean jesus walking around you
would have just thought he's a normal dude
you wouldn't have been looking at him like you must know the bible well
you know jesus wasn't walking around with a 20 bible strapped to him
that's the word of god you know it's like no
it was inside okay it was this weird overly hyper literal
why would someone strap a bible to them because they want to be seen as
spiritual when they're not
and you know what there's a lot of people that want to be seen
as spiritual but they're not spiritual at all now this makes me think of some
people okay this makes me think of some people who
like to separate themselves from the new ifb so as to be seen as
spiritual when they're not at all specifically my sending pastor pastor
stephen anderson okay let me give you a real specific
example about this all right let's go to second
corinthians chapter number six second corinthians chapter number six
there is a pastor friend of mine and pastor stephen anderson one of my
sending pastor name was joe major and this guy
decided to make a public video and let everyone know that he can no longer have
fellowship with pastor anderson because he's too ecumenical
okay now what's ecumenical even mean it's basically where you're partnering
with the world you know you're you're multi-denominational
you know this would be like joining up with the catholics and with
muslims and with jews and we're all going to have a multi-religinal
prayer breakfast you know it's not saying like
hey i have a baptist friend and we disagree on eschatology
now i'm ecumenical now ecumenical is when you're basically it's of the world
that's what the root words even referring to of the world you know
where you're just partnering with the world you're just letting any yahoo
have fellowship with you now the bible makes it clear that
you're not supposed to do that okay it's really crystal clear second
corinthians chapter number six let's look at verse number 14
the bible says but be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers
for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness
and what communion hath light with darkness and what concordeth christ with
belial or what part hath he that believeth with
an infidel and what agreement at the temple of god
with idols for you're the temple of the living god
as god has said i will dwell in them and walk in them
and i will be their god and they shall be my people wherefore come out from
among them and be ye separate saith the lord and
touch not the unclean thing and i will receive you now this is a
really famous scripture on why our church
and many independent fundamental baptist churches teach a doctrine of
separation and what is that doctrine that you're
not your best buds are not going to be unsaved people people
that don't even believe in jesus at all they're not christian whatsoever i mean
what is the what is the group here i mean with
unrighteousness with darkness with unbelievers
okay what's the next with belial with idols i mean it's painting a real
clear picture of who he's not wanting you to associate with right
what would this be like islam like a complete
false religion i mean the catholic church full of idols unbelievers
darkness i mean they got a bunch of pedophiles as their priests right so i
can see why you'd say hey let's not yoke up with
catholic priests right so let's go back to my scenario joe major
saying he has to separate from pastor anderson is pastor anderson an
unbeliever is he belial now i mean what what's happening he doesn't
actually believe what the bible's teaching
he has to have this overly spiritual viewpoint of how separated he is
and show everybody how separated he is why
for attention why don't all these people do these why do the pharisees do what
they do attention there's attention whores that's
all they are now let me ask you a question is pastor
joe major my friend no is he friends with pastor aaron
thompson no is he is he friends with pastor
bruce mania no where's all his videos why didn't he
why did he not make a video saying that he's not my friend publicly
why did he not make a video saying he's not friends with bruce mania publicly
why did not make a video saying he's with pastor and thompson why did he pick
only pastor stephen anderson oh yeah because it's all about attention he
doesn't actually care about the doctrines of the bible does he
he just has to do things to be seen of men
because he's not being spiritual he just wants to be seen as spiritual
because what's the whole point oh look how spiritual i am i have to separate
from people that are being so ecumenical the fact that he was in a film with
someone that's a calvinist
that's so that's so ridiculous you know and there was another guy like
this manly perry who i talked to i said oh i
can't be friends with pastor anderson anymore
he's friends with someone that's a calvinist
and i said well you know majority of the southern baptist convention is
calvinist at least to some degree maybe not all
five-point calvinist i said if someone from the southern baptist convention
came to your church would you let him in he's like no i'm like
this is the same guy that got mad at me for calling them all bastards
imagine that he was so offended at how i believed
uh the southern baptist convention was but yet he said he wouldn't even let him
in their church mind you why because he's a hypocrite
that's why hey when when it's convenient i love
southern baptist when it's not i hate them
why because you don't have any genuine conviction you don't actually care and
look i'm not against all southern baptist people
i'm against their doctrinal statement i'm against the five-point calvinist
that make up twenty or thirty percent of the southern baptist convention that
are just not saved my friend now there's plenty of saved people that
go to a southern baptist church my wife grew up in a southern baptist
church i love anybody that's saved and i wouldn't say you're ecumenical for
yoking up with a southern baptist you know what pastor anderson was
considered ecumenical for yoking up with an independent baptist that's reformed
and i'm like so you love southern baptists that are reformed but not
independent baptists that are reformed that's interesting why because
you don't actually spiritual it's not a real point of separation for you
you just want to be seen of men you just want to strap a bible to your forehead
and be like look how spiritual i am guys
i'm so spiritual when it's just a big show isn't it you're just seeking for
attention that's all you're really seeking after
for and look there's a lot of these people that attach themselves
to a pastor anderson or a pastor roger menes
for one thing attention that's it that's all they want they just want
attention they just want to cling to someone that's bigger than them
has a bigger name has a has some kind of a following
and you know what's funny about it is they're disappointed
when faithful word and pastor anderson are not a cult
they constantly you know talk negatively about how
you know they don't want to be in a call they don't want to be a denomination
they don't want to poke but then when they disagree with pastor
anderson they can't have fellowship so think about the logic right i can't be
friends with pastor anderson if i don't agree 100
but i don't want to be in a cult where we agree 100 which one is it
it's like they get mad that it's not a cult they get mad that they don't agree
100 on every single thing so as soon as they
oh i don't agree with you on everything i have to leave
so you're you're disappointed it's not a cult then that's interesting
isn't it why because they're not really spiritual they're just seeking for
attention and they just have to draw people away
unto themselves and the bible says in you know jude and second peter talks
about people they separate themselves they're sensual
having not the spirit is what the bible says
like corn and date than a biram and it's funny that they have this
and you'll even have church members like this
well i don't agree with the pastor on everything i have to leave
you just disappointed it's not a cult i mean you should not go to a church where
you have to agree a hundred percent on everything you know you can disagree
with the pastor it's healthy it's fine okay i'm trying to realize and
help you that beans don't go in chili but if you disagree you could still come
church here right you could still look i went to a church
where they had chili cook-offs and they put all kinds of weird beans and
objects random objects into the chili you know and i kept me and my family
pure you know i didn't go around pontificating
about it i wait until i my own church to teach
good doctrine okay but back then i believed it and now i
believe it and at the end of that you should go to
a church not because you have to agree on 100
things you're there to serve christ not to be seen of men not to get
something in return well you know what i give a lot of money
to this church so i expect a lot you know what that's a that's a wicked
attitude you should expect nothing from me you
should expect nothing from the people in this room
hey if you want to hope that christ gives you something in the future great
you know what you should hope for nothing again not to be seen of anybody
not to have some praise of men not to get some great works
you know being pastor anderson's friend whenever he doesn't do good on you
it's like great right because hoping for nothing again
oh i've done all this work for you i've shared every single one of your sermons
pastor anderson you owe me stuff he doesn't owe you
anything i don't even know you depart from me i
never knew you
look isn't there a lot of people they try to talk to christ like look at all
the stuff i did for you and he's like i don't know you bye
why they were doing it to expect something in return but christ is like
hey either i did it all for you or you can hit the road jack we're not
here to have christ repay us for salvation
you know it's just all a gift you know it's funny when people can't be pastor
anderson's friend because they're not either getting tit
for tat oh i'm not receiving as much back or
i've done all this good you weren't really that person's friend then
you were just a lender congratulations bankster
he just wants to see be seen of men but it's funny i can be buddies with
manly perry who's a raging heretic hey i have to separate from pastor
anderson for being too ecumenical but i don't have to separate from manly
perry for saying that no one burns in hell
manly perry for saying all kinds of weird stuff teaching that mary is just
an oven that jesus hopped into wasn't even really his mother how is he
the son of man when he wasn't born of a woman
he was just hopped into oven as some surrogate or something
he says this is really weird when you actually believe that he was conceived
a woman no it's really weird when i believe what
you think this weird surrogacy type attitude or
belief or whatever i mean where's the public video to
separate from that guy the guy that hides every single one of
his sermons he had them all on unlisted and was just
shopping around to people online but then when you started finding all
the heresy on that he just took that all down too
i remember that chapter in the bible where jesus said hide everything you
teach hide everything you believe you know
why people do that because they're a cult so he's not actually afraid of being in
a cult he's afraid of being in the public square
he's afraid of being shown that he's not really spiritual walking around the
bible strapped to his head look how spiritual i am and look that's
what a bunch of these new ives are like they just have bible strapped to
their head walking around trying to tell everybody how spiritual they are
rather than just being spiritual rather than just
serving christ quietly not doing it to be seen of men
no they're just attention grabbers and when they're not getting the attention
they feel like they deserve they have to make some big noise about it
to get attention look everybody remember me hey
nobody's watching my sermons anymore hey i'm gonna attack pastor anderson again
so i can get more than three and a half views from my three troll accounts
the new iv's so mean it's like what are you doing you're just an attention
whore that's all you are and it's funny this
grace and fritz who who's just been talking so much smack
and trash about me and my friends and he says he
preaches sermon where he's just calling the new iv quote-unquote whatever that
is he's saying oh they're the most venomous
the most you know unmerciful nasty people
in the the most nasty people i mean did you realize all the people
look around the most nasty venomous unmerciful people this is a dangerous
crowd my friend
and he says oh he made a clarification video when he
got called out for lying and he says you know what i was
preaching this sermon in my church only for my church okay now it's
interesting because in the next breath he says now let me define for you what
the new iv is it's jonathan shelley steven anderson
erin thompson roger emenez bruce mejia he's like i want
nothing to do with them and i'm like none of us were at your
church that day how were you preaching a sermon for your
church talking crap about the new iv when none
of us were there how's that work oh yeah because he's a
hypocrite because he's a liar that's why and he has to walk around
i'm just so much nicer and kinder than everybody
you guys you guys don't even know what mercy is okay
i just love every i'm just so much more loving
you know i like 2009 pastor anderson you know even though 2019 pastor
anderson ordained me oh that's weird but you know 2009 pastor
anderson he was so nice when he was calling for
obama to melt like a snail i mean it's so loving it was so kind
so merciful that's how stupid they look i'm just so
much more kind and loving and merciful look
i've got a bible strapped to my hands instead of actually memorizing it
and getting in your heart and just preaching good sermons
not to be seen a minute what do they have to do look at me
i hate the new ifb the problem is there's too many of y'all
that hate the new ifb you start becoming irrelevant
nobody cares about you anymore it's a one-trick pony
oh they just they're just liars this is what grayson fritz said about me
he said that i taught and a sermon called loud and stubborn women
that his wife's hand should be cut off now who got that from that sermon
so he says oh i don't like these guys they always twist my words that's
interesting it's interesting that you're going to
literally say in the video i taught that his wife's hand should be literally cut
off and i went and watched the video clip and
i say something about how you know women that are blowing their
mouths on social media and going online posting all these things
they should be cut off and i said this is the next breath
not literally oh but interestingly enough that's what i meant i meant
literally when i said not literally isn't that isn't that interesting that's
really cool they don't twist our words they subscribe
to the older version of pastor anderson you know what this is like i want to
prove this to you go to john chapter five because there's no new thing under the
sun attention grabbers have always existed
you know it's like when these people say well i like the older pastor anderson he
was nicer i thought about this this is in the bible
okay this actually exists this attitude is found in scripture
where these people subscribe to this older version of the man of god or
whatever look at john chapter 5 verse 43
and look at verse 43 i am coming my father's name and you receive me not
if another shall come in his own name him you will receive
how can you believe which receive honor one of another and seek not the honor
that comes from god only not think that i will accuse you to the
father there is one that accuses you even moses
in whom you trust for had you believed moses
you would have believed me for he wrote of me but if you believe not his
writings how shall you believe my words so jesus
is saying hey you guys don't believe moses you don't
believe his writings how are you going to believe me
well go to john chapter number nine go to john chapter number nine for a moment
flip the page look at verse 24 then again called they the man that was
blind and said unto them give god the praise we know that this
man is a sinner he answered and said whether he'd be a sinner or no i know
not one thing i know that whereas i was
blind now i see then said they to him again what did he
to thee how opened he thine eyes he answered them i have told you already
and he did not hear wherefore would you hear it again
will you also be his disciples then they reviled him and said
thou art his disciple but we are moses disciple
we know that god spake unto moses as for this fellow
we know not from whence he is so basically this is that
hey we subscribe to the moses but not to you jesus
it's like hey i subscribe to the 2009 pastor anderson but not the 2021 pastor
anderson it's like look you subscribe to neither
you don't believe any of it look if you believe moses
you'd believe me look if you believed in 2009 pastor anderson
you'd believe in 2021 pastor anderson it's so stupid it's so foolish it's a
dumb attitude it's garbage they think that they're
so much nicer and kinder and more loving
than the person that's gave them all of the information they even have
i mean think about these people these people were in trash can churches or in
non-denominational churches or lame churches
or doing nothing for god and then all of a sudden they learn about
soul winning the king james bible they learn about
post-trip pre-wrath they learn about how zionism is a fraud
they learn about the reprobate doctrine they learn all this good doctrine
they learn all these good attributes they get all these good people in their
church and then they what oh you don't you know
you're just a mean you're just a mean person
you've changed you know who's actually changed you changed
and the one person that gave you all the change now you're biting the hand that
feeds you it doesn't even make any sense it's just
a complete foolish attitude you literally changed everything you
became a completely different person you adopted all these different doctrines
from this person and now you don't like that person that
gave everything to you because he didn't pay you back he's not
as nice as you think well it doesn't seem like you were doing it for christ
then it sounds like you're doing it to get something out of it
you're trying to be his friend so that you would get something paid back
and when you found out he's not going to give you anything special
then you just have to turn you have to turn on him
and just you know what i notice about these people
not only do they like the virtue signal but this is their this is all their
issue every person i'm describing you let me
tell you what their biggest issue right now is
wearing a mask or not
right and the fact that they don't wear a mask they're just so much more
i don't wear a mask i wear a bible
you know i'm not going to be muffled with a mask
you can't take away my freedoms you know but i won't preach the reprobate doctrine
oops i'll hide it from my website grace and fritz
but you know what i'm just i won't wear a mask
i'm so wonderful let me tell you what i have way more respect
for someone that wears a mask 24 7 even in the shower in the car by
themselves and goes soul winning than anybody that
doesn't wear a mask and doesn't go so winning
you know what a lot of these people that go to these virtue signaling churches
they don't even care about soul winning but they don't wear a mask
oh you're so holy oh you're so wonderful
show us all the bible strapped to your forehead
you just wonderful person you're you know you're just so great
why don't you go why don't you post some more pictures if you go into costco and
taking your mask off you know after you walk through the
door why don't you show us more videos of you telling that waitress off you
you know you're just so great just way to go i want to give you a reward
because you deserve it right the Pharisees deserve here's your reward
good job yeah i mean because you're not doing
anything to help the new world order you don't have a social security you
know card you don't have a telephone that tracks
everywhere that you go you're not on facebook you know they're
not tracking every single thing that you do and say
i mean you're just really taking it to them because you're not wearing the mask
you're just so wonderful you can go join barabbas in the insurrection
right because that's how spiritual you are you know what these people
are just hypocrites they're not actually really spiritual
they're not interested in the spiritual fight they're in a fight to be seen of
men to make attention for everybody hey look
at me i didn't shut down during colored
it is like oh yeah well how many people come to your church
10. what was the max that you could have in your church during covid 10
we didn't shut down though i just want to let everybody know that
it's like well the big churches still had 10 in their congregation too
how are you any better oh way to go you had 10 people show up
you're so wonderful you're just so good what's their purpose of serving christ
they don't have a purpose to serve christ they're just attention whores
they're just like the Pharisees go to matthew chapter number five go to matthew
chapter number five
and it's funny how they're more kind than who i'd be who's so hateful
backstabbing and merciful but you know what when they're actually the
backstabbing railers users and abusers they're somehow more loving right
it's more loving for someone to help you expecting nothing in return i mean what
do you think that pastor anderson's getting out of
grace and fritz church helping them going and flying out to them preaching
for them laying hands on grace and fritz letting
him call him and just giving him free doctrine and loving him
paying for him to go on uh pastor retreats paying all their expenses
giving them money what is he doing how is he benefiting from that you know
how many people are showing up a faithful word on a sunday morning
because of grace and fritz zero but you know how many people are
showing up on sunday morning to grace and fritz church because of pastor
anderson all of them oops that's weird
let's turn on this guy it's like why did everybody show up to the temple
because they like moses because they like the word of god
but then they actually try to get people to not like moses and not like the word
of god when they show up it's sick it's weird look at matthew
chapter 5 verse 11 blessed are ye when men shall revile you
and persecute you and shall say all men are of evil against you falsely for my
sake rejoice and be exceeding glad for great
is your word in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets
which were before you you know some people be like why are you still friends
with pastor anderson it seems like everybody hates that guy
because he's just so blessed my friend look what the bible says i mean it says
that you're great when people revile you and persecute you
and notice this phrase say shall say all men are of evil against you
falsely all the false accusations just over and over
is so mean look pastor anderson is like one of the nicest people i've ever met
in my life in fact if he has a fault he's too nice
there i said it he says it he's too nice he's too loving he's too merciful to
these freaks and weirdos that backstab him and
do all kinds of stuff or maybe i'm just not as nice hey maybe
i'm the unmerciful one okay but it's not him it's sick it's
frustrating watch your friends just be lied about and railed about but
you know what it's coming from a bunch of these attention-seeking bible
you know wearing attention horse that's all they are
now i want you to go to first timothy chapter number four and i'm almost
finished this evening
you know it wasn't that they really wanted to be pastor anderson's friends
they weren't really doing it because they want to be a buddy why were they
doing it why do they people attach it to them
it's because they want the praise of men they got a church out of it they got all
the good doctrine they got the soul winning they got the family integrated
services but you know what after they stole
everything from him they say that they somehow have a better
spirit
i don't like the spirit of the new ifb well it's funny that you took everything
else from it interesting how you got all those great
attributes all these great things handed over to
you but just the spirit that's just so mean
you know it's funny how they have to attack first the one that has the good
spirit the good spirit attacks you first did
you know that and the bad spirit calls you out for
lying that's interesting that that's the that's the bad spirit
now jesus christ also said this and i'm not gonna have you turn there
but he says neither be called masters for one is your master even christ
he that is greatest among you shall be your servant
and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased he that shall humble himself
shall be exalted if you really want to be great
seek to serve not to tell everybody how great you are
hey i just want to let you know i have a greater spirit than pastor anderson
i'm more loving than pastor anderson i'm more merciful than pastor anderson
what are you doing you're literally exalting yourself
what kind of a wicked to sit there and say that they're the most venomous
wicked you know not wicked but venomous i'm trying to think of all the right
attributes it was a lot of weird ones unmerciful you know just backbiting
gossips nasty you know you're saying you're not that person
you're praising how one i just want to let you know how great i am again
and how much better i am than this other person you know if i was standing in the
room with moses what if i was like hey i don't want you
to be like moses be like me he's not as kind and loving and merciful and
wonderful as i am sounds like somebody core or cora
we're holy you know why you take all this upon yourself
this is wicked attitude the wicked behavior
and you know what if you really want to be great why can't you just serve
why do you have to be at the top why do you have to be better than everybody
why do you always have to magnify your attributes why don't you just
praise other people you know you're not supposed to go around singing your own
praises you're supposed to let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth
a stranger not thine own lips is what the bible says
don't go around singing your own praises and telling everybody how wonderful you
are why don't you find somebody that you
like and praise them talk about how wonderful they are you
know and look i'm all for calling false prophets out
but you know we should call false prophets out for things that are true
not just random vague accusations and just
all this nonsense and junk especially against pastors
you know when you're making accusations against pastors you're supposed to have
two witnesses supposed to have hard evidence you're
supposed to just say whatever you want god doesn't take that kindly you know
and the person that did this the greatest was jesus
that's why he's the greatest hey you want to be the greatest
servant you know what jesus came to this earth and he didn't go around saying
like worship me now i'm the word of god
no he was a humble servant he was a lowly servant just going around healing
people and praying for people and preaching the
gospel and when he was just serving and loving people what happened they all
came out of the woodworks didn't they he just hey he's feeding this guy's
feeding everyone this guy's healing everyone and other
people are blazing abroad jesus christ and telling who jesus is and come see
this man that told me all that ever i did is
this not the christ did jesus have to go into the the land
of the samaritans to tell them that he was a christ
or did he just help a woman and she told everybody about it
do you really have to go around and tell everybody i just want to let everybody
know i'm the greatest pastor ever does that why i made some shirts you
can wear it or would you rather just be a humble
servant and let other people say that about you
let other people say you know what i like this guy hey i like this this soul
winner there's this guy in my church it's really nice guy he's really humble
rather than being like i just want you know i'm kind of the greatest little
winner here that's why pastor put me with you you
need to learn from me it's like don't don't what kind of
attitude is that you know you should be a lowly person not
to be seen of men hoping for nothing again just sir you
know the greatest thing you could do is be the greatest christian that nobody
knows about because there's someone that knows and
he's up there and then whenever whenever you're in
heaven everybody's gonna find out how great a christian you really were
and they're gonna find out how terrible christian all these people were
they go around and tell everybody how wonderful they are having bible
strap hey why don't you unravel the bible
strapped your forehead and start reading it
first timothy chapter number four look at verse 10
for therefore we both labor and suffer approach because we trust in the living
god who is the savior of all men specially of those that
believe you know the bible says that jesus christ paid for everyone's sins
whether they would appreciate it or not
but you know what he paid for especially those that would believe
talk about someone who's not doing it to be seen of men
go to john chapter number three i want to read one more
verse here look i believe that the goal of a pastor or the goal
of a spiritual leader or the goal of a good christian is simple
help others serve christ better help others serve christ better
if i can help somebody financially and that's going to help them praise the
lord you know if i can help someone spiritually
praise the lord that's what i'm supposed to do here that's what you're supposed
to do here is you're supposed to help others serve christ better
not to say you know what i gave all this money time and effort in the church
they kind of owe me one that's a wicked attitude
but people do it and you know what some of you that have
and look i'll be honest our church is one of the most
gracious loving and giving churches i've ever seen
so many so many people in this room have given so much of their time
effort money resources they've invested so much into this church but let me tell
you something really clear i'm not giving you jack squat back
so
you should hope for nothing again and you say well
i'm gonna stop giving to that church well then good because i only want you
to give if you're hoping for nothing again
i only want you to give if you expect me to never mention your name
once you start naming some names especially no
who do you think's given the most not gonna tell you because i don't care
it doesn't matter we're all here to serve christ
we're all here to love other people you know we come to church
to serve god not pastor shelley not dylan he's not worth it okay
i'm not worth it you know what christ is worth it
we're here to serve him you know and they tried to get this wicked attitude
into john the baptists but john the baptist would have none of
it look at look at verse 26 and they came into john and sent him rabbi
they give these lofty titles rabbi he that was with thee beyond jordan to
whom thou barest witness behold the same baptizer than all men come to him
john answered and said man can receive nothing except to be given him from
heaven you yourselves bear me witness that i
said i am not the christ that i'm sent before him he that at the
bride is the bridegroom but the friend of the bridegroom which
them rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice
this my joy therefore is fulfilled he must
increase but i must decrease you know at one point in time john the
baptist was the greatest minister on the planet but something
happened jesus came along and took everybody away
from him and then he died in prison you know what
when jesus talked about him you know he said
there's not a greater man born among women than john the baptist
and you know why i think he had that title given to him by the son of god by
the word made flesh it's because he said he must increase but i must decrease
he was hoping for nothing again he wasn't saying look at all the hard work
i've done christ where am i getting mine he's like you're
getting beheaded in prison like that sucked like i literally
baptized everybody like i was preaching hard man
i preached some good sermons i'm john the baptist
i wasn't john the methodist here i mean come on
in fact my name is just simply john baptist in some of the bible
right i was sent from god i was born in a special way
no no he's just like it's all about jesus anyways
get that attitude hope nothing again close in prayer thank you heavenly
father for giving us these examples in the bible thank you for sending your son
to give us the ultimate example of one who was not going around singing
his own praises but rather was a lowly servant
and that you're going to lift him up in due time and you did
you resurrected him so that we could all worship him and give him the honor and
the glory that he deserved and i pray that we look at that example
of jesus of john the baptist and other great men that have gone
after them and before them that we learned from their example that
they were just there to serve the lord they weren't looking for attention they
weren't looking to be seen of men they weren't hoping to
receive some money again or some kind of a favor
rather they were just serving god and they just loved people
and i pray that we just get deep in our hearts that when we serve god when we
serve our church it's not to be seen of men it's not to
receive something again it's rather just to help others serve christ better
in jesus name we pray amen
let's go ahead and sing one more song tonight
before we head home go ahead and take out your hymnal the 377
rescue the perishing great song about soul winning
377
377 rescue the perishing rescue the perishing careful the dying
snatch them in pity from sin and the grave
before the erring ones lift up the fallen
tell them of jesus the mighty to save rescue the perishing care for the dying
jesus is merciful jesus will save though they are sliding
him still he is waiting waiting up in a child to see
lead with him earnestly bleed with him gently
he will forgive if they only believe rescue the perishing care for the dying
jesus is merciful jesus will save
down in the human heart crushed by the tender
feelings like buried that grace can restore
touched by a loving heart awakened by kindness
horns that are broken will vibrate once more
rescue the perishing care for the dying jesus is merciful
jesus will save rescue the perishing dirty demented
strength for thy labor the lord will provide
back to the narrow way patiently with them
tell the wondrous ignorance die rescue the perishing care for the dying
jesus is merciful jesus will save
amen you are dismissed god bless
you