But I'm gonna ask what I want us to do. It's just to listen take it in and when we get to that chorus as a response
Let's lift up our voice as we praise the Lord tonight in song
So brother Yeager you come take your time on this last verse and then let's join all together on that last chorus and sing
To the King of Kings tonight for the Yeager afternoon everybody and welcome dead fast Baptist Church
Great to see everybody here tonight. If we can go ahead and find our seats. We will get started seat
Let's grab a hymnal for our first song tonight. We'll go to song number
25 25
Solace open up the service now with a word of prayer just love you so much and thank you so much for this awesome church
Thank you so much for all the souls that were wanting to you this afternoon
Using us as your vessels to take care of that Lord
We just asked now to fill this room with your spirit help us sing out to you this afternoon
All these things in Jesus name. All right for our next song
Let's go our fingers and there should be nearby with laminated pages within you can find be thou my vision
This morning be thou my vision. Let's all sing it again tonight
Sing it out loud first. I'm gonna say that's Baptist Church
If you need a bulletin just look through your hand nice and high one of our ushers can come by get you guys a bulletin
On the front we have our Bible memory passage a new Bible memory chapter
Psalm 53 on the insides our service and soul winning times our church stats on the right is our expecting ladies list
Please be in prayer for them coming events the false. Why is there still stuff out there? I'm pretty sure so I think there's still items
Potentially. No. Yes. I'm getting mixed signals. Okay. No nothing out there. It's all gone. Thank you for every who participated
All right, also chili cook off Texas chili cook off October 31st
If you'd like to participate in the competition, just bring your chili by 6 p.m
That way we can make sure to get samples out for all of our judges
We're really looking forward to having some more Texas chili
SWC it has a missions conference November 5th through the 9th. I got invited to preach there on the 6th
And I'll be mentioning what we did in our Bahamas missions trip, and I'm excited about that
Also, anchor Baptist Church is having their one-year anniversary
Homocity and I'll be preaching out there for them November 23rd. There's a turkey bowl November 29th
Ladies Christmas party December 5th Christmas caroling December 8th children's choir
So the children choir practice begins November 9th following the evening service and then
We have their performance is going to be December 21st
I'm not exactly sure what was the youngest age for so it's four to then what's is there a top age 18?
Yeah, so basically from anywhere from four to 18 anybody that wants to participate
We kind of two choirs kind of a younger choir and then an older choir if you'd like to participate in that
We'd love for you to do so. Honestly our Easter service
Choirs were really special really awesome. I thought everybody did a great job
They looked great
And so we're looking forward to doing that again for this Christmas the cookie bake-off December 21st as well
Christmas candlelight service the 24th men's preaching and pizza December 31st on the back is our prayer list
Please be in prayer for our church family and then a baby shower on November 8th for the Villa Rills and Campesys
And the details are there below that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements when seeing our psalm of the week psalm 67
If you want to sing it out nice and loud psalm 67 in our special binders
Hanging everybody now as the offering plates are being passed around go ahead and open your bibles to Isaiah chapter 65
That's the book of Isaiah chapter number 65 chapter 65 the Bible says I am sought of them that asked not for me
I am found of them that sought me not I said behold me behold me unto a nation that was not called by my name
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people
Which walketh in a way that was not good after their own thoughts a people that provoked me to anger
Continually to my face that sacrifices in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick
Which remain among the graves and lodge in the monuments?
Which eat swine's flesh and broth of abominable things is in their vessels which say stand by thyself
Come not near to me for I am holier than thou
These are a smoke in my nose a fire that burneth all the day behold it is written before me
I will not keep silence, but will recompense even recompense into their bosom your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together
Sayeth the Lord which have burned incense upon the mountains and blasphemed me upon the hills therefore
Will I measure their former work into their bosom thus?
Sayeth the Lord as the new wine is found in the cluster and one sayeth destroy it not for a blessing is in it
So will I do for my servant's sakes that I may not destroy them all and I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob
and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains and mine elect shall inherit it and my servant shall dwell there and
Sharon shall be a fold of flocks and the valley of Acre a place for the herds to lie down in
For my people that have sought me but year they that forsake the Lord that forget my holy mountain
That prepare a table for that troop and that furnish the drink offering unto that number
Therefore will I number you to the sword and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter?
Because when I called ye did not answer when I spake ye did not hear
But did evil before mine eyes and did choose that wherein I delighted not
Therefore thus saith the Lord God
Behold my servant shall eat but ye shall be hungry behold my servant shall drink but ye shall be thirsty
Behold my servant shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed
Behold my servant shall sing for joy of heart
But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall howl for vexation of spirit and ye shall leave your name for a curse
Under my chosen for the Lord God shall slay thee and call his servants by another name
That he who blessed blessedeth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth
And he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth
Because the former troubles are forgotten and behold they are hid from mine eyes
For behold I create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered nor come into mine
But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create for behold
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy and I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people and
The voice of weeping shall be heard no more no more be heard in her nor the voice of crying
There shall be no more thence an infant of days
Nor an old man that hath not filled his days for the child shall die and hundred years old
But the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed and they shall build houses and inhabit them and they shall plant
Vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build and another inhabit
They shall not plant and another eat for as the days of a tree are the days of my people and mine elect shall long
Enjoy the work of their hands
They shall not labor in vain
Nor bring forth for trouble for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord and their offspring with them and it shall come
To pass that before they call I will answer and while they are yet speaking
I will hear the wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock and
Dust shall be the serpents meet they shall not hurt nor destroy and all my holy mountains say at the Lord
Let us pray dear heavenly father. Thank you for this day. Thank you for the great service. We had this morning
I pray that you would please bless pastor Shelley now help him to preach the message you've laid on his heart and please help
Us to hear the word of God and help us to be better Christians in Jesus name. Amen, man
I want to look back at verse 5 which say stand by thyself come not near to me for I'm holier than thou are or
For I'm holier than thou
this is where we get this concept of a holier than thou or a holier than thou art type of a
Idea or concept that's mentioned in the Bible. What is the context?
Well in verse 1 it says I'm sought of them that ask not for me
I am found of them that sought me not this is pretty familiar language because in Romans chapter 10
This is quoted about the Gentiles
And so really the context of the passage is how the Jews as a group of people or the Hebrews
They look down upon the Gentiles. They thought that they were a
Subclass of humans that they're not as holy. They're not as good. They didn't like them
They thought because they're Jews
because of their heritage
They're better than Gentiles and they have this attitude of you can't stand near me
You kind of see this play out in the New Testament where when James comes and visits some of the Gentiles
Peter and Barnabas are carried away in their dissimulation where they would not eat with the Gentiles
So that's that attitude of I wouldn't eat with these people. I wouldn't fellowship with these people
I'm holier than you are. I'm more separated than you are and what is holy
Holy is to be set apart. It's to be separated. That's what that means
They're saying I'm more separated than you but God's very angry because in verse 4 it says they remain among the graves
They lodge in the mountains are we starting the monuments which each swine's flesh and broth of abominable things in their vessels
Now, of course in the Old Testament. It was wrong to eat pork or that which comes of the swine
So bacon was off-limits. That's why we're in the better testament number one is bacon. Okay, number two is bacon
All right. No, I'm just kidding. But it I really love bacon. All right
Here's the thing they were eating bacon and then they were condemning Gentiles for eating bacon
You know, you call that a hypocrite which says and does not says hey
We're separated. We don't eat these kind of meats, but then they're eating them in secret. They're a hypocrite
So there's some concepts that are being brought up in this chapter and I feel like we can apply these concepts
Into applications we have today. And so the title of my sermon this evening is this
Super super mega ultra separated and there's people out there. They have this mindset where they're super mega ultra separated
And you know, it's kind of a it's kind of a over-the-top attitude
Go to the Ecclesiastes chapter number 7 go to the Ecclesiastes chapter number 7 and really I'm preaching this sermon Sunday night because
The Sunday morning crowd doesn't have this problem. We need to get them more separated. All right, it's the people that have actually
Separated themselves a lot they can kind of almost get carried away and get a little bit over-the-top and start
You know essentially trying to be like this
Competition of separation where they're trying to separate from people and and really, you know
another way to look at the sermon that I'm going to preach this evening is kind of an idea of like
standards and
preferences
Versus convictions and commandments there's things in the Bible that we just should all agree with and we should just all have that
Biblical conviction because of what the Bible says and the Bible tells us that it's good to separate ourselves
From the world the Bible says that we're supposed to come out from among them and be separate sayeth the Lord
So there's a biblical separation that the Bible commands the the Bible demands, but then there's a next level of separation
that many people like to do for themselves and then they kind of condemn and judge a lot of other people for not being as
Separated as them and then they are these super mega ultra separated people and they look down upon other individuals
But another aspect of this is while they're quote super mega ultra separated
They're actually just hypocrites and their separation and their distinctiveness. They're not even actually
Doing this kind of separation now biblically speaking the Bible brings up this concept in Ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 16
Look what it says be not righteous over much. It's kind of an interesting thought. It's kind of an interesting verse
Let's keep reading to get a better idea what it means. Neither be thou. I'm sorry. Neither make thyself over wise
Why shouldest thou destroy thyself now? Here's the thing is righteous is like righteousness bad or wisdom bad
No, there's nothing there's nothing wrong with righteousness
There's nothing wrong with this particular point of being wise, but you have to realize that in our lives
We cannot spin
24/7 only doing righteous things and only doing wisdom things some of our life is gonna be vanity
I mean the whole the whole passage of Ecclesiastes is just vanity, you know a lot of what we're gonna do in our lives
It's just ultimately vanity, you know eating and drinking and living and sleeping and just doing our jobs and just doing whatever
I mean, there's just a lot of vanity to our life. You know, you cannot just go hey
I'm gonna go soul-winning and as soon as I'm done soul-winning
I'm gonna pray and as soon as I'm done praying I'm gonna sing
Sing psalms as soon as I'm done singing something going back to soul-winning and then I'm gonna pray and then more psalms and then pray
No, no, sometimes you have to eat. Sometimes you have to sleep. Sometimes you have to just work a job
Sometimes you just play a game with your wife
Okay, and it's basically just saying you're not gonna spend every waking moment of your life being righteous
You also can't spend every second just studying and learning all day every day
You know can't read the entire Bible in one day. How you gonna read the Bible cover to cover?
You have to read a little bit every single day and it takes that diligence
You know at the end of the day your mind and your body are not capable of just all day every day
Just I'm only learning. I'm only growing. I'm only doing right like all I do is just read the Bible go soul-winning
And look, I'm not against somebody if they could technically do this. I'm not gonna fight you
But what does the Bible say be not thou be not righteous over much? What's the point?
Why should us doubt destroy thyself and I would say and I'm not saying this is just only their problem
But some people I've noticed struggle with this is young single guys
Sometimes there's young single guys that get pretty zealous and I'm not against their zeal
but it's like it's like almost they have to go soul-winning for like six hours every day and read their Bible for another six hours and
Just they're just like on this
Sustainable life journey to just only do right and what you kind of notice sometimes is they do this for only a few months
And then they just burn out and they're gone, you know, they're like, oh they're on a good path
But then they just kind of just destroy themselves because they go just so ascetic. They're not they're not working on finding a wife
They're not working on a career. They're not working on like other aspects of life
They're just like I'm just gonna only do righteousness, but then they just burn out so quick
Why because we need a balance in our lives. We need to realize hey
There's more life than just only being righteous because you just can't only be righteous every single second
You can't just only ever go soul-winning. You can't just only ever read the Bible
You can't just only ever sing the Psalms and hymns just 24/7 and pray without ceasing
Literally, okay, you just can't do it. And so it's what is the Bible doing? It's trying to give us some balance in life
It's saying hey, sometimes you're gonna just have other aspects of your life. Ultimately, they're vanity
But it just kind of keeps us sane. It just kind of keeps us normal
Okay now it says the verse 17 be not over much wicked neither be thou foolish
Why shouldest thou die before thy time?
So it's kind of a balancing verse to what we just said to and I remember my mom my mom worked really hard
You know, my mom had a little bit of you know, some feminist tendencies in the sense that she had a job
She had a career. She had multiple college degrees, you know
But she was she also had a lot of like good traditional values, too
But I remember she worked so hard and she studied and she did all kinds of stuff
So when it would be like nine o'clock at night, she would say I want to do a brainless activity
She's like I just want to watch something or play a game or just one and even the games
It could not be a game that you'd use your brain
It had to be just complete just shutting off your brain type of a game, which I hate those kind of games
Okay, I can't remember there was one there was this card game that she just like loved and it was it was the most brainless
Activity, I cannot remember the name of this game. What is the name of it in a pic? No, it's not that there's some card game
Where you would just know it was like a made-up game or something that we play
I don't remember but it was like it's basically like a glorified game of war
Okay
And the thing about war is war has already been decided before you even start playing it is the true Calvinist game out there
That's why I hate war. Okay, you know, I don't want to play this kind of game because there's literally no decision-making
You're just flipping over cards, you know
It's just like like I don't want to play that game like I want to at least have a little bit of luck or like skill
Or something, you know, and again, it was called like hand and foot. That's what it was called
I now remember it's called this game like hand and foot or something like and it was basically like glorified war
Ultimately at the end of the day some made-up game and it would just always kind of make me upset
But like I kind of get it though
Like she spent her whole day just working so hard and thinking and doing this stuff that by the end of the day
She just doesn't want to use that part of her body anymore. It's kind of worn out
She just wants to have some fun fellowship hang out and I get it
It's okay that maybe at some hour in the day you just kind of say, you know what? I'm done
Let's just do something relaxing. Let's just have some fun. It's not like oh, it's nine o'clock now
Let's read Leviticus 10 at 10 o'clock Deuteronomy then we're gonna sing some more Psalms and that we can't we're gonna pull it all nighter
Actually, we came in sleep now, you know, it's like it's okay to have some recreation in your life, right?
But what is it also saying it's saying be not over much wicked, you know
obviously when we enter into the realm of
Vanity there could be some layers of quote wickedness attached to that right and we want to make sure that we're careful that we're not
Just subjecting ourselves just all kinds of bad influences bad
Ideologies other things that are going to cause us to go down a bad path, you know, we don't want to be stupid
We want to have wisdom so we don't want to just only ever play games that don't use our brain
We don't want to like only ever just watch TV and just rot our brains out, you know
And again, like obviously there's gonna be a lot of subjectivity when it comes to media games things like that
I mean, you know you read the Bible there's some stories in here. They're pretty gnarly
I mean people are chopping up women and sending them body parts in the mail. That's pretty gnarly story
You know all kinds of incest incest and rape and murder and all kinds of crazy things
Like so, you know, I don't think it's necessarily you could say just it's a sin
If you read another book or have some kind of media and it brings up these same concepts
but you know what if you're just filling your mind and filling your heart with just murder and rape and
Obligation all those guys. It's probably gonna cause you some problems, you know, you have to realize like hey
We can't just gorge ourselves on vanity and gorge ourselves on wickedness and evil and whatever and it not affect us
It will affect us
But again, there's just this balance to life now some people that were not balancing on this is called Puritans
Puritans wanted to stay so far away from all wickedness and evil that they literally did they banned it they criminalized it
They just stood so far away from it. You know what? Where are the Puritans now? No one wants to follow that back
It's an unsustainable path. It's an unsustainable path. It's not realistic
It wasn't God's design God's not just wanting us to go stand in a room
And we can't have circles and squares and we can only ever read the Bible on a wooden bench and just no music
No fun. No joy. No anything
You know, that's just not that level of asceticism is not going to last or sustain you and it didn't last and it's not gonna last
What is the next verse it says in verse?
18 it is good that thou shouldest take hold of this yay
Also from this withdrawal not by hand for he that feareth God so come forth of them all
Look ultimately we should still fear God
What I don't want you to do is I don't want you to hear this sermon and say like, okay
I don't need to have any standards any rules. It doesn't matter serving God
No, no, whatever path you're on. Please stay on that path. Okay, but think about like hey
Are you on a sustainable path?
And if you're making standards and rules for yourself that go above the Bible
Let us not force that on other people and judge other people and start saying well, I'm more separated than you
I'm better than you because I quote have this standard and you don't what could be a standard like I go so winning two hours
A week you only go so winning one hour week is two hours better than one
Absolutely, it's not a good question. If you're doing two hours a week stay doing two go to three
I don't care, but let's not look down on some of that's going one and be like, well, you're separated, but I'm super mega
Ultra separated, you know, I can't really I don't I don't want to fellowship with people that are so backslid and they're only going
So any once a week like look this bug can get in people's minds go to Hebrews chapter 10
I'm gonna go through a laundry list of things really quick
Don't let anybody ever confuse you and think that the people coming to our church are not separating themselves and I'm preaching the choir
You're on a Sunday night service. Okay, but going to church three times a week
If you go to church three times a week, you're super separated from the rest of the world
I mean, I don't know what percentage of people are going three times a week
It's got to be less 1% of Americans that are going to church three times a week
I mean you're already really separate on that one point now again, do we emphasize that?
Yeah, cuz the Bible emphasizes going to church
You know, there are separations that the Bible is saying that we should have Hebrews chapter 10 look at verse 25
Let's do verse 24. Sorry and let us consider one another to provoke under love and good works
Not forsaking the assembling ourselves together as the man or some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see
The day approaching is there a problem with you saying hey, I go to church three times a week
And you should go to church three times a week. Nope, you should tell people do that
I mean the Bible is literally saying we should consider each other and we should provoke each other to go to church
And you know, some people say like oh, I don't like going to church because I feel bad
Is it because you don't go to church often because we were ever going three times a week
They love sermons that say go to church the people that are backslidden the ones that don't like it when you say hey
You should go to church. Is that my personal standard?
No, no, that's Bible
The Bible is literally saying we should not forsake and not only that as we get closer to the end times
We should go even more and we should encourage people more. That's a biblical conviction
This is not a personal standard of mine. Go if you would back to 1st Corinthians chapter 5
Let's see how much more separated we are in this room than you realize maybe 1st Corinthians chapter 5 look at verse 11
But now I've written unto you not to keep company of any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an
Idolater or a railer or a drunkard or extortioner with such and one know not to eat
Hey coming to this church. You can't be drinking. You can't be a drunkard. You can't be a railer
You can't be committing fornication boy. That's really separated from what the world's like most Americans are drunkards
Most Americans that are not married are engaged in some type of fornication think about the idolatry
That's rampant in the Catholic Church, let alone some of these other sins railing
I mean even amongst many fundamental Baptists today
They go to a church and they rail all the time and they get away with it coming to steadfast Baptist Church boy
You're already really separated by not being a drunken
Fornicating bailer you're coming three times a week. You're not drinking. You're not fornicating
You're not railing on people. Wow. You're really separated already. Let's keep going
Go to Luke chapter number four go to Luke chapter number four. We should separate ourselves when the Bible says separate
What does the Bible say to separate go to church? What does it say? Don't drink. What does it say? Don't fornicate
What does it say? Don't rail and and there was other ones on the list when you know, I'm just emphasizing those because those are really prevalent and
American society here's another one that we do we're King James only in this church
Why because we want every word of God look at Luke 4 for and Jesus answered him saying it is written that man should not live by
Bread alone, but by every word of God that phrase every word of God is not in your ESV. It's not in your NIV
It's not in your your modern versions day. It's just gone now. Look just nine ninety-six
Some percent of the time to the modern version say the same thing as the King James
Sure, just in different words. What about the 10% where it's gone missing says the opposite thing, you know
What if I said hey 90% of your sandwich is good. The other 10% is dog crap
It's only 10% of the sandwich is literally dog crap
I mean, is that okay you wouldn't even if it was 1% say I only had a little drop
It's like oh what's wrong with ESV all the stuff that's gone. I want a Bible
That's every word of God literally and in met and in every way not an ESV where they take it out
And look that that's already separated. You know how many people get triggered when you say like hey, I'm King James only they're like
What about the ESV?
It's a trash. Sorry go to the Proverbs chapter 11. I dare you say that well look
How do you not care about having every word of God like I just don't even understand you're following a religion
That's based on the Bible and almost every doctoral statement the number one statement is about the scripture saying it's completely trustworthy
And it's the final matter for faith and practice, and then it's like, but we don't know which Bible
We don't know which words. We don't know which verse. It's like that's nonsense. It just doesn't make sense
How about this Proverbs 11 verse 30 the Bible says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life
And he that when his soul is wise you know
It's a good way to be separated being a soul winner look people that are going to church three times a week not drinking not railing
Not fornicating king James only that are soul winners. How separated you think you are already?
Let's keep going going back to Titus go back to the New Testament go to Titus
Let's remind ourselves some things about this morning sermon that we're separated on and look
I'm showing you things quickly here for the beginning of my sermon that are in the Bible
We need to be separated, but let me tell you something if you're doing these things
You're gonna be really separated already, but then there's some people that want to be super mega ultra separated
Okay, we're trying to be biblically separated. Okay Titus chapter 2 look at verse 5
Let's let's remind ourselves of a few of these verses here Titus chapter 2 verse 5 to be discreet chase
Keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of God be not blasphemed
We believe at this church that wives should stay home and that men should just be the sole provider
How many how many households are even doing that today? How many households even believe that not only that we believe that wives should obey their husbands
Hey when we do the vow what every time I do marriage when I do the vows of the wife
It's to love cherish and obey for the man. I don't put the obey
Hey for the man to love and cherish and then it's for the wife to love cherish and obey
Why because that's what we believe
We believe wife should obey their husbands. Is that is that normal?
Is that what everybody else is doing it or is it a 50/50 marriage everywhere else?
We're already very separate on that go be with to 1st Corinthians chapter 11
We're pretty close to that 1st Corinthians chapter 11. I'm just showing you things that are in the Bible. Should we be separated?
Absolutely. Am I telling you to not be separated? No, I want to be separated
You know what? I want to be separated based on things that are in the Bible 1st Corinthians chapter 11
It says in verse number for every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonored his head men should have short hair
That's a separation from some, you know weird Fabio's out there also verse 5
But every woman that prayed the prophesied with her head uncovered dishonored their head for that is even all one as if she were
Shaving women should have long hair whether you like this or not that just just preaching that statement
We'll separate you from a ton of fundamental Baptists
How many fundamental Baptist churches they will they not get up and rip on the women having long hair because they have a ton
Of boomer women in that church. Hey, that's a separation that we should at least preach go over to Deuteronomy
Go all the way back to Deuteronomy chapter 22
Deuteronomy chapter 22 look if I'm going to enforce my
Separation on other people it's gonna be with chapter and verse. It's gonna be chapter and verse
It is not gonna be just me just talking. It's gonna be hey
Here's where the Bible is saying this you need to do this to Deuteronomy 22
Look at verse number five the woman should not wear that which pertaineth unto a man
Neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so our abomination of the word
They got the Bible says that there's certain garments that women should not wear there's certain garments that men should not wear
What are they it's pretty easy men wear pants women wear dresses and skirts. It's that simple look even a tranny can figure it out
I mean look this isn't this is not a complicated doctrine even reprobates know what this is saying and look
But but just saying it again just hair lips every single person women just lose their mind they get they get so offended
It's just so counterculture look there's there's even plenty of people that come to our church that don't really follow this
But I'm just telling you you know you follow this you're gonna separate yourself real fast
I mean what percentage of people are going to church three times a week not drinking not really not fornicating King James
Only soul-winning why staying home why is obeying their husbands wise wearing dresses and skirts men have the short hair women have the long hair
I mean what percentage are we at at this point I have two more and there's more than I could but I'm gonna
Give you two more go to Leviticus chapter 19 go to Leviticus chapter 19
Oh, you guys just aren't separated like it like if someone's gonna accuse us of not being separated
It's it's kind of a joke at this point. I mean if you saw I mean have you been following this list
What percentage do you think I mean it's got to be point zero zero zero zero zero one percent of Americans that are on this
List so far. I mean how separated you have to get super mega ultra separated Leviticus chapter 19
Look at verse 28. You should not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print any marks upon you
I am the Lord. We think you shouldn't get a tattoo
I mean, there's another one go to Genesis 1 it's last one. I'll have you go to Genesis chapter 1. Hey
I'm for biblical convictions
I'm for the least commandments the Bible makes it clear in Matthew chapter 5 verse 19
That if you want to be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven
Then you're going to follow the least commandments and you're gonna teach men. So what would be some of the least commandments?
I think things that are only mentioned once maybe even just a phrase in a verse
Like you shouldn't print marks on your body like women shouldn't wear that which pertains unto a man
You could argue these are some of the least commandments
But you know what I want to do them and I want to teach men to do so
So that I can be pleasing to God and at the end of the day
Hey, I believe in separating on them on the smallest verses in the Bible the least verses in the Bible
You know what? I've never really been this way and I probably never will I don't see how I could been this kind of person
That is gonna enforce things that are not in the Bible on people and get get real strict about that kind of stuff
I think we need to stick to the text and hey
I love having our own personal convictions and stuff like that and I have plenty but we want to be careful that when we're
Imposing our worldview on other people that we're only imposing it when it's the Bible's worldview. Here's another one
That's a big one Genesis 1 verse 28 and God blessed them and God sent them to be fruitful and multiply
Hey
I believe we should have kids and not take birth control and just let God bless us with as many as we can
Look how many people in the world are going to church three times a week not drinking not railing not fornicating King James
Only soul-winning wives are staying home wives are being their husbands wives and daughters are in skirts and dresses only men have short hair
Women have long hair. They're not using birth control and they're against tattoos man
I'll show you a very short list of people on that. That's real separated at with our culture
I mean, this is very separated
Okay, but then there's other things that people start going into other categories where people start trying to create more separation standards
That I think sometimes they go a little too far and trying to make it biblical
Okay, so I want to bring up a few things and look most of the things I'm gonna bring up
I want to make it clear. I probably even do them too, and I have no problem doing them
I just don't think we should make it a biblical commandment. Okay, here's here's number one eating organic food only it was real quiet
Like some people have this idea that like if you ever eat like non-organic food
You're like sinning or doing something bad or doing something wrong
I just don't agree with that now look my family eats very like eats a lot of organic food
It's not a hundred percent, but it's a very high percentage
Ideally if I could press the button and say it's only ever organic
I wouldn't I wouldn't mind hitting that button if I could like I'm not even against it. I'm pro organic food
I think that the GMOs, you know have problems potentially but the good thing is that the draft purges all meat
That's what the Bible says and you know, I don't think that people are dying young because of their food choices
It's probably they didn't honor their father or mother probably drinking alcohol. It's probably a lot of those things
It's probably the AIDS that they have because you notice people though that shop at Whole Foods have a lot of AIDS and it's like bro
You're not extending your life that much with organic celery like the regular celery is not gonna kill you
Versus the organic celery. It's the AIDS
Okay, it's like these liberals are shopping at Whole Foods to get the organic carrots
But then they're getting injected with kovat shots. It's like I think I know which one's a little more hazardous to your health
Okay, and I'm just I'm just saying like hey, I'm pro organic food. If you only want to eat organic for your food for your family
Please do I'm pro you but you know what? Let's not be like, oh, you don't eat organic food stand by yourself
Because I'm super mega ultra separated like what if someone invites you over and you're like, I don't think they eat organic food
Don't be like that. Just go over and eat whatever they're gonna serve you
You know what? I mean, like don't have this holier-than-thou attitude
Don't be like Adam Fanon and be like you can't even have lemon in your water
That's real. You know when I took over at the church the people in Jacksonville asked me
Can we have a microwave and I was like, what do you mean?
Can you have a microwave?
Like they thought it was bad to have a microwave at the church. Look. Hey, do I think ovens cook better food than microwaves?
Yes, do I think microwaves are a sin? No
Thou shalt not microwave, you know, like what where is the commandment on this kind of stuff?
And look some people they get like super mega ultra separated like I don't even have microwaves
Now look if you don't want a microwave God bless you
If you every single meal is just cooked from scratch on the stove or in the oven
I mean, hey, I don't even have appliances. We just cook on a little fire. Well, praise God for you
You know what? I mean, like I'm just so against you know everything go for it
But please don't like condemn people for owning a microwave. Don't get mad. Look
You're so against microwaves. You don't want to know what's going on in the kitchen at the restaurants you go to okay
There's some microwaves back there. All right. Here's another one. How about holidays?
Look some people they get like really triggered about holidays. They'll be like you celebrate Christmas
Don't you know this is like a pagan, you know wicked evil holiday and I'm like, no, I don't know that
Let me give you some history in
1647 Parliament. So this is British Parliament outlawed the celebration of Christmas and Easter. Isn't that weird?
You know who did this? Puritans. Puritans strongly condemned the celebration of Christmas considering it a Catholic invention and the trappings of popery
Or the rags of the beast. So Christmas is the Antichrist system folks
In fact, it says that there was many Christians that you know oppose this and it said during the the Puritan ban on Christmas
protests would occur and
Christmas people would have to sing carols in secret. You have to sing joy to the world in secret because of how
We get to go up and down the streets and do Christmas caroling, you know
And look if someone's like, you know, I think Christmas caroling is evil and wicked. Well, please don't come
You know, I don't want to I don't want to violate your conscience
Hey
If you just hate Christmas and hate Christmas trees and hate presents and hate joy and and laughter or whatever then you know
What you can do that as much as you want and look I know I made a little bit of a joke there
But I really won't even give you our time if you just like hey, I don't like Christmas. I don't want to celebrate it
Okay, but you know at the end of the day like should we really be enforcing that on others and like some people be like
I can't I can't believe that people would celebrate Christmas or a church would or they have a Christmas tree or lights or anything
It's like I'm super mega ultra separated. I don't celebrate Christmas
You know, you know you sound like a Jehovah's Witness or a seven-day Venice or something, you know
It's like do you really need to go that far look for years? It was illegal. That's crazy
I think that's crazy, but you know personally it wasn't until 1660
Later in England where it was restored and Christmas was freely celebrated again in England
Not only this it was actually illegal in Boston until 1659
So not only in the UK in America in Boston
It was illegal to celebrate Christmas if you can believe that the ban was revoked in 1681
It also says it wasn't until the mid 19th century
That celebrating Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region
So once they legalized it is still was just kind of so frowned upon and so hated that people were afraid to celebrate Christmas until
1850s in Boston just because of this this idea of like going over the top and look people have this idea people go over the top
I think a little bit and you know, which days people should celebrate the Bible says let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind
Hey, if there's certain holidays some people celebrate you don't okay
Now look if someone's gonna go celebrate Diwali of a false religion
Yeah, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go hard against that if someone's singing about the birth of Jesus Christ
Well, you know, he didn't really he wasn't really born on December 25th
Who cares like you know, does that really matter plenty of people celebrate half birthdays? That's weird
You know, they're like, hey, did you know today's my half birthday? No, I didn't even care about your real birthday
Like what and again if you want to celebrate every day and just you know, have fun every day go for it
I'm not against you but don't get so super mega ultra separated that is like, you know, hey
I can't celebrate this day or I can't or whatever. Let's not enforce our
Preferences when it comes to holidays on other people, you know, it just doesn't make sense. Here's another one
how about sporting events now look I I've been to a couple hockey games and
Sorry to you know share all my confess all my sins or whatever
I went to some hockey games and when I was there like there's this street preacher out there
Just like screaming and yelling at everyone and like he was screaming yelling. None of you are Christian
None of you are saved. You're all wicked. You're all pagan
You know, just just like basically condemning every single person there like you just go to a sporting event
You're wicked pagan evil. You can't even be a Christian
I just got in the guy's face and screamed that he was a false prophet and he's like, oh, what do you believe in?
What say you'd always save and I was like, yeah
You know, of course he was a fault. He had a false gospel, you know
Interesting that the guys with false gospels hate, you know sports or anything like that
Now look obviously you go to the hot game are some people drinking are some people dressed inappropriate. Yeah, that's literally almost everywhere
You know what?
I don't think that you just because you go to a sporting event your evil or wicked or satanic now here's the thing
What if you're skipping church to go to a sporting event?
Well, you know now I have a problem because I'm gonna go back to that Biblical conviction
About not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner some is right
But if someone's just going to enjoy a sporting event like why am I gonna get mad at that?
You know and some people like certain sports that I don't like whatever, you know
I'm not gonna say like oh if you go to this sporting event, you're bad. You go to mine. You're good or whatever
You know, like I don't like NASCAR. I'm not really into like racing and stuff. But if somebody is go have fun
And I don't care, you know, at least they say let's go Brandon at the racetrack
You know what? I mean, I guess I guess part of me likes racing a little bit at least that part of me
You know, but at the end of the day, it's like I'm just not into that that particular sport
but you know in America and
even in a far
Sports were banned by the Puritans again. In fact, they were banned on Sunday
You were not allowed to do any sports on Sunday and it wasn't until 1618 King James
He wrote the book of sports or had this book called the book of sports that permitted Christians to play football on Sunday afternoon
After worship so said after you had church you could go play football
But then the Puritans later came to power and they banned football on Sunday and you would be
Prosecuted if you played football on Sunday
So it's not like you skipped church you went to church in between services or after services
You just go throw a football around you're gonna be prosecuted. It's illegal
Look, that's that's a little over-the-top, isn't it?
I mean, isn't that just a little bit super mega ultra separated like start condemning sports, you know
Like in that particular way. Okay, is there people that are just like hey
I think some people are obsessed with sports and it's not healthy and I feel like it's taking away from things that matter
Sure, you know, I don't want to get I don't want to be this type of person where I'm elevating sports to the point
Where I'm not gonna go serve God. I'm not going to church. I'm not gonna read my Bible
Yeah, everything can be taken into excess, but wait a minute
I just don't want to be this person that's teaching this asceticism that says, you know what?
You can never have fun. You can never have sports. You can never do anything
I just I just don't agree with it and I think that it's just not a biblical conviction. It's a preference
Here's another one. How about dancing?
Look historically Baptist were against back against dancing
And in fact the Puritans again outlawed dancing in a lot of ways any mixed dancing was illegal during some of their reign
They they had exceptions for a few different dances that they thought weren't that bad
Go over to Ecclesiastes three if you would go to Ecclesiastes three
But look I get it that most of the time I think
Baptists were against we call dirty dancing or promiscuous dancing or club dancing and things like that
I obviously still think that that's probably I mean that's just gonna be wrong
You should use avoid that avoid that scene or whatever, but I think sometimes they go so over the top
They just say like all dancings wrong and I've heard this I've heard preachers get up and say just all dancings wrong
No one should dance, but when you start saying these kind of things the Bible just starts to contradict what you're saying
I'll just give you a few verses to think about the Bible says in David danced before the Lord of all his might
Some of the Psalms that I put to music Psalm 149 let them praise him in the dance
Let them sing praise on him with the timbrel and harp Psalm 150 and for praise them with the timbrel and dance
Praise them with stringed instruments and organs. Okay. Now we're gonna become the non-denom church where we have women running up and down the aisles dancing
No, okay, but this can I just say dancing is a sin or dancing is wrong?
No, you have Miriam dancing in the Bible. I mean, there's so much dancing in the Bible Clesiastes chapter 3 verse 4
There's a time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance
How can you reconcile this verse with dancing is just wrong and the Bible saying hey there is a time to dance
And let's just be honest your two-year-old three-year-old four-year-old if they start hearing music they like they just start dancing
What a wicked sinner, you know
I'm so super mega ultra separate. I never dance. You're just kind of lame, you know
I mean it's okay to dance every once in a while, you know and leap for joy and heck
Sometimes I just want to dance when these people make fun of me because it's so funny how stupid they are
You know and we win here's here's another one where I see people
They kind of get a little bit of this attitude where they only ever use natural medicine or natural health remedies
And look, I'm pro natural medicine. I'm pro natural remedies
But at the end of the I think sometimes this goes a little too far in the quote natural, you know
It's like is it is it
Forbidden to take any kind of drug or any kind of medicine or go to any kind of hospital? No
And can we really contend people look unfortunately this church had a guy get up and preach that if it was a sin to have
A baby in the hospital. That's weird. Okay. And look there's there's plenty of times where a woman is having complications
And she kind of just needs to be there in case or there's a medical emergency
I would hate for someone to think like they can't go to a hospital when they need it. You know, that's a bad idea
Hey, if I need a hospital, I'm going to the hospital. Hey, you know me and my wife we have six children
you know, we've had more than that pregnancies and
Some of them have been at home some of them in the hospital
I'll be the first to admit the home home birth is way better. It's a way better experience. It's awesome
You know our most recent Adeline my wife's water broke and she wasn't going into labor and it had been multiple days
And it was just getting to a point where it's kind of dangerous for the baby and for her and so you know what?
We went to the hospital. What a horrible thing and look did it cost me two arms and three legs
Yeah, it did, but you know what I love that girl
And I love my wife, and I want to make sure they're okay
And you know did I did we have to make decisions I wanted no did she have to take some drugs
Yeah, did I want that no am I against the drugs. Yes am I against the hospital. Yes. Do I like the nurses no I
Was telling the nurse or one of the doctors like they're putting on some drug and I was like we don't need that anymore
We're done. She's already given birth like get her off of it. They're like, well, I don't know
She's like you really want us to take your your wife off of this drug. I mean just think about this
What if she was your sister? What would you do and I'm like, she's my wife
And then she was just like yeah, okay
I'm like so these people I'm just like you don't even understand the words are coming out your mouth. You're a doctor
That's another conversation. That's another sermon. Yeah, do I love that? No, but hey if there was a medical emergency if there was an issue
Hey, I'd rather be there then you know up a creek without a paddle and look there
There's been a lot of women that have died in history through childbirth, you know, I don't want that to happen
I love my wife. I would rather have my wife than my kids. Sorry. My wife's more important to me than my children
It's not even a close competition. Honestly
Sorry kids. I love y'all, but it's not close go over to Ephesians chapter 4
Go to Ephesians chapter 4. But you know what's so funny about the Puritans? They literally banned sports. They banned dancing. They banned
Christmas, but you know what? Drinking alcohol is okay. I guess they have to drink to forget how lame their life is or something
It was like drinking in moderation was okay for the Puritans or whatever. It's like look, that's what you call a hypocrite
It's like you can't celebrate Christmas, but you can drink alcohol
It's like that's that's the type of attitude that God gets mad at when you have these high standards
But you're kind of actually a hypocrite about it. It's like oh, we're enforcing our
Preferences when it comes to holidays and sporting activities and whatever
But then we're drinking literal poison and booze
And what I notice is that people that have these over-the-top standards and and talk about how they're so much better than everybody and how they're
Super mugger ultra separated there's somewhere in there. They're a hypocrite
There's somewhere in there that we could probably find some holes typically too. And look, I'm not against having high standards
you know if you only ever eat organic food and you have all unassisted home births and
You've never celebrated a holiday ever and you just you've never danced a single time
You know what? Praise God for you. I'm not against you. I'm not even saying you're doing anything wrong, but like let's not impose that
Standard on everybody else and act like everybody else is so bad like oh, well, you're not separating yourself from the world, bro
We're real separated
We don't have to get that separated and if you want to have fun, but I'm worried that you're gonna destroy yourself
I'm worried that your kids are gonna kind of like hate life and and you might just have this over-the-top
Attitude that's going a little too far. Okay, and again, you can do whatever you want
I do not want anybody to be encouraged in the sermon to think like oh now I should send more
That's not what I'm saying. But I am saying like hey, there's some preferences if you have preferences, let's not judge each other on our preferences
Here's another one cuss words. Look, I'll be honest with you. I don't really like cussing. I don't really cuss
I know people think that I'm like, I'm like everybody's secret confessional booth for cussing
I kid you not people has always come up to me and they're just like hey pastor Shelley
So the other day, you know, I was out and then I said this I'm just like, okay
It's like look, I'm not even that into it. I don't really like it
I think it should be done in extreme moderation on purpose with a purpose, you know
Like I don't think that it's just like cool to do these kind of things
I don't my kids being like that if my cut my kids say words that are appropriate. I correct them
Tell them no like but at the end of the day
I still think it's a preference how and when words are gonna be used
Every culture has their own list of words that are good and bad look there's there's a I kind of make fun of this
But you know, there's a certain list of cuss words. It says that cow is a cuss word. How is cow cuss word?
I don't even know what that means. I guess it's because Indians get offended by holy cow or something like that
I don't know but you know cows aren't that sacred
Okay, we kill them and eat them and they'll go to the verse like this if he's in chapter 4 verse 29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth
But that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers and grieve not the Holy Spirit of
God whereby you're sealed in the day of redemption little bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking to put away from you
With all malice and be kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake I've forgiven you
You know generally speaking we should be kind to each other. We should edify one another
We should only talk positively to each other in general. That's the attitude
That's the demeanor and look most of the time when people are quote cussing
It's because they're angry because they're bitter because they're frustrated
And I would say most of the time it probably is a sin. But what's the sin anger bitterness clamor evil speaking?
That's what they're doing. That's wrong. And so I think you know, we should avoid this
We should try to stay away from that. We should you know, hold our tongue
But you know if someone says something mean about Joe Biden, you know, I'm just not gonna care
Okay folks, that's kind of a preference
But you know, there's some people they're like
I'm just so much better of a Christian than you because I've just never said anything bad about Joe Biden
I've never used that word. I don't say those kind of words or whatever
Oh, well, you're just so much better than all of us, but I wonder if in private you've ever said that word
I wonder what word you do say, you know, it's like, oh, I'm not like you
I don't use those kind of words, but I do slander people
Relentlessly, you know, I'm constantly angry and bitter and even though I didn't use a potty word
I totally just railed on you and lied about you
It's like well, God's more mad at that person for sure than the person that used a socially inappropriate word
I think we should stay away from that kind of attitude. Go to Romans chapter 12. Go to Romans chapter 12
I just have a couple more here that I want to go through. Here's another one is
And I'm using this phrase from a recent sermon, but it's infinite gracers. Okay, so from a sermon by Joe Jones
Okay, and he was attacking the new IB and attacking us and saying, you know
He's so much better than us because he has infinite grace which like this is a dangerous mindset
This is a real dangerous mindset not because I think people really care about Joe Jones or care about his preaching
I mean, he's not a very elegant speaker
But the problem is is that anybody that's backslidden is always just looking for an excuse
And so even though they might get you know, some sermon or some idea from a bad person
they don't want to follow that bad idea can still resonate with them because they're backslidden and
You know, there's this idea that people are better than the new IFB or better than a fundamental Baptist search or better than us
Because well, I know you guys are gracious to each other, but I have infinite grace
You know, I'm gracious to tons of people and I'm you know, I'm more nice and I'm more kind
You know, I just don't like the new IV because it's a judgmental. They're so mean-spirited and they're just all they're just angry all the time
And they're just they're just mad and they basically have this idea like they're better than us because they're so much more gracious
Than we are and he said Joe Jones is saying like oh well, you know
I would go to church and I would always feel bad all the time, you know, just feel
Because you feel bad because you're fake because you don't even believe the doctrines that you're saying
I'll just be honest with you. I feel great when I come to church
Like I look forward to church when I don't get to go to church
I'm kind of disappointed. I'm like I feel cruddy and then I get to come back to church
I'm like, wow, there's some normal people in the world like hey, have I ever felt bad at church?
I'm sure I have have I ever felt convicted at church. Yeah
I have has every church service been just only fun and only joy. No, sometimes there's some somber church services
I get it, but just generally speaking. I love church. It's fun. It's exciting
I and what is church? It's you. It's me think about this. I can't stand church. You know what you think?
I can't stand you. You know, I can't stand the world. I can't stand leftist and liberals and weirdos
I love hanging out with you guys. I love talking to you guys because I love church. I love God's people
I love fundamentalists. I love
I love being unified on doctrine and I love these people because you know, we do have a lot of grace
Do we have infinite grace?
No
Because no one has infinite grace including God himself and look when you're more gracious than God you need to check yourself
But let me tell you something. They don't have more grace. It doesn't even exist
What does the Bible say in Romans chapter 12 verse 9?
Let love be without dissimulation abhor that which is evil cleaved to that which is good
How are you gonna have grace for that which is evil? Oh, I have immigrant and this is this is what infinite grace people are
This Joe Jones attitude is it's I have grace for everyone, but the new if be that's what they really mean
And it's not even grace. It's just they tolerate and don't attack people that are not in the new IP
So it's like hey, you're a drunkard. No problem. You're a railer. No problem. You're a heretic. No problem. You're a drug addict
No problem. You're a fundamental Baptist that goes to a new IP church. You're such a terrible person. They have tons of them
Oh, I'm infinite grace. Well, what about us? Do you have grace towards us? Oh, I'm just everything's grace
Go to 1st Corinthians chapter 13 go to 1st Corinthians chapter 13
You know, this is what he said in his sermon recently about our church or our movement
He said he never did he never had joy
I didn't have any joy and he said he was so worried that if he went to play at Topgolf or watch VeggieTales
Everyone was gonna judge him who in here has ever been judged for going to Topgolf or your kids watching VeggieTales
Who was terrified of being judged for that?
These are fake crimes
This is, you know, Jesse Smouye being attacked or whatever
It's like, oh man, I can't stand the new IP because I'm afraid if I play golf everyone's gonna judge me
Do you think I was gonna judge someone for playing golf?
Like what is this nonsense?
Like this has never happened
Fake news! Fake crimes!
This is like that Jew that recently got caught, you know, spray painting a swastika on the pavement
in New York City or something like that.
I don't know where it was exactly, but I just saw this Jew painting a swastika
probably next to his little tunnel that he crawled under.
But it's like, again, fake crime!
It's not real!
And then he says in the sermon, he says this is the reason why he left the New Ivy Movement.
So this is why I had to leave.
Because I couldn't stand how they would trash pastors
and then everybody would like give a thumbs up or like comments trashing pastors.
So he said I don't want to be a part of that. I don't want to do that.
I can't be a part of a movement that's trashing pastors.
In the same sermon this is what he said.
He said everybody in the new IP is terrified.
Everybody's filled with anxiety.
We're all fake and faking it.
We're toxic, arrogant, judgmental culture.
He said that our teachings promote literal violence.
He said our entire movement is about one man.
He called a bunch of people "snakers."
He says we're the gatekeepers of grace,
gracelessness.
We're abusers, accusers, cowards.
He said Jonathan Shelley is a whitewashed tomb.
He says I preach a false gospel.
He says my back load works into salvation.
And he said the reason he had to leave
the new I.B. movement is because we trash pastors.
What? Oh wait, he's also infinite grace.
Infinite grace.
About all of us, right?
Look, these people are giant hypocrites.
It's not real, it's not sincere.
But people listen to this and say like
"Oh yeah man, I just can't stand the new I.B.
They're not gracious like Joe Jones."
The guy trashing everyone?
The guy trashing all of his friends
and all of his mentors and all the people
that gave him so much money and help
and it's like, what are you talking about?
I suppose that I preach a false gospel
I don't understand
the difference between the law and the gospel
and the old and the new covenants.
Well, you know, obviously
you're going to have two people pointing the finger like
"Hey, one guy's not saved, the other, you know,
and the other guy's like "Well you're not saved" or whatever.
I don't know how we figure that out, you know.
The guy that just basically stops being a
Baptist, changes all his doctrine,
has no church, doesn't go soul winning,
doesn't reach anybody,
church that's thriving, getting tons of people saved.
I don't know, I don't know which one's right.
Okay.
But at the end of the day it's like "Oh, well you just don't have grace."
Do you?
And what does 1 Corinthians 13 verse 6 say?
"Charities rejoiceth not in iniquity,
but rejoiceth in the truth." You can't have
infinite grace, you can't have infinite charity because
it doesn't even rejoice in iniquity.
We have to be against something.
The Bible says, "If any man loved not the Lord Jesus Christ,
let him be anathema marnatha." The Bible
says, "A man that is in heretic after the first and
second admonition, reject!"
The Bible says, "The north wind, drive
the way rain, so does an angry
countenance, a backbiting tongue."
You know we should make people feel
uncomfortable when they say stupid things,
and they backbite,
and they attack their sending pastor,
and they go after him. Hey, we should be
mad at them. We should say
things about it. How about, "Wherefore rebuke
them sharply that they may be sound in the faith?"
Don't get this attitude
like, "Oh, I want to go to this grace church
where it's all about grace." But grace churches
have grace for everything
but us. They have
no problem with the drug addict, heretic,
murderer, rapist,
divorce and remarriage,
adultery. It doesn't matter.
Grace, grace, grace, grace, grace, grace, grace.
The fundamental baptism says, "Hey,
you guys are railers
and they lose their mind." Well,
look, you can sit here and get mad
at us and attack us and think
that you're better than us. And, you know, you
might personally think, "Well, I know Pastor
Shelley, he gets in lots of fights and he calls
people out. I have more grace than
him." You know, those people are always fake.
"I know you're super mega ultra separated
and you have more grace than us." No, you don't.
"Oh, well, I actually have grace for sodomites.
I think they can get saved." Well, go get you one.
You know, there's all these people that think they have
so much more grace than us are so fake
and they have no real grace. And it's just
a smoke in our nostrils, dude. Go to Jude 1.
Here's another point that I'm going to bring up,
but in Jude 1, I want to look at
verse 19. The Bible says,
"These be they who separate themselves
sensual, having not the spirit."
Look, there is a good separation
and a bad separation. People like Joe Jones
separating himself is because he has not the
spirit. And again, just like
the Jews in
Isaiah 65, separating
themselves, "Stand by thyself, for I am holier than thou art."
Or holier than thou. I keep
adding "art," I don't know. Holier
than thou, that's the guy separating himself
having not the spirit. They're not even saved,
they just think they're better than other people,
and they're wrong. There's plenty of people
that separate themselves that are wrong.
Mormons are wrong. Jehovah's Witness
are wrong. Seventh-day Adventists are
wrong. Black Hebrew Israelites are
real wrong. Joe Jones is
really wrong. He's an idiot.
He's a fool. No one should listen
to him. Go through to Revelation,
chapter 11, and I
want to make this point. I'm going to make
two more points quickly. Here's two other
things I see people getting super mega ultra
separated on is music
and secondary separation.
Now, music probably needs its own sermon
at some point, but let me just say this. Look,
for our church, we're going to sing the
hymns until I'm no longer the pastor.
We're going to sing the hymns. We're going to sing the
Psalms and the spiritual songs. I'm not
changing on that. I don't want to change
on that. But at the end of the day,
you know, I'm not so over the top
to say any song that's not a hymn
or a psalm is somehow a sin or
something, or somehow wicked, or certain
musical instruments are just wicked
or just wrong. You know, I don't personally
believe that. Is there verses
in the Bible that talk about music
that kind of give us some indications
of what's really good music? Yeah.
The Bible says joyful noise,
stringed instruments. The Bible says that we should make
a loud noise. The Bible says
that we should be singing with grace
in our hearts to the Lord. You know,
the Bible talks about melody.
Hey, I think all of those standards
should be applied to the music that we sing at church.
And I think that you should sing that stuff not only at
church, even at home. You know, I'm not going to judge
a family if they ever sing a song that's
not a hymn or a psalm or
whatever in their personal time.
And I'm not going to say like, this particular
musical instrument is of Satan.
You know, we're having this idea.
Do we have drums? No. Do I think drums
are a sin? No. Are we probably going to ever
have drums? Probably not.
Especially not like a rock drum set, you know?
If there was like the little drummer boy or something,
I probably wouldn't be that offended. Do I plan on doing it?
Probably not. You know, I just don't like
this attitude of thinking like, oh,
well, hey, we're more separated
than, you know, our special music's
a little bit more special than their special music.
Because we're super mega ultra
separated. It's just a joke. You know, there's
plenty of people that like have special music
and it's the exact same song as Hillsong
or these non-the-dom churches. It's just
they didn't use the rock band when they played it
or whatever, but it's the exact same song.
It's like, just
why do you have to have these made up standards?
People have made up standards.
You know, some people, I've been called
a sinner for somebody
on our crew at The Baptist Bias putting
King James Bible verses
to like 80s AI music or something
like that. And it was just like, wow.
You know, just, we're so wicked
now. We're changing music standards.
Maybe I just never had that
quote standard. You know, the Puritans
said that Baroque
music was evil and wicked.
And look, I don't even
like, if you listen to this, you would think it's the most
conservative, classical
sounding music ever. People today would lose
their mind if you said, this is sin. They'd be like,
what in the world? But it was considered sin
to the Puritans. Because look, it's
this Puritan mindset that wants
to be super mega ultra separated, but
it's going to crash and burn. And you know, we should
adapt with the times. We should,
you know, be willing to condescend a little estate.
If we're going around and condemning
evangelicals for their Christian
song because it has rock band
in it, you know, you're not going to win them over.
Hey, get them a King James Bible.
Hey, tell them to go soul winning. What was
the separation? I mean, if you
run into a non-denominational person, you need to
make sure that they change their music
standards, or should they go to church three times a week, not
drink, not rail, not fornicate, be King James only,
go soul winning, their wife stay home, their wife
obey their husband, get a dress and a skirt only for
their wives, and men have short hair,
women have long hair, not using birth control and against tattoos.
Which list do you think is more important?
It's like, hey, but I'm super mega
ultra separated from those people.
Look, we're already enough separated, and I'm
not going to change on that. And if you have this
high standard, you say, you know what, I only ever want
to listen to hymns for our household,
praise God, I'm not against you, I think that's awesome.
That's an awesome standard. But you know what, let's not judge
other people, or think like, hey,
all music is sinful
if it's just not a hymn or something.
Look, can you really condemn, if
the world has a song that's just a love
song, doesn't bring up fornication, doesn't
bring up drugs or alcohol, just a love song,
can you really say that's a sin? I mean
Song of Solomon is a love song. Is it really wrong
for a man to sing about how
much he loves his wife? Is that really
wrong? I mean, look, some people just
lose their minds over this stuff.
I just don't really agree. Is listening classical
music a sin? I hope you don't have that idea,
but here's another one, the secondary separation.
People can't be my friend because
I'm friends with Pastor Anderson, because they're super
mega ultra-separated, okay?
Weird standard, you know, a bunch of people were separated
from Pastor Anderson, they couldn't be his friend,
because he was friends with the Calvinist.
They like made videos about it, right? But then those
same people went to Kent Hoeven's camp
and hung out with him. I'm like, "Kent Hoeven?
What does his secondary friend list
look like?" It's like giant
hypocrites, okay? If you can't
be friends with Pastor Anderson because of his friend
list, but you can be friends with Kent Hoeven
and ignore his friend list?
That's that infinite grace again, right?
Grace for everyone
except for us,
except for fundamental Baptists, except for the... yeah.
And at the end of the day, look, we need
to fear God and we need to keep
His commandments. I'm
for you having personal standards
and high standards, but at the end
of the day, you know what? What's most
important is whatever God said. And I
think that His standards are already separating
in a lot of ways. If you're
doing... if you're doing... at the beginning of the sermon,
if you're doing everything on that list, and
you're doing nothing that I said after this,
I think you're doing great. I think
you're doing great. Now look, if you
want to have some extra standards,
some extra rules, some extra preferences,
like, you know what? I'm also going to eat
organic food, and we only listen
to really clean music, and
we don't subject ourselves to
anything that's in the world, and no vanity,
and no sporting games, and we've never danced,
and we've never done anything. You know,
I'm not even against you. Don't change.
But don't start saying you're so
much better than us. Oh, but I'm
just a little bit, I'm just a little bit more separated.
I just have a little bit more grace
than all these other people. You know, and don't
get this poison of the mind that Joe Jones
has, where somehow you don't need to
fear God in the New Testament. Because that's what
he's saying. When he's criticizing me saying I'm preaching
a false gospel, he's saying,
"Oh, well they're back-loading works for the gospel
by saying you should still fear God and keep his
commandments after salvation." Well, if it's
after salvation, how did I add
it? Clearly after.
It's like, "Oh, they're missing the Old Testament."
Well, let's look at only the New Testament
and let's see if it's telling you to fear God or keep
his commandments, alright? Revelation chapter 11,
look at verse number 18.
What does the Bible say?
"And the nations were angry and thy wrath has come
and the time of the dead that they should be judged
and that thou shouldest give reward
unto thy servants the prophets
and to the saints and to them that
fear thy name.
Small and great and shouldest destroy them which
destroy the earth." God is going to reward those
that fear him.
This is in the future.
This is the New Testament. God's going to reward
people that feared God.
Why? Because we're supposed to fear God.
Go to 1 Peter, we're going to go backwards. Go to 1 Peter
chapter 2. Let's get some more verses
on this. Hey, we should fear God
and we should separate ourselves and we should
have biblical convictions. You know what?
Don't get these over the top
man-made traditions
and make those your standards. And what I've noticed
about Old IV is they spend more
time preaching their standards than the
Bible's convictions. They spend more time
preaching their man-made ideas
and their man-made separations
than they do the biblical convictions.
And it should be the opposite. We should
spend most of our time on the biblical convictions
and, you know, less
emphasis on our personal
preferences and our personal standards.
Now look, I think there's nothing wrong with a pastor getting
up, expressing his personal opinions,
his personal preferences, his
personal standards. I'm for pastors having
high standards, being a good example
in all kinds of areas. But at the end of the day,
our emphasis should be to preach the Word of God,
to preach the Biblical convictions,
and you know what? We should be fearing God.
We should be keeping His commandments. 1 Peter chapter 2,
look at verse 17. These are wells
without water. I'm sorry, I'm in
second. I'll get there. 1 Peter chapter
2, verse 17.
"Honor all men, love the brotherhood,
fear God!"
You know, Jonathan Shelley's a whitewash
too because he thinks you should fear God. You mean like
1 Peter? It literally just says fear God.
"Oh man, when I would go to church I was
always afraid." Well, what were you afraid
of though? Were you afraid of God or were you
afraid of being caught as a phony
and a fake? Because look, people
that come to church three times a week love
hearing sermons go to church three times a week.
You know who doesn't like that? The Sunday morning only.
People that don't drink alcohol love
sermons against alcohol. You know who's a little bit worried
about that sermon? The one that's sneaking alcohol
and no one knows. Look, people
that are like, "Oh, every time I go to church I'm so afraid
and so convicted and just feel bad."
Well, maybe you just get right with God
and you won't feel so bad. You actually like
church. You actually like hanging out with
God's people. Don't be a fake
hypocrite. Look at 1 Peter 1,
verse 17, "And if you call on the Father,
who without respect to persons judgeth,
according to every man's work,
pass the time of your sojourning here
in fear." Hey, we should fear
God. Go to Hebrews chapter 12. Go to
Hebrews chapter 12. Look, I've heard of
other people, good people,
getting sucked into this nonsense,
infinite grace idea, and thinking like,
"Oh yeah, I think you guys, you guys are
trying to make people fear God and be afraid at
church." You better believe it.
Oh, you make people feel uncomfortable. You mean like Sunday
morning? Yeah. You know, some people think
like, "Oh, the Sunday morning service is safe
at Steadfast." No. Nah, bro.
There's not a safe service here.
I don't even know what that is. Your safe
space is not here. Hey, I'm gonna
preach what the Bible says, and you know
what? The Bible is radical enough.
We should preach whatever it says, and
we don't need to add our standards.
They're not even that convicting. What's convicting is what the
Bible says. And you know what? We should fear God.
Hebrews chapter 12, verse
28, "Wherefore we receiving
a kingdom which cannot be moved,
let us have grace." Now, anything
starting to save or unsave people here. We're gonna get
the kingdom of God. We should have grace.
Does it say infinite grace? No.
Let us have grace, whereby
we may serve God acceptably
with reverence and godly fear.
You know you could have grace and godly fear at the same time.
What is godly fear? It's fearing God.
Fearing, keeping His commandments.
Hebrews chapter 10, look at verse 27.
Hebrews chapter 10, verse 27.
How can someone get up and say we shouldn't
fear anything in the New Testament?
It's crazy. But of course,
you know, this is what people don't understand.
Almost every non-denomination
church that exists is a guy
that either split from some
Baptist church or got thrown out of
some Baptist church or some non-denominational
like some Methodist church or something.
Like the non-denominational came
out of nowhere in the 90s basically. Where did they come from?
They didn't come from literally nothing.
They came from a bunch of disgruntled losers
who just wanted to separate themselves
from Baptist churches and not have any standards
and just start preaching liberalism
people having itching ears and they
heap up to themselves teachers. The church
that I grew up in, Trinity Fellowship Church,
was literally a church split. It was
some kind of a
Baptist type style church where
a small group of people started believing
in speaking in tongues and the pastor
got up and said if you don't sign this
doctrinal statement right now saying you don't believe
in speaking in tongues, you're kicked out. And so these
people left, they started a little house
church, and now it's a mega
church. Now it's 10,000 people or
whatever. Now the reason why is because
they're the guy that took over
eventually, Jimmy Evans, he's
actually a very good speaker.
He sounds good, it's
very eloquent. It's the same thing Joe Jones
is doing. Leaving the Baptist,
leaving the doctrine, but here's the difference
between Joe Jones and Jimmy Evans.
Joe Jones sucks at speaking, okay?
So it's just going to totally fail.
But if he was good at speaking, he could build
a giant church. Because honestly,
like, people love this kind of stuff.
The non-denom churches are thriving and
growing. Why? Because so many people don't
want to have to fear God, don't want to have to keep his commandments,
don't want to have to go to church three times a week,
don't want to be even convicted, only
want joy, joy, happiness. They want to
come in the summer to watch a movie
literally. It's thriving, it's booming
in this world. But you still have
to be at least a good speaker,
you know. You know, you have to be eloquent
of speech. When you have bad
doctrine and you suck at preaching,
I mean, you're kind of
doomed at that point. But don't follow
these guys off of a cliff. Don't follow
these guys into their nonsense. You need
to be in a church where you're afraid of God.
You need to be in a church where you're challenged.
You need to be in a church where you're hearing the Bible being
under fourth. You need to become a
Baptist and stay a Baptist.
Don't change the name of your church.
Hebrews chapter 10 verse 27, the Bible says,
"But a certain fearful looking-for of judgment
and fiery indignation which shall devour
the adversaries." Verse 31,
"It is a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God."
Go to Colossians chapter 3. Go to Colossians chapter 3.
I'm just giving you a handful here.
The Bible's crystal clear.
We need to fear God and
keep His commandments. Isn't that what Ecclesiastes
says? Fear God and keep His commandments.
But we also have in Ecclesiastes
be not righteous
over much. We don't want to have
this attitude of like, "Hey,
you know, I can't have a little bit of fun
in my life. I can't have a little bit of vanity."
Let me tell you something. You go on a missions
trip with us, you will have fun.
Sorry. I don't know if you like it or not,
but I like it. You know,
not only will you have some, I mean, you're going to have a blast.
I mean, we're going to the beach,
we're running sea-doos.
Oh man, you used church money on sea-doos?
Yes, I did. It's vanity!
What did that accomplish?
You know what it accomplished? It made people that were
going on a missions trip want to do it again.
What is that worth?
What if we just say, you know what, the church is going to pay
nothing, and if you go to the Bahamas,
we'll have no residents,
no house, in fact, you know,
dwelling places are wicked, okay?
We're going to sleep on the streets.
And you can only, I mean, you can only
eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,
no good food,
just water only.
No milk, no juice,
no soda, water.
Out of a canteen.
You can't do the BPA or whatever, water bottles.
Canteen, water,
you're never allowed to go to the beach because
there might be someone dressed inappropriately.
No beach time, no fun,
no joy, you must stare at the wall
the entire time.
If you've been running to somebody that's dressed inappropriately,
you can't even give them the gospel because I don't want you to sin.
You have to keep your head down the whole time.
You can't even use cars, you can't use anything.
How many people are going to come back on that trip?
They're going to say you're a psycho.
You're a weirdo. We don't want to hang out with you.
But it's like, hey, what if you make it super fun
and you'll do cool stuff
and you enjoy yourself
and you listen to some, you know, techno music
in the car?
What if you watched a video or something?
It's like, what if you do this thing?
And it's like, oh man, people actually enjoyed it.
They had a fun time and they want to go back.
And we got almost 1,500 people saved.
Next time we might get another 1,500 people saved.
You know, I'll keep having fun and getting people saved
while you continue to not have fun and do nothing for God.
And hey, I still fear God.
I'm going to church three times a week, folks.
I'm King James only.
I'm not drinking.
I'm not railing.
I'm not fornicating.
I'm a soul winner.
My wife stays home.
She makes zero dollars.
She costs me a lot of money.
She's a net negative in the finance part of it.
But you know what, she's so beautiful, she deserves it all, right?
My wife obeys me.
My wife and daughters are in dresses and skirts only.
I have short hair.
She has long hair.
We don't use birth control.
We have as many kids as God will bless us with.
I'm against tattoos.
They're stupid and ugly and dumb, and I never want one.
I fear God.
But you know what?
I don't need to have your personal standards.
And oh, well, I have infinite grace.
Well, you know what?
You have fake grace.
And you're a hypocrite about it.
And oh, you left our movement, so you get away from trashing pastors.
That's all you do.
You just trash people anyways.
Don't believe these people like, oh, I don't trash anybody.
Oh, I'm just gracious to everyone.
That person doesn't exist.
I'm just so much more nice than the new AFB.
Liar.
Oh, we shouldn't fear God.
We should just realize His grace is covering everything.
Look, this is a bad attitude.
It's a bad attitude.
It doesn't make sense.
And you know, praise God for somebody that didn't have this attitude
and went and gave you the Gospel and got you saved.
I mean, there's people in this church, there's people that hate us.
It's like, aren't you glad that somebody separated themselves
and went to church three times a week
and actually went out and preached the Gospel
and made a difference and actually got you saved?
Because what is your stupid liberalism accomplishing?
Nothing.
What has liberalism ever accomplished?
What have these non-denom, infinite grace people ever accomplished?
It's nothing.
What have their ultra, over-the-top, high standards accomplished?
Nothing.
You know, we're supposed to condescend them in a little state.
You know, the apostle Paul's saying, "Hey, when he's among other people that are not
Jews, he became them."
Under the Greek, he's going to become a Greek.
You know, in the Bible, he's referencing their poems.
He's referencing their culture.
He's referencing their media.
How do you think he even heard about that?
You know, I just can't stand this over-the-top attitude that just wants to condemn everything
and become a Puritan because, you know, many times they're just a hypocrite about it and
they don't actually really fear God.
Colossians chapter 3, look at verse 22, "Servants obey in all things your masters according
to the flesh, not with eye service, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing
God."
Go ahead to 2 Corinthians 7, the last place I'll have your turn.
Ephesians chapter number 5, Ephesians 5-21 says, "Submitting yourselves one to another
in the fear of God."
We should submit ourselves in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 1, "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved,
let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God."
Now, some things in this world, they're not expedient.
Some things in this world are just vanity.
Some things in this world aren't that profitable, okay?
Should we consume our lives on that? No.
We should try to get holy.
We should try to cleanse ourselves from the filthiness of the flesh.
But you know what? We're still stuck in the flesh,
and we're stuck in this world, and we're stuck doing these things.
We might as well enjoy a little bit.
We might as well have some things.
Now, if you have some personal preferences and standards
for your family that you want to keep, please keep them.
Don't hear the sermon and think, "Let's become permissive."
But let's also just not judge people for celebrating Christmas
and wanting to throw a football after service.
And God forbid they listen to some genre of music that isn't a hymn.
And, oh, they went to the hospital one time.
And, oh, they had a non-GMO meal.
And, oh, they said a word that my family doesn't use.
And, oh, well, you know, they got mad at somebody for railing
and had an angry countenance.
They made a meme against them.
I wouldn't do that. I have infinite grace.
It's a joke. It's a joke.
Oh, well, I can't believe you hang out with this person
because that person hangs out with this person.
When you start playing that game,
you're going to become a hypocrite fast.
No one in the history of the world
will ever observe secondary separation correctly.
Always hypocrites about that, okay?
And, look, the new IFB is already separated.
Don't get this super-mega-ultra-separated idea
and think that you're just so much better than everybody else.
Let us, hey, hold each other accountable on Biblical convictions.
Let us take people to task on the Bible.
But let us actually have real grace when it's not in the Bible.
Let us allow people to do their own thing and let them deal with God.
Because, look, we're doing so much great work.
I mean, we've got more people saved this year than ever before.
We're doing great, folks.
Let's keep on that pace and let's keep on that track.
But let us not get this over-the-top,
holier-than-thou attitude. I don't like it. I don't want it.
I don't want to see it. I don't want to hear it.
You know, I don't like that.
You know, I'm not necessarily the most strict in some of those areas.
But at the end of the day, like, hey, I'm real strict on the Bible.
And that's what we should want. That's what we should do.
All right, let's close in prayer.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for giving us your commandments
so that we would know how to live.
Thank you for helping us to become separated from the world
so that we could be used by you.
I pray that if we need to become more separated
based on biblical convictions that we would do so.
I pray that we would fear God.
I pray that we would realize that, hey, sometimes we need to make changes.
Sometimes there's things that are unhealthy in our lives.
But I pray that whatever our personal preferences or personal convictions are,
that we wouldn't let that get in the way of what the Bible actually says.
That we wouldn't start condemning people for things that hurt in the Bible.
I pray that you would allow us to just enjoy your creation
and have a good time while we serve you and while we fear you.
And I pray that you would just help us to just not have a holier-than-thou attitude,
not look down upon other people,
especially on things that are just not found in the Bible.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Alright, for our last song, let's go to song number 413.
Song number 413.
Stand up, stand up for Jesus.
Song number 413.
Let's sing it out together.