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It's church if you could please find your seats and grab your hymnals we're gonna start by singing song
274 come unto me
274 come unto me. Let's sing it out. Nice and loud together
274 come unto me
Here the blessed Savior calling the oppressed
O ye heavy laden, come to me and rest
Come no longer tarry, I your love will bear
Bring me every burden, bring me every care
Come unto me
I will give you rest
Take my help upon you
Hear me every bless
I am equal only
Come and trust my might
With God my yoke is easy
And my burdens lie
274 on the second
Are you disappointed wandering here and there
Dragging chains of doubt and loaded down with care
You are holding feelings, struggle in your breast
Bring your gaze to Jesus, he will give you rest
Come unto me
I will give you rest
Take my help upon you
Hear me every bless
I am equal only
Come and trust my might
Come my yoke is easy
And my burdens lie
Stumbling on the mountains, darkness and in shame
Stumbling toward the pit of hells consuming flame
By the powers of sin deluded and oppressed
If the tender shepherd come to me and rest
Come unto me
I will give you rest
Take my help upon you
Hear me every bless
I am equal only
Come and trust my might
Come my yoke is easy
And my burdens lie
Have you by temptation often conquered Ben
As a sense of weakness brought distress within
Christ will sanctify you if you claim his past
In the Holy Spirit he will give you rest
Come unto me
I will give you rest
Take my yoke upon you
Hear me every bless
I am equal only
Come and trust my might
Come my yoke is easy
And my burdens lie
Good singing. Let's go ahead and open up in a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank you for this morning and thank you for everyone gathered here together to sing praises to you
and to hear the word of God preached. I pray that you'd please bless this service for your honor and glory
and bless all those that couldn't make it this morning that are struggling with illness.
Let's pray that they'd feel better soon. We love you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Let's flip over to song number 36, Christ Arose.
Song number 36, Christ Arose.
Song 36, Christ Arose.
Oh, in the breaking day
Jesus, my Savior
waiting the coming day
Jesus, my Lord
up from the grave
he arose
Jesus, my Lord
up from the grave
he arose
He arose
and he lives forever
with his saints to reign
He arose
Mainly they watched
his bed
Jesus, my Savior
Mainly they sealed the dead
Jesus, my Lord
up from the grave
he arose
He arose a victor from the dark
domain and he lives forever
with his saints to reign
He arose
Hallelujah, Christ
Arose
Death cannot keep his grave
Jesus, my Savior
He tore the waters away
Jesus, my Lord
up from the grave
he arose
He arose a victor
from the dark domain and he lives forever
with his saints to reign
He arose
Hallelujah, Christ
Arose.
Good morning. Thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church. If you did not already
get a bulletin, you can still lift your hand up nice and high.
We've got ushers with a bulletin. We can get you. On the front
we have our Bible memory passage. We're on Psalm 58 verse 8.
When you go outside, just quote the Bible memory verse.
I'm just kidding, but seriously, at least in your heart.
Also on the inside we have a service time, slow winning times, church stats.
On the right, the list of expecting ladies, and boy is it growing.
That's a great blessing that we've had.
Please continue to pray for all of these ladies also.
We have a separate prayer list of just other prayer requests
and please continue to pray for them as well.
Back we have church reminders down below upcoming events.
Our FBBF is going to be in October, and then we have the
Abilene soul winning marathon November. We just got
back from our men's retreat and it went really well. It was
a lot of fun. We had our second year where we did
our competition. We have a mighty men's competition
and it's pretty brutal, especially in 110 degree weather.
This year we had the
top three in our singles event. Brother Illy got third,
Brother Jared Plant got second, and Sonny is our
mighty men champion. All right.
He helped
prove that white men can't jump.
No, he did great. It's a fierce competition.
We probably had about 40 guys that competed and it whittles down
to the top ten and then from there you kind of go through an elimination process.
We tried something different this year. We also had a triad competition
where we had three man teams. Our second place this year
was Illy, Jacob, and Jared Plant, and then our first
place was Brother Dylan, Brandon, and Remy.
Obviously, Dylan had to recruit from afar, but some Philistines
and everything like that. Hey, they ended up getting first, so congratulations
to them.
It was a lot of fun, a lot of good
preaching. We had several guys from our retreat
end up preaching sermons on Saturday and they were all really good sermons.
It was really encouraging to see just the camaraderie
and the zeal. If you've never been to one of our
men's retreats, I really highly encourage you to try and participate
the next year or in future years just because it's a lot of fun.
Usually everybody really enjoys it. Just ask
the other guys. Just ask how it was. We really had a good time.
The preaching was really good. Thanks again to Pastor Thompson for coming out and
preaching for us. He preached a really good sermon. Maybe in the future
we might even have multiple preachers. I'm excited about
that event and a lot of people really enjoy it. Thanks so much
to everybody who participated and came. I had a lot of fun
as well. I barely made it this morning. No, I'm just kidding.
We can go ahead and sing our third song for this morning.
It's going to be Psalm 126.
Psalm 126 in our special handouts is our Psalm of the week.
Psalm 126.
All right, Psalm 126.
When the Lord
turned again the captivity of Zion
we were like them that dream
our mouth filled with laughter and
our tongue with singing. Then said they
among the heathen, the Lord had done great things for them
the Lord had done great things for us. Whereof we
are glad, turn again our
captivity, O Lord, as the streams
in the South, they that sow in
tears shall reap in joy, they that sow
in tears shall reap in joy. Then said they
among the heathen, the Lord had done great things for them
the Lord had done great things for us. Whereof we are
glad, he that goeth forth in weeping
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless
come again, shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing
his sheaves with him. Then said they
among the heathen, the Lord had done great things for them
the Lord had done great things for us. Whereof we are
glad. All right, as the offering plates being passed around
please turn in your Bibles to Leviticus chapter 5. Leviticus
chapter number 5.
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. Leviticus chapter 5 the Bible reads
And if a soul sin and hear the voice of swearing and is a witness
whether he hath seen or known of it, if he do not utter it, then he shall bear
his iniquity. Or if a soul touch any unclean thing,
whether it be a carcass of an unclean beast or a carcass of unclean cattle,
or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden
from him, he also shall be unclean and guilty. Or if he
touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that
a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him when he knoweth of it,
then he shall be guilty. Or if a soul swear, pronouncing
with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatsoever it be that a
man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him when he knoweth of it,
then he shall be guilty in one of these. And it shall be, when he shall be guilty
in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing.
And he shall bring his trespassed offering unto the Lord for his sin, which he hath
sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb, or a kid of the goats,
for a sin offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his
sin. And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring
for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons,
unto the Lord, one for a sin offering, and the other for
a burnt offering. And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that
which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from
his neck, and shall not divide it asunder. And he shall sprinkle
of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar, and the
rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar. It is a sin
offering. And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according
to the manner. And the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin, which he
hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. But if he be not
able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned
shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah, a fine flower,
for a sin offering. He shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put
any frankincense thereon, for it is a sin offering. Then
shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it,
even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to
the offerings made by fire unto the Lord. It is a sin offering.
And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these,
and it shall be forgiven him. And the remnant shall be the priest's
as a meat offering. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
If a soul commit a trespass and sin through ignorance in the holy things
of the Lord, then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram
without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing,
and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest.
And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering,
and it shall be forgiven him. And if a soul sin and commit
any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord,
though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation,
for a trespass offering unto the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement
for him concerning his ignorance, wherein he erred and wist it not,
and it shall be forgiven him. It is a trespass offering.
He hath certainly trespassed against the Lord.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. Father in heaven, I pray that you bless the sermon this morning.
I pray also that you fill Pastor Shelley with the fullness and power of the Holy Spirit
as he preaches to us. Help us to be edified by the message you've laid on his heart.
Help us to apply the message to be doers of the word,
and to be more complete Christians. We love you, and in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Amen. So I'm going to be finishing a series that I started a while back.
It was dealing with a particular documentary
called Shiny Happy People, and in this
particular documentary it kind of exposes a group called the IBLP,
the Duggar family, and specifically Bill
Gothard, who was the founder and CEO of
what was called the IBLP. It was a
non-denominational group that essentially taught a lot of
basic life principles. It's kind of like the name of their
organization. Two Christians, so-called, a lot of them
were Baptists, and they were supposed to take these
seminar courses and paid a lot of money to learn about how to be
a godly person and raise a family and just a lot of different
things. But part of the documentary focuses on
a lot of the sexual abuse that happened
or was reported against the IBLP and a lot of these individuals.
And so kind of in conclusion of my series
I want to talk about something that they really bring up a lot in this documentary
and that is just sexual abuse. And so the sermon I have this morning
is Sexual Abuse Shiny Happy People Part 7.
Now this is an uncomfortable topic because
really it's just gross, it's disgusting, it's evil,
it's abominable, it's reprobate, and unfortunately
churches today are really screwed up on these issues.
A lot of churches are not handling these things appropriately.
And it just makes Christ look bad, it makes the church
look bad, and really that's a big reason why
people hate the Duggars or the IBLP.
And we as fundamental Baptists, we're not immune to
these type of things. There's been times when Baptist churches,
fundamental Baptist churches have also gone through
these circumstances as well. And I think what people have to
realize is we need to build a culture where every single person
is going to report child
abuse and all sexual abuse
and we need to have a culture where it's just not tolerated, it's not allowed whatsoever.
Now we're in Leviticus chapter number 5 and
I want to read this verse in verse 1 again. The Bible says
And if a soul sin and hear the voice
of swearing, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known
of it, if he do not utter it, then he shall bear
his iniquity. Now there's a lot of pronouns in this particular verse
so sometimes it can be a little hard to read that the first time and
pick up exactly what it's saying. But if we slow down for a second
there's a really important verse to understand. It's saying if someone does something wrong
if someone commits a sin and they've done evil
they've done wrong and it says
and hear the voice of swearing and is a witness
so there's a witness to this particular sin
someone sinned and then there's another person that happens to be
a witness hears about it, they hear someone confess
or admit to the sin, that's what it's kind of talking about, the voice of swearing
someone's admitting to this, you know about it, you have the knowledge
of this and it says
meaning maybe you weren't there physically when the sin was committed
but they told you about it, you've heard about it when it
happened, you have the knowledge of this particular crime, sin
it says
so basically what the Bible is talking about
is if someone came to you and reported a crime to you
reported a grievous sin unto you and you decided to not do anything with that
information, not tell the authorities, not tell the
people that are in charge, what the Bible is saying, then he shall
bear his iniquity, meaning that the sin that that person
committed is now going to be imputed unto you
so what the Bible is really trying to emphasize is the idea
that hey when someone is admitting to you
crimes and sins and evil that you
should not be complicit in hiding or concealing that information
you need to report it and let me tell you something
all sexual abuse needs to be reported every single time
and if you think that you're going to come to
Pastor Shelley and tell him about the things that you've done
in this area and I won't tell the cops, you are a fool
the first call I will make is to the authorities
if you ever come to me, now here's the thing, people will share with me
sins that they've committed or problems that they have
of all kinds of natures and very many
most of them are not crimes but I have an obligation
to report crimes to authorities even if you share something with me
in confidence and so the last thing you want to do is
come tell me about the crimes that you've committed
I'm not going to just look the other way or act like it didn't happen
especially when we talk about this particular issue
and churches and pastors all over America are covering up
concealing and hiding sexual abuse and it needs to
stop. It needs to stop and people need to learn that they need to
report it. Also, all of you children
and young adults in the room, if someone does something to you
that's bad, evil or makes you uncomfortable, you need to report
it every single time and you should never feel
bad about reporting it to someone. Also, anytime
someone hurts a child, they often try to guilt the child or tell the child don't tell
anybody. If someone's telling you not to tell someone, that's a bad thing
that's usually a bad sign.
Obviously, parents are able to properly and lovingly discipline their
children and that's not something that we're talking about. What we're talking about
is abuse and what we're talking about is harm and we're talking about
of a nature between husband and wife in a bedroom
and you know what, that stuff needs to be reported immediately
to everyone. If anybody in this church
ever hears about or sees or notices anything
of this nature, you tell me and I will deal
with it. I will deal with it. We need to not conceal
these type of things, we need to expose them and bring light
to the situation. Now go to Deuteronomy chapter 13.
Now I do believe because of the seriousness
of the nature of these type of accusations
that if someone is accused by one witness
we want to handle that with care and not just believe it
automatically. We also don't want to dismiss things automatically
either. There should be an investigation, there should be a
fact finding period and then we should condemn the
wicked and exonerate the righteous.
There have been times in our church's history where false
accusations of this nature have been brought against individuals.
Sometimes that can really darken someone's
reputation or cause them a lot of shame
that's not right and so we also want to be careful that we're not repeating
or creating rumors or damaging someone's reputation when false
accusations are brought against them. We want to make sure
that we have the right balance here but at the same time we shouldn't be afraid of
trying to figure out what really happened, getting to the bottom of a situation
trying to identify other witnesses
and here's something that some people don't realize but you know
I won't do anything without two or three or more witnesses. So
if someone did something inappropriate but there's only one witness
sometimes my hands are tied because I just can't really do anything about
it. But what's good is when that person tells me
when the second person comes to me now it's a green light
I can do something about it. And so a lot of times we need that first reporter
to come forward just so then we can have hey look this isn't
just one person, this is multiple people saying there's a problem here
and now we can actually do something about this situation because it's
not just one party or one witness. So it's always important to even be the first
witness in any kind of situation where something inappropriate
is going on. Now in
Deuteronomy chapter 13 look at verse number 6
From the one end of the heaven, or I'm sorry, from the one end of the earth, even under
the other end of the earth, thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him,
neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare,
neither shalt thou conceal him, but thou shalt surely kill him,
thine hand shall be first upon him to put
him to death and afterwards the hand of all the people. Now obviously the
context of this particular passage is about someone trying to get you to serve a
false god, but what I want you to pay attention to is
the fact that when someone is worthy of a crime of death, when someone
has committed a sin which is worthy unto death, what is the
attitude that God wants you to have towards that individual and
I believe it's not limited to this particular sin, but it's all sins that
are worthy of death. What does the Bible say? It says very clearly, thou shalt not
pity, you're not supposed to pity him, neither shalt thou spare,
neither shalt thou conceal him, in fact according to the Bible, but thou shalt
surely kill him, thine hand shall be first upon him.
Meaning when you're the witness of someone doing evil
you're the first witness, you need to be the first person to report
it, not to conceal them, not to hide it, you know what
they need to be punished and we shouldn't have an attitude of saying
well but I like him or he's my family member
or he's my cousin or he's my brother or whatever, no you need
to say mine eye is not going to pity, I'm not going to conceal you
I'm not going to hide it, I'm not going to have any mercy
in this particular situation, I'm going to report it.
You know what, when people commit crimes of this nature
we should not pity at all. Oh you're so
unmerciful, well you know what, if you think you're more merciful than God
you're an idiot, because this is what the Bible is saying
and really your mercy is misguided because by
you thinking that you're so merciful what you're actually doing is
enabling a predator to hurt more children, to hurt more
victims and so what you're not doing is you're not being merciful to victims
you're being merciful to predators, you know what, I want to be merciful
to victims, I'm not going to be merciful to a predator
so actually the true and the most loving and the most merciful thing you could do
is to not conceal them but rather bring forth the
information, bring forth what they've done and report it
so that it doesn't happen again and what's so
frustrating about this issue is how when people finally get caught
it's not one victim, it's not two victims, in many cases it's dozens
and dozens and dozens of victims and that's the sad reality
of this particular sin and of this particular issue is that
people are not reporting it and it just happens over and over and over
again. Go to Deuteronomy chapter 22 and
look, I'm just trying to be honest with you this morning
I have nothing to hide in this
particular category and our church is never going to have anything to hide
in this category but there have been individuals
that have gone to one of our churches that were
a child molester and
it was in Jacksonville, Florida, a guy named Kyle
Chambers had literally molested his own daughter
now here's the thing, he was in our church while I was the pastor
but of course I did not know, if I had ever known
for any second, I would have dealt with that immediately
now at some point he basically just turned himself into the
authorities, admitted to the crimes that he had committed, was
arrested and put in jail for the crimes that he committed
and obviously at that point he was never welcome to ever be a part of our church
ever again, but I
say that to tell you this, you know, sometimes bad
people are even in our churches and I think that sometimes
I love so many people here and we have so many great people here
but our churches are no different than any other churches, churches
attract the best and the worst people on the planet
and if you think that because you come to our church, there's not a bad person here
you're being naive, you're being naive
and you say, well, what do you say, there's child molesters in your church, Pastor Shelley
well you know what there has been, but I guarantee if we went to the
Vietnam church down the street, they have them too, and if we go to the Catholic church
they have them too, and some people say, well I don't want to go to church because bad people show up
well you know what, there's bad people in your neighborhood too, and you know what, there's bad people
at the restaurant that you go to, and there's bad people all over because our country won't
deal with bad people, but you know what, you can't escape bad people
but what you can do is wake up and realize I
shouldn't trust other people, especially with my children
you know what, it just makes me sick to my stomach
how many people disregard what I'm saying right now, and they literally
trust their children with random church members
and when I say random, I'm saying like, you've only known this person for less than five years
I mean, look, in the five years that I've been the pastor here
we've had hundreds and hundreds of people come and go
and some of them are some of the worst people I've ever seen in my life
the scummiest, worst infiltrators
freaks ever, and I'm thinking like, you know this person less than
five years and you're going to trust them with your children
you are an idiot, let me just make it clear
my personal opinion is that you are a complete idiot and fool
and you will never, if you come to me and you say, you know what, I do that
that's what I'm thinking, I may not just say it to your face every time
but that's how I personally feel, okay
and honestly, I would rather trust friends that I grew up with
that are like, not even fundamental Baptist with my children
than just some of the random people in my church
because when you just don't know people, you haven't been around them
and you know, especially men, because of course men are way
more likely to be child molesters than women
I mean, if it was a complete emergency situation and you had an older lady
in our church, you know, watching your kids, I'm not going to get mad at you
or scream at you or something, but you know what, realize you're putting them in some level of danger
a higher level of danger that you should be aware of, and another thing
why would you ever leave children with people that don't have children, or have never had children
that's even weirder, okay
I get it, you know, and I grew up in a culture where we had a lot of babysitters
my parents had lots of babysitters, I had lots of babysitters, but let me tell you a fact
my brother was molested by our babysitter
when we grew up, multiple times, and it was a female
oh, you know, I thought every girl was good, you know what, you're just lying to yourself
when you just think people can be trusted, and I'm going to tell you what
I don't trust people with my kids
last time any of you ever watched my kids without me being there, or my wife being there
oh, no one can say that, because I don't
and I'm just telling you, I'm being really harsh right now, and really stringent
because you know what, the last thing I want is for you to come up and say
hey, I gave my kids a so and so family and they molested my child, they abducted my family
child, they took them off and ran off with them, or now they're missing
or now they're injured, or now they're hurt, or now they're harmed
I went to a seasonal Baptist church, and there was a family that had
dropped off their little baby
with someone in the church to babysit it, and the child died
while the babysitter was watching it
so I had to go to a funeral, where everybody's crying and moaning and weeping
because there's a baby that was left with a babysitter
from someone in church, now you think it's hard to forgive people in church
for the things they've done to you, how about the person that you left your baby with
and in charge of, and then they died under their watch
now I don't even know if there was foul play or not, but your mind would never even
I mean, just think about it, even if there was zero foul play, even if they were perfect
your mind would never forgive that, probably
and I'm just telling you, it's too scary, it's too dark of a world
we live in perilous times, and you know what, your children are just too precious
and I tell you, don't do this stupid stuff
don't make these decisions, well but how are we going to go on a date
you know what, get over yourself, dates are overrated, okay, they're expensive
and you know what, I take my kids with me on our dates anyways
and you say, oh well then how do you enjoy your date, you know what
I tell my kids, don't talk while you're eating
you're like, what do you mean by that, I mean they're not allowed to talk
the adults are talking, we're having polite conversation
and you know, I'll be honest with you, I don't think that our kids are just like super
amazing or like the best behaved children ever, but almost every time we
go out, people are just always coming up just like, your kids are so well behaved
and I'm just thinking like, sometimes we're like talking about how our kids are not well behaved
while they're coming up and complimenting us
but I'm just saying like, you know what, you can actually enjoy going out
to eat with your children, now if you have terrible children, you know what
getting away from them is not the solution, what's the solution
is just making them better, now it's even more, you see these parents
that go out and they give their kids like a TV to set up while they're
in video games or something while they're at the restaurant, you know
that's not really the best solution either, and I get it, we all sometimes you have that
toddler that just can't be reconciled and you just like have anything, you know
just stop crying, I get it, but at the same time, you can control your children
you can still have a pleasant time, you can still go out to nice places
and look, there's plenty of restaurants where kids eat free and
you know, they're not even that much more expensive and you know
if you have a little bit older kids, make them all sit at a separate table, you know
just put them over there and just be like, you know, threaten them, like you better behave
you know, or whatever, don't just ruin the restaurant experience for everybody
but I'm just saying like, there's other ways to have fun and have dates
than to just trust them with some yahoo to put them in risk for
no reason, like just don't make dumb decisions with your children
because the last thing I want to hear about is what happened to your child
you know, another thing, if anybody
in here is like asking your children
to leave this building without their parents permission, I need to know it
kids should never be going outside this building
or walking outside this building, or anybody inviting them
outside this building, or walking, or doing anything, you know what
that is a giant red flag, and I don't care how good of intentions it is
you know, that needs to be corrected immediately
don't invite my kids to do anything, and don't invite other kids to do anything
and kids should not, you children, if someone asks you to go outside
you run and tell mom and dad, because it is not
appropriate, it's not good, parents need to be aware
of everything, children, not every person in here is a good person
the only person you can trust in this building is your parents
it's the only people you can trust, and you know I'd rather
people be a little bit fearful of the people in church than
too trusting, and look, I think that
90 some percent of the people in here are some of the greatest people I've ever been around
I love you guys, I like you, but I don't trust you at all
okay, and I'm never going to trust you, okay
I don't care, you know, how great you are, it's just
not worth it, and really, why I don't want to
trust you is because when you start trusting anybody, then you start figuring out
well where's the line of when I'm going to actually trust someone or not, and then you start getting to some
kind of sketch people, and you're like, well, I don't want to not trust them, because I trust
these other people, so you know, my policy is I trust no one
trust but verify, you know, it should be like politicians, you know how many politicians
I trust, zero, and you know what, just trust
these people in this room with the things that you're worthy, you're ready
to just get rid of, that's why you have the swap, you bring the stuff that you think
are trash, and you're like, you guys can have this, okay, but do not trust people
in this room with things that you would never want to lose, you know, if you never want to
lose your car, don't let, you know, certain people in here drive it, okay
not pointing any fingers, alright
if you don't want to lose your children, don't let anybody
ever have custody of them for even a second, okay, and
I know I'm being really over the top on this, but
honestly, I don't feel like I can be, because
you know, a pound of prevention is better than any amount of cure
okay, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, I guess I said that wrong at first
but the reality is, you want as much prevention for these things
as you can possibly have, because there really is no remedy
once you've gone over the edge on that type of issue
now, Deuteronomy 22, I want to explain something to you, because some people have this
weird idea, they say like, well, why do you have such a strong aversion
to like child predators and child molesters, because the Bible never talks about it
or the Bible never brings this up, or, you know, the Bible is silent on these issues
or, you know, what are you talking about, well, here's the thing, the Bible
it caps things off way early
on the branch, so you don't have to worry about all the
downstream branches, you know, it gets all the way to the root of an issue and cuts
off that branch, so you don't have to worry about all the intricacies
of how far you can go, but the Bible covers two really clear topics
number one is if a man forces a woman
okay, look at Deuteronomy 22, verse 25
but if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her
and lie with her, then the man only that lay with her shall die, so the Bible covers
if a man forces a woman, it's death, okay
now here's the thing, any child cannot make that decision and would never
want that, it is always force, therefore, they deserve
death the same way
now, what's the other scenario, well, what if a man forced
a boy, or the same, well of course, Sodomy's already covered
in the Bible, that's the death penalty, so it doesn't matter how you slice
it and dice it, and whatever scenario you build up, the Bible already made it
abundantly clear, pedophiles should be put to death
every single time, without exception, without question
no pity, no mercy, I mean these are the scummiest people ever
it's the worst crime, stealing someone's innocence
the Bible often constantly brings up how you're supposed to give life for life
they've taken something away from that child that you can't ever give back
and so what should be taken away from them is their life
every single time, and you know why I think this is an important issue for us to
champion and to preach hard on, because almost all of our culture
kind of already agrees with us on this issue, and all of our
enemies fit in this category typically, so it's like, you know, the
three people that we really need to eliminate from society are false prophets
practicers of Judaism, and faggots
and here's the thing, all of them are pedophiles, so
whenever you get pedophiles and you start putting them to death, you're eliminating these three groups
and that's why you see all these movies that are against pedophiles, they're like, oh, it's so anti-Semitic
no, it's anti-Judaism is what it is
no, and they're like, oh, it's anti-Homo, yeah, because they're all pedophiles
oh, it's against, you know, false religion, yeah it is
oh, well what about the Catholic Church, yeah, let's burn the Catholic Church down
spiritually, you know
let's take the leadership down through the proper legal channels
you know, that's what I think
and that's what the Bible teaches, and I think that our culture can get really behind that
it's easier to convince them of that than it probably is
some of the other portions of the Bible, but by just implementing that
it would already reduce the problem so much, it would already help the problem so much
and so we might as well just really get behind
pushing the fact that pedophiles should be put to death, and I think the Supreme Court
had recently ruled that people that commit that crime can't be put to death
that's so wicked, you know, I know you're a pedophile
you defend pedophiles in any way, in any capacity
and it's so unnatural, if you think
well I could be tempted with that, get out
if you think that it's even kind of normal, kind of justified
someone could do that, you may want to do that in the future
never come back here ever again, I never even want to see your face
you're disgusting, you're a predator
there's nothing normal or natural about it, it's the worst scummiest people
and you know the only people that defend that, it seems like, are fake Christians
fake Christian pastors, and you want to know why?
because they're a pedophile too, the only reason someone would defend that person
is because they know they're that person, and so that's why they're so
quick to say, oh well the gospel, you know, we should just love
and have mercy, no, you're a liar
and you're a wolf in sheep's clothing, now go if you would to Jude chapter 1
I'm just going to read a little bit before I kind of get there
but, you know, this stuff needs to be reported because of how
sick and disgusting our culture has become and how depraved it is
you know, there's a website online called bishopaccountability.org
and bishopaccountability.org is only focused on
Roman Catholic priests, but it has an entire database
of just all these Roman Catholic priests that have been caught as being pedophiles
and there's so many, they even have like them categorized
by each state, and if you go and you look at Texas alone
they have 291 listings in just Texas alone
I'm talking about only Catholic priests
only Texas have been caught
291, and in some cases you read about it, they're still in service
they've been shuffled around or moved to another parish
or now they're a teacher at some school or doing what, it's just like
it's insanity
and some people, you know, obviously rightfully so, the Catholic Church gets a bad rep
on this particular position, and I'm not going to let that up
but it doesn't stop with the Catholic Church
it's in a lot of Baptist churches too, and I was looking up just more
recent articles, in 2023, very recent
Magnolia Baptist Church of Magnolia, Texas
had a youth pastor
got caught and confessed to molesting at least
six boys in their kids camp
and this is over a period of time, going to kids camps
and, you know, a lot of people say like, why don't you have all these kids camps?
You know what, they just don't seem to ever have a really good turnout
in hindsight, and these kids camps are just literally
just dens for predators in many cases
it's just bad, I went to a lot of kids camps, and you know, praise God, nothing ever really happened
but at the same time, I was kind of
a pretty shy and timid person, and I tried to stay away from dangerous
situations, and while I was there, there were some sketchy things that happened
and I just stayed away from them, there was lots of times where you could tell
a camp counselor was getting a little bit too close to some of the students
and it was just like, this doesn't seem right
this doesn't seem appropriate, and it wouldn't be the first time
it happens all the time, and 2022, so that's very recent
this is a North Texas youth pastor, so this was a Denton
Bible Church, so that's not that far from here
there was a guy who ended up getting caught
for molesting 14 girls
now, I have a whole article about it, and I'm just going to read
some excerpts from this, but I think what's so important about this
is point number one, is you're supposed to report these things, and when you kind of
get to this end of the story, you kind of start realizing everybody's failing point one
of reporting, and what's scary for those people
is how God is going to impute that type of sin
unto those people, like, wouldn't the worst thing
imaginable is to be guilty of being a child molester, but you can be guilty of a
child molester as a saved person when you don't report it
saved people aren't going to do this stuff, but you know what you could do, is conceal it
and hide it, and then God's still just as angry with you as the person that committed
that crime, because what God knows is that guy's going to keep doing it
and so basically you're aiding and abetting more child molestation
and abuse to happen in the future. I mean, 14's a lot, folks
that's so many children that have been damaged, and think about it
how many of those 14 people do you think are now in church still and like
church and want to go to church when they've been violated by the supposed
leadership? The devil loves to do this, he loves to just destroy
and damage people permanently, and get them to hate church
and hate the things of God, and to bring so much reproach
now this is a quote in this article from the pastor of
the Denton Bible Church, and he's talking about this child
molester, he says, quote, he was manipulative, good at playing on
emotions of teenage girls, our church helped send him to Dallas Theological
Seminary, so this guy was in church, very
manipulative apparently, and they're even funding him and paying for him to go to seminary
or cemetery is what you should call it
and they ended up hiring lawyers and all these people to try and make sure
the church is covered, and you know what's sad is the main reason why
churches don't go public or report these things
is they're afraid of being sued and losing money
they're afraid of being sued and losing their building or losing whatever, it's like nuts to the stupid
building, I mean are 14 girls
innocents not worth a building? Like what
and usually it's a boogeyman anyways, usually you're just afraid
of something that's probably not even that realistic, or they're just afraid of
having the damage to the reputation of the church or that pastor
and he gets fired or something like that, well you know what
if I get fired for protecting girls from being molested, then praise God
like why would that be such a bad
thing, like me being a pastor is not more important than
children's innocence, okay, children's innocence is way
more important than me being a pastor, that's ridiculous
and you know what, even this church specifically, you know it had some
obvious bad rep at some point, maybe some people still think that
it does based on the former pastor, and coming up here and taking on this
church, obviously a lot of that shade could be put on
me even though I didn't really do anything, but it's like so be it
you know what, who cares, as long as we're exposing the truth, being honest
with what happened, and saying let's just save what we can
let's just keep it going with what we can, you know what, I'm not
worried about having a bad reputation with the world, I'm worried about having a bad
reputation with God, now in this article it also says
this that many of the victims who came forward and talked to the news about this
they said after they had been taken advantage of, they said quote
we did not know what to do, and you know what, that's sad
that is sad, and they were bringing reproach on the church, like how do people
that are molested or taken advantage of not know that they should report it, you know
why, because preachers aren't getting up and preaching a sermon like this and telling
everybody you report it, children you report it, children you
tell people, you always say something, you see something, you say
something, something happens, and you know what, it may be embarrassing
it may be uncomfortable, but you know what, it needs to happen
every single time, and so don't ever have this excuse of I didn't know what to do
you know exactly what to do, you just do it, just report it and say something
we need to have that culture, now not only that he
molested these victims that were at this church
but way back in 1997
the same guy had victimized other children
at an 8th grade camping trip in Buffalo National River
in Arkansas, because you know what, he used to be the youth pastor
at a different church in Arkansas, before that
and he had molested children, so this guy is molesting children in Denton
and in Arkansas at two completely different churches
and you know when he molested the children in Arkansas, you know what they did, fired him
but you know that didn't do so well, since he went to another institution
to keep molesting children
not only that, it says that the youth worker
was seen reported, so before he ended up doing this
and of course this guy's name's Shiflet, apparently
this name has a bad connotation, Shiflet
was spending time alone with girls in his car
and it was reported and then nothing happened
it gets worse, it was reported that Shiflet was spending time
alone with girls at his home
it was reported that Shiflet was spending time alone with
young girls in a hotel room
what is the excuse for that?
The letter says that two youth workers raised concerns directly
to Nelson, so directly to the pastor, people are coming
forward and saying, hey, the youth pastor is hanging out with young girls
in his car alone, his home alone, and in hotel rooms alone
are you kidding me? You want to talk
about getting fired really fast? It should never even get to
that layer. Nelson told
Shiflet's supervisor that he should not spend time alone with girls
but no one disciplined Shiflet
nay, tsk tsk, can you imagine?
Like what kind of a creepy pastor are you that you hear about this
and it seems like it's credible because
it's not like he didn't believe it, he gave some disciplinary action, but his
thought was just a verbal, hey, don't do that, that's not
a good idea. Look, that's sick.
Another warning came in 1999 says that
a letter came from a college intern
saying that she was very discomforted and there was a lot of
red flags and this person reported it
to the wife of the youth pastor, but again there was no discipline
and nothing happened. In 2001
the Denton Bible Church turned down Shiflet's request
to be promoted to the high school pastor position and it was because of his
quote, pattern of being alone with girls.
You shouldn't even be surviving, okay?
Let alone, like how are you still on staff?
Like that should be disqualification for all positions.
Not just high school. Like what, you're the junior?
I don't know what it is, it's like you're the junior high and that's okay, but
not the high school? This doesn't even make any sense folks, but this is literally
happening in our neck of the woods. It says not only
this, there was no evidence that any
information about Shiflet's tenure at Denton Bible or reasons
that he did not get the high school position was sought out by or shared with anyone at Fellowship Bible.
So like he had all this horrible stuff happen and then it just wasn't shared
with the other church. It's like look, obviously
if Donnie Romero gets hired as a pastor of another
church or someone's considering it, you better believe I'm going to contact that church.
And unfortunately because YouTube took all of our
videos down, a lot of that information got censored a little bit, but you know what
it wasn't on our side of the equation. It's like let that be up forever.
Let there be the poster up forever of the predators and
the psychos and the criminals and whatever.
Now it also says
as the youth director at Fellowship Bible Church, he was investigated and abused three other
children, happened on a youth group trip to
Panama City, Florida. Now notice a pattern. It's like this youth trip
and then a completely different youth trip and then another youth trip.
It's like, you know what,
it's just sad but that's just the reality.
He moved back, I think he maybe went to Denton then to Arkansas and then back
to Denton and now he's like, then he got caught molesting another child.
I mean how many children does this guy have to molest for our government to ever do something about it?
It's like, what in the world?
I mean I'm not going to read this whole thing, but notice
a pattern of things aren't being reported, things aren't being dealt with,
the pastor is not handling the situation correctly
and you know what, it's just infuriating
that this keeps happening. This is a preventable crime.
Obviously the first time may not be
as preventable, but you know what, it should never get to
14, 15, 16, 17, I mean this is just absurd.
And we as God's people should do everything in our power to stop
children from being abused. But you know if the church calls
them out publicly, exposes them, fires them and
you guys never trust anybody with your children ever,
it really stops the cycle. You know what I'm saying?
Like when we don't have all these youth programs taking them away with random men
of our church, you know what, well then it pretty much
eliminates a lot of that opportunity. And we should just eliminate these opportunities
because it's not worth it. You know, I love kids camps and I had some
fun at them, and you know what, I'm not down on fun, but let me just tell you
something, if I had never been to one, I wasn't really missing out on that much.
Eventually they'll be 16 and they can come to the Mighty Men's Conference, okay?
And we can live out our childhood dreams there, alright?
Most of the guys are like, this reminds me of kids camp, it's your time to finally become a kid again, okay?
And they have some cool water slides, alright?
And you know, maybe sometimes we'll have family camps or we'll do other things,
we've had kid conferences and stuff, but you know, I'm not against doing fun stuff for kids,
but you know what, you should be with your kids and not dropping them off with random
people and just hoping for the best. It's just not worth it.
Now, point number one was that we need to report abuse, but point number two, and this is really important,
and you kind of see it through this church, is that we need to realize that
these people are reprobate and we need to reprobate abusers.
Because without the reprobate doctrine, you have people saying like, well you can't have a higher
position of authority, but you can still be on staff. It's like, no, you're a reprobate.
Get the hell out of my church. I never want to see
your face again. You know, that's what the attitude should be
and the reprobate doctrine is so important here, folks.
And Jude, you know, talks about this and it just makes me
sick to my stomach when I think about how people twist the Bible so much on this issue,
but false prophets know what they're doing, folks. In many cases, they know the gospel
too. They can give lip service to the gospel. It wouldn't be the first time that
there's been people that can say the exact right thing on the gospel and be
unsaved. Probably the most extreme case is a
pastor named Tyler Doka. This guy gave complete lip service
to the right gospel, had a Bible Way to Heaven video, and now
he claims that he's Jesus Christ. And not the second coming,
the first coming. I mean, he's like the worst of the worst anti-Christ
ever. You know, oh well, you know, it's just
they didn't understand it. Well, maybe to some degree, but at the same time
he was able to articulate it. He was able to fool a lot of people and to trick a lot of
people. And you know what, that's not the only person that's done that. Plenty of people
have given lip service to the gospel and then it finds out, yep, they didn't believe, yep, they were
an infiltrator, yep, they're a bad person. And we have to understand
some facts about the repreduction. When they reveal the mask, you know
what, we're going to rip off the rest of it for them. We're not going to just pull it
back down and say like, well, I don't know. Look at verse four.
For there were certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old,
ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness
and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Now notice a couple things
about this. It's saying they crept in unawares, meaning we don't know. Now the Bible
is saying, this is not Pastor Shelley, the Bible is saying
that people are creeping in unawares. Why wouldn't you believe the Bible and realize
there could be people in this room that are wicked, evil people
that we don't know about. There was a Judas
amongst the disciples. They didn't know it. There was sons of Belial among David.
He didn't know it. There's always going to be creepers. There's always going to be men
unawares. Look, in Shur Foundation, one of their church
plants, they had a literal transvestite
infiltrate their church for weeks.
A literal transvestite, folks.
When we went to Red Hot Preaching Conference, a literal sodomite came and infiltrated
one of the services. So I'm just
telling you, this stuff happens and these people are super wicked.
Now, I'm going to give a real friendly reminder
to those transvestites and fags and men crept in unawares
that come to our church. According to the Texas Penal Code,
in section 9.32,
titled Deadly Force in Defense of a Person, the Texas
statute says, when and to the degree the actor
reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary,
it's saying that it is justified to use. It says,
an effort to protect the actor against the other's use or attempted use of
unlawful deadly force. Also says this, these are all the
cases when you're allowed to use self-defense up to the point
of deadly force. So if someone's committing this crime against you, you
are allowed to use deadly force if you deem it necessary
in the event of aggravated kidnapping,
murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault,
robbery, or aggravated robbery. In any of those
scenarios, in Texas, you are lawfully justified
in defending yourself all the way up to deadly force.
Now, I will remind you though, you're not only under the
law of Texas, you're also under the law of God, and I'm going to give a caveat
because according to the Bible, not every robbery is justified
to use deadly force according to God's law, only if
they're using a weapon with deadly force, breaking into your home trying to harm you,
or it's at night. Is it biblically justified to use deadly force?
So obviously if someone steals money out of the cash register at work
and you're buddies with them, you can't be like, pull out a gun and just cap them.
Tell your boss and everything like that.
But if someone's robbing with a weapon, someone's robbing under the threat
of death, anything like that, or it's at night,
it's completely 100% justified biblically and legally.
Technically, according to the law, it's just any robbery.
You make your own discretion, but I'm just telling you you should obey both God and man here.
Now it says this, there's a couple caveats
so I want you to be aware of this, because we should all know what the law is,
and really I'm educating you so you know how to handle these situations.
First, as long as you did not provoke the person first.
As long as you did not provoke the situation first.
You also were not engaged in criminal activity yourself,
so as long as you're not involved in some crime.
Third, you also have the right to be present at that location.
So as long as you are legally and lawfully at the location that you're at,
you can use deadly force in that situation.
But the law goes on, because this is just personal self-defense.
It says also, defense of third person.
So if you also see another person
being in this situation, where they're under threat of this,
it says, according to the law, a person is justified in using force or deadly force
against another to protect a third person, if
under the circumstances, as the actor reasonably believes them to be,
the actor be justified under section 9.31 or 9.32.
So it's not going to reiterate everything I just said, I'll
remind you of that list. Aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual
assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery or aggravated robbery.
It says, they're justified in using force or deadly force to protect
themselves against the unlawful force or unlawful deadly force he reasonably
believes to be threatening the third person he seeks to protect.
And the actor reasonably believes that his intervention is immediately
necessary to protect the third person. So I wanted
to give you the law for a second and then explain. If anybody is ever
abusing a child and they get caught
in the act, I will always believe it was immediately
necessary to use deadly force to stop that.
And everyone in my church said amen.
Okay, so I just want you to realize if you
try something anywhere near us and there is even an
inkling that you get caught, we are totally justified, willing,
able and wanting to use deadly force.
That person better be terrified
of their life. And you know, I can't
control people. I tell people what to do, like as far as what the Bible says,
like, hey, you shouldn't take things into your own hands and you should obey the law of God.
But, you know, when someone just finds out you're a child molester,
sometimes they don't even care what the law is, they just take things into their own hands anyways.
And you know what, this should be the last place on earth
you feel comfortable being a child molester. Being a pedophile or being a
faggot. You know what, if you try to infiltrate our church, just
realize you're forfeiting your right to live if you get caught doing
one of these things. And of course, I'm just saying what the law says,
it would be immediately necessary in my personal belief,
okay, and it's worth it. You say, well, what are the consequences for you?
Well, you know what, it's worth it anyways because, you know what, what's my life
versus fourteen future lives?
You know what, it's just, it's just sick
what's happening and you know what, these people are reprobate. Oh, why don't you try to give
them the gospel, Pastor Shelley? Well, you know what, I'm going to try and help them meet God
real soon. And they'll get
to clarify the reprobate doctrine real fast with God, okay.
But let me tell you something, these people are wicked and evil and Jude
is not talking about saved people. It says they're ordained
to this condemnation. Hey, they're already
selected to die and go to hell, folks. They're wicked.
Let's keep reading. It says
in verse seven, even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, and like men
are giving themselves a word of fornication and going after strange flesh
are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Look, someone that
wants to be with a child is a queer. It's a pervert. It's
strange. It's weird. No one is interested in a child
that's not developed. And especially, you know, it doesn't even matter how developed
they are. If it's the same gender, then, you know, it's always
perverted. It's always strange. And notice how God said it.
Hey, they're all going to eternal fire. He didn't say, like, give them the gospel.
Abraham didn't walk down the Sodom and Gomorrah and give them the gospel.
He he just sat back and watched God
toast them. The direct energy weapon, okay.
And you know what?
That place, the investors weren't coming to buy up afterwards, okay?
There wasn't any insurance policies for that.
Go back to Second Peter, chapter two, just flip back to the left.
I want to show you another verse here in kind of context, because Second Peter chapter two and Jude are
really the same ideas, the same passage
as far as like content topic. Some people call it a parallel
passage, just meaning bringing up the same events.
And in Second Peter chapter number two, though, look at verse six. It also brings this story up.
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes can dim them with an overflow,
making them an example under those that after should live
ungodly. Now, think about this. Sodom and Gomorrah was a story for anybody after
that to realize how God feels. And you say, well,
that's Old Testament. But you know what? This is New Testament saying God still wants people to realize
that even after the New Testament, God still feels the exact same way.
It's not like God changed on that issue.
There was no change. I am the Lord. I change not. He still hates
faggots, OK? He's never liked them. And I love that about God.
OK? I don't like being around
guys that used to hate fags in high school and now they're soft on them or something.
That's weird. What happened? But look at another
verse. Go to verse 12. But these as natural, brute beasts made
to be taken and destroyed speak evil of the things
that they understand not and shall utterly perish in their own corruption
and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness as they that count
it pleasure to riot in the daytime spots they are in blemishes
sporting themselves with their own deceiving while they feast
with you. Notice where they're at.
They're with you. And you know what? They think
it's just so cool how they can just chat it up.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm new. I have B2, man. Yeah.
Go, Pastor Anderson. Yeah, I really like that
that movie, Sodomite Deception. Ha ha ha. And then they make a video
online and drag saying, oh, yeah, I tricked everybody.
They think it's so cool that they can come in and use the right
lingo, not even understanding what they're saying, but just
chatting it up, having fun. And even false prophets are like this.
False prophets just love the fact that they can trick the whole congregation. They can trick a whole bunch of people.
They don't believe in the Bible. They're just using it to get money out of people. And they're just thinking
like, think how gullible these people are and suckers that can just get
up here and just say all kinds of stupid things. I mean, the things that
come out of their mouths are literally nonsense.
They're just like, God's going to bless you with the blessing that comes from the
blessing when you stand up for the right of God's blessing in your life
and mercy is going to be with you. And the people are like, whoa,
it was deep. Dude, he said nothing.
He probably went home and he's like, I don't even know how they clapped after that.
Like, Steven Vurdek is like screaming, I am God almighty.
And people are clapping after that. He's like, he probably went home and laughed himself.
He's like, I literally said that I'm God and they thought it was great.
I mean, think about it. That's what these false prophets
and these evil people are like. Notice verse 14, having eyes full
of adultery and that cannot cease from sin
beguiling unstable souls. Why in the world would you reprobate these people, Pastor Shelley?
Because they cannot cease from sin. Why do they
get the death penalty? Because they cannot cease from sin. Why is it important
to report it? Because they cannot cease from sin. And they're
beguiling unstable souls. What's more unstable than a child?
They love to just hurt the innocent and take it away from
them. And you know what? That's why it's important to reprobate. What does reprobate even mean?
Reject them. I don't want them.
And you say, well, you really saying to me,
Pastor Shelley, you think every child molester is a reprobate and
going to hell? Yes. And you say, well, what
if you're wrong? What if one out of the
ten billion child molesters that have ever existed, one of them was actually
saved? Well, you know what? I have zero worry
about standing before God that I didn't let that one person come to my church.
I don't care. Even if they could get saved, they're
still just never welcome here ever. I don't care what your opinion is.
You think, well, my uncle that's molested children, he got saved, so I'm going to bring him to
Fast Baptist Church. Wrong.
Child molesters are never welcome here ever. Never,
ever, ever, ever. They cannot cease from sin.
They're not welcome. Even if they got saved, they still
deserve a bullet in their head.
And you know, I would have no pity on that individual.
Even if you believe Jeffrey Dahmer got saved, which I don't, he believed in work
and salvation. He told people, he said, like, even after
converting to Christianity, he said he still has those urges and would still do it
if they let him out. Why don't you just believe him?
If you believe his testimony on the gospel, even though he's not
saved, but you don't believe him when he says he's literally going to be a predator still?
Believe the predator, OK? He wants to molest
children. Think about it. Convicts,
ax murderers, drug dealers, they hate these people
and want to murder them. And then Christians are like, bring them on in, let's
pray, let's pray the pedophilia out of him.
You're an idiot. You are a predator.
Well, we just won't give them promotions.
What are you talking about? We're not going to give them promotions. We're going to pick them up and throw them
in the parking lot and hope that he doesn't get up again.
Spiritually, OK?
Go to 1 Kings chapter 15.
And look, you know,
obviously some people get a little over the top on this and I get it.
Look, if a grown man is attracted to an
18, 19, 20 year old girl, he's not a pedophile, folks.
Now, would I let a 50 year old guy date my 18 year old
daughter? Never. It's not happening.
And I'd also think he's kind of a pervert or weirdo if I found that out. So don't even
tell me ever. But I wouldn't necessarily categorize that guy
as a pedophile because once someone's, you know,
fully developed and everything like that. Look, some 18 year olds look
27 and, you know, it's like hard to even tell
these days. There's a lot of things going on. And if you read
the Bible carefully, David was 80 years old when they
sought a fair young virgin, Abishak. And you know what?
David's not a bad guy. That just tells me
old men still attracted young women. And if you've been in the
world at all, you'd realize that's just the case, OK? But you know what?
Grown normal men are not attracted to little girls.
It's just not reality. It's just not
on the table. It's just not something that you're interested in. It's like
it just it's reprobate, folks.
And we need to realize that it's reprobate and teach the reprobate doctrine.
Pedophiles are reprobate. They're never welcome.
And so point one is this. We need to report the abuse. We need to reprobate the
abusers. And number three, we need to remove the abusers.
We need to remove the abusers. Now,
while we live in America, we don't have biblical laws. Unfortunately, these
people aren't being dealt with criminally the way they should be. They're not being put to
death lawfully like they should, but they should, at the bare minimum, be
removed from every aspect of our lives.
Church, your family, your family reunion,
your family photos, your Facebook friends,
your Instagram buddies or whatever, your emails,
your business, just every part of your life, this person
should be removed from permanently. And it's
frustrating that I have to deal with this personally
and people don't get on board with it. Or they take a long time to even figure it out.
Because I've had in my extended family, unfortunately,
there was a guy who molested his own daughter. And you know what's so
sick about it? Some of the family immediately when they found out reported
to the police, some of the family, when they found out, they took him to lunch.
Here's another sick thing. It was told to the pastor
of the church that he did it.
And the pastor gave him counseling sessions
and allowed him to still go to the church. What kind of
a freak are you to let the guy that's molesting
his own daughter, you're going to let him come to the same church as his daughter
as long as he takes counseling sessions?
Southern Baptist Convention. And you know what? The Southern Baptist Convention
has already been caught for having their own private list of all these
child molesters and predators that they wouldn't report or tell anybody about.
Because it was just harboring pedophiles. That is a shame
and reproach on the Baptists. Everyone should
know. And they should be thrown out, have nothing to do with,
not welcome to come to church ever again. And you know what? The sick
reprobate, he convinced his whole family to lie to the law
and to lie to the cops so that he didn't get in trouble.
Even though it was reported by multiple people, he convinced them and so now he's still
free out there to do whatever molesting and freak reprobate garbage
he wants to do. You know what? If you're
a lady in here and your husband ever molested your
child, never lie to the cops about it.
Never convince your daughter to lie to the cops about it. And you know why they have that
pressure? Well, who's going to pay your bills? Who's going to pay? You know what?
God's going to pay your bills. Don't be like that.
Don't ever cover for these people. Don't ever harbor
these people. Don't ever try to have sympathy for these people.
I don't care who it is. Remove them from your life.
And you know what? The righteous kings, righteous
government removed them from the planet. Look at 1 Kings 15
and look at verse 11. And Asa did that which was
right in the eyes of the Lord as did David his father.
And he took away the Sodomites out of the land and removed all the
idols that his fathers had made. You know what? That's what we need in America.
We need righteous leaders who are going to remove the Sodomites and the idols out of this land.
And not let someone like Vivek Riswampi
come and take over this country. Why in the world would we let a Hindu become the
president of America? That's so ridiculous.
Talk about setting up false gods and idols in America. Let a
Hindu? That's a shame and reproach on our country and our nation.
It's one thing to let the serial adulterer and the most
prideful person, Trump, be the frontrunner for the Republican Party. But to let a Hindu
be in second place? I mean that's embarrassing.
That's to show you how spiritually dead our country really is.
And literally even Christians saying like, oh he believes in my God.
No he doesn't. He's a Hindu.
You're an idiot. You know what? We need to remove
the Sodomites and the idols out of our land so we can actually go back to biblical
laws. What the Bible actually says.
And getting rid of predators and pedophiles. Go to Deuteronomy 19.
Go to Deuteronomy 19. I'm almost finished. I'm going to show you a few more verses.
Look this needs to never be covered up.
And you know what? Bill Gothard had lots of people come out and say that he
took advantage of them. But here's a guy that's not married alone
with other people's children. And it's like it's always
the same pattern folks. It's always the same. Well
I left my child alone with this other person and they didn't
even have children. And it's like, what are you doing?
Why? Why are you doing that?
And look I'm not against people that don't have children. If God didn't bless you with children
you know what? Or you're struggling. Hey you know what? We're praying for you.
Some of the godliest people in the Bible are like that. But you know what? There could be bad reasons
why they're not having children. And I'm not trying to shame people that don't have children.
But I also at the same time don't want to sit here and pretend like
that it couldn't be for a really specific reason.
And it couldn't be for really bad reasons as well. That God is not
opening that womb or causing some kind of an issue. And of course we don't want to be Job's
friends going around saying that about people. But at the same time
you as a parent need to keep that in mind and realize hey
this is probably just something I need to stay away from anyways.
And I need to just go ahead and be protective of my children.
I feel way more comfortable hurting your feelings than I do
putting my children at any level of risk.
I usually don't really care about people's feelings anyways but you know
just putting that out there. And I will hurt your feelings in order to protect
my children. Deuteronomy chapter 19 look at verse 21.
And thine eye shall not pity, but life shall go for life
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand for foot. Look when someone
does a crime according to the law it's always an equal and opposite
punishment for that person. So what do you think is the reasonable
conclusion? Someone has molested and taken away the innocence
life and purity of a child. You can't even
you can't even necessarily there's not even an equivalent. Death is like
a lesser punishment. So it's totally justified. How can I not
want to remove this person from my life and my situation
and have nothing to do with them when they permanently defiled someone else.
It's just you know what mine eye is not going to pity you
ever. Go to Leviticus chapter 20.
It's sick. And it's sick what these groomers do. It's sick how they
just pervert these children. They ruin these children.
They get them so confused. If you've ever known someone
or even maybe yourself you've been abused by someone the psychological
damage is just so awful.
And in so many cases it's just so evil and they can't even
forget these things. They're in their brain forever
images of horror. It's hard for them to trust people ever
again. It's hard for them to sleep. It's hard for them to have normal
relationships with their spouse. It's hard for them to have just a normal
life in some cases. Now you know what God can still restore people.
God can still help people forget the past and move on and have
complete restoration. And you know I hope that for every person that's in that situation.
But let's be real some people just they're like permanently damaged
and permanently scarred and just so evil.
We need to shun these people. We need to get rid of them. We need to have nothing
to do with them. The last thing I'm going to do is hide that
from society. And say I understand brother let me pray for you.
I'm going to pray Psalm 58. I'm going to pray this.
As a snail which melteth let every one
of them pass away like the untimely birth of a woman that they may
not see the sun. That's what I'm going to pray for you. I'm going to pray the previous verse that says
break their teeth in their mouth oh God. That's what I'm going to pray for you.
And if I catch you in the act I'm going to bring that prayer to life.
Leviticus chapter 20
look at verse 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses
saying again thou shalt say to the children of Israel whosoever he be
of the children of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel that giveth any of his seed unto
Moloch he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
And I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people because he hath given
of his seed unto Moloch to defile my sanctuary and profane my holy name.
And if the people of the land do anyways hide their eyes
from the man when he giveth of his seed unto Moloch and kill him not
then will I set my face against that man
and against his family and will cut him off
and all that go ahoring after him to commit whoredom with Moloch
from among their people. You know what the Bible is saying?
Look when someone does something so evil and is hurting children
and damaging children if you don't kill him
God is imputing that sin unto you.
And you know what? That is a giant curse.
If you find out a family member of yours is one of these
child molesters and you in any way conceal, hide, look
the other way be it known that God is going to set his face against you.
And God is going to curse you and your family and evil
is going to come raining down upon you. And you know what?
It seems like these individuals do have that happen to them.
Their whole family just turns into a train wreck and just destruction
and evil. God doesn't take this stuff
lightly folks. I don't care what country you think you are in. I don't care what the news
media says. I don't care what planet you think you are on.
You know what? You are on God's planet and you are under God's laws right now.
And God still feels the exact same way and God is still
super angry. And I don't care if the whole world is evil, God is still going to treat you
the same way. And God is super angry at this and super mad
at this and we should be the last church ever
on the planet to not report it, reprobate it,
and remove it. We should always be reporting it
reprobating it and removing it as much as humanly possible.
I don't care what the reputation is of our church. Oh man!
Every time a sodomite comes to St. Vass Baptist Church
they always make a big deal about it and call it out and publicly shame the
person and reprobate the person. You better believe it!
And they remove it! They remove it every single time.
And just because we have this policy I am not saying that we are
any safer than anywhere else. Trust
no one. Trust literally no one.
I want to elaborate one more point and I will finish. The person
who I talked about earlier, Kyle Chambers, who was caught as a child
molester, the person that
ended up marrying him, it was a divorce and remarriage.
And people constantly come up to me
and they always think like, oh why would God want me to stay single
for the rest of my life and not get remarried?
Well, is it better to stay unmarried or to marry a child molester that is going to
molest your child? Which one is worse?
And let me tell you something, and I am not trying to be mean here, but
ladies that have been divorced and have children
you are not the most desirable women on the market.
Do you know what kind of guys like to come after you?
Guys that are predators. And look, I am not trying to be mean.
I am trying to be realistic. Because if you are a young lady
that has kids and is single and this guy is just showing so much interest
you better be double and triple sure what his intentions are.
Because you have to be realistic. It is just like you ugly guys.
When some pretty girl is interested in you, she is not interested in you.
Just wake up. She is trying to get money out of you
or something or she is just a whore.
But sometimes we have to be a little bit realistic about who we are.
And just say like, wow I am just too ugly for her.
And get some realistic expectations.
I have a little bit too much baggage here for this to make a lot of sense.
And I am telling you, predators are wise and cunning.
We want to make sure that we are not just opening the door to predators
to take advantage of us and do harm to us. People that are just so
friendly and coming up and being like, volunteering
like, hey whenever you go on a vacation, we would love to watch your kids.
Never ever let that person watch your kids. At Faith Award there was a
person like that and then it came out that they were pedophiles later.
When someone is volunteering to watch my kids, especially a dude
you are definitely a predator. I never want to watch your kids.
Okay.
And I am not saying because I am an unsafe person and I am not saying I wouldn't do a good job.
I am saying you shouldn't trust me so that you won't trust anyone else.
I won't watch your kids. I don't want to watch your kids.
Don't let other people watch your kids. Have nothing to do with
freaks that are just trying to intrude into your family and watch them.
No one wants to watch kids folks. Predators want to watch kids.
You have to pay people all kinds of extra money for them to watch your kids.
Okay. No one is doing that just because of the goodness of their heart.
And I am just, I don't want anyone in here as kids
to ever get hurt. It would hurt my soul too much. Okay.
Let's close in prayer. Thank you Heavenly Father for our church and for these families in here.
I pray that you would just help us to take heed to the warnings
of the Bible and to take the children that you have given us with all
seriousness and soberness and that you would help protect them.
And even if our church makes dumb decisions or
trusts people when they shouldn't, I pray that you would still protect them.
That you would still have angels there to guard them
and to make sure that nothing bad ever happens to them.
But I pray that you would help us to also have wisdom and discretion
to not put ourselves in dumb and bad situations. For us to not
trust the wrong people. I pray that if we have evil amongst
our congregation that you would just kill them right now. You would just strike them dead
and that we wouldn't have to have anybody get injured. And that anybody evil
that tries to come into our church in the future that you would just help us to expose
them as quickly as possible and to deal with them appropriately.
I pray that you would put it deep into our hearts to always have the courage to do what's right
and always report abuse and always reprobate
the abusers and remove them from our lives. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Alright for our last song we're going to sing song 238
Christ liveth in me. Beautiful song here.
You definitely want to sing out with some passion nice and loud.
238 Christ liveth in me.
108 Christ liveth in me.
in me, as lives the fire within the sea, as in the palm of the
tree.
So praise the God of truth and praise his spirit
within me.
Christ, live in me.
Oh, what a salvation this and Christ, live in me.
All right, you guys are singing good.
After this fourth verse here, I'm
going to ask the instruments to stop playing.
And we'll do that last chorus a cappella.
Let's sing it out on the floor.
With longing, all my heart is filled.
That like him I may be.
As on the wondrous thought I dwell,
that Christ liveth in me.
Sing it out together now.
Christ, liveth in me.
Oh, what a salvation this, that Christ liveth in me.
Great singing.
Thank you all for coming this morning.
God bless.
You are dismissed.