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Good evening everyone. Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. If you can all find your seats we're going to get started.
We're going to start this evening off in song number 406.
Who is on the Lord's side?
Song 406.
Who is on the Lord's side?
Song 406.
Who is on the Lord's side?
Sing it out on the first.
Who is on the Lord's side?
Who will serve the King?
Who will be his helpers?
On earth eyes to greet.
Who will be the Lord's side?
Who will face the foe?
Who is on the Lord's side?
Who for him will go?
By thy call of mercy,
by thy grace be thine.
We are on the Lord's side.
Savior we are thine.
At the weight of glory,
at your crown and crown,
cancer we the army,
praise the warrior song.
But for love that claimeth,
but for whom he thine.
He whom Jesus nameth,
must be on his side.
By thy love constray thee,
by thy grace be thine.
We are on the Lord's side.
Savior we are thine.
Jesus thou hast bought us,
not with old or dead,
but with thine almighty blood,
for thine eye of him.
With thy blessing filling,
each who comes to thee,
thou hast made us with thee,
thou hast made us free.
By thy grand redemption,
by thy grace be thine.
We are on the Lord's side.
Savior we are thine.
Fears may be the conflict,
strongly be the foe,
but the king's own army,
that can overthrow.
Round his standard reigning,
victory is secure.
For his truth unchanging,
makes the triumph sure.
Joyfully entwisting,
by thy grace be thine.
We are on the Lord's side.
Savior we are thine.
Great singing, everybody.
Let's go ahead and bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you for this day.
Thank you for bringing us all here together to worship and to praise your name.
Lord God, thank you for all the souls that were won today
and help us to continue to press forward toward that high mark,
the calling of God.
Lord God, I ask all these things in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, next up on our list is song number 10,
song number 10 near the cross.
Song 10 near the cross.
Jesus, keep me near the cross.
There, a precious fountain,
free to all the healing stream,
flows from Calvary's mountain.
In the cross, in the cross,
be my glory ever,
till my wretched soul shall find,
rest beyond the river.
Near the cross, a trembling soul,
love and mercy found me.
There, the bright and morning star
sheds its beams around me.
In the cross, in the cross,
be my glory ever,
till my fractured soul shall find,
rest beyond the river.
Near the cross, O Lamb of God,
bring his seeds before me.
Help me walk from day to day,
lift his shadows o'er me.
In the cross, in the cross,
be my glory ever,
till my fractured soul shall find,
rest beyond the river.
Near the cross, I'll watch and wait,
hoping, trusting ever,
till I reach the golden strand,
just beyond the river.
In the cross, in the cross,
be my glory ever,
till my fractured soul shall find,
rest beyond the river.
Great singing.
Good evening. Thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you still need a bulletin, one of us should come by.
Just lift up your hand real quick.
They'll come by and get you a bulletin on the front.
We have our Bible memory passage,
as well as on the inside our service soul winning times.
And then on the right, several ladies to be in prayer for.
We have our prayer list.
Please be in prayer for all of them on the back.
Preaching class on Saturdays at 2 p.m.
If you have any questions, please just ask me or brother Dylan.
And we've had some really great sermons, some really good preaching.
So I'm really encouraged by that participation.
Also, there is the Verity Baptist Church Next Generation Youth Rally.
And I did look up the information.
I guess it's geared for teenagers.
So it's a teenager specific type of event.
However, parents, I believe, are still encouraged
if they would like to participate with their kids.
They can go to the services and everything like that.
But it is geared towards teenagers.
And then congratulations to the Galaso family on the birth of John Christian,
who was born on the 11th at 3.18 a.m.,
weighing 9 pounds, 14 ounces, and measured 21 inches long.
Congratulations.
That is great.
We're going to go ahead and sing our psalm of the week,
Psalm 146.
It's in our special handouts, Psalm 146.
All right, that's Psalm 146.
Sing it out real loud together.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
While I live, O life, praise the Lord.
I will sing praise with us, O my God.
While I have, believe me.
Would not your trust in princes
Or in the Son of man
In whom there is no hell,
In whom there is no hell.
Praise be the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
Israel would live for thee,
Research into his earth and land.
Every day his thoughts perish.
Happy is he that hath loved
God of Jacob or his town,
Whose hope is in the Lord, the Lord is God.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
Which with heaven and earth
The seed and of all that there is,
Which he has drew forever,
Which takes him to his judgment,
For the offers which giveth
Good to the free, the Lord,
Peace in the prisoners.
Praise be the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
The world with me God,
In his love combined,
The Lord raised him with man,
Our God, and the Lord loved him.
The righteous, the Lord,
Returneth the strangers,
We relive the power,
Blessed in the world.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
Of the reign of the wicked,
He turneth upside down,
The Lord shall reign forever,
Even thy God, O Zion,
Unto all generations,
Praise be the Lord, praise be the Lord.
Great scene everybody.
As the offering plates are going around,
you can turn to 1 Timothy chapter number 5.
1 Timothy chapter number 5.
1 Timothy chapter 5.
The Bible reads,
Rebuke not an elder,
but entreat him as a father,
and the younger men as brethren,
the elder women as mothers,
the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Honor widows that are widows indeed,
but if any widow have children or nephews,
let them learn first to show piety at home
and to requite their parents,
for that is good and acceptable before God.
Now she that is a widow indeed
and desolate trusteth in God
and continue within supplications and prayers,
night and day.
But she that liveth in pleasure
is dead while she liveth,
and these things give in charge
that they may be blameless.
But if any provide not for his own
and specially for those of his own house,
he hath denied the faith
and is worse than an infidel.
Let not a widow be taken into the number
under threescore years old,
having been the wife of one man,
well reported of for good works,
if she have brought up children,
if she have lodged strangers,
if she have washed the saints' feet,
if she have relieved the afflicted,
if she have diligently followed every good work.
But the younger widows refuse,
for when they have begun to wax
wanton against Christ, they will marry,
having damnation,
because they have cast off their first faith,
and withal they learn to be idle,
wandering about from house to house,
and not only idle, but toddlers also,
and busybodies,
speaking things which they ought not.
I will therefore that the younger women marry,
bear children, guide the house,
give none occasion to the adversary
to speak reproachfully,
for some are already turned aside after Satan.
If any man or woman that believeth have widows,
let them relieve them,
and let not the church be charged
that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
Let the elders that rule well
be counted worthy of double honor,
especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.
For the Scripture saith,
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox
that treadeth out the corn,
and the laborer is worthy of his reward.
Against an elder receive not an accusation,
but before two or three witnesses.
Them that sin rebuke before all
that others also may fear.
I charge thee before God
and the Lord Jesus Christ
and the elect angels,
that thou observe these things
without preferring one before another,
doing nothing by partiality.
Lay hands suddenly on no man,
neither be partaker of other men's sins.
Keep thyself pure.
Drink no longer water,
but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake
and thine often infirmities.
Some men's sins are open beforehand,
going before to judgment,
and some men they follow after.
Likewise also the good works of some
are manifest beforehand,
and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Father in heaven,
I pray that you give Pastor Shelley
the fullness and power of the Holy Spirit
as he preaches to us,
and give us ears to hear
and soften hearts in the room, Lord,
so that we may apply the message to our lives.
And I also pray for safety
as we go our separate ways after the service.
We love you.
We thank you for our church.
And in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Amen.
The Bible says in 1 Timothy 5, verse 17,
Let the elders that rule well
be counted worthy of double honor,
especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.
Now, specifically in this passage,
it's telling us that the elders
are the ones who are ruling
because it's saying let the elders
that rule well be counted worthy.
So of course the Bible makes it abundantly clear
that elders rule the church.
Now, when it says elders, plural,
it doesn't necessarily mean
that every church has its own group of elders,
but it's just talking about pastors in general,
elders in general.
They are the rulers of the church.
And of course our church believes
in being pastor-led, being elder-led,
and specifically even having one pastor or one elder
as the main authority of the church.
And what I notice in America,
probably the worst problem in America today
is the fact that we are filled
with pastors in name only.
And that is the title of my sermon this evening,
is Pastors in Name Only.
Pinos. All right?
That was the nicest part of the sermon, okay?
So just buckle up.
If you came this morning,
I hope you got a lot of soaking in of the grace, all right?
But here's the problem in America,
is that we have a bunch of pastors in name only,
and what they're not doing
is they're not making decisions for their church.
They're not the decision maker.
They have other people.
They have groups.
They maybe have a deacon board,
or they have a, quote, elder board,
or they have committees,
or maybe they just even have the entire church vote
on the decisions that they're gonna make for the church
and that the pastor is not really the decision maker
or the church.
Well, that makes him a pastor in name only.
He's not really the shepherd.
You don't ask the sheep where they wanna go.
The shepherd leads the sheep.
The shepherd is a specific role.
If the shepherd is being led around by the sheep,
he's not a shepherd.
He's a shepherd in name only.
And so we need churches today
where the pastor is given the authority,
is given the ability to make decisions for the church.
And a lot of people that are very narcissistic
or evil-minded will say,
oh, that's a bad model,
or the pastor's gonna do a lot of bad things.
But that's why you also counterbalance
the authority given to a pastor
with the qualifications given to a pastor,
meaning you pick somebody,
or you're going to a church
where the pastor is a good man.
He has a good family.
He's showing himself responsible
in the areas of marriage and raising children
and preaching the gospel
and that he studied and he's not a novice.
I mean, there's all these different things
that are there to try and make sure
that the person you're following
is the right kind of person to follow,
but then it's someone to truly follow.
It's not someone that's a nobody,
but it's rather it's somebody that's there
to set a vision for the church.
It's someone to make the decisions
of where you're gonna go
and how the service is gonna run
and even just what's gonna be preached.
You know, I decide what's gonna be preached
and sometimes it's well in advance.
Sometimes it's right before the service.
It doesn't necessarily always follow
the exact same model,
but you know who's not telling me
what to preach?
Anyone.
Now, of course, the Holy Spirit
and the Bible and Jesus,
I want to be led by them.
He is my shepherd,
and of course there is an authority
that comes from the Bible,
but humanly speaking,
the pastor is the leader.
The pastor is the shepherd.
The pastor is the one to make decisions,
and there's so many churches today
where that is not the model,
and you can see the failure of these churches.
You can see the church
doesn't have much of a vision.
You can see that the church
isn't making a lot of decisions.
You can see that the church
is even just making bad decisions
very regularly.
They're very slow to adapt.
They're very slow to cause
any kind of controversy or uproar,
really do much of anything today
because of all the bureaucracy.
It's very slow,
kind of like how our government is run,
where it's very slow and efficient,
and the leadership is almost a puppet
rather than the actual decision maker.
When we look at our country today,
it's such a shame and embarrassment
that our president is a literal puppet,
that he's not a real decision maker,
that he's not really leading the charge.
And, of course, we have a president
in name only today in Joe Biden.
He is not really leading the country.
He is not really casting forth a vision,
and we see the ram of occasions
of that in our country
is that we're run by a lot of corruption,
a lot of inflation,
all kinds of issues of sin
and moral decline.
We just see just apathy.
There's not really any kind of unity
in our nation anymore.
People are very just jaded
against the government in general
because of the corruption.
We see the unfair treatment
of certain political candidates
by the Democratic Party.
We see the unfair bias
showed towards his own family members
who have been caught
and are basically openly triumphing
in the fact that they're committing
all kinds of crimes
and nothing's happening to them.
I mean, we just see all kinds of evil
as a result of the fact
that the president is just a puppet,
and we see that the leader
is just a puppet.
But, you know, the same thing
applies to a church
when the pastor is just simply a puppet,
when he's just to go up there
and just entertain the congregation.
He's just there because
he's really good at speaking,
or maybe he's funny.
But you know what?
We're not here at a comedy club tonight.
We're not here.
I'm not an entertainer.
I'm not a performer for you today.
I'm not putting on a show.
There's no lights and music
and this cool movie screen back here.
We're going to show you movies
or something like that.
No, I'm here because
I'm supposed to be the authority,
the leader,
and I'm deciding what's going to be preached.
And, of course, that's important
because we need to empower good men
to preach what the Bible really says.
And we need a pastor
that's going to be willing
to even throw people out of church.
But because the pastor has been stripped
of his authority today
in many churches,
he cannot throw people out.
There could be certain people
that actually make the decisions
that need to be thrown out
and he can't throw them out
because they're the ones
that make the decisions.
It's like you've got these deacons
that are unruly
or you've got the deacons' wives
that are unruly
or you've got all these random people
in the church that
maybe they're the financier,
maybe they're the person on the bylaws
or the paperwork or whatever,
and they basically hold that over the pastor.
They threaten the pastor.
And many churches today
are constantly switching pastors,
just like Elizabeth Taylor switched husbands,
and as a result of that,
we don't really have pastors anymore.
The Southern Baptist Convention
has almost completely ruined itself
because it's filled with pastors in name only.
If you look at the way
Southern Baptist churches are structured today,
they are a congregation-led,
a congregation-run church.
They are run by the people in the building,
not by the pastors.
And the pastors pretty much
are at the beck and call of the membership,
and essentially the people get to decide
who's going to come,
how long they're going to stay,
what they're going to pay them,
what they're going to do,
and he's just afraid of even losing his job.
And many times they kind of come and go.
They only stay for a few years
because they're job-hopping.
They kind of start out as a youth minister somewhere,
then they go to a small church,
then they try to get a gig at a bigger church,
and then when there's a big opening,
then they try to get in with that church,
and they're constantly going in view of a call,
and you just have all these swapping around
of all these different pastors.
Why?
Because they're just simply a pastor in name only.
They're not really in charge.
They're not really making the decisions.
They're not really setting the vision.
They're not really capable
of throwing people out of the building.
And then whenever you have this authority,
then people say, oh, you guys are a cult.
Well, you can't have your cake and eat it too, okay?
And at the end of the day,
you need to have a pastor that has authority,
that makes some decisions.
And, of course, here in 1 Timothy 5, verse 17,
it says,
Let the elders that rule well
be counted worthy of double honor.
Of course, because we are having young churches
or this is a young church,
and we're just starting out,
it may not be feasible for the church
to financially support a pastor the way that it should.
So there's been times,
especially when I started Pure's Baptist Church,
I didn't take a salary at all.
I didn't take any money from the church.
In fact, I was feeding,
I was paying extra money above what was needed
just to try and keep the church going.
So it doesn't mean that the pastor has to be paid
for it to be a legitimate church,
but a good thing would be that pastors are paid,
and what is the standard, biblically,
is that they're worthy of double honor.
Notice what it even says in the next verse,
For the scripture saith,
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn,
and the laborer is worthy of his reward.
So according to the Bible,
and there's other passages,
I'm not going to go there for the sake of time,
but you can read 1 Corinthians chapter 9,
you can read other passages
that mention the fact that pastors
are entitled to some pay.
Now be it, it's limited,
it's not saying a hundred worth,
it's saying he's worthy of double honor, right?
It doesn't say a hundred honor or fifty honor
or fifty thousand honor,
it simply says double honor,
so of course there's some limitation on that,
but also it's enough money to where the pastor
wouldn't have to really worry about other things.
And so ideally if you have a bigger institution,
you have a bigger church,
it has the financial ability,
then the pastor should be paid a good salary
to where they don't have to focus on money,
they can focus on the spiritual things.
And they don't have to even focus on job insecurity,
because that will cause a pastor
not to do his job correctly.
When a pastor is worried about his own job,
he's feeding his family,
or whatever, his 401k or whatever,
while that's not right,
it also will cause the pastor
to not really be the pastor,
to not really do the job.
Just like imagine, you know,
if a dad is the dad,
he's the father,
he's going to discipline his children a certain way.
But if a guy is, you know,
maybe a stepdad,
or he's dating a woman that has children,
he may feel a little bit timid
about how he disciplines those children
or how he would talk to those children,
because that woman could decide
she doesn't want to be with them anymore,
because he's just kind of coming in to fulfill the role.
He's not really the dad.
But you know, when you're secure
and you know you're the dad,
you feel like,
hey, I'm going to treat these children
exactly how I should,
because they're my children, right?
And so it's like when the pastor,
it's like, it's my church,
and it's his church,
and he's there,
and he's in the power and authority,
then he can make decisions,
he can rule,
he can do what's necessary
to lead that church.
And many churches today
are not giving them that option.
You know, even the president itself,
I think the president is paid
somewhere around 400,
maybe $450,000 a year
as the salary of being the president
of the United States.
In my opinion,
that's a pretty modest income
for being the president
of the most wealthy
and powerful nation in the world.
And a lot of the presidents
end up getting a lot of extra money
from all kinds of side things,
or side hustles,
or insider trading,
or bribes,
or all this other stuff,
and to me it'd make more sense
to maybe raise the pay,
but then also raise
the standard of the candidate.
Instead of keeping the pay low
and the standards low,
why don't we raise the pay
a little bit for the president,
you know, he's got an important job,
and then make sure that the candidate
is a person of moral character,
of moral quality,
of somebody being worthy
of being in that position,
and then maybe they don't have
to worry about money
they can focus on just doing right.
They can focus on
actually leading the nation correctly.
And you know,
that's what we really need
in this country,
is we need pastors
who are given the opportunity
to not have to worry about
the carnal things
so they can focus on
the spiritual things,
and they can do the hard job
of being a pastor.
Because let me tell you something,
being a pastor is not an easy job,
it's a hard job,
but at the same time,
it's a hard job
that someone needs to do.
The reason why our country
is in decline
is because of pastors' faults.
It is the pastor's fault,
it is the shepherd's fault
in this nation,
in this country,
why we're in the situation we're in.
It is the churches
that are the spiritual leadership
of this nation,
and we're declining spiritually
because of the pastors,
because we're filled
with pastors in name only,
and it's partly responsible,
you know, who's partly responsible
is the congregation itself,
is the Christians themselves
for not giving the church
what it needs.
They're not equipping the right men,
and they're not giving
the right men what they need.
We need both.
We need to equip the right men,
and then we need to give
the right men what they need
in order to succeed
in this country.
Now, go to chapter 4,
you might not even have to turn the page
and look at verse 16.
Look what the Bible says
about the pastor.
Take heed unto thyself
and unto the doctrine,
continue in them,
for in doing this
thou shalt both save thyself
and them that hear thee.
Notice that the way
that the pastor lives his life
doesn't just affect him,
it affects other people.
And so it's important
for the pastor
to set a good example
and to take heed
to really good doctrine,
because by him taking heed
to good doctrine,
it's gonna actually
benefit other people.
It's gonna save other people,
it's gonna help other people
in their lives,
and it's a really important job
that he needs to take charge.
You know, when the pastor
shows strong spiritual authority
and just strong authority,
it helps model for men
how they're supposed
to rule their lives,
how they're supposed
to rule their wives
and their children
and their houses
and their businesses,
and really even just
the country in general.
The church house
should be a model
and an example
of how every institution
should be run.
Even this country,
even this nation,
should be run.
You know, the president
should be looking
to the pastor and saying,
I should run this country
like that pastor's
running that church.
And men should look
at the pastor and say,
the way he's running
that church
is how I should run my family.
And of course,
how he runs his family
and his children
and everything else,
just that is the example.
So we need men
to set the right example
and the right patterns
so people can follow
after them.
You know, in software
development,
this is really important
because in software
development, you have
what's like lead architects
or the main designers
of making code.
And typically, most junior
or mid-level developers,
the vast majority
of what they do
is just simply repeat
the patterns
in existence.
So whatever's in a code base
or however the code
is architected,
all they simply do
is just repeat whatever
patterns are already in place.
They're typically not
making better patterns.
And so a lot of times
the reason why coding
or software or websites
or these things are bad
is because they had
a bad initial architect
or a bad initial
senior developer
who created a bad pattern
that was then copied
and copied and copied.
The same is applied
when we talk about
here at church,
if you have the bad pastor,
typically people are not
going above and beyond
what the pastor is setting
as an example.
They're simply at best
copying what the pastor
is doing,
many times even worse.
And so when they
already have a bad example,
then it's just copy
bad, bad, bad, bad,
and it just emanates
from there,
and it's just a horrible
basically multiplication issue
of just bad example
after bad example
after bad example.
And so it's important
that we have real pastors
that are in charge,
they're throwing people out,
they're setting the vision
for the church,
they're making good decisions,
and they're ruling well.
And if they're ruling well,
you know, we should never
attack the pastor
that's ruling well
for something carnal,
you know, like whatever
they were being paid
or something.
A lot of people
try to attack pastors
for what they're paid,
and I'm like that's
not the big issue here.
You know, there's a lot
of issues that are
way more important than that.
Maybe you must have
some kind of love of money
or something
since you're always
so fixated and focused on
how much people make
or something like that.
That's just bizarre.
Go, if you would,
to 2 Timothy chapter
number 4 now.
Just flip to the right
just a hair.
You know, and I've seen this
because I've been
to some business church
meetings before
of other churches
where, simply put,
you know, you have
all these women
getting up and commenting
on how much the pastors
make at the church.
Like I've been
in the church meeting
and people get up
and be like,
I don't think the pastors
should make that much money
or I don't like, you know,
this just seems like
too much or whatever.
And I'm thinking like,
you don't even run
your own house.
And why are we even
letting women talk
in the church anyways?
Number 1.
And then why are we
letting old women decide,
I mean, she's like,
I remember when I was,
you know, young,
a hamburger was a nickel.
Okay, grandma, well sit down.
You know, you're not supposed
to be talking in church.
Sorry the church let you talk
or you thought they were
going to let you talk.
But you know,
inflation hit us hard, grandma.
Sorry you live with so-and-so.
Sorry you live in the
nursing home or whatever
and you don't really
understand what's going on.
But you know what,
men in the real world
make the decisions
and you know what,
it's not right
to have the women
criticizing the pastor's pay.
Like that is insane, okay.
That is why churches,
I mean, and then the pastor
is embarrassed or ashamed
or seems, you know,
basically handicapped
based on how women
perceive his paycheck.
I mean, this is weird, folks.
Of all the problems
that are going on in the world,
of all the things
that are happening,
how profitable it is
for a pastor to get up
and let the old women
comment on his salary.
Like that, you already tell me
you just failed as a church.
You're already just
in a bad spot
and a bad situation
to let that kind of stuff happen
and you know,
that's really just
a weird behavior.
How did you even
get to that point?
That really just shows
who's running the church,
who's really in charge.
Because you know what,
we don't do,
we also don't let
all the women
look at your paycheck.
I mean, how would you feel
if we just said,
alright, now we're going to
bring up so and so
and we're going to all
look at his paycheck
and talk about it too.
I mean, that's weird.
You know what,
we don't do that
because that's private
and that's not even
really an important thing
is to just be
checking everybody's pay.
Like, is that really
what the church has devolved to?
But isn't that
what corporate world's about?
I mean, corporate world's
about pay.
I mean, corporate world,
that's all it is about pay
and how much people
are getting paid
and it's like,
that doesn't really matter.
I'm sure there are
great pastors out there
that are making
very little if nothing
and I'm sure there's
terrible pastors
that are making a ton.
Okay, the money
doesn't really matter.
But if you do have
a good pastor
and they do have
the financial wherewithal,
you know, pay him,
you know, good money, right?
Pay him enough money
to be focused on
what he's supposed to do.
Don't let the women
run the church.
Don't let the deacons
run the church.
I mean, hey,
in this church,
women say amen.
Women let the kids say amen.
Now, of course,
sometimes people do that
or visitors
or they don't know
any better.
But you know what?
That's not what
should be happening,
let alone commenting
on the pay
or commenting on how much
we spend on missions
trips or something.
I'm sure someone
would criticize me
if they saw how much
money we spent
on missions trips.
They saw how much we
spent on the Bahamas trip?
Oh, man.
But you know,
we got almost
a thousand people saved.
What's that worth?
I mean, you're gonna start
telling me,
what's the number worth?
I don't care if you spent
a million dollars on it,
it was worth it.
Because I don't really care
about those kind of things.
You know who cares
about those kind of things?
Carnal people.
Carnal people
are just so obsessed
with the dollars
and the cents
because you know what?
They're obsessed
with dollars and cents.
They're obsessed
with how much people
get paid
or don't get paid.
You know,
pay in this country
is all over the map, too.
Because if you live
in certain parts
depending on what you make,
it's dramatically different
what your living situation is.
I mean, if you live
in like San Francisco,
I mean, it's insane.
It is literally insane.
I remember
Pastor Anderson saying
that I should consider
starting a church
in San Jose.
And I looked at like
the cheapest house
that I could find
on the market for sale
that wasn't pending
and it was a million dollars.
And it was like
a 1200 square foot
three bedroom, two bath
that needed
completely remodeled.
And I was just like,
whoa.
Whereas you could take
that same price tag,
a million bucks,
and just go like
out in boonies over here
and you could have
like a five car garage,
like 7,000 square foot
really nice house
with the exact same price tag.
Okay.
So why is the number
really even matter?
And look,
if someone did that,
I don't really care
because it's not really
any of my business.
It doesn't really matter to me
because I'm just not obsessed
with the dollars
and the cents.
Okay.
We should let pastors lead.
Even if he's paid a lot
or if he's paid none,
let him lead.
Let him make the decisions.
Go to a church
where the pastor's in charge,
not you.
You know what that takes?
Humility.
You know what it takes?
It takes obedience.
It takes having a spirit
of being a servant
rather than,
oh, I got to be in charge.
But a lot of people,
they don't want to go
to a church
where someone else is in charge.
They don't want to go
to a church
where they're going
to be told what to do.
They don't want to go
to a church
where they're
going to be pastored.
Well, you know what?
The Bible warns about a time
when people don't want
to go to a church
where they're getting pastored.
Look at 2 Timothy 4 verse 2.
Preach the word,
be instant in season,
out of season,
reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all long suffering
and doctrine
for the time will come
when they will not
endure sound doctrine.
But after their own lusts
shall they heap to themselves
teachers having itching ears
and they shall turn away
their ears from the truth
and shall be turned unto fables.
So the Bible says
there's a time coming
in the future
where this is going to be
on a massive scale.
Of course,
this has always been happening,
at least to some degree
or in some scale
or in some parts of the world.
It's always happening
throughout every generation.
But the Bible is saying
there is coming a time
in the future
when virtually all believers
and even just
what we think are believers
are going to not want
to hear what the Bible says,
they're not going to
endure sound doctrine,
they're going to heap
to themselves teachers
having itching ears,
they're going to turn away
from the truth
and be turned unto fables.
What is fables?
Stories.
And you know what?
A lot of preaching today,
a lot of churches
has just turned into
a glorified story time.
A glorified,
just fable telling
from the pastor
where he's just getting up
and probably exaggerating,
probably ad-libbing,
probably just saying
all kinds of random stuff
that is not even really true
instead of preaching the word,
instead of preaching the Bible,
preaching what the text
actually says.
And notice,
they won't endure
sound doctrine.
What was the instruction
to Timothy
that he was supposed
to continue in the doctrine?
Because that was going
to save him
and the other people.
So the doctrine
is what's important.
We need good doctrine.
We need to know
what the Bible says
in every single area.
And we need preachers
that are going to preach
the word,
that are going
to preach doctrine.
So I really only have
two points this evening.
But point number one,
why we have so many pastors
in name only is because
they're not in charge.
And number two,
because they don't preach
the word.
And we need pastors
that are in charge.
Why?
So they can preach the word.
That's the point.
When their pay
is not going to be affected
directly from what they preach,
then they're going to
preach the word maybe.
They're actually going
to be convicted to preach
what the Bible says.
You know,
if I make a salary
and I don't even take
a paycheck from the church,
what's going to hold me back
from just preaching
whatever the Bible says?
Or if you are paid
and the church is doing well
and you're getting paid
and you have the ability
to go back to that
if you need to or whatever,
then you're just like,
hey, I'm just going
to preach what the Bible says.
The church grows.
Praise God.
If it shrinks,
I can go get a job.
But what I'm not going
to do is compromise
on what the Bible says.
Whereas the preachers
that are being led
by the deacons' wives,
which are being led
by the elders,
which are just looking
for the next career advancement,
they won't preach the word
because they're just
simply there to entertain.
They're a jester.
They're just there
to put on a comedy skit
for everybody to be,
you know, appeased
or to just,
oh, let's just enjoy
the next 15 minutes.
And it's destroyed our country.
It's destroyed Christianity.
It's made a mockery
of Christianity.
Many people today
mock Christianity at how weak,
how lame, how effeminate it is.
But you know what?
This type of preaching,
this type of pastoring
is not effeminate at all.
It's 100% in charge.
It's real masculine.
It's real patriarchy.
It's the toxic masculinity, okay?
I want that shirt.
I want a shirt that's just like
I am toxic masculinity, okay?
Whatever that is,
I feel like I'm all of it, okay?
And you know what?
I'm not afraid of that
because there's nothing wrong
with being masculine.
I'm a man!
Okay?
You know what?
We don't want women
to be masculine.
That's called
the feminism movement,
which is so weird
because it doesn't make
women feminine.
It makes them masculine.
And then they try to make men
less masculine by saying,
oh, that's toxic masculinity.
Well, we need a little bit more
toxic masculinity in the pulpit,
where men are actually in charge,
where men say amen,
where men actually show up at church,
where men dress like men,
where men are concerned
with the things of the Bible,
where men like hard preaching.
They don't like some kind of
effeminate, watered-down,
effeminate message
that's just going to tell them,
hey, don't hurt anybody's feelings.
Why don't you let your wife
tell you what to do
every once in a while?
I'm going to let my wife
come and share a message
with you all, okay?
She's going to come up here.
You all be nice to her
so she doesn't gripe at me
when we go home, okay?
I mean, that is the kind of message
that's happening today.
That's the kind of world
we live in.
We live in this world.
This is a reality.
The vast majority of people
going to church right now
are going to a church
with a pastor in name only.
It's really a church
in name only, too,
if you ask me.
But go to
Ecclesiastes chapter number 12
for a moment.
Go to Ecclesiastes chapter 12.
I want to turn
to a few more places here
as we learn about
the importance of
what a pastor is supposed to do.
He's supposed to preach the Word.
He's supposed to preach the Bible.
He's not supposed to make
people feel comfortable.
The Bible doesn't
necessarily make you
feel comfortable.
And, you know,
we need to bring back
the idea of people
feeling a little bit
uncomfortable in church.
Because our country needs
some uncomfortable preaching.
It does not need...
Like, we've been comforted.
We've got a lot of grace.
We've got a lot
of long suffering.
You know what this country needs?
It needs an unleashing
of hard preaching.
It needs someone to get up
and scream and yell
and rant about what's wrong
because the nice isn't working.
The nice doesn't work.
It's like at the grocery store
when you see the little brat
screaming for the candy bar
and mom has explained
a hundred times nicely
why he's not going to get it.
No, you don't want
to ruin your dinner.
Don't scream.
Little Johnny is like,
I want a cookie!
I want a candy bar!
And you already were fed up
20 minutes ago.
And you're like,
it's time for mama bear
to come out.
It's time for dad
to come around the corner
and grab the kid
and show him why he's not
going to get a candy bar.
Okay.
And that's what we need
spiritually speaking.
America needs some chastisement.
America needs
a spiritual spanking.
America needs to be paddled
on its rear really hard
over and over again
and be told that it's wrong.
Be told no.
Be told that they're wicked.
Be told that they're
doing wrong.
And you know,
our job as a pastor
is not so much to be careful
with your feelings,
it's to be careful
with the truth.
Ecclesiastes 12, verse 9,
the Bible says,
Moreover, because the preacher
was wise,
he still taught the people
knowledge, yea,
he gave good heed
and sought out to set in
order many proverbs.
The preacher sought to find
out acceptable words
and that which was written
was upright,
even words of truth.
So when the pastor's
seeking out,
well, what do I need to say?
What kind of words
do I need to use?
The ones that are right.
The ones that are true.
He doesn't say,
well, the ones that are nice.
The ones that are comfortable.
The ones that feel good.
No.
What's true?
No.
What's right?
No.
You know,
a lot of people would love
to hear lies preached to them,
and we're going to get
to a passage on that
in a moment,
but you know,
for the preacher,
he's not to decide
what to preach based on
what he thinks people will like.
He's supposed to preach
based on what is true.
And when I judge sermons,
that's typically the most
important criterion for me,
is just,
is what was communicated right?
Is what was communicated true?
You know,
I'm way less concerned
with how well it was delivered
than what was delivered.
And at the end of the day,
I'd rather have a dry steak
than the best soy burger.
Like, you can fancy it up
and make it look all nice
and put a lot of prep into it,
but you know what?
I'll just eat the dry steak
while you eat your soy burger.
Okay?
And that's the reality
of preaching today,
is we need more people
that are willing to just
put out a dry steak,
if need be,
than to be so concerned
with putting out, you know,
some kind of a soy milk
or something.
Or it's like,
what is this?
You know, gluten-free bread.
It's not bread.
Sugar-free icing.
What?
Icing is sugar.
Like, what do you mean,
icing-free sugar?
Like, what is wrong
with these people?
Okay?
And it's like, truth,
it's like missing
truth preaching, right?
Truth-free preaching.
Oh!
What a wonderful discovery
that false preachers have made,
where they don't deliver
anything that's right,
but it sounded good.
You know, it's like
watching a fiction movie,
and you're like,
I really enjoyed it,
but it's just not true.
But it just didn't
really happen.
Okay?
You know, like reading books,
I'm not the most excited
about reading books,
but I really don't love
nonfiction.
Like a boring,
I'm sorry, a fiction.
I said that wrong.
I really don't like
fiction that much.
I do enjoy nonfiction.
Why?
Because I'm like,
if I'm going to spend time
reading something,
I don't want to just
rot my brain on nonsense.
And you know, the best,
you know, fiction,
while it may be
somewhat entertaining,
I don't feel like
it adds that much.
Whereas a really boring
nonfiction, at least
I'm kind of learning something.
At least there's
some kind of value
in the work that I'm doing.
Okay?
Go to Jeremiah chapter 1.
You know, the Bible says
in Proverbs 27,
faithful are the wounds
of a friend,
but the kisses of an enemy
are deceitful.
You know, instead of
coming to church hoping
that the pastor says something
that you like,
you should be willing
to be wounded
every once in a while.
And you know,
the Bible says faithful
are the wounds of a friend,
meaning that it's actually
a good friend or a good person
that will sometimes
hurt your feelings
a little bit.
And you know,
we should come to church
to get our feelings
hurt a little bit,
because the world is not
going to hurt our feelings
in the right way.
No one else is really
going to hurt your feelings
the way that the word of God
and the way a pastor
preaching the truth can.
And that's one of the
major issues with our country
is we just don't
have real discipline.
We don't have
spiritual discipline being
applied from the pulpits
of America today,
because preachers
are not preaching
what the Bible has to say
on certain issues.
And so people feel
too comfortable in their sin.
People feel too comfortable
disobeying God.
People feel too comfortable
doing nothing for God.
People feel too comfortable
looking like the world,
smelling like the world,
and acting like the world,
while the church
embraces the world,
instead of a preacher
saying,
we're going to be separate,
coming out from the world
and not acting like them,
and being willing to
even wound people sometimes.
You know, sometimes people
come to our church excited,
and then they hear the sermon,
and then they never come back.
And look, I don't want that
to be you,
because I don't hate
any of you.
I like all of you,
and I love all of you.
But sometimes what I say
needs to be said,
because no one else
will say it to you.
And I'm sure if you've
been to this church
for a while now,
you could probably say that.
Like, Pastor Shelley said
things that I've never
heard anybody else say, okay?
Or if you've said it that way,
or whatever.
But, you know, it's like,
but was it in the Bible?
Is there a place in the Bible
that's saying that?
And it's like, well, yeah.
And it's like, okay.
You know what?
That's right.
If I'm saying something
that's not in the Bible,
then you can forget it.
You know, I'm wrong,
or whatever.
But if it's in the Bible,
you better believe it.
And you better know
that God's word
is always right.
Jeremiah chapter 1,
look at verse 6,
Then said I,
Ah, Lord God, behold,
I cannot speak,
for I am a child.
But the Lord said to me,
Say not, I am a child,
for thou shalt go to all
that I shall send thee,
and whatsoever I command thee,
thou shalt speak.
Be not afraid of their faces,
for I am with thee
to deliver thee,
sayeth the Lord.
Then the Lord put forth
his hand and touched my mouth,
and the Lord said unto me,
Behold, I have put my words
in thy mouth.
You know, I shouldn't
be embarrassed
to preach what God said.
Doesn't that seem,
it almost seems
a little too obvious,
but I think it's important
to just state it, right?
When I say something
in the Bible,
it's what God said.
Why would I be embarrassed
or ashamed of what God said
about any topic,
about any subject,
about any situation?
This is what God said
about it,
let alone my own opinion.
I should be more embarrassed
when I just give
my own opinion about anything
rather than what God
really said.
But there is a temptation
to not preach what God said
because you're afraid
of how people will respond.
You're afraid
of people's faces.
And I'll be honest,
when you preach certain things,
people's faces will change.
They'll contort,
they'll, you know,
they'll make,
they'll kind of like do this,
or they'll, you know,
whatever.
Or, I mean, to me,
you know, I'm not as much
worried about the faces,
it's just, it's annoying
when the apathy,
like that's the one
that I really hate.
It's just, you like,
you're preaching something
really important and you know
like it would help people,
but they're just kind of like,
whatever, no.
And it's just like,
why are you even here?
But, you know, again,
apathy's like the hardest
thing to cure.
I don't know how to cure it.
It's a really frustrating problem.
And it's destroying America too.
But, you know,
that isn't going to cause me
to stop preaching.
You know, I can look somewhere else
or I can look right at you.
I mean, it really doesn't
stop me from preaching
whatever the Bible says,
but it is a common thing,
especially in a more
personal setting.
Like if you were to talk
to a family member or friend,
you know, tell them
what the Bible says.
It sometimes hurts, you know,
it kind of hurts to tell them
what the Bible really says.
I remember hearing certain
sermons in my life
and thinking about a person
that I wish would listen
to that sermon,
and thinking like,
I don't even think
they would sit through
the whole thing.
This is so on point for them.
Like whether they're struggling
with gambling or drinking
or fornication
or whatever their problem is,
it's just hitting the nail
on the head so hard
and I'm thinking like,
I wish they would listen
to this,
but I don't think they would.
I don't think they would
sit there and hear it.
But, you know,
that's why church,
it was so important
that every preacher
is following this same model
so you can't go to church
and escape it.
There's so much escape today
because we're filled
with pastors in name only
where people can keep
going to church
not hearing
what they need to hear,
not getting convicted
of their sin,
not being told
that they're doing
something wrong,
and they just basically
become dull and apathetic
to the things of God.
It's frustrating.
Good Isaiah chapter 30.
But, you know,
the Bible says in Ezekiel,
I'll just read for you,
Son of Man prophesy
against the prophets
of Israel that prophesy
and saying to them
that prophesy
out of their own hearts,
Hear ye the word of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord God,
Woe unto the foolish prophets
that follow their own spirit
and have seen nothing.
You know what?
Woe unto the preachers
today that won't preach
the word of God.
Woe unto the pastors
and the churches today
that are not preaching
what the Bible says
on these subjects,
on any subject virtually.
You know,
what does the Bible say?
Isaiah 30, verse 9,
that this is a rebellious
people, lying children,
children that will not
hear the law of the Lord,
which say to the seers,
See not.
And to the prophets,
Prophesy not unto us
right things,
speak unto us smooth things.
Prophesy deceits.
Contrast that with what
we read in Ecclesiastes.
He was,
the acceptable words,
the words that the
preacher was seeking out
were the right words,
the upright words.
This one saying,
Don't preach to me
what's right.
Preach to me something
that's smooth.
Preach to me something
that feels good.
Literally preach lies.
And, verse 11,
get you out of the way,
so like stop leading,
turn us out of the path,
quit giving us a vision,
and cause the Holy One
of Israel to cease
from before us.
He's saying,
You stop leading,
you stop teaching,
and you know what?
I don't even want to
hear what the Bible says.
That's what they're saying.
And you know what?
You look at churches today,
and that's exactly what it is.
The pastor has been,
he's out of the way,
he's out of the path,
and you know what?
Even the Bible,
it's just gone.
You'll never hear Jeremiah
and Ezekiel and Isaiah
and all these different
hard passages of the Bible
being taught in context.
They ceased.
They won't preach
what the Bible says.
They won't preach standards
in churches anymore.
They won't preach that
women should actually
dress like women anymore
and wear skirts and dresses,
because that will offend
all of the Ellen degenerates
and pants.
They won't offend
by telling men and women
that they should wear clothing
that goes down to their kneecaps,
and when they're not,
they're showing off
their nakedness,
because most of the women
in their churches
dress naked all the time.
And those pervert pastors,
they'd probably love
to have it that way,
because they'd probably love
to ogle all of
their neighbors' wives.
And so they won't
preach standards.
They won't hold standards
for themselves.
They won't hand standards
for their own children,
and they just won't
preach standards,
because you know what?
They're a pastor and name only.
But you know what?
Someone needs to say,
stop dressing like a whore.
I mean, do you really think
in the last 10 years,
women have started dressing
more modest or less modest?
Let me tell you something.
It's because preachers
stopped preaching
what the Bible said.
It's because preachers
don't have standards anymore.
It's because preachers
love to look at women
dressed naked.
That's why.
You know what?
We need preachers
to actually make people
feel uncomfortable again
and say,
why don't you dress
like a modest, godly woman?
Why don't you have men today
enforcing this in their households
and telling their daughters
to not dress like whores
and literally not even allow
the outfits to be in the closet?
Throw them away.
Buy them different clothing.
Don't let them do this.
They're too concerned with,
quote, reaching people
and growing the church
to ever preach that.
They'll say,
how are you going to reach people
with that kind of message?
Well, you know what?
I'm not going to try
and reach the skank whores
that want to come in here
and ruin the church.
Oops.
But you know what I will do?
I'll go out there
and give her the gospel.
I'll invite her to church.
And we'll be like,
hey, put on a dresser skirt.
We'll tell her husband
to buy her one.
You know, when was the last time
women hated shopping?
I'm pretty sure they like shopping.
Okay.
But here's the problem.
Our culture has become so degenerate
it's even hard to buy
dresses and skirts these days,
especially modest ones.
I mean, it is very difficult.
You can buy a lot of skirts
and dresses,
but they're not modest.
They're not covering
the body appropriately.
And of course,
preachers don't want
to say this, do they?
Why?
Because they're a pastor
in him only.
That's why.
You know,
why don't we have preachers
also getting up and saying
that we should have
zero women in politics?
There are pastors
and preachers today
that will have people
like Nikki Haley
come to their church
and speak to their church.
They'll vote for the
women governor or the women.
And they'll say like,
well, I'll vote for her
because she's more conservative
than the Democrat or whatever.
And it's like,
why is the demon's ex-wife
better than the demon?
I don't know.
I mean, does it really
even matter?
And you're like,
oh, you hate women.
I don't hate women,
but you know what?
I like the truth.
And the truth is the Bible
says that it's a curse
for women and children
to rule the nation.
That's what the Bible says.
And the Bible says that
he doesn't suffer a woman
to usurp the authority
over the man.
Adam was first for him,
then Eve.
So it doesn't say
that she was first.
And you know what's wrong
with America?
Women are in charge
in our nation.
You know what's wrong?
We have women governors
and women senators
and women politicians.
I mean, pretty much
some of the worst politicians
that ever lived are women.
Nancy Pelosi.
Hillary Clinton.
I mean, look at some of
our Supreme Court justices.
In fact, I think very recently
there was a pretty controversial
Supreme Court ruling,
and it was like all the women
on one side,
they all voted in unanimous
support of one another,
and they basically said
that Texas can't defend
its own border.
They were trying to say
the federal government
can allow these illegals
and destroy Texas' state borders
because of some kind of
a foreign policy issue.
And it's all women.
It's like I wonder
how much they would love that
if there was a bunch of bandits
trying to get through their door
and they were like,
you're not allowed to have
doors and locks, sorry.
I mean, what kind of nonsense?
It doesn't even make sense.
Women wouldn't even
do this naturally.
It's just an obvious blindness.
It's a curse on our nation.
You know, pastors aren't
going to get up there
and say that.
You know what they're
going to say?
They're going to say,
vote red this year.
Vote for Donald Trump.
God's mad at you
if you don't vote
for the Republican.
Where does the Bible say that?
Where does the Bible say,
like, vote yourself
out of problems?
You know, they never seem to
vote the right candidate
in the Bible either.
You know the problem
with our country?
Sin.
You know the problem?
We don't have preachers
preaching what the Bible says.
You know we don't have
preachers getting up
and screaming and yelling
about how you should
stop drinking alcohol
when literally millions
and millions of Americans
are drinking themselves
drunk right now
watching a stupid football game.
And that's the only thing
that anybody cares about
right now.
And they're celebrating.
This is not a time
to be celebrating
in our country.
It's a time of mourning.
Joe Biden is our president.
We literally are just bringing
in all kinds of evil
across our borders.
Inflation is skyrocketing.
We're literally being run
by Jews and Catholics.
And then we're going to
go and celebrate
and drink poison?
What's going on
with our country and our nation?
Oh, that's not going
to bring people in.
I don't care!
Go watch the football game.
Go get drunk
with everybody else.
Go love and be a rebellious
and lying person.
Love deceits.
Why don't you go
to Life Church
where they literally dress up
as the Kansas City Chiefs
and have their mascot
in the church service?
Why don't you go there?
I mean, Life Church,
they've got campuses
everywhere now.
I mean, you can go to Life Church
virtually in almost every state
in this country, it seems like.
I looked it up.
Life Church is now
in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida,
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,
Nebraska, New Mexico,
New York, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, and Texas.
You can go to Life Church.
And in fact, you know,
you don't even have
to drive that far
because they got a branch
in Keller, Fort Worth,
Arlington, and McKinney.
So you guys are all covered.
You know, whichever direction
you're coming from.
You can go to Life Church,
and you can just
watch the Super Bowl
and get your picture taken
with the Kansas City mascot,
and you can just drink
your beer and just enjoy.
Just enjoy.
God bless America!
You really think
that we're blessed?
You know why America exists?
Do you want to know
why America exists?
Because a bunch of Christians
were fed up with
the Christian tyranny
of the Catholics
and the Protestants,
and they fled.
They literally fled,
and they hated Jews too,
by the way.
And now we're in a country
that's being led
by Catholics and Jews again.
I mean, what is wrong
with you people?
It's because you've forsaken
the God of the Bible.
It's because preachers
are pastors in name only,
and they're not getting up
and ripping on the Jews.
They're not getting up
and ripping on the Catholic.
They're saying,
let's go grab a beer with them
and watch the football game.
Because you know what?
The Jew is my banker,
and the Catholic is my priest.
He's my father,
and you know what?
We all get drunk together
and watch trannies
at the halftime show.
I mean, that's basically
what it is these days, right?
Watch trannies
on the overpaid commercial.
You don't think
there's going to be trannies
in the Super Bowl commercials
this year?
You're queer lite
or whatever you drink?
Oh, they're rebranding.
Yeah, after they lost
a bunch of money.
But you know,
people didn't care enough.
People don't care enough.
Go if you would,
Isaiah chapter 3.
You know, the Bible says
in Leviticus chapter 19,
it says do not prostitute
thy daughter to cause her
to be a whore,
lest the land fall to whoredom
and the land become
full of wickedness.
America has become
full of wickedness.
In fact, I looked it up.
America leads.
We are number one.
We are the best country
at adultery.
Isn't that amazing?
Yeah!
Woo!
Way to go!
What an accomplishment.
I mean, isn't there
literally millions of people
screaming and yelling today
at the Super Bowl game?
Say, why are you
screaming and yelling?
Well, isn't there a bunch
of guys screaming and yelling
at refs who are making
a bad call?
Why can't I get up
and scream about
some bad calls?
Scream about some pastors
making some bad decisions,
not being able to see.
They're going to talk about
how blind the refs are.
I'm going to tell you
how blind the pastors are
that aren't preaching
the word of God.
And we're just filled
with a bunch of pastors
in name only
that won't call whoredom out.
Whoredom has destroyed
our country.
The infidelity is extreme.
I don't know what statistics
to believe.
I looked at all kinds
of different ones.
Some say that 20% of people
are committing adultery.
Some say that 70% of people
are committing adultery.
70% of marriages
are committing adultery.
I mean, the Bible says that
when they fed them to the
fool, they all went,
like, troops into the
harlot's houses and they
lay with their neighbor's wives.
I mean, I don't know if
that's what's really happening,
but woe to our country.
Woe unto our nation.
I mean, it's insane
the level of wickedness
that our nation has risen to.
And you know what?
We need a moral party
to rise up,
not the Republican Party.
That is a fake party, folks.
I have a good source on this
that said when you go
to these conservative
Republican events,
50% of the women there
are literal prostitutes.
Like, they bring these women in
and they make them seem like
this is my girlfriend or whatever.
They're just a literal
hired prostitute
at these conservative conventions.
People are literally giving
millions of dollars
to these Republican conventions,
to Turning Point USA
or Conservative Whatever, Inc.
or, you know, the
Conservative Political Action
Committee or whatever.
It's like literally half of them
are prostitutes.
They're all doing drugs.
They're all having wild parties.
They're all doing the most
unimaginable things
while then pretending like
they're the conservative
voice for America.
While they're going out
and putting out calendars
of the conservative women.
This is how ridiculous
our country is.
Literally, the conservative women
have their own calendar.
How can you be a calendar girl
on a conservative calendar?
What does that even mean?
It's such an oxymoron.
Instead of women being
moderately dressed at home
making babies and sandwiches,
now they're flaunting
off their bodies
and they're not a dude.
That's the conservative
movement now.
It's that the half-naked woman
isn't actually a woman.
That was the conservative part.
Okay.
The Democrat Party
is actually a dude,
so it's a double-lose,
all right?
It's like that's how far
we've shifted.
We need a real moral party
to come out of America.
We need people to say,
hey, can't we get a candidate
that's not going to
literally allow his son
to sleep with prostitutes
and whores and drugs
and just be a fence for money?
Can we have a political candidate
that doesn't have
multiple wives?
Can we have a political candidate
that actually cares about
our nation and cares about God
and will say what the Bible
says on issues?
You know, a lot of people
were shocked and horrified.
I think there was like
an Oklahoma politician
that proposed banning
pornography on the Internet.
And I'm thinking like
that should just be
a no-brainer.
Yes.
But you know,
and people like criticize
and act like that's weird.
That should be normal.
We should have all kinds
of politicians constantly
proposing legislation like this,
constantly pushing
what the Bible says,
not what conservative ink thinks,
not what the conservative Jews
will pay for.
You've got to realize
the Democrat Party
is run by Jews
and paid for by Jews.
The conservative side
is paid by the other side
of the Jews.
To fix our problem,
we need to stop
being sponsored by Jews.
We need to stop
being sponsored by Pfizer.
We have to stop
being sponsored.
Just be someone that
actually just cares about truth.
What does the Bible say
in Isaiah 3 or 11?
Woe unto the wicked,
it shall be ill with him,
for the reward of his hands
shall be given him.
You know, woe to our nation.
I'm going to just run
through a lot of verses.
Chapter 5 or 11.
Woe unto them
that rise up early
in the morning,
that they may follow
strong drink,
that continue until night
till wine inflame them.
You know,
woe unto all the people
that are going out
and getting drunk right now.
That is fixing nothing.
You are destroying your liver,
you're destroying your stomach,
you're destroying your brain,
you're destroying our country,
and your profits are going
to pay trannies, literally.
You know what?
If you don't like
how we spend our money,
go give your money
to Bud Light
so they can give money
to trannies,
and then come talk to me.
Right?
It's like,
oh, we're going
to criticize the pastor,
but then I'm going to
literally go buy beer,
poison, drink it,
and then I hope
that they give some
of that money to trannies
to promote them online.
And then I'm going
to criticize the pastor
for how much he gets paid.
That's the nonsense
that our world's
really going through.
And granny's drinking
a Bud Light.
Isaiah, chapter 5, verse 20.
Woe unto them
that call evil good
and good evil,
that put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
that put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
You know, people would say,
oh, this church is evil.
This church is bitter.
This church is bad.
But you know what?
Woe unto them.
Verse 21.
Woe unto them
that are wise
Woe unto them
that are mighty
to drink wine
and men of strength
to mingle strong drink,
which justify the wicked
for reward and take away
the righteousness
of the righteous from him.
Notice what drinking does.
It doesn't destroy you.
It destroys the righteous.
All the righteous people
in the nation,
they're going to take
the righteousness away
from him too.
And you know what?
Our country has become
just completely unrighteous
because everybody's
a drunkard.
Everybody's fallen
out of whoredom
and we're just a nation
full of whoredom
and drunkenness,
just like every other
nation in the Bible
that was destroyed
for the exact same things.
How in the world
can a preacher get up
and not talk about this?
I mean, what parts
of the Bible
are you preaching?
I mean, I can just
let the Bible fall open
and I'm going to
probably be rebuking
some whore or some drunkard
or both.
I mean, where do you?
Oh, I like Proverbs.
Oh, how about Proverbs 5,
6, and 7?
Have you ever read those?
How about Proverbs 23?
How about Proverbs 20, verse 1?
I mean, what verses
are you even looking at
in the Bible?
Ah, how dare you preach this?
Well, how dare you show up
at a Bible where we're
going to preach it
or show up at a church
where we're going to preach it?
Hey, I'm going to preach
what the Bible says.
If you don't like the Bible,
you can go to any
fake church out there.
You can go get a pastor
in name only
and he'll preach
the nicest lie to you
you've ever heard.
Hey, you want to come
to our Super Bowl party?
Our country's doing great, man.
Trump's going to really do good.
I feel it.
I feel we're going to outvote
the fraud this year
and Trump's going to be
president, man.
We're going to really do it.
Now I'm going to let my wife
come up here
and preach to y'all
a sweet little ditty, okay?
How is that fixing anything?
What guy in the Bible
sounded like that ever?
Not even the false prophet
sounded that gay, all right?
Isaiah chapter 10,
the Bible says in verse 1,
woe unto them that decree
unrighteous decrees
and that right grievousness
which they have prescribed.
Woe unto our Supreme Court
that's writing unrighteous laws
and our Congress
that keeps passing bills
and keeps laundering money
and bribing each other
and doing all...
I mean, we are just...
You don't even understand
the financial ramifications
of what our country is doing.
I mean, they are robbing us
blind so badly.
I mean, imagine someone came in
and literally took advantage
of your daughter,
stole all the money
out of your bank account
and then set your house on fire
and then you rejoiced.
But that's like what's happening
in our country.
The women in our country
are being violated.
Our money is being stolen
from us in plain sight
and our infrastructure
is literally being burnt down
before our eyes
and then everybody's going to go,
oh, the most exciting Super Bowl ever.
Oh, let's watch Taylor Swift
watch the game
because it wasn't boring enough
to watch the game.
Let's watch somebody
watch the game.
Let's watch some whore
like Taylor Swift
who's a literal whore
who dresses like a whore
who's been with every guy in town
and has every disease.
That's why Travis Kelsey
needs all those injections
to be covered from all the diseases
he's going to get from Swift.
Oh, they're a match made in heaven.
Yeah, they're a match made in hell.
Anybody that's promoting
all those kinds of evils
and wickedness,
Mr. Fizer.
I mean, the best thing
that could happen to that guy
is he breaks his leg
because you know what happened?
Taylor Swift would break up
with him immediately
because she doesn't love him
and all the endorsement deals
would immediately leave him
and maybe in all of his just losing,
he could actually like
wake up and hear the gospel
and get saved.
People don't want that.
People want him to score the touchdown
and propose to Taylor Swift
after the game.
And then we'll get to see
like six months of the wedding planning
on news.
And then the honeymoon
and then the break up
and then it's like
rinse and repeat.
It's just so they can sell tabloids
for the next two years or whatever.
It's just a distraction
while we let our country
literally burn to the ground
because they have nothing else
to really report on.
So let's just focus on
a fake relationship
that's not real, not sincere,
they don't love each other
and we'll just pretend
like our country is doing fine.
Just like the pastors
are pretending like
our country is doing fine.
How are you going to reach me
with this kind of message?
Well, you know what?
You're not reaching anybody
with spiritual truths
so why does it matter?
What does it matter
if everybody gets to hear me
deliver a message
and all I did was just lie
to them for 20 minutes?
How did that help?
I would rather reach
five people with the truth
than a million people with a lie.
Isaiah 17, the Bible says this,
because thou has forgotten,
in verse 10,
because thou has forgotten
the God of thy salvation
and has not been mindful
of the rock of thy strength.
Therefore shalt thou
plant pleasant plants
and shalt set it
with strange slips.
In the day shalt thou
make thy plant to grow
and in the morning shalt thou
make thy seed to flourish.
But the harvest shall be
a heap in the day of grief
and of desperate sorrow.
Whoa!
To the multitude of many people
which make a noise
like the noise of the seas
and to the rushing of nations
that make a rushing
like the rushing of mighty waters?
The nations shall rush
like the rushing of many waters,
but God shall rebuke them,
and they shall flee far off
and shall be chased
as the chaff of the mountains
before the wind
and like a rolling thing
before the whirlwind.
And behold, at evening
tide trouble,
and before the morning
he is not.
This is the portion of them
that spoil us
and a lot of them
that rob us.
The Bible says in Isaiah
that the kingdom of the Chaldeans,
the Babylonians,
are going to come
like this mighty roaring army
and they're going to destroy them.
But he's saying,
woe unto them too.
You know, you might think like,
oh, America's right
because we always win every battle.
We win every war.
We won World War I
and won World War II
and we invaded Iraq.
And we did all these exploits.
But you know what?
Woe unto those people
because we're not doing it
in righteousness.
We're not doing it
in true holiness.
There's a lot of shady things
going on in all those wars
if you don't know.
Woe unto us
to just invade Iraq
and kill a million people.
For what?
Oh, 9-11?
Yeah, that was fake, buddy.
It's all about oil
and it's all about controlling
the dollar for the Jew.
That's what it's all about.
It always goes back to money.
It always goes back to them.
And instead of preachers
getting up and preaching
what the truth is about Jews,
we just keep loving their money
and they keep preaching
a pro-Zionist message
so they can keep getting
those Zionist dollars
because that's the only game
they're really playing.
Nuts to it.
Oh, well, you're not going to
stay on YouTube
with this kind of sermon.
I'm not on YouTube.
Ha ha!
Well, they might cancel you
on Rumble.
Oh, whoo!
You might not even be
on the Internet ever again.
Good!
Who cares?
Oh, you know,
you're going to get censored.
Well, you know what?
Then let the next guy
preach it.
Amen.
You know why our country's
being destroyed?
Because people are afraid
of YouTube.
They're afraid of losing things.
Oh, well, you'll lose
your PayPal account.
Done.
You'll never be able to
bank America again.
Done.
I thought it was just
our church and stuff,
but then I tried
and they're like,
you as a person,
you're just too risky
of a person.
You can't do any business
with the Bank of America.
I mean, Pastor Shelley
is a terrorist to America,
but you know what?
Eligals can come in
and get a bank account
like that, right?
I mean, you could literally
be from the Middle East,
cross our border illegally,
and Bank of America
set up you an account,
but Pastor Shelley
can't get an account.
Well, you know what?
We need more pastors
to lose their bank accounts, okay?
Lose it all!
Burn it down!
Why?
Because our country
is literally burning down.
What are you trying to
preserve in this fake game?
This game that's
a monopoly game designed
to destroy everything
that you have,
keep you as a slave.
You know what happens
when you reject the Word of God?
You become a slave.
Communism, tyranny.
They rape and pillage
your women and your children.
They take everything
away from you.
You know, the only reason
we even have liberties
is because of the Word of God,
because people used
to preach the Word of God.
We used to stand on the truth.
As soon as you stop
standing on the truth,
you're going to lose
all of your liberty.
Well, but did you
catch the game?
No, I was too busy
reading Isaiah.
Look, I'm not against football.
Football's not evil here.
It's what it represents.
Why does football
have to be on Sunday?
Why does football
have to be in churches?
Why is it that churches
are not preaching
Sunday night anymore?
Well, we've got to
catch the game.
Right?
I mean, there's so many
churches in this area
right now.
The table.
Believe it or not,
that's the name of a church.
Okay.
It sounds more like
a Mexican restaurant,
if you ask me.
Because if you notice,
Mexican restaurants,
they just name
their restaurants things
that are just random objects.
La mesa.
It's like that's
just the table.
Okay.
Or it's like
el obol, the tree.
You know, el perro.
Okay.
It's like there's one,
it's called nidir from scratch.
I'm like, you didn't
even stay consistent.
This is like Spanglish.
My day from scratch?
What does that even mean?
It's a real Mexican
restaurant in this area.
Nidir from scratch.
You know.
It's like the table.
Imagine having a real
conversation with someone.
Are you going to church?
Yeah, I'm going to the table.
Imagine talking to someone
that doesn't know English well.
They'd be like, what?
You're going to eat at a table?
Like, what are you talking,
you're going to build a table?
No, I'm going to the table.
What are you talking about?
We're going to the
Super Bowl watch party.
Right now, their church,
instead of having church,
they're just watching Taylor Swift
watch the football game.
That's what they're watching.
In Frisco, Texas, right now,
Pastor Connor Baxter.
Woe unto him.
He is a pastor in name only.
He even says on their website,
they're led by a team of elders.
Crossroads Church in Ohio,
they have a Super Bowl event
for their church service
to like mimic the Super Bowl.
So they're saying they're
going to have a church event
that looks like the Super Bowl
and acts like the Super Bowl,
but it's not the Super Bowl.
So it's even lamer.
Like, instead of just
watching the game,
like basically they're
going to have like a game,
but they're going to have
like church people
doing church stuff,
then they're going to have
their own halftime show,
and then they're going to
have their own commercials.
They're going to literally
have commercials in church.
What?
And this is their slogan.
This is the most fun
you'll ever have in church.
Who said that we're
supposed to have fun?
Fun?
Why is that?
And look, what is
the mega church now?
Just fun.
It has nothing to do
with the Bible.
I mean, if you take your kids
to one of these churches,
I guarantee they will have fun,
because I grew up
in one of these churches,
and I worked
in their kids' programs.
The church that I went to,
they had the largest
indoor playground of like
any building or organization
in the entire area.
They had like one of the nicest.
I mean, they put the
Chick-fil-A playground
to shame, folks.
This thing was giant,
and when you take
your kids there
and drop them off,
they're going to get
special name badges.
They're going to get
unlimited goldfish,
crackers, juice, pretzels,
unlimited snacks,
sometimes even just candy,
sometimes just M&Ms.
I mean, if I told your kids,
you're going to get to play
in the coolest playground
with unlimited snacks
and listen to
hypersounding music
and play with your friends,
like, why are we
not going to this church
to have?
Like, what's going on?
That is what's happening.
Instead of having to sit here
and be quiet, which I know
they don't want to do,
they can't do as well,
they take them
to these fun centers
and they just drop off
their kids so they can hear
a little 20-minute sermonette
from Mrs. Pastor.
That is our nation.
That is what the vast
majority of Christians
are doing.
It's called Life Church.
Life Church.
And then you can get
a picture with Casey Wolf
after the service.
We're going to have
a Super Bowl-themed service
and everybody's going to
dress up like cheese fans
with your pastor,
Craig Groeschel.
Pastor and name only.
I mean, they're in 11 states
and counting.
The last time I checked,
they were in like one.
I don't know.
They're in 11 already.
I mean, this is going to
literally take over our country.
It already is.
I mean, people aren't going
to go to the Methodist Church.
People aren't going to go
to the Church of Christ.
Everything's becoming
non-denominational.
Pretty soon it'll probably
just be like non-denominous
because they're just
soaking everything else up
and we're going to be
filled with a nation of
people that just love
to just hear lies.
They have their itching ears
and they're going to say
prophesied deceits
and the last thing we need
is more pastors in name only.
We need to empower more pastors
and you know what?
Praise God.
I think this year,
Pure Words is going to
get its own pastor
and our Oklahoma City church
is going to get its own pastor
and the last thing we need
is two more pastors in name only.
I hope that people
rally around those men
and allow them to have
the authority that they need
and allow them to have
the finances they need
and allow them to do their job
and that they themselves
will be not motivated by money
or greed or lust or whatever
but rather they will preach
the Word and say,
Woe unto them that seek deep
to hide their counsel
from the Lord.
They'll say,
Woe unto the drunkards
and woe unto the whores
and woe unto the dads
that allow their daughters
to become whores.
I can see why people
are drinking now
because your daughter
is a prostitute.
Because your daughter
is not only fans
and you subscribe to her
on accident.
What a loser!
And then I had to read
the stupid headline on Twitter
about how daughter's embarrassed
that her only subscriber
is her dad.
And let me tell you something.
They are trying to push women
to prostitute themselves
for literally nothing.
I saw some statistic
and it was like some lady
saying I was in the top 30%
or 37% of earners
for OnlyFans this month.
So she's in the top 37%.
She said she made $80 that month.
So literally women are just
giving everything they have
and exposing everything
they have online
and the vast majority of them
are getting nothing for it
Literally nothing.
That's what's happening.
That's how brainwashed
and stupid
because there's all these ads
out there.
Women think like,
oh if I just prostitute myself
I'll make a bunch of money.
This is what's really sad.
Prostitutes make almost no money.
Like they always say like
oh there's all this money in it.
It's a lie.
It's a scam.
Most women that go into prostitution
don't even realize
how they don't even
make good money at all.
They're dirt poor.
They're not even making
the money that everybody
wants them to believe.
They hate their life.
They hate their job.
Their entire family
turns on them.
They've destroyed themselves
and then their dad
is just so miserable
he just goes and drinks himself
drunk at the football game
or kills himself.
Suicide is astronomical these days
because people are just
destroying themselves
and they don't have anything
to live for because
they're not serving God.
As long as you're serving God
you always have something
to live for.
I don't think that people
realize how bad our country
and our nation really is.
It is way worse than we think.
Just to give you an idea
like I preached this sermon
at the Fire Breathing
Baptist Fellowship
called Blackpilled.
I almost didn't even preach
the sermon because I didn't
I was like I don't even think
I need to preach a sermon
like that or
I just kind of preached it
on a whim
and then like a lot of people
actually talked to me
and said like they needed that
or it was important
or it helped them
and it just kind of like
woke me up to the fact
that things are worse
than we really perceive.
People are more depressed
than ever before.
People are more dissatisfied
dysfunctional.
There's a lot of issues
and it's because preachers
aren't preaching the Bible
and it's because people
aren't reading their Bible
and it's because people
aren't thinking about
spiritual things.
Let me tell you something
this world is almost
on a 24-7 routine
to make you depressed
and upset
and the world is focusing in
on just the bedroom
like that's the only thing
the world like thinks about.
That's like all that movies
is thinking about
that's all that Hollywood
is pushing
that's all that music
is pushing
that's all that the internet
is pushing
that's all that people
in this world are pushing
just their next hook up
their next
I mean most of the apps
coming out
are dating apps
and hook up apps
and the young people
are just so concerned
with who they're
going to date
who they're going to be with
and just all their partners
and it's just so obsessed
and it's like
look the bedroom
is supposed to be
a private thing
and it's not even
the most important thing
in your life
it's not even close.
You know when you get
this is crazy
but when we get to heaven
that doesn't even exist anymore.
There's no marriage
and all this stuff anymore.
Like that stuff's done
we'll be like the angels
we're not given a marriage.
Christ was really clear
on that particular subject.
You know just like
little children
aren't interested in that
and all apparently
we won't be interested
in that ever again.
Okay we're just brothers
and sisters in Christ
and it's like our whole
culture is obsessed
with this one thing.
Why?
Because it's to try
and make you depressed
because the reality is
almost no one
is happy in that area
almost no one
only pretty much just like
really healthy people
that are like healthy marriages
and even then no one
it's like perfect
everyone can always improve
and so by getting
obsessed with something
that you can't be happy about
you know what it causes you
to be sad, depressed, angry
you feel like everybody's
having a good time
and you're not
but the reality is
no one's having a good time.
You know there's this
thing I was reading
some statistics on this stuff
and it was like saying
how much enjoyment
do people have in that area
from like a single perspective
versus a married perspective
and it was like
people who are dating
one person
people are dating
multiple people
and what was crazy
is the people that had
the most satisfaction
and had the most frequency
were always people
that were monogolously married
to their only partner
and it always went down
the more ungodly it was
so the people that are married
but both of them
have been around the block
they had the most dysfunction
the least frequency
and then the people
that were single
or divorced
it was the worst
when they had one partner
and the people
that had multiple partners
it was like even less
and it was like basically
these people that act
like they're just
these hot studs
it's all a lie
it's fake
it's not real
you want to know
the people that are
probably the happiest
the people have like 12 kids
those are probably
the people
you know
and it's private
you don't know anything about it
the people that are bragging
and going online
doing this stuff
it's usually fake
it's not real
just like the people
that brag about being rich
are never usually rich
never even really
have any money
it's just funny
because when I worked
at the bank
I actually knew
in real life
you have no idea
if the guy driving
the Lamborghini
and has all these women
and has all the nice
houses in the car
and you think like
that guy must be rich
and then you look
and he literally has
a negative net worth
you're like whoa
he's about to lose his car
and then usually
they lose their car
and then they get
another one on lease
or something
and then they're just like
oh I was just kind of
done with it
so I got rid of it
but it's like really
it got repoed
and it's like the people
that are flashy
and bragging
and whatever
it's all fake
everything's fake
the internet is fake
the pastors in our nation
are fake
the churches in our nation
are fake
this is real
your life and your wife
and your children
they're real
God is real
let us focus on things
that are real
and tangible
and have meaning
and a value
and let us go to a church
where we have a real pastor
not a fake one
not the one with
the little you know
microphone
and the skinny jeans
and the purple lights
and he's not even
preaching tonight
he's watching the game
with you in a chief's jersey
I mean I don't know
what else to say
that's how bad it is
but you know
praise God
there's some people
that would come to church
on a Sunday night
you know
try not to be offended
by the word of God
try to be offended
by the evilness
in our nation
don't be ashamed
of the Bible
be ashamed of
what's going on out there
be ashamed of
all these churches
and you know
go to the right kind of church
teach your children
to go to the right
kind of a church
and try to help
other people
go to the right
kind of church
because that's the
only thing that
will really fix
anything
that will fix
our country
and it may be too
late for our country
but it's not
necessarily too late for us
it's not too late
for our family
and our friends
and this area
and we need to preserve
as much as we can
and we need to
help other men
become great pastors
teach your children
to be the next pastor
go to a church
and support a pastor
and help him to be
a real pastor
not a pastor
in name only
let's pray
thank you Heavenly Father
so much for
the word of God
and for this church
this institution
that you've given us
I pray that you would
just help us all
to desire the right things
whether they
hurt sometimes
or they're uncomfortable
I pray that you would
just raise up
a generation
of real pastors
and real preachers
in this country
our country so desperately
needs to hear
the word of God
so desperately
needs to hear
it thundered forth
people need to be
rebuked for their sin
and we need
someone brave enough
to do it
we need someone
brave enough to call out
the serious issues
going on in our world
and I pray that you
would just
embolden
and give courage
to a generation
of real Christians
of real men of God
and that we could
just destroy a lot
of this fakeness
a lot of this garbage
if possible you could
give us revival
through the preaching
of your word
in Jesus' name we pray
Amen
Alright
for our closing song
we're going to go
to song number 374
Send the light
oh I'm sorry
it's 439
excuse me
439
count your blessings
song 439
count your blessings
we'll surprise you
what the Lord has done
count your blessings
name them one by one
count your blessings
see what God has done
count your blessings
name them one by one
count your many blessings
see what God has done
are you ever burdened
with the load of care
does the cross seem heavy
you are called to bear
count your many blessings
every doubt will fly
and you will be singing
as the days go by
count your blessings
name them one by one
count your blessings
see what God has done
count your blessings
name them one by one
count your many blessings
see what God has done
when you look at others
with their hands and bones
think that Christ has promised
you his wealth untold
count your many blessings
that he cannot find
you're reborn in heaven
though you're all on high
count your blessings
name them one by one
count your blessings
see what God has done
count your blessings
name them one by one
count your many blessings
see what God has done
storm in the conflict
whether great or small
do not be discouraged
God is over all
count your many blessings
angels will attend
help and don't forgive you
to your journey's end
count your blessings
name them one by one
count your blessings
see what God has done
count your blessings
name them one by one
count your many blessings
see what God has done
you're singing everybody
you are all dismissed