Two hundred and seven, only a sinner.
Not have I gotten but what I received.
Grace hath bestowed it since I have believed.
Boasting, excluded, pride I abase.
I'm only a sinner saved by grace.
Only a sinner saved by grace.
This is my story, to God be the glory.
I'm only a sinner saved by grace.
Once I was foolish and sin ruled my heart.
Causing my footsteps from God to depart.
Jesus hath found me, happy my case.
I now am a sinner saved by grace.
Only a sinner saved by grace.
This is my story, to God be the glory.
I'm only a sinner saved by grace.
Tears unavailing, no merit had I.
Mercy had saved me or else I must die.
Sin had alarmed me, fearing God's face.
But now I'm a sinner saved by grace.
Only a sinner saved by grace.
This is my story, to God be the glory.
I'm only a sinner saved by grace.
Suffer a sinner whose heart overflows.
Loving his savior to tell what he knows.
Once more to tell it, would I embrace.
I'm only a sinner saved by grace.
Only a sinner saved by grace.
This is my story, to God be the glory.
I'm only a sinner saved by grace.
Great singing.
Let's open up in a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank you for this evening.
Thank you for the opportunity to be in the local New Testament church tonight.
And thank you so much for salvation, that it's by grace,
and that it's so easy for us to be saved.
Pray that you'd help us to worship you from our hearts this evening.
We love you, in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, for our next song, we'll go to 109, Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us.
109, Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us.
Savior like a shepherd lead us,
much we need thy tender care.
In thy pleasant pastures feed us,
for our use thy folds prepare.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
thou hast bought us, thine we are.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
thou hast bought us, thine we are.
We are thine, do thou befriend us,
be the guardian of our way.
Keep thy flock from sin, defend us,
seek us when we go astray.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
hear, oh hear us when we pray.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
hear, oh hear us when we pray.
Thou hast promised to receive us,
poor and sinful though we be.
Thou hast mercy to relieve us,
grace to cleanse and power to free.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
early let us turn to thee.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
early let us turn to thee.
Early let us seek thy favor,
early let us do thy will.
Blessed Lord and only Savior,
with thy love our bosoms fill.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
blessed Jesus,
thou hast loved us, love us still.
Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
thou hast loved us, love us still.
Thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you need a bulletin, lift your hand nice and high.
Whenever ushers can come by, we still get you a bulletin on the front.
We have our Bible memory passage, Revelation chapter one, verse two.
We're doing the entire chapter of Revelation.
And it's a lot of good verses there in Revelation one.
On the inside we have our service, soul winning times.
Also we have our church stats.
Please make sure to submit that to your soul winning captains throughout the week
so they can put up the updates in their bulletin on the right.
We have the list of our expecting ladies.
Please be in prayer for all of our expecting ladies.
Also we'd like to go over a prayer list on the midweek service.
We'll continue to pray for the Negeris for health.
We're praying for Mrs. Lucy's mother's tumors.
We've been praying for brother Cameron Hall's leg.
We've been praying for brother Pendleton from Faith Ward Baptist Church.
We've also been praying for the Garcia's for their son-in-law's family
to be stationed in a nearby location.
Also for brother Wallach's friend Juan, cancer treatment.
And then also the Cooley's stepdad's cancer treatment as well.
So several health issues to be in prayer for.
We'll go ahead and say a quick word of prayer as a church family right now.
Thank you Heavenly Father for this evening.
Thank you so much for expecting ladies.
Please be with them during their pregnancy. Please help them.
I pray that you give them a timely birth.
I pray that you would help a lot of our church family and friends
that have been struggling with chronic illnesses and issues.
I pray that you would please give them favor. Please give them health.
I pray that you would give them peace during this time of affliction.
Please also help the rest of our church family that's not here
with temporary sicknesses and illnesses to recover quickly
and to be able to get back into church.
And we just thank you so much for all that you give us.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Upcoming events. The Old West Wednesday.
I think an email was sent out today about that.
So if you would please at least RSVP.
That will give us a lot better idea of who's planning on attending.
And we can make those accommodations.
Also April 1st is the Dallas Texas Soul Winning Marathon.
April 24th to the 29th is our Bahamas missions trip.
And so that's going to be a lot of fun.
Even if you can't go, please just pray that our Soul Winning trips will be successful.
That's pretty much all I have as far as announcements.
We'll go ahead and turn to our third song this evening.
Song 50. Peace. Perfect. Peace.
Song number 50.
Again that's song number 50. Peace. Perfect. Peace.
Song 50. Peace. Perfect. Peace.
Song 51. Peace. Perfect. Peace.
Song 52. In this dark world of sin
The blood of Jesus whispers
Peace within
Peace. Perfect. Peace
With sorrow surging round
On Jesus' bosom
Not but calm is found
Peace. Perfect. Peace
Our future all unknown
Jesus we know
And He is on the throne
Peace. Perfect. Peace
Death shadowing us and ours
Jesus has vanquished
Death and all its powers
It is enough
Earth's struggle soon shall cease
And Jesus call us to
Heaven's perfect peace
Good singing. As the offering plates are being passed around
please turn your Bibles to Hosea chapter number 8. Hosea chapter number 8.
Hosea chapter 8. We'll be reading the whole chapter as is our custom.
You can follow along silently starting in verse 1. Hosea chapter 8 the Bible reads
Set the trumpet to thy mouth
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord
Because they have transgressed my covenant
And trespassed against my law
Israel shall cry unto me
My God we know thee
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good
The enemy shall pursue him
They have set up kings but not by me
They have made princes and I knew it not
Of their silver and their gold have they made them idols
That they may be cut off
Thy calf O Samaria hath cast thee off
Mine anger is kindled against them
How long will it be ere they attain to innocency
For from Israel was it also
The workmen made it
Therefore it is not God
But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces
For they have sown the wind
And they shall reap the whirlwind
It hath no stock
The bud shall yield no meal
If so be it yield
The strangers shall swallow it up
Israel is swallowed up
Now shall they be among the Gentiles
As a vessel wherein is no pleasure
For they are gone up to Assyria
A wild ass alone by himself
Ephraim hath hired lovers
Yea, though they have hired among the nations
Now will I gather them
And they shall sorrow a little
For the burden of the king of princes
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin
Altars shall be made unto him to sin
I have written to him the great things of my law
But they were counted as a strange thing
They sacrifice flesh
For the sacrifices of mine offerings
And eat it
But the Lord accepted them not
Now will he remember their iniquity
And visit their sins
They shall return to Egypt
Ephraim hath forgotten his maker
And buildeth temples
And Judah hath multiplied fenced cities
But I will send a fire upon his cities
And it shall devour the palaces thereof
Let's fire our heads for a word of prayer
Father in heaven we thank you for Hosea chapter 8 Lord
And we thank you for our church
And for our pastor
I pray that you fill in with your spirit
And help him to explain this portion of scripture to us
Help us to make connections Lord
Amen, we're in Hosea chapter 8 and we're building steam as it were in this book of the Bible
And God is elaborating even further about what's going to happen to the nation of Israel
He says in verse 1
Set the trumpet to thy mouth
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord
Because they have transgressed my covenant
And trespassed against my law
So the Bible brings up in verse 1 a trumpet
And trumpets in the Bible signify a lot of different things
It's found in scripture as being positive and negative
So it's not just necessarily one particular connotation
But a lot of things that are related to trumpets are related to war
Or some kind of warfare
The Bible talks about how they blow trumpets during times of sacrifice
During the new moon according to the scripture
Also for war or even before war kind of a warning
A warning signal
You'd have people that are called watchmen
Watchmen will sit at the high points of a city
Perhaps in a tower, perhaps in a tree
Somewhere where they have a long distance vision
And they're supposed to watch throughout the night to see if there's an enemy coming
Spies or some kind of danger
So that they can alert everyone in the city that's sleeping
And give them as much advance warning or notice as possible
And this is kind of symbolic in the Bible
Of a preacher or a pastor
Being one who's supposed to give a warning to the sheep, to the flock, to the world
Of impending doom, destruction, war, like manner
And really in this particular passage though
It's not really a positive message
This is a trumpet not even really signifying like hey you have a chance here
It's basically just signifying their destruction
It's going to be their demise
Now I want to go to a few places here
Go to Isaiah 58 for a moment
Go to Isaiah, go back to the left in your Bible to Isaiah
And chapter 58 and
We're going to see the Bible bring up a trumpet
And this is a pretty common passage, one that we look to a lot
But it says in verse 1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet
And show my people their transgression
And show Jacob their sin
So in Isaiah God makes it clear what he meant by the trumpet
He's saying lift up thy voice like a trumpet
Meaning that you should sound like a trumpet
Now what is a trumpet sound like?
It's a pretty obvious instrument when it comes to an orchestra
Because it's very loud
That's one of the things that you think about when it comes to a trumpet
That it's very loud, it's very bold
They usually are very even high pitched sounding
And so when it comes to an orchestra of all the instruments
The one that's going to basically give you the most sound
Just loud, just really alert you to something
Is going to be the trumpet
Of course other instruments maybe are known for their elegance or grace
But the trumpet is known for its abruptness, for its power
For the fact that it's there to give you some kind of a signal
And so it's telling the preacher to preach like a trumpet
Their voice should be like a trumpet
Meaning that they are going to use their voice in a powerful way
They're going to use their voice to alert people
To make it clear what the message is
And even in warfare trumpets are often used to signify
Where troops may go or what's the next move for the battalion
And of course why do they use a trumpet?
Because it can be heard, you know you're in a battle
It may not, you don't want the triangle
You know it's like ding ding ding
Just because that's not going to be as easy to hear, discern
Even necessarily what the sound is
But the trumpet blast is very loud and it can give a very certain sound
And so he's saying this is the similarity he wants in a preacher
Is one who's giving a very clear message
One that's very well understood and is very bold
I mean of instruments it'd be hard to play a trumpet softly
You know it'd be hard to play a trumpet and it'd just be like really really tender
You know you're not going to really, that's like a saxophone or something right
There's other instruments that you kind of play with tenderness
I think in order to even snuff the sound out of a trumpet
They usually have to use a ball or something, is that correct?
A mute okay, but it looks like a ball okay
It's in the ball shape right
It doesn't look like a flat earth or anything okay over here
It's like some kind of a round object that you can use to kind of soften or deaden the sound of a trumpet
But without some kind of an instrument I mean it's very difficult to soften the sound of a trumpet
Because a trumpet is just naturally loud
And of course that's what the preachers should be like when they're preaching against sin
And they're trying to reach a message unto the people
And so you know we have to understand that when God's telling him to set the trumpet to his mouth
You know it's not necessarily that he's just saying like hey blow a trumpet here
He's using it as a metaphor just like it is in this passage
Of saying hey let's make a really loud and clear message here about what's going to happen to Israel
That they're going to be destroyed
Go ahead to Jeremiah 4
And Jeremiah is to the right a little bit
So Jeremiah is right next to Isaiah
And we're you know from a timeline perspective
Isaiah and Hosea are basically the same timeline
And they're prophesying about the timeline of Jeremiah
So there's a connection between all three of these
Basically Isaiah and Hosea are saying this is what's going to happen in Jeremiah
And then Jeremiah is basically telling you like what's about to happen
So they're all basically talking about the same events though
Similarities that you're going to see in these books
Because they're talking about the same events
They're talking about the coming destruction of the Lord
And it's hard to say that God hasn't been gracious
Because he gave them all of Isaiah
He gave them all of Hosea
He gave them decades here
I mean he's given them years and years and years
Think about all this great preaching
All these different messages that have been delivered unto the children of Israel
And they just still didn't hearken
They still didn't listen
They still don't want to pay attention to the message
Jeremiah chapter 4 is similar here
Make ye mention to the nations
Behold publish against Jerusalem
That watchers come from a far country
And give out their voice against the cities of Judah
As keepers of a field are they against her roundabout
Because she hath been rebellious against me sayeth the Lord
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee
This is thy wickedness because it is bitter
Because it reacheth unto thine heart
My bowels, my bowels
I am pained at my very heart
My heart maketh a noise in me
I cannot hold my peace
Because thou hast heard on my soul
The sound of the trumpet
Notice this
The alarm of war
So the Bible gives us a definition
As it were of the sound of the trumpet
What is the sound of the trumpet alert in your mind?
It's an alarm of war
And again I'm not saying that every trumpet
Is this particular definition
But I believe that this definition
Is congruent with the passage in Hosea chapter number 8
And we have in Isaiah 58
Talking about kind of a similar concept here
And this guy is very upset about the sound of the trumpet
What does the sound of the trumpet?
It says that there's war coming
But notice what the next verse says, verse 20
Destruction upon destruction is cried
So notice even though there's war
They already realize that that war is also
Spelling their doom
It's not like oh we're gonna go to war let's win
It's like you're gonna lose
It's just impending doom and destruction for them
For the whole land is spoiled
Suddenly are my tents spoiled
And my curtains in a moment
How long shall I see the standard
And hear the sound of the trumpet
For my people is foolish
They have not known me
They are sottish children
And they have none understanding
They are wise to do evil
But to do good they have no knowledge
So the Bible is giving us a picture here
Of what the children of Israel
And of course this is more specifically the children of Judah
Yet Hosea while it's focused on Isaiah
Or I'm sorry the nation of Israel
It still kind of alludes to Judah
And brings up Judah as well
But it's the same problem
They have the same issue
And notice that God says that they're sottish
Sottish is not necessarily a word
That people are familiar with
Also the short form sought
Is another word that can be used
It's to denote someone that's like a drunkard
It's to denote someone that's habitually drunk
Someone that's not sober
And it's saying that these people
They're not paying attention
They're not awake
They're not sober
They don't care
They have no knowledge of God
That they're just distracted
And really the only thing they're good at
Is just being evil
And sinning
They're really good at adultery
They're really good at getting drunk
They're really good at murder
They're really good at theft
And you say how do they get good at that?
Practice
Practice makes you perfect
And of course that practice
Doesn't necessarily mean you're doing something good
They're practicing really evil wicked things
And they've gotten really good at them
They're super filled with iniquity
And of course God is just going to have to destroy them
They're also very foolish
They don't even realize they're going to be destroyed
I mean if you think about it
Noah is building this ark
And everybody else is just bubbling around
And then just all of a sudden
The flood comes and destroys them all
The Bible talks about how that's going to be similar
With the end times
That the whole world is just going to keep going on
Just doing their thing
And then all of a sudden just sudden destruction
Because they're not smart enough to realize
And they just don't care about all the warning signals
They become death to the trumpets
They become death to the warnings
And they don't care anymore
And because of that they're whisked away
It's kind of like me and my alarm clock
The first few times it sounds in the morning
It's just like I don't hear it
It's like I become
I'm immune to the sound of an alarm clock sometimes
And these people are just immune
To their sound clock
Their alarm clock
And they're basically just not going to get up
They're not going to wake up
And they're going to be taken away
Now if you go back to Hosea
Chapter number 8
That kind of gives us an idea of what he's saying
And just kind of the tone of this chapter
But he's wanting him to set a trumpet to his mouth
As a metaphor
And he wants him to preach this
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord
Now who's the he that we're talking about?
We're talking about God
So God is going to be an eagle
Now you know we live in America
So we have this bias
But eagles in the Bible are a predator
Eagles are known as kind of this bird
That's going to hunt
And is a predator
And it's associated with
Basically destruction
Someone that's going to cause evil
And really eagles
If you understand anything about eagles
Eagles are a true predator
They will just come out of nowhere
Screeching down
And they'll just rip open their prey
They'll devour their prey
They're a very dangerous bird
You know if you're out in the wild
An eagle could shred you up very easily
And they're very large animals
They can also their wingspans
Are often very large
They can carry away their prey
Often they don't even kill their prey
They simply just grab it
So they'll come down
They'll swoop down
They'll just grab a snake
They can even grab all kinds of animals
A dog
They've been known to just
They'll just come down
They'll just grab a dog
They'll grab whatever
And the animal has no chance
At basically fighting this eagle
And the eagle's already ripped into their flesh
So they just let them kind of bleed to death
On their little journey
Off to wherever they take them
Or they'll just take them really high
And then just kind of drop them
And let the drop kill them
And then just go pick them back up
Because they're kind of like a vulture
In a sense style type bird
They're able to take advantage of their prey
So the fact that the Bible's saying that
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord
This is very negative
This is not
Now there are mentions that are positive of eagles
You know the Bible talks about
Being carried on wings of eagles and stuff like that
And that's to symbolize the fact that
An eagle flies really high
And it can carry you and stuff
But this carrying is not the carrying you want
This is the carrying off the destruction
And he's not going to come and save you
Just like America
If you were to live a century today
It wouldn't be to save you
It would be to carry you off
And to do all manner of damage to you
It says why?
Because they have transgressed my covenant
And trespassed against my law
So you know
Again I think that
Because of our modern day culture
And hearing a lot of bad preaching
Whether you wanted to or not
We have this idea that Jesus Christ
Is kind of like a Santa Claus
That only delivers presents or something
But in the Bible
God can be just as much of an enemy to you
As he can be a savior
And those who trespass against the Lord
And go against the Lord
He is going to be their literal enemy
He's going to be like an eagle coming out of nowhere
And causing all manner of destruction against them
And it says in verse 2
This is interesting
It says Israel shall cry unto me
My God we know thee
So it's like hey why are you attacking me?
I know you
We're your people
Go to Matthew 7
Keep your finger
Go to Matthew chapter number 7
Where a lot of people get confused
They think like oh I know the Lord
I go to church
I've heard about Jesus
I have a Jesus bracelet
What would Jesus do?
I own a Bible
And I even have my name printed on the cover
Now I've never read it
But you know
I own it
You know I've read it
I've seen the TV show Chosen Pastor Shelley
Of course I know who Jesus is
But you know that doesn't really count for anything
Look at Matthew 7
Look at verse 21
Not everyone that saith unto me Lord, Lord
Shall enter into the kingdom of heaven
So notice what it says
Not everyone that saith unto me Lord, Lord
Doesn't that remind you of Hosea
Hey we know you
Hey Lord
You're the Lord
It's not saying that the Lord exists
It's not saying that you know the Lord even
That's going to get you saved
What does it say if we keep reading
It says shall enter into the kingdom of heaven
But he that doeth the will of my Father
Which is in heaven
Many will say to me in that day Lord, Lord
Have we not prophesied in thy name
And in thy name have cast out devils
And in thy name done many wonderful works
And then will I profess unto them
I never knew you
Depart from me ye that work iniquity
You know what's more important
Than you knowing him
Is him knowing you
And if he doesn't know you
He cast you out
Hey you think you know me but you don't
It's like a creepy stalker
You know the creepy stalker
Is like hey I know you
It's like but I don't know you
You're not welcome in my house
You're not welcome to follow me around
And just like this children of Israel
Hey they're just creepy stalkers
They don't really know the Lord
They don't really care
They're just going to destroy them
It doesn't matter that you
Say that you know God
It doesn't matter that you claim God
It doesn't matter that you have the right name
It matters that you've actually believed in Christ
You know go back if you would to Hosea chapter 8
Of course the reason why those in Matthew 7
Are rejected
It's not that they were too sinful
It was that they never trusted in Christ to save them
And ultimately we can tell what they were trusting
In to get them into heaven
Because they're saying hey look at all the things we did
I preached though
I did all these miracles
I did all these wonderful works
But Christ didn't recognize them as wonderful
They thought they were wonderful
They said that they were wonderful
But in fact He calls them workers of iniquity
Recognizing the fact that they weren't doing anything good
That they were just lying about it
And again what you have to understand about this
Is in the world we live in today
There are going to be people who say they know Jesus
And say they do wonderful works and they're not saved
Because Matthew 7 already told us that
Not only that we have in Hosea a picture
A group of people they say they know God
They are saying they're doing works for Him
But God doesn't know them
So we can't base our perception of reality on what people tell us
We can only interpret every situation based on the lens of scripture
Scripture tells us what's right and wrong
You can't believe people
The Bible says the simple believeth every word
And if we just trust what people say
Well we'll be taken advantage of all the time
And everybody will go to hell
Because essentially every false prophet is going to get up and tell you
That he knows the Lord
He's of God
He's the right preacher
That they really know the Lord
And they're going to help you know the Lord
But you know the way you know someone's of the Lord
Is what the Bible says about them
And you check what the Bible says
And of course the people here are giant hypocrites
We can clearly see they don't really know the Lord
They have no idea what the Bible says
They're not trusting Him
They're not serving Him whatsoever
They're just a bunch of liars
It says in verse 3
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good
The enemy shall pursue
Hey we know you
Yeah but you cast off the thing that's good
You didn't do anything
Who cares if you know me or not
The enemy's going to pursue you
The enemy's going to destroy you
Verse 4
They have set up kings
In their gold
Have they made them idols
That they may be cut off
You know it sounds like election integrity
They had a problem with that too
Hey they had kings but
Not by God
You know and of course
We have to take this passage
In congruence with passages like
Think about Romans 13
Doesn't Romans chapter number 13 say that
The powers that be are ordained of God
So how does that work
Well you have to understand
God has kind of two different ideas
When it comes to His will
You kind of have His perfect will
And then you kind of have what's considered
Like a permissive will
And I've heard this described by a lot of different people
And of course the Lord has a perfect will
But unfortunately because we're sinners
That's not going to always be realized
You know what's God's perfect will
That all men will repent
And come to the knowledge of the truth
And be saved right
God is not willing that any should perish
So what is God's perfect will
Everyone is saved
What's God's permissive will
He lets those who reject Him go to hell
You know He allows people to rebel against Him
On this earth even
He allows people to sin
He allows the devil to go around and deceive people
He allows false prophets to get up and preach lies
That's not God's perfect will
You know God allows abortion
That's not God's perfect will
That's not what God truly desires
And according to the scripture
Would He allow
Or if He wanted a lot of the kings of Israel
To have been a king
No
So one thing you have to understand
By this passage specifically
Many of the kings of Israel
God does not like
God did not purposely set up
God did not want them to be king
He had nothing to do with it
Now at the same time though
God allows
Certain people to climb into power
Or will allow them to essentially
Just so then He can knock them down
Or so that He can just see people
Or cause some kind of evil to happen
You know the thing about Pharaoh
He allows Pharaoh to climb into a position of power in Egypt
Not so much because he really wants Pharaoh to be in charge
But rather he can use him
To show his glory
Through allowing this guy to come into power
You know think about the antichrist
Do you really think it's God's
Perfect will for the antichrist
To rule over the earth
No absolutely not
Jesus Christ is his king
Jesus Christ is the one that he's going to have rule and reign
Over the earth
But you know what God's going to allow that
To happen
And of course that's ordained of God
In the sense that God has already for
Knowledge
And is going to allow the antichrist to come into power
So that he can destroy him
So that he can you know
Get all of the bundles of reprobates
Gathered together unto him
And of course there's a lot of different reasons
Why that's going to happen
But just because someone's a position of a king
Doesn't mean that God really wants them there
And I hear sometimes bad preaching about this
Because they'll say oh
Well Joe Biden's the president
And since all powers that be are ordained of God
We should pray for his blessing
And I'm thinking like no
That's somebody that God didn't want to set up
No that's someone that God is not interested in being
In any kind of position of leadership
Or authority in our country
He's just simply allowing it as a punishment unto us
And so I'm not going to sit here
And then just pray for his blessing
Just because he happens to be in a position of authority
Now does that mean that every position of authority
Or every political office I would feel that way
No
I'm sure that there's plenty of people
That I don't agree with
That I don't like
That you know is maybe not the best candidate
But you know we should still pray for their good
You know what I'm not going to pray for Joe Biden's good
And we have to understand
That there's going to be a balance here
You have to use some discretion
And you know while we may choose to be respectful
Of positions of authority
You're not going to always be respectful of the person
You know I think about
Some of the men of God
They are confronted with the king of Israel
And the king of Judah
And basically they look at them
And they say hey if it wasn't for the king of Judah
I wouldn't even regard your presence
King of Israel
You're too wicked
You're too evil
You're not someone that God has respect for
And so I don't have any respect for you
I don't have any automatic respect
No he's saying like look I wouldn't even talk to you
If it wasn't for this other king
Now here's the thing the other king
Was a screw up
The other king had serious issues
But he wasn't just he wasn't Joe Biden
Okay folks
And so of course he wasn't Barack Obama
You know it was like Ronald Reagan
You know I'm just kidding
It's like it's someone that is like okay
Obviously this guy's got serious problems
Serious issues I just at least respect
The position of authority you have
You know I don't really care
About your position
You're not really authoritative in my mind
Look at Psalms chapter 2
And look at what it says in verse 2
The kings of the earth set themselves
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against his anointed
So you know the Bible confirms the idea
That the leaders and the rulers of this world
Are always putting themselves in these positions
Of authority
You know obviously
A couple years ago it almost seemed like
It manifested that our elections
Have some issues
But I'll be honest a decade ago
I thought the elections were not real
I've never really thought that they were real
And you know when you study the Bible
You know you really think that the people
In the most powerful nation in the world
Are just letting the TikTok users
Vote in the next president
They know what they're doing
They're not letting these things
It doesn't happen by chance
They're picking and putting these people
In the positions that they want
It's not like just any random person
Could just take over
Now these people are setting themselves
They're putting these positions of authority
And notice it's not by God's will
God's not wanting these people to be in
Positions of authority
And so what happens when people put themselves
In authority where God doesn't want them
He takes them away
He removes them
He punishes them
And that's what he's doing with Hosea
Go back to Hosea chapter 3
You know when we decide to allow leaders
To do so
We shouldn't allow bad leadership
To rule over our lives
When we have opportunity to change that
Or to fix that
And you know frankly speaking in America
You know we theoretically do have the option
Of who leads us
In every political office
And you know what Christians shouldn't allow
Wicked evil people to rule over us
And to not care about these things
You know as a Christian group
As a nation
We should pick godly leaders
Who are the best candidates
To rule and to lead our nation
And this should be in every area of your life
You know as a young lady
Who may look to being married one day
You know you need to pick a good leader
To lead your household
And not just marry some Joe Smo
Because he looks good
Because he's the bad boy
You know pick a guy that actually fears the Lord
Loves God
And allow him to be the leader of your family
You know when you're picking a church
You shouldn't just pick whatever church
Is closest to you
No pick one where there's a guy leading the church
That actually fears God
Pick a guy that's actually going to elevate
The word of God
And is actually going to edify you and your family
You know because you're putting those people in power
You know if nobody comes to my church
You know it's not like I can force
I can't drag people in here
Forcibly
And you know the false prophets that exist
In our society exist
Because people are giving them power
To get up there
And allowing them to rule over them
And allowing them to lead them
You know everyone in this room
Apart from my family
Has a choice of who their pastor's going to be
Okay
You have an opportunity to decide
Who you're going to allow to lead you
And of course according to the Bible you should go to a church
Where you're allowing the pastor to lead you
I mean that's clear to the Bible
But you know what you get a choice in that don't you
You get to decide which kind of a leader
Which kind of a shepherd you're going to have
These people are setting up bad people
They're putting in bad kings
They're putting in bad princes
Princes means rulers
So they're putting in the people that don't really care
That are prideful
In fact you know in politics in America
It used to be that if you campaigned for yourself
You would not be elected
Because it was seen as you being prideful
As you being narcissistic
As you being a bad candidate
So it used to be that it was a shame
For you to get up and be like Donald Trump
Of course I'm the greatest
Look folks no one's better than me
You know that would have been an instant loss
Back in the day
Because people actually understood the Bible
They understood this is a bad leader
This is someone that's bragging about themselves
You know the Bible talks about let another man praise thee
And not thine own lips
A stranger not thine own mouth
You know what we have today
Is basically a shameless promotion of self
In the world that we live in
You know what an embarrassment
That our politics
Our leaders have to go around
And shamelessly promote themselves
It's like I'm so great
And I'm so wonderful
And I'm so smart
And I'm so intelligent
It's because no one else will say that about them
What person on this planet would say
That no one knows the Bible better than Donald Trump
Only Donald Trump would say that
You know only Donald Trump
Can say the most grand union
About themselves
Because pride will allow you to say anything
And we don't want a prideful leader
We need to make sure that we're not setting up people
In bad positions of authority
And you know when it comes to this church
You know we have other men that are in authority
We have people that are leading
As far as soul winning captains
Or soul winning leaders
Music leaders
We have all kinds of different people
In positions of authority
I allow people to preach behind our pope
But when I'm gone
And you know the last thing I want to do
Is enable someone that's filled with pride
Someone that thinks really highly of themselves
Because that is going to destroy them
And the congregation
It's going to destroy everyone
And we have to be careful about the people
That we give power to
We have to be careful about the men
That we entrust with certain positions of authority
And we need to make sure that they fear God
Now these people didn't
They set up kings, princes
Notice that they made their way
They set up kings, princes
Notice that they made gold
Or they made their gold idols
And they're basically worshipping a false god
Verse 5
Thy calf O Samaria
Have cast thee off
So instead of worshipping God
They took all their money
And they gave it to what? False religion
Again this happens in a society
Where people will give all of their money
To false religion
They'll give it to the Roman Catholic Church
You know the Roman Catholic Church
And they had the majority of money
That's why they had so much power
Is because they had so much money
And people are constantly giving all their money
To the Roman Catholic Church
You know you go visit Roman Catholic Churches in Europe
Some of those beautiful buildings
You've ever seen in your life
I mean some of the most ornate constructions ever
Why? Because they have all the money
And look I guarantee
I guarantee
The idols that were made by these people
Looked amazing
Lots of special crafting
All the way the jewels
Were imbled into the calf
And the way the whatever weird gods
They were making
I guarantee they were very
You know artful
They were crafted really well
They might have been pleasing to the eye
They were probably cool to see
But here's the problem
It's false religion
But here's the problem
It's not the God of the Bible
And you know because of them investing
All their time, effort, energy, and money
Mind anger is kindled against them
How long will it be
Ere they attain to innocency
Now the word ere
Just think of the word before
That's all ere means
Ere just means before
So he's saying how long is it going to be
Before they attain to innocency
Innocency meaning what?
When are they going to actually strive
To be right with God
When are they actually going to clean their lives up a little bit
When are they going to actually try and do something
Good for once
So he's saying like I've given you a long time to repent here
I've given you a long time to clean it up
And you're just not cleaning it up
You're not fixing the problem
Verse 6
For from Israel was it also the workmen made it
Therefore it is not God
But the cap of Samaria shall be broken in pieces
So he's saying look of course
If a man made something
It's not God
Because God is not made with hands
God is not some image that can be worshipped
And this is why it's also you know in my opinion
It is wrong to try and make any kind of image of God
Because you're just going to fail
You will fail
It is impossible to make any kind of image of God
Of course the Bible makes it clear graven images are off the table
You know we're not allowed to have any graven images
We're not supposed to bow down and worship these things
You know some people will say like
Well I think it's fine to have graven images
As long as you don't worship them
And I understand why people come to that conclusion
But I personally believe the Bible has a lot of verses
That make it clear you shouldn't even have them
We just shouldn't even make them
We shouldn't even you know decide to have any kind of
And again you know to decide what a graven image is
My personal opinion or personal interpretation of what a graven image is
Is it simply just any animal, person, place or thing
That has no utility
According to the Bible
It is certainly a person, place or thing
Not a thing but a person, place or like animal
That's what it defines it as
And so that's not my opinion
But again you know things that are like a toy soldier
You know I don't personally
Obviously you could argue that that's a graven image
In the sense that it's graven the image of a person
And it could be made out of metal
It could be made out of wood
Yet I wouldn't consider that sin or a problem necessarily
Because the utility is to play with it
The utility is to play with it
Just like a car is not a graven image in my opinion
An airplane painted like a bird is not a graven image
Because what's the purpose and the goal of these things
Is it has a utility
It has some kind of a purpose that's driven to it
But if I'm just going to grave some kind of an animal
And just put it on the shelf
To be looked at and adored
And kind of just oh look at it
To me that's where it crosses the line
And now we're getting into the idolatry phase
And now we're getting into the issue where
You know we're crossed a line
Of course if you start worshipping the thing
And thinking it's God
That's real extreme
That's not even a question if it's wrong or not
But I'm just saying as a culture, as a society
I don't even think we should get to that point
You know I don't like the statues of the men
And all these different things
That we put up on all our society
You know to me it's a layer
It's a form of idolatry
That should just be off limits
You know if people want to make nice looking statues
That are not men, animals or whatever
Go for it
You know I'm not against statues
But let's not make statues of men and animals
And these other things
You know God wanted us to enjoy real people
And to enjoy real animals
And to enjoy the real things
Again I'm also not against you drawing pictures
You know you could draw a picture of anything right
Nothing wrong with drawing pictures
You know art
But I think we should stay away from the graven images
And when it also comes to Jesus
You know I think there's a danger in trying to draw Jesus
Now you know can I point to a verse in the Bible
That says thou shalt not draw Jesus
No I cannot draw I cannot do that
But what I can do is this
I can say this if you draw Jesus
It doesn't look like him
I just know that it's wrong
And you know while my kids
Will draw me and my wife
And they'll be like look it's you and me and mom and dad
And I think that's cute
You know it's not that cute to someone
That's not related to you
Right if I just come up and I have a picture
Of a weird looking dude and I'm like hey it's you
I drew you
You'd be like that's weird
You know because that's not me
I mean what if I just drew just like an Asian dude
You know
And I was just like hey it's you
But you're like but I'm not Asian
You know
And again isn't that that's the majority
The majority of pictures of Jesus
Are drawn in the image of the person that drew them
You know whether if they're black
Or if they're Chinese
Well here's the thing
He can only be one nationality
So that means all the other ones are wrong
So that means you're already very likely wrong
And whatever your depiction of him is
Okay
And a lot of people will portray him in movies and film
And stuff like that
And you know
I'm not saying that that's just entirely wrong
Because that's their discretion
I just think it's dangerous
And you should probably stay away from it
Because if you portray Jesus
They depict him in a way that's sinful
Like they'll give him long hair
Or they'll put him in like a skirt or a dress
Or something like that
Making him effeminate looking
And you know what that's gross
You know why would I want to have a picture of a Jesus
That's sinful
You know that's blasphemous
If you're gonna portray Jesus
You better make sure there's no obvious blasphemy
Attied to it
You know I've been to plenty of churches
Where they had plays with Jesus
And plenty of Christmas plays
Where they have someone portraying Jesus
And I'm not just gonna condemn all of them
But you know what
If they're gonna do it where the Jesus has long hair
Or is wearing a skirt
I am gonna condemn that
I am gonna say that's wicked and it's wrong
I personally would probably even just stay away from it
But I'm just saying that you know
Anything that was made with hands
Is not God folks
Now you'd say this
What about the Bible
Well here's the thing
The Bible is
While it has a human element to it
It's not made by man
Because it came from heaven
It came from God
God spake these words
And he delivered it to man
And man wrote it down
And the closest thing we'll ever have
To Jesus on this earth until he returns
Is this
Is the words of God
This is what we should elevate
This is what we should lift up
This is what we should do
No
Or like the Catholics
They'll sell
They'll sell you a piece of wood
And say it's from the cross of Jesus
But you know what's better
Than a physical picture of the cross of Jesus
Is Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
That's way better
I don't need a physical piece of wood
That was supposedly from the cross
You know what I can do
I can just preach the gospel
Or I can read the gospels if I need to
Because God's not carnal
We shouldn't be elevating fleshly things
Because God's not a flesh
God is the word of God
Okay so we really want to know who God is
That's what we should worship
And that's what we should pay attention to
But the children of Israel
They don't care about the word of God
They've gotten away from the Bible
They've gotten away from the things of God
And they're elevating and worshiping images
They're elevating and worshiping a golden calf
Go back to Isaiah
Hopefully you're still there
It's called television
It's called internet
We just love to put images in front of our face
And just give that all of our attention and focus
Rather than the things of God
It says in verse 7
For they have sown the wind
And they shall reap the whirlwind
It hath no stock
The bud shall yield no meal
If so be it yield
The strangers shall swallow it up
Now there's a really interesting verse
It says that they've sown the wind
And it says that they're going to reap the whirlwind
Now wind in the Bible denotes a lot of things
There's a lot of pictures we have in the wind
But I want to go to a couple of places
Go to Jude chapter 1 for a moment
Go to Jude chapter 1
Let's look at a couple places where the Bible mentions wind
What could be sowing wind?
Well let's get an idea of what wind is first
Jude
Our one and only chapter
Chapter 1
Look at what it says in verse 12
These are spots in your feast of charity
When they feast with you feeding themselves without fear
Clouds they are without water
Carried about of winds
Trees whose fruit withereth
Without fruit twice dead plucked up by the root
So the Bible says about false prophets and false teachers
That they're carried about of winds
Now go to Ephesians chapter number 4
Go to Ephesians, go back
to Ephesians
Let's get a little bit more information about this
So false prophets and false teachers are always carried with winds
And I'll submit to you that wind could be a lot of things in the Bible
But think about just what wind does in general for a second
If I plant seed into the ground
Or I'm trying to plant on something
What will the wind do to that?
The wind will blow it and scatter it
And cause it to be what? Potentially unprofitable
It can easily destroy the crop because of the wind
You know if we think about even just crops themselves
If you have too strong of a wind
It can come, it's like a destroying wind
It can destroy things
So what does wind often picture?
It scatters and it destroys
Now there are ways to use that positively
Obviously you know some flowers and some plants
They spread their seed by wind
They simply you know think about a dandelion
But a dandelion is kind of like a weed isn't it?
You don't really want the dandelion
Don't you just love it when your kids pick up all the dandelions
And blow them all over your yard?
Isn't that a blessing? You know what's going to happen?
More dandelions
You know dandelions are weeds
They might look cool
It might look pretty
But you know what it is? It's a danger
And the Bible brings up this about wind as well
Ephesians 4
It says
Let's read a little bit of context here
Look at verse 11
It says
So notice what the Bible denotes wind as
In Ephesians chapter number 4
False doctrine
Now does that fit with what we read in Jude chapter number 1?
Those false prophets are being what?
Carried about with what false doctrine
And all kinds of winds
Why is it important that you go to church
And you listen to a pastor
And you get edified by the ministers of God
So you don't get carried away
With all of the false doctrine
And all of the deception that's out there
Now
So what would it be if there's a society
If there's a nation
Sowing wind
What does that sound like they're doing?
They're sowing a bunch of false doctrine aren't they?
They're sowing a bunch of lies
And heresy
And all kinds of false religion
And what is it that they're going to reap?
They're going to reap the whirlwind
So it's like this
Hey if we set up one false prophet
You know what we're going to get?
We're going to get like a hundred false prophets
And return to that
And they're going to all preach unto me
All their false stupid ideas
You know it's like you let
Just one of these guys pop up
And all of a sudden there's tons of them
You know it's like oh we let Joel Osteen
Now we get T.D. Jakes and Kenneth Copeland
And Creplo Dollar and we get
I mean you know one of the areas where I feel like
This has happened to America
Go over to Proverbs chapter 11
I want you to go to Proverbs for a moment
Is YouTube
YouTube enabled
Every bozo on the planet
To get out there and make a YouTube channel
And start teaching the Bible
But you know before YouTube ever existed
Some random dude
That wants to teach a whole bunch of people
Would have no success
Because nobody would care
He's not in charge of a church
He's not in charge of anybody
It's going to be really hard for him to go out
And knock on doors and gather a bunch of bozos
To come hear him speak
But you know what YouTube did
It took any random person
In the world to just start uploading videos
And claiming to be a pastor
Claiming to be a teacher
And because people went and listened to that junk
And gave them a bunch of subs
And a bunch of likes and whatever
Then he started getting really popular
And then essentially what happened
Now we're just flooded
The internet in our world is flooded with false teachers
With all kinds of crazy churches
Without the internet
Frankly speaking a lot of these churches wouldn't even be able to exist
Because they have all these false prophets and false teachers
That drew away a crowd
Drew disciples after themselves
And then enabled them to just plant this stupid church
Plant this false church somewhere
And so it's important that you realize
That you have so much power
That you give unto people
When you listen to them, when you pay attention to them
And as a culture, as a society
What we have done is we've just been sowing a lot of wind
We've been just sowing so much false doctrine
We've been enabling so many false preachers
And false teachers to just get lifted up
And it's going to destroy America
We're inheriting a whirlwind of false doctrine today
There has never been more false teaching
More false doctrine
More bad churches than ever before
There's more denominations
There's more fake Christians
And think about when we go sowing
How many people say, yeah I'm saved
You know what we're inheriting?
A whirlwind
Because think about how many people
If they just said, no I'm not saved
Never heard
How much easier it would be to get that person saved
Than the person that's been sucked into Mormonism
And the Church of Christ
And sucked into Catholicism
And sucked into all this junk
And all this garbage that exists in our society
And you know because our society has sown so much wind
It's enabled us to now inherit a whirlwind
We're reaping a whirlwind of false doctrine
And false teaching
False Bible versions
We sowed a lot of false Bible versions
Think about, I mean it just started with one
Just Westcott and Hort
And look at it today
You go to the bookstore today
And you can find all kinds of versions
Word on the street version
The Hawaiian pigeon version
Everything, you know
It's like, this is insanity
The message
We're inheriting the message
I've had people close to me
And the message is a present
I'm like, what in the world?
Thanks
Thanks for that
You know talk about trash
You know I went to a
I used to preach at a shelter
For like homeless people or something
And basically the way it worked
Is they had to come and listen to me preach
If they wanted to eat lunch
So they didn't, it's not like the audience
Was there caring, okay folks
Listen to brother Shelley
Come preach the Bible or anything like that
And you know I would preach
And I did it for like two years
Well eventually when I was done
Doing this
They were like, hey we want to give you a present
I don't need anything
And they're like, no, no, we want to give you a present
So they gave me a framed picture of Jesus
I was like, thank you so much
I mean what a great present
You know and it's like
That's what we get with the Christianity
That we have today
You know and
There's just so much nonsense out there
And we've enabled it
Proverbs chapter 11 look at verse 29
He that trouble is his own house
Shall inherit the wind
And the fools shall be servant
To the wise of heart
You know the Bible is talking about
When you trouble
Basically your family
Your wife, your spouse
Your children
You're going to inherit wind
What does wind do?
It scatters, it destroys
It's deception, lies
I mean you don't want to
Trouble your own house
And you know we've troubled our own house here in America
We've troubled even the church of God today
By allowing all this junk to come in
And then what happens?
Wind
Then we get all kinds of heresy
You know when we don't deal with church issues
Wind
False doctrine comes into the church
We don't deal with leaven
And it just destroys the church
Go to Proverbs 14 for a moment
Proverbs 14
And because we have so many fools in this country
They actually think that they're wise
You know because of the way algorithms work
It's funny because the dumbest people get elevated on purpose
And then the dumb people think that they're actually smart
Because they got elevated
They don't realize the reason they got elevated
Is because they're actually dumb
And the Bible warns
It says in Proverbs 14 look at verse 16
A wise man feareth and departed from evil
But a fool rageth and is confident
You know what's a problem?
We have a thousand fools out there
And they're all confident
They're confident in their foolishness
They're confident in their stupidity
They're confident in their fake version of Christianity
I mean how many bozos are out there online?
Well I don't go to church
Because church is about a religion
And you know Christianity is not a religion
It's a relationship
It's just like you're an idiot
You know I've knocked on a lot of doors recently
We don't go to church
We haven't been to church in a while
Or you know whatever
And it's like but on TV, Joe Goldstein
They listen
Someone's listening to all these YouTube false prophets
Because they got so many views
Somebody's harkening on all these idiots
And you know what?
They're just sowing wind and just sowing false doctrine
And whenever you harken to these scorners
You know you're just going to live a painful life
Go to Proverbs 9
Because a lot of these people
They have a legitimate grievance against church
And that's what gathers a lot of ears
Like man I was going to this church
And a lot of people are hypocrites in there
And it's like that's probably true
But you know what? You're a hypocrite too
But because they're just a contrarian person
Then you start listening to all their other stupid ideas
And dumb ideas
Because they're just a real scorner
Why is it cool to just make videos
And just attack churches all the time
And I'll tell you something
The most popular Christian YouTubers
And people on the internet
They have one video
Attack
Attack your church
Attack whatever
And look I'm all for pointing out bad people
But you know what? You're not going to have
Any kind of successful Christian movement
When all you do is just attack
And that's also sowing the wind
When it's just attack, attack, attack
Wind, wind, wind
Just against every single thing
What are you going to plant when there's only wind?
Wind is annoying
You know the wind is frustrating
And the wind just causes all kinds of problems
And if you're just sowing constant wind
Expect to receive a lot of wind back too
If all you ever do is just attack people
Expect everyone to attack you
If you just only attack your wife
Expect her to attack you
If you only attack your children
Expect them to attack you
If you only attack church members
Expect them to attack you
If you attack everybody at work
Just expect them to
Attack, attack, attack, attack
And then be like oh I'm such a victim
Everybody's attacking me
And look
We get a lot of attacks
And it's because we've attacked them first in some cases
But you know what? We don't want to be
We don't want to be the only thing that we do
You know I don't want to just preach sermons
We're just only doing that
And of course we want to be strategic in who we're attacking
You know the people that were never going to like us anyways right?
The God hating reprobates
Well good luck ever appeasing that crowd
Good luck ever getting them to like you
But at the end of the day we don't want to be
A group of people that just only attack
You know Jesus Christ attacked a lot of people
But you know he didn't only attack
He didn't only sow wind
He also sowed seed
He also sowed life
He also sowed the living water
Is what he sowed
And so we want to be one that's sowing a lot of water
A lot of seed, a lot of good things
Beware of the person that only sows wind
Proverbs chapter 9 looking at verse 8
For prove not a scorn or lest he hate thee
For rebuke a wise man he will love thee
Notice a scornor is never going to take correction
In our society we live in a world where we have all these people not receiving correction
And when are any of these internet bozos ever going to take correction?
They have no one to correct them
That's why it's dangerous to get out of a local church
Because when you're not around people
And you start floating around dumb ideas like
Hey I think the earth's fucked
It's nice that you're in a church that everybody will mock you
Into the right doctrine on that
They'll laugh at you and think that you're a weirdo
And then you can get that right
But you know when you say that online
You know what happens?
Tons of other weirdos come and they're like
It's fun
It's like all these weirdos and retards come out of the woodwork
They're just like
It's fun
And you're like where did he come from?
You know when you go to a church
I believe the Bible
There's not all these weirdos
Okay
That was a little exaggerated but you get my point
Alright
Go back to Hosea
Someone's offended
How dare you make fun of retarded people
I get it
They're way smarter than flat earthers
Okay
Sorry to offend retarded people
Because they're way better people
Hosea chapter number 8
Look what it says in verse number 8
Look what it says in verse 9
So
In fact the children of Israel
They kind of hoard themselves out to all the other nations
They're asking them to help them
But it doesn't matter how many lovers
How many people you hoard yourself out to
You know God's going to destroy them anyways
And notice they have all these altars
But God's saying your altars are even a sin to me
And if you think about America
I mean how many churches do we have?
How about the Dallas-Fort Worth area?
I mean churches abound in our area
But you know what? Just because a church exists
Doesn't mean God's pleased with it
And a lot of people they think
Oh well this is a church so God must be pleased with it
Wrong
You know what? God's only pleased with things
When you do it right
God's only pleased with the things that are done
According to his will
Not just because you built an altar
Or built a church
Or built some kind of a facility
You know what? God wants there to be churches
That actually follow the word of God
Not just a bunch of fake altars
And fake churches
He says in verse number 12
He says to them the great things of my law
But they were counted as a strange thing
Notice they have no idea what the Bible says
Hey we got all these altars
But no Bible
And you know we have all these churches
But no Bible
And they don't read the Bible
And they don't understand the Bible
And they don't care about the Bible
And you try to even give them a Bible
And they're like I can't understand that
This is strangeth to me
Oh you speak Shakespearean
Speaketh
What does that? It just says strange
Let's just read
But they were counted as a strange thing
You know people that will make fun of the King James Bible
They'll be like it's like the strangest thing that's ever been
And it's like it's not like that
You're being exagative
And look it's not that hard
It's the same word just drop the if
Same
Folks
But you know people just have no idea what the Bible says
They don't care about his law
Verse 13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings and eat it
But the Lord accepted them not
Hey they go to church
They tithe and they sing songs
And God accepteth it not
Well but you
He's got to accept it
I mean the song is my God's an awesome God
How would he not like that?
I mean you
You think that they were not offering the right
Sacrifice
Hey they had a sheep
They were being sold those sheep from the priests themselves
And those priests were sticklers
Now they might have been charge double
But I guarantee hey they got the right sheep
They put it on the altar
They did the thing
But you know what God still didn't like it
Because their heart wasn't right
You know it's not so much like oh
You could go to a fundamental Baptist church
And sing the right hymns
And God could still not be pleased with it
Because your heart's not right
There's plenty of repent of your sins
False gospel
If the Baptist church is out there
Then God's still not pleased with them either
It's not like oh well I stumbled into the right church
Or I'm doing the right physical motions
God doesn't want robots
God doesn't care about that
He cares about what's going on here
And these people just
They were going through the motions
But he doesn't care
Says now will he remember their iniquity
And visit their sins
They shall return to Egypt
Now when it says they're going to return to Egypt
I don't know exactly if he means they're metaphorically only
Or just kind of like metaphorically and physically
Because a portion of Judah does go back to Egypt eventually
But Israel doesn't really return to Egypt physically
We don't really see that
Maybe a remnant or maybe a small portion did
But in large we don't really see Israel going to Egypt
But you know what I thought about
Is they were in Egypt
What was it like in Egypt
They were in bondage
They were servants
They were now in subjection
Israel came out of Egypt and they were free
And meaning what?
They're in charge of themselves
They get to make their rules
But what's going to happen?
The Assyrians are going to come in
And they're going to take over
And now it's no longer going to be a free nation
They're no longer going to have to do whatever they want
They're going to be under their leadership
Under their authority
And have to follow their rules
And if you bring yourselves and follow God's law
I'll bring someone else in that's way more wicked than you
Way more evil and you'll follow his rules
Because guess what?
You're going to be subject to someone
And it's just like the women that say
Hey I don't want to subject myself unto my husband
Well you know what?
God will bring some dirty disgusting man in your life
That will tell you what to do then
Called the government
Or called your pimp
Or called your boss at work
Or called whatever it is out there
That doesn't even like you
And he'll tell you what to do
Or if you live in Europe it'll be some
Islamistist that'll tell you what to do
Some dirty disgusting guy that doesn't even bathe
He'll come in and tell you what to do
And he's not nice either, honey
You know it's just silly how people think like
Oh well I'm going to get out of God's shackles
And I'm going to be free
You know when you get out of God's shackles
Which of course he doesn't shackle you
You're going to go into real shackles
When you think you get out of God's shackles
Oh I'm going to be so free
And God will lock you down
And lock you up
And throw away the key
And you'll never ever return
That's why it's dangerous to get out of God's principles
Oh the fundamentalists
You know they're so restrictive
Oh the fundamentalists they try to tie you down
It's a cult
No no no no
This is the least restrictive place you'll ever be in your life
The most freedom you have is within God's boundaries
Just like your house
You know you have a big fence
You know there's no one invading
That's freedom
You know what whenever all the walls are broken down
And you have enemies coming in and telling you what to do
That's not freedom
And America is destroying itself
And going to give itself potentially to an enemy
You know if America doesn't want God to rule us
That's dangerous
Because we could be inviting Allah to come lead us
Or we could be asking the Jewish God to come lead us
Or we could be asking the Chinese God to come lead us
Or the Russian God
To come lead us
But let me tell you something
You know what you can't just get free
The only true free people are the ones that worship the Lord
Verse 14
For Israel had forgotten his Maker
And built the temples
And Judah had multiplied thin cities
But I will send a fire upon the cities
And it shall devour the palaces thereof
Hey it doesn't matter how many churches you build
Doesn't matter how many strongholds you have
Doesn't matter how big your military is
You know what when you forget God
When you decide that you don't care what the Bible says
And you know what
Unfortunately for them it's too late
You know I don't know what it's like for our nation
For our country, for our future
But I'll tell you this
If we head down the path we're going right now
It's going to be the exact same as this story
The exact same
No difference
It's the same God
He's the same yesterday, today, and forever
He didn't let Sodom and Gomorrah get off the hook
And frankly speaking
He warned about the cities in the New Testament
Getting a worse punishment than Sodom and Gomorrah
Let me tell you something
America has been blessed to have a lot of great preachers
And the King James Bible
All over its coast
And let me tell you something
It's going to get a giant punishment for rejecting God
A severe punishment
Is going to be held against them
For having all of the blessings and the knowledge
And the opportunity to get right with God
And in rejecting that
I mean if they printed, if they repented
At the preaching of Jonas
How much more
At all the pastors and all the Bibles
I mean Jonah's message is just like
You have 40 days and then of us will be overthrown
That was a pretty simple message
And you know God said hey
They're going to rise up in judgment and condemn
Capernaum and they're going to condemn
All the cities that rejected Jesus Christ
You know what they're going to condemn America
Saying like how did you not listen
To the King James Bible
How did you not listen to the things of God
And let us not be those people
Let us be the exception
Let's close in prayer
Thank you Heavenly Father for giving us such
Clear warning and instruction
And giving us so much freedom
You know we don't deserve it
But by your grace and by your mercy
We have so many things that we get to enjoy right now
I pray that we would continue to have fervor
And zeal for the things of God
We wouldn't worship the things of our hands
And as we continue to separate ourselves
From the world that we would inspire others
That our zeal would be infectious
And that we could cause a real revival
In this nation
That we could see many people turn to the Lord
We have to turn people to reading the Bible
To getting the right Bible
To getting it instilled in their heart
And to know that, to know you
But for you to also know them
In Jesus' name we pray, amen
For our final song this evening
We're going to go to song 43
We're marching to Zion
43, we're marching to Zion
Song 43, we're marching to Zion
Come we that love the Lord
And let our joys be known
Sing in a song with sweet accord
Join in a song with sweet accord
Come we that love the Lord
Join in a song with sweet accord
And thus around the throne
We're marching to Zion
Beautiful, beautiful Zion
We're marching upward to Zion
The beautiful city of God
Let those refused to sing
Who never knew are gone
But children of the heavenly King
May speak their joys abroad
We're marching to Zion
Beautiful, beautiful Zion
We're marching upward to Zion
The beautiful city of God
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the heavenly fields
Or walk the golden streets
We're marching to Zion
Beautiful, beautiful Zion
We're marching upward to Zion
The beautiful city of God
Then let our songs abound
And every tear be dry
We're marching through Emmanuel's ground
There were worlds on high
To fairer worlds on high
We're marching to Zion
Beautiful, beautiful Zion
We're marching upward to Zion
The beautiful city of God
Thank you all for coming. God bless. You are dismissed.