WEBVTT 06:25.100 --> 06:28.220 very first verse this is just we don't want to rush right through this this is 06:28.220 --> 06:31.460 encouraging in the middle of the week any part of the week really if you think 06:31.460 --> 06:35.900 about it verse one begins in the dark of the midnight have I oft hid my face 06:35.900 --> 06:38.780 we've been there lift it up from your heart we're gonna let the instruments 06:38.780 --> 06:42.380 drop out on the chorus and just sing to your Lord tonight on that first verse 06:42.380 --> 06:43.800 all together now 12:59.300 --> 13:03.060 Good morning everyone and welcome to Set Fast Baptist Church. 13:04.340 --> 13:05.700 It's wonderful to see everybody here. 13:05.700 --> 13:08.860 If we can find our seats, we will get started with the service. 13:12.600 --> 13:17.640 And once we've all found a seat, let's go and grab our hymnals and find song number 13:17.640 --> 13:18.800 405. 13:22.900 --> 13:25.900 Song number 405. 13:28.900 --> 13:32.180 We'll sing the banner of the cross this morning. 13:32.180 --> 13:35.260 Song number 405. 13:35.260 --> 13:38.780 Let's all sing that out together nice and loud. 13:38.780 --> 13:44.340 The banner of the cross, song 405. 13:44.340 --> 13:45.700 There's a royal. 13:48.500 --> 13:53.500 to the soldiers of the King. 13:53.500 --> 13:57.500 As an ensign prayer we lift it up today 13:57.500 --> 13:59.500 while this ransom war 14:26.800 --> 14:29.900 The standard feed is play 16:15.000 --> 16:19.960 singing everybody let's open up the service now with a word of prayer. Lord we love you 16:19.960 --> 16:23.140 and we thank you so much for this awesome opportunity to serve you and sing out unto 16:23.140 --> 16:27.180 you. In this great church Lord we just ask that you help us now lift up our voices unto 16:27.180 --> 16:31.480 you and just fill us all with your Holy Spirit as we sing unto you this morning. In Jesus 16:31.480 --> 16:38.480 name we pray, amen. Alright for our next song let's go to song number 112. 16:43.300 --> 16:45.900 Song number 112. 16:49.600 --> 16:54.600 Be Still, My Soul, song number 112. 16:55.480 --> 16:58.080 Let's all follow along and sing that out together. 16:59.080 --> 17:00.880 Be Still, My Soul. 20:21.800 --> 20:25.360 Good morning, thank you for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church. 20:25.360 --> 20:27.920 If you did not get a bulletin already and you would like one, 20:27.920 --> 20:29.400 just lift up your hands nice and high. 20:29.400 --> 20:32.400 One of our ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin. 20:32.400 --> 20:36.800 And we are in our grace week, Psalm 119 verses one through eight. 20:36.800 --> 20:39.720 If you can quote that section of Psalm 119, 20:39.720 --> 20:42.760 there is a special prize for memorizing that. 20:42.760 --> 20:46.080 And then on the inside, we have our service and soul winning times. 20:46.080 --> 20:47.760 We also have regional soul winning. 20:48.400 --> 20:53.440 We have our church stats down below. On the right is a list of expecting ladies, so please be in 20:53.440 --> 21:00.960 prayer for them. We had a soul winning marathon this July 4th weekend and it was in Springdale, 21:00.960 --> 21:06.640 Arkansas. There was over 180 salvations. Great job to all the soul winners. I'm going to ask 21:06.640 --> 21:09.520 Brother Sam to come up and give us a testimony here in a second. I'm going to go through our 21:09.520 --> 21:12.200 announcements and we're going to finish but 21:12.300 --> 21:18.020 incredible work to go all the way over there and to celebrate. You know, July 21:18.020 --> 21:23.820 4th going out, soul winning is a great way to go out and celebrate. So some 21:23.820 --> 21:26.740 announcement I'm gonna make, I've been making this month so that way you're 21:26.740 --> 21:31.100 prepared, but I'm doing a special thing for August. It's called Service Sundays. 21:31.100 --> 21:38.100 It's basically an attempt to get you to come to church every service for August. 21:38.100 --> 21:40.300 So if you can come to every service during 21:40.300 --> 21:44.700 August you just have to sign, we'll have a sheet, you just sign your name that you're 21:44.700 --> 21:47.780 there for each service. If you make it all the way to the end, if you endure all the 21:47.780 --> 21:54.360 way to the end, you're saved, all right? We'll give you a $10 gift card for some ice cream, 21:54.360 --> 21:56.220 so it's definitely a little incentive there. 21:57.000 --> 21:59.880 The only exception would be a church sponsored event. 21:59.880 --> 22:02.000 If you are planning on going on one of those, 22:02.000 --> 22:03.060 you can always email us. 22:03.060 --> 22:05.040 And so I don't want to discourage some 22:05.040 --> 22:07.960 from going on a missions trip or a church sponsored event, 22:07.960 --> 22:10.600 but we do want to encourage church attendance 22:10.600 --> 22:12.080 for the month of August. 22:12.080 --> 22:14.120 And then upcoming events, 22:14.120 --> 22:17.640 there is a Fiji's missions trip that's coming up pretty soon. 22:17.640 --> 22:18.640 Please be in prayer for those 22:18.640 --> 22:20.240 that are going to be in attendance. 22:20.240 --> 22:22.480 We have a couple of teen summer events still 22:22.480 --> 22:24.280 that we're planning and organizing. 22:25.000 --> 22:32.760 We have just another fun activity that we signed up for, but we have another men's night broom ball event if you'd like to come. 22:32.760 --> 22:37.400 It's for a couple hours, July 29th, or I'm sorry, July 20th at night. 22:37.400 --> 22:40.440 And so it's just it's just kind of a fun activity. 22:40.440 --> 22:44.520 We have, of course, Canada, Texas, so any marathon August 1st, 22:44.520 --> 22:48.200 Massa conference that I'll be preaching at August 6th to the 8th. 22:48.200 --> 22:50.600 I'm just helping host and lead this. 22:50.600 --> 22:53.000 And so I'm really excited to go out there and. 22:53.000 --> 22:59.600 to visit that part of the country and to hopefully, you know, make America as straight as possible. 22:59.600 --> 23:04.280 That's what I'm telling you. All right. Mesquite, Texas, Sony Marathon, August 22nd. We have 23:04.280 --> 23:08.240 the Barbados missions trip in September 7th through the 12th. And then 23:08.900 --> 23:15.460 Really awesome announcement here, but Pastor Matthew Stuckey, who's been, you know, doing great missions work in the Philippines, 23:15.460 --> 23:19.140 he has a church, soul-winning Baptist Church. He's going to be visiting the United States, 23:19.140 --> 23:22.420 and he wanted to come and visit our church and preach for us. 23:22.420 --> 23:27.140 And so September 20th, he's going to be coming and preaching for us, both services. 23:27.140 --> 23:31.700 In fact, we're even going to have some Texas barbecue catered for lunch. 23:31.700 --> 23:36.820 And so it's going to be a big day. I hope that everyone can come out and try to support. 23:36.900 --> 23:42.580 Pass or Stuckey. Also I would just encourage you this would be a great opportunity if you just want to write him a card 23:43.300 --> 23:47.780 Some kind of an encouragement or give him something. This would be the best opportunity 23:48.660 --> 23:50.500 You know we can't necessarily 23:50.500 --> 23:53.760 Labor him with just tons of items because he can't necessarily take all that back 23:53.760 --> 23:56.300 But if you want to give him cards words of encouragement or whatever 23:56.300 --> 24:00.300 This would be a great opportunity to do that to him in person when he's here 24:00.300 --> 24:04.360 And I'm not even gonna take 50% of the donations that come in alright, so 24:05.300 --> 24:10.500 But, uh, no, it'd be a great opportunity for you to encourage him. 24:10.700 --> 24:15.540 And then also we have, uh, another conference in the fall, uh, heritage of 24:15.540 --> 24:17.660 the Lord conference, October 9th through the 11th. 24:17.660 --> 24:20.420 So we've, we've got a busy schedule and there's still a few other events 24:20.420 --> 24:22.480 in there, um, that aren't even on this. 24:22.480 --> 24:23.960 This is just to give you some heads up. 24:23.960 --> 24:24.320 So. 24:25.000 --> 24:28.680 On the back is our prayer list. Please be in prayer for our church family. 24:28.680 --> 24:31.880 If you are planning on going to some of these events, we do have a way to register for them 24:31.880 --> 24:37.560 on GodResource.com or you can scan these QR codes. It goes there and does that for you automatically. 24:37.560 --> 24:40.360 You go in there, it takes you to the right spot and you can sign up. 24:41.480 --> 24:47.000 Also, we had our missionary update for our church plant in the Philippines with Evangelist Urbanic 24:47.000 --> 24:53.000 and for the month of June he had 507 salvations which brings them up to almost 7,300. 24:53.000 --> 24:56.860 180 so far for the year. I think that's yeah, they just eclipsed 24:57.300 --> 25:03.740 the number they had from last year as a total for the entire year of 2025. 25:03.740 --> 25:07.940 They've already reached it at the halfway mark for 2026. 25:07.940 --> 25:14.940 And I know that that's mostly in part because we had a big group go out there in the early part of the year and help. 25:14.940 --> 25:18.340 And they did a lot of soul winning and had a big missions trip push over there. 25:18.340 --> 25:20.980 And so that really helped push this number over there. 25:20.980 --> 25:24.180 But, you know, that's where he's mentioning in the missionary letter. 25:24.180 --> 25:25.220 If you read it, they had about 30. 25:25.300 --> 25:29.500 3,500 people saved from that January trip specifically. 25:29.500 --> 25:32.140 So that's why the numbers are the way that they are. 25:32.140 --> 25:34.220 But doing a big work over there, 25:34.220 --> 25:35.900 getting a lot of people saved. 25:35.900 --> 25:37.820 And I encourage you, if you are interested 25:37.820 --> 25:40.340 in ever visiting, this upcoming February 25:40.340 --> 25:42.100 is gonna be a great time to go out there. 25:42.100 --> 25:43.060 We're gonna plan another trip. 25:43.060 --> 25:44.360 I'm gonna be going out there. 25:44.360 --> 25:45.540 I'm gonna, you know, God willing, 25:45.540 --> 25:47.180 be preaching out there a couple times. 25:47.180 --> 25:50.020 And so it'd be a great opportunity to go soul winning, 25:50.020 --> 25:53.300 go to the schools, go preaching, visit some of our. 25:53.300 --> 25:58.420 brethren on the other side of the world. And so if you haven't been to the Philippines, it'd be a 25:58.420 --> 26:04.660 really great opportunity to go. Usually that time of year is a pretty affordable time as far as 26:04.660 --> 26:09.300 just pricing of tickets and stuff like that. So it's usually, I would say it's about a thousand 26:09.300 --> 26:16.820 to $1,500 for a ticket at that time, depending on exactly how much layover and what flight you'd 26:16.820 --> 26:21.140 like and stuff like that. That's about the range it'd probably cost. And then 26:21.300 --> 26:24.740 really it wouldn't be a ton for food or lodging. 26:24.740 --> 26:27.660 So, you know, maybe only a few extra hundred dollars 26:27.660 --> 26:28.500 for food and lodging. 26:28.500 --> 26:32.040 So if you want to plan or prepare for an event like that, 26:32.040 --> 26:34.740 you know, it'd probably be around $1,000, $1,500 for a ticket 26:34.740 --> 26:36.440 and then maybe a couple hundred dollars for food 26:36.440 --> 26:37.280 and or lodging. 26:37.280 --> 26:40.140 So if you are planning on attending, 26:40.140 --> 26:42.760 it'd be a great investment into your spiritual future. 26:42.760 --> 26:44.060 On the back we have. 26:44.600 --> 26:49.820 Also, some prayer requests that you can be in prayer for those in the Philippines. 26:49.820 --> 26:52.960 And we have a lot of other people that are over there doing work, Brother James, Brother 26:52.960 --> 26:54.200 Kenton Knowles, and others. 26:54.200 --> 26:57.440 So please be in prayer for them as well. 26:57.440 --> 27:01.020 I'm going to go ahead and just let Brother Sam come up and just give a quick testimony 27:01.020 --> 27:04.200 about the missions that they did in Arkansas. 27:07.800 --> 27:14.240 Yeah, so if anybody has not heard about the Springdale, the city up there in the region 27:14.240 --> 27:21.820 of northwestern Arkansas, it has about 10,000 immigrants from the Marshall Islands and some 27:21.820 --> 27:24.000 different Pacific Islands. 27:24.000 --> 27:28.940 And these people are extremely receptive to the gospel. 27:28.940 --> 27:31.800 If you ever talk to them, it's just like going on a mission trip. 27:31.800 --> 27:33.760 It's just like going to the Philippines. 27:33.760 --> 27:34.880 They're very receptive. 27:35.400 --> 27:39.880 Now the biggest challenge is finding them once you're there, because it is a pretty big city. 27:40.920 --> 27:47.400 And last year what we did was we just knocked a bunch of apartment complexes and we found some 27:47.400 --> 27:53.720 that had a pretty heavy concentration of them. But then on the last day, Saturday, we found out about 27:53.720 --> 27:59.640 a baseball park about 30 minutes away in a different city where they were all going to congregate. 28:00.300 --> 28:07.200 And this is where we just there were hundreds of these people at these baseball parks and it was just amazing soulening 28:07.700 --> 28:08.840 so 28:08.840 --> 28:11.180 This trip I was planning to do the same thing 28:11.660 --> 28:16.820 To knock doors on Friday and to go check out the park on Saturday 28:17.440 --> 28:21.240 Well when we were passing through just on a whim 28:21.240 --> 28:26.640 I asked brother Malton and his group to go check out that park just to see if anybody was there on Friday 28:27.400 --> 28:33.680 And there were only a couple dozen, but I told them just stay there the whole day, keep 28:33.680 --> 28:37.040 me updated whether more people come. 28:37.040 --> 28:42.420 And you know, later in the day, there was again hundreds of people there. 28:42.420 --> 28:44.720 We had really great success. 28:44.720 --> 28:48.600 We also had success outdoor knocking, but we eventually all came to the park. 28:48.600 --> 28:53.040 Well on Saturday, we were going to go check out the park again, and it was just dead the 28:53.040 --> 28:53.680 whole time. 28:54.300 --> 28:58.300 So it was just, like I said, just on a whim 28:58.300 --> 29:00.460 that we decided to check it out on Friday. 29:00.460 --> 29:03.660 And if we didn't do that, we would have totally missed out. 29:03.660 --> 29:06.860 So I just want to say that story to encourage you, 29:06.860 --> 29:10.700 even if you can't go on these trips, be in prayer. 29:10.700 --> 29:14.180 Ask God to give an open door to the people who go, 29:14.180 --> 29:16.660 because God will answer that prayer. 29:16.660 --> 29:17.660 And... 29:17.900 --> 29:22.460 Please come out if you ever can, but even if you can't, pray for our soul winners going out. 29:22.460 --> 29:22.940 Thank you. 29:25.200 --> 29:28.880 Yep, thank you so much to those who prayed and those who participated in that event. 29:28.880 --> 29:32.720 It's pretty cool that, you know, on a Friday, because, you know, typically a lot of our 29:32.720 --> 29:36.720 soul winning marathons are on Saturdays, but, you know, Brother Sam had the initiative in 29:36.720 --> 29:40.640 zeal to want to go on a Friday and other people went out there with them. And so they got a lot 29:40.640 --> 29:45.760 of people saved on that Friday. And so, you know, praise the Lord for people that are willing to, 29:45.760 --> 29:49.920 you know, invest a lot of time, effort, energy and getting people saved, even if they never 29:49.920 --> 29:52.880 see them again. So it's like, oh, what church are they going to go to? 29:53.200 --> 29:56.480 at least they're going to the church in heaven when they die. So you know, it's a 29:56.480 --> 30:01.440 lot better than hell. With that we're gonna sing our Psalm of the week, Psalm 30:01.440 --> 30:05.700 146, Psalm 146. 30:16.900 --> 30:19.300 Alright, that was Psalm 146. 30:19.300 --> 30:22.300 Find it in page 14 of your special song book. 30:23.300 --> 30:25.800 Psalm 146. 30:27.300 --> 30:29.300 Let's all sing that out real loud together. 30:31.700 --> 30:33.700 Praise ye the Lord! 30:39.500 --> 30:40.200 Wow 33:39.300 --> 33:42.140 you're being passed around. Go ahead and open your Bibles to the book of 2nd 33:42.140 --> 33:49.100 Corinthians chapter 4. That is 2nd Corinthians chapter number 4. 35:02.000 --> 35:07.840 2nd Corinthians 4 the Bible reads therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy 35:07.840 --> 35:11.120 We faint not but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty 35:11.520 --> 35:15.560 Not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully 35:15.560 --> 35:21.360 But by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God 35:21.520 --> 35:27.560 But if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this world at blinded 35:27.560 --> 35:29.560 the minds of them which believe not 35:30.000 --> 35:34.880 Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto 35:34.880 --> 35:35.880 them. 35:35.880 --> 35:40.600 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for 35:40.600 --> 35:41.680 Jesus' sake. 35:41.680 --> 35:46.320 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts 35:46.320 --> 35:51.220 to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 35:51.220 --> 35:55.600 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of 35:55.600 --> 35:56.880 God and not of us. 35:57.200 --> 36:00.400 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed. 36:00.400 --> 36:03.200 We are perplexed, but not in despair, 36:03.200 --> 36:05.360 persecuted, but not forsaken, 36:05.360 --> 36:07.760 cast down, but not destroyed, 36:07.760 --> 36:11.440 always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, 36:11.440 --> 36:15.360 that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 36:15.360 --> 36:19.360 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, 36:19.360 --> 36:23.840 that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 36:24.400 --> 36:27.840 So then death worketh in us, but life in you. 36:28.000 --> 36:36.640 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken, we also believe and therefore speak, 36:36.640 --> 36:43.440 knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and shall present us with you. 36:43.440 --> 36:50.960 For all things are for your sakes that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 36:50.960 --> 36:55.960 For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward 36:56.000 --> 37:01.780 man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us 37:01.780 --> 37:06.920 a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which 37:06.920 --> 37:12.160 are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, 37:12.160 --> 37:15.880 but the things which are not seen are eternal." Let's bow our heads forward in prayer. 37:15.880 --> 37:18.040 Father in heaven, we thank you for the souls. 37:18.500 --> 37:22.660 that have been saved for a recent trip. 37:22.660 --> 37:26.840 And Lord God, I pray that you fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit. 37:26.840 --> 37:30.300 Bless the sermon this morning and help us to apply it to our lives. 37:30.300 --> 37:33.420 Give us ears to hear and pay close attention to it. 37:33.420 --> 37:36.560 And I ask for these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. 37:36.560 --> 37:39.320 Amen. I want to look at the first few verses here again. 37:39.320 --> 37:42.320 The Bible says, therefore, seeing we have this ministry, 37:42.320 --> 37:44.860 as we have received mercy, we faint not. 37:45.200 --> 37:49.680 but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, 37:49.680 --> 37:53.760 nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, 37:53.760 --> 37:58.400 commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." Now... 37:59.700 --> 38:08.700 In this particular passage, the Apostle Paul is telling us some things here that I think are really important for us as a church to understand. 38:08.700 --> 38:15.700 You know, we're an independent, fundamental Baptist church, and we really emphasize the idea of independence. 38:15.700 --> 38:21.700 And I believe that here in this passage, the Apostle Paul is bringing out a very important point. 38:21.700 --> 38:23.860 And I kind of want to draw on the... 38:24.000 --> 38:27.840 the historical aspect of this idea. 38:28.200 --> 38:31.040 But notice that he says here in verse number two, 38:31.300 --> 38:35.280 commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 38:35.680 --> 38:37.040 Not every single. 38:37.800 --> 38:43.520 group of people, not every single country, not every single timeline, have people have 38:43.520 --> 38:48.460 the ability to worship God freely as they see fit. 38:48.460 --> 38:54.400 And many times people have been forced to potentially join a particular church because 38:54.400 --> 38:59.440 they have a state-run church or they have a government-sponsored church or perhaps their 38:59.440 --> 39:04.800 particular country doesn't even allow religious liberty or is anti-Christian and so in that 39:04.800 --> 39:05.800 context they can't 39:05.800 --> 39:08.240 worship the God of the Bible in any context. 39:08.240 --> 39:10.360 But you know, specifically in Europe, 39:10.360 --> 39:13.200 you know, a lot of churches, like the Catholic Church, 39:13.200 --> 39:15.560 are kind of infused with the government. 39:15.560 --> 39:17.760 And so therefore, you can't be a Baptist. 39:17.760 --> 39:19.600 You kind of have to be Catholic 39:19.600 --> 39:22.120 or be in complete opposition to the government. 39:22.120 --> 39:24.680 And so, you know, we as Americans, 39:24.680 --> 39:28.080 we enjoy a great freedom to worship God 39:28.080 --> 39:31.880 according to our conscience and not by compulsion. 39:31.880 --> 39:33.760 We worship God by our conscience. 39:33.800 --> 39:35.720 and not by compulsion. 39:35.720 --> 39:38.000 And so, you know, I think it's important for us 39:38.000 --> 39:42.040 to appreciate why we have what we have 39:42.040 --> 39:44.720 and understand that it's a good thing 39:44.720 --> 39:45.960 that we have what we have. 39:45.960 --> 39:47.920 And so the title of my sermon this morning is this, 39:47.920 --> 39:50.240 Independent, but United. 39:50.240 --> 39:51.640 Independent, but United. 39:51.640 --> 39:52.860 And, you know. 39:53.200 --> 40:00.200 While we should have, I believe, an independence from a church perspective, being autonomous, 40:00.200 --> 40:03.900 self-governing is what that means. Autonomous meaning self-governing, 40:03.900 --> 40:08.500 meaning that we basically are in charge of our own church here, that... 40:08.900 --> 40:12.900 we should still have a unity with other Christians in this world. 40:12.900 --> 40:18.400 And we're not necessarily against other Christians or other churches. 40:18.400 --> 40:25.400 Hey, we're independent, but we still want to be united in this battle, in this fight, for the cause of Christ. 40:25.400 --> 40:30.400 And, you know, what I drew inspiration from was it's Independence Weekend. 40:30.800 --> 40:36.480 And you know, as Americans, we get to enjoy a lot of religious liberty because of the 40:36.480 --> 40:40.000 country we live in and because of things that have happened in our past. 40:40.000 --> 40:44.760 And if you understand our country, you know, we talk about Independence Day, we're talking 40:44.760 --> 40:48.040 about becoming independent from Great Britain. 40:48.040 --> 40:53.720 But also they were united in the sense that they were the United States of America. 40:53.720 --> 40:56.900 And so they were independent, but united. 40:56.900 --> 40:58.800 And so I want to just give you a little bit of 40:58.800 --> 41:01.560 history, but we're going to focus mostly on the Bible. 41:01.560 --> 41:04.840 But I think that there's an interesting overlap in some of these ideas. 41:04.840 --> 41:11.500 And I wanted to talk about why did our founding fathers even separate to begin with? 41:11.500 --> 41:12.500 Why are they independent? 41:12.500 --> 41:13.000 Well, 41:13.600 --> 41:17.100 Of course, in the Declaration of Independence, it's for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 41:17.100 --> 41:19.100 And I just wanted to read a little bit of this. 41:19.100 --> 41:23.100 You know, and pardon me, I was woefully undereducated as a child. 41:23.100 --> 41:27.600 So, because I went to public school, and they taught me virtually nothing. 41:27.600 --> 41:30.600 And so, you know, sorry if you already know a lot about this. 41:30.600 --> 41:32.100 If you already know a lot of this stuff... 41:32.400 --> 41:33.400 Praise God for you. 41:33.400 --> 41:37.880 Praise God for homeschooling, because I find it to be a superior form of education for 41:37.880 --> 41:38.880 many of you. 41:38.880 --> 41:44.160 As a young person, you should be taking advantage of the ability to learn while you're at home. 41:44.160 --> 41:47.480 You should be taking advantage of learning as much as you can, reading as much as you 41:47.480 --> 41:49.960 can, growing as much as you can. 41:49.960 --> 41:53.520 While your parents are paying the bill, you should become the best version of yourself 41:53.520 --> 41:55.120 and learn and grow as much as you can. 41:55.600 --> 41:59.840 Now, I think everybody in America should be forced to read the Declaration of Independence 41:59.840 --> 42:04.480 and understand what it is, and I didn't really as a kid or in school, they didn't really 42:04.480 --> 42:05.960 teach us this stuff. 42:05.960 --> 42:07.240 But I'm just going to read a little bit of this. 42:07.240 --> 42:12.040 It says, the unanimous declaration of the 13 United States of America, when in the course 42:12.040 --> 42:16.400 of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which 42:16.400 --> 42:17.680 have connected them with another. 42:18.300 --> 42:21.900 and to assume among the powers of the earth a separate and equal station 42:21.900 --> 42:26.860 to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions 42:26.860 --> 42:31.500 of mankind requires they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." 42:31.500 --> 42:37.820 So they're saying, hey, we're 13 colonies, we've united, we want to separate from Britain, 42:37.820 --> 42:43.580 and we think it's absolutely necessary to explain why. Like, why in the world would we 42:43.580 --> 42:46.300 we have separated from Britain and what is our 42:46.300 --> 42:51.300 justification for the actions in which we find ourselves here. 42:51.300 --> 42:55.300 And they're saying, hey, you know, there's laws of nature, 42:55.300 --> 42:58.300 and then there's the God who gives us those particular laws. 42:58.300 --> 43:00.300 And of course, we are appealing to Him. 43:00.700 --> 43:03.500 says this, we hold these truths to be self-evident, 43:03.500 --> 43:05.900 that all men are created equal, 43:05.900 --> 43:07.100 that they are endowed by their creator 43:07.100 --> 43:09.260 with certain unenalienable rights, 43:09.260 --> 43:10.700 that among these are life, liberty, 43:10.700 --> 43:12.100 and the pursuit of happiness, 43:12.100 --> 43:13.260 that to secure these rights, 43:13.260 --> 43:15.260 governments are instituted among men. 43:15.700 --> 43:22.240 driving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes 43:22.580 --> 43:27.880 Destructive to these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government 43:27.880 --> 43:33.120 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them 43:33.500 --> 43:37.860 Shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness so 43:38.860 --> 43:40.860 They're saying hey the reason why? 43:41.300 --> 43:45.100 we're doing the things we're doing is we feel like our rights have been infringed upon 43:45.100 --> 43:49.420 our ability to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 43:49.420 --> 43:53.420 And so therefore, we feel like it is a necessity. 43:53.700 --> 43:56.540 for us to procure these rights. 43:56.540 --> 43:59.940 And if the government is stopping us from having these rights, 43:59.940 --> 44:03.060 then to essentially get rid of that government 44:03.060 --> 44:05.300 and create a government that is going to enable us 44:05.300 --> 44:07.300 to have those particular rights. 44:07.300 --> 44:09.220 And of course, a lot of the problems 44:09.220 --> 44:12.740 that the colonists suffered at this time 44:12.740 --> 44:16.820 are the reason why many of our Bill of Rights even exist. 44:16.820 --> 44:19.260 You pretty much just read like, here's the problem they had, 44:19.260 --> 44:21.260 and then it's like, here's the Bill of Rights. 44:21.700 --> 44:27.220 addressing that specific concern that they were having to deal with at that particular time. 44:27.220 --> 44:32.900 But this is what I find interesting is that while I'm obviously talking about how our government was 44:32.900 --> 44:38.660 formed in our country, you know, separated from Britain, a lot of these overlap into a spiritual 44:38.660 --> 44:43.300 aspect because in America, you know, you're not forced to go to church anywhere. 44:44.200 --> 44:50.200 There is no church that is just basically authorized by the government and you're forced to go there. 44:50.200 --> 44:56.200 Whereas you have to understand in Europe and in different places in the past, 44:56.200 --> 45:03.100 your tithe was literally taken out of your paycheck automatically and given to the state-run church. 45:03.500 --> 45:07.700 So you just have the Lutheran Church or the Anglican Church or the Catholic Church. 45:07.700 --> 45:14.300 It does not matter what job you add, your paycheck got deducted 10% and went to that church. 45:14.300 --> 45:17.300 And then essentially that's the only church option you have. 45:17.300 --> 45:19.500 So it doesn't matter what they're teaching. 45:19.500 --> 45:25.200 It doesn't matter what scandals their pastors are caught in, what their priests are doing. 45:25.200 --> 45:27.600 It doesn't matter if you have a relationship with them. 45:27.600 --> 45:29.700 It doesn't matter if you get to talk to them. 45:29.900 --> 45:33.500 10% of your money is going to that church whether you like it or not. 45:33.500 --> 45:39.700 Now don't you prefer being in a country where you get to choose what church you're going to go to? 45:40.000 --> 45:42.320 And what church are you going to give your money to? 45:42.320 --> 45:44.160 Doesn't that sound like a better system? 45:44.160 --> 45:47.120 Doesn't it sound like a nicer system in a sense? 45:47.120 --> 45:49.680 And again, in the same way, it's like, hey, as a government, 45:49.680 --> 45:51.520 why do we want to have a government here 45:51.520 --> 45:54.720 that's just taking our money and not respecting us, 45:54.720 --> 45:59.600 not giving us a voice, and infringing on many of our rights? 45:59.600 --> 46:01.280 This is my personal summary. 46:01.920 --> 46:03.760 If you read all the Declaration of Independence, 46:03.760 --> 46:06.880 what the problems were, it's basically like four big categories. 46:06.880 --> 46:08.000 Number one is about the law. 46:08.000 --> 46:12.320 laws, the laws of the land. Number two is because of the oppression. Number three is 46:12.320 --> 46:17.640 impartial justice. And number four is threats to safety. From a law perspective, the colonists 46:17.640 --> 46:22.440 were not allowed to basically pass laws until the king had endorsed them and the king was 46:22.440 --> 46:27.080 just ignoring all the requests, not granting them the ability to actually create and make 46:27.080 --> 46:31.040 laws. So the government becomes completely ineffective. So they have no way to actually 46:31.040 --> 46:32.280 govern themselves. 46:32.280 --> 46:35.800 Additionally, the king was making laws. 46:36.000 --> 46:39.080 that were infringing all kinds of extra taxes on them 46:39.080 --> 46:43.920 and crazy laws enforcing really weird rules, 46:43.920 --> 46:46.800 like, hey, these British troops are gonna come over 46:46.800 --> 46:50.040 and then they get to basically seize your personal house 46:50.040 --> 46:53.000 and live in it at their own request. 46:53.000 --> 46:55.500 I mean, how much would you like our government? 46:55.600 --> 47:00.400 If they were saying, hey, cops can literally just show up and take over your house whenever they want. 47:00.400 --> 47:03.840 Or the US military can just walk in and just take over your house whenever they want. 47:03.840 --> 47:08.480 That's a pretty serious infringement of your personal rights and personal property 47:08.480 --> 47:10.640 when the government just gets to seize your assets. 47:11.520 --> 47:14.720 Not only that, in many cases when we talk about oppression, 47:14.720 --> 47:18.400 not only quartering of troops was a problem and their taxes, 47:18.400 --> 47:22.320 but a British soldier could just do whatever he wants to you. 47:22.900 --> 47:27.060 And then, well, I know he's guilty of murder, rape, or whatever, 47:27.060 --> 47:29.780 we're going to send him back to Britain to be tried there. 47:29.780 --> 47:32.980 And then whenever they're tried there, it was just a joke and they just let him off the hook. 47:32.980 --> 47:39.140 So basically, the British soldiers were able to just basically rape and pillage and steal and do whatever they want. 47:39.140 --> 47:43.860 And then there was no justice given, or they weren't actually judged in the courts here in America. 47:43.860 --> 47:48.020 They were judged in courts back in Britain, and many times they got away with whatever they did. 47:48.020 --> 47:50.020 So there's just basically no... 47:50.300 --> 47:52.740 justice and there's this heavy oppression. 47:52.740 --> 47:55.540 But there was harsh punishments for colonists 47:55.540 --> 47:58.500 whenever they would, you know, have an uprising or do something different. 47:58.500 --> 48:00.580 Additionally, there was many threats of safety, 48:00.580 --> 48:02.700 including Indian savages 48:02.700 --> 48:05.980 and even the British overreach where people were being killed. 48:05.980 --> 48:09.060 Because their goods are being taken from them by the British, 48:09.060 --> 48:12.460 often they're put into poverty and starvation. 48:12.460 --> 48:16.380 And look, it's pretty hard to focus on serving God. 48:16.700 --> 48:21.420 when you have people raping and pillaging and taking all your food and all your money and taking your personal property. 48:21.420 --> 48:25.420 Like, at that point, you're really kind of focused on just surviving, 48:25.420 --> 48:28.860 than you are really even worshipping God at that point. 48:28.860 --> 48:32.380 But why do many people live in America? It's because they wanted to worship God freely. 48:32.380 --> 48:35.980 They wanted to have the liberty to worship God and not have a state-run church, 48:35.980 --> 48:40.140 to be able to worship God according to their conscience, not compulsion. 48:40.300 --> 48:43.300 that they wanted to worship God based on what the Bible taught 48:43.300 --> 48:47.100 and being convinced of their conscience to do the right thing, 48:47.100 --> 48:48.900 not by being just told, 48:48.900 --> 48:51.300 well, we're right and you can't question us. 48:51.300 --> 48:54.300 This is the mentality of the Orthodox Church. 48:54.300 --> 48:56.500 This is the mentality of the Catholic Church. 48:56.500 --> 48:58.700 Hey, we're right, our traditions are right, 48:58.700 --> 49:00.900 you can't question us, you can't do anything. 49:00.900 --> 49:04.300 And in fact, we're going to exact your tithe away from your paycheck 49:04.300 --> 49:06.900 automatically, whether you like it or not. 49:07.700 --> 49:11.540 You know, this is a completely different idea than we have as Americans. 49:11.540 --> 49:17.180 We don't realize, like, the liberty we really have, because we didn't grow up in this oppression. 49:17.180 --> 49:21.900 We're not seeing this oppression taking place in our daily lives, and so we don't even understand, 49:21.900 --> 49:25.220 you know, the liberties that we have and why so many people aren't even taking advantage 49:25.220 --> 49:27.300 of the liberties that we have. 49:27.300 --> 49:29.740 Now, at the end of the Declaration of Independence, this is what they say. 49:29.740 --> 49:32.820 They say, we therefore, the representatives of the United States of America and general 49:32.820 --> 49:33.800 Congress. 49:34.200 --> 49:39.280 assembled, appealed, appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our 49:39.280 --> 49:40.280 intentions. 49:40.280 --> 49:44.520 Do in the name and by authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish 49:44.520 --> 49:50.040 and declare that these United States, or these United colonies are and of right ought to 49:50.040 --> 49:51.720 be free and independent states." 49:51.720 --> 49:57.080 So basically saying, hey, we're appealing to God that what we're doing, we believe to 49:57.080 --> 49:57.480 be right. 49:58.200 --> 50:05.880 Because here's the thing, how can we serve God, how can we worship God freely if we're taxed to death, 50:05.880 --> 50:10.920 killed by Native American savages, and we're allowing the British to just murder, rape, and pillage, 50:10.920 --> 50:17.400 and just decimate our colonies as we have them? Like, what's the point? You know, you can't become 50:17.400 --> 50:25.320 a pacifist to death is basically their, you know, belief. And look, by these men signing the Declaration of Independence, 50:25.600 --> 50:30.500 If they lost the war, they would have all been killed, you know, virtually. 50:30.500 --> 50:32.500 I mean, they're basically signing their decedents. 50:32.500 --> 50:36.000 That's why many of the proclamations of the American Revolution are things like, 50:36.000 --> 50:38.000 give me liberty or give me death. 50:38.200 --> 50:41.000 one of the most famous quotes from the American Revolution because they said, 50:41.000 --> 50:44.200 hey, we understand what we're doing. We understand what we're signing up for. 50:44.200 --> 50:50.360 And there was no obvious sign in 1776 that the colonies were going to win this battle. 50:50.360 --> 50:55.480 The British Empire, the British, you know, were very strong militarily. 50:55.800 --> 50:58.100 They had what seemed like endless money. 50:58.100 --> 51:00.700 They could hire mercenaries from all over the world 51:00.700 --> 51:04.400 to come and funnel in and fight their wars for them. 51:04.400 --> 51:06.800 So there was just no obvious sign 51:06.800 --> 51:08.500 that they were going to necessarily win. 51:08.500 --> 51:11.000 But they just said, hey, I would rather fight 51:11.000 --> 51:12.900 and have a chance to have liberty 51:12.900 --> 51:14.900 than to just live under this heavy oppression, 51:14.900 --> 51:17.500 just live under this taxation to death 51:17.500 --> 51:20.800 and the Indian savages being able to kill us and murder us 51:20.800 --> 51:23.200 and we have no laws and no way to govern ourselves. 51:23.200 --> 51:23.800 It was just... 51:23.800 --> 51:29.320 In their opinion, it just felt like impending doom, and so therefore they separated. 51:29.320 --> 51:32.640 Now many people ask, was that the right thing to do? 51:32.640 --> 51:36.780 It's hard to say necessarily in the moment, but on the other side of things, it seems 51:36.780 --> 51:40.520 like God has greatly blessed the works of these men and our founding fathers and given 51:40.520 --> 51:41.520 us religious liberty. 51:41.520 --> 51:42.520 And you know what? 51:42.520 --> 51:43.800 Praise God for giving us that liberty. 51:44.600 --> 51:49.200 Now again, they made it clear that they didn't want to do this if the king had not oppressed 51:49.200 --> 51:50.200 them so heavily. 51:50.200 --> 51:53.740 If the king was willing to listen to them, they probably would have continued for a lot 51:53.740 --> 51:58.340 longer under their particular leadership or authority. 51:58.340 --> 52:02.500 But they got to a point where push comes to shove and they defended themselves and they 52:02.500 --> 52:07.900 defended their children's rights and they defended their right to have religious liberty. 52:07.900 --> 52:12.540 And so in many ways, we owe a lot to these people that died because they didn't want 52:12.600 --> 52:18.020 didn't even get to experience it, they died trying to give it to the next generation. 52:18.020 --> 52:19.860 The American Revolution was an eight-year war. 52:21.000 --> 52:26.080 And think about this, these men are literally signing a death warrant, they're signing up 52:26.080 --> 52:31.500 to die to give us these things, and yet how many Americans today, they don't care at all 52:31.500 --> 52:34.920 that they have this liberty, they don't care at all to go to church, they don't care at 52:34.920 --> 52:39.300 all to read the Bible, they don't care at all to serve or worship the God of the Bible, 52:39.300 --> 52:43.000 and yet many men died on the battlefield to give you these liberties, to give you these 52:43.000 --> 52:44.000 freedoms. 52:44.000 --> 52:48.340 And we should appreciate that as an independent fundamental Baptist church, that we can be 52:48.340 --> 52:49.000 Be independent. 52:49.000 --> 52:51.000 because of what these people have done. 52:51.300 --> 52:54.500 And you know what? Praise God we can worship God by conscience. 52:54.500 --> 53:00.620 Of course we understand that the reason why they won is because God's favor hand was on them because without God you can't win 53:00.620 --> 53:01.780 about any battle anyways. 53:01.780 --> 53:08.400 And so obviously God wanted to give them the ability to separate so that we could have this independence today. 53:08.400 --> 53:11.620 You know the powers that be are ordained of God according to the Bible. 53:11.620 --> 53:19.160 So it's hard to argue against the fact that God was allowing this separation to occur and allowing many Americans to have the freedom. 53:19.300 --> 53:21.800 to serve God the way that he sees fit. 53:21.800 --> 53:25.300 And of course, we haven't been unfruitful in those efforts 53:25.300 --> 53:28.300 because America has been the most evangelical nation. 53:28.800 --> 53:32.060 ever in the modern era. I mean we have been the most evangelical, 53:32.060 --> 53:36.720 the most concerned with spreading the gospel, we have the most churches, we have 53:36.720 --> 53:40.020 the most people that are basically dedicated to evangelicalism 53:40.020 --> 53:44.660 at this point and so no nation in the modern era has been used 53:44.660 --> 53:48.860 like America to spread the gospel and have good churches and good faith and 53:48.860 --> 53:49.880 good pastors 53:49.880 --> 53:54.380 and you know what we can praise God for that. And you know what I think that we 53:54.380 --> 53:56.320 should appreciate our churches having 53:56.800 --> 54:00.000 the ability to worship God according to conscience. 54:00.000 --> 54:02.000 You know, not have the tithe compelled. 54:02.000 --> 54:04.400 And you know, a lot of people get mad about tithing. 54:04.400 --> 54:06.900 You know, a lot of people get mad even in America about tithing. 54:06.900 --> 54:07.900 But think about it. 54:07.900 --> 54:11.100 Tithing is completely by your conscience. 54:11.100 --> 54:17.700 And they'll get mad, oh, some churches are trying to get us to tithe based on conscience. 54:17.700 --> 54:19.500 Well, you want us to go back to compulsion? 54:20.000 --> 54:24.960 Do you want to live in an area where they literally take it out of your paycheck automatically? 54:24.960 --> 54:25.960 Is that what you'd prefer? 54:25.960 --> 54:29.280 Would you rather live in an area where you can't even go to a good church? 54:29.280 --> 54:34.200 You know, it's just like some people don't even understand or appreciate what they have. 54:34.200 --> 54:37.280 But think about it, you know, how can the church thrive and how can the church do well 54:37.280 --> 54:39.040 without the tithe anyways? 54:39.040 --> 54:41.640 You know, you can't have it without it. 54:41.640 --> 54:46.200 I was, I started reading a new book on the Churching of America and there was many people 54:46.200 --> 54:47.200 that came from Europe. 54:47.500 --> 54:51.820 to visit America in the 1800s to observe how it was different. 54:51.820 --> 54:56.860 And they said, man, it's just crazy how there's so many more churches in America than there is in Europe. 54:56.860 --> 55:00.220 He says, in Europe, everyone is giving the tithe. 55:00.220 --> 55:04.140 I mean, all citizens, 10% of their money is going. 55:04.140 --> 55:06.220 There's no one not tithing in Europe. 55:06.220 --> 55:07.100 Everyone's tithing in Europe. 55:07.100 --> 55:09.100 And he says, but there's more churches in America. 55:09.400 --> 55:14.600 He said the pastor seemed more energetic and more happy and more zealous. 55:14.600 --> 55:17.960 He said the congregants seemed more happy, more energetic. 55:17.960 --> 55:22.040 He said the buildings seemed nicer and better kept, better maintained. 55:22.040 --> 55:25.640 And he's, and they're trying to explain like how does this make sense? 55:25.640 --> 55:31.560 And they're saying well because the pastor having the freedom and the liberty to do whatever he wants, 55:31.560 --> 55:35.640 well no one's going to come to his church unless he's running a good show. 55:36.200 --> 55:40.600 He's basically saying, hey, well, they said all the decisions were up to the pastor, 55:40.600 --> 55:43.240 and the pastors, you know, have the full responsibility. 55:43.240 --> 55:46.440 So therefore, they want to keep the church in good order and good maintenance. 55:46.440 --> 55:51.320 And they want people to have their own free will to feel like they're actually funding 55:51.320 --> 55:53.720 Christianity and funding what the Bible teaches. 55:53.720 --> 55:59.480 And so by conscience, they're compelled to serve the God of the Bible and not by compulsion. 55:59.700 --> 56:04.100 And if you think about it, the New Testament and the early churches in the New Testament 56:04.100 --> 56:08.740 had a similar founding where the Apostle Paul is going into areas that are not reached, 56:08.740 --> 56:13.380 don't have church, and they're compelling people to become Christians and to form churches 56:13.380 --> 56:15.940 that would have been totally by conscience, not by compulsion. 56:16.980 --> 56:21.220 Christianity spread in this world by conscience, not by compulsion. 56:21.500 --> 56:27.760 It is not Islam where you're going with the sword trying to conquer and trying to slay 56:27.760 --> 56:30.540 and trying to force people to become Islamic. 56:30.540 --> 56:33.540 No, Christianity spread through conscience. 56:34.100 --> 56:36.100 through men voluntarily deciding, 56:36.100 --> 56:38.300 hey, I want to serve the God of the Bible. 56:38.300 --> 56:40.740 I want to give my money to the God of the Bible. 56:40.740 --> 56:43.100 I'm willing to die for the God of the Bible. 56:43.100 --> 56:45.300 I'm willing to be martyred for the faith 56:45.300 --> 56:48.740 based on nothing carnal, based on nothing of compulsion, 56:48.740 --> 56:50.980 but rather by conviction of the Holy Spirit 56:50.980 --> 56:52.740 and by my own conscience, 56:52.740 --> 56:55.620 and imploring me to serve the God of the Bible. 56:56.000 --> 57:01.180 And you know, when we can see brave men of our past being willing, by conscience, to 57:01.180 --> 57:05.820 die for a country, how much more for the God of the Bible? 57:05.820 --> 57:09.260 I mean, so many people are patriots today, and you know, I don't think there's anything 57:09.260 --> 57:12.900 wrong with patriotism, but it needs to find its place. 57:12.900 --> 57:17.940 And what's sad is when people are more patriotic than Christians are Christian. 57:19.000 --> 57:23.160 You know, we should be more willing to serve the God of the Bible than people are willing 57:23.160 --> 57:24.600 to serve their country. 57:24.600 --> 57:26.920 And many people are willing to serve their country through death. 57:26.920 --> 57:28.560 I mean, many people fly a flag. 57:28.900 --> 57:33.460 an American flag in their country? Hey, I'm not mad at you for flying an American flag, 57:33.460 --> 57:38.340 but isn't it crazy how they're so public about their patriotism, yet they don't want to be public 57:38.340 --> 57:41.940 about their faith, they don't be public about Christianity, they don't be public about going 57:41.940 --> 57:46.820 out soul-witting and preaching the gospel. You know, we need to make Christians zealous for the 57:46.820 --> 57:52.660 things of God and to be public about their faith and to not be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ 57:52.660 --> 57:55.220 and we want people to worship God by conscience. 57:55.800 --> 57:59.400 We don't have to force them. We want them to want to serve the God of the Bible. 58:00.520 --> 58:04.520 And you know what? I like separate churches, separate pastors, separate leaders, 58:04.520 --> 58:10.520 so that people will follow them because they feel like the guy is leading and have as a good example. 58:11.080 --> 58:14.360 Right? Because why are you at this church today? 58:14.700 --> 58:16.400 It's by complete choice. 58:16.400 --> 58:19.620 Obviously, you know, some of us are kids. 58:19.620 --> 58:21.840 Obviously, some of us are married. 58:21.840 --> 58:23.400 And there's probably some people 58:23.400 --> 58:25.380 that are feeling compelled to come here. 58:25.380 --> 58:26.680 Or maybe you're a grandparent, 58:26.680 --> 58:28.180 and you're just like, I have to see my grandbabies. 58:28.180 --> 58:29.100 You know what I mean? 58:29.100 --> 58:30.660 You know, I get it that some people 58:30.660 --> 58:34.220 don't necessarily think I would go to this church on choice, 58:34.220 --> 58:36.780 but for the most part, most of us here are by choice. 58:36.780 --> 58:38.380 And at least the leader of your family 58:38.380 --> 58:40.700 is bringing you here, is dragging you here by choice. 58:41.100 --> 58:46.100 And you know what? Praise God you're choosing to go to a church that actually cares about what the Bible says. 58:46.100 --> 58:51.100 And you know at the point that this church ceases to care about what this book says, 58:51.100 --> 58:55.100 you know, I would hope that you guys would go to the church that's going to do that. 58:55.500 --> 59:00.900 I would hope that you care more about serving God and going to the best church in your area 59:00.900 --> 59:07.400 than being loyal to just some institution or loyal to some branding or loyal to some history. 59:07.400 --> 59:09.800 You know, we should be loyal to the things of Christ. 59:10.400 --> 59:12.240 And I've always said, and I will continue to say, 59:12.240 --> 59:13.980 you should go to the best church in your area, 59:13.980 --> 59:16.020 and you should go where you're gonna serve Christ the best. 59:16.020 --> 59:17.020 And you know what, praise God, 59:17.020 --> 59:18.940 we have that liberty and that freedom right now. 59:18.940 --> 59:21.320 But you know what, don't use your liberty to be lazy, 59:21.320 --> 59:23.120 to be backslidden, to go to, 59:23.120 --> 59:24.160 well, I'm gonna go to this church 59:24.160 --> 59:25.360 because it's five minutes from my house. 59:25.360 --> 59:27.460 Well, is that the best church to go in your area though? 59:27.460 --> 59:30.500 I mean, are you making those decisions for your food? 59:30.500 --> 59:31.560 Isn't it sad? 59:31.560 --> 59:33.340 People won't make that decision for their food, 59:33.340 --> 59:34.360 but they'll make it for their church, 59:34.360 --> 59:35.500 their spiritual food. 59:36.000 --> 59:37.160 It's like, hey, I'm not going to... 59:37.160 --> 59:38.840 I mean, how many of you are literally, when you say, 59:38.840 --> 59:40.560 hey, I'm going to go out to a restaurant or go get food, 59:40.560 --> 59:44.360 you're going to go to the closest restaurant to your house? 59:44.360 --> 59:47.360 I mean, I don't even know what the exact closest restaurant 59:47.360 --> 59:51.160 would be to my house, but it'd probably be like, you know, 59:51.160 --> 59:54.800 I'm trying to think what would be the absolute closest. 59:54.800 --> 59:57.360 I mean, apart from like a convenience store or something, 59:57.360 --> 01:00:00.800 I think there's like a bar that has like burgers or something. 01:00:01.100 --> 01:00:04.500 I mean, there's a Taco Bell, there's a Wendy's, 01:00:04.600 --> 01:00:06.240 there's an IHOP. 01:00:06.340 --> 01:00:10.180 I mean, I skip past these places all the time. 01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:11.480 I'm not going there. 01:00:11.580 --> 01:00:12.680 I'm not going to the IHOP. 01:00:12.780 --> 01:00:14.120 I'm not going to these places. 01:00:14.220 --> 01:00:15.380 The reason why people went to IHOP 01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:18.780 is because everything else was closed. 01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:20.880 In high school, we had this tradition 01:00:20.980 --> 01:00:24.920 that the theater kids would go to IHOP at midnight. 01:00:25.020 --> 01:00:26.920 But it's because it's the only place open at midnight. 01:00:27.600 --> 01:00:31.800 It wasn't like, I wasn't, we were all excited, not because it was IHOP. 01:00:31.800 --> 01:00:35.500 Because it was open, it was late, and our parents were letting us go. You know what I mean? 01:00:35.500 --> 01:00:42.300 But it's just like, no one, who's willingly choosing IHOP when they're sober and it's during the daytime? 01:00:42.300 --> 01:00:48.600 Like, you have options and you're choosing IHOP here? You know, it doesn't even make sense. 01:00:50.200 --> 01:00:52.200 You know there's actually a church called IHOP? 01:00:52.200 --> 01:00:54.700 It's like the International House of Prayer or something. 01:00:54.700 --> 01:00:56.200 It's like a whole movement. 01:00:56.200 --> 01:00:58.700 And it's about as good as IHOP, alright? 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:03.520 But it's like, praise God, you have opportunity to go where you want. 01:01:03.520 --> 01:01:07.280 And you know, you're probably not even necessarily going to the closest grocery store. 01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:11.120 You might choose to go to the Costco. You might choose to drive a little bit further 01:01:11.120 --> 01:01:14.720 to go to a good grocery store that has good produce. 01:01:14.720 --> 01:01:20.160 You might skip a certain Albertson's or Kroger and go to the Tom Thumb or go to the Whole Foods 01:01:20.160 --> 01:01:23.920 or go wherever. You know, you're choosing, you're being choosy with your food. 01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:25.600 Why not be choosy with your church? 01:01:27.100 --> 01:01:31.900 And you should worship God based on your conscience, not like, well, it's convenient. 01:01:31.900 --> 01:01:37.900 Well, or you feel compelled, you know, just, I have this compulsion, I have to go to this church. 01:01:37.900 --> 01:01:40.700 You know, so many people say, hey, I go to this church because my parents are Catholic. 01:01:40.700 --> 01:01:43.300 Well, that's a bad reason to go to church. 01:01:43.300 --> 01:01:47.400 You know, and so, hey, I would love for you to go to church with your family, 01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:51.100 but if you're Catholic, you need to quit going to church with your family and become a Baptist. 01:01:51.900 --> 01:01:54.400 If your parents go to United Methodist Church, 01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:56.700 you become a Baptist and you go to a Baptist church. 01:01:56.700 --> 01:01:58.900 Hey, if your parents don't go to church, 01:01:58.900 --> 01:02:00.200 you go to church anyways. 01:02:00.200 --> 01:02:01.800 You go find a Baptist church and go, 01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:04.200 you know, we shouldn't go to church by compulsion. 01:02:04.200 --> 01:02:06.300 Oh, well, that's when my family goes, 01:02:06.300 --> 01:02:08.700 or it's only five minutes from my house, 01:02:08.700 --> 01:02:11.400 or the government's telling me I have to go to this church. 01:02:11.400 --> 01:02:14.000 You know, we should go to church by conscience. 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:15.200 What is our conscience? 01:02:15.200 --> 01:02:16.600 Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 5. 01:02:16.600 --> 01:02:18.100 I mean, you're probably right there. 01:02:18.100 --> 01:02:19.100 Look at verse 11. 01:02:20.100 --> 01:02:23.620 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men, 01:02:23.620 --> 01:02:28.100 but we are made manifest unto God, and I trust also made manifest in your consciences." 01:02:28.100 --> 01:02:34.020 Look, the apostle Paul was very sensitive to tell these churches, hey, I want y'all to feel 01:02:35.380 --> 01:02:36.660 right and good. 01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:38.680 about the church you're in. 01:02:38.680 --> 01:02:41.960 I want you guys to feel good about the decisions that we're making. 01:02:41.960 --> 01:02:43.880 Hey, we're not walking in dishonesty. 01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:46.600 Look back at the passage we're supposed to read. Look at verse 2. 01:02:46.600 --> 01:02:49.400 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, 01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:52.840 not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, 01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:57.400 but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience inside of God. 01:02:57.400 --> 01:03:01.000 Notice this, to every man's conscience, 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:04.000 not just to the learned, to the unlearned. 01:03:04.300 --> 01:03:10.100 Why? Well, the Catholic Church, they'll have you come in and they'll read the Bible in Latin to you. 01:03:10.100 --> 01:03:14.500 Well, that's handling of the Word of God deceitfully because not everybody speaks Latin. 01:03:14.500 --> 01:03:16.700 Not everybody understands what's being said. 01:03:16.700 --> 01:03:18.600 So you know what's not being made manifest? 01:03:18.600 --> 01:03:20.800 Their faith through the conscience of every man. 01:03:20.800 --> 01:03:24.400 Not every man gets the opportunity here to judge and decide, 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:26.800 hey, is what was taught in church today actually right? 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:29.000 that they actually teach what the Bible said, 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:31.200 that they actually have the right context. 01:03:31.200 --> 01:03:34.000 You know, the Bereans were more noble than those in Thessalonica, 01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:36.100 that they went home and they searched the Scriptures, 01:03:36.100 --> 01:03:37.600 whether those things were so. 01:03:37.600 --> 01:03:39.500 And you know what? As the man of your house, 01:03:39.500 --> 01:03:42.000 you need to make sure that everything taught to you 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:44.900 is biblical and right and that you agree with it. 01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:48.100 And you should teach your family to agree with it. 01:03:48.100 --> 01:03:51.900 And hey, even if you go to a church where you agree 100%, 01:03:51.900 --> 01:03:53.900 or you like everything that's being said, 01:03:53.900 --> 01:03:56.600 maybe you should just also reinforce it too. 01:03:56.600 --> 01:03:58.600 Say, hey, I just want to make it clear, guys, 01:03:58.600 --> 01:04:01.300 that what the pastor said today was right, 01:04:01.300 --> 01:04:04.600 and the church I grew up in taught this, and it was wrong. 01:04:04.600 --> 01:04:06.300 Even if your church doesn't have a bad example, 01:04:06.300 --> 01:04:08.300 bring up other bad examples and remind them 01:04:08.300 --> 01:04:09.900 why you go to the church you go to. 01:04:09.900 --> 01:04:11.800 And say, hey, that sermon is a reason 01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:13.700 why we go to St. Fast Baptist Church. 01:04:13.900 --> 01:04:17.500 That's, hey kids, what the pastor is saying there is really important. 01:04:17.500 --> 01:04:18.100 You need to read it. 01:04:18.100 --> 01:04:19.500 Let's go home and let's read it again. 01:04:20.300 --> 01:04:23.700 And you want your kids to realize, hey, we're coming to this church by 01:04:23.700 --> 01:04:27.700 conscience, by conviction, not by compulsion. 01:04:28.100 --> 01:04:30.100 We don't just feel like we just have to go to this church. 01:04:30.100 --> 01:04:31.300 We just have to go to St. Matthew's. 01:04:31.500 --> 01:04:34.100 No, no, we're going because it's the right thing to do. 01:04:34.500 --> 01:04:38.580 because we want to go to a church where they're not going to handle the Word of God deceitfully. 01:04:38.580 --> 01:04:42.660 They're not going to be shady. When a pastor gets caught doing wicked things, 01:04:42.660 --> 01:04:46.820 we're just going to tell you about it. You know, even independent fundamental 01:04:46.820 --> 01:04:51.540 Baptists, not that long ago, pastor gets caught doing shady stuff and it's just like, 01:04:51.540 --> 01:04:54.260 oh, it's a moral sin. That's garbage. 01:04:56.900 --> 01:05:02.400 How are you supposed to in good conscience continuing to go to that church when you have no idea what really happened? 01:05:02.400 --> 01:05:04.500 When you have no idea what's really going on. 01:05:04.500 --> 01:05:08.300 You know what? What a poor representative of the cause of Christ here. 01:05:08.300 --> 01:05:12.300 Handling the Word of God deceitfully, not by having manifestation of the truth, 01:05:12.300 --> 01:05:14.800 commending yourselves to every man's conscience. 01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:16.000 You know, it... 01:05:16.100 --> 01:05:20.260 My friend Pastor Steven Anderson, a couple years ago, had a big drama. 01:05:20.260 --> 01:05:21.760 A lot of people saying a lot of things about him. 01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:22.760 You know what he did? 01:05:22.760 --> 01:05:27.880 He brought all the men of the church together, and him and his wife personally spent three 01:05:27.880 --> 01:05:31.940 hours answering any question and every question asked of them. 01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:36.240 Why? Because they're not going to sit here and just handle the Word of God deceitfully 01:05:36.240 --> 01:05:40.160 and just cover everything up and just act like there's nothing going on. 01:05:40.160 --> 01:05:44.320 You know what? We should have churches that have truth and integrity and honesty 01:05:44.320 --> 01:05:46.560 and people should choose to go to the church they're going to 01:05:46.560 --> 01:05:48.800 because they believe it's the best church they can go to. 01:05:49.200 --> 01:05:50.800 They believe that the Word of God is there. 01:05:50.800 --> 01:05:54.100 They believe that the leadership actually cares about the Bible 01:05:54.100 --> 01:05:57.500 and is going to preach the Bible, and hey, they can serve God there. 01:05:57.500 --> 01:05:59.200 Does that mean they agree with everything? 01:05:59.200 --> 01:06:03.100 Maybe not, but at least they agree with it as much as they possibly can. 01:06:03.100 --> 01:06:05.200 And you know what? I guarantee you're going to have a better result 01:06:05.200 --> 01:06:08.900 with churches doing this than you would going back to the state-run church, 01:06:08.900 --> 01:06:13.200 going back to just allowing, you know, the government to tell us 01:06:13.200 --> 01:06:14.900 what's the right religion. 01:06:14.900 --> 01:06:16.700 I can't even imagine what that would be now. 01:06:17.100 --> 01:06:23.640 Water goo goo or something like that. I mean what would we just all become Jews or something now at this point? 01:06:23.640 --> 01:06:25.640 I mean like what would what would the government? 01:06:26.220 --> 01:06:27.740 religion even be 01:06:27.740 --> 01:06:32.060 And when the government's in charge, what are they do? Oh Nebuchadnezzar? Here's a golden image worship the golden image 01:06:32.620 --> 01:06:38.820 When the government's gonna be in charge in the future the Antichrist, it's worship the Antichrist or die or die 01:06:39.600 --> 01:06:46.700 And of course, you know, that's an egregious thing is when, you know, you can't even live with your religion. 01:06:46.700 --> 01:06:51.700 Go to 1st Timothy chapter 1, 1st Timothy chapter number 1. 01:06:51.700 --> 01:06:55.700 Hey, the apostle Paul says this, we have this ministry as we have received mercy, we faint not. 01:06:55.700 --> 01:06:58.100 He's saying like, I work as hard as I can. 01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:00.800 I'm doing as much effort as I can. 01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:03.000 I'm taking this as serious as I can. 01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:05.600 I'm gonna try and put as much pressure on you, 01:07:05.600 --> 01:07:07.100 as much conviction. 01:07:07.100 --> 01:07:09.400 I'm gonna appeal to your conscience as much as possible. 01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:13.100 But at the end of the day, you're still in the driver's seat. 01:07:13.100 --> 01:07:14.400 Hey, I'm not fainting. 01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:17.900 Hey, I'm not giving up by letting go of control. 01:07:17.900 --> 01:07:19.800 Because in some ways you could say like, 01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:21.300 hey, in order to make sure people are doing right, 01:07:21.300 --> 01:07:22.300 we gotta just force them. 01:07:22.600 --> 01:07:25.000 And then Paul's like, hey, I'm not going to force you. 01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:26.680 But that didn't mean I'm giving up. 01:07:26.680 --> 01:07:28.040 That doesn't mean I'm quitting. 01:07:28.040 --> 01:07:31.880 That doesn't mean I'm not going to try my hardest to get you 01:07:31.880 --> 01:07:33.880 into the right church, to serve God, 01:07:33.880 --> 01:07:35.080 to be willing to die for Him. 01:07:35.080 --> 01:07:37.960 I'm going to do everything I can to convince you to do this. 01:07:37.960 --> 01:07:39.600 But at the end of the day, I'm going to let 01:07:39.600 --> 01:07:40.920 you be in the driver's seat. 01:07:40.920 --> 01:07:43.600 And isn't that how God is with heaven and hell anyways? 01:07:43.600 --> 01:07:45.400 Isn't God with heaven and hell, He 01:07:45.400 --> 01:07:46.880 doesn't force anybody to go to heaven, 01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:48.760 and He doesn't force anybody to go to hell. 01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:50.600 You have your complete conscience to make. 01:07:50.600 --> 01:07:53.840 that free decision. Hey, are you going to accept the free gift of eternal life or are 01:07:53.840 --> 01:07:58.280 you going to reject it? And you know, in the same way, I think church should be the same 01:07:58.280 --> 01:08:03.480 way that we're not forcing people to be any religion. We are trying to compel them. We're 01:08:03.480 --> 01:08:07.960 earnestly contending for the faith. We are appealing to man's conscience. We're not trying 01:08:07.960 --> 01:08:14.040 to force him to be a Baptist. We want people to be Baptist by conscience, be Baptist by 01:08:14.040 --> 01:08:17.120 choice. And you know what? Praise God. You know, my testimony is that I wasn't born a 01:08:17.120 --> 01:08:18.000 for the past 5 years. 01:08:18.700 --> 01:08:20.700 I became a Baptist by conscience. 01:08:22.900 --> 01:08:24.860 And I had no loyalty to the Baptist. 01:08:24.860 --> 01:08:27.700 I had no, there was nothing in my upbringing that said like, 01:08:27.700 --> 01:08:30.900 you must now become Baptist or you have to choose Baptist 01:08:30.900 --> 01:08:33.340 or Baptist is the door that you have to open. 01:08:33.340 --> 01:08:36.100 I could have done anything and everything I wanted. 01:08:36.100 --> 01:08:37.100 But you know what I said? 01:08:37.100 --> 01:08:38.260 I liked the Bible. 01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:41.000 And because I like the Bible and I believe what the Bible says, 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:43.300 I'm going to try and find a church that believes the Bible. 01:08:43.300 --> 01:08:45.000 And I ended up finding out pretty quickly, 01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:48.600 only the Baptists even claim to give, you know, lip service to the Bible. 01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:52.900 Then even amongst many Baptists, it's pretty weak and pathetic in many cases. 01:08:52.900 --> 01:08:56.000 And it was hard to find people that really believe this, 01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:58.000 but I'm telling you, Baptists are the best by far. 01:08:58.000 --> 01:08:59.700 It's not even close. 01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:05.200 Even as liberal and watered down and as weak as many Southern Baptist churches are, 01:09:05.200 --> 01:09:10.000 there's still an order of magnitude better than most churches in this world. 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:12.000 An order of magnitude. 01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:16.700 There's many people in this world that would love to have a Southern Baptist church to go to, 01:09:16.700 --> 01:09:22.100 let alone an independent Baptist church, let alone a new independent fundamental Baptist church. 01:09:22.100 --> 01:09:26.100 And I'm just telling you, sometimes we are just so spoiled we don't even realize it. 01:09:27.200 --> 01:09:28.960 1 Timothy chapter 1, look at verse 5. 01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:31.360 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart 01:09:31.360 --> 01:09:35.280 and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned. 01:09:35.280 --> 01:09:38.480 Notice that what does the apostle Paul want Timothy to have? 01:09:38.480 --> 01:09:40.160 He wants him to have a good conscience. 01:09:40.160 --> 01:09:42.320 He wants him to feel good about his religion. 01:09:42.320 --> 01:09:44.800 We should feel good about our religion. 01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:47.760 We should feel good about the translation we have in our hands. 01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:50.600 We should feel good about the gospel that we have. 01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:53.100 We should feel good about the mission strips that we're doing. 01:09:53.100 --> 01:09:55.800 We should feel good about the doctrines that we're preaching. 01:09:55.800 --> 01:09:58.200 We should feel good about the conferences that we host. 01:09:58.200 --> 01:10:00.200 We should feel good about our faith. 01:10:00.200 --> 01:10:01.400 We should feel good about our doctrine. 01:10:01.400 --> 01:10:04.200 We should feel good about the things that we have, 01:10:04.200 --> 01:10:06.200 because, you know what, it's the truth. 01:10:06.500 --> 01:10:09.100 And we shouldn't be ashamed of the truth or afraid of the truth. 01:10:09.100 --> 01:10:12.100 You know, it would be frustrating to have to go to a church 01:10:12.100 --> 01:10:14.500 where I don't have a good conscience about my church. 01:10:14.500 --> 01:10:16.900 Where I feel like I can't even endorse my church. 01:10:16.900 --> 01:10:20.100 I can't even endorse their doctrine or endorse the leadership 01:10:20.100 --> 01:10:21.900 or endorse the programs of the church. 01:10:21.900 --> 01:10:24.500 You kind of have to sit here and excuse the church, 01:10:24.500 --> 01:10:27.100 excuse the leadership, excuse... 01:10:27.100 --> 01:10:28.700 I mean, how many people are going to church today 01:10:28.700 --> 01:10:30.100 where they have to excuse things? 01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:33.300 They have to excuse certain doctrines. 01:10:33.300 --> 01:10:35.900 They have to excuse certain staff members. 01:10:35.900 --> 01:10:37.840 They have to excuse the faggity queer 01:10:37.840 --> 01:10:39.800 that's leading their music or whatever. 01:10:39.800 --> 01:10:42.900 They have to excuse just some weird thing 01:10:42.900 --> 01:10:44.300 going on in the building, 01:10:44.300 --> 01:10:47.260 some program they don't really agree with. 01:10:47.260 --> 01:10:48.540 They have to excuse things. 01:10:48.540 --> 01:10:51.500 I mean, at least some people finally have a backbone, 01:10:51.500 --> 01:10:53.900 because I was talking to a Southern Baptist the other day. 01:10:54.300 --> 01:10:57.740 And he was telling me he was going to a church in Tyler, Texas. 01:10:57.740 --> 01:11:00.900 It was like First Baptist Church of Tyler or something. 01:11:00.900 --> 01:11:03.440 And he was like, hey, we were in this church, 01:11:03.440 --> 01:11:05.900 it's like 1,400 people or something like that. 01:11:05.900 --> 01:11:08.020 And he's like, eventually I had to leave 01:11:08.020 --> 01:11:10.300 because they were letting a lesbian teach the Sunday 01:11:10.300 --> 01:11:12.220 school, an open lesbian. 01:11:12.220 --> 01:11:14.940 Not like even hidden, just like an open lesbian teaching 01:11:14.940 --> 01:11:15.940 Sunday school. 01:11:15.940 --> 01:11:17.580 And that was a bridge too far for him. 01:11:17.580 --> 01:11:19.740 And I was just thinking, there's probably a lot of bridges 01:11:19.740 --> 01:11:21.300 I wouldn't have crossed. 01:11:21.300 --> 01:11:22.300 But I'm glad it was. 01:11:22.300 --> 01:11:24.300 at least you didn't cross that one. 01:11:24.300 --> 01:11:26.340 And look, you know, praise God for this guy 01:11:26.340 --> 01:11:29.340 because it's not like he was in the class being taught by it. 01:11:29.340 --> 01:11:32.340 He was just offended that it was even happening in his church. 01:11:32.340 --> 01:11:34.740 It was finally, he was just like, hey, by my conscience, 01:11:34.740 --> 01:11:37.620 I can't have a good conscience going to this church. 01:11:37.620 --> 01:11:39.400 And so he went to a different church. 01:11:40.200 --> 01:11:41.200 Hey, you know what? 01:11:41.200 --> 01:11:43.200 Praise God that somebody would make that decision. 01:11:43.200 --> 01:11:44.200 You know what? 01:11:44.200 --> 01:11:48.000 We need more people in this country to have a good conscience and recognize, hey, their 01:11:48.000 --> 01:11:51.960 church has got some problems, some bridges they shouldn't be crossing, and they need 01:11:51.960 --> 01:11:53.880 to get into a good church. 01:11:53.880 --> 01:11:57.200 A King James only, fundamental, soul-winning church. 01:11:57.200 --> 01:11:59.600 They need to realize, hey, I'm not going to go five minutes away. 01:11:59.600 --> 01:12:02.120 I don't have a good conscience when I go to church. 01:12:02.120 --> 01:12:05.880 I don't want to go to church and then go home with a guilty conscience for what my church 01:12:05.880 --> 01:12:06.320 is doing. 01:12:06.700 --> 01:12:09.660 A guilty conscience for the fact that they have the wrong Bible. 01:12:09.660 --> 01:12:12.660 A guilty conscience because they're not actually preaching the gospel. 01:12:12.660 --> 01:12:15.140 A guilty conscience because they're preaching lies. 01:12:15.140 --> 01:12:20.700 A guilty conscience because they spend all their time praising a nation called Israel, 01:12:20.700 --> 01:12:26.540 just genociding men, women, and children, and have to fund money to this anti-Christ religion. 01:12:26.540 --> 01:12:31.620 How can you have a good conscience going to a church that has a flag on the stage 01:12:31.620 --> 01:12:34.380 that represents an anti-Christ religion? 01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:39.920 I get it. Now look, I think there are some churches out there that are wrong in this issue, 01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:44.800 and maybe they're not pressing it down your throat every second. Maybe they're not just over the top 01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:49.280 on this, and you can just kind of hold your nose at it, and it's still the best church in your area. 01:12:49.280 --> 01:12:53.680 But I'm telling you, I wouldn't have a good conscience going to a church where it's just 01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:57.840 every service we're going to sit here and praise an anti-Christ religion. 01:12:58.600 --> 01:13:00.920 We're going to praise an antichrist nation. 01:13:00.920 --> 01:13:05.560 We have to sit here and funnel all of our tithe money to Israel and missionaries to 01:13:05.560 --> 01:13:09.520 Israel when we could be going into our own neighborhoods and getting people saved. 01:13:09.520 --> 01:13:12.960 When we could go to Arkansas and get the Marshallese people saved. 01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:16.440 When we could go to Fiji and get the Fijians saved. 01:13:16.440 --> 01:13:21.840 Go wherever in the world and preach the gospel instead of focusing in on the most reprobate, 01:13:21.840 --> 01:13:24.880 God-hating freaks of this world, the nation of Israel. 01:13:26.400 --> 01:13:29.000 I don't have a good, I wouldn't have a good conscience. 01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:31.000 You know, and how's that faith unfeign? 01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:34.800 It would be faked to me, I can't support that. 01:13:34.800 --> 01:13:36.100 Look at verse 19, it says, 01:13:36.100 --> 01:13:38.300 holding faith in a good conscience, 01:13:38.300 --> 01:13:41.200 which some having put away concerning faith, 01:13:41.200 --> 01:13:42.400 have made shipwreck, 01:13:42.400 --> 01:13:44.200 of whom is Hymen, Aisne, and Alexander, 01:13:44.200 --> 01:13:45.800 whom I have delivered notice, Satan, 01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:47.100 that they may learn not to blaspheme. 01:13:47.100 --> 01:13:50.200 So saying, hey, there are some people at this time 01:13:50.200 --> 01:13:52.000 that they don't even have a good conscience 01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:53.200 going to church anymore. 01:13:53.700 --> 01:13:58.100 They don't, they know that what they're doing isn't even right. 01:13:58.900 --> 01:14:02.600 Many people are just doing things not of a good conscience anymore, 01:14:02.600 --> 01:14:06.800 by whether it be compulsion or evil means. 01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:10.600 They're somehow serving God with feigned faith, 01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:13.100 not with unfeigned faith, but with fake faith. 01:14:13.100 --> 01:14:15.400 It's not real. It's not sincere. 01:14:15.400 --> 01:14:17.700 The Bible warns about this in 2 Timothy 4, 01:14:17.700 --> 01:14:21.400 about people having itching ears and heaping themselves, teachers. 01:14:21.400 --> 01:14:23.900 Meaning what? They're not sincere in their motives. 01:14:24.200 --> 01:14:26.120 And of course, think about it. 01:14:26.120 --> 01:14:30.680 The heart of this people is why this church even exists. 01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:33.080 If you guys weren't wanting to come here, 01:14:33.080 --> 01:14:34.680 this church wouldn't exist. 01:14:34.680 --> 01:14:36.920 If you guys weren't wanting to come here, 01:14:36.920 --> 01:14:39.560 I wouldn't be employed in doing this service. 01:14:39.560 --> 01:14:41.640 It is because of the heart and the will 01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:44.680 and the conscience of men and women in this building 01:14:44.680 --> 01:14:45.880 that we have this church here. 01:14:46.300 --> 01:14:54.300 And the reason why America, I believe, is still enjoying freedom is because there's still some good Christians in this world that still want some good churches. 01:14:54.300 --> 01:15:00.300 But when that ceases to exist, God's hand of blessing and favor may be taken greatly off of this nation. 01:15:00.300 --> 01:15:05.300 I think we've already seen a lot of the consequences. We've already seen God being mad at us. 01:15:05.300 --> 01:15:06.300 But it can get worse. 01:15:07.100 --> 01:15:11.700 And we need more Christians to say, hey, I care how God feels about my church, 01:15:11.700 --> 01:15:14.500 and I want to go to a church that I have a good conscience towards, 01:15:14.500 --> 01:15:16.500 that I know what they're doing is right. 01:15:16.500 --> 01:15:19.100 Maybe I don't even like everything about it. 01:15:19.100 --> 01:15:21.600 Maybe the pastor yells a little too much. 01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:22.700 Maybe it's too hot. 01:15:22.700 --> 01:15:24.900 But you know what? Hey, at least I have a good conscience going there. 01:15:24.900 --> 01:15:26.500 Yeah. 01:15:26.500 --> 01:15:27.700 You feel good about it. 01:15:27.900 --> 01:15:30.900 You don't feel like, hey, I can't really support this church 01:15:30.900 --> 01:15:33.860 because they're just employed in just too many bad programs 01:15:33.860 --> 01:15:34.460 or something. 01:15:34.460 --> 01:15:35.660 Go to Hebrews chapter 10. 01:15:35.660 --> 01:15:38.060 Go to Hebrews chapter 10. 01:15:38.060 --> 01:15:40.300 No one's forcing you to be here. 01:15:40.300 --> 01:15:43.600 But at the end of the day, God wants you to go to church. 01:15:46.300 --> 01:15:52.700 And why not have the liberty to have a country where, hey, you have the religious liberty to go to what church you choose? 01:15:52.700 --> 01:15:59.700 Of course, that's why, you know, Congress was not allowed to make any laws about religion, 01:15:59.700 --> 01:16:02.700 because they didn't want to go back to Europe. 01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:06.300 They wanted to say, hey, we're going to break off these ties, 01:16:06.400 --> 01:16:08.840 and we have these separate sovereign states. 01:16:08.940 --> 01:16:12.340 We don't want Massachusetts to tell Georgia 01:16:12.440 --> 01:16:13.740 what church we're going to have. 01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:16.180 And we don't want Maryland to tell 01:16:16.280 --> 01:16:17.540 Georgia what church to have. 01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:20.020 Because Maryland is a bunch of papists, 01:16:20.120 --> 01:16:21.320 is a bunch of Catholics. 01:16:21.420 --> 01:16:23.360 And Georgia is saying, hey, everybody 01:16:23.460 --> 01:16:26.460 can have religious liberty here, except for you papists. 01:16:27.000 --> 01:16:29.800 So it's like, hey, the Papists get to have their little Maryland, 01:16:29.800 --> 01:16:32.600 and then the Baptists get to have Georgia. 01:16:32.600 --> 01:16:34.000 And that's why it's like historic. 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:36.300 I mean, you go to Georgia, you go to North Carolina, you go to some of these places. 01:16:36.300 --> 01:16:38.900 There are so many Baptist churches, it's crazy. 01:16:39.900 --> 01:16:42.180 And they're like, many of them are started in the 1800s. 01:16:42.180 --> 01:16:44.060 I mean, you'll go and you'll just drive by, 01:16:44.060 --> 01:16:46.060 there'll be a church on almost every corner, 01:16:46.060 --> 01:16:48.460 founded in 1820, founded in 1850, 01:16:48.460 --> 01:16:50.340 founded in 1860, just founded everywhere. 01:16:50.340 --> 01:16:53.140 Just Baptist just going everywhere, 01:16:53.140 --> 01:16:56.340 spreading their faith everywhere in these places. 01:16:56.340 --> 01:16:58.860 But now that we're in the 21st century, 01:16:58.860 --> 01:17:00.700 it's just like people have forgotten. 01:17:01.400 --> 01:17:05.640 They've forgotten why we even have the religion we do, why we have the faith we do, 01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:07.880 why it's important to have these things. 01:17:07.880 --> 01:17:12.520 And again, we weren't having religious liberty so we could bring in Hinduism, 01:17:12.520 --> 01:17:15.640 so we can bring in Islam, so we can bring in Judaism. 01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:18.280 We wanted Baptist to be able to do badness. That's why. 01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:20.100 And we wanted that conscience. 01:17:20.100 --> 01:17:22.600 And of course, when bad to stop wanting to be bad this, 01:17:22.600 --> 01:17:24.900 well, then we bring in the Hindus and the atheists 01:17:24.900 --> 01:17:26.000 and we bring everything else in. 01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:28.600 We need Christians to have the conscience again 01:17:28.600 --> 01:17:30.300 and be reminded, hey, you need to go to a church 01:17:30.300 --> 01:17:31.500 and go to a good church. 01:17:31.500 --> 01:17:32.900 Hebrews 10 verse 22, 01:17:32.900 --> 01:17:34.800 let us draw near with a true heart 01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:36.200 and full assurance of faith, 01:17:36.200 --> 01:17:39.200 having heart sprinkled from an evil conscience 01:17:39.200 --> 01:17:42.300 and our bodies washed with pure water. 01:17:42.300 --> 01:17:45.000 So he wants us, what, with faith. 01:17:45.200 --> 01:17:47.800 to have our hearts sprinkle from an evil conscience. 01:17:47.800 --> 01:17:50.000 What would be an evil conscience? 01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:53.300 Basically, your moral compass is screwed up. 01:17:53.300 --> 01:17:55.800 You justify things like lying. 01:17:55.800 --> 01:17:57.700 You justify stealing. 01:17:57.700 --> 01:18:00.700 You think that murder is sometimes okay. 01:18:00.700 --> 01:18:04.500 Like, oh, well, it's okay that we murdered all these people in Gaza 01:18:04.500 --> 01:18:06.700 because we're Israel. 01:18:06.700 --> 01:18:08.400 No, that's an evil conscience. 01:18:08.400 --> 01:18:10.000 That's an evil conscience. 01:18:10.300 --> 01:18:11.300 It says in verse 23, 01:18:11.300 --> 01:18:13.900 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, 01:18:13.900 --> 01:18:15.660 for he is faithful that promised. 01:18:15.660 --> 01:18:19.940 And let us consider one another to revoke unto love and to good works, 01:18:19.940 --> 01:18:22.940 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the man of some is, 01:18:22.940 --> 01:18:23.940 but exhorting one another, 01:18:23.940 --> 01:18:26.860 and so much the more as you see the day approaching. 01:18:26.860 --> 01:18:29.940 So notice what's going to help you have a good conscience? 01:18:29.940 --> 01:18:30.940 Going to church! 01:18:31.400 --> 01:18:36.940 and having your heart sprinkled with the Word of God, the pure Word of God's Word, 01:18:36.940 --> 01:18:42.500 this water is going to sprinkle and cleanse you from your evil conscience that you have from the world. 01:18:42.500 --> 01:18:45.240 You're going to renew your mind and your heart with church. 01:18:45.240 --> 01:18:47.240 That's why it's important to have church. 01:18:47.240 --> 01:18:50.240 Well, I already have a good conscience. 01:18:50.240 --> 01:18:51.440 You're lying. 01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:54.300 You need church. Go to 1 Peter chapter 3. 01:18:54.300 --> 01:18:56.500 You need the Bible. You need a pastor. 01:18:56.500 --> 01:19:01.300 You need someone to get up and scream and yell what the Bible says. 01:19:01.300 --> 01:19:04.700 And think about it. Isn't there a little bit of safety? 01:19:04.700 --> 01:19:07.300 You're going to a church with 300 plus members. 01:19:07.300 --> 01:19:10.200 And we have like over 300 active members in our church. 01:19:10.200 --> 01:19:13.100 No one is forced to be here. 01:19:13.100 --> 01:19:16.300 Literally no one is forced to be here. 01:19:16.300 --> 01:19:18.500 So if the preaching gets weird, 01:19:18.800 --> 01:19:22.640 What's stopping half the congregation from leaving like that? 01:19:22.640 --> 01:19:26.560 If the doctrines are ever changing, what's stopping people just going away? 01:19:26.560 --> 01:19:29.280 What's stopping people going away? And it's not like there isn't competition. 01:19:29.280 --> 01:19:34.800 I mean, there's probably two, three, four hundred independent Baptist churches in this area. 01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:38.320 I mean, there's virtually nothing stopping people from just switching like this. 01:19:38.800 --> 01:19:43.060 So, you know what? There's a lot of safety in the fact that you have all these people 01:19:43.060 --> 01:19:47.240 independently choosing to come to a church like this, because if the doctrine goes whack, 01:19:47.240 --> 01:19:52.480 the church is going to respond immediately. There's accountability in the fact that everybody's 01:19:52.480 --> 01:19:54.160 willingly choosing to even be here. 01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:56.460 That's why our church is good. 01:19:56.460 --> 01:19:58.800 Whereas, hey, you're the Catholic church, 01:19:58.800 --> 01:20:01.060 I'm being paid from the government 01:20:01.060 --> 01:20:03.300 with your tithe money automatically. 01:20:03.300 --> 01:20:05.060 If I preach something weird, 01:20:05.060 --> 01:20:07.360 well, there's no accountability. 01:20:07.360 --> 01:20:09.700 You can just like it or lump it. 01:20:09.700 --> 01:20:11.900 Hey, you just have to listen to whatever weird, 01:20:11.900 --> 01:20:14.400 crazy Catholic nonsense I just said. 01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:17.080 You know, you just sh- and you have to go. 01:20:17.080 --> 01:20:19.720 And of course, many people still have a conscience to worship God, 01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:21.640 so they just feel like they just have to hold their nose, 01:20:21.640 --> 01:20:24.280 go to the Roman Catholic Church, hear a bunch of Latin, 01:20:24.280 --> 01:20:28.520 take the cracker, you know, from the circus ringleader there. 01:20:29.240 --> 01:20:32.040 You know, and it's just like, there's no real accountability. 01:20:32.040 --> 01:20:36.440 Praise God for a church where you're in a room with hundreds of people 01:20:36.440 --> 01:20:38.360 that see the Bible like you see it. 01:20:38.600 --> 01:20:42.920 and believe like you believe it, and they have the same core doctrines, and the same vision, 01:20:42.920 --> 01:20:47.480 and the same plan, and that they're going to hold that church accountable, because if it goes 01:20:47.480 --> 01:20:54.040 whack, they're going to go bye-bye. They're going to leave. And so that's going to keep a church healthy, isn't it? 01:20:54.400 --> 01:21:00.400 Just like businesses, I mean, people get mad about socialism and capitalism. 01:21:00.400 --> 01:21:03.400 They think capitalism is bad and socialism is good. 01:21:03.400 --> 01:21:05.400 There's all this contention or whatever. 01:21:05.400 --> 01:21:09.400 But it's just like, look, a capitalistic society is going to produce better businesses. 01:21:09.400 --> 01:21:13.400 Because if the customer is freely and deliberately choosing to eat at these restaurants... 01:21:13.500 --> 01:21:18.060 then, you know, hey, the food quality is going to be better in many cases. 01:21:18.060 --> 01:21:20.460 Now, again, I get that there's junk food that exists, 01:21:20.460 --> 01:21:22.260 there's some restaurants that are kind of questionable, 01:21:22.260 --> 01:21:23.460 but let's just be honest. 01:21:23.460 --> 01:21:25.860 When you see a restaurant closing, 01:21:25.860 --> 01:21:29.060 you're usually like, that was even extra questionable. 01:21:29.600 --> 01:21:33.600 Like it wasn't, you're usually not thinking like, man, I can't believe this restaurant's closing. 01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:37.900 Everyone loved it. It was so good. The prices were competitive. 01:21:37.900 --> 01:21:43.300 You're thinking like, the food was terrible. The service was awful. The food was very questionable. 01:21:43.300 --> 01:21:47.300 There's no stray cats or dogs around, you know? It's just like, you're just kind of thinking like, 01:21:47.300 --> 01:21:50.800 there's a reason it's obvious why this restaurant is closing. 01:21:51.200 --> 01:21:56.200 And that competition drives the quality of the product. 01:21:56.200 --> 01:22:00.400 In the same way that competition even in churches is going to drive the product. 01:22:00.400 --> 01:22:03.600 It's going to encourage pastors to be better versions of themselves, 01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:06.900 preach better sermons, engaging sermons, 01:22:06.900 --> 01:22:10.400 hey that they're going to have good programs, that they're going to work hard. 01:22:10.400 --> 01:22:13.500 You know, that competition is good. 01:22:13.500 --> 01:22:15.200 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 16 says, 01:22:15.200 --> 01:22:16.520 having a good conscience. 01:22:16.900 --> 01:22:19.500 that whereas they speak evil of you as of evildoers, 01:22:19.500 --> 01:22:22.500 they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 01:22:22.500 --> 01:22:26.900 You know, you're going to face opposition when you serve God. 01:22:26.900 --> 01:22:28.800 There's going to be persecution. 01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:31.700 What's going to keep you going when you're facing opposition? 01:22:31.700 --> 01:22:36.000 Having that good conscience that you know what you're doing is right. 01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:38.200 Because it's hard, it's hard if your parents are like, 01:22:38.200 --> 01:22:40.800 hey, I don't like your church, you should not go there. 01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:43.300 It's hard to not want to just obey that, naturally. 01:22:43.600 --> 01:22:46.000 It's hard to not want to just say like, oh, you're right. 01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:47.840 I don't want to, I don't want any conflict. 01:22:48.100 --> 01:22:50.100 I don't want any problem. 01:22:50.100 --> 01:22:54.860 I don't want you to be mad at me, or I don't want to suffer, or I don't want any negative 01:22:54.860 --> 01:22:55.860 recourse. 01:22:55.860 --> 01:22:58.680 And so, many times we choose the path of least resistance. 01:22:58.680 --> 01:23:02.580 But what's going to keep you on the right track, what's going to keep you going to a 01:23:02.580 --> 01:23:06.140 good church, is having that good conscience. 01:23:06.140 --> 01:23:13.540 Whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your 01:23:13.540 --> 01:23:15.580 good conversation in Christ. 01:23:15.580 --> 01:23:16.100 They're 01:23:16.100 --> 01:23:17.660 They're lying about you. 01:23:17.660 --> 01:23:19.460 They're lying about your motivations. 01:23:19.460 --> 01:23:21.220 They're lying about your lifestyle. 01:23:21.220 --> 01:23:23.060 They're lying about your works. 01:23:23.060 --> 01:23:24.060 Why? 01:23:24.060 --> 01:23:26.060 Because they're evil. 01:23:26.060 --> 01:23:27.620 They project their evil onto you. 01:23:27.620 --> 01:23:32.080 Isn't it funny that all the churches that teach works, that if we were to really evaluate 01:23:32.080 --> 01:23:35.380 their congregations, that their congregations are full of iniquity? 01:23:36.200 --> 01:23:39.680 I mean, these churches that preach hardcore works, 01:23:39.680 --> 01:23:45.280 they're super sinful, super backslidden, super worldly. 01:23:45.280 --> 01:23:48.280 And then it's like, they're like, oh, you free graceless. 01:23:48.280 --> 01:23:50.640 You think you can just live however you want? 01:23:50.640 --> 01:23:52.520 And good heavens, it's like, does anybody here 01:23:52.520 --> 01:23:55.640 look like they're living however they want? 01:23:55.640 --> 01:23:58.320 Do you think any of these ladies laden with seven, eight, 01:23:58.320 --> 01:24:00.720 nine kids are just thinking like, man, this is amazing? 01:24:01.900 --> 01:24:05.900 Now again, I get that women love children, but I'm just saying that's not the selfish action. 01:24:05.900 --> 01:24:10.900 Having children is not being selfish. It's being selfless in many cases. 01:24:10.900 --> 01:24:14.900 Listening to their husband and obeying their husband is a submissive act. 01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:20.540 Whereas we see the natural carnal woman wants to kill all of her kids and have a career 01:24:20.540 --> 01:24:23.620 and be promoted and just celebrate herself. 01:24:23.620 --> 01:24:29.060 Whereas, you know, a godly woman wants to submit and be a sacrifice, a living sacrifice 01:24:29.060 --> 01:24:32.240 by producing children and loving these children. 01:24:32.240 --> 01:24:33.880 That you have no idea if they're going to love you back. 01:24:36.500 --> 01:24:39.000 You know, and again, what's compelling women to do that? 01:24:39.000 --> 01:24:40.240 A good conscience. 01:24:40.240 --> 01:24:42.740 Knowing that what they're doing is right. 01:24:42.740 --> 01:24:45.080 Knowing that, hey, this is what God wants me to do. 01:24:45.080 --> 01:24:47.540 And then people will falsely accuse you and just say, 01:24:47.540 --> 01:24:49.480 oh, well, you guys just live every one. 01:24:49.480 --> 01:24:52.380 Look, no, we're not on drugs. 01:24:52.600 --> 01:24:55.200 We're not drinking alcohol. We're not committing adultery. 01:24:55.200 --> 01:24:56.400 We're not doing... 01:24:56.400 --> 01:24:59.100 Go to the Non-denominational Center and I'll show you iniquity. 01:24:59.100 --> 01:25:01.600 Go to the Catholic Church and I'll show you iniquity. 01:25:01.600 --> 01:25:03.400 Go to these churches preaching Lordship, Salvation, 01:25:03.400 --> 01:25:05.500 and I'll show you a pastor committing adultery. 01:25:05.500 --> 01:25:07.700 I'll show you all those wicked, evil sins 01:25:07.700 --> 01:25:10.200 that you claim, oh, you guys preach free grace 01:25:10.200 --> 01:25:12.500 and people just, you know, live however they want. 01:25:12.500 --> 01:25:15.400 Yet they're not living however they want with sin. 01:25:15.400 --> 01:25:17.700 They're living however they want with a good conscience. 01:25:18.200 --> 01:25:21.480 Isn't that interesting that you don't actually have to force people to be good? 01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:25.440 You can compel people to be good with a good conscience go over to Hebrews chapter 5 01:25:27.920 --> 01:25:31.860 Point one was it was was the longest point I had by far so I get too nervous. All right 01:25:32.920 --> 01:25:37.880 But but I have a couple more points that I want to make so point one is this why are we independent? 01:25:38.460 --> 01:25:41.920 Well, because we want to have a go-to-church by can 01:25:42.880 --> 01:25:44.880 conscience not by compulsion 01:25:45.200 --> 01:25:46.700 by conscience, not by compulsion. 01:25:46.700 --> 01:25:48.000 And I think that's important. 01:25:48.000 --> 01:25:50.500 But then the other aspect of this sermon 01:25:50.500 --> 01:25:52.100 is independent but united. 01:25:52.100 --> 01:25:53.900 Just because we're an independent church 01:25:53.900 --> 01:25:55.500 and we're all choosing to be here 01:25:55.500 --> 01:25:58.700 doesn't mean that we shouldn't love other Christians 01:25:58.700 --> 01:26:00.900 and shouldn't feel like we're not united 01:26:00.900 --> 01:26:03.100 with other Christians in a sense. 01:26:03.100 --> 01:26:04.800 And we want to understand those things. 01:26:04.800 --> 01:26:06.600 And so my second point is this, 01:26:06.600 --> 01:26:11.200 that our church needs to have compassion and not cruelty. 01:26:11.500 --> 01:26:16.640 compassion and not cruelty. We may sit here and say hey we have the best church, 01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:20.940 we have the best doctrine, we believe we're right, we have the best programs 01:26:20.940 --> 01:26:25.120 but what we shouldn't do is we shouldn't be cruel to other people 01:26:25.120 --> 01:26:28.120 where we look at their church and think they don't have as good a doctrine. 01:26:28.700 --> 01:26:30.700 They don't have as good of programs. 01:26:30.700 --> 01:26:32.500 They don't have as good of a conversion. 01:26:32.500 --> 01:26:36.000 They don't have as good of a lifestyle, of a conversation. 01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:38.000 You know, we don't want to be cruel to them. 01:26:38.000 --> 01:26:40.800 We want to have compassion on them. 01:26:40.800 --> 01:26:42.400 The Bible says in Hebrews 5 verse 2, 01:26:42.400 --> 01:26:45.000 Who can have compassion on the ignorant 01:26:45.000 --> 01:26:46.500 and on them that are out of the way, 01:26:46.500 --> 01:26:48.700 for that He Himself also is compassed with infirmity? 01:26:48.700 --> 01:26:54.300 Now, again, the context here is that the priest himself 01:26:54.300 --> 01:26:56.100 could not have forgiven sins. 01:26:56.800 --> 01:26:58.600 because he himself has infirmity. 01:26:58.600 --> 01:27:01.040 So it needed a high priest that was without infirmity, 01:27:01.040 --> 01:27:02.380 which was Jesus Christ. 01:27:02.380 --> 01:27:06.380 And Jesus Christ is the one that truly paid for all of our sins 01:27:06.380 --> 01:27:08.340 and truly atoned for all of our sins. 01:27:08.340 --> 01:27:10.780 But we have to understand that the priesthood was ordained by God, 01:27:10.780 --> 01:27:15.180 and God did allow sinful men to help them get right with God. 01:27:15.400 --> 01:27:20.800 And you know what? In our lives, we are to be like that priest that we also have sin. 01:27:20.800 --> 01:27:25.740 We also have infirmity. We have weaknesses. But our goal is to help others. And we should 01:27:25.740 --> 01:27:30.980 have compassion on the ignorant. And we should love those that can't help themselves and 01:27:30.980 --> 01:27:35.620 try to do good under those that can't help themselves and lovingly compel them to have 01:27:35.620 --> 01:27:36.300 the right faith. 01:27:36.900 --> 01:27:39.700 Go over to John chapter 13, go to John 13. 01:27:39.700 --> 01:27:40.900 You know the Bible says about God, 01:27:40.900 --> 01:27:43.200 the Lord is gracious and full of compassion, 01:27:43.200 --> 01:27:44.800 slow to anger and of great mercy. 01:27:44.800 --> 01:27:48.000 We can show this compassion in two different ways 01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:51.600 in the sense that we can show it to the unsaved and to the saved, right? 01:27:51.600 --> 01:27:56.400 To the lost, we wouldn't have compassion by preaching the gospel and getting them saved. 01:27:56.400 --> 01:28:00.200 But also, we should show compassion to our brothers in Christ. 01:28:00.700 --> 01:28:04.400 And the Bible says that those who are the greatest Christians 01:28:04.400 --> 01:28:06.200 would be called disciples. 01:28:06.200 --> 01:28:09.400 That's what a disciple is one who's truly following Christ, 01:28:09.400 --> 01:28:11.300 who truly is following the Word of God, 01:28:11.300 --> 01:28:13.500 is truly doing what God said. 01:28:13.500 --> 01:28:14.900 That would be a disciple. 01:28:14.900 --> 01:28:18.200 And Jesus said that you could tell who disciples are 01:28:18.200 --> 01:28:19.500 in a specific way. 01:28:19.500 --> 01:28:21.200 Look at John 13 verse 35. 01:28:21.200 --> 01:28:24.000 By this shall all men know that you're my disciples. 01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:25.500 If you have love... 01:28:25.700 --> 01:28:33.260 One to another so the Bible teaches that one of the elements not all but one of the elements of being a disciple is 01:28:33.460 --> 01:28:39.860 Love one towards another and so when Christians don't love each other it shows that they're not very good disciples 01:28:39.860 --> 01:28:46.480 It shows a lack of true discipleship because true discipleship will inevitably result in certain fruits 01:28:46.620 --> 01:28:50.980 Like soul winning if you're not so when even up preaching the gospel you just don't have compassion 01:28:50.980 --> 01:28:53.700 You don't have love and so you're not a disciple or follower of Jesus 01:28:53.700 --> 01:28:57.100 Jesus Christ. Another one would be love towards the brethren. If you don't have love for the 01:28:57.100 --> 01:29:00.660 brethren, well then you're just not really a disciple of Jesus Christ. You're not a follower 01:29:00.660 --> 01:29:05.980 of Jesus Christ. And he said, those who are the disciples will be known by their loved 01:29:05.980 --> 01:29:10.380 one toward another. And I think we could look at our inner circle and say we have love, 01:29:10.380 --> 01:29:14.060 but we should also consider our brothers and sisters in Christ. And hey, we should have 01:29:14.060 --> 01:29:17.060 love for our brothers and sisters in Christ, period. 01:29:18.200 --> 01:29:23.200 I know we're independent of final Baptist, but you know someone can not be Baptist and be saved. 01:29:23.200 --> 01:29:25.200 Go through to 1 John 3. 01:29:25.200 --> 01:29:30.200 I know because I go soul winning and I run into people that are saved and not Baptist. 01:29:30.200 --> 01:29:33.200 Who can say, hey I run into people that are not Baptist and saved all the time? 01:29:33.200 --> 01:29:37.200 Yeah, hands all over the room. This is not my personal experience, it's everybody's personal experience. 01:29:37.200 --> 01:29:43.200 Now look, we get it that when you get outside the Baptist realm, it's very rare. 01:29:43.400 --> 01:29:45.000 It's not as often. 01:29:45.000 --> 01:29:46.600 It's not as likely. 01:29:46.600 --> 01:29:48.700 I mean, we have a pretty good litmus test 01:29:48.700 --> 01:29:50.200 on who's saved and not. 01:29:50.200 --> 01:29:51.900 If you do a lot of soul winning, 01:29:51.900 --> 01:29:53.200 you kind of know which denominations 01:29:53.200 --> 01:29:55.100 even have any saved people. 01:29:55.100 --> 01:29:56.700 And then like what kind of percentage 01:29:56.700 --> 01:29:58.000 of saved people they have. 01:29:58.000 --> 01:29:59.300 It's like Catholic, 01:29:59.300 --> 01:30:03.000 .00000000001%. 01:30:03.000 --> 01:30:03.800 Okay? 01:30:03.800 --> 01:30:06.200 It's just like super ridiculously low. 01:30:06.400 --> 01:30:10.800 Okay, outside, outside of Catholicism, I mean, if you just go to any false religion, not saved. 01:30:10.800 --> 01:30:13.920 I mean, just Hindus, whatever, all of them not saved. 01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:15.920 Mormons, 100% not saved. 01:30:15.920 --> 01:30:17.520 Joe's Witness, 100% not saved. 01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:22.320 Catholic, it's just like the rare guy that's just going because his wife's Catholic or something. 01:30:22.320 --> 01:30:22.820 Okay? 01:30:24.400 --> 01:30:28.480 You look at non-denom's and it just, it varies. 01:30:28.480 --> 01:30:32.000 Son-nom, son-nom-denom churches, 100% are not saved. 01:30:32.300 --> 01:30:34.700 I mean, it's just like, I get somebody from this church who's like, 01:30:34.700 --> 01:30:35.580 I know you're not saved. 01:30:35.580 --> 01:30:36.660 You go to this church. 01:30:36.660 --> 01:30:39.900 Some non-denom's, it's like 5%, it seems like. 01:30:39.900 --> 01:30:42.500 Some, it's like maybe upwards of like 20 or something. 01:30:42.500 --> 01:30:43.380 I don't know. 01:30:43.380 --> 01:30:45.420 It's usually not very high. 01:30:45.420 --> 01:30:48.660 But it is, in some cases, you're going to find, say, 01:30:48.660 --> 01:30:49.740 people in these churches. 01:30:49.740 --> 01:30:52.780 And often, and this is what I find in these non-denom churches, 01:30:52.780 --> 01:30:53.900 this is what they tell me. 01:30:53.900 --> 01:30:55.740 Oh, yeah, I go to Gateway. 01:30:55.740 --> 01:30:58.140 And they'll say, but I was raised Baptist. 01:30:58.140 --> 01:30:58.900 And you're like, 01:30:59.000 --> 01:31:01.400 Right, exactly. That's why you're saved. 01:31:01.400 --> 01:31:04.000 You realize that's why you're saved, right? 01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:07.200 You realize that's why you just told me you were Baptist, right? 01:31:07.200 --> 01:31:10.700 It's just like, because the non-denom has 20, 30 percent Baptist, 01:31:10.700 --> 01:31:15.700 and so a lot, the only people really saved in those churches are usually the ones that had some variation of Baptist, 01:31:15.700 --> 01:31:18.700 or some exposure to Baptist in many cases. 01:31:19.700 --> 01:31:23.220 You'll even find it, Pentecostals occasionally, 01:31:23.220 --> 01:31:26.260 you'll have some of them occasionally be saved, 01:31:26.260 --> 01:31:27.700 but it's not because of their doctrine, 01:31:27.700 --> 01:31:29.700 it's despite being Pentecostal. 01:31:29.700 --> 01:31:31.460 Church of Christ never saved. 01:31:32.300 --> 01:31:34.900 you know, Presbyterians and Calvinists. 01:31:34.900 --> 01:31:37.440 I don't know, it's kind of like a 50-50 maybe 01:31:37.440 --> 01:31:39.700 on like if they even give the right answers. 01:31:39.700 --> 01:31:41.040 And then even when they do sometimes, 01:31:41.040 --> 01:31:42.900 you're still kind of skeptical a little bit. 01:31:42.900 --> 01:31:44.440 But I mean, I find that, 01:31:44.440 --> 01:31:45.840 I feel like there's a lot of Calvinists 01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:47.280 that are probably saved. 01:31:47.280 --> 01:31:48.580 It's just they're kind of like, 01:31:48.580 --> 01:31:50.180 they have a dead faith, you know? 01:31:50.400 --> 01:31:52.400 They're the frozen chosen, okay? 01:31:52.400 --> 01:31:54.400 They realize that salvation is by grace and faith, 01:31:54.400 --> 01:31:56.400 but they're not willing to do anything to get anybody else saved. 01:31:56.400 --> 01:31:58.400 And so they're just kind of the lazy Christians. 01:31:58.400 --> 01:32:00.400 But you know what? Even if they're the lazy Christians, 01:32:00.400 --> 01:32:02.400 I can still love my brothers and sisters in Christ. 01:32:02.400 --> 01:32:04.400 Hey, if I run into a brother and sister in Christ 01:32:04.400 --> 01:32:09.400 that's non-denom or presbyterian or whatever, 01:32:09.400 --> 01:32:11.400 then you know what? I should still love that person. 01:32:11.400 --> 01:32:12.800 I shouldn't be cruel to them. 01:32:13.300 --> 01:32:17.000 I should have compassion on that person and try to compel them to go to a good church, 01:32:17.000 --> 01:32:21.360 go to a better church, get a better Bible, you know, get better at soul winning, whatever 01:32:21.360 --> 01:32:23.600 it is, and try to love that person and be kind to that person. 01:32:23.600 --> 01:32:25.880 And you know, I can be friends, friendly to that person. 01:32:26.400 --> 01:32:28.800 I can even to some degree have a friendship with them. 01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:30.080 I don't think they should be your best friends. 01:32:30.080 --> 01:32:31.600 I don't think they should be your close friends. 01:32:31.600 --> 01:32:34.240 But like, hey, if they're a brother or sister in Christ 01:32:34.240 --> 01:32:37.920 and they're not in violations like 1 Corinthians 5 or something, 01:32:37.920 --> 01:32:40.240 I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to hang out with that person 01:32:40.240 --> 01:32:41.840 or having some kind of relationship. 01:32:41.840 --> 01:32:42.800 But here's the thing. 01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:46.080 When it comes to worshiping God, I'm going to come to Steadfast Baptist Church. 01:32:46.600 --> 01:32:48.600 You know, I'm not going to go to their church. 01:32:48.600 --> 01:32:51.240 I'm not going to go and compromise on Bible and 01:32:51.240 --> 01:32:53.280 undoctrine and all this other kind of stuff. 01:32:53.280 --> 01:32:55.440 And that's why we have separated ourselves. 01:32:55.440 --> 01:32:57.960 And you know, praise God, we can go to church and worship by 01:32:57.960 --> 01:32:59.840 our conscience of what's right. 01:32:59.840 --> 01:33:03.360 And then we can compel people to come serve with us. 01:33:03.360 --> 01:33:07.160 And we have compassion on them, not cruelty. 01:33:07.160 --> 01:33:08.360 What does it say in verse 16? 01:33:08.360 --> 01:33:10.320 Hereby perceive with the love of God, because He laid down 01:33:10.320 --> 01:33:11.760 His life for us, we have to lay down our 01:33:11.760 --> 01:33:12.800 lives for the brethren. 01:33:12.900 --> 01:33:15.340 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, 01:33:15.340 --> 01:33:17.140 and shutteth up his vows of compassion from him, 01:33:17.140 --> 01:33:18.660 how do I have the love of God in him? 01:33:18.660 --> 01:33:21.260 My little children, let us not love in word, 01:33:21.260 --> 01:33:22.980 neither in tongue, but indeed in truth." 01:33:22.980 --> 01:33:27.540 Hey, we should just love other brothers and sisters in Christ, period. 01:33:27.540 --> 01:33:29.420 What doing good things unto them? 01:33:29.420 --> 01:33:33.180 If they had an actual physical need, you would help satisfy that physical need. 01:33:33.180 --> 01:33:35.180 Not just tell them that you love them, 01:33:35.180 --> 01:33:38.780 but actually show love and show compassion towards that person. 01:33:38.780 --> 01:33:40.700 You would try to do good unto that person. 01:33:40.900 --> 01:33:46.660 you know, especially other other baptists, you know, it's just frustrating to me how it seems like, 01:33:47.780 --> 01:33:52.100 and I'm not trying to be overly critical, but I'm just saying it seems like a lot of independent 01:33:52.100 --> 01:33:59.540 phantom of baptists are way more independent than they are like a brother in Christ. And it's just 01:33:59.540 --> 01:34:02.900 like, it's almost like they're just too concerned with the competitive nature. 01:34:03.200 --> 01:34:08.400 than they are about having some compassion on others and just loving other brothers and sisters in Christ. 01:34:08.400 --> 01:34:13.440 And look, I want to call out my brother when they have error and I want to have them fix it, 01:34:13.440 --> 01:34:17.680 but at the same time we should just love these people and wish good to them. 01:34:17.680 --> 01:34:22.560 And you know it's embarrassing how people from our church will visit other churches 01:34:22.560 --> 01:34:24.640 and they'll treat them so poorly. 01:34:24.900 --> 01:34:30.240 And they'll be so mean to them and they'll be cruel to them and they'll just be like against them 01:34:30.420 --> 01:34:35.240 Even though they're a brother or sister in Christ and you know what that's just that's a reflection of a bad spirit 01:34:35.240 --> 01:34:40.800 And I don't want us to have that spirit. You know someone visit our church or came in like we should be kind 01:34:41.080 --> 01:34:46.760 We shouldn't we shouldn't act like they're a second-rate citizen. You know I've heard there's a there's like a Christian school 01:34:47.280 --> 01:34:51.080 like in this area an independent Baptist Church that hosts a Christian school and 01:34:53.000 --> 01:34:59.040 Someone was trying to like enroll a student in the in the school or whatever and they said they were gonna come to our church 01:34:59.040 --> 01:35:01.040 And they said they were not allowed to go to their school 01:35:01.280 --> 01:35:05.560 and I'm thinking like you're letting people that probably aren't even Christian come to your school and 01:35:06.280 --> 01:35:10.540 And you wouldn't let someone come because they want to go to our church 01:35:10.540 --> 01:35:17.080 And again, that's like now you're violating people's conscience because it's not like they say hey this church preaches a false gospel 01:35:17.800 --> 01:35:21.240 or something, right? It's not like this is a core doctrinal issue. 01:35:21.240 --> 01:35:24.440 It's just like, hey, they're King James only fundamental Baptist Church. 01:35:24.440 --> 01:35:27.400 We're a King James only fundamental church. You can't even come to our Christian school. 01:35:28.280 --> 01:35:34.360 It's just like, what are they afraid of? You know what they're afraid of? Us having right 01:35:34.360 --> 01:35:39.960 doctrine and maybe the right doctrine eking out every once in a while. Or maybe they invite their 01:35:39.960 --> 01:35:44.440 friends to the church and like, oh wow, this church is way better than that other church. 01:35:45.000 --> 01:35:48.300 You know, we shouldn't have this spirit though, 01:35:48.300 --> 01:35:52.600 where we let our competitiveness eliminate our camaraderie. 01:35:52.600 --> 01:35:57.000 And that's my last point, is that we should have camaraderie, not competition. 01:35:57.000 --> 01:36:01.200 Okay? You should feel the pressure to be the best version of yourself, 01:36:01.200 --> 01:36:03.600 but you know what? At the end of the day, we're here to serve Christ, 01:36:03.600 --> 01:36:05.600 and we're here to compel others to serve Christ better. 01:36:05.600 --> 01:36:07.500 And if someone's going to serve Christ better, 01:36:07.900 --> 01:36:10.140 and it's not going to personally benefit you, 01:36:10.140 --> 01:36:14.300 you should not ever hinder that person from serving Christ better. 01:36:14.300 --> 01:36:17.180 Okay, it's not about competition, it's about camaraderie. 01:36:17.180 --> 01:36:21.420 We should have a brotherhood. Go to 1 Peter chapter 2, 1 Peter chapter 2. 01:36:21.420 --> 01:36:25.660 And you know, in the same vein, like, I saw some guy, 01:36:25.660 --> 01:36:28.380 I don't even know what church he goes to, I have no idea. 01:36:28.380 --> 01:36:31.900 I think he lives in Australia or New Zealand or something based on his accent. 01:36:32.200 --> 01:36:36.920 But I saw this guy did a debate against Trent Horn on like salvation by faith. 01:36:37.480 --> 01:36:39.800 And I listened to it and I thought he did a pretty good job. 01:36:39.800 --> 01:36:43.800 Like he represents salvation by faith and once saved always saved and did a good job. 01:36:43.800 --> 01:36:45.560 I don't think he's a Baptist. I could be wrong. 01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:47.640 I don't think he's even a Baptist necessarily. 01:36:47.640 --> 01:36:49.480 But I just made positive comments toward him. 01:36:50.120 --> 01:36:52.360 And someone's unlike like, oh, look at these Baptists. 01:36:52.360 --> 01:36:54.440 They support non-denominational people. 01:36:55.300 --> 01:37:00.500 And just like, yeah, I do support non-denominational people that are preaching salvation by faith over a Catholic. 01:37:00.500 --> 01:37:02.500 Absolutely. 01:37:02.500 --> 01:37:08.500 I can still have some camaraderie with a non- even if he wasn't on them, I'm not even saying he is, because I don't know. 01:37:08.500 --> 01:37:14.900 I'm just saying like, I can have camaraderie and support a guy even if he's quote, non-denom, having the right gospel. 01:37:14.900 --> 01:37:18.500 And look, he didn't even use the King James Bible in his debate. 01:37:18.700 --> 01:37:22.460 But, I mean, pretty much everything he said lines up with the same doctrine. 01:37:22.460 --> 01:37:25.020 Obviously, I would be like, hey brother, get a King James Bible. 01:37:25.400 --> 01:37:29.080 Obviously, I'd be like, hey brother, watch our free movie on the preserved Bible. 01:37:29.080 --> 01:37:33.080 Obviously, I would try to help him and I would try to encourage him to have the same doctrine 01:37:33.080 --> 01:37:35.960 that I have because I obviously believe I'm right. 01:37:35.960 --> 01:37:38.760 But at the end of the day, I can still have some camaraderie with this guy because he's 01:37:38.760 --> 01:37:42.720 saved and he has the right gospel and he's earnestly contending for the faith. 01:37:42.720 --> 01:37:43.760 And you know what? 01:37:43.760 --> 01:37:48.440 We shouldn't be so Baptist that we can't just like other Christians, that we can't be pro 01:37:48.440 --> 01:37:49.960 other Christians. 01:37:49.960 --> 01:37:51.840 You know, it's a very uncharitable attitude. 01:37:51.840 --> 01:37:53.400 Hey, you know the Bible 01:37:53.500 --> 01:37:56.600 Let's read this verse, 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 17, it says, 01:37:56.600 --> 01:38:01.300 honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king. 01:38:01.300 --> 01:38:05.400 You notice it doesn't say love only Baptists. 01:38:05.400 --> 01:38:06.800 It says love the brotherhood. 01:38:06.800 --> 01:38:11.100 That means we should love every single saved person period. 01:38:11.100 --> 01:38:14.900 We should love all of them and we should fear God. 01:38:14.900 --> 01:38:17.800 You know, it was necessary for the United States to join together 01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:19.100 so they could defeat Britain. 01:38:19.100 --> 01:38:20.900 It doesn't mean that every state liked each other. 01:38:21.500 --> 01:38:27.580 Go to Ephesians 4. I have way too many notes here, and I want to say something else, so 01:38:28.540 --> 01:38:31.740 I'm going to skip ahead. But here's the thing, we need to have camaraderie and not competition. 01:38:33.180 --> 01:38:39.660 And I want to make it clear what I'm trying to explain, because here's the thing. 01:38:40.220 --> 01:38:44.300 We could get in an attitude here in this church where we have a negative attitude 01:38:44.300 --> 01:38:47.500 towards another brother and sister in Christ, and I want to eliminate that. 01:38:48.200 --> 01:38:50.600 We should not have a negative attitude towards each other. 01:38:50.600 --> 01:38:53.720 Even if you don't like the person, just be Georgia and Maryland, 01:38:53.720 --> 01:38:58.120 or be Georgia and Massachusetts, and unite together in the fight against Britain. 01:38:58.120 --> 01:39:01.320 Okay? And again, this is not literal. Okay? 01:39:01.320 --> 01:39:05.240 It's probably, it could apply in some ways, but I'm just saying, 01:39:05.240 --> 01:39:08.120 it's mostly, you know, for the World Cup, right? No, I'm just saying, 01:39:08.120 --> 01:39:10.120 I'm saying in a spiritual sense, 01:39:10.400 --> 01:39:12.700 We're picturing, hey, we're fighting Satan. 01:39:12.700 --> 01:39:14.740 We're fighting a false gospel here. 01:39:14.740 --> 01:39:16.780 We need to be on the same team. 01:39:16.780 --> 01:39:20.740 And if we are divided, we're going to fail. 01:39:20.740 --> 01:39:21.820 We must be united. 01:39:21.820 --> 01:39:23.820 We should be united with other Baptists 01:39:23.820 --> 01:39:26.700 and other Christians in the fight for the gospel. 01:39:26.800 --> 01:39:31.000 Does that mean that I'm going to have every guy that's saved come to our church and preach 01:39:31.000 --> 01:39:32.000 behind my pulpit? 01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:33.000 No. 01:39:33.000 --> 01:39:35.140 Am I not going to have to exercise church discipline? 01:39:35.140 --> 01:39:36.140 I still am. 01:39:36.140 --> 01:39:39.520 Am I going to potentially call out a brother or sister in Christ when they're in sin? 01:39:39.520 --> 01:39:40.520 Absolutely. 01:39:40.520 --> 01:39:41.520 But that's part of loving Him. 01:39:41.520 --> 01:39:42.520 Anyways. 01:39:42.520 --> 01:39:45.600 But I'm doing it with compassion, not cruelty. 01:39:45.600 --> 01:39:46.600 Compassion and not cruelty. 01:39:46.600 --> 01:39:51.240 You know, there's a way to call out someone's sin with compassion, and there's a way to 01:39:51.240 --> 01:39:52.880 call out someone's sin with cruelty. 01:39:53.300 --> 01:39:59.700 Okay, and there's two people in particular that are just in violation of everything I'm saying right now. 01:39:59.700 --> 01:40:01.700 And it's Paul Wittenberger and Tommy Mercury. 01:40:01.700 --> 01:40:07.700 And I will continue to defend, you know, myself and our church and our friends from this onslaught, 01:40:07.700 --> 01:40:11.700 this constant assault from these people because they have a bad spirit. 01:40:11.700 --> 01:40:16.020 And they are not having any kind of love for the Brotherhood whatsoever. 01:40:16.020 --> 01:40:17.620 What they're doing is completely evil. 01:40:18.600 --> 01:40:25.600 and it's satanic and they are not having any compassion towards their brothers and sisters in Christ even in their perceived lies. 01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:32.600 Even if they believe their own lies, they're not even applying a compassionate, loving approach to their belief. 01:40:32.600 --> 01:40:35.600 They're applying cruelty because they're tools of Satan. 01:40:35.600 --> 01:40:39.600 They are being used by Satan to accomplish Satan's work. 01:40:40.100 --> 01:40:47.300 And I dare you to show me how the obvious Satanists and God-hating atheists that have 01:40:47.300 --> 01:40:53.460 attacked us and our friends, how they have different actions than each other. 01:40:53.460 --> 01:41:00.300 Show me how the God-hating, infiltrating tranny is different than Paul Wittenberger. 01:41:00.300 --> 01:41:03.460 And what I'll show you is that Paul Wittenberger is spending more time, money, and effort than 01:41:03.460 --> 01:41:04.460 the tranny did. 01:41:04.460 --> 01:41:04.700 Yeah. 01:41:06.000 --> 01:41:10.500 I'll show you where the tranny actually asks some skeptical questions of his interviewees, 01:41:10.500 --> 01:41:14.300 where Paul shows no skepticism whatsoever. 01:41:14.300 --> 01:41:21.960 So it's strange how a God-hating atheist tranny is somehow more skeptical than a brother in 01:41:21.960 --> 01:41:27.520 Christ and spending less money attacking a church than a brother in Christ. 01:41:27.520 --> 01:41:31.200 Like where is, why isn't he making a whole documentary and movie about all this stuff? 01:41:31.500 --> 01:41:37.460 I mean, it's insane to think that a Christian would be doing this kind of stuff. 01:41:37.460 --> 01:41:41.940 And I don't want you to ever think that this is right or somehow makes sense or is logical. 01:41:41.940 --> 01:41:43.920 There is no logical reason for this. 01:41:43.920 --> 01:41:46.260 And even ask yourself this question. 01:41:46.260 --> 01:41:49.100 Like why would this guy attack Pastor Anderson? 01:41:49.100 --> 01:41:51.240 Like what did Pastor Anderson do to Paul Wittenberger? 01:41:51.240 --> 01:41:52.620 And that's the million dollar question, isn't it? 01:41:53.700 --> 01:41:55.160 Because the answer is nothing. 01:41:55.160 --> 01:42:00.660 Oh, I don't know, give you thousands and thousands of dollars to prop up your fake business, 01:42:00.660 --> 01:42:06.820 called framing the world, by just buying just so many movies and giving them away for free. 01:42:06.820 --> 01:42:11.640 Just propping up your little movie experiments and stuff like that, and just giving you unlimited 01:42:11.640 --> 01:42:16.040 funds and all kinds of just friendship and camaraderie and just doing good to you for 01:42:16.040 --> 01:42:19.780 decades and then you repay them by just making hit piece slander film? 01:42:20.700 --> 01:42:23.140 Like this makes no sense. 01:42:23.140 --> 01:42:26.980 It makes no sense whatsoever, except for if it's satanic. 01:42:26.980 --> 01:42:28.420 That's the only way it makes sense. 01:42:28.420 --> 01:42:32.100 Because in fact, he even admits he's not making any money on this. 01:42:32.100 --> 01:42:34.380 No one's forcing him to do it. 01:42:34.380 --> 01:42:36.020 He's completely separated. 01:42:36.020 --> 01:42:37.820 Pastor Anderson did nothing to him personally. 01:42:37.820 --> 01:42:39.740 Why would you make this movie? 01:42:39.740 --> 01:42:40.820 Oh, you really care about the kids? 01:42:40.820 --> 01:42:41.540 You don't care about the kids. 01:42:41.540 --> 01:42:42.020 You admit it. 01:42:42.020 --> 01:42:43.340 You don't even talk to them anymore. 01:42:43.500 --> 01:42:45.340 You have no relationship with them. 01:42:45.340 --> 01:42:46.700 You don't care about them. 01:42:46.700 --> 01:42:48.060 You're not seeking good for them. 01:42:48.060 --> 01:42:50.220 Like, what is your motivation to do this? 01:42:50.220 --> 01:42:52.060 He has one motivation. 01:42:52.060 --> 01:42:53.020 And I'll tell you what it is. 01:42:53.020 --> 01:42:55.660 It's to become rich and famous on Netflix. 01:42:55.660 --> 01:42:56.700 Because he keeps saying it. 01:42:57.000 --> 01:43:00.000 Oh, I can't wait to get this documentary and present it to Netflix. 01:43:00.000 --> 01:43:02.400 And I have to get the whole thing done so I can give it to Netflix. 01:43:02.400 --> 01:43:04.400 And oh man, maybe Netflix will carry it. 01:43:04.400 --> 01:43:08.500 And I just want to let you know that, hey, whenever we get to the Netflix, you know, thing, 01:43:08.500 --> 01:43:12.200 we're going to have to take down all the other copies so that we can sell it to Netflix. 01:43:12.200 --> 01:43:15.700 It's like, hey, I wonder what your agenda is here. 01:43:15.700 --> 01:43:18.600 Is your agenda because you care about the gospel, the truth? 01:43:18.600 --> 01:43:21.300 I mean, how many people do you think are going to get saved with this project? 01:43:22.700 --> 01:43:27.000 How many Christians are you ministering to and loving with this doctrine? 01:43:27.000 --> 01:43:28.740 And what would you even be stopping? 01:43:28.740 --> 01:43:34.700 Like, in theory, you're just afraid of a few kids getting spanked a little too hard occasionally or something? 01:43:34.700 --> 01:43:37.140 Like, is that really the problem in America? 01:43:37.140 --> 01:43:41.460 Is the problem in America, like, occasionally kids got spanked a little too hard every once in a while? 01:43:41.460 --> 01:43:44.300 Is that really what's ruining America? 01:43:44.300 --> 01:43:46.700 It's just like, this is insane, folks. 01:43:46.900 --> 01:43:49.500 They have no doctrinal reason for their justification. 01:43:49.500 --> 01:43:51.600 They're not providing any clear alternative. 01:43:51.600 --> 01:43:54.400 Even if they believed that there was something wrong, 01:43:54.400 --> 01:43:56.400 they have no clear alternative to it. 01:43:56.400 --> 01:43:59.400 They're completely exploiting his children, family, 01:43:59.400 --> 01:44:03.000 for what? Fame, attention, money to get on Netflix. 01:44:03.000 --> 01:44:05.400 In fact, they're even advocating that he goes to prison now. 01:44:07.900 --> 01:44:14.900 Do you really want laws in our country, do you really want the precedent to be that if you ever spanked your kid a little too hard one time, 01:44:14.900 --> 01:44:18.900 and they lie and exaggerate about that to someone, you go to prison? 01:44:18.900 --> 01:44:20.900 Is that really a criminal offense? 01:44:20.900 --> 01:44:25.900 Remember the guy in the Bible that went to prison for spanking his kids too hard? 01:44:25.900 --> 01:44:29.900 Remember God's law where he said that people should go to prison for that? 01:44:29.900 --> 01:44:33.700 Do you even remember prison in the Bible as a punishment for anything? 01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:38.000 Yet, you have this guy advocating for literal prison time. 01:44:38.000 --> 01:44:39.200 He said that's one of his goals. 01:44:39.200 --> 01:44:42.200 He's saying, hey, I hope everybody encourages, you know, 01:44:42.200 --> 01:44:45.200 this documentary to be sent to the cops and sent to the police 01:44:45.200 --> 01:44:48.400 and sent to CPS so this person can go to prison. 01:44:48.400 --> 01:44:52.100 A pastor of a fundamental Baptist church getting people saved 01:44:52.100 --> 01:44:56.100 because you disagree with their exact discipline methods or whatever. 01:44:56.100 --> 01:44:59.500 Which again, I guarantee is not even doing anything different in reality. 01:44:59.500 --> 01:45:01.400 It's just the perception of it. 01:45:01.700 --> 01:45:03.460 I mean, this is an insane thing. 01:45:03.460 --> 01:45:05.800 You've got to think like, you have a God-hating atheist 01:45:05.800 --> 01:45:09.260 reprobate named Andrew Loza, who his actions are 01:45:09.260 --> 01:45:12.800 indistinguishable from McMurtry and Paul Wittenberger. 01:45:12.800 --> 01:45:15.800 You have a God-hating atheist tranny whose actions are 01:45:15.800 --> 01:45:17.200 indistinguishable from these people. 01:45:17.200 --> 01:45:18.800 And let me tell you something, when your actions are 01:45:18.800 --> 01:45:21.300 indistinguishable from God-hating trannies, you're on 01:45:21.300 --> 01:45:22.300 the wrong team. 01:45:22.300 --> 01:45:23.800 Yeah. 01:45:23.800 --> 01:45:26.000 How in the world do you have love for the Brotherhood? 01:45:26.800 --> 01:45:29.840 How do you love the kids that are... 01:45:29.840 --> 01:45:32.640 Look, there's bad parents in this world. 01:45:32.640 --> 01:45:33.600 Don't get me wrong. 01:45:34.520 --> 01:45:36.320 Have you ever been so in it with me? 01:45:36.600 --> 01:45:38.100 I'll show you some bad parents. 01:45:38.100 --> 01:45:39.600 I'll show you parents that are on drugs. 01:45:39.600 --> 01:45:41.800 I'll show you parents that are smoking marijuana. 01:45:41.800 --> 01:45:44.400 I'll show you parents that are letting their kids have a phone 01:45:44.400 --> 01:45:47.800 at four and five years old watching and doing whatever they want on that phone. 01:45:47.800 --> 01:45:50.700 I'll show you parents that are letting their kids run around 01:45:50.700 --> 01:45:52.700 just completely doing whatever they want. 01:45:52.700 --> 01:45:56.600 I'll show you videos of black men that are actually in the home 01:45:56.600 --> 01:45:58.300 disciplining their kids. 01:45:58.300 --> 01:46:00.300 And boy, it looks mean. 01:46:01.600 --> 01:46:04.600 And you know what? I want none of those kids to be taken from their parents. 01:46:04.600 --> 01:46:08.100 I want absolutely zero of those kids to be taken from their parents. 01:46:08.100 --> 01:46:12.100 But you're gonna tell me that Pastor Steven Anderson is so bad. 01:46:13.100 --> 01:46:15.100 You sound like a faggot is what you sound like. 01:46:16.100 --> 01:46:19.600 You sound like a God-hating atheist faggot is what you sound like. 01:46:20.100 --> 01:46:21.600 And you know what's wrong with the world? 01:46:21.600 --> 01:46:23.100 People like this that are hating the brethren. 01:46:23.100 --> 01:46:26.600 How in the world could anybody want to be a Christian when these are your friends? 01:46:27.700 --> 01:46:33.700 You work with someone from a decade, you give them money, time, effort, love, you get them out of the world. 01:46:33.700 --> 01:46:38.800 I mean, Paul Wittenberger was a missionary kid who totally rebelled against his family, 01:46:38.800 --> 01:46:44.500 went to Hollywood, worked on a lesbian film that's basically an adult film, 01:46:44.500 --> 01:46:48.500 along with all kinds of other weird, satanic stuff. Is that his parents' fault? 01:46:49.500 --> 01:46:53.700 Where's the documentary exposing his parents for him going bad and being wicked? 01:46:53.700 --> 01:46:55.500 And you know what got him out of that lifestyle? 01:46:55.500 --> 01:46:57.200 Pastor Anderson's preaching. 01:46:57.200 --> 01:47:02.000 Who got him back into a good church so that he could find a godly woman to marry and to have kids 01:47:02.000 --> 01:47:04.500 and help them have a career and make money. 01:47:04.500 --> 01:47:08.200 And now he's spending his whole life just trying to destroy this guy? 01:47:08.200 --> 01:47:12.700 It makes no sense, folks, because it's of Satan. 01:47:12.700 --> 01:47:15.600 It's not even a question of if it's of Satan. 01:47:15.800 --> 01:47:20.600 And of course the goal is just for the simple minded to just be deceived and destroyed. 01:47:20.600 --> 01:47:22.600 And you know what? We need to have love for the brotherhood. 01:47:22.600 --> 01:47:25.900 If you thought a parent was being a bad parent, you know what you should do? 01:47:25.900 --> 01:47:27.800 You should lovingly go to that parent and say, 01:47:27.800 --> 01:47:29.800 Hey, I love you and I'm concerned for your kids. 01:47:29.800 --> 01:47:32.600 Will you please implement better punishment? 01:47:32.600 --> 01:47:35.000 Or will you please, you know, show them more love? 01:47:35.000 --> 01:47:36.800 Or will you please spend more time with them? 01:47:36.800 --> 01:47:38.600 Or if you really felt that way. 01:47:38.600 --> 01:47:39.800 But you know what you wouldn't do? 01:47:39.800 --> 01:47:42.800 Is try to exploit those kids. 01:47:43.200 --> 01:47:45.840 and try to make hit piece interviews to attack him 01:47:45.840 --> 01:47:48.680 and to attack his marriage and to attack his friends 01:47:48.680 --> 01:47:50.920 and to rip all these things out of context 01:47:50.920 --> 01:47:53.760 and have secretly recorded phone calls out of context 01:47:53.760 --> 01:47:55.520 that you're gonna try and share in the world 01:47:55.520 --> 01:47:57.040 and try to slander people. 01:47:57.040 --> 01:48:00.760 And you're just a tool to rally every hater, 01:48:00.760 --> 01:48:04.440 every disgruntled freak, every atheist, every faggot, 01:48:04.440 --> 01:48:06.280 every person that's ever been against Christianity 01:48:06.280 --> 01:48:09.400 to all rally together to keep spreading the same lies 01:48:09.400 --> 01:48:11.200 and slander and hit piece and exploit. 01:48:11.200 --> 01:48:16.240 the same people with you, all the while raising money for it. 01:48:16.240 --> 01:48:18.040 This is not united at all. 01:48:18.040 --> 01:48:19.040 This is not love for the brother. 01:48:19.040 --> 01:48:20.040 And you know what? 01:48:20.040 --> 01:48:24.560 I never, ever, ever want any of you to ever exhibit any of these behaviors. 01:48:24.560 --> 01:48:27.760 We should never have this attitude towards brothers and sisters in Christ. 01:48:27.760 --> 01:48:31.520 We should never use all of our time, effort, and energy to destroying other brothers and 01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:33.000 sisters in Christ. 01:48:33.000 --> 01:48:34.520 People are dying and going to hell. 01:48:35.300 --> 01:48:40.000 What in the world are you going to do is sit here and just spend all your time, money, effort, and energy on this. 01:48:40.000 --> 01:48:42.700 Do not have an axe to grind with other Christians. 01:48:42.700 --> 01:48:47.800 If there is someone out there serving God, worshipping God, and you don't like them, 01:48:47.800 --> 01:48:53.600 or they did you wrong a little bit, get over it. Get over yourself and serve God. 01:48:54.800 --> 01:48:56.920 Look, I'm not saying don't confront issues. 01:48:56.920 --> 01:48:59.400 I'm not saying don't address problems. 01:48:59.400 --> 01:49:01.760 I'm not saying don't go to your brother in Christ and say, 01:49:01.760 --> 01:49:03.120 hey, you did me wrong. 01:49:03.120 --> 01:49:05.680 But at the end of the day, don't have an ax to grind with this person. 01:49:05.680 --> 01:49:06.960 Don't wish them evil. 01:49:06.960 --> 01:49:08.120 Don't attack them. 01:49:08.120 --> 01:49:09.680 Don't go against them. 01:49:09.680 --> 01:49:12.120 I mean, this is just of Satan. 01:49:12.120 --> 01:49:15.640 And this is what Satan wants is when Christians are attacking other Christians. 01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:17.760 We should be charitable to other people. 01:49:17.760 --> 01:49:20.880 Look, not everybody's a reprobate that doesn't go to a Baptist church. 01:49:21.600 --> 01:49:23.600 You can be friends with and encourage other people. 01:49:23.600 --> 01:49:27.600 I had you go to Ephesians 4, look at what it says in here in verse 3. 01:49:27.600 --> 01:49:31.600 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. 01:49:31.600 --> 01:49:35.600 You know what we should be doing? We should be trying to be unified and loving each other. 01:49:35.600 --> 01:49:39.600 Oh, you're not doing that to them. How can I when they're attacking me? 01:49:39.600 --> 01:49:42.500 How can I when they're trying to stab me? 01:49:43.300 --> 01:49:45.060 It's just like, yeah, I get it. 01:49:45.060 --> 01:49:47.380 That'd be the same as the United States saying like, 01:49:47.380 --> 01:49:49.140 hey, why aren't you having unity with Britain? 01:49:49.140 --> 01:49:50.420 We're killing us. 01:49:51.420 --> 01:49:54.340 It's like, I just have to defend myself. 01:49:54.340 --> 01:49:57.140 I need to have like the ability to even have a life. 01:49:57.400 --> 01:49:59.800 And it's just like when McMurtry and all these people are saying, 01:49:59.800 --> 01:50:02.280 hey, the whole church should just overthrow Pastor Shelley, 01:50:02.280 --> 01:50:05.000 and I already should quit, and just everybody should, you know. 01:50:05.000 --> 01:50:08.040 He's like, I would never want anybody from Stavester Baptist Church. 01:50:08.040 --> 01:50:11.320 Oh, but I'll take the people that came from Stavester to be my members now, 01:50:11.320 --> 01:50:13.160 because I don't mean anything that I say. 01:50:13.160 --> 01:50:17.240 And all that I'm saying is just trying to just throw shade at and attack and assault, 01:50:17.240 --> 01:50:18.840 because I could never reach anybody myself. 01:50:19.400 --> 01:50:22.600 So I just have to get disgruntled members of the new IB to try and join my church. 01:50:23.500 --> 01:50:25.900 Paul Wittenberger could never make a successful film, 01:50:25.900 --> 01:50:28.220 so he's just hoping that this hit piece, 01:50:28.220 --> 01:50:32.700 he can get enough hate and animosity and freaks and weirdos 01:50:32.700 --> 01:50:36.060 to want to have the appetite for a Netflix documentary. 01:50:36.060 --> 01:50:37.020 And look, you know what? 01:50:37.020 --> 01:50:38.860 I don't even care if it goes on then or not, 01:50:38.860 --> 01:50:41.100 because frankly speaking, this is what I think is funny. 01:50:41.100 --> 01:50:44.780 Even if they did get the Netflix special or whatever, 01:50:44.780 --> 01:50:46.780 it would just get more people saved, 01:50:46.780 --> 01:50:48.300 because they would find out of our preaching, 01:50:48.300 --> 01:50:49.740 and they would listen, and they would like it, 01:50:49.740 --> 01:50:51.420 and they would say, no weapon formed against- 01:50:51.500 --> 01:50:57.020 is going to prosper. I'm just thinking from his perspective, he's an idiot. He's an idiot. 01:50:57.020 --> 01:51:03.100 And God is going to punish these people so bad. Just wait, wait on the Lord. God is not mocked. 01:51:03.820 --> 01:51:07.580 For once a man soweth, that shall also reap. Isn't it funny that Paul Wittenberger, 01:51:08.940 --> 01:51:14.540 he's like biggest break. He made this big post. I'm almost done. All right. He said, 01:51:14.540 --> 01:51:18.940 this is my biggest break. My biggest break is that he got to make COVID land. 01:51:19.500 --> 01:51:21.500 with Alex Jones, okay? 01:51:21.500 --> 01:51:25.100 It's just like his biggest break, his biggest dreams come true. 01:51:25.100 --> 01:51:28.900 Has nothing to do with Christianity or Christ or, you know, the gospel. 01:51:28.900 --> 01:51:32.900 It was this, they get to be with Alex Jones, he gets to sell a DVD with Alex Jones on it, whatever. 01:51:32.900 --> 01:51:36.900 Well, they didn't really sell the DVDs because nobody has a DVD player. 01:51:36.900 --> 01:51:39.600 So, they get to put it on Band.video. 01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:42.700 And I think his first upload had millions of views or something. 01:51:42.700 --> 01:51:44.900 I don't even know, maybe six million or whatever, I don't know. 01:51:45.300 --> 01:51:49.300 It could have been 271,000, I can't remember, but it's something in those range, right? 01:51:49.300 --> 01:51:54.300 This guy gets this huge, oh my biggest break, 6 million views or 8 million views or whatever, 01:51:54.300 --> 01:51:57.300 I don't even know the number, just millions though, millions of views on this thing. 01:51:57.300 --> 01:52:05.000 Well guess what? Bandit video got taken down by the onion and it no longer exists and all that's evaporated like this. 01:52:05.500 --> 01:52:10.220 The guy who constantly censors and takes people down their gospel soul winning presentation, 01:52:10.220 --> 01:52:16.380 takes down their videos on YouTube, oh yeah, well I guess your little awesome movie gone like that. 01:52:17.180 --> 01:52:20.540 And of course the movie sucked anyways. They only watched it because Alex promoted it. 01:52:20.540 --> 01:52:24.460 Because he did episode two, it went from like let's say six million or something, 01:52:24.460 --> 01:52:31.340 it went down to like 800,000 in episode two. And then episode three, 70,000 views. Wow. 01:52:32.300 --> 01:52:35.300 Total fail. 01:52:35.300 --> 01:52:38.300 Then he made a worse movie called City Lost. 01:52:38.300 --> 01:52:40.300 Wow, one of the worst movies ever. 01:52:40.300 --> 01:52:43.300 I mean, these guys are obviously being punished by God and they just don't see it. 01:52:43.300 --> 01:52:47.300 His total occupation of business has been a complete failure. 01:52:47.300 --> 01:52:49.300 And look, this is what's crazy. 01:52:49.300 --> 01:52:51.300 Paul is really talented. 01:52:51.300 --> 01:52:54.300 Paul has so much specialized equipment. 01:52:54.300 --> 01:52:56.300 He has so much specialized skill. 01:52:57.100 --> 01:53:01.820 He could be using all of these talents and skills to actually be making money and serving God. 01:53:01.820 --> 01:53:05.580 He could actually make movies that matter. He could actually make projects that matter. 01:53:05.580 --> 01:53:10.860 But instead, he's just destroying himself. He's not even using his own talents. And look, 01:53:10.860 --> 01:53:14.540 you probably have a lot of talents that can be used for God. But when you get 01:53:14.540 --> 01:53:18.540 and hatred towards other Christians, God will destroy you. 01:53:19.100 --> 01:53:29.340 And you'll become unfruitful and you will produce nothing and you'll be destroyed and every work that you had will just completely be erased and nobody will give a crap anymore. 01:53:31.100 --> 01:53:36.060 And I'm just telling you, you need to get far away from this hatred and envy bug. 01:53:37.820 --> 01:53:38.660 We need to have unity. 01:53:39.220 --> 01:53:42.300 We need to have love for the brother. We need to be independent, but united. 01:53:43.300 --> 01:53:46.740 Hey, I'm an independent Baptist, but I love my brothers and sisters in Christ. 01:53:46.740 --> 01:53:51.620 And I want you to go to church by conscience, not compulsion. 01:53:51.620 --> 01:53:54.300 I want you to have compassion and not cruelty. 01:53:54.300 --> 01:53:56.100 And I want you to have camaraderie and not competition. 01:53:56.100 --> 01:53:57.940 We're not in competition with one another. 01:53:57.940 --> 01:54:00.460 We're on the same team. 01:54:00.460 --> 01:54:01.460 I want people to get saved. 01:54:01.460 --> 01:54:02.460 And you know what? 01:54:02.460 --> 01:54:05.420 Every action we take in the church should be viewed in this light. 01:54:05.420 --> 01:54:06.860 Is this going to help get more people saved? 01:54:07.300 --> 01:54:09.300 is it's going to help people serve Christ better. 01:54:09.300 --> 01:54:12.300 And if it's not, then we need to make the spiritual decision, 01:54:12.300 --> 01:54:14.300 not the selfish decision. Let's go to the prayer. 01:54:14.300 --> 01:54:15.300 Thank you, Holy Father, so much for your Word. 01:54:15.300 --> 01:54:19.300 Thank you for giving us a country that we can worship you freely in. 01:54:19.300 --> 01:54:21.300 Thank you so much for the King James Bible. 01:54:22.500 --> 01:54:26.100 Thank you for the men that have died to give us the faith that we have. 01:54:26.100 --> 01:54:31.300 Thank you for the men that have established the religion that we have so that we could continue to worship you. 01:54:31.300 --> 01:54:32.300 Thank you for this church. 01:54:32.300 --> 01:54:36.100 Thank you for the men and women that sacrificed for Steadfast Baptist Church so we could have this church. 01:54:37.200 --> 01:54:40.560 I pray that we would not have a bad attitude towards other Christians, 01:54:40.560 --> 01:54:43.520 that we wouldn't have a bad attitude towards other brothers and sisters in Christ, 01:54:43.520 --> 01:54:45.680 that we wouldn't have a bad attitude towards the lost. 01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:47.840 I pray that we'd have an attitude of compassion, 01:54:47.840 --> 01:54:50.400 that we wouldn't be cruel to other brothers and sisters in Christ. 01:54:51.040 --> 01:54:55.200 I pray that we would have love for the brethren, love for the brotherhood, 01:54:55.760 --> 01:54:59.600 and I pray that our decision-making would be based on getting people saved. 01:55:00.000 --> 01:55:08.500 and having that camaraderie and not feeling envy and not jockeying for position and not caring about money and fame and attention, 01:55:08.500 --> 01:55:10.800 but rather we care about people getting saved. 01:55:10.800 --> 01:55:12.300 In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. 01:55:16.300 --> 01:55:20.460 All right for our last song let's go to song number 396. 01:55:25.700 --> 01:55:33.700 Song number 396, So Little Time. 01:55:33.700 --> 01:55:38.700 So Little Time. 01:55:38.700 --> 01:55:41.700 Song 396. 01:55:41.700 --> 01:55:43.500 Let's all sing that out together. 02:00:02.600 --> 02:00:04.040 everybody, you are all dismissed.