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All right, welcome to steadfast Baptist Church we're gonna go ahead and get started
For this evening, you can go with me to number 401
number 401
I'm gonna say
Set my soul afire lord number 401 set my soul fire
You
Let your voice be heard
Open
I
Will be your
Fill me with my
My soul
My
Billions
Waiting
Set my soul
Give to me a passion as I seek to win Help me not to falter
Never let me fail, fill me with Thy Spirit Let Thy will prevail
Set thy soul afire, Lord, set thy soul afire Make my life a witness of Thy saving power
Millions grow in darkness waiting for Thy Word Set my soul afire, Lord, set my soul afire
Set my soul afire, Lord, in my daily life For too long I've wandered in this day of strife
Nothing else will matter but to live for Thee I will be Your witness as You live in me
Set my soul afire, Lord, set my soul afire Make my life a witness of Thy saving power
Millions grow in darkness waiting for Thy Word Set my soul afire, Lord, set my soul afire
As we sing, help us to praise You and worship You in Spirit and in truth.
I pray for Pastor Sele's message later on that You be with him, fill him with Your Spirit.
And even as Your Word says, the flesh profits nothing, it is the Spirit that quickened it,
that You would speak to us through Your Word, Lord, and quicken us through Your Word.
And we thank You in Jesus' name. Amen.
Let's go to 19. Number 19. Great hand. There is a fountain. Number 19. There is a fountain.
Sing it out. There is a fountain filled with blood
Caught from Ebenezer's veins And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Loose all their guilty saints Loose all their guilty saints
Loose all their guilty saints And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Loose all their guilty saints The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his vein And there may I go vile as he
Wash all my sins away Wash all my sins away
Wash all my sins away And there may I go vile as he
Wash all my sins away Dear dying lamp, thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be safe to sin no more Be safe to sin no more
Be safe to sin no more Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be safe to sin no more
Ere sins by fame thy sorrows treat Thy foley wounds supply
Redeeming love has been my fear And shall be till I die
And shall be till I die And shall be till I die
Redeeming love has been my fear And shall be till I die
Then in a nowhere sweeter song I'll sing thy power to save
When this poor lisping step rings up Life's silent in the grave
Life's silent in the grave Life's silent in the grave
When this poor lisping step rings up Life's silent in the grave
When this poor lisping step rings up
Life's silent in the grave
When this poor lisping step rings up
Life's silent in the grave
When this poor lisping step rings up
Life's silent in the grave
When holy men of will be showered all around you
When there's seek for sinners round you
Slowering on the brink of war
Death is coming, hell is moving
Can you bear to let them go?
See our fathers and our mothers
And our children sinking down
Breath and pray and holy Nanna will be showered
All around
Sisters, will you join and help us
Moses, sister, in him
Will you help the trembling mourners
To wash ugly heart with sin
Tell them all about the Savior
Tell them that he will be found
Sisters, pray and holy Nanna will be showered
All around us
Let us love our God supremely
Let us love each other too
Let us love and pray for sinners
Till our God makes all things new
Then he'll call us home to heaven
And his table will sit down
Christ will gird himself and serve us
With sweet men of all around
This song...
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I just want to read again here in verse number one where the Bible says
The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart
That there is no fear of God before his eyes
And the title of my sermon this evening is this, No Fear of God
There are actually people out there in the world today that just simply have no fear of God
And the Bible warns about these different people
And unfortunately when we look at the world today
It's not just the most wicked that really kind of show us
This lack of fear of God, but really just you know
The world itself seems to have a very low fear of God if any
I mean you just look at the world today and it just seems like the actions
That they're taking, the choices that they make, the things that they say and do
Reflect the fact that they just don't fear God at all
And if you don't fear the Lord, the Bible warns that you're going to be a very stupid person
You're going to make a lot of foolish decisions, but the wicked for sure
The actions that they take, you really just look baffled at that person
Because it's like you have to be an atheist to make the decisions that they do
Because they just don't believe there really is a God, they don't really believe that there's
Someone in charge, there's going to be any kind of recompense to their decisions
And you know the word God, I believe is very synonymous
With the word ruler, ruler, you know and if someone's ruling
That means they're in charge, they make rules, and with rules
There's punishment right, there's a consequence to your actions
And so from an atheistic world view, from a view from people that don't even
Believe that God exists, well they don't think there is any consequences of their actions
They don't believe in consequences of actions, they don't even believe in morals really
Because everything's just relative essentially, everybody has their own truth
And truth is relative and all these things, and if you really have that kind of philosophy
You can get to a point where you'll do anything because you just have no fear of God
And the psalmist is looking at the world
He's looking at the most evil and wicked and vile people on this planet today
And he's saying those people, when I look at the sins that they commit
When I look at the atrocities that they perform, I just have to say
Within my heart, this guy just doesn't fear God at all
And I believe there's a double sided connection here, number one when you see the transgression
Of the wicked, you say well that guy doesn't fear God
But also when you notice someone not fearing God, you can kind of back into the fact
That this must be a really wicked person that's not of God
That doesn't love the Lord, and while we understand that salvation is by grace
We look through faith and we understand that it's not of works
As any man should boast, and we realize that even Paul claimed to be the chief of sinners
And he was saved, that a lot of times when you look at
Certain sins or you look at certain actions that people perform, it's a clear indication
Of the fact that they're not saved and they don't love God, they hate the Lord
No matter what comes out of their mouth, because look at verse 2
For he flattereth himself with his own eyes until his iniquity
To be found to be hateful, so this guy flatters
And a flatterer is someone who says things that they don't really mean
It's an insincere statement, an insincere compliment
It's something that they truly know is false, but they just say it anyways
Someone might come up to you and say, oh you're my best friend
I really like you, but inside they actually hate you, that's flattery
Now it's not wrong to compliment people, it's not wrong to be friendly
It's not wrong to be nice, but if you're doing it insincere
In an insincere manner, that's a form of flattery, this guy does it to himself
For he flattereth himself and his own eyes
Meaning that he knows he's wicked, he knows he's evil
He knows he's a bad person, but he tells himself that he's a good guy
You know, he tells himself that he's on the right team and that he's nice
And he's doing good and he's doing right, and he's just, he's flattering
He tells himself, and he's like, I'm righteous, you know, and I'm a good guy, and everything like that
But then it says eventually, until his iniquity be found to be hateful
Meaning that eventually it'll be exposed that the guy is actually a very hateful person
The actions that he does hurt and harm and danger
And danger other people. Verse 3, for the words of his mouth are iniquity
And deceit, he hath left off to be wise
And to do good. So in his mouth
The words that he's speaking, they are iniquity
Meaning that he's talking about sin, he's describing sin, his actions
And he's doing, everything about him is very wicked
It's deceit, he's constantly lying
And, you know, it's interesting because he's even lying to himself, you know, he's deceiving his own self
Makes me think of a verse, go if you would to Proverbs 26 for a moment
Keep your finger here, go to Proverbs 26, I want to look back
When a man think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself
And, you know, in the world that we live in today, often people like to
Congratulate themselves or think highly of themselves
When it's really just not true. I think one of the most common examples of this
Is a resume. You know, in a resume, you kind of really beef yourself up
You really kind of talk a big game, you act like you're a double expert
Or triple expert in some kind of a category, you know, and a lot of the titles
That people have for work, it's a really kind of a lofty title when it comes to what you
Actually do, you know, and especially in the software world, you know, it's like
Senior software developer, you know, and you're just like
What does that even mean, you know, or engineer expert
Or software engineer, you know, you're just like, what is that, you know, there's all kinds
Of other titles that people have and titles that they'll give themselves
When it comes to the ministry, you know, people go to Bible college and they'll get
A degree and it'll be master of divinity, you know, it's like, but are you really a master
Of divinity? I mean, that seems like a pretty flattering title, isn't it? You're kind of
Deceiving yourself as if you somehow arrived and you've conquered
God. I mean, to me, if you said you were a master of divinity, those words
Sound like you've conquered God, because a master is one
That's the ruler or the Lord, and you're the Lord over deity
So it's like you've conquered what it is to be God or Godhood, I mean, you
Didn't get a more lofty title than that, yet there's tons of people that have that type of
Degree in this world today, you know, there's all kinds of other degrees
And accolades that people try to claim to themselves
You know, Mr. Universe, I'm Mr. Universe, I mean, talk about a lofty
Title, right? Mr. Universe, you know,
These are just lofty titles where people just deceive themselves and they flatter themselves
Or sports athletes, they all say how they're the greatest, you know, I'm the
Greatest of all time, the goat or whatever, but they can't all be the greatest
You know, so it's like, but they love to talk about how they are and they just
Deceive themselves and trick themselves. Proverbs 26, look at verse 23
Burning lips and a wicked heart
Are like a potsherd covered with silver dross
Now, a potsherd is just basically
The fragment of a pot, okay, a sherd
Is not necessarily a word we use very often, but it's just a fragment, so like, imagine a pot
A clay pot that's just broken and you just have all these random pieces
That's the potsherd, so it's a worthless piece of trash
And then it's covered in silver dross, dross is basically
When they would take silver and they're refining it, you know, the dross is what they
Purge from the silver, which is kind of a worthless part of the metal
And they get rid of the trash, it's trash on trash is what it's saying
You know, it's trash covered in trash
And it's tricking you into thinking that it could be of value, because I guess silver
Dross may look like silver a little bit, you know, or may have
Kind of have a glean to it or a shimmer to it or whatever, but at the end of the day
It's just trash on trash and it's saying this wicked heart
And the things they say, it's just trash on trash, okay
It says in verse 24, he that hateth, dissembleth with his lips
And layeth up deceit within him, when he speaketh fair
Believe him not, for there are seven abominations in
His heart, so it's saying there's somebody that's coming to come around, they hate you
They want to destroy you, that's what it means to dissemble, they want to basically draw
You away or destroy or hurt or harm, they have deceit
But they're going to come to you and they're going to speak fair, hey I'm for you brother
I want to do the right thing, I'm on your side, but at the end of the day
They're really there to attack you, destroy you, makes me think of a video
That I had recently seen attacking one of my pastor friends, Pastor Aaron
Thompson of Sure Foundation Baptist Church, he had a couple disgruntled church members who
Quit and were involved in all kinds of weird stuff, their names were Ryan Gallagher
And Chad Argon, and they make this video attacking him and releasing all
The private bake statements for the church, this is how they start
The video, we're not making this video to attack Pastor Thompson
Or to attack Sir Foundation Baptist Church, it's like, that's exactly
What they're doing, hey when he speaketh fair, believe it or not
There are seven abominations in his heart, look at what else he's saying
And you know what, these people are literally like the pot shirt covered in silver
Tross, just trash on trash, okay, and you know you have
To look past someone's just sweet,
Syrupy, you know, oh I'm on your team, I'm for you, I love you
I don't want to hurt you, whenever somebody starts out telling you what they're not
Doing, you know why they did that, it's because it's exactly what they're doing
Hey, no offense, but what they're about to say is something really offensive
Right, I'm not here to attack you, but
And then it's just something really attacking, hey I don't hate you, but
And then there's going to say a bunch of stuff that sounds really hateful, why do they put that caveat to start out
The statement, it's because they know what they're going to say
They're going to cross exactly in that manner, it's because they know that's what they're doing
It's because they know that's what's in their heart, so they have to just get up and lie to you
For a second, pretend like that's not what they're doing, so as to try and
Gain favor, gain your ear, be careful when someone tells you what they're not
Doing, because often times it's exactly what they're doing
You know, I'm not up here being prideful, I'm actually really humble
You know, I actually considered and I talked with myself and I realized that I'm really humble
What is that, that's someone that sounds like someone who's deceiving themselves, isn't it
Someone who's flattering themselves, going around telling everybody that they're humble
Telling them they're not prideful
Or, you know, it's funny, there was a failed, you know, creature here
Who's on the ground, Bo Ballard, he would often say this almost every time in his sermons
He would say, if I need to be corrected by Pastor Shelley, then I'll be corrected
You know, if I'm wrong, then I'll be corrected, however, every time I corrected him, he never wanted to hear it
He never wanted to elicit, he never even took my advice, what is that
It's someone who's lying, who's flattering, saying I love correction
I would take the correction, but then when rubber meets the road, they never actually take
The correction, do they, now look what it says in verse 26
So notice, someone lying to you or using flattery only hates you
They don't actually care about you, they're just there to hurt you and destroy you
And do bad unto you, and ultimately, you know what it tells me, it tells me
They have no fear of God, they don't fear God, they don't think
There's going to be any kind of consequence to their actions, but notice
The consequence of their actions is often going to be the exact intention that they have
Whatever they were intending evil upon you, it's going to come to them exactly
It says who's so digging the pit, guess what, they fall in that pit that they dug
And then it says hey, they're rolling a stone to try and get on top of you, but then the stone
Rolls upon them, so it's exactly whatever they plan for you, happens to them
Go back to Psalms 36 for a moment
Go to Psalms 36, and I'm just building a little bit of a foundation, I have three points
I want to make here in a moment, but it's sad that there's so many people
Today that just don't fear God, and for you to just walk around just lying all the time
Just tells me you just don't really fear God, because lying is a major sin
In fact, it's one of the sins that's in the list that God makes very clear
Yea, these six things doth the Lord hate, yea, seven are abominations, and it's lying lips
Is one of those, and it's also a false witness
That speak and lie, he like puts lying in that list like multiple ways
It's like hey, these are the things that I really hate, lying and lying and lying
It's like God hates lying, and you've got to think about it
He is truth, what could the truth hate more than a lie?
And you know what, the devil is the father of lies
And people that just lie on a regular basis, they harken unto lies
I mean these are some of the most wicked people, you want to talk about someone who's really wicked
And someone who constantly lies, this is why politicians are the most wicked scum on the planet
Because they just lie like nothing, they can lie to you
And it doesn't bother them even a bit, in fact they probably
It would bother them to tell the truth more than it would to tell a lie
Probably feel more uncomfortable telling you what's really going on, than to just lie to you
They love to lie, it becomes second nature to them
I've even grown up with people who are just like pathological liars, they would just lie about everything
And it would be about stupid stuff, you know
They would go to lunch for, like when I was in high school, we'd go to lunch and they'd go to Taco Bell
And I'd be like hey, where'd you go to lunch? They'd say McDonald's
And I'd be like, why lie about that? You know, there was no point to it
They just lied to lie, you know
And that's a bad habit, you don't want to be a person who's just willing to lie for any reason
There's never a justification to lie, some people even ask me
They're like, well what about Rehab the Harlot, or what about Jihoo, or what about these situations
Look, lying's just always wrong, period
You never lie, you should never do it, there's no justification for it
Obviously there could be a temptation to do it, but that just shows me you really don't fear God
When you just feel like lying is okay, or there's circumstances when you should be lying
Now in verse 3 it said, for the words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit
He hath left off to be wise and to do good
When you break God's commandments it shows that you're not just lacking a fear of the Lord, it's just that you're stupid
It's stupid to break God's commandments
All of God's commandments are wise, keep your finger here
One more verse, but go to Proverbs 1 now, go to Proverbs 1
And often times the people that are the most wicked and the most evil
Are often the most unintelligent people as well
They're very foolish, they're very stupid, they'll do things that you just kind of look at
And you're just puzzled by how moronic it is, you're just kind of like, why in the world do that?
Or they believe things like the flat earth theory
People get so mad at me for criticizing that
It's like, someone that's so stupid to believe that shows that they don't fear God
Because they're so stupid
Just being stupid is a bad sin, you know, the thought of foolishness is sin is what the Bible says
And they just obviously hate truth, apparently, they're not interested in the truth
That's why I say they're either stupid, wicked or both, and almost 90% of the time
It's both, you know, and I'm not going to shy away from that comment
Now obviously some people can get a little confused
Or, you know, look into stupid things every once in a while
But if someone's shown the clear evidence or truth on a subject and they dig in
That to me shows me that they're wicked, they're not just making a bad decision
Or getting caught up in something, look what the Bible says, you know, you say, oh this is harsh
Look at verse 7, Proverbs 1 verse 7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise
Wisdom and instruction, so God says someone that doesn't fear me at all
Is a fool, and in fact if you don't fear the Lord at all you have no wisdom
No knowledge, nothing, now this is a great verse when you think about
Soul winning, flip over to Proverbs 23
I want to show you another verse here, but in order for you to even get saved
You have to have at least a shred of fear of God
Because otherwise why would you get saved, if you don't fear God, if you don't fear hell
You don't fear any consequence, then, you know, there's no need to get saved
But someone that has the fear of the Lord, someone that
Realizes there's a punishment for their sin, that person needs a savior
That's why it's the beginning of knowledge, you know, it's the beginning of getting saved
You know, someone that doesn't fear God can't get saved, you have to at least have some level
Of the fear of the Lord, that's why when you talk to an atheist they're not interested in getting saved
You know, they don't even fear the Lord at all, they don't think that they need anything
Proverbs 23, look at verse 17
Now, if you started out, you started your Christian life
With the fear of the Lord, you started realizing, I fear hell, I fear God
I fear the consequences of my sin, that's how you got saved
Here's the question, well, what do I do now? Well, you fear them all the rest of the days
You don't just stop fearing the Lord just because you're not going to hell anymore
You have to realize, you know, Hebrews warns it's a fearful thing to fall in the hands
Of the living God, you know, there's still a fiery indignation of those that would
You know, go trodden underfoot, the son of God
You know, basically just transgress and not care that you've been saved, not care that you're violating
God's commandments, not care that the blood has been shed for you
Just keep on sinning willfully, keep on lying, keep on stealing
You know, God is not mocked, whatsoever man soweth, that shall he also reap, the Bible's crystal clear
You know, you can't just say, well, I'm not going to hell, so it doesn't matter how I live my life
That's not true, your life is still super important
And you need to fear the Lord all your days, and you know what, there's a lot of people that are saved today
And they know they're saved, but it seems like they live like the wicked
They don't go to church, they don't read the Bible, they're not serving the Lord
They're apathetic towards the things of God
And you look at them and you think, do you just not fear God?
And they have a lot of horrible things happening in their life, and you know what, they never attribute it
To the fact that they're just not fearing God and following his commandments, you know
They get sick, they lose their family members, they're losing their job, they're losing their mind
They're having all this evil happen to them, and they're wondering why
They think it's because they don't have enough money, you know what, money won't solve your problems, it'll only give you more
You know, when you have nothing to have
You have nothing, you have nothing to lose, your life's actually simpler
Your life becomes more complicated, the more money, the more assets, the more possessions
The more things that you have, and so it's important that we keep our hearts
Right with the Lord, that we're in constant fear of him, that we don't envy
Sinners, that we don't get to a place where we say, oh man, look
He's just doing whatever he wants and living whatever he wants, that sounds so great
But the Bible says the way of transgressors is hard, and there is a
Severe punishment, and there is going to be a severe chastisement
To all those that break his commandments, whether they're saved or unsaved
Now, the reason why it's tempting to want to live
Like the unsaved, is because often they don't experience
Consequences for their actions in this life, a lot of times they get away with things
So in our mind, we think as a saved person, we think, well, why don't I just live like them
Because they seem to be really happy, but here's the problem, when a Christian
Starts living like the world, God constantly punishes them
God constantly chastises them, you know, it'd be like if me, living with
My parents when I was little, I noticed all of my neighborhood friends are running in the
Street and having a good old time and playing, and I'm like, well
I'm going to go run in the street, okay, but my parents are real strict
My parents have rules, if I run in the street, I'm going to get punished, so I run out in the street, my parents
Grab them by the ear, drag me in the house, they beat my rear end, and I'm thinking like
Well, this isn't fun, you know, and all the other kids whose parents
Don't care, they're just having a great old time, but at the end of the day
Don't let the wicked entice you just because they're not getting punished
Because guess what, their punishment is coming when the truck comes and it runs them over and it kills them
And it destroys them and they're mangled by
Playing in the street, and you think, oh man, it was so much fun
Playing in the street, no, it was fun getting your rear knocked so you didn't get
Killed, so you didn't actually get permanently injured, you just had that temporary
Chastisement that a loving parent would give unto his children
But it comes through what? Fearing God, you say, oh
I don't want to go to church because nobody's going to church anymore, okay
But do you want to just go out and play in the street because everybody's playing in the street
Just wait for the semi truck to run you over, I mean
Just because there's not a lot of people serving God doesn't change
How God operates, you know, you still need to fear God
In every decision that you make in your life, oh all of the unsaved
They're going out and sleeping around and whoring around and having such a good time
Yeah, but if you go around you'll probably either get pregnant or an STD or something horrible
The first time, I knew a person that was saved
Maybe, I don't know for sure, I didn't check their salvation because I was a teenager
I didn't go soul winning, but they were a Christian
And they, you know, their friends would always go
Whore around and sleep with all these different people, well this individual ends up
Going on a first date and lies with this person on the first date
And guess what, he got pregnant on the first date
That doesn't sound like fun
And they don't get married, the guy did, you know, I knew the girl
The guy just abandons her, so now she's stuck with a child
With a guy that she went on a first date, she didn't even like the guy, they don't even like each other
They just made a stupid decision and now they're stuck with that forever
And whereas the wicked, you know, they just do everything
They never seem to have any consequences or any problems or whatever
You know what, you as a child of God, you're going to get punished
And you need to fear God because you started that way, why don't you finish that way
And go back to Psalms 36 for a moment, go to Psalms 36
Oh, they're stealing and getting away with it, well you don't steal
They're lying and getting away with it, you don't lie
They're committing a fornication and getting away with it, you don't commit fornication
You don't get away with it, because you know what, God's going to deal with you individually
And if a thousand people get away with it, you still may not
And you ought to fear God and say, you know what, I just don't want to commit these types of sins
Because I want God to give me blessing and favor
Verse 4, he deviseth mischief upon his bed, he said of himself in a way
That is not good, he abhorreth not evil, so notice the reason why these people are doing evil
Is because they don't fear God at all, so of course they're going to do whatever they want
They're going to commit all kinds of sin and abomination and do all this kind of evil, and in fact they're so evil
They literally just sit up at night or they're laying in bed at night
Just dreaming up the next evil scheme, they're just like
Oh man, I just can't wait, he said of himself in a way that is not good
And he abhorreth not evil, this reminds me of every single person that says like, I just love everybody
He doesn't abhor anyone
I love everything, you know, people will say, well
I'm not necessarily a fag, but I let people do whatever they want
In the privacy of their own home, no I abhor it
The person that just loves it, you know what, he's the wicked, and he has no fear of God
In his eyes, he just doesn't
Worry about what the Lord is going to do to him, go to Proverbs 4
And unfortunately for these type of people, God gives them a lot of chances
He gives them mercy, he gives them grace, he's long suffering towards them
Which should motivate them to actually end up getting saved
But a lot of times, you know, especially in this context
These people, they're never going to be saved, the wicked here that don't fear God
The workers of iniquity, they're never going to love the Lord, they're only going to be wicked forever
That's why I'm saying, he's setting himself in a way that's not good, he abhors not evil
And he's dreaming up all kinds of evil, it reminds me of Proverbs 4, look at verse 16
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief
And their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall
There's some people, they can't even sleep at night unless they've hurt someone
In fact, that's what gets them joy, is by doing evil
And hurting people, and you say why, because they just don't fear God
Now go to Psalms chapter 10, I want to give you three points this morning
Or this evening to think about, when they don't fear God
What does that mean, what does that look like, well number one, they don't fear his sight
And we as God's people need to be reminded that God sees everything
Everything, think about some of the verses in the Bible
Right, he has all the hairs of your head numbered
You know a sparrow can't fall and he doesn't know about it, right
God knows everything, God knows the number of the stars, he knows all their names
He knows how many hairs, and think about it, some people's hair
Is changing by the second, I mean it's like falling out, I mean you know
Some people it's pretty easy to count, some people it's really hard to count, you know
But think about this, there's seven billion people on the planet
Times how many hair follicles, and God constantly knows this
Every moment, every second, God knows every single thought
God knows every single insect, every single bug, I mean do you know how many ants there are?
Do you know how many bugs there are, do you know how many birds there are?
I mean God, and some people just, they think that they can get away with stuff
God knows everything, God sees everything
He knows everything, look at Psalms chapter 10 verse 4
The wicked through his pride of his countenance will not seek after God, God is not in all his thoughts
His ways are always grievous, thy judgments are far out of his sight
As for all his enemies, he puffeth at them, he hath said in his heart
I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud
Failing his mischief and vanity, he seeketh in the lurking places of the villages
And the secret places that he murdered the innocent
His eyes are privately set against the poor, he lieth and wait secretly as a lion in his den
He lieth and wait to catch the poor, he doth catch the poor
When he draweth them into his net, croucheth and humble himself
That the poor may fall by his strong ones, he hath said in his heart
God hath forgotten, he hideth his face
God will never see it, notice what the wicked are like
Because they don't fear God, they think that God won't see it
They don't fear God's sight, they don't fear God's sight
But the God's sight is something to fear because he sees everything
When you're alone in your house and no one's around
God's looking at you, every action that you take
You know, oh no one's looking at you when you pull money out of the register, God saw
Whenever you lie, whenever you steal, whenever you cheat, everything that you've done
God saw it. Go to 1 Kings chapter 15, let me prove this to you
from the Bible, God sees it all. Shouldn't that not terrify you?
Now, let me ask you a question, just in all honesty
Did you behave better when your parents are watching you or when they're not watching you?
Do you perform better
whenever CCTV at your work is watching you or not watching you?
Do you perform better when all your peers are watching you?
Hey, do you perform better at church when pastors come into town?
Do you perform better when you have more eyeballs on you or less eyeballs?
Obviously it's when you have more, right? It's just a natural thing
But you have to realize God's always watching you
And who's the most important person to be watching you anyways? Isn't it God?
But if you don't fear God, you can actually feel like you're alone at times
You feel like nobody's watching, nobody's looking, nobody's seeing
But here's the problem, someone's always watching
Of course today, your phone's always listening too
But God literally is seeing and hearing everything
Look what it says in 1 Kings chapter 15, I want to flip through a lot of verses, look at verse 5
Because David did that which is right in the eyes of the Lord and turned not aside
So the Bible talks about David, all the things he did was right in the eyes of the Lord
Look at verse 11, and Asa did that which is right in the eyes of the Lord
Go to chapter 16 and look at verse 25
So God sees all the right that people do, God's looking and he's noticing
1 Kings 16 verse 25
But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord
So notice God's seeing the good and he's seeing the evil
Go to 1 Kings 22 now, go to 1 Kings chapter 22
Look at verse 43
He turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord
So notice God's noticing if you're doing right in the eyes of the Lord
Or if you're doing evil in the eyes of the Lord
But one thing's always the same, he sees what you're doing
Go to 2 Chronicles chapter 16
Psalms 34 the Bible reads
And his ears are open unto their cry
God's constantly looking at you, God knows everything that you're doing
And in fact if you're saved, he's ready to even answer your prayers
And that's a comforting verse, you know to some people this would be scary
Because they're thinking like, well I don't want God to be paying attention to everything I'm doing
Well why? Is it because you're doing something wrong? Because if you're doing something right
Don't you want him to be paying attention? You know whenever you're performing
You're doing some kind of activity, don't you want your parents there? Isn't that the big deal?
You want your parents to come to the soccer game
You want your parents to come to the baseball game, you want your parents to come to the recital
You want your parents to see you perform, you want your parents to see you score that goal
Or to shoot that basket and win the game, or you want them to see you
Run that lap or do that backflip, you know, whatever
Or three black people, I don't even know, right? But you don't want to do something cool
And then turn around and no one was watching, right? No one was looking
So isn't the eyesight kind of attributed to if you're doing good or bad?
So it's like, well I don't want God to be watching, why? Because you were doing something wrong
But if you're doing something right, you want God to be watching, you were pleased
That the Lord was noticing you, so when you're doing right, serving God
You're a Godly person, you love these verses, they're great unto you
Hey God notices when you give money to the poor and nobody else
Hey God notices when you clean the church and nobody saw
Hey God notices when you help somebody that was in need and nobody saw
Hey God saw you get on your knees and pray for all the different expecting ladies in the church
Or to pray for the person that's sick
Or to, you know, do some kind of a work or to help somebody
You know, it could be discouraging when you do good all the time and you feel like nobody ever noticed
But you know what, you can feel good and notice that God will do it
Saying hey, I'm not doing this to be seen of men
I'm doing this because I want God to be pleased with me, I want to have it be said of me
That I did right in the eyes of the Lord. 2 Chronicles 16, look at verse 9
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth
To show themselves strong on the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward them
Herein thou hast done foolishly, therefore from henceforth
Thou shalt have war. So notice the Bible says God sees everything, His eyes are running
To and fro. Now obviously this isn't meant to be taken
In an overly literal fact. It's not like eyes have legs and they're running around
You know, it's just talking about the fact that He can see everything
It's a metaphor as the fact that He can see it all
I always think of this verse when I think of flat earthers
And you say why? Well, this is why. Because from a flat earth
Perspective they'll take verses like this and they'll twist them and they'll say well the earth has to
Be flat. Because otherwise how could God look down and see everything?
Right? How could He see me?
And I'm thinking like that's such a stupid idea. Because God
Can see through things. Right? And you're like how could He see through things?
Well notice number one when I look straight up I'm not looking at God. So even
If it was flat earth He'd have to be looking through the clouds and the buildings, ceiling
And everything else. So if He could look through the clouds and the buildings, silly, why couldn't He look through the
Other side of the earth all the way where you were at anyways. It's such a stupid
Narrow sided idea to think that it has to be flat in order for you to see Him
Or whatever. Look He can see through everything. Everything's naked in His sight
He can see the invisible as well as the
Visible. I mean what kind of a foolish idea, what kind of a God do you worship that has
To be looking down and it has to be this little stupid flat disc or something
For Him to be able to see it. No, God can see everything
From His perspective. His eyes run to and fro through the whole earth
But make note He sees everything
And you can tell from these wicked people that they don't believe God sees
Because they think if no one saw me I'm going to get away with it. But here's a problem
God saw it. God saw everything that you did. Proverbs chapter 5
Go if you would to Proverbs chapter 5. I'll read for you another verse. Proverbs 15
Verse 3. The eyes of the Lord are in every place
Beholding the evil and the good. You cannot escape
God. He's looking at you right now. He's looking at
Everything that you do. Every action that you take. God not only
Looks at you. You know what He's really looking at? He's not actually looking at your hair
He's not looking at your nose. He's looking at your heart. Think about that
That's what God's really looking at when He's looking at you. What kind of
So foolish to think that God can only see like we can see. God doesn't look like
We look. You know we look on the outward appearance. God looks at the inward
Appearance. God can see even how your heart looks. How your spirit
How your soul. I mean God can see it all
Proverbs chapter 5 look at verse 21. For the ways of man
Are before the eyes of the Lord. And He pondereth all His goings
God even thinks about everything that you're doing
Every thought you have. I mean when you really
Quantify all the things that God's doing simultaneously
I mean it's incredible isn't it? I mean there's nothing that could be matched
To it. And it really should strike fear in your heart.
Go to Psalms chapter 2. Go to Psalms chapter 2. I remember being a young child
You know while I didn't necessarily I wasn't raised in an independent fundable Baptist
Wasn't raised Baptist. But I was raised to go to church and I was raised
To fear the Lord. And I remember lots of times where I chose not to do
And it was for this one reason. Because I knew God was watching
And there was plenty of times where I could have gotten away with something
And I just said you know what I'm not willing to do that because I just don't want
God to be mad at me. You know I remember I went to the
Subway and I paid for my meal
And they like gave me change and they gave me like 20 extra bucks
By accident or something like that. And I walked out I got in my car and I'm ready
Like I'm with my parents. They were just giving me a ride. I was like a teenager
Or something. And I got in the car and I looked and I'm like ready to leave
They don't know. Whatever. And I'm like no. I said stop. Get out of the car
Walk back in. Hand them the 20 bucks and say you gave this to me by accident.
And it's not to say like I didn't make I didn't steal or do bad things
In my life because I'm sure I did. I know I did. But what
I am saying is this. Why did I do that? Because I knew God was watching me.
And if I had not been taught to fear the Lord. I would have been like sweet.
I just got 20 bucks. You know how many people would
Have something extra or got something you know they didn't pay for something at the store
Or the cashier gives them the wrong amount of money. Are going to decide
To give it back. Or decide to pay for it. Or decide to remedy or fix
That situation. Or they're just ok stealing. They're ok with taking advantage
Of people. Because they say well no man knows. They just think God knows.
And you know what? I don't need 20 bucks. I'd rather
God bless me. I'd rather God be on my side
Than have 20 bucks. Right? And it's usually that people
They're more interested in 20 bucks than having God be pleased with them.
Than God be right with them. And you say why? Because they don't fear God.
You know I don't look back on that story and think like man I wish I had that 20 bucks.
I'm so glad I decided not to take it to give it back.
Right? And every decision where I had an opportunity to steal or do something wrong
I'm glad that I did that which is right. And I'm disappointed and ashamed
Of all the times that I did steal. All the times I did take advantage. And look there's
Plenty of things that I've done wrong. There's plenty of you know
When I was young I was into like peer to peer sharing music
You know you could download music. This is not a legal thing. Ok?
I downloaded like 10,000 songs. Ok? And I was always nervous
About it because I would go look up online and people would get mad. They'd get
You know they would be caught and they'd be charged like a million dollars
For a song or something like that. And I remember sitting there and I was like
I'm gonna be in real big trouble but I noticed that they
Would typically only catch the ones that were sharing not the ones
That were stealing. Not the ones that were downloading. So I became a you know
But I felt bad about it and I would sometimes delete it. Delete everything
You know I'd try to get right. But look I'm not a saint here. I'm not up here
To see my praises but I am saying this. I wish I'd never done it.
I didn't need to listen to all that stupid music. Praise the Lord
I never was into country music so I didn't listen to that anyways. But I downloaded everything else
You know I liked all the other trash that was out there. And I still have it up here
You know it's really annoying. I wish I didn't know any of that or have any
That. It didn't benefit me any. It didn't profit me any. I look back
And I'm ashamed. It just caused me all kinds of issues and problems
And you know what I should have in those moments feared God a little bit because he was noticing
What I was doing. He still saw every single thing that I did.
Those of you who went to Psalms chapter 2. Point 1. They don't fear his sight
But here's point 2. They don't fear his judgment. Now
If you don't think you're gonna get caught then you don't feel like there's gonna ever be a judgment
At some point. Right? If you don't think he sees. So these kings compound
Because he saw. There's gonna be a judgment at some point. At some point
You're gonna have a day in which you're gonna have to stand before him
And you're gonna have to take account for the things that he saw. For the things that he heard
For the things that you did. Psalms chapter 2 look at verse 10
Be wise now therefore you kings. Be instructed to judge the earth. Serve the Lord with fear
And rejoice with trembling. Kiss the sun lest he be angry and perish from the way
When his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their
Trust in him. Notice we're supposed to serve the Lord with fear and rejoice
With trembling. Look we're supposed to be afraid of Jesus
That's the son. Kiss the son. Notice the son of God is mentioned in the Old Testament
Okay? And you need to be right with Jesus because if he's
Angry just even a little. The Bible says man you're in trouble
Man when his wrath is just kindled a little
Blessed are the people that put their trust in him. Now this is really a salvation
Verse if you think about it. Because if I trust in Jesus
I'm saved. And now I don't have to face what? The wrath of Jesus
But if you're not saved. If you don't have the fear of the Lord
Here's a question. How many are the things that God saw and
Heard am I gonna be judged by? And the Bible has a
Really bad answer for you to all of them. Because you know in man
Case someone might see you do something bad and they're just like well I'm not gonna do anything
About it. But you know what? God's not that way. God is just
So God makes sure that every single transgression will
Have a judgment and will be judged. He is going to
Make you account for everything that you've done. Go to Matthew
Chapter 12. Go to Matthew chapter 12. If you're not saved
Now praise the Lord if you're saved. Your sins are separated from you as far as these
From the west. Those that are not saved. Jesus had some really scary words
Some really scary words to say. And you know in
Psalms 58 the Bible says verily there is a reward
For the righteous. Verily he is a God that judges in the earth.
So you know there could be a temptation to think that well I know it's gonna happen
In heaven. And I'm gonna get there. You know the Bible actually
Teaches that God also judges in the earth. Meaning what? People get what they
Deserve on earth too. People get rewarded in earth and people
Get punished in earth. There is a punishment and a reward
In this life as well as the next. But let's
Listen to what Jesus had to say about the next. Matthew 12 verse 34
A generation of vipers how can ye being evil speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Notice an evil person can't say anything
Good. They can only lie and flatter. Verse 35 a good man of the good treasure
Of his heart bringeth forth good things and the evil man of it evil treasure bringeth forth evil things
But I say unto you that every idle word
That men shall speak they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment.
For by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be
Condemned. Say look you called upon the name of the Lord? Justified.
You didn't call upon the name of the Lord? Every
Idle word you have to give an account for. That has to be
Scary for somebody. I mean man that's terrifying.
Just imagine if we weren't saved all the things you said
You have to now Jesus is going to ask you. Remember when he said this?
Remember when he said that? Think about just every song
Lyric that you've ever sang. There's some bad songs out there
That I've sang. I'm glad I don't have to give an account for that idle word.
Every time you muttered under your breath every time you said something evil
And you know when the God looks at Sarah you know
Jesus Christ comes in the flesh and the Lord appears. He says that she spoke
When she didn't even speak with her mouth. Meaning even what was said up here
What was even said in here. You know that's like a mutter right?
When you kind of say something under your breath you didn't really verbalize it but you said it.
Oh man. You have to give an account for everything. Look they don't fear his judgment
They don't think that they're going to have to give an account for everything that they said. They don't think
Otherwise they would not speak as much. They wouldn't say as much crap.
They wouldn't talk as much. They wouldn't say as many lies and as much deceit
And as much flattery. They wouldn't be mocking and ridiculing. I mean think about the people
That were wagging their heads shaking their heads at Jesus while he was on the cross
Mocking him and saying he saved others himself he cannot save.
You really want to stand before Jesus and have to give an account for those words?
Hey remember when you told me that I couldn't save myself?
And they're like I don't know.
Here's the video.
That's not me. It was you.
You know what sucks about those people when they stand before God? They don't have an attorney.
Their case isn't getting dismissed.
There's no statute of limitations here.
It's not like well that happened a long time ago.
It's hot on the fresh or fresh on the press right?
We'll go to Revelation chapter 20 for a moment.
And in fact whenever we see this the Bible says this the righteous shall rejoice
When he seeth the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Now for some people that go to a love everything church
They don't understand these verses. But you know when you actually serve God
And you're actually doing right you're going to have some real enemies.
You're going to have some evil people come out of the woodwork and they're going to just hurt and damage
The evil manner of sin and blasphemy.
And when we see them get what's coming to them we're going to be like
Yeah! We're going to be like party!
We're going to be like man we're going to have a party. We're going to be all excited.
You know it's a natural emotion when people are in a court
And they finally give the judgment and the verdict comes in
When people actually get what's due to them the family rejoices the victims of the family
It's a natural emotion. It's normal.
How can you do that? How can you be glad that someone died?
Isn't that like what all of America did when Osama bin Laden died?
Everybody's all excited.
You know and look everybody feels this way. Anybody that voted for Trump would be excited if Biden died.
And anybody that voted for Biden would be excited if Trump died.
And isn't that you know that's everybody including dead people.
I mean the dead people would be excited apparently.
Everybody would be excited if someone died. There's someone out there
Even the wicked know that there's somebody out there to be glad that they died
And it's not any different for the righteous. And we're going to rejoice.
That's what the Bible says. But look at the righteous rejoiced.
I guess the saved Christian that's not very righteous maybe he's going to be like
I don't know if you should be so excited.
And I'm going to be like I'm real excited.
In fact see his blood. Watch this.
I'm going to wash it on my feet and his blood.
What are you talking about? This is the Bible.
Welcome to the Bible.
Let's see the New Testament. Revelation 20. Look at verse 12.
And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were open and another book was open.
Which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books
According to their works. Notice look
Everything they did. Everything they said. They will be judged.
You say why do they do the things they do? Because they don't fear the judgment.
They don't fear his sight. They don't fear his judgment.
And here's the last point. Let's keep reading. Verse 13 and the sea gave up the dead which
were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged
every man according to their works and death and hell were
cast in the lake of fire. This is the second death and who so ever was not
found written in the book of life was cast into the lake
of fire. They don't fear the judgment but they don't
fear his punishment either. So point number one they don't fear his sight
but he saw it all. They don't fear his judgment. They don't think they're going to
have to give an account for it but then lastly they don't fear the punishment
that they're going to receive for what they've done. But notice a
grievous punishment is found to all those who haven't trusted in Christ.
And you know you could sit here and think all day long
and you'll never ever ever think of a punishment worse than hell.
It's just not possible. Weeping and gnashing of teeth.
No rest day or night. Outer darkness.
Constant regret. Constant sorrow.
I mean there's just fire.
And it says go to Mark chapter 9. We'll paint a little picture here.
Go to Mark chapter number 9 and we'll paint a picture
of what hell is like. The Bible says that it's just fire that
can never be quenched. You know you're just burning and burning
and burning and you know in a human sense you can't even fully fathom it
because if you've ever burned yourself really badly you actually
burn off the feeling in that part of your body. You know it eventually gets to a point
where you don't feel it. And a lot of burn victims what they'll say is that the worst
pain is in the place where their body wasn't burned severely.
It's the place where it was burned just enough to hurt but it didn't burn
off all their tendons and all the pieces of their body that basically
give them that feeling. And God created all kinds of mechanisms to
help you with pain because if you ever go through severe pain you don't actually feel it
in that moment. You know you have a lot of adrenaline or a lot of human
responses that kick in that cause you to overcome pain in a temporary
fashion. It's later that you often usually feel a lot of that
suffering and that woe. But hell is not a place where
you have adrenaline kick in ever. You don't ever get that temporary relief.
You don't ever have that moment where you're not feeling. The most intense part is always.
And it's a fire that's hotter
than anything we could ever imagine. When they talk about the sun
and how hot it is it's just exponentially greater than any
fire you could ever imagine on this planet. And the fires that
are on this earth even you know things like thermite
or stuff that burn at like 3,000 degrees or these temperatures
I mean it would just vaporize your body. So it's impossible for you to even feel it.
Because if you were to like be doused in that kind of heat you would instantly vaporize you wouldn't feel
anything. You'd be gone. OK. Vaporize.
The people in hell aren't vaporized. They're not going anywhere.
They're just constantly feeling. I've even heard people estimate that the sun
burns at like a million degrees Fahrenheit.
You can't even fathom what that's like. Look what it says
in Mark chapter 9. And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea.
So he's saying it's better for you to just kill yourself than to ever hurt a child.
Verse 43 and if thy hand offend thee cut it off. It is better
for thee to enter into life maimed than having two hands
to go into hell into a fire that never shall be clinched. You know the Bible
saying hell is so bad you would rather just literally
get a knife out right now and just start sawing as
gruesome as that would be just sawing your hand on or just never having a hand.
I mean you'd rather go your whole life having one hand or one
arm or one leg or one eye than
ever going to hell. And look some people
would say oh woe unto someone that has a physical deformity
or has some kind of a problem with them. You know what woe unto those that aren't saved.
That's the real woe. Because eventually they're going to be
made whole. Eventually they're going to have it all in heaven. And you know most people their
health is temporary anyways. You know I'm not that old
but I'm already starting to feel it. You know even in the thirties you start to realize
you know your prime is past. You know eventually you're going to get to a point where
you can't really enjoy it. You can't run and jump and sleeping hurts.
I remember my grandpa I remember asking him when I was young and I didn't
understand this. He wouldn't sleep very much. He would just go to bed late and he'd get up
like at five in the morning. And I'd be like why do you get up at five in the morning every day.
And he said son it hurts to sleep.
And I was just like that sucks. You know I'm just thinking
like man that's terrible. He's like I would sleep more but it just it's too painful
to just lay there. So I have to get up.
And I'm just thinking like that. It scared me to be old. I'll just be honest with you.
I was just like I never want to be old. And you know what some people they hurt
their knee their leg their elbow their arm they get some kind of a
physical injury and they have that permanently. For the rest of their life
they're going to be hurt or damaged permanently. But you know what when you get to heaven
you're going to be restored. And he's saying you'd rather go through life
maimed than going into hell than having been
Tom Brady. Oh I had two hands and I used them and I was so good with them and I
won all these Super Bowl trophies. But you know what when he's in hell he's going to
wish that someone walked up to him and cut both hands off when he was a little boy.
That he never played football once in his life. And you think like
oh these people that aren't celebrities in Hollywood it's so
bad for them or they weren't born with a silver spoon in their mouth or people that live in the ghetto.
Like some people that live in the ghetto in Oklahoma City they're never going to have anything
good happen to them in this life. But a soul winner walked up to them one day and preached
them the gospel and they believed on Jesus Christ and their life is going to be
way better than Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers the God hating
atheist. The guy that's a freak. The guy that's going to be burning in hell for all
of eternity. And you say oh you know I went to this really fancy
church the Catholic church and you went to this little strip mall church. Yeah but you're
burning in hell and I went to heaven.
And you say well why would people do that? Because they don't fear his punishment.
Look there's the thought of hell should make you
scream and want to run in the direction of salvation. I mean
you want to know why I got saved as a little boy? I was terrified of hell.
Hell scared me to death. I was
terrified of hell because I knew it was real. I knew God is
real. I know that God created me. I knew that it was a real thing
that I could go there and I'm like I don't want to go there.
You say you trying to scare people into heaven? Yes.
I hope I scare everyone into heaven. You know it's not like
I'm going to be disappointed why I'm in heaven. Well I
wish I'd gone to heaven because I really wanted to be here. It's just like I'm just glad I'm not in hell.
Hell is so scary. It's so terrifying.
Look what it says
in verse 44. Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
Now again the worm there is referring to them. Worm is
someone that's despised. You know Jesus talks about himself being a worm being
despised. It's not talking about an insect. It's talking about
them. They're considered a worm which is meaningless. It's pointless.
It's despised. It's a shame. It's saying it's not going to die meaning it's not going
to cease to exist. It's always going to exist and the fire around them is
never going to be quenched. Because if they could cease to exist then the pain would stop.
Right? Or if the fire went out then the pain would stop.
It's saying neither of those will ever happen. You'll never stop
existing and the fire will never stop. That's why their torment
is set up forever and ever. Look just the thought of this should motivate you
to get as many people saved as possible. How could you know that hell exists?
How could you believe that God exists? How could you know that this punishment is real
and then look at someone in the face that's not saved and not tell them about it?
Because you hate them. Because you don't really care about them.
Isn't that what most Christians are doing today?
And you think about when you start out at the beginning of the passage and most of them aren't even saved
but it's talking about them deceiving themselves and cladding themselves that they're such a great person.
Yet how many Christians today never even preached the gospel one time?
How many Christians today don't even preach the gospel to their own kids?
How many Christians today don't preach to their families? How many Christians don't preach it to their neighbors?
How many Christians aren't preaching to their world today? And you say look
you know there's so many things going on in this world. What's more important than that?
You know if someone's arm was cut off or their eye was ripped out
wouldn't that be an immediate medical emergency? Wouldn't they call 911?
Wouldn't they go to the hospital and seek immediate medical attention? I mean isn't that the most severe thing that could possibly happen?
Jesus equating hell is being more important than that.
Think about the emergency that Jesus is talking about. It's called hell.
This is a red alert. You are in dire need of 911 right now.
It's the Bible. You need salvation. Right?
I mean do you have to convince somebody that's eyes have been ripped out that they need medical emergency?
But you have to warn them like look your situation is worse than that.
You need to walk this way like look you're in worse condition than your eyes are being ripped out
your hands cut off and your legs cut off. It's called hell.
Let me tell you all about it. You need to believe on Jesus Christ.
And he says it over and over. Verse 46
Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not clinched. Verse 48 Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not clinched.
I mean that's scary. Hell is the scariest thing.
I always say this and I still mean it. I don't want anyone to go to hell.
And God doesn't want anyone to go to hell.
Now obviously there's some people that have already chosen to go to hell.
They've chosen that they don't want to believe in Jesus. And I'm like well I don't want to stop them.
You know like if that's where you're going and I can't change it then
you know let's get you out of here. But at the end of the day it's not like I want anyone to go to hell.
I don't want my worst enemy to go to hell. God didn't want him.
God's not willing that any should perish but that all should come in repentance. Jesus died for every single person.
He tasted death for every single man. He didn't want anyone to go to hell.
But here's the thing. Those that reject him and don't believe in him. He's more than content
to send them to hell so that justice will prevail.
God is just. He's not just loving. He's just. We ran into a
lady even tonight soul winning and she's just like do you really believe in her?
She's looking at Salvador and she's asking some of the weirdest questions. She's like do you really believe in your heart
that the God that created you in the universe the one that you pray to
would would turn someone away for being less?
He's like less than what?
He's just like just basically just anybody.
Just not being perfect. And he's like yep.
Yeah. That's what the Bible says. You have to believe in
Jesus. You know you can't. What is her
problem? He doesn't fear God's sight. He doesn't fear
God's judgment. She doesn't fear God's judgment. And she needs to have the
fear of the Lord if she wants to be saved. And you know I hope she does. I hope that she ends up realizing
it's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God. Our God's a consuming fire.
You know at the wicked they don't fear God at all. But I don't want to
live like the wicked. I don't want to look like the wicked. I don't want you to look at my actions.
I don't want you to look at my words and think like there's a guy that doesn't fear God.
I don't want to have a church that
people look at our church and say man that church doesn't seem like they fear God at all.
They just do whatever they want. They bring in anything
and everything. They let out all of the abominations come into church.
They let all the preachers come into their church. They let all the sins come into
their church. They let all the Bible versions come into their church.
You know I want to be a church that fears what God thinks. Fears what God
said. You know it's interesting there's all these verses in the Bible about people adding or moving
from God's word. But the churches that aren't King James only. What Bible
are they afraid of? You know how can you be afraid of
no Bible? Oh every Bible is the word of God. It's like so you just don't believe
those verses exist. You know at what point is it that someone's adding or
removing God's word? How about when a whole verse is deleted? I mean is that not?
I mean how could you literally say that they're both the same when one
is containing a whole verse and the other one's not?
And then people say it doesn't matter. You know what that tells me? You don't fear God.
It seems like you're wicked. Probably. I mean a lot of these people aren't even
saved. Obviously saved people could be mixed up on that issue. I'm not saying that they're not.
But at the end of the day a lot of those people are just wicked evil people.
And you need to be warned that there is evil wicked people out there that don't
fear God. And if they don't fear God they're capable of
anything and everything. The Bible warns that in the last days there will be careless times.
And society right now is breaking down around us.
You know even though society has never been perfect
it's at least had some level of normal functionality. It's getting to a
point where just normal business is. I mean they can't hire people.
And when you can't hire people what do you do? You end up having employees
that steal and you have employees that do evil. You can't get rid of bad
employees. You can't get rid of the junk. You have people that are
in constant need of money so theft isn't through the roof. I mean I was talking to the
police recently and they said that there was an auto
mechanic that had a bunch of cars out parked in the front lot. He said they had over
30 catalytic converters stolen in one night.
Doctor of the police they say they have catalytic converters stolen every night like every single
week in major metropolitan areas. I mean
I went to this auto shop and I'm like hey I need repair
to a piece of equipment. I didn't know it was a catalytic converter. I'm just like
someone did something on my car. He's like oh someone stole your catalytic converter and I was like yeah that's it.
And he's like oh I have 14 ahead of you.
And I was like what in the world? That just happened like yesterday or something.
The stealing is out of control.
The lying is out of control in our nation and country and it's only
going to get worse. And there's people out there they'll do anything
and everything. It's a dangerous world that we live in. And you say well how am I going to get
through? Well you better start getting right with God. You actually
better fear God and say you know what I don't want to just get caught away
in the net of evil men. I don't want all this evil and harm to happen
to me and my family. You know as for me and my house we'll serve the Lord. You say why?
Because we fear God. Don't be like the heathen. Don't be like the wicked.
That you look at their transgressions and you say man there's just no
fear of God. It goes in prayer. Thank you Heavenly Father for
giving us the word of God so that we could fear you. Thank you for
instilling in us your commandments so that we could fear the Lord and we could realize that you see
everything. That there's going to be a judgment and even though we may not
be at the great white throne judgment there will be the judgment seat of Christ where all of our actions
whether good or bad will be judged. We know that you're a God that judges
in the earth. We know that even for your people you're going to chastise. You're
going to discourage all of your sons and all of your daughters and then we realize
that there's a punishment and we thank you that you've spared us from the punishment
of hell but I pray that we would not take lightly
the punishments that can be doled out on earth. That we wouldn't take lightly the chastisement
that you give us here. But rather we'd fear you all the days of our life
and that we could live lives that are honoring unto all of your commandments and in Jesus
name we pray. Amen.
Turn to our last song, song 20.
Alright, from number 20
Can I see the blood?
Christ our Redeemer died
on the cross, died for the sinner
paid all who
receive him
he never feared
yes he will pass, will pass over
you when I
see the blood
when I see
the blood, when I
see the blood
I will pass, I will pass
over you
Jesus of sinners, Jesus
can save as he has promised
so will he do
oh sinner hear him
trust in his word
then he will pass, will pass over you
when I
see the blood
when I see the blood
when I
see the blood
I will pass, I will pass
over you
judgment is coming, all will be
there who have rejected
who have refused
oh sinner hate sin, let
Jesus in, then God
will pass, will pass over you
when I
see the blood
when I see the
blood, when I
see the blood
I will pass, I will pass
over you
oh what compassion, oh
boundless love, Jesus had
power, Jesus is true
all who believe are
saved from the storm
oh he will pass, will pass
over you
when I see the blood
when I
see the blood
when I see the blood
I will pass, I will pass
over you
is that what you're dismissed, thank you for coming