handle the song number two glory to his name song number two should be easy to
find
again that's going to be song number two glory to his name and sing it all
together on the first
down at the cross where my savior died down where for cleansing from sin I
cried there to my heart was a blood applied glory to his name glory to his
name glory to his name there to my heart was the blood applied glory to his name
I am so wondrously saved from sin Jesus so sweetly abides within there at the
cross where he took me in glory to his name glory to his name
there to my heart was the blood applied glory to his name Oh precious fountain
that saves from sin I am so glad I have injured in there Jesus saves me and
keeps me clean glory to his name glory to his name
glory to his name there to my heart was a blood applied glory to his name on
the last come to this mountain so rich and sweet
cast I for soul at the Savior's feet lunge in today and be made complete
glory to his name glory to his name glory to his name
there to my heart was a blood apply glory to his name
amen great singing let's buy it short of prayer
you have any father we just thank you we could come here tonight to hear from you
and I just pray you'd speak to our hearts help us Lord to be open and
receptive to the words preached tonight and I pray you bless pastor Shelley that
you fill them with your Holy Spirit and help him to teach us your word we love
you father and we thank you for all you do is want to pray these things in Jesus
Christ's name amen next is gonna be song number three right next door Jesus paid
it all song number three song number three Jesus paid it all I hear the
Savior say thy strength indeed is small child of weakness watch and pray find in
me thine all in all Jesus paid it all to him I own sin had left a crimson stain
he washed it white as snow Lord now indeed I find thy power in thine alone
can change the lepers fought and melt the heart of stone Jesus paid it all
to him I owe sin had left a crimson stain he was did white as snow for
nothing good have I whereby thy grace to claim I'll wash my garments why in the
blood of Calvary's lamb Jesus paid it all to him I own sin had left a crimson
stain and when before the throne I stand in him complete Jesus died my soul to
save my lips I'll still repeat Jesus paid it all to him I own sin had left a
crimson stain he washed it white as snow amen great singing
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immediately following next Sunday evening service we'll be doing the Lord's
Supper so we'd like for you to participate if you can and I do that so
that way you'll come to evening service I'm sure I'm trying to help those
Easter only people show up at least one more service you know I'm just kidding
so that's pretty much all I have for announcements let's go ahead and go to
our third song
it's long number 12 all the short numbers the small numbers right yeah
it's gonna be song number 12 blessed Redeemer it's gonna be acapella on this
one so I need everybody to sing all right I'll start off in verse number one
up Calvary's Mountain one dreadful morn walk across my savior weary and worn
facing for sinners death on the cross honey my save him from endless longs
blessed Redeemer precious Redeemer seems now I see him on Calvary's tree
wounded and bleeding for sinners bleeding blind and unheeding dying for
me father forgive them the city pray even
blood passed away pray for sinners while in such woe no one but Jesus ever loved
so blessed Redeemer precious Redeemer seems now I see him on Calvary's tree
wounded and bleeding for sinners bleeding blind and unheeding dying for
me Oh Savior and friend how can my praises ever find in through years on
on heaven's shore my tongue shall praise him forever more
blessed Redeemer precious Redeemer seems now I see on Calvary's tree
wounded and bleeding for sinners bleeding
blind and unheeding dying for me amen gracing as the offering plates are
passed around please turn in your Bibles to Proverbs chapter 4 as always we'll
read the whole chapter starting in verse 1 Proverbs chapter 4 the Bible reads
in Proverbs chapter 4 hear ye children the instruction of a father and attend
to no understanding for I give you good doctrine forsake ye not my law for I was
my father's son tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother he taught me
also and said unto me let thine heart retain my words keep my commandments and
live get wisdom get understanding forget it not neither decline from the words of
my mouth forsake or not and she shall preserve thee love her and she shall keep
thee wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy
getting get understanding exalt her and she shall promote thee she shall bring
thee to honor when thou dost embrace her she shall give to thine head an ornament
of grace a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee here oh my son and
receive my sayings and the years of thy life shall be many I have taught thee in
the way of wisdom I have led thee in right paths when thou goest thy steps
shall not be straightened and when thou runnest thou shalt not stumble take past
hold of instruction let her not go keep her for she is thy life enter not into
the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men avoid it pass not
by it turn from it and pass away for they sleep not except they have done
mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall for they
eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence but the path of the
justice as the shining light that shineth more and more under the perfect
day the way of the wicked is as darkness they know not at what they
stumble my son attend to my words incline thine ear under my sayings let
them not depart from thine eyes keep them in the midst of thine heart for
they are life unto those that find them and health to wall their flesh keep thy
heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life put away from
thee a froward mouth and perverse lips put far from thee let thine eyes look
right on and let thine eyelids look straight before thee part of the path of
thy feet and let all thy ways be established turn not to the right hand
nor the to the left remove thy foot from evil
to serve you to the best of our ability and it is in Jesus name that I pray
amen man so we're in Proverbs chapter 4 and I want to look back at verse 14 the
Bible reads enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil
men avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away for they sleep not except
they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to
fall and the title my sermon this evening is this the goal of the wicked
the goal of the wicked now the Bible already told us it's very clear here in
this passage that the goal of the wicked is to cause some to fall they want
people to fall okay and really you know it's not like this is a one-time mention
the Bible in fact the entire scripture illustrates this point over and over and
over again where wicked people they will strive together in one goal and that is
to cause Christians to fall now of course we understand that the devil
being our adversary he does this to everyone because the devil doesn't want
people to get saved and the Bible makes it abundantly clear the devil is doing
everything he can to stop people from believing on the Lord Jesus Christ
people hearing the gospel you know he's the god of this world is blind to the
minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel should shine
unto them right so we understand the devil is attacking just the unsaved the
devil wants the unsaved and never hear the gospel and to never get saved but
once you get saved it's not like the devil then just says like okay I'm done
with this guy no no no no the devil wants you to fall even though you're
saved the devil wants you to be destroyed another way to word this is
the devil wants to drag you down okay and it's constantly happening in the
Bible where great men of God or ministers are constantly fighting with
the devil fighting with his ministers fighting with the wicked and the wicked
have one goal it's just to cause you to fall that's what their agenda is now let
me show you a couple examples let's go to Acts chapter number 23 for a moment
go to Acts chapter number 23 and we have it already clearly laid out for us from
the scripture that the goal of these people is just to cause you to fall and
you know point number one this evening is that you have to realize there's
someone out there that wants to just knock you down you know it's kind of
it's kind of difficult to fight against something that you're unaware of it's
kind of difficult to embrace yourself or something that you don't anticipate I
tried to use this analogy when I was talking with my wife but I said you know
if you don't know that it's windy outside you may not be ready for it when
you walk out right it may catch you off guard and of course while the wind isn't
so it's not so evil or wicked that it's just its goal is to knock you down it
certainly can and back where I used to live in the Amarillo Canyon area it's
literally one of the witty windiest cities in the United States and I have
to say that I grow I grew a very strong dissatisfaction towards wind that I have
a I don't have any appreciation towards when I some people like love the wind I
just detest it and the only reason I detest it is because literally every day
it felt like I was getting beat down by the wind when I lived there I love
playing golf and golf is a very outdoor activity and so I've had to fight
against the wind for such a long period long stretch of my life I just hate it
you know I just it just really bothers me it really frustrates me and the wind
can knock you down I mean it's just a reality that the wind is like a foe at
times you know the Bible pictures wind as being a foe often in the Word of God
it kind of pictures tribulation it pictures people having to fight against
the evil all the struggles that are out there in the world and you know the
wicked they like to blow a lot of wind on you in sense where they try to knock
you down there's an interesting correlation to wind in the Bible with
false doctrine you know there's there's there's men that want to cause you to
fall with every wind of doctrine okay they're cunning cunningly devised fables
okay or they're coming in they're trying to basically blow their their wicked
doctrine upon you and we could look at all through the scripture that's a
different sermon but I'm just trying to give you an idea here that there is a
foe that's out there so that's point one is we want to figure out that there's a
foe out there and sometimes you wouldn't even believe what the wicked will do
like what the wicked actually does in reality will sometimes boggle the mind
how they will devise some kind of wicked evil against God's people and often
they'll even use the tactics of this world or they'll you employ people of
this world to fight against you they'll trick people and try to use them against
you there's a lot of government agencies that the devil would love to use to
attack you you know you have institutions like the FBI you have
institutions like CPS you have institutions like the local law
enforcement where the devil is constantly trying to use them to attack
you I mean think about it how did the devil kill Jesus through the hands of
the Romans okay and while we don't have a Roman law we don't have a Roman rule
we don't have a Caesar and those kind of things you know I always picture the
Roman soldiers in the Bible as being police officers okay now sometimes the
police officers are used for good in the sense that the Roman soldiers actually
help God's people and a lot of times they don't they're kind of a neutral
party but they do the bidding of the devil often okay and in Acts chapter you
know 23 and kind of later in the scripture we see a lot of just struggles
that the Apostle Paul has with the Romans specifically but if you're a soul
winner I don't even have to remind you of this because you'll literally go out
soul-winning and then people will call in and act like you're a literal
criminal and tell you oh there's these guys they're coming harassing people you
know there's these people they're attacking people they're screaming at
people they're they're you know hurting children or they'll just make up all
these kinds of lies and exaggerations and they'll try to get the cops out
there to stop you from doing what preaching the gospel to cause you to
fall to cause you to be dragged down to cause something bad to happen to you why
because that's the goal of the wicked is to get you cast down now look at the
goal of these people Acts chapter 23 verse number 12 Paul's been put in jail
kind of he's in temporary holding and some wicked people devise a plan says in
verse number 12 and when it was day certain of the Jews banded together and
bound themselves under a curse saying that they would neither eat nor drink
till they had killed Paul now isn't that just a crazy I mean when you think about
it that's crazier than anything you could dream up a bunch of people saying
we're not even gonna eat we're not even gonna drink until we kill Paul I mean
talk about the vicious just I you know evil that's going on in these people's
mind the wickedness I mean they're so malevolent they're just so you know
based that they're just debased that they're just like we we can't even eat
we're so angry right now it kind of makes me think of our previous verse
where it says they can't even sleep right it's like we won't sleep we won't
eat we won't drink I mean our goal in life is to kill I mean this becomes the
major thought the major purpose in your life when you can't even eat or drink I
mean if I gave you any task and I said you can't eat or drink until you finish
this one that's gonna come number one real quick okay I mean you're gonna want
to get that thing done okay so notice that the goal of the wicked is what to
cause Paul to fall and we're not talking about just hit him trip we're not even
going to jail he's already in jail they want him dead and I'll tell you there
are wicked evil people in this world right now that they want Christians to
die and they're willing to go to all manner of links all manner of sacrifice
you know it's kind of sad to me when I think about it I'm like look how
dedicated these people are and then you have people they wouldn't go to church
it's like these people are willing to give up literal food and drink and put
themselves under a curse to get their mission accomplished whereas Christians
today I mean they'll just quit serving God you know for any reason I mean I'm
thinking like we should be more dedicated than these people I mean when
you look at the Mormons today doesn't it kind of make it a reproach on the most
Baptist today that the Mormons who have a false gospel are going out and
preaching the gospel more than Baptist the Jehovah's Witness are willing to be
looked like more of an idiot and more of a cult following than Baptist because
they go out there with their stupid Bible version with their false doctrines
going around peddling their nonsense and they don't even get anybody saved I mean
they basically just fail consistently they're like ray comfort soul winning
you know it's like what are you gonna do that you know what do we have a Bible
study what do we have a Bible study it's like never your go away you know no one
likes you in fact that's typically what I get when I go out door knocking they're
like oh you're Baptist at first they're really angry because they thought I was
like a Mormon a Jehovah's Witness or some kind of a cult leader or something
and then they finally realize you're like a normal person they're like okay
but look at the dedication of the devil look at the debt the dedication of his
ministers look at the dedication of the wicked today where they're literally
they're not even sleeping they're not even eating they're not even drinking
they want to get the devil's mission accomplished by causing people to fall
we should be more dedicated than that we should be more willing to get people
saved and go to church and read the Bible and to do that which is good and
show them what it's really like to be steadfast you know it's sad when we have
protesters that come to church more than some of our church members you know what
I mean and you say okay well what was the goal of those protesters to cause
people to stop coming to church you know even my wife knows that and I remember
there was someone that was struggling with that they don't go here but and
and they're like well I don't want to go if there's protesters and I'm like she's
like you're letting the devil win you're literally just letting them do
exactly what they're trying to do is it to cause somebody to fall now look at
verse 13 and they were more than 40 which had made this conspiracy that's a
lot of people I mean think about it if you had a group an online group of more
than 40 people and they're like whole purpose their whole mission is just to
cause you to die it just cause some evil to happen to you I mean they're
constantly conspiring and and planning all this evil and all this wicked and
you know what it happens on a regular basis go to Psalms chapter number 10 go
so I'm just trying to paint a picture for you point number one is real simple
the devil wants to knock you down and of course all of his ministers have the
same goal the goal of the wicked is to cause you to fall to drag you down to
get you to stop and some people would say you know well why who cares does it
really matter I mean this is the motivation of those 40 people wanting to
kill you really change the fact that they want to kill you I mean you're like
well it really sucks they want to kill me but they have a pretty good reason
no no it's like you didn't really don't really care right or like if I said hey
it's gonna be 50 mile-per-hour winds when you walk outside or 80 or a hundred
it doesn't really matter why it just matters that it's happening so that you
can what embrace yourself you can prepare yourself that you're not just
gonna walk outside willy-nilly but you're ready and anticipating that evil
that's about to befall you right it the motivation really doesn't matter for us
the goal of this sermon is just to help you realize there's people that are
actively trying to destroy you they're actively trying to get you to fall
they're actively trying to drag you down and I think sometimes you feel like man
it just feels like a constant fight yeah it's just life you know just imagine
you're living in Amarillo okay living in Amarillo physically is like what it's
like spiritually it's just windy every day and it literally sucks I mean it's
not that much fun but you know what in the world you can move but here you
can't okay and of course if you want to not have wind you can just stay inside
you could just hide and of course that's what some Christians do they don't want
to face the wind they don't want to face the foe so they just hide they just go
inside where they feel like there's no wind but let me tell you something the
devil will still find you inside and of course that's his old goal anyways just
to keep you out just keep you out of going out and fighting just to keep you
knocked down just to keep you in bed keep you doing absolutely nothing for
the Lord because he knows that we're able to reproduce we're able to multiply
so he's got a constant try to knock us down to stop us from gaining traction
getting more people saved and his ministers are gonna do his bidding look
how wicked they are Psalms chapter 10 verse 2 the wicked and his pride doth
persecute the poor let them be taken of the vices that they have imagined notice
that you know it's not good enough for a rich people to just be rich they then
also have to take money from poor people too and you know David recognized as
being a really wicked thing because Nathan came up to him with a parable and
he's like hey this rich guy has all these lambs and then he just takes the
one this one guy's one lamb and he's like it's like his daughter you know
this guy's a little weird but you know he likes his lamb all right and he takes
his one lamb and David said like let the guy die you know like kill him I mean he
thought it was really wicked thing and the wick of the day they're not content
having 50% of the wealth they need to take 55% and then 60% and then 70% and
then 75% you say what are you describing inflation okay so there you go
they want to inflate the dollar to the point where you and I have nothing and
it becomes a social credit score I mean you already have that you feel like
social credit score and I'm thinking like have you ever heard of a credit
score it already exists and you know that affects how you can buy and
purchase and your credit score also affects something the interest rate they
charge you how nice right I mean if you if they like you a lot then you don't
have to pay them as much money in an interest and usury and if they don't
like you if you're starting out they'll charge you even more and interest you're
getting the same product you're gonna do the same things with it but they're just
gonna charge you even more and more and more and you know you say well they're
gonna stop inflation but you know when it stops inflation higher interest rates
it's the one-two punch I mean it's just like it's just left jab of just
basically inflation just left jab left up and then the right hook that's coming
is in his interest rates and then they're just gonna constantly just keep
pounding you and look it's because the wicked just wants all of the money he
doesn't care oh you you have five dollars I want that too and that's what
the wicked are like the goal of the wicked is just to cause people to fall
take all of their money all of their goods just destroy them says in verse
three for the wicked boast of his harsh desire and blessed the covetous whom the
Lord abhorreth the wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek
after God God is not in all his thoughts his ways are always grievous
thy judgments are far above out of his sight as for all the his enemies he
puffed them he has said in his heart I shall not be moved for I shall never be
an adversity his mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud under his
tongue is mischief and vanity he sit at them the lurking places of the villages
and the secret places duth he murder the innocent his eyes are privily set
against the poor you know you know what these secret places where they're
murdering the innocent are called Planned Parenthood and of course they've
already demonstrated this fact Planned Parenthood's are always in the ghetto
they're always in the poor areas that they want to just literally murder the
innocent they want to literally murder minorities and and people that have less
money and they're constantly trying to destroy the poor and in fact they enjoy
it you know you read about some of these abortion doctors and they are just the
most evil satanic people on the planet they enjoy it they like it they have no
problem the fact that they're constantly murdering the innocent on a regular
basis and of course what is their goal their goal is to cause people to fall
they're literally like this conspiracy of people that just want to murder
people and you know it's a reality that we have to face if we keep reading he
says this he lieth and wait secretly as a lion in his den he lieth and wait to
catch the poor he doth catch the poor when he draw them into his net he
crouches and humble himself that the poor may fall by his strong ones notice
he wants the poor people to fall because why you can be poor and be greatly used
by God you can have no money and God greatly uses you you know it's not about
money in this world you know the Lord Jesus Christ didn't have anywhere to lay
his head and of course you know what the poor are great at getting saved you know
what abortion does it literally reduces the number of people we were gonna get
saved now of course we understand the babies go to heaven but I'm just saying
like we could add more people in our army we could add more people in our in
our armed forces the spiritual warfare that's going out there by getting these
people say even when we go in the ghetto when we go in the poor areas they're
more likely to get saved they're more likely to trust in the Lord they're more
likely to be a godly Christian it's hard to find a rich person that wants to
serve God not that it can't happen obviously it does but these poor people
are just victim of the wicked on a regular basis why well oftentimes people
are poor because they're stupid and I'm not saying that to shame somebody but
what I'm trying to say is it's just a fact why do people have lots of money
often because they're smarter than other people and sometimes that wisdom it's a
carnal wisdom it's a worldly wisdom doesn't mean that it's good necessarily
because a lot of the ways that people make money are wicked but you know it's
clever it's kind of like the unjust steward where he gets commended by his
Lord as being wise it some people like literally tried to tell me that story
like the guy's a good guy and I'm thinking like what are you talking about
the unjust stewards a good guy and and they're like yeah the guy committed him
I'm being wise and I'm thinking like okay just because he's smart in the
sense that he can figure out trick people he can steal things in a clever
way doesn't make him a good guy you know it basically be like watching a
movie and sometimes you do this you watch a movie it's about it's a heist
movie okay it's where the they're like bank robbers or they're gonna steal
something and you're like kind of rooting for them the whole time of the
movie you know oceans 11 right oceans 12 what's the what's the goal of these
movies is it gets you to kind of have this Stockholm syndrome where you
actually sympathize with these like bank robbers or casino robbers or whoever it
is in the movie you actually kind of like them stealing the money whereas
there's nothing honorable about stealing money but yet why did they end up
stealing money because they were smarter than the other people right they're more
clever than the other people okay and in this world it takes a certain level of
wisdom to make money to succeed and and oftentimes the people that aren't making
very much money they're foolish they're unlearned they're not skilled they don't
have as much wherewithal and there's nothing wrong with having that wisdom
because the Bible says that we're supposed to be wise as serpents but
here's the caveat we're supposed to be harmless as doves meaning that even
though you might know how to make money in this world you shouldn't necessarily
go to the links that the wicked do you should work hard in order to make money
not steal she and deceive whereas a lot of people they get ahead because of that
that's also why the rich don't want to get saved because there's wicked people
how do they get rich interest usury fraud holding back wages ripping people
off going back on their word filing bankruptcy to evade having to pay back
debts I mean all selling defective products insurance scams I mean look
there's so many ways that people make money but how do they do it they have to
be clever more clever than the system right they have to cheat the system they
have to steal they have to do wickedly and so when I'm talking about the poor
sometimes they're not as smart as the rich but that doesn't mean that they
can't still be greatly used by God and of course we're not talking about
spiritual wisdom because of course if you start studying the Bible he'll make
you wiser than any of them okay he'll give you the true wisdom that comes down
from above but because they're a little bit more foolish because they're a
little bit more gullible they're easy targets they're easy targets they just
they're kind of you get this like NPC thing going on okay and what is an NPC
it's a non playable character so whenever you go into a video game or
you're watching a movie or show it's kind of like the stand-ins it's kind of
like your extras in a movie they just kind of walk around aimlessly they have
no real purpose and it's kind of like that in a video game you have these
certain characters that are in the game just as filler you can't play them you
can't actually use them they really don't do anything all they do is they
just repeat the lines that they've been programmed to say and we live in a world
where it feels like there's a lot of people like that where it's just like
Ukraine flag you know I stand I stand with Ukraine I don't even know what it
is but I just you know is that a country or a planet is that I don't even know
but I stand with it you know give me that yellow and blue flag I don't even
know which way it stands you know I could put it upside down or you know
people just they don't even know what they're saying anymore and of course you
know even the rich I went I was in a nicer affluent eight neighborhood and I
see all these young 19 year old spoiled brats walk out of their nice brand-new
car and they have a Ukraine flag on and I'm thinking like man you guys are such
idiots but so it's not like only poor people can can be stupid it it's just
the fact that because they're oftentimes not as smart they're easy easier targets
and the dumber you are the less you know the less knowledge you have the easier
of a target you're gonna be there's so many people that want to get you to fall
just email scams alone phone call scams people I've even fallen victim of these
things myself I've gotten in trouble even in the workplace they send you
these emails trying to act like they're a good-hearted person and they're just
trying to scam you the whole time send you their information you know it's
really beneficial when you get an email to click and look at the actual email
itself rather than the title because they can title whatever they want and I
get emails all the time and it's like from Apple or Google or whatever and
then you look at the actual email and it's like John three seven nine four
five five six seven eight door Cree house car you know at gmail or everything
like that's not Apple okay and they're like you just got logged out of your
account click here to log back in we just noticed fraud in your account hurry
log in to make sure that there's no fraud on your account and what are they
trying to do you click on it and it pops up a screen that looks like an Apple
website looks like a Google website and they're asking for username and password
as soon as you enter it they now have your username and password and then
they'll log into your real account and take it all over hijack it they want to
get your credit card information they want to get your social security number
they want to get you all these these things and people constantly calling you
you know the elderly often fall for this where they call them and they say hey we
noticed suspicious activity on your card will you please you know read us back
the the last few digits on your card we want to make sure you still have it
what's your social hey will you wire us $5,000 and it unfortunately works you
know my grandfather was a victim of one of these wicked people my grandfather
had someone call him and they they pretended to be my brother and my
brother didn't you know and me didn't talk to our grandpa on a regular basis
necessarily so I guess he couldn't necessarily distinguish the voice I
don't know if it was like Gupta hopefully not he didn't fall for that
but there he's like I am your brother you know I am good I'm your grandson
but it was basically this guy calls my grandfather says hey I'm Greg I'm in
jail in Mexico and he's like I they took my wallet they took my goods
they're not letting me out I'm sorry this is really embarrassing and I'm
really ashamed please don't tell anybody don't tell you know my wife don't tell
dad don't tell anybody but can you just wire me $5,000 to get me out of Mexico
and then they'll do it you know they'll literally take advantage of the elderly
they'll take advantage of people of their goodness of their sincerity why
because they didn't realize that exists what is point one realizing wicked
people want to destroy you on a regular basis and they want to take your money
they want to murder your children they want to take all your goods I mean the
wicked are not trying to stop from hurting you and harming you on a regular
basis you have to constantly fight against this wind you have to
constantly fight against the evil you have to constantly fight against the
wicked because the goal of the wicked has caused you to fall now I like this
verse because it it's kind of our response but look at verse 15 break thou
the arm of the wicked and the evil man seek out his wickedness till they'll
find none some people don't like this verse but I love the Bible so you know
it doesn't offend me when we rejoice over the destruction of the wicked
because you know if you said hey what do you want to happen to those guys that
ripped your grandfather off for their arm to get broken why would I not I mean
how could you how could you not want that kind of you I mean these people are
taking elderlies people's life sayings savings destroying their lives giving
them all kinds of grief and sorrow these people are complete scumbags these
people are complete just evil wicked reprobate type people and yes wicked
evil reprobate people exist my friend Oh love your enemy look yeah that's a
verse in the Bible but you realize this verses in the Bible to break down the
arm of the wicked okay there are certain people that should just literally be
destroyed go to Matthew chapter 13 go to math chapter 13 I don't want you to be
ignorant and you know of course I think our church does a really good job on
this maybe I'm preaching to the choir this this evening but I think sometimes
we need a reminder that the wicked are not going to sleep the wicked are going
to constantly try to hurt you you know that's that's the one thing that makes
it frustrating is it's like we go to bed we actually rest they don't rest they
just keep fighting you they just keep attacking you Matthew 13 look at verse
24 another parable put a fourth under them saying the kingdom heaven is
like in a man which sowed good seed in his field but while men slept his enemy
came and so tears amongst among the wheat and went his way notice when they
did it when everybody else is sleeping why aren't they sleeping because they
can't sleep until they've caused someone to fall until they've sowed some kind of
a tear in the wheat this is their way of reproducing which they can't technically
reproduce they recruit and they damage and they pervert you know the Bible says
the thief cometh not but for just steal to kill and destroy and these people
only come to do this go to Luke chapter number 10 go to Luke chapter 10 so point
number one is real simple there's people that want to knock you down that's the
goal of the wicked they want to cause you to fall they want to cause some to
fall but point two is this this helps you identify wicked people okay it's
kind of has an interesting relationship because we're we're first realizing the
purpose and the goal of these people but then when you realize the goal in the
purpose when you find someone that has that goal in that purpose now you can
realize that person's wicked now what did it say in Proverbs chapter number
four it said hey go not in the path of the wicked hey we're not supposed to be
around those people we're supposed to avoid them we're not supposed to pass by
it we're not supposed to talk with them we're not supposed to hang out with them
we're not supposed to redeem them we're not trying to get them saved you know
when I pray for their arm to be broken and for their teeth to be just you know
basically broken out break their teeth in their mouth Oh God I'm not hoping
that they get saved I'm hoping they get destroyed like the scum that they are
now of course the difference between me and them is that I'm not gonna do it I'm
gonna pray that it happens they're not gonna pray that happens they're gonna do
it they're gonna try to do it to God's people now look at Luke chapter number
10 look at verse 18 the Bible says and he said unto them I beheld Satan as
lightning fall from heaven now the Bible doesn't have this phrase but we often
hear it fallen angels right you probably heard that term where do you get that
concept we get it from that passages like this where it talks about the devil
falling okay now this is describing a particular event that's gonna happen go
to Revelation chapter 12 go to Revelation chapter number 12 where the
devil is gonna fall and in some ways you know the angels and his ministers the
fallen angels quote-unquote have already done their their deed they've already
kind of stumbled they've already kind of they've already sinned as the Bible
describes it which is another picture of falling but there's a great fall that's
gonna happen with the devil it's described in Revelation chapter number
12 look at verse 4 and his tail it's talking about the red dragon drew the
third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth and the
dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered for to deliver or
for to devour her child as soon as it was born so notice the Bible describes
the devil as having dragged a third of the stars with him of heaven which we
would symbolize to mean the angels the devil's literally convincing a third of
the angels to do what to fall with him why because the devil is not content
falling by himself he wants to drag others down with him and what is the
goal of the wicked it's to drag you down so when you find somebody dragging you
down or dragging others down that's their only goal that's their only
purpose let me tell you something they're wicked they're evil and this is
often how you can identify the infiltrators in our churches who have
you had to second Peter chapter number two go to second Peter chapter number
two when we think about people that have come and gone in our church you know
some people are normal like some people they come to the church and then just
for whatever reason they don't like it they just go to another church that's
normal that's what a normal person does what a normal person does not do is they
come to a church and they don't like it so they end up texting every single
person in the church why they should leave the church and then they start
making videos online of why you should leave the church on a regular basis and
they do literally everything they can humanly possibly do to destroy that
church that's not a normal person that's a wicked person and notice how
can you say that pastor Shelley because notice that their only goal is to drag
people down it's one thing to dislike a certain ministry or dislike a certain
minister but you're often going to do something you're going to point them to
something good you know if I say hey I don't like the Pentecostal Church I want
the Pentecostal Church to be destroyed I don't end there I say go to the Baptist
Church hey go to a good church get plugged in here hey instead of doing
blah blah you know preach the gospel in Spanish right I have a perfect
replacement for the speaking in tongues which is doesn't it's not a phrase in
your Bible to speak in other languages right and our ministry is constantly
encouraging people to preach the gospel and other things we literally have a
Spanish service dedicated to help people learn Spanish better right we literally
drag people down to Mexico to try and help them preach the gospel in Spanish
we literally made us a New Testament I mean it's so hard to even get New
Testaments anymore get a ring of their Gomez 2010 so we're like we'll print it
and we'll just hand it to you we'll give it to you for free we're not even saying
like give us 20 bucks you know I've never even sold a single Spanish Bible
yet to my recollection somebody asked for me what I here you go someone emails
us a hair church wants to go out just ship them some just give them some why
because we're not here to try and drag people down we're trying to edify them
we're trying to build them up hey a minister of God's trying to build people
up point them in the right direction whereas the minister of the devil only
wants to drag you down they don't have an alternative hey instead of going to
steadfast I'm gonna go to this other greater church this better church all
churches are bad listen to me you know come to my YouTube channel and listen to
me help you and learn from me and be like me that's what they want right
because they're just a wicked person now second Peter chapter number two warns in
verse one but there were false prophets also among the people even as there
should be false teachers among you who privately shall bring in damnable
heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves
swift destruction so when a false teacher comes into a church what's his
goal to bring in a damnable heresy what does a damnable heresy do it drags
people down into hell it's a doctrine that if someone believes they will go to
hell that's why we don't tolerate damnable heresy at all there's zero
tolerance policy for that you know somebody can believe something that's
not right and we'll tolerate it you know if someone thinks that the
tribulation is gonna be it basically you're gonna be raptured before the
tribulation well I think that's heresy and I think that's wrong I wouldn't stop
them from coming to my church I wouldn't stop them from going out preach the
gospel with us I wouldn't even necessarily not be their friend okay
they're stupid in the sense in that in that category right they're dumb they
have a bad view in the scriptures they're ignorant at best but I could
hang out with that person you know if someone thinks that Jesus isn't really
God in the flesh isn't a real person I'm not gonna hang out with that person
someone's gonna attack the deity of Jesus Christ if someone's gonna attach
anything other than faith alone to salvation I'm not gonna hang out with
that person I don't want anything to do with that person you know when someone
starts creeping in these damnable heresies we have to reject them we have
to get rid of those people and you go to Baptist churches and they don't even
deal with this you bring up verses like this and it's like when's the last time
y'all threw somebody out for this never look if you never throw anybody out for
this you have them in the church now we may even have them right now the only
reason I have them right now is because I don't know because if I knew I would
publicly throw you out right now and I don't mean like like in five minutes I
mean like right now I would just single you out and call your name out and
rebuke you as hard as I could and get you out physically so of course I want
to fight back of course there's a destruction that we hope for the wicked
but at the end of the day you know we also are pointing to good so we have
that balance whereas the wicked don't have this balance the wicked just
literally only want to destroy they only want to kill they only want to so
remember what he said the thief cometh not but were to still kill and destroy
that's their goal that's their modus operandi when you're around somebody and
all they want to do is just knock people down all they want to do is criticize
all they want to do is be against everything you're probably dealing with
one of these wicked people and of course you start seeing the warning signs don't
you and you can think the people that were like this they came into the church
what they think everybody's a reprobate and we're not talking like Joe Biden
we're talking about like people in the church they're just like I don't like
this guy's probably right where this guy's right right there it's just like
why do you think everybody's an evil reprobate project much because under the
pure all things are pure why is it that good-hearted people are constantly
getting tricked is because they project their pureness and goodness on other
people whereas the evil and the wicked they think everybody's bad you know they
think that every person is evil and it's really just telling of who they are
this is one of their warning signs look at verse 14 having eyes full of adultery
and that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls now if someone wants you
to fall what is it that you're doing before that standing it's hard to knock
someone over if they're stable right if they're standing strong it's hard to
knock them over but if you're kind of just kind of standing on one foot or
you're kind of unbalanced it's not that hard to just knock that person over
isn't it that's why the Bible is describing here that these wicked people
they want to find the people that aren't standing real strong and real tough they
want to find the person that's just kind of like wobbly kind of not really there
and they just want to knock that person down and I have seen consistently in the
last few years every single time when one of these wicked people get exposed
some of the people that they attack like the people they were attacking within
the church were always the people that are having the most problems they almost
never seem to attack the person that has everything going great stable family
situation they've been saved for decades they're doing great it's usually the
people that are struggling with the newer converts problems with their
family problems with their lives they're maybe in and out of church a little bit
they're not free to thrive already those are the people that the devil are going
after they're the easier target so they try to knock those people down and of
course I'm preaching to the choir you say why come to Sunday night well you
know coming to Sunday night makes you less vulnerable to the devil's attacks
because it's a lot harder to quit coming to three services a week than to one
because you have to have three excuses right you have to have not showed up
three times there had to be three lions in the way okay whereas if you're just
skipping Easter think about how easy that is you only have to miss one
service all year that would be really easy right to get knocked down the
person that doesn't know the Bible it's really easy to get led astray with false
doctrine isn't it the person that has a bad relationship or they have bad family
situations or they're going through evil or struggle it's so much easier for them
to get knocked down that's why it's important establish yourself in the Word
of God establish yourself by going to church strengthen yourself and to stand
against these evil people and when you notice someone constantly trying to
knock other people down that might be a wicked person that's kind of the warning
signs they should be going off in your head say stay away from this person go
to 1st Corinthians chapter number 10 now what would be another modern application
of this how about when Disney their executives have just recently got busted
for saying that they literally want to make as many of their characters faggots
okay and not queer faggots okay queer is strange it goes beyond strange a
disgusting filthy tranny sodomite dyke some kind of a faggoty queer they want
to just in fact one of the main producers executives was essentially
saying they want 50% of the characters to be like that you know why
because they want you to believe that 50% of people are that way not 3% 50%
and you know they've done polls where they're like how many people they're
homo and people like 20 30 40 50 percent because they're so brainwashed by the
media they're so brainwashed by television because the only TV shows
they watch are Queer Eye for the Straight Guy or whatever or they watch
you know Will and Grace or they watch Lucifer literally or they watch I mean
they watch all these TV shows and they always have these sodomite characters
these sodomite references all the men are weak and effeminate and queer and
sissy look it's a literal agenda my friend another one of the executives
said that her like main goal when they were working on these films was to just
try and make everything as queer as possible just every every opportunity
she had any character any scene any statement just as much as you could
possibly add into it why because you just want someone to fall look what is
the goal of Disney it's not even to make money anymore you know our our companies
in America have stopped trying to make money and it's all just agenda based
driven nonsense they're just trying to cause people to fall cause people to
stumble this stupid commercial came out for like Oreo cookies it has nothing to
do with Oreo cookies it's just like this Asian kid and it's like there's like
not really anybody talking it's like trying to like just a scene of this
Asian kid and he's just like depressed or something and they're about to hit
me like family and you don't even know what's going on it's really confusing
and then all of a sudden you just see this like statement and it's like well
she may be my mother but you're my son and it's just all this innuendo all this
subtleness I know who's subtle oh yeah the devil and then they show up and then
they finally just tell you what the whole thing was about because all
things like the most confusing commercial ever it says coming out has
to happen more than once and it's just like this disgusting faggot is basically
having to have a reunion with grandma or something and grandma doesn't like
faggots so of course he's having to face the persecution of being a disgusting
filthy abominable freak I wonder why people don't like you and of course it's
Asian people why because Asians don't like fags all right so of course they
have to show you know grandma doesn't like sodomites because she's not
brainwashed by the television you know why older people don't like faggots
because they didn't watch all the TV growing up they didn't have TV and the
only TV show they watch was the 1960s movie boys beware from the LA Police
Department saying hey they're sick in the head hey beware of these freaks they
said hey if you see one going in the bathroom don't go in the bathroom you
know now they say hey they can use whatever bathroom they want and it's
like as soon as you use the bathroom it should be like just burn it I don't
there's probably needles and AIDS and HIV all over that bathroom now sick it's
sick with these dogs do it's sick with those and you say why would Oreos care
so much about Asian grandmas not hating faggots because they're wicked because
they just want to cause them to fall because they just want to constantly
plant it in your mind and constantly plant it in kids minds oh they're
normal they're normal we love them we love them we love them we love they're
normal they're normal it's cool it's fun don't be like these hate preachers don't
be like the pastor Shelley's of this world look at these evil mean people
these mean-spirited people are they're so angry right isn't that I want to
paint us they want to paint pastor show is the angriest person you've ever met
the meanest person you've ever met the most violent I mean just a predator you
know and it's like come with this cute cuddly little you know Fido he's he's so
kind and he's so sweet and he's so nice no he's a faggot and what he'll do is as
soon as you get around the corner he'll molest you uncle diddles I mean they are
literally like this you know and of course they want to cause you to say
like oh we can't not invite over uncle diddles yes you can well we got to go
to the family reunion and uncle diddles we be there well I'm not going to be
there I mean it makes no sense what if I said hey here there's a pack of
pedophiles child molesters over here we're gonna go hang out with them for a
little bit that makes no sense just put the two and two together faggot
pedophile fag pedophile same person same human if we could just look it
seems like if we could just get Republicans and conservatives to realize
these are some synonyms same word you know we need that meme that like office
meme where it has Pam Beasley and has the two windows and it says tell me the
difference between these pictures and it's faggots and pedophiles it's the
same picture it's the same person oh you're you just you're so hateful no I'm
just telling you the truth and of course they don't want to actually combat that
they don't want actually they just they basically just want to shut you up they
just want to shut you down cause you to be labeled as this hate preacher well
let me tell you something yeah I do hate pedophiles there I said it ooh you hate
you hate child molesters yeah I do yeah I hate people that molest children and
murder the innocent and cause people to fall you know you know what what do you
want them to happen to them their arm to be broken and their mouth to be just
kicked curb checked break their teeth in their mouth Oh God
have them bite a curb and curb check them you know now let me put in a little
caveat I'm of course never advocating for violence towards any person I would
never do this our church would never do this okay I'm just hoping it happens by
God sending someone more wicked than them to do that to them now of course
you say well it sounds like you would be excited if it happened well that's true
of course I would you know these people are the biggest hypocrites ever because
they they get so excited about the idea of anything negative happening to me how
is that fair how is it fair that they could literally wish for me my whole
family to die in the most gruesome way imaginable and they say how excited they
would be but then I say well I hope that you guys get destroyed by the Lord it's
like how dare you I hope you die a horrible death it's like what and and
they get mad at you for wishing anybody to hell I mean I got a text from that
faggot you know loving queer bait leasing agent Jake Burns who sent me a
text message basically say you're a false prophet and your wife's fat and
I'm gonna be so glad that you guys are going to hell and I'm thinking like why
is it that you're mad at me because I say there's people that are gonna go to
hell and I'm not sad about it so then you're gonna tell me that you're not sad
about the fact of me going to hell talk about hypocrisy oh you're so much more
of a moral person than me you wish people to go to hell and that you're
happy about it but then I say that and you freak out you know why they freak
out and I don't freak out because I'm going to heaven and they're going to
hell and they know that they know that's the truth they know that's the reality
that's why it irks them so much you know why does it irk women when you dress
feminine because they know that's how they should dress they're not sitting
here just like I can't believe you wear you know dresses and skirt you know
they're not like offended for you they're not like oh you poor dear no
they know that they look like a dude and they wish they looked feminine because
if it was some weird garment though you know our church believe women should
wear like a green bonnet or something okay like you have to wear or this like
funny hat that the Jews have to wear or something right or you had to wear wear
some kind of like the phylacteries like we're strapping things to our arms we're
strapping Bibles to our heads or something like that literally they
wouldn't they wouldn't sit there and get so offended they'd be like you're weird
you know like that's bizarre they wouldn't feel judged they wouldn't feel
like they're you know having all these issues you know why they feel judged
because they look like a dude or they're naked and you're dressed like a modest
godly person and it hurts their heart because they know the law of God is true
go to the first Corinthians chapter 10 go to first Corinthians chapter 10 look
point one is this the devil wants to knock you down and he'll do it any way
you can Disney Oreos I mean what what other government paid institutions want
to knock you down I mean the FBI CPS CPS wants to steal children from from
parents sometimes you know there's just all kinds of ways the devil can try to
kill you can destroy you can affect your finances can affect your family and he's
trying to get all he's just a shotgun approach just all of it just every
single thing he just wants to knock you down knock you down knock you down well
one thing that'll help the devil is if you're a prideful person about it look
at first Corinthians 10 verse 12 wherefore let him that think if he stand
to take heed lest he fall don't get this prideful arrogant attitude thinking like
oh I would never fall victim to this and and here's here's one of those
things is like well I know that Oreos and and Disney I know that they're
promoting all these sodomy characters but our family is so strong that I can
we can still watch all of that and it won't affect us that's pride that's
pride you know the Bible said to avoid them the Bible said to stay away from
them you know and if oh you don't watch Disney movies I stopped a long time ago
they already had a lot of perverted crap in there and in fact what is the goal of
every Disney film to fall in love notice emphasis on fall because always falling
for the wrong person Aladdin falling for some whore named
Jasmine okay it's not the name that's bad okay sorry but she's dressed like a
whore she's not drunk she's dressed like a dude she's got pants on and a bra I
mean what self-respecting man will let his daughter wear pants and a bra out as
her outfit Aladdin a whole new world you thought that song was about having fun
no they were literally mocking you about what the world's gonna turn into they
were mocking you about what the world's gonna be like where they have girls
looking like dudes and dudes looking like girls Miss Doubtfire right where
you mock I mean some of the lines of this movie are wicked you know he shows
up at the door of his like cousin or whatever his uncle or something and he's
like make me a woman and you know what the line is from the next guy that makes
me so happy and of course what are they doing they're putting sodomite and you
into in there because we know that that Robin Williams character has innocent
intentions with that in the sense that he's not wanting to be a disgusting
filthy sodomite faggot but of course what are they trying to do they're
trying to plant that idea in there they're trying to say like oh if someone
came out as a disgusting tranny you should be happy for them rather than
saying like get away from me you freak never be around my show and then of
course what's the whole movie about putting him around children you think
that's a coincidence don't you you think the most it's such as an innocent film
getting dues to dress up like women to hang out with children that have been
divorced from their wife and in fact the movie doesn't even end good the movie
ends that divorce is okay I don't know he's seen the stupid we don't watch the
movie okay I'll just tell you about it but basically you know you're kind of
hoping that the mom and dad will reconcile and yet he can he can stop
being a disgusting like sodomite queer tranny or whatever but then the movie
ends and it's like nope they're not getting back together and divorce is a
reality and he continues being this sodomite tranny on television they're
like just laughing at us okay we're gonna put this tranny on television now
and of course everybody's just oh it's Robin Williams how dare you say
something negative about Robin Williams well he's bringing hell do you want to
go there with him I mean what's the point he's just trying to drag people
down with him and of course Robin Williams that's not the only movie like
that I think there's a movie called birdcage use in praise God I never saw
it but it's like a movie about disgusting trannies and faggots you
know and it used to be that lawyers wouldn't want to represent the sodomite
like in the movie Philadelphia with Tom Hanks but now they don't want to
represent the Bible believing pastor they flip the script and they're
laughing at us they're trying to knock us down but we should identify these
things and say these people are wicked and we need to humble ourselves so that
we can stand go if you would to second Peter chapter number one go to second
Peter chapter number one you know the Bible talks about the devil constantly
trying to get people to fall you know even a pastor if he's a novice he could
fall into the condemnation of the devil okay of course the devil wants to cause
people to fall into temptation and to a snare with what the love of money why is
it that what how is it that Oreos can literally make a commercial about Asian
grandma's not liking sodomites and still make money right like how does
that make any sense it's it's because people are so afraid to say anything
negative against it that they'll get canceled and so because of the love of
money they fall into the temptation they fall in the trap now they have to
embrace this junk
it's so weird my friend I mean I've been looking up a lot of churches recently
you know trying to figure out if we can get their building and I looked at their
doctrinal statement and you it just it blows my mind how many churches they'll
literally have on their website like we don't discriminate against people based
on their gender identity companies every company has this you know just the mom
and pop shop we're a Christian company but we want to make sure to let you know
we don't discriminate based on gender identity and I'm thinking like all I
wanted to eat was two chocolate cookies with Phil you know white filling in the
middle I don't want a political statement like why would anybody do
that look there's a serious agenda why do you preach against it well who else
is gonna do it Oreos isn't gonna do it the Disney movies aren't gonna do a
Hollywood's not gonna do it Joe Biden's not gonna do it Pete Buttigieg certainly
isn't gonna do it
who's gonna do it the public school now are any of the public school teachers
gonna do it no because they'll get fired how about the people you know what about
these companies nope they'll lose their customers they'll get canceled the
credit card companies will shut them down none of the corporations are gonna
do it how about college you and T's promoting the exact opposite my friend
who's gonna do it if the church doesn't do it you know and people get mad at
pastor Shelley it's like so you just want our world to literally turn into
Sodom and Gomorrah that's what you want
you say well why do you not want that to happen because I don't want everybody to
fall what happened at Sodom everybody fell it got to a point where everyone
was destroyed everyone was you know basically taking advantage of we need
some people to stand up and fight and to realize hey the goal of the wicked is to
get us to fall we have to resist him we have to fight against him we have to
realize that he's there we have to identify who he is and then we have to
stand okay second Peter chapter number one look at verse number ten
wherefore the rather brethren giving diligence to make your calling and
election sure for if you do these things ye shall never look at this word fall
now of course it has this long list of things that we're doing but we're
basically getting better as Christians we're adding you know virtue and we're
adding knowledge we're adding temperance we're adding patience we're
adding godliness you know I help you add patience every time I preach because
it's just so long but that'll help you not fall because you hear that 15
minute sermonette it'll just feel like nothing afterwards okay it's kind of
like food if you eat like big portions of food your stomach gets used to it it
stretches right to where you can handle big meal and then if you have a little
bit it just seems like a snack so it's like you know I want to get you so full
on hearing the Word of God being preached that you don't want to snack
okay you'd be disappointed all right that's how I motivate myself with okay
they want to hear a long sermon not you look at chapter 3 and look at verse 17
either for beloved seeing that you know these things before beware lest ye also
being led away with the air of the wicked fall from your own steadfastness
like the goal of this sermon is very simple there's someone that wants to
knock you down it's the devil and his minions right when we notice people that
are going around causing people to fall and stumble recognize them as the evil
wicked people that they are and and point three is this we need to stand
fast go to 1st Corinthians 6 I want to go one more place I'm sorry go to 1st
Corinthians 16 let's look at one more verse here we have to stand you know we
stand by grace you know in Romans chapter number five it says that we
were standing by grace I don't I don't stand because I'm so strong I don't
stand because I'm more righteous than another person I stand by the grace of
Jesus Christ I stand in his strength and in his might but at the end of the day
it does still take our effort to rest upon him to put into practice the Word
of God to be willing to face the foe you know most of the time if you study
the Bible when there's a battle there's only one element needed for them to have
victory they try that's it they don't have to be that so I mean you know what
what did David have to do to be victorious he just had to try the Lord
was going to be there to guide him the Lord is going to be the one to help that
rock just penetrate that that Goliath's head and cause him to fall okay you know
oftentimes it was just like hey just blow the trumpet just walk around the
city I mean is that that hard walk around Jericho a few times and then
we're gonna blow the trumpet and then all walls are just gonna fall down okay
Gideon's army it's like how we're gonna defeat this great multitude just show up
just show up just break the light you know the vessel covering the light just
blow the trumpet and we'll win hey just show up and God will just hit them with
hailstones just show up and God will fight them from the mulberry trees just
show up and God will do his work you know God will fight for you God will
deliver you God will be your strength just try well how am I gonna get someone
saved just show up well I don't know if I can do it just show up let the Lord
Jesus Christ be your strength let him be your mic you know I don't know how I'm
gonna you know fight off all the Oreos and the Disney and blah blah blah it's
just show up just be present just going to church or in your Bible just
resisting him is enough God can do his work but realize the devil wants to get
you to just stop the devil wants you to quit don't quit don't ever quit never
stop and as soon as you realize that you've quit in some area as soon as you
stumble get back up you say why sin this week we'll get back up well I fell this
week someone knocked me down get up and if you notice someone else fall pick
them up they'll stand over there just grab them by the shirt collar and rip
them up and say stand buddy just keep standing just keep being in the battle
that's all you have to do 1st Corinthians chapter number 16 look at
verse 13 watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong you
know it takes strength to keep serving God but we just keep doing it because
the goal of the wicked is to get you to fall so if you've fallen you've already
fallen victim of the devil he won the only way to have victory over the devil
just keep standing and you say well what happens if our church shrinks are you
standing then you won then you're victorious well I lost all my money but
are you still standing then you're victorious well no one likes me yeah but
are you still standing you're still victorious look as long as you didn't
fall you're still victorious we're supposed to stand fast in the faith quit
you like men meaning you shouldn't quit you should be like a man and just keep
fighting I saw the Masters is going on this week and I don't like this person
that much but you have to you have to at least give him some respect and the fact
that this one golfer he just doesn't want to quit his Tiger Woods okay now
the guy's wicked he's an adulterer but if there's something to praise about the
guy and don't go too far with this is like the unjust steward okay is he
doesn't give up I mean the guy his wife was beating him around with the golf
club he didn't give up you know publicly shamed didn't give up at golf you know
he used to be and it's probably got to be hard to be like the greatest golfer
ever and then come back and not be that great to kind of like struggle a little
bit but he did it anyways then he had knee or knee injuries he had to go back
at surgery now he's still fighting he was in a car accident I think his car
literally like went off a cliff and he had like all kinds of surgeries and all
kinds of things but he's still out there and he's been in a lot of interviews and
they just said what do you want people to think about when they think about
Tiger Woods playing golf and he's just like just to never give up on your
dreams and never quit and isn't it sad that the world understands that point
but Christians don't sometimes isn't it sad that the wicked are willing not to
to eat sleep or drink they won't give up trying to destroy we need to be the same
way people need to look at steadfast Baptist Church and in five years from
now ten years from now 20 years from now they say man those people won't quit
pastor Shelley won't quit as the lawyer famously said in our eviction trial he
said the pastor said all these comments and I'm thoroughly convinced he's not
gonna stop and I'm thinking like good I'm glad you know yeah throw me in jail
I'm not gonna quit preaching that doctrine hey I still got it right here I
got the sodomite deception you know QR code right here you can take a picture
hey I'm gonna still fight I'm still gonna you know they're like oh man you
would think if we took all their money and we took all that we took their
building and we put pressure on them then they'd quit no never be ye
steadfast look you're gonna have to put a bullet in my head to quit get me to
quit and they may do that but guess what I would rather die standing than
lay down in the fetal position and hope for death you're gonna have to do your
best but you know what when you have God on your side you can overcome that wind
and one day there won't I think this is just my personal belief I think the
wind's gonna stop okay it says that he holds it's like there's no wind at some
point and I don't think he brings it back I hope not all right but even if he
does not my will but his will be done all right let's close in prayer Thank
You Heavenly Father for the Word of God thank you for warning us about the evil
that's out there I pray that we wouldn't be discouraged by a message like this
but rather we'd be emboldened and strengthened to want to stand against
the wiles of the devil to stand fast in the faith to quit us like men to be
steadfast and not to just say that not just to wear the shirt not to have the
bumper sticker but deep down in our hearts we want to have the same kind of
resolve that the wicked have in fact we want to go be up above that or above
beyond that and say you know what if they can commit themselves dedicate
their lives to evil and wickedness dedicate their lives to destruction we
ought to be willing to dedicate our lives to life dedicate our lives to
serving God dedicating our lives to protecting the innocent dedicating our
lives to doing that which is right and pleasing in your sight and I pray as we
go through the the stormy winds that we wouldn't get knocked down but rather we
would stand strong in your mind Jesus name we pray man all right let's go
ahead and sing one more song before you head home if you'll take out your hymnal
the song 24 and can it be that I should gain song 24 this is one of my favorite
hymns just on the chorus it says amazing love how can it be that thou my God
should die for me it's amazing thought just to realize the love that God has
for us that he would come and die for us so love singing the songs to really
think about it as we sing the chorus song number 24 sing it all together on
the first and can it be that I should gain an interest in the Savior's blood
died he for me who caused his pain for me who him to death
amazing love how can it be that that my god
could die for me amazing love how can it be that though my god should die for me
he left his father's throne above so free so in fan and his grace
and deed and self of all by love and bled for a dumb selfless race says mercy
all immense and free for oh my god it found out me amazing love how can it be
that though my god shows die for me long my in prison spirit lay fast
bounded in sin and nature's night thine I did use a quick being ray I woke the
dungeon flame with my chains fell off my heart was free I rose and follow me amazing
love how can it be that though my god should die for me amen great singing
thank y'all for coming god bless you are dismissed