RACY JESUS
Good morning everybody and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
So great to see everybody here. If we can go and find our seats, we will get started.
And if everybody can grab a hymnal, we'll start this morning's service out with song number 164.
Song number 164.
Song number 164 praise him praise him
Let's all sing it out real loud
thank you so much for this church we love you so much and we just ask you to
bless this room bless everybody in it and bless the singing Lord and it's in
Jesus' name we pray amen. Alright for our next song let's go to song number 94.
This is a newer song and if you haven't sung it before it's probably gonna be
the case with everybody here but I think it's an easy one to follow along with
If you have heard it before, sing it out.
I'll try to get this one down this morning.
Song number 94, Stand By Me.
Stand by me, when I do the best I can, and my friends misunderstand.
Good morning. Thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you didn't already get a bulletin, you can lift your hand nice and high.
One of us just can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
On the front, we have our Bible memory passage,
Jude chapter 1.
And then on the inside, we have our service times,
our soul winning times, our church stats.
On the right, we have the list of expecting ladies,
and then down below, upcoming events.
So we have the Mother's Day brunch on the 10th.
We have the mother—
or we have the soul winning marathon in Cleburne, May 24th.
and then also Durant, May 31st.
The Cleburne event is going to just simply meet
at a park in the morning.
We're not gonna meet up for breakfast or anything like that.
It's just gonna meet directly at the park.
And we're not even handing out maps.
So all you have to do is,
All you're going to really be doing is showing up to an area that's going to
anticipatedly have about 1,000 people or so just out.
And they're going to be doing baseball tournament stuff,
but there should be a lot of spectators, people just out and about.
And it's an area where a lot of Marshallese people congregate every year,
and so it's just an opportunity to go soul-winning.
We'll end up meeting for lunch somewhere and then we'll just probably
Depending on how it goes either just go back to that park area if everything is going as expected
Or we may have maps to hand out or if people want to do some other different types of soul winning
So that's what that event is going to look like the
Durant Oklahoma we will be meeting for breakfast somewhere there in Durant, Oklahoma, and we're gonna be partnering with
Anchor Baptist Church and so if you'd like to participate in that I don't know exactly the distance
Maybe about an hour and a half from the Dallas-Fort Worth area
So if you'd like to participate on that one
Father's Day floats on the 15th, and then we have a Shreveport Marathon also
June 28th so a lot of soul-winning opportunities on the back is our prayer list and that's pretty much all I have as far as
announcements go ahead and sing our
Psalm of the week Psalm 146 if you want to get out of your Psalm binders Psalm 146
All right that was Psalm chapter 146 Psalm 146 let's fall along in our binders
Crazy the poor, crazy the poor
ahead and turn in your Bibles to Esther chapter one as the book of Esther chapter number one.
Esther won the Bible Reads. Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus.
This is Ahasuerus which reigned from India even under Ethiopia over 107 and 20 provinces
that in those days when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom which was in Shushan, the palace,
in the third year of his reign he made a feast under Wallace's princes and his servants,
the power of Persia and media, the nobles and princes of the provinces being before him.
When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom in the honor of his excellent majesty many days even in hundred and four score days and
When these days were expired the king made a feast and to wall the people that were president Shushan the palace
Both under great and small seven days in the court of the garden of the king's palace
Where were white green and blue hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble
The beds were of gold and silver
upon a pavement of red and blue and white and black marble.
And they gave them drink and vessels of gold,
the vessels being diverse one from another,
and royal wine and abundance according
to the state of the king.
And the drinking was according to the law, none did compel,
for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house
that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
Also, Vashti, the queen, made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged
to King Ahasuerus.
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was married with wine...
He commanded Mahuman, Bistha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abaktha, Zithar, and Karkis, the seven Chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king.
To bring Vashti, the queen, before the king, with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes their beauty, for she was fair to look on.
But the Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamber lends, therefore was the king very wroth and his anchor burned in him.
Then the king said to the wise men which knew the times, for so was the king's manner toward all that new law and judgment.
And the next unto him was Karashina Shethar.
Admitha, Tarshish, Mires, Marsena, and Mimucan, the seven princes of Persia and Medea,
which saw the king's face and which sat the first in the kingdom.
What shall we do under the queen Vashti according to law, because she had not performed the commandment
of the king, Ahasuerus?
by the Chamberlains, and Mimuc can answer before the king and the princes. Vashdi the queen
had not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes and to all the people that
are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus. For this deed of the queen shall come abroad
unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes when it shall be reported.
The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashdi the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
Likewise, shall the ladies of Persia and Medea say this day unto all of the king's princes which have heard of the deed of the queen, thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, that Vashti come no more before King Ahasuerus, and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
And when the king's decree, which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, for it is great. All the wife shall give to their husband's honor, both to great and small.
And the saying pleased the king and the princess,
and the king did according to the word of Mamukin.
for he sent letters into all the king's provinces and to every province according to the writing
thereof and to every people after their language that every man should bear rule in his own house
and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. Father in heaven, I ask Lord God that you would bless
this sermon this morning and that you fill Pastor Shelley with your spirits, soften hearts in the
And so that Lord God, we can live a more complete Christian life.
We love you and in Jesus' name, I pray, amen, amen.
I want to start in the middle of verse 20.
The Bible says, all the wives shall give to their husband's honor,
both to great and small in the saying, please, the king and the princes.
And the king did according to the word of Mimukin.
for he sent letters into all the king's provinces
and to every province according to the writing thereof,
and to every people after their language
that every man shall bear rule in his own house
and that it should be published according to the language
of every people.
The Bible tells us that men should be in charge
of their own house and that wives should give honor
unto their husband.
And the title of my sermon this morning is this,
King of the Castle.
Because men are the king of their castle and we need to we need to understand this doctrine
And I don't think that there's necessarily a huge problem in our church
But there's a huge problem with our society
Constantly trying to tear down
Men and act like they're not the king of the castle the Bible
emphasize to this point
We have a king here emphasizing this point, and you say, well, this is King Ahasuerus.
Okay, but if you understand the book of Esther, you have to understand that it's all symbolism,
and King Ahasuerus pictures God the Father.
And he is emphasizing this point in the Bible so for our benefit to realize that men should be in charge and rule in their house and women should obey their husband and children should obey the father because he is the king of the castle.
Now go to Luke chapter 11 for more.
Go to Luke chapter 11.
And I want to look at verse 21 now in Luke chapter 11, Jesus Christ is explaining how
demon possession works and casting out devils and in the midst of this, he gives a carnal
application to help us understand some of these principles and I want to focus on the
carnal application because all of the truths of the Bible are true.
The carnal truths are true and the spiritual truths are true and he often uses carnal truths
to help us understand spiritual truths.
When a strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace
So this is the king of his castle and it's saying when he's strong and when he's armed everything's good
everything's in peace
Now you might say oh wow it must be nice to be the quote king of the castle
But you know what you're afforded a lot of protection
You're afforded a lot of liberties
You're afforded peace by the fact that you have a king of the castle
By the fact that you have a strong man, that you have a strong man armed,
don't think that, oh, being the king of the castle is just all perks and all benefits.
No, obviously, they get perks and benefits because of the protection,
because of what they offer, because they bring peace into that castle.
And they're protecting that castle.
And so therefore, this is why you have peace is because you have a strong man keeping his palace.
Verse 22, but when it's stronger, then he shall come upon him.
and overcome him.
He'd take it from him, all his armor, wearing he trusted,
and divide it his spoils.
You know, it doesn't say here,
well, when a stronger cometh, his wife then takes care of business.
You know what it just says?
It just says, like, it's just basically granted.
If he can overcome him, it's all his.
He gets everything and I know that today because women have the ability to have firearms and they can shoot
that sometimes they can protect themselves and I'm all for women protecting themselves and of course we have like one story in the
Bible about jail overcoming someone but
She overcame barrack not when a barrack was coming to attack her
He was coming peaceably and she deceived him and tricked him and overcame him if
Barak had come to attack her. She would have lost
She would have never won because women cannot compete with men in this area
Men will overcome women and you know what you need men to be protected from other men
You need men to guard and protect your castle.
That's why they're the king of the castle.
And so we need to realize why you're even giving honor under your husband.
Sometimes you just live in such a peaceable land.
We live in America where there's very minimal violence by large.
And so you kind of forget that you need that man.
Maybe in other societies, other cultures, other countries, other areas.
It was just a lot more danger, a lot more threat constantly.
So women would recognize, oh wow, I actually need this guy.
I actually need someone to protect me.
Oh, this guy's actually affording me some protection.
Not even just from men, the elements.
Whether that be bears, lions, tigers, dragons, whatever.
You know, isn't that the whole fairy tale story?
Is the princess rescued from the dragon?
How do you think that happened? It wasn't G.I. Jane
It wasn't Xena Xena the warrior princess
It wasn't it wasn't some chick going in there and rescuing another chick. No, it was a night
It was a knight in shining armor and he was gonna take that princess back to his castle
And he's gonna be the king of his castle and so therefore the king of the castle should be treated like a king
Even the law in America and in Texas in many ways, agrees with this and backs men up and says that they have the right to be the king of their castle.
In fact, in Texas, you have what's called Castle Doctrine. Who knows what I'm talking about? Castle Doctrine.
Or another term is called Stand Your Ground.
So in the state of Texas, you have what's known as Stand Your Ground or Castle Doctrine enshrined in law.
And I'm going to read a little bit of a legal definition here.
This is from a lawyer just kind of summarizing the law
because if we just read the law, it's a little bit obtuse.
It can be difficult to pick up everything.
So we'll get a little bit more clear explanation.
But in essence, because the law looks at you as the king of your castle,
you don't have to even retreat into your own castle if you perceive a threat.
So if you're on your front lawn, if you're on your front yard
and someone's just threatening to come into your castle,
They haven't come into your castle.
They're threatening to come into your castle.
You don't have to retreat into your castle.
You can take them down right there
and not even allow them to enter into the castle.
That's what Castle Doctrine is.
Castle Doctrine is saying you have the right to guard your castle,
especially within the confines of the castle,
but even just the land around the castle that's yours,
you can stand your ground and you can defend your castle on the outside.
of your castle. Now, not every state has this, especially not places in other countries and other
parts of the world do you have this kind of law. But you know what? At least Texas still recognizes,
hey, this is the king of the castle. He gets to defend his castle, how he sees fit. Now,
I'll just read for you. This is from a lawyer's website.
The Castle Doctrine in Texas is a legal principle that allows residents to use force, including deadly force, to defend themselves, their family, and their property from an intruder or an attacker.
This doctrine is rooted in the idea that the individual's home or castle is their sanctuary and they have the right to protect it and
themselves without the duty to retreat
Texas also extends this protection to other places such as an individual's vehicle or
Workplace where they have a legal right to be so in fact castle doctrine is not even just your castle your chariot counts, too
You don't even have to retreat to your chariot. You can defend your chariot. You don't even have to retreat when it's your business
Hey, this church. Hey, this is our castle here and we get to defend it
and we can refuse the right to enter this castle
because this is God's house and you know what?
We have the right in Texas to defend that
and we will defend that
and we have defended that
and we will continue to defend that, okay?
Now, it gives a couple just explanations.
I just want to give you some education on this.
It says the use of force is justifiable.
If the individual reasonably believes that there is an immediate necessity to protect themselves or someone else from the unlawful use of force by an intruder.
So it gives four examples. Number one.
The use of deadly force is justifiable if the individual reasonably believes it is necessary to protect themselves or someone else from imminent death,
serious bodily injury, or to prevent the commission of a violent crime such as aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, or robbery.
There is no duty to retreat in Texas if the individual has a right to be in a location where the force is used
and they are not engaged in criminal activity at the time.
The Castle Doctrine does not apply if the individual using force as the initial aggressor provoked the attack
or is engaged in criminal activity.
So as long as you're not starting the problem,
As long as you're not involved in some kind of a crime,
you have the right to basically guard your castle
as you see fit, your chariot, or your workplace.
Now, this is what I think is crazy.
If the law can back up men,
if the law can say, hey, you're the king of the castle,
if King Ahasuerus can say, hey,
you're the king of your castle,
then how come other Christians can't say the same thing?
I mean, you got even just secular people, the law, and all these people just saying
like, man, men should be the ruler, should be the king, they're in charge, they get
the right to defend themselves, but you know what?
I feel like there is an attack on male authority.
There is an attack on husbands ruling their houses as they see fit.
Whereas the law, King of Hazurus, and I'm going to show you in the Bible too,
the Bible is giving men carte blanche to rule as they see fit.
And you know, as a pastor, what I don't want to do...
And I'm not sure that I've ever done it.
Maybe I have, is I just don't want to undermine
male authority or the men's right
to rule their houses they see fit.
Because, you know, my personal preferences
as a person have no bearing on your household.
You do not have to follow Pastor Shelley's personal preferences.
You don't have to follow my example in every area of life.
You can do whatever you want and I just preach what the Bible says mostly.
Sometimes I explain my personal opinions,
my personal preferences, how I
apply the Word of God in my life. Because if I don't provide any
example, if I don't explain things in plain language, sometimes people are weird.
And I think that the more that I kind of just say,
this is kind of how I do it,
this is kind of how I apply things,
then it gives people an idea of like,
okay, that's kind of what this looks like.
But don't make a mistake and think like,
oh, if Pastor Shelley does it this one way,
my husband can't do it his way.
No, no, no, no, no.
As long as it's within the boundaries of the Bible,
your husband is right, Pastor Shelley is wrong.
Every time, we need to empower men.
Men are the king of their castle,
and they get to rule their castle as they see fit.
You know, in the Garden of Eden, Adam was given the right
to eat of all the trees of the garden.
It says, of all the trees of the garden,
they'll may as freely eat, except for one.
So let's just say, you know, and again, hypothetically,
we all know it's just Adam and Eve in there.
But let's just say there's multiple people in there.
What if I just said, well, I like the trees over on this side
and I don't like the ones over here?
There's nothing wrong with you going and eating
of the trees on the other side.
As long as we're just not eating of the tree
in the midst of the garden, the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, we're all good.
And I may have a preference towards some trees over here
and you like the trees over there
and this guy likes the trees over there.
And you know what?
We're all just freely eating of the trees of the garden,
how we see fit, as long as we're just not eating of the tree
in the midst of the garden.
And you know what? I'm going to constantly praise things like Texas, brisket, chili without beans,
all these kind of things because I know that it's better, alright?
But honestly, you know why I do a lot of those things?
I'll just be real frank with you, okay?
I'll just tell you why I do those things.
Because I want people to enjoy where they live.
And I think it's important as a pastor to encourage people
to not have a negative attitude about where they live
and their lifestyle.
And so I'm constantly emphasizing a lot of positive things
that happen to be in Texas or in this area.
And I'm sure you know like,
hey pastor, surely really champions Texas
and the food and all the positive.
You know, I'm not sitting here like hammering
all the negatives like allergies.
Boy, I hate the allergies here.
I'm a victim of that every year.
That's why I sound like I got a tennis ball in my nose
or something like that,
because of the stinking allergies.
Yeah, are there negatives here?
Sure, sometimes, I mean, there was a summer,
maybe a couple of years ago,
I don't think it rained for like 90 days
and it was just hot and it was just overbearing.
Yeah, sometimes it can be a little bit intense here.
Yeah, sometimes the local judges suck.
Like they really, really suck here, okay?
Yeah, obviously there's still sodomites here.
Yeah, there's a street that's decorated in rainbow flags
all over in Texas and I hate those establishments
and I hate that particular small area.
But you know, I don't want to sit here
and just focus on all the negatives.
I want to bring up all the positives.
Yeah, come on.
Now, if you and your heart, you're like,
why just like my homeland better?
And I like all my food preferences better.
Good for you.
That's great.
But you know what? I'm going to constantly champion things that I like, and I'm going to...
I'm real.
You know who I am. You know what I'm like.
If you get up and preach for a while, you're going to express your personal opinions every once in a while.
But you know what? Don't make the mistake again,
and think, well, Pastor Shelley's preference is,
you have to agree with them to come to Steadfast Baptist Church,
or Pastor Shelley's preference is how every man should rule his home.
No, no, no, no.
You rule your home, how you see fit.
If you like the Pittsburgh Steelers and you put beans in your chili and you know what?
You drive around in a NASCAR. Well, you know what? Praise God.
You're an example of being saved by grace, all right?
But let me tell you something. Hey, you know what?
Let every man be the king of his own castle.
Let's stop trying to demean men and act like there's something wrong with them for them expressing their, you know
Leadership how they want to see fit their kingdom, you know men get the right to rule their house as they see fit
And we could extend this to all kinds of areas, but I want to go to like three specific ones go to Proverbs 3 go to Proverbs chapter 3
Here's one that's really important as the king of your castle
you get to decide the punishment for your household.
And I am not going to stand in judgment
of how men decide to punish their household.
Now, Proverbs 3.
Look at verse 11 my son despised not the chastening of the Lord neither be weary of his correction
For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as a father the son and whom he delighteth
Now the word even means specifically and the Bible is saying that the way God
Disciplines us is the way that a father that loves his children disciplines his children
He's saying, specifically, fathers who correct their children love their children.
The Bible does not say correction is bad.
The Bible does not say correction is withdrawing natural affection.
The Bible is saying punishing your children is the exact opposite.
It's coming from a place of love.
You should love that your dad punishes you you should love that your dad
Enforces rules because let me tell you something dads that don't punish their children don't love their children
He that spare at the rod hate if his son is what the Bible says
It doesn't say loves him hates him if you don't punish your children you hate them. That's not my opinion
That's the Bible's opinion
And so therefore, if a dad is punishing his children,
that already tells me he's in the right category
because the Bible says he loves his child.
Therefore, I'm not going to sit here and stand in judgment
of how the dad decides to punish his children.
You know what?
I'm also not going to stand in judgment
of how my Heavenly Father judges his children.
You know what?
I may not like it.
You may not like it.
But you know what?
You read in the Bible, hey, they commit fornication dead.
They lie, he kills them.
They commit adultery he kills them they worship false gods
He says Moses grounded in the powder and the gold put it in water and make them drink it
That sounds abusive I
Don't really care what you think because I'm not gonna stand in judgment of how my Heavenly Father
Judges his children and punishes his children and in the same way
I'm not gonna sit here and stand in judgment of how men punish their children. I
had a similar story
One time I was making fun of my dad for drinking some disgusting drink, it's called Barley
Green.
Has anybody heard of this?
Okay, there's like one person, all right.
It's like this powder.
For lack of a better word that you would put in a drink of water like maybe eight ounces glass of water
and you're only supposed to put like maybe a tablespoon because this stuff is thick and
When it dissolves in there just turns the cup solid green and he would drink it. It was some I don't know why
You know, I guess glutton for punishment
But he would drink this stuff to be healthy and I always just made fun of him like that's so gross
I can't believe you drink that
And he was like why don't you try it and I was like no I refuse to try it so then him and my brother held me down
To try and get me to try it why wouldn't open my mouth so then they held my nose and
Then he just shoved he just shoved a tablespoon of the powder in my mouth
He didn't give me the drink. He gave me the powder
Which was just so like it just dried my mouth out instantly. I was like choking. I felt like I was gonna die, okay?
I was you know, I'm probably dramatic or whatever
But you know, I didn't die
Obviously
And you know how many times I made fun of my dad after that for that drink never again
Now some people would be like oh, that's abuse or whatever. Oh your dad's so abusive, but you know what I'm not gonna stand in judgment of my dad
If I'm making fun of my dad, he gets to do whatever he wants and you know what? Hey
You're not gonna make fun of your dad when he's doing that
It's like dang, you know, I mean my dad he had he used the
like the rod and
My brother and sister would always talk about how he like broke it on them or whatever
And I'm telling you like, when you know those things,
you're a little bit more terrified to break your dad's rules.
You're just a little bit more terrified.
My mom would say, hey, if you get in trouble at school,
I've signed the paperwork, you're gonna be spanked at school.
When I went to school, this must have been like ages ago.
You could get spanked at school.
Did anybody go to school when that was the case?
Okay, yes, praise God I'm not the only one.
I could be spanked at school.
She said, I signed up, you're gonna be spanked at school,
then you're gonna be spanked by me,
and then you're gonna be spanked by your dad.
And you know what I thought as a kid?
That's not fair.
I was like, I was like horrified.
I was like, what's wrong with you?
Do you not love me?
You know why she did that?
Because she loved me.
I'm not going to stand in judgment of my parents because they love me enough to try and tell
me, hey, if you be good, then you'll get rewarded, if you're bad, you'll be punished.
And when I was younger, my mom, she would get me a McDonald's Happy Meal if I was good
at school.
So they gave me the carrot and the stick.
Hey, some people like this doctrine, all right?
When I was a kid, I just liked the plain burger, just meat and bun, that's it.
I loved McDonald's.
Go if you would to Proverbs 29.
Go to Proverbs 29.
The Bible is as happy as the man that finds his wisdom
and the man that gets his understanding.
You know, we're just,
we just should not stand in judgment of our parents,
especially our dad.
How every punishes is how every punishes.
Just suck it up buttercup and just say,
I'm so glad that my dad at least punishes me.
Because the kids whose dad doesn't punish them,
the foolishness has not been driven out of their heart.
And as a result, many of them will commit crimes and go down really dark paths
because they don't fear God, they don't fear the law, they don't fear punishment,
they didn't have a dad, rain them in and stop them from being wild.
Many times, you know, I've helped with kids programs my whole life.
I've helped with kids' programs at my church.
I've helped kids' programs in athletics.
I still do it.
I help with my kids' soccer teams and stuff.
And you know what?
You can see the behavior difference of the kids
who don't have a dad in their life.
And it's real obvious.
What does the Bible say in Proverbs 29, verse 15?
The rod and reproof give wisdom.
But a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
You know, we need the rod and reproof.
Just go to John chapter two, if you would, go to John chapter two.
The Bible says in Proverbs 13,
Why, son, hear this father's instruction,
but a scorner, heareth not rebuke.
I want to say this, you know, when we're talking about punishment,
I'm talking about everything.
I'm not talking about just literal, physical, corporal punishment.
I agree with that.
The dad has the right to use the rod,
he has the right to use the scourge,
he has the right to chase in however he sees fit.
If he wants to put barley green in your mouth, barley green.
I had friends who, if they mailed off to their parents,
they would wash their kids' mouths out with soap.
I'm not gonna stand in judgment of that.
Not only this, I believe that the parents have the right
to verbally correct their children as they see fit.
If they want to scream and yell at their kid,
I'm not going to stand in judgment of that.
If they want to choose whatever vocabulary they want to use,
I'm not going to stand in judgment of that.
And you know what, sometimes you need some strong language
to correct some bad behavior.
And boy, you know, if you're a parent and you're very good
at keeping yourself in check where you don't use strong language very much,
but then you bring it out occasionally,
It has a powerful effect and
You know again, some people get super offended by this. I don't really care what you think
But at the end of the day, there's been times in my life where I've been quote cussed out by teachers
coaches parents
By other people and boy it really stings
But then it's like oh I need to change
I don't sit here and think like,
oh, you're not a Christian now or something.
No, I think, hey, I need to take heed to this advice.
You know, I need to make sure,
hey, if your dad thinks you need to be screamed at,
hey, that's his call.
And you know what?
I think sometimes kids need to be screamed at.
I mean, the Bible brings up rebuke,
the Bible brings up the pastor, the preacher crying loud
and sparing not, hey, I'm getting up here
and screaming all the time.
How it how hypocritical would it be for me to sit here and scream at you?
Get up here and scream at you and say you better not scream at your children in your house
Wouldn't that just seem really hypocritical?
Like that doesn't really make any sense like how much more of a right like I would think that a dad
Has more right to scream at his children than me as just your pastor just scream at grown men
But I think both are right
And if you've ever been here, you already know that, all right?
I'm just kidding.
But, and hey, I have screamed at grown men.
I screamed at them not even just from the pulpit and private.
And I will occasionally.
But you know what?
It's not because I hate that person,
it's because I love that person.
Because if I didn't like you, I'd just be like, bye.
Bye, Felicia.
You know, it's just like, I don't care.
Honey, Badger, don't care.
Look at John chapter two.
Oh, well, I don't think Jesus acts like this.
Okay, well, look at verse 14.
This is Jesus, and found in the temple house those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money sitting,
and when he had made a scourge of small cords,
he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers' money
and overthrew the tables and sent them that sold doves.
Take these things, hits!
Make not my father's house and house of merchandise.
This is the Jesus Christ of the Bible.
The Jesus Christ of the Bible comes in and screams and yells and throws tables over
and whips people, you know, whips at people.
I don't know if you actually hit them or not.
I can't say dogmatically, but boy, it didn't seem like an idle threat.
I would venture to believe it's very likely or possible he did hit someone.
Maybe he never did. Maybe just the sound of just that whip cracking was enough.
I don't know.
Obviously, if you were a smart person, you just need to hear it.
You don't need to feel it.
But it does say he drove them out of there with a scourge.
Like, I don't think he was just like, just joking, I wasn't really going to do it.
And if Jesus, I mean, this isn't even his children.
This is just grown men in the house of God
that he's bringing in a whip to whip grown men
because what they're doing is just so bad.
They're making the house of God a house of merchandise and you know what?
Jesus is in there trying to enforce the king of the castles rules and the king of the castles God the father
It's his house and God the father's house to be ruled how God the father wants to be ruled
And so Jesus comes in and he backs up his father and says hey, I'm gonna whip you out of here. I
Don't like your punishment techniques. Well, you know what Jesus Christ is using a whip
To drive people out. Oh, that's not gonna work. It seems like it worked
Go to Hebrews 12 go to Hebrew show, you know, it's so silly to me how people act like these things don't work or something
I'm like, have you ever heard of the military?
The military do you think the military puts up with dissension?
You think the military puts up with people just act men going their own way
Boy, they'll punish you fast and hard and think about it if if ruling by constraint or ruling by
Authority doesn't work then why is the military so effective? I
Mean the US military rules the world for a reason
It's because they don't put up with junk you mouth off to your superior. You're gonna get in trouble
You get out of line out of trouble. You just simply falter. You just simply fail in any way
You don't keep up with the group punished your beds messy punished. I mean it is militant
Now again, I get it that they're not necessarily there to love on you
But they are there to accomplish a goal and that goal is accomplished and
In fact while some people I think have a very bitter
and resentful attitude towards the military in general.
A lot of people have a really positive attitude.
A lot of people really, like, love their brethren that they served with.
They love some of their sergeants. They love some of their corporals. They love some of the generals.
They love some of the people they served under. And they realize this person actually did love me.
Because you know what they didn't want? They didn't want me to be so sloppy that when I get onto the actual battlefield,
that I die. Or I cause one of my buddies to die. Or that we cause them kind of an issue.
Or that innocent people are killed. Or because we lose the war, then invaders come and take over our country.
And let me tell you something, you know, we are an army here.
We are the army of the Lord here.
And so, you know what, we don't just play games.
And when Christians are acting sloppy,
it's the job of the overseers and the pastors and the rulers
to get people in line because we love you and we love the work of the ministry
and we love God and we don't want to see damage in the house of God.
We want to get people saved out there and we're doing the Lord's work out there
And there's real enemies out there and so we better be in line
And you know what there's nothing wrong with a pastor or a king or a ruler or a dad
Ruling their house as they see fit because it's important
There are men that want to overcome you. We need to be strong
We need to be armed and we need to rule as we see fit and we need to stop tearing down authority
We need to put men back in the driver's seat
We need to put men back on their throne.
We need to put the crown back on men in their household and say this guy's a king.
Serve him like a king.
Act like he's a king.
Treat him like he's a king.
Respect him like he's a king.
You know what? Jesus respected God the Father like a king.
These other people were trashing God the Father by bringing in all their merchandise
and making money and making the house of God a mockery.
Hebrews chapter 12, look at verse six.
For whom the Lord loveth, he chaseneth and scourgeth,
every son whom he receiveth.
God punishes his children.
Why? Because he loves us.
He chasens all of us.
Notice this, and scourgeth.
There's just so many people today
that they just want to run away from English words.
He's like, I wonder what scourge means.
Well, let's see the number one usage of scourge in the Bible is when Jesus was scourged for our sins
What do you think that meant?
What do you think it meant when he got whipped?
He was he was whipped for us
Another mention of scourge was him making a scourge of small cords and going in and driving people out
You know, it's not rocket science if the Bible is using scourge in one way the entire Bible
Why would I then get to Hebrews and then say,
oh, scourge here doesn't really mean scourge.
It means light reproof.
No, you're insane.
And you don't speak English.
Like if you just speak English, you just read the verse
and you're just like, yep.
Yep, no problem, because men have the right to punish as they see fit.
But you know what, if you come to the Bible and you just say,
man, I've just been listening to all these psychologists,
and I've been listening to all these women talk to me about how to parent my children,
and then you come to this verse and you're like,
Scourge, ahhh!
That can't mean what it means.
English words can't actually mean English things,
and you have to just try to redefine words in the Bible.
Instead of just saying, that's what the Bible says, let's look at another place in the Bible.
Oh, scourge, scourge, scourge. Oh, okay, it means me, it's whip.
And then some people get so offended like, oh, God whips his children. Yeah, he does.
Literally and metaphorically.
Literally, in the case that, hey, in the Old Testament, you commit certain crimes, you do certain things, you get whipped by the government.
If your country gets too bad, well then he'll throw you into someone else's control, some foreign nation, like Egypt, or like the Assyrians, or like the Babylonians, and they'll physically whip you and scourge you on God's behalf because of your wicked sins.
And then he'll metaphorically scourge you, your heart, your belly, your mind for all the evil and the wickedness that you do
and cause you to feel that pain and feel that emotional turmoil.
Look, God will scourge his children.
That's just a promise in the Bible.
We need to stop getting away from this doctrine.
It says in verse 7,
Now what's the point of chastening?
Chastening is behavior correction.
It's, you know, there's multiple punishments.
Some punishments are designed to cause you to change your behavior.
Some punishments are designed to just stop you.
If you're bad enough, God will just stop you and just send you home.
That's why you have to be a good sheep or you'll be put to sleep
But in many cases if you talk about chastening the point of chastening is
Simply just to get better so that he doesn't go to the final punishment
Finish him okay, and you don't want God to finish you
You don't want God to bring you home early.
That's why we fall in line.
That's why we obey the commandments.
That's why we fear God.
That's why we rejoice with trembling.
Yeah, we should come to church and rejoice with trembling.
We sing the praises, we sing the Psalms and the Ames
that we're rejoicing, and then the preaching comes
and we tremble.
We tremble at God's word.
We tremble in fear before an Almighty God for our God is a consuming fire
It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God
We should be terrified of the Lord God because he's what the Bible calls a terrible God not saying he's bad saying he's
terrifying
It's a terrifying God that we worship and that we serve,
and God will judge His house, and God will judge His children,
and God will chasten His children, and God will scourge His children.
Why do you think we believe in hard preaching?
Because you know what? The preaching won't hurt you as bad as the punishment will.
I guarantee my words have never, quote,
scourged you as much as God will actually deal with you
if you actually don't regard God's word.
The pain and the suffering that people are experiencing, not going to church,
not serving God, and not being right with God is far worse
than any sermon I've ever preached to you ever.
And you know what? If a dad screams and yells at his kid,
it's not going to destroy him like the kid going out
and doing drugs and getting involved in gangs
and committing random fornication
and just breaking all of God's commandments.
Why would a dad get so mad and say stuff to his kids?
Now look, I'm not trying to say that I don't think punishment can be overdone by men.
It can.
Obviously, I'm not saying that as men, we shouldn't try to balance grace with punishment sometimes.
But just in general, I'm just not going to stand a judgment of how men rule their household.
If they want to be a little bit harsher than me, that's their right.
That's their decision.
And you know what? We are supposed to just respect them, period.
That's what's being brought up here.
Look what it says in verse 8.
But if you be without chastisement, we're of all our partakers,
then you're bastards and not sons.
Furthermore, we had fathers of our flesh,
which corrected us.
Notice this.
And we gave them reverence.
When your father corrects you, you respect them.
Period.
It doesn't say,
yeah, but what about in the cases where it went overboard?
It doesn't bring that up.
So you quit bringing it up.
Quit bringing up exceptions the Bible doesn't bring up
Well, the Bible doesn't talk about this right
Then you don't talk about it
Man, there's not a lot of preaching on these exceptions because it's not in the Bible
Have you ever wondered like I wonder why this is never brought up. Maybe this is not brought up in the Bible
There's some people they just get they just preach their whole lives on things that just are not even brought up
Why don't we talk about things that are brought up?
Maybe what you're bringing up, the Bible just doesn't care about your little exception over here.
He says,
in the rest of this verse,
shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father's spirits and live?
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure,
but he for our prophet that we might be retakers of his holiness.
Notice this.
God goes so far as to say that not only do dads have the right to punish their children
and then they can punish their children, they can do it at their own pleasure.
Why are you correcting your son? Because I want to.
Was that biblical? Yes.
You know how dads get to punish their children however they want?
After their own pleasure. Bible.
Bible says men get to rule and men get to punish after their own pleasure.
Hey, why'd you correct your son?
Because I wanted him to act different.
Well, I don't know if I agree.
Well, go rule your castle however you want to see fit,
because that's for me and my house.
This is how I'm going to punish.
This is how I'm going to rule.
It's after my own pleasure.
And you know what the response of the child is?
I respect that, period.
So, point one is this, men are the king of the castle, they get to decide punishment.
Number two, kings of the castle, they get to decide the pleasure.
Everything they rule, they get to rule after their own pleasure.
We just saw that right there, after their own pleasure.
Point two, whatever dad wants goes.
Not just punishment, all areas.
Go to Song of Solomon chapter two, go to Song of Solomon chapter two.
You know what the wife and the children should be doing?
Whatever dad wants.
Whatever the king wants and again, why am I saying king of the castle? Because maybe that's the mindset you need to get from now on
Instead of looking at your husband is just a dude
You need to look at him as a king. I mean boy girls just fall over themselves to do anything
That the quote prince wants
I mean we talk about the royal family we talk about the royals or whatever and everybody wants to get married to Prince Harry and Prince
Girls will do anything to marry that guy.
Girls will wear anything to marry that guy.
Girls would learn any knowledge to marry that guy.
Girls would do whatever he said.
You know what, that is how you should be
to the great and small of their own household.
Your man is your king, your man is your prince Harry,
your man is the guy that you're supposed to obey and woo
and do after his pleasure.
Oh, I would have used a king. He is a king. He's the king of your castle. Therefore, treat him like a king.
Song of Solomon, chapter two, look at verse seven.
I charge you, oh, you daughters of Jerusalem, by the rose and by the hinds of the field,
that ye stir not up, nor wake my love, notice this, till he please.
Men get to sleep however and whenever they want in their own house.
If men want to sleep on the couch men get to sleep on the couch
When whenever they want
Hey, it used to be dad's chair. Who knows what I'm talking about dad's chair and when dad comes home
You move out and dad gets to sit there. It's the captain's chair
Put dad back into the captain's chair, and he gets to sleep whenever he wants wherever he wants
Hey, this is my bed. You know what? I never get kicked out of my bed. It's the king's bed
And you know what? I have a king bed. Maybe some of you men need to get a king bed instead of that queen bed you're in
I don't have one of these queen beds. I have a king bed
And you know what I get up whenever I want
Bible I
Don't know. I don't know if that's what meant. Well, let's keep reading go to chapter 3 verse 5. I
Charge you oh you daughters of Jerusalem by the rose and by the hinds of the field that you stir not up nor awake my love
Till he please I
Like this girl's attitude
She says it in chapter 2. She says it in chapter 3. Let's go to chapter 8. See if the message changed
Maybe some people are just not reading the Bible
Now you get your so misogynistic, I don't I don't care what you call me. I just like what the Bible says
And you know what I don't hate my wife, I don't hate children and you know what I also don't hate men
You know, all this, quote, misogynistic labeling,
it's really just men hating is what it is.
I don't hate men. Men are the king of their castle.
We need to empower men again.
I love men to put them back in their own chair,
in their own bed,
and to wake up whenever the heck they want.
Like a song of Solomon, chapter 8, verse 4,
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake by love.
Until he please how many how many times do you have to read this in the Bible before you just believe it?
For me it's once
For you it should be once
Here's a here's a here's a three times dose go through it to first to me the chapter number six
You know what the house should run as the man pleases
The punishment is as he wants and everything is as he was however he wants it
Whenever food he wants he gets and again, I'm real picky about food
I often bring up food because I relate to food. I hope you relate to food
But at the end of the day if your husband likes everything I detest
You make it for him
if he wants to sit there and put ranch dressing into his bean chili and
Drink it as a slushie you make it
Alright. This is weird. If he's a vegan, vegan meals, man. If he likes all kinds of exotic ethnic food, if he wants
Bollut, put it on the table, man. If he likes water burger over in and out, he's going to water burger.
I'm not getting a lot of amens. I get it. Hey, but if you like it, you wear it as a badge of honor.
Hey, I'm for you getting what you want
If you like things that are different than other people praise God for you
You know what men should get what they want
Men should get what they are pleased to have
Men are the king of the castle. The king just says this is what I want and he gets it
And we need to empower men and say men. Hey, they're the king of the castle. They get it
First Timothy chapter six now this extends to all kinds of things
But I want to show you even your boss your boss in a sense as a king of his work
He gets what he wants to and we should treat our bosses that way
You know we say like oh you just got it so nice. Yeah, but we have to do that to our bosses
We should do that to our pastors. We should do that to our government officials
We should do that to God the Father. We should do that to all the authorities in our life
Men aren't off the hook. Men are just the king of their castle
And we as men used to be boys, and we had to do what our mom said, and our teachers said, and everybody else said then too.
But then when we became a man, we put away childish things.
Now, longer do I have those authorities in my life.
I still have authorities, but you know what, men are the king of their castle, and they should be treated like men.
They should be treated like kings.
First to the chapter 6 verse 1,
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count, throw in masters worthy of all honor.
That the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
Any level of rebellion
Any level of just undermining authority is satanic, it's blasphemous, it's against the word of God.
That's not my opinion. The Bible says that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed.
How many preachers today are undermining authority and is blaspheming the doctrine of God?
It's blaspheming the doctrine of the Bible.
We need to submit today.
We need to put servants into fear and into subjection under their own masters.
The Bible does not say, hey, just do whatever you want.
No, the Bible says, if you're a servant, you serve under that yoke.
This is not voluntary service here.
This is you're under a yoke, and you serve, and this is your master,
and they're worthy of all honor, because anything rebelling against
Satan, of course, hates authority.
And, of course, you have to understand feminism as a whole is just rebellion against male authority.
And then you say, where's it coming from?
From Satan, who's just a rebel against all authority.
It's just once removed from Satan himself.
And just, there's just so much rebellion and so much just,
and just these antagonists against the Word of God and against His doctrine and it's evil.
The Bible says in verse 2, and they that have believing masters, let them not despise them
because they are brethren, but rather do them service because they are faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit.
These things teach and exhort.
You know, if you have a believing master, here's one, how about your pastor?
Don't despise it. You're not allowed to despise your pastor, period.
Yep.
And look, you shouldn't even just despise pastors in general.
Saved pastors should just be given a certain level of respect.
Right.
Now, here's the thing.
I don't respect false teaching no matter whose mouth it's coming out of.
and we should not respect false teaching.
And even believing masters can preach bad things, okay?
And I think they should be called out for the bad things.
But we should still give respect to that person.
We shouldn't be calling them Bs and Fs and whatever.
Let me tell you something.
If you start calling saved pastors a bunch of derogatory names,
I will take you to task and you'll be thrown out of this church.
I will not tolerate that.
Now again, if you're against false doctrine, I'm against false doctrine.
I make fun of false doctrine. God makes fun of false doctrine.
We should be fine with this, but let me tell you something.
You know what? We should respect saved men of God and believing pastors,
and we should respect their office, and at the end of the day,
we can respect the person and disagree with the message.
And hey, if someone preached a whole sermon against me today
and said Pastor Shelley taught this horrible thing
and it was stupid and it was wrong and he was bad
and they proved that, I would say like, thank you.
Why wouldn't I?
But you know, if someone calls me out and lies about me,
well then yeah, I'm not going to really respect that.
I'm not going to really appreciate that.
I don't really like slander and lies and attacking.
But at the end of the day, you know, you're not going to attack me by correcting me.
Correction is not attacking, but there's this there's this mind virus is going around now that thinks that correcting people's attack. It's abuse now
Corrections abuse
Helping someone's abuse scourging them's abuse chastening is abuse abuse is harm correction is good
Correction doesn't hurt you lies
Slander these type of things are hurting you don't despise believing masters
What does it say in verse 3,
If any man teach otherwise and can sit not to wholesome words,
even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrines according to Godliness,
he is proud.
Now, I'm going to go down this list in a minute, but
what is the context of verse 3?
If any man teach otherwise and can sit not to wholesome words,
what are the wholesome words?
Is this a word list of words that are better than other words?
No, it's talking about what verse 1 and 2 just brought up,
which is what's submitting to authority.
It's so funny like I put out this word list of words in the Bible only just words in the Bible only saying all these
Words are pure words, and they said I disagree with this doctrine. Have you seen this verse?
And I'm thinking like well, let's read the verse didn't didn't we just read the verse where it says and can sit
Not to wholesome words even meaning specifically
the words of our Lord Jesus Christ
In the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and the word was God.
Let me explain to you, every word in here is a wholesome word.
Like hell and bastard and piss and dung and harlot and whatever else it says in here,
they're all wholesome words.
You know what's not wholesome words is teaching rebellion.
is teaching to go against authority,
is trying to undermine male authority,
that's not consenting unto wholesome words.
Getting up and saying, you know,
if a parent gets up and yells at their kid
and says, hell and says whatever, that's fine.
Getting up and saying, dads are not allowed to say hell,
that's wrong.
That's not consenting to wholesome words.
We should read passages in context what's context with text meaning with the other parts of the Bible
Hey, everything that God said right
We need to be godly when people are not like this. What does it look like?
What are the people that are against this doctrine if we're just gonna try and describe?
What does this person look like? We're gonna find a person that's not doing this. What does he look like?
He's proud, but he doesn't know anything
Not only that he's doting about questions and stripes of words
What does scourge really mean what is chastening really mean and what are these there's constantly bringing up all these questions?
And let me say this they always bring up questions
Not answers not statements not clearly laying out what they believe just questions
What about this?
You're telling me that wives need to submit to their husband no matter what hmm. Well, what if he's like mean?
Yep, and then they bring up they bring up the most extreme example
that doesn't exist in our church at all.
They'd be like, what about this steroid-using,
roid-raging, drunk, alcoholic psychopath
that is just mashing his wife's face into the ground
and stomping on her because she rolled her eyes?
Are you saying that she has to stay with him?
And I'm like, yes.
But you know how many women in our church
are dealing with that issue?
Zero.
Just in the same way that I tell men hey stay with your wife no matter what and I don't bring up this weird example of
Some woman some crack whore
Methodic that's a prostitute and opens their legs to every Johnny on the spot and say like stay with her
Because you know what that would be disrespectful to the women in our church to say that that's happening
Yeah, and the same way it'd be disrespectful to act like this hypothetical
Boogieman guy that you just dreamed up exists in our church either
So then wives don't have to really submit to their husbands,
or that men should leave their wives in some extreme example.
Well, you know what?
Hosea was told to stay with his wife and give her money.
That's weird.
Hey, you know what?
I'm just not going to go against authority.
I'm not going to go against the institution of marriage.
I'm not suggesting for women to leave their husbands for any reason.
I mean, think about the Bible.
Just think about the Bible.
Doesn't Abraham's son have to consent unto death?
Doesn't Jephthah's daughter have to consent unto death?
I want to elaborate on this more in the evening, but doesn't Haigar,
she's treated very harshly and very poorly by Sarah, her mistress,
runs away and then God shows up and says,
get back to your mistress and submit to her.
I mean, what's the problem here?
Look, if your master is a terrible master, that's their problem.
Doesn't Jacob have to submit him to Laban even though he's changed his wages 10 times
and ripped him off and done all kinds of evil unto him?
There's this idea like, I only serve as long as I like how I'm being led.
No, you just follow your leader.
Now, yeah, is there some boundary like,
hey, my leader's jumping off a cliff into hell?
Yeah, well, I'm gonna get saved.
My leader's trying to not serve God.
Okay, yeah, well, I'm gonna serve God.
But within the boundaries of the Bible,
you follow your leader, period.
You submit to them.
And the guy that says anything else is proud, knowing nothing,
doting about questions as trice of words,
evil surmiseings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds,
and destitute of the truth,
supposing that gain is godliness from such withdrawal thyself.
The Bible says this is what that person looks like that disagrees with us.
He's constantly envious,
he's constantly causing strife,
he's constantly railing,
and he's dreaming up all this evil surmiseings.
He's just dreaming up all this evil that doesn't even really exist.
He's making things up.
So it's happening. I've seen this happen in all over the world.
I'm seeing it happen even amongst fundamental Baptist.
I'm seeing this happen even amongst friends of ours. It's crazy.
Go to 1 Peter chapter 2. Go to 1 Peter chapter 2.
Don't get this virus of the mind that says,
I will submit to my leader as long as they're doing right.
Nope.
Believing master, submit.
Unbelieving master, submit.
Good master, submit.
Bad master, submit.
Just submit. Why do the children of Israel not leave Egypt until Pharaoh told them to leave?
Everybody wondered that.
Have you even thought about it? Do you think Pharaoh was a good master?
Think Pharaoh is treating them really nice?
Think Pharaoh was leading by example?
They could not go until Pharaoh said. Now
They could have gone physically, but God wouldn't have protected them and driven them out of there
They had to go when God was saying it was time and God says you can't go until Pharaoh says you can go
Have you read the Bible?
Oh Pharaoh's such a great leader
Come on
What does the Bible say in first Peter chapter 2 verse 17 honor all men
Love the brotherhood fear God honor the king
That's also the king of your castle
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear,
not only to the good and gentle, but also to the forward.
Oh, my husband's so forward.
Submit.
Yeah.
Hey, when can I leave my husband?
Never.
Yeah.
When can I attack him?
Never.
When can I not do what he wants?
Never.
Well, but he's forward.
That's your problem.
But honestly, it's not your problem.
It's his problem.
Abigail had a froward husband.
She didn't leave her husband.
She just prayed that he would die.
I mean, look, people bring up the most extreme scenarios.
Like, my husband's a rapper bait.
And it's like, okay, let's pray for him to die.
But Abigail didn't leave him.
Now when he was drunk she may have slept somewhere else and waked until he was sober to go talk to him
But she didn't leave house. She didn't leave him. She's still under his authority and then God kills him
God kills him. You know what? Why don't people just not fear God?
I mean have you seen the world today filled with all kinds of diseases and cancers and illnesses and just car accidents and just
Evil people getting shot for no reason
It's all coincidences.
Everything's literally a coincidence.
Or you could just say, maybe God's just judging people all the time.
And you never know when God may close the door on you.
That's why you should fear God.
Did you notice, be subject to your masters with all fear.
When people disregard their master, go against their master's wishes,
they get punished severely in the Bible.
What does it say in verse 19, for this is thankworthy of a man for conscience toward God and your grief,
suffering wrongfully.
God would never want me to suffer wrongfully.
No, no, no.
For this is thankworthy.
God is saying, you're awesome if you suffer wrongfully.
God does not say, oh, you poor little victim, you.
Let's go to some liberal feminist lawyer and take him to the cleaners.
That's why you should be careful you marry
Go to 1st Peter chapter 3 1st Peter chapter 3
Well, God doesn't want me to live this life. God wants me to live a different life. No, that's the life God picked for you. Sorry
In all you poor little housewives living in such an oppressive
Oppressive oppressive kingdom. I mean the children of Israel and Egypt for 400 years
I would, if I put you, if I just traded places
with you with some chick back then,
for five minutes, you would be screaming to come back.
You would just be, you'd be like, please,
there's no dishwasher, there's no remote vacuums,
there's no air conditioning,
you gotta have food on the table
that you handmade or you don't eat.
You don't even have there's no fruit. You're not getting just fresh strawberries and grapes and apples whenever you want
There's seasonality. Yeah, I mean you just don't even understand how good you have it and
It's so funny the people that have it the best feel like their life is the worst and the people that have the worst
They're so thankful for the little things that they get
Hey start treating your husband like a king and maybe you'll start feeling like a queen
Well, but he's just he's just not worth it. He's not worthy of that. He doesn't deserve it
Who cares if he deserves it verse one likewise he wise being subjection your own husbands that if any obey not the word
They also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wise while they behold your chase conversation coupled with fear
What does the Bible say?
Obey your husband when he's great. No obey your husband period
Well, what about in this an situation where he does not obey the word?
submit, submit, and have chase conversation coupled with fear.
Now, you're not afraid of your husband, you're afraid of God.
You're afraid of God dealing with you.
And look, no leader, this is why it's so important.
None of us men will ever be a perfect leader.
If I get up here and say, hey, if your house isn't going well, men,
just lead a little bit better.
Well, then we're all just doomed
It's over
Your husband will never be a perfect leader. You'll never agree with all your husband's decisions
You'll never you'll never like how your husband punishes your children every single time
Punishment isn't even fun. You're probably you may even think like I don't really agree with how he did it and you're inside
But then you just you know what you just give him respect anyways
I don't like how long he slept the other day.
It doesn't matter.
It's till he please.
I don't like where he wants his dad's chair to be in the living room.
That's where it's going to be.
I don't like the car he picked out.
That's the car you're going to have.
I don't like the meal that we have to have this evening.
That's the meal you're going to have.
Hey, I don't like, I don't like the church that my husband's dragging me to.
Go sit down, shut up, and just enjoy church anyways.
Oh, but I have a choice.
Yeah, you have a choice to just hurt yourself, too, right?
I mean, hey, I have the free will to punch myself in the face right now.
Do you think I should do that?
Do you think it's a cool idea?
Let's just bring up every hypothetical of every free will decision people can make.
Yeah, I'm not a Calvinist.
We all have free will.
But you know what?
It's stupid to go against your husband.
It's wicked.
It's ungodly.
It's satanic.
Period.
I just don't think that he deserves it.
Shut up.
Go to Joshua 24. Go to Joshua 24. You know what? The men are the king of the castle.
You wouldn't talk to the king that way, then don't talk to your husband that way.
If you stood before King James, how would you talk to him? That's how you should talk to your husband.
I have to use somebody that in theory you might respect. I don't know. We have very little people.
If you were single and you were trying to become the princess of the royal family in England,
how would you talk to that guy?
That's how you talk to your husband.
That's how you respect his decisions.
Whatever he wants goes.
So number one, if the king of the castle gets to decide the punishment of his household,
everything's going to be after his pleasure, and here's the third thing that's really important,
is the whole family needs to get on the king of the castle's program.
It is his program.
It's his punishment, it's his pleasure, and it's his program.
What is that program?
Whatever church he wants.
Whatever job he's gonna have whatever house he wants to have whatever part of the world
He wants to live in whatever his vision is for the family. Hey, we're gonna get on
Dad's program. We're getting on the father's program. It's his house. It's his kingdom
It's his castle. You're going to live in his castle. You don't get to decide where that castle's at
You don't get to decide what dragons he's gonna go fight. You don't get to decide anything. It's his program
Just get on his program.
Joshua 24 verse 15.
And if it seemed evil unto you to serve the Lord,
choose you this day whom ye will serve.
Whether the gods with your fathers serve
that were on the other side of the flood
or the gods of the Amorites and his land ye dwell,
but as for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord.
He didn't say I will serve the Lord.
He said we will serve the Lord.
Oh, well, you know what?
My dad took me to an old IVB church.
Well, you know what?
I'm taking you to a new IVB church.
How many men are being drug out of the church
they wanna go to by their wife?
We need wives to put their husband into the king's chair again and say wherever the king wants us to go to church
That's where we're going to church
And people say oh, we don't need this kind of preaching. Yeah, but you and I both know there are women dragging their husbands out of a good church
You don't sit here and act like oh you're so over the top. No, this is affecting people's lives
And they need to get on the king's program whatever the king wants
What vision do you want for your family?
That's the vision you have.
Go to Genesis chapter 35.
Obviously, men need to be a good leader,
and they should make good decisions,
but you know what? You get on his program.
Now, obviously, if your husband says,
we're not going to go to church,
I believe the wife has the right to go to church.
But at the end of the day, we need to get on the husband's program.
And again, if your husband is like in the Ananiasans virus scenario saying let's lie to church,
you don't lie to church.
Okay, I'm not taking it to some extreme to say, why disobey God over your husband?
No, no, no, no.
Obviously we live under a tree of hierarchy and authority and we obey the higher powers.
But everything underneath God's umbrella that the husband's umbrella is,
you're just in that umbrella and you're on that program.
And you follow his leadership and look obviously if you're in my church preaching hearing this preaching
He's not dragging you to the Roman Catholic Church
He's not dragging you to some church. That's you that's gonna violate your conscience to go against the things of God and
You know a lot of women that get drugged to a church like ours. They end up realizing it's not that bad
It's not that scary
There's actually a lot of perks to coming to our church all the free baby showers all the free women's events
Hey, I mean you guys you ladies don't even realize how nice it is to have a husband that'll pay all the bills. I
Mean it's not as easy as it has been in the times past
may not work really hard to pay all the bills and
They can work really hard and still even struggle to pay the bills and you know what you should respect him
If he's paying the bills, I don't care if you live in a one-bedroom efficiency laying on a mat on the floor
You respect him
Paying the bills is hard and you know what? If he says we're going to church you just get dressed and go to church
Genesis 35 verse 1 and God said into Jacob arise and go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar
Into God that appeared unto thee when thou fled us from the face of Esau thy brother then Jacob said unto his household
And to all that were with them put away the strange gods that are among you and be clean and change your garments
and let us arise and go up to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my
Distress and was with me in the way which I went and they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods
Which were in their hand and all their earrings which were in their ears and Jacob hid them under the oak
Which is by she come Jacob says hey?
You're not going to have this type of worship.
You're not going to have this sin in your life.
He commands this whole household.
We're getting right with God.
Give me all this junk, and we're going to get right with God.
And you know what? Men need to get their house in order,
and men need to rule, and men need to be submitted unto.
When he wants to serve God, you serve God with him.
Gov. Jeremiah 35, we're going to end on a story here.
You know, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10,
He says, why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
And I'm not going to take all the time to explain that I wanted to.
I'm out of time.
But here's the thing.
I have liberty to rule my house however I see fit.
My punishment, my pleasure, and my program.
If you don't like it, if your conscience is like, I don't really like how Pastor Shelley
does it.
But you don't have a clear verse on the Bible?
I don't care.
Because you know what? My liberty, my freedom, is not judged by your conscience.
And vice versa, your liberty is not judged by my conscience.
So if you have a different standard, you have different rules in your household,
don't judge me and I won't judge you.
And we'll just say, hey, you're king, I'm king, we're all kings, let's go serve the king.
And let's get on his program.
We accept God's punishment.
We do whatever God pleases and we get on God's program.
And let me tell you something.
God respects male authority.
God respects the man in the household.
He sees him as a king.
Look at Jeremiah 35 verse 5.
So this Jeremiah says,
and I set before the sons of the house of the recobytes,
pots full of wine and cups,
and I sent them drinky wine.
But they said, we will drink no wine.
For Jonah, dad, the son of Recap, our father commanded us,
saying, ye shall drink no wine, neither ye nor your sons
forever, neither shall you build house, nor sour seed,
nor plant vineyard, nor have any, but all your days,
ye shall dwell in tents, that ye may live many days
in the land, where ye be strangers.
Now look, everything that was brought up by this guy
is not a Bible commandment.
There's nothing in the Bible that says you can't drink wine.
There's nothing in the Bible that says you can't build houses.
There's nothing in the Bible that says you have to dwell in tents.
But you know who said that? The king of the castle said that.
And as soon as the king of the castle says that,
well, now you can't do it.
Hey, we can't drink wine. Dad says we can't.
Because Dad is the king of the castle.
And you know what's interesting about this story?
And I want to make you a little nervous here.
They don't live under Daddy's roof either.
Yeah.
And Daddy's rules still apply.
Because the Bible says,
honor thy father and thy mother.
It doesn't say until you turn 18.
Until you think you're smarter.
It doesn't even say this.
Until he dies.
It's just period.
We need to put dads back on their throne.
Whatever dad says goes
Now we should take that responsibility carefully as men and make reasonable rules
I think we should be reasonable, but if dad says no wine no wine
Now skip to verse 14 the words of Jonah dad
This is God talking the son of recap that he commanded his sons not drink wine are performed for under this day
They drink none
But obey their father's commandment notwithstanding. I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking
But you harken not unto me God saying like how in the world?
Are these people following just their dad's rules and then my children are breaking my rules?
This is just crazy. You should be following my rules more than dad, but they're following dad's rules
But then he explains
How he believes this look at verse 18. This is God again speaking through mouth of Jeremiah Jeremiah said in the house of the
Reconvites thus say it the Lord of hosts the God of Israel because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonah
Dab your father and kept all his precepts and done according unto all that he had commanded you therefore thus say it the Lord
Of hosts the God of Israel Jonah Dab the son of recap shall not want a man to stand before me forever
He says, hey, because you obey dad, you guys are going to live forever, you're going to
live long lives, you're going to always stand before me, you're going to always be in the
house of God.
Boy, wasn't that pretty important to follow that rule?
Oh, but they could have left whenever they wanted.
Yeah, they could have left and died and had no legacy, no heritage, been severely chastened
and punished by God.
Yeah.
Yeah, if you don't want to be a good sheep, you can be put to sleep.
But don't think that you can just do whatever you want without punishment, without recourse.
You know, the word volunteer means to do something for free
where there's no consequence, right?
I could go volunteer at some homeless shelter tomorrow,
and if I quit, there's zero punishment.
Yeah.
Because it's volunteer.
You know, I'm not volunteering at my job.
If I decide to just not go in,
and then my boss is like, what's up?
And I'm like, I just don't wanna work anymore.
I just don't like it.
You're mean.
You have rules.
You made me clock in.
Bye.
There's a consequence
Yeah, women could just do stupid things, but there's gonna be a consequence if they leave their husband
There's gonna be a consequence when you break God's commandments
There's gonna be a consequence when you go against God's word. There's gonna be a consequence when you despise your husband
Yeah, my cow became barren because she despised her husband David
Yeah, there's a punishment.
Yeah, if the husband just deemed that his wife, he's like concerned about her,
he could make her drink bitter waters of the jealous waters to figure out where she's at on the issue.
And God would punish her severely for doing that.
God will punish you.
God is saying, hey, Gar, go submit back under your wife.
God is saying, hey, I commend the sons of Recap because you know what?
They did what dad said because he's the king of the castle.
We should have men ruling in their households.
And you know what, children?
You better not stand in judgment of your father.
Your dad is right.
The father is right.
Go to Ephesians 5.
Colossians 3 says this,
Why submit in your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord.
You obey the husband like he is the Lord.
Children, dad is right.
And let me say something.
If it's not Bible,
And your dad says something different than me?
Dad is right, Pastor Shelley is wrong.
Your dad is the right one.
You do what your father says.
Now look, generally speaking, I'm preaching a lot of Bible and we need to do the Bible period.
But when I express a personal opinion, if your dad disagrees,
if your dad says, hey, it's different, your dad is right and you do what dad says every time.
Wives, you do what your husband says, he is right.
Ephesians chapter 5 verse 22,
why submit under your own husbands as unto the Lord?
I mean, I think you're dramatic.
He's not a king.
Okay, don't treat him like a king.
Treat him like Jesus then.
Is that better for you?
Does that help you a little bit better?
Let's say Jesus was taking a nap a little too long.
Would you go bug him and get mad at Jesus?
If Jesus wants food, would you be like,
ah, I don't want to make that?
Or would you just make it?
If Jesus said, hey, we're going to go to this church,
would you be like, I don't like that church?
If Jesus says, put beans in the chili,
you put beans in the chili.
Hey, whatever Jesus says goes, right?
That's how you're supposed to treat your husband.
Good.
He's sitting on the throne.
Look at chapter six, verse one.
Obey your parents and the Lord, for this is right.
What's right, dad?
That's right.
Dad is right.
You just think the dads are always right.
Right.
Yep.
You think however dads punish their children's right.
Yep.
You think whatever dads want, however they please is right.
Yep.
You think the dads program's right.
Yep.
Yeah, and all the correction hey any time we're off with the word of God
We should all adjust and change but when it's not in violation of this let men eat of all the trees of the garden as they see fit
Let men sleep however they want. Hey, let men use whatever words they want. I don't care
Let men say whatever they want. Let men scream however they want. It's Tim the toolman
Hey, it's his castle. He gets to rule SEC's fit
And you know what go to a church where you're gonna be empowered as a man not where you're gonna get snipped
literally or spiritually.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much
for giving us the word of God and giving us authority.
Thank you so much for empowering men
to rule their households.
I pray that we would take that great honor
and that privilege and we would be benevolent,
that we would love our wives, we would love our children,
that we would try to be a good example,
that we would go to bat for them,
that we protect them, that we would cherish them,
that we would treat them with respect and honor.
but I pray that you would help the ladies and that you would help the children to see that
the husband is given a special place of authority. He needs to be treated with respect,
regardless of how they feel, regardless if they like it, that they would just decide to just submit
themselves. I pray if there's wives that have to submit themselves and they're being treated wrong,
that you would give them a good attitude about it anyways.
I pray that you would help marriages to get stronger and better.
I pray that you would help the ladies to have the right attitude.
I pray that you would help children to respect their dads.
And I pray that you would help us all as children to have respect under you.
Respect under your word.
That we would respect your punishments.
We would respect your pleasures.
And we would respect your program when we just get on it.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
All right, in closing, let's go to song number 210.
Song number 210.
Wonderful grace of Jesus.
Greater than all my sin.
Song number 210.
Let's all sing it out together.
Wonderful grace of Jesus.
Pray, earth, and all my sin
I'll shout my tongue is private
Where shall the great begin?
Take me away, my burden
Send my spirit free
For the wonderful grace of Jesus
Oh, the map's the trace of Jesus.
Deeper than the mighty rolling sea.
Rother than the mountains, sparkling like a fountain,
and all the fishing freaks were even near.
Rother than the scope of my treasure, greater than the
Wonderful grace of Jesus, reaching to all the laws.
By it I have been pardoned, saved to the other laws.