to page 411 welcome to steadfast baptist church page 411 hold the fort page 411 hold the fort
come here to worship you and to praise your name.
We pray, Lord, that you would bless the services
and the soul-winning that you have for us today
and that you would fill Pastor Shelley up
with your Holy Spirit and help us to apply
the message to our lives and to make us better Christians.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Our second song this morning, page 86.
In the garden, page 86.
morning. Thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church. If you don't
already have a bulletin or you'd like one, lift up your hand nice and high. Our
ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin. On the front we have our Bible
memory passage. We've been working on Jude chapter 1. We're on verse 14 for a
midweek verse. So any child 18 or under that can quote the verse of the week can
get an ice cream at our Wednesday night service. And then on the inside we have
Keep up the great work on our soul winning on the right. We have a list of expecting ladies
Several ladies to be in prayer for if you ever want to be added to our list
You can email us about that or give us an update and we can try to get you in there
Yesterday we had a soul any marathon for Lancaster, Texas, which is really just about 20 25 minutes from Cedar Hill
So it's not too far. It's just directly east of where we are and we had about
66, soul winners come out and we had 50 salvations for the day.
So praise God for that.
There's a lot of fun.
So thanks for everyone who participated.
Down below we have upcoming events.
We have the teen summer event that's coming up July 26th.
And I apologize, the previous bulletin had said the 29th
and I had had that as a mistake, but it's then corrected.
So it is July 26th.
The signup sheet should have had that.
Looks like we have a lot of kids signed up for this.
And
we still have room so there's there's there's plenty room so if anybody wanted to still join
or add their name to the list no problem we'd love for you to join us brother Milstead's helping
us lead this our teen events and the last one went a lot went really well we had a lot of fun
and this one's going to be a good time as well down below we have another joint baby shower on
So those ones, they're pretty close together,
but it's just one per month that we're doing this year,
just doing one for June, July, and August.
And so that's another one that you wanna put on your radar.
Men's Retreat, August 14th to the 16th.
If you haven't signed up, please do so.
That way we can make sure we can anticipate
who's gonna be joining us this year.
FBBF Conference, August 27th through the 31st,
that's gonna be
Preaching every single night. So that's why it says there from the 27th to the 31st. So it's going to be that Wednesday night
Pastor Corbin Russell
Thursday night's going to be Pastor Aaron Thompson, Friday night's going to be Pastor Dylan Oz, Saturday night's going to be Pastor Steven Anderson.
Sunday morning our Spanish service, Pastor Enrique Reyes from Springcrest Baptist Church, will be preaching for us.
I'll preach our morning service and then Pastor Reyes is going to be preaching the evening service in English.
So he's got that bilingual double portion there, so he's going to be preaching for us twice and that's really exciting.
We've got lots of cool stuff. We're going to be giving out...
really awesome looking shirts, stickers, lanyards, we've got all kinds of other things that we've
planned. We have a pickleball tournament that we're going to be doing. It's kind of a late
night pickleball tournament, really, if you're able to do that. You can just sign up by the
Women's mixed and a youth. We haven't had any youth sign up yet
But if there is some youth that sign up, we're gonna try and put them in the competition running
And we got a cool prize for first place for that event. We have a men's football. That's gonna be Saturday
We also have a
Men's like I said another special men's fun event that's gonna be in one of the evenings
We have a couple family friendly activities Thursday morning and Friday morning. We have our kids spelling bee
on Saturday and I put the spelling words list on our website. So if you just go to sbckjv.com
and you go to the events, there's an upcoming event, I think it's like about upcoming events tab,
then it has a list and pretty much has the entire schedule for the conference.
What I just said, if you forgot, because you probably forgot, you can just look at that
list and then it's got the spelling B words list out there as well.
I've got lots of soul winning opportunities, so I mean honestly, it's going to be a jam-packed
conference
Some things to just consider and I'm just going to put on your radar already is we're going to be pretty packed and
Especially even things like parking, but we're coming up with a couple solutions
I think we're going to identify a couple places that we can park that are a little bit further away and
We're going to just offer a
kind of a valet service through our ushers.
And so we'll just probably ask a lot of our members,
especially if they would be comfortable
just dropping their family off,
we'll valet your car and bring it back to you
whenever you'd like.
So, and then we're gonna have a cool photo booth area
out here, probably in the backyard.
So if you wanna take some pictures with your friends
and whatever and promote the conference,
but it's gonna be a good time.
We're gonna try and pack it out.
It's gonna be hot.
All right, so if you can participate,
we really love for you to participate.
We tried to get a general consensus
of just like who was planning on possibly coming
so we could plan for that.
There was a few people that we anticipated coming
that didn't sign up, so we might just bug you
and ask you about it, all right?
But we just want to double check.
And so we're really looking forward to the conference.
and we have a lot of guest preachers coming in.
Make sure, especially for our church family,
to thank all the guest preachers
and to be really hospitable to our visitors and their guests.
And I know it's a conference and we wanna enjoy too,
but we wanna make sure our visitors have a good time
and they feel welcome.
And so maybe get outside of your bubble a little bit,
talk to new people, hang out with some new people,
be friendly.
They're going to take your seat.
Don't worry about that.
They may take your parking spot and all kinds of different things.
And so we'll just try to do our best to just be really welcoming and kind.
And obviously, it's a little bit tighter space, but hey, you know what?
The manger.
was probably tighter, so there you go, all right?
And we have a better and nicer building than the manger.
Down below we have the missions trip for Mexico.
September 8th through the 12th,
Brother Diego has been leading this for us,
and so if you have any questions, you could see him.
There's still a couple spots that are just wide open,
and so if you'd like to go with us,
that would be a great opportunity.
Work on your Spanish.
On the back, we have the baby shower details.
We have for the aldermans and the Carlson's if you'd like to participate all ladies are welcome
Even if you're not very familiar with them you can get to know them and other ladies are a church better
It's from noon to two
You can RSVP to mrs. Milstead that helps us to plan for food and everything if you'd like to bring a cider dessert
You can but it's totally optional
Also, they are registered if you'd like to get them a gift. They're listed there. It is nursing's only preferred if you can't
if you can't come just because of the kids we want you to still come anyways but if you can
ideally you just leave them with dad we throw peanuts at them and they survive okay that's how
it works all right it's a circus uh down below is our prayer list make sure to be in prayer for
our church family if you have any prayer requests that
you would like for us to be in prayer with, please email us.
And we try to keep this as up to date as possible.
Obviously, some things can become outdated.
If you notice something becoming outdated,
please just let us know so we can try to update it
or correct it in our bulletin.
But we like to try and be in prayer with our church family.
So that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements are concerned.
We're going to go ahead and sing our Psalm of the Week.
It's going to be Psalm 100.
and 17, Psalm 117.
We have a special Psalm in Himbinder.
If you get out that, Psalm 117.
Psalm 117, sing it out loud here on the first.
passed around. Let's turn in our Bibles to Ezekiel 16. That's Ezekiel 16.
Ezekiel chapter 16 the Bible reads again the word of the Lord came unto me saying son of
man cause Jerusalem to know her abominations and say thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem
thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan thy father was an amoride and thy
mother and Hittite and as for thy nativity in the day thou was born thy naval was not
that was not salted at all nor swaddled at all, none I pitied thee to do any of these under thee,
to have compassion upon thee, but thou was cast out in the open field to the loathing of thy person
in the day that thou was born. And when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood,
I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, live. Yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood,
I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxed
in great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments.
Thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare."
Now, when I passed by thee and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love,
and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness, yea, I swear unto thee, and
entered into a covenant with thee, sayeth the Lord God, and thou becameest mine.
Then washed I thee with water, yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed
thee with oil.
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badger's skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands and a chain on thy neck, and I put a jewel on thy forehead and earrings in thine ears and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
Decked with gold and silver, and thy raiment was a fine linen and silk and broidered work.
Thou didst eat fine flour and honey and oil, and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty, for it was perfect through
my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, sayeth the Lord God.
But thou didest trust in thine own beauty, and playest the harlot, because of thy renown,
and poorest out thy fornications on every one that passed by, his it was.
And of thy garments thou didest take, and decest thy high places with diverse colors,
The like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee,
and madeest to thyself images of men, and didest commit hordom with them, and tookest
thy broodard garments, and covered them, and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before
them.
My meat also, which I gave thee, fine flour and oil and honey, were with thy fed thee,
saith the Lord God. Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters whom thou hast borne
unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy hordoms a small
matter that thou hast slain my children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the
fire for them? And in all thine abominations and thy hordoms thou hast not remembered the days of
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, woe, woe unto thee, sayeth the Lord God.
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in
every street.
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be
abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied thy hordoms.
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh,
and hast increased thy hordoms to provoke me to anger.
Therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee and have diminished thine ordinary food
and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines,
which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable.
Yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan, unto Chaldea.
And yet, thou wast not satisfied herewith.
How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work
of an imperious, whorish woman, and that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head
of every way, and makest thine high place in every street, and hast not been as an harlot,
and that thou scornest hire, but as a wife that committed adultery, which taketh strangers
They give gifts to all whores, but thou giveest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy hordom.
And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy hordoms, whereas none follow with thee to commit hordoms, and that thou giveest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord, thus sayeth the Lord God, because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy hordoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of
thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them.
Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure,
and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated,
I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them,
that they may see all thy nakedness. And I will judge thee as women that break
wedlock, and shed blood are judged, and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy."
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places.
They shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare."
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones
and thrust thee through with their swords.
And they shall burn thine houses with fire and execute judgments upon thee in the sight
of many women, and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and I will also
shall give no hire any more.
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and
because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things. Behold, therefore, I also will
recompense thy way upon thine head.
Say it, the Lord God, and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, as is the mother, so is her daughter.
Thou art thy mother's daughter that loatheth her husband and her children, and thou art the sister of thy sisters
Which loatheth their husbands and their children, your mother was an Hittite and your father an Amorite, and thine elder sister is Samaria
She and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom and her daughters
Yet hath thou not walked after their ways nor done after their abominations, but
as if that were a very little thing.
Thou hast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
As I live, sayeth the Lord God,
Sodom thy sister hath not done,
she nor her daughters, as thou hast done,
thou and thy daughters.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister,
Sodom, pride, fullness of bread,
and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters.
Neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
And they were haughty and committed abomination before me, therefore I took them away as I
saw good.
Neither hath some maria committed half of thy sins, but thou hast multiplied thine abominations
more than they, and hast justified thy sisters and all thine abominations which thou hast
done.
Thou also which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast
committed more abominable than they.
Be thou confounded also when bear thy shame, and that thou hast justified thy sisters.
When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters,
and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy
captives in the midst of them, that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in
all that thou hast done, and that thou art a comfort unto them.
When thy sisters Sodom and her daughter shall return to their former estate, and Samaria
and her daughter shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughter shall return
to your former estate, for thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day
of thy pride.
Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters
and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about,
thou hast borne thy ludeness, and thine abomination sayeth the Lord.
For thus sayeth the Lord, God, I will even deal with thee, as thou hast done,
which has despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
Nevertheless, I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Then thou shalt remember thy ways and be ashamed when thou shalt receive thy sisters,
thine elder and thy younger, and I will give them unto thee for daughters,
but not by thy covenant. And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
that thou mayest remember and be confounded, and never open thy mouth anymore because of thy shame
when I am pacified toward thee, for all that thou hast done, say it to the Lord God."
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Father in heaven we thank you for this day and for Pastor Shelley to his family
I pray that you fill him with your spirit now and
Enable him to preach the sermon that you've laid on his heart with boldness with clarity of mind and help us Lord to apply
This message to our lives so that we can glorify you and everything we do. We love you and in Jesus name
I pray amen amen
Ezekiel 16 is a really long chapter and
probably wouldn't even be allowed to be read in most churches today.
Just being read out loud is just such a strong rebuke.
And to give a little context, the Bible does say in verse 2,
Son of Man caused Jerusalem to know her abominations.
And so the context of Ezekiel 16 is there a butte
to the city of Jerusalem,
and kind of just the greater nation of Judah
in a sense, because this is really the epicenter,
this is the capital, this is the main city
of this particular portion of the country.
And this is kind of the last holdout
of the children of Israel, the children of Judah.
And Jerusalem is at a kind of peak
when it comes to wickedness, evil.
It's about to be destroyed for good.
And the rest of the remaining people in the city of Jerusalem
are going to be taken into captivity
if they're not just killed in multiple different ways.
Now, what's interesting is when we think about
the worst cities to ever exist
or like the worst places to ever exist,
usually a city that comes in my mind is Sodom.
and Sodom is brought up in this particular chapter.
What's interesting about this particular chapter is it's saying
very clearly that Jerusalem is worse
than Sodom. That Sodom is actually not as bad
as Jerusalem was at this point in history.
Now it brings up Sodom a couple different times.
I want to look at verse 46.
And the Bible says in 9, Elder sister is Samaria,
she and her daughters that dwelleth at thy left hand,
and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand,
is Sodom, and her daughters.
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways,
nor done after their abominations,
but as if that were a very little thing,
that was corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
So according to the Bible,
It's saying Samaria, which went after false gods, totally deserted the Lord God, did all kinds of evil things.
That was not as bad as Jerusalem was.
Sodom in all of its abominations and all the wickedness as Sodom was not as bad as Jerusalem.
And it's saying, you know, you're not as bad as them as if that was a little thing.
Like, they don't have little sins here.
They're extremely evil, extremely wicked, and you somehow top them.
You somehow did worse than them, you're more abominable than them.
And that context helps us a little bit.
Because, if you understand what actually happens to Jerusalem at this time, we see what happens
in Druidonomy 28, the worst plagues that could probably be brought on a particular city are
brought upon Jerusalem.
So extreme, people are starving to death, people have no food, they're dying with disease,
just to try and just basically satisfy themselves,
then they run out of feces to eat.
And so they start slaughtering their own children
and eating their own children
and just all kinds of just horrible, terrible things.
The Bible even says the punishments brought upon them
were worse than death.
There are things worse than death
and worse punishments and worse evils.
It at least kind of helps us realize
why they were worse than Sodom.
They were worse than Samaria. They're arguably one of the most evil societies to ever exist on this planet.
Now, I'm not focusing on Jerusalem, but I just want to bring that up because it then also elaborates on Sodom.
And it kind of just explains why Sodom is the way that it was in verse 48.
She know her daughters as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread,
and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen
the hand of the poor and needy, and they were haughty and committed abomination before me,
therefore I took them away as I saw good."
What was the downfall of Sodom?
What caused Sodom to become so bad and so evil
and commit the abominations that they did?
Well, it kind of gives us a three-point outline here.
It says pride, fullness of bread,
and abundance of idleness.
This is the downfall of Sodom,
and this is the downfall of all societies, all cities,
all nations, all areas, and what some people don't realize is that God is the God of the entire earth,
he's the judge of the entire earth, he's the king of kings, therefore he judges all nations the same.
When a nation becomes evil and wicked and goes against the things of God,
well then God is going to punish them in the same way.
Just like Samaria, just like Sodom, just like Jerusalem, just like Babylon, just like Egypt.
There's not any city, there's not any nation that's exempt from God's judgment, God's wrath
when a nation turns away from God.
And so we should learn from these examples and recognize that America is not special.
that our nation is not unique and that God won't punish it,
that God doesn't get mad at us for our abominations or our evil,
and, yay, not just America, all nations of the earth.
And what could be the downfall of any nation?
Well, it's pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idolists.
And we see that pride often comes from a place of position.
Go through it to Deuteronomy 8.
Go back to Deuteronomy 8.
And really, there's a lot of parallels that you can see to America and Jerusalem and some of these nations that end up getting destroyed
because we're kind of going down a similar path. And some of the parallels would apply in a sense that...
Obviously, the children of Israel were God's chosen people in the Old Testament.
They were special.
They had God's blessing.
They had God's favor.
And with that came a lot of wealth, came a lot of prosperity, came a lot of blessing.
But as a result of that blessing, as a result of that prosperity, it ends up going to their
head, going to their ego, and they become very prideful as a result of this.
Same way, I believe in America.
There is so much gaslighting about American history and just the things that have caused
our nation to be formed and why we even have the nation we have, why we even have a Declaration
of Independence, why we have a Bill of Rights, why we are set up the way that we are.
So many people are just so ignorant of what's the reality.
But the truth is that our nation was established as a Protestant nation.
You know, some people, especially in a fundamental Baptist,
they kind of like scream at the word Protestant.
They get all nervous or something like that.
But the reality is that we had a Protestant foundation,
and within that, that's where the Baptist heritage
that we have came from.
Now, does that mean that we're exactly
like all the Protestants, or we even like those labels?
Not necessarily.
We have to recognize just reality that, hey,
John Smith in Europe, bringing over Baptist heritage into America.
Roger Williams is credited as the first Baptist when it comes to America.
And then basically America was either Baptist or Methodist.
It was basically like that was the big picture.
Obviously there's tons of little things all over, but they really did not want Catholicism here.
They did not want even subgroups that were cultish like the Quakers, the Shakers, and
all these other strange, nonsensical, cultish-like groups.
They were not welcome.
They were shunned.
And of course, anything outside of this realm was obviously not tolerated.
Obviously Hinduism was not tolerated, Islam was not tolerated, Judaism was of course not
tolerated whatsoever, and so our nation was founded on the Bible, on the Word of God.
If you wanted to hold a position of government, whether that be in Rhode Island, whether that be in Connecticut,
whether that be in Pennsylvania, whether that be in Georgia, whether it be one of these colonies,
you had to profess faith in Jesus Christ to hold any political position in our states.
Not only that, just to be the sheriff, just to be the mayor, just to be whatever, and they all said like explicitly,
We are making sure that the Protestant religion is thriving in our areas.
States like Georgia explicitly banned Catholicism.
You could not practice Catholicism.
You could not have a Catholic church.
There was no such thing as a Catholic church in the state of Georgia until the late 1800s.
So we're talking 1600s, no Catholics.
1700s, no Catholics.
That's how Protestant we were okay. That's how much we believed the Bible when you went into court
You put your hand on the Bible to promise that you were going to tell the truth
Every president has put his hand on a Bible
Every president has proclaimed to be a Christian in order to be nominated as the president of the United States of America up to this point
I mean, people just don't understand our heritage, where we came from, why we are the way we
are, and they wonder, like, oh, America's so blessed.
And I went to the University of Texas, and this guy told me, the reason why y'all are
so blessed is because of how secular you are.
The reason why I like America is because of how secular it is, and that's why it's
so successful, and that's why it's so blessed.
And I said, how are we secular?
I said, if we just take the Texas State Constitution right now,
if you just get the most up-to-date current,
I'm not talking about going back to the 1600s, 1700s, 800s,
I'm talking about the right now,
the Texas State Constitution,
the opening lines says,
in humbly invoking the blessing of Almighty God.
Yeah. Wow.
How is that secular?
Yeah.
I mean, what are you even talking about?
Look, until 2003, it was illegal to be a faggot in the state of Texas.
When I was in high school, it was a crime to be a faggot or a lesbian, okay?
Either one was not accepted.
People are just so brainwashed today because they just listened to AI or TikTok or basically
People have no idea what about American history.
They have no idea why our nation is the way that it is.
Why? They've forgotten God. They forgot why we were blessed.
They forgot why we were prosperous.
They forgot why we had the successes that we've had
and why we are arguably the best place to live still
in the world right now.
I mean, I believe right now America is still probably the best place, the most freedom.
And what if the Bible say, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Hey, we have that liberty bell.
Why? Because the Spirit of the Lord was here.
All of our heritage is an overtly Christian heritage.
That's why we're prosperous.
And when we talk about, oh, making America great again, you'd have to become Christian again.
invoking the blessing of Almighty God.
We have to humble ourselves and say,
hey, this is God, we're gonna do what he says,
we're gonna obey his rules.
But you know what ends up happening?
You become rich and prosperous and you forget God,
and then you think this,
me and my power has gotten me this wealth.
What does it say here in Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 10?
When thou hast eaten an art full.
And thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God and not keeping his commandments and his judgments
and his statutes, which I command thee this day, lest when thou hast eaten in art full
and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein, and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply,
and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied, then
which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage,
who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents and
scorpions and drought, where there was no water, who brought thee forth water out of the rock of
the flint, who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might
And thou say in thine art, my power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth,
that he may establish his covenant which he sweareth his fathers as it is this day.
And it shall be.
If thou do it all, forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them,
and worship them.
I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish, as the nations which the Lord
destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish, because ye would not be obedient under the
voice of the Lord your God.
What is the Bible saying?
No one is special, no one is exempt.
I will destroy every nation that turns away from me
and I will even destroy you if you forget
where your prosperity came from.
And if America forgets why we've been prosperous,
if America forgets why we had the successes that we had
and we think, oh, it's by my power
and by my wealth that I've gotten this,
well, you know what?
You're gonna be destroyed
because when you lift yourself up,
We must humble ourselves and you know if there's this spirit and there's this attitude today
There's this racist attitude that attributes all of America's success to being white
Today people say oh the reason why America's success was because we're white
You know what that's saying by my power and by my might I've gotten this this blessing
No, no, no, we got blessed because of the word of God not by being white
And, frankly speaking, most of us aren't even white anymore, we're mixed a little bit.
You know, all of us have a little bit of in us, okay?
All right, obviously, there's a lot of Hispanics.
There's a lot of black, you know, mixing going on.
There's all kinds of mixing that's been going on.
Plus, we were a mixed conglomerate of Europe anyways.
We're a mix of Spain and German and Irish and Scandinavian.
And of course, British is probably
one of the most prominent.
But again, we're a conglomerate,
a mix of all kinds of things.
And look, people always talk about quote,
race mixing and all this nonsense.
Who cares?
There's only one race, it's called the human race, okay?
You can't get outside of that.
And you know what, there's nothing wrong with, quote, mixing, alright?
The thing that's wrong is getting away from God and mixing religions.
There's nothing wrong with mixing skin color.
Who cares? Who gives a rip?
You know what matters?
Mixing Hinduism with Christianity.
We have Republican national convention people getting up and praising the god of water goo goo or whatever
water goo goo or whatever
That's for that's ridiculous. What's ridiculous is having president Trump get up and light menorah is in the White House
getting up and lighting all kinds of false religion, Hinduism, praising Catholicism,
having a Supreme Court filled with Catholics and Jews to rule over us and to terrorize us.
Why? Because we forgot why we've been prosperous.
We forgot why we had the successes that we had. Why? We said, no Catholics!
We said, hey, we're not going to bring in the Hindus. We're not going to bring in this false religion.
Oh, you know what? Catholicism is so great.
Okay, well let's go to an area of the world where Catholicism was just brought in wholesale
with no opposition.
I don't know, like Mexico?
Why isn't it just so successful?
Why is Mexico not just leading the charge and just so amazing?
Because let me tell you something about Mexico.
It was conquered by the Spanish, and let me tell you something about the Spanish.
They were snow-white folks. They were tall and snow-white. Learn some history about the conquistadors.
They were snow-white. You know why they failed? Because their religion sucks. Because their religion is false and it's garbage and it's trash.
And you know what? It's destroying America.
It's destroying America, it's hurting America, Catholicism is not the answer, and of course
Catholics are some of the most racist people I've ever met.
They constantly talking about how, oh, we need white heritage and white men and blah,
blah, blah.
No, no, no.
We need Christian heritage, and we need the Word of God.
You know what?
I'd rather ship out a bunch of white Catholics than ship out brown, black, and whatever in
Give me the Baptist you can go. Hey, you can have every white Catholic and go start a country somewhere
And it will fail because you'll suck
And you have a false religion you worship a false God and your doctrine's dumb and you everything that's the opposite of the Bible
It says hey call no man father and you call him a father
It says hey, we don't drink blood and it's like let's drink some blood
They're drunkards, they're priests wear a long garment like a faggot like a transvestite
They say that being intimate with your wife is a sin. What could be worse doctrine than that?
I mean the Catholics are just evil. They have weird views on who God is. They say God has no emotions
How about the most popular verse in the whole Bible, John 3.16,
for God so loved the world?
How do you even explain the Gospel without love?
How could you take the God of the Bible and abstract them away from the emotions of the Bible?
I mean, look, Catholicism is just an evil, satanic religion, folks.
It needs more sermons dedicated to it.
So I'm going on a tangent.
But what is the point here?
We could become prideful thinking that we're successful
because of some superfluous characteristic.
Oh, because I have a certain skin color.
And look, even if you were just objectively more intelligent.
Even if you're just a smarter group of people, even if God just blessed you and your whole cohort of people
to all be just genuinely smarter than everybody, you still will not be successful unless you're doing
God's will, unless you're following God's commandments.
It's not about being super intelligent.
It's not being about super strong.
It's not about any physical characteristics
because the Canaanites were genetically
and physically superior to the children of Israel.
Yet they got destroyed and wiped out
because God was on their side,
because God was for them.
And if God before us, who can be against us?
You know, it's not about being some genetic specimen
that's so superior.
like Adolf Hitler trying to raise the master race or something like that.
You know what? The master race is ones who believe in Jesus Christ and get saved.
And it's a spiritual thing, it's not a physical thing,
it's not a carnal thing.
In fact, he uses the base things of this world
to confound the wise anyways.
And he makes wise the simple,
and those who think they're so smart
end up becoming fools and looking like idiots anyways.
And we as a country need to get back
to humbling ourselves and saying,
hey, this is why I'm successful, not this.
You know, some people in this room,
Probably struggle with this some people in this room might think like I'm successful at my job because I'm smart
Not because I go to church three times a week
Not because I read my Bible, not because I got good doctrine,
not because I was screamed at and yelled about how to work hard
and actually pay attention to the things that matter.
And you start forgetting why you're even successful,
why you're actually even having prosperity.
And you start thinking, well, I'm just so strong,
so smart, so wonderful.
And you know what, you lift yourself up with pride
and God will destroy you.
You need to humble yourself and say the only reason I'm successful
is because of the God of the Bible.
Because the word of God because of Christianity and when I get away from God, you know what? He can destroy me so quick
Hey, I don't want to just fall victim of this
I don't want to start thinking oh steadfast Baptist Church is awesome because we're awesome
No, no steadfast Baptist Church is awesome because this book is awesome. Let me tell you something
That's why we're awesome. We just say hey, we're gonna preach this we're gonna believe this
We're gonna do this and when we do this we are awesome
Not because we're awesome, because this is awesome.
And anybody who does this is awesome.
Look, it doesn't matter where we go, in this world,
if we walk into a building and they're singing this
and reading this, and the guy's getting up
and preaching this with passion,
it's gonna be an awesome church service.
What about the person?
I don't know anything about him.
He could be red, yellow, black, and white, tall, short,
old, fat, I don't care.
Hey, if he's preaching what the Bible says,
I'm gonna like it.
Obviously, the more you fall in line with this, the more success you're going to have,
the more blessing you have.
We have to get back to realizing what is the source of our success and what is the
iniquity of Sodom.
When you start getting successful, you start attributing it to yourself and to the wrong
things.
We don't want to do that.
Look, I think that our church is a success.
I think a lot of men in this room are very successful.
I think that we're doing all kinds of cool things.
We've had more soul-winning success than we've ever had before.
Our church is exploding, we can't even fit people in the stinking building.
I mean, like, we're having a lot of success,
but you know what comes with success?
A temptation to become prideful.
And we need to humble ourselves.
We need to lower ourselves in our mind
and realize, hey, no, no, no, no, no.
This is why we're getting,
this is where we're getting obsessed.
We need to stick with this.
When you keep staying humble and recognize
it's not about us, it's not me,
it's not what I'm doing, I'm getting success.
And you know what?
We need to be true to this
and say, I need to read the Bible tomorrow.
I need to go to church still.
I need to keep going so many.
I need to keep doing what this is saying,
getting sent out of my life,
and recognizing where my success is coming from
so that I don't get lifted up.
You know, the Bible says about the king
that he was supposed to read the Bible every day
so that his heart would not be lifted up
above his brethren.
The Bible will knock you down.
Hard preaching should constantly knock you down.
I don't need to build you up.
You're good.
Now look, there's some encouraging things in the Bible.
I like to preach about encouraging things too.
I like to preach happy things.
You know, we need to work on being happy.
We need to get over depression.
Sometimes we have real struggles.
I'm not trying to minimize that,
but at the end of the day,
most of the time our problems are really
that we're prideful, that we're arrogant,
that we're lifting ourselves up in our minds,
and we need to be knocked down in our flesh
and try to be renewed in our spirits
and recognize, hey, we need God.
We need God, we need the Lord, we need the Bible. Go to Proverbs 30, go to Proverbs 30.
And look, obviously, if you study the Bible, if you submit yourself under the things of God,
if you read the Bible, the Bible says He makes wise the simple. You will become wise.
You will be a good you will be a great person
I mean the Bible says about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and talks about Daniel and his companions that they found them ten times better
Than all the others and so here's the thing if you do submit yourself to the Bible
If you do read scores of scripture if you do memorize a lot of the word of God if you do apply this you will become extremely wise
Extremely successful extremely blessed, but then we have to recognize hey, I'm getting that from this
I don't want to ever attribute it to myself
And I want to get lifted up and you know when you start getting lifted up you start thinking that you're special and better than other people
Look, we need to constantly serve other people and help other people and realize our need for other people
You know sometimes you you see this attitude where people get they're so awesome. They're they're too good for church
Like they're basically just better than all of us
You know it's like I don't need church. I mean those people are jerks and low and they don't know things and they're dumb or whatever
I mean, you're just they've already arrived. They're just so awesome. We're just we can't handle their awesomeness or something
You know and again, that's that's just look if you were so awesome
Why wouldn't you want to just come around here and show us and we'd all be your friend or whatever?
Okay, usually that the person that thinks they're awesome is the least popular person
Like everybody's just kind of like a show up in a conversation, you're trying to get
out of the conversation, you're trying to walk away.
And here's some tips to figure out if you're this person or not.
When you enter a conversation, do you only talk about yourself?
Are you just always talking or do you actually care what other people is going on in their lives?
Do you are you praying for other people? Are you concerned with other people?
You know and look some people are really needy, but I'm just saying like it's you know
If you want to have a lot of friends you want to humble yourself think about other people care about other people because we all have problems
But most of us our problems probably aren't as bad as someone else
So why don't we care about somebody else more than our problems it's like oh man
You know my coffee was you know they messed up on it today or whatever and it's like this person's like mom died
It's like which ones you know maybe a little bit more important to like worry about or something
Right?
Or this person is going through a real problem or real struggle or whatever, and it's like
we're just over here worried about first world problems that just, you know, no one
else even has.
It's just like, hey, we need to like get a different mindset and think about others.
You know, we'd be thinking on the things of others, esteeming others better than ourselves,
humbling ourselves.
Pride is just a huge issue, and that could be a whole sermon, but I'm moving on from
that point.
Two things have I required of thee, deny me them not before I die, remove far from me vanity and lies, give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me, lest I be full and deny thee, and say, who is the Lord, or lest I be poor and steal and take the name of my God in vain.
So the Bible is kind of like a warning about two extremes that can happen.
You can become very rich, you can become very poor and in both cases you're going to have this temptation to sin.
It's not saying that being poor is a sin, it's not saying that being rich is a sin,
and being in the middle is not necessarily a sin.
The amount of money in your wallet has no bearing on if you are right with God or not.
Tied to the abundance of the things which he possessive is what the New Testament says
Some people could be extremely poor and super right with God
Somebody could be extremely rich and be super right with God and then of course the opposite can be true
Some it could be super poor and not right with God and some it could be super rich and obviously not right with God
Okay, there's no real that doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter at all
What matters though is that if you are really rich, you have a certain temptation, and if
you're really poor, you have a certain temptation.
What's the temptation if you become very poor, that you might steal, cheat, lie, do deceitful
things to acquire money because you're poor?
And of course, that can be a big temptation.
We want to make money by working hard.
take shortcuts to cheat the system, cheat things in order to basically
acquire the things that you need. Whereas if you're extremely rich
what you can do is you can think like I don't need anything because I'm rich I
can take care of myself
and then you end up denying I don't even need God anymore. I don't need church. I'm rich.
Don't need to go to church on Sunday morning. I'm rich. I don't need Sunday night. I'm rich. I don't need Wednesday night
Look how much money I have. I'm so wealthy
I have all these fun things and all this good stuff and of course that can be the temptation of America
That hey when we first started
Let's go back again and think about this when we're starting these states and all these different things. We were poor
I mean in comparison to the British Empire, we were very impoverished by comparison.
And of course, going through wars, like the war for independence, then shortly after there's
another war, the war of Britain, then we have civil wars.
There's constantly things that were like happening that were kind of like keeping us a little
bit more impoverished, a little bit more poor.
And of course, through that helps us not get as prideful.
You don't have that conflict and you just end up bringing all the riches
well off-seek and go to your head.
And it can go to your mentality and you think oh I'm great, I'm wonderful
and then you start denying God, you start realizing like
hey I'm just successful because I'm so great
when that's not true, forgetting that the reason why you were successful is
because you were humble in serving God.
And this can happen in people's lives.
If you come to this church for a decade, two decades,
and you're just doing the right thing, plugging yourself in,
God might reward you greatly and you get great riches.
But then when you get great riches, don't forget God.
Don't displace where your success came from.
And this is the problem, right?
Isn't this what it brought up?
Fullness of bread.
So you have pride and a lot of times that pride's coming from fullness of bread because did you notice what he had said here in the verse
He says specifically verse 9 lest I be what full and
Denything and in America
You were pretty much all full. Yeah, our nation doesn't really struggle with being too thin or starving to death
Our nation typically struggles with the opposite of having too much food, don't we?
Like dieting is not necessarily a problem for a lot of cultures and a lot of places historically.
That would have been a weird concept.
Like talking to people, like, man, I really struggle to not eat all kinds of awesome food.
People would be thinking, like, what's wrong with you?
I mean, this is like Mary Antoinette, and she's like, let them eat cake.
You know, she's over here just...
gorging herself on all these food. Everybody's starving to death
and she's just so out of touch with reality and you know in America
we could kind of get out of touch with reality and not realize like
everyone else in the world is not like us. They can just walk into the
supermarket and have virtually any cuisine,
any item off the shelf and because we've become full
often we forget God. You know how many people have just
Just come to one of our fellows.
I mean, as soon as we offer food,
just people come out of the woodwork.
You know what I mean?
Even for Jesus, he preached to 5,000.
The day he fed them.
As soon as he stops feeding them, it's back down to like 12 again or whatever.
That's Wednesday night. Yeah.
Y'all come on Sunday morning for the brisket,
and then it's like Wednesday night, and we thin the crowd out.
You know, we're only serving you a Bible study, right?
And the same exists with God.
You know, people, a lot of times just want the food, want the meal,
and once you get the meal, I'm full.
So now I don't need God.
Now I don't need the thing
that actually even brought me the food,
brought me the meal, brought me the sustenance.
Obviously the children of Israel are going through
the wilderness, God's feeding them physically,
taking care of them.
He knows that we have needs.
He's gonna take care of us, but they forget.
They go into the land of milk and honey.
As soon as they get the prosperity,
they get all the blessings, they turn,
they forget God, they forgot where they came from.
And you know, you have history revisionist stuff going on.
I mean like, isn't it funny?
That in the same generation because a lot of times it's easy to understand the next generation forgets
But in the same generation the same children of Israel that walked through the Red Sea
Are the same children of Israel that asked Aaron to make them a golden calf and say these be thy gods
Which brought the out of the land of Egypt. I mean think about history just being rewritten
That's like the Catholics is coming in right in after and being like oh Peter was the first pope
Okay, well let's think about Peter, not a political figure, hated by everyone,
crucified upside down according to your own tradition.
Then your current popes are sitting here on gold and silver and driving in Rolls-Royce
and elevated to high positions of status and major political influencers.
That's not the Peter of the Bible.
Why are your popes not persecuted like Peter?
Why are your your popes literally one of the most powerful political figures in all of the world and even historically?
Why is it just so much power because they're not of God?
It's it's fake. It's not real
And we always have people just rewriting history.
As soon as you get full, you just rewrite history,
you even gaslight yourself.
Well, the reason why I'm successful
is because of my power, my wealth.
Because when you have a full belly,
you don't need anything.
When you're hungry, you start reevaluating your situation.
Nothing humbles you like hunger.
Hunger will humble you quick.
And that's why people get mad at us is they don't get this concept
because we'll tell a homeless person, get a job.
And they're like, how dare you?
Give them a sandwich or give them food or give them money or whatever.
But here's the problem.
Without that hunger pain, they're not going to work.
But you know how many of them would just literally lay there until they starved to death and died?
None, virtually.
None of them would the problem is is that people are kind of feeding their bad habit and
We don't want to feed our bad habits and the thinking like hey, I'm so successful. That's why I'm so wonderful
That's why I'm so successful. Go to Jeremiah chapter number five. What happens as a result of this well
you get fooled as a bread you become very prideful and
Really when you have great riches
What can happen is you become very idle?
As a result of this you don't have much to do. I mean you're already rich. You already have food taken care of I mean if
You were on the western frontier in the pioneer days
Food is a real threat. I mean you have to make sure to like go out and procure food
You got to grow crops. You got to be working hard if you want to get food
You can't just sit around because you'll die. So you got to work really hard
But in America you can be the most lazy jerk ever and you're still gonna get fed
That's why so many people are lazy jerks
That's why I mean there's a lot of women in our society
They're not very humble because they get food whenever they want
He took the food away, well, they would start changing their attitude a little bit.
They were on the western frontier where there's all kinds of danger, like rattlesnakes and
all kinds of dangerous beasts and wild animals and hot sun, and you actually have to go out
there and plow the field and raise the crops and grow the crops.
Then the woman started saying, I need a man.
You live in Jewish, you know, dormitories
and these corporate mega centers
where they bring them in as micromanagers
to go and nag everybody to death.
Well, then they forget like why we even have the society
and the country that we have.
And they start thinking, I don't need a man.
And it's like, it's so funny to me.
I'm just thinking like, you ladies,
what would you do if there's a pothole
in your neighborhood?
What would you all even do?
Yeah.
You don't even know how to fix a pothole.
You wouldn't even know how to mix concrete let alone. Do you know what's underneath that?
Plumbing I'd like to see you trench a house and relay the plumbing for a house
I'd love to see you go on these wires and be a lineman
and go run electricity for everybody.
I'd love to see you pull these giant semi-trucks
with their heavy loaded trailers
and take off all the heavy equipment off of that.
I'd love to see you build tractors, build semi-trucks,
build the Tesla cars, and not only just engineer it,
actually physically make it.
Let alone just all the other infrastructure that's going on in the world make a computer make anything in fact
Let's just look at women's contributions to inventions throughout history
Who's inventing the printing press who's inventing all these different things and look women have invented stuff
But it's usually in the realm of like
Homemaking, sewing, cleaning, all these different things
that they're really good at, that they're focused in on.
But let's just be honest, women cannot run the world.
Women don't run the world, women will never run the world.
But they can get super prideful and think,
I don't need a man.
Okay, well let's put you on the farm again
and see how well you do.
They of course need a man.
They can't enforce anything.
When have women ever been some great army?
There's been a lot of armies it's been a lot of military conflicts throughout the world throughout history
How many of them have been a woman led and one army?
Never there's some woke movie like women of Wakanda or something
We was Kang's or something. This is not real guys. It's fake
No, this thing is a woman's army. Have you ever watched the WNBA?
There's this person that keeps stats on one of the top stars and she has more of her shots blocked than all of her
assists and rebounds combined
More of her shots are blocked than the assists and the rebounds that she gets combined
That's how amazing she is
Okay
At the SPS, there was a comedian that got up and made this joke.
He was like, hey, over here's a four-time, you know, WNBA All-Star with us,
and everybody's clapping and cheering.
And he's like, actually, she's just my friend's wife.
She's never played in the WNBA.
None of y'all know any of the players.
And he was just making fun of them because nobody cares.
Like no one cares about you, honey. Okay, and at the end of the day
It's just like people just get so lifted up with pride and full ounce of bread
And they don't even realize why they're successful why they live in the society that they live in look not every country has nice roads
Not every state has nice roads
I'm sorry, Texas roads are awesome
Because you know what they're wide they're wide and they're flat and they're everywhere
This is what I love about Texas for the most part if it's 50 miles. It's 50 minutes
You go to other parts of the world. It's like three miles 45 minutes. You're like, what in the world?
Why is it so close yet so far away all at the same time?
and you go to these other places,
it's narrow, curvy, tight,
oncoming traffic lanes everywhere,
and you go to some countries,
they have a camera on every single intersection
and they're constantly taking pictures of you,
so if you speed, if you go over the limit, if you cross,
I mean, I would be getting tickets like crazy.
I love text, I mean, you can pretty much just speed
and you probably won't get a ticket.
Now I'm not recommending it.
But I'm just saying you can pretty much do almost anything here and the roads are really nice
Who built those?
Why do we have them? You go to some parts of
DFW and it's not as nice. I get it whatever there's gonna be a lot of reasons for that
But at the end of the day when people forget why we're successful why we have the things we do, you know, it
It really just it did erode society
Why are we successful, the Word of God, from being Christian, from being Baptist?
And of course, when you look at Baptist areas, they are the most successful.
They're the ones that have the most prosperity, historically speaking,
obviously a little bit of a subjective opinion.
But I'm just saying, I believe it's pretty true, it's pretty evident.
I'm going to talk about that in just a second.
But we see in Jeremiah chapter 5 what's a consequence when people have all the success.
Well, serious sin.
Jeremiah 5, look at verse 1,
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know,
and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man,
if there be any that executed judgment that seeketh the truth, then I will pardon it.
Here's one thing that happens when you get prideful and full of riches and money.
Nobody judges anymore.
Why just don't judge anybody?
Let's not judge anything anymore.
There's no reason to judge.
You know what? That sounds like America, doesn't it?
For a sake of time, I'm not going to read, I want to read a lot of this, but look at verse 7.
So you get fed to the fool, you get prideful, and then what does the Bible say?
Then commit adultery.
That's kind of this progression of sin.
That's why it's really important for us to not get prideful for us to not get lifted up to not think that we're hot stuff
To not be the CEO of astronomer
Okay, there's this guy. That's a ultra successful CEO of a company called astronomer
and he recently is just exploding online because he's at a Coldplay concert not because it's Coldplay and
He's just like hugging some woman and they do the kiss cam on them
And and this guy like as soon as they see the kiss cam they get all they get all like weird it out
Like they literally make this face like because everybody has like a screenshot like of their face
They're all just like and then he's like ducks down and the the concert is
You know kind of just like a fun atmosphere
So the lead singer is just kind of like talking to the crowd and he's like I don't know what just happened
Either these people are really shy or they're committing an affair
And so then like the internet does its thing and they find these people with AI and face technology now you're doomed buddy
They found out this guy's married
And the woman, it's kind of, I'm not exactly sure,
she was married and then divorced.
Some have speculated she might have gotten remarried.
I don't know, it's kind of up in the air.
Either way, he's married for sure
and he was just with this other woman
and it's like just the most embarrassing thing ever.
But notice it's the CEO of a major company with lots of money
So what? Oh, he thinks he's successful. He thinks he's awesome. Oh, it's white by the way
And he just thinks he's so awesome and wonderful fullness of bread. And then what does he do?
Commence adultery
Now praise God, you know, I actually have kind of enjoyed this story a little bit
and this is the only reason I've enjoyed this story is because for once in my life
I felt like America is finally shaming adultery
Man, it just seems like in Hollywood we've been praising it so much, and movies in Hollywood
are glorifying it so much, and people are acting like it's so awesome.
I was just so kind of relieved to see how many people were just saying this is bad,
this is terrible, this is awful, making this guy look like a total scumbag and a loser
and an idiot, and I'm just like, praise God that somebody looks like a fool for committing
adultery.
We need more of this and you know what people like oh man, when are we gonna stop?
I'm like, I don't I hope we never stop
Yeah, I hope we just keep shaming adulterers and making their lives miserable
Just plain miserable and awful and evil in fact
I wouldn't mind if we made it so miserable that we drag them out in the middle of the town and stone them to death
That's what we should do
It used to be a crime in America, but essentially we just stopped enforcing it.
We just stopped enforcing it as a crime.
We stopped making it a punishment.
If you love your wife, you should want adultery to be illegal.
And if you love your daughters, you should want adultery to be illegal.
And if you love God's word, you should want adultery to be illegal.
And, you know, our country is eroding at the seams and one of the major things is adultery.
But again, it's not so much that adultery is like the main problem.
If we kind of think about it, it's kind of the symptom.
What is the symptom?
It's the symptom of being full and being prideful and thinking, oh, no, no, we're so awesome
because of us, because of being white, because of being whatever.
Being from Europe or Anglo-Saxon or whatever somebody got they were saying like I was inferior because I was an Anglo
And they were like German or something.
And I'm like, what do you think Anglo-Saxon is?
There's some German heritages mixed in there, buddy.
I don't even know what you're thinking.
But it's like thinking like, oh, well, I'm amazing because I'm from Ireland,
or I'm amazing because I'm French, or I don't know if any of you says that,
but I'm amazing because I'm German, you know, whatever.
It's like, hey, you know...
And again, if you're French, be proud to be French.
You're the exception.
Because most French are kind of just ridiculed
for being soft and weird and whatever.
And let's just be honest,
the French colonies were the worst.
And there's so much adultery.
I'm gonna just give you some stats here
because I'm kind of out of time
as far as what all the stuff I wanted to say.
There's too much to say.
But here's the thing, adultery is destroying our country.
David, when, it's the time when kings got to war.
Goes on the rooftop. It's looking at women. Just bringing more women to his bed. Just commits rampant adultery
Why because he's prideful full and then what happens with the abundance of idleness adultery, you know, you need to stay busy
And here's the thing, even if you had tons of money,
stay busy just serving God then.
You can never stop serving God.
You can never stop being busy just doing the work of God.
You can never stop being busy reading the Bible
and praying for people and helping people.
Look, there are some people in this church,
they just seem overloaded with just helping people in the church.
And I'm thinking like, praise God.
And you know what, if you're an old age and you don't have to work as much, then just
work more in the church, then serve God more.
If you are a trust fund baby, then just serve God.
You know, I don't care.
But at the end of the day, you know what, never stop working.
Do something.
Don't just be idle.
Don't just sit around.
When you have a lot of idle time, you commit a lot of extra sin that you wouldn't do normally.
Passers are destroying our countries by being permissive on adultery,
not preaching on it.
That's a lot of stuff I'd like to say, but I'm not going to talk about it.
Now, if we've thought about our lesson and what the Bible has been teaching us,
number one, when a country gets success, it becomes prideful,
has fullness of bread, and commits adultery.
So we would see this play out in our world today.
And what countries actually accept adultery the most?
Like what are the most accepting of adultery specifically?
Now, I looked at America first just to get an idea.
In America, this is the number of people
that have committed adultery, 22% of men
in the United States have committed adultery.
Wow.
And that's like what we know for sure like caught.
It's probably a lot higher.
Women, it's 14% so that's a pretty big number honestly and considering those
kind of numbers we all know people that are guilty of this it's just a fact
you're gonna know tons of people that are guilty of this that's just reality
in America it was not the highest as far as accepting of adultery thinking it's
not a big deal number one country that thinks adultery is not a big deal is
France it's not a shock to me
40% admit that adultery is not a problem, not a big deal whatsoever.
That sounds like a country you should probably just stay away from
when looking for a spouse or something or visiting.
Hey, I'm just going to take a vacation in France. That sounds dangerous
because 40% of the people there have no problem just committing adultery with you.
Just buy this statistic alone, and that's what they would admit to there's probably just because these people would admit
Like it's not like they have no problem with it. There's probably plenty people say there's nothing wrong with it
We'll still do it too
Number two was Spain at 27% number three Germany 26%
Man, I keep noticing like all these amazing places seem to be the worst in some ways
You know, it's funny. It's like the best places to live oftentimes are the worst people
because they got too prideful, and they got arrogant,
and they ended up committing all these horrible sins
and grievous sins.
Number four was Senegal, which was kind of confusing to me.
I'm thinking like, okay, this is a West African country.
And I was like, okay, that's interesting
that that would be that.
But you know what Senegal is?
A French colony.
And then I was like, oh, it makes perfect sense.
Number five, Canada.
Wow.
Let me tell you something about Canada.
French colony.
Yeah.
Number six, chili, this is at 16%, Italy, 16%,
Britain, 15%.
Now again, Britain, if you think about it,
they had a good heritage in some ways.
Obviously you had King James coming in,
bringing the King James Bible, they were an empire,
they conquered a lot of the world,
but they've really forgotten God since then.
They've really turned away from God wholesale,
and now what are they going towards?
Japan, 14%, and number 10, Australia, 13%.
And what you'll kind of notice about most of these places,
with a couple exclusions of the colonized areas,
is that it's all white people.
Huh, I thought white people were so awesome.
But then why are white people just so accepting of adultery?
And you know what? They talk about white privilege.
But even if that was true, it's not necessarily a privilege
because it could cause you to go into grievous sin
by being successful, having a good heritage,
having prosperity, having wealth, lifting yourselves up,
thinking you're so wonderful, and having fullness of bread,
and then going into what?
Grievous sin, adultery.
And look, God will destroy you and your nation.
You're not so wonderful. You're not so awesome.
It's interesting that Europe is now also experiencing just extreme demographic overhaul.
These same areas.
Go to France and you know what you won't find when you go to Paris?
White people.
It's like everything but white people.
You look at France's soccer team is not a bunch of white people.
There's all these Muslims. There's all these immigrants. There's all these Indians
There's all these things just coming in and taking over these areas
Why because they're not serving the God of the Bible so then a foreign nation comes in is going to take over them
They forget why they were successful. They forget the prosperity that they have. I mean these this is just a huge problem
Here's another I just went to independent research. This is just these are not connected. I just said all right
Which countries have the most leisure? I
Mean I just said hey, what are the ones that have the most leisure here's a list of hours spent on leisure and personal care number one country
France
It's almost like the Bible is true or something. I'm just I'm just gonna tell you something
number two Spain
It's like the same list folks
Netherlands Denmark Belgium Norway Germany Ireland Sweden Finland Luxembourg
Czech Republic Hungary Switzerland
Slovakia UK Chile Estonia Russia Italy Portugal New Zealand Japan
Slovenia South Africa
South Korea Greece
Australia Brazil I think at number 30 approximately there the United States you're kind of noticing a theme aren't you?
All the ones that are having abundance of idleness all the same things the rich
Prosperous successful nations having fullness of bread having abundance of idleness and then what extreme adultery?
Extreme adultery just like the Bible said and then God said hey, I'm gonna punish these nations
I'm gonna punish these group of people. I'm gonna destroy them when they do these things
And you know what if America wants to stay successful we need to stop committing adultery as a nation
and we need to shame adultery and we need to make it
embarrassing and life-ruining and people just hate it
and we need to realize that we need to humble ourselves and get back to the Bible
and get back to the Word of God. It's just
it's a problem. Now
there's a lot of other things I could say but
what I've also just kind of noticed and this is kind of like an anecdote
is just when you look at these countries,
Britain, France, or Spain,
they've kind of conquered a lot of the world
throughout history and pretty much anything
that's been colonized has been colonized
by generally one of these three areas.
And what I've kind of noticed is that
the British areas are just overall
the more successful, the more prosperous areas by and large.
But this is what I've also noticed that those areas are also some of the most unreceptive places of the gospel
You know probably the most unreceptive place I've ever been is Australia and it's a British prison colony
But it's also one of the most expensive places to live in the world
Australia's real estate. I mean if you want to start her home, it's usually around a million dollars US
For a starter home in Australia and virtually all their housings right next to the beach. It's beautiful weather
Obviously, it's not to say it's not like worth it because in some ways it is. I mean, it's it's a beautiful paradise. It's clean
It's wonderful like in a lot of ways
Obviously there's a lot of government overreach and everybody's a drunkard and they commit adultery and there's all these problems
But I'm just saying like from a carnal perspective. It's a nice place to live
You look at other British colonies, America.
Yeah, obviously we're one of the most successful,
prosperous areas, but we're also super prideful
committing a lot of adultery, these type of things.
And you look at kind of, to me, that's like first place
when it comes to just prosperity.
Second place would be Spanish colonies
and third place would be French colonies.
But what I've also thought too is it's like it's interesting
because
the Spanish areas are usually some of the most receptive to the gospel.
Now, I think personally there's a little bit to understand in this,
like when it comes to these British areas,
most of the time the reason why they're not receptive
is because I believe they've already been reached.
I mean, you look at America, we've already kind of been reached.
We have churches everywhere.
We've gotten the gospel.
It's gone everywhere.
You go to Australia, they have churches everywhere.
They have these kind of things.
So it's like an area gets church, gets prosperous, and then forgets God.
So now it's not very receptive.
Whereas you look at a place like Mexico or the Philippines, which are...
traditionally Spanish areas, they never got the gospel, so they never got the prosperity,
so they're still in their humble state, they're ready and ripe for the gospel.
What I have noticed is that you can also have a British colony that never really got that
root of Christianity really in there and they never got fed a lot and they end up becoming
actually the most receptive.
So I'd say in my mind, a British colony that's not been reached is usually the most receptive
Spanish would be second, and then French are kind of like third, and just my personal experiences, okay?
But at the end of the day, the most important thing is not who colonized it.
It's like, how much have they been reached?
Because the most unreached is just going to always be the most receptive areas, okay?
And so there's a lot of places in Africa that are French colonies that are probably very receptive
because they just had very little exposure to the gospel.
But it's like, why is Mexico and the Philippines so receptive?
There wasn't a lot of good gospel preaching going out there.
But you know what I've also noticed?
What's my favorite place and the most receptive place to go?
The Bahamas, the British colony.
Here's another British colony, Fiji.
Very receptive, great place to go soul-winning.
And I was recently doing more research,
and I have not been here, I don't know anything about it,
but Papa New Guinea is a British colony
that seems like it hasn't really been reached.
And in my mind, I'm thinking this might be a pretty
epic opportunity to get a lot of people saved.
And we've recently had some success.
Brother Sam helped lead a couple
Marshallese-inspired soul-winning marathons,
and I'm thinking like, hey,
this might be an untapped market out there,
Papua New Guinea,
and there's some other places in Micronesia
of the Malaysian, or the Marshallese islands.
Wino, I think, was the largest city.
These might be some great opportunities
for us to go soul-winning.
So we can take some of this knowledge and we can apply it and say hey if I want to be successful in foreign missions
You know where I don't want to go?
France
Because they're kind of showing us this like dark, you know, line of where they're going we want to go to other areas
So it's like if I can go to British air British colonies that have not been reached very much
That might be like a hot spot if I can go to Spanish areas that have not been reached
That might be also a lot of hot spots and we want to get the humble people to gospel because they're more receptive
The poor people are more receptive
Okay, and and that's just kind of a an anecdote
I could go through these lists and kind of explain a lot of these things.
I put a post out there that has some of that information, but you can look it up yourself too.
But at the end of the day, you know, what's going to make a country successful
is being humble and accepting of the gospel.
We used to be like that.
We've gotten away from it.
Go to 1 Timothy 5. We're going to finish in a couple passages over there.
But what do we need to do?
We need to stay busy serving God.
great prosperity and great wisdom, you know what we should do? We should use that
to work for Him, not to work for ourselves. What does that look like? Going to
the Bahamas to get a bunch of people saved. Going to the, sending an evangelist
to the Philippines to get a bunch of people saved.
figuring out new places like Papua New Guinea or other places in Mexico or South
America or whatever. I mean you look at some of the most successful soul winning
that we've ever had, it's kind of interesting because I mean I'm just I
was just thinking about these are British colonies. Okay these are all
things that were British colonies, Botswana. Huge mission strip there was
really successful, Malawi.
Uh, these are the part, Uganda, Uganda sounds like a cool place to go.
I'm just telling, and they think sodomyte should be, you know, punished severely.
Praise God, they even have the death penalty for like aggravated sodomy, and these just
be period sodomy, but I'll just take the aggravated, alright?
It aggravated me, so I'm already there.
Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, I think Pastor Mejia has done a lot of stuff in Belize.
You have Guyana, another huge place where we did a lot of missions, Jamaica, you have
St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad, when you look at Asia, there's some other places, Myanmar,
which we haven't done a lot there, but I've known a lot of other Baptists, they really
like to go to Myanmar, where they get a lot of, I mean there's a lot of receptive people
over in that part of the world, Singapore, Sri Lanka.
Some parts, obviously India was mainly colonized by the British and I think some of those areas are still very receptive to the Gospels, what I've heard.
I think Nagaland is what a lot of people have emphasized as an area.
Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands in Europe, Cyprus, which I know Pastor
Anderson did a missions trip in Cyprus, and he said it was more receptive than Greece
from corroborating testimonies, Malta, Gibraltar.
So there's a lot of areas that we've kind of focused in on and why, probably because
if they're British they're English-speaking and we're English-speaking.
I get that.
And I think that there's also a lot of success going to be had
in some of these Spanish colonies and stuff like that too.
The French ones, you know, they need a lot of help.
But at the end of the day, hey, we should take the wisdom
and the prosperity and the wealth that God has given us
and spend it on getting people saved.
And emphasizing, you know, that.
Because that says, hey, we need God.
Rather than just building ourselves up
and getting more abundance of idleness,
More working right more serving God and staying humble so because here's the thing
We could just build ourselves a nice palace and not do any missions trips and not go out do all these small towns soul winning
save all this extra money and
We could just we could just start thinking that we're super awesome and super cool and super wonderful
And then we could all commit adultery with each other and then we could all just have God punish us severely and be like the CEO of astronomer
Just become France
Look, there are so many churches today where it's just like an adultery fun fest.
I mean, you got pastors like Greg Locke who leave his wife and run away with the secretary.
You have all kinds of people just committing rampant adultery.
You have one of John MacArthur's disciples, Steve Lawson, who got caught committing adultery
and just a total fraud.
He was here in the Dallas, Fort Worth area.
You have obviously Robert Morris being not only an adulterer, but being a pedophile.
And you have just TD Jakes and all these other nonsensical preachers just committing rampant
adultery in their ranks committing rampant adultery.
Their youth ministers committing rampant adultery.
I've been a part of these big non-denominational churches.
Their pastors are constantly committing these grievous sins and evil things happening.
You know what?
It should be a public shame and embarrassment.
You should have a stand before the congregation and admit your sin and be called out and shamed
We need to get rid of this stuff.
And you know what?
We're all susceptible to it.
If we start getting prosperous,
and we start thinking we're wonderful,
we start thinking that we're super great,
we start thinking, hey, I'm hot stuff.
Because what do the Bibles say?
Hey, when I fed them to the fool,
they then committed adultery.
We need to stay hungry.
We need to stay hungry for the Word of God.
We need to stay hungry for souls.
We need to stay hungry for Bible reading.
We need to stay hungry for long sermons.
You need it, all right?
And you know, you housewives, I think that, like,
you're just hoping that your life gets easier every day
or something?
You need more work, not less.
And what does the Bible say?
What is the cure to this?
1 Timothy 5, verse 11,
They learn to be idle wandering about from house to house and not only idle, but Tatler's also busy buddies speaking things
Which they ought not and boy just that is just America man
Social media has just ruined so many women today where they have learned how to be idle and all they do is just talk nonsense all day
They just say things that they shouldn't say,
and they're not busy.
And what causes you to be busy?
Well, verse 14,
I will therefore that the younger women
marry their children,
guide the house,
give none occasion in the adversary to speak reproachfully.
For some are already turned aside after Satan.
Say, oh man, raising a bunch of kids,
homeschooling and cooking and cleaning,
when am I gonna get some me time?
You're not!
We don't want to give you me time.
Did you hear about Eve when she got a little bit of me time?
She ruined it for all of us, folks.
Okay?
She got that little me time and she got that little apple.
You know, she got that little apple
off of the tree for wisdom.
And then she gave her a husband that little apple
or whatever.
It's like, hey, get rid of the apple for a minute.
Go make me some sandwich
Right go clean the house again
Let's have another kid right. Oh man. This is so mean you hate women. No. No. I'm trying to help you
And you know as a man you should want this because you know what I don't want my wife
wandering about
doing whatever
My wife needs to be at home
I don't my wife's my wife's hot. I don't want her going around other dudes
You know what? I mean, I'm not gonna let I don't want her gallivanting on the town
Looking like hot stuff or whatever because you know what? I know what men are their their pigs
And they like anything that moves and has breath
And of course they love godly women because they actually look feminine
They're looking at all the Ellen degenerates and pant wearing boss babes today, and they're thinking like is there a real woman anywhere
They see a bunch of godly god-fearing happy women. It's like hey, they're gonna go feast on that
You know what? I don't want that. I don't want my wife going and making some social media account
Trying to make yourself look all pretty to just get a bunch of viewers
Be some conservative Republican woman some trad wife or whatever. Hey a trad wife
Isn't going around flaunting her stuff on the internet. That's an oxymoron
That's like a fundamental Baptist wearing skinny jeans
Like hot pink skinny jeans behind a plexiglass pulpit, and he's like a fundamental bad. It's not real
It doesn't exist
And in the same way, you know, women should just realize,
hey, I need to humble myself and say, I need God.
I need the Bible.
I need a husband.
I need children.
I need housework.
I need something to do because if I just get enough time to myself,
I'll just do stupid things.
And you know what, men should realize you are the same.
You and David are the same hey, I need work. I need overtime. I need Bible reading
I need some soul wind in my life. I need some sermons. I need to do something with my life
I need a honey-do list or whatever that never ends
It's never finished
You're late on or whatever. Hey, we need to get to work
And you know what work is work won't kill you but adultery will
Sin will
abundance of idleness is going to cause so many problems look if your life is busy. Why don't you just thank God?
Thank God that you have a busy life if you have a bunch of kids praise God you have a bunch of kids
Hey, if you have a bunch of work to do
Praise God if you're if your boss is trying to give you more work praise God
Hey, if you're like man pastor Shelley can't give he's giving me too much stuff to do you're welcome
Man this conference is just preaching every night
You're welcome
Because you know what you probably won't commit adultery at the fbbf
Right when you're hearing preaching
But if you just yeah, I'm not gonna go to the bar. Well, it's a lot of go to France
Yeah
When's the next mission trip to France? I it's probably not happening
We're gonna go to the places where hey, they fear God. They're humble. They want the gospel
We want to go to those places first and look if you're in France get some of the gospel
I'm not mad at them. There's a lot of immigrants there. They'll talk to the immigrants, right?
We'll go to Paris and get all them saved
But the actual French people it's like you might be a you know stay away from them or whatever
And look we just we we hate Sodom and we can get here
You know I can get up and just preach about faggots being gross and you're like yeah
But hey, we need to take a lesson and say hey, we don't want to go down the same road because why did they get a bunch of faggots?
Well because they got prideful
And because they got full of bread and because they started committed adultery and then they just brought in all kinds of sodomites
And you know if I do another list of the places that have the most faggots, you know what? It's the same list again
And that interesting same list that has prosperity
that has fullness of bread,
that has the adultery,
has the faggots too.
And it's like, hey, you don't want faggots?
Okay, well then humble yourself and get the Bible.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for your word.
Thank you so much for all the prosperity that you give us.
We understand that all the wealth comes from you,
that you're the one that gives us the power to get wealth.
Thank you for such a great nation to live in.
Thank you for an awesome state to live in, thank you that you give us great jobs and
houses and we have so much more than we could ever want and wish for.
I pray that we could humble ourselves and realize that all that prosperity came from
people that actually feared you and actually put the Bible first and actually built the
society and laws based on the Bible and that if we want the same prosperity for ourselves
and our children we have to get back to the Bible.
Thank you for the successes we've had individually.
I pray that we'd realize that you're the one that's giving us the knowledge of salvation and wisdom and helping us to not be a
Weirdo and liberal and I pray that you would just help us to not
Think that we're so special or wonderful
Recognizing that we're successful because of you and because of the word of God
I pray that you would just give a renewed sense of humbleness to all of us that we need the Bible more,
that we need to work more, that we need to be thankful for the jobs that you've given us.
I pray that we would take the wisdom and the prosperity and the knowledge that we have
and we would apply it to getting more people saved, to more missions, trips, to caring for more people
and that we would not allow ourselves to go down this dark path that so many nations are.
I pray that you'd be gracious with us so that we could turn the ship.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
And our last song this morning would be page 256.
Look to the Lamb of God, page 256.
Look to the Lamb of God.
["The Lamb of God"]
Page 256, sing it up.
On the first.
Hey.