for her. Her son in law, her daughter and son in law's family that they would be
stationed close by. Also, we have brother Sue Hale. He said that he's
extending his stay. I guess he really likes his fiance in the Philippines or
something. So he's staying over there. And so we'll be praying for them. Also,
we've been praying for a job for brother Alex. Brother Walk is asking
for prayer for his friend. One's cancer treatment. Brother Collins asking for
prayer for a friend. Brother Nick Edwards for spiritual growth. Brother
Randall is asking for prayer for his son. They'd be saved. Also, the glasses
are asking for prayers for their neighbors. And you know what that means.
No, I'm just kidding. Also, Miss Nexus was asking for prayer for back pain.
We're asking for health for the Scott family. Um, also, brother Walk was
asking for prayer for his dad's heart problems. So we have several prayer
requests there on. I know some people have been sick, too, but we'll say a
quick word of prayer for our church family right now. Thank you, Heavenly
Father, for giving us this opportunity to have church service this evening. I
pray that you would bless all aspects of our church service, that you would
please be with our expecting ladies. Also, I help. I pray that you would just
help our church family with their health concerns. Please give them
comfort. Please strengthen them during these difficult times. Please give them
recovery. I pray you would help our traveling friends and family that they
would return safely. Please help our friends and family. Any jobs? Please
help those that we care about our friends and our loved ones that need to
be saved, that you would help soften their hearts, that you would open our
mouths boldly, that you would give us the opportunity to give them the
gospel and that we could see them saved. And we just thank you for all that
you give us. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
On the back, we have the note about upcoming events, and we have the theater
premiere of our film January 30th as well as a small town soul winning
marathon February 4th and Cleburne, Texas. So that's a little bit south of
the DFW area. It's not too far away. March 15th. We're gonna having a
special event service. It's gonna be Old West Wednesday. And so the idea was
basically just have kind of a combination of fellowship and service
and to dress up. And what better way to dress up than than like Texas, right? I
mean, there's no better way to do it. And so, of course, cowboy hats are
welcome and all the other, uh, you know, your six shooter and everything else
you got. All right. And then April 1st, even if you want to ride a horse to
church, that's okay. All right. And then April 1st, we're gonna have a
Dallas, Texas Sony marathon. April 24th of the 29th is our Bahamas mission
strip. So that'll be something you need to send an itinerary. Just email that
to us. If you have questions, please ask me about it because we want to make
sure people are prepared. You do need a passport for that. Also, we had the
congratulations to the Cooley family on the birth of Victoria Estelle Cooley.
She was born on the eighth at 10 59 PM and weighed seven pounds, 14 ounces
and was 20.5 inches long. Congratulations them.
If you have any or if you'd like to help with the meal train, you can see
Mrs Milstead. She usually helps organize that. Or you could ask my wife and I'm
sure they could help point you in the right direction on that. Um, I think
that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements are concerned. Our third
song this evening is gonna be 274. Come on to me. Song 274.
274. Come on to me.
Here the blessed save your calling the oppressed. Oh, you have a laden. Come
to me and rest. Come no longer. Terry your load will bear. Bring me every
burden. Bring me every care. Come on to me. I will give you rest. Take my yoke
upon you. Hear me and be blessed. I am meek and low. The come and trust my
mom.
Mhm.
Are you disappointed? Wandering here and there, dragging chains of doubt and
loaded down with care. Do one holy feeling struggle in your breast. Bring
your case to Jesus. He will give you rest. Come on to me. I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you. He hear me and be blessed. I am meek and low. Lee
come and trust my mind. Come. My yoke is easy and my burdens light on the
third, stumbling on the mountains, dark with sin and shame, stumbling toward
the pit of hell's consuming flame by the powers of sin, deluded and oppressed.
Hear the tender shepherd. Come to me and rest. Come on to me. I will give
you rest. Take my yoke upon you. He hear me and be blessed. I am meek and
low. Lee come and trust my mom. Come. My yoke is easy and my burdens lie.
Have you by temptation often conquered? Ben has a sense of weakness brought
distress within. Christ will sanctify you if you'll claim his best. In the
Holy Spirit, he will give you rest. Come on to me. I will give you rest. Take my
yoke upon you. He hear me and be blessed. I am meek and low. Lee come and trust my
mom. Come. My yoke is easy. My burdens lie. As the offering plates are being
passed around, please turn your Bibles to Hosea chapter 5. Hosea chapter number 5.
Hosea chapter 5. We will read the entire chapter as is our
custom. You can follow along silently starting in verse number 1, Hosea
chapter 5. The Bible reads, Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, ye house of
Israel, and give ye ear, O house of the king. For judgment is toward you,
because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. And the
revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebukur of them
all. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me. For now, O Ephraim, thou
commitest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. They will not frame their doings
to turn unto their God, for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them,
and they have not known the Lord. And the pride of Israel doth testify to his
face. Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity. Judah also shall
fall with them. They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the
Lord, but they shall not find him. He hath withdrawn himself from them. They
have dealt treacherously against the Lord, for they have begotten strange
children. Now shall a month devour them with their portions. Blow ye the
cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah. Cry aloud at Beth-avon after
thee, O Benjamin. Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke among the
tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. The princes of
Judah were like them that removed the bound. Therefore I will pour out my
wrath upon them like water. Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment because
he willingly walked after the commandment. Therefore will I be unto
Ephraim as a moth and the house of Judah as rottenness. When Ephraim saw
his sickness and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian and
sent to King Jareb. Yet could he not heal you nor cure you of your wound.
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will tear and go away. I will take away and none shall rescue him.
I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offense and seek
my face. In their affliction they will seek me early. Let's bow our heads
for a word of prayer. Father in heaven we thank you for Hosea chapter 5 and I pray
that you would fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit and enable him to explain
this portion of scripture to us to the best of his ability and Lord help us to
pay attention draw connections in your word and learn about this chapter. We
love you. We pray for protection over our church and in Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Amen. We're in Hosea chapter number 5 and in the previous chapter the Lord was
rebuking the children of Israel as a whole and basically describing how they
were going to be destroyed and really you know the thing about Hosea is we
don't really change context too much. Israel is just super wicked and they're
going to be destroyed and we're constantly being reminded of this and
God continues to elaborate and he kind of focuses in a little bit more narrowly
here in chapter 5. You look at verse 1 it says hear ye this O priests and harken ye house of
Israel and give ye ear O house of the king for judgment is toward you because you have been a
snare on Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor. Now what's interesting about these locations
if you kind of look these things up in the Bible is Mizpah is kind of a border town
for Judah and if you can kind of picture a little bit of the Middle East and where these 12 tribes
are Judah is kind of one of the most southern kingdom portions of the nation of Israel and
north above Judah is mostly Ephraim. Now of course that's the other tribes as well but
Ephraim is a big section. Ephraim and Manasseh are kind of these big sections above
the southern kingdom of Judah and so you kind of have mostly a rebuke against Ephraim
in this passage because they're kind of like this in-between sandwich of you have Judah then
you have Ephraim and then you'd have a lot of the other tribes that are kind of north of them.
Well Mizpah is a border town approximately that's kind of right there on the on the tip of Judah
and Ephraim so it's kind of the southern border town between Judah and Ephraim and then Mount
Tabor or Tabor is kind of the northern section a little bit north of Ephraim and so what God's kind
of explaining here is that Ephraim and it's usually kind of being interchanged with Israel
because Ephraim is just a big portion of Israel it's just considered a massive section of Israel
so he's kind of using them a little bit interchangeably here is that Ephraim is being a
problem to his neighbors and he's causing his neighbors to stumble and his neighbors to fall
and basically through his bad habits and his bad behavior and his whoredom he's causing neighboring
towns and areas to also be affected by his decision making and of course this is something
to always consider is that your sins will not only affect you your sins will affect other people in
your lives and sometimes it's not even necessarily a person that you deal with on a regular daily
basis but rather they just observe you or they see your actions or they see your behaviors and
because of your behaviors you're actually affecting a wide spread number of people
now I want you to go one place keep your finger go to first
Corinthians chapter number 15 go to first Corinthians chapter number 15
but God gets mad at people sin for a lot of reasons of course it's a transgression against
him God's upset about you breaking his laws God also gets upset at the victim of your sin
oftentimes there's a direct victim to sin you lie to someone well the person that was lied to
is a victim you commit some kind of adultery there's a victim the person that you committed
whoredom against obviously by stealing obviously by killing there's a clear victim involved
in those sins but even sins that you may think well what's wrong with with consenting adults
what they do in private you know there's no victim there that's that's really just
a stupid way to look at sin and even crimes in America if you perceive there to be no victim
there's always still a consequence to those behaviors and to those actions
and just because someone else wasn't necessarily harmed if I decided to drink a lot of alcohol
or if I decided to drink a lot of or eat a lot of drugs or consume a lot of
poisons in my body and let's say perhaps that I nothing happens to you but you observe it
well even just by observing it it could negatively affect you because it could cause you to want to
then also take those drugs or to drink that alcohol or to commit the same sin even though
I may never have hurt you or harmed you maybe I even got the designated driver to drive me home
or perhaps I made sure that no one else was affected by it but here's the problem sin affects
everyone and even just noticing sin or seeing sin affects other people having bad thoughts or having
bad ideas affects people that's why the bible talks about us taking into captivity every
thought and we're supposed to bring that into obedience to Christ because we shouldn't even
be thinking out loud bad thoughts we shouldn't even be thinking them in our head but we certainly
don't even just bring up bad ideas or bad suggestions to people you know planting seeds
the enemy definitely knows about this if you know about the god-hating reprobates out there
what they want to try and do is just say evil things as a seed planted in the minds of innocent
little children there's all kinds of grooming that happens with these type of people you know
there's been a lot of publicity lately of women getting mad about men going into locker rooms
at a ymca or a fitness center or whatever and just stripping themselves completely nude in the
front of all the women in the locker room there and they you know even these women that are going on
and saying hey this is a crime you know and actually it is a crime to expose yourself to a
minor yet the cops still won't do anything why because of this stupid transgender nonsense going
on in our society they're claiming that it's not a crime so you know it's just well you know that
was in the confines of this bathroom they identify as a woman so it's not really a crime anymore
you know that's the type of society that we're living in that's the type of culture that we're
living in where the police will not do anything and of course they'll ticket you you know they'll
ticket you for speeding and all the other things you know you could be not wearing a seat belt
only harming yourself and they'll give you a ticket but you could go and you have men grown
men going in which don't even identify as a woman all the time exposing themselves or looking at
things or going in areas that they shouldn't be going and they'll say oh well that's not harming
anyone yeah it is harming the eyeballs of all the women and the children that are in that room
having to see that disgusting freak something that they shouldn't necessarily have to see or
be exposed to or be around especially at that age planting weird thoughts and ideas in their
mind of course that's what sodomites like to do they like to show gross pictures on their
billboards and on their signs to try and plant bad ideas in your mind and let me tell you this
children curiosity killed the cat and you know what curiosity killed a lot of people in the bible
curiosity killed lot and curiosity killed aiken and curiosity can kill a lot of people you know
you don't need to see everything you don't need to hear everything you know there are things that
you should know even as a child i don't know what that looks like i don't know what that's what's
going on over there but i don't want to know i don't want to look i don't want to see i don't
want to hear i don't have to taste you know i never tasted any kind of drugs as a child i was
offered them going to public school tons of kids would offer me to go to parties to smoke marijuana
to do all kinds of other drugs i'm sure there would have been opportunity to do meth or other
kind of hardcore street drugs if i really wanted to but you know what i never did and i'm so glad
that i have no idea what smoking marijuana is like i'm so glad i have no idea what lsd is like
you know i'm so glad there's so many things that i've never had to start i'm glad that i've never
even tasted indian food you know someone was like well you might like it and i'm like but i don't
have to you know i can live my life and i can be happy even if indian food was the greatest food
on the planet and i'm just ignorant ignorance is bliss folks okay and i'm telling you little
children you don't have to see everything you don't have to hear anything because some things
you see you can't unsee some things you hear you can't unhear and so we need to be careful that
we're not hearing bad things we're not seeing bad things and we're we're limiting ourselves
we're protecting ourselves from these type of activities and you know here's another one that
i think sometimes we need to be right on we also don't want to hear false doctrine because it will
affect us and if you think about ephraim they're going and worshiping false gods and of course the
spirit of whoredom that's constantly mentioned in the book of hosea is not really like as much
about physical adultery is it is about spiritual adultery and the spiritual adultery that's
happening in the nation of israel and ephraim specifically is worshiping false gods is going
after other gods the idolatry and all of the the satanic practices that go with a false religion
and you live in america the day where yeah okay maybe we don't have as much paganism
in our culture as those cultures did yet it still exists i mean there is paganism in our culture
don't don't think that it doesn't exist but there is still false religion amongst us and there is
still churches on every street corner that will teach nothing but lies there are churches on every
street corner that have idols it's called the roman catholic church they literally have mary's
and they have all kinds of saints and they have all kinds of different people where they'll bow
down and they'll worship and they'll pray to and they'll light incense unto and it's no different
than the children of israel worshiping some false god back then worshiping some other weird god
and we should make sure as god's people that we're not listening to it we're not harkening onto it
that family members that want to participate in that we're not going to fellowship with them
we're going to say hey i'm a christian i'm a fundamental babes i don't want to hear this junk
no i'm not going to go and hear that sermonette from this false prophet no i'm not going to go
and pretend like mary is someone that should be prayed to no i'm not going to have any kind of
communion or fellowship with devils and people that hear a lot of false doctrine
it will affect you it will poison your mind i even say this i don't even want to hear it on the
internet and and i even try personally to limit myself on this stuff obviously you can't escape
it 100 as a preacher because i try to make sure i'm not preaching in straw men sometimes i'll go
look up what the enemy's actually saying and quote them so that i'm not getting up here and just
preaching random things that have no real app applicability or applicability that there's
something that's actually happening in the real world but you know what i don't do is i don't go
to the roman catholic church and sit down and listen to the guy preach to me yeah i might go
to their website and i might pull a couple things out their website just for a limited research
purpose but you know what i'm not going to do is i'm not going to go and just listen to false
preachers just for five hours all day just to hear what they have to say i'm not going to go and just
subject myself to just as much poison as i possibly can in fact once i identify someone as really just
teaching a lot of false doctrine whether they're saved or unsaved i'm like i don't want to listen
to anything they have to say apart from doing necessary research just to make sure i'm preaching
against what they actually believe you know i won't listen to them in fact usually even then
i don't because i just drop the hammer i just go and and usually someone that's bad all you have
to do is just like drop the hammer and get a few minutes you're like i'm good okay then you can
make dylan listen to the rest of it no i'm just kidding that's what i've done with lots of different
people but i'm telling you this you have to be careful why do you say that well first corinthians
15 let's read a few verses here look at verse number 29 it says else what shall they do which
are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead
now the apostle paul is bringing up the ridiculousness of people rejecting the idea
of a resurrection yet there's all these people practicing some kind of a weird religious practice
where they'll be baptized for someone so that they could potentially be resurrected and he's
he's saying and this is why i believe he's bringing up this false religion practice
is they never seem to preach against that like they had no problem with the resurrection when
that was the practice but then i bring in jesus christ and all of a sudden the resurrection is
not real and it's like wait a minute what about those people that doesn't make any sense why
weren't you against the resurrection back then you know now you're all of a sudden against the
resurrection and it's not because they're against resurrection it's that they resist the truth
frankly speaking and he's trying to show the stupidity of their position because if someone
had believed think about it this way if someone believed the trinity while they're a catholic
and then they come and join our church and like well the trinity is wrong it's like well
why was the trinity not wrong back then you know why did you accept it then and so he's trying to
show there's these people that are denying the resurrection and it makes no sense everybody
basically believes in the resurrection what what would be the point of this practice and he says in
verse 30 and why stand we in jeopardy every hour what does that mean well the apostle paul his life
is in jeopardy every moment why because he's going around everywhere preaching the gospel
of jesus christ and it's upsetting everybody that sells idols everybody that loves idols the jews
and just anybody else that's a lewd fellow of the baser sort and the apostle paul is constantly
under threat of death if he if there was no resurrection meaning the moment you die it's over
why would the apostle paul be constantly jeopardizing his life every hour is what he's
saying it's like what would be the point of me trying to tempt fate every second if this is the
only life i get to live he's like i would be doing i would live a safe life you know i'm gonna go to
the beach and let's just eat drink and be married for tomorrow we die so he's saying the reason why
i can jeopardize this life every hour is because i know i'm gonna be resurrected and it doesn't
really matter at the end of the day is the whole point he's saying verse 31 i protest by your
rejoicing which i have in christ jesus our lord i die daily if after the manner of men i fought
with beasts at ephesus what advantage it that it me you know it's so funny i like that phrase there
because people get mad at me like when did jesus ever call anybody a dog you know when he said
give not that would just hold onto the dogs well you know that's jesus when did the when did the
christians do it well paul's calling people beasts how does paul describe the people that
he was fighting with oh just precious sons of god sweet children of the most high no he called
them beasts and you know what there are beasts in this world and the apostle paul had to fight with
beasts he said what would be the point of that if the dead rise not let us eat and drink for
tomorrow we die he's saying hey what's the point of me going through all this hazarding of my life
and fighting beasts and going through these problems if i'm not even resurrected makes no
sense now why is he bringing all that up because there are people that are preaching false doctrine
did the apostle paul think that the false doctrines circulating in this church were a
big deal or not a big deal obviously they were a giant deal that's why he's bringing them up
constantly in fact if you study the epistles that are written in the new testament the probably the
the most common theme is fighting false doctrine is fighting bad ideas is fighting false religion
creeping into churches so why would i think that it's any different today that churches have to
constantly fight against false doctrine evils being swirled in all kinds of poor ideologies
bad ideologies you know what's the whole point of a preacher getting up and preaching really hard the
doctrines of the bible it's to get everybody on this back on in shape back in line hey this is
the right doctrine these are the right thoughts this is the right ideology because it's very easy
for us to stray you know it would be like my children bowling it's like they need the bumper
rails because it's real easy for it to go right in the gutter but you know the bumper rails is kind
of the ball could be headed it's like and it's like sometimes that's what some people need is
church church is your bumper guard to help you with some of your stupid ideas to get you know
bumper rail okay you know and and of course you know if you have a really really bad idea it just
hops over the rail it's called flat earth you know it just jumps over the rail and it's just like
you know error error you know basically it just ruins everything that's the gutter ball that it
never hit the bumper it just still went right perfect in the corner just still missed all the
pins and you're just like man how did that work but there's there's a need to have a constant
fight with doctrine because bad ideas will corrupt you and what does the bible say in
verse 33 be not deceived evil communications corrupt good manners so when god is rebuking
the nation of ephraim the nation of israel and saying hey you've set up this the snare and this
net for miss pa and you've done this to table what is he saying he's saying your bad habits
your bad communications your things that you're doing are causing issues to your neighbors
you're causing problems for them and by you sinning you're affecting other people
and it's a downfall of other people and as a man your sins will affect your family
as a man what you do is going to affect your wife and what you do as a man is going to affect your
children and you know what you have a big burden on your shoulders and i don't want you to take
that lightly you need to take it very serious the decisions that you make because it will affect
other people and you could put a snare on your children you could put a net on your children
you could put a snare on your wife you could put a snare on your family members and on your friends
and on your co-workers and on your neighbors and on everyone based on the decisions that you make
and even being a fundamental baptist you go out and make a dumb decision you could cause other
people to fall because they think well if the fundamental baptist is getting drunk how much
more the catholic how much more the atheist how much more the heathen and the decisions that you
make you know here's another thing you come to our church and you know our beliefs if you don't
follow them in your personal life everybody realizes you're a hypocrite and when they realize
you're a hypocrite on one issue they have no problem opening the door to every other area of
life that's why it's important not be a hypocrite because when you're a hypocrite in one area those
who look to you as a leader will say oh so if he's going to be a hypocrite in this one area
then why not me be a hypocrite in every area and i've known lots of people they have their private
sins or they have their private issues but those are close to them know all about it and because
of those issues it causes them to have a weak faith because they see the hypocrisy they see
someone that's not even putting in the right kind of effort that doesn't really care and because of
that it can cause everyone to stumble i think a common thing i hear especially going soul winning
people say i don't like church because everyone there's a hypocrite
and it's like okay well what institution's not number one i mean you really think the federal
government's not full of hypocrites do you really think that any company or any institution is not
full of hypocrites every institution is full of hypocrites number one but number two christian
hypocrites make people you know have a nauseating feeling towards christianity and it turns them off
from christianity and those who you know are claiming to be christian and then have this
terrible testimony causes people to mock christianity go back and do it jose you know
here's an example how about pastor greg lock pastor greg lock who divorces his wife and then
runs off with the secretary and then just changes on a dime like his doctrine he used to be a
fundamental baptist seemingly king james only believing a lot of the same things that we believe
now he's like this fun charismatic preacher not king james only not i mean you look at his
doctoral statement there's nothing about the king james anymore you look at his church it's just
this weird just party this weird atmosphere and then it causes all kinds of atheists and
god-hating reprobates to look and say why would i want to follow religion where you have a
clear charlatan like greg lock leading the flock and i think i think to myself i wouldn't
i mean if i wasn't a christian i'm looking at someone like greg lock i would think yeah he is
a fraud he is a fake what a giant hypocrite to be an open adulterer and then just go out and pretend
like you're such a great pastor right what a fraud i mean there's plenty of men in this country that
are a much better christian than greg lock and they're not going to ever be a pastor
because they have more respect for the office of a bishop than greg lock
and when you see supposed christianity not even being christian you know what it does it causes
everybody else not to want to be christian anymore you know why is christianity on the decline it's
because it's full of hypocrites is why it is because it's full of false prophets and false
teachers that make christianity look bad td jakes makes people not want to be christian
kenneth copeland causes people not to want to be christian people like greg lock
cause people to not want to be christian you know what makes people want to be christian real
christianity people that are willing to actually walk the walk and talk the talk they're not going
to just sit here and pretend like there are some great christian when they're running off with the
secretary i mean what our approach on christianity and of course ephraim supposedly is a christian
nation israel's the you know the children of god but then they're worshiping false gods so then
why would anybody have respect for the religion of christianity when its own people don't when
its own people are going after false gods i mean why would anybody have respect for christianity
when a bunch of men are bowing down to a mary statue i mean any normal man realizes like that
is insane why would anybody have respect for christianity when they're letting trannies and
freaks come in the building and say we love you no matter what how could anybody have respect for
a religion like that they can't in fact you see people like andrew tate who's a loser but he said
this he said this well at least muslim sticks to their convictions you know islam sticks to
the convictions they're not letting this junk go on and for the most part that's true i mean for
the most part i mean muslim nations are not accepting of alcohol and whoredom and these
this tranny nuns i mean just rejecting obvious reality and what would happen in america if every
single church if every single baptist if every single christian just stood up and said we're not
tolerating this junk what if every single one of them got up and preached leviticus 2013 what if
every single one of them got up and preached romans chapter number one what if every single
one of them sang psalm 139 this sunday morning you know what america would be way different
christianity would be perceived as a completely different religion and you say why was america
different a hundred years ago it's because every church was at least preaching the bible back then
and it wasn't as much hypocrisy as we see today but today america as a whole is like ephraim
where they just don't even care and they're just not even really wholehearted to christianity
they're a bunch of hypocrites they've given ear to a bunch of false preaching
just all kinds of just love everybody and be sweet and i saw somebody put a comment online
today they said oh you know there's only one new ifp pastor that doesn't cuss they have such a
sweet spirit and i'm like where does the bible say sweet spirit and you know what do you what
are you even talking about like why is that the number one you know if i'm like thinking about
the number one criterion of what i'm looking for in a church and a pastor you know sweet spirit's
not number one it's not number two it's not number three it's not in fact the qualifications of the
bishop are found in the bible there's like dozens of them and sweet spirit i can't even find that
one in the list now yeah should a pastor be sweet to people at times and should he be gentle and
should he be compassionate absolutely i believe that but you know what i don't ever want to be
called the just he's just so sweet in fact usually that was a derogatory thing when men
would say that he's a little sweet in the tank you know that was a different kind of thing
you know what kind of a man wants their one identifying marker to be sweet
if there's one word that encompasses this man of god it's he's sweet you know that's not
what any man wants and that's not a real man okay a real man's gonna have other attributes
that outshine the sweetness the sweetness and light the the smooth things that he's prophesying
you know the men of god were never commended on their smooth preaching it was always rough
people didn't like it it was it was hard to hear it hurt their ears it hurt their feelings
everything was considered negative to the to the listeners they didn't like what they were saying
you know the the bible talk about it being sweet but then at the same time it's bitter
it's like hey it tasted sweet but it felt bitter you know whenever it went down into my belly and
you know that's what good preaching should be it sounded sweet but it was it kind of hurt when you
when it clicked it actually made sense you're like he's talking about me oh this is actually
this is this is something i need to change and of course that's how good preaching should be
if you would let's keep reading here in hosea chapter number five but the point that i wanted
to drive in and and i know i've driven it in on this verse but you're going to affect other
people with your sin verse two and the revolters are profound to make slaughter though i have been
a rebuker of them all what does profound mean in this context it means something that's deep
or intense deep or intense typically when we think of something being profound we're we're
in an adjective type sense we're talking about something that goes beyond the normal it could
be considered an intense or a deep level of study you said he has a profound knowledge
of a particular subject he has a profound knowledge of the bible what does that mean
he has a deep and intense knowledge of the bible so it could also be used in this context of the
sense that their desire to slaughter and to kill and to destroy they are it has a they're profound
to make slaughter meaning that they are just they're entrenched in this activity they're
doing this at an extreme level and he says though i've been a rebuker of them all i told them it was
wrong and they still do it they're still deeply immersed in slaughter they're still deeply immersed
in destroying it doesn't matter what i say to them verse three i know ephraim and israel is not
hid from me for now ephraim thou commit his whoredom and israel is defiled notice again how
he describes this israel is defiled but why because ephraim committed whoredom so notice how
one commits whoredom and then the whole lump is defiled just why because a little leaven leaven
at the whole lump verse four they will not frame their doings to turn under their god for the
spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them and they have not known the lord now the to frame
would could be used in a lot of context it's used in positive and negative context in the bible
and if you think about it just similar to what you would think of construction in the house
you're framing it and what is the frame going to do it's it's constituting the borders of the house
the frame is going to decide where the walls are going to be and the walls are going to be a
boundary they're going to stop things from entering and leaving so if you talk about
framing in this context he's saying they would not frame their doings meaning what they didn't
put any boundaries on their life they didn't put any rules in place to stop them from doing evil
it's like having no laws it's like anarchy you know and there's some people that have a liberal
type mentality where they would almost want pure anarchy and that's wicked you know you can't live
in a society with no laws just like you can't live in a city without walls and you can't live
in a country without borders because none of those things make sense just as silly as it would be for
you to live in a house with no doors i mean do you want to live in a house with no doors where
anybody can just walk in whenever they want and take whatever they want walk out whenever they
want that doesn't make any sense no reasonable person would ever want such a thing you have a
door because you're limiting who can come and go you have a gate because you limit who can come
and go you have a wall because you limit who can come and go and you frame your doings so you limit
your behavior so you don't allow yourself to just do anything and everything and as a christian
you should create boundaries in your life where you just don't allow yourself to do anything and
everything you want to know how you never get drunk never ever have alcohol in your house
and never go anywhere where they're going to serve you alcohol you don't go to the bar don't go to
the party where they're going to serve you alcohol now of course every restaurant and every business
sells it but it's like okay i won't even walk down that aisle then i i'm if you were someone
that actually is literally tempted by this be about be around someone that won't let you drink
you know take your wife or your husband or your friend or whoever it is and say never let me buy
alcohol in your presence and then you never go to a place that sells alcohol without them
just like hey if you never want your daughter to commit fornication never let her be out of your
sight and if you had a serious problem with alcohol you say how do i fix that pastor Shelley
never ever go to an establishment where you could even buy alcohol unless you're with someone that
will prevent you from doing it you say that's extreme well you know what is extreme being a
drunkard yeah you know it's extreme being addicted to a substance that you have to pay for drinking
poison and paying for it and not trying to stop that that would be that's an extreme lifestyle
you know putting some boundaries in your life is not extreme getting some accountability in your
life is not extreme you know certain activities maybe are more likely in the evenings you know
as a man maybe as a young man especially if you're not single maybe you say you know i'm
just going to go to bed at 9 p.m because nothing good happens after 9 p.m you know if you're a
young lady you say i'm never going on a date with a young man alone you know maybe your parents
aren't going to enforce good rules for you maybe they're not going to put boundaries in your life
maybe they they say hey you can go out with whoever whenever but you know what you could
put those boundaries on yourself you could say you know what i'm not going to date guys where
i just go off alone with them go to their house go and do things with them i'm going to have
boundaries i'm not going to allow myself to be tempted in those areas you know what as god's
people we need to create certain boundaries in our life you know as a married man you say hey
i'm not going to allow myself to be alone with another woman that's not my wife you know if
i'm not married to you or you're not my grandma or aunt or mom you know what i'm just not i'm
going to make sure that i'm not just being alone with you we're not going to go have lunch we're
not going to have dinner we're not going to go off in a private room we're not going to have
these discussions you know i'm not going to have these private chat chats with women that are not
my wife like matt chandler of the village here in dows worth i mean the guy stepped down because
apparently he's having this like chatting up session with some woman that's not his wife
now apparently they weren't talking about anything inappropriate but they needed to step down but now
he's back so well have fun with all that i mean you know what he should have just never even had
that conversation and let's say he didn't do anything wrong which it's weird okay but even
if he didn't do anything wrong it just looks bad you know and just don't even do anything looks
bad you know my wife whenever she wants she can look at my phone and and she reads all my text
messages so if you ever send me something she's read it so you be careful okay you guys out there
you talk about your wife she knows about it nothing about me is private she knows all of it all right
and of course she's a great woman and i love her and she's looking out for my best interest so it
doesn't bother me you know it would bother me if i was trying to hide something from her
it would bother you know i'd be all nervous about it if i had a girlfriend on the side
because what if she texts me or something you know or what if i had something on my phone that
i'm nervous about but you know if you don't have anything to hide you're just like here
here you go i love you look at and you know if you did have something to hide that's the best
person to find out anyways so they can help you so they can fix some kind of a problem that you
have in your life and you know what no one's perfect no one if you in here think i can live
my life i don't need any boundaries pastor i'm good i'm david and i'm good well you know what
david shouldn't have had a rule he should have locked the doors to his little pavilion at night
no one's allowed to exit the building at this time in the evening you know he could have known
well i know that women go out to bathe at this time of the hour and just say hey no one's allowed
to go on the evening at this time you know there's a guard or no one's allowed to go out there
or david could have made sure he was out in the battle even if david think about this what if
david went to the battle but didn't have to battle he's just in his tent but in the battlefield well
there's nothing to look at out there so he's good at least you know and and sometimes you know you
don't have to make super hard rules on yourself to where it's impossible to keep you know what
if you don't have any boundaries or any rules sin is there knocking at the door and sin would love
to take over your life and sin would love to get a foothold in the door and sin would love to just
take you a lot further than you even wanted to go that's why it's important to try and keep good
framing in your life and make sure you're not going to allow just a spirit of whoredom to get
deep inside your your heart because you'll end up doing things that you never thought you would ever
do i mean the people that committed horrible sin they never dreamed it up you really think that lot
dreamed up impregnating both of his own daughters but how did that start well he started pitching
his tent towards autumn i mean look where that took him that was extreme you know aiken didn't
necessarily envision his whole family getting uh slaughtered but he looked at the babylonish garment
and then he covered it and then he took it and then he hid it and you know he kind of lied about
it and then when he's finally confronted him and his whole family died well what if what if he had
a rule he said hey if i even notice a babylonish garment i'm going to look away instead of you know
gazing at it and ogling it fixating on it you know if you have a certain area where you have
a soft spot you need you need to have a plan in place already of how you're going to deal with that
things you shouldn't desire things you shouldn't want you know even as a woman there could be
things that you know maybe you shouldn't dream about all day you shouldn't want you shouldn't
desire because it's not practical you're not going to have it you know what do women talk
what do women fantasize about well they'll look at other women and fantasize about being as
attractive as another woman they'll fantasize about having another woman's hair or another
woman's you know youth or another woman's whatever it is fan that's stupid because you're never going
to have that why do you think there's so much plastic surgery and why do you think in the
plastic surgery office do they come with a literal picture of another woman say i want to look like
her it's because they looked at another woman they say i want to have that but you know the
thing is the plastic surgeon never gives you that and even if they could it was still wicked
it was still wrong you know women will look at items that they can't have that they shouldn't
have men will look at items that they shouldn't have their neighbor's ox their neighbor's ass
they never look at the honda fit on it okay it's okay
whatever it is that they're looking at and they're saying hey you know i like one of those you know
i want one of those that's a wicked thought and we need to have boundaries in our life and we
need to decide we're going to check those wicked thoughts at the door look at what it says in verse
five and the pride of israel does testify to his face therefore shall israel and ephraim fall in
their iniquity judah also shall fall with them so notice it's not just them that fall judah is
going to fall with them you know by you going down the dark road you can cause your whole family to
go down to arc road you know as a man if you and look because i wasn't a fundamental baptist my
whole life i've seen and heard things i shouldn't i've been around people i shouldn't i send more
than i should have but it's like you hang out with the wrong crowd in public school and college
and what do guys typically talk about other women and i've been in situations where men are talking
about other women in the presence of their wife like they're just bringing up you know they'll
because they'll talk about movies that they saw they'll talk about whatever and they'll say
you know things about other women but a man praising another woman's beauty
and the presence of their wife you know what that does it makes the wife feel insecure about her
physical beauty and then what does she start thinking about oh i need to look like this
other woman or i need to have these certain attributes and what happens is a downward spiral
where you actually can cause your wife to become vain and care more about physical beauty because
you were blabbing about some other woman or praising another woman you know being carnal
yourself so by you being carnal you make your wife carnal and then by your wife obsessing with
carnality like oh i always have to be so pretty you know i have to be like jezebel and and paint
my face every day and i have to constantly get the obsessive nature of just hair my hair done
all the time you know i i think my wife told me you can go and get like these things put in your
hair i don't know extensions i don't know what it's called it doesn't matter to me you can do
stuff to your hair and it costs like twelve hundred dollars or something fifteen hundred
dollars for hair and i'm thinking like your hair is great you know why would you ever want to put
like fifteen hundred dollars into your hair it's not gonna last you know and then by doing that
though what do you do you also teach the sons and the daughters hey it's important for mom to go
spend fifteen hundred dollars on her hair and just every every second it's just all about physical
beauty just and look some women that's their life it's just they go from the nail salon to the hair
salon to get to the spa day to just the to the next one and it's just every day just a new nail
and you know they they break a nail they got a new new nails again and they got to get more
makeup and they got to get more i mean why is it that you go to the department store and you walk
in the very beginning it's just only female products to make them more beautiful it's just
counter after counter of just makeup and whatever and they put the most beautiful women on display
hollywood celebrities and it's not even them it's photoshop they put photoshop on display and show
you what fake women look like and say hey do you want to buy this hundred dollar product that will
not make you look like them and in fact sometimes women will put so much makeup on that they just
look like a clown i mean it's weird and sometimes i've seen in the departments for what they do
is they'll offer free makeup and this is like a trick that they'll do half of your face
and you have to pay for the other half because they're like it's free or whatever and it's like
you really don't want the two-face going on okay because people can really tell but it's like look
i'm not saying that putting on makeups a sin or getting your hair done is a sin or looking nice
as a sin or caring about your physical appearance you know we should all care about our physical
appearance to some degree you know when you're focused on that and that's all you care about
it can cause not only you to be carnal it can cause your daughters to be carnal it can become
it can cause your sons to be carnal and then the daughters in law that you're going to have
are going to be like that where they care more about their physical appearance than their inward
beauty and they don't appreciate their mom because their mom was teaching them and loving them and
loving god they think oh my mom was pretty so when i go out and i look for a woman that's all
i'm going to look for i just got to look for a woman that's going to be pretty when she puts
four hours of makeup on and it's like it'll take women sometimes three four hours to get ready
and it's just like that that's a problem who has three or four hours to get ready
you know people that don't have five six seven ten kids that's who people that are married to someone
i mean you know and of course if it takes you that long to get ready what do you look like
when you don't and and it's like that's scary but i'll tell you what you know if that's the
only thing you got going for you you know age is going to take it to a point where makeup can't fix
it and then you're not even gonna have whereas being godly you can keep getting more and more
godly over years and years and years and your husband can actually love you even more and
appreciate even more because of your character because of your quality even though your physical
appearance is going to dwindle because it will dwindle all of us are going to get uglier over
time okay it happens all of us are going to change our appearance over time we're not going to be the
same forever and so if you're just focused on the carnal you're focused on this world you know it's
going to vanish away and you're going to cause not just you to fall others to fall with you
ephraim didn't just fall judah fell and judah didn't even necessarily get into this stuff
you know what don't get into weird stuff and the carnal things and a false religion
it's going to cause others to fall and you get to a point look at verse six they shall go with
their flocks and with their hers to seek the lord but they shall not find him he has withdrawn
himself from them you know the bible talks about even you trying to find the lord you can get to a
point where you can't find him and what i think happens is or a way to kind of explain this is
because of course you know and i meant to show a lot more verse on this but for sake of time we're
not going to go there the bible says if you seek you shall find and you can find a lot of verses
like that but the bible also clarifies that you have to seek with your whole heart and what i
think is happening in america is there's a lot of people they've given their heart to covetousness
they've given their heart to vanity they've given their heart to sin and they're willing to seek the
lord but not with their whole heart so that well i want to seek the lord but only at joel osteen's
church well i want to seek the lord but only at the roman catholic church because they won't judge
me for these other issues that i have they won't tell me things that are negative so yeah i'll seek
him but i'm not willing to hear the truth to hear the truth i only hear the convenient truths for me
and we live in a society we live in a culture today where there are a lot of rich people there
is a lot of people in this area that would not dare to darken our church because of its bad
reputation but it's not that they couldn't find the truth they're just not going to seek you with
all their heart well i'll go see what robert morris has because you know gateway is such a
beautiful church it's so wonderful you know i'll go hear todd wagner at watermark you know because
it's such a wonderful looking building but you know what they're not seeking with their whole
heart and they're not going to find him because they're not seeking with their whole heart and
they have this spirit of boredom still wrapped up they're still wrapped up in carnality they're
still wrapped up in vain things and because of those things it's going to drag them down and
they're never going to actually seek the lord they're never going to be saved you know i we
knock on doors and sometimes people just say you know what i'm too sinful or i don't want to hear
it i'm not interested i've done bad things you wouldn't and you're thinking like in your mind
look you could get saved today but just because of the issues they have in their heart their
unwillingness to change their lifestyle or hear what the truth is they just won't even get saved
and these people are no different that they're just never going to actually seek the lord with
whole heart and it's going to be too late for them because they didn't even try and they already
got wrapped up in so much wickedness that they're not even going to do it and god's even withdrawn
himself so whatever efforts they put in here no matter how much they go to church they're not
going to get saved verse seven they have dealt treacherously against the lord for they have
begotten strange children now shall a month devour them with their portions blow you the cornet and
gibbia and the trumpet and rhema cry aloud at beth haven after the old benjamin ephraim
shall be desolate in the day of rebuke among the tribes of israel i have made known that which
shall surely be of course god is saying ephraim is done and and you could think of it this way
they're reprobate in a sense because he's saying hey they even if they seek they're not going to
find and what i've said is going to happen there's not like an alternative here the ephraim is doomed
and of course what happens in the bible they're doomed verse 10 the princes of judah were like
them that removed the bound therefore i will pour out my wrath upon them like water so how is judah
similar to ephraim well ephraim wouldn't frame their doings notice what it says about judah
they removed the bound hey removing the boundaries removing the laws like ted cruise wanting to get
rid of laws against sodomy in texas just let's remove that boundary let's just keep removing the
boundaries of what even the point of separate bathrooms is what was the point of even having
separate bathrooms in the first place why is it that every business in america has separate
bathrooms because there's a difference between men and women that was why that was the whole point
and now we're just flipping everything on its head and we're calling everything good evil
and i kid you not young women who are complaining about men going in there and exposing themselves
as daughters they're being demonized by our culture and being demonized by our society
and being threatened by our society i mean they're not fundamental baptists getting threatened
they're just poor little women who come who told the police officers a crime had been committed
which it had and what happened though the police removed the boundary they removed the bound and
they just said you know what yeah decent exposure well depends what does it depend on it doesn't
depend that was stupid that was foolish for our government and for our society and you say well
why are they doing that because they're they have a love of money because they've been corrupted
because they have a spirit of boredom and they don't care what the real truth is they don't
want to know and it's going to get to a point where there's no chance it's just going to be
destruction he says in verse number 11 ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment because he
willingly walked after the commandment notice he's saying they're broken you know our country in a
lot of ways is just broken and you say well how can you fix it some things you can't fix
if you take a brand new slinky and you go like there's no fixing it it's just done for you know
a young woman who goes out and goes with the wrong guy and ends up losing her virginity
that's broken and it can't be fixed you go out and you get a tattoo can't get it fixed
there are certain things that can't be fixed and when you look at our culture and you look
at our society you say well how can you fix america when 95 hate god and don't want to hear
about him you can't it's just broken folks it's broken you say well but if we fixed our elections
that would fix america no it wouldn't yeah because we would still elect some loser into office
we're not gonna oh are we gonna bring donald trump back in well trump would fix america oh
the guy that said it's fine for kaitlyn jenner to use whatever bathroom it wants is that gonna fix
that issue how is that gonna fix that issue oh well what if we got ted cruise that's not gonna
fix america look the the candidate that we would need to fix america would never be voted in
people wouldn't want him people wouldn't like it you know so you say how do you fix it you can't
fix democracy you can't fix our constitutional republic basically the framers of our constitution
said hey we're gonna put some boundaries here that are eventually gonna be broken and we just
want to see if we how long it can last just like any brand new product you know they build a car
in the factory but the car wasn't meant to last forever eventually it'll break down eventually the
engine's gonna go bad eventually certain parts are gonna break and you know on a car you can fix a
lot of things you can fix the carburetor and you can fix the oil pan leak and you can fix the
but there comes a point where it's totaled where you can't just fix everything you know these
little plastic new cars that they come out with they get hit by a real car and it's not going to
be repaired it's just broken and it's never going to come back and you have to realize america is
just broken and understanding history and understanding where we're at america only has
one future destruction now of course if we're not in the end times then out of the ashes will
just come another nation somehow that could be china that it won't be canada we know that for
sure it could be some islamic country it could be a communist country but america is dead america as
we know it is gone folks and it's hanging on it's like rome rome would have got to a certain point
where it was had collapsed and it was fallen and it you know in most civilizations you kind of have
a peak of civilization and then you kind of a downfall and in the downfall you still have a lot
of good you still have a lot of fun you still have a lot of excess but it's just heading towards the
inevitable cliff and we're heading towards the inevitable cliff so we have one of two options
either one god's gonna let our nation just get completely destroyed by another
and and that'll happen or b it's the end times babylon and that's kind of the alternative
alternative theory i lean towards that being the theory for a couple reasons number one because
historically whenever a nation got so bad and was going to be destroyed god's people would flee
to a new area and then it would destroy and then christianity would build up a new civilization
then the cockroaches would come in and then it would fall and then the christians would
flee and then they build up another you know why did the why did the christianity just keep
getting further and further away from the middle east because of that process but here's what's
happened we've ran out of land it's like hey they went to antioc and then they went into europe
and then they went into england and then they went into what north new england which is considered
the colonies and then they fled to the midwest of the bible belt but look we're trapped it's like
where do you run now and it's not antarctica good luck i mean i don't even if we could that would
they would come find us or something the cockroaches would come out of nowhere but it's
like what's and think about this what country has ever built civilization that's not christian
i mean why why do we have the greatest technology because we're christian you know look at the
tribal things going on in africa they're never going to build a nice society because they don't
have christianity you look at all the other civilizations the only civilizations that
really have power and wealth and stuff it's coming from christianity or the remnants of christianity
and the cockroaches come and eat it so most likely you know my opinion we're probably the end times
babylon and we're going to have an impending doom now that's good for you and me because we won't
have to experience that because we'll be raptured before that now we might be slaughtered and masses
be persecuted until that that bitter end but the actual destruction of america we won't have to see
and even if we do see it we could be like a jeremiah where it happens to everyone but us
somehow so as a christian i don't really care if america gets taken over by russia and we all
become russians that'll make my employee happy at least you know my employee will be a lot happier
if we get taken over by china that's going to be rough you know but it is what it is i'm still a
christian okay i don't have to worry about these things it turned out good for jeremiah you know
in the end and it turns out good for god's people no matter what happens but you know what for those
that hate god it's just destruction that's their that's their destiny ephraim is going to be
destroyed juda is going to be destroyed and it's gotten to a point where there's no there's no
alternative and i think that some people have this idea of like well i just want to rescue america
from what from itself and and you look i think we can delay the process i think that we can have
many revivals and we can have we an impact on the culture and people get mad at me and they'll say
why do you preach all the things that you preach knowing that they'll never happen well i preach
them just so you don't have to how about that you know since you're so weak and cowardly from not
for not preaching the bible i'll do it so that you can just be mild about it because you wouldn't be
mild about it if it wasn't for me you know wherever we're at everybody else is going to be like a few
steps behind so it's like if we if we go all the way down to where like homosexual is a sin
you know just think where the liberal preachers will be and you say that's not true passage
okay well how come in ireland the catholic priest got up and said homosexuality is a sin and they
fired him and they condemned him because there wasn't a fundamental baptist there to get mad at
so they had to get mad at the priest the cath the one catholic priest there you know of course they
can always get mad at the most extreme person and they're never going to appreciate them and that's
okay no one appreciated jeremiah in his ministry and even after he was proven right beyond any
shadow of a doubt they still didn't appreciate him they still didn't like him so you know it's
not about being appreciated it's about doing what's right and you know in our culture we need
to do what's right no matter what ephraim is doing what judah is doing they're going to be destroyed
and they did it willingly verse 12 therefore will i be unto ephraim as a moth into the house of judah
as rottenness when ephraim saw a sickness and judah saw his wound then went ephraim to the
asyrian and sent to king jereb yet could he not heal you nor cure you of your wound for i will
be unto ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of judah i even i will tear and go away
i will take away and none shall rescue him i will go and return to my place till they acknowledge
their offense and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early so what god said is you
know what they've gotten to a point where they have to be afflicted they have to be oppressed
they have to be destroyed and only until they turn back will i heal them and you know that could
be the same for us you could get to a point in your life where god will only bring destruction
and affliction and evil on you until you get your heart right until you seek the lord and that's why
it's important for us to always try to make sure our heart is tender towards the lord and we're
seeking the lord and we're repentant of the evils that we've been doing and we're trying to get
right with god we're trying to seek him and we don't have to let god punish us just to do the
right thing but be sure your sins will find you out god is not mocked for what sort of man soweth
actually also reap and according to the scripture when you go after wickedness god will get your
attention one way or another so i might as well just give it to him now then to just beg him to
punish me until until i give it to him and just like the children of israel and ephraim were god's
people in a sense you know we are god's people for sure and if we disobey and we don't regard
the lord in our hearts you know he will punish us to get our attention so let us be you know
christians that are not removing the boundaries let's set up boundaries to worship the lord let's
think about the other people that are affected by our decisions and and let us try to seek the
lord without needing that that punishment let's close in prayer thank you heavenly father for
this chapter for giving us so so much wisdom from the scriptures i pray that we would realize our
decisions impact a lot of people and i pray that we wouldn't need constant affliction and oppression
to seek you but rather we would willingly seek you and that we would willingly turn from our
wicked ways that we would do our best to seek you with a true heart with all of our heart
and that we would honor you in all our ways in jesus name we pray amen
all right let's go to our last song 169 come now found
169 come now found
song 169 come now found come now found of every blessing tune my heart to sing thy grace streams
of mercy never ceasing call for songs of loudest praise teach me some melodious sonnet
sung by flaming tongues above praise the mount i'm fixed upon it mount of thy redeeming love
here i raise my nebeneezer hither by thy help i'm come and i know by thy good pleasure safely
i'll arrive at home jesus sought me when a stranger wandering from the fold of god
he to rescue me from danger interposed his precious blood
oh to grace how great a debtor daily i'm constrained to be let thy goodness like a
feather bind my wandering heart to thee prone to wander lord i feel it prone to leave the god i
love here's my heart oh take and seal it seal it for thy courts above thank you all for coming god
bless you