Bless him be the name of the Lord.
Bless him be the name.
Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. It's great to
see everybody here this afternoon.
If we can go ahead and find our seats we will get started.
Thank you all for coming and for our first song tonight we're going to do
song number 327.
I think the parade's holding some people back this afternoon, so singing out with all you got,
you're all that I got, so hear me, 327 higher ground, let's all sing that out together, song 327.
I'm pressing on the upward way, new heights I'm...
We're down to a r-
Lord thank you so much for this church. Thank you so much for just allowing us to gather here and praise you
Lord just ask that you fill this room with your spirit and help us to sing out unto you tonight
And it's in Jesus name. We pray amen
All right for our next song. Let's go to song number
316
Song number
316 I
Have decided to follow Jesus song number
316
Let's all sing that out together.
I have decided to follow Jesus.
No turning back, no turning back.
Thanks for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you didn't already get a bulletin,
you would like one of our ushers can come by
and get you guys a bulletin.
On the front, we have our memory passage of the week,
Jude 1, verse 21.
And on the inside, we have our service
and soul winning times, also our church stats.
There is a newer soul winning time.
Saturday, 10 a.m., Brother Milstead's been doing that
in the...
Denton area, so if you're all the way on the other side or really north, it's really north of the DFW area, a little west.
Then you can go out there and fellowship with them, go soul-winning.
Just see Brother Milstead as far as where they're going to meet every week. I think it might change a little bit.
Keep up the great work on our soul-winning. We have several there listed in our stats.
On the right, we have a list of several expecting ladies. Please be in prayer for our expecting ladies.
They still have a couple days left, so this isn't necessarily a final total yet,
but they already have 211 salvation, so doing a big work down there.
And they have visited a like-minded church down there.
Brother, Pastor Kevin Nguyen, he's a Hiles graduate.
Still kind of like an old IB church, but just,
I think they run like 10,000 people or something crazy like that.
It's a big, big ministry in Mexico City.
And they said that the church services were really great,
and the fellowship was really great down there, so...
That's encouraging that they have a good church down there.
Also, the soul winners have been saying it's been going really well.
Just please be praying for them that everything will continue being smooth, they'll be safe, and that they'll get home safely.
September 27th, we have our Tyler, Texas soul-winning marathon.
It's going to meet at the church around 7 a.m. If you want to do the carpool, you don't have to.
I think it's about...
I mean, I want to say it's like an hour and 40 minutes or something like that from about this area.
So if you're a little bit more west, it might be two hours,
but it's probably about anywhere from an hour and 45 minutes to two hours drive.
It's a little, it's like, I think it's southeast of the DFW area a little bit,
but we're going to meet out there for breakfast at this park and then...
We'll go soul-winning for a couple hours, have lunch out there,
and then we'll come do a couple more hours of soul-winning.
So, whatever you can participate in, we'd love for you to join us.
There should be...
a sign-up sheet for the Tyler, Texas,
Soaring Marathon out there.
And we have some other stuff that's coming.
I guess that parade put a few people behind.
I know just delayed a little bit coming into services,
but we should have a couple other things out there
on the table by the end of the service.
They may not be there right this second.
But upcoming events, again, the missions,
trips, continue to pray for those in Mexico.
And then I wanted to do something
This is just kind of spur of the moment, but I want to do something this Saturday.
And unfortunately, I think a lot of people might know, but unfortunately one of our friends,
Brother Kevin Rowe, who actually visited our church for our conference.
He goes to Faith Ward Baptist Church.
He was killed on Sunday by a drunk driver, and it's definitely just very unexpected,
He wasn't doing anything wrong. The drunk driver just drove straight through an intersection
and just smashed into him and pretty much killed him immediately, unfortunately.
And so it's really just a horrific situation.
He was married to Lola, who had been a faithful member of Faith Award for, I don't even know, maybe a decade, very, very, very long time.
And they had recently had birth.
uh given birth to their first daughter Phoebe who's very young and so um there was a way
online if you'd like to donate to Miss Lola you can um but also I am going to have some cards
and you can use them for a couple purposes one of the purposes was if you'd like to
get all those together and we're going to mail them over to them on Monday.
So we won't do it necessarily. You have until Sunday night so we can collect them.
If you'd like to get your own card or something you can of course, please just label it,
you know, Mrs. Rowe or Sister Lola or something so that way we have that indication.
But please be in prayer for her. We're going to add her to a prayer list of course and pray for them.
But the thing about Brother Kevin is
You know, he was he was one of the best church members of Faithward Baptist Church, very zealous
He's actually the person that kind of came up with this cruise missions idea
And he's one of the first pretty he was like the pioneer of this and went out on it
And I think what one of the first cruise mission strips that they went on they had like 357 people saved
Not only that
Brother Kevin has just participated in so many other marathons soul-winning events
They were planning on going to
all kinds of other soul-winning events and marathons in the future.
And I mean, the guy was just a dedicated soul-winning machine.
Um, I don't know why, but he even, he was like, he gave money to our church
and, uh, you know, there's really, you can't say anything negative about this guy.
He's truly an awesome guy, great Christian, um, zealous soul winner.
And I think that, you know, for some people it's, it's really confusing.
For myself, it's very confusing because you kind of wonder like how could something like this happen to someone that is just so awesome
And I think you know a couple things I'd like to say about that number one
We all are we're all sinners no matter what
And God can, you know, take us home whenever he deems appropriate and he's still just.
You know, even the, there's not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sineth not.
And none of us is guaranteed 70 years, 80 years, 90 years.
And that's why, you know, we need to take our lives seriously and redeem every moment that we have.
You know, nothing is granted. And so if, if someone like Brother Kevin can be taken home early,
that should cause all of us to have more fear of the Lord
and try to be right with Him and try to take advantage of every opportunity
because this guy is such a great Christian, is such a great guy.
Number two, you know...
Obviously, there's some great people in the Bible that die.
You have John the Baptist.
You have, obviously, Cain kills Abel,
and it just seems like a senseless act.
You have Antipas, my faithful martyr.
You have Stephen, is a great martyr.
And in fact, sometimes even the Bible brings up stories that just...
Random freak accidents happen and obviously Job loses all ten of his children in just kind of a crazy freak accident
The Bible talks about the Tower of Siloam just falling on a bunch of people 18 people just slaughtered
By which it seems like probably negligence of this tower or who knows what happened, right?
And Jesus even is saying like do you think that these guys are like somehow worse than other people like their worst sinners or something?
And the answer was no
Meaning that it's not like just when someone dies that they're a worse sinner or there was something bad.
It's just sometimes even good guys die.
And that's just, that's just life.
That's the reality of the world that we live in and it should be sobering to us to take our life seriously
and to do a lot of work, but...
You know, the death of some people also give birth to things.
The death of Stephen kind of gives birth to a lot of the apostles becoming more bold and to the apostle Paul.
When we talk about John the Baptist, his death, it kind of gives birth to the movement of Jesus Christ,
and more people get behind Jesus Christ.
Obviously, the death of Jesus Christ himself gives birth to us having salvation and eternal life.
And so, you know...
Don't want Kevin's life to seem like it was in vain
And I think one thing that we can do through his death is give birth to something
And so we're gonna give birth to a soul winning marathon this Saturday in name of brother Kevin
And I want to do it just let's just do it every year
And so we can just you know from Memorial of someone that was a faithful Christian facial soul winner
We can go out there and get a lot of people saved and while
You know, it doesn't make sense necessarily. We can still try to have something good come out of something really negative really awful
Obviously, we should also blame, you know drunk driving as a wicked evil
horrible thing going on in our society in our culture and and more people need to be
Take that that issues more seriously, you know sad when Christians and other people want to argue with us and act like drinking is fine and
They don't understand the wreckage and the evil
that happens when some of these people just make these horrible decisions.
And so, obviously, for God to be just, innocent people die.
And, of course, Brother Kevin's innocent, great Christian, great person.
But I want to encourage you, even if you can't do our soul-inning marathon
that we're doing this Saturday, you know, I'm just trying to challenge people.
Why don't you just go soul-inning one hour extra this week than you normally would?
You know, whatever normal soul lane schedule is,
just add an hour somewhere,
or go a day that you wouldn't go
and try to get someone saved.
And it's just kind of an encouragement.
Even if you didn't know Brother Kevin that well,
or maybe you never even talked to him,
you know, just allow that
to just be kind of a sobering thought.
And if you'd like to join us for Saturday,
we're going to kind of combine efforts
with Brother West normal Saturday time.
So normally they meet somewhere
in the kind of the Grand Prairie Arlington area.
So we're going to be meeting up.
For their so-winning morning time, it's going to be $1,200.
Why can't I remember the name now?
It just skates.
Susan.
1200 Susan Drive, Arlington, Texas is a little park over there.
It's near a pun of apartments that seem very likely to be pretty receptive.
So we're gonna go meet over there. We'll have some coffee and light breakfast.
At 9.30, go out around 10.
And then we're gonna meet for lunch at Portillo's.
There's a brand new Portillo's Grand Prairie that's really close to that area.
So we'll just meet up for lunch there and then go soloing in the afternoon.
If you can participate only in the morning or the afternoon, we'd love for you to just join us.
And just encourage you to do a little bit of extra soul
winning.
And I think that that could be a great testimony
to Brother Kevin and just the reality
that, hey, we're not promised tomorrow.
We've got to take our lives seriously
because everything else is vanity.
And the souls that we went to Christ
is really the only thing we're going
to be able to bring with us anyways.
So we need to take that seriously.
And that's why I put it in our bulletin.
I think we printed some new bulletins for tonight.
And so it should be in there.
Again, it is spur of the moment.
Obviously, this is something that was not expected, of course, and we're just trying
to do something positive out of something pretty negative.
But I would just encourage you to consider that.
Obviously, pray for his family.
And if you have any questions or...
You want to ask about something about that, you know, I'm always an open book, you can always talk to me about that.
Also, Soling Seminar, October 4th at the church, and then there's also a missions trip to Nassau Bahamas, October 6th through 11th.
There's still opportunity, you know, if you want to go on a life-changing missions trip, this is about as easy as you're ever going to get it.
Pastor Bruce Mahe is going to be coming out here October 19th.
Texas Chili Cookoff, October 31st.
On the Brack is our prayer list.
And...
Down at the bottom we have the note about the rose that we added to our prayer list
But one other thing I was going to say is I put some cards out here
They were going to take a collection up for the rose also
Brother Weathers has had some really good news as far as his physical recovery
But just as an extra encouragement
I was going to ask if you wanted to also fill out a card for him
Just encourage him and conferring real love towards him
I was going to do the same thing.
We're going to take up a collection of cards,
and I was going to give them to them Monday.
So you have until Sunday night, if you'd
like to write an encouragement card to him,
just help him for his physical recovery.
We'll go to cancer treatment, her mom.
Also, the Scots continue to pray for both Brother Horace, Ms.
Grace, and then a foster who played for Ms. Olivia,
continue to pray for Brother Garcia's health,
and then we're also continue to pray for the Foley's dad,
who has kidney disease, continue to pray
for their Bannock's grandmother.
I think, is she still in the ICU?
Okay, she's in therapy now.
I know that she was kind of in and out a little bit,
but she's in therapy, continue to pray for her recovery.
Also for their friend who's been recovering
from heart surgery.
If you'd pray for brother Gabe's mom
who has an issue with her foot,
continue to pray for Mrs. Ginger's cousin
who's diagnosed with cancer.
Please play with a...
Mrs. Madren's his daughter and friend also cancer and health issues there continue to pray for brother Paul's recovery and
We're also praying for brother Ili
With his work, and if you pray for brother Goodwin's sister
Who or a sister-in-law? I'm sorry who recently had passed her husband had passed away also
And then please pray for miss Lola and miss Phoebe so a lot of prayer requests there
We're gonna go ahead and just take a moment, and we'll just pray as a church
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for our church.
Thank you so much for all these ladies
who are expecting in our church
and the blessing of pregnancy.
I pray that you please be with them.
That you would give them a timely birth.
That you please help them in their children's delivery
to go smoothly.
For those that have recently given birth,
I pray that you just continue to give them recovery
and help them.
and their children to just grow.
I pray that you would just please be with our church family
that's struggling with cancer or sickness or illness right now
that you could just give them health.
Those that have suffered injuries
or are trying to recover from surgery,
I pray that you would just please be with them,
please give them life,
please just give them a speedy recovery,
please help them.
With those that have lost loved ones,
I pray that you would please just give them the peace
that passed with all their standing
that you could just comfort them,
that you give them grace.
that you would help them to realize the importance of still being here and serving you.
I pray that through difficulty and tragedy, that we would still be encouraged by the Word of God,
we'd be encouraged by the important job that we have to do here,
and that we would continue to win souls to Christ. I pray that you bless our missionaries in Mexico,
please keep them safe, please get them home safely. I pray that you bless our upcoming missions,
trips, and our events.
and that we would continue to do all things
in honor and glory of Jesus Christ
and in His name we pray, amen.
So pretty much all I have as far as announcements,
there is that still, that handout about
evangelist or bannock, continue to pray for him
and if you wanna read about his update, it's right there.
But we're gonna go ahead and sing our Psalm of the Week,
Psalm 148, Psalm 148.
That was Psalm 148 in your special handouts or in your King James Bible, Psalm 148.
Let's sing that out together tonight. Psalm 148.
His most praise He hath
Son and moon, praise Him
All ye stars of life
Praise the heavens of Heavens
Any waters that be above the heavens
Let their praise, the name of...
And all cattle creeping things, and flying fowl, kings of the earth, and all people,
princes and all judges of the earth.
to the book of Jude.
The book of Jude, the Bible reads,
Jude the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James
to them that are sanctified by God the Father
and preserved in Jesus Christ and called.
Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful
for me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith
which was once delivered unto the saints."
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation.
Ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having
saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not,
and the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he
hath reserved an everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Likewise, also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Yet, Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses,
durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, the Lord rebuketh thee.
But these speak evil of those things which they know not, but what they know naturally as brute beasts in those things they corrupt themselves.
Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gain-saying of core.
These are spots in your feast of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear.
Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds,
Trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,
Raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame,
Wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold the Lord cometh with 10,000 of his saints
to execute judgment upon all,
and to convince all that are ungodly among them
of all their ungodly deeds,
which they have ungodly committed,
and of all their hard speeches,
which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
These are murmurs, complainers,
walking after their own lusts,
and their mouths speak with great swelling words,
having men's persons in admiration
of advantage. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ, how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time,
who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves,
sensual, having not the spirit.
But ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto
eternal life.
And if some have compassion, making a difference,
and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire,
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh,
now unto him that is able to keep you from falling,
and to present you faultless before the presence
of his glory with exceeding joy,
to the only wise God our Savior be glory and majesty,
dominion and power both now and ever, amen.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day.
I pray that you would be with our friends that need you.
Please turn our attention now to your word,
help Pastor Shelley as he preaches in Jesus' name, amen.
And then, so we've been doing a little bit of a series
going through the first John, second, third,
and now we're here in Jude.
And Jude is a very interesting epistle
that is kind of a warning chapter.
And I've said this before, but I'll just kind of reiterate
that I feel like the New Testament,
it's almost like there's a little bit of a theme throughout
where it kind of starts
with I think the most basic concepts.
And then it kind of starts to graduate throughout the epistles.
And I've kind of said, like, you know, Matthew, Mark, and Luke seem to be more like the facts of the gospel.
And John kind of teaches you how to believe and to get saved.
And then, of course, Acts kind of goes into the first steps after salvation.
We talk about baptism and evangelism and all these important steps, church planting.
Then when you get into Romans.
And first Corinthians, you know,
Romans kind of laying out the just basic core doctrines
and explaining you how salvation by faith makes sense
and just kind of these basic principles.
First Corinthians is a church
that really the most basic carnal church issues
you're gonna really go through a lot of them.
They kind of seem to have all of them
and they almost seem leaderless as well.
You kind of see like what a church is like
when it doesn't have a strong leader.
But as you kind of keep going,
it seems to kind of graduate more.
mature subjects and concepts are being introduced and so when we get all the way to Jude,
I put that in mind to just say when we get to Jude, it's kind of like a more advanced among mature subject matter
when we talk about Christian beliefs and doctrine and it's really this idea that if you're in church
and you're going to a good church and you're going to it for a really long time
you're going to eventually see this or you're going to see bad people have crept into churches
to try and hurt them and to harm them and that we actually have to contend with these type of people.
Now again, think about it. If you never go to church, this verse almost doesn't even apply to you
because you're never going to see the bad people because you're not even in church.
And then if you just go to a church that's just so carnal and you just kind of come and go
and you don't really get plugged in, again, you're probably not going to see it.
You know, it's kind of for the person that gets into a good church, gets plugged in, is there for years, maybe decades,
then eventually you're going to start seeing this stuff happen.
You're going to come across scenarios where people come out of the woodwork and you're just thinking like,
wow, I can't believe this happened.
But Jude all along was warning us about this particular situation.
Now we're gonna go through this, we're gonna go through these verses. It says in verse one, Jude,
the servant of Jesus Christ. I think it's funny that it's called Jude and not Judas, because
Jude is really just the short version of Judas, but I'm sure this guy's like, hey, it's Jude, you know.
After Judas, instead of wanting to be called Judas, not a scariat, they're just like, it's Jude, okay?
the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called.
One thing that's interesting here is that it says that we're sanctified by God the Father, and what context are we sanctified? What does sanctified mean?
Sanctified means to be set apart. Sanctified means to set apart.
Being holy is that you've been set apart.
So all these things kind of like work together.
So it's like being holy is sanctifying yourself.
Sanctifying yourself is separating yourself.
Separating yourself is sanctifying yourself.
This is kind of like three different ways,
kind of word, the same process or idea.
So as you kind of understand what they mean.
If we're sanctified by the God of the Father,
what does that mean?
We've been set apart.
And what way are we set apart?
Well, we've become the children of God.
So we are now the children of God and in our spirit and in our soul well
We've been saved we've been made new we've been quickened and so in another way
We've been sanctified but what has not been sanctified is our flesh our flesh does not change when you believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ your flesh doesn't change in fact it just gets one day older every single day
That's really the only thing that's happening with our flesh is it's just a ticking time bomb in a sense.
And many people would have this idea or concept, so it's crazy in Christianity,
is that when you're sanctified, that even your flesh is sanctified or something,
and you don't sin anymore, we can't sin, God's never matted us for any reason.
This is what you'd call a hyper-grace idea.
And you would almost think like, how can you have too much grace,
You do have too much grace when you think that God can never remat it for any reason.
You have too much grace when you think you shouldn't fear God whatsoever.
And really, you're kind of just ruining what the word grace really even means,
because if you think about what grace is...
Hypergrace can't even doesn't even work in their own theology because what is grace grace is unmerited favor
It's getting something that you don't deserve
So the only reason you're getting it is because God is showing you favor when you don't deserve it like hey
I'm not getting punished for my sins. God's giving me grace. Well according to their theology. God's never mad at you
So then you would never need grace so really their theology even though we call it hyper grace really what you'd call is no grace
Because they don't even think that they need any grace because God's never mad at them
So they don't even need any grace whereas we believe God continues to stay mad at us when we sin yet
His grace covers our sin therefore we're not going to go to hell
But let me tell you something God is still mad at sin
and we still need God's grace in our life, even beyond salvation,
just for every breath that we take.
It's by God's grace that we're still here.
It's by God's grace that He hasn't already killed us for the sins that we've committed.
And so we have to understand that it's only by God's grace that we're here
and even the Apostle Paul has this attitude.
He says, by the grace of God I am what I am.
You know he committed sins he wasn't worthy of the calling that he had and you know what if we were honest with ourselves
We don't even deserve the lives that we have
And we have to have the right mentality that is by God's grace and by his mercy that we have the blessings and the goodness and the
Things that we have in our life, and we've been sanctified by God the Father
But we still need his grace and we still need this to be preserved in Jesus Christ
because of our flesh we're gonna still sin, but you know what praise God we're preserved in Jesus Christ and
His grace is greater than my sin and will cover my sin
and I've been preserved and you know what?
I will be preserved all the way
until the redemption of my body.
You know, I've been sealed under the day of redemption.
You know, when we talk about salvation
or eternal security,
some people talk about the perseverance of the saints.
And this is an idea of Calvinism.
This is the fifth point in Calvinism.
And they're a little tulip.
I don't even like tulips,
And, you know, I wouldn't say that it's the perseverance of the saints, I would say it's the preservation of the saints is what we believe in.
That Jesus Christ preserves us unto His heavenly kingdom and preserves us through His saving grace, it is not that I will necessarily persevere.
Another thing, if I do persevere, the Bible says I'll get a special crown, which is a reward.
But I get that through persevering and being steadfast.
But that's not guaranteed.
That comes to my free will and my choices that I make.
But me making the heaven is not based on my perseverance whatsoever.
It's based on the preservation in Jesus Christ that I have.
That He preserves me.
And you know what?
It says here called, this is talking about Jude, right?
And those that he's wanting to address,
they're sanctified by God the Father.
They're preserved in Jesus Christ and called.
How are we called?
to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's the calling that we have in our lives.
And if you believe in Jesus Christ, you are called.
Verse two, mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.
Now, don't let verse two skip you
and just kind of be meaningless
because here's the reality.
He's wishing mercy and peace unto these people.
Because there's not a lot of actual peace in this world.
There's not a lot of love, there's not a lot of mercy, and he's wishing for peace, he's
wishing for mercy, he's wishing for love under these people, because you know what?
The world's a dangerous place, and bad things are constantly happening, and you know what?
We should be wishing for peace on to God's people, and because they need it, we need
it.
And in this chapter, it's talking about spiritual warfare, he doesn't want...
warfare. He doesn't want infiltrators. He doesn't want bad people to come into their church.
He wants peace, but he's warning them saying this is still inevitable. This is still something
that's very likely going to happen to all congregations where you're going to have bad people creeping in.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,
it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the
faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Now, I love verse 3. He wrote unto them of the
common salvation.
Why? Because we all have the exact same salvation testimony.
It's a common salvation.
What does common mean? We all have it, we all share it,
we have the exact same testimony.
You know, think about these mega churches
where they preach these like lifestyle evangelism messages
and someone gets up and they give their quote testimony
and their salvation is that they gave up LSD.
Well, here's the thing. I don't share that common salvation experience with this guy because I've never even tried LSD
I've never tried in these hardcore drugs. So if that's how that guy saved
Well, then that's not a common salvation because I never had salvation from LSD
or from these hardcore street drugs.
Why? Because that's not what saves you.
It's not giving up a life of sin.
It's not your testimony.
No, it's the common salvation of faith in Jesus Christ.
You either got saved by putting your faith in Jesus Christ
or you're not saved.
Your testimony is meaningless when it comes to salvation.
Either you said, I believe in Jesus
and that's what every other person says
or you didn't get saved.
It's a common salvation that we all share, but he says that's not the only thing I wrote on to you
Hey, when I wrote on to you about that, I need to write something else
I need to talk about some other subjects
It was need for me to write on you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith
Which was once delivered under the Saints. Now, what's another word for contend? How about this word fight?
And you know people get so mad at a church like ours or things that we say or do and they say man
You guys are always fighting
Wait a minute doesn't the Bible say explicitly that there's gonna be fights that we need to have and that Jude is saying
Hey, I'm content. I'm earnestly can I'm earnestly writing these things into you, right?
It's needful for me and exhorting you that you should earnestly what does earnestly mean a lot of effort a lot of energy a lot of focus
We're putting all kinds of effort and energy and focus into doing something. What fighting
fighting. Oh man you guys just seem to be fighting and arguing and contending and
causing drama. Yes I am. Why? Because the Bible explicitly tells me to earnestly
contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Look there is
only one Bible, there's only one faith, we have it and I know what it says and I
will fight with people that disagree with me on this.
So the Bible says to do.
I mean, the Bible is not saying don't fight, lay down, let it go.
It says earnestly contend.
It says earnestly fight, earnestly argue, earnestly, you know, try to defend and champion your views in this world
and protect the faith that you have.
And you know what?
If, obviously Jesus Christ is the ultimate shepherd, we understand that.
But the Bible calls pastors shepherds as well.
And what should a shepherd do it?
It should earnestly contend with wolves.
It should earnestly contend with things that want to harm the flock.
That is the imagery.
That is the analogy that God decided to choose for the shepherd and his church sheep.
And you know what? Only a good shepherd will fight and contend with wolves.
Bad shepherds will just allow wolves and bad people to just harm the flock harm the lambs
Harm God's people and you know what that's a bad shepherd that will not fight
What's the point of having a shepherd if he never defends the sheep?
I mean, part of the job, and it's not the only part,
part of the job is to lead them, obviously,
under the water and getting some food.
But ultimately, it's to protect them from wolves
and to keep them safe.
And if you know anything about sheep
or if you watched a video about a lamb,
they're the dumbest animals, I'll tell you what.
And there's this, it's like a funny video,
you've maybe seen this meme, it's like this lamb,
this guy like pulls it out of the ditch and lets it go
and it immediately drives itself right into the same ditch.
It's just like, what is wrong with you?
And you know, that's how people are at church.
It's like, you try to drag them out of this,
this ditch of like gossiping or lying
or being in bad relationships or alcohol
or just getting out of church or whatever.
You just drag them out of that.
And then all of a sudden just like right back into it.
Right and you're just thinking like what is wrong with you?
You know, I'm just I'm trying to help you get out of this stinking ditch
And then you just keep just going right into it
And of course that's because our flesh wants to sin so much and many people just give into the flesh
They just make bad decisions. They're selfish and of course in some cases. They're just very ignorant and make bad decisions
What does a good shepherd do? He's looking out for the flock. He's warning the flock. He's protecting the flock
He's willing to lay down his life for the flock and even go out and contend and fight against wolves fight against
dangerous predators that would try to harm the flock and of course that is
Not only just for the pastor. I believe you know, we believe in the priesthood of the believer
I believe the men in every home should act the same way as a shepherd of his family
I'd be willing to protect his family and to attack the wolves and destroy wolves and you know what even a mom
For her children you can be like a jail every once in a while and get out the tent spike and just drive it through the temples of
Evil just to make sure that stays out of your household and protects you and your family
So, you know, whatever sheep you have have excuse me
Whatever people you have to protect or defend we should be willing to do so
And we should be willing to contend, because if you don't contend, bad people will do bad things.
You know, we see a lack of our government being willing to defend people and attack evil people, and then what happens?
When the vilest men are lifted up or praised in society, it says the wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted.
And we see in our society, we see in our culture,
just evil people just running rampant,
stealing, killing, raping, pillaging,
just knifing people, shooting people,
just doing whatever they want
with just impunity, it feels like.
Why? Because there's just no shepherds anymore.
there's nobody willing to destroy evil or to fight against evil
and you know what, it should be a shame if a church would act the same way
and just lay down and allow people to attack the church,
attack God's people, attack the pastor.
Hey look, as a shepherd, I have the right if the wolf attacks me,
I can defend myself too. You know, I don't have to just only defend the flock,
I can also defend myself and I can beat that wolf down
and destroy him if he's attacking me too.
And you better know he's going to attack the shepherd because he knows if he can get the shepherd out of the way,
well, then the sheep are just open season.
And boy, I'll tell you, there's a lot of churches, a lot of places where you knock the pastor down
and the sheep are just there for open season.
And so, you know what? It's important for the pastor to also be willing to defend himself
and to fight and to take people to task because you know what? It's a dangerous world that we live in.
It's a dangerous world physically. It's a dangerous world spiritually.
And we need to be on that spiritual fight.
This is, of course, the spiritual fight
that we're talking about in Jude.
But, you know, we need to defend ourselves.
You know, I believe in defending ourselves physically, too.
Look, I'm ready to defend myself physically
with, you know, lethal force.
And we should be willing, as men,
to defend our families with lethal force
because it's a dangerous world we live in.
I might bring that up here in a minute, again,
because it's an important point,
but let's keep going, verse 4,
crept in unawares, who are before of old, ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
You know,
There's a lot of things to fight and I'm I'm for fighting all evil and all lies
You know feminism is a big lie and we need to fight it
You know the feminist women out there are not the biggest problem
You know what I was reading this passage for there are certain men crept in unawares
You know what's more important than fighting all of these women is fighting the men and the men feminists are the worst
And not just the men feminists, the men that are bringing in all this satanic nonsense and evil and filth in this world.
But, you know, I want to be careful about this passage because I don't want to go off too much outside these walls
because if you really understand this passage, it's not talking about outside these walls, it's talking about in these walls.
It is saying, for there are certain men crept in unawares, crept in where?
crept into this church, crept into a church, crept in amongst God's people, and
unawares, meaning you don't know it and I don't know it. If we knew it, we would just kill the wolf.
Right? We're not, we're not like stupid over here.
And, and I think like we have to be careful too that we don't give this idea like I could spot wolves.
You know, I know that you think you're really smart
and you're like Mr. Detective and whatever,
but the passage is saying, look,
you're gonna sometimes not get it right.
There's gonna be people that you don't realize are bad
that are bad.
Sometimes they're real obvious, okay?
And we all get that annoying person
and we try to get them out here as soon as possible.
But it's warning that there's gonna be some people
that you don't suspect and you don't see coming
that are also really, really bad.
Okay, and we should all be humble and humble enough to say I'm capable of not catching every bad person
So I need to be where I need to be careful. I need to be on on the ready
Now these type of people, they were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness.
What is something that these people like to do is they like to lessen God's commandments and they try to lessen the fear of God specifically.
since we have grace, I can still do X, Y, and Z sin.
And they're basically encouraging lasciviousness
in our society, in the church, because of God's grace.
We'll be example of this.
Well, Jezebel is actually teaching people
to commit fornication and causing them
to commit all kinds of grievous sin in the church.
And...
the Corinthian church, obviously in the book of 1 Corinthians,
it's addressing all kinds of weird sins and things that are being brought in
to the church. And you know what we need to realize, hey, some sins still need to be
dealt with harshly.
You know, in 1 Corinthians 5,
explicitly, it's saying drunkards and fornicators
and covetous and idolaters and railists, they're supposed to be throwing out a church.
Whereas that church was actually bragging about the fact that they're not dealing with people in sin
and they're basically turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and
Encouraging people to commit all kinds of grievous sin whether that be idolatry or fornication
We'll be another picture of this how about they're bringing in all kinds of strange doctrines concerning divorce and remarriage and
Brine to encourage people. Oh, no, no God has so much grace for you
God wouldn't want you to be in that relationship. You need to drop your zero and get you a hero
You know that that pretty much this doesn't happen
I'm not gonna say that just I'm not gonna doom every single person but let's just be honest when women drop their husband and marry another one
He's usually a scumbag
Okay, it's not like there's all a lot of these winners out there that wanted to marry all these divorce a's
And I know that you think you're such a princess
But you know at the end of the day like most of the time it's not gonna be good for you for sure
Plus, it's just a sin. Anyways, it's just wrong. It's it's something you should avoid even if there was an exception
What if there was one out of a hundred where it seemed like it worked out?
Well, why would you want to risk your life on one out of a hundred chance?
or one out of a thousand chance.
But let me say this, even if you think it's going to turn out better for you,
you're still going to suffer consequences because sin always has consequences, period.
I do.
And yeah, did we get Solomon from David's adultery?
Sure, but we also had a baby die because of his adultery.
And yeah, did something good come out of that bad situation?
Sure, but you know what?
We're not going to justify what David did because of Solomon.
And you know what, just because you think that your life's now better or something like that,
you better not justify divorce and remarriage to me,
because I will call you out for it, and it's wicked.
And you know what, we're not going to give grace under that lasciviousness
and allow people to just be swapping wives, which is adultery.
It's adultery, according to the Bible, and look, what do you think lasciviousness even
is?
Look, adultery has got to be at the top of the list of lasciviousness.
People excusing drinking alcohol and how many churches a day, they just say, oh, we're
under grace, God's not mad at me, I can do anything, all things are lawful for me.
Look, I saw all kinds of pastors saying, all things are lawful for me, I can drink a beer
right now.
You know, how wicked, how evil for pastors to get up
and just try to claim that they could drink alcohol.
And look, people will come into this church
and they'll say like, oh, it's not a big deal
that I'm gonna drink.
It's not a big deal that we're committing fornication.
We love each other.
It's not a big deal that I'm gonna go out and party
and live a raunchy little lifestyle.
God's real gracious to me.
You know what, that is wicked and evil.
And I'm telling you bad people are just waiting in the wings to drag you over.
Oh, you know, it's mushrooms.
God created it.
It must be good.
Let's just smoke them or whatever.
Let's just eat some magic mushrooms.
You know, God created it, man.
Let's just have a little bit of, let's have a mushroom party.
Look, that's stupid.
You know, be like Super Mario and jump on the mushroom and, you know, smash it.
right? You don't see Mario over here just having this magic mushroom fest or
something and even if he did it's a video game. Look I'm telling you people
are gonna creep into this church and they're gonna try and get you to do
stuff that's wrong. You're gonna try and tempt you with alcohol,
fornication, drugs, all kinds of weird stuff and these type of people are
usually on drugs themselves.
Look, it wouldn't surprise, I mean, there's been people that kicked out of our church,
and then everybody's like coming to me like this person would like always reek of marijuana.
This person was into all this weird stuff, into weird drugs.
This person used to work in the pharmacy, and then they got fired.
It's like, there's a reason why you usually get fired from the pharmacy.
And I'm just saying like, you wouldn't be the first person to do hardcore drugs after
or to try and entice other people or going off and doing all these wicked evil things and you know
what? The bad people are like that. They're going to be in secret trying to turn the grace of God
and let's say this act like it's not bad. It's not a big deal. God created it. Well, you know what?
God created poison. He created dung too. Should you eat it? God created dung. In fact, you created
I love their argumentation.
Their argumentation is foolish and nonsense.
Don't do any drugs, you idiot.
Be smart and sober.
And if someone tries to entice you to do drugs,
just tell everyone about it.
I don't care.
We should call that person out.
It says,
I will therefore put you in remembrance,
though you once knew this,
how that the Lord having saved the people out of the land of Egypt
after we destroyed them, believe not.
Now, why is he making this transition here?
I believe this is what he's trying to communicate to you.
He's saying, look, people are going to come and creep in your church
and you're thinking like, that doesn't make any sense.
Why would anybody do that?
Has that ever happened before?
Then God's going to go through a list of scenarios and situations
where bad people are amongst good people in the past.
Because he's reminding you, this is just always happens.
And in fact, the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,
bad people were with them.
There was bad people mixed in and what made them bad? What made them unsaved? They believe not
Did you notice it didn't say like they weren't saved because they didn't they didn't repent of their sins enough or get baptized enough or whatever
No, no, the reason why these people weren't saved is because they believe not
Because the reason people are saved is because they believe the reason people are not saved is because they believe not
It's based on their faith. That's how we know someone saved or not verse 6 in the angels
Which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation. He hath reserved and everlasting chains under darkness and the judgment of the great day
Look, you think like why would someone that's unsaved come to our church?
But think about this there was angels in their estate of heaven that decided to rebel and leave heaven
Look, if someone is going to rebel and leave heaven, how much more our church, or how much
more a church in the world, like this isn't heaven, this isn't as great, look, those angels
rebelled it from their own habitation, from their own estate.
Why?
Because some people are just so rebellious, it doesn't matter how good they have it,
they're just going to wreck their entire life.
reserved and everlasting change under darkness
and under the judgment of the great day.
I feel like this verse terrifies demons and devils.
Because you remember that story
where Jesus is communicating with Legion
and they're so afraid of going to hell early
to be reserved under the day of judgment
that they're begging to be put into the swine.
And then Jesus permits them and allows them
to just go into the swine.
Because some demons and some devils are already in hell.
already just reserved, already just there,
ready just for the judgment day, that's all.
They are in the prison of hell.
Now the devil, for some reasons, not.
But the devil will be there, you know, for a thousand years, let out at some point again.
But, you know, some demons are out on the earth doing their thing.
Some demons are in hell getting already what they deserve.
They're reserved and everlasting chains under darkness, under the judgment of the great day.
That's, of course, the great white throne judgment being referenced.
Verse 7.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner,
giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh,
are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
So even a few cities in the midst of where God's people were,
they were just super bad cities in the midst of all these other cities.
And so you have to understand like there's just always going to be spots
and your Feast of Charity as the Bible says in this.
There's always going to be just bad people
and with the good people.
There's always going to be infiltrators.
There's always going to be people sneaking in
that aren't there for the right reasons.
There's always going to be those rebellious types
that are just pretending.
They're fakes.
They're phony.
They're not real.
They're just always going to be.
Even if you went to heaven, there used to be phonies.
I mean, even in heaven there was fake angels
and phony angels that had to be kicked out.
I mean, you go to church, there's phonies.
You go anywhere in this world, there's phonies.
You know, people say this, oh, I don't like church because there's hypocrites there.
Well, you know what?
There's hypocrites everywhere.
I mean, let's go to our government.
Let's go to Congress.
You think there's any hypocrites there?
You think there's any hypocrites down at the college system?
You think there's any hypocrites down at the public school?
You think there's any hypocrites at the supermarket?
You know, let's just go look at the supermarket.
You know just how about the bank? You think the bank is a really godly institution? There's no hypocrites at the bank
Look, there's hypocrites everywhere. There's bad people everywhere, but you know what?
The church is not except from this bad people try to creep in here, too
Go to the library, and there's probably some faggot waiting in the wings trying to prey on some child
You know, it doesn't matter where you go. There's bad people everywhere
And, of course, here, it's warning against faggots specifically.
It's saying even, what does even mean?
Specifically as Sodom and Gomorrah, these are cities that gave themselves over to fornication
and then going out their strange flesh.
What is that?
That's being a faggot.
That is men with men.
That is women being lesbians and sodomites and departing from the natural use of the
And, of course, this is why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Not just for fornication, but for going out to strange flesh.
And what does the Bible say?
Everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah is set forth for an example.
Notice this, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Where did everybody that died in Sodom and Gomorrah go?
They went to hell.
That's where faggots go.
All faggots go to hell.
they're an example. The first city of faggots went to hell to be an example for what?
For every other faggot that they're gonna go to hell. That's what the Bible is
saying. But you know some people just don't like this because they have a nephew
that's a faggot. But you know what? Instead of not liking Jude, why don't you
just not like your faggot nephew?
I mean, why is it that we have to discard the holy word of God that's been preserved
throughout ages, that this country was literally founded on, that the reason you even have
the freedoms to live in this country is because we had Leviticus 2013 enshrined in our law,
where you're literally putting faggots to death.
Now we praise them and we're so soft and so kind to them and so loving.
They're still going to hate you.
Look, we could have the most soft, loving religion out there, like the Catholic Church,
which is super soft on faggots, is super welcoming to faggots, in comparison to us for sure.
And then you're still going to have trannies go into their little Catholic school and shooting
Why because they're filled with evil. They're disgusting reprobates that should be put to death
And you know what this country is just allowing them to just frolick around this the schools and doing their thing
Oh, how dare you say something mean about faggots? Well, how dare you allow them to kill all of our kids in schools constantly?
You're not loving well, you know what I do love those children I because those Catholic kids
I'd probably run into them when they're 18 and get them saved
But now they don't have a chance some faggot run their life and sent them to hell with them
Because Catholics aren't saved
And you know what no one loves those Catholic children by allowing these faggots to just roam free in our country
You know, our country was built on godly principles.
That's why it was successful.
And now it's just eroding at the seams.
And you know what I'm the most mad at?
I'm not really as mad at the faggots for being faggots
because it's a faggot.
It's a dog.
It's just going to do its dog thing.
You know what I'm mad at?
At all the weak, lame Christians who just don't believe the Bible.
I'm just mad at all the people that have the common salvation that won't say what Jude says
and they won't earnestly contend with the faggots
and they won't say what the Bible says
and they won't vote for a president that believes the Bible!
They'll vote for the lesser of two evils
and they'll hope that he'll fix things. Let me tell you something.
Donald Trump is not going to fix anything in America.
America's getting worse by the day because we have people like him in office.
He's a whoremonger, he's a casino owning, unsaved idiot.
He needs to get saved.
He can't lead anything, he's blind.
He's the blind leading the blind.
And he's just doing whatever the Jews tell him to do.
That's why our country is in shambles.
That's why evil is just running rampant in our society.
It's because of people like this.
And if a city gets so bad, God will just destroy it.
If a nation gets bad enough, God will just destroy it.
You know, we're not exempt from God's wrath.
We can't sit here and pretend like God is just going to be pleased with us no matter what we do.
No, God is angry at America for having turned away from the Bible,
from being ashamed and embarrassed of the Bible.
God's going to be embarrassed and ashamed of America.
And you know what, America is a laughing stock in the country and the world these days.
It's a laughing stock by so many countries.
I mean, we have men in dresses that we're trying to pawn off as women.
We're trying to go to the Olympics, and most countries are saying, you can't bring this
dude in a dress to swim in our meat.
It's a dude!
What's wrong with you people?
That's what other countries are thinking.
This is what other countries are thinking that follow a literal pedophile as their leader.
Islamic countries are looking at us saying, wow, this is what Christianity brings forth?
It brings forth men in dresses who are mentally ill to do their bidding.
And you wonder why they hate America and they hate Israel when they have a bunch of dudes
in dresses.
You know they can't even read they're following an illiterate prophet
They have their women in a tent, but at least they have a brain in their head and they realize hey
It's still a woman underneath the tent
It's not a dude
Because you can put a dude in a tent and he's still a dude
You can chop off a dude's arms and he's still a dude
You can do anything you want to the dude. He's still a dude. You can't change it
You know you could paint a leopard black and he doesn't become a panther. He's still a leopard
He's just a painted leopard
And you know what you can do whatever you want to a dude. He's just a mutilated dude
Okay, and at the end of the day our society has become nuts
Nuts, and it just doesn't leave the Bible. I just read for you the Bible saying Sodom and Gomorrah went to hell in his example
For anybody like that you show me where it says fags get saved
How about just show me a story of one faggot getting saved?
Show me one where it's like, here's two fag dudes and then they got saved and they became great Christians later.
Never happened.
And any time you even meet faggots in the Bible, they're always trying to rape people and kill people.
And then you see them in society and all they're trying to do is rape people and kill people.
They're trying to rape children and they're trying to kill children.
That's what faggots are like.
And let me tell you something, stay away from faggots.
They are dangerous predators, they are dangerous dogs.
Just like a pit bull is a dangerous animal
that you should be very careful with,
even more so a faggot.
They're way more dangerous than a pit bull.
And you know what, they feign themselves
a normal person, modern family.
Oh, we're so normal.
There's nothing normal about them.
Their voice is gay.
Their limp little wrist is gay, their clothing is faggoty,
everything inside their heart is evil and wickedness.
I want nothing to do with them.
They should all die and go to hell.
We should get rid of them in our country.
But you know what? Nobody wants to say it.
I'll say it until I'm dead.
It says in verse 8, likewise, also these filthy dreamers.
So now we've transitioned back to verse 4.
We're talking about these certain men that are crept in unaware.
They snuck in just like what people snuck in amongst God's people in Egypt
Just like the angels that were fake in heaven just like Sodom and Gomorrah was this
Disgusting evil cities amongst all of the other people in the Promised Land area
And likewise, these filthy dreamers, these false prophets, these infiltrators in the churches,
notice what they do, they defile the flesh.
What is that? Doing drugs, fornication, adultery.
They just harm themselves. They injure themselves. They cut themselves.
They get tattoos all over their body because they're freaks and weirdos.
They despise dominion. What is that? They hate all authority.
They hate all authority. Look, what is the ultimate authority? It's God and they hate God. Why then would they have respect for you?
If they don't respect God, how can they respect any authority?
That's why they hate all authority. They hate all government. They hate all police. They hate all pastors.
They hate all men. They hate all leaders. They hate all fathers. They hate everybody that would tell them what to do.
And let me tell you something about these sick, depraved people, they hate all authorities.
Usually they hate their own father.
That's why the Bible said if any man would curse his own father and mother, that they should be put to death.
Because they're dangerous, dangerous people that should not be allowed to live in society.
And you know what? When America was founded, if you smet your parents, if you hit your parents or curse them,
you are put to death if you're 15 years or older.
If you're 15 years of age and you would not obey your parents,
they would just put you to death in society.
Yet it's crazy when you see people literally cursing their parents
and saying the most evil things about their parents online
and then Baptist pastors are sharing that video
and telling people about the video.
It's like, you've got nuts.
If you lived in Connecticut, we would have put that kid to death.
We would have not sat here and shared that video
and be like, I cried so much.
I'm not gonna cry put him to death
And you know what when man fails to do God's bidding often he intervenes as well
Be afraid of God. It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God
That's for say people let alone unsay people
You know what we should respect authorities
And of course, what do they do? They speak evil dignities.
Just anybody in power, anybody in authority,
they just say every horrible thing you can imagine.
They just hate all authority, all power.
What does it say in verse 9?
Yet Michael, the archangel, and contending with the devil,
he disputed about the body of Moses,
durst not bring against him a railing accusation,
but said the Lord rebuked thee.
Now notice a couple of things.
It says he does not bring a railing accusation, so whatever he said cannot be a railing accusation
Right, I mean it wouldn't make sense if he said he did not bring a railing accusation
He would not dare to that's what Durst means. He doesn't even dare
He wouldn't he wouldn't dare to bring a railing accusation, but what did he do you say?
He said the Lord rebuke thee so by saying the Lord rebuke he has not a railing accusation
What is the Lord of Buckeye? It's wishing a curse upon this person. It's wishing for God to punish this person
Look wishing for someone to be punished by God is not a railing accusation
Wishing for someone to be punished according to the Bible is Bible. It's called an imprecatory prayer
I mean think about this. Why would the Bible say that?
Wishing evil on someone or praying for evil upon someone or for God to punish someone is a railing accusation
And then just be filled with them in Psalms
It's like, hey, don't be a railer, and then it's like, but read these Psalms in church. It's like, well, how does that fit?
It's because wishing for God to punish people is not railing.
Railing is bringing a false
accusation against someone. It's bringing a false accusation against someone. Now look,
I get that there's a little bit of gray area in some situations because in some situations
you're formulating opinions about something versus you know you're charging someone with
an accusation, right?
Let's say someone comes in here dressed like a faggot, talking like a faggot, acting like
a faggot and I say, I think this guy's a faggot.
That's not necessarily me bringing a railing accusation.
That's me sitting here formulating an opinion based on all of this evidence and saying,
I need to approach this person and deal with this person because this could be a dangerous person.
You know, we can't just abstract ourselves from just all discernment,
all wisdom, and all intuition as a fear of a railing accusation.
But here's the thing, if there's a guy coming into our church that's dressed normal, acting normal, and being normal,
and you just say, I think this guy's a faggot, well that's a railing accusation.
because you're just now just a baseless claim that has no legitimacy whatsoever, okay?
There's one thing between understanding and opinion
versus formulating a railing accusation.
And again, we determine something is true or false based on evidence.
If you have no evidence for your claim,
then you're going to be found a liar and you're going to be found a false accuser and a railer.
Look, if I get up and I say, this person's an adulterer.
Well, how is it a railing accusation?
If it's not true, how have I proven innocent?
If it is true.
This is how it works in America.
It's called libel.
Who's ever heard of libel or defamation?
Look, it's when you accuse somebody of something.
Now, here's the thing.
If you do that and it's wrong, it's false, you can be sued and lose a lot of money and
there's a lot of penalties to that.
But the problem is that you have to actually provide evidence to prove that you're not like whatever they're using you of.
And in fact, they can do discovery upon you of any information that's available.
So if there's any proof or evidence, then you don't ever want to like sue this person for defamation or libel
because they're basically going to figure out, hey, it's actually true.
This person really did do this thing and therefore they're off the hook.
Because if you tell the truth, there's no problem.
Praise God, in theory, we still have the freedom of speech in this country and you can still tell the truth with impunity.
But you know what you can't do is lie.
You can't lie about people. There are consequences to lying.
You know, I keep hearing this stupid liberal talking point
because they'll say like, oh, you know, we don't have freedom of speech in America
because you couldn't just get up in a crowd of theater and yell fire.
And you think, this is the liberal talking point.
You know what they're saying? It's false.
If you're in a crowded theater, you can scream fire.
If there's a fire, but you know what you can't do?
You can't get in a crowded theater and scream fire when there's not a fire and you're lying,
and then people run out in a hurry and someone gets trampled to death as a result of you lying,
then you can be held liable for lying.
But let me tell you something.
If you're in a crowded theater and it's on fire and you yell,
No one is going to be in trouble for doing that because you don't get in trouble for telling the truth
You know you're in trouble for doing lying about people and let me say this in this church
No one gets thrown out for telling the truth
You know why people get thrown out for being a railer because they lied about people
because the statements that they're making are baseless claims that are proven false.
And then it's like, look, you're lying about this person.
You have to repent, say you're sorry, or you're thrown out.
And look, it's not about me, it's about every single person.
Look, the first person to ever be thrown out of
Steadfast Baptist Church for railing
was not railing on Pastor Shelley.
I know it's contrary to popular belief or something like that.
But someone just made up this horrible accusation.
I'm not going to repeat it.
It was just like the worst thing you could ever accuse somebody of doing.
Had nothing to do with me. They just randomly accuse some person that's innocent completely and just try to trash them
And look I said look you're gonna have to apologize or you can't come back you're railing and they didn't want to and they left
And I was kind of glad because I don't want them anyways, but
The reality is you know, that's why people get thrown out for railing you said this statement. It's not true
Therefore, you can't come to our church.
Plus, this is even funnier,
is like, there's people that left our church,
they say that I'm unsaved, false prophet,
that's gonna burn in hell,
and then they're like mad that they're thrown out for railing.
This would be my question.
Why would you wanna go to a church
where you believe that about the pastor anyways?
Like, why are you mad?
Like, why would you, like,
why would you wanna go to a church
where you believe that's what the pastor's like anyways?
Like, okay.
That's bizarre and they're like this is what railers think they think if they can somehow prove their their claim true
Then they're not railing all of a sudden or something so they're always trying to like in an effort to like prove their lies true or something
But look, you know, what is Michael the Archangel doing? He's not he didn't say anything the devil did
He didn't bring up anything the devil did. He doesn't really
Involving himself with the devil. He's not suggesting something the devil did. He just said hey the Lord of Buketh
And you know what? At the end of the day, we should just play it safe.
We don't have to falsely accuse people of things. We don't have to dream things up.
You know, we'll just say, hey, the Lord should punish you or deal with you.
Obviously, if we do have to separate ourselves from somebody, we should be clear about what it was.
You said this. You did this. This is why it's wrong. You have to repent of this.
That's not railing. Wishing for God to punish people according to the Bible is not railing.
That's just called Bible.
And if you don't like it, well, then you just don't like the Bible.
But we need to be careful that we're not falsely accusing people because I will take those people to task.
Verse 10,
But these speak evil of those things which they know not,
but what they know naturally is brute-rease and those things they corrupt themselves.
Look, people that come into our church and they're bad and they're evil and they eventually get exposed,
they end up just saying the worst things imaginable
They speak all kinds of evil things that they have no idea what they're talking about.
They make up the weirdest, wildest accusations that have no basis in reality whatsoever.
They just say anything and everything.
And look, bad people also accept anything and everything.
I mean, they just say the most wild, weird things that are provably false,
and then they just eat it up, and they're just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're so bad.
That's what they're like.
And it says, in those things, they corrupt themselves.
They just make themselves even look dumber and stupider and weirder and freakish, just freaks.
Look, there are people that have come to our church that are just absolute freaks.
The weirdest people you could ever imagine.
And then they're worse than that.
You're like, I didn't even think this kind of a person could exist.
Like, I didn't even believe Flat Earthers existed.
I thought they were all lying.
I thought they were all trolling.
Cause I was like, no one is stupid enough
to actually believe this.
And then when you, you have that moment
where all of a sudden you realize
they really believe that and you're just like, whoa.
Like this person needs to be in a mental institution.
They are a deranged psychopath.
There's something like seriously wrong with them.
You know, be aware, be afraid of this person.
Do not get in the car with them.
I'm serious.
If you think the earth is flat, I will not allow you to drive me anywhere.
And you can ask other people in this room, when I've gotten in a car with someone that
I've never met before, I just ask them that question when I start.
They need to ask the other drivers that test, I'm telling you what.
It says, woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after
the heir of Balaam for warden, and perished in the gainsang of Cor.
So, they're just like a lot of these false prophets, they just do the same mistakes.
They're either in it for money, or they're just like a...
Gainesayer is just someone that just constantly arguing.
He just, he can't seem to just agree to anything.
He's just always just complaining and arguing, or they just hate, they have hatred in their heart.
I mean, what's the way of King? Just hating people.
And boy, it's crazy, these people that leave our churches,
it's like they have zero friends and they hate everyone.
They hate everyone. They hate themselves. They hate everyone in their lives.
They have no friends anymore. They're disgusting.
These are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear.
Clouds there without water carried about of winds, trees without fruit, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,
raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame.
Wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
The Bible's not very nice about these people.
But you know, again, a lot of these people are also the worst workers and make no money
and are poor losers that just grift off of everyone.
And they just go around, they're just sucking money away from every person, and they're
just there, they're just annoying.
There was this one guy that used to go to church, just the most annoying obnoxious human
to ever live, and he was just always just inviting himself over to other people's houses
and to buy them meals and stuff like that, and it's just like these people are weird.
And look, if someone's giving you a weird vibe, you don't have to take them out to
Is someone just this weird obnoxious person inviting them over?
Just say like, no, we're good.
You're not going to, like, you're not going to fend Pastor Shelley.
And you're not necessarily winning brownie points with God
when all the hair on the back of your neck is sticking up
and then you're going to, like, invite this person over to your house.
Hey, you're not winning any brownie points with me.
I don't do it either, okay?
Don't don't feel like you have to be this like super Christian like oh man
I invited the weirdest creepiest person over for lunch
To hang out and he's gonna play dolls with my daughters in their bedroom back there. It's like no
Don't do it. Look when someone's weird, you know why it's usually that they're weird. It's because they're weird
Like God gave us intuition
Look when someone's like a creepy weird to dude giving out bad vibes pick up what they're putting down
I'll just tell you, I mean there's just so many times where I just, I'm sorry I was naive.
I went to church and was around this person and I'm like this person is so awkward and
weird and annoying and I want nothing to do with them and then I'm just thinking like
man, I guess I just need to be nice to them anyways and give them the benefit of the doubt
and then it's like every single time they're bad and then I'm just thinking like maybe
I'm just ignoring the God-given intuition he gave me.
Look, I don't think you're winning brownie points by being super nice and friendly to people that are super weird
Making you feel uncomfortable are super weird. You are not obligated to be friends with anyone in this church
Okay, and if someone's super weird and awkward sometimes the best thing you can do it is just kind of tell them in a kind way
Just be like hey, you're kind of being weird
So I don't want to invite you over
Because because think about it if you ever went to someone in the church and you were like hey, what's going on?
You want to go out to lunch like you're kind of weird?
I would be like sorry. I would feel embarrassed and I try to like fix myself
When you try to fix yourself if you are calling you weird or socially awkward you would try to get better
You know weird people are incapable of getting better
So by telling them that when everyone starts doing that then they're just like oh everything so I'm weird and they leave
Whereas when everybody pretends like you know Biden's normal, it's like well then we have to deal with Biden
It's like hey, sometimes people just need to be told politely
You know and again, it's it's not that it's being rude if you're being sincere
You're just saying hey, you're being a little weird. I feel uncomfortable
You know, I'm just not interested
You know, hey, you shouldn't say that hey, you shouldn't act like that
You shouldn't you're dressed really awkwardly and I'm uncomfortable with how you're dressed
I mean honestly wouldn't you that's how you would say that some of you love
That's how you would actually behave. I'm just trying to warn you because bad people really exist and
Every time this bad person, people are just gonna say,
well, I just kind of kept excusing all of their weirdness,
all their bad behavior, all their bad manners,
all the weird things they were doing and saying,
and it's like, no, you should probably just have been
telling them, like, hey, you're being weird,
hey, that's bad manners, hey, you shouldn't say that,
you shouldn't do that.
No, I'm not saying go on a hair trigger, okay?
Let's not all police everybody, but I'm just saying,
when you're getting the weird vibes,
sometimes it's just best to politely just be like,
hey, you're creeping me out, bro.
Just back up.
Just walk away talk to the hand whatever you know, I don't know. I like verse 12
It's talking about these bad people. Did you notice this clouds? They are without water
and and it's like
What is water water is like the word of God?
It's it's like they don't have the word of God. They're fake. They're fake clouds
Clouds without water. I mean don't even think what is supposed to cloud supposed to be isn't it accumulation of water?
But it actually has no water somehow
And then it's carried about of winds, meaning what?
They have no real doctrine.
They can just believe anything and everything.
They just go to and fro.
And look, you watch people leave our church
and they just literally turn into anything and everything
and a John McArthur fan now and a raging heretic
and a oneness and whatever.
I mean, they just, because they're clouds without water.
They don't have eternal life.
They don't have the right doctrine.
So they can really just believe anything.
And again, they're trees whose fruit wither without fruit.
They have no fruit.
They're twice dead.
They're damned.
They're wandering stars, and they're going to go to hell.
Verse 14,
And you know, also the seventh from Adam prophesied these saying,
Behold, the Lord come with the ten thousands of the saints
to execute judgment upon all, and convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed
of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against them.
You know, it's funny to me because when I was trying to memorize these few verses,
I'm like, this is really like belaboring the ungodly point.
But I don't think it is belaboring it.
Cause when you actually get to know some of these people,
you just get so pissed off.
that it's like you just you just need some extra agendas in there
and you're just like man to convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed
and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners
has spoken against them and that's just how you feel about the person you're
like man this guy's just so ungodly he's so wicked
he's so evil he's so heartless he's just a piece of
And look, that's how I feel about some of these people that have these like black sores all over their body.
That particular individual is just an ungodly piece of filth.
He's so wicked and he's so evil.
And look, all the ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Who's that? Jesus.
They saw this evil horrible stuff about Jesus and they mock Jesus and they mock the Bible and they mock God's people.
And he's just saying all these hard speeches.
And he's just like, uh, I'm just ready for God to come and execute judgment on that person and look
There's gonna be judgment in this life, but the next judgment is even harsher
What are these people like? They're murmurs, complainers, walking after their own lusts,
and their mouths speak of great, swelling words. They just go online and just word vomit
all kinds of complaints and murmuring. And what do you know about this person? They're
just not a positive person. That's why I say it's important to be around positive people
because if you're around someone that's always complaining, you could be around this person.
Look the this person won't be positive this person won't be encouraging this person is not a fan of things
They're a foe of everything. They're just always against everything. They're just always forward. What's forward?
Just against they're just against anything and against everything and they're always negative and they're always talking about bad things
And they're always attacking something. They're not pro anything. They're not for anything. They're not positive
There is always complaining and murmuring and sometimes they seem like teenagers. You know what I mean?
You know what teenagers get a positive attitude and grow up because this isn't a cool attitude
Don't always complain and murmur and just only be self. What is their own lust being selfish?
They're just always selfish. They're always concerned with themselves. Oh, man, Pastor Shelley
He didn't want to buy me breakfast for the church
And he doesn't he doesn't want to be my friend. He doesn't want to date me and he doesn't want to talk to me
It's like always about them, right?
They're always bringing up their desires, their lust, their situation.
It's not about other people or caring about anyone else or any other situation.
It's just about them, they, my.
It's just whatever is going on with them, it's about their experience.
They're just concerned with their own lusts.
And their mouths speak of great, swelling words having men's person's admiration because
of them.
Just just to get some kind of advantage, you know, they just oh, I just love John MacArthur now, or I just love
John Piper, or I just I just love Billy Graham now, or I just love anybody. They just love everything love everyone
But beloved remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ
How they told you there should be mockers in the last times and the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts
These be they who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit
You know, praise God that in many cases we don't have to do anything.
They will eventually walk away themselves.
When everybody says you're weird, walk away, they eventually walk away.
And they separate themselves.
They're sensual, meaning they're carnal.
They don't have the spirit.
They're never spiritual.
They're never thinking about other people.
They have no charity, no love, no grace, no mercy.
They are just a complainer and a murmur,
and they're wicked, and they're evil,
and they're ungodly, and they have hard speeches,
and they hate all authority, and all dominion,
and every church is bad, and every pastor is bad,
and everyone's bad, and it's really just their bad.
But ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God,
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ and eternal life.
You know, even though these horrible people exist and bad things exist
and perilous times are upon us,
you know what, we need to make sure that we're still having the love of God
and we're still loving each other and we're still doing good.
You know, we can't affect anything but ourselves.
And that's a sad, sad reality, but we need to have the serenity to accept that we can't
change a lot of things in this world, but we can change our attitude and we can choose
to have the love of God and we can choose to love people and we can choose to do good
and we can choose to still go soul winning and keep fighting and continue being steadfast.
I mean, if it was easy, then being steadfast wouldn't be that great of a reward.
It wouldn't be that important of a name.
The reason why Steadfast is an important name and it's an important attitude is because
life is hard.
It's very difficult.
In fact, I was looking up statistics about this and it was crazy.
But it was just like of the people that die every year, over 40,000 people die in a car
accident every year.
So it's like two million people die every year, and then like 40,000 of those are from
a vehicle motor accident.
Not only that, from a motor vehicle accident, like half of those are drunk drivers specifically.
But if you just do the math on it, it's over 1% of the active deaths that are happening
every year are specifically from motor vehicle accidents.
At least one of them is going to die from a motor vehicle accident.
That seems like a high percentage when I was thinking about it.
I mean, that's like one out of a hundred.
I mean, I probably know thousands of people.
I mean, the reality is it's going to happen to a lot of people.
I mean, a lot of people are going to die.
You know, if you get older, heart disease is like the number one way to die.
But this is what I've also realized.
Everybody that's ever been born has died.
You don't know one is gonna keep going
I know that we like to think that like John somehow hiding out in South America or South Africa or you know
Somewhere in Antarctica, but no he died to probably somewhere. I don't know when like there's no one's no one's
Making it. We're all gonna die someday
What are we supposed to do? We're supposed to redeem the time because the days are evil
We're supposed to continue loving well. I don't want to live in a world where people are infiltrating the church. I
Want to go to church where it's not infiltrated doesn't exist
Well, I don't want to live in a world where it's dangerous
Doesn't exist, you know in times past Christianity would often hate how disgusting and evil our world got so it would just like flee to some
Area of land that no one had to develop and they would just develop their own colony
Then you had the 13 colonies and they got to start over and it was a little bit more
peaceful for a while.
But then eventually the cockroaches come.
Then eventually the spots come and then they move again and then they come and they move
again.
Here's the thing, we've ran out of real estate folks.
The end times is going to happen because there's nowhere else to go and the whole, the gospel
And the Bible says that the whole world lieth in darkness.
It is a dark, dark world.
You know, if you go out into a sporting event
and you're going to play, the other team's going to be mean
and nasty and hard and they're going to hit you.
It's going to be an ugly battle.
But you know what, sitting on the bench doesn't accomplish anything.
You know we have to get in there and we have to fight and let me tell you something there's going to be casualties
There's going to be difficulties. There's going to be struggles. There's going to be infirmities
You know the Apostle Paul spent a night and day in the deep
The Apostle Paul had to go through all kinds of adversities.
He was stoned multiple times.
He was whipped multiple times.
He had all kinds of people backstab him and lie about him.
And he lost good people.
People gave up on him.
People quit on him.
People died.
I mean, all kinds of horrible things are happening.
Peter's in prison.
James is killed.
Peter has to get out of prison.
And you know what Peter has to do?
He has to keep going.
Because we just have to keep going.
And let me tell you something, we're experiencing light affliction in our lives.
America, Christianity is probably still the easiest Christianity that's ever been had in the last 2,000 years.
We're not being drug off to the Colosseum.
You know, they didn't drag off half of our church to the Colosseum to be fed to lions, literally, through the Roman Catholic Church.
We didn't have, you know, our leader, William Tyndale, brought to the stake and his throat slent and just burned for having to try to give us a Bible.
An innocent little family, a little mom and dad and their children who are trying to learn
just the Lord's Prayer, or Psalm 23, being burned at a stake.
You know, and there's some gruesome videos out there today.
I mean, Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck and killed, and it's a gruesome video.
But how much more gruesome to watch an innocent little mom, homeschooling mom, who taught
her children the Bible burned at the stake?
You know, we can sit here and feel sorry for ourselves and think, like, oh, it's so hard for me to keep going.
But it's like, you haven't even resisted under blood.
You don't even understand the true adversities that's going on in the Bible and in this world.
I mean, you could live in all kinds of countries where it's illegal, they'll put you in prison,
they'll kill you for going out evangelizing and preaching the gospel.
I mean, we have it so good and so easy still that we need to get a little tougher.
We need to get a little bit more steadfast.
We have a little bit more resolve.
And when negative things happen and bad things happen, we say, hey, you know what?
That's not going to stop me.
I'm still going to be steadfast.
Hey, infiltrators come and go?
Well, nuts to them.
They're a bunch of losers anyways.
You know, I'm not going to let losers drag me out of church or get discouraged about
my church.
In fact, I'm going to do this thing.
Wow, it must be a great church because there's infiltrators coming in here.
You know what and don't stop loving people in this room just because bad people ruin it the experience like I've given money to people
That were bad. I've helped people out. I've had people in my home that are bad
I've done good things, but you know what? I still have people in my house
And I still take people out and I still give people money and I still do good things unto people
Why because we're supposed to keep ourselves in the love of God
So just keep loving people
In verse 22,
and of some have compassion making a difference,
and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire,
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
You know, over time,
I'm just gonna quickly address these two verses
and we'll move on, but I've always struggled
to understand these two verses,
but I believe it actually makes sense to me now.
But it's just saying, as a soul winner,
some people, you're gonna have to save with compassion.
And then there's other people
that you're gonna have to save with fear.
You know, I kind of at first thought this was saying like some people save a compassion and some people say with fear
No, you're as a soul when we're supposed to do both
some people need the compassion and
Making a difference some people you need to have fear in the Bible says they're supposed to put a difference
We're supposed to make a difference between the clean and the unclean
So when it's saying making a difference here, it's saying we're we're making a difference between saving with compassion and saving with fear
Sometimes, some people need the soft message and you coddle them.
Sometimes people need you to just rip their face off and tell it like it is.
And you know, that's where our discretion comes in, to kind of analyze the person and
identify, hey, this person needs a little bit softer of a message or they need a little
tougher of a message.
And we try to use that discretion to try and help them and get them saved.
Verse 24.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before
the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, that only wise God our Savior be glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.
Amen.
Notice again, it's Jesus that's able to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless.
We're presented faultless because of Jesus, not because of ourselves, not because of what
we did.
But you know what?
That's great, because think about it.
That's what got me in no what got me in was the blood of Jesus Christ me being steadfast is what gives me the rewards
What gives me the house which gives me the crowns which gives me the gold the silver and the precious stone gives me the souls
That are there rejoicing with me. You know, let's just be honest
I we all probably want a nice house. We all want the gold. We all want the stuff, but you know, it's way better than having a big house
having more friends
And the more people that you get saved,
it's just going to be that many more people
that you get to hang out with, rejoice,
have some kind of a kinship with,
have some kind of a relationship with,
and you know what?
The people that you form relationships in this life.
And in church, just more cool people
you're going to get to hang out with.
I mean, think about it this way.
Like, what if one of these disgruntled, bitter, angry,
weirdo freaks that left our church
is actually somehow saved?
I don't know if it's possible.
Let's just say it is.
Well, then when we all get to heaven, we're gonna be like,
huh, surprise, okay, bye.
I mean, I don't know, but I'm just guessing like,
I'm probably not gonna still be their best friend.
Like, if you're saved, you might as well try to make
as many saved friends as you can.
Right, cause we're good.
You're stuck with me whether you like me or not.
Right? We're all stuck with each other. We might as well like each other. We might as well hang out.
We might as well keep ourselves in the love of God. You might as well do good under other people so that they actually want to hang out with you forever.
Now again, I get it. There's probably not really a bad place in heaven.
Ultimately, it's good in general.
Ultimately, you're gonna have the companion of Jesus, but
you know, it's kind of like MySpace. Everyone's friends with Tom, you know?
Sorry if you don't know that reference, but it's like yeah in heaven everybody's friends with Jesus
But I don't know if everybody else is friends
And you know you might as well get a few more friends while you're here on earth be a little bit friendlier
What's the point in just being a bitter disgruntled hate-filled person?
like if you don't like our church then go find a church we can love somebody and
Have the love of God towards someone you might as well make some friends somewhere
And, you know, when you notice these people that are just disgruntled and bitter and angry
and weird and want you to do drugs with them and they're just against everything, you know
what?
Try to stay away from that person even if they're coming to church because they could
be a bad person.
You know, I say that, you know, I know I'm way over time, I just want to make one more
statement because we're on this point.
You know, be really, really, really, really, really careful with your kids.
Don't think like, oh, this person's really nice at church.
I'm just going to leave my kids with them,
or we're going to do all these slumber parties,
or I'm going to have them take care of my kids
while I go on a vacation, or go on some soul-winning trip,
or whatever.
You know what?
Me and my wife just don't do it.
And it is a burden.
You know, we would love to just go...
I would love to just go on every mission trip with just me and her,
or just go on tons of vacations just me and her,
just tons of dates me and her and whatever.
You know what?
Why I'd love to have that, my kids are still more important to me than that.
And there's just so many stories, there's just so many bad things.
You know what? I just don't trust the people in church just because they came to church.
And you know, sometimes people lay in wait for five years,
10 years, you know, you just never know.
And just as a guiding principle,
just please, please just be very careful with your kids.
Don't just trust them with people.
You know, if someone's giving you the creeps,
please stay away from them.
You know, you're not gonna come to me
and be like, Pastor Shelley, I had all those creepy feelings,
but I just did it anyways.
I'm gonna be like, bro.
Don't do it
You know if it looks like it's wearing a sheep's costume, and it's like a wolf ear. It's like hey
Could be a wolf
Right
Let's just and and it let's just be honest people that get kicked out usually everybody's coming up like yeah
They were weird. They said there's weird stuff. There's bad stuff happening
And nobody wants to be a gossip nobody wants to be that negative person
But hey when you notice it beware be careful stay away from the bad people and you know
It's we're never gonna not have bad people, but at least we can try to limit the damage
Let's try to limit the damage and let's continually fight for our faith.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for this church and thank you for this institution.
Thank you for the church itself.
I pray that we wouldn't get disheartened by the fact that sometimes we have to fight
for our church, sometimes we have to fight ugly people and ugly situations.
I pray that you would help give us wisdom and discernment and discretion, that you'd help increase all of our intuition.
And when people are acting weird and shady and creepy and deceitful and flattering,
that you just help all the hair on the back of our neck stick up and that we would listen to it, we would think about it,
that would be wise, that would be careful.
I pray that you would help us to be careful with our children.
that anybody that comes in here trying to harm us,
that you would just prevent whatever damage
that we could discover them, that we could deal with them,
pray that you would just rebuke them and destroy them,
and that you would try to protect our church
as much as possible.
And we just thank you so much for what you've given us
and Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, for our last song,
let's go to song number 310.
Song number three hundred and ten. Footprints of Jesus. Song number three
hundred and ten.
Let's all sing that out together. Song three hundred and ten.
and some Jesus who's great.
That's the way
It's missed.