and open our hymn books to page 183 welcome welcome to steadfast baptist church page 183
in your hymn books oh how I love Jesus page 183 oh how I love Jesus
man. Gracie, let's open up with the word of prayer. Dear
Heavenly Father, thank you for steadfast Baptist Church.
Thank you for all the soul winners that got out today to
labor in your field. I pray, Lord, that you would bless the
service this evening. You fill Pastor Shelley with your Holy
Spirit and help us to apply the message to our lives. In Jesus'
name, I pray. Amen. Our second song page 149 trusting Jesus.
Page 149 trusting Jesus.
page 149, trusting Jesus.
Good singing thank you for coming to steadfast Baptist church if you did not already get a bulletin and you would like one
you can just lift your hand real quick nice and high and
Today is Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day
We are working on our Bible and repassage Jude 1 verse 4 and we had a gift that we gave out this morning
But it's it's it's possible that we had some mothers show up this evening that hadn't been here or didn't get a gift already
So if you didn't already get a gift we got a
couple mug options over here, and then there's also some oils.
So you actually get one mug and you get some oils.
So if you're a mother and you didn't already get one,
you can come on down and choose for many of our options
and one of the oils.
Or you could send one of your kiddos down and they can grab up.
You can come on down right now and you can get that.
Let's give them a round of applause, all right?
And of course on the inside we have a service in soul winning times as well as our church stats
We also have on the right the list of expecting ladies. So please be in prayer for them upcoming events. We have
There's actually a king james bible conference in vancouver washington
It's a pastor erin thompson of sure foundation baptist church is hosting a conference up there
And so if you'd like to hear just some extra preaching about the king james bible, um, there's also going to be some
interviews and questions and just all kinds of different stuff and so you
could check that out if you'd like. There's a So Whatting Marathon in
Cleburne, Texas, May 24th. There's a So Whatting Marathon in Durant, Oklahoma, May
31st. Father's Day is on the 15th of June.
Soul Winning Marathon, Shreveport, Louisiana, June 28th.
And so, a lot of extra opportunities for soul winning.
On the back is a list of prayers
if you'd be in prayer for our church family.
And that's pretty much all I have.
We're gonna sing our Psalm of the week,
Psalm 150, Psalm 150 in our Psalm Binders.
Sing it out nice and loud.
One-fifth D.C. Nice and loud.
Thank you for singing with us.
At this time, the offering plates will go around
and we can turn our bibles to Proverbs 12, Proverbs 12.
Proverbs chapter 12 the Bible says who so loveth instruction loveth knowledge, but he that hadith
reproof is brutish. A good man obtaineth favor of the Lord, but a man of wicked devices will he
condemn. A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness
in his bones.
The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsel of the wicked are deceit.
The words of the wicked are to lie and wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall
deliver them.
The wicked are overthrown and are not, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he that is of a perverse heart shall
He that is despised and hath a servant is better than he that on earth himself and lacketh bread.
A righteous man regarded the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he that followeth vain persons is void
of understanding. The wicked desireeth the net of evil men, but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips, but the just shall come out of trouble.
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the recompense of a man's hand shall be rendered unto him.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
A fool's wrath is presently known, but a prudent man covereth shame.
He that speaketh truth showeth forth righteousness, but a false witness deceit
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health
The lip of truth shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil, but to the counselors of peace is joy
There shall no evil happen to the just but the wicked shall be filled with mischief
Lying lips are abomination to the Lord, but they that deal truly are his delight a prudent man concealeth knowledge
But the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness the hand of the diligent shall bear rule
But the slothful shall be under tribute heaviness is in the heart of man make it that stoop
But a good word make it that glad the righteous is more excellent than his neighbor
but the way of the wicked seduceth him.
The slothful man roasted not that which he took in hunting,
but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
In the way of righteousness is life,
and in the pathway thereof, there is no death.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day.
Thank you for the souls that were saved today.
Thank you for steadfast Baptist Church and Pastor Shelley.
I ask you to bless him now as he preaches your word.
Help us to love your word more
and to do your commandments.
In Jesus' name, amen.
And man I want to look at verse 26 the Bible says the righteous is more excellent than
his neighbor but the way of the wicked seduced them and the title of my sermon is more excellent.
And you know some people think oh you think you're better than other people and you Christians
think that you're better than other people but you know the Bible does say explicitly
Now, obviously, we shouldn't have a prideful attitude.
We shouldn't lift ourselves up.
We shouldn't be constantly praising ourselves, but we should just recognize that there's
a better way to live your life than another.
And to live righteously is better than to live the life of the wicked.
And the Bible even tells us explicitly that the way of transgressors is hard.
Not only are you better quality and a better person,
you will have a better life overall by serving God and being on the righteous
path. Now, let's go to a lot of verses in the Bible. I want to go to 2 Peter
chapter number three, go to 2 Peter chapter three, and I want to show you
a similar verse that kind of brings up this idea.
The Bible says, the way of the wicked seduce at them.
You can be on the right path.
and then allow evil to come and to take you off of the right path.
Essentially wickedness to seduce you and to draw you away with the air of the wicked.
And that's what we're going to see in 2 Peter chapter 3, look at verse 17.
You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before,
beware, lest ye also, being led away with the air of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
So according to the Bible,
Even if you're a really great Christian,
even if you're on the right path,
there's never a point when you can't be potentially led astray.
We can always be led astray.
We should always be careful about the decisions that we're making
and not allow wickedness to seduce us to draw us away
into committing grievous sin or going down a dark pathway.
Go over to 1 Corinthians chapter number 10, 1 Corinthians chapter 10.
In fact, the stories in the Bible are often to
give us a warning and to strike fear in our hearts of God
so that we don't go down the same path as many people did in the Old Testament.
The Old Testament stories are not written for a historical account, but they're rather written for our admonitions what the Bible says.
Now, I want to read this kind of backwards, but look what it says in verse 11.
Now, all these things happen to them for our foreign samples, and they are written for
our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come.
So according to the Bible,
All the Old Testament stories are written for our admonition.
They're written for us as stories to understand this is what happens when people make these bad decisions.
Now, what does it say in verse 1?
More of a brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud
and all passed through the sea and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
And did all eat the same spiritual meat and did all drink the same spiritual drink
Christ. But with many of them, God was not well pleased.
So here's the thing, it kind of gives you this picture of the children of Israel that were leaving Egypt
They're kind of a picture of the Christian life in a sense because the Passover was a picture of that salvation
That blood being put on the doorpost is a picture of the cross of Jesus Christ and how we believe in Jesus Christ
And it's the blood that gives us salvation from that death angel that death angel
Was going to take the life of the firstborn and in the same vein
For the wages of sin is death, we deserve hell,
but because of the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross,
that death angel is gonna pass over
and we're not going to experience death.
We actually have eternal life.
Then they were led out to the Red Sea.
They walked through the Red Sea on all sides,
on the left side, on the right side,
and above them to picture baptism,
how we believe in baptism by immersion.
where there's water on all sides and so in the same vein they kind of walk through a picture of
baptism. Then they journey through the wilderness and this is more the idea of the Christian life.
After baptism, after salvation and baptism, then there's going to be temptation.
Trials God's gonna test us and he says many of them. He was not well-pleased meaning what you can be saved and God is not pleased with you
You can be saved and disappoint God and God can be upset with you
It doesn't mean that you're not saved. You can't lose your salvation
They've already left Egypt the death angels already passed over they've already gone through the Red Sea
Nothing's gonna change that but they can be punished in the wilderness. They can be punished with simply just
not getting the food that they want,
they can be punished by wandering in the wilderness,
not going into the Promised Land.
They can be punished by just the sufferings
of being in the wilderness, plus just even death.
Many of them just literally die in the wilderness
as a result of either complaining,
going after false gods, idolatry,
just many different sins that are a temptation
to even the saved.
Being saved doesn't stop you from being tempted from wicked things.
It doesn't even stop you from being wicked.
You can be wicked even if you're a saved person.
You know, I think there's some religions that are, they're not saved
and some versions of Christianity where they're not saved
and so they conflate all these things.
They think that salvation is a process
and that you have to continually be faithful
and never go down the air of the wicked to be saved.
Well, that's work salvation.
There's people that think, oh, the people that are like that, they're just not saved.
Well, you know what?
That's not what the Bible teaches, because there's a lot of people that are very wicked
and yet they're still saved because they're saved by grace.
And so, then there's another whole group of people that say, no matter what you do, God's
not mad at you, and he could never be displaced with you, and you know, all of these things
are just false doctrine.
You can be saved by grace, and you can also be very displeasing to the Lord and suffer
That's why it's saying but with many of them God is not well pleased for they were overthrown in the wilderness now these things where our examples to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted so we shouldn't desire evil things like they desired it says in verse 790 be idolaters as were some of them as it is written the people sat down to eat.
and drink and rose up to play,
neither let us commit fornication
as some of them committed
and fell in one day three and 20,000.
Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents, neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Then we get back to the verse we already read.
Now all these things happen unto them, for in samples, and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come.
They're at no temptation taking you but such as common to man,
but God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able,
but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it."
So the Bible is saying, hey,
Don't think that you can't be tempted by this kind of stuff.
We can all be tempted like that with this kind of stuff.
But if you're faithful and you trust God,
He can give you a way to escape some of these things.
Now, one of these that's mentioned here, I feel like, is just a major issue in Christianity.
It's really sad how it just affects almost everybody, but it's the sin of fornication.
It's Ed in verse 8 that 23,000 people died in this one sin specifically.
It gives a big number.
A lot of people are guilty of this.
And in America today, fornication is a major sin.
It's a major sin that most people probably even commit.
But you know what is more excellent than being a fornicator is being a virgin on your wedding
night.
Being a virgin is more excellent than being a whore or a whoremonger.
And you know what, we live in a society today that acts as if that's not a big sin.
It is a big sin according to the Bible, and Christians should not be guilty of fornication.
Christians should be virgin on their wedding night.
And you know what, it's not something that's less superior.
It's more superior. It's more excellent.
It even has more value.
I'll prove that in the Bible. Go to Exodus chapter 22.
describes how there's a financial value to being a virgin.
We should desire for our children to be virgins
on their wedding night.
And you know, it's funny,
because someone said this to me.
You know, they were talking about church discipline and they were talking about first Corinthians chapter number five
And they were you know just talking about the idea of being restored
You know people that are guilty at some point and they get restored and they said you know
Do you feel like you see that happen very often or is that likely and
What I was trying to explain to this person as I said well, honestly if you understood statistics about fornication
The vast majority of our church
is probably been guilty of something on that list before.
And so obviously we believe in restoration
because virtually our whole church,
you know, I'm not saying everybody,
but I'm saying a large percentage of our church
is probably been guilty of something like that in the past.
But you know what, we were pented,
we said we're, that's not right.
We made a change in our lifestyle and we don't want to live a lifestyle of drunkenness or
fornication or extortion or being a railer, any of those type of things.
So it's not to say that our church is filled with people that have never committed those sins.
We're just not actively practicing them and we're not trying to live a life like that.
And we're hoping to raise our children to not make decisions like that.
And it's a more excellent way to live is to be a virgin than to be a fornicator
or to be a whore or a whoremonger or a harlot.
The Bible says in Exodus 22, look at verse number 17.
I got to flip the page.
And I think unfortunately our society is so screwed up on this
that young women do not realize the price of their virginity
and they're willing to give that away for free
or sell it for pennies on the dollar in many cases.
And they're cheapening the value of their virginity
by just giving it out and giving it out for free
and they're ruining their life
and they're not going to have a more excellent life,
they're going to have a worse life when they give away their virginity.
Do not do this, do not commit this sin, go to Proverbs chapter 7.
Proverbs chapter 7, even young men, don't give this away.
And, you know, you want to marry a high-quality woman?
You should be a high-quality man, because honestly, there's probably a lot of young women
who, if they found out that the man that was interested in them has been a whoremonger,
they would say, no, I'm not interested in you.
and you could miss out on a great option to marry
because of the sins that you committed.
And because of the decisions you made,
of course the vice-versus is true as well.
There could be a young man that wants to marry a godly woman
and he finds out about her not having been a virgin
and he decides to not want to marry her.
And so let me tell you something, you know,
I've never heard this in my life.
I've never heard someone saying,
you know, I'm just not interested in marrying this person
because they're a virgin.
I've never heard that.
Who's ever heard someone even say that?
It just doesn't happen.
But the opposite happens all the time.
The opposite is like, you know what?
When I found out about their past,
I didn't want to marry them.
But nobody's like, man, I'm just really disappointed
this person is a virgin.
No, it's more excellent.
We all prefer it.
We all want it.
It is the better way.
But most of the first society is falling victim of a story like this in Proverbs chapter 7,
Ligurus 7, and beheld among the simple ones I discerned among the youths, a young man
void of understanding passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way
to her house.
So there's a young man, the Bible says he's dumb.
He lacks information, he lacks the Proverbs, he lacks the wisdom of God's Word, and so
He goes to her house in the twilight in the evening in the black and dark night and behold there met him a woman with the attire of a
Harlot and
Subtle of heart women that dress provocatively often are out at night
Dress like whores and harlots. She is loud and stubborn her feet abide not in her house
Now is she without now in the streets notice this and lyeth and wait in every corner
Now how's that possible? How could a woman wait at every single corner?
That's not possible.
What it's basically saying is, when you go out in the night looking for this promiscuous
type woman, there's one on every corner.
They're kind of just, there's a plethora of whore-ish women that exist in our society.
There's millions.
I think someone...
I had heard some statistics. They were bringing up statistics of women that are online prostituting their body online
And it was like they're talking about just young women
I don't remember the exact ages, but like something like 18 to 25 or 18 to 30 somewhere in that range
And they were saying like 20 to 30 percent of women of those age groups are online selling their body
Like that's insane
And I mean, we're talking, we are talking about millions.
We're talking about millions and millions and millions of girls doing that,
let alone just on the street corners willing to do stuff in college, doing whatever.
I mean, it is a major problem in America today.
It is a major temptation in America today.
It is a major and serious issue.
And let me tell you something, a woman that says,
you know what, I'm not going to be like that is more excellent than all the whores and the harlots.
A woman that's not loud and stubborn.
A woman that's not out there on the corner.
A woman that's actually in the house.
You know what?
She is more excellent.
It says in verse 13,
So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him,
I have peace offerings with me this day.
Have I paid my vows?
You know, beware of a girl that will just kiss a young man that she doesn't even know
the moment she meets him.
And you know what, any guy, I'm sorry, if a girl kisses you when she immediately meets
you, it is not sincere, it is flattery.
It is flattery, it's not real, she doesn't really like you because if she would do it
to you, she would do it to any guy that came around the corner.
You're not special.
Like, some guys, if they get this complex and they think, like, oh, I must be special
because this whore, no, she does that to every guy.
You're not special.
That's not what makes you special.
You know what makes you special?
There's a woman that says, I won't just kiss any guy on the first day.
I won't kiss anybody but my husband.
I'm going to preserve, you know, these type of affections for the one man that I actually
care about.
That's special.
That's unique.
I know you think you're Brad Pitt, but you're not, okay?
It says in verse 14,
I have peace offerings with me this day.
I have paid my vows.
Therefore came I forth to meet thee,
diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
It's so funny that he's looking for her,
and then she just lies to him and says,
I was looking for you.
Like how does this guy get so tricked just instantly thinking like you found me like what does that even mean?
But but think about how the world in Hollywood likes to use this language. I don't think it's talking about like necessarily
Physically moving. It's just people are always saying like I'm looking for the love of my life
Or I'm looking for the one or I can't wait to meet my heart's half
And so they're just kind of like using this metaphoric language of trying to act like I found the one
And many songs today are just singing about how they're going to find the one and the one they love forever and I'll be yours forever and just all this language.
And it's so funny, they sing these songs and the celebrity and the Hollywood marriage rate is like a few years.
They sing these great ballads, these love songs about how they found the one and then they sleep with everyone.
They're not a virgin.
These relationships never last.
They don't even like each other.
You know, don't get fooled into the way of the wicked,
thinking like, oh, but look, they found love.
No, they didn't.
They're just trading up.
I mean, if you're Tom Cruise,
he can't stay with a girl past the age of 33 for some reason.
Just look at his dating history.
It's pretty much they turned 33, they're gone.
I don't know what's up with that number, 33, you know?
Maybe Freemasonry or Scientology or something, you know?
You can look that up, but hey, these Hollywood celebrities and relationships don't last because they're not real.
Fornication is not real.
Fornication is just carnal lust.
And what's more excellent is preserving yourself from marriage.
The Bible says marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers, God will judge.
Hey marriage is great marriage is awesome outside of marriage not good, and it destroys many people
Let's keep reading he says here. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry and with carved works with fine linen of Egypt
I perfumed my bed with Myrna Alice and cinnamon come let us take our fill of love until the morning
Let us solace ourselves with loves for the good man is not at home. He has gone on a long journey
He had taken a bag of money with him and we'll come home at the day appointed
With their much fair speech, she caused him to yield with the flattering of her lips.
She forced him.
Notice again that she's flattering.
The Bible just explicitly says she's flattering.
We could have already told that from the kisses.
I mean, she's preparing her bed.
She's never met this guy.
How does she know that he's going to show up that day?
Plus, this is just not appropriate.
This is not what you do.
And at the end of the day, we see the way of the wicked is seducing him.
He could be a righteous guy. He could be saved, but he goes down the wrong path.
He meets a young woman. She tells him everything he wants to hear, and notice it's so powerful.
Notice that it's so compelling. Notice that it's so seducing. It says she forced him.
You know, why did Joseph, as soon as Potiphar's wife kind of showed some interest,
why did he just, like, sprint out the door?
Because, you can go too far to a point where there's no return.
And that's why it's better to just not go down a road with someone, not allow them to
whisper things in your ear, not get too close to people, not form inappropriate relationships.
Because sometimes you get to a point where there's not really a point of return.
And so that's why you just don't want to play with fire because you'll get burned.
You don't want to, whosoever touches there shall not be innocent is what the Bible says.
You just don't want to go down this path.
You just want to stay far away from it, stay away from fornication.
You know, you show up as young people, they love to go to parties, they go to college,
they go to fraternities, they go to all these different things.
They may not really even necessarily know that they're going to commit a big sin that day,
but they're putting themselves in an environment that's dangerous.
And when they're putting themselves in the bar,
when they're putting themselves at these parties,
when they're putting themselves alone
with someone they're very interested in,
well, that's how things happen.
And so if you don't wanna go down this path,
you need to just avoid those situations,
avoid those temptations,
because you could get to a point
where you feel even forced.
You feel forced to sin because temptation is strong.
Lest can be strong.
The carnal desire can be strong.
It says here in verse number 22,
He goeth after a straight way as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
whereas a fool to the correction of the stocks till a dart strike through his liver,
as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Hark, and unto me thou therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth,
let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths,
for she hath cast down many wounded, yea, many strong men hath been slain by her.
Her house is the way to hell.
Going down to the chambers of death there's many men that you know
That's all they pursue in their life is women and whores and they just never pursue Christianity and never even get saved
They allow women to destroy them you know
There's a reason why the the mother in Proverbs 31 is telling unto her son give not thy strength unto women
We see that Samson, he was saved, but if he had not been saved, he was cast down by Delilah and destroyed by Delilah.
But let Samson be a warning that even if you are saved, you can still go down the exact same path as the ungodly going down this path.
Many men just chasing this, but let me tell you something, the guy that's pure, the guy that's a virgin, is more excellent than the Hormunger.
The guy that's a virgin is more excellent than Andrew Tate.
Andrew Tate is a loser.
Andrew Tate is not a role model for people.
That is the way of the wicked, and he's trying to seduce young men to be like him.
But you know what? He's a horrible example for young men.
I don't even think he's straight, personally, based on lots of things that he said.
Even if he is, you know what, his lifestyle is meaningless.
He does not have a real relationship with women.
He does not have a real companion in the help meet.
And let me tell you something,
he's probably got a lot of diseases
considering how much fornication he's committed.
And you know what's more excellent?
Being clean, being in an honorable marriage,
having the same woman, having companionship.
And let me tell you something, intimacy with a woman you love
is better than some cheap whore that doesn't love you.
You say, how do you know that?
Because the Bible's true.
And if it was so much better, then why are these people never satisfied?
If it was so much better, why do they have to keep moving on from the next tour to the next tour?
Why is it that they can never get enough?
You will never be satisfied with a life of fornication.
No one is ever like, you know what, I'm done.
Nope, they just want more and more and more and it just keeps getting more extreme
and it becomes not satisfying, not worthwhile,
whereas marriage can get sweeter and sweeter as the years go by.
I want you to go to 1 Timothy, chapter number five, 1 Timothy, chapter number five.
Number one, when we talk about being more excellent, virgins are more excellent than
whores.
Virgins are more excellent than whores.
All the young ladies in our church that are virgin are way more excellent than all the
Hollywood celebrities that are whores.
They fantasize about horrors today rather than a godly woman.
But let me tell you something, don't allow the way of the wicked to seduce you to desire that which is inferior.
No, desire that which is superior, which is a woman that fears God.
Beauty is vain and favor is deceitful, but a woman that feared the Lord, she shall be praised.
We should desire women that love God and that have the fear of God in their lives and that are virgins.
These are the type of women that we should desire.
Now, here's another example that I think is something that is happening.
And again, you know, I've preached a lot of sermons on this recently, but you can't preach on it enough.
The Bible says in 1 Timothy chapter 5, look at verse 13.
The Bible says with all they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house,
and not only idle, but Tatler's also in busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.
I will therefore the young woman Mary, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion
to the adversary to speak reproachfully, for some are already turned aside after Satan.
You know it's more excellent than being a boss, babe, as being a stay at home mom.
Today's Mother's Day, and let me tell you something.
You know, these women that are deciding to just be some boss babe and have no children
are not better than the women that decide to have children and stay at home.
Stay at home mothers are way better, and it's just sad how many people are being lied to
and saying, oh, you're of lesser value because you're just stay at home mom.
Why don't you go to college? Why don't you get a job? Why don't you be like a man?
But you know what? Being a man doesn't make you a great woman.
And what does the Bible say that the younger women should marry bare children, guide the house,
give nut occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully?
Because when you don't do this, you've turned aside after Satan.
That's what the Bible says.
But of course, the way of the wicked is constantly trying to seduce women to avoid being a stay-at-home mother.
They're trying to entice them to commit abortion, to murder their children, to stop them from
having children, to scare them from having lots of children, to say, oh man, it's so
boring and it's so tiresome and there's so much work and, you know, going out there
and getting a career and whatever, it's so much fun, it's so exciting.
But let me tell you something, the way of the wicked is not fun, it's not exciting.
I've worked in the workplace for a long time and I've worked with a lot of women.
Let me tell you something, none of them are happy.
When I go to work and I have to work around these ladies, I'm not thinking like, wow,
you're just so happy.
I'm thinking like, what's wrong with you?
I'm thinking like, what is wrong with this chick?
She's so unhappy, because let me tell you something.
Going and serving the man doesn't make your life better.
You just sit here and you just see this like glossed over
idea of like, oh man, not having kids and just being
this free spirited woman where I go out and I just serve
the man.
You know what it feels like?
Empty.
It feels vain.
You don't want to know why it's vain
because it is vain, literally.
Having a job is vain, having some career, being some boss babe, having a girl-owned business,
a woman-owned business, it's vain, you'll end up realizing, oh wow, I'm a slave to my customers.
I'm a slave to my boss.
I'm a slave to the man.
I'm a slave to the system.
That's why feminism's never happy,
because as soon as they get their job and their career,
then they have to complain about how the government
is a sexist.
And there's like systemic injustice in our country,
and they have to overturn that.
But as soon as they overturn that,
then they'll think like, oh, it's in the world.
They'll never be happy.
You'll be happy being at home. You'll be happy with a husband
You'll be happy with children and that actually gives you real joy
Children will give you real joy
Employees don't give you the same joy
Money doesn't give you the same joy
Having a badge having some office with your name on it. This doesn't really give you true joy
Having that stupid little puppy in your purse does not give you the same joy
The stupid little puppy is meaningless.
Don't have that.
Look at chapter two here and look at verse number 14.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression, not withstanding,
she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
You know, it's going to prevent you from committing all kinds of bad decisions
and the hardships of sin is just by having children and having faith and just trusting the Lord
the will for your life.
But you know, you think like,
no, I just need to get out of the house.
I need to get away from children and do my other stuff.
It's vain.
You know, I think like,
probably every woman,
there's a part of you that wishes
you could just go out and just shop or something.
You could just go out and just have fun all day.
But let me tell you something,
as soon as you do that repeatedly,
you'll end up realizing how terrible it is
and you'll end up hating it.
You only think you like it because you do it every once in a while or it happens rarely
But if you were just free to just go do that all day every day
You'd eventually just hate it you'd have it all you wouldn't even want it you would despise it and you just you just
It just is not meaningful
Clothes will never make you that happy shoes will never make you that happy. In fact when you meet rich
chicks think about it
You know them you've met them here once a while you meet that rich chick that trophy wife out there with all the glam and all
The whatever she is never a happy person
There's another word that rhymes with rich usually that people use to associate this woman
Because they're just thinking, man, she is not a pleasant person to be around.
You would think like, why is it that these rich people are not just glowing and just so happy
and just oozing with just love and charity and whatever.
No, they're mean, they're mean-spirited, they're upset.
Everything's a disappointment to them because it just doesn't bring any satisfaction.
Whereas you meet a mother with lots of children, you can meet a woman with lots of children
that's super busy all day every day, and she's genuinely happy all the time.
And you actually can see a lot of joy in her life because that's going to bring you real
joy.
Go to Psalm 127 and let me tell you something, a housewife is better than a boss babe.
It's more excellent.
It's of more value.
It's of a higher value than these women that are going out there trying to promote their short haircut and their
Feminist agenda. It's not worth it. But of course it always seduces women. It seduces women because they think you know
I just don't want to have to work hard. I
Don't have to put in the labor. I don't have to put in the energy
But you know what that's where you get your joy anyways and we've been put on this earth to work when you're not working
You're miserable
When you don't have anything to do, laziness does not breed happiness.
Not having stuff to do will make you so depressed.
If you knew statistics, you'd realize how many women in America are on drugs, SSRI drugs
because of how unhappy they are.
They got that job that they thought they was going to make them happy and it didn't, so
Because their hormones are so out of whack and their hormones are so out of whack
These are constantly on birth control and birth control destroys your hormonal processes
It causes you to have all kinds of weird attitudes
Be all kinds of jacked up and stuff. You don't want to go down this path that of course
Hormones can be crazy right and we understand getting pregnant and all this stuff sometimes your homerons go up and down
They tell you some these women on the drugs. They're not better off
The women on the drugs are not going to have a better life and it's more excellent to just have the pregnancy hormones than the SSRI hormones.
And you know what will give you the real joy, the real highs of life is your children.
Psalm 127, look at verse 3.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man,
so are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.
They shall not be ashamed,
but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Children bring a lot of joy and happiness in life.
Why is it, think about it, when the celebrities
have to basically make an excuse for their choices in life,
you had like, I think it was Michelle,
I'm gonna forget her last name.
What is it?
Michelle Williams like she got some award for acting and she basically just said like she had to kill her baby
She had to have an abortion so she could have this trophy, baby
But let me tell you something. Why did she compare it to a child?
Because we all know that's where you get the true happiness from
Why is it that when women don't have children they have to get a little puppy and dress it up like a baby and
Put it in a stroller that looks like a baby stroller
And then take all these pictures of their stupid dog because they're trying to make up for the hole in their heart of the
Child that they really want
It's just it's just like vegans that have to make a burger out of plants
Because we all know that the burger is more excellent than the impossible burger
And they all know that the burger is the thing to have.
And let me tell you something, the children are the thing to have.
Why do they have to dress up their stupid dog
and dress up all these different things?
They're a little trophy to try and act like,
oh, no, no, this is real happiness.
No, no, no, that child's the real happiness.
Just ask the mothers in this room and they'll tell you
that seeing their kids smile,
seeing their kids laugh,
seeing their kids just say silly things.
It brings them the greatest joy.
We just laugh and it's all so cute and there's so many different stages just seeing them walk and crawl and cry and say words funny.
In fact, sometimes we wish they wouldn't even say it right. We just like the silly way.
You know, all of my kids, they have certain words they still can't fix yet, but instead of watching, it's watching.
And they're like, can we watch a show?
And it's just funny.
It's just funny how they say these things.
And we just don't even want to really fix it
because it's just kind of cute.
But you know what?
That stupid dog, rough, isn't that cute?
It's annoying.
It's like, shut the stupid dog up, okay?
And of course, these women have the worst dogs too.
It's always like a Chihuahua or something.
Sorry if it was a Chihuahua, but it is the worst dog.
I'm sorry, it's so ugly and annoying looking.
It looks gross, it looks like a little rat.
And it's just like, I can't stand Chihuahuas.
If you have Chihuahuas, you have fun with that.
That's my personal opinion.
I don't like Chihuahuas, all right?
But it seems like they always have to have
these little tiny rat dogs.
And it's so ugly.
The best looking dog is not comparable to any child.
Look at 1 Timothy 5, go back if you can,
and I wanna look at another verse in here.
Don't think that being a housewife is the better life,
or not being a housewife is somehow better.
Being a housewife is more excellent.
The alternatives are not and I looked up some statistics and in America
They interviewed people under the age of 50 and in 2018
37% of people under the age of 50 said they never want to have kids
That's pretty high in
2021
44% said they don't have kids and
2023
47% said they don't want to have kids
I mean, we're pretty much nearing almost like 50% of our population saying they don't even want to have children.
It's sad.
And it's the way of the wicked that's seducing these people to try and make it seem like,
oh no, no, having kids is the bad way.
Not having kids is the superior way.
You know who wants you to not have kids, the devil?
And your enemies.
Because your enemies want you to be destroyed and they know by you not repopulating you will destroy yourself.
Here's the reasons why they give they gave the reasons they asked them like why are you not having kids?
The number one reason was they just didn't want to
It's just selfishness
Number two is they wanted to focus on other things, but what's more important anyways?
Number three they were concerned about the world
Okay, well if you're concerned about the world, don't you want more good people than less?
I mean if you're such a great person then let's reproduce right?
Number four, they can't afford it.
No one can afford it.
I mean, it's just like, it's like a miracle
how we can afford it, you know what I mean?
I think though, but here's the thing.
Most of us just can't afford it,
but you know what happens when you start having kids?
You put this pressure on yourself
to start actually making more money.
You put pressure on yourself to get a better career
or work more jobs or do something to be able to make up,
and then you end up just being more productive
and just a better person.
So yeah, I guess if you can't afford it that doesn't that shouldn't be a reason to stop having kids
It should just motivate you to work a little harder, right?
Number five is the environment. Well, those people shouldn't have kids. All right
If that's your reason you have serious mental problems. Okay the environment. Oh, man
Liberalism is a mental disorder. I'll tell you what
Number six, it's not they don't have the right partner number sevens. They just don't like children
which, you know, I think that for a lot of those people,
they just, they think that,
but if they actually had their own kid,
they would change their mind.
And there's sometimes you just don't know
what you're, what you don't have.
You can't really go back in time,
but once you have that child,
you're thinking like nothing,
I would never trade anything for this child,
whereas you can't really feel that
or experience that until you have the child.
First Timothy chapter five, look at verse number six.
The Bible says,
but she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
You know, having a dead faith is living in pleasure.
We want to have an active faith.
We don't want to have a faith without works because that's dead.
And notice a dead faith is one living in pleasure.
Meaning what? You're not accomplishing anything for anybody.
It's just like my cell phone.
If my cell phone's dead, I can't make a call.
I can't do a text.
I can't do any work on my phone.
I can't check email.
It needs to have some life.
And in the same way, Christians who are living in pleasure
are not going to be reducing in Christianity.
They have a dead faith.
We don't hear to just live in pleasure.
Do some work.
Look at verse 9.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under three square years old,
having been the wife of one man,
well reported up for good works if she had brought up children,
if she had lodged strangers,
if she had washed the saints' feet,
if she had relieved the afflicted,
if she had diligently followed every good work.
So, the woman that raises children, lodged strangers,
washed the saints' feet,
you know what, she is more excellent
than the woman who lived in pleasure.
The woman raising kids and being a stay-at-home mom and serving in church is more excellent than the woman that just lives selfishly for herself
And in fact you could argue one's even alive and the other one's dead
from a spiritual perspective and producing fruit. Go to Luke chapter number eight, go to Luke chapter number eight
Don't allow the world to seduce you because the problem is their way is not better
The way of Christianity is more excellent and of course people will then often accuse you. Oh, you think you're better than us
Well, I think the Bible is better than not living the Bible. I
Think the way of Christianity is better than not being a Christianity, but yeah, frankly speaking
I think housewives are better than the boss babes. I
Think that virgins are better than horse
They're more excellent.
It's not limited to a singular person.
It's limited to those who do that action.
And Luke chapter 8 gives us another warning here.
It's the parable of the sower.
I just kind of want to focus in on one section here.
It says in verse number 14,
and that which fell among thorns are they,
which when they have heard go forth
and are choked with the cares and riches
and pleasures of this life
and bring no fruit to perfection.
Some people are going to be caught away with just wanting money.
I mean, that's just what the Bible says.
With carers and riches and pleasures of this life,
the Bible talks about another parable,
the deceitfulness of riches,
enter in choking the Word.
And so some people are trying to lay up treasure
On earth others are trying to lay up treasure in heaven and let me tell you something the guy that's trying that guy
That's laying up treasure in heaven is more excellent than the guy that's laying up treasure on earth
the soul winner is
More excellent than the guy that's bring that's rich
than the rich man
We might think of like oh, I'm better than other people because I have money
You know a man is worth is not based on the abundance of the things that he possesses
It's not about it that I want to go to that go to Luke chapter 12 and look at verse number 13
Luke chapter number 12 verse number 13 some people are just really really obsessed and concerned with money
Now to be honest it's not so much that they care about dollar bills themselves because nobody wants that they want the things that money buy
They want the nicer life. It's so called the nicer house or the nicer car
nicer clothes or to take
different trips or more trips or
More luxuries or whatever it is that money is going to afford them. That's what they want
They want the matching purse with every outfit
They want the shoe closet that's bigger than the house, right? They just want all these things
But at the end of the day, you know, it's more important is just laying up tons of treasure in heaven
Bible says in verse 13 in one of the company said in a master speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me
And he said in a man who made me a judge or divider over you
And he said into them take heed and beware of covetousness for man's life
Consisted not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth
He's saying why are you so obsessed with making sure you get an inheritance from your parents?
Why are you so obsessed with getting some chunk of money?
Why are you so obsessed with getting a million dollars or two million dollars or whatever it is that you're gonna obtain from this inheritance?
Why are you so obsessed with some piece of land or some house or some car?
That doesn't mean that you're better than anybody else
The rich man is not better than the poor man
In the same vein the poor man is not better than the rich man
But let me say, he said, the guy that has riches in heaven, that guy is more excellent
than the guy that has money on this earth.
Let's keep reading.
He says, and he spake a parable unto them in verse 16, the ground of a certain rich man
brought forth plentifully, and he thought within himself, saying, what shall I do?
Because I have no room where to bestow my fruits, and he said, this will I do.
I will pull down my barns and build greater.
And there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
There are also much good laid up for many years.
Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Look, God doesn't want us to take ease on this earth.
We take our ease when we die and go to heaven.
That's our rest.
That's the rest that we're laboring towards
in Hebrews chapter number four.
The Bible tells us to labor to enter into that rest.
That's not salvation.
That's talking about when we get to heaven
and we ceased from our works.
We don't have to do any more works anymore.
Just like the children of Israel when they entered in the promised land really they didn't have to fight
God fought for them and just delivered them into vineyards houses lands cities
They didn't even have to build all this stuff
God's just giving it to them for free in the same way that we go to heaven
There's already a mansion built for me in heaven
God willing
I mean, I don't know if everybody gets a mansion,
maybe we do, but there's at least a house.
There's a place prepared for me.
Whatever it is, I didn't have to build it.
I didn't make it.
I didn't have to do the plumbing.
And let me tell you something,
I hate dealing with contractors anyways, all right?
The only contractor I like is Jesus Christ.
He's a good contractor, all right?
He's good at building.
The contractors on this earth are just,
they're all thieves and robbers.
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers, okay?
He's the only contractor that I trust.
Sorry if you're a contractor, but it's the 99%
that make you 1% look bad.
But at the end of the day, we should be careful
that we're not striving for our carnal riches
because they're meaningless.
And think what do you want, just to do nothing?
I wish I had more so I could do nothing,
just eat, drink, be merry.
What does that accomplish?
But God said in them thou fool this night thy soul shall be required of thee then who shall those things be which thou has provided
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God
There are some people that their spiritual bank account is at zero
Who cares what your earthly bank account is because it's all monopoly money anyways
You know they think like oh some people criticize Bitcoin and be like it's fake money, and I'm thinking like what do you think our money is?
It's all fake money, man.
It's all a scheme, anyways.
There's no certainty and riches in this life,
and it all is gonna go to zero eventually, anyways.
Just like monopoly, we all put the money back in the box
and we put it up, and it didn't change your bank account
one cent.
In the same way, your heavenly bank account
isn't gonna change with the monopoly money on this earth.
We use the monopoly money to further our heavenly kingdom.
That's what we should be doing.
If you were wise, you would take all that monopoly money you have that God keeps giving you on this earth
and you would spend it to get more heavenly money and treasures in heaven
and be rich toward God.
He says in verse 22,
He said in the disciples,
Therefore I say,
And you take no thought for your life, which shall ye eat, neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Consider the ravens, for they neither sow no reap, which neither have storehouse nor barn,
and God feedeth them, how much more are ye better than the fowls?
And which of you with taking thought can add to his jetsher one cubit?
If ye then be not able to do that thing, which is the least, why take ye thought for the
rest?
Now, I want to skip down, it's the same thing, verse 31, but rather seek ye the kingdom of
God, and all these things shall be added unto you.
If you're not storing up treasure in heaven,
you'll probably eventually burn out the Christian life.
Because wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
So if I'm just constantly sewing to the flesh,
I'm just constantly just getting more and more money carnally speaking,
and I'm not really adding to my spiritual bank account,
well, you'll probably end up seeing me drift over here
and just eventually just, that's all I care about, that's all I'm doing.
Whereas, if all I'm doing is just taking all my time, effort, and energy, and I'm just
constantly putting in deposits into my spiritual bank account, why would I ever walk away from
that?
Because then I look at my life and I say that's all I really have anyways
Then that person's just gonna keep making deposits all the way to the end
So that's why you should be aware of covetousness
Beware of the temptation of being led away with the air of the wicked being like the wicked that are just constantly trying to heap to
Themselves riches heap to themselves money heap to themselves land heap to themselves the things of this world
Whereas we should be constantly worried
about making deposits into our spiritual bank account.
And you know what's a great way to make a deposit?
It's called soul winning, being a soul winner.
What I've noticed in a church like ours
is the people that typically stay the longest
are the people that are the most active in soul winning.
And the people that don't really care about soul winning
or not zealous about soul winning or not good soul winners,
usually they're the ones that get disgruntled,
leave, start talking a bunch of, just murmuring.
And again, there's going to be exceptions on both sides,
but I'm just saying generally speaking,
you'll notice the people that are leading soul-winning times,
really zealous about soul-winning,
they're the ones that stick in church.
It doesn't have to be this church,
but I'm just saying church in general,
they actually care why,
because they're bank accounts in heaven.
That's the one they're really concerned with.
That's the one that they're focused on.
The Bible says,
Demis hath forsaken me, having loved this present world.
Some people just love this world,
and then we end up...
realizing, hey, I guess this guy wasn't really putting deposits into the spiritual bank account,
he's putting deposits into his personal bank account. And hey, as soon as their personal
bank account isn't where they want, then they just go ahead and just go full bore personal bank
account because that's where their heart really is. Where is your treasure? Go to Psalm 73, go to
There is a person that is more excellent than another person we are not all the same
There's not going to be all the same reward in heaven. God is not pleased with us all the exact same
I mean what parents in here could say I am equally pleased with all of my children at all times
Not anybody that's more than one kid
That's never the case now obviously we might love our children equally
But we're not always pleased with our children equally and the same way I would argue that hey God loves us all the same
We're all his children. We're all saved. We're all going to heaven
But God is not all pleased with us the same and
We should be careful to not allow ourselves to get led away with air of the wicked to where God is not pleased with us
And God has to chastise us very severely or even punish us. You know, you need to be a good sheep
Let's see put you to sleep
Psalm 73 is an important Psalm of the Bible.
Look at verse one.
Truly, God is good to Israel, even as such is our of a clean heart, but as for me my feet were almost gone
My steps had well night slipped for I was envious
At the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. So this is that way of the wicked seducing the righteous
Hey, the righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked is seducing him
And he's saying I'm being honest about myself. You know, I had almost basically just got out of church
giving up on God because I just see man
I just see the wicked and it just seems like their life is better
And he's gonna describe to us. How is it better verse 4 for there are no bands in their death
But their strength is for me saying they don't have all the the people dying
The way that we seem to have it
They don't have the martyrs.
They don't have the problems that we have.
Verse 5,
They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like other men.
You know, a lot of Christians have to constantly go through troubles and tribulations and plagues
and just all kinds of just terrible circumstances by serving God.
It says in verse 6,
They just they're so prideful. They think they're so much better and nothing they do is bad. They're the quote top G
You know go back to stupid Andrew Tate. He's always talking about he's a quote top G and he's actually so pride
I think I saw the other day. He fought 50 guys in a row or something like that
He did some boxing match where he let 50 guys line up
and they get three minutes each in the ring.
And, you know, it's just a bunch of just, like,
average guys that have never fought in their life
and he's just in there just, you know,
just picking on people that have no chance, basically.
And it's just like, hey, eventually,
hey, let's wait until you're 90 and let's try that.
Eventually, you won't be so great.
But again right now pride just compasses these people. They think they're gonna live forever
They think they're gonna be young forever. They think they're invincible forever
Boy, God could just take you down a notch so quick
And you know it doesn't seem like Andrew Tate's really been punished for a lot of things. He's done
Must be because he's not saved
Because he believes in Islam, I think. I think he's a Muslim. Am I right on that?
I think he still believes in Islam, if anything. He seems more like an atheist mostly, but
he claims lip service to Islam.
The guy blasphemes Christianity, talks negatively about Christians, says Christians never talk about the homosexual issue,
thinking like, do I not exist?
What are you talking about and of course he goes on an interview is asked about he's like
Oh, I don't want to talk about it because he's so tough. He's so brave, but of course he's so prideful
He oozes pride and violence covered them as a garment. You know how many people in our government
When someone's their enemy, they'll just kill them. They think they'll never be caught
You know the Epstein client list has been coming out for years
It's like when is that thing ever coming up probably never right and they'll kill anybody that's gonna reveal secrets against them
If you're a Boeing employee, be afraid.
Verse seven, their eyes stand out with fatness.
They have more than heart could wish.
They have so much money oozing out
that they just waste money on purpose.
There's this stupid thing that they were doing
where they would take bottles of liquor and pour it out
just to prove how rich they are.
Isn't that, isn't that stupid?
I mean, I'm glad they're pouring it out,
but I mean, like, I mean, just buy a bottle,
like a fancy bottle of champagne and pour it out.
just to prove how rich they are.
I'm so rich I can just waste money."
And it's like, wow, you're so brilliant.
Wow, you're so awesome.
I mean, that is insane what people are like.
Verse eight, they are corrupt
and speak wickedly concerning oppression.
They speak loftily.
They set their mouth against the heavens
and their tongue walking through the earth.
So they're just trash-talking God,
trash-talking Christianity,
trash-talking the Bible.
No problems, no death, no issues.
They have tons of money, no problem.
I mean, he's just like, I'm envious of these people.
Like, I have all these problems, they have no problems.
It says in verse 10,
Therefore his people returned hither in waters of a cup,
of a full cup are wrung out to them,
and they say, How does God know?
And is there knowledge in the most high?
Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world.
They increase in riches.
Notice the Bible is like almost with point blank saying,
just take it to the bank, the people that are just super rich,
super prosperous in this world, are super ungodly.
That's what the Bible says,
verily I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocence.
This guy thinks like, oh, being righteous isn't worth it.
I've been serving God and it's meaningless and look let me tell you something when you serve God and then bad things happen to you
There could be this temptation to think like what I've been doing was meaningless or something or think that God didn't notice
But you know what God's always noticing and you're storing up that spiritual bank account that you believe by faith
You will not God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you do show toward his name
You will be rewarded
Don't allow the wicked to tempt you to get away from this.
He says in verse 14,
He said, I do the right thing, and then I'm constantly suffering every single day.
Every single morning, I'm struggling, problems, tribulation, difficulty.
They have a great day every single day.
It seems completely in vain for me.
Verse 15, if I say I will speak thus, behold, I should offend against the generation of
thy children.
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me.
He says it hurts my heart to just think about how I have problems and these people don't
have problems.
It frustrates me that I have just horrible evil things happening to me and then I see Andrew Tate
just having party after party after party and just money and food and he's
Successful and he has all these followers on Twitter or something
And I constantly getting protested and evicted and hated on and threatened and you know
Family issues and family drama and all this issue. I mean people that serve God have real issues
And sometimes it's every day.
Sometimes it's extremely painful.
He's just like, when I thought about it, it was too painful.
Verse 17, until I went into the sanctuary of God,
then understood I didn't hear it.
He said, you know what gave me the only comfort was when I went to church.
And I heard someone get up and scream and yell about how wicked these people are
and how they're going to burn in hell for all eternity.
And how I'm saved and I'm going to heaven
and I'm going to have a mansion in heaven
and I'm going to reward in heaven.
That's why I do this and you know what you realize. Hey, the righteous is more excellent than his neighbor
All that other stuff is vain and you know we think in our minds that these people are so happy, but they're not
He says in verse number
Say, 18, surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou casted them down into destruction.
How are they brought into desolation as in a moment?
They are utterly consumed with terrors.
As a dream would want to wakeeth so, O Lord, when thou wakest, thou shalt despise their
image.
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my veins.
So foolish was I and ignorant.
I was as a beast before thee.
Nevertheless, I am continually with thee, thou hast holden me by my right hand.
I feel dumb for having had the thoughts that the wicked have a better life because they don't.
Now, there's the pleasures of sin for a season.
Hey, yeah, fornication might be enjoyable at the first,
but boy, it's going to come with a lot of grief and sorrow for the rest of your life.
Serving God is always going to be the better way while temptation, you know,
that taste of that fruit that Eve ate might have tasted good.
I mean, there's nothing in the Bible that indicates that when she ate the fruit, it didn't taste good.
But let me tell you something. I guarantee she regretted tasting that fruit.
And you know what? Sin is like that fruit where you think it's going to be good, but then it's just going to be a lifetime of pain.
We could keep going on and on. I'm going to end here with this sermon, verse 28,
Don't think that the way of the wicked is the way to live your life draw nearer to the Lord
You know the guy that goes to church three times a week is more excellent than the guy that doesn't go to church
The guy that's a soul winner is more excellent than the guy that believes in lifestyle evangelism
It which is an oxymoron anyways
Because you know what my lifestyle doesn't save anyone
My lifestyle just proves that it's salvation by grace or no one's getting saved. I'm not getting saved for sure
And really, if you thought about it, lifestyle evangelism, if that was true, it's soul winning.
My whole life, I'm going out and preaching the gospel, that's the only real evangelism there is.
And I'm trying to do it in my lifestyle. My lifestyle is to try to be a soul winner.
Hey, that's the only lifestyle evangelism I believe in.
This, like, just living your life and hoping someone's going to fall down and just ask to get saved doesn't happen.
You not going soul winning gets zero people saved.
You know, they could sit here and act like we're not doing a good job, but you're not doing something is accomplishing nothing for sure
Soul winners are more excellent than their neighbor. That's a non soul winner
Let me tell you something bad this are more excellent than Catholics
People that read their Bible are more excellent than the people that are not reading their Bible
People that are King James only are more excellent than those that are non King James only
Let me tell you something, people that are sober are more excellent than the drunkard.
Oh, I'm mighty to drink wine.
The Bible says woe unto him.
That is mighty to drink wine and strong drink.
We should be someone that is sober, that is a virgin.
We need to have women that are housewise.
We need to have a King James Bible in our hand.
We need to be laying up treasure in heaven, not on this earth.
And let me tell you something, don't allow the way of the wicked to soothe you and to
We are supposed to be steadfast and we go to the house of God to remember and to remind ourselves. Oh, yeah
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor
Don't allow the way of the wicked to seduce you and to lead you away
To lose the rewards to have nothing to show for it
Look, I would be afraid to stand before God having lived this other lifestyle
been a raging fornicator who was never in church,
that was just drinking and partying my whole life.
How's that guy gonna think he's gonna be rewarded by God?
You know, we should fear the Lord,
we should depart from evil,
we should realize that it's more excellent.
And you know, I'm not saying this to try and say,
we're better, we should just realize
this is just a better life.
And let me tell you something,
the spiritual soldier is more excellent
than Israel's mercenary.
Hey, don't go just join the armed forces and go serve and slave for Israel
How about the Israel of God? That's the soldier that you should be
Going out there and preaching the gospel and doing some evangelism and laying up treasures in heaven
You know eventually we'll be dead and the only thing that will matter is what you did on this earth for Christ
And the way of the wicked will constantly try to get you to think like no our way is better. It's never better
It's never been better. It never will be better
And don't think like, oh, I'm saved, I can't be tempted with this stuff, everyone is tempted with this stuff.
That's why we should just avoid it.
You know, you're going to have better thoughts when you're in church three times a week.
You're going to have better thoughts when you're reading your Bible faithfully.
You're going to have better thoughts when you're going soul-winning.
You're going to have better thoughts when you're sober.
You're going to have better thoughts when you're avoiding these dangerous fornication situations.
And, you know, as parents, we should also help our children make some good decisions when they're still kind of silly.
You might think that you're smart, but you're not.
And sometimes you need your parents to be the brain for you.
Don't get mad at them when they're trying to protect you from these evils because even
though you're saved, you can still make a lot of life-altering decisions, bad decisions.
Let us fear the Lord and depart from you with closing prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father for giving us these warnings.
Thank you for all the stories in the Bible.
Thank you for giving us a more excellent way to live our lives.
I pray that we wouldn't look down upon the way that you've set out before us, but rather
we would just take faithful steps down your path, that we would love church, that we would
love going soul-winning, that we would love serving you.
I pray that you would help us to raise a generation that wants to serve God.
And I pray that you would help us to cast away the imaginations of the wicked and the evil of the wicked.
We wouldn't allow them to seduce us and take us off the right path.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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You are dismissed.