- Good evening, everyone.
Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you could please find your seats and grab your hymnal.
We're gonna start out in song 192.
Ring the bells of heaven.
192, ring the bells of heaven.
Song 192, ring the bells of heaven.
♪ Ring the bells of heaven ♪
♪ This joy to dance ♪
♪ Oh, returning from the walls of heaven ♪
♪ Sun, soul of the glad triumphant ♪
♪ Strangled hearts and arms ♪
♪ And up in a word of prayer ♪
Father, thank you for this evening.
Thank you for everyone gathered here together.
Pray that you would help us to sing out
with love in our hearts for you this evening,
that you'd fill this room with the Holy Spirit,
and pray that you'd bless our pastors
he preaches to us this evening.
We love you, and in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, for our second song,
we'll go to song 22, "Are You Washed in the Blood?"
Song 22, "Are You Washed in the Blood?"
2-2, "Are You Washed in the Blood?"
♪ To us for the things we're doing ♪
Thank you so much for coming to St. Vast Baptist Church.
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If you did our memory challenge, Psalm 58 did not get your prize this morning.
Just see Brother Dylan and he can get you that prize.
So if you are here tonight and you didn't, you can go ahead and get that prize from Brother
Oz.
Also, we're starting a new Bible memory passage, Proverbs 31.
This is a great passage of scripture.
We kind of try to alternate between a shorter one and a longer one.
So this one's a little bit longer, but really a lot of great verses in this Proverbs.
So I really encourage you, especially right now, while you only have one verse to work
on and you're not behind, this is when you start, right?
Sometimes people, they're intimidated about memorizing scripture or memorizing large portions
of the Bible.
But honestly, if you work on the one verse every week, and if you mothers, you're teaching
your kids this verse every week throughout the week, often you kind of surprise yourself
by how much you can memorize over time.
So I'd really encourage you ladies to work on the Bible Memory Proverb and try to work
on that with your children and learn it yourself because there's a lot of great wisdom that
comes from this chapter of the Bible.
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We have several ladies who are expecting.
Please be in prayer for all of them.
Very exciting.
Upcoming events, we have the baby shower for the Zementos.
The details are down below.
We have our cookout that's coming up.
I think we ran out of flyers today, but we can order more and we'll have them by Wednesday
so you can still have a chance to hand those out religiously for the next week or so.
We might have some unfriendlies, but that's how it is.
You never can enjoy Texas 100% because you've got hornets and wasps and mosquitoes and all
that kind of stuff, right?
And scorpions, yeah, so you've just got to crush them.
That's just what you have to do in the promised land.
You have to knock out of the high-vites and the Canaanites and the Jebusites, you know?
Our conference is coming up.
Really looking forward to that.
Also we have the Texas chili cook-off emphasis on the word Texas there and chili, really,
if you just understand what the word chili means.
Unfortunately people just, they confuse words all the time.
And so also November 4th, it is Abilene Texas Sony Marathon.
In the back we have our prayer list, peace between prayer for our church family.
That's really all I have as far as announcements.
Let's go ahead and sing our Psalm 149, Psalm 149, right, Psalm 149.
It's being passed around.
Please turn in your Bibles to Hebrews 13, Hebrews chapter 13.
Hebrews chapter 13, the Bible reads, "Etherly love, continue.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them, and them which suffer adversity,
as being yourselves also in the body.
Marriage is honorable and all, and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers
God will judge.
Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as ye have.
For ye hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, so that we may boldly say,
The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God,
whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today and forever.
Be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines.
For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, which have not
profited them that have been occupied therein.
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high
priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without
the gate.
Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice to praise to God continually, that is the
fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.
But to do good and to communicate, forget not.
For with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves.
For they watch for your souls, as they that must give an account, that they may do it
with joy and not with grief.
For that is unprofitable for you.
Pray for us, for we trust we have a good conscience in all things, willing to live honestly.
But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great
shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect
in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his
sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever, amen.
And I beseech you brethren, suffer the word of exhortation, for I have written a letter
unto you in few words.
Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty, with whom if he come shortly I will
see you.
Salute all them that have the rule over you and all the saints.
They avidly salute you.
Grace be with you all, amen.
Let us pray.
Father, thank you so much for this wonderful chapter, and thank you for Steadfast Baptist
Church and Pastor Shelley and his family.
Lord, I pray the power of the Holy Spirit would rest upon Pastor Shelley this evening
and that you would give him the words to speak.
And Lord, I pray that you would just bless our church, put a hedge over our church.
And please, Lord, according to your will, use our church greatly to get the gospel out,
not only locally, but throughout the whole world.
And we ask these things in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
In Hebrews chapter 13 verse 8, the Bible says, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today,
and forever."
And this is kind of an iconic verse because it's usually broadly applied to everything.
And that's great.
That's fine.
I think that Hebrews chapter 13, the context is he gives a lot of just random admonishments
to the Hebrews, so it doesn't necessarily have just one application.
And I think the really overemphasized point is that the God of the Bible is the same.
And I think that's important to understand coming from the book of Hebrews, because he's
trying to transition those of Israel into the New Testament and helping them realize,
you know, we didn't change gods here.
It's the same God.
It's the same Lord Jesus Christ.
He's the same yesterday back in the Old Testament.
He's the same today, now at the beginning of the New Testament.
And He's the same when we get to the ends of Revelation.
We get to the very end of the future.
It's the same God.
It's the same Jesus Christ.
But there's this weird idea out there that sometimes you'll hear that the New Testament
God is nicer than the Old Testament God.
Who's heard this before?
Okay.
Alright, everybody.
Good.
So it's not a straw man that I'm preaching against tonight, but the title of my sermon
is this.
The New Testament God is nicer.
Okay?
Now, of course, I'm saying that a little bit facetiously because obviously I personally
believe, like the text says, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
But what I thought would be just kind of an interesting sermon would be let's just go
through the New Testament and see how nice God is, right?
Because all these people talk about how the New Testament God is just so much nicer,
but you know, when I think of the New Testament, I'm thinking like there's a lot of stuff
in there that's pretty gnarly.
Now go over to Genesis 19 to start, alright?
That's pretty much the only Old Testament I'm going to give you, but I do want to debunk
this idea of the Old Testament God being different than the New Testament God or something
like that that's really bizarre.
In Hebrews chapter 12, where we were right before, it said that our God is a consuming
fire.
Now what I think is really profitable about a sermon like this for us, not having been
been deceived by such a foolish idea, is just to get a little bit more awe and reverence
of God and realize He's someone to be feared, even in the New Testament.
We don't want to have this idea of God of the New Testament as being this softy or get
these weird ideas like God's never mad at you for any reason or God will never judge
anybody for any reason.
We still have a fearful God, we still have a God that's terrifying, we still have a God
that's powerful, we have a God that needs to be respected, and the fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge, it's the beginning of wisdom, it's the beginning of understanding
and I think that children, it's so important that they understand that God is someone to
be feared so that they'll do right, so that they'll obey, so that they'll be good children,
so they'll be good adults.
And we've lost the fear of God in our society as a whole, and it's really important for
people to realize that the God of the New Testament is still someone to be feared because
it's the same God.
And you say, "What do you mean it's the same God?"
Well, I want you to look at verse 24.
So Genesis chapter 19, pretty famous story.
This would be one where they say God's really mean in the Old Testament.
But notice what it says in verse 24.
"Then the Lord reigned upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord
out of heaven."
Why do I bring this up?
It's because it was the same Jesus Christ in Genesis 19 that was there raining fire
and brimstone on all those faggots in the Old Testament.
It's the same God of the New Testament that came and died for their sins.
So it's not like Jesus was nice in the New Testament and he's different.
No, no, it's the same Jesus that literally rained fire and brimstone in the book of Genesis.
And it's the same Jesus Christ that's going to throw every single one of these faggots
into hell in the future, alright?
So, you know, it's the same God.
Alright, go over to Luke chapter number 17 now.
I want to read a quote for you, and this is again just to prove that I'm not necessarily
just preaching, it's a figment of my imagination.
Everybody virtually raised their hand in here, so apparently someone else has heard this.
But Richard Dawkins is a pretty famous person for having kind of spoken about how bad the
God of the Old Testament is.
And he has a book called The Quote God Delusion.
And really, he's the only one that's delusional.
The guy actually has advocated for pedophilia.
I don't know if you, like it's really disgusting.
That's not a quote I want to really give.
The quote that I'm going to give is not necessarily much better in the sense that it's very blasphemous.
But it just goes to show how these atheists just hate God so much.
And so this is a quote from Richard Dawkins' book, The God Delusion.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.
Jealous and proud of it.
A petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak.
A vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleaner.
A misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal,
sadomeric, castististic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Well, you're going to remember that quote for all of eternity when you stand before
God and he brings every idle word that you've spoken, Richard Dawkins, and you know what?
He is going to burn you in hell forever.
I mean, what a freak, but you know, the same God is the same New Testament God.
It's not like, oh, the Old Testament God is just such a, you know, he's so, you know,
capriciously malevolent.
What a pretentious fool.
It almost made me think of a Ben rant, but in the bad way, alright, because there's so
many adjectives.
This thing, you know, Ben's the good version of this, alright.
He's the horrible version of this, with all of their, you have to come up with a better
quote than this for the sodomites, alright.
That's my challenge to you.
But it's just so funny that these people just pretend like, hey, I don't believe in
God, but if I did, you know, here's all my feelings towards him, it's just like, I live
my whole life fighting the God of the Bible, you know, why didn't he write the Allah Delusion
or the Hindu Delusion or, you know, why does he write the God Delusion and why is he focused
on the God of the Old Testament?
You know, it's because it's the only God that's worth fighting, because it's the only God
that exists, folks.
Why is it that they blaspheme Jesus' name?
It's because they know that's the real name that has power.
And why do they want to try and make this delineation between the Old and New Testament
God?
Because they're a fool, and they're ignorant of the scripture.
And we have to realize the same Jesus Christ that burned Sodom and Gomorrah is the same
Jesus Christ that in Luke chapter 17 verse 32 said this, "Remember Lot's wife?"
Hey, you know who remembers that?
Jesus, because he was there.
And he turned her into a pillar of salt.
And he's saying, "Hey, remember?
Hey, remember Lot's wife?"
Why?
Because it's a relevant story for today.
Go to Mark chapter 3.
Now we're going to just kind of dance around the New Testament for a moment.
So this is a sword drill.
This is our Bible study, alright?
Mark chapter number 3, and you say, "Well, why don't you talk about the nice things?"
Well, that's a different day, okay?
Mark chapter 3, look at verse number 5, "And when he had looked round about on them with
anger..."
Oh, Jesus is never angry.
That's not what the Bible says.
"Well, when he came in the New Testament, he was not..."
He looked on them with anger.
Jesus was angry with people.
He got mad at people.
He got really mad at them.
Go to John chapter number 2.
Let me show you another place where he gets really mad at people.
He got mad at people for teaching false doctrine.
In the context of Mark chapter number 3, he's mad that they'll be willing to pull an animal
out of a ditch and not allow a man to be healed on a Sabbath day.
They had more respect for animals than humans.
I wonder if that's any different today with PETA and with all the commercials.
I mean, when's the last time you saw a sad TV commercial for abortion?
But you'll see a sad TV commercial for what?
Dogs?
For some cat or something, and they'll get the saddest song to sing about it and this
poor little dog that's three-legged and it's kind of like hobbling.
All of you are already sad already, you know?
It's like, look, the dog doesn't even exist, okay?
And yet, there's literally people murdering babies and just doesn't matter.
You know, Jesus looks at those people with anger.
If you think that a dog's life is anywhere close to a human's life, Jesus is looking
at you with anger.
Now, John chapter number 2, this is also Jesus, look at verse 13.
It says, "And the Jews' pastor was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and found
in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money sitting.
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple and the
sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers' money and over through the tables and said
to them that sold doves, "Take these things hence!
Make not my father's house a house of merchandise."
And then some Pharisee walked up and said, "Well, this isn't going to reach people.
How are you going to reach people with the gospel, Jesus?"
"Well, I'm going to literally die on the cross for you.
That's what I'm going to do."
But you know what?
Jesus Christ literally whipped people out of the house of God.
You know, isn't it funny that people get mad and say like, "How dare you throw anybody
out of church?
How are you going to reach people?"
Well, how do you think Jesus is reaching people when He's throwing them out of the temple?
He was throwing everybody out of the temple.
Look, Jesus wants the house of God to be clean, okay?
He wants it to be pure.
He doesn't want just any shenanigans going on, and He got so mad while He was here on
His earthly mission.
Look, His earthly mission was not to clean up the house of God, because there were so
many problems with it.
I mean, the leadership was bad.
They had a lot of serious issues that He could have cleaned up.
A lot more work to be done.
But He just couldn't even let this go.
He was just so angry.
And the Bible says that the zeal of God's house had eaten Him up.
And He was just so enraged that He, I mean, He made a whip and was whipping people.
How is that nice?
When's the last time you saw someone walk in and just start whipping people?
You know, usually gets that association is slave masters.
And how many people like them or think that they were nice?
Right?
Imagine all the stories that you've seen of a person whipping the slaves and getting
them to do what they want.
He's literally walking and whipping people and throwing tables.
That's not very nice, okay?
I'm just saying.
Go view the Matthew chapter number 10.
I mean, if your boss did that, I'm pretty sure HR would be getting a call.
The old boss is nicer.
Well, you know what?
He was mad.
And I get it.
He's mad that the House of God, I mean, think about it.
You're coming to church to get spiritually fed and people are getting ripped off financially.
Oh, it sounds like gateway.
Yeah.
Here you go.
In fact, number 10, look at verse number 34.
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth.
I came not to send peace, but a sword for I am come to set a man at variance against
his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law
and a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Jesus is saying, I'm not even coming here to give you peace.
How is that nice?
And you know, probably one of the meanest things you can do is break up families or
cause people to be upset with their own kindred.
I mean, that's not very nice, but you know what?
Jesus Christ is saying, I'm doing that.
I'm literally giving a sword.
I'm literally coming here to cause contention between the people that mean the most to you,
carnally speaking.
And, you know, it's not because he just wants division.
It's not that he wants to cause strife.
But the reality is, he wants the truth to go forth, and because of the truth, because
of the love of God, it's going to cause a controversy between those who don't like
the truth.
There's never going to be unity between those that love the truth and those that hate the
truth.
One's going to see their form of language as hate speech, and the other one's going
to see their language as hate speech, right?
Hate speech is just relative.
You know, when someone says something evil about God, I view that as hate speech.
And then when I say something about faggots, they say, "Well, that's hate speech."
But you know, it's like, we can't have it both ways, right?
Hate speech just depends on the person, okay?
And you know what, I hate evil and wickedness and lies, but some people hate God, the truth
and mercy and grace.
So, you know, that's the crux of the situation, is that unfortunately there's a lot of division.
There's a sword.
But how can you say that that's nice?
That's not nice.
It's exclusive.
Go to Matthew 15.
You know, Christianity is an exclusive religion.
It is not an ecumenical religion.
Ecumenicalism is wicked.
We're not going to try and join up with Hindus and Muslims and Jews and say we're all worshipping
the same God.
That is not the God of the Bible.
You know, obviously we can rally around other like-minded Christians who are very different
than us or maybe they're doctrinally off.
I don't think that that's really ecumenicalism.
It's a form of it, but really what the Bible's really against is you yoking up with unbelievers.
You know, and it always talks about the differences of a separation in 2 Corinthians chapter number
6.
It's with believers and unbelievers.
Those who worship God, those who worship idols, right?
This is too extreme of a difference for you to still have any kind of fellowship.
It didn't say like, well, just because they go to a different kind of Baptist church or
something like that, you can't be friends with them.
But you know, there's some independent Baptist churches out there that are so independent,
they can't even be friends with other independent Baptist churches.
You separate a little too much buddy, okay?
Like that's a little bit hyper against ecumenicalism when you can't even be friends with people
when you agree 99% on everything in the Bible, okay?
You know, we're talking about a separation and division though, where family members
literally are different religions, some are atheists, some are Hindus, some are Buddhists,
I mean, and it's going to cause a lot of controversy in their family unit.
And you know, what also causes controversy is just frankly believing the values or the
morals that God has.
Jesus Christ preached this, look at Matthew chapter 15 verse 4, "For God commanded, saying,
'Honor thy father and mother, and he that curseth father and mother, let him die the
death.'"
What did Jesus say?
"Let him die the death."
Wow, that's extreme.
And think about what he's trying to say here, "For God commanded saying, 'Honor thy father
and thy mother, and he that curseth father and mother, let him die the death.'"
You know, he's not even necessarily giving a direct quote.
Like this is not, there's nowhere in the Old Testament where it says, "Let him die the
death."
That's Jesus Christ's commentary on what he's trying to say this verse is actually saying.
And so you know what Jesus is saying, "Let him die the death."
He's saying the Old Testament view was for people that were so willing to curse their
parents, not on their parents, strike their parents, let them die the death.
That doesn't sound like a new God.
That sounds like the exact same God.
If the God of the New Testament is quoting the Old Testament and saying he believes exactly
what the Old One said, it sounds like it's the same.
Yesterday, today, and forever.
It would be silly to think, "Oh, he's nicer."
"Oh, Jesus abolished the death penalty."
When?
"Oh, the woman caught in adultery."
That's what they always say, right?
And I'm always like, "Well, what did he say?"
You know, "He that is without sin, let him first cast a stone at her."
Okay, so what did he say?
Enter to death.
That abolished the death penalty?
Isn't that funny?
It's like he literally said to kill her, and they're saying that is him abolishing the
death penalty.
No.
He just put a caveat on it that none of them were capable of fulfilling.
But that's silly to say that Jesus Christ of the New Testament is so much nicer because
he got rid of the death penalty.
He never did that.
He became the death penalty.
He died for us, okay?
But he didn't get rid of the death penalty.
He supports the death penalty, and I'm going to get there in another passage, but go to
Matthew chapter 23.
He's the one that gave the death penalty.
It's the punishment for sin.
He's the one that came up with hell.
He's the one that created hell.
It's silly for people to get this idea that the New Testament God is somehow magically
different than the Old Testament God.
This is what it shows to me, is they've never read the New Testament.
You know what they do?
They go to a church that cherry picks the nice verse of the New Testament only.
And so in their mind, the New Testament is nicer only because they've had a cherry picked
very miniscule sampling of the New Testament and they themselves have never ventured to
read it at all.
They've never studied it whatsoever.
And so they go to church, they hear stories of bad things happening in the Old Testament,
they have a cherry picked handful of verses of the New Testament they've heard before,
and so in their mind they're like there's this radical difference.
Whereas if you just read the text, there's no way to mistake the idea that Jesus wasn't
mean to people or something.
Just read Matthew 23 and then tell me He's nice.
There's no way to get around that.
And He name calls a lot in this chapter.
Look at verse 13, "But woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites."
Verse 14, "Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites."
Verse 15, "Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites."
You know what this sounds like?
It's a non-denom song, you know, because this is like a repeating chorus.
Verse 16, "Woe unto you blind guides."
So now he's calling them blind.
Look at verse 16, "Woe unto you," I'm sorry, verse 17, "ye fools and blind."
You know what the word fool means?
Idiot.
He's calling them idiots.
Okay?
Look at verse 19, "ye fools and blind."
Oh, he's repeating himself again.
You idiots.
You can't even see.
Verse 23, "woan you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites."
Verse 24, "ye blind guides."
Verse 26, "thou blind Pharisee."
Verse 29, "woan you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites."
Verse 33, "ye serpents, ye generation of vipers.
How can you escape the damnation of hell?"
I wonder why they killed him.
I wonder why.
You know, and you kind of wonder like, why is this in Matthew 23?
Well, he needs to die soon.
So he's like, I know what to do.
And I'm like, Jesus, how are you going to die in a few days?
He's like, I know.
I'm going to go to the temple.
I'm going to rip.
I'm going to let it rip.
He's just like, I don't know if that was enough.
How many times can I call him hypocrites, right?
I mean, boy, did he unleash in this chapter how he really feels.
But to say that he was nice, I mean, who is he being nice here?
I mean, he is calling them every name you can think of, every insult you can think of,
and these are the most prestigious people in all of society.
Like no one is allowed to speak a cross word about them or against them.
They are so to be feared that if you say anything negative, they could throw you out of synagogue,
throw you out of society, they could cancel you.
You could lose your YouTube.
You could be demonetized.
You could be taken out of society.
You could lose your job, right?
Like all the things that we have a threat today that the Jews do to people today, where
they take away your YouTube and your bank account and all the stuff that they do today
that they don't have power or whatever, they still have that power, okay?
It's the same back then.
It's the same Jews of the Old Testament and the New Testament and today the Jews are also
the same yesterday, today and forever.
They always are lovers of money and they're always in positions of power and you know
what?
Jesus Christ is going in there and rebuking them and he feels the exact same towards them
as he does today, as he did back then.
He's very angry with them.
He's mad at them.
Go through to Luke chapter 19, go to Luke chapter 19.
But this is just a little sample so far of Jesus.
How could anybody then still say, "Well, I still think the New Testament God is nicer."
In what way?
Well, he died on the cross, sure.
But you know what?
The God of the Old Testament was merciful, too, and plenty of times.
He delivered people back then, too.
And the Gospel was still in effect in the Old Testament.
They still got saved by faith and they still had grace in the Old Testament.
Well, you know, he didn't ever talk about killing anybody.
Now, it's funny because the verse I'm going to quote for you is a verse that was actually
what I saw in a debate one time.
It was a debate between a Muslim and a Christian.
And the Muslim was saying like, "Hey, Jesus said to like kill people in the New Testament."
He's like, "That never happened."
And then he quoted this verse.
Look at Luke chapter 19 verse 27, "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should
reign over them, bring hither and slay them before me."
Because the whole point of their argument is the Christian is saying, "Oh, the Qur'an
constantly says slay them, slay them, slay them."
He's like, "Well, Jesus said that."
And he's like, "He never said that."
And then he points to this verse.
Now, of course, obviously the context of this isn't in an immediate context.
Jesus wasn't asking for anybody to be slain at that moment.
But you know what?
I do believe that this is going to happen in the future and that there is going to be
the millennial reign of Christ and that really nice New Testament God is going to show up
and you know what he's going to do?
He's going to bring all of his enemies before him and they're going to slay them right
before him.
It's like, "Hey, you made it through all of that tribulation and wrath?
Congratulations!
You get to be slain."
"Hey, way to go, way to make it through all the wrath.
I know you were hoping for death the whole time.
Well guess what?
You get it now."
Right?
It's like, it's kind of that funny, it's like, "Oh we made it!"
Just kidding.
You know, "Hey, get all those people and bring them here and we'll slay them too."
Right?
Go if you would to Acts chapter number five, go to Acts chapter number five.
Now again, you know, you say, "Well he was nicer to some people."
Right?
And even by being saved, that doesn't prevent you from being destroyed by God in the New
Testament.
Okay?
Now the passage that I'm going to bring up is about Ananias and Sapphira.
I personally believe they were saved.
Otherwise I don't think the story really matters that much.
Like unsaved people lying to the Holy Ghost is probably just like a daily habit.
So like it doesn't really seem like it's that significant.
But what I believe the passage is really talking about is a saved man and a saved woman who
end up holding back part of the price of the money that they promised to give to church
and kind of lie about it.
And as a result of that, look what the Bible says in verse number five, "And Ananias, hearing
these words, fell down and gave up the ghost, and great fear came on all them that heard
these things."
So Ananias and his fire are basically, they're lying, but what's interesting about the lie
is they're kind of like only lying to God, which is a really interesting thing.
Because think about what happened in this story.
Ananias and Sapphira sold all of their possession, or sold some great possession, worth lots
and lots of money, and then they gave a vast majority of that money to church, and God
killed them.
Like, isn't that kind of a, like think about it, just from a practical standpoint.
What if it's just like, hey, someone in our church sold a million dollar piece of land
and gave 800,000 of that to church, and God was so mad at them and he killed them.
Like you'd be like, that's weird, like isn't that like a good thing?
But what was the problem? It was a heart issue. Because God doesn't care about your actions,
he cares about your heart. And their heart was, but we want to pretend like we gave a million
dollars even though we're really only giving 800,000. And so they're just kind of concealing the
idea like, hey, we sold this land and we gave all of the money to church, even though they didn't
really. So they just wanted the recognition. They want everybody to know like, hey, I sold my land.
Did you know? Hey, hey, I sold my land. Have you heard? I sold my land. I gave it all to church.
And what were they trying to do? They were trying to get attention to themselves. And people that
seek attention are always the worst, the worst kind of people. And they're not always unsaved.
They're not just always reprobates or something, but they're just the worst and they should never
be in leadership. And God was so mad at them. He's like, how dare you lie to the Holy Ghost?
And so he just killed them right on the spot. But you know what? Great fear came upon them
to say, wow, I better not, you know, mess with God. I better not lie about these things of the
Holy Ghost. And you know, this is not a sermon that Joel Osteen will ever preach because the last
thing he wants to do is discourage anybody in church from giving money. Okay. Joel Osteen would
love to have Ananias and Sapphire at his church. Okay. But at the end of the day, we need to be
careful how we, how we perceive ourselves and how we, you know, why we do the things we do for God.
Why are you, why are you even here? And you know, if you're here to get recognition or attention,
you just need to change that attitude fast because God could literally destroy you
for having that kind of heart. I don't think very many of us probably are in a position where we
could sell a big piece of land and give a bunch of money to church. But what we could do is be
tempted to have some kind of an attitude in our heart or in our mind that we're just seeking a
lot of attention and it's under a faulty premise. And that can cause God to get so mad at you that
He would just kill you right on the spot. And you should never lie to God. When you're doing a
sacrifice or doing something for God, don't lie about it. You know, what would be a modern
application? How about, and I didn't have this in my notes so I'm not going to go there, but
how about the tithes and offerings, I'm sorry, not the tithes and offerings, the Lord's communion,
the Lord's Supper. Those that were taking that unworthily, He's saying some of them were getting
sick and even dying as a result of it. And so if someone were to take the Lord's Supper unworthily,
not having the right spirit, the right attitude, or even should be in church in the first place,
God could just kill them for doing such a thing. So you know what? Our God is someone to be feared.
And obviously you women are supposed to obey your husband, but not in rebellion to God. And so as we
look in the next few verses, look at verse number nine. And Peter answered unto her, so his wife
comes in three hours later, she's getting ready. "Tell me whether you sow the land for so much,
and she said, 'Yea, for so much.' Then Peter said unto her, 'How is it that you have agreed
together to tempt the spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband
are at the door, and shall carry thee out.' Then fell she down straightway at his feet,
and yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carrying her forth,
buried her by her husband." You know, maybe she'd come in, only the husband would have died,
but she took too long getting her makeup on, and then she came in, lied about it, and just dead.
Just right on the spot. This is the one time a guy's ever proven a woman wrong, okay, and she died.
No, I'm just kidding, it was a joke. All right, some of y'all are nervous about that one. Go to
Acts chapter 12. Go to Acts chapter 12. You know, sometimes you can be wrong, ladies, all right,
and if your husband's asking you to lie about church, or the things of God, or whatever,
don't do it. Don't do it. Always, always elevate. I know Robert Morris wants you to elevate your
spouse over God, but you know what? The Bible says God above your spouse, every single time,
and if you don't, he'll just kill you, okay? That's what happened. Look at Acts chapter number 12,
look at verse 23, now this is about Herod, "And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him,
because he gave not God the glory, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost." I think
this is the only time in the Bible I've ever heard of someone being eaten of worms. I don't even know
what that means, but it sounds terrible. Like, like that wasn't very nice. What happened to
Herod is that he was eaten of worms, and he just died, but you know what? It was because he didn't
give God the glory. And think about this, this guy wasn't even saved. So you know, God is just killing
saved people, unsaved people, and we're just barely in the New Testament. This is just right after the
New Testament has started. He's just, he's just knocking people out, just killing them left and
right. Go if you would to chapter 13 and look at verse 8. Chapter 13 verse 8, "But Eliam is the
sorcerer, for so is his name by interpretation, withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy
from the faith. Then Saul was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him
and said, 'O full of all subtlety and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all
righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now behold the hand of
the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind.' Not seeing the sun for a season, and immediately it
fell on him amidst and a darkness, and he went about seeking sun to lead him by the hand." That
wasn't very nice either, was it? I mean, the way that Paul talks to this guy is pretty base. I mean,
he's just like, this guy's a child of the devil, enemy of all righteousness. I mean, he is just
coming hard at this guy. And I guarantee Eliamus wasn't going as hard at him. And you know, this is
always the accusation, 'Y'all are just so mean.' Well, you know why he said that? Because the Holy
Ghost came upon him. So are you saying the Holy Ghost is mean now? I wouldn't want to say that.
Go if you would to Romans chapter 13. Go to Romans chapter number 13. Jesus Christ didn't
get rid of the death penalty. He glorified the death penalty. He praised the death penalty.
And on top of that, he then reconfirmed and established it even more in the book of Romans
through the apostle Paul. Look at Romans chapter 13 verse 4. "For he is a minister of God to thee
for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid. For he beareth not the sword in vain.
For he is the minister of God, or avenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." God says,
I'm going to appoint leaders and governors in the New Testament. And their sole job is to execute
wrath as a minister of God. So you know what? God is still a minister of wrath in the New Testament
through means of government, through the means of proper legal punishment. And that includes the
death penalty because it says, "He beareth not the sword in vain." And let me tell you something,
there is one punishment that the sword gives you. It is death. It's not a light spanking,
okay, with the sword. It is just death. That is your option. That is what the sword means.
When it says that James was killed with the sword, it's because the sword is not a friendly
instrument. It has one purpose. It is for death, for execution. And so the death penalty is very
clearly articulated in the New Testament as still being a part of the New Testament.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 5. Go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 5.
Look at verse number 4. It says, "In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ," you know who that is?
That's the same God. That's the New Testament God. "In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when you are gathered together in my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,"
he's just got to say it again, "to deliver such in one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." That's not a very nice thing.
Imagine if I literally got up and said that about one of the people in the church.
I said, "All right, so and so on the front row, we're going to all pick him up and deliver him
to Satan to kill him." That's not very nice. And he's saying, "I'm doing this in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ." They say, "How are you going to reach people with that?" Well, he's not getting
reached, okay. We're just handing, "Here you go, devil. Have him. Do your worst." I mean,
that's not a very nice message, is it? But that is the God of the New Testament. That is the God
of the Bible. Look at verse 13, "But them that are without God judgeth, therefore put away from
among yourselves that wicked person." He's calling them wicked. He's saying, "God's going to judge
them." He's saying, "He's going to allow the devil to do his worst to these individuals." You know,
never get kicked out of church. And I'll tell you something. I've talked to some of my pastor
friends and specifically one of them that's been in the business for a while, Pastor Anderson.
He knows many people who were thrown out of their church or excommunicated from the church and then
died not that long afterwards. Like literally died. And I'm just telling you, you don't want
to be on that list. You don't want to be someone that's been thrown out of church because God
could judge you very harshly. Obviously, some people get restored too. But I'm telling you what,
the last thing I want to do is getting thrown out of a good New Testament church.
So you better obey the commandments of God. He's someone to be feared. Go to 1 Corinthians 10,
look at chapter 10, and look at verse 10. Chapter 10, verse 10. "Ah, the God of the Old Testament
was so much meaner." Well, you know, he's the same God though. He killed a lot of Christians. He
killed a lot of Israelites in the Old Testament for sinning. But you know, he said in 1 Corinthians
chapter number 10, there's a reason. Look at verse 10. "Neither Murmury, as some of them also
murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer, now all these things happen unto them, for examples,
and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world have come." He's saying,
hey, that Old Testament God, he wanted to write stories about him to let you know he's the same
now too. And you know, when I start reading this, it makes me nervous because think about the sins.
Lying one time, okay, fornication. Here's a third one, just murmuring. Wow, that's intense.
I mean, and it's not just saying, like, you murmured, you lost 200 bucks, you know, pay a
fine. It's death. I mean, what does it say? "Neither Murmury, as some of them also murmured and were
destroyed of the destroyer." That's a scary thing to think about how you shouldn't even be a murmurer.
You know, we need to have a positive attitude. And some people act like, well, I'm just kind of a
negative person. You better change. I'm just telling you what the Bible says. Look at chapter
16 for a moment. Chapter 16. 1 Corinthians chapter number 16. Look at verse 22. "If any man loved
not the Lord Jesus Christ, invite them to church." I didn't know it. That must be the NIV version.
If any man loved not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema meranatha. That's what the New
Testament says. Let him be cursed. That is the attitude of the apostle Paul. The apostle Paul
wrote this and put it in scripture and gave it to the church and said, "Hey, people that hate Jesus,
let them be accursed." He wasn't saying like, "How are we going to reach these people?" He's like,
"Let them be cursed." Because, you know, it's a special breed of person that's loving not our
Lord Jesus Christ. And let me tell you something, 90-some percent of the people we knock on their
door, they're not that person. I mean, they already say they believe in Jesus. They're just
confused. They've been deceived, right? But the handful of people that you meet in this life
that love not our Lord Jesus Christ, the Richard Dawkins of this world, you know what? Let them be
anathema maranatha. Let them be accursed. It's a shame and a mockery that our country tolerates
these people in our society. They should be cursed. Go over to 2 Thessalonians, chapter 1,
go to 2 Thessalonians. I'm not even going to everything that's probably in here, okay?
I just kept thinking of things that were in the New Testament. I'm thinking like that's just not
very nice though. And again, there's lots of nice stuff in the New Testament. I mean, 1 Corinthians
13 is one of the nicest chapters you'll ever find. It's great. I love it. And I'm not trying to give
you a weird perverted view of the scripture because this is an imbalanced sermon. But what
we're trying to do is recalibrate ourselves and recognize, hey, the God of the New Testament is
still someone to be feared. There's still some gnarly things happening in the New Testament.
We don't want to have this improper balance of thinking it's all sugar and candy canes and
ponies and unicorns and stuff like that. No, no, no. There's a lot of gnarly stuff here, too.
And the Bible says in 2 Thessalonians chapter number one, look at verse number six,
"Seeing it as a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you,
and to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with
his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power." That's not very nice. That's pretty much
the worst thing that can happen to you ever. New Testament God. Go if you went to chapter two and
look at verse 11, "And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe
a lie." You know, that's a mean verse. Think about it. Like he's saying, "I'm gonna just give you this
really, really strong delusion to where you're gonna start believing lies." Like that's a
punishment. That's a severe punishment. To just be dumb on purpose. To believe like horrible
delusions. I mean, you know what would be a really horrible delusion? To be Tyler Doca.
And to literally have videos of you measuring your face thinking that you're the temple of God.
Like, you know what? It's so funny. All his YouTube channels are gone. So I don't know what
happened to Mr. Tyler Doca. But I guess Jesus can't even hold a YouTube channel down or whatever.
I mean, what a blasphemous fool. What an idiot. He ruined his own life. And you know what? Let him
be an anathema maranatha. I hope he dies tonight too. And goes straight to hell for all the blasphemy
and the wicked things that he taught. And you know what? To believe that you are anything.
Like Jesus, I mean to believe you're Jesus Christ, that's the worst thing ever. But there's
going to be a lot of people that believe in people like Tyler Doca. Believe in a literal
anti-Christ. Believe in a literal delusional Christ. And they're going to worship it. They're
going to get a mark in their hand and in their forehead. I mean talk about the punishment.
I mean we talked about how the people in, you know, in the last few years that got
the COVID shot and the wore the mask. That's nothing compared to the anti-Christ.
That's nothing to the foolishness and the nonsense of getting the mark of the beast.
Getting a literal 666 in their hand or in their forehead. I mean talk about total idiot.
You know how in high school you used to have like an L, like you'd be like this to people
or whatever. It's like they're going to have a 666 on their head. That's how stupid they are.
You know what? That is a mean punishment that God is going to allow a lot of people to do.
Because why? Well, they love not the truth. They didn't want to receive the truth. They
didn't want to receive the gospel. They hate the gospel. And for that cause,
God is going to give them strong delusion that they'd believe a lie. Verse 12.
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure and righteousness.
Damned is a strong word. I mean, God is going to damn them into hell. He's going to damn them
for all of eternity. Eternal damnation. You know, I'm not afraid of these words. Don't get an NIV.
Get a King James Bible and recognize that God is going to damn people to hell for all of eternity.
Go to 2 Thessalonians chapter 3. We're there. Look at verse 10. A lot of people get triggered
by this. "For even when we are with you, this we command you that if any would not work,
neither should he eat." Boy, people will be like, "That is mean. How dare you turn away
somebody for food or money?" But you know what? That's the God of the New Testament
commanding us saying, "Hey, you're an able-bodied young man. Get a job. Pay your own bills.
Pay your own way." The Bible is not, you know, Christianity is not a handout program
for lazy people. It's a, get to work. It's a work program. We're trying to get you employed
to work for the Lord Jesus Christ. He's not sitting here just giving handouts. Even the poor,
you say, "Well, that's different than the Old Testament." No, it's not. Because in the Old
Testament, you know, they weren't allowed to reap the corners of their field. The poor are supposed
to come and reap it. But you know what it doesn't say? "Reap the corners of your field and then just
give it to the lazy people." No, it says, "Hey, allow there to be a little bit left over for them
to come and work and gather it themselves and do the work to get the money themselves." Hey,
the laborer came and hired people. They still worked an hour. Hey, they got generously paid.
But you know what? They still had to work an hour. He didn't show up to the lazy guys standing on
the street corner and say, "Hey, what are you doing? No man's hired you." Well, here's money.
When did Jesus walk around giving money to homeless people? He didn't. He gives
jobs to homeless people. He gives jobs to men. That's what he wants us to do. He didn't put,
I mean, think about it. The God of the universe, you don't think he has enough riches and money
and wealth to allow Adam and Eve to just do nothing, but he made Adam have a job. Adam
still had to work from day one, even in paradise. And you know what? We're signing up to be in the
army. We're signing up to do work for Jesus Christ. And the God of the New Testament is not this
just communist God just handing out money whether you work or not. That's not how it works. Go to
2nd Timothy. The communist God is the devil. Our God is not a communist. The Bible is not communist.
Communism is of Satan and it's a lie. 2nd Timothy chapter number 4 look at verse 14. Alexander the
coppersmith did me much evil. The Lord reward him according to his works of whom be thou where also
for he greatly withstood our words. Here's the apostle Paul just calling out this guy for all
of eternity and saying I hope God returns him what? Evil. He did us evil, harm, do him harm.
The apostle Paul is saying I hope that God harms Alexander the coppersmith. That's what he's saying.
Oh that's mean. That's what the apostle Paul said under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.
And you know what there's plenty of people in my life that I pray hey God give them the evil they've
given me. Give them the evil they've given steadfast baptist church. Give them the evil
they've given to little poor innocent unborn babies. Give them the evil that they've done
in molesting children. Give them the evil they've done to our society with their perverted
faggoty face. All right just render evil unto them because they've scarred my eyes so much.
Let their eyes be scarred. Let them get an eye for an eye. You know there's a time and a place
to wish evil upon individuals. And you know what the apostle Paul was not afraid to wish evil on
those who deserve it. And you know what? That is the New Testament God. That is New Testament
Christianity, folks. Wake up. Go to Hebrews chapter number 10. Go to Hebrews chapter number 10.
Hebrews chapter number 10, look at verse 26. "For if we sin willfully, after that we receive the
knowledge of the truth, there remain of no more sacrifice or sins, but a certain fearful looking
for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised
Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. Of how much sore punishment
suppose he shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted
the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite
unto the spirit of grace. For we know him that hath said, 'Vengeance belongeth unto me. I will
recompense, saith the Lord.' And again, the Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to
fall in the hands of the living God." How in the world can I read this and say, "Oh, the New
Testament of God is nicer." He's saying, "You know what? Let me just give you a little sample.
If anything changed, how much sore of a punishment are you going to get?" He still didn't change,
but he's just mad that you getting so much more knowledge are going to do despite the spirit of
grace that he's willing to give you even a worse punishment. There's no niceness here.
This is the same God, and it's saying we're supposed to fear God. We should literally fear
God in our lives. When you lie, when you steal, when you cheat, when you have bad thoughts in
your heart, you should be afraid that God's going to do something to you, and you should say, "God,
please be merciful with me." Obviously, we got saved and we're not in danger of hell. A lot of
pastors we're reading are talking about Christians, and there's a lot of evil God can do to us in our
lives. And we need to realize that this God is serious, and our God is a consuming fire as the
Bible describes him. He's not someone to be messed with. He's someone to be feared and respected,
and we're supposed to rejoice with trembling. Go over to James chapter number five. Go to
James chapter number five. You know, I don't read the Bible and just get all cozy and comfortable.
When I read the Bible, I get nervous. I don't know what book you're reading.
Well, I read the New Testament. Man, get nervous. You know, I think when you get in view of these
Christians, I mean, how many churches are preaching this today? They're not. And the fear of God is
not being taught in our society. And you see it. You see that no one fears God is because
they're ignorant. But let it not be said of the house of God that we are lackadaisical in our
attitude towards the Lord or too carefree or too laissez-faire, but rather we're fearful of what God
would do unto us and we truly embrace his uh you know mercy, but at the same time recognizing we
need it. Why do you even think you need mercy? Because God's mad at you. Why do you think you
need mercy? Because God will punish you. Why do you think you need grace? Because you screwed up.
You know the person that doesn't think they're screwing up and hasn't sinned, I mean that person
doesn't need grace. They don't understand the message of grace. Us that understand grace need
to seek for it and need to be afraid of screwing up and causing God to be mad at us. Look at James
chapter 5 verse 1. "Go to now ye rich men. Weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon
you." I wonder how many times Robert Morris has taught that at his church or as he teach like hey
all of you rich guys are blessed. That's the message you hear at these non-denom churches like
well some of you are struggling financially because you're not serving God right but if you
are you are actually doing right God would bless you to be rich. What way does this say? Let's
read that again. Go to now you rich men weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are muffied. You know James Sly is a powerful verse
he's trying to say look a lot of rich people are rich because they've ripped people off they've
lied they've stolen they've done corrupt practices and God's super angry with them. You know if you've
got riches because you've worked hard there's nothing wrong with that the vast majority of
rich men the vast majority of these people we're talking about in James Chap number five have gotten
their money by deceptive practices usury ripping people off taking advantage of the poor selling
faulty goods lying holding back wages ripping their employees off not taking care of their
customers selling faulty products i mean i could think of some companies that are like that how
about the vaccine manufacturers these people are wicked as hell our politicians many of those
rich men super corrupt and the bible is ripping on these people the god of the new testament is
hating these people that have made so much money on fraud and deceit and deception it's getting
mad out there i can hear it all right i was hoping for this thunderstorm in the morning there's a
couple bolts i was hoping would strike first peter chapter number four you know he wants to
first peter chapter four look at verse 17 for the time has come that judgment must begin at the
house of god and if it first begin at us which will be the end of them that obey not the gospel
of god and if the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly in the center appear he's
saying look not even all the righteous get saved and who's the righteous that's us he's saying not
even us get spared from the judgments of god god will many times judge us very harshly and so it's
very important to fear the lord and to live a separated life go to second peter chapter number
two go to second peter chapter number two we're heating up second peter chapter two look at verse
four for if god spared not the angels that sinned but cast them down to hell and deliver them in a
change of darkness to be reserved in a judgment and spared not the old world but saved noah
the eighth person a preacher of righteousness bringing the flood upon the world of the ungodly
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemn them with an overthrow making them
an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly so again how the old testament gods mean
he's bringing up in the new testament again the Sodom and Gomorrah story we have it in the old
testament jesus reminds us remember Lot's wife and then we have it again in second peter chapter
number two we have it in jude look at chapter three verse seven here it says but the heavens and the
earth which are now by the same word are kept in store reserved under fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men don't you just love the king jay's bible the perdition of ungodly men
you know there is a a horrible horrible judgment waiting for the ungodly just an evil perdition go
to second john chapter number nine go to second john so i've just been trying to go mostly
chronological at this point but i mean the new testament god is just as scary as the old
testament one folks someone to be feared and he's someone to be respected and he gets mad at a lot
of stuff look at second john chapter or it's one verse nine whosoever transgresseth and abideth
not in the doctrine of christ hath not god either abideth in the doctrine of christ he has both the
father and the son if there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive them not in your
house neither bid him godspeed for you that biddeth him godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds
michael's saying if a false prophet comes to you you're not even allowed to be nice to them
god is mad at you for being nice to false prophets how could you then oh the new testament god's
nicer he's saying don't be nice to these people on purpose that's what he's saying specifically
look at uh jude verse seven i'll just read one more verse here in jude even asad and gamorah
in the cities about them like man are giving themselves over to fornication and going after
strange flesh are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire go
to revelation chapter two now you know there's a story that's pretty popular a lot of people
have heard about it and it's a city that was destroyed just like sodom and more it's called
pompey you know like in revelation chapter two verse number 20 but not just faggots get judged
how about god's people verse 20 notwithstanding i have a few things against thee because thou
suffers that woman jezebel which called herself a prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants
to commit fornication and eat things sacrificed unto idols and i gave her space to repent her
fornication she repented not be able to cast her into a bed them that commit adultery with her
into great tribulation except they repent of their deeds and i will kill her children with
death and all the churches shall know that i am he which searched the reins and hearts
and i will give unto every one of you according to your works so you know what he did he's like i
want to kill her in such a unique way that every church will fear will fear god why do we read the
new testament so that will fear god why have a sermon like this so that you'll fear god
you know it's funny because we always talk about the great tribulation she got to experience it
right here in this chapter and those are the things she's going to experience great tribulation
herself and you know what even if you aren't going to go into the great tribulation you just
getting out of church and not serving god faithfully or getting into sin you could just have your own
personal great tribulation wouldn't that be wonderful because you know tribulation is only
going to really affect you and your own personal world and you know you could have that at any
moment in time and so it's a very scary thing to mess with god look at revelation chapter number
eight for a moment revelation chapter number eight it's funny i talked with some like buddhist
lesbian tranny or something i don't know what it was it wants to be a whale okay whatever and the
whale is is telling me that the god of the new testament is really nice and so i'm like well
what about revelation when he's like pouring out all these plagues of wrath and locusts from hell
and stuff he's like well maybe i don't know much about the bible and he's just like right okay let
me let me give you a sample of what your future looks like okay because you know i was thinking
about it and and like a whale you're going to be swimming right you're going to be in the ocean
you're going to be swimming and i was thinking like well it's going to be kind of true because
you're going to be swimming it's just a lake of fire okay so that's what you and you know you're
so big that you kind of like a whale so i mean it kind of fits you know she's going to get what
she's she's looking for but the god of the new testament and look folks many of us might even
be here in this verse that i'm about to read i think all of us are actually now that i think
about it but revelation chapter 8 look at verse 1 and when he opened the seventh seal there was
silence in heaven about the space of half an hour i guess there could be a judas in here so he didn't
make it but the rest of us will be in heaven and will literally be silent and i've heard some people
say that this might be a case why women don't go to heaven but you know i'm just kidding just kidding
but that's of course not true okay but think about how how horrible does it have to be for us to
literally not even speak like no one can even speak it's so horrible for half an hour every
single person in heaven i mean think about the silence you know i've been in a lot of school
settings where something bad happens and they'll say can we have a moment of silence we'll do for
like 30 seconds or a minute or whatever this is a half an hour moment of silence for about what's
going to happen and how horrible it's going to be look at verse two and i saw the seven angels
which stood before god and to them were given seven trumpets and another angel came and stood
at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto much incense that he should offer it
with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne and the smoke
of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before god out of the angel's
hand and the angel took the censer and filled it with fire of the altar and cast it into the earth
and there were voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake and the seven angels
which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves a sound the first angel sounded and there followed
hail and fire mingled with blood and they were cast upon the earth and the third part of trees
was burn up and all green grasses burn up now what's interesting is this prayer thing but i believe
that it's literally our prayers all the prayers that we've been praying about god finally judging
and avenging this world they're gonna they like are somehow in existence still which is kind of
unique it's kind of interesting it's like our prayers literally exist somehow and they're in
heaven and god's gonna literally take our prayers and he's gonna take our prayers and send them on
the earth and there's gonna be hail and fire so it's like this gives me motivation to pray
because think about it even if i never see it happen until i die i'm gonna be in heaven and
i'm gonna watch my prayer literally go down from heaven and strike you know one of these jews in
the head or something you know crush literally crush the serpent you know skull yeah crack their
skulls open i mean look i'm i'm like so excited i'm ready to pray right now but i'm just telling
you you know we need we need to get serious about prayer because i don't want you to miss out and
be like man i didn't have any prayers going down you know get some tonight get some prayers they're
going to be in this altar all right for the judgment that needs to happen i'm just going
to get a couple more verses go to chapter 18 we could read all of chapter 8 9 there's three woes
that are so bad and he's like saying whoa whoa whoa to the inhabitants of the earth for the
wrath that's about to be poured out look this is the new testament the new testament god is pouring
out wrath he's someone to be feared we should all shake and be in fear of god of the new testament
even though i'm saved i still fear the god of the new testament the evil that he could do to me
if i turned against him or for i mean i'm sure i deserve everything just like anybody we've all
sinned we've all deserve evil and we've never been punished the way that we truly deserve
and it should cause us to continue to be motivated to serve him for the respect and honor he deserves
but look at revelation chapter 18 verse 6 this is talking about in the babylon being destroyed
reward her even as she rewarded you and double under double according to her works in the cup
which she has filled filled her double that's an interesting verse think about how bad america is
think about how many babies have been aborted think about how much adultery murder corruption
lies deceptions think about how much they deserve and then think what they're saying give her double
what she deserves that's intense because we deserve a lot if you're going to take the the
what's deserved in the law for what we've done i mean think about how much murder death destruction
and pillaging and just evil and sodomy and all the filth of our country what god is going to
unleash on babalon whoever that is i think it's america but even if it isn't america america is
still going to get punished super hard for what it's done i mean no nation got away with anything
the only thing that ever happened has got delayed even israel got punished super hardcore for what
it did no one is getting it's not going to ever get away with it america is going to be punished
super hardcore whether it's the end times babalon or not it will be judged very severely okay and
the only reason it's not is because of us it's so funny is these protesters want us gone but as
soon as we're gone they're getting what they deserve like we're the only reason they're still
getting to enjoy today they're getting to enjoy any part of their life if they even enjoy it i
don't even know if they do it seems so angry they always they talk about how miserable we are it's
like okay honey yeah you look like a ball of joy and fun there you ladies can escape who would want
to be you i mean you're home alone and no one likes you you have the most annoying voice ever
i mean you're just the worst you're literally the worst person what who would want to escape
to that at least have something kind of to entice them i mean none of the ladies in our church were
really like you know i'm kind of thinking about that sounds pretty cool you know i would way
rather stand out in the heat and protest the church than be inside with children you know
that's that's so much work you know that's insane look at chapter 19 verse 19 chapter 19 verse 19
and i saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war
against him that sat on the horse and against his army you know even jesus has protesters okay folks
all right and the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him
with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worship his image
these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone and the remnant were slain
with a sword of him that sat upon the horse which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls
were filled with their flesh you know jesus christ is going to return and when he returns he's going
to destroy all of his enemies with the sword that proceeds out of his mouth because it's the same
jesus yesterday and today and forever and the idiots that say the new testament god is nicer
have never read the new testament but let us not fall victim of that mentality let us still fear
the god of the bible and even the one who died on the cross for our sins and is so merciful jesus
he's the same guy that's going to punish those who rebel against him harshly he's still to be
feared we're supposed to fear jesus christ as well and he had wrath while he was here on this earth
he had wrath the old testament he has wrath in the new testament you know let us not take lightly
our lord and savior let us look at him with the awe and reverence that he deserves and worship him
with respect because the jesus of the bible is the same let's close in prayer thank you heavenly
father so much for giving us the new testament and giving us the the gospel message so that we
could be delivered from the wrath to come so that you could be merciful to us so that we could have
grace but i pray that we wouldn't take that grace and uh and ruin it and and go just go against it
and just violate your commandments uh as a result of the grace that's offered to us
but rather we would take it seriously the commandments that you've given us take it
seriously the job that we have take church and our families and the bible and soul winning and the
the things you want us to do i i pray that you would help us to be afraid to commit sin
and to lie unto you and to murmur and to complain and i pray that we'd have the right attitude and
mentality and we wouldn't allow the god-hating society to infect our minds but rather we'd
respect the god of the new testament jesus name we pray amen all right for our last song
it's gonna be 401 set my soul afire 401 set my soul afire song 401 set my soul afire
this evening thank you all for coming god bless you are dismissed