Stand up for Jesus, stand in his strength alone.
The arm of flesh will fail you, ye dare not trust your own.
Put on the gospel armor and watching unto prayer,
where duty calls or danger be never wanting there.
Great singing, you may be seated. Start in a word of prayer this evening.
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for our church. Thank you for the opportunity
to be gathered together and worship your name. I pray that we'd
all be filled with the Holy Spirit and we'd sing out
in spirit and in truth tonight, and please help just bless the service. In Jesus'
name we pray, amen. All right, our next song is 449
Dwelling in Beulah Land.
449 Dwelling in Beulah Land.
449 Dwelling in Beulah Land. On the first.
Far away the noise of strife upon my ear is falling.
Then I know the sins of earth be set on every hand.
Doubt and fear and things of earth in vain to me are calling.
None of these shall move me from Beulah Land.
I'm living on the mountain underneath the cloudless sky.
I'm drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry. Oh yes, I'm feasting
on the manna from a bountiful supply for I am dwelling
in Beulah Land. Far below the storm of doubt
upon the world is beating. Sons of men in battle long the
enemy withstand. Safe am I within the castle
of God's word retreating. Nothing then can reach me
to Beulah Land. I'm living on the mountain
underneath the cloudless sky. I'm drinking at the fountain
that never shall run dry. Oh yes, I'm feasting on the manna
from a bountiful supply for I am dwelling in Beulah Land.
Let the stormy breezes blow their cry.
I am safely sheltered here protected by God's hand.
Here the sun is always shining. Here there's not can harm me.
I am safe forever in Beulah Land.
I'm living on the mountain underneath the cloudless sky.
I'm drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry. Oh yes, I'm feasting
on the manna from a bountiful supply for I am dwelling
in Beulah Land. Viewing here the works of God I
sink in contemplation. Hearing now his blessed voice I see
the way he planned. Dwelling in the spirit here I
learn of full salvation. Gladly will I tarry
in Beulah Land. I'm living on the mountain
underneath the cloudless sky. I'm drinking at the fountain
that never shall run dry. Oh yes, I'm feasting
on the manna from a bountiful supply for I am dwelling
in Beulah Land. Thanks so much for coming to
steadfast baptist church if you need a bulletin lift your hand nice and high
one of Russia's come by on the inside we have our service and
soul winning times also in the front we have our bible memory passage
john chap the number one for on verse 19 if you're 18 or under
you can do we have any extra bulletins back there oh
sorry all right you're just lifting your hand for fun all right so
i just told my kids lift their hands if you want to be tickled and so that's you
know what i do but we're not doing that here all right
um verse 19 if you're 18 or under and you can quote the verse
then you can receive a couple pieces of candy after the service quote that to
one of our ushers myself or brother dylan on the inside
we have our service so winning times take note of this the regional soul
winning times um in order to get the information for
those you have to get the the leader's information so just
ask the leader where they're meeting and they should be able to communicate that
to you for our church stats make sure to report
those stats to your uh soul winning captain and that way
they can get that updated and we've had a really good march but
let's keep going um also on the right we have the list of expecting ladies we
have our prayer list as well and i'll quickly
go over that continue to pray for the nigira family
for health miss lucy's uh mother's tumors pray for brother
cameron hall's leg the a couple of our friends and uh very
baptist manila and also in australia pastor kevin
sepulveda also continue to pray for the weathers
for his work situation for the uh cardonas
um sister cardona's uh dad father uh did he not he recently passed away
is that correct so we're definitely uh sorry for that
and uh we'll we'll be praying for their family
they're in colorado is that correct okay so we'll be praying
for her family also for marika as friends health the fisher family
and then continue to pray for the good ones uh for their recovery
and for their loss as well and if you have any other prayer request
that you want added um to the bulletin please uh send those in i think there
was one that didn't get added in here let me double
check i want to make sure yeah uh the brother oscar was asking that
we'd pray for uh his wife's mother christy and their
sister and brother they lost their home to a fire in
california and so uh he was just asking for prayer for
that and so we'll definitely add them to our
prayer list i'm going to go ahead and say a quick word of prayer
and then we'll go to on with our announcements thank you only father for
our church family thank you so much for giving us an
opportunity to be gathered together and to meet this evening
i pray that you would just bless all of our expecting ladies who would help them
through their pregnancies i pray that you would also just bless the rest of
our church family with their various health concerns
please just uh give them favor please give them just recovery
i pray that you be with our friends abroad that you'd help strengthen them
help them with their soul winning help them with
their spirit help them to be steadfast i also pray that you would just be with
those that have suffered loss and are going through grief that you
would just be there to comfort them and encourage them and we just thank you
for all that you give us in jesus name we pray amen
on the back we have the note about our college station soul winning marathon
there is a sign-up sheet in the on the back table so if you'd like to sign up
if you are interested in the church transportation i'm going to be
emailing that to you so you have to email me
first to let me know that you're interested and then i'll email you back
where we're going to be meeting we'll be meeting in the south portion of the
dallas forth area uh just kind of in a communal place and
then i'll be taking the church van down and we'll just be carpooling so if you'd
like to carnet carpool slash go with the
church you can meet us that way just send us
the email and then we'll email you back in a
couple days who's planning on coming with us this
saturday just we have some kind of idea
okay and uh i i think it's going to be a great time
um a lot of people from pure words i think are going to be coming as well
and we went down there a few years ago and it went really well i looked
weather should be pretty good and so i'm really excited about that
i did make a video we're going to be meeting at a panera bread the address is
1407 university and there's only one panera to my
knowledge in college station so you should be pretty good finding it and
so i'm really excited about that we'll be meeting there for lunch and breakfast
and then we'll be coming back so if you are going on the church transportation
we're going to be meeting at 6 a.m just fyi so 6 a.m
but if you want those details just email me
i anticipate that we'll probably wrap up around four or five
and and come back so you probably get back around 7 30 8 o'clock
um to our communal parking and then however long it takes to get back home
from there so just to give you some kind of an idea
um that's pretty much all i have for announcements
uh at this time there is some bibles new testaments on that back table
there's also english invites over here and so
if you need to fill up on any of those items make sure to get those
let's go to our third song 179 179 such love
again that song 179 such love
sing it out with me on the first 179 such love
that god should love a sinner such as i should yearn to change my sorrow into
bliss nor rest till he had planned to bring me
night how wonderful is love like this
such love such wondrous love such love
such wondrous love that god should love a sinner such as i
how wonderful is love like this that christ should join so
freely in the scheme although it meant his death on calvary
did ever human tongue find no blur theme then love divine that ransomed me
such love such wondrous love such love
such wondrous love that god should love a sinner such as i
how wonderful is love like this that for a willful outcast such as i
the father planned the savior bled and died
redemption for a worthless slave to buy who long had law and grace defied
such love such wondrous love such love
such wondrous love that god should love a sinner such as i
how wonderful is love like this and now he takes me
to his heart a son he asks me not to fill a servant's place the
far off country wanderings all are done wide open are his arms of grace
such love such wondrous love such love
such wondrous love that god should love a sinner such as i
how wonderful is love like this turn to proverbs chapter number six
as the offering plates are being passed around
proverbs chapter number six
the bible reads my son if thou be surety for thy friend
thou has stricken thy hand with a stranger thou art snared
with the words of thy mouth thou art taken with the words of thy mouth
do this now my son and deliver thyself when thou art come into the land of thy
friend go humble thyself and make sure thy
friend give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber
to thine eyelids deliver thyself as a row from the hand
of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the
fowler go to the ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise which
having no guide overseer or ruler provideth her meat in
the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest
how long wilt thou sleep oh sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep
yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep
so shall thy poverty come as one that travelth and i want as an armed man
a naughty person a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth
he winketh with his eyes he speaketh with his feet
he teacheth with his fingers frowardness is in his heart
he diviseth mischief continually he soweth discord therefore shall his
calamity come suddenly suddenly shall he be
broken without remedy these six things that the lord hate
yea seven are an abomination unto him a proud look
a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood
and heart that diviseth wicked imaginations feet that be swift and
running to mischief a false witness that speaketh lies and he
that soweth discord among brethren my son keep thy father's commandment and
forsake not the law of thy mother bind them continually upon thine heart
and tie them about thy neck when thou goest it shall lead thee when
thou sleepest it shall keep thee and when thou awakest it shall talk with
thee for the commandment is a lamp and the
law is light and reproofs of instruction are the
way of life to keep thee from the evil woman from
the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman
lest not after her beauty in thine heart neither let her take thee with her
eyelids for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread
and the adulterous will hunt for the precious life
can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes
not be burned can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned so he that
goeth in to his neighbor's wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be
innocent men do not despise a thief if he steal
to satisfy his soul when he is hungry but if he be if he be found he shall
restore sevenfold he shall give all the substance
of his house but whoso committeth adultery with a
woman lacketh understanding he that doeth it destroyeth his own
soul a wound and dishonor shall he get and his reproach
shall not be wiped away for jealousy is the rage of a man
therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance
he will not regard any ransom neither will he rest
content though thou givest many gifts let's have a word of prayer
amen so we've been going through the book of genesis but we finished
and uh before we go to another bible study
i just wanted to preach kind of a topical sermon this evening
and the title of my sermon this evening is the consequences of pride
the consequences of pride and i think that it's a really important
topic and subject to kind of delve into and
the bible makes it very clear that pride is one of the most hated sins by god
very much despises pride in fact the devil
is kind of the epitome of pride and it's through his pride which causes his great
fall and the bible right here in proverbs chapter number six look at
verse number 16 the bible says these six things doth the lord
hate yea seven are an abomination unto him so according to the bible
there are things that god hates and in this list look at the very first
one in verse 17 a proud look so it's just like the
number one it's saying hey these are things that god just
absolutely hates and then just number one
right off the bat a proud look is just something that god
abhors god hates god doesn't like and you know when i
think of proud look you know what i always think of
all of your your top star athletes because man they just love to strike
that proud look face that proud look pose especially after they win after
they shoot a three and they're just like oh look at me you know i just scored her
and it's like that's something the bible says that god literally hates
god literally hates a proud look i didn't write the bible i'm just telling
you what the bible says and it's because god abhors pride now
in this list there's other things mentioned but i really want to focus on
pride and being proud look at chapter eight
and look at verse number 13 what the bible has to say about this
the fear of the lord is to hate evil notice what the next one is pride
and then just to top that off and arrogance see
the e and the evil way and the froward mouth do i hate
so according to the bible god just really doesn't like these things
and we're supposed to not just not like them we're supposed to hate them
the bible says that we are supposed to hate pride
i didn't just say that because i believe that i'm saying that god says
we should hate pride okay and what is hatred you know it's choosing to not
be around it to uplift it to have anything to do with it
to not praise it and in fact if you talk very negatively about something
people will often say you hate that right if you say man
it seems like pastor shelly hates ranch dressing
it's because i talk really negatively about ranch dressing
okay and it's true i don't like it you know and of course in the bible we
ought to go beyond just disliking certain foods
i mean a hatred for pride should be a part of our lives
it should be something that we abhor we have tests you know that's why i find
it so offensive when people say oh he's one of those
trump supporters i'm like trump is one of the most
prideful people on the planet why would i want to love worship praise
adore any person that is epitomized by being one of the
most prideful people ever and to just give you an idea what is
pride what is a proud look what are these
things that we're even talking about if you look up in a dictionary the first
definition was an inordinate self-esteem
an inordinate self-esteem now inordinate means that it's not
normal it's not natural it's a going above and beyond what would be
uh just regularly occurring so it's something that's not
uh something that would be positive in any kind of sense it's something that's
unusual strange perverted just something about you just you're
just so obsessed with yourself now self-esteem in and of itself is not a
bad thing okay but this is saying an inordinate
level of self-esteem okay here's a way that i
would word it pride is thinking that you're
better than you are pride is thinking that you're better than
you are there's nothing wrong with acknowledging facts about yourself
right to say like i'm a man or to say
i've done this or i've done that there's nothing wrong with being able to
acknowledge reality or uh i don't agree with this like
self-loathing fake humility where people will try to go on the other
extreme and say i can't do anything and i'm so incapable
and no one likes me and just woe is me that's not being humble okay
essentially you you find a balance in the scriptures
where you're not going to this self-deprecating attitude
and behavior but you're also not lifting yourself
up and praising yourself especially when it's not even true
especially when it's above and beyond what is
true you know saying you're the greatest at something when you're
just obviously not would be pride okay now here's the thing if you truly were
the greatest and you acknowledge the fact that you're
the greatest it's arguable about whether or not you're
being prideful okay because we have to understand something about
the lord the lord talks about how great he is
but why is that not pride it's because he really is that great
because there's nothing wrong with him just objectively telling us
what he's like that he's loved that he's the greatest that he's wonderful
you know that he's you know the mighty god i mean he's obviously
telling us a lot of things about him but why is that not pride because it's true
but often what people will do is they talk about themselves
in these uplifting ways that are obviously not true
over the top kind of a self-flattery and that's where we see the pride
and ultimately pride doesn't even have to be vocalized it can even just be
thought a proud look okay thinking that you're
better than you truly are another form of pride though is just
simply bragging about yourself and i want to go there for a moment i
want to go i want to go to second corinthians but stick in proverbs just
a moment okay so go to proverbs chapter 16 and i and
keep that thought in your mind about bragging about yourself now
the lord since he's perfect since he's holy since he's righteous
he tells us those facts but what's interesting about the word of god and
what's interesting about how the lord uh shields himself from this braggart type
attitude is the trinity we have the father the son and the holy
ghost and in fact the the father has given us
his word and who is that constantly praising
jesus and then when jesus came to this earth
jesus wasn't glorifying himself jesus wasn't praising himself
who is jesus sitting there and praising the father
and then of course the holy ghost he doesn't even speak of himself
he's constantly praising the father and praising the lord jesus christ
through the word of god so even though we've we learned through the scriptures
how wonderful god is and how great god is
he's not sitting here just bragging about himself incessantly
no rather he's allowing other people to brag about him and brag for him
through what the lord jesus christ through the father through the holy
ghost and we see that perfect unity of the trinity just like a
husband shouldn't go around singing his own
praises he should sing the praise of his wife
and a wife doesn't need to go around singing her own praises she sings the
praises of her husband and so we don't want to have this
braggart type attitude this self-conceited attitude or have this
need to tell everybody every wonderful thing that we've ever done
that we've ever experienced in fact the bible talks about
lots of things you should never tell anybody you know don't let your left
hand know what your right hand doeth you know if you're praying in secret if
you're giving money and pour to the secret if you're
if you're you know doing all these things that are pleasing the lord but in
secret you're supposed to keep that secret
you're not supposed to go around bragging about that some people
literally brag about how much they fast they'll be like oh man you
you don't even know i was on a 10-day fast
and it's like that's a terrible thing to brag about you know that's not
something you should ever be bringing up or self-congratulating or talking about
yourself in this kind of a manner now i had to turn to proverbs chapter 16
look at verse 5 everyone that is proud in heart is an
abomination to the lord now does this say like
unsaved people or does it say everyone my bible says that it's everyone so it
does not matter to me how saved somebody is
if they are proud in heart they are an abomination to god
that's what the bible says i didn't make that up
i didn't dream that up this is what the scripture is clearly
pointing us to go to chapter 21 and look at verse 4
chapter 21 and look at verse 4 so even if you say well you know i don't go
around telling everybody how wonderful i am here's here's a
question do you just think about it
i mean do you just sit there and just dream it up and just want and just
constantly self-congratulating or telling yourself in the mirror like i'm
so handsome i'm so strong i'm so wonderful
i don't understand why anybody wouldn't like me you know that is an abomination
in god's sight okay god doesn't like that god
doesn't like that person proverbs chapter 21 look at verse 4 and
high look and a proud heart and the plowing of the wicked
now that's just that that isn't a complete sentence let's back up and get
the context okay to do justice and judgment is more
acceptable to the lord than sacrifice and high look and a proud heart and the
plowing of the wicked the thoughts of the diligent
i'm sorry is sin so according to the bible
it's not saying that just being wicked is bad it's saying just even thinking
about it just thinking that you're great is actually a sin
think about that you know we say the thought of foolishness sin just thinking
that you're great is also sin oh i've never sin so you've
never had a proud thought you've never been proud in your heart
even a little bit i mean even just a high look have you ever just looked down
upon anybody you just look at another person
just like i'm better than that person or you just kind of like lift up your
chin a little bit or you look down upon someone or you
just see someone and you just look at them and you just find them and discuss
not for a biblical reason just because you just don't like them
you know maybe the way that they're dressed or maybe just
something about you know racism racism literally is a sin because if
you think that you are better than someone just based on your skin color
alone you are wicked and you are is a sin
because the bible says hey you're not supposed to just look at other people
and just think that you're better it's just this high look this proud heart
you know people will look at other nations other countries and just look at
them all as being worse than them just saying everyone's just worse than
me everyone's bad than me just having a high and lofty attitude
this is the jews the jews looked at every gentile and
thought they were all scum and thought that they were better than
them and of course i guarantee there's gentiles
that think they're better than every jew okay
neither person is right you shouldn't think that you're better than anybody
that's a wicked sin in the bible go to proverbs chapter 28 proverbs 28
you know it'd be easy to think like well we're better than everybody in california
right that's the thought that you might have in texas don't california my texas
right but is that really true what if pastor
menes moved here i mean are you gonna get mad at that what
if everybody from verity baptist church moved here
would you be like oh i can't believe you're moving here they're gonna make
texas better i mean there's still some great people
that live in california there's great people that live
everywhere you know you can't just sit here and
just condemn people based on just all this prejudice and
all of the what the world wants to tell you
you know we need to make sure that our judgments are righteous and that we
don't have these prideful lofty attitudes where we just think
we're better than other people well i go more i go so any more than
that guy i'm better than him i sit closer up in church i go to more
church services i go i go to a new ifb church you know
that makes me more right with god no actually if you're pride
you're prideful in your heart you're an abomination in the sight of god did you
ever think about that oh i go to a new ifb church i'm right
with god no no if you're proud in your heart god
abhors you god thinks you're an abomination it's not
like you just walk into the right church and then god's like oh you're so
wonderful no showing up with the right church
doesn't make you right with god no he looks at your heart it's not an
outward show that makes you right with god
it's an inward thing hey the pharisees are going to the right temple
and god hates them you know they're in jerusalem
they're in the right family they you know there's a lot of times that on the
outward appearance it can look like you're right with god and god abhors you
god is is mad at you god is displeased with you
because you know what god doesn't look at the outward god doesn't look
at just all the things that you're doing god looks at your heart and judges every
action by your heart and really the people that god's
pleased with have a good heart it's not about an outward physical
appearance it's about your motivations it's about your desires
it's about who you are on the inside that makes you a beautiful person in the
sight of god if you think about women according to
the bible you know beauty is vain according to the bible a woman that
fears the lord is to be greatly praised okay so it's you a lot of women
and i'm just being honest most women if not a hundred percent of women
are constantly judging other women that are uglier than them
and thinking that they're better than them they finally look at a woman
that is less attractive to them and they think i'm better than her
i'm better than her because of my hair my hair looks prettier than hers
my dress looks prettier than hers i'm skinnier than her
i whatever i have less pimples or acne or something like that
or i have less split ends which i don't even know what that is okay
but some of y'all know what i'm talking about you know you just look at another
woman or or maybe she doesn't have money she's
poorly dressed because she doesn't have the same kind of money
or finances or whatever and you just look at her and you just judge her
and you think you're better than her no no god's saying
you're the abomination because a woman that fears god
is the one that god is pleased with not the one that goes around and brags about
herself even internally well i don't tell
anybody about it yeah but you think it you know pride is not really a sin
that's always evident outward but it's a sin that's inward
it's a sin that you can have and it a lot of times will eat through if you're
filled with pride it'll leak out okay it'll become obvious eventually you
can't contain it that's why you have to constantly
control your thoughts and control what you you're dwelling on and humble
yourself on a regular basis because pride can destroy you okay and i'm i'm
just getting warmed up i have three points this evening but
i just want to give you a kind of a sampling here the bible hates pride
and you know the bible is jesus christ okay proverbs 28 look at verse 25
he that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife
but he that put his trust in the lord shall be made fat
so notice what prideful people do is they cause a lot of strife
a lot of conflict a lot of problems a lot of arguing
and this is constantly found in the bible but sometimes people just don't
understand the consequences of their pride look
at chapter 27 just flip back and look at verse 2 let
another man praise thee and not thine own mouth a stranger and
not thine own lips the best way to live life is to just
absolutely ignore how you're doing and just not
worry about it let other people worry about how how you
are doing in every aspect of your life don't worry about don't worry about how
attractive you are don't worry about how pop popular you
are don't worry about how successful you
are don't worry about all of the accolades
and all the outward things all the measurements all the comparing
all the numbers you just do the best that you can in every single situation
and let other people worry about that let other people
judge you and worry about that because eventually guess what
we'll finally get the score the score will be told
because there will be a day when we will all be judged and then we'll all
figure out what really happened and it doesn't matter if you got the
right score on your little tally sheet the only tally sheet that matters is the
lord jesus christ tally sheet okay and it's it's vain it's usually you're
going to be wrong we have no idea in fact some of the
greatest christians the apostle paul made it abundantly clear
there's no point in trying to judge because we can't look at the heart so we
have no idea how god is going to reward people we
have no idea how god actually views these things i
mean in a human sense no one would have ever thought that
the poor widow woman giving two mites was going to be the
most greatly rewarded person in heaven no one would have thought that no one
would have looked at that woman every woman at that temple was probably
thinking like oh look at this poor woman can't she afford some better clothes and
the answer was no oh she only gave two mites it's like
yes she gave more than you she gave a lot more than you and in fact jesus
ended up praising her and talking about how she
she had so much trust and faith and lord and notice what the bible had said
those that trust in the lord shall be made fat now that fatness might not be
realized in this life but it will be in the next
and she's going to enjoy the riches and the
pleasures of serving the lord and trusting the lord in this life
and you might even think like well i just don't think it's fair that i only
have two mites yeah but who cares if you have two mites
if you just give it all the lord and then you get eternal riches i would
rather have that in hindsight than that all the money in
this life and only given a small amount and then god's like oh i'm gonna i'm
gonna reward you a small amount just a little bit you you had all this
but you didn't give me that much you know it's a lot easier to give less
than it is to give more and it's a lot easier to give two mites
than to give 20 billion dollars or something like that
to give all your rich i mean can you imagine if elon musk just said hey i
sold all of my stock all of my companies
and now i'm in the new ifb you know like you think he's going to walk away from
his life right now you think he's going to walk away from
everything yeah all of that stuff is just weights and chains on him
he's like now i'm a sole winner that's not going to happen probably
why because the rich man doesn't want to trust in the lord
he trusts in himself he trusts in his riches he trusts in his own goodness
and it's because of his pride that he won't serve god
it's because of his pride that he thinks he's
done it for himself he's made it for himself well look how intelligent i am
oh god's the one that gave you that intelligence buddy
god's the one that gave you that wisdom go if you go to second corinthians
chapter 12 second corinthians chapter 12
pride is a wicked evil sin that ultimately has consequences and and
here's the first consequence of being prideful
it's going to make you a fool you're going to be dumb you're going to be
you're going to become stupid when you are lifted up with pride
now it's it's kind of interesting that typically the people that become very
proud have a lot of just intelligence like
they're usually quote-unquote book smart or they have a
lot of wisdom of this world but then because of that little bit of
extra wisdom they have or intelligence it ends up making them a complete fool
a complete moron and reality okay and you can actually become the
dumbest person on the planet because of your pride if you look at
the atheists of today they are literally the dumbest people on
the planet i mean they reject everything that has been made by god i
mean they just look at everything and they think that it came from
nothing i mean that's the smartest people on our planet i mean the smartest
people on our planet can't even figure out a woman is what a man is
two plus two equals four i mean really you and you're going to tell me oh
you're just not enlightened no i'm just not prideful
i used to accept what the bible says i don't care what i think
i don't care what i've been told this is true
this is right oh how can you just believe the bible
because it's right because it's true and you know what then you get real wisdom
when you just accept the the word of god and of course it's not a
blind wisdom because whenever you actually just accept the
bible he'll just open up your mind and you'll just realize how everything in
the bible is just always right and true and you'll actually have real wisdom not
the wisdom of this world this fake and it's faint and it changes every
single week everything they can't instantly tell you that's true right now
it changes tomorrow but everything in this bible just keeps
staying the same now look at second corinthians chapter
number 12 and look at verse number six for though i would desire to glory i
shall not be a fool so notice when you glory about
yourself when you brag about yourself the bible
says you're being a fool why because pride inevitably causes you
to end up saying something about yourself about how
wonderful and great you are and then just makes you look stupid it
makes you look like an idiot when what happens when you can't back it up you
know this is like trash talking in sports right
they're like oh man i'm gonna school you oh man i'm gonna win
and then they just totally lose they totally just you know basically fail
and then it makes them look like a complete idiot like a complete moron
when they bragged about how much they were gonna win
so the apostle paul's saying hey even if i wanted to glory
being brag about myself i wouldn't do it because it'd make me look like a
complete idiot he says for i will say the truth
but now i forbear lest any man should think of me
above that which he seeeth me to be for that he heareth of me so it's wrong
to think of people more highly than they should be thought
of you know there is a certain level of
respect that certain people will command okay
there are certain levels of respect and glory that should be given
in this life but you don't want to start glorifying people above
where they should be glorified you know this is exemplified in the bible when
the apostles would go out they'd preach to certain people and they start bowing
down and worshiping them it's like whoa like it's it's okay to be
like thanks for getting me saved i'm so glad you're here you're a great
preacher but then they start bowing down and worshiping you as a god
whoa that's thinking about people above what they should be thought of
okay there's nothing wrong with thinking paul's a great christian there's nothing
wrong with thinking hey paul's an apostle there's nothing
wrong with thinking hey i really like paul he's the greatest preacher or
whatever but you know what it's wrong to deify
the apostle paul it's wrong to follow him in like a cult type manner
a cult type fashion and say you know what everything that he
eats i'm gonna eat and whatever whatever detergent he uses
for his clothes i'm gonna use that detergent
you know and whatever uh board game whatever restaurant whatever clothes he
wears i'm gonna wear those clothes it's like
that's weird okay and sometimes people do this to their idols
they'll idolize a celebrity they'll idolize a person in a position of power
and essentially just anything they say everything he does always right
always good they want to do it exactly the same way
and they end up turning that person into an idol
that's also wrong okay but the apostle paul is saying i'm not going to start
bragging about myself to then cause you to end up thinking
more highly of me than you ought to think
you know and that's obviously what people do this is what the celebrity's
goal is they start bragging about their accolades so that you'll believe they're
the greatest ever even if they're not even if they're not
the most wonderful and you start thinking of them as being somehow better
than they really are this happens constantly in sports
because the players will you know basically talk
about how great they are and they're the best
and then it just takes another good player to come and just destroy them
to humble them as it were okay go to james chap number four go to
james step number four point number one is this if you're
prideful you're going to end up being stupid you're going to look stupid
you're going to look like a fool you will become a fool
if you are prideful pride is going to make you look dumb
james chapter four look at verse six but he giveth more grace wherefore he
sayeth god resisteth the proud but giveth grace
unto the humble so god gives grace to one group
and resists another group does it say saved and unsaved here no no no
it says the proud and the humble and if you think about it in order to be saved
you have to humble yourself you have to admit you're a sinner you
have to admit that you deserve hell you have to admit that the only way to
get to heaven is through the work of jesus not of your works
and in that humbling moment god gives you grace if you never humble yourself
and you never think you you need anything you know donald trump like
i'd ask jesus to forgive me if i needed it
i'd ask him to forgive my sin if i ever thought i needed to do that it's like
he has to humble himself in order to get saved
and you know what god willing he would you know but sometimes god is the humble
people in a major way for them to end up realizing i need to
humble myself a little bit here you know and of course you know how
could donald trump not get humbled when he's basically been just kind of
discarded and and ridiculed and cheated and all this
stuff how does he not realize you know maybe
he wasn't such a prideful jerk and maybe if he actually was humble and
realized i need to trust the lord and his
commandments and ask the lord to help me then maybe
our nation wouldn't be turning down the toilet
you know if he's you know he's he sometimes talks positively about the
lord jesus christ and talks positively about the bible
but he doesn't actually have any real trust in the lord and because he doesn't
have trust in the lord god's gonna make him look like an idiot
god's gonna make him look like a complete fool he lost to joe biden in
an election now whether that was rigged or not he
still lost right how does that make you look
better think about it right you're the you're
the top person in the entire country and you believe that the person cheated
and you couldn't do anything about it that just makes you look like a bigger
idiot in my opinion i mean oh it's just a
complete fraud and a just a sham and i'm just gonna
let it happen anyways i mean if you truly believe i mean if i
said hey i'm getting tossed out and the next guy
is a wolf an unsaved false prophet but there's nothing i can do
see you guys later i mean what would that make me look like
a complete idiot a complete fool you know why would you fight
why wouldn't you do something about it why wouldn't it be your life on the line
you know if you really believe those things no he just doesn't want to get
embarrassed anymore he's just interested in himself
and because of his own pride he ends up just looking like a complete idiot
and a complete fool no one no one really likes him no one really cares
they would diss all the republicans that are supporting him now are just
afraid of him they would discard him tomorrow if they
could they just know that they can't right
now okay but you know when you're like that like
Nebuchadnezzar as soon as you start eating grass
they're going to discard you like a bad habit
that you are okay they'll get rid of you as soon as they realize you don't have
any more power because nobody really likes the guy on
a personal level and no one likes prideful people on a
personal level they like the goat as it were they like
the greatest basketball player the greatest football player whoever it is
while they're on top but as soon as they stop being good
they're going to be discarded like the trash that they are nobody really cares
nobody really likes them nobody really wants to be around them you know i don't
like being around prideful people i like being around humble people
people are not constantly congratulating themselves and talking about how
wonderful they are i like being around people that aren't
interested in that and if they end up bringing up anyone
it's going to be someone else that they're going to end up praising and
glorifying go go to first timothy chapter number
six go to first timothy chapter number six
point one you're going to be a fool you're prideful
first timothy chapter six look at verse one let as many servants as are under
the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor that the name of god and
his doctrine be not blaspheme and they that have believing masters
let them not despise them because they are brethren but rather do them service
because they are faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit these things
teach and exhort if any man teach otherwise and consent
not to wholesome words even the words of our lord jesus christ
into the doctrine which is according to godliness
he is proud notice this knowing nothing now if you said this person knows
absolutely nothing what would you call them stupid a fool a moron right so it's
saying the person that's proud the one that's resisting the bible
he doesn't know anything whatsoever knowing nothing and notice what they do
but doting about questions and strikes of words they bring up strife
and all this doubting and all these stupid questions that they bring up
all these stupid ideas that they bring up they have envy
strife railings and evil surmisings what is that they just dream up evil
they just project evil onto situations that shouldn't even have it
perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute the truth
supposing that gain is godliness from such withdrawal thyself
so there's a group of people that they're just so prideful
they can't adhere what the bible says and they end up just looking like a
complete idiot and they just end up spewing all of
their nonsense to everyone else now this could be
you know explained a lot of different ways we could look at a lot of different
situations but i have a real specific situation i want to bring up
and and kind of expose this evening but look at another verse here look at
chapter one and look at verse number five
first timothy chapter one verse five now the end of the commandment is charity
out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and a faith unfeigned
from which some having swerved have turned aside into vain jangling
desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say
nor where have they affirmed so the bible says that there's some people
they just have this just so they just have to be a teacher
they have to be a preacher they just have to be the person that's in charge
they have to be the instructor and they end up just twisting the bible to their
own convenience because they essentially it's not
saying what they want it to say it's not saying what they need it to say
so they have to rest it and twist it because they just have that desire of
being a teacher more than caring what the bible has to
say and when you notice a person like this
you just know that they're bad now it doesn't matter how bad they are you just
know they're bad and it's someone you want to stay away from
okay now there's a couple guys that when i think of the word pride i
always think of and and it's because i know them on a
personal level i went to church with these two
individuals for a long period of time and i noticed them being prideful every
time i was around them in fact from a personal level i've never
met anybody more prideful than these people
okay and that's just my own personal opinion
but these two individuals were really active
and in the church i was going to is when i was going to faith ward baptist church
and i tried my my best to give them just you know loving brotherly correction on
a regular basis just saying you know trying to help them just realize like
you're wrong they never receive correction well
never never would take it correctly they were never wrong
they were never and i look i'm not always right okay
so it's not like just because i have a personal opinion or personal idea that
i'm always right but if someone's constantly giving you
correction or constantly giving you instruction
and you're never wrong that's scary that's possibly a problem okay and
these two individuals they would go soul winning all the time
they went to every church service so on the surface and they go to a new ifb
church on the surface seems like they're
checking all the boxes but here's the thing
if you're proud if you're prideful i don't care how many of those boxes
you're charged you're checking god is not pleased with you okay and
it's not somebody i want to be around and it's not somebody i want to learn
the bible from i don't want to learn the bible from
anyone that's proud because to me you already know nothing
that's what the bible said when you're when you're struck you're
resting with the scriptures or resting with the bible
you don't know anything these two uh men were young they were not married
so i was trying to give them some grace but
in areas where i'm just no i'm a hundred percent right
and i try to help them they would still just resist and reject me
and i'm going to give you a couple examples and i'll bring up
something but specifically i'll give you one
so i preached on the tokens of virginity in the bible
talked about you know what the bible has to say about that and afterwards these
two gentlemen came up to me and they said oh i don't think you're right on
the tokens of virginity no you know the tokens of virginity is
it's a cloth that the father would put under his daughter
her whole life every single day of her life every single night
she had to sleep on this cloth and it would have no blood on it
and then that would prove that she was a virgin on her wedding night
and i was just like you're you're not right
for lots of reasons like so many reasons plus let's just think about that logic
how do you even know that the father didn't just buy a cloth
the the day before the wedding and just say like here's the here was the cloth
you know and kind of like pull the inhabitants of gibbia
where they kind of like have these old cast clouts and you know they're like
acting like they've traveled a really far distance or something like
oh here's my daughters you know that's stupid on
so many levels it also is just ignorant of female anatomy in the sense that
something happens at puberty for you know a long period of time until
menopause that would totally run that idea okay
and then on top of that i said look i just know you're wrong
because there's a part of the female body that causes the tokens of virginity
on the wedding night and it's not what you're thinking and
because you're not married i'm going to give you grace on this
but after explaining this to them they're still like no i think we're
right and it's just like how do you reason
with someone that's unreasonable you know and it's not like
you know doubtful disputations okay this is just facts this is just
anatomy science and reality okay and they just deny
science facts and reality in so many ways when i would try to instruct them
now after being in this church they ended up just
going to africa and they've been doing some quote-unquote missionary work
there for a long period of time and they've contacted a lot of people
that are in you know a church like ours or some of our friends churches
and a lot of people brought them up to me on a regular basis
and i usually just bite my tongue you know because i don't i didn't really
know uh what to think entirely i had my own
personal convictions and opinions and i didn't want to support them in any way
and i've always felt that way it's not like that it changed
but it's come to light now they're sending these new letters out
to a lot of people and i got someone forwarded this to me
but they sent this like missionary letter to
basically give an update of what has been happening over in africa
and they're just asking all these people for money and i don't know who in my
church has been contacted by these individuals
but i just want to make it clear that you should have nothing to do with these
individuals okay and their names are john and jesse mcfail
john and jesse maybe you have i have no idea who they are well don't be
prideful okay that's what you're going to learn tonight all right
but i just want to make it abundantly clear now i have with me
in in person some of their letter and i'm not going to go through all of it
because it would take like 25 sermons or something it'd be
incredible but i just want to focus on a few aspects okay
and one of my friends pastor stephen anderson he
was uh their pastor for a long time he recently preached on this too
and i think he preached a great sermon you can listen to that it's definitely a
little bit different than what i'm going to be talking about this evening
but right now john and jesse they've been seeking for
for a while now to be ordained quote unquote and no one wants to ordain them
so they've now decided that ordination is not biblical
and it makes me think of someone makes me think of someone like adam fannin
where it's just like he's seeking to be ordained to be a legitimate pastor
but as soon as he's told no one's going to ordain him it's like oh i don't need
to be ordained anymore i just let the congregation do it now
look i personally disagree with congregation ordination
i preach whole sermons on that these guys are going beyond congregation
ordination they're not saying like i believe in
congregation ordination now they're saying you can just be ordained
just because like just complete self-appointment
just self-ordination in every capacity you could imagine
okay not just like telling a group of people to ordain you
just saying you are ordained and basically condemning the idea of formal
ordination altogether and it's just complete
nonsense in this letter they said
the requirement of formal ordination is not a biblical teaching
they said there is no clear scripture or passage
indicating the necessity of formal ordination
there exists no biblical passage or verse
wherein there is a primary context commandment
that formal ordination is necessitated in order to plant or build churches and
where no law is there is no transgression
now this is this is such foolishness they look like complete idiots by saying
this nonsense okay but let's just take their logic and
apply it to other areas of our life now so we need an over-the-top extremely
clear statement from the bible to in order to believe it as doctrine
because then we could say well there is no commandment saying that men can't
wear skirts
right i mean where in the bible does it just say literally men can't wear skirts
it doesn't say that does it we have to actually extrapolate from the bible
that men are supposed to dress like men and women are supposed to dress like
women from deuteronomy 22 verse 5 right or
the opposite where does it say women you know wearing
pants it doesn't say that does it the bible
doesn't say that anywhere so of course people often say this
in this topic won't they they say well where does it say pants well it doesn't
bring up pants it doesn't bring up computer
it doesn't bring up trinity in fact the bible doesn't bring up the word bible
where in the bible does it say read the bible
i dare you to show me where the bible says read the bible as a commandment
it doesn't say the word bible okay that's stupid logic
that's foolish logic to then try and make this over the top
straw man argument that you dreamed up well the bible doesn't have an exact
statement like that because show show me where it says
anywhere it says read the bible
oh i guess that's wrong then to tell people that they should read the bible
right because we don't have that clear that clear instruction how about there's
not one passage in the bible that says you have to go to church more than once
a year
right i mean show me in the bible where it says i have to go to church more than
once a year right show me one passage that says
that my family by itself is not a church
right when we just go to our house we're a church you know at our house i mean
there's house churches so why is it that me and my wife and
children are not just a church why do i even need to show up here
why isn't just everybody a church show me one passage in the bible that says i
can't walk on water
i mean show me one peter walked on water what's stopping me right show me one
passage in the bible that says a five-year-old can't preach a sermon
tonight
show me one passage in the bible where a five-year-old girl can't do all the
baptisms for our church
show me one passage in the bible where we can't all be dressed in pajamas
tonight for church show me one passage in the
bible says we can't have church in a minivan
i mean this is that this is the exact same logic that they're applying
because of course there's litany of scripture
on ordination but does it say that you have to be ordained
formally to then plant a church yeah because i actually read the bible and i
came to that conclusion because it's logical okay because i
actually use the wisdom of god not this over the top nonsensical
argumentation that you would never apply anywhere else in the scripture
and anytime people bring up these type of arguments it's just kind of a
facepalm well where does the bible just say
literally it's like okay and then you start showing them verses and they're
like well does it literally say that and it's like well what do you want it
to say you know they'll get they'll be people
where it says that god created you know everything in six days well
where does it say that's 24 hours couldn't days there mean like ages or
thousands of years no you idiot it's days okay
i mean you have whole passages of the bible explaining the qualifications of
ordination yet there's nothing about the need for
ordination i mean what what do they need and of
course even if it said exactly what they said they dream up some other new phrase
and say oh we don't need ordination there either okay
this is complete nonsense and foolishness now they say oh
well of course people are going to go to verses like lay hands suddenly on no man
yeah and they're like and of course they're going to bring up passages that
say like you know in titus chapter one for this
cause left by me the increase that thou should have set in
order the things that are wanting and ordain elders in every city
i wonder why paul didn't tell titus hey fyi formal ordination is not biblical
but i do want you to do it why i mean how does that even make sense
how are you even reconciling and these people are scholars you know these
people really know the bible super well they become such a moron okay such a
fool here's another thing they said the clear
scriptures and passages teach that all male believers are qualified to teach
the word of god okay it says not female believers and
then it says a bunch of scriptures it says as much authority as a qualified
man has to preach the gospel so much authority does he have to build
and plant churches so he says every single man every single
person has complete authority to not just
preach the gospel not just preach the bible but also to
plant and build churches so here's my question why don't all you
guys just start churches
i mean what's stopping any believer from just going out and just having as many
churches i mean why doesn't we just say every one
of us just has a church at our own house right
i just don't even know how my wife's gonna then speak because the bible says
if she has a question she's supposed to ask at home but if home's church now
like is she allowed to speak or how does that work or
you know what's the point of assembling us together i mean all of you guys just
go plant churches build churches i mean every single person is just already
deputized already what's the point of first timothy chapter number three
who gets to decide who's the qualifications of a bishop anymore
why do you even have that why even leave titus
you know what's the point of leaving someone to ordain elders
if you don't even have to have a congregation do it you're just already
there i just already decided i all authority
i mean i wonder if there's a person in the bible that just
automatically assumes they have all authority hmm how about the devil
who just wants to go up to the sides of the north and wants to be like the most
high and just decide he has all authority who gave the devil authority
to be god no one he just dreams it up himself he just decides
it's like the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take council
together against the lord okay you're not supposed to just set
yourself up and appoint yourself and ordain yourself
you know they like to hide behind the word ordain but you know what the word
ordain means choose and they'll say we're not choosing
ourselves we're ordaining ourselves it's like
what no no this is not a self-appointment we're already ordained
okay well then who chose you
who decide it's all everybody just every man is just automatically
qualified to plant and build churches just period
but of course you know what this whole letter does it constantly tells you how
they meet all the qualifications to do it well i thought the qualification
according to you is just being a man just having the male privilege
apparently okay i guess everyone should just start a
church then according to john and jesse i mean why not now they bring up a bunch
of other just completely stupid nonsensical things
they say the requirement of formal ordination is not biblical nor
historic necessity okay so not only is it not biblical
we don't see this throughout history okay so there's many men of
god in the bible who certainly or likely were not
formally ordained that were instrumental founders builders of churches
okay so they're saying they're just all these guys in the bible that just
just planted all these churches and build all these churches they were not
ordained in any way and then he brings up akila ananias and
apollos
which again certainly where is the certainly coming from
okay and they did they just point to passages that say like there's a house
there's a church that's going on in akila and brazil's house
but here's the thing it's going to be easier for you to realize this what if
one of our church members had a giant house and was just letting us have
church in their house does that mean that they planted and
built that church or does this mean they're just allowing us to have
i mean when the disciples met in the upper room that was someone's house
oh is that person now the planter and the builder of that church
just because they're meeting in that location i mean is now the hampton in
the planter and builder of churches sorry i ruined that one
i mean how does that work that's nonsense
you know and ananias oh he wasn't he wasn't ordained yet god literally spoke
ananias and told him to go you know get paul saved
what do you call ordination you know and of course
yes some people in the bible don't have a human doing the ordination it's god
himself okay or it's an angel or it's jesus or
something like that but it's not that they weren't ordained
formally it's the sense that they didn't need a man on top of that
they already had god doing but they didn't just wander around moses wasn't
wandering around in the desert and saying like i'm going to liberate the
children of israel no the burning bush told him to do that
didn't it no gideon didn't decide on his own to go
and rescue the children of israel no the angel came and told him to do
that now every single man of god in the bible has the lord or has a prophet
coming unto them and then telling them what to do saul
didn't appoint himself king samuel appointed him king david didn't
appoint himself king samuel appointed david okay
it's there's no part how did aaron get appointed moses
okay every single person we're fighting in the bible is always ordained by
another man or by god or by an angel they're not
just randomly deciding one day after reading the bible i already i'm
already ordained and i didn't even know it
i didn't realize that i could just go and start churches and plant churches or
whatever so they bring up all this is nonsense
all kinds of just twisting of passages but then they make this statement and
talk about being a fool they say this in this context of
basically they you know it's not historic
there are many christians in history who did not receive a formal ordination
but did significant spiritual works which regardless of whether they were
actually saved or not most baptists regularly regard with
honor such as ha ironside charles burgeon dl moody
so they say hey look we we can prove to you that
ordination is not biblical because unsaved people did really great
spiritual works in the past and and lots of baptists
think that they're great
how is that a good argument that's literally the dumbest argument
i've ever heard is to say unsaved people that weren't
ordained did great works ergo
we don't have to be ordained are we now going to say
that the mormon church is a great work i mean think about that lot let's apply
that logic right now i guess the pope did a great work
with the catholic cult i'm saying the catholic church so
therefore you know i mean joseph smith was not ordained
but he did a big work i mean 16 million mormons out there isn't there
i mean go to utah go to arizona you're going to run into mormons everywhere
they literally the mormons go to every country too
i mean if you think about it they're evangelizing literally every country
they're sending out missionaries they're separated
i mean they they're women dressed like women and they're men dressed like men
oh look at all the great spirits works in fact they sing a lot of the same hymns
that we sing they have the great mormon tabernacle
choir who cares if they're saved or not i know
who cares god
because you can't do anything that matters if you're not saved
go to john chapter 15 go to john chapter 15 what kind of nonsense is this
to say hey i know why we don't have to be ordained because other ordained
unsaved people did great works now let's just give them granted that
they were saved that's still a faulty logic
and okay show me all the fruit of charles spurgeon
and ironside and moody show me all the people that you run into that are saved
and on fire for god that came from them and here's another question why do we
even have to go to the past you know why they go to the past so
because you can't prove them wrong but if this logic were sound you would
find many people right now that you could
point to that you could say here's a guy not
ordained and look at how awesome he's doing
look at the great church that he built look at all the great works he's doing
look at all the people that is getting saved look at how god's blessing his
ministry i mean when you have seven billion people on the planet
you don't have a shortage of people on top of that you don't have a shortage of
unordained ministers it's called the pentecostals
it's called i mean just there's denominations all everywhere
that have unordained non-formally ordained ministers
i mean you can just go print off a certificate that says you're a pastor or
preacher or whatever from some bible college we have more
bible colleges than we've ever had more graduates from bible colleges not
getting formal ordination all kinds of minutes i mean think about
the youtube ministries there's all kinds of people that are
just like i'm pastor now there's this moron on tick tock he calls
himself the pastor from okay meaning like oklahoma and he always
makes videos against me and he calls himself a pastor and i
looked it up i was like okay what's this church
he doesn't even have a church he's just a traveling preacher
and calls himself pastor and i'm thinking like
how do you call yourself a pastor when you have no congregation
and look your reprobate following on tick tock is not a congregation
he's offended that i said the wmba is lame
it's like what i mean you can just call yourself whatever you want today can't
you men can call themselves women white
people can call themselves native american
i mean white people can call themselves black
just because they have like one 30-second black in their family
somewhere i mean they're literally closer to being
white than they are black but just because they're not like
dylan you know they're black or something you know
just because they're not so pale they they look like a
white t-shirt or something they'd actually show up in the camera or
something i don't know it's like this is nonsense today i mean you can't
chop stuff off and and attach to your body and then decide
that you're that i can't chop off a tree limb and attach
to my i'm a tree now but we got all these larpers and and all
these weird things everybody just thinks they can just decide what they are
you know i'm a dragon i'm a wizard i'm a whatever
you know the only thing that's not acceptable to be is a bible believing
christian is the son of god right john chapter 15
let's see what the bible has to say on this topic of all these great works from
unsaved people verse one i am the true vine and my
father is the husbandman every branch in me that beareth not
fruity taketh away and every branch that beareth fruity purges that that it may
bring forth more fruit now you're clean through the word which
i've spoken unto you abide in me and i in you as the branch cannot bear fruit
of itself except that abide in the vine no more
can you accept you bide in me i am the vine and ye are the branches
he that abideth in me and i and him the same bringeth forth much fruit
for without me he can do nothing how many works are unsaved people
doing none zero well did you see all the charities
they set up matter zero i mean have you ever read
first corinthians chapter 13 you could give all your goods to the
poor you could have your body to be burned
and if you don't have charity in your heart
you know what it's nothing and the bible said the end of the commandment is
charity out of a pure heart i don't care what kind of works
you're doing for god when you have the wrong heart it's meaningless
it's nonsensical for you to sit here and pontificate
about all your great wonderful works when you're filled with pride
now look if someone gets saved praise the lord it doesn't really matter
how you got saved but at the end of the day you know being proud being prideful
is going to ruin all the works you're doing for the lord jesus christ
and if you think that unsaved people are doing great spiritual works
you're a fool you look like a complete and total idiot
and obviously someone that doesn't know the bible even though you want to
brand yourself as that go to first timothy chapter three
i'm going to make these last two points very quickly
i could preach on this for a while okay first timothy chapter number
three if you're prideful not only will you look like a fool here's
another thing you're going to do is you're going to fall you're going to
fall pride goes before destruction and a
hottie spirit before fall okay first timothy chapter number three look
what it says in verse number six not a novice lest being lifted up with
pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil
notice that even a man that was qualified
to serve god if he's a little bit too young if he's a little too inexperienced
even though he meets all these other qualifications
he can just fall by that one thing just pride by itself can be a complete fall
and notice you fall into the condemnation of the devil
and the devil is going to do his will towards you
you know what being of a humble spirit is going to help you not
stumble and fall you know realizing that you can make mistakes realizing that
you're not perfect realizing you need other people realizing that you're
dependent on others that helps you not fall when you think
you can get on your own when you're good i mean the ultimate
picture is god right oh i don't need god i can take care of my finances god can
cause you to fall he can allow you to fall oh i don't need
to read the bible i'm smart enough god can make you fall oh i don't need x y
and z no you always need god otherwise you can
fall and when you get this prideful arrogant attitude where you think you've
arrived you think you've got it all figured out
when you're smarter than everybody else you're going to become the the dumbest
person in the room the most foolish person we should all be
willing to learn and grow and get better go if you would to hebrews
chapter 12 hebrews chapter number 12
so point one is when you're prideful you're going to be a fool
and you're going to fall and here's my last point you're going to fail
you're going to make fail okay and you're going to make fail hard
look at hebrews chapter number 12 look at verse 13
and make straight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of
the way but let it rather be healed follow
peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the lord
looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of god
so notice you can actually just completely fail in the bible
you have to be diligent and you know what you have to make sure that you're
not allowing yourself to get this pride in your heart
because no matter how good you are right now if you let pride seep in
you're going to end up being a fool you're going to fall and you're going to
ultimately fail you're going to fail because you just
came up with these stupid dumb ideas you know it's a success someone that
just humbly serves in their church and never gets any recognition
you know it's a failure to completely abandon the new testament church
and to have to write letters congratulating yourself to everybody
and telling them how everyone's wrong and you're right
and look these people are literally labeling me
my former pastor pastor stephen anderson has just complete morons and
fools and railers and just lewd fellows of the baser sort
for essentially just not liking them for thinking that they're prideful
for thinking that they're arrogant okay and i try to give people the benefit of
the doubt a lot of times but these men are literally the most prideful
people i've ever been around and they are lovers of themselves now
they have a warning for for those that don't agree with their statement already
this is what they said whatever one's position is on this
we pray you not be as one of the fools who will inevitably say jesse and john
have ordained themselves okay so you know there's going to be some
fools out there that claim that we've ordained themselves
even though previously they said every single man was already already ordained
automatically so i i don't know how you know they're not
ordained according to their logic said that is the very thing one cannot
say don't say it
we make no claim of formal ordination so how did we ordain ourselves
what the argument is that we have already ordained
and then it has this parenthesis okay through our local church oh sorry we are
already ordained through our local church we served in for
almost four years or at the very least we do not need to be ordained in a formal
way to plant and build churches so they say
hey we didn't ordain ourselves we were just automatically ordained by
just going to our previous church but we didn't ordain ourselves
it's like okay let's slow down what does the word ordain mean
choose someone has to choose who chose that you were ordained i
didn't pastor anderson didn't know when at that
church did so who decided that they were ordained
they decided they were ordained you know that's called self-ordination
because i'm not saying that every person that goes to a church is ordained
no one i know i've never heard of this doctrine my entire life
maybe it's out there i don't know probably there's some other weirder
that believes it but i've never heard this before that
every is automatically ordained to plant and build churches this is bizarre folks
and they're saying oh you are a fool he says away with this nonsense
that we are self-ordained and away with the blithering morons
who would try to slander us with such a railing accusation
why are they just so over the top on this already
because they know that's what everyone's gonna say and you know why everyone's
saying it because that's what you did you just
decided that you were already like why were you seeking for ordination
for this long and then all of a sudden you just realized after no one would
ordain you that it wasn't biblical this is called
doctrines of convenience my friend and you know why people come up with
doctrines of convenience right i already know that i'm ordained
why won't anyone else admit it why can't everyone else see it it's just
so obvious you know oh it's because i already am i
got to tell everybody else that i'm ordained
it's like why do you have to convince everybody else that you're so ordained
and you're just so you know there's no qualifications
needed but here's how qualified i am fyi it's it's so hypocrisy it's so much
hypocrisy and just inconsistent logic and just
makes you look like a fool makes you look you're gonna fall and
you're gonna fail and look stay away from self-ordained people
they're always bad it's just and it only gets worse and are we
gonna start believe i mean did they believe manly perry's doctrine
that judas got more people saved than all the other disciples
i mean now think about all the great works that judas did
you know that's proof that doesn't need to be ordained or whatever it's like
this is nonsense folks okay don't fall for this junk
if you are going to listen to the preacher you should check his
credibility not jefferson bethky the self-ordained
youtube prophet not the pastor from ok who has no
congregation not some evangelists in africa that just
decided he's an event no you need to go to a legit church
don't oh i just decided i'm gonna start a church now
you know i now i just i'm so convinced of the doctrine
i mean i i've never heard a more clear argument in my entire life now i'm gonna
go start a church well you're a bozo you're a fool you know
hebrews makes it clear that no man takes his appointment upon himself
okay no man's ordaining himself and choosing himself jesus didn't do it
oh jesus did no he didn't god the father appointed him
okay you show me the the great man that wasn't appointed in the bible
you know and of course their logic is show me where in the bible it says that
well show me in the bible it says that you're you can just
you're already ordained they don't have that either faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the word of god and they're not basing their doctrine on
clear scripture they're just trying to use straw man arguments to to pervert
people's mind don't give them money don't give them
effort don't give them energy stay away from these people and they
need to be marked and avoided and i've waited a long time to say this
years when i took over steadfast baptist church i had already marked them
and i marked them in private because to me i don't go around just trying to like
make everybody have a bad day or make people look bad but when you're
going to email everybody telling the whole world how great you are
be afraid that someone might knock you down a little bit
be afraid that someone might expose what you're really like let's go to prayer
thank you heavenly father for the word of god thank you for giving us
pastors and teachers and prophets and evangelists
so that we can have the work of the lord thank you for giving us the the local
church that we could come to and thank you for giving us a clear
ordained structure not just a free for all not just uh
johnny come lately i pray that we would all be leery of
these individuals we'd stay away from these individuals
we would recognize pride when we see it in others
but more importantly we'd recognize pride when we see it in ourselves
we wouldn't allow ourselves to get puffed up we wouldn't
judge ourselves with other people we wouldn't constantly compare ourselves
we wouldn't esteem ourselves above others but rather we'd have a lowly
humble approach and we'd allow other people to praise us
in due time in jesus name we pray amen
um song 296 follow on 296 follow on
song 296 follow on sing it out together down in the valley
with my savior i would go where the flowers are blooming and the
sweet waters flow everywhere he leads me i would follow
follow on walking in his footsteps till the crown
be one follow follow i would follow
jesus anywhere everywhere i would follow one
follow follow i would follow jesus everywhere he leads me i would follow
on down in the valley with my savior i
would go where the storms are sweeping and the
dark waters flow with his hand to lead me i will never
never fear danger cannot fright me if my lord is
near follow follow i would follow jesus
anywhere everywhere i would follow on
i would follow jesus everywhere he leads me i would follow
on down in the valley or upon the mountain steep
close beside my savior would my soul ever keep he will lead me safely in the
path that he has trod up to where they gather
on the hills of god follow follow i will follow jesus
everywhere anywhere i would follow on follow follow i would follow jesus
everywhere he leads me i would follow on god bless you are dismissed
thank you