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Good morning everyone welcome to steadfast baptist church. Thank you for being here this morning. We're gonna start out by singing song
437 battle hymn of the Republic
437
battle hymn of the Republic
Let's sing it out nice and loud together
437 battle hymn
Public
Fine eyes have seen
I
Can't read his right
Oh
He has sound and forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat. Oh be swift my soul to answer
My feet bar
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea with
In his bosom that transfigures you with me as he died to make men holy let us die
Great singing this morning. Let's open up in a word of prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you for this great church. Thank you for everyone here gathered together
Pray that you please bless this service and the soul winning just every aspect of serving you today
We pray that you'd fill our hearts with love for you. We love you in Jesus name. We pray. Amen
All right for a second song we go to
247 saved saved
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Saved saved
Song 247 saved safe
Sing it out nice and loud
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That's really all I have for announcements this morning. We can go ahead and go to our third song
We're gonna do Psalm 119. It's in your special handouts
Or if you would like to turn your Bible you can it's a little bit easier though
If you have the handouts
All right, Psalm 119
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and alive
I
Have sworn
That I will keep thy righteous judgments
I am
Very much quick
Oh
Dang
The wicked
Yet I air not from my
recess my
Testimonies have I taken
It's forever
I
Accept I beseech
be the free will
offerings of my mouth
And teach me thy judgments
My soul is continually
And yet do I not
My testimonies
Oh
Hard I have in mind my
Lies that you
Even on to the end I hate
many thoughts, but
I take it
Ah
Good seeing as the operating plates are being passed around please turn your Bibles to Philippians chapter number two Philippians chapter number two
You
Philippians chapter two the Bible reads if there be therefore any
consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels and mercies
Fulfill ye my joy that ye be like-minded
Having the same love being of one accord of one mind let nothing be done through strife or vainglory
But in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves
Look not every man on his own things
But every man also on the things of others let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus
Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God?
but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and
Being found in fashion as a man. He humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and that
Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father
Wherefore my beloved as he have always obeyed not in my presence only
But now much more in my absence
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his
Good pleasure do all things without murmurings and disputings that you may be blameless and harmless
The sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation
Among whom ye shine as lights in the world
Holding forth the word of life that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain neither labored in vain
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith
I joy and rejoice with you all for the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send to Mothius shortly unto you that I also may be of good comfort
When I know your state
For I have no man like-minded who will naturally care for your state for all seek their own
Not the things which are Jesus Christ's but you know the proof of him that as a son with the Father
He hath served with me in the gospel him
Therefore I hope to send presently so soon as I shall see how it will go with me
But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly
Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you a path for Ditus my brother and
Companion in labor and fellow soldier, but your messenger and he that ministered to my wants
For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness because that ye had heard that he had been sick for
Indeed he was sick nigh unto death
But God had mercy on him and not on him only but on me also lest I should have sorrow. I
Sent him therefore the more carefully that when you see him again
Ye may rejoice and that I may be the less sorrowful
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and hold such in reputation because for the work of Christ
He was nigh unto death not regarding his life to supply your lack of service
Toward me. Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer father in heaven
we thank you for pastor Shelley and his family and I pray that you fill in with your spirit now and
Just help him Lord to preach the message
You've laid on his heart with clarity of mind and with boldness and help us
Father God to pay close attention
To what he has prepared for us Lord so that we may glorify you better in everything that we do
We love you and in Jesus name. I pray amen
men
So I'm continuing my series that we've started
about the shiny happy people documentary and
Specifically, I just feel like this documentary touches on a lot of accusations against
fundamental Baptist Baptist Christians and
I felt like it was important to kind of address and talk about a lot of different issues and we've talked a lot about
all kinds of things that are prevalent in a church like ours large families and
the importance of being fruitful and multiplying
Discipline proper discipline and of course, I think they take the IBLP because they have a lot of the right ideas
But then they kind of go to extremes or they go overboard or you see some abuse going on in those circles
but I really want to make it clear that the vast majority of things that the IBLP or
the Duggars or
other people like them do are actually found in Scripture a lot of the things that they have in and most of the
People that are really interested in this kind of a documentary or exposee. They just hate the Bible. They hate Christianity and
Really? They're just
God hating atheists in most situations
But the topic I wanted to talk about this morning is that of Christian
nationalism
Christian nationalism now who who's heard that term
Christian nationalism
It's actually a very difficult term to define
Because many people have their own definitions, it's it's kind of a broad
Scale of what that even particularly means
But this is something that's brought up in the documentary and it's something that they're very afraid of
They're really upset about and they talk about how the IBLP would train young men
to potentially enter into the political realm
Maybe be involved in their local politics or potentially in the federal government learning about the Constitution learning about the mock
You know the democracy or democratic processes learning about their public learning about all the different things that are associated with
being an American and being an American citizen frankly and trying to prepare many of them if
possible that they would enter into the
political realm in the future
one
Kind of loosely connected idea that they have in this documentary is something called the Joshua generation
Which was a program designed to raise up the next generation to greatly influence
America and its politics and you know
It kind of makes sense where they're coming up with that name because the children of Israel are wandering in the wilderness
They're not able to go into the promised land because they've sinned because they have too many problems, but their children
Which is Joshua's generation have the opportunity to end up going into the promised land and having great success
whereas they failed and
honestly, you know to some degree that even seems like a pretty good idea because
let's be honest the boomers and that kind of generation kind of just failed and
they really just left a lot of things to be desired and
While it may be impossible for us right now to just reclaim America
We could raise a future generation that could actually have a big impact on
America and the world and so we should never give up on the youth or the future just because our
situation isn't that great or just because we may have to go through a lot of
Difficulty and adversity or because we have to wander through the wilderness now again. I don't know everything about these programs or these
institutions or what they train them in
But that's just generally what the documentary is bringing up and what is very against now
Why is it that they're very against this? Is there something really?
Sinister or criminal about teaching people about American politics or teaching them about
Christianity or trying to have them influence the culture
No, no, but you know, what terrifies them is the fact that our country go back to being Christian again
Why because being Christian again?
Will not allow them to
Live the life that they're living and it will not spread their satanic message throughout this world
And so they hate it now when it comes to Christian nationalism
I'm going to mostly focus my sermon this morning on just what the Bible says
History and just kind of my perspective
So I'm kind of giving you a trifecta here of what the Bible just clearly plainly says
What history of America has been and then just kind of my personal interpretation of the facts that we have here this morning
but Philippians chapter 2
Makes it clear that we as Christians
Should be Christ like and we should affect the culture that is around us. Look what it says verse 13
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure
so, you know what God lives inside of us and
God wants us to be Christ like now, of course, this is unique to Christians, you know, don't listen to Vivek
Reswamwe or whatever you want to say
Reswama Hindu or whatever this presidential candidate who someone asked him like, you know
What's the difference between Christians and you and he's like, oh, well, we basically have the same Judaic Christian values
I'm like, well first of all, I don't have to date Christian values
I have Christian values and my Christian values are not your Hindu values
Have you ever visited India? Okay, very different. All right, the whole place stinks literally, okay
Now he's trying to say well, you know, I've learned from the the Christian God and you know
Hinduism that we have this commonality about how God lives in all of us and
You know, we're all image bearers of God. And so therefore God lives inside of us
Well, here's the thing
Technically man was made in the image of God women or not. So you're already half wrong
Additionally only those who are saved
Those who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ have God living inside of them and they are the habitation of God
So as God living inside of us
It's important that our lives are living in a way that's pleasing unto God and we're fulfilling
His will because it's God's opportunity to still walk on this earth
Jesus Christ already came and Jesus Christ ascended back up into heaven and Jesus Christ isn't going to literally walk on the earth
anytime soon
He wasn't doing it for the last 2,000 years. He's been in heaven
You know what?
He lives inside of us and us walking on this earth gives God an opportunity to still be walking
Among us and preaching his word and showing his works and it's God that's enabling and empowering us
To be his hands and his feet and to go out and to preach the gospel and to be a bright and shining light
Therefore it says in verse 14 do all things without murmurings and disputings
Everyone hates complainers. Okay, just shut up verse 15
They 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
so
some people
Really?
They they get so offended by the perverseness or the crookedness of their particular nation that they just hide
And I get that I get the desire to just want to get away or to separate and to just basically not confront
The world as far as on its crooked and perverseness
But the Bible says that we are supposed to shine as lights in the world
So we are supposed to be in this world being Christian and affecting the culture, isn't it?
Interesting that Mormons have no problem affecting the culture
They're there in a literal cult folks
Mormons are a literal cult. I mean they're women
Have to like marry a certain prophet in a temple in order to go to heaven and they have to have like a million babies
Afterwards, I mean their beliefs are so much weirder than yours could ever be and they're going out and dresses and skirts not afraid
They've in a little name tags elder
18 year old girls walking around with some like name tag and name badge going around talking to people confronting people
I've literally been approached by Mormon girl missionaries multiple times
And as soon as I start giving them any Bible they run away like scared or whatever
but I've had Mormon guys Mormon girls all of them I've had tons of Mormons approached me in my personal life and
Why is it that I've never been approached by a Baptist ever?
I've never had a fundamental Baptist ever knock on my door and try to get me the gospel
I've never had a fundamental Baptist approach me randomly out in the parking lot or wherever and try to give me a tract or
Anything like that now. I've had Jehovah's Witnesses do it. I
Remember one time I was at a gas station now. They're not always super bold
I get it, but they still approach me
I remember one time on a gas station, and I'm getting gas and I noticed someone parked far away
But I'm not really paying attention
I don't really care and just kind of out of the maybe the corner of my eye kind of noticed
They're walking towards my direction, but I mean they're going to the store or something, right?
So I'm just sitting there just not paying attention look at my phone
I don't know and all of a sudden they get really close and I hadn't noticed how close they got and
They're just like
hey, do you want this pamphlet or something and and just kind of them talking to me and being so close kind of just
Gave me a little bit of maybe startled me a little bit. So I just like no and then these are like ran away
And I was just thinking like wow that wasn't very bold
Like if you sneak up behind someone hoping to give them an invite they might just be startled at first, right?
But you know what? I've never even had a Baptist startle me
I've never even had a Baptist try to like hand me anything. Isn't that a shame?
Isn't that embarrassing?
That Baptists are so afraid of the gospel to give it out. Whereas Mormons
Muslims, I mean the the outfit that Muslim women wear is so ridiculous folks
It's like clown world. I mean that they're wearing like a tent. I remember going to the
Airport recently and I saw this lady kind of I mean I saw like a little bit of her eyeball
Or something. She's just wearing like this giant tent and it's hot
Like that is there's no way that that's comfortable. So think about it. They're physically uncomfortable
Socially uncomfortable and yet they're willing to go out and proclaim their faith
how come Christians then can't go out and affect the culture and
be unashamed of being a Christian and being a Baptist and being a fundamentalist and
Loving the Bible and loving Christianity, you know, we should be shining as lights in this world
We should not I mean
how can Westboro Baptist Church not be ashamed of their church and then people be ashamed of steadfast Baptist Church or
Embarrassed or not willing to affect the culture or whatever. I mean these people are a laughingstock of the world and they don't care
They don't care
Isn't it isn't it a shame that false prophets can have more courage and more bravery than sometimes God's own people
Than Christians the day and you know living in the Dallas forward area. It's not even really that
Difficult to be a Christian because it's like everybody's fake Christian at least
You know, I mean you go to Chick-fil-a and there's like eight Bible studies going on at Chick-fil-a or whatever
And it's just like what's going on here?
you know that usually makes me upset because it's all like the NLT and NLV and
Faith healers and all kinds of weird stuff going on at Chick-fil-a, but
We as fundamental Baptist should be the ones that are influencing the culture and being Christian
So when we talk about this concept of Christian nationalism, I'm breaking it into the two words first one's Christian sounds good to me
Hey, let's be Christians. Let's be Christlike. Let's affect the culture. Let's be a bright and shining light
Verse 16 holding forth the Word of Life
Okay, so we should be the ones giving out the Bible and and preaching the gospel go if you would to Revelation chapter 5 for
A moment. So if we look at the first word Christian, I think that's a no-brainer
Anything Christian? I mean we should probably be already on board with
Now, of course, there is a lot of fake Christianity out there and I get that but there's nothing wrong with the word Christian
We should embrace the term and love the term and we should be Christian in our actions
So, what about nationalism well
What is nationalism? Usually this is kind of in contrast with different
government policies or ideals as far as economics or just how we're going to govern our
Our citizens and really, you know, you got a different you got several different options here
but I think it's kind of in contrast of
you know
Globalism in
Essence because that's really what's affecting our culture and our world today
There's a lot of other things out there, but you know, we were really trying contrast. Like why are people against nationalism?
Typically, it's because they're they want to be more global or globalism is kind of what they're advocating for where we don't really necessarily
have the boundaries at a nation level but more we have governing bodies that
police the entire world and and becoming more
unified as an entire
one-world system
Now economically this pretty much already happened
You could even argue in some ways
There's certain coalitions and groups the UN and other groups that have kind of already started to create
Some governing bodies that police more than just a particular nation
but nationalism would be the idea of having separate nations and
mostly from the context of
Legal governing bodies, so I think that it comes to economics
You could make the case that throughout the Bible people are constantly trading with foreign nations
There's always been kind of a global currency global economy
Goods are always going to be transported from one nation to another but when it comes to the laws
Legality the identity of a particular area the Bible heavily influenced
Sorry
advocates for
Nationalism and nations. Okay, you could think of this in Genesis chapter 11 with the Tower of Babel where
it's kind of a one-world government being formed there at the very beginning stages and God does not like that and God literally
Confounded the languages so that there would not be a one-world system
now
Frankly speaking. It's probably
Impossible to ever have a very successful one-world system when we all still have varying languages and you know
What God didn't get rid of languages languages still exist and because of that it's important to have
Varying countries and varying nations, you know that language is a really important component
And as long as we have languages that are diverse, you know
This thing could never work and I'm I'm not for the idea of just merging everything into one language
I like the idea of having the multiple languages and having the different nations, you know
Who's ever been to Epcot anybody ever been to Epcot? Okay, a few of you worldly people like me are out there
All right, but the cool thing about Epcot and this is a park in the Walt Disney World area
But it's one of their I think they have seven parks or something like that
Maybe five parks, but one of their parks called Epcot and it's not necessarily a rollercoaster theme park
It's more of just like eating food, okay, that's that's basically the whole point you go
There's this little tiny ride at the front. It's called a small world after wall. It's not it's not cool
It's just you just basically go on a long journey around all these different countries
but then they have this big pond in the middle and then in the back of the
theme park
They just have all these different countries and whenever you walk from one section of the next it just transforms dramatically
So all the architecture is a particular country all of the
gifts that they have at the gift shop are based on that country and then all the food is kind of based on that
country so you walk into Italy and
It's got Italian
Architecture and it's got Italian style dishes then you walk into France and they've got croissants and you know
All kinds of great pastries you go to Germany and it's like sausages and all kinds of everything
They'll have music that's from that country and it's cool because when you go from each country, you know what?
It's not a bunch of Muslims
Now you go to Europe and you go into France and it's just Muslims and then you go to Sweden and it's Muslims
And then you go somewhere. No. No, you know, what's cool is that they had some diversity in some culture and you get some
Croissants, you know, what food did the Muslims ever bring to this world? I
Don't
Don't even know
They're hiding their women, you know, and the women there. I guess they're not cooking
What are they just ruined women didn't they Muslims, you know, and I'm not talking about an ethnicity folks
I'm talking about the religion. Okay, if you happen to be ethnically Muslim, I don't care whatsoever
but I'm talking about this religion that can't read hides their women and
Essentially, they don't even make any good food. Okay, say I don't know about that pastelite
I don't eat halal. All right, so
You know it I don't because they sacrifice under their God Allah and you know what?
I'm not gonna eat it and I don't know what they bring to the table. They bring basically nothing to society
The oil, okay, they own a bunch of oil and they rip everybody off on it. That's basically what they do
but Islam is a religion of the devil and
You know, that's that's the one plate, you know when you go to Epcot, you know, they didn't have a Middle East section
Because it's not cool. There was nothing unique about it. There was nothing fun about it
You know you walk into that section everybody gets arrested and you hot it or something, you know
It's like it's like what is this? You know, it's like you go out into the desert somewhere. It's like that's not cool
It's not fun
But you go and visit all these European countries and you say like why why is Europe interesting and cool?
Because that's where Christianity was for a long time folks. Hey, you know what Christianity is what makes a nation great
Christianity is why they had such great architecture
Christianity is why they had such great food
Christianity is why they were really cool for all those reasons, you know
They didn't want to visit all the other places in the world. Why because Christianity wasn't really there
It is not nearly as cool and let me tell you something Christianity brings the good food
It brings the good culture. It brings the good architecture. It brings everything that's wonderful in society
And you know, there's nothing wrong with having various versions of this
Nationalism right the French version the German version the British version the American version all these different versions. It's wonderful
but what we don't want to do is to just try and
Meld all of this into just one melting pot of just no culture. No heritage
No, just nothing
It will is not what God has designed and it's not what God wants and every time the world did
It was the most wicked evil country where that was Egypt whether that was the Assyrians whether that was the Babylonians
Whether that was the Medo-Persian Empire
Whether that was the Grecian Empire or the Roman Empire or hey the new Babylonian Empire, which arguably could be
America it's very wicked and we don't want to go that route. It's best if we stay in nations, okay
Now Revelation chapter 5 I want you to look at verse number 9
I want to show you something when it comes to people getting saved
People get saved according the Bible out of every single nation in the world
like what it says and they sung a new song saying thou art worthy to take the book and
Open the seals thereof for thou was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred
and tongue and people and nation now, I
Think this is important to think about okay when we get into heaven
You are still going to observe something you are still going to observe
Diversity you are going to observe
What every kind of kindred tongue people and nation in heaven?
It's not like when we all go up into heaven
We just all turn into Mormons or something or just all these white
You know because that's what Mormonism taught Mormonism literally taught that the more sinful you are the dark your skin color is
And they literally taught the black people are more sinful than white people, okay
So like I guess when you get to heaven we just all turn snow white or something. That's not true
That's not what the Bible teaches when the when we get into heaven. We're still gonna have that diversity of every tongue
How could you even tell if they all looked identical they just turned into NPCs or something just a bunch of robots
No, no, they kept their
Diversity okay. Now this is important go if you would to Revelation chapter 22 go to Revelation chapter 23. So the very beginning
It doesn't really make sense with Adam and Eve in the garden to have nations
Since there's two people
Right. I mean you're not gonna really have a Russian nation and a European nation and an African nation when it's Adam and Eve
Okay, folks, so it makes sense that when we start the Bible there wasn't really a thing about nations yet because there wasn't any people yet
So we had to wait until human population got to a certain point where nations becomes relevant
Becomes a part of society, but almost instantly God then starts giving us nations
I mean Genesis 11 is not that far into the book. We basically just start with nations
Now revelation 22 if you know anything about the Bible, this is the last
Chapter in the Bible. This is the last chapter in the New Testament
look what it says in verse 2 in the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river was
there the tree of life which bear 12 manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the
Nations
Hey, when are we going back to this one world government? We're not
God wants nations. And in fact, Jesus Christ is going to rule over the
Nations because God is a nationalist
God likes
Nations God wants nations when we get into heaven you see people from every nation
Every tongue. Oh, what do you think about Christian nationalism? It's gonna happen whether you like it or not
Let me tell you something. It is the right
Philosophy it is the correct ideology I am for
Nations, and of course even before the millennial reign even before Christ is a ruler and before we have that particular system
Nations keep us in safety because when you don't have as much concentrated power
It's much more difficult to oppress people to have
Tyrants come in for top-down corruption to come in the more spread out the powers are
Then the more difficult it is to take them over and so having separate nations all over this world
It's going to bring more freedom to this world than if we have just a one world government or a one world system
so even from that perspective it is in the best interest of every single person of separate nations and
You know, it is a biblical concept. I'm not going to go all the way into that forever, but I
Basically have three things that I want to kind of talk about that was just defining our terms
Number one Christian sounds good to me number two nationalism sounds good to me. Let's mix them together
It's not beans and chili folks. It works
Okay
So Christian nationalism makes a lot of sense that we're going to influence our nation
And we want to have a separate nation from the rest of the nations of the world. I'm on board. Okay now
let's emphasize a couple of these points a little bit point number one is this as
Christian nationalists or someone that believes in this ideology
You should influence the culture go to John chapter 17 in the Bible go to John chapter 17
It is our job to influence the nation now
It's kind of sad
But I was just thinking about this
about how it feels like
independent fundamental Baptists are in hiding and
What I mean by that is you know, I grew up Christian my whole life I lived in Texas my whole life and
You know, I knew a lot about churches I went to I went to several different kinds of churches
I remember going to school. I would sometimes visit the Baptist Church the first Baptist Church in my area
I visited the the Methodist Church in my area. I visited the University Church of Christ in my area
Mostly because they would have youth programs and you know
I would sometimes just go because I didn't really understand that these people
Didn't believe the gospel if I had known that they didn't believe the gospel
I would have not wanted to go into their establishments, but many of the people there, you know seem to believe
Similar to me. I know that a lot of these programs they had at school
like they would just pick people up for lunch and you could go to the
Methodist Church on Mondays and have pizza for free and I was like sure yeah, or you know
Go to the Church of Christ and they would have pizza on Wednesdays or they have different youth programs
Or there's a cute girl that goes to one of these programs
You're like, I'm just gonna go I'm just gonna go so I can hang out with her
You know, right you just going and you're trying out all these different churches
So I knew a lot of I knew a lot of the church in the area
I heard a lot of these things, but I'll tell you even into my young adulthood
I didn't even know that independent fundamental Baptists existed
Isn't that sad isn't that kind of just and I mean look I think a lot of us could probably attest to this if you
Weren't raised I have beat you didn't even know it existed
Until you kind of got exposed to it for the first time, which is probably Pastor Anderson
you know and
Let's be honest about it. You know, I had not really even heard about fundamental Baptist very much before Pastor Anderson
I think my first exposure was Ken Hovind
And I knew that Ken Hovind was kind of an independent fundamental Baptist
But I didn't even know there was all these distinctions between Southern Baptists and you know
American Baptists and missionary Baptists and independent Baptists and primitive Baptists and free will Baptists and hey
There's a lot of Baptists out there. Okay, it's a lot of different sex
But you know, what's sad is that I just didn't know and when I finally figured it out
I realized there was eight independent Baptist churches in my area. I
Was thinking like wow, that's a lot
But you know what?
it's really hard to find information about them and they're not going out and reaching anybody in their area and
Telling anybody what they believe they're not going soul-winning. They're not preaching the gospel
They're not knocking on doors. And so it seems like a lot of independent Baptist are just hiding and
They they live in a echo chamber
Most independent Baptist either homeschool or their church offers a private Christian school
So from that perspective, they're not interacting that the world at all and they just go to church
They just go to the little private Christian school. They just do their little homeschool or something like that
And then, you know, you just never hear about them. They're not saying anything at work. They're not making any controversy
they're not doing anything and it's just there it's like they're hiding in plain sight and
Here's the question. Is that really what God wants us to do is just to hide in plain sight
Well, look what it says in John chapter 17 verse 14
I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world
Even as I am NOT of the world now
Let me ask you this question
If no one even knows who you are has never heard of you and you basically don't exist to them
Do they hate you?
No, because they don't even know who you are in order for them to hate you
They have to get to know you a little bit
Verse 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world
But that thou shouldest keep them from the evil
They are not of the world even as I am NOT of the world
Sanctify them through thy truth thy word is truth as thou has sent me into the world
Even so have I also sent them into the world now Jesus Christ for the first 30 so years of his life
was basically
You know a nobody nobody really knows about him. He's not a public figure
He's not someone that anybody really is gonna pick out of a crowd. Even John the Baptist was given
instructions by God the Father about the fact that he would know was Jesus when he saw the heavens open and
The dove descending upon him and the voice from heaven saying this is my beloved son in whom I am
Well pleased it was like a special thing because it wasn't just like looking at it. Oh, there's Jesus
You couldn't do that. There wasn't anything necessarily
Really unique about him amongst his own people
What was unique about him was his words?
Was unique about him was the fact that he was the Son of God. Okay, but it wasn't necessarily obvious in the flesh and
The same is with you know, a lot of Christians where they live in this this world where no one even knows who they
Are you know what Jesus eventually got sent into the world by God the Father and now all of a sudden everybody knows who he is
Everybody's hearing about Jesus
Everybody has an opportunity to be exposed to Jesus Christ and I would argue that fundamental Baptist
Should not live this life where no one in the world knows who they are
We should be known
We should be out there now. Does that mean we're of the world?
am I gonna get the skinny jeans and a tight tee graphic tee up here and
Get a get one of these clear podiums and we're gonna black black out everything and turn down the lights
And it's gonna be a 20-minute sermon. You know, I can't do that anyways
No, and we're just gonna go out and be super cool we just love everybody yeah soup kitchen man
just love Jesus I
Noticed there was some Baptist Church. I saw in Tennessee
I was looking at it for some reason last night and this this pastor gets up there. He looks super cool, man
this is super awesome and
He's like trying to shame the congregation and
He's trying to tell him this story and he's like there's this there was this pastor of a mega church
10,000 people and no one's ever met him before and so he decided
He would just try to look like a homeless man and he would just like grow out his beard
He'd put on gross clothes and didn't shower for a long time. And then he just showed up
Outside the church right before the service and just he wanted to see you know, how many people would interact with him
you know, and so he's like approaching people as they're coming up to the church and
He's like this pastor realized that only three people even interacted with him
You know out of the thousands and thousands that are pouring into this building and they didn't even give him any you know
No one he gave him any money
so then he decided to walk in and come and just pop himself down right on the front row and
The ushers came and they were like, hey, do you mind kind of sitting over in this other section?
And they were kind of monitoring him or whatever
so then they say oh, it's time to introduce you to our new pastor and
And then they this guy from the back dressed like a homeless bum that smells like garbage walks up and he's like hey
I'm your new pastor and I want to read a passage from Matthew 25
Where it's you know, and we can go there let's just go there for a second. Let's go to Matthew 25
And he starts in verse 34 then shall the king say unto them on his right hand come you blessed of my father
Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world for I was hungered and you gave me meat
I was thirsty and you gave me drink
I was a stranger and you took me in naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me
I was in prison and he came unto me then shall the righteous answer him saying Lord
When saw we thee hungered and fed thee or thirsty and gave thee drink when saw we thee a stranger and took the inner
naked and clothed thee or when saw we be sick or in prison and came unto thee and the king shall answer and
Say unto them verily I say unto you in so much as you have done it unto one of the least of
These my brethren you have done it unto me
He says it's so it's so shameful that I came here and no none of y'all
Are going to be entering in the kingdom of heaven none of you, you know
It's just like he basically just telling his whole congregation of 10,000 people on none of them are Christian. None of them are saved
none of
Thanks for twisting Matthew 25, buddy
because let me tell you something if a smelly homeless bum was sitting next to the front door and
I'm bringing my children in yeah, I'm not gonna say like hey kids
You want to sit on his lap and ask him for a present on Christmas?
Yeah, I probably wouldn't drag my family over there because the guy might knife me or stab me or or be filled with rabies
Or whatever. I don't know what's going on with this guy
Okay, and yeah
I'm sure that some of our ushers or security team would probably approach the person to see what's going on
Like hey, you smell like booze hit the road Jack
Right didn't say hey, I was a drunk homeless person
and
You offered me more booze money. No, it didn't say that did it? Okay now obviously
You know, there's truth to this story. I'm not trying to mock the Bible here
You know who is someone that was like hungry and naked that was helped
How about the guy that got beat up along the side of the road and the Good Samaritan came along and helped him out?
Not the guy that's purposely not showering and
smelling like a bum
Refusing to work because the Bible says that person should not be allowed to eat
That's what the New Testament literally says this guy should have you know gotten slapped in the face with you know
Second Thessalonians chapter number three. Hey, buddy. We're not even giving you a paycheck until you take a shower
Stupid pastor and then you know so funny about this story then I look it up. It's fake
Everything I just told you is not even real
That pastor just told a fake story. Somebody is just putting out this fake story and this gullible idiot
Preacher got up and retold it and I was thinking like wow how much research did you put into this zero?
Just like you do in your Bible study and in your church and everything and look I'm telling you something about this world
Is that Christians aren't influencing the culture anymore?
They're not influencing the coach because they're listening to these fake stories by false prophets
Like you know what happened if that really did happen to the church ever
You just go find some random homeless bum and give them more drug money. How is that gonna fix society?
How is that gonna benefit society?
When that's the message when that's being brought forth in this in the service
You know what and even independent fundamental Baptist, I'll tell you something
They're getting away from influence the culture as well
And they seem to be going the same way as these non-denom mega churches
And you know what we should have nothing to do with them. We should never be like them ever
Because they're fake they tell fake stories and it's garbage
Why in the world what I why in the world would you want to get a random pastor?
You've never even seen or heard before anyways. It's like hey, we found this homeless bum up the street
He's gonna come preach to you
You know that the whole story just is just bizarre, but it's so funny that this guy's is literally telling lies
To his congregation and in an effort to get them to what feed more homeless bums
Because here's the thing even though that was a fake story
It's a real story that this pastor preached it to his congregation of 10,000
So it has the same effect though of the fact that they're gonna go out and feel like oh man
We better go feed some homeless bum and bring him into our house
You know, I'm not doing that
I'm not gonna go find the derelicts of society that refused to work and let me tell you something about homeless people
They're like 30 or 40 percent sodomites
If maybe not even higher than that
So you better know I'm not gonna just bring in stray cats off the street and start giving them milk
You know what?
Hey
they need to figure out how to clean themselves up a little bit before they can start coming into the house of God and
We need to be the ones that are going out influencing the culture and telling people
Hey homeless people that can work should not get any handout
zero
Why is it that there's such a homeless problem in our society because of fake?
Christianity and because people aren't preaching what the Bible says on this issue
Where are all the thousands of fundamental Baptist getting up and ripping on people helping these homeless derelict losers?
You know what if you really wanted to help them you would preach the truth to them you would tell them hey buddy sober up
Hey, buddy, get a job. Hey, buddy
Quit being lazy because let me tell you something if you don't give food to a man. He'll get a job
I've never I've never even heard like homeless man dies of hunger
Most homeless guys are fat anyways
Okay, the worst thing you can do is help that guy continue to be a slob and helping him be lazy and help him be
A derelict in society, you know
I have with me the laws of Connecticut an exact reprint of the original edition of 1673
This literally even said you would get fined
You would be penalized criminally if your child was not a productive member of society
Like if you if your kid is like one of these derelict bombs of society
You would get criminally punished for doing that. I like that law
You know what
That's it. He's a drain on society. He's not helping society. Hey, you know what? Jesus wasn't going around helping homeless bums folks
The few people that he helped in this situation were blind or a paraplegic
Or couldn't walk or whatever and as soon as they could they they started working
Hey pick up my mat and go home, you know go get a job
Jesus was helping people get jobs. Like now you have legs go work
You know the parables that he give are people standing around doing nothing and he shows up and gives them a job
He didn't he didn't come up and just say hey, do you guys want a penny for the day
Don't do any work. No. No, he said hey go work in my vineyard. Hey, why is no man hired thee?
And they were like, well, we're just you know, we're just living alternative lifestyle man
Cool. No, no go work
God created man to work. He didn't create them to lay around and be a lazy jerk today
And let me tell you something
He also didn't create fundamental Baptist to do the same work as a homeless person and just hide from society and do nothing
What makes fundamental Baptist better than the homeless guy doing nothing when you're hiding and you won't preach the gospel
And you're not affecting the culture. You know what it's meaningless
God doesn't want us to go and hide in some commune somewhere hide in the jungle somewhere
Hide in the wilderness somewhere and do nothing with our lives. No. No, he wants us to be in the world
Why is it that people won't do it because people hate you people hate you. You know, what?
Why do we even have the country we do today? It's because Christians were affecting the world around them
And when did Jesus the Apostles the disciples or any of the churches in the New Testament?
Hide
With I mean, I'm pretty sure anytime Paul walked into a city everybody figured out who he was real quick
Pretty sure when Jesus walked into a town everybody figured out who he was real quick
I'm pretty sure everybody knew John the Baptist was Oh John the Baptist went on the wilderness. Yeah, everyone knew where he was though
Literally everyone went to go see him. They're bringing out the news reporters and the whatever they're like
Hey this guy moved out there. We're going out there to see him, you know, it doesn't matter how far they move out
They're gonna come find you and hear what you have to say
So that's what a New Testament Church should really be like it should be riling everyone up
We should be influencing our culture Christian nationalism. Do you think we should be influencing the culture? Yes, I do
I was step as Baptist Church. You have such a bad reputation online good. It sounds like we're in the world then
And it also sounds like we're not of the world either
So it sounds like we're doing exactly what Jesus said. Hey be in the world, but don't be of the world. Oh
Well, what happens when you're in the world, they're gonna hate you
You know go find me the positive article about our church that we didn't write. Okay, you know
Like it doesn't exist. Okay, and that's fine
I don't expect a bunch of Jews to write good articles about us and that's the only media that exists. So
Go go to Psalm 19 for a second. Now. I just I want you to still pay attention
But I'm gonna read a several things to you real quick. Okay, and
And what I'm gonna read to you is the laws of America
You know from from years past and this is important because some people would be like, oh you're trying to you're trying to make us
You know Christian, you know, that's not what the founders wanted or are you trying to make us a theocracy?
Yeah, they don't even know what a theocracy is number one. They couldn't define it number two
I think people have no idea
They'd like have zero concept of what our country was really like
Let me just give you a sample of what our country was like from
Pre-constitution pre 1776 and then a little bit after
This is the laws of Connecticut 1673. So this is for the entire colony or as we call it a state now and
If you just open it up, this is like the very beginning of it
Okay, so this is just how they introduce us to the subject
To our beloved brethren and neighbors the inhabitants of the colony of Connecticut the general court of that
Colony with grace and peace and our Lord Jesus
This is how the law the government of the entire colony of Connecticut starts
Wow, you're trying to make us Christian we were folks, okay
The
Serious consideration of the necessity of the establishment of wholesome laws for the regulating of each body
Politic hath inclined us mainly and obedience under Jehovah the great lawgiver
You know what? I love about that word Jehovah find that in another religious text
Find that in the NID
Hey, I like your job because it's in the King James Bible folks. We're getting real specific real fast
Obviously got the Joe's false witnesses, but I mean we're not we're not talking about Hinduism here
We're talking about the God of the Bible and they're saying hey, it's necessary that we establish good laws in our country
Let's figure out who's the best lawgiver. Oh, yeah, Jehovah. Why don't we use his laws?
It says this who have been pleased to set down a divine platform
Not only of the moral but also of judicial laws
Suitable for the people of Israel, you know, I like about this in
1673 they realized that the Old Testament was broken apart into moral law and judicial laws
Because they're saying hey God didn't just tell us that things are right and wrong. He told us how a judicial
System should work how a government should literally regulate itself and that there are certain laws that are judicial
You know when Jesus Christ died on the cross
He didn't just throw out the judicial law and say you know what these judicial laws are relevant
Don't worry about those. No. No, those are still relevant. And you know what? They thought they were relevant 1600 years later. Oh
You're trying to bring us back under the law
This is 1600 years after Jesus Christ has died buried and rose again
And they are saying let's use the laws of Jehovah. Why because they're not a bunch of brain-dead leftists. All right
Says suitable for the people of Israel as
Also in conformity to the manifest pleasure of our sovereign Lord the King and His Majesty's gracious Charter
requiring and granting liberty thereby of making of laws and
Constitutions suiting our state and condition for the safety and welfare of the people the colony of Connecticut. She said look
God is granted unto our King and our King is also granting unto us the ability to make our own
Constitutions and our own local governments for the safety and welfare of the people
You know what laws do they bring safety and welfare?
Anarchy brings chaos destruction death. We need wholesome laws
laws that are good laws, how do you get good laws you get them from the Bible and
It makes it very clear in this particular
document that
The king of England or the king over these colonies was allowing them to pass their own laws
as long as they're in accordance with
British law and the laws of God and of course, that's what you get in this particular document
So there's a lot about that. I would love to just read the whole thing to you, but I'm just giving you a little
sample, okay
Fact they already were praising the Lord Jesus Christ and making it clear that their laws are coming from God
That's why when you read the capital punishment section, it's basically just the Old Testament
Albeit, they I don't think they were right on adultery the way they did it and this but other than that
It's virtually exactly what the Bible says on capital punishment. It even has a section on heretics. All right
Well, I'm not gonna get there
How about
Another document from Pennsylvania. This is 1682. So just a little bit further into the future
So this is the act for freedom of conscience in Pennsylvania chapter 1
Almighty God
being only Lord of conscience father of lights and spirits and the author as well as object of all divine knowledge faith and worship who
can only enlighten the mind and persuade and convince the
Understandings of people and do reverence to his sovereignty over the souls of mankind. So this is how they started
They're already praising the God of the Bible
They say this be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that no person now
Or at any time you're after living in this province who shall confess and acknowledge one Almighty God
To be the creator upholder and ruler of the world and who professes him or herself
obliged and conscious to live peaceably and quietly
Under the civil government shall in any case be molested or prejudiced for his or her conscientious persuasion or practice
Nor shall he or she?
At any time be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious worship place or ministry
Whatever contrary to his or her mind
But shall freely and fully enjoy his or her Christian liberty in that respect without any interruption or reflection
And if any person shall abuse or deride any other for his or her different persuasion and practice and matters of religion
Such person shall be looked upon as a disturber of the peace and be punished accordingly
Let me explain this the protesters would not be allowed to do what they're doing
They're disturbers of the peace and would be punished for doing what they're doing according to this statue
Okay, and this statue is basically saying if you don't want to be Catholic you don't have to be Catholic
if you want to be
Presbyterian Baptist Methodist
Episcopalian you can basically be whatever denomination of Christianity you want and someone can't interrupt your services if you're worshiping
The God of the Bible as you see fit now, this is an important next paragraph
but
That's a good word, right but to the end that looseness
Irreligion and atheism may not creep in
Under pretense of conscience in this province. So they're saying well, even though we're saying you have religious liberty
We're not saying this so that you can be an atheist
We're not saying this so you so you're not religious we're not saying this so you can just be loose and permissive
It says this be it further enacted by the authority of force said that according to the example of the primitive Christians and for the ease
Of the creation every first day of the week called the Lord's Day
People shall abstain from their usual and common toil and labor that whether masters parents children or servants
They may the better
Dispose themselves to read the scriptures of truth at home or frequent such meetings of religious worship abroad
Has made best suit their respective persuasions
So, you know what they said they said and in order to try and make sure that our colony never gets away from Christianity
No one's allowed to work on Sunday
So that everyone is basically just forced into reading the Bible
everyone just forced into having some kind of religious worship because
Frankly everything shut down but Church so then what's gonna happen people are gonna go to church
Because there's not really anything else to do. So it kind of helps society realize. Look. This is the Lord's Day
We're setting as our society. We're setting a whole day to dedicate to the Lord
We're gonna read the Bible go to church serve God
This is the government's own document. This is Pennsylvania's got covering governing document. Oh
Our founding fathers weren't Christian
What?
What are you talking about
How about this? This is this is where it gets even more interesting 1682 same year
Charter of the liberties and frame of government of Pennsylvania. So the same same colony
so this is another document also passed around this time and
Provision 34 it says that all treasurer's judges
masters of the roles
Sheriff's
justices of the peace and other officers and persons whatsoever
relating to courts or trials of causes or any other service in the government and
All members elected to serve in provincial council and General Assembly and all that have right to elect such members
Shall be such as possess faith in Jesus Christ
Do you hear what I just said?
Every single person in the government had to had to profess faith in Jesus Christ
They're not Christian. What are you talking about?
It's literally saying the government has to be Christian. The government has to be people that have faith in Jesus Christ
That's why even up to the most recent timeframe
Every single president has claimed to be Christian. Did you not realize that?
Every single
President gives lip service to having faith in Jesus or being a Christian because you know, in fact many different statutes
It's still the reality and people wouldn't vote for him
Anyways, this is why they give lip service to it
But at the end of the day this nation was founded as a nation under God. Have you ever heard that phrase before? I
Mean you could go to the local city council and before the city council, you know what they're gonna do
They're gonna basically pledge allegiance to the flag and they're gonna
They might even sing a song and they're gonna talk about we're one nation under God
They're gonna get some pastor up there to pray before the ceremony and then you're gonna try and convince me that we're this secular
deist nation
No, we're not secular. That's ridiculous
How about 1732? So we're fast-forwarding. This is religion in the Georgia Charter
So this is not we've talked about Connecticut talked about Pennsylvania, let's talk about Georgia for a moment
1732 so this is coming directly from the law and
For the greater ease and encouragement of our loving subjects and such others as shall come to inhabit in our said colony
We do by these presence for us our heirs and successors grant established and ordained
That forever hereafter there should be a liberty of conscience allowed in the worship of God
to all persons inhabiting or
Which shall inhabit or be resident within our said provinces and that all such persons
Except papists shall have a free exercise of their religion
Now that's pretty funny
Says so they be contented with the quiet and peaceful enjoyment of the same not giving offense or scandal the government
Do you know what they said in Georgia? You can be any form of Christian except for Catholic
Like
That's the law the law is saying we're not even allowing Catholics to be in Georgia period
Now, of course, this is still in the context of also being Christian. It's not even gonna be a Hindu
How bizarre would that be?
And look if you understand anything about Georgia, it is filled with Baptist. I mean it has all kinds of Baptist in it
Why they wouldn't even let Catholics be in there folks. They were a lot closer to the truth when it comes to their origin
Now it started to slowly erode. Of course. Here's some commentary about what happened in Georgia after this
It says although Catholicism was the only region expressly forbidden in the Charter the Georgia trustees also decided to forbid
Judaism in the new colony
That's a good idea, but they should have gotten that in the law. Okay, that was their problem
It says but the harsh realities of colonial life opened the doors for Judaism to enter, Georgia
The first summer the colonists lived in Savannah they suffered from the heat and illness that accompanied it
I guess heat, you know waves were back then to write climate change
At one point 60 colonists were dreadfully sick and it was thought they wouldn't be able to recover
There was no real doctor except for Noble Jones who himself had taken ill but fortunately
That's a questionable word a ship with Jewish passengers unexpectedly arrived
Included a doctor Samuel Nunez
Dr. Nunez went to work
Healing the sick all of whom recovered and the doctor refused payment for his services
Even though the trustees expressly forbade Jewish people from settling in the new colony
Ogle Thorpe allowed the group to stay based on legal advice that the Charter did not allow religious freedom
For all non Catholics or sorry did allow religious freedom for all non Catholics
So Ogle Thorpe in defiance of his fellow trustees went further by allowing the Jewish immigrants to own land in the new colony
They founded the Temple Mikvi Israel the third oldest Jewish congregation America and the oldest in the south in 1733
so here here was the mistake I
believe of a lot of our founders is
Every one of our documents was always in the context of Christianity, but they just didn't explicitly state it
So it allowed and opened the door or then other of course if they're not letting Catholics invoke
You really think they want Jews? I mean that's insane
They and they didn't want it
But they just didn't have the law in place and then they just have the Jews start infiltrating coming in creating their synagogues of Satan
And that's how they started creeping in by the 1790s
Finally the Catholic Church was established the first Catholic Church was established in Georgia. So it just starts to
Slowly degrade and get to just a worse and worse
spiritual situation
but the fact is that for a long period of our history of the colonies and even leading into
Past the Constitution many of these places were strictly Christian not allowing other kinds of sex
I mean this has literally a passage about even heretics within the Christian sex not allowed to be in their colony and
You know what? That is why we have the country we have today a lot of you think this sounds horrible
Can you imagine America being Christian again and forcing Christianity and making it where people have to be Christian in our country?
Yeah, I can because that's why we have such an amazing country
People act like it's such a horrible thing, but it's like where do you think America came from?
Do you think America was a super world power in?
1673
You think that America could have take taken over or conquered any country in 1673 they were barely able to survive
So what took a bunch of random pilgrims and
Colonists from just basically starting from scratch to becoming the most dominant
Superpower in all of the world. It was the fact that they were built upon the rock. That's why
That's so scary what if we went back to that sounds like we'd have a great nation again
But let me tell you something, you know, what makes America great again, it's not Donald Trump at Jesus Christ
It's not Donald Trump in politics, it's Jesus Christ in politics
It's the God of the Bible in politics
It's this book in politics that would make America great again and you know, even in Texas if you look today at Texas Constitution
present-day
This is how it opens
humbly invoking the blessings of Almighty God
The people of the state of Texas do ordain and establish this Constitution
How am I supposed to sit here and say that we're secular when literally our own Constitution today is?
Is already talking about Almighty God
You know
Atheism is not a concept that was allowed for in America. It wasn't tolerated
It wasn't appreciated. Yeah, was there some people that probably were there a few people that were atheists back then? I'm sure there was
Atheism is gonna always exist in society because there's always gonna people that reject God
There's gonna always be people that hate God. There's always gonna be fools in the society
But you know what? We shouldn't allow them to take over our government
We shouldn't allow them to take over our country. We shouldn't allow them to take over our churches
We shouldn't allow them to take over this world. That just is that's absurd
You know, we need laws that are based on the Word of God if we're gonna have a wholesome country now
I had you turn to Psalm 19 a long time ago, but look at verse 7 the Bible says the law of the Lord
Is perfect?
Converting the soul the Testament Lord is sure making wise
The simple the Bible will make us wise as a nation
It made America wise because they based their country on the Bible and that's why our country is so much better than other countries
Go to Psalm 119 for a moment. Go to Psalm 119
You say that are you saying that we should influence the laws in our country? Yes, I am
Yes
Christians should be putting forth the law putting forth the law of God and saying this is what our law should be
advocating for wholesome laws
Advocating for abortion to be illegal you say at what month all of them every month
It's it's set, you know, we give a whole month to a bunch of sodomite perverts
We should give a whole month to abortion like the idea of like pro-life
Right. Yeah, they're saying hey, we're advocating for life this whole month as a reminder that you should never kill children
Like it's wicked. It's satanic. It's always been evil
Look what it says in Psalm 119 verse 1 blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord
You know, it makes you undefiled walk in law of the court
Look at verse 9 wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way
By taking heed thereto according to thy word, you know, you're not going to cleanse your way
watching andrew tape videos
That'll defile the way that'll destroy young men
The only way for young men to end up getting on the right path and living a clean life is they have to take
heed to this word
This is what changes people's lives
Nothing else. This is your oh, this is your ivermectin. Okay for your kovat 19. All right
Sorry if my now these not very good, I don't know I've never taken ivermectin so
But this is your antidote, this is your cure to the disease that's out there in this world
And this is the only antidote. This is the only cure to the society that we live in
Go to Ephesians chapter 6 and we'll kind of wrap these thoughts together quickly, but
Look folks. The only way we're gonna change America is the King James Bible and I
Mean it literally King James
Now think about when did American society really start to road quickly, I
Mean, I think a lot of people would agree that kind of the 60s
70s and 80s we saw a rapid decline of culture
Obviously, there's always been bad people in politics. Obviously the Federal Reserve was wicked
Obviously, there's been a lot of issues of the past and I get that but just whole-scale our society is radically different
From the 1950s because we went through the 60s 70s and 80s
Now what's another?
Interesting thing that happened in the 60s 70s and 80s people got away from the King James Bible started going to modern versions
we saw the literal explosion of people getting away from the Bible and
That had a big influence on our culture now this makes perfect sense and and from a really basic
Perspective and for me, I feel like I hadn't really thought about this way, but it's just it's so basic
I feel like I should have
but you know when we talk about in the Bible a lot of times it'll use this the terminology of like
turning to God or turning away from God and
And it it's just kind of seems abstract to me
But then when you just think about it practically that God is the Bible
It's like people are turning away from the King James Bible
that's literally all this and
You know when you study it throughout the Bible
People are always turning away from what hearing the Word of God from what the Prophet was saying
They didn't want to hear what the Prophet was saying
They didn't want to hear what the Bible is saying
They didn't want to hear what the Word of God was saying the Word of God is put on the shelf
And you know what the devil knows that that tactic works, but he knew he couldn't get rid of these things everywhere
So he replaced them with garbage versions
With fake version and we're living the fruit of that today
And the only way to fix America today is to take all of the Christians and get them back on this book
This one specifically the King James Bible, that's why it's so important
Look at Ephesians 6 verse 12 for we wrestled not against flesh and blood
But against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness and high places
So point one is we need to influence our culture point one
we need to influence the laws and point three though, we need to influence souls and
You know, we fight a battle today, but it's not a physical battle. It is a spiritual battle
and
Christianity has never
You know since the New Testament has never been successful through physical violence and physical force
You don't see any great Christian societies coming from the result of some religious holy war
That's a physical war
You don't see the Catholics doing a great exploits for God
Forcing people to be Catholic or murdering them or killing them and I do not believe that we will ever have success
as
Christians or a Christian nation or as a church trying to force people through physical violence to be like us and
We shouldn't
But that doesn't mean that we aren't still fighting. It's just we're not fighting physically
We're fighting spiritually and the spiritual battle is always a spirit is a battle over words
It's about information about the information being spread and they know the truth is so powerful that if they gave us or
Churches like us or other preachers that preach the truth a platform it would change the culture like that
Because the Bible is so powerful. And so it's so important for us to engage the culture with this
And how do we do that? We go out soul winning
It's like how do I become a Christian nationalist pastor Shelley go soul winning?
Step one go so in step two getting people baptized
Step three getting people into church
That is how we win the Christian nationalist movement over we need to get people saved and baptized into church
That is the only way to fix this nation
We have to just get tons and tons of people saved and baptized in a church
And then we also need to be speaking the truth in the gate
You know the Bible says in Amos chapter 5 they hate him that rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him that speaketh of
Rightly, let me tell you some Christians were always preaching in the gate and we shouldn't stop now
We shouldn't say you know what?
We're gonna go and hide, you know, Jude 1 tells us that we're supposed to earnestly contend for the faith
Go to Acts chapter 17. I want to show you a few verses here acts chapter 17
So our primary goal is sewing baptizing church
but I think that we also need to be going into the marketplace of ideas and
Challenging the culture on the scripture because think about this the Apostle Paul
Left Israel the nation of Israel and went into a completely
heathen
pagan
God-hating world. I mean there was not a fundamental Baptist Church out there. He wasn't going anywhere
it was very pagan very ungodly and
Think about this America came out of that eventually
So if the Apostle Paul can go to a hundred percent pagan world and get to a point where literal
Multiple Christian nations are formed out of that eventually and we even have countries like America being formed
We could always do it again. I mean, it's way easier now than it would have been back then
So the the solution is already there, but what did the Apostle Paul do?
He went out preaching the gospel getting people saved. He got people baptized. He was getting them plugged into church
Also, he was going into the marketplace of ideas and preaching the truth and
Exposing mass audiences to the truth, but what it says in Acts chapter 17 verse 17
Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons and in the market daily
With them that met him notice where he's going the synagogue and the market
Daily and he's just telling everybody just large groups about it the marketplace of ideas
He's just going out there and just trying spread it daily is all the time
Just trying to get the truth out there trying to talk to people you say well the Jews didn't get saved
True, but a lot of people did look at verse 34. How be it certain men clave unto him and believed
Among the witch was Dionysus the arrow arrow paga and a woman named Amarius and others with them. So
How effective is it? Well, you're not gonna get already saved, but he got some people saved didn't he?
look at chapter 18 verse 19 chapter 18 verse 19 and
He came to Ephesus and
Left them there, but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews
So the Apostle Paul you have to understand something about him. He's not a street preacher
Okay, but he is emphasizing soul winning baptism in church
But you know
he also do he would go and enter the marketplace of ideas and he would go and engage with a ton of unsaved people and
Constantly try and preach the truth of them and reason with them and debate with them and
Discourse with them trying to win them over trying to get people saved
look at verse 26 and
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue
whom when Akila and Priscilla had heard they took him unto them and expounded on him the way of God more perfectly now
this is one of the disciples of the Apostle Paul a policy he also went in and
This marketplace of ideas and no he didn't necessarily get someone saved and in this verse
But with his verses saying he ended up networking with other people
And you know sometimes you just going out there and preaching and these marketplace of ideas
You may not only get people safe. You might end up hooking up with other
Like-minded godly people and getting them on the right course or getting them plugged in or influencing their lives as well
look at chapter 19 verse 8 and
He went into the synagogue and spake boldly for the space of three months
Disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God
So notice that the Apostle Paul is constantly going into the marketplace of ideas
constantly challenging the narrative and
Did the Jews by and large get saved no because they're not
But a lot of Gentiles did tons and tons scores and scores of Gentiles are getting saved by him going out there
Hey, you know what we need to be the people that are going into the marketplace of ideas and preaching the truth unashamed
Reasoning with them giving them the scripture. You know
Some of the activities I do they're not even really church-related. They're just trying to get information out there and
I think that we should try our best to just get our ideas out there and be willing to contend with them
That's why they don't want to debate us
That's why they don't want to platform us
That's why they don't want to put us on the show because they realize when they see the two-edged sword
Placed up against their lies. It's gonna slice and dice them to pieces
They're so afraid of the truth today because it's so powerful
So what does the devil do?
Well, the devil tries to not contend with you
but also he just gets a bunch of Christians and just trade out their two-edged sword for a plastic knife and
Then they realize it's so weak and puny that they don't even want to go out there and fight with it
So then they do nothing they do nothing. Let me tell you some this thing is a two-edged sword
We shouldn't fear anyone and I don't care who it is. They're gonna lose in the marketplace of ideas of this every time
I don't care if you're smart brilliant whatever it makes the wise the simple
We need to go out there and engage with the culture go to 2nd Chronicles chapter 7. We'll finish there
How about John the Baptist?
What did he say to hear it it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife
Oh, this guy's hiding. No. No, this guy was challenging political authority
Preaching the truth getting in the face of political leaders calling it like it is saying it like it is
You know
We need bold men to get up and to get in the face of Joe Biden and calm the pedophile further he is
And call these liberal wicked politicians. I mean hunter Biden is a pedophile. He should be six feet under
Are you saying spiritually well, he's already twice dead, but let me tell you something pedophiles should be put to death legally
Are you calling to arms? No, I never have I never will
But let me tell you something. Our government should have so much pressure on it right now to be putting pedophiles to death
Everyone should be saying like we need to put the pedophiles to death put the metal and you say like are we ever
Leviticus 2013, I don't know but just eliminating pedophiles will get rid of a large swath of them
You know, it's so funny. You'll be like, ah all these Christians against pedophilia. It's really anti-semitic and anti-lgbtq
I'm thinking like
Why is me being as pedophiles so obviously against Jews and facts?
Because Jews and facts are pedophiles. That's why they literally admit it and
You know what we need more politicians that aren't afraid of these labels like oh you're anti-lgbtq. Yes, I am
Praise God, I don't want to be pro that I
Don't want to be for this nonsense. I don't want to be forced Satanism literally
You know, we need to get people back on the King James Bible and to adhere to the laws of the King James Bible
We need to turn back to God as a nation and the only way our nation will be better as we get back
to this book
This book is what will save our nation turning to God and we need to model our lives
Based on this without compromise the Apostle Paul engaged with Agrippa. He appealed to Caesar
He reasoned in the synagogues. He reasoned in the marketplace
Hey, you know what? We need Christians to get out there and be a bright and shining light
But what happens when we decide to just hide or not do anything
You know, it's just failure and
You know it people in complaining about it being hot and not having any rain
Well, look what the Bible says in 2nd Chronicles chapter 7 verse 13 if I shut up heaven that there be no rain
Or if I command the locusts devour the land that's hunter Biden, okay
Or if I send pestilence among my people
That's Michelle Obama, okay
Verse 14 if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and
Pray and seek my face and turn from the wicked ways
Then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land
You know America could be fixed today if every Christian would just say, you know what we're throwing out the NIV
We're gonna burn it in a bonfire. We're all getting a King James Bible and we're gonna do what it says
And you know when the Bible is your boss you're a Baptist
And you know what God
Wants us to turn back to him and you know what?
God is willing to do anything and the question is if we turn back to God is he going to give us revival
Or are we going to turn away and he's going to give us the arrival? Okay
We're gonna have the arrival of Jesus or we're gonna have the revival of Jesus
You know, it's based on us if we're gonna turn to him or not and we need to influence the culture
You know what Christian nationalism sounds great to me. It's closing prayer
Thank Heavenly Father for giving us the Word of God for giving us the truth
I pray that we wouldn't be afraid of the truth
It wouldn't be ashamed of the truth that we willing to influence our culture and world around us
I pray that we could be Christians wherever we go and that we would embrace and love the nation that we live in
that we wouldn't look to
Radically change it from what it was
but rather we turn back to
The godly principles that it was established on and we try to influence our culture and our world around us to become
More Christian and to love the things of the Bible and Jesus name we pray. Amen
All right for a final song 316 I have decided to follow Jesus
316 I
Have decided to follow Jesus
316 I have decided to follow Jesus
To follow Jesus
Oh
Let's go ahead and turn to song 64 shall we gather at the river
Song number 64. Shall we gather at the river?
Shall we
Where bright angels eat
Crystal-tide forever
Oh
For baptism
You