It's a phase, don't tell me
to that chorus. We're not in a hurry. Lift it up to our Lord this morning and let our voices be heard.
Sing it on that last verse now.
Good morning everybody and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
It's wonderful to see everybody here this morning.
If we can go ahead and find our seats,
we will get started with this morning's service.
And for this morning's first song,
let's all go to song number 210 in our hymnals.
Song number 210.
Wonderful grace of Jesus.
song number 210. Wonderful Grace of Jesus, greater than all my sin. Song number 210.
Let's all sing that out again.
Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer.
Lord, we love you, and thank you so much for this awesome church.
Thank you for all the souls that were one to you this weekend.
And honor Brother Rowe.
And thank you for the awesome opportunities afforded us here to go.
So, a warning for you.
Lord, we love you, and we just ask you to bless this church and bless this service.
And it's in Jesus' name we pray.
All right, for our next song, let's go to song number 174.
Song number 174
My Jesus, I love thee
I know thou art mine song number 174 let's all sing that out together
Thank you for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
And if you did not already get a bulletin,
you'd like one, just lift up your hands real high.
One of our ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
We are working on our binary passage, Jude 1.
And we're really close to getting this wrapped up and finished.
And if you can quote the entire chapter, Jude,
you can get really book, I guess.
You can get a prize that we'll be handing out
for those who complete the book of Jude.
Also, on the inside is our service in soul winning times, our church stats.
On the right is a list of several expecting ladies.
Please be in prayer for our expecting ladies.
And also, I have several unique announcements
I just also want to make, but I had mentioned
in our chat group that we have some cards out here
on our just kind of four-year area table
and our welcome table.
Our welcome table has some cards that are just blank cards.
And if you'd like to write,
Just an encouragement letter to Brother Paul or if you'd like to write a sympathy and encouragement card to Miss Lola
Row, you can fill those out put them in envelope and then just please label them
You can leave them there on the table. We'll collect them
But we're gonna collect them this evening and try to give them out on Monday
So anybody that just wants to write a card if you brought your own or something else will also collect those
But that's just kind of a reminder to just encourage both of them
also
extra kind of soul-winning marathon in memorial of brother Kevin Rowe and he
was a faithful soul winner that was a member of one of our Friends Church's
Faith Ward Baptist Church. Brother Kevin Rowe also, him and his wife Lola, had
visited our church for one of our recent conferences, our FBBF conference, so they've
been a part of our church. They've gotten a lot of missions, trips with us. In fact,
My wife had noticed that our original
Bahamas missions trip brother Kevin had actually signed up to go on that
In 2019, but it had gotten postponed and then we had to go later
And I know that he had been scheduled to go on all kinds of different missions trips in the future
He had kind of come up with the idea of the cruise missions trips and had been really instrumental and kind of pioneering
that way.
He pretty much, all of his effort and energy was just in soul-winning.
He took a lot of extra time off of work just so he could go soul-winning.
All of his money and efforts and energies was just for church and soul-winning and preaching
the gospel.
And really just an overall great Christian, great Christian guy.
And unfortunately, last Sunday, he died due to a drunk driver just...
Hitting him on the road the drunk driver ran a red light and and just killed brother Kevin pretty much instantly
And just kind of a tragic horrible accident
He was he was actually just working a part-time job to help even make more money for his family
And so it was just kind of a major tragedy
So please please pray for miss Lola and their baby Phoebe, but
In kind of response to this, obviously his death being tragic and awful, I don't want it to just stay, you know, just tragic and awful.
I want that death to give birth to something and so we decided to give birth to a soul-inning marathon yesterday
in honor of him and just doing some extra effort for soul-inning this week for him and I was encouraging people.
We had about 70 soul-inners come out yesterday just to participate in our specific event
and I know other people participated in extra soul-inning this week, but just for that one specific...
Saturday we had about 70 people come out and then you know we had a lot of people
saved we've had like hundreds of people saved this week but we were trying to
keep a special tally of people that were going out soul winning
in addition to what they normally do.
So this is just extra soul winning above and beyond,
just in response to Brother Kevin's passing
and just kind of memorial him.
And we've tallied at least 60 salvation so far
for our church, just the efforts that we've put in.
And I know other churches and other groups
have also kind of been inspired by that idea as well.
and have been contributing.
And so, you know, the biote says, like,
some bring forth 30, 60, 100, you know,
and when it comes to, like, getting people saved,
and that's kind of, like, in a season.
And it's kind of cool that, through his death,
he can still get, you know, 30, 60, 100 saved every year,
even though, you know, he's in heaven just cheering us on.
And so, you know, we don't want to always just
let tragedy end that way.
We want to have a good response to it,
and we want to take that.
that thing that was evil and turned into something good and so I really appreciate you guys efforts and
you know I talked with his wife Miss Lola for a little while this week and
she was greatly encouraged by our efforts and by what we're doing to remember her husband so
thank you guys for participating with us on that it's definitely very special and of course
It's really important for those people to get saved
and go to heaven and rejoice with us.
And you know, all things work together for good,
to them that love God, to them that are called
according to his purpose.
And so, even when tragedy strikes,
we can still turn it into something good
and we can still love people.
And we continue being steadfast.
And of course, that's not just the name of our church,
that's our attitude, that's our spirit.
That's what we want to do as Christians is be steadfast.
And so thank you for that.
Also, we had a Mexico missions trip, and I think my bulletin has a cross through it, so it had like 294, but it's actually updated like 302, so I don't know what yours says, but we had approximately 302.
Salvations for the Mexico City missions trip and this was pretty much the brainchild of Brother Diego
who has been preaching faithfully in our Spanish services, has been a great member of our church,
and just has a heart for people in Mexico specifically. He's gone with us on many Mexico
missions trips already and he just kind of had a vision to go to Mexico City, which Mexico City is
I think like 20, 25 million people as far as they're like metro population.
So it's definitely a big area, a big city.
And we sent down some missionaries and supported them to go down there.
But a lot of people obviously are spending their own money, time
and effort and energy to go down there for a week and preach the gospel.
And I'm going to ask a few different guys that went on that trip
to just kind of give us an idea.
of what their trip was like, what happened.
You know, I only have experience going near the border
and in Imorese, I've never been to Mexico City myself,
so I'd love to hear kind of what these guys had to say.
So I'm gonna ask Brother Diego if he come up for a second
and I'll get back to the announcements in a minute,
but I just wanna hear a couple testimonies
from some of the people that went on these missions trips.
So Brother Diego, why don't you lead us off here?
Yeah, so we went to Mexico City officially the trip was from Monday through Friday a
couple of us like eight of us got there a little early on Friday and we basically were doing a lot of trial and error between
Friday and Monday, so we got there and Friday
We did some so many at a park and it was pretty decent not the greatest was pretty decent on Saturday
We did so many at the park as well Sunday went to church at Mount Zion Baptist Church, and they were really
great help, past Kevin Wynn, really hospitable towards us.
They really liked us.
There's a guy that was hanging out with us from their church.
They said,
that he looked us up and he still liked us so that was really encouraging he liked the soul
winning that we did and that we do a lot of soul winning on monday we actually went soul winning
with the church and got to experience a little bit of the old IFB bus routes you know singing and
stuff that was encouraging but on tuesday i felt that we actually really got it dialed in and we
had some groups at a university there that's pretty big that's called umnam and then we had some groups
And that was pretty much what actually we found out worked.
We got anywhere from 60 to 80 salvations per day when we were actually going to these spots.
And we did that basically from Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Friday, we had a recreational
day, went to the pyramids, had a good time, enjoyed ourselves.
So I think pretty much everyone liked the trip.
I think it was really receptive, really encouraging to see.
Mexico City just has a lot of people a lot of people talk to there is unfortunately a lot of debauchery there
But you know if you speak Spanish you can get people saved
obviously
how efficient you are is going to affect how many salvations you get.
But everyone that spoke Spanish on the trip pretty much got someone saved.
Even some of the English speakers got people saved in English, found English speakers.
So I want to thank everyone that went out.
It was really encouraging to see a lot of salvations, a lot of fruit.
Mexico City is where I was born.
So I really have a heart for it specifically.
And so I was really encouraged that people wanted to come out and do soul winning there.
So thank you to everyone that went, even the English speakers that were just silent partners.
Thank you for Pat Shelley for all the support and help as well.
Well, how would you compare it to...
I think Mexico City was better.
I like Mexico City a lot better than Matamoros Reynosa.
I thought the output was better,
especially at the university.
The university I thought was the best place to go.
There was a lot of atheists there,
but just because of so many students
and they're the right demographic,
I thought it was a lot better.
At the park, it was probably about the same.
But at the park, you get a lot of just,
there's just a lot of business that happens at the park too.
Like there's tents set up everywhere,
people selling stuff.
So a lot of people were just kind of.
Walking through not really wanting to talk at the park, but the university was great
Especially in the morning before their classes you can catch all our students get them saved. That's great
Yeah, I have a brother Alberto also come he can give a testimony
So some of the guys told me the ladies on this trip kicked all the guys butts like they were getting they were like
Caring them with the numbers and stuff. So, you know, don't don't don't be deceived by the men coming up giving testimonies
All right, brother Alberto
First off, I want to thank Brother Diego for hosting this marathon in Mexico City and thank you for contributing to this event
Allowing it to happen Pastor Shelly, but if you want to know what Mexico City is like what Austin is to Texas
That's what the city is to Mexico the city of Mexico very liberal area
I mean, it's a but the thing is if you're a Spanish speaker you are gonna meet people that
That are gonna be willing to listen to you and you preach them the gospel and so
I was able to get a lot of people saved.
Other Spanish speakers were able to get a lot of people saved.
And then for the English speakers, you just showing up.
Had you not showed up, those English speakers
wouldn't have gotten saved, so praise God for that.
Now, for those of you who know me fairly well,
you know that I've been at this church since day one,
first service.
And so in our 11th year at Steadfast Baptist Church,
this was my first mission script.
So for me, it was just an honor to be there.
It was a blessing.
And I will have to say that this was probably my best soul-winning experience.
You know, I was out there from Monday through Friday, you know, getting people saved and it was just, it was just amazing.
I mean, I'll never forget this.
So I plan on doing more missions trip, hopefully next year and many more years to come.
And so I encourage you for those, you know, who desire, you know, to go on a missions trip and, you know, and whether it be the Philippines, whether it be the Bahamas or...
in Mexico if you know Spanish or just anywhere where you can preach the gospel you know you can
get somebody saved I encourage you go don't let that desire that burns within you you know to like
flee from you you know because you know the Bible says go into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature so that's going to all the world and the Bible says go there for and teach
all nations so you know you know you can
get somebody saved here in the United States, you know, there's foreigners now and then you can
get people saved in other nations now. Also, if you want to know a little bit more about my
experience there in Mexico now, the food was amazing. It was great. I love Mexican food. It's
better than Tex-Mex too. So
So there's that and then now I mentioned you know that it's a very liberal place
I mean the first three people that I spoke to there were atheists like I was just like shocked by that
I was like whoa, there's and so because the thing is is that
The older generation is what built Mexico and you know if you were to talk to them, you know, there'd be a lot more
uh, reset to the gospel, you know, they have reverence for gospel.
You have all these full brats roaming around that are just not grateful.
You know, and the thing is too, is that the Catholic church runs rampant in Mexico.
And so these people are just like.
they grew up in the catholic church so a lot of them are just like turned off and they could
play all religion with Catholicism so it's like they don't want nothing to do with God they don't
want to hear it now I've gone so winning in New York City so over there if you if you talk to
people they'll reject you they're like no I don't want to hear it but in Mexico City it's like no
no thank you I'm okay appreciate it they're very respectful for the most part but at the same time
you just they don't want nothing to do with God they don't want to hear the gospel but
But the thing is, is that for those who were willing to listen, they were so
receptive, they were some of the most receptive people I've ever given the
gospel to. They were easy. I mean, it didn't take long for me to get, like,
like six, eight, ten salvations throughout the day. So it was just awesome.
I mean, I really enjoyed it. Brother Marcel, you know, him and I worked
together. And so we had a good time fellowshiping and also just kind of
roasting all the soy boys there together. That was a good time.
No, at the university, like where Brother Diego had mentioned, there's a lot of freaks
and weirdos there.
There's fags there.
And at the part two in the center, and at the central part of Mexico too, there's people
that were dressed like Aztec Indians, you know, like Mayans, and they were like practicing
witchcraft.
I mean, there were like rubbing herbs on people, and some of the guys that picked us up from
Iglesia Bautista Montesión, they were telling us that they do that kind of stuff to release
the bad spirits.
It's just witchcraft.
That's of Satan.
We know that that's not of God.
Bible says I should not suffer a wish to live.
And so, there's witchcraft runs rampant in Mexico.
And so, because of Catholic Church, and you go there, you just know that it's cursed too.
And she's a Jewish woman.
She's an anti-Christ.
And so the thing is, is that Mexico does need the gospel
and I'm glad that I took the opportunity to finally go there.
I've been, I desire to go there for several years now.
You know, I'm a Mexican descent.
You know, both my parents are from there.
So it was just a blessing.
It was just awesome, you know, to finally make it.
And so for those, you know, who desire to like go,
either there or just to whatever country that it's you go to, if you go renew your passport,
if you have to, or if you have your passport, go somewhere. The Bible says go into all the
world and preach the gospel to every creature, all the world. All right, thank you very much.
Yeah, I also asked Brother Marcel if you'd come and give a little quick testimony to and
You know, it's it's important to realize that when you go into these foreign countries
Typically just it's gonna be a lot more receptive overall. You're still gonna run into weirdos and freaks no matter where you go
You can't escape that but it is you know profits not without honor saving his own country in many cases and so
you know, some of us are spoiled brats like this guy, you know, where we've gone to like the Bahamas and all these other places.
So sometimes you go to Mexico and you don't realize like it's still an amazing experience for a normal person just going out on their first trip or going out in the mission field.
You're going to be blown away by getting a lot of people saved, but I want to also get brother Marcel's opinion since he has a lot of experience.
He's been on a lot of mission strips.
I would like to just say thank you to Brother Diego and Pastor Shelley for hosting this trip.
Ultimately, I'm about my father's business, so wherever the mission trip is at, I'm going to be there.
I'm going to have a good time.
So the reason why I am a spoiled brat is because Pastor Shelley took me to Bahamas.
So that's the reason why.
And what happens is when you go to Bahamas, everybody wants to listen to you.
And that's the result of being a Christian nation.
When you're a Christian nation, the fruit of it is people are more respectful.
to the things of God to the word of God you know they receive the word of God
not as it is the word of man but as it is as it is in truth the word of God
unfortunately Mexico I had a great time with all the brethren I had a great time
fellowshiping
you know I'm very thankful to be able to go over there but the soul winning was
very difficult it wasn't
an easy field like Bahamas or other places I have been
With that being said, I mean for us being there for a whole week and getting 300 people saved is a testament to how powerful the gospel of God is
because these people
For the most part they didn't want to hear nothing. We had to say they didn't care about religion
They didn't care like you ask them. Hey, do you know for sure you're gonna go to heaven?
They don't believe in heaven, you know
There was times where a son who was doing an experiment and he's like trying to just stop people
Hey, hey, hi, and they'll just walk past won't even look us in the face
So imagine just being in a household environment where people are not listening
And at the university, you know, there was hundreds and hundreds of people there and you know, thank God that you know
We were able to find a lot of people there and get them safe. So
I thought of this verse while I was there
And it's about Jesus. He's going to his homeland and you know, like pastor said, a prophet's not without honor
Saved his own country. So this is Diego's country. So this is this is why he wasn't without honor with it, right?
So I said he could do their no mighty work
Save that he laid hands upon a few sick folk and he healed them and he marveled because of their unbelief
And he went around he went around about the villages and teachings
So like I was just I was marveled as well because like these people just did not just believe in God
they just, you know, and the fact that we couldn't, you know, for us having 20 people there, 10 people
there and getting 300 people saved is great. You know, like the Bible said, there's a remnant.
So no matter where you go, you're going to always find people. And even if we got one person saved,
it was worth all the money, all the investment was worth everything. Because at the end of the day,
the Bible said, you should gain the whole world and lose your own soul. What is the profit? So like,
it doesn't really matter. As long as we got one person saved, it was, it was, you know, it was a
But it was hard work.
We had to pull a double, a triple at work
to get these people saved.
And as Christians, we showed a lot of perseverance there
because we worked really hard to get it.
I think Madam Morris is way more receptive of my experience
than Mexico City.
Berla Berda said it's kind of like a liberal area so obviously if you go to
San Francisco you're not gonna get as many people saved as in the Dallas
Fort Worth area so like that's something you also have to keep in mind as well and
for us pulling 300 people out of the fire is it just shows like great soul
winning efforts because we were out there all day really just making it happen
The food, you know, I'm spoiled because of Pastor Shelley, so
It's funny because like we go to uh, you know, we have tacos every day Mexican food and the food was delicious
I love the taco stand like I was I wanted to taste their food
So they're like hey pastor Shelley buying us dinner and I'm sure if you know if
Pastor shows gonna buy us food
We had a lot of steak a lot of you know me a lot of ribs on Thursday night, so
Thank God for that. I was awesome, but honestly though if you can go on the mistress trip
it's always a great time and the best thing about it is like you get to meet new folk or spend
time with new folks that you really haven't spent time with before and get to build relationships
with them and get to laugh with them and talk with them and spend time. It's always a great time.
Now if you guys are ready for the Super Bowl, October 6th is coming. So make sure you guys get
ready because we're going to tear up the Bahamas when we go over there. Thank you brother Diego
Well, the workman's worthy of his meat, right? So we got to we got to make sure that that prophecy comes true
You know it in some ways some of us need to realize that we got that white privilege
So when you go to these areas, it sometimes is better
depending on who you are.
So, you know, whenever we go into some of these
South Dallas areas, Marcel is like a superstar, you know,
but you go into Mexico, he might not be as valuable
of an asset down there.
So sometimes you have to realize that, you know,
well, I don't really care about that.
The world does care and, you know, take advantage of that.
If you're a white person that can speak Spanish fluently,
you know, honestly, a lot of times you're gonna do really well.
And not only that, ladies, I mean, again, the ladies really did a great job.
And so, you know, sometimes we think of like people, you know, being inferior, like, oh,
you're a gringo or you're a lady or whatever.
But many times that's an advantage when we go out soul winning and preaching the gospel.
And so we should take advantage of.
whatever God's given us and whoever we are, and you're going to have different experiences.
You can be on the same trip in the same area and have different experiences,
and so that's why it's important for you to go out there and preach the gospel,
and we need everybody involved. We can't just use some people. We need every single person,
and your uniqueness can be used for the gospel message. Obviously, we're going to keep going to
Mexico. I think it's great to explore different areas and get kind of a wide variety of
you know, experiences, because, you know, being in E. Maurice has definitely been different
than being in Matamoros or being in Renosa. And, you know, it kind of ebbs and flows.
It seems like for me when it comes to receptivity and some of those things like that, but learning
to speak Spanish is a really, I think a really advantageous language. I think it's the best
language to learn if you're an English speaker for a couple reasons, but especially if you
Yesterday we went out soul-winning and most of the doors that we knocked on were Spanish only and so you know
Just being able to give the gospel in your own backyard is such an important thing
Additionally, we have a great mission field in Mexico where
by and large people are very receptive in comparison to america
just buying comparison to america if you're in mexico it's just much more
likely that you're gonna get people saved down there
and so you know while there's gonna be
obviously in a catholic heavy area a lot of people not interested a lot of
people that are just hardened towards God or the things of God, you're still
gonna have tons of very receptive people and people that you can get saved and
you know, the same exists here. We could go to lots of neighborhoods and DFW that
are not receptive whatsoever. So, you know, again, missions trips are at the
core of the gospel, going out and preaching the gospel, like many of the
guys have said, you know, take that step of faith.
and go on one. It doesn't have to be necessarily the next one, but just start preparing yourself,
get your passport, save up money. We'd love to go on a trip with you. We've been going to Mexico
at least once a year, every year.
and we've been doing other foreign missions trips.
Plus we have friends and a network of people
that are constantly doing all kinds of missions,
trips and events.
And you can always, of course, go on those.
You don't need my permission or anything like that.
I know people have gone to Belize
and they've gone to Africa and they go to the Philippines
and they go all these other places.
And really, we just wanna be a sending church.
We wanna be sending our evangelists
and our soul winners out into the world
and preaching the gospel.
So thank you so much to those people.
that went down there and labored, and please ask them about their trip and their experiences.
If you don't have a passport and you're like, I don't want to travel that far,
you can just travel to Tyler, Texas, September 27th. It's only an hour and a half,
hour 45 minutes away. We'll be doing soul winning the whole day.
We've got some details there for you. If you'd like to carpool.
You can just meet here at the church around 7 a.m.. And we're gonna leave and get out there
if you just want to meet us there the address is listed right there at the Southside Park and
We'll be meeting up kind of for breakfast go out for a couple hours of soul winning
We'll have lunch somewhere and then we'll go out again for a couple more hours
So if you'd like to join us, that's there on the bulletin soul winning seminar
Brother Marcel's gonna be leading this October 4th. It's just to help people just
To learn to be a little bit more efficient in their gospel presentation
And it may be beneficial when you go to someone like the Bahamas, because
since people are very receptive and time is just a constraint that we have,
you know, just being as efficient and as good and as skilled at preaching the gospel is going to be
important. So you could learn some tips from some people that have been there and what they have
kind of already figured out. Pastor Bruce Mead is going to be coming October 19th,
which is really exciting. Chili Cookoff, October 31st.
On the back is our prayer list. Please be in prayer for our church family.
And then we had a special handout on the congratulations to Devin and Diana DeHass
on the birth of their son James. He was born September 12th, nine pounds, 21 inches long.
Congratulations to them.
And that's pretty much all we had for announcements.
Thanks for bearing with us.
We'll go through our Psalm of the Week, Psalm 149.
It's in our special Psalms, Hymns, and Binders, Psalm 149.
All right, that was Psalm 149.
Psalm 149, let's all sing that out together
Psalm 149
in him that made him let the children of Zion be joyful in their king.
Let them praise this name in the dance. Let them sing praises unto them with the
Wages of God be in their mouth, and the two edges soar in their hand.
To execute the gems upon the heathen, and punishments upon the heathen.
Execute a warrant in the judgment,
Britain, this summer have law and
state, praise thee, the Lord.
Great singing, everybody.
Now as offering plates are being passed around,
go ahead and open your Bibles to the book of Revelations,
chapter 17.
That's Revelation chapter 17.
Revelation chapter 17, the Bible says,
and there came one of the seven angels
which had the seven vials and talked with me saying,
come hither, I will show unto thee the judgment
of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters,
with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication
and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk
with the wine of her fornication.
So, he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman sit upon
a scarlet-colored beast full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
And when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel?
I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carryeth her, which hath
the seven heads and ten horns.
The beast that thou sawest was and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit
and go into perdition.
And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of
life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was and is not
And here is the mind which hath wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth.
And there are seven kings.
Five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come.
And when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth
into perdition."
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet,
but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them,
for he is Lord of lords and king of kings, and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful."
And he saith unto me, the waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples
and multitudes and nations and tongues.
And the tin horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall
make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree and give their kingdom
unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled."
The woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Let us pray
Dear heavenly father, thank you for the word of God. I thank you for steadfast Baptist Church
Thank you for the success on the Mexico missions trip and our recent soul-winning marathon
Please continue to bless us with the trip to Tyler and to the Bahamas
And I ask you to turn our attention to your word remove distractions help Pastor Chelsea preachers in Jesus name amen
Amen
Look at verse six, the Bible says,
and I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints
and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
Now, here in Revelation chapter 17,
we're talking about a prophetic time in the future
where the great horror of Babylon is known
for destroying God's people, for killing the saints.
And it kind of just was like an apropos verse to me
this week, because you kind of have two different things
described here, you have this woman that's drunk with the blood of the saints, and then
you also have this idea of the martyrs for the Lord Jesus Christ. And I feel like this
verse has kind of hit me hard because...
I'm thinking about one of our friends,
Brother Kevin Rowe, who was killed by a drunk driver
and how his blood was shed this week
and how America just being so irresponsible
and just hating God and turning away from his laws
and allowing just so much negligence in our society
is just killing so many innocent people.
And it's a shame, it's embarrassing,
it's embarrassing that when someone kills someone like this
in such a gruesome way, just innocent bloodshed,
that they are not killed.
Because the Bible says, if you kill someone,
even just by being reckless or negligent,
that you are to receive the death penalty.
And it's a shame that in our country and our society,
that we don't have a strict...
punishment against evildoers so that people will be afraid of being reckless and being drunk
and just killing people for no reason. I mean, this is just a senseless act. And you know what,
drinking alcohol is a selfish thing. It's a stupid thing. It's a wicked thing. And just so many
people are dying today as a result of stupidity out of just rejecting God's Word, sin, one sinner
But not only that, thinking about what happened
that pretty much everybody's aware of,
Charlie Kirk was killed this week.
I think either Monday or Tuesday,
he was shot at a college campus and he was killed.
And I want to make it clear that Charlie Kirk is a martyr
by every definition that you could think of.
Now, I think that some people don't necessarily like Charlie Kirk,
or maybe they question exactly what version of Christianity he was.
But at the end of the day, you have to understand that a martyr by definition
is someone who dies for their beliefs, whether that's religious or political views.
You know, you can have a martyr
that's not even necessarily Christian.
You could have a martyr for any cause,
for any purpose, for anything.
And so when someone dies for their beliefs,
when someone dies for just communicating their message
or for standing what they believe in,
that is what a martyr is.
And it's hard for anybody to argue with me that Charlie Kirk is not dying for what he believes in.
He was obviously on a college campus, expounding his beliefs, expounding his views,
expounding what he, you know, is important to him, and he was killed as a result of that.
But more importantly than just him being a martyr, you know, if we look at what he stands for,
if we look at why people were adjoicing at his death,
I think it paints a pretty clear picture of what this guy stood for.
Because when they're rejoicing, they're rejoicing that someone that stood for Christian values died.
They're mad that somebody that opposed this transgender homosexual agenda in this world,
they're glad that someone that opposed that died.
They're glad that somebody that stands for any kind of conservative views or kind of
a conservative lifestyle, politics, anything like that died.
Freedom of speech.
true or righteous, people were just so excited that someone died that stands for that.
And you know what?
I just don't see how a Christian or a God-faring person wouldn't be sad that someone that stands
for those things was killed for that particular principle.
You know, and honestly, there's been so many videos that have been shared,
so many things that have been communicated in the last few weeks
that are really great messages that Charlie Kirk did expound.
I mean, Charlie Kirk was saying all kinds of things about how
the most important thing is living for God and, you know, getting eternal life
and being saved and that Jesus Christ is our only savior
and that you can't earn salvation.
I mean, you could just find dozens, if not hundreds, if not thousands of videos of him saying all of these things,
which is exactly what I believe.
You know, people are sharing videos of him saying,
well, the Bible says that homosexuals should be stoned to death.
I mean, I could show you the video of him saying that.
I could, he shared videos of us, you know, in our church,
when we stood in the Arlington City Council against Sodomy,
he's like, hey, here's a preacher standing up against
the LGBTQ agenda, and he was showcasing our church,
me as a pastor of our church.
Because again, obviously this guy, is he perfect?
Do I agree with everything he's ever said and done?
No, but I don't agree with everything
I've ever said or done.
You know, it's like I don't think it's necessarily a healthy viewpoint to pick people apart whenever they die
Standing for all the things that we also agree with virtually and believe in. I mean the guy is standing for you know
Faith in Jesus eternal life, you know bringing back some constitutional rights in our country
There's a great clip. I've seen of him in the past where
He's explaining how in colonial America, specifically, he says 9 out of 13 colonies,
you had to have faith in Jesus Christ to hold any political office of the Protestant denomination.
Not just of a Catholic origin, but even of a Protestant specific...
you know, denomination, and that America was overtly and expressly Christian
and not being Catholic. He was not Catholic whatsoever.
And so, you know, I think that he stood for a lot of good things.
I wasn't necessarily a big follower. I wasn't necessarily
the biggest supporter of him personally, but he's arguably one of the greatest
martyrs that we've had in a long time.
One that is just causing so many people to pay attention to Christianity, to pay attention to the Bible,
to pay attention to God's Word.
And I would almost argue that he's become way more popular this week than he ever was.
Like it seems like just, you know, the guy is exploding everywhere.
It's everybody's talking about it.
You know, and it's not just America.
We're talking about British Parliament bringing this stuff up.
We're talking about foreign countries bringing this stuff up.
We're talking about everybody bringing this stuff up.
And, you know, one thing that I think you could say about him as a person, though, is...
How many people have been sad and given testimonies and talked about him this week?
Just shows how he impacted a lot of people's lives, how he meant a lot to a lot of people's lives.
Because when you die and no one shows up at your funeral and nobody cares, you probably didn't love very many people.
Whereas when you die and you just have an outpouring of just millions and millions of people,
tons of testimonies, tons of people are sad at your death,
it shows that this person definitely cared a lot about people,
reached a lot of people, was influential to a lot of people.
And again, it's not like he died.
being a Zionist or something.
It's not like there was a bunch of people mad at him
saying something about Zionism and shot and killed him.
No, it was some evil, leftist, Satan-influenced individual
that is the suspect.
And I have no reason to believe it's not him,
so I'm just gonna assume that it's this guy that's a freak,
but guaranteed it's someone that hates God,
it hates the word of God.
And even if, even if we didn't know who the shooter was, we had hundreds of thousands of just
reprobates, Satanists, sodomites, faggots, lesbians, and everything in between, just all praising his death,
so excited that he died, and you know what, if all the faggots and Satanists and witches and everybody
is rejoicing at your death, you must be super awesome.
I mean I'm just telling you like there's no way to convince me that when
literally every horrible wicked evil person is just so excited you died it
sounds like you must have been pretty epic it sounds like you must have been
on the right side of a lot of issues overall and in general you know that's
why it gets me up fired up because
Virtually every church in the Dallas, Fort Worth area
turned their back on steadfast Baptist church
when we're being protested and acts like we deserve it
or acts like, well, you shouldn't have said that
or you shouldn't have done this
or I don't exactly agree with them on every single view.
And it's like, look, when you have every satanist,
every God-hating reprobate, all rejoicing at your death,
you must have been pretty awesome.
Just like a church that's being protested by witches and warlocks and all kinds of freaks and trannies and whatever
It must be an awesome church. I mean, it's not that hard to figure out when all the enemies
Hate you. You must be on the right side of the equation
You know when we see
Other weirdos and freaks and you know political people dying and it's a mixed bag
You get a bunch of faggots and sodomites praising them. They probably weren't as great
When you have it was almost
Universally just like all the sodomites all the leftists all the Democrats all these weirdos and freaks
Just rejoicing of this guy's death. He must have been making a pretty big impact and
You know at the end of the day
martyrs are gonna happen in the Bible and they don't they're not always Steven
I think that we sometimes have this idea that every martyr is Stephen.
I want to go to Stephen's story.
We want to go through a lot of Bible, go to Acts chapter 7.
But you know...
Obviously, Stephen is just like preaching the word of God to a hostile Jew audience,
and they just kill him right there.
And it kind of seems like the most epic martyr story ever.
But at the end of the day, it's like, it's not that Stephen is the only example of what
a martyr is, okay?
Anybody that's standing up for truth, anybody that believes the Bible and is serving God,
Okay, now I would say that Steven is the gold standard of martyrs
Steven is like the most epic of martyrs if you were going to die a martyr's death
You would want to be Steven and you know what? I love about
Brother Steven is to me like all of our heroes like the Apostle Paul
Because like he's like the greatest Christian we read all of his Bistles
You know like the Apostle Paul's hero is like Steven
You know, it's like because in his life he got to see Steven and he's kind of like the ultimate epic
martyr of the faith and even the Apostle Paul kind of feels bad about himself because at one point
He persecuted the church. He wasn't just always on the right path, but it's like Steven
I mean this guy you can't say a negative thing about Steven
Stephen, everybody loves Stephen.
I mean, that's even the reason he's in the position he's in.
They basically just said, hey, let's ask all the people,
and they're just like, hey, Stephen's your guy.
Stephen's a man full of faith.
Stephen's just like the greatest person to basically ever be.
He's such an awesome Christian,
and then he's gonna die here in Acts chapter number seven.
Let's read a little bit of this.
He preaches this long sermon.
He's like me, I preach long too.
And he preaches this really long sermon,
but we'll pick up on verse 54.
When they heard these things,
they were cut to the heart
and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
Look, anytime you say anything from the Bible,
there's gonna be some people that hate it.
Because some people just hate the truth.
You know, you think about what is a reprobate?
At the core, a reprobate is someone that just hates truth.
And what is truth?
Well, Jesus Christ is truth.
The Bible says He's the way, the truth, and the life.
The Word of God is truth.
And anytime you're expounding anything in the Bible,
any of the Word of God,
there are going to be people that hate the Word of God
and gnash on you with their teeth.
says, But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God,
and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens open, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon Him with one accord,
and cast Him out of the city, and stoned Him, and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
And they stoned Stephen calling upon God and saying Lord Jesus received my spirit and kneeled down and cried with a loud voice
Lord lay not this sin to their charge and when he had said this he fell asleep now
Don't don't mistake what Stephen says here because for the most part the vast majority of this audience is to reprobate audience
Okay, but there's a few people mixed in there like the Apostle Paul who's known as Saul here in the story
Who ends up becoming a great
an influential Christian because he did it ignorantly
and unbelief is what the Bible says.
But you know there are some people that are not doing things ignorantly
and not doing things in unbelief and you know what? Faggots have already crossed
that threshold where they're not innocent anymore.
They're not doing it ignorantly, they know God, they've rejected God in their heart,
and as a result, they're just going out and destroying and killing people.
That's why the Bible says give not, that which is holy under the dogs.
You know, I'm not going to go out there and just try to convince a bunch of God-hating,
atheists and faggots and reprobates to get saved.
In fact, it's nauseating every time this stuff happens,
because you always see it, and I even saw it this week, but...
Praise God it's a lot less this week, but I still see it where people say please pray
For the shooter of Charlie Kirk that he gets saved or whatever and it's just like
I'm saying praise God, I've seen very little of this, okay?
Cause sometimes, you know, in the past,
I felt like it's just been like this overwhelming
Christian response to a situation like this.
Praise God for the most part,
most Christians are just like, please kill him,
please public execution, this guy's a piece of trash.
I saw one pastor say, all right, let's give him the gospel and then let's hang him, okay?
And I'm like, I'm willing to compromise with that type of Christian, okay?
You know like you know if you're gonna say like hey, let's find the you know the the most
You know amateur soul winner that wants to just bleed his heart out on this guy for five minutes or whatever
Go ahead, you know like it's not gonna offend me while we're tying up the the rope or something
Or we're priming our firearms or whatever about to do like but you know
The way he shot Charlie Kirk publicly
should be exactly what happens to him.
We should have the most public,
we should have just everybody on TV
see him out there like the dog that he is
and just have him shot violently
and we get to see all the bullets go into his body.
Like everybody saw Charlie Kirk this week
for the wicked evil piece of trash that he is.
And you know what, he's a faggot,
so I don't even care, he's not gonna get saved.
You can waste your breath giving him the gospel.
And look, if we wanna have a policy
that all capital punishment would give him a quick gospel
before he put a bullet in their head, I'm fine with that.
But at the end of the day, I already know the outcome.
The guy's a sodomite, the guy's a faggot,
the guy's a rep or bait, he's an ex-mormon,
he's just gonna burn in hell.
And I saw this girl say, you know what we should do?
We should make him listen to Charlie Kirk
for the rest of his life as a punishment.
No, no, put a bullet in his head
because hell is the worst punishment.
Let's get him there as quickly as possible
and quit wasting taxpayer money on stupid women ideas, okay?
I'm not against women, I'm just saying
this was a stupid idea, right?
We need some men to drag him out into the city
and stone him like the Bible says.
And, you know, honestly, you know,
Charlie Kirk getting shot was a lot more merciful of God
than what happened to Stephen,
because if you said, hey, Pastor Shelley,
would you rather just be blown away
with a rifle into the neck or be stoned to death?
I'm like, please shoot me, you know?
Like, honestly, he didn't even go out a bad way.
Of the ways to die, I mean, it's gotta be
one of the most painless, just quick ways to die,
because here's a sad reality for all of you.
I don't know if you know this.
You will die.
And there's not a lot of great ways to die.
We're all going to die.
Dying of cancer for years, not fun.
Dying of all kinds of illnesses, disease, heart attacks, drowning.
Obviously, there's all kinds of torture ways that you could die, even worse.
I mean, you could get in an accident where you have to live for hours and hours and hours in pain and agony.
Burning live is one of the worst ways to die.
I mean, there's just all these gruesome, horrible ways to die.
You know, it's being shot and killed, just going straight to heaven.
I mean, like, honestly, it's not that bad.
Because we will all die everyone dies. It's never fun. Of course the gold standard is dying your sleep and I get it
We all want that but I'm just saying like not everybody gets that
Most people will not die that way.
Most people don't die just at 90 years old
with, you know, holding their loved one while they're sleeping.
It's not the notebook, okay?
Or whatever.
And look, for one of those partners,
it was agonizing death because he's watching his wife,
you know, have Alzheimer's and die.
Even your stupid little movie, it's an ugly way to die, alright?
But I'm just saying, you're gonna die!
And you know what some people are gonna die a martyr and honestly dying a martyr is is honestly a high honor of God
The Bible whenever you're punished not punished. I'm sorry whenever you're persecuted for the cause of Christ
The Bible shows that you are worthy of honor. You're worthy of that
So God saw something good in you to cause you to die a martyr's death and look Steven
It doesn't even make sense. We just started the church. We just appointed this awesome guy. He's doing all this work
There's more people being added to the church than ever before and then just out of nowhere Steven just dies
And you're just kind of like confused, you're kind of thinking like, what in the world?
But what ends up being a result of this?
Well, look at verse 1 of chapter 8, and Saul was consenting unto his death.
And at the time there was great persecution against the church, which is at Jerusalem,
and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria except the
apostles.
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him.
As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and hailing men
and women committed them to prison.
Therefore, they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.
He's awesome. This is an awesome church, but God didn't want that awesomeness to get bottled up
and just stay in Jerusalem, he wanted to get out of there.
And because they weren't necessarily going to have the same initiative or drive to get out of there on their own free will,
God just kind of uses bad people to still accomplish his goal
and allows people to just be spread abroad and more people to end up getting saved from
Stephen's death. And I think that the net result of Stephen's death was overall positive.
Was it a tragedy?
Yes.
Was it bad for his family?
Yes.
Was it bad for his friends?
Yes.
Was it horrible for his church?
Absolutely.
Did they have a hole in their church that could never be filled?
Again, absolutely.
But you know what?
New people stepped up, and they went out there,
and they started reaching more people.
And then you had someone fill his shoes
like the Apostle Paul, who turned out to be pretty great,
didn't he?
And in some ways, maybe he was better.
I don't know, it's hard to make these comparisons,
but the Apostle Paul did some amazing things
in the New Testament, starting all kinds of churches.
And...
What kind of impact did that have on the Apostle Paul's life because the Apostle Paul was constantly stoned shipwrecked going through all kinds of suffering and
Evil was it Stevens death that was constantly helping him get through those difficulties
Was it Stevens death to motivate him to be willing to go through those kind of adversities and obstacles and continue going?
We don't know but I guarantee it contributed. I guarantee it was a thought that he had I guarantee for him
He said you know what I'm doing this for
Hey, I might be going soul-winning today for Steven I might go out and just go a little harder for Steven
I might hey
I know I got beat up or I know I got scourged or I know I had to run away or I know I shipwrecked
You know what Steven would have kept going and Steven stood for the faith
So I'm the state for the faith as well
And you know what martyrs sometimes just give boldness and courage to the right people to just keep going and being steadfast for all their
life
We have to understand the importance of martyrs
Now, go if you went to Genesis 4, Genesis chapter 4.
I want to make it clear, though,
not every martyr is going to die exactly like Stephen died.
I would say he's probably like the gold standard of martyrs.
He's like the ultimate, the best picture.
You know, no one can really top that for the most part.
I get it, though, like other apostles and disciples,
they were martyrs, too.
I mean, you have stories and legends about what happened to them.
It's not really in the text, so I'm not going to go to it, but you know people say like Peter was crucified upside down and
They talk about what happened to other disciples like Thomas and you know some of these other guys John
The Apostle John being boiled and like hot oil
You know just put in a pot of hot oil and just being you know exiled and just it's all kinds
It's horrible gruesome things happening to men of God, you know, you read Fox's book of martyrs and you'll
have a hard time going to sleep, all right?
I mean, the gruesome, evil things that happened
to Christians, you know, being fed to animals,
to lions, being ripped into shreds,
tons of people were crucified after Jesus Christ
by the Romans for being Christian.
Not only that, the torture techniques that they invented,
the Catholic Church invented,
are some of the most evil things imaginable.
Most evil things imaginable and the only comfort and solace I get when I read things like that is they can't kill me in all of those ways
You know like you can't you can't be burned alive and drowned
You know
I'm just I'm just trying to give you a positive, right?
I mean, I don't think they can figure out a way for you to burn to death and
Drown the death now you could be burned a little bit and then drown so you know, I'm not trying to give anybody ideas
I'm just saying like
I will never kill myself though, and if it ever happens, it was the Jews, alright, so I'm just, I'm just putting that out there.
But, I would never ever do that, and it, even if I don't die, and like, I'm preaching a sermon and someone kills me,
you know, that's not the only way to be a martyr.
If you're just living your life...
and someone kills you because of who you are
and what you believe, that's still being a martyr.
And I believe that Abel is a picture of this as well.
Look at Genesis chapter number four,
and it says in verse four,
That just tells me, you know,
brisket and meat is better, right?
I'm just kidding.
Verse five,
but unto Cain and his offering he had not respected,
and Cain was very wroth,
and his countenance fell,
and the Lord said unto Cain,
why art thou wroth,
and why is thy countenance fallen?
If thou doest well,
shalt thou not be accepted,
and if thou doest not well,
send life to the door,
and unto thee shall be his desire,
and thou shalt rule over him.
So Cain gives an offering to God.
God doesn't like it.
God says, I don't respect your offering.
Then, Cain's mad about it.
Abel offers something in the Lord, God's pleased with it.
Here's the thing, why is Cain mad?
He's mad because Cain didn't do right.
Because what did God say?
Hey, if thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted.
He's saying, you have the exact same opportunity as able to be loved of God and to be accepted
of God and for God to be pleased with you, you're choosing to make bad decisions.
You're not offering the right kind of offering.
You're not going to the right church.
You don't have the right gospel.
You don't have the right means of salvation.
Because these things are symbolic and Abel, of course,
is showing his meat offering as a picture of the Lamb of God,
which is picturing Jesus Christ's sacrifice,
whereas Cain is offering the fruit of the ground,
which is a picture of his works.
And you know what? Your works are not accepted with God for salvation.
What's accepted is that replacement, that substitute, that Jesus Christ is the one that's going to take your sins.
And that's what's accepted with God.
But you know what? Everyone has that opportunity. God's not a Calvinist.
God isn't Calvinist. He doesn't believe in Calvinism. Calvinism's fake.
Cain had every opportunity to believe on Jesus Christ,
to believe the gospel, to believe in the seat of the woman,
to offer the same sacrifice, to give the meat sacrifice,
and for him to be accepted with God, but he of his own free will
chose to believe lies, to believe in works,
to be prideful, to want to earn his salvation
and he doesn't care about God and as a result God is not pleased with him.
Even after this, God gives them a chance, it seems like.
It seems clearly God's saying, like,
hey, it's not like you can't just make the right decision.
But then what is Cain's response into God not accepting his garbage offering?
Well, he gets mad at his brother, right?
That's what it says here.
And Cain talked with Abel's brother and it came to pass when they were in the field
that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother and Shalom.
When did Abel even hurt Cain?
When did Abel say anything negative to Cain?
He never did anything to him.
He's not fighting him.
He's not violent.
He's just living his life, doing his thing,
and just Cain comes out of nowhere and just kills him.
Now, of course, in 1 John, it tells us this.
Go to 1 John chapter 3,
and we'll see the explanation for this particular point.
But was Abel...
It doesn't say, obviously,
but was Abel in the field?
you know, preaching, or antagonizing Cain, or doing anything.
He's just living his life.
But the Bible tells us why Cain killed him.
Look at what it says in verse 12.
Not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother,
and wherefore slew him.
Now the word wherefore just means why.
And why did he kill him?
Slew is to kill.
Why did he kill him?
Because his own works are evil.
Cain's works were evil and his brother's righteous.
Abel is righteous.
So just because Abel was a good guy,
just because Abel was saved,
just because Abel was a Christian,
Cain just killed him because he was righteous.
And you know what?
There are so many people in this world today
that would love to just kill all the Abels of this world.
And you know, this should be the message that you should resonate in your mind, okay?
Especially some of you that think that you're just like
ten times the person that Charlie Kirk was.
If they hated Charlie Kirk and wanted to kill him,
how much more all of us that are fundamental Baptist soul-winning Christians do they want to kill?
You know, I mean, look.
If they wanted to kill him, they want to kill us too.
They want to kill every Christian.
They want to kill everyone that's righteous.
Because again, anybody that's standing for the Bible,
or for salvation, or for truth, or for reason,
or for logic, or for anything right, you know what?
There are murderous canes out there.
There are murderous animals out there
that want to destroy and kill God's people.
And you know what, I personally believe Charlie Kirk is saved.
I think he is a brother in Christ.
I think he is in heaven.
And you know what, I think that he is a martyr for the faith because every time he goes on
these college campuses, he's telling people, hey, you didn't make the most important decision
in your life to accept Jesus as your savior and to have eternal life.
How is that a bad message?
I mean, like, you know, did he say it the way I would say it?
No.
Did he explain it as long as I would say it?
Definitely not.
Was he the most effective soul winner on one-on-one evangelism?
Probably not, but at the end of the day, you know what?
Everybody has their role in life and just because
you're just going out there, you're a Christian and you're saved and you're just
feeding your sheep or doing whatever and someone kills you, you're still a martyr
if they're killing you because you're a Christian.
Now look, if you steal their sheep and they kill you,
just because you're a Christian, you're not a martyr.
Okay, we get that, but look, if you die because the person killed you, because of your beliefs,
because you're righteous, because you're a Christian, because you're standing for these,
you are a martyr. And you know what, there's a lot of martyrs in the Bible, just like Stephen,
but maybe not in the same vein, right? Go have a look at First Kings 21, let's look at another
You know, some people that are kind of on the fence for me,
I don't know how you would label them per se,
but like Jonathan and Saul, you know, they die in battle.
And Jonathan to me is kind of like a martyr in a sense,
because he's just trying to do what's right
and he's killed by the enemies of the Lord.
You know, and Jonathan, not perfect, makes mistakes,
sides with his dad, is, you know, going out to battle.
And of course, he ends up being collateral damage
of the whole thing.
Jonathan's a great guy.
You know, I don't want to sit here
and pick apart Jonathan.
Now Saul, boy, could we pick him apart.
Hey, you know, this is what I like about David.
And I'm not reading all this stuff for a sake of time
because, you know, the testimonies were long this morning,
but...
Here's the thing whenever Saul dies, you know what David doesn't say. Well, I shouldn't have seen that witch
Well, I shouldn't have you know been complicit in those murders with doeg the you know the Edomite
Well, Saul kind of had it coming
Saul kind of deserves it Saul's a Zionist or whatever
You know I mean like he's not sitting here picking him apart for every little imperfection it's all and look Saul has more
Imperfections than any other Christian I've ever met
I mean, what Christian have you ever met in person,
that you know in person,
that it's complicit in 85 priests' death,
like the family and the priests,
like 80 some people's deaths,
literally going and seeking out witches literally
and trying to kill one of the greatest Christians
on a repeated basis?
Like, have you ever met that Christian?
And then yet, David is not picking him apart.
David's not mad at him.
David's praising Saul for the good of Saul
and what Saul accomplished in his life
and the positive things that Saul did.
And you know what, Saul had some positive mixed in
with a lot of negative.
How much more, you know, other people today
or someone that, you know, dies today as a Christian.
Look.
even if it was just an evangelical Christian.
Let's just take a random guy
at one of these non-The-Nom churches,
you know, that has a pretty, you know,
clear testimony on salvation.
Maybe he says it weird or whatever,
but seems pretty saved.
He's not necessarily saying anything.
If he dies in the street, I'm not gonna say,
well, he wasn't King James only.
I'm not gonna sit here and pick them apart.
Like if a Christian dies, like if some sodomite
walks into their church and blows his head off,
I'm gonna be like, well, serves him right.
He shouldn't have been using the ESV.
Like that's, I think it's the wrong idea.
It's the wrong opinion.
And you know what, if Zionists deserve to die,
we're gonna talk about like hundreds of millions
of people in America.
I mean, look, some people in my family
are the biggest Zionists I've ever met on the planet.
And if they die, I'm not gonna be like,
well, shouldn't have been a Zionist, man.
Shouldn't have shared that Holocaust, you know,
memorial on Twitter.
Like, that's a weird idea.
That's a weird opinion, and I think that's the wrong way
to like look at people, and like almost think
like everything's coming to them.
Look, if a Christian dies, and it was because someone
hated them for being a Christian,
I'm gonna class them a martyr, and I'm gonna praise them.
That is going to be my default position, period.
Now again, if it's someone like John MacArthur, okay,
that's preaching a false gospel,
then, you know, I'd probably just be silent.
You know, or if anything,
I would just at least condemn the actions of whatever person attacked them.
But I'm not gonna sit here and just try to pile on
people when they're dying for what seems like a religious cause
or a righteous cause, especially when it's just like, there's so many
evil, wicked, satanic pieces of trash out here
that want to murder all of us. The last thing I want to do
is even kind of justify anything they did or said,
like, well, at least they're killing Zionists now or something. It's like, no.
You know, it's an insane attitude, it's an insane belief.
You know, I don't have that viewpoint whatsoever.
And, you know, I think though, with this whole situation,
I think with martyrs in general, that a lot of good comes from them.
Now, in the moment, it's tragic, it's awful, it's evil,
it's horrible, it doesn't make sense,
but I think good can still come of these things.
And, you know, sometimes we can't see it.
Here's the story, and I'm just going to the story
because I'm like, I can't really see it.
I don't even know exactly how this turned out for good.
But...
It did, because all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them that are called according to His purpose.
But this kind of just seems like a senseless killing,
but sometimes these things happen.
Look at 1 Kings chapter 21, look at verse 1.
And it came to pass over the things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard
which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria.
So Naboth has some kind of piece of property that's near the king.
And it says in Ahab spoke on Naboth saying,
that I may have it for a garden of herbs
because it's near unto my house,
and I'll give the ford a better vineyard than it,
or if it seemed good to thee,
I will give thee the worth of it and money.
So this is like eminent domain.
This is when the government tries to seize your property
and take over your land.
Arguably, Ahab's not even making a bad offer.
It's not like he said, I'm just, just give it to me.
He said, hey, I'll give you something either better
or I'll give you even more money.
You know, I'll just give you tons of money for it.
Give it to me.
And Abba said to Ahab, the Lord forbid at me
that I should give the inheritance of my fathers under thee.
Now, Biblically speaking, according to the law,
you're not allowed to sell your land
to someone outside of your tribe.
And so, this is actually a violation of God's word.
So, he's not...
Refusing to sell it for anything other than he's just trying to keep God's commandments. He's just trying to be a good Christian
He has a Christian testimony. He's trying to follow God's word. He's just trying to be a Christian
He's not even he's not even a preacher. He's not a pastor
He's not someone going out and just provoking people. He's literally just trying to keep God's commandments. That's all he is
That's all he's trying to do. He's just trying to live his life
Trying to observe God's commandments trying to do the right thing here
And he says, hey, God told me that I'm not allowed to do this, so I don't want to do it.
And look, anytime you are challenged on your beliefs, anytime you are, like, tempted to sin
and you don't and then someone does something negative to you, that is persecution for the cause of Christ.
Now, if they kill you, that's martyrdom.
That's the ultimate level of persecution.
You know what, it's not like you have to be
protested by sodomites at church to suffer persecution.
Look, if you're on your job and someone says,
hey, just take a little money out of the register
and you say no, and then they lie to you
about the boss to get you fired
because they're mad that you didn't steal,
that's persecution.
That's persecution for being a Christian and for doing what's right.
You know, anytime someone makes fun of you for wanting to serve God
or do the what's right or being a Christian, that's persecution.
Anytime someone stops being your friend because of what church you go to
because you read a Bible, because you like soul winning, because you like God's people.
You know what, that's persecution. There's all kinds of layers of persecution here.
And Naboth is being persecuted in this story for just being a Christian.
Just wanting to serve God, wanting to keep his commandments.
Yeing, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, okay?
And in this particular story, another thing that's interesting,
and this is nothing to do with the sermon, but,
it's interesting that you're not supposed to sell land to foreigners.
You know, if you look up the Laws of Connecticut of 1673,
which I know I love and remember this a lot,
but I love this book, okay.
You know what it says explicitly?
It says that citizens of the town
are not allowed to sell property to anybody
that doesn't live in the town already.
They were just not allowed to do that because whenever you just allow for an interest to come in and just buy up all the
Land and do all this stuff. It really changes the demographics. It changes the inheritance
It changes all kinds of things and it's very detrimental to society
And so you know while people are always arguing about immigration all this other stuff
It's like why don't we just do what the Bible says
And, you know, selling, it said that you could sell it with permission from basically the city
and from the government, they would allow it.
But, you know, if you just allow a bunch of foreigners to come and buy up all your land,
you know, they'll just take over.
It's just not a good thing.
Just like we shouldn't allow people to take over Texas or take over our churches or take over our area.
You know, we should defend these areas and we should occupy the land is what Jesus said.
It's a different sermon, but I'll get to it later, right?
Let's keep going to Naboth and his martyrdom here.
Now Jezebel, which is a witch and I'm saying that as a not literal, but just kind of a for a different word
she's she's a real witch of a person and
She's like hey, let's just lie about him. I'll figure it out. I know how to get it
So she writes this letter in verse 9 and she wrote in the letters saying proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high
Among the people and set two men sons of Belial before him to bear witness against him saying thou did his blaspheme God and the king
and then carry him out and stone him that he may die.
Isn't it interesting that Christians, you know, they're killed by a woman in politics
getting faggots to do her dirty work?
And it just kind of feels like that's just what happens today.
We have people like Hillary Clinton,
and you have all kinds of women in government today that are vicious and evil,
and then you constantly see faggots and sodomites carrying out people's dirty work in our society, don't we?
You have evil people doing the exact same things over and over.
There's no new thing under the sun.
You have the exact same things happening in our society.
And let me tell you something, faggots are extremely dangerous
and they will kill people for no reason.
I mean, they're just going to kill these people
for literally no reason other than just killing someone.
I mean, maybe you could correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't...
Does it say in this passage they were given money or anything?
I mean, maybe I misread that, maybe I'm forgetting something in this.
I'm pretty sure it just says, hey, let's just get these two faggots to just witness against him.
Can someone point out to me where it says there's money or something?
I'll change my mind.
And maybe they did.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm missing it in the text.
But I'm just saying, it's just like, let's just find two faggots that'll kill a Christian.
And look, there are faggots out there today
that they don't even need money.
They don't even need to be paid off.
If the government just said,
hey, you're greenlit, kill this Christian,
they'd be like, no problem, they just killed them.
Because that's what faggots are really like.
That's what trannies are really like.
They just walk into schools and just blow a bunch of kids away.
And of course, where are they going?
They're not going necessarily to the public school,
they're going to a Christian school.
Now praise God sometimes they're confused and they don't necessarily go to the best Christian schools
But at the end of the day, you know what Catholic children don't deserve to be shot and killed either
And you know what I don't want those Catholic kids to be killed because now they're damned and probably went to hell
I'd rather them have grown up to be 18 19 20
I mean knock on their door and give them the gospel and they get saved at least
You know what? We should never rejoice in the death of innocent people.
Even if it was a Catholic child or a Mormon child or whatever.
You know, maybe they would have gotten the gospel. Maybe they could have gotten saved.
You know, in Judges 19, there's a disgusting, concubine horror
that's just brutally assaulted and murdered in the Bible.
Nothing positive about her. It doesn't even mention if she's saved or not.
But then it's so gruesome that someone died that guess what all the children of Israel supposed to gather together to destroy the entire town and
God's wrath is poured out on them not for some awesome lady
Like the whole story is not about here's the most amazing woman in society
Here's the most godly virtuous woman in society. The Bible is like here's a feminist whore
That's not even married legitimately that has some kind of a weird
Relationship and just just does whatever it just whores herself and has this weirdo boyfriend
And they just go out and then then she gets brutally murdered and killed
You know what God's not just like well she saw that that was coming to her
Got what she deserved nobody cares look the other way. No, no God's like kill everybody in the town
Kill all the faggots kill all the sons of Belial that did this under her because you know what?
No one deserves being brutally murdered
Just like some Ukrainian woman this week or maybe it was last week was basically in the last two weeks
Some Ukrainian woman gets on a subway train and just out of nowhere the guy sitting right behind her
Just brutally stabs her to death for no reason
Some people believe it's racially motivated. I don't know I can't confirm that
Seems likely, but at the end of the day, you know, why is it that a woman's just getting on a subway car and just brutally murdered?
Now, is this woman a Christian? I have no idea. Probably not.
Has she ever committed fornication? Well, statistically, probably.
Is she kind of like maybe that woman in Judges 19?
Kind of, but you know what? God gets really, really mad at anybody being killed.
For for virtually any reason obviously self-defense
Obviously capital punishment has its exceptions, but just generally speaking murder a hundred percent of the time is wrong
It's where you're killing someone's innocent that doesn't deserve death
You know, you're not allowed to just kill people. You're not allowed to just shed blood
And then how much more, when it's actually a Christian, actually someone's saved,
you know what, we should be very, very angry
towards someone that murdered any person, let alone a Christian, especially a Christian.
Especially someone standing for Christianity.
Especially someone that's doing what's right.
You know what, sons of Belial are like this, and you know what?
There are lots of faggots and trainees in this world that want to kill every Christian.
You should be aware of them.
You know, I know you sit here and you go to Steph's Baptist Church, but please believe the message.
I don't know what it takes. I don't know how many kids have to be shot.
I mean, our LGBT terrorist documentary is just evergreen, I'll tell you what.
Boy, it's almost like ahead of its time.
There's been so many more tranny shootings and sodomite shootings and killings since that movie's been released.
I mean, we could probably add like an hour of bonus footage already.
And I don't want to.
God willing, we would actually have a different kind of update to the film.
We'd actually overturn Lawrence v. Texas, and we'd make sodomy illegal again in the state of Texas,
and we'd escalate the punishment to death.
But you know what? That's not happening.
And while you live in this country and you live in this state,
be very, very, very careful around faggots and sodomites because they want to kill Christians.
It's constantly in the Bible.
It's constantly brought up.
They don't even need money.
They don't even need motive.
They don't even know the guy.
They've never even heard of the guy.
They're just like, hey, on a Discord chat server,
this is Jezebel, kill this guy.
Hey, on a Reddit post, here's a Christian, kill this guy.
And they're just like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, kill him.
Because they're just dogs.
They're just disgusting, evil, wicked dogs.
And they would love nothing more than just murder
every single Christian.
And you know what, the message is to be
thundered loud and clear, because I guarantee
in some churches this morning, you know what they're saying?
We need to pray for all these LGBT people
and love them, that's why they're so mad.
No, they're mad and angry because they hate God.
And they hate the truth and they're dangerous.
And you know what, they're not welcome
in our church ever.
And they shouldn't be welcome in any church
in America.
They should be afraid to walk into any church.
And they're not even allowed to walk in here.
It wouldn't even happen.
You know, I was talking with a friend of mine and he was saying like, he was mad because
like a literal fag walked into one of their services and just dressed like a fag, acting
like a fag.
He walked up to it and it was like, are you a fag?
And he was like, yeah.
And so he picked them up and threw them out of the church.
And he was like, why did my ushers and my men allow that the stinking happen?
And I was just thinking like that better never happened to have that's bad discharge
But you know we've been protested so much and our guys I don't think it would but I'm just sitting here saying like I will do
It if I have to but you know what it shouldn't even be the pastor shouldn't even have to be the one to do it
You know that should just be obvious right get this freak out of here
You know, because dangerous people want to come in and harm God's people.
But you know what, if we keep our head on a swivel and we serve God with fear,
I think for the most part He's going to protect us.
You know, is Charlie Kirk going to be the last person killed for Christianity by these freaks?
No. He won't.
But you know, statistically speaking, you have basically like 0.00000001% chance of being that person.
And you know, it's sad when you're so afraid.
of that statistical problem.
You're more likely to die in a car accident
and I guarantee you're gonna keep driving.
You're more likely to die of cancer
and you're gonna still eat a bunch of junk food.
You're statistically more likely to just
actually injure and harm yourself
going out rock climbing or doing whatever
and you're still gonna do that.
And then it's like Christians are afraid
of being killed by a sodomite or a tranny
when statistically it's probably lower
than almost every other thing you do in your life.
Okay, you might be more likely to choke by eating food and you're still going to eat, okay?
Like don't be afraid of living your life
Just because Jezebel exists just because Naboth died and look Naboth dies a martyr's death here
This whole story plays out exactly like it was prescribed and you know what Naboth?
I I don't read in the story where it's like all this great things happen because of Naboth
You know, it's something I'm sure something did
And sometimes it seems senseless, sometimes it seems weird, sometimes it's confusing.
But you know what, we get to read about in the Bible, we get to be encouraged by Naboth's example,
we get to see a Christian that's not even necessarily a pastor saying,
you know what, I'm just not going to break God's commandments and I'm going to do what's right.
and we should learn through his example.
He obviously pictures and foreshadows the Lord Jesus Christ
and how he was innocent and how he was perfect
and he wasn't willing to give up on his inheritance
which was the children of Israel, the children of God
and he was killed for not giving his inheritance over
and just forsaking the people of God.
And so of course there's great things about Naboth
but I'm just saying when I read this story
currently speaking and practically speaking
I don't read the story and I think like,
oh that's obvious why God killed Naboth.
It just seems confusing.
You know, I'm not saying that every martyr's death will always make sense to us. Maybe we won't see it
You know, honestly for me and go if you want to I
Have a lot to say but go to Romans 8. I'm gonna try and finish
Honestly for me when I think about the death of Charlie Kirk, I feel like this thing is already obvious why it happened
Just because, like, I've never seen so many people care about a Christian dying.
and just so many videos have been shared recently
of all the good things he said.
Like I've almost seen nothing that I disagreed with
and I've seen lots of things I disagree with him say,
like just over time and throughout history.
But like right now, like all the clips
and all the videos that are being shared
and everybody's talking about it,
it's like I can't hardly find myself
disagreeing with it virtually.
You know, maybe I'd be nitpicky about some things,
but I'm just saying like in general,
like most of the stuff I've seen,
just a lot of good things, a lot of good messages.
I think that a lot of people's hearts have been softened.
towards just learning about God, hearing about the gospel,
wanting to fend out how to get saved,
how to make a difference.
I feel like the trannies and the faggots
have never been more unpopular
than ever in the last 10 years.
You know, in 2015, we had basically
sodomite marriage legalized in our country,
and it was a big moment.
And I remember going to church.
And the church was just basically saying like you know we need to love these people,
we need to get them saved and have compassion towards them.
And I was thinking like why are you preaching that when this happened?
Like it wasn't a positive thing.
This is a negative thing.
This is a bad omen for our country.
Why are you getting up and preaching something that's just so soft and so weak and so weird?
And they were like saying God bless America.
You know it was a bad omen for our country.
What have we seen since 2015 have we seen America get better have we seen these people become nicer and kinder and more thankful
For the rights and privileges they were given or have we seen them get more violent more angry more shootings
More hostility more evil more degeneracy more problems in society more
protests more violence and just you know the streets more just damage the property
more just evil people in our government,
more confusion, more women just being beat up
and savagely hurt in sports and athletics
as a result of this.
I mean, just anything inhumane, anything insensitive,
anything evil just been happening.
And you've just been kind of wondering like,
where are all the Christians?
Like what's wrong with you?
Do you not see just the obvious thing that a faggot dude and a dress is disgusting and evil and wicked and horrible?
But it's like finally when somebody they love somebody that's iconic for them someone that they can all rally behind gets killed
Finally they can finally be like okay. Yeah now. It's a problem because you know step fast Baptist church getting protested
They're just like yeah, I deserve it. Don't care. Don't want to look at it. You know if they kill Charlie Kirk. Uh-oh
Now everybody's pissed. Now everybody's mourning. Now everybody's on the same page.
You know, I think it's kind of interesting because we were mourning greatly for a great Christian, Brother Kevin Rowe.
I mean, a Steven of his generation. Someone that you can't say anything negative about.
And we were all mourning and we were having this suffering, but then it's like all the rest of the Christians weren't.
But now with Charlie Kirk, they're all joining us and they're having the exact same emotions.
They're having the exact same feelings.
And maybe God is giving us a little bit of a heads up or an advance
so that we can come alongside these people and we can comfort them.
We can explain to them what we already know, what we already believe, and help them.
Because look, whether you like these people or not, it doesn't matter.
Everybody's kind of going through the same motions right now.
America and Christians as a whole are kind of mourning right now.
We're realizing the state of affairs.
where our country is headed.
And you know what?
We need Christians to stand up more than ever.
We need Christians to ride this wave
of media attention, of news cycle and everything
to actually make some decisions,
to force people to make the right actions,
to do the right thing.
You know, our church is still in the balance
on some pretty important litigation
of whether or not churches can even say whatever they want
or say what the Bible says, and rent property.
You know that's important, you know how Christians respond to these kind of things and how we affect the culture is going to affect
the downstream politics is going to affect these judges is going to affect these rulings and affect all these things and you know
We need people more than ever to go out and engage the culture to go and engage the college campuses and engage college students and
Engage people on how to be saved and being a Christian and getting a King James Bible and look whether you like it or not
Thousands and thousands of people are going to do this
And you say, well, I don't like that.
I don't like that the Catholics are going to take advantage of this.
I don't like that Mormons might take advantage of this.
I don't like that the lame, weak, watered-down ESV Calvinists are going to take advantage of this.
Well, you know what? We need to be the ones going out and taking advantage of this
so they don't take over all of that mind space that's available right now.
A lot of people have been sensitive and open to the truth.
We don't want them to fall into orthodoxy.
We don't want them to fall into Catholicism.
We don't want them to fall into Nick Fuentes.
You know what? There should be someone that's not Zionist
that actually has a good gospel and a good message.
You know, to fill these voids.
Hey, you know, we need somebody to go out there and earnestly contend for the faith
which was once delivered unto the saints.
Because, you know, if we don't do it,
someone will go out there and give a false gospel and a false message
and they'll still be damned.
You know more than ever we need the real God's people and the real soldiers to stand up and do some work and say the right things
And to fill that void and to stand up and stand in the gap and stand in the hedge because you know this is an important time
You know it doesn't it's not about Charlie Kirk individually. It's about the gospel
And you know a lot of people, it is about him because they knew him, they loved him,
they had a relationship with him, and you know that's important for them, and I get
that.
But for us, it's important for Christianity right now.
It's important for the truth and it's important for the gospel.
When people die and they get this much attention and this much focus, you know what, hey, that's
where we need to come in and get people saved and do our work and do our job and take advantage
of this situation.
What if after Stephen's death, it's just they shut down the church?
What if after Stephen's death they say well, we're all afraid we don't want us we don't want to die
So we're gonna go hide
But here's the thing after Stephen dies, how many more of those Christians died?
It's like virtually none of them. I mean, maybe you could argue James, right?
We get that James dies a little bit later, but like for the most part it's not like they're just kept
They're just slaughtering all them and killing all them. No, they just go somewhere else and preach the gospel
You know it's a boogeyman. There's so many people that are afraid of a boogeyman today
And you know what if you die a martyr's death, you know what you should praise God for that
It's like you're running a marathon and look if I was running one of these marathons is like 26 miles and
I'm on like mile four and
The organizer and leader and everybody says like look there's a little path right here
You can just literally go right here and you're just gonna the finish line and you'll get the same trophy
It's like is that legal? It's like yeah
You're like, okay, I don't need to run another 22 miles
or whatever.
It's like, just transport me immediately
to the finish line so I can just win the race.
Because you know what, our goal in life
is just to finish strong.
It's just to finish the race
and just die being steadfast and die being a Christian.
And you know what, it's a lot harder
to be a Christian for 50 years than it is for 10.
So the people that get to die young,
well you know what, they got that
extra bonus of just like, hey, I just got to go right to the finish line and just win the race
and be praised of God for all of eternity. You know, dying a martyr's death in some ways is great
because at least you died on a bang. You know what I mean? You didn't die being demised,
to die in a low point, or to die even when you think about it like Saul.
Like what if Saul had died in his first year as Reign of King?
We would immortalize this guy and think like, man, Saul was awesome.
Saul was so great he was humble in his own sight.
He defeated God's enemies.
But then we get to read the rest of Saul's life and it was boy, it was a downer.
You know what I mean?
Even David, what if he had died younger?
He would have been a lot better of a story.
It's then like, oh, now he's killing people
and committing adultery and has all these
weird shady things happening to him.
It's like Solomon, it's really good, really good.
Then it's just like thousand lives, you know?
Offering children and sacrifice to Molek.
It's like, dang, what happened Solomon?
You know, it's like, hey, going out as a bang
is kind of a cool thing.
You know, we could sit here and be sad about missing out on life and whatever, and I get it.
You know, what does the Bible say? Romans 8 verse 28.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to His purpose.
You know, I'm sure that Charlie Kirk living longer.
He probably would have influenced more people to get saved by living
I'm sure just by at least I mean just at least saying the things that he said, you know
This is an important decision to turn to life. People could have heard that found a good message gotten saved later
Whether it was direct or indirect
I'm sure by him living more people would have probably gotten saved, but you know by him dying
It's possible and it seems more likely that even more people are gonna get saved now
And even more people are gonna be reached and new people are gonna be crossing boundaries and you could even have people replace him
or come and step up to the plate that have a better gospel
or a better presentation or a better message
that end up getting even more people saved.
And I just think, man, it's already been pretty good.
It's woken up a lot of people,
a lot of people are sensitive to the things of God,
and I can just see how God's gonna work through this.
Now, obviously for his wife, for his children,
it's just an unimaginable evil.
I can't imagine what it would be like to be a widow,
a widower.
not have a father. You know, pure religion is to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction to keep himself unspotted from the world.
So we'll see who's actually got real religion as the people that actually care about widows and children.
But at the end of the day, you know, hey, all things work together for good. Love God.
I think God was able to take care of Naboss family.
God's able to take care of, you know,
these people that have lost their husbands,
have lost their family members.
These things can still work out for good.
Go to, if you would, to Psalm 3.
I just want to kind of make these points,
but, you know, first of all, there's so many stories.
I didn't go to all of them.
We could talk about...
Other martyrs, you know, another martyr that I think is really important was Samson.
And Samson was not a great guy in a lot of ways.
I mean, he's sleeping with harlots, he screws up in his life.
But then at the very end of his life, he's just asking God, hey, will you avenge me in my two eyes?
And God gives him all this strength and he avenges.
And I believe he dies a martyr.
He's dying a martyr because the Philistines are killing him for being a Nazarite and serving God.
But obviously, could we pick Samson apart?
I mean, Samson's got some serious issues.
Could you say he had it coming?
Well, he shouldn't have slept with Delilah.
He shouldn't have even told Delilah what was going on, right?
He obviously made some serious mistakes.
He got in bed with the wrong people even, okay?
But at the end of the day, you know what?
He's still a Christian.
He was still, you know, someone that died of martyr's death.
But this is what the Bible says about Samson.
It says that he slew more in his death than in his life.
And I kind of wonder if you know Charlie Kirk could be someone who ends up getting more people saved through his death
than he did even in his life and
You know he maybe got in bed with the wrong people at times
He maybe have made some mistakes, you know, I'm not gonna say here and criticize him for all the things that I don't really agree with
You know, he's gone. What's the point?
He's gone. He can't make any change. He can't repent. He can't do anything differently and Jesus already forgave him of all the sins
Why do I have to sit here and pick him apart? You know, I might as well just praise him for the good that he did and
You know, I guarantee he's probably doing more than a lot of Christians are doing
At the end of the day, but I like I wish I got no more. I wish I got to talk to him
I wish I could have convinced him of things, you know that we believe
But one day I believe in heaven. I will get that chance to talk to him hang out with him
You know
He's gonna realize that all the the preaching that he did to the sodomites didn't work because he's up in heaven
He can't find any of them, but you know
It's like you pretty much stop being a Zionist too, you know immediately when you get into heaven because you're just like where are they?
You know start counting and you just can't get to six million I'll tell you what
Why preach this sermon?
Well, number one, I think it's important
to realize martyrs happen.
Question is why?
I didn't go there, but Philippians one says
for the furthest of the gospel.
So that people get saved, more people have become bold
through the actions of the gospel.
We should have read that, but I'm not gonna read it.
But you know, he says that Christ should be magnified in his body was the apostle Paul said whether he dies or lives
You know, we need to magnify God in our body whether we die or live and at least you could say this God has been magnified by Charlie's death
Right. I mean at least people are giving
You know a lot of respect to the things of God. Hey, these guys was a Christian this guy fears God
I've seen so many videos where they're constantly asking him like
About dying like if you die, what would you want to be remembered for and he said for for the gospel and for God?
And for my faith, you know, what's a better message than that?
He already kind of knew, like, if that happens,
like, this is what I want to be remembered for.
You know, I would want to be remembered for being a solider.
I would want to be remembered for being King James only,
for loving church, for loving my family,
for dedicating myself to doing missions,
trips and preaching the Word of God.
That's what I want to be remembered for.
And you know what, we're all going to die one day.
What are you going to be remembered for?
But that's that's the why here's the last thing I want to say is we need to have a positive impact
We need to take advantage of martyrdoms
people dying and do something positive with it and and make something good come out of it
You know, God wants us to do something with our lives and when we have tragedy strike,
we could cry, have a lot of pity, have a lot of woe, just say, you know what, I'm done,
quit, give up, but God doesn't want us to do that.
God wants us to see some awesome person like Kevin die and say, you know what, that's
going to motivate me to go soul anymore.
God wants to see someone like Charlie Kirk die for his message and say well if he's willing to die for his message
How much more should we die for our message and we should go out there and earnestly contend for the faith
Which is once delivered under the Saints, you know, I'm not that political
But you know what how much more should we take our message since we're strictly religious to go out there and preach
And what we believe it's so important and what I don't want you to do is get fearful because someone died or got shot
by a shot of mine
Because the chances are it's not going to happen.
I mean, these guys, have you ever seen them?
They have like this limp wrist?
I mean, like, you know, it was like an anomaly
that this guy could even shoot and be a faggot.
Like it was just kind of like, it was a rare duck,
I'll tell you what, you know?
But at the end of the day, it's just like,
hey, you know, we shouldn't be afraid.
We shouldn't be afraid.
And oh, I saw 300,000 sodomites saying they're so happy.
Okay, but you know what?
There's 350 million people in America.
And there's like 50 million Baptists in America.
But what does the Bible say?
Psalm three, Lord, how are they increased that trouble me?
Many are they that rise up against me.
Many there be which saved my soul.
There is no help for him and God, Sila.
But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me,
my glory and the lifter up of mine head.
I cried unto the Lord with my voice
and he heard me out of his holy hill, Sila.
I laid me down and slept.
I await for the Lord sustain me.
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people
that have set themselves against me roundabout.
Hey, we should not be afraid of faggots and sodomites and Jews and satanists and witches.
You know what?
I am going to keep preaching the gospel, I'm going to keep preaching Leviticus 2013, I'm
going to keep going out into the public square, I'm going to keep saying every single thing
the Bible says and I will not be afraid of 10,000s of people that run against me, that
We need to be said fast we need to be somebody that says hey
I'm not afraid of these things you know being a martyr is not the thing to be afraid of you know
It's the thing to be afraid of being a coward for the rest of your life dying a coward
Dying doing something sinful. That's what you should be afraid of not dying a martyr
You know that's you should be afraid of being afraid of God's word of being ashamed of God's word
That's what you should be afraid of
You know, there's nothing to be afraid of dying for the cause of Christ.
You're going to die.
Is dying from cancer better than dying for Jesus?
Dying of a heart attack better than being a martyr for the Lord Jesus Christ?
I mean, you know, like, I think sometimes we don't realize the trade-off that we're
even making.
You know, and again, I'm saying this to encourage you and to try to help you to not be afraid,
Honestly, 99% of us in this room will not die a martyr's death, no matter what you do.
You could literally just go soul-winning and preaching the most radical things for the
rest of your life and you probably still won't die a martyr.
Because it's just so unlikely, but when people get so afraid of a boogie man, so afraid of their own shadow,
you know, we need to be bold in preaching the gospel and explaining to everybody everything in the Bible says.
This is not the time to cower, this is the time to be steadfast.
This is the time to be unmovable.
This is the time to stand up and say, hey, you know what, the Lord's going to sustain me.
Jeremiah had to stand against all kinds of foes, the Lord sustained him.
Daniel had to stand against a bunch of foes and he went into the lion's den and he came back out.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego went into the literal fiery furnace and came out.
You know, the Bible does say, be thou faithful in the death and I'll give thee a crown of life.
Some are people going to be put in prison, some people may be martyrs, but it's so rare.
It's not the vast majority. It's a handful. It's a handful.
And you know what? If you're really effective in this world, it's probably less likely God's going to take you out anyways.
But at the end of the day, you know what?
Who knows?
Kevin was a really effective person and he was taken.
You know, that gave me a sobering thought.
I said, if Brother Kevin can be taken home early,
anybody in this room can be taken home early.
You know what that means to me?
I better squeeze out every ounce of opportunity I have from now until I die.
Because I have literally no idea when I'm taking my last breath.
We knock on people's door and what do we say?
What is the first thing that comes out of our mouth?
If you were to die today...
Are you 100% sure you go to heaven?
Here's my question.
If you were to die today, are you 100% satisfied with the works you have accomplished for Christ?
We have 300 people in this church.
You don't think some people are going to die?
Some people in this room statistically are just going to die.
We're going to lose people every year probably.
Not because I want to.
It's just reality.
It's just life.
It's just how it works.
That goes out and says you know what I gave it everything I could from now until my death
I'm gonna be faithful, and you know what whether I'm a martyr in my you know death
I could be a martyr in my life by just crucifying the flesh
Crucifying what's important to me now and saying you know what I'm just gonna make Jesus my priority
And I want to glorify him in my body and my life and in my death
But let us not be discouraged by martyrs, but let us rather be encouraged and it's been a hard week
It's been a frustrating week
But you know what, honestly, I'm very encouraged.
Honestly, I have a really positive attitude.
And you know what, I'll say this,
I've been very thankful this week for every day I've gotten.
I've been very thankful for every meal I've had.
I've been thankful for every opportunity
I've been able to just hug my wife and hug my children
and just have days.
And you know what, count your blessings.
Love your wife, rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Take your life seriously, take it so really
when these things happen.
You know what, a lot of people are hurting right now.
So for them to cry on and encourage them and to love on them and there are a lot of people out there
They're confused give them the gospel never been a better time to go soul-winning than right now
Maybe God's used this to soften up America because it's gotten hard hard hearts lately last years
It seems like you got less receptive. Maybe this will help make it receptive again
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for your word.
Thank you for the ultimate martyr, Jesus Christ, that he was willing to die so that
we could have eternal life.
I pray that when we see other faithful Christians dying for the cause of Christ that we would
be encouraged.
We see just any Christian dying for the cause of Christ that we would be encouraged.
We see people dying that we would be upset at the murderers that we would want justice
I pray that you would just help us to be sober about our lives,
to realize they're important.
I pray that you would help us to look at the example in the Bible
and realize that we have such a short time here
and that it's so important.
to serve you with our lives.
I pray that you would take our opportunity seriously,
that we would take our soul winning seriously,
that we would take our mission strips seriously,
that we would take our families
and the time that you give us seriously.
We thank you so much for what you have given us.
I pray that you could give us some kind of a revival in America,
that people could be turned back to the King James Bible,
they could hear a salvation by faith message
and that we could see a lot of hearts
turning back to the things of God in our country.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
All right, for our last song, let's go to song number 328.
Song number 328, I Want That Mountain.
Song 3 28. Let's all sing that out together. I want that
The difference of behind, has out that he's the one to make me flee.