- Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to our services here at Faith Board Baptist Church.
It's nice to see you all here on this Sunday morning.
If you don't please find your seats now, grab a hymnal.
Go to hymn number 405, we'll begin this morning.
Hymn number 405, the banner of the cross.
Hymn number 405, once you find your place,
we'll lift it up together on that first verse.
Hymn number 405, there's a royal banner given for display.
Let's sing it out nice and strong, right on that first.
Number 405, sing it out together now.
There's a royal banner given for display
to the soldiers of the king.
As an inside, we lift it up today,
while the drums we sing together at the center.
We display its folds as soldiers of the lord,
for do we not dismay.
We lift it up today, while the drums we sing together at the center.
As an inside, we lift it up today, while the drums we sing together at the center.
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the privilege that we have to be in church this
Sunday morning.
We just thank you for the safety you've given to us to be able to be here.
And we thank you for bringing Pastor Shelley to be able to preach for us this morning.
We ask that you please just prepare him and fill him with boldness and power and unction
with your Holy Ghost as he preaches to us this morning.
And may you bless us this morning as we lift up our voices to you in praise to help us
to be edified as we sing out these hymns unto you.
And we'll thank you for everything that takes place this morning, in Jesus' name, amen.
Back a few pages, number 397, 397, little is much when God is in it.
Hymn number 397, we'll sing it out on that first verse, "In the harvest field now ripened,
there's a work for all to do."
Hymn number 397, sing it out now.
In the harvest field now ripened, there's a work for all to do.
It's our salvation and if you want to be baptized, we are doing baptisms this morning.
If you wish to be baptized, come see me or one of the ushers and we'll get you baptized
as soon as we can.
On the upper right-hand corner is our third annual mega conference schedule, in case you
don't know and you've been living under a rock.
We are starting our mega conference today with the one and only Pastor Shelley, who's
hiding somewhere around here.
Please raise your hand right there, right behind Mrs. Johnson.
I see that hand.
And of course, if you don't know Pastor Shelley, get to know him after the service.
And thank him for taking the time to come out here and be a blessing unto us, amen.
And the rest of the pastors, take a look at the schedule and you'll be able to know when
your favorite pastor is showing up.
Below that, thank you to those who participated in the Navajo Reservation.
So many that had this past weekend, they had eight soul winners and 19 salvations.
Every door and chambers has been knocked according to them.
So thank you so much for helping us to knock it out.
Join us for a small town soul winning trip to Eden, Arizona, Saturday, July 20th.
If you have any questions, talk to Brother Raymond after the service and he will give
you all the information that you need.
Please continue to pray for the expecting ladies in our church and below that is information
about a skate night we're going to have on Thursday, August 15th from 530 to 8 p.m.
The address is right there, so take a look at the address and plan it on your schedule
to be able to come and join us.
And if there's anybody watching in YouTube land, this question did come in via email.
If you do show up and you happen to be here during vacation or if you're visiting the
church during that time, you are welcome to come.
And other events are right there.
Take a look at those when you get a chance.
And also the sign up sheet for the mega conference, where is it at?
Right there, because I'm blind and I cannot see.
If you haven't signed up, go ahead and sign up.
And of course, if you don't make it next week, we will cross your name out.
And for those who make it through the entire conference, we will have a great dinner for
you.
So please do your best to make it to every single service during our mega conference.
It will be a blessing to the pastors and to yourself as well.
Other than that, that is it for our announcements.
So Brother Daniel, come lead us in the next song.
All right.
You should find the insert in front of your hymnal with Psalm 81.
If you don't have an insert, you can raise your hand.
We'll sing it on that first together.
Sing aloud unto God our strength.
Sing it out now, sing aloud unto God our strength.
Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob, take a song and bring hither the temple, the
pleasant heart with the psaltery, blow up the trumpet in the new moon, and the time appointed
on our solemn feast day, for this was a stash in for Israel and the law of the God of Jacob.
Is he ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he went down?
Through love, love he took where I've heard, a language that I understood not.
I removed his shoulder from the burden, his hands were delivered from the fall.
Thou was in trouble, I delivered thee, I extolled thee in the sacred place of thunder.
I proved thee at the wars of Meribah. See, lie here, O my people, and I will testify unto thee.
O Israel, thou wilt harken unto me, there shall no strange God be in thee, neither shall thou worship any strange God.
I am the God from the outland of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
But my people would not harken to my voice, O Israel. So I gave them up unto their own hearts love, and they walked in their counsel.
All that my people had harken'd unto me. Israel opened my ways. I should have soon subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
The haters of the Lord should have submitted, should have submitted themselves unto Him, but their time should endure forever.
We should have had them also, the finest of the wheat, and with money, God should I have satisfied thee, God should I have satisfied thee.
I serve a risen Savior, He is in the world today.
I know the same, I see the mercy, I hear His voice of cheer.
And just the time I need Him, He's always near.
He lives, lives, lives today, He walks with me and talks with me, along lives there away.
And as the offering plates are being passed around, please turn your Bible to Psalm 12,
Psalm chapter number 12.
Chapter number 12, "Help, Lord, for the godly man seetheth, for the faithful fail from among
the children of men.
They speak vanity, every one with his neighbor, with flattering lips and with a double heart
do they speak.
The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own.
Who is Lord over us?
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, sayeth the
Lord.
I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him."
The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven
times.
Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Dear Lord, we thank you for this beautiful day.
We thank you for Faithward Baptist Church and for the preaching of Pastor Shelley.
Please bless the preaching and bless the hearing of your word in Jesus' name, amen.
Sorry.
Can you hear me now?
All right.
I'm here at Faithward Baptist Church and I see a lot of familiar faces and even some
new faces and it's always a blessing to be here and to see you guys.
I saw you have this challenge to visit all of the different guest preachers and so, you
know, I have some good news.
I kind of learned this rhyme in school and this will kind of encourage you because they
said the first is the worst, the second is the best, the third is the one with the hairy
chest.
So there you go.
I'm excited for Pastor Thompson's arrival, all right?
So there you go.
But no, you should definitely come to all those services and encourage those pastors
and thank you so much to Pastor Anderson and your church for having me.
I want to focus here at the beginning of Psalm 12 for my sermon this morning on verse one.
The Bible says, "Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth for the faithful fail from among
the children of men."
And we have a pretty common theme in the Bible that describes the reality of the world that
we live in.
And I think for some reason people forget that mankind is evil and that there's really
a scarcity of righteousness that exists in our world today.
And so the title of my sermon is that Scarcity of Righteousness, Scarcity of Righteousness.
And point one is really simple that I want to explain to you this morning is that man
is evil.
Man is evil.
According to the Bible, there's a dearth of godly men in the world.
And I want you to understand something from this passage before we move on.
But when we talk about the godly man ceasing, we're not talking about someone who's absolutely
perfect or someone that's completely sinless.
Because if we read the next verse, it says this, "They speak vanity, everyone with his
neighbor with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak."
So what we see here is that the lack of godly men is related to men that are sincere, men
of truth, men that would say things and actually believe them, having strong conviction.
We see that there's a lot of people today that are simply just insincere, fake or really
you could just use this word a politician, okay, where politicians simply just say all
these things and they make all these promises and they flatter people with their words and
that's how they rise to power, rise to the top.
We see a lot of pastors today that are in prominent positions all over America.
They're very insincere, they use great swelling words of vanity as the Bible describes it
and really they're not righteous at all, meaning they don't have a sincere heart for the truth.
They don't sincerely love the Lord.
They don't actually want to know the truth or what righteousness looks like.
They're not actually taking the Bible and reading all of it and having an interpretation
for every single verse.
You know, I have a lot more respect for people that have a bad interpretation for every verse
than the vast majority of preachers and Christians today that just ignore large sections of the
Bible.
And you bring them up and you'll show them portions of scripture and they'll just, well,
that's Old Testament or something, or they don't, they won't explain it.
They won't talk about it.
They don't even know that it exists in many cases.
And you can just see that people are just very insincere in the world that we live
in.
Why?
Because man is evil.
So man is not seeking after God.
If you go to Romans chapter number three for a moment, go to Romans chapter number three.
Let's look at a lot of different verses here to kind of establish this point.
But it seems like a pretty simple point.
Man is evil.
But I think sometimes we forget.
I think sometimes we don't recognize how much the Bible actually talks about this subject.
Romans chapter three, look at verse 10.
"As it is written, 'There is none righteous, no, not one,' there is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God, they are all gone out of the way, they are together
become unprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no, not one, their throat is an open
sepulcher, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their
lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction
and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known, there is no
fear of God before their eyes. Now this is a description of what the world is like apart
from Christianity or apart from the God of the Bible because he's contrasting the Jews
of that time with the heathen or the ungodly and he's making it abundantly clear that there's
not like this other religion out there where all these people are really righteous. It's
not like there's this group of people that are moral and love the things of God and love
truth and do right and they're just not part of our religion or just not part of our nation.
He's saying, no, they're all wicked. They're all evil and they're filled with all kinds
of things like misery, warfare, cursing, bloodshed. In fact, they just genuinely have no fear
of God. And if you were to visit other nations in this world today that are not Christian,
this is what you would find when you find other religions, the religion of Islam, the
religion of Judaism, the religion of Hinduism, or basically atheism which permeates a lot
of the rest of the world today, these areas are very wicked, very ungodly, a lot of evil
going on in those parts of the world. And if man was left to his own device, it does
not get better over time. It gets worse. Go to Genesis chapter 6. Let's look at a few
verses back there too. And some of these are pretty familiar passages, but I think it's
good to just start with a foundation here. Genesis chapter 6. Let's look at a few verses
there. And this is talking about man just kind of doing his own thing. Men going their
own way. Let's see how that works. Genesis chapter 6. Look at verse 5. "And God saw that
the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts
of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man
on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy a man whom
I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping thing,
and the fowls of the air, for repenteth me that I have made them." This is the God of
the Bible. He looked down at basically just all mankind and said they're so evil, they're
so wicked, they're so bad, I'm going to have to destroy all of them. Verse 8. "But Noah
found grace in the eyes of the Lord." An important word there in verse number 8 is the word grace.
Even Noah wasn't perfect. Even Noah had some evil with him. And the reality is that mankind
is an evil creation in a sense. Not because of what God's done, because of what they've
done. Go to Ecclesiastes chapter 7. I want to show you some verses in the book of Ecclesiastes
for a moment. We have to understand that God, when He created man on day 6, and specifically
in Genesis chapter number 1, He said that what He had made was very good. So it's not
like God made this evil creation or made some kind of an evil creature called mankind. God
created man to be good. And God created man to do things that are good. And unfortunately
mankind sinned by eating the knowledge of the tree of good and evil. And they really
emphasized in that evil part. They really kind of stuck and clung, clung to that. In fact
in Ecclesiastes chapter 7 it kind of explains this point. Look at verse 29, "Lo, this only
have I found that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions."
Notice God created us to be upright. He wants us to be upright. God didn't create men to
be evil. Men choose to be evil on their own. And what we can really understand from this
is that free will is a dangerous thing because we notice that God is only good. God has only
done good unto mankind. And then look at the fact that the vast majority of His creation
rejects Him, showing you that when someone is given free will, they don't usually make
the right decision. They usually make the wrong decision. And yet people want to live
in a "democracy." Go to Romans chapter 7. Go to Romans chapter 7. How many of the people
have we read so far about that you want to be ruling over you? The people from Genesis
chapter number 6 that are only thinking evil continually? The people in Romans chapter
number 3 that they have no fear of God whatsoever? And yet, that's generally what we have in
the world today as leaders. Many of the leaders, many of the rulers of today are men that have
no fear of God, that are only thinking evil continually. And it's not like, well, today's
an evil time. No, let's go back to Genesis 6, it was evil. When we look at Romans and
the Apostle Paul is describing that period of time, he's describing as what? A very evil
time. When we go to Ecclesiastes, when we look at Song of Solomon, what is he saying?
Oh, it's an evil time. And generally speaking, for the vast majority of human history, there
hasn't been very much peace for very many people. Probably some of the best times is
when we had a singular righteous leader, a benevolent dictator as sorts. Someone like
David, someone like Solomon, someone like Moses, someone like Joshua, someone like Joseph.
Those are some of the times when we have peace, but not even just worldwide, really in a localized
area under those men's authority, leadership, and accountability. Why? Because mankind
is evil. It's evil. Now I had to go to Romans chapter seven, look at verse 21. Even good
people can be bad. Look at verse 21, "I find then a law that when I would do good, evil
is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man, but I see another
law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity
to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver
me from the body of this death?" Now this is an important passage to understand the
dichotomy of when someone gets saved, they have a new man inside of them, but they still
have that old man and that old man according to the Bible is not good. The Apostle Paul's
old man is just as bad as the next old man or the other guy. Obviously I'm barring reprobates
but just generally speaking when we just compare the unsaved, our old men are not any better
than the old men of the average unsaved person that's out there. We're all just evil, we
all have temptations and struggle with these things and even the apostle Paul himself admitted
that many times he failed and would do evil, do things he wouldn't allow, he committed
sin. You know there's these deliverance doctrines out here where they say like if you walk the
aisle and you surrender then Jesus will make every decision of your life. It's never happened
for any man ever. There has never been a single man that's ever existed that every single
decision was exactly what Jesus would pick for that person. The only person that was
like that was Jesus, okay. There was not another man that just totally surrendered and just
gave his life to the Lord and he just led him on every single decision. It doesn't exist,
it's not real, it's fake and even the greatest Christians to ever live admitted hey I'm kind
of evil. Hey I have problems in these areas too. And we need to admit the fact that mankind
is evil. We live in a society where a government and leaders would like to gaslight us and
say everybody's generally good. Democracy is good. You know we should just let everybody
rule and everybody have a voice and everybody's important. Now everybody's evil, everybody's
selfish, everybody makes bad decisions generally speaking. Why? Help Lord for the godly man
cease it. People just speak vanity, they speak meaningless statements, flattery, they lie
to you just to get favor and they're ultimately just selfish by nature. I want to go back
to Ecclesiastes if you would. You know there's a passage in the Bible that is in Philippians
that I was kind of thinking about and usually I'm thinking about it from a respective of
like the commandment that's being instructed here but I think if we look at it in the light
that we're talking about it kind of makes sense because the Bible says in Philippians
2 verse 15 that you may be blameless and harmless the sons of God without rebuke in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation among whom you shine as lights in the world now think
about that commandment it's telling you to be righteous and be godly and shine as a light
but it's describing a specific environment that you live in a perverse and crooked nation
now how would that make sense if you didn't live in a perverse and crooked nation and
you know the Bible didn't say like oh there's this one place that's perverse and crooked
it's just like just guaranteed locked in wherever you live whenever you lived you were in the
midst of a perverse and a crooked nation mankind is evil people like to glorify certain areas
or certain moments in history thinking that it was such a righteous area or righteous
time but that just doesn't exist folks Christians have always had to be a bright and shining
light in the midst of a crooked and a perverse nation you say which nation all of them you
know a lot of people would like to trash America and I understand why because generally speaking
we've done some of the worst things imaginable and you know we could even be as a lot of
people believe the end times Babylon which is arguably one of the worst nations to ever
live will probably slaughter a lot of Christians you know if we were to really be objective
here is there really a better country to live in right now like is it really just like this
is this is obvious option of this one nation that's just so much better than America and
just so much more wonderful and so great you know why is there so many people that come
to here not from America go around just ask there's people from literally everywhere Europe
Africa Asia all over why are they coming here why aren't they going to this obvious amazing
nation somewhere else and if our nation is bad just think about how bad it is in a lot
of other places in this world now Ecclesiastes chapter 3 I want you to look at verse 16 and
moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment that wickedness was there and the
place of righteousness that iniquity was there notice what he's saying hey I've noticed that
in the good places there's sin in the bad places there's sin there's sin everywhere
there's just evil literally everywhere wherever you look look at chapter 4 verse 1 so I returned
and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun and behold the tears as
such as were oppressed and they had no comforter and on the side of their oppressors there
was power but they had no comforter wherefore I praise the dead which are already dead more
than the living which are not yet alive.
Yea better is he than both they which hath not yet been who hath not seen the evil work
that is done under the sun.
This isn't a very like positive part of the sermon here for us all.
He's just saying hey I looked at all the people that are being oppressed and they have no
comforter.
It's like no hope basically and he's like and then I looked at the people that was oppressing
them they don't have a comforter.
It's just like basically everybody's just doomed and he's like in fact it was so bad
I just basically like people that are dead are better off and you know throughout history
there has been times where that's true for sure.
People that are under a communist regime many of them wish for death and even during God's
wrath you can see this where people are desiring to die and they can't.
There are fates worse than dying.
There are circumstances and environments and life circumstances that can be much worse
than dying itself and Solomon's just kind of saying like there's some really bad stuff
out there.
There's some horrible stuff going on in the world.
Look at chapter 9 verse 3, go to chapter 9 verse 3, it says, "This is an evil among all
things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all, yea also the heart
of the sons of men is full of evil."
Do you see that phrase right there?
What does it say?
What does the Bible tell us about men?
The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.
I wonder if that's where Disney got their motto from.
"Follow your heart, which is full of evil."
Right?
I mean, this is what the Bible is saying about mankind.
It's not really painting the best picture.
And I think it's good for us to just every once in a while just be a little bit sober
about who we are, be a little bit honest about what we're like, and not just be vain, not
have a preacher get up and flatter you.
All of you are so wonderful.
You're so great.
I just see people just, you're so good.
God's pleased with everything that you're doing right now.
It's like, which verse is he using for that?
Because the verses I'm using don't paint the prettiest picture.
And even in church, you know, it doesn't mean just because someone shows up here, they're
a great person.
We all struggle with evil, and evil is lurking in every corner.
Look at chapter eight, verse 11.
Why?
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of
the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
You want to know why our country keeps getting worse and worse?
Because we're not punishing evildoers.
We're not eliminating evil workers.
There's really a very small number of people that are being dealt with appropriately in
our country and in our world today.
And because of that, we see evil abounding and evil is really just exploding in the world
that we live in.
Look at chapter seven, verse 28.
It says, I want to read an extra verse here just to get a little more context.
Verse 27, "Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find
out the account, which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not.
One man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out
many inventions."
Now we get a little context of that verse.
What was the context of the verse that we read earlier?
It's the fact that finding a godly person, finding a godly man is like one out of a
thousand.
He's saying like one out of a thousand.
And then he says to find a young lady, it's even rarer than one out of a thousand.
That's what he's saying.
And you know, that brings some verses to light, like in Proverbs 31 it says, "Who can find
a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies."
Why would the Bible even say that if righteous women were on every corner?
It's basically saying like the vast majority are bad.
99, not even 99, 999 out of a thousand are not good.
Just to give you some percentages, maybe you like stats, here's the stats.
And then it's like the women we couldn't even find enough to get it above that percentage.
I mean it's like point zero something.
Now again, it's not to say that righteous women don't exist, and it's not to say there
isn't righteous men.
It's just saying like generally speaking it's hard to find these things.
Why?
Because man is evil.
It's like why do you just keep showing us verses?
I want you to get this point.
This is the most important point.
Man is evil.
Now that's the Bible.
I'm going to give you a quick tour of some history, all right?
I just crammed through a lot of scripture.
Is the reality of our world match what I just said?
Let's just think about this for a second, okay?
So I'm going to go back a little ways to like the 1700s, 1789, you have the French Revolution.
In the French Revolution, you basically have a large cult of reason coming into power.
And yes, there's a Jew connection, I won't talk about that as much tonight, but yes,
you have basically enlightenment and all of these ideas creeping in and we're attacking
the aristocracy and we're attacking the Bible and these authority figures that exist.
And they eventually overthrew the aristocracy and just had a raging mob.
And during that period, about 1.4 million people were killed through a lot of the wars
that were going on, this revolution in France.
And specifically, they really brought the executions to the forefront of their nation.
They really made popular the guillotine by what they were doing.
And in fact, they had over 16,000 official executions during this time period.
About 10,000 to 12,000 of the executions that were done in France during that time were
with zero trial.
It was just off with his head and just off with their head.
Just a crazy, crazy time.
Then Napoleon Bonaparte is kind of coming on the heels of this and leaves a major war
campaign throughout that entire area.
He really liked Jews.
It's an interesting thing.
You can study it on your own, right?
Let's fast forward to 1917 in Russia where you have the Bolshevik Revolution.
Bolshevik Revolution.
Now, I'm not going to give you all the dates and everything, but at a prior period in time,
Tsar Nicholas II, who was the king of Russia, had caught several Jews conspiring to overthrow
the government.
He did not execute them.
Some of them served prison sentences or whatever, but then afterwards what happened is they
rallied the troops the second time, and then they took over the government, executed the
Tsar, all of his family, and literally just took over the entire country.
Now that's important to think about, because remember what was one of the problems that
we read in Ecclesiastes, it was the fact that there wasn't any kind of speedy execution
of these evil people.
And what you can kind of learn throughout history is that when you won't put wicked
people to death, they'll put you to death.
Like the death penalty is a necessary component of life, because it's not like you can get
away from it.
People will die.
The question is who?
Who is going to die?
Is it going to be the compromising, weak, righteous people, or is it going to be the
super wicked evil people that'll slaughter anyone?
And you know, when you understand point one of my sermon so far, that man is evil, you
don't have a huge problem slaughtering horrible people.
When you just have this idea that just everyone's so precious and just so wonderful and so kind
and so nice, then you have all these people out there that say like the death penalty
is so bad and they just don't understand what ends up happening.
So after the overthrow of this particular government, there was a civil war in Russia
where it was basically a lot of the Jewish rebellion against the patriots of that country
around 5 to 10 million people were slaughtered.
Unfortunately, the Jewish rebellion won and as a result of that, it's estimated that between
20 to 45 million Russians were killed and slaughtered during that time of the Bolshevik
Revolution.
And these are the people that we decided were so wonderful we should side with them in World
War II.
The good guys, right?
Because Germans are bad, okay?
Russian communists that are Jews?
Good, okay?
Right?
I mean, because this is the world that we live in.
You know, what about the world that I live in?
Bad.
Germans that are Nazis?
Bad.
Russian Jews that took over the government?
Bad.
It wasn't like this one's good, this one's, you know, really good.
It was bad and bad, okay?
Really bad.
And yeah, of course, in World War II, about 35 to 60 million people were killed.
You say, "Yeah, but we were the good guys.
America!"
Right?
Except for, what about Japan?
How do they feel about America?
When we dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and slaughtered about 70 to 140,000 soldiers?
Oh, no, it was civilians.
How is that, how is that righteous to just slaughter women and children and just bomb
them into oblivion?
Oh, yeah, because man is evil.
That's why.
Oh, America is such a good guy.
We're just going to literally bomb.
And we had to do that because the Japanese didn't really think that we were serious.
But not only did we do that, we bombed also Nagasaki, which also slaughtered 60 to 80,000
other civilians because we're just such a righteous nation.
We're just so godly, right?
They came and slaughtered some of our soldiers in Pearl Harbor, which I'm not going to get
in the history of that, but we went and slaughtered all their women and children to show that
we're better than them.
I mean, it's not even honorable in war.
Like, usually when people think about wartime, they don't think about slaughtering all the
women and children as being honorable, as being righteous, but that's what happened.
How about after World War II, when we were just so good, right?
Because, you know, the Allies didn't just bomb women and children in Germany or anything.
Oh yeah, they did actually, because we were the good guys again, right?
Oh, and then after we won, we decided that not only are Nazis bad, just anybody that
speaks German.
So for the next five years, that entire area, they're eliminating and eradicating anybody
that just speaks German, old men, women, and young boys, because that's all that even exists
in the society.
Just slaughtering millions and millions of civilians because they speak German, right?
I mean, how would you feel if people invaded America and said, "We're going to slaughter
you for supporting Joe Biden."
Joe Biden?
I mean, am I supposed to believe that literally every single German just loved Hitler?
Am I really supposed to believe that, but just because they spoke German, now they're
going to be slaughtered.
Oh, and by who again?
Oh yeah, those really good guys, those Jewish Russian soldiers that were coming in here.
And look, the slaughtering was the nicest thing they did.
I didn't want to get into the details of what they really did to all the women and the children
and everything that was going on.
Complete anarchy, complete evil.
Oh, we're the good guys.
We won.
How?
Why?
What makes this so special?
Maybe in the 1950s you could have been living in China instead, that would have been better,
right?
Where you have the Great Leap Forward, and they killed about 15 to 50 million of their
own citizens just from creating a fabricated famine, which is basically the government
sees all of the farmland, because that's what communism is, no one can have private ownership
of anything, the government now owns all the farmland, and well the government sucks at
everything, so farming they suck at too, and basically just through manufactured farm takeover
and famine they just killed so many of their own citizens, 50 plus million, communism sounds
nice, oh in 1956 there was the Hungarian revolution, so Hungary was a country that now was under
the control of Russia, because remember Germany bad, Russia good, so Russia comes and takes
over Hungary and they're in communism, and they hated their lives so much that young
teenage boys are literally running at army tanks to fight them with their bare fists,
they would rather just die than live in that communist regime anymore.
And then many of them were trying to flee into other countries, more and more people
are killed during that period of time.
And this is what's crazy to me, so I decided to make a poll on Twitter a couple days ago
and I said what country would you rather live in?
And I said 1940 Nazi Germany, that was option one, okay.
Number two was the 1917 Bolshevik Russia, then 1958 Great Leap China, which I've already
described you.
And then I was thinking, okay I'll throw in something present day, so then I put present
day North Korea, alright.
Now I kind of knew where these results should lead, so I was just testing to see what happened.
But 86% of people voted for Nazi Germany, which would have been the right decision,
okay, not because I like Hitler, but because when you really understood what's going on
in all these areas, you would have liked those living conditions way more, I promise you,
okay.
Now if you're Jewish, maybe not, but that's just, we don't count them, alright.
Ten percent of people said present day North Korea, and I just thought like, wow, people
don't know what's really going on in North Korea.
People need to, you know, the sermon about man is evil.
You also need a history lesson on North Korea today, present day North Korea.
Let me just give you a few, you know, stats about them.
From 1948 to 1987, they slaughtered about 1.6 to 3 and a half million of their own citizens,
and they have the following, currently, right now, list of capital crime offenses in North
Korea.
Grand theft, murder, rape, it's not so bad so far, drug smuggling, I'm sure that's depending
on who's doing the smuggling.
Then it gets into an interesting collage of ideas here.
Treason, espionage, political dissent, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved
by the government, and proselytizing religious beliefs that go against their religion of
Jew-Chang.
Now, if you don't really understand much about North Korea or what I'm talking about, just
their religion helps you, okay?
Because you can think of it, you just break it apart, Jew-Chang, all right?
So it's basically the worst of two religions.
You got Judaism bringing in the worst of the worst, and then you have Chang for communism,
it's just like a communist hellhole, literally.
American citizens are not even allowed to go there because of a guy named Otto Warburger
or something, Warbeer, yeah.
This guy visited, supposedly took a poster off the wall, don't do that.
I don't know if he did or not, he confessed, but essentially after a short period of time
of being in their custody and nobody's notice going on, he came back to America and he was
brain dead.
And the guy was appearing to be lobotomized.
They called it botulism, whatever.
But then at that point, we just issued some kind of a warning and restriction saying American
citizens are not allowed to go there at all ever.
You don't want to anyways, all right?
Don't listen to Matthew Stuckey's soul winning invitation out there, okay?
It was fake.
But a lot of people didn't even think it was funny because they just don't even know how
bad North Korea really is.
Because if you knew how bad North Korea was, you'd be like, "Oh, that's funny."
And people are like, "Oh, this is cool, man. We're going to sneak behind enemy lines."
It's like, no, it's not real.
Fake.
Never happened.
Okay.
And specifically in North Korea, I'll get into some of their laws here in just a second
a little bit more, but they used to give 360 grams for food rations.
Because again, this is a communist nation, so you don't even get to determine how much
food you get to eat or you want.
They're handing the food over to you.
They'll give you 360 grams.
That's recently been reduced in 2022 to 300.
Now that's really hard to like understand.
And grams can be packaged a few different ways based on what you're eating.
If you're eating protein, carbs, or fats.
And depending on which of those you're eating, it changes your calories a little bit more.
I'm kind of more of a calorie guy.
Like I understand calories a little bit better than grams.
But if I were to convert this into calories specifically, and I just kind of made up my
own mock version of a diet here.
Let's say we did 40% carbohydrates, 40% protein, 20% fats.
That was like basically your breakdown of these 300 grams.
That would be 1500 calories for the day.
Some of y'all are going to have more than that for lunch, okay?
Women can, you know, women typically need at least 1800 to 2000 just to maintain body
weight.
I mean, how many men need anywhere from 2500 to 3000 to maintain body weight?
And that's just to maintain.
I mean, if you're getting 1500 as a man, you are, there's no muscle gains.
Your body is going to eat all the muscle.
You could sit there and work out all day and you can't get any kind of muscle because your
body will literally eat all the muscle in your body just to keep yourself alive.
I wonder why they want all the men and the women just so weak, well, maybe so they can't
rebel.
Maybe they can't fight back even if they wanted to.
The idea that someone thinks that they want to live here is just, it's still absurd to
me.
It's so bad that specifically in 2022, a man was executed and it was really, it was like
a really like famous thing, it was like it got a lot of attention.
He was executed because he was passing out K-pop CDs.
Now if you don't know what that is, that is South Korea has their own like you know rock
and roll like hip music, like you think the mainstream and they call it K-pop for Korean
pop music.
So it's basically like handing out the Korean Britney Spears album, they executed him.
Now again like obviously I'm not for pop music or anything like that, but just think like
if you can't even listen to pop music, what else can you not listen to or read, virtually
anything?
Their cell phones are handed out by the government and they can only go to like the government
website.
Oh I can't wait to live in North Korea, it sounds wonderful.
People are constantly killing themselves trying to flee and the problem is there's nowhere
to really flee because you can't really cross that border into South Korea, it's just a
no man's zone, there's so much military there, they'll shoot you on sight.
You can flee to China but if they catch you they bring you back and you're executed.
There's like a sliver of Russia maybe.
So most of them that even get out they have to like find a human smuggler that takes them
some part of China out to another country that doesn't extradite to North Korea.
Super hard, super dangerous.
Most of the time when women escape they tell them that they're going to smuggle them there
but then they just get into human trafficking.
Basically they just lie to them and then they sell the women into human trafficking.
I mean there's virtually like just no escape for those people.
Like when I read the Ecclesiastes account where he's saying like the people that are
oppressed have no comforter, in many cases that's North Korea, sad, sad.
Their laws, I didn't have the ability to write them all down, I usually like write my notes
but I just kind of had some of them on my phone.
So their religion, because I was like, what does their religion teach, okay?
Juche, alright, well it's based on the ten principles for the establishment of a monolithic
ideological system.
So they have these like ten things, I'm going to read you the 1974 version, this is their
ten commandments, alright?
Number one, we must give our all in the struggle to unify the entire society with the revolutionary
ideology of the great leader Kim Toosung, well that's convenient, wouldn't it be nice
to know what he believes?
But you know why he doesn't tell you that?
Because he can change his mind, hey whatever this guy believes, we have to give our all
to the unity of whatever he believes.
This is what you call a cult, you want to know what a real cult is?
It's where they don't tell you what they believe, they just say it's whatever that guy thinks,
whatever that guy says, that's what we believe.
Number two, we must honor the great leader comrade Kim Toosung with all our loyalty,
well that sounds pretty similar to the first one.
And if you know anything about the word comrade, communism's there buddy.
Three, we must make absolute the authority of the great leader comrade Kim Il-sung,
it says two, maybe it's ill, I don't know, they're all ill over there.
Four, we must make the great leader comrade Kim Il-sung's revolutionary ideology our
faith and make his instructions our creed.
Well that's just point one repackaged, you know I can tell, they just want to be cool
like the Bible and have ten commandments, so they're just kind of like repackaging
it like multiple times like whatever he believes, whatever his creeds are, it's the same thing
buddy.
Five, we must adhere strictly to the principle of unconditional obedience in carrying out
the great leader comrade Kim Il-sung's instructions.
Six, we must strengthen the entire party's ideology and willpower and revolutionary unity
centering on the great leader comrade Kim Il-sung.
Seven, we must learn from the great leader comrade Kim Il-sung and adopt the communist
look.
That's a cool look man.
Great work methods and people-oriented work style.
Eight, we must value the political life we were given by the great leader comrade Kim
Il-sung and loyally repay his great political trust and thoughtfulness with heightened
political awareness and skill.
Nine, we must establish strong organizational regulations so that the entire party nation
and military move as one under the one and only leadership of the great leader comrade
Kim Il-sung.
Ten, we must pass down the great achievement of the revolution by the great leader comrade
Kim Il-sung, from generation to generation, inheriting and completing it to the end.
So as soon as these guys die, then it's just like replace name with son's name.
This is their religion.
Doesn't sound like much of a religion, sounds just like a dictatorship.
And not so much a benevolent dictatorship, that evil dictatorship.
Why?
Because man is evil.
I hope whatever idiots chose present day North Korea will learn from this, okay?
Wow, that is insane.
Who could ever think like I want to live there?
Most people there want to die.
They don't even want to live there, let alone the fact that you would willingly choose that
option is just insane to me.
But I think it's just because people live in such a whitewashed society where they don't
really understand what the world is like.
They don't understand how bad people are.
Even in our country, it's like people don't understand what's really going on under the
hood of our government and all the different organizations and how much evil is even present
in our nation and our country and our leaders.
You know, I think that for some people, maybe the events that happened yesterday will cause
them to think like, hey, there's some bad people out there.
You know, I guess I don't know what the details are specifically, but apparently Donald Trump,
our former president, was shot at, at a particular rally in Pennsylvania.
Now, I'm sure everybody has their own version of a conspiracy theory as to what really happened.
I'm not going down that road, okay?
According to the official narrative, Donald Trump right ear was shot by a gunman, and
he, he fell down.
The FBI, after watching him for a while, decided to shoot him after he shot.
Okay, so they shot the shooter, or the Secret Service, I more should say, but, and I think
that the shooter and missing Donald Trump maybe shot a spectator and they died.
So like two people died, and Donald Trump was mildly injured, but generally okay, supposedly.
Now, you know, you say like, what's going on?
Man is evil.
It's not like it's the first president that we've ever had that was killed either.
Like, be like, this is unprecedented.
What about JFK?
He was killed in my hometown, you know, in my area.
Back in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, JFK was assassinated.
And he wasn't a former president at the time, he was the president of the time.
How about Abraham Lincoln?
You know, why are there people trying to kill the president?
It's because there's bad people in the world.
And you know, I listened to the debate that actually had happened between President Trump
and you know, the emperor that has no clothes, as we call Biden.
And at one point they asked Trump, they're like, what are you going to do to all these
people that are attacking you, like coming after you?
And you seem like you've talked a lot about retribution.
And you just said that my retribution is going to be success.
And I'm like, dude, they're trying to kill you.
Like you really think that success is going to cool them down or something?
And it's like, his own narrative makes no sense to me.
If you just take Donald Trump's own words, he said that they completely rigged the election
against him, right?
I mean, hasn't he said just like over and over, like they've completely rigged the election?
And then he's saying all of these FBI agents and all of these people in these high ranking
positions in our government are targeting him.
They raided him.
They're putting him on trial, okay?
Not only that, we say, "Hey, he's our president," supposedly, "Joe Biden is being bought and
paid for by Communist China," according to them.
Hunter Biden is being given all this money through all of these different shell companies.
Like, he's saying these things openly, right?
And then I'm supposed to believe that they're just going to let him just become the president
and just deal with them naturally speaking?
Like, how does that even make sense, right?
I mean, if I said like, "Hey, behind this door, there's a bunch of armed robbers that
have slaughtered thousands, and they're extremely dangerous.
Let's walk in there and see if they'll hand the guns over to us."
You're like, "What?
That doesn't even make any sense."
You know what makes sense is recognizing that man is evil and realizing you'd have to deal
with the situation appropriately.
If someone's evil, you can't just say, "Pretty please.
Hey, Kim Jong-ul, will you please take better care of the North Koreans?
Will you just give them a little more food, please?"
I mean, is that really the world that you live in?
It doesn't make any sense.
I want you to go to a particular verse.
Go to Proverbs chapter 20 for a moment.
Go to Proverbs chapter 20.
I think that we have to live in a world where we recognize that man is evil, and it's a
forgotten idea.
Why does America exist, folks?
I know I'm going through a lot of history here, but it's important.
Because it's like, why does America even exist?
It's because a lot of people in Europe realize that man is evil, and they're like, "Hey,
I don't like the oppression of the Catholic Church, and I don't like all the Jewish money
lenders here, and I don't really even like the Anglican Church."
And so they fled to America for religious freedom.
That's why America was even formed in the first place, and why a lot of people migrated
here was for Christian religious freedom.
And I listened to this Jewish lawyer talk on TV the other day, because Oklahoma had
passed a law recently mandating all their schools teach the Bible.
And so this Jewish lawyer is all upset about it.
I wonder why.
But he's like, "Well, you have to understand that America, you know, at the very beginning
of its founding, was very anti-Catholic and anti-Jew."
He's like, "Are we going to teach that?"
And I'm thinking like, "Don't scare me with that.
Oh, man."
You know, people just don't even understand, like, in the state of Georgia specifically,
it was illegal to have a Catholic church, like, all the way up until almost the 1900s.
Like, basically, they were just like, "You as a Catholic, you're not welcome, ever."
Now, they forgot the Jew one, okay?
In their mind, they were just thinking like, "Man, they would never want to come here anyways."
But they never, like, enshrined it into the law.
And then, of course, after the Jews came into Georgia, they overturned the laws and they
brought in the Catholics.
Why?
Not because they like Catholics, but they just need to bring in the religious liberty
so those parasites can exist among us, okay, folks?
People don't understand that our Constitution was framed with Christianity as the context
and why it even exists as a nation.
Why?
Because they said man is evil and they said we need to form a government that is going
to try and prevent evil as long as possible.
But even they themselves, even in the Constitution, they said hey, once our government gets bad,
you have the right to literally replace the government with more rights as government.
Again, I'm not saying we do that, but I am saying that it's in the Constitution, okay?
Why would you have that provision in the Constitution if you thought man was good?
Why would you put that in the Constitution if you thought the Constitution was a perfect
document that could never fail?
You know why they put that in there?
Because they know man is evil.
And it's not so much about the political system you have, it's the people that are running
it.
That's what matters.
Pretty much every political system can work with the right people in charge, and pretty
much no matter what political system you have, the bad people can make it bad.
It's just who's in charge, okay, generally speaking.
Even a dictatorship, that's not bad.
How about God?
Isn't he a dictator?
But it's pretty good because he's a benevolent dictator.
And Jesus is going to come back and it's going to be a dictatorship again.
It's going to be a really good dictatorship because he's the prince of peace.
Okay.
Look at Proverbs 20 verse 26, "A wise king scattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheel
over them."
That's what we need.
You know, point one is this, and I spent a long time on this point, but point one is
man is evil.
Point two is therefore we need righteous men to lead.
When we recognize that there's just so much evil, those who are actually righteous, those
who are actually sincere, those who actually care about the truth, they have to step up
and actually lead, because if they don't leave, well, evil is going to triumph.
I mean, there's kind of this old saying, this old phrase out there, it's like the only thing
necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
And in some ways that seems on par with what the Bible teaches too, that generally speaking
when righteous people don't step up to the plate, well, it's just a train wreck.
Every time we see things going well, righteous men step up to the plate.
They lead and we need the righteous men to lead.
I want you to go to Ezekiel 22 for a moment.
And when we talk about righteous men, again, don't hear me wrong and say like perfect men.
That doesn't exist.
But think about it.
What do we do for a church?
We have in first Timothy chapter number three, the qualifications of a bishop.
And we have a standard, right?
When we talk about leaders as a nation, as a country, as a state and a church and any
organization, we should seek to have some standard.
And generally speaking, I think that the pastoral qualifications should basically just be the
qualifications for leadership in general.
They make sense.
Think about it.
Men, that's a good starting point.
Boy, America would be great if we could just have just men lead.
I mean, you've got a chick for a governor.
And y'all were doomed because the person that was running in the opposite wing was
a chick too.
I was like, well, Arizona's doomed, you have two chicks fighting over it.
But at the same time, there's a lot of good people here and the laws have gotten better
here even.
And I think, you know, obviously God can be righteous even when you have, you know, to
you guys, even if you have female leadership, but let's just be honest, your female leadership
isn't doing anything for this state, isn't doing anything for this area.
Okay.
And it's not like our wheelchair Abbott's doing anything either.
Okay.
Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, when Hurricane Barrel came through Houston, he's in South
Korea doing who knows what.
It's like, what is this guy?
Why is the governor of Texas in South Korea?
And like specifically Barrel was forecasted for weeks.
Like people pretty much already knew it was going to be a major disaster for Houston.
Every time Houston's had a hurricane, it's been a horrible disaster.
Oh, I remember what Greg Abbott did for Houston.
When they had their previous major hurricane catastrophe, he forced every single business
to sign a paper saying they had unconditional support towards Israel or they couldn't get
government funds.
That makes sense.
For a business in Houston to get relief from the hurricane that hit them, they have to
sign a pledge that they are going to be pro-Israel.
What?
That's the world we live in.
Why?
Because man is evil.
Because all these people are flatterers and just taking bribes.
And what's sad is when the whole world gets to that point.
What's sad is when a whole nation, when a whole area gets to the point where God looks
down and he can't find anybody.
And we have the famous verse here in verse 30, "And I sought for a man among them that
should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should
not destroy it.
But I found none."
You know what's sad?
When God looks down, he says there's not even one guy that's willing to stand up.
There's not even one righteous leader that said, "Hey, I'm willing to basically just
look over all this evil, allow someone to fix it, but there was no one to fix it."
That's how sad it can get sometimes.
And you know what?
It's a shame because all across this world, there are areas looking for a man and there's
not anybody.
Would God destroy that area?
It's possible.
We need leaders like in Exodus when Moses was talking about judges, men who hate covetousness.
And our country just doesn't have this.
You know, and let's take this to a spiritual picture for a moment.
When you're looking for a church, what kind of church should you look for?
Well, you should go to one that recognizes the fact that man is evil.
Have you noticed that all the children are here in the sanctuary with us?
You know why?
Because man is evil.
That's why.
I mean, what do you think?
There's a lot of people in here caring today.
Do you need a gun to worship God this morning?
You want to know why?
Because man is evil.
That's why.
You know, carrying a gun isn't necessarily convenient.
It can be a little bit of a burden.
In fact, I believe it is a burden to have to carry a gun around.
But you know what?
Sometimes it's a necessary burden because man is evil.
Man is evil.
When you look for a church, you know, we should find one where they recognize this fact and
they say how are we going to organize the church?
What kind of leadership structure are we going to have?
How about one where the guy in charge meets the qualifications according to 1st Timothy
chapter 3?
How about that?
Isn't that a decent start?
I mean, some churches would be good off just having a man at first.
Just having some dyke, some lesbian in charge, a man that's married, you know, to one wife,
having faithful children, you know, all kinds of things, being temperate, sober, just, having
a lot of these attributes, holding fast the faithful word.
Hey, that sounds like a good name for a church.
How about going to a church that's named after the Bible?
I mean, what kind of names of churches are there today?
Experience.
It's like, what does that even mean?
There's a church near me, it's called Watermark.
I was thinking like, what names did they turn down?
Watermark?
I mean, the names of churches today are just mind-boggling, and it's why?
Because they're not based on anything we have in the Bible.
And why do we have a man that meets the qualifications of the bishop?
Because man is evil.
There's so many pastors today that don't meet the qualifications of a bishop, and they're
ruining their churches, and they're destroying the flock of God.
Back where I live, we have one of the largest churches in all of America, Gateway, and their
main pastor, Robert Morris, has recently been exposed as a literal pedophile, folks.
The guy molested a 12-year-old when he was married, repeatedly, for years.
And what they decided when they caught him was that he needed to be restored.
He went through the biblical solution.
And I'm thinking, like, how did he get out of the sea with the millstone tied around
his neck?
Is he a magician now?
Like, you didn't exercise a biblical solution there.
But then this church that's running 100,000 approximately.
That's what they boast.
Based on all the satellite campuses and all the people that are visiting, 100,000 people
are going to this church.
I ran into somebody that I know who goes to that church.
And they came up to me, they're like, "Hey, did you hear what happened to Robert Morrison?"
And I'm thinking, like, "Yeah, I preached about it."
And he's like, "I'm still not sure if I'm going to go to that church or not."
I'm like, "The church that was built by the pedophile?
That one?
Yeah.
Okay.
Interesting.
How is that even possible?
How is that even like a rational thought of, like, what do you think a wolf looks like?
Go to 2 Peter chapter 2 for a moment.
You know, you should go to a church where you have a leader that's also willing to call
out wolves.
Well, our church never calls anybody out.
Yeah, because the guy behind the pulpit's a wolf.
That's why.
Oh, I don't like that church that names the names or calls people out or preaches mean
or kicks people out of their church.
Well, you know what?
You don't understand point one.
Man is evil.
Even while I was here, it seemed like for a while people were getting thrown out all
the time.
It was like, you got like Mormons coming in here, infiltrators, we had this weird oneness
cult that tried to join our church.
I mean, just all kinds of crazy things that are happening in the church.
And it's like, if we weren't throwing those people out, they would have stuck around a
lot of them.
And you go to these other big churches, non-churches, it's not that they don't have those people.
It's not like, oh, well, they're not throwing those people out.
They're still there.
If they start actually preaching doctrine, then they would start realizing like, hey,
this section's not saved and this section's actually Mormon and this section's, you know,
like, pedophiles or whatever.
I even had someone tell me, and I partly believe it, that at fundamental Baptist churches of
the past, like First Baptist Hammond, that they literally have pedophiles in the sanctuary
and they don't tell people where they're at.
I hope that that's not true, but I believe it probably is.
But can you imagine the horror of thinking like you're coming to church with your children
and you sit right next to a pedophile and you don't even know it?
And the pastor knows it.
Like what kind of belief system do you have?
Man is evil!
You say like, "Oh, well I don't want to go to this church where they throw people out."
I do!
I hope they throw all the pedophiles out and all the faggots and all the lesbians and the
dykes and the trannies and the communists and all the other freaks and weirdos that
you want to associate with.
And I hope a Jew never feels comfortable in this house of God, screaming "Crucify him"
or something like that.
I mean, wearing that stupid little hat.
Yeah, I hope that he gets preached at for wearing that stupid garbage hat.
I hope that Muslims that are worshipping Allah don't feel comfortable here.
I mean, what kind of building do you want to show up at?
Some ecumenical fun center.
You don't understand, you know, we need righteous men to lead and we need them to kick some
people out.
And you know what?
We need to recognize that we're not going to get a committee up here to approve things.
We need a righteous man.
You go to a church where there's a leader, not this like group of leaders.
Why?
Because man is evil.
Show me the wonderful council in the Bible.
Show me the group that's led by a bunch of men in a committee meeting or a council or
a hearing or whatever.
It doesn't exist, folks.
Why?
Because man is evil.
It's so hard to find just even one, but boy, when you find one, let's empower that
guy.
Right?
Let's go to a church where we recognize man is evil, point one, point two, we need righteous
men to lead, and point three, we need to empower them and rally behind them so they can actually
lead.
Instead of going to a church where all the deacons and the deacons' wives get to tell
them what to say and what to preach.
I'm sure Pastor Anderson would have gotten fired a long time ago, okay, if he had a bunch
of women telling him what he could preach.
Good night.
He's like challenging them to arm wrestling competitions or whatever.
They probably didn't like that, okay?
They got mad.
You know, there are churches out there where the women are firing pastors.
That's ridiculous.
That is ridiculous how you hate women.
No, I love God, and I recognize that man is not good, man is evil, and did you read the
passage where he said that Solomon couldn't even find one out of a thousand?
But then I'm supposed to believe that ten of them are going to form a committee?
You can't even get two of them to agree on anything, let alone ten for a committee for
a church.
That's ridiculous, folks.
That's a clear recipe for disaster.
Look at what it says in 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 1, "But there were false prophets also
among the people, even as there should be false teachers among you, who privilege shall
bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves
swift destruction."
Notice the Bible's not painting a good picture here, saying, "Well, when you're in church
you're safe."
Nope.
He said there could even be false teachers and false prophets among you.
In fact, he didn't even say if, he just said it's going to happen.
Don't just trust people.
In fact, we should just all have the same idea.
Man is evil.
And, of course, when it comes to, go to Joshua and we'll finish there.
When it comes to even a pastor, a pastor could go bad.
Obviously, just because you have a dictator doesn't make it good.
You need a good dictator.
But at the end of the day, you know, when it comes to leadership, we follow them as
they follow Christ.
Because we had a dictator in Kim Jong-ul or whatever, Kim Il-sung.
But what was the, what was the problem with him as being that official dictator?
He wasn't following the Lord, okay?
Because you technically have a form of dictatorship in the book of Joshua when you are following
Joshua.
And let's be honest, this church is a dictatorship.
You know what?
I like churches that are dictatorships.
They run a lot better than all these women run churches where they have the rainbow flying
outside because they don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, where they just have a pastor get
up and preach 10 minutes.
Sorry, it's longer than that, okay?
I'm about to start my second, no, I'm just kidding.
I mean, you know, we don't let, we don't let the committee decide here.
In fact, there's one person in charge, Pastor Anderson.
But you know, obviously, the real person in charge is the Lord Jesus Christ, the King
James Bible.
Because I guarantee you, if you walk up to Pastor Anderson and said, "Hey, this is what
the Bible's saying in this issue," he'd probably be like, "Oh, you're right, let's do that."
He's read it a lot more than you, so good luck.
Good luck coming up to him and being like, "Hey, have you seen this part of the Bible?"
He's like, "Do you want me to quote it in Greek, Hebrew, German?
Like, what do you want me to do?"
Yeah, faith words are not changing his doctrine every week.
It's good, right?
They figured it out.
Get on the program.
And, you know, praise God that some of you backslidden Christians don't have to live
in this situation either.
Look what it says in verse 16.
"And they answered, 'Joshua is saying, 'All that thou comandest us, we will do; and whithersoever
thou sendest us, we will go.
According as we hearken unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee; only
the Lord thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses; whosoever he be, that doth rebel against
thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words; and all that thou commandest him,
he shall be put to death; only be strong and have a good courage.
Now think about this, if you come to all the services while Pastor Anderson's gone, he's
going to give you a dinner.
If you miss Joshua's evening service, we killed you, okay?
Like, it's a pretty good deal, okay?
I mean, people are like, "Ah, it's a cult!
He's going to feed me free food!
Oh, man!
The horror!"
Right?
He's going to show me things in the Bible that would have taken me years to study on
my own and figure out, for free.
"Oh, man, it's terrible.
He's going to give me free drinks when I go out soul-witting, but he wants me to go soul-witting.
Does he make you?"
"He wants me to."
You know, it's like, good night!
People think that they have a bat.
You have no idea what bat is!
You spoiled American brat, you, okay?
And even you foreigners, you can start getting this spoiled-brat American mentality.
Don't let it happen, okay?
Remember how bad it is out there, that man is evil.
And look, obviously they were following Joshua, and he was following the Lord.
Look at verse 7.
"Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according
to all the law, which most of my servant commanded thee, turn not from it to the right hand
or the left, that thou mayest prosper with this or the ghost.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein
day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein;
for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success.
Why would you want to follow Joshua?
Well, he's going to try and follow the Bible perfectly.
So what we recognize is that man was evil, but here's a righteous leader that's willing
to lead Joshua.
Let's empower Joshua and think about the steps that they took.
They said, hey, anything you say, everything you say, we'll do exactly what you said or
just kill us.
That's some commitment.
That's some devotion.
And you know what, they had great victories in this area at this time.
And you know, what kind of, what kind of impact could Faithful Word Baptist Church have if
they recognize, hey, this world is so evil, no one's going to get people saved unless
we do it.
Because generally speaking, that's true.
Generally speaking, there aren't thousands and thousands of people going out knocking
all these doors and all this area trying to get people saved.
Man's evil.
What most people are doing is trying to steal, kill, and destroy.
And they're selfish.
And they're flattering.
And the godly man ceases.
And if we see a man leading, and boy, you want to talk about a leader in evangelism,
a heart for souls, a man that's going to the Indian reservations to fight literal dogs,
folks.
And we're talking about Fido even.
Okay?
I mean, we're talking about a guy that's doing all kinds of missions.
I mean, you know, you get banned from lots of countries because you're trying to go
there.
How many pastors in America have never stepped foot out of the United States ever and never
will to get a single soul saved?
They don't even care.
They don't even step outside of their own house to get anybody saved ever.
And if we've identified, hey, here's a righteous man that's following the word of God, that's
devoting himself to the word of God, that's meditating on the Bible day and night.
Why don't we empower him?
What if this whole church said, you know what, we're going to dedicate ourselves to following
our leader and to following the example that he's setting for us, recognizing, hey, we
could have a great impact for God if we would just rally behind him and just be the greatest
Christian and the greatest church member I could possibly be.
What kind of impact?
Because let me tell you something, there's a scarcity of righteousness and it's really
sad when you as a pastor, when you as a leader or you as anybody out there are looking out
to the world and saying, Lord, for the godly man sees it.
You know, you can make a difference.
You can be that person that steps to that call.
You can be that man that God finds in Ezekiel chapter 22 where he says, I'm looking for
a soul winner to go to this area, to reach these people, to get somebody saved, to make
an impact.
Because, you know, you say like, oh, I'm going to make sure to vote for Trump now because
I don't want his left ear to get shot, too.
Boy, we just, man, our country would be just so great if we just had Donald Trump in office.
Right?
It'll be so great when we get Republicans back in office.
Oh, man.
Let me tell you something.
America is evil.
You're either going to shine as a bright light in a crooked and perverse nation, or you're
not going to shine.
But you're not going to fix the nation, folks.
The whole world is screwed up, and evil dictators and communists and wicked people are going
to constantly do their thing.
But you know what you can do?
You can knock on someone's door and get them saved and actually give them real hope.
People are looking for hope today.
That's why there's so many people that are following Trump that don't even like him.
They're just looking for some hope.
But you know what?
We can give them a better leader.
That's Jesus Christ.
That's the real leader that they need to follow.
That's the real one that will actually make a difference in their lives.
And we need men and women that are looking at the problem of the scarcity of righteousness
in our world and saying, "Here am I, Lord.
Send me."
Close in prayer.
Thank you, Holy Father, so much for giving us this insight into the world that we live
in, that we wouldn't be ignorant of the fact that there's just so much evil in the world.
I pray that we would recognize that fact and realize that we have a great responsibility.
We have a great opportunity.
And I pray that the righteous men in this room, that they would decide to lead their
families, that the leaders in this church would do their jobs well, those who have opportunity
to lead in missions trips and soul winning events and soul winning times and all the
different activities that are going on in this world, that they would get in that spiritual
battle, that spiritual fight, and they would recognize their importance.
And that as a congregation, we need to rally behind these men, we need to rally behind
these leaders, to do a great work for you, to give somebody out there that has no hope
the hope of Jesus Christ.
In Jesus name we pray, amen.
Amen.
Let's take our hymnals, please.
If you would, go to hymn number six.
Hymn number six, "Beneath the Cross of Jesus."
Hymn number six, we'll sing it out.
On that first verse together, number six, "Beneath the cross of Jesus I feign would
take my stand."
Hymn number six, sing it out.
"Beneath the cross of Jesus I feign would take my stand."