Good morning everyone. Welcome to St.Fast Baptist Church.
If you all could find a seat, we can go ahead and get started.
I'm going to start this morning off in song number 397.
Little is much when God is in it.
397.
Sing it out to the Lord
Father, we thank you for this day.
We thank you for everyone that's gathered here.
Lord God, we ask that you feel Pastor Shelley
with your Holy Spirit and helping to preach
an edifying sermon unto us.
Help us to go on to perfection, Lord.
Help us to be better Christians for your honor and glory.
It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, next up we have song number 409.
Song 409, the fight is on.
Song 409, the fight is on, the trumpet sound is ringing out, let's sing it out on the first.
Jude 1 verse 24 and we're getting close to wrapping up this passage so if you can quote the entire
book or chapter you can receive a special prize at the end. Service times and soul winning times
are listed there. Our regional soul winning times as well and we we have one update for our regional
Thursdays, around 10, 10.30.
And it's actually splitting.
So my wife was leading a group on Thursdays,
and she's going to be moving that to Tuesdays.
And then I believe Miss Lucy was leading
in time on Thursdays.
Are you still keeping on Thursdays?
OK.
So if you want to see Miss Lucy or my wife,
there's two different ladies opportunities
throughout the week, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10.30.
And it's in a couple of different areas.
So the Tuesday time is a little bit more central.
Thursday times kind of meeting in the Fort Worth area, kind of the western part of the DFW area.
So if you'd like to go soul-winning with us, we'd love to have you.
If none of our times work, you can always email us or ask us and we can try to find
a time to go soul-winning with you, but we have a lot of options pretty much every single day of
the week. And so if you want to do the church-wide soul-winning, just meet here at the church or
other times throughout the week, you can meet in different parts of the city.
Our stats are down below on the right is the list of our expecting ladies.
We have several ladies who are expecting, which is a huge blessing.
Continue to pray for them, very exciting.
Yesterday, we had a soul-winning marathon in Tyler, Texas.
So that's about an hour and a half, hour and 45 minutes south east of where we are.
And we ended up having 33 soul winners and 26 salvations.
So thanks to everybody who participated in that.
Honestly, it went really well, and it was really enjoyable being out there, and so I really
look forward to maybe going back or doing something again in that area.
Upcoming events, we have a soul winning seminar October 4th, so that's this Saturday at 12.30
PM, and it's basically going to just be a lunch at first, and then there's going to
be kind of a 30, 45 minute, you know, just instruction time.
for them our cells gonna be leading it
and just kind of giving some tips and some advice
on just being a little bit more efficient
in gospel presentations.
And so if you would like to participate,
we'd love to have you.
And then there'll be kind of an afternoon time
if you'd like to go out and practice,
put that into practice immediately following our seminar.
So if you'd like to participate,
that's gonna be 1230 here at the church.
There is a sign up sheet in our four year area
on the welcome table.
So if you are planning on participating,
up. That way we can have appropriate food and accommodations for people that are going to be
attending. Also we have our chili cook, oh sorry, I'm skipping ahead. Mission's trip,
Nassau Bahamas, October 6th through the 11th.
We had previously sent out an email to those who had signed up if you didn't receive that email or you're not sure
Please contact us and we'll make sure that you are registered or that we have everything accommodated
Really looking forward to this opportunity. Please just pray that it goes well
last time we went if we had a great opportunity to get into a lot of schools and
We pretty much we are able to do whatever we want. I know that things
You know can always
And we don't know if we're going to be able to get in the same school opportunities.
We don't know if we're going to be able to go on the college the ways that we want to.
But just pray that things go well.
Somebody had sent me.
Apparently they're having like an LGBT week that week that we're there or something like that.
So I don't know if that's a coincidence or what.
But obviously we're not there to really like...
do anything about it. We're going soul winning, but you never know what the
devil may try to do when we're trying to do big work. And so just pray that
things will go smoothly, that things would go well.
Well, we have a lot of things planned.
We're printing out 10,000 flyers for our Friday evening service.
They're going to hand out to everybody that we go out there to try and encourage people to come out and have a service with us.
And so it's going to be an epic trip, a lot of fun.
But we also just want God to be with us and to help us and go out into the neighborhoods and the highways and the hedges and go preach the gospel there.
So we're really looking forward to that opportunity.
Orange County area is going to be coming preaching for us October 19th and so we're very excited to
have him come out and preach for us. We have a fall swap October 26th. Chili cookoff at the end
of the month October 31st. If you're planning on participating it has to be a Texas chili that just
means no beans or fillers as well all right and then also just have it here by six. FWC first
is hosting a missions conference in November.
It's November 5th through the 9th,
and I'm gonna be preaching there on that Thursday.
If you are interested, you could watch sermons online.
It's just a great opportunity to kind of hear
about international missions,
mission trips that are going on,
and just kind of get encouraged about going out
and preaching the gospel
and fulfilling the Great Commission.
And so if you'd like to at least listen to sermons
or visit out there, we're just advertising that.
They have a new new building that they're actually meeting in and it's got even more seating and stuff like that
So it's probably gonna be a lot of fun for this year's conference, but I'm excited to be a part of it
I'm gonna be preaching on our Bahamas missions trip that we're going on here in October
So I'm excited to advertise that again and just try and encourage people to go out into the Caribbean and so
also
November 23rd, I'll be preaching at Anchor Baptist Church.
So this is the church plant that was
Steadfast Baptist Church, Oklahoma City,
that then we ordained Pastor Dylan Oz,
and he took over basically a year ago, approximately,
and it's gonna be their anniversary November 23rd.
I'm gonna be out there preaching for them both services,
and so you can always just pray
that the services will go well over there,
and continue to pray for their church,
which their church has been doing great.
They've had...
record soul-winning numbers for their church, and so it's definitely encouraging to see people
just continuing to serve the Lord and doing a great job out there.
Turkey Bowl, so if you want to play some football, November 29th, right after Thanksgiving,
you've got to burn those calories off, right? So there you go. Ladies Christmas Party December 5th,
Christmas Caroling December 8th, Cookie Bake Off December 21st, Christmas Candlelight Service
And I think we also have a New Year's Eve preaching night
and stuff like that, but we'll have advertised.
But that's pretty much it.
I wanted to put those out there because people just ask us.
It's like, when is this scheduled?
What's this date?
So we got you all the dates for the end of the year.
Someone's going to come up and say, what about next year?
I don't know, all right?
So, we haven't planned that, but we'll get there.
And people are always looking forward to the next thing.
And, but we have a lot of events,
a lot of things to consider, so really excited.
On the back is our prayer list.
If you have any prayer requests,
please you can just email us.
That's the easiest way for now.
You can just email us a prayer request
and we'll try to keep these things updated
as much as possible.
That's pretty much all I have
as far as announcements are concerned.
We're gonna go ahead and sing.
Our special Psalm in hymns for the week and it's Where the Spirit Blows, it's a special hymn
It's in our binders, the black binders
Where the Spirit Blows and what a fitting song for this week since we'll be
Blowing out to the Bahamas and doing a mission trip soon. So where the Spirit Blows
All right, where the spirit blows,
sing it out on the first.
Jesus, join me.
I'll be too
As the offering plays out going around would you please turn your bibles to Psalm chapter 15 Psalm chapter 15
Psalm 15 the Bible reads Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill
He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart
He that backbiteeth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor,
nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor, in whose eyes a vile person is condemned,
but he honoreth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeeth not.
He that puteth not out his money to usury, nor takeeth reward against the innocent.
He that doeth these things shall never be moved." Let's buy our heads forward a prayer.
Father in heaven we thank you Lord God for today's services and I pray that you
would bless the sermon this morning. Help us to give Pastor Shelley our
undivided attention and to apply this message to our lives so that we can be
doers of the word and not hearers only. We love you and in Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Amen.
Psalm 15 verse 4 the Bible says in whose eyes a vile person is
condemned, but he honoreth them that fear the Lord, he that
sweareth to his own hurt, and changeeth not.
So, the Bible says that when we make a promise, when we swear something, we should always
keep our word, we should keep our vows, we should keep our promises, and we should not
change what we swear to or what we essentially promise to do.
Now, the word swear in the Bible just means a promise or to make an oath or something
like that.
It is not saying that you are using four letter words or something like that.
but it's just simply saying that you're not going to break your word.
And really what I thought about, not just necessarily from this verse only,
but essentially just a concept in the Bible is this idea of how talk is cheap.
That's what I want to talk about this morning is that talk is cheap.
Go to Matthew 21, go to Matthew 21,
and I want to look at another few passages here.
But it's a lot easier. It's a lot cheaper to just say you're gonna do something than to actually do it
And that's the point.
If you think about it, he that sweareth to his own hurt,
it could cost you financially, it could cost you time,
it could cost you effort, energy.
There's a cost associated with maybe accomplishing things.
And according to the Bible, essentially,
it's just saying, hey, if you promise to do something,
you are going to do it.
Look at Matthew 21, verse number 28.
Matthew 21, verse number 28.
But what think he a certain man had two sons and he came to the first and said son
Go work today in my vineyard and he answered and said I will not but afterward he repented and went and
He came to the second and said likewise and he answered and said I go sir and went not
Whether of them twain did the will of his father? So the question is what was more important saying that you're gonna go out and do something?
Not doing it or not saying you're gonna do it and then end up doing it
And really we kind of see that the talk ends up being cheap again here
Go over to Jeremiah 13 go to Jeremiah chapter number 13
You know the Bible says in Matthew 15 verse 8 this people draw an eye into me with their mouth and honor with me with their lips
But their heart is far from me. So
You know, there's a lot of people that will give lip service to the things of God.
Thank you.
They will essentially try to say they love God, say they're going to serve God, but
they end up just not doing it.
They end up just not serving God.
They end up just not essentially really loving Him, even though they claim that they love
Him.
And the reality of our world, you know, I think in America it's pretty much the same,
I mean, if you go up and down the street, you knock on doors, you talk to people,
pretty much everybody just says, hey, I'm a Christian, you know, I love God, I love the Bible,
you know, I want to follow His commandments. They pretty much all say that, but then it's like
very few people are actually doing that. Very few people actually love God or actually keeping
His commandments or actually going to church. In fact, it's so funny when you ask people,
like, do you go to church? And they're like, yes. And then they're like, where? And you say, I don't know.
What's the name of it, honey?
It's that, it's, you know,
and maybe six of the names suck, you know,
it's like experience or fellowship or whatever,
and they just can't remember.
But essentially, it's funny how people say things,
and they just don't really mean them, right?
They give lip service to the right thing,
but they don't actually really do it.
Jeremiah chapter 13 is gonna give us
kind of an interesting story.
And, you know, God uses
You know, kind of like parables or uses like physical examples to sometimes represent spiritual truths
And this one's a kind of a silly one
But it's kind of it's kind of interesting that he uses this Jeremiah 13 verse 1 thus say the Lord and me go and get the linen girdle
And put it upon thy loins and put it not in water
So he essentially is telling him to put on you know male underwear
That's what we're talking about, like a linen girdle.
He's just saying, hey, put this upon your loins,
put on male underwear, don't put it in water.
So he says in verse two,
so I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord
and put it on my loins.
And the word of the Lord came unto me
the second time saying,
take the girdle that thou's got,
which is upon thy loins and arise,
go to Euphrates and hide it there
in a hole of the rock.
So he puts on this underwear and
Then he travels to this destination,
then God's like, all right, take the underwear off
and just hide it, just hide this underwear.
This is a weird story, I'm just telling you like,
you know, if God says to get on underwear
and go hide it, you just do it, all right?
So he goes and hides his underwear under a rock.
So I went and hid it by Euphrates as the Lord commanded me.
And it came to pass after many days
that the Lord said unto me,
arise, go to Euphrates and take the girdle from Thins
which I commanded thee to hide there.
Then I went to Euphrates and digs and took the girdle from the place where I had hit it and behold the girdle was marred
It was profitable for nothing. So he's saying he gets this underwear
He travels out there then he hides it under a rock and according to the Bible like he hit it in the dirt
So he didn't just necessarily hide it under on a rock. He like actually buried it. So it's like in dirt
It's been buried for a period of time and then the Bible says when he when he kind of brings it back up
It's marred
you know, Marjus meaning that it's kind of destroyed, it's harmed, it doesn't work anymore.
It's just not, it's not something that he can use. And it's described as what? Good for nothing.
So there's just really no profit anymore in it. It's just a dirty garment at this point.
Not only is it dirty, it's probably not effective. You know, when you think about,
you know, underwear, it's typically, you know, supposed to cleave unto you. It's supposed to be tight.
you know a lot of underwear today especially is made out of like some kind of a spandex or some
kind of elastic material so it kind of cleaves on you tightly and obviously if it lost its elasticity
if it wasn't able to kind of wrap around your body tightly uh you wouldn't really want to wear
it anymore if you know it's too loose if it just wasn't really fitting the way it's supposed to
That's kind of the picture here that's being illustrated.
It says in verse 8,
Then the word of the Lord came unto me saying,
Thus saith the Lord,
After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah
and the great pride of Jerusalem.
It says,
This evil people which refuse to hear my words,
which walk in the imagination of their heart
and walk after other gods to serve them
and to worship them,
shall even be as this girdle,
which is good for nothing.
for as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, sayeth the Lord, that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory, but they would not hear.
Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word. Thus sayeth the Lord, God of Israel, every bottle shall be filled with wine, and they shall say unto thee,
Do we not certainly know that every bottle
should be filled with wine?
Then thou shalt say unto them,
thus saith the Lord,
Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land,
even the kings that sit upon David's throne,
and the priests and the prophets,
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkenness."
Now, I'm not going to read the whole chapter,
but essentially then he just punishes them severely.
What is the point, though?
He's saying, why is he using this object illustration?
He's using this object illustration
because as underwear is to cleave unto a man,
and that's the purpose,
He's saying, the children of Israel were to cleave unto God, and that was their purpose.
Their purpose was to cleave unto God.
And as long as it cleaves unto you and is clean, it's good.
But as long as, if the underwear of the girdle is no longer able to cleave unto you, it's
too loose fitting.
It doesn't really actually hold itself on you anymore.
And it's dirty. It's not actually clean anymore.
Well then there's no point in even having this particular girdle or having this underwear anymore.
It's lost its purpose. It's not something to be used anymore.
And it would be discarded as trash, essentially, at that point.
And because of its trash nature, then it's just not that clean vessel that can be used.
And so it's basically how the children of Israel have turned themselves into this idea of being this dirty underwear.
It's just saying the children of Israel are like dirty underwear that has no purpose. They've been completely just ruined
Marred and to be discarded as the dirty underwear that they are now go if you want to
Go through to Luke chapter 9 go to Luke chapter 9
You know and this happens in reality, you know, I remember there's been occasional times where one of your child's you know
Uses the bathroom not in the bathroom, right?
They accidentally go when you're out on the run or something happens
and they mar the garment severely.
It wasn't number one, it was number two.
And of course, if you think about it, typically when your child does this, it's because they're sick or something.
It's not, you know, usually they're able to hold themselves, but due to the fact that they're sick,
or they have some kind of an illness, you know, it's called diarrhea, you know, whatever,
then they have some kind of an accident.
And when they have this accident, usually not only is it just bad, because number two is bad, it's sick bad, you know?
And then you just say, you know, it's like, hey,
do we hang on to this garment and take it home?
Or do we just throw it away and buy a new one?
And I already know where I'm at on this decision, okay?
I'm like, we're not gonna try and keep this garment.
We're not, you know, this is just underwear.
Like, we're just gonna discard it
and move on with our lives.
And we'll just buy some new stuff later.
We'll get a new one later.
And in the same way, it's just kind of like
how God is feeling about the children of Israel.
He's like, hey, this garment has been marred.
This garment has, it's just not worth, you know, redeeming.
It's just good for nothing.
It's just to be tossed out and discarded.
You know this concept is used in the New Testament because the Bible says you hear the salt of the earth
But if the salt of loss is savor wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing
But to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men
The Bible is saying hey when you've lost your savor when you've lost your saltiness when you're not preaching hard anymore
What's the point?
You're just good for nothing at this point.
You know, if you're just not really accomplishing anything,
if you're not salt anymore, if you're not doing anything,
well, then you're just basically good for nothing
and God will just destroy or discard you.
You know, another passage that came to mind
when I was thinking about this is in Mark chapter 14.
And the reason why I'm using these different stories
and illustrations though is, you know,
obviously people that have lost their salt
or lost their savor, a lot of times they'll still say,
Hey, I love God or I want to serve God.
But the problem is that they're not actually doing it
and so they end up getting discarded.
Because talk, again, is cheap.
It doesn't really matter what you're saying.
It's mattering what you're doing.
It's mattering how you're actually behaving yourself
because that really reflects more importantly
than what you're actually saying.
And, you know, Peter feels like he would die for Christ.
Peter feels like he would go all the way with Christ and he says this in Mark 14 he says
Although also be offended
Yet will not I and Jesus a then I'm very less any that this day even in this night before the cock crow twice
That's what deny me thrice, but he spake the more of the vehemently if I should die with thee
I will not deny thee in any wise likewise also said they all
So Peter and all the disciples think that they're gonna die with Christ
People think that they're the salt people think that they're the light saying you're the salt doesn't make you a
salty Christian, you know, how many people have seen this like
Bumper sticker or sticker that's over it's called like salt is life or something like that or salt life or whatever
It's like all these people say like yeah, we got to be that salt life
You know what having the sticker is meaningless if you don't ever even preach the gospel once
It's like how many people have this stinking sticker
And they say, oh, I'm salt, or they have a shirt that says salt,
or they have a Bible shirt that they're wearing, whatever.
But they actually don't ever preach the gospel.
They don't ever open up their mouth and make known the mystery of the gospel.
And really, what they're like, if we study their lives,
they're actually drinking and committing fornication,
and they're divorced, and they don't go to a good church,
and they don't use the King James Bible,
and if you ask them how to be saved,
they wouldn't even be able to give you the right answer.
But then they have the salt sticker.
And really, what it is, is it's like dirty underwear being advertised for sale.
And it's like, I don't want dirty underwear.
I don't want salt that's good for nothing.
And the same way as how God feels.
He doesn't care how much you're saying what you're going to do,
or how much talk you have, because talk is cheap.
You know, if you actually are going to say you're going to be salt, then be salt.
Hey, if you say you're gonna actually die for Christ, Peter, then be willing to actually
die for Christ.
And here's the truth.
If you're willing to die for Christ, then you'll be willing to live for Christ, okay?
It's interesting people say they'll die for Christ, but they're not willing to live for
Him now.
Well, then you would definitely not be willing to die.
The people that are willing to die for Christ are the people that are willing to live for
Him right now.
And let me say something, talk is cheap.
Look at Luke chapter 9 verse 57.
And it came to pass that as they went in the way,
a certain man said unto them, Lord,
I will follow thee, wither, server, thou goest.
Hey, isn't this, I mean, that's the right attitude.
Hey, I'll go wherever you go.
I'll do whatever you want.
Verse 58, Jesus said unto them,
foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests,
but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.
And he said unto another, follow me.
But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Jesus said unto him, let the dead bury their dead.
But go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee.
Let me first go bid them farewell
with your at home at my house.
And Jesus said unto him, no man having put his hand
to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.
You know, Jesus Christ is demanding that you actually serve Him with so much zeal and so
much fervor that you would be willing, you would be willing to forego your own Father's
funeral, that you would be willing to not even necessarily say bye to your loved ones
just to serve God.
Now look, I'm not saying that we shouldn't have manners.
I'm not saying skip your parents' funerals.
That'll be taking these passages out of context.
What the context is though,
that you'd be willing to sacrifice personal relationships
and personal life events for the kingdom of God
and for the gospel's sake if push came to shove.
And for Jesus saying, hey, we don't have time to wait for you to get all your ducks in a row
and for you to get to do all your things, we're just going to keep serving God and preaching the kingdom of God.
And you know what? Either get on the train or get off.
And you can sit here and say, I'll do whatever you want. I'll go wherever you want. I'll follow you.
But then it's like, okay, we'll skip you in front of this funeral.
Well, move over here. Pay to go on this mission trip.
Oh, you can say that you love God.
You can say that you'll follow him wherever.
You know, you can say that you're going to dedicate your life under him.
You can, I mean, when we sing the hymns, it's not like caveatid language.
I mean, have you ever listened to one of the hymns?
And it's like, you know, just throwing in all these extra caveats,
like except for my father's funeral.
except for saying goodbye to my loved ones,
except for doing this,
or is it just like, hey, wherever he leads, I'll follow?
I mean, you know, the cross before me, right?
Everything's behind me though.
This world's behind me, the cross before me.
Because what is the Bible saying?
The Bible's saying, look, if you put your hands on the plow,
And you're not just going to continue plowing.
You're going to cause me looking back, thinking about other things,
concerned with other things, worried about other things.
He says you're not fit for the kingdom of God.
You are not fit for the kingdom of God.
What is that telling me?
It's telling me this, that God doesn't want to use quitters.
What is a quitter?
It's someone that quits.
It's that simple.
And look, I could give you, you know, at least five dollars
Someone would come up to me and say,
I am never gonna quit, I'm steadfast, I'm here,
I'm gonna serve God, this is my home,
I'm a lifer, whatever,
and then it's just pretty soon just gone.
Just pretty soon, just like a vapor,
just pew.
And not only that, sometimes they're even the biggest haters you've ever had in your life five seconds later.
You know, it's kind of like when they're worshiping Paul like he's Jupiter,
and then the next breath they're trying to kill him, you know, it's just like, bro.
And you'll notice when people start giving you flattery like you're Jupiter,
beware because they're about to kill you, you know?
But you think like, oh man, this guy just said I'm awesome! Sounds like he's about to kill you, bro.
Because you know flattery is a dangerous thing. Okay, they hate people that they flatter
Here's another thing God doesn't want to use the fearful
You're constantly looking back constantly looking over your shoulder constant worrying constantly thinking about this
God also doesn't want to use those of a double heart as what the Bible says where their heart isn't in the things of God
They're not dedicated to things of God. They're not dedicated to the gospel and let me tell you something
anybody in this room
That is not in their mind in their heart decided you know what I just want to live my whole life preaching the gospel no matter
What will not stay here?
Will not stick here and will not be here five years from now ten years from now 15 years from now
They will not be here if you're of double heart you will get left behind
You will get burnout. You will quit. You will give up. You will your heart will then go find the other thing that you're really
Wanting and really looking for and then we'll actually see where your heart was. Your heart was really on your business
Your heart was really on your family. Your heart was really on living in
10 buck two or living somewhere else or doing something
You know your heart was just set on something else whatever it is and we'll eventually see where your heart was
We'll eventually see if it was in your riches. It was in my 401k. It was in my timeshare. Hopefully it's not in your timeshare, okay?
It's in their boat. It's in their hobby. It's in watching TV, literally.
It's in watching NASCAR or something. You know, I hope not. Then it's like a country music song is your life, okay?
You know, wherever their heart is, you know, maybe their heart is just in adultery and
they just constantly are just getting divorced and remarried and just with tons of different
people and they just, they're not settled on anyone or anything or they're just, really,
their heart is just in themselves because they're just a selfish person and every decision
they make is just about them and themselves and being selfish and trying to gratify the
flesh.
And really, when you see people that are trying to gratify the flesh,
you're usually finding meth addicts, drug addicts,
people that are just trying to play the lottery,
they have no money, nothing.
Because when you're an extremely selfish person,
you just burn every relationship and destroy your life.
And at the end of the day, what is the Bible teaching?
The Bible is teaching, when you put your hands to the plow,
you are just supposed to stake,
just keep your hands on there and just keep going.
What is that called? It's called being steadfast.
And it's one thing, hey, I'm going to plow for the rest of my life.
Talk is cheap.
The person that actually puts their hands on the plow and is not looking back
and moving forward, that is worth of a high value to God.
God puts a big price on that, a big reward to those that are faithful,
to those that are steadfast.
But the person that says they're going to be steadfast,
the person that says they're going to be unmovable,
the person that says they want to plow,
the person that says they want to preach the gospel,
it's cheap, it's meaningless.
It accomplishes nothing!
You know people are so concerned with saying the right thing. Why do you care? Who cares what you say?
Why don't you just actually do the right thing?
You know people will move across the country
literally to come to a church like this and
say I'm dedicating my life to serving God and preaching the gospel and being a part of a good church and then months later
They'll quit and go back to an old IB church in this area
And you're thinking like, what in the world?
It's like, you just put your hands on the plow
and then you look back and then you just gave up.
It's like, why would you move across the country
for another old IP church you didn't like?
I mean, the one you were at wasn't good enough
that you considered literally moving across the country for.
And now you're going to one that's not even as good
as the one you left for.
You know this is a double-minded man and the Bible says they're unstable in all their ways
You know you should just she's grab on to the plow and go and look plowing is hard work
And in fact, you know if you're plowing ground occasionally you're gonna hit something called roots
And boy, some roots hurt.
Some roots are tough.
Some roots will get you stuck.
You'll hit there and you get stuck.
You'll hit it really hard
and you'll actually hurt your wrist.
You'll hurt your arms, you'll hurt your leg,
you'll trip, you'll fall.
You'll have problems, you'll have difficulties,
you'll have obstacles and let me tell you something.
If you wanna serve God, you're gonna hit some roots,
you're gonna trip, you're gonna stumble,
you're gonna hit rocks, you're gonna have problems.
The sun is gonna beat down on you.
Yes, Texas weather's hot, get used to it.
But you know what, you don't have to live in a blizzard.
You know, there's no such thing as this perfect weather.
I mean, I guess you can live in the Caribbean,
you can live in Hawaii or whatever,
but you know what, they still have hurricanes.
They still have their problems.
There's no such thing as this perfect area.
Every area has its downfalls, every area has its pros,
every area has its cons and whatever.
But you know what I like about this area
is I can pretty much work the entire year.
And you know what, I can like, I can go out
and actually sew in when it's hot.
But man, if it was a blizzard,
it's gonna be hard to go sew in it.
You know, I can go out there when it's hot.
I can go out there and just work during the summer.
And you know what frankly speaking I actually like the heat. I know that maybe you guys don't I actually like heat
I like warmth. I just hate being cold
Okay, I despise being cold and it just really just because to me when you're cold you kind of like just shut down
You just like can't really move you're just like shivering. You're like, you know, and this just doesn't really work for me
But being hot it's fine. You know, I just sweat, you know
And I sweat a lot, okay, I get that.
But you know what, hey, I can still do the works of God.
And at the end of the day, you know what,
if you serve God, if you pick to choose,
hey, I want to live my life serving God,
you will have rough spots.
Plowing is not easy.
Plowing is hard work.
But you know what, the guy that's not willing
to just keep plowing and keep looking forward,
God doesn't want to use that person.
God doesn't want to use the person that is just going to quit church like that and quit soul winning and quit reading
His Bible and quit doing the things of God
You know there's a lot of people who come to a church like ours and then they quit and they act like their life's better
But here here be the question I would ask them. Are you reading your Bible more now or less?
Are you going soul winning more now or less? Are you complaining more?
Are you complaining less?
Are you murmuring more or murmuring less?
Are you making videos to share the gospel
to get people saved?
Or are you making videos to attack people?
Here would be a really interesting question.
Because you left, do you listen to our sermons more now?
Or less?
Isn't that weird?
Like if we're so bad and so toxic.
You know, you would think that, like, leaving, you would try to listen to us less, right?
And then you'd be producing more because we're so bad.
But somehow they're listening to us more, and then they're producing worse.
They're like, get worse results, worse lifestyles, worse accomplishments.
You know, go if you would to Jeremiah 20, go to Jeremiah chapter 20.
You know, the Bible says about these wicked evil people, Psalm 37 says this, the wicked
It's so funny how the Bible words, they're watching them.
They're just always watching.
They're the secret watchers.
They're the anonymous watchers, right?
They're just always watching the righteous.
Why? Because there's nothing else good on TV.
You know?
The righteous are always the best TV show.
The righteous are always the one that everybody wants to follow and listen to you know
They weren't following all the weirdos. They're following Jesus. They're following John the Baptist
They're following the apostle Paul and they're always watching them. You know Jeremiah. That was the best TV show
They're just like I want to tune in Jeremiah and I want to listen to his sermon because he's gonna preach something hot
You know, he's gonna preach something red hot whatever the Bible says good or bad
You know ugly or not. He's gonna preach it. And you know, I have a feeling it's gonna be ugly. I
Have a feeling it's gonna be it's gonna be against us
I have a feeling he's gonna mention us.
He's gonna name drop, you know?
I have a feeling Jeremiah, he's gonna get out there
and you know what, he's just gonna call us out again.
It's gonna be another damage control sermon,
you know what I mean?
It's all Jeremiah preaches, it's just damage control.
And he can't stop preaching negative.
I mean, look, you don't think
that's what these people are saying?
You're like, when is this guy gonna quit?
When is this guy gonna give up?
When is God going to take this guy out?
That's what they're always thinking.
Just for another sample, Isaiah 29 says this.
For the terrible one is brought to naught, the scorner is consumed,
and all that watch for iniquity are cut off,
that make a man an offender for a word,
and lay a snare for him that reproved in the gate,
and turn aside the just for a thing of not.
The Bible is saying the wicked are those that are watching for iniquity.
They're just hoping. They're just wishing.
that the man of God will screw up.
They're just hoping that the man of God says something wrong.
They're just hoping that the man of God stumbles in any way.
They're just wishing that something bad will happen to him,
that he'll be destroyed, that he'll quit,
and they're constantly trying to lay snares for him,
and they're constantly trying to attack him.
And anything he does that they don't like,
they just want to use against him.
Most of the time it has to be lies,
because they don't have anything to work with.
But if they get anything to work with,
they'll just try to squeeze every ounce out of it,
and just for even a word.
That's what they're like, that's what these evil people are like.
Jeremiah 20 verse 10, Jeremiah chapter 20 verse 10, the Bible says,
For I heard that a faming of many fear on every side reports, say they,
and we report it, all my familiars watched from my halting,
saying, per adventure, he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take a revenge on him.
What do these people need revenge for?
Like, when did Jeremiah, did Jeremiah steal from these people?
Did Jeremiah rip these people off?
Did Jeremiah, you know, show them a special finger on their hand or something?
I mean, what did Jeremiah do to these people?
Did Jeremiah spit on them? Did Jeremiah take their lunch money?
I mean, what is it that they're looking for revenge for?
You know what it was? Him preaching against their sin.
That's what it was. That's the revenge they want, right?
This is people that Jeremiah knows and is familiar with
These are people he hung out with he fellowshiped with these are his ex-friends
Ex-friends and all notice this this is what's really interesting all
My familiars did you notice that first word again all my familiars. It's like none of them can quit him
Nobody can quit Jeremiah.
Nobody can stop watching him.
Nobody can stop listening to him.
Nobody can stop paying attention to him.
Oh, my familiars.
And then did you notice the next word?
What does it say?
Watched.
Everybody's still watching.
How many of them?
All of them.
Sounds like they're in a cult.
I hate cult.
They just can't stop watching Jeremiah. They just can't stop hoping that something's gonna happen. What? That he stops
That's halting giving up quitting letting go not doing it anymore
Says verse 11, but the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one
Therefore my persecutors shall stumble and they shall not prevail
They shall be greatly ashamed for they shall not prosper
Their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten
You know, why would you want to spend your whole life just wishing for the man of God to quit preaching?
I mean, what does this world need? Does this world need more preaching or less preaching?
Does it need more men of God or less men of God?
You know, it's like some people that are spending their whole lives just hoping for someone that's saved
that's preaching the Word of God to quit preaching the Word of God. Isn't that insane?
Isn't that weird? You know what it is? It's demonic.
It's a demonic attitude, it's a demonic spirit that infects people that quit and give up.
Why? Because they don't want to admit that they're a quitter.
They don't want to admit that they're of double heart.
They don't want to admit that they say they love God but they don't.
That's right.
Because how could anybody say they love God when they spend their whole life just watching Jeremiah
and wishing for him to quit preaching?
Amen.
They're accomplishing nothing. They're doing nothing with their lives.
And it's so funny how people that get out of a church like ours, all they are is talk.
All they are is wind.
All they are is a bunch of complaining and murmuring, but they don't actually accomplish
anything.
And all they're doing is just watching and waiting for a good guy to quit.
But they're not doing anything.
They're not accomplishing anything.
And let me tell you something, talk is cheap.
You can tell me how much you love God, but you know what?
Go to James chapter number two James chapter number two
You want to tell me how much you love God, how about you show me how much you love God?
How do I know who's the real prophet? How do I know who's the real church?
How do I know who God's blessing? How do I know what's real faith look like?
How do I know all these things? Look, we don't have to wonder because everybody'll tell you that they're great
Everybody'll tell you they love God
Every Sunday morning service everywhere out here. They're all gonna say we love God
All we're gonna say we're trying to serve God all we're gonna give lip service unto God
But let me explain something, lip service is nothing,
talk is cheap.
James chapter two, I mean probably the most famous passage
on this, that talk is cheap.
Look at verse 14.
What do the prophet even so faith that it hath not works is dead being alone
Yeah, a man may say thou hast faith that I have works show me thy faith without thy works
And I will show thee my faith by my works
He's saying what is what is the point of just saying you have faith with no works?
It's meaningless. It's cheap. It doesn't do anything if someone has faith
You know what they can demonstrate it through their works
People that don't have any
Works they don't have a good faith. They don't have a they don't have an active faith. What is the Bible saying?
They have a dead faith
They have a dead faith now look obviously James who we love to caveat this passage and we love to love to explain
How this has nothing to do with salvation. We're not talking about going to heaven or hell here
What we're talking about is the profitability of the faith that we have in Jesus Christ
And we understand that look if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you have zero works
You do nothing you're going to heaven
Let me explain something. If you have zero works, it's gonna be hard for me to see your faith
I can't see your faith and it's not going to really benefit me.
It's going to benefit no one.
If you're saved and you never tell someone how to be saved
and you don't follow any of God's commandments,
what profit are you to the world?
What profit are you to God?
You're zero profit.
Just like someone actually being poor,
someone actually needing food,
someone actually needing clothing,
someone actually needing some help,
coming to me and saying, hey, I need help.
I'm naked.
I don't have any food.
I don't have any clothes.
Well, I hope someone helps you.
How does that help him if we all acted like that the guy would still be naked?
He would still be poor. He would still have no food. He would still have nothing and
Imagine the Christian that says look at my amazing faith. I prayed to this guy someone would help him and
Then another guy's like I just helped him. I
Just gave him a meal. I just gave him some clothes. I just helped him
You know imagine all these churches they're just like I'm just so concerned with the loss and people being saved
But then they never give the gospel to anyone
They're not concerned and they don't care
Show me the pastors of this world that are going into the highways and the hedges preaching the gospel themselves
And I'll show you a guy that loves evangelism.
I'll show you a guy that loves the gospel.
You know, everybody wants to just mourn and be so sad
for people like John MacArthur and Vati Bakman
and all these different Calvinists and whatever.
But I'd love to know, when is the last time
that Vati Bakman or John MacArthur or any of these people
went and knocked on someone's door
and gave them the gospel?
I mean, I don't even know if they had the right gospel,
they preached Lordship salvation anyways,
but I'm just saying, if they just love the gospel so much,
why are they never, ever, ever, ever, ever going
and knocking on a door and giving the gospel to anybody?
And look, that's indicative of what Calvinists are like.
Oh, I love God so much.
Oh, I just, he's so amazing, he's so sovereign.
We're just sovereign.
We're just, it's all about the gospel.
But then they themselves never a single time
Oh, show me your faith, by saying you have a faith?
No, no, no, show me your faith by actually going out
and preaching the gospel.
Someone that's going soul winning on a regular basis
and spending their money and the time and effort
and energy going on missions trips,
I'll show you someone that cares about the gospel.
I don't care what they said.
They could have said something disappointing.
They could have been like, I don't even like soul winning.
I don't wanna go soul winning.
But then they go on the missions trip,
I'm like, I like that guy.
The guys are just like, love the gospel.
I'm gonna live my whole life for the gospel.
Are you going to somebody?
No, that's a guy that's a hypocrite
and talk is cheap, my friends.
And you know what?
We can actually see who really loves God in this world.
Say how?
There works.
There works the guy going out evangelizing the guy doing missions trips the guy going out and doing soul winning
That's the guy that loves the gospel and loves God the person that's not doing that does not love God
I do not care what they say
What they say is meaningless to me it matters nothing to me. I mean, that's the whole point of James chapter number two
He says in verse number
19, thou believest that there is one God, thou doest well, the devils also believeth in tremble.
But wilt thou know, vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Hey, if I have a cell phone and it has no battery, it cannot help me in any way.
I can't make a call, I can't make a text message, I can't look anything up on an app or on the internet.
It doesn't help me.
In fact, it would just be a burden, it would just be a weight in my pocket.
I mean, if I gave you a cell phone, I said, this cell phone doesn't have a battery, you can never have a battery, you can never charge it.
But you need to carry it every day
You're like, I don't want to carry that I'm just gonna throw it away
Why would I bear? Why would I bear something in my pocket?
Why would I bear something on my person that I can't even use and the thing is why would God bear you as a Christian?
When you can't be used when you're not propping anything
You know, that's what the warning is in John chapter number 15 of being this unfruitful
Christian of not being attached to the vine, of not producing fruit, of being that salt
that's lost its savor, of being something that's basically dirty underwear and you're
good for nothing.
Oh, but I love God.
Don't you know, Pastor, I just love God.
I sing CCM all day.
I surrender.
Girls singing that and they're a little skinny,
short shorts, tight, short shorts,
wearing some kind of hoochie mama top
with their live-in boyfriend.
Gonna go smoke pot right after the service
and go commit more fornication
and have a bunch of bastard kids
that never preach the gospel.
I surrender, I surrender.
Talk is cheap.
Talk is so cheap today, oh
Yeah, there'd be some mean
Well, you know what?
Who cares who cares what I say?
You know is the guy that's mean the one that likes to give you the soup and a shirt and
Says something mean or the guy that's like I love you so much. I'm gonna help you and does nothing for you
Who's the mean guy?
What's the mean person is the mean person that'll tell you the truth about you that you're a loser and you suck at working and
You're ugly
Or or the person that just slanders you and lies about you and rails on you
Who's the mean person? You know talk is cheap. You know, what are you doing? What are your actions like?
How do you actually behave yourself?
You know people love to pick apart the new IFB you know it show me the churches out there that have greater works
And let's get on board man
You really you expect me to just think that I'm just I just hate churches that are just leading soul-winning revivals and preaching the word of
God I mean if these other churches are so much better, you know what they can prove it how by their works not what they say
All right, but no listen to this pastor
He sounds so nice.
He's so kind.
He has a pastor's heart.
He's not like this rough, you know,
he's mean, spirited, negative, new life, he preaches.
He's so nice.
Oh, I just love you, Congregation.
We love the gospel.
Oh, but wait a minute.
Does he actually go soul-winning?
Does he preach every part of this book?
Did he preach about the dirty underwear yet?
Oh, but no, no, no, his church is running 700 people, Pastor Shelly.
Well, how much was it running 10 years ago?
Was it running 1500?
Hmm, that's interesting.
So I'm supposed to praise a church that's running 700 when they inherited 1500 people
from the previous pastor.
What was the work there?
This guy I'm supposed to praise that inherited and is corrupting somebody else's work
Writing on the coattails of other people. That's the faith. I'm supposed to follow. Oh
What about those 700 people there are any of them people that he got saved?
No
Did he teach any of them a doctrine that they didn't know when they showed up?
They learn anything did they grow from that person?
Do they know how to go so many did you personally teach them how to become soul winner or make them a better soul winner?
You know people are going to these churches, hey, how many of the people in the pews even use the King James Bible?
How many of them are sharing NIV verses and ESV verses on their social media?
How many of them have an ESV in the congregation?
How many of them even understand why they have a King James Bible in their hand?
How many of them are even dressed right? How many of them are dressed right on Monday morning?
How many of them are in fornication currently in the church?
How many of them are getting divorced and swapping wives in the congregation?
How many of them are Zionists in the congregation?
How many of them are like pledging allegiance to an Israel flag on a Sunday morning?
How strong is the congregation? Can they endure hard preaching?
How would they do if I was there this morning?
Y'all can't handle it
Well, wait a minute. You can't you can't handle Pastor Shelley's preaching. Why is he saying things that are not in the Bible?
Well, no technically everything he's saying is in the Bible
Well, then why would you tell people to not hear the preaching then?
And oh if Pastor Shelley is not preaching the Bible, why would you invite him to even come to your church?
Like what I don't understand the Delta if someone's not preaching the Bible don't invite him to your church
If someone is preaching the Bible, why would you tell people not to listen or not hear
the Bible being preached?
Hey, Jeremiah is coming to town, don't listen.
Isaiah is coming.
You know, actually it's Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, just skip this weekend.
Just let's go back to Psalm 23 or something.
Hey, I like Psalm 23, but you know what, sometimes you need to get through some big
chunks of the Bible like Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, don't you?
How many churches even read those passages in their church?
How many people in their church even read the Bible?
At all.
How about, oh, Pastor Shelley, they have hundreds of kids in their Sunday school.
Hundreds, hundreds of kids in their Sunday school.
Okay, how many Bible verses did those kids have memorized?
How many kids in that church have any Bible verses memorized?
How well do those kids even behave in that church and that Sunday school that you have there?
How would they do in a regular service?
Here's a question. How much Bible do they know? How hard do those kids work?
Here's a question. How innocent are those kids in your Sunday school?
How respectful are those kids in your Sunday school? Here's a question. How many virgins do you have in your youth group?
Oh, this church is so much better. Okay, how many virgins are in your youth group?
You know, how many missionaries, look at how many missionaries we have, okay, how many
people did they get saved all combined?
You know, I would love to see some of these churches, stats, where they have 150 missionaries
of this morning.
Let's gather all of their numbers, all of them, all their salvation for the entire year,
and let's compare them just to our one evangelist.
I would love to see that comparison.
We support 150 missionaries!
How many they get, how many salvation did they get?
You give a half a million dollars?
We don't even give a tenth, a tenth of that
to Phangels or Panic.
And let's compare his numbers to your numbers.
How many missions trips do your church have
that people in your congregation are going on?
Or is that only for the awkward person
you put on deputation?
What do you mean awkward?
Have you not noticed that usually they send their missionaries
to the most awkward people in their church?
I've noticed it.
I'm not mad at those people, but I'm just saying, like,
why aren't you sitting your best and brightest?
How many church plans do you have?
How are those church plans doing?
How many mission strips have you had?
How about this?
What would be the soul-winning presentation, like, of that pastor
versus a random guy in our church?
Let's just take a random dude in this church.
And let's compare his gospel presentation to your so amazing pastor, your pastor, the
youth pastor, the assistant pastor, the son who's going to be the next pastor.
Let's ask him, the nepotism pastor.
Let's ask how he does.
You know what?
We're so faithful we're running 700 of the 1500 people that were babysitting and inherited
How are you gonna do in the next 10 years? You're gonna be running 350?
Because let me tell you something the young the young people are not Zionist and if the old IB doesn't change
No one's gonna come to their churches
Here's a question how many people in your neighborhood even know your church exists
Let me tell you something, everybody knew Jeremiah existed.
Everybody knew Isaiah existed.
Everybody knew Ezekiel existed.
Everybody knew John the Baptist was in the wilderness
and they all went out to see him.
Look, the men of God were not hiding under a bushel.
Look, I grew up and I didn't even know fundamental
Baptist churches even existed in my area.
Why?
Well, there's a reason why.
Here's a question, what kind of impact has your church had
on the culture of our world?
And you know what? I want churches to make an impact on this culture because everyone else making an impact is making it way worse.
Oh, we love God so much. Well, talk is cheap. And you know what? Our culture is getting worse by the second.
We need somebody to try and reverse course. We need somebody to just get the pendulum swinging the opposite direction somehow.
Even if it makes headlines. Even if it has big protests. Even if it has all this different stuff.
Why? Because your talk about loving God is so cheap, it does nothing.
Oh, you love God so much.
Oh, you love the law of God so much.
Why don't you show me?
Why don't you make a documentary about it?
Why don't you make a documentary about anything?
Why don't you do something?
They're so great babysitting the last generation's converts.
How does that make you so great?
You know, the Bible says wisdom is justified
of all our children.
Hey, you say you have a great faith,
then you're gonna see it.
You're going to see it?
You expect me to believe if we could just take John the Baptist out of heaven and drop
him on the earth somewhere and say, go.
Take the apostle Paul out of heaven and say, go.
He'd be running a 30-person church in the middle of nowhere and no one's heard of him.
He would be a firebrand.
Okay, you know, that's the people that we're looking to that's the kind of faith that I want to follow
That's the kind of person. I want to be that's kind of Christian. I want to be I want to put my hands on the plow and not look back
And not be so worried about everything else because you know what talk is cheap
I want to follow what these men are doing and have some works
You know the Bible says help Lord for the godly man seaseth
For the faithful fell from among the children men. They speak vanity
Every one of the neighbor with flattering lips and with a double heart
Do they speak that's what mankind is like
It's a bunch of flatter. I love God. I'm gonna serve God. I surrender all
Wherever he leads all follow I
Just want to I just want to serve God and then it's like they can't even come to church three times a week
So you're telling me you would have forsaken your family and followed Jesus 24 seven seven days a week for three and a half years
And you can't even come to church three times a week
Talk is cheap talk is real cheap. Oh
I love God. Do you how much do you love God?
People say they love God, but they don't read their Bible.
People say they love God, but they don't keep His commandments.
People say they love God, but they don't love the brethren.
People say they love God, but they don't go soul-winning.
People say they love God, but they don't tithe.
Go to Ezekiel 33.
You know, Jesus said,
and why call you mean Lord, Lord,
and do not the things that I say?
Who so cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them?
I will show you to whom he is like.
He is like a man which built his house, and dig deep,
and laid the foundation on a rock.
And when the flood arose, and the stream
beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it,
for it was founded upon a rock.
But he that heareth, and doeth not,
is like a man that without a foundation
built in house upon the earth.
Against which the stream did beat vehemently and immediately fell and the ruin of that house was great
You know, I love about this parable and I've pointed out in the past
But it needs to be pointed out again is when you build your house on the rock
What the Bible says is that the stream beat
vehemently upon that house and then the Bible says when you didn't build it on the rock
You know what it says the stream did beat vehemently
Some people think like oh going to this church is going to cause my life to have big storms
No, no living in this world is going to cause you to have big storms
This the whole world life and wickedness
You know coming to church is not going to make the storms of life quit
People are gonna lose their job, get fired,
people are gonna get hurt, people are gonna die,
people are gonna quit, people are gonna lie to you,
people are gonna steal from you,
people are gonna rip you off,
family members gonna get mad at you.
Look, there are tons of people that are not Christian,
have never been to church,
and their whole family is a train wreck.
Why do you think we have a TV show
called Jerry Springer and Maury?
Those people aren't like, man,
when I started the new IFB, it just went downhill.
They're like, who's the father?
You know they're like everybody's on drugs, and we don't know who's the father
We don't know what's going on and in fact they get excited when they're not the father. Have you seen it?
They're like not the father like
Like I don't want to be with that whore
Oh, it's just the AFB has problems. Yeah, Chris does have problems then you might be causing me issues
No, no life causes you issues buddy
Being built on the rock causes you to get through the storm
Going in a good church surrounds you with people that'll help you when you go through the storm
That'll love you that'll tell you the truth that'll be beside you
That'll give you money and time and effort and energy and emotion and love and they'll give you purpose for your life
But let me tell you something when you're not in church and you have that storm come
You won't have purpose you won't have friends you won't have love you won't have compassion and you know what it's a dark dark place
Getting out of church is a dark, dark, lonely place.
You stay in church.
You stay serving God.
You keep your hands on the plow and you say,
I'm just going to get through these roots somehow.
And if it's tough, you just call someone else
to help push you a little harder.
You know, in Ezekiel 33 says in verse 30,
Also thou son of man, the children of thy people
still are talking against thee by the walls.
and in the doors of the houses and speak one to another,
every one to his brother saying.
You know, it's interesting how everybody's just talking
against the man of God again.
This isn't Jeremiah, this is Ezekiel.
Look, everybody's just talking against the man of God.
Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word
that comeeth forth from the Lord.
Did you hear his sermon?
Did you hear what this guy said?
I'm gonna make a clip of it and send it to you.
Let's listen
What did he say and they come unto thee as the people cometh and
They sit before thee as my people and they hear thy words
But they will not do them for with their mouth
They show much love
But their heart goes after their covetousness
Hey, oh, they're gonna listen even fact some of these people they're gonna go to church
Oh, I just love it so amazing the sermon was great. I just loved it. Thanks you passage tally
You appreciate sermon like this be like oh, it's so great. So music. I don't care do it. I
Hope somebody comes up with me and says I don't like your sermon. I'm not gonna do it, and then they just do it
You know, I don't want as much as it goes. Hey, I just love that. I want to be all in and then they're gone
With much love. Oh with their mouth. Oh much. I love guys love the bio. I love so many
But they're not gonna do it
What kind of person are you?
Are you going after your covetousness?
And lo, thou art under them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and
can play well on an instrument, for they hear thy words, but they do not, but they do them
not.
Oh, this guy's such an amazing preacher, so skillful.
I can't stop listening, I'm not going to do it.
Then they shall know that a prophet has been among them.
You know, he's preaching against them saying you're going to be destroyed,
you've got to repent of your sins, you've got to give up what you're doing,
you've got to change your life, you've got to actually serve God,
you've got to be dedicated, you've got to actually have some works,
and they're like, oh, it's amazing, but they don't do it.
And then they're going to be destroyed,
and then they're going to realize that that guy was telling the truth.
That guy was preaching what the Bible said.
I guess he was right the whole time.
How many Christians in America, you know, this week and the last few weeks have decided,
you know what, I need to take Christianity anymore seriously, you know, they look at someone
like Charlie Kirk being killed for his faith and they think, oh, wow.
You know, I want to dedicate my life to serving God, or I want to be faithful, or I want to do this.
And they're going to, with their mouth, show much love.
But you know what, this weekend they're still going to go get drunk.
This weekend, they tried church last week, but this week they're going to go see the cowboys lose again.
They're gonna go and look it's incredible to me because I was looking up tickets just out of
your pure curiosity
The nosebleed section of the Cowboys is like a $200 ticket
If you sit in a decent area, it's $500 a seat
That means you take you your wife and your two kids because you know you don't go to a fundamental Baptist Church
Your two kids and your birth control pills and your purse all four of you to the Cowboys game. That's two thousand dollars
Then plus parking
Then plus all the food and the beer and the book, you know, whatever you're gonna you're gonna use
I mean, it's forty five hundred dollars to go watch the Cowboys lose when you could have came to church for free
While you sit here and say I love God so much
You know, it's a shame that churches look like this barn dough and then stadiums look like they do it should be the opposite
You know, I'm not and I'll be honest like I'm not really mad that stadiums look nice
But you know what when the house of God doesn't look as nice or better. That's a problem society
The greatest buildings in a country should be the church house.
Not the football stadium, not the government buildings.
It should be the house of God.
And you know what, it's because God's people have forsaken the house of God.
And of course the really nice buildings we have today are usually filled with false prophets.
But it's a shame. It's embarrassing.
It's embarrassing as a nation to say we're Christian
when that's what we worship and that's what we put our money and our effort and energy to.
People spending $4,500 on a Sunday morning to go watch a game
as opposed to going to church for free.
It's embarrassing.
Go to Ecclesiastes chapter number five.
How many Christians are going to say, I need to change my life?
I need to start thinking about God more.
But they're not going to get married.
They're going to keep living with their girlfriend or boyfriend
and keep committing fornication.
We need revival in America.
We know it.
It's not going to Joel Osteen's church.
It's not going to one of these non-denom churches.
If we're actually going to see real revival in this country,
people would start throwing the booze away,
stop committing fornication and whoring themselves.
We would outlaw all the pornography on the internet.
We'd actually have people getting married again.
We'd actually have people getting into church again.
We'd have people using a King James Bible
and forsaking these weird versions, the ESV and the NIV.
We'd have people going out soul-witting in droves.
That's what a real revival looks like.
And let me tell you something, that's why St. Vast Baptist Church was part of a revival,
because we have people that actually gave up drinking and gave up fornication and got married
and actually started using the King James Bible and started going soul winning and going on missions
trips and this is what real revival actually looks like. Not only that, they can handle dirty
underwear in the Bible. They can handle some yelling and some screaming about the Bible.
They're not afraid to drag grandma to church to hear the Bible being preached.
You know, grandma grew up in a society where being a faggot was a crime, and you're worried
about grandma.
You know, you should be worried about you that can't handle the fact that homosexuality
is a crime.
In fact, you know, every time I saw one of these commercials trying to promote this homosexual
agenda, you know what I always saw?
There's this really famous one.
It was an Asian family.
It's this Asian kid and this Asian kid's like a faggot and he's afraid to come to Thanksgiving and they say why and they say because of Grandma and
Like they get he gets shunned by Grandma and it's about like trying to it's like trying to say like you know
Mom and dad and Grandma should be more accepting. I'm like sounds like Grandma's ready for some new I'll be preaching. You know what I mean?
It's like good night
You know, we need less adultery and idolatry.
You know, for a sake of time, I'm not going to get into it too much, but tonight I'll
bring it up a little bit more.
But you know, the Catholic church was just brutally, brutally destroying and murdering
Christians in Europe.
I don't want to repeat all of it, but you know, the Bible says that women were ripped
Imagine that kind of stuff happening by the Catholic Church.
Going and ripping children into shreds,
making parents watch it,
slitting people's throats and burning them at the stake.
And then people are like, hey, I think I want to leave.
Because I don't like being ripped into shreds
and my family ripped into shreds for learning the Bible
and reading the Bible.
And they came to America.
You know what they did?
They made laws saying you can't be a Catholic here.
I wonder why.
And then now in America it's like,
Why, so they can murder my whole family?
So they can rip the Bible out of my hands
and say I can't interpret it correctly
and give it to a priest, some faggot priest
that's in a dress?
And they're just filled with idolatry
all in this country, in this nation,
worshiping Mary statues?
No, my friend, I am not going to join hands with Catholics.
I'll give the Catholic the gospel, and I'll try to get him saved,
and I'll tell him, never go back to your Catholic church.
It's wicked as hell.
It's evil.
You know, talk is cheap.
Oh, we just love God.
Well, if you love Catholics, then you don't love God
if you're going to join hands with them.
If you actually love God, then you'll tell the Catholic he's not saved and he's going to burn in hell and that is
Mary worship is idolatry and
That his priest is a pedophile faggot
That's what you if you actually love the Catholic you're telling that and that the Pope is like an antichrist
And, you know, we can apply this all day long to spiritual things.
I want to just spend a few minutes applying it to a few other areas.
But here's the point.
Talk is cheap.
You need to actually do something and keep your word.
If you say you're going to do something, you better do it.
That's the chapter 5, look at verse 2.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God.
For God is in heaven and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few.
It says in verse 4,
without vows of valor to God defer not to pay it,
for he had no pleasure in fools.
You know, if you say you're going to do something,
you better do it.
It used to be in this country
that you could literally just make an agreement
on a handshake because keeping your word was important.
We live in a society where no one keeps their word.
Everybody's a liar.
It's frustrating.
Go view to Ruth 1.
Go to Ruth 1.
Here's a couple of areas, you know,
that we need to not have cheap talk.
Here's number one.
How about being a friend?
It's one thing to say your friends, and it's another thing to actually be a friend.
To be a friend.
Ruth chapter one, look at verse eight.
And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law,
Go, return each to her mother's house.
The Lord deal kindly with you,
as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
The Lord grant you that ye may find rest,
each of you, in the house of her husband.
Then she kissed them, and lifted up their voice, and wept.
And they said unto her, surely we will return
with thee unto thy people.
Notice this, verse 10, and they said,
and they said, and they said, both Orpah and Ruth said,
we will not leave you.
We are not gonna go away. We will return with the end of I people they both said it and I only said turn again
My daughters, why will you go with me? Are there yet any more sons in my womb?
that they may be your husbands.
Turn again, my daughters, go your way,
for I am too old to have an husband.
If I should say I have hope,
if I should have an husband also tonight,
and should also bear sons,
will you tarry for them till they were grown?
Would you stay for them from having husbands?
Nay, my daughters, for agree with me much for your sakes,
that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me,
and they lifted up their voice and wept,
and Orpa kissed their mother-in-law.
Notice this, but Ruth clave under her.
Orpa said, hey, I'll go with you, I'm gonna love you,
I'm gonna be your friend forever.
And then she's like, leave.
And she's like, all right, bye.
You know, there's some people,
they're just waiting for you to give them an excuse
to stop being your friend.
There is a lot of people out there
that as soon as you say it's okay to not be my friend,
they're like, great.
Bye.
I didn't want to be friends anyways.
And let me tell you something that they weren't your friend.
If you have a friend, and you say to him,
hey, I don't even want you to be my friend, go away.
A real friend will say this, well,
I'm not going to stop being your friend.
I want to be your friend anyways.
That's what a real friend is like.
He's going to cleave under you.
Hey, if you say you're going to be someone's friend,
be their friend.
Talk is cheap.
Oh, I'm your friend.
When it gets hard or you don't like something, whatever, and you stop being their friend,
you're not really a friend.
You know, the Bible says confidence in an unfaithful man in a time of trouble is like
a broken tooth and a foot out of a joint.
When someone shows themselves to be unfaithful and not a good friend, then you should probably
never put confidence in them ever again.
The Bible says you do not just like a broken tooth
You don't want to put confidence in that a broken foot
You don't want to put confidence in that and you know what when someone shows themselves to be an unfaithful friend unreliable friend
You're violating God's word by continuing to be there like putting confidence in them
When someone shows you that they are a sucky friend
It's like I know they trashed our church and trash pastor Shelley, but I still want to be their friend. Well, you're an idiot
You're an idiot because confidence in an unfaithful man is like putting confidence and a broken tooth
Person's like a broken tooth some of them have broken tooth, you know, I'm sorry broken toes too. You know what I mean?
You know sad that we just have so many people that just can't keep the word go to go to Genesis chapter 2
I just have two more verses. I want to go to you, but
You know we can apply
this concept to all areas you know friendship church serving God at work marriage
You know here's one. How about your country?
You know, this is the oath that the president takes when he takes office. I
Do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the president of the United States and we'll do and
To the best of my ability preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States
How many presidents are actually?
Defending the Constitution
or how many of them are violating the Constitution.
You know, here's the oath you take in military.
I do solemnly swear that I will support
and defend the Constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
You know, that includes Israel, by the way,
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same,
and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States
and the orders of the officers appointed over me
according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice,
so help me God.
How many people in our country are dedicated to the Constitution?
Here's what a federal judge says,
I just only swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons
and do equal right to the poor and to the rich
and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge
and perform all duties incumbent upon me.
as under the Constitution and laws of the United States,
and that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic,
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same,
that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion,
and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am able to enter, so help me God.
You know what's the problem in our country? Talk is cheap.
if the military did that, if judges did that.
You know it's not helping our country,
they say that and they don't do it.
It's the problem in our country is pastors are saying
that they're dedicating their lives to preaching the truth
but then they don't do it.
That they're gonna be a respecter of persons
and they're gonna teach the hard truths of the Bible
but then they don't do it.
You know, and one thing that's just really destroying our country is just how many people
say till death do us part, and they're not doing it.
Genesis chapter 2 verse 24, therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and
shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
What do the Bible say in Psalm 15 where we started, he that sweareth to his own hurt
and changeeth not, oh God wouldn't want to be in a marriage that hurts me, will you
You cleaved unto it, you know when you get married you say hey
I Jonathan Shelley take thee Carrie Shelley to be my wedded wife to have and to hold from this day forward
For better for worse for richer for poorer in sickness and in health to love and cherish she says obey
Tell death do us part
You're supposed to mean that supposed to mean something
And you know what? You can say it, but you know what? You should do it! Do it!
We need to be Christians that do that. What does it mean to have and hold?
To have means to legally possess this property. My wife is my property.
And you know what? To hold is tender affection.
It's the duty of marriage. That's what's supposed to be in marriage.
Hey, you said you were going to have and hold me, then you better hold me.
I'm yours and you know what? I'm gonna hold you and you're gonna hold me. We vowed
For better for worse. You know if I get better. I won't dump you and leave you and
If you get worse, I won't dump you and I won't leave you
Because it doesn't matter. I'm making a vow right now. I'm making a pledge and you know what talk is cheap
I'm gonna do it
You know what? There's nothing stopping you from getting better. It's funny how people get divorced and then they get better
It's like why don't you just get better while you're married?
Why don't you lose weight while you're married?
Why it's like people are letting themselves go so they can get divorced dude. Just get better
For richer or for poor people leave you because you got rich
They'll leave you because they got money and then people leave you because you got poor and
Sickness and health some people give up on people because they don't want to take care of them
To love and cherish and it's supposed to be till death
Ephesians 5 that's the place. I'll have you turn last place of your turn look
We could apply this all day long, but I'm telling you know what talk is cheap
And I'm just sick and tired of people talking and they're not doing
What's the problem with America? It's not so much the talk. It's the doing
I think, look, if you ask, again, the vast majority of Americans,
they would say, I'm Christian, I love the Bible,
I believe the Bible, I believe Jesus.
In fact, most people, we knock on the door and ask them how to be saved.
This is what they say, dedicating their lives to Jesus,
giving their lives to Christ, following all the commandments.
It's like, you're following all the commandments?
You've dedicated your life to Christ?
What church do you go to? Why don't you go to church?
Talk is real cheap and again obviously those are bad answers and those people aren't even saved yet
But isn't it so funny that they're saying these things?
People are just everywhere in America
They all say we love God and we love the Bible and we want to be Christian and we want to do what's right
And we want to love our neighbors ourselves, but you know what? They're a bunch of drunk adultering
hypocrite losers
And they're not going to a good church.
There's a bunch of Christians today in church saying they love God, but they never preach the Gospel.
They never love anybody.
They say, I love Jesus and I love God, and then they divorce their wife and they divorce their husband.
You know what? It's wicked.
The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 25 husbands love your wives even as Christ
also loved the church and notice this and gave himself for it.
You know what I'm so glad that Jesus Christ didn't come here and tell us that he was going
to die for our sins, that he did die for our sins, that he didn't say he was going to descend
into hell, that he did descend into hell and he didn't tell me he was going to rise again,
he did rise again from the dead.
and that he didn't just tell me he'd never leave me for sake me,
he will never leave me for sake me. That he didn't say me he will give me eternal life,
he did give me eternal life. He didn't say he would steal me the Holy Ghost,
he is going to steal me the Holy Ghost. Look, obviously Jesus promised those things,
but let me tell you something he delivered. He delivered on those promises,
he didn't just have cheap talk.
He actually meant what he said and he's real and he delivers on his promises, and that's why we love him
We love him because he first loved us. He didn't tell us he loved us
He demonstrated how to God demonstrate that he loved us by saying it or by Jesus Christ dying on the cross and
Going to hell and rising again from the dead. That is the true picture of love. Oh, I love my wife. Oh
Okay, you love your wife you really love her, huh?
How how much money are you making for your wife? You paying all the bills? You putting her in a nice house?
Do you call her?
Do you text her? Do you spend time with her?
Do you talk sweetly to her? Oh, I love my wife!
Okay, show us.
I'll show you a guy that's not spending time with his wife, not calling his wife, not doing
anything for her, not making good money for her, not working and serving her, and I'll
show you a guy that doesn't really love his wife.
It doesn't matter what you say.
Let me tell you something.
Your wife knows the difference.
You know what your wife doesn't want you to do?
Tell her she loves you.
You're just, hey, I love you.
She wants you to love her.
Now look, you should tell her you love her, all right?
And she wants that.
Why do you say you love your husband?
Okay.
Do you make him meals that he likes, the way he likes it?
Do you never nag him?
Do you never complain?
Do you hold him whenever he wants to be held?
I mean, it's...
Oh, I love you!
How?
What are you doing?
You know, talk is real cheap.
Guys don't want to come home ever the wife say I love you, but
Did you take out the trash?
Yeah, why are you late from here? Can't you think?
He's just like man, just shut up and hold me
If you love me just shut up and hold me and make me a sandwich
You know what it is like. Hey, you really love somebody show them that you love them
You know it's just talk is so cheap and instead of being worried about what you're gonna say next
Why don't you worry about what you're gonna do next? The Bible says let thy word be few
We live in a culture that's always worried about what to say so they can try to trick people in the thinking they believe it
Why don't we just show people we actually believe it
And you know what we have a church that's called steadfast and we say we're steadfast and we're shirts that are steadfast
But why don't we actually show people that we're steadfast?
Yes.
Why don't you be someone that's on that 10-year plaque?
I'll show you someone that's actually steadfast.
Not someone that says, ah, maybe if you're in there.
OK, we'll see you on the plaque, all right?
I'll see you 20 years from now, all right?
And look, even if you're not here, I'll see you at another church.
I'll see you at some conference somewhere.
I'll see you, you know, serving God on the mission field.
We'll run into the same door knocking doors or something like that, right?
Yeah.
Hey, you don't have to be physically here, but let me tell you something.
If you want to serve God, why don't you go to the best church you can go to?
If you actually love God or whatever you say you do.
Just like if you love your wife, why don't you take her to the best restaurant?
Well, I love my wife.
I take her to McDonald's.
Not digging the happy meal five minutes from your house the non-the-nom gateway meal or whatever
That's got poison and cancer in it. I mean, it's literally founded by a pedophile. Okay
Give her you know give her a steadfast steak. You know what I mean?
Get her something with some meat on it. All right, and look I could preach on this all day
And I could scream and yell at you and whatever and we could all say they were gonna do it
But let's just be people that do it
And let's actually show the world what a steadfast church actually looks like.
It's not all talk, it's doing.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for giving us this church and for the sacrifices your
son made for us and not that you just love us with lip service only but you love us with
your actions.
I pray that you would help us to be people of our character, of our word, that when we
say something we'd actually do it.
I pray that you would help us to keep our hands on the plow and keep looking forward.
I pray that you would help us to be good friends, whatever positions that we have that we would
take them seriously.
I pray that you would actually help us to be loving husbands and loving wives.
And I pray that we could see a real revival in this country where people actually give
up their booze and their alcohol and their adultery and their fornication and actually
get into a good church and they start reading their Bible and they start going soul winning.
I pray that you would help us to turn people back to the King James Bible and back to the
Word of God and back to a love of hard preaching and back to the truth.
And I pray that you would help us as we continue plowing through this wicked world that we
could get as many people saved as possible and in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Song number 197 singing I go
That's what did I do.
Thank you.
baptism. Caleb's coming for baptism this morning. Caleb, have you
trusted Christ your Savior? Then I baptize the name of the Father, Son,
Holy Ghost. Hold your nose. Buried in light instead of death, raise to walk in
newness of life.
Make sure to congratulate our baptism. God bless your dismissed