praise him praise him one six four praise him praise him song 164 praise
him praise him
praise him praise him jesus our blessed redeemer sing all worth his wonderful
love proclaim hail him hail him highest arc angels in glory strength and honor
give to his holy name like a shepherd Jesus will guard his children in his arms
he carries them all day long praise him praise him tell of his excellent
praise him praise him ever in joyful song praise him praise him jesus our
blessed redeemer for our sins he suffered and bled and died he our rock
our hope of eternal salvation Jesus the crucified sound his praises Jesus who
bore our sorrows love unbounded wonderful deep and strong praise him
praise him tell of his excellent greatness praise him praise him ever
in joyful song praise him praise him jesus our blessed redeemer portals
loud with hosanna's ring Jesus save your reign it forever and ever
crown him crown him prophet and priest and King Christ is coming over
the world victorious power and glory unto the Lord be long praise him
praise him tell of his excellent greatness praise him praise him ever in
joyful song let's open up in a word of prayer Heavenly Father thank you for
this evening and thank you for the opportunity to be gathered together to
meet as a church freely Lord and just to worship you to hear the Word of
God preached pray that we would never take it for granted pray that
we'd all pay attention tonight that you'd fill our pastor the Holy Spirit we
love you in Jesus name amen all right let's go to our second song 150 my
faith has found a resting place song 150 my faith has found a resting place
song 1 5 0 my faith has found a resting place
my faith has found a resting place not in device nor creed I trust the
ever-living one his wounds for me shall plead I need no other argument I
need no other plea it is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me
enough for me that Jesus saves this is my fear and doubt a sinful soul I
come to him he'll never cast me out I need no other argument I need no
other plea it is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me my heart
is leaning on the word the written Word of God salvation by my Savior's
name salvation through his blood I need no other argument I need no
other plea it is enough that Jesus died died for me my great physician
heals the sick the lost he came to save for me his precious blood he shed
for me his life he gave I need no other argument I need no other plea
it is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me good evening thank
you so much for coming to steadfast Baptist Church if you didn't already
get a bulletin you'd like one please lift up your hand nice and high one of our
ushers will come by get you guys a bulletin we're on our psalm 146 verse
8 any child that's able to quote that can get a couple pieces of candy
right after the service we have our service times or so winning times
church stats please make sure to continue to report that to your so
winning captains or your lieutenants whoever you have in your group also we
have on the right hand side our list of expecting ladies continue to pray for
all of our expecting ladies and we're missing one because we have a
congratulations to the Cooley's I know that they had their birth and I
don't have the stats I need I need someone to give me the stats maybe
someone can text me that I don't know but that's a congratulations to
them also we have our prayer list and we can go ahead and cover that really
quickly we have the nigers continue to pray for health for Miss Lucy's mother
been praying for brother Cameron's his leg we've been praying for brother
Pendleton his brain cancer been praying for brother Goodwin's son
Daniel his surgery on February 6th we've been praying for the Garcia's
son-in-law and family that they would be stationed close by also we've been
praying for Sue Hill and his travel back from the Philippines I don't know
exactly when he's getting back with us I think it's pretty soon also brother Alex
we've been praying for a job we've been praying for brother Wallach's his
children and their health we've been praying for his friend Juan we've been
praying for Anthony's wife Sarah's health we've been praying for the
Scott family for kovat brother Conley was asking prayer for his friend
Nick Edwards for spiritual growth I guess it's brother yeah brother Edwards
and then we've been praying for salvation for Randall's son so that's
pretty much all I have as far as prayer requests in the bulletin I'll go
ahead and say we'll go ahead and as a group say a quick prayer for all of
those mentioned thank Heavenly Father for our church services evening I pray
that you would be with those that are not able to make it this evening you'd
be with those that are sick please help give them a speedy recovery I pray
that you'd help those that have chronic issues and illnesses that you
would please just give them a miracle please give them expedited
health please give them a full recovery I pray that you would just
help our expecting ladies that you would be with them during the
pregnancies help them with their children and they'd have a timely birth
I pray that you would help our our church family that needs a job that
needs favor in their business world that I pray that you just help them with that
I pray that you would also be with our friends that are traveling that you'd
help bring them home safely and I pray that you'd also help us to be a
faithful witness under our family members and our friends those who need
to hear the gospel that we could preach that unto them that they could
be saved and I thank you so much for all that you give us in Jesus name we
pray Amen on the back a couple upcoming events and I also wanted to bring up a
couple more that aren't on the bulletin we we have our movie premiere on
January 30th and I believe we've been asking for people to sign up via email
so that we can make sure we have a prayer place so you have not already
emailed us please email us and we're gonna be sending out the information for
where the theater is if you went to one of our movies a few years ago it's
the same place that we went to back then so we're excited about having a
theater premiere and thank you I have the stats for the Cooley so miss
Karen Cooley had her baby Victoria Estelle on the 8th at 1059 p.m. 7
pounds 14 ounces and 20 and a half inches long congratulations then that's
exciting to eat do we have a meal train or anything like that set up
okay we have a meal train see miss Milstead and she can help you if
you'd like to be a blessing unto the Cooley's and also like I was saying
about our movie if you are wanting to participate please email us we'll send
out the instructions as far as all that it's gonna be around it's gonna be at
7 p.m. so the film will be at 7 there is gonna be a voucher for you
to get a popcorn and a coke so if you if you want to have popcorn and coke
and everything like that will accommodate you I'm really excited
about the film we're gonna be premiering in several different
theaters Oklahoma City Houston we have one in Phoenix I know Tucson's gonna be
airing the film that day also Vancouver Washington's gonna have an airing I
think theirs is gonna be Saturday though so they're not doing work for
whatever reason they get to do it on Saturday I'm sorry okay they get to do
it two days early but they can tell us if it was good or not all right and
then everybody else has to be the 30th okay and then we're gonna be
releasing it online the 31st so definitely something that I hope you can
share if you you know you like the film and everything like that if you
don't like the film tell Ben he's the person to tell and the person to
blame not on the bulletin but I wanted I had in our notes we were gonna do a
small-town soul winning marathon February 4th that is a Saturday now I
haven't I haven't locked in the location but I just want to at least
put it on your calendar February 4th is we're gonna do a kind of a small
town so any typically they're not gonna be that far from the DFW area so
probably within an hour or so of the DFW area maybe an hour and a half we'll
probably pick something and we've kind of looked at a couple places but we're
still evaluating exactly when April 1st is going to be a Dallas soul winning
marathon and then April 24th through the 29th is going to be our Bahamas
missions trip so definitely been a long awaited missions trip if you are
able to get out there the church is trying to plan on accommodating housing
for people that would like to do the housing and so it's it's I looked it
up it's about seven hundred dollars a ticket to fly out there right now that
could obviously change in any moment and you'd probably only need like a
couple hundred bucks for food so you know under a thousand dollars you could
you could make a whole week of you know one of the greatest missions
trips you could probably ever go in honestly because not only is it very
receptive it's probably one of the most beautiful places in the world and
the beach and the the ocean water there was was incredible I've never really
seen a beach like that obviously going to Galveston you get a different
perspective and Galveston seems like a mud hole you know in comparison no the
Bahamas is like one of the most beautiful beaches I've ever seen the
weather is amazing the atmosphere is a lot of fun it was it was I've been
there one time and I've really enjoyed it other people have been there
a lot I think faithful word they had a small group go out near Christmas time
and their small group I've heard I don't know the exact numbers but I think they
had around 400 salvations or something like that just a small group going for
a shorter period of time the island that we're going to is Nassau which is
the main island and because I guess there's technically other islands but
all the other islands are uninhabited virtually speaking so it's in Nassau is
the place that you would go it's about a quarter million people on that island
so there's a lot of people there if you can find some of the pockets where
there's a lot of young people very interested very receptive to the gospel
and so looking forward to it we have we have some contacts down there
and they're gonna try and see what kind of appointments we can make for
maybe school maybe visiting some schools and some of that stuff I don't know
we'll kind of see what the Lord allows and opens doors but you know I
I've been on some of these missions trips and you know if we get a lot of
school appointments we may need some men to step up and be willing to preach
some sermons and and preach to the kids and everything like that so I
don't know what opportunities are going to happen but we can pray that the
Lord would open up some doors and we're hoping to take a lot of
information we can take our new film we can take a lot of gospel tracts and
things like that and hand out we might even maybe make some just audio CDs and
stuff like that or make some flash drives or something whatever we can make
to just kind of take down there and just kind of flood them with a lot of
the gospel and the good news and another good preaching so I'm really
excited about our trip and hopefully if you can you will participate there
was also one other event so March 15th this is a Wednesday service and we're
gonna be planning Old West Wednesday and we probably won't have it at our
actual church location we're gonna probably have another space that we're
going to but what they're gonna do is we're all gonna dress up like old
Texas West and we're gonna have like a dinner we'll have a church service a
dinner and then we'll have a lot of events for the evening and so if you'd
like to participate in something fun maybe you can already start getting
your your get-up and your gear all right and so it's we you know we got to
celebrate that we live in Texas you know and so we'll have an Old West
Wednesday it'll be a lot of fun cowboy hats are welcome and you know
beans and chili or not so there you go all right even the Old West knew it
was right and but I'm really excited about it we have a lot of other
events already scheduled for the year but that's just kind of give you a
preview for the first half of everything that we're going to be doing
and I look forward to it so with that let's go to our third Psalm Psalm 149
are we doing I'm sorry 29 29 we're doing at the cross first that might
just be the offertory song 29 at the cross while you're turning there as
well we do have to sign up sheets for the Bahamas and for the Dallas Sony
Marathon and if you don't send us your itinerary for the Bahamas then
we're not counting you as signed up so you got to send us your itinerary to
the email please all right song 29 at the cross
oh laughs and did my Savior bleed and did my sovereign die would he devote
that sacred head for such a worm as I at the cross at the cross when I first
saw the light and the burden of my heart rolled away it was there by
faith I received my side and now I am happy all the day was it for crimes
that I have done he groaned upon the tree amazing pity grace unknown and
love beyond degree at the cross at the cross where I first saw the light and
the burden of my heart rolled away it was there by faith I received my
sighs and now I am happy all the day well might the Sun in darkness I can
shut his glories in when Christ the mighty maker died for man the
creature sin at the cross at the cross where I first saw the light and the
burden of my heart rolled away it was there by faith I received my side
and now I am happy all the day but drops of grief can repay the dead of
love I'll hear Lord I give myself away is all that I can do at the cross
at the cross where I first saw the light and the burden of my heart
rolled away it was there by faith I received my side and now I am happy
all the day good singing as the offering place are being passed around
please turn your Bibles to Hosea chapter 4 Hosea chapter 4
you
chapter 4 the Bible reads here the word of the Lord ye children of Israel for
the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land because there
is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land by swearing and
lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out and
blood touch it blood therefore shall the land mourn and everyone that dwell
at their end shall languish with the beasts of the field and with the
fowls of heaven yay the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away yet let no
man strive nor reprove another for thy people are as they that strive with
the priest therefore shalt thou fall in the day and the Prophet also shall
fall with thee in the night and I will destroy thy mother my people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge I will also
reject thee that thou shalt be no priest to me seeing thou hast
forgotten the law of thy God I will also forget thy children as they were
increased so they sinned against me therefore will I change their glory
into shame they eat up the sin of my people and they set their heart on
their iniquity and there shall be like people like priests and I will
punish them for their ways and reward them for their doings for they shall
eat and not have enough they shall commit whoredom and shall not
increase because they have left off to take heed to the Lord whoredom and wine
and new wine take away the heart my people ask counsel at their stocks and
their staff declare it unto them for the spirit of whoredoms have caused
them to err and they have gone a whoring from under their God they
sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the
hills under Oaks and poplars and elms because the shadow thereof is good
therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom and your spouses shall commit
adultery I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom nor
your spouses when they commit adultery for themselves are separated
with whores and they sacrifice with harlots therefore the people that does
not understand shall fall though thou Israel play the harlot yet let Judah
offend let not Judah offend and come not ye unto Gilgal neither go ye up to
Beth Avon nor swear the Lord liveth for Israel slide it back as a backsliding
heifer now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place Ephraim is
joined to idols let him alone their drink is sour they have committed
whoredom continually her rulers with shame do love give ye the wind hath
bound her up in her wings and they shall be ashamed because of their
sacrifices let's pray
men so we've been going through the book of Hosea and as you can tell Hosea is a
really encouraging and uplifting book of the Bible and actually that's not
really the case now what's interesting about Hosea chapter 4 a little bit is
we take a little bit of a break from the original narrative where we're really
talking about Hosea the person and his wife and we kind of had taken a little
bit of break in chapter 3 God was trying to illustrate how this woman
being bought to not whore against him is how God is kind of trying to
redeem the nation of Israel as a whole and kind of purchase them back to
themselves so they wouldn't whore against him but he explains how that's
really the land and it's really the people it's not so much about this
marriage he's using that as a metaphor as a type or shadow of himself
and the children of Israel as a whole as a nation now in in chapter 4 he's
really just focusing only on the nation of Israel as a whole he's not
really not really talking so much about Hosea and his wife carnally it's more
just we're continuing the metaphor itself of what that really means and
God's talking about the children of Israel as a whole and it says in verse
1 hear the word of the Lord you children of Israel for the Lord at the
controversy with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth nor
mercy nor knowledge of God in the land so the Bible talks about there was
a time in history where an entire nation which is dedicated to God is
quote unquote the Christian nation exists and yet somehow they have no
truth somehow they have no mercy somehow they have no knowledge of God
in the land now of course when God speaks in such a manner it's not to
the extremity of 100% we always know there's going to be exceptions there's
always a Hosea around there's always a Daniel there's always someone that
exists that still loves God but he's basically saying within your culture
within your society as a whole you guys have no truth as a society as a
culture you have no mercy as a society as a culture the people in your
culture in your nation in your area they have no knowledge of God and
really you know when I read the book of Hosea it often makes me just think of
America and the reason why is because America has been historically a
Christian nation if there's been ever a Christian nation in our generation it's
been America I mean there's not really a nation that rivals America in
the context of number of churches or number professing Christians or those
who would even claim the name of Jesus Christ we're pretty much by and large
the largest evangelical nation in the world and have been historically yet
art seems like our nation is getting to a point where there's no knowledge of
God there's no truth there's no mercy it's it's astounding what's
actually happening in our public schools today I mean the the lunacy
that is happening in college campuses is not just affecting crazy liberal
colleges anymore it's now being brought into the mainstream being brought into
the public school system and we're having debates as a culture if a woman
is really a woman we're having debates if a man is really a man people
are being fired for not denying reality I mean you have professors that
are being fired in academia for calling a woman a woman you're having people
being threatened in their job for mispronouning someone and it's gotten
to such an extremity that now Stanford is saying that we shouldn't
use any pronouns you know you know the new definition of cussing is ever
increasing and according to Stanford they put out a new it's kind of a
relatively new standard where they want to eliminate harmful language and they
want to get rid of all this really toxic language and you read through their
pamphlet that they put out and their initiative is basically to update the
language on all of Stanford's websites and their literature and just everything
that they do all of the curriculum they want to get rid of words like he
I mean that's so offensive she they want to get rid of he she guys you
can't say guys you can say folks okay you know all kinds of just strange
bizarre ideas are being floated in our society why we live in a society that
by and large has rejected the knowledge of God and has gotten to a
place where we could get to a point where there's literally no knowledge where
there's no truth and of course when there's no truth and there's no
knowledge of God and everything's upside down you know it also goes away
as mercy mercy seems to eviscerate from a society and the Bible is teaching
that God is a controversy with this group of people especially considering
the fact they claim God they claim to be one who loves the Lord who's
their priest who's serving God yet they still have absolutely no knowledge
of him also meaning this you could have a giant group of people that call
themselves Christians and know nothing about Jesus Christ welcome to America
there are churches in this area that will claim they love God and they love
Jesus Christ and they don't know anything in the Bible in fact sometimes
they'll quote things that they think are in the Bible and they're quoting
Gandhi they're quoting humanists they're quoting atheists they don't
even realize that the things that they're saying don't even exist in
scripture you can't even find most of their beliefs most of their morals
because they're not even coming from the Bible whatsoever and it's sad
that we live in a society that is so brain dead when it comes to truth
knowledge information and frankly speaking knowledge of God you'll bring
up things you'll preach stuff and people say the Bible doesn't say
that anywhere it's like it's right here what about these verses you know
and it's getting to a point where knowledge of the scripture is dwindling
to a point where people have no idea anything in the Bible anymore they hardly
could even quote John 3 16 anymore and you know in years past everyone
could quote John 3 16 but it's getting a point now where some people
don't even know what you're talking about I've run into people they don't
even know that Jesus is the son of God and you know you're thinking like
wow how far has America fallen to the point where people haven't even
heard that Jesus is the son of God look what it says in verse 2 what's
a consequence of this by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and
committing adultery they break out and blood touches blood so when you
have no truth in a society when you have no knowledge of God what ends up
happening is there's no mercy and when there's no mercy what happens all
manner of evil all manner of lying and stealing all manner of adultery all
manner of killing and in fact the Bible says it was so extreme the murder
was so extreme that blood touches blood what does that mean well this is
the idea of mass murder mass murder because if you kill one person that's
blood how can blood touch blood you have to have multiple people dying in
the same proximity to the point where their blood is being spilt and it's
literally touching he's saying there's pools of blood that are touching other
pools of blood from two separate victims that's how extreme and dangerous
the society has become and it seems more common in America they where you
have these mass shootings we have people being mass killed in mass and
people are being slaughtered all over the place this world is becoming a
danger zone and you know America is probably still one of the most safe
places in the world but it's still having mass casualty mass killings mass
all kinds of homicides and events all over you know in Europe it's really bad
other places of the world it's getting more and more extreme but he's
saying this is a consequence to not having the knowledge of God why is it
that crime is just continually increasing in America why is it that we have more
theft than we've ever had before I mean I see videos all the time of these days
of people just walking into stores and just looting Apple seems to have to
have a security guard on staff all the time now because people just run in
and steal all the phones out on display on a regular basis there's so
many high-end retailers in California they're having to shut down get armed
security move out of areas because looters are just running in there and
just stealing all of their merchandise on a regular basis why are we having
increases in stealing why are we having increases in adultery because as a
society it's not even shameful anymore I mean in society it's not even
considered taboo you can even have the President of the United States commit
adultery in the Oval Office and it doesn't isn't people are like okay well
I guess we're mad that he lied about it it's like why wouldn't you be more
mad about the adultery I mean honestly if I I will be more mad about someone
committing adultery than the fact that they lied about it yet that was the big
deal that he lied about and then he gets caught lying and committing
adultery and then still nothing happens he still wasn't impeached you
know they impeached Donald Trump for getting up and asking protesters to
peacefully return but then we we we don't you know fully impeach and get
rid of Bill Clinton for having committed adultery in government
property I mean imagine you committing adultery in your your office at work
and lying about it and then them being like oh no problem everyone would
get fired from their job I mean that's so ridiculous for the president
to be able to do something like that and nobody cares because in America
adultery is not a big deal anymore you have a billboard out here
advertising adulterous websites advertising Ashley Madison advertising
adult friend finder or whatever weird stupid adultery website that they
have for people to hook up they'll say you know for people that you know
want a divorce or something or they'll advertise have an affair you know I've
seen all kinds of weird filthy billboards out there you know you asked
to put a Christian billboard up there or Bible verses and they'll shut you
down I've had billboard companies shut me down and say that our views don't
align with their morality well they have adult bookstores adultery
websites beer and alcohol and every trans freak thing you could ever
imagine on there I'm like what's your morality anything but the Bible
and that's the answer it's just anything but the Bible and why is
that because they have no knowledge of God I mean if you had any fear of God
you wouldn't put this giant billboard up advertising adultery advertising
alcohol advertising smut and filth and all kinds of degeneracy but we live in
a society today that has no knowledge of God they have no truth and they
have no mercy just merciless and you know it's a consequence of that mass
killing murder danger go to keep your finger go to Ecclesiastes chapter 8
just flip to the left go back a little bit and go to the book of
Ecclesiastes and look at chapter 8 you want to know why there's so much
evil in our society today it's because people forgot about the law of
God and you know what the law of God has it has punishments for criminals
when you commit murder according to the Bible you're to be put to death
you know in a Texas unless you kill a police officer it's not usually the
death penalty you know you have to commit a crime against like a government
official a paramedic a fireman or a police officer in order to even be on
the hook for the death penalty which is crazy to me it's like why why have
you killed like a little child is that not the death penalty but you kill a
police officer and that is are we really saying police officers are more
value than a little child or a woman or or any I mean look I don't think that
police officers have less value it's equivalent but why are we putting these
like limitations on the death penalty for certain individuals and it
almost seems like these individuals are worth more or something that that's
bizarre you know we kill children regularly through abortion and a lot of
people haven't cared a lot of people actually champion that in our
society where is the Bible again teaches the death penalty for that the
Bible talks about the death penalty for people that would commit force on
another person you know people that are committing all kinds of weird
perverted acts the Bible describes the death penalty for them the Bible
also just describes harsh penalties not even for just a capital punishment but
just stealing you know if you steal something according to the Bible you'd
have to pay back two times three times four I mean it could be anywhere up to
five seven times depending on the item exactly what the situation was and if
you couldn't afford that then you'd become the person's servant or slave
until you could pay it back you know we go and we steal people's money out
of their bank account for child alam for like child support alimony things
like that imagine if you stole from someone and they were just gonna
siphon your paycheck until you had to pay that that theft back it would
actually cause a lot of people to probably not steal as much anymore when
they actually have some kind of a consequence yet people today will steal
and no consequence people will burglarize no consequence people will
do all kinds of evil things with no consequence and look at the Bible in
Ecclesiastes chapter 8 what it says in verse 11 because sentence against
an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sons of
men is fully setting them to do evil notice the Bible says hey when you
don't punish criminals right away when you don't give them some kind of a
speedy execution of their crime then they're gonna be emboldened to
constantly commit that crime they're gonna go out and they're gonna commit
more crime they're gonna be encouraged to do so you know the same
even applies your children you know if your children misbehave they need a
speedy sentence they don't need some you know delayed reaction they need
immediate attention immediate sentencing otherwise you're gonna embolden your
children to do evil and we live in America where you can commit crimes and
you may not even go to jail for ten years after committing that crime and
then even if you get convicted it could be 10 20 30 40 years until you're
even punished for that crime whereas in the Bible you commit a crime you
could be immediately punished it could be a speedy trial and of course America
set it up that way you're supposed to have a speedy trial yet you know speedy
is apparently you know five ten twelve twenty years or whatever where the
changes to ten different judges and all kinds of weird things happen and
really if you're rich enough you can just pay for the thing to go away
typically or the statute of limitations applies well the statute of
limitations wouldn't even be a thing if we had a speedy sentencing there
wouldn't be this need for the statute of limitations or all those
kind of different things and of course they're trying to make it to where no one
can be punished for anything you know I don't see any legislative work
typically increasing crime I mean there's virtually no one trying to make
execution of criminals increased in our society why please they have no
knowledge of God and when you have no knowledge of God you're gonna live in a
society where blood touches blood until you have a speedy execution of
criminals we're gonna just continually live in a society like it's gonna only
get worse go back to Isaiah chapter 4 Hosea chapter 4 and it's a sad
reality for those that forget God's Word that don't care about the Bible
there are countries in this world that aren't Christian necessarily but at
least they follow some of these biblical principles and they're better
off often cases than even our country because they least they do
punish criminals or they at least do follow the principles of the Bible when
you don't follow the principles of the Bible claiming that you love God isn't
gonna fix anything claiming that you're a Christian won't fix it going to a
church isn't gonna fix it you know you actually have to follow God's
principles for them to be applied in your life you know showing up at this
church isn't gonna make you a better person you actually have to
implement the instructions of God's Word to be a better person you know
it's not like just coming into a building and it's a church you just
oh now I'm a good person oh I went and listened to the advice from
someone you know listening to advice is great but if you don't follow that
advice it's really a vain exercise anyways what's the point what's the way
you know you could read the Bible cover to cover and still not even be a better
person because you choose not to implement any of it you know there's
plenty of people that read the Bible cover to cover and then they become a
reprobate they didn't even get better they got worse why because they
didn't follow the instruction and often God is more merciful with those that
are ignorant than those that have the knowledge so in fact if you come to a
church like this and you're not implementing God's Word you could become
a worse person than if you stayed home why because following God's
instructions is the chief duty of man if you read Ecclesiastes it's like
what's the main thing that we're supposed to do fear God and keep his
commandments this is the whole duty of man yeah of course we want to get
saved and salvation is a free gift it's just a one-time trusting in Christ and
you're saved but that was a moment in time now what do you do for the other
70 years you have to fear God and keep his commandments if you want God to
bless you in your life God is not mocked whatever you're gonna whatever
you reap you're gonna sow look at verse 3 therefore shall the land mourn
and everyone that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the
field and with the fowls of heaven yea the fishes of the sea also shall be
taken away so he's saying hey because y'all are so evil I'm gonna literally
destroy your nation so badly that even animals won't live there anymore I mean
that's how that's how bad the punishment is gonna be he's saying I'm
gonna take away the birds the fishes there's gonna be no life here
and isn't is it any coincidence that if you look at a map today and you look
at the Middle East regions it is some of the the areas that look like they've
been the most desecrated like you'll just see you just look at the whole
world's like green and these look at the millions and they're just all just
giant just desert wilderness just it's like all right over there it's like
that's what most of humanity was in the beginning and they were just so
wicked then God's just like well taking that place away and then it's
like move over here like taking that place away and they take that place
away and they just all this uninhabitable land out there in the Middle East
parts because these are some of these areas that just forsook God and hated
God he just wiped them off of the planet it's where no one wanted to
inhabit that place ever again like Babylon Babylon became an uninhabited
place Sodom and Gomorrah is an uninhabited place and is it any
coincidence that those all exist in the biblical areas I mean where are the
uninhabitable places in other parts of the world you know pretty much every
other place of the world's always been rebuilt or reestablished or had at
least animals and things like that it's like where are all these crazy desert
areas that virtually nothing can live and survive it's all in these biblical
sites aren't they now it says in verse 4 yet let no man strive nor approve
another for thy people are as they that strive with the priest so God's
kind of saying something tongue-in-cheek here he's saying hey I know you guys
are really bad but don't let anybody you know don't let the society correct
itself because you guys aren't even give good advice you know what's the
point of listening to Sean Hannity when he's not even to tell you what
the Bible says what's the point of listening to the Republicans and
listening to the the Democrats and listening to all the top radio and all
these other people if they're not going to bring up the Bible all of their
correction all of their instruction to improve to approve you is going to be
vain anyways why because they argue with the priest they don't actually care
what the Bible says and they would argue with the Bible and what I've
noticed about a lot of these talk show hosts and a lot of these
conservatives is their anti-church the Alex Jones of this world the Steven
Crowder's of this world I hear him all the time you know Steven Crowder
he's based out of the Dallas-Fort Worth area and I hear him all the time he said
there's no church out there that's standing up against the homosexuals
there's no one that's willing to preach you know about these topics and
things like and I'm thinking like what what are you talking about
yeah okay and then they'll just they'll be like you know all the
churches are just going bad you know Alex Jones is like all the church
is going bad you know you need to stand with us if we're gonna get the
truth out there you know Alex Jones isn't getting any truth out there
because he doesn't have the gospel of Jesus Christ and he's not preaching any
truth why those are the type of you let's strive with the priest and you
know striving with the priest is a really interesting topic keep your
finger go to Deuteronomy chapter 17 go to Deuteronomy chapter 17 and you
know why I find it as an interesting topic is it's almost virtually the only
industry that people by and large have no respect for and and what I mean by
that is you know if you had some kind of a lump in your body or you had you
know your arm chopped off and you're rushed to the hospital and the surgeon
came in and said well this is what we're gonna do is how we do the
stitches you'd be like no no let me tell you how to do it I mean if you
were gonna have someone build a house for you unless you actually work in the
construction industry you're pretty much not going to argue with the
contractor in the plumber and the electrician about how to do their job
you're not going to argue with the engineer you know if you if you're not
in software developer you're certainly not going to argue with a software
developer about how a computer works or how a computer application works you
know you usually aren't going to argue with the people that are in a paid
profession that have experience and knowledge and have been doing it for
their whole life yet I find that everyone is smarter than the pastor
everyone's smarter than the priests everyone knows more than the guy that's
read the Bible and studied it and dedicated his life to it and preaches
on a regular basis it's like there are people that have never even read
the Bible cover to cover one time and they'll get up and be like you
don't know anything and you're like really you're just mister know it all
when it comes to the Bible and you've never even read it what what that's
impressive look what it says in Deuteronomy 17 about this attitude of
correcting the priests Deuteronomy 17 verse 8 if there arise a matter too
hard for thee in judgment between blood and blood between plea and plea
and between stroke and stroke being matters of controversy within my gates
now shall arise and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God
shall choose and thou shalt come under the priests the Levites and
under the judge that shall be in those days and inquire and they shall
show the descent into judgment and I shall do you according to the
sentence which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall
show thee and thou shalt observe they do according to all that they
informed me according to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee
and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee thou shalt do thou
shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee to the
right hand, nor to the left. What does it say next? And the man that will do
presumptuously and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth the minister
there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die and
thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. Now what did the Bible just
say? This is not Pastor Shelley's opinion, this is the Bible. The Bible
said if you come to the pastor, quote-unquote, you come to the
priest, and you ask his advice, and he gives you advice, and you don't do it, what
was your punishment? Death. That's what the Bible said. And yet, there are so
many people, I kid you not, they'll come to me and they'll ask my advice and
I'll give them advice and then they just won't do it. Now, you know, I
have not, I didn't kill any of them, okay? Just, just be careful, all right? I
didn't, I didn't do that. Go to First Timothy chapter 5, First Timothy chapter 5. But you know, God
wrote the law and he said how you're supposed to behave, so when people don't
do this and it's even customary for them not do it, it's not like God
changed his opinion though. Just because people aren't doing something
doesn't mean that God's not mad about it. God is still mad about that.
God is mad that people would not hearken to the man that he's put in a
position of authority over them. You know, how did God feel about the
children of Israel when they rebelled against Moses? He didn't like that
either, did he? In fact, he would just open up the earth and let them go
straight into hell. I mean, one of the most special miracles of the Bible was
people getting a straight ticket into hell and what was their problem? I mean,
you think of all the sins that happened in the Bible and I would say
that was the worst punishment. I mean, a ticket straight to hell, there's
nothing worse that's ever happened. That's ever happened. And what was their sin?
Arguing with the man of God. Yeah, people today, I mean, it is not even
controversial in America culture to argue with the pastor or to talk badly
about the pastor, go against their advice or not care what they have to
say. Yet the Bible teaches an exact opposite opinion. The Bible acts as if
you should have such a high regard and value for the leaders, the
spiritual authorities in your life to the extremity that you would do
everything that they said it said you wouldn't decline to the left hand or to
the right. You would do everything that they said, even unto the punishment of
death. The Bible says in verse 75 1 rebuke not an elder. I mean, the Bible
could not be clearer that you're not supposed to rebuke a pastor. Look a
little bit further down in this chapter. Verse number 19 against an elder
received not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses, then that sin
rebuke before all that others also may fear. Look what the Bible saying. If
someone is making an accusation against the pastor as a singular
witness, the Bible says you're not even allowed to listen to it. You're
not allowed to receive it. Meaning what? No, I don't. I don't know that
that's true. If someone comes to you and they have one witness against someone
and especially a pastor, the Bible is saying that you would never just receive
that. You would never think that that's true. You would have to have
multiple witnesses or lots of information proving something, and you
shouldn't even treat that person differently based on one accusation. And
you know why this is the case? It's because anybody that tries to do
anything for God is going to have a litany of false accusers. Show me the
man of God throughout history or the Bible that did not have just constant
slander and railers attacking them viciously. It's always the case. They
always have detractors, and of course we are not to just adhere to
everything that we hear or say or anything like this. You know that's why
the news media is such a flawed institution is because they run with
stories of one witness all the time. And they try to disguise the fact that they
have multiple witnesses. What they do is the Associated Press will break a story
and then 20 news agencies will all report on that report from the
Associated Press. And then you'll have another group of news reporters
that'll all base their thing. Multiple sources are saying, even though they're
all quoting the exact same one source, and that one source was an anonymous
source from the FBI, and that anonymous source of the FBI is a liar, is a fraud.
And yet they just run with an anonymous singular source. That is the
worst thing you could ever base information on. You need public,
multiple witnesses. And the Bible is saying when people are accepting
accusations against the pastor, or they're caught lying or
railing, you're supposed to publicly rebuke them before every person so that
people would be afraid to falsely accuse men of God. You know, when Miriam
spoke against Moses, God plagued her with leprosy and had her go without the
camp. And he likened it unto a father spitting in the face of his daughter.
And that's pretty extreme. The Bible could go elaborate on this a lot
more. I want to go to another place. Go to Hebrews 13. Go to Hebrews chapter 13.
But why is America just destroying itself? Well, because it's full of people
that strive with the priest. Frankly speaking, they don't care what the
pastors say. They don't care what the men of God say. They'll get advice and
they won't do it. And God is saying, hey, if you won't listen to the pastor,
then why in the world does it matter to listen to other people? Don't let the
other people strive and try to convince people of anything because they won't
even listen to the priest. They won't even listen to the man of God. And we
live in a society today where people have no respect for pastors
anymore, no respect for church authority, no respect for men of God. I
mean, you can have a man of God read the Bible cover to cover dozens and
dozens and dozens of times, memorize chapters and books of the Bible, know
the Bible in and out, preach the whole Bible for years and decades,
sacrifice his whole life for the Word of God, and then someone will come up and
be like, well, I think you're wrong. Have you even read the Bible? No. It's
like you're an idiot. You are a fool to sit here and criticize and attack
and think that you're smarter than the man of God. Anytime I thought I was
right and my pastor was wrong, I always gave him the benefit of the
doubt and thought maybe I'm wrong, even when I disagreed. And you know why?
Because a lot of times I ended up realizing he was right later and I was
wrong. And at least I had the respect to realize, you know what? Just
because I disagree with this person doesn't mean I'm right. That's a stupid
attitude that America has. Like, well, I disagree. Yeah, because you're
wrong. You know, have you ever thought about that? Maybe you need to
change your mind that repent, you know, just because you disagree
doesn't make your your opinion even valid. You could have a stupid
opinion. You could have a foolish opinion. There are foolish questions
even. Oh, there's no such thing as the fullest question. Well, that
was a foolish statement.
Look at Hebrews chapter 13 verse 17. Obey them that have the rule
over you and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls as they
that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with
grief for that is unprofitable for you.
The Bible could not be clearer that you're supposed to obey the
men of God that God puts in your life. And, you know, if
you don't like your pastor, then go find a pastor that you
do like. But whatever pastor you have, you should obey
them. You should listen to their advice. And you know, you
should never ask for their advice and take it lightly.
You know, the Children of Israel after they get destroyed,
and it's really the Children of Judah after they get destroyed
from the from the Babylonians, there's like a small remnant
left over. And this small remnant ends up even going
through another issue where an Israelite comes in and tries
to kill them and take some captive. And then you have
another guy come in of Korea, and he comes and rescues them.
And they're like, Man, we're just we're just so rebellious,
and we've caused all the problems for ourselves. We're
going to finally start serving God. And they say, Hey,
Jeremiah, what do we do? Do we go to Egypt or not? And he
said, No matter what you say, good or bad, we'll do it. And
then Jeremiah is like, that was a dumb thing, because
you're not going to do what I said. And they strive with
Jeremiah, and they go down to Egypt, and they all die a
horrible death. But this is the point. Don't ask the man
of God for advice, if you're not willing to follow it 100%,
regardless of what he says. That should be your attitude.
But this is the attitude typically, well, I want to just
shop my opinion around, I want to shop their opinion and see
what I like. But you know what, that's actually not
biblical, the right approach is if you're willing to ask
the man of God, or get advice, then you should be
willing to follow it 100%. Now you say, Well, I don't
want advice from you. Okay, well, then go find a pastor
that you like, like I said, you know, I, and a lot of
people ask for advice for me. And I try to give it to
them. But I always try to give them in my opinion, what's the
best advice for them, because it's typically easy to give
good advice to people that are not you. You know, because
I, I'm just invested in what's best for you, you
kind of can have a lot of blind spots, we all have a
lot of blind spots about ourselves, it's usually easy
to tell other people what's the right thing to do. It's
like, well, you should do this, it's often hard for
you to do it. So that's why it is good to ask for
advice. But you know, if you're going to ask advice from
a sound person, you know what, then you need to follow
it, you need to do that kind of advice, go back to
Hosea. But what is the Children of Israel like they
strive with the priests, they argue with the priest,
they're not willing to follow his vice. And, you
know, I can think of a ton of people that have asked
for my opinion have asked for my advice on something, I
gave them a very clear, specific answer or advice, and
they did not follow it. And now they're suffering
greatly for having not done it. And it wasn't like, you
know, typically advice is really easy, because it's not
it's not like I'm getting up here and saying like,
buy the red Ferrari or, you know, buy Apple stock,
it's like, you know, submit your husband or you
know, love your wife, or you know, things that are
obviously clearly just coming straight from the
Bible, but they decide not to do it, they decide
not to follow, they ask my personal opinion, and they
don't want to do it. And then they suffer greatly
for it, you know, and I'm sure I could give bad
advice. And I'm not saying that I give perfect advice,
the Bible is the only one that gives perfect advice.
But you know, I, I haven't experienced it yet, where
someone came up to me as I did exactly what you
said, it really turned out terrible. It hasn't
happened yet. It could happen. And you know, I
would try to help them or fix them. But you know,
it almost always happens is they don't do it. And
then it really, their life gets screwed up. They
have a horrible situation happen to them. Why?
Because usually, it's not hard to know what to do.
It's hard to do it. And if you're going to ask a man
of God what to do, do it. You know, when I asked my
pastors what I want, what to do or ask for advice
in a scenario, I always took it seriously. And I
even said, Look, if they're going to say A or B,
I'm going to do A or B. I'm not going to sit here
and argue and strive with the guy. You know, I'm
going to do if I'm going to ask this person's
advice, I'm going to mean it. I asked for
people's advice on, you know, I asked my friend
for advice on our movie. You know, I asked
Pastor Anderson's advice on our movie, and he
gave me advice, and I followed all of his advice
100%. You know, I didn't even I didn't even
strive with him. Okay. I was like, I agree. This
is a good this is good advice. And you know, I
took the advice. Now, obviously, if I didn't
agree, maybe I would have, you know, tried to
try to talk to him about why I might not agree
and then and then kind of reevaluate. But
ultimately, why would I ask for someone's advice
if they give it to me, and I'm not willing
to actually follow it? It means that you
didn't really care what their advice was. Think
about it. I mean, if you're choking, can't say
mom and dad, should I do a or b and you're like
a and like woman to be? Does it seem like
they cared about your choice? Like your
opinion? It seems like a vain exercise. And
it's like, why ask a pastor's advice if you're
not even gonna follow it, or if you don't
even care what they have to say? You know,
don't ask for a rubber stamp. Rubber stamps are
pointless anyways. You know, if you're going to
ask for advice, it should be had with the
opinion that I'm going to do what the advice
is. Otherwise, there's no point in asking for
the advice. Look at Isaiah Chapter four. And
look at verse number five. The Bible says
Therefore, shalt thou fall in the day, and
the prophet also shall fall with thee in the
night and I will destroy thy mother. My people
are destroyed for a lack of knowledge, because
that was rejected knowledge. I will also reject
me, that thou shalt be no priest to me, seeing
else forgotten the law of God of thy God. I
will also forget thy children. This is some
harsh punishment, God saying, Hey, you reject
the Bible, I'll reject you. Even at the point
where their entire generate the next
generation's forsaken. And you know, sad, we
live in a world today with a lot of
children that don't have a strong opportunity
to be saved because their parents hate God,
because their parents have rejected God. Verse
seven, as they were increased, so they sinned
against me, therefore, will I change their glory
into shame. You know, America is becoming a
shameful nation, because we've, we forsaken
God, and he's taking all the things that we
can glory in and just making it shameful. You
know, the American flag used to be something
of honor. And people used to really treat the
American flag with a lot of respect. But the
day it's almost becoming shameful to fly the
American flag, because of our nation says in
verse eight, they eat up the sin of my
people, and they set their heart on their
iniquity. People that just love sin, their
heart and affection and passion is only about
sin. They care more about sin than anything
else. Verse nine, and there should be like
people like priest, and I will punish them
for their ways and reward them for their
doings. You know, something that a lot of
people don't realize is that a priest is
often a reflection of the people. You say, oh,
I want a better pastor will become a better
person. And why that works is because if you
guys all become just such a so much better
of a person than me as a pastor or whatever
pastor you have, then you might end up
realizing like, I don't like this pastor, and
you might find a better pastor. You know,
think about it this way. There's a lot of
people that move for a church. Why is it
that they move for a church? Because they
can't find a pastor that reflects what
they're wanting. So they end up moving to
a church or an area where they get a
pastor that's going to reflect the desires
of their heart, reflect what they actually
want. And if everyone had that attitude,
false prophets couldn't even exist. Go to
second Timothy chapter four. Why is it
that Joel Osteen exists? It's because
people have apostatized. It's because
people want someone to lie to them. It's
because people like lies and deception and
fraud and insincerity. People like a vain
show. People just want to be encouraged. I
mean, if you listen to Joel Osteen, which I've
listened to some of his preaching, it is
always an encouragement. Everything's just
encouraged. And you know, sometimes we
need encouragement. I'm not against
encouragement. But I don't care what it
is, you find any Joel Osteen sermon, you
just drop the hammer, just drop into the
middle of the sermon, and it'll immediately
be encouraging. The world's getting you
down and just pick yourself up. And you
know, the Lord, He just loves you. And
He's just there by your side. And you
know, He'll never leave thee nor forsake
thee. There's the world will say
forsake you. He won't forsake you. And
He's not mad at you. And He loves
you. And you're special. Everybody in
here is special. Everyone here is
wonderful. You know, you've been
having a hard time this week. Well, you
know, God's God's gonna bless you. I
feel like you're gonna have a
breakthrough. When you put money in
that plate, God's gonna make a
breakthrough in your finances. And
then God's gonna make a breakthrough
in your marriage. And I feel I feel
that there is chains on you right
now and God's gonna break them. And
you're just gonna be lifted up. I
feel like this is gonna be a year of
lifting up. And God's gonna lift us
all up. And then we're gonna be up.
And then we're gonna be lifted up
again. And then just give me some
more lifting. You know, we should
call it the lifting year. This is
his preaching. And it doesn't matter
what sermon. You just flip it on
and you're just lifted up and
encouraged and he's for everybody
and it's just great and it's just
wonderful. Why? Because that's what
they want to hear. Second Timothy
chapter number four. Look what the
Bible says. In verse three for the
time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine but after
their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers having itching
ears and they shall turn away
their ears from the truth and
return to the fables. Now that's what
the Bible says. It says they shall
heap to themselves teachers. You
know a lot of people look at these
false prophets and say oh they're
charlatans gathering in the
gullible. But the Bible actually
kind of flips the script and says
it's not like these charlatans are
out and gathering the gullible. It's
the gullible gathering a charlatan.
The gullible are going out there
and saying who will lie to me? And
it's just like Joel Osteen is
like well I will. This is my Bible
and I am what it says I am. A
sheep. A sheep in wolves clothing.
He's not even faking OK. You
know this is obvious that he's a
wolf all right. But he's not
really a sheep. All right let's go
if you would back to Hosea for a
moment. Here's the reality. You
get the pastor you deserve in
many cases. And you say well I
don't like my pastor. Well then
you need to become a better
person. And you say why did I
come and hear this sermon.
Because you wanted to apparently.
You know this is what you
wanted to hear. OK. You wanted
to hear the Bible. Good bad or
ugly. You said hey whatever the
priest says good bad evil ugly
let's hear it. I just want the
truth. You know I love people
that just love the truth good
bad or ugly. You know what's
frustrating is people that
actually enjoy lies or deception
or don't really care what's
the truth. Well if it sounded
good then whatever. No I want
it to be true even if it
sounds ugly. Even if it's not
the best most pleasing thing
I've ever heard. Yet they
didn't want to hearken unto
God's word so he gives them
a like priest and they're
going to be rewarded. Verse
10 for they shall eat and
not have enough. They shall
commit whoredom and shall not
increase because they have
left off to take heed to
the Lord. Notice what the
problem is. They're not
taking heed to the Lord.
Why because they strove with
the priest and replaced him
with Joel Osteen. They don't
want to hear what God has to
say. Verse 11 whoredom and
wine and new wine take away
the heart. You know there
used to be a phrase that
someone was more nervous than
a whore in church. So you
know what the whore did.
They threw out that pastor
and got a new pastor that
will never preach about them
being a whore so they can
feel comfortable in church.
And you know we have
churches all over America
they're filled with whores
filled with whoremongers filled
with drunkards. In fact there
are Baptist churches I've seen
it where they drink beer while
they sing their hymns. It's
called beer and hymns. I mean
think about taking away the
heart. I mean how are you
going to really sing out of a
pure heart unto God while
you're drinking an alcoholic
beverage. You're drinking
poison let alone drinking
anything. How are you going to
be singing while you're
drinking. What kind of
nonsense is the world that we
live in that people are
drinking alcohol in church.
It's taking away their heart.
You know we live in a society
that's only mostly about
drinking alcohol and
committing adultery and
fornication. I mean what is
it that college men want more
than anything anymore is
pretty much to just get a
hook up and to drink alcohol
and usually use alcohol to
even get the hook up in the
first place. It's just about
alcohol and hook ups and
whoredom. And you know our
society is being destroyed
because of alcohol. I mean
our society is being
destroyed by whores by women
dressed in scantily clad
clothing that are revealing all
parts of their body. And the
Bible teaches that when you
do this you're going to take
the way you're going to
take the heart away from a
man. You know men have an
important role in society.
They're supposed to build
society and protect society
and allow it to function.
And when they're distracted
by whoredom and wine all the
time then society is going
to suffer. And why is
America's society suffering
so much. Because the devil has
used whoredom and wine to
take away the heart of men
today to where they don't
care about anything else. You
know we often look down upon
someone that's a drug addict.
You know someone is addicted
to LSD addicted to meth
addicted of these things. Why
because that person has now
become just a just a zombie.
They're just kind of like just
and they just live only for
their next high. They live
for the next hit. They live
for the next you know joint
that they can smoke or
whatever drug it is that
they're addicted to and they
have no life apart from that.
Really the only other parts of
their life are just to get
to that next hit. You know
why don't someone become a
crack whore. It's because the
woman has lost all of her
money all of her friends and
she has no resources in order
to get more drugs. So the
only way for her to get more
drugs is the whore herself to
get enough money to then buy
drugs again. And the only
reason she even lives is just
to get the next drug dose. And
we have men today where
they live for one purpose
to get drunk one more time
or to sleep with the next
girl. That's the only thing
that they're living for.
They're not living for a career.
They're not living for a wife.
They're not living for a
family. They're not living for
a job. They're not living for
society. They're not living
to do anything. They're not
living for God. They're not
living for the word of God.
They're not living with any
real purpose in this life
because they've been sucked
dry through alcohol and
through whoredom. Also this
list has new wine which is
rich as money. Which is
saying that they become a
zombie. They become an NPC
a non playable character
where essentially they have no
real opinion no critical
thinking no real zeal no
real passion. The only thing
they want is they just move
to the next drug dose that
they can get the next high
the next. And of course this
is why the Bible warns so
much against us in the book
of Proverbs for young men
because he doesn't want the
young men to succumb to
these evils and for society
to destroy itself. You know
China and other countries in
this world are not afraid of
a bunch of drug addicted
overweight feminized beer
hops men that are just
chasing the next whore. They
know they can win that
battle. There are plenty of
areas in the world where you
can't even drink out. You
know the Muslims when they
had the FIFA like World Cup
everybody was shocked. This
like you can't even drink
alcohol in the stadium.
They're like well how do you
enjoy a sporting event
without alcohol. It's like
you know it's not baseball.
That's how I'm getting it's
because you know being sober
actually makes your life more
enjoyable folks and people
that can't have a good time
without drinking alcohol are
the most boring people ever.
And if you're sober hanging
out with drunk people you
realize real soon it's not
fun. It's not enjoyable. No
one wants to be around these
toddlers that are considered
adults. I mean why do you
think it is that the bar
everything is bolted to the
ground and is metal that can
be sprayed down to the hose
because people that are
drunks are glorified
toddlers and they're a danger
to themselves. They're a
danger to the establishment
and they vomit and they
defecate on themselves and
they pee on themselves and
they basically can't even
drive. They can't even walk.
They can't even talk. I
mean what is a toddler.
It's one who can't talk who
can't drive who can't use
the bathroom appropriately that
vomits need someone to take
care of them is an emotional
roller coaster. I mean you
look at these people that are
drunk and they're emotional
roller coaster. They go from
happy to sad like that like
a man. Hey buddy. We're the
best. Hey did you just hit
me. Hey I could. Let's go to
the parking lot man. I'll
fight you. It's stupid. And
they're stupid. They're not
you know what they're not
talking about in the bars. The
textus receptus you know what
they're not talking about
Deuteronomy Leviticus. They're
not talking about the finer
points of society. You know
what they're talking about
whores. Oh did you see that
movie man. Yeah I saw it.
Yeah. Super cool man. Do you
see the football game. Yeah I
did. It's like that's what
they talk about. And they
have no heart. They have no
real passion. They're weak.
They're they've been drug.
They're just drug addicted
losers. They have nothing to
live for. And because they're
just drinking alcohol all the
time and chasing horse. You
know what happens their wives
and daughters turn against
them. Let's keep reading
verse 12. My people ask
counsel at their stocks and
their staff declare none of
them for the spirit of
whoredoms have caused them
to err. And they have gone
a whoring from under their
God. They sacrifice upon the
tops of the mountains and burn
incense upon the hills under
oaks and poplars and elms
because the shadow thereof is
good. Therefore your daughters
shall commit whoredom and
your spouses shall commit
adultery. I will not punish
your daughters when they
commit adult or commit
whoredom nor your spouses when
they commit adultery for
themselves are separated with
whores and they sacrifice with
harlots. Therefore the people
that does not understand to
fall. What God is saying is
saying look if the man of
society are just going to
chase whores all day then
what's going to happen is
you're going to raise your
daughters to be whores and
because your daughters are
whores and because you're not
with your wife you're going
to drive your wife to be
with another man and they're
going to commit adultery and
whoredom because of the men
in society. Why is it that
in America there are so many
whores and so much adultery.
It's men's fault. It's
because men did not marry a
virgin and love their wife.
That is why if men in society
would marry a virgin and would
love their virgin and be
faithful under their virgin we
could eliminate whoredom and
adultery in our society.
It is not the women's fault.
A man going out to the bar
every single night and chasing
whores will drive his wife to
adultery will drive his
daughters to whoredom will
destroy his family.
What does the Bible say in
Deuteronomy. I'm sorry go to
Leviticus. I want to go to
Leviticus for a second. Keep
your finger here. You know
we often want to blame whores
for being whores but you know
what it's their dad's it's
their dad's fault. You know
my daughter does not have the
choice to become a whore or
not on her own. I can help
her with that decision but I
could also drive her to that
decision and look what the
Bible warns against it says
Leviticus 19 verse 29 do not
prostitute by daughter to cause
her to be a whore. Let's the
land fall to whoredom and
the land become full of
wickedness. Notice the progress
that happened a dog a dad
prostitutes his daughter then
the whole land becomes obsessed
with whores and then the
whole land becomes wicked.
That is the cycle and it's a
side. You know why is it that
the Jews of Hollywood wanted
to go and get all these
scantily clad women on the
television screen because
they were prostituting their
daughters to be whores on the
television screen and it
caused a whole generation of
men to chase whores. You
know it used to be in
society as a woman you
couldn't even go in public
wearing a bikini. It was it
was like illegal for them to
show off that much of their
body. Women were arrested at
public beaches for wearing
bikinis in our society because
it was shameful because it's
whoredom. But you know who
introduced that topic that no
one could tell them no was
the television was movies was
Hollywood and because of their
influence and because the
Jews were willing to
prostitute their daughters on
the screen and were willing to
allow their daughters to become
the Hollywood horrors and
celebrities of our society. It
has caused our entire nation
to fall to wickedness
because we have the Miley
Cyrus dads out there and we
have the Britney Spears dads
out there and we have the
Jessica Simpson dads out there
allowing their daughters to
prostitute themselves and to go
out and dress like a whore.
It's caused our entire
society and nation to fall to
wickedness. You say what is
the problem with society.
Britney Spears dad Jessica
Simpson's dad Miley Cyrus is
dead. All the dads out there
that would allow their
daughters to go out and dress
like whores. And you know
what if every man in America
today stopped their daughters
from going out and dressing
like whores things would change
like that because there
wouldn't be any options.
There wouldn't be any there
wouldn't be all this excess
out there. It's because
there's so much option.
There's so much available
today. It's destroying our
society is destroying America.
And you know what as a godly
man you should never ever ever
ever ever let your daughter
dress like a whore.
That's shameful.
How can you as a man and you
know what every other man
thinks. Let your daughter go
out and dress like a whore.
It's so shameful today.
And don't let the television
try to brainwash you.
They'll try to be like oh
you've got to fight with dad
about what to wear.
You better believe it because
my daughter is never going
out in public dressed like a
whore. Plus she's also not
going out with her friends by
herself.
She's not going out with you
Shekim by herself because we
know what every guy's like.
And you know what you can
make it where your daughter's
a virgin on her wedding
night.
Say how never ever ever ever
allow her to not be around
you or your wife.
So that's that's extreme.
Well you know it's extreme
letting your daughter be a
whore.
I think that you allowing
your daughter to just sleep
with a random dude that
doesn't love her is way more
extreme than me always being
a chaperone to my daughter.
That's not extreme.
You're crazy.
You're crazy if you think
it's cool to just let your
daughter get violated by the
men of this world and take
an advantage by the men of
this world.
And how many men end up lying
with a woman outside of
marriage and then marrying
them.
I mean I don't know what
the statistics are anymore but
it seems very low.
It's very shameful today that
we live in a society.
Go back if you would.
I want to read a few more
verses here.
You say when are you going to
stop yelling.
Well we'll be done preaching
pretty soon.
OK.
Look what did you come to
hear.
What book of the Bible you
want you want Joel Osteen part
four.
It doesn't exist in the
Bible.
You know that's the thing
that most people don't realize.
Show me all the chapters that
are just pure just
encouragement and just love
and sweet and light.
It's like it always has
something gnarly in it.
Especially if it's I mean
especially the minor
prophets.
I mean man they're pretty
gnarly.
That's why.
Why is it that almost no one
knows the minor prophets
because they're gnarly.
Why is it that everybody
likes Jonah because it's like
the least gnarly one.
It's like the most
encouraging kind of.
It's like God is going to
destroy the city and he
didn't.
OK.
It was like most of the
rest of them like destruction
doomed.
I will love them no more.
I mean that's the vast
majority.
What does the Bible say in
verse 15.
Though thou Israel play the
harlot yet let not Judah
offend nor and come not you
into Gilgal.
Neither go you up to Beth
Avon nor swear the Lord
liveth for Israel slide
back as a bike backsliding
heifer.
Now the Lord will feed them
as lamb in a large place.
Ephraim is joined to idols
let him alone.
Their drink is sour.
They have committed
whoredom continually.
Her rulers with shame do
love give ye the wind
have bound her up in her
wings and they shall be
ashamed because of their
sacrifice.
The Bible says look when you
do wickedness ultimately
shame is going to come upon
you.
And you know our country is
becoming more wicked by the
day but you know it's also
becoming more shameful by the
day and hasn't even taken
long for people to realize
how shameful it is.
Now I thought it was
interesting it says in verse
15 that he doesn't want
them to swear the Lord
liveth.
That's a verse that a lot of
people should memorize.
Just just so they realize
what the word swear even
means you know a lot of a
lot of idiots out there will
just say like the word swear
means to use like a four
letter word.
And it's like that's so
stupid because the word
swear means to make an oath
or a promise is what it
means.
And God's telling them not
this is that I can imagine
people get up to me like
Pastor Shelley the Bible
says not to swear nor
swear but what is it the
what are they swearing the
Lord liveth.
Why.
He's saying don't don't go
around as the children of
Israel committing all kinds
of sin and wickedness and
then just being like oh well
the Lord liveth you know
he's going to bless us he's
going to take care of us or
often what people will do is
they will make an oath
they'll make a promise to
you and they're lying.
They already know they're
lying.
So they'll swear in this
context say I'm coming to
church you know you go out
you knock on someone's door
and you'll get them safe
and they're like I'm coming
to church and they say I
swear.
How would they do this Old
Testament they say as the Lord
liveth I'm coming to church.
So they're saying as certain
as God lives which what
certainty level is that.
That's 100 percent.
OK.
It's beyond that.
That's more trustworthy than
anything.
He's saying just as certain
just as truth worthiness as
the Lord liveth I'm going to
do what I said.
And the Bible tells us not to
swear in that context.
You know Jesus even tells us
swear not at all in the
New Testament.
What does he mean he's saying
the same thing here.
You know some people like oh in
the New Testament Matthew
chapter 5 Jesus taught a lot of
different things in the Old
Testament.
No it's the same doctrines
folks.
God's telling him not to
swear here either.
Why.
Because swearing is often a
signal or a sign that the
person's lying.
If I say I'm going to do
something I just do it.
But if you know I'm worried
about them believing me that's
when the swears come in over
the top like I swear on my
mother's grave or as the
Lord liveth or you bet your
last dollar.
You know that's a dumb thing
to say because what the person
is trying to do they're trying
to overcompensate for the fact
that you know they're being
deceitful.
You know that they're not
really being honest with you.
They're just making all these
great O's and they're just
constantly breaking their oath.
And you know we live in a
society where people
constantly break their word.
People sign contracts they'll
sign lease agreements they'll
sign all kinds of commercial
deals they'll sign all kinds
of things out there and then
they'll just break it like a
like nothing.
They'll sign it and be like
yep yep yep yep and then
they'll just break their word
change their word.
You know that is a wicked
society when you can't trust
people when people will just
tell you one thing and
others do the other thing.
You have no honesty no
integrity nothing's happening.
You know that's what he
said in the earlier part of
the chapter literally says in
verse 2 by swearing and
lying.
And of course swearing always
increases when you live in a
society that's full of lies.
When you live in a society
that can never be honest or
never promise you anything or
keep their word then what
happens they constantly
increase their swearing because
they need to constantly try
to convince you that they're
actually a genuine person.
You know used to be in society
that if someone said they
would do something they just
always did it.
An American society I mean
people would used to be a
contract the handshake deal.
You know you could just it
was as good as a literal
written contract but what
happened over time people kept
breaking their word in America
and we've gotten to a point
where nobody honors their word
that everybody has these
written these written
contracts and you look at the
written contracts.
I mean they're 20 pages 30
pages 40 pages of every
possible contingency of this
what happens here and you're
going to have to pay my
attorney's fees and blah.
And it's just like an insane
contract you have to sign.
Why.
Because nobody keeps their word
because there's no honesty and
integrity in our society.
Go back to Leviticus one more
time.
Leviticus
chapter number five.
And look at verse number four.
What does the Bible say?
Or of a sole swearer
pronouncing with his lips to
do evil or to do good
whatsoever it be that a man
shall pronounce with an oath and
it be hit from him when he
knoweth of it then he shall
be guilty and one of these.
So according to the Bible and
again this chapter is kind of
talking about oaths and things
like that.
Whatever you swear eat whether
it's evil or good you're
supposed to do it.
You're supposed to keep that
notice what the definition of
swearing is pronouncing
with your lips to do
evil or good.
Right.
It's that you're going to do
something so that that's the
definition of swearing.
OK.
Look at chapter six verse three.
Or if he law or if you have
found that which was lost and
lieth concerning it and notice
this and sweareth falsely and
any of sorry in any of all
these that a man do with
sinning therein.
So you know it's swearing
falsely is a sin.
You know it's swearing honestly
is not a sin.
So is swearing a sin.
Well according to the Bible
if you're swearing in a context
where you say as the Lord
liveth I believe that's a sin
you're not supposed to do that
it's over the top.
But I don't believe it's
wrong to make a promise.
And you know some people get
weirded out about this.
Obviously promises can't be
off the table.
Otherwise you could never
have any kind of society right.
Someone said hey will you
come here.
It's like well I don't want
to promise you anything.
You know how could you even
get married.
Obviously a marriage vow is a
promise that you're promising
to love them till death do us
part.
You know you're not doing as
the Lord liveth I do.
You say I do.
You just mean your word.
And of course God says let
your yay be yay or nay be
nay.
So of course he's not saying
you can't say yes or no.
He's saying don't go over the
top.
But one thing you don't do
is you don't promise someone
yes and then do no.
You don't promise someone no
and then do yes.
And you certainly don't vote
God's name and say yes
and then not do it.
We need to be a people that
swear it to his own hurt and
change it not.
You know the Bible talks
positively about the person
that swears.
He that swear it to his own
hurt and change it not.
It didn't say the person that
never swore it saying the guy
that swore.
Go to Hebrews chapter number
six.
Hebrews chapter number six.
You know let's be a group of
people that keep their word.
Hey pastor whatever you say
I'll do it.
That was in that was a swear.
So what are you going to do.
You have to then keep that
word don't you.
Now in Hebrews for all
those people that you know
get so bent out of shape
about the word swear look
what the Bible says here in
verse 13 for when God made
promise to Abraham because he
could swear by no greater he
swear by himself.
The Bible says that God
swear.
So if you're going to
interpret the Bible to say
swear always means using cuss
words and it's always a sin.
How do you interpret that
verse.
The Bible says that God swear
by himself meaning
what he made an oath or a
promise to himself.
That's what that's saying
clearly.
Go to Psalm 63 this was
I'm going to return this
evening Psalm 63.
You know people today have no
knowledge of the Bible and
they will strive with the
priest and they will falsely
accuse the priests of all
kinds of different things and
they just look like idiots
because they don't know what
the Bible says.
You know before I'm going to
criticize a surgeon maybe I
should learn a little bit about
medical you know anatomy or
something like learn a little
bit of you know the practice
of medicine.
You know it's kind of foolish
for me to start criticizing
surgeons and start criticizing
experts in their field of
study when I have no knowledge
about the topic and yet so
many people want to criticize
pastors and want to criticize
the men of God when they
have no idea what they're
saying.
They desire to be a teacher of
the law understanding neither
what they say nor where they
affirm.
And of course when you're not
a pastor it's easy to have a
bozo opinion because it doesn't
affect anybody.
You know if I have weird
opinions it affects a lot of
people potentially.
You know a lot of people
come to our church a lot of
people listen to our sermons
and people make changes based
on sermons which is great.
So you know I have to be
careful what I say and what I
teach because if I say
something wrong or amiss or
whatever it could cause people
to make a devastating change
in their life but it could
also cause them to make a
positive change in their life.
You know that the tongue
has the power of death and
life according to the
scripture and it's so
important what we say.
Yet there's so many bozos out
there that just want to blow
their mouth off online and
they have no congregation.
Beware of that person because
they have no real recourse.
It's not it's not hard to
see it's not it's not easy
to see what the ramifications
are of people following
their doctrine whereas
when you actually come to a
church filled with tons of
people and they're listening
to the preacher and they all
seem to be having successful
lives.
Well then you can actually see
wow this isn't necessarily
dangerous advice because look
at all the fruit look what's
happening with those people.
You know a church is going to
ultimately be the byproduct
of a preaching in many cases
and you can judge a preacher
oftentimes by the
congregation because the
congregation is going to be
a direct reflection of the
preaching and vice versa.
It is a nice mirror to those
things.
Psalms 63.
Look what it says in verse
number 11.
But the king shall rejoice in
God.
Everyone that sweareth by him
shall glory but the mouth of
them that speak lies
shall be stopped.
You know we should be the type
of people that make o's and
promises to God and keep our
word to God and say hey you
know what I'm going to go to
church.
Hey you know what I'm going to
read the Bible.
Hey I'm going to serve God with
my life not be those who
constantly speak lies and teach
false doctrine.
And you know the Bible says
they're eventually going to get
their mouth stopped.
You know God doesn't like
lies.
He's going to shut the mouths
of the false teachers and of
the false preachers and those
who preach all kinds of
nonsense.
Why is it that Christianity is
the most popular religion and
there's so many other
religions that have failed
been squashed been snuffed
out destroyed people you know
constantly just being eliminated
because they're speaking lies.
Those who speak lies will
eventually destroy themselves
and those who harken to them
and those who speak the truth
can actually minister to
people's lives and we need
people that are going to keep
you know appreciating truth.
Go to a church where you're
going to have truth being
spoken and when you have the
truth being spoken and you
know that it's the truth you
need to honor that truth.
Let us not become a church let
us not become a people
that are like Hosea chapter
number four and our society is
going to be that way but we
can be you know a shining
light and a crooked and
perverse nation we can be
different than this this this
world and we're supposed to be
separate from this world we're
supposed to be unique.
Let us not be those who care
so much about whoredom and
wine and and and we're lying
and we're swearing falsely and
we're breaking our word.
Let us be people who are
dedicated to God and keeping our
promises.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father for
the scripture thank you for
this chapter.
I pray that you would help the
young men in this room to
not be taken away their
hearts to be stolen by the
whoredom and the alcohol and
the drugs and by all the
temptations of the devil out
there.
We live in a society that's
very perverse and there's a
lot of temptation there's a
lot of things that would try
to destroy men's hearts and
destroy their faith and destroy
their lives and I pray that
they would hearken to the
scripture.
They would dedicate themselves
that they would get temperance
and self-control that they
would be strong men to lead
their families and to protect
their wives and protect their
daughters and that you would
help us to be a people that
love the Lord that love truth
that love the knowledge of God
and when challenged and
confronted with the scripture we
don't turn to the left hand
or the right hand but we do
exactly what you would have us
do and in Jesus name we pray
Amen.
All right for our final song
this evening we're going to go
to 248 Now I Belong to Jesus
248 Now I Belong to Jesus
song 248 Now I Belong to
Jesus.
kJesus, my Lord, will love me
forever.
From him no power of evil can
sever.
He gave his life to ransom my
soul.
Now I Belong to him.
Now I Belong to Jesus.
I now belong to him.
to Him. Now I belong to Jesus. Jesus belongs to me, not for the years of time alone, but
for eternity. Once I was lost in sin's degradation, Jesus came down to bring me salvation. From
sorrow and shame, now I belong to Him. Now I belong to Jesus. Jesus belongs to me, not
for the years of time alone, but for eternity. Joy floods my soul, for Jesus has saved me,
freed me from sin that long had enslaved me. His precious blood He gave to redeem, now I belong to
Him. Now I belong to Jesus. Jesus belongs to me, not for the years of time alone, but for eternity.
God bless you all. Thank you for coming. You are dismissed.
Thank you.