In his name I pray, amen.
Amen.
So on Wednesday nights,
we've been going through the book of Hebrews.
We're on Hebrews chapter number seven,
but we're taking a break this evening
for a very specific reason.
And if you're visiting, I'm gonna apologize in advance,
but we have to take care of a few things
in the house of God this evening.
And 1 Corinthians chapter number five
is an all but forgotten chapter in a lot of churches today.
But 1 Corinthians chapter number five
deals with church discipline.
And church discipline is a very important job.
It's a very important task that needs to be done.
And if you want to have a healthy church,
you have to exercise church discipline from time to time.
And the title of my evening sermon
is Taking Out the Trash, Taking Out the Trash.
Now, here's the thing.
I had to take out the trash today
whenever I got in my house
and I got all the trash together,
because Wednesdays is trash day.
They come along and they bring the trash,
the canned person or whatever,
they come with their truck
and they gather up all my trash.
So pretty much every Wednesday and Saturday,
I had to put my trash out in front of my house
and they come and pick it out.
And I'll be honest, I don't like putting out the trash.
It's not a fun job.
It's not enjoyable.
It's not something I look forward to.
I always dread it, okay?
But there's some important lessons
from taking out the trash,
because if I did not take out the trash,
my life would be horrible.
I don't want to just accumulate trash in my house.
Otherwise, I'm gonna be on the hoarder show pretty soon.
So you have to actually take trash out
if you like your home, if you love your home.
And that's the concept we're having here
in 1 Corinthians chapter five.
Look at verse seven.
"'Purge out, therefore, the old leaven,
"'that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened,
"'for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
"'Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,
"'neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness,
"'but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.'"
So according to 1 Corinthians chapter five,
which is dealing with the church issue,
he's saying you have to purge out certain leaven
in your church in order to worship God the correct way.
Now, when he's talking about leaven,
leaven could be used in a lot of different contexts.
But in this context, it's extremely clear.
It's talking about a person.
It's identifying a couple that is in open fornication
and not just fornication, extreme fornication.
And he's saying these people need to be purged
out of your church so that you can actually serve God
in sincerity and truth.
You know what that tells me?
It tells me a church that does not exercise church discipline
is not worshiping God in sincerity and truth.
They're worshiping him with dirty hands.
They're worshiping him being dirty.
They need to clean themselves up and wash themselves
and purge out their disease and purge out their leaven
so they can be a new lump and worship God
to the best of their ability.
Some people think that God likes all worship.
That is wrong.
That is false.
God likes worship done according to this book.
That's how God likes worship.
And the children of Israel often are doing bad worship
and they're constantly being chastised, judged,
or some kind of punishment from God
because they're worshiping him in the wrong way.
And the New Testament's no different.
We could get to a place where we're worshiping God
in a wrong way and he's gonna judge us very severely
if we continue in that path.
Now, what was my sermon called?
Taking out the trash, okay?
Now, what's the context?
Because trash could mean a lot of different things.
We're talking about people.
And yes, people can be trash according to the Bible, okay?
Now, I'm gonna prove this in a lot of different ways
but let me give you some synonyms
to the word trash for a moment
because it's not a word you find in your Bible necessarily.
But trash could be rubbish, waste, refuse,
garbage, junk, dross, dregs, scum.
Now, some of those words are actually found in your Bible.
The Bible talks about purging certain things,
getting out the dross from certain things.
And so we have certain examples here
that are gonna be similar.
But go if you went to 1 Corinthians 9.
Let me give you a place
and why I'm giving this title to my sermon.
But like I said, I have to take out the trash
or my house is gonna be terrible.
And you know what trash does?
It attracts more trash.
For some reason, when you just leave a little bit of trash,
it's like your house gets even trashier by the second
because nobody wants to keep it clean.
Whenever there's just a cup out,
then everybody just starts leaving their cup out.
And when there's tissues and napkins and just paper,
like the more trashy you are, the more trash you attract.
Now, what's even worse than that
is trash attracts even worse things like cockroaches.
Whenever you have a trashy house,
you start attracting cockroaches and ants and flies
and all kinds of disgusting critters
and all kinds of different beasts.
I mean, rats, mice, feces, maggots,
all kinds of different things that you attract
whenever you just accumulate lots and lots of trash.
If you love your home, please take out the trash, okay?
And I have to remind myself of this, okay?
Because I don't like taking out the trash.
It's not a pleasant job.
But my first point, and I have three this evening,
is taking out the trash is a necessary job.
It's a necessary job.
You have to take out the trash if you love your home.
And this is called the house of God.
So if we love the house of God,
we have to take out the trash.
It's a necessary job.
The Bible told us in First Corinthians,
chapter number five, that we have to do it.
And we're gonna get an example here
of needing to take out the trash.
It says in First Corinthians, chapter nine, verse 26,
this is the apostle Paul speaking of himself.
He says, I therefore so run not as uncertainly,
so fight I, not as one that beateth the air,
but I keep under my body and bring it into subjection,
lest that by any means, when I preach to others,
I myself should be a castaway.
So the apostle Paul is saying, hey, I have to watch myself.
I have to have some kind of level
of accountability for myself.
Otherwise, I'm gonna dip into things that I shouldn't,
get involved in sins that I shouldn't.
And when I do that, I'm gonna end up being a castaway.
What's a castaway?
It's trash, okay?
It's garbage.
It's refuse.
It's something that has no use anymore.
So it's going to be castaway.
Now, why is it teaching this?
Why is 1 Corinthians 5 exists?
Well, imagine a church where no church discipline exists,
where church discipline's not an option.
Then what's the accountability?
I mean, I can just go do whatever I want,
commit any kind of sin, and just show up at church.
And look, plenty of churches believe this.
They say, come as you are.
Yet, the Bible doesn't teach that.
The Bible doesn't say that everyone's welcome into church.
There's certain people that need to be thrown out of church
and get rid of, and you know why that's a good thing?
So we have some level of accountability.
So I can't just go out and just lie with whoever I want
and just commit all kinds of fornication and drugs
and idolatry and ripping people off
and then just show up to church and just be like,
hey guys, what's up?
It's like, you ripped me off, you know?
You're doing all these wicked things,
you're lying about me, you're railing me.
How can I sit here and worship God
when the guy next to me is ripping me off
and committing all kinds of fornication
and is a drunk at the same time?
That's gonna be a terrible church service.
And there's some churches
where they literally have beer and hymns.
They're not worshiping God in sincerity and truth,
my friend.
They need to purge all of their congregation out,
especially the pastor, okay,
who's authorizing such nonsense.
But I want to go to a church where limits exist.
You should want to go to a church
in a house where limits exist.
I don't wanna go to your house
if you say I never take out the trash.
I'm not interested in coming over to your house.
You'll be on a show called Hoarders
and I don't wanna watch it.
You know, in fact, it's funny
because I had a family member
and their house was on Hoarders, okay.
But not in the way you think, all right.
They drove right by their house
to the house really close by, okay.
But you still don't wanna be on the show, all right.
They were very clean,
but they ended up living very close to somebody
that was on the Hoarders show for real.
So you got to see their house.
They went to this place and it was feces everywhere.
Just feces everywhere.
The water had been turned off.
So you can't flush the toilet.
So now it's a mountain.
And there was cats and all kinds.
There was a cat trapped behind the toilet, okay.
It couldn't even get out.
It was trapped by all the trash and everything.
So they finally get the toilet out
and the cat's free to escape.
He runs out into the street and just dies.
I guess clean air just killed him, you know.
I mean, they just had to just destroy everything.
And so I just throw it all away.
It was so disgusting and horrible.
And look, churches can become like this.
Churches can literally get to the point
where it's just filled with trash and feces
and cats trapped against the toilet, okay.
And as soon as they get some fresh air,
they're just gonna pass out.
So in order to have a healthy church,
in order to have a happy and healthy home,
you must purge out the trash.
It's a necessary job, okay.
Go to Proverbs chapter 25, Proverbs chapter 25.
This church is not a come as you are church.
There are limits that you can cross
and you will be thrown out of this church.
I will take out the trash.
I'm not afraid to take out trash.
And as much as I don't like it,
I'm not gonna let it just sit here and stink.
I'm not gonna let it just fester and create more problems.
No, it needs to be taken out right away.
And there's certain trash that's like that.
I mean, the diapers that are number two,
they need to be taken out right away.
You don't wanna just let those linger in the house.
You wanna get that out.
Now, let me give you an example of this in your Bible.
A great man, Proverbs chapter 25, look at verse one.
These are also Proverbs of Solomon,
which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, copied out.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing.
But the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
The heaven for height and the earth for depth
and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
Take away the dross from the silver
and there should come forth a vessel for the finer.
Take away the wicked from before the king
and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
So the Bible is telling us a couple things.
First of all, kings are commanded and instructed here
in this proverb to search out a matter.
When there's a problem, the person that's in charge
needs to understand what that problem is
so he can correctly identify it and deal with it.
Now, if you're not the king,
you don't have to worry about that.
That's not your responsibility.
But someone in a position of leadership
or authority or accountability,
they need to know what's going on
because they have to make decisions.
And so they have to make diligent inquiry
and figure out who's good, who's bad,
what's going on in my kingdom.
And if a king does not search out the wicked people,
then his kingdom will not be established.
Now, Solomon knew this and he took out the trash, okay?
Notice it says he took away the wicked from before the king
and his throne is gonna be established in righteousness.
This is Solomon.
Now, go view the first kings, chapter number two.
Let's go to the taking out the trash chapter of the Bible.
I mean, if you wanna pick somebody in your Bible
that's great at taking out the trash, it's Solomon.
Solomon knows how to take out the trash.
And when he comes into the kingdom,
he's got a lot of trash that he has to deal with,
a lot of leftovers that daddy left him.
And daddy was in a lot of sin towards the end of his life.
So it's no shocker that his kingdom has a lot of problems,
okay?
And because his kingdom has a lot of problems,
Solomon coming in, he can't just,
well, it's gonna be a free pass.
No, he has a lot of problems he has to deal with
and he's gonna take out the trash
and the Bible's gonna tell us his kingdom's established.
Look at first kings, chapter two, verse one.
Now, the days of David drew nigh that he should die
and he charged Solomon and his sons saying,
I go the way of all the earth.
Be thou strong therefore and show thyself a man
and keep the charge of the Lord thy God to walk
in his ways to keep his statutes and his commandments
and his judgments and his testimonies.
As is written the law of Moses,
that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest
and whithersoever thou turnest thyself,
that the Lord may continue his word,
which he spake concerning me,
saying, if thy children take heed to their way
to walk before me in truth with all their heart
and with all their soul,
there shall not fail thee, said he,
a man on the throne of Israel.
Moreover, thou knowest also what Joab,
the son of Zeruiah, did to me,
and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel,
unto Abner the son of Nur and unto Massah,
the son of Jethur, whom he slew and shed the blood
of war and peace and put the blood of war upon his girdle
that was about his loins and in his shoes
that were on his feet.
So David instructs Solomon saying,
hey, you need to take care of Joab.
Joab's a problem here.
Joab slew two men in a time of peace.
He didn't have to do such a thing.
It was a wicked sin for Joab.
And David even made it clear that the blood of those men
would come upon the house of Joab and the sons of Zeruiah.
Now, skip down to verse eight.
He's giving him more instruction.
And behold, thou hast with thee Shimei,
the son of Gerah, a Benjamite of Bahurim,
which cursed me with a grievous curse
in the day when I went to Mahaenam.
But he came down to meet me at Jordan,
and I swear to him by the Lord, saying,
I will not put thee to death with the sword.
Now, therefore, hold him not guiltless,
for thou art a wise man and knowest
what thou oughtest to do unto him.
But his whorehead bring not thou down
to the grave with blood.
So he's saying, this guy Shimei was cursing me.
He's wicked.
He's a reprobate, he's evil.
But I unfortunately told him I was never gonna kill him.
So in order to keep that oath, I can't kill him.
But I never said my son can't.
I never said Solomon can't take him out.
And he says, you need to make sure you're a wise person.
You have to take this guy.
I don't know how you're gonna do it,
but you just figure out a way
and you take out the trash here.
You need to take Shimei out.
Now, look at verse 12.
Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father,
and his kingdom was established greatly.
So Solomon sat on the throne.
His kingdom has been established.
Adonijah, his brother, had tried to steal it from him.
And he also knows he's got to deal with Adonijah.
So he's got Joab, he's got Shimei, he's got Adonijah.
And Adonijah comes unto his mother, Bathsheba,
and makes a very foolish request asking for David's wife,
asking for Abishag, who was given unto David
at the end of his age, probably a contemporary,
the age of Adonijah.
And Adonijah wants a very grievous sin
because the Bible says to lie with your father's wife
is a sin worthy of death, according to Leviticus chapter 20.
Hopefully you were paying attention, all right?
Now, he asked this, and Bathsheba comes unto Solomon
and makes that petition, says,
will you give Abishag unto Adonijah?
But look what it says in verse 21.
And she said, let Abishag the Shunammite
be given Adonijah thy brother to wife.
And King Solomon answered and said unto his mother,
why, and why doth thou ask Abishag the Shunammite
for Adonijah?
Ask for him the kingdom also?
For he is my elder brother, even for him,
and for Abiathar the priest,
and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
Then King Solomon sware by the Lord saying,
God do so to me, and more also,
if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
Now therefore, as the Lord liveth,
which hath established me and set me
on the throne of David my father,
and who hath made me in house as he promised,
Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada, and he fell upon him that he died.
Now, here's the thing.
Killing Adonijah was not fun.
No one wants to do that.
Nobody wants to deal with these issues.
Nobody wants to have to kill their own brother.
Nobody wants to send the messenger of death.
Nobody wants to be the messenger of death.
But in order for Solomon to establish his kingdom,
he has to take the trash out.
He has to take Adonijah out.
And because of Adonijah's wicked actions
coming from his own heart, he has to deal with it.
And notice that he's gonna deal with it.
Let's go down to verse number 33.
He's cleaning the house.
How about Joab?
Joab runs into the sanctuary and grabs the horn
of the altar and is thinking that he's gonna get sanctuary.
He's not gonna get sanctuary even on the horns,
holding the horns of the altar of God.
It says in verse 33, their blood shall therefore
return upon the head of Joab and upon the head
of his seed forever, but upon David and upon his seed
and upon his house and upon his throne
shall there be peace forever from the Lord.
So Benaiah the son of Joab went up and fell upon him
and slew him and he was buried in his own house
and in the wilderness.
So knocked out Adonijah, knocked out Joab.
Go to verse 44.
I can't believe you would kill somebody in the house of God.
That's what Solomon did, get over it.
If someone's gonna cling to the horns of the altar,
you just gotta pick him up and throw him out.
You just fall upon him with the sword.
You say, I don't wanna do that in the house of God.
Well, sometimes you have to do it.
Sometimes you have to get in front of everybody
and it's ugly and it's gross and it's messy
and you don't wanna have to do it,
but the job needs to get done.
And Solomon's saying, hey, I'm gonna get rid of this guy.
Even if he's gonna hang on the altar, you're taking him out.
Look at verse 44.
The king said moreover to Shimei, thou knowest
all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to,
that thou didst to David my father.
Therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness
upon thine own head and King Solomon shall be blessed
and the throne of David shall be established
before the Lord forever.
So the king commanded Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada,
which went out and fell upon him that he died
and the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
Now, he told Shimei, he was pretty clever.
He realized Shimei, he can't contain himself.
He has no self-control.
He said, if you ever leave Jerusalem, you're a dead man.
And of course, Shimei leaves.
He comes back and then he ends up taking him out.
But what did it say in that last verse?
And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
Notice, in order for Solomon to establish the kingdom,
he had to take out the trash.
And look, in the house of God, it's no different.
These are written for our admonition.
They're in samples unto us of how we're supposed to behave
in the house of God and sometimes trash
just has to be taken out.
Go to 1 Timothy chapter number one.
So what's my first point?
My first point is taking out the trash is a necessary job.
You just have to do it.
It's not fun.
And my second point is it's an ugly job.
No one enjoys taking out the trash.
It's gross, it stinks, it's disgusting.
You have to wrap it in special bags
and put it in special containers
and making sure that you don't get it on your hands.
Maybe put gloves on.
This is the time to put gloves and a mask on, okay?
Taking out the trash.
You wanna protect yourself from all the toxins.
Don't take a big whiff of a trash bag, okay?
This is where you learn in science class,
you're supposed to kind of waft the smell.
You don't wanna just get right up there
and just sniff it like creepy Joe.
You wanna make sure you kinda keep a distance
before you get in close, all right?
It's an ugly job.
And some people would accuse a church
that takes out the trash.
Y'all are just addicted to drama.
You just love drama so much.
I mean, calling people out and doing these type of things.
Well, I guess you wouldn't like the apostle Paul then.
You know the apostle Paul just seems to name
person after person after person
and he makes it real personal.
It's their name written in scripture.
You know how long that is?
Forever thy word is settled in heaven, O Lord.
That's forever.
This guy is just, you say,
why would you make things public?
Well, Paul did.
He made it way more, I can't make it that public.
YouTube doesn't like me that much, all right?
And then beyond that, I mean, the scripture,
I mean, this has been written in every language.
This is the most popular book in human history.
He's writing these epistles to people, to churches
and calling people out by name.
It's dramatic, okay?
But it's a necessary job.
You know, when I take out the trash, it's a public thing.
I have to walk outside and I put it out in front of my yard
and people can see my trash.
It's gross, but it has to be taken out.
First to me, chapter number one, look at verse 19.
Holding faith and of a good conscience,
which some having put away concerning faith
made shipwreck of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander,
whom I have delivered unto Satan,
that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Skip to chapter number five.
Notice he's calling people out.
He's saying, hey, this Hymenaeus guy and Alexander,
they're wicked, they've been blaspheming.
They need to be delivered unto Satan.
They're not, you know, someone
that you should be hanging out with.
They can go hang out with the devil.
Look at verse to me, chapter five, verse 19.
Against an elder received not an accusation,
but before two or three witnesses,
then that sin rebuked before all
that others also may fear.
Notice what the Bible says.
My Bible tells me that if someone comes against an elder
with an accusation and is not founded,
it's just a one person just coming up,
making railing accusation,
the Bible commands me to actually expose them publicly
to every single person
so that other people would be afraid.
And you ought to be terrified
to go and rail against the pastor
or bring an accusation against the pastor
because they're commanded by God
to expose you publicly to everyone.
That's what the Bible says.
What parts of the Bible do you want me to believe?
I believe all of them, okay?
And if you don't like all of them,
you can go to another church.
But I'm gonna follow what the Bible instructs me.
Go to chapter number, verse 24.
Some men's sins are opened beforehand,
going before the judgment, and some men they follow after.
Well, I just, y'all are so judgmental.
The Bible literally says it.
It says some guys, all their sin you're gonna know about
before the great right thrown judgment too.
You get to find out beforehand a little bit.
It's gonna be exposed, their folly's gonna be exposed.
We already know who Korah is.
We're not gonna be shocked when he falls
into the lake of fire the second time, okay?
The first time he went straight into hell,
the second time he's just tossing the lake of fire.
Now go to 2 Timothy chapter number one.
Let me prove to you that calling people out by name
is biblical, unless you don't already believe me.
2 Timothy chapter one, verse 15.
This thou knowest that all they which are in Asia
be turned away from me,
of whom are by jealous and homogeneous.
So again, he's mentioning another two guys.
Look at chapter two, verse number 16.
Chapter two, number 16.
But shun profane and vain babblings,
for they will increase unto more ungodliness,
and their word will eat as doth a canker,
of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus.
Oh, why does he have to keep bringing up Hymenaeus, right?
He has to bring him up again.
I thought you already called him out, Paul.
Why are you calling him out again?
Because it needs to be called out again.
I mean, I guess you don't like the apostle Paul then,
because he just keeps naming person
after person after person.
Look at chapter three, verse eight.
Now as Janus and Jammres withstood Moses,
so do these also resist the truth.
Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith,
but they shall proceed no further,
for their folly shall be manifest
unto all men as theirs also was.
So you know what?
If you wanna be like a Janus and Jammres,
you're gonna get exposed to everyone.
Look at the Bible's warning.
Look at chapter four.
Man, Paul, you're just going on a tirade here, you know?
Just calling person after person out.
It gets more.
Verse nine.
With thy diligence is to come shortly unto me.
Verdemas hath forsaken me,
having loved this present world,
and is departed unto Thessalonica,
Cretans to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
Only Luke is with me.
Take Mark and bring him with thee,
for he is provable to me for the ministry.
Now it's interesting.
He's calling people out
that aren't even like bad people necessarily.
These people aren't unsaved Judas Iscariots,
but you know what?
He still called them out, didn't he?
He still had to rebuke it.
He still had to warn about people publicly
because they had just gone off the deep end,
they crossed certain limits,
they crossed certain boundaries,
and they have to get called out.
Look at verse 14.
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil.
The Lord reward him according to his works,
of whom be thou where also,
for he hath greatly withstood our words.
This guy's wicked.
Alexander the coppersmith did him much evil.
Now, the only recompense here is the fact
that the apostle Paul's warning about him,
but the apostle Paul's not gonna take vengeance himself.
He's not gonna avenge himself.
He's gonna let the Lord take care of it,
but he has an obligation.
He has a duty to warn people publicly about that person.
It's a command from God.
God's charging him.
You have to expose this guy publicly.
And let me tell you something, it's an ugly job.
It's an ugly job that's not fun.
And if you don't like taking out the trash,
never be a pastor.
He should never be a pastor.
It's an ugly, dirty, disgusting job,
but sometimes it has to happen.
Look at 3 John, chapter number one.
Well, that was the apostle Paul.
He was out to lunch.
Well, how about John, the beloved,
the one that leaned on Jesus' breast,
the guy that wrote John 3.16?
Who can he love more than John?
I mean, John's just a lovely guy.
I mean, forget the fact that he's always bragging
about he's faster than Peter.
But he's still the beloved.
He writes the love chapters.
I mean, the Revelation.
You know, he's calling people out too.
John.
Look at verse number nine.
3 John 9.
I wrote unto the church.
That sounds public to me.
But the atroves, who loveth to have the preeminence
among them, receiveth us not.
Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds,
which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words,
and not content therewith.
Neither doth he himself receive the brethren,
and forbideth them that would,
and casteth them out of the church.
Notice the atroves believes in throwing people
out of the church, but not bad people.
He throws the good people out of church.
He runs the good people off.
When you have a bad leader, you know what they do?
They welcome the bad, and they try to get rid of the good.
They try to limit the good.
They try to discourage the good.
They try to harm the good.
Yet, they love the bad.
They love the evil.
They love the wickedness, okay?
Says in verse 11, beloved,
follow not that which is evil, but that which is good.
He that doeth good is of God.
But he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
He says, someone like the atroves,
this guy's not even of God.
He's not even saved.
The atroves is a wicked person.
He's taking the good people out of the church.
He's welcoming in the trash.
He is trash.
He needs to be thrown out.
And notice, John wrote this to the entire church.
Can you imagine?
We get a, hey, we got a letter.
Let's read it for everybody.
Hey, this guy Yotri's sitting right here.
Yeah, he's wicked.
He's not of God.
He's not even saved.
That's what the apostle John just told us.
Do you think that's dramatic?
I bet that was pretty dramatic.
I bet there was a lot of people that were uncomfortable.
But you know what?
It's not his necessary job.
And you can't get mad at me for doing the same thing
when I see Paul doing it,
and I see the apostle John doing it,
and I'm commanded by God to do it.
It's just a job that has to get done.
Now, if you don't believe me,
it's probably because you just don't believe the Bible.
But I'm gonna call someone out publicly this evening.
And some people are already aware of this.
But there's somebody in our Oklahoma City church plant.
His name is Bo Ballard.
And he has just gone up deep end
and attacking me personally.
And I'm just gonna expose some of the things that's happened
just so you're very aware of what's happening.
Now, go if you would in your Bible
to Proverbs chapter 14, Proverbs chapter 14.
But just to give you a backstory for a quick second,
Bo Ballard, this is not the first time
he's had problems with me.
In fact, a little over a year ago,
he had a private texting group with people in the church
where he was railing against me, okay?
And in these text messages, someone had sent a screenshot
or sent a video link to a video
that we had posted on our channel.
It was called Adam Fanon Changed the Word of God.
Now, it's a clip that Jesse had noticed.
It was a great video, you should watch it.
But he helped me compose it.
And basically, Adam Fanon had put this thumbnail
on one of his sermons or some sermon clip.
And it was called Thou Shalt Mount Halloween.
And basically, he just made this custom image
where in Exodus chapter number 20,
he just inserted those words into that picture
and made it look like it's the Word of God.
He basically just added it into the text.
Now, you can't just accidentally do that either.
That would take a lot of work, a lot of effort and energy
to try and match it right into the text.
He had to literally cut verse number four and move it down
and then insert his own text.
Now, I mean, look, obviously,
that doesn't prove anything necessarily,
except for the fact that this person
doesn't have a high regard of scripture, in my opinion.
I don't know, someone that goes to a King James-only church
that believes in the inerrancy of the Bible
and how it's constantly being attacked
and changed and added to,
I don't think you would be lightly just messing around
with images that look like that.
I mean, that has to come from your imagination.
Somewhere, where in your heart were you like,
I think I should just add some words to the Bible today.
That's a wicked heart, okay?
And look, that just is further proof
of what Adam Fannin's really like.
Someone that does not have a high regard of scripture
and someone who is wicked.
He even admitted to me one time
when I was contending with him
on the qualifications of a bishop,
Adam Fannin said, man, it seems like you're really stuck
on that one word.
Faithful children, you know, faithful.
Yeah, because I like every word of God.
I'm not a person that says the NIV's okay.
I'm not a kind of person that says,
let's just change the word of God.
Let's just suit it to my personal whims or however I feel.
Now, this clip was shared in this group.
Bo Ballard was the first person to comment.
This is his comment.
I feel like that's picking on the guy.
Oh, I didn't know I was picking on Adam Fannin.
The guy that tried to split our church is wicked as hell,
stole intellectual property from us,
had no tithing ledger, no records to give to the church
about how much money was there.
I mean, oh, I'm just picking on,
and look, if someone in my church,
I don't care who you are,
if you start posting pictures changing the Bible,
I have a problem with you.
And I'm not gonna sit here and say,
oh, you're picking on the guy for changing the Bible.
You have a bad heart.
I'm picking on the guy.
Then he says, another person says, that seems like a joke.
Then Bo Ballard responds,
I'm sure he didn't say in Exodus 20, verse three,
the Bible says thou shalt not Halloween, LOL.
He just put it on a thumbnail.
Really what we can learn from this
is that piling on a defector or proven loser,
kicking a dead horse is simply not edifying.
So in a clip of me preaching against Adam Fannin
changing the Bible,
he's saying that my preaching's not edifying.
Now, is that acceptable for the leader of a church plant
to just say that their pastor's preaching is not edifying?
What kind of garbage and trash is that?
What kind of nonsense for him to say that?
Now, based on that comment, okay,
it's undeniable he watched the video.
But yet he still says, oh, I didn't watch the video.
I don't even know what, you took me out of context.
How can I take you out of context
since you'd have to watch the video
to see where in the Bible he added the text,
which you literally quoted, and I have the screenshot of.
Now he owns the backtrack.
Oh, you took me out of context.
I didn't take you out of context.
And you have to attack the apostle Paul now
because it seems like he mentioned Hymenaeus multiple times.
Oh, I guess we shouldn't pile on
on that defective loser, Hymenaeus.
No, we should.
We should keep calling him out
and keep warning against him and keep calling him out
for all the wicked sins that he's doing.
There's nothing wrong with piling on a defective loser.
We need to keep warning against them.
I'm not gonna stop preaching against Joel Osteen.
I'm not gonna stop preaching against John MacArthur.
I'm not gonna stop preaching
against the false prophets of today.
They don't need to be warned against one time.
They need to be warned against every single day
is what the apostle Paul said.
Right.
Stupid.
Kicking a dead horse.
When he's dead, then I'll kick it, all right?
So then somebody says, well, I see Pastor Shelley's point.
Then another person says, well, I'm with Bo on this one.
That sounds like people are against someone.
Who are they against?
Oh, the leader is literally encouraging people
in his church to be against their pastor.
Does that seem like a good attribute of the leader?
Now look at Proverbs 14 verse nine.
Fools make a mock at sin,
but among the righteous there is favor.
Oh, I just don't think it was a big deal.
I just think it's, you know,
who cares that he is literally changing
the text of the Bible?
No big deal.
What?
That's a literal daily fight that we have to be in
is trying to contend for the King James Bible
and contending for the inerrancy of scripture.
I'm not gonna sit here and make a mockery of the Bible
and just add in ad lib whatever I want.
Smoking's a sin now.
You know, obviously there's things that are sins,
but I'm not gonna say thus saith the Lord.
Hey, Halloween's wicked as hell.
You know what?
I'm not gonna insert that into the Bible
because of my own personal opinion.
Because you know what Adam Fanny would also insert in there?
You know, women not covering their elbows is a sin too.
And we know that's stupid.
We know that's not biblical.
Just because he might be right that Halloween's wicked,
don't excuse his wicked behavior.
So that's his first problem.
When I called him, I said,
have you been talking crap on me by my back?
He said, no.
Have you shared anything negative against me?
No.
Then I show him the proof.
Oh, well, yeah, I did say that.
Shocking.
Shocking how whenever you are asked,
you just lie to me the first time.
So then, you know, he tried to give me a half apology.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
I let it go.
But I removed him from leadership at that point.
I didn't tell anybody.
I didn't make a big deal about it.
And I was never going to.
But you know, since then he's taken back his apology
completely by saying,
I totally misinterpreted the situation.
He didn't even watch the video.
I took him out of context.
You're a liar.
That's what you are, okay?
And if you're going to take back your apology,
well, then you're still on the train of railing.
And you know what happens to the railers.
First Corinthians five already told us,
we throw them out of church.
You say, is there a vote on that?
No, there's one vote.
It's mine.
I have a hundred percent of the vote.
And I voted that he's thrown out.
Period.
Okay.
Now there's a lot of other things
that I'm going to mention here in a second,
but you don't have to turn there.
I'm just going to quote for you a few verses here,
but I gave him a second chance, actually, though.
I still tried to have your grace to this guy.
I let him preach again and he preached the worst sermons.
And I'm not joking.
I made Jesse listen to a lot of sermons for me
when he was an employee.
And man, it was a problem.
Just ask him, just get his opinion on it, okay?
But I preached on first Corinthians chapter 11
and I skipped the verse, verse 10,
which says for this cause ought the woman
to have power on her head because of the angels.
Now, you know why I skipped that verse?
Because nobody knows what that verse means.
Okay?
Well, he preaches a sermon the next week
on why women have power on their head.
Oh, I noticed Pastor Shelley skipped that in his sermon,
so I'll go ahead and explain it to everybody
because it's so simple.
It's so easy to be understood.
Okay, let's hear what you have to say then, all right?
Now I'm going to give you some quotes from this sermon.
He went to Matthew 22 where it talks about a man
not having a wedding garment on and he's thrown out.
Okay, that parable.
And then he compares that with Revelation chapter one
with Jesus Christ, the son of man,
being clothed from head to foot.
And this is what he says, quote,
just to note, you know, a long train,
like if a woman has, like a long wedding dress,
that's a picture of glory.
And so Jesus Christ having this long garment,
I believe is a picture of glory.
He literally compared a woman having a long dress
to what Jesus Christ is dressed like
and compared her train of her garment
to what Jesus Christ is wearing.
When Jesus Christ literally in the New Testament
warns those that are wearing long robes,
the scribes that love to go in long flowing garments,
yet he doesn't understand that from head to foot
could be a suit.
You know I'm clothed from head to foot today
and I'm not wearing a dress.
And neither would Jesus Christ ever wear a dress.
That is wicked heresy.
Why would you teach that?
What does that even have to do with 1 Corinthians 11?
Nothing.
Now what do you think's the next words out of his mouth?
It only makes sense.
And if not, you know, no big deal,
don't throw me out of the church over that.
I'm quoting him.
You know why he said that?
Because he realized it was such wicked,
blasphemy garbage that just came out of his mouth
so he has to be like,
don't throw me out of the church for that one.
What kind of a weirdo?
Then he goes to Moses coming off the mountain.
Here's more quotes from that sermon.
Moses saw the people were naked
for Aaron had made them naked
under the shame among their enemies.
This is from Exodus.
He's quoting the verse in Exodus
where Moses went up to the mount,
Aaron makes a golden calf,
the children of Israel commit fornication, idolatry,
Moses comes back down.
And the Bible says when Moses saw the people
that they were naked, okay?
And he says that Aaron had made them naked
under their shame among their enemies.
This is what he says.
So here's the thing,
it's a shame to be naked,
it's a shame to be inadequately covered right
and the Bible says that these people were naked
under their shame before their enemies.
So not only are they literally naked
amongst one another's company,
which is, you know, wildly inappropriate,
but also literally the Bible teaches
they're naked before their enemies,
which I believe and I'm gonna show you
as spiritual enemies.
Now, let me just help you for half a second.
They were not unclothed, okay?
That is a stupid interpretation of that.
It's easily proven false.
The Bible says they took off their earrings
and then Aaron took that gold and fashioned a calf with it.
So when Moses came down,
he noticed they didn't have any jewelry on.
He didn't notice everybody having a nude colony
and that Aaron had forced them into a nude colony.
What kind of wicked perverted person thinks that?
He even says not only they're naked,
they're naked with their enemies.
So they just invite a bunch of enemies.
They're all just naked.
What kind of weird nonsense?
So you know what I did after I heard that garbage sermon?
I put it on private immediately and I called him
and this is just two of like a lot of points
that I had to break.
This sermon was so bad.
It was the worst sermon I've ever heard.
I went by point by point explaining to him
how it was so bad and all the heresies,
constantly over talking me, constantly arguing with me,
but I can't let him preach
when he's preaching this kind of crap.
Everybody in the church said,
I asked multiple women in the church
that heard the sermon, what do you think of the sermon?
It's probably the worst sermon I've ever heard.
Quote from somebody, okay?
Jesse, he listened to the sermon and alerted me.
He's like, this is bad.
You need to listen to this sermon.
It was nonsensical and let me tell you something,
he didn't discover the answer to 1 Corinthians 11
by any stretch of the imagination, all right?
But when I tell my preachers
and every one of my preachers can attest to this,
I constantly reiterate, preach basic sermons.
Preach things that you know.
Don't try to be cute.
Don't try to be clever.
Don't try to show yourself off and flaunt your stuff.
And then he has to preach these stupid, cute sermons.
He said he decided to preach this
instead of preaching about the Nephilim.
What kind of a good sermon is that?
You know, I really feel like my people be edified
if I preach them about the Nephilim.
I was thinking, wow, we weren't even gonna win
if you preached that sermon.
What kind of, and the sermon before that week
was horrible too.
He starts off Proverbs chapter number eight.
Proverbs chapter number eight, it's about wisdom.
It personifies wisdom and it personifies it as a girl.
And then he says, hey, I think that this chapter's,
you know, the wisdom being personified like a girl
is like Jesus.
And I'm like, what are you doing?
Why would you say that?
Now look, Jesus has personified his wisdom,
but he was bringing it up about the female context.
And I'm like, you're just teaching the worst filth
about our Lord and saying,
why would you get up and teach this junk?
Now, you know, you say,
why are you criticizing a sermon publicly?
Well, he likes to criticize every single person
that comes behind his pulpit.
You know, I've had multiple people tell me, multiple,
I send somebody up there to preach,
he just comes up to write up the sermon
and tells them all the things they did wrong
in their sermon.
There's a person up there that preaches locally,
he says every single sermon he comes and tells me
what's wrong with my sermon.
Who told you both that you should go around
criticizing every single person?
Look, I don't even criticize every single sermon,
not even close.
Maybe if they ask me.
Sometimes I give unwanted criticism when it's needed,
but at the end of the day,
who made you the judge, jury and executioner?
And I wouldn't want your criticism anyways
when you're telling me that Jesus is wearing a dress.
Yeah.
Now, I'm gonna give you some more quotes from this person.
Can you say, I don't know if that's enough
to throw somebody out of church, Pastor Shelley.
Well, let me give you some quotes from him.
He wants to see every single bank statement of our church
because he says that's what every church does.
I've never been in a church
where I've seen any bank statement of theirs,
nor would I ever expect them
to give me a bank statement of theirs.
What nonsense, what silliness,
especially someone that hates me
and is poisoned against me, no thank you.
He says, well, I wanna see it
because I wanna show your innocence.
What am I guilty of?
Apparently I'm just guilty for no reason.
He just wants to see all the numbers
and he wants to see the investigation against Romero.
What does that have to do with me?
What does Romero have to do with me
before I became the pastor?
Nothing.
It's stupid.
He says, I have a lot of questions.
He says, so yeah, the people asking these questions
may be railers, they may be causing trouble,
they may just be trolls,
but you know, a lot of them have legitimate questions.
So Bo, he doesn't read his Bible.
He just watches troll videos attacking our church
from people that have been thrown out of our church
that are wicked railers, flat earthers,
people that deny the fact that Jesus is God,
mind you, okay?
That's all he listens to all day.
And then he says they have legitimate questions.
Think about that.
Why would you go to any of the,
why would you even hear what they have to say?
Just them opening their mouth
is gonna ruin all the brain cells in your head, okay?
You will only become dumber by listening to them speak.
Oh, they have legitimate questions.
They have no legitimate question.
I said this to him because he was criticizing me
being worse than Romero.
He said, so you're saying Oklahoma City got worse
from Romero to me now being the pastor.
He says it actually has, yeah, everyone.
Yeah, it actually has.
He says that their church is worse
than when Romero was the pastor.
He says, so basically I had an A, B, or C,
either A, you're exceptional,
and I don't even recognize it,
B, you're probably not prepared for the situation
and probably not able to handle the situation,
but maybe could grow into the position,
or C, just not good at all.
And so I haven't really decided if it's B or C,
but I know it's not A.
So he's saying me as a pastor,
he knows I'm not a good pastor for sure.
He's saying maybe I could be a good pastor
someday in the future, maybe,
or I'm just a horrible pastor.
This is a phone call that I had with him
just a few days ago where he's telling me this.
This is what he said, so I've gotta ask these questions
because again, I don't care about you.
I don't care about your money.
I don't care about, I do care about my pastor.
Now if you, I didn't put this in my notes,
but when he says my pastor, he's not referring to me.
He's referring to some old pastor that he had in the past.
He literally says he does not care about me.
Just out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
He asked me if I believed oneness,
and I said, why would you ask a question like that?
And he says, well, because I'm curious
if that's something that you didn't understand.
And he says, at that point, you probably weren't saved,
and then I should probably not stick around here.
He thinks that I was not saved a few years ago
based on a troll video attacking me.
I said, you sound like you hate our church
and you're just trying to troll me.
He says, that's an ad-ominate attack.
I love our church, you know.
I've contributed to our church in a great way.
I'd probably do three quarters of the soul winning
for our church for the last six months.
He says he does 75% of the soul winning.
Now I asked Tanner Furrer last week
how many people went soul winning on Sunday.
He said over a dozen.
So I guess he went soul winning
for 40 plus hours last week by himself,
because he does 75% of the soul winning.
What a liar.
I said, why would you be asking these questions
if you're not poison against me?
He says, well, Pastor Shelly, I think you're a wolf.
You want somebody in your church
that's just calling your pastor a wolf
and saying you're not a good pastor
and trying to accuse him of all kinds of weird heresies
with no evidence, no proof, just walking up.
What does the Bible tell me to do?
It says to expose this guy publicly
so other people should fear.
I said, how am I a wolf?
I said, you're wicked.
I'm gonna expose you to every single person in our church.
That's what I said after he called me a wolf.
So he shouldn't be too shocked.
I said, why would you come to a church
that you don't even wanna be in?
You're railing against the pastor.
I mean, you're literally saying
that I'm not even a good pastor.
I said, maybe at best,
I could maybe be a good pastor in the future.
He says, that's right.
And I said, don't even come.
What kind of a person is just attacking the pastor,
trying to share private information against the pastor?
Look, I'm gonna call it out publicly.
If you wanna just start calling me a wolf
and saying all kinds of weird accusations against me,
then I'll just go ahead
and just tell everybody what you told me.
I think that you should get to know that.
Now, I'm gonna go to my last point, okay?
Go if you would to Matthew 18, Matthew chapter 18.
Point number one, taking out the trash is necessary.
Point number two, taking out the trash is ugly.
You know what?
I would rather preach on how Jesus Christ
is after the order of Melchizedek.
I would rather preach about how great Jesus Christ is
and all the spiritual examples of Jesus Christ
and all the great things he did for me.
But you know what?
I got a bunch of stinking trash in my church
and it needs to be taken out
and it's gonna be taken out publicly.
And if you don't like that,
then you can go to the trash can Baptist church
down the street.
Well, they'll never do this.
You don't have to worry.
The guy can sit right next to you
and he can smell like filth
and attract all the cockroaches to come in.
But I'm not gonna let cockroaches get into my church.
It's gross.
Now, my third point is that taking out the trash
needs to be handled properly.
Taking out the trash needs to be handled properly.
Now, why do I say this?
In my opinion, three different types of trash.
What's the first one?
Trash that's restorable.
This is your recyclables.
You got glass and you got paper goods.
You got things that can be recycled.
Then the second type of trash is just bad trash.
This is what I would just call wicked trash.
It's just things that you don't want anymore.
There's no real use for it.
Then you have reprobate trash.
That's your last kind of trash.
This kind of trash needs to be discarded
immediately.
You have to get this trash away from you.
What's a reprobate trash?
A number two diaper.
This is reprobate trash.
Molding, rotting food.
You don't wanna just let that sit out.
You have to get rid of certain trash just immediately.
You know a paper plate or something,
that's just bad trash.
You just throw that away.
You got some kind of good that's not recyclable.
You just wanna get rid of it.
You're not gonna have any use for it.
It's been used.
You're gonna throw that in the trash.
McDonald's, you just throw it in the trash.
No, I'm just kidding.
But it's not necessarily reprobate.
And you have to understand this.
Some people don't understand that
when it comes to dealing with the trash,
as far as people is concerned,
they fall in these three categories.
Not everybody expelled from a church is reprobate trash.
Not everybody that gets expelled from a church
is recyclable trash either.
So you have to handle it properly.
You have to say, which bin does this go in?
Does this go in the recycle bin?
Or does this go in the trash bin?
Or does this go straight to the dump?
Does this go straight, like double bagged
and just straight outside?
This is not gonna be in my house even for a second.
You have to identify these type of things.
Now, there's so many verses I don't think I have time.
I don't have time.
There's so many verses that talk
about throwing people out of church.
There's so many ways to be done.
Matthew 18 is one that anybody that's a wicked,
horrible person, they always go to this one
as a way of how you're supposed to throw somebody
out of church, why?
Because there's all these different steps involved
and they're like, oh, you didn't follow all these steps.
Well, look, you're not a recyclable piece of trash.
You're a different kind of trash.
So of course I'm not gonna put it in the recycle bin.
I'm not gonna put leftover food in the recycle bin.
They'll get mad at me.
They will reject that kind of trash.
What is Matthew chapter 18?
Well, look what it says in verse number 15.
Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee,
go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone.
If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
But if you'll not hear thee,
then take with thee one or two more,
that in the mouth of two or three witnesses,
every word may be established.
And if he shall neglect to hear them,
tell it unto the church.
But if he neglects to hear the church,
let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican.
Bear thy sin to you, whatsoever shall bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven,
whatsoever he shall loose on earth shall be loose in heaven.
So now, what is this an example?
This is an example of two people in the church
that have some kind of discrepancy, some kind of offense,
some kind of trespass between them.
And one of the brothers goes to him and says,
you know what, you did this to me,
you need to make it right.
And that person's unwilling to make it right.
They're unapologetic, they're not willing to fix it.
And so it has to end up getting escalated.
And they bring a couple more people, they get involved.
And if they still won't listen to the multiple people,
then you have to bring before the church.
If they still won't hear the church,
then they would be taken out.
Now I put this in the recyclable trash, okay?
Meaning what?
This person could just be a decent person,
but just be upset with something or some kind of grievance.
They're a little bit too prideful,
they can't admit their fault.
And so by going through these processes,
it starts to humble them and they eventually can get it
right, even after getting out of the church,
perhaps they get it right, they could come back to church.
Now, when it comes to Matthew 18,
people want to use this because someone looked at you wrong.
If you come to me and say, so-and-so didn't shake my hand,
it's time for Matthew 18, I'm gonna tell you no.
Matthew 18 is a serious grievance.
What's a serious grievance?
Like they jackknifed your car and didn't care about it.
They ripped you off for $1,000.
They were horsing around with your kid
and broke your kid's arm, okay?
There's serious offenses that can happen in a church
that need to be dealt with.
If someone's just horsing around and breaks my kid's arm
and doesn't even care about it,
you better know he needs to apologize.
You better know he needs to make that right.
There's gonna be certain things that are threshold for you
and you say, you know what, this is just too grievous.
I can't just let this one go.
There needs to be some kind of recommence here.
This guy ripped me off for 10,000 bucks in the church.
I gotta address this with them.
I gotta get paid back on this deal.
This guy can't just run me over.
You have the option of being defrauded, but in some case,
if you feel like you need to get rectified, you can.
This is not some petty, stupid, nonsense, minor grievance.
Those just need to be told you're both wrong.
Get over it, okay?
And that's the vice I always give people.
Get over yourself, okay?
This is not that big a deal.
Did they break your arm?
No, okay, get over it, all right?
Give some grace to people.
But if you can't have the grace,
that's where you'd use this.
And I put this in the recycle bin, your paper, your boxes.
Now, for sake of time, go to 1 Corinthians 5 again,
or go to Titus 3, go to Titus 3.
And there's a couple other instances
where I'd put these things.
Romans 16, 17 through 19 talks about throwing people out
that are causing divisions and offenses contrary
to the doctrine which you've learned.
And the pastor has just the authority
to just literally throw out anybody that he needs to
that's violating Romans 16.
This is not a Matthew 18 issue.
This is someone going around teaching false doctrine
in the church, causing division,
causing some kind of a problem amongst the people,
trying to split people from one another,
and he just recognizes this is a serious issue.
Get out, okay?
He's gonna call out the division or the offense.
Someone teaching that the Trinity's not legitimate.
You're just gonna throw that guy out.
You're not gonna sit there and tolerate that.
Someone poisoning everybody against the pastor,
or not just the pastor, anybody in the church.
They need to just get out.
They're not welcome when they're causing division
and offenses.
2 Thessalonians chapter three, someone that does not work
is supposed to be thrown out of the church.
If he's just going around bumming money off
of every single person in the church,
refusing to work, he is supposed to be thrown out.
But he could be recycled, just get a job.
As soon as he gets a job, he's welcome back, okay?
So we don't wanna treat the recyclable trash
as a reprobate trash though, okay?
Now obviously if they're teaching that the Trinity's false,
they're reprobate, okay?
I'm just saying, there's a possibility that someone
could be causing an offense or a division,
and we could recycle this type of person.
We wanna handle them with love.
The Bible says that we're still supposed to treat them
and admonish them like a brother though.
We're supposed to love them and be kind to them
and want them to come back, but he has to get
certain things right in his life before he can come back.
They have to put the paper in the cycle bin
and make new paper, and then once it's new paper,
I'll buy it again and bring it back into the house, okay?
But it has to work on itself.
It has to fix itself.
I'm not gonna fix the trash.
The trash has to fix itself, okay?
Mind you.
I'll tell the trash, hey, you need to fix yourself,
but I'm not gonna go over there and fix it for it.
I'm not gonna go over there and do the job for him
and make a job for him.
He's gotta get his own job, okay?
He's gotta go actually work himself and make the money
before I'm gonna invite him back into the church, okay?
Fixes himself, come back in.
What about Titus chapter three though?
And this kinda relates on when we talk about
divisions and offenses.
It says in Titus chapter three, look at verse number 10.
A man that is an heretic out of the first
and second admonition rejects.
So you know someone that's a heretic, believing heresy,
like Jesus wears dresses, you know,
you should probably, if they won't take correction,
just reject them.
It's called getting rid of them.
Have nothing to do with them.
This person's wicked.
Notice what the Bible says.
Knowing that he that is such is subverted
and sin is being condemned of himself.
This person's wicked, they need to get dealt with
and just get out.
Now, is it possible for someone to be a heretic and saved?
Yeah.
So I'm not gonna say this person's reprobate.
They're not a reprobate trash necessarily, they could be,
but I don't want them near him.
They have to fix that before they could even possibly
be considered recyclable, but he's probably never going to.
Okay, mind you.
First Timothy chapter one warns about people
shipwrecking the faith.
Second Timothy chapter two warns about people
with profane and vain babblings.
And these are wicked people.
Now I'm gonna call out another person.
Profane and vain babblings and making shipwreck of the faith.
Somebody that was trash that was taken out of our church
and fortunately he took himself out
whenever I became the pastor.
This guy's name is Jake Strickland.
Jake Strickland.
Now he was in Jacksonville and this guy is a piece of trash.
Okay.
And he's not recyclable trash.
This guy's wicked trash.
All right, he's in our church.
But he reads this Jake Strickland, okay.
He preached against me personally when Adam Fanon
did this self ordination where he asked people
to come ordain him and that wasn't him ordaining himself.
I don't know how that works, but it's not the Bible.
So I don't know what to think about it.
But in his little sermonette that he preaches against me,
he reads Matthew chapter number 18
and says that I didn't follow that with Adam Fanon.
Well, I don't have to follow that with Adam Fanon
because Adam Fanon is not recyclable trash.
He's wicked trash, okay.
And I'm not gonna have anything to do with him.
But the hypocrisy, this is the comment he said.
When you have a problem with someone in the church,
you don't go to YouTube first.
That's just retarded.
You don't go to YouTube.
I agree.
And guess what?
I didn't go to YouTube first when I had a problem
with Adam Fanon, I called him and he kept lying to me.
I had multiple witnesses tell me that he's railing
and backbiting me and then when I call him up,
he says, all my number one options for you to be my pastor.
You know what that's called?
A lie.
So guess what?
Next step for me, I'm gonna publicly expose the guy
because it's not a Matthew 18 situation.
Yeah.
He was a Roman 16 situation
and every other bad one virtually.
But you know what's silly about this?
He says that if you have a problem with someone,
you should never go to YouTube first.
Well, that's interesting, Jake Strickland,
since he never called me when he had a problem with me.
You know what he did?
He went to YouTube first.
Right.
He wrote a letter and then he had Adam Fanon
read his letter on his YouTube channel attacking me
because Jake Strickland has a problem with me
so he has to have Adam Fanon read his letter
on his YouTube channel.
That's the best way we're supposed to,
if I have a problem with somebody,
I should ask someone else to read a letter
that I wrote about them on YouTube.
This guy's a hypocrite and a liar, okay?
And you know what the letter was all about?
It was all about a private conversation
between Adam Fanon and Pastor Jimenez.
So how in the world does Jake Strickland
know anything about that?
Oh yeah, one witness, Adam Fanon.
Adam Fanon tells Jake Strickland a story,
Jake Strickland writes down the story
and then Adam Fanon reads his version
of Adam Fanon's account about a private conversation.
The stupidity of that.
And then people fall for it.
This is amazing, this is so great.
Talk about one witness against a pastor
receiving an accusation against a pastor.
This guy's a moron.
How do you even know anything Fanon said was accurate?
You can't, even if you love him.
You can't know that everything he said was accurate,
you weren't there.
It's ridiculous.
Then he says, well, we had a meeting on Friday
and everybody wanted Fanon to be our preacher.
He didn't.
I just hung up after they called me, is what they said.
They said that they just called me
and I'm just like, y'all, I hate y'all.
Just didn't care.
No, you know what happened?
I called, or Ben, actually Ben's the one that called me.
And he said it didn't go well
and we were really divided.
Can you just give us some more help here?
And I just said, well, look,
I made it clear I filmed the video.
If you guys don't want me to be your pastor,
you want Adam Fanon, then you can just have him.
I'll help anybody that wants me to be their pastor
but I don't have anything new to say.
I already said it in my video.
And they're like, when can you come out here?
I was like, it's probably gonna be like maybe a month.
And they said, well, I don't know.
I said, well, look, I'm not gonna go to Fort Worth
before they accept me either.
I'm gonna show up and just become their pastor.
It's no different.
It's not like, and in fact,
I called and talked to more people from Jacksonville
than here.
Isn't that interesting?
That y'all didn't have a problem for some reason.
Well, some of you did, but you didn't tell me.
You just got in a cool video and you're like,
I support Pastor Shelley.
Oh, you really meant those words, didn't you?
Man of your word there, aren't you?
What an idiot.
You have a video just enshrined for all time
about how you just love somebody so much.
Love making videos so much.
Well, and you know, it's funny,
because Adam Fanon, when he made his video against me,
he said, we don't think that six days is soon enough
to ordain Pastor Shelley.
So he wanted me to be ordained even quicker.
But here's the thing that Jake Strickland, he's saying,
well, he just hung up on me.
Well, as soon as I said a few,
maybe like 60 seconds on the phone call,
Adam Fanon just starts taking over the phone call
and screaming about how I'm a liar.
I can't even get a word in edgewise.
He's just saying, you're a liar,
and you have no authority to fire me, and you're a liar.
And I just said, look, I'm not gonna argue with you
over the phone, and then I just hung up.
But they wanna conveniently leave that part out,
the fact that Adam Fanon's over-talking me and screaming.
What kind of odds do I have
with a group of people listening on speakerphone
when some guy's just yelling at I'm a liar
every word that I say?
I'm not gonna sit there and subject myself,
I'm not gonna waste my time with that nonsense.
And if you can't see through it,
I said, look, the only thing Adam Fanon cares about
is self-ordination, is ordaining himself,
and then the first words out of his mouth
is about how he wants to be ordained in six months
and how he deserves it.
And I was just like, I mean,
it's like when you tell the devil
you're gonna be thrown in a lake of fire
and he just jumps right in.
You're just like, I don't get it.
Well, I have also a comment that Jake Strickland left.
And again, I'll just get some things off my chest,
might as well.
When we're throwing out the trash,
we might get rid of all of it.
Jake Strickland's a piece of trash
and he loves to be associated with all these other losers.
He said, Shelly couldn't give us five minutes
on speakerphone before hanging up on us.
He's a hireling and nothing more.
He saw dollar signs and knew he could be set for life
taking the position of pastor over there.
I just looked, I was like, set for life.
Oh man.
I looked at the definition of set for life.
This is Urban Dictionary.
It says, When someone wins the lottery
or accumulates over $5 million,
once they've had enough money,
they can go into retirement.
Yeah, I was just looking,
oh man, four churches, retirement, baby.
I've never had an easy street like this.
Good night.
If you believe that,
you're about to believe in the flat earth, I think.
Set for life, having everything one needs
for the rest of his or her life.
I've never put myself in more financial
and physical jeopardy than ever in my life,
becoming the pastor of this church.
Ridiculous.
Set for life.
You know, the Bible says, This is a true saying.
If a man desire the office of a bishop,
you desire the good work.
You know, I saw work.
If you don't look at the pastor as something that's work,
then you're deceived.
But you know, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
You know, Adam Fanno loves him, so he can have him.
Go if you would to,
go to 2 Peter chapter two, we're almost finished.
Last piece is reprobate trash.
Now, what's the reprobate trash?
I've already mentioned this a few times,
but this is the kind you don't,
you can't let it sit around, okay?
This is your fags and just people that are anti-Trinity.
They're saying Jesus isn't even God.
I mean, these are the reprobates, okay?
Now, one thing I have to say, when we take out the trash,
we ourselves don't want to be guilty
of putting trash in the wrong place.
I don't want to put soil diapers in the recycle bin, okay?
And I don't want to put things in the recycle bin
in the reprobate trash.
I don't want to mix these things up.
So we have to use discernment.
When someone's a piece of trash, okay,
we don't want to become trash too
and start railing against them.
Even the archangel didn't bring up a railing accusation
against the devil.
The devil has plenty things to get mad at him for.
Don't get mad at people for things that you don't know.
And look, I have plenty to expose
about Bo Ballard and Jake Strickland for you.
I don't need to focus on all the other things
that I think are true.
I, look, if I'm going to attack Hillary Clinton,
I'm going to attack her on all the things
that I know are true, because there's plenty.
I'm not going to attack her, you know, death list,
even though it's, look, I believe it,
but you know what, it's not provable, okay?
I'm not going to spend time on the things I don't know.
I'm going to spend time on the things I do know.
I don't want to stoop down to their level.
I don't want to start accusing the devil
for something that he didn't even do.
Why don't you just accuse the devil
for the things that he did do, right?
So whenever you have any kind of an issue,
stick to the facts.
Now you say, well, that's frustrating,
because sometimes, you know, you can tell someone's bad,
but you can't prove it.
Well, don't be the cop that plants drugs on them.
Don't be the cop that plants things on them.
And don't call people reprobate
unless you know they're reprobating, all right?
Unless you have strong opinion there.
Now again, sometimes it's okay to have an opinion
and some people don't get this.
It's a difference, there's a difference
between railing on someone and having an opinion.
If you see someone teaching false doctrine
after false doctrine, splitting a church,
hates God, constant lying and railing,
you say, I personally think this guy's probably a reprobate.
Okay, that's having a personal opinion.
But saying this guy's a child molester
and a pedophile and definitely a reprobate, that's railing.
Because I have no proof, I have no evidence.
You can't just go around and just start making things up.
And even when people are really bad and really wicked,
we need to try and guard ourselves
to not say things that aren't true about them.
Just stick to the facts.
Hey, this guy's calling your pastor a wolf.
That's good enough for me.
Trash, get out of here.
There's plenty of other things that are going on too,
but if you don't have enough proof, then just leave a wolf.
Now 2 Peter 2 gives us these grievous people.
Let's see what they're like.
It says in 2 Peter 2, verse number one.
But there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there should be false teachers among you,
who privately shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways
by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Notice there's gonna be false prophets,
and a lot of people are gonna fall for them.
A lot of people get sucked into idiots and morons and fools.
And it's hard to tell sometimes which ones,
who's doing the leading.
But I don't care because they're trash
and they're outside of my house.
I don't care where the truck goes
after it picks up the trash.
If they don't even drop it off at the dump heap,
I don't really care.
As long as it's not in my house, see ya, sucker.
Now obviously, if I started noticing them dropping it off
at my neighbor's house, then I would be like,
hey, there's a problem here, right?
So if I notice someone going to a friendly church,
I'll be like, hey, that guy's trash.
You probably don't wanna bring that into your house.
You probably should just tell the truck
to take that where it belongs, okay?
But at the end of the day, I'm gonna forget about the trash
after I've taken it out.
I don't wonder about my trash.
I don't think like, maybe I should go to the trash heap
and see what's going on there, see how it's doing.
Maybe I should roll around in it and sniff it and smell it
and think about it.
Yep, this is what people do, don't they?
Someone gets exposed as being trash
and yet people in the church, they wanna go hang out
and roll around in the trash, hang out in the trash can,
go jump in the dumpster and see what's going on there.
Don't do it.
And look, these trashy people, they'll try to attack you
and get into your ear.
Look, if someone is denying that Jesus is God,
I wanna never hear them speak again.
And people that are hanging out with that person,
they can all jump in hell with them.
I'm not interested.
I don't wanna have anything to do with them.
And you say, yeah, but Pastor Shelley,
they call me and text me.
It's called block their number.
You know, I get telemarketers calling me all the time.
They're trash.
I block their number.
I don't want them to keep harassing me.
I don't wanna keep having anything to do with them.
You just ignore them.
And you know what they dislike the most is you ignoring them.
They only want you to come roll around the trash with them
and talk to them and hear them out.
Just block them, get rid of them.
Now, when I discover that it's trash in my house, okay,
then I have to get my hands dirty a little bit, don't I?
I have to get the gloves on
and I have to go figure out where all the trash is
and I have to start spraying the bug spray
and I have to start taking out the trash, okay?
So sometimes you have to get in there a little bit,
but I'm not gonna get in there
until I notice it's in my house.
Then once it's in my house, I'll take care of it
and get rid of it and purge it and block it
and just have nothing to do with it.
And you know, I just wish the trash
would just take itself out.
You know what takes the trash out well is hard preaching.
When you preach against people that are wicked
and expose them, it causes other wicked people to say,
I don't really wanna try that one.
That church seems like they're gonna probably throw me out,
so maybe I'll try a different one.
You know, when you preach hard against sin,
it causes the trash to just take itself out often.
And let me tell you this, I've had to take care of trash
in Jacksonville and in Fort Worth and in Oklahoma City
and you know what I've never had to take trash out?
Pure words.
That's interesting, isn't it?
And some people, people get mad at me all they want.
You know what, when you take over a trash heap,
you gotta take the trash out, okay?
And I'm not calling you guys trash heap,
but you know what, there was a lot of trash in here
and it needed to be taken out.
And when I realized that nobody left this church
when I became the pastor, I said, there's a problem.
Luckily Jacksonville, all the trash just got taken out
in one full sweep.
I didn't even have to worry about it.
The trash man just, you know, Adam Fanning came
to take it out for me.
But you know, there was a lot of remnants left over here.
He say, well, if I don't wanna just keep coming
to this church, Pastor Shelley,
and keep being harassed by the trash.
Well look, then don't have a home.
Cause you know what, you're gonna keep accumulating trash
in your home.
Look, it's a necessary job.
It's an ugly job.
You know what, it needs to be handled appropriately.
You need to get rid of it.
And if you wanna go to a good church,
you're gonna have to endure with some trash being taken out
every once in a while.
Okay?
But luckily, fortunately, I believe at this point,
the trash has been taken out, okay?
I've had, you know, when you know David's giving advice
to Solomon, and he's like, you gotta figure out
how to get Shimei out, right?
Well, once Shimei's taken out, you're like, sweet.
You know, the trash has been taken out of this church.
This church is doing great.
It's thriving.
We're doing great things for the Lord.
It doesn't shock me that the devil's attacking us right now.
It doesn't shock me that we have infiltrators
and Judases and wicked people that wanna try and creep in.
It doesn't shock me that a piece of trash
is acting like a piece of trash.
It shocks me that people still talk to these people.
That's what shocks me.
Shocks me that people care what they have to say.
That's what shocks me.
You know, I would not expect a flat earther
to ever say anything intelligent.
If a flat earther worked for me,
I would immediately fire him.
Amen.
I will not get in a car with someone
that I know is a flat earther and let them drive.
Amen.
They should not operate heavy machinery
and equipment.
Yup.
There should be tests.
I mean, we're talking about the corona test.
We should do a flat earth test.
That's right.
Quarantine those people to make sure
that they're safe for public use.
Yup.
It's that serious.
Amen.
I tell other people, I say,
there's flat earthers that were trying
to creep in our church.
They're like, what do you mean by that?
Like, there's people that literally believe that.
He's like, no, they don't.
I'm like, yeah.
I don't get it either.
You know?
You know who believes that?
Atheists.
Atheists have been saying the Bible believes
in the flat earth theory for a long time
to try and discredit the Bible.
The only people that like to repeat that lie
must not love God.
You know what?
In Oklahoma City, it's a slow burn,
but we gotta just rip off the Band-Aid
and just toss people out.
And I think it's great.
I think it's wonderful that we're getting rid of trash,
even though I don't wanna do it.
And if you're a good person, let me just tell you this.
If you're someone who loves Jesus Christ,
you do not have to worry for one second
about being thrown out of being a piece of trash.
Look, under the pure, all things are pure.
You're not gonna have to worry about those type of things.
But you have to realize, I'm gonna have to endure
a couple trash can sermons every once in a while.
Some people actually like them, I think.
But obviously, we all need to be careful
and not let sin deceive us so that we're not a castaway
like Paul warned, didn't he?
I don't wanna be a castaway.
You know what we should feel sorry for?
Not us having to deal with trash, the trash.
Because you know what I get to do?
I get to come to the greatest church
in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Wednesdays and on Sundays.
And I get to sing praises to God,
and I get to be around some of the greatest people
I've ever met in my entire life on a weekly basis.
You know what you should feel sorry for?
The people that don't get that.
They just sit and make YouTube videos by themselves
in their underwear and complain about
how no woman wants them.
Well, because you don't have a job, and you're a loser,
and you believe heresy, and you reprobate trash.
I mean, women are pretty good at actually
identifying reprobate trash.
Women are pretty, usually the women can spot
the bad people quicker than the guys can, for some reason.
I don't know.
You know what?
You don't wanna just wake up one morning
and call your pastor a wolf.
I'm gonna say this differently.
You don't just wake up one morning
and call your pastor a wolf.
You don't just accidentally do that, okay?
So if you don't think you're just gonna
accidentally do that, you have no problem.
Don't worry about it, okay?
You should just worry about keeping yourself
on the straight and narrow, and going out soul winning,
and you're not gonna accidentally preach
that Jesus Christ is wearing a dress, okay?
And if you do, you should be really fearful
about the criticism that's gonna come afterwards, all right?
Let's close on word of prayer.
Thank you, Father, so much for your instructions,
and for giving us the advice that we need to have.
And we understand that taking out the trash
is not always a pleasant job, or it can be really
frustrating, but it's necessary so that we can
worship you in sincerity and truth.
I pray that we wouldn't care about our own
personal feelings and emotions.
We'd rather just align ourselves with your word,
and that we'd be obedient servants,
and that we'd try our best to serve you.
And I pray that you just bless this church,
that you bring in more good people,
you bring in more laborers, people that love
the Lord Jesus Christ, and wanna do great exploits for them.
And I pray that this church could just give you
more honor and glory every single week.